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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925 Number 2186

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Always Another Fight Left

I have failed in a thousand cases,
But I still have the heart to try;

I am searred in a hundred places,

Public “Reference 14¥"
Library &*

No darling of Luck am I!

In many a crucial hour
I have hoped and been scorned and kicked ;
But never has Fate had power

To convince me that I was licked.

I have trusted and been mistaken,
My friendship has been betrayed;

I have struggled alone forsaken
By men who have had my aid;

I have listened to those who flattered,
Their motives misunderstood,

But my faith has remained unshattered ;

I believe in the ultimate good.

I ask for no unearned pleasure,
No pathway through flowery lanes ;
I offer a full, fair measure
Of effort for all my gains.
[ll try, though the pace be grilling,
Nor whine if I’m tripped or tricked,
So long as my soul’s unwilling
To let me believe I’m licked.

S. E. Kiser.

GRAND RAPIDS
PUBLIC LIBRARY

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the canning season.

OW is the time of the year when housewives busy
N themselves with preserving the abundance of fruits
and vegetables for use during the winter months.

Your customers will be asking for a sealing wax
to make air-tight the preserve containers. Sell them
Parowax.

Parowax seals glasses and jars tight. It forms an
air-tight, mold-proof seal which holds in the fresh, tasty
flavor of jams, jellies and preserves, and prevents any
deterioration.

The cleanliness and purity of Parowax—together
with the ease with which it is used—makes it the first

choice of the housewife.

Standard O1l Company

(INDIANA)
910 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois

Michigan Branches at Detroit, Grand Rapids and Saginaw

 

 

 

   

Every dealer should carry a
supply of Parowax on hand
during the canning season.
Parowax may be secured
promptly from our nearest

branch.

 

An attractive two-colored dis-
play carton is packed in every
case of Parowax. It is an

effective sales stimulant.

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Forty-third Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1925

 

Number 2186

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

(Unlike any other paper.)

Frank, Free and Fearless for the Good
That We Can Do.

Each Issue Complete in Itself.

 

DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS
OF BUSINESS MEN.
Published Weekly By
TRADESMAN COMPANY
Grand Rapids
E. A. STOWE, Editor.

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advance.

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Sample copies 10 cents each.

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Entered Sept. 23, 1883, at the Postoffice
of Grand Rapids as second class matter
under Act of March 3, 1879.

 

A recent survey shows the States
have increased their bonded debt near-
ly 50 per cent. in the last three years.
They owe a total of $1,558,742,422, or
about $13.90 for every man, woman
and child. New York’s debt of $320,-
991,000 is the greatest, with Massa-
chusetts second with $120,046,961. Tili-
nois owes $112,071,000. Three states,
Kentucky, Nebraska and Wisconsin.
have no bonded indebtedness; but the
first and second of these states have
outstanding warrants and other ob-
ligations. The highest per capita of
indebtedness is that of South Dakota,
where the share of each inhabitant is
$93.95. Every Oregonian is liable for
$72 on State debts. Road-building,
bridges, canals, bonuses for veterans
and the “fifty-fifty Federal subsidies”
help account for most of this total of
bonded State obligations. Evidently
the states are misusing their power to
issue tax-exempt securities. The Fed-
eral Government is recovering from
its squander mania. The States do not
seem to be convalescing.

 

Six bandits in San Francisco robbed
an air mail truck carrying eight val-
uable pouches without firing a gun or
disturbing a policeman. These pouches
are assumed to be stuffed with valu-
ables of all sorts, including currency
and securities. A lone driver appears
to have been the only man on the
truck. The six outlaws forced him
over to the curb, menaced him with
pistols and took the mail. Such hand-
ling of valuable pouches is an invita-
tion to trouble. It invited exactly
what happened. These air mails have
had the reputation of being the safest
method of transporting gems, cash,
bank clearances, valuables of all kinds,
including negotiable securities and
checks. So far as their protection
from robbery is concerned, at least
in this particular instance, that repu-
tation seems hardly deserved. The

   

postal authorities took a chance with
these pouches that few others would
have taken.

csicetnatacemesasthanennnem
Increasing unemployment in Ger-
many shows upon what an artificial
basis the post-war industrial boom
there was founded. The gold standard
for the mark and the new conditions
brought about by the Dawes plan had
an almost instantaneous effect. At
present 600,000 laborers are out of
work and 600,000 are employed only
two or three days a week. Indications
are that these figures are only a be-
ginning. Great Britain tried to get
down to hard pan almost immediately
after the end of the war. Continental
Europe in general went in for inflation,
Great Britain’s troubles are not over
yet. But, on the other hand, Ger-
many’s have only begun and France is
just reaching the point of beginning.
Unemployment and other industrial
difficulties were inevitable following
the war. It was a question whether
to take the medicine down or put off
the nasty dose. Those that took it
right off stand to be cured first.

 

There are two occasions upon which
a nation—or an individual, for that
matter—can ordinarily talk peace:
either when it is victorious or when
it is defeated. The French are now
debating the question whether it is
absolutely necessary that these condi-
tions be fulfilled to the letter. France
has not won a victory over the Moor-
ish leader, Abd-el-Krim. Abd-el-Krim
has not been defeated. Yet attempts
are being made to talk peace. It is
true that the thought of the world has
recently been concerned with the pro-
posal—in time of peace prepare for
peace. Some slight progress has been
made. But there is one point upon
which no appreciable advance can be
reported. It is the proposal to prepare
for peace after war has actually be-
gun. France is sincerely trying to
make peace with Abd-el-Krim without
going through the hardships involved
in defeating the Moors. The results
of this attempt should be illuminating.

 

The British trades unions are mov-
ing their big guns into place for one
of those perennial industrial disputes
they appear to delight in. There is the
usual threat of an alliance which would
stop every wheel in Great Britain. This
time, according to the talk, the coal
miners, railway men, transport work-
ers, machinists and shipbuilders would
be united. Joint committees have ac-
tually evolved a constitution for the
alliance. It all sounds very big. If an
alliance such as this could be brought
into play, and if the members of the
unions were willing to suffer along with
the rest of the country in the midst of
the havoc they could wreak, the indus-
trial fate of Great Britain would not be

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worth tuppence. But these two “ifs
-are even bigger than all.the big guns
the trades unions can bring to bear. And
the controversy, which at present ac-
tually involves only the coal miners,
will probably be over before any real
shooting is indulged in.

After amassing millions in business,
Leopold Schepp at eighty-five is be-
ginning an intensive study of philan-
thropy. To find out the best way of
distributing his fortune, he has asked
for suggestions from the general pub-
lic. He prefaces his request for plans
with the statement that he doesn’t be-
lieve in leaving large sums to a few
people, making them lazy in body and
mind, but he wants to spread his money
out with the hope of equipping a num-
ber of persons, or re-establishing those
who are handicapped, so that they
may face the requirements of life with
a better chance of making it a success.
In applying business methods to his
philanthropy, Mr. Schepp can be sure
that none of his fortune will be wasted
and that he is really helping those who
need and deserve to be assisted. And
with it all, he will be able to enjoy the
inestimable pleasure of seeing his
money doing good while he lives.

The increased postal rates which
became effective recently were not
carefully worked out. They were fixed
in response to a demand that the in-
creased pay of postal employes should
not come out of the general revenues.
Drafted hastily, they have not been
satisfactory. They have worked rath-
er unevenly and have been generally
criticized. Hearings are now under
way before the United States Postal
Commission, whose membership is
drawn from the House and the Senate.
Several cities will be visited, testi-
mony taken and a final meeting held
in Washington on October 15. It is
the opinion not only of its members
but of those who have watched its
proceedings, that a reduction of postal
rates will be recommended. The in-
crease of 20 per cent. in the postal re-
ceipts in June of 1925 over June of
1924 is due to be lopped off in a new
postal measure.

The American fleet has reached its
objective for the maneuvers of 1925.
Battleships and cruisers ride in the
roadsted of Melbourne, and that anti-
podean city and Sydney have given
men and ships a royal welcome. Since
the jingoes on both sides of the Pacific
have quietd down there is nothing to
mar the visit of American ships to
Australian shores. This high-seas
training cruise is being accepted by
common consent as simply that and
nothing more. This is as it should be.

On this side of the Pacific no effort will
make it seem anything other than an
incident in a practice cruise.

On the

other side of these waters the Japanese
have refused to become excited about
it. Such irritations and misgivings as
existed a the
cruise began have vanished under the

few months ago when
emollient of common sense mixed with
good will from both sides.

IS

The old-fashioned Cinderella was
fortunate than the modern

The old-fashioned Cinder-
ella only had to put on a glass slipper
and be happy ever more. But we have
changed all that. The modern Cin-
derella has to be photographed scores
of times, submit to being developed in
the motion pictures, debate the date of
her birth, whether she ever put her

far more

Cinderella.

hair up, dispute statements of ambi-
tious swains who say that she was
once engaged to marry them, and
finally give a detailed explanation how
she came to be a Cinderella to the
Commissioner of Public Welfare, with
the result that that official took her
glass slipper away from her. The lot
of a Cinderella surely isn’t what it
used to be—not by a good many col-
umns of printed matter.

The laudable effort of Leopold
Schepp, the philanthropist, to find
worthy persons with whom to share

his millions shows the value of adver-
tising. Mr. Schepp’s request for help
in distributing his money appeared on
Tuesday. The next day he received
3,000 letters by post, messengers flock-
ed to his office all day with telegrams
and hundreds of charity seekers came
in person—all of them with suggestions
of how he could get rid of his money.
It is a splendid way for a multi-million-
aire to distribute his money, if he can
stand the strain. But if the first day
produces five or six thousand requests.
it will take a lot of work to sift the
wheat from the chaff. The answers to
his request have left no doubt that Mr.
Schepp can distribute $4,000,000—and
a little bit more.

 

Buried cities are not limited to an-
cient civilizations. There are plenty
of them within a short ride of Broad-
way. They have perished one after
another, that the people of New York
City might have pure water to drink
To their number is now to be added the
village of Gilboa,
1760. Before long this modern town
with the Biblical name will rest at the
bottom of a huge artificial lake five
miles long containing 22,000,000,000
gallons of water. From this lake the
waters of Schoharie Creek, blocked by
a dam overtopping.the church steeple
of Gilboa, will be ‘conducted through
eighteen miles of tunnel to the Asho-
kan Reservoir. Gilboa has risen tri-
umphant over flood and fire only to
succumb at last to the demands of
urban progress.

which dates from

 

 

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MEN OF MARK.

Joseph H. Brewer, President of Grand
Rapids Trust Co.

Birth can only bestow latent facul-
ties; their awakening and development
into active forces depends upon the
man. Environment can help. Oppor-
tunity walks abroad in many guises and
will not force itself upon anyone. A
man must penetrate the disguise, seize
the opportunity and keep an unbroken
hold upon it until he finds himself
victorious in the struggle thereby earn-
ing a perfect right to the proudest of
all American titles—a successiul* busi-
ness man.

Joseph H. Brewer
sketch, a man who
Grand Rapids, was
shrewd enough to recognize his birth-
right; who seized the opportunity
thus presented; who threw his whole
brain and brawn and being into his
life’s vocation as soon as he discovered
the career which was best adapted to
his abilities and

Such a man is
the subject of this
born and bred in

who, in consequence
—still a comparatively young man—is
nevertheless one of the recognized cap-
tains of the great army of public op-
erators which has raised the public
utilities of this country to such a high
state of efficiency that they are the
envy and emulation of the world. The
facts which go to make up this story
of a remarkable man and a remarkable
achievement constitute a plain tale of
a plain, everyday, dependable people
who form the bone and sinew of our
Nation.

One of the first men to locate in AI-
pine township, Kent county, was Al-
onzo Brewer, who was-very generally
known as Squire Brewer. He had
been educated at West Point and had
been an officer of the regular army. He
was on the staff of Gen. Winfield S
Scott and followed the fortunes of that
distinguished leader during the Mexi-
can war. When the Civil war broke
out in 1861, he wrote Gen. Scott, ten-
dering his services to the Union cause.
Gen. Scott replied—and his letter is
one of the cherished archives of the
family—that he and Mr: Brewer were
both too old to go to war a second
time, but that Mr. Brewer could send
his Mr. Brewer had
seven sons and one daughter. All of
the sons responded to the call of the

sons instead.

country and marched away to Dixie-
land to preserve the integrity of the
flag. The daughter subsequently es-
caped from the parental roof by climb-
ing down a ladder, secured access to
the Union lines in Virginia and mar-
ried a soldier who was fighting for the
Stars and Stripes. The father of Al-
onzo Brewer resided in Massachusetts
and fought in the battle of Bunker
Hill. One of the seven sons of Alonzo
Brewer was Lucien B. Brewer, whe
married Miss Anne Escott, who was
born in England. They had five chil-
dren—the youngest child being Joseph
H. Brewer, who was born in. Grand
Rapids, April 19, 1875. The date is
significant because it is the anniversary
of the battle of Lexington, of the firing
on Fort Sumpter and the declaration
of war against Spain in 1898. Joseph
Brewer was educated in the public
schools of Grand Rapids; that is to say,

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what education he received as a boy
came to him through the public schools.
He did not stop with book learning
however. He earned his own clothes
from the time he was 6 years of age.
When he was 12 years old he found it
necessary to assist in the support of
the family, on account of the illness of
his father, so he confined his school
work to forenoons and devoted the
afternoons to handling the circulations
of Chicago papers in this city. He had
thirteen other boys in his employ and
did his work so thoroughly that he
enjoyed an income of $100 per month
In addition, he carried routes on the
morning and evening papers. The
Tradesman is pleased to chronicle this
circumstance, because it shows the in-
herent genius for money making which

TRADESMAN

ployed—he began working for the
Michigan Central when he was only 14
years of age—he took shorthand les-
sons evenings from the late Chancellor
White, who will be remembered as one
of the most unique characters Grand
Rapids has ever known. After two
years with the Michigan Central Mr.
Brewer became stenographer for J. K
V. Agnew, General Superintendent of
the Chicago & West Michigan Railway
and Detroit, Lansing and Northern
He was afterward promoted to the po-
sition of stenographer for Charles M.
Heald, General Manager of the same
lines. During this time he was made
Secretary of the Road Masters’ As-
sociation of America and accompanied
John Doyle, of Grand Rapids, who was
President of the organization, to an

Joseph H. Brewer.

he acquired at an early age and fur-
nishes the keynote to the remarkable
success which attended his operations
in the utility field later on in life.
While it is probably true that his ef-
forts as a money maker at this period
of his life were due largely to the spur
of necessity, yet none but a masterful
genius, possessing managerial ability
of a high order, could have developed
so remarkable a business capacity at
such an early age.

After spending two years in the high
school he sought and obtained employ-
ment in the freight house of the Michi-
gan Central Railway, passing rapidly
from the position of messenger up
through the various lines of promotion
to the position of Over and Short
Clerk. During the time he was so em-

of the Association
at Minneapolis. Mr. Brewer subse-
quently became connected with the
office of M. C. Bronner, master car
builder for the Michigan Central Rail-
way at Detroit, and later opened an
office as a public stenographer in that
city, doing some court work. In 1892
he returned to Grand Rapids and join-
ed forces with Charles H. Bender. A
copartnership was later formed under
the style of Bender & Brewer, which
was for several years one of the leading
stenographic firms of the city. The
firm had contracts for handling the
circuit work of Manistee, Mason, Lake
Osceola, Mecosta, Newaygo, Allegan
and Ottawa counties, besides the Fed-
eral and municipal courts of Grand
Rapids. This copartnership continued

annual convention

August 12, 1925

until 1909 when Mr. Brewer withdrew
to devote all of his time to the public
utility business which he had inaugu-
rated in 1905 by the purchase of the
Holland Gas Co. from Bascom Parker.
He subsequently purchased the Win-
ona Gas Light & Power Co. and the
Red Wing Gas Light & Power Co. He
developed these properties so rapidly
that by 1909 he had established a repu-
tation that brought about an affiliation
with Charles B. Kelsey, who at that
time controlled the Albion and Val-
paraiso gas properties. The firm of
Kelsey, Brewer & Co., retaining the
properties already owned by them, sub-
sequently acquired Elkhart and Kan-
kakee (which latter they subsequently
disposed of), Boise, Idaho, Salt Lake
City, Jackson, Miss., Minnesota-Wis-
consin Power Co., an electrical trans-
mission proposition carrying power
from Red Cedar River, Wisconsin,
ninety miles to Red Wing, Lake City
and Wabasha, Minn. The detail in-
volved in looking after so many prop-
erties naturally suggested a larger
proposition and a holding company was
therefore, organized in July, 1912, un-
der the name of the American Public
Utilities Co. This
quently acquired the La Crosse Gas &
Electric Co., the Merchants Heat &
Light Co. and the Peoples Light &
Heat Co., of Indianapolis, the two lat-
ter subsequently merged
one corporation. It owned the
Wisconsin-Minnesota Light & Power

company subse-

being into

also

Co., which developed one of the larg-
est low water powers in the
United The improvement in-
cluded the Chippewa
River, supplied by a large storage
reservoir. This proposition, which in-
volved an expenditure of $20,000,000
owned 1200 miles of transmission lines
the current finding a ready
market in St. Paul and Minneapolis
This company was subsequently sold
to the Byllesby interests of Chicago.
The Public Utilities Co.
under Mr. Brewer’s management, creat-
ed the Central Indiana Power Co.
owning a number of good sized elec-
tric light companies in the Hoosier
state. Mr. Brewer created a large
super power system in the coal fields
and with 1,000
lines furnished current to Indianapolis
and all Central Indiana

head
States.

four dams on

surplus

American

miles of transmission

towns and
cities.

The Public Utilities Co. had a cap-
ital stock of $20,000,000 preferred, of
which about $4,000,000 had been issued
and $20,000,000 common, of which $3,-
000,000 had been issued. It also had
a bond issue of $20,000,000, of which
less than $450,000 was issued. Mr
3rewer was President and General
Manager of the company and devoted
the major portion of his time to the
work of looking after the varied inter-
ests owned and operated by his cor-
poration. Sept. 1, 1924, Mr. Brewer
disposed of a controlling interest in
the American Public Utilities Co. to
the Insull interests of Chicago and re-
tired from the public utility field with
a bank balance sufficient to meet his
requirements for the remainder of his
life. Many men under such circum-
stances would have quietly withdrawn
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transferred their fortune to Wall street
or Pasadena. Mr. Brewer, fortunately
for Grand Rapids, had no such ambi-
tion. Instead, he deemed it the part
of wisdom to remain in the city where
he had lived since he was born and
move among the people who had been
his friends and associates when he was
attending the University of Hard
Knocks. In pursuance of this plan, he
put into active use the funds he real-
ized from the sale of his properties in
local investments. He purchased Ed-
ward Lowe’s 400 shares of stock in the
Old National Bank and 700 shares in
the Grand Rapids National Bank. He
devoted several hundred thousand dol-
lars to acquiring—in conjunction with
Fred Pantlind—a controlling interest
in the Pantlind Hotel Co., which car-
ries with it a controlling interest of
the Pantlind Building Co. He made
other which will enable
him to dedicate the remainder of his
career to unselfish public service. His
recent generous gift to Butterworth
Hospital and his acceptance of a trus-
teeship in that institution may be cited
as instances of his determination to de-
vote his best energies to the good of
mankind and the alleviation of suffer-
ing and distress.

For five years Mr. Brewer was Presi-
dent of the West Michigan State Fair
which he conducted with signal ability,
introducing a number of new features
which added greatly to the success of
the exposition, both from the stand-
point of entertainment and income.

Mr. Brewer has been a director of
the Grand Rapids Savings Bank and
the Grand Rapids Trust Co. for many

investments

vears. He has long served the iatter
Vice-President. At a
meeting of the directors last Friday he
elected President, to succeed
Robert G. Graham, who voluntarily re-
tired from that position in order tc
health. Mr. Brewer has
forward looking plans for the Grand
Rapids Trust Co., which his friends
expect to carried out the
steady hand and mental poise which

institution as

was
recover his

see with
have always characterized his career
The marvelous success he achieved in
the public utility field affords every
assurance that his career in expanding
the operations and usefulness of the
Trust Co. will be equally brilliant in
accomplishment.

Mr. Brewer was married in 1894 tc
Miss Augusta Hillyer, of Grand Rapids.
have child—Joseph H.
Brewer, Jr.—now 27 years old, who
has fitted himself for a literary career.
He is a graduate of the Grand Rapids
high school, Dartmouth college and
Oxford university. For the past three
years he has been a member of the
editorial staff of the London Spectator.
He is now on his way home for a visit
with his parents, after which he will
establish himself in New York City
and resume literary pursuits. .

About a dozen years ago Mr. Brewer
purchased a number of farms, compris-
ing altogether 360 acres, located di-
rectly Northeast of Plainfield village
which he has since increased to 70(
acres. He owns a herd of over 10C
registered Holstein cattle, which fur-
nish milk to a large number of Grand
Rapids families. He has erected new
buildings which he has equipped with

They one

MICHIGAN

all modern conveniences, so that he
has the advantages of the city, with
none of the disadvantages of the coun-
try. His farm is probably one of the
most unique and completely equipped
in Michigan. The family reside on the
farm all the year round.

Mr. Brewer is a member of St.
Mark’s church and is also affiliated
with many of the local clubs.

The most distinguishing character-
istic of Mr. Brewer is his remarkable
ability to dispatch business promptly.
He thinks quickly and acts with equa]
dispatch. His intuitions are a source
of constant marvel to his friends and
associates. With all of his native en-
dowments of exceptional energy, re-
sourcefulness, self-reliance and other
essentials of conspicuous success, Mr
Brewer is a modest man; a man in
whom there is only honest aversion for
anything merely spectacular or for
self-glorification. Few men have the
good fortune to be endowed with the
same admirable poise of heart, brain
and temperament.

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Possible Wheat Substitute.

Adlay is the name of a new grain
now being tested in South Florida for
the first time. It comes from the
Philippines—a coarse, annual grass—
probably a native of India. Some strains
of this Adlay produce a very hard
seed while other strains form a soft
hull, which is easily removed from the
kernel. This kernel forms the grain
may have a future as a sub-
for wheat. The food value of
compares well with that of
wheat in protein, but has more fat
and is quite superior to rice, and gives
a heavier yield than wheat. In the
Philippines the ground Adlay flour is
mixed with wheat flour. The Adlay
contains no gluten so it will not make
“raised” bread until mi: *d with wheat
flour, either half and half or on to
two. This Adlay is being tried in
Sou’hern Flcrida. It is not likely that
it will grow to the North of that sec
tion. The drained everglade lands
may produce it and ‘f so it will give
a home-grown grain at least for cows
and poultry. At present all grain feed
for that section must be imported.

— ~~. —____
The Origin of Marmalade.

Someone has discovered that the
marmalade industry was first commenc-
ed in 1797 by Mrs. James Keiller in
the heart of Dundee, Scotland. This
preserve immediately became a popular
table delicacy, and the demand was
so stimulated that her husband went
to London to superintend the selling
upon the market in that city, writes
American Consul M. K. Moorhead, of
Dundee, Scotland, in a report to the
Department of Commerce.

Marmalade became so_ universally
popular that it enlarged into an in-
dustry of no small proportion, so that
to-day there are hundreds of manu-
facturers, but the place of its origin
Dundee, is still regarded as the home
and center of the industry. The pro-
duction from the various factories
there is estimated to amount to 3,00C
tons annually, and a considerable por-
tion of this amount is exported to the
United States and Canada, the latter
country being the largest consumer.

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Movements of Merchants.

Walkerville—Joseph T. Page suc-
ceeds E. W. Bromley in the grocery
and meat business.

Benton Harbor—The Shivel-Merri-
field Motor Co. has changed its name
to Heustic & Co., Inc.

Iron River—The Phoenix Lumber
& Supply Co. has increased its capital
stock from $25,000 to $80,000.

Holland—The Bolhuis Lumber &
Manufacturing Co. has increased its
capital stock from $290,000 to $400,000.

Bay City—The Associated Knitting
Mills Outlet Co., 304 Crapo building
has increased its capital stock from
$1,000 to $75,000.

Ann Arbor—The Ann Arbor Union
Builders Corporation has changed its
name to the People’s Construction Co.,
522 Hiscock street.

Bay City—The Merchants Textile
Syndicate, 4th street and Boutell
avenue, has increased its capital stock
from $30,000 to $75,000.

Webberville—J. E. Feighner has
sold his drug stock and store fixtures
to Art L. Wade, recently of Ypsilanti,
who has taken possession.

DeWitt—Norris & Eldridge, dealers
in hardware, have purchased the agri-
cultural implement stock of Glen Cole
but will not take possession until the
first of the year.

Webberville—James Smith, dealer in
dry goods, notions and general mer-
chandise, has sold his stock and store
building to William Crossley, who has
taken possession.

Schoolcraft—Herbert L. Smith, re-
cently of Three Rivetrs, will open a
bazaar store and undertaking parlors
about August 15. He is a graduate of
a Chicago embalming school.

Lakeview—Eben Griffin has sold his
stock of general merchandise and store
building to Charles Cook, recently of
Grand Rapids, who has opened a meat
market in connection with the general
store.

Ovid—The Vaughan Seed Co. is
erecting a modern warehouse of rein-
forced concrete and steel 50 x 100 feet
two stories high. It is expected it will
be finished and open for business
Oct. 1.

Detroit—Harry G. Levison, Inc., 331
East Fort street, has been incorporated
to job merchandise as sales agency
with an authorized capital stock of
$1,000, all of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Wayland—The Wayland Feed &
Coal Co. has taken over the elevator
formerly owned by the Wayland Farm
Bureau and will continue the business
under the management of G. W. Tib-
bett, of Grand Rapids.

Detroit—The Elliott-Taylor depart-
ment store, an old-established firm at

Henry and Woodward avenues, is
going out of business. All the stock
and fixtures are being offered in a
special sale at half price.

Detroit—The Wayne Mosaic & Tile
Co., 2294 Erskirie street, has been in-
corporated with an authorized capital
stock of $30,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in, $5,000 in prop-
erty and $25,000 in cash.

Detroit—The Franeda Mills Supply
Co., 211 Dime Bank building, has been
incorporated to deal in mill supplies,
with an authorized capital stock of
$1,000, $250 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Saginaw—Mautner & Krause, cloth-
ing and men’s furnishings goods, are
remodeling their store building at
Genesee avenue and Baum street, in-
stalling a modern plate glass front and
making other desirable changes.

Detroit—The Great Lakes Chemical
Works, 5535 Woodward avenue, has
been incorporated to deal in heavy
chemicals and by-products, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $2,000, all of
which has been subscribed and paid in
in cash.

Detroit—The R. & K. Fashion Shop,
8000 West Jefferson avenue, has been
incorporated to deal in women’s ready-
to-wear garmens, with an authorized
capital stock of $20,000, all of which
has been subscribed and $10,000 paid
in in cash.

Detroit—The Gertie Hose Corpora-
tion, Detroit Savings Bank building,
has been incorporated to deal in hosiery
and similar merchandise, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $5,000, $1,20C
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Detroit—I. M. Sons Co.
5535 Woodward avenue, metals and by-

 

Jacobson
products, has merged its business into
a stock company under the same style,
with an authorized capital stock of
$3,000, all of which has been subscrib-
ed and paid in in cash.

Flint—Charles G. Peer has merged
his lumber and fuel business into a
stock company under the style of the
Peer Coal & Lumber Co., 1917 Howard
street, with an authorized capital stock
of $40,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Weed Coal & Coke
Co., Inc., 3935 Helen avenue, has been
incorporated to deal in fuel at whole-
sale and retail, with an authorized
capital stock of $50,000, of which
amount $10,000 has been subscribed and
$1,000 paid in in cash.

Kalamazoo—Mrs. Lou Marshall, of
Paw Paw, and her son, Frank Mar-
shall, have opened a millinery store
at 142 West Main street, under the
style of The New Idea Millinery Shop.
This is the second of a chain of mil-

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linery stores the Marshall’s will con-
duct.

Detroit—Samuel P. Keller has merg-
ed his baking business into a stock
company under the style of the Keller
& Pinder Baking Co.. 5055 Townsend
street, with an authorized capital stock
of $25,000, of which amount $15,000
has been subscribed and $2,100 paid
in in cash.

Detroit—The Blue Seal Drug Co.
2—147 General Motors building, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $30,000 preferred and
20,000 shares at $1 per share, of which
amount $20,000 has been subscribed
and paid in, $5,000 in cash and $15,000
in property.

Niles—The Niles Airway Co. has
been organized by L. O. Bates, Capt.
Joseph Donnellan, Ernest Murphy and
William Winters to give lessons in
flying and make passenger trips to
Chicago and Detroit. The company
has ordered two airplanes and has an-
other already in service.

Lansing—The C. Thomas Stores,
Grand Rapids, conducting a chain of
grocery stores in various cities, has
opened its second store here. The
first one is located at 1421 East Mich-
igan avenue and the second one at
1814 South Washington avenue.

Detroit—The Oakwood Lumber Co.,
4284 Seebaldt avenue, has been incor-
porated to deal in lumber and building
material, at wholesale and retail, with
an authorized capital stock of $35,000
preferred and 1,750 shares at $1 per
share, $36,750 has been subscribed and
paid in, $500 in cash and $36,250 in
property.

Saginaw—L. C. Smith & Co. has
merged its fuel, building supplies, etc.,
business into a stock company under
the style of L. C. Smith & Co., Ine.,
314 Hoyt avenue, to conduct a whole-
sale and retail business, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $60,000, $55,-
000 of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

Grand Rapids—K. Boerema Shoe
Store, 843 Grandville avenue, has
taken over the business formerly con-
ducted by S. Tiddens, 701 Eastern
avenue, and will in the future conduct
both stores under the style of Boerema
Shoe Stores. The report that Frank
Boerema had purchased the Grandville
avenue stock is denied.

Grand Rapids—Howard A. Shead
& Co., wholesale lumber, has merged
its business into a stock company un-
der the style of the Howard A. Shead
Lumber Co., Monument Square build-
ing, with an authorized capital stock
of $50,000, of which amount $25,000
has been subscribed and paid in, $22,-
000 in cash and $3,000 in property.

New Era—George Harvey, fruit
grower near here, has marketed a crop
of 18,600 pounds of gooseberries this
season. It is stated on good authority
that Michigan grows about 75 per cent.
of all the gooseberries packed for gen-
eral consumption by the canning in-
dustry and that Oceana county grows
about 75 per cent. of the Michigan
crop.

Muskegon—The Michigan Guaran-
ty Corporation, of Grand Rapids, has
brought suit in the circuit court against
the Muskegon Knitting Mills and Rolf

  

August 12, 1925

V. Haight. of Muskegon, to collect
$33,765.35 alleged to be due it for
money loaned and back taxes paid on
the property. The corporation has a
mortgage on the property as security
on a promissory note.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Saginaw—The Saginaw Cabinet Co.

manufacturers of radio apparatus and
phonographs, reports a busy year. At
present 115 men are employed and the
plant is being operated on a 55 hour
week schedule.
—Zeeland—One of Zeeland’s newest
industries, the Acme Brass Works,
which began operations last April, has
completed the installation of a brass
forging department. The company
now employs seventeen men.

Detroit—The Wayne Iron Works
1087 Beaufait street, has been incor-
porated with an authorized capital
stock of $12,000 common and $18,000
preferred, of which amount $3,000 has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Grand Rapids—The Tunnicliffe
Shops, Inc., Ionia avenue and Louis
street, has been incorporated to man-
ufacture and deal in trays, lamps,
screens, etc., with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $30,000, $10,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Durand—The Simplicity Engineer-
ing Co. has been incorporated to man-
ufacture and sell screening devices,
elevating and conveying machinery,
etc., with an authorized capital stock
of $150,000, of which amount $79,900
has been subscribed, $3,000 paid in in
cash and $76,500 in property.

Lansing—The Motor Wheel Corp-
oration, which recently announced re-
tirement of its outstanding bond issue,
will, about October 1, retire all or part
of its 6 per cent. preferred issue, of
which $1,670,000 was outstanding De-
cember 31, 1924. The company is ia
very comfortable cash position. Bank-
ers who are in close touch with the
situation state the company will short-
ly be seeking investments for surplus
funds.

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Misbranding Grape Juice.

Analysis of a sample of the article by
the Bureau of Chemistry, Washington,
D. C., shows that it contained little or
no fruit and consisted essentially of an
artificially colored sugar solution, to
which tartaric acid and artificial flavor
had been added.

Misbranding was alleged for the rea-
son that the statements in prominent
type, to wit, “Grape Drink’ and
“Grape,” not corrected by the state-
ment in very inconspicuous type, “Ar-
tificially Colored and Flavored,” to-
gether with the designs and devices of
bunches of grapes, borne on the labels
attached to the bottles containing the
article, were false and misleading in
that they represented that the article
was a product derived from grape,
namely, a grape juice beverage, and for
the further reason that it was labelled
as aforesaid so as to deceive and mis-
lead the purchaser into the belief that
it was a product derived from grape,
namely, a grape juice beverage, where-
as, in truth and in fact, it was not, but
Was a sugar solution artificially colored
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August 12. 1925 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5
Essential Features of the Grocery look to some extent. Moreover, there Review of the Produce Market. 126 ...------------------------ $9.00
Staples. have been some rather bearish crop Asparagus—Home grown, $1.50 per 150 -------------------------77~ 9.00
Sugar—The market has advanced estimates in circulation, ranging from doz. bunches. 176 (86 9.00
again. Local jobbers hold granulated 180,000 tons to upwards of 300,000 Bananas—5'4@6c per Ib. ON ee 9.00
at 6.15c. tons. According to latest estimates Beans—Michigan jobbers are quot- 216 --~------------------------- 9.00
Tea—The market has had a dull there are some 339,000 acres of raisin ing as follows: Oe ee 9.00
week. The demand is for wants only, grapes in bearing. Ata production of C. H. Pea Beans -------------- $ 5.30 288 ---------------------------- 8.75
meaning the first hands demand. The one-half ton to the acre average the Light Red Kidney ------------ 150 344 (2.00.2 7.29
consumptive demand is very fair. tonnage for the coming year would be Dark Red Kidney -------------- 12,00 Red Ball, 50c lower.
Stocks are small and the undertone is 169,500 tons, while a production of a Brown Swede ----------------- 6.00 Parsley—60c per doz. bunches for

still steady to firm.

Coffee—The market has softened
since the last report and future Rio
and Santos, green and in a large way,
is perhaps half a cent lower for the
week. Spot Brazils are about un-
changed, but the tone at this writing

is weak. As to Maricaibos and Co-
lumbias, they advanced about Yc,

green and in a large way during the
week. The jobbing market for roasted
coffee is about unchanged; demand
moderate.

Canned Fruits—A shortage of want-
ed grades has been evident in canned
fruits the past week, which is a natural
condition incident to conclusion of the
packs. The market in California has
been established on the firmest basis
in a number of years and with de-
mand now coming on there is nothing
in sight to indicate any depression of
values.

Canned Vegetables — Midsummer
finds canners giving the market out-
look even closer attention than con-
sumers. Tomato prospects are being
closely watched since new pack is re-
ported to have been offered at ma-
terial concessions over the prices that
had prevailed on old pack goods last
week. Ideal weather conditions are
reported to have prevailed in tomato
growing sections during the past cou-
ple of weeks. There are also indica-
tions for a good yield of corn. Of
course, actual scarcity has been felt
in old packs, but this should soon be
relieved by the new season’s goods.
Michigan canners report the pea pack
about 90 per cent. They are enjoying
the most prosperous season in wax
beans they have ever experienced.

Dried Fruits—Stimulated by the
satisfactory outcome of the offerings
of new crop prunes by the California
Prune & Apricot Association, as well
as by a number of independent pack-
ers, the whole dried fruit market took
on a semblance of greater activity last
week. Interest centered mostly in
prunes, however, and after a huge vol-
ume of bookings offerings were with-
drawn but only by independents and
the supposition was made that higher
prices might follow. The popularity
of Santa Clara prunes was shown
through heavy sales of this descrip-
tion in new carton packages of one
pound at $1.50. Raisins shared to some
extent in the activity witnessed in the
dried fruit lines last week. A large
volume of sales was reported by the
Sun Maid Raisin Association, especial-
ly in the new muscatel raisin. Other
handlers were less optimistic over the
immediate outlook, pointing out that
the advanced prices that had recently
been placed into effect by independents
had checked the volume of buying.
Prospects that the Association may
have a large carryover are reported to
have clouded the future market out-

ton to the acre would be 339,000. It
is not the policy of the Sun Maid Rai-
sin Growers’ Association to make
statements of anticipated tonnage al-
though independent California packers
have forecasted a production of from
250,000 to 260,000 tons. The prices
that have been put out for apricots as
well as peaches are regarded as too
high and but little trading of any con-
sequence has been indulged in.

Canned Fish—Red Alaska salmon is
still hard to find; there is very little
left on the coast. Pink is active at
firm prices. Maine sardines are sell-
ing rather well in order to escape the
advance. Tuna is scarce and firm,
especially blue and yellow fish. Crab
meat is in better supply and good de-
mand.

Salt Fish—The demand for mackerel
is only fair. New shore mackerel will
shortly be coming into the market in
good quantities and better grades.
Buyers are saving their demand for
these. There are already some shore
mackerel on the market. Irish and
Norways mackerel are steady and
quiet. Cod is dull.

Beans and Peas—Dried beans are
dull, with pea beans a shade easier.
Red and white kidneys are steady.
California limas are still firm, in fact,
they are a shade higher. Dried peas
of all grades about unchanged.

Canned Milk—A firm market per-
sisted in all descrpitions of concen-
trated milk last week. There have been
only light offerings of miscellaneous
brands of evaporated. The going price
for sweetened condensed has been 6c,
in carloads, in bulk. No evidence of
any material surplus has been seen in
any direction, the country ruling quite
firm on all tenders.

Cheese—The supply during the week
has been light and in consequence the
market is slightly higher than a week
ago. The demand is about fair.

Provisions—There has been a rath-
er small jobbing demand for provi-
sions during the week, with everything
in hog and beef products steady.

Syrup and Molasses—Molasses is
moderately active for the season, prices
about steady. Sugar syrup shows some
activity, although not much is expect-
ed at this season. Prices are un-
changed. Compound syrup is moving
steadily into consumption at unchang-
ed prices.

Toilet Soap—That there will be no
such thing as a five cent bar of toilet
soap this fall is the prediction of some
soap manufacturers, who state that
heavy advances in cost of raw mater-
ials has made the nickel bar an im-
possibility.

Brooms—With new crop broom
corn bringing about $100 per ton more
than it did last year, an advance of 50c
@$1 per dozen on brooms is regarded
as a certainty in the next few days.

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Beets—Home grown, 40c per doz.

Black Berries—-$4 per 16 qt. crate.

Butter—Owing to variances in the
receipts and the pressure to sell from
outside, the market has had both ups
and downs during the week, netting
about unchanged for the week. Fine
creamery butter is steady to firm at
the writing and in good demand. Un-
der grades dull and irregular. Local
jobbers hold fresh creamery at 42c and
prints at 44c. 22c for pack-
ing stock.

Cabbage—$1.40 per bu. for
grown.

California Fruits—Peaches, $1.75 per
box; Honey Dew Melons, $2.75 per
crate of 8s, Climax Plums, $2.75 per 6
basket crate; Santa Rosa Plums, $2.75
per 6 basket crate; Pears, $3.50 per
crate.

They pay

home

Cantaloupes—Local jobbers quote
Arkansas as follows:
Standards 2222200057 $3.00
Tumbos oe 3.00
Rotys 205 2:25
Plats 1.50
Indiana stock is quoted as follows:
Standards (25 2 $2.00
wmibes fe 2.00
Mints 1.00

Carrots—Home grown, 30c per doz.

Cauliflower—$3 per doz. heads from
Illinois.

Celery—Michigan grown is now in
command of the market, fetching 50c
for Jumbo and 65c for Extra Jumbo.

Cucumbers—Home grown hot house
command $1.50 for extra fancy and
$1.25 for fancy per box of 2 doz.

Eggs—Fine fresh eggs have been
scarce during the entire week, with
a firm market. Most of the receipts
have been irregular in quality and
have sold promptly. Local jobbers pay

3lc for strictly fresh, handling candled .

at 34c.

Egg Plant—$2.25 per doz.

Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

Grapes—Calif. Thompson Seedless,
$1.75 per crate.

Grape Fruit—$6@6.50, according to
quality.

Green Onions—Home grown, 40c
per doz. bunches.

Honey—25c for
strained.

Lemons—Quotations are now as fol-
lows:

comb; 25c_ for

S00) Sunkist 232 $7.00
360 Red Ball 6.00
S00; Red Baku. 6.50

Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:
California Iceberg, 4s and 4%s_-$6.50
Outdoor Grown leaf ----------- $1.25
New Potatoes—Virginia stock com-
mands $6.50 per bbl. for No. 1.

home grown, $1 per doz. bunches for
Louisiana.
Tennessee
The stock
arriving is very fancy, being large in
size, fine in quality and appearance.
Peas—Green, $3 per bu.
Peppers—Green, 60c per doz.
Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows this week:

Peaches—Elbertas from
and Arkansas, $3.50 per bu.

Heavy fowls —-.---------__-..-- Z23c
Light fowls 2... .....25-- as 17c
Broiers, 2 Ib. -._..----.___-__.. 256
Broilers, £24 tb. to 2 Ib. -.---_._ l6c

Radishes—25c per doz. bunches for
home grown.

Raspberries—$5 for Red and $4.50
for Black.

Spinach—$1 per bu. for
grown.

Sweet Potatoes—Virginia Sweets $4
per hamper.

Tomatoes
7 lb. basket. .

Veal Calves—Wilson & Co. pay as
follows:

home

$1.50 per

Home grown,

 

Maney 18¢
Goed 2. 16c
Mec 4c
Peet 2 12e

Water Melons—50@75c for Alabama
stock.

Whortleberries—$5 for 16 qt. crate.

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They Pay the Cost Themselves.

If the people of this country have a
dislike for two-dollar bills, it is not
quite easy to see why the Great Ones
in the Treasury Department should
plan compulsions to overcome a pref-
erence which they do not share.

To be sure, the preference is a very
silly one, having no basis at all except
a superstitution absurd than
most superstitions. The ill luck
which two-dollar bills are credited with
bringing to the reluctant possessor
never has been observed as an effect,
and even the argument of “after,”
therefore because,” is not warranted,
in this case, by any available statistics.

This superstition is innocent
enough, however, from any point of
view except that of economy, and, if
that does not appeal to those from
whose pockets the money comes, why
not let them go on paying to be saved
from their empty apprehensions? But,
spared the horror of carrying two-dol-
lar bills, to what are they going to
ascribe the bad luck which doubtless
will continue to come to them in the
usual measure? Perhaps to failures to
“knock wood’ when the jealousy of
the gods has been aroused by good
luck or a claim to it, and perhaps to
accidentally having sat thirteen at ta-
ble. Those are fine old absurdities,

more

, , but, unlike the one regarding two- dol-

lar bills, both of those absurdities have

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Onions—Spanish. $2.50 per crate of Eat least an explanation, such as it is.

50s or 72s; Iowa and Michigan, $5 per $
100 1b. sack.

are now on the following basis:

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Oranges—Fancy Sunkist Valencias ii:

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Woodland—V. F. Roftler succeeds
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IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

Cheats and Swindles Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

North Muskegon, Aug. 7—We had
a man stop at our gasoline pump a
few weeks ago who asked to see the
boss. He was about 40 years old and
sat in a Chrysler roadster and when
I came out there he had a cardboard
in his hand and asked me several ques-
tions and marked the answers on the
card.

He asked what kind of gas and oil
we sold and what we charged for same
and if we sold refreshments, and _ if
we had a rest room, etc., and said he
had to test out the pump, but made no
effort to do it. When he got all the
answers marked down he took a gold
seal and pasted it on the card board
and took a stamping rig he had on
the seat with him, such as notaries use,
and stamped the same, and said this
will cost you $3. I told him I guessed
it would not. He asked me if it would
not be worth it to us to be listed in a
tourist guide or something like that,
and I told him it would not. He was
very much displeased and asked me if
we were a licensed filling station, I
told him we were not. He said, I'll
see that vou are licensed.”’ I told him
he would not hurt us if he did. If it
was necessary we wanted to be
licensed. I am sorry I did not get the
license number of his car.

It looked to me like a crooked
scheme to get some easy money. I
figured out he could make quite a few
calls in a day along trunk line roads
where the gasoline stations are so
plentiful, and he must be doing a
profitable business unless he bumps up
against too many like us.

I called up the Michigan Automobile
Club of Muskegon at the Chamber of
Commerce office in Muskegon and
they said they had not heard of any-
body else around here who was
solocited by him, but that they thought
he was a fraud.

Possibly by this time this fellow has
made lots of calls in Michigan since
he called on us, for I possibly would
never have thought of it again had a
traveling man not told me of a case
similar to ours, where a man paid a
fellow in a ford car $3.50 for something
on the same order. This man also
stayed seated in his car out by the
gasoline pump.

This may not be a fraud, but it looks
mighty suspicious to us. If it is no
fraud, he has a big paying business if
he can get enough suckers to bite.

I hope you will investigate and find
out more about this deal. You may
be able to put lots of your readers
“onto” this scheme, so that they will
not fall for this, for he certainly does
work his game slick.

If this fellow keeps in the business
and goes all over the country, he will
have made a nice fortune before snow
comes. Buwalda Bros.

Our mercantile friends at North
Muskegon sized up their caller cor-
rectly. He is a crook net, conducting
himself in the crooked manner peculiar
to crooks of his ilk. He has no con-
nection with any State department and
has no more right to hold up gasoline
dealers to the tune of $3 apiece than
any other Knight of the Road has to
extort money from his victim. The
meager amount he demands makes his
game all the more contemptible.

It is a fact, however, that gasoline
dealers should obtain a license. The
new law requiring a license went into
effect Jan. 29. There is no expense
connected with the obtaining of a li-
cense except the cost of a postage
stamp to request the Secretary of State

to forward the necessary blank applica-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

tion and then another stamp to remail
the blank to Lansing.

 

Benton, Aug. 10—About a month ago
I received through the mail an adver-
tisement of the Albany Tire and Rub-
ber Co., 1506 South Michigan avenue,
Chicago, Ill, announcing their sale of
two guaranteed 12,000 mile new tires
for $10.95. Thinking this to be a good
bargain I sent for two 30x3 inch tires
for $10.95. Within two weeks the tires
came, and I put them on my car. I
ran about ten miles when I happened
to look at them, and the tires were all
full of holes. They were simply
worthless. I took the two tires and
sent them back to the firm stating the
reason for returning them and I told
them that I wished to have new tires,
as they were supposed to be not used
tires which had been patched. En-
closed you will find the letters which
I received for an answer of the first
and second letter I sent. Could you
advise me in any way? Would it be
a possible thing that you could collect
the money for me or have new tires
sent? -_R.
There is nothing for you to do in
this case but to profit by your experi-
ence. We have been warning our
readers for several years past about the
game of these automobile tire gyps,
and we are sorry that in spite of all our
warnings you took the bait. There is
nothing that can be done to secure the
refund of your money after it once
passes into the hands of any of this
class of dealers. The investment, how-
ever, may pay you dividends in the
future if the loss results in your avoid-
ing this class of gyps in the future.

 

Manton, Aug. 8—Enclosed find cir-
cular. Please advise me as to the re-
liability of this land company. Sev-
eral of my friends in Colorado have
already bought land, and I have been
asked to join them, but it looks like
a wildcat scheme to get money. Tell
me about it. H. W. C.

The above is a project to sell land in
Mexico. We have no definite infor-
mation on the land in question, but it is
the height of recklessness to buy land
anywhere without first investigating
thoroughly and carefully the land itself
and all the surrounding conditions. It
would seem like chasing rainbows to
leave the United States to seek agri-
cultural opportunities under the un-
certain government of Mexico.

+2
It Pays To Study the Sporting Goods
Field.

Written for the Tradesman.

Quite often the dealer who handles
sporting goods does so in a purely per-
functory way. This is particularly the
case where sporting goods are carried
as a sideline to some other business, as
is frequently the case with hardware
stationery and like lines. The deale1
guesses as to what to order, stocks
such goods and in such quantities as he
thinks or hopes will sell, and then
leaves them, with the help of a little
occasional advertising, to sell them-
selves.

Naturally, such dealers often com-
plain of the poor results. Such results
however, are the logical outcome of
poor or indifferent methods. Intel-
ligently study of the local field will
pay just as handsomely in connection
with sporting goods as in connection
with any other line of trade. Before
a dealer orders, he should have a
clearer and more accurate idea of the

buying possibilities of the local field
than can be secured by merely glanc-
ing over the invoices of previous years

An illustration of what can be done
by watching your field comes to mind
just now. Some fifteen years ago, a
number of Ontario towns were flooded
by English immigrants, taking the
place of Canadian-born workmen whc
had gone to the Canadian West. In
one of these towns a hardware dealer
who handled sporting goods was not
too deeply engrossed in routine work
to notice this influx. Among the
Canadians baseball had always been
the popular game, and other dealers
continued to stock baseball accessories
almost exclusively.

This dealer ordered a goodly amount
of cricket supplies. More than that
he read up on cricket. He made the
acquaintance of some of the newcom-
ers, with whom he discussed cricket sc
intelligently that they imagined he had
spent his life at the old country game
Within a few weeks a cricket club was
organized. By the time his competitors
woke up to what was doing, the enter-
prising dealer had equipped a good
many prospective cricketers, and se-
cured a cinch of the newcomers’ trade
in other lines.

He took one risk—the immigrants in
most instances were not of the class
who, in their own country, played
cricket. Nevertheless, in the new land
the game of their social superiors ap-
pealed to them.

The incident illustrates the point
that it pays the sporting goods dealer
to know what will interest his cus-
tomers; or any large group of new
prospective customers.

In another town there was no river
within many miles. What winter skat-
ing was done took place on small
ponds. A few years ago a number of
men, actuated by semi-philanthropic
motives, put up funds to build a large
skating rink. Among the subscribers
to the enterprise was a sporting goods
dealer.

After putting up his money, he re-
flected. As a result, he ordered a class
of goods never previously handled in
that town. Then he buttonholed half
a dozen young men who had been ac-
tive in baseball during the summer.

Within a signle week, half a dozen
hockey teams were formed; followed
by a city league. The hockey craze
swept the town. A big league team
was organized to play the nearest cir-
cuit. When the various teams came to
buy their supplies, only one store in
town was stocked. While that par-
ticular dealer’s competitors were won-
dering whether the craze would last,
the dealer supplied the biggest share of
the hockey trade with sticks, skates.
shoes and other accessories.

To most men, that new rink was a
place to use ice skates. This dealer
studying the possibilities intelligently.
could see hockey games where hockey
had never been played before.

Victor Lauriston.

—_—__2s—__

Had Diogenes visited this country
while on his famous still hunt some
get-rich-quick promoter would have
swiped his lantern.

—_~+->__
To make a hit with the boss, lick
your job,

 

August 12, 1925

Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Aug. 11—Now that
vacation season is over for some of us
we are back again on the job, much
refreshed and well repaid for the in-
vestment, getting new ideas, seeing
how one community has it over an-
other, giving us food for reflection.
Just one instance: Port Arthur, Ont.,
a city of about 11,000 population, has
a fire engine house which is one of the
beauty spots of the Northwest. The
house itself is only an average equip-
ped one, but it is surrounded by beau-
tiful flowers, neatly arranged, growing
all over and around the two-story brick
building, with several tiers of flowers
neatly arranged in old hot water
boilers such as are discarded by plum-
bers, so that only the flowers are vis-
ible. Opposite the fire hall is a large
waste lot without any buildings, but
instead of the firemen spending the
weary hours swapping yarns and read-
ing dime novels, they have graded
about thirty feet of the lawn, which is
kept mowed all the time. There are
beautiful banks of flowers which at-
tract the visitor’s attention, and all are
invited to look around and go through
the unique greenhouse alongside of the
building where rare flowers are culti-
vated. All lady visitors are presented
with bouquets of sweet peas, making
their visit an ever pleasant memory.

Fort Williams, its twin sister city,
has also its attractions, the same as
does Duluth, and makes one a booster
for the Northern Navigation Co., which
makes the trip with more than the com-
forts of home and shows what can be
worked up by advertising and livin-
up to what may be expected and much
more,

Last Thursday was a civic holiday
here. All of the business places were
closed and several picnics were held
at the Shallows and _ several other
parks. A Hudson auto was given
away by one of the societies and, ac-
cording to what was said, a good time
was had by all.

M. Yalomstein and L. Winkelman,
the latter of Detroit, who for a number
of years have been conducting a local
store known as the Hub, will dissolve
partnership Sept. 1. Mr. Yalomstein
will carry on the business alone. Pres-
sure of other interests is given as the
reason for Mr. Winkelman retiring.

Political machines differ from radios.
A radio works fine at times and is
very entertaining,

Al. Sparling, the well-known city
salesman for the Gannon Grocer Co.,
is wearing a larger sized, hat and pass-
ing the cigars again. This time it is
a new daughter.

After a shutdown of nearly five
weeks the Soo-Cadillac Lumber Co.
plant will start up full force again.
During the interval the plant has been
placed in excellent repair for a long
run, which means an increase in busi-
ness for the merchants at Algonquin.

The new ferry dock will be opened
for business some time next week,
which will make a shorter route from
the business district and a safer land-
ing to handle the increased automobile
traffic.

And the women are painting their
knees. It is sensible. Mosquitoes will
get painter’s cramps.

N. Beaudry & Son, well-known con-
tractors, have purchased the Brown
block, one of our large business blocks,
but it has not as yet been announced

if there will be any ch :
the building. : anges made in

H. E. Green, head of the provision
department for Swift & Co. at South
St. Paul, was a business visitor here
last week.

The honeymoon is over when he had

rather keep his trousers creased than
have her in his lap.

William G. Tapert.

     

   

 

   
  
   
  
  

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CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE.

Greenwich observatory is 250 years
old, and to its birthday party went
King George—the second sovereign
since the founder, Charles II, to dark-
en its doors. To New York Green-
wich suggests a village on the seacoast
of Bohemia. For America at large
Greenwich is the zero of longitude, the
point of departure for every settle-
ment, great or small. Even Germany,
secking an “orientation,” begins with
the suburb of England’s capital, not
Potsdam, and France’s international
geography makes its point of departure
there, not at Versailles.

It is the business of Greenwich as-
tronomers to be the lost-and-found
department of our sublunary planet.
Theirs is the globe-girdling lighthouse
that befriends all who travel, by land
as well as by sea. From that meridian
“Greenwich time” is told by telegraph
twice a day to all parts of the United
Kingdom. On every clear day the
sun is photographed; the record of
sun spots is continuous since 1873. For
nearly a hundred years magnetic and
meteorological observations have been
recorded.

It was Charles II’s concern for the
erratic behavior of our satellite that
gave John Flamsteed the appointment
as astronomer royal, that he might be
custodian, at £100 a year. Mostly
with his own instruments, he made
thousands of observations, and as a
result of his work Greenwich had the
honor of giving the world in perpetuity
its prime meridian.

Both the man who laid the basis of
modern practical astronomy and the
observatory built for him deserve the
tribute of posterity and the gratitude
of civilized lands incessantly using the
data that the instruments of Green-
wich assiduously supply.

 

THE HARDEST WALLOP.

There is likely to be little criticism
of the sale to Henry Ford of 200 of
the United States Shipping Board ves-
sels. These ships have been tied up
in American harbors, useless, idle and
rusting. Under the terms of the sale
most of them will be scrapped, but a
few of the hulls may be fitted with
Diesel engines and used in carrying
Ford products. Admiral Benson of
the board opposes the scrapping of
undamaged ships, but these steel cargo
carriers were to all intents and for all
practical purposes worse than worth-
less. They were a part of the left-over
burden of the war.

These cumberers of the sea will dis-
appear from the shipping lists. There
are many, many others that should
follow them into the scrap pile and
melting furnaces. Rapid depreciation
and maintenance charges demand they
should go. Under the new policy of
the board, vessels will be sold to pri-
vate owners where buyers can be
found. The main consideration will be
to get them into operation under pri-
vate management and ownership. The
Emergency Fleet has suffered from
too much easy money. Lacking the
money-making incentive, it has been a
failure. The hardest wallop ever hand-
ed any form of Government owner-
ship, management and operation is the

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

breakdown of the American shipping
experiment.

 

NORTH OF MASON-DIXON’S

In the parade of the Klansmen at
Washington last Saturday it was noted
that few délegations were in line from
the old strongholds of the hooded or-
der.

A few Klansmen marched from
Texas, North Carolina, Florida and
Virginia. Maryland was well repre-
sented, but the Georgia, South Caro-
lina, Alabama, Tennessee and Missis-
sippi “provinces” of the more or less
“Invisible Empire” were indeed in-
visible. Instead of the South furnish-
ing the marchers and the enthusiasm,
the marchers came out of the lands to
the North of Mason and Dixon’s. New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New
Jersey poured thousands of robe wear-
ers down Pennsylvania avenue. The
parade was about 90 per cent. Northern
and 10 per cent “scattered,” according
to most reports.

All of which bears out the recent
trend of the Klan. Its strength for
some years now has been greatest in
the North. Atlanta was its first capital.
Indianapolis succeeded Atlanta in Klan
importance. The Klan started as a
Dixie institution, but there are more
dragons, wizards, kleagles and_ kali-
graphs North than there are South of
the Ohio if the Washington parade
means anything.

 

RUSSIA BUYS.

Diplomats and statesmen may look
at each other coldly in Russo-Amer-
ican relations, but just the same during
these days five steamships loaded with
agricultural machinery and cotton are
sailing from New York directly to
Russia. There are evidences of the
revival of commerce in the Soviet re-
public. One may view dejected Lenin-
grad, where 2,000,000 people have be-
come 750,000, and get an unfavorable
impression of Russian conditions; but,
on the other hand, Moscow has grown
from 1,000,000 to 2,000,000. It is not
only the seat of government but cen-
ter of the vast commercial life of the
nation. In Moscow is plenty of food
and almost canything can be bought
in the shops. The Soviet attempt to
manage the national industries has not
worked and the government is gradu-
ally giving up the experiment and leas-
ing factories to former owners.

 

The shipping board, for thé fiscal
year that closed July 1, put 1425 Amer-
ican lads as deck boys on American
ships. This is in pursuance of the
deliberate policy of assisting youths of
the United States to find a career be-
fore the masts of oil-burning engines
of their own country. The career of
marine engineer has attracted many
enterprising boys, and they did not
have to run away from home to gratify
the ambition since it had the parental
sanction. Of old the story of a pil-
grim’s progress from cabin boy to
captain was generally a tale of neglect
at home and hardship afloat such as is
seldom encountered to-day. Our mer-
cantile marine has a post of duty for
bright, alert young fellows of the sort
the naval recruiting officers are eager
to get, and the sale of a lot of super-

fluous fabricated ships at auction or
the scrapping of warships under com-
pacts of disarmament does not mean
that there are not abundant chances
afloat for exceedingly useful and hon-
orable careers, whether under the Gov-
ernment or private corporations.

 

FANTASTIC PENALTIES.

Indianapolis officials dealing with
speeders will force the motorist who
runs down and kills to spend an hour
alone in a room with his victim. This
is to be a part of the punishment for
the drunken, careless or reckless driv-
er. We have heard of such plans be-
fore. They are often proposed, but
seldom, if ever, carried out. Without
doubt they are illegal, and the official
who prescribes and enforces them does
so without any warrant of law. In
many instances they are the result of
an itch for publicity. It is at least a
question whether these extra-judicial
punishments represent an effort to save
life and discourage recklessness or a
desire on the part of some official to
pose for a moment in the spotlight.

 

The Treasury campaign to popularize
the $2-bill proceeds. The heavy artil-
lery of the Federal Bureau of Efficien-
cy is being used. It is bombarding
the citizen with reminders that 80C
tons of $1 notes will be used this year,
that it is easier to count tens and twos
than it is like sums in dollar bills, and
that something ought to be done to
lessen the labors and the burdens of the
suffering bankers who must count and
handle and bale these great bundles of
paper money. Said Bureau of Efficiency
makes out an excellent case, but it is
not likely to move the public very
much. Doubtless it is all very sad that
these dollar bills are bulky, that bank-
ers must count them and that they are
harder to handle, but said public is
wedded to the “ace note.” And since
the public is so wedded and the Treas-
ury is supposed to be serving the pub-
lic, it might be just as well for the
Treasury to find a way of giving what
the public wants instead of what the

Treasury and the bankers want.
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The National Democrat did not last
long. That weekly publication was
founded to spread Democratic gospel
be a comfort to the faithful and a shin-
ing lamp in that valley of the shadow
where Democracy walks to-day. Now
it is no more. It has folded its lily-
white hands across its alabaster bosom
and departed into the great wide-be-
whence. Death, it seems, came be-
cause of a suspicion of too much Ku
Klux Klan. Its publisher, one Milton
Elrod, had dealings with the hooded
folk back in the post-oak flats and
hickory-clad hills of Indiana. For the
anti-Klan Democrats this was more
than enough. It was, in fact, too much.
They turned on Congressman Oldfield,
chairman of the Democratic Congress-
ional Campaign Committee, who had
lent influence to the National Demo-
crat, and they rent him. He found the
wounds of Madison Square Garden had
not healed and that the Klan is as much
of an issue in the Democratic party as
it was last summer when the Smith
and McAdoo forces were tearing the
lining out of each other.

      

August 12, 1925

WE MUST HAVE RELIEF.
The demand for quick and compre-
hensive reduction of existing Federal

* taxes is unanimous in business. In-

dustry wants direct and speedy help.
Both business and industry approve
the tax relief program as outlined
by the’ Administration. There is a
natural desire also that Congress shall
forget partisanship and ignore political
considerations in revising the tax
schedules. That, however, is more of
a wish than anything else.

For, greatly as it needs relief, and
confident as it is in the Administra-
tion’s purposes, business has little con-
fidence in Congress. Despite the fact
that Congress, and Congress alone,
can give industry the help it «wants,
industry is afraid of Congress.

This is most marked in the East.
Eastern industry and business are so
fearful, in fact, that they dread a spec-
ial session even if called for the direct
purpose of shaping a scientic tax pol-
icy and revising the rates downward.

West and South are not so timorous.
With the exception of the Chicago
district, they have more confidence and
far more courage. Business men in
these sections believe the advantage
in starting earlier and finishing sooner
outweighs any possible disadvantages.
They realize the Congress meeting in
December is the same Congress that
would meet in a special session. The
East is just as anxious as the West
and South for any action that will
give relief, but the Eastern brethren
suffer more from that “fear complex”
which causes business to look more
in dread than in hope and with far
more apprehension than welcome up-
on the next session of Congress.

It is significant that every shade
of business opinion approves the ear-
liest possible action, either in a special
or a regular session. Also that busi-
ness men are anxious, although not
hopeful, that Congress may deal with
taxation in a non-partisan manner.
Most significant of all are the dread
and distrust of Congress in the Amer-
ican business world.

It is this apprehension which keeps
the demand for a special session with
its advance consideration of taxation
from being the unanimous voice of
business and industry. Congress is
being told in the bluntest fashion that
its acts have been such that a great
part of the country is afraid to have
it in session a day longer than is nec-
essary, even when relief is _ sorely
needed. : :

These fears, however, do not change
the situation. Every argument for tax
changes, every sign of business un-
easiness and all the tax-born fever and
fret of industry are arguments for im-
mediate action.

The make-up of Congress will not
change between October 1 and De-
cember 1. The uncertainties will not
end until there is action, and Congress
alone can act. The earlier it is under-
taken the earlier it will be done. On
July 3 there was no good reason for
delaying tax relief until 1926.. There
is no good reason on August 12, and
there will be even less reason as Octo-
ber 1 approaches.

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Some Men I Have Known in the Past.
Irving L. Stone, founder and head of
the Duplex Printing Press Co., died at

Battle Creek July 29, after an illness of °

almost two years’ duration. Thus
passed from the industrial life of Bat-
tle Creek a man whose name was in-
ternationally known, who had a per-
sonal acquaintance with almost every
publisher in the country, who was an
intimate of the late President Harding,
and who had, perhaps, done as much
as any individual in the Nation for the
cause of the open shop and non-union
labor conditions.

Irving L. Stone was born in Berk-
shire, Vt., Oct. 6, 1841, the son of poor
parents. At the age of 11 years he
was taken to Illinois, traveling most of
the distance by ox-cart. Left father-
less shortly after their arrival, it de-
volved on him to bear the bulk of the
burden of family support in the new
farm home on the then unbroken
prairie. In spite of this handicap, he
managed to acquire sufficient educa-
tion to begin his career as a teacher at
the age of sixteen. Along with his
teaching he managed to eke out an
existence for himself and the family in
various other ways, sometimes as an
itinerant nurseryman, at others writing
insurance. Later he graduated from
Hillsdale College.

In 1873 Mr. Stone went to Battle
Creek to become superintendent of
schools from Three Rivers, where he
had held a similar position.

In the latter 70’s he founded the
furniture company at Battle
Creek, a plant which had an interest-
ing career and continued in operation
until a fire wiped out practically its en-
tire plant in 1892.

It was while directing this plant that
Mr. Stone became interested in print-
ing presses and began working on a
plan for their development. In 1884
he incorporated the Duplex Printing
Press Co., retaining the active manage-
ment of this plant until two years ago,
when illness forced him to relinquish it
to his son, Irving K. Stone, though in
1916 the latter had been made presi-
dent, while the elder Stone was named
chairman of the board of directors, a
position held to the end.

school

At the beginning the principal asset
of the company was an idea, with faith
in its worth and ability and energy to
bring it to fruition. The idea was that
of a flat bed printing press capable of
high speed. For six years the most
arduous experimentation was carried
on. In the end mechanical skill and
perseverance, together with the sur-
mounting of the evergrowing problem
of financing the undertaking, triumph-
ed, and a press capable of printing
from a web of continuously running
paper at a speed of 4,000 complete and
folded newspapers per hour and with-
out the use of any extensive stereotyp-
ing methods and machinery, was turn-
ed out. The duplex, a practical flat bed
web perfecting press, was offered to
newspapers in 1890.

Advancements in the press construc-
tion, which devolved the high -speed
rotary type of presses, built on a larger
and larger scale, followed until now the
Duplex printing press plant stands as
the greatest single newspaper printing
press plant in the world.

MICHIGAN

In the early days of the Duplex plant
the whole enterprise was in peril from
patent suits affecting the flat bed per-
fecting press. Every sale had to be
accompanied by a bond guaranteeing
the purchaser against possible judg-
ments for infringements. It was Mr.
Stone, with his keen analytical mind
and his firm faith and courage, who de-
veloped the legal point upon which the
case was won and pressed it to a vic-
torious conclusion.

Mr. Stone was a firm believer in the
open-shop principle and, believing so,
he stood for it without wavering. To
make presses and install them for op-

eration by a highly unionized trade
brought the union question strongly
into view. There was no question in

Mr. Stone’s mind of yielding a prin-
ciple in which he believed, his indus-
try being conducted from the start on
the open shop principle, there never
being, however, on his part any hos-
tility toward the unions or toward
union labor.

There came on many years ago, an
exhibition of machinery at the Crystal
Palace, New York. Duplex presses
were to be shown. Unions threatened
a boycott on the exhibition if Duplex
presses were placed. Mr. Stone prompt-
ly sought an injunct:on forbidding a
boycott and fought through to the
Supreme Court of the United States
the right of business to be protected
from such conspiracy.

A man of wide visicn, he was also
a student of international peace. Long
before the World War he had devoted
himself to the peace problem and had
worked out a plan which he believed
He pre-
served this belief to the end of his con-
scious life, a belief in the practicability
of the formation of a United States of
the world, with the various
nations as states in the federated union.
He would have had three departments,

must eventually be accepted.

existing

executive, legislative and judicial, as in
this country, the basis of operation. He
believed the various nations of the
brought together to

such a federa-

world could be

live in harmony under
tion.

He was also a firm believer in the
need for a central, ideal capitol for the
Nation, built somewhere in the center
of the continent, his argument being
that Washington was too far removed
the Nation efficiently, and
that lessons of the past could be ap-
plied in the building of an ideal city.

Mr. Stone was extremely generous.
He gave to the city of his adoption
the funds for the erection of the Cor-
Stone Memorial Y. W. C. A.
named for a former wife who, with
himself, had been greatly interested in
girls’ welfare work.

to serve

delia

He also gave to
the city a valuable tract of land in the
heart of the community, which has
been developed into Irving Park.

-——_——_» 2
Energetic Hen Tries To Hatch Lost
Golf Balls.

Sioux City, Ia., Aug. 10—When
golfers at the Highview Municipal golf
course here continually lost balls along
a certain fence, an investigation was
started. It developed that they were

shooting them over a fence into a hen
yard and an energetic biddy was gath-
ering them up one by one and “setting
on them,”

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{ THE MIRACLE MERCHANT. much of the news of the town right in
BSS Aree Andersen’s advertisements. Church
E <a KS He Talks Like Machine Gun in _ socials, church sales, ball games, foot-
a = =o, =S y Action. ball games, community moving picture
Ne = 2% =. Fred W. Andersen, head of the An- shows, and everything civic is adver-
| Z OE MARKET > dersen Department store, Cozad, Neb., tised in Andersen’s full page. He be-
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Merchants Must Combat Human
Element in Salesmen.

There are two schools of merchants
one that believe in “P. M.’s” and those
who do not. The “nays” rest their
argument on the fact that selling “P.
M.” merchandise too often results in
the customer getting a shoe that is a
misfit, or a pair has been taken away
under pressure, which too often is true.

Loyalty, education of the salesforce
and having them bring to bear their
own intelligerfte as to what the cus-
tomer should have is the cure for the
complaint of the “nays.”

The present status of the argument
however, is all in favor of those who
advocate paying “P. M.s”
est difficulty of all shoe merchants to-

The great-

day is cleaning up the last few pairs of
a line. Not because the style has lost
any of its sale value by the time the
sizes are broken, but just because the
sizes are broken.
In other words,
continually combat the human element
in their salesforce. Merchants who
study their business know the minute
a new line is put into stock that the
salesforce flock to it like flies do to
molasses and shy away from the prev-
ious good sellers on which sizes are

merchants must

missing, or of which only a few scat-
tering sizes are left.

If the work of the salesforce is prop-
ggly supervised, and the weaknesses of
individual sales persons are known to
the merchant or his floor assistant, it
is within his power to minimize the
forcing of wrong shoes or misfits on
customers of shoes that carry an extra
premium. With style lines in such a
chaotic state, as they are to-day, the
left-overs are as good in the eyes of
lines, except
among that small percent of customers
who want every distinctly new fad. It

customers as the new

too often is the salesforce that decides
too quickly whether a style is passe.
The
enough to
M.s” on the last third of every lot of
style shoes that is bought with no in-
tention of “repeating.’’ On such lots
the “P.M.” must promptly be applied
when the first two-thirds of the lot has
It is a mistake to vary this

first should be high

markup
warrant the paying of “P

been sold.
rule when a style is a particularly fast
seller and withhold the “P.M.” because
it will be found that the active sale
slows up on such good styles even
when the sizes are broken.

It is important to segregate broken
lines of style shoes and bunch them in
one place or section sized out by sizes
For example, all patent shoes can be
sized out together by heels—the high
heels sized together and the box heels
together. Thus, we have the two im-

portant essentials in one group. A

woman may come in for a patent shoe
and want either a high or box heel. The
clerk finds she wears a size 6A. The
fitter can go to this one place in the
stock and see what he has in that size
and the choice. This section is com-
monly called the “hash” section and
the merchant or manager can easily
watch the salespeople and note who
works on the “hash” and who does
not. Merchants who have developed
this scheme have made a rule that the
“hash” must first be tried in all cases
on styles to be found in that section.
—_++.—___
Special Fitting Booths.

Many a joke has been sprung about
women prevaricating about the size of
the shoes they wear, but “where there
is smoke there is fire,” and the thought
also applies in this case. Knowing
this, an Ohio shoe dealer has made his
store popular with women customers
by making it possible for them to try
on shoes without others seeing them.
This has been possible through the
setting aside of a number of “booths”
in the rear of the store, the booths
simply being chairs around which cur-
tains have been placed. These are
used exclusively for the women patrons
who thus may try on several pairs of
shoes without any others looking on.
The comment this dealer has heard on
the plan convinces him that it is well
worth while as a business builder.

—_2+.—___
Canvas Footwear Prices Rise.

Advances ranging from 5 to 10 per
cent. over those recently current were
announced yesterday on rubber-soled
canvas footwear by one of the leading

makers of this merchandise. In
money the advances ran from 5 to 15
cents a pair. At these levels the

goods are priced practically the same
as they were prior to Aug. 1,. 1924
reductions were made by the
concern in question and its competi-
The higher figures asked for
the new goods are attributed primar-
ily to the rising cost of rubber, which
is due, in turn, to the advancing mar-
ket for the crude material
—~++.—___
Children’s Socks Less Active.

For the present business in infants’
socks for next Spring appears to have
simmered down to normal. Buyers
who have not yet placed detailed orders
are shopping around, making com-
parisons, and are placing definite busi-
ness carefully. In at least one import-
ant house orders booked to date on
fancy top seven-eights goods exceed
those placed for infants’ socks. In the
case of leading mills, however, it is
agreed that the new season in infants’
socks has started off better than any
other in several years.

when

tors.

cently, and those who did not hear
him were without doubt the losers for
their negligence. Mr. Andersen, who
has built up a $300,000 business in a
little town of 1290 people out in Ne-
braska in the past nineteen years, tried
to tell the club how he did it, and in
order to do so started out with a little
personal history.

Andersen is a kind of commercial
Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, in the
back woods, seeing no one but an oc-
casional Indian, studied nights and
dreamed of being a great lawyer. An-
dersen, sleeping in a cold room on the
farm, snuggling up in the blankets to
keep out the zero temperature of the
room, brushing the snow off his blan-
kets in the morning, was dreaming—
ever dreaming of being a great mer-
chant.

“I'll be a store keeper some day,”
he used to reneat to himself, and I'll
have the biggest store in town.”

He “worked out” as a hired man on
the farms in Dawson county until he
was 23. He saved his money. Jim
Hill, the railroad magnate used to say
to the young men: “Can you save
money; if not, the seed of success is
not in you.” Well, Anderson could
save money. He saved $800 out of the
$20 and $25 a month he got on the
farm.

He rushed to Cozad. found a man
cannot start much of a store for $800.
So he had to wait. He got a job ina
store, rose at 5, swept the store, clerk-
ed throughout the day and rearranged
things at night, working until 10 and
11 p. m. every night.

But he was learning. He absorbed
details of the store business like a
sponge.

After two years he borrowed $2,209
at a local bank and bought a half in-
terest with his employer.

That was in 1906.

At last he was boss of something,
and had the opportunity to put his
dreams into execution. Such service

‘as he gave his customers the com-

munity had never heard before. Such
advertising as he did had not been
known to little local papers and the
job printer. Business began to ac-
cumulate. He built additions to the
store, outgrew his location, and to-day
in that little village he has a depart-
ment store covering a quarter of a
block, with 37,000 square feet of floor
space.

It is here that his sales in 1914,
nineteen years after he started the
little store, reached the amazing vol-
ume if $300,000.

Advertising and service, is Ander- .

sen’s motto. That means more than
appears on the surface. Andersen uses
full page advertisements in his local
papers all the time, and also in the
semi-weekly local papers. But he has
something to say. The public reads
Andersen’s. advertisements because
they find the unusual there. They find

ceries, but he believes in spending
money to tell the public there is some-
thing going on in town.

He gives free space in his store to
the women for their church bazaars,
rummage sales, food sales, etc., de-
spite the fact that he sells foods, also.

High school pupils who come in
from the country and bring their
lunches, are invited, through the ad-
vertisements to leave their lunches at
the store. He keeps their coffee hot
and furnishes them tables to eat their
lunches on at noon. His store is a
community center, a rest room—a kind
of haven for everybody.

“If I were to start business again
to-day,” says Anderson, “I would
spend 5 per cent. of my gross sales
in advertising. It pays.

“T have no sympathy with the mer-
chant who sleeps between advertised
blankets, on a bed of springs that are
nationally advertised, who sleeps in
advertised pajamas, who puts on ad-
vertised underwear, shirts, garters,
shoes and clothing, and when he gets
up eats advertised cereals and foods
for breakfast, who rides to work in an
advertised car, and who, when he gets
to work, refuses to advertise. He
ought to go broke.

“IT advertise some way every day.
I cannot wait for the local weekly and
semi weekly papers only. I keep some-
thing going every day.

“T use space in the papers every
issue.

“Advertising is a kind of long dis-
tance telephone, with the charges re-
versed.

“If it was not for the press, mer-
chants would be fifty years behind the
times.”

These are but a few of the spark~<
from Andersen’s battery. He talked
like a machine gun in full action. He
is charged like a dynamo, and his en-
thusiasm alone is contagious.—Cros-
well Jeffersonian.

——_-+-.____

Doubtful About Boys’ Half-Hose.

Doubt is expressed in the hosiery
market as to a permanent demand for
half-hose to be worn with long trous-
ers by small boys. The opinion of
many leading hosiery selling agents
according to.the special news letter of
the National Association of Hosiery
and Underwear Manufacturers is that
the long-trouser vogue for boys gives
every indication of being only a bubble.
The reasoning followed is that while
the long-trouser suit for boys may be
a “dress-up” proposition, the average
boy of 8 to 12 years of age will not
wear it every day. Accordingly, there
is held to be no chance of supplanting
seven-eighths goods with the English
adaptation of half hose.

—_~--.—__

Professional men progress by the
amount of studying they do in addition
to their practicing. Why shouldn't

business men progress similarly?

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~ Announcing

A New Plan for Selling a Short Line of
Work and Dress Shoes

Most people think our business is manufacturing
shoes. Ina sense, they're right, but that isn’t the
whole story.

We devote a lot of time just to making shoes—
right. Thirty-three years of training have de-
veloped shoemaking into a fine art in our factory.

But we don’t stop at just making shoes—right.

More than 1800 merchants are associated with us
in the distribution of work and dress shoes. We
want to see our shoes move off the shelves and

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This is No. 840, one of 18 styles in The

New Hard Pan Line of work shoes. Soft onto people's feet.

pliable uppers, guaranteed UsKide Soles

and full lined vamps are features which Three months ago we adopted a new plan of
no selling, concentrating on shoes for which we have

developed a real demand. This concentration is

accompanied by direct-by-mail campaigns which
CWT bring customers into your store. We are paying

for these campaigns. We handle all the details.

This concentration brings turnover and turnover
brings profits.

It will pay you to talk to our salesman or write for
this selling plan. It fits right in with hand-to-

mouth buying.

An increase of 100 per cent in our business in 90

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selling line of women’s, misses’ wear is carried in_ stock.

and children’s oxfords, pumps and Wales Goodyear Brand

7: shoes. You can see the best from made by the United States

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Surprise Given Britishers in Bank
Rate Cut.

Wall Street looks upon the reduction
in the discount rate of the Bank of
England as one of the most interesting
bits of news that has come across the
water since the adoption of the gold
standard late in April.

When Great Britain went back on a
gold basis last spring objections were
raised by those who thought the ac-
tion was premature. Gold payments
they said, would obligate the country
to keep money dear so that gold would
not flow out too freely. These oppon-
ents spread the fear that the bank rate
would be kept high to effect the ad-
justment and thus tend to prolong the
The difficulty
ob-

period of dear money.
of obtaining funds at low rates,
jectors have been saying, is what has
further depressed trade.

The action of the Bank of England
yesterday must have surprised certain
opponents of the gold policy. That the
bank has been able to cut its discount
rate within three months after the re-
turn to gold can mean only one thing
It means that the gold standard has
gone over successfully. Otherwise the
authorities would not want to lower the
bars that tend to keep gold on the
island.

The date of the reduction doubtless
was timed to make Premier Baldwin’s
the easier of
action
event.

coal crisis
would have come

Gold holdings of

problem in
but
any

solution,
soon in
Great Britain, curiously enough, have
£128.000,00C
since adoption of the gold standard te
£164,000,000 at present. At the latter

level gold holdings now are larger than

mounted from around

before in history and
£ 35,000,000 before the war.
the
41% per cent., the authorities have rea-

ever compare
with

A reduction in rate from 5 tc
soned, will not force money in large
the
per cent. rate still is substantially

volume out of the since

4%

country,

per cent. rediscount rate
New York. The slight

ease in the money market that will re-

as
above the 3%

prevailing at

sult may, on the other hand, stimulate
trade in Great Britain.

British exports have fallen off heav-
ily for a long time and the feeling has
grown that dear money has, by cur-
tailing industrial expansion, been a wet
blanket overhanging industry. The au-
thorities that the stimulant
can be applied safely without endan-
gering the position of the Government
London

feel now

in its desire to see debtors at
paid off in the vellow metal.
On this side of the water we are im-
pressed with the strides of a financial
order that Great Britain has made in
recent months and with the valiant at-
tempts of the British to hoist their

trade flags again. It is widely known
of course that Montagu Norman, gov-
ernor of the Bank of England, and
Benjamin Strong, governor of the Fed-
eral Reserve Bank of New York, have
talked things over pretty carefully. Mr.
Strong has been over there for that
purpose,

Whether the British move means
that no increase in our own rediscount
rate immediately is likely nobody
knows. The action at least is looked
upon as a straw that points to the
maintenance of a 3% per cent. rate
here for a time, but of course the Brit-
ish rate at 4% per cent. still is a full 1
per cent. above our rate. In the cir-
cumstances not too much of what
might be done here can be read in
what was done over there.

_ Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1925.] :

2
Life Insurance Marks New Era in
Business.

The people of this country have
bought more life insurance in the last
year than ever they had taken during
any previous twelve-month period.
They have bought more in the last
six months than ever before in any cor-
responding period. Purchases of or-
dinary life insurance alone during May
exceeded $733,000,000, which tops all
previous records for that month and
did not fall far short of the $744,000,000
peak made in December, 1924. Decem-
ber is one of the best months season-
ally in the insurance business, and last
year scored a new high for all time.

Sometimes we become so absorbed
in watching the growth of things di-
rectly under our noses, and in which
we have some personal interest, that
we fail to see bigger developments all
about The growth of the power
and light industry we are forced to fol-
We see evidences of that growth
in the multitude of new electrical ap-
pliances. But how many people ap-
preciate that life insurance sales have
mounted steadily and enormously in
the last four years?

Even during the war period insur-
ance sales were mounting at the rate
of something less than 10 per cent. a
Since the armistice the growth
has been very much more pronounced.
The annual average rate of increase
has been running closer to 25 per cent.

Reasons for so spectacular a growth
are not difficult to find. To a certain
degree explanation lies in the change
of attitude thet war condit‘ons brought.
Experience wiitn the Government in-
surance during tue pericd of hostilities
introduced many to the benefits of in-
surance that had never thought along
those lines. At least the war ac-
celerated a movement that already was
under way.

us.

low.

year.

TRADESMAN

August 12, 1925

 

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How about your Insurance?

There is perhaps no more trying time
for those nearest and dearest to you than
the time you are taken from them. At
such a time dear ones are easily prevailed
upon to do many things they would not

They accept advice from every friend, .
with the result that they are so confused
they are at sea as to what is best for them.
Often times unscrupulous individuals with
silver tongues prevail upon them to make
investments

with insurance

You are the one who is creating the
fund. Why not complete your duty by
protecting it? Make an insurance trust
and appoint as your trustee the

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

Main Office

Cor. MONROE and IONIA

Branches
Grandville Ave. and B St.
West Leonard and Alpine

Leonard and Turner
Grandville and Cordelia St.
Mornoe Ave. near Michigan

Madison Square and Hall
E. Fulton and Diamond
Wealthy and Lake Drive
Bridge, Lexington and
Stocking
Bridge and Mt. Vernon

Division and Franklin

Eastern and Franklin

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The heaven of your old

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—Well, Why Not?

We would like to see every
man in this community the

owner of his own home.

We would like to open a
Savings Account for you
TODAY to that very end.

rand Rapids
Savings Bank

OFFICERS
WILLIAM ALDEN SMITH, Chairman of the Board
CHARLES W. GARFIELD, Chairman Ex. Com.
. GILBERT L. DAANE, President
ARTHUR M. GODWIN, Vice Pres. ORRIN B. DAVENPORT, Ass’t Cashier
EARLE D. ALBERTSON. Vice Pres. and Cashier HARRY J. PROCTER, Ass't Cashier
EARL C. JOHNSON, Vice President H. FRED OLTMAN, Ass’t Cashier
TONY NOORDEWIER, Ass't Cashier

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TRADESMAN

MICHIGAN

  

   

 

For the growth of insurance during
the last few years, however, we must
find partial explanation in the rising
tide of business prosperity. That sales
are reaching unprecedented levels is a
reflection of the generally prosperous
condition of the country. It is an in-
teresting fact that the biggest gains in
insurance sales this year have been in
the North-central part of the Middle
West and in Florida, where times have
been good.

Investment of the huge volume of
funds that steadily is rolling into the
vaults of the insurance companies is
more of a factor in the market for se-
curities than generally is understood.
Insurance companies are more or less
permanent investors, furthermore, so
that when they take an issue the bonds
are likely to remain in safekeeping un-
til maturity. The policy is one that
tends to strengthen the market.

No development in the investment of
insurance funds during the last year
or two is more significant than the in-
creasing interest that the companies
have taken in public utility bonds. Is-
sues of this category still represent a
total much smaller than those in the
railroad group. The difference is that
the public utility group is becoming in-
creasingly more important all of the
time. The railroad list has not grown
much in recent years.

Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1925.]
—_>- 2.

Let Me Walk With the Men in the

Road.

"Tis only a half truth the poet has sung

Of the “house by the side of the way.”

Our Master had neither a house nor a
home,

But He walked with the crowd day by

ay.
And I think, when I read of the poet’s
desire,
That a house by the road would be
good;
But service is found in its tenderest form
When - walk with the crowd in the
road.

So I say, let me walk with the men in the
road,
Let me seek out the burdens that crush,
Let me speak a kind word of good cheer
to the weak
Who are falling behind in the rush.
There are wounds to be healed, there are
breaks we must mend.
There’s-a cup of cold water to give;
And the man in the road by the side of
his friend
Is the man who has learned to live.

Then tell me no more of the house by
the road.
There is only one place I can live—
It’s there with the men who are toiling
along,
Who are needing the cheer I can give.
It is pleasant to live in the house by the

way
And be a friend, as the poet has said;
But the Master is bidding us; ‘Bear ye
their load,
For your rest waiteth yonder ahead.”’

I could not remain in the house by the
roa
And watch as the toilers go on,
Their faces beclouded with pain and with

sin,
So burdened their strength nearly gone.
Tll go to their side, Tl speak in good
cheer,
Tll help them to carry their load;
And V’ll smile at the man in the house
by the way,
As I walk with the crowd in the road;

Out there in the road that goes by the
house,
Where the poet is singing his song,
Yll walk and I'll work midst the heat
of the day,
And [ll help falling brothers along—
Too busy to live in the house by the way,
Too happy for such an abode.
And my heart sings its praise to the
Master of all,
Who is helping me serve in the road,
Walter J. Gresham.

—-—__.--—————

You can’t always tell. Many a man

gets a reputation as a conservative
merely because he is a slow thinker.

 

 

Subscriptions having been received in excess of the entire amount
of this issue, this advertisement appears as a matter of record only.

ADDITIONAL ISSUE

$2,000,000
National Electric Power Company

7% Cumulative Preferred Stock
(Fully Paid and Non-assessable)

Preferred both as to Assets and Dividends Par Value $100 Per Share

 

DIVIDENDS EXEMPT FROM PRESENT NORMAL FEDERAL INCOME TAX

 

Massachusetts 6% income tax and California personal property tax
not in excess of 4 mills per annum refunded.

 

ctober 1. Redeemable in whole or in part at the

Dividends payable quarterly January 1, April 1, July 1 and O ee
at $110 per share and aeerued dividends.

option of the Company on any dividend date on 30 days’ prior notice
Registrars
The Equitable Trust Company of New York
The First National Bank of Boston
The Northern Trust Company, Chicago

Transfer Agents
The Seaboard National Bank of the City of New York
State Street Trust Company at Boston
Central Trust Company of Illinois, Chicago
The following information is summarized by Mr. Albert Emanuel, President, from his letter to us, and
from auditors’ and appraisers’ reports and other reliable sources:

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY: National Elec- CONSOLIDATED EARNINGS: For the twelve
tric Power Company will own practically all of months ended April 30, 1925, the Consolidated
the common stocks of a diversified group of com- Earnings of the subsidiaries, including those to be
panies operating public utility properties located acquired, of National Electric Power Company,
in the states of Maine, Pennsylvania, West Vir- as determined by independent auditors, a copy ot
ginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, South whose certificate is available upon request, were
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Ar- as follows:

kansas, serving with electric light and power ter-
ritories with a total population estimated to exceed
775,000. These territories embrace over 300 com-
munities, among which are a number of large and
thriving manufacturing and agricultural centers.
Gas is manufcatured and/or distributed in seven i bode 2a 3 247,207

Grosa Earnings —...._---_-- oe SIU Ear aoe
Operating Expenses, Maintenance, Taxes, in-
cluding Federal Taxes, Amortization and
Depreciation computed as defined in such
auditors’ certificate ----------------------

of the communities served and the street railway
system in and about Portland, Maine, is operated
under a lease expiring in the year 2011. Small
street railway systems are also operated in two
of the other communities served.

CAPITALIZATION: Upon completion of pres-
ent financing, National Electric Power Company
will have outstanding:

 

 

Twenty-Year 6% Secured Gold Bonds $6,750,000
7% Cumulative Preferred Stock (this

issue) -— oie ce 3,500,000
Class A Stock (No Par Value) -------- 165,000 shares
Class B Stock (No Par Value) -------- 280,000 shares

As of April 30, 1925, there were outstanding in
the hands of the public, not exceeding 160 shares
of No Par Value Common Stock, $1,990,000 Par
Value of Common Stock, $7,868,600 Par Value
Preferred Stock, and $27,095,000 Par Value Fund-
ed Debt of subsidiary and leased companies.

ASSETS: As determined by public utility engi-
neers and appraisers, the reproduction cost new,
less accrued depreciation, of the properties of the
operating companies, after deduction of all prior
obligations and liabilities, is very largely in excess
of the $3,500,000 par value of the Preferred Stock
to be presently outstanding.

All legal details in connection with this

Balance of Net Earnings applicable to securi-
ties of subsidiary companies owned by Na-
tional Electric Power Comany, after de-
duction of interest charges and dividends
paid or accrued during the period on funded
debt and preferred stocks of subsidiary
companies, and net earnings applicable to
common stocks of subsidiary companies

held by the public ~---_------------------- $ 1,473,712
Annual interest charges on National Electric

Power Company funded debt —----~---------- 405,000
Walancs (2.  $ 1,068,712

Annual dividend requirements on 7% Cumu-

lative Preferred Stock (this issue) ----- 245,000

The balance of net earnings as shown above is
thus more than 4.36 times such dividend require-

ments.

MANAGEMENT: ‘The local management of the
operating subsidiaries will continue in the hands
of the men who have been responsible for the suc-
cessful development of these properties, while
their general operation will be under the super-
vision of public utility operators whose successful
and efficient management of important public util-
ity companies has been demonstrated over a long
period of years.

 

issue will be passed upon and approved by Messrs. Seibert & Riggs,

New York, and by Messrs. Verrill, Hale, Booth & Ives, Portland, Me. The principal properties have been re-

ported upon by Messrs. Day

& Zimmermann, Inc., Engineers, Philadelphia. The books and accounts of the Com-

pany and its subsidiaries are audited annually by Messrs. Arthur Young & Co., New York.

 

This stock is offered for delivery when,

as and if issued and accepted by us, and subject to approval of our counsel.

 

This stock is listed on the Chicago Stock Exchange

 

Price: $95 per Share and Accrued Dividend, to Yield 7.36%
HowE, SNOW & BERTLES

(INCORPORATED)

Investment Securities

NEW YORK

The statements made above are
believe to be entirely reliable an

GRAND RAPIDS

not guaranteed, but they are based upon reports and other information which we
d upon which we have acted in purchasing these securities for our own account.

DETROIT CHICAGO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14

Motor Traffic a Killing Shame.

In the battle of Gettysburg, the
Union casualties were 3,070 killed and
14,497 wounded. On the Confederate
side, the number of killed and wound-
ed is not accurately known, but ‘s
estimated to have been about the same
as on the Union side. The full num-
ber of those killed in action or who
died of wounds as a result of the three
days’ fighting is estimated to total
9,000 men.

It was a terrible battle, and many
a heart was racked with pain in the
homes of the Nation when the catas-
trophes were known. But how many
people stop to think that our automo-
biles kill in six months as many as
those who received their death wounds
at Gettysburg? And how many peo-
ple stop to think that these machines
kill in five years more people than
were killed or mortally wounded in
battle on the Union side throughout
the entire Civil War?

Here are the startling figures:

Number of Union soldiers who were
killed or who died of wounds during
the Civil War (according to the com-
bined reports of the Adjutant General
and Surgeon-General), 93,443.

Automobile fatalities during the year
1923 (covering only death registration
states), 18,788.

Like fatalities during the year 1924
(not complete), 20,247, including 6,400
children.

Thus we duplicate in five years the
mortality losses sustained on the
Union side in all the battles of the
Civil War.

Lee surrendered to Grant at Appo-
mattox, and that ended the fighting so
far as concerned organized warfare in
this country. And vet we continue to
kill one another with results scarcely
less disastrous than those suffered in
war, on our public highways in times
of profound peace!

In addition to this great loss of life
arising from motor vehicle casualties
during the last two years, we are told
that in the same period over a million
people were injured, and that the prop-
erty loss from these casualties amount-
ed in 1924 to the stupendous sum of
$510,000,000.

Speed is accountable for most of
these losses—speed and reckless driv-
ing. It is safe to say that 50 per cent.
of motor car drivers are unfitted to
operate such vehicles, either by reason
of age, inexperience, or some physical,
mental or moral disqualification. Li-
censes are granted too freely, and
many thousands of incompetents are
given permits that never should have
been issued. Among this 50 per cent.
are drinkers of intoxicating liquors;
also mental defectives and criminals
with a police record who would not
hesitate to run down a pedestrian and
escape from the scene without prof-
fering help. Many cases of this char-
acter are daily in evidence throughout
the country, and the spirit of “Gitteil
out of here!” is written on their cal-
lous and leering faces.

Drastic changes must be made in
traffic regulations if this country is
to be any thing like a safe place of
residence. We want not bigger cities,
but safer cities. And we must be less
eager for big business if in the hurry

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and rush of its accomplishment we im-
peril human lives. No other subject
demands more thorough and frequent
discussion, and the great loss of life
and property proceeding from these
casualties should be kept constantly
before the public mind. It should be
recited by the public press, by clergy-
men in the pulpit, by the mayors of all
cities, by people of influence on the
public platform, with a view of creat-
ing an overwhelming demand for rad-
ical changes in our traffic laws.

The speed of cars must be cut down
in both city and country. Cars must
be made to slow down to a safety
pace at all crossings. All quick turn-
ing around street corners must be
prohibited. Drunkards and physical
and mental defectives must not be li-
censed. The American Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers absolutely
bars from its membership those who
drink while on or off duty. Why
should not the same rule be applied
to applicants for licenses to drive mo-
to> cars on our public streets?

B. Horton Colgrove.

—_—_—_+-.—___
A Retail Advertising Stunt.

After all, it is “ways of doing it”
quite as much as merely advertising or
pushing any idea that makes success
for the retail grocer. Here is an Indi-
ana grocer advertising in his local
paper and emphasizing “Phone for
Food,” but mis-spelling ten words in
his advertisement and offering a one
pound can of his pet coffee to the first
ten readers who bring in the correc-
tions of the mistakes. Besides, he adds
at the end of the advertisement the
jumble: “Eohpn rfo Odfo.” Can it
fail to get under the hat of any one
who wants a can of coffee free. Then
he makes them bring it in personally
though the advertisement says in part:

“We are real grocers—service gro-
cers. We attend to everything that is
a part of the retail grocery business.
We maintain a good delivery system.
Our telephone is always open to you
“Phone for Food” is our motto and the
quality and services guaranteed on all
phone orders. Avoid shopping incon-
venience—telephone your orders to us.”

2-2-2
Difficulty.

No doubt a world in which matter
never got out of place and became
dirt, in which iron had no flaws and
wood no cracks, in which gardens had
no weeds and food grew ready cooked,
in which ciothes never wore out and
washing was as easy as advertisements
describe it, in which the right word
was not hard to find and rules had no
exceptions, and things never went
wrong, would be a much easier place
to live in. But for purposes of training
and development it would be worth
nothing at all. It is the resistance that
puts us on our mettle; it is the conquest
of the reluctant stuff that educates the
worker. I wish you enough difficulties
to keep you well and make you strong

and skillful. Henry Van Dyke.
—_2--._____
No clerk is so unimportant that he

cannot make his presence felt in the
store and gain the notice of his su-
periors.

—_—_$—2)__
There is little difference between a
rut and a grave, only one is deeper
than the other.

August 12, 1925

 

 

 

SAFETY — AVAILABILITY — EARNINGS

Are the three most important considerations when making investments.
This Association loans only on first mortgages on Grand Rapids Homes.

That’s Safety

ALL OF YOUR MONEY BACK ON DEMAND.
That’s Availability.

 

Being a Mutual Association, our members get all of the earnings. Our
plan requires a weekly payment of $1.50 to accumulate $1,000 in 9%,
years, or $2.50 a week to accumulate $1,000 in 6% years. We also have
Advance Paid and Full Paid shares which pay the highest rate con-
sistent with safety.

We charge no membership fee.

Grand Rapids Mutual Building and Loan Association

A MUTUAL SAVINGS ASSOCIATION
BUILDING AND LOAN BUILDING. MONROE AT LYON.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YOUR BANK

HE Old National Bank has a record of

72 years of sound and fair dealing with its
depositors and with the community of which
it is a part. Its facilities are available to you
in all fields of progressive banking—Commer-
cial Accounts, Securities, Safe Deposit Boxes,
Savings Accounts, Foreign Exchange, Letters
of Credit, Steamship Tickets.

The OLD NATIONAL BANK

GRAND RAPIDS

 

 

 

 

Grand Rapids National Bank

 

The convenient bank for out of town people. Located on Campau
Square at the very center of the city. Handy to the street cars—the
interurbans—the hotels—the shopping district.

On account of our location—our large transit facilities—our safe
deposit vaults and our complete service covering the entire field of
banking, our institution must be the ultimate choice of out of town
bankers and individuals.

Combined Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits over

$1,500,000
GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL BANK

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

Kent State Bank

“The Home for Savings”

 

Capital $1,000,000
Surplus $750,000

 

 

 

 

 

August 12, 1925

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN 15

 

The Art of Taking Care.

Since it is to his home that every
man instinctively goes in quest of ab-
solute safety there is grim irony, more
than a little, in the revelation that
somebody’s dwelling suffers attack by
fire every three minutes, approximately
—that the average yearly destruction
of homes approaches $66,000,000. Plain-
ly, the safety that he seeks is not to be
found around the average American
hearth. At least it is not conspicu-
ously there at present, and all avail-
able statistics indicate that the record
of fire destruction is growing worse
instead of better. The reflection is a
peculiarly disturbing one for those whe
remember that the home is basic and
that any insecurity existing there can
hardly fail to affect ere long the very
ground-work of the Nation—if that in-
security is allowed to continue.

“Allowed,” of course, is precisely the
term; for, as appears from the pub-
lished record, of the six leading causes
of fire in the home four—defective
chimneys and flues; sparks on roofs;
stoves, furnaces, boilers and_ their
pipes, and matches-smoking—indubit-
ably are preventable by the exercise of
proper care and common sense. Only
these humble virtues are required; these
only, and not knowledge of a special-
ized nature, as so often is demanded
to accomplish protection of public and
commercial occupancies.

Jesters and sober sages aplenty, both
in their own way philosophizing, have
seen, or have affected to see, in the
more or less fevered extra-mural ac-
tivities of the present day the begin-
ning of the decline of the American
home. Can it be that they are right
after all, and that the quickened rate
of residential burning is merely one
manifestation of the indifference with
which people nowadays look upon the
home and its institutions, It is to be
hoped not, devoutly. Such a prospect
is far, far too dismal. Better will it
be to lay the blame for a growing fire
loss, at least in greatest part, simply
to lack of thought. By so ascribing
it room is left for hope; because
thought is a product that can be sup-
plied, where there is both interest and
willingness to learn.

Time will help to supply it, unques-
tionably. “Time,” says Lowell, “hath
a quiver full of purposes, which fail
not of their mark.” And one of those
purposes, it is not hard to believe, is
to teach America the art of taking care.
Surely a people virile and far-sighted
enough to found a Nation can muster
sufficient intelligence and strength of
will to preserve it from the wasting of
fire—starting with their homes.

———_-- 2
Money Is as International as the Sea.

Out in the Middle West is a banker
who could hold down a pretty good
job as a financial writer. Melvin A.
Traylor’s time is pretty well taken in
directing the affairs of the First Na-
tional Bank in Chicago, but every now
and then he takes his pen and writes
about something in a style that makes
the newspaper men envious.

The most recent provocation for an
article came to him in the form of the
criticism sometimes heard against the
maintenance of a low discount rate by

the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York.

That certain disadvantages have re
sulted from our low rates for money
Mr. Traylor takes for granted, but
what he does not see is that these any-
where nearly equal the advantages. On
the contrary the benefits given to the
world more than offset the evils.

Chief among the advantages that he
names is England’s return to the gold
standard. Not every one may have ap-
preciated to what degree our mainten-
ance of a 3 per cent. rediscount rate
has helped Great Britain get back on a
gold basis.

Formerly, says Mr. Traylor, in the
current issue of the Executive Maga-
zine, “gold went to London in obedi-
ence to the same law that draws live
stock and iron ore to Chicago—the law
that a thing for sale naturally gravitates
to the best market.” Conditions that
grew out of the war changed all this.
Gold that previously went to London
began to pile up at New York. How
then was Great Britain to restore the
gold standard except by restoration of
London’s ability to command gold
enough so that anybody with an ob-
ligation payable in London could com-
mand the metal,

“Obviously the way to attract gold
to London from New York was to
make London a place where gold could
be more profitably employed—in short,
to raise the rate paid for its use above
the rate paid in New York. Whether
the Federal Reserve Board or the
Board of the Federal Reserve Bank in
New York, in the adjustment of the
rate of the New York bank, had in
mind any direct assistance to those in
authority in Great Britain, I do not
know, but by establishing a minimum
rediscount rate of 3 per cent. for the
New York bank they did undoubtedly
contribute greatly to the solution of the
task confronting the British authorities
and without question made it easier to
bring the pound sterling nearer to par
which movement eventuated in the re-
turn of the gold standard.

“All discussion as to whether the low
discount rate prevailing in New York
is ‘a good thing in itself’ is utterly use-
less and beside the point. Nothing in
finance ever stands by itself. Money
and credit are as international as the
sea; there is just one set of levels for
the whole world. Our action has
meant much for England, but we our-
selves have been beneficiaries in an
amount out of all proportion to the

cost. We have been strengthening the ©

foundation of our own house.”
Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1925.]
+. ;

Don’t Delay.

To-day’s the day;

So don’t delay

And shift it to to-morrow!

For if you stall,

Or shirk at all,

"Twill only bring you sorrow!

Now is the hour

To use your power!

To-morrow’s never here!

Lads who are wise

All utilize

The minutes that are near!

Though it may seem

Quite fine to dream,

And while the time away;

The only wight

Who gains the height

Is he who does to-day!

Thus you must do

If ever you

Would reach your destination;

With lusty knock,

_ Step in and sock

“Old Kid Procrastination!’

 

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MICHIGAN

Fourth National Bank

United States Depositary Established 1868

The accumulated experience of over 56 years, which has brought
stability and soundness to this bank, is at your service. :

DIRECTORS.

Wm. H. Anderson, Pres. L. Z. Caukin, Vice Pres.

Christian Bertsch, Sidney F. Stevens,

Robert D. Graham, Marshall M. Uhl,

Charles N. Willis, Victor M. Tuthill
Samuel D. Young

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Samuel G. Braudy,
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RANSOM E. OLDS

Chairman of Board

WILLIAM A. WATTS
President

 

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August 2nd, 1909 August 2nd, 1925

16 YEARS
Without an assessment. Without a lawsuit.

Paying all losses promptly and saving our members 30% an-
nually on their fire insurance premiums.

The Grand Rapids Merchants

Mutual Fire Insurance Company
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The Part-Time Solution of the Prob-
lem.
Written for the Tradesman.

Of the problem, whether or not a
wife and mother in moderate circum-
stances should go out and earn, one
woman is making a solution by which
she is getting some of the major ad-
vantages of the wage-earner, while her
household is suffering no perceptible
loss because of her outside engage-
ments.

Before her marriage Mrs. Marimon
was a teacher. Having unusual apti-
tude for instructing in art, she made it
her specialty, and for some _ years
taught art and nothing else in the pub-
lic schools of large cities.

When she married she gave up her
vocation for a time. She was by no
means unhappy in domestic life and
has three bright and interesting chil-
dren, two of whom are still too young
for kindergarten. Last fall she resum-
ed teaching, giving to it, however, not
her whole time but only three two-
hour periods each week. This is the
time allotted to art in the curriculum
of the school in which she teaches.

Mrs. Marmion manages in this way:
On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
afternoons she has a woman come to
the house to look after the little folks
while she herself is away. This wo-
man is a thoroughly responsible per-
son, one who likes the children and of
whom they are very fond, so all goes
well in the mother’s absence.

Mrs. Marmion is so proficient that
she commands high pay for the time
she puts in. Her long experience gives
her the further advantage of being so
familiar with her subject that almost
no work is needed in preparation for
her classes.

The teaching is a pleasant change
from the domestic routine. She en-
joys it thoroughly, and in these short
periods it refreshes rather than ex-
hausts her. Financially the work is
very satisfactory. She receives enough
that after paying well the woman who
stays with the children, she has an
amount left that looks very good to
her.

At least two indirect advantages of
Mrs. Marmion’s plan deserve mention.
One is that she has some one in train-
ing to care for the kiddies when she
needs to be away a few hours for any
purpose. The other is that she is keep-
ing up professionally, and is in touch
with principals and superintendents. In
the case that for any reason in a few
years from now it should be necessary
for her to earn to her full capability,
the teaching of her specialty is what
she could do to best advantage. While
she now is putting in only six hours
a week actual work in the schoolroom,
those who have the employing of teach-

ers are not forgetting there is such a
person as Mrs. Marmion. Indeed her
reputation for professional skill and
efficiency steadily is growing.

To many who have become expert
in some chosen line, the great bug-
bear of domestic life is the dread of
growing rusty—being lost sight of and
giving up all the advantage gained by
years of extra endeavor. When it can
be made practical to hold on to this
advantage, it is very much worth while
to do it, as an anchor to windward if
for nothing else.

Not all the features of the example
from real life that has just been given
can be duplicated in the case of every
wife and mother who wants to earn.
Most have no specialty. But offsetting
somewhat Mrs. Marmion’s advantage
in this respect is the fact that she has
to employ a woman to stay in the
house every moment she is away, which
would not be the case with the mother
whose children are in school. With
not more than say two children and
these older, the home duties would be
less exacting than are Mrs. Marmion’s.
so the mother might devote more time
to outside work than Mrs Marmion
now is doing.

Part-time employment, which is one
of the main principles of Mrs. Mar-
mion’s solution of the earning problem,
can be applied to advantage by great
numbers of women. The work of the
average home is a job that can be
simplified and condensed. Some tasks
may be shortened, others cut out al-
together. In many cases a woman may
manage to have a few hours each day
when she can be earning and do it
without serious interference with her
housekeeping and home-making.

The point is just this: Many could
put in twenty to thirty hours a week
at some paid employment, and do it
with a normal expenditure of enérgy;
when to carry on full-time outside work
along w:th the home duties would mean
continuous overwork with all its dire
consequences.

The securing of part-time employ-
ment ought not to be extremely diffi-
cult. Where piece-work is the rule
the matter could be arranged quite
easily. Where that is not the case, by
use of a little ingenuity schedules
could be devised that would work out
practically. If it should be quite a dis-
tance to the work, it might be better
to put in three whole days a week
rather than six half days. Two wo-
men who are neighbors might take one
job at a factory, one going one day and
the other the next. And the two could
spell each other by one looking after
the children of both after school hours,
until the other should arrive home.
Furthermore there are not a few em-
ployers who are willing to suit things

TRADESMAN

somewhat to the convenience of good
dependable workers.

In some stores there is a distinct de-
mand for one or more experienced
helpers to come in during rush hours
or on the busiest days of the week. It
must also be mentioned that some
women manage to pick up a good many
dollars by work that they do right at
home.

Another strong point about Mrs.
Marmion’s job is that it is something
that she can drop when she leaves the
building where she teaches. In this
she is fortunate, because often intellect-
ual work that is well paid puts one
under great nervous strain and holds
the thought of the worker when she is
off duty.

In selecting her outside employment,
it is better for the wife and mother to
choose something that does not involve
too heavy responsibility and that her
mind can let go of when the processes
of the work stop—even if she has to
content herself with work that is rather
mechanical.

This may conflict with professional
and industrial ambitions. But most of
the women whose situation we are con-
sidering are not desirous of a career.
Their main reason for wanting to earn
is to improve the state of the family
exchequer.

For many such, part-time employ-
ment at some outside work that is not
too taxing, is not incompatible with
doing well all the home duties, having
a little leisure time and some recrea-
tion, and engaging to a limited extent
in social and philanthropic activities;
provided there is a systematic division
of time and a thorough cutting out of
nonessentials.

The woman who attempts only so
much as she is well able to compass
can safeguard her own health and main-
tain that careful oversight of her house-
hold that insures the well-being of all
its members. Moreover, she can keep
close tab on money matters, and sc
come out better financially than most
of these who put in full time outside.

It would be idle to try to turn the
tide that is setting toward engaging in
paid industry. The problem of whether
or not a wife and mother should go
out and earn, already has resolved itself
into another problem, which is this:
How may the benefits of wage-earning
be enjoyed with a minimum of its
evils?

It is undeniable that she who has
the care of a family and tries also to
earn money, is laboring under some
handicap in both fields. But the wife
and mother of the right sort may al-
most turn this to advantage. She wise-
ly will limit her housekeeping to a
reasonable outlay of her strength.
From the paid work, if she does not
attempt too much, she may gain not
only the money she earns and the sat-
isfaction of being a help in the ma-
terial support of her household, but
also a breadth of view, a sympathy
with all toilers, and a sane and prac-
tical way of looking at things—indirect
results of her outside employment.
These last, while not impossible to the
strictly home woman, are not likely to
be attained by one who has no first-
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attributes that our intelligent wage-
earner will find invaluable in the pro-
motion of a happy and successful home

life. Ella M. Rogers.
——_+ 2+
Varying Prices Charged Fifty Years
Ago.

C. L. Harvey has preserved a lot of
bills rendered by merchants for gro-
ceries purchased by his father fifty-two
years ago. The prices charged for ar-
ticles of food at that period were not
like those of the present.

Peter Schuit, whose place of busi-
ness was at 539 Ottawa street, in 1873
charged 16 cents per pound for cheese,
22 cents for butter, 28 cents for coffee,
40 cents for green tea, 45c for 10
pounds of coffee sugar and $1.20 for
10 dozen eggs.

Horton & Stewart, located at Ionia
and Monroe avenues, on January 14,
1873, sold one bushel of apples for 25
cents, eggs for 30 cents per dozen,
starch for 15 cents per pound, cheese
for 30 cents.

H. I. Plett, 38 Division avenue, South
sold veal for 12 cents, smoked ham for
10 cents, beef tongue and sausage, 8
cents per pound,

Thomas Sargeant’s charge for ice
furnished an entire season was $8.

George Voorhis, on May 23, 1873,
sold maple sugar for 16 cents per
pound.

Kingsbury & Bennett’s bill for two
tons of nut coal, delivered on Nov. 2,
1873, was $23.

Crawford Brothers were located on
Pearl street near Monroe. Their
charges were as follows: 2 dozen eggs,
36 cents; 1 dozen dry peppers, 20 cents;
Y% bushel of whortleberries, $2; 5
pounds of dried beef, $1.

John A. Brummler, located at 126
Monroe avenue, on June 11, 1873, sold
sugar for 10 cents per pound, cheese
for 14 cents, butter for 31 cents, choc-
olate for 10 cents and lemons for 30
cents per dozen. A. S. White.

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How Much It Costs To Slice Bacon.

In response to repeated requests for
a statement regarding the cost of slic-
ing bacon, a demonstration was staged
by the Master Butchers’ Association of
New York City. Before starting,
President Kramer asked the dealer wha
had volunteered to act as cutter, what
in his estimation was the cost of slicing
bacon, and the about 2
cents per pound. The particular piece
of bacon used for the demonstration
was marked eight pounds, two ounces,
but the shrinkage since original weigh-
ing reduced it to seven pounds, twelve
ounces. The rind and one slice from
each end of the piece were removed,
amounting to fourteen ounces. of
shrinkage in trim. This, figured with
the cost of time in slicing on an electric
slicer, would be about 4 cents per
pound. The original piece of bacon
was estimated to cost 22 cents, bring-
ing the cost up to 26 cents per pound.
Even this figure did not allow for any
shrinkage of weight, which would
probably bring the total cost up to 27
cents per pound. The dealer who esti-
mated the cost of slicing at 2 cents per
pound was very much surprised, and
also the members present, when they
discovered that 5 cents was nearer the
amount.

answer Was

Slick Scheme To Victimize Merchants

I had a personal experience recently
with a new fake which I will relate for
the protection of whom it may concern.

There is a washing machine concern
whose name I will not now mention,
which is practicing this on retail mer-
chants. The buyer is appointed an
“agent” for one year and signs a con-
tract for so many machines. In the
agreement is a clause in which the
seller agrees to send agents to the town
to sell all the machines, or take them
back. The buyer is led to believe that
this means they will be taken back
within sixty days, but it doesn’t. The
wording is that the machines will be
sold or they will take them back “ac-
cording to the terms of the agency
agreement.” This means they will
take them back within a year. Now
note how beautifully this works out.
The buyer is asked to sign notes for
the purchase price. These are at once
eadorsed over to somebody else who
demands payment and the buyer has
to pay. The seller makes no particular
effort to sell the machines for the deal-
er and the result will be, when at the
end of the year the buyer gets ready
to demand his money back, the crowd
will have changed its name or its ad-
dress or busted. I judge this from a
mercantile report on it. It is a very
slick scheme for there is hardly any
hole in it except to an unusually shrewd
business man or a lawyer who has had
experience with such matters.

Elton J. Buckley.
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Too Much Retail Specializing?

The question was raised by a man
who has given a good deal of time and
attention to the study of retail store
methods as to whether there is not
too much of a trend toward specializa-
tion. The question resulted from re-
ports coming in from various parts of
the country as to the subdivision of
departments, notably ready-to-wear
and piece goods, which virtually
amounts to the establishment of sep-
arate departments for each type of
goods on which there is concentration.
In piece goods, for instance, there are
in existence at present departments de-
voted solely to white textiles, others
devoted to colored fabrics, and_ still
others in which the width of the goods
scld is the determining factor in the
specialization. In ready-to-wear there
are stout departments, many of which
have been established for some time
and which are said to fill an important
niche, departments for small women,
etc. The question is whether such de-
tailed subdividing of merchandise does
not add to the difficulty of shopping,
when all is said and done, and whether
the resultant confusion, together with
increased costs of administration, etc.,
does not tend to restrict business
rather than increase it.

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IT would rather have one little rose
From the garden of a friend

Than to have the choicest flowers
When my stay on earth must end.

I would rather have a loving smile
From friends I know are true
Than tears shed round my casket
When this world I've bid adieu.

3ring me all the flowers to-day,
Whether pink, or white, or red.
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naptha—give this EXTRA help in every cleaning
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President—Geo. T. Bullen, Albion.
First Vice-President—H. G. Wesener,

Albion.

Second Vice-President—F. E. Mills,

Lansing.
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American Toys in Lead.

The fact that American manufaciur-
ers of toys now produce most of those
sold in this country is not known by
the majority of consumers, according
to James S. Lehren, President of the
Toy Center, located in New York,

“Most people continue in the notion
they have had practically since child-
hood that nearly all toys are made in
Germany,” he said yesterday. “This
is far from the case at the present time,
when manufacturers here produce 75
per cent. of the toys sold here. Imports
now amount to only 25 per cent. where-
as before the war they made up 50 per
cent. or more of the total.

“The progress that has been made by
domestic manufacturers in dominating
the market in this country is really re-
markable, and there are many reasons
why the American people should be
conversant with it. The success of the
American manufacturer, in my opinion
is largely based on the production of
toys which are far more educational in
nature than foreign playthings. A toy
according to the present standards of
the industry, means much more, in
most instances, than something which
will have a passing interest for the
child. The native abilities inherent in
almost all children are encouraged in
many ways by the toys now being
placed on the market. Such play-
things hold permanent favor and the
outlet for them is wide.

“This trend is most marked in cer-
tain toys, such as those of a mechani-
cal type; but the ingenuity of the
American manufacturer is also finding
expression in other kinds. For example
the infant doll, which was originated
here, took the lead in doll lines last
Fall and is a leading seller at the pres-
ent time.

“Then, again, domestic manufactur-
ers are producing toys of durability that
are meeting the demands of American
consumers for merchandise of merit
The majority of foreign toys now sell-
ing in this country are made cheaply.
Most of those carried over by retailers
last Christmas were imported.”

Mr. Lehren said he believed that the
leading toy manufacturers here now
have orders on their books that are
ahead of those taken last year up tc
this time. Department stores, how-
ever, are buying late, he added, which
makes it hard for the smaller manu-
facturer, who is compelled to buy raw
material at short notice.

“Tt seems to me,” he concluded, “that
the department stores would obtain
lower prices if they placed their orders
for American toys at the same time
they make commitments for foreign
ones. Such action would be to their
best interest and to the manufacturers’
as well.”

2+
Berets Return To Favor.

Important among the leading millin-
ery trends of the past week was that
of the beret under develop-
ments. The increasing vogue of this
special feature of the later French col-
lections now brings it actively into the
hands of leading American designers
according to a special bulletin issued
yesterday by the Retail Millinery As-
sociation.

Velvet is primarily the fabric employ-
ed for this type of hat, although the
bulletin says that furs and metal broc-
ades are also making headway. A
beret in Lanvin’s new cornflower blue,
it adds, shows intricate folds crossing
the crown, drooping low at the right
side. Various supple furs have been
worked up into this adjustment, and
Lewis has submitted a greatly admired
model in lame’ cloth with the draped
line held in a series of pleated folds.

“The Russian toque, modified to a
wearable form, has also gained head-
way,” the bulletin further says, “and
sponsors the combination of fabric and
fur to a degree which fully upholds an
earlier dictum that this season’s hat
must bear a direct relation to the cos-
tume. A band of fur around the velvet
crown of a small tricorne ends in two
fur ears held by an ornament. A bow
without ends is adjusted to the front
crown of a gros-grain and the velvet
‘scoop,’ while pasted fur flowers are
banked at the base of the crown of a
wide-brim, short-back Spanish sailor
Sectional or draped fur crowns are
shown with velvet, hatter’s plush and
ribbon brims, usually ornamented with
a cut metal or jeweled pin.

“Considerable advance is noted in the
use of small patterned metal brocades
for the restaurant and theater coat.
The smartest type carries a minimum
of fur, usually a collar only. For such
wraps the matching skull cap, either
sectioned or tightly swathed, promises
to gather momentum with early Fal!
social activities. For this use supple
peltry is also advocated. The introduc-
tion of a matching velvet or plain
metal bandeau is noted, too, both with
the brocade and tightly-swathed tulle
caps. For these the jeweled pin of in-
trinsic value is an accepted style note.

“Transparent large hats of metal net
rival those of metalized felt, metal im-
press velvet and lace. Combining these
mediums is very generally adopted. A
large ‘scoop’ of pastel felt recently in-

various

troduced an upper brim and inch-wide
valance of velvet, the crown having a
rosette of jeweled velvet flowers plac-

ed center front.”

Umbrella Prices Will Advance.

That the advance of 10 per cent. or
more in the cost of umbrella and para-
sol frames announced by the frame
manufacturers this week will be re-
flected in prices of umbrellas is the
unanimous opinion ef manufacturers of
these articles, regardless of their view
of the action. This is the second ad-
-vance of frames within a few months
and while the condition of business
compelled many manufacturers to try
to absorb the first increase there is no
margin whatever in present prices
Dull retail business has not encouraged
buying orders and stocks in manufac-
turers’ hands are low. Although the
advance affects practically all grades
an equal amount, the lower grades will
feel the largest percentage of extra
cost. The umbrella manufacturers, it
was said yesterday, will doubtless make
a virtue of necessity and the increase in
frame costs will be the occasion for
their readjusting prices proportionately

in the immediate future.
Se ee

They All Play a Tune.

Novelties which play a tune when a
certain part of them is touched con-
tinue to figure prominently in lines of
imported gift merchandise. One of the
most recent importations of these
goods is a new type of upright cigar-
ette holder surmounted by a fat “Why
worry?” figure with an elongated head.
The head is a handle which, when

raised, reveals the cigarette container
the action also causing a pleasing
melody to be played. A crystal bonbon
dish has a jeweled cover which also
brings forth a tune when raised. The
same idea is worked out in an ash tray
which is equipped with a cloisonne
bowl. Placing the cigar on the holder
causes the music to play. On some-
thing of the same order are call bells
which are made in dogs,’ cats’ and
owl’ heads, etc. In these the pressing
of an ear or a tongue makes the bell
ring, the mechanism being operated
by clockwork. Landed costs of all of
these items range from $2 to $11 each

—_»22>

Fashion Reports Cheer Belt Men.

Recent style advices from Paris en-
courage manufacturers of women’s
belts to look forward to an unusually
successful season. The prevalence of
sports clothes in current French de-
signs is partly responsible for this op-
timism, as most of these models call
either for a narrow or a medium belt.
Another encouraging feature of Fall
fashions is the decision to emphasize
the normal waist-line, which calls for
the placing of a belt. Suede is expect-
ed to be popular again and the demand
already manifested shows a strong in-
terest in all novelties and metal-trim-
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MICHIGAN

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Will Use Better Fabrics.

While manufacturing clothiers say
that prices on Spring clothing lines will
be unchanged from the levels which
prevailed this year, they add that the
quality of fabrics in quite a few in-
stances will be improved. This will be
due, they add, to the lower quotations
which have been made on many of the
new lightweight fabrics. Some of the
latter, for which high grades wool have
been used, show substantial reductions
while others using the same wool are
unchanged or advanced. The average
price of the fabrics that will go into
the line of the manufacturer is, there-
fore, about the same as last year. With
some of the better fabrics on an at-
tractive price basis, however, they will
replace the less durable goods used in
last Spring’s popular-priced clothing
lines by many firms.

—__2---————
Increasing Petticoat Lines.

Petticoat manufactureis are putting
out a large number of models for the
Fall trade, which has just started. Ex-
cept for some novelties in embroideries
and the use of the new Fall colors
however, the new lines show little dif-
ference from those previously offered
On the other hand, a novelty is shown
that combines the brassiere with the
slip. ° It has a deep yoke so shaped as
to serve the purpose of the brassiere
Another novelty, according to a bulle-
tin of the United Petticoat League of
America, is a slip with a step-in tc
match. These sets come in all colors
and in several fabrics. The favored ma-
terials are radium, crepe de chine and
knitted silk or rayon. The colors that
are wanted most or crayon blue, golden
pheasant, geranium petal, lilium and

cowboy brown.
+.

Novelty Articles of Alabaster.

A recent importation of German art-
ware, samples of which are now on
display at a New York importer’s office
features a wide variety of items made
of alabaster. These articles range all
the way from ash trays, powder boxes
and place-card containers to calendar
holders and desk sets. Besides the at-
tractive nature of the ware itself, based
on the natural markings of the ala-
baster and the frequent use of hand-
painted decorations, the prices are said
to be quite low. The range is from
75 cents for each of the small pieces to
$3.75 for the desk set, the quotations
being wholesale landed cost _ here.
There is a wide range of color choice in
the merchandise, and the hand-painted
decorations are cleverly worked out in
detail. They are permanent.

——_».—___
Notions Trade Keeping Busy.

Factors in the notion trade report a
steady demand for seasonal goods, with
a fair amount of business being placed
for September-October delivery. Most
of the advance orders have come from
the chain and variety stores, although
the department stores have done some
covering of their later needs. Varied
specialties in rubber goods were said
yesterday to be among the best-seiling
items for forward delivery, largely be-
cause of the situation in the crude rub-
ber market. Lines of Fall stamped
goods, particularly the new house dress
and children’s wear patterns, have been
moving well. Hair nets are being

bought steadily by retailers in certain
sections, particularly the South and
Middle West.

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Has New Toy Vacuum Cleaner.

A toy vacuum cleaner that actually
works has been placed on the market
by a well-known manufacturer and is
meeting with a very good demand. It
is a replica in exact detail of the stand-
ard vacuum cleaner for the home and
works on the friction-suction principle
without requiring electricity for its op-
eration. It is simply rolled across the
floor and will pick up dust, ashes and
bits of paper. The toy stands 2814
inches high and is equipped with a
cloth bag, which may be detached for
cleaning. The base is aluminum
finish, with all metal parts enclosed
The finish of the handle is black
enamel, with the lower attachment part
in red enamel. The cleaner is priced
to retail at $2.50.

——_+-.—___
Vogue For Ribbon Flowers.

It will be “the thing” to wear small
ribbon flowers in fur scarfs this winter,
according to predictions made yester-
day. It has been some ‘time since this
custom has had a wide vogue, but all
the indications are said to point to its
return. Shaggy ribbon flowers on the
French chardon or thistle order are
being featured for this purpose. Short
ribbons are used for making the
flowers, giving the effect of light upon
the petals, which are being made up in
a large variety of colors. Ribbon
flowers for wear at the hip or shoulder,
or to act as a fastener for a tulle scarf,
will be featured evening wear acces-

sories.
_——_»+.»—-—__————

Confident About Tweed Dresses.

A good deal is heard in the ready-to-
wear market now about the possibilities
of tweed dresses for Fall. Some manu-
facturers sensed a trend to tweeds for
dresses some time ago, and are show-
ing tailored styles of these garments.
They are understood to have met with
an encouraging early response on the
part of buyers, and further support for
their confidence in these garments is
contained in the style reports from
abroad. These advices tell of a tweed
vogue that is growing stronger daily.
Accordingly, it is felt that there are
very good chances of a similar trend

developing in 'this country.
—.—.——___

Offers a Novelty in Dolls.

An ingenious novelty in dolls is now
being introduced here by a domestic
manufacturer. Without any winding
which is operated by a wind-up me-
chanism that can get out of order,
the doll reproduces the creeping of a
baby, even to the characteristic side-to-
side swaying. All that is necessary to
produce the effect is to draw the doll
along the floor by a string. It has un-
breakable hands, legs and head, is clad
in an attractive romper dress, and re-
tails for $3. Another innovation is a
dancing doll, dressed as a Dutch girl,
which is operated by a wind-up mech-
anism. This ‘one retails for $1.50.

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Expect Foulard Ties To Repeat.
The foulard tie has had such a wide
vogue during the Summer that manu-
facturers are counting upon it to re-
main popular curing the Fall. As a
result, they are including it among the

features of their early Fall lincs. The
rew foulards again play up the bright-
er colors, although the patterns for the
most. part are small and neat The
matching of foulard ties with hand-
kerchiefs will be a feature. The hand-
kerchiefs designed for this purpose are
smaller than usual, because of the nar-
rower breast pocket being featured in
Fall coats. They are of the same ma-
terial and patterns as the ties.

—_>--.—___
Fancy Slickers Are Wanted.

Slickers for women, misses and chil-
dren are finding favor with buyers of
popular-priced Fall merchandise. High
shades of red, green, purple and blue
are preferred, as well as fancy stripes
and plaids. These slickers are rubber-
ized and retail from $5.50 to $6. An
odorless variety, to retail for $2 or $3
more, is also being sold, as well as
transparent oiled silks which retail]
from $16.50 to $22.50. These slickers
may be used through the year, but at
present buyers are preparing for a de-
mand from

ages.

school girls of various

———_» 2 <«- ———
Wool Scarfs To Be Bright.

Men’s imported furnishings for Fail
show a decided trend toward brightness
of color and novelty of design. Plaid
wool scarfs illustrate this tendency in
a variety of striking color schemes and
patterns that are said to be authentic
imitations of the official plaids of the
various Scotch clans. Scarfs of this
type were sold to some extent last
Winter, but they did not meet with
anything like the general acceptance
which is presaged for them fcr this
season by the large orders which buy-
ers are said to be placing for them
They will retail for $3.50.

—_+2._____
Favor Novelties in Sports Wear.
Novelty of pattern is demanded by

buyers of imported wool hosiery to the

exclusion of all the plain varieties of
foreign goods. ‘Loud’ color combina-
tions are also finding favor.
sweater and golf

Imported
hose combinations
for Fall are also showing novelty of
design. The tendency is toward stripes
rather than the fancy block patterns
of the past season. A reaction from
the extreme nature of some of the lat-
ter patterns is to be noted in the new
slip-over sweaters, which are of a much
more subdued tone when they are
not of the striped variety.
—_2>-2
Cigarette Cases of Sharkskin.

A novelty that has made its appear-
ance in London and that is expected
soon to be seen on this side of the
Atlantic is a small sharkskin cigar-
ette case for women. The case is
only two inches long and about an
inch wide. Most of those seen so
far have been high priced, with the
monogram of the owner worked out
on them in diamonds. Another nov-
elty, which has more to do with the
cigarettes than with their containers,
is the carrying of cigarettes of delicate
leaf green in the new shagreen cases.

—_+~-+.__

People will excuse occasional errors,
but don’t put your customers in the
position of having to excuse repeated
errors.

——_2>-.___
Next to being capable of leading, the
best thing is to be capable of being led.

  

$20,000,000

HERSHEY
CHOCOLATE
COMPANY
First Mortgage Collateral
Sinking Fund Gold Bonds

at 98 and Interest to
Yield

5.70%

Security is first mort-
gage on company's
chocolate and cocoa
plant at Hershey,
Pa., having a floor
space of 45 acres;
also a deposit of cap-
ital stocks of three
constituent compan-
ies. Proceeds are to
retire Nov. |, 1925,
the 6% bonds due
in 1942, to acquire
a new plant in Cuba
and to improve prop-
erties. Net tangible
assets, $48,000,000.

  
  

  

 
     
   
        
       
       
     
   
   
   
         
   
       
   

 

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INVESTMENT BANKERS
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MicHIGAN TRUST BUILDING.
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JOHN L. LYNCH SALES CoO.
SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising
209-210-211 Murray Bldg.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

 

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Warm In Winter
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Brick is Everlasting

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Must make good to you
or we will.
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DEBTORS PAY DIRECT TO
YOU AND IT’S ALL YOURS
Only the one small Service Charge

—absolutely no extras.

References: Any Bank or Chamber
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MERCHANTS’ CREDITORS
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TRADESMAN August 12, 1925

 

 

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A Treat For the Retailers’ Customers.

For the retailer to please both old
and new customers is the one idea of
the successful merchant of to-day. The
most particular epicures of meats and
meat products always appreciate any
suggestions on new articles that the
dealer may offer him; thus during the
warm Summer months, when most all
of the purchasers are discontented, due
to the weather conditions, and which
have an ill effect on the desire for the
purchasing of fresh meats, the meat
purveyor may meet this condition by
supplying a rare treat for these people.
Such a commodity which has been long
looked to with great favor of the great-
est connoisseurs consists of nothing
else than “country cured hams.”
Naturally, this name has been applied
to those products originating in the
rural districts, but the flavor and high-
ly appreciated qualities are not neces-
sarily due to the place of production,
but more essential to the methods em-
ployed. During the months of October
and November these products are being
prepared on the farm for the following
Summer’s use; furthermore, we gen-
erally find that the retailers experience
some idle hours at this time that could
be utilized to the greatest advantage
by making this tasty product.

In order to be able to offer this com-
modity as an A No. 1 article, certain
rules and methods should be followed
and practiced. The first and very es-
sential fact to bear in mind is that only
strictly fresh meat should be used, free
from staleness or putrefication, and if a
strictly choice product is to be re-
ceived the ham should not be frozen
but thoroughly chilled for twenty-four
to thirty-six hours at a low enough
temperature to insure the removal of
all animal heat. The fat over the face
should not be removed entirely unless
the ham is very large and possesses a
considerable amount. The presence of
the fat on the smaller and lighter hams
will act as a preventative to excessive
drying out. A sprinkle of salt-petre is
applied to the entire outer surface in
sufficient amounts to appear as a light
frost. The hams are allowed to remain
over night at a temperature of 34 to 36
degrees Fahrenheit, during which time
considerable water will be lost. On
the following day a mixture of seven
pounds of salt, five pounds of granu-
later sugar and four ounces of salt
peter for every one hundred pounds of
meat is made up. This mixture is
divided into three equal parts; one por-
tion is applied to the meat by rubbing
it well in over the entire surface, being
particularly careful to apply a heavy
application at both ends. On the fourth
and eighth day thereafter the remain-
ing portions are administered in a simi-

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lar manner. From the time of the first
application the meat may be stored in
boxes, barrels or on a shelf in a chilled
room at thirty-six Fahrenheit. The
meat is allowed to remain in cure two
to three days for every pound in each
piece. After curing the hams receive
a long, slow, cool smoke. This first
smoking takes place immediately after
the meat is removed from the cure and
continues on every third or fourth day
until the hams have taken on a nice
brown color and are becoming firm and
somewhat dry. This time of smoking
should occupy four to six weeks. When
thoroughly smoked wrap in parchment
paper and then cover with heavy,
brown wrapping paper and place in a
muslin bag, which will prevent the en-
trance of any insects. Store away in
a cool, dry place free from dampness or
mould until ready for use. The longer
such hams are allowed to age, when
properly cured, a better and more pal-
atable article will be produced. The
consumer should now be advised as to
the proper methods for parboiling and
roasting this.

——_>+—__
Why All the Regulations About Mar-
garine?

In some states the merchant is taxed
for selling margarine. In other states
he must have a license to sell it. In
many states he is compelled by law to
display a sign on the wall telling his
trade that he sells margarine.

A single pound of margarine cannot
be removed from the shipping case, ex-
cept when sold to the consumer. That
makes it impossible for many dealers
to economically keep margarine in their
ice boxes.

In a few states he must still put his
name and address on the paper bag or
the sheet of paper in which he wraps
margarine in delivering it to a cus-
tomer.

In Pennsylvania the retailer must
pay $100, the wholesale: $500 and the
manufacturer $1,000 to sell margarine.
Should an unsuspecting salesman wan-
der over the line from Maryland and
sell a Pennsylvania merchant an order
of margarine he becomes a criminal and
can be thrown into jail for three
months or more.

If the distributor follows the law in
one state he breaks it in another. What
is law in one state is a crime in an ad-
joining one.

Perhaps, I thought, margarine isn’t
a good food. I began enquiring and
found it is made under very strict Fed-
eral and, in many cases state control.
It generally contains beef fat, pork fat,
peanut oil, cottonseed oil, cocoanut oil,
salt, milk and butter—all pretty good
foods I think you will agree. They
have at least been eaten in one form of
another for centuries. Eminent scien-

BLUE GRASS MILK
BLUE GRASS BUTTER
WORCESTER SALT

KENT CLUB COFFEE

TEA, SPICES, ETC.
GOOD LUCK and DELICIA OLEO.

THRU COMMUNITY GROCERS ONLY

KENT STORAGE COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS_~ LANSING ~ BATTLE CREEK
olesale Grocers

General Warehousing and Distributin ig

 

 

 

 

 

 

RED STAR
ato,

RED STAR Flour is milled for the con-
sumers of flour who demand the ut-
most in excellence. That quality is
worth the price, that the highest priced
flour in the end is the cheapest, has
been demonstrated year after year to
RED STAR users. They pay more,

because they receive more in the end.

YO

JUDSON GROCER COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. |

 

Receivers and Shippers of All

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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tists and dietitians have endorsed the
food value of margarine and no less of
an authority than Dr. Harvey Wiley, of
pure food fame, says: “When made un-
der proper sanitary conditions, from
sanitary raw materials, oleomargarine
is a wholesome and nutritive article of
diet.”

So there you are—margarine has
been proved a good food, economical
and wholesome. The people want it.
The tax seems to be indefensible, the
license unnecessary, its regulation
abominable, and the public wants the
food. So, apparently, there is no great
inherent crime in olemargarine. I ask
again—then what are all the regula-
tions and laws for?

The only crime that I could discover
in the sale of margarine is that it takes
business away from a particular class
of farmers and producers, namely, the
butter people. Now, mark you, most
of the ingredients used in margarine
come from the farm, yet we have one
set of farming interests and producers
pitted against another set, the one try-
by regulations, taxes, laws and
every other device, to interfere with the
sale of a leg:timate product honestly
and properly made by the other—and
a food highly acceptable to the Ameri-
can people in general.

Carl W. Dipman.
—_+~+._—

Tapioca Used In Soups and Pies.
Written for the Tradesman.

If your thoughts are similar to mine
—and as I am an ordinary American
business man I take it they are—you
have always looked upon tapioca as
a dessert. It

could be served as a

cream or a pudding, without fixings,

¢ or, perhaps, it would come to you with

pineapple, orange or some other fruit

« in season, chopped and added.

\ National advertiser usually adver-
tised its product as a dessert. True,
in the recipe booklets sent out by the
hundreds of thousands, it was men-
tioned as a pies and
gravies and as an extender that would
make the left-over cupful of some use
ior another meal, but not in the ad-
vertisements.

thickener for

This kind of advertising
has enabled you to sell more and more
tapioca each year, but it apparently
has not entirely satisfied the advertiser
himself. In a recent color advertise-
told in plain lan-
guage that tapioca may be used as the
basis of a new dish—not a dessert, but

ment, women are

a soup, a rabbit, a stew or an omelet.
When a National makes
an announcement of this kind, it gives

advertiser

the Wide-awake grocer or clerk an ex-
cellent opportunity to build up or add
to his reputation locally as a man who
knows foods and food uses.

Anyone can ignore
ment.

the advertise-
The man who is on his toes,
however, will see in it a chance to tell
Mrs. Jones when next she comes into
the store, that he has just learned 9f
a new cooking help.

Will Mrs. Jones resent this?

She will not. In a recent contest
conducted by one of the largest wom-
en's magazinzes, it was learned that
the cooking page of that magazine
was by far the most popular. The
household helps and hints departments
conducted by broadcasting stations are
by no means minor departments.

Women will listen to cooking hints,
week after week, and write letters of
appreciation time after time.

So the clerk who has a new hint or
idea to give Mrs. Jones will find that
Mrs. Jones will not only appreciate it,
but will let others know that that
particular clerk is well-advised and
well worth patronizing.

There are thousands of hints. that
any clerk may learn, that may be giv-
en as he wraps up packages. Corn on
the the market. The
young bride from around the corner
dozen ears.
Nine times out of ten she will take it

cob comes on

is purchasing her first
home and boil it with a little salt in
the
clerk that “corn is one of the vege-
that should always be _ boiled
with a touch of sugar instead of salt,”

not merely mean a_ particularly
tender mess of corn for a young bride,

water. A casual remark by the

tables
will

but will mean that the bride will be
anxious to purchase her supplies where
hints of this kind are given.

“T knew a woman who never added
milk and butter to her potatoes when
she mashed them.”

That’s a harmless expression that
may be made whenever a peck of pota-
toes are being measured or weighed.
Yet that remark will make more wom-
en than you would imagine, try some-
thing they have never tried before, and
thus add 50 per cent. to the delicious-
ness of their mashed potatoes.
new use of
tapioca as outlined in the latest adver-

And so it is with the
tisement.

“Sprinkle a little of this tapioca over
the filling of your berry pie, Mrs.
Jones. It makes the under crust flakier
and keeps excess juice from running
out and spoiling the appearance of the
pie.”

What woman does not want a flaky
have tried
time again to have one—

under crust? How many

(ime and
without much success? And in berry

time, how many have frowned over

the spilling juice? Your knowledge of
the unusual use of tapioca will bring
smiles where frowns were.

Or you might tell them to try pick-
eting soups or gravies with tapioca,
or mixing it half and half with cooked
cereal. They will appreciate it—more
than vou can realize if you have never

tried to asssit your customers with
their food problems.
Anyway, the manufacturer has

thought well enough of these uses to
devote some of its advertising appro-
priation toward making them known—
and it is logical that those behind the
counter will pass on the good word.
Of course, it will help a national ad-
vertiser, but you cannot help an ad-
vertiser sell more of his product with-
out selling more of that same product
yourself.

Watch out for new uses of the foods
you sell, whether they be meats, fruits,
vegetables, desserts or condiments.
With chain store competition, the old
personal touch with the customer is 4
good thing to cultivate. A few cents
saving here and there, pale into in-
significance beside an opportunity to
secure advice on the subject in which
the housewife is the most interested.

Richard S. Bond.

 

Every Day in the Year —

our market is well supplied with fresh green vege-
tables and delicious ripe fruits.

No other foods are as healthful and economical
as these bought fresh daily and prepared in the
home.

We have been distributing fresh fruits and vege-
tables for a quarter of a century and are now
handling more and better goods and rendering bet-
ter service than ever.

The Vinkemulder Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

JUST GOOD CANDY

Pure and Wholesome
THAT’S

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Delicious cookie-cakes and crisp

At
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Crackers and

appetizing crackers—— There is a
Hekman food-confection for every

meal and for every taste.

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SECURE MORE CUSTOMERS WITH
YEAST-FOR-HEALTH

Fleischmann’s Yeast corrects constipation, clears the skin, aids
digestion and builds health—thousands eat it every day for these
benefits.

Get your share of this business by letting people know you have
Yeast-for-Health on sale. A package display sign is given you free
to use as a reminder for people in your store. Place it where it can
be easily seen. You can thus get new customers for Yeast and the
other foods you sell.

FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST
The Fleischmann Company
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President—Scott Kendrick, Flint.
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Petoskey.

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Fair and the Hardware

Dealer.
Written for the Tradesman.

The value of the fall fair exhibit to
the hardware dealer depends to a large
upon the way in which he
handles it. Whether or not he should
put on an exhibit is a matter to be de-
cided by himself, in the light of his
own knowledge of local conditions;
but, granted that conditions are fair
that charges for exhibiting are not
exorbitant, and that an exhibit will
bring him in touch with a good many
people, the dealer should set out tc

The Fall

extent

make the very most of his opportunity.

To put on an exhibit with the vague
idea that all he needs is to show some
of the goods he is handling, is a short-
sighted policy. If the exhibit is to be
worth anything at all as an advertise-
ment, it must be managed from a com-
prehensive viewpoint, with a definite
purpose to get results. It is not
enough to locate your exhibit where
people are bound to see it, or to induce
people to look; you should set out
yourself to get a line on the people
interested and to make the exhibit a
stepping stone to actual sales. The
exhibit may accomplish something
single handed; but it will do a great
deal more for you if you give it your
active and intelligent attention.

Far from being left to run itself
with an inexperienced junior in charge
the hardware exhibit needs A-1 direc-
tion—and, particularly in the rush
hours, either the dealer himself should
be on the ground to meet customers
and prospects, or else the next best
man on his selling staff. This, be-
cause only on experienced man is cap-
able of handling a large number of
people; because the experienced man
is best able to explain the goods: and
because the experienced man has clear-
cut ideas as to making the most of his
opportunities.

As a general rule, the fall fair af-
fords an excellent opportunity to in-
troduce farm implements and especially
novelties. So if you have an imple-
ment department, it will be natural tc
play up these lines.

In most communities the fair is pat-
ronized by the most. progressive and
up to date farmers, the specialists, the
men who go in for modern methods in
agriculture and who often are instru-
mental in introducing new and untried
crops. These men are interested in
new methods. and while there must be
a showing of implements in every day
use, the novelty is apt to catch the
eye much quicker than. the implement

which is already a staple with the
farming community.

Here, in preparation for his exhibit
the dealer will do well to take a com-
prehensive glance over his field. He is
in close touch with what is going on
among the farmers. What new crops
have been introduced, calling for new
devices; or what old crops could be
more efficiently handled with the aid
of inventions not generally in use. Op-
portunities to start the sale of some
new line should be eagerly watched
for by the dealer at all seasons of the
year; but an exhibit at the fall fair
will give him a chance to introduce his
implement novelties to a larger crowd
than is apt to gather in his implement
warerooms at any other time.

A new line may be relied upon tc
attract attention to the entire exhibit
Playing up the striking feature in a
fall fair exhibit is just as good general-
ship as playing up something striking
in a window display.

Naturally, the wideawake dealer wil’
see that the implements shown are
clean, bright and in the best of shape
and if he is showing some novelty, he
will prime himself well beforehand or
the selling points and the methods of
operating.

But while all this is true of the
implement department, what of the
other departments of the hardware
store; or what of the hardware dealer
who does not handle implements?
Does the fall fair represent an oppor-
tunity for such dealers?

The answer is “Yes.” There are
many hardware lines which can be
shown at the fall fair to good advan-
tage. With the fall stove season just
nicely under way, stoves and ranges
naturally suggest themselves. Wash-
ing machines, carpet sweepers or vacu-
um cleaners, paints and interior finish-
es, are some of the most popular lines
for an exhibit. One very successfu'
fall fair exhibit I remember comprised
heaters and ranges, with, incidentally, a
demonstration of a popular floor finish
and varnish.

In this connection, accommodations
differ with different fall
where a demonstration is possible, it
A demonstration dis-

fairs: but

should be given.
play is two or three times as effective
and attractive as a mere showing of the
goods. In some fall fairs it is pos-
sible to demonstrate your feature kitch-
en range; in others even electrical ap-
pliances can be demonstrated. Whether
it will pay you to feature the latter de-
pends largely upon the relative pro-
pertion of country and city people
In a largely
rural district where electrical current
is not available it is a waste of time

your fall fair attracts.

space and effort to demonstrate elec-

trical goods. On the other hand, where

Foster, Stevens & Co.
WHOLESALE HARDWARE
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157-159 Monroe Ave. - 151-161 Louis Ave., N. W.
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COMPANY

“HOME OF SUNBEAM GOODS”

Farm Machinery and Garden Tools
Saddlery Hardware
Blankets, Robes & Mackinaws
Sheep-lined and
Blanket - Lined Coats

Automobile Tires and Tubes
Automobile Acessories
Garage Equipment
Radio Equipment
Harness, Horse Collars

 

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Michigan Hardware Co.

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

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Wholesalers of Shelf Hardware, Sporting
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Do you need Restaurant Equipment, Gas
Stoves, Steam Tables, Coffee Urns, Water
Coolers, Tables, Chairs, Stools, Dishes, Sil-
WE HAVE IT.

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7 Ionia Avenue N. W.

        
   
     

 

 

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the fall fair attendance is about evenly
divided between city and country peo-
ple, it may pay to show and demon-
strate these lines. As to that, your
own judgment and understanding of
local conditions furnishes the best
guide.

Put together your display or booth as
carefully as you would the most im-
portant window display you ever put
on. Go out well ahead of time, select
good space, and study how to make
the very most of it for display pur-
poses. Ornate and expensive “trim-
mings” are unnecessary; but everything
should be neat and attractive. Inci-
dentally, it might be a good stunt to
show a model kitchen with your fea-
ture range in premier place; use this
display to emphasize the need and de-
sirability of a complete equipment of
household utensils, whether in the town
home or the farm house.

When your exhibit has induced the
passer-by to pause, to make a closer
look and to ask questions, it has done
its work. Then comes your opportun-
ity, which you should grasp with both
hands. It is up to you, not merely tc
explain things, talk up your goods and
make sales if you can, but likewise tc
get a line on future prospects for this
that or the other line of goods on dis-
play.

The fall fair exhibit is a failure if it
does not result in extensive additions
to your prospect lists.

To this end, it is requisite that the
dealer take a whole-souled interest in
all comers; and, notably, in strangers
or comparative strangers. Not merely
should the dealer answer questions; he
should push the conversation, sound
out the other fellow, and learn, if pos-
sible, his address, what goods shown
interest him the most, and what he
needs or is likely to need. Who he is
where he lives, what he is likely to buy
—these facts ought to be jotted down
at the first opportunity, for use in com-
piling the fall prospect lists.

This may sound simple, but it isn’t
always done. Surprising indeed is the
proportion of fall fair exhibitors whe
are satisfied to answer questions and
hand out advertising literature without
making the least effort to get a line on
the enquirer and his actual needs. Yet
it is precisely this knack of getting a
line on the prospective customer that
makes the fall fair exhibit worth while
to the hardware dealer. Next to actual]
sales, it is the furthest he can go in the
way of realizing definite results for his
expenditure of time and money.

Of course, advertising literature
should be handed out to all enquirers
The dealer will see that he is adequate-
ly supplied in this respect. But, wher-
the goods should be
shown and, at least verbally, demon-
strated. The dealer should get the
prospect’s definite promise to see him
The advertising
matter which the prospect carries away
will serve as a useful reminder.

In this respect, however, the dealer
will do well not to rely solely on the
printed matter he hands out. It is his
own personality and its influence upon
prospects that is most helpful in lead-
ing up to future sales. The further he
can carry his prospect in the direction
of actual buying, the greater the likeli-

ever possible,

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hood of doing business when they next
meet.

The county fair is, however, more
than an opportunity for getting a line
on new prospects. The dealer will
meet scores of old prospects and old
customers; and the opportunity to meet
these, to remind them of goods they
have been considering, or to urge new
lines upon their attention, is worth
while.

Advertising literature should, as far
as possible, be placed intelligently
where it will do the most good. Every
fall fair is crowded with children whe
clamor for brightly-illustrated and ex-
pensive booklets, only to drop them
forgotten when they get outside the
main building. Some dealers hand out
their advertising matter to all comers
and it is safe to say that 95 per cent
of the booklets handed to children are
wasted, others save their advertising
material for definite prospects. It is
a fair compromise to save the booklets
for real prospects, and to have some
small and inexpensive souvenir—such
as a blotter—for the youngsters.

Victor Lauriston.
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Are Pushing Linoleum Sales.

Manufacturers of linoleum, who have
been trying to extend the use of their
product by means of the slogan “Lino-
leum for Every Room in the House,”
report that their efforts are meeting
with some success. The campaign has
urged that linoleum be used under wool
rugs and as a covering for old floorings,
and its message seems to be bringing
sales. The inlaid type, in which the
color goes through to the back, is
said to be gaining continually on the
surface printed variety. This trend
has been noted for some time, but has
recently become quite sharp. Dutch
tile patterns are also coming into great-
er favor. A new source of linoleum
business is the apartment house builder
who in many cases is said to be rent-
ing apartments with the kitchen floors
covered with the material.

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New Fixture For Dining Rooms.

A manufacturer of electric fixtures
is placing on the market a new lighting
device for dining rooms which has
aroused considerable interest. The
feature of the new fixture is that it is
equipped to take a shade which will
match those of other lamps in the
home, as well as draperies and other
furnishings. The manufacturer also
supplies buckram, parchment and non-
combustible celluloid shades in highly
decorative effects. The canopy or tor
of the fixture is made of polished cast
brass, and from this is suspended a
silk cord in which the electric wiring
is concealed. Just above the metal part
supporting the shade is a tassel. This
and the silk cord are shown in several]
colors. The fixture, which takes a
shade eighteen inches in diameter
wholesales at $22.50.

~~

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is to be there and manage it, not to
spend your time at the ball ground
or the golf links, while the business
is handled by proxy.

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Written for the Tradesman.

On Monday morning, July 27, a me-
chanical engineer left Lansing, Michi-
gan, driving a speed truck. He deliv-
ered the truck in Chicago next morning
and took a train at 10:45 a. m. going
through Cheyenne, crossing Great Salt
Lake Utah, and reached San Jose,
California, at 10:30 a. m. July 31.

A postal card was mailed Monday
forenoon, July 27, on a rural route,
was postmarked at Ann Arbor at 10
a. m. July 28, and reached Campbell,
California a few miles from San Jose,
at 10 a. m. July 31, one-half hour
ahead of the engineer.

We understand that Ann Arbor time
was fast time or daylight saving, while
the Chicago time was Central stand-
ard, so the postal card really was mail-
ed at Ann Arbor one hour and three-
quarters before the engineer left Chi-
cago. With a difference in transit of
only 75 minutes more, it gained about
290 miles.

Leaving Ann Arbor at 10 a. m., the
28th, and reaching California at 10 a.
m., the 31st, does not mean exactly
three days, but three hours over, be-
cause three times on the journey pas-
sengers must set their watches back
one hour, as they pass from Eastern
Standard to Central, to Mountain and
to Pacific time. .

A letter sent by air mail from Cal-
ifornia to Ann Arbor rural route gain-
ed little over railroad mail, as it took

forty hours to reach its destination
after leaving Chicago.
E. E. Whitney.
—_3222____
Tall Man Is Dissatisfied With Bargain
Shirt.

A live-wire salesmanager writes to
his salesmen as follows on the subject
of the dissatisfaction that follows in the
wake of sales of the cheaper merchan-
dise:

“People who buy the cheapest goods
are the least satisfied. The tall man
gets back his bargain shirt from the
laundry, and finds the tail too short to
tuck in.

“The man that buys on a cut price
may think he is putting one over on his
competitor, but he will find the cut-
price salesman ready to cut to any one
to get an order.

“The merchant that caters to the
cut-price salesman is fooling himself.
and no one else.

“Watch the merchant who buys
standard priced goods at a cut. He
will slip a cut-price tag on it for one
or two days, thinking to fool the peo-
ple into thinking they are getting a
special only for these few days, and
then watch his competitor down the
street go him one better and cut his
‘cut-price.’ What does it lead to? Just

nena:

watch and see. He can’t fool any-
body, and the more he gets off of the
list the bigger fight he will commence,
and the less profit he will make. He
is approaching the rock wall and when
he butts his fool head against -it, he
will find out which is the harder.

“He patronizes desk lizzards, paying
for the stuff at least two or three
weeks before he gets the merchandise,
by having it shipped b/1 attached, and
he thinks he is tickled to death, and
if we were to ship him anything b/1
attached or c. o. d., he would holler
his head off, and ask if he hadn’t been
a good paying satisfactory customer of
ours for lo, many years.

“Again, who carries him over the
hard times, when crops are short, and
his customers are unabie to pay? Does
his bank do it? No, I tell you he
comes crying around to the .grocery
jobber, and tells his tale of woe, and
asks to be carried over for a few
months, and still he will take his cash
and buy from the ‘lizzard.’

“T hope to see a time come when we
can demand our rights, and insist on
getting them. I believe it would be a
good educational campaign to tell
these ‘Store Keepers’ a few things, and
let them ask their favors from the
lizzards, and then you would see durned
quick how the fight would stop.

“Why shouldn’t we demand and get
our regular rate of profit, as consist-
ently as the bank demands a certain
rate of interest from their customers?
Isn’t our merchandise money? I'll say
it is, and money in large gobs.”

—_>-+—___
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When a customer comes in a store
with a complaint, he is wounded. If
you treat him rudely or suspiciously
he is killed.

Every retailer should know this fact
and teach it to all his sales people—
that a customer with a complaint must
be treated with extra courtesy and
friendliness.

A complaint-bringing customer is
hurt. He needs “first aid to the in-
jured.”

He has already had one crack from
your shop, or thinks he has. If you
give him another crack, he is lost to
you forever.

A complaining customer is at the
crossroads. Where he goes, depends
on how you treat him. He will become
either a dead customer or a live and
loyal one.

So, make sure that you have a Red
Cross system in your firm, for the
special treatment of wounded custo-
mers. Don’t knock them on the head,
as most stores do, when they come in
wounded.

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Re-union of the Grand Army at Grand
Rapids.

Grandville, Aug. 11—The soon-to-
convene re-union of civil war veterans
at Grand Rapids brings to mind old
scenes and incidents of that period
when the Valley City was then as now
the metropolis of West Michigan. With
its 8000 inhabitants it was, in the eyes
of the rural population next to Chicago
in importance. For the early settlers
of the North woods, Chicago and
Grand Rapids were names most fre-
quently mentioned.

Chicago was the lumberopolis of the
United States, even at that time, and
Michigan lumbermen had frequent in-
tercourse with the people of that thriv-
ing burg. In the boyish imagination
of the writer Grand Rapids was quite
as great as Chicago, the two being his
highest conception of urban growth and
prosperity.

It was forty miles from our little
settlement to the Valley City. When
the civil war broke out that city was
headquarters for the mustering of
troops for defense of the Union which
the gaunt railsplitter of Illinois, lately
made President of the whole Union,
had sworn to protect and defend to the
last gasp. If I remember right Grand
Rapids was the rendezvous of several
regiments raised in this part of Michi-
gan.

How different would have been the
mustering of these young soldiers had
there been automobiles to take them
to town. Instead, many of those young
patriots thought nothing of walking
forty or fifty miles to join the regi-
ment.

One young calvaryman, two days
before his regiment left for the seat
of war, took “Shank’s horses,” for his
home in the pine woods, forty miles
away. He walked the distance in
twelve hours, remained one night. at
the old home, with father, mother,
brothrs and sisters and the next day
trod back forty miles in time to rejoin
the regiment as it entrained for the
Sunny South. This would seem quite
a stunt in itself, but it was a mere
nothing in the young life of a Union
recruit.

The first time the writer looked up-
on Grand Rapids, of which he had
heard much since infancy, was in the
autumn of 1863, when with his father
and the teamster they drove in a lum-
ber wagon that forty miles to see a
sick brother who was a member of the
Tenth cavalry.

The drive to the city and back oc-
cupied three days time. To-day the
trip per auto could be made in an hour.
Of such are the advantages of the
present day over those of two genera-
tions ago. There were no paved State
highways then. In the inclement sea-
son the road was hub deep with mud,
so that thirty miles a day was con-
sidered good traveling.

Doubtless those old days will come
with a thrill to the minds of those old
soldiers who come together in perhaps
their last reunion this side the Great
Beyond.

One young soldier, a mere boy, since
he was but 15 when he mustered into
the Eighth infantry, his father a Bap-
tist minister, went cheerfully to war
for the preservation of the Union and
fell fighting in the Carolinas. An offi-
cer in his regiment was the late Major
Watson, who was wounded and in-
valided home. The soldier boy did not
die, although a bullet from a rebel
sharpshooter passed entirely through
his body.

He came home discharged and en-
tered the mil], where he worked be-
fore enlisting. Some months later he
re-enlisted in the Tenth cavalry and
served to the end of the war, and
for aught the writer knows, may still
be living. If he is living, and able to
attend the G. A. R. reunion, it would
give the writer great pleasure to re-
ceive a visit from the aged veteran.

The Grand Army of the Republic is

but a remnant of its one time vigorous
thousands, and the day is not far dis-
tant when the last Union soldier of the
civil war will give the last countersign
and pass over the river.

What a grand thing it would be if
a soldier of the sixties, long passed
over, could come back to Grand Rap-
ids and again view the city grown to
be one of the best known commercial
marts in the Union.

Automobiles would give that return-
ed soldier boy a thrill. Those boys in
blue who died that the Nation might
live formed a large army, and to see
them now, marshaled under their old
commanders, viewing with wondering
eyes the great improvements of the
past half century would, to quote an
old auntie of the sixties, “be good for
sore eyes.”

The spirits of the dead will surely
be with the remnant of the old guard
that musters soon on the streets of
Grand Rapids to honor those who have
passed over, and so long as trees grow
and waters run there'll be reverent
mention at homes and firesides of that
army in blue which, with their com-
mander, Lincoln, holds first place in
the hearts of all good Americans.

The writer calls to mind the re-union
of the Army of the Cumberland, held
in the Valley City about two genera-
tions ago. There was a parade, camp-
fires and much rejoicing, with Little
Phil Sheridan, the main spoke in that
wheel of the long ago.

Little Phil will not be with the
veterans this year, but the one time
Colonel of the Second Michigan cav-
alry will not be forgotten, more es-
pecially if there should be any mem-
bers of that sterling regiment present
at the coming re-union.

Days of tenting on the old camp
ground will be recalled. The boys who
drank from the same canteen—grizzled
octogenarians now—will still call to
mind those old scenes when Grand
Rapids entertained the boy soldiers of
that war which has passed into history
as the greatest struggle in which this
Nation was ever engaged.

Old Timer.

—_——_-_o-ooa

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Aug. 11—Leonard
Ganzel and Clinton Furtney have form-
ed a co-partnership under the style of
the Ganzel Drug Co. to engage in busi-
ness in the corner store in the new
Brooks building, corner Eastern avenue
and Burton street. The fixtures and
stock were furnished by the Hazeltine
& Perkins Drug Co.

R. C. Eaton, the Otsego druggist,
has introduced a new mechanically re-
frigerated fountain, supplied by the
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

The Owl Drug Co. will install three
additional drug stores at Lansing. The
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. will
furnish fixtures for all three stores and
install a fountain in one of them.

S. R. Smith has sold his drug stock
at 920 South Division avenue to Leon
A. Frazier, who has clerked for the
Henry Riechel Drug Co. for several
years. Mr. Frazier has ordered a new
fountain from the Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.

The $1 beefsteak dinner which has
been a notable feature at the Occidental
Hotel, Muskegon, for a couple of years
past—with very satisfactory results to
all concerned—has been varied by
Landlord Swett so that his guests now
have the choice of lake trout or beef-
steak, whichever they prefer. In either
case baked potato, French fried potato
or potato chips is optional, according
to the preference of the guest. The ad-
dition to the menu is a most welcome
one and adds greatly to the popularity
of a very popular hotel. The fish cook
at the Occidental, by the way, has no
equal this side of New Orleans.

George Monroe, for 38 years a trav-
eling salesman, has retired, and as a
reward for his efficient service with
the Detroit Casket Co. for the past

Mr. Monroe will draw
Mr.

sixteen years.

his former salary as a pension.

Monroe resides at St. Johns.
—_72o——_

Incapable of the Truth.

The world in general is not yet sat-
isfied with the explanations that have
been given for the Kitchener tragedy.

So there is a public for books on the
subject. One has just been published
in England, “The Truth About Kitch-
ener,” by V. W. Germains. It con-
tains a letter written tothe author by
a person who might be supposed to be
informed, if any one was, about the
case—no less a person than General
Ludendorff. The concluding para-
graph of the letter states:

His mysterious death was the work
neither of a German mine nor of a
German torpedo, but of the Power
which would not permit the Russian
army to recover with the help of Lord
Kitchener, because the destruction of
Czarist Russia had been determined
upon,

This is cryptical enough for the most
enthusiastic searcher for mysteries.
The author does not clear it up much.
He does add, however, that

Englishmen who remember the un-
commonly close relations which exist-
ed in those days between the Russian
revolutionary committees and the Ger-
man intelligence service may be for-
given for drawing their own conclu-
sions.

The conclusion would be that the
Hampshire was sunk by Bolshevist
agency. Alas for Ludendorff and the
impression he intended to convey! He
was trying to say, without really say-
ing it, that England was the Power
which had decreed the destruction of
Czarist Russia. He meant that the
wiseacres who have studied the long
course of conflict between England and
Russian imperialism should draw this
logical and sinister conclusion. All
things considered, Ludendorff failed
completely, as he has always done in
everything he ever undertook—except
in demonstrating that he is one of the
worst brutes who ever lived.

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Merchants Victimized by Fraudulent
Pay Checks.

Warning has reached the Tradesman

from one of its subscribers at St. Paul,

 

that all retailers should be on their
against a bad check scheme
is being operated by colored

guard
which
men who pose as employes of the Pull-
man Company. These men represent
to be porters and present
regulation Pullman Company pay
checks in amounts of $80 to $95 in
payment for merchandise, receiving the

themselves

balance back in cash.

They show readily an identification
tag on a key ring with a porter’s num-
ber of four figures which corresponds
to a number typed on the checks. They
papers

They
work singly, but it is believed that sev-

also are supplied with other

bearing names on the checks.

eral of them are practicing the decep-
tion.

The men are described as very cour-
teous and smooth and sometimes are
dressed in blue vests and trousers to
give the impression they are railroad
men. They defrauded merchants in the
Twin Cities of several thousand dol-
lars, about a dozen checks in St. Paul
They are
Louis
states

and many in Minneapolis.
have worked in St.
several Southern

known to
and through
and are believed to be working further
West at the present time. They oper-
ate in department, specialty and jewel-
ry stores.

The checks are drawn on the New
York Trust Company and other de-
positaries listed on the back of the
checks. Further information may be
had from the Pullman Company.

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Other Side of the
Question.
Muskegon, Aug. 11—Referring to
the recent article in your paper con-
cerning tourist camps, I think the ar-
ticle greatly exaggerated the situation.
No doubt too much money has been

The Tourist

spent in this direction. However, lI
know of many worthy families who
have taken trips which were educa-

tional for all members of the family
who could never have done so if they
had to pay at least $1 per person at
night.

As for traveling men using the
camps, I doubt if this happens very
much. I know I never have and I
know of no other salesman who does.

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Registered Pharmacists.
Joseph Affeldt, Detroit.
Lamont O. Bliss, Detroit.
Harold C. Brogan, Stockbridge.
Lorn B. Dickhout, Detroit.
Benjamin Grosberg, Detroit. :
Edgar M. Halfman, Sault Ste. Marie.
Geo. W. Johnson, Cadillac. —
James S. Keller, Grand Rapids.
Harley B. Kinne, Nashville.
Lloyd D. Lawson, Detroit.
Chas. V. LeFevre, Detroit.
Ed. McConnell, Jr., Detroit.
Norwood H. Meyer, Detroit.
M. N. Mugurian, Detroit.
Gladys M. Nisewander, Buckley.
Fred J. Potvin, Detroit.
Clifford E. Saum, Monroe.
Harold L. Townsend, Big Rapids.
Samuel Frank Vander, Detroit.
Raymond H. Watts, Northville.
Jos. Weinshelboim, Detroit.
L. Orren Barber, Big Rapids.
Leo F. Brandel, Mt. Pleasant.
Henry E. Griffendorf, Benton
bor. :
Louis J. Harris, Detroit. _
Waldemar E. Heyn, Detroit.
Frona Fox Mueller, Detroit.
Carl J. Ostrander, Cadillac.
Wyman Persons, Goodrich. :
Clement J. Piaskowski, Detroit.
Joseph Radner, Detroit.
Ray J. Schmelzer, Detroit.
Rosa Mae Stinchcomb, Sunfield.
Stanley J. Temrowski, Detroit.
Henry O. Trinklein, Saginaw.
Daniel W. Whitmore, Detroit.

Har-

Registered Assistant Pharmacists.
Arthur Aiken, Windsor, Ont.
Carl J. Anderson, Manistee.
Benjamin B. Babcock, West Branch.
Joseph L. Bonsall.

Richard R. Brett, Windsor, Ont.
Alex Brooks, Detroit.

Harold J. Carr, Detroit.

Archie Chisholm, Detroit.
Alfred H. Coles, Flint.

E. Amy Eck, Toronto, Ont.
Frenn Green, Flint.

Cecil Habermehl, Farmington.
Gardiner, Hanley, Detroit.
Wayne N. Headley. Williamston.
Arthur Heineman, Detroit.
Harold James Johns, Highland Park
Harry H. Katzowitz, Detroit.
Moe Lakritz, Detroit.

Archie F. Lambke, Detroit.
John Arthur Langton, Detroit.
Paul I. Lemke, Detroit.
Sherman L. Lepard, Ann Arbor.
Fraser W. Lockhart, Detroit.
James E. Lynch, Ann Arbor.
George E. McCoy, Detroit.
Luther M. Mardigian, Detroit.
William Metzger, Grand Rapids.
Percy J. Morton, Detroit.

Floyd S. Park, Ann Arbor.
Thomas H. Pegram, Detroit.
Garnet R. Perdue, Detroit.
Louis Petchesky, Detroit.

Serge Poliak, Detroit.

Freddie A. Probst, Lansing.
Clarence C. Rau, West Branch.
Charles R. Rice, Lansing.
Edw. P. Richards, Detroit.
James W. Robinson, Lansing.
Gerard N. Rochon, Detroit.
Ralph A. Roehm, H. P.

Saul H. Rosenblum, Detroit.
Francis C. Schriber, Saginaw.

Harry Shaberman, Detroit.
3ernard J. Smith, Gladwin.
Marvin G. Spayde, Bloomingdale.
Oscar A. Stensaas, Ishpeming.
Stanley Thorpe, Detroit.
Louis C. Toutloff, Ishpeming.
Harry A. Warner, Detroit.
Edw. Yentis, Detroit.
Ellis R. Jibson, Muskegon Heights.
L. E. Armstrong, Battle Creek.
E. H. Edwards. Detroit.
Israel Fleiss. Detroit.
John W. Haithman, Bay City.
E. Dawson Martin, Detroit.
Edw. Morey, Detroit.
Boyden P. Moyer, Charlotte.
Milford Polley, Detroit.
Bertha E. Pupard, Trenton.
Harold A. Schaar, Detroit.
Irwin M. Schockley, Kalamazoo.
Helene Ziegler, Saginaw.
Belle Rottenberg.

H. H. Hoffman, Director.

Forty-Third Annual Convention of
M. S. P. A.

The forty-third annual convention of
State Pharmaceutical
Association held at Muskegon.
Aug. 5, 6 and 7. The convention was
the largest in the history of the As-
sociation, nearly 500 attending. The
convention was marked by the large
percentage that attended the sessions.

The opening event of the convention
was a noon-day luncheon for both the
druggists and their wives at the Oc-
cidental Hotel on Wednesday. At this
luncheon, the address of welcome was
given by Archie E. Eckes, editor of
the Muskegon Chronicle. This ad-
dress was replied to by John Weisel,
President of the M. S., P. A.

Immediately after the luncheon, the
druggists retired to the convention hall
for the first business session of the
convention. At this session the Presi-
dent’s address and the reports of the
Secretary, Treasurer and chairmen of

the Michigan

was

-the Executive, Membership and Pub-

licity Committees told of the activities
of the Association. The reports from
the State

Prescott

3oard of Pharmacy and the
Memorial Scholarship As-
sociation were also read.

After this session, the Specimen
Contest was opened. This was held
open for the entire three days. The
prize winners were W. C. Kirchgess-
ner and E. R. Negus, tied for first
Clark Treat, second and John R. Mil-
ler, third.

Wednesday evening, the ball was
held at the Knights of Pythias ball
room.

Thursday morning was the Trades
Interest Session. The reports of the
Trades Interest and Legislative Com-
mittees were made. F. E. Bogart
spoke on Sir William Glynn-Jones and
the P. A. T. A. H. S. Neal spoke on
the “Turnover Question.’ At noon
the men held a luncheon at the Elks’
Temple. At this luncheon Julius Rei-
menschnieder, chairman of the Execu-

TRADESMAN

tive Committee of the N. A. R. D.
presented the greetings from that or-
ganization. During the morning, the
ladies were entertained with an auto-
mobile ride and a luncheon at the Mus-
kegon Country Club.

The Thursday afternoon session was
held on board the Goodrich steamship
City of Grand Rapids, on Lake Michi-
This was an open session of the

gan.
Resolutions Committee and the elec-
tion of officers was held. Officers
elected were:

President—E. J. Fletcher, Grand

Rapids.

Vice-President—Howard Hurd, Flint

Second Vice-President—A. J. Miller
Three Rivers.

Treasurer—George H. Moore, Caro.

Secretary — Louis V. Middleton
Grand Rapids.

Members of the Executive Commit-
tee—J. A. Skinner and D. G. Look.

Members of the Prescott Memorial
Scholarship Association—E. E. Cal-
kins and C. R. Horton.

Thursday evening, the ladies were
entertained at a theater party, while
the men had a stag supper at the Elks’
Temple. At this supper, Dr. R. S
Dixon, of the Venereal Clinic, Detroit,
gave an illustrated lecture on venereal
diseases which was startling in the ex-
treme, yet it lacked the general pes-
simism that generally goes with a lec-
ture of this type.

At a meeting held by the Michigan
Pharmaceutical Travelers Association
Thursday evening, Dr. Wm. C. Martin
was elected President; H. H. Hoffman
First Vice-President and Walter S.
Lawton Secretary-Treasurer for the
coming year. ‘Doc’ Martin is from
Detroit and is with Eli Lilly & Co.
“Herb” Hoffman is the Director of
Drugs and Drug Stores at Lansing and
Walter S. Lawton is with the Miles
Medical Co., and is from Grand Rapids.

At the Friday morning session, J.
L. Buell spoke of Merchandising under
Present Conditions and Walter Pitz
gave a very interesting talk on Insulin.
using live rabbits to illustrate his talk.
Otis Wetterstrom, Secretary of the
Ohio State Pharmaceutical Association
brought the greetings from his associa-
tion. This has been a neighborly cus-
tom of the Ohio and Michigan associa-
tions for the past two years, to have
representatives of the sister associa-
tion make a friendly call during the
convention. The idea is conducive of
so much good that it is thought that
it will be beneficial to enlarge upon it
in the future.

At a meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee, held Thursday afternoon, J. A.
Skinner was elected chairman of that
Committee.

Bay City was selected by the mem-
bership as the next meeting place.

—_3.22s___
Taking Time by the Forelock.

Only the pharmacist who thinks
far ahead and plans far ahead gets
ahead. Here is an employe, a phar-
macy clerk. Being only human he is
not perfect, he has his failing. Hold
a bit now; think ahead! Why jump
from the frying pan into the fire. May
he not be on the way to make a most
efficient helper? Is he improving, mak-
ing gain in accuracy and in customer-
connections every day? In other words

August 12, 1925

is he a learner or does he simply work
for the gets—the wage
and nothing more, If he growing, or
has he done growing? Look ahead be-
fore you decide to discharge him—
look before you leap, then make your
decision.

Take the seasons by the forelock in
advertising and display. Guaranteed
remedies for spring fever may not go
like the proverbial hot cakes when the
days of Indian summer are at hand.
True, there is no timeliness with some
diseases—they always seem untimely—
but when an epidemic says, “Here I
am,” it is up to us to have an epidemic
of customers purchasing standard rem-
dies for the disease. “When an epi-
demic is handy have the remedies
handy,” is a commonsense slogan.

wages he

Why not turn the key in the front
door or know that it is turned on time,
To a waiting customer five minutes
may seem an hour—elastic time. When
you open on time some transient may
say; “Good; opens on time! I’m going
to patronize that store!” To keep a
customer waiting unnecessarily in these
days of “Get there, Eli, quick!” is only
throwing a bucket of water in the face
of trade. Then a pharmacist is not
fair, either to employes or to himself,
save as he also closes on time.

Surely in ordering stock, be it drugs
or sundries, we must take time by the
forelock. The words, “Sorry, madam,
but we are out,” tend to grow trite
after a time, and some indignant cus-
tomer feels like exclaiming: “You are
always out! Think I’ll follow your ex-
ample and try your competitor, the
Universal Pharmacy.”

Take time by the forelock in prom-
ises. Why not leave a margin of a
few minutes in compounding a pre-
scription—a safety margin? The busy
business man is pleased when you say;
“All ready for you, Mr. Jackson.” Yes,
he is far more pleased than he is when
you say; “Sorry; we have been de-
layed and your prescription is not yet
ready. Take a seat for a few minutes.”
So the customer takes a seat and
fidgets around as if wearing a hair
shirt, or as if minutes were dollars—as
they very likely are. Is not a margin
on a promise as essential as the margin
on a printed page?

George W. Tuttle.
— 72.
Labeling “Crushed Fruit” For Foun-
tains.

The United States Bureau of Chem-
istry has announced a ruling on the
labeling of crushed fruit for soda foun-
tain use, says a bulletin of the Na-
tional Wholesale Grocers’ Association.
Fruit from which the juice has been
extracted in part should not be labeled
“Crushed Fruit,” or with other sim-
ilar designations, unless the name is
immediately followed by an equally
conspicuous declaration that juice has
been extracted. If sugar and artificial
color have been added, the presence of
both these substances should be plain-
ly declared on the label. It is stated

that information has come to the Bu-
reau of Chemistry to the effect that
p-oducts designated “Crushed Fruit’ -
which is shipped to soda fountains is
deprived of a considerable proportion
The juice is used in mak-
ing fountain syrup, jellies and like

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MICHIGAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mail-
ing and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however,
are liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders
filled at market vrices at date of purchase.

ADVANCED

Eva. Apricots
Evap. Peaches

 

 

DECLINED

Some Cheese
Rolled Oats

 

 

Cloves
Ginger
Pepper
Nutmegs
— —7
AMMONIA Instant Postum, No. 9 5 00 Beef, No. %, Qua. all. ‘ -
Instant Postum ae. 10 450 Beef, 5 oz., Qua.
Arctic, 16 oz. —------- 200 postum Cereal, No. 0 225 Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. ‘ 4
Arctic, 32 oz. ------ 3 25 postum Cereal, Ne. 1 270 Beefsteak & Onions, s 3 75
Quaker, 36, 12 oz. case 3 85 post Toasties, 36s -. 3 45 Chili Con Ca., 1s 1 35@1 45
— Fost Toasties, 24s 345 Deviled Ham, %s -__ 2 20
Post’s Bran, 24s .... 2 70 oe Sean --- 3 60
amburg Ste
BROOMS Onions, No. 1 ~_..- 3 15
Parlor Pride, doz. --_. 6 25 potted Beef, - oz. 110

10 Ib. pails, per doz.

 

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

BAKING POWDERS

Arctic, 7 oz. tumbier
Queen Flake, 16 oz., dz
Royal, 10c, doz. -.-.-.
Royal, 6 oz., doz. —.
Royal, Y 102» dom _.
Royal, 5 ib. —....__

Stl 16 oz. doz.

1 35

2 25

BEECH-NUT BRANDS.

 

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LTV ky. ue

Mints, all flavors -.__ _ 60
Ra 70
Fruit rows 70
ores 70
Sliced bacon, large —. 4 95
Sliced bacon, medium 3 00
Sliced beef, large —.. 4 50
Sliced beef, medium ~— 2 80
Grape Jelly, large -._ 4 50

Grape Jelly, medium__
Peanut butter, 16 oz.
Peanuts butter, 10% oz
Peanut butter, 6% oz.
Peanut butter, 3% oz.
Prepared Spaghetti __
Baked beans, 16 oz.__

BLUING
Original

2 70
4 70
3 25

bak ped Pet
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SSans

meme condensed Pearl

 

BREAKFAST FOODS

Cracked Wheat, 24-2
Cream of Wheat, 188
Cream of Wheat, 24,

10 2

Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l
Quaker Puffed Rice_-
Quaker Puffed Wheat
Quaker Brfst Biscuit
Ralston Branzos --_
Ralston Food, large --
Saxon Wheat Food -.
Vita Wheat, 12s __-___

Post’s Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s —_ ..

Grape-Nuts, 100s  ...
Instant Postum, No. $

3 85
3 60

2 20
5 60

Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 7 75
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 50
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 50

Bx. Fcy. Parlor 26 Ib. . _
Whisk, No. 3 ___--__ 2 75
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. --_. 1 50
Solid Back, 1 in. -__. 1 76
Pointed Ends  -.____ 1 26
Stove
Shaker 2 1 80
Np: Bp 2 00
Pepdess <2 2 60
Shoe
No: 6-0 2 25
No. 2) 2 3 00
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, -....-__--. 2 85
Nedrow, 3 oz., doz. 2 56
CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1
Plumber, bs. _... 138

a 2
ara: sn = 4"
icking eee 6

Tudor, 6s, per box -.

CANNED FRUIT,

Apples, 3 lb. Standard 1 60
Apples, No. 10 _. 4 50@5 75
Apple Sauce, No. 10 7 50
Apricots, No. 1 1 75@2 00
Apricots, No. 2 3 00
Apricots, No. 2% 3 008 3
Apricots, No. 10 ____

Blackberries, No. 10 9 20
Blueber’s, No. 2 2 00@2 75
Blueberries, No. 10_. 15 00

Cherries, No. 2 _..... 3 00
Cherries, No. 2% —---. 3 75
Cherries, No. 10 —-. 10 00
Loganberries, No. 2 __ 3 00
Peaches, No. 1 1 25@1 80
Peaches, No. 1, Sliced 1 40
Peaches, No. . 2 75

Peaches, No. 2% Mich 3 25
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 25@3 75
Peaches, 10, Mich. —_ 8 50
Pineapple, 1, sl. 1 80@2 00
Pineapple, 2 sl. 2 80@3 00
P’apple, 2 br. sl. 2 65@2 85
P’apple, 2%, sli. 3 35@3 50
P’apple, 2, cru. 3 60@32 75
Pineapple, * cru. — 11 56
3

Pears, NO. 2 00
Pears, No. 2% __4 25@4 75
Plums, No. 2 _. 2 40@2 50
Plums, No. 24%4 ____._ 2 90

Raspberries, No. 2, blk 3 60
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 15 00
— 8, Black,

10 6
Rhubarb, No. 10 —--- 5 25

CANNED FISH.

Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1 35
Clam Ch., No 3
Clams, ee No. 1 2 00
Clams, Minced, No. 1 3 25
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 30
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.. 2 50
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 75
Fish Flakes, small __ 1 35
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 85
Cove Oysters, 5 oz. — 1 90
Lobster, No. 4, Star 2 60
Shrimp, 1, wet 2 10@2 26
Sard’s, 4% Oil, Ky 5 25@6 00
Sardines, %4 Oil, k’less 4 75
Sardines, % Smoked 67
Salmon, Warrens, ¥%s 2 75
Salmon, Rd Alas. 3 40@3 50
Salmon, Med. Alaska : c
Salmon, Pink Alaska
Sardines, Im. \%, ea. “ois
Sardines, Im., %, ei 25
Sardines, Cal. __ 1 $5Q@1 80
Tuna, %, Albocore —_ 5
Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
Tuna, %s, Curtis, doz. 3 50
Tuna, is, Curtis, doz. 7 00
CANNED MEAT.

Bacon, Med. Beechnut 3 00
Bacon, Lge Beechnut 4 95
Beef, No. 1, Corned — 2 70
Beef, No. 1, Roast — 3 70
Beef, No. 3%, Qua. sli. 1 85

Potted Meat, %
Potted Meat,
Potted Meat, % Q
Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 85

Vienna Saus., No. % 1 35
Vienna Sausage, Qua. 95
Veal Loaf, Medium _. 2 30
Baked Beans
Campbelie oe 1 15
Ouaker, 18 og. 90
I'remont, No. 2 ~-__-- 1 zu
Snider, No. ee ee
Snider, No. 2 ... 1 25
Van Camp, small -... 85
Van Camp, Med. -... 1 15
CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus.
No. 1, Green tips 4 =e 75
-No. 24, Lge. Green >
W. Bean, cut --.-____
W. Beans, 10 -_ 8 50612 00

Green Beans, 2s 2 00@3 75
Gr. Beans, 108 7 50@13 00
L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 835@32 65
Lima Beans, 2s, Soaked 95
Red Kid. No. 2 1 20@1 35
Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 75@2 40
Beets, No. 2, cut ..-. 1 60
Beets, No, 3. cut -... 1 80
Corn, No. 2, Ex stan 1 66
Corn, No. 2, Fan. 1 80@2 86
Corn, No. 2, Fy. glass 3 25
Corn, No. 10 — 7 60@16 76
Hominy, No. 3 1 00@1 15
Okra, No. 2, whole —
Okra, No. 2, cut ——
Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, lb. 45
Mushrooms, Hotels _.. 42
Mushrooms, Choice __. 63
Mushrooms, — ooo 70
Peas, No. 2, E. 1 75@1 8}
ee. Jo. 2, sitt,

2 35
Sian Ex. Fine, French 26
Pumpkin, No. 3 1 36 : 60
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 50@5 60
Pimentos, %, each es
Pimentos, %, each —
Sw’t Potatoes, No. a4 1 i
Saurkraut, No. 3 1 40@1 50

Succotash, No. : 1 65@2 50
Succotash, No. 2, glass : >
Spinach, No. j Eisai ees

Spinach, No. 2__ 1 é@1 30
Spinach, No. 3. 2 10@2 60

Spinach, No. 10 6 00@7 00
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 40@1 60
Tomatoes, No. 3 2 00

Tomatoes, No. 2, glass 2 60
Tomatoes, No. 10 _. 7 50
CATSUP.

B-nut, Small 476

Lily Valley, 14 oz. — 3 60
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 =
Paramount, 24, 83 .... 1 4

Paramount, 24, 16s __ 2 1
Paramount, 6, 10s __ 10 00

 

 

Sniders, 8 oz. _... 1 95
Sniders, 16 oz. 2 95
Quaker, 10% oz. : =
Quaker. 14 os,

Quaker, Gallon Glass a io

CHILI SAUCE
Snider, 16 os. 3
Snider, 8 oz. ee
CO w .

Lilly Valley, 8 10
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. -. 8 60
OYSTER COCKTAIL.
Sniders, 16 oz. -...__ 3 50
Sniders, 8 oz. -...... 3 50
CHEESE
Roquefort -........___ 52
Kraft, Small tins ____ 1 65
Kraft, American ____ 1 65
Chili, small tins ____ 1 65
Pimento, small tins __ 1 65
Roquefort, small tins 2 25
Camenbert. small tins 2 25
Wisconsin New ______ 28
Loenhorm 2 28

Michigan Full Cream 27
New York Full Cream 29
Sag

2 2

TRADESMAN

CHEWING GUM.

Adams Black Jack -_-- 65
Adams Bloodberry ---- 65
Adams Dentyne --__-... 65
Adams Calif. Fruit: -... 65
Adams Sen Sen -__---- 65
Beeman’s Pepsin —- ~~~ 65
peccnment oo 70
Doublemint —---_.------ 65
oucy Brut 65

Peppermint, Wrigleys —. 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys -. 65

Wrigley’s P-K -—- __----- 65
NN 65
SUN Bo ee 65
CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, s . 8
Baker, Caracas, B. .- ab
Hersheys, emium, 4s 36
Hersheys, Premium, \%s 36
Runkle, Premium, %s_ 29
Runkle, Premium, ¥%s_ 32
Vienna Sweet, 24s _.. 2 10
COCOA.

Bunte, (ee 48
Bunte, Bo .
uMOe, 1D. oo

Ib.
Droste’s Dutch, 1 lb. 8 0

Droste’s Dutch, % lb. 4 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 =
Hersheys, #5 pS Sede
ws ea as HH
WAT 36
Lowney, %s —____.__._.. 40
Lowney, ine es — 40
Lowney, %s --_-------- 38
Lowney, 5 lb. cans -__. 31
Runkies; 4s. 32
Runkies, {se —..._...__ 36
Van Houten, i cas 76
Van Houten. So ae
COCOANUT.
%s, 5 Ib. case Dunham 42
4a, B lb. case —--... 40
%s & %es 15 lb. case 41

Bulk, barrels shredded 21
48 2 oz. pkgs., per case 4 15
48 4 os. pkgs., per case 7 00

CLOTHES LINE.

Hemp, 60 ft. ......__.. 2 25
Twisted Cotton, 50 ft. 1 75
Braided, 50 ft. 2 75

 

HUME GROCER CO.

ROASTERS
MUSKEGON, MICB

 

COFFEE ROASTED

Bulk
Rig
NAMUOR 2 isa
Maracaibo
Gantemaia 2 i
Java and Mocha  _____ 49
Borer 2220 41
Peaberry oo -. 36

McLaughliin’s Kept-Fresh

Vacuum packed. Always

fresh. Complete line of

high-grade bulk coffees.

W. F. McLaughlin & Co.,
Chicago

Telfer Coffee Co.
Bokay.
Coffee Extracts

MX... per 190
Frank’s 50 pkgs. .. 4 25

Brand

Hummel’s 50 1 Ib. —. 10%
CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 doz. _-_.._ 6 75

Ragle, 4 doz. _....... 9 00

MILK COMPOUND

Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. _. 4 50
Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. .. 4 40
Carolene, Tall, 4 doz. 3 80
Carolene, Baby -_.... 3 50

EVAPORATED MILK

 

Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. __ 4 75
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 4 65
Quaker, Gallon, % doz. 4 60
Blue Grass, Tall 48 ~~ 4 65

Blue Grass, Baby, 96_ 4 55

 

Blue Grass, No. 10 —. 4 65
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5 00
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 4 90
Every Day, Tall ~--__ 5 00
Every Day, Baby ---. 4 90
Pet. Tal 5 00
Pet, Baby, 8 oz. _._.. 490
Borden’s, Tall ---.. 5 90
Borden’s Baby ------. 4 90
Van Camp, Tall -... 4 90
Van Camp, Baby ---. 3 75
CIGARS

Worden Grocer Co. Brands

Canadian Club -.--. 37 50
Master Piece. 50 Tin. 37 50
Tom Moore Monarch 75 00
Tom Moore Panatella 75 00
Tom Moore Cabinet 95 00
Tom M. Invincible 115 00
Websteretts -.-..-.. 37 50
Webster Savoy ---. 75 00
Webster Plaza ...... 95 00
Webster Belmont_—-110 00
Webster St. Reges..125 00
Starlight Rouse -... 20
Starlight P-Club -. 135 :
Tiona — 30 0
Clint Ford —----_-- 35 90
Nordac Triangulars,

1-20, per M ~--_--- 75 00
Worden’s Havana

Specials, * 20, per M 75 00

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails

Standard —......... seceue =
Jumbo Wrapped
Pure Sugar Sticks 600s i "20
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 20

Mixed Candy

 

 

Kindergarten — 18
nee sate cee AE
Oo ae

ica Creams --..... 19
Cameo: oR
Grocers ~~...

 

Fancy Chocolates
5 lb. Boxes

Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 70
Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 70
Milk Chocolate A A.. 1 80
Nibble Sticks
Primrose Choc. --....
No. 12 Choc., Dark —
No. 12, Choc., Light — 1 76
Chocolate Nut Rolls ~ 1 75

Gum Drops Pails
Rail os 17
Orange Gums -_---.. 17
Challenge Gums --..-- 14
Mevorite 20
Superior, Boxes ~..... 24

Lozenges. Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges 18
A. A. 2ink Lozenges 18
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 18
Motto Hearts ne
Malted Milk Lozeng ges 22

Hard Gooas. Pails

Lemon Drops -----.-- 20
O. F. Horehound dps. 20
Anise Squares —---.. ae
Peanut Squares ...... 20
Horehound Tabets -.. 19

Cough Drops’ Bxs.
Pumam's 3 1 30
Smith Bros. --..-_. -. 1 50

Package Goods

Creamery Marshmallows
4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 95
4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 3 90

Specialties.

Walnut Fudge --....-_ 2
Pineapple Fudge  -._.. 31
Italian Bon Bons —_.... 19

Atlantic Cream Mints_ 31
Silver King M. Mallows 31
Walnut Sundae, 24, 5e 80
Neapolitan, 24, 5c _.__ 8@
Yankee Jack, 24, 5c _. 80
Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 5c 8C
Pal O Mine, 24, 5c _.... 80

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade 8 &@
100 Economic grade 4 50
500 Economic grade 20 00
1000 Economic grade 37 50
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 ib. boxes 98

August 12, 1925

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
Domestic, 20 lb. box
- Y. Fey, 50 lb. box 16%
- ¥. Fey, 14 oz. pkg. 17%

 

Apricots
Evaporated, Choice __ 30
Evaporated, Fancy __ 35
Evaporated, Slabs __ 27

Citron
10 lb. box “

Currants
Package, 14 oz. -.___ 18
Greek, Bulk, lb. ~.... 16

Dates
Dromadary, 36S __..__ 6 75
Peaches

Evap., Choice, un. ____ 18
Evap., Ex. Fancy, P. P. 20

Peal

Lemon, American -..... 34
Orange, American —.._.. 24

Raisins.

Seeded, bulk
Thompson’s s’dles blk 09
=? seedless,

Sacden, 15 oz.
California Prunes
90@100, 25 lb. boxes _@08%
60@70, 25 lb. boxes —@10%
50@60, 25 lb. boxes —@13
40@50, 25 lb. boxes _.@14
30@40, 25 lb. boxes _.@16
20@30, 25 lb. boxes -.@323

 

FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans
Med. Hand Picked —_ 07
Cal. Limas 15

Brown, Swedish ..... 07%
Red Kidney -....-.... 10%

 

Farina
24 packages — 2 6
Bulk, ye> 100 Ibs .. 06%
Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks __ 4 25
Macaroni
Domestic, 20 Ib. box 10

Armours, 2 doz., 8 oz. 1 80
Foulds 2 doz., 8 oz. 2 26
Quaker, 3 dos. 30

 

Pearl Barley

 

 

 

Peas
Scoteh, Ib; ¢ 08
Split, Ib. yellow ~.---- 08%
Split green — 10
Sago
East India 10
Taploca

Pearl, 100 lb. sacks ~ 10
Minute, 8 oz., 8 doz. 4 05
Dromedary Instant —. 3 60

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

 

Z. Des.
Lemon PURE Vanilla
165 __. % ounce -- 1 80

200 __.1% ounce —— 2 25

; 50 ___ 2% ounce —- 8 75
20 2 ounce ... 8 60
3 60 ounce .. 7 00

UNITED FLAVOR
Imitation Vanilla

1 ounce, 10 cent, dos. 90

2 ounce, 15 cent, dos. 1 25

8 ounce, 25 cent, dos. 2 00

4 ounce, 30 cent, dos. 3 35
Jiffy Punch

8 doz. Carton a5

 

Assorted flavors.

FRUIT CANS

 

Ideal Glass Top.
Rubbers.

Half pint __ aout

One pint __.

 
  

 

 

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August 12, 1925 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 29
GELATINE Pint, Jars, dozen -_-. 3 50 PROVISIONS Farmer Spec., 70 lb. 85 Queen Ann, 60 oz. -- 2 40 TABLE SAUCES
Jello-O, 3 doz ------ 345 4,02. Jar, plain, doz. Barreled Pork Packers Meat, 56 Ib. 67 Rinso, 100 oz. .-----—- 75 Lea & Perrin, large-- & 00
Clear Back __ 34 50@35 00

3 doz
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 2 25
Knox’s Acidu’d, doz. 2 25
Minute, 3 doz. ------- 4 05
Plymouth, White ---- 1 55
Quaker, 3 doz. ------ 2 70

HORSE RADISH

Per doz., 5 0Z. --~--- 1 20
JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 lb. pails ---- 3 80

Imitation, 30 lb. pails 2 10
Pure 6 oz. Asst., doz. 110
Buckeye, 22 oz., doz. 2 35

JELLY GLASSES
8 oz.,, per doz. —-------- 37

OLEOMARGARINE
Kent Storage Brands.
Good Luck, 1 1b. 27

Good Luck, 2 lb. ---- 26%
Gilt Edge, 1 1b. ---- 27
Gilt Bdge, 2 lb. ------ 264%
Delicia, 1 lb. —-------- 3%
Delicia, 2 lb. -------- 23
Van Westenbrugge Brands
Carioad Distributor

 

Nucoa, 1 tb. --------- 25%

Nucoa, 2 and 5 Ib. -- 25
Wilson & Co.’s Brands

Certified 25

Nut) 220 20
Special Role _-------- 25%
MATCHES
Swan, 144 ----------- 5 00
Diamond, 144 box ---- 6 60
Searchlight, 144 box 6 60

Ohio Red Label, 144 bx 5 00
Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box 6 60
Ohio Rosebud, 144 bx 6 60
Ohio Blue Tip, 720-1c 4 75
Safety Matches
Quaker, 5 gro. case 4 25

MINCE MEAT

None Such, 3 doz. -- 4 85

Quaker, 3 doz. case -~ 3 60

Libby, Kegs, wet, Ib. 22
MOLASSES.

 

Gold Brer Rabbit
. 10, @ cans to case 5 95
. 6, 12 cans to case 6 20
. 2%, 24 cans to cs. 6 45
. 14%, 36 cans to cs. 5 30
Green Brer Rabbit
. 1u, 6 cans to case 4 60
. 5, 12 cans to case 4 85
. 2%, 24 cans to Cs. 5 10
. 1%, 36 cans to cs. 4 30
Aunt Dinah Brand.
. 10, 6 cans to case 3 00
. 6, 12 cans o case 3 25
. 2%, 24 cans 0 CS. 3 50
. 1%, 36 cans oe CS. 3 00
New Orieans
Fancy Open Kettle -- 74
Choice 6
Fair
Half barrels Sc extra
Molasses in Cans.
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Wh. L.
Dove, 24, 2% lb Wh. L
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Black
Dove, 24, 2% lb. Black
Dove, 6, 10 lb. Blue L
Palmetto, 24, 2% Ib.
NUTS.
Whole
Almonds, Terregona_- 20
Brazil, New --------- 1%
Fancy mixed -------- 22
Filberts, Sicily
Peanuts, Virginia Raw 12%
Peanuts, Vir. roasted 15
Peanuts, Jumbo, raw 14

Cle oom OTT
“9
>

Peanuts, Jumbo, rstd 16%
Pecans, 3 star ------ 23
Pecans, Jumbo ------ 50

Walnuts, California __ 28
Salted Peanuts.

Fancy, No. 1 -------- 14
Jumbo .--------------- 23
Shelled.

Almonds ------------ 72

Peanuts, Spanish,

125 lb. bags ------- 13
Filberts -------- aun Of
Peeangs 2. 1 20
Walnuts —------------- 53

OLIVES.
Bulk, 2 gal. keg ---- 3 60
Bulk, 3 gal. keg ---- 5 25
, 6 . keg -.-. 8 50
uart Jars, dozen -- 6 60

3
1
5% oz. Jar, pl., doz. 1
9 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 2
290 oz. Jar, Pl. doz.-- 4
3 oz. Jar, Stu., doz. 1
6 oz. Jar, stuffed, dz. 2
9 oz. Jar, stuffed, doz.
12 oz. Jar, Stuffed,

d 4 50@4 75

 

PARIS GREEN
4g ___.__--.-------—---—— 31
Fe i meee eee 29
93 and 5s -------------- 27
Bel Car-Mo Brand
8 oz., 2 doz. in case
24 1 1b. pails ~---------
12 2 lb. pails ~---------
5 lb. pails 6 in crate
14 lb. pails ----------
25 lb. pails ---------
50 lb. tins ~-----------
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS

Iron Barrels

Perfection Kerosine -- 13.1
Red Crown Gasoline,

Tank Wagon ------ 19.7

Solite Gasoline 22.2

Gas Machine Gasoline 40.2

Vv. M. & P. Naptha 23.6

Capitol Cylinder _------ 41.2

23.2

13.7

Atlantic Red Engine
Winter Black --------

Yolarine

Light ----------------- 62.2
Medium -..---------- -- 64.2
Heavy ---------------- 66.2
Special heavy -------- 68.2
Extra heavy ---------- 70.2
Transmission Oil ---- 62.2
Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1 45
Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2 265
Parowax, 100, Ib. ------ 8.0
Parowax, 40, 1 Ib. ---- 8.2
Parowax, 20, 1 lb. ---- 8.4

 

12 pt.
12 qt. cans 4 60

Semdac, cans 2 75

Semdac,

PICKLES
Medium Sour :
24 50

Barrel, 1,200 count -.

Half bbls., 600 count 13 00
0 gallon kegs ----- 10 00
Sweet Small
30 gallon, 3000 ------ 50 00
5 gallon, 500 -------- 10 00
Dill Pickles.

600 Size, 15 gal ---- 14 00

ES.
Cob, 3 doz. in px. 1 00@1 20
PLAYING CARDS

Battle Axe, per doz. 2 65
lue Ribbon -------- 4 60
Bicycle -------------- 4 75
POTASH
Babbitt’s 2 doz. ---~--- 2 75
FRESH MEATS
Beef.

Top Steers & Heif.__@19

Good Steers & H’f 16@17%
Med. Steers & H’f. 13%@1d
Jom. Steers & H’f. 10@12%

  
 

Cows.
on 22 en 13
Good -~.--------------- 11%
Medium ...---.------ 10
Common -_------------ 09
Veal.
TO i 20
aod 6S 18
Medium _..---------—-- L7
Lamb.
Spring Lamb -------- 28
Gooe 22. 25
Medium __-~--.-.----- 23
Poor 23... 18
Mutton.
CGaat oo ou 16
Medium =.....--_----_ 12
Poe 222 10
Pork
Light hogs ---------- 17
Medium hogs - - 19
Heavy hogs ---- a if &
a 28
Butts  ._-..._.----.-- 25
Shoulders _—----—---- 19
Spareribs ------------ 15
Weck hanes ---------- 06

Radium. per don:

Short Cut Clear 24 50@365 00
Dry Salt Meats
S P Bellies __ 28 00@30 00

Lard

Pure in tierces -----. 20
0 lb. tubs -_---advance %
50 lb. tubs ----advance £
20 Ib. pails ----advance

10 Ib. pails __--advance %
5 lb. pails ----advance 1
3 Ib. pails ___-advance 1
Compound tierces ----
Compound, tubs ------ 151%

Sausages

Bologna -~~----------- 12%
fiver ue 12
Frankfort ~-----------_17
POV 2. ene one 18@20
ee 17
Tongue, Jellied ------ 32
Headcheese ---------- 16

Smoked Meats
Hams, Cert., 14-16 ib. ot
Hams, Cert., 16-18, Ib. 32
Ham, dried beef

geta 3 34
California Hams ---- @20
Picnic Boiled

Hams ....._....- 30 @32
Boiled Hams ---. 45 47
Minced Hams ---- 14 17
Bacon ......_ 38 39

Beef
Boneless, rump 18 00@22 00
Rump, new -- 18 00@22 00
Mince Meat.
Condensed No. 1 car. 2 00
Condensed Bakers brick 31
Moist in glass ------ 8 00

 
 

Pig’s Feet

Cooked in Vinegar

fe ee 1 65
¥% bbis., 35 Ibs. ------ 2 75
% bbls. -------------- 5 30
1 pbk ..--_-=...---- 15 00

Tripe.

Kits, 15 Ibs. ----------
¥% bbis., 40 Ibs. --
% bbis., 80 lbs
Hogs, per lb. --------

Beef, middles, set. 25@30

Sheep, a skein 1 75@2 00
RICE

Fancy Blue_ Rose ---- 09

Fancy Head --------- 10

Broken  -------------- _- 06

ROLLED OATS
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sks. 3 25

Silver Flake. 12 Fam. 2 50
Quaker, 18 Regular -- 1 80
Quaker, 12s Family -. 2 70
Mothers, 12s, Ill’num 3 25
Silver Flake, 18 Reg. 1 50
Sacks, 90 lb. Jute S45
Sacks, 90 lb. Cotton - 3 25
SALERATUS .
Arm and Hammer -- 3 15
SAL SODA
Granulated, bbs. ---- 1 80

Granulated, 60 lbs. cs 1 35
Granulated, 36 2% Ib.

pacwxagesS ---------- 2 25
COD FISH
Middles ~------------- 15%
‘Pablets, 1 Ib. Pure -- 1lo7%

Tablets, % lb. Pure
406 2 1 40
Wood boxes, Pure -- 291%
Whole Cod ---------- 11%

Holiand Herring
Mixed, Kegs -------- 10
Queen, half bbls. ---- 10 25
Queen, bbls. ------- 17 50
Milkers, kegs -------- 1 25
Y. M. Kegs --------- 1 05
Y. M. half bbls. --- 10 00
Y. M. Bbls. -------- 19 00

Herring

K K K K, Norway -- 20 00
8 lb. pails ~----------- 1 40
Gut Lunch - as

Boned, 10 lb. boxes -- 20
Lake Herring

% obbi., 100 Ibs. ---- 6 56
Mackerel

Tubs, 100 Ib. fney fat 24 50

Tubs, 60 count --+--- 6 00

White Fish
Med. Fancy, 100 lb. 13 00

SHOE BLACKENING
2 in 1, Paste, doz. -- 1 86
“©. Z. Combination, dz. i 36

Dri-Foot, doz. ------ 00
Bixbys, Doz. --~------ 1 35
Shinola, doz. -------- 90
STOVE POLISH.
Blackine, per doz. -- 1 35

1
Black Silk Liquid, dz. 1
Black Silk Paste, doz. 1
Bnamaline Paste, doz. 1
Epamaline Liquid, dz. 1 35
E Z Liquid, per om 3

1
2

Rising Sun, per doz.
654 Stove Enamel, dz.
Vulcanol, No. 5, doz. 95
Vuleanol, No. 10, doz. 1 35
Stovoil, per doz. ---- 3 00

SALT.

Colonial, 24, 2 Ib

i 90
. Colonial, Iodized, 24-2 2 4¢

Med. No. 1, Bbis. ---- 2 75
Med. No. 1, 100 ib, bg. 35

Crushed Rock for ice

cream, 100 Ib.. each 75
Butter Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 24

Block, 50 Ib. ~---------
Baker Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 4

36
10

100, 3 Ib. Table ~-.--- 5 50

70, 4 lb. Table ._-_--— 5
28, 10 lb. Table —_---- 4
28 lb. bags, Table ..

ns

Cr Liat

SALT

 

Per case, 24, 2 Ibs. _. 2

Five case lots ----~--- 2

lodized, 24, 2 Ibs. -.-- 2
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Bbls. 30-10 sks. ~..--- 6 40
Bblis. 60-5 sk*. ------ 5 65
Bbls. 120-2% sks. -- 6 05
100-3 1b. ska. --.--_ 6 05
Bbls. 280 Ib. bulk:
-A-Wutter =... 4 20
AA-Butter .__:.-.---_ 4 20
Plain. 50 lb. blks. -. 45
No. 1 Medium, Bbl. ~ 2 47
Tecumseh, 70 lb. farm
ak. 85
Cases Ivory, 24-2 cart 1 85
Iodized 24-2 cart. --. 2 40
Bags 25 lb. No. 1 med. 26
Bags 25 lb. Cloth dairy 40
Bags 59 lb. Cloth dairy 76
Rock ‘‘C’’ 100 Ib. sack 80
SOAP
Am. Family, 100 box 6 30
fxport. 120 box —..- 4 90
Big Four Wh. Na. 100s 8 15
Flake White, 100 box 4 25
Fels Naptha, 100 box 5 60
Grdma White Na. 100s 4 10
Rub No More White
Naptha. 100 box -- 4 00
Rub-No-More, yellow 5 00
swift Classic, 100 box 4 40
20 Mule Borax, 100 bx 7 55
Wool, 100 box --.-.-- 6 50
Fairy, 100 box ~------ 5 75
Tap Rose, 100 box ---- 7 85
Palm Olive, 144 box 11 00
Lava, 100 box -------- 4 90
Octagon -—------.------ 6 2
vummo, 100 box ---- 4 3
Sweetheart, 100 box - 5 70
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 06
Grandpa Tar, 50 lge. 3 45
Quaker Hardwater
CGecoa, 2s, box -. 27
Fairbank Tar, 100 bx 4 00
Trilby Soap, 100, 19c,
10 cakes free ~_-~--- 8 00
Williams Barber Bar, 98 50
Williams Mug. per doz. 48

CLEANSERS

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WASHING POWDERS.

Bon Ami Pd, 3 dz. bx 3

Bon Ami Cake, 3 dz. 3
Climaline, 4 doz. ---- 4
Grandma, 100, 5¢ ---- 4
Grandma, 24 Large - 4
Gold Dust, 190s —----- 4
Gold Dust, 12 Large 3
Golden Rod, 24 ~----- 4
Jinx; 3 doz. ---------

La France Laun., 4 dz. 3
Luster Box, 54 ------- 3

Miracle C., 12 oz., 1 dz 2
Old Dutch Clean. 4 dz 3

15

20
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25
40

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Rub No More, 100, 10
02.

Rub No More, 18 Lg. 4 00
Spotless Cleanser, 48,

6 68 3 85
Sani Flush, 1 doz. -- 2 26
Sapolio, 3 doz. ------ 15
Soapine, 100, 12 oz. - 6 40
Snowboy, 100, 10 oz 4 00
Snowboy, 24 Large -- 4 80
Speedee, 3 doz. ------ 7 20
Sunbrite, 72 doz. -..- 4 00
Wyandotte, 48 ------- 16

SPICES.

Whole Spices.

Allspice, Jamaica ---- @15
Cloves, Zanzibar @40
Cassia, Canton ------ @25
Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40
Ginger, African ------ @15
Ginger, Cochin : @30
Mace, Penang oo @1 00
wixed, No. 1 —..-_—-- @44
Mixed, 5c pkgs., doz. @45
Nutmegs, 70@90 @78

Nutmegs, 105-110 ---. @70

Pepper, Black @25

Pure Ground In Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica -~- 1

Cloves, Zanzibar ---- @4z2
Cassia, Canton —------ @25
Ginger, Corkin ------ @30
Mustard ~..----------- @28
Mace, Penang ------ @1 15
Nutmegs ------------ @T5
Pepper, Black ------ @28
Pepper, White ------ @41
Pepper, Cayenne ---- @32
Paprika, Spanish ---- @42
Seasoning
Chili Powder, 15c ---- 1 35
Celery Salt, 3 oz. ---- 95
Sage. 2 0%. ---------- 90
Onion Salt ~--------— 1 35
Gastic 1 35
Ponelty, 3% oz. ---- 3 25
Kitchen Bouquet -- 4 50
Laurel Leaves ------- 20
Marjoram, 1 02. ------ 90
Savory, 1 oz. -------- 90
Thyme, 1 oz. --------- 90
Tumeric, 2% 0OZ. ---- 90
STARCH
Corn
Kingsford, 40 Ibs. ---- 11%
Powdered, bags _.. 4 80
Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 4 05
Cream, 48-1 ---------- 4 80
Quaker, 40-1 ~-------- 7%
Gloss

Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. -- 4 05
Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs. 2 96
Argo, 8, 5 lb. pkgs. --- 3 35
Silver Gloss, 48 1s -- 11%
Bilastic, 64 pkgs. ---- 5 00
Tiger, 48-1 ----------

50 Ibs.

CORN SYRUP.

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GOLDEN: CRYSTALWHITE- MAPLE

Penick Golden Syrup

6, 10 lb. cans -------- 3 18
12, 5 lb. cans -------- 3 38
24, 215 lb. cans “oo 3 48
24, 114 lb. cans ---~--- 2 43
Crystal White Syrup
6, 10 lb. cans ~------- 3 56
12, 5 Ib. cans -------- 3:76
24, 216 lb. cans ------- 3 91

a4 3% ih. cane ..- 2 70

Penick Maple-Like Syrup

6, 10 lb. cans coe 4 31
12, 5 Ib. cans -------- 4 51
24, 2% lb. cans 4 a6
94. 114 Ib. cans ------ 3 20
Unkle Ned
6, 10 lb. cans --.----- 3 53
12, 5 lb. cans ~------- 3 13
24, 2% Ib. cans ------ 3 83
24, 1% lb. cans ------ 2 64
Corn
Blue Karo, No. 1% 2 48
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz 3 43
Blue Karo, No. 10 -- a2
Red Karo, No. 1% -- 2 76
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 81
Red Karo, No. 10 -- 3 61

imt. Maple Flavor.
Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz. 3 21

Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4 51
Orange, No. 10 ------ 4 31
Maple.

Green Label Karo,
Green Label Karo -- 5 19
Maple and Cane
Kanuck, per gal. ---- 1 5
Mayflower, per wal 2 66
Maple.

Michigan, per gal -- 2 50
Welchs, per gal. ---- 2 80

Lea & Perrin, small__ 3 35

  

Pepper --------------- 60
Royal Mint -------- _. 2 40
Tobasco, 2 0Z. ------- 4 25
Sho You, oz., doz. 2 70
A-1 large 5
A-1, small

Capers,

Medium

Choice

Fancy --------

No. 1 Nibbs -------- 56
1 Ib. pkg. Sifting ----- 11
Gunpowder
Choicé 2.404. 32
Fancy ---------------- 42
Ceylon
Pekoe, medium -------- 65
English Breakfast

Congou, Medium ----~--

Congou, Choice ---- 35@36

Congou, Fancy --.-- 42@43
Oolong

Medium ——......_-.....- 86

Chotee 2 a as 45

Haney 2000... 50
TWINE

Cotton, 3 ply cone ---- 46

Cotton, 3 ply balls ---- 48

Wool, 6 ply —________... 18
VINEGAR

Cider, 40 Grain --..-- 22

White Wine, 80 grain 24
White Wine, 40 grain 19

WICKING
No. 0, per gross ----.- 7
No. 1, per gross __.. 1 10
No. 2, per grossa —_-.. i 60
No. 3. per grasa __. 2 00

Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Rochester, No. 2, doz. 60
Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00

80

Rayo, per doz. ------
WOODENWARE
Baskets

Bushels, narrow band,
wire handles .-_---. 1 75
Bushels, narrow band,
wood handles -...~- 1 80
Market, drop handle 85
Market, single handle 90
Market, extra ------- 1 60
Splint, large ....---—- 8 50
Splint, medium —----. 7 50
Splint, small -_....._ 6 50
Churns.
Barrel, 5 gal., each. 2 40
Barrel, 10 gal., each.-2 55
3 to 6 gal.. per gal. -. 16
Egg Cases
No. 1, Star Carrier. 5 00
No. 2, Star Carrier. 10 00
No. 1, Star Egg Trays 6 25
No. 2, Star Egg Trays 12 50
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring -------- 2 00
Eclipse patent spring 2 vv
No. 2, pat. brush hold 2 9A
ldeal No. 7 —.--..-.—- 1 50
lz oz. Cot. Mop Heads 2 66
16 oz. Ct. Mop Heads 3 00
Pails
10 qt. Galvanized —--- 2 50
12 qt. Galvanized —---- 2 75
14 qt. Galvanized ---- 3 00
12 qt. Flaring Gal. Ir. 5 00
10 qt. Tin Dairy ---- 4 50
16 oz. Ct. Mop Heads 3 20
Traps
Mouse, Wood, 4 holes 60
Mouse, wood, 6 holes -- {y
Mouse, tin, 5 holes ---. 65
Rat, wood ------—--- 1 00
Rat, spring —--------- 1 00
Mouse, spring _....--. 30
Tubs
Large Galvanized .-. 9 00
Medium Galvanized _. 8 00
Small Galvanized oe Oo
Washboards
Banner, Globe =... & 76
Brass, single  .----- 6 00
Glass, single ...--...- 6 00
Double Peerless -.---- 8 50
Single Peerless -—----- 7 AO
Northern Queen —--~._- 5 60
Uitversal: 2.2.45...) 7 25
Window Cleaners
92 ie La eee 65
14 in. 20 ee
16 fh 2 30
Wood Bowls
13 in. Butter ...-.-.. 5 00
15 in. Butter —.___-- 9 00
17: in. Butter —_....... 18 00
19 in. Butter —--._.__ 25 00
WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre, Manila, white. 05%
No. 1 Fibre ----------~ 08
Butchers Manila ----- 06
Kraft 22052 08
Kraft Stripe --------- 09%
YEAST CAKE
Magic, 3 doz. -------- 2 70
Sunlight, 3 doz. ------ 2 70
Sunlight, 1% doz. ---- 1 85
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. -- 2 79

Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 1 85
YEAST—COMPRESSED
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Proceedings of the
Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Aug. 4—In the matter

of Cedar Springs Co-operative Co., Bank-

rupt No. 2554, the trustee has reported

the receipt of an offer of $100 from toyG |
! n, for certaing
items of farm tools and materials, all®
appraised at $214. An order to show4
cause has been issued and the sale will #&

Blackburn, of Cedar Springs,

be held at the office of the referee August
19. _ In this same matter the trustee h

filed his petition for jieave to sell the
interest of this estate in the contract to
purchase the elevator property at Cedar
Springs at public auction. The  per-
mission has been granted and sale of
such interest, appraised at $1,000, will be
had at the premises of the bankrupt, at
Cedar Springs August 18. Bidders should
be present at such time and place.

In the matter of Jacob Dornbush,
Bankrupt No. 2729, the trustee has filed
his petition praying for leave to sell the
assets of the estate at auction and leave
has been granted. The sale will take
place at the store formerly occupied by
the bankrupt, at Fremont, August 18. The
property consists of a stock of furniture,
paints and varnishes, wall paper, ete., and
is appraised at $1,215.76. An appraisal
is in the hands of Howard L. Boggs,
trustee, 450 Houseman building, Grand
Rapids, and will be on the premises on
the date of sale

Aug. 5. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Elbridge B. Clark,
Bankrupt No. 2748. The matter has been
referred to Charies B. Blair, referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Kalamazoo, and is a salesman by oc-
cupation. The schedules shows assets
of $600, the full interest in the same being
claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$1,660.05. The court has written for funds
for the first meeting of creditors, and
upon receipt of the same, the first meet-
ing will be called and note of the :
made here. The list of the creditors cf
the bankrupt is as follows:
Union Trust Co., Detroit
QO. Durkee, Galesburg
F. W. Hedderich, Sturgis -
A. W. Gardner, Sturgis - a
Long & Miller, Sturgis

  

 

 

 

 

 

  

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fate OF Biieis 9.40
Mich. Tele. Co., Sturgis a ie 3.70
Sturgis Gas Co., Sturgis - ee 8.18

Cc. D. Derr & H. W. Hagerman,
Sturcis ____ Se : :
Mrs. Edward Smith, Sturgis

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Dorothy & Henry Wheel {

Mrs. Anna Jankee, Sti 4.00
Clark Schueller, Sturgis 10.00
Mrs. B. Remby _ c 2.00
Earl Chiman, Kalamazoo J

Charles Conner, Kalamazoo 9.42
Perrin Corset Shop, Kaamazoo 9.50
Weber & Neumaier, Kalamazoo __ 14.80
Mason's Millinery, Kalamazor 9.00
Dr. N B. Hall, Kalamazoo 18.00
L. Hisenhardt, Kalamazoo __ 34.00
A. E. McDonald, Kalamazoo : 20.00
C. Boodt, Kalamazoo - So 6
Kal. Pharmacal Co., Kalamazoo 36.85

Frankins’s Antique Shop, Kalamazoo 17.50

mAs, Cook, Kalamazoo si 08
Mrs. M. Harding, Ka:‘amazoo ae 8.00
Mrs. E. Harbaugh, Kalamazoo __ 125.00

Kal. City Savings Bank, Kalamazoo 12.00
Miller, Ryder & Winterbburn,

Kalamazoo __- Pee
Geo. Wilkins, Kalamazoo >
Mrs. Rachel Kennedy, Kalamazoo 15.00
Speyer’s Ready To Wear, Kalama. 45.0€
C. E. Griffith, Galesburg se
Clarence Shroder, Galesburg ___-
Dr. kh V_. Rogers, Galesbure
Dr. E. J. Hobbs, Galesburg sea
Frank Austin, Galesburg __ a
Lanes Hardware, Galesburg ______
Edward Paik, Milwaukee So
Or. ©. H. Kendall, Milwaukee __

s0Sston Store, Milwaukee ~_ il
Trivers Clothes Co., Milwaukee
Gimbel Bros., Mi.:waukee ‘
Geo. Bitters, Milwaukee ne
Dr. Smith. Milwaukee
A. R. Peer. Comstock ose
Dr. Fred Wade. Howe, Ind.

iM Wralleson: (litnae

In the matter of Rolland W. Tisch,

3ankrupt No. 2747, the funds for the
first meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for August 19.

In the matter of William W. Hoising-
ton, Bankrupt No. 2704, the funds for the
first meeting of creditors have been re-
eeived and such meeting has been called
for August 19.

Aug. 6. On this day were received the
adjudication. reference and appointment
of receiver in the matter of Lewellyn &
Co., Bankrupt No. 2636. The matter has
been referred to Charles B. Blair as ref-
eree in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a
corporation of Grand Rapids. and has a
wholesale grocery business in such city.
The schedules have been ordered filed and
upon receipt of the same the first meet-
ing will be called and note of the same
made here.

On this day also was held the final
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Bert Stell, Bankrupt No. 2653. The bank-
rupt was not present or represented. The
trustee was present in person. Certain
creditors were present in person. Claims
Were proved and allowed. The trus
final report and account was considered
and approved and allowed. An order for
distribution was made and expenses paid
and the ba'ance of funds applied on the
preferred claims as far as the same would
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charge. The final meeting was then ad-
journed without date. :
On this day also was held the final

smeeting of creditors in the matter of

Water E. Metz, Bankrupt No. 2626. The
trustee only was present. Claims were
proved and allowed. The trustee’s re-
port and account was approved and al-
iowed. Expenses were ordered paid and
the balance of funds on hand paid to the
preferred i:abor claim. There were no
tunds for dividends to general creditors.
The discharge of the bankrupt was not
opposed. The meeting then adjourned
without date.

August 5. We have to-day received
the schedules, order of reference, and ad-
judication in the matter of Thomas E.
Thompson, Bankrupt No. 2749. The mat-
ter has been referred to Charles B. Blair,
referee in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is
a resident of Greenville and is a laborer
by occupation. Vhe scheduies show as-
sets of $390, which $380 is exempt, with
liabilities of $3,578.16. The court has
written for funds for the first meeting
of creditors, and upon receipt of the
same, the first meeting of creditors, wii
be called and note of the same made
here. The list. of the creditors of the
bankrupt is as follows:

Slawson & Slawson, Greenville
Commercial State Savings Bank,

$110.00

Greenville 00 Cl epee
Greenville State Bank, Greenville _ 401.00
Peter Hansen, Greenville yy
Brown-Hall, Greenville _ 2 eee
W. E. Zank, Greenville _____ a 25.00
Dr. Weaver, Greenvilie _......_.._._ 102.50
Peter Hansen, Greenville ____.._._ 25.00
William Chase & Co., Greenville _. 15.40
Herbert Bannen, Greenville oe 280.00
Ge Paato, Greenville 20.00
J. H. Ritzma, Greenville _-.___.-_s- 20.00
fim Wilbur Garage, Greenv.le __ 79.17

i.je Dry Goods Co., Green-

; Vul. Shop, Greenville ____
ra. Bros,. Greenville
svendsen, Greenville  ____.___
Isaac Kipp & Co., Greenviile ____
J. E. Van Wormer, Greenville ____
Chittick Oil Co., Greenville ____

Dr. Johnson, Greenville 2...
Vi Variety Store, Greenville
‘ Gibson & Co., Greenville

ES. Clark, (rcenville
J. H. Temmink &-°Co., Greenville

 

 

   

 

Ville sas eee ara aoe Pas Stee tee Sas eae tl 4.00
Dr. Wm. H. Lester, Greenville __ 4.00
Elirkson & Thurston, Greenville 34.00
Wiliam Darby, Greenville ee 8.00
Arthur Wood, Greenville _._.... = s-13..50
Wiliam Chase, Greenville ________ 14.00
Glenn Ackley, Greenville ____ —-- 10.00
Greenville Lumber Co., Greenville 18.4
. W. Weeks, Greenvilie | 103.40
toy Lovette, Greenville __________ 15.00
Peter Van Deinse, Greenvilie ____ 14.20
Peter Hansen, Greenville 2. 37.3

John R. Hansen, Greenville __ 8.75
vard Lincoln, Greenville ______ 40.00
iam Palmeter, Greenville ____ 50.00

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J. Callaghan & Son, Greenviile 322.
Bert Hale, Mt. Pleasant =... sh 50
Ado O. Reed, Mt. Pleasant ________ 300.00

Dr. Frederick Larned, Grand Rap. 35.60
Peter Peterson, Sidney eee eee 3.0
Wiliam Noah, Sidney .. = 1 60
M ch. Farm Bureau, Lansing ____ 30.00

In the matter of Edd B. Nieboer,
Bankrupt No. 2602, the trustee has filed
his final report and account and the final
meeting of creditors has been called for
August 20. The trustee’s final report
and account will be passed upon, the ex-
penses of the estate paid and a final
dividend to creditors ordered paid.

In the matter of C. Deino Miller, Bank-
rupt No, 2570, the trustee has filed his
final report and account and the final
meeting of creditors has been called for
August 20. The trustee’s final report and
account will be passed upon and admin-
istration expenses paid as far as the
funds on hand will permit. There wil!
be no dividends for general creditors.

In the matter of Christian Coffee Cor-
poration, Bankrupt No. 2568, the trus-
tee’s final report and account has been
filed and a final meeting of creditors has
been called for August 21. The trustee’s
final report and account will be consid-
ered and administration expenses aid.
There will be no dividend to genera!
creditors.

August 7. On this day was held the
first meeting of creditors in the matter
of Alice S. Vaughan, Bankrupt No. 2738.
The bankrupt was present in person and
by attorneys, Corwin & Norcross. Cred-
itors were present in’ person and by at-
torneys L. C. Palmer; Norris, McPher-
son, Harrington & Waer anl Rarden &
Rarden. Claims were proved and allow-
ed. The bankrupt was sworn and exam-
ined before a reporter. The trustee elect-
ed was Samuel Tower. of Greenviile. The
first meeting of creditors was then ad-
journed without date. '

Aug. 10. On this day was held the
final meeting of creditors in the matter of
Oscar E. Fredell, Bankrupt No. 2691. The
bankrupt was not present or represent-
ed. The trustee was not present. Claims
were proved and al’owed. The trustee's
final report and account was approved
and allowed. There were no objections
to the discharge of the bankrupt. An
order was made for the payment of ad-
ministration expenses. as far as the
funds on hand will permit, there being
no funds for dividends to creditors. The
final meeting was then adjourned with-
out date.

  

TRADESMAN

I. Van Westenbrugge
GRAND RAPIDS—MUSKEGON

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August 12, 1925

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Fine Dairy Farm

well located on Pine River on the suburbs
of Alma, Mich., a city favorably known
for its excellent common schools, Alma
College, prosperous industries, religious
and social advantages. 140 acres of good
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lights, running water, good equipment
and established business. A going con-
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Aug. 11. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Earl C. Keeler,
Bankrupt No. 2750. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair, referee in

bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Hastings, and is a farmer by occupa-
tion. The schedules shows assets of

$185, the full interest in the
claimed as exempt, with

same being
liabilities of

$2,168. The court has written for funds
for the first meeting of creditors and

the first meet-
of the same
creditors of

upon receipt of the same,
ing will be called and note
made here. The list of the
the bankrupt is as follows:
State Bank of Freeport, Freeport $117.00
Babbit Welis & Co., Freeport ---- 85.00

CG. A. Curtiss & Co., Freeport —--- 1.50
J. G. Carpenter, Carlton Center -. 80.00
Frank Hosmer, Carlton Center —_-- 12.00
Arthur Henry, Carlton Center —--- 4.00
Ww. K. Wanght, Decatur, Hl. ~_---- 12.00
Grant L. Keeler, Grand Rapids ~~ 245.00
George Keeler, OOGNG  . 12.00

Mrs. Maggie Anspaugh, Hastings 1,600.00

Aug. 11. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
eation in the matter of Jason P. Fuller,
Bankrupt No. 2751. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair, referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Plainfield township, Kent county, and
his occupation is not stated in the sched-
ule. The schedules shows assets of $250,
the full interest in the same being claim-
ed as exempt, with liabilities of $857.27.
The court has written for funds for the
first meeting of creditors, and upon re-
ceipt of the same the first meeting will
be called and note of the same made
herein. The list of the ereditors of the
bankrupt is as follows:

Dick Kimm, Rockford ae 00
Chaffee Bros. Furn. Co., Grand R. 6.00
Joe’s Place, Grand Rapids |. ._.___ 20:00
BE. A. Prange, Grand Rapids --- 35.00
Daniel Koert, Belmont —~- ae WO
Jacob Hartigh, Belmont ~~~ 13.20

Joseph Lewandowski, Grand Rapids 8.00
Rinvelt Bros., Grand Rapids —~-----
Gustav Mayer, Grand Hanigs, 2...
Blizabeth F. King ----------------
W. A. Bushey, Grand Rapids __._ 1
Leo O’Riley, Grand Rapids ------
Mace Luce, Grand Rapids ..--.-
Royal Importing Co., Grand Rapids

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F. W. MeNess Co., Grand Rapids 60
John D. Hastie, Grand Rapids -- 17.50
ft. J. Juhn, Grand Rapids ~------- 3.50
George & Herscher, Findlay, Ohio 132.87
Daub, Schuhart & Hoyer, Findlay 29.00
Cc, F. Knight & Co., mingary —. 49.75
James Haley, Findlay -------- 20.00
Dwight King, Findlay - a ;
B. J. Thomas, Findlay ~----------- 28.00
J. N. Traxler, Findlay ---------- 48.50
Dr. Woodward, Findiay -----.---- 10.00
Jacob Karseboom, Grand Rapids__ 14.00
‘Albert Hyser, Grand Rapids 100.00
Carmi Parker, Grand Rapids ---- 18.00
Ray Walwood, Grand Rapias 2... 5.00
Speigel, May Stern Co., Chicago_-_ 4.20
Hartman Furn. & Carpet Co.,
Chicago —------------------ i 7 ae. oe
Clement Co., Chicago -----------_- 8.75
Quaker Valley Mfg. Co., Aurora, Ill 14.00
Stouten Co., Grand Rapids ~~------ 2.00

Platte Auto Co., Grand Rapids -- 5.00
L. D. Averill, Grand Rapids ____-- 25.00

Aug, 7 (delayed). On this day was held
the first meeting of creditors in the mat-
ter of Wolverine Paper Company, Bank-
rupt No. 2605. The officers of the bank-

rupt were present and by Mason &
Sharpe, attorneys for the bankrupt.

Creditors were present by Howard &
Kimbail, R. L. Campbell, Jackson, Fitz-
gerald & Dalm and Travis, Merrick, War-
ner & Johnson. Creditors were also pres-
ent in person. Claims were proved and
allowed. Charles E. Nelson was elected
trustee and the amount of his bond as
receiver continued without change. The
meeting was then adjourned without date
and the matter of the petition of Dewey,
trustee, to be considered upon briefs.

Aug. 10. On_ this day was held
first meeting of creditors in the matter
of Nicho.as Sprietsma. Bankrupt No.
2744. The bankrupt was present in per-
son and by attorneys, Diekema, Kollen
& Ten Cate. Creditors were present in
person, Claims were proved and allowed.
The bankrupt was sworn and examined
without a reporter. John Arendshorst,
of Holland, was appointed trustee, and
the amount of his bond fixed at $2,000.
The first meeting was then adjourned
without date.

Aug. 10. On this day was held the
first meeting of creditors in the matter
of Duane A. Smith, Bankrupt No. 2741.
The bankrupt was present in person. No
ereditors were present or represented.
Claims were proved and allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. C. C. Woolridge was ap-
pointed trustee and the amount of his
bond placed at $100. The trustee was
directed to investigate the assets and
reort. The first meeting then adjourn~
ed without date.

On this day also was held the sale of
assets in the matter of E. Smead & Son,
Bankrupt No 2669. The bankrupts were
not present or represented. The trustee
was not present or represented. Cred-
itors and buyers were present in person.
The property was sold to Chris Marshall
for $335. The sale was confirmed. The
special meeting and show cause was then
adjourned without date.

Aug. 11. On this day the trustee in
the matter of Duane A. Smith, Bankrupt
No. 2741, has recommended the abandon-
ment of all of the assets of tne estate

the

 

over and above exemptions for the reas-
on that the assets are encumbered to
more than the value of the same, and the
recommendation of the trusteep was
followed and the assets abandoned and
the estate closed as an estate without
assets.

In the matter of A. Verne Hornbeck,
Bankrupt No. 2458, the trustee has filed
his final report and account and a final
meeting of creditors has been called for
August 24. The trustee’s final report
and account will be considered, admin-
istration expenses paid, and a final divi-
dena to creditors ordered paid.

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Coal Strikes and the World Court.
Grandville, Aug. 10—The world

court idea is again up for considera-

tion.

It might be supposed that this coun-
try had gone dry on that subject and
that it would be only a matter of the
waste of time to ask the United States
to go into the bargains of Europe after
so much has been said and done in the
premises.

More than a score of years ago this
matter was taken up by the various
sreat powers of Europe, and an agree-
ment entered into by which all disputes
between nations should be arbitrated.
How did this world court work out in
that instance? The greatest war the
world ever witnessed proved the out-
come of that get together program for
peace then.

Have we any assurance that we can
do any better at the next world’s
court, Children of a larger growth,
which, judging from some of the fool-
ish things they do, is a true aphorism.

No less than three U. S. senators
have come out with statements to the
effect that the world court will be taken
up immediately on the reassembling of

congress, and quickly put through,
delivering Uncle Sam, body and
britches, into the hands of a foreign

court which may mean war Or peace
accordingly as those foreign powers
may see fit to say.

Ought not U. S. Senators to be in
better business than egging on the
adoption of a plan which will tie this
Nation hand and foot in the meshes ct
foreign complications? Now that we
are out let us stay out. That is the
policy heretofore pursued by the United
States and it is the only safe policy at
the present time.

Senator Capper, leader of farm bloc
class legislation, is one of the senators
who sees things inside the world court
of a roseate hue.

-Some people are never happy unless

they are stirring up a muss some-
where in the community, and these
senators are of that ilk. Of course,

our entering into this latest contrap-
tion to keep the peace of the world
would open up prospects for a number
of good citizens to obtain positions at
salaries pleasing to their itching palms.

Even though the present administra-
tion approves of this world court fool-
ishness it seems hardly possible that it
will be carried out. It certainly ought
not to be, since, although there are
loud claims to the contrary, this latest
scheme to entangle America is a part
and parcel of that league of nations
which our people so forcibly sat down
on a few years ago.

Why such a hurrah to get us into
trouble is hard to explain, unless, as
before noted, the loaves and fishes are
the attraction that draws like a mustard
plaster our distinguished statesmen
into its clutches.

Why a family at peace with all the
world should seek trouble by going
out of its way to enter upon other
premises and start a quarrel is more
than we can understand.

Senators are supposed to legislate
for the good of the country, not to see
how much mischief they can stir up
by attending courts outside our juris-
diction.

There is the coal situation which
looming up again for the delectation ¢~
the great American public.

This continued stirring of hatreds
between employer and employe wil!
time have an effect not for the best in-

terests of the consuming public. Pub-
lic sentiment is more powerful than
courts or congresses, and this fact may
come to the brains of these malcon-
tents at a time they little suspect.

In Great Britain the coal situation
is far more acute than it is here, al-
though the time is not far distant when
America will be seeking customers for
its vast coal fields and seek in vain.

Necessity has long been recognized
as the mother of invention.

The general public is becoming
heartily tired of these annual coal
strikes, with accompanying raise in

prices, and the inventive genius of our
best brains are even now at work
seeking another fuel for the family
hearth than that which at present pre-
vails. Oil and gas offer a substitute,
and perfected utensils will before long
meet the demand, after which the coal
profiteers and striking miners can go
hang.

These mine workers are their own
worst enemies, led to doing unright-
eous deeds by unscrupulous leaders
who are out for the coin, regardless of
rizht and justice.

Whether or not the Government has
the power to settle these disturbances
among coal workers is at present. 2
mooted question. However, the people
who continually are made victims of
such vicious practices will speak and
act for themselves. Families are not
going to freeze for want of fuel when
millions of tons of the product of mines
lies heaped up waiting to be moved.

An emergency sometimes leads to
radical action on the part of the vic
tims of these barons and labor unions
who, taken together, are as heartless
as a stone image.

British mines are idle for
customers. When that time comes to
America, strikes and raising the price
of coal will have no effect and, in con-
sequence, the coal industry will perish.

Blinded by their own selfishness
these men seek to hold up their fellow
citizens and pick their pockets to the
tune of millions. This high handed
method will in time lead to a reaction
which will utterly destroy our coal
mining industries. Old Timer.

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Hides, Pelts and Furs.

   

 

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Green, No. 2 —~-----------------.----- 10
@uread, No. 3 922.5 12
Cured, (No.2 tt
Calfskin, Green, No. 1 1
Calfskin Green, No. 2
Calfskin, Cured, No. 1
Calfskin, Cured, No. 2
Horse, No. 1 ------------------------ 50
Horse, No. 2 ~----------------------- 2 50
Pelts.
Ola Wool 1 00@2 50
alesis 1 00@2 00
el Lee Cae eee aamecn gage 50@1 00
Tallow.
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Unwashed, rejects —--------------- @32
Unwashed, fine -------------------- @40

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value to yourself is dependent upon

your value to qthers.
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yourself,

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SALESMAN WANTED—Our sideline
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General stock inventories about $2,500.

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

August 12, 1925

 

Needless Extravagance in American
Commodity Distribution.

Written for the Tradesman.

A writer who has just toured South
America relates that South Americans
decidedly object to the habit of refer-
ring to the United States as “Amer-
ica.” They say “We are as much
Americans as you are,” which, of
course, is true.

I wish there were a way to write
America to include Canada. I do not
like the long form “America and Can-
ada”, but I wish to emphasize the fact
that in writing of American economics
—or the want thereof—I write equally
of Canada. Canadians speak our lan-
guage or we speak theirs, and they are
essentially the same people as our-
selves. The South American point is
well taken and it properly applies as
fully to Canada as to South America.

My story this week has to do with
extravagance, real or alleged. It re-
verts to my recent radio talk, on which
I have this comment:

“The 83 cents spread in this coun-
try you justify because of the extrava-
gant needs of the people. That is the
thing that makes economic adjustments
necessary every few years; and when
those panics sweep over the country, as
they must, your friend the grocer who
operates under the credit system re-
ceives punishment in full measure.
Meantime the German and the Jap are
sitting pretty because they have not
piled the entire burden onto the pro-
ducer.”

It is a characteristic of folks who
have hobbies that they work them
pretty hard. My friend’s special hobby
is the idea that we are headed toward
the demnition bow-wows via the road
of extravagance. But my radio talk
had to do with certain facts of modern
life, among them the service rendered
by food distributors of all kinds. Any
argument must have a background of
facts. I found mine in conditions
among various peoples. So let us ex-
amine a bit further.

The total spread between the pro-
ducer of all raw materials is approxi-
mately thus: For America, 83 per
cent.; Britain, 65 per cent.; France, 57
per cent.; Germany, 27 per cent.; and
so on down to Japan, where it is 14
per cent. This means that the pro-
ducer of raw materials receives 17
cents of the consumer’s dollar in Amer-
ica, 35 cents in Britain, 43 cents in
France, 73 cents in Germany and 86
cents in Japan. These are the facts. I
stated them. I did not enter on any
question of justification. That would
have been to embark on an altogether
different—not to say endless—argu-
ment.

But let us note certain related facts.
First, I talk of all commodities. I in-
clude wool, cotton, mahogany, iron ore,
all in the raw state and at point of
origin. Consider the wool and cotton
which enter into your suit of clothes.
Together they total perhaps four
pounds; value, at point of production,
perhaps $1. But in the raw they are
entirely, utterly, hopelessly useless to
you who want a suit of clothes.

What of mahogany in the original
log in Honduras? Surely it is of no
value to you who want an upholstered
mahogany chair. Estimate the intrinsic

value of the actual wood that goes into

the chair and you will find that the

cost of the finished product would be
but slightly affected if the mahogany
were free.

Think of the value of the raw iron
ore against the cost to you of a gas
stove. It is nothing. But there is con-
siderable cost put into the appliances,
the skilled labor and transportation.
plus having an assortment of gas stoves
connected up in a neat row, conven-
ient for you to select what you like,
having your choice delivered and set
up, ready to use in your kitchen.

A good way to study these things is
to take a chart which shows the course
of raw materials through all the vari-
ous processes, handlings and move-
ments from beginning until the finish-
ed product is ready for your use, and
see whether you can find a single item
in the process of conversion, manufac-
ture and distribution which could be
avoided or cheapened. Many such
charts—deeply informative and fascin-
atingly interesting—were published in
Part Four of the Report of the Joint
Commission of Agricultural Enquiry
That document is available to all, prac-
tically without cost, except the effort to
read and digest it.

The truth is that the figures I give
reflect almost exactly the standard of
living in the countries indicated: high-
est in America. progressively lower
elsewhere down to Japan at the bottom
among civilized peoples. It will not
do to jump at the conclusion that we
Americans are wrong, self-pampering,
extravagant and the Japanese safe,
sane and sound.

Let us remember that the average
Japanese family lives in a bamboo
shell of a house with partitions about
as substantial as a Japanese screen;
that there are no chairs—the Japanese
squat on the floor. There are no beds.
The Japs sleep on mats with blocks of
wood for pillows. They live funda-
mentally on rice with some sea food
and plenty of tea. These foods are
used virtually unconverted, uncom-
bined, unmanufactured, unprocessed,

and are cooked in primitive fashion.

Now look around the typical Ameri-
can home. You will find its furnish-
ings, equipment and supplies are drawn
from every country, every clime, every
source of production from pole to pole,
gathered from the entire circumference
of the Equator. No people in history
have lived on the scale habitual to us
of this Western Hemisphere. Beside
our daily environment, the emperors of
ancient Rome, the kings of the “mag-
nifiicent” era in France, the powerful
of earth in bygone days lived in hope-
less squalor and discomfort, without
conveniences or a measurable approach
to sanitation.

Even as contrasted with other con-
temporary people, we live in the best

homes in the world. Conveniences that
are commonplace to us are undreamed
of in most countries. We are the best
fed, best clothed people in the world.
And it is all worth its cost—and more.

For we live longer than any people
either contemporary or historical. That
we manifest poor judgment at times
that individually we are reckless, heed-
less, careless is no indictment of our
scale of living. That is simply the

persistence of imperfection in human-
ity.

But, aside from the question of what
service we require and how economi-
cally it is rendered, there is another
factor to consider—a factor seldom cor-
rectly evaluated except by learned men,
yet one that should be plain to any
thinking and reflecting man. That is
the factor of the constant cheapening
of money.

We find that we pay more money
for certain things than we paid for
similar things a few years ago. But
every one of us gets more money for
a given effort than we did years ago.
There never was a time when effort
was as well rewarded as to-day.

And is this not a logical process?
Certainly, because money is the com-
modity that is constantly produced but
not consumed. The world has been
piling up wealth in the form of the
medium of exchange from the begin-
ning of history. Naturally, money de-
clines in value as compared with com-
modities which are used up.

Because you paid a man $30 a
month to clerk in a_ grocery store
fifteen hours daily in 1880—he was a
man of family and was glad to get the
job—you cannot say he was a cheaper
man than the one to whom you now
pay $30 a week for nine hours. In
1880 you had vastly less things to sell
and you sold them for less. Thirty
dollars then cost more in commodities
than $125 costs now.

The other day the British parliament
debated the question of abolishing the
duty on artificial silk. Why? Because
it is now a necessity to all the people.
It is needed by the poor as well as the
rich. “As long as women wear stock-
ings,” said one debater, “artificial silk
will be a necessity.”

Is that an indication of extravagance?
No, it manifests a general elevation of
the plane of life among the British
people. This process is inevitable if the
world is to continue going forward—
and surely, on reflection, we shall see
there is no other direction in which
to go. Therefore, progress is economic.

I confess with perfect frankness that
I am an optimist. I can not see that
the world is losing out physically.
mentally, materially or morally. Things
are not perfect, but we tend toward
perfection. Paul Findlay.

—__>2.-9—___
No One Knows What Market Will Do.

Written for the Tradesman.

During the past week up until yes-
terday wheat markets have been firm-
er and higher. Flour advanced 25@
40c a barrel, but due to lower cables
from Liverpool and heavier receipts
together with a slight increase in the
estimated out-turn of the United
States and Canadian crops, a rather
sharp decline developed and wheat
closed off 5c a bushel for futures and
from 4@6c per bushel for cash wheat
resulting in a decline of from 20@30c
per barrel on flour.

A break in wheat just at this time is
welcome, the trade as a whole having
been unwilling to buy, except as re-
quired, at the comparatively high
prices.

Extremely light receipts from pro-
ducers have been a factor in the re-
cent advances and the maintenance of

a comparatively high level, but an in-
crease in receipts of both winter and
spring wheats will undoubtedly develop
and we wouldn’t be at all surprised to
see a further decline and should choice
grades of wheat be reduced another
10c a bushel in price, it would appear

advisable to begin to cover for two or 4
The win- ‘

three months’ requirements.
ter wheat crop of the United States is
now placed at 404,000.000 bushels and
the spring wheat crop at 275,000,000
bushels, a total of approximately 680,-
000,000 bushels, which is, of course
materially less than last year’s crop.
The Canadian spring wheat crop is now
placed at 375,000,000 bushels, an in-
crease of 50,000,000 bushels from
earlier estimates, but a reduction of at
least 50,000,000 bushels from top
figures.

The Canadian crop is larger than a
year ago; the United States crop
smaller, but the two equal about the
same as last year. European crops are
slightly better, if anything, than last
year, but world stocks are considerably
smaller, so on the whole we will have
about the same amount of wheat this
year as last not only in North America
but as a world-wide proposition.

One thing the flour buyer should
bear in mind always and that is, crop
and market reports are at their best
merely an indication of what the mar-
ket may do and no one’s opinion should
be accepted as the last word on the
tendency of markets, for many times
those who are loudest in their claims
are actually farthest away from the
mark. Furthermore, no one actually
knows what the market is going to do.
It is a guess at the best and your guess
is just as good as the other fellow’s.

The aim of these reports is merely
to disseminate information coming
from reliable sources and not for the
purpose of attempting to influence or
advise the buyer of wheat or flour, and
whenever one insists too strongly that
he knows just what the market is go-
ing to do, just remember that if this
were so, the party in question would
not be obliged to work for a living.
The only one certain thing about the
wheat market is its uncertainty, sc
when we express our opinion that
were wheat to decline another 10c per
bushel we would consider it an excel-
lent purchase, we are merely express-
ing one man’s Opinion, which is more
of a guess than anything else and the
reader of these reports must act accord-
ingly. Lloyd E. Smith.

——_ >.

Onondaga—Fire completely destroy-
ed the Onondaga cheese factory re-
cently with a loss estimated at $8,000,
partially covered by insurance. The
origin of the blaze is unknown. The
cheese factory served farmers within
a wide radius as a marketing point for
their milk. Its destruction is a severe
loss to the community.

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Ishpeming—Henry W. Stegman,
proprietor and landlord of hotel Nel-
son, announces it will be conducted
hereafter on the European plan. The
dining room will be conducted on an
a la carte plan although a business
men’s luncheon will be served every
day and a special dinner on Sunday.