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Life’s a picture to the artist,

To the rascal life’s a fraud;
Life perhaps is but a burden

To the man beneath the hod.
Life is lovely to the lover,

To the player life’s a play;
Life may be a load of trouble

To the man upon the dray.

Life is but a long vacation

To the man who loves his work,
Life’s an everlasting effort

To the ones who like to shirk,
To the earnest Christian worker

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Group Meetings and Other Dry Goods
Gossip.

Lansing, Nov. 10—The group meet-
ings at Owosso and Clare have not
been reported to our members, as we
were out of the office nearly all of the
week these meetings were held and
left headquarters early Monday morn-
ing for Pontiac.

Fifty-nine persons sat down to the

dinner at Owosso. Three ex-presi-
dents with President Bullen, both
Vice-Presidents, Mr. Mills and Mr.

Wesener, with director Jackson and
ex-director Bush were present, The
meeting was a hummer from start to
finish. C. Z. Robinson did his work
well. The ladies of the Episcopal
Guild are deserving of much praise for
the splendid dinner served by them.

W. H. Bicknell, of Clare, was the
local committee there and did his work
equaly as well. The splendid hotel
would be a credit to a city of five times
the size of Clare. The builder of this
hotel, A. J. Doherty, was present at
the meeting and Mr. Bullen compli-
mented him in a few well chosen
words for the wonderful contribution
he has made to his city. At Clare
thirty-three persons were present. The
meeting was as interesting as the o~-
held at Owosso the evening before.
The weather was cold and stormy at
both places. The attendance perhans
was not as large as it otherwise would
have been, although those who attend-
ed were very generous in their com-
plimentary words regarding the suc-
cess of both meetings.

At Pontiac Nov. 3, the story is dif-
ferent. Mr. Duker, with the help of
the president of the local Merchants
Bureau and the manager of the local
Credit Bureau, had evervthing in good
shane. Mr. Bullen was ill at his home
in. Albion and sent his regrets early
Tuesdav morning. Mr. Toeller, whom
we had in reserve for this work, was
detained in Battle Creek on account
of some business arrangements. Tele-
phone message from Mr. Mills and a
telecram from Mr. Toeller came almost
a tthe same moment both stating their
inability to be there. Miss Case in
Lansing was notified not to make the
trin and the meeting was called off.

We sent telephone messages to the
various towns in that area and are
not aware that any were disappointed
by going to Pontiac to attend the meet-
ing. We propose to have another

meeting there a little later and the
plans will be made in such a way that
no ordinary happenings will prevent
us having a good meeting. We re-
us having a good meeting. We resolv-
ed rather than to have a meeting with
a program so badly crippled, we would
have no meeting at all. Announce-
ments will be made regarding this
matter at a later date.

At Owosso we learned of the death
of James Osborn, the only surviving
member of the Osborn family, which
has for years conducted the Osborn
dry goods and department store. Mr.
Osborn’s death occurred a few weeks
ago. The store has been bought by
Mr Uhlman, of Bowling Green, Ohio,
and will be re-opened under the name
of “Uhlman’s” in the near future. We
were told that a manager, a Mr. Baker,
from Fremont, Ohio, will be in charge.
Mr. Uhlman has had other business
interests in Michigan. The firm of
Uhiman & Heidelburg, at Oxford, and
later of Big Rapids and Edmore, bears
his name. We hope to have this store
in our membership in the near future.

We are pleased to state that an-
other new store has recently been es-
tablished in Owosso. Lawren’ Cope-
land is the proprietor. A very neat and
well appointed ladies ready-to-wear.
Mr. Copeland attended our Owosso
group meeting and his store was add-
ed to our membership list. If you go
to Owosso, drop ‘in and extend the
glad hand to Mr. Copeland.

We had the pleasure of meeting our
old friend, W. E. Hall, who was for-
merly one of our members and who
now is conducting a small men’s fur-
nishing store iust West of the loca-
tion of the D. M. Christian Company’s
store. Mr. Hall seems to be doing a
good business in his new location. We
wish him success.

The President, ‘Manager and Edu-
cational Director took luncheon at the
Hotel Steel in St. Johns. It was a
reminder to me of former generations
of travelers and business men. The
luncheon was fine and the hotel ser-
vice was courteous.

While in St. Johns we observed the
closing out sale sign of George H.
Chapman, visited the place and was
told that Mr. Chapman will give his
entire time and attention to the build-
ing of nortable houses. Possibly here
is a good location for somebody to
start in the dry goods brsiness. If
interested, write to Mr. Chupman. A
call was made in the stores of F. E.
Minne and John C. Hicks, but both
were absent at the time of our call.

At Ithaca we found that Mr. and
Mrs. MacCormack had just returned
from the big Farwell sale in Chicago.
Thev were full of glowing accounts
regarding the progress of the big sale.
Mr. Havs, proprietor of the Hays
Mercantile Co., across the street, had
gone hunting. We don’t blame him a
bit. He is a hard worker and is suc-
ceeding as successor of the H. E.
Lewis store, which he purchased some
months ago. Sorry he was not pres-
ent at the group meeting at Owosso
and Clare, but the recreation in the
onen air probably will do him just as
much good.

We naused reverentlv before’ the
beautiful memorial built by the citizens
of Ithaca to the memory of our old
friend. Henrv R. Pattengill. We read
the inscription and recalled manv
years of pleasant associations with

him. His strong manly face, repro-
duced in bronze, looks out on the
passers-by of men and women who
knew and loved him when he lived and
taught in Ithaca. He was one of
Michigan’s greatest men.

D. W. Robinson, of Alma, was once
employed in Bullen’s big store in Al-
bion. The greeting between these two
men there was enthusiastic and sincere.
The visit in both of Robinson’s big
stores was interesting and encouraging.
We were both happy to observe that,
in spite of reverses in Alma factories,
Mr. Robinson is on his feet and con-
ducting a successful business. He is
too good a man to fall by the way-
side. Robinson is in business to stay
and it is pretty certain that the Robin-
son store in Alma will continue to be
widely known throughout Central
Michigan.

A telephone call to our friend, Mr.
Hilsinger, at Elwell, revealed that his
health was none too good. He stated
regretfully that he could not attend the
meeting. We were very sorry, be-
cause Mr. Hilsinger is an enterprising
and successful country merchant.

Mount Pleasant is one of the per-
manentlv substantial towns of Michi-
gan. Many days have I spent there
at the time of the creation of the State
Normal School and recall with pleas-
ure the brotherlv attitude and co-
operation of the business men at that
time.

Mr. Marsh, of the firm, Marsh &
Graham, passed away some time ago.
The firm now goes under the name of
A. W. Graham. Previous arrangemnet
prevented Mr. Graham going with us
to Clare. The beautiful store of our
friend and ex-director, C. E. Hagan,
was visited. Mr. Hagan and_ his
nephew are on the iob. Heard good
reports from Mr. Hagan’s fine babv
boy and Mr. Hagan, Jr., with his
friend and neighbor competitor, Mr.
Barnhard, made up a little party to
attend the group meeting.

The hotel at Clare, mentioned above,
is a delightful place, situated on M 14
sure to be the haven of many a tourist.
Both the Davy and Bickness stores
there are well conducted and success-
ful. It will pay anv of you while
traveling through on M 14 to plan to
visit both of these places.

We are glad to have Harry Gold-
berg and M. E. Irish drive over from
Gladwin. Mr. Irish formerly conduct-
ed a store at Hemlock. Mr. Goldberg
has succeeded in his father’s long-
established business in Gladwin. We
sincerely hope to enroll both of these
stores again as members of the As-
sociation.

The return trin to Lansing from
Clare in Bullen’s big Lincoln car was
made at a rate which nearly exceeded
the speed limit. We do not declare in

this letter that we exceeded the
speed limit but would dislike to
swear that we did not. Miss Case

likes fast driving, but prefers to be at
wheel herself, which pleasure was not
accorded her on this trin. Don’t
know what happened to Mr. Bullen,
but the next we heard from him he
was ill and confined to his home bv
the phvsician’s order. Later reports
stated that he is back on the job again.
We extend congratulations.

At Howell we dropped in the 'Good-
now store just at the moment when
Mrs. Goodnow had our statement be-
fore her and was writing a check to pay

her annual dues. Paying her dues
promptly is a habit with her. It
would not be a bad habit for some of
our other members to acquire. In
Peirce’s store we got good reports of
a flourishing business. Had some
complimentary words from Mr.
Peirce regarding an effort we have
been making to collect from one of his
delinquent debtors. Both Goodnow
and Peirce would have been at the
Pontiac meeting if it had not been
called off.

We enjoyed our visit at Adams
store as we always do. Mr. Adams
attended the foot ball game in Ann
Arbor last Saturday in preference to
making plans to go to Pontaic. We
are not blaming him for that.

I called at the store of Fred L.
Cook & Co., at Farmington. It re-
called the time way back in 1898 when
your manager went to Farm vrton to
interview Fred M. Warner, who later
served two terms as Secretary of
State and three terms as Governor.
Mr Warner occupied the store at that
time. It is now much larger in everv
way. We were surprised and pleased
to meet Mrs. Warner and her daugh-
ter, Helen, who were in the store at
that time as shoppers. A _ brief re-
view of the good old days when we
served in the State Capitol during the
Warner administration was indulged
in. It has been a great pleasure to
know of the sterling qualities of Mr.
Warner’s two sons, who are prom-
inent business men in Farmington and
Detroit. Business down that way is
fine. Everybody tells the same story.

At Pontiac the proprietor of one of
the largest stores stated that his busi-
ness in October was the best month
he has ever had without exception.
This report was corroborated in a
little different way by the head man of
the other large store. All of the other
stores who belong to our Association
make equally favorable reports. The
old firm of Lehman-Lister have made
some business changes and the firm
will now be known as the Hess Dry
Goods Co. in a different location farth-
er down in the trading center.

In Rochester we were disappointed
not to find our old friend and former
director, J. H. Clements. Conversa-
tion by phone with him indicated that
he was planning to attend the group
meeting and bring along a prospective
new member with him. Incidentally,
I might state that Mr. Clements help-
ed us to get several new members
when we made our first campaign.

At Birmingham Palmer, Begole &
Co., once members of our Association,
were called upon. We observed a
change over the door and the business
now bears the name, Palmer-Blackmar
& Co. Had a fine visit with Mr. Black-
mar and anticipated meeting him again
at a group meeting. He is a good
prospect for membership. If you go
that way, drop in and give him the
glad hand. He was very courteous at
the time of our call and I prophecy a
successful business for him.

Jason L. Hammond,
Mer. Mich. Retail Dry Goods Ass’n.
—_——_2-.s————_

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pet. “I can’t play this instrument; I
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OUT AROUND.

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

Lamont is in a class by itself by
reason of the remarkable river views
which are commanded from Broadway,
the principal thoroughfare of the vil-
lage. No more picturesque scenery is
to be found anywhere than the views
from the high bluffs overlooking
Grand River for a half mile or more
along the river front.

The approach to Newaygo from the
South and to Arcadia from both the
North and South are both very atrac-
tive, but for downright beauty of
landscape I have never seen a more
attractive view than that afforded by
the Rogue River valley, at Rockford,
whether seen from the high hill on M
13, just South of town, or the still
higher hill on the Greenville road, just
East of town. Both views are beauti-
ful beyond description at any season
of the year Of course, the effect is
more striking during the season of
vegetation. The commanding position
occupied by the new hillside home re-
cently erected by Adolph Krause af-
fords a sweeping view of the valley for
miles. For scenic beauty this location
can hardly be surpassed. Mr. Krause
certainly has an appreciation for the
beautiful in nature to select so remark-
able a viewpoint for his domicile.

There is no one in business in Rock-
ford now who was engaged in trade
when I started the Tradesman, forty-
two years ago. Rockford was the
first town I visited after getting out
my first issue, at which time I enrolled
the following subscribers:

Neal McMillan, druggist

D. R. Stocum, general dealer

E. E. Hewitt, grocer

W. G. Tefft, grocer

Jackson Coon, shoe dealer.

Aaron B. Gates, grocer

Charles F. Sears, dry goods dealer

I think only two of the above are
in the land of the living—E. E. Hewitt
and A. B. Gates. Mr. Hewitt resides
in Grand Rapids and Mr. Gates lives
in Detroit.

Neal McMillan was the leading
druggist in the town and the Repub-
lican boss of Northern Kent county.
He served his party and the people in
many political offices and was a wel-
come addition to any gathering of men,
political or otherwise. He made
friends and retained them as long as he
lived.

Jackson Coon was the only exclusive
shoe dealer in the town in those days,
just as his son is now. He was a
Democrat—about the only Democrat
in the community, as near as I can re-
member. His son inherited the father’s
politics, but I think he devotes more
time to his shoe store than he does to
his political party, which is himself. If
there is any other Democrat in Rock-
ford, I have never had the fact brought
to my attention. Anyway, the Coon
of to-day is the worthy son of a worthy
father and deserves the generous pa-
tronage accorded him by his home
people.

I have exceptionally pleasant mem-
ories of Charles F. Sears. When I

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

called on him he was scrubbing out
a little store building, perhaps 12x20,
in which he started selling dry goods.
He subsequently added groceries to his
stock and removed to a larger store.
He was the soul of honor and pos-
sessed as pleasant a personality as any
man I ever knew. For thirty years
his name stood for everything that was
honorable, modern and progressive in
the home of his adoption. Mr. Coon
tells me that Mr. Sears had his copies
of the Tradesman bound in book form
during all the years he was engaged in
trade in Rockford and that nothing
gave him greater pleasure than to re-
view the changes in business methods
afforded by a perusal of his treasures.

But for the action of Adolph Krause
in deciding to locate the Hirth-Krause
tannery and shoe factory at Rockford.
the town would probably still be in
the village class. The growth of both
of these industries has been so rapid
and substantial that the town has come
to assume the aspect of a small city
and the town joker frequently dis-
cusses the feasibility of including Grand
Rapids in the corporate limits of the
town. New houses exhibiting the home
loving inclination of Rockford people
are being erected in all parts of the
town, especially in the section con-
venient to the factories, and some of
these days I expect to hear that Rock-
ford has applied for a city charter.

It is a matter of common knowledge
that Howard Morley has_ purchased
fourteen acres of land on M 13, op-
posite the school house at Cedar
Springs, and proposes to present it to
the village of his adoption as a public
park. This action is in keeping with
the tendency of the times, but I can-
not help wishing that the area of the
land devoted to this purpose was 140
acres, instead of fourteen and that Mr.
Morley should evolve a much more
comprehensive plan that his present
announcement indicates. Mr. Morley
is one of the rich men of Michigan
who has accumulated a large fortune
so carefully and quietly that he has
attracted little attention to himself.
He has conducted a general store for
forty-nine years and invested his sur-
plus earnings largely in tracts of tim-
ber, of which he is a good judge. His
investments have included holdings in
Michigan, Minnesota, the South and
the Pacific Coast. I do not know
how much Mr. Morley is worth, but
men who are familiar with his meth-
ods and his investments tell me his
possessions will schedule close to a
half million dollars. As Mr. Morley
was never married and has no direct
heirs a hundred thousand dollars wise-
ly invested in a park, community
house and amusement ground would
be a fitting climax to a long and suc-

cessful career as a merchant, lumber-

man, timber operator and farmer, and
I hope to see Mr. Morley avail him-
self of this opportunity to perpetuate
fame in the village
where he has resided for the past
fifty years. Nothing he could do
would enable him to accomplish this
result more effectually and more per-
manently than the plan I have sug-
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Quality

Quality in printing is just as easily recognized
and as thoroughly appreciated as Quality in
clothing. The appreciation of Quality in print-
ing is not a rare thing, confined to a few con-
noisseurs. It is present in every executive’s mind.
Good Quality is not a thing to be envied in
somebody else’s printed matter. It is a thing
that can be bought if only the buyer will buy
properly.

Business leaders recognize the difficulty of
building good will or prestige—it is the result
of years of patient, loyal effort. They will do
everything within reason to protect this valuable
asset. And the best measure of their ability lies
in the success of their efforts. Why the unneces-
sary risk of committing the fortunes of a house
to printing of low quality?

A fraction of a cent “saved” on a letter-head
may prove to be costly economy. A contract or
commercial form that belies the financial sound-
ness of its sponsor is a liability no matter how
low the cost. A shoddy circular can shake the
confidence of a powerful patron. Salesmen
(good salesmen) have been hampered by un-
representative advance-matter.

A plea for Quality is not a cloak for extrav-
agance. On the part of the printer, Quality is
a matter of knowing how. On the part of the
buyer, Quality is a matter of considering the
work expected of his printing. Printing is not a
commodity; it is a professional service. Quality
in printing results from recognizing fitness,
utility.

But the question is—how to secure Quality?

For the buyer located in or near Grand Rapids
this is a comparatively simple matter.

Years of experience (in this, the great market-
place for Quality in all things) have taught our
printing executives how to measure every job
for Quality; to
make the fin-
ished product do
the work expect-
ed of it. They
know from their
contact with every type of business how to
balance Quality against extravagance.

After all, our printers are serving the buyer in
the way he wants to be served. If he requires
Quality— an economy, not an extravagance—
our representatives are ready and waiting to
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November 11, 1925

stimulate the agricultural and stock
raising interests of Northern Kent
county and has made his influence felt
along reforestation lines. He is now
77 years old, with every prospect of
being able to round out a century of
good deeds and generous impulses.
With the practical turn of mind which
has distinguished his long and useful
career he could carry out the plan
outlined with very little personal ef-
fort of an exacting character and with
scarcely a dent on his princely for-
tune. E. A Stowe.
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Liberty and Law Go Hand in Hand.

Grandville, Nov. 10—Religion and
politics do not mix very satisfactorily.

Some recent city elections have pro-
nounced unmistakably against any
commingling of the two.

At Detroit a_ secret organization
sought to impose a fanatical mayor on
the city and signally failed, for which
all true patriots will be pleased.

Race prejudice is bad enough, but
religious contention at the polls will
not be countenanced in this country
any great length of time, since it
smacks of an intolerance which is in
direct antagonism with the constitu-
tional rights of all Americans.

Fortunately the American Govern-
men was founded on perfect religious
freedom, and the bringing of religious
questions into the political field is con-
trary to the very foundation stone of
the Republic.

Once in New York State many
years ago a secret society was inter-
ested in politics; in fact, a party was
formed to carry out the behests of this
order. The party was short lived, as
will be the one of modern days which
places its trust in hooded night riders,
tar and feathers.

Freedom of thought, freedom of
every religious denomination to wor-
ship according to the dictates of -on-
science, is a fundamental principle of
this republic, and people will not
countenance interference with govern-
mental affairs by cliques or clans of
whatever kind.

The idea of making religion av”
race a matter for political preferment
was supposed to have passed away
soon after the days of slavery, but it
seems there are always some who
think they have a divine right to all
the good things in life, and that others,
however patriotic, shall be ostracised
and cast out of favor in the govern-
ment.

The electors of the goodly city of
Detroit stamped an emphatic disap-
proval of all such high and mighty
pretentions. If the hooded riders by
night have learned a lesson, well and
good. Should this un-American or-
ganization still persist in unlawful
dealings with their fellow citizens, the
American people will arise in their
night and stamp it out of existence, as
one would kill a rattlesnake that had
crawled into the family living room.

There is not room in America for
night riders ~ho have taken the law
into their hands and who sit in judg-
ment on the lives of their neighbors.

Parties in general have dallied very
gingerly with secret organizations, and
there is to come in the near future
more emphatic disapproval than in the
past. In this country such an organ-
ization is wholly out of place. Per-
haps in darkest Russia it might find
lodgment and continued existence, but
not here in free America.

Government has no right to inter-
fere with a man’s religion. How much
less, then, has a secret organization to
stamp its disapproval on the spiritual
beliefs of mankind?

A man’s religion is his whole being
as identified in a spiritual desire to
meet his obligations to his God. Many
wars in the past were founded on re-
ligious intolerance. One would think

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

that in the United States there could
be no room for even the smallest fac-
tion that would favor treading on the
most holy beliefs of his neighbors.

In coming together for secret plot-
ting against other religions than his
own a man takes into his keeping that
which is sure to bring unrest and sure
disaster.

The dearest right man has is to
worship God according to his con-
science. Any attempt to nullify that
right leads to despotism and an intol-
erance that will be sure to rebound
upon the instigators in a manner suffi-
ciently drastic to have lasting effect.

Sporadic assaults on the rights of
man in this Republic have often re-
acted to the discomfort of the unre-
publican agitators, so that to date no
really noteworthy assault on human
rights within the states has succeeded.

Man’s liberty to worship according
to his spiritual capacity will continue
while the Republic exists. When that
liberty is destroyed, from whatever
source, that hour will sound the death
knell of the great Nation founded by
Washington and saved by Lincoln. We
are not nearing that point to-day. The
intelligent voters of the Nation cannot
be hoodwinked into accepting hooded
secret societies as the masters of our
great country. The spirits of our hon-
ored forefathers forbid. (

Religion and the ballot go hand in
hand, each equally free and unafraid,
each for the right, each the fullest
manifestation of the great and glorious
man and womanhood of the greatest
Nation on earth.

Freedom of religion; freedom of the
ballot.

Religious liberty has been proclaimed
and too long maintained, to be strick-
en down now by any number of organ-
izations whose mission in the world is
to seek the overthrow of man’s rights
by midnight whippings, tar and
feathers and other dastard and coward-
ly crimes.

Free Americans will not long stand
for such doings under the light of the
stars, both in the sky and on the flag.

Recent elections point the way out
from under the late nightmare of ter-
rorism which has so recently disgraced
the annals of our peaceful and law re-
specting communities.

Old Timer.
—_2++2.—___
Sunflowers To Furnish Feed For
Canadian Cows.

Calgery, Alta., Nov. 6—Canada, per-
haps, has solved the dairying problem
for that country. The problem, owing
to the short Summer season and the
long Winter, has been to produce
enough feed of what is classed rough-
age to carry a herd of dairy cows
through the Winter Late frosts in the
Spring and early frosts in the Fall gen-
erally catch corn going and coming.
Experimenting with sunflowers, how-
ever, has brought better results. The
Canadian Agricultura! Department,
after much experimenting, assures
farmers that 20 to 25 tons of sun-
flower ensilage can be grown Ona
single acre of ground and that it is
sufficiently rich in protein to make a
first-class feed. Alberta district is now
attempting to build up the dairy in-
dustry under the stimulus of the sun-
flower experiment. The long season
of feeding, however, may make dairy-
ing unprofitable except for domestic
use.

—_t+ s__—_

An Unfortunate Analogy.
Undertaker: You made a bad break
in your funeral ovation when you said
Flaherty would carry on his life work
in another world.

Minister: That’s what I always say.
What was wrong with it this time?

Undertaker: Flaherty was a fire-
man at the coke plant.

 

 

 

 

 

Canned Foods Week
November 9—21, 1925

In making up your purchases
for Canned Foods Week, do
not overlook the line of
goods which are never han-
dled by chain stores or mail
order houses, because they
are sold exclusively to inde-

pendent grocers.

We refer of course to the

famous QUAKER BRAND
FOOD PRODUCTS, which
includes a large number of

items of canned goods.

The QUAKER label is
placed on goods only after
they have had a thorough
test and are, in the minds of
our most competent buyers,
the best goods that can be
produced of their kind.

We believe you can _ use

QUAKER CANNED
GOODS during Canned
Foods Week to splendid ad-
vantage in building some
additional business and mak-
ing more satisfied customers

for your store.

\WoRDEN GROCER COMPANY
Wholesalers for Fifty-seven Years

 

The Prompt Shippers

 

 

 

 

 

4

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Menominee—The Menominee Oil
Co. has increased its capital stock from
$15,000 to $25,000.

Detroit—The Phillips Shoe Co. suc-
ceeds the Hack Shoe Co. in business at
5203 Hastings street.

Lansing—Floyd L. Crego succeeds
Ralph Crego in the grocery business
at 1026 West Allegan street.

Detroit— The Greenfield Avenue
Lumber Co., 2422 First National Bank
building, has increased its capital stock
from $50,000 to $100,000.

Cadillac—The Olander & Osterberg
general stock has been purchased by
Henry Jaffee, of Boyne City, for $9,-
300. The stock inventoried about $17,-
000.

Lansing —The Michigan Sample
Furniture Co., recently organized, has
engaged in 305-7. East
Michigan avenue under the manage-
ment of Thomas Inglis.

Grand Rapids—John Borgman, who
conducts three grocery stores on West
Leonard street—408, 818 and 1210—
opened a fourth store at 1412 Plain-
field avenue last Saturday.

Greenville—The Greenville Co-Op-
erative Association has been incorpor-
ated with an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, of which amount $9,560 has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Pontiac—The Hess Dry Goods Co.,
37 North Saginaw street, has been
incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $12,000 common and $23,-
000 preferred, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Store at Your Door
Co., 6501 Mack avenue, has been in-
corporated with an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in, $3,400 in cash
and $6,600 in property.

Homer— The Durbin-Rademacher
Co.. Ltd., has been incorporated to
deal in automobiles and allied lines.
with an authorized capital stock of
$12.000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Chloronado Labora-
tories, 439 North Fourth street, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $1,000 common and
20,000 shares at $1 per share, of which
amount $2,835 has been subscribed and

business at

paid in in cash.

Lansing — Alvin S. Potter and
Charles Updyke have formed a co-
partnership and engaged in the whole-
sale and retail coffee and tea business
at 326 North Washington avenue, un-
der the style of the Coffee Market.

Grand Rapids—Arie Donker, who
has been city salesman for the past
ten years for the Worden Grocer Co.,
has arranged to open a tea and coffee
store at 1375 Plainfield avenue. His
successor with the Worden house is
Frank Morse.

Jackson—The Lambert Chocolate
Co, 1508 Francis street, has been in-
corporated to conduct a wholesale and
retail confectionery business, with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed and $5,-
000 paid in in cash.

Conklin—The R. H. Smith Co. has
executed a trust chattel mortgage to
Frank J. Martin, trustee, for the bene-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

fit of all creditors, without preference.
The principal creditors are Burnham,
Stoepel & Co., Judson Grocer Co. and
the Conklin State Bank.

Grand Rapids—The W. J. Nutter
Sales Corporation, Klingman Bldg.,
has been incorporated to deal in furni-
ture and advertising specialties, etc.,
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, $1,000 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—Luby’s Clothes Shop, 9741
Jos. Campau avenue, has merged its
business into a stock company under
the style of the Luby Clothing Co.,
with an authorized capital stock of
$30,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and $14,000 paid in in prop-
erty.

Detroit—Clarke A. Duncombe has
merged his business into a stock com-
pany under the style of the Duncombe
Drug Co., 10744 East Warren avenue,
with an authorized capital stock of
$5,000, all of which has been subscribed
and paid in, $20 in cash and $4,980 in
property.

Houghton—Tom Dayer has merged
his retail shoe business into a stock
company under the style of Tom Day-
er, Inc., Foley Bldg., with an author-
ized capital stock of $10,000, of which
amount $6,500 has been subscribed and
paid in, $2,500 in cash and $4,000 in
property.

Wyandotte—The Quality Motor
Sales, 192 Oak street, has merged its
automobiles, trucks, parts and acces-
sories business into a stock company
under the same style, with an author-
ized capital stock of $25,000, all of
which has been subscribed and $4,300
paid in in property.

Detroit—White & Blackmore, 3120
Grand River avenue, has been incor-
porated to deal in motor vehicles,
parts and accessories and to conduct
a service garage, with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000, of which
amount $9,000 has been subscribed
and $6,500 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Briggs Parker Co., 33
Cadillac Square, has been incorporat-
ed for the distribution of food prod-
ucts, with an authorized capital stock
of $25,000 preferred and 15,000 shares
at $1 per share, of which amount $5,000
and 1,000 shares has been subscribed
and $5,000 paid in in cash.

Grand Rapids—The Drake market
grocery stock and fixtures, 751 Weal-
thy street, have been purchased by
Benson Doolittle, who will continue
the business at the same location. The
stock inventoried about $4,000 and the
fixtures were appraised at $2,500. The
purchaser paid $5,000 for both.

Howard City—H. M. Gibbs, who
has conducted a drug store here in the
same location for thirty-five years, and
who has accumulated a comfortable
fortune in the meantime, finds himself
forced to retire from business on ac-
count of the ill health of his wife—a
remarkable opening for a capable
druggist.

Saginaw—Charles A. Pierson has
merged his jewelry business into a
stock company under the style of the
Jewel Box, 322 Genesee avenue, to
manufacture and sell jewelry, clocks.
etc., with an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, all of which has been sub-

scribed and paid in, $200 in cash and
$9,800 in property.

Grand Rapids—The Dent Chemcial
Co., 45 South Division avenue has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the style of The Oriental
Perfume Cabinet Co. to manufacture
and sell automatic vending machines
for perfume, deal in perfume and other
articles, with an authorized capital
stock of $15,000, $10,000 of which has
been subscribed and paid in, $5,000 in
cash and $5,000 in property.

Mancelona—The Clugg & Schroeder
general stock and store building have
been sold to James H. Fox, of Grand
Rapids, and D. H. Hunter, of Rock-
ford, who will continue the business
under the management of the latter.
The stock, inventoried at $7,800, sold
for $4,800. The store building which
cost $4,000. sold for $3000. The book
accounts which aggregate $2,300, are
now being collected. The creditors
will probably receive about 40 cents
on the dollar.

Mount Pleasant—H. G. Gover and
N. D. Gover, of this city, have formed
a co-partnership and entered into the
wholesale field under the style of
Govers’ Central Supply Co. School
supplies, athletic equipment, paper,
overalls, shirts, gloves, woodenware,
crockery and lines usually sold in con-
nection are carried. They are repre-
sented on the road by C. N. Pierpont,
H. F. Snelenberger and Joe Cook.
Both of the brothers are well a~quaint-
ed with the business, as they come
from a family of merchants. ‘Their
father, G. H. Gover, was one of the
early subscribers to the Tradesman.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Peter Markey Cor-
poration, 3651 Hart avenue, has chang-
ed its name to the General Aluminum
& Brass Co.

Detroit—The Hanson Tool & Die
Co, 5736 12th street, has changed its
name to the Midwest Tool & Manufac-
turing Co. and increased its capital
stock from $10,000 to $60,000.

Detroit—The Vitalac Corporation.
1211 25th street, has been incorporated
for the manufacture of cheese and li-
censing of formula, with an authorized
capital stock of $10,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in, $500
in cash and $9,500 in property.

Howell—The Bruce Products Cor-
poration, maker of cleaning and polish-
ing materials, has bought the Borden
Condensed Milk plant here and will
start operations with about forty em-
ployes. The company is moving its
Detroit plant to Howell and expects
to be manufacturing by Nov. 16.

Birmingham — The _ Bloomfield
Plumbing & Engineering Co., 129
West Maple avenue, has been incor-
porated with an authorized| capital
stock of $10,000 preferred and 5,000
shares at $5 per care, of which
amount $10,000 and 5,000 shares has
been subscribed and $15,000 paid in
in cash.

—>-2.—_
Good Business To Amply Cover Trade
Requirements.
Written for the Tradesman.

Just prior to and at harvest time in

the winter wheat section of the United

November 11, 1925

States reports of the production of
wheat were rather unfavorable for a
large crop and gradually they became
more so. This, naturally, resulted in
quite an advance in the price of wheat.
Then, about the time of the spring
wheat harvest in Canada reports be-
came more favorable, indicating a
larger crop of wheat had been raised
in the United States than earlier esti-
mates indicated and that Canada would
produce a bumper crop. These more
favorable crop reports were followed
by a statement of world crop condi-
tions, indicating the total world crop
this year is nearly 10 per cent. greater
than a year ago and about 7 per cent.
larger than the five year average.

These reports of increased yield nat-
urally had the effect of causing a ma-
terial reduction in the price of wheat.

Of late reports are not as favorable
as to yield, many claiming the wheat
crop had been largely over estimated,
that Russia has not produced any-
where near as much wheat as claimed:
that the very unfavorable weather in
Canada has retarded threshing to such
an extent that much of the wheat can-
not be moved to market prior to the
close of navigation and that as a con-
sequence we may look, for firm prices.
at least until next March.

The price of wheat during the past
month has reacted to this sort of a
condition, although price fluctuations
have been held within a very narrow
range.

It is possible to figure out about any
kind of a proposition desired by the
man using the pencil. Those who are
long of wheat and are desirous of see-
ing higher markets to realize profits
on their investment can show why
prices should go higher, while thos:
who are pl2ying even or are short of
wheat or flour have a very definite idea
as to why prices should be lower, cer-
tainly not any higher.

While there is opposition to specu-
lation in wheat, there is an inherent
trait that all humans possess and that
is to buy at a low price and sell at a
high one. In other words, the in-
centive to transact business is profi’
and always will be and it is not mater-
ial whether the commodity be real es
tate, stocks and bonds or grain, and
while extreme speculation in any line
is injurious and improper, anticipation
of profit in a normal way is to be ex-
pected and perfectly natural and prop-
er. Consequently, we have these two
forces to consider in the buying and
selling of grain and grain products.

We believe the average flour buyer
and those who purchase grain for mer-
chandising purposes rather than spec-
ulation feel the present price level is
high enough, all conditions considered,
and are making their purchases ac-
cordingly. This appears to be a wise
policy and with a comparatively high
price level in force, we favor it.

It is good business to amply cover
trade requirements under normal con-
ditions; the present situation is no ex-
ception. Generally speaking, it is a
safe rule not to buy heavily for future
delivery from a speculative standpoint
during an era of comparatively high
prices. Llovd E. Smith.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 11, 1925

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

5

 

Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—The market is lower than a
week ago. Local jobbers hold granu-
lated at 5.70c.

Tea—The market has had a very
firm week. Business of the week has
been interfered with somewhat by the
holiday, but this caused no recession
anywhere in the price list. All fer-
mented teas, meaning Ceylons, Indians
and Javas, are particularly firm and
show a strong upward tendency. Prices
are firm in primary markets and also
firm by fluctuation in the markets of
this country. No immediate advance
occurred anywhere in tea in this coun-
try during the week, but the primary
markets are advancing.

Coffee—Prices on Brazilians are
somewhat easier. All other grades re-
main rather firm. Buyers report little
change on the Brazilian markets, and
the quiet of more than a week ago
is attributed to the lack of demand
on local market. It was predicted
then that active buying on a large
scale would revive the market—and
this proved true. During the past
week or more the coffee market has
been very active, with a general buy-
ing movement for both European
and local accounts. This led to an
almost immediate advance of more
than le per pound, which may be
more by the time. this reaches our
readers. Wholesalers urge carrying
good _ stocks.

The most potent factor to develop
a healthy market is at work in the
canned food, dried fruit and nut divi-
sions of grocery products—an increas-
ed movement toward the consumer.
{n canned foods the retail demand has
been speeded up by some of the most
attractive prices on many staples to
be made by grocers in several years,
while Canned Foods Week tends to
center interest on all packs and start
buying on a wide scale. What Can-
ned Foods Week is doing for that
product the holidays are performing
the same service to nuts. This is one
of the big weeks of the year in nuts
for carload distribution to interior
markets. Cool weather, combined with
reasonable consumer prices. have been
the stimulant in dried fruit distribu-
tion.

Altogether the past week registered
a distinct advance in the movement of
all staples and the increased turnover
increases the optimism of holders ar
to the complete liquidation of existing
stocks before another season’s harvest
is available. There are some weak
spots, of course, but from the stand-
point of the wholesale grocer the out-
look is favorable, as there is every in-
dication of a continued free movement
all season. The distributor also is not
overstocked with high priced mer-
chandise. He is in a position to make
favorable replacements and quick turn-
overs.

There is no doubt but what canned
vegetables will establish new records
of distribution this season as new pack
began its journey to the consumer, in
some commodities at least, while the
canning season was actually under
way. There was no warehousing, all

be wondered at.

of the production to wait until carry-
over was out of the road, while the
consumer demand for 1925 vegetables
set in at top speed because the grocer
attached price tags to all packs which
made them popular. What is happen-
ing in vegetables is not anything to
It is merely the natu-
ral outcome of certain factors which
have frequently been encountered.

No further back than last summer
when canners slashed prices on carry-
over Hawiian pineapple there was a
parallel case. The pessimistic saw no
future for pineapple as a big pack was
in sight and there seemed to be an
unwieldy carryover. The lower whole-
sale costs were quickly repeated at re-
tail and a movement was started which
has gained such momentum that spot
supplies have proved insufficient and
goods intended for later shipment have
been rushed forward. The big pack
was big only as compared with former
years, but not large compared with
consumption.

In a measure what has happened in
pineapple is expected in major vege-
tables and in some of the minor packs.
The demand has been started at retail
and will undoubtedly be increased by
Canned Foods Week now under way.

Dried Fruits—The raisin market
is particularly firm. Package goods
of all brands are closely sold up, and
as moderate shipments are in sight
there is no prospect of any surplus
on the spot for some time to come.
Coast markets are firm and advanc-
ing on Muscats more than on Thomp-
sons, but the strength of the former
is felt in the latter. Coast peaches
and apricots are virtually out of first
hands. With a long distributing sea-
son ahead there is already a demand
for resale blocks. Both fruits are on
the upgrade as to values. Spot
prunes are doing better and quota-
tions in California and Oregon packs
during the week have hardened in all
sizes available. Carryover is being
exhausted and new crop is taking
its place. The better situation has
not been in existence long enough to
induce coast buying.

Nuts—The demand for nuts in the
shell for Thanksgiving outlets result-
ed in a heavier carload and 1. c. 1.
business last week than in any
previous period in many months. De-
ferred buying occurred for straight
cars of the various varieties, for as-
sortments and for mixed nuts. The
market was not speculative and job-
bers are not overbuying, but sheer
necessity is forcing them to give at-
tention to actual needs. Those who
were waiting until spot stocks in-
creased are now covering. Strength
prevails in almonds and filberts, while
walnuts are steady. Brazils were
unsettled by a cut of 4c made by one
of the principal holders. This tend-
ed to stop buying for the moment to
see what competitors would do.
Shelled almonds are being delivered
short by some foreign shellers who
claim that they have been unable to
get nuts from growers. The short
deliveries of California unshelled al-
monds indicate a shortage in nut

meats also and little is available from
first hands.

Seeds and Spices—Cloves are scarce
but with no change to report in for-
eign markets.
lively enquiry, with about the smallest
spot supply with which this market
has ever faced its winter needs. Ar-
rivals of celery seed and the absence

Mace is in a fairly

‘of any important buying movement

has tended to ease the situation.

Molasses—With lower prices on new
crop New Orleans molasses in view,
consumers appear to be most conserva-
tive in their purchases. Offers of black-
strap are more numerous and prices
for large quantities accompanied with
firm bids are being shaded.

Salt Fish—The
is about unchanged for the week, and
the demand light.
There is no particular reason to an-
ticipate one’s wants in mackerel.
Plenty of shore fish are being caught
and are selling at very moderate prices.
No change has occurred in Irish or
Norway mackerel, which are compara-
tively scarce in this country.

mackerel situation

is comparatively

Beans and Peas—The demand for
dried beans is light and prices through-
out the entire list are barely steady.
No immediate change has occurred
during the week. Dried peas are also
unchanged and dull.

Cheese—The market has had a
steady week and a moderate demand,
but no change in prices.

Provisions—There has been no
change anywhere in any variety of hog
or beef products since the last report.
The demand is slow. Lard is report-
ed to be firmer in the West.

—_22>—__

Review of the Produce Market.

Apples — Baldwin, 75@85c; Tal-
man Sweets, 90c; Spys and Kings,
$1@1.50; Jonathans and McIntosh,
$1.50.

Bagas—$2 per 100 Ibs.

Bananas—$6@6%4c per Ib.

Beans—Michigan jobbers are quot-
ing new crop as follows:

@ @ Pea Beans —--_____-__- $ 5.30
Light Red Kidney ------------ 10.50
Dark Red Kidney ------------ 9.50
Brown Swede ---------------- 7.50

Butter—The market is steady. Lo-
cal jobbers hold June packed cream-
ery at 46c, fresh creamery at 49c and
prints at 50c. The pay 25c for pack-
ing stock.

Cabbage—85c per bu.

California Fruits—Honey Dew Mel-
ons, $3.50 per crate of 8s. Climax
Plums, $2.50 per 6 basket crate; Santa
Rosa Plums, $2.50 per 6 basket crate;
Pears, $4.50 per crate.

Carrots—90c per bu.

Cauliflower—$2 per doz. heads.

Celery—25c for Jumbo, 40c for Ex-
tra Jumbo and 50c for Mammoth.
Frosts and unfavorable weather have
seriously injured the crop.

Cranberries—Late Howes are now
in market. commanding $8.25 per 50
Ib. box.

Eggs—Fine fresh eggs have contin-
ued quite scarce, with an advancing
tendency on the best grade. There
have been a number of advances dur-
ing the week. probably aggregating
3c dozen. There is some demand for

storage eggs, which rule steady. Lo-
cal jobbers pay 48c for strictly fresh,
selling as follows:

Presh Candied _... =... Sie
MM 40c
Mo 36¢
Checks 20.4 33¢

Egg Plant—$1.25 per doz.

Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

Grapes—California Emperors, $2.50
per crate.

Honey—25c for comb; 25c¢ for
strained.

Lemons—Quotations are now as fol-

lows:

S00; Sanlast .-_..- 5. $9.00
360 Red Ball 2 00 8.00
300 Red Ball _. 2.5 8.00

Lettuce—In good demand on_ the
following basis:
California Iceberg, 4s and 4%s $4.50
Bot house feat. 2 18¢
Onions—Spanish, $2 per crate of
50s or 72s; Michigan. $3 per 100 Ib.
sack.

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist Arizona
Navals are now on the following basis:
76 $ 9.00
1S) 10.50
176 10.50
200 92 10.50
2) 6 ee 10.50
257 ee ee 10.50
OBR 9.50
A 9.00

Floridas are beginning to come. They
are sold on about the same basis.

Parsley—90c per doz. bunches for
jumbo.

Pears—Anjou, $2.25 per bu.; Kiefers,
$1 per bu.

Peppers—Green, $1 per bu.

Potatoes—Buyers are paying $1.50
@1.60 per bu. Market easier, al-
though the trade is looking for higher
prices later on.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows this week:

Heavy fowls 6. 2-9) Zle
Bight fowls 2.2.00). 13c
Springers, 3 ibs. and up __-____- 19¢
Broilers, 13% Ib. to 2. 1b. __---2_- 18c
Turkeys (fancy) young __..---- 33e
Terkeys (Old) Toms) —-_.___--_- 28c
Ducks €White Pekins) __-_.... 2Ze
Geese 2 ee 17¢

Squash—Hubbard. $2@2.25 per 100
Ib.
Sweet Potatoes—Virginia kiln dried
Sweets, $2.25 per hamper.

Tomatoes—California, $1 per 6 Ib.
basket.

Veal Calves—Wilson & Co. pay as
follows:

Raney (20 ee 14¢
Good ee 12c
Medium 2200 10c
Poor 920 8c

Alpena—The Walker Veneer & Box
Co. has been organized by Thomas L.
Handy, Hiram Handy and Roy L.
Brown, and has been incorporated for
$75,000, to manufacture veneer, boxes,
excelsior, etc. The new company has
acquired the Walker Veneer Works
here and will begin operations within
sixty days. The new company will
represent an investment of $150,000 in
plant and stock.

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IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

 

Cheats and Frauds Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

When the warned its
readers against having any dealings
with the All-Rodded State Mutual In-
surance Co. some years ago an official
called at the office and undertook to
make a good sized advertising contract
conditional on

Tradesman

with the Tradesman
there being no further publicity of an
Of course, his
whereupon

unfavorable character.
proposition was rejected,
he promised dire revenge on the
Tradesman, which resulted as all
threats of that sort do. The next week
the warning was repeated. Then the
local director of the concern called at
the office and threatened to resort to
bodily if the campaign the
Tradesman had started was not dis-
The next week the charges
were again re-
Finding

injury

continued.
against the concern
peated in black face type.
the name a most unpopular one, as a
result of the Tradesman’s
posures, the concern was
from Flint to Lansing and the name
changed to the Capitol Mutual Fire
Insurance Co., Ltd. The change in
name and location did not carry with
it any revision of the methods which
the Tradesman had condemned and
our readers were again advised to
have no dealings with the organization.
As the logical result of these warnings
and the inherent dishonesty of some of
the men connected with the ccncern
in an official capacity, the company
was soon placed in the hands of a re-
ceiver, who is now undertaking to
collect $14 per $1,000 insurance to
meet unpaid losses and expenses of
over $43,000 when the company went

usually the

repeated ex-
removed

into
case, the innocent are made to suffer,
while the men who waxed fat on their
stealings from the company go Scott
free, due to the laxity of our laws and
the inactivity of officials wlio are en-
trusted with the execution of the laws.

liquidation. As _ is

Detroit, Nov. 7—Per your s:1gges-
tion in the Sept. 23 issue of the Michi-

gan Tradesman, I beg leave to state
that Frank M. Jacobs, Monument Sq.
Bldg., Grand Rapids, has sent me six
handkerchiefs which I did not order,
asking me to remit $1 or return the

handkehcirefs. I have returned the
handkerchiefs. Dr. F. V. Auberle.
The International Redemption Bu-

reau of Detroit was a mail order enter-
prise apparently conducted by i,
Ashley. There appears to have been
an intimate connection with the Gar-
rick Press, Detroit, both of which con-
cerns left Detroit recently without
leaving any forwarding order.
Complaint was made to the Trades-
man several months ago, alleging that
a representative of the subject com-
pany called at her place of business in
January, and secured her order for a
premium outfit including tickets, prem-
iums and literature. A check for $25
was given the agent, Wm. Stuffy, to
bind the order. No acknowledgment
of the order was ever received and let-
ters sent to the Detroit address were
never answered. An investigation was

started by the post office inspectors,

MICHIGAN

but the promoters disappeared leaving
no trace of their whereabouts.

A Monroe merchant reported to the
Tradesman that the general sales man-
ager of the Wovenright Knitting Mills,
Cleveland, Ohio, visited his place of
business recently and tried to sell him
stated
were made of silk and cashmere. The
merchant informed him that there was
no silk in his merchandise, whereupon

some men’s socks, which he

the salesman admitted that it was ray-
on, but added “the average buyer
doesn’t know the difference.” We
feel certain that this salesman does
not know whereof he speaks if he is
referring to the rank and file of mer-
cantile buyers. '

This report was transmitted to the
Wovenright Knitting Mills through
the Cleveland Better Business Com-
mission, but they have not seen fit to
indicate whether or not this mislead-
ing bit of sales talk on the part of
their representative will be eliminated
in the future.

W. H. Eby, representing the Du-
volla Radio Co., 160 North LaSalle
St., Chicago, is canvassing Michigan
automobile dealers proposi-
tion, which is somewhat novel. The
company undertakes to sell a quantity
of radio money to an automobile dealer
at $6 per thousand. To purchasers of
second hand cars the dealer gives an
amount of radio money equivalent to
the down payment on the car. This
radio money is redeemable on the pur-
chase of a radio outfit from the Du-
volla Radio Co., or its authorized deal-
er. For instance, if a purchaser of a
used car pays $100 down he gets $100
in radio money, which he can turn in
to the extent of $100 actual cash on
the purchase of a radio of an alleged
value of $200.

Information is on file at this office
concerning this company, which is
free for the asking.

with his

Enquiries have been received re-
cently by Michigan people who have
received literature from the Needle-
craft Manufacturing Co., Maspeth,
Long Island, in regard to home work
sewing neckties. Advertisements which
have been released through the news-
papers read somewhat as follows:
“Ladies wanted for sewing ties.
Steady, pleasant work. We furnish
sample, and all material ready cut to
sew with instructions. Good pay.
Send two cent stamp for particulars.”
Investigation discloses that the ap-
plicants must send a remittance for an
outfit, the amount of which depends
upon the type of work they desire to
obtain. Information as to the stand-
ing of the company has been solicited
from several sources without success.

In an order issued by the Federal
Trade Commission, L. Shapiro & Sons,
a clothing manufacturer of Baltimore,
Maryland, is required to cease and de-
sist from representing in any manner
to the trade or purchasing public that
cloth or clothing offered for sale or
sold by them is all wool, or wool, or
otherwise suggesting that such cloth

TRADESMAN

or clothing is composed wholly of
wool, when in fact it is not.

The Commission found that the re-
spondents advertised by means of cir-
culars that the garments which they
were prepared to furnish were made
All Wool Fabric,” the truth,
however, that the cloth was in pro-
portions of 35 per cent. cotton and 65
per cent. wool. The findings also state
that the respondents upon being ad-
government investigation

from an‘

vised of
ceased from sending any more of such
advertising circulars, and did not
thereafter ship any more clothing so-

the advertisements.

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November 11, 1925

The American Trust Co., of Battle
Creek, recently circularized Toledo
with literature pertaining to an “invest-
ment opportunity.” The booklet sent
contained a subscription blank.

Specimens of this literature were
forwarded to the Securities Division,
who took prompt action in notifying
the subject company that they were
violating the blue sky law of Ohio by
sending literature into that state for
the purpose of inducing the public to
buy their securities before they had
been properly licensed so to do. Any-
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company is requested to forward

same to this office.

There was a time when the word
“Goldfilled” applied to a watch, meant
anything, or nothing. While it was
accurately applied in some instances, it
was often so loosely used that public
confidence in the term showed a ten-
dency to waver.

To-day the situation is very differ-
ent. A majority of watch case manu-
facturers some time ago took part in
a trade practice submittal, before the
Federal Trade Commission and as a
result, definite minimum standards
were established which must be ad-
hered to if a watch is to be described
or stamped as “Gold-filled.” A vigor-
ous drive has been made by the in-
dustry, and it is fair to say that sub-
stantially all watches that are marked
“Gold-filled” by the manufacturers to-
day are correctly described. Most re-
putable retailers have applied the same
standards to their advertising. Some
short-sighted retailers, however, have
ignored the trend of the industry and
are still advertising as “Gold-filled”
watches whose cases are not what the
term indicates.

A definite good-will attaches to the
term “Gold-filled.” It can be increased
by the scrupulous application of this
term in advertising. It can be ma-
terially damaged by carelessness or by
misrepresentation. Readers of adver-
tising are urged to report to the
Tradesman or to the National Better
3usiness Bureau any and all instances
of advertising or selling as ‘“Gold-

 

 

filled” watches which do not in fact
measure up to the standards herein
described.

Upon receipt of a compaint from a
customer of the Bonded Aleather
Shoe Co., we undertook to communi-
cate with the local office only to find
that the manager had decamped. Noth-
ing of his whereabouts has been learn-
ed to date. We communicated with
the Milwaukee Better Business Bu-
reau asking them to check up the com-
plaint with the headquarters of the
Bonded Aleather Shoe Co., at Mil-
waukee. They report that the tele-
phone has been discontinued and the
office locked. Apparently they had not
been at. the Milwaukee address for
some time.

The complaining customer is still
waiting for her shoes and so far, is the
loser of some $5 or more. It is.a
typical illustration of the fly-by-night

“direct seller.”
—_—__»+>—___—_

The Boy Was Honest.

A man was giving a lecture on the
subject of “Honesty.”

He related that when a boy he saw
a cart laden with melons outside a
shop and nobody about. On the spur
of the moment he stole a melon and
departed into a passageway.

“I soon got my teeth into that mel-
on,” he said, “but instantly a queer
sensation assailed me, and a_ shiver
ran through me. My _ resolve was
taken at once. I went back to that
car. I replaced the melon (loud ap-
plause)—and took a ripe one!

White Strawberry Is Not Likely To
Become Popular.
Washington, Nov. 9—Have you ever
seen a white strawberry? There is a
variety that has delicate, creamy-white
berries growing among leaves of a
brighter, more waxy green than those
of the ordinary plant They are not
common, but can sometimes be found
growing wild. Gen. Lew Wallace, the
author of “Ben Hur,” cultivated white
strawberries in his garden and recent-
ly a man in Danvers, Mass., found a
bed of wild white berries and trans-
panted them successfully. The berries
have a delicious flavor, they are less
acidy than the common red berries,
and have a peculiar sweetness that re-
minds one of wild honey. They are
not likely to become commercially
popular, for they are too soft to pack
well and they lack the rosy color the
customer looks for in a ripe straw-

berry.
—_2+22—___

Raymond McCarl, Controller Gen-
eral of the United States, the Wash-
ington gentleman who has made him-
self conspicuous, notorious and prob-
ably very useful by stepping on the
expense account of almost everybody
employed by Uncle Sam, has encoun-
tered a snag in the shape of a decision
of the District of Columbia Court of
Appeals that he must cease being
judge, jury and executioner in the mat-
ter of the pay and allowances of offi-
The Court
declares “there can be no such auto-
crat” as Controller McCarl has been
for a long time past, to the utter con-
sternation of high placed Federal of-
ruled that nobody can “dock” any-
ficers as well as low. It is further

cers of the Government.

body’s pay in this glorious republic

but Congress. To all of which the
Controller has replied in effect. “Just
watch me and see if anybody stops
me!” The case must now go to the
Supreme Court which is the only au-
thority General McCarl says he will
obey. More than one hundred naval
officers are behind the suit to check
the Controller's pay-cutting proclivi-
ties.
——_. 2. —____

Fewer business failures in the United
States in October than in any previous
October since 1920 is Bradstreet’s cur-
rent report. As compared with last
year, they were 11 per cent. less in
number and 21 per cent. smaller in
the money total. The improved show-
ing was not sectional, either, but gen-
eral throughout the United States, with
the exception of New England, where
the percentages were slightly below the
average. The liabilities followed the
same diminishing curve also, except in
the Central West and South. A total
of 1408 business failures in the entire
country for the month does not have
a menacing look as viewed from the
standpoint of the more than 500,000
corporations doing business, besides
innumerable private firms and individ-
uals: and the $36,195,273 of liabilities
involved are negligible by comparison
with the total of business wealth. The
upward swing of the country’s ‘busi-
ness as a whole seems to be indicated
beyond question by such hopeful signs.

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shouldn’t they chew tobacco instead
of “chewing the rag?”

 

 

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CAN LEAD ONLY TO TROUBLE.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover has
reiterated the warning he sounded
three years ago against the growing
evil of international profiteering. The
example of Great Britain in controlling
the production and price of rubber
has been extended to more than a
dozen other staple commodities for
which American expend
annually, according to Mr. Hoover, the
considerable sum of $800,000,000.

The process by which semi-monop-
olistic prices are being imposed is only
too familiar. It is the same as that
prohibited in this country by the Sher-
man anti-trust legislation. The funda-
mental evil of it is that governments
are the sponsors and can be reached
only through the channels of inter-
national politics.

consumers

Secretary Hoover clearly points out
what such competition for monopoly
on the part of governments may lead
to. If the British government cannot
be reached on this rubber business, for
example, there is certain to be a grow-
ing demand for reprisals which may
be in our power. We might establish
control of production and price on oil,
cotton and copper. Only thus could
American consumers hope to get back
from the rest of the world an amount
compensating them for what is taken
from them.

The United States has no present
intention of instituting this sort of re-
prisal. And, as Mr. Hoover says, the
world will never go to war over the
price of anything. But the ill-feeling
engendered when the “higgling of
merchants” is “lifted to the plane of
international relations” can lead only
to trouble of the most serious signifi-
cance.

Secretary Hoover has properly is-
sued this informal warning to those
nations that are fostering this idea
of international profiteering. It is a
word to the pound-wise who are play-
ing with fiery particles.

 

THE COTTON SITUATION.

The trade has about made up its
mind that the crop will not vary much
from 15,000,000 bales, which is regard-
ed as ample for all needs. There has
recently been a revival of the agitation
against the frequency of the official
cotton crop reports, and a_ strong
movement appears to be on foot to-
ward doing away altogether with the
earlier season ones. But the last nam-
ed are merely tentative and are not
put out as being of a conclusive char-
acter. {While the cotton plant is still
growing, anything may happen to it.
Should early official reports be aban-
doned, the trade would have to fall
back on private ones. Those are never
gotten up with the care or thorough-
ness of the ones which the Govern-
ment issues, and they vary often to a
surprising extent. At times in the past
there has been the suspicion that some
of them were gotten up to rig the mar-
ket, something which has never been
charged to the official statements.
Prices during the week showed signs
of recovery from the lowest levels
reached. Cotton goods values are af-
fected by the uncertainties in the raw

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

material situation. Gray goods and
sheetings have gone down in price but
have apparently not yet reached points
of stability. There is a much larger
spread between prices of them and the
raw cotton than was the case a year
ago at this time. Mills, for the time
being, are showing a disposition to
contract for deliveries during the early
months of next year. A recent feature
has been the sale of large quantities of
fabrics for use in the automobile trade.
There has also been a good production
of heavy cottons. Distribution of cot-
ton fabrics in general is wide in scope
but in somewhat limited quantities. Im-
por's of cotton goods for the first nine
months of the year were only 86,066,-
000 square yards as against 129,272,000
in the same period last year. Knit
goods are still without special feature.
There are enough hosiery orders to
keep the mills busy this month and
next.

 

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS.

Retailers’ stocks are about as small
as safety will permit, and the advent
of colder weather has stimulated retail
sales in both seasonable and non-seas-
onable departments. Buying in the
flannel and blanket departments are
well diversified. Orders placed are
larger than in the preceding week.

A marked improvement is evident

in the sales of ready-made curtains,

both ruffled marquisettes and _ plain
voiles. Many orders, both for im-
media.e and future delivery, have been
pooked on novelty marquisette panels
in both cotton and rayon. The wanted
styles consist of stripes, blue, rose and
gold, also colored embroidered band-
ings with colored silk buliion fringe to
match the embroidery.

A large number of mail orders have
been received in the silk department.
calling mostly for crepe satins and chif-
fon velveis, also rayon and cotton
sport satins.

The last week has shown a great
demand for plaids, from part wool silk
overthread plaids up to fine imported
goods The demand to a great extent
is for lightweight fabrics. Reorders
are largely light-weight French flan-
nels. Brown shades, from tan to Afri-
can, are being asked for.

[he most prominent selling fabrics
in the lining department are plain sat-
eens in colors and fast black, and fancy
sateens in multi-colored discharge
printing. A large quantity of brocades
in sateens, tussahs and cotton warp
with tussah filled are also sold.

There is continued activity in per-
cales of all grades which are suitable
for making fancy aprons and novelties
for the holidays. The predominant
styles sold are white grounds with
small figures, staple stripes, etc. as
well as fancies in English printed ef-
fects. The demand for ginghams in
fancy styles is quite pronounced, and
cretonnes and challies are still wanted
in good quantities.

 

The goods on the top shelves are
not going to sell as fast as those on
the shelves within easy reach. The
way to speed up slow sellers is not
by putting them where they are hard
to get at.

CANNED FOODS WEEK.

Canned Foods Week is under way
under more favorable circumstances
than during any previous drive to in-
crease the consumer demand. In fact,
since new packs began to appear it has
been one succession of canned foods
weeks, as retailers have been constant-
ly adding to their stocks to bring them
back to normal and they have been
passing on to the consumer a wide
variety of products at popular prices.
With one or two exceptions, canned
foods are uniformly cheap at retail,
particularly so for vegetables, while
California fruits and Hawaiian pine-
apple, if not actually to be described
as “cheap,” are extremely reasonable.

A lot has been said this season about
big packs, but a big pack accompanied
by a big demand is no more a problem
for the distriyutor than a short pro-
duction and an equally curtailed move-
ment.

That distribution is extensive is tes-
tified to by any representative whole-
sale grocer. One of the largest says
that he is unable to tell just where he
stands as to his fruits. They are com-
ing in on contract and are going right
out in such volume that he is unable
to check up to find what he will need
later on. The pineapple scare of a
large carryover and a record pack has
been followed by a fear that existing
stocks after all will not be sufficient.
There is no weakness in the fruit men-
tioned, in the low, intermediate or
top grades. On the contrary, the lack
of adequate supplies later on is feared
more than anything else.

Everyone admits that vegetables
have been dirt cheap. They have been
squeezed so low by various depressing
factors that it would not be surpris-
ing to see that a turn would occur in
the only direction possible—upward.
What the major and some of the minor
vegetables need is an undercurrent of
confidence.

 

GOOD OUTLOOK FOR TOYS.

Toy manufacturers are busily en-
gaged in production to cover later de-
liveries for a year that has had sev-
eral outstanding features. Foremost
among them, it was pointed out re-
cently, has been the demand for dur-
able, well-built toys of a body and
mind developing nature. Accompany-
ing this there has been a broadening of
activity in several important divisions
of the trade and a diminution of for-

-eign competition that has received no

small degree of attention. Although
orders generally at this time are cred-
ited with being equal to those of last
year, the industry has nevertheless had
to grapple again with the problem of
small advance orders.

Generally speaking, manufacturers
were disappointed with the orders
placed at the annual toy fair early in
the year. There was a sharp pickup
between July 15 and Sept. 15. At pres-
ent late orders are going in and the
expectation is that a considerable vol-
ume of business is yet to come from
retailers, as many stores have not cov-
ered their requirements. These late
orders place a great burden on the
trade to make prompt deliveries. Man-
ufacturers, factory agents and jobbing

November 11, 1925

houses have made arrangements to
meet the deferred demand as far as
possible. The prediction is that the
stores will have an extremely good
season.

——E—

THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

Confidence in the immediate future
of business in general is increasing as
the sequel to enlarged buying by con-
sumers, Retail trade continues to pick
up in practically all lines, and particu-
larly in apparel and household furnish-
ings. There has likewise already been
quite a share of holiday and gift pur-
chases, which are not expected to reach
their peak for a number of weeks to
come. The conditions are fairly well
reflected in the repeated visits to mar
ket of buyers. None of them is doing
more than attempting to provide for
immediate wants, Dut these are sui
ficiently numerous to call for large
quantities of merchandise of divers
kinds. The buying continues close be
cause so many concerns still continue
to stress price as the main incentive to
their customers, but there remains a
fair sprinkling of those who wish to
cater to the trade that insists on qual-
ity as a prerequisite. And both kinds
of buyers are finding what each de-
sires. Primary markets reflect the
conditions elsewhere existent, with the
exception that, in certain merchandise,
there has not yet been a readjustment
of values to correspond with the
changes in raw material costs. But
trading continues in fair volume and
prodtction has been somewhat speed-
ed to conform with demands for the
specialties that are in greatest request.
The outlook ahead as far as next
spring is regarded as much more fav-
orable than was the case a year ago.

 

 

 

WOOL AND WOOLENS.

Not much activity is shown in wool
markets either here or abroad, but
prices have shown a slightly firmer
tendency. No great advance is con-
sidered likely in view of the large sup-
plies available. It is stated that the
Australian surplus of 500,000 bales car-
ried over into this season was mostly
sold to the French, who also later
were good purchasers at the London
Stocks of wool in bonded ware-
houses here have lately been decreased
py withdrawals of combing wools. At
the end of September, however, there
still remained nearly 107,000,000 pounds
of all sorts. During that month the
consumption of wool in domestic mills
reporting was 37,853,000 pounds as
against 39,545,000 pounds in Septem-
ber, 1924. A fair amount of business
is passing on Spring fabrics, and man-
ufacturing clothiers are somewhat en-
couraged by the orders coming in for
that season. The sales of overcoats,
which are about drawing to a close,
have been very successful, due, it is
said, to the fact that care was taken
not to produce an oversupply. In
women’s wear the sports fabrics have
been taking well with purchasers.
Spring lines are still being ordered
tentatively, but the indications point

sales.

to a good season. some of the success
of which will be due to the fine styling
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November 11, 1925

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

WORTHY WOMAN.

 

Appreciation of the Life of Mrs.
Thomas D. Gilbert.

Mary Angelina Bingham (Angie
Bingham Gilbert) was born March 21,
1830, and died at Grand Rapids, Nov.
8, 1910. She was born at Sault Ste.
Marie, in the house then down near
the river in which General Cass signed
the treaty with the Indians. 4

Her father, the Rev. Abel Bingham,
was for a quarter of a century a mis-
sionary to the Ojibwa Indians and was
stationed at the Soo until the family
moved to Grand Rapids in 1855.

Mrs. Gilbert was reared at the Soo
and spent the first twenty-five years
of her life there, with the exception of
about three years spent, during her
girlhood days, at the Female Semin-
ary at Utica, New York.

Her real life, as the younger gen-
eration understands life to-day, her
childhood and young womanhood, was
spent at the Soo, and, after that, at
Grand Rapids, in the early days, up to
the time of her marriage in 1871. No-
tice the Dr. Osler period—practically
forty years unmarried.

Then came another forty years,
twenty-three of marriage and seven-
teen of widowhood, making eighty

years of great activity. To think of
this woman as anything but vigor-
and always. stir-
active physically to

active, alert
ring is impossible

her last sickness. active mentally to

ously

 

the last hour when, without lingering
sickness or struggle, she fell asleep.

If her girlhood days at the Soo were
grand and joyous, strenuous and exc:t-
ing, with Indian, French and soldier
in a virgin territory springing into be-
ing in that life-giving, rejuvenating air
and splendid region of the North; if
her young womanhood in Grand Rap-
ids, singing in the choir of the oid
Congregational church and for many
a charity, teaching piano playing for
a livelihood and looking after her
aged parents until they passed away
in the sixties, was beautiful; so also
the other forty years of her life as wife
and widow were a blessing to her own,
to her friends and a fine example to
the public and to the younger genera-
tion, reared so differently, of what one
reared in the early days and under
pioneer conditions might be.

She loved her own, but it did not
end there. She had her close friends,
but it did not end there. She had a
warm heart for the rich and the poor
alike. She was not envious of the
rich, nor supercilious with the poor.
She had the universal instinct, a gen-
uine love for and faith in humanity.
She loved the Indian because she knew
him not only outside, but inside. She
knew his heart, his brain, his imagina-
tion, his virtues and his vices. She
knew him in his native tongue and
the Indians knew her. They wept as
they met and talked with her at the
Soo when she visited there and no
one could stand by and hear them talk
unmoved.

She greatly regretted that so little
has been left of the old landmarks of
the Soo and particularly that the big
stone called Mutchee Monedo, near

the Mission and on the site now oc-
cupied by the Court House, and sup-
posed by the Indians to be a spirit,
and before which they were accus-
tomed to bow three times, had been
broken up and removed, and also that
so little in the way of the old forts
and round houses had been preserved.

Mrs. Gilbert was a great reader
generally and intensely interested in
early Michigan reminiscences.

I think her story of the John Tan-
ner-James R. Schoolcraft episode will
be found to be the true one, histori-

cally, just as her surmisings and
opinion regarding James Ord being
the son of Mrs. Fitz Herbert and

George the Fourth have finally proved
true.
Let me say in this connection that

 

 

Mrs. She

Gilbert had a ready pen
was gifted in this particular and had

a style and quality of her own. Prac-
tice and experience in other channels
of writing would have enabled her to
creditable work and_ to
have earned a livelihood with her pen.

have done
She wrote a number of poems of ex-
cellent quality, including the Centen-
nial Invocation to the flag, The Bridge,
Devil’s Kitchen, Mackinaw Island, and
her last poem, Now I Lay Me Down

to Sleep.
Mrs Gilbert was exceedingly pa-
triotic. Patriotism meant something

in those early stirring days of the war
when she lived on Jefferson avenue
with her father and mother and sister,
whose husband was in the war, at the
home they called Hardscrabble. My

 

earliest recollection of anything is
when she took me down town at the
time of Lincoln’s assassination and
pointed out to me the signs of mourn-
ing. to her was a_ sacred
name and she took great interest in
the new things that came out from
him.

Lincoln

time to time about Her pa-
triotism took literary form in the ode
to the read it to the
Evening Press newsboys. Mr. Gilbert

presented her with a flag in 1876 and

flag and she

it did valiant service as long as she

lived. On all holidays it was in evi-
dence. When Cook discovered the
North Pole it was unfurled to the

breeze, and when Peary rediscovered

it, it was again unfurled without re-

egret.
Both

Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert took an

intense interest in the development of
Grand Rapids and all that related to
civic virtue, and after Mr. Gilbert
died, in 1894, she certainly did her
full duty, both by word and pen, re-
lating to the city’s interests and wel-

fare.
“The man that hath no music in
himself,’ Shakespeare says, ‘Tet no

such man be trusted!” But what of
a woman that has music in her soul?
I never knew of one more intensely
interested in music—music of all kinds
—but particularly the one greatest
thing in all music—the human voice.
Almost my earliest recollection goes
back to the old Congregational church,
on the present Porter block site at
the head of Monroe street, and the old

choir loft and the red curtains that

9
hid the choir from view when not
singing, and of accompanying her

there, when I was a child and she was
a young lady. She there. Of

I liked her voice the best of
Now that I think back and think
it all over I am not willing to change

sang
course
any.

that opinion, for as I recall it in its
prime, it was a high soprano

 

a lyric

soprano we would say nowadays—of

the colorateur quality, exceedingly
pleasing and natural of the creamy
velvety quality, without that tremolo,
vibrato and shako suggestive of chills
and fever of the early Michigan days,
and with which our beloved singers of
the present generation are well equip-
ped. I
eager than Mrs. Gilbert was to see

never knew anybody more
peaple get up and sing, to sing in
unison and to see everybody sing, and
she never gave up the habit of sitting
down at the piano, of playing and
singing and of sometimes composing
the music for a song.

She

most by

songs al
had the
grand old songs and favorites always
What do you
hear nowadays as you pass from door
Mostly
jazz. They will not last, while the old

knew the words of

the hundreds and
near her ready for use.

to door and street to street?

songs, the old real heart throbs, never

die.

Mrs. Gilbert was an active church
worker all her life and in the benevo-
lences. She worked with organiza

She did
work in

tions and organized effort.

her share of charitable per-

son, among those she knew and she
did it systematically, in a practical
way In settling her estate I found

she carried two meat accounts—-one
her cwn and one that she gave away.
Some of her needy friends missed her
after her death.

She the Bible

the reading of it all her life, as the

loved and kept up

numerous editions about the house
bore mute testimony, but she had no
fixed creed. Although the sacredness
of the church and reverence for wor-
ship were dear to her, she saw this
spirit gradually slipping away and she
grew and developed with her age and
with it, but not without
some regret and discomfort. She did
not go the whole length of the mod-
ernism of to-day and it is quite likely

that she was partly right.

broadened

In looking over her papers, while
dictating this brief and hasty sketch,
letter from
years in

{1 found an _ interesting
Professor Strong, so
the public schools of Grand Rapids,
to Mrs. Gilbert, and written about two
months before her death, of the early
days. One evening he, P. R. L: Peiree,
Judge Holmes and other leading dig-
nitaries of the early days of Grand

many

Rapids, were discussing the question,
“Who is the most influential person in
Grand Rapids?” After a heroic strug-
gle they decided to exclude themselves
from consideration, and discussed one
man after another. The idea of men-
ti ning a woman had not been thought
of. Finally,.P. R. L. Peirce; after-
wards Mayor and a great wag, broke
the silence. I quote:

“Suddenly P. R. L. Peirce said he
had a candidate, and he named, with-

 

10

out more ado, Miss Angie Bingham.
Being challenged to make his proofs,
he said something like this: “Well,
Miss Bingham is one of the best
known persons in town; hardly any
person is better known; more people
know her by sight than the Mayor.
Then she is favorably known; every
one speaks well of her and wishes
well to her. She is exceedingly gra-
cious and willing to accommodate her-
self to occasion and circumstance. If
asked to sing for any charity or on any
festive or patroitic occasion, she rare-
ly refuses when it is possible for her
to comply. In this way all persons,
in all circles, Jew and Gentile, Roman
Catholic and Protestant, have heard
her pleasing voice and would gladly
do her some service in return.’ He
spoke also of her uniform geniality
and high spirits and said that she
brought smiles and sunshine wherever
she went. ‘But this geniality,’ he fur-
ther urged, ‘did not prevent her from
having strong and well grounded
opinions and holding to them. He
thought her judgment excellent on all
current topics. ‘Finally—and he made
a great deal of this point—‘she is very
thorough. She does nothing by halves
and leaves nothing half finished, but
does it right out to the end.’”

In looking over her papers I found
another letter written by Mrs. Gilbert
about a year before her death, to an
old friend, who was evidently getting
cracked on the subject of religion. I
quote:

“I think it is a very dangerous, a
very risky thing to allow the mind
of the strongest among us to dwell
too much upon one subject, even the
highest subject of all, our relations
with God, the future life and the forms
of our religious belief. It all seems
very simple, and plain, and practical
to me. This earth is God’s world, as
much as is Heaven. It is good enough
and beautiful enough for me, but for
the sins and the sorrows. If we at-
tempt to peer into Heaven we are
lost.”

Again she writes:

“The simple life, the simple, natural
beliefs, the inward sense of conscience
—these are what appeal to me, and for
the rest I can wait.”

When her husband died she felt as
if she did not want to live; that her
life had gone out with him. She went
to church and sat in the old pew. She
could hardly endure it. She wanted to
leave the service when the first song
was sung, but she remained and fought
it out right there. [ quote:

“T went home determined to ques-
tion and argue no more; to accept
ife; to try to do my duty from day
to day, and determined to make my
home and life as pleasant, as happy
and as helpful to others as I could
and let creeds and theories and ques-
tionings and settling things go.”

And here was her declaration of re-
ligion:

“T like a simple, natural, plain, easy-
to-understand system of religion and
life: so plain that ‘A man, although
a fool, need not err therein;’ that ‘He
who runs may read;’ that commends
itself to all classes of people and con-

MICHIGAN

ditions; gives help, comfort and cheer
to the weary laden and keeps the
many sided thing we call mind, sane,
natural and healthy.

“Give us a little more familiarity
with the ten commandments, throw
in a little more of the ‘shall nots,’ put
a little more backbone into the anat-
omy of mankind and teach the world
to bring up their children a little more
in the fear and admonition of the
Lord. ‘Pure and undefiled religion
before God and the Father is this, to
visit the widow and the fatherless
in their affliction and to keep your-
selves unspotted from the world.’”

This beloved woman wrote her swan
song not so very long before her
death of two dozen lines, a dozen of
which I will quote.

Now I lay me down to sleep,
Now the stars their vigils keep;

With the turning of the wheel,
Will I wake to think and feel?

Will I sleep, to know no waking?
Will I rouse to fear and quaking?

Will the spirit, freed, unfettered,
Soar beyond its earthly record?

Who can answer, who can tell?
God, who made us, knows full well!

While his stars their vigils keep,
I will lay me down to sleep!

Claude R. Buchanan.

—_~+-+>—___
When Letter Postage Was Twenty-
Five Cents.

My mother, who passed away Oct.
30 at the ripe age of 95 years, fre-
quently told me the story of a letter
which came to her family in 1837—
eighty-eight years ago. They had
emigrated to Michigan the year before
from Friendship, N. Y., where my
mother was born, settling on a farm
six miles South of Adrian. Word
came one day that a letter from the
old home had reached the nearest post
office, which was located at Adrian,
with 25 cents postage due. My grand-
father had no money, but he had some
wheat in the barn. He measured out
a bushel, put it in a grain bag and
carried it on his shoulders to Adrian,
where he sold it for 25 cents and re-
deemed the letter, which was the first
news the family had received from the
old home since they left the year be-

fore. E. A. Stowe.

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11

 

 

SHOE MARKET

Selling Hosiery in the Retail Shoe
Store.

In regard to the carrying and selling
of hosiery in shoe stores we all know
that every man, woman and child in
every civilized country wears hosiery.
In fact, they put on their stockings
before they put on their shoes, so re-
lated is the stocking to the shoe busi-
ness

I do not mean by that that the de-
partment stores and specialty shops
selling hosiery do not sell as many
stockings as the shoe stores, because
T have seen an increase in both places.
In the last twelve to fourteen years the
pric of womens hosiery has advanced
in price from 35 cents to $1.45 and
$1.50 a pair. Then again, every woman
who had a wardrobe had two pairs of
black, one pair of brown and one pair
of white stockings. To-day they have
them in dozens. That has increased
the volume greater than the unit of
sale advance, so that the department
stores and specialty shops do not need
to suffer with the greater volume of
business.

Before touching on the merchandise
policy I want to discuss various an-
noying difficulties coming up in hos-
iery departments, magnified in all our
minds. The majority of stores give
guarantees against manufacturers’ im-
perfections. To tell whether a stock-
ing has been mishandled or whether
the manufacturers’ imperfections exist-
ed when sold to the customer is rather
difficult. The majority of stores pre-
fer to give the customer the benefit of
the doubt.

If the customer has mishandled the
stocking, she must suffer the loss.
Some stores have gone as far as guar-
anteeing even chiffon silk hosiery. One
store in New York-adopted the policy
that when a customer brought back
the stockings of giving another pair
in exchange, stamping one star in the
hem of the stocking because there is
less friction on the hem than in any
other part. If these are unsatisfactory,
the customer returns them again and
a second pair is given, this time with
two stars stamped in the hem, and
that is the limit. And yet they guar-
antee their stocking and mention no
reservation but that is, I understand
to be, fairly reasonable. If a customer
brings back a pair of stockings to that
store and it is very evident that the
stocking has been mishandled, they
refuse to exchange it. It seems to me
liberal and as fair as is practicable for
any store to be. If they gave a guar-
antee without any restriction, they
would be keeping some women in
stockings for life.

The difficulty that results in a great
many returns is giving the customer
the wrong size. I believe in the policy
of the salesgirl measuring each pair of
stockings before wrapping them up.
This sounds like a rather extensive
operation and delay, but it is well
worth the effort. If little tacks or per-
manent marks are put on the counter
for sizes 8% to 10, the girl would get
into the habit of measuring the stock-
ings and she would get into the way

 

of becoming expert in this operation
and would thereby avoid many returns
for wrong sizes. Many customers have
bought what they thought to be size
91% and found after it has been worn
that it is not big enough, not a full
9%4, and consequently have to bring
the stockings back for exchange and
are entitled to it, as the fault of the
store. Frequently girls in placing
stockings back in the box pick up the
accumulation from the counter with-
out looking at the size and put a size
914 in the box with a 9. This is some-
times done when the salesgirl is hur-
rying to go home at the close of busi-
ness. The next customer that comes
in and wants a 9% gets a size 9 instead.
If the girl measured the stockings she
would head off that trouble and know
that it is the right size which she is
selling the customer. The matter of
putting back in the right box, par-
ticularly at a busy counter, is more im-
portant than it seems at first sight. In
the first place, when a girl is trying
to get away she may often get two
different shades into the wrong box.
This is very easily done.

Now there has been the question
of merchandise and how to manage ea
hosiery department in a shoe store. It
has been discussed many times, ap-
proaching many angles and in various
ways. I have found in my experience
in the handling of a hosiery depart-
ment in a shoe store, department and
specialty shop that a simplified meth-
od is to have four books. It is neces-
sary first to institute model stock plans
for the department. I would make that
stock plan if I had a department. See
what the trouble is and correct it. The
sty!. in shoes is related to the style
in hosiery. Keep in the department
just what is on your plan; this, of
course, will require care and will re-
quire a great deal of thought and some
advice in figuring hosiery. The plan
should represent just what was in
stock, what has been pulled out and
what has been cleaned out and any-
thing not in the stock plan.

Every new number needed for the
department added to the plan will keep
it current. Anything that has been
taken out and sold should be noted
on the plan, and thus your plan will
always represent what is in the de-
partment. The stock is thereby very
well controlled and not apt to get out
of reach in too many lines; no dupli-
cates of styles or sizes which should
not be carried at an advance price will
thereby creep into your department.

What is the best plan for compensa-
tion for hosiery sales people?

The best plan for compensation for
hosiery sales people, and the one
which I believe is in general vogue, is
a minimum wage with a bonus based
on sales over a guarantee.

How can more men’s hosiery be
sold?

That’s pretty difficult to answer;
what is needed in 90 per cent. of the
men’s departments is more advance
knowledge of the style trend. For in-
stance, to-day the style may be for
special colors or combinations of colors
turning shortly to contrast colors in
plaids and checks. I find that right

from the mills the story is that what-
ever pattern is the most prominent
from a great selling point, with the
retailers or the jobbers, is the pattern
which must be made. One must al-
ways maintain a stock of medium
colors, of course, having in mind the
cost for turnover and being governed
accordingly. To-day the brighter and
contrast colors are in vogue, and there
is such a demand for jacquards that
everyone is always looking for more.

What is a fair turnover?

I believe you should figure from a
standpoint of retail price; figure profit
on retail price. Turnover is figured the
same way, figure on merchandise—
that is, the cost of the merchandise.

What is the best time to buy?

All staples about thirty days be-
fore the opening of the season. If at
that time you aren’t quite sure of
colors, leave the rest for another two
weeks. Buy as near to opening of
Now in
buying novelties and fancies, every-
body seems to be in doubt as to just
how to handle them. Handle them
this way: Take for example, they be-

season as is possible to buy.

gin to show merchandise in June and
July—seldom later. I would take the
best that I saw which would be the
most attractive for my trade. Then
say, “Send me a sample of that.” If
there are two or three which you
want and yet don't
whether or not you would want to
buy them, ask them to send samples
until you can decide.
next salesman comes in you will have

might know

Then when the

something to compare with what you
have on hand. Perhaps you like one
style of what the second agent has;
ask him to send samples of that. The
cost of this method is small—just one
or two pairs here and there; just
enough to give you the general im-
pression of the lines which you should
put in stock, and the value of the
stock is small. By the time you should
be buying for the next season you have
a pretty good knowledge of whether
you have the best things or not.

What is the best way to cut prices?

To establish the right price is the
same in all stores; you determine what
you can get the biggest volume on
and then make your plans on that.

How can shoe stores build up their
hosiery departments?

The best results will be obtained by

putting in a certain line at a certain
price and then stick to it; that is the
best way. J. J. Murphy.
——~+ ++

Opening of Wool Blanket Lines.

An early opening of wool blanket
lines for 1926 is forecast. Selling condi-
tions are deemed favorable, and some
firms plan to offer their goods in about
two weeks. An active spot demand is
reported by several of the leading
factors, reflecting the late buying of
Prices of
the new lines, it was said yesterday,

both jobbers and retailers.

will show a reduction from the levels
of last year. The latter, it was pointed
out, were based on a raw wool market
which was at its peak in December
when prices were made. The subse-
quent drop in raw wool created much
unsettlement in blanket trading, sellers
having to reduce their prices soon after
the opening owing to pressure from
buyers. This year, it is anticipated, a
more stable market will prevail.
—_—_+-.

Useful Gifts Selling Well.

From present indications, useful gifts
are going to be played up strongly this
year in holiday giving, despite the
fact that the reverse is often the case
when business in general show signs
of improvement. Umbrellas, gloves,
fancy underwear, handkerchiefs, ete..
have all shown up well in the early
consumer buying, and this is reflected
in the finishing touches that are being
put on stocks of gift goods by retail
stores. Of the articles mentioned,
handkerchiefs are showing up especial-
ly well, and reports from makers and
wholesalers of this merchandise in-
dicate sales well in excess of iast year’s.
This is true of both men’s and women’s
goods, with novelties, especially in wo-
men’s handkerchiefs, selling freely.

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FINANCIAL

World’s Loose Gold Will Flow To
United States.

Admitting that the heavy gold
movement “probably is over for the
present,” George E. Roberts, vice-
president of the National City Bank,
sees a fundamental reason for the con-
tinued inflow of yellow metal and

 

does not like it.

This country does not need as high
a proportion of banking reserve as it
did before the creation of the Federal
Reserve system. Concentration of re-
serves through that agency makes a
given amount of gold go further than
it would have in pre-war days. Never-
theless, our gold holdings have doubled
in the last decade or so and we now
possess half of the world’s entire stock
of the metal. Since we do not and
Europe does need more gold econom-
ists take the view that further importa-
tions to the United States are not
destined to encourage sound business
conditions for the world at large.

As the new bulletin of the National
City Bank so clearly explains, the
fundamental reason for imports is that
payments running to the United
States are considerably larger than
those running from the United States.
Our favorable merchandise balance is
running at more than a billion dollars
a year, or, to express the thing differ-
ently, our excess of merchandise ex-
ports is twice that of pre-war times.

Nor is that all. Before the war we
were a debtor country on capital ac-
count and now we are a creditor na-
tion. Not only have we bought back
most of the American securities held
abroad before the war, on which we
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dends and interest annually, but we
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securities. Our investments abroad
aggregate $8,000,000,000 or $10,000,-
000.000, not to mention the $11,000,-
000,000 that is owed to the United
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“The result of this trade situation
and credit situation together is that
we have in the aggregate a large bal-
ance of payments coming to this coun-
try, and all the loose gold in the world
tends to flow to the United States, un-
less we make new foreign loans fast
enough to cover the payments,” says
the bank. “Gold imports will continue
to come unless we either import more
of other commodities instead of gold.
reduce our exports, or invest abroad
to cover the payments that are coming
to us.”

Since the member banks were heav-
ily in debt at the reserve banks in
192 the gold imports for several years
were used to pay off rediscounts and
did not increase the volume of credit
in use. Once the member banks had
paid off their rediscount, however, the
increased holdings of gold began to be
reflected in larger loans.

Mr. Roberts says that in the last
two or three vears the new gold has
been going into use, but that it has
been used very much more extensively
for market than for commercial pur-
poses. He says:

“Down on the lower Mississippi in

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time of flood the pressure of water
against the levees sometimes causes
what they call a crevasse, or break,
through which the water pours in
great volume and the effect of that
diversion is to relieve the pressure
everywhere else. And so the diversion
of this available credit to the stock and
bond markets and to real estate opera-
tions have to a great extent exhausted
the influence of this new gold or
minimized its effects upon general
business.” Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1925.]
——_+2s——_—_
Big Farm-Buying Movement Will
Begin in 1926.

More than any other man in the
country, perhaps, Guy Huston has one
foot on the farm and one in Wall
Street.

As owner of thousands of acres of
rich Illinois land, which he himself
farms, Mr. Huston is one of the coun-
try’s most important dirt farmers. As
president of both the New York and
Chicago Joint Stock Land Banks, and
chairman both of the Kansas City and
Southern Minnesota banks, not to
mention other affiliations, he is re-
sponsible for more than a third of our
total $500,000,000 outstanding land
bank loans.

So great has become the task of
financing joint stock land bank se-
curities that Mr. Huston now spends
half of his time at New York, where
he, as much as any other man in
finance, keeps Wall Street posted on
what is going on in the agricultural
regions.

Sitting leisurely at luncheon in his
downtown club yesterday, Mr Huston
talked freely about certain develop-
ments that, in his opinion, may be ex-
pected in 1926.

“The bad spots in our agricultural
situation that have held the farmer
down since 1921 have been definitely
corrected,” he says, “by the improve-
ment of farm prices and the restora-
tion of agricultural purchasing power.
From now on the whole situation in
agriculture should improve. Every-
thing indicates to me that the farmer is
entering an era of sustained good times
like unto nothing we have seen since
the armistice and from which we need
expect no great setbacks.”

Still another conviction that burns
in Mr. Huston’s mind is that by the
summer of 1926 the time will be ripe
for a great farm-buying movement that
may last several years. Perhaps the
movement will not stop until the
“good, fertile, deep black soil land of
the Central West’ sells at a price
“that will make even the boom prices
of the war period look cheap.”

This interesting thought is based on
the belief that farmers by next sum-
mer will have reached a position of
financial security, and regained their
confidence in the future. They will
want then to extend their holdings
where they can at advantageous prices.
For years farmers have been satisfied
with what they had. . Returning to a
more prosperous condition, they will
want to enlarge present holdings.

To date the country bankers have
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street, but slow to give farmers loans
in many districts. Improvement in the
situation already has made the country
bankers more willing to extend credit
to the farmer. As these loans are ex-
tended, good farmers will be able to
purchase lands of the farmers still
loaded with debts. Frozen credits
that have stood for two, three or four
years will be thawed.

This is another way of saying that
as the fundamental turn in agricultur-
al affairs becomes more widely under-
stood fresh funds automatically will
flow to the farmer that long have been
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Who Bears Loss When Check Is
Raised?

Where a merchant draws a check
on his bank, and it falls into the hands
of some dishonest person and is raised
and cashed, it is a pretty safe bet that
the merchant is in for an argument
with his bank as to who must bear
the loss. It follows that, in such a
situation, both the merchant and his
bank may become greatly interested in
the rules of liability in situations of
this kind. With this in mind then a
brief review of some of the high spots
on this subject of the law may prove
of interest and profit.

In the first place, it may be stated
broadly that a bank cashes a check at
its peril. It is the duty of the bank
to know the signature of its customers,
and also to closely examine checks for
alterations of every kind before it
cashes them. And, as a general rule,
the bank must bear the loss if it cash-
es a forged or raised check. For ex-
ample:

If a merchant gives his check for, we
say, five dollars and some crook raises
the check to five hundred dollars, and
the bank cashes it the liability will, as
a usual thing, fall upon the bank. This
rule, however, is modified in some
states by the provisions that in draw-
ing checks the customer must use due
care, and if a check is so carelessly
drawn as to easily permit a dishonest
person to raise it without notice to
the bank, the customer may have to
bear the loss.

The cases of this kind have for the
most part arisen where a customer has
drawn a check and left blank spaces
which invited a check artist to raise
them. As for example where a check
was drawn for four dollars, and the
drawer left sufficient space to enable
one to insert a figure five before the
number four and to write in fifty be-
fore the amount as spelled out on the
line below. This, of course, made the
check read fifty-four dollars.

In such situations some courts have
taken the position that it was negli-
gence on the part of the drawer in not
filling up the blank spaces and that he
must bear the loss. However, other
courts have held that regardless of this
since the check was only for a given
amouont when it was drawn, the draw-
er was not liable for the increased
amount filled in by the dishonest per-
son, because he, the drawer, was not

bound to anticipate a criminal act by
another.

And, even in states that hold a drawer
to reasonable care in executing them,
such drawer is not required to so write
his checks that they could not under
any circumstances be raised. If he
writes his checks so that it requires
skillful tampering by one seeking to
raise them, he will not be liable if such
a raised check gets by his bank and is
paid.

In cases of this kind, involving dis-
putes between banks and their cus-
tomers over the liability for raised
checks, the question has frequently
arisen as to how the fact that the cus-
tomer used a lead pencil in writing
the check affected his liability. And
while, without doubt, a check written
with a lead pencil offers great oppor-
tunity for tampering the courts have
quite uniformly held such checks to be
legal, and the fact that they were
written with a lead pencil would not
relieve the bank from liability for pay-
ing such a check if raised.

From the foregoing it is clear that
the question as to who must bear the
loss where a raised check is paid
cannot be covered by the statement of
a hard and fast rule. Each case of
this kind must be decided on the par-
ticular facts involved and the law of
the state in which the dispute arises.
However, leaving aside all of the
legal refinements, and appealing to
good old-fashioned business common
sense, the subject of raised checks may
be summarized as follows:

In writing checks the merchant
should for his own protection, as well
as that of his bank, use care. It is a
bad practice to use a lead pencil for
this purpose, and if ink is at all avail-
able it should be used. And by all
means, when a check is written no
blank spaces should be left. If the
figures and words don't fill the spaces
by all means heavy lines should be
drawn through them. If this is done
it at least renders difficult their rais-
ing, and if it is attempted the bank
has a much better chance of catching
the person making the attempt. While
as noted above a bank will, as a usual
rule, be held liable for any loss caused
by the cashing of a raised check, yet
a dispute of this kind with his bank
will not help the merchant’s standing
as a careful man, even though he wins
out. For this reason, if for no other,
every merchant should try to make
his checks as near proof against rais-
ing as possible when he writes them.
And when it is considered that it is
possible for one to become so careless
in writing checks, that under certain
circumstances he may be called upon
to bear a loss caused by their being
raised, an additional reason is added
for the use of care.

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simple, and if taken advantage of will
in the great majority of cases protect
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14

Anniversary of Upturn in the Stock
Market.

To find the very beginning of the
present bull market one must go back
to early September, 1921, when Jesse
Livermore called the turn in the trend
It was then that the
post-war depression in stocks ceased.

of stock prices.

Of course, the beginning of any move-
ment is always difficult to spot and
some authorities reckon back only to
October, 1923, Steel
poration declared its famous

when the Cor-

[ extra
dividend, in their descriptions of the
present market.

In one other sense we may say that
the great bull market of to-day started
just a year ago. November 5, 1924
when the country heard of the sweep-
ing victory of President Coolidge. Cer-
tainly on that day the market was
filled with something that it had not
had before. Almost instantly it be-
came broader and stronger. A year
ago, and not two years ago or four
years ago, therefore, was the signifi-
cant point in the acceleration of the
present bull market. It just so hap-
pened that the anniversary was cele-
brated by an advance in transactions
to a new high since 1916 of 2,801,000
shares and in prices to a new peak in
history.

While Wall Street is everlastingly
interested in the future, it always en-
joys reference to the past when back-
ground is wanted for current move-
ments or future possibilities. In the
rush of business yesterday at least a
few prominent traders took down their
records of a year ago, when the papers
were filled with news of the election
and when, as we know now, the mar-
ket fires began to burn more brightly.

One such trader was astonished to
see what he saw. Yesterday's volume
of sales exceeded those of that day a
year ago by more than a million shares.
He found that the Stock Exchange and
Curb Exchange tables, yesterday
recording more active issues than ever
before, were crowding everything else
off of the financial pages of the news-
papers; a year ago they were fitted
comfortably into their proper places.

He found that Steel common from
109 a year ago had jumped more than
5 points in a day to a level fractionally
better than 134, or to the highest price
since the war boom of 1917. General
Motors he found at a new record high
above 143, althought he could have
bought it a year ago at 57. Hudson
Motors he found at 138, although that
was available a year ago at 20. Mack
Truck he found at 242, as against 99
a year ago.

Although he had made a fortune
since the Coolidge election, it took
away some of the pride in his own
achievements to see how many oppor-
tunities to make fortunes had escaped
him entirely.

Unquestionably the present bull
market originated in a fundamental
improvement in business and has been
perpetuated by encouraging reports of
progress, but it takes no seer to ap-
preciate that the market cannot have
many such celebrations as it had yes-
terday without working itself into a
dangerous technical position. For-

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tunately speculators to date have ex-
ercised a discrimination in their selec-
tions that in a sense sets this bull mar-
ket apart from all others.

——_>->—_____
Relative Merits of Bonds and Stocks.
Up to a short time ago it was ac-
that
vestors should stick to bonds, leaving

cepted as law conservative in-

stocks to the speculators. This view
is not so prevalent now as it was. A
that
stocks from certain standpoints offer

widespread feeling is growing

protection not found in
that the ideal
that includes

degrees of
investment
both

bonds and
program is one
types of security.

More than any other two writers,
perhaps, Edgar Lawrence Smith and
Kenneth S. Van Strum have turned
the light of day upon a misconception
that had always been accepted as
gospel truth. Mr. Smith’s “Common
Stocks as Long-Term Investments,”
which has been mentioned before, was
the first book to discuss in scientific
manner the relative value of bonds and
stock as investment instruments. Now
comes another real contribution to the
discussion in the shape of Mr. Van
Strum’s book entitled “Investing in
Purchasing Power.”

What Mr. Van Strum says is not so
illogical as it may at first appear. He
does not deny that the day-to-day
market in stocks is more sensitive than
that in bonds. What he does say is
that an investment in bonds is an in-
vestment in purchasing power for the
average long-term investor and _ that
it is self-deception to say that bonds
bought twenty years ago have preservy-
ed their original purchasing power,
when objects that investors want have
risen sharply in price.

Purchase of a bond obligates the
borrowers to return a certain number
of dollars at the end of a given period.
An investment in bonds for the pur-
pose of preserving purchasing power
defeats its own purpose, says Mr. Van
Strum, if commodity prices rise be-
tween the time of the investment and
its maturity.

The advantage that stocks offer over
bonds lies in the fact that stockholders
are entitled to their share of the
growth in the business, whereas bond-
holders can never hope to receive more
than a given number of dollars. Clear-
ly large institutions such as insurance
companies, which obligate themselves
to deliver dollars, will favor bonds,
but, says the author of this book, the
investor that wants to preserve pur-
chasing power has a better chance
with stocks than with bonds.

Of the new book Irving Fisher says:
“Tt seems, then, that the market over-
rates the safety of ‘safe’ securities and
pays too much for them; that it under-
rates the risk of risky securities and
pays too little for them; that it pays
too much for immediate and too little
for remote returns, and, finally, that
it mistakes the steadiness of money
income from a bond for steadiness of
real income, which it does not possess.
In steadiness of real income, or pur-
chasing power, a list of diversified
stocks surpasses bonds.”

Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1925.]

  

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Making Arson an Unpopular Trade.

With convictions numbering 226,
proceeding from a total of 476 arrests,
the Committee on Incendiarism and
Arson closed what must be considered
as its most resultful year. That was
the direct outcome of its operations.
Indirect but no whit less reassuring
were the incidental results of another
year's campaign in teaching the pub-
lic and its representatives to view
arson in its properly baleful light as
not far from the most despicable crime
of which a human be:ng can be cap-
able. Incendiarism which jeopardizes
life, and the perpetrators of fraud fires,
are being treated customarily to-day
by police and judges and juries with
a severity that was exceptional ten
years ago, and which is among the
most hopeful portents in the whole
eld of tire reduction.

“Our activities,’ says the Commit-
tee, “have, in most instances, been
iacilitated by the hearty co-operation
ol public otticials, and the successtul
investigation and prosecution ol sus-
picious cases is bringing about a de-
cided change in the official attitude
towards arson.” Noted particularly is
“a closer appreciation of the technical-
ities of cases of arson and a more com-
plete understanding on the part oi lo-
cal officials of the peculiarities of this
crime and burning to detraud than in
the past.”

One of the most important features
of the work of this Committee is its
activity in preventing fires set with
intent to defraud. During the past
year forty-two cases of anticipated fires
were investigated, in which the evi-
dence obtained corroborated the ad-
vance information received and show-
ed that a fire was anticipated. In
every such instance local authorities
have promptly taken steps to prevent
the fire; and there is no doubt but that
the Committee’s activity in this direc-
tion has saved much of the insurance
involved. In four instances in which
such advance information had been ob-
tained fires actually occurred. In one
of these cases the local authorities
were maintaining a watch over the
premises and the fire developed at
noontime, when the watch was with-
drawn. The thoroughness of the in-
vestigation, however, disclosed inten-
tions and resulted in a waiver of the
claim and surrender of the policies.

“Besides accumulating evidence in
connection with individual cases un-
der investigation, our special agents,”
the report continues, “have been active
in arousing the interest of local polcie
officials generally in the crimes of
arson and burning with intent to de-
fraud, and in increasing the efficiency
of these local organizations in this
particular work. On several occasions
these investigations have assumed the
proportions of a general survey of con-
ditions affecting a particular locality,
especially in reference to the activities
of alleged arson rings. Conferences
of our investigators and local agents’
associations have frequently been held
and general conditions thoroughly dis-
cussed; and while these conferences
were entirely informal in character, we
believe that they have had very bene-

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ficial results. It should be noted that
the local agents’ good-will and co-
operation have seldom been lacking.”

Continuing its activity with a view to
strengthening existing arson laws in
several states, laws that are more or
less defective, the Committee has con-
siderabe progress to report. Several
states have greatly improved their
arson laws, and one state has, through
the inspiration of the Committee,
adopted the Model Arson Law pre-
pared by the Fire Marshals’ Associa-
tion of North America.

In one other case, the insurance had
been cancelled but the fire occurred
before the cancellation became effec-
tiv, and this instance resulted in an
indictment of the parties on charges
of arson. “In only one of the four
cases referred to,” finishes the report,
“was insurance collected.”

Since the organization of this work
under the present plan on February
1, 1916, special agents have submitted
written reports covering the investiga-
tion of 4,717 fires. Local authorities
interested in these cases have instituted
criminal proceedings resulting as fol-
lows: arrests, 2,032; convictions, 995
and acquittals, 344.

—_.2>——
Many Waiting For Sales.

Although retailers are credited with
having had an,improved response to
early season offerings of overcoats and
suits at regular prices the complaint
has been voiced that too many con-
sumers are waiting for sales. Many
consumers, it was said, have now
formed the regular habit of waiting
for these sales before making their
initial purchases for a season. More-
over, the number is growing and the
situation developing is held responsible
for the lessened volume of early busi-
ness the stores are doing at regular
prices. At the same time, clothing
manufacturers and representatives of
the woolen mills say the retailers have
themselves to blame for the conditions,
as they have educated the consumer to
wait for sales which are heralded far
and wide as giving “unheard of” values
and as “well worth waiting for.”

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A type of home woman who is most
useful and at the same time most ad-
mirable is the one who is a magician
with money, who can take ever so
little and make it go ever so far!

There are variations in the type,
some individuals being especially pro-
ficient in one way, some in another.
Take the one whose forte is supplying
a table economically yet plentifully.
She knows how to cook so as to make
every plain common kind of food
tickle the palate. She will buy an in-
expensive cut of meat, brown it in a
kettle, season it to perfection, bake
it slowly and thoroughly, keeping in
all the juices—and when her dinner is
served, her cheap roast is better than
some other woman’s porterhouse.

Who shall describe our magician’s
gravies de luxe and home-made sauces
and relishes? Behold the great store
of canned fruits and vegetables in her
cellar, all bought by the box when the
price was lowest, and prepared and
put up by her own skillful hands! She
purchases freshly laid eggs in the
spring, water glasses them carefully
and has them for use, every one in
perfect condition, at times of the year
when eggs are selling at ten, twenty,
or even thirty cents per dozen ad-
vance over the price she paid. Thus
by her forethought and by buying in
quantities as large as she can well use,
she avoids the long prices inevitably
paid by the family that lives out of a
paper sack.

If there is a bit of available ground
in the back yard, this woman raises
radishes, lettuce, and string beans, hav-
ing them fresh and crisp for her table.
Not even the smallest amount of good
food goes to waste. Left-overs are
worked up into dishes even more tasty
than the first serving. Dollars and
dollars worth are thrown into the
garbage pail from every other kitchen
along her street; but not from hers.
Wonderful hashes, puddings, and bat-
ter cakes result from her thrift.

Now take another of these necro-
mancers of the pocketbook, the woman
whose specialty is fixing up a house so
it is comfortable and homelike and yet
a dream in the coloring and design of
its furnishings. In the choice of pa-
per or other covering for the walls, in
the selection of the stain or the paint
for the woodwork, in the buying of a
rug, this artist-housewife has an un-
erring eye for the effect she wants to
produce in her finished room.

She spends her few and carefully
counted dollars with taste and discrim-
ination. Now and then she purchases
a new piece of furniture. Always she
chooses something that has good lines.
is substantially made, and that will
harmonize with what she already has.

She shows real talent in arrange-
ment. Her rooms are never over-
crowded. Simplicity and harmony are
her keynotes. Her easy-chairs are
placed temptingly. Her window drap-
eries add grace and lightness to the
whole. Her scarfs and throws and
sofa pillows are a joy. With small

than sometimes attained in a home of
wealth by the spending of money
galore.

And now the woman whose magic
is with clothes, who knows how to
dress well and becomingly and even
with distinction, on next to nothing.
This sister has a sure prescience as to
the wearing qualities of fabrics and
the fashions that will stay in. She
gets the good of her things before they
go out of style. She knows what to
wear to look her best, and what she
must let alone. She is handy with her
needle and skilled in the use of paper
patterns.

She buys the goods and makes her
own gowns, saving all dressmakers’
bills. Does she want something to
wear on her head? First she spends
$3.98 for her materials Then she con-
structs for herself a hat that would
do credit to any high-class millinery
shop and that would be considered
very reasonably priced at $12.50.
Nothing more needs to be said of the

-marvels that this woman can produce.

In the magazines we see a great deal
regarding the budgeting of family ex-
penses. Some effort is being made to
teach judicious outlay in the domestic
science courses in the schools. Both of
these activities are praiseworthy. Fur-
ther there should be made such graphic
showings of the results of wise house-
hold economy, that every girl who is
domestically inclined, will see the pos-
sibilities that lie in this field of en-
deavor.

Industrially considered, women may
be divided into two great classes—
those who like to go out and earn and
those who prefer to stay at home and
economize. The former have forged
to the front in recent years; but in the
history of the race the latter have
played a most important part. The
service rendered by women conserv-
ators has been indispensable in the
past. We still stand so much in need
of it that we cannot afford to have
one girl whose genius is for economiz-
ing, diverted into the ranks of mere
earners.

Mrs. A is an example of a sorceress
with dollars and dimes. She shines
in the home circle. She has a subtle
alchemy as it were, by which she can
take a small amount of common money
and transmute it into an amazingly
large amount of health and comfort
and well being and even elegance. She
is an adept in three or four different
lines—she is expert in the kitchen, an
excellent housekeeper, has enough of
the artist that under her hand the
modest home of the A’s has become a
beautiful place of abode, and is a past
master in all that relates to the ward-
robe.

Mr. and Mrs. A are now a little
past middle age. They have two
grown daughters and a son, all living
at home and all earning. Mr. A’s sal-
ary never has been large, yet they
have raised and educated their children
own their home, and have a few thous-
ands besides salted down in good in-
vestments. Since her marriage twenty-

on the job and still finds it an ample
field for her strength and energies.

She buys all the table supplies. While
she always has provided liberal
amounts of food, she never has made
the mistake of many notable cooks,
that of setting an overloaded table. As
she herself expresses it, “I never have
encouraged my folks in eating their
heads off.” Good health and small
doctor bills as well as economy in pro-
visioning, have been the result.

Mr. A and the boy always consult
Mother in the selection of their cloth-
ing. They have found that what she
advises always looks well and gives
satisfactory service. Usually they pre-
fer to delegate to her the purchase of
all such items as shirts and hosiery.

For the girls and herself she plans
and buys and makes and makes over.
For all the family she mends and keeps
garments in repair. She knows little
tricks of taking out spots and other-
wise keeping clothing fresh and tidy
thus lessening the frequency of pro-
fessional cleaning.

The good dressing of the A daugh-
ters always has been the envy of their
associates, yet after turning into the
family till a certain number of dollars
each week as “board money,” they still
bank a great part of their earnings.
Why should they not, with such a
money magician to help them?

Lo be brief, Mrs. A is a seventh
daughter of a seventh daughter in
household finance. If she were to go
out and work for pay, it would have
to be very large pay if it really counted
as much to the good as does putting
her efforts on the best conservation
of the four pay checks that come into
the A home every Saturday night.

Yet truth to tell, there is one fly in
Mrs. A’s ointment, one skeleton in
her financial closet. She is not looked
upon by others, nor does she look
upon herself, as a woman who is ‘“do-
ing things.” What Mother does goes
right in. No one thinks very much
about it She belongs in the class that
is spoken of as _ being—supported.
While having all that she needs or
wants, she secretly envies the other
members of her family their wages—
the definite money recognition of their
toil. It is this feature that will cause
almost any smart girl to choose going
out to earn rather than staying home
and economizing, even though her
natural inclinations might be strongly
toward the latter.

What are Mrs. A’s services worth
in dollars and cents? How can her
family be made to realize the value of
what they are getting day by day and
week by week? And how can other
families be made to know the worth
of the wife and mother who
genius with money?

Ella M. Rogers.
—_22->—___
Speed.

On this one fact
T’ll lay a bet,
The slowest man
Can run in debt.
And yet, please note,
That debt most thrives
On those who lead
The fastest lives,

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in the sale of millinery, wholesale and
retail. His store was in the Luce
block, the site of which is now covered
by the Herpolsheimer building. An
expert trimmer, Nellie Grady, and a
competent traveling salesman, Tony
Deaney, were in his employ. A young
man named Buckley, became smitten
with the charms of the fair Nellie and
in the course of time he led her be-
fore Father McManus and later took
her to Chicago. Mrs. Buckley return-
ed to Grand Rapids after spending
two years in the Windy City and en-
gaged in the sale of ladies hats and
bonnets on her own account. The
panic of 1873 hit the house of Kendall
hard and the owner, in feeble health,
retired, his son acquiring the business.
Young Kendall was untrained in the
sale of millinery and soon failed. A
charming young woman, Jennie Bent-
ly, of Milwaukee, succeeded Mrs.
Buckley as the head of the trimming
department of the Kendall store. She
married an aged widower, John V.
Turnham, a manufacturer of furni-
ture, and lived unhappily with him
until a court in chancery severed the
marital chain that bound her to Turn-
ham.

Oliver Bleake opened the first com-
munity store in Grand Rapids. It was
located in a small brick building, still
standing, on the Southeast corner of
Lagrave avenue and Fulton street
Among his substantial customers were
H. C. Yale, R. C. Luce, A. W. Pike,
W. D. Tolford, C. C. Rood, Freeman
Godfrey, C. C. Philbrick, Noyes L.
Avery, Henry Fralick, John C. Buch-
anan, Zenas E. Winsor, ‘Martin L.
Sweet, T. H. Lyon, ‘W. S. Dunn, S.
O. Kingsbury, William Ashley, L. S.
Hill, E. S. Eggleston, R. D. Sinclair,
A. X. Cary, George W. Allen and A.
Hosford Smith. Groups of these men
met at Bleakes nightly to discuss
politics and matters of National, State
and local importance. During the cold
months of the year Bleake had a tea-
kettle of hot water on the stove, and
when one or more of his patrons asked
for a toddy the sugar, lemons and the
distillations of corn and rye from old
Kentucky were promptly provided.

Before the breaking out of the civil
war Lewis Porter sold men’s wear-
ables and operated a custom shop on
Menroe avenue immediately North of
the entrance of the Pantlind hotel.
Among his employes were Col. E. S.
Pierce and a popular young bachelor
named Crittenden. Porter engaged in
politics as an aid to Senator Zach
Chandler and was in due time reward-
ed for his services by an appointment
aS postmaster at Washington. Col.
Pierce acquired the Porter store.
erected the building now owned and
occupied by the Fourth National bank
and moved his business to that build-
ing Porter erected the Porter block
at the junction of Monroe and
Division avenues.

Leonard Dooge was engaged in the
sale of groceries on Monroe avenue
near Division, many years. His sav-
‘ngs were wisely invested in real es-
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17

 

years ago, a substantial fortune was
inherited by his son, Prof. Dooge, oi
the University of Michigan, and his
daughters, Mrs. J. A. S. Verdier and
Mrs. John A. Westerhoff. Mrs. Ver-
dier was a famous singer in 1865.

Lewis Martin was a prosperous mer-
chant of the West side. He caused
the building on the Northeast corner
of Bridge and Front streets to be
erected and used the ground floor in
the conduct of his business.

David and George Arnott were en-
gaged in the sale of groceries on
Bridge street in 1880. Profits were
not satisfactory and the Arnotts sold
out and moved to California.

A young man named Shaw owned a
grocery store on West Leonard street
in 1873. He had furnished goods to
many employes of Wonderly & Little,
operators of the Wonderly saw mills,
upon orders issued by the firm. The
Jay Cocke panic of that year destroyed
the business of the firm and Shaw
failed. Years later, when Wonderly
had achieved a fortune, he paid the
crmi’s indettedness to Shaw and other
small local creditors.

Arthur Scott White.
—».2s——__
Responsibility a Necessary Meat Re-
tailing Factor.

We know of a case, one that repre-
sents many, where ‘a butcher has
grown into his business without taking
due consideration of balancing pro-
portions and, when the time came for
the crucial test, he failed. The case in
question concerns a young man that
entered the trade a few years ago as
a helper around the shop. His atten-
tion to business soon made him invalu-
able to his employer, and in time he
was practically advanced to the man-
agership of the market. Trained at
the block, he was an expert at cutting,
and the “boss” always felt safe in
leaving the shop in his charge. And
he made good.

But as time passed, the owner of
the market felt that he could easily
retire, and it was not difficult to find
a successor. His manager had saved
up a tidy sum and his credit was good
so why look further? The transfer
was made, a new “successor to” sign
put up on the front of the shop, and
business continued

Of an affable nature and acquainted
with everyone in the neighborhood,
things looked “rosy” for the new pro-
prietor. For a few days he received
congratulations of his friends and
handed them fat cigars. Incidentally,
he let it be generally known that he
intended to make a lot of changes and
double the business within a year. For
a few weeks, in fact, business did hum.
A general overhauling and special sales
added many extra dimes and dollars
to the cash drawer. This accomplish-
ed, more fat cigars. Together with
this, the snappy fedora hat that he
bought down the street was a size or
so larger than what he had formerly
worn, and the general impression that
he gave was that he had the world
by the tail and everything was coming
his way.

He didn’t see it, because he wasn't
looking; but others observed about

that time that an old-established com-
petitor in the same block was begin-
ning to serve some of his customers—
then more and more. Half a year had
passed by before he himself discovered
this fact—for it was a fact. Counting
profits he found them far below what
he had expected. He grew morose—
damned his customers—and ended by
going ona spree. His general attitude
now became noticeable to the public—
something was wrong with his meth-
ods. To his credit it may be said that
for a time he tried to make out what
was ‘needed, but judgment or some-
thing was lacking. He tried a special
sale or two and sent out some hand-
bills, but somehow his shop seemed
to have lost is drawing qualities. He
didn’t give up, but tried to remedy
things by adopting a new tack—all in
the sense of cheapening the market.
Poorer quality was substituted for the
good quality of former days and in-
competent help replaced the skillful
and efficient helpers of the past. Dirt-—
yes, dirt—made its appearance in every
corner of the place. Broken crates,
baskets, gunny sacks and paper litter-
ed the store The spirit of the mar-
ket was broken and trade deteriorated
to the level demanded by the cheapest
buyers of the locality. With no profits,
payments stopped on the purchase
price, and the former owner was forc-
ed to take the store over again.

Knowing the facts, we believe that
we can place our finger upon the exact
spot responsible for the failure—the
inability to assume responsibility. Cut-
ting meat expertly and attending to
the trade and the many duties inci-
dental thereto, constitute a routine that
can be carried out to perfection under
the guidance of someone else. In fact,
the guidance of the original owner
left nothing for his manager to do but
to carry out orders, and this he did
without observing the necessary thing
—“Why.” We forgot to mention that
the old owner, after his vacation was
“tickled to death,” so to speak, to be
again back in the harness, and with
him, as chief cutter he has his old
man back with him. Old customers
are again buying and the business is
going swimmingly, because the man at
the head knows and welcomes re-
sponsibility Butchers’ Advocate.

—_———e-oa——————
A Banker in Embryo.

A veteran white-wing took his boy
to the president of a large bank, and
said, “I want you to start my boy in
the banking business, first as an office
boy, next as messenger, and on uf
the ladder as  book-keeper, teller,
cashier, and so on, up to President.”

The executive, not very much im-
pressed with the lad, answered, “That’s
a good idea, but why not start him in
your own line, first as a sweeper, then
driver, foreman, superintendent and so
on to Street Commissioner?”

“Well,” replied the old man, “Td
thought of that, but you see, the boy’s
not right bright.”

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DRY GOODS

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

Albion.

Second Vice-President—F. E. Mills,

Lansing. oe
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Secretary-Treasurer—H. J.
Battle Creek.
Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

House-to-House Selling

Tabulation of replies received by the
National Wholesale Dry Goods As
sociation to a questionnaire sent to its
members on the subject of selling di
rect to consumers by house-to-house
canvassing shows that slightly over 72
per cen. of the reporting houses find
direct selling on the increase in their
territories. About 28 per cent. think
that this method of distributing mer-
chandse is on the decline.

“The coupon method of selling, On
the other hand, does not seem to have
attracted so much attention,” the as-
sociation’s report on the questionnaire
says, “and reports on its increasing or
decreasing popularity are almost equal-
ly divided. In one or two sections
where it has just been introduced, the
coupon method is reported to be going
strong, but in others it has attracted
little attention.

“The large majority of replies state
that direct selling has not been dis-
credited to any extent, either by mis-
representation on the part of manu-
facturers’ representatives or by ‘fake’
solicitors who pocketed the customer’s
initial money and completely disappear-
ed. Some cases where alleged mis-
representation occurred are noted, but
they seem to be in the minority.

“Over 83 per cent. of the reports
received stated that no action has been
taken by local business me nor city
officials to curb the activities of the
canvasser. In the isolated cases, where
action was taken, practically nothing
was accomplished because the solico-
tors were operating within the law.
One case is recorded where the police
stopped the operation of camvassers
Zor a short time, but allawed them to
continue ‘as proof of illegal methods
could not be obtained.’

“Another report states the Police
Department closed a coupon concern,
but does not indicate whether it was
compelled to close permanently or al-
lowed to resume business later. One
or two instances are recorded where
efforts are being made to impose a li-
cense fee, but in the vast majority of
instances no curb of any kind has been
attempted. The general opinion is that
the canvasser is protected by interstate
commerce laws.”

The report adds that action on the
part of retailers is likewise passive.
Over 73 per cent. of the replies say
retailers are taking no action what-
ever to offset door-to-door solicita-
tions of direct sellers. As to the fu-
ture of direct selling, the report further
says, 59 per cent. think it will increase
and 49 per cent think it will decline.

——__2 2 >—__
Announce New Millinery Colors.
Twenty-two new colors, the largest
number ever officially sponsored by
the millinery trade, were announced
last week as the ones on which would
be concentrated the production of wo-
men’s hats for the Winter resort and

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

early Spring seasons. They were an-
nounced by the Allied Millinery As-
sociations in conjunction with the Tex-
tile Color Card Association. These
are the colors announced: Pink pearl,
Marie Antoinette, polignac, maintenon,
wild honey, salmon, blue lavender, yel-
low daisy, lavalliere, chateau gray,
Monaco, love bird, watermelon, Florida
gold, Italian blue, meerschaum, phan-

tom red, cake buff, palmetto, dogwood,
gendarme and cookie. Six organiza-
tions joined with the Textile Color

Card Association in sponsoring the
new shades, which will be seen for the
first time when the season is opened
on Dec. 1

—_—_+2>—____

Shoe Sales Continue to Grow.
Although there is some question as
to how much the gain is, reports from
the local shoe trade continue to in-
dicate a swelling demand for both “at
once’ and advance deliveries. The
best indications are that the orders
placed for future shipment are show-
ing up relatively better than the “at
once” sales, so far as men’s and boys’
shoes are concerned, but this does not
hold true with the women’s end of the
business. There, although more simple
models are now being displayed than
for some time, the style element still
works against buying very far ahead.
The recent bad weather resulted in
some wholesale business in rubbers,
mostly men’s, but it was said yester-
day that a good snowstorm would be
required to give the demand for pro-
tective footwear a real stimulus.

—_—__~22.2s—_—_
Buying a Cat in a Bag.

The potato scarcity has sent prices
skyrocketing all over the country. In
a nearby small town a group of gro-
cery men make it a practice to be at
the outskirts of the village to buy up
the loads of potatoes from farmers as
they appear. When one farmer drove
up there was spirited bidding among
four grocers. One of them finally got
the load at the top price and gave the
farmer instructions for its delivery.
Later on the grocer found a load of
cider apples in his cellar, which cost
him top prices for high grade potatoes.
He remembered afterward that the
bidders did not ask what the farmer
had in his wagon but began bidding
reckessly for a cat in a bag.

— oe a—___—_—_—

Lace Demand Is Quite Good.

Although current sales of laces are
not calling for anything like a record
volume of this merchandise, the de-
mand here is generally regarded as
satisfactory. In fact, in comparison
with the call for laces at this time in
recent seasons, it shows substantial
improvement in many quarters. Clunies,
filets and torchons are reported to be
the most sought, with white, ochre and
colored laces of this type all moving
well. They are apparently being used
to considerable extent for embellishing
center pieces, curtains, ete. "‘Val.’
edges, especially in white and ochre,
continue to sell well, and the demand

for venises is fair.
—_.22s—_—_

You can’t shove a man onto a high-
er plane of living than he is fitted for.
He slips off every time.

Many Are the Marvels of Nature.

Grandville, Nov. 10—Farmer Jack
found a small packet of seeds, the
paper yellow with age. He turned to
his wife with the remark that he
would give a good deal if he had a
seed from one of those fine musk-
melons he grew as a boy on _ his
father’s farm long years ago.

An ejaculation from his wife, who
had picked up the paper of seed laid
down by the farmer, called his atten-
tion.

“Took here, Jack,’ she said, “this
is some melon seed put away ten
years ago. You were on dad’s farm
then—”

“And, my goodness, that is seed
from those very melons I spoke about.
I'll see what they look like.” The
farmer tore open the paper, which
nearly crumbled in his hands, and
one lone seed rolled out—just one
seed from a mass of shells and broken
husks. One seed left after ten years.

“Don’t throw it away, Jack,” said
his wife.

“Pshaw, it’s no good now. It’s dead
as a door nail. Why, do you know
I believe its nearly twelve years since
I gathered these seeds on the old
Sand Crek farm.”

“Let me have it.”

The wife took the lone seed, turned
it over in her hand, then quitted the
room. It was in the spring, early
May, and the woman, just for an ex-
periment, went out to the garden,
planted the one old muskmelon seed,
guarded it with sticks, and came back
laughing.

“Maybe it will grow—who knows?”
she said.

And it did grow. After lying in a
cupboard, wrapped in paper for more
than ten years, that little muskmelon
seed swelled up in the warm, moist
soil, burst its skin and sent a lively
shoot up into the sunshine.

Here, then, was performed one of
the marvels of nature A seed spring-
ing into life after ten years lying
dead on the shelf was certainly a
resurrection wonderful to see. It was
a fact demonstrated before their eyes
that years of oblivion had not destroy-
ed the soul of the melon seed. Won-
derful reproduction to be found only
in nature.

A single small acorn, after a long
spell of rest in some dark cupboard,
will, if taken out and planted in
mother earth, burst its bonds, send up
a shoot and begin ne wlife under the
shine of the sun and the patter of the
rain. That small acorn will produce
a giant oak whose top reaches far
into the sky, whose body will become
a giant, tons in weight, many feet in
size. Another marvel in nature for
which puny man can account for only
because of that great All Power we
call God which reaches out every-
where its miracles to perform.

That melon seed, ten years lying
dead on the shelf, burst into life, grew
a long, strapping vine. Half a dozen
melons grew to ripened melonhood,
marvels of beauty, and when Farmer
Jack cut one for eating, he counted in
that single melon ninety seeds equal
in size to the one nlanted. Ninety
seeds in one melon and there were six
ripened melons, over 500 seeds from
the one little seed planted in the
spring. The time for all this was a
little less tha n ninety days.

A single tiny melon seed, ten years
forgotten, within three months re-
producing itself five hundred fold. Yet
this is but one instance of what the
great god Nature greets us with on
every side every day of our lives.

Despite all this there are puny
men who go forth and pretend to
doubt the existence of deity.

In my own experience I can tell of
raising from one single watermelon
seed, three large, luscious melons, each
one of which grew one hundred seeds
within its red interior, and the three
melons averaged a weight of thirty

November 11, 1825

pounds. There you have it, ninety
pounds of edible sweets grown from
one insignificant seed within ninety
days. Man has no way of account-
ing for this marvelous reproduction
in the vegetable kingdom, how foolish,
then, to go out proclaiming funda-
mentalism or modernism as the one
great principle at stake in the religious
life of the world.

Man has only to get right down te
facts in nature to assure himself of the
existence of an omnipotent power so
much greater than man as to over-
shadow every puny argument he may
advance.

With all the mighty forces of na-
ture at work in marvelous manner, the
wonders of the great creator to pro-
claim, there are those so self suffi-
cient as to avow their disbelief in
immortality.

With regard to the trees, we see
them come to life, garbed in green
leaves each spring, flourish through
the summer, shed their leaves in the
fall, drop to sleep for a few months
in winter, only to awake to new life
each spring. This, together with
everything round about that grows
into splendid maturity under the shine
of the sun, ought to put to shame
every idea of materialism.

Old Timer.
2-2
Pajamas Are Much Sought.

An active demand for men’s pajamas
is reported by leading manufacturers
in New York, with indications that
substantial re-orders for the holiday
period will be received The so-called
English style, with collar attached, it
was said yesterday, has been one of
the best sellers. These pajamas, in
broadcloths, sateens and percales, have
sold in biggest volume. A growing
call for this style in radiums, tub silks
and Japanese silks has also been noted.
In patterns, wide stripes and plaids are
said to predominate and the use of
high colors is a feature.

—_—_~22.+———_
Lipstick Red Drops in Favor.

Lipstick red is said to be falling off
in popularity but gracklehead continues
its strong position in the broken pile
coatings. Increasing premiums are be-
ing paid for the latter color and per-
sonal buying tours to get the cloth
are being made by cutters-up to mill
offices, whence it is immediately car-
ried to the cutting table. The trouble
with lipstick red is that it is worn
mostly by young girls, and the demand
for it, at least temporarily, has been
satisfied. Black is holding its own in
favor, and predictions are that as usual
it will strongly dominate toward the
close of the season.

For Quality, Price, and Style

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Grand Rapids, Mich.
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19

 

Thinks the Independent Dealer Needs
a Manager.

Coming down from Larchmont, my
private seat in our club car is next to
that of one of the statisticians of one
of the largest banks in the world. This
gentleman always carries a brief case
home with him at night. I suppose
he uses statistics for a pillow. He
asked me a lot of questions about mail
order houses and chain stores. He
opened his portfolio and he had a lot
of figures on the sales and profits, the
increased number of stores and the in-
creased sales and profits of these in-
stitutions. He was under the impres-
sion that the chain stores were mak-
ing their gains because they bought
goods cheaper than the independent
retailers and therefore could undersell
them. “Isn’t this true?” he enquired
of me. I was tired of statistics. On
the front page of my morning paper
I saw a very interesting article about
a chorus girl who is suing a million-
aire for half a million dollars for
breach of promise. I wished to read
this article. I knew statistics were
waiting for me in my own office.

“No,” I answered this gentleman.
“The trouble with the independent re-
tailers is not that they do not buy
low enough, but in the fact that an
independent retailer, as his name im-
plies, has no boss. Everybody needs
a manager,’ I said. “When a man
reaches a point in this world where
he is entirely independent, look out!
Now you see, these chain stores are
checked up. They are given instruc-
tions and they are compelled to carry
them out. Their inventories are
checked. Their sales are checked.
Their cash is checked. Every move
they make is checked by the auditing
department. Therefore the manager
of a chain store, in order to earn his
salary, must make a showing. On the
other hand, the independent retailer
is not checked up. He attends to
business when he pleases. He takes
his inventory as he pleases. He sells
goods at any price he pleases. No
sir, in my opinion, the trouble with
the independent retail dealers in the
United States is that they are inde-
pendent.” “Why, now,” said the
statistician, “you give me an entirely
new idea. I think there is a good deal
to it.’ He took a blank pad of paper
out of his portfolio and proceeded to
make notes. So, when this bank issues
its next monthly statement telling all
about everything, look out for their
remarks about the dangerous inde-
pendence of the independent dealer!

“Took here,” I said, referring to the
front page of the daily paper. “What
this millionaire needed was a man-
ager. He was too independent. Other-
wise, he would never have to face this
interesting suit. You see, one of the
greatest hardware men of all time
wrote this axiom: ‘Promises are thin
ice and dangerous.’ ”—Saunders Nor-
vell in Hardware Age.

—_22
Items From the Cloverland of Michi-

gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Nov. 3—Now that
the season for hunting partridge has
closed the woods are filled with
mighty hunters after the rabbits, and
from some accounts several partridge

had a narrow escape. The weather
was ideal Nov. 1, while last Sunday
was anything but ideal, which accounts
for the hunters who could not make
the grade last week.

Residents of the two Soos and es-
pecially the numerous visitors who
attended the Soo-Escanaba foot ball
game Saturday, were treated to a rare
exhibition of aeroplane maneuvering,
when sixteen of the Canadian govern-
ment aeroplanes careened through the
atmosphere in the formation for the
purpose of inspection, which had been
ordered by officials of the department
in charge. The drilling went to prove
that the planes could be operated now
just as efficiently as in the summer
when they were first placed in service.

H. C. Lawton, of the Soo Creamery
& Produce Co., returned last week
from an extended trip through the
East and South. He was accompanied
on the trip by his wife. They report
a delightful trip, but found that, com-
paratively speaking, the Soo is as
prosperous as most of the cities
visited.

Henry LaTondress, who for the past
few years has been the book-keeper for
the Booth Fisheries Co. here, left last
week for St. Ignace, where he has
accepted a position with the Warner
Lumber Co. Mr. and Mrs. LaTondress
have made many friends here who
will miss them, but wish them every
success in their new home.

Cards may be a waste of time, but
they will bridge that yawning chasm
between dinner and bedtime.

Leon Winkelman, the well-known
merchant, left last week for New York
on a purchasing trip. He stopped at
Ann Arbor en route to see that foot
ball game.

Many a man whose wife is addicted
to permanent waves probably longs
for the time when he'll be able to
make a permanent investment in a
home.

Three Detroit men, V. P. Deemer,
J. H. O’Hara and J. M. Graft, left
Friday noon for home via auto with
a big moose head strapped on the
front of their car and a big bear
weighing about 300 pounds. Both
animals were killed during a hunting
trip by the three men in the vicinity
of Sudbury, Ontario, last Monday.

William J. Cummings, Secretary of
the Civic and Commercial Associa-
tion, returned to the Soo after his
trip with the Dixie highway motor-
cade. He made the trip in an official
capacity and distributed literature and
procured publicity for the Soo from
many influential newspapers on the
route. On his return he stopped off
at Washington, where he met Presi-
dent Coolidge, also Clerk Shilling, a
former Soo boy who has made a hit
at Washington.

M. A. Goetz the Goetzville mer-
chant, has sold his stock to his
mother, Mrs. A. Goetz, who will con-
tinue the business. Mr. Gretz expects
to spend the next few weeks collect-
ing, after which he may engage in
other business.

Many a modern girl’s idea of a hope
chest is a trunk on the back of an
automobile. William G. Tapert.

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Gold and Silver Effects Liked.

One of the more pronounced decora-
tive trends in evening wear, laces and
in various types of fancy goods is that
for gold and silver effects, with the
former predominating. This is par-
ticularly true of laces, where the metal
types have sold very well. For dress-
es and neckwear there has also been
much use made of these metal shad-
ings, which are provided with a con-
trasting background. ‘Trimmings on
handbags also stress this treatment,
with unique filigree effects obtained in
many instances.

 

 

 

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Built first—to last

After all, a roof-covering is
bought for Protection primar-

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No matter how beautiful a roof
is, irrespective of its low cost
of application, if that roof fails
to protect the building which it
covers effectively and over a
long period of time, it has fail-
ed of its purpose.

Reynolds products are beauti-
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But their chief characteristic is
their DURABILITY, which

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And that’s the real test of a

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Leading lumber dealers sell

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SHINGLE COMPANY

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RETAIL GROCER

Canned Foods Week.

Wyoming Park, Nov. 10—Canned
foods week is now here, Nov. 9 to 20,
inclusive. Ask your jobbing salesman
for posters if you have not already
been supplied.

Make a big display and advertise
dozen and case prices. Make a big
thing of this, as the chain stores are
doing.

Run some special on every thing
that comes in cans from milk to peach
cs. Paul Gezon,

Sec’y Retail Grocers and Gen’l Mer-

chants Ass’n.
—_—_»>»-————_—

Does It Pay To Call For Orders?
Written for the Tradesman.

The young grocer I wrote about
last week lists his delivery expenses
thus: “Auto summers, horse winters,
$173.37.” On his business of approxi-
mately $15,000, that is a modest charge,
being only about one and one-sixth
per cent.; or it would be a modest
charge if that ended it, but it does not.
It comes far and away from ending it.
For he comments on this item thus:

“I go out on the order team daily
myself, and whether it pays or not, J
don’t know. I know that the other
stores do not run a regular order team,
but think some of them would if I
did not. For the past many years this
store has had an order team on the
road and I think folks depend on one.”

I think I could write a book of
comment on that statement as a text.
But in any case, I am certain that this
is a losing proposition to this grocer
and should be abandoned—as any los-
ing thing should be cut out. For you
can take this as a truism: It is always
a safe thing to stop losses.

 

We called for orders for many years.
We did this long after the telephone
became an institution in even moder-
ately well-to-do homes. Why? Well, I
suppose for one thing because “folks
depended on it.” Folks always will
depend on anything they get free.
Folks used to come to our store on
Sunday morning, keeping us there un-
til noon, so long as we continued the
practice of working seven days a
week. Then we cut out the Sunday
morning work, folks readjusted them-
selves—even though some of the old-
timers beefed about it for a while.

Our business grew because of im-
proved location and better methods.
It seemed to grow in spite of the ab-
sence of our best man from seven
thirty to about eleven every morning.
But when he came in with his orders
among which were several which
“must go before dinner,’ we had to
hustle the whole force—delaying, in
many instances, orders which had come
in by telephone long before—that
these folks might be accommodated.

After one particularly trying in-
stance of this sort of thing, we took
an evening to study our call-order ac-
counts to determine whether they paid
their way. We figured the average
earnings. Against that we put the
time of our best clerk, charged double
—because he was on that work at a
time of day when he was most needed
in the store—plus a fair estimate of
actual time used by the rest of us on
those orders.

MICHIGAN

The result was interesting. On that
basis alone, the call-order business lost
It did not pay its way. It cost
us money. But that was not all. We
had then to estimate the value of the

out.

better service we should give to those
who got their orders to us voluntarily.
We took account of the truth that
such customers were entitled to pre-
ferred attention, which now went te
for us.

The final factor to consider was the

those who made no exertion
loss our business was sustaining by
reason of our being without our best
clerk at the time of day during which
he could render service to customers
who came or telephoned to our store.
This must be an estimate, but we felt
it was a more important factor than
any other.

What to do? Answer: Stop solicit-
ing. But also we want to retain as
much of the worth while call-order
So we hit on the
of sharing telephone expenses
We agreed to pay half the
telephone charges for six months. The
plan worked in most cases. We ac-
tually continued to pay the charges
for two years. We profited by so do-
ing. By that time the telephone had
become such a habit that most of the
customers stayed anyway.

But the point is this. that if we had
lost every call-order customer, we
should have been ahead. We were
relieved from much anxiety. We were
able to plan and execute our busi-
better. We had better service
with no added expense. We served
those who came or phoned much bet-
ter than before. Never for a minute
were we tempted to go back to old
ways.

trade as possible.
plan
with those.

ness

Now, without a single figure on
which to base my opinion, I am yet
satisfied that this grocer is losing
money by calling for orders. He
should stop. Take a week or so to
notify your customers of the change.
Then quit. By doing that, he will
save all of the extra full time clerk
he now pays, plus most of or all the
part time help. And believe me, he
is where he needs to save every dime
he can conserve.

As for others starting a call-order
route: two answers to that. You are
always perfectly safe to let the other
fellow do unprofitable work. You are
also always safe not to lay out money.

Another expense that can be elimin-
ated is for advertising. This because

said advertising is mostly calendars,

distributed to about a hundred and
thirty-five families each year. Such
expenditure is the purest waste. Cut
it out.

He comments on his rental expense
thus: “My rent on store costs $25
per month and I get $5 per month for
heating an office piped onto the boiler.
If it were not for this office heating,
I could save two to three months fuel
bill. This I cannot quite figure out a
solution for.”

I do not know circumstances of ar-
rangements or contract or both. If
this boy has an unfortunate contract,
he must complete it. But if no con-
tract, here is another case of quit on a
thing that does not pay its way.

TRADESMAN November 11, 1925

 

 

BLUE GRASS MILK
BLUE GRASS BUTTER
WORCESTER SALT
KENT CLUB COFFEE

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

THRU COMMUNITY GROCERS ONLY

KENTGROCER COMPANY

WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS

 

 

 

 

 

ED 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, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

Serve the Customers and Help Yourself

By making Fleischmann’s Yeast available to your customers you
help bring them health and in turn their business helps bring you
success.

Yeast customers are regular ones. When they call for their daily

supply you can sell them other foods as well, so you profit from the
extra sales as well as from the Yeast you sell.

FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST
The Fleischmann Company
SERVICE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 11, 1925

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

MEAT DEALER

This young man says he has been
able to keep bills paid, though he be-
lieves he could get credit if needed.
Let him not need it Keep out of debt.
That is a primary factor in success. To
pay as you go is another good habit.
Retain it.

Another good habit is that he takes
inventory twice That is
splendid. One reason why half the
butchers succeed against less than a
quarter of the grocers is that butchers

yearly.

are compelled to pay for their goods
every seven days—regardiess of their
responsibility. More grocers would
succeed if compelled to pay weekly.
Frequent inventories constitute excel-

lent checks on conditions.

himself to
Not to
succeed is to weaken moral fiber and

Every man owes it to

succeed in his undertakings.

lower the tone of one’s character. But,
there are special personal reasons why
this young man is obligated to succeed.

That is one reason
talked so straight-from-the-shoulder
and advocated drastic moves. But in
any event nothing I recommend can

why I have

be overlooked. Let this man be tight
as the bark on any tree—as I said last
week. Let him exceed the traditional
New England thrift. Let
lightly regard the expenditure Of a

him not

single dime—let alone a half dollar or
a “two bit” piece. Remember, when
25c is in question, that you had to buy,
handle, sell, charge, deliver and col-
lect for probably ten dollars’ worth of
merchandise to earn that quarter dol-
lar. Then its importance will grow on
you.

Feeling that “folks are not buying
as they used to,” this young man con
siders going on a cash basis. ‘Uhat
way disaster probably ies. The man
trained in credit seldom
fitted to be a cash merchant. And if
you think the cash man has no prob-

have another think com-

business is

lems,
ing.
Get to work on economy of expendi-

you

Work for greater efficiency, as
Cut out adver-
Drop

fure.
I have recommended.
tising that is not advertising.

all donations. Save every dime. Keep

your nose to the grindstone. Work
harder than ever.
Debts press you. You can clear

most of them off by reducing stock,
as I have indicated. Let no
without reducing your
tions. This will beget the habit of
saving. Then when the debts are
wiped out, you will automatically ac-
cumulate, because the habit
formed and the way made familiar by
these experiences.

month

pass obliga-

will be

With health and an established busi-
ness, with a happy home and those
around you who have faith in you, you
are all right provided you do as I have
and get adequate prices for
Paul Findlay.
+>

Mother Hubbard Up To Date.

Old Mother Hubbard

Went to the cupboard

To get her a big drink of gin:
When she got there

The cupboard was bare,

And the old man was wiping his chin,

indicated
your goods.

 

To the Meat Dealers.

Wyoming Park, Nov. 10—A couple
of weeks ago I told about some meat
recipe books which were being pre-
pared by the National Live Stock and
Meat Board, Chicago.

They now have another beautiful lit-
tle book containing about 150 new meat
recipes with a fancy holiday cover and
imprinted with the dealer’s name,
which they offer to dealers at $3.88
per hundred, which is the actual cost
of printing.

These recipe books will make a
splendid souvenir to hand out to your
trade and if you want some of them
just write me at once, stating how
many.

Where can you get such cheap ad-
vertising which will bring in new cus-
tomers and build business?

Act quickly. Paul Gezon,

Sec’y Retail Grocers and Gen’l Mer-
chants Ass'n.

—_+<-.
Romance Tucked Away in Box of
California Prunes.

Falmouth, Mass., Nov. 2—Many
mediums are seized upon to further
the machinations of the little blind
god, but seldom before has it fallen
upon the lowly prune. George W.
Smith, a grocer’s helper here is on
his way to California in quest of his
sweetheart whom he has never seen.
Of course, George has seen her pic-
ture and she has his, and is expecting
him. 3ut neither has ever seen the
other in the flesh. George’s 3,000 mile
journey started with his prying open
the cover to a box of prunes several
months ago. Carefully tucked be-
iween the layers of the fruit, George
found a slip of paper. On this was a
written address, and a request for the
finder to write. George did. In re-
turn he has received more than fifty
sweetly worded letters which have
captivated his heart. When he wrote
a proposal and accompanied it with
his photo, the answer was all that any
swain could desire.

_—_———-

First Egg on Record Laid in Frigid
Spitzbergen.

Spitzbergen is paying due honor to
its first locally laid hen’s egg.
as eggs, are not scarce here, for ‘hose
of the duck tern may be
picked up by thousands in the sum-
3ut the product of the or-

Eggs,

eider and
mertime.
dinary barnyard fowl heretofore has
The egg was laid in
the hennery of Drelleslbuy
of the Dutch Coal Co., who is making
His
hennery, owing to the bitterness of the
It has to be dark-
ened during a part of each twenty-four
In the
sunlight has

been unknown.
Director

an attempt to acclimate chickens.
weather, is heated.
hoyrs of the mid-sun_ period.

Arctic Winter
to be provided.

artificial

Thus hens are being
made to feel at home under the 78th
degree Northern latitude. -

—_+->—___
Do You Have Scales in Your Store?

We have noted the many stores that
have scales in some public spot where
customers and friends can get a “free
weight.”

Most people are interested in their
weight—particularly when it begins to
increase too rapidly. Many men and
women keep a record of their weight,
taken at intervals. If
have a scale in your store a supply of

regular you
printed cards, with space for date and
that a systematic record
may be kept, will be appreciated by
customers.

weight, so

And of course your name
will be on the card in prominent let-
ters as a reminder!

 

 

M. J. DARK & SONS
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Se ee —

Receivers and Shippers of All

Seasonable
Fruits and Vegetables

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gahran
CHRISTMAS CANDIES

NOW READY
High Grade Goods at Low Prices

JOWNEYS Putnam Factory

HOLIDAY PACKAGES GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

   

and crisp

Delicious cookie-cakes

At
ney Ned
a.
HEKMANS
Crackers and
Cookie-Cakes |,

appetizing crackers—- There is a

   
  

Hekman food-confection for every

meal and for every taste.

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Carload Potatoes Wanted

We are in the market to buy good No. 1 graded
potatoes, sacked in new 150 Ib. bags.

If you have a car loaded or can make up a car-
load among your neighbors, get in touch with
us immediately.

The Vinkemulder Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Buyers and shippers of Potatoes and Onions and
fruit in carlots since 1900.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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HARDWARE

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

Petoskey.

Secretary—A. J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

 

 

An Early Start For the Christmas
Campaign.
Written for the Tradesman.
While the Thanksgiving holiday is
still ahead of us it will pay the hard-
now—if he has

prepare

dealer to start

started—to

ware

not already for
his Christmas trade.

An early start is a great help in
bringing out the Christmas business.
Of course under the best of circum-
stances a great deal of Christmas buy-
left to the

But it is worth re-

ing will always be very
end of the season
membering that the season does not
start itself; the merchant has to start
it. By showing holiday goods a little
earlier, it is possible to interest the
public ahead of time, and to bring out
quite a few earlier buyers.

On
the one hand, it spreads the Christmas

This serves a double purpose.

rush over a longer period, thus light-
ening the strain on the merchant and
his sales staff. Or, on the other hand,
a good many fore-handed customers.
having bought early all the things they

would normally buy, have time to think

of other obligations which if they
were rushed they would be apt to
overlook.

Already the hardware dealer can

begin to give his windows a_ holiday
touch, in preparation for the Thanks-
giving holiday; and immediately after
Thanksgiving. it is sound policy to
appeal at once to the Christmas trade.
The displays for the one holiday pre-
pare the public for the next one.

See that you have your Christmas
stocks in early; so that when you ad-
vertise the widest selection
for early buyers, you will show them

possible

something comprehensive. In your
early Christmas displays, and in your
advertising, stress
that
advantage of
the

make an unhurried selection before the

early
the

is to

newspaper
buying
the

chance to

argument early
the

tomer, in

cus-
that he has
gift lines have been picked over, and
is assured of better service than if he
waits until the stere is crowded with
last-minute customers. A good many
customers will continue, of course, to
the last but
work on

until minute; this
the subiect of

early Christmas buying, if continued

wait
educational

from year to year, will in time de-
velop a class of customers thoroughly
sold on early buying.

One of the chief reasons why the
department stores secure such a tre.
mendous Christmas trade is that they
make an early start in their Christmas
selling campaigns, and that Christmas
goods are always on display at an
early date. The department stores do
not wait for trade to come to them—
they go after it.

Many department stores start about
Nov. 1 to offer suggestions for Christ-
mas gifts, and from that time on they
bombard the public with suggestions.
Newspaper space, window displays.
circulars, booklets,

interior displays

MICHIGAN

silent salesmen and other mediums are
used to attract and interest the public.
They do not try to put off their Christ-
mas selling campaign until the last
week before Christmas and then try
to conduct a huge one-week campaign.
That is not their style They start
early and gather in a large valume of,
business before many of the smaller
merchants get started at all.

Although the average retailer re-
gards the department store with aver-
sion, he can profit by the study of de-
partment store methods.

One thing that strikes a visitor to a
department store is the accessibility of
the goods on display, and the fact
that customers can personally and at
their own leisure examine the goods.
The the
customer every facility for rapid mer-
Another feature worthy of

stock is arranged to give
chandising.

attention is the liberal use of price-
tickets. Nearly all the goods on dis-
play are priced in plain figures. In
some sections of the department stores
the customers practically wait upon
themselves.

Price advertising is usually very de-
The

average customer has so much money

sirable in the Christmas season.

to spend on a certain number of gifts;
and quite often he has no very clear
notion of what articles he wants. In
fact, he is as a rule decidedly open to
suggestions; and any help the hard-
ware dealer can furnish the customer in

making his suggestions will in turn
assist to make the hardware store a
popular place with gift-hunters.

To this end many merchants pre-

pare lists of suitable gifts arranged on
two plans First, as to price, for those
customers who have to buy within a
certain figure. Second, as to their
suitability for various members of the
family—father, mother, sister, brother,
children, baby; not forgetting Him or
Her.

It will pay to compile such lists. If
you are running a big advertisement
in vour local paper, give a compre-
hensive list of gift suggestions. Have
the complete list printed or mimeo-
graphed and paced on the counter for
Sec, that
salespeople familiarized in

distribution. incidentally,

your are
advance with the gift possibilities of
the hardware stock.

Right here a suggestion is in order.
There are many recognized gift lines
which hardware dealersyfeature at this
especial season, and these will inevit-
ably be played up in any advertising
you do. But there are also gift pos-
sibilities, often overlooked, in connec-
tion with a good many regular hard-
ware lines For instance, a new
kitchen range for mother—the sugges-
tion of such a gift, in your compre-
hensive list, will be worth while even
if it results in only a few sales. It
will be worth while even if it only
serves to keep your range department
before the buying public So, too, with
other regular lines—electrical devices
washing machines, ironing boards, etc.

In connection with the early Christ-
mas trade, you can give your paint
department a boost by featuring the
idea of brightening up the home for

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days—Thanksgiving as well as Christ-
mas. A window along the “Brighten
Up for the Holidays” idea would be
in order right now, before the Thanks-
giving holiday. Show floor finishes,
wall tints, radiator paint, and similar
interior specialties and, by means of
catchy show-cards, see that your win-
dow gets the idea across to the public.

Interior paint specialties should be
featured as a curtain-raiser to the
Christmas trade proper. They serve
the double purpose of inculcating the
holiday idea in a general way and de-
veloping some specific business for the
paint department.

Another preparatory window could
be devoted to the idea of equipping the
housewife for catering to her Christ-
mas guests—a new range, a compre-
hensive equipment of cooking and
other kitchen utensils, and the like.

The first Christmas display should
come, at the latest, right after the
Thanksgiving holiday, and _ should
drive home the idea of “Come early
and avoid the rush.” Begin at the
very start with specific gift sugges-
tions; for nothing helps so much to
attract trade as the fact that the puz-
zled purchaser, uncertain what gift to
buy, is ensured intelligent and helpful
service in your store.

Circularizing is often a useful and
effective method of getting out early
customers. It is particularly effective
where you have a regular mailing list
which you circularize monthly or
oftener regarding seasonable goods;
for then you get the cumulative effect
of a regular campaign. But even a
single Christmas circular, or two of
them in fairly close succession, will
produce good results, as a rule. In
vour letter to your prospect list, em-
phasize the idea of buying early; and
accompany the letter with a cpoy of
your list of gift suggestions, with any
literature regarding special gifts you
may have to distribute.

Victor Lauriston.

—_.2.—_—_
How Hotel Landlords Incommode the
Public.

As a merchant, I am filled with ad-
miration for our New York hotels.
They certainly know how to ask and
get the price. The hotels have a
strong association. It is not only a
debating society. They believe in di-
rect action and they get it. Last
summer, during the hot weather, some
Western friends telegraphed me to get
a parlor, bedroom and bath at one of
our leading hotels. Not willing to
take a chance, I attended to this little
commission in person. The summer
rate was only $25 per day. I thought
I would like to see what this suite
looked like. I must admit it was very
nice. It looked cozy.

Going back to the elevator, I hap-
pened to see a gray-haired lady in
charge of the desk on the floor whom
I have known for many years. She
also remembered me. Our meeting
was sentimental and touching. While
I waited for the elevator, I enquired
if the hotel was crowded. “Oh yes,”
she answered, “ the part of the hotel
that is open is crowded.” ‘What do
you mean?” I enquired, “by ‘the part
that is open?” “Why,” said. she, “don’t

you know that when business is dull,
the hotels close entire floors? They
lock the doors and remove all the help.
These floors cease to exist. They are
only storerooms for furniture. To il-
lustrate: If we happen to have twelve
floors of bedrooms, possibly we will
shut off six. Therefore we cut the
capacity of the hotel 50 per cent. All

‘tthe cost of running these floors is im-

mediately cut down.”

“When you arrive” said she, “the
trained, polite hotel clerk will say:
‘Have you reserved a room by wire,
sir?? When you say ‘No,’ he will ask,
‘But you wrote us a letter?’ When you
admit that you have not even written
a letter, he will say, ‘Well, very sorry,
sir. Just register and I think we can
fix you up some time this afternoon.
In the meantime, check all your hand
grips. You can wash in the lavatory.’ ”’

“You see, the question is whether
enough guests will arrive that day to
justify the hotel in opening one of the
closed floors. It of course will not pay
to open this floor for a dozen people
or so. It will be cheaper to let them
go to some other hotel If, however,
during the morning enough people are
put on the waiting list to justify open-
ing a floor, the word is passed up, the
floor is opened and they all get rooms.”

“Well, well,” said I.
ly is a wonderful system.” “Oh, yes,”
she answered. “It would hardly pay a
first-class hotel to have travelers ar-
rive and then find they could secure
rooms immediately. That would be
a reflection upon the popularity of the
hotel. You see, Americans only wish
to go to places where it is hard to get
in—a hotel, for instance, where it is
hard to get rooms; a show where it
is hard to get tickets, etc. If anything
is easy to get, it must be second-rate.”
I made my best bow to the gray-haired
lady and descended to the office to
close the contract for the $25 suite.

Then, have you noticed that not-
withstanding the increase in Pullman
rates, you can seldom get lower berths?
Here we have the same system. The
Pullman Company will not hook an-
other Pullman car on to the train
until all the berths, upper and lower
are taken in the cars that are already

“This certain-

hooked on. Even they tell you if you
will wire in advance or write a letter,
you may get a lower. Glorious sys-
tem! This makes you feel, when you
see the earnings of the Pullman Com-
pany rolling up into millions of dollars,
that it is perfectly all right. If you
wish to see something nice and juicy
write the Pullman Company and ask
for their last financial statement. Still,
Mr. Hoover writes us that the cost of
distribution must come down. Hooray
for Hoover! The war was a great
thing for the Pullman Company and
the war is still on!—Saunders Norvell
in Hardware Age.
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Who made the most money, the
man who went on strike or the man
who persuaded him to strike? While
the striker and his family were living
on union doles, the man who called
the strike was drawing a better salary
than he ever earned at his trade.

   
     
   
       
       
    
      
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     
 

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COMMERCIAL TRAVELER

News and Gossip About Michigan
Hotels.

Flint, Nov. 9—Last week I enjoyed
a visit with the Doherty’s at their won-
derful hotel in Clare.

Much has been said about this ho-
tel. Predictions were freely made at
the time it was built it would be a
financial failure. I was much inclined
to think so. All these prognostica-
tions fell very wide of the mark.

Under the guidance of Fred Doherty,
backed up by his charming wife, this
property has made a substantial re-
turn on the investment, and even at
this season of the year when hotel
trade is lagging, the Doherty is mak-
ing a record on room occupancy. Its
rates are most reasonable, its food
service excellent and an atmosphere
of comfort permeates the entire es-
tablishmnt. Mrs. Doherty, who, by
the way, should receive a Hotel As-
sociation medal for service in the
cause of membership getting, drove me
150 miles, visiting Evart, Reed City,
Big Rapids, Mecosta. Mt. Pleasant
and Coleman.

At Reed City we found that A. A.
Brubaker has purchased the interest
of J. G. Booth in the furnishings and
lease of the Hotel King, has greatly
improved the property through renova-
tion and refurnishing, and that it is
now a positive pleasure to stop there.
Mr. and Mrs. Brubaker some years
ago operated the Hotel Wequestonsing,
at Harbor Springs, so they are no
novices in the art of entertaining, and
they will, no doubt, make a success of
their Reed City undertaking.

“Big Bill” Jenkins, of the Western,
at Big Rapids was on his job—baby
tending—the new daughter in his fam-
ily demanding that no one less than
the Mayor of Big Ravids shall show
her attention. Even his absence at the
golf links is noticeable.

The Western, however, is continu-
ing to function properly, the city af-
fairs are in proper shape and_ the
shadow cast by the landlord shows no
reduction.

Last week W. G. Schindehette, of
the New Republic, Bay City, and W.
F. Schultz, of the Ben Franklin, Sag-
inaw, conducted me on my annual
“round up” through the Thumb, our
speedometer showing a record of 276
miles in one day.

At Sebewaing, C. W. Rose recently
acquired the Hotel Hannah by_ pur-
chase. Here is a property which a
few years ago was built at a cost of
$50,000 and even to-day shows the
wisdom of its builders in erecting
something to withstand the ravages of
time.

To-dav it also shows evidence of
recent rehabilitation, and an admir-
able example of enterprise on the part
of its new owner. The advent of the
automobile had its effect on the affairs
of the Hannah, but Mr. Rose is turn-
ing this condition to his advantage by
advertising and serving meals which
attract tourists generally and visitors
from Bav Citv and Saginaw particu-
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in.

The Wild Fowl! Bay Hotel, at Bay
Port. had a partial loss by fire a few
days ago, and we found some evi-
dences of disorder while repairs ary
being made. Patrons are being en-
tertained just the same, however, as
though nothing had happened.

The neat little hotel at Fairgrove,
known as the Fairgrove, is now oper-
ated by Frank Randall, who recently
acquired the property. The _enter-
prise shown bv its. proprietor is
bringing in satisfactory returns. Good
meals at fair prices are the reason.

At Port Austin, the Lakeside Inn,
formerly conducted by Mrs. Whiting,
is now owned by Mrs. Minnie Stinson.
Situated on the banks of Lake Huron,
it enjoys a good patronage in the sum-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

mer season, but is kept open in winter
as well for the accommodation of
traveling men.

At Pigeon, the Hotel Heasty, for-
merly conducted by Harry G.- Janke,
is owned and operated by its owner
William Heasty. It also enjoys a
good patronage from commercial men
and is well kept.

Alfred Stevens, of the Hotel Stevens,
Bad Axe, located across the street from
the Pere Maraquette depot, is install-
ing a first class cafeteria in the up
town district. His reputation as a
caterer is well known and he will un-
doubtedly do well in his new venture.

At Bad Axe are to be found two
other excellent hotels, the Morrow,
operated by William Thourlby & Son,
and the Irwin, by Charles H. Finzel.
This thriving little city is certainly
well provided with good stopping
places, but they all have a prosperous
appearance.

Mrs. Nellie Whiting, formerly of the
Lakeside Inn, at Port Austin, has ac-
quired the interest of P. B. Adair, in
the Hotel Dow, at Harbor Beach, an-
other thriving town in the Thumb dis-
trict. Also Mrs. Salina Stevens owns
and operates the Hotel Wilson there.
Both comfortable and clean and, I
should say, profitable.

At Minden City, W. F. Weber has
the Hotel Weber, which when it comes
to the matter of hospitality has’ fully
arrived. After you have partaken of
one of Mrs. Weber’s meals you may
well say, “Fate cannot harm me; I
have dined to-day.”

The Hotel Wolverine, at Detroit,
has issued an announcement to the
effect that Harry G. Janke, formerly
of the Hotel Bancroft, Saginaw, and
more recently with Van Ettan Lodge,
Oscoda, has joined the organization of
the Detroit hotel and will be found
there hereafter. Mr. Janke enjoys a
large acquaintance throughout Eastern
Michigan, and his ability is unques-
tioned.

Last Friday night at the Hotel
Statler. Detroit, the Detroit Hotel As-
sociation entertained two distinguished
members of the Greene family,
Thomas D., president of the Ameri-
can Hotel Association, and Elmore Ga
manager of the Buffalo Statler. This
meeting was held in conjunction with
the members of the executive counc:l
of the Michigan Hotel Association, it
having been called togethe rto confer
with the President of the National
body. A splendid dinner was served
with the compliments of Manager
Kiare. of the Statler. The conference
vas satisfactory to everyone concerned.

At this meeting Manager W. J.
Chittenden, of the Book-Cadillac, re-
newed his invitation for a general
convention of the Michigan Hotel As-
sociation, as his personal guests, some-
time about the first of the year. John
A Anderson, president of the Michigan
body. was instructed to complete ar-
raneements with Mr. Chittenden and
notify the members of the exact date
chosen.

En route from Port Huron to De-
tro‘t. the other day, Mr and Mrs. An-
derson and the writer were entertained
at the Colonial, Mt. Clemens. by Man-
acer Witt. at dinner. Mr. Witt now
full controls the affairs of the Colonial,
has greatly improved the property and
the service still retains its previous
high standard. We had our opportun-
itv at an unlimited selection from the
following menu:

Ovster Stew
Relishes
Boned Pickerel, Fried in Butter,
Shoe String Potatoes
Spaghetti a la Italienne
Pork Chops, Saute. Fried Apples
Omelette, with Cheese
Roast Shoulder of Veal, Demi-glace
Hashed Brown and Mashed Potatoes
Creamed Celery “Wax Beans
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A Reduction in Rates
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Cold Baked Ham,
woast Fork Smoked Longue
Koast Beef Potato Salad
Apple Pudding
Spiced Peaches Cherry Pie
Cottage Cneese and Waters
beverages

In company with john D. Matin,
Grand NKapids, 1t was my pleasure to
be present at a banquent of Flint
<ouncil No: 29, UW. ©. 4.) last. Satur-
aay. Many Matters pertaining to the
liulual interests ot hotel and traveling
men were tully discussed.

in Michigan particularly there is a
very iriendly teeing existing between
ine commercial men and most hotel
operators, and it 1s largely due to the
iaCl that both organizations meet on
common ground through a joint com-
mittee, take up probiems OI mutual in-
terest and dispose ot them without
Iricuon.

Something over a year ago the Mich-
igan motel Association, at the solicita-
uon ot the U. Uc. L., voted unanimous-
ty to post hotel rates in rooms. In
most Cases this 1s being done. Some
operators, however, have been a bit
slow in responding to this agreement,
but there has been no triction. ‘Lhe
u. C. L. organization has been pa-
tient and reasonable and it is hoped
and believed that within a short time
room rate posting will be announced as
1UU per cent.

Members of the hotel fraternity will
hail with pleasure the announcement
that their old triend, John UD. Martin,
is almost completely restored to good
health. He had a long, hard seige ot
uiness, but he looks well and reports
himself as much encouraged over his
condition. John strenuously denies
statements broadcasted as to his great
age. He admits that he was a pioneer
m commercial traveling in Michigan,
that his early “joy riding’ was with
an ox cart, but claims this was some
time after the civil war. However, he
is proud of the fact that he is an old
stand-by of the U. C. I. and I don’t
know that I can deny but what it
ought to be a pleasurable thought for
anyone.

Roast Chicken,

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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Nov. 10—Harvey
Gish, Michigan representative for Dr.
Hess & Clark, Inc., of Ashland, Ohio,
received a letter last week from his
house, announcing that he was the
headliner of twenty-seven salesmen
during October. His dated sales for
tne month were $10,452.15.

Joseph R. Wade, Michigan represen-
tative tor James B. Clow & Sons, of
Chicago, leaves Nov. 25 for San Fran-
cisco, whence he sails Dec. 5 for Fono-
lulu, where he will spend the winter.
Mrs Wade will accompany him. They
expect to return about April 15.

Jj. Gilbert, who took the man-
agement of the City Bakery about two
months ago, has resigned.

An old resident tells Gabby a story
of Aaron B. Turner, who was Income
‘Lax Collector in Grand Rapids during
the war. The last day of the dratt
in 1864 h> took in a large amount ot
money from those who preferred to
pay the Government $300 rather than
go to the front. The money kept
coming in in a steady stream until 9
o'clock in the evening when the office
was closed. The money was mostly
in small bills and made a large sized
package when tied up with a string.
Yurner’s first thought was to wrap it
up in paper and toss it in one corner
of the room, but the danger of fire
precluded such disposition of the
money, so he placed it on top of the
safe and proceeded to take everything
else out of the same to make room for
the money. This done he closed the
safe door and carefully locked it.

On coming down the next morning
he immediately unlocked the safe, only
to find it empty.

Turning immediately to the colored

janitor, who had preceded him to the
office, he anxiously enquired:

“George Washington, have you seen
any money around the office?”

“Ves, sir,’ was the reply, “on top
of the safe.”

“Did you take any?”

“No, sir, it wasn’t my
plied the janitor.

In his anxiety over the disposition
of the money the night before he had
forgotten to put it in the safe.

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3enton Harbor—The Ozone
ment Corporation, 120 Pipestone street,

asked Turner.
money, re-

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has been incorporated to manufacture,
sell and install equipment to produce
ozone, with an authorized capital stock
of $50,000 preferred and 5,000 shares at
$1 per share, of which amount $25,000
and 5,000 shares has been subscribed
and $10,000 paid in.

—__2+++—____

Detroit—The L. H. Allison Co.,
Francis Palms building, Woodward
avenue, has been incorporated to man-
ufacture and deal in electrical equip-
ment at wholesale and retail, with an
authorized capital stock of $50,000
$20,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in, $10,000 in cash and $10,000
in property.

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Natural Saline-Sulphur Waters. Best
for Rheumatism, Nervousness, Skia
Diseases and Run Down Condition.

J. YT. Townsend, Mgr.
8T. JOSEPH MICHIGAN

 

 

Columbia Hotel

KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To

 

 

 

WESTERN HOTEL
BIG RAPIDS, MICH.

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

A good place to stop.

American plan. Rates reasonable.

WILL F. JENKINS, Manager.

 

 

 

 

   

Excellent Culsine
Turkish Bathe

WHEN IN KALAMAZOO

Stop at the
Gere all
iran Dotel

Headquarters for all Civic Clubs

Luxurious Rooms
ERNEST McLEAN, f°

 

GRAND
Corner Sheldon and Oakes;
Facing Union Depot;
Three Blocks Away.

 

 

 

HOTEL BROWNING

150 Fireproof
Rooms
RAPIDS

Rooms with bath, single $2 to $2.50
Rooms with bath, double $3 to $3.50
None Higher.

 

 

 

MORTON HOTEL

GRAND RAPIDS’
400 Rooms—400 Baths

NEWEST HOTEL
Rates $2.00 and Up

 

 

P. Steketee & Sons

Wholesale Dry Goods
GRAND RAPIDS

 

The Center of Social and Business Activities

THE PANTLIND HOTEL

Everything that a Modern Hotel should be.

Rooms $2.00 and up.

 

With Bath $2.50 and up.

 

 

26

DRUGS

WHAT IS PERSONALITY?

 

It Is Hard To Define From Outward
Expression.

This commodity is very difficult to

define.

ferent walks of life, some of them re-

As we meet people in the dif-

pulse and some of them attract us. To

those who make a business of read-

ing people, not only as to facial ex-
ression, but as to form, walk, dress
expression of eyes and speech, there
is a great amount of interest in com-
ing in contact with people, or we
might say, the average man and wo-
man.

In a large majority of cases through
what we may term “defects’ in one or
more of the above traits, we arrive at
quick conclusions and many times un-
favorable ones. As we meet people at
large, we sometimes wonder why there
consciousnss in certain
to what we might call the

is not a per-
sons, as
features and traits, which are not pre-
possessing to the other party, and then
we say to ourselves that if that per-
son is conscious of the one or more,
why does not that person try to over-
come the unfavorable expression. This
may be, as said before, in the expres-
sion of the eyes, the speech, the form,
the walk or some particular inclina-
tion in social life. There is something
about this, that is hard to define, and
yet at the same time, it is fair to pre-
sume that many people realize short-
comings along these particular lines.
And again, in this very class of people
it is often found that when you come
to know them, some of them are the
brightest gems in their personal lives
and in the realms of human experi-
ence. How often it is that we take
a dislike, only to find that we are mis-
taken, and we ask ourselves how shall
we define all classes of personality!

On the other side, we are approach-
ed every day and every hour by peo-
ple, who are comely in their appear-
ance; they show good care and often
good breeding, sometimes with hand-
some facial expression, and we are
attracted. In quite a large percent-
age of cases, there will be no disap-
pointment in the attraction, because
such expressions bespeak for training
of some kind, and we are inclined to
believe that it was in the right direc-
tion. And again, when we come to
know some of these people to whom
we are attracted, we realize that it is
largely paint and feathers and that the
real substance is not there. So again
we say, personality is hard to define
from outward expression. Yet we
must admit that where the form is
properly cared for and where there is
evidently a desire to be cleanly and
in good order, that it is really a good
demonstration as to the desire to be
of some worth in the world. We recall
that some of the greatest men in the
world have been repulsive in expres-
sion, have been shabby in their attire
and would not be attracted by society
itself and would not enjoy it to any
great extent. These men seem to be
contradictory. The facts are that their
minds are so occupied that they forget

 

MICHIGAN

that there is something more than
speech and action and that it is their
real duty to keep themselves in such
form as to be pleasant at least in ap-
pearance to their fellowmen. And on
the other side, some of the most ac-
complished men and women that we
have ever known, were very particu-
lar as to their personal appearance. If
a man is to be sent to the union sta-
tion to greet another man, whom he
has never seen, there must be some-
thing about the personality of the in-
coming stranger by which he can be
identified.

When all this is said and done and
we attempt to answer, “What is Per-
sonality?’ we are obliged to say that
it is the inward quality of every man
and woman, which shines out through

 

TRADESMAN

ness, politics, religion or anything else
and in fact, every individual worth
while, should seek to capitalize a real
personality, both outwardly and in-
Lee M. Hutchins.

—_—_—_2 2 >—___

Drug Store the Result of Systematic

Saving.

Fremont, Nov. 10—The drug busi-
ness of George Baars, of Fremont, is
doing a business of $16,000 per year
on a stock of $4,000. This is the
record since Mr. Baars purchased the
store from Angus Stewart in 1920.
Since that time Mr. Baars has bought
both the stock and the buildings, the
combined cost of which was $9,250,
all of which is paid except $350. Mr.
Baars has been enabled to do this by
reason of his systematic saving.

When George was 17 years old,
June, 1912, he entered the employ of
Mr. Stewart at $3.50 per week. This

wardly.

Lee M. Hutchins.

all the outer appearances and defects
that there may be and shines out to
such an extent that we realize at once
that there is a personality somewhere
there that is worth while. As in the
matter of finance, it takes character to
make credit and we are pleased to say
that the men and women of the world
and those, who prize their credit very
highly, realize thoroughly that char-
acter is the first essential attribute by
which worthiness for credit in any
field of undertaking is made possible.
Attractive, pleasing and worth while
personality is something that must be
developed from within to be expressed
outwardly. The personality of the
right kind or nature should be capital-
ized by every individual. Cleanliness,
good order, outward appearance and
character, in all the fields of under-
taking, such as literature, science, busi-

seemed a very small stipend for the
long hours required, but George was
determined to learn the pharmacy
business and he stuck to it. When
school started that fall, he worked
mornings before school, a half hour at
noon, after school and in the evening.
His salary remained the same. But
the next vacation veriod he received
$7 per week. Each year he received
an increase in pay, running from $7
to $9 to $15 and $18 for the vacation
periods and from $3.50 to $4 to $6 to
$7 for part time work.

The first week he worked he began
a savings account at he bank, and
only twice since then has he failed to
make weekly deposits. One of these
was when he enlisted in the kaiser’s
war and the other was due to getting
snowbound when away from home.
He received his salary each Saturday
night and each Monday morning found
him a visitor at the savings teller’s
window at the bank. With each in-
crease of salary came a corresponding
increase in the weekly deposit.

bound at Muskegon.

November 11, 1925

In the fall of 1915 he entered Ferris
Institute, at Big Rapids, where he
took the two-year graduation course
in pharmacy, but completed it in one
year. His average examination stand-
ing was 93 per cent., while he passed
the State examination with an average
of 82 per cent.

When through school he returned to
Mr. Stewart’s employ at $21 per week,
but remained only a month at this
time. Wishing to enlarge his experi-
ence, he managed a drug store at
Muskegon for four months and. then
came back to Mr. Stewart, where he
remained until he entered the army i1
June, 1918.

He was discharged from the army in
1919 and took his old position at $22.50)
per week. He continued until Jan
1, 1920, when he purchased the dru;
stock of Mr. Stewart for $3.500, pay
ing $1,000 down. By Aug. 20, 1922
he had it all paid up.

He married in November, 1920, and
since then he has had his wife’s help
and inspiration in the store. The firs:
year he owned the business he increas-
ed it from $10,017 to $16,159. He has
maintained the figures around th:
each year, the past year’s business be
ing $15,862. Fremont is situated in a1
exclusively farming region, which has
been hard hit the past four or five
years, and this amount of business is
considered wonderful, there being also
another drug store in the town.

On Jan. 10 of the current year, Mr.
Baars purchased the building from Mr.
Stewart at a cost of $5,750. His sys-
tematic savings enabled him to pay
$5,100 down and he has paid $300 since
leaving an indebtedness of only $350.
He has also expended $600 in altera-
tions to the building. Since his mar-
riage he has also bought and paid for
a residence at a cost of $2,250.

During the time he was depositing
$5 weekly, he, with three other young
men, made a week end visit at Drenthe
but on the way home became snow-
They were com-
pelled to remain there a week in a ho-
tel. Mr. Baars had to borrow money
from a school friend and his efforts
to repay this kept him from making
a few of his usual deposits. This time
and his war period were the only times
He has ever missed this weekly sched-
ule.

A glance at his pass books shows
some interesting things. In one bank
from Noy. 26, 1920, to Jan. 10, 1925,
he never missed a weekly deposit and
in his period of over four years, he
made but two withdrawals. One of
these was a loan of $400 to a relative
and the other a payment on the build-
ing. In another bank he deposited
weekly from April 9, 1923, to Jan. 10,
1925, with only one withdrawal, a
payment on the building on the latter
date.

After having a home of his own, he
started a checking account for per-
sonal expenses. He deposited $15
weekly in this account and also $18
monthly that he received for rent for
part of his house. His personal ex-
penses have never exceeded his de-
posits in this account. A Christmas
savings card of the present year, on
which $5 is deposited weekly, shows
every week punched.

Mr. Baars says that systematic sav-
ings is the only way to get ahead. H>-
says that if a week or more is skipped,
it is hard to catch up and too discour-
aging. He scrimped in his early days
to make these regular deposits, but he
feels his sacrifices were well made.

H. L. Spooner.
——_*2>___
Very Singular.

“Is pants singular or plural?” the
stenographer asked the boss.

“If a man wears ’em it’s plural,” he
replied.

“Well, if he doesn’t——”

“Then it’s singular,” added the boss.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 11, 1925

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27
The will of James B. Duke, follow- can go to the relief of those who WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
ing his creation of-the endowment last must otherwise starve for want of sup-
December, gives Duke University, in plies. MacMillan’s experience showed Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
North Carolina, a productive fund that the plane is not yet ready to take
whose sum total is $80,000,000. This the place of the sea-borne boat of ie i ee ea cee
university now surpasses in wealth any greenheart oak sheathed with iron or Boric (Powd.) -.16 @ 2 Lavendar Gar’n 85@1 20 Cojchicum __---- @1 80
other college in the land. The rest the sled hauled by the dog. It also cael aga oo be @ : eg a a Cubebe @3 0
of our educational foundations will proved that men marooned in a lone- - 58 78 ses ee wl. uae ’ Digitalis ---~-~-- @1 80
‘ . ul - seed, . 1eSs
closely watch what is done with the ly waste are linked with us by the Nitric ' 1§ Linseed, ra. less 1 14@1 27 psn oe pm
immense amount of money, and some friendliness of sound across spaces pac engl ” a ertini. eo be Gusthe eS @3 20
administrators of meager academic which it would take weeks of land or  Tartaric ane 40 g 60 Olive, pure -... 3 75@4 50 Guaiac, Ammon. @2
: oe Olive, Malaga, lodi
revenues are hardly to be blamed if, sea travel to cover. Ammonia yellow -_---..- see ¢ *
with great objectives visualized, they —_~->—_—_ Water, 26 deg. -. 2 g 2 olive, "Malaga, 2 75@3 00 ae = ;
: i i : oO Water, 18 deg. — 0 STR at . aoe
are moved to sorrowing reflections and = The Methodist Board of Temper- Water, 14 deg. -- 6%@ 12 ee OR Kine ———__. @1 4
comparisons. It is a feeling more ance. Prohibition and Public Morals Gezbonate @ 2 Griganum: com'l 1 00@1 20 Myrrh ---.-.._.-. @2 50
ditable th h ‘ll ; ’ : ’ ' : Chloride (Gran.) owe 20 Pennyroyal .... 4000425 Nux Vomiea @1 65
creditable than envy that wi prompt is out against all the jokesmiths, comic da Peppermint — 22 50@22 75 ontum — @3 60
some college presidents to exclaim to trip artists and funmakers. The pro- gp Rese, pure 18 A “ elas al
their trustees, “Think what we could epee 3 ‘ ir (Canada) 2 55@2 80 Se as _ ‘ ie
: ’ eh . hibition joke must stop. Will Rogers ce Geacnas a * Tee on aaeeaetos, © sun Opium, Deodors’d @3 50
do with a part of those millions! The and Sam Hellman and all the press Peru -----------. 3 00@8 26 Sassafras, true 3 0G3 _ ot... 1 « GN
bequest should be a stimulus to men and footlight favorites must get their Tolu ---------- -— 3 00@3 26 aammatres, arti'l - 90@1 20
of wealth and social connerece (not jaughs out of other subjects that are Barks . Sperm AOE : 6091 s Paints.
merely consequence) to consider the becutins ‘These ia vo doubt that the Cassia Saigon). 0g a 50@ 16
great and growing needs of other in-_ ;; : ‘ Sassafras (pw. 65 Turpentine, bbl. __ @1 15144 Lead, red dry — 154 @16%
jibe and jest are charged with a vast p ‘ :
otibabieaee ee Soap Cut patie ag Turpentine, less 1 23@1 35 Lead, white dry 154% @15%
: power of propaganda which works on ie --- 18@ 26 oe qecne ne Lead, white ofl__ 15% @15%
——_—.—o—————— ee Off 2 ce
An ther drama of the radio is play- the principle expressed by Polonius by Berries Wintergreen, sweet Poh 7. bbl. @ 2%
: : ; : i indi i i ay Cubed .._...... 12 rch ..----.- 3 00@3 25 cre, yellow 1 3
ing itself with the aurorborealis for a innuendo and indirection. But it may coe” - = Wintergreen, art__ woot 00 Red Gorcu ie ,
spotlight. The annual Hudson’s Bay be doubted whether the attempt to Jusiper yo peas — i. Beit — 5 o0me = Red Venet’n Eng. 4@ 8
Company boat on its circuit of the control ie coment homer wil ac Buty ee 5@ 8
Northernmost trading posts was wreck- complish much for the enforcement of Ss Extracts 009, . wen ~~ can ‘%
ed off the pitiless coast of Ungava. prohibition. A laugh is a very mer- Licorice powd. --— 1 00 — Rigen see Same
: . . . i: Pe ae
That left Southhampton Island with- curial and elusive thing. When the urs Bicarbonate eubae 35@ 40 ” @
out resources for the winter. So the policeman goes forth to arrest it, the  arnica _.---------- 25@ 30 i ie gga a 3
ether is vibrant with messages to the chances are that it has already skipped ee oo Cl. oone se Stcileicac
nearest points from which dogsleds over to some other place. Chlorate, powd.
Ge Meal 16@ 26 Acetanalid .......... 47@ 65
Acacia, 1st ----- 50@ 65 Cyanide -_.-____ 80@ 9@ Alum —___________ 08 1
@ 13
Acacia, 2nd -----_ 45 MM iodidg 4 66@@4 86 Alum. powd. and
Acacia, Sorts --. 20 25 Permanganate _. 20@ 30 ground __._ 09@ 16
Acacia, Powdered 35@ 40 prussiate, yellow 65@ 75 Bismuth, Subni-
Aloes (Barb Pow) 25 85 pPprussiate, red _- @1 00 trate ____ — 3 54@8 59
Aloes (Cape Pow) 25@ 35 Sulphate -_------ 35@ 40 Borax xtal or
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 65 70 powdered __.. 07@ 13
ga pone eo e CORE AL OAGm, po. 1 50@2 00
ees Calomel ..___.__... 3@3 09
Camphor ---.--. 1 — 10 Roots Capsicum, pow'd 48@ 66
EC 10 oh lathe
. Cee Sie Atkanet 0G % Ga ten 360. 40
e Best Line We Have Ever Shown |} sino?" " — @i iy leo, powered. 35 $9 Gloves es. Big Be
Calamus ..0. | | 636 80) Ae ee ee
oe. powdered g @ Wicanass pwa ba t Chalk Prepared. 14 16
Myrrh, ‘powdered 26 Coe poe. Mee Chioral, Hydrate 1 3591 88
NOW ON DISPLAY AT Sen “eae ipegie Sa Al ug wp Ui oe
Opium, gran. 19 65@19 92 powdered .-. 39@ 35 Cocoa Butter _... 50@ 765
Shellac 90@1 40 Ginger, Jamaica 60@ 65 Corks, list, 1 apa 40- 10%
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Shellac Bicached 1 00g1 19 Ginger, Jamaica, 4 Copperas
’ ragacanth, pow 5 oy pees Hore Copperas, Powd. 4 10
Tragacanth ---- 1 75 2 25 Goldenseal, pow. _@7 50 Corrosive Sublm 1 58@1 76
‘ ° ° Ipecac, powd. —. 3 75@4 00
in our building 38-44 Oakes St. Cor. Commerce Turpentine -———.- @ % Hloorice no dog. wo Guenm ganar —— OO
icorice, powd. 0 Pextrine en eae 6 15
Insecticides Orris, powdered 30@ 40 pg a
PPE ai ions 15 ‘fen poweena, me 4 over’s Powder 3 50@4 00
f h failed bas Blue Vitriol, bbl. @7 Rhubarb, powd. 1 00g1 10 Emery. All Mos 2 ie
I you ave falled to see this ine, ee era 2 L sioniahie go 4 @ 40 {Epsom Salts, bbis g
arsaparilla, ond. E Its. i
hil ae ill Hellebore, White ground __.___. @1 00 ieee psc ei 25
come at once wnlle it 1s still COMm- : nee <—— ae ne = Sarsaparilla Mexican, Flake, White .... 15@ x0
; 45 Sac ee ade 359 wp ermaldehyde, Ib. 12@ 30
plete. Orders shipped within two Lime and Sulphur Saullie, powdered G0@ 76 @clatine --—_- ~-_ 85@1 00
wo awe ae (aes 6S US Glassware, full. case 00%
: aris l : . :
days. Do this today. We thank alerian, powd. = @ 1 Glauber Salts, bbl. | 01%
Leaves
Glue, ee
ou Buchu ve Seeds Sea ices bo 0
you. Buchu aan “gi 30 Ging, Shite are as
. ue, W apalcnnes
Sage, Bulk ----.. 25 0) Avion 35 Glue, white grd. 85
Sage, % loose -.. 8 40 Anise, powdered 35 40 Glycerine __--.__.. 26@ 46
Sage, powdered__ 86 «Bird, Is... 13@ 8 «Hope 66@ 75
Senna, Alex. __.- 50@ 76 Canary -----..-.- 13 a0 Jodine 6 45@6 90
Senna, Tinn. _-.. 30@ 35 Caraway, Po. .30 25@ 30 lodofccm -.--.. 17 35@7 65
Senna, Tinn. pow. 25 85 Cardamon ___-__ @4 00 Lead Acetate .. 20 80
. . Uva Urai __..----__. 20 25 Coriander pow. .30 .20@ Mace — 1 45
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co ols ay
eo ee ee
Almonds, Bitter, 1 0 15 Morphine -... 11 18@11 93
° ° ge a true 50@7 ‘5 Flax, ground __.. 08@ 15 Nux Vomica -_.. 9 3¢
Manistee Michigan Grand Rapids Almonds, | ‘Bitter, Foenugreek pow. 15@ 25 Nux Vomica, pow. 17@ 25
oe a ioe 00@4 25 oe aan @ 15 ol ed ae pow. 35@ 40
monds, Sweet, a, powa .. i 25 -epper, ite _. 45@ 55
ue 1 60@1 80 Mustard, yellow-. 17@ 25 Pitch, Burgundry 1 15
1 00@1 26 Boaarere. black —_. 20 25 oe Spee ae . 15
oppy -.-----..- uinine ...-..... 72 33
1 60@1 76 ce oe 1 50@1 75 Rochelle Sal w= €8
THE TOLEDO PLATE & WINDOW GLASS COMPANY 1 1563 00 Rape oS ise 20 Saccharine == : 30
: Sabediia 35 45 eter _...... If 22
Mirrors—Art Glass—Dresser Tops—Automobile sus * Sunflower ne 11%@ 16 Seldiits Mixture 30@ 40
orm, American 30@ 40 oap, green -... 16 3¢
and Show Case Glass ~ 4 3504 60 Worm, Levant -4 25@4 60 Soap mott cast 22%@ 8
All kinds of Glass for Building 1 60@1 75 oap, white cas
cans lk... GIS
601-511 IONIA AVE., 8. W. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Citronella  ...-. 1 25@1 50 Tinctures Soap, white castile °
Cloves 8 00@3 35 less, per bar _... @1 45
Cod Live ~ 1 $0o2 40 Aconite @1 80 SO52 Bice a 10
fo tess Soda carbonate 0
Croton _....._-_ 2 00@2 35 Aloes ---------_-- @1 45 Soda, Sal _-. 02
GRAND RAPIDS LABEL CO. Pee iaete ini @1 10 Spirlts camphor =. "Ql 38
Manufacturers of ube - 7 0QT Asafoetida  —_---- @2 40 Sulphur, roll -... 3%@ 10
Bigeron ~------- 7 50@7 75 Belladonna -_---- 135 Sulphur, Subl. -.. 04 10
GUMMED LABELS OF ALL KINDS Bucalyptus ..... 1 25@1 50 Benzoin —___----- 210 Tamarinds -_--_. 200@ 35
ADDRESS, pac seg eo SEALS, ETC. Hemi oe oo ° Benzoin Comp’d 26 Tartar _pimetic __ 0@ 7%
Write us for Quotations and Samples uniper Berries. UCR urpentine, Ven. 5
Juni We - 160@1 75 Canthrara ae
GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN | 7Umper Woe! - 1 ogi so Capsicum" Ase Vanilla ix. pure 2 BO@S 00
Lard, No. 1 _... 1 #@1 Catechu 176 Zinc Sulphate _.. 6Q@ 16

 

 

28

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 Cherries
Canned Salmon
Canned Lobsters
Canned Sardines

Sugar

DECLINED

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

 

 

  

  

  
 

 

Raisins
Olives
AMMONIA Instant Postum, No. 9 5 00 Beef, No. %, Qua. sli. 1 75
instant Postum No. 10 4 50 Beef, 5 o., Qua. sli. 3
Arctic, 16 oz. -------- 200 Postum Cereal, No.0 225 Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. ¢ 50
Arctic, 32 oz. ___--- 3 25 postum Cereal, No. 1 270 Seefsteak & Onions, 8 2 75
Quaker, 36, 12 oz. case 3 85 post Toasties, 36s -- 3 45 Chili Con Ca., 1s 1 35@1 45
_ Post Toasties, 24s _- 345 Deviled Ham, 4s --- 20
Post’s Bran, 24s ---- 2 70 obese one --- 3 60
ambur e
BROOMS i Onions, No. 1 ---.-- 3 15
Jewell, doz ._--------- 5 75 Potted Beef, 4 oz. --- 1 10
Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 8 25 Potted Meat, % Libby 52%
ancy Parlor, 23 lb. -- 9 25 Potted Meat, % Libby 92%
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 75 Potted Meat, % Qua.
Ex. Fey. Parlor 26 Ib. : - Potted Ham, Gen. : : =
Toy) _______________ Vienna Saus., No.
Whisk, Noe. 2 - 275 Vienna Sausage, Qua. 05
BRUSHES Veal Loaf, Medium —-- 2 30
oo os Baked Beans
Solid Back, n. —--- -
Solid Back, 1 in. ___- 1 75 a a ~~ s
Pointed Ends ------- 126 -yemont, No. 2 ____ 1 2
Stove Snider, — : ee
ee es 18 Snider, oO. OWES
oo 1 é§ Van Camp, small —-- 86
a2 ; Poopicss .. 2 60 Van Camp, Med. -.- 1 16
10 Ib. pails, per doz. 8 20
15 Ib. pails, per doz. 11 20 Shoe 2 25 CANNED VEGETABLES.
SS ib. pails, por dos. 17 79 No. +-0 —-__------— Asparagus.
No. 20 ---------------- 3 00 No. 1, Green tips 4 60@4 75
BAKING POWDERS BUTTER COLOR = non —_ Green od
Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 135 Dandelion, ----------- 2 85 ww. Bea Tb 8 60@18 00
Queen Flake, 16 oz.,dz2 25 Nedrow, 3 042., doz. 250 (Green Beans, 283 2 00@3 75
Royal, 10c, ae 95 CANDLES Gr. Beans, 10s 7 60@13 00
Royal, 6 0oz., aos. 2 70 djectric Lig t, 40 Ibs. 4 Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@3 65
Royal. 12 oz., doz. -- 6 20 ake. i bs. .--- 12,8 Lima Beans, 2s, Soaked 95
Royal, 5 lb. ------_- 3120 paraffine, 6g -------— ] Red Kid. No. 2 1 20@1 35
Rocket, 16 oz., doz. 125 paraffine, 128 -------- 14% Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 76@2 40
Wicking - = Beets, No. 2, cut ---- 1 60
BEECH-NUT BRANDS. Tudor, 68, per box -- 36 Beets, No, 3. cut -.-. 1 80

Caramels

Sliced bacon, large --
Sliced bacon, medium
Sliced beef, large ~~
Sliced beef, medium —
Grape Jelly, large ---
Grape Jelly, medium_.

Peanut butter, 16 oz.
Peanuts butter, 10% oz
Peanut butter, 6% oz.
Peanut butter, 34% oz.
Prepared Spaghetti -_
Baked beans, 16 oz...

   
  
  

Original

onseXsee' Crown Capped

BREAKFAST FOODS

Cracked Wheat, 24-2
Cream of Wheat, 18s
Cream of Wheat, 24,

a ok
Pillsbury’s Best _Cer’l
Quaker Puffed Rice--
Quaker Puffed Wheat
Quaker Brfst Biscuit
Ralston Branzos
Ralston Food, large --
Saxon Wheat Food -.
Vita Wheat, 12s ----

Post’s Brands.

Grape-Nuts, 24s -----
Grae-Nuts, 100s
Instant Postum, No. 8

 

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condensed Pearl

CANNED FRUIT.
Apples, 3 lb. Standard 1 50
Apples, No. 10 -. 4 50@5 75

Apple Sauce, No. 10 7 50
Apricots, No. 1 1 76@2 00
Apricots, No. 2 —.--__ 3 00
Apricots, No. 2% 3 00@3 75
Apricots, No. 10 ---- 9 25
Blackberries, No. 10 10 25
Blueber’s, No. 2 2 00@2 75
Blueberries, No. 10-- 13 00
Cherries, No. 2 ---- 3 50
Cherries, No. 2% ---- 4 00
Cherries, No. 10 —--- 13 00

Loganberries, No. 2 -- 3
Loganberries, No. 10 10
Peaches, No.1 1 26@1
Peaches, No. 1, Sliced 1
Peaches, No. 2 ------ 2 75
Peaches, No. 24% Mich 3
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 25@3
Peaches, 10, Mich. — 8
Pineapple, 1, sl. 1 80@2
Pineapple, 2 sl. 2 80@3
P’apple, 2 br. sl. 2 65@2
P’apple, 2%, sli. 3 35@3
P’apple, 2, cru. 2 60@3
Pineapple, 10 cru. - 1 60
Pears, No. 2 _______ 4 00
Pears, No. 2% --4 25@4
Plums, No. 2 -- 2 40@2
Plums, No. 2% ------ 2 90
Raspberries, No. 2, blk 3
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 15
kaspb’s, Black,

Mo 10 16
Rhubarb, No. 10 4 75@5
Strawberries, No. 10 12

CANNED FISH.

Clam Ch’der, 10% oz.
Clam Ch., No. 3 —_____
Clams, Steamed, No. 1
Clams, Minced, No. 1
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz.
Clam Bouillon, 7 0z.-
Chicken Haddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, small --
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz.

DO et pee bet DO DO CO OO DD GO pe
ua
°

Cove Oysters, 5 oz. __ 1 90
Lobster, No. 4, Star 85
Shrimp, 1, wet 2 10@2 25

Sard’s, %4 Oil, Ky 5 25@6
Sardines, 144 Oil, k’less 4
Sardines, % Smoked 6 76
Salmon, Warrens, %s 2 75
Salmon, Red Alaska 4 10
Salmon, Med. Alaska 3 40
Salmon, Pink Alaska 1 85
Sardines, Im. %, ea. 10@28

Sardines, Im., %, ea. 25
Sardines, Cal. _. 1 65@1 80
Tuna, %, Albocore -__ 95

Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz. 2
Tuna, %s, Curtis, doz. 3
Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz. 7

CANNED MEAT.

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

Beef, No. 2%. Qua. sli. 1 88

Corn, No. 2, Ex stan 1 65
Corn, No. 2, Fan. 1 80@3 35
Corn, No. 2, Fy. glass 3 25
Corn, No. 10 — 7 50@J16 75
00@1

Dehydrated Veg.
Dehydrated Potatoes, lb.
Mushrooms, Hotels ---- 38
Mushrooms, Choice --. 4
Mushrooms, Sur Extra 7
Peas, No. 2, E. J. 1 76@1 85
Peas, No. 2, Sift, a

oo

s000
Peas, No. 2, Ex. Sift.
mf.
Peas, Ex. Fine, French
Pumpkin, No. 3 1 36@1
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 75@6 0
Pimentos, %, each 13@1
Pimentos, %, i.
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% : 6
3
2

SSaR

Saurkraut, No. 3 1 40@
Succotash, No. 2 1 65@
Succotash, No. 2, glass

SSSRSSSRSSSSAS

 

 

 

Spinach, No. 1 ----_ 1
Spinach, No. 2-- 1 60@1
Spinach, No. 3. 2 10@8
Spinach, No. 10__ 6 00@7
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 30@1
Tomatoes, No. 3 1 75@1
Tomatoes, No. 2, glass 3
Tomatoes, No. 10 ~ 7
CATSUP.
B-nut, Small -....... 3 70
Lily Valley, 14 os. — 3 60
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 75
Paramount, 24, on 2
Paramount, 24, 16s -- 2 40
Paramount, 6, 10s -- 10 00
Sniders, 8 os. —..-___ 1 95
Sniders, 16 os 2 96
Quaker, 8% oz. ------ 1 25
Quaker, 10% oz. _-__ 1 40
Quaker, 14 oz. 1 90
Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 60
CHILI SAUCE
Snider, 16 ox. --_-__. 8 50
Snider, 8 oz. —-. 2 60
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. —. 2 10
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. -_ 3 50
OYSTER COCKTAIL.
Sniders, 16 oz. 3 50
Sniders, 8 oz. ~..-.._ 3 50
CHEESE
Roquefort —-_.___.._.. 53
Kraft, Small tins -.-_ 1 65
Kraft, American ____ 1 65
Chili, small tins -_.. 1 6»
Pimento, small tins -_ 1 65
Roquefort, small tins 2 25
Camenbert. small tins 2 25
Wisconsin New ------ 28%
Longhorn =... 29
Michigan Full Cream 27
New York Full Cream 31
Sa saeo og 40
Bick 28

 

CHEWING GUM.

Adams Black Jack ---- 65
Adams Bloodberry ---- 65
Adams Dentyne ------- 65
Adams Calif. Fruit ---- 65
Adams Sen Sen ------- 65
Beeman’s Pepsin --.--- 65
Beschnut 70
Doublemint -—----------- 65
Juicy Feut 65

Peppermint, Wrigleys -- 65

Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65
Wrigley’s P-K -------- 65
me 2 65
reaper 65
CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, #5 a 87
Baker, Caracas, s .. 26
Hersheys, emium, %s 36
Hersheys, Premium, %e 36
Runkle, Premium, %s_ 33

Runkle, Premium, 1/5s 36
Vienna Sweet, 4s ---- 36
COCOA.

Bunte, %~s —.______ ae
Bunte, % So 35

Bunte, ib. -._._______

Ib. _. $2
Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib.__ 8 5@

Droste’s Dutch, Ib. 4 50
Droste’s Dutch, Ib. 2 35
Hersheys, #5 Sen —_. oe
Hersheys, 1 le
ae 36
Loony, —. 40
Lowney, {3s —_______ — 40
Lowney, ms as 38
Lowney, 5 lb. cans -_- 31
Runkies, 4s —_________ 34
Ramis, 1/58: _.________ 38
Van Houten, #2 nes 16
Van Houten. %s ------ 76
COCOANUT
Dunham's
15 lb. case, %s and \%s 49
15 ib. case, 4S __-____. 48
15 Ib. case, %8 -------- 47

CLOTHES LINE.

HUME GROCER CO.

ROASTERS
MUSKEGON, MICH

 

COFFEE ROASTED

Bulk
mio 29
santos 35@37
Maracaibo ......_----_- 38
Gautemala —__.._... 41
Java and Mocha ---- 51
Bozota 2 42
Peaberry —..___-__— 37
McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh

acuum packed. Always
sh. Complete Hine of
high-grade bulk coffees.
Ww. F. McLaughlin & Co.,

Chicago
Telfer Coffee Co. Brand
Bokay.

Coffee Extracts
M. Y., per 100
Frank’s 60 pkgs. -~.
Hummel’s 60 1 Ib.

 

—
—- 16%
CONDENSED MILK

Leader, 4 dos. -----. 6 75
Bagle, 4 doz. -....--. 9 00

MILK COMPOUND

Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. -. 4 50
Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. .. 4 40
Tall, 4
Baby

sd

EVAPORATED MILK

 

Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. -. 4 85
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 4 75
Quaker, Gallon, % doz. 4 75
Blue Grass, Tall 48 — ¢ 75

Blue Grass, Baby, 96 4
Blue Grass, No. 10 -- 4
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. .

Every Day, Tall ----- 5 00
Every Day, Baby --— 4 90
Pet, Tall ------------ 5 00
Pet, Baby, 8 0Z. ------ 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,

0 ___ 75 00
Tunis Johnson Cigar Co.
Van Dam, i0c¢ —-____ 75 00

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

Canadian Club -.--- 37 60
Master Piece, 50 Tin. 37 50
Tom Moore Monarch 75 00
Tom Moore Panatella 75 00
Tom Moore Cabinet 95 00

Tom M. Invincible 115 00
Websteretts -------- 37 50
Webster Savoy ---- 75 00

Webster Plaza -.---- 95 00
Webster Belmont_—-110 06
Webster St. Reges_-125 00

 

Starlight Rouse ---- 90 0
Starlight P-Club ~. 135 00
Tons oa 00
Clint Ford _----_--— 36 00
Nordac Triangulars,

1-20, per M ------- 75 00

Worden’s Havana
Specials, ‘ 20, per M 75 00

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails

Standard .—---.___ 17
Jumbo Wrapped —_- 19
Pure Sugar Sticks 600s 4 26
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 20

 

Mixed Candy
Kindergarten —-.------ 18
teeter 26
Ri Oo 13
French Creams ------ 17
Cameo 20
Grocers -.. oo

Fancy Chocolates
5 lb. Boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 70

Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 70
Milk Chocolate A A 1 70

Nibble Sticks ~------- 1 85
Primrose Choc. --.... 1 26
No. 12, Choc., Light . 1 65

Chocolate Nut Rolls ~ 1 76
Gum Drops Pails
Anning 2200 a
Citron Gums --------- 17
Challenge Gums --.--- 14
Pavone —. 20
Superior, Boxes ~-.-.. 34
Lozenges. Pails
A. A. Pep. Lozenges 19
A. A. Pink Lozenges 19
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 19
Motto Hearts --..-.. 2d
Malted Milk Lozenges 22
Hard Gooas. Pails
Lemon Drops --------. 19
O. F. Horehound dps. 19
Anise Squares --.-_-. ae
Peanut Squares -----. 20

Horehound Tabets —.- 19

Cough Drops Bxs.
Putnam s oo 1 35
Smith Bros. ~------- — 1 60

Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows
4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart.
4 oz. pkg., 488, case 3 90
Specialties.
Walnut Fudge --..-..-- 23

Pineapple Fudge ...-... 21
Italian Bon Bons ---.--. 19
Atlantic Cream Mints_ 3)

Silver King M.Mallows 1 60
Walnut Sundae, 24, 5c 80

Neapolitan, 24, 5c -.-. 80
Yankee Jack, 24, Bc _. 80
Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 6c 8C
Pal O Mine, 24, 5c -... 80

COUPON S8OOKS

60 Economic grade 8 &@
100 Economic grade 4 56
500 Economic grade 20 0@
1000 Economic grade 37 60

Where 1,000 .books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 lb. boxes

 

November 11, 1925

DRIED FRUITS

 

Apples
Domestic, 20 lb. box ll
N. Y. Fey, 50 Ib. box 16%
N. Y. Fey, 14 os. pkg. 17%
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice -. 30
Evaporated, Fancy -. 35
Evaporated, Slabs -. 27
Citron
10 Ib. box «
Currants
Package, 14 oz. ------ 15%
Greek, Bulk, lb. ~--- 16
Dates
Dromadary, 368 —_----. 6 75
Peaches
Evap. Choice, un. ... 17
ivap., Ex. Fancy, P. P. 8
Peal
Lemon, American ---... 24

Orange, American .-..... 24

Raisins.

Seeded, bulk —-..-_- 09%
Thompson’s s’dles blk 09%
Thompson's seedless,
5. Oe.
Seeded. 15 02. =.
California Prunes
90@100, 25 lb. boxes _@08%
60@70, 265 lb. boxes ~Q@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 -. 06

Cal. Limas --.-. 15

Brown, Swe oa OI

Red Kidney -..-.---. 10%
Farina

24 packages -...---. 3 50

 

 

Bulk, per 100 Ibs ---. 06%
Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks —_ 4 26
Maoaron!
Domestic, 20 Ib. box 09%
Armours, 2 doz., 8 o@% 1 ov
Foulds 2 doz., 8 os. 32 25
Quaker, 2 dos. eo
Pearl Barley
@hester oo 4 50
O00 6 6&0
Barley Grits ------ _ 06
Peas
Scoten, . 2 06%
Split, Ib. yellow ~--_-- 08
Split green ---.__---— 10
Sago
East India
Tapioca
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks ---. 09
nute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 06

Dromedary Instant —. 3 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

 

Doz. Doz.
Vanilla PURE Lemon
175 _. % ounce —.. 1 15
200 ___ 1% ounce --. 2 00
3 60 _.. 2% ounce --_ 3 60
350 _.. 2 ounce -_- 3 50
600 _.. 4 ounce -_- 6 00

UNITED FLAVOR
Imitation Vanilla

 

1 ounce, 10 cent, doz. 90
2 ounce, 15 cent, dos. 1 36
8 ounce, 25 cent, dos. 3 00
4 ounce, 30 cent, dos. 3 25
Jiffy Punch
8 dos. Carten
Assorted flavors.
FRUIT CANS
Mason.
Half pint TO
One pint .. 7 7
One quart 0 9 00
Half gallon —...___ 12 00
tdeal Glass Tep.
Rubbers.
Half pint 9.00
One pint 9 26

One quart 8 11 00
Half gallon _. 36

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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GELATINE
Sello-O, 3 doz ------ 3 45
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 2 25

Knox’s Acidu’d, doz. 2 2&
Minute, 3 doz. ------- 4 0
Plymouth, White ---- 1 55
Quaker, 3 doz. ------ 2 55
HORSE RADISH
Per doz., 5 0Z ------
JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 lb. pails --.- 3 80

Imitation, 30 Ib. pails 2 10

Pure 6 oz. Asst., doz. 1 10

Buckeye, 22 0z., doz. 3 38
JELLY GLASSES

8 oz.,, per doz. -------- 37

OLEOMARGARINE
Kent Storage Brands.

Good uuck, 1 Ib. ---- 8
Good Luck, 2 lb. ---- 27%
Gilt Edge, 1 lb. ---- 28
Gilt Edge, 2 Ib. ----- 27%
Delicia, 1 lb. ~------- 23%
Delicia, 2 lb. -------- 23

Van Westenbrugge Brands
Carload Distributor

     
   
  

=e

    

Nucoa, 1 Ib. —.--.
Nucoa, 2 and 5 lb. -- 21%
Wilson & Co.'s Brands
Certified 25

Nut (2 20
Special Role -------- 25%
MATCHES
Swan, 144 —-_--------— 5 00
Diamond, 144 box _--- 6 60
Searchlight, 144 box 6 60

Ohio Red Label, 144 bx 5 00
Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box 6 60
Ohio Rosebud, 144 bx 6 60
Ohio Blue Tip, 720-1c 4 75

>

Safety Matches
Quaker, 5 gro. case 4 25
MINCE MEAT
None Such, 4 doz. -- 6 47
Quaker, 3 doz. case -. 3 60
Libby, Kegs, wet, Ib. 22
MOLASSES.

 

Gold Brer Rabbit
No. 10, ¢@ cans to case 5 95
No. 5, 12 cans to case 6 20
No. 2%, 24 cans to Cs. 6 45
No. 1%, 36 cans to cs. 5 30

Green Brer Rabbit
. 10, 6 cans to case 4 60
. 6, 12 cans to case 4 85
No. 2%, 24 cans to Cs. 5 10
No. 1%, 36 cans to cs. 4 30

Aunt Dinah Brand.
No. 10, 6 cans to case 3 00
. 5, 12 cans o case 3 25
No. 2%, 24 cans 0 CS. 3 50

No. 1%, 36 cans oe CS. 3 00
New Orleans

Fancy Open Kettle -- 74

Choice ----------------- 62

Fair ------------------- 41

f barrels 5c extra
Molasses in Cans.
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Wh. L. 5 60
Dove, 24, 2% lb Wh. L 5 20
Dove,
Dove, 24, 2% lb. Black 3 90

Dove, 6, 1 i
Palmetto, 24, 2% Ib. 5 15

NUTS.

Whole
Almonds, Terregona_._._ 28
Brazil, New. --------- 25
Fancy mixed -------- 22
Filberts, Sicily ------ 25

Peanuts, Virginia Raw 20
Peanuts, Vir. roasted 11
Peanuts, Jumbo, raw 12
Peanuts, Jumbo, rstd 13
Peeans, 3 star 24

Pecans, Jumbo ------ 50
Walnuts, California __ 28
Salted Peanuts.

fancy, No. } ---__- 12

jumbo 18
Shelled.

Almonds _... 70

Peanuts, Spanish,

125 lb. bags -------- 14
Filberts  -~---------=-- 32
Pecans 222 1 10
Walnuts =... - 60
Bulk, 3 gal. keg ---- 5 25

OLIVES.
Bulk 5 ga,l keg ---- 8 00
Quart Jars, dozen -. 6 50

Bulk, 2 gal. keg ---- 3 40

Pint, Jars, dozen ---. 3 50
4 oz. Jar, plain, dos. 1 30
pl., doz. 1 60

9 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 2 30
20 oz ar, Pl wae 4 26
3 oz. Jar, Stu., doz. 1 35
6 oz. Jar, stuffed, dz. 2 50
9 oz. Jar, stuffed, doz. 3 50
12 oz. Jar, Stuffed,

den. 2 4 50@4 75
20 oz.
46
1 2
2s and

 

Bel Car-Mo Brand

8 oz., 2 doz. in case
24 1 Ib. pails --------. —<
12 2 lb. pails ~---------
5 Ib. pails 6 in crate
14 lb. pails
95 ib. pails -_.._.. oe
60 Ib. tins
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Iron Barrels
Perfection Kerosine -. 12.1

Red Crown Gasoline,

Tank Wagon :
Solite Gasoline ~------ 19.7
Gas Machine Gasoline 38.2
Vv. M. & P. Naphtha 21.6
Capitol Cylinder --~--- 41.2
Atlantic Red Engine 23.2
Winter Black -------- 13.7

larine

fron Barrels.

Light Cae
Medium ---.---------- 64.2
Heavy ---------------- 66.2
Special heavy -------- 68.2
Extra heavy ----- amen 10a

Transmission Ot] ---. 62.2
Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1 48
Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 3 25
Parowax, 100 Ib. ------ 90
Parowax, 40, 1 lb. ---- 9.2
Parowax, 20, 1 Ib.

 

Semdac, 12 pt. cans 2 75
Semdac, 12 qt. cans 4 60

PICKLES
Medium Sour
Barrel, 1600 count -- 18 50
Half bbls., 800 count 10 00
50 gallon kegs ------ 5 00
Sweet Small

30 gallon, 3000 ------ 50 00
5 gallon, 500 -------- 10 00
Dill Pickles.

600 Size, 15 gal. ---- 14 00
IP

Es.
Cob, 3 doz. in px. 1 00@1 2¢
PLAYING CARDS

Battle Axe, er doz. 2 75
lue Ribbon -------- 4 50
Bicycle -------------- 4 75
POTASH
Babbitt’s 2 doz. ------ 2 76
FRESH MEATS

Beef.
Top Steers & Heif.__@19
Good Steers & H’f 16@17%
Med. Steers & H’f. 133%4@15
Com. Steers & H’f. 10@12%

Cows.
Top. 22.2 - 14
Good _.... 12%
Medium —_-_----------- 11
Common ------------ 10
Veal.
Top _._.-___--__------ 18
Gooa __..-__________-- 16
Medium —.----—------- 14

 

 

Poor 2 ee 10
Pork.
Light hogs ---------- 16
Medium hogs -------- 16
Heavy hogs -~--------- 15
Loins 25
Butts __.------------- 22
Shoulders —----------- 18%
Spareribs -~----------- 17
Neck bones ________—_ 96

PROVISIONS
Clear Back -. 8

Short Cut Clear34 50@35 00

Dry Salt Meats
S P Bellies __ 28 00@3

Lard
Pure in tierces
. tubs __--advance
. tubs __--advance
. pails _._-_-advance
. pails ___.advance

Compound, tubs -

 
 

1
Tongue, Jellied ~..---
Headcheese
Smoked Meats

Hams, Cert., 14-16 Ib.
Hams, Cert., 16-18 Ib.
Ham, dried beef

Sots 2
California Hams ----
Picnic Boiled

Hams ._..._._._ 30
Boiled Hams ---- 40
Minced Hams ---- 14
Macon _.. 33

0 00

18
4
%
y

. pails _-_-advance 1
. pails _._.advance 1
Compound tierces ---- 13

13%

30
31

Beef
Boneless, rump 18 00@22 00

Condensed No.

Condensed Bakers rinse =

Moist in glass ------
Pig’s Feet

Cooked in =.

_ 18 00@22 00

bis: .... 65
Y% bbis., 35 Ibs. ------ 2 75
% bbls. —------------- 5 30
, he 2 15 00
Tripe.
Kits. 15 Ibs. ---------- 90
¥, bbis., 40 Ibs. ------ 1 60
%, bbis., 80 Ibs. ------ 3_00
Hogs, per lb. -------- @42
Beef, round set ---- 14@26
Beef, middles, set_- 25@30
Sheep, a skein 1 75@2 00
RICE
Fancy Blue Rose ---- 08%
Fancy Head --~------- 09
Broken -------------- _ 06

ROLLED OATS
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sks.
Silver Flake. 12 Fam.
Quaker, 18 Regular --
Quaker, 12s Family --
Mothers, 12s, Ill’num
Silver Flake, 18 Reg.
Sacks, 90 lb. Jute --
Sacks, 90 ek Cotton --

RUSKS.
Holland Rusk Co.

C2 0 ht 9 BS * DO CO
a
o

Brand
18 roll packages ---- 2 30
36 roll packages ---- 4 50
36 carton packages -- 5 20
18 carton packages -- 2 65
SALERATUS
Arm and Hammer -- 3 75
SAL SODA
Granulated. bbs. ---- 1 80
Granulated, 60 Ibs. cs 1 35
Granulated, 36 2% Ib.
packages ---------- 2 25
CoD FISH
Middles —...--.------- 151%
Tablets, 1 lb. Pure -- 19%
Tablets, % lb. Pure,
éc5. 1 40
Wood boxes, Pure -. 29%
Whole Cod ---------- 11%
Holland Herring
Mixed, Kegs -------- 15
Mixed, half bbls. ---- 12 75
Queen, bbls. --------
Milkers, Kegs ------- 1 26
Milkers, half bbls. ~~ 13 75

Miikers, bbls —--------
Herring

K K K K, Norway -- 20 00

& ib. pails _--__-__
Cut Lunch

1 40

Boned, 10 Ib. boxes -- 20

Lake Herring
% bbl., 100 Ibs.
Mackerel

6 50

Tubs, 100 lb. fney fat 24 50
Tubs, 60 count ------ 6 00

White Fish

Med. Fancy,

SHOE BLACKENIN
2 in 1, Paste, doz. --
EB. Z. Combination, dz.

Dri-Foot, doz.
Bixbys, Doz.
Shinola, doz.

STOVE POLISH.

Blackine, per doz. --
Black Silk Liquid, dz.
Black Silk Paste, doz.
Hnamaline Paste, doz.
Bnamaline Liquid, dz.
BE Z Liquid, per doz.
Radium, per doz.
Rising Sun, per doz.
654 Stove Enamel, dz.
Vulcanol, No. 5, doz.
Vuleanol, No. 10, doz.
Stovoil, per doz. ----

SALT.
Colonial, 24, 2 Ib.
Colonial, Iodized,

Med. No. 1, Bhie. ——. 2

100 Ib. 13 00

G
1 35
1 35
2

3 00

 

Med No. 1, 100 lb. bg. 85
Farmer Spec., 70 ib. 85
Packers Meat, 56 Ib. 57
Crushed Rock for ice
cream, 100 Ib.. each 75

Butter Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 4 24
Bleck 60 Ib, 22. 40
Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 10
100, 3 1b. Table .....- 5 50

Te

Per case, 24, 2 Ibs. -. 2 40

Five case lots —------- 2 30
lodized, 24, 2 Ibs. ---- 2 40
Worcester

z = =
WORCESTER

SAut Company ||
i

ee

 

. 80-10 sks. --.---

Bbls 5 40
Bbls. 60-5 sk. ------ 5 55
Bbls. 120-2% sks. -- 6 06
300-3 tb. sks. _-.._- 6 05
Bbls. 280 Ib. bulk:
A-pButter __._. — 400
AA-Butter -..._-.--- 4 00
Plain. 50 Ib. blks. -- 45
No. 1 Medium, Bbl. — 2 47
Tecumseh, 70 lb. farm

fe 2 an 85
Cases Ivory, 24-2 cart 1 85
Iodized 24-2 cart. --- 2 40

Bags 25 Ib. No. 1 med. 26
Bags 25 Ib. Cloth dairy 40
Bags 50 lb. Cloth dairy 76
Rock ‘‘C’’ 100 Ib. sack 80

CLEANSERS

 

80 can cases, $4.80 per case

WASHING POWDERS.
Bon Ami Pd, 3 dz. bx 3 75

Bon Ami Cake, 3 dz. 3 25
Climaline, 4 doz. _.-- 4 20
Grandma, 100, 5c ---- 4 00
Grandma, 24 Large —- 4 00
Gold Dust, 100s ------ 4 00
Gold Dust, 12 Large 3 20
Golden Rod, 24 -----. 25
Jinx, ¢ doz. —..-_.-... 4 50
La France Laun., 4 dz. 3 60
Luster Box, 54 ~----.- 3 75
Miracle C., 12 oz., 1 dz 2 25
MA Duteh Claan 4 ae @ 40
Queen Ann, 60 oz. -- 2 40
Rinso, 10602. —...___ 6 75

Z.

Rub No More, 100, 10
OF. ee ;
Rub No More, 18 Lg. 4 00

Spotless Cleanser, 48,

    
 

Ch 3 85
Sani Flush, 1 doz. -- 2 25
Sapolio, 3 doz. ------ 3 15
Soapine, 100. 12 oz. ~ 6 40
Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. 4 00
Snowboy, 24 Large -- 4 80
Speedee, 3 doz. ------ 7 20
Sunbrite, 72 doz. -.-. 4 00
Wyandotte, 48 —------- 4 75

SPICES.

Whole Spices.
Allspice, Jamaica -_-- @16
Cloves, Zanzibar _.-. @40
Cassia, Canton ------ @25
Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40
Ginger, African --.--. @15
Ginger, Cochin _----._ @30
Mace, Penang ------ @1 00
Mixed, No. 1 -.-_.._.

22
Mixed, 5c pkgs., doz. gis
Nutmegs, 70@90 72

Nutmegs, 105-110 --_. @70
Pepper, Black ------ @25
Pure Ground In Bulk

Allspice, Jamaica -.. @18

Cloves, Zanzibar -.-. @42
Cassia, Canton ------ @25
Ginger, Corkin -.---. @30
Mustard _.__.... 2 @28
Mace, Penang --.--.. @1 15
Peper, Black —_------ @30
Nutmegs -----.--- @76
Penper, White -.-....._ 49

Pepper, Cayenne ----
Paprika, Spanish ----

Seasoning
Chili Powder, l5c ---- 1 85
Celery Salt, 3 oz. —--- 95
Sage 2 oz. .__...._. 90
Onton Sait ..... 1 35
Gacue 1 35
Ponelty, 3% oz. ---- 3 26
Kitchen Bouquet -.-. 4 50
Laurel Leaves ------- 20
Marioram, 1 oz. ..__-- 90
Savory, 1 02. _-.-__—_ 90
Thyme, § Of. —.....-_ 90
Tumeric, 2% oz. ---- 90
STARCH
Corn
Kingsford, 40 lbs. __- 11%
Powdered, bags -. 480
Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 4 05
Cream, 48-1 _._.______ 4 80
Quaker, 40-1 _ 1
Gloss

Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. -- 4 05
Argo, 12, 3 Ib. pkgs. 2 96
Argo, 8, 5 lb. pkgs. --— 3 85
Silver Gloss, 48 1s -- 11%
Elastic, 64 pkgs. ---- 5 36
Tiger, 48-1 ---------- 3 50

Tiger, 50 lbs. i OS

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6. 10 Ib. cans 2
12, 6 Ib.
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6. 30 Wh canes — 3 74
19 5 Ib. cams 2... & 94
94 216 Ib. cane _._... & 09
24, 1% lb. cans 2 oe
Unkle Ned
6 10 Ib. cans 2... 2 96
12 6 ib. cane... 3 16
94 234 Ib cans ....._ 2 26
4, (16 Ib. cans _. 2 30
Corn
Blue Karo, No. 1%. 2 27
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 11
Blue Karo, No. 10 _. 2 91
Rea Karo, No. 1% = 2 $7
2ed Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 49
Red Karo, No. 10 -- 3 29
Imt. Maple Flavor.
Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz. 3 0€
Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4 19
Orange, No. 10 _-_. 3 99
Maple.
Green Label Karo,
Green Label Karo -. 5 19

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1 Case, 12 Quarts —— 5 50
1 Case 6% Gallons -- 5 00
1 Case, 3-1 Gallons -- 4 50
1 5-Gallon Jacket Can 7 00

Maple.
Michigan, per ga) .. 2 60
Welchsa, per gal. 2

  
 

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Lea & Perrin, small_. 8 36
Pepper —~------------- 1 60
Roval Mint —......_ — 2 40
Tobasco, 2 0%. ------- 4 26
Sho You, 9 oz., doz. % 70
A-1 large .---..____- 5
A-i, email -........- 3 15
Capers, 2 oz. ..._---_ 2 86
TEA.
Japan.
Wedium _....__...- 27@33
3T7T@4ae
Yo 54@63
Wo 1 Nibbs _......_ &
1 lb. pkg. Sifting ------ 13
Gunpowder
Cholce ......_ 33
Wancy 2 42
Ceylon
Pekoe, medium --_------ 65
English Breakfast
Congou, Medium ----~--
Congou, Choice ---- 35@36
Congou, Fancy _... 42@43
Oolong
Medien .... SOS
Cheite 45
Waney Se
TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply cone —. 45
Cotton, 3 ply palls soa
Wool, € ply 18
VINEGAR
Cider, 40 Grain ...... 24
White Wine, 80 grain 25
White Wine, 40 grain 19
WICKING
No. 0, per gross __._.- 75
No. 1, per grossa —.._ I 50
No. 2, per gross —.-- 1 60
No. 3, per gross -... 2 00

Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90

Rochester, No. 2, doz. 60
Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
Rayo, per doz. ......s «0
WOODENWARE
Baskets
Bushels, narrow band,
wire handles ___.-_. 1 75
Bushels, narrow band,
wood handles -_---- 1 80
Market, drop handle &5
Market, single handle 90
Market. extra 1... 1 KA
Snlint, large .......... 8 50
Splint, medium -—__.-- 7 60
Splint, email _______._ 6 50
Churns.
Barrel, 5 gal., each. 2 40
Barrel, 10 gal., each_-2 55
3 to 6 gal., per gal. _. 16
Egg Cases
No. 1, Star Carrfer_. 5 00
No. 2, Star Carrier_. 10 00
No. 1, Star Egg Trays 6 25
No. 2, Star Egg Trays 12 50
Mop Sticks
Trojan spring ----- 00

Eclipse patent spring :

2
No. 2, pat. brush hold 2 00
ldealt No. 7 2. 1 50
12 oz. Cot. Mop Heads 2 55
16 oz. Ct. Mop Heads 3 00
Pails
10 qt. Galvanized _--- 2 50
12 qt. Galvanized ---. 2 75
14 qt. Galvanized ..... 3 10
12 qt. Flaring Gal. Ir. 5 00
10 at. Tin Dairy _.._ 4 O46
16 oz. Ct. Mop Heads 3 20
Traps
Mouse, Wood, 4 holes 60
Mouse, wood, 6 holes —. 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes ---. 65
Rat wae 1. 1 00
Rat. sprmg —.....____.. 1 60
Moude, suring ......._ 30
Tubs
Large Galvanized _.- 9 00
Medium Galvanized _. 7 75
Small Galvanized —-. 6 75
Washboards
Banner, Globe  —..._. 5 75
Brass, single . ...... _ 6 00
Glass, single —_..__.. 6 00
Double Peerless ~_---- 8 50
Single Peerless —----- 7 50
Northern Queen __-__- 5 60
Universal 2.25. i nae
Window Cleaners
12 in 22 65
4 in 1 85
16 fh. 2 2 30
Wood Bowls
13 ta: Batter — 22. 00
15 In: Butter 9 00
i? in. Butter 222 18 00
19 in. Batter 25 00
WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre, Manila, white. 05%
No. 1 Fibre —._____. 08
Butchers Manila ---.. 06
Kratt 220 08
Kratt Stripe —. 09%
YEAST CAKE
Magic, 3 doz. <...-- «~~ 2 70
Sunlight, 3 doz, --.... 2 70

Sunlight, 1344 doz. -.. 1 35

Yeast Foam, 3 doz. .. 2 79
Yeast Foam, 1% dos. 1 85
YEAST—COMPRESSED

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30

Good Eggs Cursed By Branding Laws.

In the olden days we thought that
the only manner in which to dispose of
an apparent temporary oversupply of
eggs was to treat the public toa period
of demoralized prices—away below the
intrinsic value of the food.

The butter trade was faced with
such an apparent oversupply of butter
last fall. An advertising fund was
collected—a fund which appeared piti-
fully inadequate in the face of the
magnitude of the undertaking of creat-
ing a demand for so heavy a surplus of
butter, but even the moderate amount
of well-directed advertising of butter
had a wonderful result in stimulating
the use of the product. I am told that
the impetus given to butter consump-
tion by that campaign last winter is
still evidenced by an apparently per-
manent increased per-capita use of
butter.

If the consumption of eggs can be
increased by such advertising any-
where near to the proportions shown
by the butter campaign we will cer-
tainly have something to turn to in an
emergency which savors of real intel-
ligence instead of the old and idiotic
method of sitting by while prices smash
and watching the newspapers headline
us with ridicule.

The egg industry is still discrimin-
ated against by law nearly all over
this land by the cold storage egg mar-
keting and branding laws. Any men-
tion of this subject is sure to draw fire.
Some one immediately wants to know
“What is a fresh egg?” and “What is
a storage egg?”

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Executive Secretary Harrison F.
Jones has reared up and announces
that he can prove that a cold storage
egg is a fresh egg, said Mr. Jones.
“Here is my line of reasoning: The
word ‘fresh’ has no meaning in con-
nection with age or time. It has mere-
ly to do with condition or state. We
speak of ‘fresh’ meat, referring to the
condition of the meat and to describe it
as opposed to corned beef, dried beef,
smoked beef, bologna or ham, bacon,
pickled pork, ete.

“'lrech’ meat qs ‘fresh’ meat re-
gardless of whether it was recently
dressed or whether it has been ‘kept
fresh’ in cold storage We apply the
term ‘fresh’ to fruits and vegetables
in order to distinguish ‘fresh’ fruits
and vegetables from dried, canned.
pickled or preserved ones.

“T advance the thought that so long
as the food product retains its edibil-
ity and wholesomeness “and principal]
characteristics as to form, flavor, pal-
atability, color, etc., it remains ‘fresh’
because it is the identical product pro-
duced by nature.

“Where the product has been chang-
ed by processing or curing to the ex-
tent that its principal characteristics
and its original form have been chang-
ed, then to all intents and purposes it
is another and a different product. No
one will be heard to say that fresh
beef and dried beef are identical, or
that a grape is a raisin or a plum is a
prune.

“When we consider eggs that re-
main in the shell and retain their
wholesomeness and all their principal

characteristics, and are to all intents
and purposes just as nature made them
to the extent that experts cannot, with
any degree of certainty, detect differ-
ences between ‘fresh’ and ‘cold storage’
it is our contention that they are in
fact still ‘fresh’ eggs, no matter what
their history, their age, nor where or
how they were held or preserved in
this condition.

“If this logic be well founded, then
a ‘cold storage’ egg is of dual char-
acter—it is at once both ‘fresh’ and
‘cold storage,’ and the consumer can-
not be defrauded in a moral sense in
his actual transactions.

“There are among us merchants who
have been so astute as to have capital-
ized the apparent handicap of storage
branding eggs and turned it to ac-
count in a manner so that they have
increased their sales and their profits
very satisfactorily; and this they have
done in a perfectly legitimate manner.

“T refer to those merchants who
have taken advantage of the fact that
they are obliged to have the words
‘cold storage’ printed on the cartons
in which their eggs are distributed by
prefacing those words with the words
‘kept fresh in (or by) cold storage’ and
supplementing this carton legend with
circular or pamphlet advertising set-
ting forth to the consumer the superior
quality of their product.

Wayne F. Waller,
Chairman National Egg Committee.
—_-+->—___

No one may notice the fact that
your store is spick and span, but some-
one will notice if it is dirty.

November 11, 1925

Some labels are
tongue-tied

The unknown label can
only say: ‘I’m milk.’’ Says
the customer: ‘‘Never
heard of you.’”’ But the Car-
nation label tells a real
story. And the customer
answers: ‘‘I know you. I’ve
seen your picture in the
magazines. My friends of-
ten mention you.”’ Yes, it’s
alot easier and more profit-
able to sell goods which
can speak for themselves.

Carnation Milk Products Co.

1133Carnation Bidg.
Oconomowoc, Wis.

ation

Milk

“From Contented Cows”

You can dilute the
double-rich contents
of this can until the

uart bottle over-
fons with pure milk

 

© 1925, Carnation Milk Products Co.

 

 

 

Announcement —

holdings of H. Leonard & Sons and will continue the business under new management with officers as follows:

We take pleasure in announcing to the trade that we have
acquired by purchase a substantial portion of the stock

 

 

 

 

Cc. H. LEONARD, President. J. R. DE VRIES, Treas.
N. L. AVERY, Vice President R. A. UTTER —— iM. SMITH
W. G. PETERKIN, Secretary C. HERLEIN ca

Back of the new corporation are men who are experts in their several lines and who are doing their utmost to give
you the Merchandise and Service you want. Below are the names of a few of the men who in a special sense are
the points of contact between us and you. When you have something out of the ordinary it may be worth your while
to address your letter direct to one of the men named below. And when you come into the house it will pay yo

(and them) to make the acquaintance of as many of these men as possible. =

BUYERS

W. G. PETERKIN
Crockery, Glassware and House Furnishing Dept.

SALESMEN

Cc. R. FOLKERTSMA R. A. UTTER

oo Y. BERG H. EDWARDS

: H. SMITH Cc. N. MENDELS

Toys and Fancy Goods Dept. TED BUTCHER FRED BLOOMBERG
R. A. UTTER R. BERG L. MITCHELL

Silverware Dept. CHAS. LAWERENCE

A. WATERLOO

All of the above named have been with the Leonard establishment many years and are thoroughly familiar with
their respective departments. We shall aim to retain the good name the house has always enjoyed with the trade
and also undertake to add to the reputation maintained for the past eighty-one years Showing Right Goods—
Low Prices—Fair Dealings—Prompt Shipments and Excellent Service. :

SEND FOR CATALOGS SHOWING LOWEST PRICES ON QUICK SELLING LINES OF

China, Crockery, Glassware, House Furnishings, Refrigerators, Lamp Goods, Silverware,
Fancy Goods, Toys, Hotel, Restaurant Equipment, Janitor’s Supplies

Grand Rapids H. LEONAR D& SON S

Michigan
WHOLESALERS, IMPORTERS & MANUFACTURERS’ AGENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

November 11, 1925

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

31

 

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids

Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 31—We have to-day
received schedules, order of reference and
adjudication in matter of Harry A. Stidd,
individually and formerly doing business
as Van's Garage, Bankrupt No. 2801. The
matter has been referred to Charles B.
Blair, as referee in bankruptcty. The
bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids,
and his occupation is that of a mechanic.
The schedules show assets of $286.97,
with liabilities of $4,361.18. The court
has written for funds, and upon receipt
of the same, the first meeting of creditors
will be called, and note of the same made
herein. The list of the creditors of said
pankrupt are as follows:

Air Reduction Sales Co., Detroit -- 4.86
2ecker Auto Co., Grand Rapids -- 28.02
Breen & Halladay Fuel Co., Grand a

Rapids —------.----------~--- 7 91.72
Bond Welding Shop, Grand Rapids 14.85
Brown & Sehler Co., Grand Rapids 60.71
Cheyen Bros., Henison ---------- 75.00
Comstock & Graves, Grand Rapids 6 7.75
Crandle, John, Grand Rapids .._-_- 35.00
Dykhouse’s Garage, Kalamazoo —. 14.60
HWliectric Construction Co., Grand

Rapids (0 16.41
Fyrac Mfg. Co., Rockford, Ill. ---- 22.88
John Faasen, Indianapolis -------- 500.00
J. H. Gingrich & Sons, Grand Rap. 11.35

Hanink & Vruggink, Grand Rapids 12.50

R. M. Hollingshead, Chicago ---- ‘ :
Ed. Kuipers, Grand Rapids —_..____ ae

Lacey Co., Grand Rapids ~_-------- 2
Perry E. Nicholas, Grand Rapids — 140.50
Osborne Co., Newark, N.

Pulte-Korreck Co., Grand Rapids_ 13.87
Piston Service Co., Grand Rapids_ 12.05
©. EB. Richards, Grand Rapids —--- 59.50
Benj. Spaanstra, Grand Raids _.-- 25.00
Square Deal Garage, Grand Rapids 52.00
Wm. Scott, Grandville _---------- _ 600.00
E.la P. Scott, Grandville -------- 715.75
South End Leader, Grand Rapids 10.00
Sherwood Hall Co., Grand Rapids_- 23.11
Swinehart Tire & Rub. Co., Detroit 33.39

Tubbs Oil Co., Grand Rapids ---- 350.00

Tide Water Oil Co., Chicago ---- 92.79
Tisch Auto Supply Co., Grand Rap. 86.07
Toad Protectograph Co., New York 17.20
Universal Oil Co., Detroit ~------- 20.00
United Service Garage, Grand Rap. 60.35
United Motor Products Co., Grand

Rapids --------.---_------------- 427.00
Viscosity Oil Co., Chicago --~------ 20.01
Vacuum Oil Co., Chicago —-------- 112.46
Welmers, Dykman Fuel Co., Grand

Rapids ----------------~---------- 31.65
Wolverine Metal Specialties Co.,

Grand Rapids —------------------- 20.80

F. F. Wood Motor Co., Grand Rap. 330.36
Warren Refining & Chemical Co.,

@leveland (25. 050) Ab

Oct. 29. (delayed). On this day was
held the first meeting of creditors in the
matter of Henry VanAllsburg, Bankrupt
No, 2790. The bankrupt was present in
person and by attorney, James E. Sul-
livan. Creditors were present by Con-
nine & Connine. Claims were proved
and allowed. The bankrupt was sworn
and examined without a reporter. George
D. Stribley, of Muskegon, was named
trustee, and the amount of his bond
placed at $1,000. The first meeting then
adjourned without date.

Oct. 30. On this day

was held the

sale of assets in the matter of A. H.
Roberts, Bankrupt No. 2775. The bank-
rupt was not present in person. The

original offer of L. R. Dougherty, of $600
for a'l of the stock in trade and fixtures
of the estate was accepted and confirmed.
The meeting then adjourned without date.

On this day also was held the final
meeting of creditors in the matter of
William H. McCarty, doing business as
McCarty Candy Co., Bankrupt No. 2622.
The trustee’s final report and account
was considered and aproved. There were
no appearances other then the trustee.
Claims were proved and allowed. Attor-
neys bills and other bills of the estate
were considered and passed upon. An
order was made for the payment of ex-
penses of administration as far as the
funds on hand will permit. There were
no funds for any dividends for general
ereditors. No objections were made to
the discharge of the bankrupt. The final
meeting then adjourned without date and
the case will be closed and returned to
the district court in due course.

Nov. 2. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and dajudi-
cation in the matter of Arthur C. Lam-
bert, Bankrupt No. 2803. The matter has
been referred to Charles B. Bair as ref-
eree in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a
resident of Niles and his occupation is
that of a painter and decorator. The
schedules show assets of $922.75, of which
$555 is claimed to be exempt, with liabili-
ties of $1,876.82. The first meeting of
creditors will be called prompty and
note of the same made herein. The list
of the creditors of said bankrupt are as
follows:

State of Michigan Ce $ 85.00
3aer Brothers, New York -___---- 29.00
J. B. Pearce Co., Cleveland —___--~ 13.70
Summitt Varnish Co.. South Bend 91.87

Standard Varnish Co., New York... 1
Lennon Wall Paper Co., Joliet __ 152.26

Heath-Milligan Mfg. “o., Chicago — 100.00
Boydell Bros., Detroit ~-____- 5° = 698.64
Protecto Products Corp., Chicago. 39.30

Morgan Wall Paper Co., Chicago_ 530.00
Smith & Alsop, South Bend... 83.
Weiss Mussell Co., South Bend ___-
Republic Paint Co., Chicago ._. unknown

Textile Leather Co., Kalamazoo -_ 24.02

Nov. 2. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Henry W. Scramlin, Bankrupt No. 2788.
The bankrupt was present in person and
by attorneys, Jackson, Fitzgerald &
Dalm. No creditors were present or rep-
resented. No claims were proved and
allowed. No trustee was appointed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. The meeting was then
adjourned without date and the case
closed and returned to the district court
as a no-asset case.

In the matter of Pain Publishing Cor-
poration, Bankrupt No. 2782, the first
meeting of creditors has been called for
Nov. 16.

Nov. 3. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Bernard McCar-
thy, Bankrupt No. 2804. The bankrupt
is a resident of Grand Rapids and his
occupation is that of a factory worker.
The schedules show assets of $300, of
which $250 is claimed as exempt, with
liabilities of $2,299.25. The court has
written for funds, and upon receipt of
the same. the first meeting of creditors
will be called, and note of the same made
herein. The list of the creditors of the
bankrupt are as follows:

  

W. H. A. Lennon, Grand Rapids__$100.00
H. H. Jordan, Grand Rapids ---. 90.00
DD, J. Jonnson, Sparks —.....-__._- 20.00
tT, B Stuart Sparta 2 «2000
Frank Gillette, Sparta —.___- 15.00

Mrs. Esther Vander Hoff, Muskegon 80.00
Ryskamp Bros., Grand Rapids --- 25
Morriss Sluyter, Grand Rapids -.-- 2
P. Steketee & Sons, Grand Rapids 73.00

H. J. Bennett, Grand Rapids _--. 25.00
P. M. Railroad, Grand Rapids --.. 42.47
Sprague Warner Co., Chicago _--- 48.00
Lasting Broom Co., Evansville, Ind. 47.00
Chamberlain Medicine Co., Des

Moines (2 24.30
Woolson Spice Co., Toledo -_.----- _22.00

Chase & Woodruff, Kalamazoo ~__ 572.88
Perpetual Encyclopedia Corp., Chi-

cago 65.00
Tanner Supply Co., Grand Rapids 624.00

Kent Storage Co., Grand Rapids —- 5.00
Hub Clothing Co., Grand Rapids -. 24.00
Henrietta Schultz, Grand Rapids -_ 70.00
A. A. Johnson Co., Sparta —---- 14.00
Stanley Jakobuski, Grand Rapids_ 150.00
Swift & Co., Grand Rapids __---- 7.00
C\ifford J. Sutton, Grand Rapids -~ 50.00
A. H. Brott Lbr, Co., Baldwin -. 60.00

Nov. 2. We have to-day received the

schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
eation in the matter of Harry S. Cham-
bers, Bankrupt No. 2805. The bankrupt
is a resident of Grand Rapids and his
occupation is that of a_ laborer. The
schedules show assets of $1,050, of which
the .full interest is claimed as exempt,
with liabilities of $1,720. The court has
written for funds, and upon receipt of
the same, the first meeting of creditors
will be called, and note of the same made
herein. The list of the creditors of said
bankrupt are as follows:

City of Grand Rapids —_--..--------- $100.00
May K. Thomas, Grand Rapids _— 700.00
Jarvis & Co., Grand Rapids —--~-- 45.00

Charles G. Willett & Co., Grand

Ravids 2.2... 800.00
H. E. G. Clark, Grand Rapids -_ 75.00
Nov. 2. On this day was held the first

meeting of creditors in the matter of
Josiah Van Loo, Bankrupt No. 2793. The
bankrupt was present in person and by
attorneys Corwin & Norcross. One cred-
itor was present in person. One claim
was proved and allowed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. B. EH. Cook, of Grand Haven,
was appointed trustee, and the amount
of his bond placed at $1,000. The meet-
ing then adjourned without date.

Nov. 2. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
William W. Richards, Bankrupt No. 2792.
The bankrupt was present in person and
by attorney, W. G. Bessey. Creditors
were present in person. The custodian
of the estate was present also. Claims
were proved and allowed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
orter. M. N. Kennedy, of Kalamazoo,
was appointed trustee, and the amount
of his bond placed at $500. The first
meeting then adjourned without date.

In the matter of Harry A. Stidd, Bank-
rupt No. 2801, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and the first
meeting has been called for Nov. 16.

In the matter of Arthur C. Lambert,
Bankrupt No. 2803, the first meeting of
creditors has been called for Nov. 16.

In the matter of William H. Moulter,
Bankrupt No. 2798, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been calld for Nov. 16.

In the matter of Harry S. Chambers,
Bankrupt No. 2805, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for Nov. 16.

In the matter of Edgar L. Ecklisdafer,
Bankrupt No. 2796, the funds for the first

meeting have been received and = such
meeting has been called for Nov. 17.
In the matter of Harley E. Searles,

Bankrupt No. 2799, the funds for the
first meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for Nov. 17.

Nov. 4. We have to-day received the
order of reference and adjudication in

the matter of Thomas-Daggett Co., Bank-
rupt No. 2708. The matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The order was made to file
schedules and upon receipt of the same,

the first meeting of creditors will be eall-
ed promptly, and note of the same made
herein. This case is involuntary.

Nov. 5. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Thomas E.
Brooks, Bankrupt No. 2806. The matter
has been referred to Charles B. Blair as
referee in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is
a resident of Cassopolis, and his occupa-
tion is that of purchasing, excavation
and selling of marl. The schedules show
assets of $3,811.55 with liabilities of $4,-
033.72. The court has written for funds,
and upon receipt of the same, the first
meeting of creditors will be called and
note of the same herein. The list of the
creditors of said bankrupt are as follows:
Village of Cassopolis —--------- 8 11.00

Fisrt National Bank, Cassopolis 1,242.00
James H. Shannon Mfg. Co., Chi-

azo 28220 295.52
William Voorhis, Cassopolis ~----. 86.00
J. & Stem. Cassopolis ___._._._____ $85.00
F. H. Butler, Cassopolis ~---.----- 182.35
J. W. Fisher, Cassopolis -- __ 28.00

W. B. Yaden & Sons, Cassopolis_- 3
Harrington & Son, Cassopolis 4.70
ie )

Ss. S.

ize Goho, Cassopolis. _..__..___- 9.00
ing Wid Cassovclia .....- = 450
Peck Milling Co., Cassopolis - 90.00

Central Farmers Ass’n., Cassopolis 52.00
James O. Hain, Cassopolis --..---- 20.00

Wm. F. Turner, Cassopolis _-..---- 73.00
Clark & Hayden, Cassopolis -~~-- 4.50
George Straw, Cassopolis _---~.---- 1.20

Jeorge McCabe, Cassopolis -~..---- 3.00

 

A Gorton, Casaopolia ....._._.__-_.._ 14.00
Harry Morse, Cassopolis ------ — 76.060
Lewis Rice,-Cassopolis -~---------- 57.40
Osear Smith, Cassopolis -  TAT.00
Dr. W. G. McCutcheon, Cassopolis 92.25
Dr. J. H. Kelsey, Cassopolis co EO
Dr. BE. M. Cunningham, Cassopolis 31.00
William Wade, Cassopolis ------ 25.00
Dr. McCoy, @assoopols 2. 7.50
Dr. Bergman, Cassopolis oe. | Oe
Chester King, Cassopolis elo nae 3.00
Groves & Kingsbury. Cassopolis —- 1,50
Kingsbury Estate, Cassopolis ---- 200.00
Peter Kingsbury, Cassopolis ~~ -- 5.00
Roy Hiliot, Dowagiac _---____-——- 3.50
Buick Sales Co., Dowagiac ----..-- 25.00
Mr Smith, Dowagiac ~.--....__-- 4.00
Mr. licick, Decatur —..___--________ 1.50
James Athey, Decatur Soe Ake
Godfrey Conveyor Co., Elkhart —- 96.00
Lindhlar Sanitarium, Chicago - 92.00
Harris Bros., Chicago Bae Oe
Gertrude Stein, Minneapolis ae 75.00
Allen & Fletcher, Minneapolis _ 16.00
Leslie Keyes, Minneapolis — 60.00
Jacek Savage, Macon, Georgia 65.20
Osear Lyons, Cassopolis 12.00
Cass County Road Commissioners,
Cassopolis. —._- : o _ 100.00

Nov. 7. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Mann & Stevens,
a copartnership composed of Mdmond D.
Mann and Lloyd L. Stevens individually,
Bankrupt No. 2794. The bankrupts re-
side in Kalamazoo. The schedules show
no assets of the copartnership, with lia-
bilities of $18,437.10. The schedules of
Lioyd L. Stevens, individually, shows
assets of $250, of which the full interest
is claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$18,437.10. The court has written for
funds, and upon receipt of the same, the
first meeting of creditors will be called,
and note of the same made herein. The
list of the creditors are as fo.lows:
Thew Shovel Co., Lorain, Ohio _$7,254.28

Leo J. Miller, New Haven ~ 1,067.96
+ SM Bick Woledo unknown
Cc. A. Harper, Edenville _-- unknown
Sanford Elevator Co., Sanford __ 435.45
Midland Oil & Gas Co., Midland. 1,216.4 $
A. J. Shepard, Edenville __--_--. 206.83
Browns Garage, Edenville -----. 3384.41
@ormwell Co, Sacitiaw _...._.. 268.17
Koehler Bros., Saginaw ------ . 420.55
Gladwin Auto Supply Co., Gladwin 63.66
W. J. Rogérs, Sanford _.._...___ 165.49
Dow Chemical Co., Midland —. 2.00
Kunze Hardware Co., Beverton — 21.85
Granson Store, Edenville — ae 244.40
Mrs. Rickér, Colman: ... 119.07
G & §. Gregory, Bay City —_._-- 34.50
CP, Burns, Sanford _...._______ 32.00
Beverton BHlevator Co.,:Beverton 2.35
J. Brusharber, Beverton —--___-—- 95.81
Bmory Evans, Sanford _..._.____ 70.18
Hercelus Powder Co., Saginaw 101.60

Nov. 9. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Kalil Bros., Bankrupts No. 2787. The

bankrupts were present in person and by
attorney Cornelius Hoffius. No creditors
were present or represented. Claims
were proved and allowed. The bankrupts
were sworn and examined without a re-
porter. C. W. Moore was appointed trus-
tee, and the amount of his bond placed
at $500. The first meeting then adjourned
without date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of W.
H. Parsons & Co., Bankrupt No. 2795.
The bankrupt was present by W. H.
Parsons, its president and also by Willard
G. Turner, Jr., attorney for the bankrupt.
Creditors were present in person and by
attorneys Connine & Connnine. Claims
were proved and allowed. The bankrupt’s
president was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. Feo. D. Stribley was
elected trustee, and his bond placed by
those present at $2,500. The first meet-
ing then adjourned without date.

Business Wants Department

Advertisements Inserted under this head
for five cents a word the first insertion
and four cents a word for each subse-
quent continuous insertion, if set in
capital letters, double price. No charge
less than 50 cents. Small display adver-
tisements in this department, $3 per
inch. Payment with order is required, as
amounts are too small to open accounts.

 

FOR RENT—TWO STORES, moderate-
ly equipped, steam heated, in the best
manufacturing section of Battle Creek,
one mile from business center. There is
a splendid opening in this locality for a
good live hardware merchant, also dry
goods and notion store, where from 6000
to 8000 of the best paid mechanics in
Michigan reside. In the radius of a
block and a half are such factories as
Postum. Cereal Co., The Kelogg €o.,
Grand Trunk shops, Postum Cereal Box
Factory, Nichols & Shepherd Threshing
Machine Co., and other smaller manu-
facturing concerns. This section of the
city is doing a large volume of business,
and the building is the most modern of
any in the state. Good chance for live
wire business man. Rent reasonable to
start with. August Kapp, 2 BE. Main St.,
fattle Creek, Mich. 9

FOR SALE—Forty acres, hardwood
grove, resort frontage on beautiful Mich-
igan lake and trunk line highway, will
plat 300 lots. Price and terms, W. J.
Cooper, Mt. Pleasant, Mich. 98

CLEAN DRUG STOCK and modern fix-
tures, on best corner in Howard City,
for sale at $9,000. Sales yearly $15,000.
Zent $50 month, including living quarters
over store. Soda fountain, Rexail and
Eastman agency. Store under same man-
agement past thirty-five years. Reason
for sale - permanent impairment of
wife’s health. Quick action desired, as
am going south for winter. H. M. GIBBS,
Howard City, Mich. 99

For Sale—Coal and feed business, town
30,000, Northern Indiana. Good location,
low overhead. A real opportunity. Sick-
ness. Address No. 100, c-o Michigan
Tradesman. 100

FOR SALE—Good stock of clothing,
shoes and men’s furnishings in a good
town of over 6,500 population. Over 1,500
men employed in one factory. Pay roll
$75,000. Stock in good shape. Address
No, 101, c/o Michigan Tradesman. 101

FOR SALE—A nice clean hardware
stock, store building, and dwelling house.
In a small town. Lewis McKinney, Ban-
gor, Mich. 02

FOR SALH—Hat and furnishing stock,
about $30,000, in Jackson. Addrss H.
Weil, 140 W. Main St., Jackson, Mich.

1038

For Sale—Confectionery and restaurant
in best smail town in Central Michigan,
doing good business. Reason for selling,
ill health. 30x 171, Chesaning, Mich. 94

For Sale—Cheap. A National cash reg-
ister, in good condition. Also, I want to
buy a candy scale. A. Glen McBride,
Rockford, Mich. 88

FOR SALE—Wishing to retire from ac-
tive business, I hereby offer my business,

 

known as the Cash Mercantile Co., for
sale. Stock consists of groceries, fresh
meats, flour, feeds, hay, ete. Will in-

ventory about $15,000. Sales approximate
$100,000 per year. On a cash basis. Have
ample store and warehouse room for a
business of $500,000 per year. Located in
the metropolis of the Upper Peninsu’a,
a city that is bound to grow. Full par-
ticulars given by letter. J. A. Stromberg,
Wsecanaba, Mich. 89
For Sale—Because owner has another
line, will sell stock of shoes, rubbers and
men’s furnishings, invoicing $9,000. Good
lake shore farming and resort town. Fine
chance for right man. Write owner. Ad-
dress No. 91, c/o Michigan Tradesman.
91

 

Wanted—A business partner with $15,-
000 or more. Best business in Southern
Michigan. Doing a thriving machinery
business. Practically free from incum-
brance. Built up in three years from
nothing to $50,000 inventory. Business
getting too large for one to handie. Ad-
dress Box 28, Marshall, Mich. 81

Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-
ing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 1250
Burlingame Ave., Detroit. Mich. 566

CASH For Your Merchandise!
Will buy your entire stock or part of
stock of shoes, dry goods, clothing, fur-
nishngs, bazaar novelties, furniture, etc.
LOUIS LEVINSOHN. Saginaw. Mich.

 

 

 

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