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WILL THEY ATONE?
The stock selling career of Colfax
Gibbs in this State continues to be the
subject of animated discussion among

bankers, brokers and business men
generally. Frequent references are

made to men and families who have
been impoverished by the activity of
Gibbs and his rapacious
One case is cited where an old gentle-
man who was ruined by the opera-
tions of the gang has gone crazy and
Gevotes his entire time to cursing
Gibbs and one of his employers.

associa‘es.

The country bankers who aided in
the Gibbs career of rapine and plunder
are skating on thin ice these days,
uncertain as to when their connection
with the swindles will be unmasked
and their true character revealed. The
list of these men in the possession of
the Tradesman is constantly increas-
ing and the volume of their stealings
is rapidly c imbing to unexpected pro-
portions. Those who wish to secure
immuni'y from exposure and disgrace
can do so by returning their ill gotten
gains to the victims from which the
money was filched. They all claim to
be penitent for their nefarious actions.
The Tradesman holds with Bulwar-
Ly ton that there is a “future in store
for any man who has the courage to
repent and the energy to atone,” but
repentance without atonement means
nothing to the Tradesman, which
started this crusade against dishonest
methods in stock selling not so much
to punish the rascals who committed
such flagrant crimes as to prevent a
repetition of such iniquitous practices
in the future. That is so far as the
Tradesman can go at this time, be-
cause the injury has been done, the

“losses have been. determined and in

some cases assumed by the innocent
purchasers of worthless or near
worthless securities. The seal of pub-
‘ic disapproval and contempt against
crafty bankers must be so thoroughly
established in the minds of people gen-
erally that bankers will never again
permit themseives to engage in crim-

inal actions by conspiring with com-
mon criminals to defraud their cus-
tomers, friends and acquaintances.

It is reported that Colfax
Gibbs had completed the financing of

when

his last proposition in this city he
called a final meeting of this stock
salesmen and gave them a dinner. In
congratulating them on their success,
he is reported to have remarked: “You
are the fines: bunch of crooks ever
assembled in one room. I 1am the boss
crook of the lot. Heretofore I have

worked for others. From now on I

am going to work for myself. I have
a $5,000,000 oil proposition before the
Illinois Securities Commission. . As

soon as it is approved I want you ail
to come over to Illinois and work for
me on that deal. I will make it very
interes.ing for you.”

APOLOGY TO MR. SHERWOOD.

During the fifty years I have pur-

 

sued the occupation of a writer for
the press I have been a persistent and
consistent devotee at the shrine of
truth and
Like all men of my profession I have

exactness of statement.
sometimes been led into making mis-
takes. If it were otherwise, I would
be too good for this world. I lay
wisdom or

no claim to. superior

knowledge and am, _ therefore,
human.

A mistake I greatly deplore occur-

very

red last week when I gave publicity
to a report which came to me through
a well-known ,attorney of this city,
that Colfax Gibbs had presented 8.
P. Sherwood, President of the Grand
Haven State Bank, with an automo-
bile. It subsequently transpired that
the recipient of the gift was a mean
named Harbeck, who had

staked”

“grub
aibbs when he started on his
career as a promoter some years ago.
Mr. Sherwood naturally resented the
publication of the unfounded report
and called at the office to protest
against the publication and to request
a correction of same at my _ hands,
which, of course, I am very glad to
Mr. Sherwood stands well
in his home town and the high esteem

give him.

in which he is held by the bankers
of Michigan found expression at the
last meeting of the Michigan Bank-
ers Association in his election as Vice-
President of that organization. In
view of these facts, I am glad to ac-
cord Mr. Sherwood the correction he
craves and to express regret that the
circumstance should have occurred.
E. A. Stowe.

 

NATIONAL IDEALS.

Dean Russell, of Columbia Univer-
sity, speaking recently on the neces-
sity and difficulty of educating the led
majority ina democracy, cited the im-
portance of a National ideal. Nearly
every one.wil agree with that offhand,
but dissension enters when we set out

to choose the particular ideal for na-
tionalization. The Dean admitted the
difficulty when he expressed abhor-
rence for the “Deutschtum’” ideal,’ in
which the German people were sedu-
lously trained in the school of brutal-
ity, and bestiality for forty years with
such lamentable results. Equal atten-
ion to a better ideal would produce,
he fancied, infinite'y better results.
Perhaps so; yet a nation too much
in love with its own dreams usually
ends by being a menace to its neigh-
bors and a nuisance in a practical
world. Russia in revolution is as little
tolerant of the ideals of other states as
Prussia was before defeat taught her
a ‘esson. The militant communism of
the one is as much a threat to the
world ‘to-day as the arrogant and
blood thirsty imperialism of the other
was a threat to the world of yesterday.
once

Obviously ‘a National ideal,

full b own, bears seeds; and no matter

how lovely the natives fancy that
growth to be, the neighbors across the
boundary may hold it noxious growth
whea the seeds are carried over and
bear fruit on their side of the fence.
What we call Americanism is at no
premium in Canada or Mexico, we
may be sure. Of course, if a National
ideal coud be roused to full strength
and then imprisoned at home, that
would be a different matter; but let the
thing be ever so slightly overdone and
vour ideal goes ravening where it is
not wanted.

RESENTFUL AND AMUSED.

Retailers and manufacturers are
partly resentful and partly
by the oft-repeated statement in con-
nection with the wool duty that any
advance in the price of clothing that
exceeds the exact amount of the duty
on wool represents profiteering by
manufacturers or distributors. It is
pointed out that under the emergency
act the duty of 45 cents a pound on
scoured wool will add about $1.80 to
the cost of the raw material in a suit
But when the wool mer-
extra sum in a

amused

of clothes.
chant invests this
shipment of wool from South Amer-
ica he is entitled to a fair return on
it as well as on the rest of his capital
investment. He will therefore add
somewhat more than $1.80 when he
sells the wool to a spinner. The lat-
ter in turn must thereby increase his
outlay for raw material and is en-
titled to a fair return on the extra
investment. This is repeated all
along the line until the clothing
reaches the consumer, who will con-
sequently have to bear more than the
$1.80 which the emergency act im-
pose son the raw material. If this is
profiteering, then everybody who in-
vests a dollar in a legitimate enter-
prise in expectation of a fair return
is a profiteer.

THE LOWER RAIL RATES.

One effect of the strike of the rail-
little note
seems as yet to have been taken will

way shopmen of which

probably receive more attention when
the railway earnings statements for .
July begin to be published. The
strike was called just as the reduc-
tion in freight rates, averaging about
10 per cent. for the whole country,
became effective, and it will add a
confusing element to the situation
that will render it difficult ‘to esti-
mate the effects of the rate cut during
the first month in which it has been
in operation. Moreover, the disturb-
ance to traffic following the strikes
will prevent those industries which
expected to profit most by lower rates
from enjoying the full benefits of the
reductions. The steel industry and a
bulky

freight on which transportation costs

number of others handling
amounted to a large percentage of
the market price, were looking to a
scaling down of freight rates as a
means of enabling them to market
their products more cheaply. For the
current month, at least they will
hardly be able to realize this expecta-
tion. The steel industry is now wor-
ried over the prospects of a car short-
age when once the labor difficulties
are settled. It appears, then, that
the roads and the industries of the
country will have to wait some weeks
longer before they can determine the
real effects of the rail rate reductions.

 

CHIEF NEED OF COUNTRY.
When

cheap.

profits are low money is
When profits begin to grow
borrowers can afford to pay more
for funds and they will accordingly
bid up the interest rates to a point
corresponding with the greater earn-
This fact is to
be considered in connection with the
It also

ing power of capital.

recent cheapening of money.
gives point to Judge Gary’s recent
statement to the effect that greater
output did not mean
greater profits. The present money

necessarily

rate is paving the way for profits,
but as profits come back in normal
fashion the money rates will begin
to harden. Business is now at the
stage of the cycle when money is
cheap and speculation is vigorous.
Such a period always precedes indus-
trial revival, and this revival is al-
ready in full blast in some lines. The
present softness of money rates and
the slack demand for banking ac-
commodations, however, show that
the full force of the business revival
is yet to come. As satisfactory as
progress has been during the current
year, there are evidently better things
The chief need of the
country just now is a little more
patience. Prosperity will not be
driven in with a whip.

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2

Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, July 18—M. S. Mc-
Guire, of the firm of McGuire & Gar-
field, general merchants at DeTour,
has purchased the interest held by J.
A. Garfield in the firm and will con-
duct the business in the name of the
McGuire Co.

Mr. Garfield has been called West
to take charge of his brother’s busi-
ness and regrets very much to leave
DeTour, where he has made many
friends during his several years of
residence there. For several years he
was principal of the DeTour school.
He was an excellent business man and
the business of McGuire & Garfield
has been one of success and a credit
to the village of DeTour. Mr. Mc-
Guire, the present owner is also a
hustling young business man with
much experience and will continue
serving the public the same as hereto-
fore.

Plans for a community. building
took direct form last week at St.
Ignace, when Dr. Caroline Conners
presented the Women’s Civic League
with a site on State street. Present
buildings on the site will be remodeled
into a large hall for ¢onventions and
dances. Mrs. Conners has also pre-
sented the city with a free camp site
for autos, both of which are valuable
assets to St. Ignace.

The only nation the National ad-
ministration does not seem to have
some control over is procrastination.

3arney Chudacoft has sold his in-
terest in the Standard Grocery Co.,
Manistique, to Sam Hankin, who will
continue the business in the same lo-
cation. Mr. Chudacoff has purchased
the grocery business of Emeril Tru-
deau, on Deer street, and took posses-
sion on Wednesday. Mr. Chudacoff
is an experienced grocery man, while

Mr. Trudeau is retiring from the
business. :
Thirty days’ service of the new

straw hat has probably made it look
like last year’s. Time to get ready
for the left over sales.

Joseph Leighton, formerly in the
jewelry business here, but now located
at Lansing, paid the Soo a visit last
week, renewing old acquaintances who
were pleased to hear that Joe is pro-
gressing in his new field.

That business is good at the Soo is
evident by the success of the Anchor
Mission campaign which is on for a
five day drive for the erecetion of a
new modern home for the homeles+
orphans. The campaign is meeting
with the best ‘of success. 3usiness
men in general are more than pleased
with the project. It isa worthy cause
and has the support of the entire busi-
ness community. It speaks well for
our city to be successful with the drive
a’ this time.

You can tell by the way a lot ,of
folks act that they think the bibtical
injunction “Be ye also perfect” was
meant for somebody else.

The Soo Auto Club sent a large
delegation to St. Ignace on Sunday to
meet the Pikers, who are on their last
ap before crossing the Straits.

The many friends of J. P. Connolly
were grieved to hear of his sudden
demise last Thursday morning. Death
was due to heart trouble. Mr. Con-
nolly was a public spirited man who
took an active interest in the city. He
served as councilman for a number of
years and helped to draw the new
‘charter for the civic form of govern-
ment. In appreciation of his many
services to the community, flags on
all public places were placed at half
mast. Mr. Connolly was 47 years of
age at the time of his death. He was
born in Chicago and later with his
parents he moved to Minneapolis,
where he resided for a time. He spent
the greater part of his life in the Soo.
Mr. Connolly is survived by his wife
and four children. His mother, a
brother and a sister also survive him.
The family has the sympa‘hy of the
entire community.

The Log Cabin, one of the Soo’s

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

popular cafes, is again reopened and
is now running full blast and enjoying
a large tourist trade who are attracted
by the unique arrangement of the din-
ing rooms and the good meals.

The city bathing beach is again be-
ing put into commission for the sea-
son. After a few improvements it
will be ready for bathers.

Thos. A. Leigh, in charge of the
shipping department at the Cornwell
Co. and high officer of the local
Orange lodge, led_ the lodges com-
prising eleven coaches from the Can-
adian Soo to Echo Bay, Ont. Mr.
Leigh states that their programme
was carried on in spite of the rain,
and that there wasn’t a dry moment
during the entire celebration.

S. Chapin, the well-known real

estate dealer, accompanied by his
wife, returned last week from a two
weeks’ motor trip on which. they

visited Milwaukee, Chicago and Lower
Michigan cities.

“No big man is as big as a small
man 1s small.”

Herb. E. Fletcher, Cashier at the
Soo Savings Bank, left last week for
Rochester, Minn., where he was called
by the serious illness of E. L. Stanley,
former Cashier of the Sault Savings
Sank. Mr. Stanley’s condition 1s
critical and physicians give little en-
couragement for his recovery.

The best test of whether it was a
good speech or a bag of wind is
whether after it is over you Can Te-
member anything the speaker said ex-
cept the funny story.

The Alcott Beach, the Soo’s new
summer resort, 1s now open to the
public. Many new improvements have
been made and it is the intention of
the proprietors to build a rink of ade-
quate size on the grounds which in
summer months could be used as a
roller rink and dance hall. The beach,
which is sandy and sloping, is an ideal
place for bathing. A dock is to be built
for bathing and a dock is to be built
for the landing of small boats. It is
located on the St. Mary’s River one
mile East of Brimley. The beach
grounds stretch from the water front
back as far as the State Park and is
only a short distance from the Roose-
velt Highway which goes through
3rimley. Sunday was a banner day
for the new resort which promises to
bea successful venture.

“If a stingy man _ succeeds he is
thrifty, if he fails he is a tightwad.”

Alex Bush, the old reliable mer-
chant at Stalwart, was a business
visitor this week. He reports the roads
into Rosedale are in good condition.

William G. Tapert.
—_—__2+>__—_-

Cotton Statistics and Cotton Goods.

Cotton quotations continued to be
somewhat erratic during the past week
values being apparently determined by
good weather and bad in the growing
districts and by various reports con-
cerning the activity of the boll weevil.
There seems, also, to be considerable
propaganda, so much in evidence
last year, for the purpose of having
the notion prevail that a small crop
is inevitable, and which had much to
do with the ridiculous reports then
made by the Department of Agricul-
ture. In connection with this matter,
it is interesting to note that the De-
partment’s estimate of 11,065,000 bales
of cotton yield from 34,852,000 acres
allows only 158% pounds to the acre,
which is much below anything that
ever occurred, excepting last year’s
yield. The latter was the lowest ever
known, it averaging only 124.5 pounds
to the acre. The ten year average for
the period 1911-1920 was 177.6 pounds.
With so low a yield allowed for this
year, there are yet all kinds of pos-
sibilities in store to keep the specu-
jators busy guessing—and betting.
The cotton consumption for June, as

reported by the Census Bureau was
507,869 bales, an increase of about 11,-
000 bales over the previous month.
The exports were 491,079 bales, also
an increase over May. Supplies in
consuming storage decreased 712,435
bales in June.

The goods market is not distin-
guished by activity this week. Prices
remain firm, however, and
second-hands show no disposition to
cut under mill figures. The knitters
had their openings last week for
-Spring on ba!briggans and bathing
suits and, later, on ribbed underwear.
The prices made are a little higher
than last-year. Some buying resulted,
but the bulk of the purchases still re-
mains to be made. There will be more
of it during the present week when the
situation on ribbed goods is clarified.
Real buying in hosiery is hardly ex-
pected to start until next month.

—_—_222>—_—__
Michigan Leads in Bean Acreage and
Production.

Figures on the 1922 bean acreage in
the six leading states, based on in-
formation from secretaries of state as-
sociations and others, have just been
given out by the Michigan Bean Job-
bers’ Association, which has applied

even

the Government figures on produc ion
per acre on the 1921 crop. The result
is as follows:

3u. Per

Acres Acre Bushels
New York —--- 84000 16. 1,344,000
Michigan —-_-_- 430,000 11.3 5,085,000
Calfornia —-—-s 310,000 13.3 4,123,000
Cplorado 225-5 100,000 9.9 900,000
New Mexico --120,000 7.9 948,000
Aqigona =). 10,000 8.5 85,000

 

Total ~--1,074,000 12,485,000

If estimated acreage, which is 303,-
000 in excess of that in 1921, is fairly
accurate the 1922 production will not
exceed the average consumption of the
past four years, even if imports equal
those in 1921 and none of the 1922 crop
is exported.

The figures would lead us to believe
that there is no good reason why the
1922 crop shou'd not be marketed at
prices which would yield a fair return
to the growers, the elevator, the job-
per and distributors if sound business
principles are used and the price is
not so high as to cause large imports
from foreign countries.

During the past four years the mar-
ket has been handicapped by the carry-
over of old crop beans, and this has
probably tended to restrict consump-
tion, owing to poor cooking quality of
old stock. We shall not have this
condition to face in the coming year.

The Michigan Bean Jobbers’, Asso-
ciation gives the National advertising
done by several of the leading canners
credit for contributing largely to
bringing consumption of beans back
to normal. The Michigan Bean Job-
bers’ Association declares that the 1921
bean crop and carryover from previous
years will be marketed by Sept. 15.

—_.2-s——_

Butternut—Taylor & Smith
sold their hardware stock to P. Rogers
and John Fay, who will continue the
business under the style of the Butter-
nut Hardware. The new owners have

have

been engaged in the coal business here
for the past eleven years. :

July 19, 1922

Largest Furniture Market Ever Re-
corded.

Grand Rapids, July 18—The close of
the midsummer furniture market made
a record in point of attendance, the
official list being 2507, beating by 252
the midsummer market of 1921, which
up to that time was the largest in
point of number of buyers.

The last week of the market was a
disappointment to some, especialiy to
the salesmen who travel Michigan, be-
cause for some reason or other the
Michigan buyers did not come out
strongly. The report of business by
the various exhibitors varied widely.
Some report the best season they ever
had and away over all expectations.
Others declared that the sales during
the present market had been only fair,
put they are expecting to get a large
volume of business from the salesmen
who go out on the road. There was,
however, a general feeling of optimism
throughout the market among the
dealers as well as manufacturers.
Those who had done the largest busi-
ness were, of course, well pleased. It
will be necessary in some cases to
hold the salesmen off from the road
until they get caught up. Those whose
business had been but fair were satis-
fied in their own minds that the sales-
men are going to bring in all the or-
ders the plants can handle as soon as
business opens up for the fall.

Among the dealers from all over the
United States the prospec’s are for a
much better business. Many large
orders were placed holding for con-
firmation, principally on account of
the unsettled condition due to the rail-
road and coal strikes.

The date set for the midsummer
market of 1923 seemed to meet with
general approbation among the sales-
men and manufacturers. The dates
are early enough so that those from
the East who want to complete their
buying before Julv 4 will have ample
opportunity to do so and there wil!
also be plenty of time for those who
wish to come after the 4th. There
were some who thought that the mar-
ket might start as early as June 10;
others wanted the start as late as June
25, so a happy compromise was met
ion the date set for the opening, June
20, and the closing July 14, which
seemed to satisfy all.

The January market, 1923, will open
as ‘usual jan. 2 and run for three
weeks. John D. Martin.

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Fraudulent Checks on Three Banks.

“Look out for bad checks on the C.
C. Peck & Company Bank of Good-
els.” is a warning issued. The night
of July 7, when the bank was entered
two pads of blank checks were stolen.
It is suspected that. the thieves may
try to forge the names of Goodells
residents to the checks and pass them.

Recently there have been cashed
checks drawn on the First National
Bank, Rochester, Mich., signed “East-
man Bros. & Co.,” payable to G A:
Hart, and the checks have all been
drawn for $4.85 but one for $5.20.
They have been paid through the
banks at Kingston, Sii'verwood, Reese,
Clifford, Montrose and other Thumb
‘owns. The bank has never had such
an account on their books and the
checks have been presented on an
average of one or two a day. The
checks all bear the endorsement of
Cc. A. Hart, and in most instances ap-
pear to have been endorsed by an in-
dividual aside from the payee.

Fraudulent checks drawn on the
Pontiac Commercial & Savings Bank,
signed by James A. Black & Sons,
ranging in amounts from $4.85 to
$5.20, are being floated through
Bangor, Three Rivers, Kalamazoo,
Grand Rapids and Lansing.

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OLD TIME POLITICAL METHODS.
Grandville, July 18—This is an off year in politics.

Considerable heat has been manifested, however, in some quarters; remind-
ing one of the times long gone by when polical campaigns were hotly con-
tested up to the morning of election.

In those days we had no booth system of voting. Every man had a chance
to note how his neighbor voted, and the purchase of ballots was a com-
paratively easy matter. To-day, although it may be as easy as formerly to
buy votes, there is not the certainty of getting what is purchased as under
the old system.

Friendships of a lifetime were frequently sundered because of the bitterness
of political strife. In Civil War days there was reason for this because of
the fact that neighbor was embittered against neighbor when men were out-
spoken against the Government, openly denouncing public officials, berating
efforts at saving the Union, sneering when a soldier fell, as deserving such
a fate.

The songs of that time expressed the views of extreme partisanship. I
remember one which ran something like this:

All day long before the front

They had borne the battle’s brunt,
Swift advance and sudden rally
Through the Shenandoah Valley.

With their bridles in their clasp
And their sabers in their grasp,
Waited they with hearts enlarging
For the wild delight of charging.

Waited they while that yell

Rang from Rebel glade and dell;
Rebel throats with loud acclaim
Cheering George McClellan’s name.

This was at the second running of Lincoln, General McClellan being the
Democratic candidate running on a platform which declared the war was a
failure and that Lincoln was a usurper.

It was quite generally know that “Little Mac,” as his admirers chose to
dub him, was the choice of the Confederates, who believed they would attain
their independence should the disgruntled former commander of the Army
of the Potomac defeat the Emancipator.

Lincoln was elected, however, and the war was prosecuted to a victorious
conclusion. The cartoons of the time reflected public sentiment then as in
more modern times. One of these represented General McClellan astride the
bowsprit of a river gunboat viewing one of the battles of the Peninsular
campaign through a telescope, the lettering beneath referring to the “Gunboat
General.”

During the first Lincoln and Douglas campaign innumerable songs and
cartoons figured in the public press and on the billboards of the towns. Here
is a verse of one of the popular campaign songs:

March forth to the battle all fearless and calm,

With the strength of your spirit throw into your arm.
With ballots for bullets let this be your cry,

With Lincoln and Hamlin we'll conquer or die.

I quote from memory and may not hit the exact form, but am sure I have
the ideas correct as to meaning. There were marching clubs of “Wideawakes”
and “Douglas Rangers” galore. Even the North woods were impreganted
with the campaign enthusiasm. At different points along the main traveled
roads of the State huge mass meetings were held.

Lincoln’s early schooling in the seminary of hard knocks was usually em-
phasised by the raising of a pole, surmounted by a beetle and wedge, em-
blematic of the rail splitter in his early manhood days. Douglas was the
“Little Giant,” Lincoln “Honest old Abe,” to the flocking, shouting thousands
who made the welkin ring at these countryside meetings.

Farmers with their families often traveled dozens of miles to be in at the
“doings.” Fife and drum and sometimes the fiddle and dulcimer furnished
music for the occasion. :

I recall another verse of a song given out during the campaign between
Lincoln and McClellan which ran as follows:

Fellow citizens and soldiers I’ve a word or two to say,

There’s no use to dodge the question nor to flout the facts away.
If we are not all rebels we'll by the Union stand;

Then stand by the Union, boys, and be on the right side.

A coward or a traitor then who prates of compromise;

The only compromise we'll have is at the cannon’s mouth,

The only terms of peace we'll give submission by the South.

Patriotism ran rampant throughout the North at such time.

Present day campaign methods are indeed tame in comparison. One would
hardly expect any such demonstrations to-day. What is the use of getting
excited over politics anyhow? All of which may be true, but if more atten-
tion was paid to elections, or rather to selecting the best of our citizenship
to represent us in the halls of legislation, there would be more satisfactory
results and the country would be much better off in every particular.

In the olden time a public office was looked upon with a reverent regard
and the rights of the common man looked after by those entrusted with such
positions in a manner which did credit to the head and heart of the peoples’
servants. Old Timer.

 

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Will You Let Them
Forget?

The biggest thing your advertising will do is to make folks
think kindly of you and what you have to sell. For most
people buy on the strength of what is told them by someone

in whom they have confidence.

The next biggest thing your advertising will do is to keep
folks thinking kindly of you and what you have to sell, even
if they aren't in a buying mood. For new men with new ideas

are coming up over the horizon in an endless throng.

People are less likely to forget you and your products
when they are buying than when they are retrenching. During
the Liberty Bond days nearly everyone knew at least two
verses of “The Star-Spangled Banner; but try them out
to-day and see. People are quick to forget songs, salesmen

and sermons.

So, of all times, right now is the one in which to advertise.
Keep reminding the people that you are still in business;
where you are in business; and what you have to offer to the

world.

It is not necessary to climb to the house tops and shout. It
is not necessary to spread your message over a full newspaper
page. In the long run temperate advertising pays best of all.
Make your advertising truly representative of you and your
product. Cut the cloth to fit the garment. But do not let

your customers forget you and your store.

\WoRDEN (GROCER COMPANY
Grand Rapids —Kalamazoo—Lansing

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MOVEMENT OF MERCHANTS.
Crystal Falls—A. Sackin Co., boots
and shoes, have retired from business.
LeRoy—A. C. Webster
George Sanders in the grocery busi-

succeeds

ness.
Detroit — C.
dealer, has filed a petition in bank-

Ardziezewski, shoe
ruptcy.

lonia—Chrysler & McQuillan suc-
ceed S. Howocks & Son in the grocery
business.

Sturfgis—Yoder & Aulstadt succeed
G. W. Hollman in the egg and cold
storage business.

Saginaw—M. J. Farrell,
121 Elm street, died at his home, July
16, aged 55 years.

grocer at

Bay City—The Cass Bean & Grain

Co. has increased its capital stock from

$60 000 to $100,000.
Detroit—Augustus R.

and shoes, is reported to have filed

Kiefer, boots

a petition in bankruptcy.

Battle Creek—The Nort-Fischer
Lumber Co. is succeeded by the Mer-
chant Lumber & Supply Co.

Marlette—Robert Griffith, dealer in
boots and shoes, has filed a petition
in bankruptcy, it 1s reported.

Tustin—Peter E. Torbeson, of Cad-
‘llac, has been given a five-year lease
of the drug store in I. O. O. F. build-
ing.

Springwel’s—The Wayne County &
Home Bank of Springwells, has been
incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $100,000.

Detroit—Epp’s, conducting shoe
stores in Detroit, Lansing and Tole-
do, Ohio, is reported to have filed a
petition in bankruptcy.

Kalamazoo—R. V. Hammer has en-
gaged in business at 109 North Michi-
gan avenue under the style of the
Hammer Electric Co.

Union City—S. H.
the Home

3enn has sold
Shellen-
berger, who will continue the busi-

Laundry to A.

ness under the same style.

Sturgis—G. W. Hollman, in the egg
and cold storage business here for a
quarter century, has sold out to Yoder
& Au'stadt, ou‘side parties.

St. Johns—A. C. Martin, landiord of
the Steel
property and will modernize and im-
prove it as business perm? s.

Fremont—L. J. Shalda has engaged
in the drug business here. The stock,
Gxtures and fountain were supplied by
the Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Vicksburg—The Vicksburg Lumber
Co. has been incorporated with an au-
thorized capital stock of $25 000 all of
which has been subscribed and paid

hotel, has purchased the

in in cash.

Detroit—Crowley Bros., 206 Wes
Jefferson avenue, wholesale dealer in
dry goods, men’s furnishings, etc., has
sacreased its capital stock from $500,
000 to $1.060 060.

Ypsilanti—Minniss & Cotton, boot
and shoe dealers, have dissolved part-
nership. Ray E. Cotton will continue
the business, having taken over the
interest of his partner.

Hol-—Frank Wrook has taken over
the interest of his partner in the gro-
cery and meat business of Wrook &
Fieming and will continue the busi-
ness under his own name.

DeWitt—Fred Tucker has ‘sold his
interest in Tucker Bros. stock of gen-
eral merchandise to his brother, Earl

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

J. Tucker, who will continue the busi-
ness under his own name.

Grand Ledge—Frank Field has sold
his store building and stock of gro-
ceries to Anna G. Curtiss and Edith
Kitson, who will continue the busi-
ness under the stye of Curtiss & Kit-
son.

Traverse City—The Universal Air-
way Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $10,
Q00, all of which has been subscribed
and paid in, $2,500 in cash and $7,500
in property.

Kalamazoo — Eugene A. ,rown,
cigar dea‘er at 1315 Portage strect, has
purchased the entire business block, a
portion of which he now occupies.
One store in the block is occupied by
the Hickok Grocery Co.

Muskegon—The Simonson Lumber
& Machinery Co., 202 Terrace street,
has been incorporated wtih an author-
stock of $5,000, all of
which has been subscribed and paid
in, $1,000 in cash and $4,000 in prop-

ized capital

erty.

3irmingham—Birmingham is_ to
have a new shoe store in the west half
of what was formerly the First Na-
3ank building, but now owned
Philip J. Wil-

Detroit, will open the new

tional
by Charles J. Shain.
liams, of
store.

Estelle
Hunn, who conduct department stores
Wheeler, will
modern fire-proof building on the site

Breckenridge — Arthur &

here and at erect a
of the store they now occupy here as
soon as it can be removed to another
location.
Lansing—The Lansing Furniture
Co., 402-4 South Washington avenue,
has been incorporated to conduct a
with an authorized
$30,000, $15,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid

retail business

capital stock of
i in cash.
Pompeii—Smith G. Young has been
named receiver for the George ,L.
Jessup Co., grain and produce dealers.
George L. Jessup, who founded the
business thirty years ago will manage
the business under the directions of

‘the receiver.

Pontiac-—-About 200 persons, Mon-
day evening, attended a “booster din-
ner,” given by local merchants, at the
Board of Commerce, with a view of
rousing interest in an “Oakiand Day,”
to be he'd later, as a compliment to the
Oakland Mo or Car Co.
O'Connor,
conducts a men’s and children’s cloth-
ing and furnishings store at 200-204
North
model his store building about August

Lansing—James who

Washington avenue, will re-
1, installing plate glass on the south
side of the building and enlarging
the interior.

Flint — The Armstrong-Elston-
Goodrich Co., 925-27 North Saginaw
street, has been incorporated to deal
in autos, parts and accessories for
motor driven vehicles, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $30,000, all
of which has been subscribed and
$10,600 paid in in cash.

Ann Arbor—The Ann Arbor Lum-
ber Co., Ltd, has been incorporated
and wholesale

to conduct a retail

business in lumber and builders’ sup-
plies, with an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Bros., 421 Macomb
their undertak-

Detroit—Geist
street, have merged
ing business into a stock company
under the style of Geist Bros., inc.,
with an authorized capital stock of
$5,000, all of which has been sub-
$339.50 in cash
and $4,660.50 in property.

Saginaw—The D. A.

produce, e:c., 129

scribed and paid in,

Bentley Co.,
North
Water street, will close up its affairs

wholesale

and retire from business according to
a vote of the stockholders. The com-
pany wil) keep its store open until the
stock on hand and that contracted for
has been closed out.

Owosso—John R. Kelly has merged
his plumbing, sheet metal work and
5s o¢k
company under the sty e of the John
R. Kelly Co., with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $100 common and 13,490
shares at $10 per share, all of which

mill supply business into a

has been subscribed and paid in.
Sagola—Christian Bartles, 19 years
old, employed as a meat cutter at the
Northern Lumber Co. store here was
Sawyer | lake.
with severa!

drowned Sunday in

While in
friends he was seized with cramps. A

swimming

companion tried to rescue him but was
forced to give up to save his own life.

Detroit—The Shop of Durst, 2625
Woodward avenue, was sold recently
to Sam Pathe, who will continue in
business at the same location under
Zoot Shop. Mr.
shoe man of

the name of The
Pathe is a well known
Youngstown, Ohio,
ducts another store of the saine name.
He will divide his time between the

where he con-

two stores.
Wiskotchel, for-
Jackson, Inc.,

Detroit—Adolph
merly with Thomas J.
left July 1 for his home in Maple
City, where he will spend the sum-
mer, assuming charge of an orchard
of 1.200 cherry trees and will super-
intend the picking, packing and ship-
ping of the fruit. He will return in
the fall to Detroit, but has no plans
for the future.
tue J. kh.

Hudson Co. are elated over the new

Detroit—Employes of

business hours for July and August.
In keeping with the Hudson policy,
adopted two years ago, the store will
be closed at 1 o’clock on Saturdays,
and at 5 o’clock on the other days
of the week. The new schedule |
came effective July 8, and will con-
tinue in force until August
Detroit—The men’s store of Thos.
J. Jackson, located at 1404 Washing-
ton Boulevard, is to be discontinued
after August 1. It is planned to con-
centrate on the rapidly growing wom-
store at 41 East
The reguiar clientele

en’s trade in the
Adams street.
of the Jackson Co. was circularized
with a clever letter which created
much favorable comment, and is be-
lieved to be responsible for the dis-
posal of over half of the men’s stock
at good prices.

Detroit—The
store and office building erected on
the site of the old Pullman Cafe, for
the S. S. Kresge Co., have been ma-
work on pre-

plans for the new

terially revised since
paring the site was first started. It
was originally intended to erect a
six-story fireproof block, it is now

announced that four more stories will

July 19, 1922

be added, making ten floors in all.
A. E. Burns & Co., shoe retailers at
present located in the Holden build-
ing, a block west of the new struc-
have leased one-half of the
ground floor and the
basement, 60x60 feet, for a period of
ten years at a rental said to aggre-
gate $250,000. The management hopes
to be at
about Sept. 7.

ture,

space, entire

home in its new location

Manufacturing Matters.
Lansing—The Peez-Cronan Oil
Co. has changed its name to the Peez

(il Corporation.

Acrian—Trhe Clough & Warren Co.

has changed its name to the Warren
Manufacturing Co.

‘Tecumseh_—The Purity Bakery has
200-loaf
cther modern equipment.

Detroit—The Ajax Bolt & Serew
Co. 1571 Wellington avenue, has in=
creased its capital stock from $25,000
to $200,000.

River

installed a hew oven and

John R. Hein

Co. succeeds the Rouge Manufactur-

Rouge—The

ing Co. in its doors, sash and interior
finish manufacturing business.
Roamer Motor
Car Co. has changed is capitalization
irom $2,000,000 to $500,000 preferred
and 1,000,000 shares no par value.

Kk alamazoo—-The

Lansing—The Gauss Baking Co. has
filed notices of dissolution with the
Secretary of State. It has merged its
business with ‘hat of the Lawrence
Baking Co.

Redford—The Sash &
Door Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $9,000,
$4000 of which has been subscribed

Redford

and paid in in property.
lYetroit—-The Dairy. .Co.,
6206 Grand avenue, has been incorpor-

Liberty

ated with an authorized capital stock
of $160,060, $25,000 of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Lansing Furniture
Co. has been incorporated with an au-
thorized stock of $30,000 to
cnduct a business at 402-404
South Washington avenue, about Sept.

L

Lansing—The

capital
retail

Jackson—The Hi-Power Tool Cor-
poration, 314 North Jackson street, has
been incorporated with an authorized
cai al $75.000, $12,500 of
which has been subscribed and paid ix

stock of

in cash.

Adrian—The Manophone Corpora-
tion has increased its canital stock
from $250,000 to $400,000 and 25,000
shares no par value. It has also
changed its name to the Clough &
Warren Co.

Detrcit—The Safe-T-Latch Co., 104
Monroe avenue, has been incorporate

with an authorized capital stock of

©1590. of which amount $12,500 has
been subscribed $3630 paid in in cash
acd $5,750 in property.

Albion—The Albion’ Novelty Co.
has been incorporated to manufacture
wire novelties, appliances, etc., with
an authorized canital stock of $7,500,
of which $3,850 has been subscribed
and paid in in property.

Merrill—The Pierce- Bautin Motors,
Inc., has been organized to manufac-
‘ure and sell gasoline engines, marine
engines, etc., with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $20.000, al of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

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Essential Features of the Grocery

Staples.
Sugar—The market is strong. with
an advancing tendency. New York

refiners have advanced their prices on
granulated to 6.60@0.70c. Local job-
bers hold granulated at 7.20c.

demand has been quiet
Nothing is showing

Tea—the
during the week.
any hing like a boom except possibly
Java and Ceylon teas, which are in-
clined to be scarce and therefore in
good demand. New crops are awaited
with interest and business pending
their arrival will be more or less
routine. The markets of this country
are comparatively }ow compared with
outside markets and the general situa-
tion is healthy.

Coffee—The past week has been a
dull one in the coffee market. Job-
bing business in roasted coffees has
been of a routine character, there hav-
ing been nothing to cause it to be
otherwise. Jusiness has been done
right a‘ong every day at about un-
changed prices. In the primary mar-
ke: for green coffee there has been
some disposition to shade Rios, al-
though Santos 4s have already ad-
vanced very slightly.

Canned Fruits — Reports from
Northern Michigan are to the effect
that serious damage to the cherry crop
has been done by “shot hole fungus”
which attacks the trees and so ruins
the flavor of the fruit so that it cannot
be used. The Michigan crop gave
promise of being the finest for many
years, and if this trouble had not
come suddenly, causing the trees and
leaves to wither and the fruit to turn
bitter, the output would have been
‘arge. As it now is about 25 per cent.
of the cherry crop is ruined. The
objections of jobbers to the opening
prices of California fruits do not deter
them from confirming their contracts
to a larger extent than was anticipated
at the time prices were named. The
free sale of Delmonte brand has spread
to the other established packs and
more confidence is expressed by brok-
ers at the prospects of added _ sales
this week. The whole line is not sell-
ing in customary volume, but in view
of the asking prices of all packers the
reluctance of buyers ‘to freely antici-
pate their future requirements busi-
ness so far has been fair. The spot
market in all fruits is firm. The buy-
er of California packs or Hawanan
sliced pineapple cannot be too particu-
lar as to brand because there is so
little room for choice. A/‘l fruits are
held firm by second hands. Apples
are moving steadily, but are not rela-
tively as firm as other items.
Vegetables—In canned
vegetables the pea situation is the out-
standing feature. The almost total
faiiure of the Southern crop and its

Canned

unusually free movement directly into
consumption to fill out the shortage of
old crop was followed by a scant pack
in Indiana and a light production in
Ohio. The Michigan crop has been
serious'y injured by the “aphis,” a bug
which attacks the vines and prevents
the pods from filling. The Borsch
spraying machine has been used with
much success to destroy the bugs, and
where the process has been used in
time the crop has been saved. New
York and Wisconsin have been more

favorably situated, but if canners’
predic:ions prove to be correct there
will be no large pack in either State of
Alaskas or sweets sto counterbalance
the shortages of the other sections. In
other words, canners think that the
1922 pea pack, fol'owing the total
clearance of 1921 goods, will result in
only a light surplus over jobbing con-
tracts after canners have completed
their contracts. Larger siftings in the
standard grades promise to be the

scarcest article. Weather conditions

have favored the pack of fancy and
the shortage will be in standards. In
consequence canners in New York
and Wisconsin are either withdrawing
their offerings until their sweet pack
is over or they are boosting their
prices. Jobbers are slow to respond
to the advanced quotations, but there
is some booking in both States. Peas
are moving into consumption as new
pack is about the only thing available.
There is an unusually good ca‘l for
No. 10s this season. Tomatoes in the
South seem to be at the turning poin,
with the prospects of higher rather
than lower prices in new goods. Early
packing is under way, but prices are
higher than on the later and more
desirable runs and many buyers do not
care to contract for Nos. 2s or 3s, but
will continue to pay a premium for
old tomatoes in those sizes. No. Is
are in better demand because o:d
stock is exhausted. There are very
few 1921 No. 10s available in the coun-
try or in jobbing centers, and un-
labelled No. 2s and No. 3s or straight
or mixed cars are within small com-
pass. Old tomatoes are more or less
in hand-to-mouth demand, but ru’e
Corn is the dullest vegetable.
standards and

steady.
It remains weak on
steady on fancy, with nearly all trad-
ing concentrated in spot offerings.
New pack asparagus now arriving is
quickly placed at considerable ad-
vances over original opening as the
market is firm because of the antici-
pated short deliveries, which, however,
as yet have not been definitely speci-
fied by canners.

Canned Fish—Demand for canned
fish is dull. Tuna is scarce, but not
very active. Salmon continues quiet
at ruling quotations. Nobody seems
inclined to speculate in it and the
business is routine. Sardines dull,
both spot and futures, at unchanged
prices.

Dried Fruit—The Sun Maid Raisin
Growers some time ago announced no
change in its quotations on old crop
raisins until August 1, when a revised
price list is expected as a means to
clean up or reduce as far as possible
the unsold portion of the 1921 crop
now held on the Coast and through-
out the country. The prospect of a
change in Coast values has naturally
caused jobbers to avoid securing a
surplus at going values just prior to
any revision in quotations. Avs a re-
sult sales at primary points for prompt
shipment for several weeks have been
light and in the meantime the jobbing
trade has been using raisins here and
in other nearby markets. There has
been a demand for bargain priced
stock and this has resulted in a fair
movement of late as some weak sell-
ers have been inclined to liquidate even
though they were forced to take loss-

es. Thompsons, bulk and in packages,
are the strongest item in the list, but
seeded still remain more or less neg-
lected. The trading in Thompsons has
improved spot prices and these may
govern the association in determining
is revised prices, but the trade is
more or less of the opinion that the
best interests of the raisin business
will be served by maintaining the mar-
ket at a figure which will move the
old crop and pave the way for a com-
bined free out’et for new raisins in
the legiimate trade channels. The
jobber is of the o} inion that growers
have had too much money for their
grapes and a lower range is necessary
to again popularize raisins. New packs
of dried fruits last week made very
little progress in the way of future
While the ‘arge f
peaches have not only maintained their

sales. packers of
prices, some of them have been firm
enough to limit the percentage of the
better grades. <A few independents,
however, have offered concessions.
There is no keen interest in futures
any more than in other fruits. Prunes
were firm all week on new packs with
no changes in prices reported in Cal-
ifornia or the Northwest. Jobbers are
postponing buying until the California
Prune & Apricot Growers announces
its opening prices about Aug. 10. O'd
crop Brooklyn plant have been sold
and deliveries are being completed.
The warm weather has curtailed the
movement on spot in all lines and
more than ever caused hand- to-mouth
purchasing. Ord apricots are almost
exhausted and new crop while firm is
not selling freely.

Syrup and Molasses — Compound
syrup is fairly active for the season,
but the aggregate business would no:
be very large. Prices remain un-
changed. Sugar syrup is wanted to
some extent, with a small export de-
Prices show no change for the
Mo‘asses is quiet, with prices

mand.
week.
fairly sustained.

Cheese—The
prices ranging about /2c per pound
advance over a week ago, due to the
demand for speculation. The quality
is the best of the year and the make
is about on a par with a year ago.
After the demand for speculation has
been satisfied the market is likely to
ease up a little.

Provisions—There is a fair con-

market is quiet at

sumptive demand for everything in the
smoked meat line at prices ranging
about %@lc per pound over a week
ago. Pure lard is in good demand at
about lc per pound advance over last
week. Lard substitutes are dull and
selling about “4c decline. Barreled
pork, dried beef and canned meats are
unchanged, with a light demand.

Salt Fish—The situation in macker-
el is about unchanged from a week
ago, in fact, from a month ago. The
demand for mackerel is small at the
moment, but the market is steady to
firm on account of scarcity. Increased
supplies are expected within a few
weeks.

——— ae

“Cleanliness is next to godliness,’
yet a merchant can scour a cutlery
case until it sparkles like a diamond,
and just one scowling face behind it
will absorb its luster and make it look
like a blank wall.

Low Point in Prices of Flour Soon
Here.
Written for the Tradesman.

The movement of new crop wheat
in the United States has been retard-
ed considerably by wet weather. Some
of the wheat has been in the shock
nearly two weeks. However, the
weather is clearing and, undoubtedly,
threshing can be resumed from. the
field and a heavier volume of wheat
moved to market from now on.

Sales of wheat for export for July
shipment have been reasonably heavy
and the retarded movement has plac-
ed the seller in a very unenviable
position. This has been particularly
true of the seller of hard wheat and
the pinch resulting from the rather
heavy sale and slow movement has
caused considerable firmness in both
wheat and flour markeis, which, it is
predicted, will be relieved as soon as
a normal new crop movement is pos-
sible.

On the other hand, threshing re-
turns are not as satisfactory, so far
as yield is concerned, as had been
expected, although the quality of the
wheat as a general proposition is ex-
cellent both in Kansas and the Soft
Wheat territories.

The world demand for American
wheat is expected to steadily increase
during the next few months. The
reports from abroad emphasize the
shortage in the wheat crop of Eng-
land and, in fact, all European coun-
tries. The Argentine crop was_ be-
forecasts for the
Australian crop indicate an unusually

low normal and

small production there, while Russia
is importing wheat and other cereals
and will be in a position to export
no grain whatever on this crop; in
fact, it is doubtful if the Russian pro-
duction gets back to normal within
two or three years.

North
America will have to be depended

Because of this. situation,

upon by European countries for
wheat until next February anyway.
Officers of the Department of Agri-
culture of the United States Govern-
ment are of the opinion that prices
will not decline a great deal, but, on
the other hand will probably be some-
what higher later in the crop year.

The general impression of the grain
trade seems to be that the low point
in the price of both wheat and flour
will be reached along the latter part
of August or the fore part of Sep-
tember, or at the time the Canadian
and Northwestern crops come on
the market.

However, the immediate future will
probably offer no particular induce-
ment to buy heavily for future de-
livery, although the trade can well
afford to purchase in sufficient vol-
ume to amply care for their trade
requirements, which, undoubtedly,
will be considerably heavier than a
year ago, as the volume of flour busi-
ness being transacted is continually
growing. There is a much better
demand for flour, comparatively
speaking, now than a year ago this
time, and this improved demand is
going to be a factor in helping to
maintain the price of wheat and flour.

Lloyd E. Smith,

 

 

6

Actomists Are Better Than Optimists
or Pessimists.*

Allow me to s‘ate at the beginning,
that I am not like the old maid who
was giving advice to a mother how to
raise children, when she herself was
long on theory but barren of practice
for I have had real practice and ex-
perience on the farm, in the lumber
woods, in the sawmill, on the gravel
train, in the foundry, on the road as
a salesman to both the retail trade and
to jobbers; as a retailer, as a job-
ber and as a manufacturer, and I have
found in all these occupations that in
order to prosper one has to plow,
harrow, sow and cultivate if he wants
to harvest.

I was raised on a farm on top of
the Green Mountains in Vermont,
composed largely of stones and
swamps, on which we could raise
grass, potatoes and oats—the first and
last we fed to the stock, and sold
what potatoes we did not need to eat.
We boys used to be discussing what
kind of boots we wou!d have for win-
ter, when father would break into the
conversation and say—“We wili dis-
cuss booting after digging,’ which
meant that after we got our potatoes
dug, if we had any to sell, we could
figure up what amount of money we
would have to buy things to wear and
to eat.

So, too, the discussing of what
dividends can be paid in business
comes after the plowing, harrowing,
seeding, cultivating and digging has
been done.

I am president of four corporations
and treasurer of another; I am not
five hoops, I am the stick, that keeps
five hoops rolling.

I drive my horse, I. drive my car,
I drive my businesses; so they are all
in high, and coming as fast as the In-
come Tax and Free Trade laws per-
mit.

When a boy, I was poor and picked
berries and sold them for money to
buy my clothes with; one year I heard
there were no berries in the Buswell
pasture, but I didn’t believe it, so
took my milk-pail and went to see and
came home with a pail full.

Many business institutions heard
there were no business berries in the
1921 field and stayed cooped up at
home; but I sent my boys out to see,
and they came home with milk-pails
full; and they are out now in the 1922
field, and are getting pails full; and
the more there are that stay at home
because they think there ain’t any
business berries the better it is for us
—my businesses are going bully!

The kind of berries I picked in the
Buswell pasture were small, wild
berries that would have gone to waste
if I had not picked them. We now
have the fine, large, luscious home-
grown kind, because they are culti-
vated.

Mr. Dealer, if you want a goodly
income, a fine harvest, you must culti-
vate the field where you do your
picking.

I dislike the word profit; I like to
use in its stead the words—pay for
service.

If I were going into the retail hard-
ware business I would have a sign

 

*Address delivered before the National
Retail Hardware Association, in Chi-
cago, by Horatio S. Earle.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

under the name of Earle & Co., which
would read, “We have come here to
render service, and will do our best
tio. satisfy everybody. We have a
stenographer who will write your let-
ters, a Notary Public that will help
you swear legally to, on, or about, the
papers that you have to make out and
our telephone is as ready to serve you
as it is to serve us. Feel at home at
our store.”

What would I be doing?

I would be cultivating the human
berry bushes in my store field; and by
this cultivation a fine crop of money-
berries would be produced, a portion
of which would come to Earle & Co.
for service.

When I sold a man a Little Giant
scythe for two dollars that I paid one
thirty-three for, instead of taking
sixty-seven cents in profit, I would
take sixty-seven cents for the service
rendered in getting for him the best
scythe on earth while he was planting
corn or milking.

Take the community into partner-
ship, consider every person in the
community a stockho‘der in your com-
pany, and you a stockholder in every
institution in the community from the
largest industry to the smallest home.

You ask what I would do in dull
times; I would never have any, for as
the farmer doesn’t harvest all of the
time, I would not, but as he plows,
harrows, seeds, and cultiva‘es for his
harvest so would I, when I wasn’t
harvesting in dollars for service, I
would be advertising or something
else that needed to be done to properly
cultivate my community berry field.

Some years ago I took a boat from
Digby, Nova Scotia, to go across the
3ay of Fundy to St. Johns, New
Brunswick. You perhaps know that
the Bay of Fundy beats the rest of the
world for two things—the Bay of
Fundy fog banks and the highest tide,
the first the most dense and the last
the highest in the world, rising some-
times 47 feet, and an average of 27
feet.

This day was as fine a day as I ever
saw, sun shining and we were enjoy-
ing our ride, when all of a sudden it
was-as dark ion that boat as the dark-
est night. The lights were turned on,
and yet you could hardly see your
hand before your face; we were in a
Bay of Fundy fog bank, and the mist
fairly saturated our clothes as much
as a rain storm.

We had pessimists on board the
boat that were sure we would have a
collision and all go to the bottom of
the Bay of Fundy.

We had optimists on board, and
they. gathered in groups and sang
hymns and prayed.

But besides the fog mist, pessimists
and optimists, we had another kind of
mists; we had a captain on the bridge
and a pilot in the wheel house who
had a chart, which was their plan,
and a compass which was their direc-
tor and they proceeded slowly and
carefully according to the plan and
constantly blew their horn advertising
the fact that they were coming—they,
gentlemen, were actomists.

Men—if you are actomists and
have a plan and a directing compass
human head, and constantly blow your
advertising horn, notifying the people

in your berry patch that your boat is
afloat; you will be able to sail through
any dull-time fog or depressed-busi-
ness fog that you will ever encounter.

A pessimist sees no good in any-
thing that is.

An optimist sees good in everything
that ain’t.

The pessimist will advise you to
make no investments so you will not
make a dollar.

The optimist will advise you to in-
vest in anything and everything, and
you'll lose al you have.

The actomist sees the businesses he
has built, the bank balances he has,
the bonds he owns, the churches he
has helped, the philanthropies he has
contributed to, the home he enjoys,
the family he has reared; and some
day he wil’ hear—‘“Well done, good
and faithful actomist, enter thou into
the joy of thy Lord.” :

Moral—Be a cultivating actomist in
your berry patch and you will get
your share of the _ pay-for-service
berries.

Apply all of your energy to going
ahead, don’t be ‘ike the mule that was
being led by a bundle of hay, which
bundle of hay managed to keep so far
away that the mule could not get any
hay wihout jumping. As he was
born a kicker instead of a jumper he
lingered in a weary way behind that
bundle of hay until one day he died
starved to death within jumping dis-
tance of a bundle of hay.

Many a man is being ‘ied by a
bundle of prosperity, but like the mule,
born a Kicker instead of a jumper, he
lingers behind until he starves to
dea‘h within jumping distance of that
bundle of prosperity.

There isn’t a bundle of hay or
prosperity in the linger district, but
there is one at the far end of every
jump—moral, jump and get-yours.

You may think that the National
Re'ail Hardware Association is the
best organization on earth, but it isn’t.
In fact, the best organization is not
a human being organization, but an
insect organization—it is the honey
bee colony, presided over by a woman
actomist and she is some boss. What
she says, goes!

The bees don’t steal their living,
nor sell at a profit; they collect pay
for their services when they are doing
the work of pol‘enizing the fruit tree
and vine flowers, which produce three
times as much as they would if the
bees did not render the service.

They also collect three times as
much as they need to live on through
the winter, and give two-thirds of the
honey-pay-for service to the owner of
the tenement in which they live with-
out a word about the high cost of
living, profiteering or high rents.

And remember, each bee works for
the colony. not for his own seifish self.

There is another insect, industrious
and intelligent, but was never known
to work in an association or partner-
ship with a brother insect; has been
known to look over the hotel register
to see what rooms were to be occupied
never works in the day time, always
at night and under cover, he steals
his living and poisons the ones he
steals it from; you know that this in-
dividual insect is the bed bug.

Now the retail hardware dealer that

 

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July 19, 1922

imitates the honey bee in doing good
and collecting pay for services ren-
dered to his community colony will
be successful, but the bed bug kind
of a dealer will not be, and eventually
he will shut up shop and get a job
with some department store.
——_> +2 —____
Plans For Trade Co-operation.
The California Sunmaid Raisin Co.
is making elaborate plans for the com-
ing year. The directors at a meeting

_ last week authorized the expenditure

of $2,500,000 to aid in moving the
1922-23 crop.

This is, perhaps, the largest adver-
tising appropriation ever applied to
the movement of a food product any-
where and certainly in the history of
raisins. And yet it is no larger per
ton of anticipated output than last
year. More significant, however, from
the standpoint of the grocery trade is
the fact that a very considerable part
of it is to be applied to dealer service
—that is, to aid the trade in expanding
the use of raisins and in keeping
stocks moving actively—and it is to be
expanded in all recognized media in
this country, Canada and the British
Isles.

From other quarters the Tradesman
‘earns that the company is desirous
of creating a better condition of trade
co-operation than has been noticeable
in the past and will seek in every way
to inspire the grocers of the country
with a realization of the growing im-
portance of raisins as a profitable
part of their stock. Some of the
policies which have in the past been
more or less criticized by the dis-
tributive trade are to be modified and
the company hopes to find the grocers
in turn ready to lend a hand in moving
raisins more freely and assist the com-
pany in providing an outlet for the
increasing tonnage of raisin grapes.

—_—_. +>

Change in Officers and Manager.

At a recent meeting of the directors
of the Turtle Lake Lumber Co., the
following officers were elected:

President—Henry Idema.

Vice-President—Heber W. Curtis.

Secretary-Treasurer—Geo. Daniels.

Manager—Robert Duncan.

Mr. Duncan succeeds W. E. Vogel-
sang, who has acted as Manager of
the corporation ever since the death
of Waiter C. Winchester. Mr. Vogel-
sang has entered into a new business
corporation to be known as the Wied-
man-Vogelsang Lumber Co., which
will act as sales agent for the Wied-
man Lumber Co., of Trout Creek, and
the Bergland Lumber Co., at Berg-
land. The officers of the new corpora-
tion are as follows:

President—J. S. Weidman, Jr.

Vice-President—W. E. Vogelsang.

Secretary—R. M. Weidman.

Treasurer—R. M. Weidman.

General Manager—W. E. Vogel-
sang.

The company has an office at 205
Grand Rapids National Bank building.

Mr. Vogelsang has sold his $30,000
stock in the Turtle Lake Lumber Co.
to Heber W. Curtis, which gives the
latter a total holding of $60,000, which
is more than any other stockholder
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July 19, 1922

Proceedings of Grand Rapids Bank-
ruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, July 13—-In the matter
of John Mulholland, Bankrupt No. 2103,
an order for distribution and the pay-
ment of a first dividend of 5 per cent.
to creditors whose claims have been al-
lowed has been ordered paid.

On this day also were received the
schedules, order of reference and = ad-
judication in bankruptcy in the matter
of Adoloh L Swangren, 3ankrupt No.
19¢T. Although this is an involuntary
bankruptcy, the schedules were _ filed
promptly after the adjudication. The
matter has been referred to Benn M.
Corwin as referee in bankruptcy and
who also was appointed receiver. A
custodian was appointed and an apprais-
al has been taken under the direction of
the receiver. The bankrupt is a resident
of White Cloud and is the owner and
operator of a canning factory at that
place. The bankrupt lists assets in the
sum of $14,307, of which $500 is claimed
as exempt to the bankrupt, and liabil-
ities in the sum of $22,999.46. The first
meeting of creditors has been called for
July 24, and at that time the assets of
the bankrupt will be sold, an offer in
the sum of $1,500 having been made, and
the petition of a creditor being on file
petitioning the court for the sale of the
property at that time. Any one inter-
ested in the stock may see the inven-
tory and appraisal at the office of the
referee, 315 Houseman building, Grand
Rapids. <A list of the creditors of the
bankrupt is as follows:

Village of White Cloud, taxes $ 130.27
Wilcox Township tax, White
Cloud ee ee ee 89.88

The following creditors hold securities
of various kinds:
Louis W. Fuller, White Cloud $1,200.00
Newaygo County Bank, White

ClOUG 7,503.14
EK V Swangren, Maywood, IIl.__ 2,892.21
T. L. Swangren, Maywood, IIl.__ 2,159.00
Jos. Schendelen, Melrose Park,

il 1,,250.00

Victor Nelson, Maywood, Ill. ~. 750.00
Cc. G. Nelson, Maywood, Ill. __._ 350.00
Robert Nelson, Rice, Minn. ____ 200.00
Herman Sorling, Maywood, Ill. 300.00

Mrs. EK. Snowden, Manley, Ia. 1,000.00

Henrietta Schneiter, Manley, Ia. 180.00
Langeland Mfg. Co., Muskegon __ 175.00
C. Ju: Morris, Midland -.0 02. _ 100.00
National Canners' Association,
Washineton 2 331.14
J. M. Paver Co., Chicago _..._ 100.00
Peerless Husker Co., Buffalo 700.00
W. R. Roach & Co., Grand Rapids 123.20

The following are unsecured claims:

American Can Co., Chicago __.. 334.00
Cady & Knapp, Detroit ________ 208.34
Dunkley Co., Kalamazoo ______ 306.65
Andrew Krys, White Cloud ___. 74.12
G. Rosenberg, White Cloud ______ 31.00
Taylor Typewriter Store, Grand

ReDCS f e  o eee ae 61.21
Eagle, White Cloud —___________ 93.81

C. B. Shackelford & Son, Omaha 61.88
Western Canners Association,

Chitiicothe, Ohio 2... 3-8. 50.00
Michigan Canners Association,

Grand Rapids: 3. 10.00
J. H. Allen & Co., St., Paul. --_ 308.86
berdan Co... Toledo, 22 2.26
Joyce Lauchlin Co., Peoria ____ 49.91
Muskogee Wholesale Grocer Co.,

Muskogee; “Okla. =. = os 20.23

Poehler Mercantile Co., Emporia 25.80

-axton & Gallagher Co., Omaha 491.25
Winfied Wholesale Grocer Co.,

Winfield, Kas. 2.00 177.56
D. Forbes, White Cloud ________ 18.34
G. W. Fries, White Cloud ____ 15.16
Grand Rapids Live Stock Co..

White Cloud: 205 58.42
William Guard, Ramona —____-_- 29.00
M. Homert; Fremont 5 - -. 26.39
Glenn Hull, White Cloud ______ 80.12
John Johnson, White Cloud ____ 10.46
Joseph Kazunas, White Cloud __ 12.09
A. McGowan, White Cloud ____ 9.96
Frank Samson, White Cloud __ 3.91
G. W. Stock, White Cloud —____ 2.38
L. Teesdale, White Cloud _____~ 31.75
Dick Van Wyke, Fremont —____ 10.09
M. E. Brohman, Brochman  ____ 12.47
John Groover, Brohman _______ 156.42
T. B. Mantz, White Cloud ____ 21.45
John Kalsbeek, Grand Rapids __ 25.78
Thomas Lockwood, Brohman  _-_ 53.69
F. M. Lord, Brohman _________- 560.66
W. Eh. Rattan, Brohman. —_.... 46.20

July 138. On this day were received

the schedules, order of reference and
adjudication in bankruptcy in the matter
of Albert J. Martin, Bankrupt No. 2108.
The matter has been referred to Benn
M. Corwin as referee in bankruptcy, and
who is also appointed receiver. A cus-
todian has been appointed and has taken
charge of the property. The bankrupt
is a resident of the city of Grand Rap-
ids and has conducted a local tire ser-
vice and sales business. The schedules
of the bankrupt list assets in the sum
of $3,110 of which $2,100 is claimed as
exempt to the bankrupt, and liabilities
in the sum of $3,711.49. The first meet-
ing of creditors in this matter has been
called for July 27. A list of creditors
of the bankrupt is as follows:

City of Grand - Rapids: 3.) $ 54.82
Becker Auto Co., Grand Rapids 139.07
Barkwell Buick Sales Co., G. R. 45.00
G. R. Electric Co., Grand Rapids 89.86
Firestone Tire Co., Grand Rapids 503.45
Herald, Grand Rapids ____-___-__ 17.
G. R. Insurance Agency, Grand R. 20.206
Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., Grd. R. 107.00
Co-operative Oil Co., Grand Rapids 20.00

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Mills-Broderick Printing Co.,

Crand KaApids 2 co e580
National Tire & Reliner Co., G. R. 34.05
Racine Tire & Rubber Co., G. R. 3.42
Peoples Savings Bank, Grand R. 480.00

David Wolf, Grand Rapids  __-__- 125.00
Tisch Auto Supply Co., Grand R. 35.71
Weatherly Co., Grand Rapids —_ 21.49

Valvoline Oil Co., Grand Rapids 50.00
M. R. Rubber Co., Grand Rapids 69.06
Valley City Motor Car Co., G. R. 10.00
Norwalk Tire Co., Norwalk, Conn. 1,370.00
Michelin Tire Co., Grand Rapids 131.71
G. R. Tire & Rubber Corporation,

Grand Rapits: ..02 2 68.00
B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co.,

Cran Haoese 2... Ce
Chattel Loan Co., Grand Rapids 50.00
G. R. Gas Co., Grand Rapids _. 20.41

Citizens Tel. Co., Grand Rapids 5.40
Consumers Power Co., Grand R. 13.49
Brown & Sehler Co., Grand Rapids 9.60
Quality Garage, Grand Rapids __. 12.75
Decker, Davies & Jean, G. Rap. 15.00

In the matter of Tracey E Laubscher.
3ankrupt No. 1986, the trustee has filed
his first and second reports and accounts
and a special meeting has been called
for July 22. The object of this meeting
is for the purpose of passing upon bills
and for the declaration and payment of
a first dividend to creditors.

In the matter of the Paul Nissen Cor-
poration, Bankrupt No. 1977, a special
meeting of creditors has been called for
July 26 for the purpose of passing the
report and account of the trustee and
the declaration and payment of a first
dividend.

In the matter of Henry Woordhuis,
Bankrupt No. 2071, the trustee has filed
his final report and account and a final
meeting of creditors will be held at the
office of the referee July 26, for the
purpose of passing upon the final report
and account of the trustee and the
declaration and payment of a final divi-
dend to creditors in the matter.

In the matter of Abraham Morrison,
Bankrupt No. 2076, a special meeting
of creditors has been called for July 28
for the purpose of passing upon the first
and second reports and accounts of the
trustee, allowing claims filed since the
first meeting and the declaration and
payment of a first dividend to creditors.

Corporations Wound Up.

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

Wayne Development Co., Detroit.

Reliance Contracting Co., Detroit.

Charles J. Esterling Printing Co., Detroit.

Knight Co., Detroit.

Blashfield Furnace Co., Jackson.

West Indies Molasses Co., Jackson.

Portland Silo Co., Portland.

Mio Milling & Manufacturing Co., Bat-
tle Creek.

Audits-Systems Co., Detroit.

King’s Mill Elevator Co., King’s Mill.

Reed & Buecho, Flushing.

Colony Homes Co., Detroit.

Cody Cafeteria Co., Grand Rapi:s.

Lake Oakland Hotel Co., Pontiae.

Quinn Manufacturing Co., Kalamazoo.

Stickley Brothers Co., Grand Rapids.

Detroit Emery Wheel Co., Detroit.

Newman & Snell Building Co., Niles.

G. R. Title & Realty Co., Grand Rapids.

Pine Bluff Spoke Co., Pine Bluff, Ark.-

Flint.

Independent Realty Co., Grand Ledge.

Haehnle Bottling Co., Jackson.

Auto Road Map Co., Battle Creek.

Cleereman’s Land & Lumber Co., Bramp-
ton.

Michigan Light Co., Jackson.

Mabley Land Contract Co., Detroit.

Thumb Construction Co., Sandusky.

Romeo Milling and Elevator Co., Romeo.

Noble & Co., Detroit.

Railway Men’s Union Co-operative As-
sociation, Grayling.

Lansing Eagles’ Building
Lansing.

KF. L. McecWethy Co., Marshall.

Glendale Realty Co., Detrait.

Finn Realty Co., Detroit.

Universal Aviation Co., Detroit.

Sam L. Hirsch Realty Co., Muskegon

Heights.

Fremont Manufacturing Co., Fremont.
Neighborly Threshing Co., Lake.
Motorists’ Service Station, Detroit.
Charles A. Cullen Co., Detroit.
International Purchasing & Engineering

Co., Detroit.

Peninsular Stamping Co., Detroit.

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Little Current Lumber Co., Bay City.

Schau Cone Tire Co., Kalamazoo,

Hardwood Boat Co., Saginaw.

Lansing Cooperage Co., Lansing.

Aikman Bakery Co., Port Huron.

Crown Land Co., Petoskey.

Frankenmuth Beverage  Co.,
muth.

Simplicity Wheel Co., Grand Rapids.

Benzonia-Beulah Building Co., Beulah.

Turner Electrical Construction Co., De-
troit.

Schulte-Mulleavy Sales Co., Detroit.

Cadillac Tire & Rubber Co., Detroit.

Detroit Motion Picture Operators’ School,
Detroit.

Glasgow Farms Co., Jackson.

Kalamazoo Regalia Co., Kalamazoo.

Owosso Sales & Service Co., Owosso.

A, T. Van Alstyne Co., Grand Rapids.

Crapo Building, Bay City.

Great Lakes Realty & Building Co., De-
troit.

Alma Land Contract Co., Alma.

Ackwel Products Co., Detroit.

Gerondale Drug Co., Detroit.

J. Traurig & Co., Detroit.

Gleaner Warehouse, Charlevoix.

Breitung Mineral Security Co., Ltd.,
Marquette.

Breitung Development Co., Ltd., Mar-
quette.

Enterprise Co., Ltd., Marquette.

Miners’ Development Co., Ltd., Mar-
quette.

Miners’ Negotiation Co., Ltd., Marquette.

Continental Building Co., Detroit.

Ferguson Supply Co., Ltd., Grand Rapids.

Russel Co., Detroit.

Bay City Market Co., Bay City.

Army and Navy Club, Detroit.

Cadillac Handle Co., Cadillac.

Iiyster & Howarth Land Co., Royal Oak.

Conrad Iron Works. Inc., Boyne City.

O. B. Cook & Co., Detroit.

FEF. lL. Reege Co., Detroit.

Mercantile Realty Co., Bay City.

Doetsch Brothers, Detroit.

Bonbright & Co., Detroit.

A. E. Dibble Building Co., Detroit.

West’s Drug Stores, Grand Rapids.

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COMING LABOR SHORTAGE.

The National Industrial Conference
Board predicts a steadily increasing
shortage of labor as business activ-
ity gains headway. It regards the re-
striction of immigration, which Con-
gress has extended for two “more
years, as a large factor in the situa-
tion. The number of immigtants en-
tering the country last year was con-
siderably under the quota permitted
by the law, for the reason that many
nationalities failed to send their al-
lotment and the quotas of other coun-
tries were filled early in the year.
While the total number admissible
during the current fiscal year is about
356,000, up to April 30 only about
232,000 had entered, and 174,000 had
meanwhile left the Next
year 356,000 will be admissible, com-
pared with an average of 925,000 in
the five years preceding the war. The

country.

arrivals next year are expected to be
slightly in excess of those of the past
year, but it is not likely that they
will come up to the full quota. The
most practicable remedy for the
labor shortage appears to consist in
a better utilization of existing re-
sources, especially by increasing effic-
iency. Very little constructive work
of this nature is being done. A few
factories have established emergency
training courses, but the usual exped-
ient is to draw off the labor from a
competitor by bidding up wages. This
device, it is pointed out, is no solu-
tion, but paves the way for a restora-
tion of the vicious circle of pyramid-
ing wages on prices.

There is one section of the coun-
try in which there has been consid-
erable industrial development and
which has recently reversed its atti-
tude towards the encouragement of
immigration as a_ stimulus to its
further progress. This is the textile
districts of the Carolinas and Geor-
gia. It will be recalled that nearly
twenty years ago the State of South
Carolina,
brought a shipload of Belgian weav-
ers to Charleston for the purpose of
distributing these skilled workers
through its mills and thus making

through its own agents,

possible .the manufacture of finer
grades of cotton goods than could
then be produced in its plants. The
experiment was not successful, but
the Southern mill owners have had
ambitions to compete in larger meas-
ure with those of New England. The
troubles of the New England mills
with their labor during the past five
months have helped the business of
the Southern mills, where the labor
has proved more tractable when
wage reductions were made effective.
Their recent experiences appear to
have convinced the Southern oper-
ators that the native-born labor,
drawn from the Appalachian hills, is
to be preferred to the foreign, and
there is little prospect of the South
Carolina experiment being repeated.

The present upward movement of
prices should continue for some time,
according to the Harvard Economic
Service, which bases this conclusion
upon the customary sequence of fun-
damental economic movements and

the duration of

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

former periods of
price advances. Declining money
rates and rising security prices are
forerunners of higher commodity
prices, and while there has recently
been some reaction in the securities
market, this is regarded as only a
temporary lull. Money rates mean-
while continue easy. The Economic
Service catalogues the present move-
ment as one of the major upward
swings and cites the fact that the
average duration of four such move-
ments in the last twenty years has
been fourteen months. The present
movement has been under way for
only four months, and its continuance
for some months is therefore ex-
pected. It should not be inferred
from the foregoing, as some of the
headline writers in the daily papers
have done, that the rise will go on
for another ten months. No predic-
tion of this kind was intended. Ac-
cording to the previous behavior of
the business cycle, the downward
swing of prices that began in 1920
should have reached its end in April,
1921, but we now know from the
,ureau of Labor Statistics that prices
touched a low point in June, remained
there in July, took a slight rise in
August, and then slowly sagged once
more until the Jow point was again
reached in January, 1922. In other
words, the course of deflation varied
from the “average”
earlier periods, and
expected

considerably

movement in
similar variation may be
during the present upward swing.

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MORE LABELING CASES.
“Sheffield” cutlery that has not been
within 3,000 miles of Sheffield, Eng-
land. has been banned by the Federal

 

Trade Commission, which has issued
one of its “cease and desist” orders
against the producers. This action is
along the line already marked out in
the cases affecting the branding of
knit goods of mixed woo! and cot.on
as “merino” and the placing of a
Rochester label on Clothing not made
in Rochester, N. Y. The use of labels
in this way can have but one obvious
producers who use
mislead the

purpose. The
them evidently do not
jobbers or retailers to whom they sel!
their goods, but the consumer who
knows nothing of what is behind the
label is likely to take it at its full
value. Moreover, such practices place
competitors who adhere to literal ac-
curacy in their labels or brands at a
considerable disadvantage. It is at
this point that the Government inter-
venes, through the power given to the
Federal Trade Commission to prevent
unfair competition.

—— meal

If any dry goods dealer on the sub-
scription list of the Tradesman feels
that he has been dealt fairly with by
the pattern company he does business
with, the Tradesman would be glad to
be made acquainted with the circum-
stance and the name of the pattern
company. So many complaints have

come to the Tradesman of late re-
garding the unfairness and dishonesty
practiced by different patetrn com-
panies that knowledge of the existence
of an honest one—if such there is—
would be welcomely received.

CANCEL TWO DEBTS.

Now that France has sent a repre-
sentative to this country to discuss
the payment of the debt lrance
owes this country, we should under-
take to be reasonable in the premises.
It is absurd to want to be paid and
yet not in the only way we can be
indeed

paid, it there is any

France got no gold from us and has

way.
none to give back. She got money's
worth in goods, and if it were not
for our tariff wall she might be able
to sell some goods here and let us
take the proceeds, but this would not
suit us at all. Everybody here wants
to see American goods go to France,
at least to the extent that French
No French goods,
here

goods come here.
not even wines, are wanted
merely to settle old debts.
Unreasonable, too, or worse, is our
failure to appreciate what France did
and suffered while we were making
money out of the war. Our cowardly
attitude toward Germany gave us the
opportunity to accumulate most of
the loose gold in the world, to pay
off our debts, and to become the only
great creditor nation on this planet.
Our soldiers and sailors saved the
world from military domination, but
our people must save it again, this
time in the industrial, commercial and
From 1914 to 1917

was much too long to allow Western

financial sense.

Europe to struggle alone against the
From 1918 to 1922
is much too long for us to sit tight

German hordes.

on our money bags while our friends
suffer from industrial stagnation.

The world needs a fair chance to
make a fresh start. First, there should
be some canceling of war debts. No
better beginning could be made than
our own wiping out of what France
and Belgium owe us. These countries
borrowed money to spend here, pay-
ing our citizens enormous war-time
profits. Ihe goods they bought were
destroyed in fighting against our ene-
mies, for it must be remembered that
our Government began to help only
after we had declared war, whereas
we were bound by the ties of honor
to defend Belgium from the invasion
of brutal Germany. We ought never
to have considered our loans as or-
dinary loans. They should have been
contributions in a common cause, for
although we were in the war we were
not ready to fight.

Cancelling war debts is right pol-
icy now either from the moral or the
economic standpoint. The debts of
Western Europe are real only as long
as we fail to appreciate the value to
us of the holding of the enemy in
check with sacrifices of blood until
we were forced by shame and re-
Tf our
might even

morse to go to the rescue.
friends had failed, we
now be still trying to resist a vic-
torious Grmany. Cancellation should
be considered as the giving of com-

pensation for services rendered.

 

PASSING OF BAD CHECKS.

Whether it is due to the heat or
to the desire to get some vacation
materials free, the fact remains that
something akin to an epidemic of bad
check passing is now going on here.
In one instance, in which the offender

July 19, 1922

has apparently been caught, a local
store lost three suits of clothes and
several pairs of shoes. The specific
charge on which this oftender was
arrested was that he had forged
checks under several Italian names.
A certain drew a
check for $27.50 in payment for a hat

woman recently

delivered to her home. The check

was returned by the bank with the
notation, “Signature does not agree
with the one on file.”

A man about 23 years of age re-
cently ordered some merchandise
from a local store. As he did not
have enough cash with him to pay
for the goods, they were delivered
to him €. O. D. Contrary to orders,
the delivery man took a check for the
goods. It later proved to be no good.
The Tradesman warns merchants to
be on guard against a young man
who may try to cash checks or charge
merchandise to the account of a local
refrigerator concern, of which he
represents himself to be the general
manager.

 

PRINTING PRESS MONEY.
The plan of the American Bankers’
Association to intiate a campaign of

education to counteract the weird
money theories which have recently
gained a country-wide hearing

through the activities of such leaders
as Henry ford and Thomas A. Edi-
Henry ford has
gained more monetary vagaries than
most business men suppose, and cer-
tainly far more than is conducive to
the country’s welfare. The prestige
and the popularity of the men who

son is most timely.

have led the attack upon our present
currency system have offset the lack
of merit in their views of the money
situation, and there are many who
are unable to see that a mechanical
genius is not necessarily an economic
Agitation for “printing
press” money has not assumed threat-
ening proportions, but it has special
when linked with proposi-
tions to build a network of good
roads over the United States or to
Closely
related to this fiat money propaganda
are the efforts to distort the Federal
Reserve Board into a machine for
monetary inflation. The committee
will also give its attention to an edu-
cational campaign in that direction.

STATE SUPERVISION.

In this brief for the State in the
case in which a penalty of $2,400 was
imposed on the Michigan Inspection
Bureau last week for alleged viola-
tions of the Anti-Discrimination Fire
Insurance Act. Col. Samuel D. Pep-
per, Deputy Attorney-General, used
these words:

“We suggest that the Anti-Dis-
crimination Act be amended to fix
the responsibility of rate making and
rate bureaus, to compel them to in-
corporate or otherwise become a
legal entity, to be licensed annually,
and to submit all rates and ratings to
the State Commissioner of Insurance
for approval before publication.”

These recommendations meet the
approval of Gov. Groesbeck, and at
next winter’s Legislative session, a
bill will be introduced providing for
these amendments.

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Error.

One of the most urgent reeds in
the average small shoe stock is great-
er care in watching sizes and seeing
to it that when stock is replenished,
fitting sizes are ordered and not the
full run of sizes.

In the exclusive shoe store and in
the shoe department of the depart-
ment, dry goods or general store
where there is a buyer or manager
who looks after this department and
none other, there is little need of this
caution. Where the shoe end of the
stock of the store is not so adminis-
tered a word of caution is timely.

Shoe travelers are authority for
the statement that one of the chief
reasons why shoe stocks in the small-
er stores are not greater sources of
profit lies in the fact that stock is
more of a morgue than a going,
thriving, profit producing section.

While some of this is of course
to be attributed to unwise picking of
styles, in the main the trouble lies
with carelessness in filling in. Too
often sight is lost of the fact that
the bulk of one’s business is on a
certain few sizes with the result that
replenishing orders are placed for
a full run, resulting in a doubling of
investment in slow selling footwear.

It is so true as to be axiomatic that
no merchant should place replenish-
ment orders without first making a
careful inventory of sizes and widths
of the style in question remaining in
hand.

Nor is this the only place where
greater care should be exercised by
the average merchant with whom
shoes are but one of many lines. At
least two other opportunities for ex-
ercise of improved buying care and
judgment are open and need atten-
tion.

In the first place every merchant
should know, not guess, what sizes
are the sellers in his store. That
there is a wide difference in different
Stores is certain. Keeping a careful
record of sales by sizes covering a
period of a few weeks will give a
merchant a very excellent idea of
the rapidity with which the various
sizes sell. Obviously if the bulk of
his sales of women’s shoes are in
the range from 4 to 6 he wants to be
mighty sparing in his specifications
of larger and smaller sizes in placing
his orders. Yet how many there are
who order blindly as is attested by
accumulations of end sizes in the
average small shoe stock.

Again, too many merchants have
gotten into the habit of specifying
D and E widths on women’s shoes
and E and EE on men’s, not appar-

ently realizing that many of their
customers are going out of town to
buy shoes mainly because their feet
require narrower widths in shoes than
are available in their home stores.
If merchants would only work a lit-
tle more closely with the shoe trav-
elers and learn from them the proper
and down-to-date method of fitting
shoes, “long and narrow,” there would
be fewer sales by out of town mer-
chants and fewer cases of foot trou-
ble caused by short fitting among
those who do not patronize their
home stores.

One student of this whole mat-
ter of proper specifying of sizes has
estimated that if the end sizes in shoe
stores and departments throughout
the country could be merchandised
in a special month given over to that
purpose, the sum _ received would
more than pay for the erection and
equipment of a dozen large shoe fa:
tories. .

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The Facts You Need.

No retail merchant can get an ade-
quate rate of turn-over unless he
keeps adequate records. He cannot
keep his stock down to a point which
spells profit if he insists on buying
by guesswork, no matter how long
the experience on which the guess-
work is based. A perpetual stock in-
ventory is important because shoes
are a seasonable commodity, subject
to style changes and price fluctuations
that make quick turn-over vital. This
stock record should show how many
pairs of each size of each style are
sold each day, and how many remain
in stock; cost and selling price of
each style; and number of pairs, by
size and style received each day; and
those ordered but not delivered.
Equally important with the perpetual
inventory is the daily statement,
showing the key number and the lot
number of each pair sold, the cost
and the selling prices. A careful rec-
ord of daily profits should be kept.
Given new profits, the merchant can
tell how much busines he must do
each day to break even. Records are
the foundation of successful merchan-
dising and also the cornerstone of
credit; banks are coming more and
more to the attitude, “no statement,
no loan,” in dealing with business
men.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11

 

Germany’s Deliberate Financial De-
bauchery.

The best index to a nation’s financial
and economic stability is the exchange
rate on its currency. German marks,
commanding 24 cents before the war,
are this week selling at one-fifth a
cent, and point to lower figures. In
the brief downward course of the Ger-
man mark since the war’s close is a
laconic story; it traces the moral and
financial degradation of a large nation.
Of immediate interest are facts as to
why Germany stands on the brink of
total financial collapse, and what will
be the effect on Germany and the rest
of the world when and if the collapse
occurs?

During the autumn of 1870, while
the Franco-Prussian war was still in
progress, Parisians were eating any-
thing they could get, dogs, rats, cats.
The market price for rats was two
francs apiece. The winter was the
coldest on record and coal and fire-
wood were exhausted. Trees in the
public parks were cut down and fires
built in the streets for the people.
Such conditions could not continue,
and France gave in. There followed
the armistice of Versailles, and Bis-
marck’s extraordinarily severe terms
of peace. France was obliged to cede
Alsace and a large part of Lorraine to
Germany, pay an indemnity of five
thousand million francs ($1,000 000,-
000) within three years, and support
a German army of occupation until
the instalments of the war indemnity
were __ paid. The world doubted
France’s ability to meet this enormous
indemnity. What happened? Six
months before the allotted time France
had paid its whole indebtedness and
the last German soldier was off her
soil. This through pathetic sacrifices
of the French people, and in spite of
severe civil disorders coming in the
wake of the war.

In 1919, following the Treaty of
Versailles, we find the situation re-
versed, and Germany the loser, with
an indemnity to meet. What course
does Germany adopt? Perhaps this
can be told in the words of Clarence
W. Barron, regarded both here and
abroad as America’s leading econom-
ist:

In Germany the intention was de-
liberate to debauch the currency and
destroy property and savings to pre-
vent payment to France. Rathenau in
effect privately declared: “We will
kill the treaty of Versailles by fulfill-
ing it. We will put our paper mark
over the world, subsidize our labor,
take orders over the world with which
nobody can compete. We will inun-
date the world with German goods and
the Allies will arrest the treaty be-

‘cause they cannot endure its fulfill-

ment through our German paper
mark.”

Germany has lost not only her
financial fibre, but her moral fibre. She
has lost her national spirit and her
patriotism. Germany, you know, is a
very young nation, scarcely a century
old.

She lost the war; then attempted to
win the peace with the paper mark.
She would not permit her railroads or
postoffices or government functions to
pay the Allies.

They told the world they could not

pay except by loans and credits, but
they made no effort to establish a
credit in character, or will to pay as a
basis for loans. Everybody in Europe
knows the Germans will never pay
anything if they can avoid it. That
is why France must keep 500,000 men
under arms, with 200,000 more on
leave and 200,000 more subject to call,
with arms and supplies for 1,000,000
more. She must hold that position in
order to make Germany pay.

Hence le deluge. With cheap money
at home German leaders are manu-
facturing at a low cost and selling
abroad, and leaving to their credit
abroad the gold realized from their
exports. We again quote Mr. Barron:

Now the men who have benefitted
by the war, the great industrial lead-
ers and industrial robbers of Germany,
are trading on that gold exchange and
they do not want a financial recon-
struction of Germany or restored
value in the German mark. With the
paper mark they are paying German
labor less than half what it received
before the war measured in gold, and
they are using up the goods and sup-
plies of Germany, as well as the labor
of Germany. And the fruit from this
paper paid and cheated labor, and
government stolen supplies are sold
to other countries for gold. Raw ma-
terials are bought with this gold to be
brought into Germany and worked by
this low-paid German labor. But the
big profit remains in gold in the for-
eign country and with the cheap mark
and government subsidy to labor in
Germany these gold credits in for-
eign countries are increased. These
exploiters of German labor want
nothing but inflation. Deflation would
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It affords the Tradesman much
pleasure to be able to present to its
readers the ful text of the finding of
the Anti-Discrimination Commission,
in which it condemned, fined and sus-
pended the Michigan Rating Bureau:

The complaint of the Commission of
Insurance having been filed with this
Commission on or about April 7, 1922,
in which it is charged that the Michi-
gan Inspection Bureau, its manager,
George W. Cleveland, and the Michi-
gan Advisory Board, so-called, have
made and published certain rates ol
insurance upon Michigan risks for fire
insurance which are alleged to be dis-
criminatory and in violation ol} the
provisions of Chapter 4, Part 1, Act
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No. 256, of the Public Acts of 1917;
and the said complaint having been
brought on for hearing before this
Commission at sessions held at the
Capitol on April 24 and 25, and on
May 15 and 16, 1922; and the said
Michigan Inspection Bureau, the said

George W. Cleveland, and the said
Advisory Board having been duly

cited to appear as required by said
statute: and proofs having been taken
at said open sessions of this Com-
mission bearing upon the complain‘;
and the arguments of counsel for the
State and the respective defendants
having been received and considered;
the Commission therefore publishes its
findings and orders in the premises as
follows:

The Michigan Inspection Bureau is
a voluntary association composed of
certain fire insurance companies doing

business in this State whose repre-
sentatives by aereement have tor
many years maintained said Bureau

for the purpose of inspecting fire in-
surance risks within this State and of
determining the rates to be applied by
the members of said Bureau upon in-
surance policies taken out upon ihe
said risks; that the said Bureau is or-
ganized with a manager and a number
of inspectors, so-called, together with
a certain clerical force. and maintains
its principal offices in Detroit, with
branch offices in several other ci ies
within this State; that George W.
Cleve‘and, is and has been the manager
of said Bureau for the past three or
more years; that the immediate super-
vision of the work and policy of said
Bureau is commitied to an Advisory
Board composed of R. B. Ives, Neal
_ Bassett, George H. Bell, W. L. Lerch,
E. J. Booth, and B. L. Hewitt, all but
the last named of whom reside with-
out this State; that practically all of
‘he so-called stock and old-line fire
insurance companies, whether domes-
tic or foreign, authorized to write fire
insurance in this State, are members
of said Bureau, and have adopted the
rates made and published by said Bu-
reau.

The specific complaints made in this
proceeding, of which this Commission
can take cognizance. are contained on
pages 21 and 22 of the printed com-
piaint, under the title ‘‘Discrimina-
tions,” but this Commission has also
taken into consideration the informa-
tion in the nature of cornplaint con-
tained in the entire communication re-
ceived from the Commissioncr of In-
surance, as bearing upon the specific
question as to whether the charges of

unlawful discriminations have been
made by the Michigan Inspection Bu-
reau and its manager and Advisory,
for the reason, as it appears to us, that
the charges made as to excessive rates
are so closely related to the question
of discriminations as to be inseparable,
We, therefore, deem all of the proots
offered by the State as- competent and
material, whether given under the
heading ‘of excessive charges or under
the heading of discriminations. The
statute pertaining to the powers of
this Commission enables us to act
either upon the complaint of others or
upon our own information, and we
therefore treat the proofs offered as
belonging to both categories, and as
being properly produced.

No proofs were offered by the re-
spondents for the reasons stated by
their counsel at the close of the hear-
ings.

It is claimed that the Michigan In-
spection Bureau has made and pub-
lished rates which are discriminatory
in the following groun of risks:

Michigan Ma‘leable Iron Company,
of Detroit.

Ryan-Bohn
Lansing.

Lansing Foundry Company, of Lan-
sing.

Gerson & Carey Co., of Lansing.

The proofs show that these four
concerns operate foundries and that
the occupations are substantially the
same. With the exception of the
Ryan-Bohn Co., each plant has sub-
stantially the same protection against
fire. They are located in cities having
the same class of fire protection; the
Ryan-Bohn foundry being located
without the city limits of Lansing, and
at the time the ra‘es were published
for it, the plant had no protection
from the Lansing fire department.
Both buildings and the contents be-
longing to each of these plants have
been rated by the Michigan Inspection
Bureau and the rates published are on
file in the office of the Commissioner
of Insurance, copies of which were in-
troduced in these hearings.

The proofs show that these four
properties should all have the same
classification, both as to buildings and
contents, under the Dean schedu‘e, so-
called. The classifications made and
published by the Bureau on these risks
however, show that the Gerson &
Carey buildings are classed as C-1 and
the contents as D-O; the Michigan
Malleable Iron Co.’s buildings as C-l
and contents as D-1; the Ryan-Bohn
Foundry Co.’s buiidings as C-2 and
contents as D-2; the Lansing Foundry
Co.’s buildings as C-2 and contents as
D-1%. We find that each of these
properties, both as to buildings and
contents, should have been given and
are entitled to have, the same basis
classifications as were given the Ger-
son & Carey properties—on the build-
ings the classification of C-1 and on
the contents D-O. :

We further find from the proofs
that the Michigan Inspection Bureau,
‘hrough its manager, George W.
Cleveland, and the Michigan Advisory
3oard, have been and are guilty of
publishing rates on the said properties
that are discriminatory within the
meaning of Section 12 of Chapter 4,
Part 1 of Act 256, of the Public Acts
of 1917, as a result of the classifica-
tions given, as aforesaid, and to the
following extent:

That the rate published for the Ger-

Foundry Company, of

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13

 

son & Carey property, based upon the
classification of the buildings as C-l
and of the contents as D-O, is correct;
and that so much of the rates pertain-
ing to all of the other three properties
as are in excess of the rates pub ished
for the Gerson & Carey properties,
and due ‘o the excessive classifications
as stated, have been unlawfully made
and published by the Michigan In-
spection Bureau; and

1. We therefore order that the said
discriminations be removed forthwith.

It is further claimed that the Michi-
gan Inspection Bureau has made and
published .rates which are discrim-
inatory in the following group of
risks:

Lansing Stamping Co., of Lansing,

Ferro Stamping Co.. of Detroit,

Motors Metal Manufacturing Co.,
of Detroit,

Detroit Pressed Stee’ Co., of Detroit

Brown-Hutchinson Iron Works, of
De roit.

The proofs show that these five
companies are all engaged in the same
or similar occupations—metal work-
ers: that their properties have the
same protection against fire and ought
to have been given and are entrtled to,
the same basis classifications. both as
to buildings and contents; that the
classifications given and published by
the Bureau for the properties of these
five concerns are as fol‘ows:

Lansing Stamping Co.’s buildings
C-1, contents D-2; Ferro Stamping
Co.’s buildings C-2, contents D-2;
Motors Metal Manufacturing Co.’s

buildings C-1( contents D-2; Detroit.

Pressed Steel Co.’s buildings C-1, con-
ten‘s D-1:; Brown-Hutchinson Iron
Works, buildings C-1, contents D-1%.

We find that the classifications
given and published for the Detroit
Pressed S‘eel Co.’s properties, both as
to buildings and contents, are correct,
and that the properties of the other
four companies in this group are en-
titied to the same classifications as the
De‘roit Pressed Steel Co.

We further find from the proofs that
the Michigan . Inspection Bureau,
through its manager, George W.
Cleveland, and the Michigan Advisory
Board, have been and are guilty of
publishing rates on the said properties
which are discriminatory within the
meaning of Section 12 of Chap*er 4,
Part 1 of Act No. 256, of the Public
Acts of 1917, as a result of the classi-
fications given as aforesaid, and to the
following extent:

That the rate published for the De-
troit Pressed Steel Co.’s_ property,
based upon the classification of its
buildings as C-1 and of the contents as
D-1, is correct; and that so much of
the rates pertaining to all of the other
four properties as are in excess of the
rate published for the Detroit Pressed
Steel Co.’s properties, and due to the
excessive classifications as stated, have
been unlawfully made and_ published
by the Michigan Inspection Bureau;
and

2. We, therefore, order that the
said discriminations be removed forth-
with.

It is further claimed that the Michi-
gan Inspection Bureau has made and
pubished rates that are discriminatory
in the following group of cases:

The four separate mills of the De-
troit Copper & Brass Rolling Mill's, of
Detroit—tube mill, rolling mill, wire
mil! and roling mill.

The proofs show that these four
mils are separate risks belonging to
the same company and are all engaged
in occupations of a similar nature, that

is, the primary fabrication of brass and
copper products; that these several
properties have the same protection
against fire, and ought to have been
given and are entitled to, the same
classifications, both as to buildings
and as to contents: . iat — the
classifications given and published by
the Bureau for each of these separate
properties are as follows: the two
rolling mills, buildings C-1, contents
D-O: the tube mil, buildings C-1, con-
tents D-11%4; the wire mill, buildings
C-1, contents D-1.

We find that the classifications
given and published for the two roll-
ing mills of this company, both as to
buildings and contents, are correct,
and that the other two properties of
this company in this group are en-
titied to the same classifications as the
two rolling mills.

We further find from the proofs
that the Michigan Inspection Bureau,
through its manager, George W.
Cleveland, and the Michigan Advisory
Board, have been and are guilty of
publishing rates on said properties
which are discriminatory within the
meaning of Section 12 of Chapter 4,
Part 1 of Act 256, of the Public Acts
of 1917, as a result of the classifica-
tions given, as aforesaid, and to the
following extent:

That the rate published for the two
rolling mills of the Detroit Copper &
Brass Co., based upon the classifica-
tion of the buildings as C-1, and of the
contents as D-O, is correct; and that
so much of the rates pertaining to the
tube mill and the wire mill as are in
excess of the rates published for the
two rolling mills of this plant, and
due to the excessive classifications as
stated, have been unlawfully made and
published by the Michigan Inspection
Bureau; and

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said discriminations be removed forth-
with.

_It is further claimed that the Michi-
gan Inspection Bureau has made and
published rates that are discriminatory
in the application of like charges and
credits in the following cases: In the
buildings known as the Stroh building,
the Kresge building, and the Palmer
building, all in Detroit, charges ap-
pear in the schedule ratings for “iron
and glass walls,” while no charge is
made for these items in the schedule
ratings published for the Empire
building and the Union Trust build-
ing, also located in Detroit. We find
from the testimony that these five
buildings all contain similar glass win-
dows on the ground floor or first
story, and that under the Dean sched-
ule, as filed by the Michigan Inspec-
tion Bureau, these windows should all
be classed alike and that they are win-
dows and not walls. We therefore
find that the charge in the schedules
for the Stroh, the Kresge and the
Palmer buildings are improperly made
and that the Bureau has discriminated
in its published schedules against the
properties known as the Stroh, the
Empire and the Kresge buildings, in
respect of such charges; and

4. We therefore order that such
discriminations be removed forthwith.

In all of the above instances of dis-
criminations, rates have been pub-
lished that necessarily involve mis-
applications of the rules and interpre-
tations of the Dean schedule, so-called,
and each discrimination involves an
excessive rate for any insurance taken
out by the owners of the properties
discriminated against. The matter of
an excessive rate, as distinguished
from a discriminatory rate, is, we
think, a question for the Commission-
er of Insurance to deal with, under the
powers given him by Chapter 4, Part
1, Act 256, of the Public Acts of 1917.
We also here point out that a rate
charged for insurance necessarily in-
volves the contract between the insur-
ance company and the assured, and
that the insurance companies are not
parties to these proceedings,, So that
this Commission is without authority
to order the insurance companies, in
these proceedings, to rectify or adjust
the rates charged. In many of the
cases involved in these proceedings,
the proofs indicate that charges have
been made in the Bureau ratings for
items that indicate extreme and un-
warranted technical construction of
the rules of the Dean schedule, aside
from the basis classifications, and we
are impressed from the number of
these instances that the Michigan In-
spection Bureau has been pursuing a
policy of deliberately misapplying the
schedule by the use of these technical-
ities, the net result of which tends to
raise the average rates for fire insur-
ance throughout the State without
technically increasing the basis rates
or ratings.

The manager of the Michigan In-
spection Bureau, George W. Cleve-
land, and the members of the Michi-
gan Advisory Board, as heretofore
named, will be held by this Commis-
sion personally responsible for the
-compliance on the part of the Michi-
gan Inspection Bureau with the orders
made herein with respect to the terms
of this order.

The Commission further finds that
the said Michigan Inspection Bureau,
through its manager, agents, and the
Michigan Advisory Board, has violat-
ed the proviso of said Chapter 4, Part
1, Act No. 256, of the Public Acts of
1917, in each and every instance of
discrimination as specified in these
findings and order; that the total
number of said violations, as found,
is tweive; and we therefore, under the
plenary authority of Section 13 of said
Chapter, impose a penalty of $200 up-
on and to be paid by said Michigan
Inspection Bureau for each such vio-
lation, in the total sum of $2400 and
the authority of the said Michigan In-
spection Bureau, its officers and
agents, to transact any business in

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

this State is hereby suspended until
there shall have been paid to the Com-
missioner of Insurance for the use and
benefit of this State, or on behalf of
said Michigan Inspection Bureau, the
said sum of $2,400.

Merlin Wiley, Attorney General.

H. A. McPherson, Banking Com-
missioner.

L. T. Hands, Commissioner of In-
surance.

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The armored car which the
Grand Rapids National Bank has in
its service is the subject of keen in-
terest. It is the first automobile of
the kind to be used in Grand Rapids
and has but very. recently been adopt-
ed by the larger financial institutions
in the great cities to foil the daring
holdup man. The era of lawlessness
folowing the kaiser’s war resuled in
such daring daylight robberies from
bank messengers and guards that the
practice of entrusting currency and
valuable securities to armed guards
carrying bags has been largely aban-
doned and the armored car is now
recognized as the safest means of con-
veyance yet devised. These cars are
usually manned by a crew of men
trained in the use of the rifle or revol-
ver. They are of the type drawn upon
to recruit such organizations as the
Northwest Mounted Police of Canada
and the Pennsylvania State Constabu-
lary. When delivering currency or
bullion from the car at the curb to the
bank or express office, at least one
man is always free of all encumbrance,
so that he may use his gun in the
fraction of a second if danger threat-
ens; in fact, they are instructed to
keep one hand upon the stock of the
revolver at such times.

The local car is constructed of
twelve-guage armor plate steel which
is bullet-proof. Between the outside

new

-casing and the inside sheet of steel

there is a space packed hard with cot-
ton, giving added protection. The
glass for windows in the car is non-
shattering bullet-proof glass, seven-
eights of an inch in thickness. The
guard rides inside the car with the
valuables and not on the seat with
the driver. Small openings of a par-
ticular design and conveniently placed
permit the guard to discharge his piece
at hold-up men, while it is impossible
to penetrate the car through such
openings from the outside. A ventil-
ating system provides for the comfort
of the guard when long trips are taken.

The Grand Rapids National car is
especially designed to ensure the safe
carriage of money and securities from
the bank to the postoffice, the express
offices, and to the bank’s nine branches
which it is conducting in widely scat-
tered sections of the city. It is also
used extensively in carrying pay-rolls
to many factories which the bank is
serving.

Jacob VanderKooi, as guard, and
Frank Weatherwax, as driver, who
constitute the crew of the local car,
are armed with automatic pistols.

The body of the car was constructed
by the Hayes-Ionia Service Co. at its
local shops from specifications fur-
nished by the Bank’s officers. The
body rests on a ford chassis.

While Grand Rapids has been com-

paratively free from highway robbery ©

of the type herein suggested, the pros-

perity of the city, which is the subject
of wide comment may attract undesir-
able visitors, and the Bank feels, as a
matter of justice to its customers, that
no element of protection should be
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With

$22,610,000.00 Cash Assets
$10,157,000.00 Cash Surplus to Policyholders
$5,800,000.00 Cash Dividends

Paid in 1921

  

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16

Officially Sanctioned Highway Rob-
bery.

Ann Arbor, July 18—One-half of
every dollar paid by taxpayers for
road building and highway mainten-
ance is stolen or wasted. Any man
who cares to do so can verify this
statement,

As you ride along a so-ca_led “good
road” you may see a large truck haul-
ing and dumping gravel on a pile by
the roadside. Later you see a truck
or a man with horses and wagon re-

 

loading tha: gravel and distributing
it upon the road. Then men. with
irden rakes rake the larger stones

into a pile to be re-loaded onto an-
other wagon and hau‘ed away.

Hiad the gravel been screened at the
pit and the stones left behind a con-
siderable expense would have been
saved.

Wherever you see a gang of men at
work building or repairing roads you
will usually see only abou: one-third
of them at work at the same time.
\nd when they do move it is not more
than ha:f speed of an honest, indus-
trious worker.

[1 spring you may see gangs of men
cleaning out the gutters or ditches at
the sides of the road. In one day a
dozen men may possibly clear up a
mile or more—about as much as four
honest laborers would do in the same
time. Instead of the boss or superin-
tendent dropping off four men at each
quarter mile and then, when they have
completed their sections pick them up
and carry all forward to new sections,
the whoe ten to twenty men walk the
whole distance of the day’s work, more
than half the time carrying their tools

leted work.

 

 

 

past com]

Many other instances could be men-
ioned to show how men receiving
good wages are stealing the taxpayers’
money. The contractors must needs
estimate the amount of work which a
given number of men will perform in
building or repair work and al_ow for
all this slackerism. If there be no
graft or rake off or dishonest com-
mission elsewhere in the performance
of work for the public, this submis-
sion ‘o or countenancing idling by la-
borers makes such contractors part-
ners in robbing taxpayers.

  

Not lack of funds in the State treas-
ury, but ‘ack of honést, faithful work
on the part of county road commis-
sioners, engineers, superintendents
and o hers is sufficient reason for
stopping all State road building until
such time as it shall be performed
honestly and with regard to giving
taxpayets an equivalent for their
money.

He who sees an idler—a tax paid
laborer—on the highway or on the
city street, should have power’ to
make complaint and cause his arrest.
Or else the proved slackerism of la-
borers should constitute a ground for
amercing their employers—the con-
tractors—an equitable sum. County
boards of supervisors or other officials
who allow this waste of the peop!e’s

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

money are giving sanction to highway
robbery.

The passing of Harlan H. Johnson,
for thirteen years managing editor of
the Ann Arbor Times-News, may be
regarded as a distinct public loss. The
quantity and quality of his work here,
as well as in Ohio in previous news-
paper connections, should have en-
titled him to a period of rest in this
life—a period of restful activity after
the stress and strain of life’s midday

It seems that his devotion to his
vocation outweighed his regard for
his own ease, comfort and health so
that at the age of 47 his sudden taking
off seems like a personal sacrifice to
public service. None could meet or
know him without being impressed
with his kindliness, friend iness and
unfailing courtesy. The high grade
of the editorial department of the
Times-News after the new manage-
ment gave it edi orial features, must
constitute a monument to the work
and character of Harlan Johnson.

Sie a i
Soo Stock Agents Alarmed Over
Situation.

The Sau‘t Insurance Agency, at the
Soo, is circulating a pamphlet among
the insurers of that city which is as
full of falsehood as it is possible to
crowd into twenty-four pages. I
purports to be an aitack on mutual
fire insurance, but as it was printed in
1914 and is made uv of exploded
falsehoods now nearly twenty vears
od, it will do the cause of mutual in-
Surance more good than harm. The
Soo concern must be migh y hard up
for defense weavons to promulgate
such stuff, knowing, as it must, that
it is based on ideas long ago conceded
to be untenable by conservative insur-
anee men. Mutual insurance must be
making strong inroads in the Soo to
induce the agen‘s of stock company

extortion to resort to such tactics.

—_>--__
Careless Neighbors.

If your careless neighbors know-
ingly harbor a defective chimney, a
rubbish filled basement, a laden attic,
defective electric wiring, stoves in-
stalled so as to endanger woodwork,
or are careless in using gasoline or
storing of oils, oily waste and rags,
then he is not interested in the safety
of his own property and family and
the lives of the firemen. It is there-
fore your duty to warn him and to
notify the proper authorities. Such a
man needs discipline, not sympathy in
case he has a fire.

——_2> ++ ___

How do you buy your seasonable
goods-—by guess or after a careful ex-
amination of your last year’s records?

July 19, 1922

 

FINNISH MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.
ORGANIZED IN 1889.

Assets. Liabilities.

Cash, Bonds & Mortgages $261,267.87 Reserve for Losses and
Uncollected Premius and Unearned Premiums ~----$ 52,788.67
interest (ooo 7,432.58 Surplus Over Liabilities _... 215,911.70

FACTS TO BE CONSIDERED.

THIS COMPANY HAS HAD THIRTY-TWO YEARS OF SUCCESSFUL UN-
DERWRITING EXPERIENCE.

THIS COMPANY HAS THE LARGEST SURPLUS IN PROPORTION TO
INSURANCE CARRIED OF ANY COMPANY IN THE STATE.

THIS COMPANY HAS RETURNED NEARLY TWICE AS MUCH IN DIVI-
DENDS SINCE ORGANIZATION AS IT HAS PAID IN_ LOSSES.
THIS COMPANY HAS RETURNED A DIVIDEND OF NOT LESS THAN 50%

FOR THE PAST 27 YEARS.
THIS COMPANY WRITES ON APPROVED MERCANTILE, DWELLING AND
CHURCH RISKS.

DIVIDENDS 50%

If you want to cut your insurance costs in half, write

I. W. FRIMODIG, Gen’l. Mgr., C.N. BRISTOL, State Agent,
CALUMET, MICH. FREMONT, MICH.

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Michigan Shoe Dealers Mutual Fire Ins. Co.

LANSING, MICHIGAN

PLAN OF BUSINESS
CLASSES INSURED .. . General Mercantile Business.
POLICIES .... ... .. Michigan Standard Policy, with Mutual
Conditions added—approved by Mich-
igan Insurance Department.
RATES . ee we te he hel hv e)6Full Michigan Inspection Bureau Tariff.
DIVIDEND . . « - . . Payable at end of policy year—current
dividends 30%.
CONTINGENT LIABILITY Limited to one _ additional annual
premium.

OUR SERVICE
Insurance to Fit Your Individual Needs
Fire Prevention Engineers at your service without additional cost

OUR SLOGAN
FEWER FIRES

 

BETTER CARE LOWER COST

 

 

Grand Rapids Merchants Mutual
Fire Insurance Company

Economical Management

Selected Risks

Conservative but enjoying a healthy growth.
Dividend to Policy Holders 30%.

Careful Underwriting

Affiliated with the

Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association

OFFICE 319-320 HOUSEMAN BLDG. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH,

 

 

 

OUR FIRE INS.
CONCURRENT

with any standard stock policies
that you are buying.

The Net Cost is 3(I)% [Less

Michigan Bankers and Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
of Fremont, Mich.

WM. N. SENF, Secretary-Treas.

POLICIES ARE

 

 

 

SAFETY SAVING SERVICE

CLASS MUTUAL AGENCY

“The Agency of Personal Service’’

COMPANIES REPRESENTED AND DIVIDENDS ALLOWED.

Minnesota Hardware Mutual ---- 55% Shoe Dealers Mutual q-nnn-- === -- 30%
Wisconsin Hardware Mutual --_ 50% Central Manufacturers’ Mutual ~ 30%
Minnesota Implement Mutual -- 50% Ohio Underwriters Mutual ---- 30%
National Implement Mutual ---_ 50% Druggists’ Indemnity Exchange 36%
Ohio Hardware Mutual ~-------- 40% Finnish Mutual Fire Ins. Co. -- 50%

 

SAVINGS. TO POLICY HOLDERS.

Hardware and Implement Stores, 50% to 55%; Garages and Furniture Stores:
40%; Drug Stores, 36% to 40%; Other Mercantile Risks, 30%; Dwellings, 50°

 

These Companies have LARGER ASSETS and GREATER SURPLUS for each
$1,000.00 at risk than the Larger and Stronger Old Line or Stock Companics.
A Policy in any one of these Companies gives you the Best Protection availab’e.
Why not save 30% to 55% on what you are now paying Stock Companies fir
no better Protection. If interested write, Class Mutual Agency, Fremont, Mic”

 

 

 

 

 

July 19,- 1922

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Even Arithmetic Can Be Made Fun.
“Oh, dear! I think I’d like school
if it weren’t for arithmetic.” Harry
‘ooked un from his book wich a face
of complete disgust and weariness.
“What have you got to do with
” asked his Uncle Jim.
“IT thought school was over for the
summer.”

arithmetic now?

He winked knowingly over
the top of his newspaper at me.
“Plenty to do with it,’ the boy re-
pled.
amination, and I promised my

“T just skinned through on ex-
next
teacher that I’d review the whole busi-
ness this summer. I don’t see the use
of arithmetic, anyway. I know how
to count and figure out things with
money. What have I got to do with
all this business of quarts and gal-
lons and capacity of pipes? I’m not
ever going to be a plaumber.”

“You were interested enough in the
building of the new reservoir,” said
Uncle Jim. “lil bet you neglected
your work to-day so as to be up
there and see the masons.”

“Well, that is interesting,” exclaimed
Harry. “I like to see things built.”

“How big is the reservoir?” Uncle
Jim asked.

’

“T don’t know. You must know;
they're building it on the top of your

hill, for your house and barn and

cattle and everything.”
“TI do know. But I thought if you
interesting
found out about the capacity.”

capacity,’ Uncle Jim
went on, “do you know you left the
water running in the barn

found it so you'd have

“Speaking of

when you
came in?”

“Did. be Van Anyway, it
a little trickle. It wouldn’t
run two quarts all night.”

sorry.
was only

It was a stream
as big as a lead pencil.

“Oh, wouldn’t it?
Have you any
idea how much water you can waste
with a stream that size running all
night?”

“Not much.”

“Well, you ask Katie tor a quart
and take my watch, and let
me know how

measure,
much water you get
with a stream that size in just one
minute.”

The boy ran off, and presently came
back with the answer:

“Just a quart a minute. I told you
e > ”
i: wasn’t much.

“Not much? Sit down and figure
out what that means in twelve hours.”
Sixty
Howe. . sity quarts... 2...) 720

“Let's see. minutes in an

that is a good deal!”
many

quarts. Gee,

“Yes, and how gallons is
thate?

“Four quarts to a gallon—180 ga'-
lons.”

“Well, just that ‘trickle,’ as you call
it, would empty that big tank behind
the barn in a couple of days. That is
why we are bui-ding the reservoir up
there on the hill. We had to do a lot
of figuring to->know jus! how big to
make it. I wish that when you are
up there to-morrow you would find
out just how long and wide and deep
it is, and from that get the cubic con-
tents. Then we’ll find’ out just how
many gallons it holds and how long
i. would take that little trickle of yours
to empty it.”

“Well, that will be fun,” said Harry,
“T wish our teachers would give us
interesting things like that to do.”

Harry went off to bed, and Uncle
Jim said to me: “I’ve got to rack
my brains and brush up my mathe-
matics. I’m going to show that boy
some of the uses of arithmetic before
he goes home. I told his father when
he came up here that I’d help him
review his arithmetic. There’s a field
out back of the woods, and I’m going
him to mapping it and estimat-
ing the size and area, and doing al!
sorts of things about it that will
utilize every bit of knowledge he has
got. He is tired of books.”

”

LO Se;

“T remember in the early days of
the war when soldiers were guarding
the New York water supply,” I said,
“seeing a public school teacher utilize
the situation by having her pupils
figure out how long the water in the
Croton Lake would last the city, and
other things requiring close figuring
related to the thing they were
interested in.

most
She had them look up
al. the data regarding population, per
capita consumption, and so on. They
were greatly interested.”

During the next week Harry and
Uncle Jim were out in the field back

 

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of the woods measuring angles,
lengths of fence and stone walls, cal-
culating area, and in the evenings
Uncle
Jim found ways to bring in fractions,

decimals,

working hard over the results.

ratios, every sort of calcula-
tion that was included in the arithme-
tic Harry had to review.

The day I left,
out how many gallons of paint would

Harry was figuring

be needed for the big new barn, which

was so high, so long and wide, and

required thus-and-so much paint per

square yard of area. Arithmetic had
become the most interesting thing in
the world to Harry. And Harry had
become the most interesting thing in
the wor.d to Uncle Jim.

Prudence Bradish

(Copyrighied, 1922).

 

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favoyed

Carnation Milk is equally popu-
lar on both sides
counter. Its purity, economy and
convenience appeal to the most
exacting housewife; its steadily
repeating
business for the grocer.
shelves well stocked with
Carnation Milk. The demand has
increased steadily for more than
twenty
are frequent.
Carnation
jobber.

CARNATION MILK Propuctrs Company
733 Consumers Building, Chicago
Seattle

833 Stuart Building,

Carnation

Milk

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of the grocer’s

sale insures a volume
Keep

Stock turnovers
It pays to be the
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from your
jobber today.

Not merely baking
powder but increased
leavening power.

The special process
of manufacture is
the reason.

  
  

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provement over
old-fashioned
powders. It has
more raising pow-
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Matronly Hats For Fall. the colors of the feathers including |¥ display it prominently. Sales and profits will f
Pressed fabrics—both satins and vel- brick, smoke, brown, blue and jade.” then take care of themselves. :
vets—panne velvet, hatters’ plush, em- : x
bossed plush and Lyons velvet are the a Skirt Length Problem. NATIONAL TRADING COMPANY
ma‘eria‘s that will figure principally in Phe question of skirt lengths is up- ; ‘
i i i 630 SO. WABASH AVE CHICAGO, ILL
hats to be offered this Fall for women Permost in the minds of retail buyers ¥ : . ’ + ie
of the matronly type, according to the who are now going to market to pur- {aaa ooo ooo

 

current bulletin of the Retail Millinery Chase Fall dresses, suits and separate
Association of America. Giving other ‘skirts. This is particularly true in the
details about this class of hats, the Case of dresses, inasmuch as they con-
bulletin goes on: stitute the largest portion of the wo-
men’s ready-to-wear garment business
from the standpoint of the number of
articles sold. Commenting on what
might be considered the proper skirt
length for Fall, Executive Director
David N. Mosessohn, of the Associat-
ed Dress Industries of America re-
cently remarked that it is safe to re-
gard the skirt which comes within 8
inches of the ground as the length
that will be worn by the majority of
women who want to be in style and at
the same time want to avoid being
extreme,

“As is usual with all styles,” he con-

SUGUEDEGLEELEEA DET ERERGGRGRGGU OGRA UGRROUGEROGUREGREOQQUGNECATEEREASORCQDEUDORDOESOOESURSNGHUROGUEGOROOGE

FALL MERCHANDISE

We are receiving shipments daily of

NEW FALL MERCHANDISE

Percales, Ginghams, Plain and Fancy Outings, Dress
Goods of all kind, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear. Good
assortment in every department.

If you are coming to Grand Rapids, be sure to look at our
lines.

Quality Merchandise — Right Prices— Prompt Service |

“One of the most charming models tinued, “there are diate Seeied cis PAUL STEKETEE & SONS

lately imported is the inspiration of overdo. Some dresses are seen on WHOLESALE DRY GOODS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Pate Vileterd, A chaps ob amoled oe cineet aleeaily which might fe UMMMASULAUUADUEAUAAUEQUUOUNNOUAQUCUUEAUEAUEAAUAOUAQEAAEEAUOOUSQAUOOUEOUEQUQONEOUEOQESUUEGUEOUEOUEOGUOLUGE

gray panne velvet shows a narrow, catted ankle length, but they are not MOMAMAMAMAMATAMATAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMmAMAmA Mmm
slightly rolling brim that is turned up generally accepted as good style. With

on the left and down on the right. The

, the continuance of the straight-line ef- Y
high crown is smoothly fitted and has fect, the extremely long skirt will is ( ‘I I y DA
a round tip inset. Coque feathers of i

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““Blonde,’ as Paris names our peb-
ble shade, is to be a decided feature,
with black popular as a matter of
course. ‘Nigger’ brown and _ reseda
green will be the other preponderant
colors. Navy will not be so strong.
For adornment plumage and metallic
rims will be used, the former includ-
ing untreated ostrich, coque, pompons
and burnt wostrich. Toques, turbans
and cloches will be popular shapes, but
it is the tricorne that promises to show
the greatest strength in matronly
headgear.

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necessarily have to follow the old

hobble style, which was obnoxious to Remember that EVERY WEDNESDAY is CITY DAY just as it used
all women. It was not only uncom- to be. BARGAINS in ALL DEPARTMENTS.
fortable, but unsightly. The straight- )y

the same gray shade are clustered in
a tall ‘fancy’ and placed at the right of
the hat.

“Tete de negre moire grosgrain is We are just getting in a lot of new merchandise particularly for

h by Marie L t ki line silhouette does not permit of the fall and revived CITY DAY in order to encourage merchants to agair FS “
c 08 y : ee : oe 0 ie m8 flare necessary in the long skirt, unless come into the House and finding out what we have. =
another matron at. The hi rown ;,:; ; :

§ thi del a a _ ee it 1s especially well draped, and this During the remainder of July when we are cleaning up merchandise
oe Fas Eu! 1S inset —_— * tip ° can be done only in the higher priced 5 we particularly call your attention to the fact that if you want any mer-
brick red suede that is handpainted in garments. Buyers will be safe in con- chandise quick, you are at liberty to telephone us at our expense fon

an Egyptian design and embroidered
in silver tinsel. This tip is bordered
by a piping of brown velvet, a second
piping marking the edge of the crown
and the head size as well. The brim

anything you want and we will ship the merchandise to you the day Ss }

fining their i
g e orders to conservative bee AE 1k saecdoee.”

lengths. The woman or girl who still
wants a short skirt can have it by
raising the hem to any length she de-

Get out our July Circular and send us your mail orders. We appre-
ciate this business.

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sires.”
is slightly on the order of a rolling —_2-.___ GRAND RAPIDS DRY GOODS CO. WHOLESALE ONLY ’
cloche at the right, but turns up on the A cranky salesman may fill a pros- j
left almost as high as the crown and _ pective customer’s order for a ham- ,QUBUMOMUMUBUMUDUBUBUBUMUUBUMUM MUU fi

takes a facing of suede which matches mer, but the man with a cheerful Sa See nae ——
, [eee SEE EE ,
that of the tip. A mass of fluffy un- smile and a helpful suggestion will : a : . {
mi Wrye BATHING.

erpolsheimer(o, Soy SUITS
MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS ber

OF BEST GRADE

Window Shades, Rugs
Linoleum, Carpets
Curtain Rods
Brass Fixtures

OUR AIM !S TO GIVE PROMPT SERVICE
AND QUALITY MERCHANDISE.

Samples of shade cloth and estimates fur-
nished upon request.

 

STILL GOING STRONG

Stock on the floor sufficient for a short time only.

$30.00 for the heavy $36.00 suits. $24.00 for the medium $28.50 suits.
To clean up.

Daniel T. Patton & Company !
‘Grand Rapids, Michigan - 59-63 Market Ave. N.W. i
The Mens Furnishing Goods House of Michigan

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curled ostrich tips is placed at the sell him everything that goes to make
right side of the hat, toward the back, and furnish a house.

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July 19, 1922

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

19

 

Scan All Pattern Contracts Carefully.

In signing. gontracts for pattern or-
ders, dry goods merchants should be
particular to insist on having a copy
of the order before signing the orig-
inal. Crafty agents have been in the
habit of leaving a printed copy, with
quantities and prices not filled out,
assuring the merchant that an official
copy would be forwarded to him from
the headquarters of the company.
Somewhere between the merchant’s
store and the headquarters of the com-
pany the order is expanded and
amplified to meet the avarice of the
agent. This circumstance has been
repeated so many times in Michigan
of late that the Tradesman feels itself
compelled to warn its readers to be
doubly careful in dealing with the
sharks which infest the pattern trade.
Atl of the agents employed by pattern
companies may not be dishonest, but
altogether too many of them are un-
scrupulous for the good of Michigan
merchants.

—_>->_____
Beware of the United Buyers’ Associa-
tion.

There are on my desk the proposi-
tions of a large number of fraudulent
operators whose methods should be
exposed in this issue of our magazine,
but space will not permit. There is
the proposition of the United Buyers’
Association of Grand Rapids, presided
over by a man by the name of Martin,
who was arrested more than a year
ago in Canada for conducting the
same kind of a scheme. The name of
Walter Sutton is used on the station-
ery of this fraudulent proposition.
Mr. Sutton is in the cigar business in
a small way in Holland, Michigan.
The United Buyers’ Association is a
dangerous fraud, and I have reason to
believe that their days are numbered.
I want to warn my readers to refuse
a gonnection with the United Buyers’
Association of Grand Rapids.—Spec-
ialty Salesman Magazine.

—~---2.—___
Trunks For Juveniles.

New trunks intended solely for
children’s use have been placed on the
market. While the trunks might be
classed as toys, they are described as
practical in every sense of the word,
and able to stand considerable wear
and tear. The smaller size is a doll
and dress trunk, retailing at $5. The
larger model is a juvenile wardrobe
trunk, which is designed to sell at $10.
This one is made of seasoned bass-
wood, with vulcanized fiber covering
and brass-plated hardware. It is lined
with cretonne-designed paper and has
a polished trolley, four hangers, three
drawers and a laundry bag. It is
described as strongly built for travel-
ing.

 

We are manufacturers of '

Trimmed & Untrimmed HATS
for Ladies, Misses and Children,
especially adapted to the general
store trade. Trial order solicited.

CORL-KNOTT COMPANY,

Corner Commerce Ave. and
Island St.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

PRICES CURRENT ON STAPLE DRY GOODS.

List prices corrected before going to press, but not guaranteed

against changes.
ae Musiins.

BVO oo 13
Cabot 14%
44 in. Indian Hd. S.F. 25
Big injun J
meas Sileaiacemuccenes 16

3
36 i Indian ‘Head __ 20
33 in. Indian Head __ 18%
54 in. Ind. Head L. F. 32%

Unbleached Muslins.
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11%
Exposition _.. 12%

40 in.
40 in. 96A shorts __ 11%

Pillow Tubing.
42 in. Seneca _______ a
45 in. Seneca -..___
42 in. Pepperell ~___ 30
45 in. Pepperell _. 31

36 in. Edwards _____ 25
42 in. Indian Head — 80
42 in, Cabot 31%
45 in. Cabot: 2... 32%
42 in. Pequot —.____ 35
45 in. Pequot —_____ 37%

40 in. Quinebaug .... 80
Denims, Drills and Ticks.

220 Blue Denim __.. 20
240 Blue Denim ____ 18%
260 Blue Denim ___. 17%
Steifels Drill ......_ 16
8 oz. Canvas __u____ 18

——— ACA Tick,

Cordis, ACA Tick — 25
Warren Fancy Tick 35
Thorndyke Fy. Sat. 37%
Amoskeag, ACA _... 27%

Cambrics and Longcloths.
Berkley, 60 Cambric 19
Berkley, 60 Nainsook 19
Berkley, 100 Nains’k 25
Old Glory, 60 Camb. 17%
Old Glory, 60 Nain. 17%
Diamond Hill, Nain. 15%
Diamond Hill, Camb. 15%

7 ngcloth coe, 12%
81 Longcloth -..... 16
84 Longeloth —___. 17%
7001 Longcloth -..... 15
7002 Longcloth ~__... 16
. 7003 Longcloth —...__ 19
7004 Longcloth ..____ 24
Ginghams.

Seminol Dress Ging-

hams, solid colors 15
A eC. oe
Toile du Nord --.. 18%
Red Rose 16%
Dan River 1644
Everett Classics .... 16
Amoskeag Staples .. 12%
Haynes Staples _... 12
Lowe Chveiots, 32 in. 15
Bates, in.

M. C. Seersucker 17%

Kalburnie, 32 in. _--__ 19

Jacquelin, 32 in. _.. 32%
Shea. = Pog oe 37%
32 in. eo eee

Manville Chambray = 16
Red Seal Zephyr -.. 18

Prints and Percales.

Columbia, Lights .. 13%
Columbia, Darks ... 15

Am. Prints, Indigo._. 10%

Manchester 80x80 Lt. 18

Manchester 80x80 Dk. 19

Scout, 64x60, Lights 12

eee 64x60, Darks. 14
hirtings

 

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Outings and Cantons.
Cashmere Twill -... 14%
27 in. Unble. Canton 14
100 Flannelette ______ 12%
1931 Outing Lights _ 14
1921 Light Outings 13%
Scotchdown Shaker — 15
Appledown Shaker .. 15
Appledown Shaker __ 16
24 in. White Shaker 11%
26 in. White Shaker 12%

Dainy Cloth oo 14%
1931 Dark Outings _. 15

Draperies and Cretonnes.
Hamilton Twill -... 14%

Dresden Fy. Drapery 17%
Tudor F’cy Drapery 19

Nu Drape 32
Weatmorciand Creto. 16
Fancy Silkoline _._.. 16%
Stratford Cretonne.. 16
3544 D. B. Scrim —. 13%
8177 Curtain Net -.. 30
8432 Curtain Net _... 62%
4039 Marquisette _... 19%
Dragon Drapery -... 25

36 in, Art Cretonne.._ 25
36 in. Elco Tapestry. 30

Linings and Cambrics.
Tico D Satine _..... 80
No. 40 Bik. Satine _ 16%
No. 1 White Satine _ 14%
No. 50 Percaline -._. 16%
DD Black Satine _. 25
Satin Finished Satine 42%
Raidant Bloomer Sat. 42%
36 in. Printed Satine 52%
Windsor Cambric -.. 10
Parkwood Wash Sat. 67%

Meritas Ojl Cloth.
b-4 White 2200 . =
5-4 Mossaics  ~____.___
5-4 Blue aon eee . ae
G-4 White = 4.50
i ‘ Ponce Eee ae 4.25

Sanitas 3.5
All oil cloth sold net cash,
no discount.

Flags. Doz.

16x24 in. Spearheads 1 32%
18x30 in. Spearheads 1 90
24x36 in. Spearheads 2 95

Each
8x5 ft. Reliance Prt. 70
4x6 ft. Reliance Prt. 1 25
Prt. 1 90
6x9 ft. Reliance Prt. 2 90
8x12 ft. Reliance Prt. 4 25
4x6 ft. Defiance Swd. 2 00
5x8 ft. a sap Swd. 2 75
Defiance Swd. 3 60
8x12 ft. Defiance Swd. 5 20
10x15 ft. Defiance Swd 8 00
6x9 ft. Sterling Wool 7 50
8x12 ft. Sterling Wool 11 50

Gross
No. 7 Muslin Flags — 7 20

Sheets and Pillow Cases.
63x90 Pequot Blea.__ 13 75
63x99 Pequot Blea.__ 15 04
72x90 Pequot Blea.__ 15.25
72x90 Pequot Blea.__ 16 69
81x90 Pequot Blea.__ 16 75
81x90 Standard  -__. 13 50
42x381%4 Utica Cases. 8 76
42x36 Pequot Plain __ 3 96
45x36 Pequot Plain _. 4 20
42x36 Pequot S. S. _. 4 96
45x36 Pequot S. S. __ 5 20
42x36 Meadowbrook  _ 2 50
42x36 Lenox ~___._____ 2 75

Wool Goods.

36 in. Hamilton, All

Wool Fig ag Serge 57%
No. bed 44 in. Storm

SOI © oe 82%
No. 4040, 60 in. Storm

Maree oe 1.07%
40 in. Julliards Pla. 1.15
50 in. Julliards Pla. 1.67%

§120, 50 in. French

Serge (0. 1 50
K S, 36 in. Storm

Serge 2...) 387%
2215, 50 in. Storm

Serge 022 1 22%
56 in. All Wool

Coating 4... 2 00

D RERWN Tricotine -. 1 65

Carpet Warp.
Peerless, White ------ 42
Peerless, Colors ------ 48

Diaper Cloth.

18 in. Seconds --.... 75

20) —. 3 20

22 in, 2 sicemcinan & Ou

26 i 1 45

af OF cman & OO

a0 2 1 75
Notions.

Dos.
1225-F Boston Garters 2 25
Rubber Fly eaten 2

‘er
Roberts Needles ~._... 2 50

Stork Needles - 1 00
Per Box
Steel Pins, S. C. 300 42%

Steel Pins, M. C. 800 45
Brass Pins, S. C. 300 75
Brass Pins, M. C. 300 80

Coats Thread -....... 59
Clarks Mile-End Td. 69
J. J. Clarks Thread. 656

Gainsborough Hairnets
D. Mesh 1

ba at Hairnets
: ~~" Per Box
R. M. C. Crochet Cot. 175
B-4 Clarks Crochet C. 90
Silkine Crochet Cotton 90
Sansilk Crochet Cot. 655
Dexters’ Knitting
Cotton, White ..... 1 60
Dexter’s Knitting
Cotton, Blk., col’d.. 1 76

 

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Allies’ Yarn, bundle. 6 60
Pound
Fleishers Knitted
Worsted, skeins -_. 2 30
Fleischers Spanish
Worsted, balis -._. 2 60
Fleishers Germantown
Zephyr, balis --.... 3 70

Fleishers Saxony, ba. 3 70
Fleishers Knitted

Worsted, balls --.. 2 60
Fleishers Scotch &
Heather, balls -... 2 90
Ze
Ironweave Handkfs... 90
Rit Dye Soap --.-.-.. 80
Wolverine Dmesh Cap
Net oo} Se

Childs’ Walsts.
“Cub” Knit oe
“Bear” Knit Wai 3 75
“R & J” Muslin Walat $2 25, $3 50 4 50

Ladies’ Knit Summer Vests.
1x1 Rib Gauze Vest, Bodice Top,
V nk., Band top ect. reg. 828. 36-38 2 00
extra sizes 40-42-44  _..______ en 2 2D
Mercerized 1x1 and ost rib vests,
Asst. Styles, reg. sizes 36x38  ._. 4 50
extra sizes 40-42-44 6 00.

Ladies’ Knit Summer Union Suits.
12 Cut Double Carded, Asst. Style,

reg. size 36-88 0 SE

extra sizes 40-42-44 _..........._. 5 35
14 Cut Combed Yarn, Asst. Style,

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14 Cut Mercerized ‘Lisle, Asst. Styles,
Repular Sines oo
extra Sises

Hoslery—Men’s.
Men’s Cotton Hose, Engineer &
Fireman, Black & Brown, doz. __ 1 40

Men’s 176 Needle Cotton Cut Toe 1 00
Men’s 200 needle full combed yarn a

ose
Men’s 220 needle full merc. hose __ 2 85

Men’s 240 needle fiber silk hose ___ ‘ S
Men’s pure silk hose _______.______
Nelson’s Rockford socks, bdls. —___ i 30

Nelson’s Rockford socks. bdls. __.. 1 30
Nelson’s Rockford socks, bdls. —_.. 1.565

 

 

 

infants Hoslery.
Cashmere, Silk Heel and Toe,

60 per cent. Wool —-----------.. 412%
Infants’ Cotton Hose 1x1 Rib ~..... 1 00
Infants’ Mercerized 1x1 Rib -~..-.. 2 50

Infants’ Fibre and Wool Hose -._... 6 50

Boys’, Misses and Ladies’ Hoslery.

Boys’ Bearskin No. 1, [XI Rib Hose.
2.10-8 Rise & fale oo 07
Boys’ 2x1 Cotton Ribbed Hose
$2.25 on 8 R. 10c, F. 5c
Boys’ 3 rie 3, 9, extra clean yarn
on 8 (R
Misses ney Petia Ribbed Hose
$1.35 on 7 R. & FB. Se

Misses 360 needle combed hose,
bxd. 1 doz. $2.25 on 7 rise 10 fall 065

_Ladies’ 220 needle fomnee yarn

hose, seamed bac
Ladies’ 220 needle merc. hose with

440 needle rib. top fashion seam

im back 22 a 8 BG
Ladies’ fleeced hose, hem top —..... 2 25
Ladies’ fleeced hose, rib. top —---. 3 00
Ladies’ fleeced hose, rib. top 3 26

Bathing Suits for Spring Dellv “
Men’s all pure worsted, plain  ...
Men’s all pure worsted with oe

SINGH jo 27 00 to 32 00
Ladies" all pure worsted, plain —. 25 00
Ladies’ all pure worsted striped and

color combinations 27 00 up

 

 

Athletic Underwear For Spring,

B.V.D.’s, No.01, Men’s union suits 12 62%

Seal Pax, No. 10, union suits —_ 10 50

Men’s arene Nainsooks, —, 7
ae 7 25 to 9 00

Men’s Aoaiviion highly mercerized
at

 

3 50

Men’s No. 150 ‘‘Hallmark’’ 72x80
NGROGK $ 9 76
Men's 64x60 Nainsooks  ~..._____ 6 50
Men’s 84 Square Nainsooks .... 9 00

Men’s Fancy Nainsooks -_. ____ 00
Wide and Medium Stripes.
B. V. D. Shirts and Drawers,
SCC Se ae
B. V. D. Athletic Style No. U-101 13 62%
U-D Youth's B. V. D. 8 50

Boys’ ‘‘Hanes’’ No. 756, 72x80,
Nainsook Union Suits _.-_______ 7 25
Boys’ ‘‘Hanes’’ No. 856, 72x80,
Umlon Sue oo 6 25
Boys’ 64x60 Union Suits ~  _____ 5 00
Boys’ 72x80 Union Suits ~..._____ 6 25

LSSI—Girls ‘‘Sealpax” pin ch’k N’'sk. 8 50
LBBI—Boys’ ‘‘Sealp.’’ pin ch’k N’sk. 8 50

Men’s and Boys’ Cotton Underwear for
Spring.

Men’s Egypt Balbriggan Shirts

Sua Drawers _-$ 4 60
Men’s Egypt Balbriggan Union

Suits 50
Men’s Egypt Ribbed Union Suits 8 00
Lawrence Balbriggan Shirts and

 

EOP oon 7 Oe
Men’s Cotton Ribbed Union
ults, Egyption —......_..... en © 60

sulta, Hgyption 12 00
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Men’s Dress Furnishings.

Slidewell collars, linen or soft —___
Neckwear 2 10, 3 75, 4 50, 6 00, 7 50 3 09

Flannel night shirts mannan Ae Oe
Dress pants 2.000 22 50 to 48 os
US 12 00 to 19 6

Dregs: Gitte oe 8 00 to 48 oo
Laundered stiff cuff shirts, 80 aq.
percale ___._ cecesthovraccnen: AAR Gee
President and Shirley | suspenders - 4 50
Men’s ‘Linine’’ Collars, per box 34%
Men’s ‘“Challenge’”’ seas eg ~ doz. 2 75
Men’s Wash Ties —_____ $1 35, $2 00 2 75
Men’s Muslin Night Shirt, doz. —__ 9 00
Men’s Muslin Pajamas, per doz... 16 60

Men’s Work Furnishings.

No. 220 overalls or jackets _____. 13 50
No. 240 overalls or jackets ~_______ 12 00
No. 260 overalls or jackets ______ 10 50
Stiefel rope stripe, Wabash stripe

Club or Spade overall or jacket,

2 seam. triple stitched ~......__ 13 50
Coverall khaki, heavy drill ...-____ 27 00
Cottonade pants —--.._____ 13 50 to 21 00

Black sateen work shirts ~________ 9 00
Nugget blue chambray work shirts 8 00
Golden Rule work shirts -......... 7 50
Piece dyed work shirts —~ 2... 6 75
Best Quality work shirts _. 9 00 to 16 50
Work suspenders -_..._____ 2 25 to 7 50

Shirley Police or X Back work Sus. 4 60

Boys’

Knickerbockers
Mackinawae 0.

Overalls, Brownies, etc. —. 6 50 to 9 00
Youths’ Wabash stripe — --- 10 26

Furnishings.

  

 

COVGRAIE (0 00 to 16 50
68x72 dresa shirts 7 8 50
“Honor Bright’ Stifels Wabash

Stripe Romper, Red Trim  —_.-_. 7 60

“Honor Bright’? Khaki Romper,

GG Pei 8 00
“Honor Bright’ Plain Blue Romper,

Feed “Wer es 7 50
Play and Wash Suits -___$11 00 to 24 00
Boys’ Suspenders, Fish Back,

Wise: RAG 1 42%
Youths’ Suspenders, 28 in. Cross-

backs, Lea. Ends ~......_..._____ 2 25

Caps and Umbrellas.

Black sateen shop cap, doz. ~.... 1 00
Dress caps, men’s, doz. —. 7 50 to 19 50
Dress caps, boys’, ‘doz. ---. 7 25 to 10 26
Men’s & Ladies’ Umbrellas 10 60 to 48 00
Men’s ‘“‘Scotch Tweed’’ Caps, Silk

Lined, Plated Backs, One Piece

Tops, Extra Quality  ~....._..__ 16 50
Men’s, Boys’ and , Ladies’ Straw
Hats, “Peanuts” 2 00

Ladies’ Furnishings.

Middy Blouses, red, are. or navy
wool flannel, each

Voile waists, doz. ........ 9 00 to 15 00

Georgette waists, each ........... 4 00
Crepe De Chine waists, each ..___. 3 25
Tricollette waists, each -—_...._____ 3 25

Bungalow percale aprons, dz. 7 50 to 9 50
Bungalow Gingham aprons, doz. 13 50
Gingham house dresses, dz. 18 50 to 48 00
Best sateen petticoats, doz. 9 00 to 13 50

Pettibockers, dos. 220g 8 50
Bandeaux, doz. ........._... 2 25 to 12 00
Brassiers, doz. -......._.._ 3 25 to 13 60
Silk and cot. Env. Chem, dz. 6 00 to 19 50
“Pricilla’? Sunbonnets, doz. —.____ 3 50
Muslin Petticoats ~.._.___ $12 00 to 19 650
Wash or Tub Over Shirts $15 00 to 36 00

Children’s Dresses.
Children’s Gingham Dresses 9 00 to 22 50

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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Michigan Poultry, Butter and Egg Asso-
ciation.
President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson.
Vice-President—Patrick Hurley, De-

troit.
Secretary and Treasurer—Dr. A. Bent-

, Saginaw.
ee ice Committee—F. A. on
Detroit; H. L. Williams, Howell; C.

Chandler, Detroit.

Big Eat-More-Meat Campaign.

Plans have been pegfected for be-
ginning the collection of the fund to
‘ampaign to increase meat
consumption, which is to be started
in earnest early in the fall. The
amount collected will be turned over
National Live Stock and Meat

finance the ¢

to the
Board, the
carry on the work.

organization formed to

Five cents per car will be collected
from the shipper of each carload ot
live stock in condition for slaughter,
and the same amount from the pack-
er buying the stock for slaughter.
Less than carloads, trucked in stock,
and cars containing stock from more
than one owner, will when separate
accounts of sale are rendered—be as-
sessed one cent per animal, but not
more than the maximum of five cents
per owner. When shipments are
bought on order the amount to be
paid by the packer will be added to
their bill.

The collection from the shipper and
packer will be handled by the com-
mission firm making the sale, or, in
some cases, by the Stock Yard Com-
pany. In case objection is made by
either shipper or packer, refund will
be made. Where packers buy at
country points for direct shipment to
their plants the full amount of 10
cents per car is to be remitted by
them to the National Live Stock and
Meat Board, Old Colony Building,
Chicago. It is optional with them as
to whether any part of the 10 cents
is collected from their shippers.

At the executive committee meeting
of the Institute of American Meat
Packers held in Chicago in February,
the plan was presented in detail and
unanimously endorsed by every mem-
ber present, with the recommendation
that all members participate in the
campaign. The plan also received the
informal approval of the Packers and
Stockyards Administration of the
United States
culture.

Department of Agri-

—_>-~.___

Ex-Butcher Seeks Throne of Monaco.

Who is the rightful Prince of Mon-
aco? Js he an Englishman who until
a few years ago was a butcher in
Smithfield Market London? These
are the extraordinary questions which
may be put to the League of Nations
for settlement.

The Most Noble Marquis George
Frederick Grimaldi is an Englishman

and was once well known in Smith-
fied as a member of the firm of
Grimaldi & Martin, salesmen, of the
Central Meat Markets. Now that the
question of Monaco again has been
raised by the death of the Prince, the
Mavquis is hoping to get his claim
recognized. Marquis Grimaldi’s son,
Ernes. Grimaldi, told a Chronicle
representative he had just received a
letter from his father.

“My father does not know in what
court to proceed with his case,’ he
said. “It is becoming an international
question and he thinks the League of
Na ions might be the proper authority
to const.”

Marquis Grimaldi declares that as a
member of the House of Goyon Dema-
tignon Grimaldi he is heir to the
throne of Monaco.

—e-+—+____
Master Butchers to Convene in Mil-
waukee.

The United Master Butchers’ Asso-
ciation of America is making plans
for its annual meeting and a conven-
tion, to be held at Milwaukee, Wis..
during the week of August 7.

Local associations are expected to
send delegates, who will be entitled
to attend all sessions and have the
power to vote on all questions.

The convention usually brings to-
gether men keenly interested in retail
meat trade conditions, and matters af-
fecting the trade are usually gone into
very carefully, with beneficial results
irom these deliberations and sessions.

The Retail Market Men’s Associa-
tion of Miiwaukee has also extended
an invitation to the members to visit
their city.

 

We are making a special offer on
Agricultural Hydrated Lime
in less than car lots.

A. B. KNOWLSON CoO.
Grand Rapids Michigsna

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.
Merchant
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Order a bunch of GOLDEN KING BANANAS of

ABE SCHEFMAN & CO.
Wholesale Fruits and Vegetables

22-24-26 Ottawa Ave. Grand Rapids, Mich.
WHEN YOU THINK OF FRUIT—THINK OF ABE.

 

 

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For Your Next Mill, Cash Register, Etc., it

is to your advantage to see

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We are in the market to buy and sell

POTATOES, ONIONS, BEANS, FIELD SEEDS

Any to offer, communicate with us.

Moseley Brothers,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Both Telephones.
Pleasant Street,
Hilton Ave. & Ralilroads.

 

MILLER MICHIGAN POTATO CO.

Wholesale Potatoes, Cnions
Correspondence Solicited

Frank T. Miller, Sec’y and Treas.

Wm. Alden Smith Building
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

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July 19, 1922

Worth Going Four Thousand Miles
To See.

Pendleton, Oregon, July 12—We
left Ashland, Oregon, and ran up an-
other irrigated valley of fruit and
grain. The Pacific highway com-
mences twenty-five miles South of
Ashland and, where completed, is a
perfect macadam road. The grades
over th® mountains show wonderful
engineering. One should not travel
in this country without a six or eight
gallon container of water, for when
you climb up from 2,000 to 3,000 feet
in five miles your engine will surely
heat up, especially with the ther-
mometer at 100 in the shade. and as it
is almost continuous mountain climb-
ing for 300 miles you are in a dilemma
without water for your radiator.

We had more detours to-day than
any day so far. The railroad cross-
ings as a rule, are all overhead, with
few grade crossings. We just learned
that the last two days have been, ac-
cording to the weather bureau report,
the hottest in this country for fifty
years.

Left. Oakland, Oregon, July 4.
Every car we met had streamers or
flags. Down through another beauti-
ful valley, which was. delightfuily
cool after the heat of the last two
days. Eugene and Albany look alert
and have the appearance of prosperity
and, with the splendid vaitley fruit,
wheat and hop fields, they must be.
The ride down the Williamette River
into Portland is great and Portland
people certainly know how to con-
duct a sane and safe Fourth. We saw
no signs of fire crackers in any of the
towns we’ passed through—190 miles in
seven hours.

It meant a 200 mile drive to Seattie
and return the same route if we took
in the famously advertised and motion
picturized Columbia’ River — scenic
highway from Portland up the Colum-
bia River, so we decided to do
Tacoma and Seattle by train. The
papers here are filled with despera’e
calls for berry pickers. They read
very much like Michigan papers at
this season of the vear.

belt Portland 10. a> mi up the
Columbia. Flighway. All that has
been written about it, as well as the
moving pictures of it, cannot describe
its beauty—perfect roads, with high
mountains in the distance, the Colum-
bia River below you and at four points
the most beautiful mountain wa erfalis
I have ever seen. To one who has
not seen it it is impossible to tell what
a beautiful drive it is and what won-
derful views it presents: It is worth
coming 4,000 miles to see. We passed
by. the Cascade Locks, which are
built to get boats by the rapids with
a canal, about ten mites long. Like
most Government locks in rivers of
the country, the capacity is about one
boat per day. Then through the
Hood River apnle country to Pendle-
ton one of the few good towns on the
route, where we stopped for the nighi.

©. C. Follmer.
ee.
Logical Result of Ransom Old’s
Steadfast Policy.

El Cajon, Catif., July 14—When
Ransom E. Olds and his associates
declared their first dividend, I remem-
ber that Olds then said to his partners
that, so long as he had a dominating
control, it would be his policy to keep
the capitalization of the organization
within a figure on which they could
always pay an average of 10 per cent.
cash; that earnings beyond that sum
should be retained as working capital
as a surplus, so they would be as near-
ly as possible independent of the
banks. His early experience in ge‘-
ting capital with which to develop the
original curved dash Olds made him
skeptical about financial institutions,
so far as supporting auto manufactur-
ers 1s concerned. He said that when
this surplus became larger than the
requirements of the business demand-
ed, then stockholders should have the
benefit in. the form of stock dividends,
but these dividends should not con-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21

sume more than half the surplus, as
“rainy days” were inevitable and a
sufficient surplus should always be
available to provide ample capital
without being subjected to the control
of financial sharks. At that time he
had no faith in the banks. All these
years his wise counsel has dominated
the insti{ution and he has adhered to
this policy. There was no fictitious
flotation of stock. Olds was voluntarily
given, if | remember correctly, $150,-
000 of the $300,000 originally issued.
One of the Rainey boys told me that
Ransom never put much money inio
the business, as he was considered of
more value than money. The two
Rainey boys and a few of Olds’ Lan-
sing friends took up all the issue at
par, except what Olds was given.
After they began declaring stock
dividends, the stock got into the mar-
ket through the sale of those dividends
but the concern is still practically a
close corporation through the original
holdings. Financially speaking, it has
been, to my notion, the best managed
corporation in the industry, which, as
I have seen it, is due solely to Ran-
som Olds’ level headed, honest
policy, both in regard to finances and
agency methods; also to his conser-
vatism in the mechanical end and in
production. They have never over-
produced, never cut prices between
seasons, have a _ways given a litle
more each year for the same or less
price. Their agency and “help turn-
over” expense has been much less
than any other concern. “Once an
Olds agent, always an Olds agent” has
long been a slogan of the trade in re-
spect to the Reo. The department
heads have grown grey in Reo ser-
vice and most of them are on the
shady side of prosperity avenue.
J. Elmer Pratt.

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The Quality Is Standard and the
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Reasonable Prices
Courteous Treatment

Three features combined for your benefit by

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lasting satisfaction.

W. S. CANFIELD

Michigan Distributor
411 Ionia Ave. S.W.
Cor. Wealthy St.

GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

 

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Mirrors—Art Glass—Dresser Tops—Automobile
and Show Case Glass
All kinds of Glass for Building Purposes
501-511 IONIA AVE., S. W. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

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oe A. Sturmer, Port
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Win Presiiont-~—J. Charles Ross, Kala-
mazoo.
Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

Directors—R. G. Ferguson, Sault Ste.

Marie; George W. lLeedle, Marshall;
Cassius L. Glasgow, Nashville; Lee ;
Hardy, Detroit; George L. Gripton, Brit-
ton.

Midsummer Clearing Sales in the
Hardware Store.
Written for the Tradesman.

A rapid turnover is what every hard-
ware dea‘er desires. The coming and
going of customers, the musical clang
of the cash register, the rapid transfer
of goods from shelf to customer—
these are all pleasing features to the
wide-awake merchant. The faster the
turnover, the larger the profit at the
end of the year, and the bigger op-
portunity the dealer has to improve
his methods and widen the scope of
his business.

There are a good many things which
help to improve the turnover. Attrac-
tive store premises, courteous service,
the handling of quality goods, all these
factors.

One of the most important essen-
tials, however, is success in keeping
the stock new and thoroughly season-
able. Nothing is more detrimental to
business than the presence in the store
of old and palpably shopworn stock.
Let the flotsam and jetsam of the
trade of past years collect on the
she'ves and in the counter corners,
and the result will be a gradual
slackening up all around. The busi-
ness has to carry all this unsaleab!‘e
junk; and as a natural result the rapid
and efficient turnover necessary to
successful business is impeded.

The worst feature is that the ac-
cumulation of old stock is just as sure
and as rapid as compound interest.
If the store contains a certain amount
of unsaleable material, more will col-
lect, just as one fly breeds more flies.

It pays the hardware dealer, there-
fore, to keep down these seemingly
unavoidable accumulations of old
stock by rigid measures. Many deal-
ers who are on general princip’es
sincere believers in the one-price
policy, are so convinced of the danger
of keeping old stock on their hands
that they hold clearing sales whenever
they find that the necessity has arisen.
They believe it is better to sell the
goods at a smaller profit than to keep
them so long that nothing is realized
in the end; that it is better, even, to
suffer an actual loss than to prejudice
the disposal of the rest of the stock.

The course of each year is marked
by the coming and going of certain
well-defined selling seasons. Each
season is succeeded by periods, more
or less brief, of comparative depres-
sion and quietude in business. It is

during these “off seasons” that clear-
ing sales should be held.

Right now the hardware dealer
should examine as to whether or not
he is likely to be loaded up with sum-
mer goods after the normal demand
has ceased. Thus, by the middle of
Ju'y, people who are going to buy
screen doors have most of them done
so. The same is true of many other
hot weather lines; although for harvest
tools, preserving kettles, binder twine,
etc., there is still considerable future.
Of course with energetic selling efforts
it is still possible to do quite a bit of
business at normal prices in hot
weather lines; but the regular demand
is in most localities showing signs of
slackening.

The wide awake dealer will look
to it that he is not left with a lot
goods to carry over to next summer.
What he can’t dispose of by extra
selling and advertising efforts in the
next week or so should, a little later,
be cleared out by offering price in-
ducements.

There is an additional reason why
a midsummer sale is often desirable.
The fall is a busy season in the hard-
ware store, particulariy in the stove
department; and a re-arrangement of
the stock is then due. If the dealer
has to find room for a lot of left-over
hot weather goods, he can’t display
his fall stock to the fullest advantage.

It is safe to say that, in practically
every community, the actual sales of
hot weather goods have been far be-
low the potential demand. That is,
there are, say, scores and hundreds
of homes that need screen doors, re-
frigerators, lawn mowers, etc., but
that have failed to purchase these ar-
ticles. Some put off buying from day
to day and week to week until a period
arrives when they say, “Oh, we are
half through the summer. We might
as weil worry along until next year.”
Still others are frankly hard up and
unable to pay the normal price; and
there are some who are frankly wait-
ing until late in the season, when they
can buy wha! they need at a lower
price.

For al’ these classes of people, the

 

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BARLOW BROS.

VIKING TIRES

do make good

VIKING TIRES give the user the service
that brings him back to buy more.

Cured on airbags in cord tire molds, giv-
ing a large oversize tire.

We have an excellent money-making
proposition for the dealer. Write us for
further information.

 

BROWN & SEHLER CO.

State Distributors Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Michigan Hardware Company

100-108 Ellsworth Ave., Corner Oakes
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Exclusive Jobbers of Shelf Hardware,
Sporting Goods and

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Foster, Stevens & Co.
Wholesale Hardware
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157-159 Monroe Ave. :: 151 to 161 Louis N. W.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

W. M. Ackerman Electric Co.
Electrical Contractors

All Kinds of Electrical Work.
Complete Line of Fixtures.

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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price inducement has a strong appeal;
and they can be reached through the
midsummer clearance sale. The busi-
ness is there; it is up to the hardware
dealer to devise ways and means of
capturing it.

These people, even those who think
themselves hard up, can be induced to
purchase if they are shown that they
can save money by so doing. Many
people who hesitate to buy goods in
the regular way are easily attracted by
a sate® Firms who regularly conduct
such sales at certain seasons of the
year will tell you that many people
appear at such sales who never buy
from them at any other time. The
word “sale” appears to possess mag-
netic qualities for them.

Some firms make a practice of al-
lowing a considerable discount on
lines they wish to clear out. Others
claim that a marked reduction in
prices is not essential; that the most
important essentials are to advertise
prominently and quote specific prices.
Newspaper advertising is one of the
most effective methds of placing
goods before the public. Window dis-
p'ay and interior arrangement are im-
portant factors.

One of the most important and ef-
fective methods, however, is personal
contact. The salesman can point out
the advantage of having the use of the
hot weather articles for the next eight
or nine weeks, the reduced prices, and
also that the customer will have the
goods on hand ready for use early
next season. “You will buy anyway
next year, why not buy now and save
the money,” is a good line to take.

One sma!l town hardware firm held
a midsummer clearance sale one year
in July. They advertised conspicuous-
ly that as they were “going to add
many new lines of merchandise for the
fall, we must clear out all the summer
stock to make room for the new
goods.” The sale was given full page
space in the local papers, and large
preparations were made for the event.
The goods to be sold were moved to
the front. Price tags were used, each
article on sale being priced in con-
spicuous figures.

The firm has made a feature of
counters for the sale of small articles
various!y priced from 5c to 25c. These
counters were heaped with small ar-
ticles, and great interest centered
around them.

Reductions were offered on all lines,
but spot cash was demanded. While
normally the firm extends credit, in
sales cash is stipulated. A stock of
approximately $15,000 was placed on
sale. It had been intended to con-
tinue the sale for three weeks; but the
sale caught on to such an extent that
the stock was practically cleared out
in two weeks’ time. The store was
kept open every evening during the
fortnight, although the local Thursday
half holiday was observed afternoon
and evening.

There is considerable variance of
opinion among dealers regarding the
amount of price reduction which
should be made on summer lines when
conducting a clearing sale. That, of
course, is a matter which has to be
determined by the merchant himself,
in the light of his special knowledge

of his own community and his own
business judgment. Some lines bear
a much larger margin of profit than

others and will allow a great reduc-

tion. As a general thing; it is not
necessary to cut deeply; for on most
articles the percentage of profit can
be protected. It is certainly advisable
to clear out all lines which are in
danger of being carried over; and
there are some lines which it will pay
to cut below invoice price, either for
the advertising value such features will
give, or where these lines are very
likely to become absolutely unsaleable.

Much depends on the hardware
dealer’s own good judgment. It is,
of course, good policy to hold your
sale some weeks before the close of
the summer season; since the prospect
of getting some use out of hot weather
articles before the season closes is a
powerful inducement with practically
all customers. Very few will buy, even
at cut prices, after the season has ac-

tually closed. Victor Lauriston.
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Poor Service.

In a questionable transaction Sam-
my gave Ikey a check for $100. But
the check came back to Ikey marked
“No funds.” Ikey hurried to Sammy
with the bad check.

“Vat kind uv bizness is dis?” de-
manded Ikey, flourishing the check.

“Vat’s de matter mit it?” asked
Sammy.

“Vell, can’t you see? Look at it,
ain’t it marked ‘No Funds’?”

“Vell, vell,” said Sammy, “dot’s a
hel] uv a bank, ain’t it!”

 

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Fastest. Service, Lowest Prices
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Nothing as Durable
Nothing as Fireproof
Makes Structures Beautiful
No Painting
No Cost for Repairs
Fire Proof
Weather Proof
Warm in Winter
Cool in Summer

Brick is Everlasting

Grande Brick Co. Grand -
Rapids

Saginaw Brick Co., Saginaw
Jackson-Lansing Brick Co.,
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GRAND RAPIDS
KNITTING MILLS

Manufacturers
of
High Grade
Men’s Union Suits
at

Popular Prices

Write or Wire

Grand Rapids Knitting Mills
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

PLAIN TALKS
ABOUT
STREET CAR
SERVICE

Co-operative
Courtesy and Mu-
tual Helpfulness Will

Improve the Service
of Your Street Car
Company

Majorities, Minorities
and Judgments

You have often heard it said: “They are as alike as
two blades of grass.”

But have you ever laid two blades of grass under a
microscope and observed the vast difference in them?

A street car company is a magnifying glass of human
character. It brings out all the moods, all the ideas
and all the good and bad in all the people. We find
in this contact that most people are honest, sincere
and just; that most people want to be fair and as
willing to give as they are to take. If your street car
company could deal with the MAJORITY, if it could
lay its problems before the public as one man or
woman, it would have no difficulty in its financing and
less in providing the service in which it deals.

But, as in analyzing the blades of grass under the
magnifying glass you will find that a few of them have
rough and irregular lines, so will you find among
people those who are selfish and arrogant, who are
by nature trouble makers, who would rather find fault
than praise and who are naturally bent upon trouble,
distrust and discontent. They must just naturally stir
up misgiving and manufacture causes of discontent
and suspicion. They are only a few, but they are the
few who cause not only the street car company but
the public much annoyance. They add to the cost of
operation, of financing and of giving service. They
always tear down and never build. They are never
satisfied and if you meet one of their complaints they
shift to another. Small irregularities have been mag-
nified in their hands into tremendous and costly issues.
In discussing these our fellow men and women, we
do not consider ourselves above reproach. We are not
superhuman. We have made and unmade all the mis-
takes that any organization can make over the 31
years we have been in business. But with each mis-
take we learn not to make it again, at least we try.

In judging your street car company, be
sure your judgment is for the SER-
VICE, not for your own benefit or that
of the street car company.

Grand Rapids Railway Co.

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Grand Rapids, july 18—Frank R.
Osgood, who was painfully hurt when
he stepped on a broken bottle at West
Lake two weeks ago, is still confined
to his home. Mr. Osgood is a member
of Grand Rapids Council and repre-
sents the Butler Paper Co., of Chicago.
His home is on Ethel avenue.

Last week was rather unfortunate
for patrons of auto buses. Nine out
of eleven passengers were hurt when
the Saginaw-Mt. Pleasant bus left the

road and rolled over. A woman pas-
senger was seriously injured on the
Jonia-Lansing line. A passenger on

one of the Northern lines lost his life
and a Grand Rapids-lonia bus was
destroyed by fire. However, in none
of the above accidents has a driver
been charged with carelessness.

M. J. Dowling, a member of the U.
© 7. ot Philadelphia. has recen‘ly
accepted a position with the Dean-
Hicks Co., of Grand Rapids.

Charles R. Dye, a well-known trav-
eler living in Battle Creek, dropped
dead Monday of last week while dress-
ing for breakfast.

Former Governor Osborn says “the
cheapest vanity we possess and the
most fatuous is that you and I think
we can do the things which destroyed
Samson and get away with it better
than he did. Delilah did not sap the
Titan’s power by cutting off his hair.
She danced cheek to cheek with him

in a sensuous wriggle. At least the
modern Samsons are undone in that
way. . The hair story is allegorical

and true.”

Long after the “retirinoe” age men
will toil like slaves for the pure de-
light of competition. New records are
set every year in every form of physi-
cal competition. This shows that all
that human nature needs is a fixed
goal; then watch one pass by it. This

is a deep rooted instinct. It has an

inestimable value in business. Try it
out. Set your assistants and employes
neck to neck, or pick out a goal for
them that is worth while. Then
watch them go.

The merchant who waits for things
to happen will be passed by the one
who makes things happen.

Cash in on your mistakes. Be dis-
satisfied with niistakes but not. dis-
couraged. The latter leads to an early
grave, the former to better conditions.
Noble discontent fathers self-improve-
ment. Self-satisfaction leads sooner
or later to letting the spiders and mice
accept the receivership on your busi-
ness—unless you have a good host of
friends.

One of the needs for which a ma-
chine has never yet been invented is
to pick up twelve lead pencils at once.
In a certain pencil factory visitors
stand amazed to see scores of girls
reach into a box and without looking
pick out twelve pencils in one grab
with rarely a miss. Which shows that
our “finger thinking” habit is far in
advance of our head thinking.

Keep faith in humanity; otherwise
you'll reflect admission of your own
depravity.

War taught that conscience pays.
When the dollar was seeking the mer-
chandise, many unscrupulous mer-
chants and over advertised manufac-
turers watered stocks and sought to
undersell and outbid at any cos*. Then
things turned. It was learned in pain-
ful lessons that the public will not be

hoodwinked. Sooner or later they will
find you out and then your merchan-
dise has reached its marginal utility
with them. Good will is broken and
that is a big percentage of your stock
in trade. Have scruples about adver-
tising, and follow it up in sales.

The so-called “dull season” is cull
season in dealer circles. Anyone can
go along with the stream, but the test
is in defying the jinx known as the
dead summer season. If you want a
vacation, take it: but don’t take it
under pretense of a lull in your busi-
ness. The easing up in your business
is more likely to be in your frame of
mind than in market conditions. Sales
may come slower, but if they do, go
after them instead of waiting for
them.

As you brew so must you drink—
don’t brew from your wild oats.

Retailers cannot copy after manv
wholesalers. The iatter sell to men,
the former largely to women. Men
are not over-particular about the ap-
pearance of the place so long as they
get a good deal. On the other hand,
many a cus:omer js lost to the retailer
by negiect to preserve that atmosphere
of tidiness so attractive to the weaker
SX.

Power gravitates to the man who is
willing to shoulder it.

Lost motion wrecks the weak and
wearies the strongest. It is the bane
of human proficiency. Could we but
count the extra steps, the extra words,
the plural efforts on single tasks that
we perform in a single day we would
be amazed at the lost motion. These
wasted efforts subtracted from daily
duties leaves so little that everyone
would laugh at himself for saying he
was tired. The remedy lies in habit
Turn over as much as possible to the
nervous system to do automatically
and some of this lost motion will be
avoided.

Every experience changes your
mental capacity—so the scientists tel]
us. This being the case there should
be daily resolves to select the kind of
experiences that mold the right kind
of capacity.

Inordinate self love leads to arro-
gance and puffed pride; too little self
love leads to sloth. The first curdles
the milk of human kindness: the sec-
ond never recognizes it.

Price cutting has been denounced as
ruinous and predatory and as every-
thing e’se abominable by business men
for a long time, but not until recently
has it been condemned by a high au-
thority in the government of the
United States. It has not only-been
condemned, but it has been pronounc-
ed “unfair method of competition”
within t@e meaning of the Federal
Trade Commission Act, by no less a
personage than Hon. Nelson B. Gas-
kill, chairman of the Commission it-
self. This wi!l indeed be encouraging
to those who have persistently advo-
cated the enactment of the Stephens
3ill, now the Kelly-Stephens Bill. for
more than twenty years. Mr. Gaskill
is a learned authority on this subjec:.

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WILLIAMSBURG, MICH.

The charm of the wilds with the
comforts of the city and the fisher-
man's Eldorado. Local reference.
Write L. C. Larsen for booklet.

Boating, Bathing Fishing, Hunting

Birch Lodge

Bus meets all trains, Trout Lake, Mich.

 

 

CUSHMAN HOTEL
PETOSKEY, MICHIGAN

The best Is none too good for a tired

Commercial Traveler.

Try the CUSHMAN on your next trip
and you will feel right at home.

 

 

 

 

TO CHICAGO

Daily 8:10 P. M. Grand Rapids Time

Day Boat Every Saturday, Leaves
Grand Rapids 8:40 A. :

FROM CHICAGO

Daily 7:45 P. M. Chicago Time

Day Boat Every Saturday, Leaves
Chicago 10:30 A. M.

FARE $3.95

Special Boat Train Leaves Grand
Haven Electric Station
8:10 M.

Route Your Freight Shipments

THE GOODRICH wa

“Operating Steamships Every Day in
the Year,” and

Grand Haven, Muskegon
Electric Ry.

OVER NIGHT SERVICE.

City Ticket Office
127 Pearl St., N. W.
With Consolidated Railroad Ticket
ffices
Citz. Phone 64509, Bell Phone M. 554.
W. S. NIXON,
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Electric Railway Station
156 Ottawa Ave., N. W.
One Block East of Hotel Pantlind
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Why not get the start of the less am-
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Why not start earlier and earn $200
more?

PARK-AMERICAN
HOTEL
Near G. R. & I. Depot

Kalamazoo
European Plan $1.50 and Up

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St. Joseph, Mich.
HBuropean Plan
Headquarters for Commercial Men
making the Twin Cities of
ST. JOSEPH AND BENTON HARBOR
Remodeled, refurnished and redecor-
rated throughout.

Cafe and Cafeteria in connection
where the best of food is ob-
tained at moderate prices.
Rooms with running water $1.50, with
private toilet $1.75 and $2.00, with
private bath $2.50 and $3.00.

J. T. TOWNSEND, Manager.

 

 

 

Beach’s Restaurant

Four doors from Tradesman office

QUALITY THE BEST

 

 

Western Hotel

BIG RAPIDS, MICH.

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

A good place to stop.

American plan.
able.

WILL F. JENKINS, Manager.

Rates reason-

 

 

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NEW CAFETERIA

9-11 Commerce Ave., or
45 Monroe Ave.

For The Past 10 Years
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ROOMS with Duplex Bath $2.00;

3 Short Blocks from Union Depot and Business Center

HOTEL BROWNING

MOST MODERN AND NEWEST IN
GRAND RAPIDS
With Private Bath $2.50 or $3.00

 

 

OCCIDENTAL HOTEL
FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $150 and up
EDWARD R, SWETT, Mar.
Muskegon t=3 Michigan

CODY HOTEL

GRAND RAPIDS

$1.50 ithout bath
RATES j $2.50 7 with bath

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“The crux of the whole price cutting
matter is this,” he said. “The single
line seller who sells below cost quick-
ly and simply is removed from busi-
ness by the laws of mathematics and
his creditors. The field of business,
however, is harrassed and frenzied by
the dealer who has the power to re-
coup losses sustained by selling one
or more lines below cost by compen-
satory gains.” At this point Mr. Gas-
kill departed from his position as a
critic and rendered an opinion, which,
if sustained by the courts, will have
far-reaching effect on modern busi-
ness. Continuing, he said: ‘‘Because
I believe that selling below cost is an
unfair method of competition, I be-
lieve that a group agreement not to
practice this method of doing business
is a lawful agreement. It is, it seems
to me, as much a matter of internal
concern and action in a trade associa-
tion as in misbranding or commercial
bribery. The elimination of sales be-
low cost by no means implies a stabil-
ization of prices, nor a uniformity of
prices. It is when properly applied, in
no sense a restraint upon competition.
Costs will vary and prices should vary
as costs vary within market limita-
tions. The application of the principie
‘No sales below cost’ by each to his
own business simply is the recognition
and adoption of the fundamental
principle of the competitive system.”
It begins to look as if price cutting is
going to be eliminated without addi-
tional legisiation by Congress. When
it is, the consumer, as well as the
manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer,
will be immensely benefited.

Charles W. Jennings, President of
the Jennings Manufacturing Co., was
in Atlantic City the past week at-
tending the annual convention of the
Flavoring Extract Manufacturers As-
sociation of the United States.

John D. Martin and wife and Jess
Martin and Gerald Cogswell motored
to Saginaw and Bay City, starting
Wednesday morning. They will re-
turn Sunday night.

C. J. Farley, President of the Grand
Rapids Dry Goods Co., is in New
York, purchasing goods for winter
and spring trade. He is accompan-
ied by C. S. Simkins, manager of the
piece goods department.

John W. Blodgett is spending a
couple of months at Portland, look-
ing over his timber investments in
Oregon and Washington. He will
return home about Sept. 15.

A lot of people seem to be resting
on the philosophy that everything
comes to him who waits.

Never mind if you aren’r in the
Who’s Who column. You may be
among the Who Whos.

In the University of Hard Knocks
a fellow is sure to acquire bumps of
knowledge.

It is sometimes a good man who
knows what he doesn’t know.

The man who plays fair wins most
in the game of life.

—_2—+2>___
Elaborate Plans For State Conven-
tion.

The eighteenth annual convention
of the Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers’
Association will be held Sept. 5, 6 and
7 at the Hotel Statker, Detroit. It was
expected that Grand Rapids would be
the scene of the convention, but at the
last moment this ‘was found impos-
sible. As the Michigan State Fair fol-
lows immediately upon the heels of
the Shoe Dealers’ convention, and
special railroad rates are.in effect for
that occasion, a large and successful
convention is anticipated. An elabo-

rate program is being worked out at

the present time. Thos. J. Jackson is
President of the Association. Stephen
J. Jay, of R. H. Fyfe -Co., is on the
entertainment committee.
——_2---

A fool is one who doesn’t know
what he knows. -

Boomlets From Busy Boyne City.

Boyne City, July 18—The city com-
pleted last week its paving of State
street, from Park to East. This
block of pavement joins up the gap
between the newly paved Trunk line
57, with the pavement on the Boyne
City-Charlevoix road. The work un-
der the supervision of Street Commis-
sioner Vaughan was completed in two
weeks. We do not know just what
bearing this will have on Dave’s am-
bition to accept the office of Sheriff
of Charlevoix county, ‘but we are in-
formed that he, like Barkis, is willing.

We don’t know what the attraction
is, but it is true that the curb around
the Wolverine is crowded with auto-
mobiles every day and a goodly num-
ber of them do not carry Michigan
tags. We are hoping that the adver-
tising that the local Civic Association,
both directly and through the Tourist
& Resort Association, has put out is
having its effect on the wanderers of
our neighboring states. We are also
sure that if they once come here that
we won't have to invite them again.

Last Saturday, our railroad, the
Boyne City, Gaylord & Alpena was
just 48 hours ahead of the wolf in the
shape of coal shortage. Not from any
lack of foresight on the part of the
officers, but because some of the big
fellows down the line grabbed off their
regular consignment. However, the
Boyne City Chamber of Commerce
wired immediately to President Hard-
ing and fuel was forthcoming. Can
you beat it? It must be confessed
that Frank B. can be credited with
some activity in this direction. Frank
usually knows where to find things—
when he wants to.

After thirty-four years’ connection
with- the city schools as_ teacher,
principal and on the school board,
Judge J. M. Harris retired this year.
Such a record, we opine, is unique and
Mac is to ‘be congratulated with hav-
ing been so continuously a controlling
factor in the development of such a
full school system, both in buildings
and equipment, as Boyne City pos-
sesses. One of the attractions of the
city as a residence place is the fine
schools. Boyne City has more school
children in proportion to the total
population than any other city in the
State and they are well taken care of.

The Michigan Transit Company has
not endeared itself to Boyne City
business men. When the present own-
ers took over the Northern Michigan
Transportation Co.’s property, they
came to us for stock subscriptions,
promising continuous weekly service
during the season of navigation. They
have not kept their promise. What
little service we have had was so in-
termittant and undependable that our
merchants could not patronize them,
nor could we build up any through
tourist trade to our nearby resorts.
Aside from the injury to Boyne City,
the withdrawal from the Pine Lake
route deprives a portion of the tourist
public the opportunity of seeing one
of the most attractive resort sections
of Michigan. It is remarkable what
some business men cannot see.

Orrie says ‘that it is the biggest
thing that ever happened to Pine Lake
and Boyne City and Charlevoix. The
Chicago Yacht Club will hold its an-

nual meet and regatta in Pine Lake -

this year, July 27, 28 and 29—two days
at Charlevoix and one day at Boyne
City. The Chamber of Commerce,
with the influence of the “show boys,”
are the moving factors in this event.
And we sure will treat ’em.right—not
rough. } Maxy.
—_>-+___
Death of Edward Telfer.

Detroit, July 18—After a Detroit
business career of nearly half a cen-
tury, death claimed Edward Telfer, 72
years old, at the family residence, 2487
LaMothe avenue, at 2 o’clock Monday
morning. He was the founder of the
Telfer Coffee Co. and President of
the company until six years ago, when
an illness resulting from paralysis

necessitated his retirement.

Noted as an oarsman back in De-
troit’s earlier days, he contributed to
the city’s athletic prestige as a member
of the Excelsior Boat Club’s eight,
which won the National championship
in 1878, and five years later, with Fred
Staidish, he won the National doubles.
For more than 15 years, he was an
active member of the Excelsior club’s
crews.

He was President of the Detroit
Curling club when the present club
buildings were erected.

Mr. Telfer was born at Whitby,
Ont., January 13, 1850. He came to
Detroit in the early seventies and was
one of the best known of the city’s
older businessmen.

One of the four remaining charter
members of Palestine lodge, F. & A.
M., organized in 1881, he was active
in masonry for manv years. In 1905
he was eminent commander of Detroit
commandery, Knights Templar. He
also was a member of Moslem temple
and a thirty-second degree Mason.

His widow, Mrs. Clara Telfer, and
four children, survive. They are
Eugene Te‘fer, President of the Tel-
fer Coffee Co., and Hollister, of New
York City, son of Telfer’s first wife
who died 20 years ago, and James and
Marian Telfer. A sister, Mrs. Henry
Boothroy of Detroit and_ brother,
Thomas Telfer, of Albuquerque, New
Mexico, also survive.

Funeral services will be held in
the family residence at 2 o’clock Wed-
nesday afternoon, in charge of Detroit
Commandery, Knights Templar, with
burial in Woodlawn cemetery.

Mr. Telfer was a resident of Grand

Rapids for a about a dozen years, com-
ing here from Detroit to establish a
tea, coffee and spice jobbing house
under the name of Telfer, Brooks &
Co. Mr. Brooks subsequently retired
and the business was merged into a
stock company under the style of the
Telfer Spice Co. The business was
not successful, financially, but Mr.
Telfer was more fortunate in conduct-
ing a wholesale coffee house in Detroit
during the later years of his life.
—_——_>> >.

It Is July.
When the scarlet cardinal tells
Her dream to the dragonfly,
And the lazy breeze makes a nest in the
trees
And murmurs a lullaby,
It is July.

When the tangled cobweb pulls

The cornflower’s blue cap awry,

And the lilies tall lean over the wall
To bow to the butterfly,
It is July.

When the heat like a mist veil floats,
And poppies flame in the rye,
And the silver note in the streamlet’s
throat
Has softened almost to a sigh,
It is July.

When the hours are so still that time
Forgets them and lets them lie
*Neath petals pink, till the night stars

wink

At the sunset in the sky,

lt is July.

Susan Hartley Swett
—__—_>>-o

Portland—The Federal Products Co.
has been incorporated to manufacture
and distribute food and other products,
wih an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, of which amount $5,300 has
been subscribed and paid in, $1,400 in
cash and $3,900 in property.

 

 

board of car.

 

Cot Beds, $3.75 to
$11.50. |

Camp Chairs, 75c to
$7.50.

Camp Stools, 40c to
$1.50.

Camp Stoves, $7.00 to
$14.60.

Duffle Bags, $4.00 to
$8.00.

—If it’s a Camper’s

necessity or convenience

WE HAVE IT.

 

 

 

CHAS. A.

Campau Ave. and Louis St.

 

 

 

COYE’S AUTO TENT

NO POLES REQUIRED
This is the most practical tent made.

The awning goes way over top of auto and fastens with ropes
to wheels on opposite side; by making it this way it prevents water
getting between the cloth and top of auto and down on the running

Tent has a door on front next to car and on left side, thus allow-
ing one to leave tent without going through auto.

There are three windows, one each side and in rear wall, covered

with bobinette and protected by
storm covers, worked from inside.

Tents are made of our special
Tan Army (-waterproo! © Duck.
Tents when packed are very com-
pact and can be carried on running
board.

They are made in the following
sizes: 7x7 feet and 8x/ feet, in
both 3 and 4-foot walls.

With a brown waterproof duck
floor sewed to tent, you have an
ideal outfit.

TENTS FOR RENT

COYE, Inc.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Mich. State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President—George H. Grommet, De-
troit.

Secretary—L. V.
Rapids.

Treasurer—E. E. Faulkner, Middleville.

Executive Committee—J. . Skinner
D. D. Alton and A. J. Miller.

Middleton, Grand

 

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
Members—James E. Way, Jackson;
Chas. S. Koon, Muskegon; H. H. Hoff-
man, Sundusky; Oscar W. Gorenflo, De-
troit; Jacob C. Dykema, Grand Rapids;
J. A. Skinner, Cedar Springs.
President—James E. Way, Jackson.
Sec’y and Treas.—Charles 5S. Koon,
Muskegon.
Director of Drugs and Drug Stores—
H. Hoffman, Sandusky.

 

 

Specializing In Certain Lines.

It is apt to redound very much to
the benefit of any drug store to pick
out some line for specializing pur-
poses. That is, in that one line the
druggist has the most complete stock
in the city, or at least in his neigh-
borhood. druggists do this
without realizing it. In every large
city we find at least one store which
specializes in surgical instruments, or
in bandages, or in trusses, or perhaps
in artificial limbs. The fame of this
store spreads all over the city and
perhaps the State. Calls come in
from various directions, one call
leads to another, and thus the stock
grows. The druggist, perhaps before
he realizes it, has a large special
stock. His establishment is known
as headquarters for a_ certain line.
Doctors depend on him, so do other
druggists. He gets a great -deal of
valuable advertising and his fame
continues to grow. Sometimes such
stores are located in dingy sections
of the town. They are famous, yet
the people on the same block know
little about them. Business is trans-
acted by telephone or by mail.

Some

Now an up. town neighborhood
store cannot .very well go in for the
reputation of carrying the biggest
stock in the city. There would be
some advertising, but it wouldn’t be
worth the expense involved. Besides
few buildings would have room for
the stock. But any up town store,
even a small one, can go in for a
special line and make that line a lead-
er. Nor does the line have to be an
expensive one. Some _ consideration
should be given to the immediate sur-
roundings. You want a line that will
fit in with the territory, a line that
will sell. Just by way of example
take magazines. There are certain
standard sellers which go well. There
is one popular weekly which always
sells out the second day and it is ex-
ceedingly difficult to pick up a back
number. Plenty of the others have
a strong following. Here you get
the bulk of the trade. These publica-
tions run to fiction with some articles
of current interest. There are others

not well known to the general public,
but very well known to an interested
few. Two or three will tell you where
you can sell stories, where you can
sell jokes, what magazine wants this
line of stuff, what magazine wants
that, and so on. This information is
useful to amateurs and even to pro-
fessionals. They say everybody in
the United States is trying to write.
If this be in any way true, you can
see that a publication which gives
useful pointers is likely to be in de-
mand.

Undoubtedly a great many people
are trying to write for the screen.
The motion picture magazines furnish
an exhaustive lot of information about
what company wants comedies, what
company is doing two-reelers, what
concern is handling nothing but five-
reelers, and what outfit has gone back
to Western stuff. They say it is very
dificult to break into the pictures,
and doubtless it is. But some ama-
teurs succeed. The information fur-
nished by the motion picture maga-
zines is essential. A producing film
company will change its policy from
time to time. Some concerns want
nothing but comedies, and these must
be planned along certain lines. It is
a waste of postage stamps to send
them serious scripts. And so it goes.
Then there are movie fans who buy
motion picture magazines solely to
read about their favorite stars and to
get a squint at pictures of the same.
This custom is worth having. A true
fan always makes a good customer
for the store.

We also have scientific and tech-

 

 

nical magazines with a certain follow-
ing. The customer, however,. must
be found before the magazine is or-
dered regularly. Now and- then some-
body will order a foreign publication
and such a publication on display cer-
tainly makes your line look like an
What you are driving
at is to cause people to say: “Blank
has a very complete line of maga-
zines. You can find publications on
sale there not to be found elsewhere.”
This kind of advertising is valuable
even if there is some loss on stock
not sold. But perhaps we can find
a better example, stock on which
there is no, loss at all.

Take cameras and _ photographic
supplies. A druggist can carry a full
line and be prepared to do develop-
ing, printing, and mounting. He can
also sell the necessary supplies and
chemicals to those who wish to do
their own developing, printing, and
mounting.

That is his motto and he tries. to
If you want an album,

unusual one.

live up to it.
Sometimes a family with
house, for instance, will

he has it.
a country
have a photograph of it taken when
the first snow comes in November.
A great many small copies are made.
Then Christmas cards are ordered,
in folder shape, let us say, with a
blank space on the cover. Perhaps
this blank space. is outlined by a cir-
cle. The little photographs are trim-
med to fit this space. Inside the fold-
er is a greeting with the name of the
sender. On Christmas Day some
fifty friends get a Yuletide card
showing a photograph of the house
in which they have spent so many
happy hours. It would be difficult
to get up anything more welcome or
attractive. Some little planning is
required, but not a great deal. The
thing is perfectly feasible and is fre-
quently done. Photographs of the
family may be used. Or one of a
new baby. The druggist combines
Christmas cards with photographic
work, two lines joined, so to speak.
This sort of thing will get you some
good advertising and repeat orders.
In stationery we have a line which

may be enlarged to an extent almost

unlimited. This -is a good line to
feature. The possibilities of the im-
mediate neighborhood should be

studied and the line built up to fit.
In a courthouse neighborhood there
is a demand for legal blanks, desk
supplies, filing supplies, and so on.
Some druggists so located sell large
quantities of forms and blanks. :An
uptown druggist in a neighborhood
of homes could specialize on_ tally
cards for card parties, playing cards,
place cards, and favors. A druggist
in a section where there are many
small stores might do well with ledg-
ers, journals, cash books and day
books. This has been tried out and
found to work well when the neigh-
borhood was right.

Again we return to the people who
are trying to write stories for maga-
zines or scripts for the movies. Type-
writer paper will be in demand. Also
heavy envelopes, clips, and other sup-
plies. The stationery line advertises
the store. You can find stuff there
not carried in every drug store.

There was a young druggist who
couldn’t afford to tie up much money,
so he specialized in inks. You could
find at his store ink of every color.
blue, red, purple, white, violet, black,
green, and so on. And this immodest
little line gave him some excellent
advertising.

Always we get back to the old cry
—it pays to have stuff not to be
found everywhere. Only, of course,
you must consider your resources
and not plunge too deeply.

—_+> +>
A Boy and Dogs.

Harry wanted a dog, and his rich
uncle met his hint to that effect by
saying:

“Well, Harry, suppose I do give
you $200 for a dog. Would you spend
that sum for one dog, or would you
buy a pretty good dog, and put the
rest of the money in the savings
bank?”

“Well, uncle, if you just leave it to
me, I’ll buy 200 $1 dogs.”

—___++>____
Wisdom is the result of experience,
observation and thought.

 

  
 
 

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pleasing impression upon customers is of value. You can create one and

 

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TANGLEFOOT

 

at the same time save your goods from damage by spreading sheets of
TANGLEFOOT in your show windows, especially over Sunday.

will then be at work for you and will not only catch the flies, but

attract the attention of people who pass your store to your
efforts to keep your stock clean and fresh, and create in them a desire to use
TANGLEFOOT themselves. This means extra sales to you. For 1922 TANGLEFOOT
has been reduced 60 cents per case. This will allow you to sell at the old price, two
double sheets for 5 cents, and make a profit of 50 per cent.

Remember TANGLEFOOT cafches the germ as well as the fly, and that poisons, traps or powders cannot do it.

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

 

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Popular Fiction

Light Reading for Hot Days

With the first days of summer, the retail
druggist finds the demand for popular copy-
right books increased to a large extent. He
can meet the call by carrying a liberal as-
sortment of the standard editions published
by the two leaders,

Grosset & Dunlap and the
A. L. Burt & Co.

We carry all the leading titles, including the
very latest, just off the press.

 

 

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

RAMONA

THEATER
Keith Big Time Vaudeville

 

 

Mats. Think of it! You can see seven Eves.
3 p. m. acts of real Keith Big Time 8:30 p.m.
Peisce Vaudeville any matinee (except Prices

10c Sunday) for same price as a 35c, 55c
and 25c picture show. and 75c

 

 

 

 

Plan to Picnic at Ramona

Our Beautiful Grove With Its Chairs and Tables Amid Shade
Trees at Your Disposal

 

 

The Resorters Are Coming

They will want GOOD CANDY

There is none better than

OR JowN' EYS

so get stocked up early before the rush is on.

 

 

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

Putnam Factory,

 

 

 

Wholesale Drug Price Current

 

Prices quoted
Actas

are nominal, based on market the day of issue.

Boric (Powd.) -. 11%@ 2%
Boric (Xtal) --..17%@ 26
Carbolic 2... 2 33@ 38
Chie 2. 60@ 65
Muriatic uu... 3%@ 8
Nitric ooo 9@ 15
Oeae ooo 20@ 30
Sulphuric  - .. — 3%@ 8
Tettaric —.. - 40@ 650
Ammonia
Water, 26 deg. . 10@ 18
Water, 18 deg. _. 8%@ 13
Water, 14 deg. _. 6%@ 12
Carbonate —---_._ 22@ 26
Chloride (Gran) 10@ 2@
Balsams
Copaiba ~...___ -- 60@1 00
Fir (Canada) -..2 50@2 76
Fir (Oregon) --. 60@ 80
Pee 22 3 25@3 60
Tonk, 222 1 00@1 20
Barks
Cassia (ordinary) 25@ 80
Cassia (Saigon) 50@ 60
Sassafras (pw. 55c) @ 650
Soap Cut (powd.)
S06 15@ 20
Berries
Cubeb 2220 1 75@1 85
Fish 2.000 -— 25@ 36
Juniper .__....___ 7@ 165
Pricky Ash .<.... @ 80
Extracts
Licorice —2. 60@ 66
Licorice powd 10@ 80
Flowers
Arnicg:, 20-0 oe 25@ 30
Chamomile (Ger.) 50@ 60
Chamomile Rom 75@1 26
Gums
Acacia, lst ~.... 60 665
Acacia, 2nd  .... Ht 60
Acacia, Sorts -.. 20 25
Acacia, powdered 30 35
Aloes (Barb Pow) 25 35
Aloes (Cape Pow) 25@ 35
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 70@ 175
Asafoetida ---.-- 65@ Tb
Pow. 2250002 1 00@1 25
Camphor -.... 112@1 15
Guaiae 22. @1 10
eae pow’d___ @1 25
King 2 @ 7
Kino, powdered. @ 8
Myrrh... ¢ 70
Myrrh, powdered 75
Opium 9 00@9 40
Opium, powd. 10 65@11 00
Opium, gran. 10 65@11 00
Shellac 22.00 1 00@1 15
Shellac Bleached 1 05@1 20
Tragacanth, pw. 2 25@2 50
Tragacanth _-.. 2 75@3 25
Turpentine -.... 25@ 80
Insecticides
Arsenic: 3.) 10@ 20
Blue Vitriol, bbl. @07%
Blue Vitriol, less 8@ 165
Bordeaux Mix Dry 14@ 29
Hellebore, White
powdered ----. 20@ 30
Insect Powder ~. 45@ 75
Lead Arsenate Po. 29@ 31
Lime and Sulphur
Dry 09144 @23%
Paris Green -... 30@ 43
Leaves
Buchu 1 75@1 90
Buchu, powdered @2 00
Sage, bulk -..... 67@ 1706
Sage, % loose _. 72@ 78
Sage, powdered_._ 55@ 60
Senna, Alex. -_. 75@ 80
Senna, Tinn. -.. 30@ 86
Senna, Tinn. pow 25@ 86
Uva Urai -----. 20@ 26
Olls
Almonds, Bitter,
true) 2: 10 50@10 75
Almonds, Bitter,
artificial _... 2 50@2 75
Almonds, Swete,
true .....--_.. 1 00@1 26

Almonds, Sweet
imitation -.-
Amber, crude -. 2
— rectified 2
Seennai
Cajeput —.......
Cassia 2
Cpeter 1
Cedar Leaf —.. 1
Citronella
€loves __......
Cocoanut
Cod Liver .....
Croton
Cotton Seed —_--
Cubebs
Higeron
Eucalyptus
Hemlock, pure. 1
Juniper Berries 3
Juniper Wood :
1
5

4 GO pe

oo

Or bore

Lard, extra -...
Lard, No. 1
Lavendar Flow
Lavendar Gar’n 1
Lemon 1
Linseed Boiled bbl
Linseed bid less 1
Linseed, raw, bbl.
Linseed, ra. less 1
Mustard, artifil, oz.

Neatsfoot ~----- 1
Olive, pure .-... 5
Olive, Malaga,
yellow ------.. 2
Olive, Malaga,
green -.-~.-.- 2
Orange, Sweet 5
Origanum, pure

60@1 00

"@
oe 30
5@4 00

75@3 00

Origanum, com’! ; 00@1 20

Pennyroyal --~. eae 75
Peppermint --.. 3 00@3 25
Rose, pure -. 12 00@16 00

Rosemary Flows 1
— EB.

50@1 75

10 00@10 25

Sassafras, true 1 50@1 80
Sassafras, arti’l 1 00@1 26
Spearmint ------ 3 75@4 00
Sperm _..._.... te 60
Tansy: 15 “ 25
Tar Use . 5
Turpentine, bbl. — "e 33
Turpentine, less 1 40@1 50
Wintergreen,

Idaf 6 50@7 00
Wintergreen, sweet

taren = 3 25@3 60
Wintergreen art < eae 10
Wormseed ---- 00@5 25
Wormwood -- 7 0 17 25

Potassium
Bicarbonate -... 35@ 40
Bichromate ------ 15@ 25
Bromide —......._.. 35@ 45
Carbonate  ------ 30@ 35
Chlorate, gran’r 238@ 30
Chlorate, powd.

OF Xtal. 22 ne 25
Cyanide --------. 365 50
TOGIgG, 2 4 07@4 13
Permanganate .. 25@ 40
Prussate, yellow 45@ 65
Prussiate, red_.. 65@ 75
Sulphate 2. 35@ 40

Roots
Aikanet ..._ 7 @ 40
Blood, powdered. 30@ 40
Calamus —_...___ 25a 70
Elecampane, pwd 25 30
Gentian, powd... 20 30
Ginger, African,

powdered --_~-- 23@ 30
Ginger, Jamaica 52@ 60
Ginger, Jamaica,

powdered -.-. 42@ 50
Goldenseal, pow. 5 50@6 00
Ipecac, powd. -- @3
Licorice --.-.--. 40@ 45
Licorice, powd. 25@ 30
Orris, powdered 30@ .40
Poke, powdered 30@ 35
Rhubarb, powd. 1 15@1 25
Rosinwood, powd. 30@ 35
Sarsaparilla, a

ground - .--. 1 25@1 40

Sarsaparilla Mexican,

  

ground —...... 70
Squilie 35 40
Squills, powdered 60 70
Tumeric, powd. 15@ 20
Valerian, powd. 50@ 60

Seeds
Anine _........ 33 35
Anise, powdered 38 40
Bird, is --_--.. 13@ 15
Canary ----. 9@ 165
Caraway, Po. .30 20@ 25
Cardamon -.... 1 50@1 75
Celery, powd. .45 .35@40
Corlander pow. .25 15 20
DHE ae 20
Femelle. 18@ 25

Pe 08%@ 13
Flax, ground —_ __ 08%@ 13
Foenugreek pow. 8@ 15
Hemp ° - 8@ 15
Lobella, Powd. -.. @ 1 50
Mustard, yellow 10@ 15
Mustard, black _. 15@ 20

ODOY se 30@ 40
Quince —..... @2
Rape --...--..... 15@ 20
Sabadilia ae 30
Sunflower —-.--. 10 15
Worm American 30@ 40
Worm Levant -_---.@3 00

Tinctures
Acoutte <0 @1 80
BIOOR  oe @1 45
Armee 22 @1 10
Asafoetida  --._ 2 40
Belladonna -... . gi 35
PORAOM @2 10
Benzoin Comp’d @2 65
Bueny = oo @2 55
Cantharadies — @2 85
Capsicum 2... @2 20
Catéenu 20, 1 76
Cinchona __...... $3 10
Colehicum 1 80
Cubebe ... 83 00
Digitale @1 80
Gentian 1 36
Ginger, D. S. _. gi 80
Gustine oo 2 20
Guaiac, Ammon, g3 00
IOGING: oo 95
Iodine, Colorless $1 50
Iron, clas. > 2.22. @1 35
WOO @1 40
DOVER @2 60
Nux Vomica ____ @1 55
Car @3 50
Opium, Camp. 85
Opium, Deodorz’d @, 50
Rhubarb .... @1 70

Paints

Lead, red dry 12%@ 13
Lead, white dry 220 13
Lead, white oil 12%@ 13
Ochre, yellow bbl. @ 2
Ochre, yellow less 2% 6
Putte 22 6 8
Red Venet’n Am. 3% %
Red Venet’n Eng. 4 8
Wane: @

Whiti %@

lL. H. "P. @

Rogers Prep.

Die
ancinea ta sasiibacty 6
Prep... 2 60@2

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Miscellaneous

Acetanalid  w.. 55@ 75
alum 2. 08@ 12
Alum, powd. and

BrOunG » 0o9@ 16
Bismuth, Subni-
TERNS 2 91@3 08
Borax xtal or

powdered -... 7%@ 13
Cantharades, po 1 75@8 00
Calomek 1 29@1 40
Capsicum  — 50@ 55

Carmine 6

Cassia Buds -.. 25@ 30
Cloves -......... 50@
Chalk Prepared

Chioroform _..... 45@ 55
Chloral Hydrate. 1 35@1 86
Cocaine 9 256@10 25
Cocoa Butter -.. 65@_ 75
Corks, list, less 40@50%
Copperas ............ 8@ 10
Copperas, Powd. 4@ 10
Corrosive Sublm 1 11@1 30
Cream Tartar -.. 37@ 45
Cuttle bone -... ae 16
Dextrine  —.o. 2 4%4@ 15
Dover’s Powder 3 50@4 00
Emery, All Nos. 10 15
Emery, Powdered. 8 10
Hpsom Salts, bbls. 3%
Epsom Salts, less 4%

0
Ergot, powdered 1 75@2 00
Flake White -... 15 20
Formaldehyde, os Ba 20
Gelatine ----_. @1 50
Glassware, less b5%.

Glassware, full case 60%.
Glauber Saits, bbl. @08%
Glauber Salts less by z=

Glue, Brown Grd WigQ 20

hite —_--
Glue, White Grd. 30m 30
20

Glycerine ~---._.

Hops 65@ 7b
Todie = 5 78@7 24
Iodoform  ~-.-... 6 75@7 20
Lead Acetate — a 265
Lycopedium ~... 1 50@1 75
TAROG oo 5 80
Mace, powdered 95@1 00
Menthol -..-.... 9 00

Morphine -..-.. 7 T5@8 80
Nux Vomica --.. 8e@

Pepper black pow. see
Pepper, white — 40
Pitch, Burgundy 10 te
Quassia ea ae 15
Qunine - 2.2 72@1 33
Rochelle Salts — 30@ 40
Saccharine ~~... 80
Salt Peter —... 11 22
Seidlitz Mixture 7 40
Soap, green --_ 30
Soap mott castile 20% 25
ore white castile
cccrmmsae Gk ES
Sone, white castile
less, per bar = S* -
-Soda Ash’ .........
Soda Bicarbonate ei
Soda, Sak 1... 2%@ _ 08
Spirits Camphor 13
Sulphur, roll 10

Sulphur, Subl. — = 10
Tamarinds

Tartar Emetic — 70
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

July 19, 1922

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mail-

ing, and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.

Prices, however,

are liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders
led at market prices at date of purchase.

ADVANCED

DECLINED

 

 

Wool Twine Sweet Barley Fine Cut
Bushel Baskets Sweet Cuba Fine Cut
Pearl Bariey Petroleum Products
Crisco
Cheese
AMMONIA CANNED dis dha i CANNED VEGETABLES.
Apples, 3 lb. Standar 7 Asparagus.
16 oz ~~ an Apples, No. 10 ~-_-_- 550 No. 1, Green tips —.. 3 9u
vad ‘ i 17 Apple Sauce, No. 2_ 2 35 No. 2%, Lege. Gr. 3 75@4 50

ge 75
rx LL. 3 doz., 12 oz. 4 05
Parsons, 3 doz. small 5 00
Parson, 2 doz. med. 4 3:
Parsons, 2 doz., lge. 6 70

AXLE GREASE

 

24, 3 Ib.

10 lb. pails, per doz.
15 lb. pails, per doz. 11 20
25 Ib. pails, per doz. 17 70

BAKING POWDERS

Calumet, 4 o0z., doz. 97%
Calumet, 8 oz., doz. 1 95
Calumet, 16 oz. ,doz. 3 35
Calumet, 5 Ib., doz. 12 75
Calumet, 10 Ib., doz. 1

mK. ©C., 10¢ doz... 82%
K. C., 16¢ doz. _...._ 1 374%
K, ©., 20c doz. .___ 80
i. C., 26c Goz. _.____ 2 30
K. C., 50¢ doz. ---- 4 40
K. C.. 80e doz. ---. 6 85
K. C., 10 lb. doz. __ 13 50

Queen Flake, 6 oz. -- 1 35
Queen Flake, 50s, kegs a.

Royal, 10c, doz. ------ 9
deny 6 oz., doz. -- 2 70
Royal, 12 oz., doz. 5 20
Royal, 5 lb. --------- 81 20
Rumford, 10c, doz. ~~ 95
Rumford, 8 oz., doz. 1 85
Rumford, 12 oz., doz. 2 40

Rumford, 5 lb., doz. 12 50

Ryzon, 4 oz., doz. -- 1 35
ora, S oz., doz. .- 2 25
Ryzon, 16 oz., doz. -- 4 05
Ryzon, 6 ib. —____.____ 18 00
Rocket, 16 oz., doz. 1 2a
BLUING

Jennings Condensed Pearl
C-P-B “Seal Cap”
3 doz. Case (lic) ---- 3 75

BREAKFAST FOODS
Cracked Wheat, 24-2 4 85
Cream of Wheat ---. 7 50
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 2 20
Quaker owen Sens 4

ker Puffe Vhe
_— Brfst Biscuit 1 90

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on

uaker
agora Purina -_---- 4 00
Ralston Branzos ---- 2 70
Ralston Focd, large -- 3 60
Ralston Food, small__ 2 90
Saxon Wheat Food -- 4 80
Shred. Wheat Biscuit 3 85
* Post’s Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s ----- 3 80
Grape-Nuts, 100s ---. 2 76
Postum Cereal, 12s -. 2 25
Post Toasties, 36s -- 2 85
Post Toasties, 24s -- 2 85
BROOMS
No. 4, 4 String ------ 4 00
Standard Parlor 23 Ib. 5 50
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib.-- 7 00
Ex Fancy Parlor 25 Ib 8 60
Ex. Fey, Parlor 26 lb 9 00
OS eS 2 00
Whisk, No. 3 ------ 2 26
Whisk: No. 1 -------- 3 00
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ---- 1 50
Solid Back, 1 lin ~-- 1 76
Pointed Ends -------- 1 25
Stove

 

BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, 25c size _. 2 85
Nedrow, 3 oz., doz. 2 50

CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1
Plumber, 40 lbs. _____ 12.8
Paraffine, 68 -__-\__. 14%

araffine, 128 _.____. 14%
eee 4

Apricots, No. 1
Apricots, No. 2
Apricots, No, 2% 2 25@3 50
Apricots, No. 10 9 00@13 50
Blueberries, No. 2 __ 2 &
Blueberries, No. 10__ 15 00
Cherries, No. 2_-3 00@% 50
Cherries, No. 24% 4 00@4 95
Cherries, No. 70 _... 13 50
Loganberries, No. 2 -. 3 00
Peaches, No. 1 1
Peaches, No. 1, Sliced 1 40
Peaches, No. 2 —----- 2 75
Peaches, No. 2%, Mich 2 60
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 00@3 7&
Peaches, No. 10, Mich 7 7
Peaches, No. 10, Cal. 10 50
Pineapple, 1, slic. 1 60@1 75
Pineapple, No. 2, slic. 2 90
Pineapple, 2, Brk slic. 2 26
Pineapple, 2%, sliced 3 90
Pineapple, No. 2, crus. 2 25
Pineap., 10, cru. 7 00@10 00
Pears, No. 2 3
Pears, No. 2% ------ 4 25
Plums, No. 2 .
Plums, No. 2% ------ 3
Raspberries No. 2, bik. 3 25
Rhubarb, No. 10 _--- 5 25

1 90@2 00
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CANNED FISH.

Clam Ch’der, 104% oz. 1 35
Clam Ch., No. 3 3 00@3 40
Clams, Steamed, No. 1 1 75
Clams, Minced, No. 1
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz.
Clam Bouillon, 7 0z._
Chicken Haddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, smali —_
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz.
Cove Oysters, 5 oz. —_
Lobsters, No. %, Star
Lobster, No. %, Star
Shrimp, No. 1, wet —-
Shrimp, No. 1, dry --

Sard’s, % Oil, k. 4 25@4 76
Sardines, %4 Oil, k’less 3 85
Sardines, % Smoked 7 00
Sardines, % Mus. 3 85@4 75
Salmon, Warrens, 8 2 75
Salmon, Warrens, 1 lb 4 00
Salmon, Red Alaska... 2 85
Salmond, Med. Alaska 2 00
Salmon, Pink Alaska 1 45
Sardines, Im. \%, ea. 10@28
Sardines Im., %, ea. 25
Sardines, Cal. _. 1 756@2 10
Tuna, %, Albocore - 90
Tuna, %, Nekco ---- 1 65
Tuna, %, Regent -- 2 26

CANNED MEAT.

Bacon, Med. Beechnut
3acon, Lge. Beechnut
Bacon, Large, Erie —_
Beef, No. 1, Corned —
Beef, No. 1, Roast —--
Beef No. % Rose Sli.
Beef, No. %, Qua. sli.
Beef, No. 1, Qua. sli.
Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli.
Beef, No. \%, B’nut sli.
Beefsteak & Onions, 1s 3 35
Chili Con Ca., 1s 1 35@1 465
Deviled Ham, %s --- 2 20
Deviled Ham, %s --. 3 60
Hamburg Steak &
Onions, No. 1 ----- 4.45
Potted Beef, 4 oz. _.. 1 4
Potted Meat, %4 Libby 56
Potted Meat, % Libby 90
Potted Meat, % Rose 8b
Potted Ham, Gen. % 2 iv
Vienna Saus., No. % 1 35
Veal Loaf, Medium - 2 30

Derby Brands In Glags.

Ox Tongue, 2 Ib. .--- 18 0%
Sliced Ox Tongue, % 4 3v
Calf Tongue, No. 1... 5 5
Lamb Tongue, Wh. 1s
Lamb Tongue, sm. sli.
Lunch Tongue, ho. 1
Lunch Tongue, No. %
Devile* Kiam, % --..
Vienua nusage, sm.
Vienna sausage, Lgs.
Sliced Beef, small

Boneless Pigs Feet pt.
Boneless Pigs eet, qt.
Sandwich Spread, %

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Baked Beans.

Beechnut, 16 oz. -__. 1 85
Campbells 1

Climatic Gem, 18 oz. 95
Fremont, No. 2 -_.._. 1 15
Snider, No. 1 ...-.... 98
Snider, No. 2 —..... 1 30

Van Camp Small __.. 1 10
Van Camp, Med, — 1 °.

Wax Beans, 2s 1 35@3 76
Wax Beans, No. 10 __ 6 00
Green Beans, 2s 1 60@4 75
Green Beans, No. 10__ 8 25
Lima Beans, No. 2 Gr. 2 00
Lima Beans, 2s, Soaked 95
Red Kid., No. 2 1 30@1 55
Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 60@2 40
Beets, No. 2, cut 1 25@1 75
Beets, No. 3, cut 1 40@2 10
Corn, No. 2, St. 1 10@1 85
Corn, No. 2, Ex-Stan. 1 65
Corn, No. 2, Fan 1 60@2 25
Corn, No. 2, Fy. glass 3 26
Corn, No, 10 22.2 7
Hominy, No. 3 1 15@1 35
okra, No. 2, whole -. 1 90
Okra, No. 2, cut _._. 1 60
Dehydrated Veg Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, Ib 45
Mushrooms, Hotels —. 38
Mushrooms, Choice __. 48
Mushrooms, Sur Extra 665
Peas, No. 2, E.J. 1 25@1 80
Peas, No. 2, Sift.,

June oo 1 60@2 10
Peas, No. 2, Ex. Sift.
Po. 2 1 90@2 10

 

Pumpkin, No. 66
Pumpkin, No. 10 —-.. 3 16
Pimentos, %, each 15@18
Pimentoes, %, each __ 27
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 2 15
Saurkraut, No. 3 --.. 1 85
Succotash, No. 21 60@2 36

Succotash, No. 2, glass 3 45
Spinach, No. 1 -_--. 1 36
Spinach, No. 2 1 35@1 50
Spinach, No. 3 2 15@2 25
Spinach, No. 10 —--. 5 75
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 45@1 65
Tomatoes, No. 3 1 90@2 25
Tomatoes, No. 2, glass 2 85

Tomatoes, No. 10 -.-. 7 00
CATSUP.
B-nut, Large —--. — 2 95
B-nut, Small ------_- 1 80
Fraziers, 14 0z. --.--- 2 25
Libby, 14 oz. --.... 2 90
idbby, 8 oz. —....... 1 90
Van Camp, 8 oz. --.. 1 90
Van Camp, 16 oz. _. 3 15
Lilly VaHey, pint -. 2 95
Lilly Valley, % Pint 1 80
CHILI SAUCE.
Snider, 16 0z. ~------- 3 60
Snider, 8 oz. —---.... 2 35
Lilly Valley, % Pint 2 40

OYSTER COCKTAIL.

Sniders, 16 oz. ~----- 3 50
Sniders, 3. oz... —...___ 2 35
CHEESE.
Roquefort 2. 85

Kraft Small tins -___
kraft American —--_-_
Chili, small tins --__
Pimento, small tins —

Roquefort, small tins 2 25
Camember*, small tins 2 256
Brick _. 2... eee

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Wisconsin Flats  _---
Wisconsin Daisy ----
Lonenorn ___.. =. 23
Michigan Full Cream 22%
New York full cream 25

50 Saeo ooo. 4°
CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack -... 65

Adams Bloodberry ----
Acams Calif. Fruit
Aoams Chiclets —__
Adams Sen Sen -__
Adams Yucatan -_..___

 

Beeman’s Pepsin -_... 65
Beechnut 8 — a0
Doublemint  ~-_----_- —- 65
suicy Prait oe 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys_. 65
Sapota Gum —_-._. —— 1 25

Spearmint, Wrigleys -. 65
Spic-Spans Mxd Flavors 65
Wrigley’s P-K —__- =

Bene 2 65
CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, %s -- 35
Baker. Caracas, 4s ~~~ 33

Baker, Premium, \%s ~~ 35
Baker, Premium, %s ~~ 32
Baker, Premium, %s -_-32
Hersheys, Premium, %s 35
Hersheys, Premium, \%s8 36
Runkle, Premium, %s-_ 34
Runkle, Premium, %s_ 37
Vienna Sweet, 248 -_ 1 76

1
- Twisted Cotton, 50 ft. : 10

COCOA
Baters 38 22.222. 40
ukors 8 oo 42
Bute; 468. 22.2 43
Bunte, % i 2... 35

Bunte, ioe 32
Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib._. 9 00
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 76
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 00

  

Herseys, %8 ........... 33
Hersheys, %s — - 28
Miugier: 2) _
Lowney, %8S -— _ 40
Lowneys 4s - ~ 40
Lowney, 4668 (i220 38
Lowney, 5 Ib. cans -_-- 3l
Van Houten, 4s —-----. 75
Van Houten, %s ------ 76
COCOANUT
4%s, 5 lb. case Dunham 50
Mes. 56. ib, cage 48
%s & %s, 15 lb. case 49
Bulk, barreis 19

96 2 oz. pkgs., per case 8 09
48 4 oz. pkgs., per case 7 60

CLOTHES LINE
Hemp, 50 ft.

Braided, 50 ft.

Sash Cord

“OFFEE ROASTED

Bulk
Rig 2 16%
Santos 23@24
Maracaibo 2 26
uuatemala aoe ee
Java and Mocha ----- 39
Bogota 2... 27
PRADEITY, 222 26

McLaughlin’s XXXX

McLaughlin's XXXX pack-
age coffee is sold to retail-
ers oniy. Mail all orders
direct to W. F. McLaugh-
lin & Co., Chicago.

Coffee Extracts

NM. ¥., per 108 __. 11
Frank’s 50 pkgs. -_-. 4 25
Hummel’s 60 1 Ib. _. 09%

CONDENSED MILK

Magic, 4 doz... 3-- 9 00
ueader, 4 doz. 2... 5 60

MILK COMPOUND

Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. __ 3 70
Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. -_ 3 60
Carolene, Tall, 4 doz. 3 40
Carolene, Baby ~ -.-- 3 35

EVAPORATED MiLK

Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 4 50
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz 4 40
Every Day, Tall __-_ 4
Every Day, Baby -_.. 3
Goshen, Tail _______- 4
Goshen, Gallon  -_. __ 4
ret, Dal oe 4
Pet, Baby, 8 oz. 1. 4
Silver Cow, Tall -__. 4 50
Silver Cow, Baby —_. 4
Van Camp, Tall ____ 4
Van Camp, Baby -___- 3
White House, Tall __ 4
White House, Baby — 4

CIGARS

Worden Grocer Co. Brands

Harvester Line.

Kiddies, 100s —______ 37 50
Record Breakers, 50s 75 00
Delmonico, 50s ______ 75 00

56 0
Epicure Panetela, 50 75 00
Perfecto, 60s 95 00

The La Azora Line.

Agreements, 50s __.. 58 00
Washington, 50s ___ 75 00
Biltmore, 50s, wood 95 00

Sanchez & Haya Line
Clear Havana Cigars made
in Tampa, Fla.

Specials, 60s ______ 75 00
Diplomatics, 50s  _. 95 00
Bishops, 508 —._____ 115 00
Rosa, 508 22000 125 on

Orig Favorita, 50 ___ 135 00
Original Queens, 50s 150 00
Worden Special, 258 185 90

A. S. Valentine Brands.
Little Valentines, 100 37 50
Victory, 50, Wood _- 75 00
DeLux Inv., 50, Wd. 95 00
Royal, 25, Wood —. 112 00
Abram Clark, 50 wd 58 00

Webster Cigar Co.

Plaza, 50s, Wood ~-. 95 00
Coronado, 50s, Tin _. 95 00
Belmont, 60s, Wood 110 00
St. Reges, 50s, Wood 125 00
Vanderbilt, 25s, Wd 140 00

Ignacia Haya

Extra Fancy Clear Havana
Made in Tampa, Fla.
Delicades, 59s _____ 115 06
Manhattan Club, 50 135 00

Bonita, 50 f

queens, 258 _.._._. 180 Oe
Perfecto, 24s ________ 1Rk 10
Corono, 256 2. 240 00

Starlight Bros.
La Rose De Paria I.ine
Coquettes, 5Us LL _ 65 00

 

House, 608 115 0
Peninsular Club, 258 150 00
Siicos. 2hn 2 150 0
Palmas, 256 _ 175 00
Perfecton, 268 195 00

Rosenthas Bros.
R. B. Londres, Shs,
Tissue Wrapped __ 58 00
RB. Invincible, 50s,
Foil Wrapped ____ 70 00

Union Made Brands
El Overture. 50s. foi] 75 00
Ology, 50s 2 58 00

Our Nickel Brands

New Currency, 100s__ 36 00
Pijoba, 100s oo. 3a 00
New Pantella, 100 __ 37 50

Cheroots
Old Virginia, 100s __ 23 50

Stogies
Home Run, 60, Tin 18 50
Havana Gem, 100 wad 26 00
Dry Slitz, 100s ______ 26 50
CIGARETTES.
One Eleven, 15 in pkg 96

Beechnut, 20, Plain __ 5 65
Home Kun, 20, Plain 6 00
Yankee Girl, 20, Plain 6 00
Sunshine, 20, Plain __ 6 00
Red Band, 20 Plain, __ 6 00
Stroller, 15 in pkg. 96
Nebo, 20, Plain ______ 00
Camels, 20, Plain ____ 6 80
Relu, 20, Plain _.- 80

Lucky Strike, 20s _
Sweet Caporal, 20, pi.
Windsor Castle Fag 20
Chesterfield, 10 & 20
Piedmont, 10 & 20, Pl.
Spur, 20, Plain ... .
Sweet Tips, 20, Plain
Idle Hour, 20, Plain __
Omar, 20, Plain  _____ 9 20
Falks Havana, 20, Pl. 9 75
Richm’d S Cut, 20, pl. 10 00
Richm’d 1 Cut, 20 ck. 10 00
Fatima, 20 Plain
Helmar, 20, Plain _. 10 50
English Ovals, 20 Pl. 10 50
Turkish Trop., 10 ck 11 60
London Life, 10, cork 11 50
Helmar, 10, Plain’ __ 11 50
Herbert Tarryton, 20 12 25
Egyptian Str., 10 ck. 12 00
Murad, 20, Plain ____ 15 50
Murad, 10, Plain --_ 16 00
Murad, 10, cork or pl. 16 00
Murad, 20, cork or pl. 16 00

ATUIAMAAOCIAM NSA
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So

Luxury 10, cork ___ 16 00

Melachrino, No. 9, 10,
cork or plain  ___. 16 00

Melachrino, Ne. 9, 20,
cork or plain -__. 16 00

Melach’o, No. 9, 10,St 16 50
Melach'o, No. 9, 20, St 16 50
Natural, 10 and 20__ 16 00
Markaroff, No. 15, 10,

COM | eee 16
Pall Mall Rd., 20, pl. 21
Benson & Hedges, 10 20
Rameses, 10, Plain ~. 17 60
Milo Violet 10, Gold 20 00

Deities, 10. 26 2 21 00
Condex, 10 3. 22 00
Phillips Morris, 10 —_ 21 00
Brening Own, 10, Pl. 28 00
Ambassador, 10 ___. 30 00

Benson & Hedges

Tuberettes ~_______ 55 00

CIGARETTE PAPERS.

Riz La Croix, Wh., dz. 46
Riz La Wheat Br., dz 46
Riz Tam Tam, pr doz. 42
Zig Zag, per 100 7 25

TOBACCO—FINE CUT.
Liggett & Myers age

Hiawatha, 10c, doz.
Hiawatha, 16 oz., dz. 11 00

Red Bell, 10c, doz. 96
Red Bell, 35c, doz... 2 95
Red Bell, 75c Pails dz. 7 40
Sterling, 10c, doz. -. 96

Sweet Burley, 10c, dz. 96
Sweet Burley, 40e foil 3 85
Swt. Burley, 95e Dru. 8 50
Sweet Cuba, 10c, dz. 96
Sweet Cuba, 40c, doz. 3 85
Sweet Cuba, 95c Pail 8 50
Sweet Orange, 10c, dz 98

Scotten Dillon & Co. Brand
Dan Patch, 10@, doz. 90
Dan Patch, 16 c ., dz. 7 50
Ojibwa, 10c, diz —-

Ojibwa, 8 oz., doz. 8 85
Ojibwa, 95c, doz. ___. 8 60
Ojibwa, 90c, doz. ... 8 00
Sweet Mist, 10c, doz. 96
Uncle Daniel, 10c, dos. 96
Uncle Daniel, 16 om 16 20

J. J. Bagley & Co. Brands.
Mayflower, 16 oz., d%. 15 00

P. Lorrilard Brands.

Pioneer, 10c, doz. _. 96
Tiger, 0c, doz,” 96
Tiger, Bic, doz. 2k 4 80

Weyman Bruton Co. Brand
Right Cut, 10c, doz. 96
W-B Cut, 10c, doz. _. 96

PLUG TOBACCO.

American Tobacco Co.
Brands,

Amer. Navy, 1l0c, doz. 96
Amer. Navy, per plug 6¢
Jolly Tar, 24, per plug 16
Gold Rope, 10c, doz. 1 00
Boot Jack, lic, doz. 1 44
Piper Heidsieck, 10c 96
Piper Heidsieck, 20c_ 1 9?
Spear Head, 10e cuts 1 00
“pear Head, per plug. 68
Square Deal, per plug 64
Standard Navy. 8 plg 64
Town Talk, per plug 56
Liggett & Myers Brands.
Clipper, per pl oe
Chops, 10c, font ses os
Drummond Nat. L. J5o 1 44
Honey Dip Twist, 10c 96
Granger Twist, 10c, dz. 96
Horse Shoe, per plug 74
J. T. Bright, per plug 66
J. T. Smooth, plug. 24
J. T. R. and R., plug 24
King Pin, per plug __ 32
ped Pin, 10¢ cuts, ea 08
Masterpiece. per pl
Picnic Twist, 10ce, "ioe 96
Pure Grape, 10c, doz. 96
Spark Plug per case 1 92
Star, per plug —W4 %
Uncle Sam 32 10c cut 2 56

Scotton, Dillon & Co.
fais Brands.

‘acer, pe” plug WW
Cream De Menthe, 10c 96
E eachey, pem plug _... 64
Stronghold, per plug. 64
Yankee Girl, per plug 66

P. Lurrilard Brands.
Climax, 10c tins, doz. 96
Climax Smooth, plug 73
Climax Thick, per plug 72
Red Cross, 10¢ cuts. 96
Red Crcas, per plug 48

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Ca,
Brands.
Apple, 5 Ib. Butt, Ib. 7”
Caramel Twist, per lb. &©
Gravely Superior, 10c pa
Humbug, per Ib. ___ 1 28
Kismet,* per Ib. _.____ 1 06
Liberty Bell, per Ib. 65
Maritana, l5c Foil, dz. 1 44
Mickey Twist, per Ib. 72

John J. Bagley & Co
Brands,

Maple Dip, per plug. 66

SMOKING TOBACCO.

American Tobacco Co.
Brands.

Banner, Lf. C., l0c, dz. 96
Banner, L. C., 40c, dz. 3 34
Blue Boar, 25c Foil 2 28
Blue Boar, 30c Vac tin 2 76
Bob White, gran., 10c 96
Bull Durham, 10c, dz. 96
Drum, Gran., l0c, dz. 96
Five Bros. 10c, doz. 96
Giant, L. C., 10c, dz. 96
Giant, L. C., 30c, dz. 2 88
Giant, L. C. Pails, dz 6 84
Garrick, 30c Foil, dz. 2 70
Imperial Cube Cut, 30c 2 88
Lucky Strike, R. Cut 1 58
Myrtle Navy Plug Cut 96
Myrtle Navy, 15c Po. 1 44
Navy, G. & A., 10c 96
Nigger Hair, 10c, doz. 96
Nigger Hair, Pails, dz 8 40
Nigger Head, P.C 10c_ 96
Old English, C. C. 160 1 58
Peerless, L. C., 10a. 9
Peerless, L. C., 35¢ dz. 3 ot
Peerless, L. C. Pails 7 44
Rob Roy, L. C., 10c 96
Rob Roy, L. C., 40c 3 84
Rob Roy, L. C., pails
Sweet Maple Scrap, 96
Soldier Boy, L. C., 10e 96
Soldier Boy, L. C., pail 7
Tuxedo, Gran. 15¢ foil 1 44
Tuxedo, Gran., 17c, dz 1
Tuxedo, Gran. Cut

plugs, 8 oz. ting __ 6 72
Yale Mix., 15 vac. tin 1 44
Liggett & Meyers Brande.
Briar Pipe, doz. _. 96
Cuban Star, L. C., 10e 396
Cuban Star, Pails, dz. 6 $@
Corn Cake, Gran. 6c 48
Corn Cake, Gran., 10c 96
Corn Cake, Gran., 25c 3 4@
Corn Cake, Gran., 50c 4 8@
Duke's Mixture, 10c_. 96
Glad Hand, L. C. 100 96
Growler, L. C., 10c. 9%
Growler, L. C., 25c_. 3 60
Growler, L. C., 50c__ 5 0@
La Turka, Plug C, l6c 1 44
Noon Hour L. C., 10c 96
QO. U., Gr. Cut P., 10c 96
O. U., C. P., 90c jars 9 00
Pilot, Long Cut, 25c 2 50
Plow Boy, 10c, doz. 96
Plow Boy, 70c Pails 7 4@
Summertime, 100, dos.

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>ummertime, 65c Pails 6 50 United States Tobacco Co. FARINACEOUS GOODS FRUIT JARS NUTS. Veal
Sweet Tip Top, l0c, dz 96 Brands. Beans Whole OR ee 14
Vetvet. Cut Plug, 10¢ ; 96 Central Union. ldc, dz. 144 yfoq. Hand Picked -. 11 Mason, pts., per gross 8 25 Almonds, Terregona_. 22 Good ---------------- 13
Jelvet, “ut lug, tins 5s Shag, 15¢ Tins. dog. 144 —@,)” Limas 11% Mason, ats., per gross 9 60 Brazil, Large ------ 14 Medium We eae ae
Velvet. Cut Plug, 8 oz. 6 72 Shag. 15e Papers, doz. 1 44 Brown Swedish — Mason, % gal., gross 12 60 Fancy mixed --_----- 21 Lamb
Velvet. C. Pl., 16 oz. 15 84 Dil’s Best. 16c, doz. 152 peg Kidney Poy tare os 11 Ideal Glass Top, pts. 9 75 Filberts. Sicily -.-.--. 16 Good fo eae
Yum Yum, 10c, doz. 96 Mills Best Gran., 16¢ 1 52 fcr Ideal Glass Top, gts. 11 50 Peanuts Virginia, raw 08% Medium - -_.---.--~--.- 26
Yum Yum, 70c pails 6 80 Diil’s Best, 17c Tins 1 52 Facing oo Top, Peanuts, Vit. roasted 10% Poor -....2..... 00 24
: : SAUOn 15 50 Peanuts, Jumbo raw 09%
° scSuard! 4 Snuff. 25 1 lb. packages -__. 2 80 nb. ity — mie Mutton.
oo ened aplttia ee gg Conenhagen, 10c, roll 64 Bulk, per 100 Ibs. ---. 06% Reena zene rstd A Goes =... 12
Ereenne Nomee, Gos 2) Scat iandening, ie  €6 GELATINE Sones Sumeo” Meddium = --~--------- 11
Buss, L. ©. abe, doz. 3 30 Sea! Goteborg, 10c, roll 64 ij HOmmny, 9 56 Walnuts, Grenoble -- 34 Heavy hogs civ I
Buzz. L. C. 80c, doz. 790 Seal Swe. Rapee, 10c 64 Carty pe Baek = ee Cox’s 1 doz., large -- 190 Walnuts, Sorento ---- 85 hs
’ zs ’ Seal Nork ” 10 x’s a ¢ ' Medium hors _....... 14
rela FCs Be, doz. aS Seal oreo: 1 Ib. 85 Macaronl Sica Tero - - Salted Peanuts Fight hege 2: 14
Pong ei ab gay doz. a i Domestic, 20 Ib. box 07% Knox's Sparkling, doz. 2 25 Pandy, No. 1. | 11% Sows and “a ime LO
Stag Gar @ 10a done CONFECTIONERY Domestic. broken bbls. 06% Knox's Acidu'd, doz. 225 Jumbo --------------- 21 Loins ------------------ 20
Union Leader, l0c tin 96 Stick Candy Pails Armours 2 doz. ---.160 Minute. 3 doz. _____. 4 05 Sheiled FI eiincdn nenisceae ana 18
1 , z Standard: 22s - Fould’s, 2 doz., 8 oz. 180 Plymouth, White ___. 155 Almonds -----_------- 50 SHOWERS 16
Union Leader, 50c tin 4 80
Union Leader, $1 tin 9 60 Jumbo Wrapped -- Peanuts, Spanish Hams —.------~------- 24
Union Leader, 10c, dz. 96 "Te Sugar Stick. 600’s . 20 Pearl Barley 125 Wy bhes 2 4%, Spereribs, 09
Union Leadon. ise da. 144 Bie Stick, 20 Lb. Case 17 Chester aes GRANULATED LYE. Pilberts Cae ae 50 Neck bones _______ 05
War Path, 35c, doz. 3 35 Mixed Candy Pails Wanders. RE et rene entice 80 PROVISIONS
Kindergarten  __-_ _ 17 Peas Single cases ________ 5 15 Walnuts ------------- 7 Barreled Pork
Scotten Dillon Co. Brands Teader --------------- 14 Sceten Thos ee n7 a%. CASES oo 5 04 : OLIVES Clear Back -- 23 00@24 00
jas Pech ie 4 a OS — Sol. hh os | eames 495 Bulk, 2 gal. kee -...2 50 hort Cut Cerar 22 Men &
Dillon’s, Mixture, 10¢ 96 French Creams --_--- 18 10 cake 487 Bulk, 3 gal. keg ---- 5 25 ear Family 27 00@28 @0
ao be ie ae se nee So i cases, B1 to case 260 Bulky 9 eal: keg “—W- $00 Dry Salt Meats
; ww. Plo We. doz. _. 96 MTOCETA 222 Tas ndia O7Tu% ’ , -- ‘ * Bellies -. 17 00@19 00
Toeredo, 10c, doz. -- 96 Fancy Chocolates. 4% 02. Jay, plain, da. 1 36 i
ee a “(ag ee anions CHLORINATED LIME. 5% oz. Jar, pl. doz. 160 30 1p. tubs ae
Peachy Scrap, 10c, dz. 96 RBittersweets, Ass’ted 1 75 Pearl. 00 Ib. sacks __ 07% Single cases, case ____ 4 60 ae "a a ihe 3 7 Pure in tierces 13@13%
Peninsular, 10c, doz. 96 Choe Marshmallow Dp 155 Minnte & 07.. 3 doz. 45 2% cases, case -___- 448 3 we oz. Jar, Pi. dos. 3 & Compound Lard 13@13%
Peninaular. 8 0%. dz. 3 99 Milk Chocolate A A..190 Dromedary Instant __ 350 5% cases, case ____- 4 40 — ae hae ae ; = 69 lb. tubs __..advance %
eel Cut Plug, 10c, dz Nibble Sticks —__.._ 2 00 10 cases, case —_____ 4 32 Stuf tod ; -50 Ib. tubs ___.advance ¥
Union Workman Scrap, Primrose Choc.  _-.-- 1 20 FISHING TACKLE % case, 25 cans to 9 oz. Jar, Stuffed, doz. 350 59 ip. pails aacene i
10c, doz No. 12 Choe 60 case, c 12 oz. Jar, Stuffed, dz 460 19 jp. pails ,
4 ee No. SoG, 222) Gating (inns SC, Cane oo 2 35 0 Ib. pails --_-advance %
way ye ite, ar 3 7 Chocolate Nut Rolls - 180 1, 9 48 faat + PEANUT BUTTER. : Ib. pails ..--advance 1
y Up, O%:,, G0%: Gum Drops’ Pails No. 2. 15 feet _....... f : 3 Ib. pails -..-advance 1
Way Up 16 0z., doz.710 anjae 17 No ge oo 7 «A HIDES AND PELTS Ss
Way Up. 16 oz. pails 7 40 AL $0 naan nnn 0. 4. UR feet sk 1 x0 alsecor
: ange Gums __------ 17 No. 5, 15 Hides Molegnug 12
Yankee Girl Scrap, 10c 96 Byer Jellies _ v No. 6. 15 i eee : . Liver —---.____________ 12
Paenrite (eee Pe ce Green, No. 1 22.4) 10 Frankfort __.2.. 8 16
mieartes. Tare Co. Superior 2.00220 55 18 @ I. os Green, No. 2 -.2 3.5. 09 POs 18@20
3 mall, per vards @ ee Cured, No. 1 _____ =. MOE eo ee
American Star, l0c,dz 9% , 4 ae as ie a Medium. per 190 varda 79% Cured. No. 2 ________ i ‘Tongue 2 it
oe aa, ei a to. Pink tescneen 15 Large, per 100 yards 9 nn Calfskin, green, No. 1 14 Headcheese __________ 14
‘ < . » AY Calfskin, green No. 2 12%
P : Le A. A. Choe. Lozenges 16 Einate renin ¥ ce Smoked Meats
ee te ae a a wets eee H No. 1%. ner arom wa wan GSSEI: Cured, No. 1 15 Hams, 14-16, Ib. 26 -@33
Pinch Hit Scrap, 10c 96 Malted Milk Lozenges 20 No. 2. ner gross, wood 5 50 forse. No. Lo) a ca Bel Car-Mo Brand Hams, 16-8, lb, 28 @33
Bee ee ee nee Ms Hard Goods. Patis N° 2%: rer ern. wond 750 Horse, wo Sa 5 on 2 com ie cage 9 08 re ee @39
ed Horse Scrap, doz. 96 yoemon Drops cae Hoote ae 24 1 Ib. pails -------- 445 california Hams
Ss —Kirhy 9s ; California Hams 16 @17
J. J. Bagley & Co. Brands. %. F. Horehound Dps 17 Size 1-12. ner 1.999 _ 1 9% Peilts oe pee in erate : - vrenic Boiled a
Rroadleat. 10c “eo SEMATOS nee oe Fo per Oe |. 1 96 25 tk oo il ee 114 Hams -__..--. 30 @32
a ga Pg pra Rah Sauares ___-_- 18 Size 2-0. ner 1.999 __ 14% Old Wool ____-_-- 50@1 00 59 ib. ze Se 138, Boiled Hams -. 44 @48
Buckingham, 15¢ tins 1 44 Horehound Tablets -- 18 Size 2-9. ner TAnn 41 e@R | =6Lambs ___________ ia i © Do ee * Minced Hams -_ 14 @I15
Gold Shore, 15c, doz. 1 44 Pnp Corn Goods. ae . ner en 4 : 6 | Shearlings | _ 05@ 10 PETROLEUM fae Bacon ---.___-.. 22 @38
Hazel Nut, 10c, doz. 96 Cracker Jack, Prize 375 ~~ ven -- 24° ie _ Tron Barrels Beef
Ricsks. G60, dom 240 Checkers, Prise... 165 Perfection Kerosine __12.6 Boneless ___. 23 00@24 00
Old Colony, Pl. C. 17¢ 1 53 C Sinkers Tallow aed Crown Gasoline, Rump, new .. 23 00@24 00
Old Cron, boc, doz 4 80 ough Drops No. 1, per gross _____ 65 Tank Wagon. - 22.3 ;
Red Band. Scrap. “10e  96 : ; Boxes No. 2, ner gross __ _—s &h LO @5 Gas Machine Gasoline 40.2 Cad Mince Meat ‘i
Sweet Tips, 15c, doz. 1 44 oo Stee oar ma . er Sress --- an ree e* x as oF. a Naptha is Condensed Bake i Teck 31
Wid Fruit. . Sareea . per gross _____ 1 20 a We Capitol Cylinder  -_.. 42. oro ne aKkers ‘1CK 9s
Wild Fruit, ise, doz. 1 44 Package Goods mG ee Sree -__-- ae Atlantic Red Engine 23.2 Moist In Biase ——---- —
Independent Snuff C Creamery Marshmallows No . ee es — ee a bbl ae le
nu oO. : : > ss 9 s 5
" Brands y Ons pee’ vod o 3 a No. 8, — eign ae o Unwashed, medium @35 @ ie bois $6: ihe, 2 ; o
New Factory, 10c, doz. 96 oe DE ree Cone ty) Ne. © per mene son Unwashed, rejects aes O arine Ye bbis. ------------- 7 00
New Factory Pails, dz 7 60 F Spesieiies: 43 - 10, per gross ____ @ 75 Fine ------~--------- @35 bbl. ~--------------- 14 15
Arcadian Bon Bons —_- Tripe
Sctmist Bros, Brande | Winn! Fize —--——" 4 FLAVORING EXTRACTS Horse RADISH Medion “Lagi ang Hind? UM x
gE os., 10c, doz. 96 Pine yaa - == ennings sacl ee ea ; 4 S. 40 Ibe. _____ 1 60
Might Gros, Pails, de. $40 “telien Bon Bons 18 Pure Vanilla i a . Medium heavy ------ cos % bbis.. 80 Ibe. 2 8
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Silver King M. Mallows 30 Pare vecan oe Extra heavy -----... 61.2 RT i @42
rands. Transmission Oil ---~ 57.2 per 1b. --___--~
George Washington, CRISCO i Per Do2 JELLY AND PRESERVES Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1.40 Beef. round set ---. 14@26
to doe Ste “She aid Ie ane 175 ae Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 1.90 Beef. middles. set_ -22@30
Old Rover, 10c, doz. 96 Jiess th: = 5 cases 94 % Ounce. 2 eae 2 76 Pure, 30 Ib. pails --. 260 Parowax, 100, 1 Ib. -- 7.2 Sheep. & skem 13@2 ”
Our Advertiser, 10c, 96 five case [a0 2% Ounce 300 kure 7 oz. Asst., doz. 120 Parowax, 40, 1 Ib. -- 7.4 Uncolored Omomergaring
Prince Albert, 10c,.dz- 96 ‘Ten cases Tog te Genes 39,  Puckeye, 22 oz., doz. 200 Parowax, 20, 1 Ib. {7.6 Solid Dairy ...__. 20@23
Prince Albert, l7c, dz. 1 53 men cases: uses 0 208 a Ouncer. as 599. VU: B.» 15 0z., per doz. 1 80 Country Rolls _____. 22034
sh oe : . “ @s ond 4s. 8 Ounce 2 2 @ 50 Gem Nut -------------
ns, without pipes - 6 72 Jess than 5 cases 204%, 7 Dram, Assorted ___ 1 35 JELLY GLASSES RICE
ory oe BOF gag Five cases ---..-.-.. 19% 1% Ounce, Assorted_— 1 75 Fancy Head ____-- 6%@8
Brides Albert. 16 of 12 96 Ten cases —~----- 19 A, 8 oz; per doz. —..---- 34 Blue Kose 2... 7. 06%
Gad. Gean be da Twenty-five cases -- 19 FLOUR AND FEED Broken 0 se 03%
Whale, 16 oz., doz. —. 4 $0 COUPON BOOKS Valley City Milling Co. MATCHES. ROLLED OATS

Block Bros. Tobacco Co.
Mail Pouch, 10c, doz. 9

Falk Tobacco Co., Brands.
American Mixture, 35c 3 30
Arcadia Mixture, 25c 2 40
Champagne Sparklets,

30c, doz.
Champagne Sparklets,

900." dom. 2. 8 lv
Personal Mixture ___. 6 60
Perique, 25c, per dob. 2 25

Serene Mixture, 16c dz 1 60
Serene Mixture, 8 oz. 7 69
Serene Mixture, 16 oz 14 70
Tareyton Lundon Mix-

ture, 50c.. doz. ___. 4 00
Vintage Blend, 25e dz. 2 30
Vintage Blend, 80 tins 7 50
Vintage Blend, $1.55

tins, doz. 14

Superba Tobacco Co.
Brands.
Sammy Boy Scrap, dz 96
Cigar Clippings
Havana Blossom, 10c 96

Havana Blossom, 40c 8 95
Knickerbocker, 6 oz. 3 0€
Lieberman, 19%, doz. 96
W. O. W., 6 oz., doz. 3 00
Royal Major. 10c, doz. 96
Royal Major, 6 oz., dz. 3 00
Royal Maior. 14 oz. dz 7 20

Larus & Bro. Co.’s Brands.
Edgeworth Ready Rub-

bed. tfc Lins —. 2. 1 62
Edgeworth Ready Rub-

bed, 8 oz. tins, doz. 7 00
Edgeworth Ready Rub-

bed, 16 oz. tins, dz. 14 50
Edgeworth Sliced Plug,

17¢c_ tins, doz. .c_._
Edgeworth Sliced Plug

36c tins, doz. ___._. 8 &

k9 Beonomic grade _. 2 50
100 Economic grade -- 4 50
500 Beonomie grade 20 00
1,000 Economic grade 37 50

Where 1.009 books are
ordered at a time, special-
lv print front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR
6. 1b. boxes __--- 4 40
DRIED FRUITS
Aoplee
Fvap’d Choice, blk. --.. 2@
Apricots
Hivanorntsd, Sian 2220s 30
Evaporated, Fancy ---- 36
Citron
10: b. Dox. 48
Currants
Package, 15 oz. ---. 18%
Boxes, Bulk, per Ib. ~~ lo
Peaches
Evap. Fancy, Unpeeled 21
Peel
Lemon, American -__--- 26
Orange, American -.-- 27
Raisins
Seeded, bulk —.-_-.- 16
Seeded, 15 oz. pkg. —. 18
Sultana Seedless ---. 17
Seedless, 1 lb. pkg. ~~ 21
California Prunes
90-100 25 lb. boxes ~.@12
80-90 25 Ib. boxes __.wls
70-80 25 Ib: boxes _.@15
60-70 25 lb. boxes _.@16
50-60 25 Ib. boxes __@17
40-50 25 Ib. boxes ~.@18
30-40 25 lb. boxes ..@2l

Lily White, % Paper
SAC on

Harvest Queen, 24%

Light Loaf Spring

Wheat, 24%s —____
Roller Champion 24%
Snow Flake, 24%s __

Graham 25 lb. per cwt
Golden Granulated Meal,
25 Ibs., per cwt.,
Rowena Pancake Com-
pound, 5 lb. sack _-
Buckwheat Compound,
Sib: sack £2.22

Watson _ Milling

0.
Perfection,

New ¥%s_ 7 80
Meal
Gr. Grain M. Co.
Bolted 22520 2 26
Golden Granulated -.2 45
Wheat
INO: 1 Hed oes ce 1 03
NO. ds Witte: a2 so 1 01
Oats
Garlots: 220 44
Less than Carlots —_ 50
Corn
Caries oo. %
Less than Carlots -.._ 76
Hay
Carlots 222202 os 22 00
Less than Carlots __ 24 00
Feed
Street Car Feed  ___ 30 00

No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd 30 00
Cracked Corn 3
Coarse Corn Meal -- 30 00

Blue Ribbon, 144 box. 7 55
Searchlight, 144 box. 8 00
Safe Home, 144 boxes 8 00
Old Pal. 144 boxes -- 8 00
Red Stick, 720 le bxs 5 50
Red Stick, 144 bxs —. 5 25

Safety Matches.

Red Top, 5 gro. case 5 25
Toyo, Der Ere. —.---= 95
MINCE MEAT.
None Such, 3 doz. _. 4 85
Quaker, 3 doz. case -- 4 00

Libby Kegs, Wet, lb. 25

MOLASSES.

New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle --_ he

Half barrels 5c extra

Molasses in Cans.
Red Hen, 24, 2 'b. —
Red Hen, 24, 2% Ib.
Red Hen, 12, 5 Ib. --
Red Hen, 6, 10 lb. --
Ginger Cake, 24, 2 Ib.
Ginger Cake, 24, 2% Ib.
Ginger Cake, 12, 5 Ib.
Ginger Cuke. 6. 10 Jb.
Dove, A 2 Ib. Wh. L:
Dove, 24, 2% lb Wh. L
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Black 4 30

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Dove, 24, 2% lb. Black 3 90
Dove, 6. 10 Ib. Blue L 4 45
Palmetto, 24, 2% Ib, 4 15

 

Sem@dac, 12 pt. cans 2 85
Semdac, 12 qt. cans 4 35
PICKLES

Medium Sour
Barrel, 1,200 count -_ 13 00
Half bbls., 600 count 7 50

10 gallon kegs ---. 5 50
Sweet Small

30 gallon, 2400  -... 33 00

15 gallon, 2000 —~.._-- 17 50

10 gallon, 800 -~----- 12 7
Dill Pickles.

a. 20-00

800 Size, 15 gal.
Pl

PES
3.doz. in bx 1 00@1 20

PLAYING CARDS
Broadway, per doz. ~. 2 40

Cob,

o YU Steamboat ---. 2 76
Elue Ribbon... 4 25
Crieket€ 2 3 50
Congress .22.-.. 6 00

POTASH
Babbitt’s 2 doz. ---. 2 75

FRESH MEATS.
Beet.

Steers & Heifers 16

& Heifers 15

Med. Steers & Heifers 14

Com. Steers & Heifers 11
Cows.

Top
yood Steers

Good
Medium
Commun

Steel Cut. 100 Ib. sks. 3 25
Silver Flake, 10 Fam. 1 90
Quaker, 18 Regular —. 1 80
Quaker, 12s Family -. 2 65
Mothers 10s, IlVinum 3 30
Silver Flake. 18 Keg. 45
Sacks, 90 Ib. Jute —-
Sacks, 90 Ib. Cotton__

SALAD DRESSING

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6 me

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Durkee’s large, 1 doz. 6 75
Durkee’s med., 2 doz. 7 35
Durkee’s Picnic, 2 dz. 3 00
snide ts large | twe 3 uv
Snider's small ? Anz 2 325
SALERATUS :
Arm and Hammer -- 3 75
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbls. _--- 2 00
Granulated, 100 Ibs es 2 25
Gr: oniated om 2am Tt
packages —.-....- 2. 50
COD FISH.
Middies 2.2... 2. 16%
Tablets. 1 Ib. Pure .. 22
Tablets, % Ib. Pure,
a6) 1 40
Wood boxes, Pure ---- 24
Porter House, 1 lb. Tab. 19
Whole €ea 2.12... 11
Holland Herring
Standards, kegs ------ 90
Herring
K K K K, Norway -. 20 00
SW. pale... 1 40
Cut Lanck, .2......-3.— 90
Boned, 10 Ib. boxes -. 15
Lake Herring
34: DHL. 200: ths.. 2. -. 6 0)
Mackerel
Tubs. 50 Ib. fancy fat 13 75
‘Tubs, : 60° count. ...... 6 90
White Fish

Med. Fancy, 100 Ib/ .. 13 00

 

 

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SALT
ee gg _ 2 Ib,
Med. » Bois. —.. 2 70
Med. Ne: i’ 100 lb. bg 90
Farmer Spec., 70 Ib. 92
Packers Meat, 56 lb. 56
Packers for ice cream

100 Ib., — Sona 95

Butter Salt, 280 Ib bbl. 4 50
Baker Salt, 280 lb. bbl 4 25

100, 3 Ib. Table __.__ 6 30
60, 5 Ib. Table ~_.--__ 5 80
+4 10 Ib. Table ---... 5 65

Ib. wane, butter _. 60

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Per case, 24 2 Ibs.
Five case lots —____. 2 30

SHOE BLACKENING.
2 in 1, Paste, doz. __ 1 35
E. Z. Combination, dz. oe

Dri-Foot, doz. ------ 00
Bixbys, i 1 35
Shinola, doz.  ------.- 85

STOVE POLISH.
Blackine, per doz. --
Black Silk Liquid, dz.
Biack Silk Paste, doz.
Enamaline Paste, doz.
Enamaline Liquid, dz.
E Z Liquid, per doz.
Radium, per doz.
Rising Sun, per doz.
654 Stove Enamel, dz.
Vulcanol, No. 5, doz. 95

DS at ed et et et tt pe
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Vuicanol, No. 10, doz. 1 35
Stovoil, per doz. ---- 3 00
SOAP.

Am.: Family, 100 box 5 75
Export, 120 box ____ 4 65
Flake White, 100 box 4 50
Fels Naptha, 100 box 5 60
Grdma White Na. 100s 4 85

Ruh Nv More White
Naptha, 100 box —-_ 5 00

Swift Classic, 100 box 4 90
20 Mule Borax, 100 bx 7 55

Wool, 100 box  ___--- 6 50
Fairy, 100 box _____- 5 50
Jap Rose, 100 box ____ 7 85
Palm Olive, 144 box 11 00
ava, 100 box __.... 4 75
Pummo, 100 box ___. 4 85

Sweetheart, 100 box _ 5
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2
Grandpa Tar, 50 Lge 3 35
Fairbank Tar, 100 bx 4
Trilby, 100, 12c 8
Williams Barber Bar, 9s 50
Williams Mug, per doz. 48

Proctor & Gamble.

5 box lots, assorted
Ivory, 100, 6 oz. __ 6 50
Ivory Soap Fiks., 100s 8 00

Ivory Soap Flks., 50s 4 10
Lenox, 120 cakes ____ 4 50
P. & G. White Naptha 5 00
Star, 100 No. 11 cakes 5 25
Star Nap. Pow. 60-16s 3 65
Star Nap. Pw., 100-10s 3 85
Star Nap. Pw., 24-60s 4 85

Tradesman Brand.
Black Hawk, one box 4 50
Black Hawk, five bxs 4 25
Black Hawk, ten bxs 4 00

Box contains 72 cakes. It
is a most remarkable dirt
and grease remover, with-
out injury to the skin.

CLEANSERS.

ITCHEN
LENZER

 

80 can cases, $4.80 per case

WASHING POWDERS.

Bon Ami Pd, 3 dz. bx 3 75
Bon Ami Cake, 3 dz. 3 25

Climaline, 4 doz. __._ 4 20
Grandma, 100, 5c ___. 3 90
Grandma, 24 Large _ 3 80
Gold Dust. 100s ______ 4 00
Gold Dust, 12 Large 3 20
Golden Rod, 24  ..... 4 25

Jinx. 3 doz. ._....._... 4 56
La France Laun, 4 dz. 3 70
Luster Box, 64 --.... 3 75
Miracle Cm, 4 oz. 3 dz. 4 00
Miracle C., 16 oz., 1 dz. 4 00
Old Dutch Clean, 4 dz 4 00
Queen Ann, o oz. ~~ 2 40
Rinso, 100 oz. ~_--_-__ 6 40
Rub No more. 100, 10
OG. 3 85
Rub No More, 18 Lg. 4 25
oe Cleanser, 48,

Sapolio, 3 oe 3 15
Soapine, 100, 12 oz. — 6 40
Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. 4 00

Snowboy, 24 Large -. 4 70

Speedee, 3 doz. -__-__ 7 20

Sunbrite, 72 eg ao. 400

Wyandotte, 48 —--_- 5 50
SPICES.

Whole Spices.
Auspice, Jamaica —. @11
Cloves, Zanzibar __.. @40
Cassia, Canton — ___ 16
Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40
Ginger, African —-... @15
Ginger, Cochin  _,---- a
Mace, Penang -—_~_--_- 70
Mixed. No. 1 ... @22

Mixed, 5c pkgs., doz. @45

Nutmegs, 70-80 __-__- @30
Nutmegs, 105-110 -_. @25
Pepper, Black —__--- @15
Pure Ground in Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica —~_.. @15
Cloves, Zanzibar  -.-. @55
Cassia, Canton —_-- - @25
Ginger, African ~--__- @22
Mastara 2... @31
Mace, Penang ------- @75
Nutmecs @32
Pepper, Black --_---- @20
Pepper, White -—----- @29
Pepper, Cayenne _--. @32
Paprika, Spanish --. @42
Seasoning
Chili Powder, 15c _.__ 1 35
Celery Salt, 3 oz. --.. 95
Sace, 2 02. 90
Mnion Sait 2. 1 35
GOre 1 365
Ponelty, 3% oz. -._.. 3 25
Kitchen Bouquet -_-_ 3 25
Laurel Leaves  ---~... 20
Marjoram, 1 oz. —_---- 90
Savery, 1 ez. 2 90
Thyme, 1 oz... 90
Tumeric, 2% oz. .--. 90
STARCH
Corn

Kingsford, 46 Ibs. _-__. 11%
Powdered, bag:

Argo, 4

Cream,

 

Quaker, 40 1 ... 6

Gloss
Argo, 48 1 lb. pkgs.__ 3 75
Argo, 12 3 lb. pkgs. -_ 2 74
Argo, 8 5 lb. pkgs. ___ 3 10
Silver Gloss, 48 1s _. 11%

Elastic, 64 pkgs. ---. 5 35
wiger, $8-1 oo 2 85
Tiger, 60 lbs. —_._._ 05%
SYRUPS
Corn

Blue Karo, No. 1%,

ore LL 1 94
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz 2 70
Blue Karo, No. 10,

ae OZ. 2 50

Red Karo, No. 1%, 2
MOG. as 2 24
ted Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 10

Red Karo, No. 10, %
Gog ee 2 90

Maple Flavor.
Karo, 1% Ib., 2 doz. ~ 3 95
Karo, 5 lb., 1 doz. -. 6 15

Maple and Cane

Kanuck, per gal. --.. 1 50
Sugar Bird, 2% Ib.,

2 doz. 2 9 00
Sugar Bird, 8 oz., 4

Gon 2 12 00

Maple.

Johnson Purity, Gal. 2 50
Johnson Purity,

goz., 18 oz. —._.. 18 50

Sugar Syrup.
Domino, 6 5 Ib. cans 2 50

Bbls., bulk, per gal. 30
Old Manse.
6. 10 ib. cans __.._ 9. 40
Ao, © 1; Came oe 10 40
24, 2% Ib. cans ____€11 40
24, 1% ib: cams 2. 6 50
5 gal. jacket cans, ea. 7 15
386, 8 oz. bottles __-_ 5 25
24, pint bottles -___ 6 75
24, 18 oz. bottles __.. 7 25
12, quart bottles -_-. 5 75
Silver Kettle.
S, 10 ih: cans 2. 0
a2,.5 ib, cans = 8 15
24, 2% lb. cans -_.. 9 15
48, 1% lb. cans --___11 00
5 gal. jacket cans, ea. 5 90
36, 8 oz. bottles -_._ 4 40
24, “eng a geaaaie eee 5 50
PA: AS Be) 2 5 75
12, quer * potties ee
Ko-Ka-Ma.
6, 10 lb. cans —_.__ 5 15
a2. 5 th. Cans 5 65
24, 2% Ib. cans ____ 6 40
5 gal. jacket cans, ea. 3 90
24, pint bottles -... 4 25
24, 18 os. bottles .... 4 50

TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin, large. 6 00
Lea & Perrin, small_. 3 35

Peover 1 60
Roya, Mint .. 2 40
Tobasco  . 27
Sho You, 9 oz., doz. 2 70
At, lore 16
A-l, wel... 3 60
Capers. 2c eG 1 90
TEA.
Japan.
Medium _...., 32@38
Chotce o.oo 40@43
Maney oo 54@57
No, 2 Mibbs. ...-..._. 5
1 Ib. pkg. mS iftings — oe
Gunpowder
Choice 2
Maney 2 38@40
Ceylon
Pekoe, medium -----. 33
Melrose, fancy ------ 56
English Breakfast
Congou, Medium -----~
Congou, Choice ---. 35@36
Congou, Fancy ---. 42@43
Oolong
Moeniim 2. 36
Choe 2... 45
Nancy 2200 2 50 .
TWINE
Cotton 3 ply cone --. 40
Cotton, 3 ply balls --- 40
Wool, 6 ply _-...-._— 18
ee

Cider, 40 Gra 3
White Wine, 40 grain 17
White Wine, 80 grain 22
Oakland Vinegar & Pickle
Co.’s Brands.
Oakland Apple Cider -. 30
Blue Ribbon Corn ---- 22
Oakland White Pickling 20
Packages no charge.

WICKING
No. 0, per gross ---. 60
No. 1, per gross ---. 85
No. 2, per gross ---- 1 10
No. 3, per gross —_-- 1 85

Peerless Rolls, per doz. 45
Rochester, No. 2, doz. 50
Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
Rayo, per doz.

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Bushels, narrow band,
wire handles ------ 1.90

Bushels, narrow band,
wood handles  __--~ 2 00
Bushels, wide band __ 2 00
Marked, drop handle 75

Market, single handle 90
Market, extra ------- 1 25
Splint, large —_--.--— 8 50
Splint, medium —---~ 7 50
Splint, small -------- 7 00
Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each -. 2 40
Rarrel, 10 gal., each... 2 55
3 to 6 gal., per = a. 38
E Cas
No. 1, Star caior 5 00
No. 2, Star Carrier -- 10 00

No. 1, Star Ege Trays 4 50
No. 2, Star Egg Tray 9 00
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring
Eclipse patent spring : 00
No. 2, pat. — hold 2 00

deal, No
eo Cot. Mop Heads 1 80
16 oz. Cot. Mop Heads 2 40

a 2.
10 qt. Galvanized ----

12 a Galvanize d_--. 2 20
14 qt. Galvanized -_-- 2 40
12 qt. Flaring Gal. Ir. 6 75
10 qt. Tin Dairy ---- 4 50
12 qt. Tin Dairy ---- 5 00

Traps

Mouse, wood, 4 holes -. 60
Mouse, wood, 6 holes —- 70
Mouse, tin. 5 holes ---. 65
Rat. wood —_._____.___ 10

Rat, spring ---------- 1 00
Mouse, spring ------- 30
Tubs = aor
Large Galvanized ---
Modine Galvanized 6 75
Small Galvanized -- 6 00
Washboards
Banner Globe -------- 5 75
Brass, Single ~------- 6 75
Glass, Single -------- 7 00
Double Peerless ----- 8 25
Single Peerless ------ 7 50
Northern Queen ---- é 25
iniversal .....______ 7 50
Window Cleaners
oe es 1 65
ite 22 __ 1 85
16 iy 2 ee
Wood Bowls
13 in. Butter —--—_.._ 5 00
15 in. Butter -------- 9 00
17. in. Butter —__...- 18.00
19 in. Butter ——--_-..— 25.00

WRAPPING PAPER

Fibre, Manila, white ob
No. 1 Fibre ----- 7%
Butchers Manila eee
Meare 09

 

-YEAST CAKE

Magic, 3 doz. _._...-- 2 70
Sunlight. 3 doz. ----_- 2 70
Sunlight, 1% doz. -_. 1 35
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. -. 2 70
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. .1 35
YEAST—COMPRESSED

Fleischman, per doz. — 38

or changing conditions.

Wage Worker vs. Proprietor.
Written for the Tradesman.

In the ultimate apportionment of
the results of labor the wage worker
gets a larger share for a given amount
of effort than the proprietor. Not in
every case, but on the average.

An adequate supply of the necesesi-
ties of life, a goodly share of the com-
forts, as immediate benefits for effort,
a guaranteed financial return for a
definite amount of work, a minimum
of care, responsibility and risk is as-
sured to the wage worker. His capital
of strength, experience and_ skill is
jeopardized only by failure of health.

Increase of proficiency leads to
higher wages. His opportunity to ac-
cumulate, to put by a portion of his
earnings, to invest safely is far better
than that of the proprietor, the mer-
chant or the farmer.

The latter class must not only fur-
labor, experience and skill, but
must invest capital for the start; must
risk their own savings or that of
others; must continually guard that
capital lest it decrease; and must add
to it out of their profits to keep pace
with demands of increasing business
They must,
therefore, defer to the future the real-
ization of desirable comforts which
the wage worker obtains as he goes
along.

nish

One gathers the fruit of his labor
and uses it to-day; the other must
needs wait and hope for future realiza-
tion. After many years of toil. of
planning, of striving, of waiting, of

hoping, many, many times the pro-

prietor finds that he has labored only

to supply the needs of others, to give
them comforts and enjoyments, and
must still keep on with the daily
grind, the burdens, that he may sup-
ply himself and his family with or-
dinary necessities.

Saying that the wage worker has the
most for his labor and the best oppor-
tunity to save and provide for the fu-
ture does not mean that he does so.
The self denial, the economy, the
necessity of putting more and more
into the business to keep it from be-
ing a failure, as must the proprietor,
does not apply to the wage worker.
“If you cannot do as you wish, you
must do as you have to,” is an old
saying. Wage workers follow their
wishes to the extent of their earnings,
and comparatively few of them de-
termine to provide for the future if it
involves giving up present enjoyment.
The proprietor does as he must. and
eventually he will be grateful for the
compelling circumstances which en-
abled him to accumulate a competence
for declining years. The wage worker
in old age may curse his ‘uck or re-
gret that he did not start in life with
right views.and a firm determination
to have a home of his own and an
assured income when earning piower
decreases. The wage worker knows
in advance the amount of his weekly,
monthly or yearly income. The pro-
prietor bases his exnectations of a
commensurate compensation not alone
on investment and industry, but on
favorable condiiions of trade, of mar-
ket, of weather, of crops. His ex-
may be greater than he an-
prices may decline after he

penses
ticipated;

 

 

 

 

hinges and fasteners.

Send for a “Dry-Kold”’

NILES - - -

 

Know What You Are Buying

‘Just an Ice Box,’

 

You want dry, sanitary refrigeration, keeping things cold, crisp
and fresh. You want the lowest ice bills, because this is a con-
tinuous expense. Your refrigerator must have extra thick walls,
well insulated, three courses of ci in the doors and tight, heavy

catalogue and learn about real refrig-
.erators which operate with low ice bills.

THE “DRY-KOLD” REFRIGERATOR CO.

MANUFACTURERS

won't do

MICHIGAN'

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

July 19, 1922

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

31

 

has paid for goods, has manufactured
his wares; unfavorable seasons may
curtail his fruit; his grain, his crops;
‘aborers demand an exorbitant wage
when the ripened crop is ready to har-
vest, which he must pay or lose all.

To succeed as a proprietor one

must never give up, must stick to the

‘business until he learns its require-

ments its difficulties, its possibilities
and his own qualifications; must re-
ject the allurement of high wages and
promise of present enjoyment of lux-
uries; must carry more than his due
share of the burdens and responsibili-
ties in trade, in industry, in produc-
tion, in public service. And _ there
must come full reward in due time,
for “Whatsoever a man soweth that
also shall he reap.” E. E. Whitney.
>>>
What the Better Business Bureau Is
Doing.

Detroit, July 18—Reports for three
months ended June 30 by the Invest-
ment Division of the Better Business
Bureau of Detroit are summarized as
follows:

Investment enquiries answered at
office, 621; reports issued on request,
176;-reports to other bureaus, boards
of commerce, etc., 86.

Close co-operation with the Michi-
gan Securities Commisston, prosecut-
ing attorney of Wayne county, Board
of Commerce of Detroit, civic authori-
ties and better business bureaus else-
where have increased the volume of
work and facilitated the handling of

if.

Notable developments during the
three months in the more spectacular
cases’in which the Better Business
Bureau has figured are the following:

Sinkula expose: Charles C. Jonesi
sentenced to the maximum penalty for
conspiracy to defraud—two years im-

prisonment and $2,000 fine. Oscar
Rubin sentenced to eight months’ im-
prisonment.

Gerard-Summers Company: Com-
pany adjudicated bankrupt in United
States District Court. Detroit Trust
Company appointed receiver. E. E.
Gerard, F. A. Summers and R. T.
Shaugnessey on trial for violation of
the blue sky law.

Point of Purchase Advertising As-
sociation: Federal indictments en-
tered against three officers and thirty-
eight managers and salesmen charg-
ing use of the United States mails to
defraud.

J. D. Butler, National Publishers
Association: Apprehended, fined in
Detroit and extradited to Missouri
in felony charge.

The display of worthless stocks and
data on swindle exposures, held in
May in the Board of Commerce lobby,
has been duplicated and commented
upon far and wide. Illustrative mat-
ter and cuts have been sent to organ-
izations e'sewhere to give impetus to
the work.

The maximum legal punishment im-
posed on L. J. Sinkula’s Detroit man-
ager by Judge Keidan late in June
has resulted in a considerable exodus
of promoters of questionable schemes,
declare state and municipal authorities.

Charles H. Jonesi, manager of the
Detroit office of the L. J. Sinkula Co.,
who was given the legal maximum
sentence of two years and $2,000 fine
on one count of conspiracy to defraud,
and Oscar Rubin, his aid, who was
given an eight months’ sentence, have
given notice of their intention to ap-
peal, but are in the Detroit House of
Correction without bail. Thorough
preparation of evidence by the Prose-
cu‘ing Attorney’s office resulted in a
short trial—ten days.

Better Business Bureau.
2.

When we speak of a man as a whale
of an orator do we mean that he is
fond of spouting?

 

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BLENDED AND MANUFACTURED BY

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REBUILT
CASH REGISTER CO., Inc.

Cash Registers, Computing Scales,
Adding Machines, Typewriters And
Other Store and Office Specialties.
122 N. Washington, SAGINAW, Mich.
Repairs and Supplies for all makes.

 

 

For Sale—Grocery store doing fine
business in hustling town. Also have
other good businesses for sale. What

do you want? WRITE Henry & Pinch,
Eaton Rapids, Mich. 829

 

For Sale—A double two-story _ brick
building, full) basement and vacant lot
next door. With going business in feed,
produce, coal and garage, fully equipped.
Located in thriving farming and resort
community. Big money maker. Terms.
Investigate. Address No. 830, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 830

Wanted—To buy general store, or gro-
cery and hardware stock in small town
in Southern Michigan. Address No. 831,
care Tradesman. 831

Forty acres Kalkaska County land to
trade for small truck or car, G. A. John-
son, Carlshend, Mich. 832

 

 

For Sale—Partly finished building, 24x
80, with eight-foot basement. Walls are
twenty inches thick, twenty feet high
almost ready for roof and floors. Fine
for Movies, dances, etc. No hall in town.
Will sell cheap, $1,,000, to anyone wish-
ing to finish it. Floyd Luther, Six Lakes,
Mich. 833

For Sale—Furniture store with stock.
Good location. Write Box 52, Hamilton,
Mich. for information. $15

 

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Bell Phone 596 Citz. Phone 61366

JOHN L. LYNCH SALES CoO.
SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising
209-210-211 Murray Bldg.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

$5.35 cash -and a few hours of your time
will make you the absolute owner of a
piece of Oklahoma Oil Land that may
make you rich. Get in on this special of-
fer. For full particulars write, Frank
P. Cleveland, 3951 North Robey _ St.,
Chicago, Ill. 816

1000 letterheads or envelopes $3.75.
Copper Journal, Hancock, Mich. 150

Will pay cash for whole stores or part
stocks of merchandise... Louis Levinsohn,
Saginaw. Mich. 998

For Sale—Cash registers and store fix-
tures. Agency for Standard computing
scales. Dickery Dick, Muskegon, Mich.

643

 

 

 

_ Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-
ing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 274 East
Hancock, Detroit. 566

 

Bell Main 1088 Citz. 65842

Business Expansion Sales
Advertising Campaigns
Quitting Business Sales

ARROW ADV. SERVICE
214 Lindquist Bldg.
GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN

 

For Sale—Undertaking and _ furniture
stock, aggregating about $6,000. Will
rent or sell building. Established twen-
ty-one years. Always made money. Ad-
dress No. 834, care Michigan 'Trades-
man. 834

For Sale—Small stock of general mer-

 

chandise. Building for sale or rent. Best
location. Good small town. Address No.
$35, care Tradesman. 835

 

For Sale—Butter-Kist popcorn and
peanut machine. Latest model, combina-
tion gas and electric. Never used. Cost
$800. Will sell for $650, F. O. B. Grand
Rapids, or put out on percentage. Ad-
dress No. 836, care Michigan Tradesman.

836

Wanted—An experienced man to take
charge of our house furnishings and bar-
gain basement department. W. C. Weich-
mann, Saginaw, Mich. ‘

 

For Rent—Good office rooms. Second
floor. Main corner. Twenty-five dollars
per month, including heat. M. Kohlen-
stein, Otsego, Mich. — | See

For Sale—Grocery stock and fixtures.
5.000 population. Good location, reason-
able rent. Have other business. Ad-
dress 839, care Michigan ae

83

 

For Sale—Drug stock and residence in
town of 2,000. Address No. 843, care
Michigan Tradesman. $43

 

 

 

BUSINESS WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements inserted under this head for five cents a word the first
insertion and four cents a word for each subsequent continuous Insertion.
If set in capital letters, double price.
display advertisements in this department, $3 per Inch. Payment with order
is required, as amounts are too small to open accounts.

No charge less than 50 cents. Small

lt Want A good location for a grocery
or general stock, or will buy a stock or
stock and building. Wm. N. Sweet, 10548
Mack <Ave., Detroit, Mich. 840

 

For Sale—One wire bread rack; one
steel proof box (large); three mixing
bowls; one electric sign, one Reed barrel
mixer, double arm (as good as new);
one gas stove; one fried cake kettle;
three wire screens. The above can_ be
purchased very reasonably. Address Mr.
G. Winchell, Care The Cornwell Co.,
Saginaw, Mich. 841

 

A young man, having disposed of his
prosperous business, is open to a clean
line proposition. What have you to of-
fer? Address No. 842, care Michigan
Tradesman, 842

 

A Good Opportunity—For dry goods
store in small town. No competition,
good building. If interested in a good
proposition, Address Box . L, North
Adams Mich. 32

Location for hardware and_ general
store at Burtrum, Minn. Only a small
stock of harware there now, and room
for another general store. Prosperous
arms all around: good creamery: on
state highway, between Little Falls and
Sauk Center: two-story building for
sale. Gus C. Persons, 5005 HE. Tioga St.
Duluth, Minn. 826

FOR SALE OR RENT-—Lumber and
coal business. Prosperous one-vyard
town. Southern Michigan. Address W. Ce
Eldred 812 Sybil St., Ann Arbor, es

Pa

 

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH

 

 

Signs of the Times
Are

Electric Signs

Progressive merchants and man-
ufacturers now realize the value
of Electric Advertising.

We furnish you with sketches,
prices and operating cost for the
asking.

 

 

THE POWER CO.
Bell M 797 Citizens 4261

 

 

 

AOA

Paris
Green
Labels

The Paris Green season is at
hand and those dealers who
break bulk must label their
packages according to Jaw.
We are prepared to furnish
labels which meet the require-
ments of the 'aw, as follows:

 

00 labels, 25 cents
200 labels, 40 cents
500 labels, 75 cents
1000 labels, $1.00

Labels sent postage prepaid
where cash accompanies or-
der. Orders can be _ sent
through any jobbing house at
the Grand Rapids market.

Tradesman

Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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AQUWNULUULUILUARA HUE ATAU

 

 

 

 

 

32
RICE, PEANUTS, POLITICS.
That the tariff is largely a “local
issue,” as Gen. Hiancock said, has
been proved many times during the
progress of the new bill through the
Senate. Democratic Senators from

Louisiana have always stood for

strictly “Jeffersonian principles” as
they urcerstand them, and hence have
consistently lined up with the protec-
tionists and voted for high duties on
sugar. In the House a year ago the
Representative from Texas who had
led the fight both in committee and
on the floor against the “Fordney bill
nevertheless felt constrained to vote
for a duty on hides, an important
product of his State, although such a

,

duty is anathema to the “orthodox’
protectionis s of New England. The
most recent examples of the influence
of ‘ocal interests on tariff legislation
are to be noted in connection with the
duties on rice and peanuts. These are
products of sections which are nor-
mally Democratic and whose Repre-
sentatives are supposed to favor a
tariff for revenue only. Yet when it
came to a test the Senators from the
rice and peanut States were as eager
for high duties as those from any
other sec ion with industries clamor-
ing for protection. It is this intersec-
tional log rolling which has caused
the new tariff bill to be denounced by
members of the majority party like
Senators Edge, Lenroot and- Borah
as unscientific and distorted. I: would
be ideal to have a strictly scientific
tariff, with flexible rates that could be
adjusted from time to time to con-
form with changing world condi‘ions.
Sut that is an ideal. The very strength
displayed by these sectional interests
in framing the present bill points to
the difficulty of extricating the tariff
from politics.

 

THE TARIFF ON WOOL.

The delay in enacting the perma-
nent tariff law has created a problem
for the wool trade. As shown before
in this column, there is a large quan-
tity of imported wool held in bond in
warchouses pending the expiration of
the emergency tariff act with its
joker making so-called “skirted”? woo's
subject to a double duty. Meanwhile,
a limited amount of unskirted wool is
being shipped to the United States and
is being entered through the custom
houses. It requires time, however, to
change the customary method of pre-
paring the fleeces for export to this
country, and the change, moreover, is
not conducive to the economical
handling of wool, as the “skirting”
process consis s in removing the por-
tion of the fleece taken from under the
body of the sheep, which contains the
dirtiest and least desirab‘e wool. This
now has to be shipped with the rest
of the fleece, or else the emergency
du‘y amounts to an embargo, and
skirted. wools imported since the pass-
age of this act have been allowed to
remain in storage. The longer the
tariff bill is delayed the greater the
uncertainty with regard to the with-
drawal of these bonded wool stocks,
and the talk in some trade circles of
postponing the tariff until the short
session of Congress which means its
passage in 1923, has in‘ensified the
problem. It is to be noted, though,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

that this talk of postponement is not
taken seriously at Washington.

 

Review of the Produce Market.

Apples—Transparents are now in
market, fetching $2@2.25 per bu.;
Duchess, and Red Astrachan, $2 per
bu.

Bananas—/c per lb.

Beets—-40c per doz. for home grown.

Blackberries—$2.50 for 16 qt. crate.

Butter—The market is steady at
about le decline from a week ago,

 

with about a normal consumptive de-
mand. The make of butter is con-
siderably larger than it was a year
ago and the quality is running aver-
age good. The market is_ barely
steady at present and if we do have
any change in price it is likely to be
Stocks of butter in
storage are considerably in excess of
what they were last year at this time.
Local jobbers ho'd extra at 34c and
fancy at 33c—in 63 Ib. tubs; fancy
in 30 Ib. tubs, 35c; prints, 36c. They
pay 18c for packing stock.

a slight decline.

Cabbage—90c per bu.

Can‘aloupes—-California are being
marketed on the following basis: ”
Standamds: 455 2 $3.50
Standards 366 922. 82 3.29
Pouys 455 (2 3.00
Pons, 945 00 3.00
Veats: 12@isce 0 1.50

Cauliflower—Florida, $2.75 per case
of one dozen heads.

Celery—Home grown, 50c_ per
bunch; Jumbo, 65c.

Cherries—$2 per crate for sour; $3
per crate for sweet.

Cocoanuts—$7.50 per sack of 100.
Indiana
hot house command $1 per doz. for
fancy and $1.25 for extra fancy; home

Cucumbers—lIllinois and

grown, $1.25 per doz.

Currants—Red in 16 qt. crates, $2@
Le.

Eggs—The consumption is about
normal for the season and the pro-
Prices ranging
to-day are about the same as they

duction is very good.

were a week ago. The quality is also
running fairly good, considering the
warm weather we have been having.
At the present time it does not look
as if we would have any advance in
the near future.
22c for candied, cases included.

Green Peas—$3.25 per bu. for Tele-
phones.

Green Onions—Silverskins 25c¢ per
doz. bunches.

Lemons—Sunkist are still being
cauoted as fol'ows:
200 Size per box 2. $7.50
$00 Size, per box =. 7.50
2/0 Size per box 22.08 ea 7.50
2a0 size. per box 22 7.00
Choice are held as follows:
S00 size, per Dox 2 = 0 $7.00
S00 Give ‘Der box 2 25 2 e 7.00
Tet'uce—Leaf, 85c ver bu. home

grown head, $1.50 per crate.
Onions—Californta, $4.25 per 100
Ib. sack; Louisville, $4.25 per 100 Ib.
sack; Spanish, $3 per crate.
Oranges—Fancy Valencias are now
held as follows:

OM $11.50
20 ene 11.50
[50 176 aad 200... 3. 180
CAG oe 11.00
ee 9..00
Oe 8.00

Local jobbers pay

Oot 7.00
Parsley—60c per doz. bunches.
Peppers—Florida, 65c per basket.
Pieplant—$1.25 per bu. for home

grown.
Potatoes—Virginias

 

 

fetch
new home grown, $1.75 per bu.

Poultry—Local buyers pay as fol-
lows for live:

$5.50;

bight fowls 2005 15c
ineavy. fowls) oy 19@20c
Broilers, 2% lb. and up ~-_.25@28c
Brouers, 2 1b. and dander 2 20c
Cox and Stage 2... 10c

Radishes—20c, per doz. bunches for
home grown.

Raspberries—Black in 16 qt. crates,
$2.50 ;red in ditto, $3.25.

Sweet Potatoes—Virginia command
$3 per hamper.

Tomatoes—Home grown, $1 per 7
Ib. basket; Texas, $3.50 per 6 basket
crate.

Watermelons—40@50c
fine stock from Florida.

Wax Beans—$2@2.25 per bu. for
home grown.

Whortleberries—$2.75@3 per 16 qt.
crate.

apiece for

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Manufacturing Matters.

Ham ramck—The King Motor Car
Co., Inc., 8745 Conant Road, has been
incorporated to deal in autos, parts,
accessories, etc., with an authorized
capital stock of $100,000 preferred and
1,000 shares at $200 per share, al! of
which has been subscribed and paid in.

Pontiac—The Thornton Rotary
Motor Co., with business offices at
315 American Bank building, has been
incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $10,000, of which amount
$7,600 has been subscribed and paid
in, $2,500 in cash and $5,100 in prop-
erty.

Detroit—The Ra-Tone Electric Co.,
1267 West Park Place, has been in-
corporated to manufacture and _ sel!
electrical and radio machines, ap-
pliances, ete., with an authorized cap-
ral stock of $50,000, $30 000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
property.

Detroit—The D. & J. Manufactur-
ing Co., 9211 Burnette avenue, has
been incorporated to manufacture and
deal in ‘umber, building ma erials, etc.,
with an authorized capital stock of
$15,000 common and $10,000 preferred,
of which amount $14,900 has been sub-
scribed and $1,500 paid in in cash.

Fostoria—The Fos oria Products
Co. has been organized to manufacture
avd se 1 butter, cheese and dairy prod-
ucts and to deal in poultry, eggs, etc..
with an authorized capital stock of
$15,000 common and $15,000 preferred,
of which amount $15,000 has been sub-
scribed and $10,000 paid in in prop-
erty.

Grand Rapids—The Dessert &
Lumber Co., with business
offices at 6 Norris Bldg., has been
incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $300,000, of which amount
$240,000 has been subscribed and paid
in, $27,475.16 in cash and $212,524.16
in property.

Grand Rapids—The Brewer Manu-
facturing Co. has been incorporated
to manufacture, reconstruct and sell
spark plugs and other auto accessor-
ies, with an authorized capital stock
of $200,000, of which amount $102,000

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has been subscribed and paid in,
$1,000 in cash and $101,000 in prop-
erty.

Grand Rapids—The Grand Rapids
Brush Co. has merged its business in-
to-a new stock company under the
same style, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $100,000 preferred and
7,500 shares at $1 per share, of which
amount $42,500 and 7,050 shares has
been subscribed and $5,637.50 paid in
in cash.

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Fighting Commercial Bribery.

Various organizations of business
men have been lending their aid in
recent months to a movement to
stamp out commercial bribery. <A
bill designed to check this vicious
practice, in so far as it effects inter-
state commerce, is now pending be-
fore Congress. It is sponsored by the
Commercial Standards Council of
New York City and has the backing
of the National Wholesale Grocers’
Association. Recently these efforts
have been seconded by the Federal
Trade Commission, which has issued
an order to “cease and desist” against
a concern alleged to have followed
the practice of conferring gratuities
upon agents to influence them to pur-
chase supplies from it on behalf of
their principals. Such a practice is
presumed to be “unfair competition,”
and therefore in violation of the Clay-
ton Act. This action by the Trade
Commission does not remove, how-
ever, the need of the measure now
before Congress, which not only out-
laws the practice but also provides
adequate penalties for both the giver
and the recipient of such bribes.

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Complications.

“The Bon Ton is the best and only
barber shon in town,” said the land-
lord of the Petunia tavern, “beca:s>
the Palace Tonsorial Par‘or is closed
up just now on account of the pro-
prietor being in jail for bootlegging.
If you go to the Bon Ton and the fat
barber is at liberty, prob’ly you'll be
satisfied. But if you get into the thin
barber’s chair I d’know so much about
it. He’s a fiddler.”

“How does his fiddling affect his
barbering?” enquired the guest who
wished to sick up a bit.

“Well, it might not ordinarily, but
you see, Chet—his name is Chester
Cutwilly—s absent-minded and of en
gets the two professions mixed, and
thinks he is fiddling when in reality
he is barbering, and, of course, some-
times barbers when he fiddles. - And
such like ain’t neither good for the
face or the fiddle.”

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Mr. Idema Is Second Largest.

Anent the reference to the Turtle
Lake Lumber Co., on page 6 of this
week’s edition, the Tradesman has
since learned that Mr. Curtis is the
third largest stockholder of the com-
pany, instead of the second largest.
Mr. Idema holds approximately $70,-
090 of the stock and the Winchester
estate holds $135,000.

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