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If I had the time to find a place

And sit me down full face to face
With my. better self, that can not show
In my daily life that rushes so;

It might be then I would see my soul

-Was stumbling toward the shining goal,
1 might be nerved by the thought sublime,

If I had the time!

If I had the time to let my heart
Speak out and take in my life:a part,
To look about and to stretch a hand
To a comrade quartered in no-luck land;
Ah, God! If I might but just sit still
And hear the note of the whippoorwill,
I think that my wish with God's would rime,—
If | had the time! =}

Richard Burton.

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AMUSING INCONSISTENCY.

An amusing instance of stock com-
pany inconsistency has just come to
my attention in the current number
of the Insuance Post. Under the
caption ‘Passing Paragraphs,” oc-
curs the following item:

Insurance is a storm and_ stress
proposition. It needs to be strongest
when danger lowers. Mutuals are
fair weather craft. They sail along
when business seas are smooth, but
when storm comes they lack the bal-
last of cash capital and ample re-
serves. Their members get out like
rats deserting a sinking ship and they
are weakest just when they should be
strongest.

On the very next page under the
title “Reinsurance Rumors Are Ap-
pearing Early This Year,” appears the
following paragraph, frankly confess-
ing that numerous stock companies
are in distress. It as true the refer-
ence is to “Western Fire Insurance
Companiets,” but if the mutuals had
been involved the Insurance Post
would certainly have come out with
flaring headlines and a column or two
of bombastic rhetoric. Here it is:

Chicago managers report that an un-
usually large number of Western fire
insurance companies are making over-
tures for re-insurance, either partial
or for their entire business, as the end
of the year and statement time ap-
proaches. Many oi the smaller com-
panies have found the combination of
decreased premiums, higher losses, in-
creased expenses and depreciated as-
sets a serious one, especially those
which were organized under expensive
promotion methods and with a large
number of small stockholders who
were promised early and liberal divi-
dends.

The fact is, that the failure of a
mutual is so rare that it is seized on
with avidity by unscrupulous stock
company penny-a-liners and written
and re-written for months afterward;
whereas the passing of stock com-
panies is apparently so common that
it has little or no news value

The above quotations afford an
amusing example of the inconsistent
position in which the logic of events
places the insurance publications
whose main support consists in stock
company advertisements,

In the year 1752, twenty-four years
before the Declaration of Independ-
ence was signed, Benjamin Franklin
organized the first fire insurance com-
pany in America. It was not only the
first insurance company, but the first
mutual fire insurance company and
to-day, with a surplus of six million
dollars, it stands in the foremost rank
of mutual companies. I am referring
to the Philadelphia Contributionship
for the Insurance of Houses from
Loss by Fire.

From that date to the year 1916, ac-
cording to the Honorabie Charles F.
Nesbitt, former Superintendent of In-
surance, Washington, D. C., 2900 mu-
tual companies have been oganized of
which 700 have failed, retired or re-
insured, leaving practically 76 per
cent. still doing business.

In the same period 1,550 stock com-
panies were organized of which 1,300
failed, retired or re-insured, leaving
16 per cent. still doing business.

In other words, although there has
been twice as many mutual com-
panies organized, 76 per cent. of them
are still in business, as compared with
only 16 per cent. of the stock com-
panies.

OSTRICH-LIKE OPTIMISM.

It is not wholly surprising to find
some of the sunshine spreaders ob-
jecting to the unemployment confer-
ence at Washington on the ground
that it gave too much public emphasis
to unfavorable industrial conditions
and therefore might have a depressing
effect on business. It was this same
group that criticised the newspapers
a year ago for telling the public that
prices were falling. If the press had
only kept “mum,” it was said, there
would have been no consumers’ strike.
Any one who intimated that business
was not quite what it used to be was
denounced as an enemy of society.
And now the Administration at Wash-
ington has gone and “spilled the
beans” by holding a conference of
representative citizens to discuss
remedies for unemployment. Why
admit that there is any unemployment?
It would hardly be worth while to de-
vote any attention to what one West-
ern banker calls the “hurrah boys” if
it were not for the fact that their con-
tinual hallooing has sometimes delayed
readjustment by creating an unwilling-
ness on the part of some dealers to
take their medicine like the rest.

GAUGING FUTURE DEMANDS.

In view of the recent emphasis
which has been placed on the wastes
in industry due to the multiplication
of patterns and styles, and of the ob-
vious need of bringing down produc-
tion costs as a means of speeding up
business recovery, much interest at-
taches to a recent activity of the Na-
tional Shoe Retailers’ Association.
This organization has undertaken to
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means of a questionnaire in order to
determine which styles of shoes are
expected to be in greatest demand
during the coming spring season. The
results of the questionnaire are ex-
pected to aid materially in co-ordinat-
ing production and consumption.
Manufacturers will have something to
guide them in production, and the re-
tailers likewise -will be able to avoid
stocking up with goods which may not
be readily salable. So long as there
is a buyers’ market the need of such
co-operative efforts to gauge the quali-
ty and quantity of consumer demand
is apparent, but some practical effort
of this sort ‘might be profitably em-
ployed under all conditions of the mar-
ket.

 

EGGS BOILED IN OIL.

A new method of sterilizing eggs,
as a preliminary to cold storage, con-
sists in immersing them for five sec-
onds in an oil solution at 250 degrees
Fahrerheit. This brief exposure to
a heat considerably above the boiling
point of water is sufficient to kill not
only whatever bacteria the eggs may
contain, but also the vital principle
of those of them that are fertile.

Electrical machinery does the work.
It is claimed that the eggs are in no
way injured by the treatment and,
when afterward put into cold storage
they retain their freshness much
longer.

A newly patented kind of food, put
up ready for the housewife’s instant
use, is prepared by mixing fine-chop-
ped meat with milk and a little flour.
The paste thus formed is filled into
molds and exposed to heat, whereby
the contents undergo slight shrink-
age and acquire a sort of “skin.” The
molded masses are thus easily drop-
ped out, to be thereupon put into cans,
which are sterilized and sealed.

 

The recent experience of a Benton
Harbor grocer with the alleged silver
spoon swindlers, related in detail else-
where in this week’s Tradesman,
shows how advantageous it is for re-
tail merchants to keep the paper on
file, so it can be referred to on a
moment’s notice. But for this pre-
caution on the part of Mr. Leonard
it is quite likely that he would be out
of pocket $50, besides being obligated
to pay $50 more as soon as a printer
could turn out 25,000 cards. There
is not an issue of the Tradesman
which does not contain some article
which can be utilized to advantage by
its readers before many months roll
around.

 

 

You perhaps cannot prevent all pro-
fanity on the outside of your counter,
but you can prevent it on the inside
and you should for the good of the
business.

 

Grain and Flour Depressed By Rail-
way Strike Talk.
Written for the rradesman.

The anticipated railroad strike has
affected markets very adversely,
wheat having been so far more greatly
affected than any of the other serials.
The market has suffered a very sharp
decline. The price to-day is below
what the grain is actually worth, but,
of course, it is out of the question to
say whether the bottom has been
reached or not.

One thing is certain, both wheat
and flour are now being quoted at
prices where they represent excep-
tional value over a long pull. Wheat
is just as strong as it ever was, sta-
tistically, and just as soon as the rail-
road strike is settled a sharp reaction
to a considerably higher basis is
bound to materialize. Buyers of
wheat and flour will do well to watch
this situation closely.

Of course, a railroad strike will
paralyze the industry of the United
States; things will be topsy-turvy for
awhile, but it seems impossible that
a strike can be of long duration. It,
also, does not seem possible that a
strike can materialize, but if the rail-
road employes insist upon an exor-
bitantly high wage scale being main-
tained, the issue might just as well
be fought out now as later. Another
thing, it appears without question
railroad employes must accept lower
wages along with everyone else. The
farmer, the business man, the factory
man have all had their incomes very
materially cut during the past year;
hundreds of lines of business have ac-
tually been conducted at a loss.
Farmers have hardly gotten out of
their crops what it cost them for labor,
to say nothing about the return on
their investment. The factory man
has been a good sport; he has accepted
the inevitable gracefully and acted
like a man; the railroad man must do
the same thing. It seems a shame
they have been so illy advised by their
leaders as to cause them to think of
taking the step they are considering.
If they actually strike, it will be a
most unfortunate move for the coun-
try at large and a very unpatriotic
one on their part. Business in general
is badly enough upset without having
any one throw a wrench in the trans-
portation machinery. Freight rates
must be lowered; a fair wage scale
is essential to the best interests cf
everybody.

However, as regarding prices of
wheat and flour, the strike movement
is a predominating factor in determ-
ining the tendency of the market for
the time being. Materialization of the
strike will, undoubtedly, cause some
further reaction, although it has al-
ready been pretty well discounted.
The avoidance of a strike will in-
mediately result in a very sharp
turn in prices of both wheat and flour.

Lioyd. EB. Sccin,

  

 

INDIVIDUAL MEMBERSHIP.

 

Address by Secretary Bothwell Be-
fore Ohio Retailers.

I need hardly say that it gives me
a good deal of pleasure to be in the
city that has stamped its name in-
delibly in the mind of nearly every
business man and woman throughout
the entire known world because of its
being the home of the National Cash
Register Co.

It is also a source of gratification
to have the privilege of appearing be-
fore you men and women who in your
daily occupation as retailers of foods,
hold in the hollow of your hand the
vital force of this great world. If the
350,000 retail grocers in this United
States should lock their doors for
even a day or two, what a celebration
there would be for a little while, but
the retailer is not built along these
lines. He in most cases, at least, en-
deavors to see that everybody is well
fed by selling them all they ask for
on the very best and easiest terms
possible. Having been identified very
closely with the retail grocery busi-
ness the past twenty-five years, my
interest in the business seems to in-
crease because of the problems which
present themselves in increasing num-
bers—problems which must be solved
by the retailer himself, as he is the
last link in the chain of distribution
between the producer and the con-
sumer and, naturally, gets most of the
kicks and cuffs which come from the
links above. Then he is in the first
link in the chain of distribution from
the consumer end of the line and
again gets all the abuse at that end of
the route. So, I say, he has many
problems to solve that can only be
planned for at such gatherings as this,
where the unfair and unwarranted en-
croachments of those above, as well
as of those below, may be discussed
and analyzed and a possible plan de-
veloped for their solution. This is
why your worthy secretary got me
guessing when he asked me to talk
on a subject that for ages has been
the pet hobby of the average retail
erocer.

The subject assigned me, as you
will notice from the program, is in-
dividual membership, and one of the
best arguments I can offer for keep-
ing up the strength and business
acumen of the State Association by
individual membership is because of
the fact that for ages retail grocers
have acted as individuals until a very
few years ago. Even in this enlight-
ened age, in many, many towns where
Smith, Jones, Brown and Ole are
competitors in the grocery business,
if a customer leaves Smith with an
unpaid bill Jones is tickled to death
that Smith “got it” and so on down
‘he line. Yet this.same Smith, Jones,
Brown and Ole will meet in their
lodge, church or political meeting in
‘ most friendly spirit of co-or eration,
helping each other to work out the
problems of that organization for the
benefit of all concerned and, strange
to say, these organizations, although
always made up of individual mem-
berships are invariably a_ success.
How. much greater a success, then,

Ai gg ARE AN RTE A RO i ATA ARNT Gt RE BIE SG

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

would the business association be if
made up of individual membership
with a co-operative spirit in meeting
the problems of everyday business?
When all is said, associations of busi-
ness men for the purpose of analyz-
ing and correcting the problems that
injure their business are accomplish-
ing a greater and more lasting spirit
of brotherly love and affection than
any other force which has entered in-
to their lives, for when you eliminate
that spirit of “I'll do him before he
does me” in business you have brok-
en down the greatest barrier in a
grocer’s path of success. The spirit
of envy and malice in business must
be removed before proper harmony
can exist in church or lodge.

Individual membership has its ad-
vantages as well as its disadvantages
and in order that we may have a
somewhat clear idea of both, I have
singled out just one or two of each
that we may study them together a
little more closely.

Every individual has some idea as
to the good or evil of the problems
affecting his business; but if the in-
dividual who through modesty or lack
of opportunity has not come face to
face with a problem, how he is going
to be able to vote on it intelligently.
For this reason the action of an As-
sociation as such may be of little or
no value. Let me cite it in this way:
At the present time much interest is

being manifest in the Stevens-Kelly-

bill, now before Congress. I’d like
to ask right here for a show of hands
as to how many have analyzed this
bill sufficiently to enable them to vote
intelligently for or against its pas-
sage, yet it is a bill that will effect
your business.

The secretary of a local association
who in most cases is a busy grocer
but whose name is on the mailing
list of his Congressman gets the in-
formation pertaining to a bill of this
character, but he is too busy to carry
the knowledge to each member and
so he calls a meeting, but so many
are unable to be at a meeting that
only a few know the significance of
a bill of this character, which in many
cases is very unfavorable legislation,
but by individual membership your
state secretary has a list with the
name and address of each member
and because he is specializing has
only to place a letter before each in-
dividual who is not then dependent
on a busy local secretary for his in-
formation.

Again, individual membership is
better, as it sometimes happens that
problems arise that cannot be han-
dled by a local association, and the
state association can pick from its
individual membership such men as
are best fitted to meet the condition,
whereas, if the state association is
made up of affiliated locals only those
in authority are apt to be recognized.
Individual training is fundamental if
efficiency is desired.

Collective action is necessary if
positive results are to be attained.
Let us join individually, but after we
have joined let us act collectively.

Proper method of organization was
yery forcibly brought to our atten-

tion in our visit to the National Cash
Register Co.’s plant. The positive
and definite manner of doing things
in this plant is a splendid example
of individual efficiency and a won-
derful commentary on the value of
the individual first, plus the associa-
tion of individuals for the sifting out
of ideas that are of the greatest value
in carrying on the work. The con-
flicting ideas of the members of an
association must be brought together,
analyzed and harmonized before a
workable plan is arrived at and that
plan must be put in operation by in-
dividual effort and no plan is com-
plete until it has considered the ideas
of all who are interested when the
uniting together of the best features
of each completes the circle and yet
the completed plan must be operated
through individual effort backed up
by associate strength.

As the state association acts on a
larger plane than does a local, it is
advisable that the state be strongly
orgaiiized as it is in position to help
a local, regardless of its location,
while a local only helps the state as
one unit of the whole. It is true that
locals are art to be self centered and
so interested in local-difficulties that
they fail to comprehend the value to
them of the larger and more power-
ful bodies of state and National im-
portance.

When the National Association
adopts the plan of excluding from
its ranks, state, local or individual
unless they come as a properly or-
ganized and chartered body, a real
definite practical and effective organ-
ization will be the result and when
each individual member of these asso-
ciations has first-hand information
relative to National or state legisla-
tion, then the grocers and meat deal-
ers will be in a position to fulfil in
greater measure not only their mis-
sion of distributing and supplying
the needs of the inner man, but they
will also be in a position to do their
duty to their relatives, neighbors and
friends in greater degree, by helping
to frame and pass legislation that is
fair, equitable and just to all classes
alike, and to accomplish this end the
individual member must do his or

her part as an individual.
—_s+s_—_

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 18—More than
sixty years ago, when Charles
Leonard, Sidney F. Stevens and Gaius
W. Perkins were playmatés, the pres-
ent location of the Postoffice building
was aswamp. These boys owned and
navigated a raft on the swamp. On
one occasion “Charley” Leonard lost
in the swamp a silver watch his father
had given him and which he greatly
prized. History records that Mr.
Leonard dove in the water and waded
in the muck of that swamp for twenty-
nine days until he finally recovered the
watch. Such a thing as relinquishing
anything that belonged to him never
found lodgment in his mind. The
word “fail” has never been located in
the Leonard vocabulary.

The persistence of the boy later de-
veloped into the grim determination
of the man. He early assumed the
management of the crockery and
glassware business established by his
father and, with the assistants and as-
sociates, increased the sales more than
tenfold. This much accomplished, he
yearned for a larger field of action
and his ambition found full play in

October 19, 1921

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the manufacture of the Leonard re-
frigerator, which scon took rank as
the best device of the kind that money
and experience and genius could pro-
duce. Nothing was permitted to stand
in the way of producing a refrigerator
that should be attractive in appear-
ance, perfect in workmanship and
efficient in results. The outcome is
known to every hardware and house
furnishing goods dealer in this coun-
try and many foreign countries as
well. The dealer who can obtain the
agency of the “Teonard line” realizes
that his position is secure; that he has
the best that can be produced and sold
at a reasonable price.

The Leonard Refrigerator Co. has
now uttered a $600,000 bond issue on
its entire plant, the first time in the
history of the corporation that such
an arrangement has been deemed ad-
visable. All of the bonds are to be
retired within eleven years from date
of issue, and the interest rate has been
fixed at 7 per cent. There is no ques-
tion but the bonds will be placed
promptly, because the high credit of
the establishment and the high char-
acter of the management make the
investment one of exceptional safety
and undoubted security.

John Youngs, Sears, reports receipts
of eggs about the same as for this
time last year and that he shipped 75
cases during September. About 500
pounds of live poultry is being re-
ceived weekly, and farmers are com-
mencing to dispose of their surplus.
There will be no turkeys in his sec-
tion this year.

J. W. Powley, Deckerville, finds it
hard to estimate as to the prospective
poultry crop as there are so, many
trucks out from that city. picking up
poultry from_ the farmers, but he
thinks the turkey crop will be about
as usual, that there will be 10 per
cent. less chickens, 10 per cent. less
ducks and the ordinary goose crop. He
is getting about 80 cases of eggs per
week, which is about a fourth less than
his usual receipts for this time of
year. He is also receiving some live
poultry each week.

There is time and a place for all
things. We all admire a woman’s
crowning glory, but we don’t admire
it when we find it in the butter.

What you need to win a case is a
good lawyer—but not too good.

There ought to be only one level
of prices and that is prices that are
on the level.

Consider the beaver: When the
river is low he dams the river, not
the weather bureau.

Americans spend more than any
other people in the world; and they
waste more than that.

It is hard to keep a good man down;
but the married men tell us it is harder
to keep any sort of a woman up.

John D. Strachan, general dealer at
Muir, has been behind the counter
fifty years. He contemplates dispos-
ing of his stock and retiring from
business, providing the right kind of
a purchaser comes along.

Harrison Parker may think he is
bigger than the courts, but there may
be a iail somewhere large enough to
hold him.

Often the fellow who yells the loud-
est that the workingman should have
saved his war wages is some profiteer
who didn’t give him a chance.

Perry E. Larrabee is in Chicago
this week, attending the meeting of the
National Coal Congress.

Always Fortunate.

“Have you heard of Taylor’s luck?”
enquired Jones.

“No, what was it?”

“He was operated on for the
removal of a pearl which he had ac-
cidentally swallowed while eating
oysters at one of the New England
beaches, and when the pearl was ex-
amined it was found to be valuable
enough to pay for hoth the operation
and the funeral,”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 19, 1921

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Canning of Tuna Fish a Specialized
Industry.

When first placed on the market, a
few years ago, canned tuna fish met
with appreciation and quickly became
popular. It is fine food and is used
principally for salads and stews, but
can be used in any way that fish is
used. It is called “the chicken of the
sea,” and is used both summer and
winer, and at all times of the year.

There are three grades or kinds of
tuna on the market—‘“standard white
meat, blue fin and striped. All canned
tuna is made from different species of
the mackerel family or genus, of
which here are many—blue fin, alba-
core, long fin, yellow tail, etc. The
standard white meat tuna is packed
from selected portions of the fish and
is preferred because i is white, but the
dark meat of the fish is just as well
flavored and really just as desirable,
although not in as great request, and
it therefore sells cheaper.

The tuna canning industry of South-
ern California was given rather a hard
blow last year by the high packing
costs and the dificulty of disposing of
the pack at a reasonable profit.

As a result, there was a carry over
from the 1920 pack. Canners, there-
fore, entered the 1921 season with ex-
treme caution and with them, as with
the salmon canners, as well as those
in the fruit, fish and vegetable line,
the policy of retrenchment was most
pronounced, resulting in an extremely
short pack for this year. Some idea
of this situation can be gleaned from
the comparison of figures:

The entire stock of tuna on hand
to-day unsold is less than 90,000 cases
standard white meat, against 255,000
cases a year ago; only 20,000 cases of
blue fin, against 235,000 a year ago,
and only 18,000 cases of striped tuna,
against 85,000 cases a year ago. Stock
on hand July 1, representing carry-
over from last year, was 82,866 white
meat; 20,460 cases blue fin, and 36,-
500 cases striped tuna.

It can easily be compiled from above
comparative figures, which include the
carry-over from the 1920 pack, that
the supply is inadequate and will soon
be exhausted.

In preparing tuna for canning the
superfluous oil in the fish is extracted
by treatment in vacuum, thereby tak-
ing entirely away the fishy flavor
which some people do not like, leaving
the flesh of the tuna rich, but as
delicate in flavor as the flesh of a
young chicken.

It will be noted that the entire sup-
ply of canned tuna fish for the next
year figures about 2,000,000 cans with
which to supply a population of 110,-
000,000 people, or one can for fifty-
five people. The supply is really not
enough to furnish 5 per cent. of the
American people with their require-

ments. John A. Lee.
—_7-2-<

Easy.

“Why are cough-drop manufactur-
ers enemies of their country?”

“Because they are trying to get
money out of the public coughers.
But cough-drop makers are really
great public benefactors.”

“Why?”

“Because they work hard to keep
people from having to cough up go
much.” oe

 

 

 

 

 

OUR MICHIGAN

During the last week, three of the members of our
Company, made our yearly trade extension trip with the
Grand Rapids wholesalers, covering a large part of
Central Michigan.

By traveling together in a special train it is possible
at a very small expense and a great saving of time to visit
a large number of friends and learn the conditions first

hand.

It enables us to meet our friends, shake their hands,
look into their faces and renew our many friendships.

It enables our customers to see the men with whom
they are dealing, to learn about Grand Rapids as a trade
center and to suggest ways by which the jobbers may be
helpful to the retailers.

Our trip brought to our attention: That most of the
retailers are progressive; that their stores are looking
better than they were six years ago.

That a few are slipping and failing to keep up with
the aggressive methods used by progressive merchants
to-day.

We also found that the outlook for collections and
good trade for this fall are surprisingly good.

Agricultural and financial conditions in Central
Michigan are certainly in better condition than in any part
of the country.

All this leads us to conclude that Michigan has been
a good state in which to live and is getting better every
year.

WORDEN (GROCER COMPANY

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Movement of Merchants. of years, has been redecorfted and Gladstone — The First National Detroit — The Michigan Motor

Lowell— Dawson’ Bros. succeed
Howk & Stuart in the baking busi-
ness.

Kalamazoo—R. T. Mears, recently
of Homer, has engaged in the grocery
business here.

Albion—Everett Kiff, recently of
Brooklyn, has engaged in the grocery
business here.

Saginaw—-Harry O. Wells, jeweler,
died at the General Hospital, Oct. 12,
of typhoid fever.

Jackson—The McCreery Mercan-
tile Service has engaged in business
at 117 Garfield street.

Adrian—The Adrian Mutual Oil
Co. has increased its capital stock
from $15,000 to $20,000.

Ovid—Mrs. A. Taylor & Son have
opened a restaurant and cigar store in
the McCarthy building.

Jackson—The Higgins & Phillips
Coal Co. has engaged in business at
403 South Milwaukee street.

St. Johns—Jafe Gallagher, recently
of North Lebanon, has opened a res-
taurant and cigar stand here.

Homer—R. C. Edwards has remod-
eled his store building which gives
him considerable more floor space in
his bakery.

Hastings— Thieves carried away
stock to the amount of about $400
from the Goodyear Hardware Co.
store Oct. 12.

New Lothrop—Thieves entered the
hardware and general store of Poyer
& Wood and carried away stock of
considerable value.

Allegan—Akom & Durand, grocers,
will add a meat market in a new
building they are erecting adjacent to
their grocery store.

Bloomingdale—Harry Blaine, of
Allegan, has leased the Bloomigndale
Creamery for a term of five years, tak-
ing immediate possession.

Michigan Center—Martin Miles has
sold his store building, grocery stock
and store fixtures to Judson Smith,
who has taken possession.

Eaton Rapids—Samuel Brunk has
engaged in business under the style
of the Home Dairy Co. All kinds of
dairy products will be handled.

Munising—The old Levy block has
been remodeled into a hotel and was
opened to the public Oct. 15, under
the style of the Cummings hotel.

Coral—The report that the general
stock of the Coral Co-operative Co.
had been acquired by Verne Ashley,
of Lowell, is denied by the former.

Williamston—Grettenburg & Keeler
have leased the Rice building and will
occupy it Oct. 22 with a complete
stock of fancy and staple groceries.

Ishpeming—The McComber Sales
Co., Minneapolis, is closing out at
special sale the entire stock of the
department store of Jos. Sellwood &
Co.

Munising—Clark Bros. have sold
their plumbing and furnace business
to Thorlief Holter, who will con-
tinue the business at the same loca-
tion.

Ishpeming—Quaal & Quaal have
remodeled their store building which
adds considerable floor space for the
better display of their stock of fur-
niture.

New Lothrop—The Bailey Hotel,
which has been closed for a number

remodeled and opened again for
business.
Detroit — Grimshaw & Stevens,

dealers in men’s furnishings, hats and
clothing, 34 West Grand River avenue,
has changed its name to A. E. Grim-
shaw Incorporated.

Detroit—The Enterprise Lumber
Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed and $6,-
500 paid in in cash.

Chelsea—Earl Updyke has sold a
half interest in his sheet metal and fur-
nace business to Roy Harris and it
will be continued under the style of
Updyke & Harris.

Miller—A new store building is be-
ing erected and will be occupied about
Nov. 1, by Lew Daft and Harry
Chaffee, with a stock of general mer-
chandise and groceries.

Marquette—William Gray and Ray-
mond St. Cyr have formed a co-part-
nership under the style of Gray & St.
Cyr and opened a grocery store at
123 North Third street.

Litchfield—The Wilkinson Auto
Sales Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $20,-
000, $10,100 of which has been sub-
scribed $5,050 paid in in cash.

Alma—The Wolverine Dairy Co.
has removed its business to the Child
block and will discontinue its retail
business and devote its entire atten-
tion to its wholesale business.

Hudson—Byron Goodrich, grocer
at the corner of East Main street and
Maple Grove avenue, has sold his
store building and stock to Frank
McKenna, who has taken possession.

3ad Axe—Luppo Bros. have sold
the Bad Axe Fruit House to Roy Gif-
ford, who will conduct a wholesale
and retail confectionery and _ cigar
store in connection with the fruit busi-
ness.

Lansing—G, E. Laing has sold his
furniture stock to H. J. Collins and
M. H. Cowan, both of Pontiac, who
will continue the business at the same
location, 405 North Washington
avenue,

Grand Ledge—D. C. Shurat & Son
have sold the Wolverine garage and
stock of automobile supplies and ac-
cessories to A. J. Bills and Son, who
will continue the business under the
same style.

Grand Rapids—Pettit Bros. have
sold their grocery stock at 841 Divi-
sion avenue, South, to James Allen
and D. E. Stevens, who will continue
the business under the style of Allen
& Stevens.

 

Tecumseh—R. J. McCoy, who owns
the Daisy Meat Market has sold the
stock and store building to G. H.
Tansley, of this place and Willard
Brooks, of Jackson, who will take
possession Nov. 1.

Jackson—Frank J. Finch has sold
his interest in the stock of the Finch
Hardware Co. to the other stockhold-
ers and the business will be continued
under the same style, with George
Brautigam as manager.

Saranac—Gordon Connor has sold
his grocery stock to Chas. N. Low-
ery and Guy Lake, who will continue
the business under the style of Lowery
& Lake. The stock inventoried $1,050
and the fixtures inventoried $1,000.

Bank expects to take possession of
its remodeled building by Nov. 1. The
interior is being finished. It was the
original plan to open the new quarters
July 1 but delays in arrival of build-
ing materials prevented.

Detroit—The Detroit Vixen Co. has
been incorporated to deal as agent
or otherwise in manufactured goods,
general merchandise ,etc., with an au-
thorized capital stock of $15,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in, $4,798 in cash and $10,202 in prop-
erty.

Michigamme—L. N. Toutloff, pro-
prietor of the Red Cross drug store
at Ishpeming, has purchased the
Stensrud drug stock and store build-
ing and will conduct the store under
the management of his sister, Miss
Agnes Toutloff, who has already taken
possession.

Detroit—The Detroit Importing Co.
has been incorporated to import, buy
and sell foodstuffs, wares, merchan-
dise, etc., with an authorized capital
stock of $25,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in, $5,000 in cash
and $20,000 in property. The business
offices of the company are at 520 Free
Press building.

Bay City—A more genuine feeling
of optimism exists to-day among the
lumber interests than has prevailed at
any time during the last year. Stocks
have been reduced to a low point and
as most mills are closed down there
is no chance for an improvement in
this respect before spring. While
there is still a surplus of the low
grades on hand, the operators feel that
their investment is small on a basis
of present values and are therefore
not inclined to make any sacrifice.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Battle Creek—The Bennett Oven
Co. has increased its capital stock
from $40,000 to $75,000.

Bronson—Angler & Bawden have
engaged in the baking business, instal-
ling the most modern machinery ob-
tainable.

Muskegon—The R. J. Teetor Co.,
manufacturer of moulding machinery,
has removed its business office to
Cadillac.

Brethren—John Stuckman & Son
are closing out their stock of gro-
ceries and notions and will retire
from trade.

Homer—G. R. Johnson has engaged
in ‘business under the style of the
Homer Candy Co. doing a manufac-
turing-as well as wholesale business.

Detroit—The River. Foundry Co.
has been incorporated with an auth-
orized capital stock of $5,000, all of
which has been subscribed and $3,500
paid in in cash.

Howard City—The Gillett Motor
Products Co. has increased its cap-
ital stock from $300,000 to $100,000
preferred and 75,000 shares of com-
mon, no par value.

Detroit— The General Chemical
Corporation has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$5,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed, $1,000 paid in in cash.

Sturgis—The Royal Easy Chair Co.
has changed its name to the Walton
Chair Co., with an authorized capital
stock of $500,000, $1,000 of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Truck Corporation has been incor-
porated with an authorized capital
stock of $125,000, $62,500 of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Detroit—The Unique Washing Ma-
chine Co., 7624 Gratiot avenue, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $20,000, $12,000 of
which has been subscribed and $10,-
000 paid in in cash,

Detroit—W. B. Chase & Co. has
been incorporated to manufacture and
sell novelties, toys, games and other
specialties, with an authorized capital
stock of $25,000, $10,000 of which has
been subscribed and paid in in prop-
erty.

Jackson—The Reynolds Spring Co.
has let a contract for erection of a
factory addition, to be completed in
ninety days. The new building will
be nearly a city block in length and
will be of reinforced concrete and
fireproof.

Holland—Joe Rowan, manager of
the Holland Rusk Co., has resigned
to take the management of the Otta-
wa Sales Service in this city, dealer
in butter, oleo, lard and cheese. His
successor with the Rusk Co. is Henry
Etterbeek.

Detroit—The Detroit Sand Lime
Brick Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $350,-
000, of which amount $175,000 has
been subscribed and $35,000 paid in in
cash. The business offices of the com-
pany are at 507 Vinton building.

Detroit—The Grand Manufacturing
Co. has been incorporated to manu-
facture and sell electric ironing ma-
chines and other electrical mechanical
household appliances, with an author-
ized capital stock of $25,000, all of
which thas been subscribed and $3,000
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Lafayette Confection-
ery has merged its business into a
stock company under the style of the
Lafayette Candy Manufacturing Co.,
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, of which amount $7,500 has
been subscribed and paid in, $10 in
cash and $7,490 in property.

Ionia—A cold storage plant will be
opened in Ionia by the Redemsky Ice
Co. as soon as a new building, now
under construction, is completed. The
company installed equipment for the
manufacture of ice last spring and is
supplying half a dozen nearby towns
with ice.

Bridgman—The Tirrell Manufac-
turing Co. has been incorporated to
manufacture and sell nozzles, pumps,
engines, parts, etc., with an authorized
capital stock of $60,000 common and
$20,000 preferred, $45,300 of which

‘has been subscribed and paid in, $3,-

300 in cash and $42,000 in property.

Muskegon—The Brunswick-Balke-
Collender Co. has leased the store
building at 91 West Western avenue
and will occupy it with a complete
stock of Brunswick phonographs, rec-
ords, etc. The store is being elabor-
ately furnished and will have rest
rooms, meeting rooms for shoppers,
etc. Harry Ridell, Detroit, an experi-
enced store manager will be in charge.

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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

The winding up of the canning
season finds the supply for winter
and spring consumption inadequate.
Commercial canning was very much
restricted because canners were un-
able to find an advance sale for their
output and unable to finance a large
output, none of which was_ sold.
Therefore, they refused to contract
with growers. The growers refused
to grow canning crops without con-
tracts, and instead put their acreage
into wheat, oats and potatoes.

It has been said that the housewives
of the land have “put up” enormous
quantities of foods, but the sales rec-
ords of the patent sealing glass jar
manufacturers do not show this to be
the case. The price of sugar has been
low, but berries, cherries, peaches and
tomatoes have been high all during
the season, and jars have been held
at high prices. Consequently the us-
ual amount of home canning or pre-
serving has not been done. Home
canning is usually confined to fruits,
and principally to preserves, as house-
wives generally do not attempt to
can or bottle corn, peas, beans, kraut
or any other article in vegetables ex-
cept tomatoes, and those in only a
limited way. Altogether, every can
of commercially canned fish, fruit and
vegetables is going to be needed, and
those who are not supplied should
buy now and store their requirements.

Altogether the market situation for
canned foods can be described as
strongly entrenched and well fortified
against the attacks of the bear in-
terests. From a statistical point it
could not be stronger as the supply
of nearly every article in canned
foods is far below average normal
requirements.

Even the well exploited argument
of non-employment and consequent
restricted purchasing power of con-
sumers is forced out of consideration,
as prices of canned foods, despite the
reduced supply, have not been ad-
vanced by speculation and are so
low that to-day canned foods are by
far more economical than the fresh
foods on the market.

Canned kraut is a fine food. It is
prepared and shredded from the white
hearts of fine cabbage, salted down
in great vats. and cured for a proper
time. It is then taken from the vats
and hermetically sealed in cans. The
process is sanitary, cleanly and the
product is wholesome.

As a part of a scientifically balanced
food ration kraut furnishes a number
of valuable elements of diet, although
it is not regarded as nutritious. Still it
is easily assimilated and digested.

Then it is economical as well as
palatable. The curing process gives
to kraut a rich odor which follows
it into the can and onto the table.
A kraut without a rich odor is not
properly cured and is not kraut at
all, but merely shredded new cabbage.

The National food law as enforced
by the Agricultural Department of
the Federal Government and by the
state food inspectors requires that
26 ounces of solid drained kraut be
put into a No. 3 size can and canners
obey the law. This makes canned
kraut one of the most honestly pack-
ed food articles that is put into cans.

The old style of retailing kraut out
of casks in bulk is going almost into
disuse, as it was an uncleanly, un-
sanitary and unwholesome method
and unpleasant and unprofitable to
the retail grocers. Kraut handled in
bulk requires a great deal of care and
attention to keep it from spoiling,
and as it filled the retailer’s store
floor with brine and an odor people
have almost quit buying in that way.

In cans it keeps sound, sweet and
clean for most any length of time.

The canned foods supply in the
hands of Michigan jobbers is now
probably at its most complete per-

iod, and the stocks of wholesale and*

retail grocers are at high tide. All
the choicest and finest qualities of
canned foods are now available to
buyers, and this is the very best per-
iod for consumers to purchase a sup-
ply for their winter and spring use.

Prices are now lower than they will
be later, because it has just been as-
certained that there has been an
enormous shortage in the output of
the canneries, and the speculative ad-
vance which is sure to come as a re-
sult of that information has not yet
begun.

For illustration of our argument, it
has been positively learned by col-
lected statistics that the output of
canned pears is 33% per cent. smaller
than that of 1920; the pack of salmon
is 35 per cent. less than for 1920; the
output of canned corn is 47 per cent.
less then that of 1920; and the pack
of California canned fruits is very
much smaller than for a number of
years.

It is estimated that the output of
canned tomatoes for 1921 will be
only about 50 per cent. as great as
the production of 1920.

Altogether, the prospect for higher
prices in the winter and srring for
canned foods is imminent, and pur-
chasing at present prices is timely
and prudent. It is true that there
is an abundant supply of fresh vege-
tables and fruits in the market at
present, but severe weather will soon

be here and such supplies will grad-
ually but surely disappear from the
market.

Canned foods are safe keepers for
any length of time, and are so con-
venient and wholesome and of such
excellent quality that every family
should carry in the kitchen store-
rooms a well assorted supply.

Sugar—Everybody is expecting a
decline in the price of refined sugar,
although it has not come as yet. It
may occur before these words see
print. At the present writing cane
granulated is selling in Grand Rapids
at flat 6c.

Tea—The market has shown no
special change during the week. The
holiday which is coming to be more
and more observed every year, has
interfered with business to some ex-
tent, but there is practically no
change in anything since last week.
The undertone of the market for
good teas is still firm by reason of
scarcity.

Coffee—The market, speaking par-
ticularly of Brazils, has had its little
fluctuations during the week, but
these have probably not affected the
jobbing price. The market is not
particularly strong at this writing and
there is no apparent prospect of any
important change either up or down.
This applies as well to milds as to
Brazils.

Canned Fruits—Very much easier,
due to the liberal deliveries and New
York sellers are cutting under Coast
prices from 5c to as much as 20c on
odd lots of peaches and pineapple.
There is considerably more activity in
gallon apples, due to the reports of
a very short pack in the Eastern reg-
ion, which, it is estimated, will not
run over 40 per cent. of normal. All
berries are very closely held and cer-
tain items are being held for higher
prices.

Canned Vegetables — There has
been little buying of any kind during
the past week in vegetables and toma-
toes are the weakest of the group.
No. 2’s are quotable at 90c by all
brokers, while No. 3’s are offered at
from $1.20@1.35. Tens are quotable
at $4.25 and packers have turned
down offers 10c under that price.
Corn is weaker in the South and
some sales have been consummated
at 90c, while the general asking price
is 5c higher. Peas have seen little
activity.

Canned Fish—Weakness continues
to feature the salmon market and
during the week red salmon declined
on the spot market to $2.45, due to
large receipts. Some sales of pink
salmon at $1.12%4 on spot reported.
Tuna fish and sardines are not large
in stocks, but the demand is no more
than nominal. Blue fin tuna is en-
tirely cleaned up.

Dried Fruits—Have been quiet dur-
ing the past week, all business being
practically routine. Prunes are much
easier, and interest in peaches and
apricots is low. Raisins are active in
seedless alone, although it is reported
that a California packer is buying in
the New York market. Currants have
gained in price due to the strength-
ening of the foreign market. Buyers

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are holding back and watching the
fluctuations of the Greek drachma.

Sugar Syrups—Little demand from
any quarter is in evidence and no
change in prices.

Molasses—There is a steady dis-
tribution of grocery grades on job-
bing orders at prices as heretofore
quoted.

Corn Syrup—Trade in this line re-
flects quiet conditions in consuming
quarters and the market is without
special features.

Rice—The local market is strong,
with available stocks limited, while
the Southern market is slightly eas-
ier.

Beans and Peas—The market for
all varieties of dried beans is still
weak and listiess, but everything is in
buyer’s favor, with very dull business.
Green and Scotch peas quiet.

Cheese—The market is firmer, quo-
tations ranging about “%c per pound
higher than previous quotations. The
receipts show a noticable decrease,
particularly ‘on the finest grades. With
the increase in consumption we look
for a continued firm cheese market.

Provisions—The market on lard
substitutes is weak and quotations
have declined %4c per pound. This
commodity is in very ample supply
for the light demand. The market
on pure lard is also very weak and
lard is selling at about 4%@%s4c per
pound lower than it was a week ago.
The market on smoked meats is also
unsettled, prices having declined 1@
2c per pound. Dried beef remains
very firm and in light supply, with
a fairly active demand. The market
on canned meats and barreled pork
is steady and unchanged.

Salt Fish—Mackerel shows no
change from last week. Some new
business is appearing on account of
change in seasons. The market for
foreign grades is still very firm on
account of spot scarcity and short
packs, on the other side.

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Hide Demand Now Exceeding Sup-
ply.

A representative of the Tradesman
has recently made a trip through
Ohio and parts of Indiana, the sec-
tions where country hides are the
best, only to find conditions in the
country hide market very discourag-
ing. Losses have been terrific dur-
ing the past two years and many
dealers are very badly crippled and
ar parently in need of financial assist-
ance.

There is some call for good fresh
hides, but old hides are very hard to
sell, although some tanners are try-
ing to buy such stocks at prices that
would mean only bankruptcy to the
owners. The shoe manufacturing
business is much better than a few
months ago and hides continue very
low. The policy of packers and tan-
ners in keeping prices so low is work-
ing very great hardships upon the
producers and collectors of country
hides.

The calfskin market is quiet and
not many skins are offered. Kip con-
tinue to receive more attention than
any other class of hides or skins and
all offerings are»taken quickly at full
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FROM BEHIND THE COUNTER.

How Our Mercantile Friends Regard
the Tradesman.

Cedar Springs, Oct. 14—I_ have
nothing to add. I believe the Trades-
man a valuable journal to the mer-
chants and all who may have the
pleasure of reading it.

William Black.

 

Mt. Morris, Oct. 26—We wish to ex-
tend to you our congratulations of
your success as editor of a good busi-
ness paper. We have taken it ever
since we have been in business and we
appreciate it very much.

Culliton & Dunn.

 

Houghton, Oct. 13—Noting your
thirty-eight years with the Michigan
Tradesman, I also find myself on
board of the same boat, having started
in business here Oct. 17, 1883. No
doubt, your journey his been equally
interesting. We have been subscribers
to your journal a greater part of this
period, and while at times we differ on
subjects not strictly commercial, the
fact of our being still on your list is
good evidence of what we think of
the Tradesman. Ed Haas.

 

Wayland, Oct. 6—I have been wish-
ing to write you for some time to let
you know that I wish you another
thirty-eight years of editing our good
paper. I think my father must have
taken it from the first copy, as I can-
not remember the store without the
Tradesman. I have no fault to find, as
I never heard him find any, and he was
an old business man. I do not think
I am capable of telling you where you
could make it any better. You have
done a great deal for me in the matter
of fire insurance and I thank you for
the same. F. E. Sias.

 

Springport, Oct. 4—I am pleased to
note that you want to hear from all
of your subscribers as to what they
say as to improving the Michigan
Tradesman in any way, but I cannot
offer any suggestions, as it is all that
could be expected, of a No. 1 journal
of its kind. It stands in a class by
itself and I don’t think I can say any-
thing to add to the sum total of its
virtues, because it is as near perfec-
tion as possible now.

J. H. Hammill.

 

Grad Rapids, Oct. 4—Any man who
has spent thirty-eight years as a trade
paper publisher certainly has every
reason in the world to feel like hav-
ing a celebration. We subscribe for
the Tradesman to get the benefit of
the fine editorials and write-ups con-
tained therein, and we congratulate
you on your thirty-eight years of
service with the Tradesman. It is a
record to be proud of and we assure
you that you have our best wishes for
your continued success, which you so
richly deserve. As to making the
Tradesman more interesting and valu-
able, we do not feel capable of adding
anything to its high grade make-up.

Young & Chaffee Furn. Co.

Ionia, Oct. 3—Your record of thirty-
eight years with the Tradesman_ is
surely occasion for pride and satisfac-
tion on your part. I feel that your
years of experience naturally place
you in a much better position to anti-
cipate the wishes of your readers than
I would be able to do. My only pos-
sible suggestion would be to keep the
Tradesman up to the standard which
you have already attained, which
should satisfy your most discriminat-
ing readers. Fred W. Green.

 

Big Rapids, Oct. 4—I see you have
beat me by about three years, as I
started in the shoe business Dec. 10,
1886, while you started in 1883. Re-
ceiving such letters as yours makes me
realize that I am getting old and how
fast time is fleeting. Without stopping
‘to figure, it seems as though I had

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

been in business only about a dozen
years; but I see I have followed the
old adage of shoemakers, “Stick to
you last,” for nearly three dozen years.
You ask how the Tradesman could
be improved. I would say by keeping
up the good work you have been
pounding at ever since it was estab-
lished, such as exposing fly by night
traders; grave yard insurance; blue
sky salesmen and many other dark
lantern schemes. A. V. Young.

 

Six Lakes, Oct. 8—I know of no
way in which you can improve the
Tradesman. It just fits me exactly
now. I have read 1985 numbers of
it any way, and don’t see how I could
keep house without it. I congratulate
you upon your success and pray that
success may attend you in the future
as in the past. _ H. P. Nevins.

 

Paw Paw, Oct. 17—You have cer-
tainly made a great success of the
paper and you have established a rep-
utation for candor, fearlessness and
honesty of purpose that is so much
needed in a leader these times. I do
not know of anything to advise re-
garding making the paper more in-
teresting. Of course, just at this time
my family read everything they see
about certain political appointments
that are likely to be made, but I think
the paper as it is is of interest to the
whole Welch family. I do not want
to get away from the original idea
and that is to join in on the congra-
tulations, if not too late, and assure
you that you have mine, and wish for
you very many years of the vigor and
ability that have made your efforts in
the past so highly successful.

W. T. Welch.

 

Benzonia, Oct. 17—I have taken the
Tradesman ever since I have been in
business and would not thnk of get-
ting along without it. In one deal
this summer it saved me $315.

E. B. Judson.

 

Grand Rapids, Oct. 8—Your paper
has been of great value to me for the
very efficient reports of market con-
ditions, and I take this opportunity to
congratulate you on your thirty-
eighth anniversary as publisher and
editor of the Michigan Tradesman.

You asked me to tell you in what
manner your paper would be even
more valuable to me.

Well, my dear Mr. Stowe, I have
known you for many years as an
astute and successful business man
and I would not attempt to give you
advice, but since you ask it I will do
so aS a man to man. We are facing
to-day, the world over, chaotic con-
ditions, brought about by a most use-
less and senseless hatred amongst na-
tions and peoples. The cause and re-
sult was this horrible war. It is for us
living to find a cure to prevent the
recurrence of such a horrible catas-
trophy. What the world needs most
to-day is kindness and love, which we
must practice in everyday life, even
toward our enemies. It is the only
way to bring back normalcy and to
prevent anarchy.

You have in the past given to your
readers many fine articles, essays and
poems, which reverberated with good
will to man. Give-us more of them.
We need them to refresh us and they
actually help to better business.

The times in which we are living are
serious, but what the world needs most
is less hatred and more leve. I am
sure you will do our city, our country
and the world in general the greatest
service by conducting your paper in
this spirit. Paul F. Kempter,

Chief Steward Pantlind Hotel.

 

Grand Rapids, Oct. 5—I have been
a constant reader of the Tradesman
for many years. Two things have
made it interesting to me—bankrupt-
cy proceedings, showing the many
that get caught for lack of judgment
in keeping their names on the ledger

and keeping in touch with and ex-
posure of dead-beats.
Warren C. Weatherly.

New York, Oct. 6—I look forward
with pleasure every week to getting
the Tradesman and read it just as
soon as it is laid on my desk and
keep it on my desk for several days
to go over it thoroughly. There are
so many good things in it I would
be lost without it. As to making any
suggestions, personally, I cannot think
of one thing that would improve it
and it evidently is a success from the
fact that thirty-eight years in publish-
ing it is the proof thereof. Please
rest assured that I shall always take
the Tradesman.

Joseph M. Anderson.

 

Boyne City, Oct. 6—We wish to
congratulate you on hawing carried
your undertaking through for thirty-
eight years with such a satisfactory
record. It would hardly be consistent
for us to make any suggestions as to
how you should publish the Trades-
man. It is not a lumber journal, but
we appreciate it for its all round, ster-
ling, business qualities and the fight
you make for what is fair and right in
all classes of business.

Boyne City Lumber Co.

 

Bay City, Oct. 7—Here is to con-
gratulate you on your thirty-eight
years of successful business. We have
taken the Tradesman for the last six
years and we would not do without
it for three times the cost. Last win-
ter one of the Creasey salesmen called
on us and tried to sell us some stock
in his company, but we had read in
the Tradesman their methods of doing
business and we had the pleasure of
telling him what we had read and he
gave us up without selling us stock.
We sincerely wish you thirty-eight
years more of successful business.

Reed Bros.

 

Plainwell, Oct. 5—I congratulate
you on reaching the thirty-eighth year.
It certainly is a record to be proud of.
Thirty-five years last May I began as
a clerk for the firm of T. H. Shep-
herd & Bros., at Martin, and I have
known and read the Tradesman near-
ly all this time. As a subscriber for
a good many years, I have admired
your fight against the swindlers and
false prophets and your splendid
editorials. I can truly say that I
think you have saved the retail mer-
chants of Michigan many thousands
of dollars. I have enjoyed the writ-
ings of Prudence Bradish and always
read what Old Timer has to say. I
do not know what he looks like, but
I would like to shake his hand and
commend his good work. I do not
know in what way you could improve
the Tradesman. The front cover page
on most numbers is fine. We always
read them. Your paper does not stop
at the store—it goes into the home—
and my family join me in wishing you
many more years of success and hap-
piness. George W. Townsend.

 

Grand Rapids, Oct. 4—We wish to
congratulate you on. your success as
a trade journal publisher: Your large
subscription list tells better than we
can how it is received by the public.
As a manufacturer of brick it would
be folly for us to make suggestions
whereby you might improve the
Tradesman. Grande Brick Co.

 

Grand Rapids, Oct. 5—It gives me
pleasure, indeed, to congratulate you
on your completion of thirty-eight
years of hard work with the Trades-
man. It has certainly been a pleasure
for me to receive your paper each
week. Perhaps I inherited an added
appreciation of your paper from my
father before me, who was always a
Tradesman booster. I think Grand
Rapids is to be congratulated, also,
on having such a fearless and con-
structive citizen, and my only hope is
that “while men may come and men

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October 19, 1921

may go,” you may go on forever. I
wish you and yours every good thing
in life and that you may be blessed
in the future as you have been in the
past. Dewey Blocksma.

Philadelphia, Oct. 5—The Michigan
Tradesman, under your careful and
able management, has become a famil-
iar household word in every grocery
and produce house in Ohio, Indiana
and Michigan. Words cannot express
our good wishes for you and may the
Michigan Tradesman continue in the
good work that has made the paper
the leading and most popular weekly
visitor in every up-to-date store in
the territory in which it circulates.

C. M. Drake & Co.

 

Remus, Oct. 6—First of all, allow
me to congratulate you upon your ex-
cellent record as editor of one of the
best trade papers in the land. To me
you could not make it any better, for
you always have the best interests of
us merchants at heart. Many a time
I read in your journal how you helped
some poor sucker who was pulled into
some dirty deal by some _ crooked
smooth talking schemer. Your timely
exposures have saved us all much
money. In my estimation, your paper
cannot be improved very much. It
has always served its purpose and I
wish you many more years of the
same kind of success. A. J. Diehm.

 

Grand Rapids, Oct. 6—Please ac-
cept my hearty congratulations on
your long, helpful and _ successful
career as editor of the Michigan
Tradesman. I began reading your
paper when, as a mere lad, I was
rustling barrels and boxes in a coun-
try store in Eaton county. Not only
did it provide a liberal education in
merchandising, but it furnished an in-
spiration to want to get somewhere in
life, which has influenced me more
than you perhaps know.

You ask me to tell you how I think
you can make the Tradesman more in-
teresting and valuable to its readers.
As I see it, the main thing is for you
to keep in good health, so that your
fertile brain and untiring devotion to

 

 

 

Honest
Differences of
Opinion

AX returns filed for

previous years are
daily being reviewed by
the Revenue Department.
In many cases the opin-
ion is held that addition-
al assessments be levied

—and frequently it is so
ordered.

But an honest difference
of opinion may be held by
the taxpayer. And that
opinion, based on sound
facts, is ofttimes accept-
ed by the department, if
properly presented.

Certified Public Account-
ants with specialized tax
departments are perhaps
best equipped for such
service.

SEIDMAN & SEIDMAN

Accountants & Tax Consultants
Grand Rapids Savings Bank Bldg.
GRAND RAPIDS
NewYork Washington Rockford
Chicago Newark Jamestown

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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what you consider right can continue
to function 100 per cent., as it has in
the past.

Reading your paper as I now do
from a commercial school man’s view-
point, I would only suggest that you
emphasize the necessity of thorough,
scientific and technical education in
the art of merchandising, selling and
advertising, especially for the young-
er men about to enter the ,business
field, as present competition is of the
trained brains rather than brawn.

A. E. Howell.

 

Lake Odessa, Oct. 13—We feel that
the Michigan Tradesman is a mighty
good paper as it is. We have read it
a good many years, and to-day when
it comes to us we feel as though we

‘must see it a few minutes. We hardly

think you have any occasion to re-
gret the record you have made. I
think the readers of the Michigan
Tradesman feel that it is published
with a real conscience, that you feel
what you say—and you certainly say
what you think, without reservation.
The writer of this letter had occasion
to sit in the same seat on a Grand
Trunk train way back thirty years
ago on his way back from a trip home
from Canada with Mr. E. A. Stowe.
I shall remember it always, as I was
a boy, and you told me who you
were, and, as I remember, you were
a very friendly fellow. I had quite a
visit with you. I have always felt
acquainted with you, though I have
not met you personally many times.
Yet I have read your naper every
week for many years.
E. C. Tew & Sons.

 

Howard City, Oct. 15—A_ great
writer once paid me a fine compliment
—one which I greatly appreciaed. In
discussing various publications, he
stated to me that he regularly read
thoroughly six papers that came to
his desk. He then quietly let me know
that my paper was among this num-
ber. I counted this one of the finest
compliments ever paid my little home
town weekly. Similarly, I want you
to know that the Tradesman is a regu-
lar with the Record family. We ap-
preciate it, have in all these years
come to rely upon it, and we know
the business men of Michigan find
sound counsel every week within its
pages. When we take on a new cus-
tomer, if we find the dealer is a
Tradsman reader, we feel that is one
vital point in his favor. It proves that
he is a live business man; that he
thinks and reasons; that he keeps
abreast of the markets and does not
take hearsay as his compass. I have
been amazed at some of the things the
Tradesman has accomplished in the
past five years (I have read it for
twenty years) and it just goes to
prove that a sure foundation is worth
while building. I congratulate you
and the Tradesman on your remark-
able success and wish “more power”
to both of you. J. B. Haskins.

 

 

Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 15—During the
thirty-eight years you have published
the Tradesman you have made a
record of which any man might be
proud and we beg to extend our most
hearty congratulations. We have al-
ways found the paper most interest-
ing, instructive and helpful to our-
selves. At the present moment we do
not know of any suggestion which
we might make looking toward any
perma:.ent or radical change, but there
are matters coming up from time to
time which require especial attention.
At the present time we are passing
through a most trying period. It is
a fact admitted by most business men
that there are certain factors in the
trade which are holding back an early
return to normal conditions. General-
ly speaking, manufacturers and job-
bers have taken their losses and have
marked down their stocks to current
prices, but, unfortunately, there are
many retailers who are holding up
the procession by still exacting prices

‘have any trouble or worry.

which approach the peak of wartime
figures. The sugestion which we have
in mind is predicated upon the value
of the service which you might be able
to render in assisting the other factors
of the trade in bringing before the re-
tailers the necessity of adjusting their
prices to normal conditions.
Lautz Bros. & Co.

 

Lakeview, Oct. 15—I wish to con-
gratulate you on the length of your
continuous service to the Michigan
merchants. You ask me how you can
make the Tradesman more interesting.
To be frank, I am sure it could not
be made more interesting to me. May
you continue many more years equally
as successful as you have the past
thirty-eight. F. L. Stebbins.

 

Holland, Oct. 6—I notice that you
are celebrating your thirty-eighth year
of editorship of the Fradesman. It
is also thirty-eight years this year that
I began to push groceries with a hand
cart through the streets of Holland.
I must say you have pushed the pen
vigorously all these years. Your pa-
per has grown and evolved into a
veritable magazine. Congratulations.

B. Steketee.

Hudsonville, Oct. 16—I surely can
congratulate you on the able way you
have run the Michigan Tradesman for
the last thirty-eight years. When I
first received your first issue I was
then a young man, but the frost of
many winters has passed over my
head since then. I am still thankful
that I am still here to receive the
Tradesman every week and enjoy its
contents. You ask me how you can
improve it. The only way I can think
of is for you to spice it up with a
little sport to make the tired business
man forget his trouble and worry. As
I am not in business now I do not
I let the
other fellow do that now. It is not
what a man has that makes him rich,
but what he does not want. I might
quote you a little from the pagan
shoemaker which I think will fit your
case in this matter:

“Man’s ingress into the world is
naked and bare. His progress through
the world is trouble and care. His
exit from the world nobody knows
where, but if he does well here he
will do well there.”

From your past deportment IT will
bet on E. A. Stowe. L. M. Wolf.

 

Lansing, Oct. 17—I congratulate
you on having completed thirty-eight
years continuous management of the
affairs of the Michigan Tradesman.

The names Michigan Tradesman
and E. A. Stowe are, I think synon-
omous in the minds of most of your
subscribers and advertisers. Emer-
son says, “Every institution is the
lengthened shadow of a man,” and the
Michigan Tradesman is more largely
than any other trade paper I know
of, an extension of the personality
which we know as E. A. Stowe—kind-
ly, substantial, common sense, with
occasional and very welcome touches
of the artistic and the religious nature
which most of us keep so thoroughly
concealed.

The Michigan Tradesman’s position
is, I believe, unique among trade pa-
pers. I cannot make any suggestions
as to how it can be made of greater
value, my personal acquaintance with
it having been of brief duration; but as
I know you would not be satisfied
without some criticism, I am goi”g to
say that its present greatest viriue is
its greatest weakness. It is Mr.
Stowe, first and last, of course in-
cluding Mrs. Stowe.

Now, I hope and expect that for the
next thirty-eight years Mr. Stowe will
hold his strength and will continue to
be a fountain of unabated activity and
new ideas. It would seem to me that
if some bright young man, having
the proper ideals, could come into
training and help carry on the tra-
ditions and usefulness of the Michigan

Tradesman, it would tend to relieve
you of the steady grind and to extend
the period of your usefulness. I can
hear you say, “I agree, but it is more
easily said than done.” Still I think
you will admit the idea is a good one.
A. D. Baker.
2 ——
Fall Hats Invade Domain of Chairs
and Curtains. ‘

The use of upholstery fabrics on
women’s hats seems to be one of the
newest vagaries in that line, the bul-
letin of the Retail Millinery Associa-
tion of America will say. Huge roses
and flat thick flowers are cut out of
heavy upholstery brocades and hang-
ing materials and are either appliqued
with gold threads or pasted on neu-
tral-tinted fabrics and outlined in gilt
paint. Many _ off-the-face shapes,
toques and turbans show to this treat-
ment.

“For sports wear the tiny wool ball
fringes that edge quaint old curtains
are found in the realms of hatdom,”
the bulletin will continue. “Thickly
covering a thin silk or wool goods
they make effective steamer and golf
hats. Paisley, blended and one-tone
effects are thus attained as one wish-
es. The balls themselves are not
over half an inch and are tacked down
rather than suspended from the inch
of thread that usually attaches them
to the curtain braid.

“A tiny bead edging such as is used
with a bit of ribbozene to finish off
the outline of boudoir lamp shades is
noted on some recent imports. Entire
crown or brim facings of appliqued
velvet flowers are overlaid with grad-
uated circles of this braid, giving a
sort of forget-me-not touch to the flat
flowers by means of the tiny beads
which stud the little knots of the
edging.

“On sports hats, too, we have noted
the old-fashioned cotton braid about
an inch or two thick in block design
pattern, fringed one edge and wound
into circular flat cocardes and plaques,
if not fluted and developing an entire

mushroom model.”
—————E

Men Who Work.

It has always been possible to sep-
arate men into two grand divisions—
those who like to work and those
who do not. The number and pro-
portion of those who do not like to
work is somewhat higher now than
it used to be. Why this is so the
psyschologists may be able to explain.

The fact remains that there is a
very considerable proportion of men
who are going on with their work as
faithfully and loyally as they did be-
fore there was a war or an armistice.
They are the men who have what
science calls “the instinct of work-
manship.” They like their jobs. They
work as if they believed it a good,
healthful, wholesome thing to per-
form constructive service six days a
week at the very jobs they are hold-
ing down.

In a list of the men who work
should be included those who are in
processed industry. The driver haul-
ing earth starts his horse when the
steam shovel has filled the wagon.
The steam shovel engineer runs his
machine better when a long line of
wagons is waiting to be filled. Each
feels himself part of a process, to

speak scientifically, or he is playing a
game, to use the term of sportsman-
ship.

Working and liking it is normal ex-
istence. It is also the most lasting
form of enjoyment.

—_—_~» <2 —__-

Pay No Attention To Creasey Com~
munications.

Marquette, Oct. 17—I am enclosing
you herewith a letter Creasey recent-
ly sent a very close merchant friend
of mine which is self explanatory. He
paid the first installment and refuses
to pay more. Note the beautiful pink
return envelope in which Creasey ex-
pects to get his $283.48; but he will be
very disappointed—very. My cus-
tomer has received many like these
and all have gone into the waste bas-
ket, not even a reply being made.

Marquette has eight more, all of
whom refuse to pay and who are be-
ing threatened in like manner. I am
suggesting that you write each of
these merchants advising them to re-
fuse to pay. Your valued assistance
will be appreciated.

R. Goodman.

The letter from the Creasey hench-
man is as follows:

Louisville, Ky., Oct. 12—There are
two ways to pay your balance of prin-
cipal and interest on contract. One
is to allow the matter to be adjusted
through legal proceedings, which will
only increase the cost of payment by
adding additional interest and court
costs. The other is to pay the prin-
cipal and interest now, thereby doing
away with any additional costs. These
notes must be paid. We have held
off action until now, thinking you
would pay this account as you agreed
when you signed the contract. We
have secured judgment in each and
every instance where we have filed
suit. Take the easier way to settle
this and send your check for $283.48
by Monday, Oct. 17. :

The Creasey Corporation,
3y J. C. Duncan, Adjuster.
—__+2->——__
To Clean Watch Chains.

Gold or silver watch chains can be
cleaned with a very excellent result,
no matter whether they may be matt
or polished, by laying them for a few
seconds in pure aqua ammonia; they
are then rinsed in alcohol, and finally
shaken in clean sawdust, free from
sand. Imitation gold and _ plated
chains are first cleaned in benzine,
then rinsed in alcohol, and afterwards
shaken in dry sawdust. Genuine gold
chains are first dipped in the follow-
ing pickle:

Pure nitric acid is mixed with con-
centrated sulphuric acid in the pro-
portion of ten parts of the former to
two parts of the latter; a little table
salt is added. The chains are boiled
in this mixture, then rinsed several
times in water, afterward in alcohol,
and finally dried in sawdust.

———__-<><)>—-~-
Alliance Stores Hold Successful Two-
Day Sale.
Alliance, Ohio, Oct. 17—What

proved to be the two biggest days
in local retail history were held here
last week as “Alliance Merchants
Bargain Days.” Ten committees of
retail merchants worked four weeks
to put over the big merchandising
event.

Country roads leading into Alliance
showed large streamers announcing
the bargain event. The Alliance Re-
view, issued a special edition and dis-
tributed it free of charge to homes
and farms within thirty miles radius.

Merchants claim the bargain days
event helped more to revive business
than any other sales feature since
before the war.

 

 

8
BETTER ADVANCE BUSINESS.

One of the bright spots in dry goods
markets is the continued demand for
many of the staples that are under
order to the end of the year. Those
who have bought want what they have
engaged to take, so that shipments
are steady despite the hesitation in
forward sales. This is true of many
of the cotton domestics, notably sheets
and pillow cases, denims, colored cot-
tons for seasonable selling, and many
of the goods that move in smaller
volume. There is still a steady call
for 4-4 bleached cottons sold under
the best known brands and they are
moving well for this period of the
year. The unbranded goods are not
doing so well, especially on orders for
later shipment. Prints, percales, dra-
pery fabrics and the ginghams con-
tinue moving out regularly on old
orders. The movement in domets and
cotton blankets is steady and stocks
in first hands continue in very clean
shape.

Raw wool is definitely in a stronger
position, regardless of the various re-
ports showing accumulations of Gov-
ernment goods unsold. The control
exercised over Australian and other
wools is sufficiently defined and exer-
cised to prevent these wools from be-
ing thrown on the markets, and that
is lending strength to the demand at
the auctions in London. The prob-
ability of a continued embargo
through an emergency tariff on im-
ports of clothing and combing wools
into this country is stiffening the home
market. Consumption is beginning to
show an increase in England, where
dullness in mill centers had prevailed
for a long time.

While the demand for wool fabrics
is admittedly less keen, it is noted
that the knitting division of the
worsted yarn trade is exceptionally
busy. Moreover, the advent of colder
weather is certain to bring about a
more satisfactory consumptive de-
mand for made-up goods that bids
fair to continue throughout the win-
ter. It is not expected that anything
like broad activity will be seen, but
there is business enough in sight to
warrant assurances of moderate mill
operations for some time.

Silk goods are not moving as freely
as merchants expected. The keen de-
mand of the war years and after hav-
ing passed away, many of the newer
factors in the business find it very
difficult to readjust their affairs. Their
various attempts at forced selling or
liquidation make competition irregular
and hard for the better established
firms, and many experienced silk mer-
chants are inclined ‘to counsel curtail-
ment for a time. The raw silk condi-
tions are most unsatisfactory to many
silk manufacturers, as they feel that
the situation is in the hands of pro-
ducers at this time. The statistics dis-
close larger receipts than consump-
tion warrants, they think, and they are
less disposed than ever to go on pay-
ing top prices asked.

A great many knitted novelties are
appearing in the markets and they are
being bought promiscuously. Some
weavers of fabrics of long experience
say the acute demand for many
knitted goods is a reflection of buying
to meet new style conditions or to
fill in until prices on longer wearing

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

goods are more satisfactory. In any
event, it is clear that knitted wool
goods are being sold in excess of the
normal of ordinary years, and this is
reflected in a large demand fur knit-
ting wosrted yarns in both hosiery and
fabric numbers.

The jobbers are coming to the nor-
mally quiet part of their fall season,
bu they are still doing a pretty good
spot business. They are also securing
a healthier class of advance orders
than any received in a long time. Most
jobbers say they could sell more than
they are if they cared to check all
credits. This they are unwilling to do,
most of them preferring to cling to
their regular customers even to the
extent of urging them to cover more
freely.

SIGNS OF PRICE STABILITY.

Further evidence that wholesale
prices are virtually stabilized is af-
forded by the index number of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is
the same for Sey tember as it was for
August. The index for both months
was 152, as compared with 148 in
July. While the index as a whole
remained unchanged for the past
month, there were slight changes in
the various commodity groups. A
rise of 3 per cent. in the prices of
farm products was due mainly to the
advance in cotton. Food products,
on the other hand, declined 4 per
cent. during the month, while cloth-
ing prices rose 4% per cent. In the
index for all commodities the fluctua-
tion since last March has been very
slight. It was 154 in April, 151 in
May, 148 in both June and July, and
152 in August and September. The
extreme variation in six months has,
therefore, been only 6 points. When
these changes are compared with a
drop of 17 yoints last October and
of 18 points in each of the two fo!-
lowing months, the evidence of sta-
bility becomes very striking.

 

 

THE THREATENED STRIKE.

Very few business men at present
believe that the threatened railway
strike will take place. If it does oc-
cur, however, they can see only its
failure, although it will give business
recovery a considerable setback. One
of the big obstacles to this recovery
has been high transportation costs,
which have retarded the revival of
building, the marketing of
products, and the thawing of “frozen
credits.” Transportation charges in
turn have remained high because the
roads have been compelled to fay
wartime wages—all railway employes
are now paid double what they are
worth—while wages in other indus-
tries have been undergoing readjust-
ment to a peace-time basis. If the
strike should occur the economic cost
will be frightful, but its inevitable
settlement in accordance with inter-
ests of the general public, rather than
in the interest of a favored industrial
group gorged with grafting wages
by the crafty and unscrupulous Mc-
Adoo, will break the vicious chain
which has been preventing the return
of normal conditions.

 

You will become that which you
persistently think you are.

farm ~

SELF CONFESSED PERJURER.

To his many other crimes commit-
ted against society and people of
small means Harrison Parker now
stands before the world as a self-
confessed perjurer. His admission,
as made in one of the Federal courts
at Chicago last Saturday, is described
on another page of this week’s edi-
tion of the Tradesman. Those who
know the man or have knowledge of
his peculiar methods will not be sur-
prised over these disclosures, because
they are in keeping with the checker-
ed career of one of the most erratic
and utterly irresponsible men ever
permitted to ply his nefarious meth-
ods out of jail. The trial judge in
this case has referred Parker’s con-
fession to the grand jury, so it is
possible an indictment and trial may
follow as the result of his voluntary
admissions.

In spite of the rigid investigation
now being made by the receiver of
the Co-operative Society of America,
it seems almost impossible to locate
the hiding place of the many mililons
of dollars—about $8,000,000 to be a
little more exact—which Parker and
his henchmen have filched from the
pockets of his 81,000 victims. Nor is
it likely that very much of this ill
gotten gain will ever be recovered,
because Parker and his associates ap-
pear to have made a complete “get
away” with almost the entire amount,
large as it is.

The Parker fiasco furnishes another
example of the laxness of the law
in cases of this kind, where a man
who is a bankrupt in one state can
open offices in another state and by
playing on the credulity of the ignor-
ant, the stupid and the vicious, can
secure $8,000,000 of hard earned dol-
lars on the flimsiest of pretexts, with
no legal or moral regard for the con-
sequences. So long as we tolerate
such crafty scoundrels, just so long
will we place a premium on dishon-
esty and compound larceny and in-
vite other men who have the courage
or foolhardiness to enter upon a ca-
reer of crime to follow the footsteps
of Harrison Parker and creatures of
his ilk.

 

 

AUTOCRACY IN FASHIONS.

Just what the decree of longer skirts
by Paris means in cold economic
terms is being figured out by the
statisticians. At least 20,000,000
American women will need an addi-
tional yard and a half of cloth; $25,-
000,000 more will flow into the textile
mills, and 20,000 additional workers
will be needed. But will the decree
be so effective? There are rumors of
a revolt. It is not the revolt of Ed-
ward Bok, who was declaiming in
1913 against the indecencies of Paris
fashions; or the revolt of W. L.
George, who argues for women’s uni-
forms; or the revolt of the economists,
who allege a senseless waste in the
flicker of fashions. It is the revolt of
the outdoor girl, the college girl, and
the business woman, who have found
short skirts an emancipation. They
boast that they have nipped in the bud
the Parisian plot to compel heavy
corseting. They do not intend to
sweep the pavements and hamper their
feet with long skirts.

October 19, 1921

Paris could easily deny that there
is anything autocratic in the net effect
of its decrees. On the contrary, it
can argue the essence of democracy
imbues them. The successive edicts
guarantee justice to all. Some women
do not look altogether right in long
gowns, and some look altogether
wrong in short skirts. It is fair to
give both their innings. One year
fashion decrees that every one shall
be svelte, and the next that every one
shall be buxom. There are those who
shed angry tears when they find that
waists are high; they can shed tears of
joy when next year waists are low.

But this is a capricious kind of
democracy, and the best defense of
Paris is that_a benevolent autocracy is
necessary in fashion. Changeless de-
signs would be a mark of intolerable
stagnancy. Novelty is one of the
major components of beauty in dress.
It is necessary for the world to sub-
mit to some regularization of change,
some definition of novelty. But the
autocrats must not presume too far on
their authority.

THE WHEAT OUTLOOK.

There was once a time when ship-
ping wheat to Russia or to India
would have been put on a par with
“carrying coals to Newcastle” as a
useless and superfluous activity. With-
in the last year, however, coals have
been carried to Newcastle, where they
were gratefully received; and now
India and Russia are likewise grate-
ful to get wheat from other regions.
Before the war Russia used to ex-
port an average of about 160,000,000
bushels of wheat per year. This year
that country will export no wheat
but will import approximately 40,-
000,000 bushels. India likewise will
be unable to export grain this year on
account of a drought, and has actual-
ly placed an embargo on the export
of wheat and flour. Its mills are
placing orders for wheat in Australia.
The world’s total wheat crop for 1921,
with Russia excluded, is estimated by
the Department of Agriculture at 2,-
787,000,000 bushels, as compared with
a crop of 2,614,000,000 bushels last
year, and a five-year pre-war average
of 2,791,000,000 bushels. It appears
that the United States has about
reached the limit in exporting its
surplus wheat from the present crop.
The estimated exportable surplus for
the present year is 116,000,000 bushels,
and during July and August exports
of wheat and flour amounted to 97,-
000 000 bushels.

TOMATO WASTES.

Tomato pulp, for catsups, pastes
and soups, is obtained in the re-
quisite pure state by putting the to-
matoes into what is called a “cyclone
machine,” the material being forced
through small holes in a metal screen
to get rid of the skins and seeds.

No fewer than 225,000 tons of to-
matoes are pulped annually in this
country, the skins and seeds being
thrown away. It is a _ lamentable
waste, inasmuch as the seeds yield
an excellent salad oil, which is also
first-rate for paints and varnishes,
being a quick drier. The residue from
the oil press, mixed with the skins,
makes a highly nutritious stock feed.

 

 

 

 

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October 19, 1921

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

THE BOLL WEEVIL.

The boll weevil is getting more than
its share of publicity these days, and
some of the alarmist stories, circulated
undoubtedly with a view to their ef-
fect on the cotton market, need to be
heavily discounted. While the ravages
of the insect this year have exceeded
those of any previous season and the
pest now covers virtually the entire
cotton area, there is no reason to be-
lieve that these facts point to a per-
manent cotton shortage. The State
of Texas, which produces from a
fourth to a third of the total crop, has
been afflicted with the weevil in some
sections for about thirty years and
most of the cotton-growing area has
suffered from it for about twenty
years. Yet that State has produced
larger crops with the weevils infesting
the whole of this area than it was able
to raise before their appearance. In
fact, in the cotton belt it is generally
known that the weevils do the least
harm where they have been at work
the longest. This is because the farm-
ers gradually learn how to raise cot-
ton in spite of them. Moreover, the
weevils are more prolific in some years
than in others. This has been an es-
pecially bad year, partly because the
mild winter helped them to survive in
unusually large numbers and partly
because the farmers were compelled
by their financial condition to use fer-
tilizers very sparingly, thus causing a
slower growth of the plant and giving
the insects a better chance to do their
work. The damage done this year
was not an unmixed evil. Indeed,
many who had not sold last year’s
crop regard it as a blessing.

It needs still to be borne in mind,
however, that the high price of cot-
ton resulting from the ravages of the
weevil, the reduction of acreage, the
scantier use of fertilizers, and the un-
favorable weather is not necessarily
a harbinger of prosperity. It is rather
to be regarded as a debt-liquidating
development, but of course to this ex-
tent it is promotive of better times.
Nevertheless, a repitition of this year’s
happenings in the cotton fields would
spell widespread disaster. The better
feeling that has come in the cotton
belt is a source of satisfaction to the
whole country, but another fair crop
at satisfactory prices will be necessary
before the wheel of good fortune
comes full round again. A_ similar
requirement is necessary to bring full
prosperity to the corn belt, which em-
braces nearly a third of our farming
area. Corn, our greatest crop, is now
selling on the farms at 40 cents per
bushel, and the growers are not any
too happy. Facts like these are
brought forward by those who pre-
dict that the present gain in the vol-
ume of business will be of moderate
proportions and that the cycle of re-
adjustment may continue through
1922,

 

Many a man who, before buying,
boasted he would never touch a hand
to anything except the steering wheel
of his car lives to spend his Sundays
in the garage.

 

If you want to increase your work-
ing capacity, make plans for a little
recreation, enough of it to keep you
fresh in body and mind. ve

 

 

“Speculation”’ vs. “Investment”’

 

 

Did You Read This
Editorial in Last Friday’s
Herald? We Endorse
Every Word!

“UNFORTUNATE INVESTMENT”

New York City.—The suicide of
James H. Cain, 21, is attributed by
his parents to depression arising
from the loss of $1,400, his savings,
by unfortunate investment. It is
understood that young Cain intend-
ed to furnish a home with his sav-
ings in the expectation of early
marriage.’’-—Current News Dis-

atch.
F x ee tt

“tinfortunate investment” is the
caption over many a somber chap-
ter in many a broken life. Some-
times, as indicated in the current
news, it is the key to the supple-
ment of all tragedies. Frequently,
it sends men in middle-life back to
begin over again upon the tread-
mills of painful accumulation. Of-
ten it pauperizes old age and em-
bitters it with want and woe and
gall. “Unfortunate investment!”
A mild sounding phrase! But an
awful curse!

If our hind-sight was always as
good as our foresight, we would
escape this wreckage. But ‘‘un-
fortunate investments’”’ do not car-
ry warning signals to notify us of
their menace. They do not wear
red lights. On the contrary, they
are clothed in plausibility and
chauffeured usually by the _ slick-
est and suavest of hypnotists who
promise the perfect assurance of a
cinech-bonanza.

Yet ‘‘unfortunate investments”
do not have us wholly at their
mercy if we have more common
sense than greed. The very prom-
ise of a fortune-over-night should
put sane persons on their guard.
This miracle sometimes happens.
But when it does, the ‘‘insiders’’
are not usually found on = street
corners shouting invitations to
folks-at-large to share in the bene-
ficence of fortune.

Against some fiscal catastrophe in
the best and most conservative of
businesses, it is impossible to
guard. In other words, this rela-
tion, like all human relations, must
always involve an_ element of
doubt. But this ‘element of doubt”
can be resolved down to a mini-
mum by the person who _ invests
with reasonable conservatism. <A
vast majority of so-called ‘‘unfor-
tunate investments’ never were
“investments” at all. They were
palpable ‘‘speculations’’ from the
word go. If a man ‘“‘speculates’’
with his eyes open—if he can afford
to lose if the one chance in one
hundred fails to materialize—there
is nothing to be said against his
own personal operations in this re-
spect and within this delimitation.
But there is no. greater human
tragedy in the life of every-day
than when “speculation” is sold as
“investment’’ to people of limited
means who by tortuous” saving
have accumulated a little nest ese

for the proverbial ‘rainy day.’

 

Millions upon millions of dollars
literally are stolen every year out
of the pockets of gullible or inex-
perienced ‘‘investors’’ who trade
their birth-right for ‘“‘scraps of pa-
per.” The only “profit’? in that
sort of a transaction is for the
printer who prints the stock and
the green-goods-artist who un-
loads it on an exploited customer.
“Blue Sky Laws’’ cannot protect
this situation. We must all pro-
tect ourselves. When you find
temptation nibbling at your purse-
string, if you aren’t sure of your
ground, get some disinterested ad-
vice. ‘There are thousands of hon-
orable bankers, experienced in this
sort of thing, who will tell you the
unprejudiced truth. There are, too,
scores of splendid ‘investment
houses” (really entitled to the
name). Just as many millions in
good, safe, sound ‘“‘investment’”’ se-
curities are issued every year as
there are bunco securities of the
other type. Barring accident, it’s
your own fault if, like James
Cain, you get the wrong kind.

If you want ‘‘Speculation’’ we have noth-
ing to offer you—because ‘‘Speculation’’
and ‘‘Investment” won’t mix!

But if you want “Investment,” let us
prove to you that our service is the last
word in safety and satisfaction!

Fenton, Davis & Boyle (originally, Fenton, Corrigan &
Boyle) is a Michigan Corporation, capitalized at $300,000, and
backed by some of the soundest-headed business men in the
State. We were organized for a definite purpose—to provide
INVESTORS with INVESTMENT SECURITIES repre-
senting maximum advantage consistent with entire safety and
protection. From the first hour when we presented our
credentials to the people of Michigan we have had nothing
to offer the SPECULATOR in search of a SPECULATION.
But from that hour to this, we have constantly had the best
INVESTMENTS for INVESTORS which the whole world-

wide range of legitimate business and finance afford.

THE RESULT:—Fenton, Davis & Boyle are now one of
the largest Bond Houses and INVESTMENT Banking In-
stitutions in Michigan. Every year we are handling a con-
stantly increasing volume of safe business for a constantly
multiplying clientele of contented INVESTORS. Our
patrons are now receiving from us many millions of dollars
worth of gilt-edge Bonds every year. Every security they
procure from us passes closest, expert scrutiny before it is of-
fered for sale; and every such security is the best and the
safest (yet offering the highest yield consistent with these
factors) the market affords. ‘This service, if you are an
INVESTOR, we offer to YOU. SPECULATORS, how-
ever, will find us entirely too conservative to suit their
gambles. But the INVESTOR is welcome to the best atten-
tion we can give him, and the satisfaction rendered others is

his own best guarantee that he too will be pleased.

A Phone Call or a Postal Card
Will Bring Our Representative

Fenton Davis & Boyle

MICHIGAN TRUST BUILDING

GRAND RAPIDS

Main 656 Citizens 4212

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Retailers Safe in Ordering Staples
and Semi-Staples.

There is no immediate ,rospect of
more than a 10 per cent. reduction
in the wages of shoe factory workers
and this part of
labor would not mean a drop in prices
of shoes large enough to warrant re-
tailers withholding their orders until
such a reduction takes place.

This was the keynote sounded at
the opening fall meeting of the Mas-
Retail Shoe Merchants’
Association. More than 100 retailers
gathered for dinner at the Boston
City Club. The meeting was the first
held under the
tem and the plan proved a decided

concession on the

sachusetts

new committee sys-
success.

It was impressed upon the mer-
chants by Herbert T. Drake, of the
Emerson Shoe Co., that although a
20 per cent. reduction has been asked
by manufacturers in several centers
there is every probability that follow-
ing arbitration no immediate wage
scale readjustments of more than 10
per cent. will be made.

The cost of labor in the final anal-
ysis is about 80 per cent. of the price
of the finished shoe but this labor
cost takes in the various processes
from the raw hide to the completed
article. A reduction of 10 per cent.
in factory labor wages would mean
not more than a cut of 25 cents per
pair in the price of shoes and 20 cents
would be nearer the mark.

Mr. Drake seemed to hit the nail
on the head when he asked the re-
tailers “If we had reduced our prices
25 cents more how many more pairs
would you have bought? I do not
believe we would have sold one more
pair.”

At the conclusion of the meeting
President Hagan summed up the sit-
uation “We are perfectly
cafe in placing our orders for staple
On the novel-

thusly:

and semi-staple shoes.
ties go slowly until the style situation
shapes up more clearly.”

Richard Lenahan, special agent of
the Harvard Bureau of Business Re-
search, explained the activities of the
Bureau and called for more hearty
co-operation from the retailers in re-
turning the Bureau’s questionnaire.
The value of turn-over was dwelt up-
on at length by Mr. Lenahan. He
said that while the last report showed
‘he average stock turn in retail shoe
stores to be 1.8, he thought this could
be brought up to 2.3.

Frank Briggs, after reviewing the
deflation in hide and leather prices
and the demand for cheap merchan-
dise, said that the public is becoming
dissatisfied with low grade shoes.

During the war and prosperity the
public was educated up to the better
grades and while there has been a
tendency during the last year to seek
shoes at a price the public has begun
to realize that the better grade shoes
can not be had at a price around $5.
merchandise is not satisfying
the public, he said.

Price

A leveling up process of production
with everybody cutting costs is tak-
ing place, he declared. At the present
time the shoe factories are operating
on a cost of production basis, oy erat-
ing as low as they can figure and
figuring lower than they can operate.
In the effort to get down everyone
is aiming for production they hope to
get. Labor, transportation and taxes
would be the three factors to in-
fluence a reduction in the price of
At the pres-
ent time competition is so severe that

shoes, said Mr. Briggs.
’ g

a manufacturer must have volume
production to show any profit and
this volume production the manufac-
turer has not got. The price ten-
dency on raw materials is upward
rather than -towards a further reces-
sion,

Mr. Briggs touched lightly on the
style situation, stressing the tendency
to black and he was informed by a
style expert, just returned from Paris,
that straps would go through into the
spring.

Most significant of all his state-
ments touching on the style situa-
tion was that there is a gradual, day
to day, increase in the sale of boots
This may not
mean that women have tired of low
shoes, he said, and the demand may

develop toward late fall and winter.
——_+ + >___

New Counterfeit Note Out.
Although the maker is thought to

to women. may or

have been apprehended and his plant
seized, the Federal Reserve Bank has
directed attention to a new $5 coun-
terfeit Federal Reserve note reported
by the secret service? It is on the
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
In describing it the Treasury Depart-
ment says:

“This counterfeit is printed from
photo-etched plates, in a single piece
of poor quality paper, containing no
silk threads or imitations of them.
A more detailed description of the
counterfeit is deemed unnecessary, in
view of the fact that the man respon-
sible for making and circulating it is
under arrest in Salt Lake City, Utah,
and the plates, materials and appara-
tus necessary to its manufacture, in-
cluding approximately 400 of the

counterfeit notes, have been seized.”
——

You get nothing for nothing.

 

GENUINE KID SLIPPERS

These Fall sellers in stock for immediate delivery

Fiexible
Oak Soles
Sizes 3 to 8
Terms 3-10

Net 30

  

No. 700 Kid Juliet $2.25 No.

BRANDAU SHOE COMPANY
DETROIT, MICHIGAN

25 Kid Comfort $1.70

 

 

 

They wear like iron-

H-B Hard Pan Shoes wear like iron be-
cause only the choicest part of the hide, the
‘‘bend,”’ is used in an H-B Hard Pan Sole—
and because the uppers are first Chrome
tanned to give tensile strength and pliability
and then re-tanned to make water-resistant.
Here is a winter shoe that will satisfy the
outdoor man. Send for catalog.

HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE COMPANY
Grand Rapids, Michigan

H-B Hard Pans

 

 

 

PEOPLE do not like to experiment with shoes. They know
they cannot get the right kind if they buy at random.

For three generations HIRTH-KRAUSE shoes have been
such good values that the number of their buyers has
multiplied year by year. The good-will for our shoes has

proved valuable to the dealers who carry our line.

If you are not one of these dealers,
why not write us for particulars of
our dealer proposition?

HIRTH-KRAUSE

Tanners—Manufacturers of the
MORE MILEAGE SHOE

GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

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October 19, 1921

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

11

 

Who Is the Boss in Your Store?

Who is the real boss of the store?

Who is it you and I work for each
day?

Who makes possible your position
and mine?

Where does the money come from
that goes into our envelopes?

Who is responsible for the store
and its stocks?

The customer, of course. That is
who we are really working for.

Did you ever stop to think that if
there were no customers there would
be no business, no stock, no store, no
salary, no job?

This important person—the cus-
tomer—plays the dual part of being
both boss and guest.

Since the customer is in reality our
boss, we should treat him or her with
respect and be mindful of his or her
desires.

If by an chance you run across a
customer who seems hard to please
and who seemingly wishes you to
pull out practically everything in
stock, just remember that the cus-
tomer is the boss and that part of the
money paid for purchases is the money
that goes into your pay envelope.

When a customer seems cross and
unreasonable, do not let it annoy you.
Smile right back and do not show the
slightest trace of resentment. The
salesman who can smile and be polite
when the customer is wrong and the
salesman right — that salesman is
standing the true test of salesmanship.

By retaining your composure you
create a cheerful mental atmosphere
that will influence the customer in the
right way, bring you the sale and
really make you the victor of the situa-
tion.

Then, too, since the customer is our
guest, it is our duty to show the ut-
most courtesy. Show every attention,
be a true host or hostess, and be sin-
cerely interested in any problems that
may arise. Put all the enthusiasm you
possess into making the customer feel
that it is his or her store.

Put a “serve” in service that is help-
ful and sincere. Let the store be
known as the “Store of Courteous
Service.”

It was a wise philosopher who once
said: “Business is a sensitive thing.
It goes only where invited, and stays
only where well treated.” That is an
axiom that all should know and re-
member.

A famous merchant once attributed
his great business success to the fact
that he always placed himself, figura-
tively, both behind and in front of the

counter. In other words, he always
“put himself in the other fellow’s
place.”

In an address Woodrow Wilson

said: “A business exists for a com-
munity, not a community for a busi-
ness. And this statement covers the
situation very nicely. We occupy our
positions to serve the community,
which is but a large number of cus-
tomers, or bosses, and we betray our
trust when we do not serve willingly,
cheerfully, and to the best of our
ability.

Once upon a time, quite a good
many years ago, there was a farmer
boy who lived near Pittsfield, Mass.
His ambition was to be a merchant
and in the course of time a store-

 

keeper in Pittsfield made him an ap-
prentice. The lad had a penchant of
always regarding the customer as his
real boss, and in going to the extreme
to render satisfactory service.

But this was in the dark ages of re-
tailing, when store-keeping was more
a matter of barter and trade. The re-
sult was that after six months of ser-
vice the employer sent the boy back
home on the farm as a failure.

Undaunted by his experience, with a
heart full of courage, and the convic-
tion that he was right in his belief that
the customer is boss, this lad went
West to seek his fortune.

That lad was the late
Field.

In Chicago the farmer boy found
employment where he could practice
the doctrine of service he believed in.
He applied his principles and theories
that the Pittsfield merchant had re-
jected, and the business grew by leaps
and bounds. To-day the name of
Marshall Field is known throughout
the world, and the Marshall Field
store stands as a great monument to
the theory that the “Customer is

Boss.” C. L. Pritchett.
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Better Prices For Liberty Bonds.

A bit of cheerful news that deserves
more than passing attention is the
steady rise in the price of Liberty
bonds. This is a matter of interest
to both large and small investors in
all sections of the country. The va-
rious issues have advanced around 7
points from the low price of the year,
with the exception of the First 3's,
and the Victory which have
risen and 4 points. The
Victory notes are now very near par.
Improvement in the price of the is-
sues with the more remote maturities
is consistent with the general firm-
ness in the bond market resulting
from easier money conditions, and it
has been somewhat accelerated by the
belief that Congress may make more
liberal tax exemptions for these se-
curities in an effort to improve their
marketability. The First 3%s already
enjoy full exemption from taxes,’ and
they have not advance proportionate-
ly with the other issues.
ernment has also recently been in the
market as a heavy buyer of its own
securities, and this has further con-
tributed to the rise.

2. —__
“Boy” Behind the Voice.

A business man who was in a great
hurry called up an establishment that
had failed to deliver goods as ordered.
A tiny boyish voice was heard at the
other end of the line: “What is it that
you wish?”

“Mr. Jones, boy, and hurry.”

“All right,” and the receiver was
hung up in a few minutes it was taken
down and the small voice replied:

“Mr. Jones is not in. Can I help
you?”

“See here, boy,” snapped the man
who was ina hurry. “I want to talk
with some one who can do business.
When I need the office boy I will call
for him. The way for you to get
along is to let other things alone and
attend to your own duties.”

“That’s what I’m trying to do,”
meekly said the small voice. “I am
the president of the company.”

Marshall

notes,
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Two Irishmen died and (because of
the lives they led) one went to heaven
and the other in the opposite direc-
tion. About three days after their de-
parture, Mike, worried as to the condi-
tion his friend might be in, called
down:

“What are ye doing, Pat?”

“T’m shovelin’ coal.”

“Do ye worruk hard?”

“Not very. We have shifts. I wor-
ruk only about three hours every day.

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golden stairs.”
“Do ye worruk hard?”

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when the measure goes to confer-
ence. There are jrospects of an
effort on the floor of the Senate to
make the repeal of the excess profits
tax retroactive as of January 1, 1921,
but on this point the so-called agri-
cultural “bloc” is likely to have its
way, although it will meet defeat in
its efforts to retain the tax on profits
as a permanent feature of the reve-
nue system. Some attempt will also
be made to secure the adoption of a
tax on sales by manufacturers in lieu
of the excess profits tax and the mis-
cellaneous excise taxes, but this pro-
posal seems to lack sufficient votes,
and even if it should be adopted in
the Senate the chances of its accept-
ance by the House appear to be neg-
ligible. The surtaxes on incomes will
be reduced, but whether the max-
imum rate will remain as low as 32
per cent, the rate fixed by the House,
is a matter of uncertainty. The so-
called Liberal Western Rey ublicans
in the Senate are in favor of a max-
imum rate of 50 per cent. Some slight
change in the rate of the normal tax
on small incomes may also be made.
The transportation taxes are sched-
uled to go, but the date of their re-
peal is a matter of uncertainty. There
will be some increase in the tax on
the net earnings of corporations, in
order that there may be no discrim-
ination in their’ favor and against un-
incorporated firms when the corpora-
tions are relieved of the tax on their
profits.

While the various details of the
revised tax law are still matters of
doubt, it will appear from the fore-
going that the measure can be fore-
cast in its broad outlines and that
business men can be fairly certain
concerning the taxes that they will be
called upon to pay, and can -make
their plans accordingly. The changes
made this year will be conservative.
For most concerns the retention of
the excess profits tax for 1921 will
ave no terrors, because their profits
for the year have not been excessive.
For the same reason the present un-
certainty about the rate of the sur-
taxes on incomes in the higher brack-
ets will not yrove to be a great de-
terrent to business activity. The final
disposition of the so-called “nuisance
taxes” is an unknown factor, but the

the improvement in trade and indus-
try.
—_—__~»+ +> —__
Putting It Up to the Banks.

No one would expect to find many
points of resemblance in the view-
points of Herbert Hoover, our Sec-
retary of Commerse, and of Hugo
Stinnes, the financial master of Ger-
many. Both, however, have recently
expressed opinions of somewhat simi-
lar tenor with regard to the measures
that are needed for the financial re-
habilitation of the world. Mr. Hoover
says that the great financial institu-
tions of the leading countries should
take up the burden of fiscal readjust-
ment, aiding the various nations to
balance their budgets and to stabilize
their exchanges. Herr Stinnes evi-
dently had the same idea in mind
when he recently expressed an opin-
ion concerning the League of Na-
tions. The kind of League most
needed, he said, was one that was
economic rather than political; that
is, a league presided over by business
leaders rather than by 1 oliticians. Not
every one would accept the Stinnes
view that business men alone are cap-
able of finding a satisfactory solution
of the complex problems of Europe.
There are social, racial, and even re-
ligious factors to be considered as
well as the purely economic aspects
of the problem. On the other hand,
there is a great deal to commend Mr.
Hoover’s view that the great central
banks of issue of England, France,
Germany, Holland, and Italy and our
Federal Reserve Board might formu-
late a co-operative plan for the pro-
motion of financial stability overseas.
This function cannot be safely left
to the politicians of Europe. They
have already shown their ineptitude
in dealing with the situation in most
countries by accepting a policy of in-
flation as the line of least resistance.

—_—_2+~+.—___

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13

 

Federal Commission Halts Anti-Mail-
Order Drives.

The merchants of Missoula are
nothing if not enterprising. Also,
they believe that Missoula money
But Missou-
community,

should remain at home.
la, being a prosperous
was an inviting target for the mail-
order houses, and large sums were
annually sent to Chicago, St. Louis
and other big cities for things which
the local merchants could probably
have furnished for the same or less
money and of better quality.

The aforesaid local merchants final-
ly decided that if a chamber of com-
merce was good for anything it could
be used to keep money at home, and
it was therefore decided to utilize its
machinery for that purpose. Accord-
ing to the Commission’s complaint
the chamber did a good, workmanlike
job.

The general manager of the North-
western Theaters Co, a concern of-
erating a large palace of the silent
drama, was drawn into the conspiracy
to launch an altogether novel ‘‘clean-
up” campaign. Missoula had staged
many other clean-ups. It had col-
lected and sold all its old papers for
the benefit of the broken-down re-
turned soldiers; it had bartered its
old tin cans for money for the old
ladies’ home, and it had saved the
surface of the school houses and
other public buildings until to use
more paint would have been a sinful
waste.

But nobody in Missoula had ever
before thought of cleaning up the
mail-order house catalogues. To this
job the chamber addressed _ itself
according to the indictment of the
Federal Trade Commission.

 

On the psychological date when
the local merchants had reason to
believe that the annual deluge of mail-
order house catalogues had reached
their local addresses, the Northwest-
ern Theaters Co. announced in the
home newspapers that on certain days
it would admit children of the tender
age of 15 years or under to its highly
elevated exhibitions of moving pic-
tures upon fresentation of any mail-
order house catalogue—plus 1 cent
for war tax—in lieu of the usual tick-
et. Special prizes were offered for the
oldest catalogue, for the newest, for
the biggest, and for the one whose
thumb-worn pages reflected the most
painstaking perusal.

What the youngsters of Missoula
did to the mail-order house catalogues
was a plenty—according to the Fed-
eral Trade Commission. Awaiting
favorable opportunity when father
was at the office, mother shopping,
and big sister out riding with her
beau, the kids collected all the cata-
logs in sight and hastened with them
to the movie theater.

Presumably the chamber of com-
merce redeemed the catalogues at a
fair price from the manager of the
Northwestern Theater Co., Anyhow,
the Commission charges that it ob-
tained possession of them and de-
stroyed them “by burning or other-
wise,” and cites all parties to the
transaction to appear before’ the

Commission Nov. 16 and_ explain
their action.

What a wicked lot of men these
Missoula merchants are, to be sure!

Please don’t laugh.

——_+». +
Flush Times in Germany.
There is no buyers’ strike in Ger-
many. congested with
customers intent on spending their
last pfennig for whatever strikes their
fancy. But this is not prosperity. The
buyers are merely seeking to unload
their paper money in return for things
of more lasting value. Wholesale
prices in Germany are now nearly
twenty times what they were at the
outbreak of the war. In the past four
months they have risen 44 fer cent.,
and in the month of August alone,
even before the recent great slump
in the mark had begun, they rose 17%
per cent. Wages are reported to be
making a vain effort to keep up with
prices, and the drop in the purchas-
ing power of money has brought real
hardship to the wage earners: This
feverish buying mania is no new phe-
nomenon. The same thing occurred
in Vienna when the Austrian crown
took the toboggan. In this country
in 1864, when the gold value of the
greenback dropped to about a third
of par, a similar tendency was noted.
The reckless expenditure in nearly all
farts of the world during the post-
armistice period may likewise be ex-
plained as due to the desire to put
money into goods before its purchas-
ing power declined further. For the
contrary reason consumers became
unwilling to buy except for pressing
necessities when the purchasing pow-
er of money began to increase.
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14

MIGHIGAN TRADESMAN

October 19, 1921

 

Possibility of Inflation in the United
States.

Gustav Cassel, the Swedish econo-
mist, says that a return of inflation in
the United States is very probable. He
bases this conclusion not on the re-
cent tendency of wholesale prices in
this country to advance, but on the
assumption that American banking in-
terests deliberately adopted a defla-
tionist policy and forced the recession
in prices, which are all held down ar-
bitrarily. The difficulty about this as-
sumption is that it does not accord
with the facts of the price movement.
There is no more reason for assuming
that deflation was brought on in this
country by deliberate planning than
there is for assuming that the same
thing was done in the rest of the
world. As a matter of fact, prices be-
gan to break both in Europe and in
the Far East before there were any
signs of such a thing here. The peak
of inflation in India was reached in
January, 1920; it came in Japan and
Great Britain in March; in France in
April, and in this country in May.
Moreover, the recessions in prices in
this country have been relatively no
greater than in a number of others.
For example, at the end of last Au-
gust prices in Sweden, Prof. Cassel’s
own country, were 46 per cent. below
the 1920 peak, as compared with 44
per cent. in the United States and 42
per cent. in Great Britain. These
facts are cited as showing that the
movement in the United States pre-
sents no striking peculiarities, but is
just a part of a world-wide phenome-
non. Currency contraction did come
here, but not until months after prices
had begun to decline.

There is a possibility of renewed in-
flation in the United States, and also
in some of the European countries,
but not for the reasons stated above.
The flow of gold to this country con-
tinues unabated, and gold reserves
have increased to such a point that
considerable credit expansion in the
near future is not at all improbable
unless steps are taken to employ some
of the metal for other than reserve
purposes. Meanwhile in the leading
foreign countries there has been con-
siderable contraction of currency for
more than a year, but there are signs
of a reaction against this movement,
especially since the reparations policy
has forced Germany to resort to infla-
tion on an enormous scale, and that
country is being depicted as growing
rich from its flood of paper issues.
Naturally the inflating countries
abroad would welcome a return of
cheap money in the United States, in-
asmuch as it would operate to en-
hance the dollar value of their ex-
changes. Practically every politician
in this country is also an inflationist,
and is bringing all the pressure he can
on the Government for an_ easier
money policy. While the banks and

the Government agencies are holding
firmly to a sound money policy, it is
quite conceivable that in the course
of time they may be driven to adopt
a new course that will result in a pro-
nounced expansion of credit and cyr-

rency.
—-_—__~>- >

Ignoring the Business Cycle.

One way of avoiding trouble is to
ignore it or even to deny its existence.
Such conduct has characterized many
of the professional optimists during
past months when business was de-
pressed. Now that these troubles are
largely behind us, and there is a good
basis for optimism founded on some-
thing more than “hot air,” the more
conservative business men see the
need of preaching the doctrine of
preparedness, so that the country may
be spared some of the sharpest pains
of deflation when the business cycle
again reaches a point at which liqui-
dation and readjustment become in-
evitable. But the professional op-
timist will have none of this doctrine.
If the business cycle hyyothesis in-
cludes the assumption that periods
of deflation must come at fairly reg-
ular intervals, he says, then let us
avoid this trouble by ignoring the
business cycle. “There ain’t no sech
animal.” Thus the whole difficulty is
solved. Meanwhile the prudent man
will foresee the evil and hide himself,
while the simple pass on and are
punished.

——_»+ +2
Corporations Wound Up.

The following Michigan corpora-
tions have recently filed notices of
dissolution with the Secretary of
State:

LoPrete & Madison Co., Detroit.

Metropolitan Guernsey Association,
Metropolitan.

Detroit Hexagon Drill Co., Detroit.

Lewis Searing: Co. of Michigan,
Flint.

Consolidated Mercantile Co., Iron
Mountain.

American Calk Co., Detroit.

Haviland Insurance Agency, De-
troit.

Chas. Bennett,, Inc., Detroit.

Geo. B. Stevens & Co., Detroit.

Rief Van Den Bosch Co., Zeeland.

Lafayette Distributing Co., Detroit.

St. Lucia Land & Timber Co., De-
troit.

Tecumseh Butter Co., Tecumseh.

Mutual Ice Co., Tecumseh.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15

 

Court Holds Railroad Liable For Fire
Damage.

Here are a few paragraphs taken
from the decision of the Minnesota
Supreme Court at St. Paul, finally
affirming judgment against the United
States Railroad Administration for the
fire losses in Cloquet, Minnesota, in
October, 1918. Note that paragraph
in which the court tells what it “found
in substance.” Apply the reasoning in
this paragraph to the circumstances in
many fires which have come to your
attention and determine for yourself
whether the railroad was any more
liable for losses to neighboring prop-
erty than many thousands of our citi-
zens who have permitted fires to start
through carelessness, have been un-
prepared to extinguish them when
they started and have been very
negligent in safeguarding their prop-
erties against fire loss. The courts
of this country would be constantly
busy trying suits for fire damages if
every one entitled to damages, follow-
ing the reasoning of the Minnesota
court, were to bring suit. Why con-
fine these suits to the railroads?

 

The issue, as made by the pleadings,
was that a locomotive passing mile
post 62 on October 10, 1918, set a fire
which communicated with and ignited
a quantity of forest products piled at
a spur track at that place; that effec-
tive means to extinguish this fire were
not taken; and, when on the 12th a
strong wind arose, the whole stock
there piled burned with great intensity,
the flames spreading to adjacent
ground and running at a fearful speed
with the wind, which was claimed to
then come from the Northwest and
heading toward Cloquet. The director-
general contended that the fire at mile
post 62 was not of a railroad origin
and, particularly, that the fire which
came to the city was of unknown
origin, starting far South of the rail-
road right-of-way; and, further, that
the wind was almost due West or not
more than 20 degrees North of West,
so that it was impossible for a fire
from mile post 62, or for any fire on
its right-of-way West of Brevator, to
travel and spread enough to the South,
in the gale then blowing almost due
East, so as to reach Cloquet.

The court found, in substance, that
the director-general, while he operated
said railroad, allowed combustible ma-
terial to accumulate on and along the
right-of-way between mile posts 52
and 64 and permitted large quantities
of forest products to be stored at mile
post 62; that no men were employed
to patrol that part of the right-of-way
to watch for and extinguish fires
thereon; that while so operating the
road, under the conditions mentioned,
and on October 10, 1918, a locomotive
engine passing mile post 62 set fire
to the dry material in the immediate
vicinity thereof; that the director-gen-
eral negligently failed to extinguish
such fire, which on the 12th of Oc-
tober caused all of the material so
stored to be consumed, and, spreading
therefrom to the lands adjacent and
over and across said lands to the
premises of plaintiff in Cloquet, con-
sumed the property described in the
complaint.

It is not practical to here reproduce
the maps used at the trial, but in
those maps and other exhibits are in-

dications by way of areas not burned,
the shape of such areas, the contour
of the ground, the location of swamps,
lakes and creeks, the open fields and
meadows, the light and hard burned
parts which fortify not only the wind
directions in accordance with the con-
clusions of he trial court, but also the
findings of the majority that the fire
negligently allowed to escape from the
locomotive operated ‘by the director-
general at mile post 62 spread to and
caused the destruction of the property
involved in the actions tried.
_———->o- a
A Fire Prevention Measure.

While the country is thinking about
fire prevention, and the frightful waste
which fires cause every year, it is a
thousand pities that one simple means
by which that waste could be greatly
reduced gets no attention. The throw-
ing down of lighted matches, cigars
or cigarettes ought to be made a mis-
demeanor, punishable by fine or im-
prisonment. Any state that enacted
such a law, and made it familiar to
everybody by placards in street cars
and other public places, would be sure
to find results similar to those which
attended the like procedure in the mat-
ter of spitting. The spitting that used
to be so universal a nuisance disap-
peared as though by magic when this
policy was adopted. Only a handful
of people were ever actually fined;
nothing but the publicity of the pla-
cards was required to produce the re-
sults. Most people are willing to ex-
ercise the slight self-control called for
by a regulation; all that-they need is a
clear consciousness that to do other-
wise is to commit an offense against
the criminal law.

—_—__>+____
Advertising as Insurance.

It is in times like the present that
the value of good will becomes most
obvious, says an advertising man.
Goods sold under a widely known
trademark, which is recognized as a
guarantee of quality, are always best

fortified against the extreme effects of:

trade reaction. The stuff which can-
not be easily identified and whose
quality is a matter of doubt will be
the first to suffer when buyers begin
to show caution in their expenditures.
Such goods may. be of excellent grade,
but if they have not established their
position with the public it may be
necessary to resort to radical price-
cutting in order to make them go
when a buyers’ market develops. The
moral of this is that it always pays to
advertise a good thing, and _ that
judicious advertising is a practicable
method of insuring against the rigors
of depression.

eg
Aetna Insurance Co. Not Interested.

The Tradesman recently stated that
the Aetna Insurance Co. was unneces-
sarily technical and tardy in settling
a loss at Saginaw. Its informant was
a stock company adjuster, who volun-
tarily stated that, in his opinion, the
stock companies must deal more gen-
erously with their patrons in the set-
tlement of losses if they expect to
take the rank with the mutual com-
panies in this respect. The State agent
of the Aetna Insurance Co. insists that
his company was not interested in the
loss referred to, and the Tradesman
cheerfully accords him the benefit of
the doubt by withdrawing the state-
ment.

 

 

FIRE TORNADO

BETTER INSURANCE
AT
LESS COST

During the year 1920 the companies operating through

The Mill Mutuals Agency

paid more than $4,000,000 in dividends to their policy
holders and $6,300.000 in losses.

How do they do it?
By INSPECTION and SELECTION

Cash Assets Over $20,000,000.00

We Combine
STRENGTH and ECONOMY

THE MILL MUTUALS
AGENCY

120 W. Ottawa St. Lansing, Michigan

 

 

 

 

SAFETY SAVING SERVICE

Michigan Class Mutual
Agency

**The Agency of Personal Service’”’

Minnesota Elarawace Mutual 9 2-3) oe 60%
Wisconsin Ehanckwate Mutual 0.006 50%
Minnesota Implement Mutual 2.00) 4 205. 50%
National Implement Mutual (2) 0 0o. 50%
Oing Hardware Mutual 2025000 022 40%
Fiitnois Hardware Underwriters 22920023002 60%
Diuegersts Indemmuity Exchange 2.2) 225) 36%
Bamnion Mutual hire Ins. Co. 222.00 50%
Gentes! Manutacturers. Mutual). 20 30%
Ohio Underwinters Mutual 2 30%
Shoe Dealers WMiutual 22 30%

Combined Cash Assets over $7,000,000. Cash Surplus over $3,000,000.
Average Loss Ratio of Above Companies, 30.2%; Average Expense Ratio,
20.4%. Average Loss Ratio of Stock Companies, 56%; Average Expense
Ratio, 41.9%.

Are your premiums paying you a THIRTY TO FIFTY PER CENT.
DIVIDEND?
NO?

Then it is up to you to see that they do—by placing your Insurance with
THIS AGENCY. Let your premiums work for you and also give you
the most reliable protection obtainable. For further particulars write to

A. T. MONSON
MICHIGAN

Cc. N. BRISTOL H. G. BUNDY

FREMONT,

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

October 19, 1921

 

CONVINCING THE CONSUMER.

For some reason most of the public
criticism against prices during the
past year has been directed at the
clothing trade. This may be due, per-
haps, to the fact that when prices
stood at their peak in 1920 clothing
prices led all the rest. According to
the National Industrial Conference
Board’s weighted index, the average
price of all items entering into the
wage-earners budget stood at the peak
at 105 per cent. above the level in July,
1914. Clothing prices, however, stood
at 188 per cent. above that level, the
next highest item being food, which
was 119 per cent. above the July, 1914,
level. The high price level for cloth-
ing at that date explains the outbreak
of the “overalls movement” and the
“wear-your-old-clothes” campaign.
The feeling that clothing prices were
too high has not wholly disappeared,
in spite of subsequent price recessions,
and this goes to explain the persist-
ence of a criticism which price statis-
tics do not now justify. On September
15, while the index of all living costs
stood at 65 per cent. above that of
July, 1914, the index for clothing stood
at only 57 per cent. above it. While
prices of all items in the wage-earn-
er’s budget had declined only 20 per
cent. below the peak by September 15,
clothing prices had declined 45 per
cent. below the peak. This compares
with a decline of 29 per cent. for food,
11 per cent. for fuel and light, and
only 1 per cent. for housing. Food
prices in the. middle of September
were 7 points higher than in the mid-
dle of July, rising from 148 to 155,
whereas clothing prices in this period
went down 7 points, from 164 to 157.

If the plans for a Buyers’ Week can
be drawn up in such a way as to lay
emphasis on facts like the foregoing,
thus showing consumers that price re-
ductions have in reality been substan-
tial and that retailers of clothing have
been taking their medicine much more
readily than most other dealers, the
effect upon the revival of trade may
be pronounced. The desirability of
publishing comparative prices is a de-
batable point among merchants, but it
would appear that the objections
raised against this practice in the or-
dinary course of business would hard-
ly hold under the present unusual con-
ditions. The average man of the street
does not yet appreciate that $55 spent
for staple articles of clothing will
now go as far as $100 would some
fifteen months ago. Few of them
realize that clothing is now relatively
one of the cheapest items in the fam-
ily budget. They ought to be shown.

 

PHILANDER C. KNOX.

The career of the late Senator Knox
was a series of alternations between
the Cabinet and the Senate. Other men
have left the one post for the other,
but no other man, in our recent his-
tory at least, has gone from Cabinet
to Senate and back again. This fact
is a measure of the regard in which
his abilities were held by his associ-
ates. Three Presidents begged for his
services. McKinley made him Attor-
ney General, Roosevelt continued him
in this position, and Taft elevated him
to the place of Secretary of State.

Senator Knox was better fitted to
be Attorney General than to manage

our foreign relations. Neither by
training nor by interest was he quali-
fied to deal with international mat-
ters. He brought to their handling
the narrow point of view peculiar to
men of the legal profession instead of
the imagination of a statesman. His
name as head of the State Department
is associated with the policy of extend-
ing our foreign trade which has re-
ceived the misleading title of “dollar
diplomacy.” Knox himself hailed the
designation as one to be proud of.
His limitations in the international
sphere were displayed more recently
in connection with the Treaty of Ver-
sailles. As one of the irreconcilables
he helped to defeat that treaty and his
legal acumen was called into requisi-
tion for the drafting of a peace reso-
lution which should preserve for this
country all the advantages to which
we are entitled, without betraying the
country into surrendering its inde-
pendence.

The fickleness of fame is manifested
anew by the way it has dealt with
Knox’s activities as Attorney General.
He is popularly remembered as the
official who won the suit of the Gov-
ernment against the Northern Securi-
ties Company and the Beef Trust.
These were notable achievements.
More notable, however, was his letter
to the chairmen of the House and
Senate Committees on the Judiciary
which led to the passage of a bill to
expedite the determination of suits
under the Anti-Trust and Interstate
Commerce Acts and which also be-
came the basis for the act creating the
Department of Commerce and Labor
with its Bureau of Corporations. Here
again his unusual legal abilities were
successfully employed in the solving
of a most difficult problem.

 

REDUCING THE LOSS RATIO.

The per carita fire loss of this
country in 1913 was $2.10, or a total
of $214,000,000. It was much higher
last year—the highest in the country’s
history. In France in 1913 the per
capita fire loss was 49 cents, in Eng-
land 33 cents, in Germany 28 cents,
and in Holland 11 cents. Vienna and
Chicago in 1913 were about the same
size, but Chicago’s fire losses were
about eighteen times as
Vienna’s.

Inasmuch as simple carelessness is
the cause of more than one-fourth of
all our fires—289 per cent. in 1916,
according to a careful actuarial in-
vestigation, were strictly preventable
—education is the most important
specific for our fire waste. Education
in the proper way to build houses and
factories, education in the insulation
of electric wires, education in roofing
materials, education in fire-fighting—
all this, encouraged by the National
Fire Protection Association and other
bodies, is gradually being taken up by
Governmental authorities. Our fire
insurance companies have long been
the leaders in the camyaign against
fire waste. Their National Board of
Fire Underwriters, with its activities
in publicity, its model codes, its labor-
atories where materials and articles
to resist or fight fire are tested (pro-
viding applicants deal out graft with
a lavish hand), its officers to investi-
gate arson, and its fire prevention en-

great as

 

gineers to advise cities and individ-
uals, is responsible for much of the
progress we have made against fire.
3ut what is most needed to reach our
carelessness is stricter legislation and
a more ‘rational public sentiment. We
regard the man whose building burns
down as unfortunate; but in many
instances he should be regarded as
criminal.

THE ROLE OF CREDIT.

It is thoroughly estimated that
about 90 per cent. of the business
transactions in the civilized world are
based on credit. Some economists
divide our economic development into
three stages; the periods of barter
economy, money economy, and credit
economy. This is not perhaps an ideal
grouping, as there was a considerable
use of credit in both the barter and
the money stages, just as there is the
use of both barter and money in the
modern credit stage. It is of some
practical value, however, to note that
the business cycle could develop only
under the credit regime. The periodic
attacks of liquidation and depression
which afflict modern business are al-
ways preceded by periods of credit

 

inflation. Without the credit system
the modern industrial organization
would be impossible, but with all the
enormous advantages which credit
confers it also brings one element of
weakness. Credit is such a useful and
convenient thing that the temptation
to misuse it is always present in some
degree. When business is growing,
confidence is increasing and profits
are piling up, the temptation to over-
work credit becomes strongest. Credit
is then often expanded and strained
to the breaking point, and the result is
collapse and depression. When the
collapse comes those who have abused
their credit are always the ones who
clamor loudest for still further credit
accommodations. ‘So long as we have
a regime of credit economy we shall
probably have recurrent periods of
prosperity and depression. The cycles
will come an dgo, but with careful
regulation of the credit machinery it
is possible to make the swings from
one peak to the other more gradual
or, as one banker puts it, we can
smooth out the curves.

 

Dishonesty is the densest form of
ignorance.

 

 

of anything else.

4238 Consumers Bldg., Chicago.

Chicago

 

 

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Hens is a wonderfully good and economical food prod-
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—a product that will please your customers.

HEBE

—friend to the thrifty housewife

Note what it says on the Herne label
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create new business without disturbing your present trade.

Your customers are among the thirty million readers of women’s
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Display Heze in the windows and on the counters. Send for attractive
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October 19, 1921

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

17

 

FROM BEHIND THE COUNTER.

 

How Our Mercantile Friends Regard
the Tradesman.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 3—We wish to
extend to you the highest compliment
we know by saying that we do not
believe that we could offer a sugges-
tion that would improve your work
through the Tradesman, nor make it
any more interesting.

C. L. Ross,

Cashier Commercial Savings Bank.

 

Grand Rapids, Oct. 5—In my esti-
mation, the Lockwood Committee in-
vestigating housing conditions in New
York has performed no greater ser-
vice to the New York public than you
have performed for the Michigan mer-
chants in exposing stock fire insur-
ance companies’ methods and ac-
quainting them with the merits of
mutual insurance. That you may con-
tinue another thirty-eight years along
the line you have so far followed in
this respect is my wish for the Michi-
gan Tradesman and yourself.

J. DeHoog,

Sec’y. G. R. Merchants Mutual Fire
Ins. Co.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 3—You say you
have rounded out thirty-eight years
with the Tradesman. Figuring back,
I find I am rounding out thirty-three
years selling mechandise to merchants
covering many states in the Union,
and all these years, it seems, I have
known E. A. Stowe. Well, here’s to

you.

Should old acquaintance be forgot,

In the days of Auld lang Sine,
Perhaps some may, but you will not,
Because we like you fine:

The good old friendship you have shown,
Has cheered us on our way,

Long life to you—success and gold,
That is our toast to-day.

° John D. Martin.

 

 

Grand Rapids, Oct. 6—I note you
have rounded out thirty-eight years
with the Tradesman. This is, indeed,
a record that any one connected with
a trade paper can be proud of and I
wish to say at this time that publish-
ing a paper is entirely out of my line
and any suggestions I might make to
you in the way of making the Trades-
man more interesting and valuable
would be uncalled for as I see it. I
have always found the Tradesman to
be one of the cleanest trade publica-
tions I have ever had the pleasure of
reading and I am perfectly satisfied
to leave the future of the paper with
the man who has so capably carried
it through so many years.

Perry E. Larrabee.

 

South Haven, Oct. 6—When it
comes to advising you as to how to
improve your valuable journal, I sure
don’t feel competent, as your experi-
ence of thirty-eight years is proof
enough of your ability to give rather
than receive advice.

I have been a reader and subscriber

of the Tradesman for a good many,

years and always look forward to its
coming with delight, as I get many
useful and valuable pointers from its
pages. In closing, allow me to con-
gratulate you on your having so suc-
cessfully guided the Tradesman for
thirty-eight years and hope you may
continue to do so for many years to
come. CE. Suhr.
Grand Rapids, Oct. 7—I am always
glad to say a good word for the
Tradesman, as I have always con-
sidered it a wonderful paper and everv
issue contains valuable information of
some kind. I always carry my Trades-
man in my grip and in the train or in
the hotel I enjoy reading its pages
and I say here, long live the Trades-
man. Thos. B. Ford.
Chicago, Oct. 5—The fact that I
have been a subscriber to the Trades-
man ever since I have been on the
road attests my appreciation cf its
contents each week. I am not com-
petent to suggest anything in the way

 

  

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UNITED Trucks. Many motor trucks are
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pony that their price is prohibitive to all but
a few.

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They are guaranteed to give the same satisfac-
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of Internal Gear Drive or our new Worm Gear.
Our factory service is unexcelled—for other
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Our outlets for used trucks makes it possible to
give most liberal allowances. We have a very
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in touch with us? Visit our plant, write, tele-
phone or ask us to send a representative to you.
Our counsel on your hauling requirements in-
volves no obligation.

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A size for every requirement.

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Grand Rapids, Mich.
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A Truck for Every Purpose to
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Quality—
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of improvement; in fact, I don’t think
it is possible. Every Michigan travel-
ing man should be a subscriber. Your
Movements of Merchants is of great
value to any wide awake salesman.
I have landed several new accounts
through these tips. Here’s wishing
you health and vigor for many, many
years for the continuance of your good
work. Frank H. Starkey.

Pittsford, Oct. 6—After meeting
you through Mr. Charles Donaldson,
who entertained me during the hard-
ware convention in 1920, and hearing
your remarks at one of the sessions,
1 assure you I do not think you need
many suggestions from us little fel-
lows. Your Tradesman is fine. I
have taken it several years and thor-
oughly enjoy same and admire you
for the bold stand you take in rooting
out the evils that surround us on every
side. Glenn Daykin.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 3—-We are
pleased to congratulate you on the
thirty-eight years which you have
spent in building the Tradesman into
such a successful trade paper. While
our problems are considerablv differ-
ent than the problems of the general
merchandiser, we take pleasure in
reading the articles which are con-
tinually hammered away at in your
columns. We sincerely hope you will
be able to continue this good work for
many years to come. You have our
best wishes for your future success.

Grand Rapids Belting Co.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 5—How can I
make any suggestions to you regard-
ing the Tradesman? The fearless and
direct way of publishing your ideas
will never change. I know—because
you cannot change. I can only offer
my congratulations and wish you
thirty-eight more good years.

Benj. S. Hanchett.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 4—I write you
personally to congratulate you on hav-
ing rounded thirty-eight years with
your excellent paper, the Michigan
Tradesman. | have been an almost
constant reader of its pages for sev-
eral years and have always admired
the fearless stand you have taken on
all questions which appeared to be
true and honest in their declarations.
While it is true that you and I have
not always agreed as to methods or
attitude on certain questions, still that
is of only secondary moment when
honesty of purpose and uprightness
of character are concerned.

It is now fifty years since we first
became acquainted—you as a boy in
Reed City and I as a general merchant
at Ashton—but I am happy in the
thought that we have always been the
best of friends and trust we shall con-
tinue so unto the end.

I am sure your paper has not only
filled a much-needed place in the news-
paper world of Michigan, but also
accomplished great good and consider-
able protection to those who have
been its subscribers and readers.

E. G. Raymond.

Plainwell, Oct. 7—I do not believe
I have missed reading a single issue
of the Michigan Tradesman since my
first subscription to it, twenty years
ago. A request to offer suggestions
for improvement strikingly brings out
the fact that it has more than met the
requirements of a trade journal, its
various departments and _ activities
bringing to its readers such a fund of
useful knowledge and practical advice
that it has made itself a potent factor
in the success of a great many mer-
chants. Its thirty-eighth anniversary
snould bring to you an unmeasured
satisfaction in having merited the
recognition of having achieved a won-
derful success. Accept my congratu-
lations and may the Tradesman con-
tinue to inspire its readers with its
ideals and independence that have
characterized it in its every issue.

A. C. Smith.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Grand Rapids, Oct. 4—We _ con-
gratulate you heartily on the record
you have made with the Michigan
Tradesman during the thirty-eight
years of its life. We know it has
been your desire to make this paper
a real help to its subscribers, to aid
them in solving their business prob-
lems, to help them overcome the dif-
ficulties besetting their paths. The
record you have made is prima facie
evidence that you have succeeded in
your desires and we consider the Mich-
igan Tradesman one of the best trade
papers in existence and take pleasure
in offering what support we can and,
also, to wish you health, happiness
and success in the coming years. You
have earned all three and, furthermore,
have had a large measure of all. Again
we congratulate you!

Valley City Milling Co.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 4—We wish to
congratulate you, individually, the
Tradesman Company and the com-
munity for the long and_ excellent
service rendered. You ask for sug-
gestions as to what you can do to
make the Tradesman more interesting
and valuable. Our suggestion is, keep
right at it as you have been doing in
the past. Give us the facts as you
find them, in your own forceable and
emphatic way, and may you live long
and continue in your good work.

Robert D. Graham,
President G. R. Trust Co.

Traverse City, Oct. 5—Congratula-
tions on your unexcelled success as a
publisher. Having “served time” be-
hind the counter for several years we
have never felt the capability of fill-
ing an editor’s chair, therefore we are
unqualified to make any suggestions
for improvements in the Tradesman.
If you publish as good a iournal in
the future as you have in the past, we
assure you that we will continue to
read the Tradesman with the greatest
of pleasure and with great profit to
ourselves. H. W. Simpkins.

Stanwood, Oct. 10-—-I do not see
how the Tradesman could be made
any more valuable or interesting, as
I consider it one of the best trade
papers ever published. It is worth
a hundred dollars a year to any mer-
chant who will read it carefully. It
has saved the Michigan merchants
thousands of dollars in exposing
crooks. I certainly hope I may be
able 'to take the Tradesman twenty-
five years more. I wish you the best
of success in the future.

M. D. Crame.

Chicago, Oct. 10—The Michigan
Tradesman is all right, because you
are all right—100 per cent. American.

Merchants National Service Co.

Pierson, Oct. 5—We hope you will
be with us a long time yet and will
say that we think you do not need
any help on the paper. It is just fine.
The supervisor of this township was
very much interested in your articles
in regard to the trucks paying their
share in the expense of building and
maintenance of roads. The present
taxpayers will not be able to bear this
burden alone. Would like to see this
matter taken care of in the next. ses-
sion of the Legislature.

Charles Sawtell.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 10—We want to
congratulate you over the fact that
you have rounded out thirty-eight
years with the Michigan Tradesman,
which has been a tremendous educa-
tional medium for the people of Grand
Rapids and the State of Michigan, and
I feel that Grand Rapids should be
proud of the fact that your home has
been here continuously, I believe, dur-
ing that period. I cannot offer a sug-
gestion whereby the Tradesman would
be more interesting and valuable to
the purposes which you have designed
to cover, and I sincerely trust that
you will not divert from your pres-
ent line of endeavor, Please accept

sincere best wishes from myself and
the members of this company for the
continued success of your wonderful
organization. M. J. Dregge,
President Luce Furniture Co.
Grand Rapids, Oct. 5—Any sugges-
tion from me as to improving the
Tradesman would be out of my line of
work. Frankly, I don’t think there is
much chance for improvement. You
keep up the good work and if old
Sam Gompers would read the Trades-
man every week it might some day
make a human being out of him, al-
though I am afraid tt 1s too late to
make anything out of him except the
blatant demogogue and arrant traitor
he is. He ought to be in the pen with
Debs. Perhaps a better place for him
would be in Russia with his pal, Har-
wood. B. H. Hannaford.
Ashley, Oct. 8—Your letter at hand
requesting us to help you improve on
your — publication, the Michigan
Tradesman. Don’t you think you
have wished a pretty large job on our
shoulders, as we are not familiar with
the inner workings of a publishing
office? We think that you are doing
very good work among the trade by
publishing your paper and giving us
the facts of the markets each week,
and we hope you continue to do so
for another thirty-eight years or more.
The only thing that we can find fault
with is that you left the poem off the
front page of a recent issue.
K. Kirby & Son.
Muskegon Heights, Oct. 10—You
have my heartiest congratulations on
having so successfully published the
Tradesman for thirty-eight years, a
journal valuable to such a large num-
ber of people. It is both useful and
interesting. I greatly admire your
freedom of speech. We need plain
truths. Your news items from the
small towns, as well as the large cities
of Michigan, are of interest to your
readers. Any favorable mention of
our city will be appreciated. I don’t
think we can say too much of the
natural beauties of our State and the
many beautiful summer resorts we
have so near us. The whole State is
a summer resort, of which we ought
to make capital. We are all anxious
to bring people to our cities, and what
better way than by advertising the
beauties as well as advantages of our
places? Your journal is so thorough-
ly up-to-date, I see no chance for im-
provement. I thank you for the op-
portunity of expressing my apprecia-
tion of the Tradesman and hope for
you long continued success.
M. Fay.
Saranac, Oct. 10—Having known
you since your boyhood days I have
been naturally interested in your suc-
cess. Since that time I have been
greatly pleased over the manner and
success in which you have managed
the Michigan Tradesman for so many
years. I know of no suggestion I
could offer you in making the Trades-
man more interesting or valuable to
its subscribers. The continuation of
the reading matter of the past and the
expected of the future would, I think,
be acceptable to all of its readers.
Should I at any time be able to render
you service in making it so I will say
in the words of my good and true
friend, the late Samuel M. Lemon,
“Command me.” S. A. Watt.

Muskegon Heights, Oct. 8—We
want to extend our greetings to you
and your valuable trade paper, the
Michigan Tradesman, which we eager-
ly await each and every issue and find
a great deal of value to us. As for
any suggestions as to improving the
Tradesman we will merely say, let the
good work go on and that you may
long live. Carlson & Butcher.

Owosso, Oct. 15—Accept my heart-

iest congratulations on your thirty-
eight ‘years with the Tradesman. It

 

October 19, 1921

would be beyond me to suggest where
you could improve on it. I have been
reading it now for about twenty-five
years that I can recall and, no doubt,
much longer. It has been coming to
me direct for nearly twenty years and
I always look for the Tradesman as
much as I do my daily paper. I find
so much of interest in it and such valu-
able hints and suggestions. Would
not know how to get along without
it and if I could have my way about
it, every dealer would have it and read

it from cover to cover. The dealer -

who gets it and fails to read even a
single copy of it has, in my opinion,
missed something that he c2’t really
afford to lose. Here’s trusting that
you will keep on favoring us for many,
many years to come.
Fred J. Hanifin.
Gunn Lake, Oct. 8—As you have
been successful in your profession the
past thirty-eight years, here is hoping
that you. may live to enjoy the next
thirty-eight years free from toil and
care, Mrs. D. Wakeman.
Grand Haven, Oct. 8—It vives me a
great deal of pleasure to congratulate
you on the thirty-eighth anniversary
of the publication of the Tradesman.
Having been one of the original sub-
scribers the event is of particular in-
terest to me. I have always found
the articles in your journal valuable
to me in my business and receive lots
of enjoyment for the general business
news that it contains. I am looking
forward to the future issues of the
Tradesman with considerable interest.
D. Gale.

Battle Creek, Oct. 9—Your record
with the Tradesman is certainly
unique in the annals of journalism in
this country. I feel sure that many of
your good friends of long Standing
will answer your letter in a way that
will gladden your heart. While I do
not have the temerity to offer any
suggestions for the betterment of the
Tradesman, which my wife says could
not be any better than it is now, yet
I trust you will allow me to offer you
my hearty congratulations and_ to
wish that your shadow may never
grow less. You remember the saying
of Ruskin: “There is no wealth but
Life,” and that man is richest who,
having perfected the functions of his
own life to the utmost, has also the
widest helpful influence, both personal
and by means of his possessions over
the lives of others. You are this kind
of a man! John I. Gibson.

Bear Lake, Oct. 10—We have been
taking the Tradesman a little less than
one year, but have come to look for
its coming with eagerness. We are
publishers, not merchants, and we read
the Tradesman (1), to come into

_ touch with the things in which our

advertisers are most vitally interested;
(2), for the enlightening and soundly
sensible views of your editorial ar-
ticles. We have found the Tradesman
full of good things which we like to
pass on to our own readers. Prob-
ably we quote from the Tradesman
more than from any other one pub-
lication. We cannot tell you how to
improve the Tradesman; it seems very
complete as it is. Accept our hearty
congratulations on your unique record
of thirty-eight years as a trade paper
publisher. Keddie & Son.

 

Scottville, Oct. 8—I consider the
Michigan Tradesman as a _ valuable
asset. I have been a subscriber for a
good many years. It saved us many
times its cost by the exposure of
frauds, fake schemes, etc., I can not
see how it could be improved. I
surely commend you for your fear-
lessness in standing for the right, as
you see it. I wish you and_ the
Tradesman many more useful and
happy years. L. F. Leonard.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

October 19, 1921

 

long and so well that I feel privileged
to address you familiarly, and all these
years of acquaintance I have always
considered you one of my best friends.
Well do I remember the first package
of the old style visiting cards you
printed for me on your little press in
Reed City in 1872—forty-nine years
ago. Far be it from me to criticise
one who has been so phenominally
successful in his line as you have been
and as your line is journalism, while
my line is far outside of that, I do
not think it would be at all becoming
in me to attempt to tell you how to
improve your paper. To be frank
with you, while there may be oppor-
tunities for improvement in your pa-
per, I am such an admirer of you and
it that I have not discovered them.
With best wishes for your continued
success, both as an editor and as a
business man, I wish to always re-
main your friend.
Arthur Mulholland.

 

Ludington, Oct. 7—I do not see how
I could suggest any impovements in
your valuable journal. It has been a
help to me in my business (grocer)
and I am always anxious to get the
next copy. I want to congratulate
you on your fearless stand in exposing
all grafters and unprincipled concerns.
I think you are the right man in the
right place. MHere’s wishing success
to you for many more years.

_G & C. D. Price.

 

Bendon, Oct. 8—Enclosed please
find check for $3 for renewal of
Michigan Tradesman. That will let
you know my opinion of the paper, as
I have taken it since 1900. -I have
sold out three times since I began
taking the paper, but kept up my sub-
scription. I would like to see a short
story, as was suggested for each issue.

Wm. N. Sweet.

 

Grand Rapids, Oct. 7—Would say I
have been a subscriber of your valued
paper for the past fifteen or more
years and find it getting better all the
time. I enjoy reading it and go
through from cover to cover. It has
been a great help to me at various
times and I expect to be a subscriber
for it until the end. As to sugges-
tions in making your paper better,
would say I have no suggestion. It
can’t be done. J. J. Berg.

 

Evart, Oct. 6—I wish to admit at
once that I cannot suggest an im-
provement upon your paper. I have
not missed a copy for the past twenty-
five years, during which time I have
found it to be of much benefit and of
great interest. I can congratulate you
upon the good work which you have
done. I wish you continued success
and extend further assurances of con-
tinued friendship. Geo. A Glerum.

 

Dansville, Oct. 7—Your request
dated Sept. 28 lies before me. After
perusal of same, my mind reverts back
about thirty-seven years. While still
a very young man, I made the ac-
quaintance of ‘the Tradesman, as it
was published in those days. It is
needless to say that it appealed to i--e
as a good trade paper in those days,
although I have not always been a
subscriber, because my business, as a
rule, lay along other mercantile lines,
yet I have always had the greatest
confidence in your judgment and
recommendations to the men who were
engaged in the mercantile business.
For years I have wondered if the use-
fulness of the Tradesman would not
be greatly enhanced if it were pos-
sible to give the Tradesman greater
publicity in a National way. The pub-
lication of the Tradesman, with its
pithy and pointed editorials and its
warnings to honest tradesmen of those
who would prey upon the hard earned
dollars of too easily influenced mer-
chants make it invaluable to thousands
of business men. The earnest wish of
the writer is that E. A. Stowe may be

spared to influence the policy of the
Tradesman for many years to come.
J. R. Fulcher.

 

Traverse City, Oct. 7—Never have
we seen the old adage, “Hew to the
line and let the chips fall.where they
may,” more fully exemplified than in
the fearless, unswerving manner in
which you have always edited your
valuable paper. Some men_ have
gained financial success by lowering
their standard and deviating from the
ideals they have chosen in the begin-
ning of their careers. You, on the
contrary, have adhered to your con-
victions, regardless of any financial
loss you might sustain in calling a
spade a spade. You seldom write an
article on any leading question of the
day that does not coincide with the
views of the writer. The fact that you
are celebrating your thirty-eighth year
as publisher of the Tradesman would
indicate, that as merchants (who
sometimes have to lie down and let
the public walk over us) we admire a
man who has the courage to back up
his convictions, regardless of whether
in so doing he may court the ill-will
of the unscrupulous. We know of no
way in which you could improve the
Tradesman and would only suggest
that you keep on “hewing to the line.”

Queen City Implement Co.

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Rounded Out Forty Years in General
Trade.

Morrice, Oct. 14—On Sept. 26 I
completed my fortieth year in selling
goods to the people of Morrice and
Sept. 29, only three days later, I re-
cived your kind letter of congratula-
tion. What surprised me was how
quick you knew it, but I have often
noticed how quick the Tradesman is
to get hold of anvthing that happens
in the Eastern part of the State. I
read with pleasure the many letters
from tthe people congratulating you
on your thirty-eight years of faith-
ful service to the trade. About the
first thing I do when the Tradesman
comes is to look over the market re-
ports, next to see what new swindling
schemes are on foot, as I consider the
Tradesman a sentinel on the wall that
is always on the watch. Through the
war the Tradesman was a great help
and its true and fearless articles about
the German huns expressed my senti-
ments exactly and I often read or
gave the articles to some of my cus-
tomers who, like myself, could not
express any feelings and keep within
the limits of our church discipline. I
have only one boy and my not being
a large manufacturer it was not neces-
sary for him to stay at home to help
save his country, so for fourteen
months he was in France. Five of
those months he was on the front with

the Thirty-Second Division.

The Tradesman’s article about the
manufacturer’s son staying at home I
thought hit the nail squarely on the
head. I have put in forty busy years
in selling goods and hope to put in
ten years more and to find the Michi-
gan Tradesman on my desk every
week of those ten years. After that
I think perhaps I will be willing for
some one else to sell the goods, but
I am sure I will still want the Trades-
man. W. E. Davis.

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A Puzzle in Profit.

At a recent examination the follow-
ing question was asked: A woman
bought 60 oranges at the rate of 5
for 2 cents. She sold them at the
rate of 5 for 2 cents, and obtained a
profit. How did she do it? Few
could answer. The solution was: She
sold 30 oranges at the rate of 3 for
1 cent, receiving 10 cents for them.
She then sold the remaining 30
oranges at the rate of 2 for 1 cent,
receiving 15 cents for them. She
therefore disbursed 24 cents, and re-
covered her 24 cents, plus 1 cent profit.

———— +2. >———_
Do the thing you are afraid to do.

Late News From aes Metrop-
olis.

Detroit, Oct. 18—At a recent meet-
ing of the Transportation Committee
of the Detroit Board of Commerce
the matter of reduced-rate mileage
books on the railroads as proposed by
the National Commercial Travelers
Protective Association, was considered
and a conclusion was reached dis-
approving the proposal.

The commercial travelers have been
carrying on a campaign with the car-
riers since the termination of Federal
control of the railroads for reduced-
rate mileage, the denominations most
commonly mentioned being 5,000, 3,-
000 and 1,000 miles, and the reduc-
tion most generally advocated being
20 per cent.

The arguments of the commercial
travelers’ organizations, presented at
a meeting with representatives of the
carriers at a meeting in Chicago last
January, were briefly that commercial
travelers should be given reduced
rates because their traveling is done
on what might be termed a “whole-
sale” basis and should be given prefer-
ence, much as carload frieght traffic;
that 5 per cent. of passenger travel
income is derived from commercial
travelers; that the money going into
the hands of the roads in advance of
service rendered as a result of the sale
of mileage books would give the
roads the use of much capital for
periods during which no return in
service was asked; and that the sale
of mileage books would stimulate
passenger traffic to the advantage of
the roads.

The arguments of the railroad repre-
sentatives, were briefly as follows:

No comparison of passenger traffic
to freight traffic can be made, because
while carload freight traffic is a bulk
service, dealt with as one transaction
and so treated in the accounts, pas-
senger traffic service is and can never
be anything but a retail service, no
matter how many mileage books are
sold; in fact, the accounting expense
in handling mileage book traffic is
greater than in handling traffic where
passengers use individual tickets. This
is true especially when books are sold
interchangeable over a group of roads,
as asked by the commercial travelers,
as reports have to be exchanged be-
tween selling roads and honoring
roads, in order that the roads render-
ing service may secure revenue for
service performed from the roads that
sell the mileage in each individual in-
stance. :

While the Stores’ Mutual Protective
Association of the Retail Merchants’
Bureau has been functioning for only
about thirty days, concrete results
have already been obtained. Mangaer
Downey has been very active in the
work of the association. Seven con-
victions have been secured out of nine
prosecutions. Frank Walker, alias
Frank Benner, and May Benner,
caught in a store belonging to a mem-
ber of the Association, were convicted
before Judge Thomas M. Cotter of
shoplifting and fined $125 each or 60
days in the Detroit House of Cor-
rection.

George Sponagel and Louis Kinney
were sentenced to 90 days in the De-
troit House of Correction without the
option of a fine by Judge Cotter.

Ellen McDonald was fined $100 or
30 days by Judge Cotter for shoplift-
ing.

This is the beginning of an intensive
campaign to curb losses through the
operation of shoplifters, pickpockets
and forgers operating in the stores—
members of the Protective Association.
The manager gives prompt attention
to all cases uncovered and has secured
the hearty co-operation of the police
department and the courts. Efforts
are being made to obtain maximum
sentences for old offenders and pub-
licity for amateurs. All of the store
members of the Protective Associa-
tion are co-operating in eygfy way
possible.

The Retail Merchants’ Bureau_ will
again this year put on an Early

Christmas Shopping campaign. The
committee having the campaign in
charge this season is composed of
Henry Wineman, Peoples Outfitting
Co., chairman; G. H. Grommet, Day-
Grommet Drug Co., and Charles
Koethen, J. L. Hudson Co.

Posters will be displayed in all of
the store windows of the members of
the Association. The Bureau will not
have a poster contest this year, as was
the case last year, but will adopt the
poster which will be used by the New
York Retail Dry Goods Association.
The poster is a very beautiful one,
drawn by Haskell Coffin and repro-
duced in Christmas colors on a super-
ior quality of coated paper, 20 by 30
inches in dimensions. In addition to
this poster, stickers, reproduced from
last year’s poster used by members of
the Retail Merchants’ Bureau, will be
used on mail and merchandising pack-
ages for several weeks before the holi-
days.

A new and interesting feature of
this year’s campaign will be the con-
test between the school children of the
city. Cash prizes will be offered by
the Bureau for the best essays on
early Christmas shopping submitted
by students in any of the schools.

A committee of school authorities
will work with the Retail Merchants’
3ureau. committee on this contest.
Judges will be selected at an early
date. Different grades in the high
schools and grammar schools will be
grouped so that a student in the upper
grades of the high schools will not be
in competition with a grammar school
student. Three prizes will be given
for the best essays from each group.

The Brandau Shoe Co. is now using
all black glazed kid in its upper stock,
instead of glazed colt, as heretofore.

The Security Trust Co. has made a
final payment amounting to 14.89 per
cent. in the matter of the Certus Cold
Glue Co. The trust company had
made payments previously of 16 2-3
per cent., 10 per cent. and 10 per cent.,
a total of 51.55 per cent. This total
is unusual for a bankrupt estate. When
the Security Trust Co. was appointed
receiver for the glue company in Sep-
tember, 1919, it found a large amount
of glue in the hands of the bankrupt,
which had been manufactured for the
Government and was intended speci-
fically for aeroplane construction.
The trust company proceeded with
the sale of this glue for commercial
purposes as the bankrupt had in-
tended to do after the close of the
war, and by so doing was able to
liquidate assets appraised at $119,925.-
40 for the sum of $110,614.91. The
major portion of this liquidation came
from the conduct of the business.
The remnant of the stock and the
equipment of the factory at the close
of the trust company’s business opera-
tions were sold to William F.
Leicester, of St. Paul, Minn., who is
now conducting the glue business in
that city. Claims filed against the es-
tate totaled $144,627.43.

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Your World Power.

Would you be at peace? Speak
peace to the world.

Would you be healed? Speak
health to the world.

Would you be loved? Speak love
to the world.

Would you be successful? Speak

success to the world.

For all the world is so closely akin
that not one individual may realize
his desire except all the world share
it with him.

And every Good Word you send
into the world is a silent, mighty
power, working for Peace, Health,
Love, Joy, Success to all the world—

Including yourself.

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A “high brow” is a man with in-
telligence enough to keep the hair out
of his eyes.

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Written for the Tradesman.

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lent opportunities for the wide-
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tractive displays with a seasonable
background. These opportunities
should be fully utilized.
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give the well arranged window dis-
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early for the window trimmer to give
some thought to his Thanksgiving
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of the best of the year. It stands as
a sort of climax to the fall selling, on
the one hand; and on the other hand
it marks the definite opening of the
holiday season.
in mind in making your dispositions.
Prior to Thanksgiving, the harvest
idea can be worked into a good many
attractive displays of
goods. For instance, one hardware

This should be borne

dealer last year put on a cutlery dis-
play. The month before the Thanks-
giving holiday is a pretty good time
to push cutlery, as a rule; and it al-
ways makes an attractive and appeal-
ing display. Carving sets should go
readily at this time—nobody cares to
carve the Thanksgiving turkey or
goose with a dull knife.

Quite a number of fall accessories
were used to give color and timeliness
to the display referred to. An appro-
priate background was contrived with
a grape border, adding to the effect-
iveness of the display. Sheaves of
grain, corn stalks and yellow ears,
pumpkins and fall fruit, were novel
features calculated to attract immed-
iate attention. These are items that
can be readily secured at short notice,
and involve comparatively little ex-
pense, yet make attractive accessories
to a display.

These accessories were, in this par-
ticular window, helped out with neat
show cards crystallizing into a few
words the significance of the display.
“Cutlery for the holiday season,” was
one, and ‘A sharp knife for the
Thanksgiving turkey,” was the other.

 

seasonable -

Then the various articles on display
were accompanied by neat price cards.
Carvers in pairs and in cases were
both featured; kitchen knives were
also. displayed, butter knives, and
other items of table cutlery. These
included steel knives and forks, plat-
ed ware, game carvers, fruit spoons,
ete. Silver fruit baskets were also
shown.

There is cone important point to
remember in connection with such
You must show

An old

and familiar Thanksgiving device, for

seasonable displays.
the goods you want to sell.

instance, is to fence in the window
as a pen for two or three live turkeys,
or other Thanksgiving fowl. There
is nothing better calculated to halt
the passer by than such a display.
3ut the window space is_ practically
wasted unless the display is linked
with a showing of seasonable goods.

For large stores, some of these
seasonable displays can be made quite
elaborate; although the small busi-
ness will find the simple display prev-
iously outlined as quite as useful in
its more limited field. As an instance
of an elaborate display, I may cite a
window trim put on some years ago
by a big city hardware store. In this
design a background was painted in,
showing a log cabin with door ajar,
and in the distance the horizon and
a tree outlined against it. Two dum-
my figures in Puritan costume were
placed in front of the doorway. In
the foreground were shocks of corn,
and a block to which a Thanksgiving
turkey was tied, awaiting execution.
Pumpkins were shown on the _ turf
floor of the window. Two arrows
sticking in the cabin wall made clear
the design of the display—an Indian
attack on a Massachusetts settlement
just as the two Puritans were leaving
their log cabin to attend Thanksgiv-
ing service. The whole window was
given to emphasizing the Thanks-
giving idea, and the traditional origin
of the festival.

In this case, the display occupied
one of several windows in a large
store; and the adjoining ‘windows
were devoted to displays of season-
able goods. The passerby, stopping
to look at the very striking window
trim described, would linger in a re-
ceptive mood to. study the goods
shown in the adjoining displays.

There are many stores where the
limited window space would not per-
mit a display so elaborate, nor would
the size of the community justify the
labor involved. Here a harvest back-
ground could be used to advantage
in displaying carving sets or similar
seasonable lines. A broad frieze can
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covered with white felt. Each upper
rear corner and also the rear center
of this window can be decorated with
grain, preferably wheat.
Irom each of these sheaves are sus-

a sheaf of

pended garlands made of vegetables,

fruit and grain. These garlands can

be made by fastening the various
items to the board border by means
so as to produce
At the

the central sheaf make a sunburst of

of pins or needles,

a festooned effect. back of
radiating a series of laths
and to this spoke-like formation se-
Fill in at the base
of the spokes also with ears of corn.

grain by
cure ears of corn.
The background of such a window
can be of mirrors, paneled wood or
else a gathered or pleated cloth. Ad-
ditional features can be introduced by
arranging a sheaf of wheat in the
form of a pedestal, this being done by
outer
and tying it midway,
after the manner of a sheaf

covering a pedestal with an
layer of wheat

Above
shelf on

this feature ,lace a glass

which to display the merchandise.
Another idea is to mount a sheaf or
wheat on top of a high pedestal and
in the center of the sheaf tie a large
bow of ribbon, extending the stream-
er ends in graceful drapes to the floor.
A small spray of wheat can be used
to good effect in decorating one of
the corners of the large show card
used with display and smaller sprays

can be attached to the price tickets.

Another good display idea is a
kitchen scene showing the Thanks-
giving dinner in preparation. In con-

nection with this a great many hard-
ware lines can be effectively featured.

While these have been referred to
as Thanksgiving displays, they will,
naturally, be put on before the holi-
day—in fact, they will be timely right
now.

In the
the Thanksgiving holiday,

interval between now and
comes Hal-
lowe’en. This can also be made the
occasion for a timely and appro, riate
which will attention.

display arrest

Various displays can be contrived
with the usual Hallowe’en accessories,

such as pumpkin faces, witches, black

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

cats, and the hallowe’en colors of

yellow and black.

In one such display the central
feature was a pumpkin or Jack-o-
Lantern constructed of wagon rims
four and one-half feet in diameter,

Over this was
painted

forming the ribs.
building paper,
with water color paint to imitate as
color of the

pasted heavy
nearly as possible the
banana stem was
stem of the
was made of a

jumpkin. A large

used to represent the
pumpkin. The nose
large squash which was hollowed out,
and an electric light
bulb put inside. The mouth and teeth
were contrived of a large sheet of
steel, the teeth being cut very irreg-
ular and painted white, and the out-
side edge of the steel painted red to

nostrils cut in it,

represent lips. The eyes were made
of 6-inch glass balls painted
with the pupils black and crossed.
Inside these glass eyes were electric
bulbs which produced a winking ef-
fect. “Phe made of
black curled
eye and a goatee was contrived of a
bottle brush. The mouth was lined
with red calick, and the tongue made
of the same material stuffed with ex-
celsior and protruding slightly. The
inside of the “pumy kin” was illum-
inated with electric bulks. No back-
owing to the

white

eyebrows were

hair placed over each

ground was required

size of the pumpkin, but shocks of
corn were worked in on each side,
with showings of seasonable goods.
At the top was a show card with the
frost is on

quotation: “When the
the pumpkin and fodder’s in the
shock.” Victor Lauriston.

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Front elevation of the proposed Valley City Milling Co.’s new plant, with a 500,000-bushel capacity. Construction will be begun next spring.

Vision, backed by faith in the future
prosperity of Grand Rapids and West-
ern Michigan, is shown by the plans
of the Valley City Milling Co. for the
erection of a modern new mill and
elevator which will rank among the
leading plants of its kind in the
United States.

Plans call for an elevator with a
capacity of nearly half a million bush-
els of wheat, and a mill which can
produce 2,000 barrels of flour every
twenty-four hours. The erection of
the plant will begin early next spring.

The grading for the railroad track-
age on the company’s nineteen-acre
plot north of Mason street and west
of Turner avenue will begin at once,
the contract having already been let.
The grading will be completed this
fall and the steel laid early in the
spring. The plan is to complete the
tracks before starting plant construc-
tion that all material can be delivered
to the site without unloading. The
company tracks will have a capacity
of 120 cars. The Pere Marquette rail-
road forms the western boundary of
the company’s property.

The plant will be constructed en-
tirely of concrete and steel. Twelve
great concrete tanks together with
the head house will have a capacity
of 450,000 bushels of wheat. Wheat
can be unloaded at the rate of 5,000
bushels an hour. The A. E. Baxter
Engineering Co., of Buffalo, foremost
mill builders of the country, will su-
pervise the construction.

Electrical power will be used at the
beginning, although plans provide for
a power unit, equipped with Deisel
oil burning engines. The plant is so
planned that by adding a few units
of storage tanks and additional ma-
chinery, the capacity can be doubled.

Jesse Owen, general superintendent
since 1884, will have entire charge of
the purchasing and installation of
the machinery. Mr. Owen ranks high
among operative millers, having been
vice-president of the Miller’s National
Operators’ Association, and being fre-

Bi i a hipaa ast Wha oe

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quently called in consultation by some
of the frominent mills of the country.

Officers of the company believe
Grand Rapids enjoys a strategic loca-
tion from the milling standpoint. The
local concern will be able to handle
Kansas hard wheat, Minnesota and
Dakota spring wheat and the soft
winter wheats of Michigan, Ohio and
Indiana. Flours from all of these
varieties will be manufactured as well
as blends. The plant will be the only
grain storage elevator of large capac-
ity in Western Michigan.

The Valley City Milling Co. was
organized in 1884 as a partnership
with William N. Rowe, C. Swensberg,
Moreau S. Crosby and R. M. Law-
rence as principals. It was incorpor-
ated in 1894 with William N. Rowe,
at the head. Following his death in
1905, the management was taken by
his two sons, William S. and Fred N.
Officers at this time are William S.
Rowe, President and General Man-
ager; Fred N. Rowe, Secretary; F. E.
Martin, Treasurer, and L. E. Smith,
Vice President and Sales Manager.

——_>->___
Discriminatory Evidence Wanted
From Retail Grocers.

Lansing, Oct. 15—I have before me
your letter of Oct. 10, informing me
of the number of years you have con-
ducted-the Tradesman. :

I am ttaking this opportunity of
thanking you for this kind letter and
do congratulate you upon the suc-
cessful trade paper which you are
publishing.

Really, Mr. Stowe, I can see of no
way in which you can better this pa-
per. All matters pertaining to the re-
tail business have been handled con-
scientiously and fearlessly by yourself
and I don’t see how we retailers can
get along without your valuable paper.
All matters pertaining to our conven-
tions have been’ so_— successfully
handled by yourself ‘that it has been a
credit to you and to our Association

I am enclosing a letter which I re-
ceived from the National Association
which J trust you will publish in your
next issue asking any retailer who has
a complaint against the National Bis-
cuit Co. or the Loose-Wiles Co. to
kindly send same to me.

John Affeldt, Jr.,

President Retail Grocers and Gener-
al Merchants Association,

Kansas City, Oct. 12—On October
20 and 21 the Federal Trade Commis-
sion was to receive answer from the
National Biscuit Company and the
Loose-Wiles Company on the charges
of unfair competition, filed against
them by the Commission on complaint
of ithe retail grocers on account of
discriminatory discount to the chain
stores.

The National Association of Retail
Grocers will be represented by John
H. Meyer, chairman of the Legislative
Committee, who has entire direction
of our interests in this matter.

In order for us to substantiate the
complaint of discrimination and unfair
competition most effectively, we must
be in a position to present specific
evidence of concrete cases where
groups of independent retail grocers
attempted to pool their purchases and
that they were positively refused the
privilege of doing so.

In order to prove the charge of un-
fair discrimination in favor of the
chain store, we must also have wit-
nesses to demonstrate that these re-
fusals were the means of creating posi-
tive disadvantages, and, consequent
loss of opportunity to the individual
retail grocers.

You understand, of course, that we
already have a great deal of this nec-
essary evidence, but we want to be in
position to present the facts surround-
ing a great many similar cases
throughout the United States, in order
to prosecute our case most effectively.

As an executive officer cf your or-
ganization, you, no doubt, have be-
fore you numerous cases of this kind,
regarding which we ask vou to fur-
nish us the details. Simply prepare
a statemefit of the history of the trans-
action. Have it sworn to before a
notary and send it along to H. C. Bal-
singer, Secretary National Association
of Retail Grocers, 416 A. Long
building, Kansas City, Mo.

Now here is you opportunity to do
something that is right in line with
what retail grocers have been demand-
ing for a long time, and we hope you
will be prompted to give the matter
your immediate attention.

It is really not necessary for us to
go into further details, for we have
covered the subject and paved the way
so that it is now distinctly up to our
affiliated organizations to do_ their
part in this important matter.

While latest advices inform us tnat
the hearing has been postponed to a
later date than mentioned above, we
urge you to send along your informa-
tion as quickly as possible, so we may

have all necessary details in readiness
when the case is called.

You know the slogan that was so
popular and inspiring at the begin-
ning of the year, “1921 will reward
fighters.” This is a fight worth-while
and we are counting on you.

H. C. Balsinger,

Secretary National Association of
Retail Grocers.

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The Voices.

I heard the voice of the city
Calling again and again,

And into her arms there hastened
Millions and millions of men.

And I heard the voice of old gardens,
Of quiet woodland ways;

But few there were who would heed them
In the rush of the busy days.

The cities grow old and vanish,
And their people faint and die;
But the gardens are green forever,
Forever blue is the sky.
Charles H. Towne.

 

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WOMANS WORLD

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Parents Must Accept the New Spirit
of Youth.
Written for the Tradesman.

“T have taken a wonderful course
in domestic science, home-making,
and all that, but I can’t make any
use of it—except as an old maid in
my mother’s house. My father says
I’ve got to just wait and practice un-
til | get married myself.”

The young woman who said this to
me is 24; a beautiful girl, full of en-
ergy and ambition to do something
in the world. She said it with much
vehemence and the air of one com-
plaining of injustice.

“Well,” I said, “that’s a splendid
preparation for marriage. I think
every girl ought to have such a train-
ing, at home or in some kind of
school, before she undertakes to make
a home and family of her own.”

“So do I. That’s just the point.
I don’t want to get married—not just
now anyway—but I do want to give
to other girls who are going to get
married the benefit of what you say
they ought to have.”

“Well, why don’t you?”

“T want to teach and my
won't let me.”

“But you are of age and free to
make your own decisions.”

“T know I am legally, but he is very
unpleasant about it. He is terribly
old fashioned and ‘sot’ in his ways.
He says ‘the place for a woman is in
the home, and until she gets a home
of her own it’s in her father’s home.’
He says he is able to support me, and
he doesn’t propose to have people
think that any daughter of his has got
to earn her living. I have had to turn
down three or four good positions
that were offered to me; positions
that would have given me a chance to
do what I want to do, and salaries
that would have made me independ-
ent.”

.Independent! That was the word
and the idea that made the girl’s eyes
shine. I suspected that that was the
real reason that lay behind her desire
to “help other girls who want to get
married.”

I know her father. He is an offi-
cial in a small manufacturing con-
cern; his salary must be moderate
indeed; I know that the family has to
watch the pennies and economize in
many ways. I know his tempera-
ment; he is one of those men who
are benevolent tyrants in their homes
—whatever happens, they will be
obeyed. He cannot tolerate any show
of independence in any of the women
who surround him—he has no sons.
He says (and no doubt imagines that
that is the real reason for his attitude)
that he is able to support his daugh-

father

ters, and doesn’t intend to have any-
body think that the family needs the
any of them can earn. But
the real reason is that he will have
his own way at any cost.

Besides, he is of the type of mind
that is closed to any new idea. He
resents the desire of the modern
young woman to stand upon her own
feet, and live her own life. When one
of his own exhibits any tendency in
that direction he is angry, but camou-
flages his emotions in words and ex-
cuses that sound plausible to him but
have very little to do with his real
reason.

I foresee a clash between those
wills pretty soon, and I suspect that
the father will have to give in. He
really loves his daughter very devot-
edly and will yield rather than have
a break with her.

We older folks will have to adjust
ourselves to this new thing in the life
of women. If indeed it is a new
thing; I sometimes think it has been
slumbering all through the ages; that
women of spirit and ambition always

money

have desired a much larger sphere of
activity than custom permitted them.

The war gave them an opportunity;
they went forth, many of them even
in breeches, and they not only made
found
faction of their desire to have a part

good—they liberty and satis-

in the activities of the world outside

of the fireside circle. I doubt wheth-

er we ever shall get woman’s nose

back inté the dishpan as its normal

and exclusive sphere.

Behind it all lies the fact that na-
ture will not patiently submit to the

waste of human energy and enthus-

iasm. They must go somewhere. The

college-trained girl will not come

from. the
she has found room for all her liveli-

home active life in which
ness and simply sit down by the fire

and spin. She cannot. It is a ¢hysi-

cal and mental impossibility. If we

do not allow her to find and utilize
the opportunity that she wants, she
will devote her energies to the thing
And sadly often that
thing leads the way to mischievous

results.

that is at hand.

I personally believe that much of
the frivolous gadding about that our
girls are so much given to nowadays
is the result partly of the greater free-
that our times
women, but chiefly to the fact that
we have not yet learned how to give

dom have given to

to our girls the kind of occupations
that
and make use of the equipment that

would consume their energies
is given to them by their education.
Too many of us, like the father of the

girl I talked to, are keeping on with

the effort to confine this new wine in
the old
and traditions of propriety.

bottles of worn-out customs

The wise parent will recognize the
new spirit, will adjust himself to its
existence, and will co-operate to find
the best way in which his daughter
can do what she wants to do with the
least possible sey aration in heart and
life from the fireside where he is con-
tent to warm himself as of old.

Prudence Bradish.
{Copyright 1921.]
a

Taking Things For Granted.

Practically all good business is done
in black and white—that is, a record
is made of all transactions involving
future fulfillment of agreements. All
safeguarded
Con-

tracts, partnerships, purchases, sales,

transfers of money are

by receipts or written checks.

notes, all call for pen and ink, as do
accounts and business specifications
of every sort.

These things are the result of hu-
man experience, of human forgetful-
ness, and of human proneness to evil.
As a great philosopher of the last
century said: “Things will go wrong
unless they are made to go right’—
with the made. The
only safe business rule is regularly and
invariably to make in black and white

accent on the

a record of every transaction.
Errors, dishonesty, rascality of all
sorts, flourish where men take things

When

for granted and are trustful.

a crook wins a man’s confidence he
finds easy picking.
—__2->—___

Bad taste is just bad education.

 

preferred.

GRAND RAPIDS,

 

Why Every Man Must Invest Sooner or Later

Financial independence is the aim of every man and woman. It cannot be attained through

SAVINGS ALONE. These savings must be invested.

To invest means to place your money SAFELY, so that you know it will not be lost to you or
your heirs. It means in addition that you have so invested your funds that you will receive at stated
periods of the year, regular dividends. It means still further that you have not merely rented your
money, but that you will get the full wages that your investment earns.

THE PETOSKEY TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, in its 8% Preferred Stock and Common
Stock, offers just such an opportunity for investment.
years in advance all the business that its boats will be able to handle.
experimenting to do; nothing to sell; no competition.
deliver to the proper port. What more could be asked in the way of SAFETY.

WHY?

The annual net earning, above all expenses, will be more than three times the $80,000 Pre-
ferred Stock dividend of 8% on $1,000,000 Preferred Stock. How can this be known?

cause the Company is guaranteed enough tonnage annually to produce the above earning.

In the Preferred Stock, the investor is therefore guaranteed 4% every six months. After the
dividends are paid on the Preferred Stock, the balance of the earnings, which amounts to more
than twice the Preferred Stock dividend, all goes to the common stock. This means that the Com-
pany will be able to pay more than twice as large dividends on the common stock as on the

Therefore, by his investment in the common stock, the investor is guaranteed the full earnings
of his investment in the Company.

You cannot afford to fail to investigate this strong enterprise. The earlier the investigation,
the greater the benefit, as the common stock is fast increasing in value and the Company contem-
plates an increase in the price of that stock in the near future.

F. A. SAWALL CO.

313-314-315 Murray Building

Gentiement

Wea

MICHIGAN

Address

Because it is guaranteed many

All it needs to do is to load its boats and

Without any obligation on my part, send me all particulars
regarding the Petoskey Transportation Company.

| am interested in an investment in this company.
Yours truly,

It has no developing or

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Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.
President—J. W. Knapp, Lansing.

First Vice-President—J. Toeller.
Battle Creek.
Second Vice-President—J. B. Sperry,

Port Huron.
Secretary - Treasurer— W. O.
Kalamazoo.

Jones,

 

 

Why the Economist Misrepresents the
Retailer.

Hlint, Oct. 1/—Having had the
privilege of reading the Tradesman
for a great many years, I naturally

was very much interested in your let-
ter of Oct. 11, and I want to take this
occasion to congratulate both you and
your publication on the splendid rec-

ords of achievement which stand to
their credit. I would be very glad to
make some suggestions to you if I

felt capable of improving your pub-
lication in any way.

From a retailer’s standpoint, the
writer has been considerably annoyed
for the last year and a half, or more,
over the attitude displayed by the ma-
jority of publications coming into dry
goods stores in which they are con-
tinuing to point their finger at the
retailers as a whole as conspirators to
keep up high prices. The writer has
had considerable opportunity to travel
the past year and has made a very ex-
tensive study of this subject, and I
have seen multitudes of evidence to
the contrary. The frankness with
which these statements are made in
some magazines is appaling, which to
the writer shows a complete subsidy
of these organs by the manufacturers
who place their advertising with them.

I happen to know this is a matter
that just recently has been commented
on by a great many dry goods organ-
izations. For a specific case I would
ask you to read in the Dry Goods
Economist of Oct. 3 the first editorial
article under the caption, “Danger
Signals That Retailers Must Heed.”

I think we are all of one mind, that
this is an inopportune time to thrust
advance prices on the public and we
should all exert every influence at
our command to avoid same. How-
ever, can you explain to me why this
article should not have been directed
at the manufacturers who actually ad-
vance prices, instead of admonishing
the retailer that he must not raise
his prices, even though his manufac-
turers charge him more for his mer-
chandise?

I believe, Mr. Stowe, that it would
please your constituents to have your
views on this subject, because the
writer’s personal opinion is that the
welfare of the retail merchants is per-
fectly safe in your hands.

Glenn R. Jackson.
(O. M. Smith & Company.)

The Tradesman noted the editorial
above referred to and attributed it to
the same ulterior influence pointed out
by Mr. Jackson—the dominating bias
the manufacturers exert over -. the
Economist by reason of the patronage
they bestow on their favorite publica-
tion. It is a matter of common know-
ledge that the manufacturers of dry
goods staples feel no hesitation in
stating that they can sway the editor-
ial policy of the Economist any way
they want to, because if they were to
withhold their patronage from the

publication for three months it would
die of starvation. The money received
from subscribers is but a drop in the
bucket of its enormous income.

This matter was brought up before
the meeting of the directors of the
Michigan Retail Dry Goods Associa-
tion at Lansing last week, the report
of Manager Hammond being as fol-
lows:

The retailer who thinks he can safe-
ly mark up his goods at this time just
because some little strength has de-
veloped in the prices of certain com-
modities in the primary markets is
fooling himself. He is running a tre-
mendous risk of ultimately destroying
his own business and of dragging
down with him a number of other re-
tail dealers.

Under the heading of miscellaneous
business, an editorial appearing recent-
ly in the Dry Goods Economist, en-
titled “Danger Signals That Retailers
Must Heed,” was discussed and a mo-
tion was made and carried that a com-
munication be sent to the Drv Goods
Economist, protesting against the ed-
itorial as very unjust and unfair to
the retailers and that this communica-
tion be signed by our President. Mr.
Knapp, by request of one of our mem-
bers, had previously prepared a reply,
which reply was submitted, discussed
and approved unanimously by those
present. The communication is as fol-
lows:

Page thirteen of the Oct. 3 issue of
the Dry Goods Economist seems to
have over-reached in its efforts to ad-
vise retailers as regards the marking
up of merchandise in its comments to
the effect that:

The retailer who thinks he can
safely mark up his goods at this time
just because some little strength has
developed in the prices of certain
commodities in the primary markets is
fooling himself. He is running a tre-
mendous risk of ultimately destroying
his own business and of dragging
down with him a number of other
retail dealers.
setting same in blacker type than the
remainder of the editorial.

It is about time the much-abused
retailer takes a decided stand. Ac-
cusations of profiteering and allega-
tions that retail merchants have not
taken their losses, that they have not
reduced their prices in accordance
with wholesalers, jobbers and manu-
facturers and that they are responsible
for the delay in readjustment, have be-
come very monotonous. Such stuff
or bunk to those who understand and
know receives small consideration.
Not so with the public press. Their
viewpoint naturally is that of the pub-
lic, rather inclined to prejudice
through misunderstanding, with the
result that the retailer is condemmed
or blamed for that which he cannot
control. The Dry Goods Economist
or any of the retail trade journals can
accomplish more good and do a real
service if they will turn their editor-
ial guns in the direction of construc-
tive editorials and comments.

Of course, the Economist will make
light of the protests which will go for-
ward from every section of the coun-
try over the manner in which that
publication misrepresents the retailer

retail merchant that the Economist, in
playing into the hands of the manu-
facturers, has not gone altogether too
far in denouncing the retailer for a
condition for which he is in no way
responsible, but which he has had to
face because of the insidious propa-
ganda the Economist has conducted
in its own columns and through the
medium of the daily press of the
country.
—_~+--___

Local Authority on Cotton Situation.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 17—Some peo-
ple have laid the advancing prices on
cotton to the bankers, stating that
they were forcing prices up so as to be
able to liquidate loans. No doubt
they welcomed the advance: but there
1s a much stronger incentive behind
the whole movement than that. The
Government report as to the condi-
tion on Sept. 25, was 42.2, which calls
for a crop of about 6,537,000 bales and
this, added to the carry over from last
year amounts to about a normal aver-
age crop but does not allow for a 10
per cent. working surplus. An in-
vestigation of the amount of untender-
able or lowest grade spinnable cotton
in the stocks of cotton held in the
warehouses and at the compresses of
this country by the United States
Census Bureau was found tobe 24 per
cent. of the whole and the Cotton Re-
porting Bureau report of the non-
tenderable cotton, including snaps and
bollies, amounts to 13.5 per cent. of
the total. With these statistics the
actual supplies of long staple tender-
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MICMI@AN TRADBSMAN

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First Directors’ Meeting After Con-
vention.

Lansing, Oct. 15—A meeting of the

officers and directors of the Michigan

Retail Dry Goods Association was

held at Kerns Hotel, Lansing, Oct. 11. _

Present: President J. W. Knapp,
Secretary-lTreasurer Fred Cutler and
Directors D. Mihlethaler, D. W. Rob-
inson, J. H. Clements, C. W. Carpen-
ter, C. EL Hacan, by. G: Cook and PD.
M. Christian. Absent: Vice-Presidents
George T. Bullen and H. G. Wesener,
and Director H. E. Beadle. -There
were also present former Director G.
R. Jackson and H. N. Bush, Members
F. N. Arbaugh, C. O. Sprowl, E. L.
Rann, William Brogan, Mrs. Minnie
Johnson, of the Mills Dry Goods Co.,
of Lansing and Mrs. C. E. Hagan, of
Mt. Pleasant.

The meeting began with a luncheon
at 12 o’clock and opening remarks by
Manager Hammond, who made a re-
port on the referendum on the ap-
pointment of a Pattern Committee,
giving a list of the persons receiving
ten votes or more. There were fifty-
eight replies received from our mem-
bers. After a full discussion the fol-
lowing named persons were desig-
nated by the Directors present to be
recommended to the President for
appointment on the Pattern Commit-
tee:

J. B. Sperry, Port Huron, chairman.

Db. M. Christian, Owosso.

J. C. Toeller, Battle Creek.

L. G. Cook, Jackson.

H. N. Bush, Flint.

J. N. Trompen, Grand Rapids.

C. N. Addison, Grand Haven.

T. F. Snow, Muskegon.

It was the sense of the meeting that
the President of the Association be
requested to act with the Committee.

The next question for discussion
was the location of the March con-
vention. Propositions from Detroit,
Grand Rapids, Flint and Bay City
were presented. On motion of Mr.
Jackson, seconded by Mr. Cutler,
Flint was designated, the vote being
unanimous.

The length of time to be used in
the convention was then discussed.
It was decided to shorten the conven-
tion by cutting off the forenoon part
of the programme of the first day and
the banquet on the second day. It
was the unanimous opinion that the
experience meeting and smoker should
be continued, as heretofore, but the
j reliminary speeches of previous con-
ventions, such as addresses of wel-
come, responses, etc., should be elim-
inated. s

The appointment of a Program
Committee was considered. It -was
moved and supported and carried that
G R. Jackson, of Flint, should act as
chairman of the Program Commit-
tee and that Mr. Jackson should be
requested to select and recommend
for appointment to our President his
associates on the Committee.

Mr. Hammond read a communica-
tion from a Detroit advertising firm
which desired to print the programs
of our conventons, paying the ex-
pense of the same by advertising and
contributing 30 per cent. of the pro-
ceeds to the Association. This propo-
sition was discussed, but there was
no settlement in its favor. It was
decided to provide the printed pro-
grams in the usual way.

Next came the discussion of the
appontment of a Nominating Com-
mittee. Decided to increase the
number of members of this Commit-
tee to correspond with one member
from each Group Meeting District.
The recommendations for members
of this Committee were as follows:

District No. 1—F. E. Park, Adrian.

District No. 2—L. N. Schroeder,
Battle Creek.

Dstrict No. 3—W. E. Thornton,
Muskegon.

District No. 4—William Brogan,
Lansing.

District No. 5—A. R. Ballantine,
Port Huron.

District No. 6—M. W. Tanner, Sag-
inaw.

District No. 7—F. J. Zielinski, Man-
istee.

Dstrict No.
boygan.

L. N. Schroeder, of Battle Creek,
is named by our President.as_ chair-
man of this Committee and is re-
quested to call a meeting in Flint at
the time of the March convention.

A discussion of the plan of the
Group Meetings was had and it was
decided to hold five Group Meetings
in November and five in January, the
date and time of the day of holding
said meetings to be left to the manu-
ager and local committees. The places
selected for the November meetings
are as follows: Benton Harbor, Lo-
well, Manistee, Alpena and Bade Axe.
For the January meetings, Coldwater,
Adrian, St. Johns, Midland and La-
peer.

The consideration of uniform order
blanks was presented by L. G. Cook,
who exhibited some of the order
blanks he has arranged and placed in
publisher's hands. It was decided
that these blanks should be secured
from the publishers and a copy sent
to each of our members by some fu-
ture bulletin and referendum with re-
quest that our members decide wheth-
er or not these blanks be recommend-
ed as the official blanks of the Asso-
ciation.

The metric system bill now before
Congress was discussed briefly, but
no definite action was taken.

The meeting then adjourned.

One of our members in Battle Creek
writes us that a woman, giving checks
payable to Quinn Preston and signed
by Irene Preston, has been passing
bad checks in that city. Beware of
cashing checks for persons who are
not fully identified.

J. E. Hammond, Manager.

8—E. N. Duffin, Che-

se?
Some Thoughts on the General Situa-
tion.
Grandville, Oct. 18—The outlook

for business has taken an*upward turn
within the past few weeks. Where
once was gloom and pessimism, now
there is a broad ray of light dominat-
ing the atmosphere. Farmers have
pulled out of the slough with the im-
proved potato crop, which now bids
fair to rival that of last year.

Many farmers feel the weight of
excess taxes because of what seems to
many of them a useless expenditure of
money by the State on a multitude of
paid officials who perambulate the
country looking after the minute de-

tails of road building, scarcely any of.

them having practical knowledge of
the proper methods for good work.

There isn’t the least doubt that there
is just cause for complaint, and strin-
gent measures should have been taken
before this to cut out useless leeches
on the State exchequer.

More gravel and less concrete would
solve the problem of reducing expens-
es in the building of roads. Some of
the oldest travelers on our country
highways declare for gravel rightly
laid as being superior to the most ex-
pensive concrete. If this be true, why
should the public, a considerable part
of it not auto travelers, be taxed to
build the more expensive road while
gravel pits are everywhere in evidence,
in many instances within easy haul of
the places where needed for road
building?

Furthermore, the surplus gravel
might be utilized on several different
roads to the advantage of the whole
country where now, because of the
extra expense of building concrete,
less miles of road will be built for the
amount of money expended.

The farmer sometimes wonders
what we are coming to with taxes on
the increase yearly until in some in-
stances they amount to around 7 per
cent. of the assessed valuation. The
small farmer is more strictly in it
than the one who has several hun-
dred acres, not all of it yielding an
income, yet it is taxed to the limit,

Taxes to-day have quadrupled in
amount since a few years ago. It
doesn’t seem that the highways of the
State have been the cause of all the
increase. Nevertheless almost every
tiller of the soil takes a rosy view of
the future, and since on him rests the
future prosperity of the Nation, it
might be well to see that no unneces-
sary burdens are put upon him.

The endeavors of Government to
solve the unemployment problem will
meet with disappointment, as_ has
nearly every every effort put forward
by those benevolent gentlemen who
bear the burdens of the world on their
shoulders and seem to imagine what
they do not know is scarcely worth
mentioning.

Profiteering and gouging have been
carried so far by union men that every
time the Government attempts to
regulate such things it puts its foot in
it, making a mess far worse than the
one it seeks to eliminate.

The Panama tolls regulation may
well attract the best efforts of our
twentieth century statesmen, as well
as the reduction of armament ques-
tion. These are strictly matters for
the General Government to attend to,
and which depend for solution on the
good sense and sound judgment of
full-statured men. When the rulers at
Washington have ironed out these
momentous questions they may awake
to the knowledge that other less im-
portant problems have been solved by
the common people.

We cannot all be Lincolns or Glad-
stones, to be sure, yet we may be able
to see through a grindstone when
there is a hole in it, as there certainly
is a hole in some of the so-called prob-
lems of to-day. That good times will
come with a rush is not to be expected.
The solution to unemployment lies in
large measure with the great corpora-
tions of the country like the railroads
and steel combines. They might
solve the labor and cost of foodstuffs

- question had they the courage to dis-

regard closed shop methods and re-
duce costs by leveling the wage scale
down to a uniformity commensurate
with a proper readjustment of present
day conditions.

Courage to do the right thing at the
right time constitutes greatness
amounting to what the world regards
as genius. Reduction to meet condi-
tions must come sooner or later. The
longer it is put off the longer will the
country languish in the throes of
business stagnation.

While this country is seething in an
unrest born of wage disputes and Gov-
ernmental interference with the private
affairs of citizens, the German people
are making hay while the sun shines
—for them. Importations to this
country from the fatherland are in-
creasing daily. The people of the
central empire are not quarreling with
their bread and butter as are the
American working men and women,
who seem to think a present dollar is
of more worth than a hundred later
on.

Neither does the German seek short
hours, big pay and loafing on the job.
Instead, there is a keen desire on the
part of that people to conquer adver-
sity incident to war by again monopol-
izing the trade of the world.

A young farmer told the writer that
when in the city not long ago he pur-
chased jack knives and dolls for his
children, not examining them closely
until after reaching home. He then
discovered the legend “Made in Ger-
many” stamped on the toys. They
were excellent toys, too. The fact that
this conquered nation is so soon able
to place its manufactured articles in
this country at prices lower than we
can manufacture them constitutes a
menace which ought to arouse every
thinking American man and woman,
and place them on guard against a
flood of foreign products which may
eventually wipe out many industries in
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Michigan Poultry, Butter and Egg Asso-
ciation.

President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson.

Vice-President—Vatrick Hurley, De-
troit.

Secretary and Treasurer—Dr. A. Bent-
ley, Saginaw.

Executive Committee—F. A.

Johnson,
Detroit; H. L. Williams, Howell; C. J.

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New Variety of Avocado Which De-
teriorates Rapidly.

E] Cajon, Calif., Oct. 8—This morn-
ing | am sending you by parcels post
a half dozen seedling avocados from
one of my early trees which fruited
this year for the first time. I am send-
ing these as a shipping experiment and
will greatly appreciate a reply with
the following data:

Time of arrival;
age; condition of fruit;
ness, i. e. bard or soft; if latter, is
flesh clear and yellow or dark with
black streaks? If still firm and green,
don’t cut it until soft and uniformly
purple or nearly so, depending on its
texture. Observe the length of time
after arrival in becoming purple and
soft.

This is a new fruit and from my
observation so far it is only fit for
local consumption, because of the
short life after maturity. It seems to
be mature when it begins to show
any purple, and if not picked at this
point, will “drop” in a day and turn
a beautiful purple in about three days,
and is prime to eat for about three
days more, when very inviting to the
eye. This fruit is a clear green up to
maturity, when a small purple spot
appears and it is soon all purple with
reddish specks, and then begins to
soften and is ready for consumption.
I calculate these will reach you by
Saturday, Oct. 15, and that they will
be all purple and soft enough to be
eaten at once. But it may be they will
have begun deteriorating by the end
of eight days; if so, they are worth-
less as “shippers.” This is what I
suspect. :

I am having all except a few of the
most promising seedlings top-workéd
over to the best varieties of Guate-
malan types, thus changing my Mexi-
can orchard to the California bred
Guatemalan or “Hard-Shell,” which
are good shippers. The latter will
hang on the trees from one to three
months after maturity and remain
fresh like a lemon. They are large—
from one pound to two and a half
pounds. I like these little thin
skinned fellows of 8 to 12 ounce
weight, but I have found none that are
good shippers. This venture adds
nearly $1,500 to my investment, I
don’t know whether it will pay or not,
as to increase of income, but from
what I have seen so far, it will make
my.property worth twice what I paid
for it as a selling proposition within
two years, while this avocado plant-
ing craze is on.

There is a quarantine on against im-
porting fruit, seed or plants. Mexican
seedling seeds are selling for 5c each
and I have been offered as hich as $10
per hundred for my seeds. I have
one of the very few real Mexican type
orchards, old enough to bear seeds
which will produce vigorous nursery
stock. I have forty-five trees which
are loaded with natural fruit about
the size of a walnut, nearly all seed.
Nurserymen are red hot for these
fruits. Some trees have from 500 to

condition of pack-
its color; firm-

1,000 of those little fruits, good for
nothing except the seed. For this
purpose they will outyield my best
orange trees.

Growers are trying to bring about
a condition that will enable them to
get this fruit onto Eastern markets at
a price that will be more reasonable
and still yield the grower a profit, but
I am skeptical about it. For a grower
to get a dollar a box return from
lemons, your grocer must pay $7 for
300. The dollar return will but little
more than pay the average orchardist
for his water, fertilizer, fumigating
and labor, with nothing for his invest-
ment or management. Oranges at the
same price will do a little better on
the average. Trees do not yield what
Eastern consumers are led to believe,
except in rare instances. If they did,
citrus growing really would average
a fair profit.

Later I will try a shipment of an-
other variety of avocado.

J. Elmer Pratt.

 

The package reached the Tradesman
the afternoon of Oct. 15.

The package was in good condition.

The fruits were all “gone” except
one. They were all purple. Two
were completely rotten. Two more
were so soft we could hardly handle
them. One was still hard on one side.

Possibly a little later, when the
weather is cooler, the fruit might not
mature so rapidly.

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Has Richly Earned a Vacation.

Petoskey, Oct. 14—Both my family
and myself have enjoyed your famous

Michigan Tradesman, which always
receives a warm reception in our
household. May it be published for

many years with he same vim and
standard of efficiency as it always has
been.

I wish you would send me my bill
and I will settle my account with you.
I have rented my meat market to A.
L. Jonescheck & Parrish and am go-
ine to take a good long-needed rest.
I have been in business in Petoskey for
nineteen: years, so I think it is time
I took a vacation; but will continue
on with your valuable paper just the
same, pending my return to a busi-
ness career. Herb. Hamill.

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October 19, 1921

Proceedings in the Local Bankruptcy

Court.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 5.--In the matter
of Joseph E. Reed, Bankrupt No. 1966,
the schedules of the bankrupt were filed
in the court on this day. From. the
schedules the assets of the bankrupt are
listed at the sum of $3,150, and liabilities
are listed in the sum of $5,819.50. A list
of the creditors of the bankrupt is as
follows:

City Treasurer, Belding ~~------ $ 16.00
William F. Sandell, Belding,

(secured) 26 610.00
Cummigs Bros. Co., Flint ~2_--- 60.00
Tish Auto Supply Co., Grand

DIOR ee re ae ee 87.50

Mich. Tire & Accessories Co.,

Grand Savids 2. 325.00
Lacey Co., Grand Rapids ~_---~_~- 14.00
Firestone Tire Co., Grand Rapids 45.00
Goodyear Tire Co., Grand Rapids 20.00
Lee Tire & Supply Co., Grand

Raps jo ee 480.00
Auburn Tire Co., Auburn ~_--_--- 350.00
Aupperlee & Veltman, Grand

RaplOS ee 12.00
Charles L. Reed, Whitehall ~--_ 2,100.00
John O, Reed, Whitehall ~------- 1,700.06

The first meeting of creditors in this
matter will be held Oct. 18, at which
time claims will be allowed, the bank-

rupt examined and a trustee of the estate _

chosen.

On this day also were received the
schedules, order of reference and ad-
judication in bankruptcy in the matter
of Charles EF. Bartlett, individually,
Bankrupt No. 1991. The matter has been
referred to Benn M. Corwin as referee
in bankruptcy. The schedules of the
bankrupt list assets in the sum of $3,-
375.00, and liabilities in the sum of $214,-
813.85. <A list of the creditors of the
bankrupt is as follows:

City of Grand Rapids (taxes) --$ 130.60
County of Kent, (taxes) ~------- 21.87
Valley City Building & Loan

Association, Grand Rapids —_-~ 2,600.00
W. D. Block Motor Co., Detroit__ 2,000.00
Michigan Trust Co., Grand Rapids 423.00
Charles F. Bartlett Co., Grand

Rapias | 2528 5,610.00
Cc. F. Bartlett Co., Grand Rapids 8,420.00
Dr. Rowland Webb, Grand Rapids 150.00
Butterworth Hospital, Grand

Ramis (2 oe 97.50
Andrew C. Anderson, Grand

Ranids oo) 00s ee 937.22
Balba Corp. of America, Grand
Reads i 100.00

Dr. G. H. Southwick, Grand Rapids 13.00
Dr. Reuben Maurits, Grand Rapids 30.00
Dr. F. C. Warnshuis, Grand

_Rapids ~----.-----------.------- 2.00
G. R. Gas Light Co., Grand Rapids 8.66
Smith & Russell, Tampa, Fla. —- 5.00

Morris Plan Industrial Bank,

Grand Rapids 22.5... 7 210.00
Chas. F. Bartlett Co., Grand

Raps (oe 193,900.00
Citizens Telephone Co., Grand

Rapids (230 10.00

The first meeting of creditors in_ this
matter will be held at the office of the
referee in bankruptcy Oct. 21.

On this day also the schedules, order

of reference and adjudication were re-
ceived in the matter of William A. Mc-
Farlind, Bankrupt No. 1992. The matter
has been referred to Benn M. Corwin
as referee in bankruptcy and who also
has been appointed temporary receiver.
The bankrupt conducted a drug store at
the village of White Cloud. The sched-
ules of the bankrupt list assets in the
sum of $3,022.01, and liabilities in| the
sum of $3,250.00. <A list of the creditors
of the bankrupt is as follows:
Village of White Cloud —---------- $ 45.50
Fred Ford, Detroit -------------- 400.00
Dick’s Soft Drink Place, Muskegon 55.00
Hastings & Gleason, New York-_- 36.63
Youells Exterminating Co., West-

Sold ON go a2 40.50
Grand Haven Cigar Co., Grand
Haven (002 20.30

Kent Storage Co., Grand Rapids 25.00
Chas. H. Werner & Son, Detroit 90.00
Standard Oil Co., Grand Rapids 1.72

(

Warwick Pharmacal, Chicago ---- 12.5
Kelly Ice Cream Co., Grand
Rapids —--------------~----~----- 92.80
Abe Schefman Produce Co., Grand
Rapids —_------------------------ 20.00
Henkel Baking Co., Manistee ---- 35.00
Morley Bros., Saginaw —---~------ 97.24

Coca Cola Bottling Co., Muskegon_ 24.68
WwW. H. Walker Candy Co., Muskegon 6.00
Farrant & Williams Drug Co.,

DMetroit. 2 110.92
Royal Drug Co., Chicago --------- 94.97
Monroe Drug Co., Quincy -------- 4.00
General Cigar Co., Grand Rapids 72.00
Foley & Co., Chicago -~--~-~------ 57.60
Chamberlin Medicine Co., Chicago 50.00
Rees Chemical Co., Cleveland --- 30.40
Liquid Carbonic Co., Chicago ---- 41.70
Muskegon Candy & Supply Co.,

Muskegon ----~------------------ 44.38
Steindler Paper Co., Muskegon -- 9.00
Robert E. Ingersoll & Co., Chicago 22.30
D. Weeks & Co., Des Moines ---- 21.00
Paul Rieger Co., San Francisco -- 16.00
Carrington Co., (unknown) ------ 17.00
Austin Products Co., Chicago ---- 75.00
American Toilet Goods Co., New

Vork 9 32.54
Burger Bros. & Co., Chicago ------ 19.00
Chas. Shoenberg, Muskegon ----- 50.00
L. H. Fink, Muskegon ------------ 14.55
Peoples Milling Co., Muskegon -. 10.00
Louis Kregel, Grand Rapids ----- 7.00
Mecca Oil & Products Co., Cleve-

1a 60.00
M. E. Maher & Co., Kalamazoo ~~ 15.55
Foote & Jenks, Jackson -------- 18.25
L. Sonnenshein, Ine., Chicago --- 81.00

John Shepard, Muskegon ------- - 100,00

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Muskegon Cigar Co., Muskegon -. 14.70
Franklin MacVeagh & Co., Chicago 200.00
Consumers Power Co.; Muskegon 10.00
Muskegon Traction & Lighting Co.,

Mosieron 220.0 2 10.00
Corona Chemical Division, Mil-
TLL ee smells 5.25

Fuller, Morriston & Co., Chicago — 204,23
Farrant, Williams & Clark, Detroit 86.73
M. D. Hayward, White Cloud ~--. 30.00
Citizens Tel. Co., Muskegon ---. 4.00
Union National Bank, Muskegon_. 75.00
Harry McFarlind, White Cloud ~~ 100.00
L. W. Fuller, White Cloud - -_--- 100.00
W. H. Smith, Muskegon —-------- 75.00

The date of the first meeting of cred-
itors in this matter has been set for
October 21.

On this day also were received the
schedules in the matter of Jacob H.
Insky, Bankrupt No. 1984. The sched-
ules of the bankrupt list assets in the
sum of $100,000, and liabilities in the sum
of $118,570.65. <A list of the creditors of
the bankrupt is as follows:

Casper Kuchinski, Detroit (se-

Cured) | 22202 = ea es $44,370.65
Pollar Costume Co., New York_- 494.50
Puritan Apron Co., Chicago -- 88.13

Premier Garment Co., New York 656.75
Rostein & Nelson, New York-_- 728.50
Regal Spear Co., Chicago ------ 63.38

Regal Corset Co., Rochester -- $56.75
Rueben & Co., Chicago -------- 199.50
Siefert Bros., New York ~----- 264.90
Simons Co., New York -------- 160.60

Chas. Solomon & Co., New York 37.25
Smith Wallace Shoe Co., Chicago 68.29
Singer Bros, Philadelphia -~-~-- 5
Ruth Skirt Co., New York ------ 380.25

  

Savada Bros., New York 206.25
S. & S. Garment Mfg. Co., New

WOte 2s ee ee eee 520.25
Ulius Bros., New York --------- 785.00
U. S. Muslin Underwear Co.,

INGW: WORK cos ee 394.86
Valeo Mfg. Co., New York —----- 153.00
Western Shoe Co., Toledo ---- 5,751.00
Wilson Mfg. Co., New York —- 755.50

Waleoff, Phil. & Co., New York 85.00
Detroit School of Lettering, De-

C8Gtt ee ee 2.35
Hub Realty Co., Jackson ~_~----~ 30,000.00
Michigan Storage & Warehouse

Co., Grand Rapids —----- amt. uncertain
Geo. E. Brand, Detroit -._.amt. uncertain
I. Insky, New York --_---- amt. uncertain

Oct.. 7. On this day an offer was re-

ceived in the matter of Fred W. French,
Zankrupt No. 1919. This offer was in
the sum of $600 for all the right, title
and interest of the estate in and to
certain personal property and certain
foundry property located at the city of
Sparta. This property is commonly known
as the “small foundry.’ A chattel mort-
gage covers the personal property and
the real estate was purchased by the

bankrupt upon contract, thus this sale.

is for the equity of this estate in these
assets. An order to show cause has been
made and servd on all creditors and the
meeting will be held Oct. 19. All inter-
ested in the purchase of these assets
should be present at that time. The sale
will be held in the office of the referee,
at 315 Houseman building, Grand Rapids.

Oct. 7. On this day was held the sale
of the equity of the leases of the prem-
ises occupied by the bankrupt in the
matter of McGurrin Sales Co., Bankrupt
No. 1971. The bankrupt was present in
person, as was the trustee. The equity
in the lease -was sold to the Grand Rap-
ids Aeme Truck Co. for $50. At the same
meeting a bidder offered the sum of $200
for the stock in trade and fixtures of
the bankrupt and the bidding carried the
amount to $425.00 at which amount the
property was struck off to B. A. Vrie-
ling. The meeting was then adjourned
without date.

On this day also an order to show
cause was issued in the matter of Sigler
Player Action Co., Bankrupt No. 4985.
The order was made pursuant to an offer
in the sum of $6,000 for all of the assets
of this bankrupt estate. The inventory
shows the assets of the estate to be as
follows:

Merchandise and materials ~~$20,494.15
Machinery, equipment and

office furniture  _-.----------- 56,303.28
Goods in process of manufacture 5,000.00

And there is also an added item of ma-
chinery replevined by the McMullen Ma-
chinery Co., in the sum of $1,991.10. The
date of the order to show cause and sale
of the assets has been set and is to be
held Oct. 17, at which time all interested
in the purchase of the assets of this
estate should be present.

——@ es
Profits of Production.

Two farmers met after church as
usual and had this conversation:

“Sold your pig?”

“Yes.”

“What'd ye get?”

“Thirteen dollars.”

“What'd it cost ye to raise it?”

“Paid $3 for the shoat, $5 for the
lumber in the pen and house and $5
more for the feed.”

“Didn’t make much, did ye?”

“No, but I had the use of the pig
all summer.”

—__~+ + >—__—_
Some men have no bad habits and
not much else.

 

Grand Rapids Store Fixture Co.
7 No. Ionia Ave. Grand Rapids
Store and Office Fixtures of All Kinds
BOUGHT AND SOLD

Correspondence solicited. Call and see us when in town.

 

 

Lansing Warehouse Company
FOR RENT—Storage rooms for commercial and household

goods. Cool semi-basement storage for Vegetables and fruit
shipments.
Located on N. Y. C., and transit tracks, free connections

with all railroad lines. 403-5-7 East Shiawasee St. Lansing, Mich.

 

 

We Specialize on

Sunkist

Oranges and Lemons

They Are
Uniformly Good

 

 

The Vinkemulder Company

GRAND RAPIDS zt MICHIGAN

 

 

 

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time to time the problems which seem, for the moment, to baffle
the best of builders. So varied and complicated are the modern —
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one “‘is up a tree’ as to what to use. Shall it be stone, brick,
wood or steel? Which is the cheapest, the strongest, the most
enduring ?

In countless such instances, WE HAVE DONE IT WITH
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compound, the economy of its use, the endurance of its strength
that even architects of goods standing are surprised at the pos-
sibilities in the use of cement.

NEWAYGO PORTLAND CEMENT

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or protected, NEWAYGO PORTLAND CEMENT ENDURES,
SERVES and SAVES the builder.

Let us tell you more about it. Write us concerning your
building problems. Our laboratories, chemists and engineers
are at your service.

Newaygo Portland Cement Co.

General Offices and Plant: Newaygo, Mich.
Sales Office: Commercial Savings Bank Bidg., Grand Rapids, Mich.

MADE IN MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

30

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

October 19, 1921

 

Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Oct. 18—The Mac-
Lachlan Brothers stock, at Dafter,
has been sold to William Armstrong
and Harry Richmond, prominent
farmers of Dafter township. The
stock inventoried between $10,000 and
$12,000. MacLachlan Bros. have
worked up a very satisfactory busi-
ness during the several years they
have been in business at Dafter. The
stock consists of groceries, shoes and
hardware, comparing favorably with
many of the larger stores. The new
owners will take possession of the
business Nov. 1, Messrs. Armstrong
& Richmond need no introduction to
the public, both having been pros-
perous farmers for many years.

The Kreetan Company, operating
a sawmill and general store at Jhons-
wood, have arranged to let out their
surplus of sheep with nearby farmers
in herds of twenty-five to fifty sheep
to double in four years. The farmers
taking care of the sheep are to get
the surplus at the end of the four
years and also the wool coming from
the entire herd up to the time that
they are returned to the company.

Some fellows work their way
through school. Others work their
parents.

Many of our business men _ spent
Sunday in the woods hunting par-
tridge. Heretofore it seemed to have
been the fact that the early bird gets
the partridge. While they are said
to be numerous, many of our sure
shots forgot take a sack of salt with
them and came back empty handed.
It was amusing to listen to the dif-
ferent tales accounting for the many
disappointments. They are not dis-
couraged however, and from all ac-
counts there will be an immense
slaughter of the birds in the next few
days.

Sunday marked the first open Sun-
day for the movies in the history of
the Soo. It was a hard fight, after
several attempts, and there is much
speculation as to the next move of
the Ministerial Association.

The most popular reading matter in
jail is a calendar.

The Hickler House, which has been
closed for the past year, was sold
last week to Matt Lehti and Otto
Laakso. The hotel will be remodeled
and reopened in the near future. The
new proprietors are Canadians. They
expect to refurnish the hotel through-
out, also install modern Turkish bath
in the basement. This hotel is in a
good location and bids fair to make
a good investment for the new pro-
prietors.

Perhaps the football course comes
under astronomy. They see stars.

It is reported that the sales of
Jamaica ginger have fallen to marked
degree since our husky sheriff has
been butting and knocking the sales.
The only good derived is the profit
of the fines in our police courts, which
are piling up.

The Civic and Commercial Club are
planning for a big celebration Nov.
11, for the proposed Armistice day.

Fred Taylor, President of the new-
ly-organized Auto Co., has sold his
stock and has resigned from the or-
ganization. He held 50 per cent. of
the stock, which has been bought by
R. G. Ferguson and D. M. Hackney.
Mr. Taylor made the announcement
as a case of giving up his interest in
the Harve store or Fordson Tractor
Company and he chose to keep what
he had.

Ludlow Seaman, the well-known
merchant of Maxton, accompanied by
his wife and son, Holly, left Glad-
stone for a motor trip to Wausau,
and Fish Creek, Wisconsin. They
expect to be gone about a month.

In the South of England the word
“poke” is still used for “sack.”

Conductor A. M. Sharpe, who has
been seriously ill at his home, is some-
what better, although not yet out
of danger,

The Upper Peninsula Educational
Association convention, which closed
last Friday, was a huge success and
the delegates departed for their homes
with many pleasant memories of the
good times and the good weather they
had while here. Many said it was
the best convention they ever at-
tended.

About 400 more soldiers have ar-
rived at Fort Brady. It is expected
that in a few days the Fifty-fourth
and the Thirty-seventh will merge in-
to just the Fity-fourth, and the old
Thirty-seventh will be declared non-
existent. Major Vachon, who has
been in command at the Fort will
continue as commandant. It is be-
ginning to look like old times again
with the large number of soldiers at
the Fort, which will help the mer-
chants to a marked degree.

William G. Tapert.

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Boomlets From Busy Boyne City.

3oyne City, Oct. 18—The Business
Girls Club held their annual meeting
and banquet at the Wolverine Hotel
last Tuesday night. Many of the
bright young women of the city
gathered to partake of a bountiful re-
past and to listen to the reports of
the year’s work. These young women
all of whom shave an important part
in the industrial and mercantile, as
well as the educational, life of the city
have made a distinct place for their
organization in the community life.
Many families, who through misfor-
tune would otherwise fared ill in the
way of clothing last winter, were very
much helped by the garments and ma-
terial distributed. The secretary very
naively remarked that the Club had
lost a goodly number of their member-
ship the past year by the girls accept-
ing permanent positions that removed
them from the business world. Even
their gifted and efficient president
succumbed to the wiles of Cupid, even
though she had had a previous ex-
perience and should have known bet-
ter. The evening’s entertainment
wound up with a dance. The girls
showed their vicious hardness of
heart by strict exclusion of the men.
They had a good time, a good en-
tertainment and are looking forward
to a good year’s work.

The Boyne City Lumber Co. has
installed an electric driven wood saw-
ing machine in their yard for the pur-
pose of putting their long slabs in
shape for domestic use. The slab
wood stock, which from time im-
memorial has been the stand-by for
winter fuel, has been very much de-
pleted by the continual shut-down of
the mills and good, dry wood will be
at a premium this winter. There was
a time when we took no thought of
coal strikes, railroad tie-ups or coal
prices, but that time is past. Can’t
even go out on the back lot and cut
up a jag of wood any more.

It is to wonder. Our great finan-
ciers are deploring the business stag-
nation and our President resorts to
an unemployment conference. At
the same time our dealers cannot get
necessary goods. One dealer tells us
that he can get no childrens’ under-
wear or heavy home-made stockings.
Another complains that certain class-
es of cotton goods are out of the mar-
ket until Spring. Several years ago
lumber did not sell, but the mills did
not shut down, but continued to pile
up lumber. The local iron company
had more than two years’ production
in the yards, but did not shut down.
This year, with less than two months
run in the yards, the plant has been
idle since February, with little chance
of resumption until next Spring. We
ordered, recently, a couple of stock
electrical tools—something that we
have not been able to get for three
years—and must wait two months to
get them. We don’t get the point.
The whole country is demanding
goods of all kinds. The transportation
companies have miles of empty cars
begging to be turned into asset pro-
ducing activity. A million men are
out of work and still we are calling

conferences of wiseacres to find out
what to do, to honorably feed and
clothe the dependents of these out-of-
a-job people. It reminds us of the
usual condition of lake transportation.
During the best navigation months of
April and May—and some times of
June—the shippers and carriers scrap
about rates and charges, while the
ships are idle and the crews out of
work, and then, in the fall and early
winter, when gales and fogs and
freezing weather take their toll of
human life and costly ships, they are
rushed to the limit, to the last minute
that navigation, with high wages, high
insurance rates and high freight
charges. To a man on the side lines
looking on, it would seem that during
the winter months these matters
could be settled and the good season
fully utilized. It looks to us as
though the chief difficulty is that
everybody concerned wants all of the
pie, instead of dividing up.
Maxy.
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Propose To Popularize Canned Okra.

Canned okra is a product of the
canneries of the South and they are
working hard to popularize it.

It is a green pod annual plant which
is indigenous to the West Indies
whence its cultivation has extended
throughout the world. It is a nutri-
tious, mucilagenous vegetable, largely
used for soups in the Northern states
but which the Southern peorle of the
United States where it is well known,
and the French, Italian, Spanish and
other Latin races, use on their tables
as a fine flavored, tender and whole-
some vegetable. Tlhe Greeks also
are very fond of it and use canned
okra in large quantities.

The best quality is canned from the
whole young pods of the plant not
longer than three and a half to four
inches, either cut into pieces an inch
long or canned whole. This style is
splendidly salable and all that is can-
ned in the South is seldom sufficient
to meet the demand.

There is another style packed which
is not so desirable or salable. It is
made of the long and more mature
pods after attaining a growth of
about six inches and is then cut into
short pieces and canned. This stage
of the vegetable is fibrous and too
mature and comparatively tasteless
and if left exposed to the atmosphere
any: length of time or not thoroughly
processed is apt to turn black. The
rather slow growth in porularity of
this really fine vegetable is attributed
somewhat to the packing and mar-
keting of this latter style, a much
cheaper and inferior quality to the
young and tender growth which a
few canners place on the market. The
famous Gumbo soup a la Creole for
which New Orleans and Mobile res-
taurants are famous is made from the
young pods of okra. John A. Lee.

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Business in Country Districts.

The corn belt and the cotton belt
are confronted with very different
conditions at present, and yet the ul-
timate outcome in both sections may
be almost the same. The corn belt
has a bumper crop; the cotton belt
has the shortest crop within 25 years.
In the former section the enormous
yield has not helped matters very
much because the price of corn is so

low that it hardly pays to market it.

In the cotton belt the short yield has
brought pronounced improvement,

both material and psychological, be-
cause the sudden advance in prices
has enormously increased the value
of last season’s large carry-over of
cotton. In both sections the farmers
have gone heavily into debt, and the
first proceeds of their crop money
will go to settle up accounts at the
country banks and the supply stores.
This means that any extensive buying
in farming communities will have to
wait until old debts are liquidated
and a new line of credit can be estab-
lished. There will be something like
the usual seasonal spurt in country
buying, because the farmer must take
care of the needs of his family for
the coming winter, but rural mer-
chants expect their customers to be
very conservative and critical when
they come to town to trade. Hence
they are holding to their hand-to-
mouth buying policy. Business will
be better than a year ago, but with
this attitude on the part of a ma-
jority of the consumers in country
districts, there can be no_ sudden
burst of prosperity.

—_22 2 —__
Eggs and Other Things.

In New York white eggs command
a higher price than brown ones, while
in Boston the brown or corn-fed vari-
ety, ranks first. Why? Simply a matter
of taste, with no scientific basis. Some
like a brown container better than a
white one. The content is the same
in either. Some like porridge hot,
some like it cold, that is all. These
little idiosyncrasies give life and trade
a proper variety. The merchant who
has unerring judgment in catering to
the likes of his trade is the one who
gets rich most quickly.

Take clothing, for instance, for
either men or women. Young men
will pick style and correct cut before
utility, quality or color, and pay extra
for it. Old men are after quality first
always. Their idea of “value re-
ceived” from a purchase is quite dif-
ferent from that of a young man. We
shall not wndertake to discuss the
vagaries which characterize women in
matters of attire. It is enough to say
that their whims are so notably more
numerous than those of men that the
dry goods merchant is fully justified
in demanding a considerably larger
average profit on his gowns and suits
than the purveyor to men alone.

All trade and business has seeming-
ly inconsistent conditions to meet
The best man in conducting it is the
one who has the faculty of meeting
the desires of his customers, of buying
the right goods.

Se
Fighting the Rat.

The Biological Survey is starting a
big campaign against rats throughout
the Eastern United States. Much al-
ready has been accomplished in the
matter of control in the Western and
Middle Western states, where effect-
ive co-operation was secured. On the
other hand, residents of the Eastern
and Southern states, as a rule, have
become so accustomed to the nuis-
ances as to accept them as a matter
of course. The department is doing
its utmost to awaken these sections
to the need for eradicating rats.

—_— Oo oe
You may lead a fool to work, but
you can’t make him think.

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October 19, 1921

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

31

 

 

Debt

History of
Business

Security for
Bonds

Value of

Security
Growth of

Business

Capital
Stock

Management

Legality

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRUST COMPANY

We offer the unsold portion of

$600,000

Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company

1%

First Mortgage Serial Gold Bonds

Dated October 1, 1921, due October 1, 1923-1932
Denominations: $100, $500, $1,000.

Interest payable April 1 and October | at the offices of The Michigan Trust Company.
Coupon bonds may be registered as to principal. Redeemable as a whole or in part
at the option of the Company on 40 days notice at 103. The Company agrees

to pay the normal Federal Income Tax not in excess of 2%.

 

THE MICHIGAN TRUST COMPANY, TRUSTEE

 

Free from Michigan Taxes and in the opinion of Counsel a legal investment for Michigan Savings Banks.

The following information is contained in a letter from Mr. Charles H. Leonard, President of the Company:

Only Funded This issue of $600,000 bonds will be a direct obligation of the Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company and will

comprise its only funded debt.

The Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company, an outgrowth of the business established by Herman Leonard in
1845, is now the largest manufacturer of Refrigerators in the world. The “Leonard Cleanable Refrigerators’
are known wherever refrigerators are used.

The bonds are secured by a closed first mortgage on the entire property of the Company, including 25 acres
of land, factory buildings and power plant (covering over 8 acres). Also by a closed first mortgage on Leon-
ard Industrial Buildings, comprising 3 buildings, six and seven stories high and located in the heart of the whole-
sale district of Grand Rapids, less than two blocks from the main retail business section of the city. This
property is located along the Pennsylvania Company tracks, and has a frontage on both Ottawa and Market
Avenues.

The total appraised valuation at a conservative figure is in excess of $1,250,000 or more than twice the bond
issue. The bonds will be retired $60,000 per year beginning October Ist, 1923, which automatically improves
the security each year. :

In the past ten years, the sales of the Company have increased from $720,000.00 to upward of $2,800,000.00.
During the same period the net earnings have been from two to six times the total bond interest.

This issue of first mortgage bonds is followed by $100,000 Preferred Stock and $500,000 Common _ Stock,

which securities are junior to the bonds.

The same management which has brought the Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company from a small concern to
the predominating factor in its particular field, is still in control of the operation of the Company, and no change
in management is anticipated.

All legal matters pertaining to this mortgage and the bonds issued thereunder have been in charge of Messrs.
Butterfield, Keeney & Amberg.

Prices to yield

14%

THE OLD NATIONAL BANK
BOND DEPARTMENT BOND DEPARTMENT

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Does the Salesman Like Your Store?

Two salesmen met in the evening
at the hotel, and John asked Charley
spent the day. Charley
answered: Me! I’ve been over with
Mr. Johnson at Busyburg; it’s heaven
when you get inside-his door.” “I'll
say it is, Charley,’ answered John.
None of my readers need any more
of a definition. Fortunately, we of
the grip in one hand and the order
book in the other encounter a big per
merchants, but not

where he

cent. of such
enough, and if my humble writings
can convert only 1 per cent. of those
merchants who cannot see that they
must lay open their problems, their
needs and _ their sales-
men, and place them,
I shall have accomplished very much.

Let us step back a pace and look
over Mr. Johnson at Busyburg. He
started with a little money in a small
hard and. used

cares to the
confidence in

2x4 room, worked
care in his business, but despite that
after about six months had to leave
an occasional invoice slip by the dis-
count date. He his head
and tried to figure leak.
was, when along comes his salesman
who had induced him to enter busi-
ness, and he tells him his cares.
Charley, the salesman, asks about his
affairs and finds in the early begin-
ning too much credit, and the good
Mr. Johnson too big hearted to be a
Right there was
converted

scratched
where the

good collector.
where Charley
from a storekeeper into
and in a few months’ time Johnson
was moving along in shape.
Now that in after years he has be-
business, do you

Johnson

a merchant,
good

come a success in
think he feels he don’t need this sales-
man? No. This same salesman or
his successor, if he is of the 95 per
cent. type, to-day more than ever en-
joys his friendship, his questions and
problems, and, above all, his orders.
He is, in the eyes of this merchant,
as one of my merchants told me some

few months ago, his walking baro-
meter of business. And he most
gladly shows him the storms and

clear skies ahead in the margin and
move them. He did so, and_ sold
sixteen dozen pails in one day, agree-
ing to fill his customers’ purchases
on the last six dozen as soon as he
could get them in stock. He bought
the six dozen at the lower price and
made money on a declining market.
This is perhaps a small item, but if
this merchant had waited until his
competitors could buy pails at 5 cents
apiece less than he had bought, he
would have been up blindman’s alley,
so far as profits are concerned. I
am safe to say 95 per cent. of our
salesmen would have done the same

as I, but in 99 cases out of 100 the
merchant type pictured in the person
of Mr. Johnson of Busyburg would
have been the beneficiaries.

So, friends, do not forget, no mat-
ter what others may say, there is al-
ways the human side to your dealings
with each other. When you greet
your salesman and let him leave your
store with a smile, he thinks of you
all the time and is Johnny-on-the-
Spot to do you a good turn, while if
you send him away with a “by golly,
I’m glad I’m out of that fellow’s
store,’ you have automatically sever-
ed your benefits.

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Ignore Importunities and Threats of
Creasey Lawyers.

Cadillac, Oct. 17—I am not going
to take time to write my congratula-
tions at this time, as ordinary words
will hardly express my appreciation
of the many kindly things you have
done in my behalf since first meeting
you and no words are expressive
enough to tell the value that the
Michigan Tradesman has been to me
the twenty-five years I have been a
reader. First thing I know T’ll be
getting a eulogy without knowing it.

One of our members who holds a
Creasey certificate has been threaten-
ed with suit on a balance yet unpaid
and I am trying to get the name and
address of every grocer who holds
these certificates, in order that we
may the more effectively prove the
unfair means used in obtaining these
contracts and, if possible, have a court
record of the transactions. The out-
come of one case will pre-determine
any others that may be started so we
must win.

My thought was that you have the
names of some who have signed the
certificates and a letter from you to
them asking them to get in touch
with myself through you would place
us in a position to meet their case
efficiently, as one certificate holder
here has brought his letter to me and
is going to stand suit, so it is my de-
sire to bring the power of the Asso-
ciation into action in order that we
may win out and in turn, start action
to recover money already paid the
Corporation, which I have succeeded
in doing in several instances.

J. M. Bothwell, Sec’y.

—_~+++___
Small Town Hotels Have Big Town
Ideas.

Chicago, Oct. 18—The lumber sales-
man—if there be any such extant—
it is so long since we have encounter-
ed one on the road that we are be-
ginning to fear that the genus is ex-
tinct (he was a rare bird, and we all
loved him) can testify that there is
one class that refuses to believe that
the boom of the wartime cannon and
of the wartime prices is over. Even
as good a friend as Duffy, at the Park
Hotel in Williamsport, Pa., charges
$3.50 a day for a room with bath, and
$2.50 without—although you get a
discount if you are a traveling sales-
man and stay over Sunday. The hotel
man is a dollar to a dollar and a half
high all over the country, with a few
commendable exceptions. We plead-
ed with the Penn-Harris clerk in
Harrisburg, Pa., to give us something

at a lower rate than $4 a day, as we
were Sundaying there, but without
avail or even the semblance of a vail.
Yet we are not a millionaire, nor even
one of those misguided persons who
spend their money as if they were.
On the other hand, over at Zanesville,
Ohio, at the good old Clarendon you
can get room, bath and three good
meals for $3.50 per day, and at Spen-
cer, West Virginia, we found it for
$3.75. Yet even some of the smaller
towns have big town ideas about
rates. The American, in Carbondale,
Pa., charged $1.75 for a room without
bath. Douglas Malloch.
——_>--————

Four Counties To Join Hands.

Petoskey, Oct. 18—On Monday,
Oct. 10, the citizens of Petoskey ex-
pressed at the polls their appreciation
of the constructive civic work of John
L. A. Galster by returning him to the
City Commission from the first ward
for a term of four years. Dr. B. H.
Van Leuven, representing the city at
large, and Henry Bohm, from the
third ward, are the new members of
the Commission, replacing A. B. Klise
and George W. McCabe, retiring.

The new Council will undoubtedly
continue the aggressive and progres-
sive policy staunchly maintained by
their predecessors.

The new regime starts with Council
meeting Monday, Nov. 7, at which
time appointive city officers will be
named.

The opening of the “bird” season on
Oct. 15 witnessed an exodus of hunters
from this city. Partridge pot-pies
will grace many local menus on the
return of these sportsmen.

On Wednesday evening, Oct. 19, at

the Cushman House representatives
from Mackinaw, Charlevoix, Cheboy-
gan and Emmet counties will meet to
discuss the forming of a Northern
Michigan Association which will have
for its purpose widespread publicity
for this incomparable portion of
Michigan.
The local demand for houses is far
in excess of the supply and an enter-
prising builder will find here a fertile
spot for his activities. The Petoskey
Chamber of Commerce will give sup-
port to a man of this type.

Extension of the sewage system
here is being rapidly pushed prior to
the coming of winter.

Petoskey industries report a very
cheerful outlook and employment con-
ditions are very satisfactory.

Frank Quinn.

—_+-+2—___

Those who bring sunshine to the

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Western Hotel

BIG RAPIDS, MICH.

Hot and cold running water in
all rooms. Several rooms with
bath. All rooms well heated and
well ventilated.

A good place to stop.

American plan. Rates reason-
able.

WILL F. JENKINS, Manager.

 

 

 

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Rates $1.25 to $2.50
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making the Twin Cities of

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Cafe and Cafeteria in connection

where the best of food is ob-
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Rooms with running water $1.50, with
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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 18—Henry K.
Boer has sold his dry goods stock and
store furniture and fixtures at 937
Division avenue, South, to George B.

Powell. The consideration was $3,300.

The Litcher Lite Corporation, which
has made two attempts to get on its
feet, has finally placed its property in
the hands of a trustee to secure ob-
ligations which aggregate about $50,-
000. Among the men who suffer by
the failure are John W. Blodgett and
D. A. Blodgett III, each of whom in-
vested $50,000 in the enterprise. Lewis
Heath is also a loser to the extent of
$18,000. Several hundred thousand
dollars have been sunk in the effort
to get the device on the market, with-
out result.

Charles G. Graham, who covered
Michigan territory more than thirty
years for the John V. Farwell Co.,
Chicago, has engaged to travel for the
Eaton Rapids Woolen Mills, which
has recently added to its former line
lines of Jersey sport coats, bathins
suits, mackinaws and blankets. Mr.
Graham is an able and experienced
galesman and_ will, undoubtedly,
achieve an outstanding success in his
new connection. He will continue to
reside in Ithaca, which has been his
home town for more than a quarter
of a century.

John J. Karpienia has sold his meat
market at 643 Stocking avenue to
Wladyslaw & Whladyslawa Pietrzyk
for a consideration of $1,500.

Andrezej Kwiatkowski has sold his
meat market at 303 Indiana avenue to
Maryan Kprowski for $1,500.

If self-preservation is the first law of
nature, saving and safe investment
should be the first impulse of personal
finance.

Safety and security against the fu-
ture can be easily secured by con-
sistent saving.

Perhaps the first value that comes
from thrift consists of the preparation
it gives one for the future.

Thrift is personal preparedness.

Thrift is fundamentally an economic
application of the law of self-preserva-
tion.

Mankind has progressed because of
the instinct of laying by for the future
—of piling up resources to-day against
to-morrow’s opportunities and require-
ments.

The lesson in thrift one reads on the
page of current history should be
taken in a personal way by every
citizen of America. The man who is
employed or is in comfortable cir-
cumstances to-day should bear. in
mind that the days of adversity may
come to him as they have come to
many others.

Life is made up of sunshine and rain,
of success and failure. No man is
too rich or too prosperous or too in-
dependent to be above the need of in-
vesting a certain amount each week
or month in Government savings se-
curities. It is a fundamental of cor-
rect living. He is helping his coun-
es at the same time helping him-
self.

Every Liberty bond is a pledge of
the people of the United States to pay
a certain sum of money at a certain
time, with interest on it until maturity.
It is a mortgage on the resources of
the country and the energy and pro-
ductivity of the people.

Keep everv Liberty bond you have.
Buy all you can at present prices.

Thrift Magazine tells an interesting
story of the father of a 10-year-old
poy in New York who was besieged
by his young hopeful to buy a certain
plaything amounting in value to $100.
Day after day the father was coaxed,
cajoled, and threatened. He put up
numerous defensive arguments that
were brushed aside with scorn. Final-
ly the father said: “Son, which would
you rather have, this toy or 50 cents
a month as long as you live?”

The bov chose the 50 cents a month
for life. The father invested $100 in a
gilt-edged security yielding six per
cent.., and the boy was given a lesson

in thrift and the value of money that
will be of untold value to him as long
as he lives.

Barnum was right. Ignoring the
warnings of the Government, Ameri-
can wage earners last year contributed
half a billion dollars to the promoters
of “wildcat” stock schemes. Unable to
resist the offer of high interest rates,
thousands of hard-working men and
women disposed of their Liberty
bonds or withdrew their savings from
banks to purchase “insecurities.” You
personally may not have bought a
share of these offerings of unscrupu-
lous promoters, but the fact remains,
according to an estimate made public
by the United States Federal Trade
Commission, that a sum amounting to
about $4.59 for every man, woman,
and child in this country was with-
drawn from legitimate uses and poured
into the pockets of fakers. It is esti-
mated that $350,000,000 was withdrawn
from bank deposits for this purpose,
and that Liberty bonds valued at
$150,000,000 were given up by victims
for worthless paper. The war in-
duced thousands upon thousands of
Americans to become investors in
Liberty bonds and Victory notes.
Having tasted the joys of bond hold-
ing and coupon clipping, and experi-
enced the rewards of economy and
thrift, a large percentage of these in-
vestors looked for further and larger
paying investments and so became
easy prey for the swindlers.

Frank L. Day, ef Jackson, after
covering Southern Michigan fourteen
years for Merrill & Co., of Toledo,
has signed up with Lindsay Bros.,
jobbers of Plymouth cordage and
binder twine at Milwaukee. The en-
gagement dates from Oct. 1 and the
territory covered will include all
available towns in Southern Michigan
and Northern Indiana. Mr. Day
knows the trade like a book and is
as dependable as a Dutch windmill.
Only Frank keeps going, whether the
wind blows or not. /

Fred S. Piowaty has so far recov-
ered as to be able to visit the office
for an hour or so each day this week.
He is still very weak and about a
month hence—if he is strong enough
by that time—he will go to San Die-
go, Calif., for a two or three months’
stay. He was as near death’s door as
it is possible for a man to go and
keep on this side of it.

——+---.-—___
Retirement of Very Old Mercantile
Establishment.

Ishpeming, Oct. 18—The stores of
J. Sellwood & Co., established here
forty-four years ago by the late
Joseph Sellwood, will soon be a thing
of the past, orders having been given
by the owners, heirs of Mr. Sellwood,
to close out all of the stock in both
the grocery and dry goods depart-
ments and to dispose of all equip-

ment. The two stores are offered for
rent.
It is not likely that the store

building will remain vacant for any
length of time after the Sellwood
business is closed out, as several out-
side parties looked over the building
this week with the idea of locating
here. One concern, which makes a
specialty of shoes, is very desirous of
opening a store in Ishpeming. No
doubt some Ishpeming merchant will
enquire about the places, the location
being an excellent one for retail busi-
ness.

It was forty-four years ago that Mr.
Sellwood, who was engaged in con-
tract mining here for a number of
years, erected the Sellwood block. For
a good many years the postoffice oc-
cupied a part of the building, and the
Tillson drug store has been located
in the Southern part since the build-
ing was first built. When the post-
office was moved the Sellwood com-
pany took the extra space to make
additional room for dry goods and
furnishings, and a large stock was
always carried. The grocery has en-
joyed a fine business for a long term
of years.

Richard Matthews managed the
business for forty years, retiring two
years ago because of ill health, and
his place was taken by his son, Roy,
who is still in charge. The latter
has recently received a fine offer from
a mercantile concern, which he will
probably accept.

—___72>__

News Notes From Central Michigan.

Owosso, Oct. 28—The regular meet-
ing of Owosso Council, U. C. T., was
held Saturday evening with consider-
able enthusiasm and everyone good
natured with a count of seventy-two
members in good standing. Of course,
we're not sO many, since we’re in a
town smaller than Grand Rapids, but
we are growing in numbers, also in
grace, with four candidates for the
next regular.

Geo. Lamphere and W. L. Clice, of
Ithaca, have purchased the general
stock of merchandise of George Max-
ted, at Middleton, and will conduct
the business at the same stand under
the name of the Middleton Home
Goods Store.

We have read with considerable
interest the different remarks and sug-
gestions by different individuals, re-
garding the upkeep or disposal of
those blooded canine specimens of
State property that are being held on
suspended sentence at the Ionia Re-
formatory. As suggestions seem to be
in order, we have a way out of the
dilemma. Allowing that it will be
awfully humiliating to the dogs to
jump a State job to hold down a
position as a common everyday coon
dog, but at this season of the year
coon dogs are in demand at a remark-
ably good figure, for we read only
yesterday of a sportsman who paid
$400 for a well bred intelligent coon
dog.

John A. Nimmo has sold his stock
of general merchandise at Sethton to
Earl Groesbeck, who will take posses-
sion this week. This is one of the
best one-store locations in this part
of the State and with Mr. Groesbeck’s
wide acquaintance in this vicinity,
without doubt he will be a winner.
Here’s our best, Earl.

Honest Groceryman.
—_~+-+—____
Creasey’s Hirelings Lying About the
Tradesman.

Montpelier, Ohio, Oct. 18—Every-
where I go I find Creasey victims.
If they are new to the game they are
very bitter against the Tradesman and
the regular jobbers who have served
them so well and faithfully in past
years. They assert with much gusto
that Creasey sued the Tradesman for
damages and that Stowe settled the
suit by paying several thousand dol-
lars and agreeing not ito mention
Creasey in his paper any more. Of
course, I invariably offer to wager all
such merchants $50 that the statement
is a lie, but I have not yet found a
merchant who would take me up.
After a grocer has been with the
Creasey gang about ‘three months and
finds that he has been soaked good
and plenty, he turns against Creasey
with more fury than he ever devoted
to Stowe; but the strange part of it
is that he then blames Stowe for not
keeping him out of trouble by expos-
ing Creasey in every issue of the
Tradesman. I begin to think that the
grocers who are caught in the Creasey
net get about what they deserved, be-
cause they were looking for trouble
when they parted company with their
old standbys, the regular jobbers, and
they hate to own up that they have
been swindled by the slick schemers
and adroit liars who work them up
to a frenzy by prejudicing them
against their real friends and then
bleed them to their heart’s content by
securing their signature to a Creasey
contract.

I fail to see any difference between
the mercantile victims of the Creasey
swindle and the consumer victims of
the Harrison Parker swindle.

S. A. Sheldon.

Glue Made From Blood.

A new kind of glue, very valuable
to cabinetmakers and for various other
purposes, is made of dried blood albu-
min. It is a dark crystalline substance
and, with the addition of simple
chemicals, furnishes the most water-
proof glue known. It is used for air-
plane parts and “plywood’—the lat-
ter term relating to articles which are
made by gluing pieces of wood to-
gether.

Plywood is a great ecoaomy, render-
ing practicable the utilization of small
stuff which used commonly to be
thrown away, and thereby saving large
size material.

A new and ingenious method of
applying the glue for this purpose has
been developed by the Forest Service.
Through a trough of glue solution are
drawn broad strips of tissue paper,
which, being thus saturated, are then
dried. A layer of this tissue paper is
placed between two pieces of wood,
and heat is applied with pressure, the
result being a joining that is actually
stronger than the wood itself. The
glue-paper is always ready for use,
and it will keep fresh for a long time.

— 7.2 2.___
Protest Proposed Room Tax.

The office of the National Com-
mercial Travelers’ Association has
sent out to manufacturers, commer-
cial bodies and salesmen, a letter call-
ing for protest against the proposed
bill which would place a tax of 10 per
cent. on all hotel rooms of $5 and
up per day. The letter follows:

“Traveling Salesmen!

“Now is when we must act.

“There is a bill before the United
States Senate known as the Tax on
Hotel Rooms—Section 907—and calls
for a tax of 10 per cent. on all rooms
of $5 and over.

“This means another hit at the sam-
ple room and means more burdens
for the already overburdened com-
mercial men to carry.

“Send a protest to your Senators
and Congressmen at once!

“Urge your firms and all others in-
terested to also protest at this extra
tax.

“Quick action is necessary.”

A hardware in South Pasadena,
California, has a wide door and re-
cently discovered that this was a satis-
factory method of operation for a
sign which he had received.

He fastened a cord to the upper and
outer corner of the door. The other
end was suspended from the ceiling
of the store directly in front of the
door by a screw eye. To this end was
fastened the sign. When the customer
would open the door the sign would
drop to a level with the eyes. And
when he closed the door the sign
would rise toward the ceiling.

—— 8-0 -

Reno, Nevada, merchants use a co-
operative plan for their window ser-
vice. A local window trimmer be-
came too expert for any one concern
to pay for all of his time; so a num-
ber of stores co-operate and each gets
a turn at his window-trimming. He
trims one window in each store at a
time, thus covering the field in the
shortest time and giving each store a
new trim a week at a low expense,
compared to the salary of a special
employe.

 

 

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President—James KE. Way, Jackson.
See’y and Treas.—Charles $. Koon,

Muskegon.

Director of Drugs and Drug Stores—
H. H. Hoffman, Sandusky; Oscar W.
Gorenflo, Detroit; Jacob C. Dykema,
Grand Rapids.

November Examination Session—Grand
Rapids, Nov. 15, 16 and 17.

January E xamination Session—Detroit,
Jan. 17, 18 and 19.

Prohibiting ie ‘See a Leola in Paint.

In France there is already legisla-
tion prohibiting the use of lead in the
manufacture of paints. In other coun-
tries in Europe agitation for such
legislation is strong and in all prob-
ability some prohibitory or restrictive
legislation will be passed in some of
them in the near future. The ques-
tion is to be taken up and discussed
in detail at the forthcoming Geneva
Labor Conference. It has been ex-
pected that the prominent producers
of lead in this country and also manu-
facturers of lead pigments would take
some steps to present the case of the
manufacturers to this conference.
President Cornish of the National
Lead Company, in a letter to one of
the leading trade papers asserts that
his company will not take such steps
and gives the company’s reasons for
not doing so.

Mr. Cornish states that the corrod-
ers and producers of lead are in sym-
pathy with the efforts to minimize the
dangers which attend the use and man-
ufacture of lead pigments and outlines
the steps which they have taken to
prevent lead poisoning in the industry
in some detail. The exchange of pro-
tective ideas, work along medical lines
and the education of lead workers
have all been undertaken with some
success by the company and by other
producers af pigments. Such work
apparently admits the serious pos-
sibilities of danger to workmen in the
use of lead pigments.

That these dangers can be reduced
to. a minimum which makes lead
poisoning one of the least possible ‘of
industrial mishaps is the contention
of the manufacturers. In outlining
the reasons why the corroders are not
to be represented at the Geneva con-
ference, Mr. Cornish falls back upon
the ground that the economic good
sense and National spirit of the dele-
gates to the conference will prevail
over the attempts of those who would
absolutely prohibit the use of lead as
a pigment. Undoubtedly, as Mr. Cor-
nish points out, there will be a ten-
dency for the delegates to line up to
some extent as representatives of lead
producing and non-producing nations.

The question of representation of
interested parties is felt in some direc-
tions to lie somewhat deeper than the
question of the final outcome of the
conference. Regardless of whether
the conference results in a prohibitory
resolution or not, it is felt in some

 

directions that the delegates are en-
titled to all the information on the
question which is available. Probably
the large lead producers have more
such information than anyone else.
Mr. Cornish points out that it is
against the policy of his company to
attempt to influence legislation of any
kind. The presentation of the facts in
the lead matter would, it is contended,
hardly come under the heading of at-
tempts to influence legislation. Pre-
senting these facts would merely aid
the delegates at the conference to
make a correct decision on the merits
of the case. A one-sided presentation
of these facts could very easily lead
to a quite erroneous decision.
La
Underlying Features of Advance in
Camphor.

An interesting development in the
markets during the past week was the
advance in camphor at a time when
demand for it from actual consumers
is hardly sufficient to clear spot sup-
plies, which are far from heavy.
American refiners and many of the
importers believe that the advance is
due entirely to speculative activity.
There is a tendency to speculate in
many of these Far Eastern products
which is not so noticeable in materials
which are made wholly or in part in
this country. The speculator is usual-
ly heartily disliked by both consumers
and producers. This is quite natural,
for he at times interferes with the even
course which affairs are taking in the
market. It is quite often overlooked
that he may serve a very useful pur-
pose in forecasting and discounting
future movements of the market and
in preventing sudden shortages and
their accompanying difficulties.

In the instance of camphor, which
occurred during the past two weeks
there are some underlying conditions
which make for strength in the mar-
ket. Refiners have been forced to pay
high prices for supplies of crude and
on this fact the speculative element
has built up a structure of advancing
prices which may or may not be justi-
fied. Whatever the outcome of the
movement,.it has served to bring the
material to the attention of the buyers
again and more business has been
done during the past few days than in
any similar period for many months.
This movement may well lead to the
establishment of somewhat better
prices as a more or less permanent de-
velopment. Neither refiners nor im-
porters would complain if such were
the case.

On the other hand, it is improbable
that speculation in any item will be
able to send prices to levels very far
above those existing in the market at
present. Buyers are through purchas-
ing chemicals and drugs at what they

deem to be unreasonable levels. It is
only necessary to study the course of
any commodity which has been active
during the past two or three months
to confirm this. Whenever buying has
started and either producers or deal-
ers have attempted to take advantage
of it by quoting higher prices buying
has stopped almost at once. This at-
titude is likely to prevent undue profits
in camphor or any other speculative
item. It is regarded in many quarters
as a healthy sign inasmuch as it in-
dicates that buyers are well aware of
market conditions and are willing to
purchase when prices are right.
—_—_—_»+~-+—____
That Old Favorite—Sea Salt.

An old druggist was saying: “I
find it profitable to show sea salt in
July, August and September, not so
much to attract the people who are
going to the seashore as to interest
those who are coming back. A man
getting ready to go away is usually
tired out, jaded, and disgruntled. He
is mostly interested in getting away.
But after he has had his salt baths
for a couple of weeks, he comes back
feeling a great deal better. A good
deal of the improvement he credits
to salt water bathing. He thinks he
will keep it up. And I think that is a
good time to show sea salt.” Not bad
reasoning.

Salt water bathing is invigorating, if
not overdone. Some fine physical
specimens frolic in the water half a
day without apparent harm, but the
average individual had better take his
bath in this manner. Do your strolling
on the sand before going into the
water. Twenty to thirty minutes in
the water is enough for a woman; a
man can go somewhat longer. Of
course, anybody can remain longer,
but we are talking about getting the
best results. A good many come out
shivering, and many more remain in
entirely too long. From the ocean
make a dash for the bathroom, take
a shower, then a brisk rub-down. You
will come out walking on air.

The salt in the water has something
to do with this invigorating effect:
Fighting the waves has something to
do with it, no doubt. And very often
this is strenuous work. The shower
is good and the rub-down, perh aps is
best of all. The entire combination
makes for health and a renewed zest
in living. We can’t fight the waves
in a bathtub at home. But we can
have the salt, and the shower, and the

rub-down. Sea salt will not sell very
well if left in the cellar. Not a great
many people come in and ask for it.
Doctors recommend it more or less
for people who are run down, but
many of these individuals dodge the
issue and do not buy it unless the
doctor keeps insisting. It is very easy
for these boxes of salt to sift into
dark corners. The other day a drug-
gist dragged some out that hadn’t
seen the light for several years. The
stuff won’t sell when cobwebs collect
over the boxes.

A window trim is the thing, a cool
trim, with green and white drapery.
SEA SALT
Invigorating
ON ANY DAY.

There is the placard. That kind of
talk makes ’em stop and think in
broiling weather. And perhaps you
have some cardboard bathing girls
suitable for a window trim. A trim
seen recently showed a fine stretch of
beach depicted on canvas, with ocean
waves dancing in the distance. Now
when a man is coming along the hot
pavement, mopping his brow, and
thinking dark thoughts about the
humid weather, a trim of this kind
is just the thing to get his attention.
He doesn’t want chest protectors.
That word “invigorating” fills the bill
—-he wants something that will re-
fresh and invigorate him.. Sea salt
seems seasonable, and his attention is

fixed.

The writer used to know an old
timer who was always. prowling
around the store, looking for stuff of
just this kind. One day he saw a
junior clerk pushing some boxes of
sea salt under the counter with his
foot.

“What’s that?” he asked.

“Sea salt.”

“Why are you shoving it under the
counter?”

“Aw, it isn’t selling.”

“Vhat is just the stuff I am after,”
declared the old man. “If it isn’t sell-
ing, we want to have it out and give
it a boost. I like to get behind stuff
that isn’t selling. It is a sort of a
challenge to me.”

And so it was.

Any line that was dragging he
would bring to the front, give it a
window trim, and start a little cam-
paign. He said prying into closets
and dark corners was a good thing,
because it kept stuff from getting
overlooked. And he said, getting be-

 

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thing a ean 7 7 good ences. Physicians who tell the truth Wh 1 =
; you often found out to their ick i i Oo ] D i urr
iuetahe ite rich patients are likely to esale ru Price
‘Aiud a sie oo slow sellers. i lose them. Ergo, they ply them with Pri : : =
pea guments were not with- _ palliatives to ‘hes oun prot. Ber tices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue
é he haps it is tl — Aimonds, Eweet.
Showing an article does no harm. _ tc sie s ne first duty of the doctor Borie (Powd.)-- 17%@ 25 Ttetion 60@1 00 Tinctures
If the goods sell » “keep his practice,” but there was  Carbe {Cxtal) ---114@ % Amber, crude -- 2 00@2 25 {ponite ------- 1 85
ahead. , you are that much a time when the family physici Cirle aaa $6 70 Anise” rectified 3 35@% 50 Arnie ——- i $0
wean | ye ise ------ ~ 1 25@1 50 te ee 1
cikak abda ' : Muriatic _..----- ig g  Bergamront 8 00@8 Asafoetid oe =
If they don’t sell, you can try to. Many E truths to his patients. ¢ Niteic 2000 10@ 15 Cajeput ---- 1 boat = oo -c
eo} find out why. All the informatio Many of them do not hurry to do so Salonweto Preece. 7 "7 Cain fae ~ 3 et ie Eeraate marta 2 o
: : n , oe ae 1 32@1 56 Ben a
you pick up will be valuable, keep you oe veins pleasant tegatment “ane cen ames 58@ 65 bane Leaf ---- 1 5001 76 a. @3 is
from becoming overstocked in cer fads yield them large incomes. Gloves — oe 2 too 00 Capsicum —~ bet Gi os
om. : ‘loves ------~- 27 capsicum = ~~_----
{ ee lines, and naturally an effort will His C 1 Water 4“ God. Liver Sere: sso1 oo iienene ees, oi 50
a 1 + ’ e ‘ala sod Liver ------. 5o@* °* Golchicum _.....
ne made to furbish up the goods. In ee Water, 18 deg. ae ae 7 Gee oo 2 26@2 50 Colchicum --. 2 00
this way man lit After listening to the lon -~winded Water, 14 deg 8 13 Cotton Seed —-. 1 15@1 25 Cubebs Baap 00
t way y a line has been rescued  salesmat 11; g-winded Carbonate ~. . 88@ «26 Cubebs -------- 9 0V@9 25 Digitalis Sane : *
just in time to keep it from going per- sman extolling the merits of a Chloride (Gran) 10@ 20 aaa 6 00@6 25 Gentian ——__-__ 1 rH
manently into the discard certain dry cosmetic for an hour or so Hemlock, pure. i B01 73 Guaiae isda 5 ge
: c without let up or i i Juniper B 25@3 50 Guaiac, Ammon. 3 60
: All ee en [ respite one listener emails Balsams aan os Juniper Wood. : 50g 1 ° mo co
oe that old favorite—sea salt. a ow for the Geet oi ei (Canada) ---2 08 50@2 75 tay ae i 1@l 30 — 77
ow ’ st time, an on) _. 60@ 80 Lavendar Flow Kino Sn ge
how the stuff. oo teen pee —, 49.8 jar Cine Se 14
Give it a chance. facepowder.” gunpowder and Le 1 60@1 75 Nux Vomica ——_- @: a
: " : Linseed Boiled bbl. 32 Opi nee
hat is the way to make it go. “What is the analogy?” innocently Barks Linseed bd tess 89@ 97 opium, Camp. — i 3
‘ 7 zinseed, raw,° bbl. @ 80 pium, sane "d
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for : , made their Soap Cut (powd.) Neatsfoot -~----- 1 10@1 30
ge sums catering to the demands eere and the other enables some 400 oe 20@ 25 live, pure ---- 4 76@6 50 Paints
of drug addicts, was, upon investiga hot-air artist to shoot off his face.” hae iggneiet 2 75@3 oad wih cry - 24GuS
tion, found to be a man who dclber —_2+s—_—_ Berries Olive, Malaga, — it Seen ‘white oi 12 2
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ay lured his patients into the dru To-day is the best day in the year. he aa psc , i090, go orange, Sweet 5 dogs 25 Ochre, yellow lees 2
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‘m ¢ ¥v ric » com’ enet’
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{ erimimt .... 0@4 25 ing, bbl. —-
eous outrage upon them. Extracts Hoeee a bees ‘vga 7 Lei ting 5-54 ‘t
ayer * perversion of a noble pro- Piers a 60@ 65 y eaaean — fee tan 3 B0O2 te
fession is shocking; but are we free of ae ee” putea ign 1 tee ae 6 ctee
it in America in other forms? It is Flowers Sassatras, arti" 1 00g! 25
frequently ch od ane is Spearmint —-~-. 6 00@6 25 acrenemaneenn
t ated tha win a cu. | a Ud C™lClt(‘“‘ Se Ce] i 6 oS 2 75@3 00
eration the practice of medicine has Chamomile ee | . tae icy ee a i. ae
a momile Rom 40@ 46 Ture fs the este pe a Dowd. and 10@ 18
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wie country; certainly it has been Ch Gums wee ccd ee Bismuth, ‘Subni-_ thet ts
made oppressi 2x i | t Acacis thee : pel
anes pp sively expensive for the oco a es ‘Acacia, tnd aes 430 8S Wintergreen, ao . tere ‘tal or 2 16@2 98
poor in rural districts, and put largely oe a Winketerean as 4 00@4 2 powdered or - h@ 18
£ ae . ereree g « ee
on a “pay-asyou-getit” basis wher- Ao ee ran) ee i Wormseed, —---, 5 aw Ga tee
oe Cea eas x Aloes (Cape Pow 30 ‘ormwood —. 18 00@18 25 Caps “as s
eieee ability to pay Package Goods of ~~ es Pow) 2001 00 . Carmine “6 00@6 60
safoetida —----- 15@1 00 otassium cassia Buds
eee : P 7 Pow 1 25 ea Cloves -- 30@ 40
eee aramoun Bec 25@1 50 Licarbonate ---- 3 OVS -~~~-~~-=- 4
ik on of chronic trou- t Quality Camphor -.------ 97@1 00 Biehromata oe no . Chalk Prepared iso is
bles, whose cure depends upon rad- d Ce, tow a @ 75 Bromide --------- 33@ 4 Siioee Tren 66@ 77
ical changes of habi : é an Guaiac, pow’d_- @1 00 Carbonate —-- 35@ 40 Chloral Hydrate 1 35@1 85
: ges of habit, is ett ataioct 2 a anna === @ 75 Chlorate, gran'r. 25@ 35 Cocaine, -———-- 9 25@10 25
wholly medicinal, because of hu Artistic Desi ino, powdered_ @ 85 Chlorate, xtal or Cocoa Butter -.. 50@ 76
dislike to gi man gn Myrrh ---------- @ 70 powd. ---.----- is@ 25 Corks, list less 5@ &
; o give up pleasant indulg- Myrrh, powdered @ 7 Cyanide -~~------ 35@ 50 Copperas -.--~—- 1
Opium -————-—- 9 009 40 Jodide ---—---_- 3 46q@3 60 Copperas, Powd. 10
pium, powd. 10 25@10 60 Permanganate _. 35@ 55 Corrosive Sublm 1 119 1 25
Opium, gran. 10 2510 60 Prussate, yellow 65@ 60 CreamTartar -.- 55
: clas ‘picaskod tbe = i oO gee oo. ig 50
an | phate) 2222 40@ 50 Ee GP RNG acre eteteeren 05 @ 5
Tragacanth ---- 4 00@5 00 Dov 0
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Tragacanth, pw. 3 60@4 00 Roots Emery, All Nos. 10
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Holid ay oods an d Turpentine ------ 25@ 380 Alkanet -------~- 15@ 85 ay Powdered_ 5
G Blood, powdered. 40@ 0 ieee (ai toe ae a
ane —_ 35
: Insecticides Blecampane, wa xO Be Ergot, powdered 1 76@2 00
ruggists Sundries | #: i 8 sey Eee Ot Es
ue Vitriol, bbl. | 07 inger, African, i oo so
Blue Vitriol, less 8@ # poweeres ------ 23@ 30 eee ee iw
Bordeaux Mix Dry 10 30 GTEC jatnatca, we Glauber S full case 60%
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es eel d . powdered ——--- 25@ 35 ees ---- 42%@ 50 Giauter Suits ee “7
nsec OW’ fees oldenseal ess
pleased to announce that our com- Insect Powder = 40@ $8 Ipecac, powd. -- 3 00@3 25 Glue’ Brown’ Gré 0
ste ‘. Hs Tae and Sulphur ee — aa 10@ 2 Glue, White Grd. ig 3
36 aidae ‘Go ; pee ee a ’ i Glue, White Grd.
an co al 4 rris, powdered — 30 é = = 36
y Goods and Druggists @ © Poke, powdered te i ya 20@ 35
ARIE seer a6 han UU is
Staple Sundries is on di . lce Cream Rhubarb, powd.. 60@ 75 lodoform ——-- 26@5 13
iS la in o i i Rosinwood, lodoform 7 00
: play ur Sam Piper Ice Cream Co. Sarsaparila,” Hond. — Pocencaine ” ag i. oO
: ground --..__ 125@1 40 Mac ee
ple R Bulk, Vanilla —----- 1 10 Mace —_._____.
1 oom here in Grand Rapids. We oo cee weround. — « Soar tat 99
’ Se ea eu ak aero enthol —_...._
lll tone Bul, Caramel -—---- 120 Squills, powdored Gog 10 Nux’ Von oH tags
ur customers and friends ao in er ee hue Nux Yomica, pow :
Bulk, Tutt Fruiti -- 1 35 alerian powd. 60@ 60 Pepper black pow. 32 36
cs : : ic aie ._ 14 P :
to visit us at their earliest opportunity Brick, ancy —-—--—- i 60 a " oar = 08
. (meena tau powdered uassia —------~. 12@ 15
i. The | — ak 110 Bird. ee 4 He 40 Quinine _-____ 96@1 69
& ine is intact to date and off Canary 7 oe ea
offers a S a Y annem a 30 15 Saccharine ---- @ 30
eaves araway, Po. .25 13@ 15 Salt Pet ae
generous selection from which to ch Buchu —<---5---5 en Soca Se & fens stare” 30g 48
which to choos Buchu, powdered eS oe eet le eh Grea ee Be =
e. Sage, bulk $1@ 79 Dill we 2S 2 i oe
Sage, powdered_- cg 60 mar el TRO ve 2 s case yhit oe one
enna, ex. _.. 1 40@1 50 Flax, ground _- oap, W te cas
Senna, Tinn. --- 309, 33 a a = less, per bar as 1 30
: Senna, Tinn. pow 35@ 40 eS 15 Soda Ash 05@ 16
Hazeltine & Perki a ile, "Wiba S' Eble teapior oh
er ins ru Co Mustard, yellow 10@ 15 Spi its Cuan ’ :
e Ollis perenne black _. 15@ 20 ee aa 04 =
G ran d R a p i d 8 M i c h ° ay oa Bitter, | Quince Fe ee 1 2591 é0 fee bl. a 10
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artificial __... 2 60@2 15 Sunflower —__--- 4g se Tugentind: Vor. tone oo
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36 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN October 19, 1921
COCOA Starlight Bros. J. J. Bagley & Co. Brands.
GROCERY PRICE CURRENT ie sen EMERY BRO ine SintigBaaley, Co. Brande,
Bauer's 8 0200 42 a, ee eee a4 - kos Gd
These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mail- pao.’ oo” essen oe ce ee incr a. — 96
ing, and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, cme. Sh 6 =<. 2 Cones Club, 25s od . Tiger, hoc, doz. ——-, 96
are liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders Droste’s Dutch, % ib. 475 Palmas, — op 7 '8er, 50c, doz. —--_.
filled at market prices at date of purchase. oe _ 40 a ee Weyman Bruton Co. Brand
eer ‘a ~-------- 38 Rosenthas Bros. Right Cut, 10c, doz. 95
oe Huyler ..-_______----=- 36 RB. Londres, 60s, ee a ee
ADVANCED DECLINED Lowney, ja --------—- - pei PLUG TOBACCO.
Clothes Lincs ee Co a Foil Wrapped -.-. 75 00 American Tobacco Co.
Coffee—Liberty Bae Fiore Lowney, 5 lb. cans --__ 31 Union Made Brands ee
Peanuts Van Houten, %s 12 Amer. Navy, 10c, doz. 96
noe Van Houten, %s ____-_ 18 El Overture, 50s, foil 75 00 Amer. Navy, per plug 64
ork Van Houten, %s _-___- 36 Ology, 50s ------____ 60 00 Jolly Tar, 24, per plug 16
Wana ee i ae ee ee ee
COCOANUT 4 ree! Piper Heidsieck, 10c 96
8s, 5 lb. case Dunham 60 Our Nickel Brands Piper Heidsieck, 20c_ 1 92
AMMONIA 7 5 ib. cage -__..__ 48 New Currency, 100s_. 37 50 Spear Head, 10c cuts 96
CANNED FRUIT. CANNED VEGETABLES. bi Mist 100 35 00 S aa i 64
Arctic Brand Apples, 3 lb. Standard 1 75 Deokaaue. AS & 48, 16 Ib. case 49 a ee MO) Surtees oa 64
16 oz., 2 doz. in carton, Aoples, No. 10 6 2506 60 wo 1, Whites tips io Hike eee ot ventual, 608 22-2 36.00 Standard Na y, 8 ple 64
Bermog. 2 175 Apple Sauce, No. 2_ 2 65 No. . Asean (aig 3 85 pe barrels -_.-_____ a Z Eventual, 50s —--____ ao ee ee fae 56
TX L, 3 doz., 12 oz. 375 Apple Sauce, No. 10-9 00 No. 2%, Lge. Gr. 3 75@4 50 Bice a ed ieee 7 00 Other Brands per 2
“Kaci 3 1 ier 6 . ape ee : 1 90@2 coe be cs bg 4 aah as Boston Straights, om 55 Liggett & Myers Brands.
arsons, <4 OZ. mea. o 4 JOLS, INO. 2 o a eans, 35@
Parsons, 2 doz., lge. 670 Apricots, No. 2% 2 35a? 50 Wax Beans, No. 10 __ 6 00 CLOTHES LINE Sonn Borake teh 3b By 00 aoe 10, plug ae -
Apricots, No. 10 9 00@13 50 +Green Beans, 2s 1 60@4 75 Hemp, 50 ft.) 92: 1 60 Court Royal (wood) ae. oe OZ. ---- 1
AXLE GREASE Blueberries, No. 2 -_ 300 Green Beans, No. 10__ 6 00 Twisted Cotton, 50 ft. 2 00 508 57 00 jl ummond Nat. L. 15e 1 44
a Blueberries, No. 10__ 13 00 Lima Beans, No. 2 Gr. 2 00 Braided, 50 ft. ----.- 2 90 Stephan’s Broadleaf, Honey Dip Twist, 10c 96
Sas Cherries, No. 2_-3 00@3 50 Lima Beans, 2s, Soaked 95 Sash Cord ----____-- 4 00 a . 0 Seager ott, ee As. a
Cherries, No. 2% 4 00@4 95 Red Kid., No. 2130@155 «|... 5,008) ----2---------== ,
Cherries, No. 10 -.-. 18 00 Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 60@2 40 COFFEE ROASTED Knickerbocker, eee Esco se
Loganberries, No. 2 -. 300 Beets, No. 2, cut 1 25@1 15 : Bulk B 2p ere oo soe ae ce US
Peaches, No. 1 1 85 beets; No. 3, cut 1 40@e 40 BlO, SB a - ae = plug PS
Peaches, No. 1, Sliced 4 40 Corn, No. 2, St. 110@1 35 PAntOS a Se 18@23 pions, 60s 57 60 — ae 3 plug —- a.
Peaches, No. 2 _____ 275 Gorn, No. 2; Wx-Stan. 1 55 Maracaibo 22.0 0 24 Goaciae Blunts, 50s 75 00 ing Pin, 10c cuts, ea
Peaches, No. 2%, Mich 2 60 Corn, No. 2, Fan 1 60@2 25 Mexican 25 T oe Pert. :, Masterpiece, per plug 41
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 00@3 75 Gorn, No. 2. Fy. glass 3 25 Guatemala —____________ 26 co ertec 105 00 Se eet a aoe -
Peaches, No. 10, Mich 775 Corn, No. 10 _....__. 7 25 Java and Mocha -_--- 89 NR ann nnn nnn ——— oe eer ec, doz. e
Peaches, No. 10, Cal. 1050 Hominy, No. 3 125@135  # Bogota —---__-__--__.._ 26 Cheroots oe per p 10, ~---- 9
Pineapple, 1, slic. 1 60@1 75 Okra, No. 2, whole _.190  Peaberry ~---____...-____ 24 Old Virginia, 100s ~~ 23 50 ncle “ae 32 2 cut =
Pineapple, No. 2, slic. 275 Okra, No. 2, cut ___. 1 60 Package Stog po, ae oO. wee
Fineapple, 2, Brk slic. 225 Dehydrated Veg Soup 90  rinerty 1g Home Run, 50, ‘Tin 18 60 Bie or pe TO ee
: aacaupie. Ne’s, sliced : Dehyarated Potatoes, as fa 29 Havana Gem, 100 wa 27 50 Bracer, per plug ----
*ineapple, No crus. 5 Mushrooms, Hotels __ 33 NY, a ee ee Scotton, Dillon Co.
Pineap., 10, crus. 7 00@9 00 Mushrooms, Choice __ 40 Bee oe eon . CIGARETTES. Brands. a.
25 Ib. sible, per . doz, _ 20 Pear, No 2... 325 Mushrooms, Sur Extra 62 Royal Clip 2 27 One Bleven, 20, Plain 6 00 Cream De Menthe, 10c 96
ao) Io) 490 Fears, No. 2% —---. 4 25 Peas, No. 2, E.J.125@1 80 ‘orton House 2.2... 36 Beechnut, 20, Plain -. 6 00 Peachey, per plug’_-___ 64
tn 7 Finge, No. 2 225 Peas, No. 2, Sift., White House ___...._. 35 Home Run, 20, Plain 6 00 Stronghold, per plug. 64
BAKING POWDERS io he 16) Wailer 2 op I june a Salad McLaughlin’s XXXX Yankee Girl, 20, Plain 6 00 Yankee Girl, per plug 96
i s, 1 a: ° eas, No. 2, Ex. Sift. cLau Sunshine, 20, Plain __ 6 0
Calumet, 4 0z., doz. 97% Raspberries No. 2, bik. 3 25 _ B. . 1 90@2 10 McLaughlin’s XXXX pack- Nebo. "20. Plain has q ae P. Lorrilard Brands.
Calumet, 8 oz., doz. 1 95 Rhubarb, No. 10 -_-- 5 25 Peas, Ex. Fine, French 32 age coffee is sold to rotail- Camels, 20, Plain _... 8 00 Climax, 10c tins, doz. 96
Calumet, 16 02. ,doz. 3 35 CANNED FISH. Pumpkin, No. 3 ______ ers only. Mail all orders Relu, 20, Plain ___..~ 780 Climax Smooth, plug 72
Calumet, 5 Ib., doz. 1275 Clam Ch'der, 104% oz. 1 35 Bream eta No. >. ip —— oo a McLaugh- Jucky Strike, 10 & 20 8 00 Climax Thick, per plug 72
Calumet, 10 Ib., doz. 1900 Glam CGh., No. 3°3 00@3 40 ee eee @ n 0 cago. Sweet Caporal, 20, Pl. 800 Red Cross, 10c cuts... 96
K. C., 10c, doz. ---- 32 Clams, Steamed, No.1175 [imentoes, %, na aie oe Colles Extracts Windsor Castle Fag 20 8 00 Red Cress, per plug 48
K. C., 20c, — - ee i 35 Clams, Minced, No. 1 2 35 Soe OND. Yo. % 2 1 60 N. ¥., per 100 ____.- 10 Chesterfield, 10 & 20, 8 00 R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
kK, C., ae re ee 7 00 Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 30 Bae No 01 60@2 35 Feank’s 250 packages 14 50 E ae ae ee Pl. 8 : Brands.
K. C., 5 i e a 135 Clam Bouillon, 7 oz. 2 50 Gricosene IND. 2, glass 3 45  Hummel’s 50 1 lb. __ 09% Spur, lain “Plain 7 Apple, 5 1b. Butt, lb. 80
Queen Fla e; 02, --- Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 75 Ss 1 No. 1 40 Sweet Tips, 20, in 8 00 Caramel Twist per lb. 88
Queen Flake, 50s, kegs 14 Fish Flakes, small —. 1 35 eat x Sees 75 CONDENSED MILK Idle Hour, 20, Plain __ 8 00 Gals Busedce tec. an*
Queen Flake, 100s, keg 95 Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 185 Spinach, No- 2 5 jogs se Hasle, 4 dos. —.... 960 Omar, 20, Plain -__- 10 00 ee ae a
re 270 Cove Oysters, 5 oz. -- 135 Shindch’ No. 10 90) «© eeder, t aos. —___- 660 Falks Havana, 20, Pi. 9 #8 Liberty Bell, per Ib. 73
Beet ie ok, ax 5 me Wobetes No. 1, Siar 750 ube Ne eae ee MILK COMPOUND Pid | Ger fo 1h) Matituna, 16t. Wol, da. 2 a
Royal, 12 0Z., GOZ.-- 9 Lobsters, No. %, Star 400 ,; : , : g Richm’d 1 Cut, 20 ck. 10 00 Mick Twist - i; 81
Bowal, 5 ib. —..---_- 2120 yore 7 Tomatoes, No. 3 1 70@2 25 Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. -.450 Fatima, 20, Plain .. 10 00 Mickey Twist, pe :
oya zs Lobsteis, No. 4%, Star 260 . 85 40 a, i
Rumford, 10c, doz. —- 95 Gnciio. Wo. i. wet 2 40 Tomatoes, wo 2, glass 2 Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. —. 4 Helmar, 20, Plain _. 10 50 John J. Bagley & Co.
Rumford, 8 0z., doz. 1 e cirmn, No 1 dry __ 259 ‘Tomatoes, No. 10 ---- 600  Carolene, Tall, 4 doz. 4 25 English Ovals, 20 Pl. 10 50 Bina
aa = Goz- 4550 Shrimp, No. 1%, dry 4 60 CATSUP. EVAPORATED MILK — cee 10 ae 5) Maple Dip, per plug-- 50
Rumford, 5 %., “1 35 Sard’s, % Oil, k.425@475 | : Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5 60 Oe es Oke
Byson, 4 0z-, doz. —- 5 2° Sardines, % Oil, k’less 375  B-nut, Large ------ 275 Carnation, Baby, 8 dz 6 30 Helmar, 10, Plain -_ 1150 = sMOKING TOBACCO.
Ryson, 8 0z., caer %. 405 Sardines, “%4 Smoked 700 JB-nut, Small -----__. 1 80 et, Tall _ _.. 6 60 Herbert Tarryton, 20 12 25 American Tobacco Co.
Ryson, 16  0z., oven 125 Sardines, % Mus. 3 75@4 75 Fraziers, 14 oz. ~---_- 225 pet’ Baby —_40@ syptian Str., 10 ck. 12 00 sade
Superior, 16 0z., do Salmon, Warrens, %s 275 Libby, 14 0z. -------- 325 van Com, a 8 co Ses, 28, Fis ner, i. GC. tie, ds. 86
BLUING Salmon, Warrens, 1 lb. 4 00 Libby, 8 oz. —------___ COU pee Camp, Baby __.. 450 Murad, a — ro e Heh Banner, L. G.. 40c, dz. 3 84
densed Pearl Salmon, Red Alaska__ 285 Van Camp, 8 oz. ----190 white Hous, Tall 500 Murad, cork or p 16 06 Blue Boar, 25e Foil 2 28
Jennings a tes Salmon, Med. Alaska 250 Van Camp, 16 oz. --315 white House, Baby.475 Murad, 20, cork or pl. 16 Blue Goar. gle Vac tin 8 76
C-P-B ‘Seal Cap” Salmon, Pink Alaska 145 Lilly Valley, Pint __ 3 10 Silver Cow, Tall 5 60 Luxury 10, cork —-. 16 00 Tob Wille wien. ile 48
3 doz. Case (16c) -—- 376 Co naincs, Im. 4, ea. 10@28 Lilly Valley, % Pint 1 80 : aE » Bran.,

Silver Cow, Baby 2. 5 30 Melachrino, No. 8, 10. 99 Bull Durham, 10c, dz. 96

FOODS Sardines Im., %, ea. 25 Every Day, Tall ____ 5 60 cork or plain D orn, 6 ds
BREAKFAST 85 Sardines, Cal. _1 75@2 10 CellIL! SAUCE. iver iy ay 4 09. Melachrino, No. 9, a Boa Gran. 0c aa Se
Cracked Wheat, 24-2 4 ov, ‘ cork or plain ____ 16 00 fan , ’
Wheat 9 00 Tuna, %, Albocore -- 90 Snider, 16 oz. ~---____ 350 Goshen, Tall ________ 75 lach’o, No. 9, 10,8t 16 50 Five Bros. 10c, doz. 96
ee ee ak Tuna, %, Nekco ----175 Snider, 8 oz. -------- 235 Goshen, Gallon —_-__- 450 Melach’o, No. Giant, L. C., 10c, dz. 96
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 2 70 o 35 Melach’o, No. 9, 20, St 16 50 : ’ , ’
oe ise ffed Rice_. 5 60 Tuna, %, Regent -- 2 35 Lilly Valley, % Pint 2 40 skank Nota 10 aca to ae op ee OL. Ga 300, az. : 88
: T0 iant, L. C, ils,
Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 30 _CANNED M EAT ss OYSTER COCKTAIL. Wisden Genes Go. Bran Markaroff, No. 15, 10, et Bo eg = i
Quaker Brfst Biscuit 190 Bacon, Med. Beechnut 2 70 ae cork 16 00 a : .
~~ Makes 280 Bacon, Lge, Beechnut 4 95 Smniders, 16 oz. ---__- 3 50 Harvester Line. = pay mail Rao 0 OL Imperial Cube Cut, 30¢ 2 88
Sueker Oa - 400 Bacon, Large, Erie __ 300 Sniders, § oz, ------- 235 xiddies. 100s 37 50 = ae ene oe pl 5 . Lucky Strike, R. Cut 1 63
Ralston Branzos -.-- 270 Beef, No. 1, Corned -- 2 60 CHEESE Harvester Line Rameses, 10, Plain -. 1750 Myrtle Navy Plug Cut 96
Ralston Food, large -- 3 60 Beef, No. 1, Roast -_ 2 60 : Record Breakers, 60s 15 00 Milo Violet’10, Gold 20 00 Myrtle Navy, 15¢ Po. 1 44
Ralston Food, small__ 2 90 Beef, No. % Eagle Sli. 135 Roquefort ~_--.-______ 82 Delmonico, 50s ~_-___ 500 Deities. 10 2100 Navy, G. & A., 10c __ 96
Saxon Wheat Food -- 4 80 Beef, No. % Qua. sli. 200 Kraft small tins -...140 Pacemaker, 50s _--_- ie 00 Condex, 10 _____._.. 22 09 Navy, G. & A., 5c -_ 48
Bare eee Brands, Beef, No. 1,"Brnut, sli: § 70 Chilly small tins “=-- £46 anatella, 608 => 16 00 Philip’ Morris, i0 —- 22 50 Nigger Hair, 0c, doz. | 96
eci, oO. nu sh 1llil, Sma in pene ‘avor u ae ; ? ’
oe a” 98 Ecet, No. 4, Binut all, 345 Pimento, small tins 140 Eee Ge Oe Be ee Cen teh ee Nicer Head F Cite os
Grape Nate, 1008... 275 Beefsteak ag ee Roquefort, small tins 225  ‘Waldorfs, 50s —_--- oe Cae, or sp ate OM oe ee
a . Sse Chili Con Ca., 1s Samembert, small tins B 1 SS dges eerless, : oe C_
on ere tee 2 cd Ham, 4a 22) Bak 25 The La Azora Line. aoe ? Peerless, L. C., 35¢ dz. 3 36
Post Toasties, 368 — 2 5° Deviled Ham, %s _.. 360 Wisconsin Flats . en. lee UO 55 00 peerless, L. C. Pails 7 44
oe. 0 ee See , aleanen Daly 24 Agreements, 60s "5800 CIGARETTE PAPERS. Rob Hoy, L. C., Ie | $6
Onions, No. 1 ~_-__ PORE ROri . ae ek H A Oo oy, i; +» BI
Jae os Ib. 5 00 Potted Beef, 4 oz. _.140 New York _. | 26 Washington, 50s -=- 75 00 Riz La Croix, Wh., dz. 90 pop, Roy, L. C., pails 8 40
Standar arlor Dees 5 Pate Biltmore, 50s, wood 9500 Riz La Wheat Br., 100 750 ww,
Fancy Parlor, 23 lb.-. 7 25 Potted Meat, 4 Libby 52% Michigan Full Cream __ 22 : Riz T T 100 6 89 Sweet Maple Scrap, 96
Ex Fancy Parlor 25 Ib 8 50 Potted Meat, % Libby 97% Sap Sago —_--__-_-.____ 48 Webster Cigar Co. 1Z Gas am, too. 795 Soldier Boy, L. C., 10c 96
Ex. Fey, Parlor 26 lb 9 00 Potted Meat, % Rose 90 Plaza, 50s, Wood -. 95 00 Zig Zag, per --- Soldier Boy, L. C., pail 7 32
Mig 200 Potted Ham, Gen. % : = CHEWING GUM Boe 50s, ae a TOBACCO—FINE CUT Tuxedo, Gran. Ibe fol 1 s
Whisk, No. 3 ------ 225 Vienna Saus., No. % Adams Black Jack _... 65 elmo ’ ° uxedo, Gran., 17c. dz
cic Ni ae 0 Veal Loaf, Medium —_ 2 30 Tiffany, 50s, Wood_-125 00 Liggett & Myers Brands ‘Tuxedo, Gran. Cut
Whisk, No. 1 ------ .” Derby Brands in Glass oe a ace 7s > St. Reges, 50s, Wood 125 00 Hiawatha, 10¢, doz... 96 plugs, 8 oz. tins __ 7 20
BRUSHES y ‘ . aoe Vanderbilt, 25s, Wd 140 00 Hiawatha, 16 oz., dz.1200 Yale Mix., 15¢c vae. tin 1 44
Snub Siced "Be momenas is't oo game Culdets 8 Ambaapaasr, Wie," W 110 00 URTRINE’ 1h0%,0H 12 99 Yale Mix. Hie vas. tin 2
Solid Back, 8 in. ---- 150 Gii¢ Tongue, No. 1.. 6 45 Adams Yucatan _._... 65 Sanchez & Haya Line Red Bell, 35c, doz... 350 Liggett & Meyers Brands.
Solid Back, 11 in. ---175 Foy Tongue, Wh. 1s 6 00 Beeman’s Pepsin  _._. 65 Clear Havana Cigars made KHed Bell, 75c Pails dz. 7 40 Briar Pipe, doz. —-___ 96
Pointed Ends -------- 1 tamb Tonsus, om. 6.225 Seschnat 13 in Tampa, Fla. Dan Patch, 16 oz., dz. 96 Cuban Star, L. C., l0c 96
Stove Lunch Tongue, No. 1600 Doublemint ~..~.....~ 65 Diplomatics, Sterling, 10c, doz. -- 96 Cuban Star, Pails, dz. 6 90
a8. 110 Lunch Tongue, No. % 365 Juicy Fruit __-_....-. 65 Reina Fina (tin) 50s 116 09 Sweet Burley, 10c, dz. 96 Corn Cake, Gran. 5c 48
Net 8 6 ee 135 Deviled Ham, % ---_ 300 Spearmint, Wrigleys _ 65 Rosa, 50s. Sweet Burley, 45c foil 4 25 Corn Cake, Gran., 10c 96
Shoe Vienna Sausage, sm.180 Zeno __...... 85 Victoria Tins ~______ ie 00 Swt. Burley, 95c Dru. 9 45 Corn Cake, Gran., 25c 2 40
No. 1 90 Vienna Sausage, Lge. 290 Wrigley’s P-K ______ 65 National, 50s ~--_-- 180 00 Sweet Cuba, 10c, dz. 96 Corn Cake, Gran., 50c 4 86
2 mem ae e ee 31j riginal Queens, 50s , , : , =
° : a 55 Glced Becl, euall 185 Sensta Gam i 25 Original Q , 50s 150 00 Sweet Cuba, 45c, doz. 4 25 Duke’s Mixture, i0c. 96
eS 200 Boneless Pigs Feet, pt. 3 15 Worden Special, Sweet Cuba, 95c Pail 945 Glad Hand, L. C. 10c 96
No. 3 ---------------- Boneless Pigs Feet, at. 5 50 CHOCOLATE. (Exceptionals) 508 185 00 Sweet Orange, 10c, dz 96 oer L. y “ha : 2
BUTTER COLOR Sandwich Spread, %-225 Barer, Caracas, %8 _. 35 Garcia & Vega—Clear —Scotten Dillon & Co. Brand Growick 1 Go fee E be
Dandelion, 25c size ~_ 2 85 Baked Beans. Baker, Caracas, 4s ___ 33 Hav Dan Patch, 10c, doz. 96 La Turka, Plug C, 15e 1 44
Perfection, per doz. -- 175 Beechnut, 16 oz. ---.135 Baker, Premium, %s -. 39 New Panatella, 1 100s 5700 Dan Patch, 16 oz., dz.770 Noon Hour, L. C., 10c 96
CANDLES Campbells —---------_- 115 Baker, Premium, \s __ 36 Ignacia Haya Ojibwa, 10c, doz. -. 96 O. U., Gr. Cut P., 10e 96
: ; Climatic Gem, 18 oz. 95 Baker, Premium, %s __ 36 Extra Fancy Clear Havana Ojibwa, 8 oz., doz..425 0. Th Cc. P., 90¢e ‘Jars 9 00
Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1 Fremont, ie. 2 115 MHersheys, Premium, ys 35 Made in Tampa, Fla. Ojibwa, 95c, doz. ---_. 9 45 Pilot, Long Cut, 25¢ 2 50
Plumber, 40 Ibs. ~ ___ 12.8 Snider, No. 1 ~--_-._. 110 MHersheys, Premium, %s 36 Delicades, 50s —___- 115 00 Ojibwa, 90c, doz. _-___900 Plow Boy, 10c, doz. 96 |
Paraffine, 68 2 14% Snider, No. 2... 1 ae Runkle, Premium, %s_ 42 Primeros, 50s ~~... 140 00 Sweet Mist, 10c, doz. 96 Plow Boy, 70c Pails, 7 40
Paraffine, 12s ~_--_____ 14% Van Camp, Small ___. . Runkle, Premium, Y%s_ 44 Queens, 258 -_._____ 180 00 Uncle Daniel, 10c, dz. 96 Summertime, 10c, dz. 96
Wicking ooo 40 Van Camp, Med. ---- 1 30 Vienna Sweet, 24s --_.2 00 Perfecto, 258 _-_-----185 0@ Uncle Daniel, 16 oz. 10 20 Summertime, 30c, dz. 2 90

 

 

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October 19, 1921 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 37
Summertime, 65¢ Pails 6 50 Weyman Bruton Co.’s FARINACEOUS GOODS FRUIT JARS OLIVES. Pork.
Sweet Tip Top, 10c, dz 96 Brands. Beans Mason, pts., per gross 8 80) pulk, 2 gal. keg 959 Heavy hogs --------- 10
Velvet, Cut Plug, 10c 96 Central Union, l5c, dz. 144 wed. Hand Picked 05% Mason, qats., pr gross 1010 puik 3 gal. tor... 600 «(Medium hoes = ae
velvet Cut Plug, tins 163 Shag, 15c Tins, doz.144 @gj ’ Tamas ~" 99 Mason, % gal., gross 14 25) =puik) 5 gal. ler 7 60 Egeht hogs -......... I
Velvet, Cut Plug, 8 oz. 7 25 Shag, 15c Papers, doz. 1 44 Brown Holland Ponca 06 Ideal Glass Top, pts. 10 10 Quart wove, dae 2. & 00 Sows and stags -.... 9
Velvet, Cut Pl.. 16 oz. 14 50 Dill’s Best, l6c, doz. 1 54 . cane Ideal Glass Top, ats. 1180 pint Jars, doz. _-._.. 3 00 bows oo ae
Velvet, C. Pl, 16 oz. 16 00 Dill's Best Gran., 16c 1 54 Farina Ideal Glass Top, % 4% oz. Jar plain, dz. 149 Butts -------.-------- 19%
Yum Yum, 10c, doz. 96 Dill's Best, 17¢ Tins 162 25 1 lb. packages ---- 3 20 gallon ..---------- 5690 52 Oo ‘Jat, pl, doz.160 Shoulders ------------ 13%
Yum Yum, 70c pails 6 80 Snuff Bulk, per 100 !bs. ---- GELATINE 10 oz. Jar. plain doz. 2 35 Hams ~~-~------------ 17

P. Lorillard’s Brands Copenhagen, 10e, roll 64 pean ase ok 5 25  Cox’s 1 doz. large -- 1 45 16% oz. Jar, Pl. doz. 3 50 ere ae To a

: ‘ i Seal Blandening, 10c 64 — oe Cox’s 1 doz. gall --. 90 3% oz. Jar.,_ stuffed. 145 © : ee

Beechnut Scrap, Seal Goteborg, 10c, roll 64 Macaronl Jello-O, 3 doz. --.--- 345 6% oz. Jar. Stu., doz. 2 4

doz. 96
Buzz, L. C., c, doz. 96
Buzz, L. C., 35¢, doz. 3 30
Buzz, L. C., 80c, doz. 7 90
Chips, P. C., 10¢c, doz. 96
Honest Serap, doz. -. 96
Stag, Cut P., 10c, doz. 96
Union Leader, 10c tin 96
Union Leader, 50c tin 4 80
Union Leader, $1 tin 9 60
Union Leader, 10c, dz. 96
Union Leader, 15c, dz. 1 44

War Path, 35c, doz. 3 35
Scotten Dillon Co. Brands
Dan Patch, 10c, doz. 96
Dillon’s Mixture, 10c 96
G. O. P., 35¢c, doz. -- 3 35
G. ©. P., 10c, doz. _- 96
Loredo, 10c, doz. --- 96

Peachy, Do. Cut, 10c 96
Peachy Scrap, 10c, dz. 96
Peninsular, 10c, doz. 96
Peninsular, 8 oz., dz. 3 35
Reel Cut Plug, 10c, dz 96
Union Workman Scrap,

Way Up, 16 oz., doz. 7 10
Way Up, 16 oz. pails 7 60
Yankee Girl Scrap, 10c 96

Pinkerton Tobacco Co.
Brands.

American Star, 10c, dz 96
Big 9, Clip., 10c, doz. 96
Buck Shoe Scrap, 10c 96
Pinkerton, 30c, doz. _- 2 40
Pay Car Scrap, 10c, dz 96
Pinch Hit Scrap, 10c 96
Red Man Scrap, doz. 96
Red Horse Scrap, doz. 96

J. J. Bagley & Co. Brands.
Broadleaf, 10c  ---_--- 96
Buckingham, 10c, doz. 96
Buckingham, 15c tins 1 44
Gold Shore, 15c, doz. 1 44
Hazel Nut, 10c, doz. 96
Kleeko, 25c, doz. --- 2 40
Old Colony, Pl. C. 17c¢ 1 62
Old Crop, 55c, doz. ~~ 5 40
Red Band, Scrap, 10c 96

Sweet Tips, 15c, doz. 1 44
Wild Fruit, 10c, doz. 96
Wild Fruit, 15c, doz. 1 44

Independent Snuff Co.
Brands

New Factory, 5c, doz. 48
New Factory Pails, dz 7 60

Schmidt Bros. Brands

Hight Bros., 10c, doz. 96
Hight Bros., Pails, dz 9 60

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Brands.
George Washington,
LOG, doz.) 22s
Old Rover, 10c, doz. 96

Our Advertiser, 10c, 96
Prince Albert, 10c, dz. 96
Prince Albert, 17c, dz.
Prince Albert, 8 oz.
_tins, without pipes - 7 20
Prince Albert, 8 oz.

Pipes, doz. -- 9 36
Prince Albert, 16 oz. 13 92
Stud, Gran. 5c, doz.
Whale, 16 oz., doz. ~~ 4 80

Block Bros. Tobacco Co.
Mail Povch, 10c, doz. 96

Falk Tobacco Co., Brands.
American Mixture, 35c 3 30
Arcadia Mixture, 25c 2 40
Champagne Sparklets,

30c, doz. 27
Champagne Sparklets,

90c, doz. 8
Personal Mixture —--- 6 60
Perique, 25c, per dob. 2 25
Serene Mixture, 16c dz 1 60
Serene Mixture, 8 oz. 7 60
Serene Mixture, 16 oz 14 70
Tareyton Lundon Mix-

ture, 50c., doz. ---- 4 00
Vintage Blend, 25c dz. 2 30
Vintage Blend, 80 tins 7 50
Vintage Blend, $1.55

tins: G07, 2.5 2-2 14 70

Superba Tobacco Co.
Brands.
Sammy Boy Scrap, dz 96
Cigar Clippings
Havana Blossom, 10c 96

Havana Blossom, 40c 3 95
Knickerbocker, 6 oz. 3 0C
Lieberman, 10c, doz. 96

1. O: ., 6 0z., doz. 3 00
Royal Major, 10c, doz. 96
Royal Major, 6 oz., dz. 3 00
Royal Major, 14 oz. dz 7 20

Larus & Bro. Co.’s Brands.
Edgeworth Ready Rub-
bed, 1v7¢ Tins —---= 1 62
Edgeworth Ready Rub-
bed, 8 oz. tins, doz. 7 00
Edgeworth Ready Rub-
bed, 16 oz. tins, dz. 14 50
Edgeworth Sliced Plug,
17c tins, doz. 1
Edgeworth Sliced Plug,
35¢ tins, doz. -----= 3 9

Seal Swe. Rapee, 10c 64
Seal Norkopping, 10c 64
Seal Norkopping, 1 lb. 85

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy

Stanaard 2... 17
Jumbo Wrapped 19
Pure Sugar Stick, 600’s 4 20

Mixed Candy

Pails
Grocers  ..--..--~--—-- 13
Kindergarten -------- 22
Leader ...__.._____... 18
Century Creams ---- a

French Creams --.--- 20

@ameo 22
Fancy Mix ---------- 22
Fancy Chocolates.
5 lb. Boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 90

Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 80
Milk Chocolate A A-. 2 00
Nibble Sticks 2

Primrose Choc.
No. 12 Choc. -.------ 1 75
Chocolate Nut Rolls ~ 2 00

Gum Drops.

Pails
Anise: 22.0... 20
Raspberry ------------ 20
Favorite —..._------..-- 24
Orange Jellies ------ 20
Butterscotch Jellies - 21

Lozenges.
Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges 18
A. A. Pink Lozenges 1
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 18
Motto Hearts -------- 22
Malted Milk Lozenges 22

Hard Goods.
Pails
Lemon Drops ---.----- 19
O. F. Horehound Dps 19
Anise Squares ------- 19
Peanut Squares ----- 18

Horehound Tablets -- 20

Pop Corn Goods.
Cracker Jack. Prize 7 00
Checkers Prize ------ 790
Balloon Pop Corn, 50s 1 90

Cough Drops
Boxes
Menthol Horehound —- : j

Smith. Bros. -——-------
cRISCO
36s, 24s and 12s.
Less than 5 cases --- 19
Five caseS ---------- 8%
Ten caseS ----------- 18
Twenty-five caseS -- 17%
6s and 4s.
Less than 5 cases -- 18%
Five cases ----------- h,
Ten caseS ----------- 17%
295 caseS —.--+--------- 17
COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade _- 2 nf

190 Economic grade 4 60
500 Economic grade 20 00
1.900 Economic grade 37 50

Where 1.000 books are
ordered at a time. special-
lv printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR

6 Ib. boxes -~----------- 55
3 Ib. boxes ------------ 60

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
Evap’d Choice, bik, —. 14

Apricots
Svaporated, Choice --- 38
Evaporated, Fancy ---- 28
Evaporated, Slab ------ 21

Citron
10 lb. box ------------ 38

Currants
Packages, 14 0Z. ------ 23
Boxes, Bulk, per Ib. -- 20

Peaches

Bvap. Choice, Unpeeled 16
Evap. Fancy, Unpeeled 18
Evap. Fancy, Peeled -. 19

Peel
Lemon, American ----- 26
Orange, American ---- 27
Raisins
Fancy S’ded, 1_lb. pkg. 20

Thompson Seedless,

1 th. pike. a ot
Thompson Seedless,
ube 22

California Prunes

80-90 25 Ib. boxes ~-@09

70-80 25 Ib. boxes -~-@9%
25 Ib. boxes ~--@10%
25 lb. boxes --@12

40-50 25 Ib. boxes --@15

‘ 25 lb. boxes --@18

Domestic, 19 1b. box 1 00
Domestic, brkn bbls. 08
Golden Age, 2 doz. 1 90
Fould’s, 2 doz., 8 oz. 2 00

Pearl Barley

Chester ..2. 4 75
Peas
Scotch, ib. 2... 06%
Split, th. 22 9
Sago
Hast hidia. 22. 06%
Taploca
Pearl 100 Ib. sacks -_ 7
Minute. 8 oz.. 3 doz. 4 965
Dromedary Instant __ 2 70

FISHING TACKLE
Cotton Lines

No. 2: 15 feet 22. 45
No.8, Id feet _..-. 1 70
INO. 4-15 feet -2. 1 &5
Wo, 6, 18 feet 2. 2 15
No. 6, 15 feet —--..._. 2 45

Linen Lines
Small, per 100 yards 6
Medium, per 100 yards 7 25
Large, per 100 yards 9
Floats

No. 1%, per gross _. 1 50
No. 2. per gross -... 1 75
No. 2%, per gross __. 2 2¢
Hooks—Kirby
Size 1-12, per 1.000 __ 84
Size 1-0. per 1,000 _. 9@
Size, 2-0, per 1,000 __ 1 15
Size, 3-0, per 1,000 __ 1 32
Size 4-0, per 1.000 __ 1 65
Size 5-0, per 1,000 __ 1 9§
Sinkers
No. 1, per gross —____
No. 2, per gross
No. 3, per gross
No. 4, per gross
No. 5, per gross
No. 6, per gross _
No. 7, per gross
No. 8, per gross
No. 9, per gross _____ 4 65
FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Jennings
Pure Vanilla
Turpeneless
Pure Lemon
Per Doz.
7 eam 35
1% Ounce ooo). 1 90
2 Ounce oo 2 75
2% @Ounee 220 — 3 00
26 Ounce 0 3 25
4 Ounce ee 5 00
§ Ounee 222 8 50
7 Dram, Assorted ___ 1 35

i4 Ounce, Assorted_. 1 90

Van Duzer

Vanilla, Lemon. Almond,
Strawberry, Raspberry,
Pineapple, Peach, Orange.
Peppermint & Wintergreen
1 ounce in cartons __ 2 00
2 ounce in cartons _. 3 50
4 ounce in cartons _. 6 75
R OUNCE 2600 13 26
Pints 2 26 4¢
Quarta 222002 61 a¢
Galions, each ____-___ 16 00

FLOUR AND FEED
Valley City Milling Co.
Lily White, % Paper
sdeke S03 8 60
Harvest Queen
Light Loaf Spring
Wheat, 24%s ______ 8 75
Snow Flake, 24%s __ 7 80
Graham 25 Ib. per cwt 3 50
Golden Granulated Meal,
25 lbs., per cwt. N 2 30
Rowena Pancake Com-

pound, 5 Ib. sack __ 4 20
Buckwheat Compound,
51D. Sack =. 22 4 20

Watson car ae Milling

New Perfection, %s_ 8 20

Meal
Gr. Grain M. Co.

Bolted. 22222202 2 25

Golden Granulated ~--2 45
Wheat

No: 1 Red 2220 1 05

No. 7b White 2220-220 1 02
Oats

Carlots 2.2 40

Less than Carlots —--_-- 44
Corn

@arlots 22207522 55

Less than Carlots ---- 60
Hay

Carlots 222.5 3 20 00

Less than Carlots -. 23 00
Feed

Street Car Feed -_~ 25 00

No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd 25 00

Cracked Corn --~--- 25 00

Coarse Corn Meal -- 25 00

 

Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 2 26
Knox’s Acidu’d, doz. 2 25
3 doz. 4

Oxfora .-...... 75
Plymouth Rock, Phos. 1 55
Plymouth Rock, Plain 1 35
Waukesha “16

GRANULATED LYE.

Wanders.
Single cases -—-.-.--- 5 15
Oe, eases 22-0 oe 5 04
Gia Gases 2. 4 95
HQ cases 2. 4 87

 

% cases, 24 to case. 2 60
CHLORINATED LIME.

Single cases, case -... 4 60
2% cases, case ----- 4 48
514 cases, case ----- 4 40
10 cases, case ------ 43
% case, 25 cans to
case: case o_..-_. 2 35
HIDES AND PELTS
Hides
Green, No. 1 —---.--- 06
Geean No. 2 --..---~ 05
Cured. Na. ft ._.---- 07

@ured: No. 2 —-.-_ 06
Calfskin, green, No. 1 12
Calfskin, green No.
Calfskin, cured, No.
Calfskin, cured, No. 2 11%
Horse, No. 2 00

Horse, No. 2 ~------- 1 00
Old Wool -------- 25@ 60
Lambs: —.....__.. 10@ 25
Sheariings —_-__._ 10@ 25
Tallow
Prime —222..5 = @4
No. £ @3%
No. 2 2 @3

Wool
Unwashed, medium 15@16
Unwashed, rejects__- 0

Ming. 2...
Market dull and neglected.
HORSE RADISH

Per doz., 7 02. ——---— 1 60
JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 Ib. pails ---- 3 50

Pure, 7 oz. Asst., doz.
Pure, 15 oz. Asst., doz.
Buckeye, 22 oz., 2 doz.
Oo. B., 15 oz., per doz.

JELLY GLASSES
8 oz.. per doz. ...-.._ 44

MATCHES.

Blue Ribbon, 144 box. 7 55
Searchlight, 144 box. 8 00
Safe Home, 100 boxes 5 50
Old Pal, 144 boxes -. 8 00
Domino, 720, 1c boxes 5 50

Safety Matches.
Red Top, 5 gro. case 57
Red Cross, 1 gro. cart 1 10

MINCE MEAT.
None Such, 3 doz. ~~ 5 35
Quaker, 3 doz. case ~~ 4 00

DO fe DO pt Oo
i
So

Gutches, 3 doz. case 4 00
Libby Kegs, Wet, lb. 28
MOLASSES.

New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle --~ 60
OHoiee 2220 48
Good. oe 36
Wate 30
Stock 22053 28

Half barrels 5c extra

Molasses in Cans.

Red Hen, 24, 2 Ib. :

Red Hen, 24, 2% Ib. 3 25
Red Hen, 12, 5 ‘
Red Hen, 6, 10 lb. -- «
Ginger Cake, 24, 2 Ib. :
Ginger Cake, 24, 24% Ib 3 75
Ginger Cake, 12, 5 Ib. 4 00
Ginger Cake, 6, 10 lb. 3 75
O. & L. Spec., 24, 2% 5 50
O. & L. Spec., 12, 5 Ib. 5 25
O. & L. Spec., 6, 10 Ib. 5 00
Duffs, 24, 2% Screw C. 6 50
Duffs, 6, 10, Screw C. 5 35
Dove, 36, 2 lh. Wh. L. 6 60
Dove, 24, 2% lb Wh. L 6 30
Dove, 12, 5 lb. Blue L 4 70
Dove, 6, 10 lb. Blue L 4 45

Palmetto, 24, 2% Ib. 4 50
NUTS.
Whole
Amonds, Drakes ---- 21
Brazils, large washed 17
Fancy Mixed —------- 20
Filberts, Barcelona -- 1

Peanuts, Virginia raw 11
Peanuts, Vir. roasted 14
Walnuts, California ~~ 33
Walnuts, Naples ---- 26

Salted Peanuts

Fancy, No. 1 -------- 11
Fumno 2. 4 19
Shelled
Atmonds —-.._8 50

Peanuts, Spanish,

t25 3b. bags —..---_ 08%
mibeves 2 50
Pecans —..-.-.--.- 1 25
Walnuts —.-....._---.. 82

9 oz. Jar, Stuffed, doz. 4 00

PEANUT BUTTER.

 

Bel Car-Mo Brand
8 oz., 2 doz. in case 2 70
24 1 1b. HAMA ooo 43
12-2 1. pauls ....... 4 10
5 lb. pails, 6 in crate 4 55
25 lb. pails aw 1a
fe ib. tine _........._ 12%

 

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

Iron Barrels
Kerosene —.10.7
Gasoline 19.9
Naphtha 22
Cylinder ._... 42

Perfection
Red Crown
V. M.. & FP:
Capitol

oro

Atlantic Red Engine 23.
Winter Binck ...-.._ I
Polarine, Iron Bbls.-~ 50.5

Polarine, Iron Bbls.-- 50.
Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1
Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2.7
Parowax, 100, 1 lb. ~~ 6.4
Parowax, 40, 1 Ib. ~~ 6.6
Parowax, 20, 1 Ib. -- 6.8

 

Semdac,
Semdac,

pt. cans 3 20
qt. cans 4 60

PICKLES

Medium
Barrel, 1,200 count --
Half bblis., 600 count
5 gallon kegs --..---

12
12

Barrels...
Half barrels --...--.
5 gallon kegs -------

Gherkins
Barrels .....
Half barrels

r

5 gallon kegs -------

Sweet Small
Barrels =...
Half barrels -------.
6 gation kegs: .........

PIPES
Cob, 3 doz. in bx i 00@1 20
PLAYING CARDS
No. 90 Steamboat ---- 2 7%)
No. 808, Bicycle ---- 4 50
Pickett d
POTASH
Babbitt’s, 2 doz. -.-. 2 76

FRESH MEATS.
Beef.
Top Steers and Heifers 14
Good Steers and Heifers 13
Med. Steers & Hefiers 11

 

Com. Steers & Heifers 09
Cows.
Pet ee 11
Goa 2 10
Meaiim (2). 09
Common 22.203 07
Veal.
Pop 15
Geog ee 13
Medium (2... 10
Lamb.
Good 2.22 16
Medium ... 12
Boece 13
Mutton.
Cage 2 10
Medium —.2.2552 2... 10
Poot 205 07

PROVISIONS

Barreled Pork
Clear Back  .. 23 00@24 00
Short Cut Clear 22 00@23 00
Clear Family 27 00@28 00

Dry Salt Meats
S P Bellies -. 16 00@19 00

Lard
80 lb. tubs _-.-advance %
Pure in tierces._114%,@12

Compound Lard 12 @12%
69 lb. tubs ----advance
50 lb. tubs ----advance ¢
20 lb. pails _-_--advance

10 lb. pails _..-advance %
5 Ib. pails _._.-advance 1

3 lb. pails _...advance 1

Sausages

  

Bologna 2.0205 3 12
Eaver .....- 12
Wrankfort . ............., 16
Pork ........ 18@20
Veal 22 11
Tone oo 11
Headcheese  ---------- 14

Hams, 14-16 lb. 23 @27
Hams, 16-18 Ib. 23 @27
Ham, dried beef
Sete...
California
Picnic Boiled
Hams ........ 30 @32
Boiled Hams -. 40 @42
Minced Hams -. 14 15
Bacon 20 Si

Beef
Boneless _.-. 24 00@26 00
Rump, new —. 25 00@2? 00
Mince Meat
Condensed No. 1 car. 2 06
Condensed Bakers brick 31
8 0

Moist in glass —..... 0
Pig’s Feet

i 15

% bbls, 35 Ibs. ---..- 3 75

mM De. 7 00

FR. 14 15

Tripe

Kits. 16 ie... 90

% bbis., 40 Ibs. ----_. 1 60

% bbis., 80 Ibs. ----. 3 00
Casings

Hogs, per Ib. ------ 65

Beef, round set ___. 22@24

Beef, middies, set.. 50@60

Sheep, a skein 1 75@2 00

Uncolored Oleomargarine
2

Solid Daty ... 4@26
Country Kolle ....__ 24@26
RICE
Fancy Head  ....._..l0@1il
Hiue Mose .......... 7 00
Broken: _..... 0S. oe
ROLLED OATS

Monarch, bbls: —..
Rolled Avena, bbls. —-
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sks.
Monarch, 90 ib. sacks
Quaker, 18 Regular -.
Quaker, 20 Family --
Mothers, 20s, family —
Silver Flake, 18 Reg.
Silver Flake, 10 family

SALAD DRESSING
Columbia, % pints -- 2 25
Columbia, 1 pint —_.. 4 00
Durkee’s large, 1 doz. 6 60
Durkee’s med., 2 doz. 7 10
Durkee’s Picnic, 2 dz. 3 25
Snider’s large, 1 doz. 3 50
Snider's small, 2 doz. 2 35

ee Om DCO mI
Qo
ao

SALERATUS
Arm and Hammer -- 3 75
i SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls. —--. 2 25
Granulated, 100 Ibs es 2 50

Granulated,
packages

SALT FISH.

36 2% Ib.

Middles 0 ae
"onhicta, Lb ie oi 24
Tablets, % Ib., doz... 5 5¢
Wood boxes ......._.. 28
Holland Herring
Standard, bbls. ---- 12 50
Yo MM pls. 4 50
Standards, kegs ~~~. 80
Ya M.. kewe 87
Herring
K K K K, Norway -- 20 00
&. Th. pale 42 1 40
Cut Lunch 2... 1 16
Scaled, per box ----.. i7

Boned, 10 lb. boxes 14

Lake Herring
16 bbl, 106 Ibs. 7 50
Mackerel
Tubs: 60 count +. 4 75
Pais. 8 Ih. No. § —.. 1 a9
Trout

No. 1, 100 Ihe... 16 @

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

October 19, 1921
DESMAN er the old
M I Cc H I G A N T R A ization he said, took Oy The com-
ERJURER. = Western Securities.
5 a3 eT r neascaag a 000 shares of stock of no
, j me a ’
38 tngland’s Pride ----- = 7: To pany
9% 13 8 a8 Engl TN as . . Falsely alue.
Sapolio, 3 gee _ 6 40 eR ree areas ; [ Confesses He Testified par v a
pred 70 now ber 160 “10 02. 3 oes Eerie mere ets Conceal Shortages. Da eor Chicago, Oct a
, Ss. 2. Se Snowboy, 100, iv. is vapers - a Pas . ' : sagt
Med. No. 1, Bbis. _. 2 70 Snowboy, 24 Large —— 5. TEA. Chicago, Oct. iS Baie the Co- ing inte the stock sella f erapeneid
Med. No. 1, 7 ; 92 Snowboy Large q * * factotum o . ative Socie ao po
ove e ptae ee or a 4 00 ener: 30@35 trustee and chief “ America, alleged of the Co ee upt, and its affiliated
a ---._ 62 Sunbrite, 72 a 5) site 39@43 operative Society o day to Federal ca, alleged bankrup |e ade Lldie
Butter’ Salt, 280 1b bbi. 4 $5 Wyandotte, 48 ----- Choice ------------- oy Gaikrupt conmeused #0 cn te ee eihatary comp
tter Sz ’ og 5 v¢ Cy Wipe 2 ee ’ hc ns ay. : :
hg Salt, 280 Ib. bbl : 30 core NIDbS nano 16 Judge Evan a. Evan bankruptcy headway yester ay fe Fed
100, 3 Ib. High Gr. Ta, 5 55 CL eAneenr 1 Ib. pkg. Siftings -- testified falsely in recent 1 a short- At 10 o’clock in t coumsed’ that in
"10 Ib. High Gr. Ta. 5 5! ¢ S : a ann
30, 10 lb. High Gr 50 Gunpowder ee rder to conce h 1 Judge Evans ; Id
- Boe ter _- ek arings in oO : ks of the eral Ju g dings wou
gigi ITCHEN Choice ------------- 38@40 hear 0 in the books ce inion the procee Vetoes
: Paney <222-- ee age of ooo Securities Company, a. efficiently under a
ee ato Ceylon _ 33  #Great Wes he society. : mov in Bankruptcy Fra :
BEER CANES Of HARDEE LENZ Pekoe, medium —---- 56 = fiscal agent or the of the session the of poles Sc he Coa La ue
—~—_ 9» : ee eee ‘ a . F-
Melrose, fancy At the conclusio ine be one Wean as ; K he enquiry was
; ) kfast 4 he affair to be f this ruling the j '
NB) English Brea lge declared the af ation of syance o seis ailices in tic
0 one Bee” seeee «Judge immediate atter the society’s 0
aad : Congou, Choice ——~ O43 pag sod Orend Jury. Orders i. pees Life building. k the wit
ay CTV okie y am eo de 2@ : : : i
, Congou, Fancy the Federa of Parker’s eo : te sale the
sence : Harrison Pa c-
Oolong ‘ issued for the pre: cer: Charles There : toe foane
en 5 cae Mrs. Edith S. Oe eet ness stand. a se Sey
ee op G. Higgins, the a and a Mrs. ing of Sa pe 1918, 1919 and
ees! TWINE 35, ist” of agi en next Monday a Sta OF seortacene =
4 sone ---- ? in the courtr 1 : : 1 hie wife's
5 Cotton, 3 ply cone 35 Fuller ir is furniture, anc i
Stay genet in 3 ply balls ee morning. President of the home, = keep the concern from
UB Schuss pouist Wool, 6 ply ------- Gustave Kopp, any, testi- jewelry to i Tied aie be
n, BRS. s Comp * } wall. . . .
= hcg oe Western ee his ignorance of ing ¢o the and re-organization bi
a Ss : ‘ider, Benton Harbe to-day as to ruptcy came d his wife
Per case, 2 . ce Cider, Be: 40 grain 17 fied to-day . fas aocicky Ge
Five case lots ---- White Wine, 80 grain 22 -arker’s operations. letter con- necessary, e 2s bank in Mick
Co . White Wine, 100 grain 25 ' Parker had ey | he wom Gag oe ae he
a. and Vinegar & Pickle ining securities, assets turned igan more than ee haa,
ee ae 09-80 can cases, $4.80 per case Pa ee. = ve When the letter ma sete Tis cones. Parker cis ee
Canary, Smyrna ar 1 20 2 : | Apple Cider -- panies. V iver yesterday m 1 nis de Biouai the 6
* , Malabar : Oakland Apy fae) aS the receive A ted. repaid, par y : artly by
Co an ------ iby esl bak ia White Pickling rae ie postmark had been eo Fruitvale society  . ae West-
Hemp, a 13% Wine See ay OO ie ap Serer Barker said to-day that a . Wie the Gapey aide oe pe oe oe
ee 12 Allspice, Jamaica a @3D ~ar : torney, ar o Hes company
eer FN Te fone vance ie WICKING 70 instructed by his at the postmark. ern Securit tive certificates.
a Com be ole, Gu OND Noi 0, oe .- «£ lianms, to aia ee coun Coes d that since the organ-
es ae doz. : a oO dot a @15 ae 1, si hier ——- : 2 This letter ere fect aiatier to be He - is Oe cbeaiie Society of
"s Bi cal aie oan @22 No. 2, ne ing it was ! to ization o : hrough his
ere eee, & singer, Cochin - @70 Na 2% ner oro a 5 cerning 1 lius Moses ; eceived t :
OL bat, Oe raat No.l ae Qs Peers NG 2. to. i ene weg who asked ee ape the organization ae
: aste, doz. 1325 wixed, No. cgs., doz. @45 Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00 ttention o ae sO in- association v 0. His wife.
c . ia dz. 1 a. Mixed, Se pkge-, Beng: net heaped i. oe 90 ae Williams, “Did you its cre oe some $750
Dri- Foc oe 135 ee dee i Rayo, pe a d on r, has been
Dri-Foot, doz. = Be ae tmegs, 105-110 - P17 ARE ice Dasber! ee | eee
Shinola, doz o---- 85 Peypers Black => @ ee ' “No, I did not,” was re "51 450,- weekly. _ ller, secretary of the
Shinola, doz. ---- ' band, , mention o ’ * ee fb ouice Peller: -
ig F te eval — andles. 7 = acura of the old ee Vi iss Financing Co., a — be
STOVE i135 pine, Jamal de wire han band, 000 of securities hich passe Western Toronto, Canada,
. per doz. —_ 1 : Allspice, Jamaica _ @39 ls, narrow band, any, whic Ve hae pane Po :
Black Sik Liquid, dz. 140 A es, Zamibet ---- 2o. Buahels, dies ___._ 1 $0 Development Company, ears ago.  sidiary, ha: Ars. Parker, Parker
oe Sik Paste, doz. 122 Gasela; Canton _—-- @22 wood aioe band -_ 1 90 : h bankruptcy many years by to bring back Mrs. to return
cuits Paste, Bor. 1 2 Ginger, African _----- | @34 Bushels, wide t andle 70 throug = ere turned in by ; are expected to
Ree Faia, Ge. 1 8 See eae aie ne rs et ais Lane 80 These securities w he Co-operative said. They 1ing.
WZ Liquid, per ae Macx Se el Marites, ‘extra § 00 Parker as assets of the Wednesday ae James Hamilton
y 7% i , > ne 5 Mace, ee & arket, extra ------ : i
a ae Goz. ; ee Nutmegs ag @20 Sonat large -------- : S Society of America. eee cunedeced Former ae cate das for ie Geet
Si Sun, per, doz. 1 35 Pepper, Eocene Gee Splint. eG or “Are eget inde asked Attorney [Lewis ee Mrs. Parker be-
ee ee oF ricer Carene @42 Splint, small _----—- orthless?” the Ju hless,” Moses time as couns Referee Wean.
5 5, h. ‘epper, Cayenne @42 ' Ss ss, ° and Refe
Vuleanol, No: 10, doz. 1 35 Paprika, Spanish --" @ da apes ae “They are worthle fore Judge Evans ined by a tele-
Vulecanol, No. ue 3 00 Paprika, Barrel, 5 gal., each —. 2 56 Moses. : ST aie was setaine y o
Stovoil, per doz. —--- I 1, 10 gal., each__ 16 eplied. : by Moses, Senato Parker from Toronto.
s Seasoning 136 Barrel, 1 Lo ie 1estions s Mis Par
-, per ga eply to qt from his ram from
ns cS) cuit Powe. 8 bo 6 gal, Cases In, rep); letter came fro g
i oe S —— e le : ———_22>_—_
Am. ey Tad a. 495 Celery — Jed ae : 90 oo Ego. Gatticr 5 o dirt egniereat New Work City are oe =. A he
Pert eee 100 box 5 70 ieee. © OF oe No. 2 ‘Star Carrier aoe wile, wn ntained, he oo elon
pee wat, 100 box 635 Onion Salt | ee : = = 1, Star Ege aT 5 00 it was a ee pawn nee Record. Ge
nM rhite Nap. 100s_5 Ponelty, 34% Oz. ---- 325 N . 2, Star Egg 0 in Li : = and- for ship
Kein White Nan, — Kitchen cat * 20 : ee eee aoe paid out in his ar teoin his A new, record tablished _ this
Rub in ED me 600 Laurel io 80 ‘Trojan Sak perce 2 25 weit and a personal letter watermelons was establis just an-
t otha, 1 Dox < 5 35 rjoram, 1 0Z. -- 90 elipse patent s 25 wi ’ : Se
ganny Massie. 100 box 5 70 Seeary. i. oC Uw Sat brash boll Bes Be cane sesd the letter ann ne year, a. Ase Seats ot wee
Swift Pride,’ 100. box 5 40 Thyme, | oz. ---- 90 No, 2, pat. bru: _ 2 08 Judge Eva he comment tha nounced by the of
20° Mule Borax, 100 bX 755 ‘Tumeric, 2% oz. —- ee eg as rned it with the ited States Department
9 oo a 20 oz cotton mop heads turn , the case. _ nited Sta
Wool 100 or i Stora 12 02 cotton mop pena 175 was not Laadeng Parker “I'd like «. : fue Shipments exceeded 44,-
iry. gee ( “Oz. ¢ eae ‘“ s ’ vad- ricu : : d
Fairy, 100 pos x. 8 10 . oo ---- 11% 9 oz. cotton mo} Judge, T ive teen © Ag 1 ee ee
tem Olive, 144, box 11 25 Pearce gaee ee anized —--2 49 make a a possibly could 99 cars, surpassing last y
oh B os ‘argo. 48.1 Ib. pkgs. —- oa, 10 at: Guvanea 2 ing and as evasive it started, in order oc SD cae,
Papin, yg «4c oor 3 70 oa. in "aes 7 a Galvanized ___- : od ever since the on, aueaieiis wi the eS wil the Florida-Georgia-South
’ ee aker. Pe cpm oo eect ae Ream ele Mare 6 : r i °
Swectapart, # 50 sm. : : Quaker, oa Fibre Flaring Gal. Ir. 675 that I might c I knew accounts were 1 a ee
crane Tar, 50 Lge won 48 1 Ib. pkgs... 3175 12 se h Gee oS > organization. nd I knew that i Cotes Ege
Fairbank, Tar 5: wa ae Argo, rene ce 3 10 ie at. ey $177,500 rier ait in the newspapers amounted to cid mae and Mis-
=e arber Bar, 9s 50 | 8 5 Ib, pkgs. : raps fact cam ke inion alifornia
Williams ee ce 48 Silver aon. = : Ibs. ig Mouse oon. : — ae 70 mene would be oe acai ae me _ states, Secreta poe to 5,000 cars
Williams Gamble Silver Gloss, pie Semee woes olen -- 70 fonmicd which wi ae as :

é Blastic, 64 pKES. ---- fouse, ti "100 ~ ina
ee ae Elastic, 64 pkgs. 7 Mouse. tin. 5 holes —- 0 already , nd North Caro
a. ey 00 Tiger, 48-1 ------ et “es gyal ere io very little ae ot to work on the each; Alabama a 4000 cach: As

Ivory, a ane “100s 8 ? SYRUPS Rat, Oe 30 “f init oe the $25,000 a shipped more than a  .
Ivory s., 50s 4 Mouse, spring ----- nd foun 2 As- § : Oklahoma,
Fiks., Corn books and_ . Canners feds
Ivory Soap Sees 70 Tubs 8 50 Wisconsin Pea d an- kansas, ’ oe cites
Pee G. White Naptha 5 75 Barrelg _onn—-—---—- © saree Galveniend _—_ 700 to the at vocouled aa ae,
. & G. White 575 Half Barrels ~--__- Larg Sac ived aion was 0 me com- 700 each:
Siar, a ‘Pwar 008 . 3 co cae 7 So Gaieanires __ 6 50 OES item of eure Hf ena There in smaller amounts. h
Nap. " q 2 doz, ~_---~---~---- Z270 sme arke di E as
Star Nap. ising cade Tt Siae Hae. ogee de —— 5 75 pany we ee left of between In the last three years — -
Won deena: B3rand. Karo, : . 50 a a 7 a 1sc 2 : : san :
a ar, ous box 4 50 _ doz. —----~~---_- 2 capa Single Sf 7 00 was a 17 000. : notable increase in me
Hawk, 9 2 : -- 000 and ’ : h my been a re
Black Hawk, five ie : 00 Red Karo, No. 1%, 223 Glass, eric Te eis 8 25 ae communication eles ae : Nearly 30,000 acres ~~
ae : nm Tee ‘don - , No. 5, 1 dz 310 Double Peerless ----- 7 50 ‘After com York, she _ duction. < ith 38,-
a Shen. S nod Karo, No &. 1 de 2 single Peerless ~----- 95 . is in New ids whieh : ompared wi ,
oe 2 oo SS Ye a on wife who is iberty bonds whic ted in Texas c
Box oat remarkable dirt d Karo, No. 10, 290 Northern Quee 7 50 me Liberty her, plante ; ding State, but
= - “0 --------------- ae “ee 1] ~----------- varded to ot together, 2 the lea ing
a grease SC a oe Flavor. 55 ae arr sah some nei the This was not (000 in oo Toon wee oeely
out er J car 2, - 2 doz, -3 2 in, --------------- als ed the DOO . orning, shi ments r : In
WASHING ee oe cc Bib, [ee 4 eee econo 2 30 at ree ce that erent by unfavorable picasa
i Pd, 3 dz. bx 3 | a nd Cane 16 in, ~--------------- til then was s 11- : acndienes
Bon Ami ots . 3 dz. 3 25 Maple a oak "og 50 Wood Bowls and not un : Ivent. I am te st other sections .
Bon Ami ce --- 420 Kanuck, per an : ter 5 00 he company was so Now I am mo Ii the watermelo
Climaline, 4 doz. - 390 Sugar Bird, 2% ne «© in. Bu fer eee 909 th bsolute truth. | ” favorable. Taking reat-
ek - ee 15 in. Butter --- ing the abs rhole thing. : there was a g
Grandma, ener = 400 Sugar Bird, 8 ee 300 17 in. ready ot tell the esac to tell facts section as a whole, ah aes at
Gold Dust’ eee 8 25 aie "Maple. 2 50 oe PPING PAPER Then prdiad deer an which hitherto 4, production oe
ao ee 2) «Johnson Purity, gaa aig vibre’ Manila, white 05% about the organi Bis OWN BHOr” she came as ia 1020.
inx 2 GoZz. _.— 970 J uritv, 2 Fibre, Ma q k wn even to .

La France Laun, 4 dz. 3 75 eS ai 7 8 No. 1 Fibce unila ---- 06 ee ee of these disclosures seo Fe don’t
Miracle Gm, 402.3 dz. 400, 402, 2% Ibs -——7 Se ee neve. Ous ee dices ees we ee he
iracle Cm, 4 oz. sop om Bee, oe Ken 2. lated to the org Western Fi ter man than t
Miracle Soha ne a ST CAKE knows as_ the cee tion, think you are a grea a
Old Dutch Clean. 4 dz. 2 10 ce 6 50 : oe i : - Oo mpany. This shen waar ‘ cine te small store. He : y

6) oz. _- 2 Domino, 24, 2 gal. 50 Magic, oc RS : d of himself, chap ru Me dina

i oe _— bulk, per gal. Sunlight, 3 doz. - 1 35 id, was compose n rofit annually
Rinso, 100 02. “100, 10 Bbls., : Sunlight, 1% doz. —-- 270 Parker said, was ¢ Mrs. Fuller, al net more money p
age vies aaa dats ABLE SAUCES. Yeast Foam, 3 doz. —- 135 Charles C. Higgins, Bang, Parker’s

OZ. ~-----~- 14 T rin, large__ 6 60 a Foam, 1% doz. da Mr. >, yous
Rub No More, 100,14 7. | borrin, small. 375 Yeast Foam, ED employe, an etary. The new organ-

---— . ¥ err ; ee

nb No More, 18 Lg. 4 50 tidal giana tae * VEAST—COMPRESSED | personal secr
Doo Cleanser, 48, 4 00 Royal Mint ---------- 375 Fleischman, per doz. --

20 0%. -------------- 225 Tobacco. .._-.... axcez ¥

: 1 doz. --

Sani Flush,

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Nanas

October 19, 1921

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 39

ONE ISSUE OF THE TRADESMAN SAVED A MERCHANT $50.

Benton Harbor, Oct.

18—Having just had a little experience

with two nice looking young gentlemen last Friday morning, | thought
it would be of interest to you and your readers to know how the

Tradesman came to my rescue and saved me from being swindled.

The young men claimed they were representing the Rogers Brothers

Silverware Co. and were absolutely giving silverware away.

They

had made the Benton Fuel Co., of this city, a distributor, and they
(the Benton Fuel Co.) had recommended us as a second distributor

and it was all to be without any cost to us whatsoever.

All we had

to do was to pass out the cards with our name on the front and their
name on the back. These cards they would print for us at $4 per
thousand, providing we ordered 25,000 at a time and made a deposit
of $50 at the time we signed the order.

Whenever a lady sent them fifty of these cards they would send

her a Rogers 1881 silver spoon,

and when a lady would get one or

two spoons she would then want the entire set and would go and

buy the remainder to match of her local jeweler.
the profit would come in for them.

That was where

The scheme looked good to me on the face of it, but as I have
made it a rule of life to think things over before taking action on any
new scheme, I told the boys I would give them an answer in two hours
and either accept or reject it at that time. While eating dinner I told
my wife about the scheme and she said, ““You brought home a silver-

ware coupon the other day from the Electric Service Co.”

While

we were looking at the coupon, she said, ‘I believe | saw something

in the Tradesman about this same company,”

so we hunted up your

paper and found that it was a crooked scheme, utterly devoid of the

element of honesty and good faith. We then called up the Benton

Fuel Co. (Mr. Jeffery) and asked him to come over, and he also
went over it with us. Then we went over to the store, where we found
the young men waiting. We presented them with your paper and the
coupon and they said some one was infringing on their rights. I said,

“Boys, I don’t want any of that for me.”’

They said, “All right’ and

started away. | said to them, “My friend wants his $50 back.”’ ““Well,”’

they said, ‘““come down to the hote

l and we will pay you.”

We went

down to the Hotel Benton and found they had already gotten a draft
for the check. He offered us the draft. We insisted on cash, so he
gave it to us and we tore his name off the contract and left them

to think it over.

It is needless for me to say to you that I appreciate your paper
because it saved me fifty; also my friend's fifty. We are, therefore,
thankful that we are your subscribers.

A. L. LEONARD,

Proprietor Pipestone Grocery.

 

The Lives of Trees.

The New York Sun tells of a tree,

said to be living in Mexico that is
6,000 years old. It is described as a
cypress thirty-six feet in diameter,
but as no scientific record of its ex-
istence has been made doubt is jus-
tifiable.

But there really are baobab trees
in Africa credited with 4,000 years,
and the big sequoias in California are
given an age approximately 3,000
years. Yews in England are believed
to be of equal age, with many oaks
and elms known to be 800 years old.

We are skeptical of all estimated
ages, whether of men or things, and
very doubtful of years which passed
before men became human beings, but
it seems to be a fair conclusion that
trees live longer than anything else
that grows on earth. Which reminds
us of two irrelevant stories, one of
Napoleon when his grenadier said he
was “higher” than the Emperor. “You
mean longer,” said the Little Cor-
poral. Another is that of the wife

who found a distinguished husband

with his arm around a handsome
young woman’s waist. “I am sur-
prised,” she said. “You mean you are
astonished,” he retorted; “I am the

one who is surprised.”
—_——_@ 2s

Story hours are favorite forms of
entertainment for children by depart-
ment stores throughout the country.
Trained story tellers are engaged to
spin tales of magic, adventure and
mystery for the wee folk while their
mothers shop. The Bon Marche,
Seattle, has elaborated the idea. The
entrance to the room set aside for the
children represented the doorways of
the “Racketty-Packetty House.” <A
“Queen” in traditional fairy garb,
comes through soft blue curtains,
mounts a throne, waves her wand, and
has her hearers thrilled to attention
before she begins her tale. From
fifty to 100 children are entertained
every Saturday afternoon at the Pel-
letier Stores Co., of Topeka. Satur-
day is Children’s Day at the Burgess-
Nash Store, Omaha, and the story
hour is held from 10 to 11 in the
morning.

 

BUSINESS WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements Inserted under this head for five cents a word the first
Insertion and four cents a word for each subsequent continuous Insertion.
if set In capital letters, double price. No charge less than 80 cents. Small
display advertisements in this department, $3 per inch. Payment with order
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eral store by a aon bt banat 7 REBUI LT
experience, age forty-four. Steady, and = pencil
good habits. G. W. Morton, 213 So. CASH REGISTER co., Ine.
Pivision Ave., Grand Rapids. 513 Dealers in

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For Sale—Well established grocery Adding Machines, Typewriters And
business in a thriving town of 2,000. Will Other Store and Office Specialties.
sell or  rent_ store building. Address 122 N. Washington, SAGINAW, Mich.
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county. Address No. 515, Care Michigan stocks of merchandise. Louis Levinsohn,
Tradesman. 515 Saginaw, Mich. 998

‘Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-
ing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 274 East
Hancock, Detroit. 666

For Sale—Good established grocery pee
business. Reason for_ selling, death of
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SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising
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Tradesman. 519 oe aS
a fi : sf 1000 letterheads or envelopes $3.75.

Man with years of experience in men’s Copper Journal, Hancock, Mich.
and women’s wear open for position. Can ee
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references. Address No. 511, Care Trades- good general merchandise business or
man. 511 other business for sale. State cash price

and particulars. John J. Black, 180 St.,
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Would like to exchange @ beautiful
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One rotten egg in a dozen
does not spoil the eleven
but cuts out your profit

IS the same way with your valuable papers
I | —which should be in a safe place—when

you have a fire and your books, inventory,
record of daily sales and record of purchases are
not in a fire proof safe. It is like a rotten egg ina
dozen; in fact, it is a rotten egg in your business,
because, ten to one, you don’t get the money you
are entitled to and you cannot reasonable expect
it either.

Prevent this possible loss. Buy a reliable safe to
store away your books and valuable papers every
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Do it right now.

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Proceedings of the Grand Rapids

Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 12.—In the matter
of Fred Gunther, Sr., Bankrupt No. 1960.
an offer for the assets of the bankrupt
has been received by the court and ac-
cordingly an order to show cause and
for sale has been made. The sale will
be held Oct. 22. The stock of the bank-
rupt consists of a general hardware
stock, implements, repair parts and also
one Buick K45 touring car, and the in-
ventory totals the sum of $5,542.96. The
offer filed in the court is in the sum of

$2,100.
Oct. 13. In the matter of Howard Fer-
gusen, bankrupt, the trustee having

filed in the court his petition that he be
instructed and permitted to sell the as-
sets of the bankrupt at public auction,
and the court having considered the same
best for this estate, an order for the
sale of the assets of the bankrupt at
public auction was made. The stock of
the bankrupt consists of general motor-
cycle parts, supplies and accessories. The
sale will be held at the place of business
that the bankrupt operated, 421 Division
avenue, S., Grand Rapids, Oct. 22. All
interested in such sale should be present
at that time and place.

Oct. 14. On this day was received the
adjudication in bankruptcy in the matter
of Frank Gallup, faakeupt 1993. The
bankrupt is a farmer of the township of
Irving, in the county of Barry. From
the fact that the schedules list little of

value as assets, over and above the large
statutory exemptions that this class of
bankrupt is allowed, the court has writ-
ten for funds for indemnity for expense
of printing and publishing. When such
funds are received the first meeting of
ereditors will be called and the writer
will at that time give the date of the
same. The matter has been referred to
Benn M. Corwin as referee in bankrupt-
cy. An examination of the schedules of
the bankrupt disclose assets listed in the
sum of $3,080 and liabilities in the sum
of $4,012.38. A list of the creditors of
the bankrupt is as follows:

Jas. Hopkins, Hastings ---------- $ 15.00
Miller Furniture Co., Hastings -_ 90.00
Universal Garage, Hastings ------ 492.00
Goodyear Bros., Hastings —- _.. 60.00
Scott Implement Co., Hastings 2 7000
Bol Boyianu, Hastings ____._.____-_ 75.00
- Henry Osborne, Hastings —-------- 22.00
Archie Tobias, Hastings ------.--. 20.00
Harry Decker, Hastings ~_-------- 22.00
Chas. Jacobs, Hastings —_._-__--- 96.00
Fred Biggs, Woodland ~~ -------- 140.25
Oakland Garage, Hastings ------~- 25. 00

Hastings National Bank, Hastings 175.00
Elaire Springer, Hastings 90
State Bank, Freeport —_--_------- 100.00

William Couch, Mastines .______ 40.00
Arctic Ice Cream Co., Hastings ~~ 129.63
State Bank, Freeport -_----~----- 1,200.00
Jason Insley, McComb, Ohio ~----- 600.00
Don Kascher, Hastings -~-------- 32.00
Jay Mead, Hastings ______________ 30.00
Goodyear Bros., Hastings  ~_~----- 30.00
Hastings Lumber Co., Hastings _. 100.00
Wallace & Bumford, Hastings --_ 80.00
John Mead, Hastings --_-_------- 15.00
Careth & Stebbens, Hastings ---. 17.00
Sassman Drug Co., Hastings —~----- 6.00
Chas. Freer, Hastings -~-_--------- 6.00
Chidisler & Butler, Hastings --.. 4.5
B. A. Kidder, Hastings ._._-__.--. 11.00
Kennedy Bros., Hastings —_~----~ 5.00
J. K. Frausden, Hastings -------- 5.00
Babbit & Rigby, Freeport _------- 20.00
Waldorf Bros., Hastings -~~------- 30.00
H. Spouable, Hastings ~----------- 11.00
E. M. Moore, Hastings ~----------- 8.00
Dr. Shiffield, Hastings ----------~- 7.00
Dr. Pratt, Hastings —___._______.. 6.00
Dr. Meler, Hastings ______-_______ 12.00
Grigsby & Edwards, Hastings ---- 25.00
Wm. Couch, Hastings -.----___.-- 20.00

Oct. 14. On this day were received the

schedues, order of reference and adjudi-
eation in bankruptcy in the matter of
Hans E. Glaeser, Bankrupt No. 1995. The
matter has been referred to Benn M.
Corwin, referee in bankruptcy. The
schedules of the bankrupt do not disclose
what business the debtor is engaged in.
The bankrupt lists assets in the sum of
$15,150 and liabilities in the sum of $6,-
320.14; $15,000 of the so-called assets of
the bankrupt consist of insurance pol-
icies which many times contain little or
no vaue to the estate of the bankrupt.
The first meeting of creditors will be
held on Oct. 28. A list of the creditors
of the bankrupt is as follows

City of Grand Rapids ____________ $184.68
Internal Revenue Dept., Grand
Manis 343.63
Grinnell Bros., Grand Rapids ----- 850.00
Dr. Alden Williams, Grand Rapids 4.00
F. C. Kaekel, Grand Rapids __.--- 98.00
Geo. M. Chandler, Chicago —_---- 18.50
Enterprise Upholstering Co., Grand
Maids (2 ee 96.00
Chis J. Ema, Grand Rapids -__--- 18.17
Wealthy St. Foral Co., Grand
Panis 34.39
Schank Chandelier Shop, Grand
Beas 43.90
Elizabeth Young, Grand Rapids —- 33.25
Hill Top Bake Shop, Grand Rapids 50.60
Porter Shop, Grand Rapids -_----- 303.75
Grand Marble & Fireplace Co.,
Grind Rapids 33.50
Kent Fuel Co., Grand Rapids ---_ 12.95

Tebbetts & Garland Store, Chicago 31.35
Canfield-Pearce Co., Grand Rapids 140.00
Dr. T. D. Gordon, Grand Rapids — 3.00
Herpolsheimer Co., Grand Rapids 1,029.57
nit. Craft Furn. Co., Rockford, ae

pids 55
Jona PS. Noel, Grand Rapids ------ 14.50

Dr. A. M. Campbell, Grand Rapids 61.00
Economy Dye House, Grand Rapids 3.50
Gas Light Co., Jrand Rapids .... 6.40
Friedman- Spring Co., Grand Rapids 164.89
G. R. Water Works, "Grand Rapids 9.56

Maxwell Ray Co., Milwaukee __._ 246.75
Hammer & Cortenhof, Grand
hans. 146.78

Dr. W. A. Stander, Grand Rapids 81.00
Citizens Tel. Co., Grand Rapids 3.07
Siegels, Grand Rapids --.--------- 94.38
Drake’s Market, Grand Rapids ~~ 154.57
Schutte Drug Store, Grand Rapids 109.50

Rason & Dow, Grand Rapids ~----- 95.00
Dunn Electric Co., Grand Rapids 131.04

3Zoston Store, Grand Rapids ---__-- 71.70
Klingman F urn. Co., Grand Rapids 27.70
B. S. Chapin, Grand Rapids —~---~-- 22.95
Himes Coal Co., Grand Rapids ---. 146.00

Westley Krsies, Grand Rapids -_ 130.31
Wurzburg’s Dry Goods Co., Grand

Hasvids oe 156.66
Higgin Mfg. Co., Newport, Ky. -- 252.00
Jacon Hefner, Grand Rapids ~---~- 18.00
Michigan Te lephone Co., Grand

Ranids <2. 7.19

Old National Bank, Grand Rapids 70, 00
Hotel Hanson, Chicago ----------- 250.
Hayes Electric Co., Grand Rapids 229.40

Oct. 17. In the matter of Frank Gal-
lup, Bankrupt No. 1993, the court is in
receipt of the funds necessary to defray
the expenses of the first meeting and,
accordingly, an order has been issued
calting the first meeting of creditors
Oct. 31.

—__—_ 2-2

Review of the Produce Market.

Apples—Wagner, Wealthy, Spys,
Baldwins and Alexanders command
$7 per bbl.; cooking apples, $6 per bbl.

Butter—The market is steady to
firm, with the receipts about normal
for this season of the year. The aver-
age quality is showing slight improve-
ment and there is fairly active de-
mand for the finer grades of creamery
butter. The market is slightly firm-
er, quotations having advanced about
lc per pound, while medium grade
creamery butter remains steady and
unchanged. Local jobbers hold ex-
tra creamery at 43c in 63 lb. tubs and
44c in 40 Ib. tubs. Prints 45c per tb.
Jobbers pay 20c for packing stock.

Bananas—7%c per lb.

Beets—$1 per bu.

Cabbage—$1.25 per bu.

Carrots—$1 per bu.

Celery—40c for ordinary and 60c
for Jumbo.

Citron—15c apiece.
mand.

Cranberries—Local jobbers hold
Early Blacks at $15 per bbl. and
$7.50 per % bbl.

Eggs—The market is firm on strict-
ly fancy eggs, which are in very light
supply at this writing. Other grades
of eggs are very dull and in very
light demand. Local dealers pay 45c
for strictly fresh, candled. Cold stor-
age are now moving out on the fol-

Very small de-

lowing basis:

Busts 2 ee 37c
Picsts in cartoms —_-__-.-------_ 40c
Seconds 2) 31c
Meck eee 30c

Egg Plant—$2 per doz.

Grape Fruit—Florida fruit is now
in market, selling at $6 per box for
all sizes.

Grapes—Tokay and Malaga from
California, $3 per 24 lb. crate.

Green Onions—Silverskin, 20c per
doz.

Honey Dew
crate of 8 to 9.

Lemons—Sunkissed are selling on
the following basis:

Melons—$2.50 per

300 size, per box =-----___-_--2 $8.00

270. size, per box 2-2. 8.00

24AQ size, per beK: —--=- 22 7.50
Choice are held as follows:

300 size, rer box 2-2. $7.50

P79 size, pet box 22. es 7.50

240. size, per box —_-.__-___-_-_ 7.00

Lettuce—Home grown leaf, 15c

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

per lb.; New York head, $3.50 per

crate.

Onions—California, $4.56 per 100
lb. sack; home grown, $4.25 per 100
lb. sack; Spanish, $2.50 per crate.

Oranges—Fancy California Valen-
cias now sell as follows:

00 and 100... $7.25
150, 176 and 200 -_____..-------- - 8.00
26 oo ee 8.00
Pee ie eee ee nee 7.50
Pe 6.50
a4 s- 6.00

Parsley—60c per doz. bunches.

Pears—Kiefers, $2.

Peppers—Home grown, $1.25 per
bu. for green; 30c per doz. for red.

Potatoes—$3. per 150 lb. bag for
home grown. Buyers all over Mich-
igan are paying $1.50 per 100 lbs.
which is equivalent to 90c per bu.
Tf they pay more they cannot find a
market at a profit and if they pay less
the farmers stop bringing spuds to
market, so the $1.50 price is stabil-
ized in all the potato growing dis-
tricts of which the Tradesman has
any knowledge.

Pumpkin—$2.25 per doz.

Quinces—$3 per bu.

Radishes—15c per doz.
grown.

Spinach—$1.50 per bu.

Squash—$2.75 rer 100 Ibs. for Hub-
bard.

Sweet Potatoes—Virginia command
$1.75 per hamper and $5 per bbl.

Tomatoes—$1.25 for 6 Ib. basket
from Florida.

Turnips—$1 per bu.
—_~+ 2s

Deducting Losses From Income.

Business men who were compelled
to take heavy losses last year will be
interested in an amendment to the
tax bill offered by Senator Capper.
This proposes to allow a deduction of
net losses incurred in 1920 from the
taxable income of the present year.
It makes: retroactive the section of
the present Senate bill, which pro-
vides that the losses incurred in any
taxable year after 1920 may be de-
ducted from the income of the suc-
ceeding year, and that if the losses in
any year exceed the income in the
year succeeding, the remainder is to
be deducted from the earnings of the
next year. As 1920 was the year of
big losses, it is possible that the
Capper amendment will be of more
practical importance to large numbers
of business men than the Senate’s
original provision. The fact, how-
ever, that the losses in that year were
large may make the retroactive pro-
vision for their deduction a very ex-
pensive undertaking for the Treasury,
depriving it of a great but at present
unascertainable amount of revenue
for the next year, and this at a time
when strenuous efforts will have to
be made to avoid a deficit even with-
out such a deduction. Such an ob-
jection is likely to outweight any con-
sideration for the plight of those who
during the current year have had to
borrow money to pay taxes on in-
comes that when the deflation of war-
time values set in proved to be large-
ly paper affairs.

——ee——_—_

His head may be higher, but his

feet are on a level with yours.

for home

     

“teresting speaker,

October 19, 1921

 

Losses Due To Parsimony of Coun-
try Bankers.

Lawrence, Oct. 14—I gladly voice
the same sentiments expressed by
hundreds of readers of your valuable
journal, as I consider it one of the
best trade journals I have ever taken
and can only wish you, my dear sir,
many more helpful and success years.

There is one more great work you
can do for this State and that is to
use your influence and sterling fear-
lessness to suppress the awful wave
of crime which is sweeping over our
land. Only last night our bank was
broken into by yegs. Tying the
watchman in the basement, they then
attempted to blow the vault oren,
but did not succeed. Now the idea
I have formulated is that each town
having a certain population and a
bank be permitted to maintain a cer-
tain number of our State militia. Say
a town the size of Lawrence to have
four armed soldiers. Such a force
could, I believe, suppress this crime
wave to quite an extent. I do believe
that you are the man to put it
through. There certainly should be
something done along this line, for
it is coming to pass when no business
house is safe for a minute. Think
it Over. . J.D. Sams.

The Tradesman believes there is a
better way to curb safe breakers than
to keep paid officers on the job to
circumvent them or prevent their
bagging the plunder they seek. There
would be no safe breakers if the banks
purchased safes which are proof
against attack. Four such safes are
now being made in this country and
sold at reasonable prices; but because
a country banker can “save” a couple
of hundred dollars by furchasing a
safe which is an invitation to the
yeggs to call and tap it, nine out of
ten succumb to the blandishments of
the crafty salesmen who appeal to
the “economy streak” in the country
banker and sell him a safe which is
like putty in the hands of the exper-
ienced dynamite operator. Whenever
you hear of a bank safe being blown
open, it is useless to attribute it to
anything but the foolishness and par-
simoniousness of the banker who was
narrow minded enough to buy a safe
which would not carry its contents in
safety against any attack. Whenever
yeggs are not fully informed as to
the character of the safe in the vault
and find that it is one of the impreg-
nable kind, they content themselves

‘with gorging their bags with Liberty

bonds from the flimsy deposit boxes
maintained behind skeleton vault
doors by most country bankers and
never give the safe more than a pass-
ing glance.

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Score another run for a A. J. Scott,
Secretary of the Michigan Hardware
Association, in securing the services
of Samuel A. Davis, retail specialist,
to address the dealers and clerks on
“Successful Retailing—Selling Ser-
vice” at their twenty-five group meet-
ings, Sept. 19 to Oct. 22. His talks
have proven a hit, because of his wide
experience in department store work,
bringing to the members ideas and
information from other angles than
hardware to get out of “rut think-
ing.? Mr. Davis is an unusually in-
bringing new in-
spiration into the state conventions.
An active member of the Cleveland
Advertising Club, he has been store
service director for many of the larg-
est department stores.

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