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What’s The Use?

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What’s the use of sighing when the rain begins to fall;

Isn’t the rain a blessing, when you take it all in all?
What’s the use of balking when the hill is steep and long;
Isn't the vision clearer, when your head’s above the throng’
What’s the use of doubting when the writing’s on the wall;
Don’t the swallows migrate, when fair Summer bows to Fall?
What’s the use of floating, when the current’s swift and strong;
Does the blithely gathered honey to the idle drone belong?
What's the use of crying, when the milk is on the floor?

Cows are wending homeward and the maids are at the door.

What’s the use of bluffing, when you know you can’t make good;
Don’t we crush the idol when we find its merely wood?
What's the use of cringing when huge spectres would appall?
Face the music grimly, with your back against the wall!
What’s the use of knocking when some things are going wrong;
Isn't the morning brighter, when you greet it with a song?
What’s the use of looking on the darker side at all?

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MERGER THAT DID NOT MERGE

Consolidation of Trust Companies
Proved Very Unpopular.

The proposed merger of the Michi-
gan Trust Co. with the Grand Rapids
Trust Co. was declared off at a meet-
ing of the directors of the former in-
stitution Monday. The directors of
the latter corporation acquiesced in
the abandonment Tuesday. The op-
position to the movement was well
organized under the management of
Edward Lowe and the legal direction
of Butterfield, Keeney & Amberg. The
opposition centered on T. William
Hefferan as President.

Who formulated the plan is not made
public, but Joseph Brewer is authority
for the statement that all the overtures
for the merger came from Michigan
Trust sources and that about all the
Grand Rapids Trust negotiators had
to do was to name the terms. The
plan was submitted to the boards. of
the respective companies the afternoon
of October 1 and unanimously adopt-
ed by both. It was an interesting
coincident that the action of the boards
came just as the Grand Rapids Trust
was moving into its new building and
the announcement added considerable
eclat to that happy occasion..

The announcement of the proposed
merger was a great surprise in finan-
cial and business circles and nowhere
was the surprise greater than to the
stockholders in the Michigan Trust
who had not even an inkling that any
change was contemplated. They seem-
ed in much of a daze last week, but
this week leadership developed which
would make the ratification meeting
something more than a formality. It
seemed to be the impression that the
approving votes of the Grand Rapids
stockholders would be __ practically
unanimous.

On the face of the returns the merg-
er plan gave the Grand Rapids Trust
the advantage in name, location, con-
trol of the board and possession, while

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1926

the Michigan Trust could point with
pride to the chairmanship ef the board
and the executive vice-president. The
prospectus, however, was silent on the
fact that Mr. Stevens, who was to be
chairman of the board, was suffering
such serious impairment of health it
was unlikely he would be able to give
any attention to business and that Mr.
Avery, who was to be executive vice-
president, was said to be planning a
four months trip around the world,
leaving early in the new year. The
Michigan Trust element would have a
further advantage in having 10,000
votes in the annual election of direc-
tors, while the Grand Rapids Trust
would have only 6,000, but the annual

_ election is not until mid December

and in a re-organization process a man
of Mr. Brewer’s energy and efficiency
could go far before that.

Recent statements show both com-
panies strong in good earning assets
and with the fewest possible bones left
of the customary dead horse. The
Michigan Trust has a book value of
about 178 and the Grand Rapids Trust
of 209, but the statements do not re-
veal the $60,000,000 in various sorts
of trusteeships accumulated by the
Michigan Trust in its nearly forty
years of business, some of them the
choicest that Western Michigan has
ever produced, and many with long
years yet to run. nor the $10,000,000
on the books of the Grand Rapids
Trust. The market value of the two
stocks has been around 220 with a
jump to 265 when the proposed merger
was announced.

Would a new trust company have
been organized if the merger had gone
through? This phase of the subject
was being freely discussed and the
impression appears to be that the
answer would be in the affirmative.
Some of the talk was based on the
city’s “need” for more than one com-
pany, but more of it rested on the
solid foundation that there would be
good money in it. A study and com-
parison of the trust company state-
ments show that for the year ending
June 30 the Michigan Trust earned
around 13 per cent. on its $1,000,000
capitalization, equivalent to about 65
per cent. on its old original capital of
$200,000, and for the preceding year
did a little better than this. The Grand
Rapids .Trust sold $300,000 new
stock last year at 200 and, making al-
lowance for this, its earnings are esti-
mated at around 20 per cent..on the
average amount of stock outstanding;
for the preceding year the showing is
said to have been around 18 per cent.
The “earnings” seemed to be quite
as impressive as “the need” when the
matter of starting a new company was
discussed. Incidentally it is- recalled

that when Hugh E. Wilson started
out to organize the Grand Rapids
Trust in 1913 the impregnable position
of the Michigan Trust was urged
against him. But he won.

As to the form of the new com-
petition there were those who seemed
to think the organization of an entirely
new company would be the best way,
provided the “proper parties”
the movement, while others suggested
that the line of action would be in the
expansion in the function of some of

headed

the present banking or investment
houses. A few simple twists of the
wrist, it is said, could convert the Old
National Co. into a full fledged trust
company, with a well established in-
vestment business as a nucleus. It is
recalled that the Grand Rapids Sav-
ings Once had a well-defined ambition
for trust company affiliation and action
from that direction might be looked
for. But at this stage of the game,
all this is just talk. That there is such
talk and that the talk takes such a
wide range is an indication of the in-
terest the situation developed. It
may be added that very little of the
talk is hostile. Rather, it is speculative,
with an eye on possible new oppor-
tunities which the proposed merger
might have opened.

The Michigan Trust Co. is the oldest
in the State and one of the oldest of
its kind in the country. According to
tradition, Anton G. Hodenpyl, with
the late Judge George P. Wanty as
his legal adviser, conceived the idea
of a corporation to act instead of the
individual in bankruptcy, receiverships,
trusteeships, the management of es-
tates and similar capacities. The idea
was put up to the late Lewis H. With-
ey, who had just cleaned up on his
lumbering operations, and Mr. Withey
agreed to head the organization, with
the understanding that his position
should be largely honorary, the young-
er men to do the work. Mr. Withey
then went off on a trip to Japan, leav-
ing Mr. Hodenpyl to work out the
plan. It was found that Michigan had
no law under which a trust company
could be organized and an enabling
act was secured from the Legislature
of 1889. The organization immediate-
ly followed, with Mr. Withey as Pres-
ident and Mr. Hodenpyl as Secretary,
and with $200,000 capitalization, well
distributed among the strongest Grand
Rapids and Western Michigan busi-
ness men and financiers. Business was
started with offices and safety deposit
vaults in the Shepard building on
Fountain street. Soon after the organ-
ization of the company occurred the
R. G. Peters failure, with liabilities
running into the millions. Creditors
and other interests asked for the ap-
pointment of the Michigan Trust as

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receiver. Judge H. F. Severans in the
United States Court was willing, but
he called for precedents for so unusual
a proceeding. Prolonged search of
the law books produced a case where
a bank in Colorado had been appoint-
ed to a receivership and this was ac-
cepted as sufficient, but in making the
appointment Judge Severans stipulated
that President Withey give his person-
al attention to the business.. This
first corporation receivership in Mich-
igan was conducted with such success
that not only were the Peters’ creditors
paid in full, but several millions of
assets were turned back to Mr. Peters.

In those days a corporation for ad-
ministrator or executor of an estate
was admittedly feasible and might even
have advantages over the traditional
individual, but how could a corpora-
tion act as guardian or in other in-
timate relationships?
caused a smile.,

The very idea
But the Michigan
Trust Co. showed ’em. The company
was guardian of an attractive young
woman. A married man of family be-
gan paying her attention. The Trust
Co. as guardian warned him off, but
he heeded not. The company there-
upon hired a local strong arm and the
Lothario received just such a thresh-
ing as an irate dad or big brother
would administer. The strong arm
went to police headquarters with a
request for his own arrest, pleaded
guilty in police court to assault and
battery and the Michigan Trust Co.
paid the fine. The case attracted Na-
tional attehtion.

The capitalization of the Michigan
Trust remained at $200,000 during its
first corporate term of thirty years
and then was increased to $1,000,000,
the stockholders receiving five shares
of new stock for each one share held.
Until the merger plan was announced
this stock had a market value around
220. An original investment of $1,000
in the company is now worth well over
$10,000, to say nothing of the cash
dividends which have been paid. The
company is uncommonly strong in
stockholders who have been in from
the start or their heirs.

The Grand Rapids Trust Co. was
organized in 1913 by Hugh E. Wilson
and in the original organization Grand
Rapids Savings Bank interests were
strongly represented, with the view
that eventually the two organizations
would be brought together. A few
years later, when the Grand Rapids
Savings interests wanted to close up
the affiliation, the understanding was
repudiated and the Grand Rapids
Trust went “on its own,” with an em-
phasis that left no doubt as to its in-
dependence. The company has been
highly successful, with the completion
of its splendid new building as the
latest demonstration of its progress.

  

 
 
  

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How the Saginaw Chippewas Exter-
minated the Sauks.
Written for the Tradesman.

While they were all gone from
Michigan long before the white man
came, -the earliest authentic records
of Indians in Michigan come from the
recorded traditions of the Lenni Len-
apes, as they called themselves, gen-
erally known to us under the name of
Delawares, so called after the region
in which they were found by the
whites. Their tradition tells in the
simple character writing on bark rolls
of the life where it froze ,stormed,
snowed and was cold, so “such as were
free floated up the rivers in their
canoes.” Then “Head Beaver” and
“Big Bird” counseled that they go to
“Snake Island,” to which all agreed
and they all “went over the wa‘er, the
frozen sea, to enjoy it.” It is general-
ly agreed by the best students who
have studied it that their ancient home
referred to was somewhere in the
vicinity of Hudson’s Bay, from where
they went up the rivers and, most
students agree,
strait. From there they, no doubt,
wandered Southerly across the Lower
Peninsula, which their tradition had
called “Snake Island.” During some
season here their corn failed. “There
was no rain and no corn, so_ they
moved further toward rising sun.” To
complete this move they crossed “Fish
River,” which is thought to be the
Maumee. There they secured new
seed corn and there, too, the “lazy
ones left them” to stay, when they
moved to the “East land.”

That they were in Michigan a good
many years there is no question. While
here they were opposed, according to
their tradition, by the “Tawa,” prob-
aby the Ottawas, and the ::Talega”
thought to have been the Cherokees,
and by several others who cannot be
identified. The people who left them
near “Fish river,” whom they call the
“lazy ones,” were, no doubt, the
Maumees. Another source of their
troubles was probably some branch of
the Iroquois, but just who and where
is not very clear from their story. The
whole is very interesting to students
by way of locating these tribes in this
section when the Delawares crossed
Michigan many years, probably cen-
turies before the first white man was
here.

Another very early Indian tribe in
the Eastern portion of the Lower
Peninsula was the Sauks. This trike,
one of the strongest in this section at
that time, seems to have had no idea
of the right of property. The Chip-
pewas, their neighbors to the North,
were very bitter, but very much afraid
of the supericr strength of the Seuks.
There are two or three legends as to
just what it was that finally gave the
Chippewas the courage to plan the
attack. All through the country just
North of the strait there is a tra‘it’on
that the ravages of the Sauks fine lly
became unbearable and an agreement
was made that if they came against
them again, all should unite to do
them battle. One night, as the story
goes, they received word that the
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force as they could gather mustered
in the woods surrounding the place
where they would naturally land. When
the Sauks, all unconscious of this am-
bush, landed, the chief is said to have
kicked his canoe to pieces and told his
followers to do the same, saying that
there were plenty more a little ways
down the shore and when they wanted
them they would help themselves. No
sooner was this done than the waiting
Warriors rose up and proceeded to an-
nihilate the party. Whether news of
this was what finally gave the Sag-
inaw Chippewas the necessary courage,
or just what it was cannot be said
definitely, but something of this kind
was told to Fr. Dab!loh, Fr. Mar-
quette’s superior, when he was pros-
pecting in the neighborhood just. be-
fore Fr. Marquette’s settlement at St.
Ignace.

The truth of this tradition is not so
much of interest, but something finally
gave the needed courage and the Chip-
pewas sent of their young men to
tribes toward the South of the Sauks,
who joined the Saginaws near the
mouth of the Saginaw river and a war
dance was held there. The whole
force was divided into two war parties,
one of which went up the Saginaw
river about to what is now the site of
Bridgeport, near where they destroyed
the principal town of the Sauks, and
the other went up the Tittabawassee
river to the vicinity of what is now
Midland, where they destroyed the
second largest Sauk town. Both were
complete surprises and the work was
accomplished thoroughly.

As this is written the author has just
come from an interesting visit to the
field South of Midland where the work
of that awful day a few centuries ago
could be easily visual’zed. Not far
from the present county infirmary: is
the site of the o'd vil-ge. Imagina-
tion could almcst hear the war whoop
which came but a few minutes after
the approaching war par’y had been
sighted. There was a fight for home,
but it must have been a short one, and
then the flight to a hcped for place of
shelter began. A'l during the years
since the white man came there has
been the gathering of Indian war
relics from the old village site, a couple
of miles or so to the Northwest, where
the Sauks were driven into a pocket.
The Pine river flcws into the Chippewa
and then a little ways the Chippewa
empties into the Tittabawassee. There
or near there was the final stand of
the defea‘ed Sauks, and there they
went down—men,women and children.
As the writer and his friends went
over the field, rel’cs from the long ago
were still to be found, with others
furnished by residents nearby who
had picked them up from time to time.
Their silent story told of the presence
on that day of slaughter of braves
from tribes further to the South and
Southeast than students have supposed.
It must have been a gathering of
agrieved pecples to annihilate the'r
common enemy and their work was
both cruel and thorough.

With the two largest towns de-
stroyed the work of exterminating the
smaller Sauk towns and villages was
but the work of a few days at their
leisure. Those who escaped fled to an

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island, where the invaders simply
rounded them up and a’lowed them to
starve. So great was the des.ructicn
that when the whites came they found
so many human bones they named the
place Skull island, which name it still
holds. The victorious Saginaw Ch'p-
pewas repcr‘ed that they had _ killed
every male Sauk and all but twelve of
the Sauk squaws. This must have

October 13, 1926

been somewhat exaggerated for a small
remnant afterwards appeared in the
Upper’ Peninsula and later in Wiscon-
sin, where Nicholet found them about
where the city of Green Bay, Wis., is
now located, in 1635. They were
never very strong, however, after their
total defeat in Lower Michigan.

The Saginaw Chippewas gradually
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Sauks were driven out. Just what hap-
pened will probably never be known.
The Chippewas told the whites whcn
they came to that region that the
Sauk ghosts haunted them. They sail
their young men would go hunting and
never come back; that they would se.
their traps and find them sprung, but
no game; that strange figures would
be drawn on the trees, and similar
lurid stories. The poor Chippewas
finally became so panicky over it that
they left the whole Sauk territory to
a wilderness for several years.

The Southern Ottawas were neigh-
bors to the Sauks to the West and
their only friends. Just what hap-
pened to the Ottawas is hard to de-
termine. Some believe they fared the
same as the Sauks, but whatever it was
they do not appear to have been in
Southwestern Michigan after the Sauk
massacre.

It is claimed by some that about
this time the Iroquois undertook to
preserve all of the Lower Peninsula.
except a small portion at the North, for
a hunting ground and that the Neu-
trals, who were partially their allies at
that time, were to maintain it. he
scheme does not appear to have work-
ed. out satisfactorily and was of short
duration, if it was ever really put
across.

When the whites came the Chip-
pewas occupied all Lower Michigan
which drained into Lake Huron, and
the Pottawamanies alt Lower Michi-
gan which drained toward Lake Michi-
gan.

The Sioux were in the extreme
Northwestern portion of the Upper
Peninsula most of the time, with other
tribes coming and going in parts of
their territory. Much the same was
true of the Chippewas in the reg’on of
the Soo, with about the same condi-
tions with the Ottawas in the region
just North of the Strait. The
Menominee and Fox tribes were like
swarms of bees going out from parent
tribes thereabouts and to some extent
uniting with wandering offshoots of
other tribes who happened that way.
The Hurons in Michigan were bands
which came to the Upper Peninsula
titer their defeat in what is Now New
York State to escape their untiring
enemy, the Iroquois, who pursued
them everywhere.

A. Riley Crittenden.
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Supports the Tradesman’s Position on
Southern Discrimination.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 8—On return-
ing from my vacation I received your
letter and the Tradesman containing
your answer to the Outlook article on
the colored man, for which I am very
grateful to you.

I enjoyed your article in the Trades-
man. It is indeed an interesting and
well composed article. I am glad that
your experience with colored people
enabled you to write with such sim-
plicity and fairness. There are good
colored people and there are evil ones,
and so often when a white person
comes in contact with a few evil col-
ored people he classes all as being
evil. I am thankful that you are just
enough to make a distinction. I want
to thank you for the article. It is just
fine.

That white man who stated in the
Outlook that the Southern white man
is the colored man’s friend was stating
senseless stuff. What sort of a friend
has he proven to be to the colored

man? The Southern white man has
never yet built an institution of higher
learning for the colored youth. High
schools in the South are scarce; col-
leges financed by the South are un-
known. The institutions of the South
cannot produce a scientific or learned
colored man. Colored men of con-
spicuous character have had to leave
the South and come North for the
training and development of their in-
tellect. In some places of the South
as low as one dollar per capita is spent
for the education of a colored child.
Virginia spends twenty dollars per
capita on the white child and five on
the colored. These woeful statistics
prevail throughout the South.

As for treatment, the truth has never
been revealed. All manner of cruel
and brutal treatment is carried on and
the law seldom defends. A _ colored
woman has no protection ir the South.
Colored people are excluded from cars
and coaches which are sanitary; their
section of the city is left unim»roved;
men mobbed, often, while the law re-
mains silent and inactive; wages are
paid according to color. The colored
school teacher of the same grade re-
ceives about fifty dollars less than the
white teacher. Does all this look as
though the South is a friend of the
coiored man? Alas, for all their friend-
ship they have never been friendly
enough to treat them as human beings;
thev never have been friendly enough
to stimulate culture, manhood, woman-
hood and superiority among them.
Surely it is an abuse of the English
language and of common sense to print
such verbiage.

It is indeed kind of you to defend a
needy and helpless people. May God
bless you. Ellis A. Christian,
Pastor St. Philip’s Episcopal Church.

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End of the House of Claflin.

New York, Oct. 12—Few recent
happenings in the mercantile life of the
country have met with as much com-
ment as has the announcement of the
forthcoming dissolution of Claflin’s,
{ncorporated. This great jobbing
house, the successor of Claflin, Mellen
& Co. and H. B. Claflin & Co., was an
institution in this city for over three-
quarters of a century, with an enviable
record of fair dealing and business up-
rightness. It was known all over this
country and in many European ones
tor its extensive dealings and had a
list of customers who were not only
‘oyal to the house but also to individ-
ual salesmen in it. Buyers from out
of town used to ask for the particular
ones with whom they were accustomed
to deal and would always find them,
because the employes of the house did
not change. For years the custom
was for retailers from all over the
country to visit the house twice a
year and buy everything they needed—
“from soup to nuts,” as the old expres-
sion had it. Many of these buyers did
business with no other house. But
customs have changed. Now there are
many resident buyers and the pur-
chasing is in small quantities for quick
delivery. The staples also, which
formed the bulk of the old trade, have
been relegated to the background,
while ever fresh novelties absorb the
demand. Specialty houses have arisen
to meet the newer requirements, and
these cut into the business that for-
merly went to the house of Claflin. It
was only a question of time when the
shrinkage in the volume of business
would make it impossible to proceed
on the old lines. So the directors de-
termined they would wind up the af-
fairs of the concern before it was too
late. But the passing of the old house
will bring regret to many merchants of
long standing, some of whom were
aided in establishing themselves in
business by the advice and material
aid given them by the concern.

—_----~>____

Worry is part of your overhead that
can be decreased at will,

4

What a difference!

See It

Plumper! More
tender! Filled
with the nectar
of ripened
grapes. Such an oa
improvement
over the old
seedless raisins

    

Smell It

The fragrance
of fresh grapes
in Sun-Maid
Nectars. No
other seedless
raisins have it

 

Taste It

The real grape taste
captured in Sun-
Maid Nectars. For
the first time in seed-
less raisins

 

Use it fo boost your

carton seedless sales
Watch how big Sun-Maid

Nectars go over this fall!
Women are bound to use
a lot more of these new
seedless raisins that give the
real flavor and fragrance of
the fresh grapes to their
cooking.

Once tried, no other kind
of carton seedless will sat-
isfy your customers. That
means you need to carry
just one brand.

-SUN-Malp Products

Distributed by
SUNLAND SALES COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION
Offices throughout the World

 

 

 

4

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.
Potterville-—W illiam Hawley has en-
boot and shoe business.

Ola

the grocery and general

gaged in the

Wallin—R.
Francisco in
store business.

Holland—The Holland Chimney Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $200,000.

Litchfield—Leo Church has opened
a grocery store which he will conduct

Boden succeeds

under his own name.
Elliott
Shop has engaged in business at 225
Ottawa avenue, N. W.

Ann Arbor—The Hudson Sales &
Service, has increased its capital stock
from $5,000 to $25,000.

Charlevoix Hard-
ware Co. has increased its capital stock
from $30,000 to $50,000.

Bannister—Leon T.

Grand Rapids—The 300t

Charlevoix—The

Cox has traded
his general stock of merchandise for
a farm near Vestaburg.

Detroit—Sydney_ K.
5048 Joy
meeting of his creditors,

Sears—Arthur Crittenden

boots,
held a
Sept. 2/:
sold

store fixtures

Kahn,

shoes, etc., Road,
has
grocery stock and
to Ward J. Hill, who has taken pos-

his

session.

Adrian—The Hart-Shaw-Miller Drug
Co., 101 East Maumee street, has
changed its name to the Hart-Shaw
Drug Co.

Kalamazoo—The Ce-
ment Products Co. has added a com-
plete line of builders’ materials to its
regular business.

Lansing—L. J. Hughes, for the past
five years connected with hotel Kerns,

Kalamazoo

has Gardner's restaurant,

209 East Michigan avenue, taking im-

purchased

mediate possession.

Lansing—The Jay Shoe Co. of Lan-
sing, Inc., 4 Strand-Arcade building,
has been incorporated with an author-
ized capital stock of $10,000, $1,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid in
in cash.

Roscommon—The Mari Lake
Corporation has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $75,000,
of which amount $45,520 has been sub-

Fur

scribed and paid in in property.
Coldwater—The stock and store fix-

of the

pur-

tures of the department store
Frank E. McCort

chased by the Tribolet Co., owner of

late has been
a chain of five and ten cent stores.

Owosso—The Owosso Supply Co.,
434 Corunna avenue, mill supplies and
fittings has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $5,000, $1,-
050 of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Colon—The Colon Elevator Co. has
been incorporated with an authorized
stock of $50,000, of which
amount $20,900 has been subscribed
and paid in, $13,000 in cash and $7,960

in property.

capital

Detroit—The Michigan Fixture Co.,
3000 East Jefferson avenue, has been
incorporated to deal in store fixtures
and fittings, with an authorized capital
stock of $50,000, $25,000 of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Lansing—Neisner Bros. have com-
pleted the work of remodeling the two
stores at 210 South Washington
avenue, making one large store, and

 

MICHIGAN
opened their store to the public. © Five
cent to a dollar articles will be sold.

Detroit—The Auto Spray Painting
Co., 4555 Sixth street, been in-
corporated for reconditioning auto-
mobiles, etc., with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $25,000, $3,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
property. ~ :

South Haven—The Wolverine Ser-
vice Stations has been incorporated to
deal in petroleum products, auto sup-
plies, etc., with an authorized capital
stock of $50,000 common and $50,C0C
preferred, $1,000 of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Ruby Stores Co., 12022
Grand River avenue, has merged its
business into a stock company under
the same style, with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000 all of which
has been subscribed and paid in, $8,000
in cash and $17,000 in property.

Detroit—A. R. Reno & Co., 10537
West Jefferson avenue, has been in-
corporated to deal in drugs at retail
and to conduct retail drug stores, with
an authorized capital stock of $100,-
000 common and 150,000 shares at $1
per share, of which amount $100,000
has been subscribed and $85,000 paid
in in cash.

Saginaw—The fourth annual buyers’
show of the Saginaw Wholesale Mer-
chants Bureau will be held at the Sag-
inaw Auditorium Tuesday and Wed-
nesday, Oct. 19 and 20. Invitations
have been sent out by the various
wholesalers in Saginaw to all of their
retail merchants and a great many of
them are planning to attend either one
or both days of the show. The show
is for retail merchants only and giveg
the merchant an opportunity to see the

has

various lines handled by Saginaw
houses. A big program of entertain-
ment features has been arranged for

both days.

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The American Linen Sup-
ply Co., 5100 Tillman avenue, has been
incorporated to retail linen and manu-
facture linen garments, with an author-
ized capital stock of $25,000, $22,000
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in property.

Detroit—The Evenheat Oil Burner
Sales Co., 1634 West Canfield avenue,
has been incorporated to deal in and
install oil burners for homes, with an
authorized capital stock of $5,000, all
of which has been subscribed and paid
in in property. .

—_~--__
Continue as Merchandizer Rather Than
Speculator.
Written the Tradesman.

The wheat market has shown some
strength during the past few days,
principally on additional unfavorable
reports from Canada, but as yet, there
is no indication of an active bull cam-
advance either
It is difficult to get
about the long side of
wheat, and yet there are factors shap-
ing up that may bring about somewhat
higher prices later.

Our visible supply is still above the
75,000,000 bushel mark; a very sub-
stantial amount of wheat in sight with
no immediate prospect of finding an
active market for it. Of course, the
invisible supply is what will ultimate-

for

paign to materially
wheat or corn.
enthusiastic

TRADESMAN

ly tell the story, and while many guess-
es are being made as to the amount
of wheat unmarketed, many claiming
farmers have been more free sellers
this year than last, and consequently
a larger visible supply has been built
up, yet we know of no one who claims
to actually know. It is not expected
the United States Government report
will show much change in estimates
from private advices and the report of
a month ago, but some buying has de-
veloped on the theory the Canadian
government report will show quite a
substantial reduction in their estimates
on account of the unfavorable weather
conditions during the past three or four
weeks.

The big traders are apparently “lay-
ing low” so to speak, not finding suf-
ficient reason for either heavy buying
or selling. Of course the “scalpers”
are always busy, and they are general-
ly busiest when the activity of the
wheat market is confined to narrow
limits. No one seems willing to grab
off a big lot of wheat, or sell it either,
for a long pull; they are awaiting de-
velopments.

A clearing up of the Canadian situa-
tion, and improved ocean shipping fa-
cilities through the settlement of the
English coal strike, which would mean
lower ocean rates, will tend to give
the trade a better line on what is liable
to happen to wheat prices. As stated
heretofore, world stocks are far from
burdensome, and present prices pretty
well represent the true value of wheat
from a world standpoint, consequent-
ly with normal trade activity and clean
shipping facilities prices should hold
very well.

It would be a real pleasure to give
the flour buyer a definite, dependable
statement; to be able to make a de-
pendable prediction as to the future
action of the market, but there are so
many “ifs” and “ands” involved in the
present situation; there are so many
things that can and may happen, it
appears to be t_ hewsi,x.h.ioG .
appears to be the wise course to con-
tinue to pursue the conservative policy
cover require-
inents, rather than go heavily long or

 

of buying amply to

words to continue a
merchandiser rather than become a
Lloyd E. Smith.
—_++>____
Raincoats Much Called For.
Retailers’ stocks of the brightly hued
gossamer weight raincoats are re-
ported as extremely low, with many
manufacturers of the better-grade mer-
chandise unable to book any orders
for the remainder of the year. One
factory reports that it could sell its
product three or four times over, and
predicts that the present condition will
prevail for some time. No novelties,
therefore, in these lines are at present
contemplated. It is pointed out that
the hand-to-mouth system of buying is
especially difficult to cope with by
manufacturers who make their own
' fabrics with the steam-heat system of
drying. Makers of the cheaper, acid-
dried grades who buy fabrics in the
open market, it is said, are better able
to meet the situation, although here,
too, there is considerable difficulty :n
supplying the demand.

short, in other

speculator.

October 13, 1926

Leather Goods Business Active.

Business in leather goods, both
staples and novelties, is reported as
well ahead of last year, and factories,
though working overtime, are unable
to supply the demand for early de-
liveries. Some manufacturers have
stopped taking orders for the remain-
der of the year. In the staple lines,
women’s fitted cases are outstanding
in all grades. Especially popular are
the cowhide imitations of moose and
pig grain, deer hide and snake, which
have to some extent superseded the
black cobra. They come in a variety
of colors, black, browns, blue and, in
the case of the smaller articles, old
rose. Outstanding items among the
novelties are picture frames, cigarette
cases and book-ends of batik leather.

—_~++.___
Belated Orders For Toys.

Considerable activity in last-minute
orders for toys is reported by manu-
facturers, some of whom have been
unable to accept further business for
the remainder of the year. In general,
the conditions in the toy market dur-
ing the last nine months have been
somewhat better than in 1925. Large
department are opening their
holiday toy departments on Nov. 1.
at least three weeks earlier than in
former years. Most in demand are
“scooters” and other wheel goods, as
well as constructional and other educa-
tional toys.

—_—_>+->——__.
Favored in Men’s Shoes.

New lines in men’s shoes show little
deviation from former styles, although
in the better grade merchandise there
is a tendency toward the narrow-toed
custom last, and fewer models in the
heavy square-toed brogues. The effort
of some manufacturers to popularize a
“Burgundian,” or wine-colored, leather
has as yet met with little success, and
the conventional tans and browns are
in greatest demand. A somewhat
greater demand for blacks is indicated
for this Winter, it is said. As in most
other apparel lines, business at the
moment is exceptionally brisk.

——_~+~-.___
Call For Fur-Trimmed Coats.

Despite the unseasonable weather.
there is an active demand for women’s
coats, especially the sport models with
fur trimmings. There is a considerable
shortage of merchandise, due both to
the strike and the depletion of stocks
during the cool weather last month.
Wolf is the outstanding fur in popular-

stores

priced lines, with high colors and
plaids leading among the fabrics. Imi-
tation fur fabrics, caracul, leopard,

muskrat and broadtail effects are also
popular, it is said, for the first time in
several seasons.

—_~++____
Men’s Buttonless Gloves.

Men’s gloves without button or fast-
ener will be put on the market the lat-
ter part of this month by a leading
manufacturer. Although similar to the
popular slip-ons, they are so designed
as to fit snugly over the wrist. Priced
at $5 retail, they come in the light-
colored goat, deer and pig skin, which
are easily- washed in soap and water.
In the staple lines capes are said to be
stronger than for some seasons past,
while gray mochas are less in demand.

October 18, 1926

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

Ss

 

Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—Jobbers hold cane granu-
lated at 634c.

Tea—The market has been rather
quiet for the last two weeks, but there
is nevertheless a good everyday de-
mand. India black teas are higher
in primary markets and firm in this
country, so are Ceylons.
and green dull,
change.

Coffee—The market for Rio and
Santos coffee, green and in a large
way, advanced a small fraction early
in the week and then slowed off again
to a point lower than had been reached
before. At this writing the market
for all grades of Rio and Santos is a
substantial fraction lower than a week
ago. This is in spite of news from
Brazil of a shorter crop. Milds have
not felt as yet the effect of the weak-
ness in Rio and Santos. They are
unchanged from a week ago.

Formosas

teas are without

Canned Fruits—No change in Cali-
fornia fruits or Hawaiian pineapple.
The market is firm throughout.

Canned Vegetables—Tomatoes are
firm and strongly held. Buyers are
being required to pay about 30c per
dozen more than was expected for this
year’s tomatoes. It is impossible to
get any concessions in price for any
size for 1926 tomatoes. California
packers were selling lots of stuff in
the East, but they are about sold out.
Of course, a little of the tomato short-
age can be made up if we have con-
tinued warm weather, but counting
even on that, the shortage as compared
with last year is expected to be about
9,000,000 cases. There is some carry-
over, however, from the 1925 pack.
As this goes to press it is reported
that here and there packers are slight-
ly shading prices. Peas are still weak
and very much neglected. No change
since the last report, although the
market is very soft. Corn is firmer
and fairly active. No pressure to sell.

Canned Fish—Salmon shows prac-
tically no change. Both red and pink
salmon are easy and very dull. The
recent decline of Maine sardines has
killed buying to a great extent. Tuna,
shrimp and crab meat are all firm
and fairly active,

Dried Fruits — Low priced dried
fruits at primary markets have dis-
appeared. Bulk Thompson raisins can-
not be had for less than 6c f. 0. b.;
small sized California prunes, 70s to
90s, are back at opening: Northwest-
ern packs are firmer on all sizes, while
there has been even more of a decided
improvement in peaches and apricots.
The change has not been forced nor
unexpected, but has been the logical
result of conditions which made an
abnormal market on all packs. Part
of the change has followed the dis-
appearance of stocks out of growers’
hands. Few peaches and apricots are
held and packers have comparatively
small tonnages considering the long
selling season ahead. The apricot ton-
nage is now estimated to be greatly
reduced below early forecasts and well
under that of last year. Spot prunes
have improved in tone and distributors
have advanced their quotations on vari-

ous sizes. Old crop Oregons are nar-
rowing in volume and_ assortment.
There is also a cleanup of spot raisins
which puts the trade in the favorable
position of immediately drawing upon
new crop as it comes in to satisfy their
transient outlets. Decidedly there has
been improvement in the market last
week.

Beans and Peas—The market for
dried beans presents a contradictory
appearance. Some lines are weak.
Others strong. Pea beans and white
kidneys are firmer on account of
scarcity. Red kidneys and California
limas, on the other hand, are weak
and tending lower. Green and Scotch
peas are about steady.

Cheese—Cheese is in fair demand
and steady. Offerings are rather light.

Nuts—The development in the nut
situation this weex, outside of grad-
ually increasing fall business, is the
offering of new crop California wal-
nuts at about 3c over last year. The
higher price reflects a smaller crop
here and in foreign territories and
there were prompt and favorable re-
sponses from buyers who had tenta-
tive contracts made subject to approv-
al after prices were named. In fact,
it is quite possible that packers may
not be able to make 100 per cent. de-
liveries.

Rice—The chief feature of the do-
mestic rice market has been the in-
crease in working stocks of early and
late variety available at the mill and
to a lesser extent at distributing cen-
ters. There is no longer a pinch in
supplies. Trade outlets have expand-
ed enough to absorb the excess with-
out disturbing values and the market
rules steady and is fairly active.

Salt Fish—Mackerel, especially do-
mestic shore mackerel, continues in
very good demand, with quite a few
new buyers, who are being attracted
to mackerel on account of the com-
paratively low

 

prices. Mackerel is
steady to firm and shows no change
in prices.

Syrup and Molasses—New Orleans
molasses is expected in about two
months and buyers are going slow in

 

their purchases on this account. There
is, however, a very fair business, with-
out any change since the last report.
Sugar syrup is firm, with a steady
movement. No change in price has oc-
curred. Compound — syrup
steady, with a very fair demand for
the season.

Provisions—Hog products have been
weak in primary markets since the
last report, but in the East the jobbing
market for all hog products has been
fairly steady. The market, however,
has undoubtedly been in buyer's favor.
This applies to all hog products. Beef
products are quiet and show no change.

—_>+
Review of the Produce Market.

Apples—Strawberry, Wagners and
Wealthy command 60@1.25 per bu.

Bananas—8@8 4c per Ib.

Beans—Michigan jobbers are quot-
ing as follows:

is also

C. He. Pea Beans 2320020 $5.20
Light Red Kidney -_:-._____- 8.25
Dark Red Kidney ______-________ 8.25

Beets—$1 per bu.

Butter—The market is unchanged

from a week ago. Jobbers hold fresh
packed at 43c, prints at 46c and June
packed at 4lc. They pay
packing stock.
Cabbage—$1 per bu.
Cantaloupes—$1.50@2 per bu.
Carrots—$1 per bu.
Cauiflower—$2 per doz.
Celery—30@50c per doz.
Cocoanuts—90¢c per doz.
Cranberries—$4.75 per 50 Ib.
Cape Cod.
Cucumbers—$2 per bu.

Zoe. tor

box

Eggs—There has been an active,
keen demand during the week for fine
fresh eggs and at this writing the mar-
ket is firm and about 3c higher than
a week ago. Medium and poor eggs
are neglected and very
price. Local jobbers are paying 41c
this week for strictly fresh.

Egg Plant—$1.50 per doz.

Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

Grape Fruit—$6.50@6.75 per case for
Isle of Pines stock.

Grapes—Calif. Tokay,
crate. Concords Niagaras, $2.50
per doz. 4 b. baskets; Delawares, $3
ditto.

Honey Dew Melons—$1.75 per crate
for either 6, 8, 9 or 12.

Lemons—Quotations are now as fol-

irregular in

$2.75 per

and

lows:

S00) Sutikish 0 eS sO
S00) Red Balls) | 500
SU0 IRGd albe e 5.00

Lettuce—In demand on _ the
following basis:
California Iceberg 4s, per bu. __$4.50

Hot house leaf, per bu. ________ 2.00

good

Onions—Home grown, $2.25 per 100
Ib. sacks; Spanish, $2 per crate.

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Valencia are now on the
basis:

following

LO $8.00
926) oe 8.00
CS 8.25
PG ce ee 8.5(
AO 8.50
AO 8.50
Boe so 8.50
Oe 8.60
344 . 8.00

Sunkist Red Ball, 50¢ cheaper.

Peaches—Gold Drop and other late
varieties fetch 75c@$1 per bu.

Pears—$3 per crate for Calif.; $2 per
bu. for Flemish Beauty; Kiefers, $1.50
per bu.

Peppers—Green, $1.25 per bu.

Pickling Stock—20c per 100 for
cukes; $1.50 per 20 Ib. box for white
onions.

Plums—$1 for Guis, Lombards and
Green Gages.

Potatoes—Home grown $1 per bu.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows this week:

Eieavy fowls) 23.0 28
PGE Owls ee l5c
Springers, 4 Ibs. and up ________ 23c
Provess (03 17c
wurkeys (fancy) youns 39c
Turkey (Old Voms) 220 32c
Dueks (White Pekins) 6.00. 26c
OOS 15c

Radishes—I5c for outdoor grown.

Spinach—$1.25 per bu. for
grown.

Squash—$1.25 per bu. for Hubbard.

String Beans—$2.50 per bu.

Sweet Potatoes—$4 bbl. for
Virginia.

home

per

Tomatoes—$1.50 for % bu. basket

for ripe; $1 per bu. for green.

Veal Calves—Wilson & Company

pay as follows:

Maney 00 ead - 17@1%
Good se sm i ae St ee am Se ts an, St ace oe oy eo ee 17¢
Medium (22 Pe 5c
Poor ee sce si oe ot _ 12c

Wax Beans—$1.75 per bu.
New Bond House Opens Offices Here.
P. W. Chapman & Co. Inc. who

have recently opened offices in the
Grand Rapids Trust building, rate
among the older conservative invest-

ment banking houses and have offices
in many ot the principal cities of the
country.

Of iate years this company has been

pariicu.arly identified with the tinanc-
ing of centrally located large ottice
bu.ldings in the Icop of Ch.cago and
the «aurancial district of New York

Cll y.
inese bonds

enjoy a wide
tion and are considered very
i through any reputabie
real estate bon
may be sold only through the
house from which the bonds are pur-
chased.
George E.

distribu-
market-

dealer.
ds on the market

   

well known in
investment banking circles is in charce
of the Mr. Decker re-
ceived his early training with the
Michigan Trust Company, with which
institution |

associated for ap
prox.mately nine
of late years has

Years. Mr. Decket
PW. Chapman & Ca. Enc.

Decker,

local office.

© Was

 

ted wich

through

} 1
Deen asst

out this territory, with offices in Ch
cago.

Earl W. Moore, who has. been as-
scciated with Mr. Decker for some
time, will be in direct charge of local
retail dis‘ribution. Mr. Moore is very

 

weil known in this territory and needs
no introduction especially

yublic with

to the invesi-

ment whom he has deait

for the past ten years. He was con-
nected with the Grand Rapids Street
Railway Co. for twelve years. For

the past year he has connected
with Howe-Snow & Bertles.
——_2-~_-
Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.
Oct. 12—Wm. J.
Harbor Springs banker
and real estate operator was in town
one day last week. Accompanied by
his wife and daughter, he will leave
Jan. 10 for California, where they will
spend the remainder of the winter
months.

John Hiller, 507 Terrace C urt, Kal
amazoo, representative for the Holland
Ladder & Manufacturing Co., of Hol
and, is in New Borgess Hospital, Kai-
amazoo, undergoing an operation. His
friends hope for his early recovery and

been

Grand Rapids,
Clarke, the

to see him back soon, shaking hands
again.
Lapeer—The Aro Products Co. has

been incorporated to manufacture and
with
stock of $40,000

common, $60,000 preferred and 3,000

sell auto parts and accessories,

an authorized capital

shares at $1 per share, of which amount
$2,000 and 2,02(
scribed and $4,020 paid in in property.

Detroit—The
9101

been incorporated to manufacture tools

) shares has been sub-

Lennon Manufactur-
ing Co., Woodward avenue, has

and machine parts, with an authorized

capital stock of $100,000 and 15,08C
shares at $5 per share, of which
amount $1,000 and 10,000 shares ha

been subscribed, $2,000 paid in in cash
and $25,000 in property.
This life is all a fleeting show,
And no wise man regrets it.
Man wants but litt’e here below,
And generally he gets it.
Be interested in your job and you
will be there on time.

 

 

 

6

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

 

Cheats and Swindles. Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

Another gang of crooks from Chi-
cago has put in an appearance at sev-
eral points in Michigan. In
represent the

some
claim to
Manufacturers. In

places they
Style Clothing
other places they use diffirent alleged
firm names. They confine their opera-
tions to farmers and mechanics who
ought to be patronizing regular deal-
ers, instead of sharks who insist on
cash in advance and then send such
inferior garments that the purchaser
promptly returns them to the shipper.
Then the victims proceed to write let-
ters of enquiry which are never answer-
ed.

 

Another swindle is very common at
this time of the year. It takes the
form of sharpers who sally into Michi-
gan from Detroit, Toledo, South Bend,
Ft. Wayne and Chicago, purchasing
chickens from farmers. The chickens
are crated and shipped in exchange for
checks which come back unpaid, usual-
ly endorsed “Party not known at this
bank.” Merchants everywhere should
warn their farmer customers never to
accept checks from strangers in pay-
ment for anything. It is a very simple
matter for a man who wants to be
crooked to write a check for any sum
of money and sign a fictitious name.
Then he can skip the country before
the truth of the matter is found out.
The one who accepts the check is left
to “hold the bag.”

 

The Credit Assurance of the United
States, which has been doing business
in Grand Rapids for some time through
aman named John Drew, has not filed
a $5,000 bond with the Secretary of
State, as required by Act No. 210,
Public Acts of 1925. Any one who
entrusts claims to this concern evi-
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In 1923 the two members of the
firm of Delfin & Klang were sentenced
for eighteen months to the Atlanta
Penitentiary for concealment of asseis
in the bankruptcy of their concern.
Recently released from prison, Delfin
& Klang confessed to a member of the
United States Attorney’s office in New
York City and to members of the
Credit Protection Department of the
Association that they had been assist-
ed in their crime by their attorney,
Max G. Cohen.

Cohen was tried before Judge
Holmes and a jury in the United
States District Court in New York
City for subordination of perjury. In
the course of the trial it was shown
that Cohen had served a two years’
term at Mac Neill Island Prison at
Portland, Oregon, for a similar offense
in a bankruptcy case.

Cohen regained his rights as a citi-
zen and later came East and practiced
law. For several years he has been
prominent in New York among bank-
ruptcy attorneys and is reputed to
have had an unusually large bankrupt-
cy practice.

In commenting on this case, the
Evening World of New York, said in
an editorial that Cohen had advised

 

 

 

 

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his clients, Delfin & Klang, to “lie like
hell,” and that besides Cohen had not
been prevented from practicing in New
York by the American Bar Associa-
tion despite the fact that it was com-
monly known that he had served a
prison term for a crime which, of
course, was also a breach of the ethics
of the legal profession as interpreted
by the bar association. In taking the
association to task for this, the news-
paper said in part:

“Did any of the Bar Associations
start proceedings against Cohen for
the second perjury offense? They did
not. The proceedings were instituted
by a Federal investigator aided by the
Fraud Bureau of the National Associa-
tion of Credit Men.”

The editorial contains following this
a quotation from the Canons of Ethics
adopted by the American Bar Associa-
tion which explains about upholding
the honor of the profession. The
Evening World then concludes:

“When the Bar Associations begin
to enforce the above instead of merely
preaching it, how many lawyers will
they discipline in this city and State?
How many disbarment proceedings
will they start in the Appellate Division
of the Supreme Court against lawyers
guilty of suborning perjury and manu-
facturing defences in criminal cases?

“In the twenty-four years from
1900 to 1924 there were only 134 con-
victions for perjury in New York
county—an average of less than six a
year. In the twelve years from 1912
to 1924 there were only seventy-one
perjury convictions in the Borough of
Brooklyn. Granted trial judges are
lax in instructing prosecution of per-
jury cases only too apparent. Have
not the Bar Associations a very special
duty of their own in this direction, to
enforce their code upon ALL mem-
bers of their profession? A duty they
honor with more words than action.”

One of the aims of the Credit Pro-
tection Department is to exert effort
to put behind bars those attorneys
who have been engineering bankrupt-
cies in New York for several years
with impunity. The conviction of a
few of these lawyers will go a long
Ways to breaking up the bankruptcy
which have thrived in New
York, Philadelphia and some other
large cities where the possibility for
gathering the loot is great.

rings

 

_ Scotts, Oct. 12—George Webster,
livir-- near this place, reported to the
sheriff that he had been bilked out of
$70.08 by two men who came to his
farm to buy chickens and other f>wls.
One of the strangers drove a Buick
coupe and the other one drove a Ford
truck. The man in the coupe trans-
acts the business and writes the checks,
it is claimed, while the truck driver
loads the poultry “purchased.” The
two men gave Webster a check signed
with the name “George C. Brown,” and
made payable through the Peninsular
State Bank of Detroit. The check was
returned from the Detroit bank with

. the notation that it was worthless.

Detroit, Oct. 12—Bad check passers
in Detroit can no longer escape pros-
ecution by making good on the check,
according to a ruling to the Wayne
County prosecuting attorney’s office.
Flying worthless paper is not only
reprehensible and all too frequent, but
also all too expensive for the courts in
view of the practice of complainants

withdrawing their complaints when
the culprit makes good the loss after
the machincry of the law has been set
in motion at considerable expense to
arrest and prosecute him, or her.
(‘Her,” because no inconsiderable part
of the bad check passers in Detroit are
women, indulging their penchant for
shopping for pretty things with worth-
less checks.)

Complainants who decline to prose-
cute after appealing to the police and
courts will, if necessary, be arrested on
bench warrants and themselves prose-
cuted on charges of compounding a
felony.

The new policy on bad checks is of
a part with other recent measures to
check the abuse of the law for private
advantage, including requirements that
complaints must bear the expense of
extraditing and bringing back fugitives
from justice if they do not press the
case through to trial and a proposed
law to hold the initiators of trivial, un-
founded prosecutions responsible for
the time and expense of the court
wasted by them.

—_~2->___
Will Enlarge the Business.

Several years ago Charles Donovan
engaged in the manufacture of a wash-
ing powder in this city under the style
of O-So-White Products Co. Sales
gained in volume every year and two
or three years ago the business was
merged into a corporation under the
same style with an authorized capital
stock of $150,000, of which $86,500 was
issued, $76,500 being held by Mr. Don-
ovan. The latter sold most of his in-
terest last week to his associates, whose
holdings are now as follows:

Dr. Charles H. Bull, $24,500.

Sophus C. Johnson, $22,000.

P. C. Johnson, $22,000.

The directors will be Dr. Bull,
Sophus Johnson, P. C. Johnson, Chas.
Donovan and J. Oom.

The officers will be as follows:

President—Sophus C. Johnson.

Vice-President—Dr. Charles H. Bull.

October 13, 1926

Secretary—Charies Donovan.

Treasurer—P. C. Johnson.

It is understood that the active man-
agement of the business will be vested
in P. C. Johnson, who will devote his
entire time to the business.

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Uncover Pot of Gold Buried in 1864.

Southdown, Ky., Oct. 8—The indus-
try of a hen and her brood of chickens
has solved a mystery of 62 years’
standing—that of what became of a
pot of gold buried by a man who hid
his ready cash as he entered the Civil
War in 1864. The hens and chickens
invaded the garden of Mrs. R. Adding-
ton. They scratched over a consider-
able area and displaced various vege-
tables until Mrs. Addington saw them
and hurried to drive them out. As
Mrs. Addington approached the spot
she saw something shining just where
the scratching had been energetic. The
shining thing was a $5 gold piece. Mrs.
Addington produced a sharp stick and
began scratching. After considerable
work she uncovered a pot of gold and
silver coins. Her grandfather, John
Addington, had buried the money
there in 1864, just as war’s call came
to him.

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Tribute To the Memory of Ernest C.
Below.

Ernest Carl Below, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Below, passed into the
glorious life above on September 21
after an illness of but a few hours.
He was born in Manistee, Michigan,
May 1, 1874. His parents were of
sturdy, pious German stock and prom-
inent members of Trinity Lutheran
church, Manistee. After receiving his
education in the Christian day school
connected with Trinity church, and in
the public schools of the city, Ernest
entered the employ of the Buckley &
Douglas Lumber Co. who, besides
operating a sawmill and salt works,
ran a general s.ore. From the posi-
tion of clerk he rose to the position
of head clerk and buyer in this estab-
lishment.

In 1902 he accepied a position of
salesman for the National Grocer Co.,
Traverse City brauch. From January
1, 1910, dates his connection with the
Lemon & Wheeler Co., Grand Rapids.
He remained with this firm until after
the death of Mr. Lemon, the firm was
absorbed by the Worden Grocer Co.,
and remained with the Worden house,
as one of its most efficient salesman
until the day of his death.

Ernest Below was married October
12, 1897, to Miss Gertrude Warnes,
who survives him with one son, Carl,
26 years old. Two daughters, Ermine
and Alzada, died at the age of 12 and
19 years, respectively. It was exactly
fifteen weeks to the day that his daugh-
ter Alzada passed on until his own
passing.

He also leaves his father, Charles
Below, and two sisters, Mrs. Elizabeth
Ames and Mrs. Alma Eastman.

Ernest Below was a member of
Trinity Lutheran church of Manistee
since his baptism in infancy and be-
came a voting member in 1900. The
funeral services were held at the home,
316 First street, on Thursday, Sept. 23,
and interment was in Oak Grove cem-
etery. Rev. J. H. Todt, pastor of
Trinity Lutheran Church and Ernest's
pastor for twenty-seven years, con-
ducted the services, speaking words
of comfort to the mourners from Ro-
mans 8, 28: “Ye know that all things
work together for good to them that
love God.” Ernest Below was laid to
rest amid a profusion of floral offer-
ings sent by many relations and friends
who loved and honored him.

His cordial and pleasant manner en-
deared him to his many friends in
Manistee and on the road. His con-
scientious thoroughness in attending
to his work was appreciated by his
clients and the firm which employed
him.

He was a devoted husband, a wise
and tender father, a true friend and,
above all, a fine Christian who based
his hope of eternal life on the redemp-
tion of Jesus Christ his Savior. These
are abiding memories of him while our
hearts are wrung with grief by a loss

so great. J. H. Todt.

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Dean Effinger Convert To Forestry
Activ:ty.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 12—The abund-
ant fall rains speak for the well-being
of the forests and the young pines
show a good year’s growth and in the

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7

realm of forest management we can see
prospects of good portent.

The recent forestry tour with Col.
Greeley as a prominent member
brought from another one of the party
a notable utterance by Dean John R.
Effinger. of the college of literature,
science and the arts at the U. of M.,
as follows: “I am returning determined
tc urge upon my colleagues that we
have a duty to perform in forestry and
I hope that we shall be able to estab-
lish, in connection with the university,
the biggest and best school of forestry

-in existence.”

Here we have a leader in university
work brought into first hand contact
with the meaning of forestry to our
cut-over lands and in conjunction with
the presence of the Chief U. S. Forest-
er and the above quotation gives us a
picture to encourage all thoughtful
citizens.

This experience meant much to the
Dean and he shows his desire to have
the science of forestry so represented
at the University that all the thousands
of students shall have contact with the
truths and realities of forestry such as
made the impression on himself.

The students can not all be foresters,
but it is wise that all should have a
just appreciation of forestry as a basic
science on which we must build as a
foundation for statewide welfare and
prosperity.

We of the woods are well pleased
to have this brought forward in such
a manner by the educators and there
is another matter which all citizens
should bring to their own considera-
tion.

It is quite certain that the Hon. Fred
W. Green will have opportunity to
choose a new Director of Conservation.

And there are matters in charge of
that department which will indirect!y
affect the interests of all Michigan peo-
ple for generations to come... I urge
that the new Director be a man hold-
*-+ a Master’s Degree in Forestry.

His Department has State land in
its charge to an amount that demands
thoughful leadership by the Director.

If he has thorough forestry training,
that part of his work will be eastiy
managed and be a help in mastering al
other phases of the departmenial work.

In his speech at the State conven-
tion Mr. Green expressed the desire
to know the ideas of interested people
in this connection.

We ali will be gladdened by the
thought of a better Michigan and the
evidence piles up to show that ‘he
science of forestry will lead us to ac-
complish much that will make for
greater welfare and enjoyment and
prosperity.

The Conservation Department can
be a leader in State activity, bringing
constructive development of an enorm-
ous acreage and we all can ask for a
new Director well fitted to the task.

Frederick Wheeler,

Vice-Pres. Mich. Forestry Ass'n.

—_>-~___
Near-Sighted Man.

A near-sighted man lost his hat in a
strong wind. He gave chase, but
every time he thought he was catching
up with it it was whisked away from
under his hand. A woman screamed
from a nearby farmhouse: ‘What are
you doing there?”

He mildly replied that he was trying
to retrieve his hat.

“Your hat!” exclaimed the woman.
“There it is over there under that
stone wall; that’s our black hen you've
been chasing.”

ie saa ill og age
Misuse of Words.

Edison, with all his inventions, was
a piker compared to the ambitious
young photographer who advert’s:d:
“Your baby, if you have one, can be
enlarged, tinted and framed for $8.79.”

  
  
   
   
  
  
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
   
   
   
   
     
   
  
   
  
  
   
   
   
     
  
  
  
 
    
 
 
   
   
 
 
  
   
 
 
  
 
 
  
  
  

 

 

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October 13, 1926

 

CAMPAIGN HAS HAD EFFECT.

The extension of a $30,000,000 credit
to co-operative marketing associations
in the South which have been hard
hit by the slump in the cotton prices
is a good example of the legitimate
use of Government funds to help the

farmers. The money will be used to
assist in the orderly marketing of the
largest coiton crop in history and will
be of invaluable assistance to a section
just now well-nigh paralyzed at the
prospect of a loss of some $400,000,000
on its principal farm product.
President Coolidge has said repeat-
edly that he wanted all the possible
aid given to agriculture which was
consistent with the principles of sound
economics. This credit, with a num-
ber of others that are shortly to be
announced, is a quiet answer to the
rabid proponents of such pieces of
legislation as the McNary-Haugen bill.
Other plans for relief are under dis-
cussion, some of them grandiose in
scale. Texas bankers have discussed
raising funds to take a million bales
off the market, and at Los Angeles
representatives of the State banking
associations heard the figure of 3,-
000,000 bales mentioned, but refused
to take any action upon the plan, pre-
ferring to concentrate upon a cam-
paign for reduced acreage next season.
In other years the South has had to
take its medicine, as bitter as the dose
often been. At best, cotton is
one of the most uncertain of all crops;
a planter is never sure of his profits
until his money is in the bank and his
product on the way to the mills.
One fortunate feature of the present
situation is that the long and sternly
waged campaign for diversification has
had its effect. The South now finds
itself with an excellent yield of food-
stuffs. The recent profitable cotton
years, however, brought the planting of
a greater acreage than usual. What-
ever is done about the present prob-
lem, there is certain to be a reduction
this fluctua-
inevitable, with or

has

of acreage next season;

has become

without such campaigns as are under

tion

discussion by bankers and co-operative
marketing associations.

Much may
done in the way of co-operative mar-
keting, the bonded warehouse system
and more efficient farming to mini-
mize the element of chance in cotton
production and selling, but there is
little hope of an absolute prevention
of wide swings.

be done and has been

 

In anticipation of a Government re-
port that would show a larger prospec-
tive yield of cotton than previous es-
timates indicated the quotations dur-
ing the past week kept sagging and
wound up below the _ thirteen-cent
mark. When the figures were issued
at noon on Friday they merely con-
firmed the general belief, but they
still lowered prices further. The odd
thing about the whole cotton situa-
tion has been the self-delusion of so
many in the trade and out of it. Thus
it was known that the acreage plant-
ed was a record one and although
there was a late start to the crop
there was no remarkable infestation

by the weevil. The chances all were.
almost from the outset, that the crop
would be large. If the latest estimate
prove correct, the yield will be a rec-
ord one, even overtopping that of 1914.
But the elements have yet to be con-
sidered. An early frost, for example,
would make a material cut in the crop.
The present prices of cotton are con;
sidered low, even when the production
estimates are taken into account, and
no one concerned in producing cotton
goods cares so much for cheap cotton
as is sometimes imagined. For reduc-
tion in the price of the raw material
means reduced purchasing power of a
large section of the population which
usually takes a lot of cotton goods.
Not much, if any, aid in keeping up
cotton prices is expected from the va-
rious movements set on foot. The loan
of $30,000,000 by farm land banks 10
co-operative associations is one of
these. But the amount could take care
of too small a percentage of the crop
to make an impression. Under the in-
fluence of falling prices in cotton, gray
goods have dropped quite a bit on fu-
tures, but spots have been little af-
fected. Finished fabrics have been
passing in fair volume through dis-
tributing channels without price
change. The demand bids fair to con-
tinue for some time. Knit goods are
showing activity in certain directions.
Thus, the call for heavyweight under-
wear is unabated and the same is true
of hosiery. Orders for Spring weights
in underwear are withheld because
buyers expect recessions in price which
manufacturers of the goods are not
prepared to grant.

 

WOOLS AND WOOLENS.

At the London wool auctions which
closed on Wednesday last most of the
sales were to Continental and British
buyers. Only 1,000 bales were bought
on American account. About one-
seventh of the offerings were with-
drawn. The changes in price were, in
general, of small account and the out-
look for the next sale, which will take
pace in November, is said to be for a
reaction. Carpet wools, however, con-
tinue to marked advance in
price. There is a little more buying
of wools in this country, but most of
it is not in large quantity. Imports
are still of small proportions. In the
week ended with Oct. 2, for instance,
the quantity brought in was only 3,
659,997 pounds, of which 2,639,323
pounds were carpet wool. Domestic
mills are, in general, quite busy with
orders, the greatest activity in men’s
wear fabrics being in worsteds. A
number of openings of women’s wear
weaves took place during the past week
the principal one being that of the
American Woolen Company. That was
especially notable for the large variety
in the offerings. The prices for cer-
tain fabrics show a slight reduction.
Certain imported weaves were also put
on sale here during the week. Clothing
manufacturers have been and still are
doing a good business on Fall and
Winter goods. Many have opened their
lines for Spring and others are pre-
paring to do so within the next few
days. In some instances prices >how
a slight reduction; in others the ett -t
has been to give a little better value

show a

for the same money. Some openings
of women’s wear fabrics are scheduled
for this week and others will come
later. In one noteworthy
there will be no formal opening at all.
Goods are being shown from time tc

instance

time and orders taken.

GARMENT CONDITIONS.
When fall
Winter buying by retailers they were
warned that it was unsafe to postpone
their orders too
long.
with regard to women’s apparel, as to

 

the time came for and

for certain goods

This was especially the case

which a strike was in progress which
promised to be quite prolonged. Some
heeded the warning, but the number
was few, because the habit of piece-
meal-buying had become too fixed.
Buyers felt quite sure’ that when the
demand arose they would be able to
secure what they wanted, just as was
the case in former years. This time,
however, they erred in their surmise.
When they came into the market late,
they discovered that not only
wanted goods scarce but that cutters-

were

up had not even laid in any stocks of
fabrics that could be
making up the garments. This scarcity
led to somethingg of a scramble, re-
sulting in higher garment prices in

drawn on for

many instances and taxed the resourc-
es of the cloth manufacturers. Among
the incidental consequences have been
the restriction in the number of styles
and the prolonging of the buying
season. The primary market for dress
goods is now busy in supplying needs
that should attended to
long ago. Fall buying at retail, which
was checked somewhat early in the
past week by wet and humid weather,
started up again as the temperature

have been

went down. A conspicious feature of
the week’s mercantile activity was the
success of the big rug and carpet sale
featured by the Alexander Smith &
Sons Co. The bidding at this was
brisk throughout and the prices show-
list. The
result was taken as evidence that busi-

ed advances over the old
ness in floor coverings is good and
that supplies were needed to replenish
stocks in the hands of retailers all over
the country.

 

ANOTHER OUTRAGE.

None of the conventional excuses
for reversion to lynch law appear in
the most recent Southern atrocity. The
three negroes who were shot to death
at Aiken, S. C., one of them a woman,
had received prompt enough trials, and
one of them had just been cleared of
the charge of conspiracy to murder be-
fore he was taken out and lynched.
The South Carolinians who took part
in the brutal murder of these negroes
expressed all too plainly their con-
tempt for the machinery of justice in
their own state. It does not appear
that the jailer and the sheriff made
any determined effort whatever to save
their prisoners. The cold-bloodedness
of this particular lynching is, however,
the most striking thing about it; the
reputed crime of which the negroes
were convicted at their first trial oc-
curredmonths ago, and, unfortunate
though it was, it did not even at the
time of its commission have any of the
usual elements which drive a populace

to forget civilization and turn back
to the law of the jungle. Our South-
ern States have proved that lynchings
are by no means inevitable and there-
by improved their standing among the
communities of the world.
South Carolina could do much to re-
move this stain by punishing the men
who so openly insulted the courts of
law of the state, but that they will be
punished is too much to hope for, If
that were even remotely possible, the
lynching would never have occurred,

civilized

 

 

CANNED FOODS SITUATION.
There is really nothing wrong with
food situation from the
standpoint of present and prospective

the canned

consumer distribution. All products
are being used in regular distribut-
ing channels and there is no han-

dicap of dearth of supplies to lead tu
prices out of line with the housewives’
pocketbook or her ideas of value. Can-
ned foods are reasonably priced at re-
tail and there is a movement under way
fully up to normal.

The main difference with the situa-
ton to-day and that of other years is in
the method of wholesalers in conduct-
ing their business. Distributors have
not loaded their warehouses and pub-
lic storehouses with merchandise and
neither have they made their usual con-
tracts for goods to be moved from the
factory. The canner has been forced
to be the banker and the warehouse-
man and to assume the functions of the
wholesaler.

Naturally there is more or less com-
plaint about ti.e new method of opera-
tion and the frequent attempts to get
the wholesaler interested in merchan-
dise have led to cutting prices which
have had quite the opposite tendency.
The wholesaler frankly admits that he
has changed his buying policy and
slashing prices makes him confident
that it is unwise to buy heavily until
there is more stability to values.

 

OUR CROWDED COURTS.

Thousands of “dead cases” have been
cut from the calendars of the Federal
courts, with a corresponding speeding
These cases had
been burdening the docket for so long
that there little probability of
their being prosecuted. The particular
point of interest about them is that a
good many were the outcome of the
Volstead law. There was the more
reason for dropping them, since so
large a number of similar suits have
been brought in vain. This clearing
out of old lumber relieves the conges-
tion somewhat, but it cannot do the
whole job. The statement issued by
Chief Justice Taft admits the necessity
for additional judges in places like De-
troit, where the rapid increase in popu-
lation naturally means an increase in
the demand for legal machinery. But
mere multiplication of judges would be
shortsighted. The judges who are al-
ready on the bench could do much to
expedite matters by refusing to allow
arguments over technicalities to be
drawn out to their present interminable
lengths. They could also cut down
their vacations without endangering
their health. No small part of the cure
for the scandal of our court procedure
is in their hands.

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Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

Greenville people are still claiming
that that city is the world’s greatest
potato market. As to the merit of the
claim I have no knowledge, but the
wagon and truck loads of tubers I saw
headed for Greenville on the public
highways Saturday certainly bore wit-
ness to the enormous volume of the
potato shipping which centers in the
beautiful city on Flat River.

Sidney appears to be holding her
own, which is no mean accomplish-
ment, considering her nearness to
Greenville and the good roads which
now span the country in all directions,
practically annihilating distance and
rendering the transport of heavy loads
an easy accomplishment.

The same condition appears to ap-
ply to Sheridan, which must be helped
greatly by the enormous milk con-
densery conducted by Libby, McNeal
& Libby.

Vickeryville looks about the same to
me as it did when I called there three
years ago. With the old town on the
hill and the new town centered around
the depot—one-half mile apart—the
trading area is pretty well spread out.

Butternut looked prosperous to me
and I hope she does not
looks.

belie her

Carson City presents an enterprising
appearance, no matter from which di-
rection she is approached. I distinctly
recall a visit I made the town about
fiity years ago—five or six years be-
fore I started the Tradesman—going
by stage from Pewamo. The trip was
made in June, just after a heavy show-
er, and every growing field and every
farm animal we passed looked good
to me. On that occasion I made the
acquaintance of Frank A. Rockafellow,
whose friendship and co-operation I
enjoyed as long as he lived. I have
met many town boosters in my day,
but I do not now recall a man of that
type who worked more unselfishly for
the good of his town and the progress
of his section of the country than Mr.
Rockafellow. In town
booming is accompanied by the ele-
ment of personal selfishness or resent-
ment which finds expression in cur-
tailing the accomplishments of the
other fellow. No such spirit ever ac-
tuated Mr. Rockafellow. He welcomed
competition, because he realized fully
that it was the life of trade, and I hap-
pen to know that he assisted more
than one young man to get a start in
life which enabled him to demonstrate
whether or not he was capable of
achieving success.

Many cases

Subsequent visits to Carson City
were so pleasant that I was prevailed
upon to become a stockholder and di-
rector of the Carson City Savings
Bank, which justified its existence as
a necessary factor in bringing about
equitable relations between the finan-
cial and mercantile interests of the
community. When the bank had ac-
complished that result I cheerfully
headed the movement which resulted
in the merger of the institution into
the State Bank of Carson City.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Middleton looked good to me as I
inspected her main street and called
on my customers there, all of whom
regard their fall business as satisfac-
tory.

Instead of going to St. Louis around
by Pompeii, | headed due North to
interview a couple of merchants of
whose existence I was previously un-
aware. I found E. H. Cross pleasant-
ly installed in a comparatively new
store at Newark Corners and added
his name to our list. I then went
three miles West to the store of
Edward B. Everest, who has been a
careful reader of the Tradesman for
the past five years. En route to St.
Louis I added H. & S. Young to the
army of Tradesman readers.

I am always glad to add a cross
roads merchant to my list, for several
reasons. In the first place, he needs
the information the Tradesman. can
give him from week to week. He
needs the protection afforded him by
our Realm of Rascality. He needs
the market prognostications we deal
out each week under the proper head-
ings. The Tradesman gradually gains
the confidence of the merchant and
becomes to the store what the Bible
is to the home—an unfailing source
of information and inspiration. Cross
roads merchants have one peculiarity
which I wish all my readers possessed.
If I fail to call on them for two or
three years, they always insist on pay-
ing as far in advance as I have per-
mitted them to get in arrears. They
say they do this to assure me that
they have the same confidence in me
that |
them.

have demonstrated I have in

My traveling friends and Verbeck,
our hotel correspondent, have always
written so generously about the Park
Hotel, St. Louis, that I determined to
ascertain how much of their estimate
was fact and how much was due to
exaggeration. A belated dinner, ow-
ing to St. Louis being on fast time,
soon convinced me that Landlord Staf-
ford and his estimable wife are entitled
to all the pleasant words which can
be said of them. Handicapped by
a building which was erected in the
eat-and-sleep era, they manage to make
up ‘or some of the shortcomings which
confront them by good housekeeping,
good food and good service and send
every guest away with a warm spot
in his heart for people who can thus
dignify their calling.

My week end found pleasant ful-
fillment as the guest of Herbert Mon-
tague, Superintendent of the Michigan
Masonic Home, at Alma. I have vis-
ited a good many institutions of that
kind, but never before found one where
I wanted to remain over night. How
Mr. and Mrs. Montague have succeed-
ed in overcoming the so-called “insti-
tutional odor” usually prevalent in
charity institutions is more than [ can
understand except on the theory that
they keep everything so clean that
there is no possible lodgment for any-
thing unwholesome. Old people are
proverbially untidy and = careless in
their habits, but they are treated so
generously at the Alma institution that
they apparently co-operate in every

way with the management in making
his sanitary system a splendid success.
Mr. Montague has now managed the
Masonic Home fifteen years, which is
a long time for any man to remain in
a position of that kind. I have always
been familiar with his buying methods
and feel no hesitation in stating that
the knowledge he acquired as a whole-
sale and retail merchant at Traverse
City for over thirty years enables him
to save the institution at least $10,000
per year. Mr. Montague has grown
grey in the service of the Masonic
Home, but everything in and about
the place is spic and span. He was
always strong in executive ability and
advancing years appear to have even
strengthened his capacity to perform
Where the Ma
sonic fraternity can ever find a man

along executive lines.

who combines buying experience and
executive capacity as Mr. Montague
does, whenever he decides to lay down
the duties of his position, is more than
I can determine.

En route home Sunday we tarried
at Ithaca long enough to spend an
hour at the wonderful colonial home
of Charles G. Graham, who has achiev-
ed distinction in many different lines
of human endeavor. He was twenty-
four years on the road for the John
V. Farwell Co. wholesale dry goods
house, Chicago, during which time he
made the acquaintance and friendship
of many of the leading dry goods mer-
chants of Michigan. He is a pepper-
mint growers of considerable experi-
ence. He is a 33d degree Mason and
has held the office of executive head
of the Michigan Knights Templar. He
has succeeded in everything he under-
took to accomplish and has made his
mark in different directions.
Pending the sale of his farm near
Ithaca and his palatial home in the
city of Ithaca, he has under considera-
tion several offers from wholesale
establishments in two or three differ-
ent cities, one of which he will un-
doubtedly

many

during the next
Any house which is so for-

accept
month.
tunate as to secure the services of
Mr. Graham will find it has a gentle-
man of high degree, a business man
of remarkable ability and unimpeach-
able integrity and a genial and re-
sourceful companion and leader. [
wish there was a place for him in the
Grand Rapids market, but none of our
dealers appear to be aware of the
wonderful asset he would be to any
jobbing house if given free rein to car-
ty his ideas and plans into execution.

I have frequent occasion to com-
mend the presence of women in stores
because of their almost universal fidel-
ity and faithfulness, but in one of the
towns I visited last Saturday I found
a woman in a hardware store who
would impair and ultimately destroy
any business she happened to be con-
nected with. Loud mouthed, sarcastic,
resentful, petty in her methods and
abusive in her conversation, she will
drive away customers faster than her
well meaning husband can attract them
by honorable methods and patient in-
dustry. My heart goes out in sym-

pathy to any man who is so unfor-

 

9

tunate as to have such an embargo
on his career.

[ wish my good friends in the coun-
try would cultivate the habit of greater
promptness in sending in their sub-
scription money, instead of waiting for
me to come after it, as too many of
them do. In the nature of things |
cannot call on all my customers every
year. I aim to see them all as often
as once in five years, but in the mean-
time some of them retire from trade
and associate themselves with banks,

faciories and farms. Such changes re

quire the expenditure of extra time
on my part in looking up my patrons,
whereas if they always kept their sub-
scriptions paid in

advance I could

make my calls purely social, instead

of combining the social and business
clements.

The trees have taken on much addi
tional color during the past week and
in many places the reds and yellows
predominate over the green. Unless
there is much rain and wind this week
the fall colorings ought to be at their
most glorious stage next Sunday. [|
sometimes wonder if many of the auto-
mobile accidents at this time of the
years do not result from the drivers
looking admiringly at the forests and
wayside trees when they ought to keep
their eyes on the road ahead.

E. A. Stowe.
—_>-~.____
More Orders For Umbrellas.

A marked increase in quantity or-
ders for men’s and women’s umbrellas
from all sections of the country is re-

ported. The better grade of staples
and novelties are in greatest demand.
The 16-rib styles are leading, especial-

floral

| decorations, which are priced

ly those with the “Artgraphic”
and _ bir¢
at $3.37 to $7.50. Blue, green, cardinal
and brown are the favored shades.
All-over plaids are also in demand.
The children’s “Uncle Wiggly” um-
brellas, introduced last year, continue
strong. One manufacturer reports a
marked increase in the demand for
men’s umbrellas, for which an order
for 1,100 for immediate express deliy-

ery was received from a Chicago re-

tailer a few days ago. Straight short

t
root handles in natural wood with

leather loop, known as the “Welling-
ton,’ are popular.
ae ee
Oriental Rugs Gain Favor.

Good business in Oriental rugs is in-
dicated for the coming season, it is
said, some importers asserting that the
popularity of plain domestic carpets,
so long favored by decorators, is on
the wane. Oriental rugs of the cheap-
er grades now imported in such large
quantities have convinced consumers
of small means that Eastern rugs are
no longer a luxury beyond their reach.
Prices are firm, although some im
porters have noted a depreciation in
quality. Indian rugs, at from $2.25
a square foot wholesale, are said to be
in demand. There is some scarcity of
the 9 by 12 sizes in all types, some
wholesalers have found, although it is
admitted that the price question is a
main factor, with no acute shortage

even in these sizes.

  

 

  

SHOE MARKET

Handling Shces and Handbags To
Match.

There is general interest at this time
on the part of shoe dealers in the way
handbags and accessories are merchan-
dised in shoe stores, the success that
has already been achieved, the profit
possibilities and the sources of supply.

Many shoe dealers believe that as
shoes continue to be sold
largely for style reasons, handbags
will maintain their place in shoe stores.

Bags and purses were once regarded

 

women’s

as containers for everything that a wo-
man would carry if she had suffic’ ent
pockets. Especially in the vogue of
black in apparel it is the accessory
which is used as a highlight for the
otherwise sombre scheme.

The average shoe retailer when he
thinks about putting handbags in his
store is pretty much at sea as he does
not know this market. He is not in-
formed regarding the supply and there-
fore he is not apt to be a well-informed
buyer.

There are two
handbag manufacturers-—those g@naking
popularly-priced merchandise and those
producing deluxe and luxury-types.
The former popular-price group whole-
sale their product at or about $24, $35
and $48 per dozen. The higher grades
start around $60 and step up to $120
per dozen.

Early in

distinct classes of

buying
manu-

Augusi the fall

season commences in earnest,

f concentrating on higher-
priced goods. As weather ap-

manufacturers face a

tacturers
warm
proaches, the

dull season and are likely to step
down in the quality of products to
attract volume.

The price for handbags retailing in
the summer months in specialty shops
stores for $2.95 is
While bag
manufacturers charge $24, $36 and $48

department
around $22.50 per dozen.

and

per dozen, it is quite customary for
the $24 grade to be purchased at $22.50
and the $36 grade at about $34.

About 90 per cent. of bags made in
America are produced in New York
City.

Ordinarily bag manufacturers do
not carry their merchandise in stock.
Everything is made up to order with
delivery generally in three
weeks.

two to

The mark-up on handbags is prac-
tically the same as on footwear.

The envelope and book styles in the
Past season were the best sellers but
the pouch style will be the leader for
the fall and winter season, according
to well informed individuals in the bag
trade.

Shoe retailers desiring to play safe
in their stock of bags have been ac-
customed to order five and six in
book envelope and pouch styles.

The practice of leading stylists who
foresaw possibilities in handbags has
been to purchase the same leather that
the shoe manufacturers were using
and turn this over to the high-grade
makers of bags, to make up in given
designs designated by the shoe buyer

Two-tone effects of leather were
usualy ordered because it was not
deemed practical, except in special
cases, to order bags in strict accord-

MICHIGAN

ance with the shoe patterns. The cus-
tomer might not want a bag to match
her shoe and this would
specially ornamented handbag on the
merchants hands without good oppor-
tunity to dispose of it. With bags of
the same tone or color effects of the
general run of shoes, the shoe mer-
chant can sell one type of bag with a
variety of shoe patterns, if the same
colors and leathers were used as in the

leave a

shoes.

The handbag is never displayed, of
course, until the customer has definite-
ly chosen her shoes, since previous
knowledge that a certain pair of shoes
is likely to be part of a set that the
shoe clerk will push might result in
prejudice or resistance.

Several popular-priced shoe
interviewed on their results with hand-
bags report surprising success for the
short time in which the idea has been
worked.

Where the shoes retail for $10, bags
to match have been sold for about $8
to $10. Notwithstanding the fact that
women who spend $10 or less for shoes
are not so likely to have an extra $8
or $10 to spend on an accessory, a
few shops seem to average about one
bag to every five customers.

The average specialty shop seems
to work on a ratio of ordering half a
dozen bags to every 30 pairs of shoes
made of the same materials and shades.

stores

— ++ .__
Tell Customers Price of Goods at Be-
ginning.

Do not wait for a customer to ask
for the price.

He may not.
the store.

You can take this as final: the cus-
tomer does not like to ask questions.
Most of all, he hates to ask the price.

He somehow feels that questions, and
particularly the direct
“What is the price?”
buy.

He may walk out of

question of
obligates him to

He has a reluctance to assume this
fancied obligation.

He stands looking, word-fencing,
waiting to learn the price by accident.

The salesman often tells the cus-
tomer everything except what he most
wants to hear—the price.

Then the customer does everything
but what he wants the
do, that is, to buy.

consumer to

So, tell them the price.

Of course, it is not necessary to hurl
the price right in the teeth of the cus-
tomer.

Price can be brought in incidental
to showing the article.

Price is not always bad news. It
is usually the best argument in the
whole sales talk.

It should be told frankly, or better,
placed in plain sight.

Price ought to represent something,
and usually does.

It should represent quality in the
goods, plus low selling cost, a modest
return on our work and investment and
a decent profit to the dealer.

That’s fair to any customer and it
shows in the fair prices.
Tell your customer the price. Don’t
wait for them to ask for it.
—_»--_____
Plain duty is scarcely ever attractive
—probably because it is plain.

TRADESMAN

“You Make a Ringer When ‘You Buy
Shoes Here”

“You make a ringer when you buy
shoes here,” plainly stated the placard
to the front of the display window of
the Hogan Dry Goods Co., of
Tahoka, Texas. The background to
the display window was made by a
streamers that were twisted and
strung up and down the entire back-
ground.

A red and white striped stake was
placed in each end of the display win-
dow, while lying around near each of
were a number of real
One of these shoes was
while the

these stakes
horse shoes.
encircled about the stake,
others were scattered near.
A selected number of attractive
shoes were mounted upon stands and
placed in neat order over the display
wndow. The placard to the front of
the window was quick to call atten-
tion to this simple little display, which
rang the cash register for this firm.

—_——_>- 2.
Sheer Silk Hosiery in Favor.

The present demand for women’s silk
hosiery is confined largely to the very
sheer weights, according to one manu-
facturer, who says that 7’ per cent. of
all his business the past month was
for the gossamer weights. There is a
trend toward the slightly darker tan
shades, and for Algerian, walnut and
auburn tones. The leading shade at
the moment, it is said, is the gun-
metal, with black heel, due to the in-
dicated popularity this Fall of black
frocks, shoes and coats. The all-silk
chiffons are preferred, the only adorn-
ment being a one-row French open-
work clock.

—_—_>--2____
What Is Wanted in Laces.

The demand for 72-inch tulles and
40-inch spot nets is better than at any
time within the last five years, it is
reported. Shades in greatest demand
in tulles are Nile green, flesh, orchid,
Narcissus and black. Black leads in
the spot nets, which come in all sizes
for dress purposes. Thirty-six-inch
metal cloths, especially in gold, are
popular, silver in combination with
colors also being in demand. There is
a corresponding improved demand for
metal thread laces for
widths of from four to seven inches.

— ~-22>—____
Call For High-Grade Pajamas.

The prevailing tendency of the public
to buy attractive merchandise of fine
quality regardless of price is reflected
in the demand for pajamas of silk,
rayon and fine mercerized fabrics in
distinctive designs. One manufacturer,
whose lines sell at from $48 to $240 a
dozen, has been unable to meet the de-
mand for these high priced garments
and has refused orders for delivery
this year since the middle of Septem-
ber. Colors are more brilliant than for
many seasons past, and patterns and
designs are of striking originality.

—_22.__ —
High-Grade Silk Underwear.

Despite the demand for rayon and
other cheaper grades of underwear,
the higher priced glove silk garments
are selling better than a year ago, it is
said. Lines are more varied than ever
before with one leading manufacturer,
who asserts that more conservative
consumers realize the economy in get-

millinery, in

October 13, 1926

ting articles with superior wearing
qualities. Orders for holiday trade are
brisk, it is said, especially for the
“illusion,” or very sheer garments.

—_2+ 22>.
Gave It Away.

“Say, grandpa, make a noise like a
frog,” coaxed little Tommy.
“What for, my son?”
“Why, papa says that

croak we'll get $5,000.”
—— 72>
Helps Sport Footwear Sales.
Merchants report Daylight Saving
leads to increased sales of sport shoes
and sport apprel, for many people go
in for golf, baseball and tennis at the

close of the day’s work or business.
—_~+<-<-___

Many a man who wouldn’t steal a
dollar on a bet, will pilfer his em-
ployer’s time and think nothing of it.

when you

 

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BEN KRAUSE
COMPANY

20 S. Ionia Ave.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

 

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

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

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SHOE COMPANY

Manufacturers Since 1892

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October 13, 1926

Bobbed Hair a Recurrence of an Old
Custom.

Grandville, Oct. 12—Bobbed hair is
not a modern innovation.

Back in the sixties the girls cut off
their hair and there were those brave
enough to wear bloomers. “Put on the
bloomers, girls, what are you about?”
was the burden of a song that went
the rounds.

The boys in those days and earlier
wore their hair bobbed. That was the
easiest way to cut it and mothers did
not bother themselves with beauty
ethics when the long shears came out
and Johnnie’s sopelocks were trimmed.

“Who bobbed your hair, Sonny?”
was the frequent question, and that
“Sonny” felt shame that he had to
wear his locks the same as his sister,
only perhaps a trifle shorter. In the
towns boys had their hair shingled,
but woods and country lads had no
barber available.

One day two small lads set out for
Sunday school in the depth of winter.
The elder boy had a suggestion to
make that if they could see the Haver-
man’s shanty cook, known as “Duchy”
they could get a hair shingle.

“He shingles hair just like the bar-
bers in town,” avowed Jim, “and I'll
tell you what we'll do.”

Hastily, as they neared the school-
house where the school was in session,
the boy, Jim, suggested that as it was
Sunday and most likely the shanty
crew would be away, it would be a fine
chance to get a hair shingle.

The two I\yys_ followed past the
schoolhouse, over another hill, along
an icy road two miles down into the
woods where the Haverman’s logging
shanties were, and here they found
Dutchy and one other man, the crew
having absented themselves to either
go home or to go see their best girls.

Dutchy greeted the boys pleasantly
and agreed to clip their hair, provid-
ing they would stay at the shanty un-
til after dinner, which he was engaged
in getting at the time.

The boys stopped until after the
meal, partaking of the same at the
cook’s invitation. Two men and two
bovs constituted the crew for that day.
And such a dinner as it was. Fried
salt pork, hot biscuits and pork gravy
The butter was white, which fact
Dutchy explained by saying that the
larder had run out of butter and so he
substituted lard in its place. This on
hot biscuit naturally startled the boys
who were used to mother’s nice yellow,
sweet cow butter.

In fact, the younger boy, after hav-
ing consumed a biscuit well saturated
with white butter, became suddenly
indisposed and rushed from the shanty

_and deposited his consumed dinner in

a water hole at a corner of the shanty.

Of such was backwoods life, how-
ever,
Agreeable to promise the cook

placed the boys under his shears and
s° gave them a fancy haircut of
which they were correspondingly proud.
They knew with what pride they could
show their heads to the other boys
when they set out to school Monday
morning. The good mother did not
scold them for their truancy, no doubt
fully understanding the feeling that
prompted them to the act.

Pride of dress was strone with the
lads and lassies of the little backwoods
schools. However, in those days
young people could not buy their gar-
ments ready made, the good house-
of her
children’s wardrobe.

The boys who ran away to ge
hair shingled wanted new cunts to
match their new state, and mother
ordered goods the next time the team
went to Muskegon, and herself made
jackets and trousers for her sons that
were the admiration of the woods folks
until one boy a little older, succeeded
in outclassing all the rest by securing
a complete suit of broadcloth of bright
green from Chicago, the price being

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

$10, which was at that time considered
extravagant. This boy’s father was
a lumberman, amply able to pay for
such luxuries.

To the town came a man named
Jeff Davis, who at once ingratiated
himself with all the young folks of the
woods. He was a _ pleasant-spoken
man, with a fund of humor that pleased
all, and furthermore he was expert with
a barber’s shears. Shingling hair was
his specialty so that soon after his ad-
vent no more square bobs were seen
on the heads of the boys. In fact one
young fellow had a hair clip that left
him hairless until a new growth start-
ed, and even after that the top of his
head never grew hair again, all of
which he laid to the close cut of Jeff
Davis’ shears.

Even the girls had their hair
shingled for a time, although the
fashion wore itself out before many
moons, as undoubtedly the present
bobs for women will do.

Short haired women and long haired
men were rather sneered at by the
wise ones of the fifties and sixties.
Men with strange ideas for reforming
the world came among the settlers,
wearing hair down’ to their shoulders,
while equally rantankerous females
made life grievous as they inveighed
against local customs with heads tight-
lv sheared.

I call to mind one short haired wo-
man who interfered between a young
millman and his best girl, succeeding
in parting them when everybody had
them as good as married. The mar-
riage never took place. The girl it
was said died of a broken heart while
the man lived on through a long life
never taking unto himself a wife. He
passed over a few years ago at the age
of four score, true to the memory of
his lost bride. So much for the inter-
ference of the short-haired woman for
whom the woods boys never had any

use. Old Timer.
——_»~+~ -
Recent Convert To State Rights
Doctrine.

Manistee, Oct. 11—Wayne B. Wheel-
er, our foremost dry expounder of the
sanctity of the Constitution and the
principles of American government
arises to remark that the plea for state
rights is an anachronism.

It appears from Mr. Wheeler’s
standpoint that state sovereignty went
out of existence together with the
stage coaches. “State rights,’ most of
us will learn with some astonishment,
“have no place in this day of railways,

radios, telephones and_ standardized
customs, habits and manners. The
growth of the Nation, interstate

traffic and travel have blotted out sec-
tional lines.”

If sectional lines mean state bound-
ary lines, the process of blotting out
these obsolete relics on the political
map seems to be incomplete. The
Federal Government. still recognizes
the states as independent units in the
exercise of their local functions, in
electing their constitutionally guaran-
teed quotas of representatives and gen-
erally enjoying all those rights not
specially reserved for the National
Government.

It is true that we have drifted far
from the Jeffersonian measure of state
rights, but a remnant of this “anach-
ronism’’ appears to survive in constitu-
tional scruples touching state sover-
eignty and in political practice.

Only a few years ago, as many of
us will remember, Mr. Wheeler and
the Anti-Saloon League were strongly
in favor of the right of each state to
vote itself dry. And. in obtaining the
eighteenth amendment, Mr. Wheeler
diligently labored for ratification by
the now despised individual state. What
is more, state dry law enforcement acts
were passed with Mr. Wheeler's ap-
proval and. his discovery that state
rights are an “anachronism” seems to

‘have been made only since New York

repealed its state dry law and a num-

 

ber of states began to ask for a refer-
endum vote on the Volstead act.

If state rights are an ‘‘anachronism,”
the drys have done their best to re-
vive this antiquated notion and bring
it back to life as a practical issue. The
experience of the eighteenth amend-
ment, it is generally admitted, has
done more than anything else to
arouse the people to the danger of
Federal paternalism and to produce a
noticeable reaction in .favor of state
rights. A salutary shock has been ad-
ministered to public opinion by the
tactics of the drys, and Mr. Wheeler is
quite likely to witness a growing re-
lapse into the half forgotten “anach-
ronism’’ of state self government.

Centralization of governmental pow-
er has been a matter of tanse consid-
eration for some time, and though the
eighteenth amendment, slipped through
on the wave of war's necessities, a
sharp halt was called when it was ra:
posed to regulate child labor by still
another amendment.

4

Verv soon we will be called upon to
vote on the question of governmental
regulation of educational programs,
but the lesson of the eighteenth amend-
ment is still proving an eye opener for
such as were at one time willing to
allow “Jones” to “pay the freight.”

While of late years National enact-
ments have proven little more than
“scraps of paper,” the time for “cash-
ing in” is near at hand and exponents
of state sovereignty will put up the
bars against unreasonable encroach-
ments.

It still makes a difference whose ox
is being gored.

Now comes Director Day, in charge
of the climatological division of the U.
S. Weather Bureau, with the report
that Great Lake levels are slowly but
surely being restored.

The results of the study of records
of fifty years of rainfall in the Great
Lakes region :jnd the lake levels say
that lake levels have fluctuated by pre-
cipitation alone, which is, no doubt, a
sc.entific fact. With the scratch of a
pen this Government scientist wipes
out most of the argument that low lake
levels are the result of excessive
amounts of water diverted for drain-
4£2£e purposes, etc.

“Considering the drainage levels of
four lakes, Superior, Huron, Michigan
and Erie only,’ Mr. Day says in his
most carefully prepared and charted
conclusion, “some unusually dry years
have occurred, even in the earliest part
of the fifty year period from 1875 to
1925. In 1888 the averave precipita-
tion was only 29.6 inches and the pre-
ceding and following years were nearly
as dry. Fhe year 1919, with 27.8
inches, was the next dryest of the
period, followed by four years of de-
ficient rainfall.”

The ebb and flow of the lakes, ac-
cording to Captain Parker, of the
Great Lakes Dredging Co., recently
deceased, from ay observation of fifty-
years, have come regularly in cycles
of fourteen years duraton—seven years
raising and seven years receding. 1926
would seem to be the pivoted year.
Precipitation has increased to 34.8.
with a possible addition of four inches
more for the calendar year. Rainfall
for 1925 was below normal, which,
however, was offset by reduced evap-
oration. The Parker idea is that while
the Great Lakes will probably not re-
turn to their former high water marks,
on account of the removal of forests
and artificial drainage, there will still
continue a reserve for all navigation
purposes, and the withdrawal of water
by diversion will have little, if any
effect on levels.

There has been much hue and cry,
mostly for political and vote catching
purposes, over brigandage in Chicago,
but practical navigators have not as
yet been found who would grant that
such claims were other than hokum.

Frank S. Verbeck.

   

   

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FINANCIAL

No Legislation For Tax Reduction
Expected.

What amounts to virtually an official
statement has just come from the
White House to the effect that there
will be no tax reduction at the next
session of Congress which assembles
in December. As a matter of fact, it
is likely that the country, generally,
had not expected that taxes would be
lowered at the next session. But the
statement evidently was made for the
purpose of offsetting what, it is claim-
ed, is political capital intended to put
the administration in the hole.

With the Congressional campaign on
there has been a great deal of the usual
political maneuvering. The Repub-
licans have raised prosperity as their
slogan. The Democrats seem to have
come back with the argument, in brief,
that if the country is so prosperous the
Treasury must have a surplus of money
and that it would be possible to fur-
ther lift the burden from the taxpayer.
The Coolidge spokesmen have retaliat-
ed that taxes already have been con-
siderably reduced under his adminis-
tration but at the present no further
cut has been
stated that it would not be possible to
determine until after Congres had ad-
journed and the fiscal year ended how
much the saving to the credit of the
Government would reach.

It is clear that President Coolidge is
in complete agreement with Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon that there is a
possibility that the surplus for the
year would exceed the $185,000,000
which it was estimated would accumu-
late under the existing revenue law.
At the same time, however, it is not
the position of the President that the
savings will be general and include all
departments. Figures
have laid before the President
since his return from the summer
White House which show that savings
have been made in some departments
while in others expenditures have ex-
ceeded appropriations. The same ap-
plies with regard to revenues. And it
is thoroughly realized that the short
session of Congress beginning in De-
cember will pass some appropriation
bills for special purposes and therefore

 

may be expected. It

governmental
been

make it convenient, if not necessary,
to have a surplus to fall back upon.
Present indications are that the Con-
which meets in December will
provide sufficient administra‘ion sup-
port. to carry out its intentions with re-
gard to taxation. So that in view of the
fact that Demecrats already have an-
that reduction of taxes for
1927 will be one of the maior issues,
there is at least one line sharply drawn
between the two parties. No doubt
the tariff issue will also be raised with
a considerable hue and cry.

gress

nounced

Getting back to the matter of taxes,
it has been pointed out that the new
Congress will not meet until the regu-
lar session of December, 1927, when it
will be too late to make changes in the
tax legislation effective next year. Any
measure drawn by the new Congress
would apply only to taxes paid in 1928,
a Presidential year.
seem to be the remotest chance that
the President will call a special session.

There does not:

MICHIGAN

of Congress. Only an emergency, it
is claimed, would prompt him to do so,
and there is no indication that such a
circumstance will arise. Vice-Presi-
dent Dawes in the campaign he has
waged for reform of the Senate rules
has stressed the possibility of a fila-
buster against tax legislation through
the combining of the Democrats and
the Progressive blec, but leaders of
both the Democratic and the Progres-
sive parties consider that such a move
on the part of their organizations
would be bad: politics. the
Government without funds, which such
tactics would bring about, certainly, it

To leave

has been pointed out, would arouse the
ill feeling of the people of the country
against such a filibuster.

—_—__+-.___
George E. Roberts on General Busi-
ness Outlook.
Need for a steady hand on the wheel
and a clear eye ahead in business is

seen by George E. Roberts, Wall
Street's best known economist, but
that necessity arises not from any

signs of real danger but from the very
speed at which the industrial machine
is going. At least that is about the
gist of what is contained this month
in the National City Bank’s bulletin
edited by Mr. Roberts, a vice-president
of the institution. In recognizing the
promises on every hand of continued
prosperity for the remainder of the
year the bank believes that the best
way to avoid depression is to antici-
pate it when times are good.

While finding grounds for satisfac-
tion in the sound position of trade and
the absence of excessive inventories,
“uncertainties regarding agriculture,”
runs the essay, “together with the de-
pendence of our present prosperity on
the building and automobile industries,
make it clear that the present is no
time for re'axation of vigilance or the
abandonment of those conservative
policies that have proved their worth
in the past.” The farm problems re-
ferred to center around the drop in
cotton prices to new low levels since
1921 and damage to Western crops in-
flicted by bad weather.

Whether or not the Federal Reserve
Bank authorities soon may raise the
rate for rediscounts has been a lively
topic since commercial loans have been
expanded recently and money has be-
come somewhat dearer. If this takes
place the move will result from de-
velopments outside of the field of com-
mercial activities in the opinion of Mr.
Roberts. “So far as business is con-
cerned the situation continues free
from inflation,” he points out, “over-
buying, and other symptoms usually
calling for corrective action.” Credit
stringency does not now appear to be
threatened but the trend of money
rates plainly is away from the ab-
normal ease of recent years.

Some sensible views on foreign com-
petition are expressed that should be
more widely understood to reconcile
the desire both to benefit from a re-
covery in Europe and to prevent com-
petition here through an increased flow
of foreign goods. It is about time, as
the bank says, that we made up our
mind one way or another. Notwith-
standing the variety of opinion that is
heard on the subject the foreign trade
ef this country is more than holding

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its own in other markets. The United
States cannot sell where it will not buy
and its trade as a whole should be
stimulated by increased prosperity
abroad even when that is obtained by
competition that affects some of our
manufacturers.
Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1926]
—__2>+.____-
Penny and Nickel Return To Favor.

Return of the penny and nickel to
tremendous circulation is an indication
of widening prosperity and production,
according to the Copper and Brass
Research Association. More than 2,-
000,000 pounds of copper have been
required to mint $5,115,675 worth of
one-cent and five-cent pieces, which
the United States Treasury has turned
out during the last year.

This compares with an average an-
nual production of $6,400,000 worth of
minor coins containing 2,500,000 pounds
of copper during the war years up to
and including 1920.

A pronounced increase in the out-
put of copper coins, including the
nickel, which is 75 per cent. copper, is
disclosed in figures for the past three
years. A slump in the minting of these
coins during 1921 and 1922 reflected
the depression of that period, accord-
ing to the Research Association. De-
mand in the latter part of 1923 for
more pennies and nickels started mint-
ing activities which as yet have shown
no signs of abating.

The fluctuations in call for this
“small change” is viewed by the asso-
ciation as a fairly dependable barom-
eter of business turnover. Treasury
statistics are cited as showing that no
other coins reflect so correctly the
trend of conditions. A slight decline
in the output of one-cent pieces dur-
ing July and August was accompanied
by an increase in the minting of nickels
according to figures of the Director of
the Mint. During the first eight
months 111,479,000 pennies and 21,-
777,000 nickels were ‘minted.

For the fiscal year ended June 30,
the output was 249,427,000 pennies, a
post war record, and 52,428,100 nickels,
which was exceeded only in 1924 when
53,618,000 nickels were minted. In 1922
however, not a single nickel was
coined.

The number of these coins in circu-
lation at this time is around 4,500,020,-
000 ‘pennies and 1,225,000,000 nickels.
They contain a total of about 34,000,-
000 pounds of copper. More than 90
per cent. of all copper coins in circula-
tion have been minted since 1875. Only
8 per cent. of all coins minted since
1793 have come back for remelting into
new coins, statistics reveal.

Factors which have contributed to
the heavy demand in the United
States for nickels and pennies appar-
ently have been the advent of “chain”
and “cut-rate” stores where these coins
circulate in volume, the increasing
amount of business in five and ten
cent stores, the need for change to
pay street car fares, a greater use of
“slot machines” and the expansion of
circulation of newspapers requiring a
greater amount of change than for-
merly,

Break in Cotton Is Result of Two Big
Crops.

Cotton may be king of the South
but its drop to the lowest levels in
more than five years stamps it as
cruel ruler in the eyes of thousands
of growers and speculators. If the
crop should be marketed at the pres-
ent ievel it would not bring enough to
cover the cost of production. Interest
in the cotton market has spread in
Wall Street during the last few days
Government estimate since the latest
predicts close to 16,627,000 bales as the
probable 1926 output.

In our history there have been only
two crops that exceeded 16,000,000
bales, only three even that exceeded
15,000,000 bales and only four that
exceeded 14,000,000 bales. This sug-
gests how much above normal a 16,-
627,000 crop is. It so happens that one
of the two crops of that magnitude on
record came last year. The prospect
that another 16,000,000 crop will be
superimposed on top of one for a year
ago, making two record years for cot-
ton production in a row, is what now
worries the bulls in the market.

Apart from the concern of specu-
lators is the very definite indication
that the income of Southern planters
will be lowered through the fall in
prices even though the farmer is in
part compensated by a larger picking
that usual. Production of the com-
modity in the last two years has in-
creased more rapidly than consump-
tion, but the prevailing high price for
cotton has been one factor in holding
down the demand for cotton goods. No
amount of whistling will hide the fact
that the grower this year may be
obliged to market his product below
what it cost him to mature and pick
the crop but something will have been
gained in the long run if cheaper cot-
ton helps to raise the cotton industry
to life again. Already signs of a re-
vival have begun to appear.

From New England come reports
of increased activity in the textile in-
dustry and the South cannot hope to
prosper year in and year out until the
world’s mills again are running full.
Consumers that would not buy goods
produced at prices based on 25 or 30
cent cotton now are beginning to show
plainly that the same goods produced
on the basis of cheaper raw material
offer attraction. Of course the crop
has not been picked yet and its late-
ness this year subjects it more than
ordinarily to the autumnal storms and
to possible damage through frosts, but
both the commodity and financial ex-
perts have their pencils sharpened and
ready to modify present calculations
on any favorable or unfavorable news.

Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1926]
—_~+2+ >

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14

A Country With Money To Burn.

The United States can safely defy
competition in the matter of fires and
fire loss. Ours is the world’s worst
country when it comes to fire preven-
tion.

In October we shall, nominally at
least, celebrate what we call Fire Pre-
vention Week. There will be speeches
and pageants and banners and parades
—and fires. Unless Fire Prevention
Week falls far below an average week,
its seven days will see 10,000 fires. If
it measures up to the average in hu-
man hazards, 300 people will lose their
lives through fires and more than that
number will be injured.

Fire Prevention Week will probably
see ten million dollars’ worth of prop-
erty go up in smoke. Of that loss 75
per cent. can doubtless be prevented,
but will not be. Comparatively few
people give Fire Prevention Week a
thought, and those few are likely to
be people who are careful all the year
around.

Twenty years ago this country sus-
tained fire losses amounting to $150,-
000,000. Ten years ago the annual fire
loss was $220,000,000. This year the
figure will be not far from $550,000,-
000. He would be a bold prophet who
would dare to name the figure for
1936. At the rate we are going, how-
ever, a round billion dollars will not
be far wrong.

These figures have been attained
without any such holocaust as the Chi-
cago fire which, even in that day of
cheap buildings, caused a loss esti-
mated at $196,060,000, with a loss of
250 lives. Perhaps a repetition of the
Chicago fire is impossible under mod-
ern conditions—perhaps.

Human nature is essentially selfish.
We want to avoid fire for ourselves
and for our families. We applaud fire
prevention in principle as a_ public
measure, but we practice it only to
selfish ends. Even the money we pay
in taxes or in contributions for fire
departments is paid because we are
afraid we may have a fire ourselves.

Our insurance rates are, of course,
based on fire records as a whole and
the careful pay dollar for dollar with
the careless. The more fires, the high-
er the rates must be and the more we
must pay. The fire insurance stock
companies make money. Some. of
them have accumulated millions in
surplus in relatively few years, but for
all that their rates are going to keep
pace with the increase in fire preval-
ence. Mutual companies may offer in
some degree a solution of the rate
problem, but insurance in mutual com-
panies or non-assessable, with small
surplus funds does not appeal to every-
one and is not acceptable in all cases
where creditors insist upon the pro-
tection of insurance policies.

The hundreds of millions of dollars
paid in insurance premiums are an ex-
pense assessed upon the business of
The half billion in fire
losses involves another heavy. assess-
The reduction by fire of the
assessable and taxable property levies
another assessment through increased
tax rates. And a heavier assessment
is that coming from the loss of opera-
tions and activities on the part of

the country.

ment.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

business concerns compelled to cease
operations as a result of fires.

Figures based on commercial agency
reports indicate that in case of fires 43
per cent. of the concerns did not re-
sume business. Fourteen per cent. had
their credit standing cut down between
one-third and two-thirds. Many a
business man has found himself. seri-
ously crippled financially because of a
disastrous fire involving one of his
heaviest debtors.

If three-fourths of our fires could
be prevented, and that is probably a
fair estimate, our carelessness is cost-
ing us more than a third of a billion
dollars annually. That is a heavy price
to pay for the privilege of throwing
cigarette stubs where we please and
leaving matches where we had them
last. It is a heavy price to pay with-
out taking account of the loss of life
that accompanies the property dam-
age.

We talk more or less about the fire
hazard. We read more or less about
it. We agree that more care should
be used. But we think of it mostly in
terms of the other fellow or of the
public in general. We do not get right
down to ourselves and pin the re-
If the
public in general is to blame, that in-
cludes us. If the other fellow is to
blame, that also includes us, because
to the man across the street we are the

sponsibility where it belongs.

other fellow.

If every man assumes his share of
the responsibility and carries it out the
number of fires will be marvelously and
immediately reduced, and that man will
not be at fault for the fires that do
occur. Ifa fire should occur in a pub-
lic building in my city, with resultant
loss of life, I would hate to have to
admit to myself, let alone admit to a
board of enquiry, that I had personally
regarded that building as a dangerous
fire risk and had made no effort to
get the risk reduced.

I would feel doubly regretful if a
fire should occur in my place of busi-
ness due to carelessness on the part
of one of my employes in connection
with some phase against which I had
not issued rules or even a warning,

Many a store has been put out of
business for a week or for months just
because the proprietor “thought” his
employes knew where the fire ex-
tinguishers were, and how to use them.
Many a fire loss has been due to the
fact that it has been taken for granted
that the fire extinguishers or the fire
hose would work efficiently when
needed.

We don’t like routine detail that
seems to us to be needless, and so we
omit fire drills, fire prevention instruc-
tion. We even omit precautions
against obvious risks and we omit io
make our fire insurance safe. I can-
not deny that there have been times
in my own case when only the insur-
ance agent’s habitual renewal of policies
has prevented me from being without
insurance. And I can admit further
that I have before now taken the
chance of being able in case of fire to
prove my loss without having adequate
inventories of the insured personal
property. Carelessness is habitual with
most of us in some degree.

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October 13, 1926

mercial groups are making efforts to
bring about greater caution in the
handling of fire and fire making sub-
stances. Fire insurance companies
combine to support the Underwriters’
Laboratories for the purpose of testing
and developing fireproofing materials
and fire fighting devices. Despite this
sort of work fires increase. The work
of the life insurance companies in pro-
moting longevity through
disease is given credit for a part of the
increase in the length of the average
life. Much has been done to make the
average of health better and the aver-
age of life longer. Why can’t we get
as good results from the work done to
reduce fire losses?

You think you have used the neces-
sary precautions against fire in your
home or in your place of business. Per-
haps you have done everything you
have thought of along that line. Per-
haps what you have done will prove a
hundred per cent. effective. What
about the things you have not thought
of? That is where the fire will get
you.

lessening

You have thought your old wood
shingle roof will have to go until it is
worn out, because you hate to spend
the money for fireproof or fire resist-
ant roofing. And yet there may have
been changes in conditions around you
that double or triple the chances of
sparks falling on that roof, while the
age of the drying shingles doubles
their inflammability.

You have thought your chimneys are
safe because you have ooked them over
and could see no flaws. And yet ‘f
you were to have those chimneys clean-
ed and inspected you might find places
where fire would be very likely to
escape, especially if the chimney burn-
ed out.

Sit down and check over the fire
hazards you have hitherto negected.
Consider what things you have not
thought over before. And above all,
consider whether everyone in your
employ is sold on the fire prevention
idea and is doing everything possible to
make fire impossible from within your
property.

Anybody can stop a fire when it first
begins, if equipped with the proper
equipment and knowledge of how jo
use it. Get your fires in the first five
minutes and you save yourself from
loss.

Next in importance to preventing the
fire and equipping to fight it if it does
come, is the development of all pos-
sible means of limiting the loss from
the fire.

Steel furniture, steel cupbords, steel
shelving, steel safes and: filing cases;
all these reduce the fire loss by mak-
ing the fire less hot and destructive
and by rendering part of the equip-
ment good after the fire. You may
have no records, no papers, nothing
burglars will steal, but you have rec-
ords that are of great value to you and
that will be of greater value after 4
fire which calls upon you for a fresh
start. Also inventories and insurance
papers are the very things first needed
in getting the money for your insur-
ance. ;

Spend enough money for a <afe of
some kind to protect your: records from
destruction by flames. It is no longer

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necessary to buy one of the old cum-
bersome iron safes in order to get fire
protection.

And know your insurance policies
from “In consideration of the stipula-
tions herein named” to line 200 of the
“Subrogation” clause.

Your fire insurance policy is a con-
tract to which you are one of the
parties and like any other contract, ‘t
is just as much binding upon the party
of the second part as upon the party
of the first part. It is incumbent upon
you not only to tell the truth in ap-
plying for fire insurance, but it is
equally incumbent upon you to tell the
whole truth and conceal nothing that
might indicate a greater fire hazard
than otherwise appears.

The first lines of ycar policy prob-
ably read: “This entire policy shall be
void if the insured has concealed or
misrepresented any material fact—.”
And the third paragraph tells you dis-
tinctly that the company will not be
liable for loss caused directly or in-
directly, “by neglect of the insured to
use all reasonable means to save and
preserve the property at and after a
fire.”

Take a little time off from buying
and selling and go over your property
with a fine-toothed comb looking for
fire hazards, and then get everything
set right. That done study your in-
surance policies and see whether you
have done everything it is up to you
to do.—Frank Farrington in National
Druggist.

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Keeping close to the business grind-

Stone will sharpen up dull seasons.

TRADESMAN

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CLASS MUTUAL INSURANCE AGENCY

“The Agency of Personal Service”

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WILLIAM A. WATTS ©
President

 

RANSOM E. OLDS
Chairman of Board

Of*-es: 3rd floor Michigan Trust Bldg.—Grand Rapids, Mich.
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@ Just pry off the
cover and re-
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October 13, 1926

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prices on this line
without delay.

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seller at a good
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and complete
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consumer.

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@ Our entire original stock of
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in one week of the time we first
offered them to the Public. The
new stock is now in so all back
orders will be promptly filled and
new business properly served.

in the five-pound sacks have
long been in the housewife’s
favor and consequently in ex-
cellent demand. These new 28-
ounce sizes will cause them to
be increasingly popular.

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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.

Varie y in Men’s Ties.
Manufacturers of men’s ties report
a brisk demand, with small figures and
stripes leading. There is a growing
tendency toward knitted scarfs. Ties
with plain satin lining are also popu-
lar. One novelty shown by a leading
manufacturer of high-grade neckwear
is a heavy lustrous satin with a small
raised velvet figure in conventional
design, in self and contrasting tones.
The same manuiacturer also offers a
tie and muffler set in a heavy Jacquard
weave with small figured pattern. The
ties have fringed ends, while the square
muffler has an all-around narrow bor-
der. Another novelty shown is a Can-
ton crepe muffler with black border
and a central panel of red and white
stripes.
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Trade in Chinaware.
Moderately active business in staple
chinaware of the better grades is re-
ported, being about equal in volume to
that of last year. The coal strike in
England has reduced importations at
least 25 per cent., while labor troubles
in France have also affected imports.
American potteries are reported as
fairly busy. There is a decided trend
toward the higher priced merchandise,
it is said, consumers buying the de-
signs they like with less consideration
for the cost than in former years.
Landscape decorations are among the
newest designs offered. Bird and
floral center decorations are supplant-
ing to some extent the plain center
with narrow border in vogue for the
last ten years.
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Late Trends in Men’s Shirts.
Orders for rayon-striped broadcoth
shirts are increasing, according to
wholesalers. Neat stripes and figured
patterns on white grounds are mostly
wanted. Jacquard effects in fancy
broadcloth shirts, also on light grounds
in collar-attached models continue to
be actively reordered. Lines of silk
shirts are now being shown for the
holiday trade. Particularly featured
are shirts of solid colored radiums, es-
pecially white and tan. Crepes are
also being shown in neat figured and
jacquard patterns, as well as the solid
colors of white, tan and gray. Both
neckband and collar-attached  styies
are being purchased.
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Styles of Children’s Dresses.
Business in popular priced children’s
dresses is well ahead of that of last
year, it is reported in most quarters.
Retail stocks are said to be low, and
indications for continued activity for
the rest of the year are felt to be good.
Brightly colored cotton prints in two
and three tones are ex reme'y. popu-
lar. There has been no radical chance
in designs, although some manufac-
turers are making an effort to popu-
larize a long-waisted effect copied
from French models. Production meth-
ods have been improved in the last

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year or two, so that even in the
cheaper garments the styles reflect the
trends in the high priced merchandise.

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Orders for Silk Gloves.
Substantial advance orders for silk
gloves are reported by manufacturers
of the better grades, who assert that
buyers have come to realize that hand-
to-mouth buying in this commodity is
risky. The style most in demand, it
is said, is the short turn-down cuff,
with both conservative and brilliantly
colored trimmings. Sunset, peach,
pearl, beige and parchment shades are
outstanding. The larger share of the
business is in gloves retailing at around
$2, rather than the somewhat cheaper
qualities that led last year. In cot-
ton fabric gloves fancies are in most
demand, favored shades being tans,

Cannes, Mexican, oak and gray.

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Taste Shown in Draperies.
Steadily improving standards of taste
in home decoration throughout the
country are reflected in the increased
demand for drapery and upholstery
fabrics of the better grades. One
leading concern reports business as
well ahead of last year’s, especially in
California and other Coast States and
in the metropolitan areas. The mar-
ket in the South has been somewhat
affected by the decline of the real es-
tate boom in Florida, it is said. There
are indications that damasks, brocatel-
les and other fabrics of the more

formal and dressy types are regaining |

their popularity.
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Handkerchief Demand Active.

What is described as the most active
demand for handkerchiefs in years 1s
now reaching manufacturers and
wholesalers of this merchandise. The
goods are being bought for holiday
selling and orders have been piling up
at such a rate that leading manufac-
turers have geared up their machinery
for capacity output. The demand is
almost entirely for novelty handker-
chiefs. The design of the patterns and
the color range are the most extensive
ever shown, manufacturers say. Boxed
goods are being stressed and the sale
of these sets is expected to set a
record.

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Vestees Lead Women’s Neckwear.

In women’s neckwear for immediate
delivery vestees are leading, according
to the United Neckwear League of
America. Those of georgette to be
worn with dresses are said to be sell-
ing particularly well. Retailers are
also showing active interest in collar
and cuff sets of lace and net. Featured
in these sets are collars consisting of
a small, flat ruffle with a band set on
the top, thus giving the effect of a
high collar. Separate jabots and jabots
attached to collars are also in demand.
Reorders-during he past month in the
neckwear trade have been plentiful.

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The country village; have it all over
the cities. Look at the fine parking
space they have.

 

Fae Onality, Peice and Style

Weiner Cap Company

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

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New Silk Fabrics

To meet the present demand of the active silk de-
partments we have brought out the following silk
cloths. They are now ready for immediate shipment.

Quality 2600—40-inch Crepe. This is a pure dye,
semi-flat crepe of firm texture. It is guaranteed wash-
able. It has an excellent hand and will not slip.

Price $1.65

Quality 2700—40-inch Crepe Satin. This is a pure
dye silk cloth of great beauty. It is finished to give
the soft, drapy hand so much desired today. The
color line is delightful. Price $2.35.

Quality 2800—40-inch Flat Crepe. This cloth will
please the buyer who wants a heavy cloth of fine tex-
ture. It is a cloth which will prove hard to wear out.

Price $2.35.
Quality 2900—40-inch Radium. Made either for

outer or under-garments. The texture and lustre is
enticing. Desired for slips as it allows the dress to
hang correctly. It will not split in the back even when

abused. Price $1.65.

A reduction of 5c per yard is made when full pieces
are ordered.

Write us to have our salesman call if you are inter-
ested.

Write us if you wish color cards.

 

A Silk Thread for Every Purpose

RICHARDSON SILK CO.

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October 13, 1926

MAY HAVE TO ACCEPT GOODS
If Merchant Fai!s To Give Notice of
Defects.

When a retail merchant signs an or-
der for goods, he should, for his own

 

protection, note its terms and comply
with them in a substantial manner in
order to protect his rights under the
order. In particular is this true where
the order stipulates that if the goods
are found defective notice of this fact
must be given within a certain time
if corrections are sought.

This is true because if such defects
are not latent, and are easily discover-
ed upon a reasonable inspection, the

merchant will, as a general rule, be.

bound by such a stipulation. It fol-
lows, that if the merchant in such a
case ignores a stipulation of this kind,
and jails to make inspection and file
his complaint, within the time named
in the order, he may thereafter be pre-
ciuded from so doing. For example.

In one case of this kind a large order
for sheeting was signed by the buyer.
This order, or contract, after naming
the quantity, price, time of delivery,
etc., contained a stipulation which pro-
vided as follows:

“These goods shall not be returned,
nor will allowance be made for any
cause after 30 days from receipt, nor
after goods are cut.”

The buyer received the goods but
did not examine them, nor make any
complaint until the expiration of thirty
days. But when the buyer did exam-
ine the shipment it found the goods
defective and notified the seller of this

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

fact. The seller declined to make any
allowance for the alleged defects in
the goods, and the buyer refused to
complete payment. The seller then
brought an action to collect, and the
buyer defended same on the grounds
that there had been a breach of war-
ranty in respect to the quality of the
goods.

In defense to this claim the seller
set up that since the buyer had not
given notice of the defects within the
30 days stipulated in the contract it
(the buyer) had lost its right to make
a complaint. The buyer, however,
contended that the defects in the sheet-
ing were latent, which prevented it
from discovering them until it had
started to cut the goods.

Now, it appears, that the goods i. e.,
sheeting, had been shipped in burlap
covered rolls, and that the defects com-
plained of by the buyer namely, “runs,”
Or spaces in the cloth, showed at the
edge of the cloth when the ends of the
rolls were uncovered. On this state
of facts the court in holding the de-
fects were not latent, so as to excuse
the buyer from discovering them with-
in the time stipulated in the contract,
in part, said:

“Except as to a very few of the rolls,
the only evidence that the goods were
defective at all was that ‘runs’ showed
at the edges of the cloth, when the
burlap at the ends of the rolls was
pulled open. And the defect relied on
was apparent on merely looking at the
goods, and was not concealed in any
way except by the fact that the cloth
was wrapped with burlap. This was

 

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not such a ‘latent’ defect as defendant
(buyer) was excused from looking for
and discovering within 30 days, having
agreed that no allowance should be
made ‘for any cause’ after the expira-
tion of that time.

“The parties have a right by contract
to fix and limit the purchaser’s right
in this respect, and such a stipulation
is binding upon them, and unless waiv-
ed, a limitation upon the time within
which that right must be asserted, and
failure to comply with it precludes a
recovery by the purchaser on account
of such a breach.

In conclusion the court held that
since the alleged defects in the goods
were not concealed, nor latent, it was
the duty of the buyer to find them
within the 30 days stipulated in the
contract; and since the buyer has fail-
ed to file its complaint within that
time it was not entitled to relief from
the contract.

The above case aptly illustrates the
possible danger to a merchant in not
complying with a stipulation of this
kind when goods are ordered and re-
ceived. For, as has been noted, when
an order stipulates that inspection of
goods and complaint must be made
within a certain time, or relief will not
be granted for alleged defects in goods,
it will, as a general rule, be binding on

 

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the parties, unless the defects are con-
It follows, that the
failure of a buying merchant to comply

cealed or latent.

with such a clause may result in a loss

of his right to have an adjustment if

by any chance the goods delivered are
Leslie Childs.

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Fancy Suspenders in Favor.

The demand for suspenders of the

defective.

higher grades is increasing steadily, it
ils reported, one manufacturer having
The old

entirely

doubled last year’s business.
style staples have almost
given way to the brilliantly hued silks,
in regimental stripes, plaids and artis-
and hunting
scenes copied from old prints. The

tically woven sport
consumer is ready to pay from $3 to
$7 for these articles, it is said, regard-
ing them much as he does neckwear
or other artistic haberdashery of the
higher grades.

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Drug Stores Sell Shoe Trees.

Some old school Lynners who were
recently startled to see adjustable
shoe trees in Lynn, Mass., cigar stores,
are wondering if novelty style shoes
will soon be offered in drug stores.
Well, one Lynn drug store a while
ago had a unique millinery and apron
display, with those articles made from
rubber goods, and other gimeracks,
but the exhibit did not include novelty

footwear.

 

 

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RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and General Merchants
Association.
President—Orla Bailey, Lansing.
Vice-Pres.—Hans Johnson, Muskegon.
Secretary—Paul Gezon, Wyoming Park.
Treasurer—F. H. Albrecht, Detroit.

 

Avoid Debt For Yourself and Others.
Written for the Tradesman.

Certain homely, familiar truths re-
quire to be restated and reemphasized
every so often for the very reason that
they are familiar. We all accept them
as fundamental. Then in our minds
we pass to other things. Before we
know it, the force of those eternal
truths is lessened and we are in danger
of drifting into bad habits again. I am
glad, therefore, to quote from a man
of long, successful business expericne>
with whom I have just talked.

“The greatest potential evil in busi-
ness is debt. I don’t care whether
you look at it from the trade, house-
hold or individual standpoint,” is the
way he started out. “I say potential,
because we all know debt has its uses
in skillful hands. To bring out what
I mean, consider what we read every
so often in business papers: ‘Don’t
borrow money to take discounts.’

“As argued out,” he continued, “that
is a beautiful theory. ‘Pay six per
cent. and you earn eighteen-twelve per
ent. on somebody else’s money.’ But
that is apt to work out differently in
practice. Men should think of this
scheme when it is presented. When
somebody seems to reason that pro-
posal out, take it home and do your
own thinking. Determine for your-
self whether it is right. The best
place to find whether it is right—for
you—is to look within. Look within
your own business, your own character,
your own capacity, your own personal-
ity—for it will rest with you how you
come out.”

“Suppose one thinks this way,” con-
tinued my friend: ‘Am I strong enough
to handle this proposal right—have I
knowledge enough—am I smart enough
or am I not?’ If you find a doubt, do
one big thing—don’t! That is the safe
thing. Don’t borrow anybody’s money
for any purpose on earth. If you have
a hundred dollars, use it for taking dis-
counts, but do not buy more than the
hundred dollars will buy.

“Why? Think for a minute what
actually happens. You need, say, $356
and decide to borrow and take dis-
counts. But when you get ready to
make your note at the bank, you feel
you might as well take a round sum,
so you borrow $500. You pay your
bills, less discount. You figure how
much you have ‘made’ and you feel
good because of that and also because
you now have some surplus ready cash.

“At this point your friend Charlie
Calkins comes in. He offers layer
raisins. ‘Sure to adance; better get all
you'll need for Thanksgiving and
Christmas; don’t take one box—take
five.’ Because you feel as you do, you
fall. Other similar boys come in. And
when your note come dus, you crnn t
pay it; and that is not the worst thirg
that has happened, for you find that
you now have more s‘ock, bills which
you cannot discount, and you cwe the
bank $500.

“You have, in fact, walked right into
temptation and were so weak that you

 

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could not withstand it. Better, a
thousand times better, to have bought
half a box, quarter box, six packages
of layers from Calkins, sold ’em out
and bought again—with your own
money—rather than have those need-
less five cases that you store away,
handle, rehandle and carry over into
1927. They go hard and sugar. Folks
tear the pac! ages and sample them.

“Another thing I see in trade head-
lines frequently is ‘Grccers Discuss
Credi’s.’ It might sometimes be writ-
ten ‘Cuss Credits,’ but that is not the
main point. What credits do they dis-
cuss? Always they discuss what folks
owe them. But there would be some
sense in discussing what they owe. If
you discuss what you owe, think of
what you owe, and arrive at the sound
conclusion that there is just one safe
course and that is not to owe, vo1 will
get some real benefit from discussing
—cr even cussing credits.

“For consider this truth: I may have
my money scattered everywhere, I can
be owed by everybody, thousands of
dollars, the earnings and accumula-
tions of years, and I may have scant
hope of getting it in; but if I do not
owe, I am still independent—you can
not back me off the boards. I can hold
my own against any kind of panics or
conditions.

“As for the other side of it,” said
my friend impressively, “the question
about those who owe you, it will follow
automatically that he who thinks con-
stantly about what he owes will col-
lect promptly from those who owe
him. So we may see that if when
‘grocers discuss credits’ they bear down
heavily on what they themselves owe
others, the discussion is apt to beor
more fruit that a mere cussing of
those who owe them.

“But even that is not the end of the
reasoning,’ continued my thoughtf 1
communer. “There is a further phace
which logically follows that is ev>:y
whit as important as anything I ha-e
said. That phase is this: If debt is
bad for you it is also bad for your cus-
tomers, and it is your duty to protect
your customer from harm.

“Now, the contrary idea prevails, fer
we see in trade papers everywhcre a
‘tribute to the grocer’ or something
like that. And what is that ‘tribute?’
Why, it is that he takes care of th:
credit of those unable to pay, carrying
them through hard times: But that
is a tribute to weakness, for such prac-
tice is weakness, not strength. The
finest impulse in humanity is charity,
but to mix charity with business is
commercial crime—bad for both par-
ties. Grocers go broke this way. Then
what becomes of the most important
charity—the charity due their own,
their families, their personal welfare
and future? Believe me, you care for
others best when you care first for
yourself. Let me illustrate:

“I had a customer once, the wife of
a mechanic, an industrious woman who
took in w-sh'ng as we'l as cared for
her household. Her bill ran elevea t>
twelve dollars a month. It was prompt-
lv paid when due. But once she paid
cnly seven dellars on account and the
clerk who received the money reported
to me th>t she had left that balance,

(Continued cn page 31)

October 13, 1926

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21

 

__MEAT DEALER —

The Sea a Source of Food Supply.

The economic value of the sea as a
source of the world’s future food sup-
ply has been greatly exaggerated, Dr.
Austin H. Clark, of the United States
National Museum, recently declared in
a statement at the Smithsonian Insti-
tution.

Although the sea covers 71 per cent.
of the earths surface, Dr. Clark points
out, the great bulk of things in the
sea are supported by things washed
into the oceans from the land.

Most people, he said, regard: the sea
as an inexhaustible reservoir of food
which can be drawn upon to an un-
limited extent whenever it becomes
necessary or desirable.

They do not consider the close re-
lationship between life on the land and
in the sea. Material washed from the
land and carried b ythe rivers to the
sea serves as food for the tiny ocean
plants and animals which, in turn, serve
as food for the custacea, which, in turn,
furnish much of the fish food.

Life in the sea is most abundant
near the shore, where the largest
amount of food elements washed from
the land are to be obtained. As a rule,
there is little life in the ocean a few
hundred miles from shore.

The distance the land-supported life
of the sea extends, Dr. Clark explained,
depends to a large extent upon the
currents in the sea. Where currents
are swift, the sea forms do not usually
extend as far out as they are carried
by the broad, gentle currents.

The cutivation of the land tends to
prevent washing of the soil, he said, so
that as cultivation of the land increases,
the amount of material available to
supply the life of the sea tends to de-
crease.

However, he pointed out, there are
a number of animals eaten by peoples
in other countries which have not been
used in America simply because the
people here have had abundant sources
of land foods and have been able to
exercise more choice in what they have
eaten.

But while there are three times as
many different kinds cf animals on
land as in the sea, there are three
times as many major types of animals
in the sea as there are on the land.
This greater variety of animal types
in the ocean, Dr. Clark attributed to
the fact that the animals of the sea
have three different ways of feeding,
whereas land animals must move about
to find their food. There are sea ani-
mals which do this, but there are also
sea animals like the corals which just
sit tight and have their food brought
to them, while there are others, like
the jelly-fish, which just float around
in their food supply.

—_»+7>__ —
Commercial Fishing Not To Blame.
A survey recently completed by the

United States Fisheries Bureau of the
Sandusky Bay region of Lake Erie
shows that commercial fishermen are
not as destructive of game fish as
commonly supposed and refutes in
great measure the charge made by
sportsmen that commercial fishing
practices seriously threaten the life of
various game species.

 

The survey was conducted by the
Fisheries Bureau in response to an ap-
peal for an investigation from the
Izaak Walton League at Fremont,
Ohio. It was asserted that the game
fish were gradually disappearing from
the Sandusky river especially white
bass and black bass. This disappear-
ance of game fish was ascribed to the
destructive activities and practices of
the commercial fishermen, especially of
the seiners in Sandusky Bay.

The survey shows that factors other
than commercial fishing may have been
operated in the reduction of the fish
stock at Fremont and Sandusky. These
factors are pollution at Fremont and
Sandusky, the increase in carp and
goldfish, the taking of game fish by
the State of Ohio for breeding or
stocking purposes and the extensive
angling carried on at the numerous
Summer resorts of the region.

The preliminary survey shows that
the commercial fishermen of the San-
dusky Bay region are not as destruc-
tive of fish life in general or of strictly
game fish in particular as many sports-
men believe. It is not safe to assert
that commercial fishing is the primary
cause of the depletion of game fish in
the Sandusky Bay region. On the
contrary,it is very probable that the
seiners, by capturing carp and gold-
fish, are a factor in preserving the
conditions so necessary for the exist:
ence of game fish and waterfowl.

> > __
Potato an Important Source of Needed
Vitamin.

The potato is an important source
of vitamin B—the anti-neuritic vitamin
—lack of which causes the disease
known as beri-beri. According to F.
J. Liman and Inez Blystone, of the
laboratory of applied chemistry at Ohio
University, this essential element is
distributed about uniformly throughou:
the potato and is stable both during
cooking and storage. Meager in cal-
ories, the white potato supplies about
12 per cent. of the American dietary.
Mr. Lyman and Miss Blystone have
announced a series of experiments in
which they have found that rats throve
and grew at a normal rate on a diet
containing as much as 80 per cent. po-
tatoes. When put on a diet of only 40
per cent. potatoes, from which other
foods contaning Vitamin B were ex-
cluded, the rats showed a rapid decline
in condition, which disappeared as soon
as a sufficient quantity of Vitamin B
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22

HARDWARE

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—George W. McCabe, Petos-

ey.
rer L. Glasgow, Nash-
lle.

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

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Some Timely Suggestions For the
Hardware Dealer.
Written for the Tradesman.

In October the hardware dealer

should be already looking ahead to

the Christmas trade and laying his
plans for Christmas.

With many hardware dealers, the
Thanksgiving holiday at the end of
November marks the opening of the
Christmas selling season; although the
real Christmas rush is not likely to set
in until about two weeks later. But
before the actual selling campaign is
launched, the preparatory work should,
if possible, all be finished.

You can, between now and_ the
Thanksgiving holiday, plan your
Christmas window trims, write most

if not all your special Christmas adver-
tising, decide what lines to feature and
just how to play them up, arrange for
such extra help as you may need, give
your little
coaching, and talk over your Christ-
mas plans with your staff at one or

extra clerks a necessary

more store conferences. You can also
plan the rearrangement of your store
interior for Christmas trade, and your
special Christmas decorations, if you
This, great deal
preparatory can be at-

and a
work,

have any.
more
tended to long in advance of the holi-
day.

Meanwhile, every
should be used to stimulate the regular
There is no more effective

possible means
fall trade.
means of doing this than by the use
of strong window displays.

The show window is worth a good
deal of money to the hardware dealer
who has the knack of utilizing it prop-
erly. A city merchant some years ago
the but
significant words:

“IT pay $140 a month for store rent.
Of that I pay $40 for the store and
$100 for the window.”

What he
get a store of equal dimensions off the
main street for $40; and that the extra
$100 for his well-located store repre-
And
the only way to take advantage of lo-

sized up situation in terse

meant was that he could

sented a premium for location.

cation and make that extra $100 pay

for itself was by skilful use of the
show windows.
The hardware dealer, therefore,

should make the show windows pay
him the biggest possible returns.
Right now the dealer does not lack
for seasonable display. Thus, a large
number of householders are rearrang-
ing the stoves and pipes idle since last
spring. They will be interested in a
display of stove polish, pipe enamel,
for
polishing, and similar accessories. Two
or three lengths of old pipe, partly
enameled, will add immensely to the

aluminum paint, small brushes

effectiveness of a display. Any display
of this sort should include an assort-
ment of moderate priced brushes with
price cards.

Fall housecleaning is also under way

at this season. Housecleaning dis-

 

MICHIGAN

plays are eminently in order. In fact,
with the wide variety of housecleaning
accessories carried in the hardware
store, a series of displays can be put
on. In these you can play up such
varied lines as curtain-stretchers, step-
ladders, dustless mops, brushes,
cuum cleaners, carpet sweepers, wool
and feather dusters, tubs, pails, brooms,
polishes, scrubbing brushes. In fact,
the variety is almost limitless.

At this season a good deal of window
space will naturally be given to stove
displays. Now is the time to push the
sale of heating goods, and to clinch
those sales you failed to make last
month. Give the stoves a good chance.
Don't leave them hidden waay in the
rear of the store. Bring them to the
front and give them all the floor space
you can. Give them, too, the advan-
tage of an occasional window display.

For a big window, here is a very
fair stove display:

va-

Along the top of the window hang
some lanterns on wire. Stove pipe
wire, which does not show very much,
will serve the purpose. If the window
has one large pane of glass extending
to the top, a wire should hang from
the center of the ceiling ot within
five or six feet of the bottom of the
window. From this, other wires should
slant to right and left facing the win-
dow to within three feet of the window
floor. Then, starting in the center,
suspend lanterns by short lengths of
wire about 12 inches apart. twisting
the bits of wire several times around
the main wire so there will be no slip-
ping.

Fill the bottom of the window with
stove boards arranged in a semi-circle.
In the center set up a large heater.
Set it far enough back so that when
two lengths of stove pipe are set up
and an elbow attached, the collar on
the elbow will look as though there
were a flue in the back of the window.
If possible, have a large paste-board
or dummy figure of a farmer in his
shirt sleeves seated on a lantern box,
The
coat off will suggest in a realistic way
that the stove is throwing off some
heat. To his outstretched hand fasten
a smal] oil heater.

directly behind the hig heater.

the smaller heaters

around the semi-circle.

Then place
In the spaces
formed by the circle place a small
oven, and on this as a base set a large
oil stove. Fill in the spaces in front
of the stoves with flue stops, collars,
dampers and elbows. Place joints of
Then, with price
will good

pipe at each side.
cards attached, you have
a stove display.

Such a display will help also to sell
accessories. It can be made
effective by a big card stating in a few
words the outstanding features as to
and

cost, of the large heater you are feat-

more

fuel economy, efficiency initial
turing.

If the window is too small to ac-
commodate all these items, make the
display smaller. A stove display must
never be overcrowded. Be sure to use
attractive display cards to emphasize
special features of the stoves on dis-
play.

With kitchen ranges, it is preferable

 

 

October 13, 1926

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

G. R. STORE FIXTURE CoO. ’

7 Ionia Avenue N. W.
are in a position to sell the merchants of Western Mich-
igan Scales, Cash Registers, Refrigerators, in fact all =
store equipment, at better prices than can be

obtained elsewhere.

GF

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Michigan Hardware Co.

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

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Wholesalers of Shelf Hardware, Sporting |
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COMPANY .

“HOME OF SUNBEAM GOODS”

 

 

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

Farm Machinery and Garden Tools
Saddlery Hardware
Blankets, Robes & Mackinaws
Sheep lined and
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October 13, 1926

to show cooking utensils of various
sorts; but the same general idea can
be utilized.

Oil heaters are worth featuring, es-
pecially if you emphasize the idea of
using the heater for “that cold room
in the far part of the house” on ex-
ceptionally cold days. Electric foot-
warmers and grates can, where electric
current is available, be sold for the
same purpose.

The dealer should not overlook the
business that can be done in stove ac-
cessorics. There is hardly a home but
needs some article to make the heat-
ing system efficient. It may be a coal
shovel, scuttle, ash-sifter, ash-can,
stove-lining, package of fire clay, stove
board, flue stopper, collar, or any one
of a score of articles. The customer
is doing withut it, and suffering incon-
venience, largely because the hardware
dealer does not remind him of his
needs.

In communities where there is a
considerable country trade, a very
seasonable display can be made of
lanterns, lamps, burners, wicks, ete.
The dark evenings of autumn and win-
ter stimulate a demand for these arti-
cles; and even in the cities there are
many homes not yet wired for elec-
tricity. Indeed, every city home should
have at least one kerosene lamp for
the occasional emergencies when the
electric current fails.

With such a display use a show card
to call attention to special features of
the lanterns displays; such as the size
of the oil tank, extinguishing device,
brass bowl, style of burner, moderate
consumption of oil, and time of burn-
ing with one filling.

Flash lights can be featured as alter-
natives to lanterns; and the advantage
stressed that they reduce the danger
of fire.

Alarm clocks can also be brought
to the fore. On dark mornings it is
difficult to get up early; and many
hardware dealers have found a good
alarm clock an excellent seller at this
Show cards can be used to
help make an attractive display. of
alarm clocks; which will be very ef-
fective even in a small window.

Autumn accessories can quite often
be used to good advantage in October
displays. These include bright-hued
autumn leaves and
stalks, pumpkins, and other things sug-
gestive of the harvest season and the
approach of winter. These things are
very helpful in giving your October
displays a seasonable aspect, and little
work is required to fit them into any
seasonable window display.

Victor Lauriston.

season.

branches, corn-

2-2.
Women’s Suede Leather Belts.
Women’s belts in suede leather in a
variety of colors, in combination with
me‘al chain links set with jade, cor-
nelian, jet, sapphire or topaz, are the
leading novelty with one large manu-
facturer. The belts are copies of a
Paris model utilized to a great extent
in the creations of a leading Paris
dressmaker. They have no_ buckles
and are fastened with a patent spring
clasp. They sell at from $8.50 to $36
a dozen They are offered in seven
different color combinations,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Modification of Liquor Legislation vs.
Common Sense.

Grandville, Oct. 12—Where are we
at on the prohibition question?

If we accept the “statistics” of the
Moderation League we will realize the
enormity of the crime committed
against the people of the United States
when the Volstead act was thrust into
the Constitution.

Those statistics lay bare the fact that
present day prohibition is not only a
tarce, but it is the sum of all villainies,
compared with which open saloons are
a blessing.

One would imagine the whole coun-
try was debauched beyond saving be-
cause we have a law prohibiting the
indiscriminate use of whisky. How
such things be is past the understand-
ing of an ordinary citizen. When John
comes home sober every night, and at
the week end fetches his wages in-
stead of investing in a jag at the road-
way saloons, the good wife realizes
what prohibition means, the statistician
of the Moderation League to the con-
trary notwithstanding.

To offset the frightful statements of
the moderates comes a statement from
the other side quite contradictory of
the Modern League’s “facts and fig-
ures.’ Now, which are we to believe?
Really is there a sane adult in the
United States of America who accepts
the data of the League even in its
smallest part?

The statistics quoted by the tem-
perance officials quite deny the hideous
destructiveness of prohibition. There
can be no crime in telling a man to be
good and yet these fanatical beer-lovers
paint frightful pictures of the crass
destruction which is upon the country
through an effort to keep drink away
from those who misuse it.

The proper way to get at the truth
would be to go visit every home in
America and ask its inmates as to the
results of prohibition. When we have
such a statistical record as that one
may find the truth and not until then.
Any pretense that. it is necessary for
a man to have his daily portion of
booze else hades will be out for noon
is the veriest gammon.

People should use common sense in
discussing this question and not ac-
cept the fulminations of those interest-
e¢ in selling strong drink at a profit.
Bootlegging is bad enough. There are
a lot of beasts in human form who
carry on this sort of outlawry, but
this could not be done if we had an
honest, efficient enforcement of the
law.

The people themselves have it in
their power to say whether whisky or
temperance shall rule in this country.
The law is behind ‘the enforcer of pro-
hibition, but the letter of the law has
no power greater than: the wish of the
officials elected&to carry that law. into
effect. ‘ :

To decide the rights and facts one
need not go to the Moderation League,
nor to the prohibition supporters, but
to look into his own personal expert-
ence in the matter. What, under your
own observation, do you find with re-
gard to the success or failure of pro-
hibition since the Velstead act became
a part of the Constitution?

My own experience right here in
Grandville proves conclusively that, al-
though the law for the suppression of
promiscuous’ drinking has not been in
every particular enforced, it has proven
a mighty arm in defense of the home
and _ firesides: of. the common people.
Some of..the higherups mayhap still
make pigs*of themselves under cover
of their influence- with the should-be
enforcers of the law, nevertheless it
would be safe to say that where ten
men were drunk under saloon rule one
alone now has access to the flowing
bowl.

When you come to look at the facts,
isn’t that wonderful?

Just use your common sense, good
people, and you will know that pro-
hibition during the few years it has

been in force has been wonderfully suc-
cessful, and that with the passage of
further time and the expurgation of
the many whisky-suckers who hold
office to-day there will come a time
when a drunken man will be such a
rarity as to excite comment.

To have the law fully enforced it is
necessary to elect to office none but
temperance men; men who beheve in
the sanctity of law and dare enforce it.
Politics has had much to do with
evasions of law enforcement in the
past. People are gradually getting
their eyes open to this fact, and all the
temperance folks have to do is to keep
pegging away, cutting out whisky
officials wherever found until the
whole law and order force is composed
of men in full accord with the law and
the Constitution.

When this is done the last boot-
legger will take his departure, either
for the penitentiary or for some for-
eign land. America will be, indeed, the
land of the free and the home of the
brave.

The hopes of the “wets” run high in
some parts of the Union, but when the
women voters of this Nation get one
good crack at the booze-lovers some-
thing will be heard to fall, and that
will be the last hope of liquor dealers
to make of the United States a Nation
of drunkards.

Modification of the Volstead act is
not possible. The act will stand, else
be repealed in lawful manner, which
cannot happen with American woman-
hood bearing the ballot for the good
of the whole Nation. It is said by the
whisky advocates that man has an in-
alienable right to his intoxicants; also
that it is highly necessary that he have
liquor.

Women of ‘this Nation have lived
and prospered without strong drink.
Are strong men willing to acknowledge
themselves the weaker sex where
temptation to guzzle whisky is con-
cerned? Think it over.

Old Timer.

—~-2..____

Business Changes at Traverse City.

Traverse City, Oct. 12—D. F. and

. F. Hunter have purchased the
Shumsky shoe stock on East Front
street, and added it to the chain of
Fox-Hunter Trading Posts. The
Hunters have stores which carry shoes
and general merchandise stocks in
Grand Rapids, Cadillac, Mancelona,
Berrien Springs and Ionia, to which
will be added the Traverse City store.
The Hunters have already taken over
the stock. The formal opening of the
new business will not be made until
Oct. 15. Mr. Shumsky, who has been
in the shoe business here for twenty-
nine years, will retire for the present
because of poor health.

J. A. Thornton will soon take pos-
session of a new store which has been
under construction several months on
the Northwest corner of Front and
Maple streets, with a stock of antique
furniture and novelties.

A. Garland will open a stock of
furnishing goods for men and a cus-
tom tailor shop at 541 West Front
street Oct. 15. Arthur S. White.

—_—__> +.
Tendency to Wide Ribbons.

A substantial increase over last
year’s business is reported by ribbon
manufacturers. Roman stripes from
one-half to nine inches wide, and Bay-
adere stripes from two to four inches
Tinsel
effects in jacquard bandings are also
in demand.
widths up to seven inches have shown

are among the leading items.
Colored velvet ribbons in

increased activity in the last few weeks.
In the s.aples there seems to be a con-
tinued trend toward the wider ribbons.
Despite the rise in raw silk, prices
remain unchanged. Rayon is as yet
little used in ribbons except in the
cheaper grades, it is said.

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COMMERCIAL TRAVELER

Resort Hotels Must Give Value Re-
ceived.

Traverse City, Oct. 12—At the meet-
ing of the West Michigan Tourist and
Resort Association, held at Manistee
last week, A. P. Johnson, Grand Rap-
ids, secretary of the Wolverine Founda-
tion, had something to say about the
shortcomings of West Michigan re-
sorts which are well worth pondering
over, and if accepted in the same spirit
as given, ought to be of benefit to such
as cater to the tourist trade.

For instance: “We have not been
imbued with the host spirit. As hosts
we have studied neither ourselves nor
Our guests nor our hospitality. We
have gone about things in a provincial
way, each looking for himself, each
community resenting the success of
the other and giving and working as
little as possible for a common goal.
To do business we must satisfy our
customers; are we satisfying them?

“Our villages are not as clean and
neat and inviting as they should be
and we are woefully lacking in good
homes. I invite your attention to our
harbor entrances, the atmosphere of
our railroad stations, the heaps of rub-
bish and decaying debris which infest
many of our resort localities. The
stranger is given an impression of pov-
erty and desolation.”

Also Carroll Sweet, executive head
of the organization, brought out a few
salient points which should be taken
seriously by individuals and local or-
ganizations:

“The quality of our resorts has not
kept pace with the improvement of
our roads and the increase of business.
Our entertainments, beds, food and
other things which tourists and resort-
ers demand are not up to the standard
of the times, and as competition among
resorts becomes keener we are losing
ground in that direction.

“Nature gave us the foundation we
must enhance for our summer visitors
or they will fin+ no pleasure in coming
here. There are five things they seek:
A cordial welcome, friendliness, good
beds, good ‘food and entertainment:
something to do. Good beds are im-
portant. How do we expect people
used to the comforts of the large cities
to come out here and enjoy themselves
sleeping in the average resort beds?”

In foods, Mr. Sweet urged especial-
ly fresh Michigan berries, other fruits
and new vegetables to be served at all
times, fresh faod of the best quality
obtainable, instead of conned food
which they can eat any time at home.

Stressing the need of better hotels
for the accommodation of tourists, the
question naturally arises, where are
they to come from? Mr. Johnson fur-
ther said: “Your communities must
provide them. There is no better ex-
ample of this than the hotel in which
we are now assembled—the Chippewa.
Fremont has such a hotel and it is
making money. There is the richest
example of farseeing thought that I
have found. Holland is another ex-
ample. This must be done if you hope
to compete with other communities
which bid for summer business.”

Also the railroads and water trans-
portation lines were upbraided for their
seeming unwillingness to supply ac-
commodations, rates and schedules ade-
quate to the demands of summer
visitors.

Both of these gentlemen were emin-
ently correct in their premises. While
new hotels are essential in most cases,
the atmosphere of many of these in-
stitutions is not of a character to in-
vite long sojourns or repeat orders.
There is too much of the profiteering
spirit shown by many whose very
existence depends on the patronage.
They regard the approach of the re-
sort season much as the farmer does
his “sheep shearing.” They regard the
tourist as a sucker and kid themselves

 

 

MICHIGAN

into the belief that not only has he
plenty of cash, but that his insane no-
tion is to throw it away. Hence they
begin by advancing rates and follow
it un closely by skimping his food
supply.

Now, it is true that the average
tourist is patient and long suffering. If
he is well brought up, as a majority
of them are, he takes his medicine and
says little, but he knows that he is be-
ing ham-strung and makes a mental
note to the effect that if he ever comes
back it will be when there are glaciers
in Tophet.

I have heard too many operators
boast of the fact that anything they
served on their table is “good enough
for a durned resorter,” when that same
victim is supplying them with the bulk
of the income they receive during the
entire year. Their beds are impossible,
bedding worse, but it would not be so
bad if the linen provided were clean,
and the beds free from vermin. During
the height of the fruit season. they re-
sort to the citrus varieties, at even a
greater outlay than the local product
would make necessary. Why? Be-
cause. they do not know any better.

I have written whole pages on the
propriety of supplying fresh vegetables
not but what the canned article is per-
fectly prepared, but for the reason
given by Mr. Sweet, that they can pro-
vide themselves with same at home and
at any time. Such fresh grown vege-
tables are usually left off the average
menu because some cheap. kitchen
scullion claims he or she has not the
time to prepare same. I know of a
prominent resort hotel (every traveler
knows the one I mean) which serves
food from a kitchen reeking with filth,
with the same cut and dried bill of
fare, and the operator will loud mouth-
edly tell you he makes oodles of money
every season, and that the reason he
does not change his menu is because
he “rehashes” the “stuff he has left
over from the day before.

Talking in public meetings will not
cure this evil and I doubt if resorting
to legal methods provided for in the
statutes will accomplish much.  Pos-
sibly if one was sufficiently interested
to follow it up, the State Board of
Health might do something toward
abolishing such outrageous methods
of operating.

But this is neither here nor there.
If Michigan, or, in fact, any other
State wants to garner the harvest of
tourists and resorters, they themselves
must apply methods which will eradi-
cate these abuses, and then make it
known to the outside world that such
shortcomings have been done away
with. Otherwise in a very short time
resort owners will be feasting, cannibal
like, off each other.

Editorially the Chicago Tribune hits
the target in the center when it speaks
of certain proceedings which took up
much time of the American Hotel As-
sociation, which was in session in Chi-
cago recently:

Hotel proprietors from all over the
United States have been holding a con-
vention in Chicago. They have passed
resolutions urging a reduction in Pull-
man rates in order to make travel cheap-
er and thereby increase the demand for
hotel accommodations. At the same time
the attorney for the organization of hotel
men has warned his clients to forestall
any effort to classify hotels as publio
utilities, because then their rates and
services would be liable to regulation by
Federal and state commissions.

The hotel owners do not want to be
regulated, but they preserve a Jovelike
equanimity when it comes to regulating
some one else. They are willing to have
the Pullman company’s rates fixed by the
Government, and if the Government
doesn’t fix them low enough to suit the
hotel proprietors they propose to bring
pressure upon the Government to change
its mind.

The hotel men may protest that the
Pullman company is making handsome
profits, but, for that matter, so are many
hotel companies. If the aim is to stimu-
late hotel business, ft can be achieved
quite as successfully by lowering hotel
rates as by lowering Pullman rates.

We suspect there is something typical-
ly American in the attitude of mind which

TRADESMAN

Says: ‘‘Give me liberty of action because
I can be trusted with it, but regulate
the other fellow or he will injure himself
and everybody else. The Government
must leave me alone, but it has a duty
to control the conduct of everybody else.”
It explains the failure of much regulatory
legislation in a land where no one believes
in regulation for himself.

Traverse City people still talk of the
desirability of another hotel. Granted
that it would be a good thing to have
a structure more modern and substan-
tial than any they already have, if they
do build it should be a community
proposition without any interference
from outside promoters, and real hotel
men should be consulted before any
money is wasted on chimerical profits.
A new hotel in Traverse City would
hold the field for several decades,
hence the necessity for exercising great
care in proceeding toward it.

Frank S. Verbeck.

Increase Volume and Not Sales Ex-
pense.

Success awaits any salesman who
can work out a plan of materially in-
creasing his volume without increas-
ing his traveling expenses. This sub-
ject is further treated by a salesman-
ager as follows:

“Here is a problem for you. Solve
it and you will be paid handsomely
for your eorts. It is this: Figure out
a way to materially increase your vol-
ume without increasing your traveling
expenses. It can be done. Here are
some suggestions that may help you.
Make a firm resolve that you will line
up all the first class retail grocers on
your territory. You may not. suc-
ceed in making customers out of all
of them, but if you go after them all
you will certainly get some. Talking
five and ten case lots to those retail-
ers who can use quantities will help
your volume. Selling to arrive is one
of the best habits you can form, as it
is certain to increase your business.

— r+.

Honesty is not only the best policy,
but it is the only policy. Tell the
truth under all circumstances.

Hotel
Whitcomb

ST. JOSEPH,
MICHIGAN

 

 

Announcing Reduction in Rates
Rooms with Lavatory $1.25 and $1.50
per day; Rooms with Lavatory and
Private Toilet $1.50 and $1.75 per day;
Rooms with Private Bath $2.00, $2.50
and $3.00 per day. All rooms Steam
Heated. Cafe in connection, best of
food at moderate prices.

J. T. TOWNSEND, Manager

 

 

 

 

It is the Tuller
ow

Facing Grand Cir,

the heart of Detroit. oo

Gases tooms, $2.50 and up.
ard B. James, Manager.

DETROIT, MICH.

HOTEL

ULLER

gn

October 138, 1926

 

 

CUSHMAN HOTEL

PETOSKEY, MICHIGAN

The best is none too good for a tired
Commercial Traveler.

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

 

 

Columbia Hotel
KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To

 

 

Four Flags Hotel
NILES, MICH.

80 Rooms—50 Baths
30 Rooms with Private Toilets

Cc. L. HOLDEN, Mgr.

 

 

Occidental Hotel

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

(——

HOTEL DOHERTY

CLARE, MICHIGAN

Absolutely Fire Proof, Sixty Rooms,

All Modern Conveniences. RATES
from $1.50, Excellent Coffee Shop.

“Ask the Boys who Stop Here.”

HOTEL RICKMAN

KALAMAZOO, MICH.
One Block from Union Station

 

 

 

Rates, $1.50 per day up.
JOHN EHRMAN, Manager

HOTEL KERNS >

LARGEST HOTEL IN LANSING

30 Rooms With or Without Bath
Popular Priced Cafeteria in Con-
nection. Rates $1.50 up.

E. S. RICHARDSON, Proprietor

WESTERN HOTEL

BIG RAPIDS, MICH.
Hot and cold running water in al’
rooms. Several rooms with bath. All
rooms well heated and well venti-
lated. A good place to stop. Amer-
ican plan. Rates reasonable.

WILL F. JENKINS, Manager

CODY HOTEL

GRAND RAPIDS

RATES—$1.50 up without bath.
$2.50 up with bath.

CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION

HOTEL OLDS
LANSING
300 Rooms 300 Baths
Absolutely Fireproof
Moderate Rates

Under the Direction of the
Continental-Leland Corp.

GerorcE L. CROCKER,
Manager.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wolverine Hotel
BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Fire Proof—60 rooms. THE LEAD.
ING COMMERCIAL AND RESORT
HOTEL. American Plan, $4.00 and
up; European Plan, $1.50 and up.

Open the year around.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN 25

 

Boyne City Planning Big Things.

_ Boyne City, Oct. 12—The Boyne
City Chamber of Commerce began its
tenth year of organization with a din-
ner at the Wolverine Hotel last Mon-
day evening. Only a small number
were present, but the meeting from the
angle of interest was a remarkable
success. It is the first general meet-
ing that has been held for several
years.

The President, J. H. Parker, presid-
ed and after the dinner, which like all
the Wolverine functions, was a success
from the gastronomical standpoint,
presented the newly elected board of
directors. The personnel of the board
this year promises an aggressive cam-
paign for a better Boyne City.

The big event of the evening was a
talk by A. P. Johnson, Grand Rapids,
of the Wolverine Foundation. His
talk was concerned with the econom‘c
value of the natural advantages of this
territory and the manner by which it
can be made of greatest value to the
people, not only the peope who live
here, but to those who come for re-
juvenation from the strenuous living
of city life. Boyne City is fortunate
in having an encouragine and instruc-
tive message within a short time from
two such sane and business like men
as Lee Bierce and A. P. Johnson, each
from the center of Western Michigan
business life, Grand Rapids. We have
heard within a short time many ex-
pressions of wonder that this section
did not exploit the beauties of our
autumn landscapes. The reason is very
simple. It is only a very few years
that the general public could get here
with any comfort or facility. We have
always known that May and June and
September and October were the most
attractive months, but July and August,
with parts of June and September,
were the only times when people could
or would come or stay here. and hotels
and boarding houses cannot be oper-
ated without an income commensurate
with the service demanded. The great
buik of our patrons are people with
cihldren of school age, who feel that
they cannot leave their homes until
school closes in June and must be back
in early September. We have the
beauties to show, but until very re-
cently no one could take the time to see
them and it was and is hardly prac-
ticable to furnish the hospitality that
is demanded. Those who own sum-
mer homes are not equipped to be
comfortable at all times during the
early summer and late fall, for Jack
Frost is pretty sure to be lurking
around at these times and few of the
summer homes are fixed to dispell that
most uncomfortable of all conditions,
the chilliness. With the passing of
time, this will be remedied and people

wiil take more and more advantage of
the exhilarating beauty of the play-
ground of Michigan.
Charles T. McCutcheon.
——_—_e<-__
Canned Foods Week.

I attended a meeting of the Can-
ners Association, held at the Pantlind
Hotel, Tuesday, Oct. 12, called to fur-
ther plans for Canned Foods Week
Nov. 10-to 20.
the emphasis these gentlemen stressed
on the quality of Michigan canned
foods. In fact, Mr. Geigley, of the
Pure Food Department of Michigan,
assured us that the food packed in
this State is of the very highest qual-
ity.

Remarks were made by the Secre-
tary Hartman and President Hutchin-
son and by P. T. Green, Secretary of
the Wholesale Grocers Association, all
of whom emphasized that we should

I was impressed with

endeavor to show the public that can-
ned foods are not alone cheap, but they
are absolutely wholesome and to eat
them is of direct benefit to the agri-
cultural industry of Michigan, as well
as to other allied lines.

Lon Sears, of the W. R. Roach Co.,
showed a Government report that can-
ned food had lengthened adult human
life in this country 4% years.

They assured me that the jobbing
would be supplied with
plenty of posters to give to the mer-
chants and I see no reason why this
cannot be a wonderful campaign of
education on the wholesomeness and
quality of Michigan canned foods.

Now men tie up with this campaign,
sell by the dozen or case at attractive
dozen prices.

See if your jobber cannot supply you
with assorted cases packed one dozen.

salesmen

I believe they will sell.
Paul Gezon,
Sec’y Retail Grocers & General Mer-
chants Ass'n.

——_»+

Benton Harbor—Gilmore Bros., of
Kalamazoo, have leased a modern new
store building, recently ereced by M.
W. Stock, at the corner of Main street
and Colfax avenue and will open a
branch department store as soon as
the fixtures and merchandise can be
installed. Departments in the branch
store will be approximately the same

as in the parent store.

 

 

MR. GEORGE

October 1, 1926

 

 

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WE ARE PILEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OUR
MICHIGAN OFFICE

IN
GRAND RAPIDS TRUST BUILDING
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

under the direction of
DECKER, Manager
- MR. EARL W. MOORE, Associate

TELEPHONE AUTOMATIC 55061

P.W. CHAPMAN & CQ, INC.

 

 

 

Don’t Rub Your Life Away

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REG.U.S. PAT. OFF.

The -
WONDER WASHING
POWDER AND
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7) bY 4
Excellent for Washing Machine

MANUFACTURED BY
0-SO-WHITE PRODUCTS CO: Inc.
GRAND. RAPIDS. MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEN IN KALAMAZOO

Headquarters for all Civic Clube

Luxurious Rooms
ERNEST McLEAN, M-r.

 

Excellent Cuisine
“ortwtich Rath.

HOTEL BROWNING

GRAND RAPIDS
Corner Sheldon and Oakes; Rooms with bath, single $2 to $2.50
Facing Union Depot; Rooms with bath, double $3 to $3.50
Three Blocks Away. None Higher.
European Plan

HOTEL CHIPPEWA MANISTEE, MICH.

HENRY M. NELSON, Manager
New Hotel with all Modern Conveniences—Elevator, Ete.
150 Outside Rooms Dining Room Service
Hot and Cold Running Water and Telephone in every Room
$1.50 and up - - 60 Rooms with Bath $2.50 and $3.00

 

 

160 Fireproof
Rooms

 

 

 

 

 

 

In KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN is the famous
NEW BURDICK  "" “or actu?" Fireproof

of the City Construction
The Only All New Hotel in the City. Representing a $1,000,000 Investment
250 Rooms—150 Rooms with Private Bath—European $1.50 and up per Day
RESTAURANT AND GRILL—Cafeteria, Quick Service, Popular Prices
Entire Seventh Floor Devoted to Especially Equipped Sample Rooms
WALTER J. HODGES, Pres. and Gen. Mgr.

MORTON HOTEL
GRAND RAPIDS’ NEWEST HOTEL
400 Rooms—400 Baths Rates $1.50, $2, $2.50 and up per day

 

 

 

 

The Center of Social and Business Activities

THE PANTLIND HOTEL

Everything that a Modern Hotel should be.
Rooms $2.00 and up. With Bath $2.50 and up.

 

 

 

 

 

26

DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—-Claude C. Jones.
Vice-President—James E. Way.
Director—H. H. Hoffman, Lansing.

Coming Examinations—Grand Rapids,
Nov. 16, 17 and 18; Detroit, Jan 18, 19
and 20.

Seen, Heard and Reported in the Drug
Store.

While it is true that any retail busi-
ness, particularly the drug business, is
made up of endless detail, it does net
pay to let the details, particularly the
petty engross so much of the
owner's time and attention that he has
not the proper leisure for planning and
executing things of more importance.
Delegating unimportant details to ones’
assistants is sound business policy.

While clothes don’t make the man,
nevertheless it is just as well to bear

ones,

in mind that appearances do count for
a lot and anyway you look at it. It is
mighty poor business for any phar-
macist to be seen around his place of
business looking shabby or unkempt
A daily shave, clean collar, polished
shoes and neat appearance generally
are mighty potent factors in impress-
ing new customers, and old ones, too,
for that matter, and while it is not al-
ways possible for a pharmacist and
his assistants to pose as fashion plates
or emulate “Arrow Collar” advertise-
ments, it behooves them to put on as
good front as possible. Aside from the
effect on customers there’s a psycho-
logical slant to it, for when a man is
spruced up a bit and knows he looks
well, as a rule it tends to make him
more efficient and alert, his actions
and demeanor toward customers more
impressive and dignified than when he
knows he looks seedy, untidy or out-
at-the-elbows.

One of the best fellows it has ever
been the good fortune of the writer to
know was a drug cerk who crossed
the great divide several months ago.
One of the finest chaps who ever
ground a pestle in a mortar, he was
trusted and respected by his employer,
popular with the customers and _ his
fellow workers in the pharmacy where
he was head cerk for a number of
years. I once heard him giving some
fatherly advice to a junior clerk who
was inclined to be a bit slack in some
of his duties; he finished the little ad-
monitory talk with the following sage
observation, “We should bear in mind
that our employer is entitled to the
same sort of a deal from us that we
would expect from him if we owned
the store and he was working for us.”

Every customer who leaves a drug
store can do—and often does do—a lot
of advertising for that particular es-
tablishment and it is well to bear this
ii mind in the treatment accorded all
who patronize our stores. There is
riore than one kind of advertising and
it is well to remember that there is
such a thing as undesirable publicity.
The gabby old party who is forever
butting into the store at the most in-
opportune times and who often wants
is some-
quite a

or favor
sometimes
She may not spend
much money and as far as her per-
sonal trade is concerned she is more

an accommodation
what of a trial,
chronic nuisance.

of a liability than an asset. However.
she usually has a wide circle of friends

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and acquaintances, likewise she has a
mean tongue that she can wag vigor-
ously when she puts her mind to it
and she certainy can give a business
place a lot of favorable or unfavorable
advertising; so it is wiser to jolly her
along and keep her sweet than to
antagonize her.

Heard an apothecary of the old
school giving some advice to a clerk
who was leaving him to start in busi-
ness for himself. One thing he said
that impressed me as being mighty
safe, sane and sensible was this, “You
will find as you go along that from
time to time little things are going to
come up that will puzzle and often
vex you. There will be times when
you will be tempted to do things for
financial gain that, while they are not
exactly wrong or dishonest are a trifle
shady. The line of demarcation be-
tween what should and should not be
done is not always as plain as we
could wish and in cases of this kind
just bear in mind that it is best to err
on the safe side. A good rule to fol-
low is to put the question to yourself,
Is it right? and unless you can answer
it decidedly in the affirmative, don’t do
it.”

We surely are getting into good
company, the newspapers and drug
journals have recently informed us that
no less a personage than His Royal
Highness, the Prince of Wales is a
new recruit in the ranks of apothecaries
having had the honorary degree con-
ferred on him by the Master of the
Society of Apothecaries last January.
While it is hardly likely that the young
man will ever find it necessary to
“pound pills’ for a living, still, one
never knows what’s going to happen
these days and an apothecary’s diploma
might come in handy later on. His
Royal Highness is a mighty good fel-
low and he is exceedingly popular on
this side of the pond so if he ever
wanted to practice the ancient and
honorable profession of apothecary
and had any difficulty in securing a
position in England, he surely would
be able to land one over here. Just
think what an acquisition H. R. H.
would be to a pharmacy located in a
town where there was a female semin-
ary. That drug shop certainly would
do some business and as far as salary
goes, the Heir Apparent woud in all
probability be able to write his own
ticket.

Unfair tactics in business and do-
ing mean things to a competitor are
just as reprehensible as slugging and
holding in a football game or hitting
below the belt in a boxing match and
yet the idea still prevails in the minds
of some retail druggists that because
a man is a competitor of yours it fol-
lows as a matter of course that he is
your bitterest foe and that you should
knife each other on every occasion.
Some pretty good business men still
cling to the ancient belief that unfair
tactics are perfec‘ly in order and may
be used with impuni‘y egainst a busi-
ness rival, and will quote the old gag
about, “All is fair in war, etc.” This
idea never was right and’ should be
thrown into the discard with all other
archaic and unsound business doctrine.
Speaking from experience I can say
that I've seer. a lot of this sort of

thing in my somewhat lengthy service
and can truthfully state that there’s
nothing in it. Fair, honest competition
is all right and adds zest to the ex-
ceedingly interesting game of business,
but take it from an old campaigner, it
is a lot pleasanter to be on friendly
terms with your competitor than to be
at daggers’ points with him.
Prescott R. Loveland.

———_»+- 2
Little Adventures Wiih the Damage
Claims.

Did you ever have a man walk into
your store and say, “You made a mis-
take in that prescription last week and
I got a claim against you for dam-
ages?”

And if that happened, did you find
it easy to satisfy the claim, or to es-
cape without having to put up some
real money?

I was exchanging druz store experi-
ences the other day with the manager
of one of the largest independent stores
in New York City and he tcld me of
a few incidents that had occurred in
his own case.

There was the instance of the cus-
tomer who was one of these clever
birds who read their own prescriptions
and tell you what they want. “I want
a pound of sulphuric acid,’ said this
customer. He got what he asked for
and took it away, properly labeled.

In a few days there came into the
store a.cheap lawyer and announced
that he was bringing suit for damages
against the firm for selling a pound of
sulphuric acid on a prescription that
had called for sulphurous acid for
ringworm.

The manager found out what clerk
had made the sale, found out that no
prescriptton had been handed in. He
was shown the bottle of sulphuric acid
properly labeled. “We carry insur-
ance against damage claims,” he told
the attorney. “You haven’t any claim
on us, but go to it if you think you
can collect something.” And that was
all that was ever heard of what was
probably nothing more nor less than
a blackmail scheme.

Another claim was made by a
strange young man who declared that
he had been the victim of ptomaine
poisoning at the soda fountain. Had
he designated as the fatal drink some
egg preparation he would have had a
better chance, but unfortunately for
his case, he named sarsaparilla which
would come as near to being innocuous
as anything could. They laughed at
him and he decided there was nothing
he could do.

Another claim was that of a man
who asserted that he had been dam-
aged by glass from a broken soda
fountain tumbler. He was referred to
the insurance peope and did not press
his claim.

A more serious claim was that of the
man who brought action for poisoning
from an overdose of strychinne, sold
in solution on prescription. This case
came to trial and the druggist showed
that the prescription, which called for
a six-ounce mixture, carried a dose of
1/120 of a grain. He proved that the
strychinne that went into the 6 ounce
mixture was taken from a bottle that
contained solution already prepared,
that it was measured in a two dram
graduate from an 8 ounce bottle from

 

October 13, 1926

which several prescriptions had already
been filled. On the evidence there wes
not enough of the solution left in the
8 ounce shelf bottle to have caused
poisoning had it all been used, and the
likelihood of making the mistake of
measuring several times with the
graduate full instead of once with t
partly fuil was very slight. The case
was thrown out of court by the judge
vho saw the absurdity of the claim.

The small town druggists, and prob-
ably mos: c:ty druggists, do not usual-y
carry insurance against such claims,
but in the smail town there is little
chance ci a damage claim that is a
frcme-up, and the honest claim can be
settled between parties who know one
another.

The druggist mentioned above was
asked about the protection of check-up
in his prescription department to pre-
vent mistakes. He said they followed
the plan of having a second cler<
check over their prescriptions, but h2
there was more chance of
error that way because of the tendency
of the one compounding the prescrip-
tion to become careless depending
upon the check up to catch the mis-
takes.

beieved

—_~+-+____
Flatters Himself.
The dispenser who serves poor
chocolate, poor coffee and antique

eggs and hears no complaint may flat-
ter himself into believing he is fooling
the public and getting by, but he isn’t;
he has deceived no one but himself.
His loss is measured by the difference
between what his trade is and what it
might have been.

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Privacy
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and yourself need know of your
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tificates of Deposit.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27
1675 Different Kinds of Powder on creams, lemon creams, and so on, not WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
Market. counting 100 lotions and about as many
According to Toilette Goods, a special skin foods, each carrying a Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
prominent New York department store message of promised beauty. Acids Cotton Seed ___ 1 60@1 75-“-Relladouna ___.__ @1 35
which made a survey of the toilet Hair preparations were almost as Boric (Powd.) _. 1249 20 ao os suse a ecco or = ¥
goods stocked it found that 1675 kinds numerous as skin remedies. There aoe oT a 15 ¢ = Eucalyptus —-. 125@150 Buchu. cia @2 66
of powder—face, talcum, loose, com- were 400 bandolines, brilliantines, dyes, Citrie __ ae @ 65 Hemlock, pure-. 1 75@2 00 Cantharadies __-. . @2 85
a : : : co i | foe Murifatic -.--... 8%@ §g Juniper Berries. 4 50@4 75 Capsicum  —____- @2 20
pact and liquid—were on sale, and restorers, shampoos and tonics. Theré aa 00 9 @ 15 Juniper Wood _ 1 50@1 75 Catechu | @1 75
1396 kinds of perfume, 752 toilet wa- were almost as many kinds of rouge, Oxalle _---___ —_- 1 @ " mie =; << i eet - eo ———— gi -
ters and 204 sachets. Stacks and rows exclusive of 113 double compacts of Seo sonra ae ae 650 Lavendar Flow_.. 7 S0@7 75 Cubehs @3 00
a ae ce, c see : : i . Sess eine te ee nian cin Lavendar Gar'n 85@1 20 Digitaiig -_-...__ @1 30
of jars and tubes of creams told of powder and rouge combined. Soaps Bemen® 20 4 00@4 25 Gentian ~~... @1 %
€very purpose to which a cream could numbered 452, and bath preparations Ammonia — on Loree e 90 aaa oS <; =
pos 5 ; 4inseed, iled, ‘ o Gusise .........
be put. There were 600 beauty creams, more than 200. Lipsticks could be had wee = = a a $ or Linacedt bid. ieee 97@1 10 Gusts Ammon... @2 00
reducing creams, vanishing creams, by 251 names, and, eyebrow and eye Water, 14 deg.-_ 06 @ 11 Linseed, rw, less 1 00@1 13 lodine ~_-.----__- @ %
: f " i i Carbonate ______ 20 @ % Mustard, artifil. oz. @ 35 lodine, Coloreless @1 50
cold creams, freckle creams, theatrical lash applications in the 110 styles. Chloride (Gran.) 09 @ 20 Neatsfoot .__.__ 1 35@1 50 Iron, Clo. -.---- @1 36
Olive, pure --.. 3 75@4 6@ Kino __________ ns @i 40
Olive, Malaga, TAYE @2 50
Balsams as yellow -....___ 75@3 00 Nux Vomica __-- ¢ 56
Copaiba -__.. 26 Olive, Malaga, Oplonm: 2 3 50
Fir (Canada) __ Te 75@3 00 Green... 2 75@3 00 Opium, Camp. @ 3%
Fir (Oregon)  -. ‘ “: . oo Sweet -- 5 bap = Opium, Deodorz’d 3 >
Peru -..--_-__. 3 00@3 25 riganum, pure_ @2z60@ Rhubarb —_......
Ola 2 00@2 25 Origanum, com’! 1 00@1 20
Pennyroyal ___. 3 25@3 50
Peppermint __ 15 00@15 25 Paints
Barks Rose, pure -_ 13 60@14 00
| Cassia (ordinary) 25Q 30 Roseinary Flows 1 25@1 60 yer Sie ae stein
‘assia aigon)-__ Sandalwoo i
Sassafras (pw. 60c) @ 50 fee 16 50@10 76 hams white oil__ aes
Jchre, yellow bbl. @ 2%
Soap Cut (powd.) : a Sassafras, true 1 75@2 00 Ochre, yelow less 3@ 6
2 ee Sassafras, arti’l 75@1 00 Red Venet’n Am. 3%@ 7
1 Spearmint -___ 10 50@10 75 Bed Vonain Ba 4@ 8
| Sperm -____-_- 150@175 * = 3
Berries aie 10 00@10 25 Putty ——---_— 5@ 8
[ Chk hl ae <4 oer ] «Whiting, bb =. @ 4%
[ wee @ % lls a “" a Whiting —--—-__ 2 a@ 10
| Juniper -__-_____ 10@ 20 ‘Turpentine, less 1 05@1 18 9 * i ; cae re
Prickly Ash @1%5 Wintergreen, ogers Prep. -. sg
! one --------.. 6 00@6 25
P Ext ntergreen, sweet .
; vo xtracts se a 3 00@3 25 Miscellaneous
Eiconies, powd. ___ 50@ 60 oS s oe - sor ee pe a
ree orm see oie BO edie es cna @
Wormwood ---. 9 00@9 25 Alum. powd. and
Soy i Flowers gtound —-. | o9@ 15
CANDY : | . Bismuth, Subni-
Ae @ 2 muth,
peacosen. Chamomile (Ged.) @ 50 neteselun nee 3 87@4 07
MUSKEGON HH Chamomile Rom._ @ 60 Bicarbonate ---. 35@ 40 i 1@ 12
RAND RAPIDS ichromate -~--_ 1b@ 2 .,, : ey
arenes | ao. 69@ 85 Cantharades, po. 1 75@2 00
| Cal 1 2 10@2 30
DETROIT Gums Bromide -_._-__- 54@ 71 Caisioun. Died aco 40
| | Acacia, Ist ___. 50@ 55 Chlorate, gran’'d. 23@ 30 Canine (ee 7 00@7 50
| i Acacia, 2nd 45@ 50 Chlorate, powd. C Bud. 35 40
ll Aeneia, Gavia deme $e oa ao on Gua. oe &
Decorations losing freshness Aloes (Barb Pow 20 ts fcc dea 4 eae 86 Guacne ue x
Aloes (Cape Pow) 25 : oe a os : . ¢ 35 3
KEEP THE COLD, SOOT AND DUST OUT | Alves (Soe, Pow.) 63@ 10 FTussiatc, yellow 40@ 5p Chloral eis wei
Install “AMERICAN WINDUSTITE” all-metal | Asafoetida -_-___ —e lh w 4) Cocoa Butter __ 65@ 75
Weather Strips and save on your coal bills, make Pow, 22000 75@1 00 See coe - Corks, list, less, 40-10%
your house-cleaning easier, get more comfort from Camphor -.____ 1 05@1 10 Copperaa 2%@ 10
your heating plant and protect your furnishings Guaize @ 8&0 Copperas, Powd. 4@ 10
and draperies from the outside dirt, soot and dust. Guaiac, pow’d __ @ 90 Roots Corrosive Sublm 1 71@1 92
Storm-proof, Dirt-proof, Leak-proof, Rattle-proof. Kino GUN Aeanet 30@ 35 Cream Tartar _ 81@ 43
Made and Installed Only by Kino, powdered_. @1 = Blood, powdered. 35m 40 Cuttle boue —_--_ — 60
AMERICAN METAL WEATHER STRIP Co. Myrrh ----~--~- -. oS Cuan 35@ 73 DVextrine —____ 6@ la
144 Division Ave., North Myrrh, powdered @ 8 iiecampane, pwd 25m 30 Dovers Powder 3 50@4 0U
Citz. Telephone 51-916 Grand Rapids, Mich. | Opium, powd. 19 65@19 92 Gentian, powd 20@ 30 kimery, Au Nos. lu@ 15
Opium, gran. 19 65@19 92 Ginger, African, iumery, Powdered @ 15
Shellac Bieached 109 se powdered -.__ su@ $5 Kuso’ Sails, Lois, y
Giuger, Jamaica. 60@ 65 Epsom Salts, less 3 Y
Tragacanth, pow. @1 75 Ginger, Jamaica Ergot, powdered __ @2 00
Tragacanth ___ 1 75@ 2 25 uendeced ee 45@ 60 Kilake, White -_.. 16@ 20
Turpentine —-____ @ 20 Goldenseal, pow. @8 60 Wormaldehyde, Ib. 1334@30
Ipecac, powd. __ @7 00 Gelatine 80@ wu
Insecticides prem ao 35@ 40 uassware, — 55% 60%.
4 , icoric ra... 20@ 26 Glassware, ull case
° _ nyN °ye ° Arsenic oo 03@ oa po :
aneil ¢ ‘ . : pooe » powdered 30@ 40 Glauber Salts, bbl. @02%
Pencil and Ink Tablets, Composition Books, Spelling Blue Vitriol, Bhi noo Poke, powdered. 33g 40 Glauber Salta’ lea uae is
3 : i : - * Rhubarb, dered @100 Glue, Brown __.- 30

Blanks, Note Books, Drawing Books, Music Books, Bartoe. Mix Dry 130 32 Rosinwood, powd. @ 40 Glue, Brown Grd is 20

ae eos aaah © 38@ 20 Sarsaparilla, Hond. Glue, white __ 27%@ 36

Theme Tablets, Crayons, Crayolas, Chalks, Pens, Ink, Peet Powder 60 Go cpretia Waxican,” °° Gite wnite ert. “a ok
Lead Arsenate Po. lym 41 ; ra he ee ee i

Mucilage, Pastes, Lead Pencils, Penholders, Pencil Have ane Suiptur gn 2 ae ae

ea Squills, powdered 60@ 170 lodoform —_.___ 7 35@7 65

. cae Green -_.___ 20 37
ee Tumeric, powd.__ 20@ 35 ead Acetate __ 20@ 30
Boxes, Rulers, Protractors, Scholars Companions, Dic Views ee Ge en ee +
: : Mace, dered — 1 60
tionaries, Students Loose-Leaf Note Books, Water oo wee — Menthol 7 5008 00
SS . ecds Morphine _... 11 wou 93

® : ® Buchu, wdered 1 00

Color Paints, Slates, Slate Pencils, Black Board Slating ae) hl a ea ioe 2
Sage, 4 loose —_ @ 40 Anise, powdered. 35@ 40 Pe ,

: 7 pper black, pow. 40@ 60

and Erasers, Sponges, Compasses, Pencil Sharpeners, oe gs a em th Penner. White, oe 509 56

: Senna, Tinn, --_ 30@ 35 Caraway, Po. .30 25@ 309 Pitch, Burgudry 20@ 25
Fountain Pens, Etc., Ete. Senna, Tinn. pow. 25@ 85 Cardamon ______ ies pre gemgpee ao i
‘ : eo oo 130 20 Rochelle Salts ae ag 36
Complete Line. Send us your order or come in Olle oa” od 6G SS a ree oe oO
Almonds, Bitter, Flax, ground - 08@ 15 Seidlitz Mixture_ = ©
and SéE S amples of same. true (2 7 60@7 76 Foenugreek pow... 15@ 25 ‘Soap, green -.-... 15@ 30
Almonds, Bitter, Hemp -----._... 8@ 15 Soap mott cast. 22%@ 26
artificial _.____ 3 00@3 25 rare powd. =o we = Soap, white castile @13 50
Almonds, Sweet, Mustar yellow. case ——------.-..
HOLIDAY GOODS mm. 1 50@1 80 Mustard, black _- 209 26 Soap, white castile a i
2 ‘ Almonds, Sweet, Pope 5 Eas
i i i i imitation _... 100@1%5 Quince __.__.. 1 25@1 60 Soda Ash _____. _ 3@ 10
Now on Display in our own Building m Grand Rapids. Amber, crude i 1 509 66 Rape = 20 — ee ane 03
: Amber, rectifi 1 50 75 Sabadilla -....mmm0 33 45 2 Sal —-—_—

The best we have ever shown. Come look it over. ie 1 25@1 50 Sunflower _-.- 14@ 16 Suirite Camphor. G13
Bergamont ---_10 00@i0 26 Worm, American 30@ 49 Sulphur, roll ---- 3% 10
oe Repeater ge ; ns i Worm, Levant... 4 50@4 75 Sulphur. Subl. -_ io "

Pp Castor __-_---- 1 40@1 65 Jemertate .. ee
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Company Cedar Leaf. 1 792 00 leas Tartar Emetle — 10@ 1%
Wholesale Onl Citronella -_-.._ 1 25@1 50 Turpentine, Ven._ 50@ 765

y Cloves __- 3 00@3 25 Aconite _________ @1 80
Manistee MICHIGAN Grand Rapids C—aa«t . 86 6 soa @1 45 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 75@3 36
Cod Liver ______ 1 65@1 86 Arnica ee. @i io Vanilla Ex. pure 2 50@3 60
Croten 2 00@2 26 Asafoetida _____ @2 40 Zine Sulphate __. 06@ l1

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

October 13, 1926

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

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

filled at market ovrices at

 

date of purchase.

 

 

 

 

  

 

ADVANCED DECLINED
Cheese gy Rice
Mason Fruit Cans
Rolled Oats
AMMONIA Instant one oe 2 : 93 pect 3% oz. eee sil. oe
‘a 7 Instant Postum No. eef, 5 0oz., ua. sli 5
rae ie tae ae ete Cores, Be 6 G25 Mice Nc C Go a
Arctic, 32 oz.. 1 dz. cs. 3 25 Postum Cereal, 1 5 5; aie paca = Te =
15 ee Post Toasties, A t 1ili Con Ca., 1s
Quaker, 36, 12 oz. case 3 85 bart Tasstion Sis 8 454 Deviled Ham. 4s _ 22)
, Post's Bran, 24s  .. 2 a Deviled Ham, %s ___ 3 60
+ Hamburg Steak &
oo 26 (4 Onions, No. 1 _____ 3 15
Standard Parlor, 23 Ib, 8 294] Potted Beef, 4 oz. 1 10
= 3” "9 9574 Potted Meat, % Libby 52%
ancy Parlor, 23 lb. —_ a aM * Libby 92
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 75 {J Potted Meat, % Libby 3
Ex. Fcy. Parlor 26 Ib. 10 00} eencing ae a aoe 1-85
Tks 1 78 slvienna Saus., No. %@ 1 45
ee gj Vienna Sausage, Qua. 95
BRUSHES iVeal Loaf, Medium __ 2 66
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ----. 1 50: Baked Beans
Solid Back, 1 in. -_-- 1 15 ij Campbells, le free 5 __1 15
Pointed Ends —-__-- — 125 SiQuaker, 18 oz. __-___ 85
‘i Fremont, No. 2 ------ 1 20
2 eaSnider, No. 1 85
Shaker ‘Snider, No. 2 _-_-. 1 25
No. 50 ‘iVan Camp, small _... 86
Peerless ;¢Van Camp, Med. ---. 1 15
10 Ib. pails, per doz. 8 50 4
16 ib. pails, per dox 1195 yo 4p ‘}CANNED VEGETABLES.
” oe cern ae j Asparagus.
Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 36 BUTTER COLOR ; No. 1, Green tips -_ 3 75
Queen Flake, 16 oz., dz 2 as Dandelion,  ------_-_-. 2 8’, {.No. 2%, Lge. Green 4 50
Royal, 10c, doz. ______ CANDLES d ba oa oe 21 we 7.
Royal, 6 d =. 3 70 eans, 10 __--__
Royal. 12 oz, dos. - 529 isctric Tight, 40 ibs, ia }Green Beans, 2s 1 45@2 26
Royal, 5 Ib. -_-____- 2 ioe , cream Konus ie Be
ceo 16 oz.. doz. 1 25 ss a. Cs 'L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@2 65
Paraffine, 12s — — 14% j :
K. C. Brand Wicki 1a i Lima Beans, 28, Soaked 95
Percase Tydor, 68, per box - 30 «Red Kid. No. ¥ _-___ 1 25
10c size, 4 doz. -___.. 3 70 ea a { Beets, No. 3, wh. 1 75@2 40
15c size, 4 doz. _----- 5 60 CANNED FRUIT } Beets, No. 2, cut 1 26
20c size, 4 doz. __.... 730 Apples, 3 lb. Standard 1 50 | / Beets, No. 3, cut __-_ 1 60
25c size, 4 doz. _..... 9290 Apples, No. 10 __ 4 75@5 75 - Gorn, No. 2, stan. __ 1 26
50c size, 2 doz. ___-. 8 80 Apple Sauce, No. 10 8 00 Corn; Ex. stan. No. 2 1 55
80c size, 1 doz. ______ 8 85 pace ae yy 1 "2 08 } Corn, No. 2, ~~, .
pricots oO. --— ! Corn, No. 10
Fae ns Te” Ap aoin No. 8 OE

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.

 

ag all flavors —_.... 60
a 76
Frult Drone 70
Carmmels zp

Sliced bacon, large __ 5 40
Sliced bacon, medium : 30
Sliced beef, medium ~ 2 80
Grape Jelly, large -_. 4 50
Sliced beef, large -.._ 4 50
Grape Jelly, medium__ 2
Peanut butter, 16 oz. 4
Peanut butter, 10% oz. 2
Peanut butter, 6% oz. 1

Z

a

14

MeINoad
SSanane

I'eanut butter, 3% oz.
Prepared Spaghetti _
Baked beans, 16 oz.__

BLUING
The Original
Condensed

0z., 4 dz. cs. 3 00
0z., 3 dz. cs. 3 75

 

BREAKFAST FOODS
Kellogg’s Brands,

Corn Flakes, No. 136
Corn Flikaes, No. 124
Corn Flakes, No. 102
No. 224 7
No. 202 7
Krumbles, No. 27
Bran Flakes, No. 624 2 4
Bran Flakes, No. 602 15
Post’s Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s _____ 3 80

Grape-Nuts, 100s ____ 2 75
Instant Postum, No, 8 5 40

Apricots, No. 10 _— 8 26
Blackberries,
Klueber’s, No. 2 2 00@2 75
Blueberries, No. 10_. 13 50
Cherries, No. 2 ~-

Cherries, No. 2% -.— 4 50
Cherries, No, 10 -.. 14 00
Loganberries, No. 2 -- 3 00

Loganberries, No. 10 10 00}!

Peaches, No. 1 1 50@3 10
Peaches, No. 1, Sliced 1 2
Peaches, No. 2 ---... 27
Peaches, No. 2% Mich 3 2
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 00@3 2
Peaches, 10, Mich. -- 8 &
Pineapple, 1 sl ~—. 17
Pineapple, 2 sl. -.. 2 6
P’apple, 2 br. sl. _._ 3 4
P’apple, 2%, sli. -_.. 3 0
P’apple, 2, cru. -.._ 2
Pineapple, 10 cru. __ 9 5
Pears, No. 2 .....__.. 8 2
Peara, No. 3% 42
Plums, No. 2 -. 2 40@2 5
Plums, No. 2% ------ 29
Raspberries, No. 2, blk 2 9
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 13 5
Kaspb’s. Black,

No, 10 20

Rhubarb, No. 10 4 708
Strawberries, No. 10 12

CANNED FISH
Clam Ch’der, 10% oz.
Clam Ch., No. 3 ~-----
Clams, Steamed, No. 1
Clams, Minced, No. 1
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz.
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz..
Chicken Haddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, small --
Cod Fish Cake, 10 os.
Cove Oysters, 5 oz.
Lobster, No. %, Star
Shrimp, 1, wet ------
Sard’s, % Oil, Ky — 6
Sardines, 4% Oil, k’less 5
Sardines, % Smoked 6 7
Salmon, Warrens, %s 2 8

ete

bt BO 1 = 4 Bo BO CO 09 DS CO

Salmon, Red Alaska 3 2
Salmon, Med. Alaska 2 8&
Salmon, Pink Alaska 1 9¢
Sardines, Im. %, ag ae
Sardines, Irn., 2i
Sardines, Cal. __ 1 s5@1 8
Tuna, %. Albocore 9!

Tuna, 14s. Curtis, doz. 2 2:
Tuna, %s. Curtis, doz. 3 5!
Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz. 7 0:
CANNED MEAT.
Bacon, Med. Beechnut 3 3:

Bacon, Lge Beechnut 56 4:
Beef. No. 1. Corned __ 3 lt
Roof Na 1 Rosset _ 210

Beef, No. 2%, Qua. sli. 1 60

No. 10 10 50° Oxra; No. 2, cut ___ 1 76

  
       
  

«;, Hominy, No. 3 1 00@1 16

;

' Mushrooms,
* Mushrooms,
' Mushrooms,

     

t
,

t

Okra, No. 2, whole ._ 2 00

Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, Ib. 45
Hotels -... 37
Choice 8 oz. 48

Sur Extra 60
Peas, No. 3, E. J. —.. 1 65
Peas, No. 2, Sift,

June 1 85

Peas, No. 2, 2, "Ex. § Sift.
: B. J.

a 2 26
Peas, Ex. Fine, French 25
Pumpkin, No. 3 1 35@1 45
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 00@4 75
Pimentos, %, each 12@14
Pimentoes, %, each -__ 27
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 2 26

' Saurkraut, No. 3 1 40@1 50
' Succotash, No. 2 1 65@2 50

: Succotash, No. 2, glass 2 80
' Spinach, No. 1 ~--_. 12
;} Spinach, No. 2__ 1 60@1 9@

Spinach, No. 3__ 2 10@2 60

Spinach, No. 10__ 6 00@7 00
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 05@1 25

« Tomatoes, No. 2 glass 2 60

46 ted Mau «

/

OE LOMA AO ha COMGN AB ome A ind ste aatte

Tomatoes, No. 3, 1 90@1 80

Tomatoes, No. 10 —. 6 00
CATSUP.
: B-nut, Small —----__ 1 90

{ Lily of Valley, 14 oz. __ 2 60
* Lily of Valley, % pint 1 75
Paramount, 24, 8s _-_ 1 45
Paramount, 24, 16s _. 2 46

Paramount, 6, 10s —. 10 00
| Sniders, 8 oz. -..._.. 1 75
Sniders, 16 oz, ------ 55
Quaker, 8% oz. ~--.-. 1 25
Quaker, 10% oz. ____ .

CHILI SAUCE
; Snider, 16 oz. -.... 8 36
Snider, 8 oz, _----_ — 2 30
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. __ 2 26
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. _. 3 50
OYSTER COCKTAIL
Sniders, 16 oz. -.__.. 3 40
Sniders; 8 02. _.._-___ 2 50
CHEESE
Roquefort __----______ 52
Kraft, Small tins ____ 1 66
Kraft, American ____ 1 65
Chili, small tins ____ 1°
Pimento. small tins __ 1 65
Roauefort cmal! tins 9 9F
“amenhert cmall tine 9 9F
Wiseonsin New __-____ 94
Longhorn 0 28

Mich. Flat Full Cream 24

Michigan Daisies ____ 25
New York New 1926 __ 30
SAD Saree: i 38
PC 30

CHEWING GUM.

Adams Black Jack  ___ 65
Adams Bloodberry ___ 65

Adams Dentyne -___ 65
Adams Calif. Fruit ___ 65
Adams Sen Sen ______ 65

Beeman’s Pepsin ______ 65
Beechnut Wintergreen _ 70
Beechnut Peppermint _ 75
Beechnut Spearmint ___ 70
Doublemint
Peppermint, Wrigleys __ 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys —__ 65

duicy rut 2 65
Wrigley’s P-K _______. 65

ONO. Co 65
Weanerwry — 2 65

COCOA.

Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib.__ 8 59
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 35
Droste’s Dutch, 5 lb. 60
Chocolate Apples —-.-' 4°50
Pastelles No. 1 _____12 60
Pastelles, 1% Ib. ____ 6 60
Pains De Cafe ______ 3 00
Droste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2 00
Delft Pastelles _____ 2 15
1 Ib. ro Tin Bon

cone eee 00
7 or. “Rose Tin Bon
SAI Can ce 00
13 a gn De Cara-
Que) 02 3 20
12 oz. Rosaces ______ 10 86
% Ib. Rosaces ______ 7 80
% Ib. Pastelles —_-._. 3 40
Langues De Chats __ 4 80
CHCCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, %s ___ 37
Baker, Caracas, %s ___ 35
COCOANUT
Dunham's
15 Ib. case, %s and \%s 48
a5 2b; case, 4s 7
15 Ib. case, %sS —___-___ 46
CLOTHES LINE.
Hemp, 50 ft. ____ 2 00@2 25
Twisted eee
bo fo 50@4 00
Braided, 50 ft, _.______ 2 25
Sash Cord ---. 3 50@4 00

HUME GROCER CO.
ROASTERS
MUSKEGON, MICE

 

COFFE ROASTED

1 ib. Package
Molnmose 2 37
TAberty 2s 29
Muaker oo eo age
pedrow 2g
sirlaggg ouse =

Royal Cap gs

McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh
Vacuum packed. Always
fresh. Complete line of
high-grade bulk coffees.
W. F. McLaughlin & Co.,
Chicago.

Maxwell House Brand.
A 1D, ting, 22 ee

241). Ons 2 a a
Telfer Coffee Co. Brand
Boway

Coffee Extracts
M. Y., per 100 ______
Frank’s 650 pkgs. _. 4 25
Hummel’s 60 1 Ib. 10%

CONDENSED MILK

wee 8 ae
See 9 06

Leader, 4 doz.
le, 4 doz.

MILK COMPOUND

Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. __ 4 50
Hebe, Baby, 8 doz. __ 4 40
Carolene, Tall, 4 doz. 3 20
Carolene, Baby ______ 5

EVAPORATED MILK
Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. __ 4 65
Quaker. Baby. 8 doz. 4 55
Quaker, Gallon, % dz. 4 56

Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5 00
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 4 90
Every Day, Tall ---. 5 00
Every Day, Baby ---- 4 90
Pet, Tall ooo 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,
Me 75 00

Tunis Johnson Cigar Co.

Van Dam, 1@c -----. 75 00
Little Van Dam, ic ~ 37 50
Worden Grocer Co. Brands
Master Piece, 50 Tin_ 356 00
Canadian Club __-___ 35 00
Litne Tem... 22 37 50
Tom Moore Monarch 75 00

Tom Moore Panatella 75 00
T. Moore Longfellow 95 00
Tom M. Invincible 115 00
Websteretts -_--..__
Webster Cadillac __.. 75 00
Webster Ixnickbocker 95 00

Webster Belmont___110 00
Webster St. Reges__125 0¢
Starlight Perlas _.._ 90 0U
Starlight P-Ciub __ 1 35 00
GWM Se ee 30 00
Cnt Por. oo 35 00
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Standard oo i.
Jumbo Wrapped  _____

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

Mixed Candy
Minderparten (200 | 17
DCA dor 16
te Oe 12
Hrench Creams 22.0 | 16
Cameo 2.2 19
(STOCOrs oo 1J

Fancy Chocolates
5 Ib. Boxes

Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 70
Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 70
Milk Chocolate A A 1 70
Nibble Sticks
No. 12, Choc.,

1 85
Light — 1 65

Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 80
Magnolia Choe  -.____ 1 15
Gum Drops Pails

Amise 22 es
Champion Gums
Challenge Gums
Favorite
Superior,

 

Lozenges

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. __ 7

Anise Squares
Peanut Squares _-._._._ is

Horehound Tablets ____ 19
Cough Drops Bxs
Panam so 1 35
Smith Bros. 350 o 1 50
Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows
4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 865

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

Specialities

Walnut Mudge 22
Pineapple Fudge ______ 21
Italian Bon Bons  ___.__ 17

Banquet Cream Mints_ 30
Silver King M.Mallows 1 50

Walnut Sundae, 24, 5¢ 80
Neapolitan, 24, Be -.___ 80
Yankee Jack, 24, 5c ____ 80

Mich. Sugar Ca.. 24, Be 80
Pal O Mine, 24, 5c -_.. 80
Say Mister, 24, 6c ______ 80
Malty Milkies, 24, Bc __ 80

COUPON BOOKS

50 Economic grade 2 50
190 Economic grade 4 60
500 Economic grade 20 00
1000 Economic grade 37 50

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

CREAM OF TaPTAR
6 Ib. boxes __________ — 38

DRIED FRUITS

Apples
N. Y. Fey., 50 Ib. box 15%
N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice — 30
Evaporated, Fancy __ 35
Evaporated, Slabs __ 27
Citron
10-1b. Dex 2 gg
Currants

Packages, 14 of __. 15
Greek, Bulk, Ib. --____ 16

Dates
Dromedary, 868 _.____ 6 75
Peaches
Evap. Choice, un. ___ 37
Evap. Hx. Fancy, P. P. 30
Peel
Lemon, American ______ 24
Orange, American -..._ 24
Raisins,

Seeded, bulk 09%,

Thompson's s’dles blk 10

Thompson's seedless,
O02, 12

oon ae Prunes
oa 25 lb. boxes _@08

60@70, 25 lb. boxes __@10
30@60, 25 lb. boxes _@Uu
40@50, 25 lb. boxes --@12
30@40, 25 Ib. boxes --@15
20@30, 25 lb. boxes nae
FARINACEOUS GooDs
Beans
Med. Hand Picked - 2
Cat Etimas (oo
Brown, Swedish ______ on
Red Kidney -._______
Farina
24 packages __.__.____ 2 60
Bulk, per 100 Ibs. ____ 06%
Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks .. 3 60
Macaroni

Mueller’s Brands
9 oz. package, per doz. 1 20
9 oz. package, per case 3 60
Elbow, 20 lb., bulk _. 3 40
Egg Noodle, 12 Ibs. — 2 22

 

Egg Noodles, 6 ozz. __ 2 66
Macaroni, 9 oz. _____ 3 60
Spaghetti, 9 of. WW 2 60
Quaker, 2 doz ______ 3 00
Pearl Barley
Chester: 0
0000 oe
Barley Grits
Scotch, Ib. -.-._.___ 05%
Split, lb. yellow ______ 08
Split green —_-._.__ oe
Sage
East India -_.._._ 10
Tapioca
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks __ 09
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05
Dromedary Instant __ 3 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

 

Dog Dos
Vanilla PURE Lemon
135 _. % ounce __ 1 365
1 80 -.. 1% ounce _ 1 80
3 20 _.. 2% ounce _ 8 20
300 __2 ounce __. 8 0
560-4 ounce __ 8 50

UNITED FLAVOR
Imitation Vanilla
1 ounce, 19 cent, dom 96
2 ounce, 15 cent, dos. 1 25
3 ounce, 25 cent, doz. 2 ve
4 ounce, 30 cent, dos. 2 25
Jiffy Punch
3 doz. Carton ______ —. 2 26
Assorted flavors,
FLOUR
Vv. C. Milling Co. Brands

iuily White 2. Sg ao
Harvest Queen ______ 80
Yes oe am Graham,

Rasa peace 2 40

FRUIT CANS
F. O. B. Grand Rapids
Mason,
Half vint
One pint 0:
One quart
Half gallon

ideal Glass Top.

 

Rubbers.
Half pint 22 oe 9 50
One pint 22 9 80
One quart (2.02 11 75

Half galion _____ onan AD 16

 

 

  
  
 

   

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
  
  
  

 
 

  
 
  
 

 

 

   
   
  
   
   
 

 

   

 

  

 
 

 

 
  

   
 
 
 
   

 

     
   

   
  

 

 
  

   

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 
 

 

  

 

 

 

     
 
 

 

   
  
 

  

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

   

  

 

  

 

  

 

 

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case

26 oz., -- 6 00
8% 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 oF. (2)... | 90
JELLY AND PRESERVES
Pure, 30 Ib. pails -_-_ 3 36

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

1 NUSOA S|

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CARING

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Nueoa, 1 ip, 27
Nucoa, 2 and 5 lb. ___ 26%
Wilson & Co.’s Brands

Certifned 200 2514

WG 20

Special Roll -_-_._____ 25%
MATCHES

Swen, 144 00 4 75

Diamond, 144 box ____ 6 2
Searchlight, 144 box__ § 2°
Ohio Red Label, 144 bx 4 {5
Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box 6 °%
Ohio Blue Tip, 720-le 4 av

Safety Matches

Quaker, 5 gro. case 4 25
MINCE MEAT
None Such, 4 doz. -_ 6 47

Quaker, 3 doz. case __ 3 bv
Libby, Kegs, wet, Ib. 22

MOLASSES

 

Gold Brer Rabbit

. 10, 6 cans to case 6 7é
. 6, 18 cans to case 5 95
No. 2%, 24 cans to cs. 6 20
No. 1%, 36 cans to es. 5 ib
Green Brer Rabbit

No. 10, 6 cans to case 4 45
No. 5, 12 cans to case 4 it
No. 24, 24 cans to cs. 4 95
No. 144, 36 cans to es. 4 20
Aunt Dinah Brand
No. 10, 6 cans to case % UU
No. 6, 12 cans o case 3 4
No. 2%, 24 cans 0 cs 4 9!
No. 1%, 36 cans oe cs 3 fu
New Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle __ 74
Chere 2 12

Te eee ae
Half barrels 5c extra
Molasses in Cans
Dove, 36, 2 Ib Wh io J
Dove, 24, 2% Ib Wh. L 5 20
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Black 4
Dove, 24, 214 lb. Black 3 $v
Dove, 6, 10 Ib. Blue L 4 45
Palmetto, 24, 2% Ib. 5 25
NUTS.
Whoie
Almonds, Terregona 25
Brag New a 1a
Bancy mixed | 8
Filberts, Sicily  -_____ 28
Peanuts, Virginia Raw 0914

Peanuts, Vir. roasted 10%
Peanuts, Jumbo, rstd 10%
Peanuts, Jumbo, rstd Iti,
Pecans, 3 star. i 20
Pecans, Jumbo _____ 40
Pecans, Mammoth __ 50
Walnuts, California __ 28
Saited Peanuts
Fancy, No. 1 .) 3 14
ano. fo 1
Shelied.
Almonde SU
Peanuts, Spanish,

125 lb. baggs ______ 11%
Filberts +9
Pecans Ww
Walnuts 78

 

OLIVES.
Bulk, 5 gal. ker . 9. 9 00
Quart Jurs, dozen 6 U0
Bulk, 2 gal Ker 2 | 3°75

Bulk, 3 gal. kee __

“> CO DO im Roe Rol on
wo
on

Pint, gars, dozen | ao
4 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 3d
5% oz. Jar, pl., doz. 1 60
9 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 35
20 oz. Jar, Pl. doz.__ 4 25
3 oz. Jar, Stu., doz.

6 oz. Jar, stuffed, dz.
9 oz. Jar, stuffed, doz.
12 oz. Jar, Stuffed,
dos, 2 4 50@
20 oz. Jar, stuffed dz.
PARIS GREEN

 

Bel Car-Mo Brand
24:2 Ib. pails oo:
8 oz., 2 doz. in case
5 Ib. pails, 6 in crate
12 2 1b. palig
a4 1D. patie
bO ID. tins 22.
0 Ib) nailer

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Iron Barrels

Perfection Kerosine __ 16.6

Red Crown Gasoline,
Tank Wapron 22 oo: 19.7

Solite Gasoline ______ 22.7

Gas Machine Gasoline 41.1
Vv. M. & P. Naphtha 24.6
Capitol Cylinder ______ 39.2
Atlantic Red Engine 21.2
Winter Black 12.2

olarine

tron Barrels.

 

 

62.2

64.2

66.2
Special heavy ~_____ — 68.2
Extra heavy ________ 70.2
Transmission Oil _____ 62.2
Finol. 4 oz. cans, doz. 1 50
Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2 25
Varowax, 100 Ib. _.__ 9.3
Parowax, 40, 1 Ib. __ 9.5
Farowax. 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 bbls., 800 count 9 00
5 gallon, 400 count __ 4 75
Sweet Small

30 Gallon, 3000 __-___ 42 00
5 gation, 600 _.- 25. 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. 2
Dievcie. 5 So 4
POTASH
Babbitt’s, 2 doz.
FRESH MEATS

Beef

Top Steers & Heif. @17%
Good Steers & H’f. 14@16
Med. Steers & H’f. 183%@15

5
5

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oe to

Com. Steers & H'f. 10@12%
Cows

Top 2 14

Gee 2... 13

Maia |... 12

Common: 10

 

Lamb,
Spring  vamb. 2200 26
Good a ee ao
BGR eS eee
POOR oo ee 22
: Mutton
Good So ee Le
Moadinnr 20 oe 12
POOR sean 10

Pork, Lake Herring
Pient Hoge 19 7 yb, 100 Ibs, = 6 50
Medium: hogs 32 20
Heavy hoga 18 Mackerel
Loins, Med. ------____ 28 Tubs, 100 Ib. fney fat 24.50
Butts --_-_-___ ae Tubs, 60 count, 9. 7 25
Shoulders, 86 20
SDaterps 15 White Fish
Neck bones —------__- 06 “Med. Fancy, 100 Ib. 13 00
Peo ans SHOE BLACKENING
Parreled Pork 2 in 1, Paste, doz. _ 1 35
Clear Back -. 34 50@35 08 &. 7% Combination, dz. 1 35
Short Cut Clear34 50@35 00 Dri-Foot, doz. _|... 2 00
Dry Salt Meats Bisbys, Doz. 1 35
S P Bellies __ 28 00@30 00 Shinela, doz. 200” 90
Lard STOVE POLISH
Pure in tierces 22 16 Blackine, per doz. __ 1 35
60 lb. tubs -_-.advance 4% Black Silk Liquid, dz. 1 4
50 Ib. tubs ___advance % Rlack Silk Paste, doz 1 25
20 Ib. pails ___.advance % Enamaline Paste, doz. 1 35
10 Ib. pails _.__.advance % Enamaline Liquid, dz. 1 35
5 lb. pails _.__advance 1 E. Z. Liquid, per doz. 1 40
3 Ib. pails ____advance 1 Radium, per doz. ____ 1 85
Compound tierces ___. 14% Rising Sun, per doz. 1 35
Compound, tubs... 14 654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 89
Vulcanol, No. 5, doz. 95
é Vuleanol, No. 10, doz. 1 35
Sausages Stovoil, per doz. ____ 3 of
BOOS 6 oo 15
RAV G ee on 1S
Frankfort —_ 19 SALT.
Pore on 2 Colonial 24.215. ous
Weal oe Colonial, 36-1% _____ 25
Tongue, Jellied Colonial. Iodized, 24-2 2 00
Hieaacheese Med. No. 1 Bbis. ____ 2 60
aoe No. 1, 100 Ib. bg. 83
armer Spec., 70 Ib. 90
Smeked Meats Packers Meat, 56 Ib. 57
Hams, Cer., 14-16 Ib. 34 Crushed Rock for ice
Hams, Cert., 16-18 lb. 36 cream, 100 Ib.. each 75
Jiam,. dried beef Butter Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 24
Sets @32 Block, 50 Ib. ____.. 40
California Hams --__ @21 Baker Salt. 280 Ib. bbl. 4 10
Vienie Boiled 100, 3:ib. Fable 9) 5 75
Hams 2 40 @44 70, 4 lb. Table ______ 5 25
Boiled Hams -- 46@61 28: 10 Ib Wahie 5 00
Minced Hams @19 28 ib. bags, Table 42
acon _ —. a: @4e
Beet
Boneless, rump 26 00@28 06
Rump, new __ 27 00@30 06
Mince Meat.
Condensed No. 1 car. 2 00
Condensed Bakers brick 31
Moist ) @iges _..._. 8 00
Pia’s Feet
Cooked in Vinegar
% bois. 2 50
“ DDls., 35) Ips. oo 4 50
boise 10 00
7 oo 25 60
Kits 26 eo: to a6
i Deie,, 40 tbe. ..... & 66
% bblis., 80 lbs. ______ 5 00
Casings Per case, 24, 2 Ibs. __ 2 40
Hors; per Ib. .-- ue soars Five case lots ______ 2 30
Beef, round set ____ ‘ Todiz 4 :
Beet middies, sci @1 75 odized, 24, 2 Ibs. ___. 2 40
Sheep, a skein__ 2 00@2 25
SOAP
RICE Am. Family, 100 box 6 3
Fancy Blue Rose -_-. 07% Export, 120 box ____ 4 80
Fancy Head __._____ 09@09 Big Four Wh. Na. 100s 3 75
Broken (2 0> Flake White, 100 box 4 25
Fels Naptha, 100 box 5 50
ROLLED OATS Grdma White Na. 10s 4 10
Silver Flake, 12 Fam. 2 25 Ruh No More White
Quaker, 18 Regular __ 1 80 Naptha, 100 box __ 4 00
Quaker, 12s Family _. 2 70 Rub-No-More, yellow 5 00
Mothers, 12s, M’num 3 26 Swift Classic, 100 box 4 40
Nedrow, 12s, China __ 3 26 20 Mule Borax, 100 bx 7 55
Sacks, 90 Ib. Jute 4 20 Wool, 100 box 6 50
Sacks, 90 lb. Cotton __ 3 25 Wairy, 100 box ______ 5 50
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sks. 3 50 ap Rose, 100 box ____ 7 85
Palm Olive, 144 box 11 00
RUSKS. Tava, 160 box . 4 90
Holland Rusk Co. Octason 22 6 35
Brand J‘ummo, 100 box __. 4 865
18 roll packages ___. 2 30 \weetheart. 100, box _ 67
36 roll A kaccs _... 450 Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 10
36 carton packages __ 5 20 Grandpa Tar, 50 Ige. 3 50
18 carton packages -. 265 Quaker Hardwater
vocoa, (28, box ____ 2 8§
SALERATUS “airbank Tar, 100 bx 4 00
Arm and Hammer __ 3 75 Trilby Soap, 100, 10c, 7 30
Williams Barber Bar, 9s 50
SAL SODA nin :
Williams Mug, doz. 48
Granulated, bbls. ..._ 1 80 " ar wen ee
Granulated, 60 Ibs. es. 1 60
Granulated, 86 2% Ib. CLEANSERS
Parkaces . 2 40
COD FISH
MidGies oo. ee 15% ) me.
Tablets, % Ib. Pure, H
Tablets, 1 lb. Pure _. 19% E
OO. 1 40 He
Wood boxes, Pure __ 29% |
Woole:Cud > 11% |
Herring /
Holland Herring
Mixed, Keys ___. 1 00
Mixed, half bbls. 9,50
Mixed, bbis. 18 00
Milkers, Kees |... Low
Milkers, half bbis. .. 10 23
Mirkers, ibis. 2) as
Kw i, Norway... 19 50
Sie pale 1 40

Cut Lunch 1
Boned, 10 lb. boxes __

 

 

 

60
20 80 can cases, $4.80 per cane

WASHING POWDERS,

Bon Ami Pd, 3 dz. bx 3 75
Bon Ami Cake, 3 dz. 3 25
BG 85
Climaline, 4 doz. __.. 4 20
Grandma, 100, 5c -_._ 4 00
Grandma, 24 Large _ 3 75
Gold Dust, 100s ______ 4 00
Gold Dust, 12 Large 3 2¢
Golden Rod, 24 ______ 4 95
ioe; 2 dog. 4 50
La France Laun., 4 dz. 3 66
Luster Box. 54 _. _ 2 7&
Old Dutch Clean. 4 dz 3 40
Rinse, 409.02 3 20
Kinso. 246 5 25

Rub No More, 100, 14
Ce

Rub No More, 18 Lg. 4 00

Spotless Cleanser, 48,

 

a0 62. 3 85
Sani Flush, 1 doz. __ 2 25
“apoue, + doe _.. 2 16
Soapine, 100. 12 oz. _ 6 4A
Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. 4 04
Snowboy, 24 Large 4 80
Speedee, 3 doz ___... 7 20
Sunbrite, (2 doz _.._ 4:06
Wrandotte, 48 .. 4°75

SPICES.

Whole Spices.
Allspice, Jamaica ____ @24
Cloves, Zanzibar -._. @40
Cassia, Canton ______ @25
Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40
Ginger, African ______ @15
Ginger, Cochin __ @30
Mace, Penang ____..._ ¥ ie
Mixed: No fF 2... @24
Mixed, 5c pkegs., doz. @45
Nutmegs, 70@90 ____ @78
Nutmegs, 105-110 __.. @70
Pepper, Black —__.__ @45

Pure Ground in Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica __. @18
Cloves, Zanzibar __.. @46
Cassia, Canton @ 26
Ginger, Corkin @38
Mustard 20 8 @32
Mace, Penang ________ 1 30
Pepper, Black @50
Wittmea@e 200 15
Pepper, White _.. 60
Vepper. Cayenne ___. @32
Paprika, Spanish __.. @42

Seasoning
Chili Powder, 15e _.._ 1 36

Celery Salt, 3 oz. _.. 96
mee (a Om co 90
Onion Salt 290 1 35
Gastie Gee 1 36
Ponelty, 334 oz. —.. 3 25
Kitchen Bouquet a. £ 50
Laurel Leaves ______ 20
Marioram, 1 oz, _..__ 90
Savery. © 640 2 90
Thyme, Log 22. 90
Tumeric, 2% oz. ___ 90
STARCH
Corn
Kingsford, 40 Ibs. _.__ 11%
Powdered, bags ______ 4 00
Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 4 05
Créam, 48-9) 4 80
Gusker, 40-8 60 07

Gloss
Argo, 48, 1 Ib. pkgs. __ 4 05

Argo, 12, 3 Ib. pkgs. 2 96
Argo, 8, 5 lb. pkgs. _. 3 36
Silver Gloss, 48, 1s _. 11%
Elastic, 64 pkgs. ___. 5 35
(igen, 48-8) 0s es i 3 50
‘tiger, 50 -lbs. 20 06
CORN SYRUP,

Corn
Blue Karo, No. 1% _. 2 29
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 11
Bine Karo, No, 10 .. 2°91
Hed Karo, No. 1% —. 2 47
Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 49
Red Karo, No. 10 3 29

Imt. Maple Flavor.

Orange, No. 114, 2 dz. 3 02
Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4 19
Orange, No. 10 _.. 3 99

Maple.

Green Label Karo.
Green Label Karo __ 5 19
Maple and Cane
Mayflower, per gal. __ 1 65
Maple.
Michigan, per gal. __ 2 60
Welchs, per gai _ 2 x0

TABLE SAUCES

Lea & Perrin, large__ 6 00
Lea & Perrin, small__ 3 35

Peper oo 1 60
Royal Mint =. 2 46
Menhasco, 2 67, 4 25
Sho: You, 9 oz.,. doz. 27
A-l, large 2000 5 20
Aone, BG 3 15
Capera. 2 og. _.__._. 3 80

 

 

‘ B4
I iD. pkg. Sitting _-.. 13
Gunpowder

Choice 36

Raney 220 ae
Ceylon

Pekre, medium __.___ aw

English Breakfast

Congou, Medium ______ 38

Congou, Choice ____ 35@236

Congou, Fancy ___. 42@438
Oolong

Medium 0. ia OE

Cholee a= 45

Raney 20 ge

Telfer Coffee Co. Brand

Wied. Go 59
TWINE

Cotton, 3 ply cone ____ 38

Cotton, 3 ply pails .._ 46

Wool, 6 ply lo

VINEGAR
Cider, 40 Grain =. 21

White Wine, 80 grain__ 26
White Wine, 40 grain__ 20

WICKING
No. 0. per gross ______ 75
No. 1, per gross ____ 1 26
No. 2, per gross ____ 1 60
No. 3, per gross ae Oe

Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Rochester, No. 2, doz. 60
Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
Rayo, per doz. %

WOODENWARE
Baskets
Bushels, narrow band,
wire handles __..___ 1 78
Bushels, narrow band,
wood handles ______ 1 80

Market, drop handle 85
Market, single handle 90
Market, extra —..__. 1 60
Splint, farce 8 50
Spiint, medium —__. 7 50
Splint, small 6 60
Churns,
Barrel, 5 gal., each__ 2 40

Barrel. 10 gal., each__ 2 58
3 to & gal., per gal. _. 16

Egg Cases.
No. 1, Star Carrier _ 5 00
No. 2, Star Carrier. 10 00
No. 1, Star Egg Trays 6 25
No. 2, Star Egg Trays 12 60
Mop Sticks
Trojan speing _.. . 00

2
Eclipse patent spring 2 0u
No. 2, pat. brush hold 2 00
Ideal No. 7 1
Cot. Mop Heads 2 56

12 oz.
16 0z. Cot. Mop Heads 3 20
Palls

10 qt. Galvanized ____ 3 50
12 qt. Galvanized ___. 2 75
14 qt. Galvanized ____ 3 10
12 qt. Flaring Gal. Ir. 5 00
10 qt. Tin Dairy __.. 4

Traps
Mouse, Wood, 4 holes. 60

Mouse, wood, 6 holes. 70

Mouse, tin, 5 holes __ 65

Mat. wood 2.00 1 00

Rat, spring 1 00

Mouse, sprhige __.._.. 30
Tubs

Large Galvanized ____ 9 25

Medium Galvanized __ 8 00
Small Galvanized __.. 7 00

Washboards
Banner, Globe __... 6 50
Brass, single <2. 6 00
Glass, siigle ...... 2. 6 00
Double Peerless _____ 8 50
Single Peerless _._._. 7 50
Northern Queen  _____ 5 50
Universe? 20 0 7 25

Window Cleaners
1 fe 1 65
6 in 1 865
1G i ee 2 30

Wood Bowls
io In. Butter 5 00
is i, Butter. 9 00
ht in, ‘Butter 18 00
io in, Botter: 2. 25 00

WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre, Manila, white. 05%
No. 1 Fibre __

Butchers Manila _.-. 06%
rate oe ee -- 07%
Kraft Stripe... 09%
YEAST CAKE
Magic, 3 dem 2. 2 70
Surniient, 2 dos. . 2... 27¢
Sunlight, 1% doz. -... 1 38

Yeast Foam, 3 doz. .. 2 70
Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 1 85

YEAST—COMPRESSED
Fleischmann, per dos. &%

  

 

30

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

October 13, 1926

 

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 4—On this day was
held the tirst meeting of creditors in tne
matter of George Start, Bankrupt No.
3000. The bankrupt was present in per-
son and represented by attorney John G.
Anderson. Creditors were present in per-
son and represented by Smedley & Con-
nine, Louis L. Landman, A. 5S. Hinds
and. White & Reber, attorneys. C.aims
were proved and allowed. Emil Kempf,
of Fremont, was named trustee, and his
bond placed at $3,000. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined with a reporter
in attendance. The first meeting then
adjourned without date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Glenn H. Johnson, Bankrupt No. 2999.
Tne bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attorney Wulard G. Tur-
ner, Jr. Smedley & Connine and G. R.
Credit Men's Association were present
for creditors. Claims were proved and
allowed. George D. Stribley was elected
trustee and his bond placed at $5,000.
The bankrupt was sworn and examined
with a reporter in attendance. The
first meeting then adjourned without
date.

in the matter of George N. Miler,
Bankrupt No. 2986, the adjourned tirst
meeting having been held and there being
no assets, the case has been closed anu
returned as a case without assets.

Oct. 5. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter ou.
Nicholas Bouma, Bankrupt No. 2996.. Tue
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney Horace T. Barnaby.
No creditors were present or represented.
No claims were proved and ailowed. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined, without a re-
porter. The first meeting then adjourn-
ed without date and the case has been
closed and returned to the district court
as a case without assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Howard W. Miller, Bankrupt No, 30.3.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented Ly attorney F. I. Blake. No
creditors were present or represented.
No claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined, without a re-
porter. The first meting then adjourned
without date and the case has been closed
and returned to the district court as a
case without assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Herbert Bird, Bankrupt No. 2992. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney. No creditors were
present in person and claims were proved
and alowed. No trustee was appointed.
The first meeting then adjourned to Oct.
6, to allow the surrender of certain pol-
icies of insurance on the life of the
bankrupt. There was no vaule in the
policies and the adjourned meeting ad-
journed without date and the case has
been closed and returned to the district
court aS a case without assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Ernest Place, Bankrupt No. 2994. The
bankrupt Was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney F, I. Blake. No
creditors were present in person or rep-
resented. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined, without a reporter. C. C.
Woolridge was named trustee and his
bond placed at $100. The trustee was
directed to investigate the value of a
julgment rendered in favor of the bank-
rupt and report its value, if any. The
meeting then adjourned without date.

Oct. 6. In the matter of Ernest Place,
Bankrupt No. 2994, the trustee has re-
ported the scheduled assets to be worth-
less and the same have been abandoned
and the case closed as a case without
assets.

In the matter of Groening Bros. &
Wilde, Bankrupt No. 2732, the trustee has
filel his final report and account and a
final meeting of creditors has been called
for Oct, 18. The report of the trustee
will be considered, administration ex-
penses ordered paid and a final dividend
to creditors declared and ordered paid.

In the matter of Irene L. Townley,
Bankrupt No, 3006, the receiver has re-
ported the receipt of an offer in the sum
of $460 for al of the stock in trade and
fixtures of the The property is
appraised at The offer is from
G, R. Store Fixtures Co. The assets
consist of a stock in trade and the fix-
tures of a millinery business located in
Grand Rapids. The sale will be held at
the office of the referee, 1225 G. R. Na-
tional Bank building, on Oct. 21. The
sale will be at auction and all interested
should be present at such time and place.

In the matter of Irene L. Townley,
Bankrupt No. 3006, the first meeting of
creditors has been called to be held at
the office of the referee in bankruptcy,
Oct. 26.

Oct. 6. On this day was held the ad-
journed first meeting of creditors in the
matter of Goodyke & Palmbos, copart-
ners and Fred Goodyke and Henry Palm-

  

THE THIRD OF OCTOBER
(The Dutch Thanksgiving Day)

Do you know when the Dutch keep Thanksgiving Day?
And in what a different sort of way

The cooks over there proceed to prepare

The regulation bill of fare

From what our cooks consider correct?

No loyal Dutchman would expect

To be served with turkey and cranberry sauce;
Such dainties as those you would not come across
On family tables from palace to lodge;

For the national: dish on that day is “hodge-podge,”
While the date that is kept is October third;
And this is the way that it all occurred:

The desperate soldiers of Holland had sworn

That they would be neither shaven nor shorn

Until they’d avenged the horrors and woes

Endured at the hands of their fierce Spanish foes;
And their beards had had time to reach to their knees,
Yet they still struggled on; while want and disease
Joined ranks with the foe to begin devastation

O’er all the fair lands of the brave little nation.

“Fling open your gates, Leyden, bow to your King,

And receive at his hands complete pardoning.”

Thus read the smooth promise so easy to make,

But the Leydenese knew it was easy to break;

They remembered the gallows, the stake and the rack

Where their brothers were tortured, and sent this word back:
“We fight for our faith and our freedom till death,

And yield to no tyrant while God gives us breath.”

Yet only too well did they know that on land

Their few starving soldiers could never withstand

King Philip’s vast army, so well-fed and strong,

Surrounding the city, a pitiless throng.

In the gallant Dutch navy their only hope lay,

And the waters that bore it were long miles away.

“Bring the ocean to Leyden,” said William the Prince,
“Though the loss of the land make the stadtholders wince!”
But the owners averred, “We count not the cost.”

“We'd rather be drowned,” cried the people, “than lost”;
While the Spaniards sneered loftily, “Just as well try

To pluck for your weapons the siars from the sky!”

But the dikes were cut through, and the Netherland fleet
Sailed gallantly in, with no thought of defeat:
Over orchards and farmhouses, flooded, submerged,
The small sturdy craft ever forward was urged.
For days raged the battle: the enemy fled;

And fort after fort was left with its dead.

Then, in the dark midnight, as crash went the wall,
The Spaniards deserted the last fort of all.

The third of October dawned dreary and gray,
When Gijsbert Cornellisen, boyish and gay,

Out to the bulwark swam and waded,

And climbed the fallen wall unaided,

Up to the fort he softly crept;

Then, growing bolder, in he stept

*Twas quite deserted; but live coals gleamed
Under a kettle that bubbled and steamed,

Cooking the “hodge-podge” they’d meant to eat,
When, instead, they had beaten a hasty retreat,
The fragrant odor urged him to taste,

Yet no selfish moment would he waste:

But he climbed the rampart with eager haste,
Where, waving his cap, he loudly shouted,

“The fort is empty, the enemy’s routed.”

And as the boy stood proudly there,

The victors’ cheers rang through the air.

Then up the canals the boats were rowed,

Each one bearing a precious load

Of bread and fish for the famishing throng

That crowded the banks as they passed along.

And the Spanish kettle, still warm, was displayed,
To prove with what haste the flight had been made.

At last, when hunger was satisfied,

Mayor and Admiral, side by side,

Led the procession’s straggling ranks

To St. Peter’s church to offer thanks

To the God who had lent the ocean wave
That bore the fleet with its crew so brave,
Their faith and freedom and lives to save.

This was fifteen hundred and seventy-four;

So thus three centuries, and more,

Have passed since the hodge-podge kettle was found
And carried, a trophy, triumphantly ‘round

The streets of Leyden, from its perch

O’er the Spanish coals, to the old Dutch church.
But still in the Leyden Museum it stands

As if just out of the little lad’s hands;

And a day of Thanksgiving is held ever since
To recall how William, “the Silent Prince,”

Had won in a fight whose noble cause

Was freedom of conscience and righteous laws.

Adele Barney Wilson.

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ts te noche ati,

bos, individually, Bankrupt No. 2961, The
bankrupts were present in person and
represented by J. N. Clark for Henry
Palmbos and _ the partnership. Fred
Goodyke was personally represented by
Lokker & Den Herder. The trustee was
present and represented by Diekema,
Kollen & Ten Cate. Corwin, Norcross
& Cook were present for certain secured
creditors. Fred Goodyke and Edgbert
Bos were each sworn and examined, with
a reporter in attendance. The adjourned
first meeting then adjourned to Uct. 13.

In the matter of Shupp & Andrus,
Bankrupts No. 2965, the trustee has re-
ported the receipt of an offer of $115
from G. R. Store Fixtures Co, for the
balance of the personai property located
in the building at 125 Division avenue, N.
The property is appraised at $241.50 and
consists of desks, chairs, cabinets an
general office furniture and fixtures, Th.
date fixed for sale is Oct. 21. The sale
will be-held at the office of the referee.
Those interested should be present at
such time and place.

In the matter of Alice S. Vaughan,
Bankrupt No. 2738, the trustee has re-
ported the offer of L. D. Darnell, of
otanton, for certain real estate at Stan-
ton. The offer is in the sum of $1,300
with an abstract and tax history. The
date fixed for hearing and sale is Oct. 22.
All interested shoula be present at such
time and place. The sale will be held at
the office of the referee.

In the matter of Blue Ribbon Ice Cream
Co., Bankrupt No. 2907, the trustee ha;
reported the receipt of an offer of $6,000,
from John Hunt, of Mattewan, for the
real estate in the estate, as described in
the trustee’s petition and report. The
purchaser assumes no Lens and encum-
brances upon the property. The prop-
erty is appraised at $1.,000 and there are
approximately $5,000 in incumbrances up-
on the premises. The sale will be held at
the office of the referee on Oct. 25. Ail
interested should be present at such time
and place.

In the matter of John Huff, Bankrupt
No. 3002, the funds for the first meeting
have been received and_ such meeting
has been called for Oct. 55,

In the matter of Carl Gentz, also known
as Carl E, Gentz, Bankrupt No. 3004, the
funds for the first meeting have been re-
ceived and such meeting has been called
for Oct. 25.

Oct. 9. On this day was held the ad-
journed first meeting of creditors in the
matter of Rex-Robinson Furniture Co.,
Bankrupt No, 2993. The bankrupt cor-
poration was present by Frank Van Mal-
degem, its secretary and represented by
Thomas J. Whinery, attorney. The trus-
tee was present in person. Creditors were
present in person and represented by
Dorr Kuizema, attorney. ‘he secretary
was sworn and examined by Mr. Kuizema,
with a stenographer present. The ad-
journed first meeting then adjourned no

date,
— ~>22>—___
Seek Furnace Code.

A movement to have Cleveland adopt
a standard code for installation’ of
warm air furnaces received the ap-
proval of the directors of the Build-
ers’ Exchange. The code was ex-
plained to the board by Mr. H. S.
Sharp, representing heating interests
back of the measure whih is modeled
after the national code adopted by vari-
ous organizations. While not passing
on the technical features of the code,
the directors expressed the belief that
standard regulations would be in the
interest of better building and would
reduce the amount of cost required for
operating heating appliances of this
character.

——— +2. ____
Lampshade Novelties.

Genuine sheepskin lampshades are
offered this year for the first time, it
is said, at a popular price, some in
Spanish and Italian period designs
with hand-made decorations retailing
at as low as $7.25. These in general
show less ornamentation than the
shades of parchment paper, depending
for their effect on the decorative value
of the skin itself. Among the paper
shades in parchment effects offered by
one manufacturer are several lines with
pen and ink sketches done by hand.
many of them with motifs matching
those of the pottery bases. They are
sold at from $6.50 up retail.

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October 138, 1926

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Avo'd Debt For Yourself and Others.
(Continued from page 20)

to be paid later, because she had pur-

chased an enlarged crayon portrait of

her husband, for which she must pay

on delivery.

“I did not hesitate a second. I sent
that clerk to the customer with the
message that my bill must be paid in
full or no more goods. I passed this
reasoning through him to her: Gro-
ceries are absolute necessaries. You
cannot do without food. I cannot sup-
ply you with food unless you pay me
the money with which to buy it. But
that portrait is in no sense a necessary.
You might go through life without
it and not suffer a bit of deprivation.
Therefore,the man to wait is the pic-
ture man—not the grocer.

“My clerk was firm, but he was also
polite. He got the idea across and
that night the bill was paid in full.
The husband and wife came in to-
gether, the husband a bit sheepish as
he explained that he had not thought
I'd mind. Then I gently, quietly point-
ed out my idea—and it got home. I
kept that customer for years and never
again was the bill delayed.

“Can you see, now, what I did? In
protecting myself, I protected that man
and woman from getting the debt
habit. I kept them independent. I
provided the instinct to use and not
abuse the credit privileze. I provided
the best insurance that this one couple
never would become dependent on a
job or be knocked out by hard t'mes
or be cast down and perplexed by any
adverse conditions. For they had
achieved the instinct of self-reliance.

“Now,” concluded my friend, “had
I permitted that woman to pay only
the seven dollars and let the other five
drag along, what might easily have
happened? Why next she would have
bought a melodeon or a set of books
which none of the family ever would
have opened. Before anybody would
have realized it, they would have run
behind further and further —then
slumped some day under the burde
of excessive debt and gone down and
out into the dead-beat class.

“The real slough of despond is the
sink of unpaid debt. In protecting
myself, my own family, my busines;,
I protected that family’s future. Was
not that better, more effective charity
than if I had favored and accommodat-
ed that woman just once?”

I have nothing to add to this mer-
chant’s remarks. Paul Findlay.

—_~+~+<-__ __
New Fur-Trimmed Coats and Sports
Ensembles.

Early consumer interest in the fur-
lined coat has brought about a marked
popularity of the cheaper grades of
both furs and fabrics in dark shades.
To get away from this, however, the
styling of the higher grade types of
fur-lined coats is favoring light-toned
furs and woolen materials. Among
the latter are plaids of ivory, beige,
gray and blond grounds, the pattern
being worked out in dull reds, mus-
tard, oak leaf and copper browns. The
light furs are mongolian goat in gray,
beige and nut brown, chipmunk, squir-
rel, susliki and leopard.

In an ensemble type of these coats

there is a kilted or box pleat skirt of
the plaid, worn with a jumper blouse
of crepe de chine in the predominat-
ing tone of the plaid pattern, accord-
ing to a bulletin issued this week by
the fashion service department of the
Botany Worsted Mills.

In discussing the recent imports of
sports ensembles for the debutante,
the bulletin says tha they differ some-
what from those opened earlier in the
new season. “Jackets are shorter than
heretofore,” it continues, “those of hip
length being accorded marked favor
by the clientele of the specialty shops.
The vogue of well-defined English
checks continues in these shops, and
both the fabrics employed and the
cut of the tailleur point to a special
development of the jaunty type of suit
for the Palm Beach and Spring
seasons.

“A velveteen jacket and waistcoat
worn with a kilted plaid skirt show an
inner blouse of white crepe with man-
nish collar and plaid tie. An exces-
sive front skirt flare, achieved by
means of sharply pointed godets, worn
with a jumper which shows fulness
introduced by way of inch-deep pleats
across the back, has proved one of the
pronounced successes of the informal
modes of the season.

“The combination of light plain jum-
per with a dark shirt is a leading suc-
cess, rivaled only by the metal novelty
woolens which employ two tones for
jumper sports costumes. Where the
shades of blouse and skirt are match-
ed, the blouse has metal embroidery
or clips in a conventional all-over de-
sign.

“In afternoon coats which utilize
cloth, or cloth with silk inlays, the
linings show strong contrasts of color
and quilted designs of unique styling.”

—_2>-___
Canvas Tent a Hazard.

A campaign will be waved against
the erection of tents inside the fire
limits of Decatur, Ill. Fruit venders
under tents may operate with a canvas
top over them but the tent must not
have canvas sides. This ruling applies
to patent medicine shows and the like
which are not allowed inside the fire
district. Deputy State Fire Marshal
Walter Ritchie was in Decatur recent-
ly and made an inspection tour of the
city, especially inside the fire limits,
to see that orders issued some months
2go against various pieces of property
had been complied with.

——_+ 2.
Velvets and Velveteens.

An active demand for staples and
novelties in velvets, velveteens and
other pile fabrics is reported. Espe-
cially popular are the printed velvet-
eens, much used in sport costumes,
which come in a large variety of block
patterns, squares, - moires, shepherd
checks and Scotch plaids. Leopard
skins are also much in demand. In
general these novelties ranging in price
from $2 to $2.50, and are considerably
stronger than for some time past. Light
cardinals, wine shades, jungle greens
and “Valencia,” or mistral blue, are the
favored colors. In the staple lines
black is leading, with Chanel red,
jungle green and golden brown also in
demand.

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SAFES

GRAND RAPIDS SAFE CO,
Tradesman Building

Business Wants Department

Advertisements inserted under this head
for five cents a word the first insertion
and four cents a word for each subse-
quent continuous insertion. If set in
capital letters, double price. No charge
less than 50 cents. Small display adver-
tisements in this department, $4 per
inch. Payment with order is required, as
amounts are too small to open accounts.

COIN CHANGERS, addressing machine,
duplicator, multigraph, typewriter, check
writer, dictaphones, envelope sealer, add-
ing machine, about half price. Write for
details. The Pruitt Co., M. T, N. Mar-
ket St., Chicago. 375

Wanted—National cash registers, Bur-
roughs adding machine, and floor cases.
A. L. Redman, Olney, IIl.

For Rent—Desirable location for photo
studio, also modern apartment. John
Monroe, East Jordan, Mich. 395
GOING TO CALIFORNIA—Will sacri-
fice for quick sale, confectionery, includ-
ing building, stock, fixtures, furniture of

three-room flat. Furnace heat. $5,500,
discount for cash. Riverside Confection-
ery, Manichester, Mich. 396

Wanted—-Manager with $5,000 to invest
for % interest in established rug factory
and cleaning business in Chicago. P. O.

Box 644, Chicago. 397
For Sale Or Exchange —Eighty acres,
good buildings. Will sell on time or ex-

change for stock of general merchandise.
Ideal country. Address No. 398, c/o Mich-
igan Tradesman. 398
Wanted—Position in general store by
steady man with years of experience in
store work. Address No. 399, c/o Mich-
igan Tradesman. 399
FOR SALE—The Klesner Hotel, cen-
trally located on main street of county
seat town. Fully equipped. Doing a
nice* business the year round. A good
home and a good safe investment. Fine
water and shade, pure air. This property
in fine shape. Brick: electric lignts; hot
and cold running water; vapor vacuum
heat. Come and see, or write me at
once. W. L. Klesner, Centreville, Mich.
400
FOR SALE—Established dry goods and
men’s furnishing goods business in good
suburban Detroit industrial section. Won-
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000. No stock buyers need reply. Owner
has other interests which require atten-
tion. Address No. 38/, c/o Michigan
Tradesman. 387
MY STOCK of general merchandise,
dry goods, groceries, and shoes for sale.

Stock and fixtures about ten thousand,
can reduce, will rent building. Cash only.

H. Riederer, Rozel, Kansas. 388

For Sale—To settle estate, clean gro-
cery stock and good buildings. Home
connected with store. Located in town

of 6,000, thirty-five miles from Grand
tapids. Address No. 389, c/o Michigan
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WANTED—Man with automobile to
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well established and having good busi-
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I WILL PAY CASH
for part or whole stocks of General Dry
Goods, Shoes, Furnishings, Clothing, and
Bazaar Goods. Call or write Jack
Kosofsky, 1235 W. Euclid Ave., Northway
5695, Detroit, Mich.

McCASKEY CREDIT REGISTER, ad-
dressing machine, duplicator, multigraph,
typewriter, check writer, dictaphones,
envelope sealer, adding machine, about
half price. Write for details. The Pruitt
Co., 117 M. T. N. Market St., Chicago.

375

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. Wiil
take $4,000 down, balance in productive
real estate in Grand Rapids. W. P. Joyce,
Cannonsburg, Mich. 366

Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-

ing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 1250
Burlingame Ave., Detroit, Mich. 566

CASH For Your Merchandise!
Willi buy your entire stock or part of
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No matter how you eat it, Shredded Wheat is a
Winter food as well as a Summer food. Why not talk
about these new ways of preparing Shredded Wheat,
and be sure your stock is sufficient to take care of the
constantly increasing, all-the-year-round demand for
Shredded Wheat?

The Shredded Wheat Co.

Niagara Falls, N. Y.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 
    

 
     

      
  
   
 
  

   
  

 

 
    

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The
Baking Powder
Authorities
Recommend

 

The purity, healthfulness and efficiency
of Royal Baking Powder are traditional.

Royal superiority, carefully maintained
over a half century, has taught three gen-
erations of women to depend upon it.

Consequently Royal is a prompt,
Steady, year ’round seller.

 

 

 

  
    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

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Ready to Serve!

The ideal quality product for the progress-
ive Grocer to sell. Display it, thus telling
your customers you have it. It is nationally
advertised.

BEECH-NUT PACKING COMPANY

**Foods and Confections of Finest Flavor’’

CANAJOHARIE NEW YORIK

 

 

 

 

Fast Selling
Lines

mean rapid turnover of stock—
less money invested and more
profit for you. It is to your advan-
tagejto push

KC
Baking
Powder

Same price for over 35 years

25 amie 25

(more than a pound and a half for a quarter)

 

The price is on the package and
in all K C Baking Powder adver-
tising.

Your profits are always protected.

The turnover is fast.

Millions of Pounds Used by Our

Governnmet