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Until from us they are apart—
He walks with us in mans estate;
We know his was a brother heart.
The marching yeats may render dim
The humanness of other men,
To-day we are akin to him
As they who knew him best were then.

Wars have been won by mail-clad hands,
Realms have been ruled by sword-hedged kings.
But he above these others stands
As one who loved the common things;
The common faith of man was his,
The common faith in man he had—
For this to-day his grave face is
A face half joyous and half sad.

A man of earth! Of earthy stuff,

As honest as the fruitful soil,
Gnarled as the friendly trees, and rough

As hillsides that had known his toil;
Of earthy stuff—tet it be told,

For earth-born men rise and reveal
A courage fair as beaten gold

And the enduring strength of steel.

So now he dominates our thought,
This humble great man holds us thus
Because of all he dreamed and wrought,
Because he is akin to us.
He held his patient trust in truth
While God was working out His plan,

.And they that were his foes, forsooth,

Come to pay tribute to the Man.

Not as the great who grow more great
Until they have a mystic fame—
No stroke of fortune nor of fate
Gave Lincoln his undying name.
A common man, earth-bred, earth-born,
One of the breed who work and wait—
His was a soul above all scorn,
His was a heart above all hate.
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WOODROW WILSON.

A. great light bas gone out. fhe
fact that it had long been visibly burn-
ing low does not leave the country
less moved by learning that it is
finally extinguished. In their first en-
deavors to figure to themselves the
significance of the death of ex-Presi-
dent Wilson, the people will fix their
minds upon that in him which com-
manded the admiration of his fellow-
countrymen and, at last, that of the
whole world. They will dwell upon
his high intellectual gifts; they will
recall his strength of character and
firm-set will; they will delight to think
that his rise from obscurity to the
position of the greatest political power
on earth was typical of what America
is and can.do for her valiant sons.
And a note of universal human sym-
pathy is certain to be sounded in ex-
pressions of sorrow at ‘Mr. Wilson’s
passing from the earthly scene, since
even his bitterest opponents have felt
their hearts soften at the spectacle of
his prolonged and pathetic enfeeble-
ment, which he bore with such un-
complaining fortitude.

He rose to his greatest heights dur-
ing the war with Germany. His lead-
ership was then as unquestioned as it
was eminent. Members of all political
parties gave him unbounded _ con-
fidence. Americans placed their treas-
ure and their lives at his disposal in a
spirit of absolute trust. And by the
end of the war his fame and authority
had risen to a pitch throughout the
world never attained by any foregoing
President in his own lifetime.

When the man who in 1910 was only
a college teacher of whom probably
the German Emperor had never heard
was able in 1918 to notify the Kaiser
that he must give up his throne—and
did it with the willing delegation of
that duty to him by all the crowned
heads and Governments among the
Allies—he might have been excused
for thinking that, in Lord Roseberry’s

 

phrase about Napoleon, he had torn
the very heart out of human glory.

To-day all these things are for mem-
ory, not for tears. During his long
and heroic struggle against crippling
disease, Mr. Wilson came almost to
occupy the position of one who had
survived his own fame and had be-
come aware of the considerate judg-
ment of his fellow-citizens. Happily,
he did not die until he had seen the
waves of personal animosity subside
and until he knew that the kindliest
public feeling would accompany him
to his grave—N. Y. Times.

GOLD INFLOW BIG PROBLEM.
The surplus of gold imports over ex-
ports during 1923 was $55,800,000 in
excess of that of the preceding year.
The average net inflow of the metal
per month during the past year was
$24,500,000, or almost a million dol-
lars for each working day. There is
an interesting connection between the
inflow of gold and that of goods. From
February to April, inclusive, it looked
as if the gold movement to the United
States had been definitely checked.
The average net receipts per month
during this period amounted to only
about $7,000,000 or less than a third
of the monthly average for the year.
It will be noted that this was also the
period during which the imports of
merchandise exceeded exports. In
other words, we were then getting less
gold and more goods. As soon as our
industrial activity began to slacken,
however, and imports of goods began
to decline, imports of gold began to in-
crease. A further stimulus to the im-
portation of gold came as a result of
our larger exports in the last quarter
of 1923. The flood of gold represents
the efforts of foreign countries to pay
their debts in the United States.

Time was when the foreign trade de-
velopments such as have been wit-
nessed in recent months—that is, in-
creasing exports of merchandise,
smaller imports of goods and heavier
receipts of gold—would have been re-
garded as proof positive of prosperity.
Before the days of Adam Smith a
country’s wealth was supposed to vary
directly with its stock of precious
metals, and the laws of every nation of
Europe were designed to regulate
trade in such a way as to encourage
the inflow of gold and silver. To-day
however, there is probably not an in-
telligent business man in the country
who regards our large hoard of gold
as an unmixed blessing.

Paul M. Warburg, chairman of the
board of the National
Council, calls this gold surplus a lux-
ury and a danger for the United States
and a necessity for other countries.
“We must learn,” he says, “to consider
our gold as the gold reserve not only
ef the United States but of practically
the entire world, and we must admin-

 

Acceptance

ister it with that fact in our minds.”
He points out that many of the lead-
ing banks of Europe are now using
their cash balances in the United
States as their principal or secondary
gold reserves, and that our large hoard
of the metal is thus serving not only
as the foundation for our own currency
and credit structure, but also for that
of other countries. For this reason
he believes that it is desirable to keep
our gold reserves higher than would
otherwise be necessary.

That is a point which those who ad-
vocate lower bank rates as a means of
stimulating speculation might bear in
mind.

 

THE IMMORTAL ADDRESS.

Fifty years ago last November the
Gettysburg address was delivered in
the midst of the new graves on the
field that marked the war’s high tide.

It did not take long to utter it. Not
all of the outdoor gathering could
hear it. It was contrasted unfavor-
ably by some of those present with
the ornate and now forgotten speech
of one of the most popular orators of
that day.

Simply, unassumingly, with that di-
rect candor that is finer even than re-
straint, Abraham Lincoln told Ameri-
ca’s grief for her dead and America’s
inspiration from their sacrifice.

The measure of the greatness of. his
words is well shown on the fiftieth an-
niversary of their utterance. After
half a century the Gettysburg address
stands not only as the’ finest expres-
sion of Americanism, but also as one
of the supreme classics of the English
language.

No American should let Lincoln’s
birthday pass without reading the im-
mortal address of Nov. 19, 1863. +

 

Apparently the alarm felt in cer-
tain church circles over the possible
effects of the current controversy be-
tween the Modernists and the Funda-
mentalists is going to prove unjusti-
fied, as it is becoming evident that far
from causing any injury to religion
the argument has aroused interest in
a subject toward which the average
citizen was becoming apathetic. Radio
listeners-in were so keen over the
Straton-Potter debate on evolution
that they took a vote on its merits, and
from many cities in different parts of
the country come reports of a health-
ful, intelligent interest in religious
matters that has been somewhat lack-
ing for the past few years. The space
devoted to both sides of the contro-
versy in New York newspapers is evi-
dence enough of the public interest.
Better wholesome discussion and con-
viction on one side or the other than
ignorance and indifference.

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Fortune turns her back on the man

who turns back,

 

WOOLS AND WOOLENS.

Wool markets at London and the
Antipodes during the past week
showed advancing prices on all grades.
The offerings at auction were snapped
up and there were comparatively few
withdrawals. In this country, while
the sales reported have not been many,
the prices are well maintained. It is
reported and denied that quite sizable
quantities of wool have been contract-
ed for in advance of shearing. The
movement of domestic wool was ex-
pected to be contingent on the re-
sponses to-the openings of woolen
fabrics for Fall. The first of these, by
the American Woolen Company, oc-
curred on Thursday. Prices quoted
seemed to surprise its competitors
more than they did buyers. On certain
staples the prices are on the basis of
those of last Fall, and the advances
on the woolens are comparatively
light. The price schedule was inter-
preted as an evidence of the desire of
the company to keep its mills occupied
and its organization intact. Scoffers
professed to believe that many of the
offerings were from stock and that
others were based on wool bought at
lower than prevailing rates. All
agreed, however, that the appeal made
was a strong one, and one that would
make it hard for competitors. It is
too soon to determine the amount of
business upon which may depend
whether the rates made are to con-
tinue. Thus far only men’s wear fab-
rics have been priced. On the kind of
response that retail clothiers make to
the manufacturers will depend in great
measure what commitments the latter
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HAD NOT STUDIED.

Lincoln’s gentle method of refusing
people’s requests which he did not see
fit to grant is illustrated by the follow-
ing:

A very ignorant man, whom it was
necessary to repulse, asked Lincoln
for the post of doorkeeper to the
White House. Lincoln took advantage
of the man’s stupidity without hurting
his feelings.

“Yes, Mr. President.”

“Well, have you ever had any ex-
perience in doorkeeping?”

“Umph—no.”

“No. sit.”

“Have you ever read any text on
the subject?”

“Now”

“Have you conversed with anyone
who has read such a book?”

“No, sir; I’m afraid not, sir.”

“Well, then, my friend, don’t you
see that you haven’t a single qualifi-
cation for that important post?” said
Lincoln in a reproachful tone.

“Yes, I do,” said the applicant, and
he took leave humbly, almost grate-
fully.

   

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

February 6, 1924

 

GREAT-HEARTED LINCOLN.

 

Circumstances Surrounding Writing
of Gettysburg Speech.

The much-mooted question as to
when and where Abraham Lincoln
prepared the wonderful little speech
which he delivered at the dedication of
the National cemetery at Gettysburg,
November 19, 1863, has received a new
answer, which bears all the earmarks
of being a final solution of the prob-
lem. According to this new version,
Judge David Wills himself is cited as
authority for the circumstances under
which Lincoln wrote the speech; and
Judge Wills, surely, had the best op-
portunity for knowing, for he it was
who at his home in Gettysburg enter-
tained Lincoln and the other guests
at the time of the dedication.

Judge Wills had been appointed by
Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, to
act as his representative during the
dedication services; and it was pur-
suant to Judge Wills’ invitation that
the President came, not to make a set
speech, but to act as official conse-
crator of the cemetery.

Edward Newton Haag, a lawyer,
whose office is in the Drexel building,
was a Student at Pennsylvania College,
Gettysburg, in 1883, and had occasion
frequently to see and converse with
Judge Wills. In the course of one of
these conversations. Mr. Haag says,
Judge Wills told him about the man-
ner in which Lincoln wrote his im-
mortal speech of 250 words, which, al-
though it has come to be regarded as
one of the greatest classics of oratory,
was not regarded as extraordinary at
the time of its delivery and elicited
from Lincoln himself, as he sat down,
the disheartened remark to his friend,
Ward Hill Lamon: “Lamon, that
speech won’t score.”

Speaking of his conversations with
Judge Wills, Mr. Haag said:

“It was my privilege and pleasure
frequently to call at the mansion of
Judge Wills. When Lincoln and his
party, in which were ‘William H.
Seward, Edward Everett, the orator
of the day, and other distinguished
arrived they at once
driven to his mansion, where a public
reception was given.

persons, were

“After it had been in progress a con-

siderable time, Lincoln asked Judge
Wills if he might withdraw to some
place where he could have some

privacy for a little while. ‘He smiled
as he said this,’ added Judge Wills,
‘and said, “I suppose I will be expected
to say a little something and I want to
hx it up. —

“He was shown to the judge’s law
office, where the gas was lighted and
the shades pulled down, so that the
crowd which filled the square should
not see the President and disturb him.
The judge put paper and pen and ink
to rights on the table for which Lin-
coln, thanking him, said, ‘Now, Judge,
you go and entertain the people until
I get through. I expect I shan’t be
long. I will get along fine here until
I’ve attended to this.’

“A half hour or so afterward the
President opened the door and again
joined the persons in the large room.
As he did so he carefully folded three
or four sheets of law paper and put

them into the inside pocket of his
Prince Albert coat.

““One almost felt sorry for the
President,’ said the judge, ‘because of
the awkward manner in which he
handled himself and the brevity and
apparent lack of importance of his
message at such an important time in
the history of the country.’

“Tt has been recorded by Hay and
Nicolai and others that the President
wrote his address on the train while
it was on its way to Gettysburg. If
he made notes at the time—and he no
doubt did—it was only after he entered
the office of Judge Wills that he final-
ly wrote out the address as it was
delivered.

“The other day I read in a news-
paper that Arthur B. Farquhar, of
York, had recited the Lincoln Gettys-
burg speech at the City Club and that
Mr. Farquhar was one of those who
sat beside Lincoln at the dedication
exercises in 1863. I wrote to him ac-
cordingly, requesting him for any in-
formation he might have obtained at
the time concerning Lincoln’s manner
of preparation for the speech, and also
told him what I had heard from Judge
Wills.

“T quote the following passage from
Mr. Farquhar’s letter:

“*VYour account of President Lin-
coln’s address is absolutely correct.
Yes, I was with him, was at Judge
Wills’ mansion, saw the President
start off to the battlefield to listen to
Everett’s address. The manuscript was
folded in about the size of a leaf from
a memorandum book, looked as though
it had been cut out of such a book,
but Judge Wills’ testimony is conclu-
sive as to the fact that it was written
on sheets or half sheets of his law
paper.’ ”’

In refutation of the generally ac-
cepted belief that Lincoln wrote his
speech on the train is the statement of
General Fry contained in a book pub-
lished in 1903, entitled “The True
Abraham Lincoln,” by William Eleroy
Curtis. The following is quoted from
that work:

“Tt has always been a popular im-
pression that Lincoln’s speech was
written on the cars en route to Gettys-
burg from Washington, on the morn-
ing of the ceremonies; but General
Fry, of the army, who was detailed
from the War Department as his es-
cort on that occasion and was with
him every moment, says that he has
no recollection of seeing him writing
or even reading a manuscript, nor was
there any opportunity during the jour-
ney for him to do so. Colonel Hay,
his private secretary, that he
wrote out a brief speech at the White
House before leaving Washington,
and as usual on such occasions, com-
mitted it to memory; but the inspira-
tion of the scene led to changes.”

The Rev. Dr. Henry E. Jacobs, of
Mount Airy Theological Seminary,
who also sat on the platform near Lin-
coln at the time of the speech, in a
pamphlet published several years ago,
lends additional color to the version
given by Mr. Haag. He gives some
other facts of great interest in regard
to what happened after Lincoln’s ar-
rival at Gettysburg. “By the time Lin-
coln reached Judge Wills’ house,” says
Dr. Jacobs, “a vast crowd had gather-

says

ed outside and clamored to see the
President. This was the evening of
November 18. It had already grown
dark. Before sitting down to supper
Lincoln went out on the porch and
said to the expectant crowd:

““T thank you for the compliment.
The inference is that you would hear
me for a little while at least, were I to
commence to make a speech. I do
not appear before you for the purpose
of doing so and for several substantial
reasons. The most substantial of these
is that I have nothing to say (laughter)
In my position it is somewhat im-
portant that I should not say foolish
things.’ ”

A voice from the crowd, according
to Dr. Jacobs, thereupon shouted, “if
you can help it.” Whereupon Lincoln
said:
“* Tt very often happens that the
only way to help it is to say nothing
at all (laughter). Believing that is my
present condition this evening, I must
beg of you to excuse me from ad-
dressing you further.’ ”

Dr. Jacobs says that he sat close
enough to Lincoln on the platform at
the cemetery the following afternoon
to be able to observe all his move-
ments and the changes of his facial
expression. As Mr. Everett reached

his peroration, says Dr. Jacobs, Mr.
noticeably

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He drew from his pocket a smal]
metallic spectacle case and adjusted a
pair of steel glasses to a point near the
tip of his nose. Then reaching into
the side of his coat he produced a
somewhat crumpled sheet of foolscap,
which he first carefully smoothed and
then read for a few moments. ‘Toward
the end of Everett’s speech, Lincoln
put the paper back into his pocket, but
kept the spectacles on his nose.

Dr. Jacobs does not bear out the
general assertion that the speech was
with coldness.

“The general impression,’ he says,
was that of great appropriateness of
the address and of delight in the felici-
tous manner in which these thoughts
had been expressed. The speech, I
remember well, was punctuated by the
applause of those who heard it. |
have refreshed my memory by reading
the report of the Public Ledger of
November 20, 1863, which marks ap-
plause four times during the address,
and long applause followed by three
cheers for the President and governors
of the states at its close. This meets
the often-repeated statement that the
address made little impression at the
time. On the contrary, it was most
cordially received and universally com-
mended, although the seemed
abrupt, and the audience, notwith-
standing its fatigue from the length of

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Mr. Everett’s oration, would have been
glad to have listened for many minutes
more to Mr. Lincoln.”

The following day Everett sent Lin-
coln the following note:

“Permit me to express my great ad-
miration of the thoughts expressed by
you with such eloquence, simplicity
and appropriateness at the consecra-
tion of the cemetery. I should be glad
if I could flatter myself that I came as
near to the central idea of the oc-
casion in two hours as you did in two
minutes,”

To which the great-hearted Lincoln
replied:

“In our respective parts yesterday,
you could not have been excused to
make a short address, nor I a long one.
T am pleased to know that in your
judgment the little I did say was not
entirely a failure.”

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Laconia Passengers Devote One Day
to Havana.

Colon, Jan. 21—The natural land-
locked harbor of Havana is not large
nor very deep, judging by the manner
in which the Laconia churned up the
mud in coming to anchor where the
Maine was blown up in sight of Mor-
ro castle or fort, which with its un-
derground vaults or cells, could they
tell the history of what has occurred
in them, could relate tales which wou'd
make the Indian stories of American
frontier life read like child’s play.
Probably no other spot on the West-
ern hemisphere represents so many
lost hopes, murders, starvation and de-
parted glories as does this old Span-
ish fort.

There are wharves at which small
ships load and unload, but from the
the larger passenger ships you go
ashore in launches landing at_Cabal-
leria wharf, at the foot of O’Reilly
street. The streets in the old part of
the city are so narrow they are one
wav streets and the sidewalks are only
wide enough for one. person, but
Prado boulevard is a beautiful street
with drives at both sides and walks
with trees and flowers in the center.
This leads into the Malecon (fashion-
able drive), running along the ocean
front for some miles out into the res-

idence section, where the _ beautiful
homes made of yellow coral stone,
with the gardens enclosed by high

iron fences, show evidence of Cuban
wealth. There are many new build-
ings going un, which show prosperity,
notwithstanding the present low price
of sugar. With a population of 359,-
259, they are evidently getting readv
for more.

Part of our party had dinner at the
Plaza Hotel and part at the Seville-
Biltmore, after a delightful two hour
drive in some 150 as fine automobile;
as you could get together in Grand
Ranids, mostly American make. Not
a “henry” in the bunch.

The stores stick to one line more
than does Grand Rapids and believe
in their own store windows for ad-
vettising everything, marked in Amer-
ican dollar values. Shoes, hats and
men’s furnishings seem to be marked
at somewhat higher prices than in
Grand Rapids and in the dry goods
stores are shown lines of shawls and
fans you would not see on Fifth
avenue, New York. I noticed several
fans from $100 to $180 each. Most of
the main streets are in good shape,
but the side streets, as we looked down
them,. were poorly kept up, both as
to the roadbed and cleanliness. They
have a: beautiful golf course and coun-
try club.

As our boat left the harbor about
7 o'clock the lights along the shore
looked like fairy land. Everybody had
had a most delightful day, but all en-
joyed getting back home on the boat
and it has been amusing to note the
different ideas of a day ashore. The
Grouch, the Pessimist, the Optimist

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and “The Everything is Lovely” all
had their separate stories. Like al-
most everything in life, what you see
depends on the state of your liver.

Sunday on a long trip is “tip day”
for the stewards. Everybody was en-
quiring of the more experienced cruise
travelers what was the proper tip, for
it is just as demoralizing to overtip
stewards as it is discouraging to them
to undertip. One lady who had been
on two cruises said she thought if you
had not been ill, which demands
special service, the proper tip per week
per person was:

$1.50 for table steward

$1 for bedroom steward
$1 for bathroom steward
$1 for deck steward

50 cents for boat boy

One of the directors of the cruise

said he thought:

$2.50 for table steward

$1.50 for bedroom steward

$1 for bathroom steward

$1 for deck steward
would be considered “perfectly all
right,” to use the English expression.
The bath on a trip of this kind be-
comes a sacred rite in the eyes of the
bathroom steward and if you decide
on 5:30 or 5:45, that is your hour for
the remainder of the trip and if you
don’t get up at first call there is an-
other until, in self defense, you hustle
out, take a bath and hop back to bed
for another hour’s snooze.

Sunday on a boat is about the most
religious place you can imagine. You
can go to

Low mass at 7:30

Public mass at 9

Episcopal service at 10:30
Union service at 10:30
Song service at 8 p. m.

The Caribbean Sea is smooth and
everybody looks happy. We are look-
ing forward to our arrival at Colon
at 2 o’clock with a great deal of pleas-
ure, C. C. Follmer.

Who Started as Grocery Clerk?

Information concerning men now
sucessful in various walks of life who
began their career as grocers’ clerks
is sought by Bartlett Arkell, President
of the Beech-Nut Packing Co. In a
letter announcing this desire Mr. Ar-
kell says that Abraham Lincoln’s first
job was in a grocery store, and that
there are many men now occupying
leading positions in various callings
whose activities began in that way.
For the purpose of inspiring the clerks
behind the counters of the thousands
of grocery stores throughout the Unit-
ed States, it is the intention of Mr.
Arkell to obtain from the men whose
names he seeks brief biographies of
their progress from grocery clerks to
their present positions. These biogz-
raphies will be compiled into a book-
let for distribution to the grocers’
clerks of the country.

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The Unwashed Rug Question.

Much discussion is being carried on
in the Oriental rug trade about the
recent activities of retailers in selling
the rugs in an unwashed state to con-
sumers. Importers and dealers op-
pose the practice, asserting that it will
cause a reaction unfavorable to the
trade in general. They say that re-
tailers are already getting complaints
from customers who bought the rugs.
These are declared due to sending out
of the rugs to be cleaned by those who
are unfamiliar with this work and who
are ill equipped to do it properly, with
the result that the rug comes back
in an unsatisfactory state. Many of
the rugs have been sold by retailers
who have direct buying connections
in the Orient.

 

To The

Retail Grocers of Michigan

HERE is no business asset comparable to a
customer's good will. It is beyond price, for
money will not purchase it. Only unremitting
attention to all details affecting a customer’s interest

wins and retains it.

Good will is that which is built into a business in
every day contact with the trade. It is the treatment
accorded, month in and month out, year in and year
out, that promotes it and conserves it. To the extent
that a business house successfully practices the doctrine

of the Golden Rule

thrive and prosper. If, as a house, we are secure in the

 

to precisely that extent will it

possession of your good will it is because there has been
an honest purpose and effort to practice what we preach
—to do by you as we would be done by.

Ungrateful, indeed, is the wholesale grocery house
that neglects to make full acknowledgment of the good
will shown it during the period of stress and storm
through which we are now happily passing on. We here
take occasion to register deep appreciation of your
loyalty to Worden merchandise through unprecedert-
edly trying times. ‘There has been much to vex you,
to try your patience, to put to the test the good will of
ach and every one of you. Fluctuating markets,
interrupted shipments, uncertainties of every conceiv-
able kind (no less annoying because unavoidable) have
burdened business with problems and_ perplexities
which at times have seemed well nigh intolerable.
Through it all, your support has been evenly the same
and we gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity to
express our appreciation of your consideration and

forbearance.

WORDEN (;ROCER COMPANY

 

Grand Rapids

Kalamazoo—Lansing—Battle Creek

The Prompt Shippers.

 

 

 

 

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MOVEMENT OF MERCHANTS.

Rockwood—Moon & Ford succeed
the Flat Rock Motor Sales Co. in
business.

Litchfield — The Wilkinson
Sales Co. has increased its
stock from $20,000 to $50,000.

Detroit—Mrs. Jennie Astrosky has
purchased the grocery store of Isaac
Zusman, 2741 Vinewood avenue.

Detroit—The Stone Millinery, 473
Gratiot avenue, will soon close. Mrs.
E. Stone will retire from business.

Halfway—The Halfway State Bank
has increased its capital stock from
$25,000 to $50,000.

Detroit—The American Butter &
Cheese Co. has increased its capital
stock from $100,000 to $200,000.

Flint—The Symons-Moffett Co.,
wholesale grocer, has increased its
capital stock from $200,000 to $300,-
000.

Detroit—K. & M. Tailors, LaFayette

Auto
capital

and Wayne, have moved to 1031
Wayne street. M. Kevorkien is the
owner.

Hamtramck — Harry Socha now

owns the hardware formerly conduct-
ed by Harry Kipniss at 1120 Caly
street.

Saginaw—The Fisher-Watson Wall-
paper Co. has engaged in the whols-
sale and retail business at 708 Genesee
avenue.

Detroit—H. M. Hitchon has pur-
chased the business of the Ackinson

Oil Co., 3259 Franklin street, from
H. L. Montee.
Detroit — Morris Kaufman has

bought the Lion Bottling Works, 2119
E. Congress street, from Antonino and
Andrew Galante.

Hartford—Hurlburt & Co.,
sold their stock of bazaar goods to
E. A. Kirby, of Kenton, Ohio, who
has taken possession.

Camden—L. D. Kahle has sold his
store building and hardware stock to
Mr. Shaffer, recently of Bryan, Ohio,
who has taken possession.

have

Detroit—The Farm Bureau Produce
Exchange, 2729 Russell street, has
moved to 2610-16 Riopelle street. C.
H. Rinciman is the manager.

Detroit—F. C. Wenslow, grocer at
2677 LeMay avenue, has filed a peti-
tion in bankruptcy, with liabilities of
$5,051.36 and assets of $2,250.00.

Detroit—The Eastland Sweet Shop,
8419 Mack avenue, is in the hands of
Leon A. Pogodzinski, since he bought
out William Lewis a short time ago.

Marshall—Sanders Bros. have sold
a half interest in their hardware stock
to George Francis and the business
will be continued under the same style.

Lansing—McConnell & Clark, who
lost their millinery stock and store

fixtures by fire recently, have opened

a new store at 108 West Allegan
street.

Reading—L. J. Orr has sold his
stock of dry goods, shoes, etc., to

Paul Anderson and Allie Haynes, who
will continue the business at the same
location.

Calumet—Glass Bros., of Ahmeek,
have purchased the stock and building
of the Savings Bank Store Co. and the
bankrupt stock and real estate of Mi-
lady’s Shop in Red Jacket.

Detroit—The Andrew Dutton Co.,
402 West Jefferson avenue, importer
and jobber of upholstery goods and
supplies, has changed its name to the
Fay-McKinnon Co.

Detroit—The meat market at 12040
Twelfth street is now known as Pol-
lock & Pollock, Harry Polin having
sold the business to Leo and Erving
Pollock.

Detroit—The Show-Walker Co., of-
fice furniture dealers, recently moved
from 1135 Farmer street to 17 Cadillac
square. Carl S. Fairbanks is the
manager.

Detroit—The Luscombe Shoe Co.,
1224 Library avenue, will move to the
Hotel Tuller building about March 1.
G. T. Luscombe is the proprietor of
the business.

Albion—Clement F. Wickens,  ga-
rage man and accessory dealer in this
village, has filed a petition in bank-
ruptcy. His liabilities are $6,883.56
and assets $4,407.59.

Detroit—The Townsend Shop, 1525
Townsend avenue, confectionery, is
now being run by William Spickett,
who bought it from Archie Benden-
berg early in February.

Detroit—Ernest H. Pudrith, well
known wholesale jeweler with offices
in the building at 1500 Woodward
avenue, died at his residence, 438 War-
ren avenue, East.

Detroit—Martin Narssasian and H.
Solukian are running the cigar store
at 11221 East Jefferson, which they
purchased from Joseph E. Carlson and
Arthur Reindel Jan. 28.

Detroit — The Connor’ Fountain
Supply Co., 3301 Grand River avenue,
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $1,000, all of
which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Kalamazoo—The Hathaway Tire
Co. has been incorporated to deal in
tires, auto accessories, etc., with an
authorized capital stock of $8,000,
$1,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Detroit—LaFaison, 202 Book build-
ing, millinery, filed a petition in bank-
ruptcy recently. Emma K. Hannaford

“and Nellie S. Roberts are the proprie-

tors. The liabilities are $4,845.26; as-
sets, $4,116.87.

Detroit— The Hayward-Rose Co.,
8416 Linwood street, has been incor-
porated to deal in toys, etc., with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000,
$2,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Woodfield Tire Serv-
ice, 8424 Woodward avenue, has un-
dergone a change of ownership recent-
ly. On Jan. 28. Benjamin Sheffman
retired from partnership with Samuel
Abrams in the business.

Flint—The E. C. Eisaman Dental
Supply Co., 412 Genesee Bank build-
ing, has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed and
$2,600 paid in in cash.

Lansing—The Consumers Fuel &
Supply Co., 915 Prudden building, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $50,000, $4,000 of
which has been subscribed and $1,000
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Forest Furniture Co.,
4715 Cass avenue, has been incorpor-
ated with an authorized capital stock
of $3,350, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in, $100 in cash and
$3,250 in property.

Lansing—Walter R. Schaefer his
resigned his position as manager of
the shoe department of the Dancer-
3rogan Co. and will open a shoe store
under his own name in the Strand
Arcade building, March 1.

Norway—Joseph Ruwitch & Sons,
Inc., has been incorporated to conduct
a department store with an authorized
capital stock of $75,000, $65,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid
in, $30,000 in cash and $35,000 in
property.

Detroit—Canvasser Bros., 526 Hen-
drie avenue, have merged their plum)-
ing and heating business into a stock
company under the same style with
an authorized capital stock of $10,009,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Sally Lunn, Inc., will
be the name of a tea room to be oper-
ated at 345 John R. street by Elizabeth
Criswell and others. The enterprise
is incorporated for $10,000, of which
$2,500 was paid jn in cash and $1,000
in property.

Detroit—The Chambers Motor Sales
Co., 3126 Grand River avenue, has
been incorporated to deal in
parts, accessories and supplies, with
an authorized capital stock of $25,009,
$15,100 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Highland Park—Lampe & Tanner,
Inc., 11728 Hamilton boulevard, is a
recent addition to the incorporated
businesses of Detroit. Waldo Lampe
and Daniel Tanner, Junior, have con-
ducted a business in musical instru-
ments at this address for some time.

Lansing—Fred C. Jahr has sold his
interest in the auto accessories stock
of Schreiber & Jahr to Roy J. Fletcher
and the business will be continued un-
der the style of the Schreiber-Fletcher
Auto Supply, at the new location of
the company, Hosmer street and Michi-
igan avenue.

Detroit— Raymond Kanouse has
moved from 118 West Fort-street to

autos,

February 6, 1924

Park and Elizabeth. The firm handles
clothing and furnishings.

Lansing—E. P. McFadden, 462
Capital National Bank building, job-
ber of school supplies, toilet apparatus,
playground equipment, etc., has merg-
ed his business into a stock company
under the style of the E. P. McFad-
den Co., with an authorized capital
stock of $100,000, of which amount
$46,250 has been subscribed, $12,256.01
paid in in cash and $15,108.99 in prop-
erty.

Saginaw—Bauer Bros., 408-10 Court
street, wholesale and retail clothing,
men’s furnishings, etc., have merged
their business into a stock company
under the style of Bauer Bros., Inc.,
with an authorized capital stock of
$70,000, of which amount $60,000 has
been subscribed and paid in, $402.26
in cash and $67,597.74 in property.

Allegan—J. K. King, who suppose.!
he would be forced to retire from the
grocery business by the acquisition
of his business place by the Fidelity
Stores Corporation, will again embark
in business here. He has leased the
room in the Sherman House block oc-
cupied as a grocery store for thirty-
eight years by F. H. Green and his
moved his stock to that location. He
will restock with new goods and con-
tinue business in his new location.
Mr. King has been very successful in
conducting his grocery business 01
the cash and carry plan.

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More Exactly Stated.

Bay City, Feb. 5—Your article in
the Jan. 16 issue of the Michigan
Tradesman is misleading and we have
noticed it through requests of firms
with whom we do business with for
reasons why.

It was not Ferd. H. Smith who
merged his business, but the heirs to
the estate of Ferd. H. Smith who in-
corporated their several interests in
the estate. This was done so as to
keep everything intact and keep the
business running just as it has for a
great many years past and not to split
up the property of the estate of Ferd.
H. Smith.

All of the stockholders are heirs to
the estate, and all hold stock in the
new corporation according to their
several interests in the estate.

Ferd. H. Smith, Inc.

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Kalamazoo Travelers To Dance For

charity.
Kalamazoo, Feb. 5— Kalamazoo
Council will hold its annual benefit

ball for Pretty Lake Vacation camp
Friday night, Feb. 29, at the Masonic
Temple. Council committees are hard
at work on arrangements for this
party. The ball will be the fifth an-
nual benefit dance to be given by the
Council for Pretty Lake Camp. More
than $2,000 has been raised by the
travelers during the last four years
for the children’s camp and the Coun-
cil hopes to break all records in point
of receipts this season. The Masonic
Temple will be decorated for the oc-
casion. The public will be invited. A
unique dance program is to be offered.
——__-> >>

The former location of the Bertch
Market, 243 and 245 Monroe avenue,
has been leased by four different deal-
ers who will occupy the place jointly
as a provision store. Henry Freuden-
berg will handle butter, eggs and
cheese. The Coffee Ranch will handle
groceries, Ellis -Bros. will handle

fruits and two young men who were
formerly connected with the Bertch
market will handle foods.

 

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February 6, 1924
Essential Features of the
Staples.

March 5 marks the opening of the
Lenten season and brings with it op-
portunities for retail grocers to exer-
cise the power of suggestion in aiding
their clientele in observing the dietetic
tenets of the period and at the same
time in rolling up sales and profits
volumes for themselves.

Grocery

Fish of various kinds as meat sub-
stitutes naturally come to mind when
thinking of the merchandising possi-
bilities of Lent. It is true that fish
in its varied forms is and has ever
been possibly the chief dish of substi-
tutionary nature served on the tables
of those whose religious beliefs cause
observance of Lent. However, as
many a grocer has demonstrated in
years past fish is not of necessity the
only food product which can be sold
in increased quantity during this an-
nual period.

Here is where the grocer can well
use his wits in choosing a varied line
of foods and, his choice completed,
selling the idea of these foods as Len-
ten eatables to his trade. The number
of possibilities is almost as wide as is
the list of canned, bottled, packaged
and bulk foods in the store. Judicious
advertising, word of mouth salesman-
ship and attractive window displays—-
all centered upon the central idea of
appropriate foods for the Lenten sea-
son will bring home the business and
at the same time bring forth many
an expression of appreciation from
the harried housewife.

Sugar—Looks like a higher market
for the next thirty days. Local job-
bers ask 9.35c for beet and 9.55c for
cane granulated.

Tea—The demand has shown con-
siderable improvement during the past
week. The orders have come from
more people and have covered a larger
territory. Also a good many buyers
are buying large quantities. The
trade appear now to be convinced that
the market is likely to continue firm
and that tea is sure to be good prop-
erty at present prices. Ceylon and
India teas are very strong, with re-
ports of further advances from the
primary markets. No change has oc-
curred in the balance of the list, but
everything is firm.

Coffee—The market for future Rio
and Santos coffee has shown slight
advance during the past week, owing
to scarcity of good grades. As to
spot Rio and Santos, practically ail
grades of desirable goods show an
advance of possibly %4c per pound for
the week, green and in a large way.
Good Brazil coffees are not abundant.
Mild coffees are also strong and have

_worked up a small fraction during the

week. The general demand for roast-
ed coffee is excellent and the jobbing
market for roasted goods is also work-
ing upward.

Canned Fruits—The fruit line adds
to its firmness this week as there is a
better spot demand, which makes buy-
ers realize that they cannot cover at
the low quotations which were current
a few weeks ago. Yellow cling peach-
es in standards and choice are frac-
tionally higher and are being more

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

readily taken. Apricots are as yet un-
changed. Pineapple is not active in
a large way. Apples are steady.

Canned Vegetables—No. 1s, No. 2s
and No. 3s tomatoes are firm at the
factory, with no price cutting. Can-
ners seem content to let buyers take
goods as they are needed. In No. 10s
there is little interest, as the market
is topheavy. California packs are no
more active than Southern. Southern
future lines are being quoted too high
to command attention. Dealers are
inclined to wait until the season ad-
vances before making definite com-
mitments. Each week .makes_ the
shortage of cheap lines of peas more
apparent as stocks on the open mar-
ket are cut down. The price trend is
upward in this and in other grades,
Buyers find that they cannot insist
too strenuously upon the brand, 1s
in many instances the distributor 1s
glad enough to get what he can even
in small parcels. Futures sold fairly
well all week but there is neither a
rush to buy nor to sell. Corn is quiet.
Fancy lines are firm but standards
are not quite so well placed, the form-
er is scarce. There is no abundance
of standards and full prices are de-
manded.

Canned Fish—As to Maine sardines,
the demand is fair under the circum-
stances, but owing to the very high
prices there is no boom. No change
has occurred in any other line of sar-
dines. Salmon is about unchanged for
the week, prices being as they were
a week ago, the demand being only
fair. Alaska salmon is_ relatively
cheaper in the East than it is on the
coast, and the demand is light and
sluggish. The firmest thing in the
salmon line is Columbia River brands.

Dried Fruits—The Coast markets by
reason of export and domestic buying
have had an unusually good demand
for all commodities during December
and January. Packers think that the
handicap which they faced in Decem-
ber in the way of surplus stocks, and
often of indifferent quality, has been
entirely removed and that they have
every prospect of an excellent season
during 1924 both from a domestic and
from an export standpoint. Coast in-
terests thing there is no excuse for a
sagging market, lack of buying or any
uneasiness as to the clean-up of all
fruits before next fall when new goods
arrive. The bullishness of the Coast
must be understood as to its influence
on the spot markets. Raisins are: gain-
ing in strength, particularly on the
Coast. If postings prove correct, in-
dependents are pretty well sold out
except for two or three and unless
they are able to get Sun-Maid from
the Association they will be out of the
market in the near future. Box and
package lines are both tending higher,
and, as cheap local lines are cleaned
up, the spot market is improving.
Prunes were firm all week in the large
sizes which are rather scarce on the
spot. Most dealers have _ sufficient
goods purchased during the recent
flurry to keep them going. Apricots
are sparingly offered on the Coast and
apparently are tending higher. Peaches
are more active and are gradually
working more in line with other fruit.

Pears are scarce on the spot and full
prices are demanded.

Salt Fish—The cold weather which
was reported from various sections of
the country for the past week increas-
ed the demand for mackerel. Stocks
in jobbers’ hands are not large and a
good many of them é¢ame into the
market and bought when the weather
turned cold. The possible Lenten de-
mand has not yet been opened. Mack-
erel is steady, without change in
price. Cod is wanted a little better at
steady prices.

Beans and Peas—The demand for
dried white beans has been quiet dur-
ing the week, but the market has
firmed up a little and all grades are
much less than they have been for
some time. The firmest thing in the
line is California limas. Green and
Scotch peas quiet and unchanged.

Syrup and Molasses—Molasses con-
tinues firm with a good demand for
anything desirable. Sugar syrup is
now strong with an excellent business.
Compound syrup moving out
fairly at the recent advance in price;
advance in the corn market was the
cause.

Cheese—The market remains barely
steady, with no material change in
the quotations. There is a good sup-
ply of cheese on hand and the con-
sumption is only moderate.

Fruit Jars—Opening prices on fruit
jars are looked for about the middle
of this month. In the meantime job-
bers are booking orders subject to
prices as they shall be named.

Provisions—The market on lard is
somewhat easier, prices having de-
clined about %c per pound under the
quotations of a week ago. Lard sub-
stitutes have also declined about “ec
per pound in sympathy with pure lard.
There is an adequate supply for the
present light demand. The market on
smoked meats is barely steady at un-
changed quotations. Dried beef is
steady and unchanged, there being
sufficient on the market to meet the
present demand. Barreled pork and
canned meats are steady and_ un-
changed,

I

Review of the Produce Market.

Apples—Standard winter varieties
such as Spys, Baldwin, Jonathan, Rus-
setts, etc., fetch $1 per bu.

Bagas—Canadian $2 per 100 Ib.
sack.

Bananas—9@9'c per Ib.

Butter—The market at the present
time shows a slight weakness follow-
ing the recent advance. The last de-
cline is due to an increase in the make
of butter by the domestic creameries
and also an increase in the receipts of
foreign butter. The different cream-
eries which were arriving and showing
some wintry defects are again making
the finest grades of creamery butter,
which has caused a slight surplus of
that particular grade at this writing.
There is a fair consumption of butter
at this time and it is just a question
of whether the consumption will clean
up the fresh receipts on the present
basis of quotations. Local jobbers
hold extra fresh at 49c in 60 lb. tubs;
fancy in 30 Ib. tubs, 50c; prints, 5lc,
They pay 20c for packing stock.

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Cabbage—$3.50 per 100 Ibs.
Carrots—$1.65° per bu.
Cauliflower—$3.50 per doz. heads.
Celery—75c@$1 per bunch for Flor-
ida, etates af 4 to 6 doz. $3.45.
Cocoanuts—$6.25 per sack of 100.
Cranberries—Late Howes from Cape
Cod command $9 per bbl. and $4.50
per % bbl.
Cucumbers—Hot house $4 per doz.
Egg Plant—$3 per doz.
Eggs—The market is barely steady
at this writing, but remains largely a
weather market. At the moment
weather conditions are favorable for
an increase in the production, and if
such weather prevails we will no doubt
have lower prices on fresh eggs in
the near future. Storage eggs, remain
very weak, with quotations unchanged.
The quality of fresh eggs now arriv-
ing is very fine. Local jobbers pay
36c for strictly fresh. Cold storage
operators feed out their supplies as
follows:

Bwtpas (0 30c
Seconds <2 24c
@heceks 2 22c

2c extra for cartons.
Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

Grape Fruit—Fancy Florida now
sell as follows:
G6 $3.50
AG 2 3.25
ee 4.09
G4 and 70... 4.00

Grapes—Spanish Malaga, $9.50@

$12.50 per keg.
Green Beans—$4 per hamper.
Green Onions — $1.40 per
bunches for Chalotts.
Honey—25c for comb; 25c for
strained.
Lettuce—In good
following basis:
California Iceberg, per crate ~-$3.75
Leal ter cound _..__.......... 17c
Lemons—The market is now on the
following basis:

doz.

demand on the

S00 Sunkist 2220 2 $5.50
he hl... Te
360 Ned Ball ..._._............. 4.50

Onions—Spanish, $2.25 per crate;
home grown, $3 per 100 Ib. sack.

Oranges — Fancy Sunkist Navels
now quoted on the following basis:
1 2 $5.50
6 20 5.50
i 16 Ae... 5.00
RIG ee 4.59
Be ee 4.00
2.5 ee 4.00

Floridas fetch $4.25@4.50.
Parsley—65c per doz. bunches.
Peppers—75c per basket containing

16 to 18.

 

Poultry—Wilson & Company now
pay as follows for live:
Heave fouls _...... 2l1c
Heavy sprmes = 19¢
Litt fowls ... 14¢
bieht spemas 2222 14c
Geese 2 15c
Ducks 225.2 18c

Potatoes—55@60c per bu.

Radishes—90c per doz. bunches for
hot house.

Spinach—$2 per bu.

Sweet Potatoes — Delaware kiln
dried fetch $3.25 per hamper.
Tomatoes—Southern grown $1.75

per 5 lb. basket.
Turnips—$1.50 per bu,

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

February 6, 1924

 

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY

 

Cheats and Swindles Which Merchants
Should Avoid.
Discrimination jin prices between
different purchasers in violation of the
Clayton Act is the basis of a complaint
issued against an ice cream company
of Schenectady, New York by the
Federal Trade Commission. The cita-
tion reflects the Commission’s belief
that the company sells its ice cream
to dealers in Pittsfield and North
Adams, Massachusetts, at prices much
less than those for which its product
is sold in the Eastern part of the
state of New York, a noncompetitive
area. The complaint alleges that the
‘company lowers prices in Massachu-
setts, said the Commission to be usu-
ally below cost of production, for the
purpose of suppressing competition
and eventually forcing a competing
corporation out of business.

 

The use of misleading designations
in brand names of soap is the basis of
a complaint issued against a soap com-
pany of Chicago. In marketing its
products, the company is said to have
used the following brands: “Cucum-
ber Almond Cream Soap,” “Sanitary
Benzo-Skin Soap,” “Primrose Soap,”
Rice Meal Toilet Soap,” and “Dixie
Peroxide Soap,” as well as_ other
brand names. All those designations,
says the complaint, are misleading to
the public and unfair to competitors
because the indicated ingredients are
not contained in the company’s soaps
in any appreciable quantity.

 

False and misleading statements in
advertising and selling oil stock again
come under the Commission’s ban
with the issuance of prohibitory orders
to syndicate representatives operating
in California, Missouri, and Texas.
The orders prohibit the publication or
circulation of any printed matter in
connection with the sale or offering
for sale of stock or securities in which
is made any false or misleading state-
ments concerning ownership in proven
oil territory or misrepresentations con-

cerning the organization, resources,
production or earnings of any cor-
poration, association or partnership.

 

Use of the word “shellac” in the
advertisement and sale of a product
not wholly composed of shellac gum
is again censured by the Commission
with the issuance of an order against
a New York manufacturer of paints,
varnishes and similar products. In its
investigation of the case, the Com-
mission reports, it found that many
manufacturers in the paint industry
who marketed a shellac substitute ad-
vertised and designated it as a sub-
stitute, but that the New York manu-
facturer named in the complaint adver-
itsed and sold a product composed of
a small percentage of shellac gum or
with no shellac gum whatever under
the brand. name of “Red Devil Shel-
lac” and “Victory White Shellac.” The
labels did not indicate in any way, says
the Commission, that the products
contained any gum other than genuine
shellac gum, and the Commission be-
lieves that the manufacturer’s acts are
misleading to the general purchasing

public and unfair to competitors. Ac-
cording to the order, the manufactur-
er must discontinue the use of the
words “Red Devil Shellac,” “Victory
White Shellac,” or the word “shellac”
alone or in combination with any word
or words unless accompanied by words
clearly stating the ingredients of
which the product is composed, with
the percentage of those ingredients al-
so clearly indicated.

 

Simulation by a Cleveland business
man of a former trade name used by
him is made a basis of a complaint
issued by the Commission. He is en-
gaged in selling lubricating oils and
allied products, and according to the
complaint, a business at one time by
him was sold by a receiver to a manu-
facturing company. The sale is said
to have included his property and
assets under the trade names he had
used, including good-will. After the
sale of his business, the complaint
continues, he organized a new com-

“pany and sold under its name a lubri-

cating oil known as “Paramount Auto
Oil,” which was identical with the
title used for an oil sold by him in his
former business. Other allegations
are that the continued use of Para-
mount Auto Oil” created the impres-
sion among the general public that it
was the oil being sold by the com-
pany which had bought his earlier
business, and that he abstracted a list
of customers formerly used by him
when operating the business sold to
the manufacturing company. All of
the acts presented in the complaint,
the Commission asserts, were mis-
leading to the public and unfair to
competitors.

 

Misrepresentation of articles sold by
a Cincinnati business man, which was
held to obtain for him an unfair prefer-
ence for his goods, has come under the
ban of the Commission. According to
the findings, he operated branch stores
in Indiana, West Virginia, and Ohio,
and in connection with those stores, he
is alleged to have advertised and sold
merchandise as surplus army and

navy property, when in fact, the Com-~

mission declares, the goods so repre-
sented were not purchased from the
army or the navy, and were not made
in accordance with Government speci-
fications. The Commission also found
it reports, that he advertised as “U.
S. Marine Paint’ and as “UU. S.
Quality Paint” a paint not manufac-
tured for or by the United States
Navy, not in accordance with Govern-
ment specifications. The Commission
has issued a prohibitory order which
requires that the discontinuance of
selling or offering for sale in places
of business designated and described
as “Army Goods Headquarters,”
“Army-Navy Stores,” or “Army Goods
Store” ordinary commercial merchan-
dise or commodities.as surplus army
and navy supplies or Government sup-
plies, when, in truth and in fact, the
merchandise or commodities were not
purchased from or manufactured by
or for the United States Government,
or made in accordance with specifica-
tions or requirements of the United
States Government; using on labels
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sold or offered for sale the words “U. to cash a check drawn on a bank in Late News From Busy Onaway. After the severe weather of Janu-
5. Marine Paint, One Gallon U. S. this city was told that an investiga- Onaway, Feb. 5—We were shocked ary we are tolerating a mild week,

Standard” unless the paint so desig-
nated was purchased from or manu-
factured by or for the United States
Government or prepared in accord-
ance with specifications or require-
ments laid down by the United States
Government.

Charges of combining and conspir-
ing to obstruct and to prevent the sale
and the distribution of oleomargarine
in the state of Wisconsin, and _ par-
ticularly in Polk county, are included
in a complaint issued against a co-
Operative creamery association oper-
ating in Wisconsin. The complaint
charges that at a special meeting mem-
bers of the association passed a resolu-
tion to “urge all our citizens to use
their best influence to eliminate butter
substitutes from Polk county,” and
that the members’ acts are to the
prejudice of the public and to com-
petitors, and constitute unfair meth-
ods of competition.

The Tradesman warns the trade to
be on the lookout for persons trying
to obtain merchandise by means of
bad checks or misrepresentation. In
one instance, a young man presented
a bad check in part payment of his ac-
count at one of the stores and the fol-
lowing day cashed another bad check
in the same store for $25. The father
of the young man advises that he will

tion would have to be made first. He
said he would return for the money
the following day, but he did not.
Neither could he be found at the local
hotel in which he said he was staying.

 

The Tradesman has reason to be-
lieve that John J. Black, of Chippewa

Falls, Wis., ‘has been working a petty
swindle for years in soliciting an ad-
vance fee from store owners on the
pretext that he could sell the property.
As a matter of fact he makes no effort
to sell the stock after he gets the fee
—none of the “advance fee” real es-
tate pirates do. Black was denied
license by the Wisconsin Real Estate
Brokers’ Board last April; but the still
seems to carry on his swindling game.

——_-

The Wholesale Grocers’ Creed.

The work of the wholesale grocer
is to find the best and most economical
methods of distribution from producer
to consumer and to give the best ser-
vice to all concerned.

Associations are for research work,
the study of methods and exchange
of ideas to make better merchants of
its members.

Competition will always be with us.
It is their business to use the methods
they think best. Competition is nat-
ural and healthful. Associations and
individual wholesale grocers should
make it their chief business to improve

to learn of the death of E. B. Pratt,
veteran liveryman of our city. Mr.
Pratt had been in the business here
for the past twenty-five years and
previous to the extension of the D.
& M. R. R. to Chéboygan kept sev-
eral teams on the road between here
and Indian River connecting with the
MC. RR: Mr. Pratt was a lover of
horses. No one under the influence
of liquor could hire a horse of him,
nor would he employ anyone except
competent drivers. Many of the trav-
eling men who have engaged Mr.
Pratt to convey them will remember
the long twenty-two mile drive
through woods and across the plains.
Mr. Pratt leaves a wife, a son who re-
sides in this city, and a daughter, Mrs.
A. E. Cowyn, of Petoskey.

Chairman R. D. Shaw and director
R. C. Kent are thanking the members
of the Community Club this week for
the active part taken in the last play
staged at the Family theater. It re-
quired three performances and at
least 200 people were turned away,
owing to lack of seating capacity.
Every play seems to develop more
talent than the previous one. The
Community plays have become per-
manent fixtures, we hope. No out-
side talent need apply if such produc-
tions continue.

The East End residents are rejoic-
ing over the establishment of the store
conducted by Edward McClutchey at
the S. C. Waggoner location. Mr. Mc-
Clutchey, who has been a resident of
Onaway for quite a number of years,
purchased the property about two
years ago and embarked in the grocery
business. He has gradually added to

amounting to almost a thaw. The
snow has settled perceptibly and the
cloudy weather Saturday prevented the
groundhog from seeing his shadow.
Now you weather prophets, get busy
with your predictions; some one is
sure to strike it right.

A special session of the Federal
Court is called to meet in Bay City
on Feb. 6. The grand jury has been
recalled for duty. Something unusual.

Jake Hitzert, of the Saginaw Manu-
facturing Co., and formerly “ our
city, is seen upon our streets this
week. Jake’s smile will cheer up the

gloomy and in all
that he was ever
the smile
should be

gloomiest of the
the enterprises
connected with in Onaway,
was always present. He
called the Sunshine Man.
Reports from Daytona, Florida,
state that owing to the cool weather
the resort business has not been up to
previous years and tourists are going
farther South. Can you imagine that?
Some day the weather will have to be
brought to us on a platter. A few
years ago the vicinity of Reed City
and Cadillac was spoken of as “way

up North. When we reached Ona-
way that was surely Northern, quite
so, and the former places seemed

quite Southerly. On making a visit to
the Soo we were asked where we
lived and replied “Onaway were you
ever there?” “No,” he replied, “I
have never been so far South as that;”
and so it goes. Home is home and
location is what one helps make it.
Squire Signal.
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Occupational Disease.
kissed her on the cheek;

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probably not be in a position to make their own condition. the stock other lines and, being sit- Hat ce sce in ted & week

the checks good for several months. a uated distant from other stores, en- Les beni Hs :

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The Company’s Outstanding

 

 

DETROIT.
CLARENCE L.

| Financial Statement
EI ASSETS
EY First Mortgages on Real Estate and Real Estate Bonds (worth
5 in each instance double the amount loaned) -__~_---~-.----_- $5 ,830,878.42
Policy Loans and Renewal Premium Notes (net) ------ Se 1,331,848.15
D Real Estate ($261,152:77: sold on contract) =.=. 334,304.59
Gach (in banka ac interess) 0 ee 242,929.92
BS wax Geptijcates 00 8 ee ee 12,062.99
( Collateral oan 22 2,000.00
Bf Interest Due ana Accruca — 142,468.83
Deferred and Uncollected Premiums (net) —-------------------_- 120,941.91
BS Furniture, Underwriting Equipment, Fixtures and mpenlee. (all
( Chatgen of 2. eS seas css ee ee None
e Agents Debtor Balances = 22) ) None
RY Non-Agmittea Assets (oe None
( ae
BY Notal Net: Assets $8,017,434.81

Insurance Account Now Amounts to (paid for basis)
The Asset Resources of the Company are -_._._-______________ eee Se .

MICHIGAN

AYRES, President

December 31st, 1923
LIABILITIES

Reserve for all policies in force including disability reserve -
Reserve for installment trust benefits not yet due —___----_- oe
Reserve for present value of disability benefits not yet due ee
Reserve for unpaid claims in course of adjustment _________.____
Reserve for premiums and interest paid in advance and dividends

fett on dendsit =
Reserve funds apportioned and set aside” for annual

PRC CLO
Reserve for Agent’s credit balances ____-_
Heserve for faxes -..4 00
Reserve for all other liabilities  ~..--_~~-
Reserve specially set aside by resolution of the Board of Directors

Capital and Surplus (net)
Total

Ry The Policy Legal Reserve Account Required by Law Amounts to -- Le ee ee ee $ 7,250,167.03
d Tie Mecources trdnn Annual imconie in 1923) ete _$ 2,405,844.43
Bf The Company Faid to Polmyhoiders ana 'netr Heneticiaries During the Year 1924 _ $ 612,853.09
d The Sums Paid Policyholders and Their Beneficiaries from Organization to Date Amount to __-~~~--__--__--_.------__-------------- $3,092,599.51
> Amoune Now Held foc Pretection and Benefit of Palicyvhotders =. et $8,017, 434.31
( Total Amount Paid to and Now Held for Benefit and Protection of Policyhoiders _..._--. = ee $11,110,034.32
2 New Insurance Paid jor in Cash During the Year 1923 = Be $11,828,590.29
( INet Gain Of Insttance if Force Euring tie Vea ee $ 5,580,161.02
| Net Gain in Admitted Acsete During the Veae (0e8 cee ele _ $ 1,032,623.04
‘ se 4 .
KX) At the beginning of the year 1923, the Company had an outstanding insurance account

of $61,084,893.85. Of this amount of insurance to renew during the year,

 

5 the terminations or waste were as follows:

EERVINA PEO BY EAPSH 2 5.650%
BY TERMINATED BY SURRENDER oe 2.277%
5) TRERMINATED BY EXPIRATION 2.0 1.336%
( THRNEENAEED BY DEORBAGE = oo ee 509%
KA Wee ee ey ete eee 040%
BY “TE RVEENA PEED BY DEATH ele ee 578%
(
KK FOTAL TERMINATIONS FROM ALL CAUSES _._...___.--_____ 10.390%

From the above it will be seen that the wastage in the Company’s insurance account for twelve months ending December 31,

x to only 10.39%. |
EY When your Company’s business is persistent your Renewal Agency Contract is valuable
By e

 

Nee AiscGtg ee ee $8,017,434.81

_-$7,250,167.03
133,614.08
48,195.77
35,191.00
pale Sos 46,300.32
“dividend
6,572.51
6,207.77
28,069.90
97,749.74
42,362.86
323,033.83

$66,565 ,054.87
$ 8,017,434.81

1923, amounted

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

February 6, 1994

 

LEARNING THE LESSON.

The flow of funds from Europe has
intensified the easy money conditions
in this country, which would have
come anyway as a consequence of
diminished industrial activity as com-
pared with last spring. This has given
rise to some talk of moderate inflation
during coming months, but with in-
dustrial output again tending to ex-
pand, and with the movement of cap-
ital from Europe apparently having
run its course, there is less occasion
to fear inflation than there was a
month or two ago. The chief effect
so far of the ease in mony has been

manifested in the prices of bonds, but °

the advance of these has been no more
than one should expect as part of a
normal cyclical fluctuation. Neither
have values in stocks, notwithstanding
the recent upward trend, approached
anything like an inflated basis. Com-
modity prices, meanwhile, continue to
recede by slight degrees.

All the talk of danger of inflation
from a plethora of money puts too
much emphasis perhaps on money and
too little on credit. We have been
slow to realize that in business to-day
the role of banks in lending deposits
subject to check is vastly more im-
portant in influencing prices than the
amount of banknotes or Government
currency outstanding at a given time.

We may note the significance of
credit as a factor in inflation by com-
paring the United States with France.
To-day it would not be inaccurate to
refer to our money stock as inflated.
During the past year the per capita
supply of money in this country
reached a new high figure, and gold
has poured in from abroad. Yet
wholesale prices declined about 3%
per cent. Our abnormally large sup-
ply of money was not allowed to be-
come a basis for the expansion of
credit, and our money inflation has not
resulted in price inflation.

In France, on the other hand, prices
have been rising and the external
value of the currency has been de-
preciating in spite of the fact that the
Government presses have not been
turning out appreciably more paper
francs. The Government has not been
inflating its currency but inflating its
credit. Either of these policies will
force up prices and lead to the de-
preciation of a country’s exchange.
France, being unable to balance its ex-
traordinary budget, which covers the
cost of reconstructing the devastated
regions, has been compelled repeated-
ly to resort to fresh domestic loans,
and the results on price levels are the
same as if the printing presses had
been turning out fresh batches of
money.

It is only in recent years that the
importance of elastic credit and of the
proper control of credit has come to
be realized. Following the financial
crisis of 1907 there was a great cam-
paign of education for the purpose of
enlightening the country as to the
need of an elastic currency. The cam-
paign culminated in the passage of
the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. Many
then assumed that an asset currency
under proper safeguards would supply
sufficient flexibility for the needs of
business. As with all previous bank-

ing legislation running back for a
hundred years, the note issue function
was regarded as the pivotal point of
the currency system yet the evils of
an inelastic currency before 1913, al-
though great, were only a part of a
larger problem. What is really needed
by the business man in a period of
stringency is not banknotes but a loan.
The great defect of the bond-secured
currency of the ‘National banks is
more than the lack of elasticity of note
issue. It is now realized that the in-
vestment by the bank in Government
bonds curtailed its lending power.
The provision for more elastic cur-
rency and credit under the Federal
Reserve system has reduced the prob-
ability of a financial panic to a mini-
mum, but it has not eliminated the
possibility of sharp industrial crises.
The years following the war showed
that something more than elasticity of
credit is necessary to keep business
going on an even keel. Some sort of
control is required to prevent normal
credit expansion from breaking down
into credit inflation. Such control was
not exercised in 1920, but there were
abnormal conditions prevailing at that
time which rendered such control well
nigh impossible. In the spring of 1923
conditions for the employment of such
control were more favorable and, as
every one knows, inflation “died a-
borning.’ Every major crisis has
brought its lessons and has resulted
in some constructive reform in our
currency and credit systems. That
one of 1920 has impressed business
men with the importance of mitigating
the cyclical fluctuations of business.

 

GOVERNMENT TO GIVE HELP.

During the past week the country
has had brought to its attention the
acute financial distress prevailing in
some districts of the Northwest. The
situation has long been known to
those who have given any attention to
reports that have come from various
authoritative sources in that region,
but what has served to focus attention
most directly has been the recent bank
failures. This has caused a state of
near panic in some of the rural dis-
tricts. Country banks whose condi-
tion was already weakened by an
abnormally large volume of frozen
credits have found depositors disposed
to withdraw their funds and transfer
them to stronger institutions in neigh-
boring cities. This in itself tends to
increase the number of failures, and
that in turn further undermines con-
fidence, so that a vicious and expand-

ing circle has developed.

A short time ago President Coolidge
appointed a commission to visit the
Northwest and formulate a plan for
the relief of the distressed banks. He
followed this by a message to Con-

gress last week urging immediate
measures of relief, and the War
Finance Corporation has _ likewise

taken steps to restore confidence in the
local banking situation.

While economic conditions in the
rest of the country have vastly im-
proved since the passing of the de-
pression of 1920-21, the wheat belt of
the Northwest has not succeeded in
readjusting its production to post-war
conditions. There is overproduction

of the chief crop, with consequent low

prices. Continuous cropping with
wheat has exhausted the fertility of
the soil. Lands were bought at in-
flated values when a price of $3 was
in sight for wheat. The deflation of
1920-21 was at first less severe on the
wheat growers than on the cotton and
corn growers and readjustments were
slower in the wheat belt. Now large
sections appear to be facing a read-
justment over the hard road of bank-
ruptcy.

At a conference in Chicago last
week it was proposed that the local
banks join those of New York and the
Northwest in forming a pool for ad-
vancing some $3,000,000 in credits to
the hard-pressed banks. The Chicago
banks declined to put up their quota of
$1,000,000 on the ground that the sum
was too small to be of real benefit.
This might have afforded some par-
tial relief, but the city banks, as Presi-
dent Coolidge stated in his message to
Congress, cannot be expected to sup-
ply credit to country banks whose
capital is impaired. The depressed
districts have already had too much
credit in support of an unsound sys-
tem of farming. New credits must
obviously be made to facilitate diversi-
fication, and the President favors the
co-operation of both public and private
agencies toward this end.

It is hardly surprising that there
should be criticism at Washington of
the urban banks of the Northwest for
their alleged failure to support the
weak country banks. This country
probably has never passed through
financial troubles without some poli-
tician’s attempting to make some im-
portant individual or institution the
scapegoat. Just three years ago, it
will be recalled, politicians of the
cheap-money persuasion with one con-
sent trained their guns on the Federal
Reserve Board as the author of all the
woes that followed the deflation of
that year. Most business men will
readily recall also the heated accusa-
tion directed at President Roosevelt in
1907, when those who opposed his
policies charged him with responsi-
bility for the panic of that year. By
looking a little further back we will
find that Grover Cleveland was blamed
for the panic of 1893; that Jay Cooke,
the banker, was blamed for the panic
of 1873, and that Andrew Jackson was
blamed for the panic of 1837. In each
case the accusers ignored the funda-
mental economic factors because they
were complicated, and it was much
simpler to make some individual the
target around which to center all the
discontent. That is evidently what is
happening again.

 

Belief in yourself will develop the
belief of others in you—provided you
show some evidence of trying to make
yourself worthy of that belief.

 

Buy lightly on the items that are in
favor to-day and out of favor to-mor-
row. It is touch and go to make
money on such stock.

 

Some women have something to
talk -about, but most of them talk
about things they ‘haven’t got.

The reason some men do not
squander their fortune is because
some women do it for them. -

 

THE COTTON MARKET.

Liverpool led during the past week
in advancing quotations of tton
which still shows no disposition to re.
vert to the peak attained some time
ago, to say nothing of reachine the
45 cents per pound or more which
Southern enthusiasts insisted on,

There are two elements that enter in-
to the matter. One is the actual avail-
able world supply, the other the re-
striction in its use which high prices
bring about. As to the first of these,
too many are prone to look only on
the quantity raised in this
This used to be wholly controlling be-
cause it was in excess of all grown
elsewhere. Now, ‘however, India,
China and Egypt together grow more
than is grown here. Aside from those
countries, quite sizeable quantities are
being raised in various parts of Africa,
in Brazil, Peru, Argentina and other
South American countries, in the West
Indies and in Australia, Turkestan and
elsewhere. The higher the price goes
up the greater will be the efforts to
produce cotton. The effect of price
on the consumption of the article is
no longer theoretic. It has already
been shown in the restrictions in the
mills here and in Great Britain. Sub-
stitutes, too, are being resorted to. It
is now cheaper to use flax for certain
purposes than cotton, and experiments
are being made to employ jute fiber
in the place of cotton for coarser fab-
rics. Trying to sell woven or knit
cotton goods on a parity with the cost
of the raw material is not an easy
proposition at the present, excepting
in the case of certain sheer and fancy
fabrics where price is not so much
considered as are quality and distinc-
tiveness. The gray goods markets are
dull, most of the business being done
by second hands. There is a fairly
steady call for finished fabrics for im-
mediate use or nearby delivery. Dull-
ness still prevails in most varieties of
knit goods.

coUunIry.

Linking up of radio with airplanes
continues to advance, with the promise
of great help from wireless communi-
cation in man’s conquest of the air,
well advanced by this time but still in-
complete, chiefly because of the danger
that attends the use of any class of
aircraft. Anything that tends to
minimize this danger marks an ad-
vance in air navigation, which gives
interest and importance to the dispatch
from Paris telling of the recalling of
an airplane to Le Bourget field after
it had started for Geneva because of
an approaching storm. ‘The radio tele-
phone took the necessary information
to the pilot, who promptly returned to
Paris with his passengers. What the
year we are entering may bring forth
in man’s use of the air is yet to be
told, but prophecy is possible, and we
are likely to see things of import hap-
pen before another twelvemonth has
passed.

 

Are you in a rut? It is almost worth
while to take a partner, change loca-
tion, or let the sheriff sell you out, just
to get you out of the rut and start you
moving at a faster pace.

 

A man generally feels blue when he
exhibits a yellow streak and paints
the town red.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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more clear,
from your competitor and paving cash
for them he still owes you fo-
the pair just worn out. This offense
is committed in every city where there

accounts. Why? They
simply seem to backbone to
tel! you tha: nnot met their
obligation at that time. and in order
to simplify matters they buy their
shoes elsewhere.

Taking all these things con-
sideration, we saw but one method to
pursue, and that was “Cash Sales
Only.” True, the first year it was not
always the pleasant matter to
discuss with a person who had been
in the habit of having merchandise
( but with the proper exempli-
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which might have turned the customer
away forever if tact and salesmanship
were not used. We would try and
show them where they were getting
the benefit by paying cash for the me--
chandise in receiving a better grade of
leather or buying the same shoes for

less price than if they had same
charged. We would also inform them

that being beginners we did not have
the money to invest which we would
need providing we maintained char-e
accounts, and that we were partly
forced to sell for cash. In this way
we gradually educated the buying pub-

   

was

    
    

Occasional

No extra expense
office help. No con-

other words, when
our is Over we can for-
get enjoy life, and do net
lave to think, “What will I say to
Dick or Harry if I see him: his ac-
count is long overdue.” True enough,

we might sell more pairs of shoes dur-
ing the course of the year, but we

 

might also lose the payment for some
of them.

Our method of procedure might not
meet with the approval of some mer-

 

for the reason that I have
them say they can sell more

footwear to families who have charge
accounts than to those who pay as
they go along. It might be true, but
personaily I have heard many a me--
chant say that he wished he could run

his business on a cash basis, but I
have still to hear the first one say,

who has been on a cash basis, that he
would like to do a credit business.
Merchandise on the shelves. or the
cash ir the money drawer has been
our policy for fifteen years and shall
continue unless we can see where we
can be benefitted by a change.
Joseph Langenburg.
—_2~-.__
Another “Pure Shoe” Bill.

Another “pure shoe” bill, this time
introduced in the House of Represen-
confronts the shoe and leather
This measure has been pro-
posed by Congressman Reece who
would “protect the public against de-
ceit and unfair prices.” The section
of the bill pertaining to the shoe and
leather industry reads:

“Be it enacted by the Senate
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress
assembled, That manufacturer
of shoes and other articles of footwear
purporting to be made of leather with-
in any Territory of the United States,
or in the District of Columbia, shall
before offering such articles for sale
or for transportation to any state, or
the District of Columbia, cause each
article to be stamped or tagged show-
ing the amount and kind of material

tatives,
industry.

and

every

other than leather used in its manu-
facture.”
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There are those who would have

you believe that every thrifty man is
as crooked as the dollar mark.

 

 

since the boom days following

t} r iod makers of the

period have
2s of silk hosiery done better
1ey have since the first

from

 

of the year. It has come both

local and out-of-town stores, and two

 

have combined to produce it.
ce . ' a
of these is the generally reduced

act. The

tf other is the

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prices now in

a
excellent holiday business in hosiery

that was enjoyed by the retail trade.

prompt replenishment of
A good deal of the

business placed is for forward delivery,

stocks imperative.

y buyers apparently having ac-
cepted the assertions of leading pro-
ducers that no further price cuts would
Inciden-

have

ye Tortacoming tnis season.

more buyers of hosiery

tally,
been in this market so far this month

than in any similar period for a long

Among the features of the busi-

 
  
  
   

Dressy—
Comfortable
ALL GOOD
LEATHER
Quality to the
last stitch,
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vogue for hose in the
noticeably increased c

and the

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a dark gray shade on the order .

metal. The latter is cutting n t
le:s into the demand for black
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Port Huron—The Dunn Sul;

Paper Co., with business offices at
West Detroit,
been incorporated with an authori;
$500,000 preferred
$1 per share, of w!
amount $452,800 and 5,000 shares
been subscribed, $45,280 paid in in c
and $5,000 in property.
——>~~—____
Monroe—William _ B.

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capital stock of

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10,000 shares a
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prietor of Bohn’s
Front street, will conduct a closing
sale and retire from business April
J. D. Strong, merchandise adjuster,

Chicago, will have charge of t

Per Dollar
Easy on the Feet—

Easy on the Pocketbook
H-B Dependable Shoes for men and
boys are made by skilled shoemaker:
of 30 years experience, of selected mi
terials, with painstaking workmanshi
Farmers have found them best by
rigid outdoor test. The famous H-!
Hard Pan wears like iron.

HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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The Michigan Millers
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And 22 Associated Mutual Companies.

 

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IN THE SOUTHLAND.

 

First Impressions of Florida Land and
~limate.

De Land, Florida, Jan. 30—How
easy it is to be deceived when you
pass judgment upon matters associated
with a country of which you know
little except from hearsay. We have
daily illustrations of this in the news-
paper interviews with our statesmen
who return from a short sojourn in
France, Germany and Russia. The
conflicting testimony of people re-
turning from Florida whom I have in-
terviewed for some years lead me to
think that people lost their heads after
crossing into this peninsula. To some
Florida is too hot, to others too cold.
The oranges are the best in the world
or they will not compare with the
California product. To some the State
is doing remarkable things for the
tourist population; to others the native
Floridians are watching every oppor-
tunity to skin the visitors. I came
down here with an open mind. Thirty
years ago I spent some weeks about
Daytona and nearly froze to death and
acquired a dose of malaria germs from
which I had great difficulty in separat-
ing myself. But the same thing was
experienced in Michigan in my boy-
hood when it could truly be said of
that State:

“ : : a

Go there in summer you will see
much sorrow and calamity. Some sick
in bed, some shivering with ague, for
that’s the case in Michigan.”

We now have entirely different data
upon which to base an estimate of
either state.

My first impressions are favorable.
Tourists are made welcome and every-
thing reasonable is done for their wel-
fare and happiness. Good roads, well
equipped camps near all the towns.
reasonable prices for supplies and

courteous behavior prevail everywhere. -

To be sure, for people who are willing
to pay the price, luxuries are expen-
sive, but many farmers from Michigan
are studying the geography of Florida
this month, enjoying the climate in a
cheap automobile and having good
times on less than they would spend
at home in keeping reasonably com-
fortable. There is no question but the
best oranges and grape fruit grown
here have no rivals in the world, but
there is a lot of inferior fruit upon the
market.

The swine of Florida are spoken of
in terms of derision, yet it was a
Florida hog which took the sweep-
stakes premium at the Chicago stock
show.

Florida cows are maligned because
judgment is passed upon the stock
browsing in the highways or getting
a precarious living in the pine barriers.
But farmers who know how to grow
stock food in Florida are maintaining
the finest herds upon balanced rations
grown upon their own farms. It-i3
asserted that outside of citric products
Florida has little in the harvest to brag
about and still the corn crop of the
State is worth more than all the
oranges and grape fruit.

It is promulgated that while garden
crops are grown successfully in a few
favorable localities, in the State at
large there are so many exigencies that
market gardening is a precarious ven-
ture. Still statistics show that more
celery is marketed from Florida than
any state in the Union, and the quality
is superb.

My first impressions of the State
were rather unfavorable as I entered
the borders a month ago. The rail-
roads pass through such wide reaches
of cut-over lands and traverse regions
where everything is sacrificed to the
production of tar, pitch and turpentine
and there seems to be such tremend-
ous waste in the whole process that at
first blush the old song applied to
Michigan finds a ready application: -

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Its barren hills and sandy plans,

And the little that the farmer gains;

He may work and toil, do all he can,

He will soon get poor in Michigan.

We know that although this may
have been true once it has no applica-
tion to-day, and after having traversed
a number of counties, I am satisfied
that judgment based upon all the facts
will be altogether favorable to the
prosecution of farming in this State.
How would we like to have our own
fair State judged from a cursory view
of Iosco, Roscommon and Crawford
counties? How would we enjoy hav-
ing any of our counties rated upon the
poorest areas within their boundaries?
Florida is suffering from hasty judg-
ments based upon its undeveloped re-
sources and upon conditions followin~
in the wake of wasteful methods of
lumbering and the production of tur-
pentine products. The fact that long
leaved pines and several species of
oaks grow very rapidly into values
upon this Florida sand indicates there
are some valuable elements hiddén in
these soils. The wonderful response
to the application of commercial fer-
tilizers by succulent soil products in-
dicates that methods of agriculture.
wisely. promoted, will yield unusual
results.

Agriculture is in its primitive stage
in these parts and the most of the ex-
periment stations, wisely designed,
will undoubtedly produce some won-
derful results. There are indications
that the possibilities of the State have
just been tapped.

Timber grows very rapidly in a
climate having a rainfall of nearly
sixty inches annually and fairly well
distributed throughout the year. I
have examined the rings on the stumps
of live oaks recently cut and find the
average increase in diameter for
twenty years is half an inch and the
same thing is true of the long leaved
pine. Where fires ate kept out the
land is quickly covered with young
pine and oak which, if conserved,
quickly grow into values, and the cry-
ing need of our country to-day is an
increase of wood products. In trav-
ersing the region between this place
and Daytona, twenty miles away,
there is only one redeeming feature
and that is the swamps covered with
young growing cypress trees rapidly
developing into very valuale timber.

The lakes of Florida are a charm
which captivates the tourist. The
water is so soft and pure; the borders
so attractive; the reflections from the
mirrored surfaces surpassingly beau-
tiful and the long vistas in the land-
scapes as viewed from the reliefs of
land punctuatéd by the lovely lakes
all add measurably to the things that
give joy to the tourist.

We are glad we came and the col-
lege town of DeLand affords special
privileges not to be ignored in choos-
ing a Southern location for relaxation
and diversion. ‘ Charles W. Garfield.

—_.-- 2 ___
For Love of a Dog.

A dog’s love for his master is pro-
verbial. A man’t love for his dog is
sometimes intense, and usually mani-
fested most when the dog dies. There
are many people who have undying
hatred for a dog-poisoner. One of
them, the editor of a Georgia country
newspaper, has shot three bullets into
the body of a physician presumably
responsible for the death of his collie
dog.

The dog was charged with having
bitten the doctor’s child. Thereupon
the father demanded the dog’s death,
and later it was found poisoned. The
editor chronicled the fact in his paper,
applying such epithets as mongrel,
assassin, fiend, dastard and coward to
the alleged poisoner. When the phy-

_ Sician and the editor met on the street

after the newspaper was issued, there
was a brief quarrel in which the editor
drew his revolver, with results men-
tioned above. Now the editor is in
jail as the man he shot hovers between

life and death.
=>. —____

John Bull Abroad.

A Frenchman now in this country
tells of the discovery in Paris of the
most “nervy” of all tourists, an Eng-
lishman, who entered a_ well-known
cafe, accompanied by two little girls,
ordered a bottle of mineral water and
three plates, and began to eat
wiches, which he ‘had brought
him in his pockets.

The manager, overcome by this out-
rage, approached the Briton, and said:

sand-
with

“T should like to inform you that this
is not a—
“Who are you?” interrupted the

Englishman.

“IT am the manager.”

“Oh, you are the manager, are you?
That is good. I was just going to
send for you. Why isn’t the band
playing?”

11

The Sales Tell the Story.

No more pointed comment on the
kind of season the
had this Winter
perienced local shoe
marked, than the
sales that are being

shoe retailers have
is required, an ex-
man recently re-
number of special
staged and the
prices at which most of the goods of-
fered in these sales may be purchased.
“When it is possible

these days for a

man to buy a pair of good-quality,
well-made

under $6, as can

high shoes at a special sale
now be done,” he
is no need of asking how

One of

said, “there
the retail
the leading ;

shoe business is.

shops in the city has been

offering men’s shoes lately at prices

that would have seemed ridiculous a
it is not of

When

some-

few seasons ago and yet
dinarily known for low
this shop cuts prices sharply
thing is Taking it by
large, the retail shoe trade has had the

prices.

wrong. and

poorest season in many years, and the

weather, of course, is the answer.”

—_—__—-e

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OLD ORDER CHANGETH

Gone is the two-by-four, tin-fronted bank

of yesterday—a thing of the past. Mod-

ern Bankers—known as prudent men—

spend money freely for beautiful bank 4
buildings, because pays.  * * Wide

awake Merchants know the value of
good-looking stores—the  profit-mak.ng

value of beauty. Each year more and

more of them buy Wilmarth Fixtures.

Wilmarth
is a Business

WILMARTH SHOW CASE CO.

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Laces and Embroderies

Our stock in both Lines are complete.
received.

EXCEPTIONAL BARGAINS IN EMBROIDERIES
at prices Less than we can purchase them for today.

Ask our salesman.

Paul Steketee & Sons
RAPIDS,

RIGHT PRICES

Many new Patterns just

MICHIGAN

PROMPT SERVICE

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

February 6

 

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When Billions Mean Trillions.

In these days when figures in
lions come as trippingly on
millions

bil-
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and
Eu-

quadril-

tongue as used to do,
:
when

figures in the depreciated

ropean currencies into

run
contusion

little
t of the different

lions and beyond, no

has arisen-as a resul
nomenclature
Only

a few days ago, for example, one of

methods of numerical

employed in various countries.

the leading financial publications car-
ried a cable dispatch from Berlin

giving the total circulation of paper
That

was exactly what the cable said, but

marks as so many “trillions.”

what it meant, according to our usage,
Those

was quintillions. who handle

foreign financial e
big encounter difficulty at

times in discovering the sender's mean-

messages Carrying

figures

ing. Sometimes he uses the system of
his own country, and sometimes,

knowing the difference in the customs,

he employs the American system so

that his figures will not be misunder-

stood, but it is hard to ascertain when

he is “talking American.”

he Department of Commerce has
published a useful description of the
designations of big numbers employed
The American
the French are the same,

by different countries.
system and
except that the French frequently say
On the

other hand, for figures above a mil-

milliard where we say billion.

lion the British and the German desig-
nations are different from our own. In
Great Britain what we call a billion
is called a thousand million; a trillion
is called a billion, a quadrillion a
thousand billion, and a quintillion a
trillion.
—_2+~-+.___
Congress Discounted.

Business

 

apparently has discounted
whatever good or bad legislation may
get through the present Congress. It
had its misgivings before Congress as-
sembled, but it

has since become re-

assured, not because of anything that

Congress has yet done or has not
done, but because of the striking re-
sponse of the public to the Mellon

plan, which has been so strong as to
insure some sort of action for the re-
duction of The only question

taxes.

is how far Congress will be willing to
go in reducing the surtaxes.  In-
cidentally, the assurance of tax reduc-
tion diminishes correspondingly the
prospect of bonus legislation.

There is talk of revision of the
Transportation Act, but anything of a
radical nature is regarded as sure of
an executive Many manufac-
turers and other employers are keenly
interested in the new immigration law
that is being drafted. No one has ex-
pected Congress to relax the present
restrictions, and Congress may
do in this respect will not prove im-
mediately disturbing to

veto.

what

business.
There is a whole sheaf of bills for the
relief of agriculture, and the Admin-
istration is committed to doing some-
thing for the depressed farmers of the
Northwest ts program may hard-
ly suit some of the radical Congress-
men; but the fact that it is endeavor-
ing to formulate constructive measures
of relief offers a fair guarantee against
extremely socialistic experiments ad-
vocated by the farm bloc.
——_+~-.____
How Much Can One Earn?

t has been pointed out here before
that the definition of the term “earned
income’ in the original draft of the
bill inadequate, as it
included only salaries and profession-
al earnings, leaving the farmer and
merchant out of account. Efforts are
being the Ways
Means Committee to meet this situa-
tion. One proposal was made to add
to the original definition the stipula-
tion that earned income meant “a rea-
sonable compensation” for personal
service when the income is derived
from both service and capital. This
raises the question of what constitutes

boned

nex tax Was

now made by and

a “reasonable” compensation. Other
proposals have been more arbitrary,
but also more practicable from the

viewpoint of administration. The com-
mittee decided to designate all in-
comes below $5,000 as earned. This
is not scientific, but it
and has the advantage of meeting ob-*
jections which have been raised to
taxing the incomes of elderly persons
derived from lifetime savings more
heavily than the salaries of young and

seems sensible

 

 

TAX EXEMPTION

An important item to consider
for the man of fair income

 

| Conservative
Investments

Investment Bankers and Brokers

Citizens
4480

 

We have a list of tax exempt securities which |
shall be pleased to send you upon request.

CORRIGAN, HILLIKER & CORRIGAN

GROUND FLOOR MICHIGAN TRUST BLDG Bell
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN 49)

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UNDER THE
LAWS OF
MICHIGAN

if you die without hav-
ing made a will, leav-
ing a wife but no chil-
dren, only one-half of
your Real Estate will
go to your wife. 1

 

Is this your wish?

THE 7

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COMPANY

Organized in 1889
CORNER PEARL AND OTTAWA j 7
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— < Wm. Alden Smith, Chairman of the Board +
—_— e Chas. W. Garfield, Chairman Executive |
= * Committee. . | @
—_— 2 Gilbert L. Daane, President
= > Arthur M. Godwin, Vice-President i
sence + Earle D. Albertson, Vice-Pres. & Cashler
— = Earl C. Johnson, Vice-President
on : O. B. Davenport, Asst. Cashier --} >
oe = H. J. Proctor, Asst. Cashier i
_ ? H. Fred Oltman, Asst. Cashier 1.
_— = Dana B. Shedd, Asst. to President
“ : DIRECTORS i
ae = Noyes L. Avery Chas. J. Kindel
—: = Joseph H. Brewer Frank E. Leonard j
— = Gilbert L. Daane John B. Martin
Sane Charles W. Garfield Geo. A. Rumsey
=. William H. Gilbert William Alden Smith é .
—- Arthur M. Godwin

Tom Thoits |

Chas. M. Heald A. H. Vandenverg E
J. Hampton Hoult Geo. G. Whitworth 9
John Hekman Fred A. Wurzburg \
54,000 SATISFIED CUSTOMERS Le
RESOURCES OVER . |

$18,000,000

DABPIDS SAVINGS BANK, S 4
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AMERICAN STATE SAVINGS BANK :

NorTH LANSING LANSING _ SoutH LANSING “]
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able-bodied citizens. While the com-
mittee is disposed to classify every-
thing below a certain figure as
“earned,” it is also inclined to desig-
nate everything above a certain sum

as “unearned.” Opinion seemed to
favor $20,000 as the maximum. that
any one can earn. This is likewise
arbitrary and unscientific, but it at

least has the merit of greatly simplify-

ing the administration of the law.
—_-.__

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Jan. 22—On this day
Were received the schedules and order of
reference in the matter of Fremont Fuel
& Ice Company, Bankrupt No. 2352. The
matter is a composition offer before ad-
judication and the schedules are filed
for this purpose only. The date of meet-
ing of creditors for the examination of

the bankrupt and to consider the offer
of composition has been set for Feb. 4.
Jan. 25. On this day were received

the schedules, order of reference and ad-
judication in bankruptcy in the matter of
John W. Heaton, Bankrupt No. 2425. The
matter has been referred to Benn M.
Corwin as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of the city of
Muskegon. The occupation of the bank-
rupt is not stated. The schedules filed
list assets of $210, with liabilities of $833.
The court has written for funds for the
first meeting, and upon the arr:val of the

same the first meeting of creditors will
be called and note of the same made
here. A list of the creditors of the bank-
rupt is as follows:

Pine St. Furn. Co., Muskegon __$ 60.00
King Clothing Co., Muskegon 85.00
mart S.. Baldus, Nunica —. 2 250.00
Peterson & WBasterly, Nunica 15.00
Grane & Gleason, Nunica _'-..- - 9.00
& Brown, Nunca 9. | 18.00
Wiliam Hagen, Nunica -_--...-- 5.00
Dr. Stickley, Coopersville —___-- 18.00
le: Wearer, Coopersville —_ = == 7.00
Cc. P. Lillie, Coopersville ok 8.00
Co-operative Elevator Co., Coopers-

WING sete eS 9.00
John Rugas, Grand Haven - 15.00
* fosepn Liska, Ashley —— =: 17.00
ibs. ‘Dheime, Ravenna, 22 2. 8 17.00
ior, Hagen, Ravenna =) 27 50.00
Dr. F. B. Marshall, Muskegon __--~ 150.00
Dr Bigan; Muskegon —-. 7 = 35.00
William De Jong, Grand Rapids __ 50.90
Mr. Thomas, Erent —----. 3 15.00

Jan. 26. On this day were received the

schedules, order of reference and adjudi-

eation in bankruptcy in the matter of
Edward O. Meyers, Bankrupt No. 242/.
The matter has been referred to Benn

M. Corwin as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids.
The occupation of the bankrupt is not
stated in his schedules. The schedules
show assets of $250, all of which is claim-
ed as exempt to the bankrupt, with lia-
bilities of $523.55. The court has written
for funds and upon the arrival of the
same the first meeting will be called, and

note of the same made here. a list of
the creditors of the bankrupt is as fol-
lows:

Wm. Alden Smith, Grand Rapids $ 12.00
Bowens & Platt Electrical Co.,

Grand Ramicgs 2200502 2 42.95
John Frick, Grand Rapids __---- 5.00
Peter Doeman, Grand Rapids -_-_ 50.00
7%. ¥. Hansen, Grand Rapids =. _._ 1.00
ER Weenstra, Grand Rapids: ._.._. 80.00
Shipman Coal Co., Grand tapids 78.00
Wilman Westveer, Grand Rapids — 7.50
Blenbaas, Inc., Grand Rapids _---. 12.00
Dr. Alexander Campbell, Grand R. 29.00
Dr. John Holcomb, Grand tapids 32.00
William Thwaites, Grand Rapids_—~ 75.00
Dr. T. F. Boersma, Grand Rapids 40.00
William Bushey, Grand Rapids 15.00
H. Kuizema, Grand Rapids ---- 11.50
Moon Lake Ice Co., Grand Rapids 4.00
James Miller, Grand Rapids __-- 12.00
John Idsinga Co., Grand Rapids 3.60

In the matter of Louis Rybarsyk, Harry
Wittkoski and R. B. Electric Co., Bank-
rupt No. 2412, the court is in receipt of
an offer of $300 for the entire stock of
this estate except the exemptions, all of
which is appraised at $1,519.92. The date
fixed for hearing on the offer and the sale
of such property to the highest. bidder is

placed by the referee at Feb. 4. An in-
ventory is in the hands of Edward De
Groot, trustee, 450 Houseman _ building,

Grand Rapids. All interested should be
present at the office of the referee, 315
Houseman building, on the date above
stated. :

In the matter of Francis V. Broady,
Bankrupt No. 2351, the trustee has re-
ported an offer of $60 from Steketee Ra-
dio Service Co. for all of the property of

this estate and the date fixed for the
sale is Feb. 4. At the sane time the
trustee’s first and final report will be

passed upon, the administration expenses
paid and the case closed. The sale will
be held at the office of the referee, 315
Houseman building, Grand Rapids.
Jan. 28. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Frank J. Gardner, Bankrupt No. 2422.
The bankrupt was present in person and
by attorney. George S. Norcross appear-
ed for creditors. The bankrupt was sworn

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and examined without a reporter. Claims

were proved and allowed. C. C. Wool-
ridge was appointed trustee and the
amount of his bond placed at $100. The

first meeting was then
out date. The case appears to contain
insufficient assets to pay administration
expenses and exemptions, therefore there
will be no dividends to creditors.

On this day also was held the special

adjourned with-

meeting of creditors and sale in the
matter of Joseph P. Rushee, Bankrupt
No. 2346. The bankrupt was present in
person. Several creditors and_ bidders
were present. The final offer for the
property was inade by J. P. Rushe in

the sum of $2,150 and the sale to him at

such figure was confirmed. An order
was made confirming such_ sale. The

meeting was adjourned without date.
Jan, 28. On this day was held the
sale of assets and special meeting of
creditors in the matter of Ben Schechter,
Bankrupt No. 2415. Creditors were pres-
ent in person. The trustee Was present
in person. The property was sold to
James .Redman, of Alma, for $850. An
order was made confirming the sale of

such assets. The special meeting was
then adjourned without date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of

William Davenwater, Bankrupt No. 2421.
The bankrupt was not present. Several
claims were proved. The meeting was
adjourned to Feb. 4 and the bankrupt
ordered to appear.
On this day also
meeting of creditors in the matter
Eden W. Booth, Bankrupt No. 2420.
bankrupt was present in person and by
attorney. No creditors were present or
represented. No claims were proved anl
allowed. No trustee was appointed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-

held the first
of

The

was

out a reporter. The case being a no
asset case was adjourned without date
and closed and returned to the district
court.

dan. 29. On this day was held the
first meeting of creditors in the matter
of Vance H. Walter, Bankrupt No. 2416.

The bankrupt was present in person and
by attorney. Creditors were present. No

claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. The case being one with no
assets was closed and returned to the
district court and the first meeting ad-
journed without date.
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gold. The rest must be made in goods,
and in such invisible items as ocean
freights, marine insurance, banking

commissions, and so on. Just what the
foreign trade was
indicated the other day by another

3ritish banker, Walter Leaf, chairman

effect has been on

of the Westminister Bank, who show-
ed that during the first nine months
of 1923 British exports to the United
States £ 10,000,000,
while imports into the country from
the United States had declined £16,-
000,000. This means that the trade

had increased

balance in this period has turned in
favor of Great Britain to the extent of
£ 26,000,000.

Such a development indicates the
effects of the changed relation between
Great Britain and the United States.
The former debtor is now the creditor,
and vice versa. It is to be noted also,
as Mr. Leaf pointed out, that this
change has taken place in foreign
trade in spite of the higher duties im-
posed on imports by this country. The
greatest increase in imports during the
past year has been in raw materials,
few of which were affected by the new
tariff. Great Britain, however, exports
few raw materials directly to this coun-
try, and the effects of the new tariff
on trade with the United States were
greatly feared by British merchants
and manufacturers. It would seem
that the higher duties have been off-
set, to some degree at least, by the
debt settlement.

This discussion raises another inter-
esting point. The countries that are
debtors to the United States would
profit by a period of inflation in this
country, provided it did not have its
counterpart overseas. Mr. Goodenough
indeed, looks for a rise of prices in this

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

country as a possible means of aiding
Great Britain to return to the gold
standard. A period of inflation in the
United States, by forcing prices above

e level in the world markets, would
stimulate further imports and eventual-
ly result in an outfiow of some of our
surplus gold as the trade balance
turned more and more against this
country. his would improve the ex-
changes of other countries and facili-
tate their re-establishment of a gold-
secured currency. For this reason
some overseas bankers see in our re-
strictions on immigration and on im-
ports forces conducive to keeping
prices higher than in the world mar-
ket. While they do not approve of our
tariff policy or the closing of our doors
to their unemployed labor, they are
inclined to see in these measures
something more than unmixed evil.
——_+--2__-
Find the Answer

Contract.

A large insurance company received
the following choice reading matter
from a policyholder who followed: the
advice about “Read Your Policy’ and
who had a loss and couldn’t find the
answer in the contract, according to
a bulletin of the National Retailers
Mutual Insurance Company. The com-
munication is as follows:

Couldn’t in the

“Some days ago I wrote you, advis-
ing that fire had destroyed nine nap-
kins and an enameled dish, loss $10.50.

“Last Saturday your adjuster called
me on the phone, and I explained to
him that the napkins were put on the
stove to boil and were forgotten,
boiled dry and burned. He told me
that it looked like a piece of careless-
ness, that my policy did not cover the
case.

“T had looked over the policy before
writing you, but I didn’t find anything
in it saying that fires must be set on
fire deliberately, and that the policy
didn’t cover fires caused by accident
or carelessness, as I gathered from
your adjuster’s talk.

“He tried to explain the matter to
me by asking if the meat had burned
on the stove, would I put in a claim
for damages; also asked me if I ever
thought of putting in a claim for the
coal that we burn in our stove. I
couldn’t see any connection in the
cases, but I told him that we didn’t
have our meat insured ,as we seldom
had any on account of the high prices,
also I told him we had no coal, nor
did we even have a coal stove to burn
coal in He sure tried hard to make
me see the napkins in the same light
that he saw the meat and coal, but I
just simply couldn’t get it.

“I suppose insurance men are all
bright, but I never was in the insur-
ance business, and may be a little
dense (you know my folks were all
Republicans).

“Well. anyway, I asked him if the

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napkins had set fire to the flat and
all my household goods had been
destroyed, would I get any insurance
under the policy, and he assured me
that I would, but would not admit that
the napkins burning alone would con-
stitute a loss. I suppose you have a
schedule showing just what kind of
furniture napkins must be burned with,
but the policy I have does not show
the schedule. I asked him why he
discriminated against napkins; he told
me, but as I have said, he was too
smart for me and [| couldn’t under-
stand the explanation. My own
opinion of the matter is that your

February 6, 1924

adjuster does not use napkins hi:
and considers them an extravagance,
or maybe I wrong the gentleman: per-
haps he does, but doesn’t understand
why a man who lives in a thirdstory
flat has the effrontery to use them
“While if I could get the $1150
from you I would surely enjoy the
sensation I am writing this more for
the purpose of getting some inforn
tion regarding my policy. If th
policy does not cover the loss of 1
kins burned through carelessnes:
while we are playing poker in the par-
lor, I don’t want that kind of a policy
as I cannot afford to lose money

 

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February 6, 1924

the poker game in the parlor while
losing napkins in the kitchen.

“Please be kind enough to pick me
out a policy that .will cover all kinds
of fire and exchange it for mine.”

~~» —
Cotton and the Weather.

Reports from the cotton belt have
become optimistic with regard to pros-
pects for the next crop as a result of
the three successive cold waves that
have swept over that section. The
first of these came on the trail of
several weeks of unseasonably warm
weather, which, it is hoped, had re-
tarded the hibernation of the boll wee-
vil and led to its decimation by the
sudden cold. Two subsequent cold
waves of unusual severity may have
further reduced the numbers of the
pest. It has been noted heretofore
that severe winters substantially re-
duce the injury done to the cotton
crop by the weevil during the subse-
quent season. This may encourage
heavier planting this year, but it is
unlikely that any extra inducement is
needed, as recent prices are of them-
selves sufficient to this end. It is to
be noted, however, that the bad
weather has hampered the preparations
for planting, which begins at this sea-
son and delayed planting always tends
to increase weevil damage later. In this
connection it is to be noted that high
prices for cotton, although of tre-
mendous benefit to the growers, have
created a new problem, as they have
tended to discourage diversification
and to counteract the educational
work that had been directed to this
end for so many wears.

—_—_+--
Practice Loans.

A certain manufacturer went to his
bank and obtained a loan of $5,000
which he immediately deposited in an-
other bank and has not made _ the
slightest use of it. On the day that
his note comes due, he will pay it.
same thing over again—borrow money
Then in a few months, he may do the
that he doesn’t need. He calls these
his practice loans. “During prosper-
ous times,” he says, “it is easy to
borrow money, and I like to carry on
a little educational campaign with my
bank to show them I am prompt about
meeting obligations and to get them
into the habit of letting me have
money when I want it. Then when
dull times come, and I have to borrow

money, I can get it.”
—--3> 2?

An Eye To the Main Chance.

Little Elinora, age 9, who has re-
cently moved from a distant city, cor-
responds frequently with Mary, who
was her closest chum. A few days
ago Elinora received a letter from
Mary which said:

“Tell me when your birthday comes
for I want to send you a present. My
birthday is next Tuesday.”
i

If you think customers once suited
are going to keep on coming to you
indefinitely, you fail to take into ac-
count the forgetfulness of human
nature. As an after-the-sale talk tell
the customer what may fairly be ex-
pected of the purchase and what you
guarantee. This will reduce the
chances of returned goods and com-
plaints.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN iS

Abraham Lincoln.

Only one Abraham, called to be
“The Father of the Faithful,’ down to
the end of time; only one Homer, wet
with the dews of the morning of the
ages, wrapped in his singing robe,
chanting his immortal epics through
the enraptured centuries; only one
Pericles, who once said: “I do. not
know how to play upon a fiddle, but
I do know how to transform a little
village into a city of world-wide influ-
ence and power; only one Plato,
whose philosophy was a star in the
dawn of Christianity; only one Mich-
ael Angelo, towering above Saint
Peter’s, the dome of which reflects his
genius; only one Dante, who gave to
Italy a new vision and a new vernac-
ular; to whom a thousand lesser poets,
looking up, learn how to sing; onlv
one Cromwell, clothed in the garment
of incorruptible integrity and crowned
in history as the great commoner; only
one Columbus, whose unwearying
faith was rewarded with the priceless
trophy of an unknown world; only one
George Washington, who wrought
with such. fidelity to duty that the
name of Washington is a universal in-
spiration to patriotism, and only one
Abraham Lincoln, who in the bursting
storm of the most terrible rebellion
the world has ever known, grasped the
sundered nation by the rim and held
it together against gigantic plot of
dismemberment, lifted it up to the
divine plane of liberty and equality
and swung it around through the circle
of ten centuries in less than a single
decade, giving liberty to one race and
freedom to another, the greatest’ mere
man that has walked beneath the stars
of heaven for six thousand years,
Abraham Lincoln!

John Wesley Hill.
—_—_~+~--__
Criminal Career Checked By Kind-
ness.

A little sales girl in a department
store was caught stealing. The super-
intendent confronted her with the evi-
dence and asked her to sign a con-
fession. After she had done so, he
sealed the confession in an envelope
and put his own name on it. “This
goes into a strong-box,” he said, “and
nobody but you and I will ever know
about it—provided you do what I ask.
First, I want your promise never to
do it again and then I want to know
just why you thought you must have
more money.” She told her story.
There was sickness at home and her
need for money was not because of
mere craving for luxuries. The super-
intendent sent her invalid sister to a
hospital at the store’s expense. That
was nine years ago and the little sales
girl is to-day not only one of the
store’s valuable employes but one of
the most loyal. The little envelope
has long ago been burned.

—_+-++
Not Here Now.

A lady named Mrs. McGuire,

Had trouble in lighting the fire,
The wood being green,
She used kerosene—

She’s now where the fuel is dryer.

You will have no trouble in adjust-
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can learn to get the other fellow’s
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Making English History a Live Thing.
Written for the Tradesman.

“There is just as much difference be-
tween a hand-made and a machine-
made child as between a hand-made
and a machine-made garment,” I said.
“Most children ess are ma-
chine-made.”’

“What in the world do you mean?”
asked one of the women.

“One is put through the ordinary
process, and comes out as may be; the
other you take personal pains with.”

One of the women had started the
conversation by saying:

“My boy is not in the least :nter-
ested in his English history: to him

it is ‘just a book, and not even a good
story. I have read the book myself,
and he is quite right. I cannot afford
to take him to England to get the

background, and I never was there -

myself. I can’t get him to read
Dickens or Thackeray or Scott
says they are tiresome. His teacher is
a mechanical person who teaches by
rote and does not in the least inspire
her pupils. What can I do?”

“Your boy is in the machine,” I
said. “But you could do a lot to il-
luminate the process. It is a case for
careful handwork.”

“Precisely, what do you mean? I
am willing to take any amount of
pains.”

    

Scott and Thackeray may be beyond
your boy as yet, I said. Besides, they
are pretty solid doses for the modern
young person, used to hasty and pre-
digested reading. Long descriptions
and moralizing are not in fashion now-
adays. But almost any boy will like
the thrilling adventure parts when
they get into them. You can entice
a boy by a taste of “Ivanhoe.” You
don’t have to start at the beginning
and read every word.

The father or mother who really
wants to co-operate in the process of
education can keep ahead of the chil-
dren, if they want to; or read along
with them. Yes; it takes some pains
and forethought.

There are many delightful novels
based on English history—or almost
any other kind of history. Get the
school child interested in one of those
and you will see immediately
how it enlivens the otherwise dry
“study” that the school books afford.
There you see the more intimate life
of the people set forth, as it was lived
by men and women and children.

stories,

The stories of Scott; for instance, do
show the life of the people in England
and Scotland from 1100 to 1800: but
before Scott it is well to begin with
easier reading, such as Conan Doyle’s
“The White Company,” Stevenson’s
“The Black Arrow,” Edna Lyall’s “To

Right the Wrong,” isda:
“Lorna Doone,” “Alice Lorraine” and
“The Splendid Spur,” Maurice Hew-
lett’s “Life and Death of Richard Yea-
and-Nay,” Ainsworth’s “The Tower
of London” and “Windsor Castle.”
And many, many others. The li-
brarian of your local library will glad-
ly lead you to the whole list.

If you have not read these yourself,
I promise you a good treat in reading
them one by one; fitting yourself to
inspire your boy or girl to see the
real life behind the history.

When my own boy was little, I used
to make it an unfailing habit to read
to him while he had his supper. I
picked parts of good novels, skipped
the dry and tiresome descriptions, and
filled in the gaps as well as I could.
Many of the books I had not read be-
fore; so I was killing two birds with
one stone; filling up gaps in my own
education! And how he did love it!
Even now, many years afterward. I
can see him drawing out the time by
moving his spoon so slowly to his
lips, so as to prolong the enjoyment.
“Story of Francis
Peacock’s ‘Maid
Marian,” Charles McFarlane’s “The
Camp of Refuge,’ Lytton’s “Harold,
the Last of the Barons’—all of these
contributed to the background against
which, when he reached English his-
tory in his regular school work, he
saw all that the teacher talked about.
So, too, long before he was old enough
to read them himself, he came to be
familiar with Scott’s “Ivanhoe,” “Ken-
ilworth,” “Guy Mannering,” “Waver-
ly,” “Fair Maid of Perth,” “Rob Roy,”
“The Talisman,” ‘The Fortunes of
Nigel.” Afterward he read them all
with fresh delight.

Stanley Weyman’s
Clidde? 7. 1:

It seems tiresome to go on with the
list; but some parent may find it help-
ful to be reminded of other stories
that illuminate English history, such
as Kingsley’s “Hereward the Wake,”
“Westward Ho,” Thackeray’s “Henry
Esmond,” Amelia Barr’s “The Lion’s
Whelp.” The last is really a juvenile
story. Less well known but wholly
enjoyable for old and young are Mrs.
Gaskell’s “Mary Barton,’ and Mrs.
Steele’s “On the Face of the Waters.”
All these give sidelights on English
history.

For your own enlightenment you
can add no end of books, such as
Shelley’s “Inns and Taverns of Old
London,” and Compton  Ricketts’s
“The London Life of Yestérday.”

It is such a pity to have either old
or young waste their time on such
stuff as most young people are read-
ing nowadays, when famous and even
immortal books, with abiding profit
awaiting the reader, remain unread.

For, as Ruskin in his “Of Kings’
Treasuries,” and Frederic Harrison in
his “Choice of Books,” so forcibly re-
mind us, every worthless book read
means a worth-while one forever un-
known to us.

Such books as these make history a
living thing. Prudence Bradish.

(Copyrighted, 1924.)

Great and Enduring Kindliness of
Lincoln.

When Lincoln was a lawyer in
Springfield, Ill., one day he was going
with a party of lawyers to attend court
in another town. They rode, two by
two, on horseback through a country
lane. Lincoln was in the rear. As
they passed through a thicket of wild
plum and crabapple trees, his friends
missed Lincoln. ‘Where is he?” they
asked. Just then Lincoln’s companion
came riding up. “Oh,” replied he,
“when I saw him last, he had caught
two young birds which the wind had
blown out of their nest, and he was
hunting the nest to put them back.”
After a little while Lincoln caught up
with his friends, and when they rallied
him about his tender heart, he said:
“T could not have slept if I had not
restored those little birds to their
mother.”

Another time, Lincoln was riding
past a deep miry ditch, and saw a pig
struggling in the mud. The poor
animal could not get out, and was
squealing with terror. Lincoln looked
at the pig and the mud, and then at his
clothes—clean ones, that he had just
Then he decided in favor of
the clean clothes, and rode along. But
he could not get rid of the thought of
the poor animal struggling so pitifully
in its terror. He had not gone far
when he turned back. He reached the
ditch, dismounted, and tied his horse.
Then he collected some old wooden
rails, and with them made a foot-
bridge to the bottom of the ditch. He
carefully walked down the ridge, and
caught hold of the pig. He pulled it
out, and setting it on the ground, let
it run off. The screaming, struggling
creature had spattered Lincoln’s clean
clothes with mud. His hands were
covered with filth, so he went to the
nearest brook, washed them and wiped
them on the grass. Later, when telling
a friend about -his adventure, Lincoln
said that he had rescued the pig for
purely selfish reasons, “to take a pain
out of his own mind.”

It was at the close of the Civil War,
the crisis had come, and the end of
the long struggle was in sight. The
Union troops were hemming in Rich-
mond. Then President Lincoln went
himself to City Point, and there, while
battle after battle was fought, he re-
mained, anxiously waiting. In his tent
lived a pet cat. It had a family of
new-born kittens. Sometimes the
President relieved his mind by playing
with them. Soon Richmond was taken
and Lincoln was about to visit the city.
Before he left his tent, he picked up
one of the kittens, saying: “Little
kitten, I must perform a last act of
kindness for you before I go. I must
open your eyes.” So saying, he passed
his hand gently over its closed lids,
until the eyes opened; then he set the
kitten on the floor, saying: “O that
I could open the eyes of my blinded

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fellow-countrymen as easily as I hay:
those of that little creature!”

rom:

The husband of a poor woman [1d
paid for a substitute for the army
Later, while intoxicated, he enlisted.
When he was sober, thinking that |
cause he had paid for a substitute +};
Government had no «ight to his ser-
vices, he deserted. He was arrested.
tried and sentenced to be shot. His
poor wife was frantic. She took he:
little baby in her arms, and went to
the White House, hoping to see th:
President. There were, however, so
many people waiting to petition Lin
coln that the poor woman was forced
to sit in the waiting-room for thre
days, then she could not get admission
into the President’s private office. Late
in the afternoon of the third day Lin
coln was going through a passage back
of the waiting room, when he heard
the baby cry. He immediately re-
turned to his office, and rang a bell;
old Daniel, an attendant, answered.
“Daniel,” he said, “is there a woman
with a baby in the anteroom?” Daniel
said there was, and that she was wait-
ing on a matter of life and death.
“Send her to me at once,” said the
President. The woman came in and
told her story, and Lincoln pardoned
her husband. As she was going down
the stairs with happy uplifted eyes,
and lips moving in thankful prayer,
Daniel pulled her shawl. “Madam,”
he said, “it was the baby that did it!”

One day the Honorable Thaddeus
Stevens brought an elderly lady to see
the President. She was in great dis-
tress. Her son, a soldier, had been
court-martialled and sentenced. There
were mitigating circumstances in his
case. The President listened with at-

tention as the Case was put before him.

Then he turned to Mr. Stevens. “Do
you think this is a case which will
warrant my interference?” he asked.
“With my knowledge of the facts and
the parties,” Mr. Stevens replied, “I
should have no hesitation in granting
a pardon.” “Then,” said the President,
“T will pardon him.” And he did. As
the grateful mother walked out, she
said to Mr. Stevens: “I knew it was a
copperhead lie!’ “What do you refer
to, madam?” asked Mr. Stevens. “Why
they told me he was an ugly-looking
man,” she exclaimed. “He is_ the
handsomest man I ever saw in my
life!’
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Features of New Spring Skirts.

Attractiveness and novelty of the
fabrics used are outstanding features
of the Spring skirt lines, particularly
those for sports wear. This is not
only the case in silks, it is pointed out
by the United Skirt League of Americ
but is also true of the woolen weaves.
In patterns stripes are featured, and
pleatings continue to be stressed in
the leading lines. The pleatings are
finer than those of last Spring, a very
fine accordion pleat being one of the
newest developments. The pleated
types are said to have maintained their
popularity, not only on the score of
attractive appearance, but also because
they combine freedom of movement
with the straight silhouette, the vogue
of which is practically uchallenged.

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Late News From Michigan Factories.
Ann Arbor—The Ann Arbor Chem-
ical Co., with business offices at 1504
Broadway, Detroit, has been incorpor-
ated with an authorized capital stock
of $15,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.

Alston—The Christiansen Lumber
Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $250,000

preferred and 5,000 shares at $1 per
share, of which amount $1,000 has
been subscribed and paid in jin cash.

Detroit—The Stitt Refrigeration
Co., 1421 Rivard street, has been in-
corporated with an authorized capital
stock of $170,000 preferred and 50,000
shares at $1 per share, $1,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid jn in
cash,

Jackson—The American Manufac-
turing Co., 408 Dwight building, has
been incorporated to manufacture and
sell hose, pipe, couplings, etc., with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
$1,000 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Zenith Carburetor Co.,
with business offices at 1638 Dime
Bank building, has merged its business
into a stock company under the same
style with an authorized capital stock
of $5,000, $1,000 of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Manufacturers Agents,
Inc., 1200 Washington boulevard, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $600 preferred and
600 shares at $1 per share, of which
amount $150 and 150 shares has been
subscribed and $300 paid in in cash.

Battle. Creek—The Battle Creek
Dog Food Co., 51-3 East State street,
has merged its business into a stock
company under the same style, with
an authorized capital stock of $50,000,
of which amount $30,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in, $1,775.92 in cash
and $28,224.08 in property.

Battle Creek—The L. M. Schley Co.
has merged its manufacturing of
dresses, etc., into a stock company
under the style of the Walsh-Schley
Co. with an authorized capital stock
of $20,000, $10,000 of which has been
subscribed and paid in, 497.06 in cash
and $9,502.94 in property.

Detroit—The Zeldes Smelting &
Refining Co. 648 East Columbia
street, has been incorporated to do

smelting, refining metals and a gen-
eral metal business at wholesale and
retail, with an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.
Niles—The Original Cabinet Cor-
poration has been incorporated to
manufacture and sell interior cabinet
work for postoffices, school buildings,
cte., with an authorized capital stock
of $50,000, of which amount $45,200
has been subscribed and paid in, $2,800
ia cash and $42,400 in property.
Detroit — The Marks-Fiske-Zeiger
Co, iron, steel, steel supplies, ‘etc.,
2503-7 24th street, merged its
business into a stock company under
the same style with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $250,000, all of which has
been subscribed and paid in, $28,411.42
in cash and $221,588.58 in property.
Detroit—The Demountable Batteries
Corporation of Michigan, 3932 Cass

has

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avenue, has been incorporated to deal

‘in batteries, motor parts, accessories,

‘etc., at wholesale and retail, with an

‘authorized capital stock of $150,000 of

which amount $77,300 has been sub-
scribed and paid in, $1,300 in cash and
$76,000 in property.

Detroit—The Murray Products Co.,
General Motors building, has been in-
corporated to manufacture and sell
metal products, with an authorized
capital stock of $30,000 preferred and
15,000 shares at $1 per share, of which
amount $17,250 and 15,000 shares has
been subscribed, $9,000 paid in in cash
and $23,250 in property.

Nirvana — The Idlewild Cement
Block & Investment Manufacturing
Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $25,000, of
which amount $2,700 has been sub-

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scribed and paid in, $300 in cash and
$2,400 in property. The company will
also conduct a canning factory at Idle-
wild, near Baldwin lake.

Niles—The Niles Steel Tank Co. has
purchased a tract of land, known as
the Niles baseball park, and will pro-
ced to erect new buildings thereon.
The main factory building will be a
one-story brick structure, 100x150 feet,
the will be 20x40. <A ware-
house will be built in the rear of the
factory building. It is the
to break ground for the foundations
of the proposed buildings immediately.

Monroe—The Barrett Products Co.,
manufacturer of imitation leather coat-
ing for interior trimming, has com-
pleted the installation of its machinery
and is now open for business.

Baroda—The Baroda State

office

intention

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will erect a two-story modern bank
building, of brick and stone.

Monroe—Gus Cooley has sold the
Monroe Restaurant, 45 South Monroe
street, to Nick Pierce and Gus Zessen,
of Ypsilanti. The restaurant will be
closed for two weeks, while necessary
improvements and alterations will be
made.

Negaunee—The store building, gro-
cery and meat stock of the late O. A.
Mitchell
and Case street, was sold at auction to

Koskinen, corner of avenue
Baptist Dighera, who has been asso-

ciated with his father, Dominic Dig-
hera, in the management of his gro-
cery store, corner of Kanter and Case
streets, for several years. Gerald Le-
vielle, will continue as manager of the

meat department.

Tnly as our
candies excel for
the price asked
do we hope to ob-
lain your interest
and merit your con-

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’resident—J. C. Toeller, Battle Creek.
First Vice-President—F. Mills, Lan-
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Second Vice-President—W. O. Jones,
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Ribbons Especially Favored in Millin-
ery.

Growing favor is being bestowed in
local millinery circles on a_ recent
French import trim made generally of
flat appliqued flowers on a four to six
inch wide band. This, according to
the bulletin of the Retail Millinery
Association of America, is laid across
the crown of the shape and extends
out on the brim, sometimes turning
under and clamping it. The same
idea is seen in ribbons, but the floral
theme thus resembles
nothing more than a raised
effect.

“Bows of all kinds and flat twists of
the ribbon—generally  satin-faced
moire, belting and even fancy-edged
grosgrain—are seen,” the bulletin goes
on in describing the trimmings now
favored by the trade. “Clusters of
knotted or end pointed ribbon loops

carried out
ribbon

make a high front trim, or flutter
around a brim edge. The new pencil
edge flange on brims is achieved

sometimes by wrapping a cord or the
tightly rolled edge itself with narrow
ribbons, either in one color or striped
effects.

“Wide cire satin and faille plaid rib-
bons, with much green and blue in
them, are being shown advantageous-
ly, making high-wired side effects and
the entire cuffs of some hats. Flowers
are being used more and more for
‘dressing up,’ and some of the large
black chapeaux have a large
flower on one side with raised petals.
Shaded silk foliage wreaths, a few
toques, and the flat flowers either face
the top or bottom of a brim or per-
haps a crown, for the vogue for ap-
plique includes flowers, and many of

single

them.

Ostrich, coque, peacock, glycerine
and burnt effects are good in the
feather field, with many flat pasted
pads of tiny soft quills cut into strip-
like effects. The last-named often al-
ternate their colors to resemble rib-
bon work.”

—_—
See Swing To Plain Silks.

More of a swing to plain silks has
been noted recently that, according to
some, may prove important as indi-
cating later season trends. That all
is not well with the print demand is
reflected in the remark that the “cut-
ters will buy later on” and also the
price shading that has developed. It
is claimed, however, that this is on
the low end merchandise of a pattern

that is passe or less attractive. As
indicating the trend to plain silks, in-
terest has recently been shown in
satin and other highly lustrous silks
for Spring suits and coats. If this
movement progresses, it is pointed out
it will be a .boon to the silk manufac-
turers, whose orders from the cutters
have not been extra large. Besides
satin crepe, crepe de chine and heavy
georgettes have received attention.
——_—__>< +

Serge Demand and Low Prices.

The low prices which the American
Woolen Company announced on men’s
wear serges, it is felt in some quarters
may be a factor toward bringing these
fabrics back into favor. Such reason-
ing based on the matter of price alone,
is questioned. It is pointed out that
price has not been the element that has
put serges out of the running. Rather
it is the great use of the automobile
which renders the serge suit “shiny.”
Pencil stripes accordingly have be-
come the staples, owing to the fact
that the “shine” is not as much in
evidence when relieved by the stripe.
with regard to the American’s serge
prices it is felt that they will show
orders received will do their share to-
little profit to the company, but the
ward keeping mill machinery going.

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Bracelet Novelties Numerous.

There seems to be no end to the
novelty bracelets that are now being
put on the market here. One of the
newest vareties is of the bangle type.
It is offered in white celluloid in sev-
eral styles, most of which are set with
imitation pearls. Bracelets of this
type are not only seen set with the
pearls alone, but in combination with
colored or white stones. They are
made large enough to be worn either
above or below the elbow, come in
one-quarter, one-half and three-quar-
ter widths, and wholesale at $7.50 a
Among the other novelties
are new effects in Hnk or flexible
bracelets, both enameled and stone set.
They fasten with spring ring clasps,
come in both plated gold and sterling
silver and wholesale at $18 to $19.50

per dozen.
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The New Handbag Lines.

Handbag manufacturers are concen-
trating production on the under-arm
and pouch styles, and from orders on
hand, express their belief that both
types will meet with continued con-
sumer approval. As the season wears
on, however, it is expected that the
silk pouch bag will be the leading kind.
The under-arm bag is being produced
in a variety of leathers and also in
silks in tapestries and jacquard ef-
fects. One manufacturer is offering

dozen up.

one equipped with a safety pocket in

genuine vachette at $24 per dozen. The
pouch bag is made in varied sizes for

-the new season with considerable at-

tention devoted to fancy frames.
Black is said to be the preferred shade
in both types of bags.
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Tailored Suits Help Neckwear.

3etter business is being done in wo-
men’s neckwear at present than for
some time, and the prospective vogue
for women’s tailored suits this Spring
is held largely accountable for it in a
statement issued by the United Neck-
wear League of America. The tailor-
ed suits have been of particular aid to
the new waistcoats that are offered
here for women. These are made up
in mannish patterns in pique, linen and
Rodier fabrics in light colors, with
large pearl buttons for decorations and
fastenings. Among the “dressier” types
of neckwear, rufflings of all kinds are
finding favor. One-of the factors pre-
saging a good business in such goods
this Spring is their adaptability to any
style or cut of dress.

—_——_+-

Attractive Sets For Smokers.

Among the new things in the jewel-
ry line to make their appearance in
the local trade are very attractive
smoking sets for men. These consist
of cigarette case and match holder in
a similar pattern, and are offered in
several very neat designs in gold-
filled and sterling. The latter whole-
sale at $9.50 each, while the gold-filled
sets may be had at $5.25, wholesale.
For women there is a very novel
cigarette case offered on the order of
a vanity case. Gold-filled and swing-

ing from a chain handle, it wholesales
at $3.50. No match holder comes with
this case. Although the sets in ques-
tion have been on sale only a few
days, they are being well taken by
buyers.
—___» 2 ___

Coloma—The Standard Dress &
Skirt Co., of Chicago, has leased the
Wallace building, and will commence
manufacturing its line as soon as the
machinery has

necessary been in-

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FOR 1924

January 28th to February 23rd

Criterion Trimmed Hats
Wolverene Tailored Hats

And an unusual and Complete Assort-
ment of Shapes, Trimmings
and Novelties.

Also Popular Priced Trimmed Hats

Your inspection of ovr line
will be greatly appreciated.

Yours truly,

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Mills and Manufacturers for late
Spring and Fall all indicate a desire to maintain the present
good volume of sales by maintaining prices at or near present

levels and within the price ranges which have prevailed for the

The prices announced by Cotton Manufacturers are substan-
tially the same as prevailed last year even though Cotton is 5e to
They are absorbing increased cost of raw
material and labor by savings in manufacture and cutting overhead

Wool Manufacturers are maintaining the same prices by their
desire to operate at 100 per cent capacity.

Silk operators are buying Raw Silk at substantially the same
levels while artificial silk mills are even announcing slight reduc-
tions by making savings in manufacture.

Wholesalers are doing their part by passing on to retailers the
benefit of purchases made some time ago at lower levels.

Retailers are working on the same policy, and by pushing
sales, have shown a wonderful Holiday trade and excellent increases

We are stocking only Quality Merchandise and our stocks are
most complete; in fact, we have had such a wonderful business in
response to our additional lines that we are advancing deliveries
of merchandise ordered for later Spring months.
show large increases each month by having the most complete
Don’t lose business by

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Books of Lincoln’s Youth

In his youth Lincoln had Aesop’s
Fables, Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim’s
Progress and the Bible to read. He
absorbed them, made them a part of
his intellectual equipment. “It was
enough,” says the New York Times,
while “thousands of other boys have
had as good or a better library, and
grown up inarticulate, commonplace,
dull, substantially illiterate.”

Beware of too many books, too
many newspapers, too many maga-
zines, too much fiction, in youth and
middle age, the period of intellectual
growth. It is not by the hasty read-
ing of many books and papers that
the mind grows rich and powerful. It
is by concentration on a few great
books, by the mastery of the great
thinking done by others, that one be-
comes capable of great independent
thought and expression. The super-
ficial reading of many things, the con-
stant hopping of the mind from one
subject to another, without reflection
or effort to memorize, makes a sieve
of the mind, through which all sorts
of things pass without yielding exact-
ness of knowledge or power of con-
tinued thought on any one subject to
the brain.

The things we read only to forget
are a handicap. In fact, time spent in
reading things which should be for-
gotten is sheer waste.

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More Novelties in Jewelry.

Of the popular-priced jewelry novel-.

ties to appear in this market, one of
the newest is a bangle bracelet that is

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in jade, emerald green, sapphire blue
and other favored colors and is over-
laid with a pierced filigree trimming in
Sterling, silver, [t “jobs at $12 a
dozen. Among the new things seen
here that come more or less rightfully
under the general head of silverware
are three-piece console sets of antique
design in verde effect finished off with
gold. One attractive set of this kind
wholesales at $2.25, while another,
larger and equally attractive, is priced

at $3.

—_+-.___
Vogue for Suede a Help.

Increasing interest in Paris in suede
as a trimming for dresses, blouses and
millinery is expected materially to en-
hance the use of leather belts here
this Spring. In the new things from
the French fashion capital are suede
hats, suede ornaments for both hats
and dresses, and suede coats, all of
which make that material of particular
interest to consumers. The new belts
are shown in both shiny and dull
finishes, and many of them are seen
in high colors. The use of black belts
painted with designs to match hand-
painted patterns on dresses and shoes
is not beyond the range of expecta-
tions, due to the craze for them abroad.
Many of the new belts have ornament-
al buckles that smack strongly of the
Far East, some of them having the ap-

pearance of Chinese coins.

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Is the Meat Problem Solved by the

Catalo?
Is the catalo to solve the meat
problem for us? Before requiring

our readers to answer this question, it
may be well to explain to them ex-
actly what a catalo is. When ones
train passes a station named Colneb,
he knows he is on the Colorado-Ne-
braska Analogous
conclusions observations at
such stations as Moark where the train
Arkansas, or

boundary _ line.

follow
leaves Missouri for
Monaho, where it crosses from Mon-
tana to Idaho. With a similar kind
of elephantine playfulness to that thus
displayed by the retiring genius who
baptizes railroad stations, some _bio-
logical relative of his has bestowed
the name of “catalo” upon a hybrid
of domestic cattle and the buffalo.
This odd product of cross-breeding
will thrive in arid country and yields
so we are assured by

 

excellent meat
Benton Borthwick, who writes of it
in the Forecast as follows:

“The catalo and the mule would be
first cousins if it were not that one
belong to the genus bos, while the
other claims kin with the genus equus.
The bond between them is that both
spring from mesalliances, the catalo
being the offspring of the buffalo and
the gentle domestic cow. 7 3 F
The catalo is so hardy that the can
live on pastures which would be poor
picking for a sheep, and his meat is
equal to the best beef, to which has
been superadded the tender and lus-
cious hump that made the wild buf-
falo so eagerly sought by the equally
wild hhuntsmen of the plains.

“It was the extreme desirability
oi this hump, combined with the value
of his shaggy hide, that helped to
bring about the practical extermina-
tion of the American bison, or buffalo.
The Indians appreciated both, but
lived in peace and amity with the buf-
falo and left enough of them to en-
sure an inexhaustible supply of meat
and tepees for future years. The
white man’s appreciation was equally
keen—but, like the Indian, the buffalo
was in his way. He wanted the plains
for his cattle to range over, and he
did not approve of the cattle associat-
ing with the buffalos. Therefore, the
buffaloes were gradually exterminated
until the only herds remaining are
those kept as zoological curiosities.

“The new species has really been
established, and there are now a suffi-
cient number of cataloes to make it
safe to prophesy that the new animal
will play a leading part in the future
food supply of the Nation.

“The range is the natural habitat
of the buffalo and the catalo appears
to inherit from its wild progenitors

Turn the cata-
summer and winter; it
fattens much more rapidly than do-
mestic cattle would under the same
circumstances, and its mortality rate
is much lower. The driving blizzard
of North Dakota does not send a herd
of catalo drifting before the storm,
for the blood of the buffalo makes
the hybrid turn and face the swirling
snow.

“Again, because of the long adapta-
tion of the buffalo to the plains condi-
tions, water is not as essential to the
catalo as it is to the cow. Nor is salt
—which is so necessary to the cattle
that the problem of salting them on
the range has always been a serious
one for cattlemen to consider—at all
indispensable to the catalo, which will
show little or no desire for the salt
that is being lapped up eagerly by
the cows feeding close beside it.

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“Another advantage of the hybrid
is his immunity from the diseases
which have so scourged the cattle-
herds. In Texas, the worst tick coun-
try in the whole United States, the
catalo has grown anf thriven, immune
from Texas fever and Texas blackleg,
in the midst of the cattle herds which
were dying from these dreadful dis-
eases. In fact, nothing so far has
seemed to affect the health and dis-
position of the Texas catalo. He has
grown and taken on weight in the dry
hot plains of summer and the mois-
ture laden air and the rain soaked turf
of the wet season have merely
brought more food to his mouth as
he placidly crops the grasses growing
long and rank under the downpour.

“These are some of the advantages
which the catalo possesses over his
domestic ancestors, In other ways he
shows that he is a distinct improve-
ment on the buffalo. Pre-eminent
among these is his peaceful disposi-
tion * * * The catalo is no fight-
er.. Even where there are big herds,
the breeders report that a fight has
never been known, for the animals
are docile and easily broken and are
by nature inclined to keep the peace.

“The experiment by which breeders
have finally produced the catalo
are interesting. They have succeeded
after many. years of fruitless effort,
because the two men who were in-
strumental in discovering the secret of
a successful cross are wealthy as well
as scientific, and grudged neither:
money nor trouble when it came to
the possibility of establishing a new
breed of domestic animals.’

Unlike the mule, we are told, this
hybrid is able to perpetuate its own
species. So far as known, no males

have ever been born from the first
cross, so that the second generation

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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Flour
Fanchon-Red Star

Stocking your shelves with cheap flour of
inferior quality is like setting up scare-
crows that may be readily blown down.
The trade generally is wise enough to
know that good flour cannot be bought at
a cheap price unless something is slighted

somewhere.

JUDSON GROCER COMPANY

DISTRIBUTORS

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is either three-quarters or one-quarter
buffalo, as the case may be. From
these are produced the true catalo,
which has both species on both sides.
Writes Mr. Borthwick: ,

“When the true catalo appears, it
becomes a type which combines the
characteristics of both lines of ances-
try and is quite distinctive. It has a
heavier coat than the domestic ani-
mal, carries a large hump and bigger
hind quarters than the buffalo, and
—which js all-important—cuts  ap-
proximately 150 pounds more of
edible meat than the ordinary ‘beef
critter!’

“Knowing that the great secret of
producing a larger quantity of meat
lay in the hump of the buffalo, the
first care of the breeders of the catalo
was to transfer this hump to the back
of the new hybrid animal. Instead of
being a huge lump of fat, the hump
of the catalo forms the upper cut of
a rib roast of beef. It is tender, clear
meat of excellent flavor, scarcely dis-
tinguishable from that of the ordinary
beef animal. Cataloes which have been
slaughtered for meat have produced
upper cuts nine inches deep. The
great value of the catalo as a meat
animal is that 70 per cent. of his
weight can be sent to the table. Also,
the meat is never tough, even when
the animals are out on the range.

“As it stands to-day the problem of
the catalo is not one of the mechanics
of breeding. That has all been done,
and now it is simply a matter of selec-
tion. Therefore, the best of the hy-
brids are all being used for the pur-
pose of propagating better animals,
and the others are being used for meat.

“Time alone is necessary to estab-
lish a race which will make productive
vast areas that are good for little else.
On these almost arid plains grazing
is too thin and water too scarce to
allow the better grade of beef animals
to exist, but the catalo if left to itself,
will thrive and gain weight. The range
animal of the past has been respons-
ible for tough, fibrous meat—too often
diseased. The range animal of buffalo
strain is hardy enough to resist dis-
ease and will produce clear-fibered
meat that never gets tough. Before
many years it is likely that the prob-
lem of our meat supply will be solved
by the blending of the American bison
blood with that of the beef animal that
for a century has formed the main
icod-dependence of the people of this
continent.”

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Farm Products More in Line.

The publication of the index num-
ber of wholesale prices for December
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
makes it possible now to draw some
conclusions concerning the net changes
that have occurred in different groups
during the past year. Perhaps the
most interesting thing in the situation
is the fact that prices of farm products
stand at- exactly the same level as in
December, 1922. In view of the sharp
rise in cotton during the autumn
months this is surprising, but the ad-
vance in cotton and wool has been
offset bv lower prices for grain, hides,
and a few other commodities. Farm
prices as a whole are still out of line
with the general level, but it should be
remembered that their index number

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

of 145 in December lacks only one
point of being the highest since De-
cember, 1920. In that month the in-
dex for farm products stood at 152,
but the plight of the farmer was much
worse then than it is now, because the
index for all commodities then stood
at 179, whereas it now stands at 151.
In other words, at the end of 1920
there was a spread of twenty-seven
points between prices of farm prod-
ucts and the general average, but at
the end of 1923 this spread had been
reduced to only six points.
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Improvement in Swiss Cheese.

Improvements in the manufacture of
Swiss cheese continue to be made, ac-
cording to reports of the United States
Department of Agriculture, which has
been devoting much attention to
cheese making in recent years. Co-
operative work with several factories
in Ohio has shown that the trouble
known among makers of “glass
cheese can be prevented by maintain-
ing in the milk used a proper ratio be-
tween the fat and the casein. All fac-
tories which followed the department’s
recommendations had no trouble of
this kind, while four factories which
did not comply with the conditions
had trouble as before.

Tests were made with the centrifuge
to improve the “eye” formation in
Swiss cheese, and in nearly every case
the centrifuging resulted in cheeses
with fewer but larger “eyes.” Of 241
cheeses made at the Grove City, Pa.,
Creamery from separated milk, 77.6
per cent. were fancy, 7.1 per cent. were
No. 1; and 15.3:.per cent. No. 2. Of
109 cheeses made from unseparated
milk 30.3 per cent. were fancy, 52.3 per
cent were No. 1, and 174 per cent.
No. 2.

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Jumper Sweaters in Lead.

Jumper sweaters for women, hither-
to known by the descriptive
name of slip-ons, are by far the leaders

more

in the demand for Spring lines of
knitted merchandise of this type. Re-
ports from certain quarters of the

trade indicate that the business taken
in jumpers since the first of this year
exceeds that of all the other styles put
together. Boucle effects are in par-
ticular demand, from all accounts, both
in jumper and jaquette models. In
real silk sweaters a good business is
being done in the finer grades, but the
cheaper lines of this merchandise have
been more or less supplanted by fiber
silks. An the fiber
sweaters is reported, especially those
wholesaling around $84 a dozen, and
some of the mills are so busy on this
class of goods that it is necessary for
them to run overtime. Buff is the
leading shade at the moment, with
madonna blue and china (lacquer) red
following in the order given.
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Canned Reindeer Next?

There are so many reindeer wander-
ing over the Kamtchatka peninsula
serving no particular purpose to man-
kind that Consul G. C. Hanson, Har-
bin, China, informs the Department
of Commerce of their availability for
canning. Reindeer steak is a stable
food of the northlanders and a delight
to the epicures of warmer climates,
and there is every reason to believe

active sale of

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that canned roast reindeer would be
an acceptable item on the American
housewife’s pantry shelf. According
to statistical reports of Russian offi-
cials it would be an easy matter to ac-
quire 15,000 animals yearly from a
single native belonging to the Koryaki
tribe. The natives do not sell reindeer
for money, because this is forbidden
by their religious beliefs, but they very

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Vice-President-—-A. J. Rankin, Shelby.
Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—-W illiam Moore, Detroit.
Executive Committee—L. J. Cortenhof,

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Making Preparations for the Spring.

Paint Campaign.
Written for the Tradesman.

In the winter months when business
is normally quiet, the wide-awake
hardware dealer finds an excellent op-
portunity to make the necessary
preparations for his spring trade.

A department in which a great deal
of preparatory work can be done right
now is the paint department. While
considerable business can be secured
even in the winter months by aggres-
pushing interior paints and
specialties, yet this business is small
compared with the results that should
come from the spring campaign.

Sively

A good many hardware dealers are
inclined to sit back and, while they
make some preparations for spring
trade, to argue to themselves that no
business can be done in the paint de-
partment in the interval. This is a
mistake. Not merely can_ interior
paint and varnish lines be successfully
pushed; but the publicity and selling
effort given these lines now will help
to keep the paint department before
customers and will bridge the
gap between fall and spring trade.

your

In this connection, “Turn Your Win-
ter Evenings Into Money” is a good
sales slogan. Remind the _ public,
through your newspaper advertising
and window display, that these long
winter evenings give opportunity to
refinish the scarred floor, to touch up
the interior woodwork, to put a fresh
coat of tint on walls and ceilings, and
in the simple and inexpensive process
to add a great deal to the selling value
of the house and to its psychological
effect on those who have to live in it.

If you have your spring prospect
list already compiled, it will be a
relatively simple matter to circularize
this list regarding interior painting
during the winter months. Every cus-
tomer who receives your circular on
interior specialties now will be there-
by predisposed to give more favorable
attention to your exterior paint cam-
paign in the spring.

If you have not already got the
spring prospect list in shape, do so
without delay. The prospect list
represents the backbone of any paint
campaign. It should be both accurate
and comprehensive; and before you
launch the campaign, see that it is
revised right up to the minute.

In this connection, I always advise
a card index list. It is the easiest to

_Catien of

get up and the easiest to revise. You
can take out a name, put in a name,
change an address, without tangling
up the rest of your list. The card in-
dex list costs a little more to start and
takes far less trouble to keep in in-
telligent shape than any other form of
prospect list.

More, it permits intelligent classifi-
prospects; which is often
helpful. If you sell a man, he is out
of the market for a year or two, prob-
ably much longer; but you don’t want
to forget him. So you transfer his
card to an advance file, say 1926; and
in 1926, without having to trouble your
mind over the matter in the interval,
you find the information ready to hand
that in 1924 John Smith bought an
order for exterior paint, and that now
is the time to suggest putting on a
fresh coat.

You can use your cards to record
a lot of useful information regarding
each sale you make; such as the di-
mensions of the building, color com-
bination quantity of paint used, price,
and the sort of weather at the time the
job was done. The latter information
is occasionally handy when a customer
complains about the results; and the
other details are useful in figuring on
the next job.

If you don’t feel like installing a
card index, at least don’t rely on your
memory to keep track of paint pros-
pects.
that very thing. Whereas it is far bet-
ter to buy a little indexed notebook
and keep it always handy.

Some hardware dealers still do

Get out your old list now and over-
haul it thoroughly. Transfer the pros-
pects you sold last season to another
file, for future reference. Add new
names as they come to your notice.
Make note also of changes in owner-
ship. Get a line on new building in
your community; and also old
buildings which need re-painting.

The prospect list the
medium through which to distribute
the special advertising material sup-
plied by the manufacturer, supplement-
ed by any additional material you may
get out yourself.

on

provides

It is generally good business for the
hardware dealer to identify himself ac-
tively. with the campaign by getting
up circular letters and other advertis-
ing of his own. It is not merely un-
fair to let the manufacturer do it all,
but it is not good business. An ele-
ment of local appeal can be worked
into your own material which the paint
manufacturer naturally can’t provide.
A circular letter, or, better still a

personally-signed letter from the hard-
ware dealer to each individual pros-
pect on his list will be read a great
deal more carefully than the best gen-

 

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Are You Going to Drive Your Open Car This Winter?

NOW IS THE TIME to think about having a glass enclosure
built on your car and have all the comforts of a closed car at
a relatively small expense. Prices on all makes of cars
range from $50.00 to $125.00.

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eral circular the manufacturer's high-
priced advertising man can prepare;
simply because the man who receives
the letter personally knows the man
who sends it.

Material of this sort can very well
be -put into shape right now; and in
this way the busy days of the paint
campaign can be relieved of a lot of
work which would otherwise have to
be done then.

Indeed, a great deal of preliminary
work can be done now toward getting
the spring paint advertising in shape.
Window displays can be sketched on
paper. Ideas for window displays and
interior arrangements can be jotted
down whenever they occur to
Newspaper advertising copy can he
prepared—tentatively, at least. If
changes and modifications are neces-
sary when the time comes, it is a great
deal easier to make them than to write
the material entirely new.

you.

While you are at it, take time to go
over the paint stock very thoroughly.
Find out just what you have in stock.
Of course you have taken stock and
have your stock lists to guide you;
but take a little extra time to study
your stock with an eye particularly to
the prospective spring demands of
your paint customers. While
can’t stock up to meet demands for
a long period in advance, it is a fatal
and unnecessary mistake to start the
campaign short in some popular color
or to have a customer start a job with
a partial supply and find himself held
up for days until more paint can be
gotten in. Make your plans now for

you

_ starting the campaign with what stock
- you actually need, and keep up your

stock as you go along.

Also, take time to look over your
stock of newspaper cuts. Good cuts
help immensely to make an advertise-
ment appealing and effective. Perhaps
your manufacturer has something new
this year to help you out.

It will usually pay for the dealer to
go over the entire prospect list with
his salespeople; so that from the very
outset the entire selling staff will be in
touch with the campaign. Get into the
heads of your salespeople the idea of
doing personal work for the paint cam-
paign whenever opportunity offers.
Any member of the staff may find a
chance to solicit business, or to get
track of new prospects; and all should
co-operate.

It is quite likely that your list con-
tains the names of people who right
now have practically decided to paint.
It will usually pay, before the general
campaign starts, to do a bit of person-
al canvassing with your likeliest pros-
pects; with a view to cinching some
advance orders. Go out yourself, or
send out your best paint salesman; or
if some member of the staff happens
to be on the “good side” of the pros-
pect, send that man to canvass him.
Point out the advantage of painting
early in the season, before the rush
sets in; of getting the matter settled
right now instead of being harassed
for a couple of months.

A little bunch of advance orders
gives the spring campaign a very en-
couraging start. More than that, every
sale helps to make more sales. When
you can say to Jones, “Your neighbor,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23

Smith, has bought our paint already
this season,’ you drive home two ideas,
that after all it isn’t too early to paint,
and that the paint must be some good
or Smith wouldn’t be in such a hurry
to buy it.

Having started well, keep after your
prospects. Go into the game deter-
mined to make a first class showing,
and get your salespeople imbued with
the same idea. Victor Lauriston.

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Marking Emblem Goods Outlined.

So many complaints have been re-
ceived by the Good and Welfare Com-
mittee of the National Jewelers’ Board
of Trade regarding the marking of
emblem goods under the stamping
law that steps have been taken to
bring about a uniform practice. At a
meeting of the makers of such goods
it was decided that, where an emblem-
atic article is composed of two parts
that are separated in ordinary use,
each part should be marked separately.
If one part is marked with the karat
mark and the other part is base metal,
it was decided that the latter should
be so marked as to indicate that fact,
or else that neither part should be
marked. The part marked, however,
must assay within one-half karat of the
indicated standard “in so far as that
portion of the part is composed of the
material which appears like gold.”

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Lincoln.
The weary form, that rested not,
Save in a marrtvr’s grave;
The careworn face that none forgot
Turned to the kneeling slave.

We rest in peace, where his sad
Saw peril, strife and pain;
His was the awful sacrifice
And ours the priceless gain.
John Greenleaf Whittier.
—_——o-2s a

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It pays to be business-like, but one
may over do it and be so extremely
crisp and efficient as to eliminate the
desirable human traits which develop
friendliness.

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Kalamazoo.

Kalamazoo, Feb. 5—An announce-
ment will be made in a few days of
another district meeting of the Michi-
gan State Hotel Association, at the
Hotel Whitcomb, St. Joseph. Definite
notice will be sent to all members in-
terested as soon as the exact date is
known. The last meeting, which was
held at Lansing, was such an unquali-
fied success that a big attendance can
be assured for the St. Joseph affair.

A bulletin giving in detail all of the
proceedings and discussion of the Lan-
sing meeting has been sent out to all
Association members, and to many
others who are not but should be. It
is so easy for any reputable hotel man
to join the Association I cannot under-
stand how anyone could hold back for
a moment.

Speaking of the Michigan Associa-
tion, the Hotel World has this to say
editorially:

“It has remained for the Michigan
State Hotel Association to inaugurate
a very commendable policy. It is hold-
ing district meetings in different parts
of the State. In a word, as the moun-
tain would not come to Mahomet,
Mahomet goes to the mountain.

Pioneer

“Recently the first district meeting
was held at Lansing and was largely
attended. The meeting proceedings
were stenographed, nicely printed in
full in a 16 page bulletin and sent to
all the members.

“The Michigan State Hotel Associa-
tion has arrived.”

The death of Edward M. Buel, man-
ager of the Hotel Cleveland, Cleveland,
comes as a personal grief for many
members of the Michigan fraternity,
with whom he was personally intimate.
It occurred last week, from pneumonia.
Mr. Buel was in attendance at the last
State convention of the Michigan Ho-
tel Association, and personally enier-
tained a number of its members in his
hotel. He was a man of wonderful
ability in his own line and much be-
loved by his friends and patrons.

August Field for many years Man-
ager of the Hotel Chippewa, Manistee,
and previous to that of the Briny Inn,
at that place, will, it is announced, be
at the head of a company which pro-
poses to erect a new hotel there. It
will be located across the street from
the site formerly occupied by the
Briny Inn, which was burned some
years ago, and Mr. Field, who is well
and popularly known, will manage it.

During the meeting of the State His-
torical Society, at Kalamazoo, last
week, there was much talk about
pioneer hotels of that city, and I have
succeeded in gathering some data,
which I have no doubt will be of par-
ticular interest to the older traveling
men who used to cover this territory
years ago.

The Kalamazoo House was built and
opened in the summer of 1832—ninety-
two years ago—and was conducted by
Cyre Burdick for two years. Gen.
Justin Burdick, a brother and promin-
ent figure in Kalamazoo history, com-
ing there the year previous was the
real owner of the property, which was
built of lumber sawed at a mill at
Comstock, six miles away.

At that time—1832—the Kalamazoo

 

House and three other buildings con-
stituted the then village of Kalamazoo,
at which time it was no unusual thing
for timber wolves to howl all night
beneath the windows of the hotel.

Shortly after this date one Freder-
ick Booner became landlord. He had
been conducting a hotel in Detroit and
came here at the request of the Bur-
dicks to relieve them of the responsi-
bilities attendant upon. entertaining
"man or beast. There was an ab-
sence of competition of any.kind and
guests were glad to anything for
their stomachs and anywhere to lay
their heads, for they literally swarmed
to the new metropolis. Those were
the grand old days when “doubling
up” meant at least two, and somctimes
three, in one bed.

It is said of the Kalamazoo House
that in 1835, during a boom in real
estate, this establishment with ts;
twenty rooms was entirely inadequate
to take care of the demands and “the
entire square in front of the hotel, ex-
tending for nearly a block, was white
with tents of land lookers. ‘Yo feed
this vast horde was more than it could
do and hungry men were turned away
by the hundreds.”

It is further related “that for weeks
together there would not be a single
foot of sleeping room left in the hotel
and the doors were guarded by de-
termined men, who had a great task to
perform in keeping back the crowds,
especially from entering the windows
of the dining room, where men _ beg-
ged to be served with food of some
sort.

All oi which will sound interesting
to Kalamazoo landlords these days.

In 1836 the social enjoyments at the
Kalamazoo House were many. The
residents of the little community were
as of one family and social distinctions
were unknown. The grand old coiii-
lion, with attendant waltzes, polkas,
etc., were indulged in weekly by every-
body.

In 1843, Israel Kellogg became pro-
prietor of the Kalamazoo House, and
its vicissitudes and landlords were
many until 1861, when the hotel was
rebuilt of brick, 82 by 135 feet, with
sixty rooms, commodious lobby, din-
ig room, parlors, etc., and was regard-
ed as the most wonderful affair of its
kind in Southern Michigan.

From its original incipiency until
the advent of the Michigan Central
Railroad the Kalamazoo House was
the absolute headquarters for trans-
portation lines, as many as a dozen
stages being lined up each morning to
carry passengers to various population
centers, principally among them be-
ing Cassopolis, Niles and Grand Rap-
ids.

The hotel was continuously oper-
ated until about eighteen years ago
when it was razed for the purpose of
erecting business blocks, and while its
landlords were many, it finally came
into the hands of R. P. Emerson, who
was in his day a typical boniface and

-popular with the traveling public.

As an evidence of the fact that Mr.
Emerson was a live wire, I am append-
ing a copy of a bill of fare supplied me
by Walter Hodges, of the New Bur-
dick, which he offered to his guests on
Thanksgiving day, November 29,

 

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in connection.

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$2.50 up with bath

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visit the Beautiful New
Hotel at the old location made
famous by Eighty Years of
Hostelry Service.

400 Rooms—400 Baths
Menus in English

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" February 6, 1924

1883—forty years ago—and presum-
ably at 50 cents:
Raw Oysters
Soup

Imperial Game Broth
: Fish
Baked Lake Trout—Normandie Sauce
Hollandaise Potatoes
Boiled
Turkey, Oyster Sauce

New England Dinner
Chicken, with Salt Pork
/ Roast
Ribs of Premium Beef
Stuffed Partridge, Bread Sauce
Young Turkey, Cranberry Sauce
ame
Mallard Duck, Game Sauce, Potted Pig-
eon, a la Anglaise
Haunch of Black Bear, with Jelly
Prairie Chicken, Stuffed, with Guava Jelly
Entrees
Cream Fritters. Broiled Oysters
Broiled Quail on Toast
Calves Brains, a la Provincale
Sweet Breads, a la Maitre
Cold Meats
Boned Turkey, with Aspic Jelly
Chicken, a la Mayonaise
: Blood of Quail,
Aspic of Oysters
Vegetables
Browned Mashed Potatoes Sugar Corn
Stewed Tomatoes Asparagus on Toast
Baked Sweet Potatoes
ae Pastry and Dessert
California Plum Pudding, Brandy Sauce
Peach Meringue Mixed Candies
Charlotte Russe Lemon Ice Cream
Apples, Oranges, Pears, Figs, Raisins,
Nuts, Bananas, Malaga Grapes
Beverages
Of early hostelries in Kalamazoo
there were three, the Kalamazoo, Ex-
change (or Indian Chief) and the Riv-
er, followed in later years by the Bur-
dick, American, Columbia and_ still
later the Rickman.

In the spring of 1835, Johnson Pat-
rick built and opened the Exchange
Hotel and kept a most popular place
for years. It was political headquar-
ters for the old Whig party, and was
said at that time to be the very best
in the State. Its dinners were famous
throughout the entire region. In its
parlors were held most important po-
litical conclaves and its balls were
matters of much popularity. Its run,
however, seems to have been a short
and merry one and it went out of ex-
istence a few years later.

The River House was built in 1836,
by a ferryman, Nathan Harrison, on
the bank of the Kalamazoo River. It
was a small affair, conducted by
Horace Walder, but seems to have
been popular and figured in Kalamazoo
history for a long period of years, and
it was recognized as a formidable
rival of the Kalamazoo House.

The Burdick House was completed
and opened in the spring of 1853. It
was built of brick, 70 x 100 feet, and
four stories in height and was the
largest and best constructed hotel in
Western Michigan. For some years
it was known as the Cosmopolitan and
conducted by Francis Dennison Up
to the time of its destruction by fire
years later, it was greatly enlarged by
the addition of rooms on the West
and a spacious dining room on the
North. It seems like a joke these
times when we learn that the original
cost of the hotel was $12,000, but at
that time the brick used in its con-
struction cost $2 per thousand. Lime
was 8c per bushel and_ bricklayers
secured the princely wage of $1 per
day.

Simall wonder that hotel rates were
so modest during those early periods.

In submitting this article for the
perusal of Tradesman readers, I wish
to acknowledge the cheerful and cour-
teous service rendered me by Miss
Flora B. Roberts, librarian of the
Kalamazoo public library and to Ed-
win J. Stevens, civil engineer, of this
city, who supplied me with historical
facts not otherwise obtainable.

The American House (since super-
ceded by the Park-American) was es-
tablished in 1869 by Fred Hotop,
whose fame is a matter of State his-
tory and who was_ beloved by the
traveling public. In its day the Amer-
ican was also one of the show places
of Western Michigan and brought
riches to its owner, who was the very
embodiment of geniality and hospital-

in Jelly
Shrimp Salad

Paes Ehrman conducted the Hotel

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Columbia for many years before he
turned the active control of same over
to his sons. He is still enjoying good
health and the other day showed me
a bill of fare of many years ago,
which, as a matter of public interest
I am reproducing:
Canape Columbia
Blue Points
Sweet Gherkins Celery Queen Olives
Potage a la Reine
Salted Almonds
Boiled Blue Fish, Maitre de Hotel
Shoestring Potatoes
Boiled Young Spring Chicken
Early June Peas
Roast Young Vermont Turkey
Cranberry Sauce Mashed Potatoes
Roast Suckling Pig, Sweet Potatoes
Breast of Domestic Duck
Asparagus Tips Pure Fruit Jelly
Frozen Egg Nogg
Home Made Mince Pie Pumpkin Pie
English Plum Pudding, Brandy Sauce
Neapolitan Ice Cream
Assorted Fruits Assorted Cake
Roquefort Cheese and Crackers
Nuts. and Raisins Beverages

Among the best country hotels in
Michigan, conducted on the American
plan, are the Marquette, at Marquette,
and the Ossawinamakee, at Manistique.
John H. Lewis conducts the former
and Louis Mallette the other. Both
of these gentlemen are spending the
winter in California and deserve a
vacation,

Mr. Lewis has owned and conducted
the Marquete for thirty-four years,
and while it is the same structure it
has been improved from time to time
and always retains its popularity.

Mr. Mallette conducted the Bennett
House, at Mt. Pleasant thirty-eight
years ago, and he has been in the ho-
tel game in Michigan ever since. His
Manistique establishment is exception-
ally well run and popular.

new “boss” has arrived at the
Hotel Western, at Big Rapids. At
least Mr. and Mrs. ‘W. F. Jenkins ad-
vise me of the arrival of a daughter—
Frances Elizabeth—and the hotel
fraternity are showering congratula-
tions over the happy event.

J. T. Townsend, of the Whitcomb,
at St. Joseph, and Abe Frank, Man-
ager of the Ambassador, at Los An-
geles, are discussing the advantages
of Michigan versus California, as
places to live.

Mr. Townsend made a trip to Flor-
ida early in the winter and made a
very acceptable story of his trip for
the Chicago Hotel Reporter. Mr.
Frank took exceptions to it and came
back. Now Townsend has taken up
the cudgels for Michigan and seems
to be several laps ahead.

The Hotel Vincent, under construc-
tion at Benton Harbor, collapsed the
other day and caused a damage loss of
$100,000. The debris, however is be-
ing cleared away and the building will
be reconstructed at once.

The Greeters of Michigan will hold
a convention at the New Burdick,
Kalamazoo, on Saturday, Feb. 16, on
which occasion they will be the
guests of Walter Hodges. This or-
ganization is made up of hotel clerks
and is making a rapid growth every-
where. Frank S. Verbeck.

—_22>___
Making It Plain.

When a person is blind, his hearing
is more acute,” said the professor, ex-
plaining the law of compensation.

“Oj see,” said Pat. “Oi’ve often
noticed that if a man has one leg
short, the other wan is always long-

er.”

 

—_»>>__

A lot of new-fangled mottoes have
been printed and displayed around
modern business places, but there is
an old one which is still unexcelled,
“Never say die!”

 

HOTEL WILLARD
Detroit’s Largest Bachelor Hotel
448 Henry Street
Attractive Weekly Rates
Cafeteria and Dining Room
Open 6 A. M. to 1 A. M.
SPECIAL DINNERS—75 Cents

EARL P. RUDD, Mgr. Detroit, “Mich.

 

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GRAND RAPIDS

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Three Blocks Away

  

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Civic Clubs
Luxurious Rooms
ERNEST McLEAN, Mgr.

 

Stop and see George,

HOTEL MUSKEGON

Muskegon, Mich.
Rates $1.50 and up.

GEO. W. WOODCOCK, Prop.

 

 

Western Hotel

BIG RAPIDS, MICH:

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

A good place to stop.

American plan. Rates reason-

able.
WILL F. JENKINS, Manager.

 

 

Bell Phone 596 Citz. Phone 61366

JOHN L. LYNCH SALES CO.
SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising
209-210-211 Murray Bldg.
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Columbia Hotel

KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To

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SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN

Open the Year Around
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for Rheumatism, Nervousness, Skin
Diseases and Run Down Condition.
J. T. Townsend, Mgr.

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HOTEL KERNS

Largest Hotel in Lansing

300 Rooms With or Without Bath
Popular Priced Cafteria in Connection
Rates $1.50 up

E. S. RICHARDSON, Proprietor

The Old Reliable

 

 

CUSHMAN HOTEL

PETOSKEY, MICHIGAN
The best is none too good for a tired
Commercial Traveler.

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

 

OCCIDENTAL HOTEL

FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED

Rates $1.50 and up
EDWART R. SWETT, Mgr.

Muskegon s- Michigan

 

 

Lansing’s New Fire Proof
HOTEL ROOSEVELT

Opposite North Side State Capitol
on Seymour Avenue
250 Outside Rooms, Rates $1.50 up,
with Bath $2.50 up.
Cafeteria in Connection.

 

 

 

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Mich. State Pharmaceutical Ass’n.

President—D. D. Alton, Fremont.

Secretary—L. V. Middleton, Grand
Rapids.

Treasurer—A. A. De Kruif, Zeeland.

Executive Committee—J. A. Skinner,
Cedar Springs; J. H. Webster, Detroit;
D>. G. Look, Lowell; John G. Steketee,
Grand Rapids; Ellis E. Faulkner, Mid-
dleville; George H. Grommet, Detroit,
ex-officio.

 

 

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—James E. Way, Jackson.

Vice-President — Jacob C. Dykema,
Grand Rapids.

Secretary—H. H. Hoffman, Lansing.

J. A. Skinner, Cedar Springs.

Oscar W. Gorenflo, Detroit.

Claude C. Jones, Battle Creek.

Director of Drugs and Drug Stores—
H. H. Hoffman, Lansing.

 

 

Changes in Staple
Drugs.

The very mild winter has had the
effect of slowing up business on sea-
sonal items which should be in good
demand and firm during the winter
months. There is only a fair business
doing in these items upon which the
trade depends as a source of greatest
revenue in the period from October to
April.

Nitrate of Silver made the only
change reported in the market at the
close. ,

No Important

It advanced to 43%c per ounce.
No other changes of any moment were
reported.

Demand for codliver oil has been
rather poor and there is now some
pressure to sell in advance of the open-
ing of the fishing season, which is only
a few weeks off.

Cocoa butter is dull and weak where
bulk transactions are concerned.
There is a fairly steady call for fingers
and cakes, on which prices are steady.

Nothing new is heard in Caffeine in
first hands but there is some tendency
to shade prices on resale lots. on which
as low as $3 can now be done.

Glycerine has been very dull dur-
ing the past week and the market is
easier than it has been recently. Sellers
indicate that they might shade prices
slightly, but no transactions on C. P.
at less than 16%4c per pound have ac-
tually been brought to light.

Quicksilver and in turn mercurials
are dull and easy. The metal is likely
to be shaded on real business owing
to the accumulation of stock and the
continued light demand. The prepara-
tions are not subject to much shading,
but makers admit that there is not
much demand for them.

Menthol was very quiet at the close.
Spot business was limited. There have
been a few sales direct from importers
to consumers. Prices are very firm
at $12.75 per pound on spot business
and seem likely to move forward as
supplies are absorbed. Very little is
coming forward unsold earlier than for
March shipment.

Dealers in crude drugs had expected

a good market during January and a

brisk one during February. During
the first two weeks of the year it
seemed that this expectation was

about to be realized, for conditions
pointed to a healthy buying movement.
With something of suddenness and
for no particular reason this activity
changed almost overnight to a tone of
considerable weakness. Investigation
carried on last week indicated that
stocks of crudes in the hands of the
spot dealers are heavier than they had
anticipated and that save for a few
items which are scarce the market is
somewhat oversupplied. This is found
to be the case at just the time when
there is no call for goods from the con-
sumers. The result has been felt al-
ready in lower prices. It will be felt
still more unless there is a radical
change in the demand, something
which even the most optimistic re-
fuse to predict at present.

Lower prices were named at the
close of the week on lump asafoetida,
large manna flakes, gum myrrh and
soap bark. Slightly higher levels were
reported on Saturday on galangal
root. There is some strength in arnica
root and in belladonna leaves. Dande-
lion root is also scarce and strong.
Other items were unchanged on Sat-
urday. The general tone, with the
exception of the strong items noted
above and one or two others similarly
placed, is toward lower levels and
pressure to sell spot in advance of re-
placing with new material.

Demand for rosins failed to increase
during the past week. Occasional en-
quiries reached the market during the
past week, but the movement was re-
ported to be irregular as consumers
appeared in the market only to cover
actual requirements. Sales in primary
markets have been light. The move-
ment from the woods to the seaboard
markets continues light, and despite
the quietness of new business prices
were well held.

Weather conditions have been fa-
vorable for outdoor work in the tur-
pentine districts, but the arrivals at
Savannah and Jacksonville have failed
to show tthe increase that some had
feared. However, the course of prices
within the next month look as though
they would go higher rather than
lower. Leading factors reported an
unusual dull week but despite this fact
prices have been fairly well maintain-
ed. Net changes for the week amount-
ed to a slight decline of 1c per gallon.
Offers at the close of the week were
on the basis of $1.03 per gallon ex-
yard in barrels.

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“Any theoretical experience? Any
instructions in the duties and ethics of
doorkeeping?”

Can We Reach the North Pole By
Air?

This year will witness the sending
of an aerial expedition into the arctic
by the U. S. Navy. This expedition
will seek information concerning over
one million square miles of unexplored
territory that lies between Alaska and
the North Pole. The existence of a
continent is suspected within this area,
and the Navy’s fliers will attempt to
find it, as well as gather information
concerning weather conditions in the
far north and the practicability of
trans-polar air routes between coun-
tries of the northern hemisphere.

To carry on this exploration the
Navy will probably use the rigid air-
ship Shenandoah, together with two
tender ships and airplanes. The two
vessels will be equipped with mooring
masts for the airship, as well as room
for the storage of supplies and repair
and upkeep facilities. In approving
the plan for sending the Shenandoah
into the far north, Secretary Denby,
in entire agreement with the members
of the Naval Board investigating the
question, stipulated that the airship
should be inflated with the non-explo-
sive gas helium. Helium, of course,
does not give as wide a range of action
as the more dangerous hydrogen, and
in order to give the airship the great-
est possible field of operation in the
far north, a mooring mast will be
placed at Nome Alaska, from which
point the expedition will start. The
policy of the department is to take no
unnecessary risks in connection with
the exploration, and it was felt that the
use of explosive hydrogen would in-
troduce a useless element of danger
into the undertaking

The tw.o vessels, equipped with
mooring masts for the Shenandoah,
will be stationed at Nome and at Spitz-
bergen. They will carry three planes
each. The planes will make observa-
tion flights both before and during the
flight of the airship, and in themselves
will no doubt be able to obtain much
very valuable information concerning
the unexplored regions. The person-
nel of the two tender vessels will also
collect information as to the weather
conditions in the territory adjacent to
Nome and Spitzbergen that will be of
great value to the Shenandoah.

This expedition of the Navy marks
a new era in arctic exploration, and
will undoubtedly prove of great inter-
est to mankind. The unexplored arc-
tic holds secrets, the solution of which
may have a vital bearin& on life in the
temperate zones. The forecasting of
weather will be greatly aided if
weather conditions in the far north are
known. The action of tides and
ocean currents will be much more in-
telligible if the land masses in the arc-
tic are accurately charted. In addi-
tion to this, the land areas in the un-
explored far north, if they exist, may
hold valuable mineral deposits. The
airline distances between many points
in the northern hemisphere lie through
the north polar regions that have
never been visited by man, and the
work of blazing aircraft routes through
this region will open the way for

“much quicker transportation between.

many of the world’s centers of popu-
lation. The Navy’s arctic air expedi-

February 6, 1924

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tion is not a spectacular dash to
pole. The Navy, through the effo:
of Admiral Peary, has already
complished that, and the work to
done now is of a purely scientific
practical character, and is no less th
wiping out the last “unknown”
lingers on the map of the world.
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Model Licensing Ordinance Coverine
Itinerants.

Lansing, Feb. 5—Here is a littk
dope concerning a _ city ordinanc
regulating house-to-house canvassers
shipping their products in interstat:
commerce which may be of interest
This ordinance was enacted by th
city of Portland, Oregon, and was sus
tained by the Federal Court for th:
District of Oregon last week:

Any solicitor selling from house to
house or, taking orders for or offering
to sell or take orders for goods,
wares or merchandise or any articles
for future delivery, or for services to
be performed in the future, or for
making, manufacturing or repairing of
any article or thing whatsoever for
future delivery, and who demands, ac-
cepts and receives payment or depos't
of money in advance of final delivery is
required to take out a license and
furnish a bond in the sum of $500.

I am pleased to state that a very
careful compilation of the laws, opin-
ions of the Attorney General and de-
cisions of the Supreme Court of Michi-
gan pertaining to itinerant merchants,
agents, peddlers, vendors, etc., is now
being prepared and will be delivered
to our members in printed form with-
in a very few weeks. It will be in the
hands of all of our members previous
to the time of the State convention,
May 6 and 7, and a capable man will
be put on the program~o discuss this
question.

Our much honored director, Charles
W. Carpenter, is ill in the hospital at
Oklahoma City. A letter from Mrs.
Carpenter states that he is a very sick
man and she also states that his heart
and thoughts are with his friends of
the Michigan Retail Dry Goods As-
sociation of Michigan. She also re-
fers to his appreciation of the letters
he has received from his friends since
his departure from home. It occurs to
me that many of our members would
like to write to him. His address is
720 W. Grand. avenue, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma.

Boards of Commerce have issued a
warning against peddlers who are sell-
ing supposedly “Acid-Proof Ink.” It
proved a. fake after the test. Buy
from local merchants and avoid being
stung by peddlers.

Our annual convention has
referred to in previous bulletins. The
program committee have held two
meetings already. Some interesting
features are beginning to crystallize
and the advertising member of our
program committee, George E. Mar-
tin, of Gilmore Brothers, of Kalama-
zoo, will assist in getting out some
advertising leaflets to encourage at-
tendance. Please remember the place
and date, Jackson, May 6 and 7.

Jason E. Hammond,

Mgr. Mich. Retail Dry Goods Ass’n.

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A Wise Decision.

Mrs. Worth had just learned that
her colored washerwoman, Aunt
Dinah, had at the age of seventy mar-
ried for the fourth time.

“Why, Aunt Dinah,” she exclaimed,
“you surely haven’t married again at
your age?”

“Yassum, honey, I has,” was Aunt
Dinah’s smiling reply. “Jes’ as offen

been

as de Lawd takes ’em, so will I.”
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Acids Lavendar Flow_. 6 50@6 75 Cinchona _______ @2 10
Boric (Powd.) __ 15 @ 25 Lavendar Gar'n 85@1 20 Colchicum a @1 80
Boric (Xtal) __.. 15 @ 25 Lemon -. 150@1 75  Gipebs @3 06
@arbolic — 44 @ 51 Umseed Boiled bbl. @ 99 ubens ------ - @3 00
Citric = = =62 @ 70 imseed bid. less | 06@I 19 Digitalis  - @1 80
Muriatic ______ 3%@ 8 Jbmiseed, raw, bbl. @ 97 Gentian ee @1 35
Nitric = == 99 @ «6th: 6Eimseed. ra. less I 04@I 25 Gi : : 5
Osane 0 20144@ 30 . Mustard, artifil. oz @ 45 “inser, PS. @1 80
Sulphuric _.. _ 3%4@ 8s Neatsfoot ______ 1 35@1 50 Guaiac @2 20
WMantarle 2.2.7 - 40 @ 50 Olive, pure -.__ 3 75@4 50 Guaiac, Ammon. @2 00
Olive, Malaga, 1i .
Ammonia yellow __. _ 2 75@3 00 Todine -- @ 95
Water, 26 deg. __ 10 @ 18 ies, oe aga, + ee cas Iodine, Colorless (1 50
Water, 18 deg. 84%4@ 13 ao ee ee eee, Clo. : @1 35
Wat a 14 ac a 614 7 19 Orange, Sweet__ 5 00@5 25 Ki
Co i Gee. a a ne Origanum, pure @2 50 \Ino SSS - M1 40
ee ce @ 25 Origanum, com’! 1 00@1 20 Myrrh : : @2 50
Chloride (Gran.) 10 @ 20 5
oe ce Pennyroyal -- 3 00@3 25 Nux Vomica @1 55
Peppermint ___. 4 25@4 60 Oni a as es
Balsams tose, pure ____10 50@10 90 ee ae. - @3 50
@epaiba === —=Ss§s« 60@1 00 Rosemary Hlows 1 25@1 50 Opium, Camp. __ @ &
Fir (Canada) 2 55@2 80 Sandalwood, E Opium, De oe e
i at) 9 Wa , : Z ‘ -odorz’d @3 £
Re (mca) Gide f tees ph.) =
Ber 2250 ies 3 00@3 25 Sassafras, true 2 75@3 00 ~ —o = @1 70
Toki = 8 0@3 75 «Sassafras, art) § O0@E 25
Spearmint ____ 4 00@4 25 :
Barks Sperm == =f 86@2 05 Paints.
Re car tainaweyY 25 Tansy > 00@6 25
Cassia (ordinary) 25@ 30 a ISP ~~ -- 6 7 eeae e; Lead, red dry 14, @ 142,
Cassia (Saigon)._ 50@ 60 Lar, USP -_------ d0@ 6b ee :
Sassafras (pw. 50c) @ 45 ‘Lurpentine, bbl._ @115 Lead, white dry 144@14%
Soap Cut (powd.) Curpentine, less 1 22@135 Lead, white oil. 144@142
30¢ 183@ 25 Wintergreen Gs GS oe ‘ a‘
ee ee a a leat 2 6 00@6 25 CUchre, yellow bbl. @ 2
Berries Wintergreen, sweet Ochre, yellow less 24@ 6
or 3 50@3 75 > r , oa
Cubeb —. 6 @1 25 birch -------. 30 > (09 Red Venet’n Am. 314¢ 7
Wish 05 | “[)o ob@ 90 6Wimtersree n, art__ 80@1 20 Hed Wcaci’ = 2G :
Juniper 7@ 15 Wormseed ___-__ 9 00@9 25 - enet’n Eng. 4@ 8
Prickly Ash ___. @ 30 Wormwood ____ 9 00@9 25 Putty 2 5@ 8
. Whiting, bbl. ae @ 4%
Extracts Whiting 514 ¢ 0
i ’ > -- «-- 74 10
Ejcoriee = 60@ =6bf von EL. HP. Prep. 2 30@2 00
Licorice powd. -_- 70@ 80 Bicarbonate _ 35@ 40 Rogers Prep. __ 2 80@3 00
Bichromate J ISG 25
Flowers Bromide § -°  47@_ 60
Amica =. 2 25@ 30 Carnomate —_-—_ 30@ 35 Miscellaneous
Chamomile (Ger.) 35@ 40 Chlorate, gran 7d 2@ 30 :
Chamomile Rom. ___ 2 50 Chlorate, powd. : Acetanalid __. 47144@ 58
or Xtal — 16@ 22 Alum _— OS@ 12
Gums i ie Cyanide --~—--— 30@ 50 Alum. powd. and
ANeaeia, Ist ___= 50@ 55 Iodide ___- = £ CL@4 34 ground —.  09@ 15
Acacia Ind.  ~45@ 50 Permangan: ite _ 30@ 49 Bismuth, Subni-
Acacia, Sorts ___ 22@ 30 Prussiate, yellow 60@ 15 trate 3 85@4 00
Acacia, Powdered 35@ 40 Prussiate, red --  @190 Borax xtal or
Aloes (Barb Pow) 25@ 35 Sulphate -- — so@ 40 powdered ____ 07@ 13
Aloes (Cape Pow) 25@ 35 Cantharades, po. 2 00@3 00
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 65@ 70 < Catone) oS 1 76@1 96
Asafoetida __-__ 65@_ 1 Roots Capsicum, pow'd 48@ 55
Pow. 2. 22-- 1 00@1 25 a € ee _.._. 6 0OG@E G0
30 Alk: 25@ 30
Camphor —.__ 1 20@1 30 AlKkamet -.__-.__ 40W_s wUs«- Cassia Buds ____ ne 30
Guaiae ____ @ 60 Blood, powdered 30@ 40 Gloves == GO: G5
Guaiac, pow a @ 15 Calamus oe ae {2 Chalk Prepared_ 14a 16
King ..._- @ %5 Islecampane, pwd ane oy Choloréform a7 @67
Kino, powdered__ @ 90 Gentian, powd.. 20@ 30 Chloral Hydrate 1 35@1 85
Myrrh __ @ 80 Ginger, African, . Coesine (= i 60@12 95
oo gan. 4 2
Myrrh, powdered @ 90 _bowdered ----- 40@ 30 Cocoa Butter __ 55@_ 75
Opium, powd. 18 70@13 92 Ginger, Jamaica 60@ 65 Corks, list, less 40@50%
Opium, gran. 13 70@13 92 Ginger, Jamaica, . . Copperas... =. ANG 10
Shellac __ 2 5 S0@1 00 powdered = __ 42@ 50 Copperas, Powd. 4@ 10
. j % nse: y 5 50@6 ‘ . ‘
Shellac Bleached 1 00@1 10 Goldenseal, pow. 5 50@6 00 Corrosive Sublm 1 48@1 63
Tragacanth, pow. @175 Ipecac, powd. -- oe gk «6Cream Tartar __. 33@ 40
‘Tragacanth . 1 ( , Licorice -—- v0@ 40 Cuttle bone _.._._.__. 40@ 50
Purpentine —__._- Licorice, powd. 20@ 30 Dextrine 5@ 15
/ Orris, powdered 304 40 Pover’s Powder [ 3 50@4 00
ce Hke r re 2 Q5 .
Insecticides Poke, powdered 30@ 4° Emery, All Nos. 10@ 15
Mpsenic 20 a 80 Rhubarb, powd. 85@1 90 Emery, Powdered 8@ 10
Blue Vitriol, bbl. @ 07 Rosinwood, powd. 30@ +9 Wpsom Salts, bbls. @ 3
Blue Vitriol, less 8%4@ 15 Sarsaparilla, Hond. — Epsom Salts, less 34%@ 10
Bordeaux Mix Dry 14@ 29 ground == @1 00 fFrgot, powdered __ @1 50
Hellebore, White Sarsaparilla Mexican, _. Flake, White 15@ 20
powdered ___--_ 20@ 30 | ground —___--~---- on . Formaldehyde, Ib 15%@ 20
Insect Powder __ 70@ 90 Squills per me 49 Gelatine _| ss 1 «35@1 50
Lead Arsenate Po. 26@ 35 Sauills, powdered 60@ 70 Glassware, less 55%.
Lime and Sulphur rumeric, powd. 17@ 25 Glassware, full case 60%
Dey 8h 4 (Valerian, powd. 10@ 50 Glauber Salts, bbl. @03%
Paris Green —_.. 38@ 52 Glauber Salts less 04@ 10
Glue, Brown —. 2b@ 30
Leaves Seeds Glue, Brown Grd 15@ 20
BILGE 2 1 50@1 60 ac Z a. Glue, white  _ 4744@ ih
Buchu, powdered @1 75 Anise --- ae a 40 Glue, white grd. 25@ 35
Sage, Bulk ______ 25@ 30 Anise, powdere' 354 @ 70 Giyeerme ____ ss 22%@ 40
Sase, 4% loose _. @ 40 Bird, Is _________- 13@ 15 Hopes = 65@ 75
Sage, powdered_. @ 35 Canary ---.----.- hh aa Iodine _____-___ 6 30@6 75
Senna, Alex. ___. 75@ 80 Caraway, Po. .50) nano 40 Todoform ____ 7 60@7 85
oe Ne a Ce _ ap Lead Acetate - 18@ 25
Senna, Tinn. pow. 25@ 35 Celery i ae 37 = 30 Lycopodium oe 60@ 75
Uva Orsi 20@ 25 oe BOW: ee ES a eee @ 80
Dill oo 22@ 40 Mace, powdered 95@1 00
Oils Fennell _.--------__ 25@ 40 Menthol ______ 18 00@19 00
Almonds, Bitter, Pie ------- o772@ : Morphine ____ 10 70@11 60
true =. 750@7 75 Flax, aus See ae a2 Nuss Vomica ——_ @ 30
Almonds, Bitter, Foenugreek pow. 02 4) Nux Vomica, pow. 17@ 25
artificial ______ 4 00@4 25 Hemp ----------- 8@ 15 pepper black pow. 32@
Almonds, Sweet, 4 Lobelia, ne -- eo 25 Pepper, White __ 40@
Hee 80@1 20 Mustard, yellow__ o@ 8 Pitch, Burgundry 10@
Almonds, Sweet, : Mustard, = 5G 20 Quassin, 12@
iiitation 60@1 00 Poppy ---------- _ 24 sa, Quinine 22 72@1 3:
Amber, crude __ 1 50@1 75 Quince --_------ 1 75@2 00 Rochelle Salts __ 28@
Amber, rectified 2 00@2 25 Rape —-~---------- oe ag Saccharine __._. @
Amiga 2 1 00@1 25 Sabadilla oe 2 ss salt Peter _- 11@
Bergamont —____ 4 50@4 75 Suntiower ----~-- 2@ 5 Seidlitz Mixture 30@
Cajeput sk SO0@E 15 Worm, American 30@ 40 Soap, green ____ 15@
Casa, 4 50@4-75 Worm,.Levant ---__ @5 00 Soap mott cast. 22%@
~ 7 5 ~ « , > +
mast See 1 T0@1 95 Soap, white castile
Cedar Leaf __-. 1 75@2 00 Tinct CHS6 2 @11 50
Citronella .-__ fF 50@1 15 inctures Soap, white castile
Cloves _- 3 75@4 00 . ; less, per bar -_.. @! 26
Cocoanut ____- __ 25@ 35 Aconite --------- @1 80 soda Ash _______. 3%@ 10
God Liver —___.- £30@i 45 Aloes @1 45 Soda Bicarbonate 34%@ 10
@raten (= = 9-9 2 00@2 25 ASnica @1190 “oda, Sal a. Q5@. 68
Cotton Seed ____ 1 40@1 60 4 id: @2 40 Spirits Camphor — @1 35
Gubebs. «8 50@8 75 «=ASalocuda __-_-- ae: Sulphur, roll _... 344@ 10
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Bieeron —___.._ 3 00@3 25 Belladonna -___- @1 35 Sulphur, Subl. _._ 04@ 10
Eucalyptus —---- 25@1 50 Benzoin _.._.._.. Tamarinds ____. 20@__ 25
Hemlock, pure-- 00@2 25 Benzoin Comp’d Tartar Emetic _. 70@ 75
Juniper Berries_ O6@2 25 Buchu ._..._- Turpentine, Ven. 50@ 75

 

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Juniper Wood__ 50@1 75 Canthraradies Vanilla Ex. pure 1 75@2 25
Bard, extra... 35@) 45 Capsicum ——__ Witch Hazel -_ 1 51@2 10
Lard, No. 1 ---- 1 25@1 35 Catechu --------- @1 75 Zine Sulphate ._. 06@ 15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
  
  
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN February 6, 1924
GROCERY PRICE C COCOA. Worden Grocer Co. Brands Peach
Baker's %8 ..2-___----- 40 Henry George -—--- 37 60 + — ss
we : Baker's 48 —_______- $6 Harvester Kiddies _. 81 50 free: Choice, unp. __.. 12
ese quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within si +,  Bunte, %s_  ------------ Be Horccsier Hocots ee PY. P. P. 18
ing and are i d y> six hours of mail Bunte, % lb 85 Harvester Delmonico 75 00
oS : B ’ 0 eee —— _ aster 5
= . . gs ed to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, ae. i. Tas + Harvester Perfecto-- 95 00 | Peel
e to change at any time ; E r ’s Dutc = Webster Savoy ---- 7500 Lemon, America
ea Bt y , and country merchants will have their orders Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 475 Webster Plaza -_---- ee ee ken
led at market prices at date of purchase. Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 00 Webster Belmont._-110 00 ae
oe Hersheys, %8 --------- 33 Webster St. Reges_-125 00 Raisins
— —— : —— —— %S --------- - Starlight Rouse ---- 85 00 Seeded, Bulk
Suhr) 8 8 8=—S—S—ii Ne el i Starlight Peninsular Seeded, Baan ae.
CED DECLINED omer, 8 —————-=—— M Gb “nn f ona agaiete
Puffed Rice Ralston Purina ioenee con ee - La Azora Agreement 58 00 Seedless, Soacen
Mushrooms Lowney, om was at a : : Seeded, 15 oz. pkg. __
runes Van outen, 4s oe 15 : t ---- California Sulanas
Gasoline ee Valentine Victory -- 75 00 -
Starch Van Houten. %8 ------ 7 Valentine DeLux  -- 95 00 California Prunes
lives Jalentine Imperial __ 95 00 90- 95
COCOANUT. Tone 90-100, 25 lb. boxes __@O0s
‘Ss, 4 > case Dunham 42 ae — eae 25 Ib. boxes __@09
148, / case AD Seen ae ere (0@80, 25 Ib. boxes __@lt
ie & a is I came 4. RAO Te oo eo boxes —@Il",
AMMONIA e Stove CANNED VEGETABLES. Bulk, barrels shredded 24 y First Stogie 1850 50-60, 25 Ib. boxes __@12!,
Arctic, 16 oz 2 00 Na. ; So : +4 Asparagus. | 48 2 oz. pkgs., per case 4 15 Vanden Berge Brands 40-50, 25 lb. boxes __@ 14
ic, ee 2 Ne 2 5 No. 1, Green tips 4 10@4 50 48 4 9% Dkgs., per case 700 Chas. the Highth, 50s 75 00 °9-40, 25 Ib. boxes __@17
axette. BO oe. 2 3 25 = Shoe No: 8%, tee ve 3 oo. 50 Whale-Back 50s 58 00
, 3 doz., 12 oz. 375 No. 1 ---------------- Bo ; : Cd FARINACE
“a 2 W. Bean, cut 2 1 65@1 75 CLOTHES LINE. Blackstone -~~~~- 50s 95 00 OUS GOODs
— so ‘= W. Beans, 10 __ 8 50@12 00 Bony, #7 # t. aa = oo coe 75 00 ene
. aa Green Beans, 2s 1 85@3 15 wisted Cotton, 50 ft. 1 75 meee uri-
ane UTTER COLOR). Gr. Beans, i0s 7 50@13 00 Braided, 50 ft. ..__.. 275  tano-Finos ------ 92 00 Med. Hand Picked __ 06°
oa 8 = a 2 2 L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@2 65 Sash Cord -_--------- 3 50 Cal. Limas --------__ 1
; , . 250 Lima Beans, 2s, Soaked 96 CONFECTIONERY Brown, Swedish ---- 0!
CANDLE Red Kid. No. 2 1 20@1 35 Stick Candy ~_ ted Kidney --______ 0:
Blectric Licht, 40 Ibs. 12.1 Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 60@2 40 StANGATG ane
eS omber, i ibs, es Beetle No. 2 cut 125 a, W ee é008 : oo Farina
aratine, 68 — 4 Beets, No. 3, cut -_ 1 60 ure Sugar otic s 24 packages 2 1
Paraffine, 128 --.-.-- “ug Corn, No. 2, Ex stan 1 45 Big Stick, 20 lb. case 21 ak cer Li ee oF acy
Wicking wane nnn nm- 40 Corn, No. 2, fen . See ides en Candy ee
udor, 6s, per box -- Corn, No. ‘y. glass 3 20 aL -————
Corn, No. 10 —.7 50@16 75 TORO 18 Hominy
- Annee FRUIT. —— Hiominy, No. 3 1 00@1 15 2. 16 Pearl, 100 Ib. sack -_ 2 75
pets . s _ pia ye 159 Okra, No. 2, whole — 2 00 French Creams __---- 20
ao. Se 1 = 4 04 bisa No & cut 1 Cameo --------------- 22 Macaronl
oe 1 0; 22 Of Dehydrated Veg Soup, 9 OC coe er 13 Domestic, 20 lb. box 0
aoc sg ct @1 90 Dehydrated Potatoes, lb 4 Fancy Chocolat Armours, 2 doz.. Gee ‘2
ace ae - oO. 2 co 285 Mushrooms, Hotels ~~ 38 : o ib *h Fould’s, 2 a 8 1a
a icots i 2 60@3 75 )Nushrooms, Choice --- 50 Bi ee : on os. 1
Apicots, Ne OO 8 : € ttersweets, Ass’ted 175 Quaker, 2 doz. ------ 1 80
Blackberries, No. 10 12 50 Ae Ea 150@1 80 Cae eee eS
10 Ib. paiis, per doz. 8 20 Blueber’s, No. 2, 1-75@2 50 peas, No. %, Sift HUME GROCER CO. ee ee Pearl Barley
15 Ib. pails, per doz. 1120 Blueberries, No. 16_. 11-00 June ._-_---- 1 90@2 10 : oe ee 200 Chester —___ 4 25
: ----—---- 1. ROASTERS Primr Choc. ee anant ‘oe
26 Ib. pails, per doz 17 70 seeing — = rt = Peas, No. 2, Ex. sift. Se ae oe a : - 00 and: 6000 20 6 00
erries, No. 4 4 95 ae 2 60 : : + Dark . Barley. Grits 22 05
BAKING POWDERS Cherries, No. 10 ---- 1050 Peas, Ex. Fine, French 25 No. See, et - 5 2S ae
Aretle, age gumbler 1 35 Loganberries, No. 2 800 Pumpkin, No. 3 1 35@1 50 oe oo ee 8 Peas
— weak. : on, -- a 25 os, ao. : aoe ’ Pumpkin, No. 10 4 50@5 60 vtugaleiae "> pra Gum Drops Pails eer S 0%
; ee . ~1 40 Pimentos, %, each 12@14 Anisg 2 plit, 1b. le fog
Sead Flake, 100 Ib. keg 11 Peaches, No. 2 -__--. 2 75 Pimentos, 1%. each oe a Se 19 Orange Gums _______- z a
—— Flake, 25 lb. keg 14 Peaches, No. 2% Mich 2 25 sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 1 36 Mar we oo ove Challenge Gums -_--_- 14 Sago
yal, 10c, doz. __.___ 95 Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 00@3 75 Saurkraut, No. 3140@150 «& BTACAIDO ——_—_—----- = — Pavorite 0 2 oe Be i
Royal, 6 oz., doz. _.270 Peaches, _ Mich 5 50@6 50 Succotash, No. 2 1 6u@2 35 Guatemala | ___-_------ 334 Superior a z es *
Royal, 12 oz., doz... 5 20 Pineapple, 1, sled 1 80@2 25 Succotash, No. 2, glass “ > a Mocha -----. eS Fr s Tapi
ach. 31 29 Pineapple, 2 sl. 3 10@3 25 Spinach, No. 1 -—--- ogota --------------- 34% Lozenges. _ Pails ——
Rocket, 16 oz., doz. 125 °©. apple, 2, br sl. 2 75@2 85 Spinach, No. 2-- 1 scat 24 PRO 27 A. A. Pep. Lozenges 20 Pearl, 100 lb. sacks __ 11
P’apple, 21%, sl. 3 80@4 50 Spinach, No. 3-- 2 00@2 40 pe A. A. Pink Lozenges 20 oan 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05
BLUING P’apple, 2, cru. 2 40@2 60 Spinach, No. 10-_ 6 00@7 00 ghiin’s | ept-Fresh A. A. Choc. Lozenges 20 romedary Instant  _ 3 50
Pineapple, 10 cru. 1300 ‘Tomatoce, No. 2 1 80@i 68 Vacuum packed. Always Motto Hearts --.
ee fa Nee So) acoutsee No. 5 i bes fresh. Complete line of Malted Milk Lozenges 23 FLAVORING EXTRACTS
Pears, No. 2% --3 50@3 75 ‘Tomatoes, No. 2 glass 2 60 Se bk contees.
condensed Pearl enw se . . __ 125@1 40 ‘Tomatoes, No. 10 --- 6 50 se — & Co., lenis ee —
* ums, No. 2% _... 2 50 1cAeO 0 AOR ee ae
m=ri}Crown Capped Raspberries No. 2, bik 3 00 CATSUP. 2 ae oe
if et tong ton a 10 1400 B-nut, Small ---— 2 25 se Coffee Extracts Sree ee 20
14 doz., 10c dz. aspd bd, ac Lilly Valley, 14 oz. — 2 50 poe per 100 11 ao
tol 85 oe ? a 50@12 50 Libby, 14 Ai ces oe ee aor Horehound Tablets .. 20
ee Se ee oe ee
\ , . 1 30
Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 135 Paramount, 24; S5...... 1 CONDENSED MIL Smith Bros. __
BREAKFAST FOODS Clam Ch., No. 3 3 00@3 40 Paramount, 24, lés -- 240 agle, 4 doz . 00 aoe —
Cracked Wheat, 24-2 3 85 Clams, Steamed, No. 1 1 80 Paramount, 6, 10s -- . 4 loeder, 4 don. 7 00 Package Goods
Cream of Wheat _.._ 690 Clams, Minced, No. 1 2 50 Sniders, . ce ; 4 : a Te Bi go ale -
Pillsbury’s Best ? Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 30 Sniders, a. . +, 128, car 5 es
Quaker y Puited se : e Clam Bouillon, 7 0z.- 2 50 Royal Red, 10 oz. ~--- 1 40 oe cs 4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 4 00 : es ae % ee i
uaker Puffed Wheat 4 30 Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 7 mie ms ee ae Specialti foe
ae tcr Eefat Binenit 196 Fish Flakes, small 135 _ _ CHI SAUCE. Carolene, Tall, eres i 4° Walnut Fudge 2 Soe
Ralston Purina ___-_- 3 69 Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 185 Snider, 16 oz. --——- 2 Gurslene Baby doz. 400 Dincapple Wudeo . oo ee 8
Ralston Bransos «2 7g «(Cove Oysters, 5 oz. _ 1 15 aes : oz. ——— 2 35 Bape 3 50 folag Bun Bone a ° 1 = 4° ‘ounce 2. 6.00
Gistce Stool lace 260 4(Lokster, No. %. Sir $25 baby Seles, © Oe —- ic Gira: Ring : ee ounce -. 10 40
Baten Sood, saree -. 6 50 shrimp, No. See ee any Valley. 1 ox 3 00 EVAPORATED MILK Atlantic Cream | Mints 32 15 00 ---16 ounce -— 20 00
ard’s, %4 Oil, ky 6 00@7 00. ‘ -6@ Ounce — 37 40
Sardines, 4 Oil, k’less 6 00 OYSTER COCKTAIL. Wai tok oe a
Sardines, “44 Smoked 7 50 Serpe “ OZ. ----=- . Neapolitan, 24. Sc” - e necee Fiavorngs
almon, Warrens, %s 300 ‘niders, OZ. -—-—~ Yankee Jack, 24, 5¢ -- Vanilla or L
Salmon, Red Alaska__ 2 85 Gladiator, 24, 10¢ cals a oz. Parnel, d om
Salmon, Med. Alaska 1 85 CHEESE e . = (ea ae
Salmon, Pink Alaska 165 Roquefort --_____. 63 ah pd Ca, 24, Be 85 We me aoe eee se
Sardines, Im. %, ea. i0@28 Kraft Small tins ---. 1 70 Scaramouch eo 8 7 ia 2
ee oo cone Amicon ... 439 uche, 24-10c 1 60 oz. Taper, 40 bot. for 6 75
Sardines, Cal. __ 1 6501 $0 Chili, small tins ~--- 1 70 COUPON BOOKS °
Tuna, Jt: Albocore = 5 a Byer ; . hs Heonpente grade .. 2 50 Smith’s
: Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz. 2 20 Roquefort, sma ns conomic de _
Bret. Wheat Biscuit 3 85 Tuna, %s Curtis doz. 3 50 Comenbert small tins - go ah ca a Economic grade “26 00
; abe 80 Tuna, is, Curtis, doz. 700 Brick -----~-------—- , , Oz. -- 4. 000 Economic grade 37 50 F] 7
Wisconsin Flats ---- 28 Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 4 80 Where 1,00 av oring
Post’s Brands. e er as MEAT. a Wisconsin Daisy —_-. 28 Quaker Gallon, % doz. 4 70 ordered at a Sime, eece 2 oz. Vanill S
Grape-Nuts, 24s. -_ 3 9 Bacon, Med. Beechnut 2 00 Longhorn -—--__--_- 28 MG ae Sl eee wo oe oe ee eee aired
Grape-Nuts, 100s ____ 2 75 Boot, N . — 9 ¥9 Michigan Full Cream 26 Blue Grass, Baby, 72 375 furnished without charge. 4 oz. Vanilla oo oo
Postum Cereal, 196 225 2° 0° ac 2 we 70 ‘New York Full Cream 34 Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5 25 : 2 deuce 3 50
Post Toasties, 36s _. 285 Beef, No. 1, Roast 270 sap Sago 30 Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 5 15 CRISCO Jiffy Punch
Post Toasties, 24s __ 2 85 Hoek, No. 2%, Wapie shi eo Every Day, Tall -___ 5 25 36s, 24s and 12 ® doz. Carton <2) = 225
Post’s Bran, 24s _...2 79 Beef, No. %, Qua. sli. 1 75 CHEWING GUM very Day. Bibs 2 88 Lecs then § canen  t Assorted flavors.
Beef. 5 oz., Qua., sli. 250 Adams Black Jack -.-. 65 Goshen, Tall - 500 Five cases a =
. BROOMS Beef No. 1, Quaker _- 310 Adams Bloodberry ---- 65 Pet, Tall 2 B85 Ten cases 0 3% FRUIT JARS
ae Parlor, 23 Ib. 700 Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. 6 10 Adams Dentyne ---_--- 66 Pet, Baby, 8 oz. _--_ 515 Twenty-five cases ~.. 913, Mason, pts., per gross 7 80
Fancy Parlor, "23 Ib. § 00 Beefsteak & Onions, 6 2 75 Adams Calif. Fruit -. 65 aes oat. - 5 25 y-five cases --- 21% Mason, qts., per gross 9 10
é Parlor 25 25 i Con Ca., 1s ams Sen Sen --.... 5 orden’s \ eae .-515 Les r Mason, 3 1
ae. Fcy. Parlor 26 Ib. 10 00 Deviled Ham, 4s --- 2 20 Beeman’s Pepsin ------ 6s Van Camp, Tali ____ 5 25 Five taees mete me Ideal ee ee oe. 9 2
TOY o~-aomnna--===-=—~ 225 Deviled Ham, %s --. 360 Beechnut --------------- 70 Van Camp, Baby --.. 395 Ten cases __________ 117 Ideal Glass Top, ats. 11 00
a Ne. 8 2 75 Hemeern — & < eee ee = cca Twenty-five cases __ 51 Ideal Glass Top
ch & Fr [NG 2 ney malt : = all : 7
Special : ae ee. Potted Beef, 4 oz. ___110 Peppermint, Wrigleys_. 65 Lewellyn & Co. Brand CREAM OF TARTAR oo ee 7
No. 24, Good Value .. 750 Potted Meat, Libby 50 Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65 Garcia Master " € ib Boxee 35
No. 3% Good Nalue -- 750 Potted Meat, % uibby 90 _ Wrigley's P-K -------- ao Sg On eo eee
Ne Mt, Velect, Guo Lone’ Met Bees Fe 5 Oe ais DRIED FRUITS riox's Sparkling, dou. 2 25
No. 25, Velvet. pol..._9 00 ~F0tte am, Gen 4% 10s Teaberry ..........._ 65 wift Apples K ; 2
No. 27 —— Vienna Saus., No. % 1 86 Wolverine, 50s ____ 1} Evap. Choice, b nox's Acidu’d, doz. 2 25
No. 22 Quality’ j---—-10 . Veal Loaf, Medium -. 2 30 bee Ce it _. 37. Supreme, 50s a ti0 00 pelea =a a ie a £ 05
No. B-2 B. O. E. __.. 9 00 Baked Beans Baker, Caracas, %38 ~. 35 pee See 95 00 Evaporated, Choice 17 Quaker, 3 7 Ee ‘ 2°
Warehouse, 36 lb. 9 75 Beechnut, 16 oz. -..140 Baker, Premium, ¥%s -- 37 coe 50s _----- 95 00 Evaporated, Fancy ____ 20 : a eae :
B.O.E. W’house, 32 Ib. 9 00 Campbells -___-.___-__1165 Baker, Premium, 4s -- 34 lunts, 50s —_-----_. 75 00 Evaporated Slabs ____ 14 HORSE
BRU Climatic Gem, 18 ozz. 95 Baker, Premium, %s ~~ 34 Cabinet, S08 73 00 Cit ce Per doz., 6 a 14
aa ee eee - Boratieys, _alem, Ys 35 Tilford Cigars i tex - yee OA. 0
} ; r, No: 4) 2 5 ersheys, Premium, %s 36 C é Pisa kare Eee ae
solid Backs fin. 160 Snider, No, 2 uoa gp Mune Promum, 20a) Porfesto, bos -—-" $8 9 Package, Whoa Pure a0 Ih paiie = 4 0
Pointed Ends -_--__125 Van Camp, ae unkle, remium, %8_ 34 Tuxedo, 50s -------- 75 00 Boxes, Bulk, per lb.” 19 Imitation, 30 Ib. pails 1 90
amp, Med. --.. 1 is Vienna Sweet, 24s --. 210 Tilcrest, 50s -_--.__ 35 00 Greek, Bulk S. Ib. - a. Pure 7 oz. Asst., doz. 1 20
» 4b. ---- 15% Buckeye, 22 oz., doz. 2 10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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; ' JELLY GLASSES Bel Car-Mo Brand Smoked Meats Worcester Rub No More, 18 Lg. 4 25 TEA.
i 8 o€., per dos. ....-..: 36 + §& 2;d0z. im case Hams, 14-16, lb. -.21@ 24 Spotless Cleanser, 48, Japan. |
is : 24 Ib. pails 2). Hams, 16-18, lb. --21@ 26 20 Of. oe 3 85 Medium 30@ 35
ik OLEOMARGARINE 12 2 ib: pals 2 Ham, dried beef Sani Flush, 1 doz. -. 2 25 Choice Sees 11@58
g . Kent Storage Erands. 5 lb. pails 6 in crate fot 38 @39 Sapolo, 3 doz _... 215 Fancy _ 6270
-§ Good luck, 1 Ib. ___ 25% 14 Ib pails --_______ California Hams -.12@ 13 Soapine. 100, 12 oz. .@€40 No. 1 Nibbs ____ 62
fa Good luck, 2 Ib. 2 25 25 i, pals = Picnic Boiled Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. 400 1 Ib. pkg. Siftings 16@17
;, Good. Luck, solid  __ 24 50 ib. tins -- ae a ee a ad Snowboy, 24 Large -. 4 ae
Gilt Bdge; 1 ib. 2b oile Aamos: _- Speedee, 3 doz. —_.._- c
gz Git fae 3 33 ~PETROLEUM PRODUCTS Minced Hame -- 14 @15 ie ae 4 ee a
‘" Delicia, 1 (2 8k ots Sopa ee ee 18 @30 . sonst Wyandotte, 48 ___--- ie. “dean
ace 3 211 rfec <erosine -- Is. Beef ‘ i
Pell = ae 21% Red Crown Gasoline, _ Boneless -_-. 23 00@24 00 i BRAN? et w are. Gea
Swift Brands. Tank Waeon 2.050 18.7 Rump, new _- 23 00@24 00 : | oo}. hole Spices. @ll Pet oa -
x Geom Nut 2 24 Gas Machine Gasoline 37.2 Mince Meat a Jamaica —__ oe ekoe, medium - = 02
Special Country roll_- 27 Vv. M. & P. Naphtha 236 coedenssd Na. 1 car. 2 00 oe Ze a es 5 :
P. Van Westenbrugge Brands Capitol Cylinder ---- 39.2 Condensed Bakers brick 31 a a ae oa. English Breakfast
Carload Distributor Atlantic Red Engine- 21.2 woist in glass —-----_ 8 00 sassia, 5¢_ pkg., - @40 Congou, Medium so
5 y * Zep FREE INAEE nee Congot 1o1lce dIM56
Winter Black —_=--2- 12.2 Pig’s Feet Ginger, African @15 7 OF a2
a % bbis 2 15 Ginger, Cochin ----~~- @20 Congou, Fancy 1243
(p olarine = the. Mace, “Penang “—W—-_-@7 ona
1 bie 7 00 tai a fe clase dae re ae
Rae Mixed, 5c pkgs., doz. @45 Medium — a6
1 bbl. ee 14 15 : Nutmegs; 70-80 —  @46 Choice __ _ %
iron Barrels. . 90 Nutmegs, 105-110 __._. @40 Fancy - 50
tight 2 57.2 pring is re 1 60 Bhis. 20-10 sk 5 40 Pepper, Black —. @ii
Medi ‘4, 7 . : 2DIS. d0- SES. 2 ee EN :
SS Pe tee ee Bile 00-5 sks. bop Pure Ground In BUI cotton i: =
I viii eee ae "6 Woes, per th. __- G@& ile 126-2% sks 605 Allspice, Jamaica — @16 Goticn = piv balla _. 87
Nucoa, 1 Ib. —------ a Sree heey --—-— 64.2 Beef, round set - 14@ 26 106-3 Ib sks ==: § 05 Cloves, Zanzibar -. @60 .-. or me = 96
Nucoa, 2 and 5 Ib... 25 Extra heavy a” as seef, middles, set. 25@30 Bbls. 280 Ib. bulk: Cassia, Canton -.--- @25 "00" © PY :
MATCHES ce Pre i 40 Sheep, a skein 1 75@2 00 A-Butter ae 490  Gineer, African —____ as VINEGAR
Diamond, [44 box = 8 00 Fi se : a ae l ee 1.90 AA-Butter i. 400 ~=6~ Mustard a ace eee Woe Cider, 40 Grain 29
Searchlig é > & 60 gAMOL © 02, Cans, G02: 7s RICE Plain 50-Ib. blks. 2 5o Mace, Fenane —.___ @380 white Wine, 80 grain 22
Searchlight, 144 box 8 00) porow: 100, Ib 7.2 7 He: 08% ~ . rit Wine, gre
Red. Stick, 720 ic bxs 550 pPoroear 40 °1 th 20 U4 eee cee oe eee eS Oe al - @45 white Wine, 40 grain 17
ted Diam c 6 iectsg : [=o Pe eS aan Ae Tecumseh 70-lb. far "epper, Black —_— @ 22 aklan ‘inegar & Pickle
Red Diamond, 144 bx 6 00 parowax, 20, 1 Ib. —-- 17.6 Broken -----------—- 03% UL gk Paes, Wate 2. og Oaklar PE lg sat Pickl
leap ie aarcnes me ROLLED OATS Cases, Ivory, 24-2 cart 2 35 Pepper, Cayenne -- @33 Ricnd Agus @idcn 95
Quaker = BO) fans £2 Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sks. 475 Pa sb No timed. 2¢ Paprina, Spanish . G42 Coens een a
Silver Flake, 12 Fam. Bags = Ib. Cloth dairy 40 Seasonin pach Se ee eee =o
oe MINCE MEAT 4 85 Quaker, 18 Regular ~~ 1 80 Bags 50 lb. Cloth dairy 76 (Chili Powder, ce. 1 35 Oakl und Wits i sng A v
ore Suen: iS peas 7S eh Quaker, 12s Family N 2 75 Rock “€ 100-Ib. sacks 70 Celery Salt, 3 oz. —--- 95 No charge for packages.
ee eg Mothers, 12s, Ill’num 3 25 Gage 2 Oe 90 WICKING
abby, Bess, Wet: on Silver Flake, 18 Reg. 1 40 SOAP G@mon Salt $3 wo 6 ner ee ” 1E
MOLASSES. Sacks, 90 Ib. Jute ---- 2 85 Am Wamily 100 box 6 60 Garlic =... E30 No + wee Ghose 1 05
Sacks, 90 Ib. Cotton -- 2.90 export, 120° box _. (ie Woes. 94 ch 4% No x ber guns 8
SALERATUS Flake White, 100 box 4 80 Kitchen Bouquet ---- 325 No 3) per gross 2 30
Arm and Hammer -- 3 75 Fels Naptha, 700 box 5 50 Laurel Leaves --_-__-- 20 Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
SAL SODA Grdma White Na. 100s 5 00 Marjoram, 1 oz. ------ 90 Rochester, No. 2, doz. 50
Granulated, bbls. __-_ 200 Rub Nw More White Savery, | 97. ...-.-__ 90 Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
Granulated, 100 Ibs. cs 2 25 Naptha, 100 box -. 5 00 Thyme, 1 oz. --.------ 90 Rayo, per doz. 80
Granulated, 36 2% Ib. Swift Classic, 100 box 475 Tumeric, 2% oz. ---_ 90 :
packazes: - 2s 250 20 Mule te 100 bx { 55 STARCH WOODENWARE
Wool, 10 ox 2 50
wae 1g Fairy, 100 box ___-- om Corn | oo oe
‘ Middies —-——-- <a Jap Rose, 100 box 7 95 Kingsford, 40 lbs. -__-- 11% Bushels, narrow band,
Semdac, 12 pt. cans 280 Tablets, 1 Ib. Pure --_ 20 Palm Olive. 144 box 11090 Powdered, bags -___ {3% wire handles ___... 1 75
Semdac, 12 qt. cans 41 Tablets, % lb. Pure, Lava, 100 hox 499 Argo. 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 3 $9 Bushels. narrow band,
PICKLES doz. ~~~------~------- 1 40 < hen .. Cream, 48-1 4 80 wood handles —----. 1 80
27 Purmmo, 100 box __.. 4 85 _ : : aS
Gold Brer Rabbit Medium Sour Wood = Pure ---- 11 Sweetheart, 100 box - 5 70 Quaker, 40-8 = == 7 Bushels, wide band __ 2 15
N ee 4g be 6 Ss Barrel, 1,200 count __ 16 00 Whole Cod = oa ——— Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 09 Gloss | Market, drop handle: 85
No. 5 "49 ve to ease 5 80 Half bbls., 600 count 9 00 Holland Herring 1 05 Grandpa Tar, 50 Ige. 3 45 Areo 48 1 Yb. pkes. _. 3 90 Market, single handle 90
7 SEE ah are oe 6 gallon Kepm -. @€ 75 Queen, Kees _ _--*—— > Quaker Hardwater Areo, 12 3 lb. pkes. _. 2 (4 Market, extra S46
; No 26. 2) oe oe 8 Queen, half bbls. --- 8 25 : Toa hos 270 Aree. § 5 Ib. pkes. 3.10 splint, large 8 50
No. 114, 36 cans to es. 5 00 Sweet Small ? 1 16 00 Castile, (2s, box 200. 255; o. can ore Ss ee ee
vy ive a os ° 38 00 Queen, bbls. -----~--- Fairbank Tar, luu bx ¢ 06 Silver Gloss, 48 Is _._ 11% Splint, medium —_.___ 7 50
Green Brer Rabbit 30 gallon, 3000 ---— Milkers, kegs _------ 1 10 coer hay 19 300 Blastic, 64 pkgs. ..__ 5 35 Splint, small _
io a te cae eee te eee te Ee Toa 4
ON 5. 12 cans to case 44, 5 gallon, 500 -------- Ts Y. M. half bbls. | 9. 00 Williams Barber =e Piper. 50 ibs 0514 > . churns.
a> No 31 24 cans to cs. 4 70 Dill Pickles. + M Bee 1s 00 Williams Mug, per doz. 48 a < ah pa ork 5 wal. on 4 a
j No. 1%, 36 cans to cs. 4 00 600 Size, 15 gal. ---- 9 60 Herring Proctor & Gamble. CORN SYRUP. ae '€ ead. tee 1 16
+ Aunt Dinah Brand. PIPES K K K K, Norway —- 20 00 B Hox lots aesorted gee -
No. 10. € cana to case 3 00 Cob, 3 doz iu bx, I Of@t a gle pate LE Ohipne, 80, 128 6 40 “Go 4 oe eee ua
‘ Ne § dn cana 0 case & 5 PLAYING CARDS Cut Lunch -.-------- 125 Chipso, 30, 32s _----- ee No. 2 Star Carrier-- 10 00
i ¥ f No. 2%, 24 cans o cs. 350 Broadway, per doz. -- 2 40 Boned, 10 lb. boxes -- 28 Ivory, 100, 6 oz. --- 6 50 No. 1. Star Egg Trays 4 50
No. 114! 86 cans oe cs. 3 00 Blue Ribbon --------- 4 00 Lake Herring Evory, 100, 10 oz. ____ 10 85 Na 2 St Eee T 9 00
* oe vane a Bicycle oo 4%5 1% bbl. 100 Ibs. —- 6 50 Ivory 50, 10 oz: 5 50 NO. 2, Star Keg irays
* New Orleans 68 POTASH Mackerel i Ivory Soap Fiks., 100s 8 00 Mop Sticks
mancy Open Sete -—- 2 panbitta > dos. 275 Tubs, 100 Ib. fncy fat 2450 Ivory Soap Fiks., 50s 4 10 Trojan spring —---- 1¢
Choice —----------------- 52 Babbi a Tubs, 60 count, -.-.- 6 00 Lenox, 100 cakes $75 Eclipse patent spring 2 00
: Fair -.------------------ 32 FRESH MEATS White Fish Luna, 100 cakes - 3 90 No. 2, pat. brush hold 2 00
a Hak bareele be oxi nee 19 Med. Fancy, 100 Ib. 1300  P. & G. White Naptha 4 50 oe Ideal, No. 7 1 25
Molasses in Cans. Top Steers eS “reit, 18@ Star, 100 No. 13 cakes 5 50 GOLDEN: CRYSTALWHITE- MAPLE 12 oz. Cot. Mop Heads 2 55
Dove, 36, 2 Ib. Wh. L. 5 60 Good Steers & Heif. 16@17 SHOE BLACKENING. _ Star Nap. Pow. 60-16s 3 60 . OG ieee Sw 16 oz. Ct. Mop Heads 3 00
* Dove, 24. 2% lb Wh. L. 5 20 Med. Steers & Heif. 12@13 2 in 1, Paste, doz. -- 1 35 Star Nap. Pw., 100-12s 390 ¢ Tob. sea yrup ad sisi
peeve? - 2 Ib Black 4 5¢ Com. Steer oe rire an = 2 00 Star Nap. Py. 24-60e £ 5 12 5 lb. cans 4 10 10 qt. Galvanized a ee
s re OW O14 slack 3 90 ; Ti , oe 94 Waive 0 9 oy 612 at. Galvani 2 6
Oe we ey cLEANseme, = 24, 74 Ib. cana 3291 ot Gatvaniaed 8 66
Paimetio, 24, 2% ib. 4% Geet ; ea ae ce 12 at. Flaring Gal. Ir. 5 00
Medium ---------------- 09 STOVE POLISH. Crystal White Syrup 10 qt. Tin Dairy —___ 4 50
ochre Common = --~------------ 08 Blackine. per doz. __ 1 35 6, 10 Ib, cans -------- 3 “ 12 at Tin Dairy - 5 06
Al Is, Terregona — 20 Veal. Black Silk Liquid, dz. 1 40 12. 5 1b eans — 3 60 Trane
A ont o g Be Pop 2 12 Black Silk Paste, doz. 1 25 24, 2% lb. cans ------ 2 £2 Mouse, wood, 4 holes __ 60
eer , Ca e poe Good a 26 Enamaline Paste, doz. 1 35 24, 14% Ib. cans ------ 4 99 Niouse, wood. 6 holes __ 70
ce Sie oe 45 yee 08 — Enamaline Liquid, dz. 1 35 Penick Maple-Like Syrup Mouse, tin, 5 holes _--_ 65
Pacis. Vireiaia, yaw 00%4 Lamb. E Z Liquid, per doz. 1 40 6 10 ib cans 2 G16 Bat weed = 1 00
Pon ny Vir eoanted 11. Soe a4 Radium, per doz. .--- 1 85 12, 5 Ib. cans _.-<_.. 24865 Rati sprive 1 0
oe Tumbo, raw 13 Medium ---~-----~------ 22 Rising Sun, per doz. 1 35 94° 994 Ih. cans $50 Mouse, spring 30
Peanuts, ae ae Poor 16 854 Stove Hnamel. dz. 2 85 4106 1b. cans 3 05 Tube
Peanuts, a 0, rst oo Mutton. Vuleanol. No. 5, doz. 95 . Com bates Gaicanucd 8 50
cane eee = 24 Good nem eae e Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 1 a Blue Karo, No. 1%. Medium Galvanized Ug 56
Walnuts, California 28 neue ee Oe Stovoil, per doz. ---- 3 2 doz. ____________- - 25 Small Galvanized -_-. 6 7»
Salted Peanuts. | ee SALT. Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 15 Washboards
Fancy, No. 1 ------- 16% Peavy Noss 2 2 Os Colonial, 24, 2 a oa oe ee a No 95 nn Gighe = 4S
dumbo 2. 2 48 : ee 09% ‘Log Cabin 24-2 lb. case fa dOZ, - =D 95 single CS
Shelled. tee a ee -" Med. No. 1, Bbls. _. 2-80 Red Karo, No.1%,2 | ss single sg 00
Aimondas 2°.) 48 Pome. 3 15 Med. No. 1, 100 lb. bg. 95 doz. ae Ts ee o DHDowble Peerless __..._ $ 00
i eanuts, spanish, Anite) Oe 12 Farmer Spec.., 70 Ib. 95 ted Karo, No. 2; 1 dz. 365 cinsie Peerless 7 86
125 Ib. bags ------ ih -Shevides ____._____- 10 Packers Meat, 56 Ib. 638 a % 445, Northern Queen ---- 5 50
aamedeg See a a ae Se opine roe - : oe eae icaaelel 95 80 can cases, $4.80 per case pa sole ees Universal -------_--_§ &¢
?ecansS -------------- ee Spareribs ------------ oon So eoxs : Es pant
Walnuts 2. 52 Neck “bones 2.2... 2. - 05 Blocks, 50 lb, ------- 4° WASHING POWDERS. Orange, No. 1%, 2 doz. 3 05 Window Cleaners 3
Butter Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 50 ae - Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4 35 12 im. ~-~------------- 1 65
oe i oe PROVISIONS Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 425 Bon “mi. a ee Sante Bh are eres 1 85
fk 2 pal ker =.) 3 6 106° 2 Ih. Table _ 9. 6 07 on Ami ce, .3 a. pee ee. 6 in
. 3 eS keg _-. 5 00 Barreled Pork aes 7 wontc ae 57 Climaline, 4 doz. -... 420 Green Hae _Karo, en
oe i. oe Clear Back -. 23 00@2 ve N ‘ ima, 100. 5e ___. 4 00 _ 40 OZ, 4 doz, ------ Wood Bowls
Bulk, 5 gal. keg ---- § (9 Short Cut Clear-22 00@22 00 30, 10 Ib. Table ------ 5 30 arenes, > , 9 Green Label Karo, 13 i Butt 5 00
Quart, Jars, dozen -_ 6 00 Clear Paniil 27 00@2s 00 298 Ib. bags, Table .. 40 Grandma, 24 Large ~— 4 00 ee 1h 1 dos 40 3 in. Butter --_------ .
Pint, Jars, dozen - 3 50 sti seen ae Gold Dust, 100s __-__- 4 00 Se? nr ae 15 in. Butter --------- 9 Of
4 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 1 40 Dry Salt Meats Gold Dust, 12 Large 3 20 Maple and Cane  &. Bette 2 18 00
SUSE Jar Di; doz. 1.40 Ss P Bellies __ 16 00@13 00 Aolden Pod 24 "| 498 Kanuck. per gal _ 165 i¢ in. Butter 25 00
m oe ae plain, doz. 2 80 Lard ive 9 Gog. 8 450 Sugar Bird, 2% Ib., :
16% 02. Jar, Pl. doz. 450 sn 1b. tubs ----advance % La France Laun, 4 dz. 3 60 2 d6n, = 9 00 WRAPPING PAPER
4 oz. Jar, Stu., doz. 190 Pure in tierces _---—_ 15 Luster Box, 54 ------ 3 75 ones Bird, 8 oz., 12 09 ©Fibre, Manila, white. 05%
8 oz. Jar, stuffed, dz. 3 40 &9 Ib. tubs ~---advance ll eee llr OU s No. 1 Fibre —--.---- 07%
y oz. Jar, Stuffed, doz. 4 10 50 Ib. tubs ----advance %4 - mr PS a Maple. > -, Butchers Manila -.-- 06
12 oz. Jar, Stuffed, dz. 490 9 Ih. pails __--advance % eat prgptr reat try Michigan, per gal._-- 2 nO Rvatt 0 a Gs
. 10 Ib. pails __.-advance % m Welehs, per gal. - 280 Keaftt Stripe ...-._. 09%
PEANUT BUTTER 5 ie ual dvance 1 ALT
. 5 Ib. pails _---advan
od 5 3 Ib. Pus =. advance | ss Ta SAUCES. YEAST CAKE
Compound Lard _-15@15% ; Lea & Perrin, nee : = Macic. 2 doz. ____-__. 2 710
Sausages ao Ferrn, ane 1 £0 Sunlight, 2 doz. —__ : =
Bologna -------------- 12% ees a 49 op eee CO Sunlight, 1% doz. ---- 1 35
L oe Se ee 7 Miracle C.. 12 oz., 1 dz a a Royal Mint os 2 40 Yeast foam, 3 doz. .. 2 70
ne Ola Dutch Clean. 4 dz 3 40° Tobasco, 20z. ——-----4 25 Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 1 35
— an i820 Queen Ann, 60 02. 2 40 Sho You, 9 oz., doz. 2 70 5 am, .
1a. Hise, 100 o7. _--- © 00 ~A-l, large. —----- 520 yEAST—COMPRESSED
’ Pino oe oe i Per case, 24 2 Ibs. -. 2 40 Rub No More, 100 ,10 a A=). smal ._... _. 3 15

 

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30

GREATEST HUMAN FIGURE

On the Page of the World’s His-
tory.

Grandville, Jan. 5—We are coming
soon to the birthday of the world’s
greatest man.

The 12th day of February records
the birth of the gaunt Emacipator
from Illinois who electrified the world
and crushed forever human bondage
in the United States, in doing which
he attracted the notice of every work-
ing man and woman throughout the
civilized world. Slavery and free la-
bor could not long exist in harmony.
He received many curses as well as
plaudits for his act of emancipation,
yet the world has lived long enough
to understand that proclamation’s ful]
meaning, and to place its author on
the highest pedestal of immortality.

Such men as Abraham Lincoln were
not born to die.

They live forever in the hearts of a
grateful people. “He is with the ages
now,” said Secretary Stanton as the
last breath of life fluttered across the
lips of the dying President. And he
was right. With the ages for all time,
the greatest, grandest human figure
on the page of the world’s history.
I am aware that some may deny this,
but to such I say, will you. kindly
name the man who was greater than
Abraham Lincoln? A waiting world
would applaud if you can name such.
It is not sacrilege to say that not since
the beginning of the Christian era has
there been another such a man.

What constitutes Lincoln’s great-
ness? Not his cultivated manners, his
polished speech and elegant apparel,
None of these, but in the sweet humil-
ity of his soul, the tenderness of his
heart, the strong sympathies of his
loving and kindly nature, added to 2

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

seem alone the one collossal figure
in our history.

The story of Lincoln’s life should be
in the hand of every schoolboy and
girl in the land. Emulate this man
and your future will be safe from all
the snares of an unrighteous world.

The man’s greatness began and end-
ed with him. He stands alone—no
ancestors, no fellows, and no _ suc-
cessors. There was but one Lincoln,
there will never be another. He is the
one supreme, overtopping, magnetic
figure of all mankind, and we can
never do enough in honor of his name.

His birthday is even of greater im-
port than the Independence Day we
yearly celebrate. Britain, once a
sneering foe to the great Emancipator,
has in later years come to be one of
his greatest admirers. Punch was
wont to sneer at the gaunt Westerner,
but at his death recanted.

The stature of Lincoln grows with
the years. The story of his life is an
inspiration to every boy in the land, and
to homely boys most of all. The dis-
advantage of an uncouth figure might
have handicapped some men, but not
Lincoln. His greatness of soul rose
above and beyond his natural homli-
ness, illumining his face with the shin-
ing light of a god.

His hatred of slavery was only sec-
ond to his love of country.

Misunderstood and maligned in his
generation, he lived and died a martyr
to the great principles of liberty for all
mankind. Although not the member
of anv church, he was yet one of the
most religious of men, placing his
trust in an all wise power which
brought forth men fitted to carry on
when the Nation was in its death
struggle, straining every nerve to save
its life and at the same time destroy
that slavery which had been the ma-
lign cause of all the eruction.

 

 

mander of armies, yet no one of them
is fit to be mentioned jn the same
breath with Abraham Lincoln.

Washington was great in war, great
in peace, and great in the hearts of
his countrymen, and yet Washington
whom we so honor was a slave master,
something that the great Lincoln could
never have been. Our greatest Amer-
ican had no desire to gain shekels off
the sweat of unpaid labor.

On the 12th day of February we
will stand with uncovered heads in
acknowledgement of the greatness of
the Emancipator, whose every act and
deed led up to the betterment of his
fellow man. Born as he was in a
floorless log cabin, one of the “poor
white trash” of a slave state, one can-
not but help wonder whence came the
inspiration that made of this poor boy
the guiding light of a great Nation in
the hour of that Nation’s greatest
travail.

It reads like romance rather than
truth, the story of Lincoln’s boyhood
in the Western wilderness. Unschool-
ed save only through his own efforts
to gain an education, he grew into
manhood the best equipped man in
all the great American Nation to do
battle against the encroachments of
slavery.

If he was not God-appointed how,
then, did he become what he was, the
very heart and sinew of opposition to
the spread of that peculiar institution
which at one time held our Republic
by the throat with a threat to stran-
gle liberty in the home of its incep-
tion.

With malice toward none, with
charity for all, he stands the greatest
human figure of our world.

Old Timer.
—_>--___
The courtesy which recognizes a

difference between patrons from the

 

February 6, 1924

Law Defiers Not Good Citizens jn
Any Sense.

Grandville, Jan. 5—Prohibition docs
not prohibit because those who have
the execution of the law in their handc
do not want it to prohibit. Pai,
case, isn’t it?

Neither does the law against spec!
ing on the road prohibit. We ha
instances of that right here in Gran
ville. This village during the yp;
year seems to have been a free fo,
all speedway for hilarious and reck
less automobile drivers:

During the open season there ha
not been a day that from one to hal}
a dozen drivers have not gone smash
ing along the street without regard
for law or common sense. When a
person is killed it is an. ‘accident.’
Now turn this over a bit and view
from a rational standpoint. The deat!
of one killed by a speeding autoist
nothing short of manslaughter if not
downright murder,

A few of these smart guys sentenced
to the penitentiary for ten or twenty
years would serve as a reminder that
there were other people in the world
beside the auto fiends with small
souls and devil-may-care hearts.

Enforcement of law makes that law
respectable, and, in fact, heeded bv
even the most reckless of humanity.

The summary hanging in Pennsy!-
vania once upon a time of union out-
laws banded under the name of Molly
McGuires put an end to the depreda-
tions of that gang of cutthroats for
good and all. The summary imprison-
ment for a term of years of the Molly
McGuires of the road would cut out
all the reckless speeding among the
smart Alecs of that ilk and make it
safe for men and women to step on
the highway.

The argument is often used (it is in
no sense an argument) that since pro-

 

 

fi s in the right as God gave hi Te + - : te a4 cg vi Se ;
to see the right. SY" Mi There had been other had witnessed Mill district_and patrons from the SHeEE Wo Be wee ed ee Well
Lincoln stands to-day so far above Peter the Great, Frederick the Great ™lIlionaire oe Pet the kind that the same argument would apply to
every other earthly character as to and Napoleon, the matchless com- makes for business success. every other law on the statute book,
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FINANCIAL STATEMENT
INSURANCE CoO.
December 31, 1923 :
ADMITTED ASSETS LIABILITIES, CAPITAL and SURPLUS
(Basis—Insurance Department Report) Sete $5,012,660.75
special Reserye Funds ... 687,225.13
Mortgage Loans on Real Estate ____________ $5,006,626.61 Premiums paid m advance 38,413.14
Real a ee 79,262.99 Rewer tae 56,242.51
Policy Loans & Premium Extension Agreements 551,245.87 Claims Reported or in Process of Adjustment_ 87,277.00
Bonds—U. S. Government, Municipal, etc.__ 241,623.75 AD ee Lisle 36,198.86
Cash m Banks andim Office ss 192,673.59 Castel Sink $400,000.00
interest duc and accued 150,383.39 ee 148.748.5]
Net Uncollected and Deferred Premiums ____ eee ee
eu hes Ree 7,090.90 Surplus to Policy Holders ______ | 548,748.51
Tol Admitted Awets $6,466, 765.90 Os $6,466,765.99 &
Paid Policy Holders since Organization lL $ 8,074,382.06
Pad Policy Holders duangtte yous 19735 = 942,991.59
Approved Securities on deposit with the State of lowa on Dec. 3] [Woes 5,539,412.83
INSURANCE IN FORCE DECEMBER 31, 1923 _. eee es 77,783,171.00
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WILLIAM A. WATTS, President
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February 6, 1924

since every one of them is now and
then broken. Because men elected to
fill official positions refuse to do their
duty as prescribed by law, is the law
itself to be brushed off ‘the statute
book?

Better no law at all than one that is
seldom observed is the argument
sought to be conveyed by these per-
sons who care more for personal hab-
its of an unlawful nature than for’ the
good of the people at large. It is said
that even officers of the law smuggle
moonshine into their places of domi-
cile and drink on the sly. This may
be true, and if it is true what ought
to be the penalty meted out to such
an unfaithful servant when caught?

Long flouting of law leads to reck-
less disregard of the rights of others,
the only sequel of which should be
the prison cell for the one guilty of
such misdemeanor. And we are com-
ing to that in time.

The people of this country enacted
prohibition in good faith. They have
long been flouted in their good inten-
tions until patience is fast ceasing to
be a virtue.

The prohibition and speed laws
must and will be enforced. Nine-
tenths of the American people are not
going to knuckle in the dust to the
one-ninth who brazenly disregard law
and order and seek to make a by-word
and a jest of the most sacred enact-
ments on the statute book.

In the early California mining days
the outlaw element became so dan-
gerously obnoxious the honest people
organized into vigilance committees
and carried out several hanging bees
which served their purpose in effectual-
ly squelching the disturbing and
vicious element,

Without law enforcement the com-
munity will degenerate into a mob-
ocracy dangerous to life and liberty.

We will not have to resort to the
old time California vigilence commit-
tees. The mass of our people are law
abiding citizens and when patience
has ceased to be a virtue there will
be a new era of law enforcement that
will cause these flippant defiers of de-
cency and honest government to sit
up and take notice.

It was gratifying to learn that one
speeder through Grandville was
brought to law last week and fined
severely. More of this sort of thing
needs to be enacted in order to fetch
order out of chaos, and make our
streets safe for good citizens to travel.

As for prohibition, that does not
prohibit everywhere, in ‘every spot,
vet the officials are pricking up their
ears, and those who are making the
demnable bootleg poisons had_ best
give ear and quit lest they find them-
selves behind prison bars.

It is coming to that before many
moons—prisons for the makers of
poison whisky. If there is one crime
more execrable than murder that is
the crime of the man or woman who
doles out poison liquor to neighbors
for the sake of money. It was the
crime of Judas to betray his master

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

for a few pieces of silver; it is the
crime of the age, this one of making
bootleg whisky, dealing it out to boys
and men as it is being done in many
places in this land of ours.

How long will America stand it to
be thus defied and robbed of her man-
hood in defiance of the highest law
in the land?

Those who effect to sneer at pro-
hibition will some day feel to cry
aloud for protection from the nemesis
they have aroused. The picture is not
a pleasant one. Prohibition having
come to stay, it behooves those who
would demean themselves as good
citizens to make every effort to sus-

tain the hand of the law when it is
exercised against the miserable traf-
fic. Old Timer.
ne
Corporations Wound Up.

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

Detroit.
City:

Jefferson Jewelry
Farm Electric Equipment Co., Bay
Bellanna, Iron Mountain.

Baxter Bros. Co., Grand Rapids.
Mountain Ride Co., Detroit.
George M..Stoeckel Co., Inc., Muskegon.
Regal Furniture Co., Grand Rapids.
Hoover-Bond Co., Lima, O.-Lansing.
Northern Kent Produce & Supply Co.

& Optical Co.,

’

Litd.,. Harvard.
F. & W. Stores, Grand Rapids.

Fisher Bros. Furniture Co., Detroit.
Motschall Co., Detroit.
par. Detroit Co., Detroit:
Twin City Creamery Co.,
American Thrift Association,
Herbert Morris, Inc., Buffalo,
troit.
Overland Sales Co. of Jackson.
Se
Take Your Choice.

Mississippi,

Benton Harbor.
Detroit.
No Yor

Senator Money of

asked an old colored man what breed

of chickens he considered best, and
he replied:
“All kinds has merits. De wiite

ones is de easiest to find; but de black
ones is de easiest to hide aftah you
gits ’em.”’

 

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Hides, Pelts and Furs.
Hides.
Green, No. | 222 05
Guceen: INO: 2) 22 ee 04
@ured, Noo f (5 220 es 06
Cured, No. 2 2222200022 08
Calfskin. Green, No. 1 22)... 12
@altskin, Green, No. 2 =. 1046
@aliskin. Cured. No. I 2:32 13
Calfskin, Cured, No. 2 eee PEs
Horse. No. 2 2200 a 3 56
Porse = No. 2) ee 2 0
Peits
Old “Wool 22. ee 1 00@2 00
Bamps. 252 ee 75@1 25
Sheartines 0 50@1 00
Tallow
Preme 92 ee 06
No Wee
INO. 2 ee ee 04
Wool.

Unwashed, mediunr 2-020) =. @40
lnwashea rejects 3 Mee
Wnwashed fine 22.22 0 @40

 

 

THE NEWEST HIT

CARAMOUGH

A 10c BAR EVERYBODY LIKES.

Include a box in your next order, sure.

NATIONAL CANDY CO., INC.

PUTNAM FACTORY

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

31

 

BUSINESS WANTS DEPARTMENT

Advertisements

If set in capital letters, double price.

inserted under this head for five cents a word the first
Insertion and four cents a word for each subsequent continuous
No charge
display advertisements in this department, $3 per inch.
is required, as amounts are too small to open accounts.

insertion.
less than 50 cents. Smali
Payment with order

 

WE WILL trade Florida land clear for
merchants’ surplus merchandise, original
cost price, match any size stock. Write
for particulars. Land Market, Palatka,
Florida. 456

 

Wanted-——Young man _ pre ed. Fair
window trimmer who would also. take
charge of some department, hosiery and

underwear preferable. Not so
what he realizes there is
Nothing to hinder advancement, even to
being interested in the business. Answer
at once, stating age, experience and sal-
ary. ADDISON CoO., Grand Haven, Mich-
igan. 457

Wanted—To hear

good but
more to learn

 

from owner of good
business for saie. State cash price, full
particulars. D. EF. Bush, Minne apolis,
Minn. 458

FEW more

 

pairs of registered Silver
Black breeding foxes for sale. Will take
care of breeders and their offspring un-
til next Sept. 1; will sell with guarantee
of increase or without. Also I am taking
orders for spring pups, delivery Sept. 1.

 

 

Armstrong Silver Fox Ranch, Alanson,
Mich. 459
For Sale—Good _ store building, two
story, basement. Electric lights, shelves,
counters. Good condition. Address No
460, c/o Michigan Tradesman. 460
FOR SALE—Grocery and fixtures in-

voicing about twenty-eight hundred dol-

lars. Good location and doing a good
business. Reasons for’ selling, going
west. For particulars write T. C. Hamm,
Arkansas City, Kansas. 46

 

For Sale or Rent—Two-story ware ‘house

with two-truck garage; trackage SE.
Paul, Minn. Berry Bros. Milling € 0.,
He ctor, Minn. _ 462

For Sale —On ac count - of sic kne ss, stoc *k
of eroceries, dry goods and meats, in-
cluding store an d dwe liing house. Garage
in connection. Terms to suit purchaser.
Faris Nickola, Boyne City, Mich. 463

 

general merchandise.
Will invoice about $4,000 stock and fix-
tures. Low rent. Good location in
Southwestern Michigan. Must be sold
to settle estate. Address No. 464, c/o
Michigan Tradesman. 464

FOR SALE—Stock of clothing, shoes
and furnishings in one of the best towns

For Sale—Stock

 

in Western Michigan. Doing the best
business, and the best store in town.
The best reasons for selling. If stock is

not wanted, will sell fixtures and lease.
This town is located in the best farming
community in Michigan. Reasonable
rent, including heat. Address No. 465,
e/o Michigan Tradesman. 465

FOR SALE—STOCK of SHOES and
FURNISHINGS. Invoice $4,500. In good
covers on railroad. Only shoe stock here.
Good opportunity. W. J. Lussenden,
Mulliken, Mich. 466

FOR SALE—Good paying country store
located at potato and produce shipping
point, post office and general merchan-
dise. Store building 30x40 brick and tile,
up-to-date, seven-room kelastone resi-
dence equipped with every modern con-
venience. Building all newly built. Gas-
oline and oil station with full equipment.
Will sacrifice to right party. Must sell
on account of health. Terms. Oscar F.

Burke, Hobart, Michigan. 452

 

 

For Sale—General stock of merchandise
in Central Michigan town. New brick
store. Best location. Good reasons for
selling. Stock near $10,000. Address No.
455, c/o Michigan Tr: idesman. 455

 

For Sale—Drug store, small town, Gra-
tiot county. Invoices $3,800. 5% dis-
count. $1,500 down, balance on time.
Address No. 444, c/o Michigan Trades-
man. 44:

KELLY
estate auctioneer
Ohio. 48

CHARLES I:
Merchandise and real
Grelton,

CASH For Your Merchandise!

Will buy your entire stock or part of
stock of shoes, dry goods, clothing, fur-
nishings, bazaar novelties, furniture, ect.

LOUIS LEVINSOHN, Saginaw, Mich.

 

Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-
ing goods. stocks. L. Silberman, 1250
Burlingame Ave., Detroit, Mich. =

feed ‘and grocery

For Sale—Flour,
business doing a fine business. Also
buildings and real estate. Located on

finest corner in the city. 87 feet on
main street, 180 feet on side street. Store
building 22x100. Hay barn, two small
warehouses, large store shed, small store
building on corner occupied as a millin-
ery store. Good reason for selling. Ad-
dress No. 208, c-o Michigan a

 

The Durant Hotel

Flint’s New Million and Half
Dollar Hotel.

300 Rooms 300 Baths

Under the direction of the
United Hotels Company

GEORGE L. CROCKER, Manager

 

 

Signs of the Times
Are

Electric Signs

Progressive merchants and man-
ufacturers now realize the value
of Electric Advertising.

with sketches,
ting cost for the

We furnish you
prices and opera
asking.

THE POWER CO.
Bell M 797 Citizens 4261

 

 

 

 

WM. D. BATT
FURS

Hides, Wool and Tallow

28-30 Louis St.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

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an accurate record
of your sales. Try
; : the one writing sys-
Fe iva One tem by using sales
wus ot loot i | books. If you don't
write us for prices

, 2 -| we both lose. Let
ts -- us bid on your next
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We make all
and sizes,
request.
BATTLE CREEK
SALES BOOK CO
R-4 Moon Journal BI
Battle Creek, Mich

styles
prices on

 

 

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32

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

February 6, 1924

 

MEN OF MARK.

L. P. Witzleben, District Manager R.
G. Dun & Co., Detroit.

The eyes of a man reveal him. They
constitute a medium of expression
more subtle and eloquent than articu-
late speech. It is possible to control
every other feature of one’s counten-
ance for the concealment of thought.
But the eyes are never reticent. They
are the open laboratory into which
the raw materials of ideas and fancies
are brought from the outer world. The
mind works therein without subter-
fuge. Indeed, scientists tell us that in
the iris of the eye, that is, the colored
circle around the pupil, can be read the
condition of every organ of the body
in health or disease. Love, hatred,
guile, simplicity, anger, ambition, gen-
erosity, hope, despair—every emotion
and nerve-stirring flash their signifi-
cance through the human eye. There
is still the tradition among the peasan-
try of the old world countries of the
evil eve and its terrible power to work
disaster in the affairs of man and beast.
Its converse needs no superstition. The
good eye, the kindly eye, has a white
magic all its own. It beams forth
good cheer, whether from the face of
a shepherd herding his flocks along a
hillside or a manufacturer holding a
conference for the betterment of his
business.

Strangers feel at home with Mr.
Witzleben because his eyes invite con-
fidence and radiate kindliness. In
these days of ponderous psycho-analy-
sis, it seems almost a childish thing to
measure the character of a man by the
expression of his eyes. Yet, those who
have known Mr. Witzleben from his
boyhood say that hi seyes have always
spoken truth and good fellowship. Al]-
ways they have been frank. Whatever
glints of shrewdness show in them
now and then are not the cunning of
a schemer, but the cleverness of a man
of affairs who knows how to plan and
execute enterprises of value to himself
and his associates.

The eyes change as the character
changes. If they continue to be be-
nignant and tranquil it is because the

person gathers wisdom and _ forbear-
ance with the passing years. The

pleasant eyes of Mr. Witzleben tell the
story of development along lines of
tranquility in which there are no twists
or crooked turns. They are still the
eyes of his boyhood days in Paris, St.
Louis and Detroit.

L. P. Witzleben was born in Paris,
France. His parents on both sides
were of German descent. After their
death when he was four years of age
he came to this country, locating in
St. Louis, Missouri. Subsequently re-
moving to Detroit where the subject
of this sketch acquired most of his
education. At the age of fifteen he
entered the employ of R. G. Dun &
Co. as messenger. He gradually
passed through all the upward steps of
the Detroit office, culminating in the
position of chief clerk. In 1891 he was
promoted to the position of Manager
of the Marquette branch, which was
the first office established by the Mer-
cantile Agency in the Upper Peninsula.
Three years later he was promoted to
the management of Grand Rapids and

charge of Western Michigan. He re-
mained here six years, making many
friends who still hold him in high es-

_teem.

In 1900 he was transferred to Ham-
burg, Germany, where he assumed
charge of all the operations of the
Agency in Western Europe. During
the years he remained in this position
he established thirty-four branch of-
fices.

He returned to this country in the
summer of 1918 and took a responsible
position in the home office at New
York. :

About a month ago Mr. Witzleben
received another promotion at the
hands of his employers, being given
the exclusive management of the
offices in Lower Michigan with head-
quarters in Detroit.

 

kind of a man that makes many
friends and holds them firmly. Every
one who comes in contact with him
automatically becomes his friend on
account of his open handed methods
and spontaneous good friendship,
which is so contagious that no one can
fail to respond thereto. No matter
how long he may be away from his
friends in any locality, his return im-
mediately witnesses greetings which
plainly disclose the true character of
the man and his remarkable ability to
make friends in large numbers and
hold them to him by bands of steel.
Some men impress us as essentially
placid and serene, undisturbed by the
annoyances and undismayed by the
trials of life, ordered by reason and
regulated by uderstanding, disposed
neither to exaggerate the ills nor over-

L. P. Witzleben.

Mr. Witzleben was married about
forty years ago to Miss Ellen Haass.
Three children have joined the fam-
ily circle. One is married and lives in
Brussels, Belgium; another is married
and lives in New York and the third
child still resides at home.

Mr. Witzleben is a Mason, including
the Chapter degree. He is a member
of the Lutheran church.

Mr. Witzleben owns up
hobby, which is fishing.

When Mr. Witzleben left Detroit,
thirty-two years ago, it had a popula-
tion of 275,000. He comes back to a
city of 1,300,000 people, constituting a
ratio of growth almost unparalleled in
American cities.

Mr. Witzleben thas achieved a de-
cided success in every position he has
ever held, due to his superior ability,
his close application to business and
his remarkable personality. He is the

to one

value the good things of life. Such
men exemplify that charity which
thinketh no evil, which suffereth long
and is kind; they are guileless and free
from dissimulation; they are marked
by candor and sincerity, but are char-
acterized by kindliness and a due re-
gard for the rights and the feelings of
others. Such a man is the subject of
this sketch.
—_2+3->.__

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Feb. 5—Louis F.
Hake, who has long been employed
as coffee salesman by W. F. Mc-
Laughlin & Co. and the Worden
Grocer Co., has severed his connection
with the latter house in order to take
an active part in the life and accident
insurance agency of Jeffers & Co., in
which he has been a partner for some
time. Mr. Hake has long wanted to
retire from the road and this gives
him the opportunity he has coveted.

The annual meeting of Grand Rap-
ids Council will be the next regular

meeting, and will be on Saturday, Mar.
1, in the lodge room at the Hotel
Rowe. Time, 9:50 a. m ‘The big
banquet will be given in the evening
at a local hotel. It will probably be
at the Pantlind Hotel and is expected
to be a more brilliant event than ever
before. No. 131 has had some very
fine banquets speakers, etc., but this
year’s entertainment promises to out-
shine all previous affairs. The ban-
quet committee is composed of Wil-
bur Burns, chairman; Walter Lypps,
John Olney, John Hunton, Ray Bent-
ley and W. O. Cascadden. Tickets
will be on sale about Feb. 9. Don’t
fail to get yours, as this is the most
lively banquet you will have an oppor-

tunity to attend this year. Supreme
Counselor Sullivan promises to be
here.

J. A. Cuttle, a traveling salesman,
was bruised and shocked near School-
craft, when his automobile skidded
from the icy road, shot down an em-
bankment and became wedged so se-
curely between two trees that garage
men labored two hours before they
could extricate it. Mr. Cuttle was
bruised by the impact. A motorist
who witnessed the accident, took him
to Schoolcraft for treatment. He was
able to go to his home in Grand Rap-
ids by train. The accident happened
at Lost Island crossing, a mile and a
half East of the village.

W. O. Cascadden.
——_+>___
Wheat and Flour in Sound Position.
Written for the Tradesman.

The past week has seen a very firm
wheat market, with prices advancing
2c per bushel.

The premiums on choice of
grain, both hard and soft, have also
advanced. This, of course, has re-
sulted in somewhat higher prices on
flour. The following report was
broadcast by a prominent grain house:
“After months of advices of burden-
some world’s supplies, especially of
Canadian wheat, it is interesting to
note that Liverpool reports Manitoba
grades exhausted and that the Liver-
pool stock is only 320,000 bushels,
against 1,088,000 bushels last year. AI-
so that in the face of world’s ship-
ments from July 1 to date of 405,000,-
000 bushels, against 394,000,000 bushels
same period last year, the amount of
wheat on passage is 43,448 000 bushels
against 51,736,000 bushels last year.
These shrinkages suggest that Euro-
pean requirements are greater than
foreign statisticians estimated.”

cash

Liverpool has also advanced 1%@
15g pennies and foreign interests, on
the whole, were fairly good buyers of
wheat futures.

Weather reports indicate that the
recent snow storms have covered prac-
tically all sections of the winter wheat
belt; in a few districts the snow was
preceded by sleet and hail. Generally
speaking, the growing crop has had
good coverage, but, of course, nothing
can be known of the actual condition
of the wheat until about the first of
July.

On the whole, both wheat and flour
are in a sound position from a price
standpoint and lower values can hard-
ly be expected, although, on the other
hand, there doesn’t appear to be any
reason for big advances.

Lloyd E. Smith.
—_+-+_____

There ought to be a policy of greet-
ing customers that will bid them
welcome as plainly as “WELCOME”
in red letters on the door-mat.