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Best and Cheap est
Thorough, Practical and ae te.
|The West Michigan |
| Business et
AND NORMAL SCHOOL, |
McMullen Block, 23. ‘South
GRAND RAPIDS, }
Is the Best Place to obtain a Thorough, Prac
tical and Complete Education. The Best
ACTUAL BUSINESS Department in the State.
The most thorough and practic ally conducted
Short-Hand and Typewriting Department in the
West. Do not fail to write for particulars.
A. E. YEREX, President.
SEEDS!
Write for jobbing prices on
1 Division St.,
Mammoth, Medium, Alsyke and
Alfalfa Clover, Timothy, Orchard
Red Top, Blue
Grass, Grass,
Field Peas, Beans, Produce and
WOOL.
C. Ainsworth
76 So.
Division St., Grand Rapids.
GRAN Dp RAPIDS,
SEEDS
If in want of Clover or Timothy,
Orchard, Blue Grass, or Red Top,
Kind of Seed,
send or write to the
Grand Rapids Seed Store,
71 Canal St.. GRAND RAPIDS.
W.T. LAMOREAUX.
or, in fact, Any
Fehsenfeld & Grammel,
(Successors to Steele & Gardner.)
Manufacturers of
BROOMS!
Whisks, Toy Brooms, Broom Corn, Broom
Handles, and all Kinds of Broom Materials.
10 and 12 Plainfield Ave., Grand Rapids.
CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS
—OR—
For the best work, at reasonable prices, address
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, Mich,
S. G. KETCHAM,
DEALER IN
Lime, Hair,Cement
BRICK, SEWER PIPE, TILE, ETC.,
14 West Bridge St.,
GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH
AYNE COUNTY SAVINGS
DETROIT, MICH
500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS
Issued by cities, counties, towns and school dis
tricts of Mic higan. Officers of these municipali
ties about to istue bonds will find it to their
advantage to apply to this bank. Blank bonds
and blanks for proceedings supplied without
charge. All communications and inquiries wil)
have prompt attention.
January, 1890. Ss. D. ELWOOD, Treasurer.
BANK,
Something New
Bill Snort
We guarantee this cigar the
best $35 cigar on the market.
Send us trial order, and if not
ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY
return them. Advertising mat-
ter sent with each order.
Charlevoix Gigar Mfg 6o.,
CHARLEVOIX, MICH.
Have an Electric Belt
Full
Can be put up by any one in one
In your residence. Complete outfit $2.50.
instructions.
Address
PENINSULAR CO.,
Grand Rapids.
hour.
Fine Millinery.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Bought direetly from Importers and
Manufacturers. Goods the Best Quality
and Prices the Lowest.
Adams & Co.,
90 MONROE ST.,
OPPOSITE THE MORTON HOUSE.
W. Cc. WILLIAMS. A. SHELEY.
A. 8.
WILLIAMS,
SHELEY
& BROOKS
Successors to
FARRAND, WILLIAMS & CO.
Wholesale Druggists,
AT THE
BROOKS.
OLD STAND.
Corner Bates and Larned Streets, Detroit.
REMPIS & GALLMEYER,
POUNDERS
General Jobbers and Manufacturers of
Settees, Lawn Vases, Roof Crestings, Carriage
Steps, Hitching Posts and Stair Steps.
54-56 N. Front St. Grand Rapids, Mich.
ALLEN DURFEE. A. D,. LEAVENWORTH.
Allen Durfee & Co.,
FUNERAL DIRECTORS,
103 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids.
“WEDN ESDAY,
JUNI
Not a Cheerful View.
18
| From the Boston Globe.
|
}
| conservative man, and the
|of approaching mental calamity.
| place to work.
Wealth and glory, place and power,
What are they worth to me or you ?
For the lease of life runs out in an hour,
And death stands ready to claim his due.
Sounding honors or heaps of gold,
What are they all when all is told.
A pain or a pleasure, 2 smile or a tear,
What does it matter what we claim?
For we step from the cradle into the bier,
And a careless world goes on the same.
Hours of gladness or hours of sorrow,
What does it matter to us to-morrow?
Truth of love or vow of friend,
Tender caresses or cruel sneers,
What do they matter to us in the end?
For the brief day dies and the long night nears;
Passionate kisses or tears of gall,
The grave will open and cover them all.
Homeless vagrant, or honored guest,
Poor and humble, or rich and great,
All are racked with the world’s unrest,
All must meet with the common fate.
Life from childhood till we are old,
What is it all when all is told?
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
—_—_—~ --
’*Twas Ever Thus.
‘How does your husband spend his
| time evenings ?”’
“He stays at home and thinks up
schemes to make money.”’’
“And what do you do with yourself
| when he is thus oecupied?”’
| “Qh, I think up schemes to spend it.”
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
Infants’ Genuine Chamois Moccasins.
all worked in
WARRANTED NOT TO
These goods are
SILK and
SHRINK. Sent post paid for $2.25
per dozen.
Send for our catalogue and note
our specially low price on Shoe
Dressings.
HIRYH & KRAUSE, -
WHO URGES YOU
TO HREEYP
SA POLIO‘?
THE PUBLIC!
By splendid and expensive advertising the manufacturers cre
ate a demand, and only ask the trade to keep the goods in
stock so as to supply the orders sent to them. Without effort
on the grocer’s part the goods sell themselves, bring purchas-
ers to the store, and help ‘sell less known goods.
ANY JOBBER WILL BE GLAD TO FILL YOUR ORDERS.
GEO. H. REEDER,
State Agent
Lycoming Rubbers
and Jobber of
Medinm Price Shoes
Grand Rapids, Mich.
AreyouSour? Lost Trade? Cheap Grease!
NO DEALER EVER LOST A CUSTOMER BY SELLING HIM
THE FRAZER
ALWAYS UNIFORM. OFTEN IMITATED.
KNOWN EVERYWHERE.
118 Ganal St, Grand Rapids, Mich.
‘roqqny Baryo04yg Bur
“180M 2% 2u1}31a 880g OTT,
NEVER EQUALLED.
NO TALK REQUIRED TO SELL IT.
Cood Crease Makes Trade. Cheap Crease Kills Trade.
Let Petroleum and Imitation meena AZERO Package Bears our Trade Mark.
Alone, and Buy the Genuine Putin in Boxes,Cans, Pails, Kegs & Bhis-
I. M. CLARK & SON.,
Importers and Jobbers of
Fine Havana, Key West and Domestic
CIGARS!
Sole Agents for V. Martinez Ybor & Co., ‘El Principe de Gales” Factory, Key
West; Baltz, Clymer & Co.’s “El. Mereto” and ‘‘Henry Clay”? brands;
Celestino Palacio & Co.’s ‘‘La Rosa’ (full line); Seiden-
berg & Co.’s ‘‘Figaro” and ‘‘Knapsack.”’
We want your trade on Havana and Key West goods and are prepared
to give you satisfaction in every instance.
I. M. CLARK & SON.
a
etececnemmmemegaoreet ——Sipemmninarennnn— ene iy OY Tiatllimeess —
a
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESM AIN. 3
Repentance Column. Do not hound a customer. Nine times
The following are some of the merchants who | out of ten they prefer to look at goods a
have been under contract with the P. of I., but| moment before asking to be shown an
have found the level profit plan a delusion and | article. A clerk should always be ina
a snare: position to attend promptly to the wants
Belding--L. S. Roell. of customers, but should never force
Big Rapids—Verity & Co. their attention upon them. The failure
Blanchard—L. D. Wait. i co. < >
Bridgeton—Geo. H. Rainouard. to observe this rule has driven many cus-
Casnovia—John E. Parcell. tomers away from stores. The fault lies
Cedar Springs—L. A. Gardiner. generally with inexperienced clerks, who
misunderstand their duty in this respect,
Pie kw ORK 'S!
I have the ageney for several of the best manufacturers of fireworks in the
country and am prepared to quote lower prices than any other dealer in my line.
WM. R. KEELER,
Wholesale Confectioner,
AND JOBBER IN FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC FRUITS.
412 SOUTH DIVISION ST. TELEPHONE 92-3R, Send for Price List.
|
We Manufacture
Chester—B. C. Smith.
Eos ao. aenaiied On prietor or manager to give them proper
Eaton Rapids—E. F. Knapp, G. W. Webster.
Kotvis, John Cordes, Huntley Russell. AND
Hesperia—B. Cohen.
Kent City—R. McKinnon.
Maple Rapids—L. S. Aldrich.
Mecosta—Robert D. Parks. [| h A |
as. . Coye,
Minden City—Henry Lewis, F. O. Hetfield
Newaygo—W. Harmon.
Otisco—G. V. Snyder & Co.
Chapin—J. I. Vanderhoof.
Chippewa Lake—G. A. Goodsell & Co. probably from the failure of the pro-
Clio—Nixon & Hubbell.
Dimondale—Elias Underhill. instructions.
Dushville—G, 0, Adams. —— :
Fork Center—D. Palmer & Co. | ’
Fremont—Boone & Pearson. |
Grand Ledge—A. J. Halsted & Son.
Grand Rapids—F, W. Wurzburg, Van Driele &
Harvard—Ward Bros. | :
Hersey—John Fink beiner. Uslin
Howard City—Henry Henkel. |
Ionia—E. S. Welch, Wm. Wing. a
Lake Odessa—MecCartney Bros., Fred. Miller.
Lowell—Charles McCarty. AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL.
Marshall—John Fletcher, John Butler, Charles
Fletcher.
Millbrook—T. O. (or J. W.) Pattison.
Millington—Forester & Clough.
& Son. oR rT REPT
Nashville—Powers & Stringham. 11 PEARL STREET.
New Era—Peter Rankin.
Olivet—F. H. Gage. i
Ravenna—R. D. Wheeler.
Reed City—J. M. Cadzow.
Rockford—H. Colby & Co.
St. Louis—Mary A. Brice. |
Sand Lake—C. O Cain. |
Sparta—Woodin & Van Wickle, Dole & Haynes. |
Sp ringport—Cortright & Griffin.
Stanton—Fairbanks & Co.
Sumner—J. B. Tucker.
Williamston—Michael Bowerman.
Nelson,
Matter
& Co's
ee ee
Good Method to Increase Trade.
Business is not transacted at the pres-
ent time after the fashion of twenty
years ago. Competition has become so
strong that it has compelled business men
to resort to all sorts of schemes to hold
trade and add to the total business trans-
acted. Advertisers resort to novel and
original methods of attracting the eye of
the public. Originality has become the
thing in demand by railroads, merchants
and business men in all lines of trade.
An eastern exchange relates the story
of amerchant who securely fastened a
ten-dollar gold piece to a prominent
place in his store, with the date of coin- =
age hidden. Over this he placed an hea Pp,
attractive placard announcing that on :
each purchase of a dollar’s worth of Med lu mM
goods the privilege of naming the date of AND
the coin would be given to the purchaser :
Expensive.
STYLES:
New,
—the coin to go to the successful guesser.
The date was written, with the cus-
tomer’s name attached, on a slip of paper
and drepped into a closely sealed box.
The opportunity was open for two Large Variety and
months, and at the end of that time the Y i
box was opened in the presence of a large Prices Low.
crowd, all of whom were anxious expect-
ants.
Now as to results. Of course each slip -/. dD. Spangler & Co
of paper represented one dollar’s worth | , if
of goods actually purchased, and when
they counted up to twenty-nine hundred
for two months, an inerease over the
average business for the past five years, FRUITS AND PRODUGK
it goes without saying that the dealer
was certain that he had interested the
public.
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
And General Commission Merchants.
— >.> ———
A Lasting Job.
Mrs. Clooney—Phwat become of yer
old mon? Do he be worr-rking ?
Mrs. Casey—Yis; he do have a tin | |
years’ job wid th’ Governmint. i
Mrs. Clooney—Aw’ phwhat do he be |
1
EAST SAGINAW, MICH.
We buy and sell all kinds of fruit and
produce and solicit correspondence with
yoth buyers and sellers.
doin’ for th’ Governmint ?
Mrs. Casey—He do be makin’ shoes in | ]
th’ pinetentiary. | 0 br vt ;
Oo
Hounding a Customer.
|
| MANUFACTURERS OF
From the Commercial Bulletin. |
|
The expression, ‘hounded to death,’? |
applies well to customers who visit |
stores where the clerks are allowed to |
watch them as a cat watches a mouse. It} !
is not pleasant to a customer to approach |
a counter where various goods are dis- |
played, to be met with the question :
“Something I can show you ?”’
The customer generally feels like re- |
plying:
“Well, wait till 1 see, can’t you ?,’
Prices Lower than those of
any competitor. Write for cata-
logue and prices.
67 Canal St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Everything in the line of
Gandy
Correspondence solic-
ited and prices quot-
ed with pleasure.
Write us.
MOSHLEY BROS.
—WHOLESALE——
Fruits, Seeds, Oysters? Produce
All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.
If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be
pleased to hear from you.
26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St., - -
We are receiving
from two to four
earloads of bananas
e a week, which is
more fruit than can be handled by any other house at this market. Remember
We Are Headquarters.
GRAND RAPIDS FRUIT AND PRODUCE OO.
A. J. BROWN,
Wholesale dealer in Foreign, Tropical and
Domestic
Frvits and Seeds.
Direct Receivers of
California Oranges=—
——AND—-°
GRAND RAPII*
HEADQUARTERS FOR ees
BANANAS. ——_Massina Lemons.
When in want of large lots of California Oranges, we are prepared to make you
low prices from fresh cars.
16 and 18 North Division St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. gend for Price List, Issued Weekly
Rindge, Bertsch & Co.
For warm weather we would call attention
of the trade to our
line of walking
shoes at popular
prices. We carry
a line of russet
and black,in turn
and M.S., tips and plain, opera and common
isense toes, and invite inspection.
We also solicit your fall order for Boston and Bay State rubber goods, and
guarantee prices and terms as low as any house selling the same brand.
12, 14 AND 16 PEARL ST., - - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
4+
AMONG THE TRADE.
AROUND THE STATE.
Cheboygan—John R. Craig has opened
a bakery.
Otisville—M. F. Branch has
general stock to E. S. Swayze.
Oscoda—Veysey & Wylee succeed Fred
Veysey in the grecery business.
North Dorr—Schichtel Bros.
S. E. Brautigam in general trade.
Mt. Pleasant—P. C.
Taylor Bros. in the drug business.
Cambria—L. C. Parkhurst
Card & Titus in the market business.
Charlotte — Geo. E. Brackett will
shortly engage in the grocery business.
sold his
Clayton—Fluke & Hawkins, hardware |
dealers, have added a line of groceries.
Muskegon — Mattoon & Hitchcock,
meat dealers, have gone out of business.
Battle Creek—James M. Joy has sold
his stock of groceries to Joel L. Marble.
Reed City—Geo. H. Gilbert has opened |
opened a line of cigars and confection-
ery.
Lansing—W. H. Higgs has purchased
the stock of groceries of W. E. Bliss
& Co.
Hastings—Spence Bros. succeed the
Rower Shoe Co. in the boot and shoe bus- |
iness.
succeed |
Taylor succeeds |
succeeds |
_THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
| Marquette—The hardware stores of
| White, Packard & Co. and B. Neidhardt
| were recently entered by burglars, who
stole $600 worth of cutlery and revolvers.
Kalamazoo — Robert L. Parkin, of
Romeo, and John A. Gibb, of this city,
have purchased of Geo. W. Young his
stock of books and stationery and will
|add a line of drugs.
Galesburg—l. V. Brown, the druggist,
was recently hunted by white caps, but |
as they were unable to find him, they
| vented their spleen by daubing the front
| other indignities.
tered two chattel
stock of dry goods and groceries—one to
| Mary
mortgages on
Hastings—Goodyear & Barnes have ut- |
their |
| which a suit is now pending in the United
T. Goodyear for $5,200 and the |
other to the Hastings National Bank for |
$4,000. The dry goods stock is estimated
to be worth $12,000 and the
stock $5,000.
Charlotte—The Andrews grocery stock
grocery
was bought at assignee’s sale by John C.
Potter, of Potterville, the amount
|} an improved cheese box and knife, which
| soon as the necessary arrangements can
|} an interest in
bid |
being $1,750. The store was immediately |
opened under the firm name of Geo. N.
Potter & Co., the company being J. C.
Potter and J. B. Hartwell.
well will have charge. The new
| will not run it as a contract store.
firm
Hersey—Andrew McFarlane succeeds |
McFarlane & Brooks in the market bus-
iness.
Big Rapids—F. W. Joslin
J. H. Yeoin the merchant tailoring bus- |
iness.
Jackson — Michael Norris has pur- |}
chased the grocery stock of William
Covell.
Flint—E. A. Salisbury has purchased
the grocery stock of P. A. (Mrs. Hiram) |
Willey.
Charlevoix—Amos Fox has arranged to
re-engage in the grocery business at the
old stand.
Leslie—John R. Oldman is sueceeded
by Leighton & Oldman in the grocery
business.
Saugatuck—Robert Spears has sold his
meat market to Wesley Tryon, late of
South Haven.
Kalamazoo—Grant Dickinson has sold
his interest in the restaurant business to
B. E. Taggard.
Cheboygan—C. A. Kuhn, late of
Ignace, has opened a merchant tailoring
establishment.
Chelsea—Wm. Emmert has his
drug store, but will continue in the gro-
cery business.
Allegan—Jenner
in boots and
St.
sold
&
shoes, have
Robinson, dealers
dissolved, Mr.
Robinson retiring.
delding—Z. W. Gooding has
J. Dennison’s bakery and_ will
bought
add a
stock of groceries.
Onsted—Lee Austin, the boot and shoe
dealer, has closed up, and will try farm- |
ing near Napoleon.
Tecumseh—C. E. Williamson will soon |
open a line of groceries in connection
with his butter and egg business.
Flint — Beveridge & Collins, general
have ~~.
eridge will continue the business.
Horton—Milford Tanner’s dry goods
was burglarized the night of the
10th of $20 and several small articles.
Cressey—B. Fisher is building an ad-
dition to his pur-
pose of storing agricultural implements.
Detroit—B. G. Latimer, undertaker,
has filed chattel mortgages on his horses,
carriages, etc., to the amount of $5,600.
dissolved.
dealers,
store
grocery store for the
succeeds |
Bey-
MANUFACTURING MATTERS,
| work
Mr. Hart- |
j}the sawmill is enclosed, the piles are
Stanwood—G. W. Reed wil! soon start |
the Reed & Beihler shingle mill.
shingles.
Crooked Lake—Bryan & Bennett have |
j begun the manufacture of lumber and |
|} ment from our business men, an Eastern
Piper—Jacob Phillips & Co. are oper-
ating a shingle mill near this place, and |
| are cutting 45,000 daily.
the
they recently purchased to Seney.
Detroit—Wittman, Keller & Roeder,
in and
succeeded by Roeder & Boothroyd.
ishaw will remove sawmill which
dealers sash doors blinds, are
Campbells Corners—Jackson & Brad- |
pany referred to would employ 300 men,
; Of which our forests afford an almost un-
Middleville—Cook & Otto, dealers in |
lumber and shingles have dissolved. The |
business will be continued by Jos. Cook. |
South Haven—John Martel has re-
meved his ship-yard from Saugatuck to
this place, a bonus of $1,000 being the
inducement.
| Northern Michigan at present than there
| Saginaw—The Saginaw Lumber & Salt |
Co. has purchased of H. W. Sibley and
| said that while it was supposed by the
|timber of any value, in many instances
others 10,000 acres of stump lands in|
losco county.
Garden—This village wants a grist |
mill, and offers as an inducementa bonus
of $1,000, together
for the plant.
Standish—Judd & Judd have sold their
with a free loeation
|chasing a number of forties which had
sawmill to James Norn, who is operating |
it. The Judds will open a distributing
yard at Tonawanda.
Three Oaks—The Warren Featherbone
Co. contemplates removing to some point
it can better
| carrying on business.
E
lumber
where have facilities for
yard to Webster,
| who now control one of the largest lum-
ber stocks in Southern Michigan.
Detroit—F. B. Trout, Charles C. Canny,
| Mary Hayes and R.
corporated the Reliable Store Service
Co., with $75,000 capital, to manufacture
“ash carriers, ete.
Detroit—The Howard—Northwood Malt
Manufacturing Co. has been incorpor-
ated with $150,000 capital. William J.
and Mary J. Howard, William, Frank B.
| and Charlotte B. Northwood and John A.
Preston are the stockholders.
; on another forty found 1,000,000 feet of
| good pine that had escaped the former
| where from 200,000 to 800,000 feet would
aton Rapids—Wm. Smith has sold his |
Cobb & Co., |
|obtains at the present time.
|rush continue, there is no doubt that the |
W. Soper have in-|
of his store with tar and committing |
| junction restraining the Galvin Valve &
entire plant will be in operation by Sep-
| brought for very low freight.
| Way can put in the necessary side tracks.
|The mill has a capacity of 50,000 feet,
Bismarck — The Messrs. Platz have
purchased the Shelden sawmill and will
remove it to Rogers City, where they will
engage in the manufacture of hemlock
and hardwood lumber.
Nestoria—Albert Heath expects to
move his sawmill to Kenton as soon as
the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Rail-
but, so far, has been run in a desultory
way.
Detroit— The Galvin & Iron
Works have secured a preliminary in-
Brass
Hydrant Co. from manufacturing and
selling a valve concerning the patents on
States Court.
Charlevoix—O. W. Smith has invented
he proposes putting on the market as
Fred A. Smith has taken
the invention, whichisa
that the will be
be perfected.
guarantee business
pushed.
Bay City—Bousfield & Co. are pushing
on the construction of their new
woodenware works. The framework of
driven for the foundation of the dry
kilns, and the excavation is in progress
for the foundation of the new two-story
factory building. It is expected that the
tember 1.
Cheboygan—With sufficient encourage-
company will locate a tannery here. The
shipping facilities are unexcelled,
various lines of steamers ply between
here and the leading markets on the
Great could be
as
Lakes, and raw hides
The com-
and use annually 30,000 cords of bark,
limited supply.
Saginaw—Speaking of the Saginaw
Lumber & Salt Co. buying 10,000 acres of
stump land in losco county, a lumber-
man here recently said there was more
money in
y in picking up stump lands
was in investing in Southern pine. He
sellers that stump lands were denude of
He
stanced one case recently where, in pur-
there were valuable pick ups. in-
been cut over and bought for stump
lands, the buyers found one forty in
which an ax had never been placed, and
cutter’s ax. Instances were numerous
be found on stump lands bought for a
song.
Manistee—Salt is king at present, evi-
dently, and not in the past few years has
there
been any such demand for it as
Should the
will be advanced, as under the)
present state of affairs the manufacturers |
cannot more than keep up with the de-
mand. All the available tonnage at the |
disposal of the Salt Association has been |
brought into play during the past few |
weeks, and even then it could not keep |
pace with the demand, and has had to |
charter schooners and anything else that |
could be had to carry salt; otherwise the
price
| & Son Company, Warren,
| which will be sent prepaid
Association could not have kept its cus-
tomers supplied. During the past two
weeks quite a number of sail vessels
have loaded salt here in barrels—some-
thing unprecedented in the history of
the salt industry.
Detroit—Dickinson, Thurbur & Stevy-
enson have filed a bill in the United
States Court, the object of which is to
turn over the Hull Bros.’ failure, declare
the mortgages given to their wives and
certain preferred creditors to amount to
an assignment for the benefit of all the
creditors and to compel all the benefic-
iaries of these mortgages to disgorge
what they have received, so that it may
be divided pro rata among all the credit-
ors. The suit is brought by Dick &
Meyer, of Detroit, who hold a claim of
over $5,500 and do not relish the idea of
being shut out by preferred relatives and
friends. The stock of goods sold for
about $45,000, and the bill asks that this
amount be turned over to the court for
distribution. The foreclosure on the
real estate is in progress, but has not
reached a sale. It is said to be worth
over $150,000, and it is asked that the
proceeds of the sale, when made, be also
distributed among the creditors. The
action is an important one, and should it
prevail will overturn a great many fail-
ures where certain persons are secured
by mortgages at the expense of the other
creditors.
—_ -2- <
Fourth of July goods of all kinds.
PuTNAM CANDy Co.
FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.
PPP PRA
Advertisements will be inserted under this head for
two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a
word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise-
ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
OR SALE— GROCERY STOCK AND FIXTURES
consisting of shelving, counters and complete set
of grocery tools; will selicheap. Also wanted to buy
for spot cash a stock of dry goods, clothing, boots and
shoes, men’s furnishing goods, etc. H. P. Whipple,
South Boardman, Mich. 49
{OR SALE—WELL SELECTED DRUG STOCK IN
town of 3,000, having three railroads; stock and
fixtures inventory about $3,500; patronage exceeds
$1,000 a month; rent, only $35 per month; agent U. 8.
Express, which pays $500 per year; correspondence
solicited. No. 47, care Michigan Tradesman. 7
Vv WANT A PARTNER TO TAKE HALF
interest in a hardware business in one of the
liveliest towns in Northern Michigan, or will! sell out
entirely; no competition. Geo. W. Wood, Lake City,
Mich. 44
OR SALE—SAW MILL PROPERTY, WITH EXCEL-
lent water power, and other buildings, at Reed
a For particulars, address J. A. Scollay, Reed City,
Mich, 4h
OR SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS; INVEN-
tory $3,000; no safe or fountain; sales last year
7,700; terms, cash or nearly all cash; excellent op-
portunity for live man; will bear the closest inspec-
tion. Address W, care Michigan Tradesman. 7
OR SALE—A WELL-ESTABLISHED DRUG BUSI-
ness, in one of the best locations in the city; stock
small and would sell cheap for cash. For particulars
and terms, address L, care Michigan Tradesman. 38
ry\0 EXCHANGE—80 ACRE FARM, HALF CLEARED,
good buildings and location for drugs or general
merchandise. Address George, care Michigan Trades-
man. 35
ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A
general or grocery stock; must be cheap. Ad-
dress No. 26; care Michigan Tradesman. 26
OR SALE—STORE, DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES,
including postoffice fixtures, for sale on easy
terms, owing to ill health; only drug store in town,
situated in center of fine fruit section, Address Dr.
8. J. Koon, Lisbon, Mich. 4
HELP WANTED.
ANTED—AT ONCE REGISTERED
good habits. Address Benson &
V
Mich.
\ ANTED — SALESMAN EXPERIENCED IN SOAP
trade, able to show record. Address B. A. Lynde
42
PHARMACIST,
Co., Woodland,
48
Pa.
\ ANTED—A GOOD TINNER, GIVE EXPERIENCE
and references. Address A. W. Gammer & Co.,
Box 10, Coloma, Mich. 25
MISCELLANEOUS.
dd hen AGENTS WISHING AN ELEGANT SIDE LINE,
which will more than pay their running expenses ,
we will on receipt of $1.25 send the outfit. Gringhuis’
Itemized Ledger Co., No. 28 Canal St., Rooms 15 and 16,
Telephone 388, Grand Rapids, Mich. 45
OR SALE—ONE MILLION FEET OF HEMLOCK
bill stuff in lots of ten thousand feet or more.
For prices write Walter N. Kelley, Traverse City, Mich.
33
A 30 LISH THE PASS BOOK AND SUBSTITUTE THE
t Tradesman Coupon, which is now in use by over
5,000 Michigan merchants—all of whom are warm in
praise of its effectiveness. Send for sample order,
on receipt of $1. The
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.
~AMPLES OF TWO KINDS OF GOUPONS FOR RE-
_tailers will be sent free to any dealer who will
write for them to the Sutliff Coupon Pass Book Co.,
Albany, N. Y¥. 564
GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.
Dennis Bros. succeed E. E. Dennis in
the wholesale lumber and shingle bus-
iness.
Hester & Fox have sold a six horse
power engine and boiler to the Fidelity
Knitting Works, at Peachbelt.
V. Sinz has removed his drug stock
from Conklin to this city, locating at 402
East street, where the business will be
conducted by his son.
A. W. Kenyon and Alfred C. Stone
have closed out their meat market at
Cedar Springs and opened a new market
at 194 East Bridge street.
Theo. Schrup, dry goods dealer at Du-
buque, Iowa, has added a line of gents’
furnishing goods. Voigt, Herpolsheimer
& Co. furnished the stock.
three-story double brick building at 519
and 521 Ottawa street, the ground floor
of which will be fitted for mercantile
purposes.
Rindge, Bertsch & Co. are putting upa
boot and shoe stock for John M. Peter-
sen, who proposes to engage in business
at the corner of Third and Stocking
streets. Mr. Petersen will enjoy the dis-
tinetion of being the only Swede boot
and shoe dealer in the city.
i ele
Purely Personal.
J. E. Thurkow, the Morley general
dealer, was in town last Saturday.
Jacob Liebler, the Caledonia general
dealer, was in town last Thursday.
Ed. Pike, who has been laid up since
March 31, is able to be out again, but is
still very weak.
Chas. Kernan, buyer for the Converse
Manufacturing Co., at Newaygo, was in
town a couple of days last week.
Eugene Crandall, of the firm of J. V.
Crandall & Son, general dealers near
Sand Lake, was in town over Sunday.
S. Barnes, General Manager of the
Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co., at Trav-
erse City, was in town last Wednesday
and Thursday.
Jacob G. Van Putten, the well-known
Holland merchant, was married on the
12th to Miss Christina Van Raalte. THe
TRADESMAN extends congratulations.
Mrs. D. Kelly, wife of the veteran
dealer at Lyons, died last Thursday and
was buried Sunday. The cause of death
was a stroke of paralysis, sustained
some time ago.
M. A. Benson, of the hardware firm of
Benson & Crawford, at Saranac, was in
town over Sunday. His firm is behind
their orders on their patent vine sprinkler
and has under contemplation the merg-
ing of the manufacturing department of
their business into a stock company.
a 8
Gripsack Brigade.
Wm. Norte has returned from a three
months’ trip through Indiana.
J. B. Josselyn, formerly on the road
for the Telfer Spice Co., has taken the
position of tea salesman for Lemon &
Peters.
L. K. Townsend, formerly on the road
for the Telfer Spice Co., is now engaged
in the milling business at Galesburg,
under the style of Carson & Townsend.
The grand council of the United Com-
mercial ‘Travelers of America has
adopted a resolution demanding of Pres-
ident Harrison, in the name of 250,000
traveling men, the removal of John A.
Place, postmaster at Oswego, N. Y.
egeaiercae aeee de
| painted, seats and
Place is editor of the Oswego Times and
editorially denounced the profession as | until it was said that the county officers
one composed of rakes,
mashers and seducers.
A. L. Power, the Kent City general |
dealer ‘and cheese manufacturer, recently
purchased some eggs from one of his
customers and in the morning several
chickens were running around the store.
As ‘‘Windy’”’ Hawkins was in Kent City
about that time, it was supposed that the
vibrations of his talking apparatus pro-
profligates,
|
duced a warm atmosphere, conducive to
the hatching of chicks.
me
Out of Season.
The Detroit News recently noted the
following :
A commission house on Woodbridge
street has just bought several thousand
pounds of June (1889) packed butter at
2'¢ cents per pound. It was a pretty
fair article of old butter, too.
Some things improve with age and be-
come more valuable as they grow older,
jiness, and were interested in shutting
| used for a P. of I. or any other meeting.
| Sheriff Shriner has repeatedly given up
jand other meetings, and never refused
| them
| asked.
| culated about him is naturally not pleas-
ant.
| The New, Simple Way for Bookkeeping.
| above book will more than pay
but butter is not included in this ecat- |
egory. Butter is made to be eaten and
the sooner it is consumed after it comes |
from the churn, the better it is in both
quality and pride. Why anyone should
hold butter a year, during which time it
has declined in value
of the things which ‘‘no fellow ean find
out.”’
— > > <-> —
Aching to Play Ball Again.
GRAND RaApips, June 16, 1890.
To whom it may concern:
As my old nine is clamoring for an op-
portunity to do up any other nine whieh |
the |
the |
and await the acceptance of |
this challenge, stipulating that the i ie a se
into the general fund |
Rapids Traveling Men’s |
ean be selected from the ranks of
grip carriers, | hereby throw down
gauntlet
ceeds to be turned
of the Grand
| of the ledger:
‘> per cent., is one
| ized
| Convenient
| Simple that any of the clerks can understand it,
} us well as the person who keeps the books,
Association, and that the time and place |
be selected hereafter.
H. S. ROBERTSON.
eo —
The Grocers’ Picnic.
Owing to the backwardness
season, it has been deemed
the
advisable to
of
postpone the annual picnie of the retail }
grocers of Grand Rapids until the latter |
part of July, by which time small fruits |
will be well out of the way and the peach |
season will not have yet begun. The
annual outing will undoubtedly be held
at Reed’s Lake, although a considerable
number of grocers favor the new North
Park resort, near the Soldiers’ Home.
a a ae
A Lousville man has diseovered a way
to beat the nickle-in-the-slot-machine.
He tied a thread to his nickle before he
put it in the slot, and recovered it each
time together with a tolerable cigar, un-
til he had emptied the reservoir. ‘The
police then pulled him in, but were at a
loss how to define the offense.
— 0 ee
Hastings Banner: ‘One week ago Sat- |
urday, a meeting of representatives of
the P. of 1. called to meet
court house. Before the meeting, and |
to put the room in order for the coming |
term of court, Sheriff Shriner had had it |
all. The paint was |
not dry at the time the P. of I meeting
was called to assemble, and Mr. Shriner
so informed the committee who had
ealled on him to ask for the room. But
certain ones, who are alert to manufac-
ture large quantities of raw material
from nothing, proceeded to spread the
report that ‘Sheriff Shriner had
mined to prevent the P. of 1. from meet-
ing by giving out a false report that the |
court room and seats had been lately |
was
deter-
at the
| inside
TRADESMAN.
painted.’ ‘This story was finally enlarged |
and committee had ahand in the bus-
out the P. of I. Anything more ridie-
ulously false could not be imagined; and
the silly story will react against those
who started it. The court room and seats
were covered with fresh paint at the time
of the meeting and could not have been
his own office to Patrons for committee
any accommodation they have
And to have such a story cir-
The object of those who invented
circulated this report
plain that no one can be deceived.”’
and false is so
Have you Gringhuis’ Itemized Ledger ?
If not, send at once for sample sheet and
price list, for as the
itself
what the
Stedman,
Ind., says
time is money,
for
months. See
Bros. &
Elkhart,
of two
bookkeeper of Keen
hardware dealers at
GENTs—I purchased one of your 240 page item
ledgers over 2 month ago and I cannot
speak too highly of it. We have found it very
in making settlements, and it is so
Yours resp.,
H. J. Bostwick.
We have hundreds of other testimonials
from persons who highly recommend the
ledger.
Oflice at 28 Canal street, Grand Rapids,
Telephone 38s.
Bicycles,
Tricycles,
Velocipedes
AND
General Sporting Goods
5
[Established 1780.
]
“LA BELLE CHOCOLATIDRE.”
W. BAKER & COU’S Reatsterep TrRapE-MarRK.
No Chemicals are used in
any of Waller Baker & Co.'s
Chocolate and Cocoa Prep-
arattons.
‘These preparations have
stood the test of public ap-
proval for more than one
hundred years, and are the
acknowledged standard of
purity and excellence.
We respectfully call your attentino
to the fact that we carry the most
of
Michigan.
complete stock seeds in
Western Send
for our wholesale price
list and catalogue
before buying
Clover,
ONION SRTS, Timothhi,
Red Top,
In fact, everything Kte.,
in our line at lowest Ete.
market values,
Agents for A. G. Spalding & Bro.’s
Sporting and Athletic Goods and
American Powder Co.’s Powder.
We have on hand a complete line of Columbia,
Victor and other cheaper bicycles, also a splen
did assortment of Misses’ Tricycles, Children’s
Velocipedes and small Safety Bicycles.
5 G. Studley, Call and see them
or send for large,
4 Monroe St,
illustrated cata
GRAND RAPIDS
logue.
Brown's Seed 11S
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Engraving of Your Store
Tradesman Company is glad tosend samples and
quote prices.
We are now ready to make contracts for th
81 SOUTH DIVISION S:‘
e season of 1890.
Correspondence solicited,
ny
“Ss
GRAND RAPIDS.
6
THE MT CHIG AN TRADESM. AN.
Dry Goods. Prices Current.
UNBLEACHED COTTONS.
The Rage for Black. Atlantic A...... _] (Clifton CCC........ 6%
Penta Gia ha Cokes §|§«&ij; * = g.......... 5% ‘ Arrow Brand 534
One of the strangest and most incom- : P bees ee cue : 3 — Wide. oe
prehensible of fashion S$ vagaries is the Ce ee 5a % iFull Yard Wide..... 6%
rage for black. Babies are dressed in | Amory........... . 74|Honest Width....... 6%
black, little boys and girls yet in their ~conaotty Retooe ag i 434) eee eres os
: P rer i ee A Cc bes ,
teens are clad in the same color, youths Siackutene O “a "ae R. en Bly
and maidens, men and women, everyone | Black Rock ........ 7 |Our Level San. 6%
seems to be possessed of the peculiar oo as cele a be, cae eens ig
a7 : 2 bee , | Chapman cheese ieee ............. i%
fashionable mania. Black sateens le... |... oe | 6%
selling by the carloads, other colors in | Dwight Star......... 74|Top of the Heap.... 7%
sateens are unmovable at half-prices. ie a shing nh indigo
therefore, a useless article. Black silk century om 7 i “Turkey robes... 7%
ties in made-up styles and four-in-hands, “gold seal..... 10%} ‘ India robes.... 7%
are humerous. oo ow red. “t0%4| “plain T’ky X % 8%
: i Berlin —....... a z...20
————__—~—> + > at
Fa ers’ Folly | . ae... .. 6%; ‘“ Ottoman Tur-
rm : | ' ' en .... 685 wey red............ 6
From the Merchants’ Review. Cocheco fancy. ¢ petarne Washington
The farmer is the most credulous of |_,“\_, madders.. Turkey red %..... 7
is wewntling all wre : f ge , | Eddystone fancy.. 4 (Martha Washington
mortals regarding all schemes for the | Hamilton fancy. ... 644 Turkey red........ 9%
cheapening of the distribution of his - staple . %|Riverpoint roebes.... 5
necessaries. The idea that the retail | Mancheste r fancy .. 6 Want cree 6
merchants, as a rule, make exhorbitant | Merrimack D fancy. 6%| indigo — "10
profits out of him seems to be at the root | TICKINGS
of the farmer’s folly, and accounts for | Amoskeag AC A. AZ, cA... 12%
the readiness with which he responds to | Hamilton : ; ie Peper AAP a
the proposals of the humbugs and frauds | ‘ Awning.. 11. Swift River.__ 74
who claim they can undersell the local | Farmer....... = |Pearl River 12%
. . : . >» > »
retailers. It is nearly time the farmers | First Prize.-........ 1144,Warren. 14
Q i sisdom. however. COTTON DRILL.
learned a little wi dc m howe ver, for ons. ae 7%
they are almost invariably swindled when | Boot...)...0 21. 12! 63g} “Ck le
they enter into schemes for the destruc- | Clifton, ae .-10
tion of the merchant. A correspondent) | SATINES.
of the New England Grocer relates the | S'mpson.--- -- eee [Bigs a oe pie
experience of a number of Massachusetts “ re 16 | 10%
farmers with the agents of an alleged | Coechco er
farmers’ wholesale grocery concern in
Rochester, N. Y., which, although bitter,
will perhaps provea salutary lesson. The
agents alleged that the company would
sell at wholesale prices direct to consum-
ers, and received quite a number of
orders.
until the goods had been delivered and
paid for,’’ says the correspondent, ‘‘and
then the kicking began, the goods being
poor quality and short weight.
stated that the raisins bought were not
fit to feed to the hogs. Another that he
bought twelve and a half pounds of rais-
ins and upon weighing them found that
box and all only weighed eleven and
three-fourths pounds. Still another
elaimed a shortage of twelve gallons on
akeg of thirty gallons of syrup, and
nearly all condemned the coffee. Later
some of the customers learning that the
same parties were delivering goods at
Shelburne Falls, made a complaint of
fraud and had them arrested, also attach-
ing their goods. They made a settlement
with the parties making the complaint |
‘83 Monroe and 10, 12, 14,16 & 18 Fountain Sts, GRAND RAPIDS,
on the best terms they could and left.’’
‘“‘Everything passed off quietly |
One
DEMINS
Amoskeag bekes se cens ey airey........ ...-- 11%
o..... 144i Lencaster........... 12%
_ brown .13 |Lawrence, 90z...... 13%
ree. 11 . No. 220....13
Everett, blue.. .....12 © No. 250....11%
. brown. ....12 ' No. 280. ...10%
GINGHAMS.
Chemarven.... .....+ 6%| Lancaster, stayfle.. -™
Lancashire. . . 6%) . fancies .
Normandie. ace ‘% . Normandie 8
Renfrew Dress. ..... “iW estbrook ee 8
Toil du Nord.. 106104 ees 10
AIOePRE ...... <.-. we... 6%
o Pe ...... 1OiGitampton..... ...... 6%
Persian... pees w ose» OUG1W eormneer.... .... ©
Bates............... G@giCumberiand........ 5
Warwick.... Br a oe wae 4%
ARPET WARP
Peerless, white...... 18% iPeerless colored. ..21
— BAGS
Amoskeag......... |v alley ee se 16%
Maroy ........... teclacergia ao 16%
——............- 20 ee Lead ey 14
Amerieen...., . 265. "
THREADS.
Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's....... ...- 88
Coes 2. ar ....... Ss tWarsnalPs.... -....- 8s
Holyoke..... os 22%
KNITTING COTTON
White. Colored. |
: on : v
White. Colored.
ees “a 42
=e «US. o i.
" 8 04 so. «6. . 48
a 35 40 ee — 44
r = 36 41 We Me ccae 40 45
CAMBRICS.
ee =. ashington Loew ee 434
White Star...... 44 |Red i a 4%
Kid Glove.. we. SA OCweed.... ...... 434
Newmarket......... 4 |Wood’ .. “a oo
Bowards........ : 42, |Brunswick Lie cl 434
RED FLANNEL.
Fireman...... -B246/T W......ee cece ee ees 2
Creedmore a ees 6 teen B2%
ie Tr... .. 30 J Se ees
Nameio@s ...... 274%|Buckeye 32%
MIXED FLANNEL.
Red & Blue, a. 40 a. ).--...... T%
oe &..... | Sciweatern W ........- 18%
Windeor...... ... "18% Ser... 18%
6 0z Western........ 21 |Flushing XXX......23%
Cao f........ .. .22%|Manitoba.... .......28%
DOMET FLANNEL,
Nameless . .-8 @ 9! ” 8 Ge
Te 12%
CANVASS AND PADDING.
Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black.
9% 9% 914/13 13 13
10% 10% 10%) 15 15 15
11% 11% ae Ww iv
12% 12% — 20 20
puc
Reverse, 8 06........ 914 W “ost Point, —
Mayland, 8 oz. ......104| 10 0n....12%
Greenwood, 7% 02... 9% iRaven, 100z......... 13%
Greenwood, 8 oz....11 % (Stark oe
WADDINGS.
White, dos...... .. & |Per bale, @ dos....87
Colored, Gos........0
SILESIAS.
Slater, Iron Cross... 8 {|Pawtucket.... 10%
e Red Cross.... 9 | nundie es uo
- a ......-.. 104%| Bedford.... . 10%
ie Best AA.....teyiVarey City......... 10%
CORSETS.
Coraline. ..... ..89 50/Wonderful . - 4
Schilling’s. .. . 9 00|Brighton.. . £6
SEWING SILK.
Corticelli, doz....... 85 {Corticelli knitting,
twist, doz..42%| per %oz ball...... 30
50 yd, doz. .42%
F
HOOKS AND RY ES—PER GROSS.
No 1 BI’k & Ww hite..10
ia
; “
“
~
No 2—20, M C.... 50.
' @25,6C.....-.. 45
No : BY k & White.. =
r 10 . “S
NS.
"No 4—15, F 3%...... 40
COTTON TAPE
No ey hite & BI’k..12 {No 8 Ww hite & BI’k..20
4 ai = 23
oe 6 “es i ae 12 ae : 26
SAFETY PINS.
No2 eo INO... ... a
NEEDLES—PER M.
- wee... 1 SOiSteamboat.... ...... 40
Cremer 6&...,... .... 3 BiGold Byed.......... 150
Rear se. ......... 1 00
TABLE OIL CLOTH.
i5—4 22 6—4...3 06)5—4....19% 6—4...2 ©
fe 4 le
x.
Ury Goods and
STEKETEF
&
WHOLESALE
SONS,
Notions,
Lawns, Challies, White Goods, Nainsook
and Emb
roideries
Outing Cloths--All Kinds.
New Line Umbreilas and Parasols, Summer
. Gloves and Mitts.
in all grades.
Agents for Georgia and Valley City Bags.
Wadding,
Tw
Weare selling Hammocks
ines, Batts.
J.&P.CUAT
SIX-CORD
pool Cotton
WHITE, BLACK AND COLORS,
FOR
Hand and Machine Use.
FOR SALE BY
P. STEKETEE & SONS
Vogt, Herpolsheimer & Co,
Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy
Dry Goods
Manufacturers of
Shirts, Pants, Overalls, Ets.
Complete Spring Stock now ready for
inspection.
guaranteed.
Chicago and Detroit prices
48, 50 and 52
GRAND RAPIDS,
Level-Headed
Business Men
Use Coupons and put their
on a
CASH BASIS.
We are the largest manufacturers of
Coupons in this country and solicit a
trial of either our ‘‘Tradesman’’ or
‘Superior’ brands. Note quotations in
Grocery Price Current.
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids.
2 Ottawa St.
MICH.
Business
eo ITT Iie.
Retailers’ Credit.
From the Metal Worker.
A correspondent suggests that a broth-
erhood be formed for the protection of
the retail trade against those who would
get credit at the stores and then in var-
ious ways evade paying just debts. He
proposes having a blank form printed,
legally drawn, which customers would be
required to sign, and to read something
like this:
I, John Doe, for the purpose of obtain-
ing credit from Richard Roe, hereby cer-
tify that I have ——— dollars’ ($ )
worth of property over and above my
just debts and liabilities, and that the
same is free and clear from any and all
encumbrances.
(Signed) JOUN DOF.
Our correspondent then adds :
“Men whom we know to be perfectly |
solvent would not hesitate to sign such |
an instrument when they understood its
meaning, and a man who refused to sign
it could be set down as a knave.’’
This suggestion opens up a subject
which will be of interest to many of our
readers. >———
Not What She Wanted.
A woman stopped in front of a hard-
ware store on the avenue, the other day,
and began to examine a gasoline stove.
A clerk speedily appeared and queried :
“Were you thinking of buying a gas-
oline stove, ma’am ?’’
‘Well, I didn’t know.
burn, wood or coal ?’’
‘Neither, ma’am; it burns gasoline.’’
‘“‘Oh, I see.”’
“One of the handiest, nicest stoves in
the world, ma’am. Can be placed in any
room, and it is warranted not to smoke
or smell. Cooks just as well as a regular
stove, and it costs you only five cents a
day to run it.”’
‘‘Doesn’t it run by natural gas ?”’
“Oh, no, ma’am. It burns gasoline—
a fluid. Here is the tank.”’
‘Has it a refrigerator attached ?”’
‘Why, of course not. Who ever
heard of a refrigerator being attached to
stove ?”?
‘“‘Isn’t there no electricity about it ?”’
“No, ma’am.”’
‘‘Doesn’t it save gas bills ?”’
‘“‘Hardly.”’
‘“‘Just simply a stove to cook by ?’’
““That’s all.”’
“Well, I don’t want one. Can’t amount
to very much, I guess. V’m_ looking
along here for a second-hand clothes-
horse.”’
Which does it
—_—_ > -
A Living Proof.
Young Mr. Freshly (conversing with
an elderly friend of the family)—When I
see how we have things now, electricity,
telegraph, telephone, and think how
people lived sixty years ago, I can’t help
thinking that our grandfathers must have
been fools.
Mr. Oldboy (obviously nettled)—When
I see some of their grandchildren, I can’t
help thinking the same.
— —~—--. — —
Quite Complimentary.
Kajones—To-day is my thirtieth wed-
ding anniversary.
Kersmith—Wife still living ?
‘Ves,
“Lived with you all that time ?’’
“Certainly.’’
(Admiringly)—‘‘What a nerve
woman must have.”’’
that
sub- |
GALVANIZED IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27 -
List 12 13 14 15 18
Discount, 60
GAUGES. dis. |
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... ..... os 50 |
HAMMERS. |
ogee ACen... 8... dir. 25 |
oe... ........-..- ees ewes dis. 25 |
Yerkes & Plumb’s. ce «=e +s. Ce SLO |
Mason’s Solid Cast stegh .. 800 List 60 |
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand....30e 40410 |
HINGES.
Geto Creme e, 1.2.5 :....:........... 2... dis.60410 |
State eee ae eee per doz. net, 2 50 |
Screw a and Strap, to 12 In. 4% 14 and |
tomeee 8 3% |
Screw ‘Hook and Eye, 6 Ee net 10 |
ieee: net 8%
a4 es a net 7%}
. . sai Moo. net 7%}
Hien eee Tl. dis. 70 |
HANGER |
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Ww ood — 50810 |
Champion, anti-friction............-. 50&10 |
Kidder, wood track ...... Occ ae eee 40
HOLLOW WARE |
ee. 60 |
Mae 60 |
EE EE
Gray enameled...................... 40410
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
Stamped Tin Ware. new Hist 70&10
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Japanned Tin Ware....... .
Granite Tron Ware ............... “new list 33% &10 |
WIRE GOODS. dis.
eee 2 . 2010810 |
mere MOC a 701010 |
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EVELS, ian | SASH CORD,
Prices Current. | Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s 70} Silver Lake, Waite A.................... list 50
KNOBS—New List. dis. ies Ce 55
These prices are for cash buyers, who | a, noel trimmings . i oe “ Whe Bo, . 50
oor, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 55 . Oe . 55
pay promptly and buy in full packages. | poor! porcelain, plated trimmings 55 . ee ee 35
AUGURS AND BITS. dis. Eon a a en ae 55 Discount, 10.
= i 60 | Drawer an utter, porcelain..... . 70 SASH WEIGHTS.
Mo 4 LOCKS-—DOOR, dis. Solid Eyes..... -- veseeesess- POT ton 825
Jennie came | Russell & Irwin Mfg. © 0.’s new list 5D “BAWS._ dis.
Jeutiaen’. tovttation ................ 50810 | | Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s.......... 55 . Mond ........ 2QD2AS
AE) Pranioras ...............-. oo 55 Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot, .. 70
ol | Norwalk’s Ee : 55 ‘* Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot .. 50
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.. niece 8 Ont MATTOCKS. ss Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot ... 30
i D. B. Bronze.................. 12 50| Adze Eye...... : : $16.00, dis. 60 “ Champion and Electric Tooth X
oo oeeer...._............. SOC) me ONO... wl. $15.00, dis. 60 Cuts, per foot......- - . 28
' D. B. Steel 14 00 | Hunt's 818.50, dis. 20410 : “TRAPS. dis.
dee eee ese ee eee gs uw ou, a a i 8.
BARROWS. dis. MAULS. dis. meee: Galee. L 6U&10
Batoad. |. 814 a Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled. . : 50 | Oneida ( ‘ommunity, Newhouse’s ..... ‘ 35
Aen en i “het 30 00| | coffee, detec a MILLS. wae hoe choker ne & Norton's 70
Pine nc ais oe eccrine ' arkers 0.8........ a ouse, choke ce ....18e per doz.
BOLTS. dis. | P. S. & W. Mie. Co.'s Malleables 40 | Mouse, delusion. Ls $1.50 aed doz.
Ee 50&10; ‘' Landers, Ferry & Cl: 40 WIRE. dis.
Ciege we Mat 70 | Enterprise .. os | Bright Market. ........_.. ce eee
ee 40&10 | MOLASSES GATES. dis Annealed Marmct............. i. -70—10
Sleigh fe... UL. eo| Stebbin’s Fatiern.... ........... ee Guar) Coppered Market... 60
ee [Sebhine Gemmell (oaie | Tinned Market................ ...... 2. oe
Well, plai wag $350 Enterprise, self-measuring. . a. 25 | Coppered Spring Steel........ oe . 50
aa... | NAILS Barbed Fence, galvanized.......... 3 60
| Well, swivel....................... ae 4 00| Steel nails, base...... a 2 00 painteel Sa
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| Cast Loose Pin, figured. . ee 70d | Advance over base: Steel Wire. | AuSaiie.......... . dis, § ee
| Wrought Narrow, bright bast joint oo 60410 o eis eye —— hae eters dent tee one dis. 06
winialit Tooee Pi 60&10 | ee. Base 10| Northwestern........ oe dis. 10&10
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BLOCKS. ae -_ =-— oir (eee............ .......... : 75
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GRAND RAPIDS,
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MICH,
8
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
The Michigan Tradesman
Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.
Retail Trade af the Wolverine State,
The Tradesman Company, Proprietor.
Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable
strictly in advance.
Advertising Rates made known on application.
Publication Office, 100 Louis St.
Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office.
E. A. STOWE, Editor.
~ WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1890,
NOT PRIVILEGED.
The recent decision of the Supreme
Court in the case of Pollasky vs. R. G.
Dun & Co., which is given in full in this
week’s paper—having been furnished
exclusively to this journal by the Re-
porter of the Supreme Court—is one of |
the most important decisions on the
rights and _ privileges of mercantile
agencies ever uttered by any tribunal in
this country, inasmuch as it establishes,
onee for all, how far an agency can go in
the dissemination of false information
without rendering itself liable.
The showing made by the defendant
in the suit brought by Pollasky Bros. ex-
hibits the inherent weakness of the}
agency business—the worthlessness of
much of the information received and
distributed, through the carelessness, in-
competency or venality of the local re:
with
the disposition of some office managers
to jump at conclusions—as illustrated by
the apparently malicious effort of the
chief clerk of the Detroit office to ruin
the firm in question—serves to put all
reports under the ban of suspicion and,
at times, to cause business men to place
little confidence in agency reports.
THe TRADESMAN hails the decision of
Judge Champlin as an eminently able
and just dictum, the effect of which can-
not fail to be good, as it will tend to make
porters. This weakness, coupled
all persons connected with the agency
business more particular in dealing with
facts.
A POOR PRESIDENT.
In the course of an address to the Pat-
rons of Industry of Lenawee county, at |
Adrian last week, A. S. Partridge, State
President of the order, stated :
Business men, under the laws of the
State, have become independent, and the |
majority immensely rich, while the work- |
ing people have, comparatively speaking, |
merely subsisted. * * * Business|
men have their associations by which to |
protect themselves, which is perfectly
right. But what is not right is that bus-
iness men should solidify themselves and
make the consumer pay an exorbitant
profit, while the workingman and farmer |
strive for a mere pittance.
want to trade with home business men,
but want to do it on a fair plane. As it}
is, the farmer cannot pay the present
prices and raise the mortgage on the farm.
Farmers |
All of which shows that the scheming
politician of Flushing is either a wanton |
demagogue or a willful liar—probably
both.
The majority of men are not
immensely rich and the working classes
of the than
merely subsisting. Any man who makes
business
country are doing more
such statements for the purpose of stir-
ring up strife—and filling his own pocket
—is unworthy of American citizenship.
DO NOT AGREE WITH THE PATRONS.
The Grand
contract merchant plan, as the following
| destructive
| sumes too much
| capacity as editor.
Lecturer of the Farmers’ |
Alliance does not sympathize with the |
vigorous denunciation of the P. of I.
scheme plainly indicates :
I have no use for the demagogue who
goes around over the country advocating
the theory that the thieves are all in
town and the honest men all in the coun-
try. The retai! merchants are not your
enemies. Where there is competition
among country retail merchants, you will
find no trusts or combines to take advan-
tage of you. Everywhere I have been 1
have found a spirit of competition exist-
ing among retail merchants, cutting
down prices and underbidding each
other through the columns of the news-
papers or printed hand-bills, all bidding
for your trade. In the twelve states |
have traveled over I have failed to find a
combine among retail merchants. If we
drive every store out of town but the one
we patronize, we will have built up a
trust. If we organize over the country
against men who have not organized
against us, we will be a trust-breeding
| instead of a trust-breaking organization.
Let us not make enemies of men who
| are engaged in a legitimate business, but
keep after the trusts and unite for the
welfare of our common country.
LEARNING THEIR LESSON.
The National Grocer thus pays its re-
spects to those organizations of farmers
which assume to dictate the profits of
the retailer :
The magnificent fight now being made
in the West and Southwest against the
domination of the combina-
tions of farmers shows clearly how false
are those prophets who declare that the
days of the retail distributors are ended.
i This, with the facts stated above, only
prove that individual brains, energy and
experience can outfight any combination
which strives to wipe out the individual,
and we venture to say that the farmers
regret very much that they ever under-
took a wrestle with men on the stamping
ground which has been rendered familiar
to them by a lifetime of experience.
Like the man who tried to twist the tail
of the alligator which was apparently
asleep in the sun, they have now begun
to realize how much better and easier it
is to ‘“‘mind your own business,’’ than to
siton astump and wonder if your arm
and head will ever feel right again.
The Lyons Herald, which poses as the
official organ of the P. of L., says THE
TRADESMAN ‘“‘has done more to injure
the P. of Ll. organization than any other
paper in Michigan.’’ Another newspaper
which eaters to the P. of I. craze says
“the movement would have fionrished
| like a green bay tree but for the expos-
ures of THe TRADESMAN.”’
The new organization known as the
| United Commercial Travelers is undoubt-
edly destined to be a strong institution,
but most people will think that it as-
when it asks President
name of the 250,000
Harrison—in the
| traveling men of the country—to remove
a postmaster who has spoken disrespect-
ifully of traveling men in his private
THe TRADESMAN re-
sents his charges as strongly as any
representative of the traveling fraternity,
| but why aman who happens to harbor |
such erroneous opinions should be de-
barred from holding a public office—
which he has undoubtedly earned, polit
ically speaking — is than
people will be able to determine.
more most
The first years of every man’s business |
or professional life are years of educa-
tion. They are intended to be in the
order of nature and Providence.
do not open to a man until he is prepared
to enter them. The man without a wed-
ding garment may get in surreptitiously,
but he immediately goes out witha flea |
in hisear. It is the experience of most
successful men who have watched the
Doors
course of their lives in retrospect, that
whenever they arrived at a point where
they were thoroughly prepared to go up
higher, the door to ahigher place has
swung back of itself and they have heard
the eall to enter. The old die, or volun-
tarily retire for rest. The best men who
stand ready to take their places will suc-
ceed to their positions and their honors
and emoluments.
Bank Notes.
Rogers City is making a bid for a bank
and the business men of the place will
do the right thing for the right sort of a
man.
The Carson City Savings Bank has re-
tired from the field, full particulars of
which are given under another head in
this issue.
Gustav Meeske and C. L. Gunn, having
|resigned as directors of the Muskegon
Savings Bank, C. C. Billinghurst and
Otto Meeske have been elected to fill
their places.
Mancelona is still hankering after a
bank ‘‘as is a bank.”? As several re-
sponsible parties have their eye on that
location, the field is not likely to remain
unoccupied for any length of time.
Ss. T. Douglas, of Bowen, Douglas &
Whiting, is trying to unravel a business
He is assignee of some $30,000
against the Detroit Sistare
banking house, composed of William H.
M. and George K. Sistare, about half of
which are held by Detroit people. He
claims that the Detroit concern is differ-
ent from the New York house which re-
cently failed and is composed of different
men, and therefore not governed by the
New York assignments. He has, there-
fore, commenced suit in the Wayne Cir-
cuit Court against Wm. H. M. and Geo.
K. Sistare on the claims, and got out a
writ of garnishment to H. R. Newberry
to hold the money that the Sistares claim
Newberry owes them, if it should be
found that he doesowethem. Mr. Doug-
las has also got out attachments to place
on other indebtedness to the Sistares,
and expects to realize nearly the face of
the $30,000 in claims in his hands.
muddle.
of claims
The Citizens’ Savings Bank of Detroit
inaugurated the German penny savings
system on Monday and the Detroit Sav-
ings Bank will do the same in about two
weeks. The scheme is so simple that it
About 100 agents of
the Citizens’ Bank will be appointed in
various parts of the city. They will
chiefly consist of grocers, druggists and
recommends itself.
others whose places of business are open
later than the down-town establishments.
These agents will have pass-books to de-
liver to all applicants; they will contain
a number of leaves, each leaf having
twenty blank spaces a trifle larger than a
The agents will also
have on sale adhesive stamps, or certifi-
eates of deposit, of the value of
cents each.
postage stamp.
five
The purchaser can procure
one stamp, or as many more as desired,
and affix them in proper place in the
pass-book. When a leaf is filled it is
torn out by the holder and handed to the
agent, who gives a receipt therefor, and
then turns the leaf over to the bank,
where the patron is given credit for $1.
The object of this scheme is to reach the
masses, and give the poorest laborer an
opportunity to save something.
Citizens’ Bank is the first bank in the
United States to inaugurate this plan,
which has worked satisfactorily in a
number of European cities.
|
The |
NOT PRIVILEGED.
Notification Sheets are Libelous, if
Untrue.
Max. E. and Frank E. Pollasky, as
Pollasky Bros., had a store at Alma, and
February 23, 1887, the Dun Mercantile
Agency sent outa notice that they had
filed a $10,000 chattel mortgage on their
stock. It was not true, and the Pol-
laskys sued Geo. H. Minchener, manager
of the Michigan branch of the agency,
for damages. He defended on the ground
that the libel, if there was any libel, was
published by R. G. Dun & Co. ; that he
was not a member of that company, and
was not responsible for the publication,
and on the further ground that the noti-
fication sheet was a privileged communi-
eation.
Judge Gartner took the case from the
jury and directed a verdict for the de-
fendant, on the ground that he was not
liable. The Supreme Court has reversed
this decision and ordered a new trial.
The full text of the decision, which was
written by Judge Champlin and con-
curred in by all the other Judges, is as
follows:
The plaintiffs sued Minchener and Robert G.
Dun to recover damages for a libel published by
the R. G. Dun & Co. Mercantile Agency, of
which Minchener was the general manager of a
district in Michigan of and concerning the plain
tiffs.
Max E. Pollasky and Frank E, Pollasky com
posed the firm of Pollasky Bros., carrying on
mercantile business at the village of Alma,
Gratiot county, Michigan. They had been en
gaged in business at that place since 1882. They
were in good credit and had never filed or placed
a chattel mortgage upon their property, and in
earrying on their business, bought mostly upon
eredit, and had established a business reputa
tion for prompt payment of their bills.
R. G. Dun & Co. isa Mercantile Agency well
known in the mercantile Community and has a
clientage throughout the United States estimated
at 25,000 subscribers and in the State of Michigan
of about 600,
The alleged libel consists in R. G. Dun & Co,
sending from their Detroit office to their sub
seribers what is known as a “Notification
Sheet,’ under date of February 23, 1887, which,
under the head of “Items of Record,” among
other items contained the following: “Alma—
Pollasky Bros. Chat. Mort. $10,000. D. G., cloth-
ing and B. & 8.
This item was wholly false. R. G. Dun & Co.
were non-residents, as also was Robert G. Dun,
and no service of process was had upon him in
this suit and he did not appear to the action.
Minchener was general manager of a district of
the Michigan business and was located at De
troit. He was paid a salary and a further com
pensation for his services depending upon the
amount of business done in Michigan. He had
authority to employ clerks and to discharge
them. Notification sheets were sent direct to
subscribers from the -Detroit office. Reports
were made to, and all letters containing
information affecting the credit of tradesmen
were mailed to his address individually in De
troit. He had achief clerk who opened these
letters and noted their contents. Minchener
based his defense upon two grounds:
First. That the communication was privileged.
Second. That the libel, if libel it was, was
published by R. G. Dun & Co.; that he was not
a member of that company and had no proprie
tary interest therein, and was not responsible
for its publication.
The trial court took the case from the jury
and directed a verdict for defendant upon the
ground that Minchener was not liable.
1. Was the notification sheet, which was sent
to all subscribers. a privileged communication?
In Bacon vs. Michigan Central Railroad Com-
pany, 66 Mich 166, [discussed the subject of
privilege in actions for libel, and shall not go
over the ground again. I adhere to what I there
said both as to absolute and qualified privilege.
There is no foundation for the claim that the
libel set forth in the declaration is absolutely priv-
ileged. The question is, do the facts of this care
bring the publication within the class of com
munications which are qualifiedly privileged’
Qualified privilege extends to all communica-
tions made bona fide upon any subject matter in
which the party communicating has an interest,
or in reference to which he has a duty, to a per
son having a corresponding interest, or duty;
and embraces cases where the duty is not a legal
one, but is of a moral or social character of im-
perfect obligation. Bacon vs. Mich. Cent. R. R.
Co., (6 Mich., at page 170 and cases cited.
The mereantile agency does not stand in such
relation either of interest or duty with its sub
scribers generally that Communications from it
to them generally are privileged. Exceptions
exist in relation to those persons who are inter
ested in obtaining the particular information,
and to whom it is furnished upon special re
quest. To this extent and no further are such
ene protected by a qualified priv-
ilege.
Consider for a moment the relation of the
mercantile agency to its subseribers. It under
takes to furnish them, for a consideration paid
in advance, such information relative to the re
sponsibility and credit of merchants and others
as itobtains from its sub-agents, servants and
correspondents, without guarantying the accu
racy, reliability or correctness of tach informa
tion or being responsible for any loss caused by
the neglect of its agents and servants or for
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ___ i.
their want of verity. It expressly stipulates
that it will not reveal to such subscribers the
sources of its information, nor the names of the
persons from whom they received it, and re
quires a pledge from the subscribers that they
will never, under any circumstances, Ccommuni-
eate to the persons reported the information re
ceived concerning them from the mercantile
agency. It also adopts measures to prevent the
particular communities from ascertaining the
name or identity of the person reporting the
standing of business men in that community.
These secret and inquisitorial agencies ramify
Tr of the United Stated and the Domin-
ion of Canada, and possess the power of de-
stroying with falsehood or calumny the credit
of any business man in the country, and of
bringing him to bankruptcy and ruin. To hold
such vast secret inquisitions exempt from liabil-
ity for false publications respecting the char-
acter and standing of a business man would be
to sanction the highest injustice. The business
man’s integrity, his reputation for fair and hon-
est dealing, his prosperity in the transaction of
his business, is of the utmost importance to him
and is oftentimes his best capital with which to
earry on his business. Commercial credit is
based upon confidence, and all know upon how
frail foundation commercial confidence is
builded. A breath of suspicion may destroy it.
Confidence is withdrawn and the party is
ruined.
And so, in a broader field a breath of suspicion
is directed against the public credit, suspicion
gives place to rumors of disaster, rumors dis-
seminated undermine the general confidence,
and a panic is the result. On the other hand,
these same commercial agencies, which always
have their fingers upon the business pulse of the
country, are a most potent factor in keeping up
public confidence. They issue their manifestoes
of encouragement and scatter them broadcast
over the land; they are read by the business
men of the country; the newspapers assist the
circulation among all classes of people and pub-
lic confidence is strengthened, or at least fears
of disaster are allayed. In this they exert a
strong influence for good and are recognized in-
stitutions in carrying on the business of the
country. But they are also potent for evil to the
individual. They send out their notification
sheets containing a false statement respecting a
particular person and he is undone—no one will
trust him, and all claims are pressed for im
mediate payment. His business character is
sullied, confidence is withdrawn and _ his_busi-
ness career has received a blow, which it will
require a long time to repair.
The notification sheet containing the false
statement respecting the acts of Pollasky Bros,
was not alone sent to these who were dealing
with them and extending them credit, but to
between six and seven hundred subscribers in
Michigan, and others residing out of the State
from some of whom they might wish to purchase
goods upon credit and this without any request
being made to be informed of the standing or |
credit of Pollasky Bros.; and others of whom,
and by far the greater number were engaged in
different lines of business, and who were in no
manner interested in knowing their standing, or
financial ability or business integrity. To all
such the communication was not privileged. It
can not be said that a blacksmith, a sawmill and
lumber dealer, a furniture manufacturer, a
dealer in hardware, a chemist, mineral water
bottlers, butchers, book agents, physicians,
druggists, or ether business mentioned in the
notification sheets, who are not engaged in the
wholesale or retail dealing in dry good, clothing,
or boots and shoes, are at all interested in the
business standing of a dealer in dry goods,
clothing and boots and shoes.
No court has gone so far as to hold all com
munications made by a mercantile agency to
their subscribers, if made in good faith, but
made generally, without request, or to those in
quiring concerning or interested in knowing the
condition and financial standing of a person,
privileged. On the contrary, courts have uni-
formly held that privilege does not extend to
fulse publications made to patrons who have no
such interest in the subject matter.
It was strongly urged upon us at the hearing
that we should adopt the able opinion of Van |
Syekel, J. in which he dissents from the majority
of the court in King vs. Patterson, in which he
goes the whole extent of giving immunity to
commercial agencies for all publications made
in good faith to their subscribers, whether true
or false. In his desire to keep abreast of the
progressive state of society and the new and
varying conditions that may arise in the progress
of the age, he has entirely overlooked the rights
of the individual, forgetting that ‘society is or-
ganized and courts established for the protection
of the rights of individuals.” It is all very well
to advance the interests of the wholesale dealers
asaclass and afford them information which
will reasonably protect them from loss; but there
is no principle of justice or of law which re-
quires this to be done at the expense of the in-
dividual, It would be a harsh and tyrannical
rule that would protect one person from loss at
the pecuniary ruin of another. The welfare of
society does not require that a few great whole-
sale dealers shall thrive by the sacrifice of many
or of any small purchasers,
The code of Georgia defines privilege very
much the same as it signifies at common law.
Sec, 2980 declares as privileged ——a
“1. Statements made bona fide in the perfOrm
ance of a public duty. 2. Similar statements in
the performance of a private duty either legal,
or moral,”’ In Johnson vs. Bradstreet Co., supra,
the commercial agency sought to justify a false
charge made against the plaintiff under the plea
of privilege. After showing that the false
charge was not made in the performance of a
publie duty, Jackson, Chief Justice, said: “If
one makes it his business to pry into the affairs
of another in order to coin money for his invest-
igations and information, he must see to it that
he communicates nothing thatis false.’ And
he held that the communication made under a
contract, similar to the one introduced in evi
dence in this case, was not the result of a pri-
vate duty, either moral or legal, in the sense of
the statute, and was not privileged,
If we should advert to the circumstances of
the publication of this libel, we could point out
circumstances from which a jury might infer
express malice. The information was obtained
from Mr. Balke, an attorney at Alma, where
Pollasky Bros. carried on business. He was
their correspondent at that place. On Feb. 20,
1887, he sent a letter by mail from Alma ad
dressed to George H. Minchener, Detroit, in
which he stated: “I write to inform you that
there has been a chattel mortgage of $10,000 filed
in this township upon the stock of dry goods
and clothing, boots and shoes of Pollasky Bros.
running to the Citizens’ National Bank of De-
troit. Think it is the forerunner of a failure.
Would advise caution in dealing with them.”
This was received at the Detroit office of Dun
& Co. on the 2ist and the letter was opened by
the chief clerk, Thomas, who knew that there
was no Citizens’ National Bank in Detroit. He
knew that the information was not correct in
that particular. Notwithstanding this, he took
this letter and directed a typewriter to make a
report to send out in proper form as follows:
“Pollasky Bros., dry goods, clothing, boots and
shoes, Alma, Gratiot County, Michigan. A chat-
tel mortgage of $10,000 has been filed in this
township, covering their stock of dry goods and
boots and shoes, running to Citizens’ National
Bank, Detroit. It is thought that this may be
the forerunner of a failure. Would advise cau-
tion in dealing with them, and prompt action on
the _ of creditors.”
The words in italics were added in the Detroit
office and were very pernicious in their effect
upon Pollasky Bros., for they not only found
their credit ruined but their creditors took
prompt action in presenting claims that were not
due, as well as those that were. R.G. Dun &
Co., at Detroit, advised Balke that there must be
some mistake, as there was no such bank in
Detroit. and requested him toinvestigate further
and report, but, instead of waiting for the result
of such investigation, sent out the notification |
sheet uncorrected and containing the wholly |
false statement on the 23d of February. It would
seem that plenty of time had elapsed, where
daily mails and telegraphic wires connect the
two points, to ascertain the truth of the report
2. Is George H. Minchener liable for the pub-
lication of this libel?
The attorney for the plaintiffs insists that the
facts in the ease directly connect the defendant,
Minchener, with the publication and establish |
an implied eonsent to and authorization of the |
publication of the libel complained of. He |
Claims that—‘The evidence was uncontradicted | :
that the information contained in the item in
the notification sheet concerning plaintiffs was |
sent to the oftice of the defendant, Minchener, |
in Detroit, in a letter by one Balke, an attorney | &
at Alma. It is addressed to‘George H. Minch- |
ener, Detroit, Mich.,’ not to R. G. Dun & Co., or |
to George H. Minchener, Agent R. G. Dun & Co., |
but to George H. Minchener personally and indi-
vidually. There is not a line or word in the
letter to indicate that it was intended for R. G.
Dun & Co. The defendant swears he did not
receive it, but found it in the office of R. G. Dun
& Co., of which he was the manager, and when
he found it, that it was opened.’’ In explana-
tion of this, he says that stamped envelopes are
furnished to the attorneys of the agency, in
which to reply to inquiries, and that those
envelopes for the Detroit office, and sent out
therefrom, were addressed ‘“‘George H. Minch- |
ener,” and he leaves it to be inferred that this |
letter came in one of these envelopes and was
opened by his chief clerk, Charles F. Thomas,
who prepared the notification sheet from it and
also sent out the notices to the other offices of
R.G. Dun & Co, Minchener testifies that all
letters in envelopes, with the printed address,
“George H. Minchener, Detroit, Mich.,”’ would
go into his chief clerk’s hands, whose duty it
would be to open it, and unless there was some-
thing exceptional in connection with the mat-
ter, Minchener’s attention would not be called
toit.’ And he contends that—“If we believe
Minchener’s testimony, the case, therefor, stands
thus: Minchener ons Thomas to open all
letters addressed to him and to incorporate in
the notification sheets whatever items of news
he finds in such letters without consulting him,
unless there was something exceptional in con-
nection with the matter. Thomas, acting under
this authority, receives the Balke letter, pre- |
pares the notification sheet from the information
therein and sends out this false and wicked |
libel broadcast all over the United States. When
sued for the serious damage which the libel has
caused the plaintiffs, he replies: ‘I knew noth- |
ing whatever about it. You must sue Thomas,
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my chief elerk, or R. G. Dun & Co., my princi
pal, but you can’t sue me because of anything
my chief clerk did’ ”
The plaintiff's counsel also contends that the
principles of a superior do not apply
in cases for libel. That the proposition is gen-
eral and elementary that ‘every one who re-
quests, eeprom or commands another to pub-
lish a libel is answerable as though he published
it himself, and such a request need not be ex-
pressed, but may be inferred from the defend
ant’s conduct.” Libel
Slander, page 154.
The same work, at page 359, lays it down as
che law, that, “If any agent or servant be in any
way concerned in writing, printing, publishing
or selling a libel, he will be both civilly and
criminally liable. Ifa clerk or servant Copy a
libel, and deliver the copy he has made toa third
person, he will be liable as a publisher. That
his master ordered him to do so will be no de
fense.” Itis not necessary to go to the full extent
of the text to hold an agent liable severally or |
jointly with the principal. ‘‘In general,’’ says |
Mr. Justice Cooley, ‘all persons in any manner |
instrumental in making or procuring to be made |
the defamatory publication are jointly and sev
erally responsible therefor, Therefore, one, in the |
course of whose business a libel is published by
his agent, may be joined with the agent in an
action for the publication.” Cooley on Torts,
page 194. |
There was testimony in the case sufficient to |
be submitted to the jury upon the question
whether Minchener published or caused to be |
published the publication alleged to be libelous, |
and the court erred in taking the case from |
them. |
The judgment must be reversed and anew
trial granted.
The other Justices concurred.
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
Drugs # Medicines.
Staite Board of Pharmacy.
One Year—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Two Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor
President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
retary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo. |
Meetings during 1890—Star Island, June 30 and July |
1; Marquette, Aug. 13 and 14; Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6.
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
President— Frank Inglis, Detroit.
First Vice-President—F. M. Alsdorf, Lansing.
Sec’d Vice-President— Henry Kephart, Berrien Springs.
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—Wm Dupont, Detroit.
Executive Committee—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan; E. T. |
ebb, Jackson; D. E. Prall, East Saginaw; Geo. Mc-
Donald, Kalamazoo; J. J. Crowley. Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Saginaw, beginning third Tuesday
of September, 1890.
Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President, J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott.
Grand SS Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, F Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith.
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Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.
President, J. W. Allen; Secretary, W. F. Jackman.
Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, C. 8. Koon; Secretary, J. W. Hoyt.
The Inherent Rights of Pharmacy.*
Accumulated knowledge, especially
scientific knowledge, is, to-day, an almost |
boundless, fathomless sea. Its borders |
as far outreach the scope of the special- |
ist as its depths go beyond the compara- |
tively superficial eye of the more com-
prehensive thinker; but, happily, the
bounds of justice are now, as ever before,
best measured by the one simple rule— |
“Do unto others as you would be done |
by.’’
Before making my plea, I beg with
most respectful humility that the honor-
able body before which | stand consider
me not presumptuous, nor pre-judge the
cause; rather let its members bear with
me, trying all the while to discover the
truth as it is, while I strive to throw, not
the direct light of original thought, but
the reflected light of experience and ob-
servation upon the pathway leading up
and to its better establishment. The
real relationship pharmacy bears to
medicine must be of primary considera-
tion in a matter like this, and to get at
the very fullest understanding of it we
must ask: Who or what is responsible
for the existence of the pharmaceutical |
body? You have but to claim the pre-
existence of medicine, or to acknowledge |
that it formerly compassed within its |
own field of usefulness, not only the ap- |
plication of remedial agents, but their |
preparation as well, to make yourselves |
totally unable to deny that pharmacy is }
a direct outgrowth of the development of |
medicine; that the extension of medical |
knowledge and practice produced this |
something or what-not which is, to-day,
styled pharmacy. We will not just now
discuss the condition of this develop-
ment, whether abnormal or degenerated, |
nor does it matter much whether it exists
as child or hand-maiden. The fact is
patent that it does exist, and for this ex-
istence there is a responsibility. The
ereature must needs have been created.
Where, then, is the creator? Upon
whom does the responsibility rest? This
is no idle question—the honestly am-
bitious mind of the age considers noth-
ing below its notice that stands in the
way of aclear vision of the truth. Cer-
tain it is that pharmacy is not, or was|
not, entirely apart from medicine. From
the very first it has been associated with |
it, although holding, of course, a sec- |
ondary position, yet a position that}
might be quite as honorable in its legit- |
imate usefulnsss. It can find no other |
parentage. Its course has been rather
from than toward its source, a natural
sequence when natural laws have full}
sway. Its subsequent advent, its pos- |
itive utility and absolute necessity, in |
some form or other, as an auxiliary to|
medicine, are some points which suf-|
ficiently establish the relationship, with- |
out using for that purpose existing tra- |
dition.
Let me stop long enough to substanti-
ate my claim of absolute necessity, by
saying that pharmacy includes and com-
prehends, as they are controlled by her
rules and laws, the proper collection of
drugs, the satisfactory manufacture of
pharmaceutical chemicals, the scientific |
preparation and adjustment of Galenical |
Henry P. Hynson, Lecturer on ete College |
of ; Phouiciens and Surgeons, Baltimore.
| profession ?
|acknowledge and confess the responsi-
i neglected child stands.
jinto the Pharmacopeia;
| ulate others,
|forts to acquire more
| really
products, as well as the dispensing of
these medicines, not including those
within the curriculum of its teaching
which must of necessity be dependent
upon pharmacy for their intelligent reg-
ulation. Now, then, if we can make
good our claim to such a fatherhood, or
thus prove the source of our existence,
have we not aright, lask with solemn
earnestness, to expect something as a
child or creature? And, again I ask, is
there not a responsibility—a very grave
responsibility—resting upon the medical
Will you not, gentlemen,
| bility taken upon yourselves when you
j}adopted your profession,
and will you
not give us that which we know is our
right—that which is absolutely necessary
to healthy, moral growth, discipline and
encouragement ?
Pharmacy stands to-day just as the
It has gone so
far without necessary discipline that it
seems not to merit the encouragement it
really deserves. It needed the careful
guidance of a directress. Itshould have
| been straightly piloted in its course. It
| was—it can be now—as certain as we
the control of med-
icine. The discipline will have to be
more severe than would have been
necessary at first, and the encouragement
more pronounced; yet the desired end
can be easily attained, even at this late
day. Justice demands that the wrong be
discovered and condemned, and justice
is as rigid in her demands that virtue
and truth and ability be rewarded. The
average pharmacist is really human; he
is not only vulnerable to censure, but
also possesses the ordinary characteris-
tics of men as regards pride, ambition
and relative standing. A recognition of
any peculiar ability or virtue he may
show is as pleasing to him as it would be
to any of you, and vet he is seldom so
pleased. I would have you punish the
wrong even more severely than you have
ever thought of; and then, that this
punishment may have some effect, I
would have you elevate to a position of
eredit and influence him who is right and
true in his doings. What matter is it to
youif it does give him so-called ‘‘com-
mercial advantage »”? Money and money-
getting should bear no relationship to
ability or virtue; but, if these give you
reputation and reputation brings you
money, does it follow that you should
be denied the first because it wins the
latter? It would seem buta just and
additional reward. Tosome minds this
is orthodoxy as it relates to other pro-
fessions, but in pharmacy it would be
the veriest heresy! This was forcibly
brought to my mind some time ago,
while reading an editorial in one of our
leading medical journals on standardized
preparations. The writer strongly ad-
vocated the use of such, showing plainly
their advantages; courteously gave credit
to a pharmaceutical house for the ac-
curate and comprehensive data it had
furnished him; acknowledged, without
live, entirely under
j} intending it, no doubt, that this house
had taken the lead in presenting this
class of products to the profession and
deserved all the credit of this advance-
ment. Going still further, he sug-
gested the propriety of their introduction
then, without
finding fault with the thoroughly scien-
tific name by which they were already
well known, and which had been given
these products by this same house, he
earnestly warned the Revision Committee
of the Pharmacopeia against the adop-
{tion of such a name, for no greater or
better reason than that it might give that
house its merited position or reputation,
or, as he styled it, ‘commercial advan-
tage.’?’ Where is the justice, where the
encouragement in such treatment! If the
credit due was real and deserved recogni-
tion, then why not recognize it and stim-
thereby, to follow with ef-
legitimate and
desirable attainments ? This
editorial suggests my opening words—a
| Specialist; a mind which well understood
the use, the application of medicines,
but knew little about their actual prepar-
aration; a mind which could ascertain the
true therapeutic action of a new princi-
| ple, but could not isolate it: amind so in-
tent upon its own little world that it
utterly failed to see that all those around
it were impelled by exactly the same forces
and subjected to the same influences.
Our day is teeming with such minds,
whose scope of management should be
kept within the limit of their own special
sphere. Humanity must be controlled
by the broad general laws of good fellow-
ship, and 1 plead that pharmacy may be
so governed. The abominable abuses
and practices, derelictions and defici-
encies can all be readily righted by rigid
and intelligent discipline. The unmanly
and fawning bearing and the undignified
and inconsistent positions can all be sud-
denly changed by a proper and kindly
recognition and encouragement, and
nothing would seem to so greatly help
to bring about and establish a better, a
truer relationship between medicine and
pharmacy as a better, a truer pharma-
copeia—a pharmacopoeia that would be
more a guide book to compounders; one
which would show an improved materia
medica and better manipulation; one
which, while holding fast to the old,
would add to it the new, thereby making
a record of pharmaceutical advancement;
one comprehensive enough to serve alike
the old and young, the conservative and
progressive practitioner; one competent,
complete revision every half-century,
and asupplement of additions and im-
provements every decade; from medi-
cine, respectful and exclusive adherence;
from pharmacy, patient and conscien-
tious following.
A Lost Qepertuniiy.
He looked so glum and down in the
mouth that the half dozen of us concluded
that he had lost his wife or met with
some other distressing calamity, and soe,
after leaving Lansing, one of the boys
slid into half of his seat and began:
‘‘My friend, you appear to be ill.”’
‘No, not exactly ill,’’ was the reply.
“Wife dead ?”’
‘*‘Never had one.’’
‘‘Heard any bad news ?”’
‘*No.”?
“If there’s anything our crowd can do
for you, we shall be glad of the oppor-
tunity.’’
“Will you ?”
‘Of course.”’
‘Well, then, I wish you’d begin on me
and kick until the last man can’t swing
his leg for another lift, for of all the
born fools in America I’m the biggest !”’
‘Why, what’s the matter ?”’
‘“‘We had an accident on this road about
three weeks ago, and a lot of us lost our
baggage. We were told to file our claims,
and I’ ve just been down to get my money.”’
“Well, wasn’t that all right ?”
“Allright! Why, jab my eyes, if l
wasn’t fool enough to hand in a true list
of about $6 worth of old duds, while a
neighbor of our’n who lost two pairs of
socks and a box of paper collars stood up
and bluffed the railroad out of $74.25,
and they even asked him to take a drink
after he got his money! That’s me toa
dot. Ihain’t got no brains in my head.
I can’t see through a fishnet. Dll never
know anything until it’s kicked into me,
and I’m ready to be booted the whole
length of Michigan and give my only pair
of suspenders to the last man who lifts
me !’
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pulse or corn or vegetable substance pre-
pared in imitation of coffee, and making
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same liable to a penalty of $500.
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Matricaria ...... ----- F- 30
FOLIA.
Barosma .......--.--- 2@ wv
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nivelly . 25@ 28
a Alx. 3@ 50
Salvia officinalis, 4s
10@ 12
U 8@
@UMMI.
Acacia, 1st picked.... @1 00
ce 2 he =
on. ° ... ee
. sifted sorts... @ 65
- —— 75@1 00
Aloe, Barb, (po. 60). 50@ 60
s¢ «Cape, (po. 20) .. @ 12
“ Socotri, (po. 60) . @ Ww
Catechu, 1s, (48, 14 4s,
16
ee @
Ammoniee ........-.... 25@ 30
icakatie, (po. 30)... | @ 15
Benszoinum........-.-- W@ 55
Camphoree......-.-+--- 5O@ 52
Euphorbium po .....- 35@ 10
Galbanum. .......---- @3 00
Gamboge, po.......--- 80@ 95
Guaiacum, Mp0. ... @
Kino, (po. 25)...------ Q@ w
eae... «(...c e @1 00
Myrrh, (po — ..... @ 40
Opii, (pe. 5 20)......-- 3 50@3 75
ee 25@ 35
© bleached...... M@ 35
Tragacanth .......---- 30@
HERBA—In ounce packages.
ie ce 25
Eupatorium ........--.-----+ 20
—,, eg a en ce ceed esl a 2
Majorum...... ..-..-------- 28
Mentha paper ee z
Vr aes 25
ics d nese tee ve 30
OO eee 22
Thymus, V.......--..--- —- =
MAGNESIA,
Caicined, Pat.......-.. 55@ 60
Carbonate, oe oe ones 2W@ 22
Carbonate, K. & M.... 2@ 25
Carbonate, Jenning5.. 35@ 36
OLEUM.
Abeinthium. .........5 @@5 .
Amygdalae, Dulce... .. 5@
Amydalae, Amarae....8 00@8 2" 35
Wits a. 1 9@2 ~
Anranti Cortex....... @2
Bereamat ........-+.-- 2 830@3
Cope ...... ss 90@1 00
Carvopnyit ..-....<..- 1 25@i 30
Gee 8 ates. =? 65
© henopodil a ce 1%
Ciyaemiomt ......... _ a 40
Citronella . ons =
Conium ee
CORIO « ..5 22 20+.-0 oak 0G 30
eee... .......... 14 00@14 50
Exechthitos. . ml 9X1 00
ree wc... 4a 20@1 30
Gaultheria . ; -2 10@2 20
Geranium, ounce..... @ %
Gossipii, Sem. gal.. DO 75
os... ‘1 60@1 7%
eunieer............... 5O@:2 00
Lavenduls ............ S@z@
a es 1 50@1 80
Mentha Piper..........2 25@2 40
Mentha Verid.........2 W@2 60
Morrnuac, eal......... 80@1 00
Myrcia, ounce......... @ 5O
Oe ae 1 10@2 75
Picis Liquida, (gal..35) 10@ 12
a 1 4@1 36
ROSMIMEINT......... T5@1 00
Moeee, ounce,......... @6 00
Pete 2. 40@ 45
eee .....-...... 90@1_ 00
ee ...... cee. 3 50Q@7 00
Sassafras . ee 5O@ 55
Sinapis, ess, ounce. @ 6
ater... .-.... at @1 50
Thyme ....._.......... 2
' Om ..:.... @ 60
Theobromaes........... 16 wv
POTASSIUM.
—_............... 15@ 18
Bichromase .........-. 13@ 14
remeie.......... .— Se @
et 12%@ 15
Chlorate, - 18). 16M 18
Cyanide . 5O0@ 55
ate 2 S8@2 90
Potassa, Bitart, pure.. 3@ 33
Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 15
Petass Nitras, opt..... 8@ 10
Potess Nittas.......... 7 2%
ee 23@ 30
Sulphate po...... _. bea
RADIX,
Achiitum ............. Ae =
OO 25@ 30
Aenea... 1... 1K
soe OO. ............. @ 2%
os .............. 0@ Ww
Gentiana, (po. 15). 10@ 12
Glye hrrhiza, (pv. 15)... 16@ 18
Hydrastis Canaden,
= oe Q@ 3
Hellebore, — _ 15@
Inula, po.. . be w@
Ipecac, po.. .2 25@2 35
Iris plox (po. BG). 18@ 20
Jalapa, pr.. i . 0@ 4
Maranta, 4s. Dee @ 3
Podophyllum, po...... 15@ 18
ae. ae T5Q@1 00
"| eae... eae nee @1 7%
jo ee ee 75@1 35
Boiegra ............... 480 53
Sanguinaria, (po 25). @ 2
Serpentaria............ 40@ 45
Sonees ........-.--.-.- 45@ 50
Similax, Officinalis, H @ 40
M @ Ww
Scillae, (po. 35).....-- 10@ 12
Sy mplocarpus, Feti
Gua, po......... @ 3
Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) @ B
German. 15@ 2
Zioginer @.....,-..-... 10@ 15
Zineioer j.-...-...- P.” 25
SEMEN.
Anisum, (po. 20 15
Apium (graveleons) .. 15K 18
ee 18... ...- 4@ 6
Carui, (po. 18) . . oo &
Cardamon..... 1 og 3
Cosiandrum..........-. 10@ 12
oo Sativa.......34@ 4
ae oe eee F5@1 00
Cc henopodium _ 10@ 12
Dipterix Odorate......2 25@2 50
Foeniculum.. ae @ 15
Foenugreek, po. as _ 2 Ss
hh. 4@4%
Lini, grd, (bbl.4 )... 44@ 4%
DopGrm.......--..-..-- 35 40
eeeeneeernn . 84@ 4%
oe. 6@ Z
Sinapis, oe... 8S@ 9
Nigca........ 1a &
SPIRITUS.
Frumenti, 24 . Co. .2 00@2 50
iS 1 75Q@2 00
a 1 10@1 50
Juniperis Co. O. T....1 T5Q@1 75
oes 1 75@3 50
Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00
Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 75@6 50
Vini Oporto ...........1 25@2 00
Wini Alba. ............1 SQ
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool
Oarrieee............. 2 25@2 50
Nassau oat wool
Cree... 2 00
Velvet extra. ‘sheeps’
wool carriage 1 10
Extra yellow sheeps’
Capraee .<......--... 85
Grass sheeps’ wool car
meaees 2 6. 65
Hard for slate use.... %5
— Reef, for slate
use . noe . 1 40
SYRUPS.
a... ld: CU CU
Pinioee ..................,. Oe
aor eeu. 60
erri Iod.. es 50
sae Cc ortes. 56
Bhe: Arom........-- ... &
Similax Officinalia.......... 60
: ’ on... oe
eee 8... 50
Scillae eo ota sees asec sees ues 50
ccc, a a
gree ig s,s... 5 ss 50
Prunus virg.-.......-. beeee 50
| Morphin, 3. P. & W...2 85@3 10 | Seidlitz Mixture. : @ 2, Lindseed, boiled 05 68
j Nn. ¥.¢ & —. ea @ 18| Neat’s Foot, winter
i €€e........ 2... 2 85@3 10 opt.. ® 30 eoraimed |... ..2..... 50 69
E : : Moschus Canton...... @ 40 — , Maccaboy, De SpiritsTurpentine.... 43 48
Declined—Gum Opium. | Myristica, Wo t....-.. %70@ 7 Vo , QO PAINTS bbl. Ib
in. (po 20) .. @ 10 snuff, esis De. Voes @ 35 end, pay eee
pe Os. Sepia ** 30@. 32| Soda Boras, (po. 13}. . 12@ 13| Red Venetian... ...... 1% 2@3
ee : —— Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... 30@ 33 | Ochre, yellow Ber ' ix =
Aconitum Napellis R....... 2 00) Soda Carbo.) ...0.... Te ee te rp
mm N sp i ea =| Picis Liq, N N. +H gal bo Soae, be Care......... e 5 Putty, commercial. . ange 24@3
Pr aa als Bel dos i @2 00|Soda, Ash............. 3%@ 4 strictly pure. ... 2% 24%@3
ce and my rh. ee | Picis Liq., ‘quarts . . @1 00 | Soda, Sulphag......... @ 2 Vermilion Prime Amer- :
Ae 50 pints ...... @ 2) Spe. EtherCo ...--- seg. 55 | VOOM ao
ede ’ 59 | Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80). @ 50} “ Myrcia Dom..... @2 00 Vermilion, English SO@S2
Atrope Belladonna.......... 60 Piper Nigra, (po. 22). @ 18 = Morea imp... @2 0 Green, Peninsular WQS
aoe go | Piper Alba, (po $5) @ 35| “ Vini Reet. bbl. Lead, red..........-.-. Gis
Cee eo) Pix Bureumi..)...... @ @| 2 eay...-.......... @2 22 white ........... @i%
Sanguinaria ......... ll] sy | Pee Acet |... 14@ 15| Less 5e gal., cash ten days, Whiting, white Span. @iv
Hene 50 | Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 | Stryechnia Crystal..... | @1 10 Whiting, Gilders’. ... a”
Cantharides...... 2... 95| Pyrethrum, boxes H Sulphur, Subl........ SG 34 | White, Faris American 1:00
a... oe Oe... @1 5) Roll... 22.2) 24@ 3 | Whiting, Paris Eng.
Cas 75 | Pyrethrum, pv........ 30@ 35|Tamarinds .... 3@ 107, CHEE... ; 1 40
* i aaah ane | Quassiae . ol &@ 10} Terebenth V enice..... 28@ 30| Pioneer P repared Painti 2g! 4
Castor .... a "1001 Quinia, S. P.&W..... 41@ 46| Theobromae .......... 50@ 55 | Swiss Villa Prepared ’
Re eal S. German. a co) Vania i... 9 ‘— Op | Fatnte....--- 5+ --->- W0@1 26
Mecha 59 | Rubia Tinctorum.. 12@ 14|Zinci Sulph........... 7@ 8 VARNISHES,
“ Co... go | Saccharum Lactis pv.. @ 38 No. 1 Turp Coach. 1 10@1 20
Columba , SO} Salaein. 200000010... 1 80@2 00 OILs. Extra Tur 1 66@1 70
Coie... i | Sanguis Draconis..... 4@ 50 = Gai | Coach ae. ls. .2 T@3 00
Cubeba.... ee @4 50| Whale, winter........ 70 | No.1 Turp Furn. .1 00@1 10
ees ft See, We... 12@ 14) Lard, extra. a 5S 60 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 55@1 60
Ergot... .-.. 21. - eee eres eee a 8@ 10} Lard, No. 1. —. = 50| Japan Dryer, No. 1
a ae Se es = r © «© @ 15) L inseed, pure raw... 62 65 Turp. o W@
Te ae 60 |
Guaica . a 50 |
r ammon. ee 60 |
Pinger. nO
Mvorcvamme .-.............. 30
lodine..... oo 75 H
[ @olorese) 0000000 Ks
Ferri Chloridum........ ool
Mime... Lec ORT
opens... .... cl.
Wiyerm 2. ot
Dire Vomrca................ 38
Oe 85
~ Camphorated........... 30
« Deedor....... 1... 3... ee i
AUTON COMGE.............
ee A ao 50
meee i oe
ee re 2 Importers and Jobbers of
Cassia Acutifol .... @
Co. 1 5O
Serpertaria ............_.. _-
Serorsomnim 60
oo ase. . &
ee. 50
Veratrum Veride........ . oo — ee
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ather, Spts Nit,3 F.. %2@ 2
o 4¥.. R.¥ 32 iH
Neate “@*s Qhemicals and Druggists’ Sundri
‘ * ground, (po. . e 1 S an ruggis S un 68,
Annaito eee ess sso 60
Antimoni, pe. ......... 4@ 5
et Potass T. = 60 Dealers in
Antipyrin . ‘ 5@1 40
Antitebein “2 2
Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 45) e os s 5 a
AYeCniOUMm ..........-: 5@ 7
Balm Gilead Bud as 33 40 d 6 Bg d ll g § arnls Bg
ss 8. N. ....-2 10@2 20 j J 5 a
a ~~" nlor, ‘Is, “(KS :
11 a, @ »| Sole Agentsfforithe Celebrated Pioneer Prepared Paints.
caalaaees Russian,
PO... @1 7
Capsici Fructus, af... @ 2
“a “e . |. @ 16
“ ce @ 14
po.
Seana: (po. 20) 15@ 18
Carmine, No. @3 75
Cera Alba, 5. & F..... 50@ 55
Cera Flava............ 38@ 4
vee. @ 4
Cassia Fructus........ @ Ww
OO aaa @ 10
eno os. @ 50
Crierotorma ........... Si So
. squibbs .. @1 =
Chioral Hyd Crat...... 1 50@1 7
Chondrus .
' 20@ 25
Cinchonidine, 'p,
‘&W b@ 2
German 4@ 10
Corks, list, dis. per
Cone... a. @ 60
Creesottm ...........- @ 50
Crete. (hb 75)........ a 2
eo. 5@ 5
“ precip........... 8@ 10
“= Miuore,.......... @ 8
Ea 35@ 38
Cnaeee @ wz
Cup Suiph........... Sm &
Tee tee .............. 10@ 12
Ether Sulph.. _.. Ge 2
Emery, all numbers.. @
pe... @ 2:
Ereota, (po.) @....... S@ 55
Mince While.......... 12@ 15
Gee @ 2
Gambier. . .... o eo
Gelatin, Cooper eee @ 9
ec ereneh 6... 4 60
@
Glassware flint, 75 per cent.
by box 62%4 less
Clue, Prown.......... 9@ 15
-— Wee... ._..- 13@ 2%
Gigecrme ............- 19%¥@ 2%
Grana Paradisi. 2 @ 2
Humulus. . 25@ 40
Hydraag Chior Mite. - 00
Co . @ 88
. Ox so el @1 10
Ammoniati. @1 2
‘ Unguentum. 47@ 57
Hydrarsyrum ........ @ 8%
Tehthyobolla, Am..... 1 25@1 50 |
Pee ee... 75@1 00 |
Iodine, Resubi........ 3 T5@3 85
oe .............. @4 70
a 85@1 00
Lycopodium .......... B@ @
ace ....-............ 8B 85
i uor Arsen et Hy-
meee 106... 5 oo... @
Liquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ 12
Magnesia, Sulph (bbl
14)
monom, &. 2.........
We are Sole Proprietors of
WEATHERLY’S MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY.
We have in stock and offer a full line of
Whiskies, Brandies,
Gins, Wines, Ruma.
Weare Sole Agents in Michigan for W. D. & Co.,
Henderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash
Whisky and Druggists’ Favorite
Rye Whisky.
*
We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Guar-
antee Satisfaction.
All orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we re=
ceive them. Send in a trial order.
Harelting & Perkins Drug Go,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
GROCERIES.
The Buyer Who Lies.
Frank Ness in Inter-State Grocer.
A great subject for doubt and discour-
agement with a salesman is how to treat
|
a buyer who lies, and how to disprove |
his statement without offending him and |
without losing his trade.
man has trials that would prove too great
for any human being not possessed of a
superabundance of patience. These
come not alone from competition which
appears in every transaction, but from
the firm, the members of which are fre-
quently not well posted on the extent and
facilities of competition, and, therefore,
not familiar with the
are to be overcome in securing orders.
The buyer who will not tell the truth is
an even greater thorn in the flesh.
pily, he is the exception and not the rule,
but exceptions are met with at times.
There are few buyers who would
seorn to resort to
favorable terms. These buyers
not object to breaking one of the com-
who do |
The traveling |
| lady
| papers properly filled out, and returned |
| valued letter of the
|} handed your
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.
PROMPT PAYMENT.
Correspondence Attending the Pay-
ment of the McIntyre Indemnity.
The following correspondence between
Lemon & Peters and the Secretary of the
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Asso-
ciation is self-explanatory :
GRAND RaApips, June 6, 1890.
M,. J. Matthews, Sec’y M. C. T. A.:
DEAR Str—We are in receipt of your
5th inst., and have
blanks for proof of death,
in the ease of John H. MelIntyre, to Mrs.
MelIntyre, and have impressed upen the
the desirability of having these
| to you at the earliest possible moment.
difficulties which |
We are strong believers in life insur-
|}anee and have always impressed upon
Hap- |
| cient life
}
not |
falsehood to secure |
|
mandments are ready toresort to any and |
every trick or device in order to obtain |
concessions to which they are not enti-
tled. The question naturally arises as to
what course shall be pursued in dealing
with such persons. They are frequently
in positions where they contro! a large |
amount of trade. In the first place,
salesman should be frank. courteous and
truthful, and should study to gain sucha
reputation above all else. When once
the |
gained, this is the best capital a traveling |
salesman could possess. The salesman
should be well posted in the line he hand-
les. Whatever he undertakes to sell he
should familiarize himself with. He
should not only learn the cost to his
house, but as nearly as possible he should
know the cost of the
market he is competing with, together
with the various points regarding freight
rates, time, ete., which are favorable or
otherwise to the market he represents.
The salesman should have a price which
he should ask for his goods based on
their value, and not on prices
competitors. Misrepresentations can do
no good in the long run, while showing |
one’s knowledge of goods in a dignified
and manly way will win lasting
and customers. Nothing costs so little
and brings so good areturn on the in-
vestment as politeness.
~—- © >
Wool No Better--Hides Firm--Tallow
Low.
The wool market East is,feeling the
effects of a depressed cloth market and a
new supply of wool. Prices are weaker
and little is doing. Wools must
bought at low prices to meet any outlook
in the future.
be
Foreign
in offerings at a heavy decline in
Many factories are closed, awaiting the
outcome. The tariff will not affect this
year’s clip, and the outlook is none too
good.
wools are large
price.
Hides are firm, with a good demand for
late take-off. The supply is not large,
and the demand is good.
not respond to the advance in hides, and
tanners are waiting to see the cat
will jump.
Tallow is low,
how
with light demand.
—_— >
The Grocegy Market.
The sugar situation is a good deal of a
conundrum, as the refiners apparently
have the market by the horns and can
steer the animal anywhere they choose.
Those who make a study of the market
another advance, while others are equally
certain that a declineis in store.
a little lower,
throat policy
Watermelons
of the Adrian jobbers
are in market about
weeks ahead of the usual time.
two |
various goods in the |
| main,
asked by |
Leather does |
| Neal McMillan, Rockford
| Brainard & Soule,
| ADeKruif Zeeland
our traveling salesmen and others in our | report by return mail what I can give for
employ the necessity of carrying suffi-
insurance,
itry tobuyit. If in
and we believe that |
this sudden and unexpected death of Mr. |
McIntyre will be not only a lesson, but
an incentive to many traveling men of
Grand Rapids to avail themselves of the
| opportunity of taking out and maintain-
|}ing an adequate amount of life insur-
ance, thus providing for their families,
| to some extent, against the unforeseen.
If there is anything we can do for you
in this line, it will afford us pleasure, as
| in doing so we will be accomplishing un-
told benefits to all parties concerned.
Yours very truly,
Lemon & PETERS.
DETROIT, June 9, 1890.
Lemon «& Peters, Grand Rapids:
DEAR
find a letter
McIntyre.
ith please
addressed to Mrs. Ellen A.
It contains a New York draft
payable to her order, which I enclose to
you, as Ido not know her address. 1
trust that you will kindly see that it
reaches her.
Thanking you for past favors, I
Very truly yours,
M. J. MATTHEWS.
re-
GRAND Rapips, June 11, 1890.
M. J. Matthews, Sec’y M.C.T.A
DEAR Str—In answer to your letter of
June 9, we have handed to Mrs. Ellen A.
MeIntyre your draft for $2,500, and we
Prinmias | herewith enclose and return to you her
receipt for same.
We think that the promptaction shown
by you in this matter is worthy the high-
est commendation and praise.
Yours very truly,
LEMON & PETERS.
iin
Suspicions of the Supreme Officers.
MASon, June 9, 1890.
Editor Michigan Tradesman:
lama Patron of Industry and desire
information concerning the supreme
officers of the order. Iam not satisfied
with them and would like to know if
they are honest and truthful or frauds.
I was advised to write to you for infor-
mation. Please answer and oblige.
Yours truly, JOHN G. DEAN.
If Mr. Dean will procure Ture TRADEs-
MAN’S history of the Patrons of Industry, |
published about a year ago, he will no
longer have any doubts as to the honesty
and truthfulness of the
officers of the order.
a
‘‘supreme”’
VISITING BUYERS.
Maston & Hammond, Alex Denton, Howard City
Grandville Geo A Sage, Rockford
C8 Keifer, Dutton E E Hewitt, Rockford
C L Glasgow, Nashville Eli Runnels, Corning
H G Hale, Nashville John Gunstra, Lamont
J DenHerder &Son.Overisel
D W Shattuck, Wayland
Eaton Rapids J Coon, Rockford
G Ten Hoor. Forest Grove D R Stocum, Rockford
A Purchase, So Blendon
E S Botsford, Dorr H Avery, Slocum’s Grove
JH Hoogstraat, Conklin A M Porter, Moorland
G M Hartwell,Cannonsburg H Van Noord, Jamestown
| Carrington & North, Trent John De Vries, Jamestown
owing mainly to the cut- |
i. ae | Gibbs Bros.,
are about evenly divided, some predicting |
Cheese |
| Hannah & Lay Mere oo.
LM Wolf, Hudsonville J Raymond, Berlin
JN Wait, Hudsonville L Cook, Bauer
Sullivan Lum Co., Sullivan W D Struik, Byron Center
O A Jubl, Nunica 8 Sheldon, Pierson
Wm Mears, Boyne Falls Smallegan & Pickaard,
Mayfield Forest Grove
J E Thurkow, Morley H Ade, Conklin
Chas McCarthy, Lowell Den Herder & Tanis,
M Notier, Holland Vriesiand
G M Huntley, Reno LN Fisher, Dorr
J V Crandall & Co.,Sand Lk Smith & Bristol, Ada
Benson&Crawford,Saranac Geo Weitz, Caledonia
Jacob Liebler, ( ‘aledonia ~=Wm Barker, Sand Lake
HC Aner & Co., Cadillac JB Brooks, St Ignace
JR Campbell, Pig Rapids
Traverse (ity L Maier, Fisher Station
| Converse Mfg Co.,Newaygo Bakker Bros., Drenthe
Wm VerMeulen, BeaverDam Pickett Bros., Wayland
Geo K Beamer, "Hastings T Armock, Wright
| WANT TO BUY.
For the finest coffees in the world, high
grade teas, spices, ete., see J. P. Visner,
17 Hermitage block, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Agent for E. J. Gillies & Co., New York
City. 352tf
— 0
Fire Crackers all sizes and prices.
PuTNAM CaAnpy Co.
WOOL
[Tam in the market for WOOL. I
Parties having any
for sale, if they will notify me, if in car
load lots, I will come and look at it and
small lots, if you
will send it to me, I will open it up and
it, before taking it into account. There
will be no charge on it, after it is once at
my store.
—_ SS, ee
73} CANAL STREET
PRODUCE MARKET.
Apples—Dried, 6@6%c for sun-dried and 10@11¢
for evaporated.
Asparagus—20@2%e per doz. bu.
Beans—Dry stock is searce and firm, command
ing $1.85@82.10 for city hand-picked,
Butter—Not in shape to make any quotations.
Cabbages—Cairo stock commands $2.50 per
erate; Baltimore stock, $3 per crate.
Cabbage Plants—50ce per 100.
Cheese—Full cream stock commands 8c.
Cherries—Sour fruit, $3 per bu.
— —Pork barrels,31.25; produce barrels
Cucumbers—50e per doz.
Eggs—Dealers pay 12c and hold at 14e.
market is firm.
Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth,
medium, $3.50.
The
$3.50 per bu.;
Timothy, $1.60 per bu.
Green Beans—Wax, 3) per bu. String, $1.50
per bu.
Lettuce—i2e per Ib. for Grand Rapids grown.
Maple Sugar — 8@10e per lb., according to
quality.
Magle Syrup—75@8s5c per gal,
Onions—Green, 10@12¢ per doz.
per sack.
Peas—Green, $1 per bu.
Pieplant—#1 per crate of 50 Ibs.
Pop Corn—4c per Ib.
Potatoes — Old stock is unquotalle. New
Southern is in fair demand at $3 5(@ per bbl.
Raspberries—Black, $2 per crate.
Radishes—20e per doz bunches.
Straw berries—Home-grown fruit is now at its
zenith, Commanding $1.25@#1.50 per case of 16
quarts.
Tomato Plants—35@40e per 100,
Watermelons—Georgia, #35 per 100.
so early in the season before.
PROVISIONS.
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co.
quotes as follows:
PORK IN BARRELS.
Southern, $2
Never in
Roe pew. ........... eee ook eee ae 12 00
Pee eee ws ee i. 12 00
ee 13 00
ieee See... 13 00
oe, Oe WO, wk es, 12 50
OE 13 00
ee eh. 13 00
Standard cicar, short cut, best.............. 13 00
sAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked.
ee 7
ee 9
eo... .... Leds sues co 9
Pee See... ...................,.. 8
eee Ce 5
ee ee. 5
Bologna, thick...... Ae eee oe 5
See. 5
LaRD—Kettle Rendered.
—. i
We i ee 73%
ae ee 7%
LARD—Family.
Te a ee 6
oo ee 64
EEE x
mam. Feo, Tete Gee... wc... .. 6%
re Fee Gin oe... 6%
20 Ib. Pails, aso... ................ 6%
mm 6%
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 7 06
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 700
Paes eee...
SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain.
Hams, average . ee 9%
lg ee 104
- 12 12 to Mee... 2... 10%
. - a ee roe ne ae aa 7%
» NE THOS... 5. 5... 8
Breakfast Bacon, boncless.................... 8%
TORO WOOT, TURE PICO ees eee eos cs 9
i Ce, OG oe i se 6
Briskets, meee a Ss 6
ee ee 6
OYSTERS and FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH.
ee. Mp deeesuee Glbssou6 Cece cGdee tue @%™%
ee @8
—— @ 7%
eee @15
Coen. oc @4
OYSTERS—Cans.
Parmeven COuUnm............ 56.) ee @35
ie eae tale @30
ese @25
FRESH MEATS.
Swift and ogee as as —
Beef, carcass. - 54@ 7
hind quarters. pe oat eee ee 7 @8
- fore ee 3%@ 4
‘ —— soe... @9
Oo ee ee @ 7%
o ee ____—__ eee @9
.................. @ 5%
eee @5
ee... @s3
lll. @6
Sausage, blood or head. . @b
' ee — @5
o Weeeeeers...........- @8
eaten -8 @9
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
The Putnam Candy Co. . quotes as follows:
Standard, 25 _ boxes ee eu eee ee eee) 9
Twist, ee ae -
Cut Loaf, 2 ee So 10
MIXED,
yo 2 el
" Te eee, 8
eT eae cease 10
ee OO 9
Trench (Crees, 2. eeeie...... ........... 11%
FANCY—In 5 Ib, boxes,
ROO ON 12
ee 13
Poopcours. (yore... 14
rereeeee eC 14
mr, Cheeolaurore..........+..........5... 18
ore Oe 10
Repoeace Fem. 5... < ae
mm. Eiooiee Breen... 14
Lozenges, ee 14
eee 15
ee oe eee eee =
ae...
I 18
ae ee |.
ae... ie@is
or ee Cee... kee, 18
Cee eo. ce ee, 16
ee kk eee ys wai 20
ee 15
ere ee 2
Wihrterecoom Hesie ......... 14
FaNcy—In bulk.
Lozenges, plain, tl aa 11%
eee... 10%
, printed, = =o. peed ehehad ene geweay 12
bites eree meee aca. 11
Chocolate Drops, ool ee le eas sae 12
Gum Drops, oe 6%
. ae 54
Moss Drops, Oe 10
mim EG
ee ee 12
Imperials, eee 11
ee 10
Oranges, Rodi, choice, "200. pees, @ 6 2%
epee ec ce @ 6 %
" Pies, CHOINE.......... . @
- _ ct HM RENE IEEE MEIN
. Riverside, fancy ee eee eee 5 25@ 5 75
- aoe, Csi#L @
. Wash. Navals, Amey... @
al Valencias, large ee ee ee @
Lemons, Messina, choice, a0 4 50@ 475
eee 4 50@ 4 75
- " fancy, 360 a 5 00@ 5 25
“ oe 5 00@ 5 25
Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers ae 5 @i6
cease 13 @ 14
- cere... @
Dates, frails, a Ee @
4S oe, oie... @
“ Fard, 10- Ib. box i @10
ce eee @8
. Porinn, 06, box..... 0.4. | 5%@
NUTS. r
Almonds, Seen. ge @16
Oe ee. @i5
C TO @i4
Beetee....... .4c,.....,.. 2... @il
ree, Coes... @i6
= el, @15
roca ere a... 11 @14
C ocoanuts ee @4 50
PEANUTS,
Peney, © PSs... @ 9%
. : meee @ll
Fancy, H. Po cieme Ooees....-....0... @ 9%
. Roasted ...... @ili
Fane CY H. P. ae @9
~ meee... @10%
Cueice 1. Ff tee... |. @ 8%
. - “Roasted. a @10
Fancy, H. P., Steamboats............... @ 8%
: moneed....... @10
MUSKEGON CRACKER CO.
MANUFACTURERS OF
GHAUKERS, BISCUITS AND SWEET GOODS
Finest and Freshest Goods in the Market.
LARGEST VARIETY IN THE STATE
SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS.
457, 459, 461, 463 W.
WESTERN AVENUE, -
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e ce Current. Mixed bird, Tee. axe 6 qa | Baskets market........-.-. 49
The quotations gwen below are such as are ordinarily offered cash bwyers who | i 7 “ mice eee ae
pay promptly and buy in full packages. Gio @ao | wee
E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 6 |Bulk.................. 4 @4% | Kegs nancy 5 25 | eet: “4 | Superior to fine...... @0 ‘ i, NO. 42
AXLE GREASE. Pound packages........ Gz |e Meee o Ae SALT Fine to choicest....... 55 @65 i i “No.3 5 00
reas... #2 40 COFFEE EXTRACT. Nene prong _ per ohh... -. &9 SODA iF}
ee EE 1 | Valley Clty Wisace, |... ne | Solar Rock, 56 Ib. sacks..... a Mame io. ue GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS
aaa 1 80 | Felix Ce 9 | 28 pocket 190 6 54
Se a Sneed ( Cee Ban Kegs, English. : . 4% Whit WHEAT.
8 ee 2 ; 5 ' :
Absolute, Ib. cans, 1008..11 75 | Rio, fair. ............. OM le 2 wet one eee 100 c pci irecreh tyes 2 25 ropaccos—Fine Cut. — Hr
« 50s..10 00 ee 2 29 4. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 6 | As mon De. Dee ............ 75| D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands. All"'whea boug
- a+ wees @zx | Chicago goods.............. 4 | Higgins“ © 5 | Hiawatha a .. ou 00 0 1b tet
Acme, 14 14 Ib. cans, 3 doz... 75| ‘ fancy, washed... @24 LAMP WICKS. Warsaw ” “ oo Cok........... 36 Bete 115
‘ Ib. ioe. | golden 23 @24 : So). ae Our Leader. ....... 35 | Granulated...
+ a= 3 3 00 | Santos ss OM lhe x | Diamond Crystal, / =o
“ pulk 2. 790] Mexican Guatemalaas qa | No.220000000007 -_ t B8-1b sacks a gpg Straight, in week
ese cease t 2 : I a ee | § : a Straight, a
Our Leader, Ib. cans. 45 | Java, Interior......... 4% @%6 LICORICE Po _ 22° eee 2S 8 si 5 00
~ . 90} ‘’ Mandheling....27 @30 | Pure - « S @ pocket.2 35 | eoible Pedro 2.22 Li lap] Paleme ff sacks... 5 90
il eo 1 60 Peaberry ee “Oo @24 ae ceeteeeeatereree 1 “ “ 28 2 10 U OO eee cus ae “6 “a barrels. tl >
Telfer’s, rib. a oo F 7 ° ri e Be ee eee ee ee ee ee ee aad | ih ss b > jm treeen Wie. Se ee 6 00
bia =" 7 Fo 7 . aoe sisauiosipbedmaneners tog sanreranans (anu | SAI ee — Wedding Cake, blk.......... “30 B RANE
i 4 Ib. “ _ .. 150} coffee, add ‘ce. per Ib. for roast- | condensed, 2 o sas Church’s, Arm & Hammer...51%4 ree ce ee Ships LT a 3 00
se _— BRICK. ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- a ~ | Dwight’sCom... - + 6 ToBacco—Shorts, Sesomsimee 00 12 00
ie” 2 02. in cease..... 80 age. seiiias tai ae wo ae | eo pe: 5% | Our Leader. . aoe 00
2 Ce a —Package. me. 9 sonar... 2 eLand’s Cap She Pes iddlings.................
American.2 doz. incase... 70} Bunola.. eee day 24a, | Anchor parlor....... en hn Ay in ae Big rowaccos—Smoking. os — ae os
BLUING. Dozen “in eabinets.......--.. 2514 = weeoeee..................1 Wt Cam Leater................. — eS sa mae “ - 15 00
Mexican, ia... ‘ McLaughlin’s XXXX....251 Ea port perion............... 4 00 | ee 17 CORN.
£0 os ee = Lion ...... ve “2254 MOLASSES | Corn, hie Bon oy | Plow Boy, 2 oz. SIIITigg. | Small lots.. weceee 40
' 16 - ee 90 Dat cabinets Black Strap... cc 20| “ ” one-half barrels... @29 “ “ oz... ag 31 _— Tr cia aerate 37%
te eue Veet es 2 , 24 | pina § ¢ ae. f
No. 2 Hurl vans 1Sic CLOTHES LINES. ‘ on a ee 30 | - oa Boat VINEGAR, Small lots oe
1 ee ia 3 00 Cotton, —....-.. per doz. 1 35| New Orleans, good. oo. 24 | CO 6% | Car * 33
as 1 as. es o- : we... ee ‘ 1 50 eholee.... Rimes. 8 Me ek ee eee e ce ctn ee Oe RYE
No 1 ee 2 50 . = os iv a ANC ais Maes > au Ce ee ee 45
5 “a “3 : : | Sugar Creama......... 8% 0
Parker Gem 2% “ 80 ae 8 = One-half barrels, 3c extra | Frosted Creams....... 3 | PAPER & WOODENWARE ARLEY
Common Whisk............ MlJute 60ft.... “ 90 _ OATMEAL, | Graham Crackers..... 8 Nee 1 10
Fancy 120] me “7 | Muscatine, Barrels ........ 150} Oatmeal Crackers.... 8 , _ PAPER. Woe 1 05
25 . 110 “ als 9 Curtiss & Co. « > fol ee es ty a ea
ma Bak acs tee eerste on 3 25 coniainnaenes wviae : Half barrels... .2 50 | SHOE POLISH vase To ae HAY
PMR iss oo... 215 ee a ' Cases. ..... 2 15@2 25 | ‘ pe talaga phic i re
ia 50 9@* 25 | Jettine, 1 doz. in box...... %5 | Straw dL 7
CANDLES ieee Meee eee 6 0H@ 7 60 ROLLED OATS — ” La ight Weight... Oa = NO, Boot eens vase ease eene se 10 00
— = Ib. boxes... ao = COUPONS. Muse atine, ee a: @4 50} TEAS Be TT 180 oe
eg 9% courpons—‘‘Superior. alf bbls.. @2 50 | oy ] yare ... “"7""""G | HIDES, PELTS and FURS
OL : 1, per hundred....... = 2 50 . Cases......2 15@2 25 | saraN—Regular. a. Ae oe Perkins & Hess oa aa
ie 25 2, . gees 300 on. | Pair ................... 1 @it | Dry Goods............ ...... 6 i es
CANNED Goops—Fish. : areca aaa + 00} Michigan Teat.............. gy | Good .................. 18 @2 | Jute Manilla................. 8 "
Clams, 1 Ib, Little Neck. ....1 20 ~ sss sme aiainn io Water White... 00000000010 10% | ao -s+++++ +24 @29 | Red Express N 1e..0222.5°5 | Green sae
v 6 mw, sie we a ok ee : , PEBE...- 20s 32 @38 Yo. & Pa 2. = ow
Cove Oyaters, ib signa. 4 coupons— Tradesman.” PICKLES. Ropemanmeyn ——— wee Te Cee. reeves BD @ 5%
¥ "5 95/81, per hundred........... 2 00 Medium. “oe ee eee @8 50 | Pair SUN CURED, eas TWINES. ee aa ei
+. < ‘“ ‘ ao »b » oe 4 BO] ROE... - eee eee ee eee ee @I15 48 CC a) ee... ] 8
Lobsters, 1 Ib. *plenie wave uae 1% - > “ ae : = — bbl. _........... 908 A000 .......-.......... 16 @20 Cotton, No Cee = Kips green . g 5
i onsen idee ae od 2 $10, “ ' NMR 400 & 4 bbl. oe . sc IO eg @28 in OH a “ cured mrad ay S ax
“ 2 Tb. Star...........3 25 | 8%, ae 5 00 PIPES. “duvcyaianean eabrannnetesetets 30 @33 | sea Inland, assorted... 49 | Calfskins, green......4 @6
Mackerel, jn Tomato Sauce.2 85 Subject to the following dis- | C lay, NO. 216. ....-.. 2.2.4... 1 7% | BASKET FIRED. No.5 emp .18 cured......5 @7
ilb. stand........ 29 | counts: 1" D, fuléount (Mate @20 | No.6 “........-.-- 2-2 eee q | Deaconskins.. +10 @%
‘“ 1 = 00 | 200 or over. . 5 per cent. | Cob, No. 3... Ll aes Caetees 0, @25 | Wool wtcwecnceeene B No. 2 hides off.
_ 3 1b. in Mustard...2 85 a = tae 10 - PRESERVES. | Choicest........ a @35 WOODENWARE. PELTS.
- Sib. soused......- 2 95/1000 “ ..-.. es. 20 E. J. Mason & Co.’s goods.. 8 | Extrachoice,wireleaf @40 Tubs, No. 1 PP) Sebomnmnrn uae sine 2) oo
Salmon,1 Ib. Columbia 1 65@2 00 CRACKERS. RICE, GUNPOWDER. A a ee
1lb. Alaska..1 40@1 60 | Kenosha Butter............. 7% Carolina BOM eye ae 6% | Common to fair....... 25 @35 «* Ned. ee WOOL,
Sardines, domestic ak cee 5M No. | ..5\ | Extra fine to finest....50 @65 | Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. 150| Washed.. .......... 0.08. 2027
o8.....: @e Sites ........ 5% fk Me. 8 54@. Choicest fancy........7%5 @8 ‘No.1, three hoop... 75 | Unwashed............ -- 10@20
«Mustard \%s @ 9 “family 5% o No. 3.. 8 Clothespins, 5 gr. t ee
tc nUstarG: 748. .-... a REE i ae tec tants a2 totes IMPERIAL. tapans,Ger.bomes.... oS MISCELLANEOUS.
iC a. eee aor ee = Japan, as 1.... --------2 ee oH | Common to fair.......20 @35 Bowls, ee eae 10 Talley. ............ = a ae
an ces 4 Ce ee le ; “a ] - & er 9 cli o
Trout, 3 hn... eS a SNUFF. | Superior tofine. vo22s2-40 @B0 “ aR : a Grease butter. ae ens :
CANNED Goops—Fruits. EES .... 6 | Scotch, in bladders oe 37 YOUNG HYSON. a a 2 75} Ginseng... i 2 O@2 50
Apples, gallons, stand. ....3 00| S. Oyster .... 2... 0... +++ 5% | Maccaboy, in jars...........35 | Common to fair.......18 @26 “ assorted, 17s and 198 2.50 ce Te ne
Blackberries, stand......... 80 City Oyster, X1 XXX.. . 54 | French Rappee, in Jars.....43 | Superior to fine....... 30 @40 ‘i “45s, 17s and 19s 2 7%
Cherries,red standard 20} Shell.. .....---.-. s+. -++++- 6 styorse
"a tod : BH " ™ 1 40 CREAM TARTAR. Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.
De 1 15] Strictly pure.. ee ee ee o 3 30 7 ;
Egg Plums, stand..... 4 ht i Grocer... 95 | Queen Anne................ 3 85 ae
Gooseberries ..............-. 1 00 tees eau 1 tle German Vomily.. ...--.----
RIED I omes' Mottled Germaan.........._ 7 3 00
MN oi ee eevee wees ae ane Apples sun-dried ' [a
Green Gages.......... 1 15@1 35 ’ evaporated... a ; Old German.....-.-...-..... a en eIN . ee
Peaches, yellow, wae 75@1 85} Apri rh : U.S. Big Bargain..... . ... 2 00 Besides our FINE LINE of CANDY, we are agents for the Best ALL COLORED
‘“ Apricots, tee Gao | Weost, Power 5| FIREWORKS. ; pu i Eee 4G .
i ‘seconds via at 1 ~ [ Blackberries “ 1S 8 bene Cee 3 00 SEWORKS, and have many specialties in this line on which you can make some
Pears...... . Ce 25 meee nites eee 15 | Cocoa Castile, Fancy........ sah No old chestnuts to work off. Send for catalogue and get our prices
Pineapples, common..i 10@1 50 a ee — Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. before ordering.
: Johnson’s.2 50@2 75} Raspberries “ |... 30 “ spy Family, %5........-..2 ©] -
MOOON co 100 a. a Ola Country, o0.............. 330/1f vo a , REST CANDY rian TETATIT 3 ack :
a... 1% aoe FRUITS—P — 6x Una, er ete ens If you want the BEST CANDY put up NET WEIGHT, ask for our goods.
7 POM. c. ieee ee te) 35
Lenco oc se eeeees 1 15@1 = ee 10 gu” con on ee a A. BE. BROOKS & i).
ee ee DRIED ee eee. ; ale ot blah aha aa wee 1% ‘ ’ i. > i. * ¥ ‘
CANNED VEGETABLES. Lemon ee 18 —— oo 2 CODY BLOCK, 158 EAST FULTON ST,, - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH
Asparagus, Oyster Bay...... TANZE......-.-------- 18 ag :
Beans, Lima, stand... 80) |g DRED FRurTe—Citron. eee a an See
“ ye Ora. .......--.---. 3 - « al
in or. “age - o 50 In boxes i... ae Snider’s we 2 40
‘« Stringless, Erie....... 80 DRIED FRUITS—Currants, : sPices—Whole.
“ Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40] Zante, in barrels...... @ 5% | Allspice | 1
Corn, Archer’ es nese so] “in less quantity 6 @ 6% aan an
“ “ Early See 90 Val — FRUITS—Raisins. LC os in bund....!
; BieOeIe we css @ § Saigon in rolls...... ~
Bi mee es. i = — ae Ql Clov es, Zanzibar... | = - H A I
se gee 2. oe ostoer..... ......2
“ coreg eo aes 1 = London Layers, Cali- Mace Batavia. ee
“ i otra 1 65@1 85 ee oe cae 2 50@3 00 Nutmegs, fancy.. _......
‘“ French extra fine 1 50 London Layers, for’n. @ Te a 75
Mushrooms, eran reg a srs Muscatels, California.1 90@2 25 a . No. 2. << Oe
Pumpkin, 3lb. Golden @1 50 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Pepper, Singapore, black --16
Succotash, standard. . ..90@1 40 | Farina, 100 lb, kegs. , oO i : white.. 26
ee cae 1 10| Hominy, per bbl. ..3 00 Bhot........-.--..-.
Tomatoes, Red Coat... @1 00| Macaroni, dom 18 Tb ib box.... 60 antiga Groin In ia
Good Enough @I1 00 importe @ 5 | A >. +++ «+--+ —™ —? :
fe Han Har sy eg 1 10] Pearl Barley.......... @ zig Cassia, Batavia Ce aed 20
& stand br.. os | Poss, groan. ........_.. @1 00 and Saigon.25
a ae “ ‘split ee @3 : . = eee eee 42 eS
». | Sago, German......... ae | Clove, Ampoyna........._- 26
Snider’ 8, a hoot ceeesesuos 1 : papeenn, fi’k or p’rl.. _@ : ie ee = 20
a oe eee oe = Wheat, cracked....... @5_ | Ginger, yo eee 1a
Vermicelli, import @10 2 reeeees :
CHEESE, a «Jamaica . “3 |\Is better and costs less than most
gang Full Cream. . . T%@ 8 FISH—SALT. Must ag a “ wetter tee ees 90 I F
am? (ced whee 5 614 | Mustar nglish. ws ; ,
2 eo ee ae a and ‘Trie..25 package coffees.
S ) ries oo
Gi 00 Herring, fouid, 4 bbl. @10% | wutmegs, No. 2 .........--- ‘""3) | 100-POUND CASES, 24 3-4; 100-CABINETS, 25 1-4.
9 75 | Pepper, Singapore, black 18
CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S. ibbe 275 inea o ia , S/ fs i > ‘
aie as \ olland, ‘bbis., 12 00 _ a. FOR SALE BY ALL GRAND RAPIDS JOBBERS
Premium... ..2+.0. 002. | ee eS eee err ”
Pare. ec 38 caled .... @ %» SUGARS.
Breakfast Cooom.......... 40 Mack. sh’ Ss No. 2, ie bbl 12 Cem tod... @ 7 e "BS RR —K 7 IN S & EL BG Ss Ss
Be a u iL = Ib Ts = eee eed sae é bee DEALERS IN
CHEWING GUM. Trout, % bbls eto bellies ghana PE @ 6 i
Rubber, 100 lumps. . rout, is oa @4 = Standard Grenson. a e
Ti 200 “ ee cee ae 7 .06
secs | wihite, No.’ i bbl.” @e 00| Confectioners’ A... = *| Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow
Spruce, 200 pieces........... 40 2 Ib. kits.....1 00| White Extra C....... @ 6% ’ ’ ?
CHICORY, “ a 0 ib. kits... SO Mxive C............... So es nt : ‘
nh ana Baste sap eat anette a1 + te. ue... tec... NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN,
SOO ccc vice poeesetweaucoe ud DO cs esa ie ORD MORI oc poce inc ceoes 5KO 5% WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.
14
BAY CITY.
Extensive Operations of a Female Shop-
lifter--Other Interesting Items.
Written for THE TRADESMAN
In a window of one of the principal |
drug stores in Bay City is a card stating |
that the contents of the window is a part
of the plunder which was stolen by a
woman and found by the chief of police,
and in the window of a clothing store
next to it is another list of goods stolen
by the same woman. It was learned at
police headquarters that this woman had
been employed at times to do cleaning
about the and had taken the |
goods, one or two articles at atime. The |
stores,
merchants had no suspicion of the goods
being stolen, until the man who was dis-
posing of them offered some articles un-
reasonably cheap, and the investigation
which followed disclosed a large amount |
of stuff stored away ina garret. From |
the drug store she had taken eight boxes
of cigars, hair brushes, combs, chamois |
skins, perfumery, and enough other stuff
to fill the large show window. From the
clothing store she had taken four pairs |
of pants, eight woolen shirts, a couple |
dozen pairs of woolen socks, fur caps
and many other goods. From a dry goods
store she had taken silks, woolens, un-|
derwear, ete., and there still remained
at police headquarters a large quantity |
of goods to be identified by the owners.
It seems incredible that a woman could
steal so many goods without being caught
in the act, even if the articles were not
missed.
In their anxiety to display their goods
where they will catch the eye of the cus-
tomer merchants should remember that}
|
THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. _
their undertakings to a successful issue.
They have turned out some of the larg-
est and finest boats which float on West-
| ern waters, employing about 550 men,
occupying about a mile of river front,
and have every facility for constructing
a vessel, whether wood or steel, well and
with as small expense as is possible.
They are now on their seventy-seventh
boat and surely have not attained this
marvelous success by building boats at a
| loss.
The jobbing houses of the Saginaw
| Valley express themselves as satisfied
with the spring trade. The Patrons of
| Industry seem to have given up the mer-
cantile part of their work in the larger
towns of the eastern part of the State.
| In my letter of next week I shall deal
almost exclusively with the
workings of this organization.
Epwin G. Pipp.
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Fire Works—Immense line.
Putnam Canby Co.
practical
Crockery & Glassware
LAMP BURNERS,
mass. ..U..LULU 40
ik ee kee ee oe 45
ee a a
os... ‘ aes
LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per box.
6 doz. in box.
soa. CCC. 1%
Sg ee 1 88
a 2 70
First quality.
[me 0 Gun Grip tep.................... 2%
ait ™ . ee ee 2 40
ia . ee
| XXX Flint.
Mo Ol. Cr te... ...... 2
inet * ia Ce ee ee ec eee 2. oo
2 ia SO 3 80
Pear] top.
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.............. 3 7
es * ai _ eo 47
No. 2 Hinge, “ _ i ie
they will catch the eye of the thief doubly
quick, and should be careful not to place
them in a position that will be too tempt; |
ing. It may be but an article taken now
and then, but if seen in a pile at the end
of the year, they would make quite an
addition to the inventory.
The woman, Mrs. Deitzel, and August |
Parthel, the man selling the |
stolen plunder, are both in jail.
The early closing movement in Bay |
City has had its back broken. There |
has been a bitter fight between those who
‘‘would’? and those who
Red cards were placed in the windows
of the stores that were to close; a band
was hired to march the streets and|
dodgers were thrown out urging laboring
men and others to deal with the stores |
which exhibited the ‘‘red cards.’”? Buta
part of those who closed have become
dissatisfied and the agreement has been
discontinued. The cards were taken in |
who was
‘“‘wouldn’t.’’ |
and all remain open after 6 o’clock the |
This does not effect the |
hardware stores and some of the dry
goods stores, as they have usually closed
at 6 and will continue to do so. |
The ship building firm of F. Ww.
Wheeler & Co. has been one of remark- |
able growth, although the firm is com- |
posed of comparatively young
They seem to be men of nerve, push, en-
ergy and excellent judgment. Theirs |
was the lowest bid on the 800 ton prac
tice schooner for the government, to be |
|
|
same as before.
men, |
used in the training of cadets at the mil- |
itary academy. Although it is thought |
at Washington that there will be money
lost on this boat, it is safe to say that}
this firm knows what it costs to build a |
boat. Starting in 1877 with limited |
means and in asmal] way, their enter- |
prise has known no bounds and they have
Z
La Bastic.
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. ......-. --.
os ri ca ' ey
No. 1 crimp, per dos......... eee 13
a2 OO 1 60
STONEWARE—AKRON.
Reiter Crees, per eel... ... .... 06%
Jo on oe er... 7
c a. . ll oe
ce eee cee ee ce ene _.o-
Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 65
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FIT FOR
\ tentlenans
Table:
All goods bearing the
name of
THURBER, WHYLAND & CO.,
OR
ALEXIS GODILLOT, JR.
Grocers visiting New York are cordially invited
| to calland see us,and if they wish, have their
correspondence addressed in our care. We shall
be glad to be of use to them in any way. Write
us about anything you wish to know.
THURBER, WHYLAND & O0.,
West Broadway, Reade & Hudson Streets,
New York Oity.
S. A. Morman,
WHOLESALE
| M K,
AKRON, BUFFALO AND LOUISVILLE
CEMENTS,
Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, Fire Brick
and Clay.
PETOSKEY,
MARBLEHEAD
AND OHIO
Write for prices.
invariably shown the ability to prosecute 69 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS.
BEACH’S
New York (offee Rooms.
61 Pearl Street.
Five Cents Each for all dishes served
from bill of fare.
Steaks, Chops and All Kinds of Order
Cooking a Specialty.
FRANK
EDMUND B. DIKEMAN
THE GREAT
Watch Maker
= Jeweler,
ih GANA. 87.,
Grand Rapids -
M. BEACH, Prop.
eh.
WANTED.
POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED
FRUIT, BEANS
and all kinds of Produce.
If you have any of the above goods to
ship, or anything in the Produce line, let
us hear from you. Liberal cash advances
made when desired.
EARL BROS.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
157 South Water St., CHICAGO.
Keference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids.
FOURTH NATIONAL BANK
Grand Rapids, Mich.
A. J. Bowne, President.
Geo. C. P1rRCE, Vice President.
H. W. Nasu, Cashier
- $300,000.
CAPITAL, - -
Transacts a general banking business.
Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts
of Country Merchants Solicited.
Playing bards
WE ARE HEADQUARTERS
SEND FOR PRICE LIST.
Daniel Lynch,
19 So. Ionia St., Grand Rapids.
TIME TABLES.
Grand Rapids & Indiana.
In effect May 18, 1890.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Arrive. Leave.
Traverse City & Mackinaw........ 7:10am
Traverse City Express.......--++-- 9:20am 11:30am
Traverse City & Mackinaw... -.-2:15 pm 4:10pm
From Cincinnati. . cere .. $:50p m
Cadillac (Mixed). 6:30 pm
Through coaches for Saginaw on 7:10am and 4:10 p
m train.
GOING SOUTH.
Cincinnati Express........----++++ 7:15am
Fort Wayne Express. ..11:458 m 12:25 pm
Cincinnati Express. ........-.--+++ 5:30 pm 6:00 p m
From Mackinaw & Traverse City..10:40 p m
1 From Cadillac. ........2cccecesenceeee 9:55 am
| ‘Train leaving for Cincinnati at6p. m. and arriving
| from Cincinnati at 9:20 p. m., runs daily, Sundays in-
‘eluded. Other trains daily except Sunday.
| Sleeping and Parlor Car Service: North—7:10 a. m.
! and 4:10 p. m. trains have sleeping and parlor cars for
| Mackinaw City. South—7:15 a. m. train has chair car
and 6 p. m. train Pullman sleeping car for Cincinnati.
Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.
Leave Arrive.
| 7:00 @MM......csececcsceccccccccesecceveroseerers 10:15am
| ADS OM... .. cee ccee cre eens ereecerereseescecees 3:45pm
| BAO PM......ceeceperccreeresecsscnsserecccececs $:45 pm
Leaving ti at Bridge street depot 7 minutes later.
Through tickets and full information can be had by
calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at depot, or
Geo. W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Menroe St.,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
| C. L. Lockwoop, Gen’! Pass. Agent.
Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING WEsT.
Arrives. Leaves.
+Morning Express. 12:50 p m 1:00 pm
+Through Mail..... . 4:10pm 4:20 pm
+Grand Rapids Exp 10:25 pm 10:30 p m
| *Night Express.... 6:40am 8:45am
+Mixed 7:30am
+Detroit Express. . 6:45 am 6:50am
¢Through Mail.... 10:10am 10:20am
+Evening Express. 3:35 pm 3:45pm
Night Express....... .. 9:50 p m 10:55 p m
+Daily, Sundays exce Dail
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Detroit Express leaving 6:50 a m has Wagner parlor
and buffet car attached, and Evening Express leaving
3:45 p m has parlor car attached. These trains make
direct connection in Detroit for all points East.
Express leaving at 10:55 p m has Wagner sleeping
ear to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a m.
Steamboat Express makes direct connection a
Grand Haven with steamboat for Milwaukee.
tickets and sleeping car berths secured at
D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot.
Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent.
Jno. W. Loup, Traffic Manager, Detroit.
Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern.
For Toledo and all points South and East, take
the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail
way from Owosso Junction. Sure connections
at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and
connections at Toledo with evening trains for
Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Dayton, Cincin-
nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and all proml-
nent points on connecting lines.
A. J. Pastry, Gen’! Pass. Agent
MIGHIGAN CENTRAL
“The Niagara Falls Route.’’
DEPART. ARRIVE
Detroit Express...... . 7:20am 10:00pm
TEES ois 5 esse 6:30am 5:00pm
Day Express.............- 11:55am 10:00am
*Atlantic & Pacif 11:5 pm 6:00am
New York Express........... - 5:40pm 1:25pm
*Daily.
All other daily except Sunday.
Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express
trains to and from Detroit.
Parlor ears run on Day Express and Grand Rapid
Express to and from Detroit.
FRED M. Briaas, Gen’! Agent, 85 Monroe St.
G. 8. Hawkins, Ticket Agent, Union Depot.
Gro. W. MuNsON, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St.
O. W. Rueeies,G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago.
BEFORE BUYING
set Circular and Testimonials.
Economical, Sanitary, Clean
ALDINE FIRE PLACE,
LION
A True Combination of MOCHA
JAVA and RIO. :
Picture Card Given
With every pound package. For
Sale everywhere. Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, 0.
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The P. of I. Dealers.
The following are the P. of I. dealers who had
not cancelled their contracts at last accounts:
Ada—L. Burns.
Adrian—Powers & Burnham, Anton Wehle,
L. T. Lochner, Burleigh Bros.
Allendale—Henry Dolman.
Almira—J. J. Gray.
Almont—Colerick & Martin.
Altona—Eli Lyons.
Armada—C. J. Cudworth.
Assyria—J. W. Abbey.
Aurelius—John D. Swart.
Bay City—Frank Rosman & Co.
Belding—Lightstone Bros.
Bellaire—-Schoolcraft & Nash.
Bellevue—John Evans.
Big Rapids—A. V. Young, E. P. Shankweiler
& Co., Mrs. Turk, J. K. Sharp, A. Markson.
Blissfield—Jas. Gauntlett, Jr.
Bowen’s Mills—Chas, W. Armstrong.
Brice—J. B. Gardner.
Burnside—John G. Bruce & Son.
Caldwell—C. L. Moses.
Capac—H. C. Sigel.
Carlton Center—J. N. Covert.
Carson City—A. B. Loomis, A. Y. Sessions.
Cedar Springs—John Beucus, B. A. Fish, B.
Ps
Charlotte — John J. Richardson, Daron &
Smith, C. P. Lock, F. H. Goodby.
Clam River—Andrew Anderson.
Clio—John W. Hurd.
Coldwater—J. D. Benjamin.
Conklin—Wilson McWilliams.
Cook’s Corners—W. H. Hanks.
Coral—J. S. Newell & Co.
Dorr—Frank Sommer.
Deerfield—Henry W. Burghardt.
Eaton Rapids—H. Kositchek & Bro.
Evart—Mark Ardis, E. F. Shaw, John C. Devitt.
Fenwick—Thompson Bros.
Flint—John B. Wilson.
Flushing—Sweet Bros. & Clark.
Forester—E. Smith.
Fremont—J. B. Ketchum, W. Harmon.
Gladwin—John Graham, J. D. Sanford, Jas.
Croskery.
Gowan—Rasmus Neilson.
Grand Haven—N. J. Braudry & Co.
Grand Junction—Adam Crouse.
Grand Ledge—Frank O. Lord, Geo. Coryell.
Grand Rapids—Joseph Berles, A. Wilzinski,
Brown & Sehler, Houseman, Donnally & Jones,
Ed Struensee, Wasson & Lamb, Chas. Pettersch,
Morse & Co., Famous Shoe Store, Harvey & Hey-
stek, Mrs. E. J. Reynolds, BE. Burkhardt.
Greenville—Jacobson & Netzorg.
Hart—Rhodes & Leonard, W. Weidman, Mrs.
E. Covel.
Hastings—J G. Runyan.
Howard City—O. J. Knapp, Herold Bros., C. E.
Pelton.
Hubbardston—M. H. Cahalan.
Hudson—Henry C. Hall.
Imlay City—Cohn Bros., Wyckoff & Co., C.J.
Buck, E. E. Palmer.
Ionia—H. Silver.
Jackson—Hall & Rowan.
Jenisonville—L. & L. Jenison (mill only).
Kalamo—L. R. Cessna.
Kent City—M. L. Whitney.
Kewadin—A. Anderson
Kingsley—J. E. Winchcomb.
Lacey—Wm. Thompson.
Laingsburg—D. Lebar.
Lake City—Sam. B. Ardis.
Lake Odessa—Christian Haller & Co., E. F.
Colwell & Son, Fred Miller.
. Lakeview—H. C. Thompson, Andrew All &
ro.
Langston—F D. Briggs.
Lansing—R. A. Bailey, Etta (Mrs. Israel) Glic-
man.
Lapeer—C. Tuttle & Son, W. H. Jennings.
Lowell—Patrick Kelly.
McBain—Sam. B. Ardis.
McBride’s—J. McCrae.
Mancelona—J. L. Farnham.
Manton—A. Curtis, Mrs. E. Liddle.
Marshall—W. E. Bosley, S. V. RK. Lepper & Son.
Mason—Marcus Gregory.
Mecosta—J. Netzorg.
Milan—C. C. (Mrs. H. S.) Knight, Chas, Gaunt-
lett, James Gauntlett, Jr.
Millington—Chas, H. Valentine.
Minden City—I. Springer & Co.
Monroe Center—Geo. H. Wightman.
Morley—Henry Strope.
Mt. Morris—H. E. Lamb, J. Vermett & Son,
F. H. Cowles.
Mt. Pleasant—Thos. McNamara.
Nashville—H. M. Lee.
North Dorr—John Homrich.
Nottawa—Dudley Cutler.
Ogden—A. J. Pence.
Olivet—F. H. Gage.
Onondaga—John Sillik.
Orange—Tew & Son.
Orono—C. A. Warren.
Oviatt—H. C. Pettingill.
Potterville—F. D. Lamb & Co.
Remus—C. V. Hane.
Richmond—Knight & Cudworth, A. W. Reed.
Riverdale—J. B. Adams.
Rockford—B. A. Fish.
Sand Lake—Frank E. Shattuck, Braman &
Blanchard.
Sebewa—P. F. Knapp, John Bradley.
Shelbyville—Samuel Wolcott.
Shepherd—H. O. Bigelow.
Sheridan—M. Gray.
Shultz—Fred Otis.
Spencer Creek--M. M. Elder.
Spring Lake—Geo. Schwab, A. Bitz.
Springport—Powers & Johnson, Wellington &
Hammond, Elmer Peters.
Stanton—Sterling & Co.
Stanwood—F. M. Carpenter.
Traverse City—John Wilhelm, S. C. Darrow,
D. D. Paine.
Vassar—McHose & Gage.
Wayland—Pickett Bros.
Wheeler—Louise (Mrs. A.) Johnson, H. C.
Breckenridge.
White Cloud—J. C. Townsend, N. W. Wiley.
Whitehall—Geo. Nelson, John Haverkate.
Williamsburg—Mrs..Dr. White.
Williamston—Thos. Horton.
Woodbury—Chas, Lapo, H. Van Houten.
Woodland—Carpenter & Son.
Yankee Springs—T. Thurston.
She Remembered.
From the New England Grocer.
A drummer who travels for a Boston
grocery concern says that he sees in
Maine some of the sharpest tricks that
are practiced anywhere on his route.
He gives the following as a specimen:
A farmer’s wife bustled into a store in
Washington county the other day, and
went for the proprietor with,—
“Mr. B , L bought six pounds of
sugar here last week, and when I got it
home I found a stone weighing two
pounds in the package.’’
‘*Yes, ian’ am.”’
“Can you explain the swindle, sir ?”’
‘‘| think I can,’? was the proprietor’s
placid reply. ‘‘When I weighed your
butter, week before last, 1 found a two-
pound pebble in the jar, and when I
weighed your sugar the stone must have
slipped into the scales, somehow. We
are both growing old ma’am, and I am
sorry to say that our eyesight isn’t to be
trusted. What can Idofor you to-day,
ma’am?’’
For a moment the woman gazeel at the
tradesman over her brass-bound spec-
tacles. Then she recollected herself and
remarked that she had a dozen eggs
which she wished to exchange for hooks
and eyes.
IS THE BEST IN THE MARKET.
i JAXON GRAGCKE
.
TRADE - MARS
SEND A TRIAL ORDER TO
JACKSON CRACKER (O,,
Jobbers of Candy, Nuts, Cheese and Cigars.
JACKSON, MICH.
Magic Coffee Roaster,
The Best in the World.
Having on hand a large stock of No. 1
Roasters—capacity 35 lbs.—I will sell
them at very low prices. Write for
Special Discount.
ROBT. S. WEST,
48-50 Long St., CLEVELAND, OHIO.
Raton, kyon & Ga,
JOBBERS OF
Fishing Tackle,
Base Ballsand
Supplies,
Croquet,
Hammocks,
Lawn Tennis, Etc.
State Agents for A. J. Reoch & Co.’s
Sporting Goods.
Send for Calalogue.
EATON, LYON & CO.,,
20 & 22 Monroe St., Grand Rapids
WM.SEARS & CO.,
Cracker Manvtacturers,
37, 39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids.
Putnam Gandy Go.
Lh eaD a3 HEADQUARTERS FOR
wrasse ORANGES,
NUTS, ETC. LEMONS,
BANANAS,
1865.
eke
Figs, Dates, Nuts, etc.
CURTISS & CO.
WHOLESALE
Paper Warehouse.
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR THE KEYSTONE BINDERS’
‘TWINE.
Houseman Block, - Grand Rapids, Mich.
A. HIMES,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Lime, Cement, COAL AND) WOOD
Fire Brick, etc. '
Yard and Warehouse on Line of
Main Office, 54 Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
G. BR. & L, C. & W. M. and L. S. & M.S. Rys.
ALL SHIPMENTS MADE PROMPTLY.
Pleasure
eer oo agor
Business
rj
One of the most perfect wagons ever produced, combining strength, durability
and cheapness of price. Just the wagon for light delivery, farmer’s run-about, or
for pleasure. Send for price list and description.
THE BELKNAP WAGON & SLEIGH 00., Grand Rapids.
lonia Pants & Overall Co.
E. D. Voorhees, Manager.
MANUFACTURERS OF
Pants, Overalls, Goats, Jackets, Shirts, kts.
Warranted Not to Rip.
Fit Guaranteed.
Workmanship Perfect.
Mr. Voorhees’ long experience in the manufacture of these goods enables him
to turn out a line especially adapted to the Michigan trade. Samples and prices
sent on application.
IONIA, MIOH.
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THE M ICHIGAN TR ADESM A N.
AUGUST 19 AND 20.
Selection of the Dates for the Coming |
Convention.
Sacrnaw, dune 9, 1890.
Secretary Michigan Busirxess Men’s Association:
Dear Str—We have concluded to hold the
annual convention of the Michigan Business
Men's Association on the dates you suggest,
August19and%. We request that you urge as
strongly as possible, through your paper and
otherwise, the necessity for a large attendance
We also suggest that you request all who inte a
to be pr resent to notify you, so that we may be
prepared to do ourselves justice, and to give
every one who comes a good time. We shall
very likely wish to prepare a train for a short
trip around the valley. We would like you to|
notify us of the number to be present as early as
August 5. Respectfully
James H. Moore, Local See’y.
PRELIMINARY CALL.
The following preliminary call has been issued
from the State headquarters:
GRAND Raprips, June 14, 1890.
‘he fifth annual convention of the Mic higan
Business Men’s Association will be held at Sagi
naw on Tue 1y and Wednesday, August 19 and
20. convening at 9 o’clock a. m of the day first
named.
The programme is not yet completed, but suffi
cient features have alres ady been arrange d for to |
warrant the statement that the meeting will be
one of the most pleasant and profitable conven
tions ever held by the Association.
All loe Business Men's Associations are
requeste to elect full sets of dele sanda
cordial invitation is extended all business men
to attend the convention.
Come one, Come a
E. A. Srowe, Sec’y.
C. L. Warner, Pres
> . of t
stores have to shut up shop and allow
the sheriff to post their books. It cer-
tainly cannot be that they cannot reap a
bonanza in their trade. There’s millions
in the 10 or 15 per cent. trade.’’
Belmont correspondence Rockford Reg-
ister: ‘I don’t know how itis in other
|towns, but in Plainfield a certain mar-
\ried man goes to the P. of I. lodge and
escorts the young ladies home, while his
wife is at home entertaining young men
until her husband’s
return in the wee
sma’ hours of morning.’’
East Fairplains correspondence Beld-
ing Banner: ‘“‘The P. of I. at Fenwick
have only fifty black balls in their ballot
box at present. It is said that the num-
ber should be inereased, so that when
the names of young clerks and others
are sent in they can pass the box to every
member before the balls are all voted.”’
Ernest Hollenbeck, of Davison,
the Western Plowman suggesting that
the Patrons of Industry organize a bank
on the same plan as the Bank of England,
taking subscriptions for stock only from
farmers and borrowing from and lending
to farmers only. What Hollenbeck
doesn’t know about banking would fill a
bigger book than Webster’s dictionary.
writes
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Rough on the Boodlers.
From the American Dairyman.
When we see a notice of the establish-
ment of a $5,000 creamery. or at any
amount over $3,000, we feel a pang of
sorrow for the deluded subscribers.
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