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** STORE-KEEPIN’ ”’
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
Joseph Watson and George
were busy digging potatoes.
September weather, and, their farms
joining each other, it was, perhaps,
natural that the neighbors had exchanged
work so that they might have a better
opportunity to talk to each other.

FARMERS.

They had been farmer boys, and each |
| had,

years before, pre-empted a home-
stead of a quarter section. Each
had from fifty to sixty acres under good
cultivation; the balance was a wilder-
ness. The land was what is known as
‘chard timbered,” the soil a gravelly
loam, which needed, practically, nothing
but a fair amount of water and attention
to make it yield abundant crops. It so
happened, however, that the men had
located a long distance from any market.
The roads were new and rough, and the
cost of producing the crops seemed to be
in excess of the income.

At that period railroads were few in
number, and the nearest shipping point
was fully fifteen miles distant; but,
within five years, from a little ‘‘four
corners’’ in the woods, with one small
hotel, a general store and a blacksmith’s
shop, a village of 3,000 people had sprung
up and was still ina flourishing condition.
The two neighbors were often there to-
gether, selling their produce and pur-
chasing their family supplies. Judging
only from what they saw, the two men
believed that everyone engaged in sell-
ing merchandise, of any kind whatsoever,
possessed a gold mine which never failed
to yield immense returns. They often
held long conversations on the subject of
‘“*‘keeping a store,’’ and had about con-
cluded that more money could be made
in five years in that business than ina
life time on their farms.

‘‘Joe,’? said Holden, resting a moment
on the handle of his hoe, ‘‘you say we
can’t start a general store with less than
$2,000 cash. You know you andI hev
talked this thing over, and we concluded
we wouldn’t part with our farms, as they
are paid for. We don’t owe a dollar—
leastwise, I don’t. I reckon $600
or $700 cash is all we could both raise

Now,

also |

jest now, arter these pertaters is dug and |

marketed. And, now, what’ud be your
plan to raise the rest o’ the money?”’

‘‘We can raise the money, George, and |
“I sup- |

keep the farms,’’ said Watson.
pose you know that Judge Williams is
loanin’ money for York State men, don’t
you? He offers to let me have $800 at 9
per cent. and take a mortgage on my
place, if I would agree to let it run ten
years. You see they want to loan money
on long time, and that would be so much
the better for us. He has plenty more
to lend, and 1 think would let you have
it if you say the word. What do you
say?”

‘Somehow, Joe, 1 don’t like the idee
o’ puttin’ a plaster on a feller’s
stid,’’ said Holden.

| ginners.

|

‘Fact is, wife asked

me last night if I had thought about |

doin’ that to raise the money. You see,
she was a schoolmarm afore

her,

I

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JAN (UARY 7, 1891.

Holden
It was fine

NO. 381.

| mortgages and figures and interest and
|sich ain’t wuth a cent. I’m afraid she
won’t consent to put her name onto a
mortgage. She says, ‘interest will eat
us up,’ that it’s like old Pundason’s
horse—eats nights as well as days.’ She
says, ‘mebby you and Joe won’t do as
well as them old store keepers in town’;

; and she finds a great many excuses for

|

 

not leavin’ the farm, and, you see, I
should hev to rent it.’’
‘“‘Here we are, George, at the end of

the row,’’ exclaimed Watson. ‘Let us
sit down here and talk a while. We must
not sell our farms—might sumpun _ hap-

pen, you know. We’ll just raise a little
money on them for a few years; then, if

we don’t like the business, we can go
back home. I am convinced, George,
that the profits of store-keepin’ are very
large, and the work seems easier than
farming; and, then, I want my wife to
take life a little easier. I tell her that
she works like a slave now. In town,
she won’t have any milk or butter to
take the eare of, nor half the work to do
that she has on the farm. You must talk
to your wife a little, George, and show
her how much easier it will be for you
both, and that you will not come home
at night so tired that she will be kept
awake for hours by your groanin’ with a
lame back.”’

‘‘My wife’s pretty sharp, Joe, and she
says that merchants don’t make more
than a cent and a half a pound on some

kinds of groceries, for instance, sugar:
that store-keepin’ won’t be all smooth

sailin’; that we won’t know how to buy
well, aud that $2,000 won’t buy much of
a stock of goods, anyway.’’

“Oh, pshaw, George! I know how to
manage all about that buyin’ bizness.
I’ve had along talk with Ben Higgins,
who travels for a big Chicago house.
You know Ben’s father? He lived ona
farm in this township years ago. He’sa
big lumber dealer now and owns several
farms in Michigan. l’ve been acquainted
with Ben from a boy, and he lets me into
the secrets of the trade. He says that,
by payin’ ‘the house’ $2,000 cash, we can
hev $500 or $1,000 more, on sixty day’s
time. So, you we can have all the
goods we want; and Ben also told me he
would select the stock for us and
wouldn’t charge a cent for doin’ so, and
it would save usatrip to Chicago. He
says that we mustn’t expect to make
large profits on groceries, but that they
will always advertise the other goods,
and, as he recommends us to keep a gen-
eral stock, why, you know we shall have
everything a man or woman could want.
He cautions, also, against expectin’ to
become rich in a few years—says that the
business is all right if we work for trade
and do not credit too much. He thinks
that is the greatest danger with new be-
‘Of course,’ said he, ‘you will

see,

| have to be economical and not put on too
hum- |

much style.’ As his father is an old
friend of our family, he says that ‘the
house’ will permit him to give us special

| prices and that we shall save a good per-

married |
and what she don’t know about| always said George—‘A penny saved is

centage by that. You know what I’ve

 

2

two earned.’? And the man laughed at}
his own joke. ‘‘And, now,’’ continued |
he, ‘‘let us get these potatoes out of the
ground as soon as possible, place 100 |
bushels in the basement of our store for |
the retail trade, dispose of the balance |
for cash and then get into town and to.
business before bad weather sets in.”’

2 &

‘“‘We had a rather stormy time over to |
dur house last night, Joe,”’
Holden to his neighbor, about two weeks |
after the conversation about embarking |
in trade.

‘‘What do you mean, George?
thing going wrong?

“To speak the plain truth, Joe, my
wife won’t sign the mortgage, nor con-|
sent in any way to my leaving the farm
and goin’ into trade.”

‘“‘Well, well! I vow! Things have
taken an unexpected turn,” replied Joe. |
“Did you offer her a print dress or |
semething if she would sign it? You |
know it is customary to present a woman
something of value when she signs away
her marriage rights.”

“Oh, yes, | offered her the best dress
she would pick out, but she only said,
‘Dresses are not worth much, George,
after one signs away a home, and you
may as well understand once for all that
1 shall never write my name upon a
mortgage of any real estate we may
own.’ ”

‘“‘Well, in that case, what do you in-
tend to do?’’ queried Watson.

“There’s only one thing I can do, Joe.
| shall hev to stay onthe farm, and you
ean be the store-keeper. I will surely
be one of your customers and will do

said George |

}

Any-|

what I ean for you, but I’ve got to back
right out of this whole thing.”

“All right, George,’ answered Wat-
son. ‘Of course, I’m sorry you can’t go
in with me, but ’m goin’ ahead with a
store if 1 have to go alone.

2 @

Joseph Watson had now been in busi-
ness in the village of Borden about two |
years. He had opened with a stock of
goods costing $1,800 upon which $1,000
was paid in cash at once, and there were

 

many favorable conditions which prom-

- ray *
ised success. The season had been a

prosperous one, apparently, for all}

classes. Farmers’ produce was high in
price and was wanted, both at home and |
ab-oad. He had at first secured the ser-|
vices of an experienced clerk, and his
goods being all new and fresh, the store
presented a very attractive appearance.
As at first a new broom is said to ‘“‘sweep
clean,” his store had its full share of
custom, although he soon discovered that
he had paid too much for his goods and
that his brother merchants were enabled |
to sell the same articles at much lower |
prices. This fact,
apparent to his customers, and there be- |
gan to be a falling off of the class that |
invariably paid cash. Those who desired
credit hardly ever asked about the price |
and continued to patronize him. The |
aay of payment seemed so far away that |
it occasioned them no anxiety. Mr. Wat-|

also, soon became |

 

THE

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Should payment be demanded, his failure |

would be inevitable.

He could not see |

where the profits of his business had |

gone.

To be sure, he had been obliged |

to sell some goods at or below cost, in |

order to compete with his
perienced and prosperous neighbors, and

that he had constantly paid more than}
| he ought for goods he was certain. He

had not at first intended to give much
credit, but many of his customers were
his old neighbors and acquaintances and
as they paid cash when they had any he
could not refuse them goods when their
purses were empty.
found that 15 per cent. of his accounts
were totally worthless and 20 per cent.
more were doubtful and that not more
than 25 per cent. of the best of them

|eould be collected. if enforced payment

was at once made. Mr. Watson had also
made one fatal error which inexperienced
merchants often do—he had divided
his patronage among too many firms. It
is always a suspicious circumstance when
a merchant who is considerably indebted
to one firm is noticed purchasing the
same kind of goods and paying cash from
others. His heretofore good credit would
be impaired atonce. If all Mr. Watson’s
indebtedness had now been to one house
only, that one would in all probability
have carried him along until collections
could have been made, but now all were
pressing for their money and $240 divid-
ed among four or five firms was not
satisfactory, so that he must either sell
the farm to save his business, or an
assignment must be made at once. A
preliminary survey had been made for a
railway, parallel with the road through
Borden, but about sixteen miles farther

ito the West, running near Joseph Wat-

son’s farm. This step in the direction
of improvement in that part of the
country he had fondly hoped would cause
arise in real estate which for the past
vear had gone lower than before, as a
late rumor that the projected railroad
might not be constructed had caused a
depression in farming lands and only
having first-class improvements
were salable. In this emergency of his
affairs, Mr. Watson consulted his friend
and neighbor, Mr. Holden, who had re-
mained on his farm. Mr. Holden, al-

those

| though an illiterate man, was a kind and

good neighbor, and a good practical
farmer with no bad habits, and bles:ed
with a wife who was gifted with the best
common sense, well educated, intelligent
and thoughtful, and who had been a true
helpmate and adviser ever since their
marriage.

“Well, Joe,’? answered George Holden,
after listening to a recital of his mercan-
tile ventures, and his present embarrass-
ments, ‘‘I was dredfully disa’pinted an’
mighty cross at Lucy ’cause she wouldn’t
sign that mor’gage an’ let me take hold
with ye in the store business. But then,
I guess it was better that she set her foot
down agin’ it, as ’ve made more money
on the farm than you hev in the store.
That wife o’ mine, Joe, sees clear through
one year and ’way into the next one,

eyery time. At first I kinder thought

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good oats at fifty-five cents a bushel piles
up money fast. Lucy struck it that time
if she ever did, don’t you think so, Joe?’’

It was ‘“‘gall and wormwood’’ to Wat-
son to listen to the ‘‘fool luck,’’ as he
called it, of Geo. Holden and contrast it
with his unsuccessful store- keeping, and
he wished to hear no more about Lucy,
and changed the subject at once. ‘‘Is it
not possible, George, for you to buy my
farm?” interrupted Mr. Watson. ‘‘I must
now sacrifice somewhere, and-if I can
sell my farm and save the store, wife
and I will be satisfied. I will take less
for the farm now than I ever would be-
fore. It is worth more to you than any
one else, as our lands join, andif you
will assume the mortgage of $800 and
pay me $1,000 in cash, you may have it.

“I wouldn’t like to‘take that price fer
my farm, Joe,” replied Mr. Holden, ‘‘an’
I hate to lose you fer a neighbor, but ef
you’ve made up your mind to sell the
land and stick to store-keepin’, I'll take
the farm at your figgers. The timber on
your land is growin’ in price every year,
and it will pay me to keep it.”

Within the following two weeks after
this conversation, George Holden placed
the deed on record, giving him a clear
title to his neighbor’s farm of 160 acres,
with all the improvements thereon, and
Mr. Watson was in quiet possession of
his business in Borden, although not yet

entirely free from debt.
+t & #

The sudden death of a relative called
me to a distant state where business
compelled me to remain for a period of
nearly three years. I occasionally saw
a commercial trayeler who had stopped
at Borden and who could give me some
account of Mr. Watson’s business, but
he knew little of the country farther
West, near the scenes of my boyhood,
except that he had heard of a village
ealled Lucile, which was lately attract-
ing considerable attention. My business
since the death of my relative had been
purchasing agent for a manufacturing
company, which required large quantities
of red and white oak lumber, and as I
was one day preparing for a journey
South to purchase a few carloads of that
desirable wood, who should step off the
ears but my friend, George Holden, the
farmer? We greeted each other warmly
and I insisted upon his going home with
me and remaining over night. George
was far more corpulent than when I last
saw him, was more fashionably dressed
and much improved in both personal and
general appearance. I thought of his
school-teacher wife in a moment and how
much that woman had done for him. He
was just returning from Denver, where
he had been with a carload of butter,
eggs and poultry. Of course, I obtained
a budget of news from him concerning
all my relatives and acquaintances in his
vicinity.

“The T. & A. G. Railroad, first sur-
veyed so long ago,” said George, ‘‘has at
last been built, and we are now joined
with the out-side world. I say we, as
that track runs right across the 160 acres
I bought from Joe Watson. I gave the
company two acres of land if they would
build a station on my farm and agree
that all passenger trains should stop
there for ten years tocome. Then Lucy
took it into her head that there would be
money in layin’ out twenty or thirty acres
of the farm for a village an’ as she is
most allers right, 1 consented, got a sur-
veyor an’ blocked it out. Lucy was

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

always good at drawin’—guess I told you |

she kept school once in ae Wells dee- | Heyman

strict, didn’t I—so she mapped out the |
village before I got the surveyor, and it
had to go as she fixedit. She laid out
every street 100 feet wide and every lot
100 x 150 feet with alleys back of every
lot 20 feet wide. As true as you}
live, Frank, it is the prettiest laid
out village you ever looked at. Wife

had just been readin’ a book called ‘‘Lu- |

cile,’’? and nothin’ would do but our vil-

lage must hev that name, an’ it sounded

so much like Lucy that I agreed to it.

So, when the first tavern was built, 1 |

presented the landlord with a gilt sign
readin’,

and as fine a buildin’
What am [ doin’ now?” did you ask.
“Why, I’m farmin’ yet, and speculatin’
some. I hire most of my work done,
and kind of lay ’round myself an’ over-
see it and I go West with a carload of |
produce occasionally.

pshaw! I mustallers hev something to
do. Goin’ after lumber,

the South?
that cuts 25,000 feet every day when it
runs, and I can fill a few cars for you
with the oak you want, either green or
dry.”

The result was that I visited the old
familiar place once more and had the
satisfaction of purchasing a quantity of

hardwood lumber from my friend Hol- |

den, which proved only the beginning of
along, remunerative business for both
parties interested. I enjoyed a good visit
with Mr. Holden and his family, whom I
found in a fine new residence, surround-
ed with all the comforts and luxuries
that money could furnish. A_ thriving
village of 600 inhabitants occupied a
portion of his two farms and Lucile bids
fair to yet be the home of thousands of
people. I had occasiom to visit Borden
and called upon Mr. Watson, who is now
a fairly prosperous merchant, although
he never ceases to regret having been
obliged to part with his old home and
farm. He gave me quite a lecture upon
the folly of any man mortgaging any
good farm, and leaving it to embark in
a new business with which he is unac-
quainted. He believes that a practical
knowledge of any mercantile business is
quite necessary before engaging in it,
and adds that hisown tuition has been
gained at a cost of thousands of dollars.
He also believes that a far greater num-
ber of persons succeed in life by remain-
ing persistently in the same _ locality
where they begin business than those
who move from place to place, looking

in vain for more desirable situations.
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AMONG THE TRADE.

AROUND THE STATE.
Bay City—The White Pine Kindling
Co. has gone out of business.

Detroit—John Dick succeeds John

Dick & Son in the undertaking business. |
Mancelona—S. Ladauceur has opened a |

harness
mon.

shop.

Edmore— Frank Dreese has removed |
his dry goods stock from Stanton to this |

place
Muskegon—P. M. Coale

meat market on Apple street to D. Van-

dermade.
Detroit—Chas.

has sold his

R. Bryson has sold his

cigar and tobacco business to Geo. E.
Patterson.

Galesburg—W. G. Smith succeeds W.
J. Smith & Co. in the boot and shoe
business.

Pierpont—C. W. Perry has put ina
sawmill to run in connection with his
grist mill.

Seottville—Sylvester Lattin has sold

his grocery and hardware stock to Reed |
& Burghdorf.

Stanton—Trim & McGregor have sold!

their dry goods stock to Geo. M.
late of Lansing.

Kalamazoo—A. W. Rowley has sold
his stock of agricultural implements to
Preston F. Hackley.

Cheboygan —- A. L. Fexer succeeds
Fexer & Barr in the jewelry, book and
stationery business.

Coopersville—E. F. Tuxbury has as-
signed his clothing and boot and shoe
stoek to C. C. Lillie.

Eaton Rapids—Reynolds Bros.
sold their dry goods stock to Jonas
che, of Cleveland, Ohio.

Otisco—The assignee advertises
the general stock of Wm. J.
publie sale on the 7th.

Detroit—Mumford, Foster & Co., whole-

Dayton,

have
Man-

to sell
Snyder at

sale leather and findings, are succeeded |

by E. D. Foster & Co.
Cedar Run—Joseph Powell, general
dealer, died on the 3d from injuries re-
ceived in a runaway the day before.
Harbor Springs—J. L. Thompson has
sold his stock of boots, shoes

Branch.
Stanton—E. G. Curtis, late of Mt.
Pleasant, has purchased the Wagar |

store building and will shortly put in a
grocery stock.

Kalamazoo—John Gibb has sold his in-

He hails from Roscom- |

and grocer- |
ies to Cummings & Sicklesteel, of North |

manage the grocery stock lately put in,

by S. Nolls & Co.

Midland—Just for a joke a local store- | ty

keeper chalked up a sign ‘‘%{ off.” A
/ woman came in, bought a dollar’s worth
of goods and threw down 25 cents. When
she refused to see the joke, the store-
| keeper took the sign down.

St. Ignace—J. H. Steinburg has pur-
chased the interest of his father in the
dry goods and clothing firm of J. Stein-

ness on his own account. The former

| senior member of the firm has long been

engaged in trade at Traverse City.
Bailey—Mrs. Sophronia Porter, moth-

erin-law of A. W. Bailey, dealer
| in drugs and hardware, died |
‘at the family residence here Thurs-

day evening, at the age of 76 years.
| Death came suddenly while the deceased |
| was sitting in a chair, conversing with |
|friends. The funeral and_ interment
| oceurged at Ravenna on Sunday,
ceased having also been a mother-in-law
jof W. P. Conklin, the general dealer
| there.

MANUFACTURING MATTERS.

i

| St. Charles—J. Freeman has purchased
| J. C. Shaver’s saw and shingle mill,
| near this place.

Detroit— Lewis
the Lewis Cart Co.
of spring seat bars.

Otsego—C. D. Stuart & Co. suc-
ceeded in the manufacture of chairs by
the Otsego Chair Co.

Williamsburg—D. Vinton & Son are
building an addition to their sawmill and
adding to its equipment.

Gladwin—Cook & Cunningham are
succeeded by J. H. Cook, Jr., in the saw
and planing mill business.

Greenviile—R. J. Tower has purchased
the H. M. Fuller creamery and will re-
| Sums operations in the spring.
Menominee— The Menominee Hard-
| wood & Shingle Co. has been incorpora-
| ted with a capital stock of $50,000.

Interlochen—E. E. Benedict has leased
| his sawmill to L. F. Hale for a term of
years for one-third of the net profits.
Sault Ste. Marie—H. B. Nease, Son &
| Co., of Saginaw, have completed their
| planing mill and will soon begin opera-

& Hampton succeed

in

is

| tions.

Edgewater—The McDonald Lumber Co.
| is putting in considerable hardwood logs
|

| around the.lake and will tow them to the

‘mill to be sawed.

terest in the drug and book firm of Per-
| has purchased a complete outfit of saw-
| mill machinery having a capacity to cut

kin & Gibb to his partner, who will con-
tinue the business.

Bronson—D. W. Post, of the firm of
Kean & Post, produce shippers, died on
the 2nd. He was a war veteran and had
been sick a long time.

Cadillac—Wm. Hodges and W. W.
Hodges have formed a copartnership un-
der the style of Wm. Hodges & Son and
engaged in the commission business.

Belding—H. P. Whipple has sold his
dry goods stock to H. T. M.
who will remove his stock from Grand

Ledge and consolidate it with the stock |

here.

Petoskey—Hankey & Foreman have
purchased the lumber plant of the De-
troit Lumber Co.
6,000,000 or 7,000,000 feet of lumber the
coming season.

Sethton—G. I. who

Hall, recently |

sold his dry goods and grocery stock to) lands of the J. E. Potts Lumber Co. for | | brother,

J. W. Waldon, has

; Lumber Co.’s
Sibley & Bearinger, of Saginaw.

Roscommon—The Alpena Lumber Co.

60,000 feet daily.

East Tawas—The East Tawas Salt &
Ss property has been sold to
The

'terms were private.

West Troy—Seth S. Watrous has re-

| tired from the firm of Watrous & Basford,

| general merchandise.

Treglown, |

manufacturers of shingles and dealers in |
The business will |
be continued under the style of F. A.

| Basford & Son.

}

and expect to handle}

Nessen City—John Nessen is logging |

3;000,000 feet of pine and hemlock for |
‘Sinha & Kennedy, of Chicago, and will
put in about 1,000,000 feet of hardwood
for himself, which will give him all the}
stock he wants for his mill here.

Oscoda—-John McDougal, the land-|
looker who has been looking over the pine

been engaged to | the assignees, estimates the aediita deed garded it for a time.

berg & Son and will continue the busi- |

the de-|

of the company at over 300,000,000 feet,
| including two tracts in Presque Isle coun-
where a railroad will be necessary to
| handle it. There is a large quantity of
hardwoods on the Potts lands. McDou-
gall’s estimate is higher than that of men
| who looked over the pine for Alger & Co.,
\their estimate being about 250,000,000
feet.

Cheboygan—A Pennsylvania concern
has secured a 40 acre tract for a tannery
site, also options on 100;000 acres of hem-
|lock. It also has options on an addition-
| al tract of 35,000 acres. The logs will be
| peeled and then manufactured into bill
stuff. It is understood that these parties
are also interested in the Ocqueoe Im-
provement Co., a concern which has pur-
| chased a large body of timber on the Oc-
| queoc, estimated at 100,000, 000 feet, and
| proposes to erect a large gang and circu-
| lar mill at the mouth of that stream and
la factory for making hemlock bark ex-
tract.

7
:

— oo
Money Sometimes a Curse.

| From the Chicago Mail.
| A few years ago there lived in Atchi-

| son, Kan., a family, the head of which |

was a man in comfortable circumstances,
whose cosy cottage on one of the best
streets of the town sheltered a wife, a

ful girl just budding into womanhood.

| The family stood well in the city and the |
the manufacture |

boy, bright in his studies and correct in

promising young men of Atchison.
day the father fell sick and died after a
brief illness. When it came time to set-
tle up his estate it was discovered that
instead of leaving his family in comfort-
able circumstances he had left them
almost penniless. The homestead and a
few hundred dollars in bank was all that
could be found. What he had done with
the money he had earned none could tell,
but with stout hearts the bereaved ones

world. The boy went to work, the girl

tage there was plenty of family affection
if but little money. One day the widow,
while ransacking a desk discovered a key.
It had a strange appearance to her. It
fitted no lock in the house, nor at her
husband’s place of business. A vague
suspicion entered the mind of the widow
that this might be the key to the place
in which her husband had deposited the
earnings of a lifetime. With Judge Hor-
ton to aid her she went to Kansas City
and after making a tour of all the safe
deposit vaults finally discovered one in
which her husband’s name was registered
as that of box-owner. After the neces-
sary legal steps had been taken she was
permitted t» try her key. Sure enough,
the box opened and to the astonished
eyes of the widow were displayed Gov-
ernment bonds, railway stocks, and gold
coin amounting to nearly $80,000.

It was a happy party that took the
train that night for Atchison. The
widow and her children saw a new life
opening before them; the days of pov-
erty were passed; the struggle for ex-
istence was over; they seemed fairly to
walk on air and for months nothing oc-
curred to mar their perfect happiness.
Then trouble came. The boy, steady and
industrious while poor, became wild and
| dissipated. His follies were the scandal
|of the town. He scattered money with a
jlavish hand. In vain his mother sought
;tocurb him. He saw only in her a nig-
| gardly guardian who, having gold to
| give, doled him out silver. His sister he
|regarded as one who would rob him of
jhalf the money that ought to come to
|him at his mother’s death. Suspicion,
| jealousy and hatred entered into the
| family circle with the newly discovered
| wealth.

Well, one morning Atchison was star-
| tled to hear that the daughter had been
|found dead in her bed with an empty
|chloroform bottle by her side. ‘It was
suicide,” said the sorrowing mother and
and as a suicide the town re-
But something

 

son, and a daughter, the latter a beauti- |

his habits, was looked upon as one of the |
One |

set about earning their living in the;

gave music lessons, and in the little cot- |

strange about the demeanor of the brother

awakened a vague suspicion, which grew
and spread until an investigation was
demanded. To make the story short the
young man was put on trial for the mur-
der of his sister, found guilty, and sen-
tenced to the penitentiary for life. There
he is now, wielding a pick down in one
of the dark and narrow galleries of the
penitentiary coal mines, which reach far
out beneath the swift-flowing tide of the
muddy Missouri. His mother is now a
raving mhniac.

Such is the story of a new-found for-
tune. It is but fair to say that many
Atchison people, notably Senator Ingalls,
believe the young man guiltless of the
crime of which he was convicted. But
surely among the money which brought
violent death to a young girl, wrecked
the reason of a widowed mother, and
condemned a youth to spend his life in
the darksome galleries of a prison coal
mine, there must have been some of the
accursed pieces of silver which Judas
received, and which, according to an
old superstition, have come down the
ages bringing dire sorrow to all into
whose hands they fell.

 

 

FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC.

 

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

 

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

7s SALE—ONE OF THE NEATEST DRUG STORES
in Michigan. Cash buyer solicited. Will bear
closest investigation. Address, Hull & Tilton, Bay
City, Mich 171
OR SALE—CLEAN STOCK, COMPRISING HARD-
ware, groceries, crockery, harness and general
Irmberman’s supplies. Stock will inventory from $12,-
000 to $15,000. To a purchaser with a considerable
quantity of cash, a great bargain will be given. “ve
; Bros. & Martindale, Kalkaska, Mich.

OR SALE—HOTEL LEASE AND SCRNTTORE IN

Grand Rapids. Fine business established. Great

chance for the right party. Must be sold immediately.
Freeman Lothrop, 49 Monroe St. Gunn Block. 175

OR SALE—A CLEAN GROCER STOCK AT HART,
County seat of Oceana County the Banner fruit
belt. Will invoice at about $1,200. Good reasons for
selling. A crisp — for a live man. —s &
Henwood, Hart, Mich 172
FYOR SALE—WELL-SELECTED DRUG STOCK, IN-
ventorying about $1,200, situated in good coun-
try town of 500 people. Reason for selling, proprietor
has other business. Address No. 173, care Michigan
Tradesman. 173
| Lipset sos See ae ae OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
| 00),in a lumbering town in Michigan.
| Only ee = town. Stock could be reduced if neces-
sar. Good chance. Address P. O. box 165,: Bay City,
Mic. igan. 168
R SALE—SPOT CASH CLOTHING AND MEN’S FUR-
nishing goods stock in live ee town of 2,000
people. No competition Expenses light. For par-
ticulars write to M. J., 437 West Kalamazoo avenue,
Kalamazoo, Mich. 170
OR SALE—WELL-SELECTED DRUG STOCK AND
new fixtures in desirable location in this city;
wiil sell at invoice on reasonable terms; reason for
selling, owner has other business. L. M. Mills, 54
South Ionia street, Grand Rapids. 135

REAT BARGAIN— WILL SELL FOR CASH AT GREAT
sacrifice, general novelty works, consisting of
heavy saw mill, with lumber and log cars, trucks, ete.;
set handle machinery, saw tables, planer, etc., thirty-
five horse power engine and boiler, building 40 x 70,
two story, situated in one of the most pleasant towns
in Southern Michigan. Splendid shipping ———
Wm. H. Scott, Kalamazoo, M‘tch.

OR SALE—CLEAN STOCK AND BEST COUNTRY

trade in Michigan. Beautiful new store and cottage
for sale at half price. Post office and railway ticket
office goes with store, Terms!easy. Reason for sell-
ing, must retire from business. No. 159, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 15

OR SALE—A COMPLETE DRUG STOCK AND FIX-

tures; stock well assorted can be bought at a

— ‘Address for particulars 8. P. Hicks, —
¢

ANTED—I HAVE SPOT CASH TO PAY FOR A
general or grocery stock; must be cheap. a
dress No. 26, care Michigan Tradesman.

OR SALE—FULL LINE OF GROCERIES, INCLUD-
ing 150 bushels first class potatoes in a good loca-
tion. Will sell cheap for cash. Enquire of Wm.
Drueke. 16 Cresent avenue. 166

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OR SALE—FIRST-CLASS GROCERY AND CROCK-
ery stand,doing a strictly cash business of $40 per
day. Stock willinvoice $3,500. Terms cash. Reason
for selling, owner has other business. Frank O. Lord,
Grand Ledge Mich. 165

 

SITUATIONS WANTED.

 

ANTED — SITUATION IN OFFICE BY YOUNG
lady of 20, who has had the advantage of col-
legiate education; does not write short hand, but is
good penman; wages : ot so much an object as a pleas-
ant place to work. Address Z, care Michigan “—
man

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

 

A BOLISH THE PASS BOOK AND SUBSTITUTE THE

Tradesman Coupon, which is now in use by over
5,000 Michigan merchants—ali of whom are warm in
praise of its effectiveness. Send for sample order,
which will be sent prepaid on receipt of $1. The
Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids.

AMPLES OF TWO KINDS OF COUPONS FOR RE-

tailers will be sent free to any dealer who will

write for them to the Sutliff Coupon Pass Book = ‘
Albany, N. Y.

OR SALE—CLEAN DRUG STOCK. SITUATED ON

best retail street in Grand Rapids. Expenses small

== paying patronage. Address No. 162, care =.
jesman.

 

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP.

 

Speicher & Co. have removed their
drug stock from this city to Bellaire.

C. B. Metzger has concluded to aban-
don the style of ‘“‘Grand Rapids Fruit &
Produce Co.” and will do business in his
name only after February 1.

The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. has
leased the corner store in the Gilbert
block—now occupied by the Diamond
Wall Finish Co.—and will remove to the
new quarters next fall.

Walbridge & Co. have opened a dry
goods and grocery store at the corner of
East and Sherman streets. Spring &
Company furnished the dry goods and
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. the groceries.

The Grand Rapids School Furniture
Co. has turned out more school seats
per year than any of its competitors for
three years past, and during 1890 it dis-
tanced all other manufacturers in the
world in the production of opera chairs.

Reports having been circulated to the
effect that the Diamond Wall Finish Co.
and the Gypsine Co. propose to wind up
their business and retire from the field,
THE TRADESMAN is authorized to state
that such reports are entirely unfounded
and possess no element of truth.

Another carpet sweeper factory is
among the possibilities of the future.
Wm. B. Remington, Fred E. Remington
and Erastus J. Horton, who own three-
quarters of the Raymond patents, are
arranging the preliminaries to the organ-
ization of a stock company to engage in
the manufacture of the same.

 

The Boy den « & & Wy man Lumber Co.,
which owns 20,000 acres of hardwood
timber near Neelyville, Mo., has estab-
lished a supply store at that place, in
charge of Jeff Darrah, formerly of Big
Rapids. The company has a circular
mill now at work, and another mill, with
two band saws, will be in operation by
April 1.
or
He Stuck to His Old Razor.

‘*A person meets many curious people,”
said a hardware merchant. ‘‘Now, for
instance, I sold an old fellow a razor a
few weeks ago and he returned it, saying
it didn’t work. I asked him what was
the trouble with it.

“Well, he says, ‘it
nothin’.’

*“**Don’t it shave good ?’ I asked him.

** *T can’t tell when it does cut ’em off.
You see my old razor pulls an’ I can tell
when the hair is cut off, but this thing
don’t pull, an’ I don’t know if ’m shaved
right or not. An’
my old one. “ig

ain’t worth

—— .—— ——
Prof. Victor C.
covery of tyrotoxicon made his
known wherever chemistry is, has
found another violently poisonous
principle in cheese entirely different
from tyrotoxicon. It’s nature has not
been fully established, but it is one of}
the so-called tox-albumins. Dr. Vaughan
is contaning his researches.

es

rr. FF. nations has gone to Excelsior

Springs, Mo., for a couple of months. |

He is accompanied by his family.

Complaints continue
TRADESMAN from grocers
taken the trouble to count the pickles in
a barrel and found them short from 10
to 25 per cent. THe TRADESMAN will
shortly publish a list of the packers who
put less pickles in their barrels than)
they brand on the heads, and dealers |
who have investigated the matter are in-
vited to send the results of the investiga-
tion to this office.

 

I guess [ll stick to}

Vaughan, whose dis- |
name |

to reach Tue)
who have!

ake Fish & Ocean Fish

THE ee TRADESMAN.

P. of I. selling agency has been post- |
poned until next week.
ea |

Detroit—King, Hubbard & Dingwall, |
who have been operating in the lumber
business in Midland, Bay and Gladwin |
counties, have merged their business in- |
to a stock company under the style of |
the Michigan Land & Timber Co. The |
new company is composed of the same |
parties. There is no change in the capi-
tal employed, and the object of making |
it, as stated by Mr. Dingwall, is one of
convenience for the sale of stock to
parties now engaged in the manufacture
of lumber. It was regarded as an easier
way to do the business than to give the
parties an unlimited interest in the com-
pany. John E. King is President of the
new organization, Geo. Dingwall Vice-
President, and Collins B. Hubbard Sec-
retary and Treasurer.

 

 

 

 

To Wall Finish Dealers.

GRAND RAPIps, Jan. 3, 1891.

We learn that, among the many false-
hoods in regard to this Company, circu-
lated by our competitors through their
representatives and by other means, is
one to the effect that we will soon go out
of business.

We have heretofore paid little attention
to these statements, as they have gained
no credence among our customers and
have reacted upon the parties uttering
them.

Our competitors are now seeking to sub-
stantiate their false statements by circu-
lating the statements of persons recently
discharged from the employ of this Com-
pany, and whose services have been
eagerly secured by our competitors, for
obvious reasons.

We pronounce such reports without
foundation. Weare in the business to
stay, and assure our customers that we
are prepared to fullfil all our agreements
to the letter, and that our facilities for
supplying goods of guaranteed quality
were never so good as at present.

With these assurances on our part, and
a reliance in the principle that good faith
and fair dealing will not permit the slan-
derous reports which are being circulat-
ed (and for which this Company will hold
the authors responsible according to their
legal liability) to interrupt the pleasant
trade relations now existing between this
Company and its patrons, we beg to re-
main,

 

Yours truly,

THE DIAMOND WALL FINISH CO.

 

 

F.J. DAY TEN fHALER

 

 

 

 

 

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| Bulk and Canned

(JYSTERS,

 

 

And Fresh and Salt

| Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. |

See quotations in another column.

GRAND RAPIDS.
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| prices from $9 to $14.
foxed and plain, turns and M. S.

   

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SEEDSMAN AND

Fruit Commission Merchant.

| We are direct receivers of CALIFORNIA and FLORIDA ORANGES and are headquarters

for BANANAS all the yearround. The leading features in our line just now are

‘Cranberries, Grapes, Calilornia Frat, Bananas, Oranges, Etc, Hic.

Parties having Clover Seed and Beans to offer please mail samples and we will endeavor to

| make you a satisfactory price. ~

THE ALFRED BROWN SEED STORE, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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The Finest kine of Candy in the State. DR OP Ss
CHANGE IN FIRM.

Grand Rapids, Dec. 24, 1890.
The firm of Hawkins, Perry & Co. has been this
day dissolved, Geo. R. Perry retiring. The business
will be continued by the remaining members of the
firm, Lewis E. Hawkins and Wm. L. Freeman,
under the style of Hawkins & Company.
Bespeaking for the new firm a continuance of the
kindly patronage accorded the house in the past
and wishing our patrons a happy and prosperous
New Year, we are
Yours Truly,
HAWKINS & COMPANY.

WM.SEARS & CO.,
Cracker Manvfacturers,

37, 39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids.

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RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO.,

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

 

We ask the trade to examine our line of Lumbermen’s Socks. All the staple
kinds, men’s and boys’, at popular prices; also the best line of Felt Boots made, in
We can show you a fine line of Beaver Shoes and Slippers,
Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Company.

 

  

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Have Women Equal Rights?

Written for THE TRADESMAN.

*‘Are you an advocate of
rights?’’ said a friend a few days ago.

‘‘Why—yes,” I answered, hesitatingly,
‘‘although your meaning is hardly ap-
parent in your question. Do you mean
to infer that women have not already
their lawful rights?’’

It was now my friend’s turn to hesi-
tate. ‘‘Well, no, not exactly that, but I

women’s

think that they have hardly equal rights |

with men.”’

‘‘Let us examine this subject a little,
I replied. ‘‘I notice that many of them
occupy the position of merchants and

stockholders in their own right. There

oe

are also women engaged in the profes- |
sions in trades and in most of the occu- |

pations followed by the opposite sex.
Now,

for

their capabilities, also, I must be par-|

doned for saying that I think that some
of them are selfishly inconsistent in their
desires, and, while demanding equality
with their brothers, they fall back upon
the effeminacy of their and
give cause for a man “i, teo,
must have equal rights.’
in court a woman’s evidence is
precedence of any other, often

sex

to say,

to the

injury of the defendant and then it is he |
If a lady |
speaks in a derogatory manner of a man’s |
he |

who has cause for complaint.

that
slander,

or character,
her with a suit for

business so

threatens

notice how she forgets her equality and |

remembers that she is simply an ‘unpro-
tected female’ and replies petulantly,
‘I think that you are no gentleman if

you bring an action like that against a|

woman! Asif to say, ‘Were I a man,
would be quite different.’
cluding all ladies, by any means,
Il say that very many women in most of
their business transactions, while exact-
ing equality for the sexes, seem to con-

when

stantly remember their own sex and the}

gentlemanly courtesy which it demands.

if she be the proprietress of a store, or a|

saleswoman, she stands in the same posi-
tion.
public conveyance, it is the same.
these cases the true gentleman
forgets that she is a woman and she has
forgotten all about the equality! She

In all

demands, as her right, that she shall do!

all that a man does if she pleases: vote
and be voted for; fill any office, place or
position bestowed upon a man; fret and
find fault and be given the choice, if |
there be any—in fact be treated as if
upon equal ground until something oc-
eurs to her disadvantage, when, lo! the
equality vanishes and she the
courtesy due to her sex.”’
——— ee

An Accommodating fends.
From the American Analyst.

exacts

**Can I use your telephone a moment?”

asked a lady, stepping into a drug store.
*‘Certainly,’’ said the polite drug man,
and he engineered her to the back part
of the store, past counters and bottles,
to the telepbone itself.
*-[ cannot reach it,” she said, anxiously.
*‘Can I telephone for you?’’ asked the
druggist, with one eye on the store.
“Yes. Please call up Smith & Blank’s
drug store, and tell them to send Mrs.
a box of mustard leaves and a po-
rous plaster. I have an account there,’’

 

she kindly explained to the paralyzed

druggist.

Wheatland—A. P. Austin has sold
grocery stock to Mrs. Frank Castle.

while I have the highest respect |
women, and an exalted opinion of |

often |

In certain eases |
given |

it |
1 am not in-|

If at a publie gathering, or in a/|

never |

r Prices Current.

 

 

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“ Dd... ee Oe
_ .. 5% |Full Yard Wide.. 8%
Ase... .-....- : Tq Honest Width....... 6%

= Barttora A .........

Archery Bunting...
4: Madras cheese cloth on

Beaver Dam A A.

 

  

Blackstone O, 32.... eT Boe ©... By
Rieck Bock ........ a Our Level Best..... 6%
ae a. 4,Oxford R . oe
Chapman cheese cl. 34 os... Th
eS I ie ee 6%
Dwight Star......... 744/Top of the Heap.... 7%
BLEACHED COTTONS.
pare. 7 ea Roe ........- 7
Blackstone AA..... 8 iGoid Medal......... 7%
ee 4%'Green Ticket....... 84
een ...... ... . ree Pale... 644
bevomegg cn ee... octets ae
| Cab x. .--. 6% Just One 4%@ 5
Dwig ‘ht Anchor. 2 poe Phillip ae 7%
shorts. 8% or..... 7%
ae..---..-... 6 |Lonsdale Cambric..10%
pero... ....-_..... 7 Lonsdale...... : 8%
a 7% |Middlesex.... .. 5
| Fruit of the Loom.. 8% No Name.. a“ 7%
Peas ..... ..-. Time Veow........... 6
Piret Prise...... 6% Ct 5%
Fruit of the Loom %. 8 |Pride of the West...12
Paes... 4%4\Rosalind.. / oo
Pall Veloe.......... Cx aiees............. 4%
Geo. Washington... 8g | Vinyard oo 8%
HALF BLEACHED COTTONS.
ioe. - | Dwight Anchor. 9
Farwell.. ~
UNBLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
| Tremont N...... 5% o{ Middlesex No. 2
Hamilton N.... ' 6M .....05
| i, ....._. ee —  2.-.-ke
Middlesex a... fi. “ v....
1. . | a = €....3
. No. 25 >i
| BLEACHED CANTON FLANNEL.
Hessiitos W......... T8| Middlesex A A. o.oo
Middlesex ry... 8 ET
AT......28 1 A oO le 13%
- aa... _ aa 17
- ce... 10%| ee 16
| DRESS GOODS.
| Hamilton eee ; |Nameless.. -20
. L cee 25
of a “sacl CC 27%
iGG Cashmere...... ma | ge 30
ON ee 324%
} e oe ee 35
| CORSET JEANS.
eee... 6 /Naumkeag 6 satteen.. 7%
| Brunswick. . 6%/|Rockport.. - 6%
| PRINTS.
| Ailem, siapie........ 54] Merrim’ck shirtings. 4%
= aas........ 54 Repp om &%
we eee........ & |Pacific ney... 0.
American fancy.... 5%| “ robes......... 6
| Americanindigo.... 53;/Portsmouth robes... 6
American shirtings. 4% |Simpson eeeeene- 6%
| Arnold . 6% preys... ... 6%
_ long cloth B. 10% Solid black. 6%
: ‘lwashington indigo. 6
century cloth 7 *| “ Turkey robes.. 7%
gold seal..... 10% India robes... i
* Termey red. —_— " plain . "ky : % 8 %

   
 

Berlin solids. . ' 546
- blue... 6%; ‘** Ottoman ag
. - pees... Ol Kkerred............
Cocheco fancy...... 6 |Martha Washington
- madders...6 | Turkey red %..... 7
Eddystone fancy... 6 {Martha Washington
| Hamilton fancy. ... 6%| Turkey red........ 9%
| e staple .... 5%/Riverpoint robes.... 5
Manchester fancy.. 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6%
_ new era. 64%) - gold ticket
Merrimack D fancy. 6%} indigo blue....... 10%
TICKINGS.
Amoskeag AC A. a ee Be 12
ifemetigon M......... 736 Pemberton AAA....16
' 2... 8% ae. 10
Y a. -e Swift River....
Farmer... a. © ene River...
First Priz were. .......
| Lenox Miia 6
COTTON DRILL.
. D. --++- 6%|Stark A
—.... ee ee --* - 1
Chfton, K. . TiTop of Heap.. -10
SATINES.
(aeen.... .-...... 2 impel... .... .. 10%

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DEMINS.
Amoskeag TiS ae 1h Jaro .....-.. -.--.- 11%
os. .... 14%|Lancaster........... 12%

’ brown .13 penn eo" a 1
Ame... sess 11% ioe
Everett, ee... 12 ' No. 250....11%

brown. ....12 - No. 280....10%
GINGHAM
Cina... .....- 6% Lancaster, staple... 6%
Lencaerars......--.- 6% fancies . 7
Normandie......... 7% . Normandie 8
Renfrew Dress...... 1% Westbrook cess ge caus 8
Toil du Nord...10@10%| «6 ww wn ee nee 10
Amoskeag i 7 UR a5 nace eeet se 6%
aec...... 10%|Hampton........... 6%
oa 8%| Windermeer.... .... 5
Pee 63%|Cumberland.... .... 5
arene... ....-. 8% a eee’ 4%
CARPET WAR
Peerless, wuite...... 18 (peseian colored. ..20%
GRAIN BAGS.
Amoskeag..........-17 {Valley City.......... 15%
_ Eo 20% Georgia ....
Reeeioes...., ...... 16% Pacific
THREADS.
Clark’s Mile End....45 |Barbour's..........-. 88
Cour, ¢.&P....... * (Mewmanrs.... ...... 88
Poyoee............. 22%

KNITTING COTTON.

 

 
 

 

White. Colored. White. Colored.
ao 66h. Ss Woe. MM... 42
' ne 34 = :* 6... 43
- ee 35 40 = 2... 44
= .......— 41 - ee 40 45
CAMBRICS.

ee |... 414|Washington......... 414

Widte ier.......-- #5 med Croms........... 4%

mia Clove......-.... 4\5|Lockwood.... ...... 4%

Newmarket......... . yoegs.... ........ 4%

Edwards............ 444|Brunswick . 4%

RED FLANNEL.

Pies... -...- a. 2%

Creotmre.... ...-.- Be ee 32%

‘Taina 242......... @ JEP, XEx........- 35

Nameless...... . eapeeeunees.... <2... 32%

ED FLANNEL.

Red & Blue, ak. 40 |GreySRW........- 17%

a Se, Womern W ........- 18%

Weer... -- ho 4 18%

6 oz Western... Flushing XXX......23%

Cae 8.......... 2244|Manitoba....... - 23%

— FLANNEL.
Nameless ..... — -  .. 9 om
oo Suo10 “Aa. 12%
CANVASS AND PADDING.

Slate. Brown. Black.|Slate. Brown. Black.
9 9 914/13 13 13

10% 10% 10%/15 15 15

11% 11% 1144/17 17 17

12% 12% — 20 20

Severen, 8 oz........ 934 | ‘West Point, 80z....10%

Mayland, Soz....... 10% 10 oz....12%

Greenwood, 7% 0z.. 9% Raven, 100z eerie 13%

Greenwood, 8 oz. 111% ee eee 18%

WADDINGS.
aus, Gom........- 2 [Per bale, 40 doz....87 50
Oolosed, dos......-- 20 |
SILESIAS.
Slater, Tron Cross... 8 |Pawtucket.......... 10%
Bed Cooe.... 9 iedie............. 9
- mee... -.10%| Degree... .... .-.2 10%
- Best AA..... 12%4| Valley Ce ......2.. 10%
CORSETS.

Comies........... $9 50|/Wonderful.... .... #4 75
Bente s......... 9 00|Brighton.. ........ 475
SEWING SILK.

Corticelli, doz....... 75 {Corticelli mares,

twist, doz. —_ per %oz ball...... 30
50 0 ¥d, doz %
KS AND EYES—PER GRO
No 1 BY K é « ‘White. 10 {No 4Br ré “White. 15
.12 8 -20
es 3 “ 1.12 | “ 10 ” 25
: PINS.

No 2—20, M C....... 50 |No4—15, F 3%...... 40

. 225 0C........ |
COTTON TAPE.

No 2 White & BI’k..12 {No 8 White & BI’k..20
ct . .-15 | * 10 . B
a . we 1 . a)

SAFETY PINS.
ee SS mes. ....... ...., 36
|
NEEDLES—PER M.

A. en ee --1 50 peommbost.... ...... 40

Creer... . : ye \Gold myee...:.,-.0 150

Marsh Vs kee.

a a CLOTH.
5-.. 22 6—4.. --19 6—4...2 %
20 * 30

XMAS GOODS

 

 

IN HANDKERCHIEFS, MUFFLERS, GLOVES, NECKWEAR,
TABLE COVERS, NAPKINS, SPLASHERS, APRONS, DOLLS,

PERFUMES, JEWELRY, CLOCKS, POCKETBOOKS, KNIVES,

CASES, PAPETERIES, AND A
COMPLETE LINE OF FANCY NOTIONS.

FANCY SOAPS, FANCY

 

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| $1 and 83 MONROE ST.

his |

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

STEKETEE & SONS,

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS,

6, 18 FOUNTAIN ST,,

Voigt, Herpolshelmer & Co,

Importers and Jobbers of Staple and Fancy

Dry Goods

NOTIONS AND HOLIDAY GOODS.

Manufacturers of

Shirts, Pants, Overalls, Rts.

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

48, 50 and 52 Ottawa St.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

 

WHOLESALE.

 

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

Send for circular and price list.

Smith & Sanford,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

POURTH NATIONAL BANK

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

A. J. Bowne, President.
|D.?A. Bb operrr, Vice-President.
H. W. Nasu, Cashier

$300,000.

 

CAPITAL,

 

Transacts a general banking business.

 

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

 

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BUT USE

TRADESMAN GOUPONS

And avoid the losses and annoyances incident
to - pass-book system. Samples and price list
sent free,

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,

 

Cua Grand Rapids.

  

 

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HARDWARE.

The Old Fable in a New Dress.

‘* See here—you’ve made a mistake!”
breathlessly exclaimed a big, fat indi-
vidual, as he rushed into the office of a
popular railroad and addressed the ticket
agent. ‘‘The train is ready to start, and
I’min a hurry! You remember I pur-
chased a ticket of you a few minutes ago,
and—’’

“Pass right along—pass right along—
too late to have it rectified now. Let
those ladies come to the window, please.”’

“But, sir, it is always right to—”

“Pass right along—pass right along,”’
again interrupted the agent, with a wave
of his hand toward the train. ‘‘We can’t
rectify mistakes after you have left the
office.”’

“All right—I’m sorry,” pleasantly re-
plied the fat individual,” and he again
boarded his train.

Five minutes later that same ticket
agent was seen rushing through the train,
bare-headed and looking here and there
for some particular person. At last, he
caught sight of the fat stranger who had
wanted his mistake rectified.

“Oh, here you are,’’ he said, ‘‘I beg
pardon, sir, but I gave you a ten dollar
bill instead of a one and I—”

‘“‘Pass right along—pass right along,”’
said the man, interrupting him and wavy-
ing his hand in the direction of the door,
at the same time using the exact tone
which the agent had used. ‘‘I cannot
rectify any mistakes after leaving the
ticket office—pass right along.” And, as
the ears were already in motion, the dis-
comfited agent concluded to swallow his
own medicine and pocket the loss him-
self without further parley.

——> 9 <$$$——————-
The Hardware Market.
Steel and wire nails are still dull.
Barbed wire is still sluggish. The for-
mation of the window glass combina-
tion appears to be an assured fact, but
no change in price is like'y to be made
at present.

ENGRAVING

It pays to illustrate your business. Portraits,
Cuts of Business Blocks, Hotels, Factories,
eee: ete., made to order from phcoto-
graphs

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

ERFECTION
MEAT CUTTER

Tre LaTesT,
BesT ano
Most IMPROVED
ror Famity Use.
CUTS
Instea> OF Masues.

 

 

 

 

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REQUIRES
No Repairs.

EQuaLted
By NONE FOR
Famity Use.

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Simpce TO Use.

Easy To CLEAN.
Cannor Get Dutt
or Out oF
Orver,

No. 1—$2.00.

No. 2—$2.75.
Liberal discount to the trade, and
descriptive circulars on application to

No. 3—$4.00.

AMERICAN MACHINE Co.,

MANUFACTURERS OF HARDWARE SPECIALTIES,

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

JOHN H. 1. GRAHAM & CO.,
tens, Agents. 143 Chambers St., New York.

  
  

 

 

 

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i ; HAMMERS, | ROPES.
Prices Current. Maydole & CO.'8.......+000 ceeeecees aie | Sisal. 4 % inch and larger i 9
ee Ll ee di Se --------- stctt cect scar eeeee 2%
These prices are for cash buyers, who | Sec & Plumbis 1 dts, 40810 | aes “SQUARES. dis.
ay prom aa g, | Mason's Solid Cast Steel........... Se Hat GG | ece: wee ost ya a 15
pay promptly and buy in full packages. | p:,cxsmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. ..30¢ 40410 | Try and Bevels.. 60
Snell's AUGUBS AND BITS. ~~ as a HINGES, waa 20
settee cette tee eee e ee eee ee nee e ees Oe | Gate: Clavk’s 1,2,8.../...-............ aie Onae '
Cee, 40 | State yer doz. net, 2 50! x Com. Smooth. Com
Seectocecesboccce i Be | Ee ses ee seedsnencewocssecooecess +* N . 10% ea, ‘i
Jennings’, genuine. . 25 | Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 44 14 and | =o : : a a “a = . =
Joumtien Wiltation | 50&10| longer .... i 3% | Nos. 18 to21........... ee 3 20
AXES. screw Hook and Eye, %.. ae gl? | Nos. 2 to M 2.2... ree 3 30
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze.............-.... ae “ 56. ume net 8% | Nos. 25 to 26 . a 3h)
’D. B. Bronze up us ” ese ee : net Be aus 60 3 50
ae S. B.S. Steel...... Bereveeeceses - Deb TH 4 | All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
“ Sf eee 14 09 | StrepandT.... oe eas dis. 7 wide not less than 2-10 extra
Tiras Barn Door Kidde Mfg. Co., | Wood track. . 5080 | vansnbiidaan
6 r Mfg. Co., Wood trac List acct. 19, °86.. .. dis. 40&10
8 14 00 | Champion, anti-friction........ o| "SASH CORD.
ee... net 30 00} Kidder, wood track ..............-- , White A. . list 56
BOLTS. dis. Pot HOLLOW WARE. oa ee 55
ENE EOL TSE LEER: aia ee c TN cites ees 50
Carrlige new list. 40 aaaon Ds ek oss eee eee cee = : Drab B.. : a 55
ee et ie ae 40&10 White C................605-. a
Sleigh eT a a Discount, 10.
ee _ _—— FURNISHING GOODS. ‘ | iin SASH WEIGHTS.

Stampe in Ware. -.ee new list = | So yes. “. : .. per ton 825
ee 8350 Tapenued Tin Ware. oe. | “SAWS. . dis.
Do 4 00 | Granite Iron Ware .............-. new list siesid ' os aang a ast goes 20

—_ CAST. dis. han aoopDs. aah ilver Stee ia, X Cuts, per foot, wo
a. ON ee one 7210 | ‘* Special Steel Dex X C uts, per foot 50
Cast Loose Pin, figure a i040 ee : ; :
Wrought Narrow, bright bast ‘joint. Siac eee e. 60.&10 etl meee Ce me a: Leer od [ o a jammpion end” disci *Pooth X ™
Wrought Loose ea 6010 oS *0810&10| Cuts e
Wrought Table 60810 Gate Hooks and. Eyes ie 70810410 Cuts, per foot.. : . eee 30
Wrought Inside Blind. ..2..... 22 0...2...2.. 60810 | uitece fas st aes TRAPS. =.
Wrought Brass 7 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s | seeel. Gemme....-._.-....-.... 6O&10
Blinde Ce TT 70&10 KNoBs—New List. die. | Oneida ¢ community, New house’s..... i 35
Blind. oe eT oS “708 10 Door, mineral, jap. trimmings 55 | Oneida Community, weed: & Norton’s.. 70
nee Soa ‘ a0 Door, poreelain, jap. trimmings 65 | Mouse, choker.... ....- .18¢ per doz.
carter st ‘| Door, porcelain, plated trimmings 55 | Mouse, delusion................ . 81.50 per doz,
BLOCKS. Door, porcelvin, trimmings ao) WIRE dis.
Ordinary Tackle, list April 17,°85........... 40 Drawer and Shutter, porcelain. 70 | Bright Market vest - 6
e : LOCKS—DOOR. | Annealed Market. : -7—10
a acm - - Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ..... | c oppered Market Se : 60
MO a. 5 core es wae oe . dis. 50602 | Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s....... . 55| Tinned Market......... 2%
— ane. oan SS | Barbed Fence, galvanized. 5 40
orwalk’s. Ne | ) D Pp, ge 1 (
Ct Siecle. eee OS 4 ea painted! ....... i.
CAPS. Ades Bea ............,...-...-.... $16.00, dis. 60 | HORSE NAILS.
Hee 1- - ee perm 65 Hunt Eye - gi: _- = 60 | — Sable.. is. 25410G@25&104805
a2... On; Meanie... 18.50, dis. 20&10. | Putmam..........-.......-- 222. e+e dis. 05
¢. Le eT = aati “ dis. | Northwestern...................... dis. 10&10
NN eee ae ae “ 30 | Sperry & Co.'s, Post, handle : 50 WRENCHES. dis.
ARTRID MILLS. dis. Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled 30
. sais Coffs 26, Parkers Co.’ 40 | Coe’s Genuine . A)
“se yt eat eee eae ee wa a as seal eae P.S.& W. Mfg. Go” % Malleables....  40| Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, 75
Centra. te ett ea lene ta as a 25 “ Lander, Ferry &Clr k’s i ou 40| Coe’s Patent, malleable....... T5&10
CHISELS. dis. “ Enterprise .. 2 MISCELLANEOUS, dis.
ae — ee. _.. Stebbin’s Patte MOLASSES GATES. dis 10 een ia se . 50
Sooke: eramme. cs... WO&10 a's oil aa ea ceo eg a ay : °
Socket Corner. . all a . : _ Stebbin’s Genuine..............--- ee cceeee> — Screws, New fase Bee 50
Socket Slicks . To  aomio | Rnterprine, self- ——e eee toes Casters, Bed and Plate........... ......50&10&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ ...... 40 NAILS Dampers, American. nha 40
: Steel nails, base. i Lee es ..1 95| Forks, hoes, rakes and all steel ‘goods. ae 65
er dis. | wire waite, base) eS METALS,
—_ oe ee . 40 Advance over base: Steel. Wire. . ‘ PIG TIN.
ote ee a 25 | 60. ee . Base Mase | Pig taree............-.......-.... 2... 28¢
CHALK i eee ee ens Base ‘1 Pie are..... 8... 8 west. fe 302
E _ & 20 ZINC.
White Crayons, per gross.......... 12Q12% dis. 10 10 20} Duty: Sheet, 2%e per pound.
COPPER, 15 30 = pound, casks... Ls, 7
$ 15 35} Per pound.......... q%
—n hae oz oc _ _. ore = ee = 15 35 | a
Cold telled 14x56 mn tee 25 20 40 | 4@% . 18
Cold Rolled, 14x48...............-. 25 | 8-.-. 25 50 | Extra Wiping 5
Bottoms See 27 | T&G... eee eee erent ees 40 65 The prices of the ‘many ‘other qualities of
aan res eT ae ve _ 90 | solder in the market Indicated by private brands
: se  .. 1 60 1 50| vary according to composition.
Meer Wet Peeee.........-.......-........ 5019 oo lL. 2 00 ANTIMONY
Taper and straight Shank................... 50 Fine 2 ee 1 50 2 00| Cookson... eeu es . per pound 16
Morse’s Taper Shank............-....--.-. - 50} Case 10. ...... eee eee eeeeeee es 60 90 | Hallett’s...........-. 13
DRIPPING PANS, ; eek stem nema me we oe 7 1 00 : TIN—MELYN GRADE.
Sriall singe OOF OOUHE 00.8.8... ov ee 90 i 251 eS 1C, Crmrcoal...................... ...47
3 Finish 10. i... Oe 1 00} 14x20 IC, ' ee ee
a oe gagerrtns si ecanninisnt mN es 1 00 125|10x14Ix, “ sla 8 75
EER ee ee ae 115 1 Dl iaory, 8 75
Com. 4 piece, Gim..........-........ doz. net 5 ciineh:1 19 ee eet 85 vt Each cemensl X on this grade, 81.75.
Coeroweee ...... 5...) ae eee CU CSS... ........-.-.. -.-.... 1 00 90; i a —— GRADE.
AGVOMERDIG. .....--.-.-.---.--- +--+ s--- dis. 40&10 Oe aoe 115 1 00 | 10x y, Charcoal ..............- 86 25
EXPANSIVE BITS, dis. Barrell % eo ua see) 1% an % ara 1x i eae ee. 6 =
i a aide wl a mim ei aie © =
Clark’s, —. 818; ~~ » B2H..-..-- 2-2. +s 0 | Ghia Tool Co.’s, taney ....-.....-...---.---- @4) | 14x20 TX, . 775
Ives’, 1, 818; 2, $24; 3 . Ss Le el Giioke Bone... 8... .... Sa «=Eace additional X on this grade 81. 50,
FiLEs—New List. dis. | Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy........-...----- QW} / i ROOFING PLATES ;
ee ee g0&19 | Bench, first quality..... aaa ae @ 60 | a ay a Worcester.......... 6 25
Naw American 00.1... ec ana Nee 0é:10 | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, woo ai (oo 7 mp 1%
Te . .60&10 A a die.00--10| 14201C. Ataseas Gouda 7 =
C7 aaa Rai Regs Se a BO ae ae 5 80
*Heller’s Horse a — : 50 chy ais. | 20x28 Ic, 6 ‘“ “ 11 50

mom end Tinded..............-...-..-...... | 20x28 . “6 14 50

Ze 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27 28| Copper Rivets and Burs...........-. 50 | BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE.
List 12 13 14 6 Ss PATENT FLANISHED IRON. | 14x28 IX......... 814 co
Discount, 60 “A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos, 24 to 27 10 2! 14x31 IX....... 15 50
GAUGES. dis. | “B” Wood’s oe at. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 14x56 IX, for a 8 Bollers, i. per sii 10
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s........... _... So! Broken packs \4c per pound extra. 14x60 1X, '

 

HEADQUARTERS

POR

 

 

 

 

 

FOSTER, STEVENS & CO.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Sen or_Price List.

 

 

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

 

 

(he Michigan Tradesman

Official Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association.

 

A WEEELY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE

Retail Trade of the Wolverine State,

The Tradesman Company, Proprietor.

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1891.

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

S. Nolls & Co. have arranged to open
a grocery store at Sethton. The Olney
& Judson Grocer Co. furnished the stock.

M. M. Mallory took orders for ten tons
of plug tobacco from the jobbing trade
of Grand Rapids, last Friday and Satur-
day.

Geo. F. Owen brought home his trunks
from Detroit Saturday, and unfurled his
banner to the breeze at Charlotte Mon-
day morning.

J. Vanderwerp, who has represented
Hawkins & Company for several months,
has transferred his allegiance to I. M.
Clark & Son.

Jas. Wykes, who has been on the road
several years for the Diamond Wall
Finish Co., has engaged with the Alabas-
tine Co. for 1891.

Byron S. Davenport now wears the belt
at the Olney & Judson Grocer Co.’s, hav-
ing had the largest sales during Decem-
berof any of the road force.

John H. Jewett, formerly of this city,
but recently city salesman for
Barnes Bros., of Detroit, is now house
salesman for the Chatfield & Woods Co.,
at Cincinnati.

D. B. Crater has engaged to travel for
I. M. Clark & Son, carrying lines of teas,
ceffees, spices and cigars. Mr. Crater
lives in Jackson, and formerly traveled
for a Chicago spice house.

Corl, Knott & Co. have engaged W. J.
Deppen to represent them on the road.
Mr. Deppen hails from Cadillac, having
acted as chief clerk for W. M. Gow for
the past eighteen months.

B. F. Emery, formerly with the North
American Provision Co., has engaged to
represent the W. H. Silberhorn Co., pack-
ers and jobbers of provisions at Chicago.
He will cover the same territory as be-
fore.

Jvuhn Cummins, the lalest acquisition
to the read force of the Olney & Judson
Grocer Co., is posting up this week and
will start out on his initial trip next
Monday. Inthe meantime, the Northern
route is being covered by Ad. Morrison.

Wm. R. White who covered this State
many years for the Thompson & Taylor
Spice Co., but who now visits the job-
bing trade of the Missouri Valley, Ne-
braska and Iowa, called on his friends

more

of the jobbing trade last Friday. He
was as weleome as ever.

J. P. Visner has returned from New
York, having engaged with Edwin J.

He has
also arranged to represent Thos. Stokes,
fish dealer, and Matthew Dean & Co.,
dried fruit dealers, both of New York,
in a brokerage capacity.

THE TRADESMAN is under obligations
to Albert Antrim for a unique colored
map of California, handsomely framed.
Beautiful as the map is to look at, how-
ever, it is not half as interesting as it is
to hear the veteran traveler and obser-

Gillies & Co. for another year.

vet relate some of his numerous ex-
periences in the Land of the Golden
Gate.

THe TRADESMAN has in preparation |
its annual roster of the traveling men |
representing local houses and hopes to}
be able to present it complete next week. |
It will show a material increase in num- |
bers over the list of 1890, just as the list
of that year was considerably longer than
the list of the year before. Corrections
from new houses and new men are |
solicited.

H. S. Powell, who covers the Upper |
Peninsula trade for I. M. Clark & Son,
was in town a couple of days last week.
He reports the trade of that section in
excellent shape, the year just passed
having been one of exceptional prosper- |
ity in all lines. The outleok is not so
promising for 1891, owing to the cur-

tailment in the output of iron ore,
due to the prevailing low prices. Mr.
Powell is enthusiastic over the pros-

pects of Marquette, which has had a re-
markable growth during 1890 and gives
every promise of doubling its population
during the next six or eight years.

Albert Antrim, who left in July for a
five months’ tour of the Pacific Coast, re-
turned in time to enjoy the Christmas
holidays with his family. He spent much
of the time in Washington and Oregon,
in both of which commonwealths he has
unbounded confidence as to the future.
His son, Fred, who was formerly en-
gaged in business on Canal street, is now
managing the large general store of the
J. M. Weatherwax Lumber Co., at Aber-
deen, Wash., at which point two other
former zitizens of Grand Rapids, Frank
Drake and John Perry, are prospering
finely. Drake is engaged inthe real es-
tate business and Perry is at the head of
a Chicago syndicate which is embarking
in the manufacture of lumber and shin-
gles. Mr. Antrim is confident that Aber-
deen is to become the Muskegon of the
Pacific Northwest, as her harbor is su-
perior to that of any other point in the}
two states named.

a a
Purely Personal.

Walter McBrien is seriously ill with ty-
phoid fever at St. Mark’s Home.

Homer B. Hanlon, the Middleville
druggist, was married one day last week
to an estimable young lady of that place.

G. I. Hall, manager of the S. Nolls &
Co. grocery store, at Sethton, was in town
last Saturday for the purpose of buying
the first stock.

J. H. Thompson, who has closed out
his spice business at Detroit, has taken
the management of the Midland Coffee
and Spice Co., at St. Joseph, Mo.

Harry Fox, superintendent of the Mus-
| kegon Cracker Co., was in town Monday.
| He reports a steadily increasing business

and contemplates adding three more
| ovens in the near future.

O. A. Ball is a very busy man these
days, owing to the absence of Fred., who
left Monday for Henderson, Ky., where |
he is to be married on Thursday. The |
happy couple will return from their wed-
| ding about the 28th.

J. W. Milliken, of the dry goods house |
of Hamilton & Milliken, at Traverse |
City, was in town last Friday on business
| for the potato planter company of which |
| he is the official head. The device weal
patented about three years ago and has |
|met with a largely increased demand
;every season. Arrangements are being
|made to manufacture the planter on a}
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BRANDS:

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and that their transfer from the truck
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eg when he moved to Chicago. That insti-
Financial Miscellany. tution shortly after was bought by its

D. C. Oakes began business at Coopers- | competitors, and the name passed out of
ville on January 2 under very flattering | existence.
auspices and predicts a successful career rear 7

ae e e A New Game.
for his institution. From the Detroit Journal.

The Northern Kent Bank, at Cedar} A stranger walked into a Michigan

e Springs, now shows deposits of $26,000. — oe ee =
i : i eft arm in a sling, and as oc

= Faller _ confident seme sum could be to give him a $5 Bill in exchange for that

doubled if the institution were merged | amount in silver. The grocer complied,

into a State bank. and the apparent cripple then asked him

All of the wholesale houses, so far as | tO place the $5 in an envelope that he

heard from, have had a remarkably suc- might mail it. This was done, and the

ce envelope handed to the stranger. The
4 cessful year and the dividends soon to) |atter then produced a lot of. silver

be paid by the furniture factories promise | which, when counted, amounted to only
to be the largest in the history of the | $4.75.
‘ity set The stranger ransacked his pockets
. a . . but couldn’t find the other quarter. He
Friends of the Fourth National Bank— | said that a friend had just given him the
and their names are legion—are rejoiced | money and made a mistake. He would
to see a 4 per cent. dividend declared | 0 and rectify it. Then raking the sil-
and to be assured that the Bank is in| %@T into his pocket, he gave the envelope

<. : J to the grocer to keep until he returned.
shape to pay dividends with semi-annual| falf an hour later the grocer opened

regularity hereafter. the envelope. It contained nothing but
The Antrim Iron Co, which increased * note which read: pee |
its capital stock from $200,000 to $300,000 coe ea ® happy new year, 1 am |
last summer, has lately increased it an- “CHARLES AuUGusT TRAPP.”
9 other $50,000, which is the limit of its Ee
issue. The new stock will participate Pickles Put Up Short Count.
in the dividend of next June and hasa| GRAND Rapips, Jan. 3. —I recently

ss purchased a half barrel of pickles, |
market value of 115, one or two sales packed by J. S. Walker, through the |

having been made at that figure. wholesale grocery house of Musselman & THE WINFIELD MANUFACTURING CO0., - WARREN, OH'0.

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} Enquiry satisfies me that the jennings | CuRTIsS & Co., . WELLS-STONE MERCT. Co., “

of $512,518.82 and loans $9,000 im excess | house bought the pickles in good faith, : : ae . es 2
of the deposits. As the capital stock is | having been deceived by the packer. | Onxey & JUDSON —— 0., : : oh — :
only $50,000, this showing is a remark- JOHN SNYDE k, Grocer. | GUNN HARDWARE Co., G. > — ae
ably flattering one and clearly shows the Mii i | Geo. C. WETHERBEE & Co., Detroit. JENNISON & Co., Bay 7 me cud
confidence in which the institution is Whalebone Whips Advancing. | FLETCHER, JENKS & Co., ss WaLsi & EDINBoROUGH, . Bay City.

ld Manufacturers of whips have advanced | E. F. PERCIVAL, Port Huron. H. D. Woop & Co., Toledo.
yrs neil Wasik Déites Bax all grades of whalebone stock from 10 to | |D. ROBESON, ul icin & Ca. io

15 per cent., owing to the scarcity and | Rosson Bros., Lansing.

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high price of that article.

ings Bank is already transacting some
business, the officers having established
their headquarters for the present at the
directors’ room of the Michigan Trust
Co. Several transfers of stock have
already occurred, Cashier Kelsey and
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The American Bell Telephone Co.
earned 24 per cent. on its watered capital | |
stock of $12,500,000 during 1890.

The American Banker bluntly advises |
the banks to “‘loan up to the handle, if |
need be, to meet the requirements of sol- |
vent merchants.” |

By careful experiments made at the}
United States mint it has been shown |
that $5 was lost by abrasion every time!
a million dollars in gold coin was han-
dled. The experiments were conducted
with bags containing $5,000 each, and it
was shown that the mere lifting of the
two hundred bags making up a million

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Drugs # Medicines.

 

 

State Board of Pharmacy.
One Year—Geo. McDonald, Kalamazoo.
Two Years—Stanley E. Parkill, Owosso.
Three Years—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Four Years—James Vernor, Detroit.
Five Years—Ottmar Eberbach, Ann Arbor
President—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.
Sec -etary—Jas. Vernor, Detroit.
Treasurer—Geo McDonald, Kalamazoo.

Meetings for 1891—Saginaw, Jan. 13; Grand Rapids, |

March 3; Ann Arbor, May 5; Star Island (Detroit) July
7: Houghton, Sept. 1; Lansing, Nov. 4.

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

Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.
President. W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott
Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March,

June, September and December.

Grand Rapids Drug Clerks’
President, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W.

 

 

Association.
C. Smith.

Detroit Pharmaceutical Society
President, J. W. Allen; Secretary, W. F. Jackman.

 

Muskegon Drug Clerks’ Association.
President, C. S. Koon; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler.

 

 

Speculation in Drugs.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.
All commercial articles of whatever
nature, are, from various causes, fluctua-
ting in price. The unalterable law of

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supply and demand is always the founda-

tion of this change.

Medicines, as remedies for disease,
sometimes advance in price out of all pro-
portion with other merchandise, for,
‘“‘What will a man not give for his life?”
If certain epidemics spread over the coun-
try, any real or supposed remedies, es-
pecially specifics, suddenly run wild in
price, and the tendency to speculate upon
the misfortunes of others obtains wiih all
classes having ready cash with which to
take advantage of the market. Perhaps
no other article on the face of the earth
ever becomes quite so valuable as do cer-
tain medicines at certain times. It may
not be generally known that there are in-
dividuals in the United States, say onein
ten thousand, who make a business of
speculating in rare and costly drugs.
Sometimes a combination of them con-
trols the entire product or output. Many
of these products would be far lower in
price were it not that they are in a few
hands. Again, others are very expensive
because nature has, thus far, furnished so
little; or, the cost of obtaining them is so
great. Still another reason is that the
highly skilled labor and profound knowl-
edge required in their manipulation and
preparation for use commands its own
price.

Just after the close of the Rebellion,
opium and its preparations advanced in
price beyond anything known here with-
in the past half century. As high as $11
per pound at wholesale was paid for itin
Detroit, and in some markets it was, for
a time, even higher. Morphia was then
retailing at from $2 to $3 per dram. At
the present time, these drugs are almost,
if not quite, as low in price as they have
been in fifty years. Excess of production
and the low price of the labor required
are probably the cause. Quinine is now
exceedingly low in price, within a few
cents, perhaps, of its minimum price
since itsdiscovery. Itisthought by many
that this decline is partly owing to the
fact that some other medicines have some-
what supplanted its use. Quinine is now
quoted at from 27 to 39 cents. Thirty-
five years ago, it was thought reasonable
at $4 to $5 dollars an ounce. When, not
many years ago, the price fell to $1.50 an
ounce, many speculators, supposing that
the price had struck ‘‘rock bottom,’’ to
use a Western expression, invested in it
One man took a thousand ounces at that
price. Itdid not remain long at $1.50

and has never since advanced to that.
price.

Numbers of persons in this country |
have amassed large fortunes by dealing |
in ginseng, a root which is largely export
ed to China and Japan, to be used, it is |
said, with, or as a substitute for, smok-
ing tobacco. Year after year, this drug
is advancing in price, and, unless it is |
soon produced by cultivation, it must go |
much higher, as the lands which are its
| natural habitat will be used for agricul-
tural purposes. Sometimes a seemingly
| exorbitant fee is charged by a physi- |

 

| cian for his services, when, perhaps, he |
has had to pay from $20 to $50 per ounce
| for the medicine furnished.

| There is a long array of very costly
| drugs not in general use, the price of a
few of which was given in THE TRADES-
MAN not long ago. There are some cost-
ly preparations made from the calabar~
bean; one is physostigmine, which costs
$138 per ounce. Physostigmine crystals
| are still higher, a two and a half ounce
| vial costing $503.20. A package of six
and a half ounces of hydrastine hy-
drochlorate costs $194.80. A _ thirteen
| ounce bottle of papayotin, which is used
| in diphtheria, costs $189.50. A bottle of
| five and ahalf ounces of colocynthin costs
| $114.75. The comparatively new local
| anesthetic, cocaine, is $120 per pound.
A quarier ounce vial of chelidonine, used
|in skin diseases, per
ounce. One other preparation of the cal-
abar bean is worthy of note as the most
aristocratic drug known. Is is ealled
| physostigmine salicylate and is in the
| form of crystals. Those who wish to in-
| dulge in its purchase can obtain it at the
low price of $904,350 per ounce!

 

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The Kind-Hearted Druggist.

Mark Twain was present at the ban-
quet of the National Wholesale Drug-
gists’ Association at its recent meeting
in Washington, and in return for his
dinner related the following story:

About a thousand years ago, approxi-
mately, I was apprenticed as a printer’s
devil to learn the trade, in common with
three other boys of about my own age.
There came to the village a long-legged
individual of about nineteen, from one
of the interior counties, fish-eyed, no
expression, and without the suggestion
of a smile—couldn’t have smiled for a
salary. We took him for a fool, and
theught we would try to scare him to
death. We went to the village druggist
and borrowed a skeleton. The skeleton
didn’t belong to the druggist, but he had
imported it for the village doctor. The
price of the skeleton at that time was
$50. I don’t know how high they go
now, but probably higher, on account of
the tariff. (Laughter.) We borrowed |
the skeleton about nine o’clock at night
and we got this man—Nicodemus Dodge |
was his name—we got him down town,
out of the way, and then we put the
skeleton in his bed. He lived in a little
one-storied log cabin in the middle of a
vacant lot. We left him to get home by
himself. We enjoyed the result in the
light of anticipation; but by-and-by we
began to drop into silence; the possible
consequences were preying upon us.
Suppose that it frightens him into mad-
ness, overturns his reason and sends him
screeching through the streets. We shall
spend sleepless nights the rest of our
days. Everybody was afraid. By-and-
by it was forced to the lips of one of us
that we had better go at once and see
what had happened. Loaded down with
crime, we approached that hut and
peeped through the window. That long-
legged critter was sitting on his bed with
a hunk of ginger-bread in his hand, and
between the bites played a tune on a jew’s-
harp. There he sat perfectly happy,
and all around him on the bed were toys
and jim-cracks and striped candy. The
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skeleton for $5. (Laughter.) The drug-

gist’s fifty-dollar skeleton was gone. We
went in tears to the druggist and ex-
plained the matter. We couldn’t have
raised that $50 in 250 years. We were
getting board and clothing for the first

‘year, clothing and board for the second

year, and both for the third year. But
the druggist forgave us on the spot, but
he said he would like us to let him have
our skeletons when we were done with
them. There couldn’t be anything fair-
er than that; we spouted our skeletons
and went away comfortable. But from
that time the druggist’s prosperity
ceased. That was one of the most unfor-
tunate speculations he ever went into.
After some years one of the boys went

|and got drowned; that was one skeleton

gone, and I tell you the druggist felt
pretty badly about it. A few years after
another of the boys went up in a balloon.
He was to get $5 an hour for it. When
he gets back they will be owing him $1,-
000,000. The druggist’s property was
decreasing right along. After a few
more years the third boy tried an exper-
iment to see if a dynamite charge would
go. It went all right. They found
some of him, perhaps a vest-pocketful;
still it was enough to show that some
more of that estate was gone. The
druggist was getting along in years, and
he commenced to correspond with me.
I have been the best correspondent he
has. He is the sweetest-natured man I
ever saw; always mild and polite, and
never wants to hurry me atall. I get a
letter from him every now and then and
he never refers to my form as a skeleton,
says: ‘‘Well, how is it getting along—is it
in good repair?’’ 1 got a night-rate mes-
sage from him recently—said he was
getting old and the property was depre-
ciating in value, and if I would let him
have a part of it now he could give time
on the balance. (Laughter.) Think of
the graceful way in which he does every-
thing—the generosity of it all. You
eannot find a finer character than that.
It is the gracious characteristic of all
druggists.

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Rights of Pedestrians.

As the streets of the city are just now
in a muddy and disagreeable condition
for pedestrians, just a kindly word to
merchants may not be out of place. I
saw to-day a dray backed up on the side-
walk to either load or unload some
freight. The passage was completely
obstructed for some time, and several
persons were obliged to go out into the
mud and water in the street. Aft last
one man, possibly knowing his rights,
refused to go around the dray and or-
dered the driver to take it off the walk.
The driver reluctantly obeyed, much to
the disgust of some others, however.

Chief Justice Mitchell, of Mew York,
has lately decided that ‘‘Sidewalks are
for the people only”; and, while all ped-
estrians may not exact their rights, it is
well to remember that the law is on
their In the matter of street
crossings, also, it appears that pedes-
trians have the first right. It is the
duty of the party in a carriage or vehi-
cle, or on horseback, to be on the look-
out, not the duty of the party on foot.
Legislators can give publie rights in
highways but not in private ways.

I once saw a lady and gentleman
crossing the street, and a man was driv-
ing a horse and buggy along as if quite
oblivious of their presence, and was lia-
ble to run over them. The gentleman
at that moment raised his cane and
struck the animal a light blow on the
head. At this the driver used threaten-
ing and profane language. ‘‘Never
mind, my friend,” coolly replied the ped-
estrian. ‘‘I have the first right to the
crosswalk, and it is your business to be
careful and not run over me.”

Drivers, draymen, laborers and other
employes might, by a little care in this
regard, save much annoyance to them-
selves and others,

side.

The Drug Market.
Gum opium is dull and lower. Mor-
'phia has declined. Quinine is firm and
‘tending higher. Carbolic acid is ad-
vancing. Balsam peru has advanced.
Linseed oil has declined. Jalap root is
lower. Turpentine is lower. Cloves
have declined. Oil cloves is lower.
Two Prosecutions at Belding.

J. H. Kinnane, attorney for the State
Board of Pharmacy, has lodged com-
plaints against Will Day, of the drug
firm of Ives & Day, and Dr. Moorman,
an employe of the drug firm of Spencer
Bros.—both of Belding—on the ground
that they are selling drugs without be-
ing duly registered. The cases are on
call at Ionia on the 6th.

—_—_>_o<—___——

Good Words Unsolicited.

R. L. Willett, general dealer, Altona: ‘Can-
not do without THe TRADESMAN.”
Frank Smith, general dealer, Leroy: ‘Long

live THe TRADESMAN.”

S. K. Riblet, general dealer, Newaygo: “I
like your paper, because it is full of useful in-
formation—in fact, the best trade paper I know
or.”

 

 

 

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EST LIQUID DRYER in the market.

Put up in one gallon square cans.

Write for special prices.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS

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PAMPHLETS
For the best work, at reasonable prices, address

THE TRADESMAN COMPANY,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

CINSENG ROOT.

We pay the highest price forit. Address

PECK BROS., “Guixbd Ravibs.”
THD MOST RELIABLE FOOD:

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olesale Price Current | Morphia, S, P. & W. ..2 302
i are a & 1@2 55 —_ Mixture...... @ 25 | Lindseed, boiled . 54 57
. on heen —— eee ve eeu tnt -- @ 18) Neat's Foot, wi
—Oil cloves, Jalap, Cloves, Gum Opi Mosch ie ie ee . 2S) a
oa Sep : , Gum Opium, Morphia, Linseed | 4 schus Canton... . @ 40| Snuff Teaia 7 | , Strained ........... 50 69
: yristica, No. 1. 0@ 7% oes y, De | Spirits Turpentine... 42% 580
ACIDUM. Cubebae. ‘ 9 5 Nux Vomica, (po 2).. _@ 10 snuff, cotch, De. Voe . 85 |
Aceticum . 8@ 1 Exechthitos......... 12 00@12 50 TINCTURES. Os. Sepia.....-.....-.. 33@ 38 | Soda Seat is ~~ aa 7 a
Benzoicum German.. Metperen 0 90@1 00 Pepsin Saac, H. & P. D. Soda et Potass Tart... ae oie eee 3
Benzo gd go | Etigeron os oe wD Aconitum Napellls & oe mee: apeecaenna @2 0 a — ‘Tart... oni 33 | Ochre, yellow Mars... 1% 2@4
a. | ee acne 2 00@s ' a eis Liq, N. C., s a . | oc
Carboticuin apanpaiee 22@ 38 Geranium, price 75 | Aloes. 2 = a I 4 gal @2 00 — ee , “5 | Putty, manna ae
Glerkoum on SMB 88 etad, em. BAL eB | arte MERI | Pel Lig. qiaits .—@t 0 | Soda, Sutpiaa: oo OR A vuentesiaas
.... 3@ 5} eceoma ............. 2 ee ) " “< on Pr
Slocum eo as Juniper. —— S02 00 | Aeafestida.. vee 0 Pil Hy PE ag a . = Spts. os i... ae oe oe... oe posi
Oxal ‘ee ae 11i@ 18 = = a a ae Atrope Beliadonna.... ..... 60 Piper Nigra, (po. 22) @ 1 He rt Dom... @2 25} Vermilion, English.. -
fateer team erie . ‘ = par a tat oe 1 s0@2 go | Benzoin. . rr go | Piper Alba, (po ¢5) . @ 3 ee oe ‘aa @3 00 | = Peninsular... 70@75
Sulphuricum.. tu. se, 14%@ 5] Mentha Veda... ane Shes 8) sengulnata Se = oe x co ga 8 ae? 8 | - wilt te nan ox
wWaeaiei |... ..- 1 40@1 60 Morrhuae, gal.. ... §06@1 00 ee enter inn es 50 Pabees teens ce anll 14Q 15 ian 5e gal., cash ten ~— | wintttne: semen aie. @i%
Werteeeue............ 4@ 42 — ounce @ Contheraee we heat gy oe opis ning oR Crystal Led |Whtuing: G Gilder os.
severest (@ BOLE MEERA . boxes Suiphur, Subl....... 2 Seeded rn
Perr tnins ae oo 7 €P.D.G | ulphur, Su re ae White, Pari
on : _azwom. 3 Picls Sieidia taal. i re aa... tees = prrethrim ‘ Pm - Tamarineot hasta 4G 3 | Whiting, an see 1 00
a. ee 11691 23|_ Base cvvereseveeere TB] Qiamatag ... 0@ % Le TT eee aa.
wae a B4@ 7 Rosssarini a 75@1 00 | Castor ..... TTTIIDEEIEIIIE 1 99 | Quinta, 8. P. & W ae an = Theobromae a 28@ 30! Pioneer Prepared Painti 2g! _
Garbonas oes...) 2@ 14 R aes... Ge 00 | Cateche 222022052222. 7 “ a Gama 7@ 351 Geramisg ......._. 55@ 60| Swiss Villa en,
nee 12@ 14 Succint i ce 40@ 45|Cinchona ............... i) 59 | Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 ) oy a .....9 00@16 00, Paints............... 1 00@1 20
ANILINE. Santal ene ee = pea eo. ' gg Saccharum Lactis pv. @ 40 oe Oe VARNISHES.
ES ne ‘ an: a 45@ 50 one ma 50 — oe 2 00@2 10 OILs. | No.1 Turp Coach.. “<a 10@1 20
inapis, ess, ounce. ee 20 | Santoni inigaielies a = a 2 3 0
: eee... Digitali ceseetestnee GEL MMMM + -so--n---c> | SES 70 eae 24
= T ae @1 50 | Digitalis .............. .... 50 | Sapo . ale, winter........ 70 | 75Q3_ 00
Baan tet hyme =. ne =. py 1. ...... Te 30 ee, Geake........... So 60 | No. 1 Turp Furn ... Tog! 10
— a si Peas - a. es 4 ae 2 Me | Lear, Ne. 1........... 45 50 | Beira Tate Das .1 55@1 60
7 ‘ainsi “en . Commoner... _, 15@ Ww CE ee Wa aa ne en = 53 | ‘Ton aide ;
3 Cube > (po. Le 1 cog 7 ee POTASSIUM. Guaica . ol | PP... -. eee eee eee 70@ 75
ene Ae er ame 5 fe ae et TT |
; Xanthoxylum ......... fe | Bionromate 20020. 18 ta] engtber nee eee | ere rer eT errr
BALSAMUM Brouide. 37@ 40 Hyoseyamus ..............-. 50 |
— byes ". 60@_ 6d Carb. ........-.......-. 12@ 15 logins... i ree
CC Cee EO Tl greeny (oQlTtesS. -oe-eooee z
Terabin, Canada |.... 35@ 40 Cyanide ............... SOG 55 gee suas ameteitanl 4
— BQ | lodide. ons... 2 BG 90 | MIMO ..------ 2-222 e222 eee 50 |
ec eais es are tiel a 5| Potassa, Bitart, pure. 30@ 33 Lobelia... 00002020022 BO
CORTEX. Potassa, Bitart,com... @ 15 Myrrh.......-.-.----.--+.--- 50]
Abies, Canadian... ....... [ees Me ont..- SB Wigs 50 |
no ara 18 | Potass Nitras.......... Ue ag gg hcp ate eed eet 35 |
CU 2 +o ee
Euonymus atropurp........ gp | Sulphate po...... .... 15@ 18 Deodor.............--.- 2 00)
Myrica — Oe 20 RADIX, GQusesia = Cortex. cae a CO
mune Virgitl............-- 2 Q 5) cea ae
Quillaia, grd...... 2.02.2... 2 —— est
3 ee cs... ------- el - 80]
Timus Po (Ground 12)...... 10| Arum, po.....e.....-.- 6 25 Cassia Acutifol 0 | Importers and Jobbers of
s EXTRACTUM. een ( nt i + oo 50 Serpentaria ee =
Glycyrrhiza Glabra... 2%4@ 25 soemeeen, 0 . 100 18 —— a 60 |
po 330 35 —— Canaden, Youuien EE =
i i 2 0. 45) .. 2 We a
We Beeeeseesss 18@_ 14] He a ho me Veratrum Veride............ 50 mae on
e ss fo 4 a oi . ...... : =. = MISCELLANEOUS. | —
1s APO 5. 233) 18> | Hther, Spts Nit, 3 F.. 26@ 2
Carbonate Precip...... =p fe ea 6@ 50 -~ oa
Gltrete and Quinis.... Gs 5 Podophyi oS a ee  24@ 3%
3 Ghiie Soho G2 3| Podopnyitim, po. 18, TB] yom © og ,| Chemicals an gi ri
3 errocyanidum Sol... 50 SOt OO) anmatio.-...2-- j e S
a Solut Chloride, @ i iol en “tes er ists’ und 6s
‘ ulpl ~~ -- 1%@ 21 spigelia « 8 53 : et Potass T. 55@ 60
seteeee es @ Sanguinaria, (po 25).. @ 2 Antipyrin .............1 35@1 40 o
Ay Serpentaria............ 40@ 45 yon oe we @ B| easien
sa ae 5 5 | Argenti Nitras, ounce 7 |
So = = Similax, Officinalis, H @ fo | Atsenicum «. s@ | . 3
Anthems 0.00.00. 0G: Yt @ 4 | Balm Gilead Bud... s8@_ 40 | ; : :
. caria ...... ..... 25@ 30| Scillae, (po. 35)........ 1o@ 12| Bismuth S. N. 2 10@2 20 | d all B
4 i CO Symplocarpus, Foti -— Culetem Chior, ‘1s, (48 | 5 } , arnigs B3
3 aroma ............. U@ 2 BO. ...-.--. @ Sloane Se . * :
ee ats tin. Valeriana, Eng. (po. 30) = Cantharides Russian, | Sole A
espa ine. (a) SS) po....... @i 75 gents for the Celebrated Pioneer Prepared Paint
‘ Alx. 35@ 50 mipieer a... 10@ 15 Capsici Fructus a. @ 16 ™
Salvia, oficinalis, aa Zingiber j.......-.. R@ BW -— «es
ea 122@ 15 SEMEN. 7 po. @
Wee os 2 8@ 10] Anisum, (po. 20). @ 15 Caryophylius, (po. 18) 14@_ 15 Ww
@UMMI. Apium (graveleons).. 15@ 18 | Cera ae ee ae G3 7 | e are Sole Proprietors of
Acacia, ist picked... @1 00 a. ie . 4@ 6) Cera Flava... 7... 500 55 |
Hg ee , (po. 18) ....-.--- &@ 12] Coccus................ |W
“ “ a. Cardamon..... oa = , ne Ce @ 0 '
‘ “ a sorts. . @ & Comlmaram........... 108 2 en Ne 22 EATHERLY 8 MICHIGAN CATARRH REMEDY
i “ : 95@1 00 Cannabis Sativa.......8%@ 4|Cetaceum............. 2s
3 Aloe Berb, (po. “60).. 50@ 60 Cesegiam.... -......- T@1 00] Ch ood gntent a @ =
’ ‘“” Oa ape, (po 20) |. @ 12| Cheno iam .......- 10@ 12 ac ame bbs .. ae
, “  Socotri, (po. 60). @ Dipterix Odorate...... 2 00@2 25 | Chloral H acest 7 4 OI 1
4 - 18, (348, 14 \s, ee | a @ 15 tine a oe. 25
a ee @ 1 enugreeKk, po..... 6@ 8| Cinchonidine, P. & W tock
Ammoniae ...........- 25@ 30 = 1 eee 4 @4% ~ pd = = = — rn ee
Assateotidn, (6.80). @ 15 Lint, grd, (bbl. 334)... 4, @ 434 | Corks, Ist, dis. per
oe a dedeweceensees as cent :
Camphor®...........-- s eee. 3 ‘reasotum ..........-. =: Whis
ates ss BS Ria MB OH See @ x aa Seen
oo sck eo @3 00 b Reecses soos = $s) * wee.......-.... 5 ins. Wrin R
Gamboge, po.......... 80@ % ae... ---- 1@ 2 Eee 96 11 Os, SES
} Gusiscum, (po @) ..- @ 3 SPIRITUS. - Kobra... "8 4 - ’
pei sealant @ 2) Framentt, W., D. Co..2 092 crop ~— =
Myrrh, (po, i... @ wo) « YS eG Cupr Suiph oa 7
Opi, (po. 4 00)........ 2 50@2 60 Suniperis Co. 0. T....1 761 2 Dextrine ..... i ae
a viesched....-. $3@ 35| Sancharum N. #..... 1 15@3 30 | Timery, all ‘numbers. —° So in Michigan WwW
. rum N. E...... 1 75@2 00 | Emery, all numbers.. 6 ar ichi
Tragacanth ........... 30@ 75] Spt. Vini Galli........ 1 736 50 Be... . sass é 3 , le Agents " - for " D & Co
; > ouncepackages. | Vin a (oo) ce ee 0@ 5 Henderson Coun Made Sour Mash
4 ete Re cet tee See ” |
= oe Oe en 0 SPONGES. —. nar *e 23 . " 7 ty, Hand ©
a ‘ oerrsag enaths i
Majo sctitit: Bl florida sheeps’ wool, Geutin, Gomer. | Whisky and Druggists’ ite
Menthe he Piperita. 0000-00 33} carriage... ........ 225@2 50/1." French........ 40@ 60 vy egists' Favort
‘ .. 2 Peepers Ss, 1S yercues.
ener yee at 2 oo Whis
Tanacetum, V........-.----- = Velvet extra sheeps’ ” Glue, Brown.......... 9@ 15 Rye ky.
TUNE, Wie cs eon os 25 | Wool carriage... .. . 1 10 White........... 13@ 2%
aoe Extra yellow sheeps’ Grana Pars ee
. ee a x
pecs tg: ae 55@ 60 — sheep wool car- " — ~anagaaee tte 23 35 Ww
Me ace 2@ 22|_Tiage ........--...--. raa Chi Bs
ee as eS a rece oo or ite. Qi w e sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only.
Carbonate, Jennings.. 35@ 36 | Yellow Reef, for slate u Ox Rubra @1 1) | 6 give our Personal Attention to M Ord an ua
pea pete 140| “ Ammoniati.  @i 20| antee Satisfaction " or
Absinthtum . «...... 5 ons 60 sYRUPS x ao Ce All orders are Shipped ced same day we
Amygdalae, Dulce... .. : oe ca ;
Pes sae meee —— wei 90 ceive them. Send in a Colca re i ac i
At acgccess--} SOQ OO | Ipecae20 ae eee
Gal a ics 3 75@4 50 ak oe 50 aoe a won i
popbyiii 22021001111 et Similax Officinalia. 1... oa mee %
oe 25 | Similax Officinalis. ........ 60 | Mactan oi iay 80@ 85 |
Chenopodil . beeneses ces @2 00| Senega ............. a rare oo? a | d
Ginamen CUES ee Me Se ee ee 50 | Liquor Potass Arsinitis S 3
— ci eee @ % ae iquor Potass Arsinitis 10@ fe
weet Ree 50} Magnesia, Sulph (bbl a
Copaiba = eee ee See ee 000 a
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THE

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GROCERIES. | |

The Merchants Then and Now. |

 

Written for THE TRADESMAN.

‘‘Did you ever stop to consider,’”’ said |
an old gentleman friend of mine the}
other day, as we went from floor to floor |
through a large grocery house, “how |
little the people of to-day realize the |
condition of their grandparents of the |
eighteenth century in regard to the}
matter of food and clothing? We see |
about us to-day hundreds of articles of
almost daily use that were not then in|
existence. Others were so rare and}
costly as to be classed with the jiuxuries |
of the wealthy, and only in exceptional
eases were they found in the homes of
the farmer or laborer. I recollect,” he
continued, ‘‘that the spices now in com-
mon use were only used in my
father’s family on holidays, weddings or
on festive oveasions. The first allspice
I ever remember seeing, my grandmother |
placed in some kind of leather bag and |
instructed me to pound it with a ham-
mer for fifteen minutes or more. All-|
spice was bought especially for pump- |
kin pies. The entire mode of living is |
so changed that the present generation |
cannot realize why it was that people at
that day did not desire a greater variety
of food and, in fact, all kinds of goods
as now. They did desire many kinds of
goods then kept in the store, but they
could not always be obtained without
money, and of that they did not always
have an abundance. There was only a
very small quantity of money then in
circulation, and other means of
exchange was necessary. It, therefore,
became customary to exchange or ‘bar-
ter’ one product for another. There
was hardly a merchant worthy the name
in those days but who was also, more or
less, a buyer and shipper of domestic
products, notably grain, pork and beef;
and the most prosperous mercantile
houses were those that could purchase
and dispose of to advantage the largest
amount of farmer’s produce. In this}
way not only alarge business could be
profitably carried on, but*also a large
demand for the goods from foreign coun-
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All the groceries we see
here,’’ and he waved his hand about the
room, ‘‘are now so common with us that
the appetite is satiated, and fully one-half
the gratification which our forefathers
enjoyed is lost. But this is an age of
progress and wealth, and I am glad
that it is so, for each generation can
enjoy life better than the preceding
one.”
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Thurber, Whyland & Co. to be Merged |
into a Corporation.
Arrangements have been perfected to
merge the wholesale grocery house of
Thurber, Whyland & Co. into a corpora-
tion under the style of the Thurber-Why-
land Co. The concern will have a capi-
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of $3,000,000—$1,500,000 pre-
ferred, 8 per cent. cumulative, and}
$1,500,000 common stock. Of the pre-

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ferred stock, H. K. Thurber takes $500,- |
000, in lieu of his special capital in the |
old firm, and the remainder will be offered |

to the public. Of the common stock, two-
thirds will be subscribed for by members |

 

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| self accordingly.

| 15th.

| roy.

Care in Consigning Goods.

Sr. Jouns, Jan. 2—I note what you say
in this week’s paper in relation to mer-
chants holding checks and drafts sever-
| al days, instead of putting them in the
bank on deposit or for collection. You
| might, with equal cause, preach a ser-
mon on the foolishness of some mer-
| chants in consigning produce and other
goods to dealers about whom they know
nothing, either financially or otherwise.
I have seen a good many losses incurred
| through this method of doing business,
| but some merchants appear to be unable
to learn even by experience.

market price gets the goods,
how

no matter
rascally or irresponsible it may be.

| It has been my experience that a job-
| bing house with whom I deal will al- |

ways undertake to ascertain the relia-
bility of any firm about whose standing
lam in doubt; and when! once find an
honest and energetic commission firm, 1

| usually stay by that concern until I am}

positive I can do better elsewhere. Per-

| haps lama little behind the times in|

most merchants nowa-
days appear to be actuated by a desire to |
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maintain that a tried friend is preferable |

to an untried stranger and govern my-

GROCER.
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Wool Higher--Hides Quiet--Tallow
Weak--Furs Quiet.

Wools are selling again close to the |

prices ruling in October and November, |
with stocks firmly held for still higher |
prices, with a short supply visible.

The |
| goods market will not warrant higher |

prices being paid, but a cold winter and

the large volume of goods having disap- |

peared, gives manufacturers hopes on
the future.

Hides remain quiet, with a slight ad-
vance on light. Tanners are willing to
pay this advance, but anything beyond
it is refused.

leather, will make prices keep down on
hides.

Tallow is weak and down, with ample
supply and fair demand.

The catch in furs in many localities is
light, but the average throughout the
states is fully up to that of other seasons.

A short supply and the |
high prices of bark, and a quiet trade in |

| There is considerable strife among deal- |

ers in new stock, but sales to dressers are |

light, and hard to make at a profit.

The |

outlook for London export is not good |
and such goods as must go there are}

bought low.

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The Grocery Market.
The sugar market is a little firmer for
white grades.

Spreckles advanced gran- |
ulated a sixpence Saturday and the New |

York refiners advanced soft A grades the |

same amount the same day. Package
coffees have declined ‘4c and Arbuckle
gives notice that the extra discount of

Canned tomatoes are a little
stronger. The reduction of the duty on
manufactured tobaccos has not brought
about a corresponding reduction in the
price, the manufacturers keeping same
at the old figure in lieu of an advance.
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Minor Notes from Leroy.
LrERoy, Jan.

bushel. We have no sleighing yet. Hink-
ley & McDonald have put in a shingle
mill on Rose Lake. The shingles are
| brought here and handled by Frank Smith.
E. Gawley has erected a lumber and
| shingle mill on Pine River, the product

of the present firm and their friends, and | of which will be shipped from this point.

one-third remains in the treasury of the |
company. It is understood that the or-
ganization will be completed by Feb. 1,
at which time the present partnership ex- |
pires by limitation.

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For the finest coffees in the world, high

| grade teas, spices, etc., see J. P. Visner,
’ | 17 Hermitage block, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Agent for E. J. Gillies & Co., New York
City.

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| ige on 300 pound lots terminates on the |

3—Business is good in Le- |
From one to two cars of potatoes |
are loaded here a week at 75 cents per |

| medium, $4.30@4.4".

| doz.; Partridges, z

PRODUCE MARKET.

Apples—Green, $3.50@4.50 for choice eating and |

$3 for cooking stock. Evaporated are firm at 13@
13% ec, with a small advance in prospect.

Beans—The market is hardly as strong as it has
been. Handlers pay $1.65@1.80 for country picked
and find no difficulty in making sales at $2.05
@2.10 for city picked.

Beets—50e per bu.

Butter—Dairy is firm and in good demand at
oe per lb. Creamery finds moderate sale at
25@ 6c.

Cabbages—"Ce per doz. or $4 per 100.

Carrots—2°@25c per bu.

Celery—20@25c per doz.

Cooperage—Pork barrels,$1.25; produce barrels
5c.

Cranberries—Michigan berries are in fair de-
| mand at $3 per bu. Cape Cod commands $11@13
Bell and Cherry are held at $10.

ggs—Fresh are coming in a little more freely,
dealers pay 20c and holing at 22c. Cold storage

| and pickled stock are in good demand at 20c.

Field Seeds—Clover, mammoth, $4.60 per bu.;
Timothy, $1.5? per bu.
Game—Venison, 13¢ per Ib. : Rabbits, 75¢c per
5e per pair.

Grapes—About out of market.

Maple Sugar — 8@10e per lb., according to
quality.

Maple Syrup—75@85c per gal.

Onions—The market is steady; dealers pay-
ing 80c and holding at #1.

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Clams, ' a 150
Scallops, es ios boas toa 1 50
FRESH MEATS.

Swift and Company quote as follows:
Beef, carcass. cess bccpsetceesa: ce a
hind quarters. sade ees 5 @6
* 20 eek deca e sede ccs ae a
. eee ee a 8 @
. ee ce. a eae @7z
- Pe ce es 5 @6
eee @
ee 4 @ 4%
Bologna .. bee Gee eee soe cea @5
Pork loins.. @7
“~~ shoulders.. @5
Sausage, blood or ‘head. @5
eS a @ 5
“ Frankfort. oe ee @ i
Mutton ...... Soe oe @7
Veal..
CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS.
The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows:
STICK CANDY.
Standard, ee @ 8
el. . bodes ees ee @B8

ca a @8
' [og or a. net weight....... 8%
= ee ee ee ee 8

  

    

 

 

 

 

are still made in lined refrigerator cars and in | Boston RE hires coterie eects
| cars kept warm with stoves. “Dealers pay 8x@8ie | Cut Loaf... 2.2.0... eee reece cette cere ees 10
| at this market and 75@80e at the principal buying Extra H. H.... 2... 1s. esse eee eee eee ee eee es
points in the potato district. MIXED CANDY.
Squash—1e per Ib. bls. Boxes.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Jerseys have ad-| Standard, per - es even 7% 8
vanced to 84 per bbl. All other varieties are now | Leader.......-. -..-..-+e-eee+ eee 4 8
out of market. Special........... --- ee 8%
Turnips—30@35c per bu. ee 3 8%
DO gee ee ieee ete ete eens 9%
ee 9%
PROVISIONS. Midget ..... een Se es _
The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. | Gonservet. ss cesese ees ad! 10
| quotes as follows: = Doe bee ce eweeee =< soue eee Cece eee
MO i wedee 55 tkes oo
PORK IN BARRELS.
Mess, new. .... ee ee 9%
UIE oki ness ep rennet cess 11 09 | Peanut Squares.......... 2-0. -eeses esses sree es 10%
| Extra clear pig, short cut. oo Extra ee ene ue ee oe ee 11
rae Bee Kindergarten oe se i
Clear, fat back...... el French Creams........- oo ee me
Boston Clear. shortcut... ............. #8 gp | VOHOy Crommme..--..------+--+-+---+ +--+ 1
[coer ee OE OE... 12 25 Fancy—In 5 lb. boxes, Per Box
Standard clear, short cut, best... 0-2. ...-., gg gh 60
sausacE—Fresh and Smoked. — Dro ee =
Te a a lie Se ene canes sme anne Tne | :
| —_ ane cai oa &% Ce 1D
ee g |H.M. ChocolatecDrops............---..+- 7... po
Frankfort Sausage "* gig | Gum Drops. .........---++-+-0eeeeoreee oes —
Biobe Showed Ee ee ern isan a ie iene S
Rian eee i. Ota Peo... 5. £0
Bologna, thick...... ae Lozenges, plain. Bo cote ei enernee .
Head Cheese. ee ge sienieln peemted.... ........ eck tected S
Lanp—Kettle Rendered. ee %
Tierces ....... ee 60
ON oe oo Oe Molasses Bar ..60
i 7............. . a, . . 18
LARD—Family es ee Cs... gc ee x art 00
, vecccesecceee BM | Plaim Creams. .........-.-.eeeeee eee ee eee eee
wean Got. Tore .............. eee ee 6 Decorated Creams
ee 634 | String Rock...............-.- . -:
St Pass eae 65g | Burnt Almonds... ..........------+--- 1 @ 1
[iim Palle, Gin acane. 6% | Wintergreen Berries...............-.---+++++- 70
oeem, wee, SOR Oe... +... .u........... 6% Fancy—In bulk.
ee ee 6 Lozenges, gate, oe 12
BEEF IN BARRELS, ieceets cinted, in pafis.... a es. ae
Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 7 06 eng oa ae
Extra Mess, Chicago pene — 7 = 0 | Stoas _—_. - — ae ae ae nay a tie oe
Boneless, rump butts. . Cae oe ee ee... 5 se
Sour Dison, pee... ... se 10
SMOKED MEATs—Canvassed ¢ or r Plain. aera, Tn eee... . 5. 12
Hams, average mee... 4... _ oo ORANGES.
16 lbs. tetteectescssseeeees 9 | Ploridas, fancy 250-200 17.-150... . #4 00@#4 2
o e 12 to 14 lbs... i. TO cee cekeek 6 cae 3 75@4 00
wg RS lial aimee nen eh Mea 6 - 96 - 0 Oe 3
i - eae. ws. 9 Russets, fancy 200-176-150-198... ie
Shoulders.. . Mee ce Oe ee ee
Breakfast Bacon, boneless... ees ew Valencias, choice to fancy 420. 3
| Dried beef, ham prices eee ae Mess nas, 300-240 3 2
| Lon aie ae 6 ” 260
ee: rr 5 LEMONS.
a Messina, Choice, 360............-.-..++. 3 50@ 3 7
Cone ae oe... @ 4 00
e choice 300.. oe oo oe
FISH and OYSTERS, 6“ ae 4 50
, OTHER FOREIGN FRUITS.
F. J. Dettenthaler quotes as follows: Figs, Smyrna, new, fancy layers...... 18@20
FRESH FISH, choice a eee ae @i16
| a ey @ o o en 12%@14
” = oie te: a . Fard, 10- Ib. box ee ee @10
EE @9 : BOD. See eres eee eee ee @
aE @18 Persian, 50-Ib, box.. 54@ 6
ee D4 NUTS.
Ce ca @9 Almonds, — . @18
I cis iscirie! ims «-bheen en eiien d08 @10 : Ivaca.... .. @1
EE @25 California. Qi7
Se @i0 | Brazils......... .......- ae
Crete aba @22 | Filberts . detdaetcseteseceesss ||| Cire
. 1 Walnuts, Graiebie @16
oYsTERS—Cans. eee Q@i2
OO @35 ” i @l10%
oo, me eee. ts @28 Table Nuts, ee See see @i6
ccs Cae ee ed We 8 a @144%4
ee @2 Pecans, Texas, H. P ... 14@16
See ee oo Cocoanuts, full sacks. @5 00
Standards........ ..... .....-.. ........ @18 PEANUTS,
Peneeee, ooo ec a @Qlb Fancy, H. ¥., Suns @6
SHELL GOODs. “ Roasted .......- 8 @ Bz
Oysters, per ee 1 25@1 50 Fancy, B. P., Stars eee ee @5
oe a ThQ@1 00 pasted ....... et oe Oe
“BULK Goops. Choice, H. Ps Ex Prime ae Pie @ 5
Standards, per ee ok @1 25 ee ........ 7 @re
eee ew tite teen wes @1 65 | Fancy, H. P., Steamboats...............
Scrimps, ° 50 Rossted: ...... @

 

 

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i holes © i rice Cur rent. Ps 2-bb, — econ. ..... cs _ ee i Dx a sional 7 20
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The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered cash buyers who| “ 5-1, tin scoop....... ae 24 G9 mee ee
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pay promptly and buy in full packages. ea a ee 8 75 | Choicest.. 1 ao Straight, in sacks .. 5 00
y in full packag | Grocers’ i1- bb, = scoop. 11 00; Dust........ ..10 @l4 " Were 2.2... 5 2
APPLE BUTTER. CHICORY. aes .. 1 BASKET FIRED. Patent ‘ sacks.... 6 00
Chicago goods.............. ee. Tapioca, fi’k or es 5 @6 im 22-1, tin co 35 me. es. @20 - « bere 2... 6 20
AXLE GREASE. ae 7 | Wheat, cracked.. : @5 | : brane“ . 34 Wat Chee... cs . @2 j|Graham “ sacks.... 4 3"
Per ice... sl $2 40 HEESE. Vermicelli, import.. @i | STARCH. Choicest.. @35 | Rye oe > 00
Rae 1 75 | Fancy Full Cream - 11 @li% domestic... @5 |, Corn. Extrachoice,wireleaf @4 MILLSTUFPS,
Diamond. .... . ee Good «a1-10 @ICG FISH—SALT. [le Domes GUNPOWDER. ee
ae 9 95 | Part Skimmed.. ..8 @9 | Cod, whole.. we BH@ 5H | 4OID eee eee ee eee 6144 | Common to fair....... 2 @% | Sereenings............ a)
BAKING POWDER. Sap Sago........ ..... G22 . —_— i Pe Te Gloss Extra fine to finest....50 @65 | Middlings te ae
Thepure _ x packages. ..81 20 Edam . @1 00]; “* rips . T%@ 8 1-1b packages 11... © | Glekeesl faney....... 7 Gat Mined Feed_.............. 31 @
mee 1 56 | Swiss, imported... 24@ 25 Herring, gibbed, bbl... 5 25] io a 6 OOLONG. Coarse meal....... 21 50
“ 6 Bong oe 25 domestic .... 15@ 16 % bbi 3 00 | 6-Ib ee 6% | Common to fair... ..-. 2 @30 RYE.
“ % Ib. “ 2% Ce 15 “ Holland, bbls.. 12 00/| 10 and 50 lb. boxes. . 4% | Superior to fine....... 30 @B5BC —: ll. @57
“ 1202. ea 4 20 CHEWING GUM. ts “kegs, oe, | Barrels. .-..... 43%, | Fine to choicest....... 55 @65 BARLEY,
“ 1lb. “ 5 49 Rubber, = lumps. . 20 “ sled _. : 20 | SNUFF. IMPERIAL. mot. 1 20
“ 5 1b. <— | Cb eer nme cers 40 Mackerel, No, 1, % ¢ bb. "42 00 | Scotch, in bladders........ 37 Common to fair 20 @z -s....l.tCCCi‘a‘L!CO 118
Less 20 per cent. to retailers. Spruce, 200. pieces. -40 0 Ib kit..1 10} Maccaboy, in jars.. ..35> | Superiortofine........ 40 Qe CORN.
Absolute, % Ib. cans, doz...1 00 | CATSUP. Trout, % bbl - ae @4 = French Rappee, in Jars.....43 YOUNG HYSON. Saal tote... ST
Pr "4 90 Suridier's, 36 ping... . 1s 0 Ib. 2 OAP. Common to fair.......18 >. . . 54
“ _ “ « e565 c pint en iS es 2 30 White, No. t, e Obla. | @6 - Detroit Sion: Co.’s Brands. Superior to fine. - i OATS
Acme, % m, ecans,3doz ... 45 : SO ee 113 50 10 Ib. kits..... | SEpOriOr........-........-... 3 30 ENGLISH BREAKFAST. Small lots. ....... : oo
“ “% lb “ a) eo CLOTHES PINS. . Family, % bbls '3 oo | Queen Anne................ So eee. 25 ars Car - 48
“ 1 1b. eg ae ae Sereda DONGS ........ 0 ’ . ia go | German Family.. .......... Cree... . eee 30 @35 HAY
ee : ae COCOA SHELLS. sie i aie ire asia erie Mottled German............3 OO) Bere. SS @e fNol.... 9 00
Telfer's a cans, doz. a 4 @4% eo eo ae | Old German... ............ 2 | Yea test... .......... 8 @10 | No.2 i 8 00
’ % Ib. ’ g5 | Pound packages........ @7 Lemo Vanilla | | U.8. Big Bargain ..... ...200 TroBaccos—Fine Cut. a
és iE neg “« “« "" 450 COFFEE EXTRACT. ee ’ 2 | Frost, Floater .......... ...375| D. Seotten & Co.’s Brands. HIDES, PELTS and FURS
q Arctic, x cans 60 Valley ee % — folding box.. "1 > i ao Gores Casifie .|........ | (3/00) Hiawatha (.0 00... 0 Perkins & Hess pay as fo!
SC ee a ” 420 —— 1 15 pas a a . 00 Cocoa Castile, Fancy... .....3 36| Sweet Cuba......... a4 lows nominal: : 7
4 a % > Se 2 00 ae 65 6 — c ae on 3 00 | Allen B. Wrisley’s brands. TOBACCOS— —Plug. il HIDES
2 “ Seta 9 60 Ri ‘ COFFEE—Green. a ae “ "3 00 4-01 | Oi cpa Be. ............ 3 20 | pews 2 henge a. Co.’s Brands. | Green . ce 4 as
eT ie eae a MA a Rio, fair. ..... ae @21 7 Jno, 1 _ Something Good. ............ 37 ce ee
‘ Red Star, is . cans.......- = ae 24 ox GUN POWDER. a) | Bouncer, 100.. LO aa ee oa Cc ured. Tantra @ ..
“ a wee... 11... @23 Bee 7 | sop | “Tobacco”. ice ll c co”
4 tb poceat 1m ancy, washed . @24 Hialt bees ..3 00} A. 4 amnccie. Seine. ape a : e :
BATH BRICK. “golden. . : @4A jc causes | Boxes . saeee-- 9+ -Ome | ghee ll. iPS, 8 7} aah i
English, 2 doz. in case. .... nn a oR So oe 15 | | Kegs, English.......... ... 1% Plow Boy,2 oz... cured..... ++ 5 @ 5%
pee se SU See % Mexican & Guatemala 23 @24 — =... ll. CL Ll SAL SODA. | Ta Calfskins, green ae 5 @6
American. 2 doz. in case. 70 | Java, Interior 2 @2% : JELLIES. i “ 18 oz cured.. 5 @i
ao Chicago goods 5% | Semana: boxes. or | ue Deacon skins...... 10 @30
BLUING. ‘Gross ManGheling.. @30 ' cua oe ee = | VINEGAR. No. 2 hides of.
Arctic, 4 02 ovals........-- 4 00| Peaberry .............. ‘B @4 | no vasa ea a 30 | Mixed bird. SEEDS. ‘ Ee Ee ee es ai 8 aan
ce 7 00 | Mocha, genuine..... 2% @8 |No1 ots 30 | Mixed bird.. A@ 6 i 10 @es
‘* pints, round ....... 1050| To ascertain cost of roasted as. 50 | Canar y a — Estimated wool, per 20 @28
“ No. 2, sifting box... 2 75 coffee, add \c. per Ib. for roast- 2 ae | i ei enn _ PAPER & WOODENWARF WOOL
“ No.3, : : 4 00| ing and 15 per cent. forshrink-| pire eo 30 | a AIR eT RODS = iil. ee si 2@30
ee . a cat correns—Packase, Calabria. 000 Rape 22s ween * & Co, quote as fol | Unwashed ee 10@22
N Hurl Rennie 1% ae cabinets . a ie ee squares SALT —o ae ae ga es'are for No. 1 only
=e fur Ae eee 2 00 McLaughlin’s XXXX_ _.24y Oandensed, 2 dos........... 12% Common Fine per bbl. ... @95| Rockfalls . ae —- ..0 — -
ee ee 2434 MATCHES. | Solar Rock, 56 lb. sacks..... 27| Hardware ................--. 2% ao mace tae nn a : — : -
aad 250| “ incabinets ........... 251% so ; age css . | 28 pocket......--..---.-.---- 175] Bakers ...............--.--, eae ee “+ oa
Parlor Ce 275 | Durham.. 1. 24% Resin parlor. ge voace o a A UL trttettinee este: tame 2 Gli Dey Goods...........- 54@s ae a ae oa 7 2 =
Common Whisk......-..--. 90 CLOTHES LINES. Pe eee eter ata nnat [Eola la an 215) Jute Manilla........... 644@3_ | Goon any a «BO
ee 1 20| Cotton, 40 ft....... per doz. 135 Export parior......-......-- 4 ” Beats bu. bags ............ = Red Express No. 1 i. oe oo ‘aah
Mill . ae ee . 32 . So fe... 1 50 MOLASSES. eae tse 7 5 ec eS ee ;
Warehouse... 23 a ee ee ee Sera, 17 | ae Mote tee eees = TWINES. oon — aa — 7 =
BU CKWHEAT FLOUR. - ni....... - 2 00 | Cuba Baking........ a: Aa le U 48 Cotton... ee ook, gray. ’ 40@ *
Pinine San... 5 00 & ie “ 295 Porto Rico.. 1 eee | Diamond Crystal, ae 1 50 Cotton, No. i.. ee 2 bse sans :
York State...... i Jute  oft....... « 100] New Orleans, an oo c po sacks 25) Bee ee eee one ee ‘oie
Self Rising. : a1 - wa... is 11% = ooaa 40 i iL 56- 4 _ Sea Island, ee . 40 Value : 0@ 3
CANDLES CONDENSED MILK. a: face... £0 im : = pocket.2 - No. 5 Hemp .....--.-.--- --- 18 Martin, dark 2 1 50@ 3.00
Hotel, 40 Ib. boxes.. 10 Zaete. 7 50 One-half seinthe: "36 extra cs i > ; = = NO. 6 “2.22... e cece ee eee ee 17 wo 25@ 1 00
eee Taos ytee 9% Aaa Ce 8 00@ 77 OATMEAL. na jerrces.. 5 19) Weer... 8 ae 7 15
Paraffine .. .....-------+--- 11 COUPONS. Barrels .....--.2--++--2 +++: 6% SALERATUS. WOODENWARE. Ovessuni.........- 05 15
Wicking .....-..,--.---. S. . 2 “Superior.” or BARTOM................. 3 50 Church’s, Arm & Hammer...5% Tubs, No. 1 Ca cece oe ce ie a 8 00 ee $00 800
——— 81 per hundred.......... 2.50] parrels cee Dwight'sCom........ -.-.-. a. og ‘< Skunk.......-..... ie 12
6 oe “ a [ei ....:.° = ae ee ee ry, ne i i OU 2 (
Clams. i Ib. Little Neck oe ee 6 a cep) Half bbis.. ........... GES DeLand’s Cap Shear. on Pails, No. 1, two- hoop.. + aes ces aoe
Clam Chowder, 3 Ib... ..... 2 10) $10,“ eens 5 00 a ee 5% No. i, three hoop.... 17) Ib... |... 200 500
Cove Oysters, 1 Ib. —. --125) gop, a 6 09 | Medium... ++ el a tae... 55-5 sss. 5 Clothespins, 5 gr. boxes.... 50 DEERSKINS—Per pound.
2 Ib. or “Tradesman.” +o SYRUPS. Bowls, llinch............-. 1 00} Thin and green.............. 0
Lobsters, . = *plenic elas. 1 90/81, per hundred.. 200 Small, bol. ... 30 wen. 95 e” aq es i Oe 2)
“ 1'ib. _ a 30 $2, aia ao “ab Bl. oe on dt cae. 27 i = m - 200) Gray ; ae
lp RIOR cee we ccces “sc Le « EB R | Pare Sugar bil.........-. ' a oleate 2 7 a 35
“ 2 Tb, Star.. eee eee $a es 0040 «assorted, 17s and 195 2 50 | * as :
Mackerel, 5 Tomato Sauce 3 50 7 ‘ 5 00 T. D. fall coumt........ 7 " “ 106, Tisand 1 2 li teloe | ............. 3 @ 3%
= stand ....... ; = Subject to the following dis- Cob, No. 3........---.-. ----1.25 Gina ia. shea , | Baskets, > market Te 36) gicana bates. J es
i ~ 2 eee a 3 , . RICE. | zinger SMaps.......--- ( ee 1 50 ie
counts e 3 . 5 . Suenos... 1... .. 1%@ 2
se tard... .3 50! « Carolina — Se Sugar Creams......... 8% “ No. | oe Pgh oi
: “ biped e mane : om 50 =e ae san per omne. 2... 6% Frosted Creams....... 8 ss willow of ‘tha, aos : 25, Ginseng ..--- hy 2 5"H3 0)
; Salmon, . ~ Columbia i T5@1 95} 4000 ce — “ ' No. 2 6 @ Graham Crackers ae 8 “ “ No37 25 OILs.
; b. Alaska.. @!1 60 (Cicmne. — No. i J 7 Oatmeal Crackers.... 8 < —e * BO ae ia
‘ Sardines, ‘peau 2g Kenosha Buiter. ........-.- m™% ee 6 SHOE POLISH. i ws ‘ “ No.2 4 25 | The Standard Oi! Co. quotes as
- ane B..- 3 “ SAUERKRAUT. Jettine, 1 doz. in box.. 75 “ “ ‘“ = No35 or| _ follows:
4 « Mustard %s...... @l Panga emg ey 5% Barrels. . ae TEAS. a ce Water White.......... Aa 9%
; “ imported \s..-11 @12| 7 « “family ee sit Half barrels... --- + BO) sapan—Regular. gu GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS saa Seer etnias g ~
Z - peea. “A .....- 10 oma ll : ee ae as Negie ... 7%
q Trout, 3 1b. on 2 50] Bost: - aaa Re oe Kitchen, $ doz. in box ae 250 | Good. ee @22 WHEAT. _ | Gasoline.... saa e @ 9%
j ' FRUITS. oan Sod; he nt a scinana 2 Ul Co. 2 50 | Choice. a _ a 90 WitOGGe ec 27 @3%6
: Apples, gallons......-- oe So’ eg et ee ge oo SOUPS. Ghoteese el 32 @26 | Be eee ie Engine . ae io pe
Apricots .........-......-. 2 501g Oyster cee 5% Snider’s Tomato... ........2 40| Dust ........_-..------ 10 @14 Air wheat bought on 601 on Black, 15 Cole est. @1
Blackberries.. --+++++-1 10] City Oyster, XXX. 5% sPices—Whole.
| sted... ca ‘ol, CREAM TARTAR, INE os cicete sie 10
: sce aa Strictly pure..........--.-. 38 Canta, ‘China in mais... 7.
5 E Pra. pe a iS ng 159 OO ee 25 “ Batavia in bund....1
{ Geuanien....-..---.:---1 9 DRIED FRUITS. a... Saigon in rolls...... 35
i Green Gages a . 1£0 DOMESTIC. Cloves, Fannin ee we
: a 185] Apples, sun- dried......8 @° Nes cuetin ce . The Finest 10) Cent (3) ar
‘ oe * (C  L.z.E_ENm—e—OUan:!6=—lUcS rk ee ee ee ee
: “ —- 2 ae = A eae han "y _ 20 on uteeee a Sees ae
1 “ Blackberries sé |. 10 No. 1 chic he ceee saae« ‘
‘ > * a
i Pears Peaches ae 20 @22 aoc EART H
: . Pineapples, ae PRUNES. Pepper, Singapore, 2 ON
ER see te, @ 8% a ae a
— Bia... c.2...... @ 9 ; cid. te tail
j ye ce ae cs PEEL. spices—Ground-—-In . MANUFACTURED BY
e nepngetion, ° binek.......-.. : = amen Saas oe So e Aenea 15 MANUFACTL
i deeveaesaass MORS . ow ee ose we Cassia, Batavia ll ee
i Strawberries. aan eau 1% CITRON. yo Saigon .25 DILWORTH BROTHERS,
s Whortleberries..........---- a ee eB Salm e 42 : Ta
2 ‘aglaRu a In boxes.............-. @20 | Cloves, Amboyna........... 26 PITTSBURGH.
eee eee cae ? . il ee 20
i Roast. . a a 5! zante, in barrels a 3g M4 Ginger, _ oe 12%
? ‘ oe in ea lg ee vn i i
d as souks Lime. Si wmimqaty €¢6 |. oie: o TRADE SUPPLIED BY
oe en @ w# pasenmn —Conioneia. Mustard, En i
“ Stringless.........-.-- 90! Bags .........-- e nd Trie. .25 : I. M. C LARK & SON,
“* Lewis’ Boston Baked..1 40) London Layers, 2 ¢ x n 2 2 ‘ Trieste oe 27 Grand Rapids.
os — brands..1 00@1 = a. .< Nutmegs, No. 2 ........---- 80 :
eas, soaked........-...-..- % . ancy. 2 75 | Pepper, Sin apore, black. 2 = i
© weeereres .....- «-.-.- @1 30} Muscatels,2crown ... 2 00 PP BaF white..... 30 = BRADDOCK, BATEMAN & CO.,
“ stand June.........-.-. 1 40 ae ee 223 “ ~ Gayenne..........- 25 Bay City
OO ne esos ooo a 7 Foreign. SUGARS. ay City |
Fs = meant eee iaes 2 2 Sone Led been Coda oad : (et Boats... @ 7% | i :
‘ usbrooms. oeee cee mdaras..........----- 2 Cae... @ 65% |
4 ene. gg a cis ie alo a 00 | Sultanes...........4-.. 16 |G lV vaumeed @ 6% | e m5 3
Squash ........ -.--------+-- 110 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Standard Granulated. 6.18Q 6%4 | - Et —_ T IN & ra Bi = Ss
Suceotaaii, soaked .........- 85! Farina, 100 tb. kegs......... 04 fie... 6.18@ 6% | DEALERS IN
‘standard ......._. 1 30] Hominy, per bbl............ 4 00| Confectioners’ A. @ 6.06 |
Tomatoes, stand br’ds — @1 00 Macaroni, dom 12 1b box..-. 5b White Extra C........ @5%|
CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S. import ioe... @ll Bawa ©.....-..-.- @ 5M | 1 es urs OO a O W
cues Sweet.. .........- 22| Pearl Barley.......... 3 $4 ¢. = te >; 4 9 3 3
ee aeecaan aeee te OE i. as. ce ellow |. - Ae
Pure.. io ERIC 33 Ae $ 3% | Dark Molasses........ @5 3° | NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.
Breakfast Cocoa........ . 401 Sago, German......... 5 Less than 100 lbs. 4%e advance. | WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE.

 

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Reminiscences of ‘‘Shinplaster Days.
Written for THt TRADESMAN

I notice in your journal of December
24 an article entitled ‘‘Profit in Paper
Money.” which recalls a singular condi-
tion of money matters thirty years ago,
or just previous to the war.

I was then a resident of Clinton county,
lowa, about twenty miles north of the
(now) city of Davenport. There was
some profit in paper money at that time,
and there were also lossess, but just
where the losses came in is not very

apparent, and few ever seemed to know |

or care. That section of our country
was then considered a part of the Far
West and had comparatively little to
boast of in the way of wealth, if we ex-
cept its rich virgin lands. The impend-
ing trouble between the Northern and
Southern States was pretty clearly fore-
seen, and the coin of the realm was
slowly being withdrawn from circulation
and paper money substituted. All silver
coin in fractional parts of a dollar read-

ily commanded a premium of 20 per|

cent., the banks holding the bulk of it
and refusing to pay it out. It soon be-
came a troublesome matter to make any
change in making small purchases at the
various stores. Merchants seemed com-
pelled to give credit until at least a $5
note would cancel the account. when it
would usually be paid; or, where the
parties desiring goods were unknown, a
$5 note or more would be received and
placed to their credit on the books and
be ‘traded out” a little at a time, as re-
quired.

It will be remembered that there were
no national banks at that time in the
country but many private ones more or
less responsible. Previous to this period
there had been sufficient small silver in
the country for ordinary business tran-
sactions, but, with most of this now
withdrawn and rapidly going into stock-
ing legs to be buried from sight for
future dire extremity, the annoyance in
the retail stores became unbearable.
There appeared to be no law against any
party issuing paper money, and the only
question was whether others could be
found who would accept it as such. At
length, some prominent firm in one of
our r:ver towns had a thousand or more
blanks printed, reading as follows: ‘‘The
firm of hereby agree to pay the
sum of twenty-five cents in goods for
this note when presented at our store, or
it will be redeemed at our office in sums
of one dollar and upward in current
paper money.” These first notes issued
were poorly pointed, the paper, however,
being of fair quality. They were from
four to five inches long and two and one-
half wide and were dated and signed by
the firm with pen and ink and issued
from their office. These small ‘‘promises
to pay” were soon found to ‘‘fill a long-
felt want,’’ and, the parties being well
known, this fractional exchange, crude
as it was, soon left the parent house and
was accepted by merchants and others
all over the county. The idea not having
been copyrighted, many other merchants
soon issued ‘‘shinplasters,” as they were
ealled, of the nominal value of five, ten
and twenty-five cents each. A few hav-
ing no financial standing could hardly
drive these ‘‘ children of their creation ”’
from their doors, while those issued by
others better known would be taken
without question. After making his pur-
chases, a customer might often be seen
with two or three dozen notes of the

A NLM ALLE AT SIT

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

| kinds mentioned in his hand. Laying
| them on the counter, he would ask the
|merchant to select such as he would
accept for his pay. Among them would
be some that would be rejected.

This method of currency |
opened a still wider field for those en-|
| gaged in heavier business, or who might, |
through their cupidity, desire to turn |
rascal and rob the publie by exchanging |
‘new lamps for old,’ or, in other words, |
poor currency for good. One firm in |
| particular. Burrows & Prettyman, of |
Davenport, Lowa, it was said issued over
$20,000, largely in five and ten dollar
notes. I think they were engraved by
an eastern bank note company; at all
events, they were well executed. Whether |
anyone ever lost by this ‘‘wild-cat cur-|
rency’ of B. & P. lLnever knew. To all
those desiring more capital to use in
their business, even if intending to re-
deem every dollar, the temptation was |
great to borrow funds by this means.
Such parties really had the use of what-
ever paper they could thus put in cireu-
lation without paying interest or fur-
nishing legal security.

1 was at this time confidential clerk
and cashier for a relative who was doing
a large business with a general stock of
merchandise at the county seat of Clin-
ton county. My employer had noticed
that this ‘‘private currency,’’ so to speak, |
was either regarded with confidence or
discredit according to the perfection of
the work and quality of the paper upon
which it was printed. He proposed,
therefore, to issue a few hundred dol-
lars, which should be printed on good
bond paper the exact size of ordinary
bank notes, each representing the sum
of twenty-five cents and with the medal-
lions engraved on the two upper corners.
The work was really good for that day,
and, as an extra precaution against
counterfeiting them, the words ‘“Twenty-
five Cents’? were printed in carmine in
large, delicately lined letters across the
face of each note. The paper and work
of engraving and printing cost fifty dol-
lars in Chicago. Like all others, they
were promises to pay in goods at the
store where issued, or in sums of one
doliar and upward on demand. The
paper being of far better quality than
that of those generally in circulation,
and the notes having more of an air of
respectability and the appearance of
money, they were readily taken by both

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customers and merchants and passed
current for a radius of fifty to one hun-|
dred miles. The president of the com- |
pany himself was an old and respected |
citizen and was known for many miles

| around.

These notes were also eagerly
sought after as curiosities, and scores of |
them were mailed to friends in the East-
ern States as souvenirs. One-half of this
issue was very soon in circulation and in |
a few months nearly all of it. I am|
pleased to say that they were taken as)
good currency long after many others |
had returned to their owners to remain. |

There were some amusing incidents |
connected with such a circulating eur: |
rency. The least rumor regarding its |
soundness would send it all home on the
run. Some busybody about twenty miles
away at one time started areport that,
our ‘‘red lined notes,’’ as the issue was |
called, were about to be repudiated. We)
heard of it in time and at once set to|
work to devise some scheme to prevent |
a ‘run’? on the bank. A happy exped-|
ient served to bring about the desired |

 

 

 

 

BEGIN THE NEW YEAR
RIGHT!

Write for Samples and Prices, Stating abovt what You Want.

Our Stock of Stationery and Paper is so large and varied that we do not send a complete line
of samples in response to requests, but send a few of the papers best adapted to the needs of the
eustomer, .

 

’ It pays to Illustrate your
Business

COUPON BOOKS.
HAVING PUT in special machinery
for the manufacture
of Coupons, we are prepared to quote

low prices and guarantee accuracy. We

mak all kinds and varieties of Coupons,

ILLUSTRATIONS OF ALL KINDS
STATIONERY. & CATALOCUE PRINTING

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

Use a cut of your building on your

the “Trade:man” and ‘“Superior’’ Cou-

pons being most in demand.

 

 

We are the largest manufacturers of

Coupons in the country. stationery.

ODD LOT NO. 1.

We have several thousand
8 Pound Note Heads, 5 3-4 x 9 Inches.
As we carry no other stationery

This is not a job lot, but an extra heavy stock.
as heavy and need the shelf space_we offer it at same price as our 7 lb. stock.

500 at $1.85
1000 at 2.75
2000 at 5.00

Printed and blocked in tabs of 100 each.

 

 

We cannot duplicate this lot when

present supply is gone.

 

Statements and Bill-heads.| | LETTER PAPER.

’ Use unprinted Letter Paper. In
DON'T Use a note head fora bill head. |

| writing to a new_house, you are
A properly ruled heading will |
| judged by your stationery.
cost you no jmore,and it will look more |
| We furnish 1,000 note heads for $2.25
We furnish 1,000 state-| .
| upward,
ments for $2.25 upward, and 1,000 bill |

business-like.

 

heads $2.50 upward. We buy paper of the makers and save

i

 

We cnn eave yun miner. — unnecessary handling and transperta-

| tion.

Goods can be delivered to any job-
bing house for shipment with your

goods.

DONT Think that abeve js all we can do. We have four floors occupied by our En-

graving, Printing and Binding Depart ments, and carry a full stock of paper

| an materials bought of first hands.

 

TAGS. ENVELOPES.
DON'T Use a bit of wrapp'ng paper : DON'T Use unprinted envelopes. A cor-

addressing a case of eggs. ner card ensures return to you of
may get torn off and you know how easy it|a missent letter instead of to the dead-
is to get your claim allowed by the railroad | letter office.
company. We can print you 1,000 white envelopes

We print 1,000 of the usual size tags | for $2.00 upward.

 

50---5 i
for $1.50---5,000 at $0 cents per 1,000 We buy ef the maker and sell at job-

 

We buy of the maker in jobbing quantities ber’s price, or less.

 

 

 
 
 

nN | Ce ROM eheciticn ised

 

 

eveniianmsae®, RRR hi

 

ei MICHIGAN ‘TRADESM

 

result. We sent quietly away and pur-
chased a large quantity of fractional sil-
ver. One morning very soon after this
there appeared a large tray of silver in
one of our show-cases in plain sight near
the front door, and, as our notes came in
for redemption that day, whether in
sums of two or twenty, I promptly
stepped to the tray and paid their face
in specie. The puzzled expression upon
many faces at this denouement was a
study, and many enquired what it meant,
as the notes were not redeemable in
coin. “It has no particular meaning,”’
would be the quiet reply, ‘‘only that,
having plenty of silver on hand, we
might just as well pay it out and show
our customers that they will not be per-
mitted to suffer loss on any currency
issued by us.’’ The ‘‘run” did not last
many hours, as the report rapidly went
out that the ‘‘red lined notes” were as
good as gold, and that, while only prom-
ising to pay in bankable paper, we were
actually redeeming them in silver in all
amounts received. As this was the only
scrip in the State for which specie had
been voluntarily paid without a question,
its credit at once became still greater.
Its area of circulation was also greatly
widened, and almost before we were
aware of it our notes were commanding
a premium equal with silver. The gen-
eral government soon after commenced
the issue of fractional money for the
universal accommodation of the people,
and all private issues of this kind were
obliged to be withdrawn from circula-
tion. Our bank books showed some
sixty or seventy dollars outstanding long
after our call was issued to redeem the
last of our notes, more than its first
cost being retained by the public. Even
in after years the president never refused
to redeem one of his notes promptly if
presented. I know of several of these
red lined notes still in existence which
are worn and soiled by extensive use but
which twenty times their face value
would not purchase. It is quite probable
that currency of this kind will never be

issued again. ADDISON.
—_ + >___——

Additions to the List of Cash Merchants

The advent of every New Year marks
numerous additions to the list of
chants who bid good bye to the credit
system. Amongthose who have ayes
the eash plan this yearis J. S. Toland,
the Ross general dealer, who announces
the change to his customers in the fol-
lowing manner:

mer-

Commencing January 1, 1891, I shall
sell goods for
STRICTLY CASH

only. Should responsible parties desire
eredit for a short time, I will, if satis-
factory, issue coupon books in sums of
one, two and five dollars on good notes
for thirty days, to bear interest after ma-

turity. I take this course, believing it
will enable me to

SELL GOODS CLOSER
and give better satisfaction to my
patrons.

Thanking you for your past liberal
patronage, and soliciting a continuance
of the same, 1 remain,

Yours truly,
J. S. TOLAND.
<<

Graham Roys has engaged to travel |
for L. H. Beals & Co., of Westfield, |
Mass., for another year, being the seven- |
teenth year he has represented that |
house on the road, His territory has |
been enlarged so as to give him the en- |
tire State hereafter. Mr. Roys is a)
faithful worker, as is evidenced by his
long association with one house.

 

 

A Salesman Backed Up by His ouee. |
MARSHALL, Nov. 28—It has well paid |
my firm to advertise their business in |
your paper and you will surely receive |
another order from them next season. |
You have my permission to make such |
use of this acknowledgment as you see
fit or refer anyone to my house.
Wma. Connor,
Traveling Representative for Michael |
Kolb & Son.

|

WHAT THE HOUSE SAYS.

RocHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 18—Enclosed
find $1 for renewal of our subscription
for your valuable paper for one year.

We have added much new trade in
Michigan as a result of our advertise-
ment in your paper and have instructed
our Mr. Conner to renew the same at|
once. MICHAEL Kos & Son.
tn

The North Shore Limited.
Which runs between Chicago and New|}
York and Boston, over the Michigan
Central, New York Central and Boston
& Albany railroads, has probably ex-|
cited more comment of most favorable |
character from the traveling public in|
general and metropolitan press in particu-
lar, than any other train on wheels.
The New York World says: ‘*The train is
made of Wagner buffet, smoking and _li-
brary, sleeping, dining and drawing-room
ears built expressly for this service.
They represent the best possible out-
come of the car-builder’s art, and every
applianceffor ease and safety has been
drawn upon in the construction of these
rolling luxuries. Once on the flying
trip the passenger does not suffer the |
least annoyance, passing over such an}
easy graded and curveless route as these
two roads combine to make. The ves- |
tibule arrangement of the train makes |
it thoroughly comfortable and luxurious |
from end toend and the day spent on
the trip between the sea-side metropolis
and the great city by the lakes could
not pass more pleasantly at the best ap-
pointed hotel. The meals served are
from choice menus, with all that is sub-

ee COMI ok occ icc cues. { 6:00am + 6: “30 am
| For = and Chicago...t'0:15 am +10:30 am
| PrOtn AG... 8... . 11:45am
For Fort Ws — ne and the East.. + 2:00 pm
| Por Gime + 5:30pm f 6:09 pm |
For Kalamazo and Chicago... +10.00 pm 11:05 pm
bt IN ik nn ee oe t10:30 p m

stantial and delicious in the great mar- |
kets at either end of the line. The
sleeping arrangements include well

heated, ventilated and lighted cabinets,
where the utmost privacy and ease may |
be enjoyed.” |

By the recent change in the time card
of the Michigan Central’s Grand Rapids
division, the train which formerly left
Grand Rapids at 11:55 a. m., now leaves
at 1:20 p. m., except Sundays, arriving
at Jackson 4:20 p. m. and Detroit at 6:45
p. m., connecting with the North Shore}
Limited, bringing the passengers into |
the Grand Central depot at New York at
4:00 p. m. and Boston at 6:00 p. m. on
the following day. No extra charge is |
made for this magnificent and sumptu-
ous service nor for the wonderful speed
with which the passenger is safely and
luxuriously carried.

For accommodation and any information
desired, apply to G. W. Munson, City
Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe St., or to F. M. |
Briggs, General Agent, Grand Rapids,
Mich.

 

 

 

Crockery & Glassware,

 

 

LAMP BURNERS.
No.0 Sun Se ee ee Ss 45 |

eee —. oo
No.2 ~ oe
eee Cee 75 |

LAMP CHIMNEYS. ..—Per box. |
6 doz. in box. |

We eons i ei .. «2 wal
ee 1 88
a 270
First quality. 1
No. s crimp top el ae 2 25 |
EO 2 40 |
Nes * bas ee a 3 40
XXX Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top eee ccs e Cec Ciiee os .--2 60 |
a a ee 2 86 |
nae * c oe ee 3 86 |
Pear] top. |
a 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled bese Ces cee ae 3 70 |
lsc aeaee 470)
| No. Deen be ' Ne 470
La Bastic.
No. = plain bulb, per doz. ees eye eee 13
| No. 2 ene
No. crimp, per, ee. 1 35
ee ee aa oie ows 1 60
STONEWARE—AKRON. :
Batter Croern: per gal.i....... i... ..... -_
Jugs, % gal., per. doz Sa
eS meee
Milk Pans, % gal., per doz. (glazed 66c).... 65
“ “ 1 “ce ae ( “oe 90c) i %3

For Muskegon—Leave.

| tien,

| 3:45 p m has parlor car attached.

| Ludington

| Big Rapids

11:30
111235

| Howell..
| Howard City .......

| Saginaw City.

MAN.

Grand Rapids & Indiana.
In effect December 7, 1890.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Arrive — Leave coing

    
  
   
 

Sou vorth
For Saginaw, solid train ....... + 7:30 am
For Traverse City + 7:05 am
For Traverse City & Mack +11:30 am
For Saginaw, solid train.. + 4:30 pm
Por Cadtiiac........ ... + 5:00 pm
For Mackinaw. 10:30 pm
| From Kalamazoo

TRAINS GO

Trains marked (j) run daily; (+) daily except Sunday.
Sleeping and parlor car service:

train, Wagner sleeping car fur Mackinaw
South—6:30 a m train, parlor chair car for Cincinnati;
10:30 a m train, through parlor coach to Chicago: 6 p m
train, Wagner sleeping car for Cincinnati;
train, Wagner sleeping car for Chicago.

 

Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana.

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

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

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

 

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING W8sT.

 

  

Arrives. Leaves
Seorsane Ceeeeee....... 2... 12:50p m 1:00 p m
PO EE cece cic cee cee 5:00 pm 6:10 p m
tGrand Rapids Express........... 10:25 pm
WG APOE, oc ccccc eens . 6:40 am 7:05 a m
Co 7:30am

GOING East
fpetrott Express........-... 6:50am
tThrough Mail. . ae 10: 10am 10:20am
tEvening Express... cede cuen 3:35 pm 3:45 p m
“Miges Bapres.............. --. 9:50 pm 10:55 p m
+Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily.

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

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

Tickets and sleeping car berths secured at
D., @. H. & M.R’y offices, 23 Monroe St., and at the depot

Jas. CAMPBELL, City Passenger Agent

Jxo. W. Loup, Traffic Manager, Detroit.

 

Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern.

For Toledo and all points South and East, take
the Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Rail
way from Owosso Junction. Sure connections
at above point with trains of D., G. H. & M., and
connections at Toledo with ev ening trains for

Meveland, Buffalo, Columbus, Dayton, Cincin
nati, Pittsburg, Creston, Orville and all promi
nent points “= connecting lines.

. J. PatsLey, Gen’! Pass. Agent
CHICA ,
& W _ MIC ‘HIGAN RY.

DEPART FOR
Chicago .... 4 +900
Indianapolis ....
Benton Harbor. .} +9:00

 

OCTOBER 5, 1890.

 

 

A.M.) ©. Mu. | P.M.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(P.M. | P.M.
|

+1:00)*11 :2
+1:09,§11:
r

 
   

St. Joseph.......| +9::00
Traverse City...| 7:25

Mockevon. ...... |
Manistee :

Baldwin

 

Grand Haven...| 19:00 ti: “004 52d
Holland #9:00 +1:00 + 5:05

+Wee k Days. * daily. Except Saturda ly
A. M. has ae h chair car to Chica-

9 2
Qs ) ) go. foextra charge for seats,

P M. runs through to Chicago solid

e sale
1 | 0) with Wagner buffet cur; seats 75 cts.
al = FM. bas — rh che _ r to Manis-
rye a .
D205 tee. via M. GN. E R. solid train
to Traverse C ity.
P M. solid train has sleeper for Tra-
t

verse City.
P. M. is solid train with Wagner pal-
ace sleeping car through to: hicago,
and also a combination sleeping and
parlor car through to Indianapolis,
via Benton Harbor.

DETROIT NOVEMBER 3), 1890.
’ ccna TEE eit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lansing & Northern RR
DEPART FOR | a | i ee
| Detroit and East.........
[renee ............

Grand Ledge. ae a
Lake Odessa oe if
Plymouth. .

Edmore
Alma. |
St. Louis ...

 

*Daily. tEvery week day.
p76) A M. runs through to Detroit w ith par-
ce “e) lor car; seats 25 cents. Arrive at New
York 10:55 a. m.
1 20 P. M, runs through to Detroit with par-
lor car, seats 25 cents Arrive at New
York 4:00 p. m.
‘6 P. M. runs through to Detroit with par
25 lor car, seats 25 cents. Arrive at New
York 8:50 p. m

| For tickets and information apply at Union }
Ticket Office, 67 Monroe street, anc
|

Union depot.
Gro, DeHaven, Gen. Pass. Agt.

North—11:30 a m |}
train. parlor chair car for Mackinaw City; 10:30 p m |
City. |

11:05 p m |

From Muskegon— Arrive. |

  
 

15

| MICHIGAN CENTRAL

 
 

| “The Niagara Falls Route.’’
|
| DEPART. ARRIVE
DRIER OI ok 5 ov cnc ce reccscces 7:20am 10:00pm
sila chan 6:30am 5:00pm
Day Express... 12:00am 10:00am
| *Atlantic & Pacific Express... .1ll:15 pm 6:00am
gy EOE ccccecce cccese 5:40pm 1:15pm

re

All other daily except Sunday.

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

Parlor cars run on Day eee and Grand Rapid
Express to and from Detroit

FRED M. Briees, Gen’! Agent, 85 Monroe =

q. 8. Hawkins, Ticket Agent, Union Dep

Gro. W. MUNSON, Union Ticket Office, St Seni St.

O. W. Rueeies, G. P. & T. Agent., Chicago.

FIT FOR

A trentlewans
Table:

All goods bearing the

 

 

name of

THURBER, WHYLAND & CO.,
OR

ALEXIS GODILLOT, JR.

 

 

 

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

*|  ‘THORBER, WHYLAND & 00,,

| West Broadway, Reade & Hudson Streets.
New Yerk City

WANTED.

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

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

EARL BROS.,

COMMISSION MERCHANTS

157 South Water St., CHICAGO.

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

 

 

cn

3EFORE. BUVING GRATE

\ uiar and Testimonials. Sent Free.
Economical. Sanitary, Cleanly and Art
d,feonse FIRE PLACE, GRAND RAPID.

! aus un

 

 

oa Portable or Stationary Engines, 1
to 500 Horse Power, Portable or Station-
ary Boilers, Saw Mills, Shafting, Pullies,
Boxes, Wood-working Machinery, Plan-
ers, Matchers, Moulders, ete., call on

Ww. C. DENISON,

Manufacturers’ Agent,
88, 90, 92 So. Division St., Grand Rapids,
Estimates given on Complete Outfits.

 

 

 
    
          
     

   

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Some Phases of the Clerk Question.
Written for THE TRADESMAN.

‘“‘Where did you get the shoes you have
there?’ I asked of a lady friend from the
eountry who was visiting in the city last
week.

“I cannot give you the name of the firm,
as I am a stranger here,’’ was her reply,
‘“but I know of one man who lost a sale
to-day by hischurlishness and ill nature.”

‘“*How was that?’’ Lasked.”’

“‘Well, L walked into a large shoe store
and asked a gentleman if he kept ———’s
shoes, manufactured at Rochester, and he
very curtly replied, ‘No! I never heard
of such a shoe, but I have all other kinds
just as good or better.
look at any shoes?’ And he jerked out
the question as if his time was worth a
dollar a minute, and, before I had time to
reply, he laid a pair of shoes on the coun-
ter before me.
They had extra counters—
something I always like to find in a shoe—
and they seemed perfect in every partic-
In my mind I decided to take them,
earing little about the cost.
price of this pair?’ I asked.

Do you want to

They were certainly very
fine shoes.

ular.

In the same

That last
speech settled the question with me. I
had expected to pay five dollars for such
shoes as I wanted, and those he showed
me would have been cheap at that; but,
had he then offered me them for two dol-
lars, I would not have taken them. I
may as well confess that, by this time, I,
too, had lost my temper—or found it—
and, with a ‘Good morning, sir,’ 1 left
the store. Entering another shoe store
not far away. I found a salesman who
was more obliging and from whom I pur-
chased the shoes you are looking at, al-
though I would have preferred those with
the extra counters. This gentleman said
at once, ‘If we haven’t the shoes you wish
and you can wait, we can order them
from the factory.’ I am willing to be
charitable regarding ill-natured salesmen
of either sex, and there may have been
good reasons for the first man being so
snappish to me this morning; but he
should have known that, in such a mood,
he was out of place as a salesman, and
should have kept away from thestore un-
til he was in a different humor.”’
+2

“TI wanted acertain shade of silk rib-
bon,” said a lady to me one day when we
were discussing the subject of courteous
attention given to customers in the various
stores. ‘‘I am generally able to judge
something of the desire to speak the
truth, or the don’t-kuow-and-don’t-care-
ativeness implied in a clerk’s answer.
Having been a number of times annoyed,
when purchasing ribbon in the smal! town
in which I live, by finding cotton in rib-
bon which had been sold to me for ‘all
silk,’ 1 thought that | would try and see
if I could find what I wanted in a Grand
Rapids store. Entering one of the

five to-morrow”

largest

ones here, I found a young lady attend- |

ant at the ribbon counter. ‘I would like
some pink ribbon, number twelve, all
silk, if you please,’ I said to her, naming
the desired shade. (This I
pleasant tone of voice.)

im &
She soon found

said

it, and, holding it between myself and the | swers to our questions, which, perhaps

light, I examined it closely. As it was

| face.
| understood me, I said to her, ‘Is this all

“whet tothe | myself to the pleasure(?) of the cloak-

. . : | maker.
one. out-of-patience tone, he er. | sn hen ded Gian.
‘They are four dollars to-day _ will = | work, theve being nothing seid by either
eres lof us, I knowing her to be competent to

 

|} as I have many a time seen them do, and
| subject to the whims and caprices of the
| spoiled darlings of fashion, it is no won-

nearing dusk and the store was not yet|

lighted, I could not satisfy mys as
g sfy myself as to | vow that I would never accept a service— |

the quality. During all this time the
girl had not uttered a word—not even
when she handed me the bolt—but had

stood looking at me with a sneer on her | brighten someone’s life for a whole day.’’

j
j
j
|
}

| day long, hurrying about here and there,

THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Wishing to be certain that she had

silk? ‘That’s what you asked for,’ was
her withering reply. Looking her square-
ly in the eye, I said, ‘You have not an-
swered my question. I asked you, ‘‘Is
this all silk®”’?’ Not a whit abashed, she
answered in the same vinegar-like tone
she had used before, ‘I s’pose so!’ ‘Well,’
said I, ‘as I already have a stock on hand
wuich is useless, I do not propose to buy
any more upon supposition. Good after-
noon.’ And I walked out.”
*#@

This circumstance reminded me of an
amusing incident which another lady re-
lated to me not long ago, and which indi-
cates another side to this discourteous
clerk question. Said she:

‘‘L was having a cloak made at ———’s
this winter,” naming one of our large dry
“I had an appointment
with the cloakmaker for 12:30, on a cer-
tain day. I was thereon time and walked
at once into the cloakfitting room. Lay-
ing aside my wraps, I silently submitted

goods stores.

too exuberant
continued her

Pinching in a

she

do her work without any suggestions on
my part. The shop girls and evidently |
some of the clerks from downstairs were |
eating their lunch in the workroom on
the other side of the partition. They
were chattering away as only overworked
girls can when they get a little breathing
spell from the hourly grind. One of the |
clerks was relating her experience with
a recent customer. ‘I waited on a lady |
this morning who was actually the polit- |
est customer that ever came to my de-|
partment! She was so stylishly dressed, |
and her furs were magnificent! But, al- |
though apparently so rich, she wasn’t al
bit haughty in her manners, but was so|
gentle and unassuming, and she treated |
poor, insignificant me as if I was her
equal in every respect. She seemed act- |
ually distressed that 1 had toe open half a)!
dozen boxes before I found the shades of
the gloves she wanted; and she bought a)
lot of me, too, which is more than most
of them do, and they make me open every |
box on the shelves for them, besides! |
And, just before she left my counter, she
turned and thanked me so sweetly for
“the trouble she had put me to.”’ Then
several of the other clerks told of the
trials which they had had in serving the |
dear public, when one of them spoke up
ina blunt tone of voice. ‘Humph.” said
she, ‘it?d knock me down if anybody d
thank me for anything I showed ’em?

“Well,” said the narrator of the above |
conversation ‘‘that rough speech was a
revalation tome. The girl was probably

not the most suave person in the world to
wait upon a customer, but she evidently

possessed, beneath the rough exterior, a
heart capable of feeling a slight. Girl
clerks do not, as a rule, receive an alarm-
ingly remunerative salary. Added to this
the fact that they are on their feet all

 

waiting on four or five persons ai once,

der that they sometimes give short an-

seem to them foolish and irrelevant. And,
when I heard what that girl said, I then

and there mentally registered a solemn |

|no matter how trivial—from a clerk in|

any store without a kind ‘Thank you.’ |
It would cost me nothing and might}

 

 

 

 

ORDER
Jennings’ Extracts.

See Quotations,

 

     
 
 

HESTER & FOX,

YRIMO
Pipe Wrench

Made of Forged Steel and Interchangeable in all its Parts.

ana Grand Rapids, Mich.

  

PATENTED 1889

 

Spring & Company,

Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks,
Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery,
Gloves, Underwear, Woolens,
Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams,
Prints and Domestic Cottons

We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well
assorted stock at lowest market prices.

Spring & Company.

 

Covpon Books

 

Buy of the Largest Manufacturers in the
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The Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids

 

Pennsylvania © Lumberman’s.

The best fitting Stocking Rub-
bers in the market. A full line of
Lycoming Rubbers on hand. Try
them.

GEO. H. REEDER & CO.,

State Agents for
LYCOMING RUBBER CO.

158 and 160 East Fulton Street.

YHE PUTNAM GANDY 60,

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AND JOBBERS IN
Oranges, Lemons,

Bananas, Figs, Dates,
Nuts, Oysters.