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THE FINANCIAL SITUATION. |

Joseph O. Rutter in the Current.
Il.

In alluding to the growing contraction of
the circulating medium, the intention is to
touch it entirely with reference to the na-
ture of the effect produced upon property
values in the country, by continuously les-
sening the amount of money available for
daily uses, and not for the purpose of in any
way considering the value to the people as a
whole of possessinga large intrinsic wealth
stored away for what we proverbially eall a
“rainy day,” although it might be here said
that for such purposes a metallic reserve
would be better in every way than a paper
currency which has been irredeemable in
the past, and under contingencies not at all
impossible to arise in the future, may be so
again.

As against the effects of the contraction
which is under consideration, there is the
added purchasing power which is given to
money by the great shrinkage of values
which attaches to all kinde of property
for a long period following a collapse or a
panic. A collapse in values usually is the
outcome of a panic, but sometimes it pre-
ceeds one, as, for instance, the detline un-
der which we are now laboring began in
1881, and has continued steadily until this
year, when its accelerated speed brought
about such enormous failures that an unnat-
ural frenzy was caused and a panic came.
It is also, generally speaking, a fact that
after a panic and collapse, money is very
plentiful and interest rates low. This comes
mainly from the timidity of men in business
and of those seeking permanent investment
for their idle funds. It is the occasion of
constant remark among observing men:
“ow much more readily as a rule, prop-
erties will change owners when prices are
high and apparently going higher than when
they are low, and with a lower tendency”
Both of these last conditions operate in the
nature of an expansion of the money afloat
among the people. That this apparent ex-
pansion does not quickly make itself felt in
a revival of business, is because the business
interests labor at such times under what
medical men callin human conditions ‘sus
pended animation.”

A very striking illustration of the manner
and effect of the working of strong contrac-
tion in the velume of money may be had by
contrasting the conditions existing after
the panic of 1857 and that of 1873. The
paper money—or, to be more precise, the
bank note circulation—in 1857. was issued
under the authority of the various state
legislators, and came from every section of
the union.

In the uncertainty and apprehension
which prevailed everywhere in regard to it
the people had little disposition to hoard it.
Money laid away was almost wholly in gold
and silver. When these notes came into the
hands of people who were in debt, the ap-
prehension in men’s minds regarding it,oper-
ated as an incentive to be rid of it. There
is always a natural indisposition to submit
to a brokerage or discounts, and so the most
feasible thing to do would be to pay debts
with it. And the same line of reasoning or
feeling, whichever it may be called, induced
its continuance in circulation; and so on and
on it went, performing a most important and
useful function, which enabled the great
mass of people to liquidate their debts.
Notwithstanding the fact that there was no
bankrupt law in force then, through which
both honest and dishonest debtors could pay
their debts by process of law, or rapacious
creditors turn the United States courts into
a mereantile, or diligent creditor’s collecting
agency, the number of insolvent debtors at
the opening of the civil war was, relatively
speaking, much less than in 1877, four years
after the shock of 1873, and after (who
would dare say how many?) thousands of
people had a clear quittance of their monetary
obligation under the authority and seal of
the United States government. The num-
ber of people who lost anything of conse-
quence by the failure of the state banks,
through their bank note circulation, was few
and the total loss to all aggregated a sum
sufficiently small, certainly insignificant
when compared with the good achieved to
the community as a whole by its continuance
in constant circulation.

No allusion is now made, when writing
of losses to the community by state bank
circulation, to the losses which accrued
through the failure of the state banks of
lllinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, in what
is called the “stump-tail’” period. These
systems of banking did not owe their de-
cline to any of those causes which produced
the panic of 1857. Their trouble had a
different origin. It was brought about
mainly by the decline in the value of the
state bonds pledged for the ultimate re-
demption of their circulating notes. The
war of the rebellion destroyed the value of
all southern state bonds, most of which had
been in high favor for investment; and
this decline destroyed the banks.
Had there beep no war the objectionable
features of these banks would no doubt have
been quickly remedied by the different legis-
latures. A system of forced redemption
would have speedily checked over-issues of

n«te: and kept them within bounds. The

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want of such a system, was perhaps the
most conspicious objection to these banks.
Much unjust and needless anathema has
rested on the head of the “stump-tail” sys-
tem. It has often been confounded with
other than real cause. It is not proposed to
make any comparison between the circula-
tion of the state banks, such as formerly
was furnished, and the present system of
legal tender and national bank notes, the
purpose being rather to enforce upon the
reader the advisability, indeed the actual
neccessity, of devising some means by which
hoarding, or at least excessive “hoarding
of the bank note circulation shall be avoid-
ed, and to show the great benefits accruing
to business, and, in fact every interest, by
keeping the money of a country in move-
ment. This is the purpose of its creation.
Money is a medium for the exchange of
properties. When it ceases to be in move-
ment it might as well not be, as far as the
community at large is concerned.

Under the practices which govern the
transactions of mercantile business, in a
wholesale way, at the present time, many
evils are growing.

The custom of inducing purchases, by the
dealers in the interior towns, by granting
long credits under cover of “dating bills
ahead” against present shipment of goods;
and of keeping an army of traveling sales-
men, who, in to many cases, are more the
agent of the buyer than of the seller, and
whose success is not infrequently dependent
at the house, upon the aggregrate amount
of sales more than on the profits obtained—
who are also in many cases largely the ad-
visory “credit men” of the establishment, as
well as its salesmen—are some of them.
They are constant topics of discussion, and
many plans are offered for the cure of them.
Nothing practicable has been suggested, and
the difficulty of securing co-operation is so
great it is unlikely that any change will be
made until some great upheaval forces a
different mode of selling goods upon the
great distributing houses. Another cause of
disturbance in times of unsettled monetary
conditions, which creates anxiety, and dan-
ger to merchants, is the custom, now very
general, of taking the liberal offers of dis-
count for cash, in their purchase of mer-
chandise or material rather than avail them-
selves of the long credit. This throw most
houses upon the banks, or on the street, for
capital in the form of borrowed money—a
recourse which is sure to fail them when ac-
tual stringency or timidity induces lenders
to withdraw from the market.

Banks differ essentially from merchants
in this particularly that bank liabilities are
always due, and may, at any moment be
demanded.

This feature of their business often com-
pels a contraction when the disposition and
the judgment, if undisturbed, of the bank
officers would prompt a different course. <A
prudent merchant will, as far as possible,
guided by observation and experience, so
arrange his purchases and payments that
in the usual course of his affairs, the re-
ceipts from his sales will take care of his
payments. This line of management cannot
be the guide of the banker, for the reason
already given.

In cities like New York a fund may be
kept loaned subject to a demand call, which
will add great strength to reserve power
in times of trouble. And in a good degree
the same policy canbe followed in Chicago.
Put few cities, however, offer facilities for
these loans; and the policy cannot be
made on that account a general one.
A great many complaints have come
from the seaboard of the difficulty experi-
enced by merchants in selling their paper, or
borrowing money from the banks. May it
not be as is here suggested, that to much
dependence is placed on the profits accru-
ing from discounting their purchases, and
too little upon obtaining a better profit on
their goods?—too much dependence on bor-
rowed money and too little on the use of
their credit in other directions?

Without inquiring at this time why it is
so, anyone familiar with the matter knows
that one of the great drawbacks to prosperity
now isthe high rate of expenditure necces-
sary for both business and domestic sus-
tenance. Contrasted with the compensa-
tion the expenditures bring, or the compen-
sations obtained in other countries than our
own, the conclusion can hardly be escaped
that our countrymen have an evil to contend
with which must be done away with before
we can find our way to a permanent and en-
during prosperity. So much has appeared
in the public newspaper press in the past
few years regarding the enormous issues of
stocks in the various corporations which the
development of the country has called into
existence—and the chief of which are our
railroad corporations—stocks which in the
great majority of cases are what are known
as “pure water,” that is do, not represent a
dollar of money paid in for them, but upon
which the agricultural producer and consumer
is taxed by way of freightage, the same as if

value had been actually paid, and for the
existence of which even the argument “‘that
the promoters of the schemes are entiiled to
a compensation for the early risks taken,”
has lost its force—if it ever had any force—
that it will be unneccessary to make any

 

further allusion to it here.

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SHEFFIELD.

 

The Development of Her Cutlery Manu-
facture.

A writer in the English Illustrated Mag-
azine gives some interesting facts concern-
ing the development of the Sheffield cutlery
manufacture, from which we make extracts:

The cutlery trade is the industry upon
which the prosperity of Sheffield was
built, and which has been most constant to
the town. Indigenous to the soil, jealously
nursed and perfected within the manor of
Hallamshire, the craft remains, so far as the
the United Kingdom is concerned, the prac-
tical monopoly of Sheffield.

In the infancy of the cutlery trade, Shef-
field had more competitors in the home mar-
ket than it has now, since, besides London,
which still makes a pretence of rivalry, the
making of knives was carried on at Salis-
bury, at Woodstock, and at Godalming.

The manufacture of cutting instruments in
some form or other in the Sheffield district
probably dates back to the time of the Ro-
man settlement, but the first historical refer-
ence to the existence of the iron trade is con-
tained in a grant made about the middle of
the 12th century to the monks of Kirkstead,
for iron-working at Kimberworth, near Roth-
erham; and the earliest identification of
Sheffield with cutlery itself appears to be in
connection with a list of articles issued from
the Privy Wardrobe to the Tower in 1341,
which contains the entry “‘cultellum de Shef-
eld.” Before 1400, the “Shefeld thwytel,”
or whittle, was famous all the country over,
as Chaucer testifies; the ‘‘thwytel,’’ which
the immortal miller “bare in his hose,”
probably being something between a dirk
and the domestic table-knife. Sheffield was
at that time rather the center of a district en-
gaged in the production of cutlery than the
sold place of manufacture, the area inelud-
ing Rotherham and Ecclesfield, and extend-
ing as far as Chesterfield.

For several centuries London remained a
formidable competitor with Sheffield in fine
cutlery, but the special reputation of the me-
tropolis in this respect has long passed en-
tirely into the surgical instrument trade, in
the more delicate sections of which London
is still supreme. According to the historian
Stow, ‘Richard Matehws, on Flete Bridge,
was the first Englishman who attained per-
fection in making fine knives and knife
hafts, and in the fifth year of Elizabeth he
obtained a prohibition against all strangers
nd others from bringing any knives into
England from beyond seas, which, until that
time, were brought into this land by shippers
lading from Flanders and other places.”

By far the most engrossing aspect of the
cutlery trade of Sheftield is its history; and
its history is enthralling, not because it re-
cords any remarkable vicissitudes of the in-
dustry as a craft, for its course has been sin-
gularly even and natural; not because of
any dramatic developments in processes,
for pratically cutlery is made at this moment
in the same primitive way as when the clang
of the smith’s hammer startled Lord Shrews-
bury’s deer; but tor the light which the rec-
ord throws upon the formation of the char-
acter, the habits of thought, and the econom-
ic theories of a body of artisans who have
figured rather unfortunately in our industrial
annals, and to whom full justice has never
quite been done.

Sheffield and trades unionisms will proba-
bly always be bracketed together with a sin-
ister suggestiveness.

It was not until the latter half of the
eighteenth century that the trade began to
shake off its self-imposed fetters, and that,
under the impetus of the discovery of silver-
plating and the crucible steel process, of the
-manufacture of the Britannia metal, the
opening of the Don for navigation, and the
cultivation of the foreign trade, the prosper-
ity of the town began to move at anything
like a recent rate.

By the early years of the present century
a new social system had taken shape, and a
wide gulf was disclosed between manufactur-
ers and artisans. The wealth which had
brought the masters social dignity also
brought them more enlightened views of the
interests of the town, and in 1814 they very
wisely obtained an act repealing the restrict-
ive clauses in their charter and throwing the
trade open to freemen and non-freemen
alike.

 

OO.
Soft Wood for Fuel.
From the Woodworker.

In portions of the country where hickory,
maple, and white oak abound, little use is
made of the soft woods as fuel. Many re-
gard them as nearly worthless for that pur-
pose. In the West, where wood for fuel is
searce, farmers have been advised to plant
hard-wood trees for producirig fuel-wood.
They have been told that hard wood is worth
twice as much as soft for heating or cooking
purposes, while the expense of cutting and
hauling is nearly the same. Admitting all
these statements to be correct, it does not
follow that it 1s advisable to plant trees pro-
ducing hard wood if the object is to obtain
fuel in the shortest time possible. The ma-

ple, hickory, beech, and white oaks are of
very slow growth. Trees set out in one’s
childhood will not be of very large size when
the planter reaches old age. Most of these}.
trees will not grow well except on soils fav-

 

orable to them. Willows, poplars, and

 

whitewood trees, however, will grow almost
anywhere. They are easily propogated by
cuttings as wellas by sowing the seed. Their
growth is very rapid. Especially is this the
case with the various kinds of willows. They
are among the first trees to put out leaves in
the Spring, and they continue to grow till
frosts appear in the Fall. Good fuel can be
obtained from willow trees that have been
planted out but five or six years. As soon
as the trunks are cut off sprouts will appear,
which in the course of a few years will be-
come stately trees. The wood is certainly
not the best. It is, however, very easily ob-
tained, and will prove better than most per-
sons suppose. The trees should be felled
and the wood cut in suitable lengths early
enough in the season to allow it to become
thorougnly seasoned before the approach of
winter. It will dry well if the bark remains
on the wood. Many think that it drys better
if the sticks stand nearly upright than if they
are corded up. When dry, the wood should
be protected from rain and snow.
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Cardinal Principles of Partnership.

In an accounting upon the dissolution ofa
partnership, there was a dispute as to the
authority to incur expenses and as to inter-
est. Both appealed, and the Supreme Court
of Michigan, in deciding the case, through
Judge Sherwood, said:

1. With or without the consent of one
partner, the other can expend any reasonable
amount which he may deem proper in the
legitimate prosecution of the co-partnership
business.

2. Unless itis agreed between partners
before dissolution and final settlement,
neither is chargeable with interest on money
he owes to his partner or to the firm, arising
out of the business transactions of the firm.
We do not mean to be understood to say that
there may not be equitable circumstances ex-
isting between partners before final settle-
ment which would raise an implied agree-
ment to pay interest.

3. Interest can never be allowed upon an
unsettled or unliquidated account without an
express agreement, or one clearly implied,
and the case must be a strong one when it
is between partners to warrant its allowance
without an express agreement to that effect.

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Fall Novelties in Buttons.

There are many novelties in buttons and
no. afew of them are very tasteful. All
fancy dress buttons are smaller than last sea-
son. There is quite a run on crochet buttons.
Very popular are all the steel effects, and
the velvet and tinsel fronts are having quite
agocdrun. A fine line of fancy dress but-
tons has fronts of pearl and cut steel. They
vary in price from $2.25 to $27 per gross. A
beautiful button, selling at $20 per gross, has
a hard enameled floral center framed with
cut steel and pearl rings. Dress buttons,
having Rhine stone centers have proved to be
a good addition to a button stock. Some
choice chenille buttons are in the market.
They are bullet shaped, with and without
steel heads. Half ball dress buttons, the
front being composed of a narrow silk braid,
come in all colors and are very effective. Jet
buttons, with and without polished steel
points, are as active as ever. They are
shown in much smaller sizes than last sea-
son.

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The Origin of the Cigarette.

The origin and early history of the cigar-
ette is shrouded in obscurity. The earliest
trace that can be found of it is in Spain,
where it is known that over a century ago
cigarettes were made by rolling tobacco in a
leaf obtained from the inner husk of corn.
In Cuba, seventy years ago, tobacco rolled in
thick straw paper was incommon use. Ten
years later rice paper was called into requis-
ition and cigarettes came into use in various
parts of Europe, notably in Turkey. Mm
France they were first extensively smoked
in 1843. Six years ago there was no suc
word as cigarette to be found in any Ameri-

can dictionary.
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The Curse of the Glove Trade.

Frequent complaints are heard among the
glove men regarding the abuse of the guar-
antee privilege. There is apparantly no re-
dress. When a lady returns a glove to a re-
tailer, claiming that it is imperfect, he is com-
pelled to take it back und make restitution.
The chances are nine in ten that the custom-
er injured the glove herself by yanking it on
or by trying to squeeze into it. There is a
large prize awaiting the man who will devise
some system or method by which the diffi-
culty can be obviated.

—__

‘What makes you look so blue?” said Pat
to Mike. ‘Begorra, an’ you’d look blue, too,
if you came home and found your wife in
bed with Spinal Minningitis. Be Hevins!
I’d uv shot the bloody Eyetalian !”’

—_—_—__—<—>-

Gilbert, Hopkins & Co., general dealers,

Sherman: ‘We are much pleased with

your paper and can not do without it.”
oO

Gilbert Hopkins & Co. suceeed Sturtevant
& Hopkins in general trade at Sherman.
>>

John Dubois has engaged in the meat

business at Fremont.
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Even the humble pie-baker boasts that he
is a great tartist. © A

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1884.

EFRON AND STEEL NAILS.

 

Difference in the Processes of Manufac-
ture.

The reason why less labor is employed in
making steel nails than in making iron nails,
is thus described by the New York Journal
of Commerie:

The reason why steel nails can be made
with less labor than iron nails, is because the
steel itself is made by the Bessemer process,
which turns out immense quantities by very
simple machinery, while in the case of iron
used for nails the process is by hand, ver-
laborious and slow. A Bessemer converter
can make from 120 to 250 tons of steel per
day, simply by the help of a few men to at
tend machinery. It is an enlarged foundry
process, where metal is melted and operated
upon chemically. This metal is poured out
into ingots, and these ingots are heated and
rolled into steel nail-plate and cut the same
as the iron nail-plates.

But the case is different with the plates for
iron nails. First, the pig iron is putin a
puddling furnace, a half-ton at.a time, and
worked laboriously by two men, a puddler
and a helper, for an hour and a half. Five
“heats” constitute ordinarily a day’s work,
and the preduct is in the neighborhood of a
ton or a ton and a quarter of iron, which is
heated and worked into nail plate and cut to
convenient lengths to be handled by the nail
cutters. Twenty puddlers and helpers might
turn out twelve to fifteen tons of iron plate
in a day, but the same force at a Bessemer
plant might turn out ten to twenty times
that quantity of steel. A Bessemer “blow”
ean be made in thirty to forty-five minutes
and produce five to fifteen tons, according to
the capacity of the converter, simply by the
labor of unskilled men to fill the converter
with the necessary material and the labor of
a skilled man to turn a little wheel to regu-
late the blast, by which the impurities in the
material are oxidized and eliminated. One

} Bessemer plant makes 700 tons in one day

with two converters doing their best, and
this with the work of a small squad of la-
borers. It would require the labor of from
1,000 to 1,200 skilled ironworkers to make
the same quantily of puddled iron, and then
it would be vastly inferior to the Bessemer
steel.

The actual labor of cutting the nail plate
up into nails is the same with either iron
plate or steel plate. The saving in labor is
in the preliminary processes described.

There are at present two Bessemer plants
making steel nail plate. One is at Bellaire,
O., and consists of two four-ton converters.
Its first blow was made April 28. A few
men here did what 200 did before. The sec-
ond Bessemer plant is at Worcester, Mass.,
and also consists of two four-ton converters.
The first blow of this establishment was
made the 2nd of June. -

A third plant is in process of erection, and
will probably not be in operation until some
time next year; it will have two four-ton
converters. Here is a present and prospective
capacity of six converters of four tons capac-
ity each, casting in less than an hour, Hand
labor in the rolling-mills is becoming slowly
driven to the wall. Steel is supplanting irou
gradually, but the revolution has obtained a
strong foothold and nothing can arrest it.
Steel nails can be made cheaper than iron
nails and are much more serviceable. The
same will be true of other forms of iron, as
progress is made.

There are at present sixteen Bessemer
steel-rail establishments in the United
States, with a productive capacity of not far
from 2,000,000 tons ingots per annum, Un-
der the decline in railway building this
enormous capacity has depressed prices. The
complaint made as to steel nails is that they
are smoother than iron nails, and therefore
have less grip on the surrounding materials,
but their use has not been extensive enough
to say what they are worth compared to iron
nails. They will certainly last longer, and,
being made with less labor and out of cheap-
er material, they can crowd iron nails out,
just as steel rails have crowded iron rails out

of the market.

How Needles are Made.

Needles pass through the hands of eighty
workmen. There are five series of operations
in the manufacture: conversion of the wire
into needles in the rough, tempering and an-
nealing, polishing, softening of the polished
needles, and putting up into packages. The
conversion into needles in the rough involv-
es twenty operations, the principal one of
these being gauging the wire, cleaning, reel-
ing and cutting into pieces of a length equal
to two needles. Sharpening or pointing is
done by means of grindstones. By the aid
of a leather thumbstall, the workman holds
fifty wires at a time. The latter becomes
red hot by friction on the stone, and a con-
stant stream of fine particles of the steel and
stone is thrown off, which formerly brought
about phthisis in the workman after a time,
but the adoption of powerful ventilators
has now remedied all that. After pointing,
the wire is cut in two, the head is flattened,
and it is then annealed. Then the eye is
punched in the head by means ofa steel
punch, the operation being performed by
children. Other children “hole” the needles,
that is, remove the particle of steel detatch-
ed by the punch. After this, the heads are

 

hollowed, sorted, ‘and, when necessary, ce-

 

NO. 52.

mented. Tempering and annealing of the
raw product require nine operations, but
they are performed with lots of thirty pounds
in weight, each containing more than three
hundred thousand needles. Polishing isthe
longest operation, although one million are
polished at once. It requires five operations,
each of which is repeated seven or eight
times. The needles are put into rolling
cylinders along with small, hard stones and
oil of colza.

9

A Successful Salesman.

From the N. Y. Dry Goods Bulletin.

‘A discreet, honorable, industrious, good-
tempered, persevering and ‘attentive man,
always supposing he thoroughly understands
his business, will invariable succeed. The
writer remembers a case in which good
temper, discretion, industry, happened to be
centered in one individual. His duties con-
sisted in ‘drumming’? the jobbers for or-
ders on woolen goods, such as cassimeres and
worsted coatings, of which he’carried various
linesofsamples of each. On his route was
an important firm upon whom he ealled reg-
ularly every trip, but for five long years he
had never secured a single line. His pa-
tience and_perseverence were put to a very
severe test every time, but the climax was
enough to upset the equilibrium of the best.
One wet day he called upon the firm in
question, and seeing his man disengaged, he
went for him at once, and aftera few pre-
leminaries which an experienced salesman
knows how to use so well, he opened his
wallet and placed his samples temptingly
before his man, ere he was able to say nay.
The merchant came forward, took the whole
lot up and threw them into thestreet. With
many, hot words at least would have follow-
ed this grossly insulting behavior; but no,
the salesman’s head was set straight on his
shoulders. He quietly picked every sample
out of the mud, and, returning to the coun-
ter where his case lay, politely asked the
merchant’s permission to rearrange matters,
and regretted he had called so inopportunely.
The man was so heartily ashamed of himself
that he gave the salesman a good round
order and the merchant eventually became

the other’s largest customer.
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Miscellaneous Trade Notes.

 

Paper money is said to be ten per cent.
more valuable than coin in China.

Oleomargarine is outdone at last, some in-
genious Irishman having invented a method
of making butter out of bog peat.

A Pittsburg concern mak es maple sugar of
plaster paris, rice, flour, molasses and a
little coloring matter, without any sugar at
all.

The home consumption of copper in Eng-
land during the last quarter, is reported to
show an increase of 13,413,920 pounds over
the same period last year.

With its population of less than 2,000,000
Chili, has, during the past fifty years, poured
into the markets of the world about 50,000
tons of copper annually.

So great is business depression in Cuba
that in Havana alone their are 4,000 unten-
anted houses, and in some places in the
island, houses are let free of rent.

The total production of copper mineral of
the mines of Lake Superior for the first half
of 1884 was about 20,000 tons, against about
17,000 tons for the same time last year.

Black walnut sawdust mixed with linseed
gum is now moulded into flower pieces and
other ornaments for furniture. These arti-
ficial decorations are said to be much more
durable than carved work.

Grecian mythology tells us that the in-
ventor of the saw once found the jaw-bone
of a snake, and used it to cut through a piece
of wood, then imitated it by jagging an iron
plate, and thus made a saw.

Prices on whalebone have descended about
20 percent’ The spring boom did not, ap-
parently, last very long. In the meantime a
great deal of French horn bone, a substitute
for whalebone, is being sold.

Many people buy tea from Chinese deal-
ers on account of its being packed in quaint
little boxes. The package isno proof that
the article is genuine, as the wrappers are
made and the tea is packed by a New York
firm on Water street.

New firms, just starting in business, often
fall ‘into the error of supposing that they
must offer extra inducements to customers
by underselling their neighboring competit-
ors or by cutting the price of some specific
article of general need. Such a practice in-
variably militates against the firm so doing,
and brings them enmity from the entire
trade. ;

The sands used in the manufacture of
mirrors are now used by a Paris company to
make white bricks and stones. These can
be made into any desired form. The sand
is first strongly pressed by hydraulic power
and then baked in ovens at a very high tem-
perature. The brick is chemically speak-
ing, almost pure silica. It is not injured by
frosts, rain, ete., is very light—the specific
gravity being only 1.50 to 1.85 of clay bricks.
The white color is very beautiful and regu-
lar. In fact the bricks are an artificial white

stone.
>

Geo. H. Remington, who has for several
years past been identified with the blast fur-
nace at Bangor, has engaged in the grocery
business at that place. Shields, Bulkley &
Lemon furnished the stock.

 

 
 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesman,

A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State.

 

 

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid.
Advertising rates made known on application.

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1884.

 

 

POST A.

Organized at Grand Rapids, June 28, 1884.

 

 

OFFICERS.
President—Wm. Logie. :
First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills.
Second Vice-President—Richard Warner.
Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.
Official Organ—The Michigan Tradesman.
Committee on Elections—Wm. B. Edmunds,
chairman; D. S. Haugh, Wm. G. Hawkins,
Wallace Franklin and J. N. Bradford. :
Regular Meetings—Last Saturday evening in
each month.

 

 

ONE YEAR OLD.

With the present issue, THE TRADESMAN
completes the first year of its existence, and
enters upon the threshold of a second vol-
ume. It is needless to say that its publica-
tion was begun with many misgivings, and
that its career has been fraught with the
usual drawbacks incident to every journal-
istic enterprise. Before six months had
elapsed, however, it was plainly discernable
that the venture was a success, and now at
the conclusion of a twelvemonth, it isa
pleasure to be able to announce that the
paper is a permanency, having been estab-
lished on a firm financial basis, and being
the recipient of a substantial and constantly
increasing patronage. As is the case with
all innovations, the paper was at first re-
garded by some with indifference or absolute
antagonism; but it is not saying too much to
affirm that as the months have gone by, its
friends have grown warmer and more con-
stant, and that those who at first were skep-

tical as to its suecess have been won over as

friends. Such results speak louder than any
‘wordy commendation possibly can of the
merits of the paper, and of the influence it
exerts in the right direction. Stimulated by
the success of the past and the promise of
the future, we shall aim to make THE
TRADESMAN better next year than it has
‘been the past, and in this we shall have the
experience of the past to serve as a guide
and a warning.

The same general features that have
served to give interest to the paper in the
past will be retained, together with such ad-
ditional features as the times may seem to
demand. The same freedom of expression
that has characterized the editorial policy of
the paper will serve to mark it in the fu-
ture, and trade frauds of every description

“will be given merited attention. Looking to

the retail trade for support and co-operation,
we are allowed a degree of latitude unknown
«to the “ house organ,” and shall continue to
-exercise that privilege to the advantage of
‘the retail trade. In conclusion, the patrons
of the paper will accept our hearty thanks
for their patronage in the past, and we be-
speak from them the same cordial support in
the future.

 

Thirty-four signatures have been obtained
to the paper calling a meeting of the job-
bing trade for the purpose of discussing the
advisability of forming a Mercantile Ex-
change. The meeting will be held at the
place designated Wednesday evening, at
which time it will undoubtedly be deter-
mined that the sentiment of the jobbing
trade is overwhelmingly in favor of the pro-
posed organization.

 

 

 

The following clipping, from the Bloom-
ingdale correspondence of the Allegan Ga-
zette, emphasizes the protest voiced by THE
TRADESMAN earlier in the season relative to
the organization of a cheese factory at every
-eross roads:

the trade would alone compensate for any
outlay of time and money; and the encour-
agement such an association would offer to
the committee having in charge the pro-
posed legislation at Lansing this winter
would be in itself a sufficient excuse for the
undertaking. Organization is the order of
the day, and the druggists should hasten to
take rank in the front of the procession.

 

 

PENCIL PORTRAITS—NO. 29.

 

W. S. Horn, the Small Man of the Grocery
Trade.

Walter Scott Horn was born at Weisport,
Pa., April 28, 1856, and lived there with his
parents until seven years of age, when the
family removed to Lauyer’s Station, Pa.,
where they remained five years. They then
went to Springtown, Pa., where they lived
for two years, when they made a final change
to Bethlehem, Pa., where they still reside.
Here Walter received the most of his educa-
tion, and in 1872 apprenticed himself to learn
the trade of coach painter, serving a faithful
three years’ apprenticeship, and continuing
to work at the trade about three years long-
er. Finding that the business of his selection
did not agree with him, so far as health was
concerned, he came to Michigan, going first
to Muskegon. Therehe entered the employ
of Andrew Wierengo, who was then conduct-
ing a retail grocery business on Pine street,
near the location of his present wholesale
store; and during the year and a half Horn
was in Wierengo’s employ, he became ac-
quainted with and wedded his present wife,
who was a sister of the proprietor, and at
that time occupied the position of cashier.
Severing his connection with Wierengo, he
entered the employ of L. C. Dearborn, boot
and shoe dealer, with whom he remained
less than a year. He then purchased the
stock and business of his brother-in-law, who
engaged in the jobbing trade, and carried on
the business on his own account about a year
and a half, when he sold out, and entered
Wierengo’s employ as traveling and local
salesman. He continued in that capacity
for about two years, when he resigned to ac-
cept a similar position tendered him by Fox,
Musselman & Loveridge. He was assigned
as his territory the C. & W. M., north and
south, and available towns on the D., G. H.
& M., west, with frequent drives to inland
towns. He sees his trade every two weeks.

natured boys on the road. Small in stature,
and by no means handsome in feature, he is
nevertheless a favorite, both among the boys
and the trade, and is quietly building up a
reputation for effective work that would do
credit to many a traveler, older in point of
years and service on the road. His exper-
ience in the grocery business has been of the
practical kind, which enables him to talk un-

house he has the honor to represent.
Se
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Apples—The market is well supplied with
home-grown fruit, which sells at $1.50 @
bbl. for cooking and $1.75@$2 for choice
eating.
Butter—Creamery is very scarce, in conse-
quence of which a really choice article read-
ily commands 25c. Dairy is also very
scarce, when it comes to the better grades,
and finds ready sale at 17@18.
Butterine—Has come into the market for
the winter campaign, and will undoubtedly
tend to keep the price of good butter down
to living figures. Solid packed dairy com-
mands 15@16c, and creamery 22e. No rolls
will be put on the market until the advent
of cold weather.
Beets—40c # bu.
Berries—Blackberries are about played
out. Whortleberries are yet in the market in
limited quantities at $2.25 @ bu.
Cabbages—$4@$5 @ 100
Celery—25c # bunch.
Cheese—Full cream is slow sale at 9c, and
old cheese is held at 734 @8c.
Clover Seed—Choice medium $5.25 # bu.
and mammoth at $5.50 $ bu.
Cider—Sweet, 8@12c # gal.
Eggs—Searce at 15@16c.
Egg Plants—$1.25 $ doz.
Grapes—California $5 per case of 40 Ibs.

 

Personally, Mr. Horn is one of the best i : .
send for samples before purchasing elsewhere, or order a sample chest, subject to your

approval,
proval; and if not satisfactory, after examination, the goods can be returned andIwill

stand all expenses incurred, including outward freight.

JOHN GAULFIELD,

IMPORTER

AND

Wholesale Grocer,

85, 87, 89 Canal Street,

GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN.

 

I desire to call the attention of the trade to the fact that in the territory tributary
to Grand Rapids, I cannot and will not be undersold. There is no conceivable reason
why Chicago, Detroit, New York or Boston should be able to place groceries in Grand
Rapids’ territory. I certainly buy my goods as cheap as jobbers located elsewhere.
Many large houses still purchase extensive blocks of goods as in war times. I pur-
chase as the wants of my trade demand, and am, therefore, in the existing condition
of trade, better able to sell goods at the lowest prices. The difference in the percent-
age of cost to sell goods in Chicago, Detroit, Boston and New York, and what it costs
me would in itself make a handsome profit. I am anxious to obtain as large a share
as possible of the near-by and home trade; and shall be pleased to furnish samples
and quotations. Mail orders are especially solicited and lowest market prices on every

order received is guaranteed.

Teas.

The present is a good time to place your orders for Japan Teas. 1 have several
nvoices in transit, including basket fired and sun dried, my own importations. Please

I wish to have it understood that all tea orders will be filled subject to ap-

Coffees and Spices.

I have already called attention in the columns of THE TRADESMAN to my new brands

ia standingly of ms : une a handles, and of Roasted Coffees. The marked and deserved success of this department is the very best
this fact, coupled with his ability as a sales- evidence of the merit of the goods. I devote much time and attention to the selections
man, roniers Sim a valseble mien for the for roasting and blending, and GUARANTEE better values than are those furnished by
Eastern parties, or no sale.

Home Roasted Rio... 2... 22 eee tee ee ee eee SN Sees
Prime te ce ace ea ee eect ae ce eee. cee 16
Seleet Maracaibo. ..... 0c. cccs ce cece ec cece cece nets ce crsee ceeces 18
Imperial Roasted (a blended Coffee)...........- Spo ES
O: G Boasted Java... 2... oe. feb ce nee ee oe we ce eee ses 23
Mandehling Cee te Bes seo
Java and Mocha ..... cc cece cece cect ce ec cn etre teen eer ee cecens 28

I exercise great care in selection and grinding of spices, and can especially recom-

mend my two brands of

J, Cc. Strictly Pure Ground.
zs. Cc. Pure Ground,

Also my
zg. C. Best English Mustard.

Can put up ground goods at any price te suit the trade, and will guarantee values.

Canned Goods.

I have a large and well assorted stock of Canned Goods. My Blaek Diamond brand
of California Salmon is especially fine. It is not a bad time to lay in a stock of the new
pack of peaches.

L have en route a car load of Country Standards, all Yellows, whieh I will sell very

Our largest cheese factory has 1,400 boxes| Kelly Island, and Delawares, 10¢ # tb. Con-| cheap.

of cheese on hand and accumulating. Some
of our wise ones think that fifteen or twenty
mew cheese factories in southwestern Mich-
igan have overdone the cheese business.

TT

 

The meeting of the druggists of Michigan
held at Detroit last week under the auspices
of the State Pharmaceutical Association,
was suggestive of the great interest felt in
the subject at issue and of the pressure
which will be brought to bear onthe next
Legislature to secure the enactment of a
pharmacy bill. The character of the officers
selected is a sure indication that the cam-
paign at Lansing will be spirited and ag-
gressive, and that the results accomplished
will be all that the members of the Associa-
tion have anticipated.

 

 

Detroit hospitality has been many times
tested and never found wanting. And the
entertainment accorded the druggists of the
State last week serves to strengthen the rep-
utation heretofore possessed by the City of
the Straits in this respect. With every
facility for the comfort and convenience of
guests, coupled with the prevailing spirit of
welcome and hospitality, it is comparatively
easy for the stranger to imagine that he is
in the hands of friends, and that he is not
required to exercise any concern regarding
his own welfare.

LT

The present occasion is an excellent op-
portunity for the druggists of Grand Rapids
There are

to effect a local organization.
about forty retail establishments in the city,
nearly every proprietor of which would
enter into the work of organization with
zeal arid determination. The good results
which would follow from concerted action
on matters affecting the general welfare of

   
   
  

cords and Isabellas, 4@6c.

Green Corn—10c # doz. ears.
Hops—Brewers are paying 25c for choice
new crop.

Honey—Choice new, 15c. -
Hay—$12@$14 for new, and $13@$15 for
bailed. ,
Maple Sugar—None moving.
Melons—Watermelons, $1 4 doz.for
grown. Musk, 50c per doz.
Onions—New, 50c # bu.
Peaches—$3.50@$4.50 4 bu.
Pears—California $4. ® case of about
225. Bartlett, $2 per bu.
Plumbs—California $2.25 @ crate of about
225. Green gages and blue, $2@$3.

Potatoes—The market is well supplied
with home-grown, which find slow sale at
25@35¢ % bu.

Poultry—Fowls 15@16c. Spring chickens,
19¢e@20e.

Red Peppers—$1.25 4 bu.

Sweet Potatoes—Jersey, $4.50 % bbl.
Baltimore, $3.50 B bbl.

Turnips—40c# bu.

Timothy—Choice is firmly held at $1.55 @
bu.
Tomatoes—Acme 30c per bu.

GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS.

Wheat—White, Fulse, and Clawson 2c;
Lancaster, 74c.

Corn—60ce % bu.

Oats—White 32@35c Y bu.

Rye—52@54c # bu.

Barley—Brewers pay $1.25 4 cwt. for
new.

Flour—Fancy Patent, $5.90 %@ bbl. in
sacks and $6.05 in wood. Straight, $4.80 @
bbl. in sacks and $5.05 in wood.

Meal—Bolted, $1.40 @ cwt.

Mill Feed—Screenings, $15 4 ton. Bran,
$13 per ton. Ships, $14 @ ton. Mid-
dlings, $17 # ton. Corn and Oats, $23 BP
ton.

The Grand Rapids Seed Co. state that the
prices quoted in their advertisement on the
fifth page can be shaded as follows: Me-
dium clover seed, $5.25; Mammoth, $5.50;

home

 

Imported Groceries.

My stock includes French and Turkish Prunes, Patias Currants, Loose Muscatels,
London Layer, Valencia and Ondara Valencia Layer Raisins, Citron, Prunells, Figs, Olive
Oils, French Sardines, French Mustard, Crosse & Blackwell’s Pickles, Sicily Canary Seed,
Italian Maccaroni, Condensed Milk, etc.

Soap and Starch.

I keep all the well known and popular brands of soaps at lowest prices, including

densed, ete.

*

in the market.

Cigars and Tobaccos.

This has always been prominent in my trade, and has required much of my attention
I have the exclusive control in this State of some of the best brands of Cigars, Cigarettes

Golden Spike, Josephus, Commercial and Magnolias, the champion cheap cigar.

Babbitt’s, Kirk’s standard brands, Fairbanks’, Schultz’s (Fatherland), Simon’s Con-

I am agent for Gilbert’s Starch Factories, Des Moines and Buffalo. Their goods have
always been regarded as equal to any of the crack Eastern manufacturers, and have always
held their own in the Eastern States. I am now placing my second car-load within thirty
days, and have yet to hear the first complaint with regard to quality of the goods. I am
able to compete with Western manufacturers in price, and guarantee quality equal to any

Fine Cut, Plug and Smoking Tobaccos, including in Plugs Senour & Gage’s Celebrated
Red Star and Old Five Cent Time; Horseshoe and D. & D.; McAlpin’s Green Shield and
Chocolate Cream; Nobby Spun Roll and Ne Plus Ultra Black Spun Roll. In Fine Cuts,
Fountain, Old Congress, Good Luck, Good and Sweet, American Queen, Blaze Away, and
Hairlifter. In Smokings, Rob Roy, Uncle Sam, Mountain Rose, and Gold Flake Cabinet.
In Cigars, Glaccum’s Standard, Delumos, After Lunch, Our Winners, Little Hatchets,

Wours Truly,

 

 

Timothy and Rye, same as quoted.

JOHN CAULFIELD.

baroware.

Prevailing rates at Chicago are as follows:
AUGERS AND BITS.

 

 

EVOs'; Old BUVIG 3 oi. ee ee. dis 50
IN ECO, ©O. oc ee ee dis 55
Douglass’ ...... eu Suna pees ee eee, dis 50
PICRCOS | oe des wes eee cee dis 50
SIGE Se ee oi awe .dis 50
COOKS ee dis40&10
Jennings’, GENUINE. ..............-..-24 is 25
Jennings’, imitation........... ....... @is40&10
BALANCES.
SPIN. 25 2550525 co ce gee dis 25
BARROWS.

RROUTOnG( ole ee aa $ 15 00
Garden. 2.2, Pueccecs a eee ares .- net 35 00
BELLS,

Hand Po eae a cil osdcuice os GIS S OlelO
COW ee dis 60
OR ea dis 15
Gone 2.00.2. pe eae eee. dis 20
Door, Sarwent. 66 dis 55
BOLTS.

Stove...... edbeeelyicects ese te gata. dis

Carriage new list....... 00.02.0002. ais 73
Plow Senses ee eee cece each eyed « dis 30&1C
Sleigh Shoe... dis 50&15
@ast Barrel Bolts: .:.. 2. ico 5 dis 50
Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis 55
Cast Barrel, brass knobs...... alg dis , 50
Cast Square Spring................... dis 55
€ast Caaing oi; dis 60
Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis 55&10
Wrought Square ..... .....02.5.....4, dis 55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush................. is 30

d
Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob

IU oe ee ee 5O&10&
Eves’ Door ee ibe  OSIO
BRACES.

Waener os. i

Backus (000 Cae a 54

SRG. gk dis 50

cee ‘dis net
BUCKETS.

Well, plain: 2000. orc.
ee ee
BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis 60
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis 60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed. .dis 60
Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis 50&10
Wrounht Loose Pin.................. dis 60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis 60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis 60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned, silver
bINPCE 6. dis 60& 5
Wrought Table. . 2. .0.. oi, dis 60
. Wrought Inside Blind................ dis 60
Wrought Brass. oo... sel... dis 65&10
Bind? Clarks. se oe dis T0&10
Bling, Parker's. ooo... oo cob c.. dis %0&10
Blind, Shepard’s...................... dis 70
Spring for Screen Doors 8x2, per gross 15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3....pergross 18 00
CAPS.
IiyiS Qu ea er m $ 65
Heese We ’ ° 60
Gee 35
MUsKGhs ot 60
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list 50
Rim Fire, United States................ dis 5
@entral Hire... ee dis 4%
CHISELS.
SOCKOG HIPMOrs 8.5620. dis 65&10
pocket Pramine .. 2.0.0.0.) dis 65&10
Socket COrmneee soo. ns dc. dis 65&10
SOCKGU SUCKER... 18006 eo dis 65&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis 40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis 20
CONN net
COMBS.
GCurry, Lawrence’s..-...:. 21... ce. dis 3334
HIOCENKISS 22000006 ice c. dis 25
COCKS.
Brass, R&CKING’S..-).... 2... 2.. 4256... 40&10
BUDS ee ee 49&10
Beer ee a 40&10
REMNS. oe ees Sees ea oa a 60
COPPER.
Planished, 14 oz cut to size.............. @ 37
14x52, 14x56, 14 x60........... Shee gee: 39
DRILLS.
Morse’s Bit Stock.............--..... dis 35
Taper and Straight Shank............ dis 20
Morse’s Taper Sodnk................. dis 30
ELBOWS.
Com. 4 piece, 6 in..............2.-. doz net $1 10
Corrugated ........-...-.....--- pe bede dis 20&10
TAGTOSERDIC 5202505 eee dis 40&10
EXPANSIVE BITS.
Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. dis 20
Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2, $24 00; 3, $30 00. dis 25
FILES.
American File Association List...... dis 50
PISRGOIUS 0 see dis 50
ING@W AIMGTICAM:. - 22... occ. oe oc oe dis 50°
Nicholson’s...... gh eee sete oo eee tea. dis 50
MleHers (oe dis 30
Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis 33%
GALVANIZED IRON,

Nos. 16 to 20, 22 and 24, 25and26, 27 28
List 12 é 18
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50,
GAUGES.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis 50
HAMMERS.

Mavdole & Cos. 0... 0600.0 0..-.2 6024 dis 15
Kip’s ...... ces, oes ce cmwcn cus se dis 25
Yerkes & Plumb’s..................:: dis 30
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 40
Blaecksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 ¢ 40&10
HANGERS.

Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis 50
Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60
Kidder, wood tra.k................... dis 40
HINGES.

Gate, Clark's, 1,2, 3..:.2.-.2..2.2..... dis 60

UME ee et we per doz, net, 2 50
Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14

ANd AONGOR 6. saese ce oc cece 3%
Serew Hock and Eye, % .......... ..net 10%
Serew Hook and Kye %.............. net 8%
Serew Hook and Eye %.............. net T%
Screw Hook and Eye, %............. net 1%
DtEaD ANG es ye ee cece dis -60&10

HOLLOW WARE.

Stamped Tin Ware. .......- 60. .... 2.06655 60&10
JapannedcTin Ware...................5. 20810
Granite Fron: Ware..-. ...2..0..........- 25

HOES. :
Grab fa $11 00, dis 40
Guai2. ico yo se 11 50, dis 40
Grupd.2 o.oo, 12 00, dis 40
KNOBS.
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...... $2 00, dis 6(

Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.... 2 50, dis 60
Door, porcelain, plated trim-

THANG foo ee as Gass cenes list, 7 25, dis 60
Door, porcelain, trimmings list, 8 25, dis 60
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain...... dis 60
Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.. ........5 d 49
Hoemeocite 2. 6.5.6.0. ieee Pe chenee ss dis 50

LOCKS—DOOR.
Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s reduced list dis 60
Mallory, Wheelnr & Co.’S................ dis 60
WVAISEQPO B05) 0 oie aeons ces ese dis 60
INGUWWEL Sees ceca oceans dis 60
LEVELS.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 65
MILLS.
Coffee, Parkers Co.’8..........-...0.00-55 dis 45
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables dis 45
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........ dis 45
Coffee, Enterprise..................00.08. dis 25
MATTOCKS.
AAZ@ HVG.... 2.33. cccccc sec iee $16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt. Bye..2.50 oe eo w sae es ces $15 00 dis 40&10
Bunt 6 oo eee ce. $18 50 dis 20 & 10
NAILS.
Common, Brad and Fencing.

Td to: 0d 2 oe @ keg $2 35
RE ANG OO BdV. coc. cs ei ee dsc e cc emets 25
Gd an (Gs BOG ok ies oo cee 50
AG GG: DO BOW. So. Besos is ene sc cc Sets e esa v3)

PESO GA VRIIGO. 6 aos oe coc sek alec gee ce oss dees 1
Ber TG: DAV ANCE soo. oo oe oie seas ee es voce es 3

"1 Clinch nate, adv. ..... 0.6. e cee cek lace 1%
Finishin 110d Sd 6a 4d
Size—inches { 3 24% 2 1%
Adv. ®@ keg $125 150 175 200

Steel Nails—Advance 10c from above prices.

PLANES.
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.............. i 5
Sciota Benech......... ae z
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... ......... dis 15
Bench, Brecquaity ©. coe. ee. bees dis 20
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood and
PANS.
Bey AGme dis 40&10
Common, polished... -.y...2 2,262 -. dis oO
Dripping... 6. Doe ae ee ae 8 Ib 8
RIVETS.
Tron and Tinned 2.0.2.0... Gao oes dis 40
Copper Rivets and Burs.............. dis 40

PATENT FLANISAED IRON,
‘*A”” Wood’s patent planished, Nos, 2 au
‘A” Wood's ps s , Nos, 24 to 27 10%
“B” Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9°
Broken packs \e # tb extra,
ROOFING PLATES.
IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne

IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Tone... 7 73
IC, 20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... 12 00
IX, 20x28, choicC Charcoal Terne.......... 16 90
ae os ROPES.

Sisal, 44 In. and larger........... Meese 9%
Me i ae
SQUARES.

Steel and Fron... 622.2. dis 50
my QP Mevels. ||... cs dis 50
Mie 2.0... aa
SHEET IRON.

i Com. Smooth.
Mea MG... ic, $4 oo $320
mote 4 20 3 20
Nes iota 4 20 3 20
Mee Sto. 4 20 3 20
Noo mie... 4 40 3 40
IN@QUS0i ee, 4 60 3 60

All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 30 inches

wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.

In casks of 600 Ibs, ® fh.......... 0000... 6%
In smaller quansities, @ fb.............. g
TINNER’S SOLDER.

NOU. Retimed.. 3... 2... 13 00
Market Half-and-half.........002.°222. 15.00

Strictly Half-and-half.................. 16

TIN PLATES.
Cards for Ckharcoals, $6 75.

IC, 10x14, Charcoal......... : ey eas 6 50
IX, Tere Charcoal... =... 2.2.2... 8 50
IC, Pela, Charcoal. -. 12.2. 2k. 6 50
IX, deeihe. Charegak .... 6.2... 1.2. 8 50
IC, Tie, Charcoal. . 060.0. es ee 6 50
Ix, nex, Charcoal. oo. oo ce... ce. ue. 8 50
IXX, TEXZO OMRPCORE oo... 10 50
IXXX, 14x20, Charcoal... 20... 6... ...-000 12 50
TXXXX, 14x20, Charcoal.................. 14 50
1x, comes, Charcoal. ....:... 2 4...) 18 00
DC, 100 Plate Charcoal................ 6 50
DS. W0PlateCharcoal........:........8 60

DXX , 100 Plate Charcoal.................. 10
DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal................ 2
Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6
rates.

TRAPS,
SteGlsG@ ame... 8

 
  
 

Onoida Communtity, Newhouse’s....... dis 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s.. 60
EROUGNKASS) ge -. &
Se Wie Cole. ... co, 60
Mouse, ONOBGP. 8. os Oe doz
Mouse, delusion............. oe $1 26 2 doz
WIRE.
Buioitt Market. ...0. 2... 202202270... 6. dis 60
Annealed Market..................2......di8 60
Coppered Market. ....................... dis 55
xGea Hane 22... dis 55
Minned Market. .....2... 5. kis 40
inned Broome......6 0.2. 8 09
Tinned Mattress.... oe ae tb 8%
Coppered Spring Steel............. dis 37%
Tinned Spring Steel............... dis 37%
Plain Renee: 2... 82. ce ib 3%
Barbed Renee... 2...) .. 6 cc. ie a
Copper ei Oe ae teers perenne Caras .-new list net
PRESS oe ec ea new list net
WIRE GOODS.
Bright. . Pes oa dis 60&10&10
Screw WIVOG. oss dis 60&10&10
HIOOIS 5 2 dis 60&10&10
Gate Hooks and Eyes.............. dis 60&10&16
WYrENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..........

Goes Genuine. ......-.. .... 2.2.2... ais 50&10
Coe’s Pat Agricultural, wrought. ...... dis 65
@oe’s Pat., malleable. .............2...2 dis 70

MISCELLANEOUS.

Bumips, Cisterm........ 2.22.20... 5.2. dis 60&10
BOLCWS (60.005 ee: 70
Casters, Bed and Plate................. dis 50
Dampers, Ameriean.................-.-. 3314

 

 

 

OSTER,
STEVENS
& CO

—WHOLESALE—

HARDWARE

10 and 12 MONROE STREET,

")

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

Detroit and Chicago priees duplicated al-
ways, andfreights in our favor and shipments
more prompt make Grand Rapids the cheapest
market.

WE SOLICIT THE :

DEALER’S TRADE,

And NOT the Consumer’s.

AGENTS FOR THE

RIVERSIDE STEEL NAIL

The Steel Nail is the Coming Nail. All
dealers who have once had them will have
no other. Why? They are stronger; they
are lighter; they will not break; carpenters
insist on having them; they are worth
twenty-five per cent. more than the iron
nail; they cost but a trifle more.

Weare receiving three car loads a week
and are still behind with our orders. We
have promise of more frequent shipments

and now hope to keep up on our orders:
Send for sample order or ask. for
price.

We are carrying to-day as large a stock,
and filling orders as complete, as any house
in Michigan.

 

 

see ese serene reenarees

MOLLASSES GATES.
Stebbin’s Pattern ...........cccceese ences dis ‘0
Stebbin’s Genuine...... ..... se cece ee eee dis 70
Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25
MAULS.
Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled............ .dis 50
OILERS.
Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent.......... ...- dis 55
Zine, with brass bottom............ s,s. Gis 50
Brass or Copper..........-. Nees eee ee “
RDOL. : 6. sss spews +... per gross, ne
Mente " 50

Foster, Stevens : C0,

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Drugs & Medicines

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association.

OFFICERS.

President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix.
First erent OP0- M. MeDonald, Kal-

 

ama:
Sanaant ‘Vice-President—B. D. Northrup, Lan-

sing.

Third Vice-President—Frank Wurzburg, Gr’d
Rapids.

Secretary—Ja acob Sesson, Muskegon.

Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.

Executive Committee—H. J. Brown, A. B.
Stevens, Gev. Gundrum, W. H. Keller, F. W.
Fincher.

| lace of meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday,

er 13, 1885.

 

 

THE PHARMACISTS.

 

The Second Annual Convention of the

State Association.

The second annual meeting of the Michi-
gan State Pharmaceutical Association be-
gan a three days’ session at Merrill Hall,
Detroit, Tuesday afternoon, nearly 300 drug-
gists being in attendance. The hall was
appropriately draped and decorated, the rear
portion being given over entirely to exhibits
from leading local and foreign drug supply
houses, the whole presenting a very attrac-
tive appearance. The meeting was called
to order by the President, Frank Wells, of
Lansing, and the convention opened with
prayer by Rey. R. W. Clark. Mayor Grum-
mond was expected to give the address of
welcome, but as he was absent from the
city, that duty devolved upon Hon. J. Logan
Chipman, Judge of the Superior Court. He
regretted the absence of the Mayor, and the
consequent imability to extend the official
hospitalities of the city, but stated that the
true Michigan hospitality was in his heart,
and in the heart of every resident member
of the Association. He closed with amerit-
ed tribute to the profession of pharmacy.

Prof. A. B. Prescott, of Ann Arbor, re-
sponded for the Association. He said the
Association were glad to meet in a city like
Detroit and to receive so hearty a welcome.
Of the business of pharmacy, he said it was
one of great responsibility, and it was to aid
in improving their qualifications for it that
the members had met in convention. Phar-
macy, he said, was a profession distinct from
others and must be cultivated by methods
purely its own.

President Wells followed with his annual
address, a document of some* length, but
pertinent in thought and suggestive in idea,
which will appear in Tue TRADESMAN next
week.

A list of 251 applicants for membership
was presented and referred to the Executive
Committee for action.

The evening session was very brief, the
only business done beipg to act favorably on
the applications for membership. This was
promptly followed by adjournment, to give
an opportunity to the members to accept
evening invitations.

A portion of the members attended a re-
ception at Frederick Stearns’ residence, cor-
ner of Lafayette and Trumbull avenues.
Another portion were the guests of Charles
Wright ata reception given in honor of the
the State Pharmaceutical Association at his
home, 24 Joy street. Both affairs were duly
enjoyed.

Wednesday morning’s session opened with
the reception of applications from seven
new members. The question was asked,
“Could women join the Association?” The
answer “Yes” was received with applause.
The annual reports of the Secretary and
Treasurer were referred to the Executive
Committee, who reported that they were
correct.

The Committee on Legislation reported a
bill for the protection of the people against
ignorant and incompetent druggists, to be
presented to the next Legislature. The re-
mainder of the morning session was occupied
in hearing papers read on subjects of inter-
est to the Association.

The afternoon was given over wholly to
pleasure, the principal feature being{a boat
ride on Detroit River and Lake St. Clair.
A visit was also paid to the immense labor-
atory of Parke, Davis & Co., where refresh-
ments were served.

The evening session was short, in order to
allow the members to attend the banquet
tendered them by the druggists of Detroit.
It was given at the Michigan Exchange, and
attended by nearly 400 persons. The menu
cards were of cork, and of a very novel de-
sign. A large orchestra discoursed music at
frequent intervals. Toasts were responded
to as follows:

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion—Frank Wells, Lansing.

The National Retail Association—John J.

Dodds, Detroit.

The City of Detroit—Frederick Stearns,
Detroit.

The Pharmaceutical Press—G. P. Engle-
hardt, Chicago. :

The Detroit Pharmaceutical Society—A.
B. Stevens, Detroit.

The Retail Drug Trade—A. Bassett, De-
troit.

Our University—A. S. Parker, Detroit.

The ladies—S. E. Parkill, Owosso.

The Science of Pharmacy—G. S. Purois,
Detroit.

Dr. J. J. Mulhern acted as toastmaster.

At a late hour the festivities ceased with
the singing of “Auld Lang Syne.”

Thursday morning, the oppressive heat of.
the previous days of the session disappeared,
and the morning meeting was comparatively
comfortable. The first business of the ses-
sion was the election of officers for the en-
suing year. A half dozen names were pro-
posed for president, and the choice fell to
Geo. W. Crouter, of Charlevoix. A nomi-
nating committee of five members, appoint-
ed to present a list of candidates for the re-

‘maining: positions, reported as following:

First Vice-President, Geo. M. McDonald, of
Kalamazoo; Second Vice-President, B. D.
Northrup, Lansing; Third Vice-President,
Frank Wurzburg, Grand Rapids; Secretary,
Jacob Jesson, Muskegon; Treasurer, Wm.
Dupont, Detroit; Executive Committee, H.
J. Brown, A. B. Stevens, Geo. Gundrum,
W. H. Keeler, F. W. Fincher. The nomina-
tions were confirmed.

The salary of the Secretary was increased
to $200 per annum.

The Committee of Resolutions on Trade
Interests reported the following, which
were unanimously adopted:

Resolwed—That we condemn the solicit-
ing by the manufacturers of patent and non-

secret preparations of orders from dealers
not druggists.

Resolved—That the members of this As-
sociation will not favor such jobbing or
manufacturiag firms as make a_ practice of
selling goods to consumers or physicians.

Resolved—That we consider the Campion
plan the best system yet devised for the pro-
tection of retail druggists in the matter of
cutting prices.

The following were elected delegates to
the American Protective Association: A.
B. Stevens, Detroit, A. B. Prescott, Ann Ar-
bor, A. B. Lyon, Detroit, Geo. McDonald,
Kalamazoo, and H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor, as
principals, and Geo. Gundrum, Ionia, O.
Eberback, Detroit, H. G Coleman, Kalama-
zoo, Frank Ingles, Detroit, and James Ver-
ner, Detroit, as alternates.

Delegates were elected to the National
Retail Drug Association, as follows: Jacob
Jesson, Muskegon, F, W. R. Perry, Detroit,
A. Bassett, Detroit, Isaac Watts, Grand
Rapids, and J. H. Kellogg, Bay City, as
principals, and J. B. Watson, Coopersville,
C. G. Stone, Detroit, C. A. Fellows, Big
Rapids, B. D. Northrup, Lansing and H. D.
Harvey, Bangor, as alternates.

The following resolution was presented
by ex-President Frank Wells, of Lansing,
and adopted by a rising vote, supplemented
with cheers:

Resolved—That the right royal welcome
extended to this Association by our friends,
the wholesale and retail druggists and man-
ufacturers of Detroit, is beyond all praise.
Nothing to promote our social enjoyment
seems to have been forgotten, and we tender
to these gentlemen, one and all, our most
sincere thanks.

The Committee on Incorporation was in-
structed to secure the incorporation of the
Association under the laws of the State.

The President announced the following
committees: Trade Interests, John Dodds,
H. G. Coleman, S. E. Parkill; Pharmacy and
Queries, A. B. Prescott, A. B. Lyons, O.
Eberbach.

Frank Wells moved that the next meet-
ing of the Association be held at Detroit the
second Tuesday ‘of October, 1885. After
considerable discussion pro and con, the
motion was adopted. Mr. Wells then mov-
ed thatthe Executive Committee be in-
structed to bear all the expense of the next
meeting, which was voted down by the De-
troit contingent.

Mr. Wells nominated as local secretary,
the present incumbent, A. W. Allen, who
was unanimously re-elected.

The discussion relative to the pharmacy
bill was concluded, and the bill was adopted
as amended.

At the afternoon session, President Crou-
ter appointed the following special Com-
mittee on Legislation, to look after the in-
terests of the pharmacy bill at Lansing the
coming session of the Legislature: I. J.
Levy, H. Dodds, Wm. B. Wilson and Geo.
L. Davis. ‘The convention then adjourned.

During the boat ride on the river Wed-
nesday afternoon, two gentlemen took a
straw vote on presidential preferences, re-
sulting as follows: Blaine, 213; Cleveland,
71; Jt. John, 11; Butler, 10.

A. W. Allen, the efficient local secretary,
was presented with a handsome silver water
set by the exhibitors.

Grand Rapids was not as well represented
at the convention as it was hoped she would
be, the olny druggists attending being Frank
Wurzburg, Isaac Watts, Theo. M. Kemink,
Will L. White, with E. R. Wilson, and Vic-
tor H. Middleton, with Peck Bros. A local
association, as proposed elsewhere in to-day’s
paper, would undoubtedly do much to arouse
the latent energy of the trade and bring
about a larger turnout another year.

 

 

FUSE, CAPS, AUGURS

 

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EERCULES,
THE GREAT STUMP AND ROCK

ANNIHILATOR.
Strongest & Safest Explosive Known to the Arts,

Farmers, practice economy and clear
your land of stumps and boulders. Main
Office, Hercules Powder Company, No.
40 Prospect st., Cleveland, Ohio.

L. 8S. HILL & CO., AGTS.
GUNS, AMMUNITION & FISHING TACKLE,

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
¥

VISITING BUYERS.

The following retail dealers have visited
the market during the past week and placed
orders with the various houses:

Geo. W. Sharer, Cedar Springs.
R. H. Woodin, Sparta.
Jackson Coon, Rockford.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
Jackson Coon, Rockford.
Byron MeNeal, Byron Center.
Calvin Durkee, Lakeview.
Boyes & Son, Dowling.
F. E. Deming, Freeport.
Mrs. Mary E. Snell, Wayland.
R. W. Finch, Sumner.
Rk. S. Hubbard, Boyne Falls.
J. E. Mailhot, West Troy.
C. F. Sears & Co., Rockford.
C. E. Herrick, Fenwick.
R. G. Smith, Wayland.
Barker & Lehnen, Pierson.
Gaylord & Pipp, Pierson.
H. T. M. Treglown, Lowell.
S. S. Waldo, Albion.
Ayer Bros., Howard City.
A B. Sunderland, Lowell.
E. Bradford, Sparta.
D. W. Shattuck, Wayland.
N. deVries, Jamestown.
: Mr. Denton, of Robbie & Denton, Howard
ity.
John Cole, Fremont.
J. S. Barker, Sand Lake.
A. J. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
Mr. Wagar, of Wagar & Callahan, Cedar
Springs.
E. Landon, Nunica.
Geo. Carrington, ‘Trent.
C. Deming, Dutton.
A. W. Blain, Dutton.
Mr.Dykstra, of Botteja & Dykstra, Grand
Haven.
Lon Pelton, Morley.
W. J. Woodruff, Carey’s Siding.
Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.
G. E. Wood, Cadillac.
Cutler & Savage Lumber Co., Stanton.
E. W. Pickett, Wayland.
Jacob Bartz, North Dorr.
C. L. Gray, of C. L. Gray & Co., Evart.
J.E. Thurkow, Morley.
M. J. Howard, Englishville.
W.S. Root, Talmadge.
Smedley Bros., Bauer.
A. Engberts, Beaver Dam.
T. W. Provin, Cedar Springs.
Mr. Cody, Cody & Moore, Lake City.
W. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.
Geo. Weitz, Caledonia.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
J. W. Mead, Berlin.
E. P. Barnard, buyer New Era Lumber
Co., New Era.
J. Omler, Wright.
Paine & Field, Englishville.
A. M. Church, Sparta.
Geo. F. Cook, Grove.
B. M. Dennison, East Paris.
Norman Harris, Big Springs.
J. C. Benbow, Cannonsburg.
J. Barnes, Austerlitz.
Geo. W. Bartlett, Ashland.
A. J. Underhill, Pentwater.
Mr. Walbrink and I. J. Quick, I. J. Quick
& Co., Allendale.
C. G. Carroll, Byron Center.
John GlupKer, Zutphen.
B. Wynhoff, Holland.
Wm. Ver meulen, Beaver Dam.
ae M. Wolf, of A. & L. M. Wolf, Hudson-
ville.
Geo. W. Scott, Coopersville.
O. W. Messenger, Spring Lake.
J. DeJongh, Grand Haven.
M. V. Wilson, Sand Lake.
O. W. Kibby, Bellaire.
Jorgensen & Hemingsen, Trent.
Kellogg & Potter, Jenisonville.
Henry Strope, Morley.
Nagler & Beeler, Caledonia.
Holland & Ives, Rockford.
Purdy & Hastings, Sparta.
J. G. Johnson, Traverse City.
A. E. Smith, Cadillac.
F. L. Blake, Irving.
C. Stocking, Grattan.
C. H. Deming, Dutton.
S. T. Colson, Alaska.
Waite Bros., Hudsonville.
O. W. Messenger, Spring Lake.
Mr. Spring, Spring & Lindley, Bailey.
G. P. Stark, Cascade.
R. B. McCullough, Berlin.
Scoville & McAuley, Edgerton.
a eee
VISITING SALESMEN. :
Representatives of the following houses
have been in town since our last issue:

T. B. Crawford, Gilbert starch works,
Des Moines and Buffalo.

C. A. Banker, Anglo-American Packing
Co., Chicago.

 

An Elegant Line of Goods.
From the Kalamazoo Gazette, Sept. 11

Mr. T. P. S. Hampson, traveling agent for
Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids, has
been in town for a day or two with the finest
line of goods in his line that was ever open-
ed up for inspection in Kalamazoo. His
goods consist of elaborate dressing cases,
odor cases, cigar cases, infant cases with
music boxes, game sets, hand and glove
cases, jewel boxes, ladies’ French plate glass
mirrors for painting and decorating, and a
general druggists’ sundry line. His stock
comprises over seven thousand articles.

McBride Bros. purchased a_ beautiful
dressing case with natural bird feathers,
mother of pearl and siver trimmings on the
top, music box on inside playing opera airs,
etc. Everyone who has seen the case pro-
nounces it a beauty. McBride Bros. also
made other purchases of fine goods.

Mr. Chas. P. Ochsner, successor to Spayde
& Cookson, made oe of dressing,
odor and other cases.

Roberts & Hillhouse Sah a full line
of French plate hand glasses for hand paint-
ing and decorating, as well as _ other
goods.

Colman & Son were heavy purchasers of
fine goods, and will make a fine display this
fall.

Messrs. Brown & Birge purchased a large
line of dressing cases and sundries,

This stock of goods was shown at Milwau-
kee at the national convention of the Phar-
maceutical Association and carried off the
blue ribbon, as it did also at the State Con-
vention held at Madison.

Mr. Hampson, when expatiating on the
excellence of his wares, becomes very ani-
mated, and he hasa right to be, forit isa
line of. goods that he and his house need not
be ashamed of.

 

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT,

 

Advanced—Oil Cassia.
gaan ce opium, glycerine, pepper-
min

  

   
  

ACIDS.
~AceLIC! NO, 8) 2... oe ese gb 9 @ 10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 380 @ 35
Carbclio 8. see 50
CHONG oor os cok eas 55
Muriatic 18 deg... ... oc... 5.5. eee 8 @ 5
Nitrie-36 d6g. 22s. oie cs uc ce ll @
OPSBNG oe occ ca cicscss: 4%@ 15
Sulphuric 66 deg................... 3 @ 4
Tartaric powdered................ 48
Benzoic, English............. 8 OZ 20
Benzotc, German.................- 122 @ 15
PUI CS eas ieee chia a « 1b @ li
AMMONIA,
Carbonate, . 6 .00...6. esse Sh 1b @ 18
Muriate (Powd. 22c). 14
Aqua 16 deg or 8f... 6 @ 7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f......-.5..2.3 265. i @  §
BALSAMS.
Copaiba Sie ooo eerste eto nes @ 50
PTY eo sce oc sac bales ye uses cece ss 40
POV Se ee oa cs ea ec 2 50
DOW oe co acc eae se 50
BARKS.
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20¢)........ 12
Cinchona, yellow..............7s- 18
Mita. SeleCts os ce ee ec Bt
Elm, ground, pure................. 13
Elm, powdered, pure.............. 15
Sassairas, Of root. ... 22.6... se 10
Wild Cherry, select................ 12
Bayberry powdered............... 20
Hemlock powdered................ 18
WHHOO 60200. c6 co eae 30
SOAP STOUDO 2. oo. ec. 5 oe. ees 12
BERRIES,
Cubeb, prime (Powd 80¢).......... @ id
Juniper Be eos es coe eas ~ 6 @
Prickly Ash. o.00860055.. 33 160 @1 10
EXTRACTS.
Licorice (10 and 25 ib boxes, 25c).. 27
Licorice, powdered, 87%

Pure... 2...
Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 ib doxes).
Logwood, 1s (25 Ib boxes).......... 12

 
 
 
  
  

 

  

Lgowood, 4s G05 6.255.222. 13
Logwood, 4s @€0O. ss. 15
Logwood,ass’d do .......... 14
Fluid Extracts—25 8 cent. off list.
FLOWERS.
PUNCH gee lk oe eas ea een 10 @ ll
Chamomile, Roman............... 25
Chamomile, German.............. 25
GUMS.
Aloes, Barbadoes...............-.- 60@ 75
Aloes, Cape (Powd 24¢c)............ 18
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50
ATOMNODIOG. 2.6 stad. cote oss wa cick ne 28@ 30
Arabic. extra select............... 60
Arabic, powdered select.......... 60
Arabic, Ist picked................. 50
Arabic,2d picked.............ec00. 40
Arabic,c3d pickod.................- 35
Arabic, sifted sorts................ 30
Assafcentida, prime (Powd 5c)... 30
BCD ZOU: so 6b oso. cs sees seek cs case 55@60
Camphor ...: 0.22) os ee once cee 21@ 24
Catechu. 1s (% 14c, 48 16c) ...... ; 13
Euphorbium powdered............ 35@ 40
Galbanum strained................ 80
Gamboge.. 5... sc. 5. os. ce 90@1 00
Guaiac, prime (Powd 45¢).........
Kino [Powdered, 30c].............. 20
MGSHIOC oe ee ees. oe 10
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 40
Opium, pure (Powd $6.00).......... 4 25
Shellac, Campbell’s................ . 30
Shellac, Engilitsh................... 26
Shellac, native.............5...:... 24
Shellac bleached................6-. 30
WYAGACANDN . oc06. eos kine es ce 80 @1 10
HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES.
MOerhOuUnG coo... eee ee ce ee 25
anea. 6 ea cee 25
IPEPPORMUING.. 0. e ae cece occa ee cee 25
RO ee ee ceca aces 40
Spearmint ............ eee e ee ee ee ee ee ee cece ees 24
Sweet Majoram.;.... 2.62. cen ee ee ee cc 35
IDOI Ve) Se eso toan cuyec pase eae a
PDA oo en ee aaa aes
WOPMWOOG ool. ose. ioe cee tects eee eee 33
IRON.
Citrate and Quinine............... 6 40
Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20
Sulphate, pure crystal............ 7
OUPATG 6. eo, oases a ce 80
PHOSPNACC 25. e eel oe 65
LEAVES.
Buchu, short (Powd 25c)........... 122 @ 13
Sage, Italian, bulk (48 & 4s, 12¢).. 6
Senna, Alex, matural oe 18 @ 20
Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30
Senna, powdered................. 22
Senna tinnivelli........ 16
iva Unrest. .2 2... 10
Belledonna...... 35
Foxglove........ 30
Henbane........... 35
Rose, red...........- 2 35
LIQUORS.
, D. & Co.’s: Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 25
De uggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 175 @2 00
Whisky, other brands............. 110 @1 50
Gin, Old TOM. 6200. eh 135 @1 %
Gin, Holland...........:...; Peveeee 200 @3 50
BPANGY 6s ode ers cen cos 1%5 @6 50
Catawba WineS........0..2csce5 as 125 @2 00
IPOCE WIRES 3. ok oo oc ese oc ia 135 @2 50
MAGNESIA.
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 0z........ 23
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20Z......... 37
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution... 2 25
CAlCINCG 2 oo ie ony eee bee 70
OILS.
AMON, SWEEE.. ooo. coos ee cee ens 45 @ 50
Amber, rectified................... 45
TAMNISO ee a oe on cc basins 6 2 00
BAY: Pe OZ. Oo ee oleae nc ces oie ls
Bergamot... i... - cise es cece wes 2 00
Ogston oo oe as 18 @ 19%
Croton: foc. 62 eos Ss ce a oes 2 00
Cajeput .............. ence eee e eee ee 75
CBRBTO oe as es 110
Cedar, commercial (Pure 75¢)..... 40
Citronella 2202506... cis eos 85
ClOVOS.. 5.5525. 5. 12
Cubebs, P. & W. 6 00
Erigeron ........ 1 60
Fireweed........ 2 00
Geranium # oz. 75
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75¢).. 40
Juniper WEMl oo ee 50
Juniper berrieS..............ees000 2 00
Lavender flowers, French......... 2 01
Lavendergarden do ......... 1 00
Lavender spike GO eet: 90
Lemon, N€W CLrOPp............eeeeee 1 70
Lemon, Sanderson’s............... 1 %5
TOMONGTOSS. < ooo cscs coe ec cas cos 20
Origanum, red flowers, French. . 1 25
Origanum, No.1.................. 50
POND VVOVEL ©. 6. cee cis eae das 2 C0
Peppermint, white................ 3 15
OSG 026 5. aps os oo we see cc ee le 9 75
Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... 65
Sandal Wood, German............ 4 50
andal Wood, W. 1. oo... ccc ced oes 7 00
Sassafras............ We eee recat c 60
PONSV coc icv cce sca cesice es acee 4 50
Tar (by gal 60C)..........00cec ee ceee 10 @ 2B
Wintergreen .< .. cs... cs css 2 2%
Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $6.50)..... 4 50
DAV oie oes ccs Cece sles ceee ya's 1 o
WOMMSOCE 665.5 oleic) ed de eaee a oe zt
Cod Liver, filtered. . - 8 gal 1 90
Cod Liver, best......... ‘ 3 50
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co. 5,16 6 00
Olive, Malaga. ee ee é @1 20
Olive, ‘Sublime Italian ....... 2 50
OIA eee ea ales ee 65 @ 67
Rose, Ihmsen’s............... 8 OZ 9 75
POTASSIUM.
Bieromate...... 0. ses. eceek ee 8 Ib 14
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... 35
Chiorate, cryst (Powd 28¢)......... 20
Iodide, cryst. and gran. bulk..... 1 25
Prussiate yellow................00- 30
ROOTS.
Alkanet .......05.05 15
ANOS, CUE. bos cis ersce eee eck 27
Arrow, St. Vincent’s.............. 17%
Arrow, Tay ion in 4s and %s.... 35
Blood (Powd 18¢)................4- 2 12
Calamus, ae De duac aeocgcus ies « 18
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 38
Elecampane, powdered..........-. 23
Gentian (Powd l4c)................ « 10
Ginger, African (Powd16c)........ 13 @ 1
Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ 20
Golden Seal (Powd 40c)............ 35
Hellebore, white, powdered....... 22
Ipecac, Rio, powdered............. 110
alap, powdered,.................. 37%
Licorice, select (Powd 12%)...... 12
Licorice, extra select.............. 15
Piney CRUG foi ees Se eee eee 35
Rhei, from a to choice....... 100 @1 50
Rhei, powdered E.I................ 110 @1 20
Rhei, choice cut cubes.. ian 2 00
Rhei, choice ae fingers.. Poskiel weds 2 25
erpentaria. ei Poti base 50
BOOKS ous is vei cece ta cage eels 65
sareapariis, Hondurus..........: 40

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Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 18

Squills, white (Powd 35c).......... 10

Valerian, English (Powd 80c)...... 25

Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28¢)... 20
SEEDS.

Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢).......... 13

Bird, mixed in fh packages. 5 @
Canary, DIVE HR 22 a 8KY@ 4
Caraway, Boat Dutch (Powd 198c).. 11 @ 2

Cardamon, Aleppee............... 2 00
Cardamon, Maitbar,......2...05.5. 2 25
COLOR oe a ee ccs ges es 25
Coriander, best English........... 12
WONG 2c o.. coteeokee e  e 15
Milam, ClOAIN. oo. occ cee 34%@
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%)............ 4@ 4%
Foenugreek, powdered gid ea 8 @ 9
Hemp, Russian). oi. 2.20.5... 54@ 6

Mustard, white( Black 10e)........

QUIRCG er ee. 1 00
HRpO, ENSlisn | oa bc Th@ 8
Worm, Levant. ...: 02.20.00... -. 3. 14

SPONGES.

Florida sheeps’ wool, cuaiage ue 22% @ 50
Nassau do 2 00

 
  

  

  

 
  
 

Velvet Extrado do ..... 1 10
£xtra Yellow do Ga ae 85
Grass do GG 32 3.5: 65
Hard head, for slate use........... 75
Yellow Reef, GO eee 1 40
MISCELLANEUS.
Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.21) ® gal.. 2 29
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 50
Anodyne Hoffman’s............... 50
Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 20
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 2
Annatto 1D rolls........:......... 30
Blue Soluble... 0c. oo. esc ek. 50
Bay Rum, imported, best......... 2 75
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 00
ANN oe aet o. ocs Bb 24@ 3%
Alum, ground (Powd 9¢).......... 8 @ 4
Annaitto, DEIMNO or ee oe 82
Antimony, powdered, com’l...... 44@ -5
Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ 7%
Balm Gilead Buds................. 40
Beans, “TOnks. 20.65. os 2 Se
Beans; Vania 7. oo. osc... 700 @97%
Bismuth, sub nitrate.. ae 1 60
Blue Pill (Powd 70¢)...... 45
Blue Vibrio’ 66026, 6c. oe SO. 9
Borax, refined (Powd 18c)......... 12
Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 1 8
Capsicum Pods, African.......... 18
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d... 20
Capsicum Pods, American do ... 18
Carmine, NO. 405. ose 4 00
Oagsia, Buds... 206.00. 2es oc cs Res 2
Calomel. American................ 7
Chalk, prepared drop.............. 25
Chalk, precipitate English........ 2
Chalk, red fingers................. 8
Chalk, white lump.........:....... 2
Chloroform, Squibb’s............. 1 60
Colocynth apples.................. 60
Chloral hydrate, German crusts.. 1 60
Chloral do do cryst... 17
Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90
Chloral do do crusts.. 175
@higroform::).. 20.0.0. 100 @1 10
Cinchonidia, P. & W........-2..... 45 @ &
Cinchonidia, other brands. peice esate 45 @ 50
Cloves (Powd 28¢)................8 20 @ 2
Cochineal -.. oie 30
Cocoa Butter.......... Boece aes 45
Copperas (by bbl 1e)............... 2
Corrosive Sublimate............... 65
Corks, X and XX—35 off list......
Cream Tartar, pure powdered Eee 38 @ 40
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ib box.. 15
@ressOte. eo oo 50
Cudbear, prime...............%..-. 24
Cuttle Fish Bone................... 24
DOXERING 6.6 2
Dover’s Powders.................. 1 20
Dragon’s Blood Mas Wee. 50
Engst powdered. 2.00.02 5. 221... 45
OY SOUND'S: ... 5.556. 5 ok 1 10
Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8
IIPSOM SAIS. 2556. 24@ 3
Hneot, fresh... a, 50
Ether, eu pune, U8. Po. 69
Hake white... 2... ccs ak. 14
Grains Paradise...::..06.2..0 06.5. 23
Gelatine, Cooper’s................. 90
Gelatine, French .................. 45 @ 70
Glassware, flint, 79 off, by box a
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis. .
Glue; cabmet::.... 2... 0.02.02... 2. 2 @ ili
Glue, white......... A oo ae. 17 @ 28
Glycerine, DHEQ oe. 19 @ 22
Ops 465 8nd %S-..... 2... 25@ 40
Todotorm B07)... en ce. 35
PNGISO eae eo, 8 @1 00
Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 23 @ 25
Iodine, resublimed................ 2 10
Isinglass, American............... 1 50
VAPOMIGR 0 9
London Purple. .....5... 6.5.5... 10 @ 5
EGHGACCEREE.. 5. ee ceed 15
Lime, chloride, (4s 28 10c & 4s 11c) 9
Lupul PG oe 1 00
Bycopodium: .: .. <0. cs. cs. ee. 50
MACE oes ccocc coe,
Madder, best Dutch......... 122%@ 138
Manna, 8:7... oc... 0... : 1 %5
Morphia oe Pe vce tioee sa dee. do
orphia, su Po& We... oz 3 3 50
Tee Canton, H H., P. & Co.’s we ae 40
Tene Mead 8 b 10
Moss, Weigh 12
Mustard, Hnglish.. 2... .........5.. 30
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 b cans...... 18
INU RaIR ee ee oe oo 20
Nutmers NOUR 2 oo. cece. ce. 7
INFEX “ViOMMGR oo occa. 10
Ointment. Mercurial, 4d.......... 40
Pepper, Black Berry Re ee ee 18
PROUSE oes oe oer ck ace 3 00
Pitch, True Burgundy............. 7
Quassia oe eee een cask ceee ct 6 @ 7
Quinia, Sulph, P. & W........ iboz 1 10@I 15
Quinine, German.................. 100 @1
Seidlitz Mixture................... 28
Strychnia, cryst............0ccccc ce 1 50
Silver Nitrate, cryst............... 79 @ 8
Red Precipitate............... 8 bb 8
Satfron, American................. 35
Sal Glauber. 03.23 2.68 lo. @ 2
Sal Nitre, large cryst.............. 10
Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... 9
Sal Rochelle... 0 33
Sal Soda oe 2 @ 2%
BANC 6. oe eo eee, 2 00
Santonin 92.55) 2.2652 2 6 75
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotech....... 38
Soda Ash [by keg 8e].............. 4
Spermacetl ...... oo... cae a 25
Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s 44@ 5
Soap, White Cale... 14
Soap,Green do. ......... 17
Soap, Mottleddo........... 9
Soap, <d0 dO 2.0. ee. : ll
Soap, Mazzini. ow. 0.2... ee 14
Spinits Nitre 8... 2 osc. ele 2 @ 28
Spirits Nitro, 40... ees cee 28 @ 8
Sugar Milk powdered..............
Sulphur; four. 09. -.o elo eo 384@ 4
Sulphur, SO os oe sce 3@ 3%
Tartar Hmetic.< oo... si
Tar, N.C. Pine, % gal. cans # doz 2 70
Tar, do quarts in tin....... 1 40
Tar, do pintsin tin......... 85
Turpentine, Venice........... 8 b 25
Wax, White, S. & F. brand........ 60
Zine, Sulphate Hee ee a pe 7@ 8
OILS.
G@apitol Cylinder. -. 2. nic Ae 75
Model: Cylinder: oct us 6... ccc cece co ck eee 60
Shields Cylinder: . oo cc coos oa oe co cc cc ce cd ck es 50
IGOradO BORING. : oo oon. obo ccc hac cc cess 45
Peerless Machinery.............. ccc ccccccees 35
oe MG@GNINIGRY. . coos e 4 cect usec. So ee 25
Backus Fine Engine.................cccceccees 30
Black Diamond Machinery.................... 30
Custor Maenine Ol... 6.0 elses cle cs 6C
Parvatine 20 GOS: o.oo oss eee saeco ee 22
Paraftine, Oo COR oe ee ee oy 21
Sperm, winter bleached..................... 1 40
Bbl = Gal
WHHEIOSWIRLOR oo ce bbc ce. cues wc 80 85
GPO OX sc. os. oie. cen ce ees 64 75
sed NOs Foo. oe ee ca ee 55 65
Linseed, pure raw..........e.ceceees 53 56
Linseed, boiled... 2.6.0.0... cece cece 60 63
Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 90 95
Spirits Turpentine................... 37 45
VARNISHES.
No; F Purp Cosen. . 20.5... c6...55. + ee. 1 10@1 20
etre POO oo os cook. vee eect e ce 1 60@1 70
Como BOGY 6 oo .0. 60s eee ew 2 %5@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture.................. 1 00@1 10
Extra Turp Damar.. seececeess seh 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.. Ce week W@ %5
PAINTS,
Bbl Lb
Boralumine, White bulk aceee 9
Boralumine,  ‘‘ tbs | ....... 10
Boralumine, Tints bulk. 50 off. 10
Boralumine OTe.) seas ll
Red Venetian................. 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 38
Putty, commercial ............ 214 2%@ 3
Putty, strictly pure............ 2%@ 3
Vermilion, prime American.. 18@16
Vermilion, English............ 55@57
Green, oe Pele kouiaene 16@17
Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 5%
Lead, white, strictly pure..... 5%
Whiting, white Span BU ccs, ne @i0
Whiting, Gilders’.............. @90
White, Paris American........ 110
Whiting Paris mem cliff.. 1 40

 

HAZELTINE
PERKINS
& C0

Wholesale

TuUggists

42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 93 and
95 Louis Street.

 

")

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals,
Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
and Drngeists
UlaSsWare

MANUFACTURERS OF
ELEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS,
FLUID EXTRACTS AND ELIXIRS,

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR

Wo tr, Patron & Co., AND JoHN L. Wurr-
ING, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE
PAINT AND VARNISH
BRUSHES.

—Also for the—

GRAND RAPIDS BrusH Co., MANFGS. OF
Hatr, SHOE AND HorskE BRUSHES.

Drugoists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of our busi-
ness is conceded to be one of the largest,
best-assorted and diversified to be found in
the Northwest. We are heavy importers of
many articles ourselves and can offer Fine
Solid Back Hair Brushes, French and Eng-
glish Tooth and Nail Brushes at attractive
prices. Ourline of Holiday Goods for the
approaching season will be more full and el-
egant than ever before, and we desire our
customers to delay their fall purchasers
of those articles until they have seen our el-
egant line, as shown by our agcredited repre-
sentative who is now preparing for is an-
nual exhibition of those goods.

We desire particular attention of those
about purchasing OUTFITS for NEW STORES
to the fact of our wnsurpassed facilities
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers
without delay and in the most approved and
acceptable manner known to the drug trade.
Our special efforts in this direction have re-
ceived from hundreds of our customers the
most satisfying recommendations.

Wine and Liquor Bepartinent

We give our special and personal atten-
tion to the selection of choice goods for
the drug trade only, and trust we merit the
high pr aise accorded us for so satisfactorily
supplying the wants of our customers with
Pure Goods in this department. We. con-
trol and are the only authorized agents
for the sale of the celebrated

Withers Dade & Co’s

Henderson Co., Ky., SOUR MASH AND
OLD FASHIONED HAND MADE, COP-
PER DISTILLED WHISKYS. We not
only offer these goods to be excelled by no
OTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market, but
superior in all respects to most that are: ex-
posed for sale. We GUARANTEE. perfect
and complete satisfaction and where this
brand of goods has once been introduced the
future trade has been assured.

We are also owners of the:

Jrigeists Favorite Rye,

Which continues to have so many favorites
among druggists who have sold these goods
for a very long time.2‘Buy our

Gins, Brandis & Fine Wines

We call your attention to the adjoining
list of market quotations which we aim to
make as complete and perfect as possible.
For special quantities and for quotations on
such articles as do not appear on the list such
as Patent Medicines, etc,, we invite your cor-
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special and
personal attention.

HAZELTINE, PERKING & G0

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

The Michigan Tradesiel,

A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH
WEDNESDAY.

 

 

E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors.
OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 3d FLOOR.

é Postofice at Grand Rapids as

LEntered at th
Second-ciass Matter.]

 

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1884.

 

 

NO MONEY IN SMALL STORES.
Many of Them are Run Merely to Pay the
Rent.

From the Detroit News.

“Hello! Have you sold out?” inquired a
News reporter of a friend who had been
keeping a cigar stand and a confectionery
store in connection with which he also had
ice cream parlors.

“Yes, I’m tired of working for nothing.
Lintend to rent a cottage and go to work at
my trade.”

“T thought you were doing a nice little
business. In fact, 1 was inclined to think
you were making money.”

“Well, I made money at the business in
years past, but the trade is cut up now and
there isne money in it. Take the cigar
trade. Every drug store sells cigars, you
can find them in all groceries, and I was
going to say all dry goods stores, but I know
for a fact that half a dozen places of that
kind on this avenue sell them. Ice cream
parlors are as thick as mushrooms during the
warm season, and how they all manage to
even make their rent is what surprises me.
There are too many small stores for all to
do well.”

From my observation they seem to be in-
creasing rather than diminishing. 1 know
of one or two young men in the cigar and
tobacco business who are doing very well,
and have succeeded beyond their expecta-
tions.”

“Oh, there are exceptions, of course.
There’s a young fellow over there who does a
rushing business. You can go into his store
any evening and in his back room you will
find half a dozen tables where young men
are seated playing cards for cigars. I have
said young men, but you will also find
middle-aged married men seated there—men
who like to play cards simply for the pleasure
there is in it, and of course when there is
something at stake the game is intensified.
Men who are seldom or never seen in sa-
loons ‘will go there and play cards the
whole evening for cigars. He has a good
run of that kind of custom, and is making
money.’’

“How do you account for the increase in

number of these places if there is no money |,

in the business?”

“That’s a very easy matter. Some people
are satisfied if they make their rent, and
that’s just what three-fourths of them are
doing. A man with a little capital rents a
small store and starts in. He manages to
live overhead, or as often happens, on the
floor with the store. His wife or one of his
children, if he has any, will attend to it,
and he goes off to work at his trade. If the
receipts of the ‘store’ pay their rent, why he
is so much ahead. If they fall behind that
a little, he is nothing gut, because he would
have to pay rent anyhow. ‘This is the way
they manage to keep the _ business
going, and many people are led to think they
are getting rich. For my part ’m through
with it.”

On investigation the reporter found that
his friend’s view on the matter were pretty
nearly correct. Competiton has become
so strong that those who go into the business
to make a living have to work very hard,
and the days are gone by in this city when
anyone can start a small store and a bank

account at the same time.
> <a
Had to Get Back Home Again.

“Yes, I’ve been down South,” said a dusty
tanned passenger, with quite a variety of
baggage lying on the seat in front of him,
“and it’s mighty glad I am to get back again
The South is no place for my business.”
And what might your business be?” ‘“sell-
ing clothes-ringers, fluters and sad-irons.
The colored women do all the washing and
ironing in the South, and of course I canvass-
ed among them. They’re a queer lot of
citizens, they are. In one house in Memp-
his 1 wanted to sell a women a fluter, and
when she said: ‘Go way wid yo’ saw-sidge
machine—we’s no Dutch trash in dis hyah
house.’ In Vicksburg I was showing a
colored women some sad-irons, when she
said: ‘‘We’s got no use for such weep’ns
sah; I’m a pec,ble women, lam, an’ don’t
go gaddin’ roun’ nights wid common folks;
n’a as fo’ my husban’ henebber would
be boddahed wid one o’ dem a ’irons—he
prefahs a razah.’ Even in the back street of
the colored district of St. Louis I was carry-
4ng a wringer along one day when about

four dozen pickaninies ran after me and
“Mistan‘ mistah, pleathe play
the

cried out:
us a tune.’
North.

In two hours Ilit out for

—_——_—_—___-o- <>

A donkey is atough creature. It never suf-

fers from a softening of the brayin.’

A burglar alarm clock went off the other
night without arousing the family. It went

off with the burgular.

A lady advertises for sale, in a country
newspaper, one baboon, three tabby cats and
She states that having married

a parrot.
she has no further use for them.

He had an auburn-haired girl, and prom-
ised to take her out riding. She met him at
the door when he drove up, and he exclaim-
ed, “Hello! ready?” She misunderstood

him, and they don’t speak now. ©

HIOKIGAN COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS” ASSOCIA'N,

Incorporated Dec. 10, 1877—Charter in Force for
Thirty Years.

 

 

LIST OF OFFICERS:
President—RANsom W. HAWLEY, of Detroit.
Vice-Presidents—CHAS. E. SNEDEKER, Detroit;
L. W. ArKins, Grand Rapids; I. N. ALEXAN-
DER, Lansing; U.S. LorD, Kalamazoo; H. E.
MEEKER, Bay City.

Secretary and Treasurer—W. N. MEREDITH,

Detroit. ;
Board of Trustees, For One Year—J. C. PON-

Trus, Chairman, S. A. MUNGER, H. K. WHITE
For Two Years—D. MoRRIS, A. W. CULVER.

RETAILERS,

If you are selling goods to make
a profit, sell

LAVINE
WASHING POWDER,

This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a
larger profit than any in the Market, and is
put up in handsome and attractive packages
with picture cards with each case. We guar-
antee it to be the best Washing Powder
made and solicit a trial order. See prices in
Price-List.

- “Hlaford Chemical Ga
HAWINS & PERRY

STATE AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

KEMINK, JONES & G0,

Manufacturers of

 

 

 

Fine Perfumes,
Colognes, Hair Oils,
Flavoring Extracts,

Baking Powders,
Bluings, Etc., Etc.

ALSO PROPRIETORS OF

ERE MIN EXY’sS

“Red Bark Bitters’

AND——

The Oriole Manntacturing. Co.

78 West Bridge Street,

 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

COLE & STONE,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

GENTS’ FINE SHIRTS,

Samples and Prices will be Sent to. Close

 

Buyers in our Line.
Address,

Marshall Mich.

SHEDS

—FOR THE—

FIELD AND GARDEN,

Ar

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,

—AT THE—
SEED STORE,

91 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

W. T. LAMOREAUX, Agent
EDMUND 8, DIKEMAN,

—THE—

GREAT WATCH MAKER,

—AND—

JEWELER,

44 CANAL STREET,

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS,

~ Fd, DETTENTHALER,

OYSTERS, FISH,

CANNED GOODS.

Liv Monroe St... Grand Rapids.

 

I will quote you until further notice as follows: Extra Selects, 38; Selects, 33;

Standards, 25; Favorites, 22.
Nuts cans, Wralnuts and Cocoanuts,
and compete with any market.

Cigars

Fruit
Tul are headquarters for everything in
our line.

PUTNAM &

 

We manufacture a full line, use
the best material obtainable, and
suarantee our goods to be first-
class.

We carry an immense stock of
Virgidia and Tennessee Peanuts,
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea-

Weare agents for Gorden’s
ceiebrated Wag Jaws, Olym-
pian, D. F., and many other weil-
known brands and carry a full line
of his goods at factory prices.

We handle Oranges, Lemons,
Bananas, Figs, Dates, Ete., in
large quantities from first-hands and

REMOVAL!

Coal, Wood, Lime, Cement,
Sewer Pipe, Htc,

Office removed to 3 Canal street, Basement.

A BENOWLSON.

WM. SHARS & CO.
Cracker Manufacturers,

Azsents for

AMBOY CHEESE.
37, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

BF. J. LAMB & COMPANY,

—WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Butter, Cheese, Eges,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

 

 

 

 

 

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO. 8 AND 10 JONIA STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS. MICEIIG AN,

PHCK BROS.
Wholesale Druggists

A Complete Stock of all that pertains to the wants of the Retail Druggist.

 

We Employ No Travelers. Send for Prices.

. 129 and 131 Monroe Street,.

Grand Rapids Mich.

 

    

 

WHOLESALE GROCERS.

44, 46 and 48 South Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
—WE ARE FACTORY AGENTS FOR——

Nimrod, Acorn, Chief; Crescent & Red Seal Plug Tobacco

Our stock of Teas, Coffees and Syrups is Always Complete.

—WE MAKE SPECIAL CLAIM FOR OUR—
Tobaccos, Vinegars and Spices it

OUR:MOTTO: “SQUARE DEALING BETWEEN MAN-AND MAN.”

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

BARBOUR’S CAMPAIGN TORCH

¥7) The only Torch that can be taken apart and shipped in a
Small space.

 

300 to 500 Torches complete (except handles) can be packed in one
barrel, thus making the freight or express charges very low.

A Child can Put them together in one Minute.
As good as any Torch Made. The Cheapest in Price.
WILL BURN FOR FIVE HOURS.

Ask for price or send for sample order.

FOSTER, STEVENS & CO,

10 and 12 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

SPRING & COMPANY

--WHOLESALE DEALERS IN—

FANCY AIND

STAPLE DRY GOODS »

CARPETS,

MATTINGS,

OII, CLOTHS,

 

Hercules

THE GREAT

STUMP AND ROCK ANNIHILATOR !

SEND FOR PRICES.

JOHN CAULFIELD,

Powder |!

ETc. ETC.

Gand 8 Monwroe Street.

 

 

 

 

 
 
  

MICHIGAN

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The Michigan Tradesina.

BUSINESS LAW.

 

 

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts
of Last Resort.

TRADE. MARK.

In the opinion of the United States Cir-
cuit Court for the district of Rhode Island,
a trade mark may be bought and sold in
connection with the article with which it is
associated in the same way as other prop-
erty. It constitutes a part of partnership
assets and is properly sold with firm pro-
perty.

CONSTITUTES A TENDER.

The Supreme Court of Wisconsin, in the
recently decided case of Elderkin vs.
Fellows, held that an offer of payment to
constitute a tender must be understood as a
tender absolute and unconditional, and to
treat an offer of payment conditional upon a
discharge from the whole debt asa_ tender
is a fatal error.

FIRE INSURANCE—-MORGAGEES INTEREST.

A policy of insurance issued to a mortgag-
or of real estate made payable to the mort-
gagee in case of loss is an insurance of the
interest of the mortgagor in the estate and
not of the interest of the mortgagee
and in such case the mortgagee is not
an assignee of the policy, and is affected
by subsequent acts of the assured.—Supreme
Court of New Hampshire.

PATENTED ARTICLE—SALE,

The purchase of a patented article from
the patentee confers upon the buyer the
right to use the article to the same extent as
though it were not the subject of a patent;
but the sale does not import the permission
of the vendor that it may be used in a way
that would violate his exclusive property in
another invention.—United States Circuit
Court, Southern District of New York.

RIGHT TO DRAW WATER.

If a grantor of two pieces of land, in his
conveyance of the first, reserves to himself
the right to draw water from a well situated
upon it, this right, though enjoyed by him
in his occupation of the second piece, does
not pass by his subsequent conveyance of
that piece. When land is conveyed by deed,
an easement of convenience merely in other
land does not pass by implication—Went
worth vs. Philpot, Supreme Court of New
Hampshire.

DEFENSE—WANT OF CONSIDERATION.

The Supreme Court of New Hampshire
holds that in an action by an indorsee against
the maker of a promisory note transferred
for value before maturity, the defense of
want of consideration, or thatthe note was
given for a worthless patént, or for an arti-
cle not patented, but fraudulently represent-
ed to be, can not be made, if the indorsee,
at the time of the transfer, had no know-
ledge or notice of the facts relied on as a de-
fense, mere suspicion of facts which could
be adefence to a note in the hands of the
payee, is not notice of, and does not put the
indorsee upon inquiry as to such facts.

FRAUDULENT CONVEYANCE.

A creditor filed a bill in equity to set
aside a voluntary deed to the debtor’s wife
as fraudulent as to him. The deed has
been recorded for more than a sufficient time
to bar the action by the statute of limitations
and the defense of the statute was pleaded.
The trial court decided in favor of the plain-
tiff, on the ground that the statute did not
begin tu run against him until he discover-
ed the fraud. The defendant carried the
ease to the Court of Appeals, where this
judgement was affirmed. The Chief Jus-
tice, Hargis, in the opinion said: “The re-
eording of conveyances made in good faith
and for a valuable consideration within the
time prescribed by the registry laws is no-
tice to the world of their existence and re-
cordable contents; but where the conyey-
ance is voluntary its registration is not con-
structive notice of its existence or contents
to a subsequent purchaser for a valuable
consideration without actual notice. A pre-
existing creditor stands in a better position
than a purchaser; he has the right to rely
upon the condition of his debtor when his
debt was created, and heis not bound to
keep constant watch over the public records
for the voluntary conveyances his debtor may
make, else be barred by limitations regard-
less of the time of actual discovery of the
conveyance or its equivalent.”” Ward vs.
Thomas, Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

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The Borrowing Family.
From the Detroit Free Press.

The borrowing family sent their boy Jack
over to Mrs. Murphy’s to borrow some tea
and sugar and a plate of butter. Mrs. Mur-
phy was busy and had no inclination to lend
to neighbors who never returned anything
they borrowed. Atthesame time she did
not care to entirely offend them.

“Td be glad to accommodate yees,” she
said politely, “but oim in a hurry and haven’t
the time to wait on ye. I’ve other fish to
fry just now.”

The boy went home and reported that Mrs.
Murphy was too busy to attend to him, and
had other fish to fry, etc.

“And why didn’t ye wait?” asked his
mother breathlessly. ‘Go back and take
another plate wid you, and tell Mistress
Murphy you’re in no hurry, and mother’d be
much obliged to her for a plate of the fried

fish.”’
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Osculation is the art of hitting the popular
taste, and is generally hit with a miss.

 

SEEDS!

YaTe turill sell to the
Trade for Spot Cash
until further notice:

Medium Clover Seed $5.50
Mammoth =“ = $5.60
Prime Timothy“ = $1.55
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Delivered free on board cars in lots of
5 bags or more. Cartage charged on
smaller quantities.

RAND RAPIDS SEED CO.

91 CANAL STREET.

JON CAULFIELD

Is our Agent in Grand Rapids for our
FAMOUS

GALVANIG SUAE

The best easy washer manufactured.

B. J, JOHNSON & Co.,

MILWAUKEE,

BANNERS!

We are prepared to get up on short notice
Banners and Transparencies of all kinds. Let-
tered, with or without Portraits of Candidates.
Ropes to put up same also furnished. State
size you want and we will quote prices.

JOBBERS OF
HORSE COVERS, OILED CLOTH-
ING, AWNINGS, TENTS,

ETC., ETC.

ALBERT COYE & SON},

73 Canal Street.

GRAND RAPIDS, S

 

 

MICHIGAN.

 

A. A. CRIPPEN,

WHOLESALE

Hats, Gaps and Furs

54 MONROE STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

We carry a Large Stock, and Guarantee Prices
as Low as Chicago and Detroit.

 

C. S, YALE & BRO,,

—Manufacturers of—

FLAVORING EXTRACTS !

BAKING POWDERS,
BLOINGS, ETC.,

40 and 42 South Division St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, = = MICH.

 

 

Needed by every retail grocer or confec
tioner, one or more of Kenyon’s Patent
Spring Paper Bag Holders. Each has ¢a-
pacity of containing about fifty bags. Their
great convenience can be learned by having
one mailed for 30c, four for $1, or one dozen
expressed for $2.50 from Kenyon Brothers,
Wakefield, Rhode Island.

 

 

COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS.
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

Ohio White Lime, per bbl.............
Ohio White Lime, car lots.............
Louisville Cement, per bbl............
Akron Cement per bbl................
Buffalo Cement, per bbl..............
ORT 1006 3 t sess 5s pease eenk caves ks 1
Plastering hair, per bu................
Stucco, per bbl
Land plaster, per ton..................
Land plaster, car lots..................
Fire brick, per M..................000- $
Fire clay, per bbl..................02.-
COAL.
Anthracite, egg and te, car lots. .$6
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots.. 6
Cannell, car lots
Ohio Lump, car lots. pieiices B
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots.. 4

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DO YOU KNOW

—THAT—

Lorillard’s Climas

PLUG TOBACCO

With Red Tin Tag, is the best? Is the purest;
is never adulterated with glucose, barytes, mo-
lasses or any deleterous ingredients, as is the
case with many other tobaccos?

Lorillard’s Rose Leaf Fine Cut Tobacco
is also made of the finest stock, and for aro-
matic chewing quality is second to none.

Lorillard’s Navy Clippings
take first rank as a solid durable smoking to-
bacco wherever introduced.

Lorillard’s Famous Snuffs
have been used for over 124 years, and are
sold to a larger extent than any others.

 

OYSTERS!

We duplicate Chicago and Detroit prices and
guarantee as strictly fresh stock and as well
filled cans as any in the market—at bottom
prices.

SiEIDs :
Clover, Timothy and all kinds field seeds at

bottom prices. Write for quotations when in
need of seeds.

Oranges and Lemons

Green and Dried Fruits, Butter, Eggs, and all
kinds of Produce.

MOSELEY BROS.,

122 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

M. M. HOUSEMAN,

ATTORNEY AT LAW,

ROOMS 7 AND 8 HOUSEMAN BUILDING,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
COMMERCIAL LAW. A SPECIALTY.

DILWORTHS,

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BEST ROASTED PACKAGE COFFEE ON
THE MARKET.

HOR SALE BY

FOX, MUSSELMAN & LOveridee

Factory Agents for Western Michigan.

NURIVER,
WEATHERLY & U6,

Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale and Retail

TRON PIPE,

Brass Goons, Iron AND BRASS FITTINGS

 

 

MANTLES, GRATES, GAS FIXTURES,
PLUMBERS, STEAM FITTERS,

—And Manufacturers of— ,,

Galvanized Iron Cornice.

 

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY

ENGIN BS

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills,
Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft-
ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for
Complete Outfits.

WwW. CC Denison,
88, 90 and 92 South Division Street,
GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN.

Sot eBlaine Whinls,
Cleveland Whips,
Campaign Whips,
Toy Whips,
Westfield Whips,

And Lashes of All Kinds and Prices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED.

f. ROYS & CO, Gen'l Agents

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

 

5A. WELLING

WHOLESALE

MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS
LOmberman's Supplies

—AND—

NOTIONS!

PANTS, OVERALLS, JACKETS, SHIRTS,
LADIES’ AND GENTS’ HOSIERY, UNDER-
WEAR, MACKINAWS, NECKWEAR, SUS-
PENDERS, STATIONERY, POCKET CUT-
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK-
ERS’ SUNDRIES, HARMONICAS, VIOLIN
STRINGS, ETC.

I am represented on the road by the fol-
lowing well-known travelers: JOHN D. MAN-
auM, A. M. SprAGuE, JoHN H. EACKER,
L. R. Cesna, Gro. W. N. DE JONGE.
FRANK BERLES ~ House Salesman.

24 Pearl Street

(irand Rapids, Mich.

‘TIME TABLES.

 

 

The Niagara Falls Route.
Michigan Central—Grand Rapids Division.
DEPART.

TDetroit EXPYeOSs. 22... ose 6:00 am
+Day Express. 020... Pk 12:25 9m
*New York Fast Line.................. 6:00 p m
TA DaAntiG HXpPVess..... 55... 5. - ea c ee. 9:20 p m
ARRIVE.
*Pacific: Hxpress,.....:-.06...-2..24.-.. 6:4 am
THOCRI: PASSONPOR.. 60.5. os. s,s 11:20am
GTO ER Ae os ee ee Ue 3:20 p m
*+Grand Rapids Express............... 10:25 pm
+Daily except Sunday. *Daily.

The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York at9p.
m. the next evening.

Direct and prompt connection made with
Great Western, Grand Trunk and Canada
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus
avoiding transfers. ;

The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has
Drawing Room and Psrlor Car for Detroit,
reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10:30
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.

A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv-
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p.m.

J.T. ScHULTZ, Gen’! Agent.

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.
GOING EAST.

Arrives. Leaves.
+Steamboat Express....... 6:10 a m 6:20 am
*Through Mail............. 10:45am 10:20am
+tEvening Express......... 3:20pm 3:55pm
*Atlantic Express.......... 9:45 pm 10:45 pm
+Mixed, with coach........ 10:30 am

GOING WEST.
*Morning Express......... 12:40 p m= 12:5:
*#Through Mail............ 5:00pm 5:
+Steamboat Express....... 10:30 p m
PMUIROG cco cae ee eae
*Night Express............. 5:10am

+Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily.

Passengers taking the 6:20 a. m. Express
make close connections at Owosso for Lansing
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at
10:00 a. m. the following morning.

Parlor Cars on Mail Trains, both East and
West.

Train leaving at 10:35 p, m. will mak con-
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except
Sunday and the train leaving at 5:10 p.m. will
connect Tuesdays and Thursdays with Good-
rich steamers for Chicago.

Limited Express has Wagner Sleeping Car
through to Suspension Bridge and the mail has
a Parlor Car to Detroit. The Night Express
has a through Wagner Car and local Sleeping
Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

D. PorrErR, City Pass. Agent.

GEO. B. REEVE, Traffic Manager, Chicago.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.

GOING NORTH.
Arrives. Leaves.
Cincinnati & G. Rapids Ex. 9:00pm 11:00 pm
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:20am 10:25am
Ft. Wayne& MackinacEx.. 3:55pm  £&:00pm
G’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:10am
GOING SOUTH.

G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 6:30pm 7:00am
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. 4:10pm 4:35pm
Mackinac & Ft. Way: eEx..10:23am 11:42pm
Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40 p m

All trains daily except Sunday.

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

North—Train leaving at 10:00 o’clock p. m.
has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and
Mackinac City. Train leaving at 16:25 a.m. has
combined Sleeping and Chair Car for Mackinac
City.

South—Train leaving at 4:35 p.m. bas Wood-
ruff Sleeping Car tor Cincinnati.

Cc. L. LOCKWooD, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves. Arrives,
PM Gil oo. cb ines edo cee 9:15am
+Day Express.............. 12:25 pm
*Night Express............ 8:35 p m :
Mixed: 22 och 6:10am 10

*Daily. +tDaily except Sunday.

Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains.
Through parlor car in charge of careful at-
tendants without extra charge to Chicago on
12:25 p. m., and through coach 0n9:15 a.m. and
8:35 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.
Leaves. Arrives.
MAIXOG cee as 5:00am 5:15pm
MIN PLOSS. . os. 05 cess cece: 4:10pm 8:30pm
PIROTORS eae cess cece. 8:30am 10:1l,am

Trains connect at Archeravenue for Chicago
as follows: Mail, 10:20 a. m.; express, 8:40 p. m

The Northern terminus of this Division is at
Baldwin, where close connection is made with
¥. & P. M. trains to and from Ludington and
Manistee.

J. H. PALMER, Gen’l Pass. Agent.

 

 

 

Hamilton Carhartt & Co.,

WW EXOLESALE

Men’s Furnishing Goods

MANUFACTURERS OF
The “Carhartt” Pantaloons, Overalls, Engineers’ Jackets, Jumpers’ Shirts, etc. Upon our

manufactured goods, we guarantee to save the trade the Jobbers’ Profits.

Samples sent

for Comparison.

118 Jefferson Ave.

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ted Ee ae ih ae A TAS a te eee

Detroit.

Spring aud Simmer He

—I WOULD CALL THE ATTENTION OF MERCHANTS TO MY -—

(Cay

Spring Styles of Fine Hats,
Spring Styles of Wool Hats,

Hammocks dold

*

21 Mouroe Street,

36, 38, 40 and 42 CANAL STREET,

hae

Spring Styles of Stiff Hats,
Spring Styles of Soft Hats,
Wool Hats $4.50 to $12 per Dozen,
Fine Hats 18.50 to $86 per Dozen,
Straw Hats for Men,
Straw Hats for Boys,
Straw Hats for Ladies,
Straw Hats for Misses.

J (he Dosen at New York Prices ''

——LARGE LINE OF——
Clothing and Cents Furnishing Goods,

Cottonade Pants and Eosiery.
DUCK OVERALLS, THREE POCKETS, $3.50 PER DOZEN AND UPWARDS.

Call and get our prices and see how they will compare with those of firms in larger cities

aE V i,

- GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

Old Reliable

Pioneer Cigar Factory,

Hi. SCHNHIDER & CO

PROPRIETORS.

Grand Rapids.

The following brands are our own make and Union labelled goods: Dick and George,

Peninsular Club, Los Dos, Sehr Fein, Louise, Mocking Bird, Evening Star and K. T.
We are jobbers of all kinds of Tobaceos ann Smokers’ Articles.

 

 

Jennings & Smith,

(Props. Arctic Manufacturing Co.,)

MANUFACTURERS OF

Eine Perfumes

Toilet Avucten.
J HIN INIIN GS’

FLAVORING EXTRACTS!
ARCTIC

amproved

baking} Powder

Bluings,
Inks,
Mucilage,
Kid Dressing, Etc.

 

RINDGH, BERTSCH & CO,,

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF

BOOTS & SHOBS,

We are agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and keep a full line of their Celebrat-

ed Goods—both Boston and Bay State.
for inspection.

Our fall samples of Leather Goods are now ready

Our Goods are Specially Adapted for the Wichigan Trade,

14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

PIRST

ON DECK

with OY STHRS, as usual. We

shall receive the first chipment from Bal-

timore on Sept. 4th, of the Old Reliable

MANOKEN BRAND,

which are the best filled cans in market,
and will continue to receive them daily
bo express. Present price will be 25 cts
for Standards and S35 cts for Selects.
Also Agent for Murphy & Edgett’s

Celebrated Deviled Crabs.

 

Yours Truly,
IO. GREEN.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Groceries.

AMONG THE TRADE.

 

 

IN THE CITY.
C. W. Loud succeeds Loud & Bell in the
agricultural implement business.

Last week Neal Malloy & Co. succeeded
Johnson & Co. in the planing mill business.
This week L. Dodds succeeds Neal Malloy
& Co.

Dewey D. Hawes, formerly book-keeper
for Putnam & Brooks, will open a boot and
shoe and gents’ furnishing goods store at
505 South Division street about October 1.

 

Adam Rouse, dealer in boots and shoes
and groceries at Grand Junction, has put in
aline of dry goods, furnished by Spring &
Company. W. H. Downs placed the order.

 

Wm. H. Rouse has invented and applied
for letters patent on a laminated wood pail
for packing purposes, and it is not unlikely
that a stock company will be organized for
the purpose of engaging in the manufacture
of the article.

Nearly all the creditors of the late firm of
C. G. McCulloch & Co. have agreed to the
25 per cent. compromise offered by J ohn H.
DeLaney, and it is probable that all will
wheel into line within the next month, in
which case Mr. DeLaney will resume the
business.

J. M. Carr has executed a deed to As-
signee Houseman, waiving the exemption
legally due him, which is an act of self de-
nial that will be appreciated by the creditors
of the estate. It is understood that the Old
National Bank will realize enough on its
mortgages to pay its claim in full.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

T. S. Jordan succeeds C. H. Smith in gen-
eral trade in Elmira.

A. Laird has started a grain and produce
market at New Hudson.

T. H. Bush, novelty dealer at St. Johns, is
reported to have assigned.

C. W. Marvin, furniture dealer and un-
dertaker at Ovid, has sold out.

Lenhart & Fryfogle succeed Krebs & Len-
hart in general trade at Sunfield.

H. B. Gillett & Co., meat dealers at Reed
City, are-reported to have assigned.

Daniel Lovelace succeeds E. H. Benton in
the restaurant business at Lakeview.

John Chamberlin succeeds Chamberlin
& Parmelee in general trade at East Jordan.

A. L. Overpack succeeds S. C. Overpack
& Bro. in the harness business at Manistee.

Herries, Atchinson & Co. succeed Birch-
ard & Herries in the drug business at Mid-
land.

Sharp & Schepers have engaged in gen-
eral trade at Ebeuezer, four miles from Hol-
land.

E. Trump is removing his dry goods stock
at Reed City to East Saginaw, where he will
re-engage in trade.

Elmira is in need of a first-class boot and
shoe store, and D. C. Underwood has a suit-
able building which he will rent for that pur-
pose.

The liabilities will exceed the assets in
the case of Frank H. Burt, of St. Johns, the
cigar dealer, who assigned to Charles M.
Merrill.

Wm. J. Coulter, an Ontonagon druggist,
has the dissatisfaction of seeing his store in
possession of Bosworth & Sons, Milwaukee,
on a chattel mortgage.

Calkins & Dunning dissolved partnership
at Allegan. Mr. Calkins will continue the
milling and feed store business and Mr.
Dunning will deal in grain.

Goodenow & Co., dry goods dealers at
Quincy, have given four chattel mortgages,
aggregating $11,000. The stock covered is
worth from $12,000 to $14,000.

Dell Wright, for several years past identi-
fied with W. G. Watson & Son, at Coopers-
ville, has purchased the F. C. Brisbin stock
at Berlin, and will continue the business at
the old stand.

Mrs. M. A. (James) Shields has closed
out the grocery business at Big Rapids, ow-
ing to the existence of legal complications
outside the business. The stock is now in
possession of Fox, Musselman & Loveridge.

Sheldon & Meecham, general dealers at
Sherwood, Branch county, bave purchased
the building at Ransom, Hillsdale county,
formerly occupied by Mr. Schermerhorn, and
have removed their stock and business to the
latter place.

Wm. C. Lovelace, of the firm of Winches-
ter & Lovelace, general dealers at Wyman,
is to be married to-day to Miss M. Dell
Gardner, the belle of Stanton. The cere-
mony occurs at the residence of the bride’s
parents at Stanton.

Patch Bros., druggists at Salt River, have
dissolved, G. L. Patch continuing. The
other brother, A. L. Patch, has purchased
the drug stock and business of J. D. Peter-
son, at that place, and will continue the
business at the old stand.

G. C. W. Richards, the Sheridan druggist,
who gave a chattel mortgage on March 18 to
his step-mother for $1,700, was recently at-
tached for $525 by Max Mills, at the instance
of Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., the attachment
-eovering goods not included in the mortgage
and those purchased since it wasgiven. An
inventory has been taken, and further pro-
ceedings have been postponed until word is
received from Richards, who is at present
sojourning in Canada. It is understood that
the attaching creditors have found enough to
satisfy their claim, but that the mortgage
does not cover enough to make good its face.
There are several other creditors who will
undoubtedly come out the little end of the
horn.

 

STRAY FACTS.

Allegan adds a cigar box factory to its in-
terests.

The Livonia fruit dryer building is nearly
completed.

It costs between $150,000 and $200,000 a
year to drive Muskegon River.

J.B. McArthur’s mill, at Cheboygan, has
been-shut down for the season.

Two shingle mills have been started at
Cedar, and a saw mill is wanted there.

The capital of the Western Lumber Co.,
at Manistique, has been increased to $1,000,-
000.

Bement & Sons, of Lansing, are manufac-
turing an average of forty stoves per day, or
1,000 per month.

The South Haven fruit package factory
employs 60 hands six months of the year,
and turns out 300,000 packages, 220,000 of
which are for peaches.

The proposed extension of the C. & W. M.
Railway will touch Spencer Creek, and con-
sequently afford that town communication
with the outside world.

St. Johns has two fruit evaporators which
dry up a great many apples which would
otherwise be converted into cider. Thus
the temperance cause is promoted.

D. Vinton & Son, the Williamsburg gen-
eral dealers, have a combined artificial trout
pond and boiling spring, which is a curiosity
well worth going a hundred miles to see.

O. T. Booth, of Charlevoix, has shipped
toeastern points 16 cargoes of wood this
season, aggregating 1,900 cords. Booth was
formerly a country newspaper man, and is
now wooding up his depleted resources.

Williamsburg people are confident that
they will have a railway connection before
many more months roll around. The town
is growing rapidly, and has every promise of
becoming a place of considerable importance.

Prospects are brightening up at West-
wood, several extensive manufacturing firms
having their eyes on the place as a desirable
point to locate. The country surrounding
the town is excellent for farming, and is
gradually attracting a desirable class of set-
tlers.

A Hudson merchant, to dispose of some
clean packing straw from a box he was open-

ing it would make good bedding for the
team. The farmer came in and demanded a
dollar of the dealer, and got it, to soothe his
wounded feelings.

There will be a large excursion from
Urbana and other Ohio towns October 6 and
%, to Elmira, for the purpose of securing
purchasers for the excellent railway lands
surrounding the town. This method of se-
curing the infusion of new blood will un-
doubtedly give a considerable impetus to
Elmira and surrounding towns.

Elmira claims to have erected more sub-
stantial and fine-looking buildings during the
present season than any ‘other. town of its
size along the Grand Rapids & Indiana. The
lands adjacent to the place are said to be un-
excelled anywhere, and the country round-
about is fast filling up with an intelligent
and thrifty population. Parties working in
the interest of the J.. L. & S. Railway re-
cently made a ‘preliminary line for a road
from Gaylord to Charlevoix, crossing the G.
R. & I. at Elmira.

Kalamazoo Gazette: A bad case of bill-
iousness developed itself in one of our meat
markets a day or two since. A member ofa
family who had recently failed in business
went in and called for spring chickens, and
was very particular about getting good ones.
A creditor, who had been left, happened to
be standing by, and he walked boldly up to
the butcher and asked for 10 cents worth of
liver. Tableaux—Party of the first part has

important business in another direction.
—————_—>-——_——_

M. C. Russell and wife will put in the
week at Kalamazoo, in attendance on the
State fair.

Hudson merchants have taken to advertis-
ing for sale book accounts against delinquent
customers.

Oranges are steady at about former prices.
The lemon crop is nearly all in, and prices
are higher, Nuts are steady.

The Erie Preserving Co. has effected a set-
tlement with its creditors on the basis of 75
per cent., and has resumed business.

Assignee Houseman has gone to Morley to
superintend the disposal of a portion of the
J. M. Carr estate advertised for sale.

Dealers having potatoes, apples and eggs
for sale would do well to correspond with
F. J. Lamb & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.

All the grocery jobbers have signed an
agreement not to sell Hiawatha fine cut be-
low the following prices: Under six ‘pails,
67c; from six to ten pails, 65c; ten pails and
over, 64¢.

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number of subscriptions expire. If the pa-
per has been acceptable in the past, there is
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so in the future, and it is urgently requested
that those whose subscriptions expire with
this issue will send in their renewals prompt-

ly. At$1 per year, no paper is better worth
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The New Bank at Ovid.
From the Ovid Union.

S. D. French, of St. Johns, representing
the First National Bank of Ovid, of which
R. M. Steel is president, has purchased from
J. C. Darragh, assignee of Sowers & White,
the bank building, corner of Main and Front
streets, paying for the same spot cash $7,250
In this building, on or before October 1, the
newly organized bank will open for business.
The building is [considered well converted,
being sold above $6,500, the amount invoic-
ed in the schedule of assets as given by the as-
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WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. OATMEAL. SYRUPS.
ORE ig a ee @3 %5 Corl; Barrels... 2... cic. oc ee veces 33
POLIO ES OUI OE Co 5 eg cp ine cane nes yr esos @3 2} | COMM, % DDIS.... 0.6... seer cece erence eens 36
AXLE GREASE. Taipea) Bhis.. 7... gc-s oe @5 50 | Corn, 0 gallon kegs................+++- @ 35
; gs | Quaker bbls.....2... esses eeeeees - @6 75 | Corn, 5 gallon kegs............-.-.0+++. @I1 20
BOGIES cee ere oe BE Oo ha eee ee @5 %5 | Corn, 4% gallon kegs............-..5.-. @1 65
ope See eecee e : aS te Devers: fees eees ceecs sea , Vey 23@ “
Sec BR GOD. 5 oe cic cae snc bees eees os . ar Drips... wee 80@ 3
Paragon... $8 dOZ......... cece eee eects WO OP Rerosene We Wel: ce ees cee 13% | Pure Saar Drips ee ee 5 sll bees eH 85
Paragon, 20 t pails..........-..+2-eeee eee 90 do. WOGAl tORb. ous ok. c ee ce ee cee 19% | Pure Loaf Sugar Drips... ...... %bbl @ 9%
BAKING POWDER. abies 5 . savers Bp ee ee ctec tea : % |Pure Loaf Sugar. ..........dgalkegs @1 99
Arctic % DCaMs..........-..e ee ee eee doz. 45 Rep ne Ganana ek : TEAS.
Arctic 4% Th CANS........ce ce eeee ences eeeeees Wis ee 1, | Japan ordinary. 24@30| Young Hyson.. ..25@50
Arctic % cans. ....... ear ne ee 1 40 ; eee er eae Japanfair........ 32@35,Gun Powder..... 35@50
Arctic 1 CAaMs........-..e eee ee erence eee 2 40 PICKLES. Japan fair to g’d.35@37 Oolong ....... 38@55@60
Arctic 5 MCANS............ceeeee ee ee ere eees 12 00] Choicein barrels med......... 0-2-2 -eee eee 7 00 | Japan fine........ 40@50|\Congo ............ @30
BLUING. Choice in 4% GO ee es oes pe sce 4 00 | Japan dust....... 15@20|
° a Ae Dingee’s % do small. .-£ 25 TOBACCO—FINE CUT.
ae oe i ee aes o- e Dingee's quarts glass fancy... “4 25 ne 1835 05 DR er been ae pe ecu es oe
EVs INO; @. <2 ojo on roan tenect etsy se : ae ingee’s pints Oe © 22 [OV Ko. eee cee ee eee @45
Liquid, 4 02,.....--+20+eeeee seer sees doz. ro Aeon “cin Gilded. s 2 00 hOur Bird................-- 222. eee ee eee @30
Liquid, ik 0) An Ze o American pt.in Gliges. 1 25 WGA CHOS 9 oa 6 ec ens ee cues @38
ALCtiC 4 OZ.. 22... ccc cece ee eree ences # gross 400! 6 & B. English quarts...........sss0e0ceees 6 00 | Morrison’s Fruit... /........-0:6..ceees @50
AYCtiC 8 OZ.... 24.0. e se ee ee ererer eset sestetes 8 00) G & B. English pints............-c.2c-cc2+6-8 60 | ViCtOr ... a... esse eeee neers sete sees @60
Arctic 16 OZ... 2... 2. cece cece eee cece eee reeess I 00! Ghow Chow, mixed and Gerkins, quarts...6 00 | Diamond Crown..............-.++++++- @aT
Aretic No. 1 pepper box. ss ee is a ’ “ ’ pints. "3 60 nee aor Be ee et tenes @52
rcetl ae ‘i poe ae _ Dingee & Co.’s C. C. M. & G. i . 2 PCTS GUCER «on iw on tt ew cw ne ee ee ees @A0
Arctic NO.38 8 keen cece ee ence eres 4 50 ne = . MES ae es . SWeCtHOSG 220000. fe. ese. bse @45
BROOMS. PIPES poe BRCK os ea @38
Re by JEU Cie One at Rua c Damir rGrenire pecan penn emer 033
No. 1 Carpet... 2.0... cece eee reece cree . 50 Imported Clay 8 gross.............2.5: 2 25@3 00 |0 So Sweet........ . ee
eee 32) | Importec Clay, No. 216..............+- @2 25 | Prairie Flower.....01..sssiisscseeeeeee @OB
Nol furl. er eZ ay | a moriemn MAN sc os cass ca: 90@1 00 | Climber [light and dark].............. @b2
Ra OM a ees fe 1 %5 RICE. tee ese ee a eee @65
Fancy WhisK.........---.se--ceereeeeers 125 | Ghoice Carolina (22... eee ig | PRIMED ooo ne none e sono e eee @6o
Common Whisk..........+--ssseseeeeees 85 | Prime Csrolina....-..-<: 26. i... ess oees- oo 0% a 70
CANNED FISH. UV oe oe we ec Gate ceciee s sian eels «ap 64 @45
Cove Oysters, 1 tb standards.............. Pip | Raboe ee ee ene aes 6 @33
Cove Oysters, 2 Ib standards............- 1% Rangoon .......... bette eee ee ee enters tense ees 5% Royal Game.. @38
Cove Oysters, 1 i slack filled...........-. 75 SALERATUS. Silver Thread. @67
Cove Oysters, 2 tb slack filled..........-.-- 125 | DeLand’s pure...........- Gs oe ata
Clams, 1  standards.........------++ee+- 1 65 ee @ 5% | Kentucky ........ cece ee ee eeee eee es @30
Clams, 2 tb standards.........--+-+-+++e0++ 2 6 Taylor’s Oe @ 5 | Mule Ear..............-.0 eee eee e ee eee @67
Mackerel, 1) fresh standards.......-..-. ee ae ag 7 7 ee @32
Mackerel, 5 tb fresh standards............ 6 50 ee @ 54 Peek-a-Boo, % barrels..............--. @30
Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, 3 D........... Se ee @ 5i4 Clipper, ROX’s. 2)... 5... ee... dees @82
Mackerel,3 tin Mustard.............+-++- B00 (6 GB kt Gs Best ee. @ Bi, Clipper, Fox’s, in half barrels . » @30
Mackerel, 3 i broiled.........----+++++--+: 3 50 Nero | er ey ee et a @ | Fountain 2 Bs ee @74
Salmon, 1 } Columbia river........---++-- 1 60 SALT. Gata ae
Salmon, 2 t Columbia river...........+--- 260 | 60 Pocket ........5..-..-... 55-202. 250. | Good Emek...... 60.20. 5.0 ose. @52
Salmon, 1 ih Sacramento..........--.+++: 150 | 28 Pocket... 2... 5.5 ee ns 235 | Good and Sweet.............cesesec sees @A45
Salmon, Wm. Hume’s Hagle..........---- 185 | 1008 M pockets. ...:.. (5.5... eo... 265 |Blaze Away...... oo ae
Sardines, domeStIC 348......---- 222s seen ees 4 | Saginaw Fine .....:.........-..00--s-++ 100.) Hair Bitter! oo ooi5 css @30
Sardines, domestic WS8.........-+eeeeeeee- 1244| Diamond C................... Poe. 175. |) Old Glory, Heht.. 3.1.52)... 3... ee @60
Sardines, Mustard 48.......-----++--+++++ 12 | Standard Coarse.................+05+ . 155 |Charm of the West, dark.............. @60
Sardines, imported 48......--.-++-+-+++++ 15 | Ashton, English, dairy, bu. bags...... 80 {| Governor, in 2 0z tin foil.............. @60
Sardines, imported 48........-.-++++eeeee 20 | Ashton, English, dairy, 4 bu. bags.... 3 20 PLUG.
Sardines, imported %s, boneless.......... 32 | American, dairy, % bu. bags.......... 2 Bo Pos Pavorite. 2-0. o..0 6.8.23. 8t: @48
Sardines, Russian kegs.......------++++++ BO | Rock, bushels... 6.......6...-......0- 800 (Old Kentucky §-....10 2. .t2. 0... @48
Trout, 3 brook.........----+ sgectceee 3 00 SAUCES. : Hig coy eae Ge oes ese. @A8
CANNED FRUITS. Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, pints. @5 00| o Saxrhege 2 OE See ee ae
‘Apples, 3 b standards ......... porate sees 90 | Lee & Perrins Worcestershire, 4% pts. @3 00 pre eees, te ane ete a. ec @as
Apples, gallons, standards, Erie........-- 250 | Picadilly, % pints...................2. @1 50 Blackbird ioe ae @48
Blackberries, standards............+.++++- 125 | Halford Sauce, large................+. G8 | ca orca hands we
Cherries, red.........0 2s ecee cece ee eeeeeeees 110 | Pepper Sauce, red small.............. @ 5 | Glory eee @50
Cherries, white ..........-- Be eer oes 1% | Pepper Sauce, green.................5. G Cina @18
Wamsous ..-. 5.2. 5 nc ee ene ste eee os 120 | Pesper Sauce, red large ring.......... Gowns eo. @50
Egg Plums, standarde .......---+--++++++ 1 35 Pepper Sauce, green, large ring...... @t@| ore. Loe es 50
Egg Plums, Erie.... ..-.-----seeeee sree 145 | Catsup, Tomato, pints................. 001 fi pes (DackT =.
Green Gages, standards 2 ........-...-. .140 | Catsup, Tomato. quarts ..:........... @t 8) ar tee: (hae. q or
Green Gages, Erie............--0seeee cree 150 | Horseradish, % pints.................. Gi leone ever sar Ee
Peaches, 3 i standards..........--.---++:- 1%5 | Horseradish, pints..................... @1 30 Ginx Myers OUAL...--.-.2.-eeees e*
Peaches, 3 ib Extra Yellow............---- 200 | Capers, French surfines............... GAG waste on
Peaches, SCCONGS.........--+ ++ seer eeseeees 165 | Capers, French surfines, large........ @S 80 | MoAlpin’s Gold Shield. @ 43
Pie Peaches 3 h..........----- eee ee eee eecee 115 | Olives, Queen, 16 oz bottle............ @3 Nickle Nunecte Gand ie ih cals... er 1
Pears, Bartlett 2 ........-.-.s.00eeeree eee 130 | Olives, Queen, 27 0z bottle...... ..... @6 0 | Cook of tha Walk Gs... : 7
Pineapples, 2 stand......-.-+--+--++++++ 140 | Olive Oil, quarts, Antonia & Co.’s.... @T7 001 Biack Spun Roll...............0..ce cc.
QUINCES ...... 20. sree nsec ee ete testes 145 | Olive Oil, pints, Antonia & Co,’s......  @4 00 Nina Seems eee aes ecas G 48
Raspberries, 2 I stand.......... 2 | Olive Ol], 4 pints, AntoniaG® Co.'6.... @20i kann 8c lee AAS
Raspberries, 2  Erie.........-.-.+-+-++++- 1 40 SEEDS Red Seal =
Strawberries, 2 ib standards............--- 110 H ° i foe ae s
CANNED FRUITS—CALIFORNIA. CMP 2... ce cece cece cece sec ecescccccccs a Black sR Geeta te poe Apeeeee @
Apricots, LUSK’S........-..seeeeeeeeeeee ees 25 hong’ seed eee n ee eee teen eee eeeeeeeee ens Bee A as
me FRADE 2... ccc cece ttc e ence cs ecccccewccens ‘ ene cewte se eect whos so ees nica 9
LD Ea eee enn 2 Meciaie. Re GE eee @35
Spun cdc ces eetece sees esessaseess Nobby Spun Roll..............-.-+-.+- @50
Pears ee 3 00 SOAP. Sprite. 6 es. @50
Quinces ee eee : oy Lautz Bros. & Co. Crayling, all styled. .....-0c0..-0y0e ss @50
cece cerecccsececcetrrscecscccersetes Acme, 701% DAars..........ceccceeeee @ 6K Mackinaw. :-.....00)....-2-05.-+-5..--. GET
CANNED VEGETABLES. Acme, 253 bbars.....-......5-....6.¢. @ 6% | Horse SHOG Ge cos co eke ao ees @50
Asparagus, Oyster Bay.........--.--+++++- Boh) Mowel, eb bars 220... 6. 0.2. ee @5 25 | Good Luck.................. eee ee @50
TORS CUE sa nc oe oe ee ete ees Ss | Nankity, % bars... ...2.-....----++--. @5 2% | Big Chunk or J.T.............. secre ees @40
HMoans, Shrine .: ..-.---4-~--- --oees veneers 90 | Best American, 601 fb blocks.......... g@ | Hair Uofter.......-....:..-.-..... --... @37
Beans, Boston Baked...........+-..+e++++ 165 | Palma 60-1 b blocks, plain...... ...... @ 5% | D. and D., black...........-.. esses sees @37
Beans, Stringless.............20ce+seee eee 100 | Shamrock, 100 cakes, wrapped........ @3 %0 | McAlpin’s Green Shield............... @48
iv: a ie sae 115 | Master, 100-% Ib cakes ....... ~~ @5 00 | Ace High, black.......... 6.0... eeeees @35
(ire BOVetO. 255i ose esse ssa 120 | Stearine, 100 % ib cakes............... @4 85 |Ghampion A.............. sees sees eee @48
Corn, Egyptian.............2.seeeeeeeeeees 110 | Marseilles, white, 100 % i cakes...... @6 25 | Sailors’ Solace...............:6+..eeee- @48
Corn, Yarmouth..............s0eeeeeeeeees 120 | Cotton Oil, white, 100 3 b cakes...... @6 9 | Red Star.......... 1. see e ee eee eee cece es @50
Porn TeOpls....-. 25. --60. seven ees seas: 115 | Lautz’s 60-1 } blocks, wrapped........ @7 |Shot Gun................ ee eee eee ees @48
Corn, 2% Onandago................06-2-+- 150 | German Mottled, wrapped............ @ 64, | DUCK .... 2-2... eee ce eee eee ee eee eee @18
Mushrooms, French..........---.-sseeee+: 22@24| Savon, Republica, 60 I box............ @ 5% | Jumbo............... (6 coeeeceenecerenc @40
Peas, standard Marrofat............-++++- 140 | Blue Danube, 60-1 h blocks........... @ 5% | Apple Jack...... 2.6.6 oc eee ee ee ee eee @50
Peas, 2 Early, small (new)........-..--- 160 | London Family, 60-1 tb blocks........ @ 5 | Jack Rabbit.................. esse ee. @A42
Peas, 21 Beaver..........--.- cess eee eee ee 75 London Family, 3-b bars 80 tb......... @4 00 SMOKING.
Peas, French 2 Db..........22 22s cree eee eee 23@26 |-London Family, 4-Ib bars 80 Ib......... - @4 00 | Mornine Dew 26
Pumpkin, 3 tb Golden...........--+-+-+++-- 110 Gem, 100 cakes, wrapped............. @3 85 | Chain ee cer oe Sas @26
Succotash, 2 th standards.........-.....+-- 85 Nickel, 100 cakes, wrapped............ @A 00 Seat wonndnande 0 Dee
Succotash, 2 tb B.& M......... eee eee ee eee 1%5 | Climax, 100 cakes, wrapped........... @3 25 | Kine See sees eee ee sree es @%
Squash, 3 ib standards.............-.++-++- 1 20 Boss, 100 cakes, wrapped.............. @2 30 Flire SS NG ee es e
Tomatoes, 3 ib a ee 1 o eae pen ae Forete dozin box a Sie boi
Tomatoes, 3 Ib Job Bacon:..........-..--- 1 05 ‘loating, CAKES... ees. @4 20 |mar Dann, ys ek eee a oe
CAPS. Kirk’s'American Family ........ 72 Ib 614 aoe D ee %* and %.......-. @x4
GD. 35 |Ely’s Waterproof %5 doe india. 53 Am er, 2 an Pessaesccste cc seen cce sale @15
a 7 x » BVTANULIALCE.......,2- 22 ee OD,
Musket........... "5 do. sSaven 3 5% Jou rere cll prorated @138
Ge. habe. fae ee es occ eae geene anaes @4i
CHOCOLATE. do. Revenue nig | Blackw ell’s Durham Long Cut........ @90
Boston premium............-.--.--+-+: @36 an Witenes BI | Vanity Fair.....................0e eee. @90
Baker’s premium...............000s0e0 e+ @40 | Goodrich’s English Family ......... 54 Dime .... 2... 2 eee eee eee eee eee eee eee 18@25
PaO ee ese et @35 do: Pinca le dig IPOCRIOSS ch hoe ee a oe. @25
German BWORL. .. 65.0 le nese cee ae es oe @2 Proctor & Gamble’s Ivory Sas 6 vim Standard hs a a telala'a esis as'aia A a wie si aeiaie asia sl @ é @22
Vienna Sweet ET ise se ab as tie ae s.6 alee eee so « 25 do. Japan Olive ...... 5 ba an See eee eee ere eee w cern nsec e cece @21
COFFEE. BS Town Talk %@ box 3 60 Ee ORGY o.oo es a
Green Rio es do. Golden Bar ee 4 10 Traveler ie Alafers (a siaie, 6 6 a/eiel se a ele aici Gee e/aisici ele! e.@ 35
Green Java...... : @2 do. Wea 8a Se Pee as
Groen MOODE. 60.55.65. toes aeee 2 @2 do. pS re oe ant
Roasted WO.........--ps-s2-2-o0- oases 12 @1i do. Moiies Garman. 4% im eiicines el
Roasted Java.... 2.2.0... cece cece ee eeee 24 @34 | Procter & Gamble’s Velvet............ @3 40 tae ee Be cere : @2
Roasted Mar............-...<.-.----:>- 17 @lgy Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck....... @3 20 | Gola Biock ee er O32
Roasted Mocha...............ceseeeeee @: Procter & Gamble’s Wash Well....... Gee ee @2
Roasted Mex. .....:...--...-.--------<- 174%4,@19 | Badger..................e2ess eee. 60bs @ 64 peciinia oe ee @19
Ground Bio............006+--25-+-.+ +e CAS YS Oe ee eemere ee ne Give. wad. 228
Ground MCX... oc. so. e een ce ve sees @16 | Gowan & Stover’s New Process3 ib br @18% Die ee on
Arbuckle’s...........ceeccoereceeee eres lite | TID OD ease se es een hte OW) a ey: Os
i @15% | Ward’s White Lily....... 00... eeeee ae 4. 2h eh
Bier eee @15% | Handkerchief ...... 0.0.2.0 ...eceeeeee Get eo ae rae aa
De cas ono ees connec ON | GRRE cee eens BO ea @2
Magnolia.........c2eccecceeceeeee cence @15Y% | Babbitt’s ............ cee eee ee ee ee eee BO fee ae
AMIR AR oe celiac ese es 4 ere ee @16
CORDAGE. Bluing 5 00 Long Tom......-.-....:.......--....-.. @30
72 foot Jute ..... 25 |60 foot Cotton....175 | Magnetic.............. ee 4 20 National..................22 020. eee eee -  @26
60 foot Jute..... 105 [50 foot Cotton....150 | New French Process.................. 450 ee EATON Sa a gt a gE @26
FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Mei ar ee sien ee A EO ee be
Lemon. Anti-Washboard .............2.2.+ee00+ 5 00 Poen See a | es
ino? & Ree 3 25 er @x
Jennings’ 2 02Z.......-..--ee cece eee ees #@ doz. 1 00 is on Grpyiing a @32
“ 4024 150 Magic Re cu cies cee Gia Ai clale-d:siela wis Gis's ees oa ee'e © 4 20 Seal Sin =e <
er ee Ant PMRRDURGN eee es ‘$0 See ae
De meen ta OR a ae 3 50 Bogue’s Me tec igOs a's arel aie a bo 6 "aoe wale ties bois «© 6 7% Robhde 2 ee oe
“ * $95 | White castile bars...0 2.0.0.2 2 coco... Se es ars
‘ 1 75| Mottled castile.....0..0.... sce. Cee a ae
* ’ : See ae ; pO OUDEEY -.-.-+-»- — 5% Railroad Boy ee ee @3)
Oe ee bs ee seers << PICES. Ountsin BOSC... .... see ss... 5. @20
. MO. Bo5 as os oc tee ve caaeadeteee ® 3 00 Ground Pe per, in boxes and cans... 16@25 Good Enough Pal aee snes se Sse seee n+ eae es a0 @23
NO. 10-1... sno te cece seccesscaees 4 25! Ground Allspice...........0.c0cceeeeee 12@20 | Home Comfort, 4s and %48............ @25
: Vanilla. Ginnamon 0 eee 16@30 | Old Rip, long cut............ Cocke soce @ad5
Jennings’ 2 OZ...... 6.0. cece cece en eeee ® doz. 1 RO ee i asa a 20@25 | Durham, long cut, No. 2.............. @55
a BOD. sce ee eee eee eeee ee en nese renens Be ie a once ees ees 17@20 | Two Nickle, 45............-.... see eee @25
fe COD esc as genes poe hanes AO Whistard (ee ae. 15@35 | Two Nickle, %8...........-.----- +2065. @26
ag BOA ee eae ee ee RO Caeenee foo ce 25@35 «| Star Durham.................... eee @25
© NO. 2 Taper.......--s seers seer es 150] Pepper 4 ib ® dozen... 7 | Golden Flake Cabinet................4. @40
“No. 4 Tapers oot cies 3 00| Appice ah LL, «15 | Seal of North Carolina, 2 6220000000... @2
“ -Y pint round...........-++++ +++ 750] Cinnamon 4 D.....6.......ceeeeeeeree 75 | Seal of North Carolina, 4 0z........... @50
“ Tpint round..........-.++-+++++- BOO iowea kWh oo acon ch cdse cc decdee ses 73 | Seal of North Carolina, 8 0z........... @48
: a cents eeee seen esas arene eee ses a Pewper, Whole............-.0.0.050: @18 aes - Nose dine 16 vz boxes... Qi
- BAD. sees eens s ye see +e deen ae OO cos vena hs Same we sie @10 ig Deal, 4s longeut.................. O27
FAUCETS. Cte ie wees 10 | Apple Jack, 4s granulated.... @24
Faucets, self measuring............-. Oe OO Pie 6 bec. esc: 20 oe King Bee, longeut, 4s and 4s........ @22
Faucets, common..... ee @ 35] Nutmegs, NO.1.........ccceceeeeeees 65 @i5 retire ot ae xs ue hoa: ae @24
FISH. : {00d Enough, 5c and 10ec Durham.... @24
STARCH. ; ?
MW hole O00. 2. be coc ces co vedere cess. 4%@6 ‘Thert’s G Durham, S., B. & L, 46s and ¥48........ @24
Boneless Cod....... ..- 3 so Gilbert : Glos . : : savtoohe. ae Rattler, FORRCHE. oo. ee eas @2
Herring % bbls. 100 b...... 2 50@3 00 és ih patos f 7 @ | Windsor cut plug..............e. ee eeee @25
Herring Scaled............... o @24 “ bone oe bY SHORTS.
ove Honea. ees on “ Geet 7" aoe Beas ee evecasgce sce steces =
ite, 01% ae ees E 5 jagara TLaundr : 40 box, bulk....._ pee LEW esse este nte eee Ser NTs ¢ e
White, Family, % bbis.....0000000002. oe | AR ieee GS, | Old Congress... 2.0.0 eee aera 2:
White, No. 1, 10  kits............. es 95 “Gloss, 401  packages........ @6% ACMO. ..cscce cece se fhttttee teeta ees 20
White, No.1, AD TO EUG a. occ casas os aa 1 05 ss Gloss, 36 3 8 packages i. G6 « s K SNUFF. ie
Trout, No. 1, % DbIs...........-..006- 5 20 “Gloss, 6 tb box, 72 crate... @t Lorillard 8 Macoboy OE ee ges boo cae ain @5é
Trout, No. a 49 3) RAGS. oo se ss 90 “ Corn, 40 1 tb packages oe tas @1%4 . Amer ican Gentleman or eeee @i2
Mackerel, No. 1, % bbls...........---. 600 | Muzzy Gloss 1  package.............. @6% TNR oe Gr Beebe nee @35
Mackerel, No. 1, 12  kits............ 100 | Muzzy Gloss 3 package.............. @b% oe oe i econes settee rece eee e eee @44
FRUITS. Muzzy Gloss 6  boxes................ ee ee eres @4
London Layers, neW.......--..s0s.e0+ 2 75| Muzzy Gloss bulk.............-.+-- +++. @5% | pure Cider........... Jee: : 10@12
Poona Muaentol Ralsind, mew. ...:.: G2 70] MRR OOn, Fn aes eae c nant Gl lite Wine... ke ere ne can 10@12
Loose Muscatel Raisins, old......... | @2 50] , Special prices ne eee. WASHING POWDERS. :
New Valencias Raisins................ PignTig | ee er re raw tees este es: eos oes k ee te seme eeticans @10%
Dehesia @3 2 Kingsford Silver Gloss 6  box....... @8% | Gillett’s @ b « Tig
ee @10 Kingsford Corn Ce eo Aes Oe aa, @8 Soapine pkg ee ee eee nolo”
Turkey Prunes Re re ee @5% Oswego GIOSS.........-..ecee cence noes @6% } Pearline a Woe ‘@4 50
Be ET Sy Bk | MMO BIO gs cians evesertss @6%4 | Lavine, single boxes, 181 papers... @A 5O
ION occa wa sntnp essences eee @22 ty igs re see a eeet net: @6% | Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 481% pap’rs @4 25
Dried ADVIS 2.5.6 io beer eee Oe ee @4 | Lavine, single boxes, 1006 0z papers. @4 50
MATCHES. i * Gicas i . aby, Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 1006 0z pap  @4 25
Grand Havap, No. 9, square............6-+ Bae Une GIONS. ks cel c een Gee [ravine Bingic boxes, 8) 5m papers... ae
Grand Haven, No. 8, square........ + ee BOT Bi) MUIORS. oie sass bees oe eee @b- Lavine, 5 or more boxes, 804 hpaprs @4
Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor.............. 2 50| 6 Ib Gloss, wood boxes................. @i “ YEAST.
Grand Haven, No. 300, parlor.............- 8 '%H| Table Corm.......... cece eecereccees 40 Ib @6%4 | Twin Bros....... 1%5 |Wilsons.......... 175
Grand Haven, No. 7, round..... .2 25) Table Corn............s.eeeeeeeees 20 b @% = }Gillett’s......... 1% |National ......... 1%
Richardson’s No. 2 square...........e-eeee- 270} Banner, Dulk............ 02 ce cece eee eens @A MISCELLANEOUS
Richardson’sN0.8 dO ...cssecceseecenes 2 55 STOVE POLISH. Blacking * 30, 40, 50@60
Richardson’sNo.5 do ........ Sees eens 1 %0| Rising Sun gross..5 88|Dixon’s gross...... 5 50 do waterproof eo es 7 ee
Richardson’sN0.6 O_  ....s.+s-+e+005 ..2 70| Universal........ ..5 88|Above @ dozen..... 50 | Bath Brick i MA
Richardson’sNo.8 dO. .........--0000++ DOME SEs ec ceke sou Ce 7
Richardson’sN0.9 O_ ........s-eeeeeeee 2 5b SUGARS. Bariev. See ee @3%
Richardson’s No. 4 round .........+.--++. ie WO) Out LORE... 5 ci ssseeg sain ia ss Cae @71% | Burners, No.1... 110
Richardson’sNo.T dO. l.c.cccccccscssees-2 BB] Oubes .. ccceeclecccees oe be ee i
Kichardson’s No.7%4d0_ ...... veneeee »++++1 10| Powdered........ Mies oe eee @75, | Bags, American A..........-.20000e0s 20 00
Electric Parlor NO. 17........++++++e+e+rere0 3 20| Granulated ........-.-. ledes aes @1 | Condensed Milk, Eagle brand......... 8 00
Electric Parlor No. oe weeeeneres etre OE CONE, Bs css rarsrs. Sayer isleed nies Ob Condensed Mili, SWIS8......+.-+.-++- as
MO: a ard A.......... ie cceee es eevsves lombS # dOZ........6... cece eees 25@
Black Strap.........ecceeeeeeec ener cece ce 1 LO@I18 Extra C white....... ieee coer es 6 Cream Tartar and 10 cans......... @25
Port RicO......ccccseeccecececceesesees ++ BOBS | Extra C......--..0-steeereeees ere . 5% CANGIOS, BtArs ieee cic eee k ec ese: @15.-
New Orlekns, F008... --» ies epee eed O08 Gir ia eae BAGS Candles, Hotel.............ccseceecesss @I6
New Orleans, fancy........-0s+.sseeseeres Yellow ©2200... 6 0. cescesecrececcouns '@5¥% | Chimney Cleaners # doz..............  @50

 

 

 
  
 

Chinineys No. Fy... .. ec. ccks coke a @38
Sokosun: bones mo: : ; ““ = ee caeens’ @A8
, Schepps’ 1 & 3 do . 27h
Extract Coffee, 62 G8 _ Gh ec Sea cs oa
do Felix ..... ne :
Flour Sifters @ doz................. .t
Fruit Augurs each...................0.
Gum, Rubber 100 lumps............... @30
Gum, Rubber 200 lumps. ............ @A0
Gum), Spruce. 22s oA. 30@35
Ink #3 dozen box................... 1 00@
SOW POR... @ 5%
do Glass Tumblers # doz............ OS
Lye @ 2 doz. cases..................... @1 55
Macaroni, Imported................... @13
Domestic. 2 ee ee @i0
French Mustard, 8 oz # dozen........ @15
_ do Large Gothic........ @l
Oil Tanks, Star 60 gallon.......... @10 00:
— eae Bush 0 es @1 75
o Split prepared...................
FOCeess Mee se se 4 .
Oo BORGO ea 25
euro aes . Elsa ne 6.
OU, GOB... ..26
do wee a
Sige 2 O15
Tobacco Cutters each ............0.... 5 a
EWG ee ces 18@25.
PRAPNIOCA Te coos cc a 5@6
Wicking No. 1 # gross................. @40
do Areand.. eo 50G
CANDY, FRUITS AND NUTS.
Putnam & Brooks quote as follows:
STICK.
Straight, 25 th boxes............
Twist, G00. ee oe ae
Cut Loaf do ince ee
MIXED.
Royal, 25. pails..........20..233 y
Roval WOM bbis............7....... a
Bextra do pails... h%
Meira, SO bbls... a
French Cream, 25 fb pails......... ee 14
Cut loaf, 25 Ib cases......................... 1d
Broken, % & palld....... ds, 11%
Hroken 400 bbid. 2...
FANCY—IN 5 Ib BOXES.
Lemon Drop8s...............44.
Sour ae, Re os og can sees a is
Wepperomnt Wrepd:......-.. 5.2... ..c 16
Chocolate Drops... -....... ec. lv
HMChocolate Drops....................... 20
Gun tmaa. iS
Licorice Drops................ ial 20
AB Uleaviee Drone. 4
Sosovgen pliable J6
Demenoes, printed... .... 2... 17
eperiais | 60 16
Moctees (4.29... 16:
Cream Bar... 15
Molnsses Bar........... 2 ul
Garameis 20
Hand Made Creams.......................... 23
iPinin @reamis® =.) ee 20-
Decorated Creams....... ..............00... 23
StrmgiReck 20. 16
Burnt Simonds..:...-0...... 3 24
Wintergreen Berries........... .... eee 16
Fancy—in Bulk.
Lozenges, plain in pails............... 14
Lozenges, plain in bbls......................13
Lozenges, printed in pails................ » 15
Lozenges, printed in bbls....... Ro. 14
Chocolate Drops, in pails................ 14
Gum Drops, in pails.................. 22. 4
Gun Drops, fi Ghia, -.... .. 2... ecco ccc ae 7
Moss Drops, in pails......................... li
Moss Drops, in bbls.......................... 9%
Sour Drops, in pails......................... 12
mperiais, in pails... 14
Neneials ti bbls.........................
FRUITS.
Oranges # box............... 5 16 5
Ga tags eee
Oranges, Imperials, #% box........ ae
Oranges, Valencia #® case.............
Eemons, choice... .... 2... .256-..5..- @4 50

Lenions, fancy................ s0@6 00
ie ee ee
Malaga Grapes, # keg.................

Malaga Grapes, # bbl..................
Wigs, Inverse. 3 B.... o.oo 12@16
Mies taney OO ...202.. 5.2. 18@20
Figs, baskets 40 hb @Ib................. @IB%
Dates, frails GO in ee @O €
Dates, 4% do dQ 2 @7
ates Ain: @ 6
Dates te Ski... @ 7%
Dates, Fard 10 } box @ ............10 @N
Dates, Fard 50 Ib box ® tbh.............. 7 @8
Dates, Persian 50 box # Ib........... 64%4@ 7
"PEANUTS.
Prime Red, raw @ ........5.........
Choice do €0..0 2 2 @7
Fancy do OQ... 4. @i
Choice White, Va.do .................- @ 1%
Bancy HP... Va do .....2-........... @ 8%:
NUTS.
Almonds, Terragona, # ............. 8
Almonds, Ioaca, ; * tee ee oca. Olt
Eeaee OG 2... oc. @&
econs, O60 220
Li ooo GO. —
‘ilberts, Sicily a0 25.
Walnuts, Chilli dQ... ee.
Walnuts, Grenobles do ............. 14@15
Walnuts, California do. . .......
Cocoa Nuts, @100 sds caedcecee @4 50
Hickory Nuts, large #® bu.............
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PROVISIONS.

The Grand Rapids Packing & Provision Co
quote as follows:

  
 
 

PORK.

Heavy Mess Pork, old.................... $17 25.
Heavy Mess Pork, new................00¢ 18 26.
Back Pork, short cut, new....... ee aes

Pig Pork, short cut, better than mess... BA}
Pamily Clear Pork... .. 2. 0c... inc ccccccecess
Extra Clear Pork .......

Clear Back Pork, new........ <oe
Boston Clear Pork. ..... .. oo oc oo acca cc cee

Standard Clear Pork, the best.............
DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES.

Long Clears, heavy, 500 ib. Cases.......
do. Half Cases.........

Long Clear medium, 500 ib Cases.......
Half Cases ,......
500 i Cases..........
oO Half Cases..........
Short Clears, heavy ...............0.200.
do. MOGI . 5. oc oe. es occ oe

do. WSMG so oe
Extra Long Clear Backs, 600 Ib cases..
Extra Short Clear Backs, 600 fb cases..
Extra Long Clear Backs, 300 Ib cases..
Extra Short Clear Backs, 300 fb cases..
Bellies, extra quality, 500 Ib cases......
Bellids, extra quality, 300 Ib cases......
Bellies, extra qulaity, 200 Ib cases......

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Long Clears light,

    
  
  
  

LARD.

TPICTOGR fo. osc ccs ena cba os ca cance 8
80 and: 50 TD EUDS . 2c ieee rece cw ee case se 844.
LARD IN TIN PAILS.

20 I Round Tins, 80 f racks............ 8%
3 I Pails, 20 in a case...............52.. 9
5 ib Pails, 12 in a case...............000. 8%
10 Pails, 6in a case................... 834
SMOKED MEATS—CANVASSED OR PLAIN.
Hams cured in sweet pickle, heavy.... 14
Hams cured in sweet pickle medium.. 14%
do. light..:... 14%
Shoulders, .boneless....................
Shoulder, cured in sweet pickle....... 84
Extra Clear Bacon...........0.50..005.. 2
Dried Beef, Extra... . .... 0s cagenccsace i3
BEEF IN BARRELS.
Extra Mess Beef, warranted 200 fbs...... 10 75
Plate Beef, extra quality.................
CANNED BEEF.
Libby, McNeil & Libby, 14 ib cans, 4 doz.
111 CABO... -.. ece es ee cece eee n ence en aers 18 00
do. 2 ib cans, 1 doz. in case.... 2 85
Armour & Co., 14 fb cans, % doz in case 18 00
do. 2 i cans, 1 doz. in case.. 2 85-
do. 2» Compr’d Ham, 1 doz.in case 4 00
SAUSAGE—FRESH AND SMOKED.
Pork SAUSHEC. ... . 2 ecco Sh ee ec ceee oc 9
Ham Sausage........ oo Li
Tongue Sausage....... .
PAVGE BUTORRO. 0.05 6 ese e scenes veeedeseecces 8
Frankfort Sausage... .......... cece ec ee ec eee 10
Bldod SaUBAGe.. <<... ck cce ss ence ce cneeuee 8
BOlOgTIA, TING... oo. oc se ge ee ce en cee scctes 8%
Bologna, straight... 0. 2... secs cae se neice 8%
Bologna, thick.................. Sokues Soueeas yy
Wiead ChOGse cc ic oo 6 on 5 see cs vn Sk ce cc ca ewe es 8
PIGS’ FEET.
Te HAlt DSIrGls.. wo. oon ccs ces se cust 3 90
In quarter barrels.............. acbseeteers 2 10.
dm BitG.. o.0255..5 FES eis Cy bee ban ts es coc eeeke
\ TRIPE.
In half barrels..............0.ceeeeeeees exe $3 75
In quarter barrels.......... Bl odes ee ceeaee 2 00
BIG IGS eo vc cae | oon Ghee ee ave iue vs ha as Sas - oe

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Engraved English Glassware No. 145,

 

 

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ASSORTMENT NO. 99. m6
{ German Student, 7 in shade ....... ........ 37 4 doz Sets... ..... Eugd36 720 63 60
t 4 i 10 5 50 i doz % gal Pitchers ...Engd 36 6 00 2 00
a Dee oe 3 1a 1 "i L that 4 ~ i gal rin ae nes 36 4 00 1 00
oz very large Fine Lamps a 8 doz Goblets........... ingd 36 110 3 30
ANCHOR BRAND. : : i 1-6 doz 7 in Casseroles...Eugd36 3. 00 50
‘ sic. 4 fuvnoe 1a Wire Tubular ....... cies $50 oo GLASS STANDARD sf will retail at $1.50 each which we can 16 doz 8 in Casseroles... Engd 36 4 00 67
z Same. with GuB@a@i. sot... ..........2...004. 8 75 No Charge for Boxes, 6 doz. in Box. sell complete with '7 INCH SUN IL- 1-6 dca sinere : ee pees 38 7 5 i 5
Buckeye, Double Globes... eevee om ~AND— LUMINATORS at $9.,5O per} % doz SmCeleries....... Engd36 300 5
Til Mybular. 7s e.- -- -- o-oo eens 7 00 Per Box. 5 i aS 2
M™ ilting Tu ye No. 0 sien Bulb CT 2 00 don if ae ao se Tees 3 62«“aS3 HO UL
Re eee eee . 2 doz No.3 Wines....... ingd 10 70 40
_ TEE g ete t tere ees é 3 doz4in Comports............. 40 1 20
@ ery Style > f Lan te No.2 ) Dies es ee es 3 20 HMBAND LAMPS. 5 1 pees “ 2 Salts. eae 59
BV m 2 doz Individual Salts........... 17 34
: . The foJlowing chimneys are epee eae Assortment No, 11, DECORAT D BASE LAMP 1 doz Shaker Salts.............. 55
| W expressly for us, are superior in quality an oe a‘
carried in Stock. € but a trifie higher in cost_than the chimneys 4 doz.A Lamps and Burners.......! 216 108 Honea } on £10 : 19 81
2 usually sold by others. Each chimney is la- Boo oe 248 124 ASSORTMENT NO. 29. ess Visconnt IU per cent,
make a Specialy of Lan- beled with our brand and name. 24 Go oe ee 2 7 135
ee mo A . ‘© fancy...2 16 1 08 -
FIRST QUALITY. % © bs Si ee Ul 1 35 Complete with 7 in. Sun Illuminator. If you have not our Il-
terns and Lamps for Per box.|% “ D & “17338 £69
THE GREAT “SUN” LAMP. ae 4 Sun Bulb C.T.... 20.20. .ee eee ee eee eee 2 2 en ea nee Lamps &~ “ oi 4 m 2 at 2 Bronze Base Lamps... .. Sede af : :
° ° ° Oe ea er ee 250)% * oS eae 2] DOS ee ee 30 s °
Lighting Mills, Etc. RETAIL PRICES. No.2 ee 3 BD 4“ B “ ele 338 lela « “ ee, 7. 14|lustrated Price-List send
Fount, brass, cach.... 2... 3.6... 3 Ae 0 PUNO) : FS % : Hand. * * footed..2 25 1 2 ay a6 . Obes a : a
: ee MACOS 35 O13 2 Bees ae: 260} 1° fess ss : 1 Ccorated: 8 oo ee, 8 3 36
Will Send Cuts of Assortment on Table Lamps, with shade, brass............ 5 50 ae ee 3 60 = for it
Application. nickel.. 4 00 No charge for box. Package at cost. Net $15 57 Package at cost, net 8 94 .

 

 

 

 

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Walker township. During the entertain-

OYSTERS AND FISH.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows:

 

 

 

“ By Gee Crip” Jennings came in Monday

Androscoggin, 7-4..21 |Pepperell. 10-4..... i) ao OYSTERS. . to carry a torch in the Logan procession.
fea - 3 Betuoty feces : es ad ae Selects «-e sss sss IIIS b3 | Drs J. B. Evans is accompanied on his D.,
+ Spring & Company quote as funuwoe: Pepperell, 8-4......22% Pequot, 8-4.. he e Standards 207000000000 oe 25|G. H. & M. trip this week by Mr. O. A.
Pepperell, 9-4......25 |Pequot, 9-4......... 27% VW WAVOUINGR 0.8 oe a eee ee 22
ee HEAVY BROWN COTTONS. 1 6S, urs, OO a O 9 FRESH FISH. _
Androscoggin, ea Pepperell, oe Co >. ee ae 74 Lawrence XX, 44.. 8% oe. ee a a Sos Uae aU g J.C. Watson, with C.S. Yale & Bro., is
Androscoggin, 8- mt... oo 7” A 9 EE... Z ee as Al Cc er tt OC ee she, oc oes ele ae e a
Pepperell, (+4 eS 16% |Pequot, 7-4......... 18 | Atlantic H, 4-4..... 5 corner a 30. a NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. ee. pe 5 off on a trip along the Lake Michigan shore,
Pepperell, 8-4...... 20 Pore ee - ae porno a7 - ee 53 ave : ene x < y Me eae ite: ie north.
Pepperell, ot oe 22% |Pequot, 9-4.........2 a 2 re aS Re nares : tS Bach oi :
4-4... 8 se , seca ee e oe We eae - 8. Haugh will spend next week in the
CHECKS. Adriatic, 36......... a Pequot A, 4-4....... 8 TEI 6 GoonD ENOU GE TAMILYZ Smoked Whitefish and Trout................ 10 hous a wi oe : 3 :
Caled KX, 11 \Park Mills, No. 90..144 | Augusta, 4-4........ 6/4 Piedmont, BE s.: 1 | Smoked Sturgeon: 3... ee, 10 = se, and will be glad to welcome those of
aledonia, XX, 0z.. rk Mills, No. vv.. t Mi 44... Stark AA, 4-4....... 74 ri in tre tho & :
Caledonia, X, oz...10 Park Mills, No. 100.15 oe inh ooone OC CL. be dias Geiss LA Re S northern trade who come down to the
Economy, OZ.. nese 10 |Prodi Ts OZ. Vs Sasgel ‘ Graniteville, £4) * 6% U tica, a g os fe . ’ 4 : is “as = Use fair.
Park Milis, No. 50..10 {Otis Apron......... 10% fuiian Head, 4-4... 714 Wachusett, 4-4..... Ty Perkins & Hess quote as fol.ows: ‘A Gil cial tavone ier ae
ee es BO Oe ee ap | Soaiane Head 45-in, 1244 Wachusett, 30-in... 6% HIDES. a ommercial traveler lying off (most of
Park Mills, No. 70..12 or OZ......--+. Green 6 Bb @7 lem are) heard a tre i is 7
Park Mills, No. 80..13 york, AA, extra 02. id TICKINGS. Paw eures es gigs ace W en: eo ae ec ae i 814 one on a les papaeage Re back _
: ot URRGK = Ri NN eee Nee ilcured. 334 é y iterview him
sian Amoskeag, ACA...13'4;Falls, XXXX....... 18% a cure 3 AG 8% oo ' :
; “44.19 IF OR 151 ry hides and kips...................., 8 @12 |The first thing aid was :
Alabama brown.... 7 |Alabama plaid..... 8 tee ad 2 4 ge Falls Se ae salf skins, green orcured......... WO GIS: |S : S he sald Was, of course:
n....... 9%| Augusta plaid...... 8 Bee Bl eeagee eaeeee nana Me 2 E Deacon skinS................+. ®@ piece20 @50 What line are you in?” “TI think it’s
eae ee n. “01% | 2 Toledo plaid % Amoskeag, Bo: 12 Falls, BBC, 36.. ..19% SHEEP PELTS. t 5 the
r row edo plaid........ 2 ‘alls, awning...... "| me alc ; ” ° ‘:
Es ee 914) ‘Manchester plaid.. 7 oo . oe eos, anna. 32. 18 i Shearlings or Summer skins # piece..10 @20 clothes line,” said the entangled intruder.
Lane brown........ 944, iNew Tenn. plaid...11 Jpeg on \Hamilton, D._..... 9% ny, Hall pelse 2) ee 30 @50_ | The drummer gave him a large order, and
Louisiana plaid.... 8 (Utility plaid........ 6% Amoskeag, F....... { 914 Hamilton, H.... .. 9% Hi Winter pelts........ tetera 100 @1 50 closed the transaction. The tramp: didiite
BLEACHED COTTONS. Premium A, £4....17° Hamilton fancy...10_, ae | Fine washed ®D............0...00e000 %@ 26| stay to ask for ti seca
Premium B... ....16 Methuen AA....... 13% ari Cu ee 18 *@2o | Sy to ask for time nor anything off. He
oS ag Hi eS Bes gine Ae 7 Wawenet ee cescae us 2-8 was off himself.
t cambrics, LL, 2-4... eee ee eee 4 a Cae et eee ae ie ee S|) ee eh) ee OR A ce ie, ROW ee 54@6 a8 °
oe BY) ey eae ioe Medal 44.. veeees tee ere Sete Mallow a a@ Referring to the episode related on the
Assaropoogetn, B41 Opes ie cain: | tee co lomena AGA AL 18 FRESH MEATS. first page under the title of “A Successful
Ballou, ot. ; oe a pric, A. ranee 11% RC 78 a M4 gnee a me eee a 3 Jobn Mohirhard quotes the trade as follows: Salesman,” the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter
oott, ee 2 | 9) eras Sos os WO. c eee e reer ceee- S 3 sevens 2 Pee ee meee wearer n ences 3 seofts as follov al a Ge B SI] 1 . .
Moptt, H.5-5........ 7% jLonsdale, 4-4....... $i4| A441. .........-.-3 _ Omega M. 7-8 ...... S Fresh Beef, hind quarters............ 8 @9 S 2 VS? osh! This episode
5, 4-4..... 914|Lonsdale cambric.11% | Cordis AAA, 32..... \Omega M, 4-4 seen 2d Dressed Hogs fe es a: @8 Ss a: Be
Boott, Rest oe 5 Langdon, GB, 4-4... 9% | Cordis ACA, 32... ib 'Shetucket SS&SSW 11% Mutton, carcasses...) 1.22 ey@ 7 | Never eventuated in the way our esteemed
Blackstone, AA 4-4, 7%|Langdon, 45........ 14 | Cordis No.1, Bo : Ce oe Weal. ee 9%@10 | contemporary relates it at all. The drum-
Chapman, X, 4-4.... 64%|Masonville, 4-4..... 9% Cordis NO:3...::... a“ Isto - oe 7 12 ROWS eo as 1I@16 mer hammered the stuffing out ofthe
Conway, 4-4... . .. 7%|Maxwell. 4-4........ 10% | Cordis No.3........ 13 | ockbridge A..... i Pork Sausage... i... 606s. 10 @10% 8 mer-
Cabot, 4-4......... : renee EAs se bd 10% | Cordis No.4........ 11% |Stockbridge frney. 8 Bolocna 7) a @10 | chant, as he ought to; then, while his clerks
Cabot, 7-8........--- 6%4|New Jersey, 4-4... GLAZED CAMBRICS 7. i. 2 :
» I ; AY : rere restoring hin
Temes, 98.000 nee ‘of the West. et Garner ............. 6 (Empire ............ eines fe The Gripsack Brigade. dpcinies ae ac — a ae
Dwight Anchor,4-4. 9 |Pocahontas, 4-4.... 8% | Hookset............ 5 Wa eenineton be soa 4% ' ! W. H. Down will spend “ fair week” in He pies by the
Davol, 4-4.......... 914|Slaterville, 7-8...... 6% Red Cross.......... 5 |Edwards............ i : ._ | merchant’s stove; and when the merchant
Fruit of Loom, 44.. 9 | Victoria, AA oc Forest Grove....... S.S. & Sons........ 5 a the city, and will be pleased to welcome his | , came to,’ sold him a bill of good d
Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 844|Woodbury, 4-4...... 3% GRAIN BAGS. customers at Spring & Company’s whole-|,,_ ; ods under
itof the Loom, |Whitinsville, 4-4... 7% : = ~ | threat of a repetiti i
corny mune Ts. 84| Miwa a4Whetand st EVERY LIVE DEALER SHOULD SELL THEM, |*292= 4 Sno sh ‘tenderfoot"&6 ou
Gold } oot oe: 2 7 Wamsutta, €: = oe peti ee a. te *|  W. W. Averill, of Coopersville, has taken | 47ummer was no such ‘tenderfoot’ as our
Gold Medal, 7-8..... 4,,Williamsville, 36...10% oo : : S aa i 2 contemporar ¢ ”?
Gilded Age......... 834 | Uae MwiieO..... This is the Most Practical Family Can ever Offered to the Trade. the position of traveling collector for the a P . y makes him out.
SILESIAS. Everett blue. ..... ip bene AXA...... Bs : ; Harrison Wagon Works. He is now on a} * lhe aughan, of Council Bluffs, Ia is
MOTOWD.. . 0202 2s s ecco 13 peas — cba bse oo. iS Soot ted Waren co Soaewa “10% Cannot he Excelled for Convenience Gleanlinass Comfort trip through Illinois: Pet upa scheme for a grand gathering
iO, 10....-.:2------ 3 asonville 8....... Cl ee ee sive maasirny sas ag ; - J.B. : : ‘ of commute : Z f
Weegee e es *|Lonsdale ........... gi, | Otis BB............. 11%4|York fancy........ 15 ; ; 2} Dr J. B. Evans is mourning the loss of a nercial travelers at Council Bluffs,
AnNGhOr.......-.... 5 Lonsdale A......... 16 PAPER CAMBRICS. scarf pin sent by the Magic Yeast Co., which | September 25, 26 and 27. The affair will be
Centennial......... Nictory O.......... Manville 6 1S.S8.&Sons 6 Lamps are filled direct by the Pump without lifting the Can; the Discharge tube adjusting was extracted from the letter by Billing in effect a commercial carnival. ‘The object
Blackburn ......... S (Victory.d....:...... Mas Se Sle ee ; |to suit the height of any lamp. : ate
gnville......... 6. |Garner..-.......... 6 g y p ; ae Mele is :
ern. ee 2K vist eae oe oe oe. No dropping oilon the floor or table. No faucet to leak or get knocked open to waste con- Clerk McBrien and by him presented to his| is to combine both business and pleasure.
Danonia ..........42 (PhoealxA.......... 19% : : tents or cause explosions. In getting can refilled, no parts to be left at home to drain oil over | best girl. A room, 200 feet long and 100 feet wide,
Red Cross,.....-.-. 10 Phoenix B......... ie Red Cross.......... ee MINS. .-.-++ g__| floor or become injured. No Corks to lose—Closes itself perfectly air tight—No Leakage—No| Graham Roys has returned from a two| has been fitted up especially for the occa-
Social Imperial....16 {Phoenix XX....... oo cee a rs Rose: 3. .5. 25... Pivanoention. months’ tour through Ohio and Indiana.|sion. Five thousand dollars have been
PRINTS. 3p: TTON. The dealer in selling this can is enabled to make a good profit, and in a measure avoid the i ‘ r : :
SPOOL CO a ; . : ' AL NaS ou He will attend the fair at Kalamazoo this | raised to defray expenses. One hundred
i i e ar 28 ustomer : . f
Albion, solid........ gg bs pte ic ieeeae ac Clarkes OMB 35 | Mills ball Sowing i ea oan maa esi Ce Oh ROSCOE LELT NESS week and the Grand Rapids fair next week, carriages and four bands of musie will be
Albion, grey........ oucestermourn’g. Reet oe a iels... : : i rj i = : .
Allen's’ checks..." ON eee Witch Meese MANUFACTURED BY “Pea ae i ic ey ed. oe morning there will be a
Ailen’s fancy....... ee a Willimantic 8 cord.40 (Stafford 35 P ’ Ty trav-} grand parade, followed by an exposition of
epink........- 6%|Merrimac D......... 6 3 : ee ee etna eres te pe : ? oe
Allen's purpie.....1.6%4 Manchester --....... Seen a ecene. s WINE IEID ME'G. CO., eler who is interested in the success of the] the travelers’ samples. It is proposed to
can, fancy Seeriontal Saney..., 00 | a IEORI -2-- -N  ION ORO eens +s 2 eoaitdadicn: Eh : : :
es Oriental robes......6% CORSET JEANS. WARREN, OFTIO. organization, should attend the regular | hold a conversational tournament, at which
j Berlinsolid......... 5% | Pacific robes........ 6 Armory ............ [4Yy\Kearsage........... 834 monthly meeting at Sweet’s Hotel Saturday prizes will be given to the traveler who ex-
& aes oo eR : Becol Miver EE: Bx, Androscoggin sat.. 84|Naumkeag satteen, 84 H. LEONARD & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS. | evening, September 27, as business of im-| els in fluency and felicity of expression
Soiectoan taney. 6 Si ee 6 | Canoe River........ 6 |Pepperell bleached 8%| FOR SALE TO THE TRADE BY FOSTER, STEVENS & CO behoe it ot : .
iy ee ropes --6 Was aon fancy,. | Clarendon, ........ 64|Pepperell sat....... 9% GEO. C. WETHERBEE & Co., DETROFE. © | POTMRes 8 0 come up for action. Medals will also be bestowed upon the man
ze Gagic fancy........- 5 |Washington blues..8 | Hallowell ee tareseee by A leading representative of the traveling | who tells the toughest yarn—open to every-
: MaEDOE PINE... ----- Laconia ............ 7% |\Conegosat.......... 7 |\Send for Circulars c& Price-Liist. | fratemity writes Taz Trapesman as fol-| one but John McIntyre—the fattest man,
q FINE BROWN COTTONS. lows: “Have you any knowledge of Max | the leanest, the homeliest, the most impu-
Appleton a, #4. a. ee re aa ee MISCELLANEOUS. Purely Personal, Didn’t Want His Whisky. Mills being a candidate for any office? The| dent, the handsomest and most modest
a #£x%Boott M, 4-4...-.... nal 7 OD. } j ; : : -
f poe Mi! er > on 16% W. T. Lamoreaux has gone to Detroit on| John McIntyre recently had a gathering | +eason I ask is that he seems to be paying &| The last two prizes will, of course, fall to
Continental C, 4-3. 73 Lyman B, 40-in..... 10% Advertisements of 25 words or less inserted business. of commercial travelers at his home out in reat deal of attention to the mechanics but ‘ meee .
Continental D, 40in 834 cos Hdd Wi cea, oe tae tcre as eee eene, & ) Grand Rapids men. But if the travelers

 

4 + | each and every insertion. One cent for each ee : : seems to show a preferance for Carpenters.” | assemble at Council Bluffs in anything like
® ee D. is... be —— igs = 4 additional word. Advance payment. Works, is in the city for a week, pushing the ment, he called two or three of the boys Nelson Bros. & Co.’s three travelers start | a fair proportion to their number, it is diffi-
< Dwight X,3-4...... 4 ewe E 3 wees 1% Dit MALiL-de Oeeasc, Bick einte and 4 goods of his house. aside and whispered to them: “Boys, if} out on Friday with three trunks apiece. Ed. | cult to see how that city can find accommo-
Dent Bet 4 poppers foe small stock of dry goods. Terms easy.| Geo. L. Medes, book-keeper for Jennings | you will go down cellar with me, I will give| Pp, Andrew goes direct to Milwaukee, and| dations for them anless i is angneasat
Dwight Star, 4-4.... 744 Pepperell 0, igs - O% Inquire of A. T. Thomas, Owosso, Mich. & Smith, has been spending a few days with | youa drink of the best whisky you ever | will spend some time among the Wisconsin | that sample beens are to be utilized as
Gntorpnse RE, 36. = By Poneto 44 “7 Wr ee salesmen jo pan- his parents at Coral. saw. Itis sour-mash whisky, hand-made | trade. N. S. Mc(onnell opens up at Fort} lodging houses. If this little matter can be
” oe rn e astaple line on commission. ress : ; A .
eee... a 6% eecnane i oe g | XXX, care The Tradesman. 50tf Vernor J. Jenks, clerk for M. M. Elder & | whisky, copper,bottomed whisky, and will Wayne, and will attend to the wants of the satisfactorily arranged, the carnival will
1... 6% Saranac E.......... ‘ ; ay : : ; ’ :
Indian Orchard, 4 7% ANTED—Position as clerk. book-keeper Co., general dealers at Spencer Creek, is ” electrify your whole system. It is old Indiana trade. Jas. Nelson will go to Bay| doubtless prove a grand success, A truly
DOMESTIC GINGHAMS. or pores salesman - _ utable | the city for a few days, the guest of his | whisky, too. Why, to my certain knowledge City, and make a tour of Saginaw Valley. { magnificent spectacle will be that mighty
Amoskeag ...... ... 8 |Renfrew, dress styl 9% Sinorienne tn oeeect Oe ee A idvoss Wen | brother-in-law, D. C. Underwood. that whisky has been in my possession} Ag there was not a quorum of members | host of travelers, radiant in gorgeous attire
“4 Amoskeag, Persian Johnson Manfg Co, Adkins, St. Johns, Mich. Ott W. N. Fuller, who has been connected | twenty-one years, and I don’t know how old i deli : ‘ a
resent, no meeting of Post A was held last
pe WIVICS oc c nse 0%| Bookfold......... 2% ‘ noe : ; 3 ; : Pp 5 8 and sparkling with diamonds, while rising
' OO ESI TELE 7% Johnson Manfg Co, OR SALE—I have a fine new store building _ es Pal les a gaat ed it was when I got it. Saturday evening. This was a severe disap-| from them, high and far away, will go a
Berkshire ......... $4 dress styles...... 12% dwelling house and 40 business and dwel- ence pids, 1 “I don’t want any of that whisky,” said ointment to Vice-President Mills, who had . a :
paw eee. aS Matesv ile, dress ; ling lots in Elmira for sale on easy terms. D. | that he can better serve the interests of his Hank Fairchild Pp » WHO had | sound of many voices to which the mighty
gow checks, f’y OIE, oo sos es ecs Ind ood. i i a ' i > ti i = : ae
j i t a 8 White Mie Go fant 5 oe i aaa I have 80 acres of choice Sil aud tae tonediaeiy speued. aiciiee ts “Why not?” asked McIntyre ae ee cc Sg capaho amedia denies
*F styles...... 1ite * ig ; Ca ane eee m1] Q
f ican, new (White Mant’g Co, hard wood land lying within three and a | conjunction with the Eaton, Lyon & Allen} “Because,” said Fairchild, “any whisky tices, and was prepared to surprise his rane impotent squeak of a penny trumpet.
* standard ......... %| Earlston.......... 8% ot — oe ae oo, — 2 Printing Co. Mr. Fuller is an experienced | you have had in your possession for twenty- ; Sere aed oe
os 13 gordon. peers dress? | Wino eStange tor city lots in Grand. ‘Rapids or | and competent engraver, and will undoubted- | one years without drinking isn’t worth a| by the aptitude with which he could handle| Bangor dealers are shipping. potatoes to
{ Langdale.......... | styles ..... ......12%| sell on reasonable terms. D. C. Underwood. | ly receive the lion’s share of the patronage. | d—n!” gatherings of that character. Chicago in car lots.

 

 
 

 

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The Michigan Tradestel.

The Sentiment of a Thinking Dealer.
Sr. Ienace, Sept. 11, 1884.
Editor “Michigan Tradesman.”

DEAR Smm—I like the: weekly visits of
THe TRADESMAN, and admire your treat-
ment of those dealers who sell anything for
less than it can be bought and paid for at
wholesale, whether it be advertising space,
sugar, or anything else. 1 think the stand
you have taken on these subjects is right.
Your editorial on “prompt paying” is j ust the
thing, but one great hindrance to that very
desirable end is our retail customers’ failure
to pay us. I am seriously thinking of sell-
ing only for cash, or its equivalent, and buy-
ing for cash on the arrival of goods accord-
ing to agreement; and, above all, only buy
what I want, notwithstanding a farm, sew-
ing machine, gold watches, ete. are thrown
in as an inducement to buy largely. The
quality most needed by dealers of the pres
ent time is grit enough o say NO. With
kind regards, GEO. COOKE.

 

 

Good Words Unsolicited.

Hichteock & Putnam, general dealers,
Northport: ‘Well worth any man’s $.7?

A. L. Vandercook, Mason: “THE TRADES-
MAN is the best paper for business men that
I have ever had the pleasure of reading.”

C. Strobe, general dealer, Eerrysburg:
“Can’t do business without it. The paper
should be in every business office. Wish
you all the success possible.”

—_—< 2
Movements of the Michigan Trade.

Not a vacant store in Marshall.

Alma is to have a cheese factory.

J. S. Daniels has re-opened a meat market
at Lowell.

The Hillsdale canning factory is doing a
rushing business.

A big box factory is to be established at
Bay City by R. J. Briscoe.

Reid & McCracken, marble dealers, have
removed from Adrian to Detroit.

The Ohio paper mill at Niles is putting in
anew water wheel and making other re-
pairs.

The Kalamazoo Canning Co. is putting
up 10,000 cans of corn and tomatoes
daily.

Damon Stewart, dealer in woolen goods at
Flint, has failed. Wm. A. Burr is the as-
signee.

L. C. Madison, general dealer at Boyne
Falls, has removed his stock and business to
East Jordan.

H. CG. Haskins, the Clayton produce dealer,
has 37,000 apple barrels, which he will fill
during the season.

C. A. Warren’s general store at Orono was
burned on the 10th. Loss about $9,000, in-
surance one-half.

Goodrich & Guinan, the Ann Arbor hat-
ters, make a showing of $2,000 liabilities,
and $4,500 assets.

- It is said that a barrel factory will be put
- into one of the Upton shops at Battle Creek
as soon as the shop is vacated.

-Ringman & Hazard is the name of a new

eral jobbing establishment in Adrian.

McCarthy & Hull, of Vermontville, met
with very heavy loss by the burning of their
large tobacco factory in Ashville, N. C.

Dealers purchasing supplies of field seeds
should consult the Grand Rapids Seed Co.’s
_ quotations, in another part of this week’s
paper.

J. J. Granger and P. Oberson have pur-
chased the boot and shoe stock of Crowner
‘& Hunter, at Saranac, and will continue the
"business. The new firm will be known as
Granger & Oberson.

en ae _
A Preacher Who Was “Clean
Overcoat Buttons.

An evangelist from the far East made a
tour to Texas recently for the purpose of
saving some of the desperate denizens of
the Lone Star State. He opened his first
meeting in what is known in the State as a
“tough town.”
male citizens comprised the audience. After
the good man had discoursed a little and
sung several hymns, he requested that a
collection be taken up to carry him further
into the State. A tall and fierce-looking
Texan, armed to the nape of his neck, pas-
sed the sombrero around, with the significant
remark:

“Guy liberal, boys: you’ve seen the show,
and we ain’t the men to beat any showman.”

The result was thatevery man contributed
something, and when the hat was passed to
the evangelist he examined the contents, and
then remarked:

“J Gnd in this hat four dollars, fifteen cents,
and two overcoat buttons.”

“That ain’t a square deal,” yelled the
fierce man who had taken up the collection,
as he mounted the chair. “The man who
put them buttons in the hat will redeem
them at fifty cents a piece, or there’ll be
h——1 here in the toss of a cent.”

“Make no disturbance, my friend,” plead-
ed the evangelist, holding the supposed but-
tons in full view. “I will——”

A shout and considerable laughter cut off
the evangelist’s remark, and the tall man,
without dismounting from the chair said:

“Mr. preacher man, you'r clean off on over-
coat buttons. Them ain’t no buttons; them
are chips, good for fifty cents’ worth of
licker in any gin-mill this side of the Rio
Grande. They’ll also get you cooked grub,
stranger, ef yer appetite needs it.”

The explanation was satisfactory, and the
meeting closed.” -

ete, Ait ec
S. J. Wing and J. M. Neasmith, of Vicks-
burg, and J. C. MeCausey, cashier of the
‘Union City National Bank, have opened a
bank under the State law, at Vicksburg with
$30,000 capital.

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firm who will open a jewelry store and gen-j| «

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W7holesale,

BATON, LYON & ALLEN,

22 and 24 Canal Street,

The only general jobbing house in
Michigan in our line. Send for cata-
logues and terms.

DYSTERS!

ON DECK—1884.

WM. L. ELLIS & CO.’S

 

 

 

BRAND

Baltimore Oysters !

Fat and full count. Special express and
express rates to all points in Michigan, either
from Baltimore or Chicago house. Our oysters
are opened and canned fresh from the well-
known Nanticoke beds. No slack filled or
fresh water snaps sent out. Dealers can have
their orders filled promptly by addressing B.
F. EMERY, Agent, Grand Rapids(at home
every Saturday).

Grand Rapids Wire Works
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WHOLESALE

FISHING TACKLE
21 PEARL STREET,
GRAND RAPIDS va
AGENTS FOR

Du PONT’S Gunpowder.

; The lowest market prices for Sport-
ing, Blasting and Cannon Powder guaranteed

MICH.

 

PLEASANT TO TAKE, ACTS MILDLY, CU RES QuicKLy

DUNHAM'S SURE CURE FOR FEVER & AGUE.

7One Dose taken during the Chil,
arrests the disease in 20 minutes,

NEVER ENOWN TC FAIL. Money re-
turned if it does not cure. Price,
50c. Ask druggist for it. Sent pre-
gy ee for 60 cts. Address, WESTERN

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WESTERN MEDICINE €0.S TONIC LIVER PILLS.
Purely Vegetable; contain no calomel, minera!
poison or quinine. Act directly on the Liver, ‘‘tone
Seay’ the system, aid digestion and
urify the blood. POSITIVELY CURE
IMEDICINE| DACHE AND CONSTIPATION. In-
errr valuable for Biliousness, Indiges-
\eumeneenig tion, Hypochondria, etc. Sent free

mica on receipt of price, 25 cts. Sample
y seine free. WESTERN MEDICINE
: M?ANY., Grand Rapids, Mich.

STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.
A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO
: CHEMICALS

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MUSKEGON BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

S, §. MORRIS & BRO.

PACK EEtS
—AND—

Jobbers of Provisions,
CANNED MEATS AND BUTTERS.

Choice Smoked Meats a Specialty.

 

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Street.

W.D.CARHY & CO.

Successérs to Carey & Lander,

GENERAL:

Cemmission Merchants

—AND JOBBERS 0F—

Fruits and Produce.
ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. BEST GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES.

Klme’s Patent Candler and Ego Carrier.

The Best on the Market.
Can be made any Size, Round or Square, with any Capacity. State Territory
for Sale by G. C. SAYLES, Sole Agent for the United States, P. O. Box 1978,
Muskegon, Mich.

ANDREW WIERENGO,

Wholesale

GROCER

WIERENGO NEW BLOCK

 

 

 

Pine Street - -

GROWERS

MUSKEGON
BASKET FACTORY:

Is now in full operation manufacturing all
kinds of

Quality Guaranteed. FRUIT PACKAGES, BIG.

ORCUTT & COMPANY,

WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION

Butter, eos, Cheese, Fruit, Grain, Hay, Bee! Pork, Prodics

MUSKEGON , MICH.

Muskegon, Mich.

 

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Consignments Solicited.

MUSKEGON NOVELTY IRON WORKS

Manufacturers of the

Williams’ Patent Novelt Pipe Wrench

Best, Strongest and Most Durable Made.

 

We also build Mill and Marine Engines and Boilers and conduct a General Machine
Shop, Blacksmith, Foundry and Boiler Shop Business. 361 Western Avenue.

Choice Butter a Spectalty

BANANAS, LEMONS, CALIFORNIA FRUITS,
EGGS, CHEESE, VEGETABLES, APPLES.

Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders.

MC, Russell, 48 Ottawa St., 6’d Rapids,
CLARK, JEWELL & CO,

WHOLESALE

Groceries and Provisions,

83, 85 and 87 PEARL STREET and (14, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET,

 

 

   

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IMPORTERS

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Wholesale Grocers,

Cor. Ionia & Island Sts., Grand Rapids.

 

New Japans.

We invite the special attention of the trade to several large invoices of the new crop
of 1884-5 Japan Teas, including all grades of Pan Fired, Basket Fire and Sun Cured, and
embracing about 1,200 chests in all, which we have recently received per the Pacific
Steamers San Pablo and City of Rio de Janeiro. These Teas are positively our own im-
portation, and we believe we are safe in saying that they are the first Teas ever im-
ported to this market direct from Japan.

They are selected with a view to the wants of Michigan trade and our friends will de
well to send for samples and quotations before buying new ‘Teas.

Soaps.

Again we remind the Trade that we are the Sole Agents in this market for the well-
known and popular Soaps of LAUTZ BROS. & CO., Buffalo, N. Y. Below we mention
a few of their best-known brands:

Acme, Towel, Napkin, Best American,
Palma, Shamrock, Nickel, White Marseilles.
White Cotton Oil, Gem, Stearine, Boss,

Blue Danube, Lautz Soap, Savon Republique,
Master, ete.

These goods we sell regularly at the Manufacturers’ Prices, and deliver them in 16:
box lots and upwards to all rail points in Michigan, freight prepaid. Please send for price-

lists and samples. See quotations on Grocery Page.

Starch.

We are also the Sole Agents here for the NIAGARA STARCH WORKY’ Starch, of
Butfalo, N. Y., which we sell at the manufacturers’ prices, freights prepaid on all
shipments of 10 box lots and upwards to all railroad points in Michigan. Send for
price lists. See prices on Grocery page of this paper.

Value Cigars.

We have received the agency for the new Value Cigar, the best five cent on earth,
and are prepared to furnish every merchant who buys the same with presents for every
purchaser of a single cigar, consisting of elegant Seth Thomas clocks, fine meerschaum
and briar pipes, gold and silver plated tobacco and match boxes, ete., ete. These cigars
we furnish to the trade at $35 at 1,000, in lots of 1,000. Express prepaid on all mail or-
ders. Send in your orders for a trial lot of 1,000.

Fancy Groceries.

We carry not only a complete line of staple goods, but also a full assortment of every-
thing in the Fancy Grocery department, and are now considered headquarters in this line.
Please send for Circulars and Price-lists relative to this department. Parties desiring new
stocks will find it to their decided advantage to come and see us before purchasing.

Crosse & Blackwell’s English Pickles. Curtis Bros.’ Salad Dressing.
Lea & Perrins’ English Sauce. Durkee & Co.’s ‘ _

Mottled German,

Holford’s ° : A. Lusk & Co,’s California Peaches.
Piccadilly : e « * Green Gages.
Colman’s ‘*  Mustand. “ “Apricots.
James Epps’ ‘Breakfast Cocoa. as “ Egg Plums.
Choice Brands of French Peas. 6 “ Pears.

a «© Mushroons. s s Quinces.

e Italian Macarroni, 1 fb pkg. . “© Grapes.

. “  Vermicella. . ‘© Cherries.

China Preserved Ginger, all size jars,

Queen Olives, 16 0z* and 27 oz. bottles.
Knowles & Anderson’s Jams and Jellies.

French Capers, genuine imported in bottle.
Choicest Salad Oil, Antonini & Co., Leghorn.

We are sole agents for the Rochester Ready Cooked Food Co.’s Desicated and Cooked
Oat Meal, Hominy, Wheat, Beans and Peas. Send us a trial order for these goods. Alr
correspondence and mail orders receive prompt attention.

HDS, BULKLAY & LEMON

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