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The Fool’s Prayer

The Royal feast was done. The King
Sought some new sport to banish care,
And to his jester cried, *‘Sir fool,
Kneel now and make for us a prayer.”

The jester doffed his cap and bells
And stood the mocking court before.

They could not see the bitter smile
Behind the painted grin he wore.

He bowed his head, and bent his knee
Upon the Monarch’s silken stool,

His pleading voice arose, ““O Lord,
Be merciful to me, a fool!

* "Tis not by guilt and onward sweep
Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay!
"Tis by our follies that so long
We hold the earth from heaven away.

‘‘These clumsy feet, still in the mire,
Go crushing blossoms without end;
These hard, well meaning hands we thrust
Among the heart-strings of a friend.

“The ill-timed truth we might have kept—
Who knows how sharp it pierced and stung?
The word we have not sense to say—
Who knows how grandly it had rung?

“Our faults no tenderness should ask;

The chastening stripes must cleanse them all;
But for our blunders, oh, in shame,

Before the eyes of heaven we fall.

“Earth bears no balsam for mistakes,
Men crown the knave and scourge the fool
That did their will. But thou, O Lord,

Be merciful to me, a fool!”

The room was hushed. In silence rose
The King, and sought his gardens cool,

And walked apart, and murmured low,
‘Be merciful to me, a fool!’

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largest. For the housewives of the Middle West know that nothing else protects
their preserves from mold and fermentation like an air tight seal of Parowax.

This year, the sale of Parowax is larger than ever before. Each year there is an in-
crease in the number of women who use this modern way of preventing their
preserves from spoiling.

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Sample copies 10 cents each.

Extra copies of current issues, 10 cents;
issues a month or more o}d, 15 cents;
issues a year or more old, 25 cents; issues
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Entered Sept. 23, 1883, at the Postoffice
of Grand Rapids as second class matter
under Act of March 3, 1879.

SUPPLIES OF COTTON.

As soon as the Government esti-
mate of the cotton crop was issued last
Monday it was taken for granted in
speculative circles that higher prices
were imperatively called for. The esti-
mate was based on conditions as of
Aug. 16 and showed a lowering from
the one issued a fortnight before. Still,
the outlook was not really so discour-
aging as some made it. In brief, the
Department of Agriculture figured on
a probable crop of 15,248,000 bales.
which is much above the average. With
good conditions, like those of last year,
a crop of 16,221,000 bales is possible,
while, under the most adverse circum-
stances, one of 14,800,000 bales is as-
sured. Now, even this minimum
would have been regarded as more
than satisfactory in any one of sev-
eral years preceding 1925. The effect
of a rise in the cotton quotations was
immediately shown in the goods mar-
ket. Gray goods went up in price,
though practically all of the business
done was for spot or nearby delivery.
Converters and printers are taking nq
chances because they are not assured
that the higher prices can be maintain-
ed. Certain finished fabrics, including
a standard line of muslins and denims,
by the principal producer of them,
were also advanced in price. A fea-
ture of the week was the opening of
some fine wash goods for Spring. The
effect of the rise in the raw material
has shown in the greater firmness of
prices of knit underwear, the sales of
which have not been up to the mark
thus far. Hosiery also is looking up.
Sales of knit goods generally are ex-
pected to be speeded up in the course
of the next fortnight.

—_—_—_—

QUESTION OF HONESTY.

In all the discussions for reducing
waste in the doing of business the
prevalence of certain customs or prac-
tices comes forward as a theme. The

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1

cancellation of orders and the unfair
return of goods are two of the prac-
tices most generally referred to be-
cause they are the ones that make
most of the trouble. To meet the evils
sellers have devised certain forms of
order blanks, intending thereby to bind
the buyer and making it possible to
sue the latter successfully if he fails
to keep his part of the agreement. Cer-
tain trade associations have also for-
mulated codes ‘of ethics intended to
govern dealings between manufactur-
ers and their customers. The rules
laid down are intended to regulate the
conduct of the members of the respec-
tive organizations. Up to date, how-
ever, there have been no organized
bodies of buyers which have agreed to
abide by the codes and rules estab-
lished by sellers, nor is there any
practical way to bring this about. In-
dividual buyers may be reached by
legal proceedings compelling them to
live up to their contracts, and a fur-
ther penalty may be inflicted by re-
fusing to deal with such as do not. lf
sellers in any one line would act in
this way they could control the situa-
tion, but such action would have to
be unanimous, something very difficult
to obtain in certain lines, more espec-
ially in women's wear, where compe-
tition is particularly keen and where
an unscrupulous buyer can frequently
play off one seller against another.
And yet it would seem there ought to
be no difficulty or hardship in asking
a buyer to stick to his word.. This
does not require any especially high
standard of conduct. All it implies is,
to paraphrase an old expression, mere-
ly common honesty “and that of the
commonest kind.”
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WOOLS AND WOOLENS. .

Little of moment occurred in the
wool markets during the past week.
No auction sales took place abroad and
none is scheduled until Sept. 14, when
the next series opens in London. Pri-
vate sales abroad are not on a large
scale, but such as have taken place
indicated a fair stability in prices. In
this country the mills have been buy-
ing their supplies as needed, with sell-
ers trying to maintain values. Dealers’
and growers’ pools are still holding
most of the supplies on hand. The
disposition of them will depend on tiie
quantity of orders received by the
mills, most of which have now opened
their men’s wear fabrics for spring.
Thus far the orders have been some-
what uneven, certain concerns having
done very well, while others have not,
Much more buying of the fabrics is
expected within the next few weeks,
within which manufacturing clothiers
will receive reports from the retailers.
Fall purchases by the latter have been
On a rather liberal scale. The weak

spot in the market is in regard to
The long-con-
tinued strikes of the garment workers
and of the New Jersey mill operatives
are hampering output of both cloth and
garments. In one way or another,

women’s wear fabrics.

however, there is a pretty fair output
of cloaks and suits, although this is
by roundabout

often accomplished

methods and private arrangements.
There is, in consequence, quite a stock
of these garments available to the
trade, mostly of the cheaper kinds.
A quick settlement of the garment
strike would at once result in an out-
burst of activity that would soon make
up for lost time. A few openings of
women’s fabrics for spring have taken
place, but most of them will be long
deferred.

FUTURE PRICE REDUCTIONS.

While the immediate future does
not hold out much prospect of any
general and marked change in the

 

prices of commodities, there appears
to be a conviction that the reduction
in these is only a matter of time. The
notion which prevailed for some time
that prices had got on a permairrently
higher plane is gradually being dis-
sipated because it is contrary to the
trend of the past fifty years, to go
back no further. Values of agricul-
tural products during and since the
war have reflected the ballooning of
land prices, which, it is felt, cannot
be maintained, though several meas-
ures presented to Congress for the re-
lief of grain farmers really had _ this
end in view. Food prices, it is regard-
ed as assured, cannot be sustained at
high levels in view of the fairly gen-
eral movement for the reduction of
wages in industrial occupations. So,
too, with rents, which have been raised
to record amounts by the excessive
cost of building construction due to
the feverish haste to make up for
stackness during the war period and
immediately thereafter. There are al-
ready signs of a reaction in this, al-
though the process of reduction may
be somewhat retarded by excessive lo-
cal taxation. In the manufacturing
field the increasing and more effective
use of automatic devices is tending to-
ward bringing about lowered produc-
tion costs and, consequently, lower
prices. The great problem here, as in
the case of other kinds of commodities.
is to cut down the cost of distribution.
This means the putting in operation of
new methods, a procedure that will
take some time. Taking all the cir-
cumstances into account, while there
seems a reasonable probability of a re-
turn to lower price levels, the process
promises to be a gradual one.
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Thousands must be slain to supply
a reason for putting up a monument
to one man.

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6 Number 2241

Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Aug. 31—Samuel R.
Evans (Renfro Bros. Co.) started to-
day on an automobile trip through
Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey and Massachusetts. He will
return via Canada. His wife accom-
panied him. He will be gone about
two months.

Frank S. Verbeck has closed his ho-
tel on Glen Lake and is spending this
week at the Hotel Chippewa, Manistee.

The importance of a salesman’s he-
lief in himself and in his goods is be-
ing constantly emphasized, as well as
the fact that such belief must not be
assumed, but must be thorough-going
and genuine. A salesmanager further
discusses this subject as follows:

“Before a salesman can rely on him-
self, before he can believe that he can
do it, actually believe it, not merely
run a bluff, he must get ready for the
test. He must put himself in the way
of learning, in the way of experiences
which will give him practice. Man’s
improvement comes quite largely from
within; so do his failures. A man’s
mind feeds on its own thoughts, but
those thoughts are determined very
largely by the will power of the man.
What he reads, what he sees, what he
listens to—all these determine the kind
of thoughts and the images, which in
turn determine the kind of salesman
he is. going to be. There is nothing
over which a salesman has more or
less control which will determine so
largely his success or failure. <A
simple decision to-day, a minor act
now, a careless thought harbored and
dwelt upon a few minutes to-day, and
the result is—your to-morrow’s char-
acter. Do vou believe you can do it?
Then rule out the ‘impossible’ from
your vocabulary. Don’t say ‘impos-
sible,’ it may be ‘probable,’ you can't
tell until you give it a fair trial. You
can't unless you think you can. You
will at least come the nearest doing it,
if vou will have full faith in yourself
and confidence in your ability.”

—_2-~.____

Grocers and Meat Dealers Picnic.

Kalamazoo, Aug. 31— Kalamazoo
grocers, butchers and employes and
families gathered last Thursday at Ra-
mona Park, Long Lake, for their an-
nual picnic. The wind-up in the even-
ing was a dance.

The sport program, directed by
Thomas Simmons, ran the entire day,
except for the hours devoted to din-
ner and supper in the grove.

The Battle Creek Grocers’ and
Butchers’ baseball team defeated the
Kalamazoo Allied Foods by a score
or 16 to 5.

Honors for being the oldest mer-
chant “in continuous business were
awarded to C. W. Drummond, John
Worthuis was the newest merchant in
the group. J. C. Wagner, wife, and
children, nine in all, was the largest
family on the picn?e grounds. Charles
Sweetland just headed John Dyke-
house by a half inch for the honors of
being the tallest visitor. Mrs. H. Cook
was voted the shortest. Gus Sim-
mons was the oldest bridegroom at the
park, and his son, Thomas J., the
newest bridegroom.

Clyde Whitcomb, the Portage street
grocer, was the general chairman in
charge of the picnic.

Among “new women,” it is encour-
aging to see how many of them are
actually old,

 

 

 

2
IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

Cheats and Swindles Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

A. E. Dorman, 435 South Park Ave.,
sends this department a let-
Jacobs, of Grand
states that he

Saginaw,
ter from Frank M.
Rapids, in which he
has. stopped sending out goods without
a signed order. If this statement is
true, it is probably due to the fact
that both State and Federal officials
have warned him that he has been
doing an illegal business and that he
has laid himself open to criminal
prosecution by sending out threatening
letters written under false
Notwithstanding Jacob’s promise that

pretenses.

business along
Dor-

he has ceased doing

criminal lines, our advice to Mr.
man was as follows:

Replying to your enquiry of recent
date I beg leave to state that I would
advise you to drop Jacobs a_ postal
card, stating that he can have the
goods back on payment of 50c; that
if the money does not reach you with-
in a week the goods will be thrown
away. That is the only way we can
ever get these tricksters to stop forc-
“ing their goods on people who do not
want them. For a time I was inclin-
ed to be a little more lenient with
these chaps, thinking the proposition
would wear itself out, but I now feel
that the only way it can be stopped
is to put the screws on—and to put
them on so hard that the shysters will
abandon the proposition in disgust.

 

We especially commend the meth-
od adopted by a Detroit subscriber of
the Tradesman to put a quietus on
the machinations of these crooks, as
set forth in the following letter:

Detroit, Aug. 27—I received five
handkerchiefs from the New Process
Co., of Warren, Pa., unsolicited and
unordered, and have been asked to
mail them one dollar. I wrote them
as per the enclosed copy.

The merchandise such as they sent
me could be purchased at any five and
ten cent store and one would secure
better material.

I shall wait thirty davs as indicated
in my letter and then destroy the
handkerchiefs or give them away to
some one of my truck drivers.

Dan G. McAfee.

Saginaw, Aug. 30—Saginaw  mer-
chants are warned by the Retail Mer-
chants’ division of the Board of Com-
merce against a sympathy scheme be-
worked to defraud them by a man
whose name is withheld.

The very simplicity of the racket
has contributed to its success. The
man introduces himself 2s an old em-
ploye of American Railway Express
Co. here, says he is in poor health and
that he is trying to raise money to
get to Denver where he will be better
able to recover. Any kindly mer-
chant who is deceived by the man’s
trustworthy appearance and lends a
sympathetic ear is liable to find him-
self a financial loser, the investigators
Say.

The affair became public after a
physician reported to the Retail Mer-
chants’ division that a patient who
described himself as heretofore stated,
said he had been sent to the physician
by an official of the express company.
The physician happened to know the
official was out of the city at the time.

No trace of the alleged swindler

has been found.
——_».-2.>____

No Color Declared To Be Absolutely
Fast.

If one-tenth of the guarantees on

fabrics and draperies claimed to be

fast to sunlight had to be made good

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

of far-reaching bankruptcies
would result, according to Herman
Blum, President of the Craftex Mills,
Philadelphia. Dyers and chemists are
unanimous in their opinion, says Mr.
Blum, that no dyeing material known
to science is absolutely fast to sun-
light for an indefinite period of time.

a series

Mr. Blum is seeking to stimulate
action to eliminate unlimited guaran-
tees on the color fastness of fabrics
which cannot be maintained, although
he says, are willing to

In a booklet
About Guaran-
which his con-

some makers,
make such guarantees.
entitled “The Truth

teed Sunfast Fabrics,”
cern is distributing, Mr.
the above statements and cites numer-
ous authorities to support his conten-

Blum makes

tions.

Among the authorities quoted is
Professor L. A. Olney of the Lowell
Textile School, who says, in part: “If
you were to call on me for any dyes
which would stand one year’s sunlight
without fading or changing color I do
not know that I could recommend any
single dye. Indanthrene blue would
come as near to these requirements as
anything, but I am certain that a full
year’s exposure to sunlight would
show some signs of changing even
with this dye.”

George K. Davis of the Government
Bureau of Standards of the Depart-
ment of Commerce is quoted as say-
ing the terms “unfadeable,” “guaran-
teed fadeless,” “absolutely sunfast”
and similar unqualified terms are un-

justified and should be abandoned.
The term “sunfast,” he says, is subject
to various interpretations. He recom-

mends “fast colors” in its place.

Mr. Davis goes on to suggest that
colors be classified into three grades.
The first is to comprise the highest
class colors that will stand unusual
light exposure. The second is of good
colors that will stand ordinary expos-
ure to light, without serious alteration
in color, while the last is composed of
colors of only fair light fastness. These
grades are to be defined by standard
fastness tests, to be determined by
trade associations and chemists of the
Department of Commerce, which could
be applied in a disputed case. He says
the department opposes the guaran-
teeing of a fabric for any length of

time, and proposes that the guarantee
be replaced by a statement that the
fabric has been dyed in colors belong-
ing to the first, second or third class
of fastness.

In his statement on the matter Mr.
Blum says: “The public at large, fail-
ing to understand the scientific possi-
bilities of color, do not wish to hear
of limitations or explanations that
colors will be fast ‘for a reasonable
time.’ Experience is fast teaching that
the impossible cannot be expected of
colors, and. that if good colors are
scientifically applied they will last
longer than cheap colors cheaply ap-
plied.

“Cheapness and volume production
are the greatest demands on the man-
ufacturer to-day. Just as it is unnec-
essary tO Span every stream with a
steel arched bridge, it would be equal-
ly unnecessary to dye all fabrics with
vat colors. With due consideration of
use, other colors may be used and
sold with just as much assurance.

“October industries, among them
automobiles and hosiery, have experi-
mented with guarantees only to
abandon them. The matter of color
fastness, however, is too strong a fad
at the present time for the drapery
industry to dispense with overnight.
The campaign now under way is said
to have won many converts, and it is
expected that some steps will be taken,
possibly with Government assistance,
to eliminate or confine guarantees
within a reasonable limit.”

_—_>>—-2.
Trends in Fall Novelty Jewelry.

An increasing demand for popular
priced noelty jewelry is reported by
wholesalers. The stores are actively
covering their early Fall needs and
the general expectation is that the
consumer demand for the remainder of
the year, particularly during the holi-
day period, will be brisk. Stone deco-
rations on bracelets, necklaces, vanity
cases and similar merchandise are the
outstanding feature of the new goods
being offered. Rhinestone and crystal
effects dominate so far, although there
is also some showing of articles in
which colored rather than white stones
are stressed. The use of the rhine-
stones, especially in merchandise for
evening, is lavish, the stones frequent-
ly covering almost the entire surface.

 

An insensible way
The things we desire;

 

 

The Fallacy of Wrath

Anger’s a potion that poisons the mind;

A harm-dealing weakness to which we're oft’ blind;
ior us to achieve

the things we believe.

Be tolerant, kind: hear thru to the end;

Treat differed opinions as though from a friend:
To listen in patience the other man’s
Enables you better to know what to do.

Yes, when you are tempted to fret and to snap,

At your own common sense you have taken a rap;
‘Cause the folk who are happy, respected and kind,
Heed only the best in the other man’s mind.

view

F, K. Glew.

 

 

September 1, 1926

Group Meetings Arranged By Dry
Goods Association.

Lansing, Aug. 31—Under Part 5 of
the Workmen’s Compensation Law of
Michigan as enacted and in force on
and after August 28, 1925 may be
found the law which provides for the
State Accident Fund. Recently we
have had some enquiries from some of
our members regarding this law and
in consultation with the manager of
the State Accident Fund we are told
that any merchant in this State who
desires to come under the provisions
of this law and place accident insur-
ance with the State can do this by
addressing his communication direct-
ly to W. T. Shaw, manager of the
State Accident Fund, Lansing.

This Bureau of the State govern-
ment is now under the direction of the
State Administrative Board and_ its
funds are well safeguarded. We
would be glad to supply any of our
members with copies of this law.
These laws are printed in small form
so that they can be mailed in an or-
dinary envelope. We believe our mer-
chants can save some money by using
this method of compensation insur-
ance.

We are making progress in our itin-
erary for group meetings and noon
luncheons. We give below the in-
completed schedule of meetings. Per-
sonal letters will be sent to members
in the areas where these meetings are
held so that the changes and correc-
tions which may be made will be ap-
parent to all. We are fortunate to
have the offer of Mr. Hardy’s services
for these meetings.

Tuesday, Aug. 31—Noon Lansing,
New Hotel Olds. Meeting of Board
of Directors of Association.

Tuesday, Sept. 7—Noon, Traverse
City, Country Club. Rotary and Ki-
wanis Club. Mr. Hardy.

Wednesday, Sept. 8—Six o'clock,
Traverse City, Whiting Hotel. Group

meeting—Mr. Hardy, Miss Case, Mr.
Mulrine.
Thursday, Sept. 9—Noon, Fremont,

Community Hotel. Chamber of Com-
merce. Mr. Hardy. Six o'clock, Fre-
mont, Community Hotel group meet-
ing. Mr. Hardy, Miss Case, Mr. Mul-
rine.

Friday, Sept. 10—Noon, Mount
Pleasant, Park Hotel. Rotary Club.
Mr. Hardy. Six o’clock, Midland, Dow

Group meet-
Hammond, Mr.

Chemical Works cafe.
ing. Mr. Hardy, Mr.
Mulrine.

Monday, Sept.
Creek, Post Tavern.
tary and Kiwanis Clubs. Mr. Hardy.

Tuesday, Sept. 14—Noon, Albion,
Parker Inn. Knockers and Boosters
Club. Mr. Hardy. Six o’clock, Albion
Parker Inn. Group meeting. Mr.
Hardy, Miss Case, Mr. Mulrine, Mr.
Toeller.

Wednesday, Sept.
mazoo, Kiwanis Club. Mr. Hardy.
Six o'clock, Benton Harbor, Hotel
Vincent. Group meeting. Mr. Hardy,
Miss Case, Mr. Mulrine.

J. R. Hammond,

Sec’y Mich. Retail Dry Goods Ass'n.

13—Noon, Battle
Merchants, Ro-

15—Noon, Kala-

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It’s a wonderful thing toe the women
The popular permanent wave,

Now it’s up to some struggling inventor
To get out a permanent shave,

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September 1, 1926

Late News From the Head of Lake
harlevoix.

Charlevoix, Aug. 31—Yesterday and
to-day the fifty-three insurance agents
who have been in convention at the
Inn for the past four days returned
to their homes in Illinois, Indiana,
Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee,
after having enjoyed a successful
sales meeting and the resort pleasures
of Charlevoix. These men, many of
whom had brought their families, were
taken for a drive to various places of
interest in the vicinity of Charlevoix.
At the Loeb farms, the motor caval-
cade stopped while the visitors were
taken through the great barns, the
dairy and the cheese factory. They
were then returned to the Inn in time
for luncheon, after which they were
invited to go for a sail on Lake Char-
levoix.

Through the untiring efforts of
“Uncle” George H. Van Pelt, who
has been known to this section as an
advocate of good roads for forty-three
vears, the three cities of Charlevoix
county have united in an effort to have
the road around Lake Charlevoix
paved with concrete. At a meeting
to be held in Charlevoix last night, a
committee composed of citizens from
the three cities, together with the
county road commissioners, framed a
resolution to be sent to Governor
Groesbeck, asking the State's aid on
certain portions of the road.

There are parts of the projected
highway on which, under the law, it
will be impossible for the State to
give aid. Because of this, at a meet-
ing held some time ago, the Charle-
voix County Good Concrete Roads
Association voted that it would be
necessary to invoke the authority of
the Covert act to finance the building.
Under this law, the most of the con-
struction costs are paid over a long
term of years by property owners who
receive the greatest benefits from the
road. There was some fear that this
feature would be objectionable to many
of the property owners involved: but
latterly sufficient favorable interest
has developed to warrant the measure
that was decided upon at the meeting
above named. It has been shown that
this fine drive would be a great asset
to the resort industry of the county;
that it will increase the values of the
lake lands it passes through; that it
can be built at a reduced figure be-
cause of the grading already done and
the accessibility of materials; and,
finally, that the saving in repairs which
must be yearly made on the present
gravel road will go far toward paying
ior the concrete road.

Another road project now under
consideration in Charlevoix is the re-
routing of State Highway M ]]
through the city, to take a consider-
able stretch of it along the shores of
Lake Charlevoix, which affords a
magnificent view. The Lindsay Park
Land Co. at one time expressed itself
as favorable toward the project to the
extent of deeding several of its lots
which would contribute to a broad
curve within the city.

Saturday, for the first time, golfers
were allowed to play all eighteen holes
of the new course of the Belvedere
Golf Club, just South of Charlevoix.
The club has spent $120,000 to bring
the course to its present condition and
there remains considerable work be-
fore the plans are completed. Mem-
bers who hail from many states and
Charlevoix people generally have
looked forward with interest to the
opening of this course, as its topo-
graphy promised facilities for the
keenest kind of golf. Those who have
played say that it meets the high ex-
pectations fully; and one Saint Louis
golfer told A. B. Scarborough, of Bon-
ham, Texas, who is president of the
club, that the new course equals their
best in Saint Louis. Golfers find it
a welcome relief to Charlevoix’s other
course, which is now often taxed to
capacity in the height of the resort

   
    
     
     
    
   
 
   
  
   
   
  
    

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beauty, the Belvedere course affords
magnificent views of Lake Michigan
and Lake Charlevoix, from the
grounds and from the club house. The
latter is a handsome frame building,
set high upon the hills South of the
city. It is in quaint English architec-
ture, built and equipped to the best
modern country club standards.

The season here is about over and
the merchants are displaying closing
out signs. Everything is being sold at
reduced rates and the bargain hunters
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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Alma—Miles & Son succeed Eichen-
berg & Co. in the grocery business.

Hastings—Herman & Herman suc-
ceed John G. Gould in the grocery
business.

Ashton—Roy Kanouse succeeds Lee
Duddles in the grocery and general
store business.

Frecland—Fire damaged the grain
elevator of the Cass City Grain Co. to
the extent of about $500.

Detroit—The Peninsular Chandelier
Co., 1450 Broadway, has increased its
capital stock from $24,000 to $50,000.

Detroit—The Bankers Trust Co. of
Detroit, 156 West Congress street, has
increased its capital stock from $500,-
000 to $1,000,000.

Battle Creek—The Calhouon Chev-
rolet Sales Co., 101 West Main street,
has changed its name to the Hartwick
Chevrolet Sales Co.

Detroit—The Riley-Draper Electric
Supply Co. 104 East Woodbridge
street, has changed its name to the
Draper-Priem Electric Supply Co.

Plainwell—Homer G. Brown has
sold his hardware stock to F. R. Rob-
erts, formerly connected with the hard-
ware business of Roberts Bros., of
Hopkins.

Saginaw—The Third Avenue Phar-
macy has been organized with an au-
thorized capital sock of $2,000 to en-
gage in the retail drug business at
800 North Third avenue.

Detroit—The Federal Coal Co., 9575
Avery avenue, has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$25,000, all of which has been subscrib-
ed and paid in in property.

Battle Creek—The Daniels Jewelry
Co., 24 West Main street, has been in-
corporated with an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in property.

Brown City—The Michigan Petro-
leum Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of 100,000
shares no par value, of which amount
$51,000 has been subscribed and paid
in in property.

Dearborn — The Dearborn Motor
Sales, 110 East Michigan avenue, has
been imcorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000, of which
amount $11,500 has been subscribed
and paid in in cash. :

Royal Oak—The Royal Finance Co.
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $50,000 preferred
and 500 shares at $1 per share, of
which amount $5,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Saginaw—The Home Dairy Co., 403
Genesee avenue, has purchased the
plants, etc., of the Innovation Daytime
Bakery, 405 Genesee avenue and will
consolidate the bakeries as soon as the
building can be remodeled and en-
larged.

Saginaw—The Lee Petroleum Co.,
1259 First Naional Bank building, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $100,000, of which
amount $40,000 has been subscribed
and paid in, $15,000 in cash and $25,000
in property.

Grand Rapids—The L. L. Tobacco
& Candy Co., 721 Broadway, has been
incorporated to sell candy, tobacco and

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

allied merchandise at retail with an
authorized capital stock of $25,000, of
which amount $4,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Grand Rapids—The Grand Rapids
Creamery Co., 305 Scribner avenue,
N. W., has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $60,000 pre-
ferred, and 50,000 shares of no-par val-
ue, Of which amuont 500 shares has
been subscribed and $15,000 paid in
in cash.

Jonesville—Charles G. White and
Richard S. Varnum have purchased the
controlling interest in the stock and
plant of the Carey Fixture Co., of
Coldwater and will remove the plant
to the building formerly occupied by
the Universal Body Co. and will con-
tinue the business here.

Ovid—W. J. Hathaway, who has
conducted a grocery store here for up-
wards of 30 years, has sold his stock
and store building to F. C. Harlow,
who for the past seven years has been
connected with the wholesale grocery
house of Whitfield, Walter & Dawson.
Mr. Harlow has taken possession and
will conduct the business under his own
name.

Holland—James Westra, who has
been connected with the Stein & Gris-
wold Co. department store, Allegan,
and Bert Mead, who has conducted a
dry goods store at Saugatuck, will
open a dry goods and ladies’ ready-to-
wear store in a new building erected
for them at 15 West Eighth street.
Both gentlemen have been very suc-
cessful in the merchandising business
and are capable and worthy.

Kalamazoo—Joseph D. Clement, 74,
for years active in the different inter-
ests which have brought about Kala-
mazoo’s growth, died at his residence,
122 Allen boulevard, Monday. His
death followed an illness of four weeks
brought on by a general breakdown,
it is reported. Mr. Clement was very
active in business circles during his
prime of life. He was one of the im-
portant factors in the development of
the cart and buckboard business in
this city, conducting a wholesale es-
tablishment and marketing the local
products all over the world. He was
also secretary of the Chamber of Com-
merce (Commercial Club) as_ then
known for several years, serving under
the presidency of J. J. Knight, John
A. Burke, Sr., and James Grant, re-
spectively. He was particularly inter-
ested in trade development, specializing
in the retail field. The funeral services
will be held Thursday from the resi-
dence. Dr. H. H. Gelston, of Ann
Arbor, formerly pastor of the First
Presbyterian church here, will officiate.
The services will be conducted by the
Peninsular Commandery of Knight
Templar. Burial will be in Mountain
Home.

Manufacturing Matters.

Marquette—The Olivine Co.
been incorporated to manufacture
greenstone for roofing, with an author-
ized capital stock of $25,000, of which
amount $1,000 has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Pontiac—The Safety Tire Pep-Valve
Co., 709 Pontiac Bank building, has

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been incorporated to manufacture and
sell auto accessories, with an author-
ized capital stock of $3,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Owosso—Edward W. Brown, prom-
inent manufacturer and church man,
is dead of heart disease. Brown was
manager and principal owner of the
Standard Machinery Co., manufacturer
of conveyor and sawmill machinery,
was chairman of the board of trustees
of the First Methodist Episcopal
church, and prominent in the activities
of the chamber of commerce.

2
Items From the Cloverland of Michi-

gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Aug. 31—The hot
spell has struck us this week. For
weeks we have been reading about
the hot weather in various parts of the
State and have enjoyed a comfortable
temperature, fanned by the lake breeze,
with cool nights which make sleep a
pleasure as well as a rest. The throng
of tourists coming here from all parts
of the U. S. helped us to appreciate
our summer climate and, as some ex-
pressed themselves, if we had this
weather for two months longer the
population would double in the North-
land.

It looks now as if our new proposed
$250,000 hotel will be a reality, as
over $200,000 has been subscribed by
our citizens. Ex-Gov. Chase S. Os-
born started the subscription by tak-
ing $50,000 of the bonds, while each
of our three banks are taking $25,000
each, which shows they have faith in
the proposition. Our tourist business
is rapidly increasing and the larger ho-
tel accommodations will mean much
added business during the summer.

A college professor says the aver-
ave woman's stock of words ‘is smaller
than the ordinary man’s, but, of course
the turnover is greater.

Mose Sugar, aged 71, for many
vears proprietor of a small grocery
at Brimley, died Saturday, Aug. 14, as
a result of tuberculosis. Mr. Sugar
was born in Russia and was a widower
without children. He lived in this
country for several years, residing first
in the Soo and later at Brimley, where
he was well known.

The Puritan creamery, which start-
ed in business only a few months ago
found that there was not enough busi-
ness for another creamery at present
and has sold its entire plant to the Soo
Creamery and Produce Co., which is
well established and doing a large
business and is able to care for all the
milk it can get.

How quickly a large family adjusts
itself to an increase in the breadwin-
ner’s income.

It was quite a shock to the many
friends of Ellis Mosier here and at
Drummond, where he lived so long,
to learn of his tragic death. which was
caused by the explosion of a pressure
gasoline tank at Saginaw, where he
was working during the summer.

Stanley Florence, a well-known
farmer at Brimley, had a fine crop of
strawberries this season, averaging as
large as twenty-three berries to the
quart. They are most luscious, but
he says there are others who have
just as large berries as he has.

 

Civilization will be saved, not by
democracy, not by idealism, not by the
league of nations, but by a sense of
humor. :

Drummond Island has taken on
some of the metropolitan airs. Stop
signs are now to be seen en route, also
a large new sign to go not faster than
10 miles per hour through the city.

Curtis celebrated Friday with the
annual barbecue and the yearly get-
together programme. A larges gath-
ering was in attendance and a good
time was had by all.

The Cameron Crest resort, located
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September 1, 1926

Lake shore, near Salt Point, has done
only a fair business this season. Mr.
Cameron, the proprietor, is conducting
the resort as a first-class place, al-
lowing no liquor, gambling or rough
element.. They have one of the best
dance halls in the locality. This js
the first year for Mr. Cameron and
the place was opened as a feeler to
see if enough people would patronize
the place conducted on this scale to
make the venture profitable. If not,
he may move back to Chicago, whence
he came. The distance will make
some difference, which must be con-
sidered, as there are so many other
nice places somewhat similar, such as
the Shallows, located on the shore
only four miles from here; also Rest
A While, two miles drive, besides the
Les Cheneaux Islands, of which there
are many. The latter appeal to the
tourist trade and the local trade is
not large enough to make them all as
profitable as they should be.

You never have a chance in
world unless you take one.

Leo Gardner, one of Manistique’s
merchants, was a visitor here last
week, this being his first visit to the
Soo. He expressed himself that he
saw more nice places and a livelier
place than he had looked for. He
also visited in the Canadian Soo.

William G. Tapert.
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Checks Under $1 Violate Old Law.’

Washington, Aug. 30—Any person
in the United States who writes a
check for less than $1, intending it to
circulate as money or to be used in
lieu of lawful money, feces a heavy
fine, a jail sentence or both. The re-
vised statutes contain this, which is
evaded every day by citizens and Gov-
ernment officials alike.

“No person shall make, issue, cir-
culate or pay out any note, check,
memorandum, token or other obliga-
tion for a less sum than one dollar.
intended to circulate as money.”

The average citizen paying a bill
by check does not intend his nego-
tiable paper to circulate as money, and
of course it does not, even if it passes
from hand to hand in time, and there-
fore does not wilfully violate the
Statute, it was stated, so no serious ef-
fort is being made to enforce the letter

of the law.
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Business Reported Generally Sound.

New York, Aug. 31—Although there
have been some irregularities in the
general trend of business, the results
for the past week show that trade and
industry are still maintaining the high
level of activity which has marked this
as a summer without precedent. Rains
throughout many sections and crop
uncertainties have offered some im-
pediment to Fall wholesale trade, and
retail trade has also slowed up very
slightly, but the rate of operation still
continues substantially above that of
last and former years, and evidences
continue to point to a record achieve-
ment in almost all lines this year.

Industry has noted several increases
in activity, notably in the automobile
and cotton industries. The steel mar-
kets continue exceptionally stable and
production has differed little through-
oat Aurust from the high record of
July.

this

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Bankrupts Get Rich Playing New
Swindle.

New York, Aug. 31—The New York
World says that legitimate business
concerns in the United States are de-
frauded each year of $250,000,600 by
a new scheme of crooked bankruptcies.

The “Racketeers” with money from
“Angels”—men who put up the small
capital needed—set up a business. A
man in charge known as “a front” pur-
chases on credit huge amounts of mer-
chandise; sells it to cash buyers or
“fences” at from 30 to 50 per cent. of
its value, then hides the cash and calm-
ly goes into bankruptcy. Little of the
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September 1, 1926

Essential Features of
Staples.
Sugar—Jobbers hold cane granu-
lated at 6.45c and beet granulated at
6%4c.

Tea—Holiday conditions are prac-
tically operative in the market for teas
this week, there being little in the shape
of new business. What buying is evi-
dent is in a small way only as the
consuming trades prefers to look on,
pending new price developments in
leading primary markets. What chang-
es there are at Colombo or Calcutta
are inconsequential, although at Lon-
don common Pekoe Indias are under-
stood to have shown a somewhat weak-
er undertone. Cables have comment-
ed at length on the fine quality of the
teas that have been offering in all of
the leading black tea markets. Busi-
ness is reported to have been done in
a small way in green teas (Ping Sueys)
but the tone of these is easier, as has
been anticipated. That the outlook for
a larger fail business is good is an
Opinion expressed in closely posted
circles,

the Grocery

Coffee—Despite a generally inactive
demand incident to seasonal summer
dullness, the cost of Brazilian coffees
remains substantially the same, Vari-
ous frost rumors have failed to move
the market in any particular, and from
this situation the trade gathers that
Brazil’s control is tighter than ever.
An interesting development of late has
been the freer offerings which have
been made for distant shipment by
Brazilian shippers. In this connection
it has been pointed out that Santos
snippers have encountered the great-
est difficulty in taking care of prompt
shipment on account of restricted re-
ceipts, which do not permit the coffee
to come down to the ports. In spite
of this situation, which has caused
some Brazilian planters to make big
sacrifices for later shipment, there is
no immediate outlook that receipts will
be increased, as the Defense Commit-
tee seems determined to maintain cof-
fee at least at present levels. Cables
were here from Santos to the effect
that the present crop might not exceed
9,000,000 to 9,500,000 bags, as the Aug-
ust flowering appeared to have been
far from satisfactory. Covering orders
for European account came into the
market in the closing days of last week,
strengthening values to some extent.
Following a recent decline in the Sep-
tember option, the futures market was
nearer to a spot basis than it had been
in weeks. Considering the close align-
ment of production and consumption
and the ease with which values are
being maintained in Brazil, some pre-
dict that the appearance of the usual
seasonable fall consumption demand
for coffee may bring about a higher
market.

Canned Fruits—California fruits re-
main about unchanged, the entire line
being firm, pears perhaps less than
other fruits. The wet weather has un-
doubtedly hurt crops.

Canned Vegetables—The tomato and
corn markets are on the lap of the
gods, as much depends on what can-
ners can salvage out of a reduced
acreage, bad weather and higher priced

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

raw material than expected. The can-
ner regards selling as a gamble, as he
might not be able to pack and deliver
at a profit at 80c for 2s and $1.20 for
3s which the large canners are now
quoting on tomatoes. If new pack is
worth more, at least potentially, than
a few weeks ago, so is carry over,
and that also is more firmly held. The
established canners are also more or
less out of the market. The pea pack
is over, but the output has not been
checked up any closer than estimates
of around 16,000,000 cases, which
means an ample supply. Fancy peas
can be had more readily than the lower
grades, in which there is’ more interest
than in other types.

Canned Fish—To-day's market is
chiefly affected by buying apathy and
a desire on the part of some packers
to do business. Red Alaska salmon
is an example. The market was first
quoted at $3 Coast, but it has steadily
declined to $2.50 and even $2.4714 will
buy goods. Lower prices have not
stimulated the demand, they have
merely checked it even though reds are
now back at a price which will put
them on the consumers’ table more
frequently. Pinks have been benefited
by consumer advertising. Even with
a good sized pack there will be no
surplus, as outlets are more than suf-
ficient to absorb pinks and chubs. Tuna
is wanted in white meat packs, and
like red, sour cherries, is one of the
sought-after items. There is also call
for the large counts of shrimp with
little available in any quarter. There
is also a selective demand for other
commodities which are scarce, but for
the general line of staples there is a
rush of buying orders.

Dried Fruits—Apparently the chief
mission of brokers in calling upon dried
fruit distributors is to keep them posted
aS to conditions at the source. When
they submit offerings and quotations
they receive little response as there is
only a limited interest in stocks at
the source. Too much irregularity in
prices of new crop California prunes
spoils that market, while there is no
incentive to buy peaches, apricots or
raisins for later shipment when earlier
purchases can be duplicated now at
lower costs. August has been a very
dull month, quite different from a year
ago or even June and July. However,
August is normally a quiet month, and
in the present instance the quietness is
more favorable than otherwise, since in
June and July there was no overbuying
for later uses. Liquidation has been
reducing stocks and compared with
other years, the local trade is under-
bought for the fall and early winter.
The least sign of encouragement in
the way of stability or advances in
values will doubtless tend to change
the policy of trading from its present
hand-to-mouth policy. Buyers have
frankly admitted that they have been

indifferent to offerings, but some sell-

ers have not taken the hint, but have
tried to force action by offering special
prices, inducements or _ inside deals,
some of which have a rather shady
appearance. The anxiety to sell has
been a boomerang and has scared off
traders,

Beans and Peas—The market for all
grades of dried beans has been very
dull during the past week, with noth-
ing more than steady and most things
easy. Green and Scotch peas are un-
changed and dull.

Cheese—A moderate demand is re-
ported for cheese during the past week,
with comparatively light offerings from
first hands, and a consequent steady
to firm market.

Molasses—There was comparatively
little change to report in the character
of the local market for molasses dur-
ing the past week. The cheaper grades
were meeting with some demand, but
the higher grades were more or less
neglected.

Nuts—Opening prices on California
almonds are expected this week—pos-
sibly to-day—to give brokers the
chance to submit them to their trade
and have their s. a. p. contracts acted
upon before the Labor Day and Jewish
holidays. The exchange handles the
bulkk of the crop and has already
booked a large volume of business sub-
jejct to confirmation when prices are
announced. The California almond
crop is large this season, early and of
good quality. Nonpareils are already
available on the spot. Walnuts in the
shell are closely sold up and are held
at ruling prices. The stocks of filberts
in sight for the coming season are
considerably lighter than a year ago
at this time. Considerable strength is
shown in shelled walnuts, but almonds
are uncertain.

Rice—The domestic rice market is
featureless as there is no sustained de-
mand for new crop and carryover has
been so shot to pieces that it is im-
possible to do anything more than a
nominal business. Spot prices are sus-
tained, more by shortages than by any
real demand.

Salt Fish—The continued warm
weather put a crimp in the demand
for mackerel and other salt fish, Prices
and the general situation is unchanged.

Provisions—The primary market for
hogs and hog products has had its
usual fluctuations during the week,
sometimes up and sometimes down.
Eastern jobbing prices on provisions,
however, have remained steady and
unchanged. The demand is very light.

Review of the Produce Market.

Apples—75c per bu. for Duchess and
Red Astrachans: $1 for Transparents.

Bananas—64%4@7c per lb.

Blackberries—$3 per 16 qt. crate.

Beets—$1 per bu.

Butter—The market is stronger and
higher. Jobbers sell fresh packed at
40c and prints at 42c. They pay 23c
for packing stock.

Cabbage—Home grown commands
$1.25 per bu.

Cantaloupes—Benton Harbor Osage
bring $3 for large crate and $2 for
small crate.

Carrots—Home grown, $1.25 per bu.

Cauliflower—Illinois, $2.25 per crate
of 9 to 14 heads.

Celery—Home grown brings 30@50c
per doz.

Cocoanuts—$1 per doz.

Cucumbers—75c per doz. for home
grown; $2 per bu.

Eggs—Local jobbers pay 32c¢ for

strictly fresh stock.

Egg Plant—$2 per doz. for Illinois
stock.

Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

Grape Fruit—$8 per case for Isle of
Pines stock.

Grapes—Calif. Malaga, $1.75: Tokay,
2.25 per crate.

Honey—25c for
strained.

comb; 25c for
Honey Dey Melons—$2.25 per crate

for either 6, 8, 9 or 12.
Lemons—Quotations are now as fol-

lows:

S00 Sunkist 0 $6.00
OOO Med Balbo 5.50
300 Red Ball 5.50

Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:

California Iceberg 4s, per bu. _.$7.75

“Garden grown leaf, per ba... 1.50

Onions—Home grown, $2.50 per 100
Ib. sack; Spanish, $2 per crate. The
crop of home grown promises to be
the largest ever known.

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Valencia are

now on the following
basis:
MO $6.00
a 6.00
1) ew ee 6.00
WO 6.00
C0) ee 6.00
210 ee 6.00
7 Lea ane SS NE 6.00
Oo 6.00
i 6.00

Sunkist Red Ball, 50c cheaper.
Peaches—IIlinois Elbertas fetch $2.50
per bu.
Pears—$3.25 per crate for Cal.; $2.50
per bu. for Early home grown.
Peppers—Green, 25c per doz.
Plums—$2.25 per crate for Cal.; $2.25
per bu. for Early home grown.
Potatoes—Home grown $1.25 per bu.
Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows this week:

feavy fowls 2200 23c
amet fete 20c
Springers 4 tbs. and UD 30¢
Sse 18@25c
Turkey (fancy) yOGnie 2. 39c
serkey (Old Toms) 32c
Ducks (White Pekins) __________ 26c
ONG ho. 5c

Raspberries—$3.50 for red and $3.25
for black—l6 gt. cases.

Radishes—20c for outdoor grown.

Spinach—$1 per bu. for
grown.

String Beans—$1.50 per climax bas-
ket,

Summer Squash—$1.50 per bu.

Tomatoes—Home grown, 75c for 10
lb. basket.

home

Veal Calves—Wilson & Company
pay as follows:
Maney 19@20c¢
COOGEE 18¢
Medtiny og 15c
Béoe) ce ee 12c

Water Melons—50@60c.

Wax Beans—$1.75 per bu.

Whortleberries—$3.50 per
crate,

16 qt.

—_+-.>____
Many a shoe merchant pays a good
round rent for his store premises and
totally forgets that nearly, if not quite,
half of the price is for his window
space.

 

 

 

6

Necessity of Inspection For Wayside
Stands.

Glen Lake, Aug. 31—Some weeks
zgo I made certain criticism on the
conduct of many of the so-called “way-
side inns” along the tourist routes in
Michigan, maintaining that in addition
to their not giving the public what
they had a right to expect at the
prices charged, many of them were
untidy and unsanitary.

Evidently it hit the bullseye, for
more recently I received a letter from
John I. Breck, director of the bureau
of foods and standards of the Michi-
gan Department of Agriculture, in
which he says:

“Referring to an article by you in
the Michigan Tradesman of July 28, I
have read the same with much inter-
est, especially that part pertaining to
roadside stands, eating places, etc. I
am enclosing to you herewith some
matter pertaining to these places.

“We now have an_ organization
sponsored by the State Horticultural
Society and this department for the
betterment of this service and for the
protection of tourists, resorters and
so forth, as well as that of the per-
manent hotels and restaurants.

“This is a voluntary membership on
the part of these operators. On sign-
ing an agreement, a copy of which I
am enclosing, their place is given a
thorough inspection by our inspectors.
{f it comes to our standard and they
are found to be complying strictly with
all our statutes and with these rules
and regulations, they are allowed a
placard 12 x 18 inches, bearing the
State seal.

“Frequent inspections will be made
of all these places and when and if
they are not living up to their agree-
ment and to all the laws. this card is
taken away from them. We have
something like 600 of these cards out
at the present time and more agree-
ments coming in almost daily.

“We are very much gratified at re-
ports coming in. The patrons of
these stands are already beginning to
differentiate between them and other
Stands not displaying these placards
on their place of business... Inspectors
report that conditions in all of them
are very much improved. We have
not yet had to resort to the removal
of any of these placards. We are very
glad to entertain complaints against
any of them and on receipt of same
will make immediate investigation and
inspection and if the complaint is well
founded we will not only remove the
card but make prosecution if indicated.

“Tam keeping your article on file
as testimony to the effect that strict
regulation of these places is neces-
sary.”

Mr. Breck speaks of enclosing some
special matter relative to this subject,
which by oversight did not come, but
I will be glad to have same.

The time will come in Michigan, as
it already has in many other states,
where some responsible bureaus or or-
ganizations will have to not only look
after these mushroom feeding places,
but many more tangible ones every-
where.

Lunch counters and other purvey-
ing establishments which are depend-
ing on the public for support must di-
vorce themselves from the notion that
the public comes but once, but that
there are so many people who must
eat that they may depend upon fresh
victims all the time. The authorities,
as a rule, are not in sympathy with
swindling devices, whether operated
by a grafter, notoriously so, or by an
individual who appeals to the digestive
tract.

For instance, the lowly sandwich,
as served at a lunch counter. If made
from proper materials, spread with
good butter, it may cost three cents.
Selling same at 10 cents, the customary
charge, it leaves a handsome profit.
How many sandwiches are buttered,
even in reputable places? Not one in
ten. Half a penny’s worth of butter,

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

properly spread, removes one from the
swindling class, and often brings a
repeat order. Is it worth while? I
should say so.

We all know that one-half of the
coffee product is wasted because only
one-half is really converted into good
coffee, the remainder being simply
“slop.” It is so easy to make good
coffee if you are interested in serving
same, and it, too, brings repeat orders
at a handsome profit, if prepared in a
palatable manner.

And pastry! The principal and best
seller in any lunch room, and its sale
could be trebled if tastily prepared.
But as a rule, it is not. Soggy, shyly
baked crust, and poor fillers combine
to make this great American dish a
delusion and a snare.

Prior to war days a quarter of a
number eight pie retailed approximate-
ly at a nickel, and it was usually
toothsome. Now the minimum charge
at any lunch counter is ten cents per
cut, six to a pie. An advance of 300
per cent. with an attendant deprecia-
tion at the same ratio.

Some Michigan cities are making an
inspection and appraising the merits
of lunch rooms. While they may not
be regulated unless they are so bad
that the board of health can interfere,
it has the effect of warning the public
just what they may expect, for they
are placarded on a per cent. basis of
excellence. Below 80 they retire from
the legitimate field and become
“joints.”

There are still a few towns folk in
Michigan who think their community
Should have a tourist camp, just to be
in style. They will have plenty of
time to think and talk it over before
the return of the summer pests, and
it might be well for them to have
cognizance of what the city of St.
Louis thinks of them, based upon an
experience of seven years.

In the smaller towns the business
interests were quicker to respond to
suggestions to the effect that their lo-
calities needed camps to care for the
visitors more badly than the larger
cities. However, some of the larger
towns of the country have tried the
camp experiment based purely on
merit.

St. Louis had set apart for motor
tourists one of the most attractive sec-
tions of beautiful Forest Park, nation-
ally known, at the instance of the local
automobile club. After a few seasons
of experimentation and of studying
those who took advantage of the
camp, a committee representing the
civic organizations asked the park
commission to discontinue the camp,
which they did promptly, based on the
reports of investigators who said:

“About 25 per cent. of the campers
in Forest Park are motor hoboes. We
have trouble in making them move
on. We had a police sergeant visit
the camp recently to oust a part that
had far outstayed the time lim‘+ and
a woman in the party pulled a gun on
him and told him to make himself
scarce. There was a recent epidemic
of some disease among the animals in
the zoo of Forest Park, and veterin-
aries declared the diseases had been
communicated by the dogs of tourist
campers.”

A. B. Riley expects to open a part
of his 750 room Savoy Hotel in De-
troit September 15, and the entire
house by October 1.

Murray Hall Hotel is one of the
newest in Detroit and will be man-
aged by H. A. Sage, who has made
a surprising record with the Hotel
Clifford, in that city, which he will
continue to manage. Mr. Sage is one
of Detroit’s “best bets’ and I have
watched his development into a real
boniface with much interest. He does
his stunt intelligently and tirelessly
and his record is one of many accomp-
lishments.

During the coming week the officers
of the Michigan Hotel Association
hope to be able to make a definite an-

nouncement of the exact date for the
State convention which will be held at
Hotel Harrington, Port Huron, some
time during September. In arranging
the dates of hotel conventions, it is
necessary to take into consideration
the ‘ates of similar meetings of adja-
cent states, the convention of the
American Hotel Association, at Chi-
cago, in September and local condi-
tions. President Anderson proposes
that the coming convention shall prove
a record breaker, particularly in the
way of accomplishment. His year Has
been one of the most successful in the
history of the Association, paarticularly
in the point of increase of membership,
as well as financially. From a treas-
ury deposit of $347 in 1924, the or-
ganization this year will come under
the wire with a surplus exceeding
$2,000 and an increased membership
of approximately seventy. In 1922
the Michigan Hotel Association had a
total enrollment of eight-one. At that
time the newly-elected president, Ed-
ward R. Swett, Hotel Occidental, Mus-
kegon, said to the writer that any or-
ganization which was not going for-
ward, was, in reality, retrograding.
During his administration fifty new
members came in, and there has been
a continuous growth ever since, until
now the roster shows 442 in good
Standing.

There are those in the Association
who claim that the organization is
too large and unwieldy, but such claim
is so extraordinary that it does not
seem to take with such as have had
much to do with the building up of
the organization. Every other State
hotel organization in the country is

September 1, 1926

Michigan State
Normal College

Opened in 1852

Educational Plant

Campus of 100 acres.

Ten buildings with modern equipment.

Training School, including Elementary
and High School Departments.

Certificates and Degrees

Life Certificates on Completion of
Two and Three Years’ Curricula.

A. B. and B. §S. (in Education) De-
grees on completion of Four Years’
Curriculum.

Special Curricula

Home Economics, Kindergarten, Phy-
sical Education, Public School Music,
Music and Drawing, Drawing and
Manual Arts, Commercial, Rural,
Agriculture, Special Education. :

Normal Coliege Conservatory of Music
offers courses in Voice, Piano, Organ
and Violin.

Fall Term Begins September 21, 1926.

Write for bulletin
C. P. STEIMLE, Registrar
YPSILANTI, MICHIGAN

 

Henry Smith Floral Co., Inc.

52 Monroe Ave.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
PHONES: Citizens 65178, Bell Main 1738

 

 

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We Have Orders to Buy:

500 Shares Alabastine Preferred.

500 Shares Alabastine Comomon.

200 Shares American Box Board Preferred.
100 Shares American Public Utilities Prior.
100 Shares Consumers Power Preferred.
1000 Shares G. R. Metalcraft Common.

100 Shares Globe Knitting Preferred.

100 Shares Globe Knitting Common.
200 Shares Worden Grocer Preferred.

100 Shares Wurzburg Preferred.
200 Shares American Seating Preferred.

Offerings Wanted of Any Local Bank Stocks.
We have Orders to Sell:

200 Shares Alabastine Common.

125 Shares Reynolds Roofing Preferred.
100 Shares Berkey & Gay Common,
100 Shares Berkey & Gay Preferred.
200 Shares G. R. Showcase Preferred.
100 Shares Hayes-Ionia Preferred.

200 Shares National Brass Common.
100 Shares Petoskey Cement Common.
200 Shares G.R. Railway Preferred.
200 Units Guaranty Bond Mortgage 7%.
150 Shares Hayes-Ionia Common.

 

Call Trading Department for Quotations.

Howe, Snow & Bertles

(Incorporated)

Investment Securities.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7

looking to Michigan, : adopting its The date fixed for sale is Sept. 7. The Gemial Cigar Co., Grand Rapids 6.38 Kelly Ice ream Co., Grand Rapids 198.48

methods, and hotel publications every- Soo ae cages _ the pe a of Perfect Picture Shop, Grand Rapids 52.92 Worden Grocer Co., Grand Rapids 9.94

where claim its career has been phe- Rapids, and appraised at $1,459.28 An Palmolive Ga, Chitaeo oe” 2, 380 Mich. Bell ‘Tel. Co., Grand Rapids 16:00
i ; 1d ais é $4,409.28. Ke SoM 57. sherrurg Products Co., Gri tap. i

nomenal. inventory is in the hands of the referee Hockschild Corp., Chicago —_______ 38.74 oN aaa Genus Rapids 21.50

Consequently, when President An- ®t Grand Rapids, and also in the hands  Parke-Davis Co., Detrowt 17.40 syboer stationary Co., Gri t. 69.28

: Pea a ne : a He} r stationary o., Grand RR. 69.28

derson wields the gavel at Port Huron 9 oward L. Boggs, trustee, Grand Rap- Ackerman Electric Co., Grand Rap. 6.20 Shaw News Co., Grand Rapids 55.57

he wall have th rae fk , ids. All interested should be present at Fuller Morrison Co., Chicago _ 8.50 G. H. PF. Cigar Co.. Detroit 45.78

I € € sa istaction oO now- the date and time of sale. The sale will Harry Meyrs, Grand Rapids ___.___ 7.35 Dr. R. Earle Smith, Grand Rapids 52.50

ing that he is presiding over the most be held at the office of the referee, 1225 Woodhouse Co., Grand Rapids ____ 28.21 Kent State Bank, Grand Rapids 72.00
thoroughl representative ‘ G. R. National Bank building. DeVelbis Atomizer Co., Toledo 23.11 7 a Pee ;

A We ¥ D Pe ody + Aug. 27. We have to-day received the American Druggist Syndicat Aug. 27. On this day was held the first

“ 5 é -day é erica ruggists Syndicate, ae wav at sa as ¢ . 7

America, made up of legitimate hotel schedules, order of reference and adjjudi- ae 0 43.37 mecting of creditors in the matter of

owners and operators—one only to a cation in the matter of George Finucan, eat j | ae Murray T. Kepler, Bankrupt No. 2961.

hotel—who have successfully carried er a 2991. The matter has been pan ay spe oe cnet = soe eens fey Acie OE

4 Z ikl referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in oe Masso PC RIOOE CR ROL RO oy is mC ALOE yy attorney Arthur i. Leck-

out programs of improvement in ser bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident Cc. C. Mitchell Co., Aurora, Th .. 12.06 ner. No creditors were present or repre-

vice and legislation not approached by of Grand Rapids, and his occupation is Toledo Pen Co., Toledo _...____. 22.72 sented. No claims were proved and al-

any other similar organization, the that of a druggist. The schedules show Bell Chemical Co. —-—____________ 5u 00 lowed. The bankrupt oo

he aera ok wae exminal i4os. tin assets of $3,700 with liabilities of $3,759.36. Armand Ca. Des Moines _ 9G 15 examined without a reporter. No trustee

East Michigan t in June bei but The first meeting of creditors will be Norwick Pharmacal Co., Chicago 82.72 was elected. The first meeting then ad-

& oot i one r oe oe called, and note of the same made herein. H. Van Eenenaam & Bros., Zeeland 14.69 journed without date and the case has

one of them. Frank S. Verbeck. The list of creditors of said bankrupt are Mclees Mfg. Co., Toledo _____..__.. 11.10 been closed and returned to the district

: : as follows: M. J. Dark & Sons, Grand Rapids 53.25 court as a case without assets.

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids é Blatz Brewing Co., Grand Rapids 2.90 In the matter of John C. Van Antwerp

' @ity of Grand Rapids. |... $254.36 Hollinger C a ‘re io 42 fJankr 2985 I ek aid f

G d I - ouinger Cutury Co., Fremont, Ohio 42.14 Bankrupt No. 2985, the first meeting of

Bankruptcy Court. Mrs. Millie Newell, Grand . Rapids 240.00 G. R. Calendar Co., Grand Rapids 6.25 creditors has been cailed for Sept. 13,

Grand Rapids, Aug. 24—We have to- ee ae Perkins Drug Co., ae Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo ee LoD the funds for the first meeting having

day received the schedules, order of ref- i — Rapids gop 7-o- a - ~~~ 2,857.85 A. L. Joyce Bot. Co., Grand Rapids 24.35 been received,

erence and adjudication in the matter of : q. Brooks & €o:; Grand Rapids 90.05 Miller Candy Co., Grand Rapids __ 2.3 In the matter of Simon La Vine, Bank-

John EB. Rupert and Adelbert Howard co- his os Grand Rapids es 46.48 Crystal Candy Co., Grand Rapids rupt No. 2988, the funds for the first

partners doing business as Twin City Wet viel a ae Rapids Soy 131.48 Bauer & Black, Chicago 2 Ss meeting have been received and such
Wash Laundry Co., and also individually, ay beach Cigar Co., Grand Rap. 76.48 Clause Shear Co., Detroit meeting has been called for Sept. 13.

Bankrupt No. 2989. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee
in bankruptcy. The bankrupts are lo-
cated at Benton Harbor. The schedules
show assets of $7,350, of which $4,200 is

claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
2,836.21. 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:
City of Benton Harbor __._____-- $ 29.54
Gus Roscher, Benton Harbor ____ 1,000.00
Michigan Fuel & Light Co., Benton
Harbor
Alden Spears Sons Co., Benton H.
Geo. Jantons & Sons, Columbus 235.64
Benton Harbor-St. Joe Light Co.,

Benton tarbor 38.23
C. H. Hammond, Benton Harbor 33.56
R. J. Laas Printing Co., Benton H. 12.50
Frank Noble, Benton Harbor __-. 49.52
B. H. Engine Works, Benton Har. 37.90
Brammell Supply Co., Benton Har. 13.66
Switt & Co... Chicago 2. 63.69

Brown Ice & Coal Co., Benton H. 268.85
Wing & Evans, Detroit
Proctor & Gamble, Detroit _
City of Benton Harbor i.
William Wallace, Benton Harbor 120.00

Messner Motor Co., Benton Harbor 21.94
Shaw & Co; Detroit 2.000 28.31
Lute Sinclair Co., Benton Harbor 7.30
Jacobson, Peterson & Kaufer,

south: Bend. ose 7.34
Benner Chemical Co., Chicago __._. 24.04
Sona Howard, Benton Harbor ___ 50.00

Aug. 25. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Charles C. Conn,
Bankrupt No. 2990. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Kalamazoo, and his occupation is that
of a laborer. The schedules shows assets
of $200 of which the full interest is claim-
ed as exempt, with liabilities of $1,677.55.
The court has written for funds, and
upon receipt of the same, the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called and note
of the same made herein. The list of
creditors of said bankrupt are as follows:

John DeWitt, Lansing ____________ $ 10.00
Kal. Land Co., Kalamazoo  ______ 190.00
Guy P. Wilson, Kalamazoo ____-- 450.00
Kal. Ice & Fuel Co., Kalamazoo __ 29.00
Dr, D. J. Scholten, Kalamazoo 165.00
Dr. A. S. Youngs, Kalamazoo __.. 25.00

Kal. Publishing Co., Kalamazoo _. 129.00

The Augustinian, Kalamazoo _____ 10.00
Garrisons News Agency, Kalamazoo 17.50
Smith Tire & Sup. Co., Kalamazoo 11.00
Pattison’s Auto Supply Co., Kala. 4.50
Wertzler Glass Co., Kalamazoo _. 4.55
Premier Printing Co., Kalamazoo 35.00
Paper City Press, Kalamazoo __-. 25.00
Halpert Tire Co., Kalamazoo _-. 6.00
Indiana Engraving Co., South Bend 11.50

E. Osborn, Kalamazoo
Z. M. Cushman, Kalamazoo
FE. Haines, Kalamazoo _....._.___' :
Lambooy Lable & Wrapper Co.,

  

Ratamaroo (2 26.00
Wagner Bros., Kalamazoo __._-___ 8.00
Union Clothing Co., Kalamazoo 9.00
Crane & Jackson, Kalamazoo __-. 2.00
L. V. White Co., Kalamazoo ___. 40.00
Fred J. Hotop, Kalamazoo ~~ _-__ 12.00
L. J. Everett, Kalamazoo __-.-___ 15.00
Dr. E. P. Wilbur, Kalamazoo __-. 40.00
South Side Battery Shop, Kala. 11.00
Douglas Battery Shop, Kalamazoo 8.50
Kal. Storage Co., Kalamazoo ___. 25.00
Ford Dealer News, New York __ 25.00

Irene P. Shields, Bay City ______ 144.00

In the matter of Hughart-Carson Lum-
ber Co., Bankrupt No. 2914, the trustee
has filed its first report and account and
a first dviidend of 5 per cent. has been
ordered paid to general creditors.

In the matter of A. G. Cusser, Bank-
rupt No. 2973, the trustee has reported
the receipt of an offer in the sum of
$1,800, from Ollie Henderson, of Grand
Rapids, for all of the stock in trade,
except consigned goods, including the ex-
emptions of the bankrupt, and all of the
right, title and interest of the estate
in and to the fixures of the business,

 

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INLAND WATERWAYS.
Inland waterways and the develop-
ment of American water powers are
two allied and interlaced problems
bound to bear more and more heavily

on the next Congress and its suc-
cessors. In his speech at Seattle on
Saturday Secretary Hoover stressed

the need for action on these two prob-
lems. They should, he insisted, be
merged in one “great national design”
which would include “modernization”
of navigation on the Mississippi, open-
ing a sea gate to the Atlantic from
the Great Lakes and the use of the
Ohio and Missouri, the Tennessee and
Cumberland, the Arkansas and the
Red and Rio Grande and the Columbia.
With the opening of these waterways
should come the harnessing of the
water powers in the Southern Alle-
ghenies, the Ozarks, the Cascades and

the Rocky Mountains. So far, such
developments have been piecemeal
projects.

Inland navigation and power de-

velopment are State as well as National
questions and must be dealt with by
the Federal as well as the State gov-
ernments. The Hoover suggestion is
that the Nation and the States pool
their common interest, stop wasting
money, sink local and regional con-
siderations and center on the great
engineering tasks necessary to make
this one vast and nation-wide under-
taking.

There is not much danger that de-
velopment will outrun the population
growth. In 1950 the United States is
expected to hold 40,000,000 more peo-
ple than it has to-day. By the end of
the next quarter century there should
be about 160,000,000 Americans with-
in the boundaries of the continental
United States.

Additional population requires addi-
tional power, foodstuffs and transpor-
tation. We can use all the power we
can get. By its use we have grown
great industrially. Irrigation projects
take years. By the time they are
ready population growth will be ab-
sorbing the yield from the watered
fields. The waterways will be badly
needed to supplement the more expen-
sive rail trunk systems, to lessen trans-
portation cost and give the Midlands
and the Mountain West a chance to
develop their industries.

The money necessary for these great
projects is available. Capital can be
put to work at home as well as in Eu-
rope.

Rivers always have been vital in
the history of the race. Civilizations
have depended upon them. Framing
a broad and national program for their
use must not be left to the politician
and the exploiter. It is a problem for
the best brains of the country, for its
broad-visioned financiers, its ablest
technicians and its greatest engineers.

LE RNELEEES

SCIENTIFIC SEA SERPENTS.

In our crude and unscientific days
the dull summer months were en-
livened by the discovery of sea ser-
pents. Even sea captains noted for
their sobriety frequently came to port
with weird tales of the monsters they
had seen cavorting a thousand miles
out. But we have outgrown that
childish nonsense. A sea serpent yarn

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

now would be received with a cynical
laugh. We get bigger thrills from the
discoveries of accredited scientists at
their annual meetings.

During this summer not a week has
passed without man, carrying
learned letters fore and aft his name,
startling us with a story of the terrible
future that lies just ahead. Recently a

some

noted scientist at Oxford, England,
proved that tie population of the
earth is increasing so rapidly that

there is grave danger of general star-
vation from our inability to increase
our food supply. On Sunday at Wil-
liamstown, Mass., a celebrated econom-
ist asserted that a number of Euro-
peans are beginning to fear that the
economic prosperity of the United
States will result in a huge system of
international economic peonage, where-
by the debtor nations of Europe will
be hopelessly dependent upon the
world’s creditor nation. It was point-
ed out that there are wise men over
there who believe that the United
States is aiming at the lordship of the
world by crippling the other nations
through collecting debts from them.

These views are
and presented in more scientific lang-
uage—than the old-time sea serpent
tales of sober mariners. Terrible as
they are, there is some little hope in
the discovery of another group of
scientists in England. There atten-
tion was called to the fact that two
decades ago the learned men of that
day had agreed that free trade would
be universally adopted, that gold
would be scarce, that coal would be
exhausted, that no abundant supply of
wheat could be raised in Canada, that
the wheat supply of the United States
would cease, but “that all the great
economic prophecies of the nineteenth
century have gone wrong.”

more startling—

Let us hope for the sake of poster-
ity that most of the direful things the
scientists are discovering will suffer
a similar fate.

 

CANNED FOODS CONDITIONS.

The public is off on vacations and
so are the buyers for many grocery
establishments. The latter may not
be out of town, but they are none the
less taking a vacation, since it must
be admitted that they are not func-
tioning as in normal years. Like a
patient on a diet, they are sustaining
the life of their establishment by tak-
ing some nourishment in the way of
pick-ups, but for substantial, well bal-
anced meals, they are not doing enough
to merit their titles.

In canned foods the average buyer
does not seem to care how many or
how few cans are filled, at what price
they are quoted or whether there will
be a famine or a surplus of merchan-
dise. His measure of the market is
the demand from the consumer and
from the retailer, and so far he has
not been convinced that buying ahead
is advisable. He has taken a one-
sided view of the law of supply and
demand and has been wholly concerned
with the prospective distributing out-
lets.

Unusual neglect of known require-
ments has had a noticeable effect upon
values, nullifying to a great extent

some of the bullish tendencies result-
ing from curtailed acreages, reduced
packs, because canners have little fu-
ture business booked up, the hazard of
even shorter packs than anticipated be-
cause of early frosts, unfavorable grow-
ing weather and heavy waste caused
by too much rain.

This has been a freak year from
start to finish, not only as to planting
and growing conditions, but also as to
attitude of buyers. The combined re-
sult has been to check production. The
smaller the pack the greater the over-
head, and when once the pack has
been completed and the weak canners
eliminated after they have marketed
their foods, the trade faces the pros-
pect of concentrated and lighter gen-
eral first hand holdings of canned
foods than in several years. What is
more, the underbought condition of the
largest distributing agencies means
more than the usual competition for
supplies whether it be concentrated in
a short buying period to absorb first
hand reserves or spread over the sea-
son.

 

 

PROTECT THE AMERICAN HEN

For a cheerful midsummer avoca-
tion the Tariff Commission has begun
an investigation into the relative cost
of producing eggs in this country and
in China. This is a proceeding under
the flexible provisions of the tariff law.
Somebody has thought, apparently,
that the American hen was not getting
a fair show and so has complained to
the Commission for the purpose of rec-
tifying things. It is safe to say, how-
ever, that no consumer in this country
has voiced the opinion that eggs are
too cheap. Eggs imported into the
United States come mainly from China.
Those imported in the shell are com-
paratively trivial in number, having
been only 275,892 dozen in the last
fiscal year as against 682,381 dozen in
the previous one. The exports of such
eggs, however, were 27,930,637 dozen
in 1925-6 and 25,106,741 dozen in the
preceding year. Imports are mainly
of whole eggs dried or frozen or of
yolks or whites dried or frozen. In
the statistics these are given in pounds.
Whole eggs dried, frozen, prepared or
preserved, came in during the last fis-
cal year to the amount of 8,132,169
pounds, yolks dried or frozen to the
amount of 11,666,704 pounds and. dried
egg albumen 4,490,162 pounds. Taken
altogether, the imports were scarcely
up to the exports, which would hardly
show any suffering in the industry.
They are altogether trivial when com-
pared with the egg production in this
country. This in 1919, the latest
year for which data are immediately
available, amounted to the great total
of 1,574,979,000 dozen from the great
farms alone, and the quantity has
doubtless increased much since. It will
be no small job for the Tariff Com-
mission to discover the cost of pro-
ducing these eggs, because such cost
varies greatly in different parts of this
country. When it comes to finding
out the production cost in China, the
quest will probably be hopeless. But
some kind of a report will be forth-
coming in due course, as it was in the
case of bob-white quail.

 

September 1, 1996

STRESSING OF QUALITY.

In pursuance of the movement to
encourage the sale of quality goods,
the director of one of the trade as-
sociations has been sending out a let-
ter to retailers explaining the merits
of the proposition and urging its gen-
eral adoption. This is a matter, how-
ever, in which the retailer can act only
as a kind of public adviser and he will
have to be governed greatly by cir-
If, for instance, his cus-
tomers are obliged to be economical
in their purchases, he will have to
stock up with goods that make a good
display for the price, and there are
few retailers who do not have to ap-
peal to such a class of purchasers. Still
there is much to be urged even to pa-
trons of this kind in favor of merito-
rious goods as against merely cheap
ones. The greater durability of quality
goods is one argument, and another is
the added satisfaction of having some-
thing which can be depended on. It
is a little unfortunate, however, ‘that
the first of these has not always the
force to carry conviction. For it must
be remembered that the so-called
“trading up’ movement is directed
mainly to the sale of women’s garments
and, as these are subject to such fre-
quent style changes, durability is not
an important factor. In fact, some
might be inclined to argue that they
do not want clothes which will out-
live the style. These, however, may be
a minority, while the majority may
prefer garments not only of proper
texture and appearance, but also of
good workmanship that will give satis-
faction in the wear. For those able
to afford it, the arguments in favor of
quality are all on one side.

BUSINESS CONDITIONS GOOD.

General conditions affecting busi-
ness prospects continue to be favor-
able. Contrary, also, to the situation
at this time a year ago, this is true of
all sections of the country. So far as
has been reported, there is no weak
spot in the mercantile structure wher-
ever situated. There is no longer any
doubt as to the buying capacity of the
farming population in the grain-grow-
ing sections, particularly in the great
Mississippi Valley, with the assurance
of large crops and the promise of sat-
isfactory prices both for grain and cat-
tle. The Pacific Coast States report
generally prosperous conditions and a
good outlook for business, some of
which is already under way. In the
East and South a similar situation pre-
vails, with better prospects in the in-
dustrial centers than was the case a
year ago. Michigan is especially fav-
ored, so far as crop conditions and
crop prices are concerned. While the
individual purchases have not been as
large in some instances as sellers
hoped for, the buying has been quite
extensive. After labor day the volume
of buying is expected to increase, es-
pecially on the part of retailers, who
have yet much to do in completing
their quotas. There is a possibility in
certain manufacturing lines that a
scarcity of wanted merchandise will de-
velop if retail sales show up well, and
this is likely to be accompanied by a
hurried demand that will force up
Prices. Another month will tell the
story.

cumstances.

 

 

 

September 1, 1926

OUT AROUND.

 

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

I planned to spend last week end
at Flint, covering the intermediate
towns along the Grand Trunk en route,
but when the thermometer shot up to
90 degrees Saturday morning I
promptly changed my plans and head-
ed for old Lake Michigan instead. I
never approach that wonderful body
of water and feel the cooling breezes
which come to us from that source
without being devoutly thankful that
I have enjoyed the blessed privilege
of living for fifty years within forty
miles of one of the most health giving
bodies of water in the world.

Our first stop was at Newaygo,
where we enjoyed the hospitality of
the landlord of the Valley Inn for a
few moments. The refreshment room
of this hostelry was the former bar
room of the old Courtright House,
which was the scene of many fierce
battles and fistic controversies in the
old days of lumber jacks and log run-
ners. It has been transformed into a
very inviting room and is one of the
most comfortable and well-ventilated
resting places I find anywhere in the
State.

My next stop was at Fremont, where
always find many congenial spirits
and meet many cordial greetings. If
there is one town in Michigan where
the business men pull together in man
fashion, that town is Fremont. No
matter what problem confronts the

town the business men stay by it until
it is solved—and solved right. They
built a community house. They built
a community hotel. Everything they
undertake to put across is handled in
a manner creditable to themselves and
their town. I have had frequent oc-
casion in the past to commend the re-
markable Fremont Spirit, which has

 

accomplished much in the face of ap-
parently discouraging circumstances.

If I were asked to designate the
leading citizen of Fremont I would
have to scratch my head and do some
pretty tall thinking, but if I were ask-
ed to select a typical citizen of a typi-
cal town I would immediately name
a man who, in my opinion, is entitled
to no small degree of credit for the
growth and prosperity of his home
town. That man is D. D. Alton, the
local druggist, who is first and fore-
most in every movement for the good
of the community, either morally or
materially. I have met him under
many different circumstances and he
has never failed to acquit himself in
a manner which inspires respect and
commendation. I don’t care whether
his activity is in his store, his church,
his lodge, his association or his com-
munity. I invariably find him right
nine times out of ten, which is more
than I can say for myself.

I was told that the Fremont Can-
ning Co. is having a very prosperous
season; that the output will be larger
than any other year in the history of
the company.

I was informed that Crandall &
Ensing had changed their minds about
engaging in the shoe business, having
reached the conclusion that they could
make all the money they are legiti-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

mately entitled to by confining their
activities to the furniture business.
One glance at their commodious
double store and the character, variety
and extent of the stock carried is suf-
ficient to vindicate the correctness of
their conclusion.

Some time I am going to bide a time
with the landlord of the local hotel
and absorb the bits of wisdom which
drop without malice aforethought from
I know he conducts a good
hotel, because I have never had a
whimper from any source concerning

his lips.

it, but to me the association of such
a man is worth quite as much as a
comfortable bed and an abundant
menu.

I had not visited Hesperia before in
five years. When I was there in 1921
Husband & Anderson were laying the
foundation of their new store, which
is now one of the most complete estab-
lishments of the kind in Western
Michigan. I do not know of a more
attractive hardware store anywhere.

Mills & Wright were very busy in
their well-established store and gave
every indication of prosperous condi-
tions.

McCallum Bros. have rounded out
thirty-one years in the corner store,
making them one of the oldest mer-
cantile concerns in the fruit belt.

Hesperia gained a National reputa-
tion some years ago as the inaugu-
rator of the famous Hesperia Move-
ment, which brought to the town
every winter hundreds of people—
many from long distances—to hear
the wonderful literary and musical
programmes prepared for their edifica-
tion and enjoyment. Such an under-
taking for an interior town eighteen
miles from a railroad was noteworthy
in many respects and brought Hes-
peria into the limelight all over the
country. I am told that the under-
taking is still repeated, in somewhat
modified form, every winter.

Rex Royal, of the Shelby Canning
Co., told me that Oceana county
would have the largest peach crore
she has harvested since 1921. The
apple crop will be the largest ever
known and probably more than half of
the early crop will rot on the ground.

Nearly all of the canneries in the
fruit belt have sold their cherry juice
in bulk to men who have diluted it
so heavily with water that the poor
devils who drink the weak solution
have been disgusted with the term
cherry cider. Next year they propose
to market it themselves in sealed pack-
ages bearing their own name and
address. 3y so doing they hope to
build up a reputation for an honest
product which has been pretty nearly
ruined by the scalpers and adulter-
ators.

It is pitiable to see the trash which
is being guzzled at the wavside stands
when the same caterers could just as
well handle wholesome products.
such as pure fruit juices, sweet milk.
sour milk and butter milk. Selling
such products would build up the
farms by inducing farmers to keep
more cows and plant more fruit trees
and berry bushes.

At Ludington I enjoyed a pleasant
chat with J. S. Stearns, who came to
Ludington to live while I was clerk-

ing in the general store of D. M. Mc-
Clellan, at Reed City. I told him I
made a trip to his city (then a small
settlement) on the first regular train
over the extension of the Flint & Pere
Marquette Railway from Reed City
to Ludington. That was in the fall of
1883, when the country roundabout
was a wilderness. Mr. Stearns stated
that his removal to Ludington was to
take a clerkship in the lumber office
of Mrs. E. B. Ford, who was under-
taking to conduct the two sawmills
left by her husband, who was the pro-
totype of Andrew Carnegie, having
established steel mills at Wyandotte,
Chicago and Milwaukee. He subse-
quently purchased a large tract of pine
timber near Ludington and erected
two large sawmills to convert the
timber into lumber. On the death of
Mr. Ford, the widow sent T. R.
Lyon and Mr. Stearns—both brothers-
in-law of hers—to Ludington to con-
tinue the business. Mr. Stearns’ sal-
ary at that time was $75 per month.
Lumber was very low in price in
those days. The principal market was
Chicago and the price was $7.25 per
thousand for mill run. It cost $1.25
per thousand to ship the lumber to
This left only $6
per thousand, which was only enough
to pay the cost of cutting and mar-

market by water.

keting, leaving nothing for the stump-
age. After three years of discourage-
ment, Mrs. Ford made desperate ef-
forts to dispose of the entire property
for $250,000, which was less than the
two mills had cost. Failing to find a
purchaser, she continued operations
The fourth year lumber advanced $1
per thousand and later other advances
took place. During the next fifteen
years she received $6,000,000 for prop
erty she had offered to dispose of for
$250,000. I do not imagine Mr. Stearns
worked very long at $75 per month
but during the time he was so em
ployed he imbibed a knowledge of the
lumber business which enabled him to
take high rank among the millionaire
lumbermen of Michigan before many
more years slipped away.

C. J. Peterson has conducted a gen
eral store at the South side of the
Pere Marquette river for fifteen years.
Prior to that time he was for twenty-
one years head sawyer in the Butters
sawmill. He has raised and educated
eight children, six of whom already
occupy responsible positions in De-
troit and elsewhere. Mr. Peterson
owns ten acres of land adjacent to his
store, on which he has installed a com-
fortable home, surrounded by mam-
moth willow trees. His wife produces
a wilderness of flowers. One of his
greatest assets is a flowing well which
delivers the same amount of water the
year round at an even temperature
winter and summer. Mr. Peterson has
lived a quiet life, but the world

S
better because of his having lived in it.
E. A. Stowe.
—__2-~<___
Is the Procession Turning About?
Is the procession of experimentation
about to turn about and march back-
ward again in the field of food distribu-
tion? Undoubtedly certain modifica-
tions are observable of late.
It is well known that chain stores
are gradually getting back on a ser-

9

vice basis, abandoning the fundament-
al of cash and carry.

On the other hand, retail grocers are
largely taking pattern from chain
store experience and adopting in some
measure their policies and “tricks of
the trade,” especially in the matter of
cooperative advertising and _ drive
sales.

And wholesale grocers are tying up
with their retail customers, forming
groups which are in all essentials like
chains.

Recently it was announced that the
cornerstone of the great Jewell Tea
to be

Co.’s_  policy-—peddling—was

abandoned in metropolitan territory
and the company’s goods sold through
retail grocers—even going to the ex

that the company

a

an assurance
would not seil in that territory direct
to consumers at all.

And now comes information that
Montgomery, Ward & Co. is beginning
to doubt the complete adequacy and
success of the mail order plan of sell
ing of which it is the shining planet
1

of demonstration.

Theodore F. Merseles, president of
he company, is quoted as saying that
the plan will virtually throw the com

tablishment of a chain
store system with branches in a thou-

pany into the es

sand or more country towns and vil
lages. The first step will be the open-
ing of a merchandise display room on
August 14 in Marysville, Kan. This
will be followed immediately with the
opening of similar establishments in
five other country hamlets.

‘The initial purpose is to effect a
direct personal contact with the cus-
tomer, which heretofore has never been
attempted,’ he is quoted as saying.
“Certainly the opportunity to talk with
our customers and get their criticisms
great benefit to our busi-
ness and materially improve our ser-
vice to our customers.”

—_—_»<--__

Moires Are in Active Demand.

Moires are in active demand in the
broad silk trade at present. suying
by retailers has been such that early
September delivery is the best that
can be promised by many wholesalers.
[In a season where few novelties are
being offered, aside from the tinsel
brocade and other metal fabrics. the

self decration afforded by the moire

process has proved popular, for the
‘ Se ca
early Fall at least. In addition, the

Parisian couturieres have sponsored

a big way” and this is

moires “in
ng reflection in the demand here.
the higher shades suitable
for both evening and street wear are

stressed.

 

>> —>—__.

Laces Being Bought For Fall.

Interest in laces for Fall is growing
and wholesalers here report a spurt in
buying activity. Metal laces are well
in the lead, the favored types being
old gold and silver in widths up to 36
inches in flouncings and allovers. The
better grades of Chantilly’s are also
being called for in edgings with bands
and galloons to match. Black, cream,
ecru and white are the wanted colors.
Colored Swiss novelties are said to be
taking well. These are made of very
fine floss silk and take the form of
applique floral motifs.

 

 

 

10

SHOE MARKET

GONE TO HIS REWARD.

 

 

Christian Bertsch Passes Away at
Ripe Age.

Christian Bertsch died at his home
last Wednesday after a lingering ill-
ness. If he had lived thirty-one days
longer he would have been 89 years of
age. The funeral was held at the
family residence Friday afternoon. In-
terment was in Oak Hill
Nephews of Mr. Bertsch acted as paul-

cemetery.

bearers. They were Arthur Ayers, C.
Harley Bertsch, George Hunt, John
Herold, J. A. Whitworth and Fred S.
Bertsch.

The honorary paulbearers were
James L. Hamilton, William H. An-
derson, John Wood Blodgett, L. Z.
Caukin, J. C. Bishop, David H. Brown,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

upon attaining his majority, he turned
his back upon his native State, and
came to Michigan in 1858. Holland
City was his objective point and where
he laid the foundation for the business
success which he subsequently achiev-
ed, if, indeed, the elements were not
already imbedded in the nature which
he inherited from his German ancestry.
He had already determined on his life
work, and, shortly after his arrival in
Holland, apprenticed himself to the
shoemaking trade, his employer being
E. Herold, father of Alonzo Herold,
of the city. Two years later he began
his career as a business man, having
been taken into partnership by his em-
ployer. The firm was in existence
only a few months, however, Mr.
3ertsch selling out to his partner in
1861. Holland did not afford him the
opportunity he craved and he deter-

 

 

 

 

Christian Bertsch,

H. M. Liesveld, E. A. Clements, E. A.
Stowe, E. D. Conger, Christian Gall-
meyer, Charles W. Garfield, T. W.
Strahan, John Murray and George M.
Ames.
3iographical.

Christian Bertsch first saw the light
of day on a farm in Crawford coun-
ty, Ohio, Sept. 17, 1837. His father
Was a native of the Province of Ba-
den, Germany, emigrating to Ameri-
ca over eighty years ago and _ set-
tling in the Buckeye State. As has
been, and is now, and always will be,
the case with country boys, Christian,
when old enough, was sent to the us-
ual country school, his spare time and
most of the summer months being
devoted to work on the farm. He
was not in love with farming, how-
ever, although always doing faithfully
and well the work assigned him, so,

mined to go elsewhere. Naturally, the
rising city of Grand Rapids, only a
few miles away, attracted his atten-
tion, for he saw—what others had
seen before him—that, with her natural
advantages, improved upon and ampli-
fied by the enterprising ingenuity of
her citizens, Grand Rapids would take
no mean place in the ranks of the
great manufacturing and commercial
centers of the country. For three
years after coming to the city he filled
the position of foreman for Cappon &
Bertsch (later the Cappon & Bertsch
Leather Co.), but having for some
years had a desire to see the “Golden
West,” in 1864 he resigned his posi-
tion with that firm and set out for
California. The West might be golden
to some, but it was not so to Mr.
Bertsch, for he returned to Grand
Rapids in a few months, fully con-

vinced that, for him, there was more
gold in Michigan than in California.
Shortly after his return he formed a
copartnership with F. Krekel under
the style of Krekel & Bertsch, em-
barking in the shoe business at the
location on Monroe street, now occu-
pied by the Houseman & Jones Cloth-
ing Co. This firm did business suc-
cessfully for six years, when the firms
of L. J. Rindge & Co., and, a little
later, Rindge, Bertsch & Co., came
into existence, the former doing a re-
tail and the latter a wholesale busi-
ness. Eight years later the two firms
were merged into Rindge, Bertsch &
Co., under which style it continuec
for fourteen years. In 1892 Mr.
Bertsch severed his connection with
that firm, Rindge, Kalmbach & Co..
purchasing his interest, and subse-
quently he organized the Herold-
Bertsch Shoe Co. with Christian
Bertsch as President and General
Manager; Alonzo Herold, Vice-Presi-
dent; George Medes, Secretary and
Albert Wetzel, Treasurer. This con-
nection was continual until June 20,
1912, when Mr. Bertsch sold his $120,-
000 stock holding in the Herold-
Bertsch Shoe Co. to Ferdinand L.
Riechel.

A continuous active interest of fifty-
four years in the shoe business gave
Mr. Bertsch a knowledge of details
possessed by few, which enabled him
to “grasp the situation” and to know
as if by intuition, the needs of the
trade and give to his customers such
goods as were “sellers.” His probity
and integrity were well known char-
acteristics and he possessed the con-
fidence of the trade to a remarkable
degree. His success was due to his
keen business sagacity and unswerv-
ing honesty. A cutomer once made
was a customer always. From his in-
timate knowledge of the business
gained from long experience, many
facts of an interesting nature were

gleaned. Mr. Bertsch made the fol-
lowing statement to the writer in
1912:

“Fifty years ago,” said he, “kip
calfskin and cowhide were the names
applied to the different grades of
leather used in the making of boots
and shoes. There were a few other
kinds, but these were the great leather
staples. Now their name is legion
every tanner having a name for each
grade of his product, and no two tan-
ners using the same names. Given

September 1, 1926

 

 

 

 

Fancy Shoe Laces

 

We have a complete stock
in rayon silk also braided

combinations.

Rayon Silk Per Gr. $6.75
Braided Combinations 2.75
myo
BEN KRAUSE

Company
20 S.lonia Ave.Grand Rapids,Mich.

 

 

 

 

Mr. Retailer

here is amanin

your town whose
shoe business you
can get. Heisa
young man. He
knows style. He
insists on it. He
buys more than
one pair. His name
is John Comer.

CO O_O

Our salesmen are
now showing the
new fall numbers —
right in style, price
and fit.

HEROLD-BERTSCH
SHOE COMPANY

Manufacturers Since 1892

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michigan Shoe Dealers

Mutual Fire Insurance Company
LANSING, MICHIGAN

PROMPT ADJUSTMENTS

Write
L. H. BAKER, Secy-Treas.
P. O. Box 549

LANSING, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

September 1, 1926

the name of the leather, the identity
of the maker is at once known. Fifty
years ago there were no counterfeits
——everything was called by its right
name. Now they are almost as nu-
merous as the kinds of leather. There
is this to say about counterfeiting
leather, however, it is merely applying
a name to a piece of goods to which it
has no right. The counterfeit is, gen-
erally, as good an article, in point of
quality, as the genuine. The reason
for counterfeiting is usually that it is
difficult to secure the hides and skins
from which the genuine leather is
made. For instance, about thirty-
three years ago kangaroo leather was
all the rage and so great was the de-
mand that the big skipper was almost
exterminated. As a result, and to re-
store the equilibrium between supply
and demand, which had been disturb-
ed by the scarcity of kangaroos, tan-
ners began to make kangaroo leather
from goat and sheepskins. Take cor
dovan, as another instance. This par-
ticular kind of leather was originally
made exclusively from horsehides, but
horsehides are comparatively scarce
and so recourse was had to cowhides
and now so good quality of cordovan
is made from those hides that only an
expert can tell the difference. Satin
calf and glove calf are now, also,
made from cowhide. The facility with
which any kind of leather can be
counterfeited is due, almost entirely,
to the introduction of machinery
which makes it possible to split and
resplit the hide and put on any kind
of finish required. Probably machin-
ery has worked a greater revolution
in the shoe trade than in any other of
the industrial trades, having brought
the price down fully one-half in the
last fifty years and almosts entirely
done away with the making of shoes
by hand. Nearly everybody wears
“store shoes” now, although a few
years ago the man who wore ready
made shoes was an object of pity and
was thought to be poor. At the time
I speak of buyers considered the ques-
tion of comfort, while now style gov-
erns: and a No. 6 foot is pushed into a

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

No. 3 shoe, regardless of consequences.
The growth of the rubber trade is an-
other notable feature. It forms now
fully 20 per cent. of our entire busi-
ness, while fifty years ago it was not
5 per cent., and it is constantly and
rapidly on the increase. The shoe
business is riot what it was some years
ago. There is not the money in it
there was formerly, while more capita}
is required and double the amount of
business must be done. Still, some
of us have been foolish enough to re-
main in the business.”
Mr. Bertsch did not look much like
a man who was dissatisfied with his
business, as he uttered the words last
quoted, and, if current report tells the
story correctly, he had little reason to
be. Beginning his husiness life with
a capital of $25, he slowly climbed the
ladder of success until he accumulated
a fortune estimated by his friends at

$500,000. No one ever intimated that
he did not deserve the success he
achieved.

Mr. Bertsch was a member of the
Masonic order, including the Knight
Templar degrees. He was for many
years Treasurer of Valley City Lodge,
No. 86. He was married in 1861 to
Miss Caroline Walter, of Crawford
county, Ohio, and resided in a beauti-
ful home at the corner of North
Lafayette avenue and Crescent street.

Personally, Mr. Bertsch was one of
the most unassuming men in the city.
Whatever he did and whatever he ac-
quired were due altogether to quiet
persistence and patient industry,
coupled with sterling integrity and
oneness of purpose. He never made
any short cuts to position or fortune
and no one ever heard him boast of
his success influence to
oppress those less fortunate than him-
self. Although his benefactions were
seldom chronicled by the public prints,
he was a liberal contributor to church
and charity work along several lines
and many less fortunate than himself
received substantial assurances of the
bigness and broadness of his heart.
He never knowingly wronged any
man, woman or child. He never

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canned fruits, vegetables and food specialties

Salmon is specifically adver-
product has the quality that

It’s always that fine, red salmon that
discriminating buyers prefer—rich jn oil, even in texture, un-

failed to keep his word good. He
never uttered a word which left a sting.
He never indulged in sarcasm o: in-
vective. Gentle as a child, the daily
life of Christian Bertsch afforded
ample text for a sermon which he who
runs may read.- E. A. Stowe.

—_————-P-— —

Lull in Rubber Footwear Sales.

There is a lull in rubber footwear
sales, pending the opening of Spring
lines soon after Sept. 5. Prices on
rubber-soled canvas footwear are ex-
pected to show a reduction, Owing to
the prevailing weakness in both rub-
ber and canvas prices. Manufacturers
say that there is little likelihood of a
reduction in Fall rubber footwear un-
til December or January. Meanwhile,
retailers’ orders for these goods are
going forward, and manufacturers ex-
pect active reordering later, for they
say that the light stocks being car-
ried would be quickly swept away by
the first snowstorm.

—_~2+--._____
Travel and Sports Coats.

Travel and sports coats are avail-
able in increasing quantities, and re.
tailers are having little or no trouble
in meeting their needs in this direction
Most of the garments feature fabrics
of novelty pattern and are fur-trimmed’
A number of them are also fur-lined.
Much of the recent demand has been
for garments for misses who wii
shortly return to school and college
The supply of better grade “dressy”
coats is slowly growing larger, al-
though, with attempts at arbitration of
the labor issues rejected, great diffi-
culty in getting deliveries when retail,
ers really need the goods looms ahead

————~+-.__

Active Demand For Junior Coats.

The demand for junior girls’ Fal!
coats continues active. Retailers arc
pressing for deliveries, owing to the
necessity of having much of the mer-
chandise in stock in time for the buy-
ing by consumers before the schools
Both “dressy” and sports coats
are wanted, with the emphasis at
resent more on the latter kind which
are suitable for everyday wear. Stocks
of garments in the market are not

open.

 

11

large and deliveries are being made a;
rapidly as possible considering the dis-
turbed production
industry.

conditions in tha

——_»- __

Children’s Knit Goods Selling.

Substantial orders for children’s knit
outerwear are being received by man-
ufacturers. Four-piece novelty suits are
in brisk demand and emphasis seem:
to have shifted from the staple low
end which retailers
heavily in former seasons.

goods bought
Sets to re-
tail at $15, in jacquard patterns out
side and brushed wool inside, are the
type of goods which are now being
bought freely. Lumberjack skatin-
sets for boys and girls from 2 to ¢
years of age are also in demand. The
latter sets are composed of scarf, tam,
mittens and lumberjack.

There is more of truth than jestina
British professor's remark that. there
are too many books in the world. This
excess of printed matter would cause
no particular trouble if it were not for
the libraries. Readers may turn from
one new book to another, discarding
any volume more than three months
old, but a library is apt to feel that it
must continue to give room to any
book that has ever found its way toa
shelf. The problem has become acute
at the Bodleian, which is in urgent
need of enlargement. In their hearts
the authorities would like to see a huge
bonfire made of a few tons of the vol-
umes which they must profess to prize.
It is a pity that such a bonfire cannot
be arranged, for the books they have
in mind are duplicates of books to be
found in the British Museum—not rare
volumes, but accumulations which owe
their existence to a law providing for
the deposit of copies of every copy-
righted hook as it appears. Our Li-
brary of Congress is the same kind of
omnium gatherum. One such library
in a country is enough. All other li-
braries ought to be winnowed con-

tinually.
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A merchant has this slogan in his
window: “Don’t Pass Us—Buy!” Not

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September 1, 1926

 

12
FINANCIAL Company, and a railroad authority ot
— OO —C“‘e OE, GAS 3 Dart Of The sate situa
Carriers Expected To Fight For tion:
Higher Valuations. “The significance of prospective
With the railroads of the country higher valuations lies in the fact that,

reflecting in their earnings statements
the greatest prosperity they have en-
joyed the war, the question
naturally arises how long will they be
allowed to reap the rewards of their
industry and economy. Will there be
a general clamor for rate reductions
in the next session of Congress, and,
if so, how will the political element

since

react to it?

A rate of return of 534 per cent. on
their valuations, as determined by the
Interstate Commerce Commission has
been fixed by law as reasonable. They
may earn 6 per cent. without being
obliged to share their returns, as pro-
vided in the recapture clause of the
Transportation act.

Net railway operating income for
the first six months of this year was
at the rate of 5.57 per cent. on the ag-

gregate tentative valuation of the
carriers, seasonal variations being
taken into consideration. In June,

however, they earned at the rate of
6.18 per cent. This means that if
business in the last half of the year
continues at the proportionate
pace as established in the first
six months the rate of return will be
5.57 per cent.; but if the June stride
is maintained the rate is likely to be
nearer 5.75 per cent.

It is generally agreed that the car-
riers could handle a much larger vol-
ume of freight with their present
facilities. It is also agreed that they
will be able in the future to cut main-
tenance costs materially in view of the
huge amounts they have been spend-
ing in recent years to bring their
physical properties up to first-class
condition. Therefore, it would not
seem unreasonable to believe that they
may be approaching the time when
they will equal or perhaps surpass in
earnings the 534 or 6 per cent. rate,
which has heretofore been used as a
measuring stick.

The railroads not
freight rate reduction without
gle.

same
Was

will accept a
a strug-
In fact, there are many compe-
authorities who declare at-
tempt to force a cut in rates will jim-
mediately result in the whole question
being thrown into the courts.

The tentative valuations of the car-
riers were based on pre-war prices and
have been accepted by roads operat-
ing less than 5 per cent. of the mile-
age of the country. Inasmuch as
present-day price levels appear to be
fairly well stabilized, it seem
that the transportation companies
would have a strong case if the ques-
tion were ever aired in the courts.

tent any

would

Another factor that should play an
important part in warding against a
reduction in freight rates is the fact
that the general public understands
the problems of the railroads better
to-day than ever before. It is also un-
likely that shippers have any desire to
see the transportation structure of the
Nation suffer through insufficient
financial support and perhaps run the
risk of inefficient service such as was
experienced a few years back.

J. R. Warner of the Bankers’ Trust

under the present pre-war valuations,
a large part of any material increase
not only would be re-
the Government but an
increase in itself
tempt the commission to reduce rates.

in earnings
captured by
earnings would in

“Assuming materially higher valua-
tions, it is not unreasonable to expect
that the roads will be in a position to
contest successfully any arbitrary at-
tempt to absorb, through rate de-
creases or other means, the benefits
from constantly increasing traffic and
improved methods of handling it.”

[Copyrighted, 1926.]
—_»-~—___
Output of Motor Cars Barometer of
General Trade.

In spite of the further reduction of
motor output last month, the
number of passenger cars produced in
the first seven months of this year is
substantially in excess of the total for
the corresponding period of 1925 and
operations are curtailed more

Car

unless

rapidly than is now indicated the
figures for the twelve months of 1926
sheuld compare favorably with last
year's.

Because of its widespread effect on
general business, the automotive in-
dustry is closely watched for an in-
dication of future trade developments.
Prosperity in motor car manufacture
and in the building construction field,
resulting in a heavy demand for steel
products and in a record-breaking vol-
ume of freight traffic, has formed the
basis for this country’s good business
in the last two years. These factors,
therefore, have supplied the incentive
for advances in stock prices to the
highest levels in history.

For this reason speculators in secur-
ities as well as business men in com-
mercial fields study with interest the
trend in motor car production and in
building. The volume of construction
work has shown a tendency to decline
recently, while automobile output in
June and July was below last year’s
figures. Although the value of new
construction this year may not reach
the 1925 total, there is a good chance
that the motor car industry will con-
tribute its share toward a prosperous
year.

Figures compiled to-day by the De-
partment of Commerce show that in
the first seven months of this year
motor car production in this country
set a new record with 2,386,251 pas-
senger cars and 294,066 trucks, al-
though July output of passenger cars
was the second smallest month of the
year, falling below the February total.

Greater production this year is ac-
counted for in part by an increased
foreign demand, exports in the first
half of the year having expanded 7
per cent. Since this field has scarcely
been touched, there is every reason to
believe that shipments of American
motor cars will steadily increase, thus
taking up the expected slackening in
domestic consumption. With the
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tend to increase even though new pur-
chasers become fewer.

The demand for motor cars for re-
placements in the last several years
has been larger than is generally be-
lieved, according to the Harvard Busi-
ness Review, which points out that
the figures can be accurately measur-
ed by statistics on registration and
production. It is learned, for in-
stance, that elimination of passenger
cars in the period from 1910 to 1914
amounted to 304,879, while ten years
later the figure had increased to 4,-
324,842.

A study of the statistics permits ex-
perts to arrive at a mortality rate for
the future by which replacements can
be estimated in years to come. It is
estimated, on this basis, that fewer
than 1,000,000 new buyers will be re-
quired in 1930, with exports at only
200,000 cars, to give the country a
production of 4,000,000 passenger au-
tomobiles, a figure substantially in ex-
cess of the current rate of production.

Normal elimination for 1930 is es-
timated a 2,885,000 cars, and this figure
is expected to increase steadily.

The automobile industry will con-
tribute its share to American pros-
perity.

[Copyrighted, 1926.]

————-
Old Timers Look For Rail Share
Market.

Revival of the old-fashioned rail-
road markets of two decades ago is in
prospect within the next several
months in the opinion of several mar-
ket observers. Those taking this
view say the industrial shares as a
group have reached their peak, but that
favorable factors in store for the car-
riers will lift values sharply.

Developments expected to take place
in the near future that should stimu-
late the demand for railroad stocks
include the prospect of larger earnings
from crop movements in the agricul-
tural districts of the West, further
progress in merger negotiations, seg-
regation of coal or oil properties and
melon cutting.

Several of the more prosperous car-
riers probably will give consideration
to stock dividends to capitalize im-
provements and to save their sur-
pluses, it is contended, so that they
may earn the legal 6 per cent. return
on the increased capitalization before
being compelled to yield a part of
their income to the Government un-
der the terms of the Transportation
Act.

Moreover, as a result of the general
improvement in railroads prices of
their stocks have advanaced and the
value of holdings of such companies
as Union Pacific, for instance, has ex-
panded greatly. After many lean
years, therefore, the time appears to
be approaching when rewards for
stockholders in this group may be ex-
pected.

Most of the Northwestern roads
look for decidedly better business
through the remainder of the year with
bountiful crops to carry to market. If
prices of grain improve, as some ob-
servers expect, yielding farmers a
satisfactory return, the railroads will
be called upon to carry back to rural

sections the products from manufac-
turing centers.

Adjustments of the new Nickel
Plate merger negotiations are expected
to be accomplished this winter and
other plans doubtlessly will come into
the light when the Van Sweringens
receive approval of their project from
the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Segregation of the Delaware & Hud-
transportation properties from
the present company will probably be
approved at the stock holders’ meet-
ing in October. This may pave the
way for similar developments in the
case of other roads. The Lehigh Val-
ley, for instance, still has to dispose
of Coxe Brothers.

Baltimore & Ohio must dispose of
its Reading “rights” by the end of the
year unless another extension is grant-
ed. Other roads hold valuable coal,
timber or oil properties which are
steadily mounting in value.

The possibility of stock dividends
or offerings of additional stock to
shareholders on favorable terms, giv-
ing holders rewards in the form of
“rights,” therefore, has attracted a
considerable following from industria!
shares to rails in the last week or two
commission house obserers insist.

[Copyrighted, 1926.]

son’s

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Leading Hues in Fall Coatings.

Owing to the disturbed status of
cloth coat production during the
strike, the question of outstanding
shades in the better grade coatings for
Fall is not so far advanced toward an
answer as is usual at this time. Aside
from black, a perennial favorite, there
is said to be no single shade that dom-
inates. Attention so far is centered
rather on a number of colors. Among
these the best are said to be twilight
blue, red beech, shellbark, Autumn
rose, willow green, Japanese ivy, win-
ter oak and silver maple. The red
tones generally continue to occupy a
strong position.

—_++-___

Women’s Fall Neckwear Selling.

Scarfs as an item in women’s Fall
neckwear are beginning to come into
demand, according to a bulletin of the
United Neckwear League of America.
Meanwhile, all kinds of sets and yard
goods are moving well. There are
calls for lace and net collar-and-cuff
sets which are staple the year around,
as well as for ruffling. Many of the
sets show jabots, which promise to be
a feature of the Fall goods. Large
scarfs of satin and metal cloth, which
simulate evening wraps, are meeting
with favor, as are the ostrich chokers
which registered so strongly abroad
this summer.

—_+--___
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is to be seen in the increase in sales
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continue during the Fall. Many travel-
ers, they say, prefer to use two kit
bags instead of a small trunk, the
transportation of which they regard as
more troublesome. The 22 inch cow-
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best selling variety, although there is
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Hero Worship Gone Wrong to the
Nth Degree.

Grandville, Aug. 21—These were
immortal names which were not born
to die.

Within a space of twenty-four hours
three prominent men passed from
earth into the Great Beyond, men
whose names were on the lips of mil-
lions of people.

Charles W. Eliot, president emer-
itus of Harvard, one of the ripest
scholars of his time, stepped across
the boundary separating time from
eternity on August 22. Senator Bert
M. Fernald, of Maine, followed the
illustrious scholar within a few hours,
two of America’s prominent citizens.

Contemporary with the senator an
Italian youth of less than 30 years
succumbed to the great destroyer.
Three men of unquestioned fame, one
born under the sunny skies of Italy,
the other citizens of the great Repub-
lic.

Dying at thirty, Rudolph Valentino
was missed by a larger number of
people than either of those others who
had lived long lives and won renown
in their respective lines of work.

Valentino, denominated a “Sheik,”
won his way to fame and fortune by
the way of the moving picture films.
His exquisite manner of kissing his
many sweethearts of the stage electri-
fied the younger generation so that
he was considered the greatest love-
maker of his time.

In three years Valentino became
famous while the learned men who
passed on with him fought their way
to the front through as many
decades.

Part of a single column was suffi-
cient to let the world know that the
great Harvard educator had passed on
A whole page was consumed in the
telling of the Italian boy's death, and
page-wide headlines announced the
event. One newspaper has already
bevun the autobiography of the screen
king to cover pages of its daily edi-
tion while Eliot and Fernald have
gone into forgotten solitude.

Doubtless the story of Valentino is
known to more people in the world
to-day than that of George Washing-
ton.

Enduring fame is something that
falls to the lot of very few in this
world of ours.

“Hundred hurt in riot around bier
of Sheik~ Such headlines announce
the great crush to see the remains of
the dead Italian boy. No such dem-
onstration to look upon the face of
an educational master and a dead
statesman.

The boy Rudolph was in some re-
spects a wonderful youth, and yet it
seems strange that people, sensible in
other respects, should create a scene
of mob violence at his bierside.

In many respects we are an erratic
people and screendom to-day has a
stronger hold on the public heart than
either church or state.

Despite his paucity of years Valen-
tino it is said was soon to wed his
third wife. Domestic felicity did not
seem to camp with him at home.

Judging from the great public out-
pouring to see the dead screen idol
one may be impressed to think that
what was once considered vanity and
vexation of spirit is to-day the high
tide of public acceptance.

College presidents and U. S. sena-
tors may come and go, a mere pass-
ing figment of a dream, but screen
idolatry goes on forever.

However, what is the craze and
rapture of to-day may be the despised
laughing stock of a future generation,
in which time the real men and women
who have accomplished something
worth while for their country will
come into their own.

There are a certain class of news-
papers that cater to the lower natures
of the human family. Such publica-
tions sell millions of copies of their
ill-smelling sheets because of the way
they illustrate the life of an under

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

world which appeals to man’s lower
instincts.

Great scholarship is worthy of com-
mendation. Statesmanship which lends
charity for all, and a truthful effort
to produce better citizenship, is sure-
ly worthy of our profound respect, but
is It getting it?

At one time prize fights were an
element of public favor. However,
since the going into private life of
Mr. Dempsey there has been less at-
tention paid to fisticuffs, and the er-
ratic minds of the many have gone
off in wild delight over our screen
Stars of which Rudolph Valentino was
one of the most successful.

Great statesmen, great educators,
eminent divines are just now under
the shadow of a public disapproval
that smacks of a lack of something in
the cranial makeup of the masses of
this day and age.

Screendom is having its day in
monopolizing the public attention,
even side tracking politics for the
nonce. Is the Nation as a whole going
aS some seem to think, to the demni-
tion bow wows? Not at all likely.
This is an age of independent thinking.
No longer are masses of people led by
the nose by some highup political
boss.

This stubborn craze for the exciting
phases of life will soon pass away.
Reaction is bound to come, and with
the passage of time, our men of real
intellect and ability will come into
their own.

It may seém a Jong time to wait for
some of them, but time and tide have
an effectual way of righting wrongs,
investing the public with a sense of
righteousness which at times seems to
have gone far astray.

There has been much of artificiality
in high places which has been one
cause for the decline of public appre-
ciation of the best in human nature.

Were Washington or Lincoln alive
to-day, neither one, dropping sudden-
lv out of the world, would cause half
the excitement and mental uncontrol
that has come to the surface because
of the passing of a youth whose sole
claim to notoriety is the manner of
his embracing and kissing his sweet-
hearts. Old Timer.

——_>-2-2—___
Tomato Found To Be Only Modern
Salad Vegetable.

London, Aug. 24—British food ex-
perts, who have been making a special
study of the history of salads, say
the tomato is the single new ingredi-
ent modern times have contributed to
salad making. The Pharaohs—even
the beautiful Cleopatra—ate onions in
large quantities in their salads and
used garlic and other highly scented
ingredients. Confucius ate cucum-
bers and the ancient Chinese used
mustard, watercress and nasturtium
leaves and flowers in mixing their
elaborate salads, which often contained
hard-boiled eggs. Ancient Persia also
was very fond of salads, and used let-
tuce and radishes much as they are
used in modern salad making. Sour
wine, not unlike modern vinegar, was
used on lettuce by the Persians 4,000
years ago.

— >. __
Negro Orders Long Island Duckling
for Last Supper.

New York, Aug. 30—Long Island
duckling not only has a national repu-
tation as a table delicacy, but is equal-
ly as popular in London and: Paris as
it is in New York, which is the home
of this choice tidbit. Cold duckling
has been recommended for luncheon
on automobile trips and on other out-
door expeditions. Not until last week,
however, has anyone about to step
into eternity selected Long Island
duckling as a provender for that jour-
ney. A negro, who was executed at
Sing Sing last week, made Long
Island duckling the piece de resistance
of his last supper. The duck was
suitably browned and served with
green peas, tomatoes and other rcljich-
es on the side.

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September 1, 1926

Where Knowledge of Law Meant
Many Thousand Dollars.

I did not intend to write any more
about insurance for a while, as I had
written several articles on this sub-
ject recently, but such a pretty case
has just been decided by the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals tl:at
I have decided I ought to report it.
It involves a principle of insurance law
which isn’t often inoked, but which is
ery useful to know.

In this case the owner of a business
building in Asheville, N. C., took out
fire insurance on it of $19,000. The
building was worth about $21,000. The
Owner was Mrs. Rutherford, and it
was leased to the United Cigar Stores
Co. for a term of fifteen years from
May 5, 1915, at an annual rental of
$5,000. It was occupied by the Cigar
Stores, a shoe store, a barber shop, a
tailoring establishment, a dentist and a
men’s furnishing store. A fire occur-
red on Feb. 14, which so damaged the
building that it was no longer habit-
able or usable for any purpose. On
February 16, two days after the fire,
a committee appointed by the board
of commissioners of Asheville, inspect-
ed the building and recommended its
condemnation and removal. On Feb.
18 the board adopted and approved the
report of this committee and directed
that Mrs. Rutherford be notified to
remove the building at once. This no-
tice was served on her the following
day. On March 7 she made applica-
tion to the board for a permit to re-
pair and restore the building, but on
the following day this application was
denied, and she proceeded shortly
thereafter to tear down and remove
the building in accordance with the
notice which had been served upon
her.

It was agreed that the fire directly
damaged the building to the extent of
$4,000 and the insurance company’s
offered to pay the owner that amount.
She declined, claiming that they owed
her for the full value of the building,
as she had lost it entirely because of
the fire. Her argument was ingenious.
She contended that before the fire oc-
curred she had a building full of ten-
ants bringing her in an annual income
of $5,000; that after the fire, as a re-
sult thereof, the building was unin-
habitable and in such a condition that
it had to be torn down.

The insurance companies made an
argument equally plausible. They said
that Mrs. Rutherford had not sustained
a total loss as a result of the fire; that
the fire, as a matter of fact, had caused
but little damage; and that it had
merely revealed, and not caused, the
condition which led to its being torn
down.

On that issue the case went to court
and Mrs. Rutherford won. The court
said she had a right to claim the tota]
loss of the building and it was for the
jury to say whether she was entitled
to it. This is from the decision:

The question in the case which is
one of fact, is whether, as a result of
the fire, the building was so damaged
that it could not be repaired under the
building laws of the city, and conse-
quently had to be torn down, or wheth-
er the fire merely revealed, and did not
cause, the damaged condition. If the
fire resulted in the condition which

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necessitated the destruction of the
building, and which, because of local
ordinances, made impossible its repair,
the insured was entitled to recover as
upon a total loss. The rule is as fol-
lows: If by reason of public regula-
tions as to the rebuilding of buildings
destroyed by fire, such rebuilding is
prohibited the loss is total, although
some portion of the building remains
which might otherwise have been
available in rebuilding. So, also, if
the insured building is so injured by
the fire as to be unsafe and is con-
demned by the municipal authorities,
the loss is total.

The defendants (insurance com-
Panies) contend, however, that this
rule has no application here, because,
they say, the condition which brought
about the destruction of the building
and prevented its repair was not the
result of the fire, but of conditions
existing prior thereto. Of course, if
the fire did not cause, either in whole
or in part, the condition which neces-
sitated the destruction of the building
and prevented its repair, defendants
would not be liable as upon a total
loss. But, on the other hand, if, be-
cause of the antecedent condition, the
fire did cause a total loss, by render-
ing the building unfit for occupancy
and incapable of being repaired, the
defendants would be liable as upon a
total loss, even though it should ap-
pear that, but for the antecedent weak-
ened and impaired condition, the fire
would not have produced such result.
In such case “it makes no difference
that the condition after the fire is due
in part to causes existing before.”

The policies in this case protected
the owner “to the extent of the actual
cash value (ascertained with proper
deductions for depreciation) of the
property at the time of loss or dam-
age, but. not exceeding the amount
which it would cost to repair or re-
place the same with material of like
kind and quality within a reasonable
time after such loss or damage, with-
out allowance for any increased cost
of repair or reconstruction by reason
of any ordinaance or law, regulating
construction or repair and without
compensation for loss resulting from
interruption of business or manufac-
ture, against all direct loss and dam-
age by fire.” This is the standard form
of fire insurance policy.

There have been a great many cases
in which fire indirectly caused much
more damage than the direct damage
amounted to, and in which it never
occurred to the owner that he could
claim for indirect damage as_ the
owner in the above case did. This
case ought, therefore, to be useful.

Elton J. Buckley.
[Copyrighted, 1926.]
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Untrimmed Hats Lead Again.

Despite agitation for trimmed hats,
the small tailored models are. still
monopolizing the millinery field as the
Fall season develops. Velour and felt
models predominate. The color trend
in these fabrics is rapidly shifting
from the jungle green and Chanel red
shades to various Fall leaf shades,
manufacturers say. Makers of expen-
sive hats are at a disadvantage under
present market conditions, for the un-
trimmed varieties are wanted at low
prices for the most part. In their
selection of shapes and colors, buyers
are spreading their purchases over
many varieties rather than specializ-
ing in a few numbers, which some
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Fred Mason Forced To Retire By Ill
Health.

Official announcement has been
made by President W. Edward Fos-
ter, of the American Sugar Refining
Co., of the resignation of Fred Ma-
son as Vice-President in charge of
sales, effective Sept. 1. The official
announcement follows:

“W. Edward Foster, President of
the American Sugar Refining Co., an-
nounces with egreat regret the resig-
nation of Fred Mason as Vice-Pres.-
dent in charge of sales.

“Some week; ago Mr. Mason was

attacked by his old enemy, phlebiti

 

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and has been resting and recuperating
While

improvement has occurred, his phy-

at his farm in Arlington, Vt.

sician recommends a complete giving
up of active business for an extended
period and Mr. Mason feels compelled

so

to retire from th2z position he has
ably and _ satisfactorily filled these
past five years.

“He retains his financial interest in
the company and remains as a di-
rector.’

While that statement cf news is
adequate, it falls short of covering its
significance, and thousands in the gro-
cery and allied trades re‘oice in the
fact that the company ts not likely to
lose Mr. Mason’s advice entirely.

Though Mr. Mason has been in the
sugar refining company only five vears
his record there has been brilliant. He
came into the company on Sept. 1,
1921, at a time when the company
found itself in an especially serious
‘position, due to the reactions from the
sugar slump in 1920. Hundreds of
its sbuyers had refused delivery of
sugar on their wartime contracts, call-
ing for delivery at 22c and 22M%c, be-
cause sugar had suddenly declined to
around 12c.

Unable to collect on these contracts

 

on the one side, the company had
itself incurred obligations by its pur-
chase of raws at the prevailing levels
of value and resort to litigation seem-
ed inevitable, though it would involve
the probability of acquiring the ant-
mosity of hundreds of customers in
the trade on which its business de-
pended.

Though the company met its own
financial situation with a bond issue
of $30,000,000, its chances of collect-
ing from the grocery, confectionery
and other sugar-using trades were
either slim or fraught with victories
dearly bought.

It was at this time that Presiden‘
Earl D. Babst negotiated with Mr
Mason to assume the tremendous tas’:
of untangling the situation. He was
generally regarded as the one man in
the country with the right diplomatic
personal and mercantile contacts to
meet the situation.

How well he has done it is attested
by the fact that in five years the Com-
pany has adjusted amicably with its
customers more than 90 per cent. of
the threatened law suits, kept their
friendship and patronage and secured
adjustment of many millions of dollars
of the claims and collected over 90
per cent. in cash.

This favorable recovery materially

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

assisted the company to resume within
the past year the 5 per cent. dividend
on the common stock, after long dis-
continuance. Whereas the sugar
brokers were formerly hostile to the
company, hundreds of brokers now
sell its products in the various mar-
kets of the country, all appointed by
Mr. Mason.

It seems, therefore, an auspicious
time for Mr. Mason to carry out his
long entertained desire to withdraw
from active work and retire to his
Vermont farm—the first time since
he was eight years of age that he has
not been active in the grocery trade

Even now he has been prevailed
upon to maintain a certain degree of
contact with grocers through continu-
ing as a director of the American, al-
though his health precludes his ener-
getic participation on the basis of the
past. He has suffered periodically
from phlebitis for several years past
and an attack last May forced a per-
iod of rest at his Vermont farm likely
to be so long continued that he decided
to withdraw from the strenuous life of
the sugar trade and enjoy the fruits of
long and continuous hard work.

Just what Mr. Mason’s plans are in
cetail for the future is not known. He
has still a number of allied interests
which will keep him in contact with
the grocery trade in a measure and his
seat on the American directorate and
as a past president of the American
Grocery Specialty Manufacturers’ As-
sociation will prevent his complete
withdrawal from food circles.

Fred Mason has been a grocer—
speaking in the broader sense—all his
life. Born on a prairie farm at Ver-
nen Center, Minn., fifty-eight years
ago, of New England parentage which
had taken pioneer claims in the coun-
try not yet devoid of Indians, his boy-
hood was spent on the farm. At nine
years of age he worked on a farm for
his brother, Elliott, and at fourteen
he became an apprentice to a village
retail grocer, driving the
wagon, at Superior, Wis.

As he grew up he became in turn a
retail grocer, a jobbing salesman, a

delivery

flour salesman and finally secretary of
the St. Paul Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tion. This led, in a few years, to his
selection as State Secretary of Minne-
sota Retail Grocers, and, after a few
more years, as Secretary of the Na-
tional Retail Grocers’ Association,
when for the first time he put that or-
ganization on a basis of influence and
prosperity.

What was more important, it
brought him to the attention of the
leaders of the food trade throughout
the country and led to many calls to
undertake larger responsibilities. In
1905 he resigned as National Retail
Secretary to become special repre-
sentative and later assistant sales
manager and sales manager of the Dia-
mond Match Co., in New York.

In 1910 he resigned this position to
become general manager of the Shred-
ded Wheat Co., being made Vice-
President and General Manager in
1912, and finally President in 1917. He
brought to this company a prosperity
and magnitude of business it had
never before enjoyed. In 1921 Mr.
Babst called him from this position to

become Vice-President in charge of
sales of the American Sugar Refining
Co. In March, 1925, he was advanced
to a seat on the board of directors.

Mr. Mason has always been a leader
especially in the field of trade associa-
tions, where he has enjoyed the friend-
ship and confidence of all factors in
the work. He was three years Presi-
dent of the American Grocery Special-
ty Manufacturers’ Association and is
still on its official board.
residence at Niagara Falls he was ac-
tive in all civic work and served as
President of the Chamber of Com-
merce of that city. He is a forceful
speaker and will find it hard, even in
his retirement, to keep out of the
front row of trade leadership.

During his

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An Illusion of Youth.

When a young person comes to the
realization that he must work for a liv-
ing, and that if he ever is to enjoy
the comforts and luxuries he sees pos-
sessed by others around him they
must come as a result of his own ef-
forts, the happiness he desires seems
to be a long, long way off. Then he is
likely to harbor a belief that comforts
and luxuries mean happiness, and
that work is a hateful condition of
his life. The first of these beliefs is
an illusion, as many a rick man knows,
and the second is a delusion, as he
presently learns when he gets into a

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vocation adapted to his particular
talent.

Work is the great cure for men
Luxury is corroding when it has not
been earned, and idleness the great-
est true source of discontent. The
young man who gces out in health to
meen nae Heid he his «hand :
earn his living by his hands, hi
muscles, his <hought, or all of them
together, may find his job irksome at
first, but soon happiness comes to him,
and the joy of service, when he finds

himself of use in the world. He gets

his
efficiency, and the world becomes a

the habit of industry, increases

bright place in which to live.
Then, if to his industry he adds
thrift, another great joy comes to him

 

accumulation. It never comes to
those who spend all they earn. But
for those who save, and see their re-
sources increase by saving, the sun
shines on cloudy days, and the il-
lusion that only those who do not
have to work for a living are fortunate,
fades away. He has made a man of
himself by honorable work and comes
to know “an honest man’s the noblest

work of God.”

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Bridal Gown Business Larger.

A substantial increase in the number
of Fall orders for bridal gowns is noted
by dress manufacturers. This is in-
terpreted as indicating a return to
favor of elaborate weddings, after a
period of many informal ceremonies
which were made popular during the
war. Increased business is noted es-
pecially in the better goods retailing
above $350. A not uncommon price
for these gowns is $500, although or-
ders occasionally are received for
dresses costing as much as $5,000. The
latter usually become heirlooms. Vel-
vets and chiffon-like satins are the
preferred materials in the oyster
shades. Rose-point lace is also in
great demand.

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DRY GOODS

Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.
President—H. J. Mulrine—Battle Creek.
First Vice-President—F. E. Mills, Lan-

sing.

Second Vice-President—G. R. Jackson,

Flint.

Secretary-Treasurer—F. H. Nissly, Yp-

Silanti.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

Chinese Rugs Now a Factory Product

The demand from foreign countries
especially the United States, is respon-
sible for the development in the pro-
duction of Chinese rugs from the sta-
tus of a handicraft, carried on almost
exclusively in the home, to an industry
with large plants under the super-
vision of experts. This development
has resulted in an improvement of
standards of living among the work-
ers, in increasing the wages as com-
pared with other native industries, and
in bringing about important changes
in manufacturing methods. Although
some may regret the passing of the
handicraft stage, to others the best
type of present-day Chinese rug is
superior in texture, dyes, weave and
design to its prototype formerly pro-
duced in the home.
chine-spun yarn may fully supersede
the native hand-spun varieties in the
manufacture of Chinese rugs, the
weaving process will continue to be
done by hand so long as a plentiful
supply of labor is available.

The Chinese rug designer if left to
himself adheres strictly to the con-
ventional and symbolic figures which
play an important part in the history
of Chinese art. The native designers
are very skillful with the brush and
some of their designs in water colors
are marvels of form and color, each
detail of which is full of significance
and intimately associated with the
legends and beliefs of the common
folk reaching back into a rich his-
torical past.

It is only occasionally nowadays
that a Chinese rug which is exported
has been designed in strict accord-
ance with Chinese tastes and fancies.
The foreign rug expert has changed
the designs and combinations of
color to suit foreign tastes.

The principal mechanism in Chinese
rug manufacture consists of the deft
fingers of the child apprentices. The
so-called factories are frequently small
and poorly lighted. Shops of this type
are owned and supervised by one man
who operates on a small scale with
limited capital. There are many such
establishments in Pekin and Tientsin,
although in recent years a number of
much larger plants have been estab-
lished, their size warranting the title
“factory.” Foreign-owned plants can
not compete with the native shops in
the production of the regular run of
Chinese rugs, although several are
able to operate as they produce a
grade that can be sold at a price con-
sistent with the higher standard of
working conditions maintained.

The majority of the workers in the
small rug shops of Tientsin and Pekin
are apprentices ranging in age from
10 to 16. They are largely recruited
from poor families of the rural dis-
tricts and the Chinese employer finds
it comparatively easy to have his ap-
prentices guaranteed. During the

Even though ma-"

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

period of service the boy is entirely
under the control of the proprietor.

Group Meetings Planned By Dry
Goods Association.

Wednesday, Sept. 8—Six o'clock
dinner and group meeting at Traverse
City. Noonday meeting under the
auspices of the Rotary and Kiwanis
clubs.

Thursday, Sept. 9—Six o’clock din-
ner and group meeting at Fremont.
Noonday meeting under the auspices
of Board of Commerce.

Friday, Sept. 10—Six o’clock dinner
and group meeting at Midland. Noon-
day meeting at Mt. Pleasant under the
auspices of the Rotary and Kiwanis
clubs.

Tuesday, Sept. 14—Six o’clock din-
ner and group meeting at Albion.
Noonday meeting under the auspices
of the Albion Merchants Bureau.

Wednesday, Sept. 15—Six o'clock
dinner and group meeting at Benton
Harbor. Noonday meeting at Kala-
mazoo under the auspices of the Ki-
wanis Club.

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Black Chief Fall Color Trend.

As far as color in women’s Fall
ready-to-wear and accessories are con-
cerned, black is by far the dominating
shade. It received almost the unani-
mous endorsement of the couturieres
in their recent showings, and the trade
here has followed suit. The tendency
is to relieve the sombreness of the
shade by contrasting effects obtained
either by the use of brighter colored
trimmings or of ornaments. In wo-
men’s coats the shade next to black
that is favored is said to be tapestry
blue, and considerable interest is be-
ing shown in this hue. In both street
and evening dresses black is much fa-
vored, particularly in garments of
satin crepes, cantons and velvet. In
evening dresses the decorations most
stressed are the “paillettes,” or small,
brilliant metal discs, arranged in fish-
scale fashion.

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To Keep Motorists Warm.

Despite the dominance of the closed
car for Fall and Winter motoring,
there is an increasing sale reported of
accessories designed to keep the riders
warm. High-grade robes, foot muffs
and cushions designed to match the
upholstery of the car are in particular
demand. Sets of these are being of-
fered by a local manufacturer, who
said yesterday that the advance orders
already placed by leading department
stores and shops catering to the “ex-
pensive” motor trade are twice as
large as a year ago. The robes and
foot muffs are made of broadcloth or
plush fabrics. Where the cloth used
in the upholstery of the car is practical
for a robe, that fabric is used. The
foot muffs are lined with wool sheep-
skin. Two-tone effects are stressed,

all shades used in motor car upholstery .

being available. Fur effects of varied
kinds are featured in the sets of plush.
Wholesale prices range from $83 to $90
per set. Monograms are provided
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Special September Offering

FIVE HUNDRED BALES
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Here is a general utility item which any store can put out at
a special price and obtain some extra fall business.

The early fall rains create a good demand for an item of
this kind.

Every housewife is a prospective customer for cocoa mats
during the fall season.

These mats are tightly woven, well bound and finished,
evenly sheared and run even in the bale.

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Fall Outlook For Men’s Suits.

Although expectation is tempered by
caution, prospects for the sale of men’s
clothing at retail this Fall are consid-
ered good. The retail season will be
started by many stores right after
labor day. The absence of any “bad”
industrial conditions such as prevailed
in some retail buying centers last Fall
It is felt
better grade
merchandise will have an improved
appeal, but there is full
recognition of the many factors which
have been tending to restrict the
clothing purchases of the average man.
Suits in the $25 to $35 price ranges are
expected to have the biggest volume
turnover. Browns and grays will be
stressed in the colors, while the pat-
terns, although fancy, will not be of
the extreme type. Both single and
double breasted models will be offered.
The two-button English model with
notch lapel is featured in the former,
while the three-button style with wider
lapels is prominent in the double-
breasted effects.

is held a satisfactory omen.
in some quarters that

consumer

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More Orders For Rayon Hose.

Recent business in women’s rayon
hose, while largely confined to near-
by goods and composed of small in-
dividual orders, has been sufficient to
place mills in an excellent position for
the next month, according to the spec-
ial bulletin of the National Associa-
tion of Hosiery and Underwear Manu-
facturers. A few weeks ago the mills
were hungry for business and jobbers
were talking about lower prices on
rayons. Now the latter are complain-
ing about the failure of the mills to
lay in large stocks of goods in antici-
pation of the demand which is now
springing up. There are complaints
that the mills are “falling down’ in
deliveries, while the producers lay the
blame for the situation to the extreme-
ly close buying policies of jobbers.

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Growing Interest in Gabardines.
Gabardine twist suitings are ex-
pected to meet with an increased de-
mand for the Spring season. At first
these fabrics were sold mainly to the
Pacific Coast trade, but the interest in
them has now broadened so that there
is a growing call from many sections
of the country. One mill representative
said that he looked for orders for the
cloths to be practically double what
they were for the past’ Spring. While
the base price of the gabardines is
somewhat higher than the popular
price level of many worsteds, this is
said to be offset by the greater dura-
bility which the former possess. Tan
and slate are the colors stressed in the
weaves, while the patterns run _ to
fairly conservative stripings.
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Rains Helped Straw Hat Sales.
Because of the frequent and heavy
rains practically since the end of July,
retailers have been enjoying a good
repeat demand for straw hats. The
downpours caused more or less dam-
age to the body hats which were lib-
erally sold early in the season and
also faded the sennits. The net re-
sult has been a greatly expanded buy-
ing of new straws to replace the early
season ones, producing one of the best
turnovers for both retailers and whole-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

recent years. At present
lightweight felt hats are coming into
a greater degree of prominence than
earlier in the season, and some of the
leading men’s stores are credited with
doing well with them.

salers in

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Turnover of Women’s Underwear.
In women’s underwear hand-made

cotton garments which can be retai.ec
at prices up to $2 are being well re-
ordered by retailers. Sales of this mer,
chandise which retailers have beer
staging recently are said to have beer
very successful. Silk garments eith 1
of glove silk or crepe de chine, have
likewise been in good demand for sales
purposes. Large quantities of chemises
in high shades have been dispozed o!
by the stores. Step-ins, bloomers anu
dance ensemble sets have also beer
stressed in the merchandise having :
good turnover. The “short” style of
garment has been a feature. In the
new Fall offerings, lace trimming 1s
used to a considerable extent.

—_+-——_——_
Call For Ostrich Feathers.

A good demand for ostrich feathers
from several industries has sent the
prices of these goods up from 30 to 50
per cent., and has exhausted surplus
stocks which had existed because of
poor seasons in previous years. At
present the largest demand for the
feathers is for collarettes in the neck-
wear and millinery departments. of re-
tail stores. These are wanted un-
curled, in two and three-color com-
binations. The millinery and dress
trades are also using many feathers,
while ostrich fans are wanted because

of the style trend, which shows

greater elaboration. Feathers for

quill pens are also being sold.
—_—_+--+

Some Carpet Lines Advanced.

A tendency o fsome manufacturers
to advance prices of carpets and rugs
is regarded as reflecting the increased
cost of Chinese carpet wool. This is
caused by a shortage brought about by
the difficulty of getting the wool from
the interior of China, owing to condi-
tions in that country. Several of the
larger companies advanced _ their
prices some time ago because of this
situation. A good many buyers have
been placing orders in the local mar-
ket to replenish their stocks during
the next sixty days, a period of time
beyond which few retailers will now
anticipate their requirements.

> 2-2
Trends in Evening Gowns.

Evening gowns for the Fall are ir
good demand, especially in the higher
priced varieties, manufacturers say
A trend is noticed toward more elab-
orateness. In some styles the skin
and train are ornamented, while the
blouse is plain. In other models the
blouse is ornamented and the skirt is
plain. Beaded and hand-embroidered
gowns are wanted, as well as dresses
of light metallic materials. A tendency
to dispense with the train is also noted,
this change being ascribed to the re-
quirements of dancers. Two-tone
cloth materials, such as light and dark
hues of buff, are very popular.

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correctly judge the time when a lux-
ury becomes a necessity.

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Retail Grocers and General Merchants
Association.
President—Orla Bailey, Lansing.
Vice-Pres.—Hans Johnson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Paul Gezon, Wyoming Park.
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American People Turning To Costlier
Food.

Declaring that analysis of Depart
ment of Agriculture statistics showing
a per capita decrease in the consump-
tion in the United States of wheat
indicates these figures are correct, the
Food Research Institute of Sanford
University goes on to give some of the
causes for the decline in consumption.
It says that a study of these causes
indicates that the most important fac-
tors have been the tendency to replace
the cereals with sugar, a decrease in
total food requirements per capita, a
tendency to a more diversified diet,
and a shift to more expensive foods
generally, the last resulting chiefly
from the increased prosperity of the
laboring classes since the war. The
Government statistics indicate that
prior to 1904 flour consumption chang-
ed only slightly, but between 1904 and
1923 it is shown to have declined more
than 21 per cent.

Analysis of the causes which have
affected flour consumption in past
years shows also the changes that may
be expected in the future, the institute
says. The three groups of factors that
have been important in the past will
probably cease to operate or will have
little further effect on flour consump-
tion in the next several years. They
are: first, the sudden increase in the
prosperity of the laboring classes,
which took place mostly between 1919
and 1923; second, the tendency to di-
versify the diet; and third, the decline
in total food requirements per capita.

“Prior to 1919 there appears a steady
decline in the per capita consumption
of foods for which we have statistical
data,” says the Institute. “Altogether
the evidence seems to indicate very
clearly that between 1907 and 1919
there was a considerable decline in
per capita consumption of all foods, in
terms of energy value, and that prob-
ably this decline began as early as
1890.

“The statistical evidence of the de-
cline in total food consumption is sup-
ported and explained by certain other
facts. Most important of these, prob-
ably, is the increasing substitution of
machinery for manual labor in many
lines. The laborer doing heavy phys-
ical work requires much more food
than the man engaged in more seden-
tary occupations. Steam shovels, au-
tomatic stokers for boilers, mechan-
ical ditch-digging machines, conveyors
in factories, agricultural machinery,
and many other mechanical devices
have been taking the place of man-
power and increasing the proportion
of the population engaged in tending
machines, clerking, and other seden-
tary occupations requiring much less
physical exertion.

“Regarding the other changes in
food consumption, for most of which
we have no reliable statistics, it ap-
pears clear, nevertheless, that the gen-
eral trend of the past forty years hasa
been in the direction of diversification.

 

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There is a trend toward decreased
consumption of wheat, coarse grains,
dried legumes, and meat, and to in-
creased consumption of poultry and
eggs, milk, sugar, fruits and fresh
vegetables.

“These trends are not synchronous,
but are irregular. This diversification
of the diet is the result of prosperity,
improvements in agricultural products,
improved methods of distribution and
storage, prolongation of seasons, im-
provements in processing and packing,
improvements in household culinary
equipment and practices, aided by a
trend of dietetic education in the di-
diversification, and sup-
ported by advertising campaigns. The
diversified diet is distinctly more ex-
pensive than was the staple diet it has
supplanted.

“In the course of this diversifica-
tion bread has become more and more
an incident and a vehicle. This has
had the effect, apart from other con-
siderations, of lowering the intake of
flour. When bread is eaten with but-
ter, jam, or other spreading materials,
less bread is eaten. The coarse grain
breakfast cereals eaten with Sugar and
milk or cream replace wheat flour
Increased consumption of pastries and
sweet baked goods of all kinds tends
to diminish the unit consumption of
flour.

“At the close of the last century the
American consumption of wheat was
comparable to that of the British; it
is now distinctly lower. All of these
influences tending in the direction of
lower flour consumption vary from
region to region, from year to year,
and from class to class, and find their
expression in the present low flour
consumption.

“Against this, one can point to but
One gain for wheat flour; namely, the
increased use of wheat as against
other cereals in the South, resulting
from industrialization. Had not wheat
flour replaced corn to a notable ex-
tent, the present per capita consump-
tion of wheat flour would be consid-
erably lower than it is. For the future
one can look to but little gain for
flour in this field, since the replace-
ment is almost complete.

rection of

“Summarizing, then, it may be said
that the striking decline in per capita
flour consumption during the last 20
or 30 years has been the inevitable
result of certain fundamental forces
which have been operating during the
period. Looking to the probable fu-
ture effects of these same forces, it
appears that those which may be sum-
marized under the three heads of in-
creasing prosperity, diversification of
the diet, and declining total food con-
sumption, will probably continue to
operate in the direction of decreasing
flour consumption.

“The magnitude of their effect will
probably not be great. But the in-
fluence of factors involved under the
fourth head, the inroads of sugar on
the cereals in the American diet, may
be much greater. The probable mag-
nitude of this influence in the future
must remain conjectural until more in-
formation is obtained.”

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MEAT DEALER

Corn and Beef Quality.

It is indeed fortunate for those of
us who enjoy the flavor and tenderness
of our best American beef that this is
a country where corn grows abundant-
ly. It is freely admitted by all in a
position to know that nowhere on the
earth is beef of high quality produced
as liberally as in the United States,
and- nowhere on earth is better beef
produced. During the late Spring and
Summer seasons considerable beef is
marketed direct from the ranges to
consumers, that is, with no stop-over
for grain feeding, and considerable beef
is also marketed that did not have the
advantage of long time grain feeding.
but during the late Fall, Winter and
Spring the bulk of beef supply shows
plainly the result of grain, and, as a
consequence, is tender and_ luscious.

Even during what is known as the
“grass season,’ some of the best beef
of the year is on sale, though the gen-
eral supply of this kind is not so large
as at other times. In the Middle West
where corn is raised in large quanti-
ties, amounting to above three billion
bushels normal years, feeding stations
are maintained for grain-feeding beef
animals after their earlier grass or
hay rations. It is estimated that about
eighty-five per cent. of the corn of
this country is fed to livestock and
beef comes in for its full share. That
is the reason that most of the beef
now on sale in retail shops in the
Metropolitan territory possesses all
the tenderness and flavor demanded
by exacting consumers. To be sure,
some grass-fed steers are coming to
market right now and some of this
kind finds an outlet through retail mar-
kets, but most of this kind, until sup-
ply becomes heavy, is used to supply
what is known as contract trade. Last
Fall showed at harvest time an abun-
dant corn crop and it was known then
that in all probability meats on sale
this year would be fully up to the
standards of quality demanded by the
citizenry of this prosperous country
When corn is plentiful beef is usually
relatively cheap, and that is the condi-
tion right now—high qualitied and
moderately priced beef. Such a con-
dition should provide an economical
remedy for the present light supply
of pork, lamb and veal. Consumers
are commencing to complain that lamb
is beyond their reach and that pork is
also unusually high. The pork condi-
tion will probably last for some time,
but it is probable that lamb prices will
be lower since there is not a national
shortage sufficient to maintain present
prices beyond a temporary period.
——_o +.

Utilization of Lamb Chucks in the
Home.

One wholesale cut of lamb always
sells for less than carcass lamb price
in the wholesole markets, and in so
doing makes it necessary for dealers
to charge more than carcass lamb
price for other wholesale cuts, espec-
ially the racks and loins. As a mat-
ter of fact, these cuts usualky carry
the entire price burden of the chucks,
since legs usually sell around carcass
price. The chuck, which is the

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

wholesale cut referred to, is a good
section of the lamb and suitable to
various uses. Among these are in-
cluded parts suitable for broiling,
stewing, even roasting and _ boiling.
For the benefit of those who may not
know exactly what is meant by the
chuck we will try to explain. It is
the front section of the lamb cut just
behind the fourth rib and at right
angles with the carcass length. It in-
cludes the neck, shoulder, shank,
breast and the blade ribs. The en-
tire cut weighs from ten to sixteen
pounds according to the
weight of the lamb, which is not too
heavy for the average family after
being split and sold in two parts. The
neck, breast and shank are suitable

usually,

for stewing, boiling and broth making;
the shoulder with the blade ribs is
very good for oven roasting and so
every bit of it can be used without
having the same dish more than once.
Besides oven roasting the shoulder or
blade ribs can be used very advan-
tageously for broiling as chops, and
this part makes very meaty and tender
eating. These are -usually. called
shoulder chops. They are not quite
so fashionable as the loin and_ rib
chops, but they are just as good. If
the shoulder and rib section is to be
used for roasting the bones may be
removed at the shop, and the opening
where the blade bone comes may be
used as a pocket for stuffing. The
opening may be sewed up after stuff-
ing and the whole piece tied so that
it will roast as a shapely piece and
so that it may be sliced on the table
without any trouble. We know of
people highly trained in cookery who
believe the shoulder roast equal to the
leg, and some think it even better. It
certainly is a cheaper piece to buy and
deserves a trial by those used to buy-
ing the leg as a matter of course.
—_-~+-2

Seventy-Four Years a Grocer.

Portland, Me. Aug. 30—Andrew
Hawes, retail grocer here for 74 years
in the same building, is believed to be
the oldest retail grocer in the country
in point of service. He began as a
clerk for his father and two years later
took active charge of the store.

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Mussolini has decided to cast off the
thralldom of Paris fashions for women.
He will have the women of Fascist
Italy garbed in costumes as distinctive
as the ancient palla of the Roman ma-
tron. Mussolini is a very powerful
man. He put a considerable portion
of masculine Italy in black shirts. He
decreed black bread and potatoes in
the land of spaghetti. He abolished
industrial strikes and stretched his iron
hand over Italy’s capitalists. In none
of these undertakings has his power
been seriously questioned. His Water-
loo is not yet. But he is becoming
He has challenged a power
which hitherto has laughed at the chal-
lenge—the hegemony of Paris in the
world of women’s fashions. History’
is strewn with the bones of strong
men who have tried to dictate to wom-
en the wherewithal they shall be cloth-
ed. History has known many con-
querors, but Mussolini is rushing in
where others either feared to tread or
met their doom.

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Vice-President—C. L. Glasgow, Nash-
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Suggestions For the Hardware Dealer

in September.
Written for the Tradesman.

In September the hardware dealer
has more scope for his business-build-
ing energies than in the hot midsum-
mer months. The fall purchasing
moement may develop very quickly.

Householders are back from the
summer resorts this month, the farm-
ers are cashing in on many crops, the
sportsman is getting together his
shooting tackle, while the man who
knows the value of fall painting looks
up the advertising matter the hard-
ware dealer has already sent him. In
these and many other directions there
are substantial opportunities for de-
veloping fall trade.

With the county fairs, harvest festi-
als and similar events in September,
the hardware dealer can do much to
stimulate his business by active parti-
cipation in such events.

If there is a fall fair, it is often good
policy to take a stand. Not merely
because that identifies you with a lo-
cal institution of some importance, but
because the booth at the fall fair is
usually a good advertising medium for
the hardware dealer.

In my home town, fifteen years ago
one hardware dealer took a small
booth in the main building at the fall
fair. Next year he took more space.
A year or two later another hardware
dealer entered the game. Last year
several hardware dealers put on ex-
hibits—quite apart from the numerous
implement dealers. If fall fair  aq-
vertising were no good, the first hard-
ware dealer would have quit and the
other fellows would never have start-
ed. i

If you are planning such an exhibit
get to work on it early in September.
Your fall fair booth gives the best re-
sults when everything is carefully
planned beforehand. You will natur-
ally feature ranges and heaters, and,
perhaps, labor saving household de-
vices—particularly such as can be used
in farm homes. Have a plentiful sup-
ply of literature for distribution tc
people who are interested in your lines.
Select and coach the salespeople who
are to have charge of the booth. Tt
will pay to send your best men. and.
if possible, to take charge yourself.

A line of paints or paint specialties
is a good one to feature at the fall
fair if you have room. One of the
hardware dealers I mentioned has for
several years held a demonstration of
an interior varnish and stain combina-
tion. Quite often it is feasible to
demonstrate some of the articles you
are displaying; and if this can be done
you will find it worth while.

Finally, use your fall fair booth as
a means of getting the names and ad-
dresses of stove, washing machine,
paint and other prospects. This can
be done if a tactful salesman is in
charge; and such names will provide
you a very useful mailing list.

September is a good month for

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

demonstrations in the hardware store.
Experience shows that demonstrations
help materially to create business.
Many lines can be demonstrated to
good advantage. Ranges, vacuum
cleaners, paints and interior finishes,
electrical goods—all these can be sold
as a result of simply showing the in.
tending customer what the article can
do.

If the store has a spare room, or a
corner off to one side, or a bit of un-
occupied space at the back or even up-
stairs, it is not difficult to convert this
into an attractive demonstration room.
Invite everyone to call and see what
your new range or washing machine
or vacuum cleaner can do. Install a
demonstration department with a good
salesman in charge, set the goods to
work, and keep the door open and ‘he
signs pointing that way.

Strictly summer lines should have
been pretty well cleared out in Au-
gust. Odds and ends of stock as a
rule ar ebetter sold at reduced prices
than carried over to another season.
Hence in September the hardware
dealer should be working on new, sea-
sonable lines.

With the summer goods thus dis-
posed of, the dealer will find the prob-
lem of featuring fall goods much less
difficult. The stove department can
be enlarged by utilizing the space
given over to such bulky
lines as refrigerators, lawn mowers.

formerly

haying tools and screen doors.

The stove department is of course
a big feature of the fall trade. Tt 4s
highly essential to provide adequate
and suitable display space for ranges
and heaters. If possible, sufficient
space should he allowed to show each
stove to good advantage and to dem-
onstrate to customers.

In a good many communities the
fall is “moving time.” People are
hurrying up the completion of their
homes in order to be settled for
Thanksgiving and Christmas. Others
are moving into houses thus vacated.
All this means an active demand for
heusehold utensils, kitchen goods,
paints, etc. There will also be some
demand for builders’ hardware.

Builders hardware is best handled
with the aid of some outside canvass-
ing. Some dealers reduce their out-
side work to a system. In one small
city store, the junior partner in the
firm handles this outside work per-
sonally. He makes it his business to
find out just what building is going
on. As soon as a new structure is
Started, or even before that, he finds
out the names of owner and contractor
and interviews both. In a great many
cases sales of tar paper, roofing and
builders’ hardware are closed at once.

Outside salesmanship Pays in the
case of builders’ hardware more, per-
haps, than with most lines; and it
paves the way to future business in
other lines. In any event, it is al-
ways sound policy to establish and
maintain close touch with contractors
and builders, even if no effort is made
to canvass them for business.

Furnaces and, if you handle them,
hot water and steam heating systems,
justify outside canvassing. Indeed
you cannot get the maximum of re-
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“HOME OF SUNBEAM GOODS”

Farm Machinery and Garden Tools
Saddlery Hardware

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

Sheep lined and
Blanklet - Lined Coats

 

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cash on our Sample line of Gibson
Refrigerators. We have number 124-
125 and 126 in stock.

Also a number of smaller used boxes.

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN:

Wholesalers of Shelf Hardware, Sporting
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These lines run up into money, and
can be very conveniently worked with
any canvass you carry on for builders’
hardware.

In most communities the older resi-
dences represent an opportunity, often
neglected, to develop trade in build-
ers’ hardware. In almost every house
of this sort there are defective locks
that ought to be replaced, defective
door bells, windows that lack proper
catches, and a lot of similar items.

Get a list of such houses, and go
after the business, either by personal
canvass or personal letter.

The other morning I had occasion
to walk a distance of eight blocks. I
took note of the houses passed. Ex-
cluding the brick houses, I counted 71
frame houses that were absolutely
howling for paint. There were less
than eleven frame houses in that dis-
tance to which I could give the benefit
of the doubt; and only three or four
of these were properly painted. Ata
modest estimate there was $1,50C
worth of paint waiting to be sold.

The fall painting campaign should
be a big factor in fall trade. Under
normal conditions, though, only a tithe
of the houses that need paint will ac-
tually get it. With aggressive busi-
ness-getting methods it should be pos-
sible to materially increase paint sales
in almost any community.

The sporting goods department
should receive its fair share of atten-
tion in September. There is always a
good demand for guns, ammunition
hunting bags, and similar lines in the
fall, which constitutes the season par
excellence for the sportsman.

Football supplies also will be re-
quired in many communities. Then.
as the season advances, the winter
skate trade will begin to loom up; and
the dealer even while he is selling
early fall lines should be planning for
Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Victor Lauriston.
——__+-->———_
Editorial Tribute To Newaygo School
Building.

“Oh yes, our America has _land-
scapes to equal any in the world. Our
rivers are as noble as the Rhine and
the Danube. What we lack is archi-
tecture—ruins of old castles and fort-
resses,” says the traveler who goes to
Europe annually to get the thrill of
memories which lie back of those an-
cient ruins, “the Mouse Tower on the
Rhine,’ the Castle of Chillon and
many others with more or less divert-
ing associations attached to them.

Traveling across the United States
a live observer takes joy in discover-
ing interesting works transplanted by
the builders. Of course, New Mexico,
Arizona and California have abundant
material in their inheritance of adobe
houses, adapted Spanish church build-
ings and old missions and more preten-
tious residential edifices. At Berkeley,
Cal., the Campanile of Venice (adapt-
ed) dominates the campus. Even
Chicago has an inspiring tower after
the Gothic—the Tribune tower; its
noble plan at the University of Chica-
go, a note from the Giralda in Spain
in the lovely church tower at Elm and
LaSalle streets and farther North a
campanile, as if from Florence.

If one goes to Northern Michigan

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and, approaching Newaygo, looks from
the car window, or stops on a high-
way, there will be visible a magnificent
edifice in the Spanish style dominat-
ing the heights above the Muskegon
river, the poplars at its side darkly
green as cypresses, carrying out the
picture. This impressive facade leads
one to believe that some magnate has
built a palace whose square towers
with arched windows rising from a
long, massive structure seem to be
the realization of a beautiful memory
of a historic pile, very likely steeped
with legends of kings, not far from
Granada.

The traveler stops and gazes again
and again. The picture lies in the
atmosphere of summer, the glowing,
fiery sun below the zenith, the vivid
azure of fathomless skies above, all
swathed in vibrant light in which the
architect’s dream of yellow brick and
red-tiled roofs creates a monumental
effect that any one would travel miles
to see were it in Aragon or near to
Saragossa. Yet, behold, it is ours—
in Michigan. Better than a blood-
stained castle of brutal times, it is the
fortress of our republic, the strong-
hold of the young children—a county
high school.

It is eloquent of patriotism and
community feeling. Unheralded Mich-
igan architects, looking upward to the
tree-crowned heights, saw their oppor-
tunity. The enlightened city fathers of
the school board let them have their
own way to create the noble and artis-
tic in building to make the school dom-
inate the country, now and for all time,
as the advancing cohorts of education
should do. Rather than take the
utilitarian theory of the times to
standardize walls, entrances and win-
dows for the sake of economy, they
erected the picturesque towers, con-
tributed beauty to the details of their
composition, and carried it out to be

memorable for all who went that way.

As the children with shining faces
go forth in the early morning, either
from town or the farms beyond the
forest and the river, they lift their
eyes to the height and to the hopes of
the day. They know that the interior
of this noble building echoes with
promises of the future and so, inspired
by hope and a sense of dominating
beauty, they hasten to climb the paths
to the schoo] and its teachers awaiting
them.—Chicago Post.

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COMMERCIAL TRAVELER

THE THOMAS FAMILY.

They Made Hotel History in Owosso
and Durand.

Marietta, Ohio, Sept. 30—Nestling
there the great railroad interests of
the country seemed to feel they must
have their railroads cross and _ re-
cross at Durand. I may not be just
correct, but think the Grand Trunk
line was the first of this great import-
ant link which afterwards became a
chain of great magnitude. Then what
was formerly the Detroit, Grand Rap-
ids and Grand Haven, now under
Grand Trunk control, came up from
Detroit, crossed the Grand Trunk and
went on its way. Some years later,
the never-to-be-forgotten Toledo, Ann
Arbor & Northern Michigan came
creeping up from the Buckeye State,
sided up next to the D., G. R. & G. aq
also crossed the Grand Trunk, con-
tinued parallel with the first named on
through Vernon, Owosso and then up
through the wilds of comparatively
new Michigan, wth Northern terminal
at Frankfort. Later other interests
built a branch, possibly it was with
Grand Trunk money, coming down
from Bay City and Saginaw, with ter-
minal at Durand. What years all
these stirring railroad events took place
I have no data.

At all events there was the little
village of Durand, acknowledged the
greatest railrgyad junction center in the
State. Possibly the little village was
there before even the first railroad
came; possibly the coming of the rail-
roads created Durand. I cannot say.

But even up to 1900 as a village it
was not so much, possibly 500 people.
Nearly forgot to mention that at first
the place was named Vernon Center,
later renamed Durand in honor of
Judge Durand, of Flint.

In 1895 the Toledo & Ann Arbor
moved its division headquarters from
Toledo to Durand and a. nice little
boom was set in motion, population
more than trebling in next two or three
years. Then the railroad moved this
feature up to Owosso and Durand got
a jolt. However, the Grand Trunk in
a measure filled the void by moving
some of its repair shops to the little
village, and again Durand took on aa
new lease of life, which this time they
held and have it yet. It now has about
3,000 souls; its streets have been im-
proved; a newspaper was established
there many years ago by “Dad” Keyes,
a clever old country newspaper man,
but a wanderer: in due time a bank
was established; really creditable busi-
ness blocks were erected and the littie
city has held its own very creditably.
The business center js removed sey-
eral blocks from where all the rail-
roads cross, with the better resident
district still further away.

From information gained through
W. K. Brewster, at one time interested
as a proprietor, the first hotel of Du-
rand was the Hagle House. This
afterward became the Junction House,
which I will later cover. This was
the hotel where the Senior Downey,
later bearing his name at Lansing, had
a fling. Later Brewster was bar
keeper there, then became baggage
master of the G. T. System, and is
still holding down that position. Be-
lieve at one time intervening he was
a State Game Warden. At anv events
he had a large acquaintance among the
old time traveling boys.

All in all, Durand has become the
great railroad junction point, it is
where not so many years ago the
wheat, the corn and potatoes grew and
thrived.

George E. Thomas came out of the
far East in 1869 to Detroit, remaining
there a year, and then went into the
wilds of Owosso, purchased the eating
house then located at the Station on
Michigan avenue, that city. We
rather infer business was not so good,
for a short time later he moved the

 

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building through the woods to what
is now Owosso Junction, having been
created by a branch of the Michigan
Central going from Lansing to Sag-
inaw and Bay City, and crossing the
then DG. R 2 GH Business was
better at this point and in a short
time several rooms were added to the
original eating house, the lunch room
and dining room facilities were ma-
terially increased and all went on well
for the pioneer. He was ably as-
sisted by a son, Arthur S. Thomas, and
they continued there for a good many
years. It was then bought by a sister
of the Senior Thomas, Miss Eliza M.
Thomas. who conducted the place un-
til her death in 1914. This place was
kept in activity until 1919, when it was
torn down. Forty-eight years of sery-
ing the traveling public and serving
it well, at least under the Thomas
family. It was enlarged in sleeping
quarters several times during their
reign and there were also’ enlarge-
ments in the feeding facilities. While
there was not the first thing preten-
tious about the old Owosso Junction
House, it was always kept delightfully
attractive and clean, Miss Thomas fol-
lowing in the Management fully as
effective as her brother and nephew
carried on. The foods were excellent.
In my day there was a bang up 50
cent meal in the dining room and on
the lunch counter the price of sand-
wiches, pies, vegetables, etc., were
very moderate and delightfully good.
There was a homey atmosphere pre-
vailing in the little Sitting room, in the
bed chambers, in the dining room. It
Was a really distinctive place. Many
oi the boys on the road stayed all
night at this popular place, really made
for it in preference to staying up
town, when detained over night in that
vicinity. While there is nothing left
at Owosso Junction of the old original
house or lunch room, the man who
conducted the place after the death of
Miss Thomas still has a lunch room
on the property formerly owned by
the Thomas family, opposite the M.
C. depot, and it is said he is getting
on fairly well.

In 1887 George E. Thomas bought
the Durand Junction House and he
and his son, Arthur, centered their in-
terests there. The year following
Arthur bought the interest of his
father, and from then on until 1914,
when he died, Arthur S. Thomas gave
to the traveling public a service. in
foods never equalied in the State.

Success was a given factor at Du-
rand from the time the Thomas fam-
ily assumed _ possession. While Ar-
thur Thomas is entitled to much
credit for the wonderful reputation the
Junction House attained, we must all
agree that, had it not been for the
remarkable motherly and wonanly
heip of Mrs. Thomas, the marked suc-
cess not only on the foods but the
roonis of the hotel part would not have
been so great. It was she who super-
vised the care of the rooms, always
attractive and homely; it was she who
with her kindly ways made all comers
feel at home when they came into her
presence; it was she who supervised,
often being called upon to do the entire
work of providing the entire pastry
menus of the business which grew into
such proportion to tax the ability and
Strength of those connected With the
Proposition; it was she who used to
supervise and take part in the canning
of 600 quarts of huck‘eberries, 400
Guarts of red raspberries, 300 quarts
of black raspberries, 300 quarts of
blackberries, 100 quarts of currants,
500 quarts of cherries, 300 quarts of
Strawberries, about the Same number
quarts of peaches, pears, each vear. |
have it on good authority from her
son, H. A. Thomas, now cashier of
the Shiawassee County Bank at Du-
rand, that many Seasons, his highly
esteemed mother put up from 3,000 to
4,000 cans of such articles as | have
mentioned that the famous old lunch
counter might ever provide those tasty

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pies, those wonderful tarts, etc. In
addition Mrs. Thomas canned thous-
ands of quarts of corn, peas, beets,
cucumber pickles, and the many other
things which entered into their busi-
ness and success.

The year before the world fair
(1893) Mr. Thomas caused to be
added some twenty rooms to the orig-
inal twenty of the Junction House, in
contemplation of increased business
during that year. Some older heads
felt that while his feeding business
would increase, the hotel business
would not, as fair visitors were not
soing to stop at Durand. But the
gentleman’s judgment was keen, and
many nights during that eventful sum-
mer he was called upon to seek ac-
commodations for his guests in the
private homes of his friends. During
1893 the business there was tremend-
ous. It was said he fed in a lunch room
and dining. room which would possibly
seat 75, as many as 1,500 pople a day.
A very decidedly good 50 cent meal
prevailed at all times in the dining
room, and at one time the meal was
served in the lunch room. At all
events the Thomas family made a
cleanup that year. Although a great
part of the patronage was of a nature
of coming only for the one time,
nothing was allowed to impair auality.
and quantity was kept up to a high
standard. Prices were kept at the
same figures and the place and
Thomas was on the tip tongues of
half the Nation.

As I became better acquainted with
him along about the years I have
mentioned, 1890 to 1893, I must own
up he was a queer cuss at the best. In
later years he and Mrs. Thomas stayed
with the writer many times when I
was at the Hotel Charlevoix, at De-
troit, and while I had many a long
talk with him, I never felt I was next
to him any time. He was a man of
few words most of the time, although
there were many of the boys of the
road in the early days who swore by
him, not only for his foods and as a
hotel man, but because they declared
he was a fine fellow when you could
get to know him.

How he used to care for with spec-
ial dinners the great crowds he did
during the world fair year, with his
facilities, used to be a marvel to me
and many another hotel man who be-
came interested in the project. At
one time in 1893, he served a complete
six course dinner to over 300 repre-
sentatives of the Minnesota Editorial
Association, en route to Niagara Falls
from the fair. Time consumed to do
this was said to have been less than
an hour. The dinner was declared by
those partaking as excellent and the
service in keeping with many a larger
city place. Most remarkable in this
connection was that the dinner was
served, all cleared away, house set in
order in time for the evening rush and
that night was one of the very heaviest
of the season. There was no hitch,
no waits.

Often there were talks of other ho-
tels for Durand; talks of other lunch
rooms, but in some unaccountable
manner. Thomas held them off. It was
often remarked he had most of the
available sites corralled; whether this
was so or not, I can’t say. Some one
did come in and build a very substan-
tial hotel of brick, up town, a consider-
able distance from the depot, but as I
recall it did not get along well. Mr.
Thomas bought it, I think, about 1900.
It was called the Richelieu. He closed
the dining room and used the sleeping
rooms when he Had occasion to. Pos-
sibly this hotel was brought into the
limelight with more rapidity and with
greater publicity than any hotel under
like circumstances in 1903, when in the
month of August, the Wallace Circus
train was wrecked in the East yards
at Durand, in which many were killed
and many wounded. Mr. Thomas
turned the Richeliu over as an emer-
gency hospital and for many days

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catastrophe were nursed and cared for.
The Richelieu was run as a hotel by
the Thomas family, rooms only, up
until 1923, when H. A. Thomas, the
remaining son, sold the property to C.
F: Beach, who came from Grand Rap-
ids, I believe. Mr. Beach is conduct-
ing the hotel now as the Hotel Du-
rand. It has been put in very good
order, a small dining room will soon
be established and, no doubt, prove
more or less profitable.

_Arthur Thomas conducted the Junc-
tion House, both rooms and lunch
counter and dining room, up to 1905,
when he took over the feeding con-
cessions in the new and pretentious
depot which had been erected at the
junction of the various railroads. At
that time the feeding end of the
famous old Junction House ceased, al-
though rooms were used up to 1923,
and then closed the career of a place
which had stood the test of time all
these years. It was closed by the son.
_ The restaurant, lunch counters, etc.,
in the new depot were far larger, far
more pretentious than had been the
old Junction House, but Arthur S.
Thomas went right on serving most
excellent foods, giving great values
for the money, specializing in popular
priced 50 cent meals, pleasing all
comers and making money. He con-
tinued in possession of the depot con-
cession until his death in 1914. and as
a man, as a producer of good foods,
his reputation never lessened. The
first new depot burned soon after be-
ing built, but was rebuilt immediately.

His son, H. A. Thomas, had come
along up in the business with him. It
was said the reputation of the depot
feeding was in no way impaired. The
younger Thomas continued there un-
til 1919, when he disposed of his con-
cessions to the Canadian Railway
News Co., they having operated the
place since then. Mr. Thomas entered
military service for Uncle Sam. Re-
turning from the service, he became
cashier of the Shiawassee County
Bank at Durand and is still in that
position.

Thus for nearly fifty years the
Thomas family gave to the traveling
public a service in foods and hotel ac-
commodations at Owosso and Durand
which to me stands out as one of the
most successfull and pleasing in all
Michigan which has ever come to my
knowledge. If all were acquainted
with the facts which surrounded Ar-
thur Thomas, Mr. Thomas and even
the son, who was only a boy in those
heyday times of 1890, through the
world fair year, they would appreciate
the more the real ability those people
had in caring for great crowds. With
the regular boys on the road, who
crossed and re-crossed at Durand, the
Thomas family never forgot or neg-
lected them. The thousands of
strangers there for only the one time
were given every attention, but the
commercial boys came first if there
was any choice. I used often to won-
der how Mr. Thomas could pick the
boys out, but he did. Later in the
depot, such proceedings were not so
much in evidence; the place had be-
come so large, the business so great
that no one man could individualize.
as had been done in the famous old
Junction House. There was a bar in
the Junction House, but it was never
made an issue to impair the idea of
the Thomas family to care for the
regular hotel patronage. I heard it
told that one time during the fair year
a special train rolled into Durand just
before time for the many evening
trains, and was going to lay over and
let the fast trains by both ways. The
crowd on the train was made up of
none too high class of men from an
Eastern city. They went to the Old
Junction House bar in droves; the de-
lay was long enough to allow the
guests to “tank up” to a degree which
did not savor of good behavior or good
breeding. The affair became more or
less a riot and it is said that Mr.
Thomas walked in, closed the bar and

said, “No more, gentlemen,’ and his
word went, even with obrotests and
damaging threats. I knew Arthur
Thomas as a man of few words,
quickly spoken, but very decisive. He
knew the game of caring for people
well; he exercised his judgment and
ability with marked success. His
name will live as long as any readers
of to-day who knew him lives and
thinks back. Reno G. Hoag.

Novel Advertising Campaign Con-

cluded.

Boyne City, Aug. 31—Twenty-nine
merchants of Boyne City have just
concluded a merchandising campaign
with which they are very much pleas-
ed. Beginning in June each purchas-
er was given a ticket amounting to
one per cent. of cash paid, whether
for new purchases or old accounts paid.
Each week a drawing was made from
the accumulated tickets and two prizes
of $5 each was given to the holders of
the tickets drawn if called for during
the following week. If the tickets
were not called for, it became void and
the drawing was added to that of the
following week. Last Saturday the
final drawing was made in which a
Pontiac car was given to the fortunate
holder of the number drawn.

If the crowd that gathered at the
city park is any criterion, the cam-
paign was a howling success and the
experiment will be repeated next year.
As a means of clearing up slow or
dead accounts, it works fine, aside from
the attraction that a possible _first-
class automobile would have in bring-
ing people to Boyne City to buy.
Coupled with good goods, good prices
and good service, it has proved a win-
ner for Boyne City ae

Charles McCutcheon.

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Presiieut—Claude C. Jones.
Vice-President—James E. Way.
Director—H. H. Hoffman, Lunsing.
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Effect of the Automobile.

The automobile, not in five years,
but in revolutionize
transit, business and housing. There
are 20,000,000 cars in this country to-
day. There will be 5,000,000 more
next year. That means there wil] be
30,000,000 cars burning gasoline on the
highways in this country in 1928.

A car will be no more a luxury than
a pair of shoes; every adult will have
A real estate advertisement will

two years, will

one,
read: ‘Seven-room house: five-car ga-
rage.” A house is a place to sleep in,

the sedan car is the living room. Every
one riding, no one walking; the road-
way crowded, the sidewalks deserted.
If a merchant expects to do business
he must have parking space for his
customers. A department store will
be compelled to go out in the open
and buy a: seven-acre tract—two acres
for the store site. five acres for park-
ing. Parking space will be more es-
sential than the store site. Does it
mean the passing of the main streets
in the cities as shopping centers be-
cause they have no parking facilities?

Motor busses are driving the trolley
companies into bankruptcy. They are
competitors of the suburban railroad,
and all the great railroads realize that
people enjoy riding fifty, one hundred
and five hundred miles in the new
palace busses. The automobile and the
automobile busses have made all prop-
erty twenty-five miles from the center
of our cities and have extended the
suburbs sixty to seventy-five miles.
I believe that in the next five years
there will be an exodus to the suburbs
by people residing in all the large ci-
ties in the country, and eight-tenths of
them will be responsible for the great-
est buying and selling of real estate in
the suburbs of all the great cities the
world has ever known. The Sunday
papers will carry dozens of pages of
suburban real estate advertsiements.
This is no longer a pedestrian world.
It is an automobile world.

Eugene O'Reilly.
——_+-.___
Interesting and Instructive.

The average person is not familiar
with spontaneous combustion, there-
fore a crowd-drawing window display
can be made with the following: Take
a syrup, oil or other metal can or box
and cut out one side, which is placed
it. your window at its front. Then
take three rags, saturate them with
linseed oil and wrap them loosely in
a dry rag. Place the rags in the can
in the window and within a few hours
the rags will become a smoldering
mass, ready to burst into flames. Place
a large sign in the window calling at-
tention to the display and asking the
reader to enquire the cause of the
ignition. Merchandise can be dis-
played in the window, but care should
be taken to place inflammable articles
at a safe distance.

The principle of the combustion is
that linseed oil is fast-drying and when
finely divided on a cotton cloth large

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

quantities of oxygen are absorbed.
This naturally causes heat. The out-
side cloth holds this heat until the
temperature becomes so high that the
cloth burns. Such a display has a
citizenship value as it tends to empha-
size the danger of fire through care-
lessness and ignorance.

-—_—__ +» __
Solution For Poor Payers.

Does your store carry “charge ac-
counts”? Do many of these accounts
take longer than the customary 30
days?

Here is a plan which releases the
retailer from holding the bag of un-
usually long terms.

When your customer opens the ac-
count tell him verbally—or write a
letter explaining that the 30. days’
credit is given for the customer’s con-
venience. He is given 30 days’ credit
because that is the credit granted you
by the firms you buy from. If your
customers do not Pay you every 30
days you must borrow money to pay
your monthly bills—and you pay in-
terest on the money borrowed. There-
fore all accounts not paid at the end
of 30 days (or monthly) will be charg-
ed at the rate of 6 per cent. from that
time on until paid.

On each statement sent customer
containing overdue amounts advise him
that he is being charged interest on
them.

You will find that this plan will ac-
complish more prompt payment from
many customers—and your outstand-
ing bills will be earning interest for
you.

—_~---.—_____
Jack O’Lantern Window.

Let it be known that you will pay
$5 for the largest pumpkin brought
to your store on the Monday before
Hallowe'en. Further that ‘you will
pay double the market price for the
five next largest pumpkins raised by
different growers and brought to your
Store. Arrange a Hallowe'en display
in your store windows by making Jack
O'Lanterns of the pumpkins, using
candles or electric lights for illumina-
tion at night. Use yellow crepe paper,
brown leaves, etc., for background

and fill space between pumpkins with °

articles suited to Hallowe’en and Fall
use. Set the pumpkins on boxes and
drape crepe paper around in dress form
so they resemble grotesque figures.
Place a card on each pumpkin bearing
the name of the grower, viz.: John
Brown, Jack O’Lantern; Hiram Hoff-
man, Jack O’Lantern. A large card in
window should read “The Jack O’-
Lantern Family.” This stunt will give
you an advertising feature, a window
display, and the offer for pumpkins
will create interest among farmers.

——— >. —__.._.
Encourage Heavier Buying.

It is good retailing to educate your
customers to buy in larger quantities,
any merchandise that is sold, ordin-
arily in small quantities and which is
used regularly by the purchaser.

If the article sells at bulk weight
rates—say 5 cents an ounce, price it as
“2 ounces for 10 cents,” or “5 ounces
for 25 cents.”

If it sells by count—say 10 cents
each, price it on the price card as “5
for 50 cents.”

If it is an article that is shipped a

dozen or so to a case, but sold singly
play up the slogan “Buy them by the
box.”

In this way you save many handlings
and wrappings and increase the total
of your sales. Many articles around
your store can be sold in larger num-
bers or weight. Try this plan out on
one or two articles. If they go good it
is worth while extending to other ar-
ticles.

—_>-~—____
“There’s Many a Slip”

Sales slips offer an opportunity for
intimate advertising which should not
be overlooked.

New departments, new: shipments of
merchandise, change of store hours,
new delivery schedules; in fact, any
and all news and special advertising
to your customer can be imprinted on
sales slips with a rubber stamp, using
removable rubber type. These out-

- fits are so inexpensive that if used

only a few times each year, they seem
to be part of the necessary comple-
ment of a store.

For example, you could print the
back of sales slips either through at-
tachment to cash register or with rub-
ber stamp with the following:

SAVE THESE SLIPS

Slips Totalling $25 will be changed
for 50 cents in trade.

The results from this idea can be
traced, after it has been used only a
few days.

—_~+-.___
A Striking Window.

Timeliness is a valuable element in
window advertising. When you can
couple up your window displays, your
newspaper advertisim& or any kind of
publicity with some current event you
are gaining ground with the public.
You have them thinking that you are
up-to-date in your advertising and
consequently your methods and mer-
chandise must be up-to-date. The
number of strikes has been one of the
main topics of the day. Why not set
people to thinking about your store
in connection with this topic the next
time there is a big strike by the fol-
lowing: At a certain time each day
pull down the curtain over one of your
display windows and show a placard:

This window has gone on a strike
and refuses to put in over 8 hours a
day. Well, it shouldn’t take that long
to impress everybody with the merits
of the merchandise in this window.

eo
Get the Other Half.

A good way to get trade to come
into your store on special sale days
is to mail them part of a useful article,
which cannot be used until they call
at your store where they will be given
the missing part.

A little thinking wil] bring out that
many articles lend themselves to this
“match me” mailing. A few sugges-
tions are

For men—Mail front collar button
—call at store for back collar button;
mail stem of pipe—call at store for

bowl mail left hand flannel work
glove—call at store for right hand
glove.

For women—Mail one lingerie pin
or clasp—call at store for other: mail
one-half inexpensive Pair scissors—call
at store for other half,

September 1, 1926

Parading Too Much Filth.

Unless our theatrical managers very
soon get together and take stock of
themselves, they will bring down up-
on the theater a censorship that will
be disastrous and sweeping. What is
more, such a censorship will be de-
served, although I say it who have a
fat contempt for censorship in any
form or direction. But, if things keep
on going as they are presently going,
nothing can stave off that censorship.
Never in the history of the theater of
America has so much filth been pro-
duced as during the past season. Never
has the pandering to the lecherous
tastes of the public been so frank and
epen. If the managers think that they
can much longer get away with such
things, they are mistaken. If they
wish to avoid a censorship whose
whispers are even now becoming audi-
ble, they had best quickly get out the
bar of Sapolio and begin cleaning

house. George Jean Nathan.
—~++>___
Your Work.
Do it cheerfully, even if it is not
congenial.

Do it in the spirit of an artist, not
an artisan,

Make it a stepping stone to some-
thing higher.

Keep yourself in condition to do it
as well as it can be done.

Endeavor to do it better than it has
ever been done before.

Make perfection your aim and be
saisfied with nothing less.

Do not try to do it with a part of
yourself, the weaker part.

Recognize that work is the thing
that dignifies and ennobles life.

Regard yourself as a co-worker with
the Creator of the Universe.

Accept the disagreeable part of it
as cheerfully as the agreeable.

Believe in its worth and dignity, no
matter how humble it may be.

—_2->___
Ancient Styles.

Make a list of old people who trade
at your store. Ask them if they have
stored away any clothing which they
wore while in their youth. Explain
that you wish to make a window dis-
play using their garments to show the
styles of that period. Many people
have wedding clothes, etc., stored
away which they will gladly lend you
On assurance that they will be return-
ed in good condition. Ask them diplo-
matically if they object to your plac-
ing a card in the window stating that
the clothing is their property. This
search will bring forth a lot of good
material for interesting window dis-
plays which will be of local interest.

—__~---.___
Unique Advertising.

If a new cement sidewalk is to be
built in front of your store obtain per-
mission from the proper authorities
for the insertion of.a metal adertising
plate in the cement before it hardens.
These plates can be obtained from
Stamping firms located in any large
city. Easier still you can purchase tile
lettering and have it inserted. Usual-
ly the authorities are glad to grant
such requests as the durability of the
walk is not affected. It gives you a
permanent advertisement at small cost.

 

Reed

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September 1, 1926

New Lemon-Orange Developed.

_ Santa Ana, Calif, Aug. 27—If the
lemon-orange developed by Harry
Shipkey _ proves successful, citrus
farming in Southern California may
be revolutionized. The fruit is half
lemon, half orange. Mr. Shipkey has
exhibited some of the new fruit from
the tree with which he has been ex-
perimenting at his ranch West of Ana-
heim. Southern California’s immense
orchards of oranges and lemons may
become of little value and may be re-
placed by trees growing the new fruit,
it is held.

All the features sought by horticul-
turists for the ideal citrus fruit were
combined in the lemon-orange, Mr.
Shipkey claims. The lemon-orange,
like the lemon, will grow the year
around and is not limited to seasons.
It possesses the hardiness of the
orange, and it will hang on the limbs
of the trees, not dropping to the
ground as lemons do. The pulp re-
sembles an orange in taste. Its ship-
ping qualities surpass those of the or-
ange or lemon. In appearance it has
the color of the orange with the elon-
gated shape of the lemon. Because of
its profuse growth and due to the fact
that it grows the year around, the
crossed fruit will produce much more
than either the orange or the lemon,
it is said.

—_2 2s »____
Driver Salesman.

Nearly every store of any size has
some sort of a delivery system. Some
have only one truck and one delivery.
man while others have a fleet of trucks
and drivers. Regardless of the num-
ber of drivers, however, the point is,
are they salesmen? Most
they should be.

certainly

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Too often drivers are hired without
any thought as to their sales ability.
If they drive well, are prompt,
and are honest; they seem to be the
main requirements. Every driver of
a delivery truck should know how to
sell merchandise and to use that knowl-
edge to the advantage of both himself

can

and the store.

He has more opportunity to sell
goods than the man behind the coun-
ter. He calls on people who are al-

ready customers. He delivers to con-
tractors who may need other goods. He
sees prospects for sales everywhere he
goes. Truly, a delivery man’s sales
should be as large, in many cases, as

the sales of those working inside. In

order to do this. however, the em-
ployer must hire men to drive who
can meet all the requirements of a

man inside, and who has the ability
to sell. I am sure that if every em-
ployer of delivery men would but put
more thought to the ability of these
men and pay them according to their
sales, they would all realize an in-
crease in business.

“Not all salesmen are found behind
the counter.” ;
>
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stamps, ranging in value from one cent
to five dollars each,
the U.S: Engraving and
Printing during the fiscal year which
ended June 30, 1926.

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Acids
Boric (Powd.) .. ug 20
Boric (Xtal) ~~ 15 25
Carpotie 22.2 34

  

Ammonia
Water, 26 deg... 08 @
Water, 18 deg... 07 @
Water, 14 deg... 06 @ Ill
bonate ----.. 20 @
Chloride (Gran.) 09 @

Fir (Oregon) --
Peru 2... 8G
Tolu -.-----.-.-. 3 35@2 &@

Barks
Cassia (ordinary). 25@ 30
Cassia (Saigon)-- 50@ 60
Sassafras (pw. 50c) @ 650
Soap Cut (powd.)
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<< 25

10@ 320
@1 85

Extracts
Licorice ..__----_{ 80@ 665
Licorice, powd. -.. 50@ 60

Armee
Chamomile( Ged.)
Chamomile Rom... @

Sas

Acacia, Ist -..
Acacia, 3nd ..... 45
Acacia, Sorts -..
Acacia, Powdered
Aloes (Barb Pow
Aloes (Cape Pow)
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 65@ 70

Asafoetida ------ 0@
BOW. sooo 75@1 00
Camphor ------ 1 05@1 10

Guaiac <..... @
Guaiac, pow’d __ @1 00
Bing @110
@1 20

Kino, powdered...
Myrr

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rk powdered @ 65
Opium, powd. 19 65@19 92
Opium, gran. 19 65@19 92
Shellac ..._______
Shellac Bleached
Tragacanth, pow.
Tragacanth -.. 1 75@ 3 25
Turpentine -..... @ 320

insecticides
Arsenic ..-......_ 0
Blue Vitriol, bbl._-
Blue Vitriol, less 08 15
Bordea. Mix Dry 13 22
Hellebore, White
powdered -.-...
Insect Powder — 40@ 55
Lead Arsenate Po. 18@ 31
Lime and Sulphur

Ee ea 3 23
Paris Green —..... 20 37

BUCKE 22220
Buchu, powdered
Sage, Bulk -..... 25 30
Sage, % loose -- @ 4
Sage, powdered__ oO 36
Senna, Alex. .... 50 16
Senna, Tinn. --. 30 365
Senna, Tinn. pow. 36
Uva Ural |.

Olle

——— Bitter,
oo — 17 50@7 15
sk Bitter,
artificial ....__ 3 00@3 25
Almonds, Sweet,
true 1 50@1 80
Almonds,

Sweet,
imitation -_-. 1 00@1 25
Amber, crude __ 1 25@1 50
Amber, rectified 1 50@1 75
Anise, 1 25@1 50
Bergamont eee *

   
 

Cajeput ——----.. 1 50@1
Cassia .....--. —. 4 0@4
Castor: 1 40@1 65
Cedar Leaf 1 75@2 00
Citronella 1 256@1 506
Cloves ---. 3 00@3 25
Cocoanut 25@ 35
Cod Liver 1 656@1 85

Croton ..------- 2 00@2 25

nominal, based on market the day of issue.

Cotton Seed -... 1 65@1 75
Cubebs ............ 6 50@6 75
Higeron ---.-.-.. __ 9 00@9 26
Eucalyptus ---- 1 25@1 60
Hemlock, pure-. 1 75@2 00
Juniper Berries. 4 50@4 75
Juniper Wood — 1 50@1 75
Lard, extra -... 1 55@1 65
Lard, No. 1 -... 1 25@1 40
Lavendar Flow__ 7 50@7 75
Lavendar Gar’n 85@1 20
Lemon .....-.. 00@4 25
Linseed, raw, bbl. @ 97
Linseed, boiled, bbl. @1 00
Linseed, bid. less 1 04@1 17
Linseed, rw. less 1 07@1 20
Mustard, artifil. os. @ 35
Neatsfoot ~..... 1 35@1 50
Olive, pure --.. 3 75@4 50
Olive, Malaga,

yellow ~------. 2 75@3 00
Olive, Malag:

green -.--.... 2 75@3 00
Orange, Sweet -. 5 00@5 25
Origanum, pure_ @32 50
Origanum, com’! 1 00@1 20
Pennyroyal —.. 4 00@4 25
Peppermint _. 20 00@20 25

Rose, pure -— 13 60@14 00

Rosemary Flows
a E.

1 25@1 60

—------ 10 50@10 75

Sassafras, true 1 73g? 00
Sassafras, arti’l 75@1 0
Spearmint -__. 10 1 ecol 76
Sperm --—._._ 1 75
Tansey ........ 10 ‘ao@t0 25
ar USP 2 66@ 75
Turpentine, bbl. @1 05
Turpentine, less 1 12@1 25
—_—e

eaf ..-.--.... § 00@6 25
‘Wemmcroen sweet

Dive: 2 3 00@3 25
Wintergreen, art 60@1 00
Worm seed -.... 9 00@9 25
Wormwood --.. 9 00@9 25

Potassium
Bicarbonate ---. 35@ 40
Bichromate ----~ 5@ 25
Bromide -....... 9@ 85
Bromide  ......._. 54@ 71
Chlorate, gran’d. 23@ 30
Chlorate, powd.

Or Atal ..- 16@ 26
Cyanide —..07 8 30@ 9
lodide .—.-_____ 4 66@4 86
Permanganate -. 20@ 30
Prussiate, yellow 65@ 176
Prussiate, red —-_ @1 00
Sulphate --...._ 35@ 40

Roots
Alkanet —....... 30@ 35
Blood, powdered. 35@ 40
Calamus ..-....._ 35@ 75
Elecampane, pwd 25@ 30
Gentian, powd... 20@ 30
Ginger, African,

powdered ----. 30@ 35
Ginger, Jamaica. 60@ 65
Ginger, Jamaica,

powdered ------ 45@ 50
Goldenseal, pow. @8 50
Ipecac, powd. -- @8 00
Licorice --------- 35@ 40
Licorice, powd... 20@ 30
Orris, powdered. 30@ 40
Poke, powdered. 35@ 40
Rhubarb, powd. 75@1 00
Rosinwood, powd. @ 40
Saraaparilia, Hond. ee
Secbepexitin Mexican,
Glycerine  -._----- 32@ 52

i 35@ 40
Squills, powdered 60@ 70
Tumeric, powd... 20@ 25
Valerian, powd.__ @1 00

Seeds

Ane: 2 @ 35
Anise, powdered. 35@ 40
pire, is 13@ 17
Canary .. 10@ 16
Caraway, Po. .30 25@ 30
Cardamon -_--__ 3 75@4 00
peed pow. .30 20@ 25
BE 15@ 20
Fennell i 2G

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Flax, ground --_.. 08@ 16
Foenugreek pow. 15 25

nn 8 16
Lobelia, powd. -- @1 25
Mustard, yellow. 17@ 25
Mustard, black _. 20@ 256
bonny 15@ 30
Quince... 1 = 50

DO: ce ee 15@ 20
Sabadilla ~.-.._.. 38@ 45
Sunflower ------ 11%@ 15
Worm, American 30@ 40
Worm, Levant... 4 50@4 75

Tinctures
Aconite =... @1 80

068 een @1 46

ion @1 10
Asafoetida  __.-- @2 40

Belladonna ------ @1 35
Benzoin @2 10
Benzoin Comp’d_ @2 65
Buchy ae @2 65
Cantharadies -.-- @2 %
Capsicum --.---- @2 20
Catecau —..._.... @1 75
Cischeons. .....—.. @2 10
Colchicum: ...._. @i 30
Cubebs —_._.___.... @3 00
Digitews ...... @1 80
Gentian ------ ea @1 %
Ginger, D. 3S. —— @1 30
Guaiac -..__._.. @2 20
Guaiac, Ammon... @2 00
lading @ %
Iodine, Coloreless @1 60
ten, Cla. .. @1 35
Ming 22 a @l 40

Myrrh —__.____... @2 60
Nux Vomica -.-- @1 65

Opium —.....___... @s 50
Opium, Camp. -- @ %
Opium, Deodors’d @3 50
Rhubarb -------. @i 70

Paints

Lead, red dry ~ 154% @16%
Lead, white dry 154% @16%
Lead, white oil.. 154%@15%
Ochre, yellow bbi. @ 2%
Ochre, yellow less 3@ 6
Red Venet’n Am. 3%@ 7

 

Red Papa Eng. ¢4@ 8
PCRS oe - 5@8
Whiting, bbl. _-- @ 4%
Wie _._...__ 56%4%@q@ 10
L. H. P. Prep... 3 05@3 26
Rogers Prep. -. 3 05@3 26
Miscellaneous

Acetanalid ------ 47@ 56
PA os@ 13
Alum. powd. and

groan 09@ 16
Bismuth, Subni-

rate: 22 3 87@4 07
Borax xtal o

powdered _..{. 07@ 13
Cantharades, po. 1 75@2 00
oe ee ee 2 10@2 30

Capsicum, pow’d 35@ 40
Carmine ........ 7 0 80
Cassia Buds 40
Claves 66
Chalk Prepared__ 144@ 16
Choloroform --.. 51@ 60
Chloral Hydrate 1 35@1 85
Cocaine -...-. 12 10@12 30
Cocoa Butter _. 55@ 175
Corks, list, less. 40-10%
Copperas —....... @ 10
Copperas, Powd. 4@ 10
Corrosive Sublm 1 71@1 92
Cream Tartar -__ 31@ 388
Cuttle bone _-.. 40@ 560
Dextrine -..... 6@ lb
Dover’s Powder 3 60@4 00
Emery, All Nos. 10@ 16
Iimery, Powdered 8@ 1
Epsom Salts, bbls. @
Epsom Salts, less 4%@ lv
Ergot, powdered .. @2 06
Flake, White ---. 15@ 20
Formaldehyde, lb. 13144@30
Gelatine ...-..-. -- 80@ 90
Giassware, less 65%.
Glassware, full case 60%.
Glauber Salts, bbi. aus
Glauber Salts less 04@
Glue, Brown _... 21 30
Glue, Brown Grd 15@ 20
Glue, white -.-. 27%@ 35
Glue, white grd. pb 36
Glycerine es 36@
TAOpSe oo ae 85
Iodine —.._..... 6 45@6 90
Iodoform -.-... 7 36@7 66
Lead Acetate .. 20@ 30
aCe ee @1 50
Mace, powdered ~ @1 60
Menthol 7 50@8 00
Morphine __-. 11 18@11 93
Nux Vomica -~--- 30
Nux Vomica, pow. 17@ 25

Pepper black, pow. 40@ 60
Pepper, White, pw. 50@
Pitch, Burgudry 1340 20

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— 16
Quinine, 5 oz. cans 59
Rochelle Salts ~.. 30 35
Saccharine ~—-~-- 80
Salt Peter --..-.. ll 22

Seidlitzs Mixture. 30@ 40
Soap, green -.-... 15@ 30
Soap mott cast. 22%@ 26
Soap, white castile

case

Soap, white castile

less, per bar —-- 3° 465
Soda Ash
Soda Bicarbonate suo 16
Soda, Sal -.-..- 02% 03
Spirits Camphor- @1 35
Sulphur, roll ---. 3%@ 10
Sulphur. Subl. -. 44%@ 10
Tamarinds -.---.. 20@ 26
Tartar Emetic -. 70@ 15
Turpentine, Ven. 50@ 16
Vanilla Ex. pure 1 75@3 36
Vanilla Ex. pure 3 5093 60
Zine Sulphate __.. 06@ 11

 

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Hamburg Steak
BROS Onions, No. 1 _.---- 3 15
Jewell, doz. -------- 5 26 P. a Sect 4 1 10
Standard Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 25 Potte oe aa. e.
ancy Parlor, 23 lb. _. 9 25 Potted Meat, % y 52%
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 75 eons — 2 3
— Fcy. Parlor 26 lb. 10 44 Pouca Gan. Gen. 7 18
Sat ae Vienna Saus., oO.
Wher, Mo. 3 —---— 2 - Vienna Sausage, Qua. 95
BRUSHES Veal Loaf, Medium -. 2 65
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ---__ 1 50 Baked Beans
Solid Back, 1 in. _--1%6 Campbells, 1c free 5 --1 15
Pointed Ends ------- 125 Quaker, 18 oz. —----- 85
Fremont, No. 2 ------ 1 -
Snider, No. 1  -------
Snider, No. 2 ~.--- a ok 3
=$ via GB te a
Van Camp, Med. -.—
10 Ib. pails, per doz. 8 50
15 ib. pails, per doz. 11 95 CANNED VEGETABLES.
25 Ib. pails, per doz. 19 60
BAKING POWDERS Asparagus.
Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 36 BUTTER COLOR No. 1. Green tips -. 3 75
Queen Flake, 16 oz., dz 2 26 Dandelion, _-----_---. 2 8 No. 2%, Lge. Green : 50
Se Ss EM ie AND TEPmn tan Wo bane ae gt
Royal, 12 oz. cos. 32 muectric Light, 40 tbe, 121 W- Beas, 0 ei os
Raat 6 t ~ 31 20 Plumber. 40 Ibs. -- 186 Green Beans, 10s __ @7 5¢
Rocket, 16 oz.. doz. 1 25 Sacig “na 7. 14% LL. Beans, 2 gr. 1 3502 65
K. C. Brand Wicking __---—_------. 40 a a —, =
Percase Tudor, 6s, per box — 30 EF eee
10c size, 4 doz. -.._... 3 7@ Beets, No. 3, wh. 1 75@2 40
l6c size, 4 doz. ______ 5 60 CANNED FRUIT Beets, No. 2, cut __ 1 26
20c size, 4 doz. __.... 720 Apples, 3 lb. Standard 150 Beets, No. 3, cut —— 1 60
25c size, 4 doz. __-____ 9 20 Apples, No. 10 -_ 4 75@5 75 Corn, No. 2, stan. __ 1 25
50c size, 2 doz. ______ 8 80 Apple Sauce, No. 10 800 Corn, Ex. stan. No. 2 1 55
80c size, 1 doz. ______ 8 85 Apricots, No. 1 1 75@2 4 Corn, No. 2, Fan. 1 80@2 36
10 Ib. size, % doz. ---. 6 76 Apricots, No. 2 --___ 300 Corn, No. 10 -. 8 00@10 75

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

BEECH-NUT BRANDS.

 

Sliced bacon, large __ —_ 5 40
Sliced bacon, medium 8 30
Sliced beef, medium — 2 80
Grape Jelly, large -.. 4 50
Sliced beef, large .-.. 4
Grape Jelly, medium_. 2
Peanut buttes, 16 oz. 4
Peanut butter, 10% oz. 2
Peanut butter, 6% oz. 1
Peanut butter, 3% oz. 1
Prepared Spaghetti -. 1

ed beans, 16 oz.__ 1

be 90 B 8 2 on
SRoass

0
0

>

BLUING
The Original
Condensed

z., 4 dz. es. 3 00
z., 3 dz. es. 3 75

 

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

2 6 3 05
Pillsbury's Best Cer’l 2 20
er Puffed Rice.. 5 60

luaker Puffed Wheat 4 30
juaker Brfst Biscuit 1 90
Ralston Branzos __.. 3 20
Ralston Food, large _. 4 00
Saxon Wheat Food .. 3 90
Vita Wheat, 128 _... 1 80

Post’s Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s __... 8 80
. Grape-Nuts, 2 765

Instant

 

Apricots, No. 2% 3 00@3 75
Apricots, No. 10 _— 8 236
Blackberries, oe 10 10 50
Blueber’s, No. 2 00@2 75
Blueberries, hg 10__ 13 50
Cherries, No. 2 ---. 3 75
Cherries, No. 2% --— 4 50
Cherries, No, 10 —-. 14 00
Loganberries, No. 2 -- 3 =
Loganberries, - 10 10 00

Peaches, No. 1 1 50@3 10

Peaches, No. 1, Sliced 1 25
Peaches, No. ee 2 76
Peaches, No. 2% 3 25
Peaches, 2g “Cal. - os 25
Peaches, 10, ch. — 8 50
Pineapple, 1 sil. -. 1 76
Pineapple, Sos OD
P’apple, 2 br. sl. _— 3 40
P’apple, 2%, sli. ---. 3 00
P’apple, 2, cru. --— 3 60
Pineapple, 10 cru. -. 9 50
Pears, No. 2 ------ —- 316
Pears, No. 2% -.---. 4 25
Plums, No. 2 _ 2 40@2 60
Plums, No. 2% ------ 90
Raspberries, No. 2, bik 2 90

Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 13
b’s, B

No. 10 12 00
Rhubarb, No. 10 4 75@5 60
Strawberries, No. 10 12 00

CANNED FISH
Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1
Clam Ch., No. 3 3
Clams, Steamed, No. 1 2
Clams, Minced, No. 1 3
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.. 2
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2
Fish Flakes, small -- 1
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1
Cove Oysters, 5 a
Lobster, No. %, 8 -_?

Sardines, 4 Oil, k’less 5
Sardines. 4% Smoked 6
Salmon, Warrens, \%s 2 80
Salmon, Red Alaska 3 75
Salmon, Med. Alaska 3 15
Salmon, Pink Alaska 1 90
Sardines, Im. \%, ea. 10@28

Sardines, Im., %, ea. 5
Sardines, Cal. _. 1 &@1 80
Tuna, %, Albocore __ 95

Tuna, %4s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
Tuna, %s, Curtis, doz. 3 5€
Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz. 7 00
CANNED MEAT.
Bacon, Med. Beechnut 3 30
Bacon, Lge Beechnut 5 40
Beef, ag 1, Corned __ 3

ee
Beet, No. 2%, Qua. sli. 1 ee

Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, Ib. 45
Mushrooms, Hotels -... 37
Mushrooms, Choice 8 oz. 48
Mushrooms, Sur Extra 60
Peas, No. 3, E. J. 1 65
Peas, No. Z, Sift,

June
Peas, No. oe Ex. Sift.
EB. J.

Pumpkin, No. 3 1 35@1 45
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 00@4 75
Pimentos, %, each 12@14
Pimentoes, %, each

Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 3
Saurkraut, No. 3 1 40@1 50
Succotash, No. 2 1 65@2 60

Succotash, No. 2, glass 2 80
Spinach, No. 1 ~---.. 1 25
Spinach, No. 2__ 1 60@1 90
Spinach, No. 3__ 2 10@2 50
Spinach, No. 10__ 6 00@7 00
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 05@1 25
Tomatoes, No. 2 glass 2 60
Tomatoes, No. 3, 1 90@1 80
Tomatoes, No. 10 — 6 0
CATSUP.

B-nut, Small --_._._._ 1 #0
Lily of Valley, 14 oz. _. 3 60
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 75
Paramount, 24, 8s _-. 1 46

Paramount, 24, 16s —. 2 4@
10 -

Paramount, 6, 10s ~-
Sniders, 8 oz.
Sniders, 16 oz.
Quaker, 8% oz.

 

: 1
Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 00

CHILI SAUCE

Snider, 16 oz. --_-- — 3 36
Snider, 8 oz. ~-----~ — 2 36
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. __ 2 26
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. _. 3 50

OYSTER COCKTAIL.

Sniders, 16 oz. --__.. 3 50
Sniders, 8 oz. --_--- _ 2 60
CHEESE
Roquefort ~-----___._. 52
Kraft, Small ting -.__ 1 65
Kraft, American  _.__ 1 65
Chili, small tins __.. 1 ©
Pimento. small tins __ 1 65
Roquefort, small tins 2 25
Camenbert. small tins 2 25
Wisconsin New --_--__ 24
Longhorn ._- ~~~. 25

Mich. Flat Full Cream “
Michigan Dasies ----
New York New 1926 _ re
ea SaeO oo 38
Serie 29
CHEWING GUM.
Adams Black Jack ---. 65
Adams Bloodberry ---- 66
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 -.-------_ —. 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys — 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65
Juicy Fruit  —.---_----. 66
Wrigley’s P-K __.---- 65
ee
TeROeITy. .2o 65
COCOA.

Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib._. 8 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 35

Droste’s Dutch, 5 lb. 60
Chocolate Apples -... 4 60
Pastelles No. 1 - -_- 12 60
Pastelles, % Ib. --. 6 60
Pains De Cafe ___-__ 3 60
Droste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2 00
Delft Pastelles _..... 2 15
1 cha — Tin Bon
Bea 18 00
7 og "Rose Tin Bon
Mong 2
13 oz. cae De Cara-
Oe 13 20
12 oz. Rosaces ---_--- 10 80
1% lb. Rosaces -.---- 7 80
¥% Ib. Pastelles _.---- 3 40
Langues De Chats __ 4 80
CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, %s --. 37
Baker, Caracas, %s --. 35
COCOANUT
Dunham's

15 Ib, case, %s and 4s 48

a5 1b: case, “4S 47
15 Ib. case, %S -------- 46
CLOTHES LINE.
Hemp, 50 ft. _.__ 2 00@2 25

Twisted Cotton,

po tt. 2 3 50@4 90
Braided, BO te 2 25
Sash Cord -_.. 3 50@4 00

 

HUME GROCER CO.

ROASTERS
MUSKEGON, MICE

 

COFFE ROASTED

1 Ib. Package
Melrose 2.8 By
tabperty,
Guaker skcecs Me
eR rO Wy og
Morton House _...... 48

Oe ge
Royal Club -.-._.____ — 43

McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh
Vacuum packed. Always

fresh. Complete line of

gt grade bulk coffees.

F. McLaughlin & Co.,
Chicago.

Maxwell House Brand.
2 3b) Sin 60
3 ting 220 a
Telfer Coffee Co. Brand
Boxay oe

Coffee Extracts

M. Y., per .100 --_--_
Frank’s 50 pkgs. -. 4 25
Hummel’s 50 1 Ib. 10%

CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 dos, ____-___ 6 75
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 50

EVAPORATED MILK
Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. _. 4 65
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. : 55
Quaker, ion, % ds. 4

be
Biue Grass, Tall 48 .. 4 65

Blue Grass, Baby, 96 4 55
Blue Grass, No. 10 — 4 50
Carnation, Tall, 4 dos. 5 00
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 4 90
Every Day, Tall ---- 5 00
Every Day, Baby ---- 4 90
Pet, Tal .._._.{._.....-. 5 00
Pet, Baby, 8 oz. ---- 4 90
Borden’s Tall ----- _- 5 00
Borden’s Baby ------ 4 90
Van Camp, Tall ---.. 4 90
Van Camp, Baby ---- 3 76

CIGARS
G. J. Johnson’s Brand

G. J. Johnson Cigar,
10c

Tunis Johnson Cigar Co.

Van Dam, l6éc ---- 175 00
Little Van Dam, 5c — 37 66

Worden Grocer Co. Brands
Master Piece, 50 Tin_ 36 00
Canadian Club 35 00
Idttie Tom —..-. 8 37 60
Tom Moore Monarch 75 00
Tom Moore Panatella 75 00
T. Moore Longfellow 95 00

Tom M. Invincible 115 00
Websteretts  ----... 37 60
Webster Cadillac -... 75 00

Webster Knickbocker 95 00
Webster Belmont-_-_-110 00

Webster St. Reges__125 0@
Starlight Perlas -... 90 00
Starlight P-Ciub — 1 35 00
Tiona: 2. ae 8
Clint Ford... .. 00
CONFECTIONERY

Stick Candy Pails
Standard)... 16
Jumbo Wrapped --... 19

Pure Sugar Sticks 600s 4 20
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 20

Mixed Candy
Kindergarten 220; 17
LOAGRr 16
Ag. Oy ee —- 12
French Creams ~----.-- 16
Cameo) 22 19
Grocers 2220 13

Fancy Chocolates

5 lb. Boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 70
Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 70
Milk Chocolate A A 1 70
Nibble Sticks ~----_.. 1 85
No. 12, Choc., Light — 1 65

Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 80
Magnolia Choc  -..... 1.16
Gum Drops Pails
Avge 16
Champion Gums --.---- 16
Challenge Gums --..-. 14
Pavorite ooo 19
Superior, Boxes -.--. a BO
Lozenges Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges

A. A. Pink Lozenges 16
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 16
Motto Hearts  -_-_--_- 19
Malted Milk Lozenges 21
Hard Goods Pails
Lemon Drops --..--.... 19
O. F. Horehound dps. — 19
Anise Squares ~.--.-..- 19
Peanut Squares ~_-..... 18
Horehound Tablets -_.. 19
Cough Drops Bxs
Puna 8 2 1 35
Smith Bros, 2... 1 50
Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows
4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 85

4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 3 40

Speciaities
Walnut Fudge __---.--- 22
Pineapple Fudge  -.-... 21
Italian Bon Bons -_.-.. 17
Banquet Cream Mints. 30
Silver King M.Mallows 1 50
Walnut Sundae, 24, 5e¢ 80
Neapolitan, 24, 5c --_-_ 80
Yankee Jack, 24, 5c —_. 80
Mich. Sugar Ca.. 24, 5e 80
Pal O Mine, 24, 5c --.. 80
Say Mister, 24, 5¢ ----._ 80

Malty Milkies, 24, 5c —. 80

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic grade 2 56
100 Economic grade 4 50
500 Economic grade 20 00
1000 Economic grade 37 60

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

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 Ib. boxes ......--....

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
N. Y. Fey., 50 Ib. box 15%
N. Y. Fey., 14 ox. pkg. 16

Apricots

 

Evaporated, Choice — 86
Evaporated, Fancy __ 35
Evaporated, Slabs  _. 27
Citron
10 Ib. box —.. “a
Currants
Packages, 14 os. _.. 16
Greek, Bulk, lb, -..... 16
Dates
Dromedary, 36s ...... 6 76
Peaches

Evap. Choice, un. .... $7
Evap. Ex. Fancy, P. P. 8¢
Peel

Lemon, American -..... 94
Orange, American -.._ &

Raisins.

Seeded, bulk ~.________ 09%,
Thompson's s’dles blk 10
Thompson’s seedless,
DOR So ke
Seeded, 15 oz, _.....we 14

California Prunes
99@100, 26 lb. boxes _@08
60@70, 25 lb. boxes _.@10

50@60, 25 Ib. boxes ._@11
40@50, 25 lb. boxes __@12
30@40, 25 lb. boxes _.@15
20@30, 25 lb. boxes ~" @22

FARINACEOUS GOODE:

Beans
Med. Hand Picked — 8%
Cal. Limas — 13

 

Brown, Swedish -...._ 08

 

Red Kidney
Farina
24 packages ..--...__.
Bulk, per 100 Ibs. —-.. oem
Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks .. 8 60
Macaroni

Mueller’s Brands
§ oz. package, per dos. 1 30
9 oz. package, per case 3 60
Elbow, 20 Ib., bulk — 3 40
Egg Noodle, i2 Ibs. — 2 22
Egg Noodles, 6 ozs. _ 3 66

 

 

 

 

 

Macaroni, 9 oz. 3 60
Spaghetti, 9 oz. _.. 3 60
Quaker, 2 doz. _..... 3 90
Pearl Barley
Chester —... 4 60
D000: ee
Barley Grits 50
Pese
Seotch, Ib... OK
Split, lb. yellow os
Split green -_-. to]
Sage
East India 19
Tapioca
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks _. 97%
Minute, 8 oz., 3 dom. 4 0
m. Instant .. 3 5
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

 

PURE

% ounce
- 1% ounce .
2% ounce

Dos.
Vanilla

00 _..2 ounce
50 _ 4 ounce

UNITED FLAVOR
imitation Vanilla
ounce, 10 cent, dos.
ounce, 15 cent, dos.
ounce, 25 cent, dos.
ounce, 30 cent, dos
Jiffy Punch
doz. Carton _
Assorted flavors.
FLOUR
Vv. C. Milling Co. Brands
Lily White 9 90
Harvest Queen  -.__-- 9 80
Yes Ma’am Graham,
50s. 2 _. 2 40

FRUIT CANS
O. B. Grand Rapids
Mason,
Hall pint 22 8 25
(ne Hint 8 35
One quart -_.....-.. 9 60
Half gallon ___.... _- 12 60

ideal Glass Top.
ubbers.

Half pint oe

One ‘pint 2

1
1
3 20
3
5

o mene
co 8=— be
= BSaS

 

F.

9 50
80

9
One quart —------.-.. 11 75
Half gallon .......... 15 76

 

 

 

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September 1, 1926

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

catsandloesi

 

86 oz., 1 doz. case _. 6 00

3% 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., 5 0%. -------
JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 Ib. pails ---- 3 30

Imitation, 30 lb. pails 1 75

Pure, 6 oz.. Asst, doz. 1 10

Buckeye, 18 oz., doz. 2 00
JELLY GLASSES

8 oz., per doz.
OLEOMARGARINE

Van Westenbrugge Brands
Carload Distributer

 

Nucoa, 1 Ib.
Nucoa, 2 and 5 lb. __. 26%
Wilson & Co.’s Brands

Certified 22.0 2514
NGG oe 20

Special Rou 2.0 25%

MATCHES

Swan, 144... - 4 75
Diamond, 144 box ____ 6 25
Searchlight, 144 box_. 6 25
Ohio Red Label, 144 bx 4 75
Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box 6 25
Ohio Blue Tip, 720-1c 4 50

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

MOLASSES

Qe

 

Goid Brer Rabbit

No. 10, 6 cans to case 5 70
No. 5, "12 cans to case 5 95

, 24 cans to cs. 6 20
* 36 cans to cs. 5 15
Green Brer Rabbit
No. 10, 6 cans to case 4 46
No. 5, 12 cans to case 4 70
No. 2%, 24 cans to cs. 4 95
No. 1%, 36 cans to cs. 4 20

Aunt Dinah Brand
No iv, 6 cans to case 3 00
No 5, 12 cans o case 3 25
No. 246, 24 cans o cs. 3 50
No. 1%, 36 cans oe ce 3 00

New Orleans
Upen Kettle -- 74

No. :
No. 1

Fancy
a

"Half barrels 5c extra
Molasses in Cans
Dove. 36, 2 ib Wh. L. d »6
Dove, 24, 24% Ib Wh. L 5 20
Dove, = 2 Ib. Black 4 %@
Dove, 24 . 2% Ib. Black 3 $0
Dove. 6, “10 lb. Blue L 4 45
Palmetto, 24, 2% Ib. 5 25

NUTS,

Whole
Almonds, Terregona__ =
5

Fancy mixed ae
Filberts, Sicily ------ 28
Peanuts, Virginia Raw 0942
Peanuts, Vir. roasted 10%
Peanuts, Jumbo, rstd 10%

Peanuts, Jumbo, rstd 11%
Pecans, 3 star -....- 24
Pecans, Jumbo -_-_--- 40
Pecans, Mammoth -. 60

Walnuts, California -. 25
Salted Peanuts.
Fanoy, No. 1 -------- 14
Jumbo 17

Shelied. os

Peanuts, Spanish, _
125 Ib. baggs --..-- 11%
Filberts  -.-~-_---- 22S ee

 

Pacans 4 10
Walnuts ...---------<s 70

OLIVES.
Bulk, 5 gal. keg ---. 8 60
Quart Jars, dozen -_ 5 75
Bulk, 2 gal. keg ---.- 3 60
Bulk, 3 gal. keg ---- 5 25
Pint, Jars, dozen ___. 3 25
4 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 1 35
56% oz. Jar, pl., doz. 1 60
9 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 2 36
20 oz. Jar, Pl. doz.__ 4 25
3 oz. Jar, Stu., doz. 1 35
6 oz. Jar, stuffed, dz. 2 50
9 oz. Jar, stuffed, doz. 3 50
12 a Jar, eo
ee 4 50@4 75
20" a ae stuffed dz. 7 00
RiS GREEN

 

Bel Car-Mo Brand
24 1 Ib. pails .....___.

8 oz., 2 doz. in case
5 Ib. pails, 6 in crate
12.23 Wb. pails.
14-1). pale 2
66 ib. ting. 20s
26 1b. pails .._-

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Iron Barrels
Perfection Kerosine __ 16.6
Ked Crown Gasoline,
Tank Wagon ------. 19.7
Solite Gasoline ~--.-__ 22.7
Gas Machine Gasoline 41.1
V. M. & P. Naphtha 24.6
Capitol Cylinder ___-__ 39.2
Atlantic Red Engine 21.2
Winter Black 2.2

--eeee ee

larine

Iron Barrels.

Eight oo 62.
ee ee 64.2
TORTS 66.2
Special heavy .----- ae -
Extra heavy --------- 70.

Priaarnienion OF 63. 3
Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1 50

Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2 25

 

Parowax, £00°3D; = 9.3
Parowax, 40, 1 “Lb. 2G
Parowax, 20, 1 Ib. -- 9.7
Semdac, 12 -pt. cans 2 70
Semdac, 12 qt. cans 4 60
PICKLES

Medium Sour
Barrel, 1600 count __ 17 00
Half bblis., 800 count 9 00

5 gallon, 400 count -- 4 75
Sweet Smail

30 Gallon, 3000 ~----- 42 00

5 gallon, 500 -------- 8 25
Dill Pickles.

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

PIPES.
Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20
PLAYING CARDS
Battle Axe, per doz. a
Dicycle —-------------- 7
POTASH
Babbitt’s, 2 doz.

FRESH MEATS
Beef
Top Steers & Heif. @17%

Good Steers & H’f. 14@16
Med. Steers & H’f. 13%@15

Com. Steers & H’f. 10@12%
Cows 3
Gig 0 eee eee a 4
Good  —..------------- 13
Medium ------------- 12
Common ------------ 10
Veal. -
Top ------------------ :
Gbod. 505 19%
Medium  -..-—.------.-- 16
Lamb.
Spring Lamb ------- 30
CGoge 2 28
Medium -—-~----------- =
Pont oo 24
Mutton. :
Goon oo y
Moediim 2-2.
Poor 652565556 12%

   
 

Pork.

Pighe Hors: eS 19
Medium hogs —_ 20
Heavy hogs ----- a 2s
OTs, Med. se 23
Pat 25
PrIIOLOR Sor 20
SBPArering. 2 15
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 :tlierces 222: 16%
60 lb. tubs ___.advance \%
50 Ib. tubs -___-advance %
20 Ib. pails _...advance %
10 Ib. pails _.._.advance %
5 Ib. pails .__.advance 1
3 Ib. pails ___.advance 1
Compound tierces ____ 15%
Compound, tubs .____- 16
Sausages

 

Vanaon Jenied 35

Headcheese __-------_ 18
Smoked Meats

Hams, Cer., 14-16 Ib. 34

Hams, Cert., 16-18 lb. 36
Ham, dried beef

BOCs es ese as @32
California Hams ~_ @24

Pienic Boiled

Hams
Boiled Hams
Minced Hams —_.__ @19
acon 2.4 aT a

Beet
Boneless, rump 26 00@28 0vu
Rump, new __ 27 00@30 0v
Mince Meat.
Condensed No. 1 car. 2 00
Condensed Bakers brick 31
Moist in glass ------ 8 00

 

Pia’s Feet
Cooked in Vinegar
Se COIN. oa 2 50
% bhis., 35 Iba. —2._ 4 50
te BDA. 2 10 00
P Dee -25 00
Kits, 15 Ibs. 1 75
\% bbls., 40 lbs = 8 BO
%. bbis.;. 80 dbs: 5. 5 00
Casings
Hogs, per Ib. --~----- 63
Beef, round set -__- 30030

Beef, middles, set_. @1 75
Sheep, a skein__ 2 00@2 25

RICE
Fancy Blue Rose ---- 07%
Fancy Head —.-..---.-. 10%
Broken —--------------- 05
ROLLED OATS
Silver Flake, 12 Fam. 2 25
Quaker, 18 Regular __ 1 80
Quaker, 12s Family -. 2 70
Mothers, 12s, M’num 3 26
Nedrow, 12s, China -. 3 25
Sacks, 90 Ib. Jute __ 2 90
Sacks. 90 lb. Cotton -_ 2 95
Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sks. 3 50
RUSKS.
Holland Rusk Co.
Brand
{8 roll packages ._--- 2 30
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SAL SODA

Granulated, bbls. 1
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Gon. eee 1 40
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Whole Coq 220 11%
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Rising Sun, per doz.
654 Stove Enamel, dz.

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Med. No. 1, 100 Ib. bg. 83
Farmer Spec., 70 Ib. 90
Packers Meat, 56 Ib. 87
Crushed Rock for ice
cream, 100 Ib.. each 75

Butter Salt, 280 Ib. bbl.
Block, 50 Ib.

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Wont. 10 tex _..... 50
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Palm Olive, 144 box 11 00
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Odtagon oe 6 35
Pummo, 106 box ___. 4 86

Sweetheart. 100 box _ 5 70
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 10
Grandpa Tar, 50 Ige. 3 50
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Gold Dust, 12 Large 3 2C¢
Golden Rod, 24 -.---- 495
Jas S dos). 3 4 50
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Cassia, Canton ------ @25
Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40
Ginger, African —-_--- @15
Ginger, Cochin —___-- @30
Mace, Penang __---.-- 1 10
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Nutmegs, 70@90 -... @78
Nutmegs, 105-110 _.... @70
Pepper, Black ------ @45

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Ginger, Corkin __--_- @38
Mustard @32
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Pepper, Black -~-@50
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TMOG, 3 OR. 6c 90
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Cream, 48-1 —..-_.... 4 80

Quaker, 40-1 _........- 07
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Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs. 2 96

Argo, 8, 5 Ib. pkgs. -. 3 35

Silver Gloss, 48, Is -. 11%

Flastic, 64 pkgs. --.. 5 35
Tiger, 48-5. 3 50
"Tiger, 60. 308. 6 06
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Corn
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Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 23
Blue Karo, No. 10 __ 3 03
Red Karo, No. 1% -. 2 64
ted Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 61
Red Karo, No. 10 -. 3 41

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Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4 19
Orange, No. 10 -..._- 3 99

Maple.

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THE PLACE OF JESUS

In the Life of the Average Business
Man,

The circumstances which led to the
writing of this article grew out of my
desire to help young men attending
the University of Illinois in their re-
ligious thinking.

I noticed that manufacturing firms
offer prizes for the best essays con-
their products; that
contests with

special
conduct
money rewards for the selection of an

cerning
restaurants

apt name; that newspapers sometimes
throw out the challenge to their read-
ers in various tests of ingenuity for the
stimulation of popular interest; that
the university itself from time to time
suggests questions in agriculture, com-
merce, economics and world relations
on which they ask students to write
either in contest for money prizes or
simply as a means of mental quicken-
ing and discipline.

These considerations led me to offer
prizes for the best essays on the ques-
tion, “Should the life and teachings
of Jesus Christ have a constant place
thought and life of students?”

The response has justified the ex-
pense. Students have written in thank-
ing me for arousing their thought up-
Some have said that

in the

on this question.
until the question was put to them they
had never given any thought to the
relation of Jesus to their own living.
Moreover, the discussion has opened
up the possibility of a National inter-
est. I received a letter of enquiry as
to whether such a contest might not
be held at Yale university. I replied
that of
donor were found who would give the
prizes, as I did not feel able to finance
But the very
fact that the question was asked me
has led me to think that the contest
might be carried to many colleges and
universities and thus help in bringing
the student body of our Nation to face

course it could be, if some

a National undertaking.

squarely the question of whether our
spiritual conceptions of Christianity
are myths or realities.

still
not

The question, I believe, has a
application, It
only students in their university days,

wider concerns
but men in the business and profes-
In other words, have the
life and teachings of Jesus Christ a
practical bearing on men in all rela-
tionships?

sional world.

We are bound to be influenced by
contact with,
whether material or spiritual, A small
shrub measuring only a few inches in
height found the
regions, transplanted into Central [lli-
nois, becomes a tree fifty or sixty feet
high. This has been made _ possible
by change of climate and soil. What
happens to the plant happens to us in
our spiritual life. We are influenced
by our environment, our companion-
ships and by the ideas we accept.

The most tangible, concrete and un-
derstandable conceptions of religion
center in Jesus Christ. We have his
words, which we can study; his exam-
ple, which we can allow; his conversa-
tions with many commonplace peo-
ple, such as we meet to-day, and his
spirit as revealed in the world’s great-

whatever we come in

growing in arctic

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

est tragedy when, hanging on the
cross, he uttered the words so appeal-
ing to every one, although so difficult
to follow, “Father, forgive them; they
know not what they do!”

Speculations about God, except as
he is revealed in Jesus Christ, tend to
take on the form of philosophy. They
lack personality, so much so that many
wonder when they see the God of
nature as manifested in the earthquake,
the cyclone, the lightning stroke and
the tidal wave sweeping away the in-
nocent, the helpless, the good as well
as the evil, whether he can be a God
of justice, mercy and love. But when
they see Christ as the revelation of
God, in which exists every quality we
call great in character, strength com-
bined with gentleness, courage united
to mercy, scatching denunciation of
sin tempered by forgiveness to the
sinner, men can discover the human-
ness as well as the transcendent ma-
jesty of God.

The man to-day who inspires the
most confidence is the one who is
known to have best grasped the under-
standing of the life and teachings of
Jesus and is honestly trying to carry
them out.

We wonder sometimes why men are
indifferent to the teachings of Jesus,
which are manifestly so wonderful and
so helpful in their practical implica-
tions. We cease to wonder when we
ask ourselves why are men so care-
less of their physical welfare, ruining
their health by habits and practices
they know are injuring them; why men
are so indifferent to business success,
neglecting opportunities within their
knowledge and reach; and why men
are so neglectful of the welfare of our
city and our Nation politically, refusing
to go to the polls and vote.

If you can answer these questions,
you can answer that paramount query
why men neglect to study and prac-
tice the teachings of Jesus Christ, Fol-
lowing the example of Christ would
lead us to safeguard our health. Many
a lesson of practical wisdom in politics,
business and domestic life can be
learned from his sayings. His entire
life was devoted to making homes hap-
Py, politics clean, business honest and
social life moral.

“Bring me a_ penny,” Jesus said.
“Whose superscription is this ” They
answered, “Ceasar’s.” “Render unto
Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,
and to God the things that are God’s,”
was Jesus’ reply.

Jesus drove out the money changers
from the temple, declaring, “My house
shall be called a house of prayer, but
ye have made it a den of thieves,” thus
forever protecting the sanctuary of
God from commercialism and dishon-
esty. He rebuked the mob that would
have stoned the woman taken in adul-
with the scathing words, “Let
him that is without sin among you
cast the first stone.” To the lonely
he brought comfort with the words,
“Not a sparrow falleth to the ground
without your Faither’s notice,” and
to the bearers of burdens he said,
“Come unto me all ye that are weary
and heavily laden and I will give you
rest.”

These revelations of the character of

tery

God have revolutionized the thought
of the world.

We have much to say these days
about self-expression on the part of
our youth. More nearly is it the truth
to say they express their environment,
the leadership of the men with whom
they are surrounded. If their elders
are indifferent to the claims of religion,
youth is indifferent; if men are sloth-
ful, they are slothful; if their ladies are
materialistic, youth becomes material-
istic and probably intensifies the faults
which they copy. It is equally true
that if leaders among men devote them-
selves to the cultivation of the spirit-
ual life, youth will do the same. We
sometimes speak of bad habits as
though they alone could be catching.
Good habits are just as contagious.

America is fast approaching the
turning point at which Rome was
heading at the time of Christ’s coming
to earth. Can Americans grasp the
truth the Romans refused to accept
before it is too late

William F.
——__+9__
What Religion Demands of Industry.

By religion I mean not the church,
or any of its spokesmen, but the in-
visible spiritual order. I should not
have used the word “demand,” speak-
ing in my own name, nor even in the
name of the church. The church has
the right to demand only that the men
of industry obey the laws of the spirit-
ual order, which are the laws under-
lying society.

Business men recognize the impera-
tive character of the laws of nature.

Pelham.

September 1, 1926

They know that modern industrial so-
ciety has grown up in the course of a
century and a half and that its stupen-
dous achievements are the direct out-
come of science; the systematic knowl-
edge of natural forces and materials
and their application to large scale
production.

But industry deals also with another
realm: that of human beings and hu-
man society. This realm is universal
also, like the natural world, and its
laws are as binding, as wholesome, or
as destructive as the laws of nature.
It is these laws of human action ang
human association and this spiritual
order which constitute the real reli-
gion which makes categorical demands
upon industry and does not argue or
entreat.

Modern business recognizes the im-
portance of industrial research into
chemistry, physics, and other fields of
natural science, and understands and
subsidizes the pure the
colleges, knowing its practical value.

The next great step, which has al-
ready begun, is industrial research into
the laws of human personality and re-
lationships, psychology and group psy-
chology, and, supremely, the purpose
and trends of the divine government of
the world. If are not
known in the factory, or are ignorant-
ly or knowingly violated, they are
more terribly destructive than mixing
wrong chemicals, for they have the
capacity to wreck civilization. Indus-
trial conflicts like that recently in
progress in the coal industry can only

research of

laws

these

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the social field of the mine disaster in
Oklahoma.

A great advance will have been made
when this is recognized. Business men
will then walk humbly in the presence
of the unseen God as they deal with
human beings as they now walk cir-
cumspectly among the forces of nature.
They will be slow to exploit a fellow
man. They would as soon lay hands
on a live wire as to treat anybody with
vindictiveness or injustice. They will
test the motives which actuate them-
selves and their organizations as rig-
orously as they now require their tech-
nicians to work in their particular field.

The basic demand on industry on
the part of religion is a new heart.
I mean by this a stronger and higher
motive than money making. The gift-
ed men who direct our industries, from
foremen upward, were meant to be un-
selfish leaders of humanity in the eco-
nomic field. In the mind of God, who
distributes talent, they have been given
power to become good shepherds, to
use Christ’s symbolism. But when
they use these gifts to exploit their fel-
lows and enrich themselves they be-
come what Christ called “hireling shep-
herds.”

The results are terrible and so man-
ifest that nobody can fail to see them.
On the one side wealth and luxury,
on the other side hard pressed masses
of population. Something more dan-
gerous even than this takes place.
When the mass of workers see their
natural leaders looking after them-
selves and realize their helplessness as
individuals, they organize and use their
mass power, first to wrest concessions
and higher wages, and finally to crush
the capitalistic system. This is the
class struggle. It is ominous. It holds
in leash the wars of the future. The
leaders of an individualistic industry
have brought it upon themselves.

One way out is to fight to a finish.
One cannot but be apprehensive with
regard to the misguided men on both
sides who believe this is the right way.
There can be but one final outcome—
the triumph of the vaster numbers,
usually through the enormous losses
of life and property. But the divine
way out is not violence, but the early
dominance of another motive: the de-
sire for the more abundant life of
humanity and acceptance of the prin-
ciple of co-operation.

I do not say that the acquisitive
spirit is wrong in itself, any more than
sex instinct is wrong. The acquisitive
spirit is the desire to possess, which is
natural and wholesome. Its dominance
as a motive in the hearts of business
men—and need I say in labor as well?
must come to be the well-being and
happiness, first of those who work with
them, then of the consuming public,
and finally of the wider groups with
whom they come in contact. The
stress of industry must turn especially
to lift the economic status of the un-
skilled, the low paid, and those who

‘live on the borderland of want and

within its shadows.

This means that all men of power
in each generation shall become good
shepherds, democratic leaders of a
more democratically organized indus-

try, holding their establishments as
social trusts and their function to pro-
duce economic resources for the
abundant life of their fellows.

To put it in another way, religion
now demands that industry shall take
its place beside education, medicine,
and religion in the struggle for human
life; education for the training of
youth, medicine for public health, re-
ligion for the soul of man, industry
for the resurces which make all else
possible.

Religion relies not on physical force
but upon the goodness in men’s hearts,
upon teaching and upon the silent
working of God’s spirit. The coercive
power of religion is greatly underesti-
mated. It is or should be the church’s
one reliance and the field of its greatest
endeavors. The best I can do is to
lay these demands of religion before
any business men who read this arti-
cle. Action lies with them.

It is the duty of the church to teach
and of the laity to work out the prin-
ciples in banking, manufacturing, mer-
chandising, and transportation. Out
of the new motive, once in operation,
will come, without violence, co-opera-
tion, increased production, higher
wages, labor representation, control of
intermittency, sharing the hardships of
the unemployed, and the safety and
equal opportunities of woman workers.

It is not difficult to know what to
do, once a man has made up his mind
and broken through his fears, his self-
ishness, and his inertia. What is need-
ed is action, study of what Christ and
the prophets have taught in the light
of the problems of industry and as ap-
plied to them, and more study by em-
ployers of the experiments which are
taking place in this and other lands.

Worth M. Tippy, D. D.
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Expect Good Notions Demand.

Fall activity in notions is slowly
getting under way. Some business
from retailers has already been booked
and in a number of instances salesmer
will start on the road next week with
the new merchandise, particularly
holiday lines. The outlook for rubber
goods notions is described as notably
good, following the highly satisfactory
business done for the Summer. Rub-
berized silk will be stressed in a num,
ber of the new items which will be
offered the trade. Among these are
sets featuring a combination of powder
puff holder and garters to match, de-
veloped in bright shades. One firm
will offer a new type of garment
hanger made of bendable steel covered
with a shirred ribbon in bright colors.
This hanger may be taken apart anc
put away conveniently in a suit case.
New developments in sanitary good:
will also be offered the trade. Dress
shields have had a good Summer de-
mand and are also expected to meet
with some demand for the early Fall.

—_——_o- -____

Japan, it is formally announced, has
reversed her emigration policy. While
a good many Americans are still apolo-
gizing for the action of Congress in
so brusquely ending the Japanese-
American “gentleman’s agreement”
on immigration, the Japanese announce
they will keep their people at home

to develop their own possessions. Sur-
plus population from the home islands
will be encouraged to go to Formosa,
Hokkaido and other Nipponese terri-
tories. Tokio announces that the old
policy of sending Japanese where they
were not wanted led to trouble and
bad feeling and will be dropped. If
the new plan is carried out the drift
of Japanese to South America will be
checked by special legislation. Re-
sponsible Japanese expect no change
in American legislation and have ap-
parently accepted the situation. If
the word from Tokio has any political
meaning for America it means the
Japanese prefer and hope that agita-
tion on this side of the Pacific will
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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. If set in
capital letters, double price. No charge
less than 50 cents. Smal! display adver-
tisements in this department. $4 per
inch. Payment with order is required, as
amounts are too small to open accounts.

 

FOR SALE—General stock, fixtures and
store building located sixty miles from
Grand Rapids. Inventory $18,000. Ad-
dress Sec’y, D. Leenhouts, White Cloud,
Mich. 363

For Sale—Bazaar store in town of 4,000
Southwestern Michigan. Good business
town. Many manufacturing industries.
Address No. 364, c/o Michigan Trades-
man. . : 364

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY—For quick
sale, at Boyne Falls, Michigan. Fifty-
barrel flour mill, elevator storage for
30,000 bushels grain. Large warehouse.
A good comfortable brick home. _Thirty-
three acres ground. WATER POWER
developing sixty horse. On Pennsylvania
side tracks. Everything in first-class
condition. If you desire cheap power
and cheap building for any manufacturing
business, grab this gift at $8,500. History
has never recorded a like offer. HANKEY
MILLING CO., PETOSKEY, MICH. 365

FOR SALE—General stock and two-
story and basement store building located
at old established trading point about
fifteen miles Northeast of Grand Rapids.
Equipped with Westinghouse lighting
system. Property cheap at $10,000. Will
take $4,000 down, balance in productive
real estate in Grand Rapids. W. P. Joyce,
Cannonsburg, Mich. 366
For Sale—Toledo fan-type grocery or
meat scale. Nearly new. Capacity 30 lbs.
Value $125. Also store’ refrigerator,
counters and show cases. Address Leon-
ard Shull, Nashville, Mich. 367
FOR SALE—Dry goods and groceries
im town of 500, excellent farming terri-
tory. Store doing a very good business.
Stock and fixtures will invoice about $6,-
500. Brick building, well located, for sale
or rent. F. R. Everhart, Freeport, Mich.
57

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—General
store located in country town, with stock
of dry goods, shoes, groceries. Also store
fixtures and building. Address Charles L.
Beckley, Hadley, Mich. 359

GASOLINE SERVICE STATION FOR
SALE—Cheap if taken at once. The only
station in the limits and one of the larg-
est resorts around Lake Michigan. Also
room enough to build a home on same
lot with station. $6,500. Andrew Lub-
bers, Saugatuck, Mich. ‘

FOR SALE—Meat market in Battle
Creek, fully equipped with best high-class
fixtures. Doing good business, $1,000
weekly. Strictly all cash and no delivery.
Out of the high rent district, $30 a month
and long lease. Retiring from meat game.
Will demonstrate to your satisfaction.
This place will be sold for cash only.
Address George Gottschalk, Assyria,
Mich., Route 1. 361

SHELVING AND COUNTERS For Sale
—Standard for variety and household
goods. Good as new. Cheap if taken at
once. Inquire J. Haga, 1437 Tamarack
Ave., Grand Rapids. Tel. 77515 362

List your store with us for quick and
sure sale. Dry goods, shoes, clothing and
general stocks. Merchandise Advertising
Service, Ionia, Mich, 350

FOR SALE—General stock and store
building located at good country trading
point about twenty miles from Grand
Rapids. Cash sales average 3100 per day.
Consideration is about $4,000, on which
terms can be arranged if desired. Ad-
dress No. 351, c/o Michigan Tradesman.

351

 

Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-
ing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 1250
Burlingame Ave., Detroit, Mich. 566
CASH For Your Merchandise!
Will buy your entire stock or part of
stock of shoes. dry goods, clothing, fur-
nishngs, bazaar novelties, furniture, etc.

LOUIS LEVINSOHN, Saginaw. Mioh.

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., Nerth-
way 6695, Detroit, Mich.

 

Bell Phone 596 Citz. Phone 61366

JOHN L. LYNCH SALES CoO.
SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Merchandising
209-{10-211 Murray Bldg.
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THE UPPER PENINSULA.

 

How It Looks To a Manistique Mer-
chant.

Bounded by the cool and sparkling
waters of three of the Great Lakes and
a river which bears on its swift current
almost twice the traffic, that passes
the locks of Panama and the sandy
shores of Suez combined.

Our own beloved Upper Peninsula,
based solidly on seemingly inexhaust-
able deposits of copper and iron ore;
whole townships given over to the
barren wastes of cut-over pine lands,
the products of which in years gone by
built up a formidable array of lumber
millionaires; its factories rumbling and
smoking and its automobiles adding to
the zest and comfort of life to every
nation under the celestial firmanent,
Michigan stands to-day in the front
rank of American common wealths.

Michigan was regarded with little
favor in the early days when the Gov-
ernment sent its surveyors to mark
out its boundaries; in fact, reports were
made by those surveyors that the ter-
ritory was comparatively worthless,
being mostly barren sand planes and
swamps.

The great forests of pine and the
rich deposits of copper and iron ore
were the means of bringing the State
into its own, however. In the lum-
ber woods, the inhabitants came from
other states, mostly from the East.
To be known as a native of such a
wild, good for nothing State as Mich-
igan, it is recorded, was at one time
thought indeed humiliating,

But these very woods produced men
of whom the whole country was proud
in after years. To be known as a
Wolverine was something worth while
in the days that tried men’s souls from
1861-5.

The Jumberman from the East cast
lingering eyes te the Westward when
the pine lands of Maine began to fade.
Hardy sons of that State, who had
trailed the waters of the Penobscot
and the Kennebec, went West seeking
new fields to pre-empt.

In Michigan, the new pine tree State,
lumbermen planted their camps and
began anew the felling of the forests.

Muskegon, Saginaw, the Grand and
our Own Manistique soon were famous
as had been the Penobscot and the
Kennebec in days gone by. The bil-
lions of feet of pine cut from the lands
of Michigan, if they stood now in their
golden glory, would make this State
the richest commonwealth in the world
to-day.

Ashamed of Michigan? Well, not
to-day, my friends.

There is no prouder title in all Amer-
ica than that of a Michigan birthright,
and any boy or girl of our State to-
day may well feel proud of his nativity,

Of all the states in the great Amer-
ican Union there is not one which has
a nobler record than our own good
state of Michican. Rach in mineral
deposits, what is known as our own be-
loved Upper Peninsula came into the
State when the “Toledo war’, was
settled and Michigan gave up a nar-
row strip of land on its Southern bor-
der. In the old colonial days this

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

territory figured in some of the most
interesting events of that period. It
was not until after this Territory be-
came a State that Michigan prospered,
as became a member of the great
American Union. To-day no prouder
name than Michigan graces the map
of the United States of America. The
sons of Michigan are found to-day in
every State in the Union, and in Can-
ada.

We cannot sing to-day, as once we
did, “From  Saginaw’s whispering
pines, to Lake Superior’s fartherest
mines,” because of the fact that Sagi-
naw has no tall whispering pines to-
day. Instead, we proclaim the gran-
deur of Michigan by singing, “From
Indiana’s Northern line to Lake Su-
fartherest mines.” Just as
good music, of course, yet the home
builders of our beautiful State regret
the fact of the destruction of our for-
ests which were at one time the source

perior’s

of her greatest wealth.

The world, which has been getting
used to stepping to the side of the
road while Michigan-made automobiles
slipped by, is already wondering what
is to become of the illimitable skies,
now that Michigan minds have taken
up the manufacture of aircraft.

From an old history of the Upper
Peninsula of Michigan, published in
1883 by the Western Historical Co., of
Chicago, I glean the following in re-
gard to Schoolcraft county:

“The country through Schoolcraft is
one of the most beautiful and pro-
ductive in the West. It cannot be
unfavorably contrasted with any part
or parcel of the Lower Peninsula, and
many of the garden spots of the South-
ern counties must suffer by compari-
son with it. It is developing fast.

“I have traveled over most of the
Southern part of Michigan, several
other states and Canada, and I never
Saw a land-that would compete with
the greatest part of the lands in this
Northern Peninsula in regard to soil
and timber,

“The finest maple and beech that
the sun ever shone on can be found
in this part of the country—mostly ma-
ple—and the time is not far distant
when this timber will be very valuable,
as it is nearly all birds-eye maple of
the finest quality. The soil is a dark,
rich sandy loam, adapted to all kinds
ef grain and roots which can bé found
in a more Southern climate.

“L have spent considerable time in
the vicinity of Manistique Lake and
surrounding country, and I can truly
say that I think it has the finest soil,
has the finest timber, the finest scenery,
in fact, it is the finest country I ever
saw, and my opinion is the opinion of
every one who has taken a run through
that part of the country.

“North Manistique Lake, or Round
Lake,- as it is commonly called, on
account of its being almost round and
about two miles across each way, af-
fords the very finest sport in the way
of fishing with a trolling line, the catch
being bass weighing from two to six
pounds. The water is very clear and
deep, with no inlet. The outlet runs
into Manistique, or Big Lake, as it is
commonly called, which is about seven

miles long.and about three miles wide,
and this lake empties its surplus water
into the Manistique River and Lake
Michigan. :

“Round Lake affords the finest scen-
ery of any body of water I ever beheld.
Hardwood timber commences at the
water's edge and rises gradually until
it gets to an elevation of about sixty
feet above the level of the Lake. Any
person who has an eye for natural scen-
ery and landscape views will do well
to take a trip to North Manistique
Lake.

“I think the time is not far distant
when these inland lakes will be great
summer resorts.

“I do not think there is a region in
America which has as bright a pros-
pect within its grasp as this Northern
Peninsula has to-day, and the prospects
seem to grow brighter every day.

“You may think I am going too far,
building castles in the air, but never-
theless, there are many, many men who
prophesy great developments and rapid
prosperity for this Peninsula, and the
candid opinion of your humble servant
is that the developments will far ex-
ceed our anticipations.

“There has been a great improve-
ment in the county, within the past
year, and the next six years will see
the population and wealth vastly in-
crease, so that man will wonder why
such a fertile district was allowed to
lie idle so long..”

The above, written over forty-three
years ago, we the present residents
can judge for ourselves how near the
early writer came to the truth.

In closing allow me to recite a few
verses composed by one of Michigan’s
own poets.

From Michigan, from Michigan,
A boy once went away;

He only went a little ways
When he was heard to Say:
“For Michigan, for Michigan,
I'm longing, I declare—

In Michigan, I wish again,
I only could be there.”

The summer time is hummer time,
The winter’s grand and nice;

The p'easant fall is the best of all,
And spring’s like paradise—

In Michigan, In Michigan.

A country rich and rare;

In Michigan, I wish again,

In only could be there.

So here’s a lesson you may heed,
Before you start to roam:

You cannot find a better State
Nor win a sweeter home,

Than Michigan, Old Michigan,
Where skies and fields are fair:
In Michigan, I wish again,

1 always could be there.

Here’s to the land of the inland lakes,
Here’s to the land of pines,
Here's to the land with untold wealth
Hidden in deepest mines.
Here's to the sand of the open door,
To a happy -beautiful home:
Here’s to the land where there’s room
for more.
Why do you longer roam?
Here’s to the land where the rainbow
ends.
Here’s to our Michigan.
John Tf.
————_——_~2o-2-———___
Sales of Trimmed Hats.
Expensive advertising campaigns,
aimed at bringing high-priced trimmed
millinery back to popularity, will end
in failure, a hat manufacturer recently
asserted, so long as producers merely
lend their money to these movements
but not their moral support.
“Many houses which have given
hundreds of dollars to the “hat con-
sciousness’ movement have failed to

Bellaire.

September 1, 1926

show a single trimmed hat to their
customers fer the Fall season,” he ex-
plained. “These firms are afraid to
make the trimmed variety for fear of
being labeled old-fashioned, and there-
fore they follow the path of least re-
sistance by turning out the inexpen-

sive tailored variety which is now
popular.
“The consumer and_ the retailer

would be influenced more by seeing a
few trimmed hats than by many ad-
vertisements costing thousands of dol-
lars. If they were shown trimmed
hats they might buy some, and the
movement would gain a little head-
Way.”
—_2-~»__
Keep'ng Cantaloupes Fresh.

A process of sealing cantaloupes so
that they can be kept for an indefinite
time is said to have been discovered.
A cantaloupe firm has installed a ma-
chine, recently devised, to coat ripe
cantaloupes with “‘celacote,” and which
they claim hermetically seals the fruit.
It is claimed the cantaloupes can be
picked in their prime and at the rate
cf 150 per minute, coated with this
transparent fluid, aired and dried at
the same operation, ready for packing
in crates for shipment to all parts of
the world, and that the fruit will ar-
rive with all its original flavor and i¥
ood condition. “Cellacote” is put on
hot, and the heat kills bacteria ad-
hering to the outside of the canta-
loupe.

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when somebody comes to him for
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stores, sell them before they come
in and the sales of both the re-
tailer and wholesaler will grow.
The Post’s Bran Flakes Salesman
helps to build volume by installing
attention-compelling, straight-
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Sales of Beech-Nut Peanut Butter always
respond to your selling and advertising
efforts. Preferred by discriminating people
everywhere.

Counter and window displays will stimu-
late the turnover on this nationally ad-
vertised product. Write for our attractive
display material.

BEECH-NUT PACKING COMPANY

‘*Foods and Confections of Finest Flavor’’

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“Operating Steamships Every Day in the Year”
DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE

Muskegon-Grand Haven Michigan Electric Railway
Electric Via Grand Haven Lines Via Holland
LEAVE GRAND RAPIDS LEAVE GRAND RAPIDS
8:40 P. M- G. R. TIME 8:00 P.M. G.R
Day Boat Every Saturday Day Boat Every Saturday
Leave Gd. Haven 10:30 A. M. Leave Holland 9 A. M.

FARE FROM GRAND RAPIDS $4.20

ROUND TRIP $7.30
UPPER BERTH $1.80. LOWER BERTH $2.25.
SAVE MONEY — Travel the Cool, Clean, Comfortable Way
Ticket sold to all points South and West

Reservations on Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo Steamers
Vacation Trips on All Great Lakes Steamers.
Four Ticket Offices for Your Convenience as Follows:

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These Are the Shredded Wheat Products—You Know Them

SHREDDED
WHEAT BISCUIT
The Whole Wheat Cereal

TRISCUIT
Shredded W heat in
Wafer Form

You have sold them for

 
   

many years—your custo-

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mers know them-——always
pure, always clean, al-
ways the same high qual-
ity. We make no other
food product. Only two
food products to stock—
sells every day — moves

 

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The Shredded Wheat Co.

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GROCER handles few products that cause more
“kicks” than coffee. Yet often poor coffee is
not his fault and not the fault of the customer. Cof-
fee can be good only when it is roasted just right.
Sell White House Coffee. Makes good, whoever

makes it.

  
      

LEE & CADY

Distributors

‘The Flavor is
Roasted In!

       

 

 

 

 

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THE MILL MUTUALS
Lansing - AGENCY Michigan

Representing the

MICHIGAN MILLERS MUTUAL

FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES

 

 

 

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Selling Cost

is less when you stock goods of
known value. Especially when the
price has been established by the
manufacturer and you realize your
full profit as you do on

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Baking
Powder

Same Price
for over 35 years

25 ounces for 25c

 

A fair price to the consumer and
good profit for you. Why ask your
customers to pay War Prices?

It will pay you to feature K C

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