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The Father and His Son

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Father of His Country has a family of parts;

Some are sons of industry and some pursue the Arts,
Some follow the professions and some are peaceful sons,
While some are strong, aggressive, military sons of guns.

The sons of this great family should see their duty clear,

To strive for God and country without a thought of fear;

They should seek the prize of righteousness like a sprinter as he runs.
The father’s done his duty, but how about his sons?

When the British soldiers blundered he diminished their defeat;
With the sons of old Virginia, he covered their retreat,

And when the ragged army was camping in the gorge,

He raised the soldiers’ spirits as they froze at Valley Forge.

When the nation started, in chaos and in strife,

He led his people onward to a higher, broader life, |
When difficulties faced him he was never known to squeal,
But met the situation with sacrifice and zeal.

He took things as he found them, not to serve as an excuse,
And his colored bondsmen always met with kindness, not abuse.
His life was spent in changing the conditions that were wrong.
He fought the battles of the weak with the army of the strong.

But how about the sons that he has left to do the work?

We’ve never shown a yellow streak, but don’t we sometimes shirk?
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Our sacrifice is trifling, our benefit is large,

Their country’s devastated, they were foremost in the charge,
There are others who have suffered, they are hungry, they are chill,
While their industry does languish, will a pittance pay the bill?

Some of us have fallen on the easier walks of life;

While some eke out existence through a long and strenuous strife.
If we find a line of cleavage shall we hammer in the wedge,

Or close the gap that widens, don’t you think we’d better hedge?

 

The man who labors with his hands has helped to win the day.
Don’t you think the world would brighten if he had a little play?

A little more of comfort and a little time to think,

Can’t we show him how to spend the coin he used to spend for drink?

With the plea of economics we have shut down on his beer,

We have closed the warm saloon where he was wont to go for cheer,
And he plays the game quite fairly at some small sacrifice,

While the Red Lane lies wide open to the man who has the price.

We lick up bootleg liquor caring not just how it came,

We knock the politician but don’t care to play his game;

Our aims are somewhat selfish, we’re inclined to let things drift,
And the way. he spends our money doesn’t just encourage thrift.

 

Some incline to give the Sabbath wholly up to trade and play,
While the square-toes with their blue laws would wholly spoil the day.
Won’t the pennies wait till Monday, can’t golfing wait till noon,
And the day of recreation be an everlasting boon?

Our faults lie on the surface; underneath | think we’re sound.
But it takes a joit to move us from our daily routine’s round;
But | hope that we can act with reason, not with guns,

And the father will look down with honest pride upon his sons.

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HEADED UNITARIAN WAY.
In his sermon in New York City
Sunday morning Rev. Dr. Percy
Stickney Grant said nothing which in-
tensified his clash with Bishop Man-
ning. He made even clearer than be-
fore, if possible, his non-acceptance of
the doctrines of the church to which
he belongs and of which he is an
official representative, but he did not
challenge the right of the duly con-
stituted authorities of that church to
determine its doctrines or to withdraw
recognition from a clergyman who re-
fused to preach them. On its face Dr.

“ Grant’s position is inconsistent. He

wears the garb, uses the building and
enjoys the salary of an Episcopal
cergyman while denouncing its cher-
ished beliefs. If he should attempt to
maintain this position he would be
rendering a poor service to religion or
to freedom of speech. He would be
guilty of a breach of trust.
There is. more in the matter than
this, however. While it is possible to
look upon Dr. Grant’s position as a
defiance, it may in fact be a challenge
——a challenge to his congregation and
even to the entire church to consider
whether it does actually accept its
creed in the traditional way. Political
and theological formulas are reinter-
preted by successive generations; they
repeat the same words but they invest
them with different meanings. <A
clergyman who found that his concep-
tion of his church creed had under-
gone a change might feel himself justi-
fied in using his pulpit to get his case
clearly before the public in advance of
a trial for heresy. The same influ-
ences which had wrought a revolution
in his own thinking must have affected
the thinking of others also. Beliefs
which would be condemned by an
overwhelming majority if the vote
was taken without discussion might in
the process of discussion be discovered
to be held by a very large minority,
not a few of whose members might be

surprised to find out that they did not

really think what they had always sup-
posed they thought.

Dr. Grant cannot deny the authority
of the canons of his church. He must
either preach its doctrines or submit
to dismissal. But he is not to be
hastily condemned for doing what he
can to compel a frank facing of the
question of just what those doctrines
are.

 

CHEAP MONEY ADVOCATES.

No one identified the so-called Pro-
gressive movement with cheap money
agitation when it began a decade ago,
but some self-styled Progressives .of
to-day show a peculiar revulsion to
hard money. Many of them are strong
supporters of the Ford and Edison
currency theories; a few are even ad-
vocating the issue of billions of dol-
jars in the form of inconve-tible cur-
rency, like the old-fashicned green-
backs, to pay the soldiers’ bonus and
to build good roads. Their attack on
the Federal Reserve Board is like-
wise based on opposition to its stand
for sound money and banking prin-
ciples. The liberal provisions of the
Capper bill for rural credits do not
appease the cheap money members of
the farm bloc, who are demanding
still more extended credit facilities so
that the farmers may realize higher
prices for their products. They refuse
to believe that the credit which will
enhance the prices of farm products
will also increase the prices of things
which the farmer has to buy, and that
when the inevitable reaction follows
a period of inflated prices the farmers
invariably are among the worst suf-
ferers.

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An invaluable medium for attract-
ing business to a bank is a new and
imposing building. Even though there
may be other banks with more re-
sources, the public unconsciously asso-
ciates size with prestige and eventually
your bank will be known as the “big
bank” and reap the reward that comes
with such a standing. Before build-
ing, it is wise to consider whether a
building should be erected which will
be devoted exclusively to banking or
whether a combined bank and office
building would be more desirable.
Oft-times, if the financial condition of
the bank warrants it, the first type of
building meets requirements, but, on
the other hand, the combined office
and bank building will not only in-
crease the bank income by its rents,
but sooner or later the tenants will
become customers, and thus contribute
to revenue in two ways. Should it
be inadvisable or premature to erect
a combined office and bank building,
the difficulty may be overcome by
building the structure so that it will
suffice for the present banking needs
and permit of adding upper floors at
a Jater date. .

BARKING UP WRONG TREE.

It looks as though Attorney General
Daugherty had been a little overzeal-_
ous in his instructions to the Federal
District Attorney at San Francisco in
suggesting proceedings by the latter
against the Builders’ Exchange of that
city. He suggested that arrangements
for refusing to sell materials to con-
tractors employing only union labor,
and all similar acts were in violation
of the Clayton act. He urged that at-
torney to give early attention to the
activities of the local material men
and, if conspiracy were shown, to pre-
sent the matter to the grand jury for
action. At the outset, however, a
snag has been struck, perhaps more
than one. To begin with, the Clayton
act has no bearing on any actions
which are confined within the bound-
ary of any one state. It only applies
to interstate dealings. As whatever
the San Francisco Builders’ Exchange
is doing applies merely locally, it does
not come within the purview of the
Federal authorities acting under any
of the anti-trust legislation. Then,
too, California has some anti-trust law
of its own. Under this it has been
decided in that State that labor unions
have the right to boycott in labor dis-
putes. The corollary would appear
to be that employers have the same
right, in accordance with the fine old
legal and common sense axiom that
what is sauce for the goose should be
sauce for the gander. In fact, this
is now being adjudicated in the Cali-
fornia State courts. There have been
two decisions by lower courts, one
favoring employers and the other the
unions, and an appeal is now pending
in the latter before the Superior Court.
How the Federal authorities can in-
terfere is a puzzler.

 

TO WEED OUT INCOMPETENTS

Of the nearly 24,000 cases of busi-
ness failures in 1922, a pretty large
percentage was of those who should
never have gone into the occupations
in which they succumbed. Sometimes
this was because of a lack of capital,
but at other times it was due to inepti-
tude or want of energy. The condi-
tion is one that is everywhere recog-
nized, but the remedy is yet to be
found. So rare is even a suggestion
for betterment in this direction that
one which was put forth the other
day attracted much notice. This was
that some advisory authority should
be established with power to declare
a person or group of persons compe-
tent or otherwise to enter any par-
ticular business. There is some such
safeguard now as concerns corpora-
tions which sell stock to the general
public, and there are also laws which
have a deterrent influence because
they provide penalties for misrepre-
sentation intended to secure a com-
4mercial rating or to establish credits.

But who is competent to gauge the
capacity of a man? There is no end
of flourishing business houses which
were founded with little or no tangi-
ble capital, but with plenty of skill,
faith; zeal and courage on the part
of the founders. What many of them
set out to do would have been de-
clared impossible of achievement by
any committee that appraised the ven-
tures in advance on a cold blooded, if
logical, basis. But the seemingly im-
possible was done and the work
stands. A damper on ambition that
would stop achievements of this kind
is inconceivable.

A CORELESS APPLE.

Apples without cores or seeds are
promised by a discovery announced
at Abbotsford, Canada, the particulars
of which have just been received by
the Department of Commerce from
Consul-General Halstead. According
to the announcement a seedless and
coreless variety of Fameuse apple has
been developed, which differs slightly
in shape from an ordinary Fameuse
by being longer and flatter at the
ends, but with a typical coloring and
flavor. Except for a slight marking
on the flesh which outlines the situa-
tion of the core in an ordinary apple,
there are neither core nor seeds.

The apples were developd in an
orchard at Abbotsford and the dis-
covery that they were out of the ordi-
nary was an accident. They had come
from a new block of Fameuse, about
eight years old, bearing for the first
time in market quantities. The dis-
covery was made while grading for
market, but unfortunately no record
was kept of the tree or trees produc-
ing the new fruit, and it will not be
before another harvest that steps can
be taken for its commercial develop-
ment.

CHANGES IN CIRCULATION.

The effect of the holiday season
on monetary circulation is shown by
the recent report of the Treasury De-
partment giving the per capita cir-
culation as $41.80 on December 1 and
as $42.81 on January 1. This means
and increase of $1.01 per person, but at
first sight this may appear to the
usual Christmas shopper as_ hardly
adequate to meet the extra demand
for ready cash in the holiday period.
It is to be noted, however, that not
only is the volume of money greater
at this time, but that the rate of
turnover os money is greatly accelerat-
ed. Ifa dollar turns over twice as fast
during a season of brisk trading as it
does at other times the net result is
the same as if the quantity in circula-
tion had been doubled. The decrease
of $98,000,000 in Federal Reserve note
circulation last week, as indicated
above, shows that the December gain
in total money volume has already
been largely wiped out.

 

 

  

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 24, 1923

 

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

 

i; F. Hake, Coffee Salesman for Wor-
~. den Grocer Company.

Louis F. Hake was born in Grand
Rapids Aug. 2, 1880. ._The antecedents
of his parents were German on both
sides. His father, the late William
Hake, was at one time a traveling
salesman. Louis was one of a family
of-tweive children, eleven of whom
are still living. Of the nine boys in
the family, eight of them have been
commercial travelers at some period
of their careers. This is probably the
most remarkable record ever present-
ed by any family in the country.

Mr. Hake attended both public and
St. Andrews schools, graduating from
the English course at Notre Dame
university in 1898. While at this in-
stitution he took and completed
courses in business and advanced ac-
counting. His first employment after
finishing school was as book-keeper
for the Grand Rapids Board of Pub-
lic Works. He was subsequent'y pro-
moted to the position of clerk of the
Board. After three years faithful ser-
vice in the city hall, he resigned to
take the position of Secretary and
Treasurer of the Sheboygan Light,
Power and Railway Co., Sheboygan,
Wis. While with this corporation he
installed a system of accounting which
is still in use by that organization.
Three years later he returned to
Grand Rapids and formed a co-part-
nership. with his brother, Paul J., to
engage in the sale of flour under the
style of Hake Bros. The firm handied
the output of the Muskegon Mi'ling
Co. The failure of the latter at the
end of the year caused a dissolution
of the firm and Louis covered Michi-
gan the next three years for the Wash-
burn-Crosby Milling Co., of Minne-
apolis. For the next two years he
managed the branch office of the same
corporation at Lima, Ohio. He then
returned to Grand Rapids and made a
contract with W. F. McLaughlin &
Co., of Chicago, to handle the coffee
lines of the latter in Michigan. He
continued with this house for thirteen
years. Last month he transferred
himself to the Worden Grocer Com-
pany and will handle the coffee lines
of that house hereafter.

Mr. Hake was one of the organizers
of the Hake Timber Land Co., Inc.,
which held large tracts of timber land
in Morehouse Parish, La. He served
the organization as- Secretary and
Treasurer as long as it continued in
existence.

Mr. Hake was married May 22, 1907,
to Miss Mary Buerger, of Milwaukee.
Five brothers and their wives embark-
ed on the steamer Naomi at Grand
Haven the night before to attend the
wedding. The vessel caught fire
shortly after leaving port and all the
passengers were taken back to Grand
Haven without the loss or injury of a
single occupant of the vessel. Three
children have come to grace the fam-
ily circle—Anna, aged 14; John, aged
12;, Marion, aged 10. The family

have on!y recently taken possession of
a new home they erected at 547 Glen-
wood avenue, S. E.

Mr. Hake is a member of St. Mary’s
church and the U, C. T, He insists

that his only hobby is work. He at-
tributes the remarkable success he has
achieved as a coffee salesman to the
fact that he “keeps everlastingly at it”,

 

Louis F. Hake.

but in the opinion of the Tradesman
a pleasant personality and a thorough
knowledge cf the business have both
had much to do with his high stand-
ing as a salesman and business man.

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Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.

Marie, Jan. 23—Charles
Field’s Nationals, headed by Charles
Field, the well-known clothier and
sportsman, are to be congratulated on
the good work they have done so far
this season. Although pitted against
the old leaguers of the copper country,
the team is making a fine showing and

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their progress is being watched with
interest by the hockey fans here.

S. D. Newton, of the Booth- Newton

Co. ha's been appointed trustee in the
bankruptcy proceedings taken by the
creditors of Archie Campbell & Son,
formerly in the. grocery business here.
Referee in bankruptcy, R. T. Looney,
named Ed. Stevens, Mervin Roe and
Harvey Morris as appraisers.
contention of many of the creditors
that the Gannon Grocery Co. should
replace about $400 worth of goods
taken from the store on the strength
of a chattel mortgage. -Just what
action wiil be taken in the case is not
known, but a decision by Mr. Looney
is expected shortly.

Ed. S. Royce, our well-known auc-
tioneer, has returned from a several
weeks’ visit at Dallas, Texas. He was
glad to get back and says the Soo is
good enough for him.

hose who bear their troubles
bravely always seem to have more of
them to bear than anyone else.

If business was as good in all lines
as it is in the hockey line, we would
have the best times in history. Last
week hundreds of people were turned
away from the Canadian Soo rink, be-
ing unable to get admission. Many
from the American side had to return
to their homes across the ice and wait
for the next game for which they have
placed their orders long in advance.

Paul Hagen, proprietor of a small
cigar store on Portage avenue, decided
to close his place of business for an
indefinite period on the advice of our
Chief of Police, who is opposed to the
“get-rich-quick” game.

Percy Patterson, a former well-
known Sooite and prominent National
Guardsman, had the distinction re-
cently of introducing Colonel Alvin
Owsley, National commander of the
American Legion, to approximately
430 men at a dinner given in Fort
Worth post of the American Legion.

August A. Anderson, of Chatham,
has purchased a prize bred calf de-

It is the

scendant of an animal which sold for

$25,000 a short time ago,-from the
stock farm at Big Bay. It shows that
stock men are figuring on larger re-
turns and will in time discontinue the
use of scrub bulls.

“The dangerous thing about shovel-
ing snow is that you are liable to fall
down on the job.”

The Lower Peninsula is away in the
lead when it comes to smallpox, which
is rapidiy gaining ground there, while
Cloverland seems to be without a
case on record. Time to knock on
wood.

The~ Marquette Lion’s Club will
adopt resolutions urging the purchass-
ing of Isle Royale as a Michigan State
park.

The commercial colony at Gladstone
has been growing steadily since the
winter season began. The fishing in-
dustry now forms one of the most in-
teresting temporary occupations.

‘We never want another war and
we never want another peace like this
one.”

Fritz Lind, former manager of the
Standard Oil Co. at the Ishpeming and
Negaunee branch for the past several
years, has been transferred to a simi-
lar position at the Soo. His transfer
is a wel!-merited promotion, for Mr.
Lind has been in the employ of the
company for many years. We wel-
come Mr. Lind to our beautiful city,
where he will make his home in the
future.

Always something to be thankful
for. The U. S. is assured its supply
of gas.
y. J. LaPine, of Gladstone, the
popular Soo line salesman for the
Cornwell Co., is in the city this week
on business. William G. Tapert.

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Pro and Con the Invasion of Germany.

The following letter was recently
received by W. W. Welch, of Cor-
rigan, Hilliker & Corrigan, and sum-
marizes the consensus of New York
opinion regarding the present situa-
tion in Europe. Opinions seem to be
divided rather sharply into two schools
of thought.

One view is that while France’s
rough-shod methods may not be the
best way to the end in view, there’is
no question of the justice of that end
and that it may be the only way to
bring Germany face to face with the
facts that she was beaten in the war
and must now pay up the limit for the
damage she has done, or starve. The
view is further advanced that with a
nation like the Germans nothing will
be so salutary as bringing home to
them in a way that every individual in
Germany can understand the fact that
they were beaten in the war and must
now make terms with France that will
be satisfactory to her; that things have
been brought to a head and that Ger-
many will capitulate after she sees
there is no loop-hole and make a real
reparation settlement direct with the
French; that this will take place much
more swiftly than would have happen-
ed under a policy of delay and concilia-
tion; thaf once such a settlement is
made it will be a real settlement and
upon such basis recovery in Europe
will be much more rapid than hereto-
fore. This is obviously the optimistic
side.

The other view is in very sharp con-
trast. Those holding this view say
that France has dealt a body blow to
Germany by a policy that a‘most com-
pletely severs the Ruhr from Ger-
many; she is imperiling the stability
of all of Europe. It is granted, for the
purpose of argument, that France may
be able to conciliate labor in the Ruhr
by high wages payable in a sounder
currency than the marks, to which la-
bor has been accustomed; that France
will be able to run the industries of the
Ruhr on her own account and for her
own profit, instead of for the profit of
the big German industrialists who
have grown immensely wea'thy at the
expense of the country; and in short,
that France will be able io effect a
virtual annexation of the Ruhr and
incorporate it as part of their own
country and their own economic life
for a short or long time, dependent
wholly upon Germany’s future attitude.
Having granted as much as this, the
question is then asked, but what is to
happen to the remainder of Germany?
In round numbers 60,000,000 people
lived in Germany before the war, of
which not over 40,000,000 could be
supported by agriculture and the re-
maining 20,000,000 were supported by
the intensive industrial activities and
particularly by a lucrative foreign
trade. Take the Ruhr away and in-
dustrial Germany is dead. What will
happen to the 20,000,000 Germans who
cannot possibly live in an agricultural
Germany? Poverty and even starva-
tion stares them in the face. Under
such circumstances one of two things
is likely to happen. A man of iron
like old Bismarck or. like the new
Mussolini may arise, take advantage
of the desperation of the masses and
start some real trouble. No matter

whether such trouble ultimately results
in the triumph of Germany over
France and the repudiation of the
Versail‘es treaty, or whether it results
in France “wiping Germany off the
face of the map”—the result for the
world as a whole will be little differ-
ent. Europe cannot stand a further
fierce and costly struggle and the pre-
war civilization of Europe cannot sur-
vive with either France or Germany
“wiped off the face of the map.”

The other alternative is a Bolshevik
dictator co-operating with the Soviet
of Russia with the chaos and threat
that this involves to Europe as a
whole and France and Engiand in par-
ticular. No way out is seen other than
vigorous intervention by the United
States, which it is expected will not be
forthcoming and might even be too
late now.

One can take his choice between
these two or map out his own inter-
pretation of what is now going on.
Either way I am inclined to think he
will be wrong for I doubt whether
any man, or group of men, has the
wisdom or foresight to predict the fu-
ture under such unprecedented condi-
tions. I am inclined to think that the
outcome may be just as unusual as the
situation is unusual and as has so
often been the case in history, ultimate
results be wholly different from that
which contemporaries foresaw at the
time.

Personally Mr. Welch does not con-
sider that the talked of co-operation of
Soviet Russia will prove to be a seri-
ous factor, for, as he says, one must
not forget that it is now 20 to 30 de-
grees below zero and that even when
the world war was on, the Russians
dug themselves in from November to
April. With their present demoralized
transportation, they would be unable
to get any support to Germany until
next spring, and by that time the pres-
ent European condition will probably
be straightened out.

— 72>
My Auto ’Tis of Thee.

My auto ‘tis of thee,
Short road to poverty,
Of thee I chant.
I blew a pile of dough,
On you three years ago:
Now you refuse to go,
Or won’t or can’t.

Through town and countryside,
You were my joy and pride,
A happy. day.
T loved the gaudy hue,
The nice white tires, new,
But you’re down and out for true,
In every way.

To thee, old rattlebox,

Came many bumps and knocks,
For thee I grieve.

Badly the top is torn,
Frayed are the seats and worn;
The whooping cough affects thy horn,
I do believe.

Thy perfume swells the breeze,
While good folks choke and wheeze

AS we pass by.
I paid for thee a price,

‘Twould buy a mansion twice,
Now _evervbody’s yellnig ‘“‘ice’’—

I wonder why.

Thy motor has the grip,

The spark plug has the pip,
And who is thine.

I, too, have suffered chills,
Fatigue and kindred ills,

Endeavoring to pay my Dills,
Since thou wert mine.

Gone is my bank roll now,
No more ’twould choke the cow,
As once before.
Yet, if I had the mon,
So help me, John,—amen,
I’d buy a car again,
And speed some more.
2...
The less you listen the less you

Idarn. :

 

The Man Who Knows is

The Man Who Wins

1923 is destined to be a year of facts and figures. Whether
we like it or not, we will be forced to steer our business ship by
the compass of fact, since there is nothing in the way of prece-.
dent to guide us. From the standgoint of retail merchandising
we are still facing many new and untried conditions.

Naturally the first thing the merchant needs is facts about
his own business. He needs to know the condition of his busi-
ness, his stock, his accounts and his organization. His inven-
tory will give him a part of these facts, but he should dig still
deeper as he plans his future.

Next he needs facts on his community—his sales territory.
He needs to know how much building is contemplated, how
much state, county and municipal work is planned; how much
money from payrolls is to be expected; what the crop condi-
tions and crop acreages indicate. In short, he must know the
buying power of his community as it affects the goods he
carries.

With the buying power conservatively estimated, his next
step is to ascertain the wants and needs of his community.
If there is a tendency toward dairying, he should know the
extent of that tendency and the field of sales it entails. If
there are changes in crors, he should know the changes and
the effect on merchandise he now carries. It is only through
knowledge of this kind that he can intelligently buy with a
reasonable expectation of rapid turnover and net profit.

But facts on your business and your community are not in
themselves sufficient. The successful handling of a retail gro-
cery store is no longer a neighborhood problem. Business now
depends upon so many different factors that what affects it in
one locality eventually affects it in all the other localities.
Therefore the wise merchant will carefully study the facts in
regard to crops, manufacturing conditions, buying trend and
power from a nation-wide angle.

There are other facts also to be taken into consideration—
facts which have a direct bearing on business this year. These
facts deal with price tendencies and transportation of mer-
chandise from the factories to the jobbers, and from the job-
bers to the merchants. They deal further with raw materials,
fuel conditions and the labor situation. Fuel shortages and
labor troubles create shortages, hinder deliveries of merchan-
dise.and force merchants to buy“further ahead than they would
under ordinary conditions.

The business and industrial situation as a whole merits an
optimistic view at this time. The recovery of business in this
country since the depression in the latter part of 1920 and the
first half of 1921 has been comparatively ravid. It is far better
than we had reason to expect at the beginning of last year. -
The advance in prices of agricultural products, while not
enough to place them on an eaual basis with other commodi- -
ties, has aided materially. Building activities bid fair to con-
tinue throughout the coming building season. The most serious
impediments seem to be the car shortage, the fuel situation
and the labor problem.

It is not a case of worrying over the future, but one of sensi-
ble preparation that will ensure success. The man who knows
is the man who wins. Get the facts.

WORDEN (GROCER COMPANY

Grand Rapids
Kalamazoo—Lansing—Battle Creek

 

 

The Prompt Shippers.

 

 

 

 

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January 24, 1923

 

MOVEMENT OF MERCHANTS.

Lowell—M. P. Schneider & Son suc-
ceed Lalley & Schneider in the cloth-
ing business.

Jackson—The Liberty Auto & Sup-
ply Co. has changed its name to the
Gildersleeve-Solomon Co.

Ironwood—John P. Bekola has
closed out his stock of boots and
shoes-and retired from business.

Wyandotte—The First Commercial
and Savings Bank has increased its
capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000.

Saginaw—J. W. Symons, Sr., local
wholesaler, is recovering from a brok-
en arm suffered in an auto accident.

Sault - Ste. _Marie—The Broadwell
Branch Co. has removed its business
offices to 288. Winder street, Detroit.

Port Huron—The First National
Exchange Bank has changed its name
to the First National Bank of Port
Huron.

Nashville—W.-A. Quick has sold
his grocery stock and store fixtures
to Frank Caley, who has taken pos-
session.

Hudsonville—D. E. Alward has en-
gaged in the hardware business. The
stock was furnished by the Michigan
Hardware Co.

Detroit—The Filmolens Sales Co.,
1923 Ford building, auto light lenses,
has increased its capital stock from
$7,500 to $35,000.

Ishpeming—Walter Erickson, who
recently purchased the Talo biock,
will occupy one store in the building
with a stock of groceries about Feb. 1.

Ishpeming S. D. Cohen, proprietor
of the Style Shop, is remodeling and
enlarging his store which will enable
him to add to the stock, several new
lines.

Mt. Morris—Frank W. Sump, who
conducts a general store on R. R. 1,
has sold his store building and stock
to Leo Himelhoch, who has taken
possession.

Allegan—The Bucher jewelry store
has been moved from the Marty block
to the Mosier block, on Hubbard
street, a better building as well as bet-
ter location.

Clare—George Phelps, proprietor of
a restaurant, has purchased the Ham-
mond restaurant at Mt. Pleasant and
will conduct it in connection with his
business here.

Adrian— The Cuthbertson Motor
Sales Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $15,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Ludington—Leo Grundeman, grocer,

was the highest bidder for the City
Bakery, owned by. the estate of Anton

Hank. He will be given title and
possession March 21.
Detroit—The Crosstown Corpora-

tion, 5066 Woodward avenue, auto-
mobile accessories, supplies and ga-
rage, has- increased its capital stock
from $100,000 to $150,000.
Amble—The Amble Marketing As-
sociation has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $20,000,
of which amount $4,400 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash. ©
Olivet—George Bruce, of Byron,
‘has purchased the Ballard garage and
automobile supplies, accessories, etc.,
and will continue the business -under
the management of his son, Charle.
Bruce. .-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

' Bronson—Daniel Baldwin has pur-
chased the store building and stock of
general merchandise of John Stuart,
located between Burr Oak and Bron-
son, taking immediate possession.

Grand Rapids—The vacant store at
1369 Plainfield avenue has been leased
for ten years by the Martin Stores
Corporation, which will occupy it with
a stock of $10 suits or men March 1.

Detroit— Tihe Garton-Fisher-Wills
Co., 118 Michigan avenue, wholesale
millinery, has increased its capital
stock from $30,000 to $50,000 and
changed its name to the Kerr-Hode-
land Co.

Lansing—The Lansing Storage Co.,
410 North Washington street, has been
incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $25,000, of which amount
$10,500 has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Detroit—John F. Fisher, Inc., Ma-
jestic building, has been incorporated
to deal in general merchandise with
an authorized capital stock of $3,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Detroit— The Michigan-Oklahoma
Lumber Co., 832 Dime Bank building,
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $15,000, of which
amount $8,000 has been subscribed
and $6,000 paid in in cash.

Flint—Sax, Inc., 105 First street, has
been incorporated to deal in gowns,
wraps, lingerie, millinery, etc., with an
authorized capital stock of $25,000, of
which amount $7,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit— The Industrial Lumber
Co., 1302 Real Estate Exchange, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $25.000 common and
$25,000 preferred, $20,000 of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Gladwin—Charles Wolohan, Inc.,
has taken over the elevators of Flynn
& Wolohan and C. A. Francis and
will continue the former under the
management of Frank Flynn and the
latter under the management of Glenn
Wagar.

Grand Rapids—Greep & Timmer,
who have conducted two meat market,
for several years, have dissolved part-
nership. John J. Greep takes the
market at 15 West Leonard street and
Peter Timmer takes the market at
1301 Alpine avenue.

Kalamazoo—P. B. Rickenmore and
J. Stahl have formed a copartnership
under the style of the Rickenmore &
Stahl! Hardware Co. to engage in the
hardware business at 114 Portage
street. The Michigan Hardware Co.
has the order for the stock.

Detroit—Frank Streb, 9929-31 Gra-
tiot, has merged his hardware busi-
ness into a stock company under the
style of the Frank Streb Hardware,
Inc., with an authorized capital stock
of $50,000, $30,000 of which has been
subscribed and paid in in property.

Traverse City—The Mapel-Gipp Co.
has been incorporated to deal in dry
goods, ready-to-wear garments for
women, etc., at retail, with an author-
ized capital stock of $25,000 common
and $5,000 preferred, all of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Lansing—R. N. Burlingame, for
several years a members of the firm
of Houghton & Burlingame, druggists
at the corner of Cedar street and

Washington avenue, has opened a
drug store of his own at the corner
of ‘Ottawa street and Butler boule-
vard.

Detroit—Louis Rabaut, wholesale
dealer in toys, 1303-4 Majestic build-
ing, has merged his business into a
stock company under
Louis Rabaut, Inc., with an authorized
capital stock of $5,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
property.

Detroit—Roy F. Nathan, who con-
ducts a men’s furnishings store at
2970 Woodward avenue, has merged
his business into a stock company un-
der the style of the Roy F. Nathan
Co., with an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in, $1,000 in cash and
$9,000 in property.

Kalamazoo—Santinga & Tazaleer,
grocers at the corner of Ransom and
Park streets, have dissolved partner-
ship and the business will be con-
tinued by James Tazaleer, who has
taken over the interest of his partner.
Timothy Santinga will open a gro-
cery store under his own name at the
corner of North and Park streets,
Feb. 1.

Sturgis—R. L. Webb, who has been
secretary-treasurer and manager of
the Citizens Lumber Co. since its or-
ganization several years ago, has re-
signed to accept a responsible posi-
tion with the Carbon Coated Paper
Co. He is succeeded by Henry T.
Miller, office manager of the company
and an experienced lumberman, for-
merly of Chicago.

Muskegon—Aunt Molly’s Kitchen,
Ninth and West Clay streets, manu-
facturer and dealer at wholesale and
retail in confectionery, supplies, in-
gredients, by-products, etc., has merg-
ed its business into a stock company
under the style of Aunt Molly’s Kitch-
en, Inc., with an authorized capital
stock of $25,000 common and $20,000
preferred, of which amount $22,000 has
been subscribed and $18,000 paid in in
property.

Cadillac—Henry Aldrich since 1891
a business man here, has sold his
clothing store to Henry Klein, of De-
troit. Mr. Aldrich came here in 1881
and clerked in a grocery store. Ten
years later he entered the clothing
business. He owned one of the lots
on which the Elks’ temple is built and
since the erection of that structure has
occupied one-of the stores on the
ground floor. He holds membership
No. i in the Elks’ lodge and was the
second exalted ruler here.

Detroit—The wholesale merchants
bureau of the Board of Commerce, will
make a trade promotion trip to Lan-
sing Tuesday, Feb. 6. The party will
‘eave Detroit by the Pere Marquette
Railway at 8 o’clock in the morning.
The day will be devoted to calls on
business men of Lansing. The party
will be entertained at dinner in the
Kerns Hotel in the evening. Harold
H. Emmons, President of the board,
and Harvey J. Campbell, Secretary,
will go with the party, which will re-
turn Wednesday.

Ishpeming — Walter Erickson is
making preparations to open a cash
and carry grocery in the Talo building,
corner of Division and First streets,
in the space now occupied by Peter

the style of .

Sorminen. Mr. Erickson purchased
the Talo block three years ago.
He has had considerable experience in
the grocery ‘business, having been
manager of the co-operative store at
Park City, near Republic, for several
years, later representing a wholesale
grocery house in this territory. He
expects to be ready for business in
about a week.

Allegan—Frank H. Green, who has
conducted a grocery store in the Sher-
man House block in this city for
thirty-eight years, has decided to re-
tire from the business this spring. But
few changes have been made in the
interior of the store during all these
years. The store was kept clean and
tidy but the number of times it has
been painted could be counted on one
hand. Several years ago an addition
was added to the rear of the store
which was used for warehouse pur-
poses. Charles L. Green has been
with his brother all the time and the
brothers enjoyed the esteem and con-
fidence of a large number of people in
this section.

 

Manufacturing Matters.
Detroit—The Frazer Paint Co. has
increased its capital stock from $100,-
000 to $250,000.

Grand Rapids—The Gunn Furniture

Company has increased its capital
stock from $75,000. to $1,000,000.

Allegan—Baker & Co., furniture
manufacturer, has increased its cap-
ital stock from $65,000 to $250,000.

Bay City—The Henry C. Weber
Construction Co. thas increased its
capital stock from $20,000 to $100,000.

Detroit—The Keystone Stucco Co.,
5077 Grand River, has changed its
name to the Keystone Materials Co.

Vassar—The Detroit Creamery Co.
has purchased the buildings and
equipment of the Halpin Creamery
Co.

Detroit—The Western Gear Manu-
facturing G@o., 3428 Scotten avenue,
has changed its name to the Western
Gear Co.

Grand Rapids—The Tunis Johnson
Cigar Co., 236 Pearl street, has in-
creased its capital stock from $10,009
to $100,000.

Port Huron—The Mueller Metals
Co., has decreased its capital stock
from $3,000,000 to $70,000 and 23,000
shares no par value.

Highland Park — The Highland
Park Creamery Co., Inc., 13473 Wood-
ward avenue. has increased its capital
stock from $50,000 to $150,000.

Detroit—The Detroit Pure Food Co.,
8629 Woodward avenue, has been in-
corporated with an authorized capital
stock of $5.000, all of which has been
subscribed and $1,000 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Aaron-DeRoy Motor
Car Co., Woodward at Garfield, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $200,000, $50,300 of
which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Detroit—-The Maurice Fraser Co.,
manufacturer and dealer in ink prod-
ucts, office supplies, etc., 246 Bagley
avenue, has merged its business into a
stock company under the same sty!e,
with an authorized capital stock of
$12,000, of which amount $6,100 has
been subscribed and $2,750 paid in in
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January 24, 1923 §

Essential Features of the Grocery spot and this is also true of California Review of the Produce Market. BOe Soo ee ee 4.50

Staples. sardines. The remainder of the line -epies--Jonhathans, Spys.and Bald- 216. ..... 2 4.50

Sugar—The market is 10 points jis taken as it is needed to fillin. Con- wins fetch $1.75@2.25 per bu. West- Parsley—50c per doz. bunches. ~
lower than a week ago. New York sumption at this season is never very ern box apples are now sold as fol- Peppers—Florida, 75c for small -

refiners are now on a 6.70c basis,
f. o. b. New York. Local jobbers
hold cane granulated at 7.45c and beet
granulated at 7.35c.

Tea—The demand is increasing
steadily. Prices continue full and
buyers are apparently becoming con-
fident that tea at present prices is
good property: About the firmest
lines in tea are Ceylons, Indias and
Javas.

Coffee—The market, so far as green
Rio and Santos is concerned, sold
green and in a large way, showed a
sharp advance early in the week, but
‘he firmness did not last and as the
week closes the condition is a little
sluggish. All grades of Rio and San-
tons coffee show a slight fractional
advance as compared with last week.
The jobbing market for roasted coffee
is about unchanged. The advance
was due to an increased firmness in
Brazils and the reaction is apparently
due to increasing uncertainty in Eu-
ropean politics. As to milds the sit-
uation is about unchanged. The de-
mand is not very active and prices
are about unchanged.

Canned Vegetables— Nearing the
end of the month and with many
prominent factors to be absent from
the market this week, the prospects are
for another dull period of trading.
Among the vegetables tomatoes and
peas have been the leaders in the im-
portant packs with asparagus a fea-
ture in the less plentiful offerings. To-
matoes have ruled firm in the country
with moderate buying by the jobbing
trade. There have been a number of
quotations on new packs from the
South, but with little buying so far.
Peas are also becoming more prom-
inent as to 1923 packs, but next week
will bring that phase of the market
to the fore. Spot peas remain firm
and high in all grades. Corn has been
a slow seller in standards but fancy
has been firm in all varieties. Golden
Bantam is in light supply.

Canned Fruits—An unsettled. peach
outlook is in sight, with added weak-
ness since standards and seconds have
been reduced on the Coast by one of
the largest packers. With a larger sup-
ply of that class of fruit than antici-
pated canners evidently have come to
the conclusion that the salvation of
the market depends upon a reduced
retail price in order to affect a clear-
ance. Buying by jobbers has de-
creased and a liquidation is more de-
sired than an adding to present stocks.
Low grade apricots are also weaker.
The better grades are not active.
Hawaiian pineapple remained firm all
week and was well taken when it was
offered. It was perhaps the most
sought item in the entire list of can-
ned foods. Apples were dul.

Canned Fish—There is no material
change in any of the fish offerings.
Salmon continues to move through its
narrow channels as determined by
local consumption but there is only
light buying on the Coast. Despite
local support Western interests hold
the market firm. Sardines of all types
are in nominal demand. Maine packs
are stronger in the country than on the

heavy and is no more than normal.

Dried Fruits—The dried fruits situa-
tion is not very satisfactory to the
holder. Demand for everything is
rather quiet, with no pep to it, and
most of the lines are easy. Prunes are
easy and neglected. Retailers are sell-
ing prunes, but not very briskly.
Raisins are still weak and nobody ap-
pears to want them very actively. Apri-
cots are quite dull on account of the
high price and peaches are quiet as
the spring demand has not yet ap-
peared.

Rice—Domestic rice is firm in tone,
even though the volume of trading is
comparatively light. Jobbers are mod-
erate buyers, mainly for transient out-
lets, and retailers are doing hardly
more than their normal business.
Strength in the South is felt here and
to a considerable extent causes the
present firmness of the market. For-
eign rice is steady and in fair request
with stocks of moderate size.

Syrup and Molasses—Molasses is
selling about as usual during this
season of the year, prices being un-
changed for the week. Sugar syrup
steady to firm, with a good firm un-
dertone and a fair demand. Com-
pound syrup selling seasonably at
unchanged prices.

Cheese—The market is steady, with
a very light consumptive demand at
prices ranging about the same as a
week ago. Stocks of cheese in stor-
age are ample and the prices are much
higher than they were a year ago.
The future course of the market de-
pends entirely on the consumption.

Provisions — Everything in the
smoked meat line is steady at un-
changed prices, with a fair consump-
tive demand. Both pure lard and lard
substitutes are unchanged, with a
light demand. Barreled pork, canned
meats and dried beef are also in fair
demand at unchanged prices.

Salt Fish—The demand for mackerel
is not much heavier this week than
it has been, but there is some indica-
tion of increased demand due to the
coming Lenten season. Prices on all
grades of mackerel remain unchanged
from a week ago.

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Hides, Pelts and Furs.

 

 

 

 

 

Green, No.
Green, No.
Cured, No.
Cored, NG: 2 22 10
Calfskin, ereen, No. Fo 14
Calfskin, green, No. 2 ____.____ 12%
Calfskin, cured, No. 1 __._.... 15
Calfskin, cured, No. 2 ______... 13%
Eferse, INO. 2 oe 4 00
Horae, NOp 25 2 ee ek 3 00
Pelts
Old Wook! oo 75@1 50
Perabs 50@1 25
DMearings 00 50@1 00
Tallow.
Prime ‘ @7
No. 1 6
No. 2 5
Unwashed,
Unwashed,
Unwashed,
Furs
meu; Nort jp es 3 25
Nits INO 2 0 2 25
Situne Now s.r ee 1 25
Mkwpk, NO, 4S ee ep
WPI, Lae 7 00
Mink, ‘Medium. 20020 5
Mink, Small ______
Raccoon, Large __

Raccoon, Medium
Raccoon, Small ___

 

 

 

Muskrats, Winter

Muskrats, Fall . Presa ei cs Oe:
Muskrats, Small RG Se 50
Muskrats, Kitts -........ -_-- | 10

lows: Roman Beauties, Winesaps and
Black Twigs, $3; Delicious, $4.25.

Bananas—8c per Ib.

Butter—The market is steady at
prices ranging about the same as last
week, with only a moderate consump-
tive demand. The make of butter is
increasing to some extent and the re-

cent high prices have curtailed the’

consumption to a considerable extent.

Stocks of storage butter are consider-

ably under what they were a year ago.

The future course of the market de-

pends entirely on the consumptive de-

mand. While we are likely to have a

further decline, we do not look for

much lower prices. Local jobbers
hold extra at 48c in 63 Ib. tubs; fancy
in 30 Ib. tubs, 50c; prints, 50c. They
pay 23c for packing stock.

Cabbage—75c per bu.; red 90c per
bu.

. Carrots—$1 per bu.
Cauliflower—$3.50 per dozen heads.
Celery—50c per bunch; extra jum-

bo, 70c.

Cocoanuts—$6.50 per sack of 100.

Cranberries—Late Howes are $5.50
per % bbl. (50 Ibs.)

Cucumbers—Illinois hot house, $4.50
per doz.

Egg Plant—$3 per doz.

Eggs—The market on fresh eggs is
firm at prices ranging about the same
as last week. The production of fresh
eggs is increasing as the season ad-
vances and the price depends consider-
ably on weather conditions. The re-
ceipts of fresh eggs are being ab-
sorbed on arrival. Stocks of storage
eggs are considerably in excess of
what they were last year. We look
for lower prices on storage eggs in the

near future. Local jobbers pay 36@

37c for fresh. Cold storage operators

are offering their supplies as follows:

DStests | 2 32c
DBeconds, 20 ee 26c
Clfecks oo a 24c

Grapes—Calif. Emperors, $7 per 30

Ib. keg; Spanish Malagas, $9.50 for
40 Ib. keg.
Green Onions—Chalotts, 85¢ per
doz. bunches.
comb; 25c for

Honey—32c for
strained.

Lettuce—Hot house leaf, 24c per Ib.;
Iceberg from California, $5.50 per
case.

Onions—Home grown, $2.75 per 100
Ib. sack.

Lemons—The market is now as fol-
lows:

O00 size, per box 220 $8.00
WOO size, per bax 2... 8.00
Ae Side, yer How 20 8 8.00
240 size, per box __.__.....__ | 7.50

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist Navals are
now sold on the following basis:

 

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De 5.25
Moe, 126. and 200 5.50
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252 i 5.50
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324 5.50

 

 

 

Choice, 50c per box less.
Floridas are now sold as follows:

 

TM eg $5.50
150 - 5.50
Be ee ee 4.50

basket containing about 18.
Potatoes—Home grown, 50c per bu.
Poultry—Local buyers now pay as

follows for live:

bight: fowls oc 13c
Heavy fowls 2.200028 8 19¢c
Eleayy springs: 3 20 ee 18c
Cox ant Stage 10c

Radishes—90c per doz. bunches.

Squash—Hubbard commands $1.50
per 100 Ibs.

Strawberries—Floridas
65c per qt.

Sweet Potatoes—Delaware kiln dried
command $2.25 per hamper.

Tomatoes—6 Ib. basket of Califor-
nia, $1.75.

Turnips—$1 per bu. .

bring 60@

—_2+-_____
Day of Personal Journalism Has Not
Passed.

E. A. Stowe, editor and publisher
of Michigan Tradesman, Grand Rap-
ids, is a splendid refutation of the
popular theory that the day of per-
sonal journalism has passed.

No doubt the Danas and Wastes:
sons have gone forever from the
daily newspaper field, but among the
business publications one often finds
men who, like Mr. Stowe, are per-
sonally in intimate contact with their
readers.

When weather conditions permit, he
drives over the State, meeting the
retail merchants for whom the
Tradesman is edited, and getting their
ideas on merchandise and methods,
at the same time passing on to them
the product of his rich experience.

He recently took a trip to Chicago
for the special purpose of investigat-
ing what he believed to be a shady,
premium scheme which was being of-
fered in his territory, and the fearless
way in which he denounced it, after
investigation, indicated a reason why
the retailers like to read his paper.

Mr. Stowe has just started his for-
tieth year as editor and _ publisher,
having founded his publication in

- 1883. He says he will probably retire

after he has rounded out half a cen-
tury at the job; but those who knew
him best have a shrewd suspicion that
he will start right in on his second
half-century of service.—Class.

—_——-—_>- 2
Years, Not Days.

In referring last week to the for-
geries committed by officers of the
Salvation Army, the word “years”
should’ have been used, instead of
“days.”

—_———.-—-.———

Sir Harry Lauder said at one of his
numerous farewell banquets in New
York: “We Scotch are a much-
maligned people. A Londoner said to
me one night: ‘A conundrum for
you, Sir Harry, ‘“What’s the difference
between a Scotchman and a coconut?’
‘Give it up,’ I said, after a bit of hard
thinking. ‘You can get a drink out of
a coconut,’ said he.”

——_-+-___
Detroit—The Krihner Tripoli Co.
has been incorporated to manufacture
and deal in plasters, polishers supplies,
etc., with an authorized capital stock
of $60,000,-of which amount $25,000

. has been subscribed and $22,500 paid

in in cash.

 

 

6

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 24, 1923

 

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

 

Cheats and Swindles Merchants Should
Carefully Avoid.

Some methods of fake song pub-
lishers were described at the recent
convention here of the Music Teachers’
National Association by William Arms
Fisher, manager of Oliver Ditson and
Company, Boston music publishers, in
a talk on “Song Sharks and Their
Victims.”

“Having received hundreds of pitiful
letters from victims of these sharks,”
said Mr. Fisher, “I wrote some verses,
entitled ‘The Ache in My Heart For
You,’ and sent them to the advertisers
whose names I found in the pages of
over forty magazines. From the flood
of answers, the contracts for signature,
booklets of instructions and circulars
warning me of fraud by the other fe’-
lows, I let these people show me their
methods.

“These are for the most part to
charge a would-be song writer from
$5 to as high as $90 for supplying
music for his verses, promising to se-
cure publication of the result from a
reputable music publishing house. This
turns out to be a printing establish-
ment, generally the shark’s own shop,
which turns out a few copies of the
song, and that is all that happens.

“These swindlers are careful to keep
within the postal jaws, but the post
office authorities at Washington have
been advised of the extent of their
practices, and are taking hold of the
matter, recently closing up a Chicago
concern which is reported to have
cleaned up over $500,000 in the last
three years. So great is the evil that
the Music Publishers’ Association of
the United States, the Music Publish-
ers’ Protective Association and the
Music Industries Chamber of Com-
merce have issued a warning against
the sharks through the Better Busi-
ness Bureau of the Music Industries
Chamber of Commerce.”

Mr. Fisher said that the widely-pub-
lished fact that George M. Cohan re-
ceived $25,000 for “Over There” had,
through swindles, cost gullible versi-
fiers anxious for “easy money” more
than a milion dollars.

 

Hold Up Freight Shipments.

Scranton, Pa., Jan. 23—City detec-
tives have broken up a clever scheme
by which business men of Scranton,
Albany, and other cities have been
victimized, it is alleged, when they ar-
rested David Strachan, residence not
given.

Strachan is alleged to have repre-
sented thhimself as the agent of the
Railway union yardmen of America, a
benevolent, fraternal and insurance or-
der. He would outline to business
men that union yardmen are the real
workers in the railroad business and
that they handle the freight for the
wholesaler and from the latter to the
retailer. Hence they could speed up or
hinder shipments. The merchant was
asked to take space in the magazine
with the understanding‘that if he fail-
ed to contribute he might find his con-
signments of goods delayed.

 

Fake Stocks in 1922 Cost $600,000,000.

Atlantic City, N. J., Jan. 23—Pro-
moters of spurious stocks mulcted the
public for more than $600,000,000 dur-
ing the last year, according to a reso-
lution adopted to-day by the Execeu-
tive Board of the Associated Adver-
tising Clubs of the World. Oi pro-
motions proved to be the most profit-

able for the swindlers, it was declared,
one scheme alone, that of reorganiz-
ing defunct concerns, cost their vic-
tims over $30,000,000.

In the resolution the board urges
Congress to enact: special appropria-
tions for the curtailment of fake pro-
motions, and asks National, State and
city authorities to give greater atten-
tion to the swindles that for “daring
and big clean-ups, have been unsur-
passed in the history of the country.”

Swindlers in Texas are going to
extreme lengths in putting over their
oil schemes, according to William P.
Green of New York, Director of the
National Vigilance Committee. “De-
prived of the advertising columns of
most newspapers,” he said, “promoters
are resorting to the publication of their
own journals, through the columns of
which they feature the schemes in
which they are interested. Another
clever method is to merge defunct oil
companies, the stockhoiders of which
are then approached with the appeal
that an additional payment will save
their original investments.”

He said that the Federal Govern-
ment is making intensive efforts to
prevent promoters of the fraudulent
schemes from using the mails, and that
during the year it has made some nat-
able round-ups.

The resolution states that as a re-
sult of a recent investigation by the
association’s National Vigilance Com-
mittee, it has obtained facts about one
oil promotion scheme in Texas, which
making a specialty of consolidating
defunct companies, has taken in more
than seventy-five such companies, the
capitalization of which aggregates
more than $150,000,000, in which it is
conservative:y estimated the public has
lost in the neighborhood of $30,000,000;
that frauds of all classes during the
past year will be in excess of $60,000,-
000; and declares that the failure to
curb such operations is a serious con-
tributng cause to public unrest.

The resolution calls upon Congress
and all other legislative bodies, to make
appropriations adequate to meet “these
growing crimes against the people,”
and urges all newspapers and other

periodicals “to open their columns to.

a full discussion of this situation, par-
ticularly toward warning the public

and commending public officials who

do their full duty toward the suppres-
sion of such operations.

A decision was reached to organize
a bureau in Washington to estabiish
a contract with the Department of
Commerce. It was asserted that such
a branch would prove invaluable as a
fact-gathering agencv for advertising
knowledge.

George W. Hopkins of New York,
Chairman of the Speakers’ Bureau of
the Associated Advertising Clubs, said
that the committee had received re-
quests for 800 or 900 speakers. The
bureau was established last September.

The proposition of a great advertis-
ing exposition in New York City was
informally discussed. It was announc-
ed that the committee in charge, of
which John H. Logeman of Chicago
is chairman, will meet in Chicago Jan.
19 and determine upon definite action.
The object of the exposition is to il-
lustrate to the business man the sales-
creating power of advertising and to
show the public the service value of
advertising.

Atlantic City is making big plans
for the June convention, which will
meet here for the first time. John H.
Logeman, chairman of the Education-
al Exhibit, reported that the exhibits
at the coming convention will require
twice the amount of space of former
years. He said that all of the twenty-
three departments of National adver-
tisers in the organization would par-
ticipate, and that twenty-four foreign
countries would be represented.

 

Remarkable Record of Accomplish-
ments.

Detroit, Jan. 23—The annual report

of the Better Business Bureau makes

the following showing of accomplish-
ments:
Gerard-Summers Co.:About $400,-
000 had been taken from Detroit in-
vestors in this oil lease project. The
Bureau’s investigation indicated that
only 21 per cent. of the money had
gone into the oil project. Blue sky
warrants issued for the promoters.

Some of the original investors, organ-’

ized as the Richards Oil Co., bought
in the property at bankruptcy sale.

Point-of-Purchase Association: This
“Flashing Sign” advertising project
was sold to more than 600 retailers
in Detroit alone on representations
that rental contracts had been made
for the display space with National ad-
vertisers. The Bureau’s investigation
resuited in a Wayne county grand
jury probe, following by a Nation-
wide Federal investigation, as the re-
sult of which forty-two indictments
were returned charging fraud through
the mails.

a L. J. Sinkula & Co.: Though no
investor” reported a loss or entered
a complaint, late in 1921 this office
started an investigation of this alleged
“brokerage” firm working among the
foreign population. On the eve of an
intensive sales program, wherein 200
salesmen were to be sent out for a
grand clean-up, the offices were raided
and two of the promoters, who had
fled, were arrested later, brought back
to Detroit and convicted of larcency.

Other cases: Advised that certain
brokers were circu‘ating “scare ru-
mors” to depress the market for cer-
tain stock, this office investigated and
reported to the Michigan Securities
ig ania A license was suspend-
ed.

In several instances where stock
purchasers could not. secure deliveries
from brokers, after paying for the
stock, the Bureau, through efficient co-
operation by the Michigan Securities
Commission, secured speedy deliveries.
In one instance a firm suspended. In
another instance the broker’s license

was revoked following a complaint.

With the redemption by the Govern-
ment of a large amount of Victory
bonds and war saving stamps, the
Bureau, in a warning published in
daily and Sunday newspapers here,
cautioned the public not to be misled
by promises of-fabulous returns on in-
vestments.

Exposure of many schemes by the
Bureau shows that the cost of operat-
ing the investment division has
brought dividends countless times
over and has contributed to a large
extent to the campaign to educate the
peop‘e along sound lines with ‘the
view to retaining them as one of the
city’s greatest assets—a saving and
judiciously investing people.

Better Business Bureau.
—_——_o +6
The Metropolitan Way.

A dignified Philadelphian thad adver-
tised for a stenographer. Among the
numerous app‘icants for the position
was a beautiful, statuesque blonde who
had recently arrived from New York.
Her businesslike manner so pleasingly
impressed the merchant that he
straightway engaged her at a liberal
salary. On the morning of her first
appearance she went to her employer.

“I presume,” she remarked, “that
you begin the day over here much the
same as they do in New York?”

“Oh, yes,” rejoined the employer,
still perusing a letter he was reading.

“Well, hurry up and kiss me, then,
I want to get to work,’ came the
startling rep-y.

SO OOO ma

When selling goods, don’t drum
wih your fingers or use your hands in
any way to disract the buyer’s atten-
tion from the goods you have set be-
fore him.

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The market on Cotton, Wool and Silk Goods has
advanced from 10% to 25% due to advances in the raw
materials and higher labor costs.
expected due to shortage of raw materials and advancing

Further advances are

It is felt that Cotton will continue as high or higher until
the new crop and that as high or higher prices will continue
until the fall season. Prices have been made on Outing
Flannel for fall at an advance of approximately 20%.

Wool Goods are advanced from 10% to 25% for fall

including Underwear, Pants, Mackinaws, etc.

All Silks are up from 10% to 25% due to the advances
of raw silk as the Japanese have.control of the market.

We have covered on practically every item for Spring
and a great many for fall and will continue to sell as long
as assortments are available but if we have to again go in
the market, we may not only have to pay advances but may
not be able to get such good assortments as the volume of
business in the market has cleaned up the better assortments.

We suggest that you cover for a reasonable quantity of
merchandise both for your current and future needs for
Spring and Fall as we believe that such a program will be

Our salesmen are carrying samples and soliciting your

GRAND RAPIDS DRY GOODS CO.
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January 24, 1922 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN : i

 

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ALBERT MURRAY, PRESIDENT JOHN MUFFLEY, Vice PRESIDENT L. H. BAKER, SEc’y-TREAs,
CHARLOTTE, MICH. KALAMAZOO, MICH. LANSING, MICH.
& H. J. VREDEVELD, AssisTaNtT SECRETARY G. G. MADAN, ASSISTANT TREASURER

MICHIGAN SHOE DEALERS MUTUAL FIRE
INSURANCE COMPANY 2

LANSING, MICHIGAN

DIRECTORS
EDWARD STOCKER, DETROIT, MICH.
H. P. WOODWORTH, LANSING. MICH. January
A. V. FRIEDRICH. TRAVERSE CITy, MICH. 25th
A. J. SCHULTZ, MUSKEGON, MICH.

£9 293

To Our Policy Holders,
; All Over Michigan.

Gentlemen:

 

Our printed financial statement was mailed
you this week.

The figures speak for themselves, and their
message is a very cheerful one to the merchants who
are carrying their insurance with us. The following
gains, made by the Company during the past twelve
months, register the growing sentiment for mutuality
in Fire Insurance,- a direct result of the application
of the Golden Rule to this branch of business:-

Gain in Assets, 24%
Gain in Reserve for
unearned premiums, 55%
Gain in Insurance in
force, 26%

Sound finances, and prompt and fair loss
adjustment, coupled with the Mutual Principle, which
places the affairs of the Company in the hands of the
insured and gives him the benefit of the mutual saving,
($153,200.00 actually returned to Policy Holders
since organization), are responsible for our past
success and presage a splendid future for our Company.

 

| Yours Mutually,
MICHIGAN SHOE DEALERS MUTUAL FIRE INS. CO.

ay Oo fs.
secretary-Treasurer.

LHB HV

BETTER CARE FEWER FIRES LOWER COST

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 24, 1923

 

THE FARM BLOC PROGRAMME.

The programme of the farm bloc
during the remainder of this session
of Congress has been limited to se-
curing the enactment of three meas-
ures—namely, rural credits, “truth-in-
fabric,” and the anti-filled milk bills.
The Capper rural credits bill, as pass-
ed by the Senate last Friday, is now
in the hands of the House Commit-
tee on Banking and Currency, and
will be taken up in the near future.
The House Committee, however, is
not likely to report the bill until after
the Lenroot bill is passed by the
Senate. The Lenroot bill, creating a
new farm credits department in each
of the twelve Federal land banks, is
expected to require at least a week in
the Senate and possibly more. While
the bill is expected to be passed, at-
tempts will be made to amend it in
various ways. The more radical mem-
bers of the Senate do not think that
it goes far enough, while the more
conservative Eastern Republicans hold
that it goes too far. Some of the
more strenuous champions of the
downtrodden farmers allege that this
does not confer sufficient relief and
they will endeavor to obtain support
for other measures to supplement this
one. One feature of the Capper bill
that has attracted much attention in
financial circles is the provision em-
powering the Federal Reserve Board
to rediscount nine months’ unsecured
agricultural paper. A late amendment
also allows the Reserve banks under
certain conditions to increase their
dividends to 9 per cent. in lieu of the
present legal limit of 6 per cent. The
adoption of this amendment cuts the
ground away from those who have
been trying to interest Congress in a
proposition to limit profits of joint
stock loan banks to-6 per cent., on
the assumption that the latter should
be subjected to the same restrictions
as are imposed on Reserve banks. A
second measure on the farm bloc
programme, the anti-filled milk bill,
has already passed the House and will
probably have no opposition in the
Senate.

The third measure favored by the
farm bloc, the “truth-in-fabric” bill,
just renamed the “woven fabrics bill,”
will encounter strong opposition from
representatives from the manufactur-
ing states. Designed ostensibly to
protect the consumer of woollen
goods, it is aimed really to favor the
wool growers of the Western States
by creating a prejudice on the part
of the public against reworked wools.
It is-pointed out that certain very
low grade woollens of poor construc-
tion could truthfully carry a label
showing that they were composed of
100 per cent. virgin wool, while much
superior fabrics containing a small
proportion of reworked wool would
carry a label that would prejudice the
uninformed buyer against them. To
create an exclusive demand for virgin
wool goods would help the wool
grower alone. As an antidote to this
measure a bill, known as the Lodge-
Rogers bill, is now before Congress.
This is patterned after a law of Great
Britain which has proved effective in
preventing misrepresentation of mer-
chandise. It applies to all goods of-
fered for sale and not to woollens

alone, and imposes heavy penalties for
false branding, but does not make
labelling compulsory.

 

FEELING OF OPTIMISM.

Not in many months were there so
many meetings of producers in various
lines and of wholesalers as was the
case in New York City last ‘week.
Prominent among the manufacturers
were those of boots and shoes, ‘hard-
ware, straw hats, furs, paper and cor-
rugated and fiber boxes. The whole-
salers included the National associa-
tion of dry goods men and the allied
bodies ‘handling knit goods, dress
fabrics and notions. Representative
men were there from all over the coun-
try. Nor was all of their time given
over to discussions of conditions and
suggestions for improving them. Many
of the wholesalers came with the pur-
pose to buy after looking over the
field, and quite a number did so. Such
persons, with the numerous represen-
tatives of department and other retail
stores, made up the largest lists of
buyers recorded for a long period.
Both in the discussions that were had
at the conventions and in the buying
that was done was apparent the feel-
ing of optimism that has been gaining
since the year began. The urge to buy
has been stimulated by the general
conviction that prices now quoted will
be even higher later on. In merchan-

. dise, as in stocks, the tendency always

is to buy on a rising market. Whole-
salers, however, are still displaying
caution because, as they assert, re-
tailers are taking counsel of their fears
and are insisting that they will not be
able to pass on to the consuming pub-
lic the higher prices that must be ob-
tained.

That such higher prices will have to
be faced, however, seems certain in
view of the advanced cost of many raw
materials, rising wage scales and the
increases which the tariff has brought
about. They will be more perceptible

when the Fall retail buying by the pub-

lic begins. It seems to be considered
likely that there will not be as much
opposition to the higher prices by the
classes of wage workers whose pay
has been or will be raised as by those
whose incomes are more or less fixed.
The attitude of the agricultural portion
of the population will be determined
in great measure by the size of the
year’s crops and the market prices
obtained for them. The outlook, as
well as it can be guessed at so far
ahead, is regarded as promising. With
an average yield of the principal farm
crops, prices should be such as to fur-
nish a fair profit. This is particularly
the case since the indications all favor
a continued demand for foodstuffs
from European countries. But rising
costs of production, with the accom-
paniment of higher prices, do not in
general commend themselves to
thoughtful merchants because there
can be no promise of permanence in
such a condition. It is only a ques-
tion of time when a further readjust-
ment of relative values must be had.
This will necessarily imply a recasting
of the wage scales, with the very prob-
able result of resistance to reductions
and the usual strikes or lockouts. The
more inflated values become the hard-

_er it will be to lower the levels.

WOOL TENDING HIGHER.

Here and abroad, the tendency is
toward higher prices for wool of all
grades. This is shown in the public
auction sales in Australia and else-
where in foreign countries and in the
transactions on this side of the At-
lantic. Crossbreds have shared in the
advances even more markedly than
have the finer varieties: There is now
in this country a very large stock of
wool, and this has tended to halt con-
tracting for wool now on the backs
of sheep in the West. Between now
and Feb. 1 there will be a series of
conventions of wool growers’ associa-
tions in various Western States to de-
cide upon the course to be pursued
regarding the clip of the coming
spring. Conditions alf seem to favor
rather a strong and unyielding atti-
tude. In the goods market the prin-
cipal factor in corporation dress fab-
rics announced prices the other day
on a limited line of eleven serges and
one wool crepe for delivery up to
July. A quite marked advance was
made. Of much more interest was the
announcement, by the American
Woolen Company, fixing next Monday
and Tuesday for its openings of wool-
ens and worsteds, respectively. No
intimation was given as to prices, but
it is well understood that there will
be no uniform advance, some fabrics
being raised proportionately more
than others. No advance of more
than 20 per cent. is considered likely
in any of the fabrics. Cheapness will
be attained in manipulated cloths.
The openings will set the pace for the
next heavyweight season, and it is be-
lieved that advances will follow initial
sales. Other openings of fall wool-
ens will succeed the American’s dur-
ing the next five or six weeks. It is
said that a fair amount of orders “at
value” have already been put in by
the cutters.

 

COTTON’S MAIN COMPETITOR.

Quotations have continued to rule
high in the cotton market during the
past week. Optimists are even in-
clined to believe that they will go
still higher before this year’s crop be-
gins to move. It brings up the ques-
tion as to the point where cotton will
be too costly to use for many pur-
poses. When it reaches much beyond
30 cents per pound it will find a for-
midable competitor in flax, which can
be grown in many more places than
can cotton and which gives a greater
average yield per acre. This may yet
bring about a renaissance of linen
shirts and collars, now almost non-
existent. The next cotton crop con-
tinues to excite attention, both here
and abroad, as so much depends on
its size. It is stated officially that the
supply of calcium arsenate, the insec-
ticide used against the boll weevil,
will be inadequate and that economy
in the use of it will be imperative.
Consumption of cotton in domestic
mills in December was almost 50,000
bales less than in the month before
and exports were 150,000 bales less.
The rise in the raw material has been
reflected in the increased prices of
cotton goods of all kinds. Especial
strength and firmness has been shown
in fabrics, both unfinished and _ fin-
ished. Compared with a year ago, the

added cost of gray goods is almost
the same per pound as that of the raw
cotton. During the last week duck
lines were withdrawn preparatory to
higher prices, muslins were advanced
and so, ‘a line of hosiery. Colored
and primcd fabrics are sharing in the
rise. The knit underwear and sweater
lines are in continued demand.
pcr pace

FARMERS AND LABOR UNIONS.
The outbreak of mob violence in

. Arkansas last week, which resulted in

the death of a union railway laborer,
is indefensible and _ regrettable. It
serves, however, to illustrate the lack
of any real bond of sympathy be-
-ween farmers and organized labor.
The welfare of the farmers is closely
linked with well-ordered transporta-
tion service. Moreoevr, these men
who work from sun to sun and at
harvest time even longer have no
sympathy with restricted hours and
overtime. Consequently when the
union thugs end murderers proceeded
during a period of nearly two years
to interrupt railway service by burn-
ing bridges, blowing up tracks and
damaging rolling stock, so that the
people living along the line affected
were sometimes deprived of railway
services for days at a time, the rural
folks finally took the law into their
own hands and after lynching one
striker drove 200 others from the
town of Harrison. The exasperation
to which these people had been driven
does not excuse their lawless conduct,
but if there had been the feeling of
common interests between farmers
and labor that is sometimes alleged to
exist a conflict like that just described
could never have occurred. Any alli-
ance between the farmer and union
labor groups for political Purposes is
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European news had its effect on
business and financial developments
during the past week. This was shown
particularly in the case of foreign ex-
change and foreign bonds, but the in-
fluence was apparent also on prices
of domestic securities and in the cot-
ton market. During the preceding
week stocks had shown surprising re-
sistance to the alleged bearish sig-
nificance of news from Europe, but
there was some reaction early in the
Past week, which was followed, how-
ever, by substantial recovery. News
of domestic business continued gen-
erally favorable. The output of the
steel mills has gone slightly higher
since the turn of the year, and the
Prospects of a repetition of a coal
strike on April 1, which a few weeks
ago were a matter of serious consid-
eration, are now regarded as extreme-
ly remote. All price indices indicate
that the general upward trend of
wholesale prices has been checked, at
least temporarily, although wages and
living costs continue to advance. A
further decline in the circulation of
reserve notes of the Federal Reserve
Banks and a gain in the raitio of re-
serves to liabilities show the continua-
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Resolutions Adopted at National Shoe
Retailers’ Association Convention.

Whereas—Careful survey of the
leather and materials markets and di-
rect investigation with representative
manufacturers producing the various
grades of footwear consumed by the
American public, covering every im-
portant shoe manufacturing center,
seems to establish the fact that prices
for leather and materials have been
stabilized whereby fluctuations either
up or down will be of such smail ex-
tent as not to materially disturb the
present selling prices now established;
therefore, be it

Resoived—That it is imperative for
the welfare of all branches of the shoe
industry and the buying public that the
members of the National Shoe Retail-
ers’ Association, and all retail shoe
merchants, place their orders for
staple merchandise sufficiently in ad-
vance of each season to enable the
manufacturers to produce the neces-
sary shoes to supply the country’s
needs at the lowest economic cost,
through their ability to place their raw
material needs without interfering with

_ the law of supply and demand, through
the placing of tremendous orders at a
date too close to the expectant date of
delivery.

Compliance with this resolution on
the part of our membership and all
shoe merchants will enable them to
supply the average man or woman
with satisfactory footwear at from $5
to $10 per pair. Within this range of
prices the great majority of shoes may
be supplied to public, paramount in
the world for good looks, good fitting
and good service.

Shoes purchased above the maxi-
mum price quoted represent either lux-
ury or extreme style footwear, for
which the loss to the merchant hand-
ling must be compensated when they
cease to be in demand.

By any standard of value, shoes are
the least expensive article of dress,
and the most important.

Resolved—-That the N. S. R. A. is
unalterably opposed to all government-
al interference with business through
regulatory legislation based on the
fallacious theory that by government
and paternal regulation the law of sup-
ply and demand can be made to per-
form its functions in opposition to its
natural flow, as it has been conclusive-
ly proven by the experience of the
ages that wherever competition is
found without the restraining influ-
ence of collusion and monopoly, profit-
eering not only did not but could not
exist.

We recall Abraham Lincoln’s simple
recipe, “Government is instituted to do
those things for us as we, in our in-

dividual capacity, cannot do for our-
selves or as well.”

The Government should see that
there is no such thing as collusion and
monopoly, since there is no restraint
of trade, and the road. of commerce is
left wide open for competition. When
a government accomplishes this, the
race for the public favor becomes so
intense that only the fittest survive,
and thus people are served by the very
essence of ability that it brings forth.

We advocate more efficiency in gov-
ernment, National, state and city, and
call for the speedy liquidation of un-
necessary bureaus built up through the
exigencies of war which tend to main-
tain and extend a war-time rate of tax-
ation. :

We commend President Harding’s
policy of “more business in govern-
ment and less government in busi-
ness,” which is being so ably carried
out by that great step forward in gov-
ernmental economy through the in-
stallation of the National Budget Sys-
tem, and. we strongly recommend to
our respective state legislatures and
municipal governments similar adop-
tion of this example of economy and
efficiency set by our National Govern-
ment.

Reso'ved—That the N. S. R. A. take
a decided stand against the practice of
manufacturers taking orders for deliv-
ery for specific dates when they know
at the time the order is placed that the
delivery will be delayed, to the loss
and annoyance of the retail merchant
who placed this order in good faith.

Resolved—The N. S. R. A. will con-
demn on the part of its members the
promiscuous cancellation of orders,
placed and accepted in good faith, re-
turning merchandise without justifi-
able cause, or the making of unjust
claims. :

A‘l disagreements between members
of the N. S. R. A. and members of the
N. B. and S. Manufacturers’ Associa-
tion which cannot be settled by ami-
cable agreement between the interested
parties should be referred to the joint
arbitration committes of the two as-
sociations.

Resolved—That we believe good re-
sults will be obtained from the appoint-
ment of a field secretary whose duties
it shall be to visit all state and local
conventions and likewise to keep in
close touch with al local organizations
and as far as possible with individual
merchants, thus having a more direct
point of contact between the National
and all affiliated organizations and in-
dividuals, thereby promoting the
growth and prosperity of the N. S. R.
A. by increasing its membership, and
likewise be of greater service to the
individual retail dealer and the entire
retail shoe industry.

Resolved—That a detailed and com-
plete financial report for the present
fiscal year and each year to follow
shall be prepared by the National
treasurer and presented in typed and
printed form for the consideration of
directors at their annual meeting, and
later be published in the monthly bulle-
tin, so that all members will know
from what source our revenue is ob-
tained and for what purposes disburse-
ments were made.

Resolved—That the N. S. R. A. take
a decided and positive stand against
the evil of shoe manufacturers and
shoe wholesalers selling direct to
the consumer. This practice in
shoe manufacturing centers and by
jobbers in the larger cities is working
a great deal of harm to the retail shoe

January 24, 1923

merchants. We recommend that the
National secretary call this to the at-
tention of such manufacturers and
wholesalers who may resort to this un-
ethical practice, with the request that
they discontinue it.

Resoived—That the joint styles
committees of the allied industries of
shoes and leather be requested to ad-
vise all members of the industry
against the habit of unfavorable com-
ments applicable to prevailing styles
for footwear, as frequently with a mis-
taken idea of progressiveness such
comments are taken too seriously and
active styles are prematurely and un-
necessarily disturbed as to their re-
tail value. General retailing and gen-
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things, but propaganda tending in any
way to weaken the value from a style
viewpoint of shoes on the retailers’
shelves or in the course of manufac-
ture is a detriment to the industry as
a whole.

Resolved—That we appreciate the
splendid co-operation given to this, the
twelfth annual exposition, by the shoe
manufacturers and wholesalers.

We believe that by this co-operation
the entire industry, through its vari-
ous branches of manufacturing, whole-
saling, retailing and service to the pub-
lic, has ‘been elevated to its present
pinnacle of success.

Resolved—That the National Shoe
Retailers’ Association, in convention
assembled, spread upon its records and
express to the Honorable Sydney An-
derson of Minnesota, member of Con-
gress, its commendation and thanks
for the fair, impartial and searching
survey of retail prices and profits con-
ducted by him as chairman of the Con-
gressional Joint Commission of Ag-
ricultural Inquiry, which showed con-
clusively and officially that retailers’
profits are only a minute fraction of
the difference between the cost of pro-
duction and the retail price, and this
Association urges its members and all!
retailers of shoes to acquaint them-
selves fufly with the details of this in-
vestigation.

Resolved—That the N. S. R. A., in
convention assembled, expresses con-
fidence and reposes hope for the suc-
cess of the efforts now being made by
our President, Warren G. Harding, to
assist in the settlement of the serious
economic conditions of the nations of
Europe, to the end that those nations
and the United States of America may
adjust their financial and economic
situation in any way that will insure
Peace and prosperity to the world.

Resolved—That we recognize if we
of America are to share in fullest
measure in the restoration of pros-
perity, we must give cognizance of the
importance of developing markets
abroad for our agricu‘tural and manu-
facturing industries, upon which the
general welfare of our people is large-
ly dependent.

Resolved—That we assure the Presi-
dent of the good-will and support of
this Association in his efforts to assist
in the settlement of these and other
great questions which affect the wel-
fare of our people, and pledge him our
support in any way possible to attain
this purpose.

Resolved—That due to the growth
of the N. S. R. A. from a small and
comparatively unknown organization
outside the trade to what is conceded
to be the largest in point of numbers,
and the most influential Nationally of
any of the craft associations, number-
ing among its membership shoe mer-
chants from every state in the Union,
it has arrived at that point in its ca-
reer where a code of business ethics
exemplifying its high purpose and for
the guidance of its members should
be adopted.

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Incident of White Pine Days Near
Cadillac.

Grandville, Jan. 23—The days of the
white pine industry have long ago
gone from good old Michigan, but the
humors and adventures of those old
days still linger in the “memory of
many who formed a part of that great

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army of skidders, choppers, sawyers
and teamsters as well as millmen of
the period.

I call to mind some incidents of a
nature calculated to fetch to those
old time lumberjacks a grin of ap-
proval or a chuckle of delight.

Up in the North woods, not a hun-
dred miles from Cadillac, was a small
mill town which shall be nameless.

At the time, something over forty
years ago, a large crew of men was
employed in the mill and another ih
the woods. The village consisted of
a few shacks, the company’s store,
blacksmith shop and the mill.

All the diversion the men had must
needs be provided by themselves.

One source of amusement was to
trump up some charge against an in-
nocent member of the crew, have a
fake sheriff arrest him and bring him
before the court for trial.

Usually the poor victim was sen-
tenced to the penitentiary for a term
of years. Some pretended friend,
however, usually managed to get the
frightened prisoner to one side, ad-
vising him to flee for his life. I re-
member one such poor fellow fled in
the dark to a thicket down near the
river where he nearly froze. and
starved before he was rescued, with a
promise of pardon for his wrong
doing.

At the lumber camp in question
came a young West Virginian, enroll-
ing himself among the crew. His odd
ways and Southern drawl at once at-
tracted the notice of the lumberjacks,
who, of course, resolved to make the
Southerner the subject of a. joke.

A self-constituted committee took it
upon themselves to see that the ten-
derfoot was duly drawn over the coals.

At the boarding house was a young
grass widow who waited on table and
she and the young Virginian were
soon good friends. This gave the
plotters their cue and they planned
to arrest him and have a big Saturday
night trial.

The book-keeper, a young married
man by the name of Hank Lawrence,
heard their plans. As he was some-
thing of a joker himself, and as all
of the trials had gone one way, he
conceived the idea of changing the
program somewhat and give added
sport to the august occasion.

For sheriff the lumberjacks usually
selected a burly blacksmith named
Wellington Sharkey, who, although
he usually carried a jolly countenance,
could when occasion required look
very fierce and act the officer of the
law with becoming sternness.

Sharkey had the muscle of a Hee-
nan, so was able to carry out ob-
jectors should it become necessary.

The stage was all set for the per-
formance to be pulled off Saturday
evening. The trial judge was arrang-
ed for and two young Irish teamsters
were selected to act as attorneys, and
everything looked as though a record
breaking trial would be pulled off.

Saturday noon Hank called the
blacksmith aside and asked him if he
was to act’the part of sheriff at the
coming diversion.

“Why, certainly,” chuckled the big
fellow. “Didn’t think I’d go back on
the boys did you, Hank?”

“No I didn’t; but see here, Wellie,
this is different, this thing the boys
are putting over on that Southern fel-
low. He’s from West Virginia you
know—”

“Sure I know, a Southerner. We'll
make him think Hades has broke out
for noon before we get through.”

~ “Say,” and Hank tapped the other
confidingly on the arm. “That fellow
carries a gun. Down in the country
where he comes from they shoot at
the drop of the hat. I thought I’d
tell you so you wouldn’t go into this
rashly. You and a lot of the boys
are likely to get shot full of holes to:
night, mind what I tell you. You
have a family, Wellie, and it’s going
to invite them to be widow and or-
phans, that’s what.”

e

After finding that Sharkey would
not listen, Hank said: “No doubt that
man you propose to arrest is a des-
parado from down South up here to
get away from the beaks of the law.”

Going to the Virginian Hank posted
him as to what was up and asked him
to aid in turning the tables on the
boys. The former consented, and
hunting up a Colt’s navy of the vin-
tage of ’64, Hank loaded it with
blanks, and fixed up a sling so the
intended victim could draw quickly
since he was no novice with that kind
of artillery.

After supper a crowd of lumberjacks |

gathered before the store to witness
the arrest as the Virginian came after
his mail. As he came out the sheriff
put out his hand telling him he was
a prisoner.

And then the fireworks started.
Quick as a flash the Virginian’s gun
came out and began to bark. The
muzzle of the shooter was pointed at
the boys, who, at the second shot,

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started and ran toward the mill.
Three more shots finished the rout
of the jokers, who reached the mill
but a little ahead of Hank Lawrence,
who asked breathlessly if anyone was
killed.

“No, thank God for that!” yelled
one of the boys, after which they all
related how near they had been to
death and escaped. They decided
the Southerner was game and after
that. left him severely alone,

However, the joke was too good to
keep and gradually leaked out. Some
of the actors in that pinewoods drama
are still living and, no doubt, if they
read this will recall the incident with
a smile. Old Timer.

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Peacocks.

From the many articles written of
late, one might be led to believe that
‘the only place to become a million-
aire over night or perhaps get a fair
run for your money was in Texas, but
for once you are wrong, all wrong, as
Kentucky also can do it according to
the literature published by one “oil
outfit” which we have on file. Per-
haps many of our readers, who have
invested in Texas “wall paper” stock
might like to know more about this
Kentucky proposition. So here it is:

Old Kentucky the Home of Shallow
Wells and Bourbon.

Not forgettin’ the fast horses and the
blue grass, as well as the Colonels—
God bless ’em.”’ But they’ve got oil
wells. I know they ain’t got no gush-
ers. But what the heck’s the good of
a gusher if she don’t keep on gushing?
I prefer a well that costs less to drill,
and a big sight less to operate and will
pump from ten to one hundred bar-
rels from now until the “baby has
whiskers.” About a buck a day it
costs down there to operate a well.
Not much when you compare it to
fifteen hundred a month that I know
one man spent on each of seven wells
in a certain field in this country (name
on request.) I don’t want to publicly
say who or where. I ain’t no knocker,
what else Iam. And ole Allen county
has some of the best oil wells pumpin’
away twenty-four hours a day three-
sixty-five days a year; no holidays or
Xmases or Sundays; they don’t take
time to vote down there, but grind out
the dough for the folks that own them.

Folks, I’ve just about told you my
story and sung my song. One hun-
dred acres of real oil land, two wells
guaranteed to you to produce the
black liquid gold by the two: bits of
the months. Six-eights of the oil to
you. Dividends’ every thirty days.
Capital $100,000. Units $1. If that isn’t
a real proposition, then I’m a bigger
fool than the old man thought I was
when a boy. If you don’t figure this
a real money making joint where you
won't get wealthy over night, but
where you not only get a run for your
kale seed but you will have a steady
income month in and month out, then
you haven’t the brains that God gave
a duck. Folks let’s go. Let’s get
down to brass tacks. Make tracks for
the Western Union and shoot me a
wire, then take thé old fountain pen,
drag out the check book and let’s have
‘ it. The only worry you will have is to
_ cover the check by the time I send it

back. Not hard to do.
Boy, Lets go.

If there are any of our readers still
unconvinced that a fortune awaits
them in Kentucky, we will have to
Say, as most of our prospectuses do,
“further information upon request.”

Let’s go, Big

Many may be of the impression that
it takes an artist to “do you in oil,”
but if you cou‘d spend the time with
us to go through the many pieces of
oil literature that we receive daily, you
would be firmly convinced that you
are wrong. We will, ‘however, admit
that there is many an artist in the oil
game, and many can also do you with
“water.” Some may feel after this or
that unfortunate investment that there
is no money in the oil business, but
that’s where they are wrong, because
the money they sent to some gusher
shooting outfit without investigating
“still” in it?

Some of the newest “jollies” of the
year are the so-called “Certificates of
Subscription Rights” about which we
have previously written. However,
the biggest “bunk” of those sheets are
the “expiration dates.” As our organ-
ization acts as a clearing house for in-
formation on stock-selling schemes in
every part of the United States and
Canada, we receive from our co-oper-
ating organizations many specimens
of literature. Of the certificates men-
tioned, we have received in one case,
ten specimens issued by the same con-
cern, but each dated a week ahead. Of
course, the party receiving one of
these, does not get the extension grant-
ed by the later certificates, because,
as his particular one reads, “The Right
to Subscribe will be forfeited and this
certificate made void and of no value
and the subscription money returned
unless letter containing subscription
and remittance is postmarked not later
than 3 p. m. August 25, 1922.” The
issue (as far as the party receiving it
is concerned) ends at the date men-
tioned. But the promoters of the
Bunkum Radio Corporation and the
Nipping Us Mines Extension Com-
pany go merrily on their way. We
have found that the Postal Service
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tioned so no money has had to be re-
turned.

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fortunate pieces of promotion that are
“jollying” the unsuspecting public to-
day is the type of the “so-called” un-
incorporated Banks and Trust Com-
panies of Texas, which are being used
as a cloak for the promotion of cer-
tain oil outfits. In some of the litera-
ture now being circulated the word
“unincorporated” is printed under the
bank’s name so small as to require a
magnifying glass to discover it. These
concerns in many cases issue as a
part of their literature a telegraph
blank printed in full except for the
number of shares you desire to pur-
chase or reserve for you in the oil
company they happen to be promot-
ing. The investor not being sufficient-
ly informed is led to believe that he is
sending his money to a bank or trust
company, a sound financial institution,
protected by the National or State
Government. That such a concern
with a name like the “American Bank”
or the “National Trust’? would not be
simply a promoting agency, that the
oil-company office and the office of the
financial organization was one and the
same place.

In one case we found a Texas oil
company bold'y circulating literature
with the statement printed on the front
“Guaranteed by the ____National Bank
of -...Texas” while inside they set
forth in glowing type “To our know-
ledge we are the only oil organization
in the world giving a National Bank
guarantee.” Our organization made
short work of this proposition by call-
ing the attention of the U. S. Treasury
Department to this literature with the
result that we were advised it was be-
ing done without the knowledge of
the bank in question and that the
literature had been withdrawn. Some
of it, however, had already been cir-
culated and a few investors induced to
invest on the strength of the state-
ment made.

We could go on and give you in-
stance after instance that thas come to
our attention, cases we have turned
over to the Post Office Department or
the Treasury Department or local
prosecuting officials. We could give
you additional lines of “jolly” handed
out by the salesmen of this or that
bunkum outfit, and numerous cases of
the “follies” that have resulted by well
meaning and hard-working people in-
vesting without first enquiring into the
merits of the proposition.

The literature that has come to us
has covered every field of investment
or promotion endeavor. Promoters that
we have interviewed in many cases
have handed us the biggest lines of
“jolly” in talking about the wonderful
merits of their particular scheme—
but—when we always get to that part
of our interview where we ask them
for their cash statement, we realize the
“folly,” ‘because it isn’t forthcoming
in most cases—Ralph W. Budd in
Magazine of Wall Street.

—_ +--+
Pattern Companies Merge.

Royal Pattern Co., Inc., has merged
with the Vogue company. The Vogue
Pattern Co., Inc., has merged with the
Vogue Co.

The World’s Gold Output.
The world’s gold production last
year is estimated at $315,000,000, which

_is a little ‘better than the output for

1902 and a little worse than that for
1903 and all subsequent years. In
every year from 1906 to 1917 inc‘usive
the output was in excess of $400,000,-
000, and the peak of $468,000,000 was
attained in 1915. Since that year
world production has been steadily de-
clining. At first glance this does not
look very promising for the speedy re-
turn of the countries of Europe to
the gold standard, but the hopeful
aspect of the situation appears in the
revival of interest in gold mining in
various parts of the world. Gold mines
in this country that had remained
closed for years resumed operations
late in 1922, and the output of Canada
increased from $19,000,000 in 1921 to
nearly $30,000,000 in 1922. The labor
situation in South Africa, which has
been partly responsib!e for the dimin-
ished output in that region, is reported
to be improving. In this connection
it is to be noted also that prior to 1913
it was generally believed by econo-
mists that too much gold was being
produced for the welfare of the world.
The main difficulty now is not that
gold is too scarce, but that it is too
unevenly distributed. In the three
years 1920-1922 inclusive net imports
of gold into the United States,
amounted to $993,000,000, and this was
almost identical with the total world
production in the same period.

——~+2 >___
Joint Stock Land Banks.

The Association of Joint Stock Land
Banks is taking steps to correct the
impression which has been created by
some circulars sent out from Washing-
ton to the effect that Senator Borah
was sponsoring a bill to limit the earn-
ings of the joint stock land banks to
6 per cent. It develops that Senator
Borah is not the author of the bill,
but introduced it only by request, and
has no intention to pressing its pas-
sage. The origin of the bill is un-
known, but its passage is being ad-
vocated by an association styling it-
self the Taxpayers’ News Service Bu-
reau, whose circulars do not reveal
the names of those identified with the
organization. The Association of Joint
Stock Land Banks expresses the opin-
ion that the limitation of the earnings
of joint stock banks to 6 per cent.
would hamper the further expansion
of these useful institutions and would
thus work injury to borrowing farm-
ers. Numerous joint stock land banks
have reached the limit for loans and
bond issues permitted by law until

they further increase their capital .

stock. The association announces that
the measure aimed at limiting the
profits of these institutions has no
serious backing before Congress, and
that prospective purchasers’ of such
stock néed not be deterred on this ac-
count from investing.

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Henry Idema -_--___ Vice Pres. fan tia
F. A. Gorham —...._ Vice Pres. Thomas H. Hume.

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Willlam Judson.
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John H. Schouten -_Vice Pres.
Noyes L. Avery -..-_Vice Pres.
Emerson W. Bilss -_.Secretary

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January 24, 1923

 

Three Big Points in the Adjustment
of Claims.

The three elements essential to a
successful adjustment of a customer’s
complaint are self control, a smile and
the information that the store stands
ready to make an adjustment satisfac-
tory to the customer, regardless of
where the fault lies, according to E. R.
Messick, of the Strawbridge & Clothier
store, at Washington, D. C.

“There should be no quibbling or
argument with a customer concerning
a claim,” he says in a recent issue of
the store’s house organ. “It has been
said the customer is always right and,
while we all may not subscribe to that
statement, there is no disputing the
fact that, right or wrong, an adjust-
ment should be made, even at a loss to
the business. It should be made to
retain the confidence of the customer
and assure her leaving with a feeling
of perfect satisfaction and good will
toward the business.

“There is a psychology about ad-
justments which is not generaliy ap-
preciated. A customer may make a
claim which, without proper thought,
seems unreasonable—but is it? Some
circumstance, some incident, a word
from a friend or relative, has created
an impression or idea in the mind of
that customer. She is earnest and
sincere, and whatever the adjuster’s
thought might be concerning the just-
ness of the claim, he should put him-
self in the customer’s place, for the
time being, and look at the situation
from the customer’s point of view. His
duty is to satisfy and convince the
customer. This may be accomplished
by sympathy, smiles—real smiles, not
grins nor smirks—and a sincere inter-
est in her problem.

Executives delegated to make ad-
justments are often at a great disad-
vantage by reason of the customer’s
frame of mind when he or she reaches
the court of last appeal. Women
sometimes are in tears or in a highly
nervous state, some aggravatingly ag-
gressive. The wise adjuster calls psy-
chology to his aid. Obviously, no ad-
justment can be made until the cus-
tomer is pacified; therefore, it is often
necessary to spend more time in an
effort to bring about a different state
of mind than to the adjustment itself.
How easy to continue the disagree-
able discussion of a dispute—how dif-
ficult to send the customer away
happy—not with the thought that she
-has won her point by reason of her
superior pugnacity or aggressiveness,
but that this business house treats cus-
tomers fairly.

“Successful houses insist that no
customer be allowed to leave dis-

pleased.
—>---.————
Shall I Forget? _
I do not think I shall forget—
Although I said I would—
For I have. tried so long and hard
And yet it does no good.

Just when I think I have forgot
I find myself once more
Reviewing all the memories
I have reviewed before.

I do not think I would forget— —
Although I thought I must

When I had seen my dearest dreams
Lie shattered in the dust—

For I have learned remembering,
Although it brings my tears,
Is sweet to hold against my ‘heart.
As I go down art years.
Abigail Cresson.

“by statute well and good;

Right of Tenant To Remove Fixtures.

The question of the right to fixtures,
as between landlord and tenant, upon
the expiration of lease, is one of great
importance to every retail merchant
who: rents or leases a location. The
point has been the subject of a great
many lawsuits, and it may be noted at
the outset that the court decisions up-
on it are not in accord; it follows then,
that this point of law cannot be cover-
ed by the statement of a hard and fast
rule. However, owing to the im-
portance of th esubject a brief review
of the high spots, and in particular the
danger spots, may prove of interest
and profit.

In the first place, generally speaking,
a merchant has the right to remove
his trade fixtures at the expiration of
his lease, providing they may be re-
moved without causing damage to the
building to which they are attached.
However, where such fixtures are of
a permanent nature, and cannot be
readily removed we have a more diffi-
cult situation. And in many cases it
has been held in the absence of a con-
tract to the contrary, such fixtures be-
come the property of the landlord up-
on the expiration of the tenancy.

Of course, each case of this kind
must necessarily be decided in the light
of the particular facts involved; the
nature of the tenancy, the kind, qual-
ity, and character of the fixtures as

- well as the method used in attaching

them to the building or walls must
also be considered. And even then,
as noted above, owing to the different
holdings in the various states no gen-
eral rule can be stated that will cover
the point in all jurisdiction and cir-
cumstances. Facts which in some
states would permit the tenant to re-
move his fixtures might be held in-
sufficient to justify such removal in
others.

It would then seem but prudent for
the merchant to provide in his lease
for the removal, or for his property
right in fixtures placed by him upon
the premises.” If this is done in a clear
manner it may be the means of pre-
venting an after dispute and possible
loss upon the expiration of his lease.
And if not in all cases, such a pro-
vision should certainly be placed in
every lease.

So far, so good, and now we come
to another phase of this question that
has to go with protecting the mer-
chant’s interests in his fixtures upon
the expiration of his lease, when there
is arenewal. If his lease has provided
that he may remove his fixtures at this
time, or if he is given this right
through the nature of the fixtures or
if he re-
moves them in accordance with his
rights there may be no cause for dis-
pute. But!

Suppose for example he desires to
renew his lease for perhaps another
terms of years. Now, we will say, that
the first lease provided for his, the
merchant’s, right to remove his fix-
tures but in the second lease this point
is not mentioned. In such a case, un-
der some of the court decisions, the
tenant loses his right to his fixtures
Providing they have been permanently
attached to the building.

“This: rule, it is true, is not followed
i all states, and in some states it has

been expressly changed by statutes,
but nevertheless it is followed in other
states, and should not be overlooked
by the merchant when he is renewing
his lease.
the law of his State before his renewal
lease is signed, and see to it that all
his rights are preserved. So, to sum
up:
Where a merchant rents or leases a
location the question of his right to
the fixtures, he places upon the premis-
es, at the expiration of his term,
shou'd tbe carefully looked into. Es-
pecially is this point of importance
where such fixtures are perhaps of
great value and are to be attached in
a permanent manner to the building or
room occupied.

It may be his right to such fixtures
is preserved by statute; or his right in

He ‘should be certain of -

such fixtures may be well defined by
the court holdings of the State in
which he proposes to do business; or
the nature of the fixtures may be such
as to give him the right of removal
and ownership in any event. If so,
well and good.

But the important point for the mer-
chant in situations of this kind is to
be sure of his ground before he en-
ters into possession and attaches his
fixtures. And if there is any doubt
about his rights under the statutes, or
court holdings of his State, he should
in justice to himself have his rights
carefully defined in his lease. Rea-
sonable precautions at the beginning of
a ‘ease on the question of the rights
to fixtures may prevent a serious after
penile with probable loss.

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Gompers on the Wrong Track, As
1 4

sual.

Grandville, Jan. 23—The liquor in-
terests have not lain down and died
by any means. Read this caption in
a daily paper and think what it means.

“Gompers plans labor mobilization
for beer!”

The head of the American federa-
tion of labor taking a stand against
the homes and happy firesides of
America for the purpose of boosting
light wine and beer. There is no such
thing as light wine; there is_no such
thing as non-intoxicating beer. Let it
be understood -that_this latest effort
for the modification of the Volstead
act is in favor of a return to the saloon
and there'll be not enough left of the
whiskyites to fill a bunghole.

The women of America have placed
a ban on whisky selling and whisky
drinking. With the ballot they armed
for the defense of their homes and
little ones and it ill behooves a man
posing as the greatest labor leader
of the world to fraternize with brew-
ers for the avowed purpose of bring-
ing back booze to this country,

Mobilization of the forces of or-
ganized labor for a modification of
the Volstead act which would provide
for the manufacture and sale of beer
and light wine, was arranged for at a
conference Sunday between Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
federation of labor, and the executive
board of the brewery workers inter-
national union at the latter organiza-
tion’s headquarters here. This at
Cincinnati.

What does this mean?

It is proposed that this great labor
organization take over the cause of
the drink bund, and come to the front
with an effort to bring back the days
of liquor drinking with all its old-time
horrors, from which we have for a
time been so happily freed.

Individual union men there are who
will be above this thing, but should
the unions attempt to enter the polit-
ical field as advocates of beer and
wine, that day will prove a sorry one
for organized labor. The American
people have endured much in the past
from strikes and bludgeon murders,
but the time is here when such dia-
bolisms can no longer be carried on
in the name of any class.

The ballot in the hand of the Amer-
ican woman is a potent power for good
in this anti saloon crusade at least.
Thousands of homes once blighted
by the rum demon have been rescued
to liberty and freedom before the law.
Thousands of starved and freezing
little ones now find a change for the
better in their homes, and this because
of the Volstead law and its partial
enforcement. Time is required’ to
make the law wholly a success, but
that time will surely come. Public
opinion is almost everywhere behind
the enforcement of this law which
has brought renewed. life and hope to
so many American homes.

With all this’ regenerating process
going on, a crafty old booze fighter
professing to have the well being of
the laboring class at heart, deliberate-
ly proposes to bring back all the hor-
rors of the liquor traffic once more.
This man must know, if he knows
anything, that the liquor evil has been
the bane of our mid-class life in Amer-
ica. Why he should deliberately plan
to reinstate King Alcohol is a puzzle
hard to solve. Boss Gompers has
this time taken a false step which will
lead to the downfall of the great or-
ganization of which he is the head.
Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad, and it seems that this
labor leader must have taken leave
of his senses to undertake such a
herculean and unrighteous task as the
securing of the reinstatement of the
liquor traffic. :

The saloon and its attendant evils
have gone out of public life in Amer-
ica forever. It is a splendid fact that
this is so. Banks, business firms, all
productivity. is profiting by the
change, and all the brewery and labor

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

organizations in the world can effect
no return to the days of intoxicating
beverages.

The American ballot wielder, in-
cluding our millions of glorious wom-
anhood, have voted it out, where it
will stay forever.

The Volstead act was the most
glorious consummation of all the
hopes of the great home mass of our
people in America, and that act will
ever remain a part of the constitution
of our common country. Boss Gom-
pers has not read the signs aright.
It is pitiable to see a man of his sta-
tion in life butting his head against a
stone wall in the interest of the worst
élement of society.

Public opinion is stronger than law.
Public opinion backs the Volstead act
to the limit. Bootleggers and sneak-
ing booze dealers under cover may
flourish for a brief time, held in con-
tempt by every honest man and womn-
an in the land, but they cannot over-
turn the onward progress of anti-
saloon law.

What the electorate of the Nation
says goes.

Is it conceivable that the women of
our land can ever be brought to vote
back wine and beer which would be
but the forerunners of the saloon with
all its hectic crimes against society?

We have no fear of the splendid
womanhood of America. The ballot
is an all powerful weapon with them,
and there are men enough to stand
with them to keep in subjection the
minority of whisky-lovers of this Na-
tion.

The handwriting is on the wall.
Gompers is evidently drunk with
power. Should he carry his labor
organization with him that hour will
see the doom. of union labor organ-
izations in America. Old Timer.

——_~2+.___
Wages Still Advance.

The turn of the year brought ad-
ditional wage increases. The National
Industrial Conference Board states
that during the month ended January
15 only one decrease was reported,
while there were twenty-three cases
reported of wage increases. Since Oc-
tober 15 there have been seyenty-one
reported increases and only three
cases reported in which wages have
been reduced. The upward movement
has been under way now for about
ten months. During November and
part of December the number of
changes in wage scales was very
small, and it appeared that a condi-
tion of relative stability had been at-
tained after the numerous increases
granted during the Jate summer and
eariy autumn. The number of changes
during the month ended January 15
was about double that of the preceding
month, and the board attributes this
to the negotiation of new agreements
between employers and employes at
the end of the year.

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Michigan Fabric Bill.

Lansing, Jan. 23—Michigan has
joined the ranks of State legislatures
to introduce “Truth-in-Fabrics” bills.
The bill introduced here provides for
the labeling of all fabrics, including

‘ cottons, rubber, leather, woolens and

all patented processes. The label
must describe the component elements
of the fabric. Enforcement of the law
would come under the supervision of

‘the State Department of Agriculture.

When the bill was introduced several
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° MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 24, 1923

 

Still Solving the Problem of the
Universe.

Grand Rapids, Jan. 23—President
Harding, his cabinet and the leaders
in Congress are wrestling once more
with the immigration problem. Em-
ployers in various sections of the
country complain of a labor shortage
and, although they have warned
against pressing the demand for an
easing off of the restrictive features
of the immigration laws, the upward
tendency in wages, which will prob-
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their argument.

The disposition of the average mem-
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the statute books.

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gests some changes. For instance,
Great Britain, Germany, France and
the Scandinavian countries failed to
send enough emigrants to fill their re-
spective quotas during the year just
closed. Only 68 per cent. of the Brit-
ish quota was filled and but 26 per
cent. of the German, Southern and
Eastern countries fiiled their quotas
and have been informally suggesting
and requesting upward revision of the
immigration limit.

Opposition to such revision brings
forth some curious suggestions. It is
said, for example, that additional Brit-
ish, German, French and other im-
migrants might be attracted by offer-
ing financial aid and encouragement
to desirables contemplating immigra-
tion ‘but lacking the means to carry
out their desires.

While it is not likely that Congress,
catering as it does to the outrageous
demands of union iabor organizations,
would be inclined to take any im-
mediate action looking toward this
method of securing desirable emigra-
tion, it is not beyond reasonable hope
that the new blood which is being in-
fused into that organization may at
some time in the future divorce itself
. from the dangerous influence of union
labor leaders and conspirators and de-
velop some program which will in-
crease the numbers of desirable im-
migrants and reduce the quota of such
coming from undesirable localities.

This. problem must eventuaily be
faced_and cannot be passed over in-
definitely. If we need more labor, as
now seems’ evident, vote-snaring
methods must be relegated to obscur-
ity and more encouragement offered
to intelligent and-peace loving ele-
ments who are willing and anxious to
make the: United States their perman-
ent abode, a class which will add dig-
nity to the cause of honest labor and
strength to our industrial resources.

When this has been accomplished
and our legislative institutions take
some sensible action toward the or-
ganization and perfection of an ap-
prentice system, which will encourage
the youth of our country to acquire
an honest vocation without interfer-
ence from thugs who masquerade as
union labor leaders, then we will be
able to say that honest industry is no
misnomer, slavery has in reality been
abolished and a new era will bring
prosperity to all who deserve it.

 

Congressman Upshaw, of Georgia,
announces that he will produce an ex-
plosion in the National capital suffi-
cient. to blow off the dome of that
edifice if the eighteenth amendment to
the constitution is not rigidly enforced.

He has not mentioned the fact that
for over a quarter of a_ century,
Georgia has had its statute books,
laws more radical. aa the Volstead
provision, which have been rigidly en-
forced against the negro, but winked
at whenever the Governor of Georgia
wished to extend an invitation to a
neighboring executive, or some scion
of aristocracy felt the necessity of a
gargle or an application to his gums
for toothache.

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certain other amendments to our con-
stitution seem to need as much atten-
tion as the one regulating well de-
veloped thirst.

Some time way back in the seventies
a handful of misguided voters backed
up the action of the legislatures of
two-thirds of the states in an effort to
secure human rights for the black man.
The aforesaid misguided individuals
were laboring under the delusion that
a race of beings who were doing the
lion’s share of the work in providing
sustenance for embryo colonels and
their ancestors, ought to have some
Say-so in ‘the matter of how they
should be governed and taxed. So
these legislatures of these thirty odd
states proposed that if these black
men were denied the rights provided
for them that Uncle Sam would just
naturally slap their so-called superiors
on the wrist. The fact of these
amendments not being enforced never
seemed to worry the ancestors of Con-
gressman Upshaw, so why should he
become excited because a more re-
cent enactment is not being carried
out to the letter, just because folks
have not yet familiarized themselves
with its provisions?

For the encouragement of Congress-
man Upshaw I would like to make the
prediction that after the Volstead law
has been in force for upwards of fifty
years, it may be just as rigidly en-
forced as the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments.

Aiter several years of silence cer-
tain advocates of blue laws have again
come out into the open and we will
begin to hear the expounding of isms
galore.

Thanks to the vigilance of news
gatherers and other publicity channels,
their work has never secured any
tangible foundation, but this is an age
of reform propaganda, meritorious
and otherwise, and we may expect
much of this kind of evangelism.

The real aims of these self-constitut-
ed regulators of human conduct have
heretofore faced exposure before they
had proceeded far enough to convince
thinking people that they were any-
thing more serious than jesters, hence
their reforms have been more or less
false alarms.

However, a dispatch from Washing-
ton indicates that blue law supporters
have decided that the time is ripe for
action, hence we expect an army of
long haired males and short haired
females to bore the public and tantal-
ize statesmen.

Among these aggregations we find
the International Reform Bureau,
Lord’s Day Alliance and other as-
sociations of crape hangers girding
their loins for an attack on something,
everything except the Amalgamated
Association of Dyspeptics.

These affiliated associations have
now petitioned Congress to pass laws
closing Sunday theaters, motion pic-
ture houses, refreshment parlors, drug
stores, boot blacking stands and gar-
ages. Literature is being sent broad-
cast asking that a ban be placed on
Sunday newspapers and railway trains.

The inference to be derived from all
this activity is that the ordinary hu-
man being who is satisfied to attend
to his own affairs, and leave others
to follow their own inclinations, must
be made to feel that. the “holier than
thou” fanatics are among  God’s
chosen and have by some divine dis-
pensation been constituted their broth-
er’s keepers.

The unsuccessful attempts of the
police organizations in some sections
of the country to enforce the Volstead
act, shows the utter foolishness of at-
tempting a reform without the backing
of public sentiment. During the period
when local option was in force in
Michigan we came nearer securing an
observance of the liquor laws than at
any time before or since. Communi-
ties who were in. favor»of. enforcing
the provisions of.that law,. did so.
Other districts which. iB d degally ex-
pressed disapproval ‘suppression
regulated it according’ ‘to: their own
lights.

 

 

 

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When universal prohibition became
a fact the result was just the same.
The communities which favored its
enactment enforced its provisions, but
so far as the general results wefe con-
cerned the bone dry law was no more
effective than the local option measure.

am not inveighing particularly
against the prohibition law, but crit-
icising all classes of legislation where
one class has an inclination to lord it
over another.

Years ago we used to have it in-
stilled into our cranium every Sunday
of the year that only the adherents of
a certain faith—the one you happened
to be affiliated with—would be finally
redeemed and if you were possessed
with any feeling of compassion you
might reason to your personal dis-
satisfaction that such a position was a
trifle unfair to the poor benighted in-
dividual who possessed not your ad-
vantage of environment; but as years
passed your views became more liber-
al, and if your mentality was anywhere
near normal, you were willing to ad-
mit that perhaps members of other
denominations might qualify.

The whole trouble with the Ameri-
can people is that they are too much
subiected to the whims of more or
less misguided reformers and we have
drifted from that delightful state where
we were supposed to be protected in
our lives, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. We were taught that our
forefathers were the inventors of
liberty and that we had a monopoly
on that commodity; that other nations
were ruled by despots, etc., and it is
quite passible our forefathers had a
definite idea of such a citizenship.
They possibly thought they possessed
greater liberty because they were not
born to any particular station or class.
They probably exaggerated the extent
of degradation under which the citi-
zenship of other nations existed, hence
they were strong for so-called liberty.

They were not government ridden.
They were not constantly under police
survellance, and they were not in-
terfered with in their private rights
and individual enjoyment. They trav-
eed as they wished when and where
they pleased. A decent, honest citizen
had. no laws to bother him. In all
these espects he was a free man. Im-
prisonment for debt was prohibited by
a National constitution. If he was
unable to pay overburdensome taxes
the doors of a Fort Leavenworth were
not yawning for him. He had every
reason to believe that it was this liber-
ty which constituted the United States
an asylum for the unfortunate and op-
pressed in monarch ridden countries.

To-day the thinking American is in-
clined to think of himself as Govern-
ment bound. In other words that the
only way this great boon of liberty
may be preserved for him is through-
out the guardianship of the Govern-
ment. He feels that he is no longer a
free agent but simply a ward of the
Government, and the most of these in-
conveniences, disturbances and regu-
lations have been brought about by
the aforesaid “holier than thou” re-
formers. Frank S. Verbeck.

——
Likes the Poems Handed To Trades-
man Readers.

Fremont, Jan. 26—Ever since I have
became acquainted with the Michigan
Tradesman, I have greatly admired
the poems that appear on the cover of
each issue, in fact I am sure that 90
per cent. of the readers of the Trades-
man think as much of those poems as
the magazine itself, and that is saying
a lot. In my travels in the insurance
business I come in contact with the
readers of the Tradesman, and I have
heard a great many comments of ap-
proval about those poems.

I heard. a man say the other day
that he-had never met the editor
of the Tradesman, but that he knew
that the editor’s heart was right or
he would never select such wonderful
poems to adorn the front cover of
his magazine. Many times have I

found where those verses have been
In the lobby of

cut out and framed.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

of the Steel Hotel, at» St. Johns, I
think that they have three different
covers of the Tradesman hanging in
the lobby. It may be that you know
those things; but I have been think-
ing for some time to write you a few
lines of approval. And if some time
I run on to some poems that strike
my fancy, and I send them on to you,
if you like them and can make us of
them, you are welcome, and if they
don’t meet with your approval, just
pass them on to the waste paper
basket.

Last summer, when traveling in the
Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I met
Dr. C. F. Whiteshield, of Powers.
Dr. Whiteshield is quite a poet and
he has baskets of stuff in his den that
he has composed from time to time.
Much of it is real stuff. Dr. White-
shield has a drug store at Powers and
has a large practice as a physician.

You know they call the Upper
Peninsula “Cloverland” and the Upper
Peninsula people have commercialized
that name in referring to their part of
the State. They have printed a little
booklet of the history of the Upper
Peninsula, called “Romance in Clo-
verland,” I am enclosing a copy of
this. booklet to you herewith. If you
will turn to the inside of the front
cover you will find a poem by Dr. C.
F. Whiteshield, “Legend of the Lone-
some Pine.” Just before I came across
this booklet I had been traveling along
Cloverland trail, and I was greatly
impressed on coming to the pine tree
in the center of the road surrounded
with an iron fence, I later learned of
its history and the poem by Dr.
Whiteshield is very fitting for this
stately pine.

I was thinking that maybe you
could use this poem on The Lonesome
Pine in the Tradesman. I know that
it would please your readers of the
Upper Peninsula and it would also
please its composer, Dr. Whiteshield,
and it will surely strike a responsive
chord in the hearts of whoever reads
it: H. G. Bundy.

—_——_>-e-e-—___—_

Legend of the Lonesome Pine.
Within the trail marked Cloverland
A monster Pine Tree reigns as king;
With head upreared to meet the sky,
Broad spreading branches reaching high,
Amidst the scenic Clover trail
So grand that you would never fail
To stop, and wonder in amaze
How came this pine in such a place;
The only pine that’s to be seen
Within this virgin forest green
Of hardwood reaching miles away,

‘Thru which the deer in summer play,

Which oft you see beside a brook

Or rill within some shady nook;

And dreamily you wonder why

Trail builders passed the pine oe by
And built around this lonly tree

The trail, as you can plainly see,
Which gently right and left does swing
As tho’ on sacred land.

The whiskered trailmen, roughly dressed,

Approach to lay the monarch low;

Hoar frost and ice begrim each face,

Yet they are of a rugged race,

And dash the snow and ice aside,

Then raise their axes true and tried;

Yet ere can fall disfiguring blow,

And Indian, softly in the snow

Comes ’round the. tree with raised hand

And utters softly this command;

“Cut not this tree; it branches guide

My tribe when hunting far and wide;

It serves aS beacon every day

And can be seen for miles away,

And ’neath its branches counsel we

Have held beyond the memory

Of father of the oldest chief—

With Manitou, is our belief;

So if ’tis felled, at once our tribe will go

And dig the war axe from its place of
rest.”

oS the woodsmen left the Lonesome
ine,
And all the world for it must turn;
Wor centered in the trail it stands
Protected now by loving hands;
"Tis dedicated to our brave
Who lost their lives beyond the wave;
And every woman, every man,
In this great State of Michigan
Whose sons across the water went
Salutes the Lone Tree Monument.
"Twas the noble red man’s shrine,
But now beneath the Lonsome Pine
With bated breath we seem to hear
The faintly whispered words of cheer:
“Honor your dead, but help the living,
Great Manitou continues giving
His blessings to all men below
With love and care where e’er we go.”
So may we the lesson learn
Of Love, ’neath Cs Lonesome Pine.
Dr. C, F. Whiteshield.
Powers, Mich.

 

 

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President—J. C. Toeller, Battle Creek.
First Vice-President—F. E. Mills, Lan-

sing.

Second Vice-President—W. O. Jones,
Kalamazoo.

Secretary-Treasurer—Fred Cutler, Ionia.
Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

 

 

Dry Goods Men To Meet in Grand
Rapids.

Lansing, Jan. 23—The next conven-
tion of the Michigan Retail Dry Goods
Association will be held at Hotel Pant-
lind, Grand Rapids, Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, March 6 and 7.

President Toeller has announced the
following standing committees.

Program—W. O. Jones, Kalamazoo;
E. K. Pearce, Quincy; G. E. Martin,
Kalamazoo; John Rickey, Charlotte;
H. E. Beadle, Sturgis.

Nominations—L. M. Schroder, Bat-
tle Creek; D. F. Comstock, Ypsilanti;
M. I. Jacobson, Jackson; H. P. Streng,
Kalamazoo; Edward Vogel, Chelsea.

Insurance—B. E. Ludwig, Albion;
A. K. Frandsen, Hastings; D. Mihle-
thaler, Harbor Beach; H. G. Wesener,
Saginaw; L. W. Stein, Allegan.

Legislative—The President, First
Vice-President, Second Vice-President
and Ex-Officio Directors Christian

and Knapp.

Membership—Detroit Stores: J. B.
Sperry, Port Huron; H. N. Bush,
Flint; G. R. Jackson, Flint; Oscar
Webber, Detroit; W. N. Benge, Ann
Arbor.

Membership—Jackson Stores: L. G.
Cook, Jackson; George T. Bullen, Al-
bion; F. T. Ingram, Jackson; F. E.
Baker, Lansing; W. J. Dancer, Stock-
bridge.

Membership—Grand Rapids Stores:
C. W. Carpenter, Kalamazoo;
Zeilinski, Manistee; H. J. Mulrine, Bat-
tle Creek; Fred Cutler, Ionia; W. J.
Carl, Muskegon Heights. :

These committees were appointed
with reference to convenient distance
from Battle Creek and Lansing, so that
they can get together to confer with
each other with as little loss of time
and traveling expenses as possible.

Mr. Toeller had in mind, also, the
expression on the questionaire sent
out last October of persons stating
their willingness to serve on commit-
tees. Attention is called to the Legis-
lative Committee. During the session
of the Legislation of 1923 some quick
action may be required and it was
thought best to delegate the watching
of the Legislation proceedings to the
Manager, who is in close touch with
executive officers.

Jason Hammond, Manager.
——_>2.—___
Definition of a Straw Hat.

“What is a straw hat?”

An official answer to this question
was sought by the Customs Division
of the Treasury Department at the
convention of the National Association
of Straw Hat Manufacturers, held in
New York City last week. A com-
mittee headed by A. G. Keeshan, of
the Bonar-Phelps Co., was appointed
to draw up an answer, and after due
deliberation issued the following defi-
~ nition:

“The sensible answer is the hat that
women wear in Winter and men wear
But this is not enough
for the Customs Division of the Treas-

ury Department at Washington, which
asks the question. It seems the rea-
son for seeking information is the fact
that a shipment of harvest hats such as
farmers wear has been held up lately
pending the decision of the appraisers,
who have discovered that although
they have been imported in the past
under the classification of straw hats,
they actually are not made of straw
but of chips and shavings.

“This has opened the whole question
as to when a straw hat is a straw hat
and why. The Government has learn-
ed, however, that the straw hat which

50,000,000 men put on their heads on ~

May 15 is really and truly made of
straw—wheat straw, especially grown
for the purpose by curious and ancient
methods in Japan, China, Switzerland
and Italy.
and American workmen could not
make the braid even if they had the
straw.

“This material is used because it
has been discovered after exhaustive
tests ‘that straw which is woven,
b‘eached, pressed and shellacked com-
bines in the greatest degree the quality
of lightness with the ability to deflect
the rays of the sun. Thus the heads of
men are at one and the same time suffi-
ciently protected from the burning
rays of the sun and artistically decor-
ated with a hat that makes them look
young and handsome.

“Yep—your solid mahogany table
may be pine, with a paper-thin mahog-
any veneer; your wife’s sealskin furs
may be dyed rabbit and your Scotch
may be embalming fluid mixed with
turpentine, but at least your straw hat
has ‘been ascertained to be 100 per
cent. straw. A bas the bootlegger!
Vive the hatter!”—-New York Times.

—_+---~>———_

Small Stocks in Hands of Retailers.
Retail stocks are reported as very
low in all parts of the country, and
buyers are now flocking to the dis-
tributing centers of the East and Mid-
die West in unusual numbers. They
are finding wholesale prices generally
higher than they were at the time of
their last visit. Manufacturers and
wholesalers have already encountered
the problem of higher prices and it is
now the retailers’ turn. Hitherto the
latter offered stiff resistence to price
advances as they doubted whether
consumers were ready to buy freely at
higher levels. The liberal buying of
the holiday season, however, has
proved reassuring, and very little talk
is now heard of a possible repetition
of a buyers’ strike. With cotton now
above twenty-eight cents and, accord-

.ing to some forecasters, likely to ad-

vance to thirty, with consumption of
wool forging ahead of production, with
flax exceedingly scarce, and with in-
creasing demand for raw silk, to say

American straw will not do ©

nothing of higher labor costs, there
appears to be only one way in which
retail prices of dry goods can move,
and dealers are convinced that con-
sumers can gain nothing by postpon-
ing their purchases.
—_+--.

The Bandanna Vogue Spreads.

The vogue for bandannas, which has
spread like wildfire in the last several
weeks, has finally invaded the field of
women’s sleeping garments. At least
this is so in effect, for a popular pa-
jama model for women is made with
a collar that closely resembles the
vivid articles now in such high vogue
for street wear. A two-piece pajama
suit for women that has been put out

by another manufacturer bears a strik-

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Hat Trimmings Varied.

Every possible trimming, apparently,
is being used by modistes on women’s
Spring hats, according to the current
bu‘letin of the Retail Millinery As-
sociation of America. Ribbon and
bow trimmed. hats are seen for almost
every occasion, these decorations be-
ing used for trimming “dressy” hats
as well as those for street wear.

“Quills are achieving the same dis-
tinction in a quieter way and in more
vivid colorings,” the bulletin continues.
“Among them are quills resembling
parrot breasts and long, pasted effects
of burnt peacock on the paddle order.
The ostrich that is used would put that
bird. to shame, so well shaded and
b’ended are the colorings. Ombre ef-
fects dominate in all kinds of feather
fancies.

“Lace laid over flowers and drawn
to a bow or pompom knot at the side
of ah off-the-face shape is a popular
method of using two trims that are
now in fashion. Then again, lace
draped over the crown falls down the
wearer’s back in a curtain effect on
some large hats made without backs.
High wired effects of lace carry out
the Louis XVI line of high back and
broad sides that the fashion plates or-
dain. :

“The new flower trimmings are used
to face coronet cuffs and for making
thick roll bands about the crown if
small flowers are used. If large roses
or dahlias are chosen, they are usually
seen in the form of high pompom
choux that are placed at the left side
of the crown. Violets, bachelor’s but-
tons, bluettes, buttercups and small
pink flowers are used for flat effects
in aplique, often with single-ply splits
of braid. Sometimes a band of leaves
is finished with a cluster bouquet of
small flowers on one side of a small
poke shape. Various hues of rose,
with some yellow and bright blue, are
the general colors seen in flowers just
now. The various violet shadings are

also favored.”
—_.->——__

New Combination Veil.

Basing its hopes on increased popu-
laity for draped veils, a New York
house is now placing a new type on
the market which it expects will prove
a good seller. This is a combination
of a square veil with a fancy mesh in-
serted to fit closely over the face, while
having the draped effects at the back
of the hat. It is available in a range
of colors, with black, brown, navy and
taupe being featured by the concern.
Colored embroideries have been util-
ized as decorations for some of the
veils. They wholesale from $18 per
dozen up. The same firm thinks the
Shetland veil is “coming back” strong
in both square and long draped effects.

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Can’t Use “Silkoline.”

Washington, Jan. 23—Melvin Behr-

end and Leopold Behrend, conducting

a business under the firm name of

Behrend’s, have received an erder from
the Federal Trade Commission to
cease and desist using the word “Silk-
oline” unless the substance, fiber and
material contained therein are fully
designated. The store recently adver-
tised comforts for sale under the cap-
tion “Silkoline Covered Comforts”
and the commission rules that this
statement led the public to believe that
these comforts were made of silk,
whereas the fabric advertised does not
contain silk.

Retail Grocers and General Merchants
Convention.

Cadillac, Jan. 23—Some of those
who will address the delegates at the
convention in Lansing, Feb. 21 and 22
are men of National prominence who
are well qualified to talk to us on the
every day problems that are confront-
ing the retailers. One of these men
is Charles W. Myers, who is manager
of the sales extension and advertising
of Morris & Company, packers, Chi-
cago, and who has spent nearly
eighteen years in this particular line
of work and who enjoys the acquaint-
ance of retail: grocers from coast to
coast and from the Canadian border

 

Charles W. Myers.

to the Gulf. He is one of the out-

standing figures in the retail food in-.

dustry to-day and his address on
“What do People Want?” carries with
it a real message which every retail
grocer will be fortunate, if it is pos-
sible to be at the convention to hear
it.

W. R. Roach, Nestor of the canning
industry, will be there to give us one
of his inspiring addresses which en-
abled so many of the delegates at the
twenty-third annual convention to go
home and put into practice some of
the suggestions offered by Mr. Roach
at that time, and which has proved of
dollars and cents value to those who
made use of the tips offered.

Tohn A. Green, of the American
Sugar Refining Co., will give the dele-
gates an opportunity to see the
processes used in planting, growing,
marketing and manufacturing sugar by
a series of moving pictures which he
will explain as the pictures are shown.
The suggestions made in the address
by this retail grocer of many years’
experience are of much value to those
who are desirous Of absorbing every
practical method of meeting chain
store competition, as well as keeping
the balance on the right side of the
ledger.

It only remains for those who are
engaged in the most important and
necessary branch of all business—that
of retailing of foods—to show they
are interested in the progress and bet-
terment of conditions in their own
line. J. M. Bothwell, Sec’y.

—_—__2+s——_

New Line of Bracelets.
Novelties in the form of enameled
wire bracelets, in snake effects, are
among the new things of this type to
be offered to the trade. The bracelets
came in one, two and three strands
and in a number of colors, that include

purple, dark blue, green, black, silver,
pink, red, etc. The ends of the brace-
lets are finished in conventionalized
bud effects set with rhinestones, imita-
tion rubies and other colored stones
of that order. Only one kind of stone,
however, is used in any one article,
its color harmonizing with that of the
bracelet. The single-strand bracelets
wholesale at $42 a gross, while the two
and three strand bracelets are priced
at $72 and $84 per gross, respectively.
so
White Shirt Again Favored.

Many observers in the shirt trade
feel that it is safe to bank on the
Spring and Summer again being
“white shirt” seasons. The garment of
plain color last year, either with or
without attached collar, had everything
its own way, and no sign, it is said, of

 

any reaction has been noted recently.
Next to white, retailers feel that solid
colors, without collars attached, will
fare well, these followed by simple
colored stripes. According to all ac-
counts, the day of the shirt in gaudy,
loud effects, once favored, is past.
There seems little chance, with con-
sumers’ tastes as they are now, of
their coming toa the fore again soon.
awe :
Unselfishness.

He’s true to God who’s true to man

wherever wrong is done

To the noblest and the weakest ’neath
the all-beholding sun,

That wrong is also done to us; and they
are slaves most base,

Whose love of right is for themselves,
and not for all their race.

——_2-2.>
The best thing about telling the
truth is you don’t have to remember
what you said.

 

 

A Message to Investors:

THE WOLVERINE CARTON COMPANY of Grand
Rapids, Michigan, has purchased a factory and will begin the
manufacture of high grade folding paper cartons, as soon as
its machinery is delivered and installed.

The Company is capitalized at $300,000 7% Cumulative
Preferred Stock and 30,000 Shares of Non-Par Stock, which
is ample capital to secure the plant, all necessary machinery,
and provide working capital sufficient to enable the Company
to take advantage of discounts on raw material purchased.

The field for folding paper cartons is unlimited, as more
and more products are being added each Year to the list of
goods packed in folding paper cartons. The manufacturer
demands the printed folding paper carton as an advertising
medium; the retailer demands it because it is more easily
handled and there is less waste; and the consumer demands it
because it is sanitary and convenient.

Right in Grand Rapids there is great demand for such car-
tons among manufacturing and wholesaling concerns, and
naturally they prefer to purchase their cartons in Grand Rap-
ids, where they can obtain better service and can save the
freight on the delivery of the cartons.

THE WOLVERINE CARTON COMPANY has already
purchased its plant, and it is a factory which is admirably
suited to the manufacture of folding paper cartons. An inter-
urban line running past the plant, and a railroad sidetrack
running right to the plant facilitates the delivery of raw ma-
terial to the plant and the shipment of the finished cartons.

The Company is to be managed by a Board of Directors
made up of experienced, capable and reliable business men,
and the factory where the cartons will be produced is to be
managed by men of long and successful experience in the
folding paper carton business.

Investigation has shown that the folding paper carton busi-
ness is one of the most universally successful industries of the
country, and investors not already aware of the earnings made
by companies in this business would be surprised to learn of
the fine earnings made by folding carton companies.

Let us tell you of the possibilities of an investment in the
WOLVERINE CARTON COMPANY. Clip and mail the

coupon below.

F, A. SAWALL COMPANY,
313-14-15 Murray Building,
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Gentlemen:
Please send me full information regarding the earning possibilities
of an investment in the Wolverine Carton Company.

Signature_-____- ee ee oe ee

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Michigan Poultry, Butter and Egg Asso-
clation,
President—J. W. Lyons, Jackson.

wipe Premsont-Patrick Hurley, De-
troit. 4

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

Executive Committee—F. A. Johnson,
Detroit; H. L. Williams, Howell: C. J.
Chandler. Detroit.

 

Requirements of the Michigan Ice
Cream Law.

T. H. Broughton, director of the
bureau of dairying, Michigan Depart-
ment of Agriculture, has recently is-
sued a circular to ice cream manufac-
turers of the State calling attention to
certain requirements of the law. The
circular says:

“Only milk, cream, eggs, sugar, gela-
tine, etc., may be used in making ice
cream. Ice cream is considered adul-
terated if it be sold as an imitation of
or under another name, if it contains
less than 10 per cent. milk fat, or more
than seven-tenths of one per cent.
gelatine or similar substance.

“Every ice cream factory should
have a license obtained from the Com-
missioner of Agriculture. The fee is
$5.

“For your information we wish to
state that considerable complaint has
been received by this department in-
dicating that an excess of gelatine or
vegetable gums is being used in ice
cream. These complaints have come
from the consuming trade and give us
the impression that the trade quite
readily notices ice cream that does not
quickly melt when exposed to a warm-
er temperature. We are not only in-
terested in having the law complied
with, but we have at heart the welfare
of the ice cream business and expect
to assist in the upbuilding of the in-
dustry as much as possible, we are en-
deavoring to concentrate the work
with those inspectors who understand
the business in a general way.

“Prof. O. E. Reed of the Col’ege an-
nounces the appointment of Prof.
Lucas who is a widely known ice
cream man. With the services of
Prof. Lucas and Prof. Goodwin, as
well as others at the College, there
would seem to be no reason why ice
cream manufacturers should not avail
themselves of all information possible
to improve their product. We are
satisfied that this should be done, on
account of the great variation in
samples already obtained.”

—_2+2___

122,105 Retail Butchers in U. S.

_ There were 122,105 retai! butchers in
the United States when they were
counted by enumerators for our most
recent census. At the same time, the
- population of the United States num-
bered 105,710,620, or about 20 000,000
consuming families.

In the course of a -year those
butchers collectively come into contact

 

with every one of those consuming
families. many times.

Now it is obviously easier and less
expensive for ‘the Institute, with its
constructive educational material, to
reach 122,105 butchers than to reach
105,710,620 consumers,

Please look at the number of butch-
ers and the number of persons again.
Notice that there is one butcher to
865 persons.

This means that, as an average, one
butcher reaches families comprising
865 persons.

They sell nearly all of the meat that
is sold.

They talk with the consumer while
she is buying her meat.

—_2+-___
Litchi Chinese Peanut.

What the corner peanut stand is to
the American, the litchi peddler is to
the Chinese, says Consul Price, in a
report to the Department of Com-
merce. The litchi is grown on a tree
about the size of an apple tree, which
does not mature until the 20th year.
The fruit grows in clusters of from
three or four to a dozen, is green at
first and ripens to a bright strawberry
red. For export the litchi is dried in
the sun. In the process, the skin be-
comes brown and with the shrinking
of the flesh, which becomes detached
from the skin, takes on the aspect of a
shell, whence comes the erroneous
designation “litchi nut.”

—_+->____
Canned Corn on the Cob.

As a novelty to be developed into a
larger seller, some canners continue
to pack a limited output of corn on the
cob, Gallons have been used for
Evergreen and other large varieties,
which pack about six ears to the can.
Golden Bantam has been put up this
season in a special can which contains
four ears. The corn is already proc-
essed and all that is required is to heat
the container. Those who have tried
samples have had the most success
when they have punched a small vent
hole in the top of the can before heat-
ing. When this was done the corn
gave complete satisfaction.

—~++.___
Originator of Margarine Dies.

The original maker and first manu-
facturer of oleomargarine in this coun-
iry is dead at his home in New Haven.
Nathan Eastbrook, eighty-eight years
old, died in the New Haven hospital as
the result of gas poisoning.
brook was found asphyxiated in his
home recently as a result of gas being
accidentally turned on. He was a na-
tive of Herkimer, N. Y., and served
during the civil war as quartermaster
in the 34th New York Vo‘unteer Com-
pany.

—__2+.___
Some sales managers send out more

misfits than clothing stores,

East-_

TRADESMAN

    

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Only Landlords Furnishing Good Ser-
vice Will Survive.

Grand Rapids, Jan. 23—Edward R.
Swett, of the Occidental Hotel, Mus-
kegon, left the other day for a month’s
vacation in the Sunny South, and a
treat to himself which he well de-
serves. Mr. Sweet, I am happy to
say, has created a wonderful business
for the Occidental property and while
it is true this enormous undertaking
was started at a time when the peak
of prosperity had passed, there was
never a moment when he waned in
his enthusiasm and now those familiar
with the importance of his undertaking
realize he has made good and con-
gratulate him on his successful per-
formance. During the furniture con-
vention in Grand Rapids all of the
Muskegon hotels did a rushing busi-
ness, but have during the same period
taken wonderful care of their regular
patrons.

George Woodcock, of the Hotel
Muskegon, is specializing on sea food
in his cafe. He receives daily ship-
ments from the sea shore and places
on his menu many delicacies not to be
found in any restaurant outside of the
larger cities.

Speaking of Muskegon, I am re-
minded that J. H. Wiegers, who has
filled the position of clerk at the Oc-
cidental for the past thirteen years,
has purchased and taken possession
of the Hotel Wigton, at Hart. The
Wigton has for many years been one
of the most prosperous institutions of
its kind in Western Michigan, and
Mr. Wiegers, with the co-operation
of his estimable wife, has started right
in to add to its laurels. Their meals
are excellent and with the completion
of contemplated improvements, their
hotel will certainly be deserving of
increased patronage.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Bosworth, well-
known host and hostess of the Park
Hotel, at Mt. Pleasant, which they
disposed of last year, have purchased
the Elk Tavern, at Elk Rapids, which
has been closed for some time and
will immediately re-open same to the
traveling public. Mrs. Bosworth will
really manage the hotel, while her
husband will continue his work of
promoting a resort proposition near
Elk Rapids. I will say that it Mrs.
Bosworth will continue to produce
those doughnuts which made the Park
Hotel famous, there will be no sort
of doubt as to the success of. the
present venture.

The country hotels of Michigan
which are making the most satisfac-
tory financial records for themselves
are the ones which make a specialty
of cordiality and good service.

Once in a while I run across a hotel
operator who thinks because he is
possessed of the only hotel in his par-
ticular town, he can pull off all sorts
of raw stunts and put them over, but
some of the methods he practices only
help to push him along on the road
to self-destruction.

There are quite a large number of
the smaller Michigan hotels, Iccat<d
in towns which naturally could not
give them inadequate support were it
not for the fact that such hotels are
drawing a large percentage of their
trade from neighboring towns, in
which the hotel proprietor is possessed
of the notion that all he is there for
is to perch himself behind the counter
and rake in the cash.

The traveling man, for instance, 1s
becoming used to greater luxuries
than he ever enjoyed before and,
while he does not care to be enter-
tained with great ostentation, he does
want to be accorded a_ reasonable
amount of business courtesy, and he
is bound to. discriminate between the
institutions which look after his phys-
ical welfare and the ones which have
constituted themselves as beneficiaries
from his expense fund.

The next few years will show the
results of the weeding out process in
the ranks of country hotel landlords,

_and the ‘survivors in the profession

will be such as to-day are performing
a meritorious service to their patrons.

The landlord who repeatedly sets
out illy cooked food and accompanies

it with the excuse that his source of .

supplies is limited will be succeeded
by the individual who starts you along
your day’s routine with a_ palatable
cup of coffee, a dainty breakfast nicely
cooked and carefully served, and does
not make you feel that you have got
to patronize him, because he has the
only hotel in town. He will make his
hotel so much better than his town
warrants that his townsmen will take
pride in his achievements and try to
live up to his standards.

Much complaint is made of the
sameness in country hotel bills of
fare; that is to the effect that while
the preparation of the food is above
criticism, the guest knows before he
enters the dining room just what is
goirg to be offered to him, which de-
ters from his enjoyment of same.

I have in mind a real country hotel,
in a small town, which fills its dining
room daily and turns away patrons
every night for the reason tts meals,
carefully prepared, are simple, and
for the benefit of such hotel men as
are anxious to please but have a lim-
ited source of supplies I have made
a selection at random from such menus
and offer them here:

Dinners
Cream of Tomato Soup.

Celery Dill Pickles
Roast Chicken with Dressing, Roast Beef
Steamed and Mashed Potatoes
Sugar Peas Mashed Hubbard Squash

Fruit Salad :
Mince and Custard Pie, Bread Pudding
Chicken Broth with Rice
Pickled Beets Cottage Cheese
Fried Chicken, with Cream Gravy
Fried Fresh Halibut
Browned and Mashed Potatoes ‘
Stewed Tomatoes Fried Parsnips
Cold Slaw :
Apple Pie with Cheese, Chocolate Pudding
Bean Soup
Sliced Onions Pickles __
Roast Sugar Cured Ham, Roast Beef Ribs
Escalloped Potatoes
Mashed Ruta Bagas Sweet Corn
Salmon Salad :
Pumpkin Pie
Vegetable Soup
Picallilli
Beefsteak Pie
Roast Pork, with Apple Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Steamed Potatoes
Fried Parsnips String Beans
Apple Salad :
Mince Pie with Cheese, Rice Pudding

Here I give you an ideal breakfast
menu. It will answer for the regular
morning bill with the alternation of
cooked cereals and ham and bacon:

Mince Pie

Celery

Michigan Apples Grape Fruit
Stewed Prunes Baked Apples
Corn Flakes Bran Grape Nuts

Cooked Cereal
(Change cooked cereal daily)

Bacon Country Sausage
Eggs to order
Toast Wheat or Buckwheat Cakes
Coffee Postum
Suppers
Oyster Stew Dill Pickles
Beefsteak Breaded Pork Chops

Baked and French Fried Potatoes
Johnny Cake Apple Sauce and Cake
Chicken Soup
Cold Slaw
seefsteak Baked Corn Beef Hash
Baked Potatoes, Stewed Tomatoes
Muffins
Sauce and Cake
Oyster Cocktail Celery
Beefsteak, Fried Chicken, cream gravy
Fried Potatoes, Baked Sweet Potatoes
Beet Salad
Tea Biscuits and Honey
3aked Apple with Whipped Cream
The real idea I am trying to con-
vey is that by using a simple menu,

the limitations of the local dealer are
not drawn upon so largely and your
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dried” variety, is an agreeable sur-
prise to your patrons.

Avoid the use of ill-smelling com-
pounds in your cooking. If you have
not sufficient wholesome bacon fry-
ings, use fresh lard, but in limited
quantities. Above all see that your
food comes to the table piping hot
on warm dishes; have your table neat-
ly laid; eschew paper napkins; instruct
your waiters to watch out for the re-
quirements of diners at all times, and
I predict you will build up and retain
a patronage, where other methods
would fail.

The writer recently contributed a
list of menus of simple meals to the
Restaurant Bulletin which was favor-
ably commented on by several chefs
of known reputation. E. M. Statler,
of hotel fame, strongly recommends
the simple meal for country hotels.
None of the supplies required are un-
obtainable. The parcels post will
bring them to you if the local dealer
lacks sufficient enterprise to provide
thera. Frank S. Verbeck.

—_~+-+.—____
Looking Forward To Biggest and
Best Convention.

Marine City, Jan. 23—The twenty-
ninth annual convention and hardware
exhibition of the Michigan Retail
Hardware Association will be held in
Grand Rapids, Feb. 6, 7, 8 and 9. Ho-
tel headquarters and the convention
sessions will be held at the Hotel Pant-
lind and the exhibition will be at the
Klingman furniture exhibition build-
ing.

We plan on having a very strong
program this year. Some of our mem-
bers have consented to give short
talks on subjects of vital interest to the
trade. We have some _ high-class
talent from outside. Some of the best
speakers on merchandising subjects in
the United States will address us. As
usual, the question box will be one of
the big features and an entire session
will be given over to the discussion of
the many knotty problems confront-
ing the dealers at the present time.
The hardware dealer who attends may
“rest assured that the program will be
unusually interesting and instructive.
Every minute of the four days will be
profitably employed.

Ample entertainment will be pro-
vided. Tuesday evening there will be
a theater party at the Empress theater
and on Thursday night there will be
a banquet and entertainment at the
Coliseum. Dr. Marion Leroy Burton,
President of the University of Michi-
gan, will be the main speaker. There
will be special entertainment provided
for the ladies.

Courteous treatment, efficient man-
agement and the lack of unnecessary
additional expense, coupled with the
splendid patronage from our members
have made the Michigan Retail Hard-
ware exhibit one of the very best in
the United States. We found this
year that it was necessary to add ad-
ditional room to take care of the many
applications for space received from
manufacturers and jobbers. Our mem-
bers are taking more interest in the
axhibit each year, and with-a view to
encourage this feeling, a buyers’ con-
test will be conducted, as heretofore.
Dealers will receive prizs, according
to the number of orders placed. Karl
S. Judson, who has so efficiently man-
aged our exhibits in the past, will
again serve as exhibit manager.

We have the largest State associa-
tion of hardware dealers in the United
States, with a membership of 1600.
We are looking forward to our big-
gest and best convention.

A. J. Scott, Sec’y.
_.2—>———_
Seeks Stenographers.

The Civil Service Commission an-
nounces that there is a shortage of
young men eligible to fill stenographic
positions in the Government offices in
Washington. Examinations are held
throughout the country on the second

Tuesday of each month.

Some Methods of a Successful Hard-

ware Dealer.
Written for the Tradesman.

As often as not, the hardware deal-
er succeeds less by the adoption of
new and spectacular selling methods
than by the steady application of old
principles that have been tried and
proved right by many predecessors.

I recently enquired into the methods
of a successful dealer in a community
of approximately 15,000 people. I
found one dominant objective: to show
the goods in such a manner as to
create the largest possible sales and to
allow the carrying on of business in a
manner most advantageous to cus-
tomers and dealer—not forgetting to
keep an eye on the expense side of the
question.

The store itself is 125 feet long. A
number of little ideas have been in-
troduced in the arrangements. On the
left hand side are three special display
tables, with display space underneath
and at the back a raised shelf that
al‘ows additional goods to be shown.
This proves an efficient method of
showing goods and attracts attention
because it is somewhat different from
the usual arrangement. It facilitates
the display of many small lines that are
usually difficult to show effectively.
These tables also have at the rear a
compartment for storage.

‘Good: use is made of silent sales-.

men for showing glassware and silver.
Behind the si‘ent salesmen the shelv-
ing has been removed and_ special
plate glass shelving installed in its
place. This arrangement is singularly
effective for the display of fancy lines.
An attractive setting invariably en-
hances the appearance of such lines.

There are also specially arranged
display spaces for hammers, saws and
other tools. A special rack has been
arranged for bolts, both front and
rear being fitted with numerous com-
partments for all sizes of bolts, each
compartment properly labeled. The
rack is sufficiently low not to hide the
shelving behind.

Another useful idea is a holder for

advertising material supplied by- manu- .

facturers whose goods are handled in
the store. This stand is a revolving
structure, four feet high, placed at one
end of the counter. It is buiit pyra-
mid style, with spaces down each side
to hold advertising matter properly
assorted, while the space underneath
is used for surplus supplies. The pro-
prietor is a strong believer in the
proper use of every bit of such adver-
tising material. The store’s name is
placed on everything handed out. Ad-
vertising material is placed in parcels
sent out from the store, and it is found
of a good deal of assistance in work-
ing up the interest of the customers,
particularly in new lines.

The proprietor also keeps advertis-
ing matter in his office in properly as-
sorted form, and makes a practice of
sending out something with every let-
ter. He looks after this himself, as
he knows best just what is likely to
interest each customer. It takes only
a moment of his time when he is sign-
ing the letter to insert some suitable
advertising material.

The display windows are specially
arranged with a deep inward slope and
are found valuable sales creators.

Special arrangements are made for
their regular trimming by an expert
window dresser. Displays are planned
a week or more ahead, so that if the
proprietor is‘ absent, the displays are
changed just the same.

The windows are well lighted, and
the lighting is so arranged as to make
the store front stand out. The lights
are at the front and top of the window
this being found to show up to the
best advantage without dazzling peo-
ple who desire to view the displays.
Plenty of light draws attention to the
store and from an advertising stand-
point proves a good investment.

The window lights are so wired that
no light is wasted unnecessarily.
There are two switches, so that either
a‘l or half the lights may be turned on.

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battery of lights. There is also a sep-
arate switch for electric sockets at the
bottom of the window, inorder to se-

cure current for the operation of elec-

trical displays.

The lights are left burning at night
after the store is closed and a novel
method is used for turning them off
at the hour desired. This is done by
a simple little contrivance, the revolv-
ing a‘arm on an alarm clock doing the
work effectively.

Plenty of light is admitted to the in-
terior of the store by day, the closed-
in back of the windows being of glass,
while light also comes in over the top
of the window construction.

In advertising, a special week-end
price on a few lines has been tried out
and found a good business attractor,
the retail department doing an_ in-
créased ‘business as a result. The
special prices brought people to the
store and afforded an opportunity to
sell them other goods.

The proprietor does not believe in
price cutting, but finds that occasional
“specials” are valuable. As an in-
stance, he had, late in the summer,
about six dozen screen doors that had
been on hand for a considerable time.
Rather than carry them any longer a
special price was quoted. The special
attracted many people, there being 25
women in the store at one time during
the sale. Not only were the “stickers”
cleared off, but many of the higher-
priced doors were sold, and at a good
profit.

As an instance of how the standard
of sales can be raised by intel‘igent
salesmanship, a razor incident is cited.
A man came in and asked: “Where are
those cheap razors you were adver-
tising?” The store had not been ad-
vertising any cheap razors, but the
sa'esman promptly asked: “How cheap
do you want them—one dollar?”

“Have you them any cheaper?” en-
quired the customer.

“Yes, we have them as low as 69
cents,” was the reply. But at the same
time the salesman showed the $1
razor. He didn’t, however, give the
customer a chance to say he would
take that razor.

“Here,” he said, producing a widely
advertised brand of safety razor, “is a
$5 razor. You've heard of it, I guess?”

“T suppose this and the $1 razor are
just the same, except in price,” jibed
the customer.

“No, there is as much difference as
between a $5 bill and a $1 bill,” re-
turned the salesman; and proceeded to
show the actual difference. The up-
shot of it all was, that the customer
took the $5 razor when he had come
for a real cheap one. Many salesmen
wou'd merely have sold the cheap
razor without any attempt to show the
better article; when the latter not
merely ensured better satisfaction but
yielded the store a larger profit.

The proprietor is firmly convinced
that a retailer who conducts a credit
business should thoroughly protect
himself against loss from unreliable
customers. He was driven to this
conclusion by actual experience. He
conducted ‘business for some years
and accumulated a large number of
bad accounts on his books, through
not being strict enough regarding the
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conclusion that as he had to give refer-
ences at the bank when securing

credit, so should the customer in ask-

ing credit of the merchant.

As a result of this conclusion he
commenced a credit reference and
credit reporting system among the
merchants of his community. By this
system a person asking for credit has
to fill out a reference form giving such
particulars as property owned, his
bankers and his credit limit, how long
he has resided in town and district,
where he previously resided, and who
granted him credit at his former place
of residence. Information is then se-
cured from other dealers; and on the
basis of this information credit is
granted or refused.

“It is pretty difficult,” the merchant
said, “to conduct a hardware business
without extending credit. By this sys-
tem we offend a few and possibly lose
a certain amount, but it is more than
made up to us by the amount saved
in the smalier number of bad ac-
counts The merchant extends ll
credits personally, and talks plainly to
applicants. _For instance, if a cus-
tomer comes in and asks for credit
the merchant says, “Certainly, if you
can give us surety of your ability and
willingness to pay,” and he is asked
for references.

“Tt is pretty straight talk,” the mer-
chant adds, “but no man can expect to
receive credit without giving us some
assurance of his reliability. A man
can be sized up pretty well by the man-
ner in which he answers the questions
put to him.” Victor Lauriston.

———_ <> ——————
Preliminary Programme For State
Hardware Meeting.

Monday Evening—Feb, 5.

8 p. m. Meeting of the Executive
Committee and Advisory Board, mez-

zanine floor, Hotel Pantlind.
Tuesday Morning.

9 a. m. The exhibit hall will be
open in the Klingman furniture biu!d-
ing at the corner of Ottawa avenue
and Lyon street, with the entrance on
Ottawa avenue. The office of the Sec-
retary will be located in this building
and members should register there up-
on arrival and secure identification

' badge, theater ticket, banquet ticket,

etc. Clerks will be ion hand to receive
applications for membership and dues
from active, associate and honorary
members.
12 Noon.
closed.

The exhibit hall will be

Tuesday Afternoon.

(Open session. Everybody invited.)

1:30. Meeting ca‘led to order in the
assembly hall in the Hotel Pantlind by
President Charles A. Sturmer.

Invocation by Past President,
Charles M. Alden, Grand Rapids.

Song, “America” led by William
Moore, Detroit.

Address of welcome by Hon. Wil-
liam Oltman, Mayor of Grand Rapids.

Response to address, J. Charles
Ross, Vice-President, Kalamazoo.

Annua! address of President, Charles
A. Sturmer, Port Huron,

Announcement of committees.

Address—“The Safety of the Re-
public,” Lee H. Bierce, Secretary of
the Grand Rapids Association of Com-
merce.

‘Song by delegates.

Address—“Community Spirit and
the Business Man,’ Dr. Alexander
Karr, Chicago, Ill.

Remarks by representatives of the

manufacturers, jobbers and the press.

Adjournment at 4 p. m.

* All members appointed for commit-

tee work should remain and arrange

for meetings of their committees.

4 p. m. The exhibit hall will be
open until 6 p. m.

Tuesday Evening.

8 p. m. Theater.party at the Em-
press theater. ‘Tickets given out at
the Secretary’s office must be ex-
changed for coupon seats before 7
oclock Tuesday evening. An excel-
lent vaudevil’e program is promised.

Wednesday Morning.

(Open Session. Everybody invited.)
9 a.m. Meeting called to order.
Opening song by delegates.
Address, “Efficiency in Business,” E.

L. Prentice, Grandville.

Discussion of above subject.

Address—“Stocks, Profits and Bal-
ances,” George W. Schroeder, Eau
Claire, Wis.

Discussion.

Address—“Store Records,” Past Na- .

tional President, Samuel R. Miles, Ar-
gos, Ind.

Discussion,

Address—“Relation of Stock Turn-
over to Net Profit,” Martin L. Pierce,
Promotion Manager Hoover Suction
Sweeper Co., North Canton, Ohio.

Adjournment at noon.

Wednesday Afternoon.

1 p. m. The exhibit hall will be
open at this time and wil remain so
until 6 o’clock.

Wednesday Evening.

7:30 p. m. (Question box session
for hardware dealers only.)

Annual report of Secretary, Arthur
J. Scott, Marine City.

Annual report of Treasurer, William
Moore, Detroit.

The remainder of the evening will be
devoted entirely to the “Question Box”
in charge of Charles A. Ireland, Ionia,
Scott Kendrick,’ Ortonville and J.
Charles Ross, Kalamazoo.

7:30 p.m. Exhibit hall will be open
to the public until 10 p. m.

Thursday Morning.

9 a.m. Opening song by the dele-
gates.

Address—“A Hardware Man’s In-
terest in Consolidated Schools,” Her-
man C. Meyer, Boyne Falls.

Discussion.

Address—“The Psychology of Win-
dow Advertising.” William L. Fuhrer,
Boyne City.

Discussion.

Address—“How to Build a Selling
Program,” Frank Stockdale, Chicago.

11:30 a. m. Report of Committee on
Nominations.

Election of officers.

Adjournment at noon.

Thursday Afternoon.

1 p. m. Exhibit hall will be open
until 6. The entire afternoon can be
profitably spent by the delegates, visit-
ing exhibitors. Don’t forget the at-
tractive prizes offered in the buying
contest. '

Thursday Evening.

7 p.m. Banquet and entertainment
at the Coliseum. Don’t miss this, as
it will be one of the most enjoyable
features of the convention. Dr. Mar-

4

ion Leroy Burton, President of our
State University, will make the princi-
pal address. His subject will be “Edu-
cation and Citizenship.” Delegates
will meet in the lobby of the Hotel
Pantlind, 6:30 sharp and go in a body
to the Coliseum.
Friday Morning.

8 a.m. The exhibit hall will be
open until 12 o’clock. Don’t go away
without placing an order with every
exhibitor whose line of goods you can

~ use to advantage.

Friday Afternoon.

(Executive Session for
dealers only.)

1 p. m. Report of Committee on
Constitution and By-Laws, Auditing
and Resolutions.

Consideration of
ports. :
Report of committee on next place
of meeting.

Selection of next city.

Unfinished and new business.

Adjournment.

The new Executive Committee will
hold a meeting at the Pantlind Hotel
immediatly following adjournment.

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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Jan. 23—“It is the
best Christmas in years for me,” said
a Michigan traveler whom I overheard
relating his experiences to a friend.
“Several years ago on Christmas eve,
our little girl, who was our pride and
joy, died as I was hurrying home from
a long trip, cut a trifle short on ac-
count of receiving a wire that she was
seriously ill. A few years later just
about Christmas time her good mother
passed on to her reward, so you can
imagine that Christmas time has ever
since brought little else but sorrowful
memories to me. I have for years
made a practice of contributing vari-
ous sums to organizations or. societies
supposed to look after the unfortunate
people at this time of the year and
while I hope that I am wrong in the
impression formed by visiting some of
them, yet for various reasons I could
not help thinking that in some in-
stances at least considerable of the
amounts contributed never reached
the bottom and I decided this year to
play Santa Claus myself. I found a
very needy and worthy family in which
there was a little girl six or seven
years old who was severely burned
eight weeks before and while she was
improving slowly, yet she had not
walked since the accident. She had
one doll, acquired in better days, and
had expressed a wish that Santa Claus
* might bring her a little wash tub,-so
she could wash her dolly’s clothes
when she was able to walk again. I
found a-set which included tub, board,
wringer, ‘basket, line and pins, a
splendid picture and story book and
half a dozen monogram handkerchiefs.
Then I got a big basket and filled it
with groceries, some nuts, candies and
oranges, also a big fat chicken which
I stuffed with $5 worth of milk tickets.
I had these taken to the house on
Christmas eve by one of the neighbors
who promised not to reveal to them
the source from which the gifts came.
Yes, I have been successful in a way,
though I would willingly make any
kind of a sacrifice if by: doing so I
could bing back the wife and little
girl who were so dear to me. We
cannot always understand why mis-
fortune comes to us, but if you want
to experience an inner joy and satis-
faction, do something like that I have
described for those who are needy
and worthy and not let them know
where it comes from.”

For a month past three cheap
gamb‘ers have been operating on the
evening trains between Grand Rapids
and Chicago. Part of the time they
work on the P. M. and part of the
time on the M. C. One of the men is
small, with a bullet head. The second
is a large man, with a broad rimmed
hat, affecting the Western style. The
third is tall and rather slim. They are
not dressed as well as gamblers gen-
erally are. They are not finished
gamblers, because they are crude in
their methods. One of them selects
the victim and asks him to engage in
a little friendly game. If the sug-
gestion is acted on, the two repair to
the parlor section, which has already
been reserved by the gang, who evi-
dently “work. in cahoots” with the
porters. After a little the other two
join the party and ask permission to
“sit in.’ The stakes are matches to

begin with, but if the. man selected for
the victim appears to be sufficiently

gullible, the game is changed from
bridge to high card (stud poker) and
the amount-at stake gradually increas-
es in amount. Of course, the gamblers
are crooks and the game is so crooked
that the victinr stands no show. With-
in the past month twelve Grand Rap-
ids men have been filched out of $25
to $75 and reports are current that as
high as $500 has been extorted from
men who permitted their sporting
blood to’ lead them astray. As soon
as the victim has parted with his
money, the three crooks immediately
go forward to the smoking car and
jump off the train the first time it
stops. The Tradesman has reported
this situation to the managements of
the M. C. the P. M. and the Pullman
Palace Car Co., but no action has evi-
dently been taken by either organiza-
tion to put a stop to the machinations
of the crooks. :

The Clare Sentinel of Jan. 19 con-
tains the following reference to the
death of “Tip” Calkins, who was
known and respected by nearly every
Michigan traveling man:

Again the city of Clare was called upon
to mourn the departure of one of its re-
spected and highly esteemed pioneer citi-
zens when news reached this city last
Friday morning that J. W. Calkins had
passed away suddenly the night previous
at the home of his son, Charities, at Lan-
sing, where he had gone to spend the
winter.

Although he had been in poor health
for many months, no one thought the
end so near. He was in his usual good
spirits up until Tuesday evening of last
week, when he was taken worse, but
nothing that would seem seriows. Thurs-
day he continued worse and at 9:30 that
evening, passed from this life. 5

John W. Calkins was born in New
York State, June 22, 1846, where he grew
to manhood. In the year 1868 he came to
Isabella county and located at Rosebush,
then called Calkinsville. Two years later
he came to this city and entered the
hardware business, which he conducted
for several years. -In the year 1872 he
was united in marriage to Miss Mary
Callam, of Canada. To this union were
born two children, one dying in infancy
and Charles W., of Lansing.

He sold his hardware business to Wm.
H. Goodman in 1880 and moved his fam-
ily to Arizona, where he lived until 1891
when he returned to this city and built
the Hotel Calkins, which he conducted,
until it was destroyed by fire, Tuesday,
Jan. 20, 1920, with the exception of a few
years, during which time he leased the
same in order to obtain sufficient rest.
Since the fire he has conducted a hotel
at Houghton Heights during the summer.

Mrs. Calkins died Nov. 10, 1921. Fol-
lowing her death Mr. Calkins practically
retired from business life. His helpmate
who had worked diligently by his side
through their wedded life had gone and
he had not the heart nor strength to go
further, and retired to his home.

During his career as landlord of the
Calkins, ‘‘Tip,’’ as he was known by both
young and old, gained for himself hosts
of friends from all parts of the State.
His genteel manner was ever present.
Commercial travelers were always glad
to reach “‘The Calkins,” and many times
they came miles in order to Sunday with
him. It did not matter to him whether
ihey came in early or late, he was ever
ready to admit them and see that they
were tucked away in one of his comfort-

‘able beds. As a citizen he was for any-

thing that would benefit the city of Clare
and was always ready with his help or
finances to forward its best interests.
He had the honor of painting the first
United States flag that was raised in
Clare. :

Besides his son, the deceased is sur-
vived by three brothers, Bert, of Rose-
bush; James, of Lake George, and Fred
who resides somewhere in the West.

The remains were brought to this city
Saturday and taken to his late home,
where the funeral services were held
Sunday morning, conducted by Rey.
Lohnes in charge of the local Masonic
lodge, of which he has been a member
for many years. The remains were laid to
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The annual U. C. T. banquet is
scheduled for March 3: That is on a
Saturday, and the place will be the
Pantlind Hotel, as usual. It is too
early to say much about the program
for that evening. The committee on
arrangements consists of Kaser, Hul-
den and Dolson; entertainment, Lypps
and Viergever. Capt. Walter Burgess
is chairman and general supervisor of
all committees. Fact, is, the whole
show is on the Captain’s shoulders.
At the committee meeting Saturday, he
remarked thusly: “I have a habit of
getting things done; it’s part of my
training. Since you’ve given me this
job of chairman I shall expect every
man to do his full duty. There will
be no buck-passing and no “letting
George do it.” With that the Captain
gave each member a certain task in
addition to his committee work. “Write
it down,” said the Captain, “and when
you’ve finished that job, call me up
and report; if you need help, I'll be
with you.”

Dan Viergever, who has represented
the Woodhouse Company for a long
time, will sell Van Dam cigars for the
Tunis Johnson Cigar Co., after Feb.
1. Since all U. C. T. members have
a habit of plugging for one another it
will be easier sailing for Dan than if
he were a rank outsider. Van Dam
cigars were popular from the start and
are on sale in many states throughout
the Middle West.

Ted Hensel is leaving Grand Rapids
this week and will make his future
home at Indianapolis. Ted has been
_ taken on by the N. K. Fairbank Com-
pany, of Chicago, and hereafter will
hob-nob with the famous “Gold Dust
Twins.” He will be greatly missed in
U. C. T. circles, for he has been a
faithful worker and popular among
the boys. Ted was known as a “pinch-
hitter” and always came to bat with a
smile. He was a good entertainer and
his place will be hard to fill.

Robert Elwanger is again confined
to his home. “Bob” is a hard worker
and, like many’ others, has over esti-
mated his strength. A few weeks’ rest
is necessary before he can travel as
before.

The city of Kalamazoo is all clutter-
ed up with auto busses. Some dis-
gruntled citizen of that thriving manu-
facturing center saw fit to throw a
wrench at the street railway company,
and by persistent propaganda has suc-
ceeded in holding up another fran-
chise. It is up to the voters shortly as
to whether a municipal bus line will
supplant the street railway. Kalama-
zoo’s taxes, already causing general
complaint, must necessarily be boosted
sky-high if the proposed plan _ is
adopted. As a result new industries
will avoid Kalamazoo when seeking a
location. Several thriving concerns,
although well established and consider-
ed as permanent, may move to other
cities.

The close of the January furniture
market, Saturday, Jan. 20, brought the
total number of buyers pu to 2,577,
positively the largest furniture mar-

ket ever held in the world. There is -

not much danger of Chicago ever
having a better market than Grand
Rapids. Just to show the growth of
this market we will go back to January
of 1921, where we find 1688 buyers.
Then January of 1922, 2122; the July
market of 1922, 2507 buyers, which
up to that time was the big market.
It must be remembered, however, that
.the midsummer market is always a
larger market in point of attendance
than the January market. Yet, the
January market of 1923 went nearly
100 over the July market of 1922.

Buyers were registered from forty-
three states and also Canada, the lat-
ter country sending twenty buyers.
The State of Ohio led the list with
357 buyers; Michigan next with 300;
New York third with 267 and Illinois,
233.

The volume of business written up,
as near as we can get at it, also runs
so large as to be a record market,
outside of the crazy markets during

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the war period. There were over 500
lines listed as being shown here and
every line has from one to three sell-
ers and during the season a great
many of the factories sent represen-
tatives both from their office force
and the designing room; also the
finishers, so that with 500 lines shown
it is safe to estimate that they brought
at least 1500 people to Grand Rapids
during the market. This would bring
a grand total of the number of peo-
ple brought to Grand Rapids in the
furniture industry during the three
weeks of the market as running over
4000.

Very good reports were heard from
the different visitors in regard to the
way they were handled at the hotels
and with the added rooms to the
Pantlind Hotel and the new Morton
House there will soon be more room
to take care of visitors to the furniture
market and it is a safe bet that in-
creased hotel facilities and the addi-
tions to the furniture exhibition build-
ings will not only bring more buyers,
but there will also be more lines
shown and the time is not far distant
when the January and July market
seasons in Grand Rapids will bring
an influx of 5000 people. This will
mean a lot of money distributed that
goes into all channels of trade in
Grand Rapids.

Work will start very soon on the
Rindge building to add the additional
five stories. Leases are now being
written and it is fully expected that
the building will be ready for occu-
pancy for the July market. Negotia-
tions are also on for doubling the
size of the Furniture Temple.

With this last report, here’s hoping
that each season the furniture market
will grow larger and larger.

The You-See-Tee Club held the
first luncheon of 1923 in the Rotary
room of the Pantlind Hotel Saturday,
Jan. 20. There was a good attendance
and the Club members had the pleas-
ure of entertaining C. V. Calkins,
manager of the Wright House, Alma.
Mr. Calkins is also Treasurer of the
Michigan State Hotel Association and
in his talk gave the assurance that it
was the wish of the members of the
Michigan State Hotel Association to
give just as good service as it was
possible to do for the rates charged
and also to show as much considera-
tion a possible to the traveling men.
Clare is always welcome and it is
hoped that he will be able to dine
again at some future. time with the
You-See-Tee Club. At the close of
the luncheon, it being the annual meet-
ing, Captain Walter N. Burgess was
elected President; John B. Olney,
Vice-President; Homer R. Bradfield
was re-elected to succeed himself as
Secretary-Treasurer. Immediately af-
ter the election President: Burgess ap-
pointed a booster committee and went
into an executive session with this
committe. Just what was done at this
meeting we are unable to say, but from
the personnel of the committee we
predict much good from their efforts.
The next regular luncheon will be
Saturday, Jan. 27, and the committee
in charge promises something good
in the way of entertainment.

Postal cards have been received by
different traveling men from James
H. Bolen, who left with his wife and
family a short time ago for California.
One postal card gives the pleasant

information that the thermometer
stands at 99. Flowers are in bloom
everywhere. Jim sends best regards

to everybody. His address is 306
East Howard stret, Glendale, Cali-
fornia.

G. W. Rouse, President of the Wor-
den Grocer Company, spent Monday
and Tuesday of this week in New
York City.

At the annual meeting of the Mer-
chants Life Insurance Co., held here
last Thursday, the report: of Presi-
dent Watts showed a net gain of $180,-
000 during 1922, being 45 per cent. on
the $400,000 capital stock. The direc-

tors decided to place the company on
a 10 per cent. dividend basis, payable
2% per cent. quarterly. The first quar-
terly payment will be made Feb. 1.

W. R. Roach, the master canner, has
recovered from his recent illness to
such an extent that he is able to dress
and move around the house. It is a
great disappointment to him to be un-
able to attend the annual convention
of the National Canners Association at
Atlantic City this week.

ee
Living Costs in Various Cities.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has
just reported changes in living costs
between September and December,
1922, in thirty-one important cities.
In every case there was an advance,
which ranged from 0.1 per cent. in
Seattle to 3 per cent. in Philadelphia.
There were only two other cities—
Memphis and New Orleansi—in which
the advance amounted to less than 1
per cent., and Denver was the only
other in which the advance amounted
to as much as 3 per cent. The aver-
age rate of advance for the thirty-one
cities amounts to 1.7 per cent. As
usual, there is in some cases a wide
discrepancy between the changes in
neighboring cities. Thus the increase
was three times as great in Mobile
as in New Orleans, and over twice as
great in Cleveland as in Cincinnati.
Fortunately, there was only 0.1 per
cent. variation between Los Angeles

25

and San Francisco, and this is too

‘small to cause any municipal heart-

aches on the Pacific coast.
—_~+2.____
Buy in Hand To Mouth Fashion.

Written for the Tradesman.

Continued quietness in export busi-
ness on wheat and flour is having the
usual effect on prices in this country.

There has been a fairly good reces-
sion in values, but the market condi-
tions surrounding both wheat and flour

- are in such shape it is difficult to tell

just what will happen in the immediate
future. There may be some more re-
action. Of this we are reasonably
certain, however: If the market does
break much more from the present
basis, both wheat and flour will be
mighty good property. In the mean-
time, it appears advisable to buy in a
hand to mouth fashion.
Lloyd E. Smith.
—_>-._____

It isn’t stinginess but good business
sense that makes it wise to avoid
using too much paper and twine and
otherwise wasting material.

It’s the PANTLIND

; in
GRAND RAPIDS
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Assets, Dec. 31, 1922

automobile insurance?

 

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HOWELL, MICH.

Figures taken from Annual Statement, December ST; -1922.
Claims and Losses Paid, 1922

504 Fire and Theft __
146 Personal Injury __
600 Property Damage ___....
2,067 Collision: _..

eo $ 83,714.77

ee es 124,633.99

Total Claims and Losses to Date

10,969, -Amoyating to 2 3 $1,261,697.99

Cash in Banks and in Office _________ $173,215.01
Office Site and Building _
Furniture and Equipment ______________
Salvage Department ___
Accounts Receivable —__
Accrued Interest, Cert. of Deposit _______

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Total __

Cash Surplus Increased From $80,083.07 to $173,215.01;
A Gain of Over 100 Per Cent.

More than 16,000 persons killed, nearly 200,000 injured by
automobiles in the United States last year. Car owners paid
the bill. Are you protected against this hazard by adequate

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12,000.00
6,200.00
4,702.20
2,654.80

 

 

 

 

 

- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

January 24, 1923

 

Proceedings of Grand Rapids Bank-

ruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Jan. 15. On this day
was held the first meeting of creditors
in the matter of John H. Kinsey, Bank-
rupt No. 2206. The bankrupt was pres-
ent_in person and by attorney, Horace
T. Barnaby. Several claims were allow-
ed against the estate. Frank V. Blakely
was elected trustee and the amount of
his bond placed by the Referee at $300.
The bankrupt was then sworn and exam-
ined without a reporter. The first meet-
ing of creditors was then adjourned no
date.

On this day also were received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in bankruptcy in the matter of
Winfield Maynard, Bankrupt No. 2215.
The matter has been referred to Benn
M. Corwin as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of the city of
Muskegon and is a laborer. The sched-
ules list assets in the sum of $175, all
of which are claimed as exempt, and lia-
bilities in the sum of $2,453.50. The first
meeting has not been called from the
fact that there are no assets in _the estate
over and above those claimed as exempt.
When the funds written for have been
furnished, the first meeting will be called
and note of the date made here. A list
of the creditors of the bankrupt—all lo-
cated in Muskegon—is as follows:
Mee te AaO ee $1,650.00
75.00

 
 
    

Jas. Balbirnie __.... 0
moose @& Sone 2 aS 70.00
ey urea 54.00
woe Siero 147.00
Langeland Mfg. Co. ___. 17.00
o00n Soloma 100.60
John Hartsema _..._ 9.00
wor. eRPeOn 10.00
Wihiogel & Co. 0 4.00
Liberal Credit Clothing Co. __.._ 13.00
Wim. Macllor 2 36.00
or Ane 10.00
er. Bernese 3.00
Gur pores ee 10.00
eOWel ten (5. 10.00
7em, Oostng 3 7.00
Prosperity Laundry Co. _________ 10.00
meetioms Bros. 90.00
Albert Damm 4.50
LaFayette Transfer _..__ 6.00
Little Henry’s Store ______. 30.00
Cornelius Huizema __-.. 40.00
ce ee 18.00
Muskegon Dairy _....- 6.50
Muskegon Rag & Metal Co. __.. 16.00
Pr. Cavanaueh 5.50
Dr Bieele 2.00

Jan. 15. On this day were received

the schedules, order of reference and ad-
judication in bankruptcy in the matter
of William Mandel, Bankrupt No. 2214.
The matter has been. referred to Benn
M. Corwin as referee in bankruptcy and
who also has been appointed receiver.
A custodian has been appointed and has
the place in charge. The bankrupt is a
resident of the city of Grand Rapids and
conducted a men’s and ladies’ furnish-
ing goods store. The schedules of the
bankrupt list assets in the sum of $11,-
950, of which $250 is claimed as exempt
to the bankrupt, and liabilities in the
Sum of $4,587.03. The first meeting of
creditors will be held on Jan. 29. A list
of the creditors of the bankrupt is as
follows:

Boyce Bros., Grand Rapids _______ $389.33
International Handkerchief Mfg.

o.. New. York 2. 18.50
Adolph Spatz & Co., Chicago __.. 14.00
Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co., Grand R. 28.00
G. R. Dry Goods Co., Grand Rapids 6.00
S. Deichess Co., Chicago ________ 10.50
Phoenix Shirt Mfg. Co., Chicago 73.50
I. H. Rohde & Co., Chicago ______ 121.75
Selz, Schwab & Co., Chicago ______ 196.17
Standard Garment, Toledo _______ 78.00
Wilson Bros., Chicago __________ 50.00
H. L. Willing Co., Detroit _______ 58.00
Phillips-Jones Co., New York ____ 75.00
Cluett Peabody & Co., Chicago _ 145.20
Isadore Weinberg & Co., Chicago 461.58
Endicott Johnson Co., Endicott,

ee Op ee ee eee 283.70
D. Maiman Mfg. Co., Chicago ___ 176.25

Daniel T. Patton, Grand Rapids 191.50
Atlas Hosiery Mills, Chicago ____
Malperowitz & Son, Chicago _____ -
Barnett Jaffe, New York _________ 178.00
Carson-Pirie & Scott Co., Chicago 502.00
Detroit Suspender Co., Detroit ____
Greenfield Glove Mfg. Co., Green-

Ae CU
Hoer Adams Shoe Co., Bellville, Ill. ‘
Heyman & Alexander Co., Chicago 50.50
Joseph Herman Co., New York __ 166.00
J. B. Hirschfeld Co., New York __ 250.37

Hackner Bros., Chicago ___________ 40.50
Clopper Bros., Cleveland ______ 129.42
Lurie Mfg. Co., Chicago ______.___ 202.75
J. H. Levy, Cleveland ______ 246.66

Moyer Mfg. Co., Youngstown, Ohio 224.10
Metcalf Neckwear Co., Cleveland 55.19
Jan. 16. On this day was held the
final meeting of creditors in the matter
of William Vanden Berg, Sr., Bankrupt
No. 2139. The bankrupt was not present
in person or represented. The trustee
was not present in person. Additional
claims wére proved and allowed against
the estate of the bankrupt. An order
was made for the payment of adminis-
tration expenses and for the payment of
the balance of the fund on hand on the
tax claim filed as far as the same would
pay such claim. The trustee’s final re-
port and account were approved and al-
lowed. The case will now be closed and
returned to the district court. The final
meeting was then adjourned no date.
“Jan. 16. On this day were received

the schedules, order of reference and ad-
judication in bankruptcy in the matter of
Robert Spain, Bankrupt No. 2216. The
matter has been referred to Benn’ M.
Corwin as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of the city’ of
Muskegon and is a blacksmith by trade.
The schedules list assets in the sum of
$100, all of which is claimed as exempt
to the bankrupt, and liabilities in the
sum of $1,556.71. Funds having been fur-
nished the first meeting of creditors has
been called for Jan. 30. <A list of the
creditors of the bankrupt is as follows:
Shiawasse County Bank, ee

   

John R. Kelly Co., Owosso ________ 91.96
Shiawassee Coal Co., Durand ____ 45.00
Barton & Garton, Durand ________ 20.00
D. A. Brown, Durand ____________ 45.00
F. D. Nisbitt, Durand ______.__ 50.00
Drs. Fair & Rowley, Durand _____- 40.60
Drs. Hart & Hart, St. Johns - 84.50
Elmer Barlow, Durand ___ - 90.00
Green & Gobel, Durand _ an PaO
C. E. Mapes, Durand __________ 359.25
Chick & Gegan, Durand __________ i

Freeman & Co., Durand __________ 7.75
Dr. Edward Carner, Durand ______ 12.50

Jan. 17. On this day were received the
schedules in the matter of Cyclone Mo-
tors Corporation, Bankrupt No. 2202. The
schedules of the bankrupt list assets in
the sum of $91,664.79 and liabilities in
the sum of $14,772.18. The first meeting
of creditors will be held at St. Joseph,

Jan. 31. A list of the creditors of the
bankrupt is as follows:

The following are preferred labor
claims:
W. K. Korn, Benton Harbor —_____ $140.00
Teresa Deitle, Benton Harbor ____ 110.00

Frank Courtright, Benton Harbor 126.00
W. C. Prosser, Benton Harbor —_ 75.00

 

Dorothy Eaton, Benton Harbor __ 51.35
W. H. Hearn, Benton Harbor __-_ 200.00
J. N. Clock, Benton Harbor ____._ 500.00
Frank Moore, Benton Harbor 31.00

The following are creditors holding se-
curities:
Remington Typewriter Co., Detroit $ 43.75
Woodstock Typewriter Co., Chicago 70.00
McMullen Machinery Co., Grand

BERRA So ke 280.00
Frank Snideman, South Haven —_ 975.00

The following are unsecured creditors:
American Swiss Magneto Co.,

PUPA $ 17.76
American Elec. Co., Chicago --.. 2.30
Automatic File Index Co., Green

BS, WB ee 81.00
Bagby Photo Co., South Bend ___. 23.50
A. Becker & Sons, Benton Harbor 2.25
Benton Harbor Engineering Co.,

Benton Harbor -___-__--___-_____ 3.51
Brammall Heating & Sup. Co.,

Benton Harbor =. 70.36
Berton-Rogers Co., Cleveland _... 1.59
Bernard Bandler & Sons, New York 15.00
Benton Harbor Castings Co.,

Benton Harbor _._.. 5 63.18

. H.-St. Jo. R. R. & Lt. Co.,

Benton Harbor —_--_-.__-_._____ 57.52
H. Channon Co., Chicago —__-__-_ 8.89
Edw. N. Calhoun, Benton Harbor 4.85
Crescent Engraving Co., Benton H. 6.89
Eugene Deitzgen Co., Chicago -. 1.50
Diamond Chain & Mfg. Co.,

Indianapolis Se ee
Delaware Reg. Trust Co., Wil-

maineton, Del. 00.00
Elec. Service Co., Benton Harbor 3.28
Eclipse Mach. Co., Elmira —_-___ 4.96
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.,

I a 87

Ferber Furn. Store, Benton Harbor -36
Forbes Stamp Co., Grand Rapids
Fafnir Bearing Co., New Britain,

ee 8.90
Green & Co., Benton Harbor -... 34.58
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.,

HR oe 57.85
Harven Mach. Co., Los Angeles __ 25.20

Howell Elec. Motor Co., Howell_. 220.20
Hovey Auto Sales Co., Benton H. 5
Harris & Reed Mfg. Co., Chicago
Indiana Engraving Co., South Bend 136.20
Johnson Miller, New York 3.00
Chas. Koffman & Sons, Inc., San

MAR 3.9
Machinists Supply Co., Chicago __ 170.64
Sheet Metal & Roofing Co., Benton

NOGARO a -60
Mould Brass Foundry Co., Benton

co Te Ce ite Weil ter teal ee eatin sla nee 140.21

Michigan Mut. Liability Co., Detroit 24.00
B. N. Nowlen & Co., Benton Harbor 229.81

Frank Noble, Benton Harbor ____ 568.47>
W. E. Noll, Detroit  _..._._._____ 105.00
Creston Lumber Co., Benton Har. 45.75
Oliver Mach. Co., Grand Rapids __ 17.83
Palladium Pub. Co., Benton Harbor 30.80
Peters Hdwe. Co., Benton Harbor 47.34

Pier Equipment Co., Benton Har. 7
P.

 

F. Rolfe, Benton Harbor _____ 3.1
F. D. Rosback Co., Benton Harbor 4.61
Fasnidmann, South Haven _______ 20.30
The Seiss Mfg. Co., Toledo ______ 1.60°
William E. Sheffield Co., Benton H. 5.98
The Sterling Mfg. Co., Cleveland 1.11
South Bend Tribune, South Bend 4.06
W. G. Smith Ptg. Co., Benton H. 224.00
Sieber Oil Co., St. Joseph —__.____ 406.32
Standard Steel & Bearings, Inc.,

Philadelphia —___.-.__._______ 19.53
Berton G. Starke, St. Joseph ____ 60.64
S. K, F.-Industries, New York __ 25.24
Simms Magneto Co., East Orange,

N. J. 13.50
South Bend Awning Co., South B. 15.00

Upton Mach. Wks., Benton Harbor 63.95

U. §S. Elec. Tool Co., Cincinnati 150.00
J. H. Williams & Co., Chicago __ 4.36
Wheeler-Schebeler Carburetor Co.,
Indianapolis ._........_-._. 10.23
Williard Storage Battery Co.,
AOSV GMO ne 10.89
Zabel] & Muller, Chicago —.._._____ 41.50

F. Whitlock, Detroit _-_______.____ 50.00
R. L. Polk & Co., Benton Harbor 9.00
City of Benton Harbor, Benton H. 2.75
B._H.-St. Jo. Gas & Fuel Co.,

Benton Harbor 71.44
Michigan State Tel. Co., Benton H. 53.20
B. H.-St. Jo. R. R. Co., Benton H. 12.73
Western Union Tel Co., Benton H. 10.23
Angesten-Kox Co., Chicago ______ 143
F. C. Anger & Co., Detroit _______ 35.00
E. M. Clough, Benton Harbor ___ 5.50
The Corcoran Victor Co., Cincinnati 2.60.
Troxel Mfg. Co., Elyria __________ 2.95
F. A. Smith Mfg. Co., Rochester 2.43
Aparks Withington Co., Jackson__ 1.60
Auto Metal Products Co., New York 3.65
Klaxon Co., Newark _____--.____ 1.75
New Departure Mfg. Co., Bristol,

RO 9.65
Scintilla Magneto Co., New York 23.20
Splitdorf Elec. Co., Newark ______ 47.00
American Bosch Mag. Corp., Detroit 10.64
W. C. Hovey, Benton Harbor ____ 3,000.00
W. C. Hertz, Benton Harbor ____ 87.04
J. M. Eaton, Benton Harbor ____ 85.93
J. M. Eaton, Benton Harbor ____ 1,500.00

H. C. Hertz, Benton Harbor ____ 1,000.00
eZnith Carburetor Co., Detroit __

The following are notes:
Francis H. Moore, Benton Harbor $550.00
Francis H. Moore, Benton Harbor 500.00
Callender-Sullivan Press, Chicago 810.00

Jan. 18. On this day were received
the schedules, order of reference and ad-
judication in bankruptcy in the matter of
Charles Kelly Abbajiy, Bankrupt No.
2217. The matter has been referred to
Benn M. Corwin as referee in bankruptcy.
The bankrupt is a resident of Grand
Rapids and is a laborer. The schedules
filed list assets in the sum of $250, all of
which is claimed as exempt and liabilities
in the sum of $10,286.23. The first meet-
ing of creditors will be called and note
of the same made here when funds have
been furnished for the first meeting of
creditors. A list of the creditors of the
bankrupt—all located in Grand Rapids—

is as follows:
Siles Bros: Co, 22 a $858.92
110.00

  

Lewellyn & Co.
F. F. Wood Motor Co. __________ 104.55
Kent Storage Co, 22... 109.99
Rosendaal Gros. 20 633.22
Dykstra’s Grain Co. ~_____________ 346.72
Mictiean So Co. 220 700.00
Re a ee — 625.00
Mam. 1 DONeAR | 118.00
John M. Dunham _____________ -- 150.00
Jack Harden __.____ - 36.87
ita, 3, MeMurray 29.10
sepse Gingrich oo 486.00
Daneor Atpajgiy oo 200.00
one, A. Ove oe 36.0
National Grocer Co. ~_____________ 323.51
PASO Dineen 74.20
Merl A. Boar 191.66
Joseph H. Benton —_______________ 20.69
Ford Specialty Rep. Co. __________ 60.00
Sawin Conway 0.2 eS 72.10
BPO FARM 33.76
Plainfield Ave. Storage Garage ___ 43.35
Monter (0, 220 unknown
eo. 2. Menge os 500.00
G. R. Savings Bank ______________ 2,500.00
muchae: Decks 2 500.00
Old National Bank ________________ 700.00
ep. Bashers. unknown
SRORNTA RS 275.00
Peter. Teentvaar 0 350.00
Custer Smith Grain Co. __________ 97.49
Jan. 19. On this day was held the

sale of the assets in the matter of Lor-
raine Motor Corporation, Bankrupt No.
2193. The trustee was present in per-
son. Various creditors and attorneys
were present in person. All of the assets
of the estate except the accounts re-
ceivable were sold to H. J. Dornbos, of
Grand Haven, for $47,000. An order has
been made confirming such sale. The
meeting was then adjourned without
date.
Jan. 19. On this day was held the sale
of the assets in the matter of Midwest
Company, Bankrupt No. 2167. The trus-
tee was present in person. The bank-
rupt company was not present by repre-
sentation. Various bidders and creditors
Were present in person. The stock in
trade, except such as has petitions to
reclaim against it, was sold to D. Nus-

baum, of Kalamazoo, for $8,800. The
fixtures, furniture and equipment, less
that upon which there is a petition to
reclaim, was sold to Irving Rogers for
91.300. Both of the sales have been con-
firmed. The special meeting and sale
was then adjourned no date.

Jan. 20. On this day were received the
Schedules, orfer of reference and adjudi-
cation in bankruptcy in the matter of
James De Vries, Bankrupt No. 2219. The
matter has been referred to Benn M.
Corwin as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids
and is a laborer by occupation. His
schedules list assets in the sum of $517.20,
of which $500 is claimed as exempt to
the bankrupt, and liabilities in the sum
of $705.80. The first meeting of creditors
will be called when funds have been fur-
nished for such meeting and note of the
same made here when the meeting is set.
A list of the creditors of the bankrupt—
all. located in Grand Rapids—is as fol-
lows:

Jordan & Jordan .._ $ 85.00
termit  Rossinig
De Jager Mulder Co. _...... K
MIGEI AN POS, (hee 105.00

   

Pauels-Jergens & Holtvluwer ____ 12.50
Clyde Park Pharmacy ______ 18.10
Mpller Shoe Store 11.00
Groene Mardware 2.75
SUCHS water: 38.00
won desing 5.80
Ge we SAO oe 4.00
PP er a 11.00
ee RAR 5.90
Bea. MeN AIA oe 6.00
POOULOY Sg. 12.75
Dr S Whinnery 3 37.00
wr. Veenisoer: 2 27.00
or. emeerinan ee 7.00
Ao OO RrMen 38.00
We Ve 3.00
Conroy Wiel Co, 2 10.00
Houseman & Jones ____..___

GOR. WICKS ee a
Chas. Atkinson __________
Winegar Furni Co. __
ORC) Ste
Chauncy Westover, Nunica

 
  
  

ee 18.00
Standard Education Soc., Chicago 49.00

Jan. 20. On this day was held the first
meeting’ of creditors in the matter of
Alvah J. Fuller, Bankrupt No. 2203. The
bankrupt was present in person, but not
by attorney. No creditors were present
or represented. One claim was proved
against the estate. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined by the referee with-
out a reporter and from this examination
und the schedules filed it appeared that
there were no assets which were not
claimed as exempt to the bankrupt, there-
fore an order was made confirming the
exemptions to him and closing the estate.
The case will now be closed and returned
to the district court.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Harlie F. Hunter, Bankrupt No. 2197.
The bankrupt was present in person and
by attorneys, Watt & Colwell. No cred-
itors were present or represented. No
claims were proved against the estate
of the bankrupt. Chester C. Woolridge,
of Grand Rapids, was appointed trustee
by the referee and the amount of his
bond placed eby the referee at $100. The
trustee was directed to investigate the
status of certain mortgages and report.
The bankrupt was then sworn and ex-
amined by the referee without a reporter.
The first meeting was. then adjourned
no date.

In the matter of Arthur A. Allen,
Bankrupt No. 2209, the funds for the first
meeting have been furnished and such
meeting will be held at the office of the
referee on Jan.

Jan. 22. On this day was held the
first_ meeting of creditors in the matter
of Francis Mapes, Bankrupt No. 2204.
The bankrupt was present in person.
James English, of Lucas, was elected
trustee, and the amount of his’. bond
placed by the referee at $1,000. The
bankrupt was then sworn and examined
by the referee without a reporter. The
appraisal taken by the receiver was ap-

 

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xami t was th ee e historic dominati Wat -- 8%@ 13 Eucalyptus —___ i 95 Geiitian 1 80
examined by the en sworn and CG ination of ater, 14 deg. 6% Hg ptus: 22 90@1 20 Ginger, D. S. ~ 1 35
aes Ee Le re She ermany by Napoleon, : Carbonat -- 6%@ 12 Hemlock, pure__ 2 00 Gn PS i
ten ie re jnventory aud boneaiei 38 beside the is , that, of course, Chjoride Genes 20@ 25 Tuniber ee 2 00 2 38 GQuatae Annan. @2 20
the creditors and ver was adopted by do not refrai ssue at present, but I (Gran.) 10@ 20 Lard, extra pea odine ’ aitat 2 00
veting was then adoj 7 he first rain, in passing, f Lard, N ee 145 lodine, Colorless 95
Jan. 22: 6 _adojurned no date. ing the opini » from offer- ect Lard, No. 1-1 10@1 20 ii do 1 50
first. meetin n_this day was h : Pinion that the succ ; alsams iy ar Flow 5 25@5 50 Kino . 1 35
gz of credit . eld the co ess and Cc : avendar Gar’n 175@2 00 Myrrh _....... g
of Harry Hedd itors in the matter ntinuance of the pl opaiba ____ 60 Lemon 75@2 00 Myrrh 1 40
Medien & fone co bore and i plans of that great Fir (Canada) __ @1 00 Linseed Boiled b 1 50@1 75 Nux Vomica ___ @2 50
"on, - : a genius to weld anada) _. 2 50 inseed Boiled bbl Opi mica ____
rupt No. 2205 a co-partnership, Bank- all of Europe int Fir (Or @2 75 Linseed bid 1 - @ 98 Opium ___ 3 55
ent in person aia bankrupts were pres- sort of new Rom : o2 op egon) ___ 60@ 80 Linseed, ra ess 1 05@113 Opium, Camp. _~ 3 50
torney. Credit by Dean S. Face, at ‘ soe et an Empire, with a eru ------___ 3 50 ~~ Linseed, w, bbl. @ 96 Opium, Deod oes g 85
J. N.C ors were repre , at- uniformity in law Tolu __ a @375 Mw , ra. less 1 03@1 11 Rhubarb orz’d 3 50
were irepeit ta oer Several creditor, tion and all the BO ain tradsporia. iuge Foe Tee T
a : n. Clai Ww Poo a ee eee
Se, Semen gran, Cee. Te vould hase fe he tae ee Barks give, gary = # 1604 €0 Paints
of his bond pl stee and the amount It * an race. Cassia (ordi yellow . B
$1,000. placed by th would have pr la (ordinary) 25 Olive, Malaga 275@3 00 Lead, r
$1,000. Harry Hedden wite referee at growth prevented at least the C@Ssia (Saigon)_ @ 30 oe faa ed dry __ 13% @14%
amine en sw growth of | - 50 green _____ , wh
feporter. ‘The feet mectoe without a gos the fierce and embittered S28S8‘ras (pw. 45c) ; 60 orange, “Sweet. 4 s0g4 73 Lead tte dry 13% @14%
rs ; irst i a spirit ti ‘ : 4 i 4 » White oi =
adourned without Se eapeeatead then was . 2 oe and parochialism a Cut (powd.) ’ ooo eno : $3 20 Ochre mie eo
—~+--.___ z racteristic of ee i ee ae are 15 Pe coe 00@1 20 O : Ge 3
The French Advance Into Ge and, of course ee @ 20 Peppermint nis 2 5002 15 fae yellow less 2%@ 6
ao rman WwW : ous orld Berri eae pure.” os ohare ua. fed Vemma ca 5@
Fully Justi y ar. Some of : y erries Rosem << 00@16 00 Red Venet’ 8
ified ‘ our new generat Cubeb ary Flows 1 25@1 n Am. 3%@
In spite “ot ? will be : ions ubeb ----______ 1 75@1 85 Sandalwood 50 Red Venet’ 7
the wides > Saying, one of th Fish I mre Whiti n Eng. 4@
pread experi- “ ese days, not 1 --~-~-------- 25@ eae 10 00 fhiting, bbl 8
ence of a sentimen xperi- ‘my country,” or “ : Juniper 30 Sassafras, t i) 2s Whtcit ge
‘ t adverse to F : y, or “my town,” Ge eee ete 7@ s » true 150@1 380 L & z5------ 5%
: : ranc ” » or m Pri 45 Sassafras, arti’ . oH. PP @ 10
in her movement into the Ruhr, ee ee Ss ae ae @ 30 Spearmint "4 f0@4 75 Prep. ~_ 2 60@2 76
ieve that there i ? - wrong. but—wi : : mM ~--------- 1 80 a
enecat gone a i least latent, a nike the world . succes — kind- Extracts Tar USP RE - wont 25 Miscellaneous
i . er course i : ountry. Licori Turpentine, bbl. D 65
action, which will ” such William H . ee 60@ 65 me ee Acetanalid
openly. G ill soon show itself enry Bishop. Ditorice -powd 70@ 80 Wintergreen less 1 71@1 79 Alum —______l 030 a
pen.y. German authoriti : oe ae ae 1 , | Aline Doee con @ 12
14° e€ * [eae - powd. a
childishly as of a new fe ea ees Wise Woman. Pinades Wintergreen, Bae § %5@7 00 pee a 0@ 16
vasion. Co ios 3k ore ere’s one thing I * Li Arni Wicca anh t[@4eo tate
feat mplaint is, of course, na- Mr. Grabcoin.” g I don’t like about oe Seco 25@ 30 eee: art 1 05@1 25 Hien xt oe 3 55@3 75
under the circumstan Ae . chamomile (Ger.) 40@ 50 Wor seed 2. = 6 0006 22 Powdered or
ignore dad expect us i rie They What?” Chamomile Rom cis mwood __. 13 50@13 75 Cantharades, po 1 Te. 13
s to forget th “H yet Calomel __. 5@5 00
sternness of thei § e e doesn’t re Pot Cape ~~ 1 16g
in 1870 olan occupation of France for his succ a his wife any credit Gums bose 35 Carmine ssa 3
: ; ey were not conte cae Acacia, 1st Bichromate ______ 1 @ 40 Cassia Buds 6 00@6 60
with promises to pa Ay jie then “He couidn’t ver Acacia, 2nd ______ oe 5 Bromide eG 4 Cloves = = 7 30
moratoriums to b 2 ne with allowing didn’t marry hi y well do that. She Cacia Sorts ___ 2@ a0 nen ee” 30@ 35 Chalk Preparec - @ ie
e lightly dis him until h : ia, powdered 30 5 G , gran’r 23@ 30 Orn 5 (
They kept their gri y disregarded. position ; e€ was in a Aloes (Barb P @ 35 Chlorate, powd. Ghioral Hyarsta’ 4 soepis
pt their grip with inexorable which os ees her the luxuries to a oe Bow) ea s Ft ig a 16@ a Cocaine ———_—- ad sq 8
ad never | Soc. Pow.) 70@ ‘15 a 5@ 5 ee utter ____
been accustomed” = e weeds. ie eae joe Se s0o50G
‘: Bie ae 1 Oued a Teer aqnate a5ee 40 Coe eee 2 e
Camphor —--——- 1 151 20 Prussiate, sor ee Corrosive sume 4301 63
Guaiac, pow’ oe gu ulphate ____ ream T 63
a s - GE OO ---- 35@ 40 Cuttle i. oe
Oda OU t ' Kino, ‘powdered. @ $ Atkanct Bestia aara a
1. CE oe @ 49 Emery, All’ Nos % DOGS 90
; n ain Myrrh, powdered @ $3 Blood, powdered. 30@ 40 ipso’ Powdered 8 10
Opium, powd. 11 oogit 20 Elecampane, “pwd a9 1. Ghee Ge eee ig
New Fountain for th pees gran. 11 00@11 a aoe =e tidy a 2 Erect. ae _ 44%@ 3
oe inger, African, , vdered __ @1
Shellac 1 00@1 15 rican, Flake, Whit 50
e New Year qeuae, Bache? 4 8g) 22 Ginger, gamaica 00@ Formaldehyde, Tb, 18@ 35
agacanth’ 3 s0o3 oy Tnser: Jamal 65 ine --—---- i
1 ae 0 , Jamaica, G 0@1 50
WE WANT TO TAKE THIS OP Turpentine —______ 350 a aoe ios 42@ 50 Ghee — 55%.
NOUNCE THAT WE SHALL AGAIN BE TNE GENSKN Insecttota Ipecas pode. ° "OS gp Glauber Salts, bbl. @osH
AGENTS FOR : IN BE TH eee leorice -.___ 40 ao a ee ee
MICHIGAN E GENERAL Arsenic 18 Licorice, powd. 2 @ 45 e, Brown __.. 21
-------- : , : 0@ 30 Glue, Brown 30
LESS SODA FOR THE GUARA Blue Vitri %@ 30 Orris, powdered 30 Glue, Brown Grd 12%@ 20
FOUNTAIN NTEE ICE riol, bbL  @ 7% Poke, powd @ 49 Glue, White -_ 26
- Blue Vitri Rh ered 30@ 35 Glue, Whit 35
SPECIALTY co MADE BY THE iel, less 84@ 15 R ubarb, powd 85 Glyceri e Grd. 25 35
., OF GR FOUNTAIN Bordeaux Mix Dry 14 Pome ee ae oe 24@ 32
’ AND HAVEN. Hellebore, White. @ % Satseanile, Bond. > Todine ~ oe , Oe,
eres 1 25 odoform __.... 5
THIS Is A FOUN powdered ieee eS aan 20@ 30 Sarsaparilla Mexican @1 40 Lead Ae ee 7 60@7 85
AND TAIN OF UNQUEST Insect Powder — 50@ 85 Squills nd ------__ "@ 65 Cycosuaiuay 7, oe ae
IT IS BACKED BY A WOND IONED MERIT Lead Arsenate Po. 26@ 39 Sduills, powdered 600 70 Mace =n 7 BQ" bo
SERVICE. ERFUL RECORD OF Hoe and Sulphur pomene: - powd. 4 o Menih opomaered de61 00
“oy any SN PRE HO NOs 2 ogre 1s
een .... $ x Vomica —__
NOW IS THE TIME TO MAK OF ee Ns Worcs, Gow. 168 i
Se ack pow.
SPRING INSTALLATION OF E PLANS FOR THE Leaves ‘ee eee eee Pepper, White _- ing re
A NEW FOUNTAIN Bache 175@1 99 Bird, 1s ------___- 80 40 Quastia 8 1s
WRITE OU : Buchu, powdered @2 00 Canary 2 9@ be Suintss ey z 1 a
R MR. A. W. OLDS FOR ae Bulk _-.___ 25@ 30 Caraway, Po. 55 44@ 50 oo -_ 30 40
PARTICULARS age loose. @ 4g Coraamon_.-._ 1 s0@2 6 Salt Peter —— -
' Sage, powdered-__ @ Cie, wes 4 see ae Mixties” Gan ie
Senna, Alex. ___ 75@ = Cortander pow. .35 25@ pS Soap, psa sansa * 40
[in ee ee Co 1o@ 20 a a
Hazeltine & P Sense, Tan. pow. wg se ERE peas AS B Sem, wale oe gut 50
° a , n , whi =
e er ra 20@ 25 Foenugreek ae 08%@ 13 less, ner hee
ns Tu ( ; a 12@ 20 Soda Ash r ---. @1 25
Grand £ oO. Oils Lobelia, powd. 8@_ 15 Soda Bicarbonate eel
° Al : ustard, yellow___ Soda, S
nd Rapids, Michi monds, itter, Mustard; back —— 1 #3 Stiohs Saainor Qt at
fora ulphur,
1 g an Almonds, Bitter > 30@ aiphie. aa 3%@ 10
artificial : Tamarinds -.-—- 20@ 2s
Atconds. Sweat 2 50@2 75 Tartar Emetic __ 25
ona Sweet, Sunflower ——_ “11% 2 Turpentine Ven: 4092 3
ue -~-~ orm, ot ani . .
—------ 80@1 20 Worm nee 30@ 40 wie’ oe pas 1 75@2 26
---- @450 Zi el -. 1 47@2 00
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28 MICHIGAN

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
filled at market prices at date of purchase.

 

ADVANCED DECLINED
Canned Pink Saimon Barley

Canned Pumpkin Some Flour
Twine Lamb
Hogs

 

 

Beef, No. Rose Sli. 1 75
Beef, No. %, Qua. Sli. 2 10
Beef, No. 1, Qua. sli. 3 15
Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. 5 10
Beef, No. %, B’nut sli. 2 80
Beefsteak & Onions, s 3 15
Chili Con Ca., ls 1 35@1 45

AMMONIA Rich & France-Brands

Arctic Brand Speciale 8 00

16 oz., 2 doz. in carton, No. 24 Good Value __ 8 50
per dos. -- 175 No. 25 Velvet ______ 9 50

I X L, 3 doz., 12 oz. 375 No. 27 Quality ______ 10.75

Parsons, 3 doz. small 56 00 No. 22 Miss Dandy __ 10 75

Parsons, 2 doz. met. : = No. B-2 Best on Earth 10.00
e.

  

Parsons, 1 doz., USHES Deviled Ham, \%s  -__ 2 20
Silver Cloud, 3 dz. _ : = eroores Deviled Ham, %s ~_. 3.60
Silver Cl’d, 2 dz., med. Solid Back, 8 in. __..150 Hamburg Steak &
Silver Cloud, 2 dz. lge.6 70 Solid Back. 1 in. _~.. 1 75 Onions, No. 1 ______ 315
ee a ee ‘) poted Meat 4 kee eee
otte at,
——— No. oo fer Se 110 Potted Meat, % Libby 90
i Ns 135 . Potted Meat, % Rose 80
Shoe Potted Ham, Gen. 4% 2 15
ei A ae — 90 Vienna Saus., No. % 1 36
No. 2 es 125 Veal Loaf, Medium __ 2 30
Be 2 00 Baked Beans
BUTTER COLOR Beechnut, 16 oz. _.. 1 30
Dandelion, 25c size -- 2 85 Campbells ___.____

Nedrow, 3 oz., doz. 2 50
BUTTER SUBSTITUTES

  
 

Snider, No. 2 __ - 1 35
Van Camp, Small __._ 95
Van Camp, Med. ____ 1 15
CANNED VEGETABLES,

Asparagus.
No. 1, Green tips ___ 3 90
No. 2%, Lge. Gr. 3 75@4 50
Wax Beans, 2s 1 35@3 75
Wax Beans, No. 10 __ 6 2
Green Beans, 2s 1 oe a

 

ee 5 50

24, 3 Ib.
10 ib. pails, per doz. 8 20 4,
15 lb. pails, per doz. 11 20
25 Ib. pails, per doz 17 70

VAN WESTENBRUGGE
Carload Distributor
4° 1D. cartons 21

BAKING POWDERS 2 Ib. and 5 Ib. ______ 20% Lima Beans, 28, Soaked 95
Calumet, 4 oz., doz. 95 _ CANDLES ; we d., No. 2 1 30@1 55
Calumet, 8 oz., doz. 195 lElectric Light, 40 lbs. 12. Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 60@2 40
Calumet, 16 oz., doz. 3 35 Plumber, 40 Ibs. ---- 12.8 Beets, No. 2, cut 1 25Q1 76
Calumet, 5 Ib., doz. 1275 Paraffine, 6s ----__ -- 14% Beets, No. 3, cut 1 40@2 10
Calumet, 10 Ib doz. 19 00 Wine 28 = om 3g - St. 1 00 : :

‘ 7. 692% «60 Wicking --__________ orn, -No. 2, = ,
= = — _— “rs art Tudor, 6s, per box _. 30 Corn, No. 2, Fan 1 60@2 25
K. C.. 20c doz. _... 1 80 CANNED FRUIT. Corn, No. 2, g 3 26
K. C.. 25e doz. _... 2 30 Apples, 3 Ib. Standard 175 Corn, No ey ae
K: GC. 60c dot 4-40 Apples, No. 10 _.4 25@4 50 Hominy, No. 3. 1 15@1 35
K. G. 80c doz. _... 6 85 Apple Sauce, No. 2.200 Okra, No. 2, whole __ 1 90

Apricots, No. 1 1 we? 00. Okra, No. 2, cut ____ 1 $0
Ee a

K. C., 10 Ib. doz. __ 13 50 Apricots, No 25 Dehydrated Veg Soup 90

Queen Flake, 6 oz. __ 1 25

; , No. 25@3 50 Dehydrated Potatoes, Ib 45
Queen Flake, 16 oz. __ 2 25 qe No. 10's Goma 50 Mushrooms, Hotels ___ 38
Queen Flake, 50 lb. keg Blackberries, No. 10. 9 00 ushrooms, Choice ___ 48

Mushrooms, Sur Extra 65

Blueber’s, No. 2, 1-75@2 50 Peas, No. 2, EJ. i 25@1 80

Queen Flake, 25 Ib. keg 14
95 Blueberries, No. 10. 11 50

Royal, 10c, doz. ...__

yal, 6 OZ., doz. . 2 70 Cherries, No. 2..3 00@3 50 Peas, No. 2, Sift.,
Royal, 12 0z., doz.-- 5 20 Cherries, No. 2% 4 00@4 95 Poe Nora ee oe
Beit. oc an. oe ihe eT te fs ae
Eore: eee anberries, No. 2 __ . g
Rumford, 8 oz., doz.185 Pponches New I 185 peas, Ex. Fine, French 32
Rumford, 12 oz., doz. 2 40

P i > - *
Peaches, umpkin No 24

1
No. 1, Sliced 1 40 Pumpkin : 4
Peaches, No. 2 ______ 275 Pimentos, ‘
Peaches, No. 2%, Mich 3 25 Pimentos, i: on ‘es
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 00@3 75 Sw't Potatoes, No. 2% 2 16
Peaches, N Saurkraut, No. 3 ____ 1 65
Peaches, No. 10, Cal. 1050 Succotash, No. 21 60@2 365
Pineapple, 1, sli. 1 85@2 00 Succotash; No. 2, glass 3 46
Pineapple, 2, sli. 2 90@3 25 Spinach, No. 1 ______ 1 35
Pineapple, 2, Brk slic, 2 25 Spinach, No. 2 1 35@1 50
Pineapple, 2%, sl. 3 90@4 25 Spinach, No. 3
Pineapples, No. 2, crus. 2 25 Spinach, No. 10 ____ 6 00
Pineap., 10, cru. 7 50@8 00 Tomatoes, No. 2 1 30@1 60
Pears, “No. 2 22.2" 325 Tomatoes, No. 3 1 90@2 25
Pears, No. 2% ______ 425 Tomatoes, No. 2 glass 2 85
Fiums, No; 2 3 225  #Tomatoes, No. 1

Rumford, 5 Ib., doz. 12 59
Ryzon, 4 oz., doz. .. 1 35
Ryzon, 8 oz., doz. . 2 25
Ryzon, 16 oz., doz. .. 4 05
Ryzon, 5 Ib. ~- 18 00
Rocket, 16 oz., doz. 1 25
BLUING

Jennings Condensed Pearl
C-P-B “Seal Cap’

3 doz. Case (15c)  -_-. 3 75

Silver Cloud, 3 dz. sm. 3 80

Silver Cloud, 2 dz. ige. 3 80

with perforated crowns.

One case free with five.

 

EAKFAST FOODS Plums, No. 2% ______ 3 00 CATSUP,
Cracked Wheat, 24-2 385 Raspberries No. 2, bik. 3 25 B-nut, Large ____..__ 2 70
Cream of Wheat ---__ 690 Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 975 B-nut. Small cece a
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 2 20 Raspb’s, Black No. 10 11 00 Libby, 14 oz. ________ 2 25
Quaker Puffed Rice__ 5 45 Rhubarb, No. 10 ____ 5 25 Libby, 8 oz. _..___ «1 «60
Quaker Puffed Wheat 4 30 CANNED FISH. Van Camp, 8 oz. ____ 1 75
Quaker Brist Biscuit 190 Gan Ch’der, 10% oz.135 Van Camp, 16 oz. -. 3 15
Ralston Purina -.._. 00 Clam Ch., No. 3 3 00@3 40 Lilly Valley, 14 oz. —-~ 2 35

Ralston Branzos ---- : - Clams, Steamed, No. 1 1 75

Lilly Valley, % Pint 1 65
Ralston Food, large . Clams, Minced, No, 1 2 60 1 75

Sniders, 8 oz. ________

Saxon Wheat Food -_ 3.75 Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 390 ‘Smiders, 16 oz. _____. 2 75
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz._ 2 50 _. CHILI SAUCE,
Chicken Haddie, No. 1275 Snider, 16 oz. __.__.. 3 25
Fish Flakes, small __1 35 Snider, 8 oz. 2

scsi 25
Lilly Valley, % Pint 2 25
OYSTER ee .

Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 85
Cove Oysters, 5 oz. __ 1 45

  

Lobster, No. %, Star 510 Smiders, 16 oz. ______ 5
Lobster, No. %, Star 290 Sniders, 8 oz... 2 25
Shrimp, No. 1, wet __ 1 80 EESE

Sard’s, 4% Oil, k. 4 25@4 75 Roquefort _..._ 55

Sardines, 4% Oil, k’less 3 85
Sardines, % Smoked 7 00
on, Warrens, %s 2 75
Salmon, Warrens 1 Ib. 3 90
Salmon, Red Alaska. 2 80
Salmon, Med. Alaska 1 65
Salmon, Pink Alaska 1 50
Sardines, Im. \, ea. 10@28
Sardines, Im., %, ea. 25
: 8 yao ai — 1 75@2 4
Post’s Bran, 24s ___. 2 70 una, , core __

: BROOMS Tuna, %, Nekco -...165 New York full cream 32
Standard Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 00 Tuna, %, Regent _225 Sap Sago...
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib. 9 50 CANNED MEAT. : _ CHEWING GUM
Ex Fancy Parlor 25 Ib 10 00 Bacon, Med. Beechnut 270 Adams Black Jack ____ 65
Ex. Fcy. Parlor 26 Ib 11 00. Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 4 50 Adams Bloodberr
Toy -_.........__. 200 Beef, No. 1, Corned __ 2 65 Adams Calif. Fruit _.. 65
Whisk, No. 3 _....... 3 00 Beef, No. 1, Roast _. 2 65 Adams Sen Sen ...... 65

    
  

Kraft American =
Chili, small tins ____
Pimento, small tins__
Roquefort, small tins 2 50
Camenbert, small tins 2 50
Bree 3

Wisconsin Flats _
Wisconsin Daisy -
donee 3
Michigan Full Cream

Shred. Wheat Biscuit 3 85
Vita Wheat, 12s 1
Post’s Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s ______ 3 80
Grape-Nuts, 100s __=_ 2 75

ames ORF

TRADESMAN

Beeman’s Pepsin —_..__ 65

Beechnut 2 70
Doublemint  ~_._._.__ 65
Juicy Fruit -.--.-.____ 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys.. 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys __ 65
Spic-Spans Mxd Flavors 65
Wrigley’s P-K ________ 65
CARBO. ee sk. 65
CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, %s  __ 35

Baker, Caracas, %s _. 33
Baker, Premium, %s —. 35
Baker, Premium, 4s _. 32
Baker, Premium, %s __ 32
Hersheys, Premium, %s 35
Hersheys, Premium, \%s 36
Runkle, Premium, %s_ 34
Runkle, Premium, %s_ 37
Vienna wires 24s ... 1 75

Baker’s %s ~..._._____ 40
Baeers 468 oo 36
Bunte, ¥Y%s 2... 43
Bunte, % Ib. ~_.____. 35
Bunte, ib. -_..__ se sipcccasens a
Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib... 9 00
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 75
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 00
Hersheys, %s  --__-____ 33
Hersheys, %s —.____... 28
Styler a 36
Lowney, %s —_..________ 40
Lowney, %s —_...____ - 40
Lowney, %s —-_______. 38
Lowney, 5 lb. cans ___. 31
Van Houten, 4s —_____ 75
Van Houten, %s _____. 75
COCOANUT.
¥%s, 5 lb. case Dunham 50
%s, 5 lb. case —______ 48

4s & Ys, 15 lb. case 49
Bulk, barrels Shredded 22
96 2 oz. pkgs., per case 8 00
48 4 oz. pkgs., per case 7 00
CLOTHES LINE.

Hemp, 50 ft. __._____. —- 1 50
Twisted Cotton, 50 ft. 1 75
Braided, 50 ft. -______ 2 75
Sash Cord —~_.._....__. 3 75
COFFEE ROASTED
Buik
BN 16%
eee 23@24
Maracaibo 0 28
Guatemala  _..._________ 30
Java and Mocha ___.__ 39
POORER eo 32
ROT 2
McLaughlin's XXXX
McLaughlin’s XXXX pack-

age coffee is sold to retail-
ers only. Mail all orders
direct to W. F. McLaugh-
lin & Co., Chicago.
Coffee Extracts

MN. %., per 100
Frank’s 50 pkgs. ______ 4 26
Hummel’s 50 1 Ib. __ 10%

CONDENSED MILK
Eagle, 4 doz. _..______ 9 00
Leader, 4 do:

: 0
Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. __ 4 40
Carolene, Tall, 4 doz. 4 00
Carolene, Baby ______ 4 00

EVAPORATED MILK

 

Blue Grass, Tall, 48 5 00
Blue Grass, Baby, 72 3 75
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5 25
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 5 15
Every Day, Tall ____ 5
Danish Pride, tall __ 5
Danish Pride, 8 doz. 5 15
Every Day, Baby ____ 4
Goshen, Tall _________ 5
Goshen, Gallon _______ 5
Oatman’s Dun., 4 doz. 5 25
Oatman’s Dun., 8 doz. 5 15
Pet, Tall 5 25

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Silver Cow, Tall ____ 5
Silver Cow, Baby  ._ 5
Van Camp, Tail ___. 5 35
Van Camp, Baby ____ 3 96
White House, Baby _ 4 75

CIGARS
Lewellyn & Co. Brands

Mi Lola :
Capitol, 50s ________ 125 00

Favorita, 50s 115 00

Buckeye, 50s _____

Panetela, 50s 75

LaSoretta (smokers) ae =
5

 

Wolverine, 50s _____ 0
Swift
Wolverine, 50s __.__ 130 00
Supreme, 50s ______ 110 00
Bostonian, 50s _____ 95 60
Perfecto, 50s _______ * 95 00
Blunts, 50s ...._____ 75 00
Cabinet, 50s ___.___ %3 00
Garcia Master

Cafe, 1008 ....-... 37 5a

Worden Grocer Co. Brands
Harvester Line.

Kiddies, 100s ._.2.___ 37 50
Record Breakers, 50s 75 00
Delmonico, 50s ..____ 75 00
Epicure Panetela, 50 75 00
Perfecto, 50s -______ 95 00
The La Azora Line.
Agreement, 50s __.__ 58 00

Washington, 50s ____ 75 00
Sanchez & Haya Line

Clear Havana Cigars made

in Tampa, Fla.
Specials, 50s ________ 75 00
Diplomatics, 50s ____ 95 00
Bishops, 50s ___.____ 115 00
Rosa, 50s ...... 1

25 00
Orig Favorita, 50 ___ 135 00
Original Queens, 50s 150 00
Worden Special, 25s 185 00

A. S. Valentine Brands.
Little Valentines, 100 37 50
Victory, 50, Wood . 0
DeLux Inv., 50, Wd. 95 00
Royal, 25, Wood __ 112 00
Abram Clark, 50 wd 58 00
Alvas, 1-40, Wood __ 125 00

Webster Cigar Co.
Plaza, 50s, Wood __ 95 00
Pantella, 50, Wood _ 95 00
Coronado, 50 Tin __ 95 ‘00
Belmont, 50s, Wood 110 00
St. Reges, 50s, Wood 125 00
Vanderbilt, 25s, Wd. 140 00

Ignacia Haya
Extra Faney Clear Havana
Made in Tampa, Fla.
Delicades, 50s ______ 115 00
Manhattan Club, 50 135 00

Starlight Bros.

La Rose De Paris Line
Caballeros, 50s ____ 55 00
Rouse, 50s 0

eas 5

Peninsular Club, 25s 150 00
Palmas, 25s ________ 75 00
Perfectos, 25s ______ 195 00

Rosenthas Bros.
R. B. Londres, 50s,
Tissue Wrapped __ 58 00
R. B. Invincible, 50s,
Foil Wrapped ___. 70 00

Union Made Brands
El gg 50s, foil 75 00

Ology, 50s ._.-___ 58 00
Our Nickel Brands
Tiona, 100 32 00

New Currency, 50s __ 35 00
New Pantella, 100 _. 37 60
Henry George, 100s 37 50

Cheroots
Old Virginia, 100s __ 20 00
Stogies
Home Run, 50, Tin 18 50
Dry Slitz, 100s ______ 26 50
CIGARETTES

One Eleven, 15 in pke. 96
Beechnut, 20, Plain __ 600
Home Run, 20, Plain 6 00
Yankee Girl, 20, Plain 6 00
Sunshine, 20, Plain __ 6 00
Red Band, 20, Plain __ 6 00
Stroller, 15 in pke. 96
Nebo, 20, Plain ______ 7 00
Camels, 20, Plain ____ 6 40
Lucky Strike, 20s ___ 6 40
Sweet Caporal, 20, pl. 6 40
Windsor Castle Fag 20 8 00
Chesterfield, 10 & 206 30
Piedmont, 10 & 20, Pl. 6 30
Spur, 20, Plain ______ 6 00
Sweet Tips, 20, Plain 7 50
Idle Hour, 20, Plain __ 7 50
Omar, 20, Plain ______ 8 00
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 ____ 8 00
Helmar, 20, Plain __ 10
English Ovals, 20 Pl. 10 50
Turkish Trop., 0 ck 11 50
London Life, 10, cork 11 50
Helmar, 10, Plain __ 11 50
Herbert Tarryton, 20 12 25
Hgyptian 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
Luxury, 10, cork ~__ 16 00
Melachrino, No. $, 10,

cork or plain ____ 16 00
Melachrino, No. 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 __ 12 90
Markaroff, No. 15, 10,

OTE 16
Pall Mall Rd., 20, pl. 21 00
Benson & Hedges, 10 20 00
Rameses, 10, Plain __ 17 50
Milo Violet 10, Gold 20 00
Dertlies, 410. 220s 21 00
Condex, 10 _________ 22 00
Philips Morris, 10 __ 19 09
Brening Own, 10, Pl. 28 00

 

Ambassador, 10 _____ 28 00
Benson & Hedges
Tuberettes ________ 55 00

CIGARETTE PAPERS.
Riz La Croix, Wh., dz. 48
Riz La Wheat Br., dz. 48
Zig Zag, per doz -... 84

January 24, 1923

TOBACCO—FINE CUT.
Liggett & Myers Brands
Hiawatha, 10c, doz. _. 96
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, 40c foil 3 85
Swt. Burley, 95c Dru. 8 50
Sweet Cuba, 10c, dz. 96
Sweet Cuba, 40c, doz. 3 85
Sweet Cuba, 95c Pail 8 50
Sweet Orange, 10c, dz. 96
Scotten Dillon & Co. Brand
Dan Patch, lve, doz. 9v
Dan Patch, 16 oz., dz. 7 50
Ojibwa, 10c, doz. -.. 96
Ojibwa, 8 oz., doz. . 3 85
Ojibwa, 95c, doz. .-__ 8 50
Ojibwa, 90c, doz. .... 8 00
Sweet Mist, 10c, doz. 96
Uncle Daniel, 10c, doz. 96
Uncle Daniel, 16 oz. 10 20

J. J. Bagley & Co. Brands.
Mayflower, 16 oz., dz. 15 0¢

P. Lorrillard Brands,
Pioneer, 10c, doz. _. 96
Tiger, 10¢, dog: | 96
MIGEY, BOC) dog. 0 4 80
Weyman Bruton Co. Brand

Right Cut, 10c, doz. 95
W-B Cut, 10c, doz. 95

PLUG TOBACCO.
American Tobacco Co.
Brands,

Amer. Navy, 10e doz. 99
Amer. Navy, per Plug 68
Jolly Tar, 24, per plug 16
Gold Rope, 10c doz. 99
Boot Jack, 15c, doz. 1 44
Piper Heidsieck, 10c__ 96
Piper Heidsieck, 20c_ 1 92
Spear Head, 10c cuts 99
Spear Head, per plug 68
Square Deal, per plug 68
Standard Navy, 8 pig 64
Town Talk, per plug 56

Liggett & Meyers Brands.
Clipper, per iS BG
Chops, 10c, doz. _____ 96
Drummond Nat L l5c 1 44
Honey Dip Twist, 10c 96
Granger Twist, 10c, dz 96
Horse Shoe, per plug 74
J. T. Bright, per plug 56

J. T. Smooth, plug —. 24
J. T. R. and R., plug 24
King Pin, per plug .. 32

King Pin, 10e cuts, ea. 08
Masterpiece, per Plug 41
Picnic Twist, 10c, doz. 96
Spark Plug, per case 1 92
Star, per plug ________ 74
Uncle Sam, 12 10e cut 2 56

Scotten, Dillon @& Coe.
Brands.
Bracer, per plug -... 38
Cream De Menthe, 10c 96
Peachey, per plug .. 64
Stronghold, per plug. 64
Yankee Girl, per plug 6€

P. Lorillard Brands.
Climax, 10c¢ tins, doz. 96
Climax Smooth, plug 72
Climax Thick, per plug 72
Red Cross, 10¢c cuts... 96
Red Cross, per plug. 48

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Brands.

ands.
Apple, 5 ib. Butt, Ib. 72
Caramel Twist, per Ib. 34
Gravely Superior, 10c 96
Humbug, per Ib. WW 1 22
Kismet, per Ib. —.____ 1 05
liiberty Bell, per Ib. 65
Maritana, 15¢c Foil, dz. 1 44
Mickey Twist, per lb. 72

John J. Bagley & Co.
Brands.

Maple Dip, per plug. 56

SMOKING TOBACCO.

American Tobacco Co.
Brands.

Banner, L. C., 10c, dz. 99
Banner, L. C., 40c, dz. 4 10
Blue Boar, 25ce Foil 2 33
Blue Boar, 30c Vac tin 2 80
Bob White, gran., 10c 99
Bull Durham, 10c, dz. 99
Drum, Gran., 10c., dz. 99
Five Bros., 10c, doz. 99
Giant, L. C., 10c, doz. 99
Giant, L. C., 30c, dz. 2 98
Giant, L. C. Pails, dz. 6 84
Garrick, 30c Foil, dz. 2 80
Imperial Cube Cut, 30c 2 80
Lucky Strike, R Cut 1 58
Lucky Strike, R Cut 1 53
Myrtle Navy Plug Cut 99
Myrtle Navy, lic Po. 1 44
Navy, G. & A., 10e _. 99
Nigger Hair, 10c, doz. 99
Nigger Hair, Pails, dz. 8 40
Nigger Head, P. C. 10c 99
Old English, C. C. 16e 1 53
Peerless, L. C., 10c.. 99
Peerless, L. C. Pails 7 44
Rob Roy, L. C., 10c 99
Rob Roy, lL. C., 40c 4 09
Rob Roy, L. C., pails 8 40
Peerless, L. C., 35¢ dz. 3 36
Sweet Maple Scrap __ 96
Soldier Boy, L. C., 10c 99
Soldier Boy, L.C., pail 7 32
Tuxedo, Gran. _. 15@1 49
Tuxedo, Gran. Cut

plugs, 8 oz. tins —_ 6 93
Yale “Mix., 15 vac. tin 1 40

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Liggett & Meyers Brands. Superba Tobacco Co. Currants HAND CLEANER Shelled Heavy hogs ---------- 08
Briar Pipe, doz. ----.- 96 Brands. Package, 14 oz. —__-__.- 27 Almonds ~__---__--- —~ 55  Medium<hogs —------- 11%
Cuban Star, L. G, 0c 96 Sammy Boy Serap, dz. 96 Boxes, Bulk, per Ib. __ 25 Peanuts, Spanish, dase, hose 2 11%
Cuban Star, Pails, dz. 6 90 Cigar Clippings Peaches 125 Ib. bags -_--___- 13% Loins ----------------- 16
Corn Cake, Gran. ic 4% Havana Blossom. l0c 96 Evap. Fancy, Unpeeled 20 Bilberts: ..-2s 2s Butts | _--------------- 15
Corn Cake, Gran., 10¢ 96 Havana Blossom, 40¢ 395 fyap. Fancy Peeled _ 22 Pecans 200 95 Shoulders * ___-_-______ 13
Corn Cake, Gran., 25c 2 40 Knickerbocker, 6 oz. 3 00 Walunte 22s ob Hames oe 16
Corn Cake, Gran., 50c 4 80 Lieberman, 10c, doz. 96 Peel OLIVES Spareriba 2 12
Duke’s Mixture, l0c_. 96 W. O. W., 6 oz., doz. 300 Lemon, American ____ 24 a ae ee 49 Neck bones ---------- 05
Glad Hand, L. C., 10¢ 96 Royal Major, 10c, doz. 96 Orange, American __... 25 Po 8 ae eee 00
Growler, L.*C., 10c_. 96 Royal Major, 6 oz., dz. 3 00 Raisins noe S oe ee PROVISIONS
Sree ee cere soe Oval Maier. 14 Of. On. 20 oo oa nik 14 Quart, jars, dozen -. 5 25 Barreled Pork
rowler, L. C., 50c__ Larus & Bro. Co.’s. Brands. ak bs. phe ae te ae : i i Clear Back __ 23 00@24 00
La Turka, Plug C, l6c 1 44 Rageworth Ready Rub- Sette thea petty ooo te. en, oe Short Cut Clear 22 00@23 00

Noon Hour L. C., 10c 96
Oo. U., Gr. Cut P., 10e 96

0. U;, Cy P,, 80¢e ‘jars 9 00
Pilot, Long Cut, 25¢ 2 50
Plow Boy, 10c, doz. 96
Plow Boy, 70c¢ Pails_ 7 40
Summertime, 10c, doz. 96
Summertime, 30c, doz. 2 90
Summertime, 65c Pails 6 50

Sweet Tip Top, 10c, dz 96
Velvet, Cut Plug, 10c 96
Velvet, Cut Plug, tins 1 53
Velvet, Cut Plug, 8 oz. 6 72
Velvet, C. Pl., 16 oz. 15 84
Yum ‘Yum, 10e, doz. 96
Yum Yum, 70c pails 6 80

P. Lorillard’s Brands.
Beechnut Scrap, doz. 96
Buzz, L. C., 10c, doz. 96
Buzz, L. C., 35c, doz. 3 30
Buzz, L. C., 80c, doz. 7 90
Chips, P. C., 10ce, doz. 96
Honest Scrap, doz. __ 96
Open Book Scrap, dz. 96
Stag, Cut P., 10c, doz. 96
Union Leader, 10c tin 96
Union Leader, 50c tin 4 80
Union Leader, $1 tin 9 60
Union Leader, 10c, dz. 96
Union Leader, 15c, dz. 1 44
War Path, 35c, doz. 3 35

Scotten Dillon Co. Brands

Dan Patch, 10c, doz. 96
Dillon’s Mixture, 10c 96
G,O. &., sbe, doz. ._ 3.00
G.-O. F.,. 100, doz. _. 96
Loredo, 10c, doz. _.__ 96
Peachy, Do.* Cut, 10c 96
Peachy Scrap, 10c, dz. 96
Peninsular, 10c, doz. 96
Peninsular, 8 oz., doz. 3 00
Reel Cut Plug, 10c, dz. . 96
Union Workman Scrap,
10c, doz.

Way Up, 16 oz., doz. 7 10
Way Up, 16 oz. pails 7 40
Yankee Girl scrap, 10c 96

Pinkerton Tobacco Co.
rands.

American Star, 10c, dz 96
Big 9, Clip., 10c, doz. 96
Buck Shoe Scrap, 10c 96
Pinkerton, 30c, doz. __ 2 40
Pay Car Serap, 10c, dz. 96
Pinch Hit Scrap, 10c 96
Red Man Scrap, doz. 96
Red Horse Scrap, doz. 96

J. J. Bagley & Co. Brands.
Broadleaf, 10c 96
Buckingham, 10c, doz. 93
Buckingham, 15c tins 1 44
Gold Shore, 15ce doz. __ 1 44
Hazel Nut, 10c, doz. 95
Kleeko, 25c, doz. ___
Old Colony, Pl. C. 1l7e¢
Old Crop, 50c, doz. __
Red Band, Scrap, 10c 95
Sweet Tips, 15c, doz. 1 44
Wild Fruit, 10c, doz. 96
Wild Fruit, 15c, doz. 1 44

Independent Snuff Co.
Brands
New Factory, 10c, doz. 96
New Factory Pails, dz 7 60

Schmidt Bros. Brands

Hight Bros., 10c. doz. 96
Eight Bros., Pails, dz. 8 40

R. J. Reynoids Tobacco Co.
Brands.

George Washington.

10c, doz. v
Old Rover, 10c, doz. 96
Our Advertiser, 10c__ 96
Prince Albert, 10c, dz. 96
Prince Albert, 17c, dz.1 53
Prince Albert, 8 oz.

tins, without pipes 6 72
Prince Albert, 8 oz.

and Pipes, doz. ___- 8 88
Prince Albert, 16 oz. 12 96
Stud, Gran., 5e, doz. 48
Whale, 16 oz., doz. __ 4 80

Block Bros. Tobacco Co.
Mail Pouch, 10c, doz. 96

Faik Tobacco Co., Brands.
American Mixture, 35¢e 3 30
Arcadia Mixture, 25c 2 40
Champagne Sparklets,

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ow

BUR GOR ee ee 2 70
Champagne Sparklets,
NOC Gas. so 10

Personal Mixture to
Perique, 25c, per doz. 2 25
Serene Mixture, 16c dz 1
Serene ‘Mixture, 8 oz. 7 60
Serene Mixture, 16 oz 14 70
Tareyton Lundon Mix-
ture, 50c,; doz. ____ 4 00
Vintage Blend, 25c dz. 2 30
Vintage Blend, 80 tins 7 70
Vintage Blend, $1.55
tins, doz. ___._._.. 14 90

bed, 17e tins _-.__ 1 62
Edgeworth Ready Rub-
bed, 8 oz. tins, dz. 7 00
Edgeworth Ready Rub-
bed, 16 oz. tins, dz 14 50
Edgeworth Sliced Plug,
tie. tins, doz 2
Edgeworth, Sliced Plug,
ace tins, doz)... < 3 55
United States Tobacco Co.
Brands.
Central Union, l5e, dz. 1 44
Shag, 15c Tins, doz. 1
Shag, 15c Papers, doz. 1
Dills Best, 16c, doz. 1 48
Dill’s Best Gran., 16¢ 1
1

Dill’s Best, 17c Tins

Snuff.
Copenhagen, 10c, roll 64
Seal Blandening, 10c._. 64
Seal Goteborg, 10c, roll 64
Seal Swe. Rapee, 10c 64
Seal Norkopping, 10c 64
Seal Norkopping 1 Ib. 85

CONFECTIONERY

Stick Candy Pails
SUA Gard 16
Jumbo Wrapped  ____ 18

Pure Sugar Stick, 600’s 4 20
Big Stick, 20 Lb. case 18

Mixed Candy Pails
Kindergarten  ________ 18
PeeaGer. id 16
Be eG 13
French Creams _____. 18
Cammed 2225 as 19
Grocers: + 5s. 11

Fancy Chocolates

5 lb. Boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 75
Choe Marshmallow Dp 1 60
Milk Chocolate A A__ 1 95
Nibble Sticks  ____._. 2 00
Primrose Choc. 2). ; 25
NG. 12 Choe, ee 1 60
Chocolate Nut Rolls _ 1 90

Gum Drops Pails
PIB a EG
Orange Gums ________ 17
Challenge Gums ______ 14
BPavorite oe 20
Superior -.. 200 20

Lozenges. Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges 17
A. A. Pink Lozenges 17
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 18

Motto Hearts ________ 19

Malted Milk Lozenges 21
Hard Goods. Pails

Lemon Drops -_--__.. 18

O. F. Heron eane Dps. 18
Anise Squares 18
Peanut Squares ______ 20
Horehound Tablets __ 20
Pop Corn Goods.
Cracker Jack, Prize 3 75
Checkers, Prize  _____ 3 75

Cough Drops

Putnam's
Smith Bros. 2-22 1 50
Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows

4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 95
4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 3 75
Speciaities.
Arcadian Bon Bons __.. 19
Wainut Fudge _ _-_-_ 23
Pineapple Fudge —____._ 21
italian Bon Bons ______ 18

National Cream Mints 25
Silver King M. Mallows 30
COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade __ 2 50
100 Economic grade __ 4 50
500 Economie grade 20 00
1,000 Economic grade 37 50
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly print front cover is
furnished without charge.

CRISCO.
36s, 24s and 12s.

Less than 5 cases __ 21
Pive Cases oo ag
Wen Cases 25 oe
Twenty-five cases ___ 19%

6s and 4s
Less than 5 cases __ 20%
EOIVG UCRSOS (ok
Ten: cases ist

Twenty-five cases __ 19

CREAM OF TARTAR
61h. boxes 2 ee 38

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
Evap’d Choice, blk.

S640
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice ____ 30
Evaporated, Fancy ____ 34
Evaporated Slabs —____ 28
Citron .
10 Ib. Hox: <2 soi OF

Seedless, Thompson __ 13%
Seedless, 15 oz. pkg. 14
California Prunes
90-100 25 lb. boxes _.@10%
80-90, 25 lb. boxes -_@11
70-80, 25 lb. boxes ~.@12
60-70, 25 lb. boxes -.@13

50-60 25 lb. boxes _.@14
40-50 25 lb. boxes _.@15%
30-40 25 lb. boxes __@18%

FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans

Med. Hand Picked __ 2

Cal Eimaa: 232 eo

Brown, Swedish --.. 08
Red Kidney __________ 09%
Farina
24 packages -___._._ 10
Bulk, per Liye ne ae Oe

Pearl, 100 4 ei -. 2 60

Macaroni
Domestic, 20 lb. box 07%
Domestic, broken bbls. 0614
Armours, 2 doz., 8 oz. 1 80
Fould’s, 2 doz., 8 oz. 1 80

Quaker, 2 doz. __-___ 1 85
Pear! Barley
Chester: 2s 25
00 and 0000 ___-______ 6 00
Barley Grits 4. 5 00
Peas
BGCOtGh, (Ip. 5 9
Sane, 10. oe se 0814
Sago
Hast India... 07%

Tapioca
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks __ 07%
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05
Dromedary Instant __ 3 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Jennings

Pure Vanilla

Turpeneless

Pure Lemon
Per Doz.
4 Oram 32 ae 1 35
1% Ounce jo. gris
2 OUMEG oo oe 2 75
a% Ounce: 2 3 00
2% Ounce 22 3 25
4 Ounce 5 00
S+Ouncte: 250 8 50
7 Dram, Assorted ___ 1 35

1% Ounce, Assorted__ 1 75

FLOUR AND FEED
Valley City Milling Co.
Lily White, % Paper
Sack)
Harvest Queen, 24%
Light Loaf Spring
Wheat. 245) os
Roller Champion 24%
Snow Flake, 24%s __
Graham 25 lb. per ewt
Golden Granulated Meal,
2 Ibs., per cwt.,
Rowena Pancake Com-
pound, 5 lb. sack___
Buckwheat Compound,
h IDs sae ce

Watson. Higgins Milling

0.
New Perfection, %s_ 7 60
Red Arrow, %s ______ 7 80

Worden Grocer Co.
American Eagle, Quaker,
Pure Gold, Forest King,
Winner.

Meal
Gr. Grain M. Co.

ROUGE 6 25
Golden Granulated __ 2 70
Wheat
Ne 4d) Hedi o oo 1 25
No. 1 White = 1 23
Oats
Carlots ioc cee 51
Less than Carlots ____ 56
Corn
Cariote 81
Less than Carlots ___. 86
Hay
Carlots oe 16 00
Less than Carlots __ 20 00
Feed
Street Car Feed ____ 35 00
No. 1 Corn & Oat Fd 35 00
Cracked Corn _______ 35 00

Coarse Corn Meal __ 35 00
FRUIT JARS
Mason, pts., per gross 7 25

. Mason, qts., per gross 8 50

Mason, % gal., gross 11 50
Ideal Glass Top, pts. 8 75
Ideal Glass Top, qts. 11 00
Ideal Glass Top, %
@allon <2 15 00

GELATINE
Jello-O, 3 doz.

Knox's Sparkling, doz. 2 25
Knox’s Acidu’d, doz. ‘ 25
Minute, 3 doz. 4 06
Plymouth, White __.. 1 565

 

10c size, 4 doz. —__._ 3 60
15e size, 3 doz. ______ 3 75
25¢ size, 2 doz. ~_____ 4 00

1 case free with 10 cases;
% case free with 5% cases.

HORSE RADISH
Per doz., 7 oz. ~._.___ 1 25

JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 lb. pails ____ 2 15
Pure 7 oz. Asst., doz. 1 20
Buckeye, 22 oz., doz. 2 00
O. B., 15 oz., per doz. 1 40

JELLY GLASSES
8 oz.,; . Om. as
TCHES.

- Blue Ribbon, 144 box. 7 55

Pier she a 144 box. 8 00
Safe Home, 144 boxes 8 06
Red Stick, 720 1c bxs 5 50
Red Diamond, 144 bx 5 75
Cleveland Match Co.
Brands

 

Old Pal, 144 Boxes __ 8 00
Buddie, 144 Boxes _. 5 75
Safety Matches.
Quaker, 5 gro. case 4 75
Red Top, 5 gro. case 5 25
MINCE MEAT.
None Such, 3 doz. __ 4 85
Quaker, 3 doz. case __ 3 75
Libby Kegs, Wet, Ib. 24

MOLASSES.

 

Gold Brer Rabbit
No. 10, 6 cans to case 5 10
No. 5, 12 cans to case 5 35
No. 21%, 24 cans to es. 5 60
No. 1%, 36 cans to cs. 4 60

Green Brer Rabbit
No. 10, 6 cans to case 3 65

- No. 5, 12 cans to case 3 90

No. 2%, 24 cans to cs. 4 15
No. 1%, 36 cans to es. 3 5

Northern Michigan, Wis-
consin, Indiana prices 15c
on 6-10, 12-5 and 24-2%
and 10c on 36-1% higher.
The above prices apply to

Southern Michigan and
Ohio.

New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle ___ 55
CROteCe 4 42
| Cr. a a ae AS a cee 28

Half barrels 5c extra

Molasses in Cans.

Red Hen, 24, 2 lb. __ 2 60
Red Hen, 24, 214° Ib. 3 25
Red Hen, 12, 5 lb. __ 3 00
Red Hen, 6, 10 lb. __ 2 80
Ginger Cake, 24, 2 Ib. 3 10
Ginger Cake, 24, 2% Ib. 4 00
Ginger Cake, 12, 5 Ib. 3 75
Ginger Cake, 6, 10 lb. 3 50
O. & L. 24-2 Ib. -__. 4 50
O. & L. 24-2% Ib. __ 5 30
O. & L. 12-5 Ib. -___ 5 00
O. & L. 6-10 Ib. ______ 4 75
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Wh. L. 5 60
Dove, 24, 2% lb Wh. L 5 20
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Black 4 30
Dove, 24, 2% lb. Black 3 90

Dove, 6, 10 lb. Blue L 4 45
Palmetto, 24, 2% Ib. 4 15

NUTS.
Whole
Almonds, Terregona_. 20

Brazil, Large —----_. 4
Fancy mixed —-.-..__ 18%
Filberts, Sicily --.-_. 15

Peanuts, Virginia, raw 10
Peanuts, Vir. roasted 12
Peanuts, Jumbo raw 13%
Peanuts, Jumbo, rstd 15%
Pecans, 3 nos Ss aoe 22
Pecans, Jumbo --_-_-- 80
Muar California -- 29
Salted Peanuts

Fancy, No. 1
Jumbo

evewcereneserees, OF

54% oz. Jar, pl., doz.
10 oz. Jar, plain, doz.
16% oz. Jar, Pl. doz.
38% oz. Jar, stuffed _
8 oz. Jar, Stu., doz.
9 oz. Jar, Stuffed, doz.
12 oz. Jar, Stuffed, dz.

PEANUT BUTTER.

OOD cob eet oedonc9
faz)
So

 

8 oz. 2 doz. in case 2 85

24-1 ibe pails: so 5 00
TZ) 2 lb: pails 223 4 85
5 lb. pails 6 in crate 5 40
Fit. Hats 2 16%
ee a0. Pole oe. 164
HG Th, tine: Soa ee 15%

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Iron Barrels
Perfection Kerosine __ 12.6
Red Crown Gasoline, —
Tank Wagon_
Gas Machine Gasoline 37.2
Vv. M. & P. Naphtha 23.2
Capitol Cylinder ____ 42.2
Atlantic Red Engine. 23.2
Winter Black 3.

(P olarine

Iron Barrels.

Medium ‘Light: i225." 57.2
Medium’ heavy —_____ 59.2
Peavy ss 62.2
Pixtra heavy 205 |. 67.2
Transmission Oil ____ 57.2
Finol, 4 0z. cans, doz. 1.40

 

  

Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 1.90
Parowax, £00. Spe eo
Parowax, 40, 1 Ib. 2. 7.4
Parowax,; 20, 1 ib. 2. 7.6
Semdac, 12 pt. cans 2 85
Semdac, 12 qt. cans 4 35
PICKLES
Medium Sour
Barrel, 1,200 count __ 16 00
Half bbls., 600 count 9 00
10: gallon kegs ____ 6 75
Sweet Small
30 gallon, 2400 ____ 33 00
15 gallon, 2000 ___.__ 17 50
10 gation, 800 2 12:75
Dill Pickles.
600 Size, 15 gal. _._. 9 00

PIPES
Cob, 3 doz. in bx 00@1 20

PLAYING CARDS
Broadway, per doz. __ 2 40

Blue Ribbon ____-____ 4 00
CRICKGED: co es 3 25
Bevel oe es 4 25
POTASH
Babbitt’s' 2 doz... 25
FRESH MEETS.
Beef.

Top Steers & Heifers 14

Good Steers & Heifers 13
Med. Steers & Heifers 11
Com. Steers & Heifers 08

 

 

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Clear Family__ 27 00@28 00
Dry Salt Meats
S P Bellies __ 16 00@18 00
Lard
80 lb. tubs __--advance %&
Pure in tierces 13%@14
Compound Lard 13 ee

 
  

69 Ib. tubs ~_--advance
50 Ib. tubs ~_--advance %
20 lb. pails ___-.advance %
10 Ib, pails __-_.advance %
5 lb. pails __--advance 1
3 lb. pails __._.advance 1
Sausages
Boome 2 12
de O65 ae 12
PPANKIGEE {0 16
Pork oe 18@20
NV ora are St es se, 1
POHL UG a 11
Headcheese __------__ 14
Smoked Meats
Hams, 14-16, lb. 20 @22
Hams, 16-18, Ib. 20 @22

Ham, dried beet

Sete. oe 38 @39
California Hams 12 @13
Picnic Boiled

Hams oo ee 30 @32
Boiled Hams _. 32° @35
Minced Hams __ 14 @15
Bacon 22

24 00
24 00

Beef
Boneless -... 23 00
Rump, new -. 23 00
Mince Meat
Condensed No. 1 car. 2 00
Condensed Bakers brick 31
Moist in glass -----. 8 00

  

Pig’s Feet
46). BbISs ws 2 15
44 bblss) cos IDSs so 4 00
76 Bes ee 7 00
EOBDE 2 14 15
Tripe
Wits ES Ips. uke 90
14 Dbis;, 40 Ths. oc 1 60
% bbis., 80 lbs... 3 U6
Casings
Bass; per Thy ue @42
Beef, round set __-_ 14@26
3eef, middles, set_._ 25@30
Sheep, a skein 1 75@2. 00
RICE
Fancy Head ales OG
Blue Rose _ - 54% @6
Broken 000 03%

ROLLED OATS

Steel Cut, 100 lb. sks. 4 75
Silver Flake, 10 Fam. 1 90
Quaker, 18 Regular -. 1 80
Quaker, 12s Family -. 2 70
Mothers, 25s, Ill’num 4 40
Silver Flake, 18 Reg. 1 46

Sacks, 90 Ib. Jute __ 3 00
Sacks, 90 lb. Cotton_. 3 15
SALERATUS
Arm and Hammer -. 3 75
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbis. _--- 2 00
Granulated, 100 lbs es 2 25

Granulated, 36 2% Ib.

pacKares< es 2 50

COD FISH i
WIGGICS a ee 15
Tablets, 1 lb. Pure _.. 22
Tablets, % Ib. Pure,

GOgs ee a 1 40
Wood boxes, Pure __-. 24
Whole od 33. 12

Holland Herring
Milkers, oa ie 1 i
Y. M. Halt bbls. __ 8 50
Ne MM. bbls; 16 50

Herring
K K K K, Norway -- ” .
8 Ib. pails Ae ae
Cut ‘Lunch. 2. i 0

Boned, 10 lb. boxes __ 16%
Lake Herring

% bbi., 100 Ibs. ---__ 6 00
Mackerel

Tubs, -50 Ib. fancy fat : a

Tubs, 60 count ______
White Fish

Med. Fancy, 100 Ib. 13 00
SHOE BLACKENING.

2. in: 1, -Paste,. doz... 2"! 35
E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 35
Dri-Foot, doz. __-___ 2 00
BLE DY Se DOs ce 1. 35
Shinola, doz. —.-_-.__- 85

STOVE POLISH.
Blackine, per doz. __ 1
Black Silk Liauid, dz. 1
Black Silk Paste, doz. 1
Enamaline Paste, doz. 1 35
Enamaline Liquid, dz. 1
E Z Liquid, per doz. 1
Radium, per doz. ____ 1 &5
Rising Sun, per doz.
654 Stove Enamel, dz.

i

2
No. 10, doz. 1 35

3

Vuleanol, No. 5, doz. 95
Vuleanol,
Stovoil, per doz. -_-. 3 00

 

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SALT oe ee @70 _. oe ee
ace, CTT oe ci ea errin, iarge__
Sg * 2 Ib. --__- 90 Mixed, No. I ________ 22 Lea & Perrin, small__ 3 35
—— — - pg ge 2 = Mixed, 5c pkgs., doz. oe repper se 1 60
“se - No. 1, - be 90 Nutmegs, 70-80 ______ Royal Mint __-._____- 2 40
‘armer Spec., 70 Ib. 90 Nutmegs, 105-110 ___- @80 Tobaseo, 5.0 2 75
Baga me a a = Ib. 56 Pepper, Black _______ @15 Sho You, 9 oz., doz. 2 70
100 ib., each 95 Pure Ground in Bulk A-1, large --_-----_--. 5 75
Blocks, 60 Ib. _..... 47 Allspice, Jamaica ___ @16 A-1 small ------_____- 3°25 ORI D
Butter Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 50 Cloves, Zanzibar _... @50 Capers ------------___ 190
Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 25 Cassia, Canton _--_-- @22 TEA. =
. T 607 Ginger, African ______ @22 Japan =
Mastare 20 @28 : ‘ 34@38 =
Mace, Penan @75. Medium -—-------- 4
Nutmegs ~~ Se ee S880
cael Block nr Co eee ’ ve
-epper, ite eC OE pa ee
Pepper, Cayenne ____ @32 1 tb. pkg. Siftings ---- o
Paprika, Spanish ____ @32 : Gunpowder .
Seasoning Choice —____-- 2
Chili Powder, 15¢c __..135 Fancy ----_-__------ 38@40
Celery Salt, 3 oz. _... 95 Pak a cue 33
—_ er meee, Hb oo = isinins, Sees 77" 56 Problem of Daughter Home For means by that. She says she doesn’t
5 ue Garlic oe ee 1 36 English. Breakfast Eighteen Days. want to go to ‘any lonesome place’:
*onelty, Bb. OZ 5 Congou, Medium —_--_-- Wri f ‘ is
AL: Kitchen Bouquet __-_ 325 Gongou, Choice ---- 35@36 “v,.+0m for the Tradesman. , and, strange to say, she says she is
er nae oom a SS zo Congou, Fancy ____. 42@43 Sh oer home for eighteen days! eaink to have a lot of children cud
aa eae Mg ee Pr bilan in the world shall I do with take care of them herself, and she
Tunerc oi peor roar oe Sheltie, 45 her: wants to go somewhere and learn how
STARCH meee So I confess that I did not know at jo do it. Certainly she doesn’t resem-
P 24 2 Ib 249 Kingsford, 16 the 114% Cotton, 3 ply cone -___ 46 first what the woman meant. She was ble me. I guess it’s heredity—her
oe a Powdered, bags -_-_- 03 Lon, 3 py vale 25 -tallang about her sixteen-year-old gainer fiked children.”
Five case lots ______ 2 30 Wool, 6 pl 20 ather liked children.
Argo, 48 1 rh a pkgs. _. 3 75 ool, Bly ----------- d ht } : h h
SOAP ream, 48-3 4 80 VINEGAR Seer Wee Was Vong pome the “I’d rather think,” I said, “that love
Am. Family, 100 box 6 00 Quaker, ee Oo ees ae ea ee following day from boarding school 4¢ chitdren is native—hereditary, if
Export, 120 box _-__ 4 90 aera: ween pa for the Christmas holidays. Her only *

Flake White, 100 box 5 25
Fels Naptha, 100 box 5 60
Grdma White Na. 100s 5 00
hub Nv More White
Naptha, 100 box __ 5 50
Swift Classic, 100 box 5 25
20 Mule Borax, 100 bx 7 55
wool, 100 box -__-._ 6 5v
Fairy, 100 — cae , 50
Jap Rose, 100 box ____ 7 85
Palm Olive, 144 igi * 00
Lava, 100 box 4 90
Pummo, 100 box ____ 4 85
Sweetheart, 100 box — 5 70
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 00
Grandpa Tar, 50 Lge 3 35
Fairbank Tar. 100 bx 4 00
Trilby, 100, 12c ______ 8 00
Williams Barber Bar. 9s 50
Williams Mug, per doz. 48

Proctor & Gamble.

5 box lots, assorted
Ivory, 100, 6 oz. ___
Ivory Soap Flks., 100s
Ivory Soap Flks., 50s
Lenox, 120 cakes ____
Luna, 100 cakes ______
P. & G. White Naptha
Star, 100 No. 11 cakes
Star Nap. Pow. 60-16s
Star Nap. Pw., 10)-10s
Star Nap. Pw., 24-60s

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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 ____ 4 00
Grandma, 24 Large _ 4 00
Gold Dust, 100s ~_____ 4 00

Gold Dust, 12 Large 3 20
Golden Rod. 24 4
ganx, 3 doz. —. 4 50
La France Laun, 4 dz. 3
Luster Box, 54 3
Miracle C., 12 oz., 1 dz 2
Old Dutch Clean, 4 dz 4 0}
Queen Ann, 60 oz. __ 2
Rinso, 100 oz. _______ 6 40
seed No More, 100, 10

 

a ee 3 835
Rub No More, 18 4 25
japan Cleanser,

Oe ee 3 85
Sani Fiush, 1 doz 2 25
Sapolio, 3 io 3 15
Soapine, 100, 12 oz. — 6 40
Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. 4 Ov
Snowboy, 24 Large _.47
Speedee, 3-doz. ______ 7 20
Sunbrite, 72 doz. ____ 4 00
Wyandotte, 48 ________ 4 75

SPICES.

Whole Spices.
Allspice, Jamaica __ @13
Cloves, Zanzibar ___. @45
Cassia, Canton ______ @16

. dec pkg., doz. @40
Ginger, African -.... @15

  

Argo, 48 1 lb. pkgs. __ 3 75
Argo, 12 3 lb. pkgs. __ 2 74

Argo, 8 5 lb. pkgs. ___ 3 10
Silver Gloss, 48 Is __ 114%
Elastic, 64 pkgs. ____ 5 35
Tiger, 48-1 2

 

GOLDEN-CRYSTALWHITE-MAPLE

Penick Golden Syrup
6,10 ib, Cane 2
12, & ib, cans 2 75
24, 1% Ib. cans ______ 1

Crystal White Syrup
6, 10 4b. cans 2 2 95
12, 6 Ibo cans 3 15
24, 1% lb. cans ___-__ 2 25

Penick -Maple-Like Syrup
6, 10 ib. teams 3 70
12, 6 1b. cans 2.2 3 90
24, 1% Ib. cans ______ 2 75

Above prices apply to
Southern Michigan, Ohio
and Indiana.

Corn
— cag No. 1%,
Blue Shard, Noa as. 2 70
Blue mae No. 10,
Re oe. oe 2 50

4

Red Kas, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 10
Hed taro, No. 10, %

Gn. 2 2 90

Imt. Maple Flavor.

| Orange, No. %, 2 doz. 2 75

Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 3 90

Maple.
Green Label Karo,

a 02, 2 Boz... 6 69
Green Label Karo,
5% lb., 1 doz. ___. 11 40-

Maple and Cane

Kanuck, per gal. _--_ 1 60
Sugar Bird, 2% Ib.,

2 doz. jas 9 00
Sugar Bir oz.,

"ae a ee 12 00

Maple.
Johnson Purity, Gal. 2 50
Johnson Purity,
doz., 18 oz. —----- 18 60
Sugar Syrup.
DO Se 5 lb. cans 2 50

Manse.

6. 10 ib. cans —_.. 10 40
i2, -5 -¥b. cans 2 11 00
24, 2% Ib. cans -___ 12 00
24, 1% Ib. cans -.---- 6 75
5 gal. jacket cans, ea. 8 15
36, 8 oz. ttles -... 5 75
24, pint bottles -_---_ 7 25
24, 18 oz. bottles ____ 7 50
12, quart bottles —__- 6 50

Silver Kettle.
6, 10 Ib. cans ~--____ 0
12, 5 Ib. cans _..._ 915
24, 2% Ib. cans ___. 10 15
48, 1% Ib. cans ___. 12 00
5 gal. jacket cans, ea. 6 90
36, 8 oz. bottles -_.. 5 00
24, pint bottles  ______ 6 25
a4. 38 Of. oS 6 oe
12, quart bottle ___ 5 50
o-Ka-Ma.

10 >. cans _..... 5 40
12, Ib. cans -___.___ 5 90

lb
24, 2% Ib. cans -____ 6 65
5 gal. jacket cans, ea. 4 25
24, vint bottles  ___. 4 50
24, 18 oz. bottles ._- 4 75

White Wine, 80 grain 22
Vakland Vinegar & Pickle
Co.’s Brands.
Oakland Apple Cider __ 25
Blue ‘Ribbon Corn -__-- 20
Oakland White Pickling 20
No charge for packages.

WICKING
No. 0, per gross __-_ 60
No. 1, per gross --.. 8
No. 2, per gross _--_ 1 10
No. 3, per eross =... 1 85

Peerless Rolls, per doz. 45
Rochester, No. 2, doz. 50
Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
Rayo, per Gok. 22... 80

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Bushels, narrow band,
wire handles _______ $0

Bushels, narrow band,
wood handles ~_____ 2 00
Bushels, wide band __ 2 10
Market, drop handle_ 75
Markets single handle 90

Warket, extra’ 1 25

Splint, large — 1... . 8 50

Splint, medium _ _--_ 7 50

Splint, smal... 7 00
Churns,

Barrel, 5 gal., each__ 2 40
Barrel, 10 gal., each. 2 55

3 to 6 gal., per gai. _. 16
Egg Cases.

No. 1, Start Carrier__ 5 00

No. 2, Star Carrier__ 10 00

No. 1, Star Egg Trays 4 50

No. 2, Star Egg Trays 9 00
Mop Sticks

Trojan aprine 222} 2 00

Eclipse patent spring 2 00
No. 2, pat. brush hold 2 00
ideal No: 7. 1 35
12 oz. Cot. Mop Heads 2 25
16 oz. Cot. Mop Heads 3 50

Pails
10 qt. Galvanized ____ 2 35
12 qt. Galvanized ____ 2 60
14 qt. Galvanized ____ 2 90
12 ot. Flaring Gal. Ir. 6 75
10 qt. Tin Dairy --__ 4 80
12 qt. Tin Dairy ..-. 5 40

Traps

Mouse, wood, 4 holes __ 60
Mouse, wood, 6 holes __ 70

Mouse, tin, 5 holes -_.. 65
Rat - woo 1 00
Hat: apréine 42 1 00
Mouse, spring —__----- 30
Tubs
Large Galvanized --_ 8 50
Medium Galvanized 7 50
Small Galvanized  ___ 6 60
Washboards
Banner Globe —__------ 00
Brass, Single... : 00
Glass, Single __-_---- 6 75
Double Peerless ---.. 8 25
Single Peerless ~~~... 7 50
Northern Queen —-_- 5 Th
Daiversal «2s 7 50
Window Cleaners
$2 4 5
BS Aa ate 1 85
BG a a 2 30
Wood Bowls
13 in, Bitter: 5 00
40. in Bptter. 2 9 00
a7 on, ttere 2 18 00
.o7in: Batter: 25 00
WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre, Manila, white_ oe
No. 1 Fibre .=_-...-__. 07%
Butchers Manila ____ oe
PRA oo ee
YEAST CAKE
Mavic, 3 dog. 2. ‘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. __ 28

child.

“Aren’t you glad?” I asked.

“Why, I suppose I am—or ought to
be. Of course I am very fond of
Katharine. She seems a nice, sweet
girl. She is very devoted to me; writes
to me every week most dutifully, and I
try to answer every letter, when I am
not too busy. But I feel as if I didn’t
know her very well. Really, you
know, I never have seen much of
Katharine.”

“What in the world do you mean?
Isn’t she your own child?”

“Oh, yes, indeed. My own child and
nearly seventeen. But I don’t really
understand her, and I feel that she
doesn’t understand me. She has been
away from home, at school, most of
the time since she was twelve years
old, and before that she always had a
governess—a very competent woman.
Before the governess she had nurses.
It is the luckiest thing, of course, that
my husband left me enough so that I
was always able to employ people
who knew the nursery business. I
don’t know what I should have done
if I had been poor. I never cared for
children.”

“Didn’t you ever try, after Kathar-
ine was born, to learn the ‘nursery
business?’ ”

“Oh, dear, no. It isn’t in my line
in the least. And I am a very busy
woman socially. I have belonged to
all sorts of things, ever since I got
out of college. I didn’t want to have
any children, but my husband did, and
when Katharine came he was delight-
ed and devoted a great deal of time
to her. But she was only two years
old when he died. Since then I al-
ways have had competent women ‘to
look after her, employed the best
teachers and tutors for her, and when
she was twelve sent her to Miss ’s
School, where she has been happy
and has done extremely well, I be-
lieve., At least, I have had several
enthusiastic letters about her from the
school. She is ready for college now
and next year will go to one.”

“Which one?”

“T don’t know. I am letting her de-
cide that for herself. Of course I
wanted her to go to my own college;
but she says it is too ‘cold and high-
brow.’ I don’t know exactly what she

 

you like—in all women.”

“Tt isn’t hereditary in me.”

It so happened that I saw quite a
little of Katharine after she did come
home for those dreadful “eighteen
days.” EF did not tell her what her
mother had said to me: of her own
accord she gave me the other side of
it:

“Mother has tried so hard to give
me a good time while I am home from
school,’ she said. “I wish she hadn't
filled my time so full. Almost every
single evening she has arranged to
have me out to some dance or some-
thing, and every week end I am away
at some country house.

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

NEW PERFECTION
The best all purpose flour.

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The best bread flour.

 

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“T did want to get acquainted with
my mother this Christmas. She was
awfu:ly good and unselfish, to give up
all the time to my enjoyment. I
wrote to her long ago and asked her
not to accept a lot of invitations for
me; I wanted to stay at home quiet-
ly with her; but she said she -wanted
me to have the best time in the world
and not to mind her being lonesome.

“You see, I never have seen very
much of my mother. Ever since I
can remember I have had nurses and
governesses and I went away to school
when I was twelve. I don’t remember
my father at all; he died when I was
a baby. My mother has told me often
that he was very fond of me. It
seems as if I had always had lots
of friends and acquaintances—people
have been very good to me—but I
never had any parents the way other
girls have. ;

“T tell you one thing!” (There was
a certain,note of defiance—almost in-
dignation—in the way she said this.)
“After I leave college I’m going to
get married just as soon as I! can find
a man that will do at all—the one
thing I shall insist upon will be that

 

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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.

he loves children—and I’m going to
have just oodles of children. And I
shall not care whether they have any
education at all. I’m going to spend
my time just ’tending to them and lov-
ing them. They’re not going to be
lonesome all their lives, as I have
been!” Prudence Bradish.
(Copyrighted, 1923.)

>. a.
A Safe Partner.

The Halls believe that their Tommy,
aged five, will make his mark.

Last summer the youngster was seen
walking slowly along the hotel porch,
thoughtfully scanning the faces of
guests seated there. Finally he stop-
ped at the chair of a friendly old lady.

“Say, Mrs. Smith, can you crack
nuts?” he enquired, his hands in his
pockets.

“Why, no, dearie, I can’t,” she re-
plied. “You know I’ve lost most of
my teeth.”

“That’s what I thought,” said Tom-
my, extending his two hands con-
fidentiy. “Will you keep these nuts
for me while I go get the rest of ’em?”

>.> __
Salesmanship is a sort of mental
window display. Don’t try to exhibit
too much of a variety at one time.

 

OF QUALITY

REASON No. 22

Good Cooks

The mill-

You will profit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If set in capital letters, double price.

No charge less than 60 cents. Small

display advertisements in thls department, $3 per Inch. Payment with order

is required, as amounts are too small t

© Open accounts.

 

For Sale—Old established poultry, egg,
and grocery business. Full particulars
given to anyone interested. Address No.
26, care Tradesman. 26

 

For Sale—Men’s clothing and furnishing
store located in Detroit’s best outskirt
sections. Good reason for selling. Ad-
dress No. 27, care Michigan oe

 

FOR SALE—Shoe stock and fixtures.
Nice new store upstairs. In city of
50,000. A dandy proposition for right
party. A one-year lease from April 1,
and it can be had as long as buyer wants.
Address Box 800, Kalamazoo. 28

 

FOR SALE—An old established grocery
business in best location in city. Stock
and fixtures at inventory. Box 278, Sagi-
naw, Mich. 29

 

FOR SALE—Hotel and restaurant with
a dandy trade, central location. Write
G. F. Benham, Owosso, Mich. 30

 

FOR SALE—Good money-making gro-
cery and market in a town of 1500. Lo-
cated in postoffice block. Inquire of Wm.
F. Barchett, Watervliet, Mich. 5

 

KWIT YOUR KICKIN

About business. Have an Arrow Sale
by

THE ARROW SERVICE
Cor. Wealthy St. & Division Ave.
Citz. 62374 Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

For Sale—Cash registers and store fix-
tures. Agency for Standard computing
scales. Dickry Dick, Muskegon, _

64

 

If you are thinking of going into busi-
ness, selling out, or making an exchange,
place an advertisement in our business
chances cclumns, as it will bring you
in touch with the man for whom you are
looking—THE BUSINESS MAN.

 

A SACRIFICE—Clean stock and fixtures
general merchandise. Will sell buildings
store dwelling joining and garage. Good
farmers’ trade. Poor health. Price
$6,500. B. B. Norton, Lachine, Mich. 31

 

For -Sale—One marble soda fountain
and mahogany back bar, carbonating
machine, and other equipment of Olym-
pia Candy Co. Taken on chattel mort-
gage. For sale cheap. Benton Harbor
State Bank, Benton Harbor, Mich. 32

 

For Sale—Clean stock of groceries,
shoes and furnishings in live town near
Detroit. Good opportunity to put meats
in connection. Good proposition that
would pay to investigate. Address No.
33, Care Michigan Tradesman. 33

 

FOR SALE—DRY GOODS, GROCER-
IES, CROCKERY. EXCELLENT LOCA-
TION in town of 500, Kent Co. Doing
best business in town. About $8,000 re-
quired. Never offered for sale be-
fore. BRICK BUILDING, REASONABLE
RENT and insurance. Good reason for
selling. Address No. 25, care Michigan
Tradesman. 25

 

REBUILT
CASH REGISTER CO., Inc.
Cash Registers, Computing Scales
Adding Machines, Typewriters And
Other Store and Office Spectaities.
122 N. Washington, SAGINAW, Mich.
Repairs and Supplies for all makes. |

 

For Sale—Hay and poultry house, large
poultry yards, on P. M. main line. Side
track to building. Address S. V. Gar-
linger, Lake Odessa, Mich. 7

 

CASH For Your Merchandise!

Will buy your entire stock or part of

stock of shoes, dry goods, clothing, fur-

nishings, bazaar novelties, furniture, etc.
LOUIS LEVINSOHN, Saginaw, Mich.

 

Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-
ing goods stocks. L.— Silberman, 1250
Burlingame Ave., Detroit, Mich. 566

 

DICKRY DICK THE SCALE EX-
PERT. MUSKEGON, MICH. 939

 

For Sale—Country store and general
stock, almost new frame building. Fine
farming section in Central Michigan.
About $7,006 required. Address No. 5,
care Michigan Tradesman. 5

 

Why Not Have a Sale—Unload your
surplus stock. Write for particulars.
L. J. Crisp, Sales Conductor, Elk Rap-
ids, Mich. 4

 

Business For Sale—Consisting of dry
goods, shoes and men’s furnishings. Lo-
cated at Springport, Mich. About $3,500.
Time given on part. Write E. D. Collor,
Springport, Mich. 15

 

For Sale—Clean stock of groceries and
fixtures. The leading store in live town
of 1250 population. An unusual proposi-
tion. It will pay you to investigate.
Address No. 17, care Tradesman. re

 

MEAT MARKET—Main meat market
in best town in Central Michigan. Gross
business $70,000 annually. Fine equip-
ment. Wire or write Hugh Watson, Mt.
Pleasant, Mich. 18

 

PHELPS CAFETERIA, CLARE—Only
cafeteria in one of the best towns on the
greatest tourist state road in Michigan.
$2,000 buys it. Write W. J. Cooper, Mt.
Pleasant, Mich. 19

 

Wanted—An experienced salesman, for
the state of Indiana, to sell patent med-
icine. Address No. 21, care Michigan
Tradesman. 21

 

A. E. GREENE SALES CoO.

Merchandise Sales Specialists. Conduct
business-building, reduction or com-
plete closing-out sales for retail mer-
chants. Terms, dates, etc., no obliga-
tion. Now booking sales for Jan. 27
and Feb.

216 E. Main, Jackson, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS SAFE CoO.

 

Dealer in

Fire and
Burglar Proof
Safes

Vault Doors and Time Locks
Largest Stock in the State.

Grand Rapids Safe Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

  

     
  
 
   
   
    
 
   
  
    
  
   
   

 
   
    
 
 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
 
     
   
     
 
  
   
  
   
 
   
  
   
   
  
   
   
  
   
    
  
   
   
  
 
   
  
 
  
  
    
 
 
 
 
  
   
 
   
 
  
 
  
  
    
  
    
    
 
     
  
   
   
  
   
    
  
 
  

 

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Petoskey Portland Cement Co. in
Excellent Condition.

Because the directors of the Petos-
key Portland Cement Co. deemed -it
wise to pass the Jan. 1 dividend, some
unfavorable comment has resulted in
certain quarters which is without justi-
fication. Because the Tradesman has
absolute confidence in the integrity
and good faith of the officers of the
company, it recently requested an ex-
planation from Secretary Galster,; who
promptly and cheerfully responded, as
follows:

It is with pleasure that we enclose
herewith, special delivery, copy of the
financial statement of the Petoskey
Portland Cement Co. and also the
Petoskey Transportation Co. as of
December 31. You will note that the
Cement company has notes payable
of $402,600; $400,000 of this amount
we owe to the Transportation com-
pany and the $2,600 is for a water
softener plant. This has not been paid
for because the plant was put in and
guaranteed to do certain work and give
satisfactory results, and the payments
were strung along for a year. It is
proving satisfactory, however.

At the present time we have 125,000
barrels of cement in our two stock-
houses and will continue storing ce-
ment until spring opens up, at which
time we expect to have over 200,000
barrels, besides the amount we will
manufacture during the summer. We
have set the mark for 700,000 barrels
for this year. The cement is now be-
ing put into the stockhouse at cost
and the profit will show up during the
months in which it is sold. We feel
the results will be most gratifying to
you and all of our stockholders.

We expect to resume dividends on
July 1. We also expect to reduce our
indebtedness during the coming year
and carry over enough surplus so that
next year it will not be necessary for
us to pass the dividends during the
winter months. We plan to store 10,-
000 tons of coal on our dock for
emergency. This will be brought in by
our boats.

We regret that our profits for 1922
were not as great as we anticipated,
but we had many obstacles to over-
come which you know about. There
is absolute harmony now in our com-
pany. Our officers and directors have
formu‘ated a policy whereby there will
be no new construction work done.
No one can spend a dollar unless he
can show the board of directors and
management where it is necessary.

e are on a strictly operating basis.
I am sure the results will be very
satisfactory.

We will send you another letter
after the meeting Wednesday giving
you all the information. We feel very
optimistic for the year 1923 and know
that next January we will not have
any apoligies to make, and believe you
will feel at that time that your con-
fidence has not been misplaced.

The annual report discloses that the
cement company is in a very strong
position, with $151,387.41 cash on hand,
$60,209.40 accounts receivable and $11,-
085.75 notes receivable. It has stock
and supplies on hand to the amount of
$160,908.53. The total indebtedness is
$456,274.92. The profits for 1922 were
$128,340.76. They would probably
have been in excess of $200,000 if it had
not been for the coal shortage. No
holder of the stock. need have any
fears for the future, because the com-
pany is bound to develop into a great
money maker before many more years
roll around.

—_>+.->__
The Light of America Triumphant.

Detroit, Jan. 23—In studying the
lives of the men whom God used as
His instruments to bring forth our
beloved Nation, America, one is im-

   

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

pressed with the solid foundations laid

- In young manhood—foundations rear-

ed on individual struggles for right-
eousness and willingness to endure, to
sacrifi~e gladiy for the achievement of
the great purpose—the unfoldment and
preservation of American ideals. This
holy seed of pure Americanism was
unconsciously germinating in Benja-
min Franklin, when, at the age of 12,
he rebelled against power unjustly
used, and after turbulent, boyish strug-
gles, took passage from Boston to
New York and finally landed penniless
and alone in Philadelphia. But, never
alone, as he testified in his expression
of child-like faith (which was the key-

note of his life of extraordinary
achievement) written to George
Whitefield: “That Being who gave

me existence and through almost three
score years has been continually show-
ering His favors upon me, whose very
chastisements have been blessings. to
me, can I dowbt that He loves me?
And if He loves me, can I doubt that
He will go on to take care of me?

This same childlike faith and spirit
of self-sacrifice inspired and miracu-
lously sustained young George Wash-
ington in his pioneer. hardships and
dangers, and we find this flame un-
extinguished when the -father of our
country, at Valley Forge, knelt, as a
little child, asking for guidance at that
crucial hour. Young Abraham Lin-
coln kept the torch blazing through
deprivations and his childlike faith laid
the- spiritual foundation which pre-
pared him for this great work of pre-
serving the Union. It seems right and
important to emphasize this corner-
stone, which was early laid in the char-
acters of the makers of America, as
a persuasive call to our young people
to-day—future citizens of an unprece-
dented era—to rise to their individual
responsibilities and possibilities and
build on this same imperishable foun-
dation. :

America is now paying homage to
Benjamin Franklin, and the details of
his great life work are being recounted
throughout the country. But I re-
turn once more to the childlike faith
which gave him his sense of values
and quick perception of the simple,
homely things. An undercurrent of
protective tenderness especially mani-
fested itself in Franklin’s love for
Washington and in his understanding
of the Gethsemane through which the
Father of-our Country must pass to
fulfill-his great mission of giving birth
to this Nation. When, under the old
elm tree at Cambridge, Washington
took the oath as Commander-in-Chief
of the Continental Army, Franklin, in
talking with his guest, John Adams,
poured forth his affection for Wash-
ington and concluded with this state-
ment: “Above all, Washington has a
sense of oneness of America. Mass-
achusetts and Georgia are as dear to
him as Virginia!”

As we ponder these words, “the one-
ness of America,” we see the tower of
Babel crumbling, and the purpose and
mission of our great Federal Repub-
lic—her divine oneness—being reveal-
ed in its splendor. This unity is the
light of divine democracy, the light of
America triumphant, in whose radi-
ance will be revealed all her pioneer
spiritual prophets who were divinely
commissioned to guard the “young
child’? America. Frank Stowell.

The Tradesman again warns its
readers against having any dealings
with the Standard Detective Bureau
of Muskegon. The methods employed
by the concern are not such as to

‘commend it to business men who deal

fairly.

—__>2-—___.

Flint—The Flint Pneumatic Tool
Co., 416 East Third street, has been
incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $50,000 preferred and 500
shares at $10 per share, of which
amount - 280 shares have been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.

Sell Raw Peanuts as a Specialty.

Norfolk, Jan. 23—New merchandis-
ing methods which the Peanut Grow-
ers’ Association expects to apply to
the sale of peanuts are expected to
revolutionize the industry and_to place
it on a much higher plane in the mer-
chandising world than it has ever oc-
cupied before.

Instead of allowing the sale of pea-
nuts to rest on the haphazard ma-
chinery of chance and the small ven-
dor, the association proposes to put
it on the most approvel basis for mer-
chandising and to sell through the
same channels of trade as govern the
movement of most of the other im-
portant foodstuffs. Brokers, jobbers
and retailers will handle the products
of the growers, which will be backed
up with advertising and demonstra-
tions.

Plans for the adoption of the new
methods are complete and will be put
into practice for the first time in a
campaign here in Norfolk, the home
of the association, which numbers
some 5,000 growers in Virginia and
North Carolina among its members.
The campaign here started to-day.

Its central idea and the central idea
of the whole merchandising plan will
be to make it easy for consumers to
purchase shelled raw peanuts: in con-
venient pound packages from their cor-
ner groceries or wherever they buy
their foodstuffs. The association has
adopted a new and suitable carton with
the name of “Pickaninny Peanuts” and
the head of a pickaninny as the dis-
tinguishing symbol of the brand.

In preparation for the campaign here
the association has placed the boxed
and branded nuts in jobbing houses
and with brokers and in the vast ma-
jority of retail grocery and cash and
carry stores in the city. Demonstra-
tors and specialty salesmen and news-
paper advertising will be used to put
the new article over. E. M. De Pencier,
who was formerly with the Sun-Maid
Raisin people, is salesmanager of the
Growers’ Association and has planied
the campaign and the subsequent de-
velopment of the selling idea.

Mr. De Pencier declares that he be-
lieves it will be possible to increase
consumption of peanuts to a very re-
markable extent. Everybody likes the
product, he says, and proves such a
liking by buying and eating peanuts
at baseba!l games and circuses.

The only reason that peanuts have
not been used to a greater extent in
the home is not lack of favor for the
nuts but lack of facilities to secure
them. The provision of such facilities
through the use of the carton method
will revolutionize the industry and
make it very much more profitable for
the farmers, as well as giving con-
sumers graded, selected nuts for a
lower price. It is estimated that the
cost of the nuts, cleaned and she'led,
in the carton is from five-eights to
one-half of the cost of the nuts as
usually sold from the vendors’ stands
in the shell and roasted and yet the
return to the farmer will be larger.

This is the second year that the
Peanut Growers’ Association has ac-
tually participated in marketing the
product of peanut growers in this
region. Although the organization
was formed three years ago, it did not
begin to function as a marketing
agency until 1921. During the sum-
mer of 1922 it had a complete reorgan-
ization, and secured the services of
Mr. De Pencier. The association has
suits for damages pending under the
Anti-Trust law against a number of
ceaners, and has also pending suits to
enforce its marketing contracts with

members in this State and North
Carolina.
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Bank Deposits Equal a City of
125,000.

Battle Creek, Jan. 23—The rank and
file of Rattle Creek people have, on
deposit in local banks, savings total-
ing $14,580.000, a sum equal to nearly
a third off the assessed valuation of °
the city, $48,450,580.

January 24, 1923

The per-capita deposits for Battle
Creek are $364.50, a sum more than
twice as large as the average national
per capita figure of $151 shown in re-
cent statistics compiled by D. Wood-
worth, deputy manager of the Amer-
ican Bankers’ Association, as the aver-
age for the whole country.

Large Account List.

Mr. Woodworth, in his recently
published report, declares “The rank
and file of the American people are
strong enough financially, including
their holdings of all securities on top
of their savings, to take over the war
debt of the American Government.”

If Battle Creek joined in such a
plan she could show returns equiv-
alent to those of a city of 125,009
population, on the basis of the aver-

age of bank deposits the country over.

In many Battle Creek families, each
individual carries a separate savings
account in local banks. Many carry
more than one account in one bank
or carry accounts in more than one
bank,

The sum of $14,580,000, deposited to
the credit of Battle Creek people in
local banks, does not include the ap-
proximately one-fifth of a million dol-
lars which have been invested in war
savings stamps of the issue of 1918,
which were retired January 1, ard
which are, in many instances, being
converted into short term treasury
certificates.

—_22>___

This old world, with all its radiss
and telephones and automobiles and
sky-scrapers, is not so very different
from the world our fathers knew.
Conditions change, but fundamentals
remain identical. Human nature con-
tinues to be ruled by faith or sus-
Picion, by hope or despair, by love.
or hate. Success continues to be
measured by the same yard-stick—a
job well-done is a job well-done, just
as it was a hundred years ago.

——_2-~___

The patience, nerves and physical
endurance of salesmen and saleswomen
will be sorely tried many times be-
tween now and Christmas. If you are
a proprietor or a store manager ‘re-
member that the customer is not al-
ways right. The men and women be-
hind the retail counters are entitled to
more credit and much more tolerance
than most of us are in the habit of
giving them.

—_2--—___

Detroit—The Alfred O. Blaich Co..
555 Beaufait street. manufacturer and
dealer in case-hardening hardware, al-
lied products, appliances, etc., has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $30,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in, $5,191.46 in cash and $24,808.54 in
property.

—__.----—____..

Detroit—The Flat-Wash Window
Co., 1401 Ford building, has been in-
corporated to manufacture and dea!
in windows, window Parts, appliances
and builders’ hardware, with an au-.
thorized capital stock of $100,000, $51,-
000 of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Adrian—The Michigan Producers
Dairy Co. which plans the erection of
a factory in this city, has leased a
portion of the Oliver Instrument Co.
plant, and immediately will begin the
manufacture of dairy products, a por-
tion of the machinery having already
arrived. :

6-2-2.

Anyone can talk, but it takes a

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Every Grocer Knows the
Superb Character of
“WHITE HOUSE” Cof-
fee; and Freely Acknowl-
edges Its Commanding
Worth.

Celt aay
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LEE & CADY—Detroit

Wholesale Distributors of

Dwinell-Wright Co.’s Products

 

  
 

 

The Name on the Sack is a
Guarantee of its Contents

When specifying cement insist that it be the kind with the

name—

NEWAYGO
PORTLAND
CEMENT

on every sack.

You can then be assurred that this important part of your
construction work is being supplied with material that has proven
its worth, one that will readily adapt itself to your job, no matter
what problems or complications may arise.

Newaygo Portland Cement is not limited in use to the con-
struction of buildings. It may be used above or under ground,
in or out of water. Its many uses have brought about a universal
demand for the cement with a guarantee of uniform quality.

Newaygo Portland Cement Co.

Sales Offices
Commercial Savings Bank’ Bldg.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

General Offices and Plant
Newaygo, Mich.

 

 

 

 

   
 

Advertise
Your Store

Use the manufacturers’ advertising
to advertise your store by stocking

nationally known merchandise.

Selling well known brands gives you
a reputation for dealing in quality
goods as nationally advertised prod-

ucts must be backed by quality.

KC

Baking Powder

Same price for over 3() years

2 5 ounces for 2 ist

nationally known—highest quality
—enables you to offer your cus-
tomers a real baking powder bargain
—under-selling your outside compe-

tition.
Besides, the price is established.
That Protects Your Profits

The government used
millions of pounds.

Reduction in freight rates July 1, passed on to the
trade in reduced list prices on K C

 

Write us. Let us show you the
greater profit In seliing K C than you
can get on other advertised brands.

JAQUES MFG. CO., Chicago

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  

 

 

 

 

OLD weather imposes new

operating conditions on your

trucks and automobiles.
These must be met if your
machines are to deliver maximum
service. Nearly all makes and
types of engines require a lighter
grade of Polarine Oil in winter
than in summer.

Heavy oil congeals in cold
weather and does not flow easily
through the lubricating system.
Unlessthe correct winter grade of oil
is used, some parts of your engine
may operate without oil until the
heat from the engine causes it to
flow readily. Scored cylinders,
burned bearings and a host of
other damages result when this
condition occurs.

=Not only do you pay for these
repairs, but while they are being
made you lose the time of the
machine and the driver as well.

937 S. Michigan Ave.

 

GUARD YOUR
HAULING COSTS

 
  

If you would guard your hauling
costs, use Polarine. It ismadein four
grades—Medium Light, Medium
Heavy, Heavy and Extra Heavy,
one of which lubricates correctly
your machine during cold weather.

Do not rely on hearsay or the
judgment of those not qualified to
select this correct grade. Remem-
ber there is only the right grade
and the wrong grade of lubricating
oil—there is no such thing as a
second best grade. |

Consult the latest Polarine Chart
of Recommendations, which our
lubricating engineers have com-
piled in co-operation with manu-
facturers of automobile engines.
Thischartisdisplayed
by all Standard Oil
oe? Company (Indiana)
mw agents and most Pol-
arine dealers. It will
be sent you free on
request.

 

 

STANDARD OIL COMPANY

(INDIANA)

Chicago, [Illinois

Michigan Branches at Detroit, Saginaw, Grand Rapids

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

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