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MUST RIGHT ABOUT FACE.

Placing small cars in the hands of
people who have two hands but ex-
ercise no brain power in driving in the
public streets has reached its legiti-
mate conclusion—two deaths per hour
—twenty-four per day—in the United
States. Instead of decreasing, this
ratio appears to be increasing every
month.

Of course, all accidents are not
confined to small cars, but the latest
statistics on the subject disclose that
94 per cent. of all automobile acci-
dents are caused by the carelessness
and recklessness of the drivers of
small cars.

But for the steadfast determination
of nearly all drivers of large cars to
give the small car driver right of way
—whether he is entitled to it or, not—
the sum total of accidents would be
much greater.

The writer happens to be the third
oldest car driver in Grand Rapids and
views with alarm the utter reckless-
ness of nine-tenths of the small car
drivers, so far as misuse of the road
is concerned. Little attention is paid
to civic signals or the presence of
traffic officers. Rules of the road are
utterly ignored. State laws and mu-
nicipal regulations are set at defiance
hundreds of times daily by a small car
driver. Common sense and common
courtesy are both unknown quantities
to a large percentage of the drivers of
small cars. Unless a vigorous cam-
paign is soon inaugurated against
these brainless aggressors, matters will
reach a point where it will be unsafe
for any one who lives up to the law
and believes in the exercise of brain
power in driving cars to appear on a
public street, either as a driver or a
pedestrian.

Another growing menace is the
manner in which large cars are per-
mitted to be driven by children from
12 to 16 years of age, many of whom

have no more conception of road rules
and regulations than an animal. This
abuse must be stopped in the interest
of public safety and if the officers of
the law continue to ignore this lapse
they should be prodded into action by
an enraged public sentiment. The law
is very plain on this point and admits
of no excuse in failing to enforce it
rigidly and effectively.

 

 

SEEKING WOOL STANDARDS.

George T. Willingmyre, wool mar-
keting director of the Department of
Agriculture, has been sounding out the
wool and woolen trades on the adoption
of universal standards and also on a
proposal to have world wool statistics
gathered and disseminated at Rome by
the International Institute of Agricul-
ture. Neither of the propositions is
as simple as it may appear to some,
though it is conceded that each is
praiseworthy. It will be a great help
if wool designations and classifications
are made uniform, but ‘there are so
many kinds and qualities that it is
going to be difficult to group them
in the comparatively few classes neces-
sary for market dealings. At present
the British have a classification based
on the fineness of the yarns, while in
this country there is one based on the
kind of sheep from which the wool
comes. There ought to be some uni-
formity between these, and doubtless
some understanding will be arrived at
whereby dealers in the two countries
will speak the same trade language. The
gathering of world wool statistics is
a different matter. No country, except-
ing Australia and New Zealand, issues
anything like accurate figures of wool
production or stocks, and there are
many in which the collection of da'ta
on these subjects appears well-nigh
impossible. The gathering of statis-
tics of cotton production is a much
simpler matter because the material
can be checked up at the ginning es-
tablishments, yet the estimates vary
very widely. Still, it will do no harm
if an intelligent effort is made to get
and collate such statistics of wool as
may be available. The International
Institute of Agriculture at Rome,
which now disseminates figures of the
world’s grain crops, has expressed its
willingness to do the same for wool.

 

WOOL STOCKS AND FABRICS.

Sales of colonial wools at auction are
still in progress in London. These were
looked forward to as calculated to set
the pace and afford a definite indica-
tion of the ‘trend in prices. Thus far
they have been somewhat inconclusive.
The reports cabled are a little bit con-
fusing, except that it appears that most
of the buying has been done for the
Continent. One thing, however, is ab-
solutely established, and that is there
has been no sign of any advance from
the recent comparatively low quota-

tions. In some instances, indeed, there
has been a drop, especially as to cer-
tain crossbreds. The enormous stocks
of wool overhanging the market are
acting as a drag and will continue to
do so unless some sudden and unfore-
seen demand should show up. Ameri-
can buyers do not appear much in evi-
dence at the foreign wool sales, and
imports here of wool seem to be grow-
ing smaller. Transactions in domestic
wool continue to be few. During a
part of the last week, however, there
was a little more active buying of the
worsted sorts. The goods market in
this country is not especially active.
There still remains considerable re-
ordering of heavyweight fabrics, while
orders for Spring keep trickling in.
Women’s wear Spring fabrics were
opened on Thursday by the Botany
Worsted Mills. An especial feature of
the cloths offered is the number of
lightweight fabrics and fancy mixtures
which evince a purpose ito compete
with silks that have had such a su-
premacy. On Wednesday the Ameri-
can Woolen Company will offer its
remaining Spring lines of women’s
wear. Interest in them concerns
rather the styles than the prices, it
being expected that, as in the case of
the Botany, few, if any, advances will
be shown.

een

It is good to know ‘that business is
not all hard-surface, concrete, practical
profit and loss, as so many would have
us believe, and that the life of the
people is not all sordid self-seeking.
One Silas Chapman, Jr., died in Hart-
ford, Conn., the other day. Chapman
was an insurance expert. After his
death it came out that for years he
had gone to the post office and ar-
ranged to have all Christmas letters to
foreign lands lacking postage forward-
ed at his expense, so that nobody be-
yond the seas should run the risk of
missing any intended Christmas cheer
because of tthe thoughtlessness of
those mailing the gifts. It is doubtful
whether one man in a thousand would
think of such a method of doing a
little kindness to his fellow man. It
is so utterly void of any personal ele-
ment of pleasure or gratitude—a
benevolence done in tthe dark. And
yet, no matter how obscure the need
or unrewarded the sympathetic deed,
there is hardly anything, perhaps, that
could be thought of that somebody has
not already searched it out and brought
the deed and the need together. And
all this goes on without any spotlight
glare and on a scale that would prob-
ably astonish the world if it could be
known.

David Lloyd George of Wales and
Downing Street is campaigning for a
comeback. His vehicle is an agrarian
campaign. He is urging a back-to-the-
land movement for England. In his

 

first speech, before 30,000 farmers, he

take
charge of English land and put it un-

advocates that the government
der cultivation, solving two problems
at once.
duce the two billion dollars’ worth of
food and timber she imports
other countries. Second, England
should reduce unemployment by put-
ting her idle industrial population on
farms. If England were cultivated as
Belgium is, he points out, there would
be room for 2,000,000 men on the land
—700,000 more than are at present
drawing unemployment doles from the
Switching from industry
to agriculture would not be easy, but

First, England should pro-

from

government.

undoubtedly possible within a genera-
tion. By the time it could be ac
complished England’s troubles of the
moment would probably be over and a
new crop of them at hand. There is
much truth in what Lloyd George says
—and much politics.

While the farmers, bankers, railroads
and manufacturers are all reporting im-
proved conditions and prospects as the
fall business opens, the Department of
Labor completes the harmony chorus
by reporting that labor is almost fully
employed at the beginning of Septem-
ber all over the country. There are
two or three slack spots that are not
due to the lack of employment—the
anthracite strike, for example. On the
other hand, the ‘textile and shoe in-
dustries, where shutdowns or _ part-
time were the rule during the summer
are now moving toward full-time op-
eration. In the steel, building and au-
tomobile industries and in public and
private construction projects conditions
are normal, with plenty of work for
almost everybody who wants work.
With almost all the signs favorable, it
would seem that we are in for a busy
time up to Christmas at least, with
prosperity enough to go round.

Once in a while a judge gives a de-
cision that goes to the very heart of
things. This is what a local magistrate
did when he told a taxicab driver that
it is not for drivers to fix the amount
of their tips. The driver
brought before him had indulged in
unparliamentary language when he re-
ceived a tip of ten cents on a bill of
twenty cents. The magistrate called
his attention to the arithmetical fact
that he tip in this case was 50 per cent.
of the bill. The ‘taxicab driver hadn’t
thought of it in this way, but he and
others are likely to think of it in the
proper way hereafter. Not since Mark
Twain took the trouble to accompany
to court a cab driver who had tried to
overcharge him has there been a more
heartening event for the plain and so
often browbeaten citizen.

who was

The purpose of life is not to have a
good time, as most people think; but
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Shook Hands With Abraham Lincoln.

Grand Rapids, Sept. 22—I came to
Grand Rapids to visit my relatives
here and to attend the G. A. R. re-
union, and I am making this state-
ment at the request of my nephew,
Claude Hamilton.

I was born in the town of Sweden,
New York, June 26, 1842, and lived on
my father’s farm until 1846. My
mother died and father married again,
and he decided to migrate with his
family to Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
had three brothers, Philo, Freeling and
Manser, and a sister, Christiana, all
but Freeling older than myself.

We took the canal boat from Brock-
port and rode as far as Buffalo. There
was a short railroad ride in between
Buffalo and where we left the canal,
and ‘the train ran so slow that we
could get off and pick blackberries
while the train was going.

We took the lake boat to Detroit and
took another boat around the lakes,
through the straits of Mackinac and
down the West coast stopping at She-
boygan, Racine. Milwaukee and finally
Chicago. My brother Freeling nearly
fell overboard but one of the sailors
caught him. Claude tells me that my
brother Manser had told him that when
the boat stopped at Sheboygan my
father went on shore and hurriedly
called on a relative of his there by
the name of Winship.

We took another boat from Chicago
to Grand Haven, there we took a river
boat, the Algomah, to Grand Rapids,
where we arrived in September. 1848.

My father went to work for Butter-
worth in the foundry and later for W.
T. Powers. My-sister was married in
1849 in a house we lived in on Ionia
avenue, to Ocenus Van Burch. My
father purchased a farm in Paris town-
ship and I went to school there. After-
wards I lived with my sister and her
husband on their farm.

In 1860 I belonged to what was call-
ed the Grand Rapids Light Artillery
and we drilled in an old stone school
house on the West side of ‘the river.
That year we had a camp near where
Wallin’s tannery used to be. which was
a State Encampment and Col. Mc-
Reynolds was in charge of the camp.
After the camp broke up we went to a
banquet at his house on Cherry street.

On April 17, 1861, I enlisted in ‘the
old Third Michigan Infantry and in
June we went to Washington, leaving
on the onlv railroad in town, the D.
G. H. & M. at their station on Plain-
field avenue. We were camped on
what was called Camp Blair on the
heights above Georgetown. near
Washington.: There was a bridge run-
ning across the Potomac called the
chain bridge. In front of the chain
bridge and across the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal, the Government had a
two-gun battery, and as our company
was originally an artillery company.
there was a detail made out of our
company ‘to man that battery. and
among the fifteen who were detailed 1
was one. The Fourth of July, 1861,
Abraham Lincoln drove down there
alone with his colored driver, and took
his hat off to us bovs there who were
manning that battery and shook hands
with all of us. I remember the words
he said to me when he shook my
hand, “I sleep sounder nights than I
would if you were not here.” I am
the last one left who shook hands with
President Lincoln the Fourth of July,
1861 at that place.

July 16, 1861, we started across the
chain bridge to go to meet ‘the rebels
and we found them on the 18th of
July at what was called Blackburn’s
Ford on Bull Run Creek, near Manass-
as. Our regiment opened up the fight
on the 18th of July. There was a lull
of three days and on the 21st of July
the main battle of Bull Run was fought
but it was fought clear around to the
right of us so we were not engaged in
that particular fight. Our regiment
of Second Michigan fell back with the

MICHIGAN

rest and we stopped at Centerville un-
til 3 o’clock and covered the retreat of
the whole army back to Washington.
I took part in all the battles our regi-
ment took part in, including Fair Oaks
where I was wounded, Antietam,
Gettysburg, Kelly’s Ford, Mine Run,
Fredericksburg, Spottsylvania, Chan-
cellorsville, Groveton, Battle of the
Wilderness and the second battle of
Bull Run. When the war closed I was
at Mobile, Alabama, and took part in
the last battle of the war at Blickley,
Alabama.

After the war I came back to Grand
Rapids and engaged in the meat busi-
ness for a time. Later I lived on a
farm near Sand Lake for about fifteen
years and now live in St. Petersburg,
Florida. Dayton S. Peck.

——_2.2s——_
Our Nation Is Sound To the Core.
Boyne City, Sept. 22—Boyne City

has settled down for the winter. For

the last three months our streets have
been congested with strangers. Strange
people, strange cars and_ strange
clothes. Some were strangely beauti-
ful, some strangely homely and some
strangely ridiculous and some close to
indecent. We are sure that if the same
costumes appeared on the streets of
Detroit or Grand Rapids, the owners
would find themselves in the nut house
or hoosegow. It takes all kinds of
people to make a world and the sum-
mer tourist furnishes several extra va-
rieties. Another thing that is interest-
ine is the facility with which the
“hicks from the sticks,” as we natives
are supposed to be, who have emigrat-
ed to the refinements of the “suburban
developments,” take on the airs of
urban residents and contrast their con-
dition in a three room apartment very
favorably with that of their village

(country) friends who have a whole

house and vard. Makes us tired, be-

cause we know from sad exnerience
what a heluva time they really do have.

We are tempted at times, reading of
the supposed excitement as mirrored
in our daily press, about fundamental-
ism, the crime wave and anti-prohibi-
tion, to take our trusty pencil in hand
and scatter the hosts of darkness into
everlasting oblivion. But we have re-
frained. Not because we do not know
just what is the matter and how to fix
it. but because of our innate modesty.

If we had not had our feelings all har-

rowed up times without number for

half a centurv because the American
people were going to the dogs at once,
if not sooner, we might get excited, but
all down the ages humanity has grown
better and stronger. Sometimes it has
seemed that evil was overcoming good.

Sometimes it truly seemed that the

light had been put. out and all was

darkness, but alwavs there has been

the saving spark that blazed into a

glory of advancement and cast its light

on the future ages. We have lived
through the greatest age the world has
ever known. At.no time in the past
has the power of goodness and liberty
been so potent. So we are not wor-
ried as to the future. At every crisis
the power of good has risen triumphant
and the power of evil and darkness met
overwhelming defeat. Our Nation is
sound at the core and will endure, be-
cause the real people are right.

Charles T. McCutcheon.
> ____—_—

—_—
Exhibit Butter Statue of President
Coolidge.

Des Moines, Ia., Sept. 19—Although
President Coolidge is not present at the
Iowa State Fair this year, he is repre-
sented by a three-quarter size statue in
butter, designed by H. I Wallace, of
Lincoln, Nebraska, the “world’s only
butter sculptor.” The statue, one of
a group, is kept frozen by a technical
refrigerating plant and bears the cap-
tion “Keep Cool With Coolidge.”
About 135 pounds of butter went into
the statue of the President. The group
is one feature of the exhibit prepared
by the Dairy Extension Department of
Iowa State College.

September 23, 1925

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Secretary Kellogg True To American
Tradition.

Grandville, Sept. 22—It seems that a
member of the British parliament has
been barred from America by our Sec-
retary of State, and because of this
considerable criticism has been aroused
against the ruling of Secretary Kellogg.

It will be remembered that a lot of
anti-Secretary talk was indulged in
some time ago because Secretary Kel-
logg talked rather bluntly to the presi-
dent of Mexico.

That talk was justified, and later
events have proved the wisdom of the
State Department’s warning to the
president of our sister republic.

We have had timid secretaries of
state in plenty, but in Hughes and
Kellogg we have found men who
measure up to the stature of statesmen
in a way pleasing to every patriotic
American. The flurry with Mexico
calmed down quickly enough, and it is
safe for an American to set foot across
the Rio Grande, which was not the
case under former administrations.

The name of the man barred from
the United States because of his an-
archistic tendencies is Shapurji Sak-
latvala which sounds red enough, even
though he is a member of the British
House of Commons.

Our Senator Borah has taken up the
case of this red advocate, while at the
same time he admits his being a Com-
munist

We have no use for such as he in
the United States of America. We
have been too lenient in the past with
such gentry, while we turned back
babes and women relentlessly who
have dared try entry into this country
without being properly vised.

Men who have no use for govern-
ment are dangerous to any community.
If the United States ever is destroyed
it will be from within by these Bolshe-
vik intermeddlers with constitutional
government. William McKinley fell
a victim to one of these foreign reds,
and the same men who approved his
assassination are trying in every pos-
sible manner to worm their way into
our political life with the intention of
destroying our form of government.

The ones who, like Borah, rush to
the support of the Constitution by
holding the reds up as being denied
the rights of free men are paving the
way for a reign of anarchy in this
country which has no more to do
with constitutional rights than Satan
has to a seat in Heaven.

Despite our every caution there are
secret organizations in this country
which would gladlv make of our repub-
lic another soviet Russia, and such men
as this come here professing great
love for the American Constitution
while secretly plotting its overthrow.

Secretarv Kellogg is absolutely right
and he will have the undivided support
of every red blooded American in the
land.

Tt seems that Saklatvala has a
brother living in this country who says
this Hindoo communist of parliament
“is a destructive genius.” Do we want
such in this country? The stirring up
of broils and inciting discontent with
government is allied with treason, and
it is the absolute right of our people.
as represented by the Secretary of
State, to forbid their entrance into the
United States.

An ounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure. Locking ‘the stable
door after the horse is stolen is what
Rorah and his ilk invite, and what
Secretary Kellogg refuses to agree to
in any manner.

Which is right, the Secretary or the
Senator?

Eternal vigilance is the price of liber-
tv, and when we consider liberty we
do not mean license.

Further says this relative of Sal-
tatvala: “Although I have a natural af-
fection for my brother, I have ab-
solutely no sympathy for his radical
theories. Even as a voung man he
was an ardent Nihilist.”

Can we criticise the Secretary for
keeping such a stormy petrel of radi-
calism outside of this country? If we
do not uphold our officials of state in
caring for the rights of our people, of
what use are they in our political
economy?

Bolshevik Russia has been trying to
get a foothold in this country, which.
once successful, would serve tto break
down our constitutional liberty and
make a wreck of the republic.

Senator Borah has advanced some
good ideas at various times in his pub-
lic career, but when he attempts to
challenge the Secretary of State with
regard ‘to his duties he is going too
far and should be called to order.

When Secretary Kellogg called
Mexico’s bluster and told that country
that the United States regarded her
contempt for American rights as in-
consistent with friendly relations be-
tween the two countries, there were a
number of our citizens incensed at the
Secretary, intimating that he had not
only exceeded his authority, but offer-
ed insult to another country which
was wholly inexcusable.

Results have justified the course
Secretary Kellogg then pursued, and
it will again justify him in excluding
a member of the red anarchist organ-
ization from entrance into the United
States.

It is refreshing, after the shilly-
shallying methods of former secre-
taries, to have a man with red blood in
his veins occupy the chair of state.

There is nothing to the protests of
the Borahs which need be for one mo-
ment considered by the American peo-
ple. Old Timer.

——_-_ woo
Better Stay Away From Kalamazoo.
Detroit, Sept. 22—I have read with

very thoughtful interest the article on.

page two of the Michigan Tradesman
which is dated at Kalamazoo, Sept. 15.
Frankly, I cannot understand the spirit
that underlies the statements made in
the leter as seeming to indicate an
antagonism or at least a feeling of se-
vere criticism.

In the first place the writer of this
article should get his facts before mak-
ing any such public statements. The
dormitories of the Young Men’s Chris-
tian Association are not in any sense
a hotel and so far as Muskegon is con-
cerned anv competition would be im-
possible, because the men who. will
stay in the new dormitories of the
M,C. A. could not attord to oc
cupv rooms at the new ho’el which T
greatly admire and at which I stop
when I am in that city.

There are so many untruths in this
article and it is apparently so vicious
that I must make a request of you as
editor for co-operation. I understand
there is a coming conference at Kal-
amazoo of the hotel men and I want
to ask the vrivilege of the conference
that they give a very few moments to
one of our men who will give the facts
in the case.

In fact, I should like to go a little
further and ask that a special commit-
tee composed of hotel men of this
State meet in conference with repre-
sentatives of our entire movement in
this State to discuss the oneration of
our dormitories and to really face un
to what is actually the case. We shall
certainly welcome this.

Personally, I resent very much such
a sinuation as is contained in the ar-
ticle and I am sure you will be glad
to help us to face the facts.

. B. Freeman,
State Secretary Y. M. C. A.

If Mr. Freeman will write Frank S.
Verbeck, Secretarv of the Michigan
Hotel Association. Kalamazoo, request-
ine that he be given a hearing, same
will probably be forthcoming. Our
advice to Mr. Freeman is not to stir up
a hornet’s nest, because he occunies a
most untenable position which will not
bear the broad sunlight of ‘investiga-
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Movements of Merchants.

Iron River—The O. H. O. Oil &
Gas Co. has changed its name to the
Peninsula Oil and Gas Co.

Detroit—The United Savings Bank
of Detroit has increased its capital
stock from $750,000 to $1,000,000.

Jackson—The Aero Oil Co., 121
West Cortland street, has increased
its capital stock from $25,000 to $50,-
000.

Grand Rands—The Kent Produce
Co., Building & Loan building, has
changed its name to the Lewellyn
Bean Co.

Grand Rapids—The Friederick Sales
Co., 206 Monroe avenue, S. W., has

changed its name to Tusch-Raymer
Music House.
Battle Creek—The Gas Engineer

Service Co., 26 East Main street, has
changed its name to the Michigan Fed-
erated Utilities.

Detroit—The Detroit Sanitary Meat
& Poultry Market, Inc., 2608 Hastings
street, lias changed its name to the
Silver Fish Market, Inc.,

Albion—H. E. Carrick has sold his
Coffee Ranch, 406 South
street, to R. W. Day, recently of Clio,
who will continue the business under
the style of Day’s Coffee Ranch.

Union City—W. E. Cameron, re-
cently of Grand Rapids, has purchased
the drug stock, store fixtures and store
building of George K. Whiting & Son
and will continue the business under
his own name.

Manistique—S. M. Rubin has closed
out his stock of shoes, boots, etc., and
will remove to Phillips, Wis., where
he has purchased a third interest in a
large department store of which he
will assume the management.

Imlay City—Between 250 and 300
suits of men’s clothing were stolen
from the Bowen clothing store one
night last week. Estimated loss is
$2,000. This is the third robbery of the
same store in past two years.

Superior

Detroit—The Sunny Jim Pie Co,
3723 Duane avenue, has been incor-
porated to manufacture and deal in
food products, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $10,000, all of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Sweet Sixteen Shop of
Detroit, 1530 Broadway, has been in-
corporated to deal in women’s and
children’s wearing apparel, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $50,000, $2.000
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Detroit—The Wilson Cake Co., 3952
Michigan avenue, has been incorporat-
ed with an authorized capital stock of
$25,000 common and $10,000 preferred,
of which amount $19,000 has been sub-
scribed, $1,400 paid in in cash and $12,-
750 in property.

Lansing—W. J. Cole has assumed
the management of the newly organ-
ized Citizens’ Fuel Co. This company
was organized by Mr. Cole and has
just taken over the coal yards and
offices of Cohen & Barry, 700 East
Shiawassee street.

Detroit—Stow and Barron, Inc.,
9,000 Grand River avenue, has been in-
corporated to deal in autos, auto ac-
cessories, parts and supplies, with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed and $7,-
000 paid in in cash.

Owosso—The Dickson Oil Corpora-
tion, 102 North Dewey street, has been
incorporated to deal in petroleum
products, with an authorized capital
stock of $50,000, $14,500 of which has
been subscrbed and paid in, $4,000 in
cash and $10,500 in property.

Kalamazoo—— Newmann Bros., an
Illinois corporation conducting a chain
of cash clothing stores in the Middle
West, have opened a store on South
Burdick street and Exchange Place,
under the style of the Milliard Clothes
Shop, with Charles Remm as manager.

Grand Rapids—Maatman & Den
Uyl, 14 Coldbrook street, has been in-
corporated to deal in flour, feed, animal
remedies, fuel and building materials at
wholesale and retail with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000, of which
amount $5,000 has been subscribed and
$2,200 paid in in cash, and $2,200 in
property.

Gladstone Gunnar VonTell has
sold his interest in the drug stock of
Erickson & VonTell to his partner’s
son, Walter Erickson and the business
will be continued under the style of
Erickson & Son. Mr. VonTell will
remove to Calumet, where he will as-
sume the management of Read’s
Pharmacy.

Grand Haven—The Addison Co.,
200 Washington street, dry goods, no-
tions, etc., has merged its business in-
to a stock company under the style of
the Addison Baltz Co., with an author-
ized capital stock of $50,000, all of
which has been subscribed and $5,000
paid in in cash.

Saginaw—Isaac Oppenheim, has sold
the shoe stock and store fixtures of
Oppenheim & Levy, 214 Genesee
avenue, to Dembenski & Sewell, who
have taken possession. The business
was established by Mr. Oppenheim
and the late Emil Levy 13 years ago,
as a branch to their shoe store at Bay
City, which was. established many
years previously.

Saginaw—A number of counterfeit
$20 bills have appeared in circulation
here during the past few days, accord-
ing to local bankers. Three of the
city’s four banks reported finding the
bad bills Thursday and it was said
that about ten or a dozen of them were

—

detected. No clue was obtained as to
their source, bankers said. The coun-
terfeits were of two varieties. One
was a $20 Federal Reserve note of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
and was declared by bankers to be a
crude job, the paper being imitation
and the printing of the bill smudgy and
otherwise defective The fine lines of
the engraving were poorly reproduced.
The other was a $20 gold certificate,
declared to be a much better job. This
bill is believed to have been printed on
genuine paper from which the printing
of bills of a lower denomination had
been bleached.
Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Otis Cement Con-
struction Co., 419 Hammond building,
has increased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $250,000.

Ypsilanti—The Bradley Truck Rack
Co. has removed its plant from Fos-
toria, Ohio, to Ypsilanti. F. J. Brad-
ley is at the head and retains his in-
terest in a concern in Fostoria, which
inaugurated the manufacture of trunk
racks for automobiles in 1921.

Detroit—The Pridemore Dairy Co.,
1030 East Warren avenue, has been
incorporated to manufacture and sell
dairy products, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $50,000, $12,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in, $1,000
in cash and $11,000 in property.

Detroit—The R. & G. Dress Manu-
facturing Co., 24448 Woodward avenue,
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $10,000, of which
amount $7,000 has been subscribed,
$2,157.50 paid in in cash and $4,842.50
in property.

Sagina w——The Michigan Plastic
Products Co., 814 Genesee street, has
been incorporated to manufacture and
deal in toilet seats, flush tanks, battery
containers, etc., with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in

property.
Muskegon Heights—The Cardinal
Petroleum Co., Park and Barney

streets, has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $200,000
preferred and 15,000 shares at $10 per
share, of which amount $56,240 and
9.299 shares has been subscribed and
$149,230 paid in in property.

Sturgis—Work in construction of a
brick, concrete and steel addition to
the Morency-Van Buren branch of the
Scoville Manufacturing Co. is under
way. The addition will be 60 by 50 ‘feet
and will result in the employment of
about seventy-five more men. The
building is to be used as a foundry and
will be fully equipped with modern
machinery

Yale—The Yale Woolen Mills, which
had been closed for five weeks opened
Sept. 21 on full time. This was the
first shut-down in four years for the
mills. Edward Andreae, president,
says the entire output of the factory
has been contracted to the ford Motor
Car Co. for upholstery in cars and
that recent change of models by that
company had forced the mills to close
until the new design and specifications

could be issued.
+2.

Clare—The Clare Creamery Co. has
purchased the lot on the corner of
Beech and Fourth streets and will
erect a modern plant, work on it to
commence early in October.

September 23, 1925

Detroit Store Closed All Day Saturday

Detroti, Sept. 22—All down-down
stores have resumed their regular Sat-
urday business hours after two months
of closing at noon. The Newcomb-
Endicott Co. adopted for the first time
this year the New York idea of closing
all day Saturday during July and Au-
gust. Other merchants watched the
experiment closely, since Newcomb’s
were the first local store to test the
policy. Leo J. Dillon, manager and
buyer of Newcomb’s three shoe de-
partments, has this to say of the re-
sult:

“We are satisfied that the experi-
ment was the biggest advertising as-
set and one of the best store policies
we ever adopted. Sales leaped ahead
as soon as we announced the policy.
July this year was our biggest in his-
tory and August sales were only 4%
per cent. less than our record for the
month. This is due directly both to
clerks and customers.

‘When Mr. Newcomb made the an-
nouncement, the employes pledged
themselves to work doubly hard. They
showed a different spirit at once—an
earnest and willing enthusiasm that
had to react favorably on sales. The
customers, who apparently sympathize
with clerks having to work during the
hot summer months, revealed the same
co-operative spirit. They did their
buying the forepart of the week. Dur-
ing the two months we also added new
customers to our list, leading us to
believe we had the moral support of the
public. These two causes united to
produce better results than the most
ardent advocate of the all-day closing
idea predicted. You can be sure we
will follow the same policy next year.”

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A Temporary Lull in Hosiery.

Manufacturers of ithe better grades
of women’s full-fashioned silk hosiery,
who sell direct to the retail trade, re-
port a temporary lull in the demand for
this merchandise that is not altogether
unwelcome. Initial Fall purchases by
buyers when they were in this market
were very heavy, and the problem of
the mills at the moment is not to sell
more goods, but to deliver on time
those already sold. As a result, it was
said yesterday, the interim between the
time of receipt of the last substantial
“house” orders and the receipt of im-
portant business from men now on the
road, is giving the production end an
opportunity to catch up a little. The
possibility of higher prices, due to the
rise in raw silk, is now before the trade,
but it appears that nothing material has
yet been done along this line.

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Hides, Pelts and Furs.
Green, Not 11
Green, No 2 22 10
Cured, No. 2 12
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Calfskin, Green, No.
Calfskin Green, No.
Calfskin, Cured, No.
Calfskin, Cured, No.
Horse, No. 4
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Detroit—The Michigan Refining

Sales Co., 630 Desmond avenue, has
been incorporated to deal in petroleum
products, with an authorized capital
stock of $25,000 preferred and 250
shares at $100 per share, of which
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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—The market is weaker and
lower. Local jobbers hold granulated
at 6%c.

Tea—Advices from primary markets
for Ceylon and India tea received dur-
ing the week tell of further advances.
The market on this side during the
week has shown some signs of recov-
ering its energy. The tea market has
been quite dull for several weeks. The
offerings of black fermented teas,
meaning Ceylons and Indias, have
aroused some interest in the minds of
buyers during the week and certain
grades of India teas have shown an
advance during the week in primary
markets of from 1@2c per pound. The
entire India and Ceylon situation looks
strong as the planters are making an
effort to limit the size their production.
Green teas are dull, owing principally
to the very high price at which they
are ruling.

Coffee—The market has shown con-
siderable weakness since the last re-
port, speaking now of future Rio and
Santos, green and in a large way. The
Brazilian market has been rather soft
and that has had an effect upon the
markets of this country. The spot
market for Rio and Santos has shown
comparatively little change during the
week, possibly the decline of a small
fraction all along the line of both Rio
and Santos. Mild coffees are steady
to firm without material change for
the week The jobbing market for
roasted coffee shows no_ particular
change since last report, and quiet de-
mand.

Canned Fruits—The Coast fruit
situation is regarded by canners as de-
cidedly strong with every assurance
that packers will have clean ware-
houses early in the season, if not by
the turn of the year. Well posted ob-
servers on the Coast give it as their
opinion that there will be no surplus
of any variety. Some grades and sizes
are bound to be short, such as gallons.
Although the packing season is clos-
ing, canners have not completed their
deliveries and cannot tell just how they
stand as to a possible balance. On this
account they are doing little offering.
Spot fruits are firm but quiet as there
is little trading on the open market.

Canned Vegetables—The most im-
portant development this week is a
noticeable change for the better in ma-
jor canned vegetables, indicating a
swing of the pendulum and a return
of buying confidence which of late has
been lacking in many canned foods be-
cause of the weakness experienced in
some of the leading staples. No one
will buy on a falling market and that
was what occurred in tomatoes and
corn. In the South the tomato pack
has passed its flush and from now on
will be governed by weather condi-
tions as affecting the development of
green fruit still on the vines. Uusually
with curtailed receipts , prices of can-
ning stock go upward, increasing costs
of production and preventing low
quotations on the finished product.
Another factor to influence Southern
tomatoes is the strong market in Cali-
fornia. The Coast crop was cut short,
leaving a smaller surplus for the East-
ern market than is usually shipped.
Part of that outlet will have to. be

supplied with Eastern and Middle
Western tomatoes. Corn at 80c fac-
tory for standard Southern packs has
disappeared. Some is quoted at 85c
but 90c represents the ideas of the
leading packers. Maine has been af-
fected by drouth and some packers
think a 25 per cent. cut in production
below early estimates will hardly cover
the situation. Peas are being bought
where the price and the quality are
satisfactory to the buyer but it is hard
to get the two to correspond. There
are a lot of cheap peas around but
they are not worth what is asked for
them.

Canned Fish—Efforts are being made
to get red Alaska salmon down to $3.40
Coast and pinks at $1.35@1.40 as
opening prices do not satisfy distribu-
tors. Some sales at the prices men-
tioned are reported in the lesser known
brands. Leading canners refuse to cut
their formal opening. Other varieties
of salmon are being taken in prefer-
ence, as itraders believe that they are
better buys. Maine sardines are dull
as to factory buying. California fish
are steady. Lobster and crab meat
are still in seasonable demand.

Dried Fruits—Wholesale grocers
have been slow ‘to cover their usual
fall and winter requirements, although
they have protected themselves by
buying some domestic dried fruits for
early shipment. There has been no
competition among buyers to accumu-
late ahead and no speculative buying
as trading of the latter sort does not
look attractive. From the present out-
look it would appear that wholesale
grocers intend to follow for the balance
of the year at least, the same hand-to-
mouth buying which they have done
all season. They are content to let
the packer carry the high priced mer-
chandise like peaches and apricots and
to let him also retain prunes and
raisins, to be fed out as needed during
the fall and winter. Sepember has
been one of the dullest months in
years so far as Coast buying is con-
cerned. Peaches and apricots had
been traded in during the summer and
were more or less off the market. Both
are short packs, with no carryover.
Growers have had extravagant ideas
and packers have not been able to
cover sufficiently to enable them to be
free traders. California prunes have
been held at opening, and as distribu-
tors are partially covered they are not
adding to their stocks, since packers
were unable to sustain the advance
which they tried to make in August.
The weather has been unfavorable to
consumption and the effect of a healthy
jobbing demand has been lacking. Ore-
gon prunes are firm but are also quiet.
Raisin prices on new crop were re-
duced “%c last week by one of the
leading independents. Other commer-
cial packers met competition, but the
association has not revised its Coast
basis. The lower range has increased
buying, especially of private labels.

Canned Milk—Leading brands of
{ease condensed milk were advanced 15c

ja case last week, the only change in
prices, but the whole market was firm.
Evaporated is closely sold up and a
tendency toward higher levels on non-
dvertised brands is shown.

Salt ‘Fish—The fall demand- for
mackerel has not yet opened. The

catch of spring Irish mackerel was
good and the position of Irish and
Norway mackerel in this country is
unchanged. There is a great scarcity
of No. 2 foreign mackerel. On the
contrary most of our own domestic
shore catch appears to run to that size.
There is plenty of shore mackerel about
the demand has not yet opened up.
Prices remain about unchanged.

Syrup and Molasses—The better
grades of molasses are reported to be
in very fair demand, without change in
price. Sugar syrup is also in more
general request and the market is
slightly firmer, although without ma-
terial change. Compound syrup is un-
changed at the last decline. The de-
mand is reported as a little better, but
is still not very large.

Beans and Peas—The demand for
dried beans is still very dull, with most
lines being shaded in price. This ap-
plies to pea beans, both kinds of kid-
neys and now even to California limas,
which have been firm and high for a
long time. Dried peas are barely
steady and are not wanted.

Cheese—The market has been firm
ever since the last report, without any
important change. Offerings of first-
class cheese are light; demand fair.

Provisions—Nothing in beef or hog

products has shown any change since

the last report. There is a_ steady
everyday demand, but for small lots
prices are steady.

——
Review of the Produce Market.
Apples—Duchess, Red Astrachan
and Wolf River command 75c per bu.;
Strawberry, $1.50 per bu.
Bagas—$2 per 100 Ibs.
Bananas—/c per Ib.
Beans—Michigan jobbers are quot-
ing new crop as follows:
Ci Pea Beans 1 $ 4.90

bight Red Kidney _=..._._.__. 9.00
Dark Red Kidney —..___._____ 9.50
Brown Swede .--.-- 0 5.75

Beets—$1 per bu.

Butter—The market has fluctuated
during the week within a very narrow
limit, advancing a half cent and again
declining a half cent. Later in the
week, however, the demand improved
somewhat on account of the firming
up of advices from outside and the re-
sult was another advance of a half
cent a pound. At the writing fine
creamery butter is firm wthout much
pressure to sell. Local jobbers hold
fresh creamery at 45!4c and prints at
47%4c. They pay 25c for packing
stock.

Cabbage—90c per bu.

California Fruits—Peaches, $1.50 per
box; Honey Dew Melons, $3 per crate
of 8s. Climax Plums, $2.50 per 6 bas-
ket crate; Santa Rosa Plums, $2.50
per 6 basket crate; Pears, $5.25 per
crate.

Carrots—$1 per bu.

Cauliflower—$2 per doz. heads.

Celery—40c for Jumbo and 55c for
Extra Jumbo.

Cranberries—Early Black from Cape
Cod are now in market, commanding
$5.50 per box of 50 Ibs.

Eggs—In spite of the approach of
fall considerable of the arrivals of eggs
are still poor. The supply of under-
grades of eggs is excessive, more than
buyers: ‘will take and in consequence

prices are very irregular and weak.
The supply of strict fine eggs is rela-
tively small and the market shows an
advance of about a cent a dozen since
the last report. Local jobbers pay 33c
for strictly fresh, handling candled at
O26.

Egg Plant—$1.50 per doz.

Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

Grapes—Wordens in 4 !b. baskets,
$3.50 per doz.; Calif. Tokay, $2.25 per
crate; Calif. Malagas, $2.50 per crate.

Grape Fruit—$7 per box.

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

Honey—25c for comb; 25c for
strained.

Lemons—Quotations are new as fol-
lows:

300 Sunkist .._..- $13.00
S00 Red Ball. 12.00
300 Red Ball 2 12.00

Lettuce—In good demand on_ the

following basis:

Calfornia Iceberg, 4s and 4%4s_-$3.75

Outdoor Grown leaf -.__._-____- 90c
Onions—Spanish, $2 per crate of

50s or 72s; Michigan, $3 per 100 Ib.

sack.

Valencias

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist

are now on the following basis:

a $11.00
100 11.00
V6 11.00
CO 11.00
216 oe 11.00
Boe 11.00
C06 10.75
SAn 975
Red Ball $1 lower.

Osage Melons—Home grown are

selling at $1.50@1.75 per bu.

Parsley—50c per doz. bunches for
home grown.

Elbertas command $3.25
per bu.; Prolific, $3 per bu.; Hale’s,
$4.50@5.

Pears—Bartlett, $2.50 per bu.; An-
jou, $2.25 per bu.

Peas—Green, $3 per bu.

Peppers—Green, $1.25 per bu.; Red,
40c per doz.

Pickling Stock—Small white onions,
$1.50 per box; small cukes, 20c per
100.

Plumbs—$1 per bu. for Lombards;
$1.25 for Guiis.

Potatoes—Home grown are now in
ample supply at $1.40 to $1.50 per 100
Ibs.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows this week:

 

Peaches

 

Heavy fowls —-...---- 2. 23c
Eyeht tows 2.22) 17c
Sprmeers, 2 Ib, = 23c
Broilers, 134 tb. to 2 Ib. _..___ 18¢

Radishes—15c per doz. bunches for
home grown.
Spinach—$1 per bu.

Sweet Potatoes—Virginia Sweets,
$2 per hamper; $5 per bbl.
Tomatoes—$1.25 per bu.; 75c per

Y% bu., Green, 25c per bu. less.
Veal Calves—Wilson & Co. pay as
follows:

Paney 2200 15@16c
Goede ee 14c
Medtan 2 s 12c
Poor 22 ee 09c
—_—_—_+-.—___

Teach the boy thrift and you have
started him on the road to success.

 

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

 

Cheats and Frauds Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

Saginaw, Sept. 22—Have been a reg-
ular reader of the Michigan Tradesman
for the past seven years ‘through my
contact with the Port Huron and Sag-
inaw Board of Commerce and always
look forward to the publication every
week,

We had a new stunt puiled on one
of our grocery members during the
past month that might be of interest.
A prosperous looking salesman, car-
rying a sample of a fine grade of lino-
leum, called on a number of prominent
citizens, including one of our grocery
members, and offered him a bargain
price on the linoleum which he was
very anxious to get rid of.

He produced an invoice which
showed a roll of this linoleum cost him
$48 which he was willing to dispose of
at half price, namely $24.

Our grocer member finally induced
him to reduce the price to $12, which
offer was accepted.

When tthe linoleum was delivered it
was found to be an entirely different
kind and our member figured out that
it cost him 75 cents per square yard.

When our member went down town
to check up on his bargain, he found
that most of the stores in Saginaw
were selling ‘the same brand of linoleum
for 48 cents per square yard. This
represents the retail price.

A. B. Buckeridge.

Sec’y Retail Merchants Credit Bu-
reat.

 

The following warning has been re-
ceived from Ann Arbor Credit Bureau:
J. F. Kirwan stages a pony contest.
Consults a leading theater and also ten
or twelve merchants. On receipt of
$40 from a merchant, he deposits with
the theater 2,000 tickets to that mer-
chant’s credit, assuring him that he
will receive ‘ten weeks’ free advertising
on the screen. These tickets are hand-
ed out to the theater customer, who
purchases a dollar’s worth of merchan-
dise with the respective merchant,
thereby entitling him ‘to 1,000 votes on
the pony. The pony never comes. The
signature McLean & Kirwan is some-
times used. Anyone apprehending this
party, please notify the Ann Arbor
Credit Bureau.

 

Almost daily, complaints are regis-
tered about solicitors of one kind or
another who are seeking ‘to sell their
products by every argument except the
merit of the goods they have to sell.
Magazine solicitors are representing
themselves as college students. One
solicitor selling a medical book made
the claim that the book is being sold to
help along a large hospital in the East,
another claims to be selling in order to
earn money for the crippled children
fund and so it goes. The public when
offered goods by a peddler should judge
the comparative quality of the goods
as well as the comparative value and
should not buy unless ‘the goods are
being offered at a more attractive price
than they are offered elsewhere. When
a solicitor uses as a reason to buy that
the purchase price is for a philanthropic
purpose, we may know that the goods
being offered will not sell on ‘their
merits and the “philanthropic purpose”
is simply the cloak used to disguise the
inferiority of the merchandise.

 

A lady complained to this office re-
cently that she had been sold some

MICHIGAN

rugs alleged to be Oriental, which she
later found were not as represented.
Our investigation developed some in-
teresting information. The story told
is as follows:

A sailor by the name of Robert
Halliday, who looked the part, drove
up to her residence in an automobile
bearing the license number N. J. 55541.
He introduced himself by saying that
a Mrs. so and so had suggested that
he call. Thereupon he exhibited sever-
al rugs, which he stated had been pur-
chased by his crew while in Bayreuth,
and they were now selling them in this
country. His prospect purchased six
rugs at a cost of $300 which she paid
him by cash and check. This sailor is
said to be a clever salesman with a
glib tongue and a ready answer to any
question one might propound. He is
described as being about thirty-six
years old, eyes slightly crossed, dress-
ed in black shirt, blue trousers with
double breasted jacket, sailor cap with
visor, and well worn shoes. He stated
that his ship had docked at Newark,
New Jersey, and that he was being
transferred to a ship sailing from
Halifax. As the crew was to be thus
split up, it was desirable that they sell
their investment in the rugs. When
questioned concerning the automobile
he stated that it belonged to his cap-
tain who had loaned it to him. He
was accompanied by another sailor,
whe was about forty-five years old.
Both had a very rough appearance.
The complainant states that compari-
son in the down town stores leads her
to the conclusion that the rugs were
not Oriental rugs, and were of ordin-
arv value.

 

The plan of merchandising by comb-
ing the city directories and mailing out
merchandise to hoped-for purchasers
is being indulged in considerably at the
present time. Reference has _ been
made to these schemes many times in
the past in these columns.

The latest one to come to our atten-
‘tion is that of Lillian Ward, 1051

TRADESMAN

North Union street, Fostoria, Ohio,
who has been sending three handker-
chiefs with a letter to the effect that
they are offered at the cost of $1, and
if the recipient so desires he can mail
that amount in full payment. If not
wanted, he may return the merchan-
dise to the sender. As stated in the
past, complaints show that ‘this prac-
tice subjects the recipient to consider-
able inconvenience in having to return
the articles if they are not wanted.

This case has been called to the at-
tention of the postal authorities, who
we understand have taken such action
as will prevent this method of mailing
being pursued by the _ said Lillian
Ward.

We have previously mentioned con-
cerns who operate in a similar manner,
namely Jim Barry, Inc., and the Ever-
wear Neckwear Co. Still another E.
P. Beaumont, 327 Washington street,
Buffalo, New York, offers neckties of
more or less doubtful value.

Any one receiving merchandise from
any of these companies or similar com-
panies is requested to communicate
with this office.

 

A man described as being of medium
height, smooth shaven, dark complex-
ion, middle age, weight about 155
pounds, wearing dark suit and driving
a closed ford, is reported by the Bet-
ter Business Bureaus of Terre Haute,
Ind. and Kansas City, Miss., to have
operated in various parts of the country
leaving a trail of bogus traveler's
checks behind him. Chicago, Illinois;
Windsor, Canada; Jackson, Lansing
and Kalamazoo, Mich.; Fort ‘Wayne,
and Terre Haute, Ind.; St. Louis and
Kansas City, Missouri have all been
visited and the merchants victimized
by this alleged representative of the
Oriental Tourist Co., of Los Angeles.

The checks, we are informed, are
printed in denominations of ten and
twenty dollars, the alleged representa-
tive tending them in payment of a
small purchase and receiving the bal-
ance in change. This man apparently

September 23, 1925

uses a different name in each city that -

he visits, and the following are some
of which we have record, George D.
Erwin, Wm. P. Christy, Chas. C. Keith,
Edmond O Bishop, Burt W. Elman,
Harold D. Terry, Oscar I. Harmon,
Henry V. York, Paui G. Arthur, Ray
S. Noble and Benjamin P Cornell.
Investigation has failed to locate
any such company as ‘the Oriental
Tourist Co., in Los Angeles, and the

California Trust Co. disclaims all
knowledge of the firm. It is reported
that fictitious checks have come

through totaling a n amount of $2,500.

Legitimate sources are warned to be
on their guard against such an indi-
vidual, should he attempt to try the
same scheme in your section.

—__~22——_
Two Kinds of Orders.

The Wholesaler: “Well, how many
orders did you get yesterday,”

The salesman: “I got two orders in
one store.”

“What were they?”

“One was to get out and the other

was to stay out.”
—_» +>

Less Rum, But Poverty Continues.

For centuries we have laid the cause
of poverty at the door of demon Rum
and it is safe to say that probably there
is 80 per cent. less drunkenness now
than 20 years ago, yet, the majority of
workers to-day have the same struggle
to get along and many of the retail
merchants are hanging on by the skin
of their teeth. Our tax system op-
presses labor and capital and favors
land gambling. Increased land values
now go into the pockets of individuals
instead of benefiting the public as a
whole, causing more poverty and
crime than all the saloons and brothels
that ever existed. If we cannot cure
our economic ills by regulating what
we eat and drink, let’s try changing
our tax system.

Take a good, mild cigar, sit down
relax. To think thoughts that con-
cern all, sometimes acts as a spirit-
ual awakening—G. J. Johnson.—Ad-
vertisement.

 

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The Tradesman is pleased to present herewith a bird’s eye view of the new plant of the Blackmer Rotary

Pump Co.

third acres running down to the Plaster Creek track.
by 90 feet wide, with a separate power house.

The site covers all the vacant property adjacent to the precent location and consists of eight and a
The plant eventually will be something over 600 feet long
The part built at the present time is 90 x 345 feet, 25 feet of which

is set aside for offices and the remainder for machine shop, storage and shipping room. Plans are being prepared for

the foundry, which will be 100 x 200 feet.

plant.

This will be built out near the bluff, running back toward the present
For a period there will be a space between the two plants, but eventually it is expected to fill this in to make

it one continuous plant, as the bird’s eye view indicates. The company has been held up considerably by contractors

being behind time with their work; at present particularly, with the high pressure steam fitters

It expects in the

near future to send a man down from Petoskey to begin installing machinery and getting everything in shape so
that the transfer to Grand Rapids can be made with the least possible delay, as it is essential that the factory keep

up production without interruption as nearly as possible.

It expects to be in full operation by October 1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 238, 1925

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7

 

 

 

77 > Maxwell House Coffee sales, in pounds, for the second
quarter of 1925 were 82% greater than for the same
period last year.

¢ April,1925 27% increase over April,1924
1] 5 °
May, 1925 108% increase over May,1924

7 129%:

2 June,1925 Q O increase over June,1924
| Sales second quarter 1924 (in pounds)

A. Sales second quarter 1925 (in pounds)

 

 

 

 

|
The big selling achievement
| of 1925-say grocery trade authorities

 

 

Occasionally, not often, a record is made
in the grocery business which sets the trade
talking. An accomplishment entirely out
of the ordinary.

Such a record—one which authorities
say is practically without parallel—has
just been made. (See chart above).

It is generally admitted that the high
grade coffee business has recently been
passing through a difficult “period of
stress.” Throughout this period the sales
of one coffee—already America’s largest
selling high grade brand—have mounted
steadily. Sales of Maxwell House Coffee
during the second quarter of 1925 showed
the amazing increase of 82% over the same
months last year!

April brought a growth of 27% over

April, 1924. May showed an increase of
108%. And in June, a summer month,
Maxwell House Coffee attained sales
volume, in pounds, exceeded by only one
single month in its history. An increase
of 129% over June last year!

Obviously here is a coffee which holds
a unique position in the field. Month in
and month out, it continues to win new
users by the thousands.

The grocer who gets solidly back of
Maxwell House Coffee, therefore, is
“riding a winner.” He is laying the
foundation for an ever-growing coffee
trade.

Cheek-Neal Coffee Company, Nash-
vile, Houston, Jacksonville, Richmond,

New York, Los Angeles.

Also Maxwell House Tea

psey MAXWELL House COFFEE
cae’ / =Topay—Amencas largest selling high grade coffee

 

 

a a AA A A SETAE N AIOE

September 23, 1925

 

8 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
BAKERS ARE LIVE WIRES. convinced that the hope of price con- Saklatvala is a wordy revolutionist BUSINESS IMPROVING.
The convention of the American cessions in the future was not well and norotious apostle of communism General business conditions, accord-
lakers’ Association at Buffalo last founded. Prices were advanced and and internationalism. He believes the ing to reports from the usual sources,

week empahsized the highly construc-
tive work of one of the progressive
food industry associations.

Unlike so many organizations whose
aim is merely to promote higher profits
and more advantageous purchasing op-
portunities for members, this Associa-
tion, like its sister organization, the
National Canners, has been aiming to
prosper through improving the charac-
ter of its product, and educating the
public to a more intelligent adoption
of commercially produced foods, con-
fident that ultimately greater demand
will repay all the efforts.

The bakery trade has chosen as its
chief instrumentality the employment
of science, and has bent its efforts
very largely to the extension of the
American Baking Institute at Chicago,
where a wide variety of scientific re-
search work is being conducted. Nutri-
tional problems and phenomena are
being studied, materials analyzed, pro-
cesses investigated, and adverse popu-
lar criticism weighed, to the end that
the industry may have the latest cor-
rect information conducive to public
welfare, and that the public itself may
be made aware of the truth in place
of the flood of misinformation and
propaganda being systematically fed to
it by “food fakers” and “notional fad-
dists.”’

In addition to this, a regular techni-
cal school for the training of young
men for the baking industry—some
older ones as well—is supported, and,
all in all, the bakery of to-morrow will
be a far more efficient agent for the
public health and welfare than it ever
has been in the past.

That these activities are not only
appreciated by the men of the industry
but also by those who possess surplus
wealth, is shown by the very liberal
endowment which has been made to
place this organization on a permanent
basis.

The machinery exhibit was an edu-
cation in itself. No longer will it be
necessary for the housewife to per-
form the tasks of baking in her kitchen,
but the efficiency and perfection of
scientific and mechanical devices are
daily setting new standards which no
housewife—however efficient and new
or old—can compete with.

Thousands of housewives who visit-
ed this exhibition went away astonish-
ed at the rapidity with which public
baking is outstripping that of the home
and people who have bemoaned the
high cost of living have some reason
to believe that organized industry and
the application of ample capital are
establishing new eras of happiness in
the public food supply.

 

COTTON AND COTTON GOODS.

In between two of the fortnightly
Government reports on the condition
of cotton the market during the past
week witnessed some sharp fluctuations
in prices. Some of these were based
on private reports and estimates of a
bullish character and others on specu-
lative operations. The general tenden-
cy was to keep quotations on a rather
high level. This had a stimulating
effect on the buying of gray goods,
converters and others being apparently

have kept firm, and there is more of a
disposition to trade ahead. Whatever
changes may be ahead in ‘the cost of
the raw material are not deemed to be
sufficiently marked to have much bear-
ing on the cost of fabrics. This gives
more confidence to the trade,
though spinners have not been over
generous in the matter of their pur-
chases of the raw cotton. With the
advances in price of gray goods have
come corresponding ones in those of
bleached and other finished fabrics. In
distributing channels cotton goods are
moving freely. Prints of divers kinds
and rayon novelties are especially
sought. A good season is looked for
in the many new and beautifully styled
fabrics of the rayon mixtures. The
knit goods situation remains satisfac-
tory. Spring orders for underwear
have been quite good, some mills hav-
ing received capacity orders. Knit
outerwear has also been in fairly brisk
demand.

even

ED
PREVENTING COMPETITION.
A proceeding has been begun by the

Federal Trade Commission against the

Wholesale Grocers’ Association of New

Orleans, which is accused of trying to

stifle competition in its territory in the

sale of groceries and allied products.

The Association, it appears, has

been trying to choke off the

business of so-called “illegitimate”
dealers, presumably meaning ‘those
who indulge in price cutting. In pur-
suance of this policy, it is declared, the
members of the Association by joint
action have held meetings to formulate
plans to carry it out. They have
sought the aid of manufacturers and
producers of goods, some of whom
have agreed to withhold supplies from
the price cutters. In other instances,
by threats of boycott and other means
of intimidation, they have compelled
the manufacturers to sell only to As-
sociation members. They are also de-
clared to have instituted a system of
espionage at wharves, docks, freight
stations and warehouses to keep tab
on producers and see that they did not
supplv n-ice cutters with goods. Sim-
ilar tactics. it is charged, have also
been used against brokers and other
agents so as to stop sources of supply
for offending dealers. The inference
is that the goods referred to are brand-
ed package merchandise. Aside from
the effort to stifle competition, the ac-
tion of the Association is an attempt
to aid in fixing resale prices, which has
hitherto been held to be illegal. This
branch of the subject may be brought
before Congress at the coming session,

a bill having been framed for the pur-

pose. But any action, however, will

not affect the alleged conspiracy to
prevent competition.

TROUBLE BREEDERS.

Comparatively few Americans will
weep briny tears because the American
State Department has barred Shapurji
Saklatvala, Communist member of the
British Parliament, from the United
States. Saklatvala, a Parsee, was a
delegate to the Interparliamentary
Union, a non-official world congress of
legislators that meets in Washington
in October-----—-- —--—

 

sun rises and sets over the Red Square
in Moscow. He has told the British
they must face cold steel in a Red
revolution. While he had pledged him-
self to behave in America, he had like-
wise announced that he expected to
speak freely whatever might be in his
mind. His permission to enter has
been withdrawn Secretary Kellogg
puts the whole situation very clearly
and properly when he says:

It is the policy of the Government
to exclude such persons. I do not be-
lieve in curbing free speech, nor do I
believe in making this country the
stamping ground for every revolutionist
agitator of other countries. This is no
place for them. Nobody, I believe, will
object to any citizen of the United
States advocating a change in our form
of Government by legal and constitu-
tional means, but I do not believe we
should admit foreigners to this coun-
try to preach anarchy or revolutionary
overthrow of government.

Nor do the great mass of Americans

believe we should. The immigration
law provides a way of keeping them
out. It has been applied in the Sak-
latvala case. Had it been used in the
cases of Maxim Gorky and Count Kar-
olyi, there would have been less
trouble. By applying it Secretary Kel-
from certain embarrassment and the
American Government from probable
trouble.

Out of his own mouth Saklatvala has
convicted himself as a trouble breeder.

 

 

DEPTHS OF IGNORANCE.

Every general information test in
the schools yields a crop of howlers,
and yet even in an intelligent group of
American adults, presumed to be fa-
miliar with current events, such ques-
tions are likely to expose a lamentable
want of knowledge. The public smiles
broadly over the replies brought up
from the depths of ignorance in high
schools, colleges and universities in the
annual haul of the Review of Reviews;
but among ‘those who are most amused
are some who might not have done
much better in a similar inquisition.

It is, indeed, alarming to find that 11
per cent. of those examined were
strangers to the portrait of the Presi-
dent, though undoubtedly they would
instantly have recognized the linea-
ments of Charlie, Doug or Mary. It
is disconcerting in this radio age to
learn that 58 per cent. were unaware
of the name of the world’s benefactor
who invented wireless, and it is hard
to account for the belief that the United
States has acquired Japan by purchase,
in view of the recent discussion of the
immigration ban. But ignorance is
not the monopoly of the rising genera-
tion. It would hurt parental pride to
concede it, but it is not probable that
in the much-lauded days of the little
red schoolhouse and the tune of the
hickory stick the tide of the country’s
average intelligence rose higher than
it does to-day.

There can be little doubt, save among
the cynics, who believe the world stead-
ily deteriorates, that printed texts and
pictorial illustrations, along with much
admitted chaff and dry rot, are making
accurate knowledge a common pos-
session instead of the luxurious privi-
lege of a limited class.

continue to improve all over the coun-
try. This is the ‘tenor of the state-
ments from banks, from credit sources
and from distributive agencies of mer-
chandise. There is also a tone of
greater confidence in the outlook for
the Fall and Winter. This does not
imply, however, disposition on the part
of merchants ‘to do any kite-flying or
indulge in speculative purchases. They
are settling down to a policy of meet-
ing wants as they are indicated, with
just enough of anticipation as this re-
quires. No more stocks are being car-
ried than are sufficient for ‘the time
being, and moderate orders for new
goods are placed when deemed neces-
sary. Rapid turnover is the principal
object sought. That, under the cir-
cumstances, so large a quantity of
goods is being called for from manu-
facturers and producers as is the case
may be considered as a favorable and
hopeful sign. Encouraging, too, is the
fact that the matter of price does not
cut so much of a figure as it did and
that quality is being more taken into
consideration. This holds good as to
all varieties of merchandise. The fact
that prices have been better stabilized,
with fewer upward swings than were
anticipated at one time, may have
something to do with this. Perhaps,
also, it is becoming more generally
known that it is not the first cost that
determines whether an article is cheap
or dear. The prevalence of a senti-
ment of this kind is worth much to
sellers as well as buyers.

Buying at retail by the general pub-
lic is just now coming in for a closer
scrutiny than usual. Purchases for
Fall are rapidly getting under way,
being stimulated whenever the temper-
ature shows signs of dropping, as it
did on Monday of this week. The atti-
tude of the ultimate consumer is the
important factor which will determine,
to a great extent, the buying policy of
the stores and keep in motion the flow
of goods through distributing channels.
Thus far, the indications in this and
other big trading centers have been
distinctly favorable, considering that
the season is just beginning. Not only
have the enquiries been more frequent
but the sales responses to the store
offerings have been on a more liberal
scale than in the corresponding period
last year. Furniture, floor coverings
and other household furnishings have
come in for a good share of attention,
and so also have shoes and hats for
both men and women as well as dress
accessories and haberdashery. In some
localities women’s ready-to-wear is
moving somewhat slower than was
wished, but this is ascribed to weather
conditions, a change in which is ex-
pected to lead to brisker buying. Tak-
ing everything into account, retailers
are encouraged and, should their ex-
pectations turn out as expected, they
are likely to be in the market with re-
orders for the next month or so. The
lessening in the number of buyers from
out-of-town stores during the past
week is regarded simply as a lull be-
tween operations pending the results
of the initial offerings for the season.

 

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September 23, 1925

MEN OF MARK.

 

Heber W. Curtis, Vice-President Kent
State Bank.

Well directed and properly concen-
trated effort is the magic talisman
which opens the door to commercial
or other distinction. It is a force
which may build up or destroy mag-
nificent undertakings. Whether ap-
plied in either a National or individ-
ual quantity, the results are corre-
spondingly marvelous. It is an old
saying that things obtained without
effort are not greatly prized and for-
tunes which come quickly are likely
to vanish into thin air as rapidly as
they materialize. Nothing that is ob-
tained cheaply seems to be worth
while in this day and age and only
steady, persistent, intelligently directed
work makes life’s rewards of real and
permanent value.

It is often found that the man who
does not get along well in life is lack-
ing in definite aim. He is like the
inhabile marksman who uses a big bar-
reled gun and a small size shot and
trusts to luck for his quarry. He over-
looks the fact that the shot scatter and
that if one or two were to take effect
they probably would not kill or even
disable. The true huntsman never
uses birdshot when out after big game.
He carries a heavy rifle and depends
upon his steady arm, practiced eye and
long years af training to speed the
bullet to its intended destination.

In everyday business life are ob-
served men who fritter away their best
years in essaying a trade, occupation
or profession for which they have no
taste or inclination. They try a cer-
tain line of work for a few months or
years and then another and because
they do not soar to the top right awav
they become dissatisfied and again go
into a new kind of business, with the
result that they find nothing that suits
them and that they never rise above
mediocrity. They lack the absolute
essential to success in any undertaking,
which is constant and persistent ap-
plication. Failure is seldom recorded
in the case of one who possesses a
singleness of intent from which he
never varies. The employe who
simply does his duty and keeps one
eye on the clock never amounts to
much, while he who does his whole
duty and a little more perhaps and takes
as much interest in his employer’s busi-
ness as if it were his own is always
heard from. Tenacity of purpose and
the concentration of all the powers of
body and brain are the goal winners
of the twentieth century and any suc-
cess that is not predicated upon these
two inspiring agencies is purely ad-
ventitious and evanescent and of false
or unsatisfying nature.

Given constancy of purpose with an
intelligent direction thereof and a life-
time of endeavor might amount to but
little were it not reinforced by a neces-
sary complement of brain. Something
of this happy combination of a fixity
of purpose and the mental capacity
needed for its support is suggested in
reviewing the career of Mr. H. W.
Curtis. He is not one of those who
seek notoriety, is not at all vainglori-
ous as to what he has accomplished in
twenty-eight years of exceptional ac-
tivity, but his very modesty has at-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

tracted attention to his deeds in such
measure that he is known and honored
in business and social circles through-
out a much wider environment than is
gained by most men of his age.
Heber W. Curtis was born at Rich-
land, Kalamazoo county, Sept. 6, 1881.
His father was of Scotch descent. His
mother was of English descent. When
he was 2 years of age his parents re-
moved to Petoskey, where he attended
the public schools from his fifth to his
seventeenth year, graduating from the
high school in 1898. He then entered
the Petoskey City Bank—now tthe First
National Bank of Petoskey— and dur-
ing the succeeding twelve years oc-
cupied every position in the bank ex-
cept that of President, which was held
by his father. Fifteen years ago he
removed to Grand Rapids to take the

 

Mr. Curtis was married Dec. 12, 1911
to Miss Jean Sinclair They reside in
their own home—one of the really
fine residences of the city—at 448 East
Fulton street. Two children have
joined the family circle—a daughter of
13 and a boy of 10 years of age. Both
children attend the public schools of
the city.

Mr. Curtis is a member of the First
Presbyterian church of Petoskey, which
he served in the capacity of Trustee
and Treasurer while he was a resident
of that city.

Mr. Curtis says he has no hobby but
making money, but those who know
him in a social way, dissent from this
opinion and state that he is one of the
most companionable of men. He is
not at all affected in manner. He is
easy of access to his business associates

 

Heber W. Curtis.

position of Cashier of the Grand Rap-
ids National City Bank, and June 1,
1912, he accepted the position of Vice-
President of the Kent State Bank.
While he was a resident of Petoskey,
Mr. Curtis was one of ‘the organizers
of the Cook, Curtis & Miller Lumber
Co., which was four years in complet-
ing its cut in the Upper Peninsula. Mr.
Curtis acted as Treasurer of the com-
pany.

Since coming to Grand Rapids Mr.
Curtis has become connected with
many of our leading industrial organ-
izations. He is Vice-President of the
Boyne City Lumber Co.; Vice-Presi-
dent of the Turtle Lake Lumber Co.,
Vice-President of the Widdicomb Fur-
niture Co., Treasurer of the Tillimonk
Lumber Co., Secretary and Treasurer

of the E. M. Holland Co.

and has a grace of manner and a
pleasant personality which enable him
to command respect and retain his
friends. He is a member of the Penin-
sular and Kent Country clubs and is
regarded as above the average as a
golf player.

Mr. Curtis attributes his success to
observation and close attention to
business and possibly both qualities
have contributed to the excellent
standing he has acquired as a banker
and business ‘man. He had the ad-
vantage of exceptional business train-
ing on account of his father and two
brothers being engaged in the bank-
ing business at Petoskey, and it goes
without saying that he has taken ad-
vantage of every opportunity to in-
crease his knowledge of the banking
business and advance himself in his
chosen profession.

 

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Adequate Grade Crossing Protection.
Written for the Tradesman.

The death of Wm. Stofer, postmaster
of Dexter, Michigan, a crippled veteran
of the kaiser’s war, at the depot cross-
ing in the village of Dexter, on Sept.
12, in spite of frantic efforts of the
crossing flagman, to prevent him from
driving his auto onto the railroad track
in front of a fast freight, brings up the
questions: Is there such a thing as
adequate grade crossing protection now
in operation anywhere? and, can there
be adequate grade crossing protection?

At a
country we may see on either side a
board bearing the sign “R R. Crossing
400 feet” and at the crossing an elec-
tric bell which rings whenever a train
approaches. This bell is supposed to
be, no doubt is, visited daily by a rail
road employe and tested to see if it is
in order. At other crossings there is
no bell, but conspicuous signs. The
signs, the ringing bell, the constant at-

railroad crossing out in the

tendance of a flagman are adequate in
all cases where pedestrians and drivers
are thoughtful, careful and always
alert.

But we all know that the greatest
danger is not always at the place or
in the circumstances where people are
The
greatest danger is where people have

most apprehensive of danger.
become accustomed to being warned
by flagman or bell or prevented by
closed gates. Absent minded or for-
getful people are not adequately pro-
tected by any agency provided by the
railroad
blame except the person who suffers
the consequences of his own act?

management. Is no one to

But there is more to this than ‘the
question of blame The man’s family,
friends and sometimes the community
and general public suffers a distinct
loss, as in the case of the postmaster.

A few years ago a concrete bridge
was built over the Huron river by tthe
Michigan Central railroad at Ann Ar-
bor at great expense, but the driveway
on the highest point of the bridge is
too narrow for the amount of traffic.

Just this summer an overhead bridge
was open for traffic at Okemos, where
it is said as many as twenty-two per-
sons were killed in one vear on the
grade crossing.
killed at grade
crossings where gates were operated
by a watchman: in a tower
we ask: Is adequate grade
protection possible?

People have been
And so
crossing
If so, we ought
to have it at every grade crossing at
the earliest practical date.

E. E. Whitney.

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Happiness.
Happiness, I have
nearly always a rebound from hard
work. It is one of the follies of men to
imagine that they can enjoy mere
thought, or emotion, or sentiment. As
well try to eat beauty! For happiness
must be tricked! She loves to see
men at work. She loves sweat, weari-
ness, self-sacrifice. She will be found,
not in palaces, but lurking in corn-
fields and factories and hovering over
littered desks. She crowns the un-
conscious head: of the busy child. If
you look up suddenly from hard work
you will see her, but if you look too
long she fades sorrowfully away.
David Grayson,

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Winter.

The tendency in men’s footwear is
toward greater elegance of design as
to pattern. There is a better discrim-
ination as to combination of patterns,
colors and Too often in times
past it has frequently happened that
a good pattern or a good material has
been put on a last unsuited for the
In materials tan calf
leads as before. For the more con-
servative man slightly darker shades
predominate as compared with the sea-
son just passed. In shoes, obviously
of the “style” type, with
“fash” as to extremity of last, the
shades run lighter.

lasts.

upper character.

a tinge of

In the popular grades there has been
a general, if not concerted, attempt to
create a distinct type of shoe for the
young man will wear balloon
trousers and full flowing suits. These
shoes will run full as to ‘toe and as
short as it is possible to fit feet, and
wide as to tread. It is in such types
that we see full sway given in the pat-
tern employed, the extreme last, and
the lighter of prevailing shades. Here
is an answer to the writer of inter-

who

national reputation on men’s dress who
made the statement a few months ago
that the clothing designers were think-
ing of their feet, while shoemen failed
to design shoes to go with the mode
of the day.

In popular priced shoes for men, full
range is given in pattern designing,
and in decorative features of curve and
line, stitching. perforations, pinking
and wing tips. Patterns are both
straight lace and blucher effects. One
of the distinctive departures or innova-
tions is the use of an over quarter or
large outside over foxing on the quar
ter, pinked, perforated or fancy stitch-
ed. Wing tips of ornate lines and size
are shown frequently.

If it isn’t a quarter foxing that is
the keynote of the shoe,
throat saddles on blucher oxfords,
either with a outline or per-
foration to bring out its prominence,
or there are quarter facing saddles,
plain stitched or perforated and pinked.
In such shoes one notes both the
straight tips pinked, with box, or the
semi-soft wing tip which in some in-
stances covers the area of half a vamp.
Plain and smooth leathers vie with
boarded and highly glazed leathers and
running into the grain group of the
“Scotch” grain type, the grain effect
being seria smaller than the
coarse pebbl Boarded leathers tend
to be in the aie shades, the smooth
calf a little darker in shade and the
grain effects still a shade

there are

stitch

heavier
darker.

As differentiated from the “sheik”
type described, which is most popular-

ly being shown in the lower and med-
ium grades, there is a newcomer in
the field. This can be described as al-
“young man’s” shoe, but of a
more ultra refined type with still a
dash and “go” to the general design
that makes it of a class by itself. These
are intended for the class of young
men that include club men, college
graduates, men just about half arrived
but with a good toe hold toward a goal.
Men with a dress sense and who want
style, but who have the sense to know
that extreme of style is no longer in
good taste in the circle in which they
move. This class of man “affected”

college shoes, a few years ago, after
they graduated, but have been crowded
away from the field by the invasion of
the “sheiks” into the extreme styles.

so a

This type of shoe is of good old-
fashioned custom model that has been
designated as the English last, nar-
in the toe in a modified sense,
with a smart recede, carrying well an
extension sole, close shanks, not overly
decorated, and preferably of the oxford
circular vamp pattern. In shades of
:he medium cast, smooth calf, pinked
straight tip, it is the type of shoe that
artists have long held as the ideal in
smart style in foot covering. It is
among this class that we find the best
buyers of an extra pair, and who wear
black after six. Not only after six, but
best dressers among the class of young
men who know and care, black shoes
are becoming more popular for day and
business wear.

TOWRI

In more expensive shoes we have
two types that can be specially men-
tioned. Shoes of simple pattern de-
sign, repression in decorative features,
on modified lasts ranging in'to the con-
servative, types of shoes that can be
worn by business men whether young
or old, with no distinctive features

detail but yet the shoe
itself is distinctive. Which, after all,
is real art. Then we have a class of
sinart, modish, decorated patterns on
modified lasts from the balloon type
but which lose nothing but do gain a
lot through the process of modifica-
tion. These shoes are patterned after
the best of the “bespoke” shoes made
in England, with the difference that
the English shoes are tiresome in their
uniformity of design, while the Ameri-
can made shoes offer a variety of de-
sign, a wholesomeness in their differ-
ence, a balance and a choice of pat-
tern, from which it is extremely hard
to choose one that is better than an-
other. These shoes are usually in
shades of the medium class, neither
obtrusively too light, or too dull in
color to be unattractive.

whatever in

Rubber heels predominate on the
popular grades, but there is a marked
tendency to go back ta solid leather

heels on the better grades for the style
appearance, in shoes of the faster types
in these better grades. Wide shanks
for medium grades in extreme types,
a return to round shanks in higher
grades where trimness is sought.
Stitching on uppers, not quite so ex-
treme as formerly. Perforations on
shoes and patterns where perforations
best bring out the design. An absence
of both on many handsome custom
grade shoes. Plenty of in- -between welt
shoes in both low and high priced.
Double soled shoes being tried out
in many smart models.

In the question of color, the light
golden or yellow shades are the out-
standing factors in style appeal mer-
chandise. In spite of what would
seem to be the ordinary development
toward a darkening of the tan leathers
for fall. a relatively small proportion
of style goods are made on the med-
ium tan or brown colors. It may be
that as the season develops the darker
shades will increase, but it is very
hard to make an outstanding shoe with
the more sober colors.

Black oxfords are going to have a
strong run. This is the natural
reaction from the very light tans, but
t is a condition which ‘the retailers, for
their own protection, should not en-
courage.

The average dealer sells a greater
proportion of high shoes than he thinks
and well chosen high shoes
of the various more conservative types
are still going to move.

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Mens Shoe Outlook Bright.

Not for some time have manufactur-
ers of the higher-priced lines of men’s
shoes faced a Spring season with
brighter prospects than is now the
case. Not only did retailers place ex-
cellent advance business for Fall, but
early duplicate business, which is al-
ready beginning to come forward,
shows the consumer to be in a buying
frame of mind that augurs well for the
future. Leading Spring lines not al-
ready out, it was said yesterday, will be
put before buyers sometime before the
end of the month. Neither as to prices
nor styles do the new lines show a
great deal of change from those pre-
sented for Fall. One of the most not-
able features of the Spring models is
the continuance of the light, custom-
built type of footwear that has done so
well during the past several months.

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Buyers Are More Interested.

Now that the higher price of cotton
has given added firmness to the under-
wear market, jobbing buyers are show-
ing more interest in goods for future
delivery than has recently been the
case. In seasonable merchandise there
is not much being done at the mo-
ment, but there is every indication of
brisk trading in all kinds of heavy-
weight merchandise as soon as cooler
weather forces consumers into the re-
tail market. The demand for goods
for Spring sale to the consumer could
be better than it is, but, with the ad-
vance in cotton and the resultant lack
of price recessions in the finished mer-
chandise, the outlook for improved buy-
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The Constitution the Sheet Anchor of
the Republic.

Grandville, Sept. 22—The American
Constitution has been for more than
a century the anchor of our country,
the rock of our salvation, and yet there
are people who seem to consider that
document, so eloquently expounded by
Daniel Webster, as a mere scrap of
paper, to be flouted carelessly when
ever they choose to so treat it.

What is the result?

Less love of country, less reverence
for the republican institutions which
have flourished so long on the shores
of North America, until our methods
of electing our congress and _ legisla-
tures have become demoralized until
something very close to mob rule has
come to this country.

Do we need the Constitution or has
it become a worn out tale fit only for
the scrap heap of oblivion?

The Constitution adopted by our
fathers has been tested as by fire and
has come through it all unscathed. It
is the foundation of our free republic
and should be honored to-day as never
before.

Because of the eighteenth amend-
ment some there are who, hating to be
curbed where their appetites are con-
cerned, would throw the Constitution
into the discard, will out the country
to the liquor tyrant and hasten the
day when riot and mob rule have jaken
the place of law.

The Constitution is truly the anchor
of safety for the ship of state,, and yet
it has been more often misconstrued
and belied than any other public enact-
ment in the land.

It has often been remarked that one
can prove anything by the Bible. So
with the Constitution of our country.
Slaveholders quoted it as licensing the
holding of slaves. One President of
the United States, in a message to
Congress, solemnly declared that un-
der the Constitution, he had no right
to coerce a state. In other words, the
Constitution upheld secession and the
destruction of the American Union.

The President who succeeded Bu-
chanan took an entirely different view
of constitutional requirements and
solemnly declared that his oath to
protect and defend the Constitution of
his country obliged him to oppose se-
cession and rebellion.

History gives the outcome. History
commends the faithfulness of the one
and describes the treason of the other.

A republican form of government
cannot long exist with the Constitu-
tion flouted and the rule of the mob
accepted. Primary methods have
brought us very low in the scale of
political morality, and if too long en-
dured will flout the Constitution and
seal the fate of the Republic

Even though this document, as old
as the Nation, which is so necessary to
the perpetuity of the Government, has
been interpreted to mean the exact
opposite of the ideas of the fathers.

“Tf you hear a man prating about
the Constitution, spot him, he’s a
traitor.”

This was the utterance of a prom-
inent United States senator during the
Civil War period and was brought
about because of the continued shout-
ing of the anti-Union sentiment at the
North that Lincoln had discarded the
Constitution and was even more of a
traitor than the Southern rebels.

Another instance of the wrong con-
struing of that document.

Slavery was constitutional, secession
was allowable and admittedly right un-
der that Constitution whose mandate
commanded the President to use every
effort to save the Union intact.

Certain rights have been denied a
race under the Constitution and that
document has been badly battered. In
fact its old time friends, could they
come back from tthe echoless shores of
time, would scarcely recognize the old
Constitution as it is to-day.

We need a new awakening with re-
gard to the Constitution of our coun-
try. False doctrines are blustered

forth on every hand, in no way in line
with that document, yet declared to be
in keeping with its provisions.

That element which sympathized
with secessionists in war days, de-
nouncing Lincoln as a despot who had.
overridden the Constitution and erect-
ed a war power higher than that in-
strument, are abroad in the land to-
day, even more dangerous than were
the rebel sympathizers of the sixties.

The condition is altogether serious
however much we may effect to ignore
it, and a strict promulgation of Con-
stitutional rights would be in order at
this time.

Daniel Webster was the great ex-
pounder of that Constitution which is
regarded with such levity to-day, and
it would be a blessing to the Nation
had we another Webster to procla‘m
the truth as he proclaimed it in the
days of nullification and threats of
secession and rebellion.

This country has existed consider-
ably more than a century, and its
foundation law has been observation of
Constitution and an adherence to the
teachings of that document.

Secession and rebellion were no more
dangerous to the perpetuity of the Re-
public than are the wiles of the ha'f
baked American political shysters w’
are forging to the front with their pre-
tended new ideas on what constitutes
Constitutional law and authority.

Getting back ito the old standards of
political procedure would make for re-
forms most needed at the present hour.

Old Timer.

——so----———_—

Why Disaster Overtook Traverse
City Merchant.

_ Traverse City, Sept. 22—W. W.
Smith, whose fishery is located on the
West short of Traverse Bay, reports
that his nets do not catch as manv
whitefish and trout as in former years.
Water in the bay is three feet lower
than normal. This condition is at-
tributed to the withdrawal of water
from the Great Lakes through the
Chicago drainage canal.

3oardman river, which flows through

Traverse City, is contaminated by
sewage. Odors arising from the
stream are almost unbearable. A

beautiful park on its banks is seldom
visited by sojourners or residents on
account of the foul atmosphere arising
therefrom. Several residents on the
stream not infrequently catch fish in
the river's bed and eat them, too.
Water for domestic purposes is pump-
ed from the bay, which contains a vast
quantity of sewage. City authorities
try to purify the water with chlorine.
Years ago a merchant who was gen-
erally respected and highly esteemed
erected a large brick building in this
city and moved his stock of merchan-
dise to its floors. Upper floors fiitted
up for offices, were quickly occupied
The merchant’s business grew in vole
ume rapidly and seemingly the sun of
prosperity never grew dim in his neigh-
borhood. McKinley was murdered
and the Nation mourned. Business
men generally agreed to close their
doers on the day of McKinley’s funeral.
The merchant referred to in ‘this para-
graph got a wrong slant on the situa-
tion and kept his doors open. A wise
man of the community warned the
merchant that his course was hazard-
ous and added, “If you do not close up,
you will not be prosperous hereafter.”
The merchant did not heed the warn-
ing and disaster soon overtook him.
His trade dwindled in volume and to
meet his obligations he was oblice
to transfer his building to a bank that
had favored him. Try as he might |}
could not recall the trade that he had
once enjoyed, and finally a receiver
was appointed by a court to wind up
the business. The merchant finally
obtained an appointment to fill a Fed-
eral office and during the years that
followed he saved a sum from his
salary sufficient to assure him a mod-
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Schedule For Tax Hearings.

The Ways and Means Committee
has prepared a tentative schedule of
the tax reduction hearings which are
to begin Oct. 19. The schedule is
subject to revision by Chairman Green
and certain of the dates may be chang-
ed, but it is believed that the general
order indicated will be followed, al-
though some subjects may require
more time than has been assigned to
them. The schedule is as follows:

Oct. 19 and 20. Officials of the
Treasury and other departments.

21. Income tax, including surtaxes.

22. Transportation, insurance, etc.

23. Estate tax.

24. Tax on cigars, tobacco and
manufactures thereof and on admis-
sions and dues.

26. Excise taxes, including automo-
biles, etc.

27. Special taxes, including taxes on
capital stock, occupations, etc.

28. Stamp taxes.

It will be noted that the tentative
schedule covers but nine days. It is
probable, however, that it will be ex-
tended to at least two full weeks and
possibly beyond that period. Congress
will not convene until December; hence
it is apparent that even should the
hearings be prolonged for a week be-
yond the above schedule they would
still be concluded in time for the com-
mittee to devote a full month to the
formulation of the proposed tax re-
duction measure.

The first two davs of the hearings
are to be given up chiefly to the tes-
timony of Treasury officials, beginning
with Secretary Mellon. It will not be
the policy of the administration to pre-
sent a hard-and-fast program of tax
reduction and in appearing before the
committee at the beginning of the com-
ing hearings the Secretary and his as-
sistants will seek merely to give the
committee such information as may be
called for by Chairman Green and his
associates.

It is more than likely, however, that
the examination of Secretary Mellon
and his experts will develop pretty
completely the kind of tax reduction
bill the Treasury Department would
present if requested to do so. The
Secretary is anxious, however, to avoid
being put in the position of dictating
to the committee either as to the taxes
that should be reduced or the amount
of the reductions.

The hearings on income taxes and
surtaxes will be participated in by a
number of well-known bankers and
economists who have already indicated
a desire to address the committee.
Almost without exception these wit-
nesses will suggest substantial reduc-
tions in both income and surtaxes.

The present maximum normal tax of
6 per cent. will in all probability be
reduced to 5 per cent., but there will
be advocates of a maximum rate of
4 per cent. Certain incréased exemp-
tions will also be suggested in this
connection.

Witnesses will appear on both sides
of the question of making a drastic
cut in surtaxes. The majority will
favor slashing heavily the present
maximum rate of 40 per cent. and it
is believed the consensus of opinion
will tend toward a maximum not in
excess of 20 per cent.

A few witnesses will suggest a maxi-
mum of 15 per cent. and in support of
this rate the committee will have be-
fore it certain data compiled by Treas-
ury experts from 1924 returns indi-
cating that the scientific revenue point
for the maximum surtax may be as low
as 12 per cent. There will be a con-
siderable body of testimony favorable
to a combined normal and _surtax rate
not in excess of 20 per cent.

The discussion of the taxation of in-
surance companies will bring to Wash-
ington a number of experts who will
propose substantially lower rates. Cor-
porate income taxes may be discussed
in this same connection and a strong
movement is on foot to cut the pres-
ent 12% per cent. rate toa flat 10 per
cent. The committee is not likely to
countenance any suggestion looking to
the graduation of the tax on corpora-
tions.

One of the most interesting features
of the hearings will be the debate on
the state tax provisions of the Act
of 1924. There is strong sentiment in
favor of the absolute repeal of these
taxes on the ground that the taxing of
inheritances is a peculiarly appropriate
function of the States and that this
revenue field ought not be invaded by
the Federal Government.

Many illustrations have been pre-
sented, both during the debate on the
Act of 1924 and in communications to
the Treasury Department, showing
that the assessment of Federal estate
taxes and State inheritance levies have
operated in numerous instances to con-
fiscate entire estates of substanatial
proportions. Secretary Mellon is under-
stood to favor reducing estate taxes,
but both he and President Coolidge
are reported as opposed to their repeal
at this time.

There is now some talk of a com-
promise provision based on approxi-
mately 50 per cent. of the present
schedule. This proposition is predicat-
ed on the desirability of retaining. this
source of revenue in part, but with the
understanding~that if the states con-
tinue to increase inheritance taxes the
Federal Governmnet will ultimately
abandon the field entirely,

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A strong effort will be made by the
cigar manufacturers to secure a re-
duction in the tax on their products
which now averages 100 per cent. more
than before the war, no relief having
been granted this industry in any pre-
vious tax reduction bill. Cigarettes
have made tremendous inroads upon
cigar production and the present high
graduated tax on cigars, which penal-
izes quality, is claimed to be one of
the chief reasons for the falling off
in consumption.

The taxes on admissions and dues
are naturally regarded by theater and
club managers as in the nature of
nuisance taxes. They were reduced
about 50 per cent. by the Act of 1924,
but a concerted movement is now on
foot, especially in the amusement in-
dustry, to eliminate these taxes alto-
gether.

The discussion of excise taxes will
bring to ‘Washington a large number
of business men representing a num-
ber of important industries, producers
of automobiles and accessories leading
the van. All the excise imposts are
grouped under the head of nuisance
taxes.

While the taxes on automobiles,parts
and accessories were reduced by the
Act of 1924, trucks, etc., still pay a
tax of 3 per cent. while pleasure vehi-
cles and motorcycles pay 5 per cent.;
tires, tubes, etc., being subjected to a
rate of 2% per cent. Every effort will
be made to have these taxes entirely
wiped out.

A strong fight was made in connec-
tion with the passage of the Act of
1924 to strike off the war tax of 10
per cent. on cameras, but the move-
ment was unsuccessful. Manufacturers
in this industry are combining for a
hard drive to repeal all of this tax as
well as the 5 per cent. tax on photo-
graphic films and plates.

Congress refused to repeal the 10
per cent. tax on firearms, shells and
cartridges when the Act of 1924 was
pending and there are a good many
members of both houses who will op-
pose repeal at this time. Much pres-
sure will be brought to bear upon the
Ways and Means Committee, however,
to strike off this tax on the ground
that it constitutes a heavy burden upon
a large class of men who follow hunt-
ing for a living or who engage in it
from time to time as a health-giving
sport.

A 10 per cent. tax on cigar and
cigarette holders and pipes, the 5 per
cent. tax on coin operated devices and
the 10 per cent. tax on mah-jongg sets
“will probably be repealed if the com-
mittee decides to wipe out. all the
nuisance taxes. Unless a clean sweep
of this class of imposts is made, how-
ever, these particular taxes are likely
to be retained.

Bankers, brokers and business men
generally will urge the repeal of the
stamp taxes, especially those levied on
transfer of securities. There will be
some opposition in Congress to repeal-
ing these taxes, some of which are re-
garded as proper features to be re-
tained in the general program of taxa-
tion until the war burden has been
greatly lightened by the repayment of
loans made by the United States to
European nations during the war.
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been predicting the passage of a tax re-
duction bill before the holiday recess

are now disposed to hedge. The di-
versity of interests that will insist up-
on being heard will make it very diffi-
cult even for the House of Repre-
sentatives to pass a reduction bill be-
fore December 20, the date upon which
ithe holiday recess is usually taken.

While efforts will be made to per-
fect the bill before Congress meets the
leaders do not wish to invoke a gag
rule to put the measure through the
House; hence they are likely to allow
several days debate which will mean
that much pressure will have to be
exerted to bring the measure to a vote
during the fourteen days that will
elapse after Congress convenes and
before the recess.

While the Finance Committee will
begin work on the bill as soon as it
is introduced in the House and will
follow closely the developments in the
Ways and Means Committee it is the
best opinion here that hearings will be
granted by the Senate Committee ex-
tending for ten days or two weeks.
Allowing another fortnight for the for-
mulation of the bill in committee and
an equal length of time for its dis-
cussion on the floor it seems probable
that final vote on the measure will not
be reached before February 15.

The Treasury officials, however, will
be well satisfied if the bill becomes a
law a fortnight or more before the re-
turns of 1925 incomes are required to
be made on March 15 when the first
payment is also due.

—_—_—_-2-s
Watch Your Discounts.

Cash discounts are more important
than a good many people think. It is
not a mere 2 per cent. or 3 per cent.
now and again for the business man,
but a steady margin of extra profit
which can be had without any question
of doubt or risk. It is merely a mat-
ter of prompt payment, and it is much
better business, if necessary, to bor-
row money and to pay 6 per cent., than
to pass these discounts by.

Study this table and see what you
are losing or making as the case may
be. Notice the fine discount possible
of 54 per cent. on a 3 per cent. dis-
count for the ten-day period. This
table should be pasted up above every
business man’s desk, and referred to
frequently:

1% per cent. in ten days—net 30 days—
equals 27 per cent. a year.

¥%% per cent. in ten days—net 30 days—

equals 9 per cent. a year.

1 per cent. in ten days—net 30 days—

equals 18 per cent. a year.

2 per cent. in thirty days—net 4

months—equals 8 per cent. a year.

2 per cent. in ten days—net 60 days—

equals 14 per cent. a year.

2 per cent. in thirty days—net 60 days

—equals 24 per cent. a year.

2 per cent. in ten days—net 30 days—

equals 36 per cent. a year.

3 per cent. in thirty days—net 60 days

—equals 36 per cent. a year.

3 per cent. in ten days—net 60 days—

equals 54 per cent. a year.

———

It’s fine business to take your hat off
when the flag goes by, but it’s even
better to prevent the bolshevik from
poisoning our minds with treasonous
rot.

    

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Why Money Rates Have Not Moved
Higher.

Why don’t money rates go up?

That question is one people have
been asking for weeks and it is one
John McHugh, president of the Me-
chanics and Metals Bank, attempts to
answer in the current issue of the
American Bankers Association Journal.

As is pointd out in the article the
present situation presents an interest-
ing puzzle to financiers themselves.
Produc-
tion is increasing and new plans prom-
ise still greater activity. The month

Business is reviving rapidly.

just ended was the largest on record
for the building industry, although it
was a season of year when a slump
normally is expected. The autumn
movement of crops is starting earlier
than usual. And yet, while most of
the conditions are present that former-
ly sent money rates higher, funds have
been in abundant supply at the financial
centers.

Mr. McHugh, who believes that: the
days of high money rates are over un-
less Federal
terially increased, says in part:

“The coming and operation of the
Federal Reserve System have made

Reserve rates are ma-

possible the pooling of our resources
and have given us the mechanism for
increasing the supply of credit at any
time the demand increases without
causing rates to go a-soaring. Before
the war each bank had to rely to a
large extent on its own resources. It
had to keep large reserves and, at the
first signs of tighter money, it began
to prepare for a possible stringency.
The action on the part of one bank
was quickly followed by similar action
of another. Uneasy in the knowledge
that the money supply could not be
expanded bevond a certain limit, the
rate was advanced to hold the demand
for credit within bounds and to get the
higher yield on the credit available. It
became a matter of habit for every one
to expect a sharp rise in money rates
with quickening business activity. Now
even though we have a new order of
banking, it seems that many bankers
look for a recurrence of this historic
advance.”

The real reason that money rates do
not go up. in the opinion of this au-
thority, “are the comparatively low
Federal Reserve rate, the co-ordination
furnished through the Federal Reserve
System and the confidence on the part
of member banks that they can go to
the Federal Reserve bank at any time
with paper eligible under the law and
convert it into cash or credit on short
notice. It is not so much that the
member banks use the facilities of the
reserve banks in the extension of
credit. The knowledge that they can
always look to the reserve banks to
rediscount their paper and obtain the
funds needed to maintain liquidity is
the assurance that enables banks to use
their resources to a far greater extent.
It was not uncommon before the war—
indeed it was the requirement—for
banks in central reserve cities to main-
tain reserves of 25 per cent. in the
form of cash in their vaults. Now, they
do not keep more than 12 or 13 per
cent. in reserve, including their bal-
ances on deposits with the reserve
banks.”

The question of ease in the money

MICHIGAN

market is one that cannot be discussed

without some reference, of course, to
the numerous factors that have helped
to make business move more and more
on a hand-to-mouth basis. It means
that the turnover in business is becom-
ing swifter. Less is required to swing
a business since not so much money is
tied up in inventories.
Paul Willard Garrett.
[ Copyrighted, 1925]
—_2+.—____
Absence of Inflation in Commodity
Values.

Are we running into a period of in-
flation?

The question is not new, but some
people are asking it again to convince
themselves that the present tide of
prosperity rests on solid ground.
Enormous profits quickly made were
all right for the abnormal days of war
time and the inflationary period that
followed war, but what sane business
men everywhere want now is a pros-
perity that will last.

That our immense reservoir of
credit has not been used this year to
boom commodity prices means that the
business world has clearly in mind its
experiences of 1920, 1923 and 1924.

Our captains of industry have at
their beckon the machinery greatly to
enlarge production overnight and our
merchants easily can command what-
ever credit they may want to store up
goods for resale at higher values. From
one end of the country to the other,
however, people realize the futility of
price booms, and nothing else so much
stability in commodity
prices that we now enjoy. When the
maladjustment in agricultural prices
finally was corrected early this year a
new confidence was restored and a
new satisfaction with things normal.

Not since the armistice have com-
modity prices behaved so true to pre-
war form as during 1925 to date. The
firmness of commodity prices this year,
the small fluctuations from month to
month and the absence of spectacular
maladjustments must please conserva-

explains the

tive business interests too long accus-
tomed in the last decade to gyrations
in the commodity markets.

When the Bureau of Labor published
its wholesale index of commodity prices
to-day for August we saw that the
general level stood at 160, which means
60 per cent. above the 1913 average.
Prices in August averaged higher than
in July, but the difference was no more
than a fraction of a point. An ad-
vancing tendency has been noted in
recent months, but the gains have been
moderate. “Even at the lowest level
this year, which is recorded for May,
prices averaged 155. Early autumn re-
turns not yet tabulated by the Gov-
ernment bear out the conclusion that
no evidence has occurred of dangers of
price inflation.

When we say that commodity prices
have become more stabilized we mean
that individual groups no longer are
regularly subjected to dangerous
manipulation of a speculative order.
Prices are finding their natural levels.

We do not mean, of course, that the
various groups stand alike in their re-
lations to pre-war values. ‘Wholesale
clothing prices at 190 still stand higher
relatively above their 1913 average

than do the prices of any other major

September 23, 1925

TRADESMAN

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15
group. Metal prices at 127 likewise Mistaken Ideas of How To Figure
are relatively lower than any of the Margins.
others. Despite all that has been said at mer- Fourth National Bank GRAND RAPIDS
These groups are exceptions, no chants’ conventions in recent years, : ' MICHIGAN
doubt, but we make a mistake in sup- and all which has been written for and United States Depositary Establishea 1868
posing that oe commodity disseminated by trade publications, The accumulated experience of over 56 years, which has brought
groups ee ee re tO eee, there ate still retailers who persist in stability and soundness to this bank, is at your service.
ly the same relative level before a _ figuring margins on the cost instead of
normal condition has been restored. on the selling price. ‘ ad fe : Peep atubee
Paul Willard Garrett. Even where reasonably adequate ication Herth, — Sianes ¥ eae acid we Peewee
Copyrighted, 1925 : Se Robert D. Graham, Marshall M. Uhl, Samuel G. Braudy,
LGopyratees. Ve) records are kept relative tto the cost Charles N. Willis, Viston M. Tothill Poe oa = doonthaten
Corporations Wound Up of operating the store, one occasionally Samuel D. Young James L. Hamilton
The fataeine Mekicad cee finds a retailer who does not realize
tions have recently filed notices of dis- the eet sae eos ira yl
solution with the Secretary of State: we ee eee re oe
” the items in his stock. SAFETY SAVING SERVICE

Earl Motors, Inc., Jackson.

Ionia Housing Corporation, Ionia.

Prudential Realty Co., Lansing.

General Aluminum & Brass Manufac-
turing Co., Detroit.

Chas. B. Bohn Foundry Co., Detroit.

W. Lee Cotter Warehouse Co, Flint.

Battle Creek Finance Co., Battle Creek

Saginaw Evening Star Co., Saginaw.

Wolverine Realty Co., Detroit

Risley-Peterson Co., Detroit.

Peoples Loan Society, Inc., Detroit

Par-Car-Dor Engineering and Con-
struction Co., Kalamazoo.

Queen Laboratories, Inc., Detroit.

Bradley-Huber Transit Corporation,
Algonac.

Lansing Auto Sales Corporation, Lan-

sing.

Ubly Grain Co., Ubly

Continental Bank, Detroit.

American Auto Trimming Co., Detroit

Gotfredson Truck Corporation, Detroit

Railway Steel Spring Co., Detroit.

Muskegon Machine Co, Muskegon.

Larabee Flour Mills Corporation, De-
troit.

Frank E. Davis Fish Co., Detroit.

General Foundries Co., Holland.

Mt. Clemens Investment Co., Mt.
Clemens

Detroit Electric Car Co., Detroit

Miller-Sklaroff Co., Inc., Detrott

Lithuanian Co-operative Association,
Detroit.

Davis and Crow, Inc., Detroit

Franklin Co., Detroit

Powers-Spaulding Light & Power Co.,
Powers

Fennville Coal Co., Fennville

Sentinel Manufacturing Co.,
Rivers '

Manistee Canning Co., Manistee.

Goddard Service, Ann Arbor.

Battery Park Land Co., Grand Ledge

Co-operative Sales Co., of America,
Detroit.

VanBlatz Brewing Co., of Michigan,
Ironwood.

General Machine Corporation, Benton
Harbor.

City Gas Co., Marquette

Cement Casket Manufacturing Co., Al-
bion.
Shifflet--Cumber Finance Corporation,
Detroit
Professional Grand
Rapids.

Leatherlike Co., Highland Park

Ann Arbor Buick Sales Co., Ann
Arbor.

—__22+————_
Worsteds Competing With Silks.
The guiding principles on which the

dress goods mills are building up their
Spring (1926) lines center around the
necessity of offering fabrics that offer
greater competition to silks. For the
last two Spring seasons and also dur-
ing this Fall, silk goods have been in
such demand that the production and
sale of dress worsteds have been sub-
stantially restricted. The mills have
thus had a substantial problem on their
hands and they have elected to solve
it by “fighting fire with fire.” They
are quite generally using silk and
rayon in the construction of their wor-
sted cloths and making them as light in
weight and as closely resembling silks

in finish and luster as possible.

Three

Operating Co.,

Using the invoice price as the basis,
retailers in many instances stfll la-
bor under the mistaken idea that if they
add 50 per cent. to this figure they are
making a profit of 50 per cent., for-
getting that all other records of their
business are based, not upon the cost
price of the merchandise, but upon the
number of dollars which come in over
the counter in exchange for wares pur-
chased.

Margin or profit, and the former is
the preferred word inasmuch as there
may be margin without any profit,
should always be figured on the selling
price of the merchandise. If a retailer
will remember this he will not have
to do so much wondering at the end
of the year as to why he can’t put his
fingers upon any tangible financial re-
sults of the year’s trading.

There are many reasons why mar-
gin should be figured on the selling
price. Here are just a few of 'them:

1. Because neither margin nor
profit is made until after the sale is
made.

2. Because other business figures
are based on their relation to sales, and
all business figures should be uniform-
ly determined.

3. Because selling expenses are al-
ways figured in relation to sales.

4. Because taxes are based on sales.

5. Because sales totals are usually
available at a glance.

6. Because profit is earned ito re-
ward all your capital and not only that
part invested in merchandise.

7. Because it indicates correctly the
margin of profit when the selling price
is stated.

8. Because allowances and discounts
are always made on sales.

9. Because mark-down
figured on selling price.

10. Because commission payments
are always based on sales.

is always

11. Because chain stores, depart-
ment stores and all successful stores
everywhere figure margin on selling
price.

12. Because a large part of lost
profits is traced to figuring margin on
cost price and expenses on selling price.

13. Because it truthfully represents
the per cent. you make on a sale to
a customer. To base it on cost ex-
aggerates the amount in his eyes—33%
per cent. on selling price equals 50 per
cent. on cost.

14. Because you can look at the
cash received and quickly figure that
part which belongs to you as profit.

15. Finally, because figuring mar-
gin on selling price is the simple, easy
way. Selling price is always 100 per
cent. Cost of goods and margin are
parts of ‘the selling price in proportion.

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“The Agency of Personal Service”’
C. N. BRISTOL, A. T. MONSON, H. G. BUNDY.
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WILLIAM A. WATTS
9 Chairman of Board

President

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Paying all losses promptly and saving our members 30% an-
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Those Who Are Born
Short.

Written for the Tradesman.

“Born short” is an expression in use
among teachers. It might be applied
to the general mentality, but is used
mostly with reference to some specific
deficiency—Jane is said to be born
short as to music, John as to language.
When direct application to a particu-
lar case is being made, the term is not
considered just suitable for the ears
of either parents or pupils.

The pedagogues may have a little
fun among themselves over the inapti-
tudes they have to deal with, but there
is much conscientious work being done
by them in the way of bringing up to
normal, in so far as is possible, every
child who may lack in any important
respect; to the end that no boy or girl
shall go out into life under handicap
of a defect that might have been
remedied.

The home has its indispensable part
in this much needed work—co-oper-
ating with the teachers in what they
are trying to do, and taking care of
some faults and deficiencies that the
teachers can not be expected to handle.

The great test of a physician is diag-
nosis, his ability to tell what ails the
patient. Something of this penetrative
insight is needed in dealing with the
deficiencies of children.

Suppose Dorothy doesn’t learn her
arithmetic. It may be that she is al-
most entirely lacking in the number
faculty; but possibly the faculty is
. there all right but undeveloped for her
age. Or, what is quite as likely as
either of these suppositions, she may
be merely indolent mentally, unwilling
to apply a mind that is fully up to the
average.

A physical disability such as defec-
tive eyesight, poor hearing, or a gen-
eral lack of bodily health and vitality,
often will manifest mentally in back-
wardness and seeming dullness. Dur-
ing a time of very rapid physical
growth, the mind is apt to be sluggish.

Fortunate is the parent who can size
up his own child with accuracy, who
sees his boy or girl with a shrewd par-
ental kindness but impartially—neither
better nor worse, smarter nor more
stupid than is actually the case.

If added to insight and fairness
there is a good working knowledge of
human nature in general and of child
and youth nature in particular, an
understanding of the springs and mo-
tives that underlie and control emo-
tions, mental activities, and conduct,
then the father or mother may be al-
most a wonder-worker.

Some study of the order in which
a child’s powers and faculties develop
is also essential, since it enables one
to tell whether a seeming fault is likely

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to be outgrown if simply ignored, or
whether a needed trait will come of
itself in due time.

Naturally the school will concern
itself largely with those deficiencies
that prevent the child from passing his
grades. The parents should not fail
in effort to strengthen up such weak
spots as later on would prove a detri-
ment in relations with other people
and in the ordinary duties of life.

The work, play, customary pursuits
anad social activities of the household
may be the means of this development.
Only be sure of a right application. As
the same wind may send a vessel East
or West according to the set of the
sails, so the forces of the family life,
if wrongly applied, may intensify and
fix defects instead of correcting them.

There are reasons for this. One is
that unless there is unusual fairness of
mind within its walls, the tendency of
the home is to put an exaggerated es-
timate on deficiencies. Is Joe a little
slow with his sloyd at school or awk-
ward about learning to use a hammer
at home? It hastily is decided that
Son has no mechanical ability what-
ever—he will have to be a bookkeeper
or study law.

Mary at twelve doesn’t like to sew
but is a very good little cook; while
Ruth, two years older, does not care
to learn about pastries and puddings
but can make neat stylish dresses. The
family dictum is that Mary can’t sew
and that Ruth can’t cook. In all
likelihood, potentially both can cook
and both can sew, although perhaps
not with equal facility and skill. House-
hold snap judgments must be guarded
against, for once a child gets the no-
tion he can’t do this or that, he stops
trying.

Particularly is this the case if much
is made of an inaptitude, and there is
ridicule of faulty initial efforts. Good-
natured raillery this may be, but still
it causes a painful self-consciousness
of the deficiency, and is something
which a sensitive spirit always will
seek to avoid.

Children, like their elders, are natur-
al specializers. They prefer to do the
things in which they can shine, and
each will shunt off everything else onto
others so far as he can. Altogether, if
it were desired to render deficiencies
incurable, no more efficient system for
doing it could be devised than just that
which without any design exists in
many homes.

This must be changed. Shift
things about. Have Mary sew and
Ruth cook, even though immediate re-
sults in either case are not flattering.
Let it be the custom of the household
that the various kinds of ordinary
work and social offices as well shall
be allotted so that each young person

TRADESMAN

shall become fairly proficient in all.

Is a child dreamy, absent-minded,
careless as to money, inattentive about
getting the right change in a transac-
tion—see to it that that one does more
than his share of errands at the stores,
and hold him or her to strict account-
ability. Bring the wallflowers to the
front socially and have those who are
too forward go back and sit down. In-
duce the silent, diffident ones to talk
and make the overtalkative ones keep
still—sometimes. And let it be a rule
that a deficiency shall be taboo as a
subject for general conversation and an
occasion for merriment.

Don’t give up easily. Don’t be con-
vinced at all quickly that a son or a
daughter is actually born short as to
some necessary ability or power. Try
a new and different way of presenting
the matter. The ugly duckling, the
pebble of Demosthenes, and the ex-
ample of eminent persons who were
condemned to the dunce stool at school
may serve to keep up courage.

Don’t fail to enlist the child’s own
desire and will power, for these are
the most effective means of remedy.
And as soon as there has been a change
for the better, be sure to recognize it.
When there has been honest effort and
even a little genuine improvement,
don’t go on assuming that the boy or
girl is just as short as ever.

What deficiencies to try to bring up
on, what to disregard, how far to at-
tempt to go and when and where to
stop—these are matters for parental
good sense and judgment to decide.
The basic rudiments of school educa-
tion and such other knowledge and
development as are needed for ordin-
ary business transactions and_all-
round living should be gained if pos-
sible, no matter how great the cost
in effort. But it is not worth while
to try to force nature in non-essen-
tials.

As to vocation, the authorities and
common sense agree that something
in line with the natural powers should
be chosen—the kind of work that one
takes to and enjoys and can do easily
and without undue strain. Not a soft
snap, of course, but a calling in which
a full application of energy will bring
commensurate results.

It sometimes happens that the voca-
tion or profession which seems best
suited to the young person’s abilities,
has some educational or practical re-
quirement that is hard to meet because
of some natural deficiency. If this re-
quirement holds a somewhat unim-
portant place, the situation usually can
be managed by extra endeavor.

In some such cases a high school
diploma may be almost the Waterloo
of attainment. If it is a requisite in
preparation for the chosen life work,
it should be compassed if it is prac-
tical to do so. Otherwise the comple-
tion of the regular literary high school
course should not be deemed impera-
tive for every boy and girl.

There are minds bright and keen in
concrete practical matters, that are
hopelessly fogged in the abstractions
of algebra and geometry, and in the
construction of foreign languages. I
am glad that such can now take me-
chanical and vocational training, put-
ting their time and effort on what

September 23, 1925

will be of greatest benefit, in classes
where they will not suffer from con-
stant comparison with the more
scholarly type of mind.

So much for individual deficiencies.
There are some things—essential things
too—in which nearly all of us are born
rather short. Order and system for
instance. The schools inculcate these,
but the effect may be lost if things go
at sixes and sevens at home. Let it be
remembered that the home is a place
where things are done, not for the time
being only. Here habits are formed
that will govern thoughts and actions
throughout life.

Just a word now regarding the two
essential sides or phases of parental
character—the one phase that is whip
and coach combined, the critic who
sees every defect and failing, the dis-
ciplinarian and tactician who holds
every child to his or her best endeavor;
the other that is the good friend and
companion who looks upon every son
and daughter, no matter what the de-
ficiencies, with eyes of unfailing af-
fection.

From a well balanced combination of
both phases comes true parental ar-
tistry and power. Effort for the cure
of defects must be persistent—it should
not be incessant. Nor should a child
be made to feel his deficiencies too
keenly, nor be allowed to lose faith in
himself, nor habitually be made un-
comfortable and unhappy under the
home roof. Ella M. Rogers.

——_—-0+ 2 ____—
On the Thrift Side.

The common impression that there
are a great many people in the United
States, and that it takes many differ-
ent kinds of people to make a world,
finds confirmation in the rival statis-
tics of luxury and thrift.

Has the American people gone au-
tomobile mad? Possibly, in many
cases. Yet if the consumption of mo-
tor cars is close to one per family in
the United States, it is now asserted
that the consumption of life insurance
policies averages more than two per
family.

Fifty million people, according to
the figures issued by the Prudential
Life Insurance Company, pay annual
premiums of $2,500,000,000 for protec-
tion to the aggregate value of $64,000,-
000,000.

Fifty million people means roughly
10,000,000 families, each carrying life
insurance to the average amount of
$6,500 and paying $250 per year for
the privilege.

If the indicated rate of 4 per cent.
seems high, remember that a consider-
able amount of the total of insurance is
in the form of endowment policies
which combine savings with insurance.

Altogether, the American people pay
something like $3,400,000,000 a year
for protection and thrift in the form of
life, fire and minor insurance premiums.

That would be nearly one and a half
times as much as the estimated value
of motor car production in the United
States in the year 1923.

And insurance represents only one
item in the Nation’s thrift along with
savings banks, building and loan as-
sociations, home-building and invest-
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4 Grand Rapids Retail Hardware Deaters

es Condemn Premium Goods

WHEREAS—Premiums of aluminumware, chinaware, cooking utensils and
general hardware articles, due to their uncertain quality, both from a stand-
point of workmanship and material, are confusing the minds of the buying pub-

lic of our city as to real value in such merchandise and where it is obtainable; and

WHEREAS—The practice of leading the housewife of this community to be-
lieve she is not paying for the premium and that she is getting something for
; nothing is misleading in fact and unfair to clean, legitimate business procedure
ao and creates unstable business conditions without benefit to any one except pos-

sibly manufacturers of such premiums; therefore

RESOLVED—That in the spirit of fairness and in accordance with good busi-
ness ethics, this organization pledges itself to respect the rights of all other
merchants of this city and to conduct its activities along constructive lines in
respect to our brother merchants and the best business interests of the community

as a whole;

FURTHER—That in this interest we condemn the premium deals and all other
forms of trick selling which tend to deceive the buying public of this market;

FURTHER—That this association indorse and extend a vote of thanks to the
members of the Grand Rapids Grocers Association for the progress and mer-
itorious stand they have taken with The Best Foods, Inc., manufacturers of
Nucoa, to eliminate premiums in connection with all articles of food sold in their

stores.

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Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.
President—Geo. T. Bullen, Albion.
First Vice-President—H. G. Wesener,

Albion.

Second Vice-President—F. E. Mills,

Lansing.

Secretary-Treasurer—H. J. Mulrine,

Battle Creek.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

 

Planning the Work of the Coming
Year.

Lansing, Sept. 22—At the recent
meeting of the Board of Directors of
the Michigan Retail Dry Goods As-
sociation, the manager made a report
of the convention, group meetings and
legislation for the past year and com-
mented somewhat on membership dues
and office expenses, also the present
status of our affiliated insurance com-
pany. We quote a couple paragraphs
of the minutes which are of especial
interest at this time:

“The time has arrived when a suc-
cessful campaign for Upper Peninsula
members may be wisely planned. For
geographical reasons the merchants of
the two portions of Michigan have
known little of each other.

The State car ferry at the Straits;
the splendid State trunk lines Nos. 10,
11, 13 and 14, all leading to Mackinaw
City, and the fine roads of the u. ©.
leading this way binds together two
heretofore separated portions of a great
State so that we are one State as never
before. In 1922 I struggled through
detours and over unimproved roads in
an effort to secure members. A few
were secured, but only a small percent-
age of those who should belong. This
summer (1925) a trip to Houghton
showed me the wonderful improvement
in roads and that a convention held at
Mackinac Island is not only possible
but very desirable.

I am sure that there are many good
merchants in Upper Michigan in both
peninsulas who would welcome such
an effort on our part and join in keep-
ing this Association where it now
stands—the best in the country. Along
this line permit me to suggest that our
group meetings are less popular for the
reason that every town of any size in
Michigan has noon-day luncheon clubs
which take the time and attention of
business men to the detriment of the
larger district meeting such as those
promoted by retailers.

I would recommend that these dis-
trict meetings be held during the
months of October and November at
convenient places such as Kalamazoo,
Saginaw and Adrian that we return to
the March convention and hold it in
Muskegon this year and go to Mack-
inac Island for a summer convention,
leaving the dates and general arrange-
ments to our President and a commit-
tee appointed by him.

The sentiment of the directors was
against the holding of two conventions
duringAhe year and after discussions it
was moved by Mr. Frandsen, support-
ed by Mr. Zielinski, that the next con-
vention be held at Grand Hotel, Mack-
inac Island. This motion also had the
support of Mr. Thornton, resident di-
rector of Muskegon After full discus-
sion the motion was carried unanimous-
ly. The date of the convention, while
not definitely fixed, will probably be
Tuesday and Wednesday, July 6 and 7;
1926.

The question of the convention hav-
ing been settled, a discussion was had

regarding the holding of group or dis-
trict meetings during the year. I+ was
moved by Mr. Mulrine, supported by
Mr. Thornton, that six meetings be
held during the year, three or perhaps
four during the Fall months and the
remaining number in March or April.
Discussions followed with reference
to geographical distribution of these
meetings. The following cities were
most favored:

Adrian, Hastings, Kalamazoo, Sag-
inaw, Pontiac, Owosso.

It was the general opinion that di-
rectors residing in these towns should
act as committee of local arrangements
and secure one or two local persons to
make brief addresses. The remainder
of the program being filled by Mr. Bul-
len, Miss Case, Mr. Hammond and di-
rectors and former officers of the As-
sociation. Those meetings to consist,
as heretofore, of a luncheon and round
table discussion presided over by Presi-
dent Bullen or some person designated
by him.”

At a meeting of the Michigan Re-
tailers’ Council Sept. 10, Walter S.
Foster, of Lansing, attorney for the
Council, made the following comments
on the above subject:

“The 1925 Legislature amended the
garnishment law in a few important
particulars, the most conspicuous of
which is that no writ of garnishmen‘
shall issue against labor wages until
judgment has first been obtained
against the defendant; an exception its
provided whereby the justice of the
peace may, for special reasons shown,
authorize one garnishment before the
judgment is obtained, but it is be-
lieved that justices in the cities will re-
fuse to practically hear cases twice for
the purpose of determining whether
the exception should apply. The ac
also provides there shall be but one
adjournment in garnishment cases and
that for a period not exceeding on
week. Garnishment cases shall have
priority over all cases in the court
docket.

“You are all doubtless familiar wii!
the old plan of garnishment permitting
the plaintiff to tie up the wages of the
defendant until the case was dispose
of. This privilege was greatly abused,
particularly by those concerns whi-
had sold to people of limited income
articles which they could not well af-
ford: itthen when payments were not
made as agreed, the garnishment law
was used to annoy the purchaser and
by depriving him of the necessities for
his family during the time his wages
were held up, an attempt was made to
coerce him into immediately meeting
his obligations. There was a general
sentiment in tthe last Legislature that
actual wage earners should be pro-
tected from such annoyances, some-
times leading to discharge from em-
ployment; the net results were that the
Legislature said one could not gar-
nishee wages until he had proven to
the satisfaction of the court that there
was a lawful debt.

“Tt is probably true that some dead
beats will profit by this act, but in gen-

eral this new law meets with hearty-

public approval. As suggested by one
of your members here to-day, the real
answer iis, to be more careful in ‘the
extension of credit.

“The exemptions of wages have not
been changed and the amount exempt

TRADESMAN

is therefore the same as under the old
law, namely, a householder having a
family is entitled to an exemption of
60 per cent. of the wages due for the
labor of himself or any member of tthe
family, which amount shall not be less
than $8 nor more than $30, but a per-
son who is not such a household:r, to
an exemption of 30 per cent. of his
wages, which shall not be less than
$4 or more than $5.”

We have received a communication
from W. deSaussure Trenholm, Sec-
retary of the Retail Dry Goods As-
sociation, New York, enclosing samples
of pictures which have been approved
by “the Early Christmas Shopping
Campaign Committee of the Retail Dry
Goods Association for use this Fall
in the Early Christmas Shopping Cam-
paign which has been successfully con-
ducted at New York and elsewhere for
the last seven years. This picture was
printed especially for this purpose and
is particularly appropriate. Miniatures
and folders will be made from tthe pic-
ture and also laree posters which will
be suitable for inside and window dis-
play will be made. These pictures are
very reasonably priced and merchants
who are looking for something to help
in the Early Christmas Shopping v‘ll
do well by communicating with Mr.
Trenholm at the above address. The
Postmaster General has authorized the
publication over his signature in news-
papers and otherwise the following
statement:

The Government would be gratified
if you would

Shop Early

Wrap Carefully

Address Plainly, and

Mail Promptly

Harry S. New,

Postmaster General.

Jason E. Hammond,

Mer. Mich. Retail Dry Goods Ass'n.
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Being solemn doesn’t mean being
great.

  

September 23, 1925

Expect Good Topcoat Sales.

Some reorders are already coming
through for Fall topcoats, and both re-
tailers and manufacturers look ahead
to a good consumer demand for these
garments during the next few weeks.
While the Spring is the best season
for topcoat sales, the belief is held that
many who bought topcoats last sea-
son will be purchasers again owing to
the extended wear their coa'ts had
through a long, chilly Spring. More-
over, there is a wider class of consum-
ers being appealed to as good topcoats
are now more reasonably priced than
when the sole sales attempt was toward
the comparatively few better dressers.
The new grays, tans and soft mixture
effects have been preferred in the
smooth finished woven fabrics and also
in the increasingly popular knitted top-
coats.

For Quality, Price, and Style

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Changes in Sports Wear.

Previous reports of sharply defined
changes impending iin exclusive sports
wear designed for the Winter resort
season have been verified during the
past week. Sports materials, upon
which attention was focused during
the Deauville and San Sebastian sea-
sons now drawing to a close, have ar-
rived for advance showings. The
changes are shown in these goods, and
further indication of the new trend has
been afforded by the early openings of
the local fabric firms which follow the
foreign vogue to a somewhat unusual
extent.

Among the anticipated new sports
wear developments is ithe style accept-
ance of extreme lightness and fineness
of texture in high grade fabrics. While
the gradual introduction of silk into
the construction of both woolen and
worsted materials ha s influenced the
judgment of style authorities in the
dress field, it is noted that the tradi-
tional hand loom specialties which do
not have silk in their make up are also
undergoing basic changes. These in-
clude not only lightness, but also a
clinging softness as essential factors.

A tthird transition is indicated in the
shiftings of favor for colors in sports
wear on the French, Swiss and Ameri-
can color cards. These cards agree to
a large extent, upon the replacing of
the more intense shades by more tem-
pered ones which have hitherto char-
acterized evening dress.

That a fourth essential, a new cling-
ing silhouette, will introduce novel
pleating and darting methods in regu-
lating the now popular fullness and
lengthen the skirts somewhat, is the
design principle advanced by William
Bloom, who specializes in sports wear.
In his opinion, over-concentration upon
mannish and boyish modes, such as has
prevailed in recent seasons, has un-
doubtedly served to swing ‘the style in-
fluence in the opposite direction.

——_-2--____
Toy Imports and Exports.

Except during the boom period of
the war, the first half of 1925 saw for
the first time in the history of ‘the
American toy trade exports of play-
things from this country in excess of
the imports of similar merchandise.
The authority for this assertion is the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com-
merce. :

“Tn comparison with pre-war years,”
says a report of the bureau on the
subject, “there has been a gradual de-
crease in toy imports and only a slight
increase in toy exports. However, con-
sidering the development of the mar-
ket, the home manufacturer is supply-
ing a much greater percentage of the
domestic demand than such figures in-
dicate.

“In the fiscal year ended June 30
last, toy imports declined in value by
$1,337,713, or a decrease of 22 per cent.
In the first six months of 1925 there
was a decline in imports from the cor-
responding period of 1924 of $579,759,
a decrease of 33 per cent. In July, 1925,
imports of toys decreased by 24 per
cent., or $166,946, from the total in-
ward bound shipments of playthings in
the same month of 1924.”

The report goes on to say that ex-
ports of toys in the last fiscal year
exceeded those of the previous one by

18 per cent., or $487,910 in value. For
the first half of this year exports gained
$201,746 over those of the same period
in 1924, or 20 per cent. The increase
in July, 1925, shipments, however,
amounted to only 9 per cent.

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Will Help With Store Problems.
Practical aid in solving store prob-

lems will be directly afforded mer-
chants visiting through a comprehen-
sive extension of service being under-
taken by the National Retail Dry
Goods Associaiont. The Association
will take the initiative by arranging
personal interviews at their New York
offices, their hotels or at the head-
quarters of the Association, according
to an announcement made yesterday by
Lew Hahn, managing director. This
departure in organization service, Mr.
Hahn added, is offered both to mem-
bers and non-members. It is an effort
to demonstrate in a practical manner
the service facilities of the organiza-
tion and to show how they are being
used to solve tthe daily problems of
store operation. No restrictions, Mr.
Hahn said, have been placed upon
the extent of the co-operation that is
offered. The Association is organized
to provide highly specialized informa-
ition on every phase of retailing
through its twelve service bureaus.

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Forced to Offer Novelties.

Recent and further openings of
standard lines of cotton dress fabrics
for Spring, 1926, have served as ad-
ditional evidence of the extent to which
novelties, especially those embodying
rayon in one form or another, have
cut into tthe field formerly pre-empted
by well-known lines of ginghams.
While the latter goods are by no means
out of the running, it was said yester-
day that the coming season will be the
first in which they have been generally
subordinated by their makers to the
class of merchandise that is now being
featured. According to one _ trade
leader, handlers of ginghams were lit-
erally forced to turn their attention to
novelties. This was not only due to
the style factor, it was said, but to the
need of the mills turning out something
on which buyers would let them make
a profit.

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New Tie and Handkerchief Sets.
In the belief that boxed sets con-

taining six ties and six handkerchiefs
which are matched will go well for the
holiday trade a wholesaler here is mak-
ing a special feature of them at a price
described as attractive. The handker-
chiefs and ties harmonize in both color
and pattern and are available in a large
array of designs. Among them are
fancy polka dot, neat figured, futuristic,
diamond and all-over effects. The sets
are wholesaled at $4.50 each, the re-
tail selling price of a tie or handker-
chief being 65 cents.

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Gauntlet Gloves Are Wanted.

An increasing volume of orders for
womens Fall gloves is reported by
manufacturers. The novelty gauntlet
style in both kid and fabric materials
is described as the best selling type at
present. This glove is made with a
norrow embroidered cuff. The demand
for the perforated cuff variety has fall-
en off somewhat. The most wanted
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Starting Next Monday

FROM GRAND RAPIDS
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Traffic
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He Was a Good Doctor--

But Slickers Got the Fees--

Years of study, years of professional research, years of capable,
respectable, arduous practice, had made Dr. Senior a well-known figure
in Detroit.

He had a good clientele. His reasonable

fees, commensurate with

his ability, amounted to a tidy income per year.

But at the age of fifty-five, Dr. Senior came to his reckoning and

passed to his reward.

The Widow's Mite

His widow brought the key to the Doctor's safe deposit box to the
family attorney, asking the attorney to handle the securities and prop-

erty left to her.

At the attorney’s request, a representative of the Better Business
Bureau went to view and identify the securities.

Oil stock, mining stock, co-operative orchard stock, invention stock—
$60,000 of it—all speculative or spurious to begin with—all worthless or
nearly so at the end. Equities in lots, miles from any development.

Altogether, the estae netted the widow less than $1,000.

The doctor could have told the experienced

banker, investment

banker and reputable securities man—‘‘Don’t tinker with your physical

ailments. Bring those problems to me.”

But he had not learned to reverse the lesson.

MORAL—Before You Invest—Investigate!

Better Business Bureau

of Detroit

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The Passing of Java Coffee.

Java coffee gained its reputation for
fine quality in former days when prac-
tically all the coffee plantations in
Java and Sumatra were owned or ii-
directly controlled by the government
of the Netherlands Indies.

Under the “cultur” system, or forced
cultivation, coffee was bought by the
government and held in storage 16rt
several years, during which it under-
went a mellowing or aging process.
Officials took much pride in the qual-
ity of coffee that was shipped to Eu-
ropean markets, and native overseers
were given special compensation for
the production of coffee of good qual-
ity The cultivation and marketing of
coffee was a government monopoly
from the early part of the nineteenth
century with the exception of the
period during which the island was
controlled by Great Britain, until 1905,
although it was not until in 1918-19
that all cultivation by the government
was discontinued.

The so-called “Java” coffee—in
reality Coffee arabica—was successful-
ly introduced into Java about 1699.
This type flourished under the system
referred to above, but unfortunately it
has few qualities of resistance, and
when the leaf disease known as Hemil-
eia vastatrix appeared in Western Java
and spread slowly over the island,
many plantations of fine Java coffee
were destroyed. To-day there are only
a few plantations producing the real
Java coffee and these to do so must be
located at an altitude between 3,000
and 4,000 feet in order to escape the
ravages of diseases. This type together
with Liberia has been almost entirely
abandoned in flavor of Robusta, a type
introduced about 1900 and found to be
more resistant to the leaf disease, al-
though it has in turn fallen a prey to
“Loffiebessenboeboek,” a coffee borer
which appeared in Western Java about
twelve years ago.

There are but a few firms dealing in
what was formerly known as “genu-
ine” Java coffee, since the amount pro-
duced is insignificant. It is a rare
privilege to be served with this coffee
even in Java. There are certain re-
sorts, however, where the berries are
gathered by the natives and sold to
resthouses, hotels and sanatoriums.
Coffee arabica, or Java grade, is still
grown in considerable quantities in the
outer possessions of Sumatra, Celebes,
Bali, and Timor. It is the same kind
as Java except for the fact that it is
not grown on the island of Java The
soil and climate is the same as on the
island of Java, and while the present
Java and Java grades may not be con-
sidered equal to the “Old Government
Java” (owing, perhaps, to the fact that
the mellowing process does not extend

over a year or so, but takes place dur-
ing the ocean voyage to points of des-
tination) at least such Sumatra coffees
as Mandheling, Ankola, Padang Inter-
ior and Kroe have the reputation of
being among the finest and highest
priced coffees at present produced in
any region. They are grown on what
were formerly government estates.

The total commercial production of
Java and Java grades on the island of
Java and in the outer possessions has
dropped to 15,352,224 pounds, com-
pared with 34,264,928 pounds for the
island of Java alone around 1900, and
with 174,945,240 pounds in 1879.
During the past six years Java
grades averaged only 12.7 per cent.
of the total, while Java coffee produced
on the island of Java averaged 2.9 per
cent. of the total quantity of coffee
produced in the Netherlands East In-
dies. On account of the fact that the
term “Java” has been so much abused,
the pure food and drug act ruled that
only Coffee arabica grown on the is-
land of Java can properly be called
“Java” coffee, and this means that
only a million or so pounds can be
marketed annually under that designa-
tion in the United States.

—_—_+ +2
Ready To Eat Meats.

The development of the type of food
store that handles food in package
form or ready to eat during the past
ten years is remarkable and seems to
show the present trend towards con-
venience, even extending to the very
food we eat. We sometimes stop and
wonder if the culinary art in the home
is a thing of the past and if the future
will demand that our meals be pre-
pared in a wholesale way and served
to us on paper plates with paper knives
forks and spoons, all of which can be
discarded when the meal is finished.
While the stores that conduct this kind
of a business deserve a great deal of
credit for their progressiveness and
their ability to accurately interpret the
prevailing demand, somehow we are
old-fashioned enough to still appreciate
the soul of good home cooking and
feel that prepared foods are, to some
extent at least, in a class with player
pianos, talking machines and syn-
thetic foods—very good in their places
but lacking in the essentials that give
the bouquet to the epicurean product.
These stores have succeeded in getting
a good share of the food business for
several reasons, and among them is the
advantage to the housewife of doing
most of her shopping in one place,
having various brands to choose from,
labor saved in preparation, and, on
the whole, good to excellent quality of
its kind. But ask any man or boy,

woman or girl, who does not have to
actually prepare the meal whether he
or she prefers home cooking to pre-

 

 

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BLUE GRASS BUTTER
WORCESTER SALT

KENT CLUB COFFEE

TEA, SPICES, ETC.

GOOD LUCK and DELICIA OLEO.

THRU COMMUNITY GROCERS ONLY

KENT STORAGE

GRAND RAPIDS_~ LANSING ~

COMPANY

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

Receivers and Shippers of All

Seasonable
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RED STAR

HERE is pride in selling to

the housewife; she is known
for her insistence on quality.
When she buys RED STAR
Flour, we know that this flour
is keeping company with other
high quality products used in the
home. And RED STAR easily

holds its place.

JUDSON GROCER COMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS,

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN 21

 

pared foods and you will have the
correct answer to the real popularity of
prepared foods as far as the consumer
is concerned, and in the final analysis
of the consumers’ desires should pre-
vail. A dealer said to me the other
day, “The hardest thing in the world
to do is to sell inferior merchandise to
the better class of delicatessen dealers.”
Quality is a dominant note with them,
because they have learned that quality
is what the average consumer wants.
When the retail meat dealer learns the
advantage of convenience, variety, ser-
vice and quality in their fullest mean-
ing he will have absorbed the trend
of the times and his business will im-
prove in amount and profits.

—__+2..—_____
Lambs at Wholesale.

This year has developed a relatively
high wholesale market on practically
all classes of livestock and dressed
meats, and of course this high market
has been reflected in retail prices. At
the present time the range in steer
carcasses is wide, both as regards qual-
itv and price. In a certain cooler this
week steer carcasses were sold from
$8 a hundred pounds to $24 a hundred
pounds. Lambs sold at nearly as wide
a range, according to grade, with some
sales up to $29 a hundred pounds and
other poor quality down to $15 a hun-
dred pounds. The percentage of lambs
to sell at $15 was light and most of
the offerings on the market sold from
$22 to $27 a hundred pounds. These
prices represent a decline from ‘top
prices of the year, which prices were
in evidence only about three weeks ago
and when best lambs sold around $31
to $32. The highpoint just mentioned
placed lamb chops and lamb legs, as
well as other meaty cuts from lambs,
in luxury class and higher than prices
necessary to move all lambs produced
into consumption channels. The pres-
ent market is more in line with what
is considered a normal price level, and
should increase consumption until the
market becomes steady, relatively
speaking. Lambs are good at this time

.of year, being all from last Spring’s

crop and so are not too old or too fat.
Retailers will be quick to put their
prices in line with cost and get their
lamb selling on a moderately profit-
aable basis. It is not expected that
any radical cut in retail prices will
occur, however, for wholesale prices
are only about $4 below the peak and
retailers found it impossible, as a class,
to get the full advance at retail when
values increased, and so declines cannot
be expected to go lower than existed
before the high price advance began.
The condition at the present time is
that consumers can buy freely now,
feeling that they are buying at normal
prices and at a time when they will be
pleased with general quality offered.
With an undertone of firmness present
in the wholesale market, prices should
become stable.

—__2-+-
Marketing of Livestock at Country
Points.

Marketing of livestock, like the mar-
keting of all other products of the
farm begins at the farmer’s barnyard.
It is here that the initial stage, that of
assembling the product, begins.

The oldest and perhaps most univers-
al method of marketing farm animals
is through the coyntry buyer, who

 

 

performs an important economic ser-
vice to the farming community through
the assumption of risk and providing
a market for the small farmer who has
only a few head of animals to sell.
The buyer goes from farm to farm
buying livestock until he has sufficient
animals to fill one or more cars. This
stock is then shipped to the terminal
market, where it is sold by commission
firm.

In some cases farmers raising live-
stock in considerable numbers perform
the services of the country speculator,
themselves. This is impractical, how-
ever, if less than a carload is ready to
ship at a time.

The newest agency of assembly at
country points is the co-operative ship-
ping association, whose membership is
made up of farmers. In many sections
of the country such an organization is
an important asset to the farming com-
munity aud fills a real need. In many
places where the country buyers have
dealt fairly and squarely with their pa-
trons, however, no economic need of
such associations has ever arisen.

———-_ <>< ————____
Development of a Novel Apple.

Monroeville, N. J., Sept. 21—An ob-
scure Jersey orchard is believed to
have produced the marvel apple of the
age, according to fruit experts from
thirty states, who recently inspected
the new find on the farm of Lewis
Mood, at Ferrell, Gloucester county
A nursery firm has paid $6,000 for the
new apple.

The apple was formally christened
Starking. It derives from the Delicious
apple, aristocrat of the fruit family.
A freak bud produced an apple similar
to the Delicious in flavor but much
redder in color. The Starking also
ripens earlier than the Delicious and
colors much better on the trees, experts
said to-day.

Mood first noticed apples of a differ-
ent color on a Delicious tree in his
orchard eleven years ago. He patient-
ly watched the fruit from a single
branch developed year after year. He
took the buds and started a few other
trees. His customers were so eager
for the big red apples that he told a
nursery salesman about the freak
branch two years ago.

A large nursery firm drew up a
deed for the single branch of the par-
ticular tree that produced the new
fruit and paid Mood $5,000 in cash for
it. Mood also received 2 cents for each
bud taken to propagate the new va-
riety through extensive top budding
and grafting. A stout wire cage was
placed entirely around the prize tree
after it was purchased and it was kept
under guard.

Wanted the Perquisite.

“Borkesley,” said the grocer to the
dead beat who was planning to move
out of the community, “I don’t believe
you will ever pay me what you owe me.
It isn’t worth while to sue you for it
and you have nothing I care to attach.
I will simply give you a receipt and
call it paid.”

“Fine of you,’ said Borkesley.

A few moments after, seeing that
Borkesley still lingered about, the
merchant said:

“Was there something you wished
to speak to me about?”

“Not specially, but ain’t it customary
to give a feller a cigar when his ac-
count’s settled?”

—_+-+____

The store that gets a reputation for
persistently urging customers to buy
is going to find that many good people
will stay away to avoid the urging.

 

 

   
  
    

At
Every Meal

at
HEKMAN’S
Crackers and
Cookie-Cakes |,

Delicious cookie-cakes and _ crisp
appetizing crackers There is a
Hekman food-confection for every

meal and for every taste.

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Grand Rapids.Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE REGULAR PURCHASE

Fleischmann’s Yeast brings customers into your
store regularly and gives you an opportunity to sell
other things as well.

These regular customers are yours for the asking.
Suggest Fleischmann’s Yeast to chance customers
and turn them into steady buyers of everything you
sell.

FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST
The Fleischmann Company
SERVICE

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now offering—

Grapefruit
Cranberries
Sweet Potatoes
Tokay Grapes
Figs, Dates, Etc.

The Vinkemulder Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

JUST GOOD CANDY

Pure and Wholesome
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PUTNAM FACTORY Grand Rapids, Mich.

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN September 23, 1925

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—Scott Kendrick, Flint.
Vice-President—George W. McCabe,

Petoskey.
Secretary—A. J.

Scott. Marine City.

 

 

Treasurer—Wi illiam Moore, Detroit.
Plans For Developing Your Fall
Stove Trade.

Written for the Tradesman.
When the stove order has been
placed and the stock installed, do not

be satisfied with merely supplying the
demand that locally exists. If you
are selling a stove of merit and one
in which you have confidence, it is
easily possible to create more and new
demands for it.

If your stove advertising is bringing
people into your store to examine your
line of hand them a
descriptive letter to read and digest,
but show and tell them something
about your stoves and why you be-
lieve they are better than any other
stoves on the market.

This naturally
of a thorough knowledge of stoves—
their adaptability to certain kinds of
fuel, as well as their
parison with competing lines.

stoves, do not

brings up the subject

merits in com-
A cus-
tomer who has confidence in a store or
a salesman will accept an opinion re-
garding the more desirable stove; but
the salesman should know how to ex-
plain the see ata arrangement and
economy in fuel consumption of the
stove he is handling and be able to
suggest the ittype of stove best suited
to the requirements of the individual
customer.

Try to familiarize yourself with the
lrafts and dampers of the stoves and
heaters you are selling. After the
stove has been sold and delivered, if
the flue is all right, if the operation of
the dampers has been properly explain-
have no trouble. In nine
cases out of ten where a stove or
heater fails to work satisfactorily, the
trouble will be found in the flue or
chimney.

There are any number of stoves or
heaters made to-day that would not
work with satisfaction unless put up
properly to a good flue and good fuel
but in order to secure a uniform
economical expenditure

ed, vou will

used;
heat with an
of fuel, the regulation and working of
the drafts and dampers’ should be
properly understood.

If you are selling a cook stove, for
instance, there should be no mystery
about controlling and properly heating
the oven. The oven becomes hot be-
cause the heat from the fuel and hot
gas that comes in from the fire box are
absorbed in the base of the oven as
they pass over and around it and are
radiated on the other side or into the
oven. Therefore what is needed to
secure proper oven heat is a clean fire
and draft enough to draw the heat

around quickly enough so that most

of it is not absorbed by the top or
the range or top of the oven before
it reaches the bottom of the oven.
Ashes allowed to accumulate on top
of the oven do not help the baking
qualities of the oven.

In handling a good line of stoves and
heaters the number you can sell an-
nually is limited only by your ability
and your persistence in pushing sales.
Where practicable, and where the vol-
ume of your stove business justifies it,
vou will find it both satisfactory and
profitable to engage a practical stove
man. Place him in charge of the re-
pairs and setting up and hold him re-
sponsible for the correct and proper
adjustment of all stove complaints.
This will allow you to place a liberal
guarantee on your stoves; and then, if
for any reason the stove fails to prove
represented, make it
rood at once without question or quib-
ble. With a good, practical man in
a fair and liberal policy in this
most

jast as always

charge,
respect is profitable; and you
will find the expense of upholding your
guarantee to be small indeed,
while the increase in sales and satisfied
stove very
factory.

very

customers will be satis-

Good stove advertising is using the
most economical mediums and meth-
ods of securing favorable attention to
your line of stoves from the people to
whom you are most anxious to sell.
When you are advertising stoves you
are striving to increase your trade at
the least possible expense commensu-
rate with the largest amount of legiti-
mate stove You no doubt al-
ready have certain methods of adver-
tising to secure these results and no
doubt they have in the past proved
satisfactory; but conditions continual-

’

profit.

~ change and many advertisers at the
that methods pre-
quite successful are not now
results they should, or

present time find
viously
bringing the
formerly did.

The farmers’ trade is very important.

“he farmer, as a buying unit, is a tre-
ant force in the stove business.
The best and least expensive way to
reach him is through the mails, with a
good persistent, continuous follow-up
series of letters.

For the small business in a large
town or whenever business is confined
to what may be called a neighborhood
trade, it is nearly always possible to
compile at small expense a list of good
names covering practically all the pos-
sible customers within the radius that
can be served to advantage; and by
good, direct, follow-up letters, circu-
lars, etc., avoid the waste of circula-
tion outside that radius which is bound
to occur with newspaper advertising
under these conditions. On the other
hand, if your business is in a small

Michigan Hardware Co.

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

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Wholesalers of Shelf Hardware, Sporting
Goods and

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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.

verware, etc.

Easy terms if desired.

 

G. R. STORE FIXTURE CO.

7 Ionia Avenue N. W.

 

 

Foster, Stevens & Co.
WHOLESALE HARDWARE
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GRAND - RAPIDS - MICHIGAN

 

 

BROWN &SEHLER
‘tenet patente

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

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

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN 23

 

town or rural community covered by
a good local paper, it will be well to
supplement your circularizing with
newspaper publicity.

Here are some suggested circular
letters:

Dear Sir—We want you to read the
enclosed pamphlet, because you will
find it a most valuable assistant in en-
abling you to select a_ satisfactory
heater.

A—heater in many respects is like
a first-class sewing machine in that
it should last a lifetime.

The booklet enclosed will show you
the false economy of buying a cheap,
poorly-made stove—one that will cost
you added money in extra fuel and
constant repairs—one that will cost
you. endless annoyance—that will
neither heat nor draw properly.

This booklet tells you also just why
it pays to buy a well-made, durable—
a stove guaranteed to give you every
possible satisfaction, that will save you
fuel, save vou repairs, and save you
annoyance.

Read the booklet. Come in and let
us show you just what we have. As-
sure yourself by personal inspection
that every—heater is exactly as repre-
sented, made of the very best materials,
in the most workmanlike manner, and
a convenience, as well as a necessity,
in your home.

Remember, too: each — is accom-
panied by a written guarantee for all
time. No matter how long you have
the — it will always satisfy. We are
not in the stove business for a day,
but for all time to come. We give the
best stove value in the country simply
because we want to sell to your friends
and neighbors, and we could not do
that if the — did not satisfy you, and
them.

Come in and see for yourself just
what value and what economy the —
represents.

Yours truly.

A good follow up does more, a great
deal more, than merely sell stoves. It
keeps your customers and prospective
customers alive to the fact that you
are taking a personal interest in them.
If carefully and intelligently prepared,
the follow-up will bring people into
Then it is for personal
salesmanship to land the business.
Here is a second letter, roughly out-
lined:

Dear Sir—The proof of a stove is in
its heating qualities, but back of its
merits as a heater is the material of
which it is made and the skill and ex-
perience with which that material is
used to provide enduring service.

— heaters are good heaters because
material used in their
construction is the best that money
can buy, and the experience and skill
of the designers and makers represent
the highest development of the stove-
maker’s art.

Tf it were possible to. sell
heaters, we would handle them. No
other heater is subjected to the test
and wear and heating under such ad-
verse conditions as the — must ex-
perience before reaching your hands.
No. other maker of heaters is willing
that his product should be subjected
to such exhaustive tests.

The — heaters cost more than other
makes selling for the same price, but

your store.

primarily the

better

we are more than repaid by the knowl-
edge that — quality means all that is
best in modern heating stoves.

The — heaters are heaters for every
day use. They are built to stand all
the wear and tear and fire you may
wish to give them. We want you to be
entirely selfish in this matter and pur-
chase a — solely upon its merits and
value to you. Let the heater prove
itself; we will back it up with an iron-
clad guarantee, and your money is al-
ways ready if the — heater fails to
prove itself.

Suppose you drop in and examine
the — this very day.

Yours truly.

For quick, immediate returns nothing
is better than a series of forceful, fol-
low-up letters. Nothing, that is, excep-
personal solicitation; and in the busy
fall season, personal solicitation is gen-
erally impracticable. So you have to
make your follow-up letters as much
like a series of personal talks as you
can. Remember, too, that a single let-
ter, or two letters, or three, don’t ex-
haust the possibilities. Here is a sug-
gested third letter, by going into prac-
tical details:

Dear Sir—The important and vital
features of our — hot blast heater for
burning hard and soft coal are as fol-
lows:

Body. — polished blue steel.
quires no blacking.

Construction. Air tight.
for twenty-four hours.

Fire Door. Ornamental,
mica openings.

Fire Pot. Doble height, and extra

Re-

Holds fire

with six

heavy.

Feed Door. In front of top. — cold
nandle.

The — has two screw draft, large

ash pan, draw center and shaking grate
front rails, independent base. The op-
eration of the — is simplicity itself.
Fresh air is admitted to fire through
upper screw draft and hot blast tube
from top. This fresh air meeting with
gas and smoke from fire, burns as so
much extra fuel.

Come in and see for yourself why
the — is the most economical and ef-
ficient heater made.

An early call will save you money.

Yours truly.

Here is another follow-up:

Dear Sir—The — heater will
fire for twenty-four hours.

The — is so constructed that there
is no waste fuel; it burns and converts
into actual heat every ounce of coal
and every bit of wood. There is no
Not only does it cut your fuel

hold

waste.

bills, but it gives greater heating
power than any other heater made.
Start a fire in the — and it will be

roaring in five minutes. The perfect
system of dampers enables you to con-
trol the heat, and we guarantee the —
will hold fire for twenty-four hours.

Why not give us a call and see the
— for yourself? We can tell you just
what you want to know about correct
house-heating,

When you buy the — you are under
no obligation to keep it unless you are
fully satisfied.

That’s a fair proposition, isn’t it?

Will you call and look at our exten-
sive line of — heaters to-day?

Yours truly.
Victor Lauriston.

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX Co.

Manufacturere of
SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES

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TOLEDO PLATE & WINDOW GLASS COMPANY
Mirrors—Art Glass—Dresser Tops—Automobile
and Show Case Glass

All kinds of Glass for Building Purposes
1ONIA AVE., S. W. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

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Rain through swinging windows
KEEP THE COLD, SOOT AND DUST OUT

i Install “AMERICAN WINDUSTITB” all-metal
i Weather Strips and save on your coal bills, make
| your house-cleaning easier, get more comfort from
your heating plant and protect your furnishings
and draperies from the outside dirt, soot and dust.
Storm-proof, Dirt-proof, Leak-proof, Rattle-proof

Made and Installed Only by

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Good Writing *]|O@

For the Home, School and Office—pure white
bond, very little trimmings—all writing paper—
properly styled the Economy Package.
Also good for mimeograph and type-
writer use. Easily matched in enve-
lopes. Try your local dealer. If he
cannot supply you pin a dollar bill to
this advertisement with name and ad-
dress and we will send either size
postpaid.

Merchants write for prices.

KALAMAZOO VEGETABLE
PARCHMENT CoO.,

Kalamazoo, Mich.

Two $1 Sizes

5 Ibs., 500 sheets
letter size
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Combined Assets of Group $30,215,678.02

20% TO 40% SAVINGS MADE IN 1923

Fire Insurance —All Branches
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TRADESMAN

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Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

Greenville and Belding—where can
you put your finger on two near-by
cities which get along with so little
friction as these towns do, They have
their good natured rivalries, to be sure,
but I cannot recall when either city
has ever cherished any permanent bit-
terness toward the other. This is all
the more remarkable when it is re-
called that the two towns did not grow
up together—that Greenville was a
good sized city before Belding was

 

even brought into existence by the
famous brothers who founded the
town as a memorial to their hard

working and far seeing father.

Few strangers visit Greenville dur-
ing the summer months who do not
circumnavigate Baldwin Lake, thereby
creating niche in their
memories in token of the energy and
genius of the men who conceived and
created so beautiful a driveway. The
banks of Greenville are bursting with
the savings of plain people—thrifty
workers in the provident
farmers whose broad acres bespeak the
prosperity of the devotees of agricul-
ture: her merchants carry ample stocks
which are thoroughly up-to-date; her
factories are conducted with great skill
and success; her churches and schools
betoken the moral character and edu-
cational appreciation of her people; her

streets, wonderful shade trees,
lawns and homes, equipped with all
the creature comforts of the age, fur-
nish an accurate index of the high liv-
ing standards which have long been a
distinguishing characteristic of the
metropolis of Montcalm county.

The same conditions exist to a
greater or less extent in the neighbor-
ing city of Belding. Her factories are
more beautifully embellished with
shrubs and lawns and the architecture
of her main street is more uniform in
appearance, but she has no near-by
lake to develop and embellish, as
Greenville has, although she has done
the best she can to make the river
front available for park purposes.

The recent installation of Mrs. Wm.
P. Hetherington as manager of the
Hotel Belding naturally recalls beauti-
ful memories of her lamented husband
created during the many years he con-
ducted that most excellent place of
rest and refreshment. No more oblig-
ing host ever gave a glad hand to greet
guests than Col. Hetherington. From
the time of the guest’s arrival until
his departure, no feature which would
contribute in the slightest degree to
his pleasure and comfort was ever
overlooked. He was never obsequious
—never undignified—but his willing-

a pleasant

city and

wide

ness to serve in the highest sense of the
term was always in evidence. Nearly
twenty years ago I started for Belding
for Sunday dinner. Within five miles
of town my car broke down complete-
ly I gladly availed myself of the
courtesy of a passing tourist to get to
the hotel, where I poured my troubles
into the willing ear of the genial land-
lord. He admonished me to forget all
about the broken car and eat my din-
ner in peace, during which time he
would have everything arranged. On
leaving the dining room he led me to
the sidewalk, where stood his own
horse and carriage, occupied by the
best mechanic in the town with a full
complement of tools. Two
later I was .headed back toward home.
The next day I mailed him a blank
check, with the request that he fill it
out in such amount as would cover all
his trouble and expense. Greatly to my
surprise, he took only enough to cover
the cost of the dinners furnished my
guests and myself. On my next visit
to this hotel I undertook to recompense
him for the use of his horse and car-
riage, but I might as well have under-
taken to dissolve a chunk of adamant
in a glass of water. Col. Hethering-
life was replete with kindly
thoughts and good and
memory is a precious inheritance to
the appreciative people of Belding.

hours

ton’s

deeds his

Another sterling character I look for
in vain every time I go to Belding is
Frederick A. Washburn, who entered
the Great Beyond about a year ago. No
more genial man ever lived than Fred.
Mr. Washburn TI al-
ways felt that we had among us a man
who represented not only high civic
virtues and generous personal traits,
but also a certain purity of soul and
singleness of heart which made him
almost unique. To such a man, how-
advanced in age, it is a keen
pang to feel that he will never again
grasp you by the hand and whisper
words of hope and courage in your
ear.

Washburn. In

ever

Another man I miss very much when
I visit Belding is T. Frank Ireland, the
hardware dealer. Unlike either of the
two men above mentioned, he made a
deep impress. on my mind because of
his sturdy integrity and patient indus-
try. Whether one agreed with him or
not one could but applaud his cour-
age and the stoutness of his defense of
any cause to which he gave himself.
And it was never in any selfish seek-
ing that he came forward. It was for
his business, his city, his country or
for a principle which he believed to be
right. E. A. Stowe.

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Full Details of Programme For Hotel
Convention.

Kalamazoo, Sept. 22—The stage is
all set for the annual convention of
the Michigan Hotel Association, which
will be held here on Friday and Sat-
urday of this week.

Reservations have already been re-
ceived from 150 prospective participants
and indications are that the number in
attendance will exceed 250.

The program as announced is:

Friday, September 25.

9:30 a. m.—Registration of members
at Burdick Hotel. Guests will be ap-
portioned to the various hotels on ar-
rival, but the opening session of the
convention will be called at Burdick
hotel at 9:30 a. m. sharp.

There will be the customary invoca-
tion, roll call of members, reading of
minutes, address of welcome by Geo.
K. Taylor, mayor of Kalamazoo, re-
sponded to by Charles H. Stevenson,
Hotel Stevenson, Detroit.

The various committees will be av-
pointed by President Walter J. Hodges
3urdick Hotel, Kalamazoo, followed by
his official address.

Reports by the Secretary, Treasurer
and chairmen of standing committees
will follow.

Addrss—The Hotel—a Business, by
David Olmsted, with H. L. Stevens &
Co., hotel architects, Chicago.

Address—The Tourist Camp and Its
Problems, by W. L. McManus, Jr.,
President International Association of
Tourist Camps.

Address—The Dixie Trail, by Stacy
Hill, Hotel Gibson, Cincinnati.

At 11:30 a. m. the convention will
adjourn to allow members to visit ex-
hibition of hotel appliances in Burdick
Arcade.

A buffet luncheon will be served in
Burdick Hotel dining room, at 12:30,
courtesy of Hotel Burdick.

At 2 p. m. the entire delegation, in-
cluding ladies, will embark in autos
for a twelve mile ride to Gull Lake,
stopping en route at Gull Lake Country
Club, for the purpose of taking a proup
picture, and leaving such of the mem-
bers. as desire to enter the annual
tournament for the Michigan Hotel As-
sociation cup. The remainder of the
participants will continue on the trip
to Gull Lake, where they will auto-
matically become the guests of Dr.
Frank W. Holmes. Dr. Holmes for-
merly conducted the Gull Lake Hotel,
which was completely destroyed by fire
several weeks ago. Prior to this dis-
aster he had invited the Association to
become his guests, and he will make
good with temporary quarters. The
afternoon will be devoted to boating,
bathing and other sports, and promptly
at 5:30 the assembled guests will sit
down to a genuine wild duck dinner,
with his compliments.

After dinner there will be a dancing
party in the hotel pavilion to the music
of Fisher’s orchestra.

Saturday, September 26.

9:30—Address: Interstate Hotel Pro-
tective Association, by Charles W.
Dull, executive secretary Illinois Ho-
tel Association; discussion of this ad-
dress will be by J. Tupper Town-
send, Hotel Whitcomb, St. Joseph, fol-
lowed by J. K. Blatchford, secretary
Hotel Men’s Benefit Association, Chi-
cago

Address—Over Activity in Hotel
Building, E. M. Statler, Hotels Statler
Corporation.

Address—John D. Martin, represent-
ing United Commercial Travelers.

Question Box—Conducted by John
A. Anderson, Hotel Harrington, Port
Huron. This will probably, as usual,
be the outstanding feature of the en-
tire session, as many problems of in-
terest to hotel operators will be dis-
cussed from various angles.

Address—Economies of Heat and
Power Production in Modern Hotels,
by Egbert Douglas.

11:30 a. m. Adjournment to attend
hotel exhibition, followed by luncheon

for ladies at Columbia, courtesy of
Frank Ehrman, proprietor. During
luncheon tickets will be distributed for
matinee at Fuller’s theater, for the pro-
duction of Seventh Heaven.

At the same hour—12 m.—a men’s
luncheon will be served at the Park-
American, courtesy of Ernest McLean,
manager.

The final business meeting will be
held at the Park-American, immediate-
ly following the luncheon. The pro-
ceedings will include election and in-
stallation of officers, report of resolu-
tions committee and report of Charles
H. Stevenson, member of executive
council of American Hotel Association
for Michigan and Illinois.

The remainder of the afternoon will
be given to sight-seeing, golf and other
amusements.

At 7:30 p. m. the annual Association
banquet will take place at the Burdick
Hotel, with the usual toasts, followed
by dancing in the Burdick ball room
to the accompaniment of Fisher’s or-
chestra.

The Kalamazoo Hack & Bus Co.
has extended the courtesy of free taxi
service for all Association members
between depots and hotels and between
hotels on display of badges.

The time limit on parking of cars
will be overlooked for all cars marked
with stickers which will be provided.

Ladies will be included in all lunch-
eons and social features.

As before mentioned, there will be
an exhibition of hotel appliances, ma-
chinery, etc., in the Burdick Arcade,
continuing throughout the entire two
days of the convention.

President Hodges insists that all fea-
tures of the program shall be pulled
off on schedule time in order that all
discussions can be digested without a
stampede.

A full report of the proceedings of
the convention will be supplied the
Tradesman for perusal next week, in-
cluding a summary of all the salient
features of the addresses and discus-

sions. Frank S. Verbeck.
——_~>-~-
Plans For National Druggist Con-
vention.

Detroit, Sept. 22—Plans have been
completed for the fifty-first annual con-
vention of the National Wholesale
Druggists’ association to be held in
Detroit Oct. 4 to 8 at Book-Cadillac
Hotel.

Harry Skillman, chairman of the en-
tertainment committee, announced Sat-
urday that delegates will enjoy a pro-
gram worthy of Detroit’s reputation as
a convention city.

The Orpheus Club Chorus of forty
voices, one of the best known male
choruses in the country, will open the
convention Sunday with a concert in
the Book-Cadillac, the remaininy days
of the convention will be filled with
social and business activities and sports.

The visiting wholesalers will have
the opportunity to visit Detroit’s big
drug plants and see their goods ac-
tually in preparation.

Following the morning business ses-
sion Monday there will be a golf tour-
ney for men at the Grosse Ile Golf and
Country Club, and a bridge luncheon
for women at the Detroit Yacht Club.
In the evening there will be a formal
ball, following a reception to President
and Mrs. Sewall D. Andrews. Jean
Goldkette’s orchestra will play.

Tuesday’s program includes an au-
tomobile trip for women to the Grosse
Pointe Country Club, and a tour of the
city. by the delegates

Wednesday, the visitors will make a
boat trip to the Flats, followed by
luncheon at the Park-Davis laborator-
ies and inspection of the factory. Fin-
zel’s orchestra will accompany the ex-
cursionists. At 9 p. m., a fancy dress
ball will be held in the grand ballroom
of the Book-Cadillac.

The closing day, Oct. 8, will find
the women at the Shubert-Lafayette
to see “The Student Prince,” as guests

of the Detroit Free Press, and in the
evening a banquet will be held in the
Book-Cadillac to wind up the conven-

tion.
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Written for the Tradesman.

To interest people, advertising copy
must be specific. Too often the ten-
dency of the beginner in advertisement
writing is to deal in glittering general-
ities.

That fact was impressed on me a
good many years ago. I had drafted
a half page advertisement of a drug
sale—the new proprietors were start-
ing on their career by clearing out a
lot of old stuff at bargain prices. I
smalled together the copy in genuine
“whoop-er-up” style, starting off some-
thing like this in letters a couple of
inches high:

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That advertisement, to be , frank
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to earth.

The newspaper proprietor welcomed
the advertising contract—the store un-
der its previous owners had never ad-
vertised—but he was shrewd enough
to realize that, in order to retain our
business, the advertising must produce
results. And he was honest enough to
declare, point blank, that the sort of
copy I showed him wouldn’t produce
results.

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“See here,” he said, “what people
like to read about are the specific bar-
gains. Tell them what you've got; and
if price is to be the feature, quote your
regular price and your special sales
price Take a lot of specific articles,
and quote specific prices on them—”

The revised advertisement pulled;
just because it was filled with specific
stuff—specific talks about specific ar-
ticles, backed by specific price quota-
tions.

Be specific is a very good motto for
the merchant who sets out to write
his own advertising copy.

The reason why a good many mer-
chants don’t advertise is, not that they
are afraid advertising doesn’t pay, but
because they are afraid they can’t write
the sort of advertising that does pay.
They regard advertising as an art
which has to be studied, preferably in
a college, certainly with the aid of an
infinite number of textbooks and a
great expenditure of midnight elec-
tricity.

Now, advertising ought to be studied
by everyone who has use for it, and
particularly by the man who under-
takes to write advertising copy for his
own business. The more a merchant
studies advertising, the better copy he
can turn out. But no merchant should
allow himself to be frightened out of
using printer’s ink by the fear that his
ignorance of the “art of advertising”
will cripple his efforts. For advertising

isn’t an art at all—it is a plain busi-
ness proposition.

You may now know, theoretically,
how to advertise, just as you know
how to sell goods behind the counter.
You know that, in selling goods, your
first business is to get the customer in-
terested and your last is to get him
convinced. Advertising is merely sales-
manship transmitted into black and
white; and salesmanship is merely
commonsense dealing with people to
whom you want to sell things.

The proposition in its outlines is
simple as A-B-C. You lead off with
a phrase that will grip the reader’s
attention and direct that attention to
what you want to sell; then you pro-
ceed to tell him about the goods. Final-
ly you clinch his interest with a price
quotation and you leave him with the
suggestion: “Buy right now.”

Your space is limited. Hence you
have no room for flowery expressions.
You must stick strictly to business,
and you can’t afford te wander away
from your theme. If you are advertis-
ing hair brushes, you must start with
hair brushes, continue with hair
brushes and finish with hair brushes.
And you must stick resolutely to the
most essential and most convincing
hair brush arguments you can com-
mand.

Yet this does not mean that you
should be satisfied merely to describe
your article and quote the price. The
nearer you get to the individual read-
er’s interest, the quicker you can con-
vince him. What the individual read-
er is interested in is—the result which
the goods will produce for him.

For instance “Clean White Teeth”’—
everyone would like to have them.
“Protected against decay”—that’s a de-
sirable point. The essentials are “a
good brush and a good dentrifice.”
Then tell about your special brush, and
the dentrifice you are featuring. Tell
in a sentence or a phrase, that hun-
dreds of people have been helped to
secure good, white, non-decaying
teeth by the use of just such equip-
ment. And, finally, quote the special
price you are giving on the combina-
tion—and drive home the suggestion
“Do it now.”

There you have, in correct sequence,
the synopsis of a good dentifrice ad-
vertisement. Put in a few forceful,
convincing words it will pull.

The good copy writer deals in posi-
tives, rather than negatives. He says
“Buy it now” rather than “Don’t de-
” A good advertisement demands
positive suggestion throughout. Ad-
vertisers learned that fact long ago;
that is why they devote their space to
boosting their own goods instead of
knocking their competitors. Make

lay.

TRADESMAN

your advertising bright, forceful, posi-
tive and optimistic.

The average advertiser whose space
is small will find it best to confine each
advertisement to a single dominant
topic. It pays to talk effectively about
one thing rather than to drive ineffect-
ually at half a dozen. But this does
not necessitate the advertisement writ-
er confining each advertisement to a
single article. Thus in a dentifrice
advertisement he can deal with the en-
tire line of tooth pastes, powders, wash-
es, brushes and incidentals; a confec-
tionery advertisement may feature pur-
ity and give prices, not merely on
chocolates but on Turkish delight, pea-
nut crisp and a lot more; an appeal to
smokers may cover the whole range of
the tobacco trade. The point is: col-
lect a dominant theme and specify the
goods that link up naturally with that
theme.

And learn, if you can, the valuable
knack of giving, in a single phrase, an
attractive picture of your goods. Three
or four words of terse, vivid descrip-
tion—words that will make the reader
thirsty for that new summer drink you
feature at the fountain—help a whole
lot to give your advertising that “pull”
which every good advertisement
should have. Don’t try to be “polish-
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that copy in the same sane, direct,
convincing way that you talk to a
customer on the other side of the
counter. Victor Lauriston.

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.

Lansing, Sept. 22—The Board of
Pharmacy will hold a meeting for the
examination of candidates for regis-
tration at the Knights of Columbus
Auditorium, Grand Rapids, Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, November
17, 18 and 19, beginning at 9 o’clock
a. m. of the 17th. All candidates must
be present at that hour Applications
must be filed with the Director at least
ten days before examination.

Applications of examination and
blank forms of affidavits for practical
or college experience furnished on re-
quest.

Fee for Registered Pharmacist, $15;
fee for Registered Assistant Pharma-
cist, $10. Fee for re-examination: Reg-
istered Pharmacist, $3; Registered As-
sistant Pharmacist, $2. There is also
a Certificate fee after passing. Regis-
tered Pharmacist, $15; Registered As-
sistant Pharmacist, $10.

The next examination will be held
at the Detroit City College, corner
Hancock and Cass, Detroit, on Janu-
ary 19, 20, and 21, 1926.

H. H. Hoffman, Director.

The following candidates passed the
examination for Registered Pharmacist
at the August meeting:

Walter A. Bergman, Escanaba.

Leon A. Katzin, Detroit

John A. Kerr, Ferndale

Lester E. McCullough, Detroit

J C. Monroe, Jr., Williamston

Marki T. Piaskowski, Detroit

Oscar A. Stensaas, Ishpeming

Ellen M. Alway, Ann Arbor

Raymond F. Carman, Imlay City

Frank G. Case, Detroit

Allie E. Corey, Ann Arbor

Donald E. Davis, Detroit

Alfred deGuise, Detroit

Burton A. Groff, Lake Odessa

Floyd R. Hatchew, Flint

Arnold L. Kuhlman, Detroit

Frederick J. Kurth, Jr., Detroit

Joseph Levine, Detroit.

N. C. Maynard, Gagetown

Mabel E. Nelson, Detroit

B. O. Oleszkowicz, Detroit

Catherine Protasiewicz, Detroit

John G. Thornton, Charlotte

Clarence L. Tracy, Grand Rapids

September 23, 1925

Walter F. Walters, Detroit
Joseph Weinshelboim, Detroit
Roscoe H. Wise, Lapeer
Registered Assistant Pharmacist.
R. A. Burke, Chatham, Ont.
William Elkin, Toronto, Ont.
William Finkelstein, Detroit
Lugard S. Haight, Detroit
William G. Hall, Houghton
Donald R. Squier, Detroit
Raymond Williams, Calumet
Richard B. Dalton, Jackson
William Drabkowski, Detroit
Ralph E. Garner, Grand Rapids
Rose Kief, Detroit

Thomas J. Mulhall, Detroit
Norman A. Simpson, Highland Park

—__oo-s—__—_
Remedies For Insect Bites.

1. Carbolic Acid ~----------- 15 grs.
Glycerin ~---------------- 2 gts.
Rose Water —-____ 4 ozs.

2. Salicylic Acid -...-------- 115 grs.
Collodion 2.2.) ose 2% drs.
Spirits of Ammonia ------ 5% drs.
Fluid Extract of Rhus

Toxicodendron --------- 1. ac:
Water (2 8 ozs.

4. Ipecac, in powder ~------- 1. de,
Alcohol =0-22-000 2 1 o2
Pther 2220)2 1. Gz.

5. Bethanaphthol --------- ~.30 ers.
Camphor 21.2022 2 30 grs.
Lanolin Cold Cream ------ 1 oz.

There are various applications recom-
mended for the relief of bites from
scorpions, spiders, wasps, and other in-
sects. The most commonly used ap-
plications, perhaps, are ammonia
water, spirits of camphor, and lead
water.

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Foot Powder.

The ordinary old-time foot powder
is composed principally of some such
base as talc and starch, together with
a little boric or salicylic acid. A
modification of this old formula is as
follows:

Salicylic Acid 24) =) ae 6 drs.
Boric Acid 22-22 3 ozs.
Powdered Elm Bark -------- 1 oz.
Powdered Orris ...----------- 1 oz.
‘aie 2 36 ozs.

Oxygen-liberating liquids and pow-
ders seem to be in favor for cleansing
wounds and feet. A typical formula
for such a powder is:

Sodium Perborate _.---------- 3 ozs.

Zine Peroxide _. 2 ozs.

Tae oe 15 ozs.
+22

Mosquito Powder.

1 Oud. Eucalyptus 2.2. = 1 oz.
Powdered Talcum ____------ 2 ozs.
Powdered Starch —.--- =. 14 ozs.
This powder is to be rubbed into

the exposed parts of the body to pre-

vent the attack of the insect.

2. Oil of Pennyroyai ~_-------- 4 ozs.
Powdered Naphthalin ~_-_-- 4 drs.
Starch 20000 16 ozs.

Mix well and sift. This is to be
used like the preceding.
——_~-2-2———
Weed Killers.
1. White arsenic ._. 1 pound
Caustic soda, powdered --% pound
Dried sodium carbonate.-%% pound

Prussian blue ~_-.--._-- 1 drachm
2. @hattoat 2 1 pound
Swpnnr 2262 1 pound
Sa ee YZ pound
Sal ammoniac _... ¥% pound
Sulpnur 2 4 pound

Copper sulphate (dried)_.1%4 pound
Mix and use generously.

 

 

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MICHIG
. AN
a a For Breakfast joes TRADESMAN
e substitute of c Jhat ails your dog?”
; ocoa for coft ‘ r dog?” he asked tl
twice a week a coffee hound’s ow : the 27
Ss s owner, W ES
i es ee Hoh hele jist : HOL ALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
Navy will d ‘ he Italian : : . azy,’ returned th
: oubtless brin : owner unconcernedl . Prices
thos / g comfort to : y: quoted are nomin
e who rage against caffei i Gut lacinc al, based on market the da :
reason given is that coff im the howl" ss won't make a dog oe
: coffee does : Acid
contain enough nouri s not M a
ourishment. This 2 “Ves, Dit oes Boric (Powd.) -- 15 uavendar Flow__ 8 50@8 75
most wey auetene ft t. This al- : = t that dog is sitting on Boric (Xtal) ---- 15 g 2 Lasanans Gar’n 85@1 20 Cinchona ___..- a @1 10
have told the Ital ood specialist might “@"4P™"r a Carbolic __.--- OSD tines, a bh. Bo oo Colchicum @1 80
e Italians lon | ag 4inseed, bid. bbl eGo fe
f g ago. Ameri- Ee ne ee ae 68 @ 70 Linseed, 1 oe @1ii ubebs ~.....
cans fe : ke Tl ; , bld less 1 206 ‘ mee ----- 3
, however, are inclined to point Ss 3" @ 1b a i ot Pee 91 a
out that the lack of : : pray For Flies 15 § Linseed, ra. less 1 17@1 3 Gentian __-
not so much i nourishment lies Eucalyptol ; T oue % Naneeese artifl. ox @ so Ginger, D a = *
s n ic Gi oa ae ae tg Tae a eats : ' ' (oe
ae a ealies as in the in. «(8 0 Bereamiot - mae m0 parts rtaric -------- 40 g go Olive oot i 281 50 oo . a1 wo
sae ance served with it. eg ¥ parts w. Ammonia ph aati : Gusec, Animoe. @2 60
———- Europeans still cli ee 10 parts ae te i ig (ORY. orga 2 75@3 00 Jodine -----------
Huston that a roll Icling tothe xy; gne water ------------ 50. part Water, 2 on — oom ,sreen et Iodine, Colorless «*
with coffee (or, a oo of bread linety per cent. alcohol ~.100 pa pee Bye - = Se Ss 2 Sweet __ 5 dogs ge irom, Clo. ——.- ci .
8 , as in this case, cocoa) Add parts Chloride (Gran.) 10 e Soe eae w2 69 Kino ------------
saga an adequate morning | d one part of this essence to 100 %@ 20 Pennyroyal com’] 1 00@1 20 Myrrh - @ie
A few Ameri : meal. parts of w ce Bal Sey 4 Game wk Niue Voces... @2 50
ica water a : alsams Pepperr 09 KAI? ee Nux V .
te wel ns with queasy stom- room frequentl nd spray about the Copaiba ———--—. 0@1 3 Rose, pure a 13 30g a a. ---- @1 65
oo er of the same mi ntly. Fir (Canada ® Rosemary F oi & Dennen
t mind. Cer- Fi ) _ 2 56@2 80 § y Flows 1 25@1 Opl @3 50
ainly there <a ane 45 . east ~7_” 65@1 00 are eres E. 50 pe um, Camp. — @ %
British ext = to the — 3 00@3 25 «6S . Sa 10 00@10 2 plum, Deodors’d
xtreme of Ony 3 assafras, t 5 Rh @3 50
meats as_ well 1 ae heavy ~II== 8 00@3 25 Sassafras, arti'l + oe ee ubarb ———-  @1 7@
Ss as we as rich porridges for G Barks Spearmint Eo 2 cae 20
»reakfast. Cassia (ord Sperm ___-- 2 5@@12 7
\ st 13 Cassia -— 25 .~ tee : 5bU@1 76 :
the stanch Britisher recently wrote to a ca o. ‘soy @ 88 fon bert maaan Bo FA —
newspapers to def ‘ oap Cut (powd Turpentine, bbl. « re
' end roast b 30c -) Turpenti . a @1 16% ead, red dry
and al eef a”) —CeCBUCEETR ett 18 ne, less 1 24@1 37 — 154% @15%
En i. for breakfast as the traditional BARLOW BROS. _ Grand Rapid B 7 oe 2 white dry 154@16%
oe . gt and hence best fitted to on waye oe oa o_o @1 25 Wintergreen, “swee 00@6 85 Ochre gett oe ce
ain British suprem ae ccm ee Soe 5 00 v 2, yellow bbl. @ %
acy oO s mn a5 CU orden AG 3 00@3 28 Ocl.re, ye 2%
ple who are content to ia ie en pas eae 00 20 Worenea ae ae 00 ee 3@ 6
with a paltr : 0 etracte @ 30 Wormwood ___ 1 50@7 75 Reg vVene n Am. 3%@ 7
i y fruit salad oc ee twee oo ee
the eater of the aos feguiok’s Siete ae Extracts Putty __... Eng. > 8
breakfa ; : i eee Nephi de pls Nt titan cowed, 0@ 65 Whiting, bbl. __ “a 3
enn pe i wat be likely to think that > rice powd. -.. @1 00 Potassium v hiting . . — ou? 4%
| oni gobs” will derive little 0 $F este é : Flowers mceshanate _ Cee focus - 3 05@3 28
nF change in their early BRINGS YO a aay we 15@ 26 ~~ oe
morning di arly U TRADE amomile Ger.) 20 romide --
: g diet that may give them a Chamomile Rom. - oo ao ph
ew more calories and vitami a © Chlorate, gran’d 23 Y
lacks the substanti 1 vitae, Dat We buy and sell Acacia OOF ial ales r —e
ia i : : ; ;
canara wseat satisfaction of a kinds. Merch sell property of all Acacia, 50@ 55 Ceaatle oe 16@ 25 Acetanalid _
i eal, and at the same ti Succi rchandise and Realt Acacia, Sort 60@ 65 Cyanide 30g 99 Alum ———— “7 ©
prives them of the mild soe nite pecial sale experts and a ee. — Doadenca * = Permanganate  — oe = Alum. powd. and 8@ 12
i Ww : . . oes russi an u é x - an
they get out of the coffee bean ich Big 4 Merchandise Wreck Aloes (Cape Pon ep Prussiate, wie FE geround —___ 09@ 16
ee. : com 11 Twamle ers oes (Soc. Pow. eiphate | a8 trate |__. z
GRAND RAPIDS oe aloes (Soc. Pow.) 66@ 1000 ne a6 Bors xia ar 54@3 69
Bad Place To Loaf. MICHIGAN Pow as e powdered
A. kind-heart : Camphor ------- 1 05@1 P Cantharades, po. o7@ 13
a dog howhi rted gentleman, hearing SIDNEY ELEVATORS cop ce ae Roots Geos uae 25
f owling mournfull i Will red ac, pow’d — Mes Capsicum, pov - 2 09
: . y, decided uce handling e Hino - @ 90 Alkanet - a a Cae Si pow'd 48: =
ee the animal’s ailment ey ae work af make motes Kino, powdered = a Blood, powdered_ 35@ 40 Carming | ---—- 00@7 60
ound the d i++] : and = instructi ed. Plans Wiehe ae 7) Nageesdhi Te ee . Cloves —— o@ a
og sitting calmly upon his elevator. Witte sent with each Myrrh, powdered @ 60 Ble ampane, pwd ae S Chalk oe 50@ 06
1a h stat: Ge » 3 :
unches, but still we ments, giving kind ing require. Opium, powd @ 66 Gentian, powd pie 0 Ghrarot pared. 14@ 16
ae emitting agonized _ ef, platiorm <a and Opium, pati i oo 92 e. African, 20@ 30 Citaea OE aan 51@ 60
i i eight. We will : well Shellac : S powered . rae Comm rate 1 so@l 86
saving price. quote a money Shellac Bleached 90@1 40 Ginger i io 30@ 35 OCcaiIne ~~~. 12 1 0
Sidney Eleva : hellac Bleached 1 Gi , Jamaica 60@ 65 Cocoa Butter 0@12 80
to T 00@1 10 Ginger, Jamaicé fe oo a 75
r Mnfg. Co., Sidney, Ohlo ena pow. 1 75 aac 0 Be ea ee "40-10%
__. 1 15@2 25 Goldenseal, pow. 55@ 60 Copperas -—._—- : %o
Turpentine —_~- g mM tice nseal, pow. 7 bo Cobberas, Pow r 2%@ 10
i 25 too powd. __ 3 75@4 00 Corrosive Gubler ; an 10
ceceme Insecticides Licorice, powd” 80@ 40 cream Tartar 1@.
‘ aernse MS gm Soke Ruiarcl Ry st Bese ae
Ool SU st ag Boece wp 2 ESE Ae :
osinw ‘ , ££ , Nos.
les aoa oe rs Emery, Powdered 3@ 10
wee ee ee aa 6 Ss ground _- os 1 00 Eipecm Sas eg @
ec owder re arsaparilla “Mexic Er ve , less 8%@ 1
Ink Tablets, Penholders, C ifoe ane Gun Bog W Squills =e Flake, White 16 a0
Pasian Cl , Composition Books, Penci gles oc) pawkied Ge i caro angie age bg 30
S, ues, Inks, Schaal Ressds Penk , encil Tablets, Paris Green 20 = Terre oe ne de eae 90@1 05
ras en alerian, po a . Gl Sterne te ess 65%
School Blanks, Slate Pencil olders, Pens, Slates Leaves wa  @ 15 Glauber Salts, bbl oe
Crayons, C ncils, Rubber Bands, Pencil P Buchu --—_ 12 Sinubar csi’ ner a
, Compasses, Chalk, Pencil Sh en es Buchu, powdered *Oi to Seeds Glue, Brown. tig 0
: ’ ci Sage. ik ue, Br 2s
Skins, Inks, Pencil A arpeners, Chamois Sage, ri (sian 25@ 30 Anise --- Glue, ha Grd 16 26
E ssortments, Fountain P Sage, powdered__— © 3 Anise, powdered 3 +. wae =
rasers, Colored Pencils, Bl n Pens, Blackboard ae a —. 50@ 2... 4 ibe it Glycerine -- oo 48
S, otting P enna, Tinn. ae Nanery fe 25@ 45
Wate ng Paper, Exerci Senna, Tinn. pow. 30@ 35 Caraway, Po. .30 13 lod:ne - —_ a
s r Colors, Pencil Pockets, Cardboard rcise Books, ele Gardamon, ee ag a lodoform uy © eer es
; ’ oar ce orlander pow. .3¢ wead Acetate _ P
aste, Pencil Clips, Water Colors, Dicti , Thumb Tacks, a“ Olls pin pore ee SS Mace Acetate MG
Bristol Board, Lib s, Dictionaries, Ink Erase — So 4G 20 ecm 16 tags a
_ rere Paste, Blank Bo k sie Almonds, Bitter, 7 60@7 75 Flax, ground ____ 08@ 15 Morphine -_-- = 00@16 50
Mucilages, Sponges Cr 1 OKS, Rulers, Dusters a a r, oo@s 25 en pow. oo - us Vomica” 1 18@il =
. ayola : ? monds, Sais emp : 5 Nux Vomic seas
i yolas, Pencils, Lunch Kits, Ba tromdar" Swact,* 04 Usaha, “pow 1 Se eg oe
ote Books, Pencil se ite rac ee eae. ee Oe ne Borgun eee
P , Pencil Boxes, L 1 imita ot. Must yellow-. 17@ 25 Pitch, B -- 42@ 60
aper Di . ° ; ? ega and F ] tion 2 16 Mustard, black  . 29 - , urgundry lv
, Dictionaries, Pat’s Pick, Michi oolscap Amnber, as nee 00 roma? ae ae = —— as 12
1c mbe 7 nines ainihe re
Government, Patt Il’ ’ 1gan History, U. S. Civil rr : 7a; 00 we so 1 50@1 75 Wachelle a 72@1 33
Pri : engill’s Orthographies, Civil Bergamont .--. 7 ae 50 Sabadilla ____- be 290 Saccharine —-_ 30@ 36
rimary, Michi W , Civil Government Cajeput --.----- 1 ee Sunflower _----. wan a Salt Peter ----— wa o
gan, Welch Sch : Cassia <a @175 Worm ———» SAG we semlte --- U@ 22
chool Registers. Gaston 4 25@4 50 Worm, oo 80@ 40 Soap — 30@ 40
ee i nas ' Levant --4 25@4 60 Soap mott cast. | 3 i
: oe . caat.
SEND US YOUR OR Citronella ------ 1 rod : Soap, white a 26
DER TODAY oon Se 8 Tinctures a aaa
Cod Liver 86 less, aaa
HAZELTINE & PE Sr EEA tows gi SE a gle
KIN S D Cotton Seed —_— 1 40 . 35 SS @1 45 Soda A aie we 10
Manistee 0 Cubebs 7 00 e@ Arnica -..-. ? Soda, Sal 0 @ 10
Michi ° Eigeron o 125 Asafoetida —----- @1 10 Spirits Camphor 2%4@ 68
ichigan naa 6 00@6 25 Belladonna _____- @2 40 Sul yphor ~)| @1 36
Grand Rapi yptus ..--- 1 25@1 5 elladonna ---- @l Sulphur, roll ---- 3%
apids Hemlock, pure_ 1 75Q2 f° Henson 35 Sulphur, Subl. — 2 10
Juniper Berries. 3 50@3 - Benzoin Comp’d ; : Tamarinds ...... 20 10
Juniper Wood ~ 1 50@1 aa Behn 22 @2 5 Tartar Hinetic _ 70 a6
Lard, extra --.. 1 60 Canthraradies 5 Turpentine, Ven. 76
Lard, No. 1 1 2 50 Capsicum 2 @2.85 Vanilla Ex. -, 50@. 75
“= 1 40@1 60 Catechu oe toe i Dore 5 ene
S canis phate OG 8

 

 

 

 

 

 

28

MICHIGAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mail-

ing and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.

Prices, however,

are liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders
filled at market vrices at date of purchase.

 

ADVANCED

Canned Blackberries
Canned Cherries
Fruit Jars

Brooms

Quaker Milk

DECLINED

Roiled Oats

Sugar

 

 

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AMMONIA Instant Postum, No. 9 5 00 Beef, No. %, Qua sli. 1 75
Instant Postum No. 10 4 50 Beef, 5 oz., Qua sli. 2 5

Arctic, 16 oz. -------- 200 Ppostum Cereal, No. 0 225 Beef, No. 1, B’nut, all. 4 60
Arctic, 32 02. ------- 3 26 Beetsteak & Onions, 8 2 75

Quaker, 36, 12 oz. case 3 85

 

10 Ib. pails, per doz. 8 26
15 lb. pails, per doz. 11 20
25 lb. pails, per doz. 17 70

BAKING POWDERS

Arctic. 7 oz. tumbler 1 35
Queen Flake, 16 oz., dz 2 25
Royal, 10c, doz. __..._ 95
Royal, 6 oz., doz. .. 2 70
Royal. 12 oz., doz. __ 5 20
Royal, ip 1 20

5
Rocket, 16 oz., doz. 1 25

BEECH-NUT BRANDS.

 

SLL a4
Tye
Mints, all fiavors  -..-_. 60
eee 70
Fruit Drops -.---.-~.--. 70
eens 70
Sliced bacon, large _. 4 95

Sliced bacon, medium
Sliced beef, large —-
Sliced beef, medium —_
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.__

bad pd OD
SimNwOb-]
SSunsnoa

 
  
  
  
 
 

BLUING
Original

y condensed Pearl
Da. Capped

a4 doz., 10c dz. 8
3 dz. 15c, dz. 1 26

BREAKFAST FOODS

Cracked Wheat, 24-2 3 85
Cream of Wheat, 18s 3 90
Cream of Wheat, 24,

1 Be 2 3 05
Pillsbury’s Best Cer’l 20
Quaker Puffed Rice__ 60
Quaker Puffed W heat
Quaker Brfst Biscuit
Ralston Branzos ___-
Ralston Food, large --
Saxon Wheat Food __
Vita Wheat, 12s -_--

bet OD A OS et oe OT DO
ND oe
o

Post’s Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s ----- 3 80
Grae-Nuts, 100s _--- 2 75
Instant Postum, No. 8 5 40

Post Toasties, 36s -- <
Post Toasties, 24s --

5

4

2
Postum Cereal, No. 1 : 70

3
Post’s Bran, 24s 2

  

BROOMS ae
Jewell, doz +... 5 75
Standard Parior, 23 Ib. 8 25
ancy Parlor, 23 lb. -- 9 25
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 75
Ex. Fey. Parlor 26 Ib. 10 50
Ty 2 36
Whisk, No. 2 2 7
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ---. 1 50
Solid Back, 1 in. ---- 1 75
Pointed Ends  — ----- 1 235
Stove
BRAKE
No: 5) | pe
Peericns 2. 2 60
Shoe
No £8) 2 25
is 8 3 00
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion, ----------- 2 85
Nedrow, | oe oT 2 56
ctric w : a Ibs. 1
pis, phe He
Paraifine, ie naam i

       

Tusor, 8, per box __ 30
CANNED FRUIT.
Apples, 3 lb. Standard 1 50
Apples, No. 10 _. 4 50@6 75

Apple Sauce, No. 10 7 50
Apricots, ag 1 1 75@2 00
Apricots, No. 2 ~.-_ 3 00
Apricots, No. i 3 —_ 76
Apricots, nate 5
ea * No. 10 ” 25
Biueber's, No. 2 2 00@2 75
Blueberries, No. 10_. 13 00
Cherries, No. 2 -... 3 50
Cherries, No. 24% ---- 4 00
Cherries, No. 10 ____ 11 75

Loganberries, No. 2 -_ 3 00
Loganberries, No. 10 10 00
Peaches, No. 1 1 256@1 80
Peaches, No. 1, Sliced 1 40
Peaches, No. 2 ---. 2 75
Peaches, No. 24% Mich 3 25
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 25@3 75
Peaches, 10, Mich. ~ 8 60
Pineapple, 1; 2.
Pineapple, 2 sl.
P’appie, 2 br. sl.
P’apple, 2%, sli.
P’apple, 3, cru. 2 60@3 75
Pineapple, 10 cru. — : 50
Pears, No. 2

Pears, No. 2% --4 56@4 75
Plums, No. 2 - 2 on 60
Plums, No. 2%
Raspberries, No. 2, blk 3 60
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 15 00
Kaspbs, Black,

No: 18 2 16 00
Rhubarb, No. 10 4 75@5 50
Strawberries, No. 10 12 00

CANNED FISH.

Clam Ch’ a + So oz. : 36
Clam Ch.,
Clams, hist $ No. 1 3 00
Clams, Minced, No. 1 3 25
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 30
Clam Bouillon, 7 0z.. 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. %, Star 2 60
Shrimp, 1, wet 23 10@2 25
Sard’s, % Oil, Ky 5 25@6 00
Sardines, % ‘Oil, k’less 4 75
Sardines, %4 Smoked 6 75
Salmon, Warrens, %s 2 75
Salmon, Rd Alaska 3 90
Salmon, Med. Alaska 3 25
Salmon, Pink Alaska 1 85
Sardines, Im. \%, ea. _—
Sardines, Im., ¥%, e 25
Sardines, Cal. 1 $5@1 80
Tuna, %, Albocore __ 95
Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
Tuna, 14s, Curtis, doz. 3 50
Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz. 7 00

CANNED MEAT.

Bacon, Med. Beechnut 3 00
Bacon, Lge Beechnut 4 95
Beef, No. 1, Corned — 3 70
Beef, No. 1, Roast — 3 76
Beef, No. 2%, Qua. sli. 1 8%

Chili Con Ca., 1s 1 35@1 45
Deviled Ham, 8 20

Deviled Ham, s _.. 3 60
Hamburg Steak &

Onions, No. 1 ~~~... 3 15
Potted Beef, 4 oz. -.. 1 10

Potted Meat, % Libby 52%
Potted Meat, % Libby 90
Potted Meat, % Qua. 85
Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 85
Vienna Saus., No. % 1 35
Vienna Sausage, Qua. 965
Veal Loaf, Medium —. 2 30

Baked Beans

Campbells 115
Guaker, 18 oz. 90
Fremont, No. 2 ~----- 1 20
Snider, No. 1 .--.... 95
Snider, No. 2 ~-.... 1 26
Van Camp, small --.. 85
Van Camp, Med. -.-. 1 15

CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus.

No. 1, Green tips 4 60@4 75
No. 2%, Lge. Green 4 50
W. Bean, cut ~-.-.... 2 26
W. Beans, 10 -- 8 50@12 00
Green Beans, 2s 2 00@3 76
Gr. Beans, 108 7 50@13 00
L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@2 65
Lima Beans, 28, Soaked =

5

2, wh. 1 75@2 40
2, cut --_ 1 60

Beets, No.
Beets, No.
Beets,
Corn, stan
Corn, No. 2, ‘Fan. 1 os 35
Corn, No. 2, Fy. glass 3 25
Corn, No. 10 t ges m4 75
Hominy, No. 3 1 00@1 15
Okra, No. 2, whole — 2 00
Okra, No. 2, cut -— 1 60
Dehydrated Veg. Soup 9@
Dehydrated Potatoes, lb. 45
Mushrooms, Hotels 42
Mushrooms, Choice -_. 63
one. a Extra 70
Peas, No. 2, E. J. 1 To@l 85
Peas, _ _ Sift.,
see. 2 00
Peas, “No. 2, Ex. Sift.

Mm 2. 2 2
Peas, Ex. Fine, oo 26
Pumpkin, No. 3 1 36@1 60
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 50@5 60
Pimentos, %, each 12@14
Pimentos, %, each — 487
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 1 6@
Saurkraut, No. 3 1 40@1 60
Succotash, No. 2 1 65@2 60
Succotash, No. 2, glass 2 80
Spinach, No. 1 1
Spinach, No. 2_. 1 60@1 90
Spinach, No. 3. 2 10@2 50
Spinach, No. 10_. 6 00@7 00
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 40@1 60
Tomatoes, No. 3 2 60
Tomatoes, No. 2, glass 2 60
Tomatoes, No. 10

CATSUP.

B-nut, Small -....... 8 76
Lily Valley, 14 os. _. 3

Lily of Valley, % pint 1 76
Paramount, 24, 8s _.-. 1 46
Paramount, 24, 16s __ 2 40
Paramount, 6, 10s -. 10 00

 

Sniders, 8 oz. --_---__. 1 95
Sniders, 16 oz. 2 95
Quaker, 8% oz. ~----- 1 25
Quaker, 10% oz. ____ ; 40
QOnaker, 14 02. 2 1 90

Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 50
CHIL! SAUCE

 

Snider, 16 oz. _-___. 3 50
Snider, 8 oz. ~----___.. 3 50
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. .. 2 10
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. .. 3 60
OYSTER COCKTAIL.
Sniders, 16 oz. 3 50
Sniders, 8 oz. ----... 3 50
CHEESE
Roquefort —__-. -. 62
Kraft, Small tins -___ 1 65
Kraft, American -___ 1 65
Chili, small tins  __-_ 1 +
Pimento, small tins __ 1 65
Roquefort, small tins 2 25
Camenbert. small tins 2 25
Wisconsin New -__--- 27
bonenorm 2.0 27

Michigan Full Cream 25
New York Full Cream 29
San Sago a”
PICK So 26

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
Beecnnrt oo 70
Doublemint —-__-.------- 65

Juicy Ervuit _...__. 66
Peppermint, Wrigleys -- 65

   

Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65
Wrigley’s P-K —-_------ 65
ee 65
SeRDOETy. 4 65
CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, S 2 8
Baker, Caracas, Ss =. 2b
Hersheys, — es 36
Hersheys, Premium, \%s 36
Runkle, Premium, %s. 29
Runkle, Premium, ¥%s-_ 32
Vienna Sweet, 24s ___ 2 10
COCOA.
Bunte, *" aster ale - 43
Bunte, | _ 28
Rese, 10. 32

Droste’s 2 es 1 ib... . 50
Droste’s Dutch, % lb. 4 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 36

Hersheys, ¥%s --------- 33
Hersheys, %8 --------- 28
SANA 36
Lowney, 4 —__.______. 40
Lowney, _ aoe — 40
Lowney, %s ---------- 38
Lowney, 5 ib. cans ..... 31
Runkies; Ws _-.....--- 32
Runkies, “es —...._.- 36
Van Houten, #2 eo 75
Van Houten. %s ___--- 75
COCOANUT
Dunham’s

15 lb. case, %s and \%s 49
16 ib. case, 448 48
16 ib. case, 446 47

CLOTHES LINE.

Hemp, 50 ft.
Twisted Cotton, 50 ft. i ie
Braided, 50 ft. 2 75
Sash Cord 4 25

   

HUME GROCER CO.

ROASTERS
MUSKEGON, MICH

 

COFFEE ROASTED

Bulk
Min 2914
patos: 2 35@37
Maracaibo. = 37
Gautemaia: 220 40
Java and Mocha -_--_ =
Borota 2.50 se
Peavey 36

McLaughlin’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

M. Y., per 100 _.....
Frank's 50 pkgs. .... 4 2
Hummel’s 50 1 Ib. —- iene

— MILK
Leader, oo .. | 6 75

Brand

Bagle, 4 —— 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,
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 4
Quaker, Gallon, % doz. 4
Blue Grass, Tall 48 .. 4

4 doz. __ 4

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Blue Grass, Baby, 96 4 65
Blue Grass, No. 10 -- 4 75
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5 00
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 4 90
Every Day, Tall ----- 5 00
Every Day, Baby ---- 4 90
Po Tan 2 5 00
Pet, Baby, 8 oz. ------ 4 90
Borden’s, Tall ------ 5 00
Borden’s Baby ------- 4 90
Van Camp, Tall ---- 4 90
Van Camp, Baby ---- 3 75
CIGARS

G. J. Johnson’s Brand

G. J. Johnson Cigar,
ie 75 00
Tunis Johnson Cigar Co.

Wan Dam, i0c —.S 75 00

Little Van Dam, 5c — 37 50
Worden Grocer Co. Brands

Canadian Club -.--- 37 50
Master Piece, 50 Tin. 37 506
Tom Moore Monarch 75 00
Tom Moore Panatella 75 00
Tom Moore Cabinet 95 00

Tom M. Invincible 116 00
Websteretts -------- 37 30
Webster Savoy ---. 75 00
Webster Plaza  ------ 95 00

Webster Belmont___-110 00
Webster St. RKeges_-125 0¢
Starlight Kouse ---- 90 0
Starlight P-Club ~. 135 00

Rong: eb 00
Clint Ford __---__-— 36 00
Nordac Triaugulars,
i-20; per fi 75 00
Wordens Havana
Specials, 20, per M 75 00
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Standard 0 a7

Jumbo Wrapped -__. 19
Pure Sugar Sticks 600s 4 20
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 20

Mixed Candy

Kindergarten —
cipader oo a
ee ae OO, Ae
French Creams -_.. 19
Cameo sees ML
Grocers

 

Fancy Chocolates

5 lb. Boxes

Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 70

Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 70

Milk Chocolate A A. 1 ro
1

Nibble Sticks -~.------ 6
Primrose Choc. .----- 1 25
No. 12 Choc., Dark — 1 70

No. 12, Choc., Light . 1 76
Chocolate Nut Rolls . 1 75

Gum Drops Pails
ARR 17
Urange —— 17
Challenge Gums ~------ 14
Mawarite 2 20
Superior, Boxes ~----- 24

Lozenges. Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges 18
A. A. eink Lozenges 18
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 18
Motto Hearts -.... 2d
Malted Milk Lozer ges 22

Hard Goods. Pails

Lemon Drops -------- 0
oO. F. Horehuund dps. 20
Anise Squares _--_--_. 19
Peanut Squares __---- 20
Horehound Tabets —.. 19
Cough Drops Bxs.
Panam sa 1 30
Smith Bros, .... 1 60

Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows

4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 93
4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 3 90
Specialties.
Walnut Fudge -------- 23
Pineapple Fudge ------ 21
Italian Bon Bons ------ 19

Atlantic Cream Mints_ 3]
Silver King M. Mallows 31
Walnut Sundae, 24, 6c 80
Neapolitan, 24, 5c -.-. 80
Yankee Jack, 24, 5c _. 80
Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 5c 8C¢
Pal O Mine, 24, 5c __.. 80

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic grade 8 60
100 Economic grade 4 60
500 Economic grade 20 00
1000 Economic grade 37 50

Where 1,000 bocks are
ordered at a time, special-

ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR
mt: im

1925

September 16,

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
Domestic, 20 Ib. box 11
N. Y. Fey, 50 Ib. box 16%

 

N. Y. Fey, 14 oz. pkg. 17%
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice __ 30
Evaporated, Fancy —. 35
Evaporated, Slabs -. 27
Citron
10 lb. box ~.- “a
Currants
Package, 14 oz. ~.... 18
Greek, Bulk, Ib. ____.. 16
Dates
Dromadary, 368.2... 6 75
Peaches
Evap. Choice, un. --_. 17

Evap., Ex. Fancy, P. P. 20

Peal
Lemon, American -.-... 24
Orange, American —.... 24
Raisins.

Seeded, bulk 09
Thompson’s s’dles blk 09
beg yates 8 seedless,

Seeteh 15 oz.
California Prunes
90@100, 25 lb. boxes a ttt

60@70, 25 lb. boxes -.@10%
50@60, 25 lb. boxes --.@11%
40@50, 25 lb. boxes __@13
30@40, 25 lb. boxes -.@16
20@30, 25 lb. boxes __.@33

FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans
Med. Hand Picked -. 05%
(Cal. Tamas 22.000 lo
Brown, Swedish .... 07%
Red Kidney ~-----.- ~~ 10%
Farina
24 packages -..-._... 8 60
Bulk, ve- 100 Ibs ~-. 06%
Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks __ 4 25
Macaronl

Domestic, 20 lb. box

Armours, 2 doz., 8 os. 1 80
Foulds 2 doz., 8 oz. 2 26
Quaker, 2 doz. —.. 2 00

 

Pearl Barley

 

arr Soe Sy ee 5 00
Se 6 50

mie Grits 22s 06
P

SCOtCh. 1D. 222 06%

Split, Ib. yellow ---... 08%

Split green -_____ eee
Sago

East India 10
Taploca

Pearl, 100 lb. sacks --__ 09

Minute, 8 oz., 8 doz. 4 05

Dromedary Instant  _ 3 60

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

 

. Des.
Lemon PURE Vanilla
165 _. % ounce -.. 1 80
200 _..1% ounce — 32 36
3 50 _.. 2% ounce — 8 76
3 25 _..2 ounce —.. 8 60

ounce — 7 00

UNITED FLAVOR
Imitation Vanilla

1 ounce, 10 cent, doz. 90

2 ounce, 15 cent, dos. 1 25

B ounce, 25 cent, dos. 3 00

4 ounce, 30 cent, dos. 2 26
Jiffy Punch

8 doz. Carton — 3 28

 

Assorted flavors.

FRUIT CANS

Mason.
Half pint 22 ae
One int ea 7 15
One quart 2 fe 9 00
aan  eallon 12 00
(deal Glass Top.
Rubbers.
Halt pint 9.00
One pint 2 9 25
One) quart 2 11 00

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_‘' K 3’ Sparkling, doz. int, Ja M
“7B Minute erin ye 9 35 oe i ha ICHIGA
eh doz. , doz. 2 OF om OZ. “aoz . 50 N T R
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7: waite -—— 15 3 ee ae 3m Clear Basses ok a AN
9 ORS 0 oz. r, Stu 7 £3 short C oe aA I
} Per doz. . RADISH 9 oz. 7. stuffed — 1 - fe Clear = oa 00 ana Og 1+ 100 'h
J , on. 12 on Ss stuffed, z. 2 50 S P Be y Salt Me @35 00 Packora Spec., 70 he. 8K
Ss ELLY AND samen 120 » doz. ar, aa 3 50 ellies —_ 28 ats Crushed oe 56 Ib. 85 cio an
“p> Pure, 30 PRESE 20 oz. Jar, stuff cs Pure i ca 00@30 0 cream ock fo Ib. 87 as, 100.2 60 o
g * 4 pails RVES ar, stuffed 7 75 60 i: in Pe Vs 0 Butter as 1b ‘i Rub a oz. ee 29
\ : oe ad dz. : erces : .. eac : a ae :
Pure ¢ of a 30 #8 700 50 Ib tubs _._advane 19% oan te apnea 78 Rub Nos (mwa Uo TABLE
i uckeye oo doz iu > 20 Ib. tubs - ae : aker Salt, 280 lb. 4% Sos ‘i ieee, 18 | ‘ ro & ee
fs ; 0z., doz. in 10 Ib. pails __—- vance “4 . 280 Ib. bbl. 4 40 Spotless Cl pre, 18 Lg 385 Pep & Perrin, large-
P uy « z. 2 35 5 Ib. pails ~-aaverice 3 1 4 10 ‘on Oz. eanser, ab 4 00 Fenner rin, small__ : 90
8 L. a vance 19 Sani Flush, Td 8, Oe —
i oz.,, per doz ASSES en Ib. pails a te Sapolio, 3 1 aon 3 85 Tobasco tat ee 1 60
OL Lee 37 Pan eater japzihdvanee : Soapine, 100, 1 rie &. ot --— 2 40
© EOMARG pmcound. tate Me Snowbo} 100, 12 oz. - ais acd oe ain
a ott | anne. B Sz tubs -—-- i: Snowboy, a ined 7 a oe pa — 2 70
oo Luck, a”, Brands Boles. ausages -- 14% Speedee oe Large oz. 4 00 apers, 2 0 ae 5 20
a Luck, 2 - — 98 Fran oc ee Sunbrite one a  @ S6 oo 3 15
y saa fr. 28 Veal fort 45 17 "ia ao Japan
« Ba Delicia, en D7 Veal oo 18 sp - 475 edium .
Vv cia, 2 noe 231% Heanen Jelll -— oo = Wh ICES. aoe
an_ Westenb ------- 28 Bel adcheese a = Allspi ole Spice a T ae Ee net
Carload rugge B 8 oz Car-M H NeCSe ao 2 Clov ce, Jamai ni: Raney 7@A46
i 24 A doz. so — eeeene or Meats | 16 Sean Gases @1 £ tb. hae a Tc . 54@63
Ah * 12 . pails - ase ee a i Cassia, ae of cg. Sifting —-—- 56
= 12 2 Ib. pale one oo _ = oo elie oe @40 Choice ae 12
UCOA 3 14 Ib pails 6 eos Cali oe eef . oe Ging r, Africa .. doz. @ s Fancy er
3 MJemaRcatine a 25 lb . pails - n crate — eo Mace | : ire eee bee y Tee 32
, ee OLEOMARCARINE A PY Ib. ins ee Pela oe eT OH Mixed ‘wer = .  * Geyton —— 42
r ee i ee oiled Hams 2 Mixed, oe eae @1 00 +, medium
LEUM PRODUt Ladi Hams ___- 30 —— Ses pkes. dee ___Engli ---
PR need as 32 Nutmegs pkgs., a ~ @22 Cong glish Breakfast 65
Nucoa, 1 Hagges a M tron Barrels — - Zoe if - au case, 24, 2 Nutmess, 108.110 sa oo Congou, Medium
N Oa, It a osi [ee LS 1 re Cé ae ; l er, fey - . aun We SC ‘ong: ce 10ice eat
« d, nr Sac 97 = Tank Wa na 12.1 ewes Bi 30 @39 as on 8 46 Sue as a o70 gou, mae 35@36
- e ‘ “ > ay ag ‘ : , . i SS au 95 Yo é
i Nut ao5 — edie x. 2 Seay Gas 19.7 Condensed” N Meat 0@22 00 Pee — pe ante __ @18 Choice —--------
: . | i pecial agen 2 Pe Peers eb. Naphtha a ear a Bak Ta = et Ginaes pc . a ancy en 36
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MAT % nte E 41.2 Ss 31 CES Mac a a Cc TW 50
t Swan, 144 CHES r Black ngine 23.2 Cooked { ao pee | ute Yoana o28 cee 2 _
“trons @olarir } ena a ai :
; Sevmi co snes, Polarine 13.7 % bbls. - in Vine i i Pe a oe @l 28 Wool. 3 aie cone --
Searehiignt, io ‘old . % pbis., 36 ibs. wig ban ey So ou of ne ae
oaths — Red go ai antag 60 rine ~ bbls. [ii 1 55 ly 4 Bennee wa on a Sie 48
1, a Ohio me vie 144 bx 5 . bbls. ----—-—-----—- 2 75 ) ORY ==] Paprika Cayenne ade aa or 40 one —
Ohio Rosebud. piv red . Iron Barrels Kits oe = i SALT ka, Spanish —-- @32 Lhe Se me
a 0 Medium 2. ° . 15 e. S Speen : woes ni aan 8 oo 24
ida Tip, oak tc 6 60 -phamegg a J © 4 5 ty Iba. ._- " SS y Chill P Seasonl @42 e Wine, a grain 25
*. coke ee e415 Specia — oz bis., 80 a ie Buin 340 ee Celery owee isc" Ni wIc grain 19
) _ N fae | i. 42 eter hea ce ee 66.2 ar per wags ee ; oo Bois ee prac or 5 40 Sage. 2 3 07. “+= No. 1 psa bead
None S$ E MEA 95 Transm oe ek 68.2 B round s De 7 0 100-3 90-21% | og G eB OR anna nnna-— gp No 1, per gro non
Quaker uch, 4 T Fin a oe 70. 3eef, na set _ - @42 %-R % tb. he sks. a 30 (N . 2, per Dea 15
: r, 3 doz. : ol, 4 Oil 0.2 Shee iddles [ 4@e his 280 Ss. =. € 65 Garlic anna . No. 3 r gross a. be
) uibby [ac doz | 6tr Finol OZ. Ca __.. & eep, @ , set 14@26 A-B 980 Ib. bulk: ° *onelty ee 1 35 P. . per eS 0
i . Ke . case . P , 8 02 ns, do 2 ‘ skein _. 25@3 Butter | balk: 6 05 Kite ly a o- 1 eerless gross aon Eb Ge
we _. Og wet, af 2 ecnaas ton th a 7 Fancy B! RICE 1 75@2 a AA-Tiutter ; - ‘ Laure! Bonauet Sao 8 = Rochester, No per. a Z
) SSES 4¢ =6Parow x, 40, 1 + aa a--- 8 Fancy slue Ros N n. 50 1b. bt co! 00 Marjora eaves ___- 450 Re chester, No. 2, do - 90
ax, 20, 1 ip. ot ; SS ee . a OB ie No. i Meditim? Bb aa ye ee 1 — le 20 spe tiga aca 3, 4 a
« Cis £2 ROLLED 1 aoe oe sk seh, 70 i 2%, 2 om me. a ee 90 wo As
0) \ sf Steel So OATS 06 Cases one ube lb. farm 47 Tumeric, 21g es = B geo aa 80
_ S Pat, Todiz sory, 24-2 cart “2 0%. ee us! ask
ania Finke. lb. sks. 3 Base 25 24-3 oo 1 STAR ae iret narrow
oo 18 Reg Fam, 2 50 Bane ih oF oS 40K c v dan See band,
M <er, 123s ri bina . 2 50 a 25 Ib. poe cca 3 epee orn or aaerow bead 1 75
: Mothers, 128 amily __ go. —s Rock 50 Tb. eo dairy a Latency 40 Ibs Market handles band,
om Sacks ee | 28 a he aeck 8 Argo, 48, past 3 er Market, drop handle 1 80
‘» S: eth 90 eg. - Sack ‘ream, f : Ce 50 ¢ a—ket. single hé e
i Sacks, 3 a ene m3 i Am. & er ’ Quaker ye me ¢ Splint, large = oo
; yttor : ae amily jy ie 48 Spli letee
ae “ote ESE oon a ak oa oe. 1% Splint, median 3 0
e we Ls cae Co ra Wi ey 30 Argt Gloss a ---- 7 50
1 No 1a Bre: Re 36 roll pack tet als White, Na. ae 90 ArEo. 48, 1 Ib Be a. 6 5
‘ v. 10, 6 ce apoit 36 roll ackages Tels Ne e, 100 s 3 75 ‘go, 12, . pkgs arrel, & urns 0
No. 5, 1 cans to ca 36 cart packages Li 280 eo a 100 hox 4 23 Argo, 8 t 3 ib. pkes. 4 05 Barrel 5 gal. .
9 No. 2%, Spon cae oie 36 carton packages -- 180 Ni ave box 5 60 tee ob. Biggs. = a. 8" gal ol, tee
5 + ¢- | 1%, 36 ¢ ns to cs packages __ 5 2) Napthe ore Wh s 4 10 Elastic, G4 se 35 cone OOF 1-2 55
« ss ans . 6 45 A SAL SS 2 65 Rub-N a. 100 ite Viger M4 pkgs ys gal. -
v a Ane to es Ss rm ERAT z bo No- box TG . gs. - rs Ne Eg ae
No en Bre . 5 30 emda and H us Corte CC More, yellow 4 Tiger, 5 1 2. 6 36 ‘0. 1s 39 Case
; No. et oe ee Semdac, e pt. can (da ada oe = ae a on 5 o ee 3 50 hs 2, oe Carrier
y » oO. 1%, 3 cans t se 4 85 ICKLE ae ated, 60 a : airy, 100 hoe _ x 7 6S RUP . 2, Star B Tray 0
, 36 cans co ee Medi S nulated, % lbs go «ap I oo ean 6 5 gg T s 6 25
‘ ans t 5 10 Sarre dium paca: at 3 oa 3 3 o Lose, ee > 50 fe rays
} No. 5 "4 cans to rane. 50 galic ae 800 co -- 18 50 Mid cop FISH 2 25 Oo va, 100 b 44 box 1 35 ae pi neo
i No 33 2 cans case 3 00 yn kegs unt 10 00 - dles ISH ctagon ae 1 00 No. 2 patent Riera 00
/ > No. i 24 ee Ae 3 = 30 _ eon oo Om ee Ta we” 15 Bladen ap nee co 4 90 agen “pat, “brush hold Zz wi
Ya , 86 cans oe cs. 3 . re 3000 _ a 8 la % Ib Pure -- 15" aeke a at — $ 20 1s oe Oe rd 2 90
; New Orieana 3 00 eres wooo oe Ge pgm BE ethabe Be Wpox 8 79 be, Cot. Mop Halla & 6
Ch pen 600 Siz i cides, oo «WW a ee Qieste a ac | sm 5
: Corstens ae size, Ma aa rrole, Cod Pare 29% | tues ige. 3 45 10 at. Gal Pails eads 3 00
oe + 2--- i one ---- od 7/2 me roa, 728 fer : 2 Galva ;
on oe 7 on ee IPES. 14 00 Mixe olland H = ie yeilos 72s, box at. Galvé oe
Dove sn ti en — 3attle Axe G CARD 29 Queen. i bbis. __-- 1 10 a taken 100, 19¢ 400 ¢ Penick G oe eee [eg 76
30 Nove. 36, 2 lb. W nS. lue Ribbo. er do s Milkers Ma 10 25 oo B free _ e, 6, 10 lt olden S 16 at. vin Be Get Ir 3 10
: , Dove, _ 2% Ib ue L. 5 60 Bicycle oo ee - M. 4 Kees ---==- 17 50 Villiams a a. om 32>? oe yrup So. CL Mop Hea = B00
ra ove ot: 2 Ib yn o6S eee os. eS eae 1 25 Mug, per 4 s 60 24 2% | sae 3 18 Mop Heads § ag
0 f nave. - 2% Ib ot 4 0 Babbitt's shag lor aa ee 7 Bis bbe. 1 05 CLEANS doz. 48 74 1% 1 pane (ood 5 ag pouee wil —o
roy Palmett 10 Ib RI lack 3 90 F : doz. . scien 10 00 ERS 2 ip. cans 3 €s Mouse. Ww ood, 4
‘ oO, 24, 2 ve L # $F RESH MEATS 27 KKK Herring 9 00 Crysta 2 2 40 Mouse. woud, 6 holes
ah) , 2% Ib. 6 15 Top S oe 8 Ib i. Nowe 6, 10 lb al White Syr a Bat w tin, 5 ha eS =
i poi Good Ppa & Heit fe. colo aman ae . an — 5 lb. ec Reaianet iy Pina patie tl Bie ani ee
90 Almonds, ‘Terres oe oe Ht isglt oned, 10 Ib. b ve a ans -------- oe ene i ee .
35 Saas ie oenanane ee wm, Steers & HCE isK@ts % a snacks — 20 ( P ca cans as? a 1 Tubs 218
00 ‘ Filberts ixed os ie Top Cows  10@12% l., 100 hig ng ; anick Ma ee CG laree Gi ubs
ie ai ; oe < : ke E ek : ple- . Medi talvaniz
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; Peanuts, gen Raw = Medium... ae a ubs, 60 ont fat 24 e 24. ee pc eee 43 mall ee att 9 00
n : Pet ae 1 ( ee os a te coun at 24 5 3 as, oh ans --- oc 3 anize ce
a8 Peanuts, Tumbo, ra i +r mmmon --- a erecta tog Med. me yom 6 00 i = lif sg pa Dee 51 Bann poaaiaas -- 675
ee acnne. umbo, 14 Pop _ Geet 10 Ss cy, 100 H (ane 2s 66 Bras er, i ards
-* Pecans, : star” rstd 16% Cod el 2 A a Ee as cea 13 00 4 inkl _. 3 20 a Phe a
Walnuts ae veleaae of Good | —------—--- oe: 19 « 2. a —" : 12 10 Ib. cans lous Doubie single __--..- : 8 00
Walrieed peanuts. 50 Sp as Deter toe an i 3s Bg Wh Gane A oe $00
st No. 1 anuts. Go ng Lamb . o g xbys, D oe ae i 1 35 of. 1h Hh cane 2 73 noe rless an 8 50
60 « > So 14 — ee 28 Shinola. ote ce 1 00 ic ih. cane... 3 33 ae --—a— 4 ot
75 ; ee a wanneannannon : 8 Eee panne 35 oe ae
00 : Almonds Shelled. Se See = won oe oat ati. 90 Blue K Corn |, ,.Window Cleaners 7 25
_ 125 iach _. Good - Mutton. __ 18 Black Silk’ 1 res wins are. No. ii 4 in. aners
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vn oY Socaee. ee Mediuii --2-2-2---—-—- 16 Enamali Paste, | z. 1 40 80 can Hie Bare Ne. | 1 dz 3 43
00 Wainu' cate “_ RU oes ee 12 ng ciaiinc Paste, — 1 25 cases, $4.80 Red eo.’ No 146 og 2a 13 4 Wood B
cle et aad a : >, a . € is 3 in.
25 Buik, 3 a Peg Mata ip Baal ee ar mis Bhs canny P per case ee aie 1; mw potas haha
. Buk, 6 gal. koe --- oo Medium . “ Se ae per ‘doz. 1 85 Bon Ami Pd powers | fe 381 19 in: Butter ---.---- 5 09
ee Pail avy ho a. i nid S un ee: Cli mi Ca i oe 8 enue. aple F 7 in. Butter -—-—--—- 00
suart T gal. keg Loins gS ---- 19 Vv Stove E per doz 5 slimaline ake, 3 x 375 O nge, N lavor ee 18 0
Bulk ane Le a uleanol, Snamel, az 1 35 Grandma, 4 doz. dz. 3 Orange, | o. 1% . dsicii bake: BAI 0
, 2 gal en Be OS Se Vul ol, No. 5 _ da 2 G dma, 10 Of 25 Ora e, No. 5 , 2 dz. 3 en APPIN . 25 00
| hee 850 Shoulders -—--——-- -- St canal, Ma. 16, doz 80 jrandma, 100, 5¢ --- 4 20 ange, No. 1 1 doz. 91 Fibre, M G PAP
7. Sparerits ees 30 sino ee aon. 18 an Rs, tonnes 4 00 c M 10 ------ i ch ae rire ae
eee aoe - a a ioe ee oh cae be Green Lah =e man "gee os
re 08 Coloni , 24, 2 I Jinx. 3 od, 24 uarge 3 20 treen Lab el Kar« Kraft oo onenanano-n 06
M » Lo + aman a ee : eo Sine
ed. oe x eee 2422" 90 oe fe Be ame 4 25 ce el Karo 2 4 Stripe = 68
, Bois. -- 2 4¢ ee Box aun., 4 dz. 4 50 Kanuck ple and C 9 YEAS _... 09%
2 eee | O raicle C.. Ba . 3 60 Mayfio 2 per gal ane Magic T CAKE
id Dutch 12 oz., 1 dz 8 75 wer, + === Sunlie” 3 doz
utch Cl ., 1 a2 per gal 1 50 nlight oe
ean. 4 2 25 s M ee Sunli < o aie 27
Gem Welds, aple. 0 Sunlight, 1% doz. ——-- 2 10
Velchs, — . gal 2 Yeast — 3 y Tages 1 :
gal. ao 50 am, oe
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN September 23, 1925

 

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Kapsus, wcpr.. st—on this day
was held the unal meeting of creditors

  

 

in the matter of Cole & Ciow, Bankrupt
No. 2033. The bankrupts were not pres-

ent or represented. .\o creditors were
present or represented. One additional
claim was approved and a:lowed. ‘The

trustee’s final report and
approved and ailowed. The administra-
tion expenses were ordered paid and a
first and inal dividend of 12 per cent.
paid to general credtors. The matter was
then adjourned without date and the
Same will be closed and returned to tne
district court in due course.

pept. lo. We have to-day received the
order of reterence and adjudication in
the matter of Albro Ek. Young, bankrupt
No. 2102. Vhe matter has been reserred
to Charles b. Blair, as referee in bank-
ruptecy. The schedu.es have been order-
ed, and when the same are received, the
first meeting of creditors will be called,
and list of creditors, will be made nere-
in. This case is an involuntary case.

Sept. 15. We have to-day received
the schedules, order of reference and ad-
judication in the matter of Oscar Hal-
burt, Bankrupt No. 2714. The matter has
bene reierred to Charles B. Bu.air as rei-
eree In bankruptcy. ‘the bankrupt is a
resident of Grand Rapids and his occupa-
tion 1S not Slated in the scnueuues. ‘ie
schedules show assets of $250, Which the
full interest is claimed as exempt, witn
liabilties ot $1,171.09. The court has writ-
ten itor tunas and, upon receipt of tie
same, the first meeting of creditors will
be called and note of the same made
herein. The .ist of the creditors of sa.d
bankrupt is as foilows:
Commonwealth Loan Co., Grand

WOOO $100.40

account was

  

 

Dr. Droskey, Grand Rapids —_____ 20v.00
Marcel Rolkoski, Grand HRapids __ 50.0
St. Marys Hosital, Grand Kapids ol.uu
Isaac J. DeFouw & sons, Grand

Rapids a 11.00
Lincoln Grocery, Grand Rapids ___ 108.00
Grant & Huizenga, Grand Rapids 50.00
Herpolsheimer Co., Grand Rajids 2v.00
Mich. Trust Co:., Grand Rapids __ 1/5.00
Dr. F. J. Lee, Grand Maids _.._p lu.ad

Connors Coal Co., Grand Rapids __ 24.00
P. pteketee & pons, Grand Kapids 250V.00
Chas. LaLande Second Hand pstore,
Grand Bapids —_____ Se
Hake Coal & Fuel Co., Grand Rap. 9.00
Prange Family store, Grand Rapids 30.60
Nationai Credit Clothing Co., Grand

Bape _... ee
Hartman Furn. Co., Chicago — 25.30

Sept. 15. We have to-day received the
schedwes, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of John DeLBoe,
Bankrupt No. 2711. The matter has been
referred to Charles LB. Blair as reteree in
bankruptey. The bankrupt is a resident
of Grand Rapids and his occupation is not
stated in the schedule. The
show assets of $150, which the full iner-
est is claimed as exempt, with liabilities
of $830. The court has written for tunds,
and upon receipt of the same, the first
meeting of creditors will be ca.ied, and
note of the same made herein. The list
of the creditors of said bankrupt is as
follows:

schedules

A. J. Wailman, Grand Rapids $550.00
Martin De Boe, Grand Rapids 100.00
Cornelius Sevens, Grand Kapids __ 50.00
Isaac DeBoe, Grand Rapids ______ 130.00

Sept. 15. We have received the sched-
ules, order of references and adjudication
in the matter of Andrew R. Huizenga,
Bankrupt No. 2772. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair, referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Kalamazoo and his occupation is that
of a grocer and dealer in meats. The
schedule shows assets of $3,000, of wiich
$250 is claimed as exempt, with liabilities
of $3,519.90. The first meeting will be

       

 

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made herein. The list of the creditors
is as fol!

City. of azoo. 3 48.07
Richard : AZOO 500.00
Sam Rosenbaum and Sam Willage.

 

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D. M. Ferry Seed Co.,
Lee & Cady, Kalamazoo
A. W. Walsh & Co., Kalamazoo
Harry Lewis & Co., Kalamazoo
Swift & Co., Chicago hee
Hekman Biscuit Co., Kalamazoo
Wollson Spice Co., Toledo ‘
G. H. Hammond &€ Co..
Osear Mayer & Co., Chicago
Berkiey & Blodgett Co., Chicago
Goo@rich Candy Co., Kalamazoo
Star Paper Co., Kalamazoo
Climax Packng Co., Climax .
DU. S. Trading Stamp Co., Toledo
Vanderberg Bros., Kalamazoo ee
Vette & Zunkers, Chicago
Dougherty Cider Mill.
Crystal Candy Co.,
Sturgis Grocery Co., Sturgis an
A. i, Ashton, Kalamazoo __... 0
Richards Huizenga, Ka!amazoo __1,377.00

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Geo. H. Jung Co., Cincinnati 19.00
Johnson Paper Supply Co., Kala-
eee ee
Southworth & Stewart, Galesburg 67.00
Kal. Creamery Co., Kalamazoo 31.00

Mich. Bell Tele. Co., Kalamazoo —_- 5.50
Carl Skinner & Sons, Kalamazoo 31.60

Sept. 15. On this day was held the
first meeting of creditors in the matter
of Powers-Butier Co., Bankrupt No. 2764.
The bankrupt was present by its presi-
dent and by Corwin & Norcross, attorneys
for the bankrupt. Creditors were present
in person and represented by G. R, Cred-

it Men’s Association. Claims were proved
and allowed. The president of the bank-
rupt corporation was sworn and exam-
ined without a reporter. Mr. Howard L.
Boggs was elected trustee and _ the
amount of his bond placed by the referee
at $2,000. The matter then adjourned
without date.

In the matter of John Prawdzik, Bank-
rupt No. 2769, the funds for the first
ing have been recepived and such meet-
ing has been called for Sept. 30.

in the matter of Ervin Mishler, Bank-
rut No. 2767, the funds for the first meet-
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for Sept. 30.

In the matter of Grewe & Humberg and
Otto VP. Grewe and Bruno Humberg,
Bankrupt No. 2770, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for Sept. 30.

in the matter of Andrew R. Huizenga,
doing business as Huizenga Bros., Bank-
rupt No. 2772, the first meeting has been
eca.led for Sept. 30.

In the matter of Henry La Coss, Bank-

rupt No. 2754, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such

meeting has been called for Sept. 30.
Sept. 17. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of <A. Roberts,
Bankrupt No. 2775. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Three Rivers and his occupation is
that of a grocer. The assets of this
esiate is $1,645.50, with liabiliteis of $2,-
270.16. A custodian has been appointed.
The first meeting of creditors will be

  
 

 

calied promptly and note of the same
made herein. The list of the cred.tors
of the bankrupt is as follows:

G. I. Jenson, Kalamazoo ie _-$ 30.00
National Cash Reg. Co., Dayton - >. 00
Blodgett-Beckley Co., Toledo ____ 72.65
G. E. Bursley Co., Elkhart uu. Beller
Burley & Winter, Cooksviile, Ohio 29.12
Buver Bros. Chicgeo
Bishop Gro. Co., Buchanan ._. 17.90
Corbin Son Co., Chicago _.____. : 19.25
Dudicey Paper Co., Lansing 19.41
Chase & Sanborn, Chicago __ - 2hSe

Constantine Cream., Constantine. 55.90
H. Lewis Co., Kalamazoo b
Taylor Produce Co., Kalamazoo

  
 

Nat'l Biscuit Co., Kalamazoo ____

Johnson & ly, Kalamazoo ie -
Mi: J. Bens Co., Chicaso 17.
Perfection Biscuit Co., south Bend 137.

Proctor & Gamble, Detroit ____- 3
Producing Co., Kalamazoo ______._
F. A. Rohrer, Three Rivers —_____
Roto Speed Co., Dayton pe
Rothchild Bros. Co., Ft. Wayne —_
South Mich. Gro. Co., Co.dwater_ 32
stureis Gro. Co. Stureis _.....

Veller Broom Co., Hillsdale _____.

Troco Co., Chicago eee) 6.30
Cottingham Bros. Co., Toledo __- 8.00
H. P. Buzzell Co., Kalamazoo ____ 10:20
A. W. Walea Co., Kalamazoo = 209-45
A. R. Walker Candy Co., Owosso 5.5
Wi'son & Co., Chicago - Peele oa
Merchants Adv. Co., Adrian __.. 37.62
A. E. Howard, Three Rivers __.___. 70.00
First Nat'l Bank, Three Rivers __ 100.00
A. JT. Avery, Three Rivers ____ 4.00

Sept. 17. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Frank Shembar-
ger, Bankrupt No. 2776. The matter has
been referred to Charles B. Blair as ref-
eree in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a
resident of the village of Derby and he
conducts a general store. The schedules
show assets of $3.077.13. of which $500 is
claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$4.288.39. The first meeting of creditors
wil. be called promptly and note of the
same made herein. The list of the cred-
itors of the bankrupt is as follows:

Frank P. Deja. Derby : 2 aN
Frances Deja, Derby — = oe ee Oe
Anna Deja, Derby : fe - 30.00
Albert Post, St. Joseph __- = 600-80
Aber-Grimm Hdwe. Co., St. Joseph 72.60
G. C. Bursley, Niles anne .. 492.00
Vm. Barentson, Benton Harbor_ 174.00

Baitinger & Dormer. St. Joseph

Chase & Sanborn. Chicago _.._._
Frank P. Cupp, Stevensvi le u
Peter Friedman, Benton Harbor __
Franklin MacVeagh Co.. Chicago_ ;
Ixeystone Steel & Wire Co., Peoria 737.(

    

 

Moderwell Coal Co., Chicago ~ 265.00

Mishawaka Woolen & Rbr. Co.,
Mishawaim 222 140.00

Fred Potter, St. Joseh 2, 25008

_ 340.00

~ 475.76

Seiber Oil Co., St. Joseph
Toledo Rex Spray Co., Toledo _
Union Banking Co., St. Joseph 350.00
John Wallace Sons Co.. St. Joseph 320.00
i. S2:Rubber (Co, Chicaco |. 98 92
Evans Coal Co., Detroit oe 208
B. H. Monument Co., Benton Har. 110.00
J. KR. Biersdorf & Ero., Chicago _. 18.36
Kidd Dater & Price, Benton Harbor 20.82
Butler Bros... Chicago iol: Oe ae

In the matter of John De Boe, Bank-
rupt No. 2771, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for Sept. 30.

Sept. 18. On this day was held the ad-
journed special meeting of creditors in
the matter of Samuel Rosenbaum, Bank-
rupt No. 2641. The bankrupt was not
present or represented. The trustee wo «
present by Connine & Connine. The
trustee’s report under the trust mort-
gage was considered and approved and
allowed. The matter was then adjourn:
without date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter ~-
Marion C. Kister. Bankrupt No. 2763. The
bankrupt was present in person and by
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present or represented. No trustee was
appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. One claim
was proved and allowed. The matter was
then adjourned without date and closed
and returned to the district court as a
no asset case.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Counsel G. Wiison, Bankrupt No. 2765.
The bankrupt was present in person and
by attorney, Willard G. Turner. Cred-
itors were present in person and by at-
torneys, R. J. Cleland; Corwin & Nor-
cros; G. R. Credit Men’s Association;
Norris, McPherson, Harrtington & Waer,
and Connine & Connine. Claims were
proved and allowed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined with a reporter
taking the testimony. H. L. Boggs was
elected trustee and the amount of his
bond placed by the referee at $5,000. The
matter was then adjourned without date.

In the matter of International Vinegar
Vo., Bankrupt No. 2662, the offer of Guar-
antee Bond & Mortgage Co. of $1,240 for
certain items of the personal roperty was
accepted and confirmed.

In the matter of Edd B. Nieboer, Bank-
rupt No. 2602, the final dividend sheets
have been prepared and the final divi-
dend is 31.21 er cent. A total of 41.21
per cent. has been paid to creditors hold-
ing general claims.

Sept. 21. On this day was held the
adjourned first meeting of creditors in
the matter of Geo. L. Slate, Bankrupt
No. 2761. The bankrupt was not present
or represented. The trustee was present
in person and by Fred G. Stanley, at-
torney. Creditors were present in per-
son and by attorneys. The matter was
further adjourned to Sept. 25.

On this day also was held the final
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Nicholas Hertel, Bankrut No. 2713. The
hankrupt was not present or repi esented.
The trustee was resent in person. Claims
were proved and allowed. The trustee’s
final report and account was approved
and allowed. An order was made for t
payment of administration expenses and
preferred tax and preferred labor claims
as far as the funds would permit. There
were no funds for dividends to ordinary
ereditors. ‘There were no objections to
the discharge of the bankrupt. The mat-
ter was then adjourned without date and
will be closed and returned to the dis-
trict court in normal course.

Sept. 21. On this day was held the final
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Edwin F. Howe, Bankrupt No. 2655. The
bankrupt was present in person. The
trustee was not present or represented.
The attorney for the bankrupt was pres-
ent. Creditors were also present. Claims
were proved and allowed. The trustee’s
final reort and account was approved and
allowed. An order was made for the
payment of expenses of administration
and for the dec!aration and payment of
such pro rata share of the preferred
claims as the funds would permit. There
will be no dividends to general creditors.
There were no objections to the discharge
of the bankrupt. The meeting was then
adjourned without date and the matter
will be closed and returned to the dis-
trict court in due course.

On this day also was held the final
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Wilard A. Hoebeke, Bankrupt No. 2678.
The bankrupt was not present or repre-
sented. The trustee was not present.
Claims were proved and alowed. The
trustee’s final report and account was
approved and allowed. The balance of
the accounts receivable were sold at auc-
tion. An order was made for the pay-
ment of administration expenses and for
the declaration and payment of a final
dividend to creditors. The nercentage of
final dividend has not been determined at
this date, and upon determination of the
same note of the amount will be given
here. No objections were entered to the
discharge of the bankrupt. The meeting
then adjourned without date and the case
will be closed and returned to the district
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Several Articles Are in Favor.

In the good business that is now
passing in the part of the jewelry trade
which specializes (in the cheaper mer-
chandise a number of articles are do-
ing well. Necklaces of imitation pearls
of various sizes, styles and colors are
very active and there is also a nice de-
mand for ornaments featuring seed
pearls. These ‘take the form of novel-
ty brooches, bar pins, etc. In brace-
lets of the popular-priced variety there
is a growing call for those of the rigid,
hinged type, some of which are pierced
and set with imitation colored stones
in a wide range of shades. In articles
of less direct personal adornment the
call continues active for novelties in
compacts, those of the sifter-top order
being in particular favor.

Promise in Indian Sport Coats.
From present indications one of the
best-selling novelties of ‘the current
ready-to-wear season will be Indian
sport coats. The real ones are made
out of blankets featuring Indian design
motifs in multi-colored patterns, and
théy can be told from coats made of
piece goods, which are cheaper, by the
inclusion in the former of the elaborate
borders of the blanket. They run from
32 to 40 inches in length, and are es-
pecially popular at retail prices ranging
from $15 up. So far they have been
particularly active in sizes 13, 15 and 17
for juniors and sizes 14 to 20 for misses.
They are expected to take very strong-
ly with school and college girls for
wear over balbriggan sport suits and
a good call for them from girls in gen-
eral is also looked for.
—_—_22 2 ___
General Hosiery Outlook Better.
Expectations of a broadening in ac-
tual business in hosiery are being real-
ized. As yet the increase has none of
the characteristics of a spurt, the spec-
ial news letter of the National As-
sociation of Hosiery and Underwear
Manufacturers says, but, though mod-
erate, it is steady and general enough
to warrant predictions of a decidedly
healthy Fall. Each day reports from
different sections of the market become
more encouraging, and each day ‘the
general outlook is brighter. Aside
from actual buying and selling, the
things that are receiving the most at-
tention in the trade just now is the
course of raw silk and the probability
of higher prices for the finished goods
as a result of the rise in the raw ma-
terial.
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Pile Materials Are Favored.
Thick pile materials are much in
evidence in the current showings of
children’s coats in the New York mar-
ket, and beaver, squirrel and other soft
furs are extensively used in collar and
cuff trimmings. A number of houses
are displaying hats with coats. For
the most part they are felt or velve*
and, while they do not match the ma-
terials of the coats, they harmonize
with them in color. A novelty in the
lines made for children of from 1 to 3
vears of age, according to the United
Infants,’ Children’s and Junior Wear
League of America, ‘is the so-called
blanket set. This is composed of a
coat and hat made of two-faced blan-
ket material, usually of some light
shade and trimmed with touches of em-
broidery.
——_-2
To Hold Autumn Neckwear Week.
Business in men’s neckwear is show-
ing a healthy increase, with Fall orders
substantially ahead of last year at this
time, according to prominent manufac-
turers here. Retailers have been send-
ing in reorders for both bright pat-
terned cut silk ties and the higher
grades of knitted silk scarfs. The re-
tailers are signalizing the start of real
Fall activity by the holding of “Au-
tumn Neckwear Week” from Sept. 26
to Oct. 3. The slogan “‘tie-dy Up” has
been selected to spread effectively the
work of sales proinotion among cus-
tomers. Bright colors continue to
dominate in nearly all types of neck-
wear. Stripes likewise hold their prom-
inent position in the vogue.

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and four cents a word for each subse-
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SALESMAN WANTED

We have some excellent territories open
for good men, preferably above 35 years
and with store management experience.

We manufacture a line of Simplified
Accounting Systems that are literally
sweeping the country. Purely commis-
sion basis and our men average $75 to
$150 weekly. High class, clean, pleasant
work. Write fully concerning yourselt
in first letter. THE BECK-NOR COM-
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For Sale—Hardware and grocery, Smail
town, Hoiland settlement. About $8,000.
Address No. 49, c/o Michigan Trades-
man. 19

ONE of the most exclusive and up-to-

    
  

date flower shops in Michigan. Located
at ADR <«Aroor. Established thirteen
years. Doing wonderful business. Lease

alone will pay back purchase price in six

vears. Reason for selling, ill health. Sel
for cash only. If you haven't the money
don't answer. Address Flanders For

Flowers, 320 East Liberty street, Ann
Arbor, Mich., for price. 50
FOR SALE—Hardware, paint, g ass,
kitchen utensils, sheet metal and furnace
business in very best location. Also
buildings for sale or rent. Owned by
father and son for thirty-nine years. Ad-
dress Charies Cammerer, Dayton, Ohio.
51
For Sale—Two-station Lamson cash
railway, in good condition. Cheap. B.
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Steketee, Holland, Mich. 52
FOR SALE—Meat market. Good busi-

ness, good location. Inquire of P. i.

Green, Sunfield, Mich. 53

For Sale—Stock and good will of fine,
going stationery and toy business in good
school city of 5000. Located in best busi-
ness section, with splendid opportunity
to expand in glassware, picture framing,
wall paper, and musical merchandise. Can
continue lease. Other interests demand
manager’s time. Graphic Shop, Big Rap-
ids, Michigan. 54
DEPARTMENT STORE - IN THE
FASTEST growing town in Dade county,
Florida. The largest and oldest store is

for sale by its owner, ‘“‘an old. timer,’
who is compelled to devote his attention
to other interests Adv. terms to desir-

able party. SHERWOOD
Tlomestead, Florida.
GRAIN elevator, feed mill. in good
farming locality, forty mi'es north Detroit
on Michigan Central. Price right. H. C.
Schlicht. Thomas, Mich. 40
GROCERY FOR SAlLE—!In live city in
Southern Michigan. Doing $500 weekly.
Good ‘\oeation. Address No. 41, c/o Mich-
igan Tradesman. 41

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Wanted—Commission salesmen with
established territory to sell mop sticks,
vacuum washers. and similar merchan-
dise. W. BE. Kautenberg Co., Department
G., Freeport, Hl. 42

GENERAL STORE—Building, house
and one acre, eighteen miles from Grand
Rapids. Monthly receipts $1,500—$2,500.
Owner's death reason for selling. In-
auire A. Barnum, Alaska, Mich., R. F. D.
2, Ca’edonia. 44

DRUG STORE—Good business, cheap
rent. clean stock. Small payment down
takes this. Address No. 45, ¢/o Michigan
Tradesman. 15
CONFECTIONERY AND LUNCH ROOM

Living rooms in connection. Doing fine
business. Good reason for selling. Price
$1,000, $500 down. Cc. J. Wells, Cedar
Sprpings, Mich 46

CONFECTIONERY AND BUILDING-
Price $2,250. On Main street. Inquire
Charles King, Hart, Mich. 47

VARIETY STORE-—Stock and fixtures
¢1.500. Ill health, must sell at once. Van
Dusen Variety Store, Lowell, Mich. 45

JEWELRY STORE FOR SALE—Bui'd-
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block, garage, electric sign. Six fine
rooms up stairs. Must sell. on account of
sickness. See J. H. Labes. 1436 Grand-
ville Ave.. Grand Rapids. Mich. 27

FOR SALE—Dry goods, 'adies furnish-
ings and notion stock in thriving village
forty-two mi'es north Detroit on State
trunk line. Onlv stock in village of anv
account. MONEY MAKER. Fine brick
building, good lease. Inventory $8,000.
Box 35. Memphis, Mich. 36

For Sale—McCray refrigerator, size 8x
6x9 ft. 10 inches high. Practically new.
In first-class condition. A bargain. In-
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Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-
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No Incentive To Purchase Flour
Heavily.
Written for the Tradesman.

There has been very little change
in the price of wheat during the past
week. Futures are quoted to-day at
approximately the same figure as a
week ago to-day, possibly a cent lower.
Prices are fairly well stabilized, ap-
parently high enough based on the
world’s crop of wheat.

Generally speaking, threshing re-
turns have been better than anticipat-
ed; consequently, totals for the United
States and Canadian crops have been
enlarged. It is now claimed the United
States has produced at least 700,000,-
000 bushels, about 170,000,000 less than
last year, but our prices are consider-
ably above the world’s market, enough
above, in fact, so that further advances
at home would result in the importa-
tion of Canadian grain. This action,
of course, would tend to equalize
values or force United States’ prices
closer to the world basis.

Some authorities claim the world’s
crops 1s as much as 20 per cent.
greater than last year. This appears
like an over-statement. It may prove
to be 10 per cent. greater and in that
event the tail end of the 1925-1926
crop of wheat will bring a lower price
than is being obtained at the present
time.

It must be borne in mind, however,
that domestic prices of grain and other
farm products are not at all out of line
with the cost of manufactured prod-
ucts to the farmer. For the past three
years they have been very much under
the value of products,
which has resulted in limited buying
power on the part of the agriculturist.
However, manufactured products are
showing a tendency to decline. Many
lines have declined, while farm prod-
ucts are bringing more money, which
is as it should be. It places the farm-
er in a more favorable position and in-
creases his buying power as well as his
prosperity.

We can see no reason why the trade
should hesitate to cover normal re-
quirements up to thirty days ahead,
but there is positively no incentive to
purchase heavily for three or four

months’ delivery. Lloyd E. Smith.
—_2-~>______
John V. Farwell Co. Sells To Com-
petitor.

Chicago, Sept. 23—-Papers were
signed last night whereby Carson Pirie
Scott & Co., take over the entire busi-
ness and properties of the John V.
Farwell Co., one of the oldest and best
known wholesale dry goods concerns
in the country.

The transfer becomes effective Oc-
tober 10 and Carson Pirie Scott & Co.
will continue the business in the pres-
ent Market street location.

The John V. Farwell Co. was estab-
lished in 1852 by the late John V.
Farwell, Sr... and through years of
steady growth has been doing a huge
volume of business in nearly every
state in the Union. Their big ware-
house and salesroom are familiar to
Chicagoans, fronting on the East bank
of the River and extending the entire
block between Monroe and Adams
streets, fronting on Market.

The purchase of the entire business
adds another chapter to the phenom-
enal growth of Carson Pirie Scott &
Co. and serves to strongly emphasize
its position as one of the foremost mer-
cantile concerns in the world. Their
present wholesale buildings extend a
block on Adams street, running from

manufactured

MICHIGAN

Franklin to Market streets, just op-
posite the newly acquired Farwell
property. Their huge warehouse at
18th street and the River is but one of
a number of similar buildings scattered
throughout the city.

The business was started in 1854 at
La Salle, Illinois, where the first day’s
sales amounted to $28. Later the
business was moved to Amboy, Illinois,
with branch stores at Mendota, Polo
and Galena. In 1864 the wholesale
store was opened in Chicago to
furnish to their retail stores and other
retail dealers. Two years later the
retail store in Chicago was opened.
Both stores have year by year increased
in importance. In the year 1885 Car-
son Pirie Scott & Co. bought out the
important retail business of Charles
Gossage & Co., located at State and
Washington streets. In 1891 the well-
known firm of Storm & Hill, whole-
sale distributors, wished to retire from
business, and it was the enterprising
house of Carson Pirie Scott & Co.
which purchased their stock.

In the vear 1904 Carson Pirie Scott
& Co. bought the business of H. G.
Selfridge & Co. and transferred their
retail business to the larger premises at
State and Madison streets. Even this
large building soon was too small for
their ever increasing business, and two
years later an additional building was
built for them adjoining on the South.
Since then all of the State street build-
ings to the South, including the Mentor
building and the De Jonghe building
have been acquired. Additional front-
age on Wabash avenue, including the
Thomas Church building at 32 and 34
South Wabash avenue have been se-
cured.

Carson Pirie Scott & Co. is what
might be called “a business of sons.”
Andrew MacLeisch, who joined the
firm in 1867, is the only senior mem-
ber of the firm alive. His son, Bruce
Mac Leisch, is now a member of the
firm as well as 5S. C. Pirie, J. T. Pirie
and Gordon L. Pirie, whose father, the
late John T. Pirie, was the founder.
S. C. Pirie’s son and J. T. Pirie’s son
are with the concern. John W. Scott,
Robert L. Scott and Frederick H.
Scott. all members of the firm, are
sons of the late John E. Scott, a senior
member of the firm. Other directors
are John Wood, Paul Hartmann and
Charles B. Miller.

—_2+22>—__—__
Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Sept. 22—The fair
at Pickford last week was a decided
success. On Friday, the last day, the
attendance was over 2,000, which is
the largest attendance in thirty-nine
years. Considering the size of Pick-
ford, we would say that that was some
crowd. The ball game between Cedar-
ville and the Carbide nine was some
game, resulting in a victory for the
Carbide team, with a score of 10 to 6.
The horse races were also exception-
ally good. The directors have every
reason to feel satisfied over their en-
deavors to make this far a success.

The steamer City of St. Ignace, of
the D. & C. Navigation Co., made its
first trip to the Soo last Thursday,
with a large number of passengers from
Detroit and Cleveland After seeing
the sights in the afternoon, they
invited Sooites on board in_ the
evening to attend the dance, music be-
ing furnished by the ship’s orchestra.
The officials were well pleased with
the tour and plan on making the trip
an annual affair.

Harry Kemp, of the Kemp Bros.
Coal Co., left last week for Miami, Fla.,
to look over some large real estate
holdings they own, with a view of mak-
ing a sale. He was accompanied by
Charles Chipley, land expert here.

Work on the new Wynn garage be-
gan last week. When completed it
will be one of the best garages in
Cloverland. Mr. Wynn deals only in
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will be ready for occupancy this win-
ter.

Pedestrians don’t make very good
shock absorbers and, besides, they
spatter up your car something awful.

Monday morning, Oct. 5, a motor
cavalcade which has been long planned
in celebration of the completion of the
Dixie highway will be started in the
Soo. Any and all motorists are urged
to participate in the trip and more will
be added to the cavalcade as the cara-

van nears its ultimate destination,
which is Miami, Florida. Almost
every town of any consequence

throughout the route of the highway
will have some of its motorists in the
caravan. So far as the Soo is con-
cerned, about 100 cars are scheduled to
leave here on the morning of the 5th
and start the affair. An official Soo
car will be driven the entire distance,
with appropriate signs on it, advertis-
ing Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. George
Chandler will be the official driver. A
dinner will be held at the Country
club on the evening before the 5th,
boosting ‘the cavalcade and celebrating
the tenth anniversary of this advent.

If we profited by all of our mistakes
we soon would have enough of them
to make us rich.

It has been reported that the Park
Hotel, one of our leading hotels, is to
close for the winter this year, which
will be the first time this has happened
since it has been in the business that
it had not kept open the entire year.
While we still have ample hotel ac-
commodations to care for the winter
business. the traveling public will miss
the Park, which has served the public
so satisfactorily all these vears.

Schools have started. The kid’s va-
cation has ended. And mother’s va-
cation has begun.

William G.
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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Sept. 22—The King
Collins Co. has sold its dry goods stock
at 1501 Wealthy street to Wm. FE.
Wallace, who will continue the busi-
ness at the same location under the
stvle of the Wallace Co.

W. E. Gibson, flour buyer for the
Judson Grocer Co., has taken the road
position for the same house rendere/
vacant by the retirement of A. V.
Lindberg, who has purchased the C.
Glenn Lewis grocery stock, 742 Frank-
lin street.

E. B. Collins, manager of the Grand
Rapids branch of Burnham Stoepel &
Co., has been retired on a pension |
his house and has returned to his hom~-
in Carson City. This will be sorry
news to Mr. Collins’ many friends who
have always found him dependable to
the nth degree. Nothing but best
wishes accompany him in his retire-
ment The Grand Rapids office will be
attended to hereafter by Wm. E. Wal-
lace, general salesman; Ed. Covey,
piece goods salesman and
Graham, box goods salesman.

James E. Granger, the Duluth whole-
sale grocer, is spending a few days
with friends and relatives in the city.

Clarence J. Farley is in New York
this week, purchasing goods for Far-
ley & Co.

Representing the Grand Council of
Michigan, United Commercial Trav-
elers, and Grand Rapids Council, John
D. Martin will attend the annual con-
vention of the Michigan Hotel Associa-
tion to be held in Kalamazoo Friday
and Saturday of this week. This will

Tapert

Walter .

September 23, 1925

be the fifth consecutive annual meeting
Mr. Martin has attended, representing
and working for the interests of the
United Commercial Travelers of Michi-
gan Mrs. Martin will accompany Mr.
Martin on the trip, the meeting wind-
ing up with a banquet and ball Satur-
day evening at the New Burdick Hotel.
on the Late William
Widdicomb.

One of Mr. Widdicomb’s character-
istic expressions: “The sweetest music
a man can hear is the sound of his own
voice.”

I was working alone in my office
one hot Saturday afternoon when the
telephone rang. The voice was that of
Mr. Widdicomb, who proceeded to re-
buke me for being at my desk on a
hot half holiday, instead of out in the
fields or woods.

“I accept your criticism,” I replied,
“but I would like to enquire where
you are talking from? “From the
office,” was the reply.

Mr. Widdicomb had little patience
with the growth of trades unionism
and communistic ideas in England,
which was his birthplace. He said it
reminded him of Carlyle’s caustic char-
acterization: “England has 35,000,000
people—-mostly fools.”

—_—_—_22-.—____.
Use It Wisely.
Tact is just the art of making the
other fellow feel more important than
vourself.

Sidelights

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It may not be your business to clean
the store, but it is a part of your busi-
ness to help keep it clean.
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’ Central Power
and Light Co.

1st Lien & Refunding 614’s
Due 1952

The. total amount of mort-
gage debt outstanding
against all properties of the
Company and its Syhbsidiar-
ies is but 57% of their re-
p'acement value.

The Company is now con-
trolled by

Middle West
Utilities Company

Net earnines of Central
Power and Light Company
for the year ended Jan. 1.
1925 were over 2.6 times in-
terest requirements on en-
tire funded debt. and are
showing substantial increas-
es for the current year.

To Yield over 6.30%

Howe, Snow
& BERTLES mn.

Investment Securities

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