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under Act of March 3, 1879.

Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Mar. 2—The mem-
bers of the Soo Hiking Club were
guests of William Maxwell at the
Shallows Sunday. An elaborate chick-
en dinner was served. Dave Williams
and Harry Everett, understudies of
Robt. Creib, the well-known chef, pre-
pared the dinner. Mother’s cooking
had nothing on them. Mayor Supe
acted as head waiter, as well as cus-
todian of the funds. George Bailey,
the official trail blazer, escorted the
Club through the woods to the cabin
and back down the Saint Mary’s river.
The discussion of city affairs was
taken up by Nelson Hall and some
valuable information as to the city’s
finances was given.

Our new Chief of Police seems to
be a live wire. He has stirred up
many things in the city. His latest 1s
the disposing of all of the slot ma-
chines installed in many of the busi-
ness places dispensing mints, gum, etc.
the cleaning up of the pool rooms, al-
lowing no high school students in the
pool rooms, the closing up of the
Grand Saloon, which has been some-
what shady for some time. It looks
now as if we will have a safe place in
which to live.

H. M. Gilbert, district manager of
the Detroit Life Insurance Co., is a
business visitor here for a few days,
coming from Hubbell, where he now
resides. Mr. Gilbert was a tormer
resident of the Soo.

When a man can support two chil-
dren he has ten. When a man can
support ten children he has two.

When some factories get a lot of
something they don’t know what to do
with we have a new breakfast food. |

Joseph Walker, senior partner in
the Soo Builders Supply Co., has pur-
chased the buildings formerly occu-
pied by the D. H. Stratton handle fac-
tory and will use them as storage and
cement plants. Mr. Walker is very
optimistic over the future of his home
town. The White Lumber Co. plant.
will be in operation here shortly and
with the big tourist business coming,
he expects the building business will
experience a boom.

Roy Cook, of 604 Elizdbeth street,
was hunting on Sugar Island last
week and shot a silver gray fox, the
pelt of which is worth in the neieh-
borhood of $300. Not so bad for a

lav’s sport.
John Novak, Escanaba’s local as-

tronomer, blames the sun for poor
radio results. “It has been a season
of sunspots,” said Mr. Novak. ‘They
have been particularly frequent and
numerous for the last two or three
months.” Looking through his big
telescope at the sun last week as many
as twenty spots could be counted. It
is a well known fact that these spots
have more or less influence on the
weather and on such electrical phe-
nomena as the aurora borealis. It
seems to him to be perfectly natural
that they should take some of the
blame for the noisiness of radio re-
ception. He has kept a daily record
of the condition of: the sun and simul-
taneous radio conditions over a long
period and is convinced that there is a
direct and convincing connection be-
tween sun spots and radio conditions.

J. R. Berry, the well-known mer-
chant of Strongs, was a_ business
visitor here last week. He reports a
fair trade during this winter.

James McManman, of Saskatoon,
Canada, stopped off -here for a day
last week, returning from Toronto. He
is going to Milwaukee, his old home
town, on a visit for a few days before
returning to the Northwest. Jim likes
the Northwest, says that the farmers
are prosperous on account of the high
price of wheat, and considers a young
man’s success as assured there. He
has built up a prosperous business in
the four years he has lived there and
expects to remain and grow up with
the country. William G. Tapert.

—_22
Shabby Trick Weather Man Played.

Boyne City, March 2—-We have had
a fine winter—so far. Not much snow,
not very cold, no sloppy. thaws, roads
open for traffic in every direction ex-
cept “over the hill” toward Gaylord
and Cadillac. We have had no severe
storms and everybody has been con-
tented and happy. Usually, when we
have an open winter, so-called, it is a
succession of severe cold spells and
nasty sloppy rainy thaws Not so this
year. It has been good winter weath-
er. It has, of course, been some cooler
than Florida, nor have we been pick-
ing strawberry blossoms, as they re-
port doing in Alaska.

This was what we were going to
write last week, and upon the strength
of the then prevailing conditions, we
begged a ride to Cheboygan with some
friends. Last Wednesdzy afternoon
we started after dinner and made a
very enjoyable trip While our friends
were attending to business we strolled
out to take a look at the city. The
day was beautiful and the sun had
shown brightly all day. but as we
strolled along, a long fixed habit led
us to take a glance at the Western
sky. Consternation seized us, for
guarding the westering sun were a
pair of most vividly brilliant sun dogs.
Far from our snug harbor, the home-
ward way traversing a waste of snow,
and a blizzard coming, just as sure as
the rising sun.

The next morning, as soon as possi-
ble, the homeward journey was start-
ed, in a rising Northwest snowstorm.
We had a driver. What is a driver?
The road gradually got deeper and
deeper with snow. Finally, after ne-
gotiating a mile of road with the help
of a team, we got stuck completely,
backed out of a drift that covered the
radiator, put our car into storage and

waited for the train to bring us home,
thankful that we could get a train.
We read, that morning that M-11 was
open from Grand Rapids to Macknaw.
It sure is not now. Every road in the
district is blocked and it is still snow-
ing and blowing.

But then, we are getting a lot of
water for our spring crops and it is a
sure thing that the sun is coming back
and winter cannot much longer push
back the rising tide of the new year.

Charles T McCutcheon.
A
Aim to Secure Reputation For Quality
Eggs.

The egg dealers of the city have en-
tered into an agreement with each
other to bring about greater uniform-
ity in the quality of the eggs they
landle. In line with the agreement
they have issued the following circular
to the trade of Western Michigan:

On and after March 15, 1926, this
house will purchase current receipt
fresh eggs on a graded basis, as fol-
lows:

1. A case of eggs must weigh 55
pounds gross without the cover.

2 All rots and shortages will be

deducted.
3. From April 1 to September 1 a
deduction of 5¢ per dozen wiil be made
for dirties, chex, and small or pullet
eggs, and proportional to the price
during the remainder of the year.

4. When deliveries come in we will
hold out $1 per case, payment of this
balance to be made as soon as they
have been rehandled. We are obligat-
ed to use the above manner of buying
because in the past too many poor
eggs have been mixed with what was
supposd to be first quality fresh stock.

This method will not work a hard-
ship on anyone, but will put everyone
on his mettle and eventually give
Western Michigan the reputation
which it deserves of producing quality
eggs.

Co-operation will do it.

Let every one do his share.
2-2
Corporations Wound Up.

The following Michigan
tions have recently filed notices of dis-
solution with the Secretary of State:
Tucker Land Co., Detroit.

corpora-

Middle-West Rubber = Corporation,
Detroit.

White Brothers Lumber Co., Boyne
City.

Michigan Tag Co., Grand Rapids.

Snead & Co., Detroit.

Hammond & Co. Tecumseh.

Everybody’s Pool Room, Detroit.

Kirby Development Corporation, De-
troit.

Bee-Clan Gardens Co., Detroit.

Capital Realty Investment Co, Detroit

Schoenfeld & Schoenfeld, Inc.. Detroit

Peter A. Miller & Co., Detroit.

Fritz Tire & Accessories Co., Grand
Rapids.

Jackson Metal Products Co., Jackson

Kit Piston Ring Co., Muskegon Hts.

Motor Products Corp., Detroit.

E-J-S Co., Detroit.

Herrick, Auerbach & Vastin, Inc., De-
troit.

Benjamin M. Bond Realty Co., Detroit

William J. Malloy & Co., Detroit.

Houdaille Co., Detroit.

Peculiarities of Canned Goods.

One of the troubles with the canned
food market is that there are too many
packs that are neither one thing nor
the other. Yet, because they are pres-
ent, they have an unfavorable influ-
ence on the situation. Another defect
is that there was an over-pack of peas,
corn, tomatoes and string beans, to
mention a few items, where in other
seasons there has been a surplus of
only one article, which tended to make
it cheap and taken as a substitute for
the others less abundant and relatively
higher in price. There is keen com-
petition among retailers to offer staples
at low prices and too often the ques-
tion of cost to the consumer is given
Distributors buy,
as a rule, for cost and not for quality,

first consideration.

and a poor can of merchandise is a
handicap to subsequent sales of the
same and of other commodities.

There is a growing enquiry for re-
placements of all sorts, indicated by
the fruitless efforts to acquire the items
which are searce, but when it comes
to the big packs the demand is hand-
to-mouth and the buyer beats down
the canner to the last nickel. Quick
action, however, is needed where the
canner is cleaning up odds and ends
of the scarcer items as they are often
sold before a tardy buyer gets in his
confirmation.

——_~+> 2

Wor'd Rice Prospects Good.

Indications still point to a large
world rice crop, exclusive of China.
Production in ten countries reporting
for the whole or part of their crop and
which last year produced 33 per cent.
of the world total exclusive of China
is now estimated at 20,273,000 short
tons, against 20,446,000 in 1924, a de-
That de-
crease is the result primarily of a de-
cline of 28 per cent. in production in
the Philippine Islands from 1,283,000
short tons last year to 918,166 short
tons for 1925. It is probable that in
India, the world’s largest rice pro-
ducer, production will be the same or
slightly larger than the 34,720,000
short tons produced last year. All of

the figures quoted refer to cleaned rice.
——

Saginaw—Fire damaged the Kauf-
mann Bakery, 108 South Eleventh
street, to a considerable extent, Feb.
28. No insurance was carried. The
building was also damaged and was
partially covered by insurance.

crease of only 1 per cent.

——_~--.>____

Detroit—The Gratiot Machine, Tool
& Manufacturing Co., 3524 Gratiot
avenue, has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $50,000, of
which amount $4,200 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

——_--»___

Lawton—A. J. Garlick, recently of
Marion, Ohio, has engaged in the
jewelry business in the First National
Bank building.

 

2

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

March 3, 1926

 

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

 

Cheats and Frauds Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

Paul Case of Brockton, Mass., adver-
tised in the daily papers as follows:

“While in France with the Ameri-
can Army I obtained a French pre-
scription for the treatment of rheuma-
tism and neuritis. I have given this
to thousands with wonderful results.
The prescription cost me nothing. I
ask nothing for it. I will mail it if
you will send me your address.”

We answered this advertisement and
received a form letter and other litera-
ture which contains a sort of auto-
biography of Paul Case. His letter
goes on to state as follows:

“T have made arrangements with a
reliable laboratory to keep the tablets
on hand, made according to the pre-
scriptions, of reliable stock, at nominal
cost. The day I receive your letter I
can mail them parcel post. You can
mail me $1.50 and I will send you
treatment enough to last ten days.”

Case also sends to enquirers a for-
mula for asthma treatment and one
for liver ailments. He claims that the
prescription for rheumatism was given
to him by a French physician, one Dr.
Beaupre. Upon this point the Ameri-
can Medical Association says:

“By a curious coincidence this mar-
velous treatment for rheumatism used
by the French doctor, is strikingly
similar to the preparations used in the
fraudulent treatment exploited by Paul
Case’s father, Jesse A. Case, before
the Government interferred with that
lucrative swindle. The prescription
for the rheumatism tablets of Paul
Case among other ingredients calls for
colchicum root and sodium salicylate,
the main ingredients of the rheumatism
tablets of Jesse A. Case. The formula
for Paul Case’s liver tablets accessory
calls for cascara, aloin, podophyllin and
sodium bicarbonate, which were also
ingredients of the liver tablets of Jesse
A. Case.”

In 1919 the Government interferred
with the scheme, declaring it to be
fraudulent, and denied Case, Sr., the
use of the mails. We are informed
that Case filed an affidavit, swearing
that he had discontinued the selling of
his rheumatism treatment and declar-
ing that it would not be revived at any
time in the future. We are informed
that on the strength of this affidavit
the Post Office Department revoked
the fraud order.

 

Kalamazoo, March 2—A check for
$130.50, said to have been refused by
a Vicksburg bank was given to Jesse
J. Hudson, salesman for the Howard
J. Cooper Co., last Thursday, in pay-
ment for a used car, according to re-
ports received by the police. The
check was signed H. J. Clark and po-
lice say the man’s description cor-
responds with that of Harry Clark,
who earlier in the week passed a worth-
less check at the Home Furnishing
Co. No trace had been found of -the
man or the car which he received
when he gave the check.

 

Perhaps you have seen the follow-
ing advertisement inserted under
“Help Wanted Female”:

“Ladies earn $25 week at home,
spare time addressing cards. No can-
vassing or experience necessary. A
two cent stamp brings a very interest-

ing information. Write immediately.
Interstate Sales Co., 6309 Yale avenue,
Chicago.”

Investigation by the Tradesman dis-

closes that the advertisers are oper-
ating what they describe as a news
clipping bureau, the plan of operation
of which is sold to respondents to
their advertisements for $1. The plan
consists in clipping newspapers and
mailing post cards to persons mention-
ed in the clippings advising them that
for 25 cents they will be forwarded a
news clipping pertaining to their ac-
tivities.

 

The Quality Silk Hosiery Co., Nor-
ristown, Pa., inserted an advertisement
in the classified columns of one of the
local newspapers which read as fol-
lows:

“Men, Women—Sell fashioned and
full-fashioned silk hosiery direct to
wearer. Best proposition in America.
Particulars free. Quality Silk, Box
122, Norristown, Pa.”

We replied to this advertisement and
received a complete set of literature
which we forwarded to the National
Better Business Bureau for investiga-
tion. It developed that they were not
in fact manufacturers and, therefore,
were not entitled to use the term “di-
rect to wearer” in their advertising.
Assurance has been given that lan-
guage representing themselves as
manufacturers will be abandoned in
their future literature.

 

Chain selling schemes are still reach-
ing Michigan merchants through the
mails, but we believe that the response
to their efforts is negligible.

One of the latest to come to our at-
tention is that of the Acme Trading
Co., of 414 Superior avenue, Cleveland,
Ohio. Their form letter opens up
negotiations with the trite statement,
“Because of your standing in your
community, you have been selected to
receive,” etc. In this case “the gift”
is a bond which is alleged to be worth
$22 to the recipient. “This bond will
enable you to get absolutely free a
twenty-six piece set of genuine Wil-
liam Rogers & Son silverplate worth
$18, and in addition to this famous
silver set you will get $4 in cash.”

“All we ask you to do is introduce
to only four of your friends our silver-
ware advertising plan. There is no
work connected with introducing our
plan, only pleasure, for you do an
everlasting favor for each friend
whom you acquaint with it. By our
amazing plan your friends can obtain,
for only $1, a regular $18 set of genu-
ine William Rogers & Son silverplate.”

Along with this generous offer the
Acme Trading Co. encloses what ap-
pears to be a contract, attached to
which are four coupons which the re-
cipient is asked to sell. The wonder-
ful plan is explained in detail and ap-
pears to be practically the same as all
of the so-called endless chain con-
tracts which are already familiar to
most readers of the Tradesman.

 

The Merchants Protective & Ser-
vice Association, of Cincinnati, Ohio,
has contracted with a Michigan mer-
chant for a consideration of $25:

1. To render said merchant, through
its attorneys and counsel, advice on all
legal matters pertaining to said mem-

ber’s personal and business affairs

without charge.

2. To furnish said merchant with-
out charge its service in drafting all
legal papers necessary to said mer-
chant’s business.

3. To provide said member with
free court service.

So on and so forth, all free.

The merchant is now desirous of
taking advantage of some of this free
service, but he finds that the contract
does not give the Association’s address
in fact, he has no inkling whatsoever
of how to get in touch with them. The
Cincinnati Better Business Commis-
sion has checked their directories, but
finds no trace of the men who are said
to be at the head of the “Association.”

—_*--o

Rights of Consumer Should Be Re-
spected.

Grandville, March 2—Dr. Wiley has
protested the enactment of the Beck
bill adding a 10 cent tax on oleo-
margerine. The plain object of which
is to drive all oleo products off the
market. It is aimed to conciliate those
selfish butter makers who seek ‘o keep
up prices at the expense of the con-
sumer.

A large share of taxation in these
modern times seems to be aimed at
that goat, the consumer, and in favor
of the producer. Of course, this is
the worst kind .of class legislation, yet
our lawmakers seem unable to get out
of that rut which is forever aiming to
please his immediate constituents at
the expense of those in his neighbor’s
vineyard.

Who is the consumer? Has he no
rights which the producer, who seems
to have the ear of Congress, is bound
to respect?

It is proposed to place a 10 cent tax
on oleo, the plain object being to
drive the manufacture of oleo out of
existence, all of which is in the inter-
est of the cow butter makers who
selfishly desire the whole butter trade.

Even if butter was all good there
might be a scintilla of excuse for so
bald a proposition, but everybody who
is at the head of a household knows
there is nothing more nauseating and
unwholesome than cow butter un-
sanitarily manufactured—and there is
a lot of such on the market to-day.

Good: dairy product -‘ands undeni-
ably at the head, but when it is re-
membered that only a small part of
such product comes under this head,
and that oleo as at present produced
is far and away ahead of poor butter,
by what right can anyone advance the
idea of driving out wholesome oleo
to make room for diseased butter,
however genuine the latter may be?

The price makes oleo the poor man’s
spread for bread and any congression-
al enactment that deprives him of it
will be iustly resented by the Ameri-
can people.

Further savs Dr. Wiley: “Millions
of pounds of butter made from rotten
cream now are on the market and go
into consumption under fancy dairy
names.’

Instead of driving out wholesome
oleo, would it not be well to aim an
attack on this dangerous product which
is plainly unwholesome for human
consumption? This butter, Dr. Wiley
says, is undoubtedly adulterated but-
ter and is covered by a law already in
existence, but not a single pound is
marked adulterated or pays the tax
laid on such butter.

Further says the Doctor, “The evi-
dent purpose of the Beck bill is to
make it impossible to manufacture and
sell oleomargerine. This product is a
legitimate article of commerce and
just as much a farm product as butter.”

Now then, where do we stand on
this question of the right of the con-
sumer to purchase his wholesome oleo
in the open market? Millions of
American citizens are purchasers of
oleo, and in so doing they not only get

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a wholesome product for their tables,
but save a considerable expense be-
sides. :

Once for all the consumer should
warn the Congressmen who are plan-
ning this raid on a legitimate business
to desist.

It cannot be possible that Congress
will attempt to distress millions of
people at the nod and beck of butter
makers in this tend of the free.

The rights of the common people
are threatened. Butter is all right in
its place, but that is not on the table
of the man or woman who chooses to
use a wholesome imitation which many
have declared superior to the genuine
article.

Dr. Wiley has spoken a genuine
word of warning; let the people take
heed and see to it that the rights of
the consumer are not sacrificed for the
purpose of ruining one industry in
order to inflate the profits of another.

When we know that oleo as a sub-
stitute is much more wholesome and
appetizing than many grades of real
cow butter how can we insist on
destroying the one and forcing the
other onto the market.

Sutter from many kitchens isn’t
any too clean. We know that butter
made from vegetable products, clean-
ly prepared, is preferable, and the
citizen who prefers his oleo should
insist on having it without having the
price boosted by an unjust tax.

The consumer stands on an equal
footing with the producer. Both are
entitled to justice, which would not
be the case if this Beck law ever be-
came an enactment bv Congress.

It is a fact that nothing in the food
line is any more enjoyable than genu-
ine, sweet country butter, fresh from
the milkhouse of the neat farmer
housewife, and there is no intent in
this article to gainsay this fact. Even
so, the consumer should not be denied
the right to purchase an imitation,
equally wholesome, if his purse does
not justify a larger expenditure. Genu-
ine sweet dairy butter will never go
begging in any market. It has not to
stand on any other platform than that
of its own merit to win the highest
price from satisfied customers.

Nevertheless there is butter. and
butter.

Poor butter or good oleo, which?
There can be but one choice. As a
one-time country dealer I might a tale
unfold as to the various brands of
dairy butter which come on the mar-
ket. but refrain from doine so out of
respect for many who may not be
wholly to blame for their shortcom-
ings in this respect.

Oleomargarine is a necessity for the
poor man’s table and no law should
be enacted which will take from him
the right to purchase this article in the
open market at a price he can afford
to pay.

Every tub should stand on its own
bottom. Sweet country butter has no
need to war upon oleo in order to win
a place in the open market for its
sale. Old Timer.

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Improvement in Hosiery Slow.

While the tendency toward broader
business in hosiery is slow in making
itself felt in some parts of the country,
it is there none the less. On the whole,
according to the special news letter of
the National Association of Hosiery
and Underwear Manufacturers, the
market must still be described as quiet,
but the trend toward freer operations
by the jobbing trade is unmistakable.
As now outlined, the course of events
during the next few months will be a
slow, steady improvement in Spring
business as jobbers regain confidence
in current quotations, ending in a rush
of orders and details toward the close
of the season.

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4

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Newberry—The Michigan Pole &
Tie Co. succeeds C. D. Zagelmeier in
business.

Pontiac—George A. Bauchat suc-
ceeds Bauchat & Cowan in the lumber
business.

Pontiac—The Marcero Mercantile
Co. has changed its name to J. L. Mar-
cero & Co.

Cassopolis—Clark & Hayden, Inc.,
has changed its name to the Hayden
Motor Sales, Inc.

Herman—The Farmers Co-Opera-
tive Association has increased its cap-
ital stock from $5,000 to $20,000.

Detroit—Siegel & Kohen, 7728 West
Jefferson avenue, boots, shoes, etc.,
has filed a petition in bankruptcy.

West Branch—The Diamond Lum-
ber Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $400,000.

Detroit—The Detroit Sanitary Sup-
ply Co., 5905 Second avenue, has
changed its name to the Desanco
Manufacturing Co.

Laingsburg—Fire of unknown orig-
in completely destroyed the plant of
the Farmers’ Elevator Co., entailing
an estimated loss of about $30,000.

Detroit—Chas. W. H. Robinson,
Inc., 231 West Jefferson avenue, whole-
sale dealer in nuts, has increased its
capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000.

Adrian—The Parker Auto Sales,
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $30,000, all of
which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Caledonia—Orolo Good has pur-
chased an interest in the Nelson B.
Good & Co. garage, auto parts and
supplies business and will devote his
entire attention to the business.

Wayland—Arthur Beall, of Beall
Bros., died at his home, Feb. 26, fol-
lowing a sudden attack of gall stones.
Beall Bros. have conducted a general
store here for the past twenty years.

Newberry—Gormely & Rahilly, gro-
cery and meat dealers, have dissolved
partnership and the business will be
continued by J. P. Rahilly, who has
taken over the interest of his partner.

Lansing—The Field & Moore Phar-
macy, 528 West Maple street, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $20,000. $10,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid
n in property.

Kalamazoo—The Arro-Lock Roofing
Co., 417 North Burdick street, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $10,000, of which
amount $2,000 has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Marcellus—The Marcellus
Co. succeeds Isaac M. Smith & Son in
business and has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$30,000, $14,000 of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Paw Paw—Legerveld & Bogard,
Inc., has been incorporated to deal in
automobiles, tractors, parts and ac-
cessories, with an authorized capital
stock of $25,000, $21,000 of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Ontonagon—The Gitche Gumme Oil
Co. has been incorporated to deal in
petroleum products at wholesale and
retail, with an authorized capital stock
of $20,000, $10,000 of which has been
subscribed and $1,000 paid in in cash.

Carson City—The Carson City Mo-

Lumber .

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tor Sales has been incorporated to
deal in automobiles, tractors, trucks,
parts and supplies, with an authorized
capital stock of $16,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Saginaw—The Saginaw Arch Pre-
server Shoe Shop, Inc., has been in-
corporated to deal in shoes and hos-
iery at retail, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $10,000, all of which has
been subscribed and. $5,500 paid in in
cash.

Jackson—The Wm. H. Yocum Co.,
Inc., 167 West Michigan avenue, has
been incorporated to conduct a de-
partment store, with an authorized
capital stock of $50,000, $1,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Lowell—The Sugar Bowl, August
Spuguzza proprietor, which was closed
under a chattel mortgage for several
days, has been purchased by Claude
Streeter, who has taken possession
and will continue the business under
his own name.

Saginaw—The Superior Motor Sales
2800 South Washington avenue, has
been incorporated to deal in automo-
biles, trucks, parts, etc., with an au-
thorized capital stock of $10,000, $2,-
000 of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Reliance Signal Co.,
7755 Grand River avenue, has been
incorporated to deal in electrical and
mechanical appliances, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $5,000, all of
which has been subscribed, $2,500 paid
in in cash and $1,500 in property.

Traverse City—The Brown Lumber
Co., Lake and 10th streets, has merg-
ed its business into a stock company
under the style of the Brown Lumber
& Supply Co., with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $25,000, all of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Munger-Gutherie Brand
Lumber Co., 124 South Military
avenue, has been incorporated to con-
duct a wholesale and retail business
with an authorized capital stock of
$50,000, of which amount $19,800 has
been subscribed and $8,800 paid in in
cash.

Detroit—The Grand River Oil Co.
has been incorporated to deal in pe-
troleum products at wholesale and re-
tail, with an authorized capital stock
of 5,000 shares at $10 per share, of
which amount $15,000 has been sub-
scribed, $6,500 paid in in cash and
$8,500 in property.

Utica — Church & Church have
merged their fuel, lumber and grain
business into a stock company under
the style of the Auburn Heights Lum-
ber & Coal Co., with an authorized
capital stock of $50,000, of which
amount $15,000 has been subscribed
and $1,500 paid in in cash.

Detroit — Meininger Bros. 5643
Grand River avenue, have merged their
retail hardware business into a stock
company under the style of Meininger
Bros., Inc., with an authorized capital
stock of $7,500 common and $15,000
preferred, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.

Detroit—The Universal Salvage Co.,
5156 Grand River avenue, has merged
its business into a stock company un-
der the style of the Universal Salvage
& Truck Co., with an authorized cap-

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ital stock of $25,000, all of which has
been subscribed and paid in, $377.19
n cash and $24,622.81 in property.

Detroit—The Sass Dairy Co. has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the style of the Anderson
& Sass Dairy Co., 9150 12th street to
manufacture and deal in dairy products
with an authorized capital stock of
$50,000, of which amount $30,000 has
been subscribed and paid in, $4,312.91
in cash and $25,687.09 in property.

Detroit— The Asbestos Building
Corporation, with business offices at
1012 First National Bank building, has
been incorporated to deal in asbestos
products, building material, etc., with
an authorized capital stock of $5,000
common and 1,500 shares at $1 per
share, of which amount $1,500 and
1,000 shares has been subscribed and
$1,000 paid in in cash.

Detroit—Daniel T. Crowley has be-
come President of the wholesale dry
goods jobbing house of Crowley Bros.,
Inc., in place of the late Joseph J.
Crowley. R. A. Beuhler, who has
been with the firm many years, has
been appointed credit manager. The
new President, in a letter to the trade,
advises that the house will continue to
stock complete lines and serve the
trade as heretofore.

Sault Ste. Marie—The annual report
of the Soo Co-Operative Mercantile
Association shows that the sales dur-
ing 1925 were $551,367, a gain of $51,-
838 over the year before. The gross
profit during 1925 was $30,541.82. It
was decided to increase the capital
stock from $50,000 to $100,000, which
will enable the organization to expand
its annual sales to $600,000 or better.
The Association has added catering
to its other lines, with very satisfac-
tory results.

 

Manufacturing Matters.
Stambaugh—The Triple Auto Light

Co. has increased its capital stock
from $8,000 to $25,000.
St. Clair — The Comet Coaster

Wagon Co. has changed its name to
the Alboy Manufacturing Co.

Detroit—The Acme Clay Products
Co., 39 State street, has increased its
capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000.

Manistee—The Coakley Leather Co.
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $100,000, $40,000
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

Monroe—The Monroe Milling Co.
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $1,000, all of
which has been subscribed and $250
paid in in cash.

East Jordan—The East Jordan Can-
ning Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $50,000,
of which amount $25,000 has been sub-
scribed and $2,500 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The L. A. Young Indus-
tries, Inc. auto seat springs, high
power machinery, etc., has increased
its capital stock from 275,000 shares
no par value to 300,000 shares no par
value.

Detroit—The Banner Brass Works,
444 South Campbell avenue, has been
incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $5,000, of which amount
$4,980 has been subscribed, $1,500 paid
in in cash and $1,500 in property.

ai Benton Harbor—The Consolidated

March 3, 1926

Boiler Corporation has been incor-
porated with an authorized capital
stock of $150,000, of which amount
$100,000 has been subscribed and paid
in, $50,000 in cash and $50,000 in prop-
erty.

Kalamazoo — The Gilbert Goiter
Remedy Co., 120 West South street,
has been incorporated to manufactur
and sell medicines, with an authorized
capital stock of $10,000, $2,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Benton Harbor—The American Ma-
chine Co., P. O. Box 461, has been
incorporated to manufacture machin-
ery, equipment and supplies, with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed and $1,-
000 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The W. J. Kilpatrick En-
gineering Co., 1059 Beaufait street,
has been incorporated to develop, man-
ufacture and sell machines, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $25,000, of
which amount $8,120 has been sub-
scribed, $3,686.88 paid in in cash and
$4,433,12 in property.

Grand Rapids—Beets, Inc., 40 Mar-
ket avenue, N. W., has been incor-
porated to manufacture candy and
candy specialties, with an authorized
capital stock of $15,000 preferred, and
1,500 shares at $1 per share, all of
which has been subscribed and paid
in, $3,000 in cash and the balance in
property.

Detroit—The Bacon-Burke Co., 655
Randolph street, has been incorporated
to manufacture ladders, wood and
metal parts and to retail hardware,
with an authorized capital stock of
$30,000, of which amount $19,800 has
been subscribed and paid in, $1,000 in
cash and $18,800 in property.

Muskegon—The Woodland Piston
Corporation, 16 West Webster avenue,
has merged its business into a stock
company under the style of the Wood-
land Sleeve Piston Ring Co., with an
authorized capital stock of $150,000, of
which amount $95,050 has been sub-
scribed and $50,000 paid in in prop-
erty.

Pontiac—Vaughn E. Morrison, man-
ufacturer of radio loud speakers, has
merged his business into a stock com-
pany under the style of the Pontiac
Corporation, 5680 Telegraph Road,
with an authorized capital stock of
100,000 shares at $1 per share, of
which amount 30,000 shares has been
subscribed and $30,000 paid in in
property.

Watervliet—The Watervliet Paper
Co. has placed an order for a 120 inch
fourdrinier machine, designed for mak-
ing raw coating stock and capable of
running up a maximum speed of 700
feet a minute, making it one of the
fastest machines of the kind now in
use. Other improvements planned
will include extensive additions and
repairs.

Fremont—W. E. Knott, of Grand
Rapids, has completed a button fac-
tory at this place. Twenty-two ma-
chines will be installed and the plant
will employ twenty-two men. It is

expected that later Mr. Knott will in-
stall twenty-eight more machines and
increase his working force to 50 men.
This will be the first shell button plant
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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—All sugars are now sold
f. o b. Grand Rapids except shipments
to the Northern zone. Jobbers hold
cane granulated at 5.65¢ and beet at
5.55c.

Canned Fruits—Fruits on the spot
are in demand and resale blocks suit-
able for private labels are being picked
up in other jobbing centers. The
Coast is making offerings of odds and
ends of no large volume.

Canned Vegetables—There is steady
buying of tomatoes at quotations, en-
tirely for nearby wants, as holders do
not want to be long when the market

is uncertain and there are still plenty .

of tomatoes in first hands. Futures are
nominally quoted on the basis of 80c
for 2s, but so far as known no con-
tracts have been made for future de-
livery. Peas appear more irregular in
price than actual conditions indicate,
as there is too much elasticity in quo-
tations with no strict adherence to
specified grades. Buyers are critical
as to quality and will not pass what
some canners offer as certain grades.
Nevertheless there is steady buying
at the factory for pressing needs and
at maintained prices except for off
grades. Corn is steady to firm, de-
pending upon the grade. Brand has
a good deal to do with the tone of the
market and the actual buying interest
of the jobber. Below standards the
market favors the buyer. Bookings of
1926 asparagus were not heavy during
the past week. Pet brands have been
taken but indiscriminate covering is
restricted. The delay has not weaken-
ed canners who refuse to make inside
prices.

Canned Fish—Lent has affected fish
and has increased the consumer de-
mand. Pink salmon has been one of
the items to show increased strength.

Dried Fruits—Raisins have shown a
greater increase in demand during the
past few days than other dried fruits.
Stocks had been allowed to run low
and with an increase in the consumer
outlets the shorts have begun to pick
up the cheap raisins on the spot. This
class of stock has been pretty well
absorbed and Coast buying has been
increased to prevent any acute short-
age from developing. Lent has af-
fected bulk raisins, which are in better
request from the bakers. Muscats
more and more favor the holder, while
Thompsons are stronger. Coast mar-
kets are firmer than jobbing centers
and all varieties are in strong hands.
Prunes are quiet at unchanged prices.
The movement to the consumer was
good but local supplies are sufficient
to meet present outlets and they can
be had for less money than on the
Coast. The market in California has
been somewhat irregular but with no
pronounced tendency to shade f. o. b.
quotations. The Northwest is not do-
ing much selling as it has only 30s
which. are not much wanted at the mo-
ment. Peach and apricot assortments
are light in volume and in extent and
both fruits tend upward as the spring
demand increases. Currants are in bet-

ter request as they are used more
freely by bakers in making hot cross
buns.

Nuts—One of the stumbling blocks
in the path of the California Almond

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Growers’ Exchange in its campaign to
sell 1926 crop in the shell on memor-
andum contracts has been the question
of arbitration over disputes. The ex-
change contends that buyers have
been spreading propaganda to indicate
that the association will not arbitrate
trade disputes. This is merely a half
truth. The exchange agrees to ar-
bitrate and to include that provision
in buying contracts, but it refuses to
specify Dried Fruit Association ar-
bitration. In fact, the exchange re-
fuses to recognize the association and
to come before it. Its arbitration will
be done by independent offcials who
will represent buyer and seller, and
not any specific organization. An-
other reform contemplated in the 1926
nut season is that of the California
Walnut Growers’ Association, which
is revising its requirements as to bud-
ded No. 1 and No. 2 walnuts in the
shell. This season the former system
was proved to be inadequate as it did
not protect the buyers sufficiently as
to the percentage of amber meats in
tenders on contracts. The revised
specifications are now being considered
by exchange officials.

Rice—Another dull week has passed
in both domestic and foreign rice.
There is no real breadth to the de-
mand and assortments are also sub-
normal, resulting in a balance of
prices which is not disturbed by the
lack of genuine buying support. Do-
mestic rices are deficient in the top
grades. The crop ran mostly to the
poorer average’ types. Southern
mills are mildly active and make no
changes in their offerings. Foreign
rice has been picked over frequently
and not much is left.

——_—_o-2--____-
Review of the Produce Market.

Apples—Baldwins, 75@$1; Spys and
Kings, $1@1.50; Jonathans and Mc-
Intosh, $1.50.

Bagas—$2.50 per 100 Ibs.

Bananas—7%4@8c per Ib.

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

©. Hy Pea Beans 20022 $4.25
Light Red Kidney ------------ 8.50
Dark Red Kidney -.------------ 8.75
Risen Gwete ...-...-.__......- 5.50

Brussel’s Sprouts—Florida, 40c per
quart,

Butter—The market is practically
unchanged from a week ago. Holders
sell fresh packed at 44c and prints at
46c. They pay 25c for packing stock.

Cabbage—4c per Ib. for home grown;
$5 per crate for Texas.

Carrots—$1.25 per bu.; new from
Texas, $2 per bu.

Cauliflower—California, $3 per doz.
heads.

Celery—California washed jumbo,
$1.

Chalotts—70c per doz.
Cocoanuts—$1 per doz.
Cucumbers—$2.75 per doz. for hot
house stock from Ill. and Ind.

Eggs—Local dealers pay 28c for
strictly fresh and hold candled fresh
at 30c. All storage grades are de-
pleted except X, which is marketable
at 20c.

Egg Plant—$2.50 per doz.

Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

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

Lemons—Quotations are now as fol-
lows:

O00 Suilect 2g $6.00
360 Red Ball =.._--_!-_----__-_ 5.00
S00 Red Bale to 5.50

Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:

California Iceberg, 4s ~--------- $4.50
California, Iceberg, 5s ..----..-_ 4.00
Prot house leaf’ 15c

Onions—Spanish, $2.25 per crate of
50s and 72s; Michigan, $2.75 per 100
Ib. sack.

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Navels are now on the following basis:

Se $5.75
eee ee 5.75
Ss seer 5.75
a 5.75
ae 5.75
ee 5.75
ES ee eee ee 5.50
ee 5.25

Floridas are in ample supply on the
following basis:

oe $5.50
fe 5.50
ee. 5.50
fe 5.50
ee 5.25

Parsley—60c per doz. bunches for
jumbo.

Peppérs—Green, from Florida, 60c
per doz.

Potatoes—Buyers are paying $1.80
@$2, mostly $1.90 per bushel around
the State.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows this week:

Heavy fowls 9.000 27c
Bight fowls) -_- 2-2 22c
Springers, 4 lbs. and up -------- 28c
Turkey (fancy) young ---------- 39c
‘Turkey €Old Poms) —------___.- 32c
Ducks (White Pekins) ~--------- 26c
Geese of 8 te. 15c

Radishes—60c per doz. for hot

house.

Spinach—$1 per ‘bu. for Texas.

Sweet Potatoes—Delaware kiln dried
$3 per hamper.

Tangerines—$4.50 per box of any
size.

Tomatoes—California, $1:25 per 6
lb. basket.

Veal Calves—Wilson & Co. pay as
follows:

ens 18c
Gded@. 2222... l6c
Medtgny oe 14c
Lots a ee 12c
OO -
Heavy Buying of Flour Not War-
ranted.

Written for the Tradesman.

We have had a substantial decline in
wheat during the past week and yet
are in the same position compared to
world prices as before the decline, as
world markets have declined fully as
much as our domestic markets. Never-
theless, if we are to judge by the past,
there will be some rally in the price of
wheat; a reaction from the setback
in price, and while prices are more at-
tractive now than before the decline,
the position of wheat is such that
speculative buying for distant delivery
is hardly warranted.

Receipts of wheat continue fair. In
some sections they are greater than a
year ago. In other words, Winnipeg
receipts the 2nd of March were 649
cars, against 583 cars last year, while,
on the other hand, Minneapolis wheat
stocks decreased 350,000 bushels for

5

three days just passed; a year ago they
decreased 125,000 bushels for the same
time. Some sections in the Southwest
report a slight falling off in receipts,
due, it is claimed, to decline in price.
The Buenos Ayres market has also
declined, was %c lower again yester-
day. Liverpool sends two rather con-
flicting cables, the first, “Your weak-
ness in wheat unsettling; no sign of
demand yet,” while the second one
read, “Think the decline in wheat has
gone far enough and our market is
steady at the decline.” Reports from
India indicate the weather is favor-
able and prospects of wheat are aver-
age; have fairly liberal supplies of old
wheat.

The Canadian visible supply is now
placed at 71,989,000 bushels, which is
approximately 35,000,000 bushels larg-
er than a year ago. In line with the
reported falling off of receipts at West-
ern points, totals are given at 554,000
bushels yesterday, against 699,000
bushels last year. Eastern points’ re-
ceipts were 210,000 bushels, against
608,000 bushels last year. Shipments
from Western points were 396,000
bushels, against 506,000 last year; from
Eastern points 192,000 bushels, against
1,442,000 bushels a year ago, and ex-
ports of wheat and flour were equal to
246,000 bushels of wheat.

The continuance of favorable reports
as to wheat supplies will have a bear-
ish effect, as will favorable reports
concerning the condition of the grow-
ing winter wheat crop. On the other
hand, adverse reports concerning con-
dition of growing winter wheat crop
and decrease in spring seeding will
naturally cause an immediate reaction.
However, it will be about thirty days
before we have reliable crop reports. .

Wheat has gotten down in price
where both flour and wheat are a much
better purchase, so the trade can well
afford to cover their requirements, if
they have not already done so, for the
immediate future. However, heavy
buying for distant delivery is hardly
warranted by the present outlook.

Lloyd E. Smith.
a
Another Characteristic Coolidge Story

Judge Arthur C. Denison brings
back a characteristic Coolidge story
from Washington.

A young lady was scheduled to sit
next to the President at a dinner
party. Her friends joked her about
the indisposition of Mr. Coolidge to
engage in conversation, whereupon
she made a wager with her friends
that she could make him talk. She
exerted every power she possessed to
accomplish her purpose, without re-
sult. Dreading the reproaches of her
friends, she threw herself on his mercy
told him of the wager she had made
and appealed to him to assist her to
win the wager. He listened to her
entreaties and then closed the circum-
stances by the utterance of two words:

“You lose.”

——_>--—____

Jackson—The Teer & Wickwire Co.,
119 East Washington avenue, has been
incorporated to manufacture and sell
special machines, parts, etc., with an
authorized capital stock of $60,000, of
which amount $6,000 has been sub-
scribed and $1,500 paid in in cash.

 

6

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Feb. 19—We have to-

day received the schedules, order of ref-
erence and adjudication in the matter of
Sol Jacobs and Hyman Adelberg, doing
business as New York Outlet, Bankrupt
No. 2852. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptcy. The bankrupts are residents of
Benton Harbor, and their Occupations are
that of a merchant. The schedules of
Sol Jacobs show assets of $4,857.77, of
which $450 is claimed as exempt, with
liabilities of $18,661.84. The schedules of
Hyman Adelberg show assets of $4,957.47
of which $500 is claimed as exempt, with
liabilities of $18,492.55. The first meeting
has been called as stated in former para-
graphs. The list of creditors of the
bankrupts are as follows:
Taxes due Benton Harbor_-_____- $196.00
Sadie Jacobs, Benton Harbor  —_ 624.00
Bertha Adelberg, Benton Harbor 624.00
Sam Adelman & Co., Benton H. 430.38
Abholoid Co., Benton Harbor ___ 56.38
American Overall Works., Benton

marr 76.25
Butler Bros., Benton Harbor ___ 776.50
Bernstein, Sohen & Co., Benton

Peer 116.23
H. Bernstein & Co., Benton Harbor 81.75
P. Becker & Co., Benton Harbor 21.00
L. Broyde, Benton Harbor ________ 139.00
Berry & Benson, Benton Harbor _ 258.00
Chesterfield Pants Co., Benton H. 182.00
G. P. Crafts Co., Benton Harbor 154.85
Calumet Mfg. Co., Benton Harbor 487.37
Center State Shoe Co., Benton H. 102.35
Crescent Suspender Co., Benton H. 33.37
S. & A. Cohen Co., Benton Harbor 328.96
South Bend Mercantile Co., South

R6eee ee 66.00
Chews Garment Co., Geneva, Ind. 25.35
Chas. O. Tunson Shoe Co., Lyman,

MOOG 54.00
Central Mdse. Co., Chicago ______ 468.59
Cambridge Rubber Sales Co.,

Chicago 468.59

F. Dressauer & Co., Chicago ____ 210.93
S. Deiches & Co., Chicago _______ 29.00
David Freeman & Son, Chicago __ 29.95
Daniel T. Patton & Co., Grand
eS 81.25
Ette.son- & Co., Chicago _________ 280.99
Feldman Bros., Chicago -_---______ 441.12
Endicott-Johnson Co., Endicott,
Be as 1,212.89
Emsma & Brill, Chicago ___ 24.80
Finlin Shoe Co., Boston __________ 171.70
ixcell Cap Co., Chicago _...__ 294.50
John B. Farwell Co., Chicago —~___ 265.01
E. Hisinger Co., Chicago ________ 309.85
S. L Ettenger & Son, Chicago ____ 183.75
S. Freehling & Sons, Chicago ____ 257.20

F. B. Goodrich Rubber Co., Chicago 407.31

Goodyear Rubber Co., Chicago 295.42
Gordon & Co., Chicago —...________ 102.00
Guthmann, Carpenter & Co., Chi-
ee 62.80
Harry Goldstein Co., Chicago ____ 21.50
Hutchinson-Winch Shoe Co.,
Boron 144.20
Joseph Fels Co., Chicaeo 650.00
B. Kreman & Co., Chicarpo ____ 522.32
Kalven & Stern, Chicago ______-- 54.25
Simons Bros., Chicago _________-___ 524.91
Lurie Mie. Co., Chicago —_________ 111.41
S. H. Knopp Mfg. Co., Boston ---- 55.10
Middleton Mfg. Co., Mi-waukee __ 429.88
Metropolitan Juvenile Clothing
oo. ee Bare 429.88
Mich. Slipper Co., Detroit __-__--- 21.60
H. Morris Teaf, Philadelphia ___~ 181.81
Mich. State Industries, Jackson __ 114.00
North Lebanon Shoe Co., Lebaon,
eA oe ie ses a 28.05
Oxford Pattern Co., Detroit __--__ 105.16

National Overall Mfg. Co., Cold-
eer ee a 48.00

Phillips-Jones Co., New York ____ 246.38
Penn Touser Co., Pittsburgh ____ 82.00
Piattis, Chicaro —. 630.23

Samuel Phillipson & Co.,

Chicago 223.25
Meyer J. Rubin & Co.,

Chicago_ 387.50

Rand Mfg. Co., Philadelphia ---- 45.3
A. Rosenblum & Co., New York -_ 58.50
E. Rosenstein’s Sons, Rochester_-- 73.00
Rohde & Levin, Chicago ____---___ 57.30
Rubin Bros., Chicago _________-._ 82.85
M. H. Rosen & Co., New York __ 46.64
Society Silk Lingerie Co., Chicago 150.07
William Sumner Smith, Chicago __ 39.60
Sweet, Orr & Co., Inc., New York 105.20

. Tucker & Co., Chicago —_____ 160.64

Universal Trunk Co., Chicago -__ 22.00
Ididore Weinberg, Chicago _______ 50.00
West Side Trunk Co., Chicago --_ 62.00
Bilin: Mite. Co. mre oo 129.50
News Palladium, Benton Harbor _- 390.00
Brown Shoe Co., St. Louis -__--- 116.00
Journal-Era Co., Eau Claire __._ 7.00
Courier Coinmn: 8.00
Herald Press, St. Joseph —_..._._ 75.00

House of David, Benton Harbor __ 100.00
Berrien County Bank, Benton

err 1,000.00
L. Friedman Neckwear Co., Mil-

MRI 8.29
Cluett Peabody Co., Chicago -_-_ 13.96
Globe Products Co., Chicago ______ 8.71
H. J. Holman & Sons, Ine., She-

NR 60.00
Record Co., Buchanan ____._.__ 10.00

B. H. Light Co., Benton Harbor__ 27.95
Mich. Bell Tel. Co., Benton Harbor _ 5.85
Mrs. Anna Bennett, Benton Harbor 200. 00
Mr. Abe Bennett, Benton Harbor 75.50
Dr. R. B. Tabor, Benton Harbor 24.00
H. J. Holman & Sons, Inc., She-
NR ee 60.00
Jack Romonogg, Chicago -_-_---- 250.00
Thorburn Bros., Benton Harbor -- 16.21

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Feb. 20. We have to-day received the
schedu!es, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Edw. J. Taylor,
Bankrupt No. 2865. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee
in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of Grand Rapids. The schedules
show assets of $100, of which the full
interest is claimed as exempt, with lia-
bilities of $701.84. 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 creditors of said
bankrupt are as follows:

Young & Chaffee Furn. Co., Grand

Rapids 2 $272.98
Winegar Furn. Co., Grand Rapids 32.00
Wurzburg’s, Grand Rapids ___... 20.00

A. Dixon, Grand Rapids _____---~- 45.00
Dr. Allen, Grand Rapids —~_------~-- 3.00
Cornell’s Hardware Co., Grand R. 20.00
Jacob Waates, Grand Rapids ---. 33.09
Peter Diaate, Grand Rapids ------ 4.80
Burton Heights Tire Service,

Grand ages 10.00
Smitters Dry Goods Co., Grand

Rants oo; 5.71
H. Smith, Rockford —_.___.______.. 72.00

Spickmaster & Sons, Grand Rapids 11.60
Burton Heights Coal Co., Grand

Rants oe 6.00
H. Yhompens, Grand Rapids —_--_- 7.00
Siegerdes Grocery, Grand Rapids 13.00
Motor Bankers Corp., Grand Rap. 56.75

Ind. Bank, Grand Rapids  ~_------ 44.00
Hospital Council, Grand Rapids -. 45.00
Feb. 20. We have to-day received the

schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Lawrence W.
Boozer, Bankrupt No. 2867. The matter
has been referred to Charles B. Blair as
referee in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is
a resident of Muskegon, and his occupa-
tion is that of a horse salesman. The
schedules show assets of $3,260, of which
$200 is claimed as exempt, with liabilities
of $8,526. The court has written for
funds, and upon recejpt of the same, the
first meeting of creditors will be called,
and note of the same made herein. The
list of creditors of said bankrupt are as
follows:

Ravenna Private Bank, Ravenna $6,560.00
Langland Mfg. Co., Muskegon __-~ 200.00
Dr. Vanderlan, Muskegon __-_____ 39.00
Fredrichs Lumber Co., Muskegon 34.00
Belbernie Undertaker, Muskegon 175.00

Clyde Thompson, Ravenna ___----- 100.00
Harry Woodward, Muskegon _-_---_ 103.00
i,. Yakes, Muskegon __________ 100.00
United Telephone Co., Muskegon_. 40.00
Dr. Laverve, Muskegon —_____--_- 167.00
Dr. Poppen, Muskegon __---------- 10.00
Mayo Bros, Rochester, Minn. ~--- 250.00
Wolfis Bros., Muskegon ~---~----- 27.00
Marvins Feed Store, Muskegon _. 26.00
Vern Nash, Muskegon -_--__--~---- 50.00
J. McDonald, Muskegon ____--~--- 200.00

Commercial Coal Co., Grand Rap. 125. -
Joe Ernewein, Muskegon Se 20.
Li:lie Boozer, Muskegon _--------- 300. 00
Feb. 22. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation, in the matter of Lewis N. Bilson,
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
referred to Chlraes B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Charleston township, and his occupa-
tion is that of a laborer. The schedules
show assets of $560, of which the full
interest is claimed as exempt, with lia-
bilities of $1,112.50. The court has writ-
ten 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 creditors of said bank-
rupt, are*as follows:
Central Nat. Bank, Battle Creek — 00

Wm. F. Simons, Bellevue ___----- 170.00
John Bowers, Marshall ---------- 50.00
Frank Perry, Battle Creek -_---- 70.00
Jack Thompson, Batt'e Creek ---_ 70.00
Cc. D. Watson, M. D., Bellevue ---- 16.50
H. H. Batdorff, Battle Creek ---- 60.00
Frank L. Thayer, Battle Creek ---_ 60.00
A. J. Arnold, Battle Creek ____---- 40.00

American Finance Co., Battle Creek 250.00
In the matter of Sidney Keller, Bank-
rupt No. 2819, the trustee has filed his
final report and account and a final meet-
ing of creditors has been called for March
5. The trustee’s final report and account
will be considered and passed upon and
administration expenses paid as far as
the funds on hand will permit. There can
be no dividends for general creditors.

In the matter of Daniel R. Rairigh,
Bankrupt No. 2586, trustee has filed his
final report and account and a final meet-
ing of creditors has been called for
March 5. The trustee’s final report and
account will be considered and expenses
paid as far as the funds on hand will
permit. There will be no dividend for
general creditors. .

Feb. 23. On this day was held the
final meeting of creditors in the matter
of Wilmot L. Moore, Bankrupt No. 2487.
The bankrupt was not present or repre-
sented. The attorney for the trustee was
present. Claims were proved and al-
lowed. An order was made for the pay-
ment of expenses of administration as
far as the funds wou!d permit. There
were no funds on hand for the payment
of any dividends to general creditors. No
objections were made to the discharge
of the bankrupt. The meeting adjourned
without date and the matter will be
closed and returned to the district court
in due course.

In the matter of Sol Jacobs, Hyman
Adelberg, and New York Outlet, & COo-

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7
partnershi N r : :
movie tar raven tan cage ae tnaee aoa eS et oe
H. Fox, of Grand Rapids, of 2 ie ini i
all of the stock in ade aid aoceoe ‘all Womans P at Gee re iggy aa
of which are appraised at $7,779.46. The Rapids aw ee 480.50
property consists of notions, crockery State Savings Bank, unknown —_-- 500.0
clothing, shoes, etc., and is all located at Farmers & Morchas in Bank, en
Benton Harbor. The sale will be held at unknown : pana osneste 2,210.00 Ca O c eat
the premises of the bankrupt’s business, Walter 1 Burd, Ann Arb on "135.00
108 W. Main street, Benton Harbor, at Ss. BE. Powers Raa iiia <a ee 135.00
2 p m., March 10. An inventory is in Jerry Capen Nashville 100.00
the hands of the referee in bankruptcy John M Perry Teving oo 75.00 '
and a copy of the same will be at the Madison Paint. Co Cleveland __- 12.96
premises on the date of sale. All inter- Mich. Cen R R. Co., Grand Ra ids 50.00
ested should be present at the time and Nashville “Co-operative evar oo
place above named. Attention is called Association, Nashville 81.34
to the fact that this sale will be held Ray Gib N aa .
ee oo oe Ce oo Lots of le like a k ‘ridge in Wi
ret ia de wae ee ee Geo ties ots of people like a hot porridge in Winter—but
final meeting of creditors in the matter F 39 PoNeorre len : ? sis :
of Universal Mfg. & Sales Corp., Bank- SO. dates Nanviic 20.00 they don’t know what a delicious porr idge they can
rupt No. 2576. The bankrupt was not Larl Tarvell, Nashville __-------- 175.00 . '
present or represented. e trustee was KR. T.. On v i —<
represented by Hilding & Hilding. Claims Ray Reomiges Battie Creek —__- eo make out of
were proved and allowed. The trustee’s Chas. Rettinger Battle Creek oe 69.00
final report and account was approved f. A. Campbell & Son, Battle Crk. 2.00
and allowed. An order was made for J. C. Hurd. Nashville Ee 15.00
the payment of expenses and for the Peoples Coal Mining Co., Albion 766.41
payment of labor claims, taxes and a Feb. 26. We have to-day received the
first and final dividend of 5 per cent. to. schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
general creditors. No objections were cation in the matter of Gus Schrader,
made to the discharge of the bankrupt. Bankrupt No. 2869. The matter has been
The meeting then adjourned without date referred to Charles B. Blair as referee
and the matter will be closed and re- in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resi-
turned to the district court in due course, dent of Bear Lake, and his occupation is
On this day also was held the first that of a retail merchant. The schedules
meeting, of creditors in M. V. Himes, show assets of $400 with liabilities of
op as —— ibs a = $4,358.01. The court has written for M k it If 1 :
not present or represented. ohn : funds, and upon receipt of tl ak 7 : 7 r TC sc
Ret oe bet ee the Pee mettre receipt of the same ake it yourself and you will want to tell your cus
present. The examination of Mr. Nicholas called, and note of the s p de here- ; i j
Re ea ee ne Mek Ok the cretion of at tomers about it. Place the Shredded Wheat Biscuits
erty scheduled by the bankrupt was gi bankrupt are as follows: :
nership property and that therefore his os et © Ie. ye « 6 ‘ ’ ré > ;
nership property and that therefore Bie State of Michigan, taxes -—--—--—- $91.28 in a small sauce-pan; add salt and enough water to
as long as the partnership was unable Thompson ato er wmiice ere 19.80 : | . . : ae =
Se ee ee ee ee a cover bottom of the pan; stir and boil until it thickens.
cordingly directed to abandon the sched- Pe baiher CA. Mautnee 19.50 S
uled assets and the case will be close snag - pie Geen te eee 7 - ‘ 11
, or ae : National Grocer Co., Traverse City 21.00 Serve with milk or cream.
ee Se ree ae
Neb. 24. ~ 2. en Mfg. Co., icago _- 6 ‘
meeting of creditors in the matter of Wilson Co., Ghicago —_...._______ 35.74 . nary a a : es ie
ects FL Ss ae Pat Walt Co, Chicees —-.-__.-- Leg Better than ordinary porridge; more nutritious and
The bankrupt was present in person and John Hopkins, Milwaukee -----~--- 34.20
by attorneys Corwin & Norcross. No B®. C Larsen, Manistee —_...______ 385.72 so easy to prepare.
creditors were present or represented. Godfrey & Son, Milwaukee ----- 57.63
No trustee was appointed. No claims Hannah & Lay, Traverse City ---. 72.10
were proved 5 — — —_—a Bear Lake Garage, Bear Lake -- 34.09
Was sworn and examined without a re- Wm. Miller Hdw. Co., Manistee -- 172.80 Th h
porter. The bankrupt was directed and Manistee Milling Co., Manistee -- 44.65 e re e eat 0.
ordered to pay the filing fee and upon ‘. C. Esser @o. Kaleva 2. 86.20
receipt of the same the case will be Noud Lumber Co., Manistee ------ 28.40
closed and returned to the district court Ruggles & Rademaker, Manistee —- 17.00 Niagara Falls, N. Y.
as a case without assets. The meeting Morley Bros., Saginaw ---------- 33.85
then adjourned without date, Standard Oil Co., Manistee ------ 21.85
Feb. 25. On this day was held the first Dr. Brine, Bear Lake ------------ 70.00
meeting of creditors in the matter of Armour & Co., Chicago -----------. 87.17
Arthur Shuey, Bankrupt No. 2804. Tne John Hansen, unknown --—------- 2,635.60
bankrupt was present in person Pai Bas —_—_++>——_
Thomas J. Whinery, attorney tor e . i f°
bankrupt. No creditors were present or Blouse Demand Is Growing. = Ls.
represented. No claims were proved and The demand for blouses, both in
allowed. No trustee aes appointed. fina ssa cod aad tailoced ‘4 Is
tankrupt was sworn and examined with- semi-tailored and tailored mode con- Wi G
out a reporter. The bankrupt was _ or- tinues to grow here accordin “tg a ORDEN ROCER OMPANY
dered to pay the filing fee gti ae ae g Pa , Sia \ : :
1, 1926, and the case will then be close ulletin issued last week by the nite
and returned to the district court as @ Wraict L fA : a hott THE PROMPT SHIPPERS
case without assets. The meeting was aist League of /\merica. cea
then adjourned without date. colors are mostly in demand. Such
On this day also was held the first hn! Z
meeting of creditors in the srs a — as bois iS rose, . and
Cornelius C. Mol, Bankrupt No. 2855. e have a particular appeal, because o
a et ei on Offer your customers only known brands
attorney Willard McIntyre. No creditors the harmony they lend to many of the
— — oa Bog ca new two-piece suits. As many of these
was appointed. The bankrut was sworn New tailleurs show quite short jackets,
and examined without a reporter. The ‘ :
first meeting then adjourned without date the new blouses are also _somewhat
and the case will be returned to the dis- shorter. Some come to the hips. Others
— nseggioanl oil ae gop nig ES reach scarcely below the waistline, al-
n 1e or 4 . ; 2
Bankrupt No. 2868, the funds for the though they are in the overblouse style.
first meeting have — ee ge — ee Ua ‘Ss OO
such meeting has een calle or ‘
araceh (a1. + Good Reorders For Tweeds.
In the matter of Leander eaver ‘ :
Bankrupt No. 2864, the funds for the Tweeds figure prominently in the
first meeting sai Beet Or — = woolens that are being reordered by
meeting has been calle or are i a
Feb. o. We have to-day received the cutters-up. For both coats and suits TO b(eags
schedules, order of reference and adjudi- th reav j , , ae
aaaion: in the matter of Glen Ashley, sig soe oe novelty Pare bus
Bankrupt No. 2872. The matter has been having a strong vogue, which 1s held
-eferred to Charles B. Blair as referee ‘ : . i :
sec 2 eo ere OO ee well into the warmer TTY Gee Le LOCO
dent of Grand Rapids and his a= months. The fabrics are being used
is that of a laborer. The schedules show ae ua é
is that oF $785 with Habilities of $748.29. mostly in medium-priced garments.
The court has written for funds, and up- This has meant greater volume for the
on receipt of the same, the first meeting a : '
of creditors will be called, and note of cutters-up, with consequent greater
the same made herein. The list of cred- ardag i
the same made here. are as. follows: : dage sale for the mills. The softer HAVE CONSUMER ENDORSEMENT
G. R. Savings Bank, Grand Rapids $116.19 s are outstanding in the goods,
G. A. National Bank, Grand Rapids 156.10 including grays blues, tans a x
Burleson Sanitorium, Grand Rapids 250.90 1 ee fees ane tO
John Buist, Fennville oo it pean colors.
Feb. 26. We have to-day receive the a ee
schedules, order of reference and adjudi- Keep serene SI . ou ORDEN ROCER OMPANY
cation, in the matter of Fred H. _. ° ps ne. eep enough. Ven-
Bankrupt No. 2871. The matter has been tilate your room. . Eat wh ree .
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee “th 7 ' a Wholesalers for F ifty-seven Years
in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is *, gg with you. Work hard, then work
dent of Nashville, and his occupation is : :
that of a salesman. The schedules show some more. Play SORES. Walk a lot. Ottawa at Weston Grand Rapids
assets of $6,587.30 | of wench ee is Be regular and you will probably re-
imed as exempt, wit iabilities 0 : :
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funds, and upon receipt of the oe the ones who refuse to observe those :
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CRIME CAPITAL OF AMERICA.
Wrongly or rightly, Chicago bears
the name of being the crime capital
of America. Last year, in one month,
five Chicago policemen were killed by
bandits. The banks of Chicago have
a standing offer of $2,500 for a dead
bandit. That city is headquarters for
gangs of thieves, safe-blowers and
“killers” operating in the Middle West.
Last summer the situation was so
ugly that Illinois, Iowa ‘and Indiana
towns armed thousands of “vigilantes”
with rifles to give better protection to
banks and business houses.
The “golden coffin,” the
flowers and the great crowds at the
funeral of Dion O’Bannion, king of
the gangsters, is a single episode in
Chicago’s crime story. The “steel-
vested gunman,” Marty Durkin, and
the Drake Hotel robbery are others.
Since January 1 nine gangsters have
died in their own fierce tribal wars.

tons of

Bombings and sluggings have been
routine happenings in Chicago’s labor
struggles. The petitioners for Federal
help cite 100 bombings within a year,
resulting in some loss of life and great
loss of property. They charge also
that for four years the situation has
grown worse and that the people are
well-nigh helpless. For a long time
in the city of Chicago has maintained
a colony of unnaturalized persons
hostile to our institutions and laws,
who have formed a super-government
of their own—feudists, black-handers
and members of the Mafia—who levy
tribute upon citizens and enforce col-
lection by terrorism, kidnaping and
assassinations.

All of the blame is not placed upon
the alien. American citizens are
charged with having grown rich
through vast and systematic vioiations
of the liquor laws while working under
police protection. Chicago’s present
efforts to deport the dangerous alien
are praised but inade-
quate.

Therefore, the Federal Government
is asked to investigate the plight of the
proud city of Chicago. The problem,
because of its alien phases, has been
referred to the Immigration Commit-
tee: but the citizens of Chicago can-
not hope to evade the final respons!-
bility for this disgraceful situation.

dismissed as

Last summer Chicago was feeling
the dollars-and-cents effect of her
reputation as a crime center. Her
business interests knew this was keep-
ing the timid visitor away from her
hotels, stores and wholesale houses.
Back in the hinterlands the tale of
Chicago’s lawlessness may have been
greatly and grotesquely exaggerated,
but it hurt, and the hurt was serious.
The situation recognized then must be
recognized even more emphatically
now.

The cty whose proud motto is “I

Will” seemingly has not bent that
“will” to the cleaning of her own
house. In desperation her citizens

have called upon Washington for help.
They distrust their own officials and
their own courts. Chicagoans are
afraid to serve on juries, afraid to vote
for conviction, lest they be marked
down by the gunman or the slugger.

Not so long ago Chicago was
threatening to “secede” from [Illinois
and apply for admission as a State.

MICHIGAN

Now she admits that, with all her
power, wealth and pride, she cannot,
as a city, stamp out a group of low-
browed human rats. She cannot find
the courage to end- the terrorism
caused by her alien criminals and the
gunmen she has harbored.

The city of the United
States has thrown up her hands and is
calling for Federal aid. Here is a con-
fession of breakdown in local responsi-
bility and self-government never wit-
nessed before in any great American
municipality.

second

 

WOOLS AND WOOLENS.

Auction sales of wool at Sydney,
Australia, during the past week gave
results similar to those at the recent
The general trend of
prices downward, although the
decreases were not very marked. The
auctions at London will be resumed on
March 9. In this country sales have
been lately quite insignificant. A lot
of Oregon wool, held by one of the
co-operative associations, was recently
withdrawn from sale because of the
inadequacy of the bids. It is to be
sent East by water to be held on con-
signment. There is still a lot of the
old clip unsold, and shgaring will be-
gin in a few weeks. Within ten weeks
thereafter about 300,000,000 pounds
will be added to the stocks of domestic
Manufacturers of woolens are
anxious that prices remain stable. A
rise in price would cut down the small
margin of profit they are allowing
themselves, while any drop would be
seized hold of by buyers as a pretext
for forcing down prices. The prin-
cipal happening during the past week
in the goods’ market was the opening
of men’s wear fancy woolens and
worsteds for Fall by the American
Woolen Company. An average reduc-
tion on many lines of over 11 per cent.
was taken by the trade as an indica-
tion that the big company is out seri-
The trend
worsteds as against

London sales.

Was

wool.

ously for business con-

tinues toward
woolens, yet attract:ve
prices are made for the latter which
promise to keep them in the running.
One of the big producers of corpora-
tion dress goods also opened its Fall
lines during the week. The most not-
able feature about them was the large
number of new patterns, many of
which were rayon mixtures. Openings
for Fall were also had by a number
of the “independent” mills making
men’s wear fabrics. The price reduc-
tions were similar to those of the
American company. Thus far there
has not been much buying for Fall on
anything except overcoatings, but a
better showing is soon expected. The
opening of some women’s wear lines
for Fall may be delayed by the strikes
now going on at Passaic and Garfield,
N. 4.

DATES FOR DOING THINGS

Conventional times for doing cer-
tain things are common in business. It
was many years ago that a certain
Paris shop began exploiting its “white
sales” in January. Contributions to
the merchandise put on sale came
from other than the recognized sources
of supply, including some of the nun-
neries. After this kind of sale had
become an institution in the French
capital, shops in other countries took

some very

 

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up the idea of having white sales, but
of goods from the usual factories. It
is now looked forward to as a regular
occurrence in the shops. The wearing
of straw hats is another instance of a
conventionality. It is long since that
smashing of them was indulged in on
Sept. 15 of each year, but more re-
cently the aim has been to start the
wearing of them on May 15. The
frank purpose of this is to help trade
by making it necessary for men to buy
more than one straw hat a year. In
the millinery trade, with a somewhat
purpose in view, they have
fairly settled on a “four seasons”
policy. Now the clothing trade is try-
ing to fix certain stated dates for do-
ing things. Manufacturers, with the
assent of retailers, wish to establish
regular periods for completing ship-
ments of men’s and boys’ clothing.
The dates have been selected in ac-
cord with experience so as to secure
the best results for both manufacturer
and retailer and to avoid “distress”
merchandise as well as needless ‘“‘close
outs.” Particularly directed will be
the effort to provide for a season’s
requirements in no greater quantity
than needed and no sooner than re-
quired. As a way to avoiding indus-
trial waste the plan has striking merits.

similar

 

THE COTTON SITUATION.

Decided weakness was shown in
cotton prices during the past week.
Sooner or later these must be depend-
ent on the quantity required by spin-
ners here and abroad. Thus far the
takings have not been as large, pro-
portionately, as would be warranted
by the size of the crop. The large
spread, too, between spots and futures
denotes an uncertainty in the stability
of. values. Pre-war estimates of the
world’s cotton needs are going by the
board because the old figures of per
capita consumption are not applicable
At present it takes much fewer
yards of cotton cloth to make a dress
than it used to do, and there is much
less weight of cotton to the yard. This
appears to hold good all over the
world. The greatest call for cotton
fabrics appears to be for the lighter
and fancy constructions as against the
old staple ones. Buyers of cotton goods
are stressing the weakness in the price
of the raw material and appear to be
hopeful of getting further concessions
in course of time. The market for gray
goods last week was rather slow and
disspirited with on easing up in the
prices of printcloths. Sheetings held
their own a little better. Finished
goods, whether prints or yarn-dyed
fabrics, are moving quite freely in dis-
tributing channels. Heavy cottons, in-
cluding denims, have declined in price.
Little in the way of feature is notice-
able in knit goods, although there is
more enquiry for Spring underwear
and hosiery shows somewhat more
activity.

now.

 

There are some people who can get
credit anywhere. There are some who
can get it nowhere. Between the
two classes are the large number who
need to be watched.

 

One trouble with the labor move-
ment is the fact that we have too
many cabooses and not enough en-
gines.

March 3, 1926

THE DRY GOODS TRADE.

Most of the buying done now is ap-
parently for the purpose of testing
consumer interest. This applies alike
to wholesalers and retailers. In the
primary markets, where there is plenty
of enquiry, the actual transactions oj
any volume are in such goods as per
cales and prints, which have establish-
ed themselves in public favor for
spring. A great variety of merchan-
dise is. being sought by buyers who
are, however, taking units of small
This is part of the testing-out
process. Untoward weather has re-
cently been a drawback to both
wholesale and retail business, but this
is merely a temporary setback. The
first week or two in March are likely
to see more spirit in the purchasing.
3ut there is still no disposition by
jobbers or retailers to take anything
on which a quick turnover is not per-
ceptible. A bright spot in business
just now is the trade in women’s
ready-to-wear. This has been picking
up well recently and is expected to
show up even better during the com-
ing fortnight. In this field the styles
for the season are well defined and the
fabrics and colors favored are mani-
fest. These facts dispose of any ex-
cuse for not getting the season’s re-
quirements, especially when it is con-
sidered that prices generally are on a
stable basis and at attractive levels.
There would be more doing in the
primary markets were buyers convinc-
ed that the same conditions existed
there.

size.

 

WILL WE EVER WAKE UP?

Michigan people are slow to anger,
but when they do realize that they are
being outrageously swindled they
sweep the swindler into deserved ob-
scurity.

No one has ever dissipated the peo-
ples’ substance on a large scale so
effectively as the present occupant of
the Governor’s chair at Lansing.

Back in war time he forced the sale
of an issue of bonds at an outrageous
rate of interest which penalized the
State to the extent of millions of dol-
lars.

The clandestine sale of the State
Fair bond issue at much above the
going rate of interest meant much
profit for some one.

The purchase of the Chelsea cement
plant at $500,000 after it had been on
the market for months at $90,000
meant a comfortable sum for some one.

The expenditure of $200,000 to dis-
burse $16,000 for the American Legion
meant profit for some one. |

Tweed decared that the theory of
municipal government was based on
“addition, division and _ silence.”

To the casual observer it looks as
though the Tweed regime found an
exact counterpart in the present ad-
ministration of our State government.

How much longer will the people of
Michigan tolerate such a condition
which smacks of graft, resembles mal-
feasance in office and apparently en-
riches a few at the expense of the
many?

 

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self become confused by the bigness
or the complexity of things around
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March 3, 1926

NATURE’S EPOCH.

 

Two Hours With a Nature Lover and
Landscaper.

The other day we—the devotee of
nature who is landscape gardener and
myself—took a little trip in an ordin-
ary Ford out in the highways and by-
ways tributary to DeLand. I feel
that we are in an epoch which de-
velops devotees to the beauties of the
wilds and educational values of na-
ture. I am not unmindful that we are
interested in microbes and vitamins
and relativity and the function of the
fourth dimension, but I cannot help
but feel that these are incidents in our
passage through this era and what
appeals to us most is not philosophy
and the intricacies af ‘science, but
rather the things that come to us
naturally through our ability to see
and hear and smell and taste and
feel. To be sure we fuss a little about
theological dust, but on the whole the
life in this world is dominated to-
day by the revelations of nature. This
is an age in which our ideas of God
are not developed in the cloister, but
they are illuminated by the acknowl-
edgement first, that God is; and the
most beautiful and potent revelation
of Him comes to us through the
manifestations of Providence in the
best world we know anything about.
This knowledge and subject for
thought comes through the quicken-
ing of what are known as our senses.
We sometimes philosophize about a
sixth sense, but really the important
things to us in life are the five senses
that we know most about.

In my ride, with the nature lover
my own ideas concerning nature were
quickened and clarified by his wider
range of knowledge and his ability to
see with greater wisdom than I could
muster. As we drove along he called
my attention to the borders of the
roadside and said to our driver, “Slow
up, if you please, along here, we want
to look at things;” but as we were on
a highway chock-full of automobiles
the driver replied, “We will obstruct
travel and awaken criticism.” Very
soon we were reminded of this by the
automobilists as they turned
by us. They looked daggers at us
and, although they were not damning
us outwardly, they expressed the view
in their glances that we were in the
way of people and ought to go along.

Well, this is the drift of the age.
Commercialism seems to be dominant
and everybody is in a hurry and un-
willing to quietly enjoy the friendly
road. In spite of this criticism we
sauntered along and my associate
talked about some of the things we
saw with enthusiasm and appreciation.
He said, after commenting on some
of the draperies of nature in the form
of delicate vines that covered up
blemishes in the fences: “Look up and
see that pillar of cloud, how it is
glorified by the sunshine. See it boil
and change its contour and present to
us different phases in each succeeding
moment as it quietly takes its passage
the air. Don’t you see in

to go

through

the contour of the cloud a sample of
how we can plant shrubs and trees so
as to make similar tracings that shall
attract the eye and satisfy our sense
of beauty?”

Then he called my atten-

MICHIGAN

tion to the dwarf oaks that were so
numerous here and said, “Why don’t
people use these beautiful oaks in
planting about their places, instead of
selecting plants like poinsettias, which
will not stand the frost, which present
most of the time simply bare legs to
our gaze?”

Here and there along the roadside
he called my attention to the beautiful
things growing naturally and making
rare pictures of wondrous beauty and
commented upon them by saying,
“Here is where we get our best les-
sons for beautifying our parks and
lawns and home premises. Isn’t it
strange as we go along and see these
farm buildings along our trip that so
little attention is given to the trans-
fering of these beautiful things to
make attractive homes?” He said he
wanted to call my attention to the
stumps in the edge of the highway,
“They have cut down trees and left
these unsightly stumpd when there
was no reason why the trees should
not remain and embellish the roadside
and give pleasure to people as they
ride through the country; and _ still
under some theory of service they
have cut them down and have left
only the bare stumps as a relic of their
barbarism. Nature will do her best
to cover up these blemishes here and
there with vines and plants. You can
see them already growing up on the
side of the bare stumps and in this
manner reducing the bad results of
man’s vandalism.” He called my. at-
tention to the birds as we passed into
the wilderness and said, “Isn’t it an
awful pity that these Southern people
are so devoted to guns and seem to
take pleasure in killing these beautiful
feathered friends and not only reduc-
ing the friends of our agriculture, but
taking beauty and joy out of the lives
of all of us who rejoice in this mani-
festation of the thoughtfulness of
Providence in adding to the pleasures
of mankind?” The quails, blue birds,
sparrows, flocks of black birds and an
occasional thrush we noted and once
or twice we heard the clear note of
the cardinal and the smothered warble
of the mocking bird which has not
yet developed its voice fully for the
season. Leaving the automobile for a
time we threaded our way along the
border of a little lake and my atten-
tion was called to the sky lines across
the water and how striking they were
and how wonderfully they were re-
flected in the waters of the lake. I
had not noticed these reflections until
he called my attention to them and
then I saw that the beauty of the
lake’s borders was multiplied by the
reflections from the surface of the
water. How quieting was the repose-
ful attitude of the ducks that
moving along its surface, leaving a
wake that was interesting to behold.
In their enjoyment we shared the
good time of our feathered friends.

We next traversed a devious path
along a little stream which fed the
lake and noted particularly the deli-
cate mosses and lichens that covered
the logs that had fallen across the
stream and were edified by the purl-
ing of the brook and the dashing
spray of the little waterfalls which
were made in nature’s own way by
placing an occasional barrier in the

were

TRADESMAN

stream. A spray of holly and a trace
of yellow jasmine with water plants
growing in places where ponds were
formed, with overhead drooping
branches, enhanced the delicate beau-
ties of the rivulet as it wound its way
through the trees and bushes. While
we were walking along my attention
was called by the landscaper to the
lessons that we could learn by just a
little study of the way nature dis-
poses of her delicate ferns and flowers
in the wild places of the earth, and
as we again took to the machine and
went along the highway we passed a
place that was being developed at a
considerable expense. The garage had
already been erected, a splendid little
structure and it was placed where it
would show for all it was worth and
my friend remarked, “What is a gar-
age for—to show itself or to be an
incident to premises for housing a
machine?” “It seems to
said, “the prominence given to this
building is altogether out of charecter.
It may be a triumph of architecture,
but why give it this emphasis? I
should have placed it somewhat in the
rear of the house and then I would
have arranged beautiful trees, shrubs
and vines to partially hide it from
view and made the house itself, the
views from its windows and the view
from the road over the lawn and
premises the prominent things to con-
sider in building a countryside home.
There are some things we must have
about a home that will satisfy our
heart’s desire and fade into the gen-
eral plan of a premise which will not
accord with any particular method of
procedure.
ality to the place and utilize all of the
natural objects which we can make up
of service in producing a plan. I know
that there is a good deal of talk about
the formal and the natural in land-
scape art and devotees of each meth-
od place emphasis upon the style they
wish to adopt. In my own work I
study a place and use any thought that
occurs to me in connection with its
emblishment without measuring _ it
by some theory of landscape building.
Why should we be tied to rules any
more than nature follows them in add-
ing to the beauty of the world through
the most: delightful suggestions of
artistry? Some times a single tree
that is in beautiful form and satisfies

ys
me,’ he

We want to give individu-

the eye may be made the basis and
a very complete plan for a modest
place and a bit of formalism that may
be found already in use can be adapted
to the working out of a scheme that
will be attractive and artistic. I have
found that the charm which attracts us
along the borders of woodlands and
the edges of streams and the margins
of hilltops are mighty good object les-
sons to use in bringing about our
homes the very things that we ad-
mire when we are traversing the
countryside.”

In this interesting trip, through the
suggestions of my companion, I saw
a great many things which would have
escaped me if I had been sauntering
alone and I was impressed by the
value of companionship in acquiring
through our senses the highest satis-
factions in life and I doubt not that
my companion, in sharing with me his
wider range of knowledge and ac-

9

curacy of estimate, found a pleasure
in crystalizing his own views by ex-
pressing them to me.

The trip and the talk were inspir-
ing and added materially to the satis-
faction of our sojourn in this beautiful
climate and clarified in my own mind
views that were clouded and indefinite
before.

I am reminded so often through
sympathetic companionship that there
are a multitude of pleasures that we
can acquire by associating with people
who have had their senses quickened
and attuned to the beauties of what
Bailey “Fis holy
earth’ and to acquire some knowledge

Professor calls

of how to apply them to individual
cases and thus add to the satisfaction
of ourselves and others during our so-
journ in this lovely world that we
too often speak of as God's
world.” Why do we engage ourselves
so constantly in adding to the artificial

Why do

them ex

cannot

ity, the complexity of life?
we build big houses, run
pensively, bring about us such a mul
titude of require
time, care and money to maintain and

contrivances that

then complain that we have no time
to do the kindly things, no strength
to alleviate suffering and no energy
left to be neighborly and thoughtful
for those needing sympathy and up-
lift ?

How much joy we could acquire and
dispense if we would live more simply,
appreciate the sweet and lovely things
all about us, that we can enjoy with-
money and without price, and withal
take time to think. Not be in such an
everlasting rush that we cannot medi-
tate on the subject of what we are here
for and how can we best follow the
example of the Master when he an-
nounced he must be about his Father's
The reach toward the truest
happiness,

business.

service, the most radiant

the most wonderful blessedness lies
along the appreciation and utilization
of the riches that come direct from
the Creator's hand, which we know as
the treasurers of Nature.
Charles W. Garfield.
—_+22>—_—___

Florida Frost Did Much Damage.

In writing from De Land, Florida,
under date of Feb. 19, Charles W.
Garfield thus refers to the effect of
the frost that section
Feb. 11:

“The frost we had a week ago did a
lot of damage to ornamental trees,
shrubs and plants. It did not show for

which. visited

several days.”

On another topic he writes:

“Tam going to break over my rules
and. talc to the Club here
about the feebleness of their attempts
to inaugurate parks and playgrounds.
In all this tremendous platting busi-
ness in Florida been no
attempt anywhere to for the
children in playgrounds and keep them

off the streets.”
—_—_+>+ + __—_

Bay City—The Indvu-trial Works,
railway cranes, pile drivers, etc., has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the style of the Industrial
Works Sales Corporation, 135 Wash-
ington avenue, with an authorized
capital stock of $5,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Garden

there has
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10

SHOE MARKET

We Live in an Era of Great Changes

It now appears that far the great-
est portion of the late Frank Mun-
sey’s tremendous fortune came to him
through the “tip” of his friend Judge
Gary. They say that Munsey “clean-
ed up" thirty-five million dollars in
steel, as a result of this advice and in-
formation, and unknowable
to the common run of folks.

We never happened to hear that Mr.
Munsey knew much about the steel
business or in any way contributed to
the development of that industry.

Most of us would become important
in the eyes of the world if we sud-
denly “made” thirty or forty million
dollars. Bankers and college presi-
dents would of course proclaim our
ability and would probably give us a
good line of credit and a few honor-
ary degrees at commencement.

We wonder sometimes, in the face
of such way
to endeavor to carve a living out of
the hard rock of existence, and
whether there may perhaps have been
some slight change from the customs
of the fathers, and whether cleverness
has not in some degree edged itself

 

unknown

facts, what is the best

in among the cardinal virtues leading
on to success and prosperity.

What has become of the poor coun-
try boy who took a job in Smith’s
store at two dollars a week, and by
strict adherence to the good old rules
of industry, sobriety and thrift, be-
came a partner and after awhile mar-
ried Smith’s daughter?

In Brooklyn there are any quantity
of little shops making shoes, anywhere
from a couple of dozen to a couple of
hundred pairs a week. Most of these
little places are in lofts and are prac-
tically without “overhead.” Every-
body works, including father, mother,
son and daughter and  daughter’s
young man—morning, noon and night.

With overhead reduced almost to the
vanishing point, these shoemakers—
they learned their trade in the better-
known factories of that city—manage
to produce and sell footwear to the
value of many millions of dollars a
year, and all of it in competition with
the whole industry. Their names are
unknown to the rank and file of the
How do they do it?

Let’s look at a typical case. A shoe-
maker saves $500. With this slim cap-
ital he decides to start a business for
This him no credit
with banks, leather and supply houses.
It does pay the first month’s rent. It
pick
hand machines. It

trade.

himself. gives

enable him to
second or third
does enable him to secure a few lasts.
It does get him, for cash, a little
leather and needed supplies He can
make his own patterns. He has some
ideas on design. His own hands aided
by all his family, soon put together a
few shoes, shows to New
York or With no
overhead, he can of course consider-
ably undersell his larger competitors.
He stands or falls on the merit of his
merchandise and his ability to stand
the gaff until he has turned the cor-
ner.

"A big leather man told us only a
few days ago of such a man, hardly
able to speak the English language,

does up a few

which he
visiting buyers.

MICHIGAN

who came to him to ask for a line of
credit, “as other manufacturers.” Up
to that time he had paid cash on de-
livery. He showed the tanner bank-
books exhibiting over $20,000 to the
credit of his business and proved that
he had made nearly that amount the
preceding twelve months. In other
words, he had “made good.” The
leather man could not do otherwise
than grant his request.

This typical case—it is not hypo-
thetical—“points a moral and adorns
a tale.” In thinking about it one is
inevitably compellec to hark back
some fifty years when the foundations
of many of our famous shoe manufac-
turing houses were laid. There are
some points of similarity. If we for-
get for the moment, that the orignal
manufacturers, pioneers in our indus-
iry were as a rule, descendants of
colonial stock, and rarely first genera-
tion Americans, there is indeed a
startling resemblance in the record.

In 1874 George E. Keith, who had
learned the trade of shoemaking, at
the bench, started in some such way.
So did William L Douglas. So did E.
T. Wright. So did Edwin Clapp, in
1853.

Every city and every community in
the country is studded with such
stories. This is one of the quiet
glories of our Nation, with an insist-
ent appeal to the imagination and an
assurance that work is still the meas-
ure of a man and that opportunity
shall still have its reign in our favored
land.

We do not advocate a return to old-
fashioned things; we do recognize a
change in living conditions and stand-
ards; but we do believe that in adapt-
ing one’s self to the changes it be-
hooves us all to make sure that the
changes are for the better and that
in taking on the new we do not sub-
stitute a less for a greater good.

Money is made by many men as
Mr. Munsey is alleged to have made
his millions in steel. Still, it is heart-
ening to believe that the age-old
fruits of industry are still obtainable.
There must be a different and better
flavor to thus obtained.—Shoe

Retailer.
—_» +»

Millinery Trims For Spring and Sum-
mer Season,

Details of millinery modes now un-
der development for the late Spring
and Summer season include practical-
ly every known type of pasted feather
specialty, floral composition, jewelled
ornament and ribbon development. In
the list of approved feather designs
are simulated flowers and leaves, and
among the “fancies” that introduce
uncommon handlings in black and
white are feather forms of ermine
tails. The latter are altogether new
in styling, according to a bulletin is-
sued yesterday by the Retail Millinery
Association of America.

“Flat feather bandings in vari-color,
or tone-on-tone coloring, appear to be
woven at first glance, and Marthe
Regnier’s flat pasted birds are now
shown in solid colors and as _ ingi-
descent garnitures,” the bulletin says.
“Continued interest in the use of bird
forms in galalith, metals, enameled
wood, colored glass, ribbon-craft or
pasted ostrich, is also noted. Graceful

fruits

 

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new lines are recorded by white and
pastel coque.

“Floral details come into their own
in novel ultra-modern fashion. Small
flat flowers, which met with success
in the Southern resort showings, find
continued favor in massed effects upon
crocheted and fabric straws. Oval and
disc forms appear in tiny shellacked
and metallized wood flowers, and are
also occasionally used either at the
base of the crown or its tip. An in-
teresting treatment of long-pointed
velvet leafage appears in its adoption
as a crown banding and side garniture
in imitation of parrot’s feathers. Hand-
craft georgette and chiffon flowers, re-
garded as a particularly smart detail
of the moment in evening dress, are
equally significant in the creation of
luxurious garden party and restaurant
capelines.

“Large florals give promise of a
greatly extended usage, not only upon
hair, tulle, taffeta, and georgette cape-
lines, but also upon the artistic types
of new turbans and toques, which
pose a single rosette-rose, convolvulus
or lily at the side-back in the manner
of Georgette, Regnier and Elaine. A
domestic house adopts this principle
of placement for its crochet straw
sports modes, utilizing large modern-
istic florals in overlapping twos and
threes at the right side-back, flat
against the crown.

“The vogue of belting ribbon in-
creases daily in both semi-formal and
sports styles. Combining these rib-
bons with fabric-straw, or contrasting
them with various unlike ribbon
weaves such as moire and satin, in

March 3, 1926

two-tone, plaid and stripe effects, is
regarded as a successful venture. Vel-
vet and metal ribbons continue both
in modes of formality and in sport’s
styles. A new linen ribbon arrives in
brilliant, soft and neutral shades, and
in flat and fluted handling.”

—_—— ooo

Detroit—Brandt Manufacturing Co.
3625 Superior street, has been incor
porated to manufacture and deal in
lighting fixtures, electrical appliances,
etc., with an authorized capital stock
of $20,000, $10,000 of which has been
subscribed and paid in in property.

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OUT AROUND.

 

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

En route to Chicago last Wednesday
evening I devoted most of the time to
the discussion of food topics with
William R. Roach, who has probably
done more to educate the people up to
an appreciation of wholesome canned
goods than any other man in America.
Mr. Roach’s output from his six can-
neries during 1925 aggregated $4,000,-
000 and he expects to increase his
output to $5,000,000 during the com-
ing season. He will have thirty-six
new jobbing distributors this year and
has over seventy-five salesmen now in
the field booking orders for futures.
Mr. Roach sneers at the idea that
there is an overproduction of canned
peas. He says too much trash is can-
ned by many of the Wisconsin pea
packers, who ought to be prosecuted
for putting out such a large percent-
age of unwholesome stuff under pea
labels. For himself he has no peas on
hand to speak of. The same is true
of nearly everything he put into’ cans
during 1925.

In order to obtain another slant on
the canned foods situation my first
call in Chicago was on John A. Lee,
Secretary of the Western Canners
Association. Unfortunately, Mr. Lee
was detained at home by a very sick
wife, so I was unable to discuss the
situation with him. He is one of the
best posted men in the canned goods
line in the United States, having been
actively connected with the industry
since he was a very young man.

I was told at the office of the Ameri-
can Seating Co. that as soon as the
new buildings which will cost $3,500.-
000 are erected and installed in Grand
Rapids, the Manitowoc plant of the
corporation will be abandoned and. the
entire output of the company will be
produced in this city. The common
stock of the corporation is now sell-
ing around $300 per share. Brokers
assert that if the forthcoming annual
report shows earnings and surplus ap-
plicable to dividend disbursements
equivalent to 60 per cent. of the com-
mon stock, the market price of the
latter will probably go to $420 per
share.

I devoted Thursday evening to the
wonderful Miracle play, now running
at the Auditorium theater. It is a
marvelous pantomime and should be
seen by all who have a religious vision
to interpret it properly. Many of my
Roman Catholic friends insist that it
is sacrilegious, but I cannot view it in
that light; and I notice that even
those who condemn it most strenu-
ously keep going to see it, evidently
attracted by the artistry of the pro-
duction.

I met Ned Carpenter, the Grand Rap-
ids wholesale paper dealer, at the Con-
gress Hotel. He had been in Chicago
several days negotiating for a new
Rolls-Royce car which was offered to
him on very advantageous terms. The
proceedings were interrupted by the
arrival of Mrs. Carpenter from Florida,
where she had spent the winter. Mrs.

Carpenter promptly vetoed the pur-
chase of a touring car, plainly showing
that not all the brains in the Carpenter
family are monopolized by the (al-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

leged) head of the house. Any one
who has ever enjoyed the advantages
of a closed car will never go back to
an open car again.

I dined Friday evening at the
Illinois Athletic Club as the guest of
my life-long friend, Louie Winternitz.
During the evening I had the pleasure
of shaking hands with Col. Beyer,
whom I introduced to Mr. Winternitz
forty years ago and have never met
since. Col. Beyer arranged at that
time with Mr. Winternitz to handle
the Paul Bechner vinegar line in
Grand Rapids, which relation con-
tinued for many years.

At the office of the Standard Oil
Company, on Michigan avenue, I
found T. J. Thompson, General Man-
ager, beautifully situated in a corner
room commanding a wide expanse of
park area and Lake Michigan. Mr.
Thompson still has a keen interest in
everything pertaining to Grand Rapids,
where he was located so many years
and where he first became connected
with the Standard Oil Company Sept.
23, 1883. He told me that the Stand-
ard Oil Company puts more money
through the banks of Grand Rapids
than any other single interest, its ag-
gregate clearings last year having ex-
ceeded $15,000,000.

Mr. Thompson is an_ enthusiastic
automobilist and something of a base-
ball fan. He is not adverse to wit-
nessing a horse race and enjoys all
the manly sports keenly, although he
finds little time to devote to anything
outside of his office and his home. He
attributes his success in life to “simply
work” and those who know him well
and are familiar with his methods of
working concede that no man has ever
given longer hours and more patient
and loyal service to an employer than
Mr. Thompson has during the long
period he has been connected
the Standard Oil Company.

Naturally, Mr. Thompson's activi-
ties have been largely bound up in the
large business he’ has helped to estab-
lish on a sound basis, for whose suc-
cess he is largely responsible and
which for many years has been one
of the country’s just causes for pride.
As an employer and manager of men,
he has always been noted for his fair-
ness, his compassion for the man
lower down and his sympathy for
those in distress. With the patrons
of his company he has always stood
for reliability. He has never paraded
or made any fuss about his principles
along this line. Honesty is not a mere
policy with him; it is a principle. One
of his greatest pleasures is in the
congenial feeling and confident regard
that exist between him and the em-
ployes and customers of the company
of which he is the executive head.

Mr. Thompson is a man of many
parts, but above all is possessed of a
wonderful amount of quiet dignity, a

with

kindly disposition and a courteous
manner which make him hosts of
friends. E. A. Stowe.
2-2
More About Old Time Local Mer-
chants.
Henry Spring and Edwin Avery

composed the firm of Spring & Avery
sixty years ago. Their store, the lo-
cation of which is now occupied by
the Herpolsheimer Co, was the larg-

est of its kind in the city. Its patrons
were mainly of the well-to-do class.
The financial panic of 1873 forced the
firm to liquidate their obligations.
Each partner had withdrawn consid-
erable amounts from the business and
erected substantial homes for their
wives and_ children. Fletcher &
Wanty, a firm that devoted their tal-
ents largely to commercial transac-
tions, was employed and in the end a
compromise with creditors was af-
fected on the basis of 50 cents on a
dollar. Avery withdrew from the
firm and the Clafflins, jobbers, of New
York, acquired an interest in the busi-
ness. Richard D. Swarthout was their
representative. Henry Spring’s inter-
est in the firm was reduced to $6,000.
Mr. Spring died a decade or more ago
and the business was purchased by
Morris Friedman,
name “Spring) in connection with his
own.

who uses the old

J. L. and Edward Van Houten were
painters and decorators. Their store
was located on Monroe avenue, near
Lyon. J. L. Van Houten was a skill-
ful sign writer, while Ed. was a master
of painting and graining.

Harry M. Goebel was a dealer in
wall paper and painter’s supplies. His
store was in the block now occupied by
the Hotel Pantlind on Monroe avenue.
A very energetic, ambitious and cap-
able young man, Henry J. Heystek,
was his chief salesman. During sev-
eral years following 1880 he worked
up a large business with the manufac-
turers of furniture. Finally Heystek
was invited to join Cornelius L. Har-
vey in a partnership to engage in the
sale of wall paper,
terials, pictures, frames and _ kindred

decorator’s ma-

The firm achieved almost in-
stant prosperity, which continued sev-
eral years, when a misunderstanding

goods.

of a personal nature served to effect a
dissolution. Harvey entered into a
partnership with a man named Sey-
mour and opened a store with lines
similar to those of the old firm. Hey-
stek admitted Fred C. Canfield, who
had been the manager of a_ branch
store owned by the firm, which con-
Heystek died
and Canfield was chosen to manage
the business, which had grown to
much more than local importance, and
also the interests of Mr. Heystek’s
heirs in connection with the executors
of Mr. Heystek’s Wolf
and the late Hugh Wilson. Heystek’s
son became of age and_ succeeded
Canfield as manager, a position he had
been carefully trained to fill, Mr.
Goebel, aged 84, is still among the liv-
ing. His home is on Madison avenue,

S. E. Arthur S. White.
a

11680 Ken-
tucky avenue, has been incorporated

tinued several years.

will—David

Detroit—Delroy, Inc.,

to manufacture and sell “Chappy”’ lo-
drug specialties, etc., with an
authorized capital stock of $25,000
common and 25,000 shares at $10 per
share, of which amount $17,200 and
1,900 shares has been subscribed, $300
paid in in cash and $26,000 in prop-
erty.

tion,

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has changed its capital stock from $1,-
500,000 to $1,000,000 and 150,000 shares
no par value.

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12

FINANCIAL

Installment Buying Appeals To Brit-
ish Commission.

We are always interested in what a
hard-headed Englishman thinks of
business here, both for the outside
point of view that he may give and be-
cause we admire Great Britain’s good
judgment in trade matters. Dr. E. W.
Snow, a British economist of note who
has been visiting here, produced a
document in the course of a conversa-
tion a few days ago in which is set
down a significant opinion on our in-
stallment movement.

When Colonel the Hon. Vernon
Willey and Guy Locock had returned
from a visit to the United States late
last year in the interest of the Federa-
tion of British Industries they turned
in a report that is distinguished for
the accuracy of its findings. Of par-
ticular interest is what these gentle-
men had to say about a practice of
which the effects are not fully under-
stood by our own economists.

 

Impressed by the stability of com-
modity prices in this country, the
British Commission said:

“The failure of American prices to
rise as predicted is all the more re-
markable in view of the enormous ex-
tension of the deferred payment sys-
tem. The installment plan of business
has increased by leaps and bounds and
includes not only automobiles, furni-
ture, pianos, etc., but every range of
commodities, including clothes, radio
sets and even paint for the house.

“The financial risk is not taken by
the producer, but is insured, and spec-
ial finance corporations have been
formed to undertake this class of busi-
ness, which is widely reinsured. It
appears to be the general opinion that
the installment system is sound busi-
ness and that its great extension in
the United States has contributed sub-.
stantially to the existing prosperity.
The system has certainly acted as an
incentive to work, in view of the
necessity of keeping up regular pay-
ments, and the chief danger in it
would appear to be that in a trade re-
action considerable losses would be in-
curred, and also that since the re-
quirements of the future would have
been so largely anticipated by this
system, people would hold off buying
for longer than a normal period and
thus accentuate the depression.

“However, there seems little danger
of this at present, and we would sug-
gest that in view of present conditions
in Great Britain it might be well
worth the while of British business to
examine the possibility of extending
this system in England to the extent
to which it operates in the United
States.”

Here is a judgment of the move-
ment that should cheer its most ar-
dent proponents, for the opinion is one
that appears to be spreading in this
country. Authorities are divided in
what they expect from installment
buying activities, but at least it may
be recorded that the plan does not
arouse so much adverse criticism as
once it did here.

The true test of the movement will
not come unless and until our present
prosperous era is followed by one in

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

which earnings are reduced. If our
people have not mortgaged their fu-
ture earning power beyond their abil-
ity to pay, the pinch may not come;
if they have, it will.
Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1926]

——_—_+- > —__
Lethargic State of Trading Stimulates
Short Interest.

Most financial authorities still are
confident of continued good business,
but their bullishness on trade condi-
tions does not make them bulls in the
market.

The great buil market that began in
the summer of 1924 and gained mo-
mentum after the election of Presi-
dent Coolidge gradually drew men
over to the constructive side of the
market until soon bears were nowhere
to be found. Bulls there were every-
where, and up to the present period
they have dominated trading activities.

A new animal has appeared in re-
cent weeks, and from now on, per-
haps, those in the bear camp will make
their presence known pretty plainly.
Already the market shows the imprint
of selling by large traders who believe
prices have about finished their up-
ward course.

The action of the stock market has
demonstrated in fairly convincing
fashion that investment issues of qual-
ity command the interest of investors
so long as the market price is allowed
to move in accordance with economic
laws. It is when stocks are forced
to ridiculous heights by pool manipu-
lations that trouble begins, and in a
market such as we recently had the
speculative influences were widespread.

That the time had come when the
bullish enthusiasm of many traders
had carried them somewhat afield was
pointed out by the year-end forecasts.
It was regrettable that some stocks
were forced upward too rapidly and is
now unfortunate the price of certain
issues discounts spectacular improve-
ment far into the future, when, as a
matter of fact, the improvement may
be only moderate. Since the market’s
enthusiasm had, with the aid of cheap
money, been allowed to run so long,
however—and this is. the important
point—more is to be gained than lost
by the appearance now of short sell-
ing,

Short sellers in offering stocks that
they expect to pick up some time in
the future incur an obligation to buy
stock later on. Thus a cushion is
provided against an uninterrupted and
sustained downward movement, for as
declines occur short interests will rush
into the market to cover their posi-
tions ‘by buying stock. :

Meanwhile the more reliable busi-
ness indices give indication of con-
tinued good trade in a majority of the
leading industries.

On the question whether 1926 will
equal 1925 in its yield of business
profits the authorities still must figure
in the dark, but no reasons have ap-
peared to doubt that 1926 will be a
good season. Present irregularities in
the stock market are not reflections of
the approach of a period of depres-
sion in business, let it be noted, for
signs of such a change are nowhere
to be found. Stock market irregular-
ities reflect a technical condition of

   

March 3, 1926

 

 

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13

 

the market that needed correction and
that, fortunately, has been partially
corrected already.
Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1926]

—_—_—__2> +.

To Wolverine Foundation and Other
Wide Awake Citizens.

Written for the Tradesman.

Considering your interest in the
well being of Michigan I submit illus-
tration of white pine growth that is
a good demonstration of the inherent
power of our soil and climate to re-
produce forest growth equal to that
found here by the early settlers.

French experience shows that state
forests are the dependable resource on
which industries must rely for a very
large percentage of high grade tim-
ber. Michigan will before long have
similar need and should have the same
dependable resource. Michigan has
State land and should rise equal to a
forceful command of the situation that
confronts us.

All considerations point to the need
and desirability of planting white pine
wherever possible and on the next
lower grade of soils—Norway pine
and follow up with Scotch pine, which
is used to considerable extent in
French forests and should take the
place of Jack pine because it is bet-
ter timber.

You can do no better work than that
of influencing the public to demand
State forests on all State land.

And in conjunction with that en-
deavor could be brought forward and
stressed the idea that men buying for
hunting and fishing grounds can well
invest a part of their land and time in
the development of a beautiful ever-
green forest growth.

They want timber as game cover
and it will be well worth while to call
their attention and present facts show-
ing the utility and ultimate larger re-
turns from the best type of trees. An
inspector of the United States Forest
Service examined my white pine in
1924, taking a section of 200 trees and
listing the size of each. He estimated
that at forty years this stand would
produce 20,000 board feet per acre; if
left twenty years more there would
be 40,000 feet per acre.

At the yards here No. 1 common
white pine boards have been selling at
a price of one hundred dollars per
thousand feet.

Just think what forests of that kind
will mean to Northern counties as time
goes on.

The direct return through values
created and distributed for work done
and indirect returns through beauty
and all recreational use—the healthful-
ness—the tempering of climate and
regulation of lake levels and stream
flow. We can now see the future
great value of scenic beauty and so it
is wise for all our intelligent citizens
to know that natural forces, when
properly controlled, will produce the
beautiful pines.

For all to understand that it rests
within our power to plant and repro-
duce on State land pine that will
show for four or five hundred years
the appealing stateliness equal to that
of the old time forests.

Your efforts to bring reforestation
on State and private land will be a

very useful work toward putting a
stable foundation under the boom we
now see on the way and will promote
State wide prosperity.
Frederick Wheeler.
—————— oe
Living Costs Are Still Coming Down.

Apparently the slight recession in
wholesale commodity prices of the
last few months has had an influence
on the cost of living.

Changes in values of commodities at
wholesale sooner or later are reflected
in values at retail and finally, of course
are what determine the cost of living
for the family that buys its groceries,
clothing and sundry articles in small
quantities. In making up the family
budget account must also be taken of
money spent for such things as shelter
and fuel.

In this country we have no way of
knowing what the average family in
comfortable circumstances spends, but
the National Industrial Conferenece
Board has given us a dependable in-
dex of living costs for the representa-

tive working family.

A substantial decline in costs left
the index for January, 1926, at 170.4,
or, to put the thing in another way, at
a level 70.4 per cent. above the 1914
average. A recession in foods, the
most heavily weighted group that en-
ters into the computation, was re-
sponsible primarily for the decline.

Living costs reached their peak in
July, 1920, soon after wholesale prices
established their highest level on
record, and the present cost of living
represents a scale nearly 17 -per cent.
under that post-war peak.

The purchasing power of the dollar
based on the cost of living in January,
1926, was about 59 cents as contrast-
ed with a dollar in July, 1914.

With a continued, even if modest,
recession in living costs, workers will
find less basis for demands for in-
creased wages.

A steadily increasing flow of funds
into the family budget stimulated by
rising living costs always calls in the
end for higher wages, but evidences
are at hand that the peak in wages for
the present movement is near at hand,
if indeed it has not already been
reached. Paul Willard Garrett.

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One of the provisions in the Senate
tax bill should interest millions of
holders of billions in life insurance. If
by reason of the death of the insured
payments are made in a single sum or
in installments without interest such
income will not be taxable. However,
if the ‘insurer’ holds such amounts
“under an agreement to pay interest
thereon,” then “interest payments shall
be included in the gross income” and
will be taxable. This is a reversal of
a long-established policy. If approved,
all interest which may be included in
life-insurance payments to beneficiaries
will be subject to tax. This is a mat-
ter of much interest to life insurance
companies and one of considerable im-
portance to all policyholders and fu-
ture beneficiaries of the insured. This
move is evidently being taken because
f recent marked trends toward install-
ment payments of life insurance.

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and trusteeships affecting, the
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Takes Charge of Investment Firm’s
Office in Detroit.

Carl Wisner, with the American
Trust Co., of Detroit for seven years
as Secretary and Vice-President, takes
charge of the Detroit offices of Fen-
ton, Davis & Boyle, investment bank-
ers, 2056-59 Buhl building, bringing to
his new duties a broad experience in
State banking circles.

During his association with the
trust company he has been closely in
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field and has made a special study of
real estate bond issues and _ trustee-
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agement of real estate. Prior to his
association with the American Trust
Co., Mr. Wisner became well and fav-
orably known to bankers throughout
the State as State Bank Examiner
under State Banking Commissioner

Frank W. Merrick. Before joining the
State Banking Department, he served
the Security Trust Co., of Detroit.

The new arrangement will give Fen-
ton, Davis & Boyle complete facilities
in Detroit, Grand Rapids and Chicago,
the executive office being in Grand
Rapids, which is the home of Russell
J. Boyle, President of the organiza-
tion.

——_.+>_____
Grandmother’s Remedies Which Want
a Lot of “Swallowing.”

A few years ago there lived in the
Caledon district of the Cape Province,
South Africa, a Dutch woman who
had a reputation for curing the most
aggravated cases of cancer. So much
attention was attracted to her remedy
that its claims were investigated by
the South African Medical Associa-
tion; columns were written regarding
this woman in the _ sub-continental
newspapers; and discussions on the
subject waxed hotly in the Legislative
Assembly. Authentication of the effi-
cacy of her treatment is not at the mo-
ment available, but as an outcome of
the medical enquiry it was found that
the “cure” was based on certain juices
extracted from the common violet.

A French woman of the peasant class
achieved such a high percentage of
good recoveries amongst wounded sol-
diers during the kaiser’s war that the
military doctors were attracted by her
record. She seemed to be particular-

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ly successful in dealing with suppurat-
ing wounds, and an investigation
brought to light the fact that her reme-
dy was merely allium—in plain Eng-
lish, garlic. An extensive trial of al-
lium in the army hospitals of France
and England endorsed the efficacy of
the extract. One can well imagine,
therefore, that there must be some-
thing after all in the good old grand-
motherly injunction: Rub onion juice
into a wasp-sting.

Here are some local remedies used
in the Fen district for common ail-
ments:

For a sort throat. A slice of fat
bacon—the fatter the better—tied
around the throat with a stocking.

For boils. A tablespoonful of flour,
stirred into a tumbler of old beer, and
drunk quickly.

For sciatica. Sufficient grated horse-
chestnut to cover a three-penny-piece
thinly. (Care must be taken, however,
to see that the horse-chestnut is used
sparingly, as an overdose will do more
harm than good.

An idea still exists in Northumber-
land that “roast mouse” is exceeding-
ly helpful in cases of whooping cough;
whilst in North Wales it is a common
belief that the skin of a newly-killed
rabbit will cure the most obstinate
cold on the chest if applied with the
flesh side placed next to the sufferer’s
skin. And there is, of course, the West
Country faith in snails boiled in barley
water as an unfailing remedy for colds.

A dear old lady, who devotes much
of her time to ministering to the sick
poor, pins her faith to peppermint
poultices for bronchitis. She gathers
the flowers, sheds the stems, and
makes pulp of the leaves. These, she
affirms, quickly relieve any “tightness”
of the bronchial passages. Nor does
their good work stop here, for, applied
on alternate nights with hog’s lard,
peppermint poultices will get rid of
corns!

There are, of course, grandmother
remedies which want a lot of “swal-
lowing.” ° For example, there is a be-
lief widely prevalent in Holland that
a potato which has been begged or
stolen is a sovereign cure for certain
ills of the flesh. The right foot of a
hare, if carried in the pocket, is con-
sidered in parts of Lancashire and
Cheshire sufficiently potent to keep

the doctor away. Thomas H. Lewis.
——_—>~—->

Senator Couzens is still fighting his
private wars in Washington. He had
not long been a Senator until he was
carrying on a private feud with Secre-
tary Mellon. A little later he included
the White House in his general pro-
gram of opposition. This week he has
added Senator Smoot’s name to his
little “black book.” The Senator from
Utah, he says, “tricked” him by “sharp
practice’ in bringing the publicity
clause of the tax bill to a vote. There
are rumors that the Senator: from
Michigan would “like to drive a golf
ball through Senator Smoot’s head.”
This is rather rough stuff for a grave
and more or less reverend Senator in
the “greatest deliberative body in the
world.” Said deliberative body may
yet be called upon to. deliberate the
case of the more or less violent gentle-
man from Michigan, who seems in-
clined to mayhem, battery and assault.

  
 

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Fire Marshal Lane Enthusiastic Over
Michigan Rural Protection.

During two years in which rural
co-operative fire companies have been
operating in Michigan, farmers have
been saved $2,000,000 in fire losses,
while their investment has been only
a few thousand dollars, Charles Lane,
state fire marshal of Michigan, esti-
mates.

Not only have rural protection sys-
tems proved efficient in saving prop-
erty but presence of the farmer-owned
trucks in a community has tended to
remove the ever-present fear of devas-
tating fires which has been an insep-
arable factor in farm life.

Since the rural fire truck was put
into operation in Charlotte two years
ago, a dozen or more agricultural
communities have made similar ar-
rangements for fire protection, accord-
ing to Fire Marshal Lane, and results
have been astounding.

‘Most of the rural fire trucks operat-
ing in the State were purchased by
farmers. The equipment has not been
expensive and an average subscription
of $10 to $15 from farmers in the
area covered has been sufficient. In
most instances arrangements have
been made with the nearest city or vil-
lage to man the farmers’ truck with
city firemen and, in return, the truck
can also be used in fighting city fires.

So successful have been the initial
efforts of the privately organized fire
protection associations that supervis-
ors of Jackson county have appropriat-
ed $12,000 for purchase of a fire truck
which will be kept in the city of Jack-
son and will serve farmers in the en-
tire county.

“While the effective range of the
rural fire truck cannot be estimated
because of particular conditions affect-
ing each fire, the trucks have proved
successful in saving property at dis-
tances of 10 miles from the station and
even farther,” says Mr. Lane.

“Good roads have been largely re-
sponsible for making this possible. In
days of horse-drawn vehicles, a fire
could gain considerable headway while
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into use, poor roads prevented aiding
rural districts in many instances. But
modern pavements and fast trucks
have brought every farmer close to
town as far as fire protection is con-
cerned.”

Fire Marshal Lane helped to enlist
farmers to subscribe to purchase of
the Charlotte truck. Skeptics pictured
the firemen arriving in their truck,
searching for a water supply to cool
the embers of the destroyed farm
house or barn.

The Charlotte organization, how-
ever, obtained a heavy truck with a
280 gallon water: tank in addition to
the usual pumps and hose equipment.
With this initial water supply, the
hose can be connected and water
sprayed on the fire as soon as the
truck reaches the blaze. If the fire
appears dangerous, a cistern or well
is found to supply additional water.

While no recognition of the rural
fire trucks has been taken by insur-
ance companies yet, Mr. Lane _ be-
lieves country fire insurance rates will
be based on comparative fire protec-
tion the same as city rates within a
few years. Mutual insurance com-
panies owned by farmers are already
profiting by the innovation.

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Keep Ahead of the Job.

In your office you may leave work
unfinished, depending on the next day
to clean it up.

Next day additional work comes to
you, or you may be delayed, and what
gets ahead of you to-day is added to
what you neglected to do yesterday.

Errors creep in, and in your haste
you do not keep up to the usual high
standard of work which you ought to
maintain.

(Most persons work with feverish
haste, when they have not planned
their work, and so it is better to lay
out a plan of procedure and make each
day take care of its work.

It pays in every way to keep ahead
of your job.

———_+-—___
Almost Forgotten Limerick.

To the hen, ‘‘You’re a beautiful creature,”’
Said the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
The hen pleased with that,
Laid an egg in his hat,
And thus did the hen reward Beecher.

Illustration referred to by Mr. Wheeler in his contribution on page 13.

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16

_WOMAN'S WORLD —

For All—Intelligent
Music.
Written for the Tradesman.

The teaching of the appreciation of
music in public and private schools is
one of the educational innovations of
recent years that appears to merit
almost unqualified approval.

No one should go through life with-
out in some measure coming into the
benefits of good music. How can
these benefits be made generally avail-
able, so that all children, poor as well
as rich, may have them? The best
and most practical answer thus far
made to this important question is:
By the teaching of appreciation and by
instruction and practice in singing.
The singing already is to be found in
so large a proportion of the schools
that it here is taken for granted. It
is to be hoped that before many years
the appreciation teaching may be given
not only to pupils in the cities and
the larger towns, but to those in the
rural districts as well.

This placing of appreciation on the
curriculums involves an idea not usu-
ally held, indeed almost unthought of,
a generation ago—the idea that teach-
ing the meaning and enjoyment of
music is necessary. Our notions were
a little vague in those days. We be-
lieved that persons naturally so in-
clined enjoyed music—that is, simple,
popular music that anybody can un-
derstand. The enjoyment of the
classical was thought to be for those
who had given much study and prac-
tice to either instrumental
performance.

Now it seems to be quite well es-
tablished that nearly all children can
be trained to receive genuine pleasure
from hearing skillful rendering of the
great masterpieces. The satisfaction
to be derived from music is not con-
ditioned on ability in performance or
even on aptitude for learning execu-
tion. Those who are hopelessly inapt
as performers may appreciate keenly
and deeply.

It is astonishing how early the

Enjoyment of

vocal or

music memory develops. In competi-
tive tests it has been shown that pupils
in the grades have no difficulty in dis-
tinguishing a large
tions simply by hearing a few
of each piece. It is in the grades that
the teaching of music appreciation is
of greatest moment, for so many of the
boys and girls never reach high school.

Does all this give the impression
that music appreciation is something
that can be learned quickly and easily
and so can have no real value? That
is a wrong idea. The instruction need
not be superficial even though it has
to be made simple and no_ great
amount of time can be given to it. A
little investigation convinces one that
in some schools pretty thorough work
is being done along this line. By this
instruction it is feasible to give all
children a right start in music en-
joyment. The further pursuit need be
limited only by their inclinations. The
subject is really inexhaustible.

This training comes in happily now
when the reproductive processes are
attaining such perfection that music
is within the reach of every home.
Where taste has been cultivated it

number of selec-
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will be the right kinds and not the
wrong kinds of music that will be
chosen.

The study of music appreciation be-
ing as yet only in its beginnings, it
is early to predict definitely as to re-
sults. We should not expect too
much but it is not overoptimistic to
feel that what is being done is a step
in the right direction and a promise
of far greater things.

The development of a taste for what
is really excellent in music cannot
fail to act as a safeguard of youth,
not the only safeguard needed by any
means, but one that is essential. For
good music is a legitimate and elevat-
ing pleasure and legitimate pleasures
are necessities for boys and girls.

We deplore the jazz tendencies of
these present times and the restless
desire so widely expressed, not by
young people alone but by many who
are middle-aged and elderly, to get a
kick out of things. Is it too much to
hope that music appreciation may have
some part in correcting these objec-
tionable proclivities?

It is good to train the children to
sit still and listen,
tention closely on the selection that
is being rendered and taking in its
beauties. It develops a side of the
nature that in the past has been with
many almost neglected.

We have been trying to teach chil-
dren the things that will aid them in
earning a livelihood and the things
that will help them in their other
various duties and activities, but how
little has been them
how to gain quiet enjoyment and hap-
piness in living. This has been a
marked defect of our educational sys-
tem.

The study of appreciation in no
way prevents the study of execution.
Rather is it almost sure to bring to
notice some children who are ‘born
musicians and who will find in some
form of musical expression their na-
tural work in life.

What children should be trained to
be musical performers? This opens
The old belief that
accomplishment

keeping their at-

wholly

done to show

up a big question.
playing is an
without which no young lady’s edu-
cation is complete, will die hard if it
ever does die. But already there are
signs that it is undergoing some modi-
fication.

Can it be denied that the ambition
of parents that their children, especial-
ly their daughters, be trained in
musical execution is a fetish that has
led to great outlay of time, money
and effort, with in many cases, only
pitifully small results? Some of the
children for whom an instrument and
lessons are provided never become pro-
ficient enough to render simple selec-
tions creditably. Others, who acquire
somewhat greater skill, drop their
music when they come to take up the
serious duties of life. Only a small
proportion develop into competent
musicians.

When aptitude and liking for the
subject do not manifest after a suffi-
cient trial, is it justifiable to drag a
girl or a boy through long years of
practice and training, when mediocrity
is the only probable result?- It is to
be hoped that before long parents will
see that most natures, even those who

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have come into the real meanings of
music, wisely prefer to take it second-
hand from highly skilled performers,
rather than struggle for amateurish
execution of their own.

It is gratifying to note that at least
in some places adult classes are being
conducted in the study of music ap-
preciation. thus giving to those who
in early life lacked all musical train-
ing, the opportunity to come into an
intelligent enjoyment of what is every
person’s right. It is a most commend-
able and practical method for those of
mature years to widen the scope and
raise the quality of their pleasures.

If one has an inclination or liking
for art or literature the same principle
may well be applied. Great satisfac-

tion is to be derived from even a
brief study of some great work—a
famous picture or some masterpiece

of prose or poetry. Such culture may
be pursued in a class, with other mem-
bers of one’s family, with friends in-
terested in the same subject, or alone.
Books and helps are readily obtain-
able. It is a satisfaction to know that,
in many schools the children are be-
ing taught to appreciate art and litera-
ture as well as music.

In unscheduled ways we may get
much from the cultivation of an ap-
preciative habit of mind. Some of us
in our haste and preoccupation and
unceasing effort to do and
re blind to much that lies before our
very eyes. Taking time to see and
enjoy the wonders of sunrises and
sunsets, the exquisite beauties of
flowers and of landscapes, and to ap-
preciate the sterling traits and ad-
mirable qualities of those who walk
the way of life with us, is an essen-
tial part of well-rounded and complete
living. Ella M. Rogers.

Initiative.

The rarest of human qualities is in-
itiative. That, at least, is one man’s
conviction.

All worthwhile
thoughts,

achieve,

men have good
good ideas and good inten-
sions—but precious few of them ever
translate those into action.
How many

what we read,

of us are inspired by
see or hear; adapt the
inspiration to a practical business idea
and then do nothing through lack of
initiative.

Overcome this in ourselves and in
those under our direction and the
greatest tonic possible will have been
administered to our business. Let us
try some treatment in this direction.

John Hancock Field.

 

Blouses Are Selling Well.

The blouse business is very good at
present, acco: ding to information sup-
plied by members of the United Waist
League cf America. Tailored blous2s
are more in demand than for many
seasons past, and the semi-tailored
models are also moving well. Crepe
de chines in the latter group are the
favored materials, with a preponder-
ance of high colors shown. Front friffs,
buttons and narrow pipings of seams
are among the trimming features. In
addition to good initial orders at ihe
beginning of the season, many re-
orders are now coming in to the manu-
facturers.

March 3, 1926

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Told by an Only Son Who Loved
Her.

This is the story of a pioneer. In
the older parts of the country no
longer is it possible to bridge the gap
from first beginnings of a community
to modern life, but here in our own
community there are people still with
us who can remember from the time
that the Indians were here, up to the
present community of 175,000 people.

I am going to tell the story of my
mother whose parents came to Grand
Rapids from New York, her father in
1844 and her mother in 1848. “Far-
off Michigan,” it was called then, and
the first white man had only made a
permanent settlement here a few years
before. The Indians still had their
wigwams in the valley. My mother
was born in the city at the corner of
Seventh and Stocking streets. Across
the way Mr. Stocking had a few years
before cut a road from his homestead
diagonally down to the settlement at
the rapids, now called Stocking street.

When she was a girl and her father
had moved on to Walker avenue, a
little distance beyond, there were wild
animals all about and she told her son
of once having heard a panther cry in
the woods. In the spring she would
see the Indians come by from the
North in Indian file to get their an-
nual payments from the Government
agent.

The stages ran by to and from
Newaygo and Big Rapids and some of
our old lumbermen, such as Delos A.
Blodgett, Thomas D. Stimson and
others stopped at her father’s house to
get warm on their long trip to the
North woods.

In those days all little girls and boys
were expected to work and, besides
helping her mother about the house,
she got up at 5 o’clock in the morning
and milked cows until her little fingers
were tired and then she would get
ready and go to school. In this day
it would be regarded as very unseemly
for a girl of 8 or 9 years to work in
this fashion, but it made her strong and
self-reliant and never changed her
sunny, sweet disposition.

When she was 10 years old the civil
war broke out and she went with her
mother to see her mother’s youngest
brother leave with the troops from the
old D., G. H. & M. station, the only
railroad then in town, for Washington.
Within four weeks he was in the first
battle of Bull Run and her mother’s
three other brothers went to the war
and they never failed to write back
letters from the army, encouraging
their little niece to keep up her studies
and get an education.

She grew to womanhood—or as was
then regarded womanhood, seventeen
or eighteen years—and she had done
her school work so well that she was
able to get a teacher’s certificate. She
taught school on the old South Divi-
sion street road, going back and forth
on the stage when it stopped at the
old stage house in Kelloggsville. Some
of the time when she was lonesome she
would walk Saturday night several
miles through the heavy timber to visit
her mother’s brother and his wife, who

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had taken a farm in the woods near
her school house.

When my mother was twenty-two
she married a young man of twenty-
three. He went to Rockford to be
superintendent of a foundry and after
a while a ten pound baby boy came to
gladden their home. Heavy responsi-
bilities were just beginning with her.
In five months her husband died of
typhoid fever and she was left to strug-
gle with the hard, cold world that it
was to most people, but to her she
always made it a thing of joy and
sweetness to those around her, which
was a mirror of her soul.

Her boy was only five months old
and she was the practical head of the
family, with a mother and three smaller
sisters going to school to take care of,

 

she had brought from home. Last
summer I talked with one of the King
brothers, who lived in the district that
winter, and he made a statement which
all of her friends know to be true, that
everybody loved her; that she was al-
ways smiling. That is, he meant to
say that even if she did not like any-
thing she smiled. Her school work
was such that she was given a position
in the city. Her mother died and she
was left alone with the baby boy and
three smaller sisters, one of them an
invalid. Her father, one of the rough
and ready pioneer sort who never got
out of pioneer ways, had married
again to the proverbial stepmother, but
she would not help much to take care
of the sisters.

The baby boy grew and when he

The Late Mrs. P. L. Hamilton.

but she faced the situation squarely
and again obtained a position teaching
in the country schools. In the winter
of 1873-4 she taught at the old Star
schoolhouse near Berlin. Teachers in
those days “boarded round” and every
two weeks this girl of twenty-three
would go home to see her baby boy
that her mother was taking care of in
Grand Rapids. In the middle of the
winter there was a storm which was
one of the worst in years. The farmer
with whom she boarded refused to even
take his team out in such a terrible
storm, but she thought of her baby
boy in Grand Rapids and walked sev-
eral miles to Berlin to board the train
and when she got back on Monday
morning her hosts refused to believe
she had got through the storm and
back until she showed them articles

was only four years old he was taken
to Sunday School. Her prayerful am-
bition was that her boy should have a
reverence for God and ail the higher
things of life.

One day on a last visit to her father’s
house to endeavor to get help from
him for his invalid daughter he talked
to her in such a manner that when she
went out with her boy, only seven or
eight years old, she cried, and the boy
remembers that he endeavored to con-
sole her and promised her that he
would grow up and make money and
take care of her, so she would not
have to work. In spite of all her trials,
she kept her place in the church and
social life.

The baby boy grew up and he began
carrying papers for the Evening Lead-
er. One night the old cylinder press

 

 

 

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17

broke down and it was very late when
he got out and very dark and cold.
When he got home he had skipped
some of the subscribers who lived in
an outlying district. His mother did
not get home until after 9 o’clock and
when he told her about it she made
him get up and dress and went with
him several miles to deliver the papers
he had skipped. Such was her well
settled theory that one must be faith-
ful to his trust.

Her boy grew up and was prosper-
ous and gave her a new home with all
the comforts of life he could think of,
and no longer did she have to teach
school and her activities were not les-
sened in all the common good of the
city, such as the hospital and ladies’
literary club, but she was more than
ever bound to the church. Every one
loved her because of her cheerfulness
and unselfishness.

What impressed one who was close
to her was her kindness and tact and
yet her firmness. If she thought a
thing was right she would insist upon
it in a way that no one was offended.
With many people their children are
not close to their parents, but she kept
her boy always close to her and he
always knew in the struggles of life
that he had a friend who would not
always agree with him, but would en-
deavor in a kindly way to show him
the right course to pursue. Finally he
became very ill and was taken away
to the hospital. His mother sent him
words of encouragement to be patient
and rest the tired nerves which had
worked so hard for her and the city
he loved and assured him that, no mat-
ter what the world would say, she was
sure of her boy and he was bound to
get well and resume the place she had
fought so hard for him to occupy.

The Republicans of Michigan chose
her an Elector in the election of 1924
and then she was chosen by the
electors as the favored one to take the
vote to President Coolidge in January
of 1925. She went with her son and
his wife and when she stated that she
had brought the vote of Michigan to
President Coolidge he said, “From far-
off Michigan,” just as her parents had
come from the East to “far-off Michi-
gan.”

But she had run her course. The
heart that had been so full of sympathy
and kindness for everybody was worn
out and the tired body which had
worked so hard and unselfishly was
laid away. Thus the life that meant
so much to the community in which
she lived ended. As Lincoln said in
his Gettysburg speech, “It is not what
we can say; it is the deeds that are
done that consecrate our memory;”
and however I attempt to tell the story,
it will be a very poor attempt to
paint a picture of the good, kind
woman who left us—my mother.

Claude T. Hamilton.

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many manufacturing plants. Its
province is to harmoniously blend
varied ingredients, for instance. A hu-
man agitator may be good or bad—
arousing people to prosecute needed
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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.
Secretary-Treasurer—H. J.

Battle Creek.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

Mulrine,

Group Meetings To Be Held in Three
Cities.

Lansing, March 2—It has been ar-
ranged with local officers of the Kal-
amazoo Book-keepers and Account-
ants organization to hold a group
meeting together with the Michigan
Retail Dry Goods Association in that
city on the evening of Tuesday, March
16. The book-keepers and accountants
will have one or two speakers on the
program and the president, education-
al director and manager of our As-
sociation, with two or three of our ac-
tive directors, will also be present to
participate in the round table and
question box discussions.

Further anouncement will be made
next week regarding the program and
will also include a group meeting at
Pontiac and Sagnaw, which, accord-
ing to the present plans, will possibly
occur during the week of March 22.
Plans are not as yet complete. I
would suggest that you mark your
calendars for the Kalamazoo group
meeting already arranged and for the
other group meetings which will also
be included in our announcement next
week.

We have an enquiry from one of
our members which reads as follows:
“Can you inform us where we might
procure stock boxes for our stock of
laces and embroideries so as to keep
them out of dust and dirt when not
being shown.” If any of our mem-
bers have material of this kind kindly
communicate with this office.

We have received a communication
from F. Morriss, of Dallas, sec-
retary of the Texas Retail Dry Goods
Association, referring to what he calls
“Remnant Fakers.” Personally this is
a new idea to me and I am handing it
along to our members in Mr. Morriss’
language. I quote from his letter as
follows:

“You should advise your members
through confidential bulletins that
remnant fakers are likely to descend on
them, and skin them while their eyes
are wide open. Purporting to carry
letters of recommendations from good
houses in other parts of the country,
they come asking valuable remnants
and materials for making them up, for
which the merchant is to pay a price,
and are assured that they will be re-
turned a lot of saleable goods that
will bring a big profit.

“Now, I am not saying that all such
people are fakers, but I do say that
it seems as if all of the fakers in the
world have gone into that sort of
business. So when one of your mem-
bers has someone call on him, and
they start blandishing conversation
that is likely to pull the wool over
ones eyes, he should stop, look and
listen, then take the name and ad-
dress of the person and write to each
of the firms whose letters are carried,
or whose names are mentioned.

“Also write to the Texas Retail
Dry Goods Association and ask them.
If there are any who are right and fit
to do business with the Association
will be glad to recommend them. If
they have proved unworthy of trust
the Association will also take pleasure
in giving the facts. No more or no
less should be asked, by anyone in-
cluding fakers. Always at your ser-
vice.

If any of our members have any in-
formation along this line I would be
pleased to hear from them.

Jason E. Hammond,

Mer. Mich. Retail Dry Goods As-
sociation.

—_—_+-»-
Umbrella Sales Take Spurt.

Galoshes and other protective foot-

wear have not been the only items of

MICHIGAN

merchandise to benefit by the rainy
weather of the past week or so. Um-
brella wholesalers say they have been
getting hurry calls from a number of
retailers for merchandise to replace
stocks sold. Wholesalers say the
stocks the retailers carried in their in-
ventories in January were small, pav-
ing the way for the recent immediate
delivery business and also for Spring.
The short, stubby sixteen-rib umbrel-
la for both sun and rain continues the
dominating style in women’s merchan-
dise. In some of the fancier models
the edges of the fabric have been cut
away on alternating ribs, giving the
umbrella a scalloped appearance.
Bight colors feature the coverings of
the merchandise for Spring.

——_2-.
Underwear Sellers More Hopeful.
With the advent of March there has

come a feeling of greater optimism in

the underwear end of the local knit
goods market There is a growing be-
lief that much of the business in heavy-
weights expected in February and
which did not materialize, will go down
on the books in the coming four
weeks. One of the reasons for this is
that the end of March will mark the
finish of the first quarter of the year
and will also mark a rise in quota-
tions on a number of lines that were
opened on the quarterly price basis
last Fall In order to get the benefit
of the governing figure for the new
delivery period it will be necessary to
get the orders in before it starts. In
addition, the next four weeks are ex-
pected to bring forward quite a little
of the buying of lightweight lines that
has yet to be done.
—__»+-~.

Silk Situation Continues Sound.

The recent price flurry in printed
silks and the lack of an active re-
sponse to offerings of wide merchan-
dise have been responsible for a great-
er degree of caution in the silk trade.

But leading wholesalers agree that the

general situation, in these fabrics con-

tinues to be healthy and unless unfor-
seen developments occur the Spring is
held likely*to be a rather satisfactory
one. What is described as the peak of
buying by both cutters-up and retail-
ers has yet to materialize, but this is
largely dependent on how soon Spring
weather makes its influence felt.

Georgettes, taffetas, satins and several

of the other crepes, particularly flat

crepes, are selling well.
22.

Silk Glove Orders Are Large.

Orders for women’s silk gloves con-
tinue to reach wholesalers in good
volume. Wholesalers here said yes-
terday that the advance business
booked in this merchandise compares
favorably with the best seasons in the
past. Part of the buying is due to
the scarcity of supplies last Spring,
when there was a late rush of mer-
chandise that the manufacturers could
not take care of. Stocks carried over
from last year are practically nil, The
short fancy cuff glove dominates in
the merchandise being bought, with
the long glove almost entirely out of

favor.
—_-—————_

Good Reorders For Lingerie.
Lingerie and silk underwear reorders
are being actively placed by retailers
and the outlook is that the pre-Easter

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turnover of this. merchandise will show
a gain over last year. Both crepe de
chine and glove silk styles are selling
well, the demand being well distrib-
uted among step-ins, vests, combina-
tion brassieres and panties and dance
ensembles. The princess slip is again
meeting with marked favor, outselling
petticoats by a considerable margin.
Pajama outfits are featured in a num-
ber of lines and are doing well, ac-

cording to wholesalers.
—_~+<->—_—_-
By the Way, When On Your Way,
See Onaway.

Onaway, March 2—Such is Ona-
way’s new slogan; how does it sound?
It was selected from hundreds of pro-
posed slogans and M. G. Koepsell se-
cures the honor of having furnished
it. Hereafter you will see it written
or printed upon everything in sight;
stationery, store windows, sign boards
and along the highways and all public
places. Say it over once and then re-
peat it and you cannot stop. Now, al-
together, “By the way, when on your
way, see Onaway.” It immediately
becomes a habit. a habit so strong
that you will say it in your sleep. It
will be used in prose and in poetry. It
will be set to music and become so
popular that—oh well, time will tell.

The storm king has claimed the vic-
tory. After enjoying one of the most
perfect winters ever experienced in
this vicinity Feb. 25 ushered in a bliz-
zard with double fury, thus dispensing
with the chug wagons absolutely. Mr.
Caterpillar snow plow has done double
duty and to cross State street without
tunnelling through the big snow bar-
riers would be impossible. The big
flanger running on the D. & M. has
forsaken the regular right-of-way and
headed across country somewhere;
therefore no regular trains.

“All work and no play makes Jack
a dull boy.” All sell and no buy make
a town a poor town for business. Not
so in Onaway however. This week
the Hankey Milling Co. is advertising
for straw, which means that they
much prefer purchasing home products
rather than shipping in. This enter-
prising company, under the manage-
ment of Oscar Roberts, stands ready
to purchase hay, grain and seeds of
our farmers, thus furnishing a good
market and their warehouse is stocked
with tile. brick, cement, lime and build-
ing material and their yards with coal
and wood. Now, who will step in and
build a market for everything the
farmer has to sell, buying in unlimited
quantities all fruit, vegetables, butter,
eggs and poultry? A cash market is

March 3, 1926

needed for graded produce, one that
will be a credit to the community and
do justice to the farmer. The farmer
stands ready to do his share. See
Onaway’s advertisement in this issue
of the Tradesman.

Once more, “By the way, when on
your way, See Onaway.”

Squire Signal.
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Hides, Pelts and Furs.

Green, No. too
Green, No. 2 --

  
  
  

  

 

 

 

 

   
 

Cured, No. 1 ---
Cured No, 2 22 za
Calfskin, Green, No. i 15
Calfskin, Green, No: 2 7 13%
Calfskin, Cured, No. 1 16
Calfskin, Cured, Ne. 2 2. 144%
fiorse, Wo. ft 4 00
Horse, Ne. 20 3 00
Pelts.
Gld Weol 22220 2 1 00@2 50
Tiamips: 1 00@2 00
Shearlings 50@1 00
Prime 08
No. 1 07
No. 2 06
Wool.
Unwashed, medium ~-.---_~---.....- @40
Unwashed, rejectS ------------.-__ @32
Unwashed, Gne @40
Furs
No: 1 Sikemk 22 2 75
No. 2 Skunk oo 1 75
No. 3 Skumk —_._._. 1 25
No. 4 Skunk ..._ 75
No. 1 Large Racoon -._ 8 50
No. 1 Medium Racoon - 6 50
No. 1 Small Racoon -...-.. —- # 00
No. 1 Large Red Fox __........__..__ 15 00
No. 1 Medium Red Fox --.----.--- 12 00
No. 1 Small Red Fox... - 10 00

Unlawful to trap any muskrats or mink.
Unlawful to have any skins of these ani-
mals in your possession.

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THE DRY GOODS BUSINESS.

 

Has It Kept Pace
Industries ?*
At the present time this country

enjoys the highest real wages in all

history—roughly, 50 per cent. over

1920. The elimination of waste has

been an important factor in this. The

consumer’s desires for better, finer
things are being converted into over-

the-counter sales. Not the least im-

portant factor has been more efficient

distribution.

The economic welfare and happiness
of the public is the first consideration
of business. From that standpoint the
present situation is indeed a favor-
able one. Industries which have con-
tributed to the present happy eco-
nomic situation have devised more effi-
cient ways of doing business.

The question facing us is: has the
dry goods industry kept the pace set
by the natural forces of human and
industrial development?

Let us consider a few typical de-
velopments in other industries:

1. The automobile industry is the
first shining example of progress in
modern business. What is the under-
lying reason for the advancement of
that industry? To answer in a few
words, one would say, a thorough, up-
to-the-minute understanding of the de-
sires of the consumer and the adop-
tion of positive measures designed to
meet the requirements. For instance,

a. When motor cars were first
made, there was a subconscious, or un-
conscious, desire on the part of the
consumer for less noise, smarter ap-
pearance and greater comfort. These
points were rapidly developed in
touring cars.

b. The public desired closed cars
at more reasonable prices. The au-
tomobile industry supplied them, with
increased profit to itself.

c. The public wanted to buy cars
“on time.” Some mortgaged homes
to make the full cash payments requir-
ed. The motor industry then sup-
plied instalment service—otherwise
the point of saturation would have
been reached years ago.

d. The public desires still smarter
cars, even in the lower priced makes.
Present facts how a prompt
meeting of this possibly subconscious
desire yields large returns. I under-
stand from what I believe to be de-
pendable information that one of the
largest producers, who has made no

With Other

prove

_ style change for years, until recently

a slight change was made, has ex-
perienced a slight decrease in sales to
the public during the first eight
months of 1925. Contrasted to that is
another very large producer, which
met the demand for smartness, in even
its lowest priced cars and indeed, was
quite instrumental in the development
of that desire—has had an increase in
sales to the public in the same period
of 13 per cent.

2. The petroleum industry, consid-
ered for many years to be an octopus
heedless of the wants, desires or needs
of the public or the trade, is to-day
and has been for some time devoting

the best thought in the industry to ine

human needs and the economic needs

*Paper read at convention National
Wholesale Dry Goods Association by- H.
\W. Davis, of New York.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19

of the consumer, the dealer and the
distributor.

a. First, the petroleum industry
has striven to make its product better
and better, and suitable to the chang-
ing standards of public needs.

b. It has devoted constant analy-
tical study to the need, not only of
quality in product, but to the need of
courteous, efficient service.

c. A. striking example in the oil
business of building success through
meeting the desires and needs of the
customer is to be found in the Pan
American Petroleum Transport Co.
Several years ago that company de-
termined to sell its own refined prod-
ucts which formerly had been sold in
bulk to other companies. The Pan
American people went into territories
seemingly heavily covered by large
and eminently profitable competitors.
After a very careful analysis of the
conscious and unconscious desires and
needs of both retail and consumer
customers, that Company started with
no business and in one year had as
much as 25 per cent. of the total busi-
ness in some territories. In certain
territories they started with no dealers
and in short order had a large percent-
age of the independent dealers located
there. They sold their product and
have developed a wonderfully success-
ful business on the basis of ideas and
service and not by cutting prices.

3. The men’s clothing industry.
For years the product of this industry
represented poor material and poor
workmanship. Then a few far-sight-
ed men studied the consumer and his
wants and developed sound business on
the basis of careful, analytical thought
and a thorough comprehension of the
needs of the consumer and the econ-
omic problems of the retailer.

Many of the old tailors could have
established successful businesses for
themselves in honest ready-to-wear,
had they not taken a passive and even
a scornful attitude toward this new
industry which was destined to be-
come of paramount importance in
their field.

What lessons can we learn
these and similar cases?

a. These industries have studied
the underlying economic facts affect-
ing the markets they sought to serve.

b. They have anticipated the needs
or desires of their public—they have
helped form the consumer's conscious-
ness of desire.

c. They have constantly striven to
make more highly salable products.

d. They have studied methods of
bringing all the factors in their dis-
tribution into a smoothly working unit
rather than permit them to operate in-
dividually and sometimes antagonistic-
ally to each other.

4. The dry goods industry. The
time has come when we in the dry
goods business must face the fact that
from producer to retailer we are parts
of the same body and that the prob-
lem of one is the problem of the others
—producer, wholesaler and retailer
alike.

To meet our common problems we
need the greatest possible amount of
light and the least possible amount of
heat. We have talked a lot about
these problems but accomplished little

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RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and Generali Merchants
Association.
President—C. G. Christensen.
Vice-President—Orla Bailey, Lansing.
Secretary—Paul Gezon, Wyoming Park.
Treasurer—F. H. Albrecht, Detroit.

 

Incubus of Excess Stock—Telephone
vs. Solociting.
Written for the Tradesman.

I am always glad when young gro-
cers come back for more. This one
has around $5,000 stock, as 1 remem-
ber, while $1,500 is the extreme
amount justified by his annual sales.
He has explained that part of the ex-
- cess is non-grocery items he inherited
from a predecessor. Now he writes
further:

“The stock of $1,500 in this locality
is O. K., I must admit, and I am still
trying to reduce, but it makes me
smile to know that a competitor near
by is carrying nearly $20,000. He has
been there for years and tried to sell
out several times, but so far without
success. But even if his sales run pro-
portionate to mine, this means he
should de four times the business—
and he doesn’t.

“But I begin to realize that the
trouble is not all in myself. Sales-
men who have made this territory for
years tell me they never have seen
anything like the times we have now—
during the past year or two. What’s
the matter? More of the likes of me,
not knowing anything about the busi-
ness?”

So long as this boy knows he is
wrong to carry so much stock and is
reducing it, all promises well. Let
him do it—not “try to” do it. Let him
not be misled because another near
him makes a worse showing than he
has made. “Beware of copying other
men’s faults.”

As for the time being out of joint.
let me say that “times” are always out
of joint for a percentage of business
men. “Things” never are quite “right”
for those who lack industry, plus will
to learn and act on what they learn.

On the other hand, men who have
their business under their own con-
trol, who do not owe, who turn stock
rapidly with a correctly determined
margin on each turn, make money in
the worst possible years—1907 and
1893, for example. So get your af-
fairs in hand. The remainder will be
easy to take care of.

Another correspondent asks about
my story of paying for customers’
telephones rather than continue per-
sonal solicitation for orders. He says
he “cannot quite see what the half
telephone bill was for with no deliv-
ery.”

But we did deliver. We always
delivered. For years we had sent out
our most efficient clerk to gather in
orders—two days each week to the
East and two days West. He did not
go out Wednesday or Saturday. The
comparative ease with which we
handled Saturday business because he
was in the store was a factor in di-
recting our attention to the waste of
house solicitation. To make it clear,
let me repeat:

A check-up showed that the trade
thus held was costing us too much.
Yet there were several desirable ac-
counts among those. So we hit on the
plan of offering to pay half the month-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ly phone bills of those we wished to
retain in lieu of personal solicitation.
We reasoned that they would accept
such contribution to offset the con-
venience of having their orders called
for.

Immediately this was put into effect,
we called these customers by phone,
instead of personally. It worked fine.
We had agreed to pay half the phone
charge for six months. We actually
paid it for two years. It paid us—
big—in actual money and increased
efficiency—not to mention the near
heart failure we daily avoided.

One whose statement I had review-
ed as that of a grocer now tells me he
carries small lines of shoes, rubbers,
clothing, drugs, some hardware and
groceries. That alters my recom-
mendation that stock be reduced. It
still needs reduction. It may seem
astonishing, but nearly every retail-
er’s stock can stand reduction. But
such a stock cannot be turned as often
as one of groceries alone.

It is true that split cases are hard
to get in some lines. But if sales are
slow, it will pay to pick up such items
from neighbors, even if this results in
no profit at all. For it must be re-
membered that a profit which entails
costs in excess thereof is an illusion.
Many such there are in business, un-
noted by the owners thereof.

With wholesale markets within easy
striking distance, long stocks are not
necessary and must be cut to the
bone in cases where—as with this
man—capital is mighty limited.

“T once had an old standby with
forty-five years experience tell me
that I should have $1,000 to go and
come on,” concludes this merchant.
“Perhaps I should; but where am I to
get it, and owe the bank nearly four
times that amount?”

Say, this takes me back a genera-
tion. I was ’way below zero then,
too. My ideal at that time was free-
dom from debt and a thousand in the
bank. My imagination carried no
farther than such a comfortable situa-
tion. Yet for years thereafter, I
bought “round lots” with the idea
that thereby I saved on cost. This
resulted in my having excess stocks,
against which I was borrowing money
and paying interest thereon without
the remotest compensating benefit.

It came home to me finally that the
way to reduce indebtedness was to
reduce what entailed debt. I decided
that earnings which were absorbed in
expenses were not worth having. I
adopted the pay-as-you-go plan. It
was amazing how rapidly my thou-
sand surplus became a reality after
that.

This merchant sends me his detailed
figures for the past three years. From
these I see he owes less each year.
The reduction seems small, but it is
steady. It can be accelerated by prac-
tices I have advocated and pointed
out.

On the other hand, progress which
is maintained will become more rapid
by itself because debt and the costs
thereof shrink as debt is cut down.
Like savings, such reduction seems
dishearteningly slow at times; but the
curve becomes sharper every month.
Some day, therefore, we emerge all
at once into the sunshine of freedom

March 3, 1926

 

 

 

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greatest demand. ‘Take advantage of this demand

and order liberally. Prices are within reach of all.

Grapefruit and Oranges are at their best now.

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“I SELL A LOT OF YEAST—”’

“I make a tidy profit,’ says Mr. Ruggieio of White Plains, N. Y.
By handling Fleischmann’s Yeast “I bring my Yeast-for-Health eaters
right into the store frequently and regularly. And naturally I sell them
a lot of groceries—all the goods they and their families need. They
are walking, talking advertisements for my store and service.

“I talk Fleischmann’s Yeast to someone every day for that talk counts
in my till in dollars and cents.”

FLEISCHMANN’S YEAST
The Fleischmann Company
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN at

 

_ MEAT DEALER

from debt and independence. And,
boy, it is a “grand and glorious feel-
ing.”

So let not this boy be discouraged
for a minute. Let him accept sug-
gested improvement without slacken-
ing his present efforts. Then, with
maintained health and continued in-
dustry, he’ll get there with both feet.
And I miss my guess if when he has
arrived, times will not always look
good to him.

The National Association of Retail
Grocers has worked up a big educa-
tional plan for grocers. One editor
remarks that it may get across, pro-
vided grocers—enough of them—feel
that they want to be educated; which
he thinks is unlikely.

I agree. I think the individual gro-
cer, as a class, is not yet hard enough
hit to feel the need of using his brain
in his business. He has a fair brain
in many cases; but he prefers to use
it to absorb and retain the records of
sport leaders. When he rides in his
car, he would rather burn up the road
than take note of the scenery by the
way or pay a visit to his farmer cus-
tomers along the route.

The favorite reading of most gro-
cers is the funny page of the Sunday
paper, plus complete details of the
latest divorce scandal. Perhaps the
most strenuous exertion to which he
subjects his think-tank is the interpre-
tation of the running comment flashed
on the screen between scenes in the
movies. Suggest the-reading of a
book to such a man and he “hasn't
time.”

I think things must get worse be-
fore they get better. And the genera-
tion now in business will fade away
without systematic education to speak
of. Indeed, the reading habit—mean-
ing the steady perusing of books so
solid and serious that concentrated at-
tention must be given them—i1st be-
come more general among America>s
before education that is worthy can
take root and grow.

More than that, more important by
far, it is necessary that we attain the
true conception of education: that it
*s not something obtained, bought,
paid for and finished at any stage of
our lives. For if it be not a continu-
ing process so long as we live, it is
not true education, nor will it be of
any use to speak of. Paul Findlay.

—__22>>—_—_
A Word on the Present Meat Supply.

About the most difficult thing to do
to-day with regard to meat is to buy
any appreciable quantity of inferior
meat. Considerable meat is showing
result of excess grain and is consider-
ed too fat to be profitable. This re-
fers particularly to lambs, though the
waste is deposited on the kidneys and
over the back chiefly and does not
affect the chops or legs as usually pre-
pared in the shops. The loss is to the
producer in price per pound alive, since
such lambs are discounted in the stock
vards and wholesale meat coolers. The
quality is high in almost every case
where fat is plentiful, and this is a
rule that carries through pretty con-
sistently with respect to all cuts of
meat. Veal, beef and pork is averag-
ing as high in quality as is ever seen

 

and this is the period of plentiful sup-
plies of the kind of meat that gives
fullest satisfaction. Prices have been
working downward for the past ten
days or so and this has been due, to
some extent, according to retailers, to
lower home consumption. During the
past few days the weather was unsea-
sonable and the unusual warm weather
for January certainly did not add to
the normal desire for meat. This may
be regarded as a transitory condition,
however, and no doubt consumption
will bring a little gladness to the retail
owner and other factors in the indus-
try. A moderate reduction in meat
consumption with normal or moderate-
ly increased supplies offered causes a
condition in New York bordering on
demoralization. What is true of New
York is true of other points, too, for
that matter. While consumer demand
is about the most stable thing in mar-
keting of food products, it does vary at
times or swings from one commodity
to another. This does not seem
strange when we consider the variance
in the desire of the individual and the
general stability of demand for given
products is really most astounding. Be
that as it may, this is a time when the
meat industry, which has taken the
burden of supplying you with meat
when you want it, needs your co-opera-
tion in order that losses may be as
low as possible and profits again re-
stored.
—_—_-~+.>_____
Very Convincing.

As he disliked motor cars, a coun-
try squire always kept good horses.
Recently he bought a handsome mare,
and a few days later asked his groom
what he thought of the new arrival.

“She’s a fine-looking animal, sir,”
replied the man, “but I’m afraid she’s
a bit touchy.”

’

“Why do you think so?’ questioned
the squire.

“She doesn’t seem to take to no
one, sir. She can’t bear me to go into
her box to groom her.”

“Oh, she'll settle down in a few
days,’ the squire reassured him.
“Everything’s strange to her, you
know. I don’t think there’s much
wrong with her temper.”

“Nor didn't I at first, sir,’ replied
the groom. “But, you see, she’s kicked

me out o’ that there box twice already,

and, when you come to think of it,
that’s very convincin’.”
OSS

Kickless Grape Jelly May Solve the
California Problem.

San Bernardino, Calif., Feb. 19—
Mrs. Caroline Hollister, an expert at
jelly making here, has a recipe which
she believes may have a marked influ-
ence on the grape industry of Southern
California. By it, she says, she can
transform wine into jelly which pre-
serves the flavor and bouquet of wines
but does away with the alcoholic con-
tent. John B. Fourcade, prominent
grape grower and winery owner, saw
the possibilities of this plan and re-
cently obtained a permit from the Fed-
eral authorities to turn 12,000 gallons
of wine into jelly each quarter. His
winery has been converted into a jelly
plant and operations have commenced.
Within the next two months he expects
to turn out 17 carloads of this new
product. The Government did not
grant permission for these operations
until after a careful investigation had
been made by the Federal agents.

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HARDWARE

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Taking Second Hand Stoves in Part
Payment.
Written for the Tradesman.

Does it pay a stove dealer to accept
old stoves in part payment on new
ones?

This is a question which faces the
stove dealer every day. It is a ques-
tion on which it is easy to theorize
and to lay down dogmatic rules; but
the real answer can be found only in
the practical experience of actual
hardware dealers.

I have got together the views of a
number of hardware dealers, doing
business chiefly in small cities and
towns. A hardware firm in a com-
munity of about 5,000 people writes:

“We have no hesitation in saying
that we do a much larger business be-
cause we take old stoves in exchange.
We find they are a paying line if
handled properly. We keep a man to
clean them up and when a stove comes
in, we do not handle it like old iron.
We are not ashamed to show our
second-hand stoves, for the simple
reason that we make them look well.
They must be put in shape before you
try to sell them. Sell them on the
understanding that, if a range doesn’t
bake, it is to be exchanged on a new
one. Make the same percentage on
the old stove that you make on a new
stove.”

In another very similar community
an experienced and successful hard-
ware dealer points out some of the
pitfalls against which to guard in the
old stove trade:

“We have,” he says, “handled this
business very successfully for a num-
ber of years. When we take a second
hand stove in part payment, we, of
course, figure on what we can get for
it plus cost of repairs that are neces-
sary. We always put our second hand
stoves in good repair before they are
offered for sale and go over them in
such a manner that they will give
satisfaction and stay sold. In some
instances it is a difficult matter to get
a handy man for this class of work.
The result would be that you could
not turn out a second-hand stove with
the same confidence that it would give
satisfaction and you would be dilatory
about pushing their sale.

“We have a separate show room
for second hand stoves and find that
it works out to good advantage.

“There are times, however, that a
man gets stung, particularly in base
burners. We examine these very care-
fully. Some base burners break up
very badly in the bottom, thereby
causing obstruction or a check to the
draft, which of course causes them to
leak gas. In such cases, where they
are not worth a new bottom, a steel
patch can be riveted or bolted over
the break and cement placed between
them.

“Then, again, when base burners are
old, you find that the cement has
fallen out of the joints. In such cases,
it is necessary to dismount your stove,
cement every joint and re-mount again.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Many a base burner we have put to-
gether from bottom to top.”

“We do not by any means believe
that a second hand stove should never
be refused. Taking stoves into stock
indiscriminately at too high a price or
in very poor condition is sure to re-
sult in a loss. We never buy a stove
without first giving it a thorough ex-
amination, after which we put our own
price on it, naming as high a price as
we feel we can profitably allow. We
are careful to explain to our prospec-
tive customer the expense involved in
handling and overhauling a stove and,
as a rule, we do not find him unrea-
sonable in his demands. If, however,
he absolutely refuses to accept our
offer, we suggest as an alternative that
he advertise his stove in the local
paper, find his own buyer and secure
his own price; which he very frequent-
ly does, coming back to us for his
new stove.

“We never guarantee a second hand
stove and are always careful to ex-
plain this to a purchaser. Because of
this we frequently sell a new stove
where we would otherwise have sold a
second hand one. When we say that
we never guarantee such a stove, we
mean that we never make this a talk-
ing point to effect a sale. In the rare
instances where a second hand stove
proves unsatisfactory, we are glad to
allow the price paid for it on a new
one. We find that our customers ap-
preciate this more than they would
an ordinary guarantee.

“In this locality we find during the
summer months quite a demand for
second hand wood stoves. This comes
principally from summer cottages at
the lakes, though we dispose of a num-
ber of them in the city also for use
in summer kitchens.”

A firm in another town of
5,000 people gives these views on the
question:

“We are obliged to handle quite a
few stoves in this way, and our plan
has been to allow for the old stove
simply enough to permit a reasonable
selling profit after repairs have been
put on the stove. In other words, we
do not propose to handle two stoves
and take the chance of putting the old
one in the scrap heap in the end, for
the sake merely of the profit on the
new stove.

“We try to approach our customer
by asking him what he would con-
sider a fair price to pay, if he were
buying the old stove instead of sell-
ing it; and then we explain to him that
we must have a profit for our trouble
in fixing up the old stove and re-selling
it. To come out on the right side, one
must see that he does not allow too
much, for require
more to put them in good shape than

about

most old stoves
appears to be the case on first looking
them over.”

A village hardware dealer cites the
ups and downs experienced in taking
old stoves in trade:

“T have carried on this system with
varied success for fifteen years. You
have to be a good judge of an old
stove, in the first place. Second, you
have to know whether you can get
repairs for the stove or else repair it
in your own shop, and what the cost
would be. After this, add a small
profit for your deal; and your good

 

 

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Garage Equipment
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Harness, Horse Collars

Farm Machinery and Garden Tools
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Sheep lined and
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judgment will tell you what to pay for
the old stove.

“You also need to know your man.
I have found a stove deal, in some
cases, as tricky as a ‘hoss deal.’ Only
experienced men can make any money
out of old stoves. I have lost as much
as 40 per cent. on an old stove and I
have also made as high as 75 per cent.
An old stove well bought is half sold.”

Another small town dealer gives his
views briefly:

“This part of the stove trade has
become a very important part to deal
with, and I try to get as good a line
of old stoves as possible, as there is
a good market for cheap stoves. If
these stoves are properly fixed up,
there is no trouble in disposing of
them.”

At least for the small city, town and
village dealer—not to mention the
dealer whose trade is almost entirely
rural—competition as a rule prac-
tically obligates him to take old stoves
in trade. This being the case, the
problem simmers down to a problem
of how to avoid losses, and, if possible,
how to make profits.

Into the successful solution of this
problem a variety of elements enter.
To begin with, the dealer must learn
the knack of sizing up the second
hand stove. This involves a compre-
hensive knowledge of all makes of
stoves likely to be found in the com-
munity; and also a knowledge of stove
mechanism, necessary - repair parts,
and other details.

Then, it is always wise to estimate
the largest possible margin of safety,
in making your allowance for the old
stove. The customer expects you to
make an allowance of some kind; but
if he likes the stove you are selling
better than the stove your competitor
sells he will be satisfied with a smaller
allowance than the other man offers.
So salesmanship in connection with
the new stove can often reduce the
allowance you have to make on the
old one.

Before you can re-sell the second
hand stove, it must be put in attrac-
tive and workable shape. This in-
volves the services of a capable re-
pair man; and some expenditure to
make the old stove not merely effi-
cient but attractive.

Finally, you have to develop every
possible market for your second hand
stoves, A few people can _ afford
nothing better; but the bulk of the
business is done in second hand stoves
for summer cottages or summer
kitchens. In catering to this trade,
the experienced man who has in the
course of many years built up a repu-
tation for selling only serviceable
second hand stoves, has an advantage
over his newer competitors. An es-
tablished standard of dependability will
help you to get business. But even
then it is necessary to go out aggres-
sively after customers.

Victor Lauriston.
—_++s—_—_
How Good Do You Want Your Meat?

There is a point in grain feeding
of livestock when fat accumulations
make the animal wasty when dressed
and offered for sale. It is freely con-
ceded that fat is associated with qual-
ity, and it is impossible to get real
tenderness, flavor, juiciness and other

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

desirables without some fat. It has
been shown repeatedly, especially dur-
ing the past decade, that real quality
can be produced with less fat associat-
ed with it than was formerly usual, or
usual at the present time, for that
matter. This is exemplified in hogs,
and the bacon type hog, which comes
from particular breeds, as the York-
shire and Tamworth, runs more large-
ly to lean than such breeds as are
known as the lard type, including the
Poland China, Berkshire, Chester
White, Duroc Jersey and others. There
is a difference, however, between in-
herent traits of breed and feeding a
breed to type. A lard hog can be fed
so that it will not show the lard quali-
ties in a most pronounced state, since
it is an acknowledge fact that kind
and quality of feed used influences the
finished carcass. Here the old jest
fits in which is the answer of the
farmer who was asked how to make
bacon streaked with lean and fat. He
answered, “Why, feed the hog one
day and let him go without feed the
next, that will give you the lean and
fat streaks.”

With regard to beef, the popular
demand seems to be for a lightweight,
fairly well marbled, but moderately
lean carcass. This brings into the
market steers younger than formerly,
and with their youth comes the ten-
derness that almost always goes with
a carcass from a young animal. It is
found in many sections that even in
those showing moderate fat deposits
on kidneys and over back a better de-
mand is found than in others carrying
more marbling and more fat. With re-
spect to the latter, the average re-
tailer seems to feel that he can get
the desired tenderness and general
suitability and sell it to his customers
more reasonably than if fatter, con-
sidering the consumers’ interest from
the amount of edible meat from the
two carcasses of the same weight.
Other retailers demand marbling in
the meat and consent to the fat that
goes with it. Others demand older
heavier and more perfectly marbled
meat and bear with the additional
waste. Now the point of especial in-
terest is the question as to whether
the retailer is properly interpreting
vour real requirements.

——_—_>-+2____
A Tipping Trip.
I’ve just returned from what I call

A joyful little trip,

Although, while on it, all I did
Was tip, tip, tip.

I left here in a sleeping car,
Me and my little grip,

The porter came and brushed me off,
And played me for a tip.

I reached my journey’s end,
A cabby with a whip,

And not a sign of manners, came
Around to get his tip.

and then

The bellboy showed me to my room—
The kid was awful flip—

He came around and fussed until
He, too, received his tip.

That waiter in the dining room
Soon had me in his grip;

And lurked in the vicinity
Until he got his tip.

I wandered to a barber shop,
The man began to clip,

And at the finish tagged around
To get his little tip.

I’m home again; I told my boss
I’d like to have a tip.
He said: ‘‘Young man, I’ll give you one.
Just get to work or skip.”
~~.

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COMMERCIAL TRAVELER

News and Gossip About Michigan
Hotels.

Grand Rapids, March 2—T. M. and
M. C. Elliott, conduct the well known
Wright House, at Alma, meaning Mr.
and Miss Elliott, the latter being the
daughter of Mrs. Brearley, lately de-
ceased, who owned the property, and
they are doing a good job of it. The
Wright House is an old established
Michigan institution and meant a very
considerable investment at a_ time
when construction was much less than
now, and the ravages of time have
made very little impress upon it. Since
the Elliotts took possession last year
they have been constantly making im-
provements and they propose keeping
on with remodeling and refurnishing
until the hotel fairly renresents the
enterprising town in which it is situ-
ated. They are to be congratulated on
what they have already accomplished
and they are certainly being rewarded
by a largely increased patronage.

Recently the American Wood Rim
Co., makers of auto steering wheels,
moved from Onaway to Alma, have
established themselves there, and ~iven
that city the nucleus for a decided
boom, with the result that the Wright
House is doing a capacity business
every day in the week. An excellent
dinner was served for 75 cents the
day I was there. Here it is:

Puree Duchesse
Dill Pickles Radishes Olives
Roast Sirloin of Beef, Brown Gravy
Braised Calf’s Liver, Mexican Style
Baked Chicken Pie, a la Famide
Rice Custard, Vanilla Sauce
Mashed and Boiled Potatoes,
Creamed Parsnips

Head Lettuce, Mayonaise Dressing
Apple and Pumpkin Pie, American Cheese

Butter Scotch Sundae, with Cake

Beverages

Their breakfasts and suppers are
just as well selected, appetizingly pre-
pared and portions ample.

H. H. Carty conducts the Hotel
Seaver, at Ithaca. in a highly satis-
factory manner. His rooms are pro-
vided with running water and nicely
equipped and his meals are most ex-
cellent.

The Grand Trunk passenger station
at St Johns still remains the wonder of
the age for neatness. Its custodian
certainly deserves a medal.

Kirtley & Kirtley have sold their
hotel, the Bennett, at Mt. Pleasant to
Mrs. Alvina Steimel and son, of Mil-
waukee, who are to take possession at
once, according to the information
which I have. The Bennett is one of
the old institutions of Mt. Pleasant,
but has been put in first-class physical
condition bv the Kirtleys, who have
the credit of running a very satisfac-
torv place. I trust the new owners
will keep up its reputation and that
the Kirtleys will decide to re-enter
hotel life in Michigan at an early day.

I had expected much of the Reed
Inn, at Ionia, but reports I had heard
and read did not do it justice. It is
certainly the country hotel de luxe of
all Michigan. Last spring I had the
good fortune to make the acquaintance
of its proprietor, George H. Snow,
who was then managing the Hotel
Belding, at Belding, on which oc-
casion I discovered him to be a live
wire. His estimable wife is in the
same class. They are both working
for one result—satisfactory service at
the Reed Inn—and they have arrived.
While the Inn is not a newly con-
structed affair, once inside you would
never know it, for its interior repre-
sents everything that goes to create
comfort and hospitality. How can I
describe it? An artistically decorated
lobby with high grade furnishings, all
of reed, greet the guest on his ap-
proach. A lounge room, similarly
supplied with cozy and comfortable
fittings, accentuated by tasty draperies
and the best of carpetings.

Forty guest chambers with all mod-
ern improvements, each with an in-
dividual color scheme in its furnish-
ings, which are of the Simmons type,
with box springs and hair mattresses.

 

 

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Beautifully tiled bath rooms modeé/n
plumbing and artistic lighting effects
are to be found everywhere.

The Snows have operated winter
hotels in Florida and summer hotels
in New England for many years, but
for the past three or four years have
run the Hotel Belding, but they now
have the Reed Inn on a long lease
and are so well pleased with the re-
sults of their venture that they promise
to become permanent Michiganders.

Now in addition to their housing
facilities, they entertain guests in a
wonderfully attractive dining room
and supply them with wonderfully at-
tractive meals. I wish I could give
you their complete repertoire here,
but this will give one an idea of what
they may expect at a 75 cent dinner,
accompanied by a real service:

Cream of Chicken Soup

Olives Pickles
Roast Prime Ribs of Beef, Brown Gravy

Roast Loin of Pork, Apple Sauce

Short Ribs of Beef. Brown Potatoes

Boiled Leg of Lamb, Mint Sauce
Mashed Potatoes Steamed Potatoes

Green Peas Lima Beans
Cabbage Salad
Graham and Wheat Bread
Apple and Blueberry Pie, Rice Pudding
Coffee

Elaborate breakfast and supper bills
are also provided. A modern kitchen,
under the drect supervision of Mrs.
Snow, turns out a pleasing product.
The Reed Inn effectively settles the
question of a newer hotel at Ionia.
Building one in the face of this com-
petition would be suicidal.

A couple of weeks ago I made men-
tion of the frequent changes of pro-
prietors of the Hotel Phelps, at
Greenville, and intimaied I proposed
making a survey of the situation
there. I have done so and find that
Glenn A. Barnaby. formerly in the
catering field at Lansing, has pur-
chased the property. both realty and
furnishings, proposes to rehabilitate it,
and go out for his share of the trade.
Barnaby is not without knowledge of
the hotel game, has an_ interesting
familv of real workers to co-operate
with him and doesn’t care who knows
it. When Frank Burns and wife were
running the Phelps it was decidedly
popular and a money maker and for
the life of me I cannot understand
whv it did not remain so, but different
operators had decidedly dfferent no-
tions as to what they thought the pub-
le wanted, and while they were ex-
perimenting the public drifted away
from them, consequently upon the
Barnabys rests the responsibility of
this patronage. Under the Burns’ re-
gime patrons of the dining room were
served from an a la carte bill of fare,
but the charges were so arranged that
the aggregate cost of a complete meal
was little if any more than under the
table d’hote plan. It was an unusual
case, but it worked out well. Hence-
forth, however, the Phelps will adopt
the regular meal schedule, with a few
short order items. Travelers tell me
the meals are quite tasty and I know
from observation that the rooms are
satisfactory.

It is alwavs a “home coming” when
I catch up with the Welchs, at Green-
ville’s ‘Winter Inn. I am very fond
of them and they are always very
considerate of me.

Of course. if I carried out their sug-
gestions in the matter of selection of
foods from their menus, I would soon
be a candidate for dime museum
honors, for they most certainly do
serve some mighty tempting meals.
Also thev have comfortable rooms and
good beds. Adding to this the pleasing
personality of the host and _ hostess,
you have the secret of their prosperity.

Also I have alwavs thought well of
Greenville. They have many friendly
and I might sav patriotic people in the
town. Thev like one another. have
manv social functions, resulting in
numerous nice parties and banquets at
the hotels. And the Winter Inn has
always given the town folks to realize
that they appreciate this class of
patronage by giving them a square
deal. Result: Mutual pleasure and
hence some profit for the hotel. Of

March 3, 1926

 

The Pantlind Hotel

The center of Social and

Business Activities.

Strictly modern and _ fire-
Dining, Cafeteria
and Buffet Lunch Rooms

proof.
in connection.

750 rooms
and up with bath.

 

Rates $2.50

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morton Hotel

OU are cordially invited to

visit the Beautiful New

Hotel at the old location made

famous by Eighty Years of
Hostelry Service.

400 Rooms—400 Baths
Rates $1.50, $2, $2.50 and up per day.
Menus in English
WILLIAM C. TAGGART, Manager

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN is the famous

NEW BURDICK

Fireproof

In the Very Heart
Construction

of the City

The Only All New Hotel in the City. Representing a $1,000,000 Investment

250 Rooms—150 Rooms with Private Bath—European $1.50

and up per Day

RESTAURANT AND GRILL—Cafeteria, Quick Service, Popular Prices
Entire Seventh Floor Devoted to Especially Equipped Sample Rooms
WALTER J. HODGES, Pres. and Gen. Mgr.

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent Culsine
Turkish Bathe

WHEN IN KALAMAZOO

Stop at the

th-Ameriran Hotel

Headquarters for al! Civic Clubs

Luxurious Rooms
ERNEST McLEAN, Moar.

 

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

 

HOTEL BROWNING

GRAND RAPIDS

150 Fireproof
Rooms

Rooms with bath, single $2 to $2.60
Rooms with bath, double $3 to $3.50
None Higher.

 

 

 

 

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HOTEL

 

 

IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
Division and Fulton

$1.50 up without bath
er $2.50 up with bath

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course I keep telling the Welchs that
they give too much for the money,
but you might as well try to stop the
shortage of water from Lake Michi-
gan. They have gotten into the habit
and I have almost given up hope of
reforming them.

_ For the benefit of enquiring friends
it is good to know that Mr. and Mrs.
Burns, with their interesting family,
are living in a comfortable home at
Greenville and have no_ particular
plans for the immediate future. They
have prospered and are enjoying them-
selves. That they are living well I
can testify from experiments made
while I was there.

Some one told me the other day that
Lowell is talking about a new hotel.
Lowell doesn’t want a hotel or they
would have patronized the Waverly
sufficiently to have kept it going. John
Brazina tried to give them service, and
should be there to-day, but with the
advent of busses and automobiles,
transient business. drifted away and
local money went to Grand Rapids for
what could have ‘been procured at
home. Later on Peter Vry attempted
to stimulate business there, but he
never got far enough to keep the wolf
from the door. The old Waverly
would seemingly be adequate for any

’ requirements of Lowell, but, of course,

they may want to establish a mauso-
leum with some of their surplus change
and the promoter will render them
assistance,

The International Baking Corpora-
tion, or something like that, tell me
that my analysis of the bread condi-
tions, in a recent issue of the Trades-
man, will not bear the acid test. In
other words, that I am talking through
my chapeau. It now develops that
the mother’s bread we knew of a half
century ago, was prepared before the
days of so-called “patent” flour. Or,
to be exact scientifically, from “stone
ground” flour, which is no longer in
evidence.

This deduction might satisfy me to
a dot were it not for the fact that
home bread makers to-day are pro-
ducing in a small way an article very
much like that we were speaking
about, and all this with “patent” flour.
The patent process removes a certain
oily substance which the stone process
did not, and this oil was a necessary
adjunct to good bread making. Maybe
we will never get back to the old
fashioned stone ground product, but
the housewife who succeeds in bread
making knows how to supply a sub-
stitute for same. Hence, a very good
and tasty substitute for mother’s
bread. The public who would like to
enjoy the simon-pure “home brew”
would certainly be glad to pay an ad-
vanced price sufficient to allow the
use of shortening, and some day some
considerate baker will astonish the
world by producing an article that
need not necessarily be called mother’s
bread. It will sell itself and make
dividends for its producer. I have
never claimed that present day bread
is unwholesome, but I doubt if it con-
tains the nutritive qualities of the
home product, and I do know that
there is little danger of anyone be-
coming “foundered” from the use of
it.

This suggestion will cost nothing
besides its perusal, but the bakery
man who wants his statue placed in
the Hall of Fame and copius simoleons
in the bank can have both by adopting
mv suggestion. :

Michigan hotel men, and especially
members of the Michigan Hotel As-
sociation, will learn with regret of the
death of James R. Hayes, at his home
in Detroit, after a long illness.

Mr. Hayes was one of the older
Michigan hotel operators, and was
known as the dean of the Association.
He began the operation of the Wayne
Hotel, in Detroit, in 1880. At that
time it was one .of the foremost ho-
tels of the State, but the removal of
the Michigan Central depot a few years
ago made it necessary to discontinue
operations, although the Wayne baths,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

in connection therewith, were con-
tinued by Mr. Hayes up to the time of
his death.

Successively he became owner of
the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island;
Arlington, Petoskey; and Park Hotel,
at Hot Springs, Arkansas, as well as
the Park Hotel, at Sault Ste. Marie.
The latter hotel and the Wayne baths
he retained up to the time of his death

His last public appearance was at
the Michigan hotel convention, at De-
troit, where he was the guest of the
Association.

I could write volumes of this grand
man, who was a leader and made his
influence felt in hotel affairs every-
where. A kindly heart and loving,
he will be mourned by the fraternity.

He was my friend.

Frank S. Verbeck.
—_2->—___
Fresh Fish and Maple Sugar Days.

Grandville, March 2—We are coming
to the time of the year that was dear
to every pinewoods boy’s heart, the
days when the fish began to run up
the streams, and the maple trees gave
down their sap from which the deli-
cious sugar was made.

Those days of sugar making and
fishing rise in the mind of the old timer
like far away dreams of the long ago.
It was long ago when those twin joys
met to make glad the heart of the
pioneer boy.

One might call them old Indian days
as well, since the redman was very
much in evidence then and cut no
small figure in the pioneer life of the
time. White boys and Indian lads
played together and sometimes hunted
together with bows and arrows.

It was a time of much joy when the
ice left the rivers and the fish began
to run. Nothing of profit in the catch-
ing of fish, since there were very few
people to buy. At Newaygo, below
the dam, was a great fishing ground
and wagon loads of fish, pike and now
and then a sturgeon, were drawn down
the river to the mouth and sold to the
mill boarding houses of the day.

Pigeons and other wild fowl abound-
ed to aid in making up the pleasures
of the wildwood.

The first fish to come up the rivers
were the suckers and the proverbial
“suckers and milk’? formed a dish to
tempt the anchorite.

The first steamboat to come up the
Muskegon was expected to carry on
its return voyage a load of suckers,
but I imagine that was meant for a
joke rather than an expectancy of
anything tangible. People at Mus-
kegon, the new settlement at the mouth
of the river, had their lake fish and did
not relish so plebian a dish as suckers
and milk.

For a number of years there was
a friendly rivalry between Newaygo,
thirty miles up the stream, and the
growing village at the mouth, which at
one time had expectations of rivaling
Chicago. This was a laudable expec-
tation, since Muskegon was the lum-
beropolis of Michigan, while Chicago
was merely a peddler of lumber de-
livered from the Michigan woods

Somehow the Illinois burg got the
start—a running start it was—and con-
tinued to make gains as time passed.
In fact, Muskegon and the valley of
that name were the greatest contribu-
tors to Chicago’s greatness, a ‘fact
which has never been sufficiently ac-
knowledged.

While the Wolverine town drained
its heart and very life into the thor-
oughfares of the Windy City, it kept
its own advancement in the back-
ground that another town across the
lake might prosper and become the
mighty giant of the West.

Newaygo reached the acme of its
prosperity during the reign of King
Pine and has remained stunted in
growth’ ever since. Muskegon has
taken on a new lease of life and there

are those who prophesy that the day
will come when we shall have another
Chicago on this shore of Lake Mich-
igan.

The Rudimans, the Laslies, the
Beidlers, the Waltons, the Ryersons,
the Davises and a score of others are
all gone to make room for a new
generation which is pushing Muskegon
to the front with commendable bril-
liancy.

Fish and maple sugar were a part
of the new civilization, as much so as
logging and canoeing. Indians were
expert canoemen, and yet there were
white pioneer boys who could give the
red Indians cards and spades and then
beat them at their own game.

Were the Indians hostile? Not to
any noticeable extent. Now and then
two reds got by the ears, seldom white
and red. And the latter made the
sugar and caught the fish.

The stores of the wilderness settle-
ments sold sugar from their shelves
of Indian make. One small store at
Bridgeton sold several tons of Indian
made sugar every year. Who pur-
chased? Well, the white woodsmen
and mill crews usually The pioneers
had as sweet a tooth as the boy and
girl of to-day, and maple sugar took
the place of the fancy sweets now on
the market. It was much more whole-
some besides.

The white boys became as expert
with gun and paddle as the Indian
sons of the big chiefs. Also many white
lads learned to spear the fish, kill the
deer and chase the wolves.

Many a night has the writer sat in
the stern of a canoe, guiding it with
a paddle, while his big brother esconced
himself near the bow, within the glare
of a fat pine jack and watched, with
spear in hand, for the swift glide of a
walleyed pike or swifter pickerel.

This couple managed to keep one
mill boarding house well supplied with
fresh fish for the table during the
fishing season As for sturgeon, there
was plenty and to spare of this by no
means delectable fish. Indians were
fond of sturgeon steak, but very few
whites cared for this variety of fish.
I remember the solid gristle at the end
of the sturgeon’s nose which we boys
utilized for the filling of a base ball,
the rebound being considerably accel-
erated by the same.

All Northern rivers abounded in
this fish a hundred years ago. Down
York. State way sturgeon was pleas-
ingly referred to as “Albany beef.”

It is doubtful if many of these fish
are to-day in existence. They, with
many others of the finny tribe, have
gone the way of the aborigines of that
early day and will never again vex the
waters of our streams and rivers.

The sucker, too, has gone out.

As a boy, with a companion, I have
set a net and spent half a day pulling
in suckers, more for the sport of it
than for any benefit, securing in a few
hours several bushels of the fish. Not
far removed from cruel sport I would
say to-day, but environment teaches
youngsters to do many things not
really of an, elevating and humane
nature. Maple sugar and fish—that
is, the fish of those old days, have
gone out never more to return.

Old Timer.
>>

Benton Harbor—The Cardon Pump
Co., 120 Pipestone street, has been in-
corporated to manufacture and sell
pumps, with an authorized capital
stock of $50,000 preferred, 1,000 shares
of class A stock at $8 per share and
3,000 shares of Class B at $1 per share,
of which amount $11,000 and 4,000
shares has been subscribed, $2,000 paid
in in cash and $11,000 in property.

 

Hotel
=| Whitcomb

Mineral Baths

THE LEADING COMMERCIAL
AND RESORT HOTEL OF
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN

Open the Year Around
Natural Saline-Sulphur Waters. Best
for Rheumatism, Nervousness, Skin
Diseases and Run Down Condition.

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

 

 

 

 

 

HOTEL CHIPPEWA
MANISTEE, MICH.
HENRY M. NELSON, Manager
European Plan, Dining Room Service
150 Outside Rooms $1.50 and up
60 Rooms with Bath $2.50 and $3.00

 

 

 

 

HOTEL DOHERTY

CLARE, MICHIGAN
Absolutely Fire Proof Sixty Roome
All Modern Conveniences
RATES from $1.50, Excellent Coffee Shop
“ASK THE BOYS WHO STOP HERE”

HOTEL KERNS

Largest Hotel in Lansing
30 Rooms With or Without Bath
Popular Priced Cafeteria in Connection

Rates $1.50 up
E. S. RICHARDSON, Proprietor

 

 

Columbia Hotel

KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To

 

 

 

CODY CAFETERIA|
Open at 7 A. M.
TRY OUR BREAKFAST

Eat at the Cafeteria it is Cheaper
FLOYD MATHER, Mgr.

 

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.

 

 

Uae cents

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

 

 

OCCIDENTAL HOTEL

FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $1.50 and up
EDWART R. SWETT,
Muskegon t-3

 

Mgr.
Michigan

 

 

 

HOTEL RICKMAN

KALAMAZOO, MICH.

One Block from Union Station
Rates, $1.50 per day up.
JOHN EHRMAN, Manager

 

 

 

HOTEL HERMITAGE
European

Reom and Bath $1.50 & $2
JoHn Moran, Mgr.

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

March 3, 1926

 

DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—J. A. Skinner, Cedar Springs
Director—H. H. Hoffman, Lansing.
Examination Sessions—Detroit, Jan. 19,

20 very 21; Grand Rapids, March 16, 17
and 18.

Furniture Polishes.
Liquid furniture polishes are usually
incompatible mixtures, separating into

several layers, and require to be well
agitated before use.

t miseed oll, taw —-__-__-__-_____ 40 oz.
Diluted arctic acid __--__-____ 16 oz.
Aicohol, denatuced —-_--____-_- 4 oz.
Solution of antimony chlor ---- 2 oz.
Ammonium chloride _--------- 1 oz.
Spict of catuphor —___________ 1 oz.

Add first the antimony solution,
then the spirit of camphor and acid,
and lastly, the ammonium chloride to
the oil, and shake well after each ad-
dition.

Alcohol, denatured ------------ 10 oz.
Linseed of, raw --- 10 oz.
Random 2 dr.
Diluted acetic acid ____________ 5 oz.
Nise acl 6 4 dr.

Dissolve the sandarac in the alcohol
and add the other ingredients.
—_~_—>-~?>> >

Bird Food.
Mocking Birds

Cayenne pepper, 2 oz.; rape seed, 8

z.; hemp seed, 16 oz.; corn meal, 2
oz.; rice, 2 oz.; cracker, 8 oz.; cotton
seed oil, 2 oz.

Mix and grind together to coarse
powder then add the oil.

2. Powdered crackers, % lb.; corn
meal, 9 oz.; hemp seed, 1 0z.; ae,
10 gr. a all in fine Spee:

Red Birds.

Sunflower seed, 8 oz.; hemp seed,
16 oz.; canary seed, 10 oz.; wheat, 8
o0z.; rice, 6 oz. Mix as above.

2. Sunflower seed, 8 oz.; hemp seed,

16 oz.; canary seed, 10 oz.; cracked
wheat, 8 oz.; rice, 6 oz. Mix. Grind
to a coarse powder.
—_—_+-.—___
Lilac Water.

Oil of Bitter Almond ------ 3 drops
Extract of Ciyet 14 ounce
Extract of Tuberose ___---- i pint

Extract of Orange Flower __ %4 pint
This can be diluted with cologne
spirit and water to the desired strength.
The peculiar odor of lilac flowers is due
to a liquid principle called terpineol,
which also exists in many of the es-
sential oils. It is obtainable in the
market under the name of lilacine, and
is the product probably used in the
manufacture of the cheaper lilac odors.
It may be employed either alone or in
connection with other ingredients, in

alcohol of the required strength.
—_+-+>———_

The Modern Preacher.

A planter asked a negro preacher
what subjects he usually preached on
in his labors among his people.

“Oh, d’rent subjects,’ said the
preacher. “Sometimes Ah preaches on
love, sometimes on baptism, sometimes
on heaven, an’ sich subjects.”

“Why don’t you preach occasionally
on the subject of chicken stealing?”

“Well, Ah tell you, boss, when Ah
preaches on dem subjects hit allers
throws a kind of coldness over de
meetin’.”

—_—§_~ + >—__.
Laxative Cold Capsule.
Quinine Sulphate ----------- 2 grains

Roeana 2 grains

Casearin 62 4 grain
Powdered Capsicum -------- l4 grain
Alon 222 V4 grain
Sodium Bromide -.---------- % grain

— oo

Liquid Court Plaster.

Pyioxsin 9 - oo loz
Amy! Acchaite 5 5 ozs.
Acetone (0.0 15 ozs.
Campupr 2 drs.
Balcam Pir 2 drs.
Castor 0 2 2 drs.
(Oil (lowes 2. 15 min.

Hal

The Best Way.

A benevolent customer gave Jerry,
the colored bootblack, one of those
one-pound cartons of black fruitcake
that acquire merit and fly specks by
remaining for months after Christmas
in the windows of the grocer. A few

NET WEIGHT

Ont PaGUNG

days later the following conversation
took place.

“How did your wife and children like
the cake, Jerry?”

“Well, to tell you de trufe, boss, I
duh et all dat cake down here by
myse’f.”

“That’s too bad, Jerry. I planned for
the wife and family to have part of it.”

“Vas, suh, I knowed dat wuz what
you wanted, mo’n likely, but I figured
it disaway, dat it wuz a whole lot
bettah foh one pusson to be puffeckly
satisfied dan fer a whole family des
to get a tas’e.”

—_~+~- 2

By displaying and arranging goods
where they show up to the best ad-
vantage you secure the most possible
sales with the least possible effort.

 

 

 

 

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, based on mark
Acids et the day of i
Bori Cotton S of issue.
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Boric (Xtal) = 25 En ebs —------ _ 7 00@7 - Belladonna -
Carbolic __- @ 25 Higeron ------ 7 25 Ysenzoin --------- @1 35
ys . 38 an o OU ="
a e Citric _... oe @ 44 Eucalyptus - 1 00@9 25 ¢Benzoin Comp’d. @2 10
in Muriatic ----—-- 52 @ 68 Hemlock, pure__ 1 25@1 60 }Buchu mp'd_ @2 65
wood en case Mice = og Ps Wa tg tai SE
alia oe liper W : capsic ea 2 85
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ae Bae a iad, Not 1 pret 80 \Cinchona -------- @1 75
everybody’ we rn Hg Beate Rae he
andes Gatun 3 ke 80
y S § protection Ammonia Lemon . -_* 85@1 20 vitae ee @3 00
T costs u Water, 26 deg 08 Linseed, bid. bbl 5 25@5 60 Gentian -_------- @1 380
peasant ~— than paper oe 18 “a. 07 g " eet raw bbl @ = Ginger 2 @1 35
, but you ar ater, 14 deg._- zinseed, bld. less 1 90 Guaiac —-- -- @l sv
ass e eg.-- 06 es hs Coeoe ess 1 00@1 1lé So 9 4
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» Mich. Opium, os @ 65 Calamus od. 35@ 40 Cuttle eee -- 31@ 38
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12 Exposures Only 4.95 BE ¢ as Squills, powdered oe. eR <ueet
Inch . aoe powd... 20 Sdctorm 6 90
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Nog 4x8” 3.80 100 Alls 2uxty 2:70 = 4 oe ae Coney sro. 389 15 Nux Vomica, pow. 119 25
No. 515 : a7 9.90 119 All6 2% “if 2.70 "20 6 Senna, Tinn. _-_ 3 mi Canary 13@ 17 Pepper black pow. 17@ 25
SP oo He Als Hae tt 4s 13 Senna, Tinn. pow. 28@ 38 Caraway, Po 30 29@, 39 Pepper, Whita 609 65
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4 x5 3s SS sis Almond, Bitter, 5 Flax, ground @ 15 Salt Pet oe 80
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33) ~—s]satmonas, Sweet, 3 00 eee oap, Br ee -
omplete Stock of all items listed . Almonds, Sweet, @3 25 Lobelia, aa y = 16 Soap Ce @ 30
AS s i
always in stock : Ne ——_, * oat # Mintard black 200 oo. =
; : itation _--- 1 00 _ Poppy ei a 25 Soap, white castile 2 50
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HAZELTINE & PERKINS a ee ee ai OG 15 Goda Ash ——--—-- | 3@ a
W DRUG CO ee oe es derienata 8
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holesale Only a. r 50@1 75 Worm, American 30@ 40 Senn Camphor_ we .
“er Castor ce : a 00 Worm, Levant... 4 50@4 75 S soa roll ..-- 3%@ 10
anistee -:- ichi eine Beat 5 Te 5 Sulphur, S
Michigan -:- Grand Rapi ds Citronella ~~ oat 6 i. Weabinde en a pri 10
oves ee nctures ivapken Menaltn: 25
Cocoanut _----- 5 a 25  Aconite T yiar Mmetion — 0G 1
— Gnd tiger oo 1 - Qe Algan @1 80 urpentine, Ven._ 50@
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7 sats 40 Zinc s : 3 00
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

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

 

DECLINED

Runkles Cocoa

 

 

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Beef, 3% oz. Qua. sli. 1 75
Beef, 5 oz., Qua. sli. 2 35
Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. 4 60
Beefsteak & Onions, s 3 45
Chili Con Ca., 1s 1 35@1 45
Deviled Ham, \%s --~ 2 20
Deviled Ham, %s ~-.- 3 60

ADVANCED
Candy
Lamb
Quaker Milk
AMMONIA or ae SP: 2 . -
Arc’ _o- ———- 209 Instant Postum No.
os. > $5 Postum Cereal, No. 0 2 25
Postum Cereal, No. 1 2 70
Post Toasties, 36s -. 3 45
Post Toasties, 24s .. 3 45
Post’s Bran, 248 .... 2 70
BROOMS
Jewell, doz ._.___.___ 5 75

 

. ee 4 36
ee 6 00
10 Ib. pails, per doz. 8 50
15 lb. pails, per doz. 11 95
25 lb. pails, per doz. 19 50
BAKING POWDERS
Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 35
Queen Flake, 16 oz., dz 2 25
Royal, 10c, doz. ~----.. 5
Royal, 6 oz.,
Royal. 12 oz., doz -. 5 20
Rove, 6 ib. 31
Rooket, 16 oz., doz. 1 25

K. C. Brand

 

Per case
10c size, 4 doz. 3 70
15¢ size, 4 doz
20c size, 4 doz.
25c size, 4 doz.
50c size, 2 doz
80c size, 1 doz.
10 Ib. size, % doz. _--- 6 75

Freight prepaid to jobbing
point on case goods.
Terms: 30 days net or 2%
eash discount if remittance
reaches us within 10 days
from date of invoice. Drop
shipments from factory.

BEECH-NUT BRANDS.

 

Caramels

Sliced bacon, large — -~ 4 95
Sliced bacon, medium 3 00
Sliced beef, medium - 2 80
Grape Jelly, large --. 4 50
Sliced beef, large ---. 4 50
Grape Jelly, medium_. 2 70
Peanut buttes, 16 oz. 4 25
Peanut butter, 10% oz. 2 90
Peanut butter, 6% oz. 1 85
Peanut butter, 3% oz. 1 20
Prepared Spaghetti -. 1 40
Baked beans, 16 oz.__ 1 40

Original
condensed Pearl
‘i Crown Capped
Hy 4 doz., 10¢ dz. 85
| 3 dz. 15c, dz. 1 25

 

BREAKFAST FOODS

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

6 oe 3 05
Pilisbury‘s Best Cer’l 2 “4
Quaker Puffed Rice__

uaker Puffed Wheat 4 30

uaker Brfst Biscuit 1 90

m Branzos __.. 3 20
Ralston Food, large —-
Saxon Wheat Food -.
Vita Wheat, 12s -...

Post’s Brands.

-Grape-Nuts, 24s ~---.
Grape-Nuts, 100s ---_
{nustant Postum, No. 8 5 40

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Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 8 25
ancy Parlor, 23 lb. -- 9 25
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 75
Toy Fcy. Parlor 26 Ib. 7. 50

ee 25
Whisk, No. 3 2 75
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ~---_ 1 50
Solid Back, 1 in. __-- 1 75
Pointed Ends --.----- 1 25
Stove
Gheker 2.00 1 80
No. 6) 2 00
Peers 2 60
Shoe
No 13 2 25

No. 20... CB
BUTTER COLOR

 

Dandelion, .--—. 2 85
CANDLES
Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1
Plumber, 40 Ibs. _----- 12.8
Paraffine, 6s ~-----. 14%
Paraffine, 128 --~---- —— i

Witkin 40

Tudor, 6s, per box — 30

CANNED FRUIT
Apples, 3 lb. Standard 1 60
Apples, No. 10 -- 4 50@5 76
Apple Sauce, No. 10 7 75
Apricots, No. 2 1 — 00
Apricots, No. 2 00
Apricots, No. 2% 3 03 75
Apricots, No. 10 ---- 8 25
Blackberries, _ 10 10 50
Blueber’s, No. 2 3 00@2 75
Blueberries, No. 10_. 14 00
Cherries, No. 2 --. 3 50
Cherries, No. 2% -— 4 00
Cherries, No. 10 - 14 00
Loganberries, No. 2 -- 3 00
Loganberries, wg 40 10 00
Peaches, No. 1 1 50@2 10
Peaches, No. 1, Sliced 1 40
Peaches, No. 2 .....- 3 75
Peaches, No. 2% Mich 3 25
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 25@3 75

Peaches, 10, Mich. — 8 650
Pineapple, 1, sl. ---. 1 65
Pineapple, 2 sl. ---- 2 60
P’apple, 2 br. sl. ---. 2 40
P’apple, 2%, sli. --- 2 90
P’apple, 2, cru. --.. 2 60
Pineapple, 10 cru. ~ 9 00
Pears, No. 2 ----~.. 4 00
Pears, No. oe

. 2%
Raspberries, No. 2, blk 2 90
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 16 00
Raspb’s, Black,

No. 10 ne 14 00
Rhubarb, No. 10 4 75@5 50
Strawberries, No. 10 12 00

CANNED FISH

Clam Ch’ — 10% oz. 1
Clam Ch., Je
Clams, aiapaeed. No. 13
Clams, Minced, No. 2 3
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3
Clam Bouillon, 7 0z._ 2 50
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2
Fish Flakes, small -- 1
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1
Cove Oysters, 5 oz. -- 1
Lobster, No. %, Star 2
Shrimp, 1, wet —-----
Sard’s, % Oil, Ky -- 6
Sardines, % Oil, k’less 5 25
Sardines, % Smoked 6
Salmon, Warrens, %s 2 75
Salmon, Red Alaska 4 25
Salmon, Med. Alaska 3 40
Salmon, Pink Alaska 1 90
Sardines, Im. \%, ea. eo
Sardines, Im., =». =. 25
1 65@1 -

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Sardines, oe
Tuna, %, Albocore —-

Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
Tuna, %s, Curtis, doz. 3 50
Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz. 7 00

CANNED MEAT.
Bacon, Med. Beechnut 3 00

Bacon, _ Beechnut 4 95
Beef, , Corned -. 3 10
Beef, 1, Roast -. 2 95

Beef, No. 2%, Qua. sll. 1 36

   

eR RR SRA a I TEARS >

Onions, No. 1 ------ 3 15
Potted Beef, 4 oz. ___ 1 10
Potted Meat, % Libby 52%

Potted Meat, % Libby —_
Potted Meat, %
Potted Ham,

Vienna Saus., No. % 1 45
Vienna Sausage, Qua. 95
Veal Loaf, Medium -. 2 65

Baked Beans

Campbells ----------. 15
Quaker, 18 oz. -.---- 90
Fremont, No. 2 ------ 1 20
Snider, No. 1 —---. 95
Snider, No. 2 ~------ 1 25
Van Camp, small ... 85
Van Camp, Med. ---- 1 15

CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus.
. Green tips 4 10@4 25
* Green tips 4 10@4 26
a ee. Lge. Green 4 50
W. Beans, cut 2 1 45@1 76
W. Beans, 10 ~---__ @8 00
Green Beans, 2s 1 45@2 25
Green Beans, 10s ~. @7 50
L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@2 65
Lima Beans, 28, Soaked 95
Red Kid. No. 2 1 26
Beets, No. 2, ‘wh. 1 7602 40
Beets, No. 2, cut —.-. 1 20
Beets, No. 3, cut ---- 1 60
Corn, No. 2, Ex. stan. 1 66
Corn, No. 2, Fan. 1 s0@2 35
Corn, No. 2, Fy. glass 3 25
Corn, No. 10 -- 8 00@12 00
Hominy, No. 3 1 00@1 15
Okra, No. 2, whole — 2 00
Okra, No. 2, cut —.. 1 75
Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, lb. 45
Mushrooms, Hotels 36
Mushrooms, Choice 8 oz. 48
Mushrooms, Sur Extra 55
Peas, No. 2, E.
Peas, No. 2, Sif
June 1 86
Peas, No. ay Ex. “Ex. Sift.
B. J.

Pumpkin, No. 3 1 45@1 75
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 75@6 00
Pimentos, %, each’ 12@14
Pimentoes, %, each — 27
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 3 00
Saurkraut, No.

Succotash, No. 2 1 65@2 50
Succotash, No. 2, glass 2 80
Spinach, No. 1 ----.. 1 26
Spinach, No. 2-- 1 60@1 90
Spinach, No. 3__ 2 10@2 60
Spinach, No. re 6 00@7 00
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 20@1 36
Tomatoes, No. 2 glass 2 60
Tomatoes, No. 2, glass 2 60
Tomatoes, No. 10 — 6 00

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B-nut, Small —------ 1 90
Lily of Salley, 14 oz. _- -- 2 60
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 75
Paramount, 24, 8s ~~. 1 45
Paramount, 24, 16s ~. 2 40

Paramount, 6, 10s -- _ =
Sniders, 8 oz. ~-------

Sniders, 16 oz. —----- 2 ee
Quaker, 8% oz. ~----- 1 30
Quaker, 10% oz. -._- 1 =
Quaker, 14 oz. --..._

Quaker, Galion Glass 13 $9

CHILI SAUCE
Snider, 16 oz. ~---- — 3 30
Snider, 8 oz. --------. 2 30
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. -- 2 25
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. -. 3 50

OYSTER COCKTAIL.

Sniders, 16 oz. ------ 3 50
Sniders, 8 oz. ------ _- 2 50
CHEESE

Roquefort —~---~-----

Kraft, Small tins --_- ~~ 1 65
Kraft, American -_-- 1 65
Chili, small tins ---. 1 65

Pimento, small tins __ 1 65
Roquefort, small tins 2 25
Camenbert, small tins 2 25
Wisconsin New
Longhorn
Michigan Full Cream 28
New York Full Cream 33
Sap Sago 4
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CHEWING GUM.

Adams Black Jack ---- 65
Adams Bloodberry ---- 65
Adams Dentyne ------ 65
Adams Calif. Fruit -.-- 65
Adams Sen Sen ------ 65
Beeman’s Pepsin ------ 65

Beechnut Wintergreen — 70
Beechnut Peppermint — 75
Beechnut Spearmint --- 70
Doublemint
Peppermint, Wrigleys -- 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65
Juicy Fruit 65

Wrigley’s P-K  -_------ 65

Zeno .......-..- ee 65

Teaberry —-......____-—- 65
CHOCOLATE.

Baker, Caracas, %8 --- 37
Baker, Caracas, 4s --— 35
Hersheys, Premium, %s 35
Hersheys, Premium, %8 36

Runkle, Premium, %s- 33

Runkle, Premium, 1/58 36

Vienna Sweet, %s ---- 36
COCOA.

Bunte, 46 42

Bunte, % Ib. ~--------- 36

Bunte, ib. 32

Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib._. 8 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 50

Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 35
Hersheys, %s ---------- 33
Hersheys, %8 ---------- 23
Haier -- 36
Lowney, 4s ......__ 40
Lowney, %s --------.-- 40
Lowney, %8 --------- nee
Lowney, 5 lb. cans ---- 31
Runkies, 148 31
Bunkies, 1/58 36
Van Houten, %s ----.- 75
Van Houten, %s -~--.-. 75
COCOANUT
Dunham's

15 Ib. case, %s and \s ¢
15 1D. cae, Us
15 Ib. case, %s -------- a

CLOTHES LINE.

Hemp, 50 ft. -.------. 25
Twisted oa 50 ft. i =
Braided, 60 ft. -----. 27

Sash Cord 4 a

 

HUME GROCER CO.

ROASTERS
MUSKEGOR, MICE

 

COFFE ROASTED

BULK

Bio 2
Sate 35@37
Maracaino 41
Gautemalia —._______ 43
Java and Mocha ---- >
Bore 2
Peabary _...______ 37

McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh

Vacuum packed. Always
fresh. Complete line of
high-grade bulk coffees.

W. F. McLaughlin & Co.,
Chicago.

Maxwell House Brand.
23h cine 51
B tp; fine - 1 60

Telfer Coffee Co. Brand
money oo 42

Coffee Extracts

pkgs.
Hummel’s 50 1 Ib.

CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 doz. ___.--._ 6
Eagle, 4 doz. ----__--_ 9 00

MILK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. ~~ 4 50
Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. __ 4 40
Carolene, Tall, 4 doz. 3 80
Carolene, Baby -_---. 3 60

EVAPORATED MILK

 

Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. _. 4 80
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 4 70
Quaker, Gallon, % dz. 4 65
Blue Grass, Tall 48 __ 4 65

Blue Grass, Baby, 96 ; 65
Blue Grass, No. 10 -- 4 75

Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5 00
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 4 90
Every Day, Tall ---- 5 00
Every Day, Baby ---- 4 90
Pet, Tall ~----------- 5 00
Pet, Baby, 8 oz. ---- 4 90

Borden’s Tall
Borden’s Baby - -
Van Camp, Tall ----. 4 90
Van Camp, Baby ---- 3 76

 
 

CIGARS
G. J. Johnson’s Brand
G. J. Johnson Cigar,
10c 75 00
Tunis Johnson Cigar Co.

Van Dam, idc ------ 75 00
Little Van Dam, 5c - 37 50

Worden Grocer Co. Brands

Master Piece, 50 Tin. 37 .
Canadian Club ------ 37

Tom Moore Monarch 75 00
Tom Moore Panatella 75 00
Tom Moore Cabinet 95 00

Tom M. Invincible 115 00
Websteretts -.------ 37 60
Webster Savoy ---- 76 00
Webster Plaza ------ 95 00

Webster Belmont---110 00
Webster St. Reges--125 00
Starlight Rouse ---. 90 00
Starlight P-Club -- 1 = 00

"ionn 22 0 00
Clint Ford --------- 3 00
Benedicts  -.--------- 37 60

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails

Standard ~---------. a ad
Jumbo Wrapped 9
Pure Sugar Sticks 600s 4 20
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 20

Mixed Candy

Kindergarten --..------ 17
Teaser 2.8 16
x i. 0. 12
French Creams -.------ 16
(ame. 4 19
Grocers  ___ 11
Fancy Chocolates

5 Ib. Boxes

Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 70

Choc Mafshmallow Dp 1 70
Milk Chocolate A A 1 70
Nibble Sticks -.--.--- 1 85
Primrose Choc ------ 1 10
No. 12, Choc., Light — 1 65
Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 80

Gum Drops Pails
Agtae 16
Citron Gums ---...-- 16
Challenge Gums ---. 14
Mavornte 223 20
Superior, Boxes ------ 22

Lozenges Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges 20
A. A. Pink Lozenges 16
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 16
Motto Hearts -.--.-.. 19
Malted Milk Lozenges 21

Hard Goods. Pails

Lemon Drops _-_------ 19
Oo. F. Horehound dps. 19
Anise Squares 19
Peanut Squares ---... 18
Horehound Tablets -. 19

Cough Drops’ Bxs.
Putnam's == 2 86
ae 1 60

Smith Bros.

Package Goods

Creamery Marshmallows
4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 95

4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 3 90
Specialties

Walnut Fudge ----_---- 23
Pineapple Fudge -—.-.-- 21
Italian Bon Bons ~~... 17
Atlantic Cream Mints_ 31
Silver King M.Mallows 1 60
Walnut Sundae, 24, 5c 80
Neapolitan, 24, 5c -— 80
Yankee Jack, 24, 5c -- 80

Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 5c 80
Pal O Mine, 24, 5c ~— 80

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic grade 2 50
100 Economic grade 4 50
500 Economic grade 20 00
1000 Economic grade 37 50

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

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 Ib. box

March 3, 1926

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
N. Y. Fey., 50 lb. box 15%
N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice -. 30
Evaporated, Fancy -. 31
Evaporated, Slabs ~-. 28

Citron
10 1), fox — 48
Currants i
Packages, 14 oz. __-. 16
Greek, Bulk, Ib. ----.- 15
Dates
Dromedary, 36s —..--- 6 75
Peaches

Bvap. Choice, un. ---_-. 24
Evap. Ex. Fancy, P. P. 37

Peel
Lemon, American ~~... 24
Orange, American ----.. 24
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Raisins.

Seeded, bulk ~-_.-__._ 12%
Thompson's s’dles blk 9%
ee S seedless,

7S 08. oe 32
Soskae 15 oz. .. 15

California Prunes

90@100, 25 lb. boxes -_@08%
60@70, 25 lb. boxes -.@11

 

50@60, 25 lb. boxes -_.@12
40@50, 25 lb. boxes -_@13
30@40, 25 lb. boxes __@17
20@30, 25 lb. boxes __@26

FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans
Med. Hand Picked  . 06
Cal Limas _...-..... I
Brown, Swedish --... 07%
Red Kidney ~-.--.. 12

Farina
24 packages ~.-----_.. 2 50
Bulk, per 100 Ibs, ~--- 06%
Hominy

Pearl, 100 lb. sacks -. 6 00

Macaronl

Mueller’s Brands
9 oz. package, per doz.
9 oz. package, per case 2 60
Elbow, 12 lb., bulk -_ 2 40
Egg Nood., 12 lbs., bu. 2 22
Trisom Noodles, 12
ite... Dulko 4 62
Quaker, 2 doz.

Pearl Barley

 

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Barley Grits

Scotch, Ib.

Split, lb. yellow —-__-- 08

Split green —_..____... 09

Sage

Hast india ....___. 10
Tapioca

Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks -. 09

Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05

Dromedary Instant —-. 3 59
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

 

Doz. Dos.
Vanilla PURE Lemon
150 --. % ounce --. 1 50
1 80 -.. 1% ounce -.. 1 80
3 20 _.. 2% ounce --_ 3 20
300 _..2 ounce —. 3 00
550 -—.4 ounce --- 5 50

UNITED FLAVOR

Imitation Vanilla
ounce, 10 cent, doz. 90
ounce, 15 cent, doz. 1 25
ounce, 25 cent, doz. 2 00
ounce, 30 cent, doz. 2 25

Jiffy Punch
doz. Carton —__..... 2 25
Assorted flavors.

FRUIT CANS
Mason.
Hall aint 7 60
One pint 775
One quart: _____._._. 9 00
Half gallon  _..----. 12 00
Ideal Glass Top.
Rubbers.
Half pint -— 9 00
One pint) oo 8 Bb
One quart -.-.-..... 11 00
Half gallon -.-...... 16 36

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GELATINE

  

26 oz:, 1 doz. case _. 6 00

38% oz., 4 doz. case_. 3 60
One doz. free with 5 cases.
Jello-O, 3 doz _-----. 3 45
Minute, 3 doz. -----. 4 05
Plymouth, White ---. 1 55
Quaker, 3 doz ____. 2 55
HORSE RADISH
Per doz, 6 oz. —.-__ 1 20
JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 lb. pails ---. 3 30

Imitation, 30 lb. pails 1 75

Pure, 6 oz. Asst., doz. 1 20

Buckeye, 18 oz., doz. 2 20
JELLY GLASSES

8 oz., per doz. --------
OLEOMARGARINE

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Kingnut, 1 Ib, ------ 27%

Kingnut, 2 & 5 Ib. ---- 27

Van Westenbrugge Brands
Carload Distributor

 

vices, 1 Ib. 2 27
Nucoa, 2 and 5 lb. -- 26%
Wilson & Co.’s Brands
Certifica 22.00 le 25
Wet ee 20
Special Roll - 25%
MATCHES
Swan, 144.00 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 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, lb. 22
MOLASSES

 

Gold Brer Rabbit

No. 10, 6 cans to case 5 70
No. 5, 12 cans to case 5 95
No. 244, 24 cans to Cs. 6 20
No. 1%, 36 cans to Cs. 5 15
Green Brer Rabbit
No. 10, 6 cans to case 4 45
No. 5, 12 cans to case 4 70
No. 2%, 24 cans to cs. 4 95
No. 11%, 36 cans to cs. 4 20
Aunt Dinah Brand
No. 10, 6 cans to case 3 00
No. 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 -- 14
Choice 62
Fair ------------------- 41
Half barrels 5c extra
Molasses in Cans

’ 24° 2% Ib Wh. L 5 20
“ha 36, 2 Ib. Black 4 30
Dove. 24, 2% lb. Black 3 90

Dove, 6, 10 lb. Blue L 4 45
Palmetto, 24, 2% Ib. 5 25
NUTS.

Whole
Almonds, Terregona_- 30
Brazil, New --------- 25
Fancy mixed -------- 22
Filberts, Sicily ------ 28

Peanuts, Virginia Raw 10
Peanuts, Vir. roasted 11%
Peanuts, Jumbo, raw 11
Peanuts, Jumbo, rstd 12%
Pecans, 3 star ------ 24
Pecans, Jumbo ------ 40
Pecans, Mammoth -. 50
Walnuts, California -- 25

Salted Peanuts.
Fancy, No. 1

umbo
. Shelled.
Almonds —=.—----—- 70

 

Peanuts, Spanish,
126 1D. DAgSs 2 114%
32
10
55
Bulk, 5 eal. keg .... 8 50
Quart Jars, dozen -- 6 50
Bulk, 2 gal. kez —._.. 3 60
Bulk, 3 gal. keg ---. 5 25
Pint, Jars, dozen ---. 3 50
4 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 1 35
5% oz. Jar, pl., doz. 1 60

9 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 2
20 oz. Jar, Pl. doz, 4
3 oz. Jar, Stu., doz. 1
6 oz. Jar, stuffed, dz. 2 50
9 oz. Jar, stuffed, doz. 3
12 oz. Jar, Stuffed,
ae 4 50@4
7

OZ. 0@4 75
20 oz. Jar, stuffed dz. 7 00
PARIS GREEN
A 31
ee 29
28 ang 56 2.0 27

 

Bel Car-Mo Brand

24 1 Ib. patie oo
8 oz., 2 doz. in case
5 lb. pails, 6 in crate
12 2 Ib. pauls _.___._.
14 >. patie .-._...
50 ib ting 2.
25 1b; patie -.

Iron Barrels
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Perfection Kerosine —. 12.1
Red Crown Gasoline,

Tank Wagon ------ ‘
Solite Gasoline __---- 20.7
Gas Machine Gasoline 38.4
Vv. M. & P. Naphtha s

  

Capitol Cylinder ___-__ 39.
Atlantic Red Engine 21.2
Winter Black __----.. 12.2

larine

Iron Barrels.
Pight 2
Medi 22.0000
Peavy
Special heavy ------ oe
Pxtra heavy -—=_.--.-—
Transmission Oil ~----
Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1
Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2
Parowax, 100 Ib. -----
Parowax, 40, 1 lb. --
Parowax, 20, 1 Ib. --

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Semdac, 12 pt. cans 2 75
Semdac, 12 qt. cans 4 60
PICKLES
Medium Sour
Barrel, 1600 count -_ 17 90
Half bbls., 800 count 9 00
50 gallon kegs ------ 5 00
Sweet Small

30 Gallon, 3000 _----. 42 00

5 gallon, 500 ~------- 8 25
Dill Pickies. :

800 Size, 15 gal. ---- 10 00

PIPES.
Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20
PLAYING CARDS
Derby, per doz. -----

Bicycle _-- 4 75
POTASH
Babbitt’s, 2 doz. .--. 2 75
FRESH MEATS
Beef

Top Steers & Heif. -. @18
Good Steers & H’f. 15@17
Med. Steers & H’f. 183%@15
Com. Steers & H’f. 10@12%

 
 

Cows
Top 14
Gasa oo 12%
Medium 2... 11
Common -—-.._._.... 10

Veal.
TT es 19
Goad 17
MeaHim, 22.5), 14

amb.
Spring Lamb -------- 25
Geed . ....--. 24. cc ae
Menlam ooo 20
Poor 2 15
Mutton.
Good -.--- SL Ty apie orca

Medium 2... 12%
POOF 10
Pork,

Eight hogs: 16
Medium hogs -—--_----- 6%
Heavy hogs - ---~-- a= oe
Se 25
pion) La Se eee ie nei 23
Showiders 2... 3 19
Boarertne: ooo 18
Neck bones __________ 06

PROVISIONS
Barreled Pork
Clear Back -_ 34 50@35 00
Short Cut Clear34 50@35 00
Dry Salt Meats
S P Bellies __ 28 00@30 00

Lard

Pure in tierces —_-___ 16%
60 lb. tubs -_._-advance 4
50 lb. tubs ---_-advance 4
20 Ib. pails _._.advance %
10 lb. pails _.--advance %
5 Ib. pails _.--advance 1

3 Ib. pails __.-advance 1
Compound tierces __-. 14
Compound, tubs -_--- 14%

Sausages
Bologna 2.) 12%
EAVGR 12
Frankfort... 17
Pork 2 18@20
Weer - no
Tongue, Jellied ------ 32
Headcheese ~- _--~----- 18
Smoked Meats

Hams, Cert., 14-16 Ib. 31
Hams, Cert., 16-18 lb. 31
Ham, dried beef

Sets oo @32
California Hams ---- @20
Picnic Boiled

Hams. 30 @32
Boiled Hams _-_- 40 @42
Minced Hams -___ 14 @17
Bacon 2. 8a) 6@ se

Beet
Boneless, rump 26 00@28 06
Rump, new —— 27 00@30 00
Mince Meat.
Condensed No. 1 car. 2 00
Condensed Bakers brick 31
0

Moist in glass —.___- 8 0

Pig’s Feet
Cooked in Vinegar

36 ple 2 15

% bbis.,.80. ibs, .-___- 3 10

14 Dole: 225 8 25

1 pol 2 18 00

Ketts, 15 tbs. .-.._. 90

¥% bbis., 40 Ibs. --.--. 1 60

% bbis., 80 Ibs. ..--.— 3 00
Casings

Frogs, per th. -_-___ @63

Beef, round set _--. 20@30

Beef, middles, set_. @1 75
Sheep, a skein__ 2 00@2 25

Sacks, 90 lb. Cotton ~~

RICE
Fancy Blue Rose -.._ 09%
Fancy Head —___...__ 10%
Browen. 06
ROLLED OATS
Silver Flake, 12 Fam. 2 25
Quaker, 18 Regular __ 1 80
Quaker, 12s Family -_ 2 70
Mothers. 12s, M’num 3 35
Silver Flake, 18 Reg. 1 40
Sacks, 90 Ib. Jute —-- : 90
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sks. 3 25
RUSKS.
Holland Rusk Co.
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, bbls, ---. 1 80
Granulated, 60 Ibs. cs. 1 35
Granulated, 36 2% Ib.
MAcCkKAges 2.0 2 30
COD FISH
Middies 2.000 15%

Tablets, % lb. Pure,
Tablets, 1 Ib. Pure -. 19%

Coe, 2252 1 40
Wood boxes, Pure -- 29%
Whole Cod .._-...-- 11%

Herring
Holland Herring
Mixed, Kegs 1 10
Mixed, half bbls. ---- 9 25
Queen, bbia, —.____. 18 50
Milkers, Kegs ~---..

_- 1 20
Milkers, half bbls. -. 10 26
Miikera, bbis __._...__
K K K K, Norway -- 20 00
S i pete 22 1 40

Cut Eameb 22) 1 60
Boned, 10 lb. boxes -- 17
Lake Herring
44, pbi., 100 ths. _...._ 6 50
Mackerel
Tubs, 100 lb. fncy fat 24 50
Tubs, 60: count _..._. 7 00
White Fish
Med. Fancy, 100 Ib. 13 00

SHOE BLACKENING
3 in 1, Paste, doz. __ 1 35
E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 35
ee

Dri-Foot, doz. 2... 00
Bexbys, Doz. -..... 1 35
Shinola, doz —....... 90
STOVE POLISH
Blackine, per doz. __ 1 35

Black Silk Liquid, dz. 1 40
Black Silk Paste, dos. 1 26

Enamaline Paste, doz.
Enamaline Liquid, dz. 1 35
E. Z. Liquid, per doz. 1 40
Radium, per doz. ---- 1 85
Rising Sun, per doz. 1 35
654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 80
Vulcanol, No. 5, doz. 95
Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 1 35

Stovoil, per doz. -.-. 3 00
SALT.

Colonial, 24, 2 lb. —---. 98

Colonial, Iodized, 24-2 2 40

Med. No. 1 Bbls. ---- 2 85

Med. No. 1, 100 Ib. bg. 88
Farmer Spec., 70 lb. 90
Packers Meat, 56 Ib. 57
Crushed Rock for ice
cream, 100 Ib.. each 756
Butter Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 24

Biock, 50. ib. 40
Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 10
100, 3 Ib. Table —__.. 5 75
70, 4 ib. Table ....... 5 25
28. 10 Ib. Fable —..._ 5 00
28 lb. bags, Table __ 42

 

Per case, 24, 2 lbs. -- 7 40

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

     

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SAtt Compan

Bbls. 30-10 sks. ~---- 5 40
Bbis. 60-5 sk ------ 65 65
Bbls. 120-2% sks. -- 6 05
100-3 Ip. eas. —...-_ 6 05
Bbls. 280 Ib. bulk:

A-Butter 2.2.0. 2-2. 4 00
AA-Butter —-_...._... 00

tt 4
Plain. 50 Ib. bilks. -. 45
No. 1 Medium, Bbl. — 2 47
Tecumseh, 70 lb. farm

en 85
Cases Ivory, 24-2 cart 1 85
Iodized 24-2 cart. -._ 2 40

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

SOAP
Am. Family, 100 box 6 30
fxport 120 box —--_. 4 90

Big Four Wh. Na. 100s 3 75
Flake White, 100 box 4 25

Fels Naptha, 100 box 5 60
Grdma White Na. 10s 4 10
Rub No More White

Naptha, 100 box -_ 4 00
Rub-No-More, yellow 5 00
swift Classic, 100 box 4 40
20 Mule Borax, 100 bx 7 55
Wool, 100 box  -_----- 6 50
Fairy, 100 box --.---- 5 75
‘ap Rose, 100 box ---- 7 85
Palm Olive, 144 box 11 00
Tava, 100 box. __-.. 90
Octagon =... -.._.- 6 35
Pummo, 100 box ---- 4 85
Sweetheart, 100 box - 5 70
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 00
Grandpa Tar, 50 lIge. 3 45
Quaker Hardwater

Cocoa, 72s, box ---- 2 85
Fairbank Tar, 100 bx 4 00

Trilby Soap, 100, 10c,

10 cakes free -_---- 8 00
Williams Barber Bar, 98 50
Williams Mug, per doz. 48

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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 ..—-.. 4 25
Jinx. 3 dom —..._... 50

La France Laun., 4 dz. 3 60
Luster Box. 54
Miracle C., 12 oz., 1 dz. 2
Old Dutch Clean. 4 dz. 2 40
Queen Ann, 60 oz. -- 2
Rinso, 100 oz. ~------- 6 75
Rub No More, 100, 10

Gb. 3 85
Rub No More, 18 Lg. 4 00
Spotless Cleanser, 48,

066 85
Sani Flush, 1 doz. -. 3 26
Sapolio, 3 doz. ------ 16
Soapine, 100, 12 oz. . 6 40
Snowboy, 100, 10 os. 4 00
Snowboy, 24 Large .. 4 80
Speedee, 3 doz. ---.-- 7 20
Sunbrite, 72 doz. -... 4 00
Wyandotte, 48 ------- 4 76

SPICES.

Whole Spices.
Allspice, Jamaica -.-. @16
Cloves, Zanzibar ---- @40
Cassia, Canton -..... @25
Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40
Ginger, African ------ @15
Ginger, Cochin  -___-- @30
Mace, Penane __......-. 110
Mixed, No. { —_...... @22
Mixed, 5c pkgs., doz. @45
Nutmegs, 70@90 ---- @78
Nutmegs, 105-110 -.-- @70
Pepper, Black ——__.. @45

Pure Ground in Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica _-. @18
Cloves, Zanzibar ---. @46
Cassia, Canton ----.-- @26
Ginger, Corkin —----- @38
Mustard .......__.. @32
Mace, Penang -.--.--- 1 30
Pepper, Black --______ @50
Nutmegs ------------ @75
Pepper, White -—----- @60
Pepper, Cayenne ---. @32
Paprika, Spanish -.-. @42

Seasoning
Chili Powder, 15c ---- 1 35
Celery Salt, 3 0z. ---- 95
Sage, 2 02. --. 8. 90
Onion Salt 2... 1 35
Garlic 1.0. 1 35
Ponelty, 3% oz. ---. 3 25
Kitchen Bouquet ---- 4 50
Laurel Leaves -..-... 20
Marjoram, 1 oz. ----- 90
Savory, £ 04 ..- 2. 90
hye, © Of, --..5..- 90
Tumeric, 2% oz. -_- 90
STARCH
Corn
Kingsford, 40 Ibs. ---- 11%
Powdered, bags ------ 4 00
Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 4 05
€ream, 48-1  —....._. 4 80
Quaker, 40-! ..._.__ 7%
Gloss

Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. -- 4 05
Argo, 12, 3 Ib. pkgs. 2 96
Argo, 8, 5 lb. pkgs. -- 3 35
Silver Gloss, 48, Is -. 11%

Elastic, 64 pkgs. ---- 5 35
Ticer, 45-5 _ 2 oe 3 50
Ticer, G60 Ibs, —.-..._- 06
CORN SYRUP.
Corn

Blue Karo, No. 1%-- 2 27
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 11
Blue Karo, No. 10 -- 2 91
Red Karo, No. 1% -- 2 57
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 49
Red Karo, No. 10 -- 3 29
Imt. Maple Flavor.
Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz. 3 00
Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4 19
Orange, No. 10 ------ 3
Maple.
Green Label Karo,

Green Label Karo -. 6 19
Maple and Cane
Mayflower, per gal. -- 1 55

 

PRIDE OF KANUCK
SYRUP
1 Case, 24 Pints -... 6 25
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

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Maple.
Michigan, per gal. -- 2
2

} 50
Welchs, per gal. .... 2 80

TABLE SAUCES
Lea & Perrin, large-- 6 00
Lea & Perrin, small__ 3 35
Pepper —~-----<<s0ere 1 60

Royal Mint _<-.._...... 2 40
Tobasco, 2 0%. is... 4 25
Sho You, 9 oz., doz. 2 70
A-l, lasee —....-.--a 5 20
A-~\. small ...-..-.-. 3 15
Capers, 2 0%. —.---.-- 2 30
TEA.
Japan.
Medium _............ 27@33
Choice .........--... 37@46
Warvcy ......- enon 64@59
No. ! Nibéie ..__........ 64
1 lb. pkg. Sifting ~----- 13
Gunpowder
Chaise 2... 3 35
Wanee 23. 40
Ceylon
Pekoe, medium -------- 65
English Breakfast
Congou, Medium --.... 28
Congou, Choice -... 35@36
Congou, Fancy -... 42@43
Oolong
Medium —........... ~~. 36
Choice 2.2406 — 45
Paney ....... 560
Telfer Coffee Co. Brand
WF a 2 59
TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply cone --.. 42
Cotton, 3 ply pails -... 44
Wool, & ply 2... 18
VINEGAR
Cider, 40 Grain, .*_.--.. 21
White Wine, 80 grain__ 28

White Wine, 40 grain__ 20

WICKING
No. 0. per gross —_---- Sch
No. 1, per gross -.-. 1 26
No. 2, per gross -.-- 1 50
No. 3, per gross __.. 2 0

Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Rochester, No. 2, doz. 50
Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
Rayo, per doz. 1

WOODENWARE
Baskets
Bushels, narrow band,
wire handles ~---.-_ 1 75
Bushels, narrow band,
wood handles _.---- 1 80
Market, drop handle 85
Market, single handle 90
Market, extra ~~... 1 50
Splint, farze 2. 8 50
Sp'int, medium ~------ 7 50
Solint, smal... 6 50
Churns.
Barrel, 5 gal., each. 2 40
Barrel, 10 gal., each_. 2 55
3 to 6 gal., per gal. _. 16
Eag Cases.
No. 1, Star Carrier ~ 5 00

No. 2, Star Carrier — 10 00
No. 1, Star Egg Trays 6 25
No. 2, Star Egg Trays 12 50

Mop Sticks
Trojan spring
Eclipse patent spring 2 00
No. 2, pat. brush hold 2 00
Ideal No. 7 1

12 oz. Cot. Mop Heads 2 55
16 oz. Cot. Mop Heads 3 20
Pails
10 qt. Galvanized ---. 2 50
12 qt. Galvanized -_-. 2 75
14 qt. Galvanized -.-. 3 10
12 qt. Flaring Gal. Ir. 5 00
10 qt. Tin Dairy ---- 4 00
Traps

Mouse, Wood, 4 holes. 60
Mouse, wood, 6 holes. 70
Mouse, tin, 5 holes a 65

Rat. wooed —_-..-...+ co
Rat, spring —._........ 1 00
Mouse, spring ------- 30
Tubs
Large Galvanized —-.. 9 25
Medium Galvanized -_ 8 00
Small Galvanized ---. 7 00
Washboards
Banner, Globe -_---- 50
Brass, single -—------- 6 00
Glass, single ----...... 6 00
Double Peerless ----- 8 50
Single Peerless .----- 7 50
Northern Queen ----- 5 50
Universal ......-.-2... 7 35
Window Cleaners
$9 in 1 65
14 im. 1 85
16 im 2. 2 30
Wood Bowls
13 in. Butter ._.___- 5 00
15 in. Butter —-.--.- 9 00
17 In. Butter ..__.. 18 00
19 in. Butter ....... 25 00

WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre, Manila, white. 05%
No. 1 Fibre —__--.---- 08

Butchers Manila ---- 06%
Kraft ._--__.._---__-- 07%
Kraft Stripe -------- 09%
YEAST CAKE
Magic, 3 doz. -------- 2 70
Sunlight, 3 doz. ------ 2 70
Sunlight, 1344 doz. ---- 1 35
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. -. 2 70

Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 1 35
YEAST—COMPRERSED
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30

THE DRY GOODS BUSINESS.
(Continued from page 19)
to date. Mark Twain might have
been referring to us when he said,
“Everyone talks about the weather,
but no one does anything about it.

A survey of the dry goods indus-
try discloses certain weaknesses in
each one of the three factors in the
distribution of dry goods merchandise;
in the producer, in the wholesaler, and
in the retailer—faults which need cor-
rection or improvement.

Begin at the beginning—consider
the producer. Broadly speaking, the
following criticisms seem to be fair:

a. We have not given adequate
study to the problems, needs and de-
sires of the consumer, the retailer and
the wholesaler.

b. We have been slow in our styl-
ing of existing lines and in developing
new lines in keeping with the trend of
the consumer’s needs and preferences.

c. The market has not been meas-
ured in terms of reasonable estimates
of possible volume—to avoid over-
production and insure economic dis-
tribution. Sales have not been direct-
ed or stabilized as definitely as in other
industries.

The retailer:

a. In the scramble to feature low
prices, the retailer has forgotten that
the public wants service and honest
merchandise and will pay for it.

b. He has neither analyzed turn-
over in detail nor definitely organized
himself to attain it on a sound basis.

c. Usually he has devoted at least
two-thirds of his time and thought to
lower buying and not more than one-
third to better selling. It should be
the other way round.

The wholesaler:

a. He has not studied the consum-
er trend or the retailer's problems; he
has not organized to help the retailer
meet competitive conditions.

b. He has not distinguished between
large and small stores and has not
provided the particular kind of service
required by each; he has not realized
that both types of service could be
maintained on a basis economically
sound for both the retailer and the
wholesaler.

c. He has not studied his territorial
market or even analyzed properly his
own sales: thus he has not organized
to give the service indicated by an in-
telligent check-up on his position in
his field.

Let me quote from a letter which is
fairly typical of letters received dur-
ing the past year, which bears on the
efforts my house has been making to
organize and to perfect its service, and
maintain a constant understanding of
the needs and interests of the con-
sumer, the retailer and the wholesaler.

“Until the retailer realizes that he
must support the wholesaler, our busi-
ness probably will remain poor.”

It undoubtedly will so long as that
attitude exists.

Should we expect the retailer to sell
himself on the economy and the prac-
tical value of our service or goods?
Should we not assume the responsi-
bility of demonstrating the worth of
our goods or our service? If we fail
even to attempt to demonstrate our
worth should we blame the customer
for not believing in it?

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The first fact we must face is this:
The retailer is forced to make more
efficient use of his capital if he is to
offset increased overhead, meet com-
petition and show a good profit. This
means he must organize for turnover.
Instead of lamenting hand-to-mouth
buying, let us recognize it as a sound
tendency, if properly directed. Hand-
to-mouth buying is a splendid anti-
dote for speculation and speculation
with its resulting price instability
each of us has good reason to avoid.

The retailer to-day must buy what
his customers want or what he can
educate them to want. It is manifest
that the retailer cannot send a tele-
gram to-day and receive a shipment
to-morrow of just what he wants un-
less the three factors in the distribu-
tion of dry goods, viz. the producer,
wholesaler and retailer, have studied
consumer trends and are prepared to
meet them. Only in this way can we
catch demand at the flood instead of
at the ebb.

We must look further ahead in or-
der to appraise the various factors
which indicate trends. None of us
has tried to get down to bed-rock
facts. The retailer waits for demand
to present itself. The wholesaler waits
for the retailer. The mill waits for
the wholesaler. The retailer and many
times the wholesaler have said: “When
I get the demand I will put it in.” We
must anticipate demand. We should,
insofar as we can, help to formulate
consumer desires. In this effort we
may safely figure upon the consumer
constantly wanting better qualities and
more up-to-date types of products.

Let us consider the chief ways in
which the wholesaler can be of prac-
tical service to the retailer:

1. By giving efficient service from
open stock he enables the retailer to
operate with a reduced inventory, thus
increasing turnover.

2. Through the extra capital thus
made available the retailer can stock
additional items with profit to him-
self, greater service and satisfaction to
the consumer.

3. A “want slip’ is about as ob-
noxious to a good retailer as a mark-
down. Efficient service from the
wholesaler is the best possible protec-
tion against “want slips,” mark-down

and excessive interest charges on
heavy inventories.
4. The progressive wholesaler,

working closely with retailer and pro-
ducer in analyzing consumer tenden-
cies, can keep the retailer supplied
with merchandise or merchandise ser-
ideas developed to meet these
tendencies.

I believe the wholesaler is not yet
fully alert to the opportunities of his
own service under existing conditions.
Let me give you an instance of what
I have in mind. Because our house be-
lieves in the economic facts with
which to prove to retailers—even the
largest retailers—the greater economy
of supplying their needs through the
wholesaler. We have been gathering
examples, concrete facts, which prove
the advantages of the wholesalers’ ser-
vice. In order to get this information

vice

we canvassed practically every whole-
saler in the country.

was amazingly meager,
do not exist

The response
not because

the fact: but because

 

many of these houses have not kept in
cloe enough touch with the actual
facts of their business to be able to
cite examples; they have not felt it
important to have such information to
present to their customers.

One of the most progressive whole-
salers in the country gave us this
case:

From July 1 to December 31 one re-
tailer bought of us 573 dozen of one
number of ladies’ knit vests and 225

dozen of one number ladies’ union
suits.
Cage ee $3,747.30

Selling price 5,794.20
Gracc prog? 20 2,046.90

His maximum stock at any one time
of both numbers was $352.45. His
turnover on this maximum stock for
the six months was over 16 times. He
bought the vest 38 times, the union
suit 34 times. His largest purchase of
vests was 55 dozen, of union suits 22
dozen. His average purchase of vests
was 15 dozen, of union suits 7 dozen.
He paid us a reasonable profit and
made money for himself.

This case, and the truth which it
holds, affords to that particular whole-
saler one of the strongest selling
points he or his salesmen could use.
Yet I venture to say that in spite of
the progressive nature of that house,
this case and others like it are not be-
ing used to demonstrate the sound
value to even the larger retailers of
the service of that house.

You cannot take it for granted that
the wholesaler’s function exists by
some divine right. You must give the
service which the wholesaler exists to
render, and then you must prove con-
clusively how this service is of prac-
tical value to the retailer. The value

of wholesale service has not been
“sold’ in the broadest sense of the
word.

Many retailers have taken it for

granted that only in buying direct can
they operate successfully. They have
not studied the possibility of operating
more efficiently by buying of you.

I have been told by a number of
wholesalers that they can do little or
no business with the larger stores in

March 3, 1926

their territories. At the same time I
have been told by the heads of some
of these large stores, that they believe
might be a practical solution of this
problem but that never once has an
executive from a wholesale house call-
ed upon them, invited the retailer to
call, or shown any definite interest in
discovering a basis for the large re-
tailer and the wholesaler to work to-
gether to their mutual advantage.

The facts are on your side—but are
you using them?

There has been a great deal of talk
about the necessity of studying mar-
kets, studying stocks, studying this,
that and the other thing. Little has
been done about it, except talk. Yet
the task is merely one of common
sense. It is neither involved nor cost
ly. Here are a few things which are
essential if a business is to be suc-
cessfully developed:

1. Forecasting consumer demand
and organizing to meet it.

2. Analyzing sales opportunities.
By credit.
By character of management.
By location.

d. By total consumption in the ter-
ritory covered.

3. Directing sales effort in propor-
tion to potential opportunity.

4. Analyzing actual sales.

a. By. cost.

b. To determine where
results are being secured.

ew.

adequate

c. To ascertain causes of decreased
sales.

d. To define causes of increased
sales, in order to apply this informa-
tion to weak accounts or territories.

We hear it said almost daily that
the chain store and the department
store are driving small retailers out
Not at all. There
many examples of small stores which
are selling just as smart goods as the

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large city stores and making real
profits. They are not affected by this
gossip about all the business going to
chains and department stores. The
chains and department stores have ad-
mitted advantages, but these advan-
tages do not include a corner on brains
and common-sense.

Consider the opportunity existing
for thousands of small and medium
sized stores. Consider the location of
the population of this country—74 per
cent. of the total population in towns
and cities under 100,000 population;
69 per cent. in towns and cities under
50,000 population; 52.9 per cent. of
the total population is located in
towns under 5,000 population; 49.6 per
cent is located in towns under 2500
population. We, like any good busi-
ness man, should give the best thought
of which we are capable to a develop-
ment of this market. In order to sell
our goods to them we should strive to
show them how they can sell them
successfully.

It is only a weak man who resigns
himself to a dwindling business be-
cause his customers are meeting with
new problems.

It may interest you to know that
within twenty-five miles of New York
City, in a relatively small city there
is a store which sells about as smart

merchandise as almost any store in
New York. That store amounted to
nothing a comparatively few years

ago. A man who had been a salesman
for a New York house took charge
there. He saw to it that the mer-
chandise was what the people in the
trading area of that town could use
and want. Not in all cases were his
prices as low as some of the New
York stores. He gave a service and
he developed a personality for that
store and its service which interested
and strongly appealed to thousands of
families throughout the country. That
store is a monument to the possibility
offered to a retailer who will put the
hest of himself fearlessly into such a
business.

A large department store with its
concentrated volume offers just as
tangible a market for the wholesaler
as the small store. The progressive
wholesaler can serve a large store with
its turnover, mark-down and want
slip problems to the advantage of the
store and the wholesaler. A careful
investigation would prove to you and
to your large stores ways in which
you could operate together to your

mutual advantage. That advantage
must be proven by fact and not by
complaint.

Let me repeat again, the public

wants good merchandise and better
service. The public pays liberally for
what it wants. This is the opportun-
ity of the wholesaler and the pro-
ducers. If we make the most of the
knowledge, experience and ingenuity
available for our use we can place the
dry goods business on a firmer founda-
tion than it has ever known before. If
we do not do that we shall have failed
to justify our own existence.
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Fortune does not favor the quitter,
but neither does it favor the man who
insists in hanging on long after he
has: been proved wrong -and’ adviséd
to change.

the accustomed

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Scoffs at Lake-To-Salt Water Projects
Grand Rapids, March 3—There is an
old saying to the effect that ‘‘a little
nonsense now and then is relished by
the best of men,” and we certainly get
it in conjunction with all this talk
concerning a lake-to-ocean waterway,
and the “pilfering’’ off water from
Lake Michigan by the Chicago drain-
age canal district. Just now it is the
Canadian authorities who are threaten-
ing to sue Uncle Sam for damages be-
cause a shortage of water somewhere
up there, possibly in their libations, is
directly chargeable to the use of too
frequent “chasers” in Chicago.

Government engineers, if we have
any (I have never heard of one since
the days of Eads and Goethals) are
said to claim that the use of water by
Chicago for sanitary purposes is dry-
ing up Lake Michigan, but they fail
to account for the fact that water
levels on every lake, river and stream
in every part of the country are con-
stantly lowering. Lack of precipita-
tion and excess of evaporation is the
seat of the whole trouble. Govern-
ment engineers may not admit this,
but every navigator on the Great Lakes
will not only tell you so, but prove it
to your satisfaction, if you will give
him an opportunity. I know several
such, personally and they have ex-
plained to me that for ages there has
been an ebb and flow in water levels in
the lake districts. but never so marked
as at present, for the reason that the
forests have gradually disappeared,
marshes have been drained and there
is nothing left to retard the sudden
flow of water during rainy periods.

If you ever traveled in the Upper
Peninsula district and stopped at the
Hotel Marquette, at Marquette, you
will doubtless remember how the na-
tives used to indulge in  piscatorial
sports right off the breakwater there.
To-day the breakwater is several hun-
dred feet inland. How about the re-
cession of water at Houghton Lake, if
you may, or various other water bodies
in Michigan, which have no visible
outlets whatever?

This is a condition that exists simul-
taneously along the shores of Lakes
Huron, Erie and Ontario, and water
courses enterinoe thereinto. By what
possible theory could you connect the
low water on Ontario with the “theft”
at Chicago?

The lakes-to-gulf project meets the
same difficulties as the lakes-to-ocean.

For fifty years navigation of boats
requiring any appreciable depth of
water has been out of the question on
the Mississippi river. Up to 1876 the
historically known Diamond Jo line
operated steamers from St. Louis to
St. Paul, even un as far as St. Anthony
Falls, now the site of Minneapolis, but
some time after, in spite of the fact
that the U.-S. Government spent ur-
told millions in dredging, constructing
wing dams and jetties, their use was
abandoned and flat bottom stern
wheelers were substituted. Within the
past decade a fleet of excursion boats,
built especially for shoal water naviga-
tion, was also abandoned, for the rea-
son that the water stage for some dis-
tance below St. Paul was insufficient
to float them.

As far back as. the early eighties
Congress began the process of pour-
ing money into a “rat hole” in an in-
sane effort to transport grain and flour
in bulk from St. Paul to Liverpool, but
nary a bushel of grain or sack of flour
ever was so transported.

Now, why should the Father of
Waters, which had been such a mar-
velous water course for all ages, re-
cede and begin to “act up?”

It was for the reason that the reat
forest areas of the Upper Mississippi
had been denuded of their timber and
thus the reservoirs which had kept un
stage of wter were
depleted and to-day, except for an oc-
casional freshet, all thoughts of using

-the Upper Mississippi for transporta-

tion purposes are idle dreams. Even
Congress gave it up as a bad job
years ago.

I mention these facts for the reason
that I hear the constant howl about
water stealing at Chicago on the one
hand, and lakes-to-ocean waterway on
the other. One just as reasonable as
the other; both amusing.

Suppose there were enough mental
derelicts in Congress to adopt a lakes-
to-ocean project, what would ‘become
of it after it was completed? What
has become of the water transporta-
tion on the Great Lakes? Is there any
semblance of competition in rates or
otherwise between the railroads and
water carriers? Do you think if there
was, there would be much delay in the
operations of a syndicate in doing
away with such competition?

We have water transportation now.
Not a great deal of it, to be sure, but
when you compare carriage tariff with
the all rail lines, ‘he rates are the
same. There is much talk about the
economy of water transportation, but
competition only begins where rail-
roads leave off. If there were railroads
crossing the seas, freight transporta-
tion would be higher thereon.

If we had this wonderful (?) addi-
tion to our transportation power, may-
hap an occasiona’ lesser ocean vessel
might be in evidence, but they would
more nearly resemble the “prairie
schooner” of former days. It would
require a flock of miracles to ever
bring them to a_ successful basis.
Uncle Sam has never gone so far as
to interfere with water transportation,
but the railroads have.

As we figure it two great outstand-
ing problems confront us:

Lack of water to float our vessels,
which might be overcome by harness-
ing up electricity from Niagara Falls
to produce heat sufficient to melt the
Arctic ice field and returning the
water via Hudson’s Bay to produce
this electricity—a sort of perpetual
motion ~-oposition, as it were, and the
waterway.

White blackbirds will be as great
a pest as English sparrows when ef-
forts of Congress result in transferring
the Atlantic Coast to Chicago.

Why not leave the problem to Sid-
new Smith, Bud Fisher or George
McManus. Possibly they might be
able to put a thrill into it.

Frank S_ Verbeck.

 

Henry Smith Floral Co., Inc.

52 Monroe Ave.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

PHONES: Citizens 65173, Bell Main 173

 

 

SIDNEY ELEVATORS
Will reduce handling expense and
speed up work—will make money
Easily installed.
and instructions sent with each
elevator. Write stating require-
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size of platform wanted, as well
as height. We will quote a money
saving price.
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For Sale—A very desirable stock of
dry goods, groceries, and shoes in a good
business town. Surrounded by good
farming conditions. A well-established
country trade, and would not sell if it
were not on account of failing health.
Building can be rented very reasonable,
or bought if so desired. Address No.
164, c/o Michigan Tradesman. 164

COAL, FEED, GRAIN, POTATO, AND
BUILDERS’ supply business. Building
and equipment. Good, going business.
Retiring. Box 564, Gobles, Mich. 151

For Sale—Well established business of
dry goods, ready-to-wear, and floor cov-
erings. Strictly up-to-date store, brick
puilding, best location in one of the best
towns in Central Michigan. Reason for

Ca. Blaney hin

selling, other business interests require
my attention. For full particulars ad-

dress Geo. H. Chapman, St. Johns, Mich.
174

“ARE YOU SELLING OUT?

Will pay highest amount in Cash for
your entire or part of stock and fixtures
of any description. Call or write Jack
Kosofsky, 1235 W. Euclid Ave., North-
way 5695, Detroit, Mich.

Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-
ing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 1250
Burlingame Ave.. Detroit. Mich. 566

For Sale—Shoes, men’s furnishings, no-
tions. Fine location, outlying district.
Priced right. Best city in state. Address
424 Maple St., Battle Creek, Mich. 176

 

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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. tf set in
capital letters, double price. No charge
less than 50 cents. Small display adver-
tisements in this department, $4 per
inch. Payment with order is required, as
amounts are too smail to open accounts.

 

Wanted—Furniture and lease for small
hotel in good town. Resort considered.
Cash and rea¥ estate. Address No. 177,
c/o Michigan Tradesman. 177

Wanted—Tenant for business house to
be erected. Central location. Store room
19x70, with basement same size. Store
lighted back and front and part of one
side. Building arranged to suit tenant.
Ready for occupancy about June tirst.
Rental $85 monthiy. Our city growing
steadily. New industries coming in.
HARDT and CLARKE, South Haven,
Mich. 178

Wishing To Retire—l will sell all or a
good part of my established wholesale
business in Southern Michigan to a man
who will take an active interest. This
is a fine opportunity for Someone. In
repiying please state amount of capital

you wish to invest, and the experience
you have had. Address No. 179, ¢/o
Michigan Tradesman. 179

For Sale-—-Stock of shoes and groceries
located in town of 800, Calhoun county,
Michigan. Only complete shoe stock in
town. Very low overhead. Good rural
trade, Have dry goods store adjoining.
Health will not permit running both, Ad-
dress No. 180, c/o Michigan Tradesman.

180

FOR SALE—NUMBER OF SETS Allith-
Prouty and Richards sliding door hangers
for single and double doors. Also single
and double sliding door locks. Attractive
prices. BENGENER BROS., Austin,
Texas. 181

Wanted—At S. Rosenthal & Sons, of
Petoskey, Michigan, an experienced sales-
lady for our domestic department, one
who has had experience in selling dra-
peries and linens both, as well as other
domestics, Steady position for right
party. Send reference and state experi-
ence and wages wanted. 183

Store For Sale—Beautifully equipped ,
ladies’ and children’s ready-to-wear. Rare
opportunity. Established eleven years.

3est location in town. Low rent, long
lease. Plenty room for millinery and
beauty parlor. Will sell stock and fix-

tures for less than cost, twenty-five hun-
dred. This. store will give you big re-
turns. Good reason for selling. Wire,
phone or write Fishels Style Shop, Three
Rivers, Mich. 184
FOR SALE—GARAGE—Brick and block
tile. Incorporated village on M-11 half
hour from Petoskey. ‘Two lots. Garage
fifty by 100 feet. Just the finest location
for business and health. $2,000 down
payment, balance yearly. Write HINK-
LEY INSURANCE AGENCY, Petoskey,
Michigan. 161
If you want to sell your business, let
us submit particulars. More money for
your stock, and a sure sale. R. H. Speese,
1712 Jefferson Ave., S. E., Grand Rapids.
185
FOR SALE—Greenhouse Property—
Modern greenhouse plant, 12,000 feet of
glass, fully stocked, private water sys-
tem. Doing a wonderful business. In
Central Michigan. Selling more than can
be grown and business can be doubled
within two years. On paved trunk line
road. Fine dwelling, basement barn, six
acres of good land, plenty of fruit. This
property will bear the closest inspection.
All built within the last five years. Good
reason for selling. Address No. 186, c/o
Michigan Tradesman. 186
Wanted—By S. Rosenthal & Sons, of
Petoskey, Michigan, an experienced la-
dies’ ready-to wear saleslady. Good posi-
tion for right party. Send reference and
state experience had and wages —
82

For Rent—Large, desirable brick store
in growing factory town of 3,500, $35 per

month. Almost any business would be
successful. Mrs. Ella R. DePuy, Grand
Ledge, Mich. Li

For Sale—Drug and general merchan-
dise stores. Will sell separately or to-
gether. Best of opportunities. Cc...
Garn, Wood!and, Mich. 178

For Rent Or Sale—Drug store and fix-
tures. No opposition. Reason, death of
owner. 800 population. Mrs. D. HE.
Meeker, Alba, Mich. 175

For Sale—Best restaurant in Central
Michigan. Two trunk lines, two rail-
roads. Established six years. Good lo-
cation and business. Address No. . 162
c/o Michigan Tradesman. 162

For Sale—Small general stock and
buildings. Post office connected. Box
A, Hobart, Mich.

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.

 

MEN OF MARK.

 

Frank D. Bristley, Vice-President of
Royal Baking Powder Co.

The career of Mr. Frank D. Bristley,
Vice-President of the Royal Baking
Powder Co., is such a good example of
the success that rewards persistent ef-
fort and ambition that it is well worth
reading and should prove an inspira-
tion to young men beginning their life
work, especially in the grocery busi-
ness,

At the age of ten, Bristley started
out to face the future alone, securing
employment as a farm hand with a
farmer on the State line of Ohio and
Indiana. Though unaccustomed to
hard work, he soon adapted himself
to his surroundings. His abode was
a log cabin and his bed was of corn
husks in the attic. His duties were
those of a regular farmhand—plowing,

cultivating, rail splitting, etc. Extra
duties were milking cows, feeding
stock, building fires and doing the

many chores around the farm house—
which oftentimes included the cook-
ing of meals. His salary was board
and lodging.

His school days were confined to the
three months dating from December
1 to the end of February, at the little
crossroads schoolhouse where he often
filled the position of teacher as well
as that of pupil.

At the end of his seventh year he
was the highest paid farm hand in the
township. His contract called for $20
a month for the nine months’ period
dating from March 1 to November 30.
This gave him a chance during the re-
maining three months to attend the
village school, where, fortunately, he
was able to keep up with his class.

During this school period he secured
board and lodging by acting as office
boy, hostler and general utility man to
the village doctor.

At the age of eighteen, after having
finished his seventh corn-husking bee
in the fields, he concluded to seek his
fortune in the city. So, to save the
bus fare, he packed his earthly be-
longings and walked fourteen miles to
the city where his mother and the
younger children were struggling for
an existence.

He tramped the highways and by-
ways of that city for two weeks seek-
ing employment (the only two weeks
he had been idle in seven years). Af-
ter visiting nearly every factory, mill
and store where people were employed
(and it seemed that help at that time
was not needed), he finally, as a last
resort, appealed to the proprietor of
the largest mercantile store in the city,
where his father had traded during his
prosperous days. He met with the
same kind and gentle response, “We
do not need any more help.” In sheer
desperation, and with tears in his eyes,
he asked the privilege of working in
the grocery department that he might
“learn the trade” and thus qualify for
a position later. As no salary was at-
tached to this proposition, he was ac-
cepted. His duties consisted of filling
oil cans, sprouting potatoes, sweeping
out and the many other distinguished
services of a grocery boy. At the
end of the second week the proprietor
gave him 50 cents—25 cents a week
for the work he had performed.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The merchant later said he had
thought over his request for steady
employment and, seeing that he was
ambitious, he wondered if he could
sell merchandise bought in large quan-
tities to other retail dealers. Bristley
assured him that he could and they
soon came to terms. The merchant
agreed to give him a commission on
his sales, prorated according to the
profits. A day or so later the young
salesman started out with his two car-
pet bags full of samples and a price
book. His only knowledge of what
he was to sell was contained in that
book. His first day’s sales amounted
to the magnificent sum of 70 cents.
About four weeks later, when figuring
up his week’s commission, it was
found that he was drawing more sal-
ary than the superintendent of the

 

tention of forming a new company.
But before this was accomplished a
former townsman, George P. Tange-
man, who was then Vice-President of
the Cleveland Baking Powder Co., per-
suaded him to take a position with his
company. He found this work inter-
esting and when the Cleveland com-
pany was consolidated with the Royal
Baking Powder Co. in 1899, he was
transferred to Indiana with headquar-
ters at Indianapolis.

The first barrel of Royal baking
powder he sold was to a dealer whom
he routed out of bed before 6 o’clock
in the morning. Trains never ran too
early nor too late to inconvenience
him and he was fond of talking bak-
ing powder as long as he was able to
find a retail or wholesale store open
where he could sell his line. His ter-

Frank D. Bristley.

shop. So the proprietor concluded
that he was making too much money
for a beginner—notwithstanding that
he was working on the merchant’s own
proposition. So the merchant said he
would pay him $3 per week with the
promise of a dollar more later on.

Having a vivid recollection of his
but too recent endeavor to find em-
ployment and not having mastered
enough of the details, Bristley accept-
ed the proposition. Eighteen months
later he was superintendent of that
entire establishment and three years
later, as a result of that first day’s sale
of 70 cents, Fechtling Wholesale Gro-
cery Co. of Hamilton, Ohio, was or-
ganized, and Bristley was the junior
partner.

In 1895 Mr. Bristley severed his
connection with the firm, with the in-

ritory was soon enlarged and later he
found himself making special trips to
many parts of the country.

Thus, having filled every position
from errand boy to general manager
and proprietor in the retail and whole-
sale grocery business—having made a
success as a traveling salesman and as
a district sales manager—Mr. Bristley
was qualified to assume the duties of
sales manager of the Royal Baking
Powder Co., when called to New York

for that purpose.
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Nashville—The Mattie A. Carncross
stock of dry goods, shoes and novel-
ties has been purchased by H. T. Rey-
nolds, of Delton, who wil consolidate
it with his stock of general merchan-
dise as soon as it can be shipped to
Delton.

March 3, 1926

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, March 2—W. R.
Shelby has returned to Grand Rapids
after a six months’ tour of Europe and
Africa. He expected to remain in Al-
giers several months, but was advised
to cut his visit short on account of
2,000 cases of smallpox.

I. R. Osterveer, local manager for
Wilson & Co., suffered the loss of his
mother by death last Friday. She was
82 years of age and had borne fifteen
children, eight of whom are still liv-
ing. She and her husband, Cornelius
Osterveer, had resided at 239 Lagrave
street sixty-two years. The funeral
was held at the family residence Mon-
day.

Lloyd E. Smith, who has been con-
nected with the Valley City Milling
Co. for the past twenty-two vears, has
resigned as Secretary and Sales and
Advertising Manager, to take the posi-
tion of Vice-President and Sales Man-
ager of the J. F. Eesley Milling Co.,
Plainwell. He will remove from Grand
Rapids to Plainwell as soon as he can
get conveniently located. Mr. Smith’s
successor at the Valley City will be
Martin Vermaire, who has been con-
nected with the house for seventeen
years. He is a capable and energetic
young man. He has occupied succes-
sively the positions of office boy, ship-
ping clerk and road salesman.

William Judson has exchanged his
Packard for a new Stearns-Knight
sport sedan.

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Detroit—The Asbestone Co., 2030
Penobscot building, has been incor-
porated to manufacture and deal in
building material, with an authorized
capital stock of $24,000, of which
amount $12,240 has been subscribed
and paid in in property.

 

 

 

$450,000
Morris Friedman

First
(Closed) Mortgage
5% Gold Bonds

Dated January 1, 1926.
Due January 1, 1951.

TAX FREE TO
MICHIGAN HOLDERS

The Michigan Trust Com-
pany, Trustee, Grand
Rapids, Michigan

These bonds will be the per-
‘ sonal obligation of Mr. Mor-
ris Friedman and in addi-
tion will be secured by First
(closed) Mortgage upon land
and building owned in fee
located on Monroe Avenue
facing Campau Square, with
a total valuation of more
than twice the amount of
this issue.

Insurance of an amount and
character satisfactory to the
Trustee is carried on the

property covered by the 1
Mortgage securing this issue
of bonds.

Legal Investment for Mich-
igan Savings Banks.

PRICE 99% AND AC-
CRUED INTEREST
YIELDING OVER 5%

Howe, SNow
& BERTLES, INC.

 

 

Investment Securities
GRAND RAPIDS
NEW YORK CHICAGO ' DETROIT

 

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{ contained in above, while not

guaranteed has been obtain-
from sources’ we. believe to
be reliable.