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POUNDERS

General Jobbers and Manufacturers of
Settees, Lawn Vases, Roof Crestings, Carriage
Steps, Hit g Posts and Stair Steps.

54-56 N. Front St. Grand Rapids, Mich.

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FUNERAL DIRECTORS,

 

 

 

 

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How to Keep a Store.

By Samuel H. Terry. <A book of 400 pages
written from the experience and observation of
an old merchant. It treats of Selection of Busi
ness, Location, Buying, Selling, Credit, Adver-
tising, Account Keeping, Partnerships, ete. Of
great interest to every one in trade. $1.50,

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids.

WwW. C. WILLIAMS.
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WILLIAMS,
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& BROOKS

Successors to

FARRAND, WILLIAMS & CO.,
Wholesale Druggists,

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Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories,
Machinery, etc., made to order from photo-
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Drawing Made to Order.
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A. SHELEY.

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNES DAY, OCTOBER 15, tsi

WOOD CORKS.

 

Experience of the Inventor of Wooden
Bottle Stoppers.
PART Il.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

The fame of this strange and wonder-
ful product and the name of its inventor
now became the theme of conversation in
thousands of households and many indi-
viduals were always ready with a sample
or two in their pocket for exhibition to
their friends. From the day laborer to
the capitalist, the Secretary of the com-
pany was besieged to sell a portion of
the stock; even female investors in stocks
also made application. The press lauded
its superior qualities and prophesied its
success and fortunes for the members of
the company. Wilson’s two companions
were elated, and they insisted upon ob-
taining foreign patents, which the com-
pany, while managing the United States,
could sell to advantage. At every meet-
ing of the directors, Wilson objected to
increasing the boundaries of the work
until it was possible in some way to fill
at least half the present orders for stop-
pers with which they were flooded.

One important article of commerce
which entered into the manufacture of
these stoppers had lately advanced 100
per cent. in price, and, asno other known
substance could take its place, the ques-
tion of a margin of profit left to the com-
pany was already a serious one, while, as
yet, no device had been made to facili-
tate and cheapen the cutting of the wood.
Said Wilson, at one of these meetings,
‘‘Gentlemen, we are pushing forward too
rapidly in one direction only. We are
without sufficient funds to obtain ma-
chinery, raw material and the adequate
labor to fill the orders which are pouring
in upon us. We cannot now procure the
necessary funds without great sacrifice
and a serious injury to the stock, yet in
the face of this dilemma, you ask that
we apply for numerous other patents. 1
am discouraged at the prospect, but I will
not oppose you.’’ Wilson’s objections
were silenced and applications for pat-
ents were forwarded to Canada, Great
Britain, France and Belgium; and there
was serious talk of obtaining a Russian
patent also. This, of course, necessitated
the immediate expenditure of a consider-
able sum of money.

All three of the principal stockholders
at once offered for sale sufficient stock to
meet the demand, but were compelled to
sell at low rates; yet it was quickly
taken. It will be seen that at this time
Wilson was no more sanguine of the suc-
cess of his patent than he ever had been.
He seemed to have an intuitive percep-
tion that failure in some manner was to
be the ultimate result; and, although he
was up early and late and toiling with
both brain and hands at the work, still
he would gladly have parted with his
entire interest for a mere nominal sum
and withdrawn from the company and
the distress and embarrassment of mind
it was rapidly forcing upon him. He was
ina high degree conscientious with re-
gard to his patent. It pained him to
think that a failure to succeed would

 

“NO. 369.

| saa a total loss to the people of small
means who had invested and who could
illy afford to suffer. The blame, he rea-
soned, would probably rest upon him, be
he innocent or guilty. Where, he
groaned, is the mechanic who ean suc-
cessfully cut this wood by machinery!
He more than ever realized that the
invention was patented before it was per-
fected, and this thought almost drove him
to madness. To be congratulated and
feasted, wined and dined and _ fiattered,
with this knowledge staring him in the
face, caused him to feel like a reprieved
criminal, and he longed to leave the
scene of his troubles. He had parted
with a sufficient amount of his stock to
leave hima balance of a few hundred
dollars and now if ever, he reasoned, was
the time to return to the east and visit
his wife and children, from whom he had
been separated four years. Making
known his desire to the directors of the
company, it was agreed that he should
remain in the east for a time and, if pos-
sible, establish a branch factory there
and look for other kinds of wood that
might answer the purpose better, also
endeavor to perfect machinery that would
perform the work. It was now the last
of May and, once decided upon, Wilson
made rapid preparations for departure.
The company was to continue to carry
on the manufacture to the best of its
ability in San Francisco, in his absence,
and agreed to ratify any arrangements
he saw fit to make, in the east, with re-
gard to pushing the work there.

It will be remembered by the reader
that the ‘‘wood cork fever,” so to speak,
was now at its height and the least whis-
per in regard to the patent swept over
the State with telegraphic speed. The
fact that the President of the company
was going east to establish a branch
manufactory and that so many foreign
patents had been applied for, increased
the public desire for stock, and the day
before Wilson was to leave the coast, a
well-known gentleman and _ capitalist
offered him $10,000 in gold for his entire
interest in the patents already issued and
pending. Wilson had previously issued
a few thousand shares of his stock to his
wife and children and, deducting this
amount and that which he had sold from
his one-third interest, left only about
26,000 shares of the stock in his hands.
And just here, where a severe trial
between selfishness and duty would have
blackened the character of some men, the
staid Quaker tuition of Wilson withstood
the test, nor wavered for an instant, and
duty and honor prevailed. He frankly
informed the gentleman that a verbal
agreement between himself and his two
friends, to whom a joint assignment of
the United States patent was made, pre-
vented either of them from transferring
his interest, without the full and free
consent of the others, and any offer could
not be entertained until after a confer-
ence with his colleagues. The gentleman
then .asked for an answer before his
departure, which Wilson promised to
give. It would be better, perhaps, to
draw a veil over that last evening meet-

    

2

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

ing between the three persons most
deeply interested in the fate of the
“Wood Cork Co.,” but a few words may
serve to exhibit the strength of the bond
of true friendship between them. The
meeting was not stormy. On the one
hand, Wilson, struggling with poverty;
anxious to sell to the wealthy stranger
and pleading for permission to do so
honorably; on the other, his two gener-
ous friends, watching over his interests
with a parent’s eare, and yet desirous of
granting him anything in their power
eonsistent with conscientiows duty,
formed a truly pathetic scene in that
little office. ‘‘We cannot consent,” said
his two friends, ‘‘that you should deliber-
ately throw away half adozen fortunes
for the paltry sum you mention. It
would be unkindness to you, and injus-
tice to your family; but after this last
plea, if you still ask for a release from
our verbal agreement and will not listen
to us, we grant it. We will borrow the
necessary amount and become the pur-
chasers of this stock at the price you
name, rather than witness the sacrifice to
another.” Wilson now rose to his feet
and, in a voice choked with emotion,
answered: ‘‘My true friends, yow can-
not purchase this stock from me at any
price! Notwithstanding your confidence
in our ultimate suecess, I differ with you,
and will not be a party to your possible
financial embarrassment, but would
gladly sell to this stranger, who, in any
event, would not be driven to poverty
and suffering.’’ Thus ended all negotia-
tions for a transfer of stock, and the fol-
lowing day Wilson left the city for Chi-
eago. Friends accompanied him as far
as the State capital, where a small dele-
gation of capitalists boarded the train
and were introduced and importuned him
for stock in his company.

Late in the autumn of the year in
which he returned to the east, an old and
time-honored friend of his, then residing
in Michigan, being shown a few speci-
mens of the new bottle stoppers, was so
favorably impressed with them that he
lost no time in writing and asking Wil-
son to visit him at the earliest oppor-
tunity, as he desired to talk business in
connection with the cork. As this gen-
tleman was at the head of a proprietary
medicine manufactory, using a large
quantity of corks yearly, he was natur-

ally not only a competent judge of the

article, but was deeply interested in the
production of a better quality than the
bark stoppers he was using. He was
quite enthusiastic over the beauty, as
well as the superior qualities the wooden
eork possessed. He was at that time
putting up thousands of bottles of a lini-
ment which in time destroyed the bark
eork, and upon being assured that this
new stopper would stand the test of
time; that they would not break off in
the bottles, as the others did; that they
could be rapidly driven in place; and,
lastly, that an ordinary cork screw would
perforate them and draw them more
readily than the other, he cried out, as
all others had done before: ‘‘There is
millions in it.”

[CONTINUED NEXT WEEK]

—_—_————-o-<—____——

A Trick of the Wires.

A Denver merchant was recently mar-
ried with great eclat, but he is already
unhappy. He is unhappy because an
Associated Press dispatch, which an-
nounced that he had married a handsome
Colorado woman, got mixed in transmis-
sion, and he now has the reputation of
having married a handsome colored
woman.

 

The Possession of Wealth Not a
Crime.

Written for THe TRADESMAN

The United States may be compared to
a seething, boiling cauldron in its ever
restless population. Each individual
atom is striving for the ascendency and,
seemingly, puts forth every effort to ac-
complish its purpose. The staid and
tardy resident from the Orient who at
first looks with wonder and curiosity at
our haste soon catches the contagion,
loses his indentity and becomes to all
intents and purposes one of our people.
In this universal race for wealth and
fame, the few outstrip their fellows and
the majority are too apt to find fault
with those who have been successful,
either intellectually or financially, as if
it were a crime to possess either intellec-
tual or financial superiority. The cry of
thief and dishonesty, simply because a
man has wealth, or is accumulating it in
a legitimate manner, should cease. Many
persons inherit all or a part of their
wealth. Should they refuse it? Isita
crime to receive a gift of thousands?
Many seem to act as if they thought so.

We actually need the men of wealth
among us. Remember also, that wealth
has wings and can—and often does—fly
from its possessor. But it alights in the
hand of another, and it is right that it
does change. It is also right that we
always have these persons of great wealth
among us, else no really great public
enterprises could be undertaken. Wealth
may for atime but does not always re-
main in the same hands or family. Not
all who make or inherit property have
the ability to keep and properly take
eare of it. Mankind varies in natural
talent and tact for a business capacity,
as much as in form or feature; and none
so perfect, but their equal will appear.
So to speak, there is always ‘‘a fool in
the family’’ at one time or another; and
he or she will certainly scatter the ac-
cumulations of their ancestors. Having
nothing else to do they propose to show
the world that they possess talents, ca-
pable of adding to their millions, but,
making a misdeal in the reckless anxiety
to outdo all others, they suddenly find
the family tree has fallen.

We grumble at the unequal distribu-
tion of wealth and think we should pos-
sess our due proportion. To-day, if it
were possible to apportion the entire
wealth of the nation equally and say to
them all, ‘‘It is yours; make good use of
it,’’ how long, reader, have you an idea
it would thus remain? How long before
the same sober, educated and far-seeing
class of men would honestly and legally
hold it again? Poor humanity is weak
and foolish and, while one individual
would be greatly benefited, half a dozen
others, in the excess of their joy, would
lose their reason and good sense, and, in
pursuing that course they now condemn
in others—endeavoring to increase their
wealth without labor or even an equiva-
lent—would part with their small por-
tion at the cup or gaming table before
the next morning.

Had we no persons of wealth among
us, no really great public. enterprises
could be undertaken. What has made
this intricate net work of railroads pos-
sible all over the country within the last
two decades? The accumulation of
money in the hands of financial talent.
What has reared the magnificent palaces

that beautify every city in our land?
What has founded institutions of learn-

ing and charity toa far greater extent! Etc.

ESTABLISHED NEARLY 30 YEARS.

Michael Kolb & Son.,

ONE OF THE OLDEST AND MOST RELIABLE

Wholesale Clothing Manvfactvrers,

ROCHESTER, N. Y.

 

The name of Michael Kolb is so famil-
iar in the clothing manufacturing busi-
ness, he being a practical mechanic from
his boyhood, and so great in his judg-
ment of the stability of goods that other
manufacturers ask at the mills or their
representatives for what Mr. Kolb has
and make up

bought, and his styles

are being constantly imitated. Their

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goods are always reliable and sold to
retailers at one and the most equitable
prices and terms. It will pay merchants
who have not seen their line to write
their representative, WILLIAM CON-
NOR, Marshall, Mich., to call upon them,
and if they decide tosbuy, they will soon
find that they will save money and busi-
ness increase. All garments guaranteed
as represented.

WILLIAM CONNOR,

For eight years our Michigan representative, attends periodically at Sweet’s Hotel,
in Grand Rapids, where many merchants meet him, and whose expenses are paid.
Mr. Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 16 and 17.
Room 82.

Muskegon Cracker Co

CRACKERS, BISCUITS AND SWEET-GOODS.

LARGEST VARIBTY IN THE STATE

SPECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS.
457, 459, 461, 463 W. WESTERN AVENUE, MUSKEGON, MICH.

No Connection with Any Cracker Trust
THE WALSH--DE ROO MILLING GO,

HOLLAND, MICH.

 

 

 

 

Daily Capacity.
400 Bbls.

BRANDS:

SUNLIGHT,
AISY,
PURITY,
MORNING STAR,
IDLEWILD,
DAILY BREAD,
ECONOMY.

SPECIALTIES:

Graham,
Wheatena,
Buckwheat Flour,
Rye Flour,
Bolted Meal,
Rye Meal,
Wheat Grits,
Buckwheat Grits,
Pearl Barley,
Oat Meal,
Rolled Oats,

 

SOLICITED.

ELOGiInE; OTI: CoO.

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Oils

and Makers of Fine Lubiicants.
OFFICE—19 and 21 Waterloo St, WORKS—On C & W. M. and G. R. & I. R. R.,one
Telephone No. 319, | mile north of Junction. Telephone No. 611-3R
The largest and most complete oil line in Michigan. Jobbers of all kinds of
Cylinder Oils, Engine Oils, W. Va. Oils, Lard Oils, Neatsfoot Oils, Harness Oil,

“CORRESPONDENCE |

 

Signal Oil, Axle Grease, Boiler Purger, Kerosene Oils, Naptha, Turpentine, Lin-
seed Oils, Castor Oil, Cooking Oils, Axle Oils, Machinery Grease, Cotton Waste,
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BR ape renee Seems

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‘ventors wealthy.

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

than any other nation? What, except
great private wealth, has given—even to
the poorest—the luxuries of art and
science in almost every section of our
country? Without this accumulation of
wealth, we should not have had them.
Have they benefited the laborer and
poorer classes? Let the people of this
most prosperous nation on earth answer.
Our people of large wealth are—most
of them—large-hearted and liberal, not-
withstanding the assertions of their en-
vious enemies. There are those located
all over our land whose every other
fault is lost sight of in their thoughtful-
ness and noble generosity. Grand Rapids
has them in her midst, and is proud of
them. They pay thousands for the grat-
ification, education and amusement of
those who otherwise might never hope to
listen to the best eloquence and talent of
both hemispheres. FAIR PLAY.

ee
Fortunes in Small Inventions.

Every little while the newspapers take
up the subject of inventions and tell
their readers how many have made for-
tunes outof smallinventions. The Pitts-
burg Dispatch gave the other day a list
of small things that have made their in-
It commences with
the pen for shading in different colors,
which yields an income of $200,000 per
annum. Therubber tip at the end of
lead pencils has already made $100,000.
A large fortune has been reaped by a
miner who invented a metal rivet or eye-
let at each end of the mouth of coat or

. trousers pockets to resist the strain

caused by the carriage of pieces of ore or
heavy tools. Ina recent legal action it
transpired in evidence that the inventor
of the metal plates used to protect the
soles and heels of shoes from wear sold
upward of 12,000,000 plates in 1879, and
in 1887 the number reached 143,000,000,
producing realized profits of $1,250,000.

A still more useful invention is the
‘“darning weaver,’’ a device for repairing
stockings, undergarments, etc., the sale
of which is very large and increasing.
As large a sum as was ever obtained for
any invention was enjoyed by the inven-
tor of the inverted glass bell to hang over
gas to protect the ceilings from being
blackened, and a scarcely less lucrative
patent was that for simply putting emery
powder on cloth. Frequently time and
circumstances are wanted before an in-
vention is appreciated, but it will be seen
that patience at times is well rewarded,
for the inventor of the roller skate made
over $1,000,000, notwithstanding the fact
that his patent had nearly expired before
its value was ascertained.

The gimlet-pointed screw has produced
more wealth than most silver mines, and
the American who first thought of put-
ting copper tips to children’s shoes has
realized a large fortune. Upward of
$10,000 a year was made by the inventor
of the common needle threader. To the
foregoing might be added thousands of
trifling but useful articles from which
handsome incomes are derived, or for
which large sums have been paid. Few
inventions pay better than patented toys.
That favorite toy, the return bali, a
wooden ball with an elastic attaclied,
yielded the patentee an income equal to
$50,000 a year, and an income of no less
than $75,000 fell to the patentee of the
“dancing jimcrow.’’

The invention of ‘‘Pharaoh’s serpents,”’
a toy much in vogue some years ago, was
the outcome of some chemical experi-
ments, and brought the inventor more
than $50,000. The sale of the little
wooden figure, ‘John Gilpin,’’ was in-
eredibly large for many years, and a very
ingenious toy, known as the ‘‘wheel of
life,’ is said to have produced upward
of $100,000 profit to its inventor. One of
the most successful of modern toys has
been the ‘‘chameleon top,’’ the sale of
which has been enormous. The field of
invention is not only vast and varied, but
is open to everybody, without respect to
sex or age, station or means.

——- ~~.
Morrice—A. B. Clark is building a
brick extension to his hardware store.

 

Up Goes the Upper Berth.
From the Minneapolis Tribune.

The Supreme Court of Minnesota de-
serves the benedictions of all travelers.
It has sustained the State Railroad Com-
missioners in ordering that the upper
berths in sleeping cars, when not occu-
pied, shall not be kept open against the
wishes of the occupants of lower berths.
Every railroad traveler has angrily re-
belled, dozens of times, against the stupid
meanness of the rule that keeps unused
upper berths down, to prevent the un-
happy man below from enjoying suffi-
cient air. That rule has been the cause
of more bumped heads and more semi-
excusable profanity than any other fea-
ture of our traveling system.

HIRTH & KRAUSE,

HEADQUARTERS FOR

Russet Sho

Porpoise Shoe Laces in light, medium

 

Polish,
Buttons,
Laces,

and heavy. Parisian Leather Reviver,
Glycerine Leather Reviver, ‘‘Rubberine’’
waater proof dressing. We carry 138
distinct shoe dressings and a complete
line of Shoe Store Supplies. Send us

your orders.

MAKE MONEY

BY SAVING IT.

 

I am in New York to purchase goods
of all kinds for responsible people in any
section of the country. My connections
are with the best houses, and my refer-
ences shall be satisfactory to you.

I can save you money.

I want your account.
Write.
S. L. McGONIGAL,

37 College Place, N. Y. City.

Grand Rapids Fire Insurance Co

CASH CAPITAL -

 

 

$200,000.00

Fair Rates.

Prompt Settlements.

Call on our agent in your town.

JULIUS HOUSEMAN, President.
S F. ASPINWALL, Secretary.

 

 

Playing ards

WE ARE HEADQUARTERS

 

SEND FOR PRICE LIST.

Daniel Lynch,

19 So. Ionita St., Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

 

[_ ee Ae a CO,

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Foreign and Domestic Fruits.

9 No. IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Headquarters for Jersey Sweet Potatoes

WE HANDLE MICHIGAN POTATOES IN CAR LOTS.

MieeP SLES D J. BRO WwW wR,

Wholesale Fruit Commission Merchant and Dealer in All Kinds

Farm and Garden Seeds.

We are direct receivers of California and Florida Oranges and make a specialty
of BANANAS. Headquarters for all kinds GRAPES. Regular price list sent
weekly, and special prices quoted with pleasure.

THE ALFRED BROWN SEED AND FRUIT STORE.

We Manufacture

Everything in the line of

~ Gandy

Correspondence solic-

ited and prices quot-

ed with pleasure.
Write us.

 

We Are Headquarters, as Usual, for
Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Fruits
and Produce Generally.

GRAND RAPIDS FRUIT AND PRODUCE GO,

C. B. METZGER, Proprietor.

3,NO.LIONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS.

PaREiIiNS & BESS

DEALERS IN

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN,
WF CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILE USE

WHOLESALE

COMMISSION MERCHANTS.

SPECIALTY

POTATOES!

No. 166 South Water St., Chicago.

Offers of stock for direct purchase, in car lots, will not be entertained unless
quality, size, variety and condition of stock is stated, condition guaranteed, and
price named per bushel delivered track Chicago, with weights guaranteed not to
fall short over two per cent. from invoice billing.

WM. RR. KEELER,

JOBBER OF

Confectionery and FT (8, Nuts and Cigars,

412 SOUTH DIVISION

 

Fair cash advances made on consignments,

 

TELEPHONE 92-3R,

My stock includes everything generally kept inmy line, which | sell at rock bottom
prices. Send me your mail orders. 1 will guarantee satisfaction.

MOSELEY BROS.

—WHOLESALE——
Fruits, Seeds, Oysters? Produce.
All kinds of Field Seeds a Specialty.

If you are in market to buy or sell Clover Seed, Beans or Potatoes, will be
pleased to hear from you.

26, 28, 30 and 32 Ottawa St. - -

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS

 

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

AROUND THE STATE.
Owosso—Work is to be commenced on
the Williams block next week.
Jasper—Fred Jeffries succeeds Jeffries
& Holmes in the meat business.
Stanwood—Barnard & Weaver succeed
Chas. F. Barnard in general trade.
Monroe—Hurst Bros. have purchased

the dry goods business of E. F. Mills |

& Co.

Mecosta—Ferris & Thomas have pur-
chased the meat market of W. A. Slaw-
son & Co.

Muskegon—N. J. Boyce has purchased
the interest of his partner, L. B. Glover,
in the drug business.

Horton’s Bay—J. Carroll has removed
his general stock to Traverse City, where
he has re-engaged in trade.

Overisel—J. Den Herder & Son, dealers
in dry goods and groceries, have sold out
to Hartgerink & Van Duine.

Muskegon—Thos. Richar’s fine store
building, veneered with brick, will be
ready to occupy in a few weeks.

Onekama—Amos Shaw has sold his
meat market to J. H. Rogers and C. J.
Vogel, who will continue the business.

Casnovia—John E. Johnson has pur-
chased the building formerly occupied by
J. E. Pareell and put in a furniture stock.

Lansing—Ronk & Baughman’s new dry
goods store will be opened about Oct. 25.
Both partners are now in New York pur-
chasing the stock.

Harbor Springs—Henderson and Harry
Martin have formed a copartnership un-
der the style of Martin Bros. and engaged
in the buying and shipping of produce.

Battle Creek—O. B. Frisbie is erecting
a new business block of two stures, 35x70,
three stories high. He will occupy one
of the stores with a paper and paint stock.

Manistee—F. J. Gaubatz and
Gaubatz have formed a copartnership
under the style of Gaubatz Bros. and
purchased the hardware stock of J. Baur.

Traverse City—John Helm,
dealer at this place, has opened a branch

general store at Burdickville, which will |

be conducted under the style of N.C.
Helm.

Fruitport—G. S. Putman has sold his
general stock to Geo. Truax, grocer at
Spring Lake, who will remove his stock

is ce d continue “ siness | .
to this place and continue the business |) \. goes outside.

at the old stand.

Harrietta—J. C. Benbow is erecting a}

new store building here and will engage
in general trade as soon as the building
is completed, removing his stock from
Hartford to this place.
Belding—J. M. Earle,
L. L. Holmes and H.

Z. W. Gooding,
J. Leonard will

each erect a store building, making a!

brick block of four stores on the main
street. Excavations for the basements
are being made and the work will pro-
gress while favorable weather will admit.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

Schooleraft—Earl & Brown succeed
F. H. Earl in the lumber business.

Belding—The new silk mill will double
the amount of its present machinery.

Sault Ste. Marie—It is reported that
the saw mills of Hall & Buell, at Bay
Mills, will shortly be removed to this
place.

St. Louis—Josiah B. Locke is succeeded

by Isaac Cole in the manufacture of |

cigars.

Tawas—C. D. Bennett’s shingle mill
has averaged 31,500 shingles daily this
season.

Philip |

general |

| National Bank.
‘of the check to time, the company being
‘compelled to pay all costs of suit in|
The |

| Midland — The Midland Woodenware
| Co. has incorporated, with a capital stock

of $5,000.

Detroit—T. H. Lynch & Co. are suc-|

cessors of Groesbeck & Lynch in planing

| mill and lumber.
Alabaster—Kenny Bros. & Martin have |

suspended operations in their shingle

mill for the season.
Ishpeming —William

have disposed of their planing mill to

Cc. J. Burns, and talk of closing out their |

yard also.

Ypsilanti—The newly-organized Ypsi- |

lanti Lumber Co. has acquired the yard
conducted by S. W. Parsons & Co. pre-
vious to their assignment.

Thompsonville-—C. B. Bunton, anager |

of the Thompson Lumber Co., will erect
a store building, 30x70 feet in dimen-
sions, with a public hall overhead.
Owosso—The building of an addition
to the Owosso Cart Factory, 50x100 feet,
has been commenced. It will be two
stories high and completed the present

month.

Evart—Cowen & McLennan have sold
their Middle Branch shingle mill and the
timber on thirty-one forties to Geo. B.
Ehrencrook & Co. The new firm has
already taken possession.

Thompsonville—The new mill of the
Thompson Lumber Co. is nearly com-
pleted.

added to the plant, giving it a daily

‘capacity of 25,000 feet of finished floor- |

ing.
Marquette—-Edward Fraser, who has

been running a small sawmill near this |
' city for fifteen years, has about finished
| his stumpage tributary to that mill and
'talks of putting up a mill near Trout

creek.

Bay City—The superintendent of the
Tittabawassee Boom Co. says the output
of the boom this season will be about
300,000,000 feet, or nearly that quantity.
The company has been hindered by low
water, but the recent rains have been of
some benefit.

3ay City—There is a rumor that an ex-
tensive car manufactory is to be estab-

‘lished on the McGraw property, at the

south end of the city, giving employment
to several hundred men and working up
some of the timber of this section which

—___»>4+->___—

Stopping Payment on a Check.
An interesting law point—not gener-

ally understood by business men—was |
| brought out last week in the case of a |
dishonored check by the Fox Machine Co.
The company gave E. A. Munson a check |

for the amount of his August account,
subsequently stopping payment of the
same. In the meantime, Munson had
turned the check over toa third party,
who thereupon garnisheed the account
of the Fox Machine Co.
This brought the maker

order to release its bank account.
advice given the defendant by Butter-

field & Keeney was that payment on a}

check cannot be stopped after it has

passed out of the hands of the person in |

whose name it is given.
—__ + <———_—
Five Thousand for a Boom.
Casnovia has voted to bond the village

| for $5,000, for the purpose of creating a

Walton & Co. |

It is 26x100 feet in dimensions, |
and a planing mill and dry kilns will be!

 

at the Fifth |

MULTIPLY AND INCREASE.

|An Interesting Chat About a Well-
Known and Popular House.
From the New Erxgland Grocer.

‘“‘Multiply and Increase”? were words
suggested to our representative while he
| was out on the street, last week, looking
'in here and there and noting business
conditions and progress. Among other
| places, his footsteps lead through Broad
street, where he entered the establish-
of Messrs. Chase & Sanborn.
‘Multiply and increase’? seem to find
| practical illustration at Chase & San-
born’s, Nos. 85 and 87 Broad and 6 and 8
| Hamilton street, opposite. Judging by
the volume of business they are doing
| this year there seems to be no limit to
| their multiplying andincreasing. These
words suggest growth and prosperity
|from an ideal standpoint. Indeed from
|the year of the inception of this house it
| has experienced a constantly increasing
| business, and the year 1890 will show the
j} almost phenomenal result of an increase
lof over $1,000,000. Naturally this in-
| crease has demanded increased facilities,
|and they have accordingly secured as an

addition to the large building now oc-

|eupied by them, the adjoining building
‘at the corner of Hamilton and Battery-
march streets. That they might be able
to fill their daily orders they have, dur-
ing the last two weeks, been forced to
run their roasting department nights,
something unusual in the coffee business,
land their daily output has been over
| 50,000 pounds, which has been immedi-
ately shipped on direct orders from their
| trade. A record such as this house has
made, is deserving of more than passing
|notice. They are a credit, not only to
the wholesale grocery trade of Boston,
but as representative merchants of the
metropolis of New England. For years
they have not only unquestionably held
the position of much the largest dealers
of tea and coffee in New England, but
with their largely increased business
they can now justly claim to be the
| largest roasters and sellers of mild coffees
| in the United States.

|
j

| ment

; Replying to the question of how to
| account for the growth and maintenance
| of so large a business, an active member
lof the firm said with a laugh, ‘‘Well,
principally by minding our own business,
which, in detail, means carefully study-
ing our business, its needs and wants—
|having no outside investments or ven-
tures to occupy our time—letting the
business of our neighbors alone, import-
ing fine goods, collecting around usclean,
| honorable and active salesmen, hustling

all the time, on the principle that ‘you
|must hustle while you have the legs,’
|}and ‘there are no birds in last year’s
eggs, and then, what is all important,
treating every customer, whether buyers
of one chest or 100 chests, straight and
| squarely.”’

An aggregate volume of $5,000,000 is
not an out of the way amount of business
| to consider that this house will do in the
|year 1892, judging from the past. If
prosperity begets prosperity, then it
would seem that the retail grocer can find
|no better place to tie up to than Chase &
| Sanborn, for their tea and coffee.

The success of this house has been at-
| tained labore et honore.

| fund to be given some manufacturer who

| will locate there and give steady employ-
ment to a certain number of men.

H. T. Chase, Grand Rapids, represents
the above house in this territory.

 

M.D. Bailey, for the past two years assis
tant cashier of the Northern Kent Bank,
at Cedar Springs, will take the position
of book-keeper for the Grand Rapids
Savings Bank on Nov. 1.

 

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

Advertisements will be inserted under this head for
two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a
word for each subsequent insertion. No vertise-
ment taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

"a SALE—AT A BARGAIN A SMALL STOCK OF
drugs, also two counters and prescriptien case.
For information, address Druggist, care of Michigan
Tradesman. 118
OR SALE—A FIRST-CLASS DRUG STOCK AND
business in Grand Rapids worth $2,500 must be
sold owing to the absence of proprietor on account of
sickness; correspondence solicited. Address O. H.
Richmond & Co., 141 South Division street., Grand
Rapids. Mention this paper. 97
ss SALE—THREE-STORY FRAME HOTEL, WITH
good stone basement and connected with large
two-story barn, located opposite railroad depot in one
of the most prosperous cities in Michigan, with a pop-
ulation of 14,000; price, with furniture and good will,
big bargain, $8,000. Address A. C. Frost, Alpena,
Mich. 116
R SALE—$300 STOCK OF DRUGS. ADDRESS J. B..
eare Michigan Tradesman. 115
OR SALE—A NICE CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS,
located on corner in a good town of 6,000 inhabi-
tants; good point for a physician; nice paying trade;
owner has other business to look after. N. H. Winans,
3 and 4 Tower Block, Grand Rapids. 11
OR SALE—A TRACT OF TIMBER, CONTAINING
about 100,000 feet oak, 30,000 pine, 50,000 ash,
cherry, maple and basswood, 1,000,000 hemlock, one
mile from White River; price, $2,000. Address Lock
box 896, Big Rapids, Mich. 109
OR SALE—ONLY MILLINERY STORE IN TOWN OF
2,300 population; also light stock of fancy dry
goods; good chance for making money. For particu-
jars address No. 110, care Michigan Tradesman. 110
OR SALE—BRADT’S BAZAAR AND MILLINERY
store at Flint, Mich. 103
i SALE—STOCK OF HARDWARE AND BUILD-
ing in the best town of Northern Michigan. Ad-
dress No. 96, care Michigan Tradesman. 96
re SALE--25 PER CENT. BELOW COST, ONLY
hardware stock in Baldwin, lively town on line of
two railways; ill health compels sale; store building
cheap. Joseph H. Cobb, Baldwin, Mich. 84
y=; HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A
general or grocery stock; must becheap. Ad-
dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman. 26

SITUATIONS WANTED.

YOUNG MAN WOULD LIKE A POSITION IN A
tA. general country store; has had five years’ experi
ence; good salesman and stock keeper; can keep
books if required; wages moderate. Address B, care
Michigan Tradesman. 120
V ANTED—SITUATION BY REGISTERED PHARMA-

cist of 7 years’ experience; good reference.
Address No. 119, care Michigan Tradesman. 119

ITUATION WANTED — BY A PHARMACIST OF

four years’ experience; best of references. Post-
office Box 170, Bangor, Mich. 114

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ok Tradesman Coupon, which is now in use by over
5,000 Michigan merchants—all of whom are warm in
praise of its effectiveness. Send for sample order,
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION,

Notice is hereby given that the partnership
heretofore existing under the firm name of F. L.
Burger & Co. was dissolved Sept. 12 by mutual
consent. The business will be continued by
F. L. Burger, who assumestll ndebtedness and
will collect all money due the se.1 firm.

f. L. BURGER.

E. E. Cross.

Bicycles,
Tricycles,
Yelocipedes

= = AND

General Sporting Goods

Agents for A. G. Spalding & Bro.’s

 

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Sporting and Athletic Goods and
American Powder Co.’s Powder.

 

_We have on hand a complete line of Columbia,
Victor and other cheaper bicycles, also a splen-
did assortment of Misses’ Tricycles, Children’s
Velocipedes and small Safety Bicycles.

E. G. Studley,

4 Monroe 8St.,

Call and see them

or send for large,
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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

 

Frank Heath, the Sparta grocer, has
effected a settlement with his Grand Rap-
ids creditors on a basis of 50 cents on the
dollar.

J. R. Harrison, dealer in dry goods and
boots and shoes, at Sparta, will adda
line of groceries. I. M. Clark & Son are
putting up the stock.

Mrs. John M. Ferguson has sold her
grocery stock at 321 South Division street
to Hatch & Stuart, who will continue the
business at the same location.

S. R. Gee has opened a grocery store
at Reed City under the management of
C. F. Shaw. The stock was furnished by
the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.

C. M. Woodard, formerly engaged in
general trade at Kalamo, has opened a
notion and bazaar store on Plainfield ave-
nue. H. Leonard & Sons furnished the
stock.

L. Winternitz has abandoned the vine-
gar and pickle business and will devote
his entire time hereafter to Fermentum
compressed yeast and the Woolson Spice
Co.’s goods.

Mrs. Gustav Mueller, formerly engaged
in the dry goods business at 450 South
Division street, has returned from Chi-
eago and re-engaged in the same business
at 488 South Division street.

Chas. E. Pearson & Co., dry goods
dealers at Fremont, have changed ‘the
firm name to Pearson Bros. & Co. and
added lines of clothing and groceries.
Musselman & Widdicomb furnished the
latter.

 

 

Thos. J. Torrence, for the past seven
years with H. Leonard & Sons, has rented
a store at 29 West Western avenue, Mus-
kegon, and will open a stock of crockery,
glassware, house furnishing goods and
toys next week.

R. D. Swartout, who recently retired
from the firm of Spring & Company,is cur-
rently reported to be laying plans for
the formation of a stock company, with
$250,000 capital, to embark in the whole-
sale dry goods business here.

A movement is on foot to circulate a
petition among all the wholesale houses,
asking that business be suspended at
noon on Saturday. The project appears
to meet with unbounded enthusiasm
among the clerks, but the proprietors do
not view it with any degree of favor, so
far as THE TRADESMAN is able to ascer-
tain.

Wm. McBain has been elected Secre-
tary and Treasurer of the Grand Rapids
Brush Co., sueceeding Jas. A. McKee,
who has held that position ever since the
inauguration of the company, nineteen
years ago. The active management of
the business has been vested in John D.
M. Shirts, who possesses ample ability
and energy to conduct the same success-

fully.

—_—__— 4+ <<
Purely Personal.
W. R. Mandigo, druggist and grocer at
Sherwood, was in town last Thursday.
L. E. Miller, general dealer at Shipshe-
wana, Ind., was in town last Thursday.

Heman G. Barlow spent several days |
He was accom-|
| Bros., of Grand Rapids.

Mr. Morrell, of the grocery firm of |
Morrell & Campbell, Katkaska, was in|
town last week, by reason of his being on |
the jury list of the United States Court. | known.

last week in Chicago.
panied by his wife.

 

Jay F. Ferris has sold his residence at
40 Madison avenue to Wm. P. Conklin,
the Ravenna merchant.

Ed. M. Gay, of Petosky, has taken the
position of prescription clerk for A. H.
Lyman, the Manistee druggist.

Geo. G. Bates, book-keeper for the
Northern Michigan Lumber Co., has gone
to Tanderagee to begin operations.

Walter R. Meech has resigned his posi-

tion with I. M. Clark & Son, to take the |

position of floor walker for Spring &
Company.
Miss Nelle B. Rogers, lately with Paige

& Strachan, Detroit, has taken the posi- |

tion of stenographer for the Hazeltine &
Perkins Drug Co.

W. J. Clark, the Harbor Springs gen-
eral dealer, was in town several days
last week, called hither as a petit juror
in the United States Court.

THE TRADESMAN will give a copy of a
noted painting to the person guessing
the date nearest the one on which Wm.
P. Granger will be married.

Chas. N. McWhorter, formerly loca-
manager for R. G. Dun & Co., but for the
past two years traveling representative
for the same institution, has taken the
management of the Saginaw office.

John Shields, formerly engaged in the
wholesale grocery business here, but for
the past year engaged in the same busi-

1 uess at Colorado Springs, Colo., is in

vn for a few weeks, the guest of John

» udall. He is accompanied by his wife
and son.

et

Gripsack Brigade.

W. H. Gardiner has gone on the road
for J. S. Walker.

John N. Louckes has engaged to travel
for J. L. Strelitsky.

Frank Collins, who travels in Nebraska
for W. F. McLaughlin & Co., of Chicago,
was in town several days last week.

Max Mills’ patent cash register is now
in the last stages of completion and will
be ready for inspection by the latter part
of the present week.

W. R. Mayo, traveling representative
for C. N. Rapp & Co., has returned from
a two months’ absence in Indiana, buy
ing melons and placing potatoes and
onions.

W. B. Tyler, who has traveled the past
year for the Buffalo Forge Co., has en-
gaged to travel for B. F. Sturtevant, of
Boston, covering the manufacturing
towns of this State.

Anthony J. Quist, city salesman for
the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co., will here-
after act as house salesman and stock-
keeper. He is succeeded among the city
trade by Arthur Fowle, who has _ hereto-
fore acted as receiving clerk. The posi-
tion left vacant by Mr. Fowle has been
assumed by John Pain.

 

~~» -2 <<
The Harbor Springs Iron Mine.
HarRsBoR SpriINnGs, Oct. 11.—The Busi-

ness Men’s Association having tempo-
rarily ceased the investigation of the
iron ore deposits about nine miles north
of this place, the work has been assumed
by J. H. P. Hughart, in behalf of the
G. R. & I. Railroad. A contract has been
made with local well diggers to sink a
drive well 300 feet, which is expected to
disclose the existence of iron ore, in
which case a shaft will be sunk for the
purpose of ascertaining whether it exists
in paying quantities to warrant the or-
ganization of a mining company.

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The Philadelphia patent flat-opening
back is controlled in Michigan by Barlow
Don’t fail to
have your next ledger or journal bound
with it. It adds very little to the cost
and makes the strongest blank book ever
Send for prices.

 

 

 

 

 

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Write for Discounts.

G. R. MAYHEW, ”

 

Grand Rapids.

 

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time, paying roundly for this buying ‘‘hand to
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which, while it is not pure linen, is equal in
writing qualities and appearance to that cost-
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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Dry Goods.

 

 

HOLD UP YOUR HEAD.

 

The Only Way to Succeed Is to Respect
Yourself.

From the Monetary Times.

Pleasant though he may be with his
politeness and yieldingness, the meek
and overmodest man has buta poor pros-
pect in the business world. We may not
like the cheeky and agressive man, but
we are sometimes compelled to listen to
him. He has self-confidence; he has per-

severance; he has what the Americans |
And he sticks to his point |

term ‘‘gall.’’
until we either kick him out or listen to
him. Which is the worse—this sort of
person, or the timid, deferential, self-
abasing man, distrustful of his own pow-
ers, fearful of his own abilities, dreading
lest there be no room in the broad world
for him? The man who goes through the
world belittling his own efforts and
capacities is to be pitied. He frightens

 

away happiness and success, forgets the |

charm of the bright skies above him, and
through casting his eyes always earth-
ward, allows his shoulders to acquire a
settled stoop.

That such a man is more likeable, even
with his faults, than his opposite, the
ultra-aggressive man, is one reason we
feel like giving him a lift; and no better
assistance can be given him than to open
his eyes to himself—to infuse a little
self-esteem into him.

As a boy, having no faith in himself,
he attempts little, and that little he aban-
dons early, seeing in a molehill of diffi-
culty too large a mountain for him to
climb, as he estimates himself. He is
apt to be a copier of others, discrediting
his own ability to judge independently,
and is constantly keeping in the back-
ground because he recognizes in himself
nothing worthy of parading in a front
rank. Through tribulation, he grows to
the years of manhood and, if not sub-
jected to the curative discipline of a dis-
cerning parent, he comes faltering into
the battle of life, possessed by no hope
of succeeding therein. There are men of
good abilities who have gone through
years of their manhood before they got
over this depressing timidity and belit-
tling of their own abilities that grew out
of the early influence of such a man as is
above described.

Faith in one’s self wins many a battle.
Let a young man believe persistently in
himself, and many a victory will come
to him in consequence thereof, unless he
be really sadly lacking in good parts.
Hold up your head, middle-aged man,
you who have heretofore been in the
habit of saying and thinking that you
could not do anything in competition
with someone else. Lift up your eyes;
remember your Creator; think of all the
good points in your composition and con-
tinue thinking of them, until you find a
foundation for faith in yourself. When
you reach this stage obstacles will be
less insurmountable than they now ap-
pear. Let this fact be impressed upon
you—that faith in yourself is one of the
strongest of allies.

Blunder you may; some of your foot-
steps may land you backward instead of
forward; but keep on. Don’t lose faith,
and refuse positively to believe that
backward is your normal course. For-
ward is the course of the man who has
arrived at the condition of believing in
himself.

If happiness is what you seek, you al-
ready know by bitter experience that
your old course does not bring it. Your
shrinking from the battle, because you
think some competitor is qualified to
outfoot you, does not produce happiness.
If wealth is your god, did you ever hear
of aman being successful in that direc-
tion who sat down and whined because
he was not able to compete with someone
else ? Think it over. Straighten up,
and reason yourself or coax yourself into
believing in ‘‘I.””’ And when you have
crystallized the faith into resolve of ac-
tion, success is rapping at your window
trying to get at you.

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Ludington—Joseph Blouin has sold his
meat business to R. Hansen.

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ae 73¢| Dwight Anchor. :... 8%
Pree... .. 7%)

UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
eee BS... 5%4/[Mi iddlesex No. ‘....2
Se, 6% oe

i Bi ces owe v . =
Miadicecx AT...... 8 - - J...
pele ues c . 2.2.8

 

BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL,

Eoeeiton M......... 7%
Middiesex PT. ..... 8
- A. 9
» ae 9
- BY... 10%
DRESS
aaa ues 8

-10%

@G Cashmere...... 21

ee es veces 16
eee 18

Middlesex A A amie 11

 

enna 2
o 5 13%
va eae 17%
. Bi oie: 16
gooDs.
Paes... .. ....- 20
ol es 25
ee ees 27%
Se 30
ee 324%
of at nnn 35

CORSET JEANS.

peeeerors..:......... 6 |Naumkeag satteen.. 7%
Brunswick. .... .... Gui Bockport........... 6
PRINTS.
Allen, pete... .._. 5% Merrim’ ckshirtings. 4%
rer. ....... 54% Repp _— 8%
" OR. ns 5 Pacific fancy.. .©
American fancy.... 6 es is
American indigo.... 63;! Feckeneuth robes... 6

American shirtings.
Arnold
- long cloth B. 10%

“ century cloth 7 7

=“ poe... 10%

“ Turkey red..10%
Berlin solids........ 5%

oe mourning.. oi

bi

Hae Solid black.

8% Washington indigo. 6

“ Turkey robes.. 7%
“ India robes.... 7%
: plain = "ky x x, ox

 

= a oeee..... 6%! “ Ottoman tar
oe... Sane Oe.  . 6
Cocheco fancy...... 6 |Martha Washington
' madders,.. 6 Turkey red X..... 7
Eddystone fancy. .. 6 {Martha Washington
Hamilton —— . 6%| Turkey red........ 9%
= at Riverpoint rebes.... 5
Manchester ancy. Windsor fancy...... 6
new era. oy . old ticket
Merrimack D fancy. 6 indigo blue....... 10%
were
Amoskeag AC A.. ie wn ec unas _
Hamilton cease ts ere AAA..
ecco ck nn “30%
' siatcaagia Switt eek... ..... 5 ™%
Pareeer...... . os oe eever......... 12%
First Prize.......... 11%; Warren. cee cies eu ee 14
COTTON DRILL.
— co ac ene cx Bete 8
hice cace bee OE pee eek week ies
cation, a Tl * a 10
SATINES.
Simpson eee eee ee. 20 oor Re owenee aoe 10%
SAEs 18 Black........-.. 9@ 9%
ee ee 10%
Coscnes...... ...... 10%

 

 

 

 
 
 
  

 

 

DEMINS.

Amoskeag.......--- 124 |Jaffrey........ .....- i

sa San..... 14%|Lancaster.........-. 12%

- brown .13 Lawrence, $0z sake’ 18%
Ameo ......5..... 11% oo...
Everett, — SES 12 - No. 250... “hw

brown. ....12 . No. 280....10%
GINGHAM
Gilenarven.... ...... os concetter, staple... 6%
Lancashire... on - fancies . 2
Normandie. - Normandie 8
Renfrew Dress Wi estbrook oe cene 8
Toil du Nord.. ‘iid104 eens oe 10
Amoskeag cece esas BER aes) eee genes 6%
Bas... 1084 meebo... . ...... 6%
Permian....... ..-- 8%] Windermeer.... .... 5
ee 6%|Cumberland.... .... 5
Were. 2.5 i021. cd, 4%
CARPET WARP.
Peerless, white...... 18%4|Peerless colored. ..21
GRAIN BAG
Amoskeag........- ae Valley Or... .... .- =
Barmony....- ..-..- 17 jGeorgia.... ........
Se ES ee 20% |Pacific .:.... i
ee 17
THREADS.

Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's........... 88
Cor. 2. a e...-..-  \Marsaeir's.... ...... 88
Holyoxe. ........+-+- 22%

 

KNITTING COTTON.

 

 

 

  
 

 

 

  

White. Colored. White. Colored.
Rae. 6... 2 38  .... 42
. 2. = i 43
. -......2 — 44
“1... “a 5” 45
CAMBRICS.
See. ose. 4%4|Washington......... 4%
White Star......... 4%|Red Cross........... 4%
id GlOWe........ 2.40 44\Lockwood.... ...... 4%
Newmarket......... ey 4%
Bawards............ 46 peuewece .... ..... 4%
RED FLANNEL.
a ons ice ee R%
Creedmore OO! 32%
Talbot XXX...-..... _ wae, Eee......... 35
Nemoiess........... Sti buckeye... ........ 32%
MIXED FLANNEL.
me & Blue, — = cook wW......... 17%
Utes &...... .. —— Me ics --18%
Windeor....-. ce BaID an --18%
6 oz Western........2 Flushing XXX......23%
Usain &......-..-.. 226) Manitoba.... ....... 23%
ae FLANNEL.
Nameless ..... | = Lo 9 @10%
eo “O10 kes 12%
CANVASS AND PADDING.
Slate. ‘Brown. Black.|/Slate. Brown. Black.
9% % 914/13 13 13
10% 10% 1044/15 15 15
11% 11% 114/17 17 17
12% 12% — 20 20 20
Severen, § oz........ 9% West, Point, 8 = -10%
Mayland, ea 10% 10 Oz....12%
Greenwood, 7% oz.. 9% Raven, 1002 bebe ce eas 13%
Greenwood, 8 oz. japan 18%
WADDINGS.
Wane. Gos.......-. 25 _— bale, 40 doz....87 50
Cofored, Gos........ 20
SILESIAS.
Slater, — Crom... B Trans... ...... 10%
Red Cross... e a boeees
= ee 10%! Bedford.... . "i
Y Beat AA..... 12% /Valley City......... 10%
CORSETS.
Comies............, 89 50/Wonderful .... .... " %
Scontiner sa. ....-... 9 00 —e os eee 475
SEWING SIL
Corticelli, doz. ...... vi) Corticelli knitting,
twist, doz..37%| per %oz ball...... 30
50 0 yd, doz. .37%

 

COKS AND EYES—PER GRO

 

 

No 1 BY “7 & White. = No z BI ké& "White.. 15
-20
ss 3 _ \ “B C 10 ‘ . 25
PINS.
No 2—20, M C....... 50 |No4—15, F 3%......40
* B-Je, 2 U....---0 —
ON TAPE.
No 2 White & Br i. 2 No 8 White & Bl’kr..20
“oe 4 o 10 “ \ 23
“ 6 “ -. “ 12 “a <n
SAFETY PINS.
Mee 6.6L = ee... 2, 36
NEEDLES—PER M.
A. a. aaa 1 50|Steamboat.... ...... 40
Croweiy' se. ...4.. 4 1 SiGow Byed.......... 150
Marsha Vs ce! 1 00
TABLE OIL CLOTH.
5—4....2% 6—4...3 26)5—4....195 6—4...2 9

a

 

P. STEKETEE & SONS,

WHOLESALE

Ury Goods and Notions,

Fall Line of Dress Goods, Flannels, Blankets,
Yarn, Underwear, Hosiery and Gloves.

GRAIN BAGS—Stark, American, Amoskeag, Harmony, Park, Georgia and

Valley City.

 

WADDINGS, BURLAP, TWINE, BATTS and COMFORTS.

88 Monroe sand 10, 12, 14, 16,% 18 Fountain Sts, GRAND RAPIDS,

 

Volgt, Herpolshelmer & C0,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

Dry Goods

NOTIONS AND HOLIDAY GOODS.

Manufacturers of

Shirts, Pants, Overalls, Ets.

Complete Fall Stock now ready for
inspection, including a fine line of Prints,
Underwear, Pants, Gloves, Mittens and
Lumbermen’s Goods. Chicago and Detroit
prices guaranteed.

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, - - MICH

 

WHOLESALE.

 

Carpets, Linoleums,
Mattings, Oil Cloths,
Rugs and Mats, Dra-
peries, Brassand Wood .
Poles, Brass Rings,
Brackets, Etc.

Send for circular and price list.

SMITH & Sautord

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

BEACH’S
New York (foffee Rooms.

61 Pearl Street.

Five Cents Each for all dishes served
from bill of fare.

Steaks, Chops and All Kinds of Order
Cooking a Specialty.

FRANK M. BEACH, Prop.

J.&PCOATS

 

 

BEST

SIX-CORD

Spool Cotton

WHITE, BLACK AND COLORS,

FOR

Hand and Machine Use.
FOR SALE BY

 

P. STEKETEE & SONS.

 

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADE SMAN.

 

 

HARDWARE.

 

Cheap Tinware.
From the Industrial World.

When will people learn sense as to the
value (?) of the so-called cheap articles
of tinware now so prominent on the popu-
lar 5 cent and 10 cent counters of certain
business houses? There is absolute dan-
ger in using these imitation tin goods,
which are coated with an adulterated
mixture of cheap and poisonous metals,
the basis being antimony. Of course the
vast majority of people who buy these
goods are women, who know very little
or nothing of tin or antimony. All they
appear to care about is how cheap is it;
not how good. ‘This latter cuts no figure
in their minds. All they think of is,
“how much can I save 2”? Now it is our
opinion that the hardware merchants,
who are pretty well posted on such mat-
ters, as to the difference between cheap
antimonial-coated goods and the tinware
sold by them, should take the matter in
hand,. and whenever a customer speaks
disparagingly of the price of their goods
—say a coffee pot: ‘Oh! I can get one
just like that, same size, for 15 or 20
cents,’’? (as the case may be.) You are
asking, say 25 cents—take it upon them-
seives to explain the difference, not only
as a matter of self defense, but to pro-
tect the ignorant from their own folly
and indiscretion in such matters. Let
our merchants do this in a quiet sort of
way, calling attention to the difference
in quality, weight, and the visual evi-
dence to be noted in the article, and it
will be only a question-of time before the
bargain-counters will be less frequently
visited. Indeed this fact is already ap-
parent in many of our country towns and
villages, quite a number of these bargain
stores and counters being very much less
patronized than they were when they first
commenced business.

i 0
Decline to Enter the Trust.

Only two manufacturers have declined
to enter the shot trust—Latham Bros., of
New York, and the Raymond Lead Co.,
of Chicago. These factories turn out
about half the total shot output of the
country.

——~>_+-
Queer Signs.

Among the queer signs in a town not

far from Grand Rapids is a combination

not seen often: ‘‘George A. Eayres,

 

dealer in general merchandise. Under-
taking in all its branches. Embalming

promptly attended to.
shingles, clapboards, ete., ete., sawing to
order. Blacksmithing, repairing, wagons

of every description. Artistic job print-
ing, saws filed.”
Meat CUTTER
Tre LaTEsT,
BEsT ano
Most Improved
ror Famity Use.
CUTS

Instean oF Masnes.

Lumber, lath,

 

   
   
  
 
  
  
   

REQuIRES
No Repairs.

EQuatteo
By NoNE FoR
Famity Use.

SimPce To Use.

Easy To CLEAN.
CANNOT GET Dutt
OR OuT oF
Orbe.

No. 1—$2.00.

No. 2—$2.75.
Liberal discount to the trade, and

No. 3—$4.00,

descriptive circulars on application to

AMERICAN MACHINE Co.,

MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWARE SPECIALTIES,

Lehigh Ave. and fenericna. *., St., Philadelphia, Pa.

JOHN H. j. GRAHAM & CO.,
Mnens. Acents, | 213 Chambers St., New York,

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

  
  

   

 

SASH CORD.

 

 

Silver Lake, Wee A... list 50
Drab A 55
< Wome 8... ..: 50
han Dat G.............. 55
. Wh 35
Discount, 10,
SASH WEIGHTS.
UE Oe per = ag
SAWS.
- ee a
Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot,.... 70
oe Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50
_ cial Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot.. 30
= ch hampion and Eleciri¢ — a
Cuts, per foot.. : i. |
“TRAPS. "ais.
oe Came. 60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s........... 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.... 70
mone, Choker. 2 18¢ per doz.
Mouse, COMIMAGHE ss. $1.50 per doz,
WIRE. =
rte
tment MEMOS 70-10
Coppered Markee... 5... 5... ss. 60
aeneee Merhet..... 6... 62%
Copperes Sprmag Steel... 8... 50
Bar ed enuee, Salvaniacd................. 8 @a
ieee. 3 00
HORSE NAILS,
A ee. dis. 25&10@25&10405
Pee. dis. 05
DIGrGMWeMtCNT. wu ol. dis. 10&10
WRENCHES, dis.
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
Coe’s Genuine . ea a =
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, . aeues
Coos Patent, malicaiia..................._. 75410
MISCELLANEOUS. dis.
Fer Cee ew 50
Pompe, (ieee, z
Dosowe, ew lim...
Casters, ea and Viete........... .....- sds10810
Dampers, American... — 40
Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel goods... oe 65
METALS,
PI@ TIN.
me Te 28¢
CO 30¢
ZINC,
Duty: Sheet, 24c per pound.

600 pound ating A 14
POE OM 7%
SOLDER.
Fe 18
PORE WEP ee 15

The prices of the many other qualities of
solder in the market indicated by private brands
vary according to composition.

ANTIMONY.
oe , per pound 16
REAAC 13
TIN—MELYN GRADE.
10x14 IC, Charcoal ee ee 3700
Ss lc 70
10x14 i, - 8 75
a 87
Each sation X on this grade, 81.75.
N—ALLAWAY GRADE,
10x14 - Charcoa eee ce ee a ol $6 25
ete 6 25
10x14 1x Deedee ee eee cu aa, te
ase. ——. 2
Each Caditional X on this grade $1.50.
ROOFING PLATES
14x20 IC, - Wace... 6 25
14x20 IX, . — ee 7
20x28 IC, [ Se 13 00
14x20 IC, " Allawey Grace.......... . oo
14x20 IX, " " 7 00
2x2 IC, rf 7 11 50
20x28 1X, ‘ " ae 14 50
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
oes Ee $i4 00
——....l,l,..L...,CtC;sSCCSCi«zésésa«siCis .- 22 oe
te 7 for No. § Bollers, | per wiles es

 

APPLE PRESSES,

Serew and Lever.

 

 

 

SPECIAL LOW PRICES.

Foster, Stevens & Co.,
WHOLESALE HARDW ARE.

; ELS. dis.
Prices Current. Stanley Rule and teat Gos... 7
KNoBs—New List. dis.
These prices are for cash buyers, who | Door, mineral, jap. trimmings .............. 55
‘“ Door, porcelain, gap. teimaaings..._........ 55
pay promptly and buy in full packages. Door, porcelain, plated trimmings.......-.. 55
oor, porcelvin, tr — |... . 55
Snell’s AUGURS AND BITS. ~, Drawer and Shutter, porcelain.....__. 70
coe A ik bl ne as il a ei 0 LOCK8—DOOR. dis.
Seanieait pies wteee ener eeerernccstonrees or, | Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’ 8 new list ....... 55
Joniden Witteten 50&10 a & Co.'s ' a
AXES. Norwailk’s ........ 55
nn Sn le "916.00, dis. 60
“ RES see 9 50 Hunt Eye. Co eee eee gooey oe $15. 00, dis. 60
“ Punts... ds ee a $18.50, dis. —
en - Sperry & Co.’s, Post, eeted | i
Re 8 14 00 _ MEL. dis.
ON net 30 00 Coffee, Parkers Co. a 40
BOLTS. dis. P.8. & W. Mite Co.'s Mallesbles.... 40
NE a 50&10|  ‘‘ Landers, Ferry & Clr .k’s............ 40
CeaCO BOW aa ‘“  Enterpri _ abe wndne syne one “ 25
OO ee 0810
Pegmeeie eC cs 60410
BUCKETS. Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 25
8 : 50 ILS
Wee WIGel ee 4 00} Steel —_ nave ee cee ee lee 2 10
en CAST. Gi | re OAR ee 2 65
Cast Loose Pin, figured........ 2.2.2.0... “i oe
Wrought Narrow, eke Seat polms.........- 10
Wrought Loose Pi cei. 20
Werte eee 20
Wrongnt inside Bling... ............... . 8. 30
ee 75 35
ee 7&10 35
Blind, Parkers.......... eet eestor ee, Ga 70&10 40
Per, HO ee 70 50
BLOCKS. 65
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 40 | 4 =
CRADLES, 2 00
eee dis. 50&02 2 00
CROW BARS. 1 a
CONG OOCE es, a ele ee perb 5 1 25
CAPs. 1 00
Bret per. m 65 13
Hivk’s ee 6 1 50
eee . 35 7
eee _ 60 i : : 15 ; =
ee ae 2 50
ee 50 PLANES. dis.
Coeee: Ce dis. 25 | Ohio Tool Co.’ ee @4
CHISELS. dis. ae ae wee pease er steerer on
Bnduncy Tool Cos, faney.................
a ae a OMG Cree GUSHeW @60
Socket Corner... a a Stanley Rule and — Co."a, wood... .... &10
BOOMS UN a
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer................... Tia oe aie °
COMBS. dis. RIVETS. dis.
Curry, Lawrence’s — at tren Am Te. tc a 40
TOC a | Copper Rivets and Hurs..................... 50
CHALK PATENT FLANISHED IRON.
: : “A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@12% dis. 10 | «RB» Wood's 8 pa at. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20
COPPER. Broken packs 4c per pound extra.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size...... per pound 31 uty
Siac 14a tere 29 — inch and larger Se aidan eae aes wes allele a
Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... 22 .2.00007) Se re 8 prc tr laa uaa dis
— Rolled, BWI conn nn ser eerenteis ores nnne = Steel and Iron..... . Oe eee ee ese dv uae. "%
TO ew, . 30 eee 60
DRILLS, eT 20
Morse ae BM Biceks................. 3... 50 SHEET IRON.
Taper and straight Shank............. ——- 50 Com. Smooth. Com.
Mores Paper tnson..... |... 6. oo ¥ - 2 Ee " = . =
DEREHNG PANE. ae. CS OCR
Snell eines, ser pond ....................., hoe eee 4 20 3 20
PERG SIGCR, POT POUNG................ 21... ikea ein. 4 40 340
ELBOWS. oe ceaee aa oa 4 = ; —
1 . m sheets No an ghter, over nches
Com. Spaces, OW, doz. net (6) wide nak leon than 2 J0lacten
id i ee dis. 20&10&10 aa Para,
OURO dis. 40&10 List acct. 19, ’86.. dis. 40&10
EXPANSIVE BITS. dis.
Clark’s, small, 818; 7 , $26 Redelee scene sete 30
Ives’, 1, 818; 2, a4; Desi etedase aa Ps)
ice List dis.
Disston’s . - -60&10
Now America 60&10
Ce 60&10
Soren ©. 4, ee 50
Heller’s Horse Rasps...... cde cde 50
GALVANIZED [RON
Nos. 16 to 20; 2 — 24; 2% and 26; 27 28
List 12 14 15 18
Discount, 60
GAUGES. dis.
Stanley Rule and Level Co,’s..... ......... 50
HAMMERS,
— verbiage ee dis. 2
ee. dis. 2%
See eo Piers... 8... dis. 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................. 30c list 60
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. ...30e 40&10
HINGES.
Gate, Ciark's, 1,2,8........-............ dis.60&10
ee r doz. net, 2 50
ag? — and Strap, to 12 in. vii 14 and ~
a
screw ‘Hook and Eye, Zé Bees esse ceed net )6 6C0
ee lene eee net 8%
ss * se = Dibeee ee cee cuee net 7%
ss “ " uae. net
Rees dis. 70
HANGERS. dis
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track.. 50810
Coamorm, antl friction.................... 60&10
Brcaoce, wood Gaemk ...........
HOLLOW WARE.
oe oes eee cas eee 60
ce a ae 60
cece teens eees 60
rs CEN ea 40&10
HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS,
Stamped Tin Ware... ... -new list 10
Japanned Tin a ee
Granite trom Ware... 2... 6..0:.. new list 334% .&10
WIRE GOODS. ae
ee a pt
Screw Mee conn = 10&10 | 10 and 12}Monroe; Be.
PN a ee ce ua ee sede ec tnee. -70&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes.. caveeds) +> See

 

 

 

33, > 37, 39 and 4],Louis St.,
RAND “RAPIDS, MIOH

 

    

8

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

The rate ssp Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

A WEEKLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Retail Trade of the Wolverine State, |

Tradesman Company, Proprietor.

 

Subscription Price, One Dollar per year, payable
strictly in advance.
Advertising Rates made known on application.
Publication Office, 100 Louis St.

Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office.
E. A. STOWE, Editor.

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1890.

 

 

FROM BUSINESS TO POLITICS.

A patron of THE TRADESMAN writes |
to enquire whether this paper is on the}

side of protection or free trade.
If the

MAN would undoubtedly have been glad
to have joined in but
having been dragged into partisan poli-
tics, it must be settled in a partisan man-

the discussion;

ner, with little regard to the merits of |

the case.

In the opinion of THE TRADESMAN, the |

position of every patriotic citizen should
be this: If protection is the better policy
for this country, let us have it; if free
trade is the better, let us have that. It
is a business question that has been
made one of partisan politics. Instead
of being guided by their plain, every-
day, sense, the majority of
men blindly follow their party, whether
its declarations on this subject are good
or bad. Take a tariff plank from a
political platform, and strike the party
name from it, and there are very many
voters who would be utterly unable to
identify it. For example, take the fol-
lowing from an 1890 platform:

We favor a tariff which, yielding a
revenue adequate to support the govern-
ment economically administered, will
fully compensate for all differences be-
tween the cost of manufacturing in this
and foreign countries, including the cost
of labor; and we demand that the present
tariff be reformed so that the duties upon
imported goods shall bear less heavily
upon articles which laboring men are
compelled to buy than upon luxuries,
and that, as far as practicable, raw ma-
terials for manufacturing be put upon
the free list.

Now, many voters, simply from
reading that resolution, would know
what party adopted it? There are many
who are considered well-informed poli-
ticians who cannot tell whether it is the
work of western Republicans or eastern
Democrats. It is a plain, moderate state-
ment of sound doctrine; it is neither
high protection nor theoretical free trade.
If this plank, or one similar, were
adopted as part of the next national
Democratic platform, nearly every Demo-
crat in the country would heartily sup-
port it; if it were adopted as part of the
next Republican platform, nearly every
Republican would support it, and nearly

business

how

every Democrat oppose it.
tics. It is not business.

 

NOT SO BAD.

It is somehow remarkable how rapidly
the newspaper talk about the mortgaged
farmer is subsiding.
tions were circulated, printed in papers
that were in agony over the suffering of

the farmer, and sent to Congress, asking |
fora census of the farm mortgages of |

the country. Congress passed the neces- |
sary legislation and the count began. It |
was very soon found that the country |
was not mortgaged nearly so much as the |
papers which expected to make capital

tariff had remained a business |
question, pure and simple, THE TRADEs- |

This is poli-|

Last winter peti-|

out of the census supposed, and a cry

was raised that the enumeration was not |
|a fair one by some, though a large num-
|ber admitted its correctness and on a)
| basis of facts at once revised their old |
| editorials on the oppression of the mort-
'gage. Inno state is the mortgage in-
debtedness one-half what it was claimed
| to be, while in some it is not one-fifth |
the claimed amount.
That there are a large number of farm-

ers suffering under mortgage debts is not |

| to be doubted. This is especially the

| case in the newer states and territories,

ae where the money shark is most abundant

/and where returns from new ground come
That this debt, like any other
| debt, is a misfortune, in the sense that
|it is worse to be in debt than to be out of

'in slowly.

fortune in the sense that it would have
| been better for the farmer not to have
| gone in debt, but to have struggled on
| without borrowing money is in the very
large proportion of cases not true. A
large proportion of this money was bor-
jrowed for the purpose of making im-

| provements on the farms, for purchase
money, for stock or for other needs of
| the farm that made the borrowing a ne-
cessity to successful farming, and it has
paid well to borrow.

Debts can never be paid by sitting on
soap boxes in a corner grocery and say-
ing mean things about monopolies. Mon-
opolies are bad enough, but they don’t
take near as much from some people as
street corner loafing does.

 

In voting to bond the village for $5,000
to be expended as a bonus in subsidizing
some manufacturing establishment, Cas-
novia has assumed a grave responsibility.
The fact that the trustees of the village
have this sum at their disposal will make
them the prey of every impecunious
adventurer who happens to hear of the
transaction and they will find thatit will
be impossible to exercise too much care
in selecting a manufacturer who will be
able to give them value received.

 

VISITING BUYERS.
FROM MICHIGAN.

Den Herder & — L M Wolf, Hudsonville

riesland a N Wait, Hudsonville
Thos Boven, Holland L Cook, Bauer
LA Knowles, W Troy CS Kiefer, Dutton
M Heyboer& Bro., Goksene G Ten Hoor, Forest Grove
H Meijering, Jamestown F J Eilenberg, Fowler
H Van Noord, Jamestown J F Ranning, Manistee
M A Side, Kent City J B McDonald,Three Rivers
W R Lawton, Berlin RA Brown & Co, Edgerton
W D Struik, Byron Center = C Clapp & Son,Mendon
N Bouma, Fisher W R Mandigo, Sherwood
Smith & Bristol. Ada Eli Runnels, Corning
D F Watson, Ada EE Hewitt, Rockford
D M Skidmore, Alto Geo A Sage, Rockford
L Schrock, Clarksville John Gunstra, Lamont
A C Barkley, Crosby Whitaker & Corey,Bronson
J Riddering, Drenthe WH Pipp, Kalkaska
T H Condra, Lisbon 8 A Howey, Lake City
W H Watts, Bowne Center C Champlin, Mendon
F Narregang, Byron Center H T Baldwin, Luther
CK Hoyt & Co,Hudsonville C8 Comstock, Pierson
John Damstra, Gitchell AR McKinnon, Shelby
Notier& Verschuer,Holiand Mrs LA Knowles, Stetson
A D Lashill, Oakfield R K Finch, Saranac

C C Barton, Big Rapids Barry & Co., Rodney
M M Robson, Berlin Watrous& Bassford »WTroy
M M Brooks, Austerlitz Maston & Hammond,

GH Walbrink, Allendale

W MeWilliams, Conklin

Smallegan & Pickaard,
Forest Grove

J F Aenry, East Paris

W 8S Root, Talmadge

E J Mansheam, Fisher

I F Sleesman, Alpine

JD Adams, Alpine

Grandville
John Baker, Chauncey
J Kinney, Kinney
C A Barnes, Otsego
Jas Toland, Ross
J R Harrison, Sparta
Jno Farrowe, So Blendon
8S H Ballard, Sparta
CH Francis, Sheridan
LR Cessna, Kalamo AC Wait, Coat’s Grove
N B Blain, Lowell Jno A Steketee, Kalamazoo
W J Clarke,Harbor Springs W E Watson, Mancelona
Carrington & North, Trent W Watson, Parmelee
Geo F Goodrich, Fennville C V Weller, Cedar Springs
F E Riley, Vicksburg JW Colburn & Bro
D E Waters, Remus
| Horace Peck, Walton
| W H Hicks, Allegan

 

Caledonia
A Steketee, Holland
Wm Karsten, Beaver Dam
| Neal McMillan, Rockford Morrell & Campbell,
| Hessler Bros., Rockford Kalkaska
| RA Hastings, Sparta Alex Denton, Howard City
| 8 Cooper, Jamestown Pearson Bros &Co,Fremont
| John Crispe, Piainwell

| FROM INDIANA.
White Bros, La Grange Dryer Bros, La Grange

P Long & Co, Brighton Dunham & Sons, Parkville
Jonrad & Truesdell, EA&JW Yeager, Lima
Shipshewana EB MeDonald, La Grange

E R Steele, La Grange A G Price; Woodruff
D Ford, 8o Milford Ocker, Mower & Co,
7 ee “aneer La Grange
‘edder, La Welt Bros, Wolcottviile
tH Pinle hme Chas L Miller, Wolcottville
| H enry E elman, L E Miller, Shipshewana
Wolcottville Spalisberry Bros, Leonidas

debt, is very true, but that it is a mis-|

RANDOM REFLECTIONS.

We live in an age emphatically full of
| wonders—an age in which literature, art
and science are moving onward with
tremendous strides. Discovery succeeds
| discovery in arapid succession of new
| facts. Compared with our forefathers
| of a century ago, we crowd the knowl-
ledge, the travel and labor of 200 years
|into lives of 75 to 80. In this respect,
our length of life is more than doubled.
The so-called visionary dreams and
| vagaries of the mind, which are the
| scoffs and jeers of to-day, are the delight,
| the practically useful and the stubborn
| facts of to-morrow. ‘The lightnings
have been grasped by the hand of man
and made obedient to his will — have
spoken in an audible voice, saying,
“Here we are to do thy bidding’’—and
| who dare assert that one-half its useful-
ness is yet known. And although ‘‘an
expression of doubt is the beginning of
wisdom,”’ it is wise to halt at the doubt
and await the results. From time to
time aerial navigation is talked of, and
frequently attempted, but the scientific
world has awaited in patience the birth
of some strong yet lighter material for
the construction of its ships of the air.
The late announcement of the formation
of a syndicate to grapple with this mo-
mentous question and, if mind and money
can accomplish it, to navigate this bound-
less etherial sea, without doubt had its
inception from the cheap and rapid
method of producing aluminum, which,
it is believed, will solve this question of
the ages. The world is now ripe for this
prodigy of the century and that it will
be accomplished there is no doubt. The
materials, the wealth, the mind and the
ambition are all here; and the man who
meets them with derision only will be
overwhelmed with his own folly. The
coming decade will witness aerial navi-
gation in a vigorious infaney. Possibly
the reader smiles, but ‘‘those who laugh

last laugh best,’? for ‘‘wonders never
cease.”’

* % &

A car stood on a side track near the
union depot several days last week con-
taining gas works in embryo. The owner
of the patent claimed that he could man-
ufacture a good quality of gas—as good
as that shown in the car, which was cer-
tainly of good quality—for five cents per
thousand feet and that it could be sold to
consumers on a large scale for 50 cents
per thousand. This seemed very cheap
for illuminating gas, but since the car
has left the city, a Lansing gentleman
claims to have secured a patent on a ma-
chine which will produce gas at 2 cents
per thousand. He uses pulverized coal
for fuel, and it is injected into the fur-
nace with super-heated steam, producing
a good quality of water gas. If the in-
ventors keep on much longer, it will soon
be cheaper to live in a blaze of light than
exist in total darkness.

*& 2%

That pile of old rags you have pur-
chased and thrown together in the attic,
next the roof of your store, are a source
of danger you may not be aware of, and
there are others stowed away in that dark
recess under the stairs. The first is just
where the heat ascends, and keeps them
constantly warm, now that the fires are
started in the stoves and furnaces. The

others are not far from the stove and,
should there be a few greasy ones among
them, will soon all be in a condition to
generate spontaneous combustion, which
is just as liable to occur at night as by

 

 

day. Remove them at once to the cellar,
or other damper atmosphere, and avoid
a mysterious fire and, possibly, great

loss.
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FINANCIAL.

Local Stock Quotations.
Reported by the Michigan Trust Company.

 
 
 
  
 
 

ae eee 8... ee 150
Alseee Gears! meee Oe... .. 77
Aldine Manufactaring Co... ..... .cc.eccssas 60
Belknap Wagon & Sleigh Co....... oo. 100
Canal Street Gravel Road ” 4 . 80
Fifth National Bank....... ..100
Fourth National Bank..................2.. 00. 100
Grama Medes Pree Oo... -.....2...... 0.4.5 85

Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. ....102

Grand Rapids Fire Insurance Co.. ........... 105
Grand Rapids Electric Light and Power Co... 75
Grand Rapids Savings Dank.................. 120
eee ee 110
Grand Rapids National Bank.................; 135
Creme Tapes Pelt Boot Co.................... 107
Grandville Avenue Plank Road Co........... 150

Bont County Savings Dank.......... 2... coven 125
es ee ce. Cec, 100
ew Bagiend Wurniture Co...........,..62... 9
Te ceca eek ae ee
ee i ee 7
Plainfield Avenue Gravel Road Co............
i ne 6
ee 85
Street Railway Co. of a ee 40
ener Graver meee OG ....,............4.,.. 80
Peninsular Club 4 per cenit. Bonide 7

Financial Miscellany.

An increase of 296 National banks dur-
ing the past year will be shown by the
annual report of the Comptroller of the
Currency.

The proposed incorporation of the
clothing business carried on by Alfred
Benjamin & Co., of New York, with a
stock capitalization of $1,500,000, has
been abandoned. The total subscription
amounted to but $328,500.

A New York paper is responsible for
the statement that at the coming annual
meeting of the Pullman Palace Car Co.
either the stock will be doubled and 6
per cent. paid on it, or increased 70 per
cent. and the present rate, 8 per cent.
dividend, maintained.

_—_————

Jewelry Making in the United States.

We are becoming a nation of watches
and breast pins, and the jewelry business
is of more magnitude and value than is
generally supposed. There are over 200
establishments in Providence, R. I., turn-
ing out jewelry and silverware, giving
employment to 7,500 people. About 125
concerns, large and small, are engaged in
making jewelers’ tools, supplies, electro-
platers, etc., employing about 3,000
workingmen, making a total of nearly
10,000 persons deriving their support
from one branch of business. In the
former 200 establishments there is in-
vested in plants, machinery, appliances,
ete., no less than $10,000,000. Over
$3,500,000 goes annually into raw ma-
terials, and the product amounts to nearly
$10,000,000. The bulk of metal used is
brought from refineries in Connecticut.
Sixteen years ago there were about
seventy-five manufacturers employing
from twelve to seventy-five hands each,
and a capital of $15,000 was considered
very large.

<r ni ant

Cutting Prices.

Cutting prices is generally injurious in
the long run to the party who practices
it habitually. If resorted to once, the
same customer will expect it again, and
in the end the merchant has hardly made
expenses. The practice tends to make
competing houses resort to the same tac-
tics in revenge rather than in self defense,
and it generally embitters the minds of
the trade against the habitual price cut-
ter. It produces an entirely false state
of affairs. Every merchant is entitled to
a fair profit on all goods which are just
as they are represented and when prices
are cut, it is needless to add, this profit
is not made. As a matter of trade ethics,
no retail merchant has a right to cut
prices below this reasonable profit. if
they are too high already, it is not cut-
ting to lower them, but rather it is estab-
lishing them on a proper and business
like basis.

It is manifestly the duty of every
dealer to observe certain trade ethics and
to keep in harmony with the general
trade.

&

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

SPECIAL PRICES

 

ON LAMPS AND LAMP GOODS.

We show on this page a few leaders in this great department of our stock. These are the goods used in every family and quoted by us at new and reduced prices.

We want your orders on them and all other goods in our line, and can save you money, time and freight.

We especially ask you to call at our wholesale

sample room when in the city, only one block from Union Depot, which we have now arranged so as to be the finest sample room in the West.

 

Our “WORLD'S FAIR” Assortment of
Table Lamps with Opal glass foot and Screw
Socket, thus never getting loose. New
Styles never before shown.

Barrel contains
2 doz. Assorted Stand Lamps of Six Different

Styles,

For Only $5.92.

Barrel 35 cents.

 

 

 

“SPIRAL.”

Assortment All Glass Stand Lamps. New
Shapes never before offered for sale. Finest
Quality Crystal Flint Glass.

Barrel contains

3 doz. Assorted Styles, Best Shapes,

For Only $4.20

Barrel 35 cents.

 

 

WHY NOT USE THE GREATEST OIL

LIGHT KNOWN TO THE WORLD.
This is it. The Incandescent, Brass

Finish, complete, with reflector....... $3.50

Same style, only Nickel Finish.......... 3.3

Same style, with White Dome Shade,
ee 4.00

OE eee 4.25

EQUAL TO 400 CANDLES.

 

 

THE SENSIBLE SEWING LAMP.
Solid Brass Feet, with Bowl and Shade
Decorated to Match. Extra large one-inch
wick, making the best work or reading lamp
known, for the price.
Six Complete Lamps in Package,

For Only $6.78,

Barrel 35 cents,

 

 

Order Holiday Goods Early Before Our Assortment Is Broken.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

A.

LEONARD & SONS;

 

 

Assorted near Elegant
LIBRARY LAMPS.

This is only one example of an enormous
variety. ‘Assorted Package No. 60’ contains
all the leaders for — every-day people.
Our lamps always please, as we buy only the
best. Package with Every Lamp Complete,
with Decorated Founts and Shades to Match

For Only $18.78.

Package 70 cents.

 

 

KITCHEN AND SIDE LAMPS,
Made to Hang or Carry Around.
Best Radiant Reflector, Complete,

For Only $3.25 Per Doz.

TRADE

 

 

The Famous Hardened “LA BASTIE”
French Glass Lamp Chimney.
No. 1 Sun Chimneys, per doz... .81.25
Nas “ - a _--. 5.00
No.2 ‘* Hinge Chimneys, doz. 1.60
These are positively unbreakable by heat,

 

and are warranted to please.

       
  

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FA Wea
| SIDEAND © rid
. LAMP i
a | ee
a |

DASHBOARD.
No. 13, Tubular, Dashboard Lantern and

reflector attached. Blue Japanned Finish.
Impossible to blow out, and handy about
house or barn: % doz. in case.

PER DOZEN 87.50.
Case no charge.

BUY THE
PEARL TOP
CHIMNEY. :
It pleases every time. :

Per case of 6 doz.
No. 1 Sun, Pearl Top. .$3.70

No.2 “ ae
No.2 “Hge, “  .. 4.70

 

Every Style of Chimney Constantly on
Hand, from cheapest to best.

 

MAMMOTH CHIMNEYS.
REGULAR GLASS. Per Doz.
Incandescent Chimneys, like cut.......$2.90
(Above fits the Incandescent or B&H
No. 89, Mammoth Lamp.)
No, 3 Rochester Chimmeys...........:... 1.50

Duffield Chimneys.............. : 2
FLINT GLASS.
Incandescent Chimneys................. 2.25
OO eee os 2.00
Pamela Chimneys....................... 1.50

Special prices on above Mammoth Chim-
neys, when ordered in cases of 3 doz. each.
Write for quotations.

 

If every one of these items are not
in your stock, they should be. Send
us your order and get invoice by
return mail. We want every dealer
to have our complete catalogue. If
you have not received one, please ask
for it. Yours truly,

H. LEONARD

& SONS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

10

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

Druss#® Medicines.

State Board of Pharmacy.
One Year—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.§
Two Years—Staniey E. Parkill, Owosso.
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor
President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. é
Secretary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Next meeting at Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6.

 

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.
President—D. E. Prall, Saginaw.
First Vice-President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo.
Second Vice-President—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor.
Third Vice-President—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Secretary—C. A. Bugbee, Cheboygan.
Treasurer—W m Dupont, Detroit.
Next Meeting—At Ann Arbor, in October, 1891.

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President. J. W. Hayward, Secretary, Frank H. Escott.
Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’ Association.

President, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W. C. Smith.
Detroit Pharmaceutical Society.
President, J. W. Allen; Secretary, W. F. Jackman.

 

Maskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, P. Van Deinse; Secretary, John A. Tinholt.

 

 

No More Reporters Need Apply.

H. B. Fairchild, Secretary of the Hazel-
tine & Perkins Drug Co., is the latest
victim of the irresponsible interviewer.
He recently received a call from a re-
porter of the Grand Rapids Democrat,
who enquired if the enactment of the
MeKinley bill had advanced any articles
in the drug line. The reporter was re-
ferred to the market review in the last
issue of Tue TRADESMAN, from which he
undertook to write an interview, but the
facts were treated so recklessly that Mr.
Fairchild awoke the next morning to find
himself the laughing stock of the drug
trade, as he was made to say that the
recent advance in alcohol and several
other articles was due to the new tariff
law.

Mr. Fairchild is patient and long suf-
fering and has endured the “‘roasting”’ of
the drug trade with apparent composure,
but he has registered a solemn vow that
the next daily newspaper repurter who
seeks an audience with him must write
out the interview in his presence or find
him as dumb as an oyster.

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To Prevent Price Cutting.
From the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter.

The Washington convention of whole-
sale druggists and manufacturers of pro-
prietary goods had great interest, appar-
ently, for retailers; their representatives,
at all events, were there in greater num-
ber than usual and the spirited debate
was participated in to a large extent by
the pharmaceutical delegates. An exten-
sion of the rebate system to the retail
trade is wanted, and various plans were
discussed for giving the relief asked for.
Price cutting is acknowledged to be mak-
ing greater inroads on the legitimate
trade, and the two associations referred
to are asked to take some joint action by
which the growing evil can be curtailed
in its progress or gradually wiped out.
Substitution and simulation are also mat-
ters about which the manufacturers are
very sensitive, and if one good turn de-
serves another, it is hoped to bring about
some sort of a reciprocity scheme by
which the proprietor, wholesaler and
retailer would be equally benefited. The
wholesaler also desires to be relieved of
the necessity of selling in a retail way at
wholesale prices, and that reform is ex-
pected to be inaugurated by adding a few
words to the present contracts.

The yarious suggestions are now in
the hands of a conference committee of
nine, representing the jobbers, manufac-
turers and retailers, with M. N. Kline as
the directing mind. Something may be
evolved from the interesting controversy,
and the result of the conference will be
watched with eager interest.

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How to Utilize Empty Cigar Boxes.
From the Western Newsman.

The other day a dealer called our at-
tention to an enormous quantity of empty
cigar boxes. ‘‘What shall I do with
them,’’ he asked. We entered into a
lengthy discussion on the subject and a
great many ideas suggested themselves.
it was finally determined to build a large

 

 

 

pyramid with them and place it in front
of the store as an advertisement. The
plan has been earried into execution.
Now, talk about your Indian figures and
other carved images, but that pyramid of
tobacco pails and cigar boxes ‘‘takes the
cake.’”’? It is the best advertisement we
ever saw, and at little expense. You
will do well to try it. When you have
your pyramid constructed, simply give it
acoat of varnish to protect the labels,
and it willstand out bright and glittering,
and attract universal attention.
———- —~>-+o-——_—
The Board of Pharmacy Getting Nearer
the Trade.

The crusade inaugurated by Frank J.
Wurzburg, at the Petoskey convention
of the M.S. P. A., two years ago, has
finally resulted in placing all appoint-
ments to the Board of Pharmacy under
the control of the Association, as should
have been the case from the inception of
the Pharmacy law. At the recent con-
vention, held at Saginaw, the matter was
introduced by President Inglis in his
annual address and, after a somewhat
lengthy debate, it was decided to submit
the matter to the vote of the members,
soliciting each year from each druggist
owing allegiance to the Association the
names of five persons from whom the
Governor may select one for appoint-
ment to the Board. Messrs. Inglis,
Haynes and Caldwell, all of Detroit,
were constituted a committee to carry
this plan into execution.

The member whose term expires with
the present year is Geo. McDonald, of
Kalamazoo, who has served on the Board
ever since it was inaugurated, six years
ago, and whois now acting in the ca-
pacity of Treasurer.
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The Drug Market.

Opium is unsettled. Morphia is as yet
unchanged, but will be lower soon. Qui-
nine has declined for foreign brands.
Domestic is unchanged. Borax has ad-
vanced. Copperas is higher. Malaga
olive oil has declined. Oil sassafras has
declined. Oil peppermint is higher.
Salacine has advanced. Nitrate silver is
lower. Golden seal rootis lower. Tin
ointment boxes have advanced 1214 per
cent. White and red lead have ad-
vanced 4c.

 

 

 

>.>
Transparent Cement.

According to a French journal, a trans-
parent cement can be prepared from the
following formula: In a vial place 10
parts chlorform with 121!¢ parts non-
vulcanized Indiarubber (in small pieces).
The solution is readily effected; when
ended, add 23¢ parts gum mastic, and let
the whole stand in cold for from eight to
ten days. The cement is perfectly trans-
parent and very sticky.

a i al

The prospects of the American Cotton
Oil Co.’s business this year may be in-
ferred from the fact that cotton seed
is $3 per ton cheaper than last year,
while oil is steady in price and lard is
higher. The company consumes 600,000
tons of seed per year, and the reduction
in the price of it will alone make adiffer-
ence of $1,800,000 in favor of the com-
pany. .

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Will Meet with Approval.

The drug stores of Adrian have entered
into an agreement to remain closed here-
after on Sundays, except between the
hours of 8:30 to 10 o’clock a. m., and
from 4:30 to 6:30 p. m. This is a sensible
arrangement and will meet with the ap-
proval of the public—and the drug clerks.

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Didn’t Know Him.

‘Simpson is a curious fellow; I never
knew him to laugh at a joke.”’

‘Then it’s evident you never heard
him tell one himself.’’

a
Alpena—O. E. Gjornd is the successor
of John Day in the grocery business.

 

 

Why the Elixir Didn’t Take.
From the New York Sun.

A fakir in medicines had just opened
out in St. Thomas, when a sturdy young
farmer pushed his way into the crowd
and said:

‘See here, mister man, you were over
at Clifton in June?’’

““Yes, sir.’

‘You were selling this same stuff ?”’

“1 wad.”

“Warranted to cure rheumatism, neu-
ralgia, headache, ague, bad liver, indi-
gestion and about forty other things?”’

“Yes, sir. I guarantee it.’’

“T had a torpid liver. I went to three
different doctors, and all of ’em said she
was torpid. I paid you a dollar fora
bottle.”’

““Well?”?

“Well, she didn’t cure.
no more effect than water.
money back.’’

“Gentlemen!”’ exclaimed the fakir, as
he looked around on the crowd, ‘‘you
have heard what this mansaid. Heealls
my South American elixir a ‘fraud’ be-
cause it didn’t cure his liver trouble.”’

“No; it didn’t!’ shouted the farmer.

“Then let us see why. Did you eat
pork?”’

“_o, Sir.”

‘Sleep on a feather bed?’’

“NO, Sir.

“Drink tea or coffee?”’

“Ne cir?’

“Take plenty of exercise?”

“Ves, sir.””

‘*Have a bath once or twice a week?”

“Ves, sir.”

“Go to bed early?’’

es, 6ar,””

‘“‘Now, then, my friend, answer me one
more question. What was the state of
your mind while taking my elixir?’’

‘“*P—purty fair.”’

‘““‘Weren’t you engaged to a girl?”

‘*Y—yes, sir.’’

‘“‘And didn’t she give you the shake?
Speak right up now.’”’

“She — she married another man,’’
stammered the farmer, as he tried to get
out of the crowd.

Ah! I knew it! Gentlemen, behold the
conspirator—the assassin—the Shylock!
He isin love. His liveristorpid. He
buys a bottle of my elixir. It is war-
ranted to take the kinks out of a torpid
liver at the rate of forty kinks an hour;
but does he give it a fair show? No, gen-
tlemen!
sues his fair victim. He offers
heart, but she won’t have it. He per-
sists. She still refuses. He finally loses
her. Emotion bangs his liver from port
to starboard — adds to the number of
kinks—wabbles all over Ontario, and
then he calls me a swindler because I
haven’t cured him. Gentlemen, who is
the swindler—the arch fiend?”’

The crowd cheered him again and
again, while the farmer made all haste to
get out of sight, and after peace had
been restored, the fakir held up one of
the bottles and said:

‘‘Now, then, who takes the first bottle?
Compounded by aSouth American hermit
from herbs and roots grown in a mysteri-
ous valley, and Ill give $100 for any
complaint it won’t cure. This is my
twenty-third farewell tour, and the sales
have been 40,000,000 bottles. Patented
in every country on the earth, and the
recipient of sixty-four royal decorations.
Only a dollar a bottle and who takes the
first?’’

Didn’t have
I want my

her his

No Work, No Pleasure.

Some polemics argue that but for that
unfortunate affair in Paradise, we should
now be living in a play-day instead of a
work-day world. Yet labor seems so es-
sential to the happiness of the human
family as at present constituted, that one
can scarcely conceive of true enjoyment
without it. Itis not reasonable to sup-
pose that Adam was ever an idle man, or
Eve an indolent woman.

When we are past work, the remem-
brance of our labors, if they have been
honorable and useful, is the chief
solace of our retirement. Does a man
derive the same pleasure from the pos-
session of wealth, when he has received
it as an inheritance, that he would have
derived from a competence won by the
sweat of his brow or the energy of his

This fiend in human form pur-.

 

 

brain? Every one knows that he does
not. The veteran merchant takes com-
fort in the recollection of his business
enterprises, when the pastimes and
recreations of his youth and maturity
seem tohim ‘‘stale, flat and unprofitable.’’

Yes, the memories of labor are sweet.
Let the father who desires the real hap-
piness of his children set them to work—
endeavor to give them a relish for em-
ployment. No matter how rich in this
world’s goods he may be able to make
them, he is not their true friend if he
brings them up in idleness.

 

 

“THE WEAR IS THE TRUE TEST
OF VALUE.”

 

We still have in stock the well-known brand

Pioneer
Prepared
Paint.

MIXED READY FOR USE.
Having sold same to our trade for over ten
years, we can say it has fulfilled the manufac-

turer’s guarantee. Write for sample card and

prices before making your spring purchases.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Oo.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

SOLE AGENTS

THE FURNITURE
POLISHINA 3.

FOURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

A. J. BOWNE, President.

Gro. C. PIERCE, Vice President.
H. W. Nasu, Cashier

CAPITAL, - - - $300,000.

Transacts a general banking business.

Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts
of Country Merchants Solicited.

CINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price for it. Address
PEGK BRO Wholesale Druggists,
5 GRAND RAPIDS.
THE MOST RELIABLE FOOD
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If not, send $1§to
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
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Ga ee cs cco BY UE Sinapls.., xture...... @ 2%| Lindseed, boiled .
Declined—Foreign Quinine, Mal eed tent tle: sans ¢ =“... @ 18|Neat’s Foot, winter
, Malaga Oil, Oil Sassafras, Nitrate Silver, Golden Seal Root ee ee ocue an = 40 | Snuff, Nv in a @ # ome esos sce 50 69
pe Not... 7 me ae nn ote SpiritsTurpentine.... 4544 50
econ LL 8@ 10 nee. ce - Sea oo TINCTURES. Os —— ae = ee Voes o 35 ra PAINTS. bbl. Ib.
este nak: ABs | Began, 3 Regt | Accpltum Nagel R.- w reer oes a ae Soda etFotace ert... Sag 38 Ochre, yellow aiars..< ty 34
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Citricum ea eae 50@p 55 | Gossipii, Sem. gal ae 106 75|.‘°. and a 60 a ec @2 00| Soda, Ash............. 4 5 | Putty, commercial... . 24 2%@3
— ier mip °g| Hedeoma sencsrn-s--. te 60 cls Liq., quarts ..... @1 00 | Soda, Sulphas......... a VaenSttictly pure, |. 24 24@3
~ sya 10 12| Jun o- shican engi Ql ee as @ 70|S ope ( 2 -rime Amer
5 fee = ee 2 00 oe ue os 0} Pu sialon (p08)...  @ 50 — Ether Co elas at Me, 13@16
Be Fhesphorian aa: 30 | Limonis ....... ; aoe +l hn CONG. ok 60 | Piper Nigra, (po. =). @ i8| * = a Dom..... @2 25 | Vermilion, English....  85@88
Salicylicum ........... 1 aq 80 | Mentha Piper... 2 5 a Ol Per Alle, (oe)... @ %| ° Vint Beet. bel oe 70@75
Sulphuricum.. ine a wen 2 50@3 50] . ee 50 | Pix Burgun..... @ 7| 22 Vini Rect. bbl. Lead, red... @7%
Tannicum a oe 2 50@2 60 | Sanguinaria................. 50 | Plumbi Acet .......... Fe eet a OTE
eae ta 40@1 6 Morrhuae, gal......... g0@1 00 | Barosma ....... eee eae ae 14@ 15| Less 5c gal., cash ten da Witter witha uk. @T%
artaricum..........-- 40@ 42 a ounee......... @ 50 yee oso a a aay . ieee be opii..1 10@1 20 | Strychnia Crystal... i 10 Whitin’ eo @iv
a Picls Liguida, (gai d8), too. 2 Gapatoum 2-002! gh] aD. Goyedon.-.n. gu as] sound gage | Wane Park Amerie
Aqua ie. q| Ricini...... damon... ....-.-..+-.++. 75 | Pyrethrum, a | ANI tnt the 24@ 3 iting, Paris Eng.
me Gog)... .... * 8 oneness EN 1 ol = Castor ee + ae a. 0 0 Terebenth V enice..... a ie ee ees 1 4¢
Sianeian leg.-.------- 12 13 | Rosae, es =< "oo ie a ..100 | Quinia, S. P. & W..... 39@ 44] Theobroma enice..... =_— 30 Pioneer Prepared Paintl 20@1 4
Patna .......--.-0 2@ 14 oe er 50 S. German.... 28@ 38] Vani Parana 55@_ 60 | Swiss Villa Prepared
- emg ae 0G 45 chon... 50 | Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 ee 9 00@i6 00} Paints...........-+.. 1 00@1 20
i ANILINE. A = ae aaa ae Guna : ° Saccharum Lactis pv. @ 38 ph........... 7@ 8 VARNISHES.
ek yi 0@2 25 | Sassafras. 22.02.20... 50@ 55 | Conium ... -- 50/ Salacin........... ors No, 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 20
es S001 00 ma pis, ess, ounce. @ 65| Cubeba.... . 5G] Sanguis Draconis. ' Extra Tur
a. 50 (i Di 50| Santonine 50 Bbl. Galic sees as eal GRE OO
Be nn noron ooo" g OS OD Thy = ae pe a > —— 50 | Sapo, V i .. 50 | Whale, winter........ 7 Goch Body. .2 T3@3 00
BACOAE. ae ea Gentian ... SO) 8 OM... ee “ Lard a. - 5 60 | Eutra Turk Damar. a Bap 60
— ae Theobromas........... ue wl. o... 80) .. ot & Sie ee, ef
ee ae ee 60@1 7 = ia POTASSIUM. — Le mh ’ --- 6 Gt Tie. 70@ %5
Xanthoxylum.......-- 250 30 | Bichromate ........... — = ee ----
aa, Bromide.....0000000..1 3 18 18 yoseyamius <000002.00000002 Bp
‘ a ceead.s eaess A Clint. La ee 0 ee ee %5
cna eta @ $2 | Chlorate, (po. 16)...... 11@ 16 Colorless. ..22 1.22.11! 3
Cyanide Ferri Ch
Terabi, Canada ..... — Si. 7 50@ 55! Kino loridum............ 35
oe EES 45@ %0| Potasse, Bitart, pure... be 8 a UT Ke [
CORTEX. er nama -msnatg com... 15 ay SG a a S
etass Nitras, opt..... ne Vomdee
Abies, | Coneties ea 6 Patan a ibe a = WO acetates sae at 50 / VY
ean .......-.-- 18 oe vote teesen cers = ss). horated........... 50
Euonymus atropurp........ 39 | Sulphate po........... 15@ 18 Deodor................. 2 00 DR
Myrica Cerifera, po.......-- 20 RADIX. Aurantl Cortex...... ....... 50
Prunus Virgin! a 12 Aconitum Te 20@ 25 coe Se eee cas gt aig 50 &
ss. aa. 25@ 30} Rhe De aaa ecco ca 50 Im
Ulmus Po (Ground 12)...... 1 A, WO... 5000+. ye = Casta Acutifol.. Le porters and Jobbers of
a EXTRACTUM. auton Ga i wees 20@ 50 | Serpentaria = - Co =
s . Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 4@ B Glychrrhiza, (pv is). 6 18 Stromonium................. 60
3 f Ose e B@ 35 Hydrastis Canaden, ere. wa. oo,
Haematox, 19 Ib. box.. 11@ 12 (po. 45)... ’ a ee 50
: is ee 13@ 14 Sioletbene: ih, oe. 16a = Veratrum Veride............ 50 anaes ea
oa 5 | Inula re. Ds aaa 8 =—o
. i Oe a 20 MISCELLANE
ee ve 16@ 17| Ipecac, po.......... 2 40@2 ous.
PERRUM. a plox (po. 033) .. 18@ bp | Hther, Spts Nit,3 F.. 2%6@ 28
Carbonate Precip.....- @ 15 alapa, pr..........--- 75@ 80 “ 4F.. 30@ 2
Citrate and Quinia.. @3 50 Marants, W8.......... @ 3 AMON .......... 1... 2%@ 3% °
Gis Somblews SS Podophyitum, fo:..::: 188 18] 7)... OUND (PO. a Chemicals and Druggists’ i
aang GB Retin Disagree a gists’ S
Solut Chloride........ g 15 . _ ae ana aaa % @1 % Antimon!, pol - as undrier.
Sulphate, coms: 14 2) spigelia 130. 33 "Sr Potass P. 55@. 60
Sea Setsuinatia, (po 33).. @ 20| Adtipyrin ............-1 35@1 40 Dealers in
FLORA. — Se 40@ 45 = a a Te @
) LL ReHere cou. 5 Bla tras, ounce q
Ammtoe once BB BI Stl, Siete, a st P ‘at : :
; M 5 ea oo...
a... a Pian 6B 3B] Biemuth 8. No 2 1052 d alt 6 161088 Paints Dils Varn
as FOLIA. os “—. Feeti- Er cM 1s, (448 Sol ) ’ J a
Peoeteess mat ae... UU verses @ 9 ole Agents f par
cee” *,cutifol, Tin- Valeriana, Eng. (po.30 2 Cantharides Russian g orithe Oelebrated Pi
nive elly eeea ees oo 2B@ Ww Zingib oon ) an = eee @1 75 Pioneer Pre ed Paints.
rT ‘ or a............. apsi
cian delete Ge 35@ 50 aot a is psici Fructus, af... ¢ 16
a Ce  eesue = 18 SEMEN. Caryoph Ps 15
Leak deh ones cane Anisum, 20 yllus, (po. PO) 1 1 W Pro
pon @UMML. Apium ee ae ie ae Alba, os aay “8 3 armani eo
cacia, ist picked.... @1 00 ea ses “ titan... 55
a. a < . B l ee e ....----- &®B 12] Co ine = WEATHE ,
- ni Cardamon........... ee ae ee ee @ 4
2 ae eee $ MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY
ae cass ao@pi 00 | Cannabis Sativa....... 3%@ 4] Cetaceum............. ”
Aloe Barb, G 60). go | Cydonium.... ........ z Renae canines @ 4
* Cape, ( po. po. 20).. : = 12| Chenopodium ........ io % ee aa 55
cinta, © *) Ruins 2 lsum’ ee
atechu, 18, (448, 1 48; POA ea. os @ 15 Chondr Coy ‘ z
wastacecesne @ 1, Foenugreek, he i Xa : : Cineho nid ee 2 We have in stock and offer a full line of
eee aan nine 5p 30] Lint ...-.- earns eee es
Ae gis: MB | OAL I oon ws ak OG Whiskies,
Camphora... st Be B2 Pharlaris Gaia... “te 4% oun LN é _ Brandiss,
0 | BORO ---s2ceeeeeeeees 7 | Creta, on RE ‘
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Gamboge, Po... SOB ara ig 2 « : m5 Gins, Wines, Rums.
ae cee 4 IRITUS. oe ene
Kino, (po. ES @ = Frumenti, a oe Co..2 00@2 50 | Crocus ...... =.
Mise, (Bo. $ 4 os eee "O &
wae ee nue- 10@1 supri Sulph.......
ome °  sehee Sepenate = : Suniperis Co. 0. T....1 151 3 Dextrine ee 100 rH
“6 bleached...... 2 Oe a ann ts 1 75@3 50 ie a ” i
na 30 35| sancharum N. ......1 15@2 00| Hmery, all numbers.. “@ %)/We are Sole Agents in Michi
Spt. Vini Gallf........ 1 75@6 5 Cc an for
HERBA—In ounce packages. Vint & Oporte ...-....... 1 25@2 00 | Ergota, ( >.) 60 : soe = H e ’ 0.,
2 Oe (po.) 60.......
geen ys Vit Aba Be ane ‘Whiie. 20.020 aS & enderson County, Hand Made Sour Mash
Dee cog al a 25 SOD 8 .
Majo anit 5. | Florida sheeps Gelatin, Cooper....... =* W his an ru ; °
Mentha Piperita....0..0.... - aes 25@2 50 ee oe el «oS = ky d D ggists’ Favorite
—. Vir 35 ie sat wool ——— flint, 70 per cent.
a : weet nese ox 60 1 i
Tenacetum, V = ooo — sheeps’ — Glue, own... 9@ 15 Rye Whisky.
ymus, V..... 9 ool carriage....... ee ee
“| Extra yellow sheeps’ > Glycerina EGE =
MAGNESIA, esr aes | -18%@ 25
| Cerra ooo Ls g5 | Grana eaeati 22
: Calcined, Pat.......... 55@ 60 | Grass sheeps’ wool car- Humulus....... ' ae @
Carbonate, Pat........ 20@ 2) _ riage sata 65 aime © Chior Mi : 2 We sell Li i
Carbonate, K.& M.... 20@ 25 Weed for sinks usa... "5 at ee aS . quors for Medicinal Purposes onl
Garbouste; JéuningS.. 3508 %6| Yellow Reet, or sinie oo a We give our Personal Attention to Mail Callens dG
ee A tite 140} ‘“ Ammoniati..  @i 2 | antee Satisfaction oe
Amygdalae, Dic i as 5 Q0@s 50 SYRUPS. Hyd ie — 2 All orders are ‘Shipped and In ed sam
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Aura Gortez. 92 10 | Ipeeag 000000 to | Jodine, esabi...° 1.13 Fes 8
Bengamil +0200... 8 2504 00] Auranti Co a... ota. eel wo
Cafiputl «-.-.....-.--.. 901 00) Rhel Arom..-..--.-........ 50] Lycopodium ..........
ophyiif <..°-°°-.1 35@1 30 | Similax Ofticinalis. 12.1. ao. oe Ss ‘ :
Chenopodii ..........:@1 7% isa OF oe 50 | Liquor Arsen et Hy- _
a 1 40@1 50 ate eect sae 50 rarg spa
Citronella. cee as GO| BONAR. -- na <o--vrersnrnens 50 Liquor cecian hanistie 100 a
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MICH,

 

 

 

 

 

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THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

GRVUCERIES.

 

 

A Plea for Equal Rights and Privileges. |
J. H. Fenimore in the National Commercial Traveler.

We had finished our lunch of eggs,
biscuit, cold chicken and coffee at the
luneh stand and asked the man across
the counter how much we owed the es-

tablishment, and he answered by asking |
“Are |
Of course, we said

a question himself, and that was,
you a railroad man ?”
no, when he meekly replied, ‘‘Seventy-
five cents.”” Now, suppose we were a
railroad man, how much would this same
food have cost us? After glancing over
the empty plates he replied forty cents.
The same day we were in a barber-shop

getting shaved and were handed a 15-
cent check, when a man living in the
same city and shaved at the same chair
only paid 10 cents. It was the writer’s
privilege to overhear a conversation be-
tween two livery men who had been con-
sulted by a traveling man that day about
taking him eight miles when one said,
“Charge him $3.50, for he’s a traveling
man and his house pays for it.’? The
man who wanted to make the drive was
posted and another more enterprising
and less mercenary man took him for $2.

In this connection, we want to ask,
why are the traveling. men discriminated
against at every point? Why do hotels
charge him from 20 to 50 per cent. more
than they do other people who eat as
much or more? Haye the hotels, “bus
men, restaurant men, livery men, barbers
and the public generally combined to rob
the traveling salesmen and charge them
more for the same accommodations than
they do others—and they ease their con-
sciences, if they have any, with the state-
ment that his house is rich and pays the
bills? If so, it is unfair, mean and un-
just and deserves the condemnation of
all fair-minded people. If these same
pirates who stand with one hand on the
traveling man’s throat and the other in
his pocket would only stop to think and
be fair, they would see that, instead of
taking it from his ‘‘rich house,’’ they are
taking it from the poor salesmen and
they might be more lenient. We say
they might be more lenient. Every
salesman, no matter his line, has his
salary based on the goods he sells and
what it costs to sell them. Tobacco
manufacturers count cost per pound,
soap men cost per box, iron men cost per
ton, starch men cost per pound, and
many others on the net profit of the
salesman’s labor. If, for instance, a
salesman had passes over every railway,
for board at every hotel and had no ex-
pense acceunt at all, he would be a de-
sirable man for any house and they
would pay him a larger salary than other-
wise, because he would cost them noth-
ing to travel. Soon the same principle
his house figures expenses, salary and
net profit, and if his profits are light at
the end of the year he gets no increase of
salary, if indeed he retains his position.
And you who have charged him in excess
of others on the supposition that his
house pays for it are the cause of his
discharge. Asaclass, we are willing to
pay for what we get, but want what we
pay for. We want no farmers’ rates at
hotels, no theatrical rates on baggage,
no passes on railways, but we want just
the same as others pay for a like accom-
modation, and it is only fair we should
have it. Every man has his hand in the
traveling man’s pocket and he gets no
favors or special rates from anybody.
His customer expects a dinner, theater,
or good cigar, ‘‘because the house pays
for it,’’ the waiter an extra quarter, ‘‘be-
cause the house pays for it,’’? and to get
along pleasantly with his friends and
trade there are a hundred little expenses
incurred, and the house don’t and won’t
pay for it. We can’t cut down expenses
if trade is dull, as railways, hotels and
our houses do, for on we must go hunt-
ing, begging. scheming for business, and
at the final ‘‘round-up’’ employers tell
us our expenses are too great for the
condition of trade and are laid off to
further retrench their expenses.

We make the statement here, and we
ean substantiate it by dozens of men,
that there is not one man in fifty who
does not use a part of his salary for ex-
penses of his house; and this is partly,

at least, due to the fact that, as we before
| stated, every man wants a whack at the
|money that he thinks belongs to the
| house, whenit really belongs to the sales-
man. Place us on an equal footing with
‘other of your patrons and spare us the
| chilly, cheerless look of our employers
at the end of the year.
>
How to Identify a Drummer.

From the Boston Journal of Commerce.

‘There is no source of annoyance toa
traveling man so great,’’ remarked one of
the fraternity the other evening, ‘‘as the
necessity to which we are frequently put
of securing men to identify us when we
desire to cash drafts or money orders.
We are, all of us, annoyed and embar-
rassed at such time, and I never saw any
scheme to do away with the difficulty
until one day last week in Des Moines,
Iowa.

‘After dinner a friend of mine said to
me, ‘come down to the bank a minute.
Want to show you something.’

“We went down and he renrarked to
the paying teller:

‘* ‘Draft here for me?’
sponded the banker.

‘* ‘Photograph accompanying it?’ ‘Yes
Sir.”

‘** ‘Please look at it and see if I am the
man.’

“The clerk did so. He was the man,
and a moment later he had his money
and had been subjected to no trouble or
mortification at all.

‘He told me, as he went out, that he
immediately returns the photograph to
his house. They always enclose it with
drafts. It’s the cleverest scheme I ever
saw.’’

 

 

‘Yes sir,’ re-

oe 7

Wools Without Change -- Hides and
Tallow Lower.

Wool markets are still stronger, with
manufacturers buying freely. Itis their
golden opportunity, believing wools are
as cheap as they will be fora long time
to come. The advance has been but 2e
in the last three -weeks, and the market
is back to where the wools were bought.
So far, the margin to dealers is small.
Both growers and dealers have advanced
prices and hold strong for a further ad-
vance, which will be slow and long com-
ing. Goods have advanced, which was
forced by the manufacturers.

Hides are lower. The decline has been
as rapid as the advance of six weeks ago,
and they are likely to go lower. Light
cattle are in abundance on Chicago mar-
ket, caused by short grazing and corn
crop west, and light hides have accumu-
lated.

Tallow is lower, with ample supply
and a weak market.

————— a
The Grocery Market.

Sugar is alittle higher. Corn syrup
manufacturers warn the trade that an
advance may be expected soon. Imported
macaroni and vermicelli have advanced
1c per pound. Crosse Blackwell pick-
les have advanced 25c per dozen all
around, owing to the increase of the
duty. Barrel pickles are unsettled, ow-
ing to the presence of some stocks bough
early in the season at low prices. Wil-
son & McCauley announce an advance on
‘“‘No Tax” plug of 1c per pound.

> -8 =a
How to Sweep a Store.
From the Commercial Enquirer.

We don’t use a leaky old sprinkling |®
pot to sop the floor all over in puddles
when we sweep. No, sir! Wehave wet
sawdust, and | put a row of it across one
end of* the store and sweep that right
along to the other end, just like a regi-
ment marching across a ten acre lot. It
catches all the dirt and carrirs it along.
If it gets a little dry, ladd some more.
Some folks scatter sawdust all over the
floor, but Mr. Vanders says that’s no
good; that the reason for using sawdust
is to avoid wetting the floor all over and
> have something that will absorb the

ust.

 

 

Shoes to be Advanced.

A New York dispatch, under date of
Oct. 8, is as follows:

About 130 shoe manufacturers, repre-
senting all parts of the country, met here
yesterday and decided that there must be
an advance in the price of shoes. This
decision was reached only after a long
discussion. It was said that the advance
would be from 25 to 50 cents a pair.

——_—~» -4 <<

For the finest coffees in the world, high
grade teas, spices, ete., see J. P. Visner,
17 Hermitage block, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Agent for E. J. Gillies & Co., New York
City. 352tf

 

 

PRODUCE MARKET.

Apples—-Green, $3.50 for winter grades and
$2.50@%3 for cooking stock.

Apples—Evaporated are in small demand at
13@14c. Sundried have not yet put in an appear-
ance in any considerable quantity.

Beans—The crop is coming in freely, purchases
being made on the basis of $1.65@1.80 for country
hand-picked. City picked is held at $2@2.10.

Beets—New, 50c per bu.

Butter—Dairy is in good demand at 14@16c
per lb. Creamery finds moderate sale at 23c.

Cabbages—f0ec per doz. or per 100.

Carrots—3ve per bu.

Celery—20@ 5c per doz.

Cooperage—Pork barrels, $1.25; produce barrels

C.

en rt ng ia berries are in fair de-
mand at $2.50 per bu. Cape Cod commands #10
per bbl. and Bell and Cherry are held at #8. The
market is firm and dealers prophesy higher
prices in the near future.

Eggs—The market is steady, owing to the high
prices ruling in the eastern markets. Dealers
pay 15¢ and hold at 17e.

ield Seeds—Clover, mammoth, $4.60 per bu.;
medium, $4.30@4.49. Timothy, $1.59 per bu.

 

 

FISH and OYSTERS.

F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:
FRESH FISH.

 
 

  

Whitefish Stayed Seee kas Goce ue eones @%™%
smoked. oe. aoe @8
Ns oe os ey ee eeepc eta sicees @™%
ee a a, @15
a @4
Peete... @9
ee @10
— Es @25
ee eke ks cease wake sca enw oan @i0
California OT cay Sew @2
OYSTERS—Cans,
Pairnaven Coumis.............---.-.<.. @35
oo, ree ce @28
ea en @25
eee @%
ee ee a @20
pemeeeee ee @18
orsTERS—Bulk.

Standards, per eat... se @1 30
ee @1 7%
FRESH MEATS.

Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, ereeee. ee ee 4@6%
hind quarters a 54@ 6%
ee ee & @ 3%
a eee ee Ss
' ee ee eels Neel calla Vlei @ 7%
. eee ge as 54@ 6%
eee @
eS ee @
eee ee @5
se... @ 8%
EO_ ee @ 6
Sausage, nee or head. . @5
. ee er @5
_ Franikfori. ee ee @ 7%
Mutton . bias Geeeec use 4cs on
ie oe ee cence 6%@ 7
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.
Standard, ON ee eco ciao aes &%@ 9
a ee 84@ 9
a Ee 8%@ 9
OG TOBE i cece tes
Annorted Crekm .........

 

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MIXED CANDY.

 

 

 

 

Grapes—Niagaras and Delawares command | Standard, périb.................-...+-..--...- 8%
W@se. Ives and Concords are entirely out of | Leader.......... 2.0.0 0.-cce0e veer cenenvce cers 8%
market. EE a 9

— Sugar — 8@10c per Ib., according to Extra. Seas asonei niet ee eae tren ees =
quality OOO — ee 0

Maple Syrup—v5@8ie per gal. BOER oe 10

Ontons— The market is firm and higher, deal} Broken................-.-. 0... 20. -..05..0... 9
ers paying 75c and holding at 90e. CE 10

Peaches—Entirely out of market. Premen Creams... .....-... eee ese cess 12

Potatoes—The market is weaker, owing to the | Valley Creams.............. 0.0.2... eeeeeeeeee 13
accumulation of stocks at most of the principal Fancy—lIn 5 Ib. boxes.
shipping points. Local handlers pay 50@55c | Lemon Drops...............--,+.---s-00+ see 12
here at the principal buying points in the State. | Sour Drops ..... .........-.. 00-2 ceeweescencees 13

Quinces—82@2 2.50 per bu. Peseeens Pree... 14

Sweet Potatoes—Baltimores, SS nee bhi; Joc (Ceceriet Droee............ 14
seys, 83.25 per bbl. i. M. Chocolateobropa................... ae

Tomatoes—Home stock commands $1 per bu. | Gum Drops.......... 00sec eeee cere eee cee eees 10

Turnips—30@35c per bu. yy og ee eek aah ela wahe es =

PROVISIONS. Lozenges, My, cuatusade ecuc ae

The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co, ‘ <s ee 7

Me
quotes as follows: ee 15
PORK IN BARRELS. ee 13
—_ gg cece eteeccen see caee seccencecenes co ee eer 13
SMOTE CULE .....- 0s weer eee cece tree reece nes ~ i eee eee cee 1 a

Extra clear pig, short cut............-...... Teed eee Crees. ~~
Extra clear, heavy............-.++-sse sees ue 16
Clear, fat back....... vee 5 93 25) Denoentee Creer 2
Boston clear, short cut.. re ee 15
Clear back, short cut..........0.0.... 0000004 i 50) Bart Alonee 22
Standard clear, short cut. best.............. He 00 Wintereroen Berrien... 14

sausaGE—Fresh and Smoked. rancy—In bulk.
= semen Ce ee : Lozenges, vain. ee eee 12
ei ie eee oe 9

Tongue Sausage 9 S peed, Th IIs... «05. - 005: om
. eon Rea Net ngs Chocolate Drops, in BO ai 12
oe — ee eee ; ot 6
ao Be ae ee Mods ee A 10
ee eee. 5 i il :
Bol thick 5 Seve Perere, I BRUNE... 12

ologna, a Imperials, in pails.....-..--..... 2. 12
eee ee 5 . Rape .
a Larp—Kettle Rendered. Jaonviea: BH ical oli @ 7 00

EE cb eee ene oaks oh ake Nhe iene wen wn 7 LEMONS.

— 4 “ USE Bg glen Me ne Sg te Og lg 1p Gh re Messina, choice, —... i... @ 7 50
I iG ci a ee a gh ‘ ee @
LARD—Family. * Pee ee. @ 8 50
ee eee 6 | Malaga............2...2. 120. eee eee eee @ 6 50
30 and 50 lb. Tubs add ak ees eu wtb ae len 6%4 OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
Di, Cee ere Cee. 7 Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers...... @16
Si, Pee ee eS Ceee...... 8. 8, 6% ard, ta Sea ame iN @10
0th Pan Cte aoe... 6% “ Se ee @8
a eat a Peete Oo “ veeien: Bin toe @7
30 LI nae amc ta sess is ie! | ye ch lk a 6% NUTS,
BEEF IN BARRELS. Almonds, a. : ae
Extra Mom, werranted 300 lbs............... 7 00 ss a. 17
Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 7 00} Brazils.. California. @
Dosen, ca Wa 9 00] Walnuts, Grenobie. git
SMOKED MEATs—Canvassed or Plain. . PO i @i4
Hams, average 201D8............000e0e0eevees 10 | Pecans, ng eA Ro ve tetes ste ee seer es 14 @16
ie 104 Cocoanuts, full sacks............. sess @5 00

. : OO Geis oc. ole 10% PEANUTS,

' SES eee S 1 Fancy, &. P., Bel.. SE ge ea @10%

” oa eeeeeees. 10 - - CMogeted 0 c @12%
Rn a 7 =| Fancy, H. P., Stars cheer as @ 9%
Dreskiest Deacon, bomeless...-................ 8 . Memb @11%
Long es — prices.. thee ttc raeseseen 1 oe gee hee oo @ 9%

ee Ce, ee 6% . . “« Roasted.. — @11%

— — eet cawadnbp ides eeu ad 6% | Fancy, H. P., Steamboats eb ee uses eels @ 9%
3... 6% ” _ Ronwes. a @lil1

a

Lia, tmsk dot gow .t

For Sale by Leading Wholesale Grocers.

mats More monte

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wholesale Price Current.

The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who
pay promptly and buy in full packages.

 

APPLE BUTTER,

Cteeme woods... 6c:
AXLE GREASE.
oo, #2 40
I ees oon inne 72
Diamond. ‘ -1.
BAKING POWDER.
Thepure, 10¢ packages. $1 20

ae ce 1 56
° 6 Oz, ee 2 28
” \% Ib. a 2 76
- 1202. 4 2
” th. So 5 40
” 5 lb. aaa 26 CO

Less 20 per cent. to retailers.

Absolute, > cans, doz.. -1 00
% Ib. i oe

“ 1 lb. “ “ i az 50
Acme, 4% lb. cans,3doz ... 75
- a * 2... 2. oe
“ ag a. * oo ee
by ee ees 20
Our Leader, _ cans..... 45
Cues iD

AL cae 1 50

Telfer’s, i‘ = cans, doz.. 45
“ec ve 85

" in - < .. £ oO

BATH BRICK.
English, 2 doz. in ease...-. 80

 
 
  

Bristol, Seer ee 7%
American. @doz.incase... 7
BLUING. Dozen
Mexican, 402............. :
a. Coe... .:...... 60
” ae. ........ 90
BROOMS.
Ne. — ee 1%
Ce 2
No So 8
eet SC... 2
Paar GGbA ees eke Pa
Common Whisk..........+:
Fancy ei RE 1
—: 3 25
Woe 2 %5
CANDLES
Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes Cee cee 10
EE 9%
Paes. |... .. Td
a 25
CANNED Goops—Fish.
Clams, 1 Ib. Little Neck. ....1 10
Clam Chowder, 3 Ib........-. 2 10
Cove Oysters, Jib. =: 139
LS 20
Lobsters, 1 Ib. *plente pea 1 90
[oh ~~ SC. ee 2 65
. 1p. Star... ||... 2
- 2 lb. Star 3 2
Mackerel, in ‘Tomato “Sance.2 25
1rd. stand a 120
. 3 SC. 2 00
e 2 1b. in iol 2 25
. 3 lb. eoused.......
Salmon, o Columbia 1 75@1 .
b. Alaska. . 1 60
Sardines, casa oes
oe “ s i

' gapiced, 46 ......
Trout, 3 Ib. brook.......-. 2 50
CANNED eoops—Fruits.

Apples, gallons......-. «+++.
I ic eka cod ce me tes 2 50
Blackberries.... -- 1 20
Cherrles, _ oe ane 1 30
eM 1 40
jaar Sadan chase aew as i
Egg Plums.........-----++-- 1 59
Gooseberries .......--...--+: 1B

GTAPES .....--- ee ee eeeeee ress

Green Gages eae eee e ee oe os

  
 

Peaches, pie.
- seconds ..

e =
. @alitornim®. ........ 2

ee alk Sau u sa een en 1 50
Pineapples, =: 12
OG ccs cones 2 50
° grated a, 27
uine sera eee 2

as berriés Diaek.....<. 2.

" aE 1 40
inaitieniine aces eee sees 1%
Whortleberries........-...-- 1 40

CANNED eoops—Vegetables.
Asparagus.... .-----+ -++++s
Beans, soaked Tien... ......

“ ‘Green Lima........ @i =

etch os @ =

“ Stringiess.........-.-.

« Lewis’ Boston Baked. 12
Corn, stand. brands..1 00@1 2%

Peas, soaked................ %5
MACE cess. sss 0.5 @1 30
* gtand June............. 1 40
a @1 %5
* Oe Promen......... .. 2 10

Wiel eee... ss 55.8 1 80

Pompkin -. ..... ---. .-.. @1 00

ee ee ee 1 10

Succotash, eee. ... ...... 85

mangern......... 1 30

Tomatoes, stand br’ds 1 05@1 10

CATSUP.
Snider’ 8, 4 _ issue sss 1S
NNN 5 ows cons cee cn 2 30
a on aa ono
CHEESE.

Fancy Full —: ee

S . - ; 9%4@10

Part Skimmed... D

“> aS Ra

WR ook con ce @

Swiss, imported ...... 24@ 2

domestic ....
CHEWING GUM.

Rubber, 100 lumps Dwi ee 30
Wats ocee esas 40
Spruce, 200 pieces. Deus souk 40
CHICORY.
Ne ec cen cio ee 6
PE oc oe cea, Sodas aks . %

 

 

 

 

CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S.
German Sweet... ........-. 2
ecoptaga Pe ecu pene oe 34
foe. - 38
ernaikctnak OO os 40
RS ee eee 37

COCOA SHELLS.
oo a ae 4 @4%
Pound packages........ @i

COFFEE EXTRACT.
er Cry %5
Pea. Lh
Pers... 65

COFFEE—Green.

Rio, im. ........,... @21

woe...) <1... ‘2 22

Ce @z
‘*s fancy, washed... @24
“ soem... ..- 23 @24
es. ...........,. 2 @23
Mexican & Guatemala23 @2
Java, Interior......... 24 @26
’ Mandheling....27 @30
Pespery ..........-... 22 @24
Mocha, genuine..... 26 @28

To ascertain cost of roasted
coffee, add %c. per lb. for roast-
ing and 15 per cent. for shrink-
age.

——
Bunola.. . - PAY
“in cabinets.......-... 2514
McLaughlin’s XXXX....254
a ei 2514
© i canines ....., .....- 26
Dee 25
CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 4) ft....... per doz. 1 35
- Sot... " 1 50
2
2 00
2
1 00
115
7 50
oe. Swies.........- 6 00@ 7 60
COUPONS.
“Superior.”
: 1, per hundred Loe ese eus 2 50
fees 3 00
3 5 ’ Fae cme 4 00
so, “ — 5 00
ae “ eee eee eee 6 00
“Tradesman.”
$ 1, per hundred........... 2
> qo 2&
f° cca cc oe ee
ae, SS ee 4 00
— ee eee 5 00

Subject to the following cus.
counts:

200 or over......--. 5 per cent.
500 a“ 10 “

 

1000“ ce eee ee .
CRACKERS.
Benosha Butter............ %%
Seymore. eos twee 5%
Buse 5%
— femey..-..-. <-...... 5%
oe ee 6%
Bee i ee ™%
on ee 7%
Se 6
S. Oyeter....-0..-  -«--+--- 5%
City Oyster, XXX............ 5%
Bee eee owe a 6
CREAM TARTAR.

Strictly pure.............-- 38
Grose... ...... 0... 25
DRIED FRUITS—Domestic.

Apples, sun-dried..... - 84O 9
' Seep...
Apricots, a
Blackberries ‘‘
Nectarines “  ..--.---»-
Peaches ee
Plums ni
Raspberries “ses... ..-- - ---
DRIED FRUITS—Prunes.
Qo, @ 7%
Bosnia. . os @ 8%
California. ene ae
DRIED sxpemibnaagsa
hemes |. .....-...--..- 18
ee 18
DRIED FRUITS—Citron.
Tn Grip. ....-..--.---- @is
i ewes... @20
DRIED FRUITS—Currants.
Zante, in barrels...... 6%
' in less quantity 6%@ 6%
DRIED FRUITS—Raisins.
Valencias.......- ..-.- @ 8%
eS Ee SS @ 9%
= @12
London Layers, Cali-
Pg ee ane os 2 60@2 75
Mus’tels, Cal.,2crown @
“ “ee 3 a“ @2 35
GUN POWDER.
=~ ee ae 50
Ma tere...:..........-...- 3 00
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Farina, 100 lb. — eee 04
Hominy, per bbl............ 00
Macaroni, dom "2 Sib box.... @&
' imported Poaas @11
Peart Pariey......-..- @ 3
Peas, — ss ee @1 10
Oe @3
Sago, eo @ 6
Tapioca, ak a pri.. 6@ 7
Wheat, cracked....... @5
Vermicelli, import.. @il
domestic... @6o0
FISH—SALT.
Cod, menole --....-....

  

boneless
Herring, cana, % bi. 2 90
ibb 7

ed.
x fiolland, i bbis.. 12

00

2 < eet mes 80

i Sealed . . &. =
Trout, é ms pee ies s @5 2%
bi RRR ce once e ee %

 

 

enews @
Mack. sh’s, No. = 2 _ 12 00
bd Kit..1 3

‘“ “ “ 2 near

Ww hite, No. 1 i bbls.. @5 50
2 1b, kits..... 1 00

* = 10 Th Kite. .... 80

° Family, a ee .3 00

| = we... 65

HERBS.
ee 9
en 14

JELLIES.
Chicago roods.............. 5%
LAMP WICKS.
ma. ll. 30
Met ......................- 40
We. fc 50
LICORICE.
Pere 30
ae 25 |
Riciy. 8... 18 |
LYE.
Condensed, 2 dog........... 13
MATCHES.
No. 9 salpeir..............- 2 00
Anchor parior...............1 @
aaa 1 10
iport parior...<..-........ 4 00)
MOLASSES, |
Black Strap.. a Wi
Cuba Baking.. a . 22
Porto Rico.. we ooo Soe
New Orleans, “good.. Die ceee 35
choice...... 40
st fancy... r0

One-half barrels, 3c extra

OATMEAL.
Perro 5%
Peete DOOEE..........-....-. 3 00

ROLLED OATS.
Es @5 15
Pa WO eee ec ec @3 00
OIL.
Michivnan Tort............:. 9%
War Wate... .. 10

PICKLES.

Medium De ee ee a oe ee $8 (0
aC bey... .... - 4%
Sean BOE... 2.5... 8... 9 00

~~ 14 Gp... ..._.. 4%

PIPES
Clay, Ce 1%

1. BD. falleoung. ....... 7
Cob, No. 3... <2... 2
PRESERVES.
Chicago seeds... ...2......
RICE.
Carolina head ee oes ae a
hi 6%
+ Was. 6 @
. 6. S-:.. 2...
Japan, No. 1 a Z
We 8, 4..s. 6

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Maccaboy, in jars........... 35
French Rappee, in Jars..... 43

SOAP.

Detroit Soap Co.’s Brands.
Pe 3 30
Queen sions. .: 3 85

permen Pamiiy.. ..........
Mottled German............ 3 00
Old German.............. 2 a
U.S. Big Bargain.. tac Ge
rosé, Ficater........... ... 3%
Goenn Contiie 000) 3 00
Cocoa Castile, Fancy........ 3 36

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
re Pamily. %..........- 2 95

Country, O....<....-.... 3 30
Oe 3 65
B cer, 100. . ~. 10

SAL SODA.
ee 1%
Granulated, boxes.......... 2

SAPOLIO.

Kitchen, : doz. in box.. . 250
ne 6h6Um8Sht:tCtCt«i‘(iCiz«Ci 2 50

SOUPS.
Snider’s Tomato. .

: ou a0
spices—Whole.

  

Altes... 10
Cassia, China in mats...... 8
: Batavia in bund....15
- Saigon in — peeees 35
Cloves, a see
emer ls be
Maen Natevie....... .......
Nutmegs, a eee 80
Oe Bc 75
. No 3 a. bine 36
Pepper, Singapore, i
Re white.. 26
% Ee
miele eee ae Bulk.
yi 15
Cassia, Batavia SS ne 20
and Saigon.25
- CN 42
Cloves, Aes 8. 26
Sener. ...,.....- 26
Ginger, Aroes,.......-.... 12%
Coe 15
- aemenes ........... 18
Mace Batavia...........+-- 90
Mustard, English eee teens 22
and Trie. .2
° — Las nace eae 27
Pepper, Singapc eae
epper, Singapore, blac
PE — white..... 30
™ Cayenne..........- 2
SUGARS.
Cus Loet....s.....:.. @™%
ee @ 7%
Powdered ........----- @7.31
Standard Granulated. @5.91
_ Fae... .- @i.91
Confectioners’ A. @ 6:
White Extra C.. -. 64@ 6%
eee © css ss @ 6%
es ches one @ 6
Yel ~cecsee OMG OF
bark "Molaasen. ev abae @ 5%

 

 

EEDS.
Mtxed bird. .:...--.... 44@ :

 

 

Rape
Meer... cs T™h%
SALT
Common Fine per bbl..... @90
Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks..... 27
ae poemer..... 1s
60 OT eee edecedes econ ence 2 00
— ee. oe 2 15
Ashton bu. bags eceeeuseene 7
Oe ee vi)
Warsaw ‘ Fe ee eee 35
- ecole ony 20
Diamond Crystal, cases....1 50
28-Ib sacks 25
ae oe 56-lb oc 50
i . = pocket.2 25
‘ ac © “ 2 10
. . barrels .. .1 75
SALERATUS.
Church’s, Arm & Hammer...5%
reer eCoe........--......- 5%
woes. M4
DeLand’s Cap Sheaf......... 5%
c _— ee a a 5%
Cig Deager................. 5
SYRUPS.
Corn, DeAErers.............. @QxA
one-half barrels. ...@36
| Pure Sugar, —....,... 30@40
half barrel... .32@42
SWEET GOODs.
| Ginger Snaps..........
Sumer Creams......... 8%
Frosted Creams.......
Graham Crackers..... 8
Oatmeal Crackers.... 8
SHOE POLISH.
etiine, idea. in bex...... .%
TEAS.
JAPAN—Regular.
PO eae ee deuscuue @20
Gouge... @2
a 24 @20
Choicest
Dust
ee
eee. .... 22
ie ee 24 @29
Choreess. 2... 32 @°6
pes. ....... . -.10 @l4
BASKET FIRED.
OMe eee @20
Chee @5
eee... @35
Extra choice, wire leaf @40
GUNPOWDER.
Common to fair....... 25 @35
Extra fine to finest....50 @65
Choicest fancy........ 7 @ss
IMPERIAL,
Common to fair....... 20 @35
Superior tofine........ 40 @50
YOUNG HYSON.
Common to fair....... 18 @26
Superior to fine.. @40

  

ENGLISH BREAKFAST.

ee ge ee 2 @30
Cee a 30 @35
ee 55 @65
Wee Pies. ............. 8 @10
Leg
Common to fair... ...25 @30
Superior to fine......-. 30 @50
Fine to choicest....... 55 @65

 

sODA,
OM Sty
Meee Mee... 4%
ToBaccos—Fine Cut.
D. Scotten & Co.’s Brands.
62

Hiawatha . “
Sweet Cuba.. en 36
Our beader........ : 35

TroBpaccos—Plug.
Jas. G. Butler & Co.’s Brands.

Someta Cood............. 3s
Poe Peare........... .....90
Peeee fie... 34
Wedding Cake, bik.......... 33
Omeeee .......... 1... 35
ToBacco—Shorts,
Oe feat... 15
ToBaccos—Smoking.
Gus Tender... ........ 16
a 17
Plow Boy,2 os. .. -
OM o465.... 8. 31
e en
VINEGAR,
i 8
aS. 9

PAPER & WOODEN WARE
PAPER.

Curtiss & Co. quote as fol
lows:

 
 
 

Oc 150
es .... 180
iepdware .......... oe
Bakers ..... a
Dry Goods.. 4@>
Jute Manilla......... - 64@8
Red Express ne f........- 5
wee ........ 4
TWINES,
48 Cotton.. eh eee oe
Cotton, No. i. eee 22
Dees aoe, 8
Sea Island, mal te 40
No. 5 Hemp eek ceo ee aa
EE a
i dies 8
WOODENWARE
eet... f
oe. 7
wee.

ces @
Pails, No. 1, two- hoop... 1

“ No. 1, three-hoop.... 1
Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes....

Bowls, 11 inch
ot) 13 “se
‘oe
“ Ta ae

 

‘assorted, 17s and 19s 2
. ‘¢ 15s, 17s and 19s 2

SESE ICUSS SRST USES

Baskets, Maree. ...........

ieee 1

a willow er ths, No.1 5

e No.2 6

cr ae ee No.3 7

o splint — Weis

at a « Noz4

s “ “ No.3 5
GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS

WHEAT.
Weite... ..... os 95
—— ...,............. 9
All wheat bought on 60 Ib. test.
FLOUR.

Straight, in egema......... 5 10
Darrels........ 5 30
Patent ‘ sacks.. 6 10
. “ barrels. ....-.. 6 30
Graham “ sacks.... ... =
y . _ 75

 

 

MEAT
Boltes. .. ws
Granulated... ' is
MILLSTUFFS.
ree.
cee capa 16 00
Serceniier ............. 15 00
De ee
ree Woed.............,. 21 00
Coaree meeal............... 2. Oe
RYE.
a EO@55
BARLEY.
Beat... ie
Na 2.... trees 1 10

CORN,

Pell Inte. a 57
Car 1. ee
OATS
Small lots 15
ee 42
HAY.

Nal ............ ee
Nas. 9 00
HIDES, PELTS and FURS.
Perkins & Hess pay as fol

lows:

HIDES.

a, ee 54@ 6
Part C ured a 6 @b6%
tii 64 6%

Pe es 6 @8

Kips, green . «ose DD
‘* Gured..... 1... 6 gt Ge

Calfskins, green... J... 5 @7

Cured... <. 7 @9

eo skins. .-.10 @a0

2 hides ue off.

PELTS.
Shoarlings,............ 10 @%
Estimated wool, per fb 20 @25

WOOL,

Washed.. i... 20@28
Unwashed..... 10@20
MISCELLANEOUS.
OS : @ 4
Grease butter ....... @ 2

a  1K@ 2
Ginseng... ..25%03 00

LUBRICATING OILS,
The Hogle Oil Co. quote as
follows:
ANIMAL OILS.

 

Extra WS Lard.......58 @568

-“ Nat * -_.. <—. Go
no. 1... sla cn
Pure Neatsfoot........52 @6é0

LUBRICATING OILS.

W Va Summer... .... T%4@12

‘“* Medium Winter. 8 “@I12
15 Cold Test.. @13
Zero “t @i4
Old Reli able c ‘ylinder @65
600 Mecca DO
Anti-monopoly ‘‘ ‘35 @40
Corliss Engine cone @40
Golden Machine......18 @25
Mower and ee @30
Castor Machine.......25 @30

CASTOR OIL.
Pure. . wes eccaysoc@ SOGee 4am
Distilled . . ac-as- .-O8 Mee oo
CO 30@ 35
BURNING OILS.

Water Woite.......... @10

Michigan test a
I cu ee cca
PAINT OILS.

94,@14

Linseed Oil, boiled...65 @75

“ raw.... .62 @2
Meena... .. 8... 74@10
Turpentine..... ...... 45 @50

 

“REMEMBER

THAT

BUNOLA
COFFEE.

Is better and costs less

than most

package coffees

10. POUND CASES, 24 3-4;

Zs B.

100-CABINETS, 25 1-4.

FOR SALE BY ALL GRAND RAPIDS JOBBERS

OYSTERS.

i B.

The packing and distributing of FRESH OYSTERS among the trade in
Michigan is one of the features of our business, and from September first to the
May following, we are headquarters for these goods, and shall appreciate and
promptly attend to all orders sent us, as heretofore, guaranteeing quality, measure

and satisfaction.

THE PUTNAM CANDY CQO,

sure mtd

 

14

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

AN OBSTINATE CULPRIT.

One morning, in the spring of 1826, the
only child of a Mr. Clark, of Hempstead
county, in the Territory it then was of
Arkansas, a bright little fellow, four
years of age, went out to play a short
distance from the family dwelling. An
hour afterward, a little negro who had
been his companion came running back
to the house in evident alarm, and related
that two men on horseback had suddenly

made their appearance, one of whom had |

dismounted, caught up the child, and
earried him off.

It is needless to depict the grief and
anxiety of the distracted parents. The

boundless forests which separated the}
few widely scattered white settlements |

were infested with prowling wild beasts,
roaming savages, and men still more sav-
age. That their darling should be ex-
posed to any of these dangers was suffi-
cient to excite in the minds of the father
and mother the mest harrassing appre-
hensions.

The rough but kind-hearted settlers, |
though not given to eloquent expressions |

of feeling, testified their sympathy in a

more substantial manner by turning out |
en masse and scouring the woods and |

prairie s in every direction.

At length intelligence was received of |

a man on horseback carrying a child.
Without a moment’s delay, the agonized
father set out in the direction which the

stranger, who had two days the start, was |

reported to have taken; but after a pur-
suit of over
learned, to his bitter disappointment,
that the child he had so eagerly followed
was not his.

Every effort ended in disappointment. |
The father rode thousands of miles, trav-

ersing the country in every direction.
Advertisements, offers of reward, the

persevering search of hundreds of people, |
all proved alike unavailing until some}
time in the following winter, when the |
father received a letter mailed at Natchez, |
stating that if he would enclose fifty dol- |
lars to the address of the writer, and |
would send the mother, unaccompanied |

by any other person, toa housein Arkan-

sas which he designated, with two hun- |

dred dollars more, a woman there would
deliver up the child to its mother. This
letter bore the signature of ‘*Thomas
Tutty,”
gently written.

By the advice of friends, a letter detail-
ing the foregoing circumstances was
addressed to the postmaster at Natchez,

while another promising compliance with |
the requirements of Tutty and enclosing |

fifty dollars was directed to him. In the
letter to the postmaster, he was requested
to keep watch for the man who should
call for the other letter, and see that his
person was secured.

In due season, aman of genteel appear- |
ance and manners called and inquired for |
The postmaster, under the |
difficulty in making |

the letter.
pretext of some

change, detained the man until an officer

arrived, when he was immediately appre- |

hended. He was ascertained to be an
individual who for some time had taught

a school in the vicinity of Natchez, and |

whose singular and cautious habits had
previously rendered him, in some degree,
an object of suspicion.

three hundred miles, he|

and was correctly and intelli-|

 

 

 

Crockery & Glassware
LAMP BURNERS.
ee I os ia ka oc ecco 40
— a ee a a ce ec ee 45
cee ec a ccae oo meee —
Tubular a ee ae 75
LAMP CHIMNEYS.—Per bex.
6 doz. in box.
| No. 0 Sun Ce ee ow wee cess ee ees conan 1%
eee cis eee ee 188
ele 270
First quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top eee cee eee ocean eee 2%
el ene y oe eco dee 2 40
2 * - PF eee bec eerste cucu deaeuced 3 40
XXX Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top.. cise oceeae ee coe oe
No. 1 alice eae iene outa il aio aaa 2 8@
Ho.? * Pepe h es cele suena 3 86
Pearl top.
| No. : Sun, wrapped and labeled Scleeceacemeas 3 70
ae Oe heel eee 470
| No. 2 Hinge, “ . ee 4 70
La Bastic.
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz. cone oobe ceemae 12
Oe Oe OO 150
No. i crimp, per. ea 135
ee ee 1 60
STONEWARE—AKRON.
| Detber Creeks, oer eel. ........ 2... es. 06
| Jugs, 2 gal., per, doz eiak i cceee Cade et aawies =
C 3 ST ete ens been ece ae 1 80
Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed = i
| & “ 1 “ “ ( “ ——. .. SS
FRUIT JARS.
Mason’s, Boyd’s or Rowley’s caps.
Ce i ee Se ea es 50
ee 00
oe ee v0

Above quotations are f. o. b.

 

 

 

FIT FOR

TA Gentleman
Table:

All goods bearing the
name of

THURBER, WHYLAND & CO.,
OR
ALEXIS GODILLOT, JR.

 

 

 

Grocers visiting New York are cordially invited
to calland see us,and if they wish, have their
correspondence addressed in our care. We shall
be glad to be of use to themin any way. Write
us about anything you wish to know,

THURBER, WHYLAND & 00.,
West Broadway, Reade & Hudson Streets,
New York Oity.

S.A. Morman

WHOLESALE

Petoskey, Marblehead and Ohio

LIME,

Akron, Buffalo and Louisville

 

CEMENTS,

| Stucco and Hair, Sewer Pipe, Fire Brick
and Clay.

Write for Prices.

120 LYON 8T.. - GRAND HAFIDS.

 

When first arrested, he seemed obsti- |

nately bent on admitting nothing. He

denied having written the letter, |

asserted that his name was not Tutty.
But when put on his examination before |
a magistrate, on a charge of having fab- |
ricated the story with a view of fraudu- |
lently extorting money from the parents, |
he earnestly affirmed that he knew where |

the child was, and mentioned many cir- |
cumstances and places which conclusively |

Langeland Mfg. Co.

}

Wholesale Manufacturers of

SA SH

proved that he was perfectly acquainted |

with the entire way between the resi-
dence of Mr. Clark and Natchez.

On the suspicious fact of his having
called for the letter, he was committed to
prison, and the afflicted parents, who

were promptly notified of the fact, with a |

number of friends, repaired to Natchez.

When confronted with the father, the

prisoner stated that in a certain place he |
would tind the clothes worn by the child |
at the time of his disappearance, with a
number of bones so disposed as to create |
the impression that the wearer of the
garments had been devoured by wild

DOORS

DEALERS IN

‘Lamber, Lath and Shingles.

| Office, Mili and Yard:
| East Muskegon Ave,, on C. & W.M. R’y.
MUSKEGON, MICH.

LEMON & PETERS,

IMPORTING AND

Wholesale Grocers

SOLE AGENTS FOR

McGinty’s Fine Cut Tobacco,
Lautz Bros. & Co,’s Soaps,
Niagara Starch,

Acme Cheese--Herkimer Co., N. Y.

Castor Oil Axle Grease.

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

R ED The most effective Cough Dropin

STAR the market, Sells the

quickest and pays the
MANUFACTURED BY best. Try
A. E. BROOKS & 0. COU G them.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

The Finest Line of Gandy in the State. DROP Ss

 

BROWN & SEHHULUBMR,
Dealers in ENGINES, BOILERS and MILL MACHINERY, Farm Machinery,
Agricultural Implements, Wagons and Carriages.

 

 

Corner West Bridge and North Front Sts., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

aa. 3S" Bs Et Bz yO ey

Manufacturers’ Agents for

SAW AND GRIST MILL MACHINERY,

A i LAS WORKS A

MANUFACTURERS OF

STEAM ENGINES & BOILERS.

Carry Engines and Boilers in Stock
for immediate delivery.

Planers, iitieh, Moulders and all kinds of Wood- Working Sincbinnia:
Saws, Belting and Oils.
And Dodge’s Patent Wood Split Pulley. Large stock kept on hand. Send for Sample
Pulley and become convinced of their superiority.
44, 46 and 48 So. Division St.. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

P. & B. Brand Oysters.

The trade throughout Western and Northern Michigan are requested to order
the reliable P. and B. BRAND OF OYSTERS, Your order may be sent to any
of the Grand Rapids wholesale houses or given to their agents, and same will be
p-omptly filled. They are fine goods—packed daily—and guaranteed to be the
eq..al of any brand ever placed upon the market. We shall appreciate your favors,
either to us direct or to your jobber.

The Putnam Candy Co.

 

    
 

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and

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beasts; but he assured Mr. Clark that the
bones were not those of his child, but an
animal, placed there for the purpose of
deception. A subsequent examination
fully verified these assertions; yet,
strange to say, neither threats nor prom-
ises could extort from this singular man
the slightest information that had any
other tendency than still more deeply to
excite the anxiety of the parents.

In the meantime, several citizens of
Natchez, stimulated by the warmth of
their sympathy, and thinking that a
moderate castigation, whileit could work
the prisoner no injustice, might possibly
serve to render him more communicative,
forcibly took him from the prison in the
absence of the jailor, whose duty, insuch
cases, was to be conveniently out of the
way, and, by a vigorous application of
raw-hide to a hide still rawer, soon re-
lieved the proceedings of the embarrass-
ment occasioned by the culprit’s standing
mute. He gave a solemn assurance that
if they would send to a certain house
about fifty miles from Natchez, the peo-
ple there would give positive informa-
tion as to where the child was to be
found. A messenger was immediately
dispatched to the designated house; but,
on his arrival, he found it occupied by
persons of irreproachable character, who
were utterly astonished at his errand,
and unable to afford the slightest clew to
the object of hisinquiries. It was mani-
fest that the prisoner had resorted to a
subterfuge in order to secure relief from
the hands of his tormentors.

Having exhausted every artifice of
force and persuasion to induce the _ pris-
oner to make a fuller disclosure, the par-
ents and their advisors at length became
convinced that, although he had been
implicated in the kidnapping of the child,
he no longer knew anything of its where-
abouts or condition, and that he had been
induced to his recent course solely witha
view of procuring money.

It was finally arranged that he should
be discharged from prison on condition
that he would return with the parents,
who hoped, either by threats or promises,
to avail themselves of his assistance and
information in the further prosecution of
their search.

He was accordingly released and started
with the parents and their friends on
their journey toward home. He was
kept closely guarded, and it had been
intimated to him that unless he disclosed
to Mr. Clark everything he knew in rela-
tion to the child, as soon as they passed
the limits of the settlements, he should
certainly be put to death.

Having reached the point indicated,
the still obstinate prisoner inquired of
Mr. Clark how long he intended to permit
him to live. The reply was that if he
persisted in withholding the desired
information for six hours longer, his fate
was sealed.

The guards, who had been lulled in
security by the prisoner’s apathy and
apparent indifference to his fate, had
abated much of their vigilance, and no
longer remained in close proximity to
their charge, who, watching a favorable
opportunity, sprang into the thicket and
darted away with the speed of one who
runs for life. With equal fleetness and
impelled by a motive not less powerful,
the father pursued. He was an unerring
marksman and carried an excellent rifle;
but to fire was to imperil the last hope of
penetrating the fearful mystery which
enshrouded the fate of his child.

The race was sharply contested; and
already had the two runners passed out
of sight and hearing of their late com-
panions, when a deep bayou intercepted
the flight of the fugitive, and seemed to
render his capture inevitable. Without
a moment’s hesitation, he plunged in,
and swam vigorously for the opposite
bank. Already he had reached the
middle of the stream, when the desperate
father raised his rifle, determined that
with his last hope should perish the
wretch in whose grasp it was borne
away. The deadly aim had already been
taken, and in another moment the fatal
messenger would have been dispatched,
when, with a piercing scream, the
wretched criminal threw up his arms,
and then disappeared beneath the turbid
waters, whose crimsoned surface left no
doubt that from the jaws of an alligator

 

he had met with a fearful but befitting
retribution.

Thus vanished the last clue to the miss-
ing child, whose fate remained as mys-
terious as the motive which led to its
abduction.

_> > —

The Value of Recreation.
From Maher’s Practical Hints.

Whena man has his business in perfect
working order and knows that, just then,
a little more or a little less effort on‘ his
part will be answered by increased or de-
creased profits, it is hard for him to
believe it wise for him to leave his duties
for an hour, even though he is over-
worked. But one of the highest duties a
man owes himself is to give his brain an
occasional rest. There is a good deal
more in life than simply adding to one’s
bank account. There is more honor in
being a good citizen than in simply grow-
ing rich. It is poor policy to be thor-
oughly posted in all that concerns your
business and be out of all knowledge of
the great world. A man wants to forget
his business occasionally—ought never to
carry his cares beyond his storedoor. A
fortnight’s respite from business cares
will send you back to them with renewed
strength and a clearer head.

Do not imagine that your business will
go to the dogs if you leave it for a day or
two. If you have been thorough with
your men—if you have faithful and inter-
ested employes—the machine will jog
along smoothly enough until you return.
We are all apt to flatter ourselves that
we are doing what no other person could
do; but, notinfrequently, something hap-
pens to show us that we are not nearly so
indispensable as we imagined—in fact,
that a division of labor in our business
would be vastly to its advantage. Our
subordinates, if left in charge occasion-
ally, will have a chance to earry outsome
ideas of their own, and these, in a major-
ity of cases, are decided improvements.
The man who repulses suggestions from
those under him—gives his men nocredit
for knowing anything beyond the steady
routine of their employment—loses much
that would be of assistance to him, falls
into a rut and stays there, much to his
detriment. The man who cannot learn
something from contact with other men,
whether employes or outsiders, is not a
healthy man.

Business is a master that soon makes
abject slaves of us, if we will; but, with
a well established trade, one should be
master of his business. With probity,
industry and economy, almost any man,
by well directed effort, may be prosper-
ous. Whatever progress is made without
this foundation, is deceptive.

Urniture

Nelson,
Matter
& Co.'s

Styles New, Cheap,
Medium and Expen-»
sive.

 

 

 

 

Large Variety.
Prices Low.

TIME TABLES.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

In effect October 5, 1890.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.

ve from Leave going

South. North.
For Saginaw, solid train ....... + 7:30 am
Ver Seaverse Oley... .... ..... | 5:15am + 7:05 am
For Traverse City & Mackinaw] 9:20am t11:30 am
For Saginaw, solid train........ +t 4:30 pm
OW CI, hoccdes cee oe ..t 2:15 pm + 5:00 pm

  
 
 

From Kalamazoo..........
TRAINS GOI

North. South.
Bee CORTE on oc ste ete nace. | 6:00am +t 6:30 pm
For Kalamazoo and Chicago...ti0:15 a m +10:30 am

From Saginaw. .......ccecccerss 11:45am

For Fort Wayne and the East.. + 2:00 pm

 

Wow Come oc. sa t 5:30pm | 6:00 pm
For Kalamazo and Chicago....+10:50 p m {11:30 pm
rom Gegeeew.........6......,.... +10:30 p m

Trains marked (jj) run daily; (+) daily except Sunday.

Sleeping and parlor car service: North—11:30 a m
train. parlor chair car for Mackinaw City; 10:30 pm
train, Wagner sleeping car for Mackinaw City.
South—6:30 a m train, parlor chair car for Cincinnati;
10:30 a m train, through parlor coach to Chicago; 6 pm
train, Wagner sleeping car for Cincinnati; 11:30 p m
train, Wagner sleeping car for Chicago.

 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana,
For Muskegon—Leave. From Muskegon— Arrive.

7:00 am 10:10am
11:15 am 3:45 pm
5:40 pm 8:45pm

Through tickets and full information can be had by
ealling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta-
tien, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67
Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

oO. L. LOCKWOOD,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING WEST.

  
 
    
 
 
  

 

Arrives. Leaves.
tMorning Express. -. 12:50 p m 1:00 pm
+Through Mail... 10pm 6:15 p m
+Grand Rapids Expre! .10:25 pm 10:30 pm
*Night Express i - 6:40am 8:45am
*Mixed........ 7:30am
+Detroit Express 6:45 am 6:50am
+Through Mail... 0:10 am 10:20 a m
+Evening Express $:35p m 3:45pm
*Night Express. . 9:50 p m 10:55 p m

+tDaily, Sundays excepted. *Daily.

Detroit Express leaving 6:50 a m has Wagner parlor
and buffet car attached, and Evening Express leaving
3:45 p m has parlor car attached. These trains make
direct connection in Detroit for all points East.

Express leaving at 10:55 p m has Wagner sleeping
ear to Detroit, arriving in Detroit at 7:20 a m.

Steamboat Express makes direct connection a
Grand Haven with steamboat for Milwaukee.
tickets and sleeping car berths secured at
D.,G. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot.

48S. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent.
Ino. W. Loup, Traffic Manager, Detroit.
Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern.

For Toledo and all points South and East, take
the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail-
way from Owosso Junction. Sure connections
at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and
connections at Toledo with evening trains for
Cleveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Dayton, Cincin
nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and all promi
nent points on connecting lines.

A. J. PaisLEy, Gen’l Pass. Agent
HICAGO & WEST MICHIGAN.
DEPART,

Mail and Express for Big Rapids, Lud-

ington, Manistee & Traverse City.. *7:30 a m
Express for Chicago and Muskegon... +9:00 a m

Fast Mail for Chicago....... ... ..... +1:00 p m
Express for Muskegon and Hart ..... 5:45 pm
Night Express for Chicago ......... *11:35 p m
Night Express for Indianapolis ... 411:35 pm

Mail for Big Rapids, Manistee and
ee eee =

x

5:05 p m

Ex. for Grand Haven & Muskegon +8:40 p m
ARRIVE.

Night Express from Chicago ......... *6:30 a m

Night Express from Indianapolis .... $6:30 a m

Ex. from Muskegon, Hart & Pentwaterti0:45 a m
Express from Big Rapids, Baldwin

Gna traveme Ciy.......-..-.. ..... +i2:35 p m
Mail from Chicago and Muskegon .. ¢3:55 p m
Express from Grand Haven..... ..... +5:50 p m

Fast Express from Chicago .. ....... 10:15 p m
Ex. from Muskegon and Pentwater..t 5:50 p m
Ex. from Baldwin and Traverse City. t1:50 p m
Express from Traverse City....... .-#11:38 Dp m

*Daily. +Daily except Sunday. 4Daily except
Saturday. tDaily except Monday.

Through chair car for Chicago on 9:00 a m
train; no extra charge for seats. Trains leaving
Grand Rapids at 1:00 p m and 11:35pm run
through to Chicago solid. Through sleeping
ears between Grand Rapids and Chicago on
night express trains. ‘Through combination
—- and chair car between Grand Rapids
and Indianapolis on night express trains.

Through sleoper between Chicago and Trav-
erse City; leaves Chicago 4:40 pm, except Sun-
day; Grand Rapids, 11:30 pm; arrives in Trav
erse City at6am. Leaves Traverse City at 6:15
pm, except Saturday; arrivesin Grand Rapids
at 11:35 pm; Chicago 7:05 am.

Rail and water route between Grand Rapids
and Chicago via St. Joseph and Graham & Mor-
ton’s new palace steamers, City of Chicago and
Puritan.

Leave Grand Rapids 1:00 p m. arrive in Chi-
cago 8:30pm. Leave Chicago 9:00 p m, arrive
Grand Rapids 6:30am. The 5:05 pm train has
through parlor car from Detroit to Manistee.

ETROIT, LANSING & NORTHERN.
DEPART.
Express for Saginaw and Bay City.... +6:55 a m
Mail for Lansing, Detroit and East... +7:25 a m
Express for Lansing, Detroit and East t1:00 p m
Mail for Alma, St. Louis and Saginaw +4:10 p m
Fast Ex. for Detroit, New York, Boston*6:25 p m
: ARRIVE.
Mail from Saginaw and Bay City. ...+11:50 a m
Mail from Lansing, Detroit and East.+12:05
Fast Express from Lansing and East. *5:(5 p m
Express from Lansing and Detroit...
Ex. from Saginaw, St. Louis and Almati0:50 p m

*Daily. +tDaily except Sunday.

The shortest line to Detroit and the East. Elegant
parlor cars between Detroit and Grand Rapids.
GRAND RAPIDS AND REED’S LAKE TIME TABLE.

Daily trains leave Union depot at 9, 10. 11 a m, 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6.7.8, 9,10 pm. Sundays only—1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30,
5,5:30p m. Daily trains leave Reed’s Lake (Alger
Park) at 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 a m, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30,
7:80, 8:30, 9:30,10:30p m. Sunday trains—2, 3, 4, 5, 5:30,

 
 

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6pm. For tickets and information.
WM. A. GAVETT, Acting Gen. Pass. Agt.

MIGHIGAN CENTRAL

“* The Niagara Falls Route.’’

DEPART. ARRIVE

OR a, 7:20am 10:00pm

ihe it need edsacnaes seme 6:30am 5:00pm

Dey Meee... 11:55am 10:00am

*Atlantic & Pacitic Express......... 11:15pm 6:00am

— — SIN, ccc cia, 5:40pm 1:23pm
*Da

¥-

All other daily except Sunday.

Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacifie Express
trains to and from Detroit.

Parlor carsrun on Day Express and Grand Rapid
Express to and from Detroit.

FRED M. Brie@s, Gen’! Agent. 8 Monroe St.

G. S. HAWKINS, Ticket Agent, Union Depot.

Gro. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St.

O. W. Ru@eues,G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago.

CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS

——OR
PAMPHLETS.

For the best work, at reasonable prices, address
THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

KDMUND B. DIKEMAN

THE GREAT

Watch Maker

= Jeweler,

hh CANAL 87.
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BEFORE BUYING GRATES

et Circular and Testimonials. Free.

    
  

Economical, Sanitary, Cleanly and Artistic.
ALDINE FIRE PLACE, GRAND RAPID, MICH.

   

WANTED.

POTATOES, APPLES, DRIED
FRUIT, BEANS
and all kinds of Produce.

If you have any of the above goods to
ship, or anything in the Produce line, let
us hear from you. Liberal cash advances
made when desired.

EARL BROS.,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS

157 South Water St., CHICAGO.

Reference: First NATIONAL BANK, Chicago.
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, Grand Rapids.

DRINK
LION
COFFEE

A True Combination of MOCHA

JAVA and RIO. :
Picture Card Given
With every pound package. For
Sale everywhere. Woolson Spice Co., Toledo, 0.

 

 

   
       
       
      

     

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GOLD DUST FOR MERCHANTS.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

With all due respect to the boys—and
even young men—a merchant should
know to a certainty where and how his
clerks ‘‘of the male persuasion’ spend
their off hours. If he desires to know,
the process is easy, and it will pay both
himself and them. If he is paying them
acertain sum per week, and finds they
are spending half as much more, some-
thing is wrong. and he should not rest
until he knows where the extra money
comes from.

Never use, or allow the use of, a sponge
in cleaning your windows or show cases.
It will give a seratched appearance to
the glass in a short time and, if persisted
in, will causean opacity which can never
be removed. The fine, sharp sand from
which it is seldom entirely free is the
destructive agent.

A mouse seen running about the floor
of a grocery store by a few lady custom-
ers, daily for a week, will cause the mer-
chant a greater loss than he can repair
in six months—even if he kills the mouse
afterward. Never try to poison rats or
mice in a store where any food is sold.
A trap may be set to advantage or the
right kind of a cat may be allowed to
watch for them.

If it is customary for a merchant to
deliver goods, three things alone will
insure appreciation and a retention of
your customer—dispatch, cleanliness and
good order.

Personal cleanliness, in a store of any
kind, is a winning card in attracting cus-
tomers, and vice versa. It is neither
necessary nor in good taste to be richly
dressed while at work. Your clothing
should be clean, if plain or coarse. It is
an axiom with many, that any person—
if otherwise coarsely dressed—is quite
presentable with a clean collar, tidy ap-
pearance about the neck, and well-blacked
shoes.

Butter and lard should never be kept}

openly exposed to the air.
gestive of dust and insects to attract
purchasers. A refrigerator should be
used as a receptacle.

Matches should be kept on the highest

El. Puritano Cigar.

EL PURITANO

      
  
 
 

 

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37,39 and 41 Kent

shelf and, if possible, in atin or other
metallic box.

Always be conveniently deaf and blind,
but attentive and happy asa bird in a
cherry tree, when waiting upon a surly,
cross, or otherwise ill-bred customer. He
or she will come again.

If crowded with customers, excuse your-
self to others but give the aged first, and
next the children the preference, no mat-
ter how apparently poor. This will win
dollars as well as golden opinions.

<2 <-____—
That Upper Berth Again.

DETROIT, Oct. 10.—As amember of the
traveling fraternity, I feel like thanking
Tuer TRADESMAN for the bold stand it
has taken in the past—and reiterated
again in this week’s issue—in regard to
keeping closed the upper berth in sleep-
ing cars when not in actual use. I have
spent half my nights in sleeping cars for
the past seven years and have been need-
lessly annoyed and imprisoned hundreds
of times, simply to gratify the greed of
Messrs. Pullman and Wagner in their
attempt to force me to pay for the upper
berth. I heartily agree with THE
TRADESMAN that the time has come for
the Legislature to step in and protect the
traveling public against a continuance of
the imposition. TRAVELER.

 

 

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(rormeriy slriver, Vi eatherly & Co.)

CONTRACTORS FOR

Galuanixed Iron Cornice,
Plumbing & Heating Work,

Dealers in

 

 

 

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WM.SEARS & CO.
Cracker Manufacturers,

|Pumps, Pipes, Etc., Mantels

and Grates.
| Weatherly & Pulte,

| GRAND RAPIDS, . MICH.

|

The Fingst10 Cent Cigar

ON EARTH

 

MANUFACTURED BY

DILWORTH BROTHERS,

PITTSBURGH.

 

TRADE SUPPLIED BY
I. M. CLARK & SON,
Grand Rapids.
BRADDOCK, BATEMAN & CO.,
Bay City.

T. E. BREVOORT, - Detroit.

 

St., Grand Rapids.

 

 

S. K. BOLLES. E. B. DIKEMAN.

S. K. Bolles & Co.,

77 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Wholesale Cigar Dealers.

“1 O85 Uri”

The “TOSS UP” Cigar is not a competitor
against any other 5c brands, but all 10c brands,
because it is equal to any 10c cigar on the
market.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foldfasts

An appliance to prevent Ladies’
and Misses’ Rubbers from slipping
off from the shoe. The neatest and
best device ever invented for the
purpose. Do not fail to try the
men’s Lycoming, Pa., Stocking
Rubber. It is the King of all
Stocking Rubbers made. Both
only manufactured by the Lycom-
ing Rubber Co. For sale by

G. H. REEDER & CoO.

 

SEND FOR PRICE LIST.

 

 

WE LEAD THE VAN

Other houses may import cigars and Holland her-
ring, but the records of the Grand Rapids Custom
House show that we are the only house in Grand
Rapids which

 

 

 

 

 

DIRECT

LOE OPEE TT cece se
ITS OWN GROWERS

TEAS IN JAPAN

 

 

 

The fact that our tea sales have doubled every
year since we have pursued this policy, is sufficient
evidence of its superiority over the methods of other
houses.

Telfer Spice Company,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

 

 

RINDGE, BERTSCH & CoO.,

12, 14 AND 16 PEARL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Send us your rubber order before the rush. We are prepared to fill your order
in Boston and Bay State goods at lowest market price.

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