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Notes of Interest to Grand Rapids
Council.

One of the most successful dancing
parties ever given by the U. C. T. was
held last Saturday night in the Pant-
lind Hotel ballroom. The attendance
was excellent, all the room could ac-
commodate, the decorations of ever-

green were artistic and in harmony

with the season, the music delightful,
the refreshmnts were satisfying, and
the wonderful spirit of sociability that
prevailed can only be experienced. It
can not be described. One of the
pleasant surprises of the evening was
the visit of the U. C. T. brothers from
Council No. 305, of Lansing. They
had planned quite a large party, but
owing to the illness of some of their
members, the party was reduced to
the following brothers and their wives:
M. B. Warner, M. R. Perkey, M. M.
Sherwood, M. J. Stump and H. P.
Jacquamain. They were unanimous in
declaring they had a wonderful time
and would travel twice as far if neces-
sary to attend a similar party.

W. G. Bancroft left for Rochester,
N. Y., last Sunday to attend the annual
sales meeting of his company and will
return about Dec. 24. Mr. Bancroft
represents the Robeson-Rochester Cut-
lery Co. in the Western half of Mich-
igan and is closing up a very success-
ful year.

Owing to the regular date of the
Council meeting falling on Jan. 1, the
first meeting will be postponed until
the following week on Jan. 8. “Listen,”
if Council No. 131 intends to win one
or two of those prizes that are offered
by the Grand Lodge of Michigan, then
we need immediate action in bringing
in new members. Grand Rapids has
a larger number of men eligible for
membership than any city in Mich-
igan except Detroit and a little con-
certed team work should enable us to
experience a rapid growth. Men rea!-
izé the need of U. C. T, protection

feel the need of the social contact with
men in the same line of endeavor.
Let us all put ourselves on record with
our conscience to bring in two mem-
bers—at least two—between now and
the annual meeting March 5.

B. I. Banta, hardware and imple-
ment dealer of Leonidas, who is a
close friend of our Secretary and
Treasurer, A. F. Rockwell, has been in
St. Mary’s Hospital for quite a serious
operation. He was sufficiently improv-
ed to return to his home this week.

Otto J. Clemens and wife, of Lake
Odessa, came to Grand Rapids last
Saturday to attend the U. C. T. dance.
Brother Clemens was recently in an
automobile accident, but was able to
dance about half of the dances. We
were glad to note his improvement.

Mrs. E. G. Hamel, wife of Brother
Hamel, residing at Waywood, IIl., who
was called here a tew weeks ago py the
illness and death of Mrs. Harvey Gish,
returned to her home last Tuesday.

Henry Gannon, formerly traveling
salesman for the Hibbard, Spencer,
Bartlett Co., is now in charge of the
order desk at Foster, Stevens & Co.
in their new location at 61-67 Com-
merce avenue.

Grand Councilor of Michigan, L. V.
Pilkington, has purchased and is now
operating a store, featuring ladies, gen-
tlemen and children’s furnishings at
900 Michigan street. Brother Pilking-
ton is very modest in stating what he
expects to accomplish, but we predict
that any enterprise in which he is pro-
prietor and manager will be a distinct
credit to the merchandising circles of
Grand Rapids. Grand Rapids Council
wishes you complete success, Brother
Pilkington.

The Salesmen’s Club of Grand Rap-
ids will hold their last meeting of 1926
next Saturday at the Pantlind Hotel,
Rotary room, at 12:45 p. m. The com-
mittee in charge, consisting of Gilbert
H. Moore, chairman, assisted by Harry
M. Truesdell, George Frazee, William
King, Roy H. Randall and Timothy
Posthumous, are planning to make this
the most entertaining and instructive
meeting of the year. They have en-
gaged Pearce H. Young, Educational
Director of the Missouri State Life
Insurance Co., to address the Club on
the utility of insurancec. Students of
Miss Maud Fealy will entertain with
dramatic readings and classical dan-
cing. Members of the club will be
richly repaid for attending this meet-
ing.

Plans are well under way for the
New Years dinner and dance given by
the U. C. T. in the ballroom of the
Pantlind Hotel. The dinner will be
held at 6:30 p. m. Frida} evening, Dec.
31, An excellent menu will be served
in the usual Pantlind manner. Music
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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1926

when it is explained to them, and they

from 6:30 to 8:30 p. m., followed by
a half-hour social time. Dancing from
9 p. m. until 1 a. m., New Years Day.
The cost will be $2 per plate and the
dancsing $1.50 per couple additional.
The committee desire that reservations
ibe made early as the hotel must know
the number they will serve at the din-
ner, by Thursday noon, Dec. 30: The
committee is as follows:
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
Mr.
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and Mrs. P. H. Fox, chairman.
and Mrs. L. H. Berles.
and Mrs. R. E. Groom.
and Mrs. H. T. Koessel.
and Mrs. L. L. Lozier.
The Scribe.
——_+--.
Items From the Cloverland of Michi-

gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, Dec 14—Well, the
boats are off and the costliest lake tie
up is at an end. Saturday saw the
last boat of the 110 down bound grain
freighters sewed up for eleven days
in the costliest blockade in the history
of Great Lakes shipping. At noon on
Saturday only forty steamers remain-
ed in the downward channel and these
were strung out in single file from
the Soo to Nebish. The _ blockade
surely was a Godsend for the mer-
chants here, amounting to many thou-
sands of dollars in food _ supplies.
Much Christmas shopping was done
by the sailors while waiting for fur-
ther orders. The tugs also drew $600
per day each, trying to break the
channel, while the car ferry ice crush-
er drew $1,500 per day. While the
boat owners, of course, were anxious
to get through, it surely would have
been a bonanza to the Soo if they had
all held over for the winter. It was
a wonderful sight to see the hundreds
of large boats lying abreast half way
across the river down as far as the
eye could reach, especially at might
when they were all lighted—a pan-
orama long to be remembered.

Adolf Wandler, who for the past
season has been in charge of the meat
cutting department of the Pittsburg
Supply Co., has opened up a winter
meat market on Swinton street, where
he will keep a full supply of meats
and also specialize on sausages, as he
has for the past several winters. Adolf
will be remembered as the only
sausage maker in the Soo who learned
his trade in Germany and _ has_ his
dipoma, of which he is very proud.

Judge Robert Hudson, of the law
firm of Davidson & Hudson, is treat-
ing his numerous friends to a feed of
moose meat this week, having been
one of the successful hunters return-
ing from the game fields of Canada.
Another of the party from Lansing
who brought down a large moose had
it sent to Lansing where we are told
it created much attention, being some-
what of a curiosity to our friends in
the Capitol City. While the moose
are protected in this State, we seem
to have some difficulty in sending them
back to Canada. Only last week some
of our coast guards pulled a large
moose out of the icy waters and put
him on an island to rest before letting
him go back home again.

Consider the poor dentist.
a hand to mouth existence.

George H. Archer, staff correspond-
ent for the Milwaukee Journal, spent

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several days here last week, covering
the marine situation.

Ham Hamilton, of the Pickford
Grocery Co., Pickford, was a business
caller here last week. Ham says there
are still a number of turkeys left in
the country, ready for the Christmas
market, having been fed for the Christ-
mas trade since Thanksgiving. There
also seems to be many geese which
have been held over for the holidays.

Harry Dingman, of Eckerman, paid
the Soo a visit last week. This was
his first visit here in a long time. He
seems to like the woods and looks the
picture of health.

Manitoulin Island, located on Geor-
gian Bay, Ontario, being one of the
largest islands in fresh water, is get-
ting to be a turkey farm. The farm-
ers put on a turkey fair the first week
in November. It was a unique affair

Nothing but turkeys were ‘shown,
graded jnto six classes. It is expect-
ed to be an annual affair. A co-opera-

tive organization among the farmers
shipped two carloads of live turkeys to
Buffalo last fall. It is estimated that
this year they will ship four double
deck cars. The outcome of this year’s
fair probably will be a centrally located
incubator hatching station, which will
supply turkeys by the thousand.

Chicago is opening a three million
dollar aquarium. Dawg-gone it, there
goes a lot more of our Lake Superior
down the drainage canal.

E. C. Reickoff, who for a number of
years was superintendent for the
Kreetan Co., at Johnswood, has mov-
ed with his family to Ludington, where
they expect to reside.

William G. Tapert.

—_+--.—____
The Flint Convention.

Wyoming Park. Dec. 24—The next
annual convention of our Association
will be held in Flint, probably April
12, 13 and 14, if those dates are agree-
able to the Flint committee. Already
we are working on a tentative program
and I have been assured that we will
have the largest crowd in recent years.
The board meets early in January at
Flint (probably Jan. 13) to make def-
inite plans and next week I hope to
be able to announce the names of the
committee from Flint that will assist
the officers to put on the April con-
vention.

H. H. Roberts is President of the
Flint Association and H. Holsinger
is Secretary. Their Association is
called the Genesee County Food Deal-

ers’ Association and A. N. Faivor is
field man. Paul Gezon,
Sec’y Retail Gro. and Gen. Mer-

chants Ass’n.

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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, Dec. 14—John L.
Lynch, the well-known sales expert,
suffered the fracture of both bones in
his right arm one day last week. He
is doing as well as could be expected
under th ecircumstances.

Oscar Levy (A. Krolik & Co.) has
resumed his calls on his customers
after an illness of four months, caused
by the removal of an inward goiter.
He is considerably reduced in weight,
but is daily gaining in strength.

John M. Shields, the Petoskey house
furnishing goods merchant, was in the
city yesterday on his way home from
Washington, where he and his wife
spent two weeks. Five weeks were
spent at Mrs. Shields’ former home in
Maryland.

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Cheats and Swindles Which Merchants
Should Avoid.

Saginaw, Dec. 10—Saginaw, as well
as most every other city in Michigan
recently received through the mails a
flood of knit ties, none of which had
been ordered by the recipients. The
same talk was used with the exception
that a stamp was enclosed for the re-
turn of the merchandise if you did not
remit. The sender was represented
as being a blind man and after looking
Over some of the ties, we are very
thankful that we are not afflicted with
blind tie men in Saginaw. We are
most fortunate in having a group of
reliable retail merchants who handle
ties in Saginaw.

Saginaw Credit Bureau.

The Better Business Bureau of St.
Louis, furnishes the following informa-
tion concerning the blind man above
referred to which can be accepted by
all as authentic:

The activities of this gentleman
have been the source of much local
comment and numerous _ enquiries.
Complaint was made to the Bureau
that he was backed by Jacob Karch-
mer, a well-known local promoter, who
has previously been in difficulty in
connection with promotions exploit-
ing the blind, as well as other enter-
prises using a “charity” appeal. As a
result of our activities in endeavoring
to learn if anyone is benefiting by his
merchandise scheme, other than him-
self, “Paunee Bill” at one time author-
ized us to state to all enquirers that
he was not in need of any charity, but
was, i nfact, doing very well, and that
he would consider the elimination of
all reference to his affliction in future
literature. Because of the time which
has elapsed snce the last statement,
and lack of evidence thereof, we as-
sume that he has decided not to elim-
inate the “blind” appeal.

As a matter of principle this bureau
is opposed to the sending of unordered
merchandise through the mails. A good
many of these requests are accompan-
ied by literature which is, apparently,
an appeal to charity. While there may
be many worthy cases, yet it is very
difficult to determine where needed as-
sistance ends and excess profits begin.
Our experience shows that this coun-
try is literally flooded with these re-
quests,

A recipient of unordered merchan-
dise is under no obligation to perform
the labor required to place the mer-
chandise in the mails for return to the
sender. It is sufficient that the mer-
chand'se be kept in a safe place for a
reasonable length of time so that it
may be handed to a personal represen-
tative of the company should such a
representative call and ask for the re-
turn of the merchandise. The recip-
ient should not use the merchandise
because its use would signify accept-
ance of the offer. No doubt, the fail-
ure of recipients to return merchandise
except upon personal call, would have
a tendency to discourage the sending
of unordered merchandise by ma’l. The
Better Business Bureau regards this
particular method of merchandising as
a nuisance to the public as well as an

unfair method of competition to legiti- .

mate business. We believe a test will
convince you that the average lot of
merchandise sent through the mails
will not appraise as high in value as
similar merchandise purchased from
your local stores.

The sentiments expressed by the

Better Business Bureau regarding
sending unordered merchanidise of any
kind through the mails has many
times been voiced by this department.
Any worthy charity should be helped
by a direct contribution rather than
paying for inferior goods sent out
without being ordered. From the Bet-

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ter Business Bureau report it would
seem that exploiting the blind and
those afflicted in other ways has grown
to be a prosperous business.

New York, Dec. 14—Bank deposi-
tors, and particularly business houses,
are advised to observe special vigil-
ance against check crooks during the
pre-holiday season, in a warning
sounded to-day by James E. Ryan,
manager of the Forgery Bond Depart-
ment of the Metropolitan Casualty
Insurance Co. Experience shows, said
Mr. Ryan, that check forgers are never
more active and successful than in the
busy days just before Christmas.

“The main endeavor of the crook js
to obtain a genuine check, no matter
how small the amount.” said Mr.
Ryan. “Once he possesses it, he can
turn it to his profit either by altering
it or forging an endorsement to it. If
the check is carelessly drawn on in-
ferior paper, he can easily change the
serial number, date and payee’s name
and ‘raise’ the amount it calls for so
skillfully as to defy detection. He
leaves the signature alone. It is genu-
ine and he asks nothing better.

“Tf the check is well protected and
written on safety paper he does not
attempt to alter it, which would be
easily detected, but forges an endorse-
ment.

“The favorite method by which the
crook obtains genuine checks is to rob
private mail boxes or flimflam mer-
chants. The fragile mail boxes still
in use in some loft buildings and old
style apartment houses are easy for
him to rifle of letters containing
checks.

“The ways used to get checks from
business houses are legion, but three
old stand-bys are favored. One is to
buy for cash one or more articles on
approval, with the privilege of a re-
fund for whatever articles are return-
ed. If the refund is by check the
crook is satisfied. Another ruse is to
order goods for future delivery, pay-
ing for them in advance. Of course
the order is cancelled before delivery
and a request is made for a check for
the purchase price. A third scheme is
to mail a small sum of money to a
business house jn Payment of a sup-
posed bill. This is followed im-
mediately by a letter explaining that
the money was sent by error and re-
questing its return by check.

“These are time-honored devices
but, strange to say, they are still effec-
tive. Of course the successful crook
is always a plausible and Clever per-
son.

Financial publications printed to
have the appearance of legitimate
guides to investors, but in reality or-
gans for the distribution of worthless
stocks, are being sent to a great many
Detroiters free of charge. Names are
obtained from readily available mailing
lists and the publications sent broad-
cast in the hope of trapping the un-
wary.

At least two such publications are
of newspaper size and are so made up
as to disguise their real nature. Asa
usual thing, considerable space is de-
voted to legitimate stocks with which
the distributors of the publication have
no direct interest. These stocks are
spoken of in the highest terms and,
as they are commonly known to be
of value, give the reader the impres-
sion that the publication is a depend-
able financial organ. i

However, in several places in each
edition the particular stock which the
publisher wishes to unload on the pub-
lic is mentioned in glowing terms.
Usually there is at least one long arti-

c.e setting forth the alleged merits of
the issue in qustion. If it is a mine,
reports from the workings are printed
describing the rich ores which have
been uncovered and the signs pointing
to further great developments.

A reader unskilled in the ways of
financial sharks might easily conclude
that inasmuch as well known and
sound securities are dealt with so fair-
ly that the heretofore ynheard of issue
praised so extravagantly belongs in the
same class. The coupon in the corner
makes it easy to follow the suggestion
that further information be sought by
mail. And then the real selling cam-
paign opens.

It is in the “Advice to Investors”
section of these publications, however,
that the real key to their nature may
be found. In such columns are to
be found questions either sent or pur-
ported to have been sent to the paper
from readers asking advice about their
investment holdings. In nearly each
case, the questioners are told to sell
the stocks they list in their holdings
and reinvest their money in the stock
the publisher is sponsoring. An O. K.
is placed upon stocks listed by ques-
tioners in a few instances to lend an
appearance of impartiality to the ans-
wers.

Such publications, of course, will not
influence the sophisticated but they are
not designed for that purpose. They
are intended to trap those of little
financial experience. The general read-

December 15, 1996

er can avoid mulcting by this process
if he will remember this fact: Legiti-
mate publications are not sent regu-
larly unless they have been subscribed
for.

If a complimentary copy of a legiti-
mate publication is sent for sample or
other purposes, notice of that fact will
be given. If a publication dealing with
financial matters is received with no
clear indication where it came from,
the place for it is the waste paper
basket. This does not apply to in-
vestment bulletins published by recog-
nized investment houses as their source
is shown clearly.

2-22
Recipe for. Christmas Pudding.

Take some human nature, as you find it,
The commonest variety will do;

Put a little graciousness behind it,
Add a lump of charity, or two.

Squeeze in just a drop of moderation
Half as much frugality, or less

Add some very fine consideration,
Strain off all of poverty’s distress.

Pour some milk of human kindness in it,
Put in all the happiness you can;
Stir it up with laughter every minute,
Season with good will toward every man,

Set it on the fire of heart’s affection,

Leave it till the jolly bubbles rise;
Sprinkle it with kisses, the confection,

Sweeten with a look of loving eyes.
Flavor it with children’s merry chatter,

Frost it with the snow of wintry dells,
Place it on a holly-garnished platter,

And serve it with the song of Christmas

bells.
— 2-->—___.

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December 15, 1926

Mediocrity Holds Sway Throughout
the World.

Grandville, Dec. 14—Would it not
be interesting to call the roll and see
how we stand with regard to the
Statesmanship of this wonderful coun-
try of a hundred and twenty millians
of people?

How do we compare with that little
Nation of twenty millions of a few
decades ago? Even in earlier days,
when the Nation boasted of less than
four million inhabitants, a less popu-
lation than the single city of New
York to-day, we had our Washington,
Jefferson, Hamilton and others who
would adorn our great Nation of to-
day, and among whose hundred and
more millions there is not one to com-
pare with the early patriots.

Where are all our great men of a
past age? Gone to that bourne from
which no traveler returns. Pick, if
you can, among our many public men

one to compare with a Webster, a Clay

or an Adams.

We are a big Nation without ade-
quate leaders to stand out above the
common herd as the sun belittles all
the lesser planets. We seem to be
living in an age of mediocrity, and yet
we manage to carry on after a fashion,
even if we have no outstanding states-
man among our hundred and twenty
millions.

Even in so late a day as that of the
civil war there were giants when we
compare them with the best we have
to-day. Why is this so? Can it be
possible that great brain power is on
the decrease, that magnificent man-
hood has fallen by the ways de never
to be recovered? Like our changing
climate perhaps the trend of human
existence is toward a lower level and
the days of overmastering intellect
has,ceased to exist. i

It is the same in foreign countries,
so we of America need not feel be-
littled and ashamed. Our National
Congress is nowhere as competent as
were those earlier Congresses when
Wendall Phillips and Gerritt Smith
belabored on the outside the proslav-
ery propaganda of that day, while
collossal giants in the National legis-
lature held up the hands of the slave
power.

Hayne’s phillipics were ably answer-
ed by our Daniel Webster. John
Quincy Adams was a giant in those
days in the U. S. Senate. and down
along the line to Joshua R. Giddings
and the scholarly Charles Sumner we
meet able arguments in the higher
halls of legislation.

If we have a Daniel Webster to-day,
will someone please name him? There
are no Sumners, Chases and Conk-
lings. We are a sad lot of common
dolks without a leadership worth men-
tioning. The business of a Nation
moves along faster under the guidance
of great men. Our present era is that
of little men.

In the old days there were leaders
so prominent as to be unmistakable.
To-day you cannot put your finger on
a great senator or executive official.
The Government still lives, however,
as it lived after the death of Abraham
Lincoln, the greatest man of all time

There is no need to feel despair
over the outlook. Usually great crises
produce great men to meet them. It
has been so in this country during all
our early experiences, why may it not
be so in the future? At the crisis of
our civil war General Grant came in
the nick of time to save the Nation in
its entirety.

As Lincoln was and is our greatest
American, Grant, the simple tanner
from Galena, Illinois, is America’s
greatest general; There were other
able commanders, but Grant was the
kingpin of the whole military estab-
lishment, whose claim to greatness in
generalship there are none to dispute.

It does seem as though the country
would be better off if there were a few
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late conditions. Look over the United
States Senate, if you please, and point
to a leader who overtops all his com-
panions. There is not one. The pres-
ent Senate is made up of unimportant
men who have no real call for govern-
mental overseeing.

This condition seems incident to the
time in which we live. In the old
countries of Europe there are no out-
standing men of mark; mediocrity
seems the rule there as it is here,
hence the inability of the nations to
concoct a league of nations that will
be worth the paper on which it is
written.

Ward politicians aspire to the Presi-
dency. We have to go down to the
lower depths to pick candidates for
the highest offices in the gift of the
republic. This Nation is really for-
tunate in having for Chief Executive
to-day a man with the scund common
sense that animates Calvin Coolidge.
No one would pronounce the New
England farmer’s son a man of bril-
liant parts, much less a statesman of
first chop, but for sound, every day
good sense our President cannot be
excelled.

It is the law making power that is
at present lacking in the upper story.
Blocs and schemes hatched for the
betterment of one class as against an-
other are entertained which a high
sense of statesmanship would utterly
ignore as beneath the contempt of a
free American citizen

A great leader is certainly needed in
this first quarter of the twentieth
century. Shall we have one soon? The
outlook is not encouraging, to say the
least. Mediocrity holds sway through-
out the world to-day. That condition
will not always exist, and we can only
wait and pray for somebody with
brains to come to the fore and start
something that will be beneficial to all
our countrymen. Meantime we can
but sit pretty and make the best of
what seems an unfortunate condition
in our political and national life.

Old Timer.
. —__+-+

Not so many years ago tuberculosis
was considered a visitation from Provi-
dence and the unhappy victim resigned
himself to his fate. But men and wom-
en, more good than pious, disputed
th‘s theory and set about treating the
“visitation” as a scourge. Each year
since then the death rate from this
disease has dropped a little lower. In
the last twenty-five years it has been
reduced 60 per cent. The disease still,
however, strikes at persons of all ages,
those in the cradle as well as those in
mature life. But at least we have
learned that it can be overcome. The
little Christmas seals that brighten the
letters and packages during the holi-
day season are the tangible reminders
of the fight that the association is
waging to destroy this destroyer of
life. The seals provide the munitions
for this conflict, and fortunately the
courts have intervened to prevent any
interference with the work of the as-
sociation. It is fitting that the annual
campaign, which begins to-day, should
be energetically waged during the
preparations of the Christmas season.
Do your Christmas seal shopping
early.

Sickroom Classics.

I haven’t got any temperature.

I know it’s gastritis because I have
so much gas.

You know I just can’t afford to be

sick. ;

I’m going to have my little girl’s

eggnogs removed next week.
The old woman's got bad legs; she’s
got what they call various veins.

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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Bates—A. E. Green has engaged in
the boot and shoe business here.

Jackson—The Andrews Boot Shop
has engaged in business in the Hayes
hotel building.

Detroit—The Quality Dry Goods-
Shoe Store has engaged in business at
17808 Dequindre street.

Detroit—Frederick Sobel, shoe deal-
er at 8100 West Jefferson street, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy.

Detroit—Arnett & Son, dealer in
shoes at 9809 Jos. Campau avenue, has
filed a petition in bankruptcy.

Detroit—Hutchins Car Roofing Co.,
1203 Ford building, has changed its
name to the Dry Lading Roof Co.

Lowell—R. E. Springett, trustee, is
closing out the Hoag variety stock at
special sale for the benefit of the cred-
itors.

Detroit—Max H. Marienthal, dealer
in boots and shoes at 1127 Farmer
street, has filed a petition in bank-

ruptcy.
Vickeryville — Fire destroyed the
grain elevator of the Rockafellow

Grain Co., entaling an estimated loss
of $14,000.

Pontiac—The Pontiac Lumber &
Supply Co., Paddock and Jessie streets,
has increased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $100,000.

Grand Rapids—The Maragelexon Oil
Co., 339 Woodmere avenue, has re-
moved its business offices to 27 Fonda
avenue, Battle Creek.

Lake City—The Lake City Co-Oper-
ative Association has been incorpor-
ated to deal in farm products on a co-
operative plan for stockholders.

Deerfield — The Deerfield Lumber
Co. has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed, $3,000
paid in in cash and $3,000 in property.

Alpena—C. J. Cronin, owner of the
Cronin Co. department store, has sold
his stock and store building to the
American Retail Dry Goods Corpora-

 

tion, which conducts a chain of stores.

Lansing—Barron’s Candy Shop, 205
North Washington avenue, has been
incorporated with an authorized capital
stock of $15,000, $12,000 of which has
been subscribed and paid in in prop-
erty.

Detroit—The Hall Baking
Co., 1104 building, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capita] stock of $10,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Snover—The Snover Oil & Gas Co.
has been incorporated to deal in oil,
gasolive and auto accessories, with an
authorized capital stock of $5,000, of
which amount $3,890 has been
scribed and paid in in cash.

Benton Harbor—The Barnard Block
Drug & Paint Co. 371 Territorial
Road, has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $25,000,
$19,200 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

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Dime Bank

sub-

Grand Rapids—The Grand Rapids
Creamery Co., 305 Scribner avenue,
has increased its capital stock from
$60,000 preferred and 1,000 shares no
par value, to $60,000 preferred and 1500
shares no par value.

Detroit—The Dri-Steam Valve Cor-

poration of Michigan, 631 Book build-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ing, has been incocrporated with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed and $4,-
200 paid in in property.

Kalamazoo — The Graves-Johnson
Furniture Co., 340 North Burdick
street, has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of 10,000 shares
at $5 per share, $1,000 of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Ypsilanti — The Hartwick-Wescott
Lumber Co. has been incorporated to
conduct a wholesale and retail busi-
ness in lumber, builders’ supplies, etc.,
with an authorized capital stock of
200,000, of which amount $115,000 has
been subscribed and $100,000 paid in
in cash.

Detroit—The Joy Farm Hardware,
Inc., 6180 Concord avenue, has merged
its business into a stock company un-
der the same style, with an authorized
capital stock of $36,000, of which
amount $35,200 has been subscribed
and paid in, $10 in cash and $35,190
in property.

Battle Creek—William Sidney Chap-
man, for many years merchandise man-
ager of the L. W. Robinson Co. here,
is dead at Benton Harbor. Chapman,
according to word received here, was
taken ill while visiting friends in Ben-
ton Harbor. Pneumonia developed and
proved fatal.

Detroit—The Tillman Oil Co., 2201
First National Bank building, has been
incorporated to conduct a wholesale
and retail business in oil, gasoline,
auto accessories, etc., with an author-
ized capital stock of $20,000, of which
amount $15,000 has been subscribed
and $11,000 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The American Merchandis-
ing Corporation, has been incorporated
to deal in hosiery, gloves, underwear
and kindred lines, with an authorized
capital stock of $300,000 preferred and
4,000 shares at $1 per share, of which
amount $30,000 and 4,000 shares has
been subscrived and $34,000 paid in in
cash.

Detroit—The Karp Coal & Ice Co.
has merged its business into a stock
company under the syle of the Karp
Brother Coal & Ice Co., 3900 Orleans
street, to conduct a wholesale and re-
tail business, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $50,000, all of which has
been subscribed, $917.12 paid in in cash
and $23,082.88 in property.

Grand Rapids—The Furniture City
Oil Co., S. E. corner Pearl street and
Ionia avenue, has been incorporated to
deal in gasoline, oils, confectionery,
cigarettes, and auto accessories at
wholesale and retail with an authorized
capital stock of $20,000, all of which
‘as ‘een subscribed and paid in, $5,000
i =h and $5,000 in property.

Maskegon—The Roxana Petroleum
Corporation, of St. Louis, Mo., has
plans to build a storage and distribut-
ing plant on the shores of Muskegon
lake, to cost at least $100,000. The
site purchased is the old Crescent Co.
dock, just east of the Standard Oil
plant. Muskegon will be made the
distributing point for a large area.

St. Johns—Mark A. Norris has sold
his interest in the hardware stock of
Norris & Eldridge, to his partner,
Andrew Eldridge, who will continue
the business under his own name.
William Keck, who purchased the im-

p.enent stock of Norris & Eldridge,
ear.y this fall has now taken possession
of his stock and removed it to a store
on East Main street.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Grand Rapids — The Grande Brick
Co., Kalamazoo avenue, has increased
its capital stock from $75,000 to $100,-
000. .

Bronson—The H. A. Douglas Manu-
facturing Co., wholesale dealer in elec-
tric supplies, has increased its capital
stock from $400,000 to $500,000.

Detroit—Nichols & Co., Inc., 1158
Penobscott building, has been incor-
porated to manufacture and sell glass
and glass products, with an authorized
capital stock of $5,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Detroit—The James E. Smith Co.,
7338 Woodward avenue, has been in-
corporated to manufacture tools, etc.,
with. an authorized capital stock of
10,000 shares at $1 per share, of which
amount $6,000 has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Detroit Engineering &
Construction Co., 10 West Warren
avenue, has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of 10,000 shares
at $1 per share, of which amount 8,750
shares has been subscribed and $1,250
paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Falcon Motors Cor-
poration, Majestic building, has been
incorporated to manufacture and deal
in motor vehicles and accessories, with
an authorized capital stock of $2,000,-
000, all of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Lansing—R. E. Olds has designed a
revolving electric sign, which will be
placed on the Olds Hotel. .It is 30
feet long and projects 19 feet above
the roof of the pent house. The out-
side of the sign will travel at a speed
of fifteen miles per hour, so that it
may be read from any direction.

Detroit—The Nieloo Products Co.,
Inc., 5421 Cicotte avenue, has been in-
corporated to manufacture and_ sell
cosmetics, toilet articles, etc., with an
authorized capital stock of $100,000
and 10,000 shares at $1 per share, of
which amount $15,300 and 10,000 shares
has been subscribed and $15,300 paid
in in property.

Detroit—The Stover Remedy Co.,
proprietary medicines, cosmetics, toilet
and sanitary articles, has merged its
business into a stock company under
the style of Stover, Inc., 4621 Four-
teenth street., with an authorized cap-
ital stock of 10 shares at $100 per share,
all of which has been subscribed and
$1,000 paid in in cash.

Muskegon — Capitalization of the
Brunswick-Ewen Lumber Co., of Chi-
cago and Muskegon, will be increased
from $150,000 to $500,000. The com-
pany is a subsidiary of the Brunswick-
Balke Collender Co., which owns tim-
ber lands in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan from which much of the
supply of lumber used in the Muske-
gon plant of the company is obtained.

Mosherville—E. A. and M. K. Mor-
oss, owners of the flour mill at this
place, have started suit against Hills-
dale county for $20,000 damages for
alleged injury to property and loss of
busniess through the washing out of

December 15, 1926

the bridge at that point on Oct. 9. The
washout occurred when the sluiceway
was opened, the construction proving
unequal to the pressure. The water
backed up, flooding a large area and
the new concrete bridge was practically
destroyed.

Frankfort—J. C. Morgan & Sons, of
Traverse City, large canners of apple
and cider products who operated the
plant of the West Michigan Fruit
Products Co. the past summer at
Frankfort as the Crystal Canning Co.,
under lease from the State Savings
Bank, of Frankfort, have purchased
the property, assuring the permanency
of the institution to Frankfort. The
new owners will make extensive im-
provements and additions in the way
of up-to-date automatic machinery for
canning cherries, red_ raspberries,
blackberries, apples, peaches and other
fruits on a large scale. The Morgans,
who are leaders in their line, did not
get possession of the factory this year
until late and canned only cherries,
having a very successful and profitable
season. The change of ownership and
management is decidedly’ important
and will be of material benefit to the
fruit growers of Benzie and adjoining
counties.

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Boyne City as a Fur Market.

Boyne City, Dec. 14—Boyne City is
hardly in a location that would lend
itself to the collection and export of
furs. The hills and valleys give little
evidence of the abode of wild animals
and the immediate vicinity of civifiza-
tion, such as it is, would naturally tend
to drive away those beasts which are
supposed to have no love for the genus
homo. Still there is an active business
carried on in this town in the export
of furs. Last week a shipment of 537
pieces, valued around $8,000, was made
from this town and further shipment
will be made in the near future of
greater value. There were eleven va-
rieties, notable among them 189 wolf,
35 bob cat, 10 bear, 62 lynx and one
black fox. The remainder were made
up of fox, muskrat, badger, weasel,
coon and skunk.

We hear a good deale of talk of
what cannot be done. We are inclined
to think that it depends on the man
and his brains and get there. Alex
Heller seems to have both.

Charles T. McCutcheon.
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Floral decorations in homes and
churches are considered as necessary
in celebrating the Yuletide as the ex-
change of gifts or the consumption of
the historic turkey. Many persons
would regard that Christmas as dull
indeed without an adequate display of
holly and laurel, but few realize that
one thin yard of laurel uses up at least
twenty growths of one year each and
that a fair-sized wreath of holly is
made up of thirty or forty of the finest
berried twigs of an average of two
years’ growth. Floral conservationists
the country over have become alarmed
at the lavish use of these growths as
decorations during the Christmas holi-
days and have issued a warning that
the supply is in grave Mi cer of be-
coming exhausted before very many
years. The conservationists do not ad-
vocate the abandonment of these holi-
day decorations, but they point out
that the artificial substitutes are as
decorative and that their general use
will conserve these products of the
forests,

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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—Jobbers hold cane granu-
lated at 7.10c and beet granulated at
6.90c.

Tea—Prices are steady on_ all
growths and the imarket is seasonably
active.

Canned Vegetables—Among items
in the canned goods lines which have
prompted attention are peas. In the
case of peas, however, there has been
a decidedly irregular price tendency

as the extent of the 1926 pack has_

been repeatedly brought to the atten-
tion of the trade. The suggestion has
been heard that if the market during
the coming year lacks the power to
absorb the big pack it might be ad-
visable to restrict the acreage as well
as the size of the next pack. Shortage
of winter storage facilities has been a
factor of some moment in corn. It
has been difficult to place a finger on
definite price cutting but it is pretty
well known that canners were desir-
ous of making quick movement in
some lines in order to avert any loss-
es that might result from a freeze.
The strength which has been seen is
in sharp contrast to the balance of the
list of canned vegetables which were
in most instances packed in excess
last year.

Dried Fruits—Ten days ago dried
fruits showed more activity than has
been witnessed within the past week,
business during the latter interval hav-
ing dropped off to a replacement basis.
Interest has perhaps focused more on
foreign products than on California
items. In this connection the virtual
clearance of all the Greek Amalia cur-
rants that had been available below a
10c basis has been a feature of inter-
est and replacement cost has risen to

4 basis of 9¥%c, duty paid, delivered

dock. Under active buying for the
account of United Kingdom and Eu-
ropean buyers prices in the Greek mar-
kets rose sharply to 32s. Turkish figs
were in sharp contrast to currants in
that the principal factors reduced
prices sharply for the purpose of re-
ducing holdings before taking inven-
tories. This stimulated a good _ holi-
day movement, however. Interest in

_ California raisins has been maintained

at a high pitch, with bakers and con-
fectioners taking the wsual large quan-
tities. Sun-Maid’s nectars, confection-
ery type, 25-pounds wood, have been
going over good. The Coast markets
are steady and much of the firmness
seen there results from the steady sup-
port which foreign buyers are giving
the raisin market. The campaign look-
ing toward the popularization of prunes
to be launched early in 1927 is expect-
ed will promote consumption sub-
stantially, as it is well known that
prunes are one of the best items in
the dried fruit line adaptable to this
purpose. The general feeling is that
the effort to place more prunes on the
Nation’s dining tables will be produc-
tive of good results.

Canned Fish—Seldom is there any
important movement in canned fish
staples at this season of the year but
during the last week the routine of
the market was materially relieved by
reports of active buying of canned

lobster in the ‘Canadian province of

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New Brunswick for the account of the
United Kingdom and Continental Eu-
ropean buyers. Buyers appear to have
been off the salmon market, however.
At any rate pink salmon at $1.25 be-
came an actuality during the week as
offers of pinks in combination with
chums appeared at this figure. How-
ever the question of quality entered
largely into this matter as it was said
that offers at $1.25 basis originated

from central Alaska, whereas first
quality stock originating just across
the Canadian border were generally
held for $1.35.

Molasses—Demand for New Or-
leans molasses continues good and
Standing contracts are being filled

from supplies of the new crop which
has begun to arrive. New contracts
are being placed at the present level
of prices and the business placed is in
fairly large quantities.
Nuts—Ordering has been going on
at a rapid rate and the supplies of not
a few nuts are entirely exhausted. The
popularity of Brazil nuts has been at-
tested in the past few weeks and
stocks of those at the present time
are extremely limited. The Christmas
demand for the extra types has been
unusually good. The sales of filberts
have been large, as is customary in
December. A pronounced scarcity has
been evident in all walnuts for weeks.
The usual quotas were not to be had
from either Mediterranean points or
California. Almonds on the other hand
have been in more liberal supply, and
while intimations have gone out that
Prices could perhaps be shaded to
some extent no cutting of any im-
portance has actually occurred.
Cheese—The market rules firm un-
der limited supply and moderate de-
mand. Fair trading is reported on the
various styles with bulk of cheese
moving into regular trade channels.
Provisions — Colder weather has
stimulated the demand for cured pork

products. The market is reported
strong.
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Review of the Produce Market.
Apples — Wagners and Baldwins

command 75c@$1.25 per bu.; Northern
Spys, $1.50; Delicious in boxes, $3.75.
Bagas—Canadaian, $1.75 per 100 Ibs.
Bananaas—8@8'%4c per lb.
Bagas—Canadian, $1.75 per 100 Ibs.
Bananas—8@8%c per Ib.
Beans—Michigan jobbers are quot-
ing as follows:

© i. Pea Bejns $5.25
Tight Red Kidney 8.75
Dare Med Kidney 8.00

Beets—$1 per bu.

Butter—The market is lower. Job-
bers hold fresh packed at 51c, prints
at 53c and June packed at 45c. They
pay 25c for packing stock.

Carrots—$1.25 per bu.

Cauliflower—$2.25 per doz.

Celery—Home grown, 30@75c per
doz.; Rough California $5 per crate.

Cocoanuts—$1 per doz.

Cranberries—$5.50 for Late Howes.

Cucumbers—$3 per doz. for South-
ern hot house.

Eggs—Local jobbers are paying 50c
this week for strictly fresh. Cold
Storage operators quote storage eggs
as follows:

Papel te RGNN es es 39c

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Pe ee 37¢
CCOUGG 35c
Cracks and ditties 9220 2 J2¢

Egg Plant—$1.50 per doz.

Garlic—35c per string for Italian.

Grape Fruit—$3.75@4 per crate for
Floridas.

Grapes—Calif. Emperors, $5.75 per
keg.

Green Onions—Chalots, 90c per doz.
bunches.

Honey Dew Melons—$3 per crate for
either 6, 8, 9 or 12.

Lemons—Quotations are now as fol-
lows:

GUO -Gaukis( 63 $6.00
O00 Rea Ball 2 5.50
S00 Ned Ball 5.00

Lettuce—In good demand on _ the
following basis:
California Iceberg, 4s, per bu.__$4.50
Hot house leaf, per Ib. __________ 10c
Onions—Home grown, $2.25 per 100
Ib. sack; Spanish, $2.50 per crate.
Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Navels are now on the following basis:

be ee ae $4.50
3S eG eS ee 5.00
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Te 5.75
Lia see Vea eee Nas ace 7.00
Oe feo
OO 7.29
os Pic Sh es 4.25
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6 Ca a a a ete 7.29

Sunkist Red Ball, 50c cheaper.

Floridas are sold on the following
basis:

LO ee eee ee $5.75
AG 6.00
SO Gs a ae 6.00
76 6.00
OO ee 6.00
NG ie 6.09
Boe eee 5.50
CO 5.50
Pe "ell ioe ue Ra eee ag 25

Parsnips—$1.50 per bu.

Pears—$3 per crate for Calif.; Kie
fers, $1 per bu.

Peppers—Green, 60c per doz.

Potatoes—$1.70@1.80 per 100 Ibs.
Market steady.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows this week:

Eleagy fowls 2220000 23c
Escne fowle oe 20c
Springers, 4 Ibs. and up —_----_- 23c
Turkeys (fancy) young ________ 37c
Lurkey (Old. Fons)... 30c
Ducks (White Pekins) _.__-______ 24c
OO 20c

Radishes—75c per doz. bunches for
hot house.

Spinach-——$1.50 per
grown.

Squash—$1.25 per bu. for Hubbard.

String Beans—$3 per hamper.

Sweet Potatoes—$1.85 per hamper
for Delaware kiln dried.

bu. for Texas

Tomatoes—Southern stock, $1.20 per
7 |b. basket.

Veal Calves—Wilson & Company
pay as follows:
Raney 2 14@14%
CeO ee 13c
Median (ee ee 12c
ROO tc ea 09c

Wax Beans—$3 per hamper for
Florida.

  

 

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Sidelights on Life at St. Augustine.

St. Augustine, Florida, Dec. 11—It
is remarkable how hotel life has
changed. Where formerly the guests
would come and settle down for the
season, now they drive up with their
cars, stay for a meal or two or spend
a night or two, and off they go. It
must be hard for the inn keeper to
regulate the business.

One of the guests here, Mr. Hunt,
on reading the Tradesman, said my ar-
ticle reminded him of a joke. A fellow
said to a girl, “May I kiss you?” and
she answered “Cafeteria” (help your-
self).

Work on a stretch of highway pav-
ing which will shorten the distance to
St. Augustine from Jacksonville by
about three miles will begin in a few
days, Dr. Fons A. Hathaway, State
highway chairman, declared here to-
day. The roadway includes a small
stretch in Duval county. Contracts
were let for the work a short time ago.

One of the most common of the
Marine quaternary deposits is the Co-
quina, which occurs at various points
along the coast. This consists of a
mass of more or less water-worn shells,
cemented by calcium carbonate. The
amount of cement is seldom great
enough to close the openings ‘between
the individual shells, though in some
localities the process of cementation
has proceeded far enough to produce
a rather compact fossiliferous lime-
stone. There is usually more or less
sand present, which is commonly in
the form of thin laminae separting the
shell beds, and various graduations
from sand-rock to shell-rock may be
noted along the Florida coast.

This rock was described by several
of the earlier writers on the geology
of the State. The following account
is from a paper published by Jas.
Pierce in 1825. (Amer. Journal of
Science, Ist series. Vol IX, 1825, p-
123.)

“Extensive beds of shell rock, of a
peculiar character, occupy the borders
of the ocean, in various places from
the river St. Johns to Cape Florida.
They are composed of unmineralized
marine shells, of species common to
our coast. mostly small bivalves, whole
and in minute division, connected by
calcereous cement. I examined this
rock on the isle of AnastaSia, opposite
St. Augustine, where it extends for
miles, rising twenty feet above the sea,
and of unknown depth. It has been
penetrated about thirty feet. In these
quarries, horizontal strata of shell rock
of sufficient thickness and solidity for
good building stone, alternate with
narrow parallel beds of larger and
mostly unbroken shells. but slightly
connected. Hatchets are used in squar-
ing the stone. Lime is made from this
material, of a quality inferior to ordi-
nary stone lime.

“The large Spanish fort (the fort
referred to is the one now known as
Fort Maraion), and most of the public
and private buildings of St. Augustine,
are constructed of this stone. The
rock extends in places into the sea,
with superincumbent beds of new
shells of the same character.”

L. Winternitz.

—_——.
In Meat Business Thirty-three Years.
Ann Arbor, Dec. 14—I was in the
retail meat business thirty-three years
in one place on Broadway and Wall
streets. I retired over a year ago.
Archie Moyer is renting the market.
His address is corner of Wall and
Broadway, Ann Arbor. Any good re-
tail merchant ought to be a member
of the Retail Grocers & Generai Mer-
chants Association. George Spathelf.
—_——_—-———___
Belding—Clyde A. Knapp, former
mayor of this city who has headed the
E. J. Knapp company, a local paint
manufacturing concern for twenty-one
years, has disposed of his interests to

his brothers, C. H. and Clifford Knapp.

  

 

 

6

REAL FACTS ABOUT FLORIDA.

 

Good Place For Those With Inde-
pendent Incomes.

What are the facts about the pre-
vailing conditions, past and present of
Florida? Many who have. never trav-
eled over the State would undoubtedly
like to know, providing it did not take
too much time to find out.

There has been a great deal writ-
ten about Florida and there is a great
deal being written now. Some of it is
true, and much of it is based on tradi-
tion and a desire of real estate men of
doubtful reputations to divest suckers
from other states and countries of
their wealth in exchange for what, up
to this writing, is more than worthless
land. Much of this land may through
the liberal use of capital some day be
made productive. They who can look
into the future far enough to imagine
the time must be equ'pped with the
brains of the most enthusiastic sky
gazers, when a large percentage of it
is under consideration.

Up to and including the year 1926,
the man or woman without a regular
income who has purchased a small
patch of land from the regular conven-
tional land shark with ideas of pro-
ducing vegetables and eggs for the
New York and Boston market, either
in the old pinerys or everglades of
Florida, paid a third down and signed
a contract agreeing to pay ten times
the value of the land and get a deed,
will soon find that a graveyard has
been developed for his or her am-
And in thousands and thou-
sands of cases he or she has flown
back from “whence comest thou” on
the wings of charity, said wings hav-
ing been furnished by the honest and
thrifty people of Florida. The oppor-
tunities of performing acts of charity
are no novelty to them.

If it was not for the charity of sub-
stantial citizens of Florida in helping
deluded land purchasers from other
states back from whence they came,
their bones would be bleaching on the
sands and in the everglades in: as
great profusion as the bones of the ex-
in evidence on the

bitions.

tinct buffalo are
great Western planes.

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is all

Now I am not going to
word against Florida. Florida
right, if dealt with as her Creator in-

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MICHIGAN

dotted with inland lakes, surrounded
by hills and valleys. Magnificent
water for bathing and with wells that
afford the finest drinking water in the
world. Not more than two or three
days in the year does the sun fail to
appear some time during the day. The
average days of winter are around 70
above, with comfortably cool evenings
nights for
July and August in Michigan. Great
place for people of means to maintain

and sleeping. Same as

winter homes and many are doing it,
and developing beautiful and produc-
tive orange and c'trus groves. During
the late real estate jazz they built
enough business places and hotels to
fill the demands for the next five years.
If any man wants to establish a win-
ter home in Florida, now is the best
time in the world. A man with a busi-
ness head can buy for cash at reason-
able prices If he has not the cash or
a substantial income from back home
he had better not winter in Florida.
Of course, I except those who supply
the winter dwellers and help take care
of them and transact the public busi-
ness, etc. There are plenty of them
already here for the present.

The plague that rests on Florida and
has since Andrew Jackson took pos-
session of it is the unscrupulous real
estate operator. History says he was
with Jackson when he came to Florida
and has been here ever since. Florida
did not produce him He came from
other states and countries, like the
canker on the orange tree. He induces
the sucker with little means to buy
small tracts of raw land or vacant lots
far from civilization in the old pinery
or everglades, paying one-third down
of a price about 100 times the actual
value and a contract due in two years
for the balance. They agree to sell the
lot or lots for him in a short time at
a nice profit. They make him believe
he can make a living growing vege-
tables off the raw land How soon he
starves out depends on how long his
friends back home send him money.

Settlers of long experience and cap-
ital are some of them living by truck
gardening in the winter resort sections
of Florida. The most of them still
have resources back home. Rex Beach
is farming not far from Sebring and
they say he is making a b‘g success of
it by applying what he receives from

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income from back home and sufficient
common sense to be able to handle it
judiciously. In other words, keep the
bird dogs from getting the most of
it. That same rule applies everywhere.

The Highlands of Florida, extend-
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Ho, brother, it’s the handclasp and the
good word and the smile

That does the most and helps the most
to make the world worth while!

It’s all of us together, or it’s only you
and I—

A ringing song of friendship,
heart beats high;

A ringing song of friendship, and a word
or two of cheer,

Then all the world is gladder and the
bending sky is clear!

and the

It’s you and I together—and we’re broth-
ers one and all

Whenever through good fellowship we
hear the subtle call,

Whenever in the ruck of things we feel
the helping hand

Or see the deeper glow that none but we
may understand—

Then all the world is good to us and all
is worth the while;

Ho, brother, it’s the handclasp and the
good word and the smile!

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December 15, 1926

Tribute to Memory of Thomas Mc-
Intosh, of Ludington.

We have lost a good man. Men
such as Mr. McIntosh are not born
every day. I heard much good of Mr.
McIntosh before his death. Folks have
a way of telling the minister about the
members in the church and I was told
by many that “Here was a man we
could tie to. He is a man of great
value to the church.” I feel a deep
and personal loss in the death of Mr.
McIntosh, as I had already planned
to use him in carrying out our program
in this organization. I am very sure
that our church has sustained a great
loss in the passing of this, one of our
faithful members. If we desired to
eulogize, here would be ample oppor-
tunity, a man of sterling character, a
man whose life was above reproach.
A life which reflected something of
the glory of his Christ. A man loved
and esteemed by family and his friends
and the citizens of this community.
A man who amid all the trying diffi-
culties of life—and he had his share—
faced all of them courageously and
with Christian faith. But we are not
here to praise his deeds. He is to be
remembered by what he has done.
How well this is expressed for us in
this hymn:

Up and away like the dew of the morning,

Soaring from earth to its home in the sun;

Thus would I pass from earth and its
toiling,

Only remembered by what I have done.

Shall I be missed if another succeeds me

roe fields I in spring time have

No, for the sower may pass from his
labors

Only remembered by what he has done.
Only the truth that in life I have spoken,
Only the seed that on earth I have sown

These shall pass onward when I am for-
gotten

Fruits of the harvest and what I have
done.

O, when the Saviour shall make up His
jewels

When the bright crowns of rejoicing are
won,

Then will his faithful and weary disciples
All be remembered by what they have
done.

Let us then look to ourselves and
make good use of the time that is
ours. We are called upon now to
exercise our faith.

All life requires faith. Everywhere
and under all circumstances we must
live by faith, The higher we rise in
the scale of life the greater and the
more profound must be that faith.

Great men have always given ex-
pression to their faith.

The faith of our fathers, in religion,
in the early Christian church. :

The faith that has kept the heart
from breaking and the fires of eternal
life burning in the human breast.

Faith that ultimately all will be made
all right. We cannot understand the
world in which we live to-day, but we
do believe that just because of our
God all will be all right. ‘.

This is no a passive submission on

our part, but an active reaching out
after the hand of the Eernal.

Faith that God will bring comfort
that He will care for his own.

That He will raise up someone to
take the place of our brother. This
should be a challenge to us.

 

MICHIGAN

Have faith, for this is the victory
that overcometh the world.
Wm. F. Heldstab,
Pastor Community Church.

—— 72> ___
When On Your Way, See Onaway.

Onaway, Dec. 14—Yes, and if you
happen along when there is a play on
at the high school auditorium (which
is quite frequently) don’t fail to secure
a seat. Should you make a wager as
to whether or not the actors and
actresses are amateurs or professionals
it might be decided in behalf of the
latter; for such was the verdict from
all who attended the three acts staged
last Friday by the order of the Eastern
Star. Business men took the leading
parts; cast aside their dignity; just
think, Jack Wright acting in comedy
and not a person in the audience
recognized him in his make-up. Dr.
F. Bruce surprised all his friends

in his role. Mrs. E. K. Shirtum, in-
Structor in high school and wife of our
undertaker, filled the part of an Irish
washerwoman so perfectly that the
building was in danger of being
wrecked from the applause rendered.
And we might go on all the way
through by naming Mrs. Taubert,
Master Odair, Mayor Ott, A. G. Aik-
ens, Carl McClutchy, Mrs. Buell Di-
vine, wife of the city clerk: Miss Iva
Dosie and Mrs. Grace Pregitzer in
her usual 100 per cent. perfection.
All acts were interspersed with fine
musical and vocal selections. The little
lady dancers set the audience wild and
the black face acts by Masters Preg-
itzer and Farrow were a scream. Rev.
Ainsworth and wife made a wonderful
hit with their singing and the male
quartet and lady singers completed the
program. Speak of talent, it is
nothing to have people who drive
twenty-five miles or more to attend
these plays. If not a play, it’s a sup-
per, carnival, food sale or something
equally attractive which keeps Ona-
way to the front as a live little city.

Judging from the traffic on the
streets there is no let-up in business
in this vicinity. A good price for all
farm products and plenty of demand.

The high price of coal has had its
effect on wood for fuel and the farm-
ers are marketing the choicest loads
of stove wood at fair prices and the
sleighing is in excellent condition for
hauling. '

F. L. Clash, of the Lobdell Emery
Manufacturing Co., of Alma, is seen
frequently upon our streets in the in-
terests of the above named company.

The logging train is hauling in big
loads of logs for the sawmill and rim
plant and every wheel in the factory
is turning. No shut downs.

Santa Claus undoubtedly has his eye
on Onaway, as usual, and the little
folks will not be disappointed, judging
from present conditions.

Loads of Christmas trees are being
shipped out; it is a debatable question
whether or not this should be per-
mitted. The time will come when it
must be stopped. Perhaps it’s too
early yet.

All home-comers have their eyes on
Onaway for Christmas. Here’s hop-
ing there may be no disappointments.

Squire Signal.
— 73>
Why Chocolate Turns White.

If a cake of chocolate appears white
on the outside this does not indicate
any harmful change in the chocolate.
It simply shows that the chocolate has
been kept in an over-warm place.
When pure chocolate is subjected to
too high a temperature, even above 80
degrees, Fahrenheit, it melts and the
fat rises to the surface. When the
temperature is lowered again this fat
hardens and: looks white in contrast to
the brown of the chocolate itself. This
does not injure it in any way for use.

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

©ttawa Hills

The Best Place in Grand Rapids
to Live

This growing residential enterprise stands out
pre-eminently the most attractive, desirable resi-
dence district of Grand Rapids. Its location
is Just right; not too far out or too close in.
Connecting, as it does, with Cambridge and Ply-
mouth Boulevards, it will be just as beautiful;
and, in fact, more so, because it will be much
larger than that lying between Sherman and
Franklin, and the prices at this time less than
half of the other. As it develops values will rise
rapidly.

Buying a lot in Indian Village Unit of Ottawa
Hills is absolutely as safe and staple an invest-
ment as buying gold dollars at fifty to seventy-
five cents on the dollar. Three homes already
started that will cost not less than $30,000 to
$40,000 each, and you know that makes values.
Fifty per cent of the north half of Indian Village
already sold and a number of resales have alr sady
taken place.

A number of Grand Rapids’ most enterprising
young men especially have purchased one or
more of these lots, both to build on and as an in-
vestment. What would be a more appropriate,
sensible, or staple investment than one of these
lots for a Christmas present. Live in Ottawa
Hills and your friends will envy you. It is going
to be unsurpassingly wonderful, in fact, incom-
parable.

The lots are good size and splendidly restricted,
featured especially with winding drives, adding
greatly to the scenic effect. Now is the time to
secure a lot before the prices go up. The terms
only 10% down and 1% a month. Any thrifty
young man could handle the proposition nicely.
This is straight, honest, conscientious advice.
Heed it and you will never regret it.

OTTAWA HILLS LAND
COMPANY

Call—FLETCHER REALTY COMPANY
304 Grand Rapids Trust Building
Phones 6-9424

 

 

 

       

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LIMITING PRESCRIPTIONS.

Of all the unpredictable consequenc-
es of the prohibition amendment and
the Volstead act the attitude of the
Supreme Court has proven the least
predictable.

The court has uniformly upheld the
act in ramifications which even the
stotutest prohibitionist would not have
claimed at its inception. Search and
seizure, double jeopardy, liquor on
American boats—all these points have
given the court occasion to extend the
prohibition powers in a way that has
been little short of amazing. It is the
more so when one remembers that no
written opinion was ever handed down
in the overruling of Mr. Elihu Root’s
argument on the fundamental theories
at issue.

In its latest decision the court fol-
lows its established course. Dr. Samuel
W. Lambert of New York in 1922
sought an injunction to determine
whether the Government had the right,
under the Volstead law, to limit the
quantity of whisky which may be pre-
scribed for patients by physicians. He
maintained through the lower courts
up to the highest tribunal that it is his
professional right and duty toward) his
patients to treat their diseases accord-
ing to his best skill and judgment, and,
to that end, to advise the use of such
medicine as is best calculated to effect
a cure. In this fight for principle Dr.
Lambert was formally backed by the
American Medical Association.

The Supreme Court now refuses to
admit this right of a physician. It
does so on the ground that limitation
of the amount of liquir which may be
prescribed for medical purposes is a
provision adopted to promote the pur-
poses of the Eighteenth Amendment.
This has been the standard which the
court has held in primary review in
previous rulings that seemed to clash
with established rights.

The country must accept the ver-
dict, of course. And it may take from
it the thought that whatever the pro-
hibitionists may say they cannot deny
that the Supreme Court has stood con-
sistently by them in upholding a full
and free test of this great experiment.
But that large body of middle opinion
which is gradually forming may well
ask itself whether it approves of the
Federal Government’s going into the
profession of deciding upon the proper
limitations for prescriptions to the sick.

SEE

THE COTTON PROBLEM.

If to an estimate of ten or twelve
million bales of cotton a later one
made an addition of two or three hun-
dred thousand bales, the result would
be very manifest in the price quota-
tions. But when, as was the case dur-
ing the past week, an addition of about
the quantity stated was made to a pre-
diction of over 18,000,000 bales, result
was quite negligible. Nobody appear-
ed to be excited about it because it did
not materially change conditions. The
problem still remains as to what is to
become of the great supply. With
cotton as cheap as it is, there is no
doubt that more use will be made of
it and for more purposes and, in the
end, what at first sight seemed a mis-
fortune may work out for a lasting
good. An encouraging sign is the dis-

position to make the best of the situa-_

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

tion. For the future the most hope-
ful determination is to plant fewer
acres to cotton and to grow more and
better cotton to the acre. If this is
done the price will cut less figure and
the outcome will be a profit. The final
estimate of the crop will have a de-
cided effect so far as the goods market
is concerned. Both buyers and sellers

of cottons have been awaiting it so as -

to discover a safe and stable trading
basis. The immediate effect was not
especially marked because of the season
of the year, but it will be more appar-
ent in a few weeks, when the bulk of
the buying will be in progress. Gray
goods continue to show a softening
tendency, but the trading in them is
light. Gingham prices have been made
on the existing basis to continue under
guarantee to April 1. This action is
similar to that taken recently with
regard to printed goods. Lower levels
have been fixed for tickings and towel-
ings. Prices for denims will probably
soon be set to correspond with the
lower cost of cotton and there will be
other reductions of the same kind.
Heavyweight underwear offerings will
be priced this week. The reductions
expected are from 10 to 12 per cent.

WHY CHAFLIN RETIRED.

A chapter in merchandising closed
with the recent dissolution of the old
Chaflin house. It had been the largest
and was the last of the National dry
goods jobbing concerns in New York
City. When it began its existence re-
tailers from all over the country went
to market twice a year to replenish
their supplies and at the same time to
get acquainted with the newest in piece
goods, notions, etc. It was before the
time of the development of the gar-
ment industry and when dresses and
other articles of women’s garb were
usually of home manufacture with the
occasional aid of a seamstress. After
a while, as the country developed, big
jobbing houses were established in oth-
er cities, notably in Chicago and St.
Louis. Then many retailers found it
more convenient to patronize the con-
cerns nearer their respective locali-
ties. A great deal of the trade of
the Mississippi Valley was lost to New
York City in spite of the efforts of
traveling salesmen from that market.
In the same way the South and the
Pacific Coast States had dry goods job-
bing houses established within their
boundaries to care for their own re-
tailers. Then it became only a ques-
tion of time for the local jobbers of
New York City to restrict their terri-
tories or to go out of business. Most
of them chose the former alternative
and are still continuing at it. What
has hastened the result was the change
in the methods of buying from the
former method of ordering far in ad-
vance. Now retailers are obliged to go
to the market more frequently and
their purchases are rarely in advance
of current needs. For this kind of
trading the local jobber is found to be
the most convenient.

CONFIDENCE IN THE COURTS.

An interesting aspect of the increas-
ed public confidence in the courts was
pointed out by Gilbert H. Montague
in his recent address before the Amer-

 

 

-ican Bar Association. He recalled the

widespread feeling in 1914 that the
courts were not and could not be ex-
pert bodies for the handling of anti-
trust problems. A different kind of
agency was thought to be required.
Out of this belief grew the Clayton
act and the Federal Trade Commission.

The Commission, it was thought,
would be of value in approaching anti-
trust questions from the economic
standpoint. But what has happened?
In so far as the Commission has fol-
lowed legal tradition, it has succeeded.
When it has departed from legal tradi-
tion and attempted to strike out on
new lines, it has failed because it has
not had the support of either the courts
or public copinion. Finally the Com-
mission has accepted this situation and
has revised its procedure to correspond
with conditions which it found could
not be changed.

One reason for this triumph of the
courts is the way in which the famous
“rule of reason” has worked. Persons
on each side of the anti-trust fence
have discovered thaf the rule is thor-
oughly practical and that the courts
are able to apply it as well as a com-
mission could. In addition, the De-
partment of Justice has greatly in-
creased the efficiency of its anti-trust
bureau, so that cases which in 1914
were thought to be beyond its reach
are now settled both promptly and
thoroughly.

The Federal Trade Commission has
enough to keep to busy, but it is evi-
dently not going to supplant the courts.

 

 

WOOLS AND WOOLENS.

Varied reports have come from the
auction sales of wool in progress in
different places. The most reliable ap-
pear to show that the sagging in prices
still continues. A feature of the sales
at London has been the large amount
of withdrawals of offerings for want
of adequate bids. In this country the
sales which have taken place lately
have been mostly in the buyers’ favor.
Purchasers do not seem to be eager
unless prices are to their liking and
they are fully aware of the fact that
they can get supplies whenever they
need them. That there is no likeli-
hood of a slump is due to the fact that
large stocks existent are still strongly
held. This condition of the raw ma-
terial market prompts the general be-
lief that there is no probability of a
rise in prices of woolens for the next
heavyweight season and that the
chances rather favor a slight recession.
It will, however, be after the begin-
ning of the new year before the for-
mal openings of fabrics for next fall
and winter take place. Meanwhile,
there is much ordering yet to be done
on spring goods, the bulk of which
will be sought in the next month or
two. In the women’s wear lines there
is still some uncertainty as to the pros-
pects because of the labor situation.
This ought, however, to be settled
within a short time. In any event, with
the “inside” shops being now free of
labor troubles, there will be little dif-
ficulty in sufficient supplies being avail-

able when the selling season starts.
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There is no better ballast for keep-
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December 15, 1926

PRICE REDUCTION.

Is there any significance in the gen-
eral course of prices which the raw
materials of the textiles are showing?
Put in another way, the question would
be whether the prevailing weakness in
such prices is merely temporary and
the result of simultaneous overproduc-
tion or whether it marks a trend that
is likely to be permanent? It just so
happens that, with a record crop of
cotton, there is also one of jute and
that the supplies of wool and raw silk
are exceedingly abundant. The same
thing is true of the latest of the fibers,
formerly called artificial silk and now
becoming more generally known as
rayon, the prices of which have also
been sharply reduced. That all these
reductions should follow one another
has set some people to thinking. It
has been felt that prices of commodi-
ties in general have been too high,
never having recovered from the in-
flation of the war period. Sooner or
later, most people are convinced. must
come a downward trend. As in move-
ments of this kind in the past, changes
in prices of commodities do not come
together at the same time for all of
them. It would be manifest in some
one or special group of them, with
more or less resistance from the oth-
ers, until finally practically all of them
were realigned at ratios which experi-
ence had shown to ‘be logical and just.
Has this process begun with the textile
raw materials or are the present hap-
penings merely fortuitous?

 

 

LARGER THAN LAST YEAR.

Buying of holiday and gift goods
at retail continues to be the principal
feature in mercantile business all over
the country. With few and unimpor-
tant exceptions the reports from dif-
ferent centers agree in stating that the
volume of trading is larger than was
the case last year and that the pros-
pects for a good season are very. fav-
orable. The recent cold snap brought
with it also a call for warmer gar-
ments in both cloth and fur and stimu-
lated the men’s wear trade in under-
wear, overcoats, mufflers and gloves.
At the same time it served as a re-
minder to those who are given to pass-
ing the winter away from cold clim-
ates and whose thoughts are now turn-
ing to apparel suitable for Southern
resort wear. In the primary markets,
meanwhile, the usual dullness incident
to this time of year is broken into by
numerous although small orders, most-
ly for filling-in purposes. It is recog-
nized that the bulk of the buying for
spring and beyond must be left until
after the turn of the year, when retail
demand will be more pronounced than
it is and when greater stability in val-
ues can be assured. About the only
thing on which all factors seem agreed
is that there is no prospect of a change
in the cautious buying policy which
fas been the rule for several years
past, and this betokens a rather long
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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OUT AROUND.

 

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

I was very much disturbed last
week over the receipt of news of a
sinister character regarding a friend
who has gone out of his way on many
occasions to do me a good turn, so
when it came time to take to the coun-
try Saturday noon, I hastened to make
a flying trip to Nashville. Word had
reached me from several sources that
Hon. Cassius L. Glasgow, the well
known hardware dealer, legislator and
would-be governor, was dangerously
ll with the flu; that if I ever expected
to see him alive it would be advisable
o make the pilgrimage at once. Act-
ing on this information, I disregarded
the advice of my friends and defied the
slippery pavements and icy hills which
confronted me on the fifty-two mile
stretch from Grand Rapids to Nash-
ville. Notwithstanding the uncertain
condition of the roads, I covered the
distance in two hours. I was re-
joiced to find that my long-time friend
had been snatched from the embrace
of the death angel and was behind the
ccunter of his hardware store, dealing
out shingle nails with one hand and
solid silver Christmas presents with
the other.
he had been a pretty sick man and that
the attending physician had hinted
that it might be advisable to summon
his legal advisor and have his will
brought down to date. It was also ob-
served that the local undertaker came
around by the Glasgow residence on
his way down town twice a day and
smiled with inward joy and an air of
outward satisfaction as he passed the
home of the sick man. Despite such
sinister suggestions and ‘the alluring
picture the beloved pastor of the fam-
ily painted of the eternal joys of the
Other World, where harps with solid
gold frames can be purchased on the
installment plan and gubernatorial can-
didates are never disappointed in their
ambitions, my friend concluded to
defer his departure from the scene of
his earthly activities, enjoyments, ac-
complishments and victories until some
future time—all of which will be wel-
come information to his friends and

mae

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unwelcome news to his enemies, if
there are any such animals.

Mr. Glasgow contracted a cold while
attending the funeral and burial of his
life-long friend, Frank E. Strong, the
Battle Creek hardware dealer. The
ailment soon took the form of the flu,
and might have terminated fatally but
for the iron clad determination of the
patient to stay above ground until he
has served the Michigan Retail Hard-
ware Association one term as Presi-
dent, for which he is slated to be
elected at the annual meeting to be
held in Grand Rapids next February.
t is possible, of course, that he may
have had some other ulterior reason
for deferring his flight to the Celestial
Shore, but in the absence of definite
knowledge on that point the reason
given is sufficient to account for his
corcluding to remain the first citizen
of Nashville for a few years longer.

My next call was on Len W. Feigh-
ner, who has conducted the Nashville
News ever since 1884—one year less

He modestly admitted that -

than I have published the Tradesman.
The approach to the office was so
slippery that I promised him faithfully
I would never call on him again dur-
ing the winter season. This will be
a great deprivation to me, because I
just naturally warm up to any man
who can conduct a country newspaper
in a masterly manner forty-two years
and still retain the friendship and
hearty good will of every person in the
neighborhood. If there is another
newspaper man in Michigan who has
worked harder and accomplished more
than Mr. Feighner, considering the
field he covers and the conditions sur-
rounding him, I would like to have
his photograph. For two years Mr.
Feighner has served the Michigan
Press Association in the capacity of
Field Director, which means that he
has been able to assist over 200 of his
fraters to “see the light” and to induce
them to make such changes in their
business methods that they now take
rank with bankers, merchans and other
successful business men. The work has
been conducted so quietly and effec-
tively that few men outside of the
editorial fraternity have realized the
ground gained, the obsolete methods
discarded and the advanced ideas put
into practice. Mr. Feighner has proved
to be an inspiring leader—a modern
Moses leading his associates out of the
wilderness. He is fortunate in having
in his organization men who have been
with him for years and who carry on
the work of getting out the News in
his absence in such a way that the
good people of Nashville hardly note
the absence of their editorial leader.

Before returning home I undertook
to cross the threshold of every other
Tradesman reader, but most of them
were so busy waiting on customers
that I did not have the heart to dis-
urb them.

I found Frank Caley, the corner
general dealer, in a somewhat
exuberant mood over the reputation
his 17 year old daughter enjoys as a
cookery expert. For ten years she
has received a blue ribbon at the
county fair on everything she has en-
tered in the pastry line—a remarkable
record for one so young.

store

Nashville has long been regarded
as one of the strongest towns of its
size in the State. Her merchants, as
a class, have always taken high rank.
Her factories have always turned out
meritorious products. Her creamery
and maple sugar and syrup plant en-
joy a wide reputation. There is little
poor soil in the vicinity of Nashville
and the farming community is above
the average in point of stability and
intelligence. Saturday afternoon the
main street was lined on both sides
with automobiles, trucks and teams—
mostly automobiles—and the occu-
pants of the vehicles filled the stores
to overflowing.

My first visit to Nashville was about
fifty years ago. I recall the circum-
Stances distinctly because I found a
remarkably good hotel conducted by
a deaf man whose name I cannot now
recall. Strange to say, no one in
Nashville to whom I mentioned the
matter can recall the name, which re-
minds me of the lamentation of the

poet that we are “so soon forgotten
when we're gone.”

I recall with much pleasure a visit
to Nashville about twenty years ago
when I acted as toastmaster at a ban-
quet tendered Senator Chas. E. Town-
send while he was still a member of
the House of Representatives. I re-
member that Mr. Townsend was some-
what staggered by the introduction I
gave him, but he soon rallied and gave
me all I had coming. We became very
good friends later and frequently en-
joyed a good laugh over the Nashville
“episode,” as he called it. Unlike our
present representatives in the upper
house of Congress, Senator Townsend
always acted on the assumption that
it was his duty to correctly and effec-
tively interpret the needs and require-
ments of his constituents, which he
succeeded in doing to a remarkable de-
gree. Our present incumbents in the
Federal Senate appear to assume that
they must affront every cherished idea
entertained by the constituents they
thus misrepresent, thereby placing
Michigan in a false light before the
American people. Mr. Townsend
was a worthy prototype of Carl Mapes
of the Fifth Congressional district.

A couple of miles North of Nash-
ville there is a steep hill, on a portion
of which the roadbed is covered with
very glary ice. We met several road
workers widening the snow line with
scrapers and shovels, but no one
seemed to have gumption enough to
scatter a little sand or gravel on the
only place on the highway where the
going was treacherous. The least de-
flection from a straight course would
have put us in the ditch. Perhaps it
‘s expecting too much of road workers
to ask them to work with their heads
as well as their hands. E. A. Stowe.

——_>2>______
Why So Much Slang?

The Teutonic peoples used to believe
in gnomes, trolls and kobolds, mis-
chievous forest spirits and house spirits
who made things go wrong both at
home and abroad.

I wonder if America is not infested
with slang gnomes and kobolds who
play pranks with the pens, typewriters
and vocal chords of high and low,
rich and poor, educated and unedu-
cated, and American,
young and old, speak and write slang
on all occasions; yes, on the solemn
as well as on the playful occasion.

make every

This conjecture of mine has been
evoked by reading an excellent article
on an idealistic subject by a contem-
porary writer who possesses the true
writer's gift and “the pen of the ready
writer’ but who nevertheless mars his
work by a free use of such words and
expressions as “geezer, “shakes a
wicked Waterman,” “I'll say he can,”
“boob,” “piffle,’ “bone” (for dollar),
etc.

Now this writer is an educated man
and a gifted man. Why, then, does
he use slang? Apparently to secure
a humorous effect and also an effect
of homely force. By mixing slang with
literary English the secures (by the
methods of contrast) a certain humor-
ous effect and by this use of slang, the
language of uneducated, vulgar per-
sons who are swayed by their emo-
ttons, he secures an effect of seeming

force, for slang is the attempt of an
uneducated man to say things force-
fully and graphically.

I admit that on occasions when hu-
morous effects are desired, an educated
speaker or writer may employ slang
with some employ it
judiciously. But
should be avoided like the plague.

Those who think that slang gives
force to speech and writing should
consider that the force of slang is only
the force of the uneducated or vul-
gar man who uses it.

If such a man had an extensive

grace if he

ordinarily slang

vocabulary and an easy command of
language, he would not use slang (un-
less he were an innately vulgar man)
because he would feel no necessity to
use it. He would find that good, legi-
timate English words would do him
better service than slang words, just
finds that well-drilled
better service

as a general
regular soldiers give
than hirelings,
riff-raff and rag and bobtail. Bunyan’s
“Pilgrim’s Progress” is a standing ex-
ample of the supreme force of simple,
Anglo-Saxon words. and
“Here will I spill thy sou!,”
said Apollyon. How much stronger
this is than “Here will I bump you
off’ (though perhaps the two terms
are not quite equivalent in meaning).
Siang words are something like par-

mercenaries and the

homely
idioms.

venus in society. If they do not die
out in the meantime, they must wait
a few generations before being admit-
ted into good society.
Charles Hooper.
—_2--~-___

Relief for the farmer through legis-
lation is not nearly the simple matter
it appears at a_ glance, particularly
when it takes the form of price fixing
under one guise or another. There is
the consumer to consider as well as
the producer. Since cotton is so much
to the fore just now, it is interesting
to look at some of the aspects of the
present situation of the staple. The
South’s tremendous surplus this year
has brought about a stabilization of
prices at a low figure, probably six
cents a pound under the actual cost of
production. The textile industry,
which has had a bad time of it through
recent years of relatively short crops
and high prices, now finds its pros-
pects bright because it can buy cheap
at a reasonably fixed price and at the
same time be assured of plentiful sup-
plies. Eventually this situation will re-
sult in lower prices for cotton goods,
with increased consumption, promising
steady work for the mills over an ex-
tended period. The point of the mat-
ter is this: If the price of cotton is
fixed according to the farmer's figures,
and these will not permit the manu-
facturer a reasonable profit, thus event-
ually taking away the market for the
farmer's products, where does the
“relief”? so much discussed come in?
Legislative trifling with economic
laws under political pressure cures no
evils; it is much more likely to make
them worse. Farm relief needs to
take into consideration much more
than a merely temporary _ situation,
however bad it may appear at the mo-
ment.

—__+-~>—____

Silence may be ignorance as well as

wisdom,

 

 

 

SHOE MARKET

Colors For Spring Footwear.

The correct colors for spring foot-
wear and varied hues that will be car-
ried through by the leading costumers
of the country as well as hosiery and
millinery designers and creators, were
announced by President Ebbs at the
convention from the report received
from Margaret Hayden Rorke, noted
color authority, who was unable to
attend the convention.

Miss Rorke in her report which
may be regarded as the most authentic
color schedule presented, declared:

“The most important factor in
spring and summer footwear will be
color. Soft modulated shades will be
in vogue. Pastel parchment, shell
gray, roseblush, stone and stroller tan
will form basic color theme and will
harmonize with all fashionable gar-
ment and millinery colors.

“Spanish ‘raison, strictly novelty
color, should be discreetly used and
in moderation; very smart but blends
only with certain related tones and
cannot be considered a volume color.

“Hempstead brown excellent for
trimming lighter shades or for self-
tone shoe when dark brown is wanted
for contrast with light beige and wood
costume shades. Compose colorings
such as the grading of two and three
shades of one color also the combin-
ing of related color contrasts very im-
portant fashion note in costuming, Al-
so applies to footwear, therefore I can-
not emphasize too strongly necessity
of your careful study of artistic har-
monizing, blending and contrasting of
colors and materials in the shoe. Sim-
plicity and classic line keynote of pat-
tern thus demanding classic color in-
terpretation.

“Most fashionable garment colors
for spring and summer will be as fol-
lows: Blues from pale tints to navy,
stressing grayish, greenish and mauve
tones. Shell gray, pastel parchment,
roseblush and stone can be worn with
all fashionable blues. Stroller tan
smart with navy, also dark blue shoe
if used correctly. Light beiges and
sands of both rose and yellowish cast,
also rosey weod shade important. With
these, pastel, parchment, roseb!ush
and stone wll harmonize best. Good
contrasts are stroller tan, hempstead
brown, natural reptile browns and
Spanish raison. Warm rose shades,
light wine and dusty mauve tones will
be smart. With these can be worn
roseblush, shell grey, Stone and Span-
ish raison. Light greys promise well.
Shell or similar tones, reptile grey or
black are safest for harmony and con-
trast. Spanish raison and dark blue
shoe with grey garment can be smart
if used properly.

Light and medium greyish and blu-
ish green will continue fashionable for
daytime wear. With these roseblush,
shell grey, stone and stroller tan or
black are happiest combinations. Black
shoes can be worn with any color, but
is not smart unless it has a definie
color relationship with the ensemble
black in frocks, coats and millinery.
Still very chic, but will not affect de-
mand for colors.

Black and white combined will be
featured in entire costume, or com-

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

bined with one contrasting color note,
which can be shoe, hat or accessory.
The matching of shoe and handbag
important feature, also matching of
shoe with gloves or hat, but in har-
monious contrast to one color theme
in costume.

Leading evening colors are pinks,
pale blues, turquoise, light greens, soft
yellows and mauves, also all white, all
black, white and black combined, with
much gold and silver metal and bril-
liants in evening slippers, silver and
gold, also new opalescent effects will
be stressed.

Light and brilliant colored slippers
will form either monotone theme or
Startling contrast to gown. For sport
colors, soft light shades of blue, yel-
low, rose, gullin and melon shades,
also all white and white with contrast-
ing color will be featured.

Turquoise, blues, rosy orange shades
and reds will lead the brighter hues.
The all white shoe and white combined
with deft touches of black or color will
be used with the white costume or
sport shades. Pastel parchment will
be extremely smart, contrasting shoe
with white ensemble in all over shade
or combined wih color. It will also
blend with any of the soft sport colors.

I strongly urge that you stress im-
portance of featuring the right colors
for the right season. When prema-
turely launched, good colors can be
killed almost before born. Shades such
as pastel parchment, rose blush and
shell grey should be held in leash un-
til time is right for seasonable ex-
ploitation to consumer.

—_+--___

Offers New Outdoor “Watch.”

A new type of outdoor “watch,”
which is really a time compass, is
now being offered to the trade. It
is designed particularly for fishermen,
hunters, autoists, linemen and others
who spend considerable time out of
doors, and is said to be of especial
value to Boy Scouts. The time-telling
part of the device is based on the
sun dial and, once its simple methods
of use are learned, it is said to be
Possible to tell the time within five
minutes of the actual clock time. A
few plain directions, which are con-
tained in a booklet, which are con-
tained in a booklet supplied with the
device, make it poss'ble to calculate
time with it in any part of the coun-
try. When not in use it I'es flat in
a small, thin vest pocket. It is listed
at $24 a dozen, with substantial whole-
sale and retail discounts.

—_+--___
Holiday Demand Is Good.

Retailers of men’s haberdashery and
allied merchandise have little to com-
plain of in the hol'day business they
are doing. This is amply indicated in
the reorder business which has
reached manufacturers during the last
week or so. Neckwear is doing excel-
lently, according to all reports, while
the demand for shirts is rather satis-
factory. Silk house robes, smoking
jackets and negligee garments are
doing particularly well, the business in
them surpassing last year by a con-
siderable margin. Mufflers, hosiery,
gloves, novelty belt buckles and link
sets are likewise meeting with a call
that promises to continue active to the
end of the year.

Got Away.

An angry lady rushed into the Mar-
riage License Bureau. In her hand,
she bore a license. To the clerk she
said:

“Did you, or did you not, issue this
license for marrying me to Albert
Briggs?”

“Yes, I believe we did. Why?”

“Well, what are you going to do
about it?” she demanded, “he’s es-
caped!”

—_2-2.—__

Outside of William G. McAdoo,
who is making a life’s work of running
for the Presidency, the Democratic
party doesn’t seem to have anybody
who has achieved enough success in
the National field to entitle him to con-
sideration as a candidate for Presi-
dent. Naturally, the attention of the
pary leaders turns to the governors of
the various states. Of these Gover-
nor Smith as a possibility heads the
list. His claim to the nomination rests
upon the fact that he has been elected
governor four times—Peay of Tennes-
see, Donahey of Ohio and Ritchie of
Maryland. But if re-elections to ‘the
chief office of a state are to decide the
matter, the prize will have to go to
Hunt of Arizona. He has been elect-
ed governor six times. There are sev-

‘eral advantages in nominating a gov-

ernor for President. Eliminating pro-
hibition from the canvass, which dis-
creet politicians of both parties are
anxious to do, the views of such candi-
dates on national issues are so little
known that they require neither de-
fense nor explanations. The fact that
all of them were so poor before they
entered politics that they had to work
for their daily bread has a strong ap-
peal to the many others in that posi-
tion.
—— ~22-.—__

Of course, the Marlborough mar-
riage, with all its surroundings of titles
and wealth, is an affair thoroughly out
of the normal. It is thrown into a high
relief that makes anything connected
with it a matter of impassioned noto-
riety. For this reason, assumptions are
made on each side that cannot be held
valid in a calmer consideration of the
case. The Catholic church, like any
other church, must have the right to
make its own rules as to the Spiritual
regulation of its communicants. It has
the right to consider the ecclesiastical
status of a Catholic husband married
by civil law to a divorced Protestant.
On the other hand, no relig‘ous de-
nomination can assume or be given the
power to set its law above that of the
state. There must be no misconcep-
tion about this. The decision of the
Rota cannot have the least bearing
upon the civil validity of a Matriage
performed under American law. A
decree of annulment by an ecclesiasti-
cal tribunal does not have and never
can have any standing whatever in our
courts of justice. The almost mediae-
val background of the case, with its
great churches, great fortunes and
great names, unquestionably gives it
values that constitute a blow at the
spiritual side of marriage. But it must
not be permitted to stand for one mo-
ment as a blow at its sanctity in civil
law,

December 15, 1926

 

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December 15, 1926

Half Million Acres Waiting For
Decisive Action.
Written for the Tradesman.

These acres were left and abandon-
ed by former owners and are now in
the hands of the State. For the best
interests of the State and of any and
all communities therein, there is great
need of real permanent development
of this land.

Some of the State land has hereto-
fore been sold. The results on sev-
eral thousand acres directly under my
observation for fourteen years shows
to the extent of 99 per cent. no de-
velopment—just speculative trades
and sales—only exploitation, with no
attempt or intention of development:
Hundreds of acres look worse now
than fourteen years ago. We can now
see, when we thoroughly examine
what has come through previous sales
to private interests, that there is no
adequate development beneficial to
economic progress and the general wel-
fare. There can be no guarantee that
land sold now to private interests
would be developed as a permanent
forest resource. We can find some
heretofore sold is now uncared for and

drifting back to the abandoned status. .

These facts show some of the very
good reasons why the half million
acres should remain State property
and why any other disposition of that
land will be a losing proposition for
the State through the ultimate scanti-
ness of development that private in-
terests can undertake in comparison
to development that can be assured
through full power of State control.

Extensive improvement of cutover
land through reforestation is a_ vital
need and more and more people are
beginning to realize it.

Michigan’s past experience and that
of other states pointed out in previous
articles and prove that Michigan must
decide this question of adequate State
forests to assure the results needed.

This is the key feature of our land
problems and should be recognized and
dealt with as such. To make a needed
forest resource of these half million
acres—or a million if it later comes to
that—and establish them so firmly that
their development shall be a perman-
ent feature of our economic progress.

The need for constructive progress
and permanent development puts an
undeviating emphasis on the vital need
of a thoroughly trained, broadly ex-
perienced, forester as a “high powered”
leader, which will be the safest guar-
antee of the most value for the ex-
penditure.

As has heretofore been stated, time
is a vital element and a-decision and
prompt beginning should be made to
obviate the continuing loss from more
delay.

Confident progress of private for-
estry can be helped along by observa-
tion of thorough work on State land.
That is the French experience: and
my own experience proves to me that
this is a very essential truth that Mich-
igan should make use of.

I fave ten thousand pine trees grow-
ing and I am at the: point where I
feel that I need more knowledge of
forestry and that object lessons on
scientific forestry developments would
be helpful.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

In comparison to my ten thousand
the State could as well plant one mil-
lion times ten thousand and, in addi-
tion, the State can, at a mere pittance
per acre, employ the highest grade of
technical skill to assure that the for-
ests were brought to full development,
whereas I on an eighty acre parcel
can not put the money into such
technical supervision and without pro-
tection of equitable, even-handed: tax
laws such as the French forest tax
laws, there is no assurance that I or
other private owners can or will carry
on the greatly needed reforestation.

As a further item of comparison—
adding immensely to the advantage of
State action securing quantity produc-
tion protected by technical skill—
there is the immeasurable contrast of
my puny lifetime to that of the cor-
porate capacity of the State, able to
carry on the forest growth through
rotation periods extending into un-
numbered generations.

When the State enters upon the de-
velopment of forest resources there is
the assurance that protective laws can,
when needed, be properly drawn and
instituted for comprehensive promo-
tion of the orderly growth of these
public forests and protection through
full power of State action.

As I have heretofore stated it can
be wisely argued and demonstrated
that the State should develop parcels
of the same size as those owned by
private parties. If the State does not
use the same size parcels, why expect
that any private owner will undertake
it?

The State can arrange for develop-
ment in districts in such areas as
can advantageously be handled by
means of motor travel. Planting crews
would not take long to do their part
and inspection and cultural operations
would be managed by district crews.
These local units under district man-
agement and all under the watchful
eye of a trained forester, would bring
to all parts of the State beneficial ob-
ject lessons leading to general recog-
nition of the direct and indirect, values
to come from permanent forests.

My experience among the trees has
been such as to call for study and con-
sideration of this problem and I am
appealing to you along the same line
wherein the various facts appeal to
me. I put this up to you and ask that
you take stock of where we are and
then of where we want to be and then
will come the swift conclusion that
State forests are necessary for so many
direct and indirect uses and that de-
lay is such a serious handicap to our
economic progress that we should
take decisive action now and lay the
foundation for adequate development
of State forests.

Frederick Wheeler,

Vice-President Michigan Forestry
Association.

——_+--
Wanted a Plenty.

He had been looking over the Christ-
mas cards on the counter for some
time, when the saleswoman suggested:
“Here's a lovely sentiment, ‘To the
only girl I ever loved.’ ”

“That’s fine,” he said, brightening,
“Tll take five—No, six of those
please.” '

 

11

 

 

 

 

Trust Funds May Continue
For Centuries

~~

The idea of creating charitable, religious and
educational trusts is not new, as there are living
proofs of som of these trusts, now over a century

old.
It was Benjamin Franklin who said:
“I wish to be useful even after

my death, if possible.”

As proof of this desire there is still in existence
a fund over a hundred years old, which he creat-
ed for the benefit of the cities of Philadelphia
and Boston.

To those who contemplate charitable trusts it
is interesting to know that they have been tested
and worked out.

Consult the Grand Rapids Trust Company
regarding your will and trust provisions.

FFRAND RAPIOS [RUST [OMPANY

GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investments For Trusts

 

LL INVESTMENTS MADE BY THIS
company for Trust funds committed to its
care are made at cost and

WITHOUT PROFIT TO THE COMPANY

The profits on securities bought for Trusts man-
aged by us, in many instances exceed the entire
charges for our service; this being in addition
to the regular interest earned by the securities,

 
  
 
 
 
  

This is a point for serious consideration by the
many who profitably could found a Trust for
some particular purpose or persons.

  
   

THE

MICHIGAN [RUST

COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

   

    

The first Trust Company in Michigan

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

12

Old National and Grand Rapids Sav-
ings Banks.

The Old National Bank has had
sixty-two directors since its organiza-
tion as the First National Bank in
1863, a matter of sixty-three years
ago. A list of those who have served
and their respective terms was printed
in the program of the recent compli-
mentary dinner to Wm. R. Shelby and
Wilder D. Stevens. Looking over
this list makes it easy to understand
where the Old National gets its air of
dignity, courtesy and solidity. Like
institution a bank

from the  char-

any other human
takes its character
acters of those who carry it on, and
what a lot of gentlemen of the fine
old fashioned type the Old National
has had—always enough of them, too,
to make their influence predominant.

Wm. R. Shelby has been a director
for forty-seven years, the longest term
not only of the Old National board,
but in the city. Next to him in point
of service was the late James M. Bar-
nett, forty-six years.

In the next class come those who
thirty to forty years and
H. Withey, thirty-nine
years; Willard Barnhart and Jos. H.
Martin, thirty-six years: Martin L.
Sweet, thirty; Wm. Judson and Har-
vey J. Hollister, thirty years.

And then came Wilder D. Stevens,
twenty-seven; Clay H. Hollister,
twenty-five; John C. Holt, twenty-
two; Judge Solomon L. Withey, Geo.
C. Peirce and Edward Lowe, twenty-

served
taere are L.

one years.
Of the
were on the

have served
twelve board ten to
twenty years, leaving twenty-four out
of the sixty-two total with records of
Those of the
years,

others who

less than ten years each.
shorter twenty
played their parts, but it is easy to be-
eve that the seniors set the pace.

tenure, up to

Of the Old National’s present board
of fifteen members, five have served
twenty years or more, the list includ-
ing Wm. Judson, for whom the com-
munity still mourns; seven from ten
to sixteen Jas. F. Barnett,
Frank Jewell, Carroll F. Sweet, John
Duffy, Wm. M. Wurzburg, Geo. F.
MacKenzie and John P. Homiller, and
three, Harry M. Taliaferro, Clarence

years,

S. Dexter and Eugene Richards, are
just entering with one year each to
their credit.

The Old National has had an un-
usual number of father and son board
members. Jas. M. Barnett, with a
record of forty-six years, was succeed-
ed by his son, Jas. F. Barnett, and
their joint service covered sixty-two
years. Judge Solomon L. Withey
was succeeded by his son, Lewis H.
Withey, with a joint service of sixty
years. Harvey J. Hollister was with
the bank in the days when it was the
Daniel Ball & Co. bank, later the Ex-
change Bank conducted by Martin L.
Sweet, but he did not become a mem-
ber of the board until 1880, and his
Service was to 1910, nine years after:
the election of his son to the board in
1901.

In one respect the Grand Rapids
Savings Bank is the oldest in town—
it has had more years under the same

MICHIGAN

name than any of the others. The Old
National was organized as the First
National in 18653 and assumed its
present name in 1883. The Grand
Rapids National dates from the organ-
ization of the City National in 1865,
but in the meantime has been the Na-
tional City, Grand Rapids National
and Grand Rapids National City. The
Grand Rapids Savings started under
its present name in 1870 and the name
has been the same throughout.

It isn’t often that a bank connection
begins with a scrap, but that is the
way Gilbert L. Daane, President of the
Grand Rapids Savings, made his start.
Mr. Daane was cashier and manager
of the Michigan Exchange Private
Bank on Grandville avenue. That was
a matter of fifteen years ago. Samuel
M. Lemon, Friar Halliday, George
Rumsey, E. A. Stowe, Geo. M. Ames,
Daane & Witters, Edwin Owen and
Others were stockholders. The bank
was capitalized at $30,000 and under
Mr. Daane’s energetic management it
had accumulated about $800,000 in de-
posits, and current report was to the
effect it was growing rapidly. Wm.
Alden Smith, then President of the
Grand Rapids Savings, in a search for
new fields for branches, was advised
that the Grandville avenue district
was big and prosperous enough for
two banks. A store was leased at the
far end of the street near Clyde Park
avenue, as far from the Exchange
Bank as a location could be found and
still be in town, and with the equip-
ment assembled and a staff chosen the
date was fixed for the opening of the
new branch. Before the opening Wm.
Alden took a trip down that way and,
to his surprise, found a bank already
established in a better location across
the street from his proposed branch,
with a sgn over the door and gold
letters on the windows. The man at
the door with the glad hand and the
welcoming smile was Gilbert L. Daane,
of the Exchange Bank. For the pro-
tection of his field, Mr. Daane had
established a branch of his own. Mr.
Smith came to the conclusion that
if Mr. Daane was that sort of fellow
he was just the sort that the Grand
Rapids Savings wanted and negotia-
tions for the purchase of the Exchange
Bank were opened without delay.
There was no controversy over the
price—$300 per share—but Mr. Smith
wanted Mr. Daane to take the position
of Cashier in the bigger institution.
Mr. Daane’s associates, however, re-
fused to consent to the sale unless he
was made Vice-President and George
Rumsey was also retained as a di-
rector. Mr. Smith held off for a year,
when he capitulated. Later, when he
had time to note the strength of his
associate, he was glad to retire from
the Presidency and put Mr. Daane in
his place.

—_+<--_____
Present Volume of Floatin, Debt
Should Be Maintained.

Gerrard B. Winston, Undersecretary
of the Treasury, made a convincing
argument at ‘the annual dinner of the
American Acceptance Council, held
last night at the Hotel Waldorf-
Astoria, for the Maintenance of our
floating debt at about its present
amount. The reasons that he advanced
are plain when Presented, as the did,

TRADESMAN

 

 

December 15, 1926

 

Kent State Bank

“The Home for Savings”

 

With Capital and Surplus of nearly Two Mil-
lion Dollars and resources exceeding ‘T'wenty-
Three Million Dollars, invites your banking
business in any of its departments, assuring you
of Safety as well as courteous treatment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Investment Securities

E. H. Rollins & Sons

Founded 1876

Dime Bank Building, Detroit
Michigan Trust Building, Grand Rapids

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
 
  
  
 
   
   
 
    
  

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OUR OBLIGATION
We realize at all times. that ‘

it is the duty of this insti-
tution to do everything to
conserve, protect and pro-
mote the interest of its pa-
trons,

We and accept
patronage, fully cognizant
of the trust which is repos-
ed in our own judgment and
integrity.

solicit

On this basis, may we serve
you? |

“The Bank Where You
Feel At Home”

Grand Rapids
Savings Bank

#nLiA.a ALDEN SMITH, Chainnan of the Beare

CHARLES W. GARFIELD, Chairman Ex. Com. °

GILBERT L. DAANE, President ad

ARTHUR M. GODWIN, Vice Pres. ORRIN B. DAVENPORT, Aw't Cashier

EARLE D. ALBERTSON. Vice Pres. and Cashier HARRY J. PROCTER. Ass't Cashier

EARL C JOHNSON, Vice President H. FRED OLTMAN, Ass’t Cashier
TONY NOORDEWIER. Aw’t Cashier

Cor. MONROE and IONIA

Branches
Grandville Ave. and B St.
West Leonard and Alpine
Leonard and Turner
Grandville and Cordelia St.
Mornoe Ave. near Michigan
Madison Square and Hall
E. Fulton and Diamond
Wealthy and Lake Drive
Bridge, Lexington and
Stocking
Bridge and Mt. Vernon
Division and Franklin
Eastern and Franklin
Division and Burton

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MICHIGAN

 

 

TRADESMAN 13

 

without reference to the confusing
statistical details but with a mind alert
for general principles, Since the pres-
ent administration came into office in
March, 1921 the National debt has
been reduced from over $24,000,000,-
000, as everybody knows, to roughly
$19,500,000,000 and the floating debt,
exclusive of the Third Liberty loan
which will mature within two years,
stands at about $1,750,000,000. In their
eagerness for general debt reduction
some people have assumed that the
floating debt along with the rest should
be cut but on this point the Govern-
ment spokesman uttered some inter-
esting opinion.

About 60 per cent. of the Govern-
ment tax receipts reach the Federal
Reserve Banks, which are the fiscal
agents of the Treasury, in the form of
income tax payments. The great bulk
of these flow in on the quarterly tax
payment dates in March, June, Sep-
tember and December so that money
in huge volume would be withdrawn
from the commercial banks three times
a year, out of the reach of the money
market, were there no offsets. Mr.
Winston reckons that unless a proper
system is maintained our cash balances
might vary $300,000,000 between the
peak on the quarterly dates to the
low just prior to those periods. With-
drawal of so much money from the
market for paymen to the Federal Re-
serve Banks for account of the Treas-
ury would influence money rates.

Mr. Winston points out that to
handle Treasury operations “without
periodic embarrassment to current
business” it is necessary to have “some
automatic means of returning this
money to the commercial banks.” It
is through Treasury maturities that
fall on tax payment dates about equal
in amount to the taxes that the offset
comes. The tax checks from the com-
mercial banks flow into the Federal
Reserve Banks to the Treasury’s ac-
count and at the same time the Treas-
ury pays to the commercial banks a
like amount as interest and maturities
of Government securities. When: nice-
ly balanced the transactions thus wash
and do not adversely affect the money
market.

That is why Mr. Winston last night
said: “Since there is no immediate
change likely in the system of collec-
tion of internal revenue, the Treasury
should have maturities of principal and
interest on every quarterly tax pay-
ment date about equal to the expected
tax payment. The present floating
debt, therefore, of $1,750,000,000 repre-
sents about the amount which should
be continually maintained so as to
carry on the tax collections without
disturbance to business. We want no
further reduction in the floating debt.”
In closing his address Mr. Winston
referred, with the apparent approval of
his banker audience, to Secretary
Mellon as the architect of our present
financial structure which has made
this country “the strongest financial
power in the world.”

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

If the day is dull why not sharpen
our wits on the grind stone of pur-
pose-and-plan?

 

Year’s Business Volume Will Probably
Top 1925 Total.

When the final figures are cast up
at the end of 1926 it will be found that
the year’s total business has been
about 5 per cent. higher than in 1925.
At least that is what the officials of
the Federal Reserve Bank at New
York now reckon and their facilities
for computations on such matters are
as good as any in the country. In ar-
riving at this conclusion the bank has
for the most part estimated the final
November and December results but
their calculation can be accepted as
reasonably accurate. In other words
a long string of the high records in
the different branches of production
and trade that were set a year ago
will be improved upon this year.

These authorities do not expect that
the year’s gain over the previous year
will, however, equal that recorded for
1925 when the total business ran 6 per
cent. above the 1924 aggregate. Figures
on the change from year to year are
interesting and offer certain sugges-
tions to the business man who seeks
to follow underlying trends in indus-
try. By going back to 1920 some fair-
ly wide variations may be found in the
volume of business each year as com-
pared to the year before. In 1920
when, it will be remembered, a high
peak was followed by a downslide that
ran into the next year, the business
volume for the year as a whole ran
6 per cent. above that for the year
previous. Much of the early gain was
cut by the subsequent downturn.

In 1921 the year’s total volume of
business fell 14 per cent. below the
year previous; in 1922 it rose 16 per
cent.; in 1923 it rose 12 per cent.; in
1924 it fell 2 per cent.; in 1925 it rose
6 per cent. and in 1926, present esti-
mates indicate, it will rise 5 per cent.
The 1926 position may come as a sur-
prise to some people for the reason
that current statistics carry reports in
important instances of moderate con-
traction from similar levels a year ago.
Sight should not be Jost of the fact
that a substantial part of the 1925
gain was made in the late months of
the year, however, and that business
this year was good from the beginning
of the calendar period. Herein lies
the strength of the 1926 showing. A
big volume has not been created by
any spurt for a particular season. It
has been accumulated by the mainten-
ance of industry at good rate all year.

In the Federal Reserve records from
which this material has been taken ap-
pear some interesting performances on
the part of different business indicators.
The largest group gain among the im-
portant ones listed in the 1926 chang-
es from 1925 levels is entered opposite
“locomotives” which represent a 55
per cent. advance over last year; the
heaviest loss is centered opposite
“grain futures sales’ which fell 30 per
cent. below 1925. Here are other
significant gains; passenger automo-
biles 10 per cent.; trucks 5 per cent.;
cotton consumption 4 per cent.; hard
coal 12 per cent.; soft coal 10 per
cent.; steel ingots 10 per cent.; gas-
oline 12 per cent.; corporate financing
12 per cent.; chain store sales 12 per
cent.; car loadings 6 per cent. and em-
ployment 1 per cent.

 

 

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~~

Grand Rapids National Bank '

The convenient bank for out of town people. Located on Campau —
Square at the very center of the city. Handy to the street cars—the
interurbans—the hotels—the shopping district.

On account of our location—our large transit facilities—our safe
deposit vaults and our complete service covering the entire field of
banking, our institution must be the ultimate choice of out of town
bankers and individuals.

Combined Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits over

$1,500,000
GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL BANK

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

$30,000. Princeton, W. Va., 514% Sewer and Street Im-
provement bonds due Aug. 1, 1929-47 inclusive,

denomination $500., principal and interest payable
New York City.

FINANCIAL STATEMENT
ERB eROeG) | YAU ele, oo $8,345,373.
Total Debt 176,000.

Population, 1920—6,224. Estimated—10,200.
Opinion Chapman, Cutler & Parker, Chicago.

Price to net 4.60%.

These bonds are general obligation of the City of Princeton, W. Va., and we
believe they will provide an attractive investment and if interested, please
wire or write us.

VANDERSALL & COMPANY

410 Home Bank Bldg., Toledo, Ohio
29 So. LaSalle St, 1006 Penobscot Bldg.,
Chicago, Illinois Detroit, Michigan

 

 

 

I am not very friendly to col-
lection concerns, but this one
happens to be on the square
one in a thousand.

 

Mr.Stowe Says

Only one small service charge.
ing fees or any other extras.

References: Any Bank or Cnamter of Commerce of Battle Creek, Mich., or
this paper.

Merchants’ Creditors Association of U. S.

Suite 304 Ward Building, Battle Creek, Michigan

For your protection we are bonded by the Fidelity & Casualty Company of
New York City.

No extra commissions, Attorney fees, List-

 

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX Co.

Manufacturers of
SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES

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THE OLD NAHONAL BANK

     

Business men like to deal at the Old National.
For proof of this statement, we submit the

many prominent names in our new Christmas

Savings Club.

cA Bank jor Everybody_

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14

The Economics of Mutual Insurance.

Economic laws govern business re-
lations, one with the other. They are
natural laws. Get it. Just as natural
as the laws of gravity, Archimedes’
principle, or the laws of heredity. The
law of supply and demand, like the
law of the Medes and Persians, alter-
eth not. An increase in the amount
of money in circulation decreases its
purchasing power. Prices on all com-
modities are governed by the amount
of money in circulation. Prices on in-
dividual commodities are governed not
only by the amount of money in cir-
culation but also by the supply of the
individual commodity in relation to
the demand. These are economic laws.

‘Here’s another economic law just as
true but albeit harder to learn by some
of us. We prosper only in direct pro-
portion to the extent we supply an
economic demand. If this economic
demand is such that humanity is bene-
fitted we can take a great deal of satis-
faction from a service we know we
are rendering. Such is the prevention
of fires and the resultant saving of
life and property, mutual companies
are accomplishing through selection,
education and inspection. If the de-
mand is such that humanity is harm-
ed instead of benefited we may prosper
and yet our prosperity will eventually
only prove a curse, as is the case with
the maker and seller of illicit and
poisonous liquor.

Propaganda and sentiment may stem
the tide of natural economic laws tem-
porarily. They may slow up the op-
eration of the laws of supply and de-
mand but the operation of these laws
is inevitable and the effects cumula-
tive. The newspapers are almost daily
announcing consolidations and mergers
in all classes of business, both in manu-
facturing and distributing. Twenty
years ago most of these would have
been impossible because of public sen-
timent against trusts, but to-day they
cannot be stopped. If a trust serves
the public better than the individual
enterprise, trusts are bound to come.
Would we be willing to go back to the
days of two telephone exchanges, non-
communicating, in a town? Would we
be willing to ride in day coaches of
parallel lines where there is barely
enough Pullman travel to supply one
line? Are we willing o pay more for
our goods for the privilege of buying
from individual merchants instead of
department stores, chain stores, or even
chain department stores?

So long as the cash and carry store
serves a function the ordinary grocery
store does not, it will continue o exist.
It furnishes goods at a lower cost.
Just so the old family grocer who fur-
nishes credit and delivery service, ser-
vice will continue to exist so long as
there are people who prefer these con-
veniences to a lower cost. For one
through their associations to try to
put the other out of business is foolish:
and such effort is pure economic
waste. Worse yet is the prevalent
American attempt to legislate against
economic laws. When man-made laws
attempt to stop the operaion of nature-
made laws the resulting strain weakens
the very foundations of the govern-
ment.

Now let’s get down to our business, -

 

4

MICHIGAN

and see how we are affected. In the
first place we will succeed only so far
as we fill an economic demand and
render an economic service. Without
swelling our chest too much let us
say that is why we have succeeded so
well to date. Bill Jones isn’t going to
pay 25 per cent. more for a brand of
insurance that is no better than we
can offer, forever. If you pound him
hard enough he is bound to wake up
just as his competitors and neighbors
have. The economic laws have been
held up in our business longer than
in most lines of endeavor by propa-
ganda and sentiment. The issue has
been clouded by misrepresentations for
many years. Legislation has been
used. In fact, everything possible has
been done to hold up mutual insurance
but the result is inevitable. Barriers
are breaking away faster han ever be-
fore.

There is a special economic law
which applies to insurance which is
just as true as the law of supply and
demand. The function of insurance is
the distribution of the losses of the
few among the many. In this capital
has no part to play and consequently
serves no purpose, except aS a means
of distribuing excess profits. Its use
as an added means of protection to the
policy holder is negligible as the mo-
ment capital becomes impaired disaster
is imminent. In an insurance company
the capital feeds off the business in
which respect it is radically different
from other lines of endeavor, in which
capital is actually invested in the busi-
ness and supports the business. It
was only after mutual insurance got
a good start in the United States that
business men began to see the pos-
sibility of additional profits from the
distribution of the losses of policy-
holders and stock companies were or-
ganized. This is not the worst phase
of the situation, however. Insurance
companies being somewhat in the na-
ture of public service corporations,
stock companies were afraid to show
too large a percentage of profit and
consequently they have figured the
larger the losses, the larger rates they
can charge, and the larger percentage
they will be allowed to make on the
turnover. Stock companies have in
the past by their careless methods un-
doubtedly greatly increased the annual
fire loss.

Capital stock so far as the assured
is concerned is as useless as the fifth
wheel on a wagon and anything use-
less often becomes an absolute detri-
ment. Stock companies often find
their operations unprofitable after a
period of years. Then they re-insure
and drop out of existence. Mutual com-
panies of equal financial Strength have
accumulated along with this strength
a large store of experience which al-
though not shown on the financial
statement, is more valuable than the
total assets. That is one of the funda-
mental reasons why cash-plan mutual
insurance companies show a smaller
rate of mortality than companies or-
ganized along any other lines,

Selection and. protection, practiced
by us, as well as our efforts along
educational lines, lower the number
and amount of losses which we have

-te-distribute, and consequently a lower

December 15, 192¢

TRADESMAN

“AUDITS-SYSTEMS-TAX SERVICE“

LAWRENCE SCUDDER & Co.

ACCOUNTANTS AND AUDITORS
924-927 GRAND RAPIDS NAT’L BANK BUILDING, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
313 PECK BUILDING, KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN
452 W. WESTERN AVE., MUSKEGON, MICH.
St. Louis - Washinaton . Philadelphia - Boston

New York - Chicago -

 

 

 

 

THE UNITED LIGHT AND
POWER COMPANY

Illino‘s Merchants Bank Building
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

 

The Board of Directors of The United Light and Power
Company have declared the following dividends on the stocks
of the Company:

A quarterly dividend of $1.62 per share on Class “A” Preferred Stock,
payable January 3, 1927, to stockholders of record on December 15, 1926.

A quarterly dividend of $1.00 ner share on Class “B” Preferred Stock,
payable January 3, 1927, to stockholders of record on December 15, 1926.

A dividend of 60c per share pavable in cash on February 1, 1927, to all
holders of the old Class “A” and Class “‘B”’ Common Stock of record on
January 15, 1927.

A dividend of 12c per share, navable in cash on February 1, 1927, to all
holders of the new Class “A” and Class “B” Common Stock of record on
January 15, 1927.

L. H. HEINKE, Treasurer.

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net cost to the assured. This is an
economic paradox which is one of the
hardest things we have to explain to
our customers, namely, why it is pos-
sible for us to furnish a superior com-
modity to our customers at a lower
cost than they are in the habit of pay-
ing for insurance which undoubtedly
is no better and we believe not as
good. We should work out our sales
talks very carefully so that we can
convince the public that we are not
attempting to give them something
for nothing. Economic laws all favor
mutual insurance or rather, mutual in-
Surance is founded on sound economic
principles.
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The Advantage of Careful Buying.

Considerable dissatisfaction that re-
sults from buying either wholesale or
retail is due to careless buying. Too
much care cannot be exercised when
placing an order if best results and
least annoyance are to follow. When
a buyer goes on the assumption that
a dealer understands the cut and qual-
ity desired it frequently happens that
no such clear understanding was in
the dealer’s mind and he may con-
scientiously put up the order, but it
may not suit at all. Quality or grade
is a very important point to stress, and
when this is done there is little ex-
cuse for failure on the part of the
dealer to observe that feature of his
service. While it is quite possible for
a dealer to overcharge for what he
sells, or substitute inferior quality,
which amounts to the same thing, he
cannot be expected to deliver the
highest quality for the price he ordin-
arily charges for quality not so high.
It sometimes happens that buyers hag-
gle considerably over price, and deal-
ers take orders at a price agreed upon
with little said about grade, and in
such cases the buyer is liable to find
delivery conforming to price charged
more closely than to that expected. If
buyers really want choice meat prod-
ucts they should not hesitate to stress
that point, so there will be no chance
for misunderstanding on the part of
the merchant who serves them. We
have seen many disagreeable transac
tions result in a wholesale way from
neglect of this very essential point,
and we are led to believe they happen
even more frequently when meat is
sold retail. Another thing to consider
when buying meat of choice quality is
that one cannot expect to get it from
a dealer who does not regularly handle
choice meat. There are many shops
that cater to consumers who do not
normally demand the best, but are
suited with something fairly high in
quality when the price is cheap enough.
This may extend to shops that regu-
larly handle meat that carmot be grad-
ed better than medium or common. If
experience has shown that a shop
handles only choice meat one is rea-
sonably safe in buying without mak-
ing special mention of grade, and some
dealers even seem to resent any refer-
ence to such mention, assuming a
dignity that seems to say, “we handle
only choice meats, and we think you
should know this.” After all is said
and tried it is pretty hard to buy be-
low an honest market value, as any
extensive buyer can attest.

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Picnic Shoulder.

Picnic shoulder is a pork cut that
can be readily substituted for pork
ham in many ways. In making a “pic-
nic” a shoulder is cut from the side of
a hog carcass between the second and
third rib, leaving the shoulder two and
a half ribs wide. The shank is remov-
ed above the knee joint, the neck
bones and shoulder ribs are removed
and the shoulder is divided, practically
in the middle, by sawing crosswise
through the blade bone. One Part is
used for butts and other cuts. The
other part, which is the shank end, is
trimmed and rounded at the butt in
the shape of a ham. It is the resembl-
ance in trim to a ham that gave this
cut its original name. This shoulder
cut, prior to the Federal meat inspec-
tion law was called, among other
names, California ham and picnic ham,
but, when the meat inspection law
went into force the name ham in con-
nection with this cut was discontinued
by the packers. This cannot be said
about some meat retailers, however,
and even at the present time picnic
shoulders may be found displayed in
store windows placarded as little hams,
Picnic hams and similar names. This
practice is obviously unfair and decep-
tive and no reliable retailer should
practice such methods. Picnic shoul-
ders can be had fresh, corned or smok-
ed, and they can also be purchased
boned and tied under the name of
“roulette” or rolled shoulders. -While
this cut cannot be used satisfactorily
as a substitute for ham for frying or
broiling, it can, however, be used in
the place of ham in many other ways
and may be had in various sizes,
weighing from four to fourteen pounds,
which permits the housewife to pur-
chase the size cut required for her
table at a price much cheaper than
ham. A boned and tied picnic, either
corned or smoked, make an excellent
dish when boiled with vegetables,
thereby extending the meat flavor
through a large amount of material
and also providing a tasty meat dish
at the same time. That which may be
left over can be sliced and eaten cold
like ham. A fresh picnic can be used
as a roast, but, like the corned and
smoked, may be boiled and in this way
will prove a very appetizing dish and
the left-over can be used for pork pies,
croquettes and similar very tasteful
dishes,

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Senator Couzens Denunciation of In-
stallment Buying.
Written for the Tradesman.

Senator James Couzens says, in a re-
cent magazine article, that more harm
is being done to the country through
installment buying than in any other
way and that it is stultifying initiative,
ambition and energy.

Since entering National politics
Mich‘gan’s junior Senator has gained
some consideration as an economist.
His ideas upon Federal taxes and
economic policies have frequently run
counter to the major opinion of his
political associates which has served
to give his views more attention than
they otherwise might have received.

The fact that he is one of the rich-
€st men in American political life has
also served to give additional weight
to his opinions,

 

Harry M. Royal.

In this case the Senator follows his
characteristic course in the emphasis
of his unqualified disapproval of a very
general practice in American trade,
and that emphasis, and the sweeping
nature of his denunciation, it seems to
this writer, very decidedly weakens
the Senator's argument and leaves his
declaration open to questioning argu-
ment.

Had he confined his criticism to a
tendency of installment purchases to
encourage extravagance the argument
would be altogether with him, as there
is no economic law justifying extrava-
gance and waste, but his treatment of
the subject seems to include the de-
nouncement of a principle because, in
its practice, some people are unwise,
and in this his logic appears lame. And
when he fails to differentiate between
€conomical needs and wasteful ex-
travagance his proposition falls.

Just why, or how, does installment
buying “stult'fy initiative, ambition
and energy?” Indeed, to this writer,
at least, it seems that its result, when
properly applied, should have the very
opposite effect. People investing their
credit in the purchase of a home and
its reasonable furnishings for their
comfort and wellbeing, it would seem,
are do‘ng the thing which will stimu-
late “initiative, ambition and energy,”
for to maintain their credit and retain

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their purchases will naturally prompt
energy and economy,

Perhaps the apparent easy credit of
some installment plans may have
tempted some people to an unwarrant-
ed extravagance, but this very experi-
ence may have a salutary effect to
their future benefit.

Efficient business frequently adopts
the policy of using its credit in the
acquirement of more modern and
economical equipment, and profits by
Such use of its credit. Does not the
Same economy apply to the individual
in his domestic finance?

The Senator, in effect, attacks the
use of the credit system ‘for the indi-
vidual seeking to supply his needs as
well as his desires. While a criticism
might well lie against the practice of
credit for all that one desires, this
writer maintains that the practice is as
generally good and wholesome, when
applied to individual needs, as when
used in business and industry to ac-
quire more economical, labor-saving,
profit-making equipment.

It is the accepted story that the
Senator’s own business romance—
certainly one of the most interesting
and intriguing in the world’s history—
was based upon the pledging of his
credit for a comparatively small sum
which became his initial investment in
the automotive industry.

And if this story be true, may we
not ask the Senator to qualify, if not
entirely revise, from his own experi-
ence, his general pronunciamento
against the wide use of the individual
credit system.

This writer does not contend that
it is always used wisely and well but
holds that a general condemnation of
the principle is 'mping logic.

Harry M. Royal.
— 2+. __
Romantic Growth of American Banks.

Nowhere in the history of growth
in American industry may be found
anything more romantic than the rise
to power of the American bank but
it takes such a move as the National
City Bank now proposes to bring the
Story out. The directors of this great
institution have asked the stock-
holders to approve a 50 per cent. cap-
ital increase at the January 11 meet-
ing to raise capital from $50,000,000 to
$75,000,000. That the plan will be
approved goes without question since
stockholders will be allowed to sub-
scribe at $200 a share for stock that
sells in the open market around $200.
On completion of this financing which
involves the absorption of the Inter-
national Banking Corporation the cap-
italization of the Nat‘onal City Bank,
found by adding its capital, surplus
and undivided profits, will aggregate
5142,000,000. It will then be not only
the largest bank in this country but in
the entire world, towering in size
above the Midland Bank in Great Brit-
ain which is capitalized at $130,000,-
000 and Lloyd’s which is slightly
smaller.

On June 16, 1812, just two days be-
fore the War of 1812 broke out, the
National City Bank was formed with
a capital of $800,000 which in those
days was a sizeable structure. At that
time the entire Republic could not
boast any larger a population than

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now is claimed by the City of New
York alone. In a manner peculiar
unto itself the National City Bank
grew up with the country and its ex-
pansion in capital would make a rough
diagram, if plotted in chart form, of
the growth of the country. The
figures reveal more than any story
what has happened. At the time the
bank was incorporated in 1812 the cap-
ital stood at $800,000; in 1875 it was
increased to $1,000,000; in 1900 to $10,-
000,000; in 1902 to $25,000,000; in 1920
to $40,000,000; in 1925 to $50,000,000
and now the plan calls for a capital of
$75,000,000.

To Charles E. Mitchell, now head
both of the National City Bank and
the National City Company, belongs
the credit in good part for extending
operations to all parts of the world
until the institution has become per-
haps the world’s largest bond-distrib-
uting organization. Its contacts with
investors are flung far and wide
through a large army of salesmen that
carry American securities not only to
all parts of the United States but to
investors in foreign lands. In what
has been done to broaden the inter-
national market for securities of Ameri-
can origin the bank thas been a
pioneer, for in general the institutions
of this country until relatively recent
years had not done so much to estab-
lish themselves abroad as at home.

Of course the National City Bank,
through its subsidiary, the National
City Company, already owns the entire
capital stock of the International
Banking Corporation but the intent
now is gradually to absorb the latter
and operate it as an integral part of the
bank. Internatonal itself has about
twenty-four branches over the world
so its assimilation, so to speak, by the
parent bank will greatly extend the
direct contacts of the larger organiza-
ton and enable it to concentrate its
energies and operate more economical-
ly. That in the final analysis is the
object that lies back of the general
movement toward the concentration of
our banks into larger units,

Paul Willard Garrett.
| Copyrighted, 1926.]
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Outlook For Bolilvias.

While it is still early, it is quite defi-
nitely indicated that a number of
women’s wear mills will again feature
bolivias or variations of this pile fab-
ric weave this season. In addition,
new variations of the pile weave will
probably be brought out. So confident
is the feeling about these cloths that
they are now classed as Staples. The
question about their use lies in the
matter of the trade they are intended
for. The mills mentioned will offer
their cloths to be made into medium
and popular priced garments. It js
held that these goods being staples
will “always be good for this trade,
unless a more attractive and appealing
cloth is brought out. As to the higher
priced fabrics, the mills making them
may spring something brand new on
the market. This may possibly upset
Present calculations on bolivias, but
the new weaves would have to be
very attractive to change the outlook

for the pile cloths in volume selling
coats,

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WHAT THE DUB THINKS

Why Is a Hunter?

The so-called good
book tells us that ani-
mals were made for
man—not man for ani-
mals. This, of course,
includes all the flies,
gnats, mosquitoes,, cooties and skunks.
Anyhow it looks like the animals didn’t
have anything to say about it—a good
deal like the dubs—which probably
accounts for the mysterious disappear-
ance of a good many men, as the
animals were not informed.

Ever since away back when brother
Abraham took a ram up on a mountain,
killed it and barbecued it, men have
been killing animals and each other.
They all have an alibi; Abraham called
his kill a sacrifice; others have done
it for food, many for protection, but
few, if any, for the fun of the thing,
until our present high state of civiliza-
tion.

In the early settlement of all coun-
tries it was necessary to kill to eat.
Not even at the time the buffalo was
exterminated in this country was it
considered a “sport”—just another
case of greed for the price of the hides.
To-day, however, it is different; it has
become a legalized pastime, fostered
by laws, so that it may not play out.
Even our much honored Theodore
Roosevelt was a most enthusiastic
hunter.

Being just a common dub we fre-
quently wonder how they get that way
—this killing bug. Is it a throwback
from a long line of blood-sucking an-
cestors? Adam never seemed to have
developed any of these traits, although
the boys did get rough. But in this
age of our much touted civilization
why should any man delight in a
ey

A friend once said to me: “Do you
know I could do almost anything, but
I would starve before I would be a
butcher.” And don’t think this fel-
low was “soft.” He would land on
you as quick as a wildcat at the hint
of an insult—would fight at the drop
of the hat. He didn’t turn pale at the
sght of blood fairly shed, but he
would walk around a caterpillar or a
cricket rather than crush it. To him
a life was a life.

  

 

The killing instinct seems to come
natural to boys, the same as climbing.
There is an age when they seem to
want to kill something and climb
everything. Observegs tell us it is just
a hark back to the time when their
ancestors lived in trees and foraged
for grub. Perhaps Darwin was right,
but the boys soon outgrow it—become
normal.

The present day killers’ alibi is “The
call of the wild.” Getting out in the
open spaces and communing with na-
ture gives them a “kick’—the killing
is just an incident. Whole pages of
the daily papers are devoted to the
killings. Only last week it was noted
that fifty-five autos of hunters crossed
the Straits on one ferry. Another
place reads: “Heartless hunters shoot
two fawns”’—an awful crime in the
mind of these killers—even called it
murder in cold blood; a proper term,
all right, but what has the age of the

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animal te do with it? Their horror
was aroused, not so much from the
killing as from the fact that the poor
creature would be unable to propagate
another to grow up and be killed later
on.

But where does the “thrill” come
in anyway, killing an animal so famil-
iar with civilization that it barely tries
to escape. A rabbit, a squirrel or a
partridge will frequently hesitate at a
sharp sound, making them easy prey
for a repeating gun. The English
claim a sense of fairness by insisting
all birds be taken only on the wing,
thereby giving them a sporting chance
at life—some chance. With the larger
animals, like deer, they are frequently
only wounded, and as they lie there
helpless it becomes the pleasing pas-
time for someone to cut their throats.
Really it wouldn’t seem a far cry for
one in that frame of mind to cut any
kind of a throat.

Comparing the two evils, those who
go up in the woods strictly to kill and
those who seek a secluded spot by a
warm fire to play poker, eat good
grub and drink poor liquor, later to
return home and report their poor
luck, the latter appear the more civil-
ized. It would seem to a common dub
that the age of a thrill in killing was

long past due. The Dub.
—_+-+—___

Stabilized Cotton Goods Prices.

Jobbing buyers of cotton goods, as
well as other merchandise in which
the staple is the chief component part,
are now facing a period of price safety
in buying such as they have not seen
in a long time. Some of the leading
branded lines are now lower than in
several years and, when the readjust-
ments yet to be made are compieted,
there is every indication that prices
will be stabilized for several months.
This opinion was expressed yesterday
by one of the best-posted commission
house men in the dry goods market,
and he also made the prediction that,
once prospective reductions are com-
pleted, further changes will be upward
instead of down. Important buyers
realize this, he added, with the result
that good orders are expected from
them during the next several weeks.

—_2+.——. —
Says Snow Helps Toy Sales.

Although there is no direct connec-
tion between the two in most cases, it
is said that the recent snowstorm has
had a noticeably stimulating effect on
pre-holiday sales of toys. Despite the
hindrance to business resulting from
the inability of many suburban custo-
mers to get to the city, sales of such
goods have taken a distinct jump. It
is especially marked in sleds, skates
and other playthings of a seasonable
nature. One explanation advanced for
the general increase in toy sales is
that the storm brought home to a large
nuntber of persons the nearness of
Christmas, and thus took many into
the stores who probably would have
neglected to shop early if they had not
had this reminder. A similar effect on
children, adding to their act‘vities in
making holiday wants known, is also
said to be a factor in the stimulation
of sales.

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DRY GOODS

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

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ing.
Second Vice-President—G. R. Jackson
Flint.

Secretary-Treasurer—F, H. Nissly, Yp-
Silanti.
Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

Excessive Advertising Rates of Some
Class Publication.

Lansing, Dec. 14—Dry goods mer-
chants are constantly being solicited
by local people who have advertising
space for sale. These publications
range from cook books, religious pa-
pers, automobile magazines, college
papers and church bulletins. Most
merchants realize that this class of ad-
vertising is of very little value.

The secretary of a merchants or-
ganization in a good sized city wrote
to all types of publications in his city
and asked for their best advertising
rates. He then computed on a cost
line basis, per 1000 circulation.
These figures were then tabulated in
bulletin form and sent to members so
that they could make comparisons for
themselves. They proved conclusive-
ly that small circulation class publica-
tions are exceedingly expensive when

compared with the newspaper. His
computations are as follows:

Church women’s news __________ $6.59
Religious college paper ________ 2.70
General college paper __________ 1.71
Civic organization paper ________ 1.68
Local auto magazine _____.._____ 1.30
Religious paper’ 56
Another religious paper __._____ 50

One of the city’s large newspapers .18
Another of city’s newspapers __ .16

In sending out instructions to mem-
bers allowance was made due to the
class of paper used in printing and the
class of people to whom such publica-
tions were circulated, that some pub-
lications would be entitled to slight
preference, but in all cases the rate
was far too excessive to permit of
profitable advertising.

They also realize that these publica-
tions, due to their small circulation,
must, of necessity, induce their adver-
tisers to pay excessive rates.

When you are solicited by publica-
tions of this kind, it is well for you
to bring the facts back home to the
solicitor. By doing this you will cause
jess feeling of discrimination that has
unjustly appeared in the past. The
conclusion of the whole matter is that
advertising in special publications of
this kind is, to a large measure, money
wasted.

A. B. Boyce is the new proprietor
of the store at the former location of
the Webster-Anderson Co., at Tecum-
seh. Mr. Boyce is well known in that
city, having previously resided there.
In a very optimistic way regarding the
closing out sale of the Webster-Ander-
son stock, sold goods in practically
every township in Lenawee county
and two adjoining counties reporting
that the first and second day’s sales
were more than satisfactory. We trust
that Mr. Boyce will be very successful.
R. W. Puffer, the former manager of
the store, is now employed with A.
Krolik & Co.

Office boy, packer, delivery truck
driver, shop salesman, departmental
manager, director and finally manag-
ing director (the English equivalent of
president) of a company with a cap-
ital of $16,500,000—this at the age of
twenty-six is the record of Harry
Gordon Selfridge, Jr., whose appoint-
ment as managing director of Selfridge
Provincial Stores, Ltd., has just been
announced in Lendon. This oppor-
tunity is quite a contrast from that
of his father Harry Gordon Selfridge,
Sr., whose mother was a sister of Hon.
Witter J. Baxter, of Jonesville, and
who spent some of his school days in
that village before laying the founda-
tion of his fortune in Jackson and
Chicago.

We have received a photograph of

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the beautiful new building erected for
our friend, Mr. Fischgrund, of Flint,
in which to conduct his up-to-date
ready-to-wear business. We have had
the pleasure of visiting the location
while the building was being erected
and we prophesy that his business will

. now grow with leaps and bounds.

Jason F. Hammond,
Mgr. Mich. Retail Dry Goods As-

sociation.
—~>~-+___
View of the Rayon Situation.
One of the effects that the recent re-
duction in rayon prices will have is
the gradual elimination of the smaller
producing units in the industry, ac-
cording to a close observer of market
conditions. At the height of the boom
‘n rayon, many smaller firms entered
the manufacturing trade, lured by the
possibilities of large profits at the price
levels then prevailing. Present prices
make for very hard sledding for these
concerns, coupled with the fact that a
tremendous expenditure of capital is
required before rayon manufacture be-
comes profitable. With respect to the
competition offered by importers of
rayon, this observer believes that a
still further reduction will have to be
made before the producers here will be
safe. He thinks that a level of about
$1.25 for the 150 denier would be the
one which foreign competition would
be unable to meet.
—_~+--.___
Clothing Markdowns Held Back.
Aside from special offerings by de-
partment stores of men’s overcoats and
suits at reduced prices, retailers gen-
erally are delaying their seasonal sales
events. Meanwhile, a good consumer
demand at opening season prices is be-
ing enjoyed, according to reports in the
wholesale market. Postponing of the
“sales” is regarded as of great benefit
to the retailers, although this conclu-
Sion has been more honored in the
breach than in the observance by many
stores in recent seasons. While retail
competition is keen, particularly in the
lower priced merchandise, stocks in the
stores are not large and the sales to
come are expected fully to absorb the
merchandise.
—_2-.___
Perfumery Sales Are Large.
Sales of perfumery are likely to
make a new record during the present
holiday period. The turnover has been
exceedingly active and manufacturers
report heavy reorders from practically
all sections of the country. One of the
noteworthy things about the demand
is the call for the higher grade per-
fumes in both the imported and do-
mestic varieties. This kind of con-
sumer buying, it was said yesterday,
has not had its parallel since the flush
war days. Elaborate packing and ar-
tistic bottles or other containers have
served to raise the cost of the mer-
chandise over the retail counter, but
consumers want the goods in such
form, according to the manufacturers.
—_>+.—___
Look For Good Spring Business.
That optimism which is apparent in
the manufacturing end of the fur
trade at the threshold of a new season,
regardless of what has gone just be-
fore, is again seen in the local market.
Predictions are being made freely now
that the coming Spring will bring with
it a consumer demand for furs approx-
imating that of two or three years ago,

TRADESMAN

and preparations are being made ac-
cordingly. Makers of fur neckwear of
the better kinds are laying much stress
on “chokers” of Russian sable and of
various types of marten fur. Mink,
as well, is being bought for these ar-
ticles, and there are indications that
squirrel also will play an important
part in the new season’s lines.
—_»22+.___
Neckwear Colors Again Bright.
Bright colors and stripe patterns in
men’s neckwear show no falling off
in popularity, and will be featured
strongly for Spring. This is amply
indicated in the orders for tie silks,
which have been placed quite liberally.
Neat figured materials and printed
effects have also received attention.
Foulards are expected to have an
active late Spring and Summer de-
mand. Tie manufacturers are now
winding up a Fall season generally
regarded as a good one. The prospects
are that retailers will have little or
no carryover that will affect the plac-
ing of Spring orders, beginning with
the turn of the year.
—_2+>___
Pile Coatings in Better Shape.
Retailers have had few complaints
this Fall on pile fabric coats, according
to statements made yesterday. This
is held to be mainly due to the educa-
tional work the retailers have carried

December 15, 1926

on this Fall regarding the -spotting of
the garments. The fact that retailers
have had a slow turnover of the dressy
coats this season also figures in the
matter. Improvement in the fabrics
by the mills is likewise an important
factor. With the retail coat season now
well advanced, it is felt that the total
rumber of complaints will be at a
niinimum, in striking contrast with
the situation last year at this time.

—~++____
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cents up. Production of this type of
merchandise designed to sell at low
prices has been very large. It, how-
ever, has not served to check the de-
mand for the better grades of these
ccat or dress ornaments, and depart-
ment stores and specialty shops are
credited with an excellent demand: for
boxed flowers for gift purposes. Or-
chids and violets are said to be the
best selling types at the present time.
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December 15, 1926
Gifts and Bequests To the Public
Library.

The Grand Rapids Public Library
has had very good luck in acquiring
gifts and bequests as special funds to
carry on different branches of its
work—better luck than any other de-
partment of the public service. Up to
date it has eleven special funds to a
total of $19,232 and with annual in-
come that aggregates $959,

The largest of these funds is a be-
quest of $5,000 from Miss Rebecca L.
Richmond, the income to be used for
the purchase of books and other ma-
terial relating to landscape gardening
and kindred topics. The second larg-
est and the oldest of the library’s
funds is the Lewis G. and Marion
Stuart fund, holding securities to the
par value of $3,600 and with $205 in-
come, for the purchase of books and
materials relating to American history.
This fund was created in 1896 with
the Grand Rapids Historical Scciety
as trustee, the library at that time not
having legal authority to accept trust
funds, and ten years later it was trans-
ferred to the library. Since its estab-
lishment it has contributed $1,592 to
the library’s resources and has been an
important factor in building up one of
the largest collections of books re-
lating to Michigan to be found any-
where. Other funds and the special
purposes to which these incomes are
devoted are C. W. Coit, $1,000, Ameri-
can painters; Frederick P. Wilcox,
$1,000, economic and political subjects;
Winnie Whitfield Butler, memorial,
$400, picture books for children; Miss
Rebecca L. Richmond, bequest to the
Historical Society and transferred to
the library, $2,000, for lectures on
American history; John S. Lawrence,

$2,500, geneology; Mrs. James H.
Campbell, $2,000, history of the old
Northwest. The last fund added to

the list is $500 bequeathed by Mrs.
Joseph Mansfield, for several years em-
ployed in the library, as a memorial
for her three children, the income to
be used for the purchase of cheerful
books for shut ins.

When the old Academy of Medicine
disbanded it had about $50 in the treas-
ury, and instead of trying to divide it
the money was put into a Liberty bond
and with interest added this fund now
amounts to $102, with no definite pur-
pose as yet assigned for it.

An unusual and interesting fund is
the Hundred Years fund, established
about two years ago. This fund is to
accumulate for five years, then for
twenty years, onefourth of its income
is to be used to help out the library’s
special funds on American history,
thereafter for twenty-five years one-
third and then for the balance of the
century one-half the annual income is
to be so used, the remaining income to
be added as received to the principal.
All the other funds are individual gifts
or bequests, but the Hundred Years
fund is a subscription fund with every-
body interested in the development of
the library’s American history section
welcome to oin in. The subscribers
to date are Memorial to Charles Stuart,
Wm. H. Anderson, Lewis H. Withey,
S. H. Ranck, Dudley E. Waters, Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. W. Garfield, Geo. E.
Hardy, Chas. N. Remington, W. Mil-

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lard Palmer, Claude Hamilton, Edward
Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Stuart, Wil-
lard F. Keeney and Henry Idema, and
one anonymous. The _ subscriptions
average around $100 each with a total
of about $1,630 to-date, with more
than $100 added in income earnings.
Under the plan adopted it is computed
that $1,000, with interest compounding
at 4 per cent., will increase to $11,000
in one hundred years, in the meantime
yielding $8,500 in available income.
At straight 4 per cent. the yield would
be $4,000 and at the end of the century
the fund would still be $1,000.

The library is encouraging these
special funds and it is said has several
more in prospect, both in direct gifts
and in bequests. The furniture manu-
facturers should contribute a fund for
the maintenance and increase of the
library’s collection of books on furni-
ture designing, and no doubt some day
will do so. A special fund could also
be used for the building up of a li-
brary on American wars. For that
matter there are many fields in which
such funds would be most useful.

Aside from the library the city has
not been greatly benefited by gifts and
bequests, except in the matter of parks
and play grounds. The largest single
gift in money was $180,000 left by
Mrs. David W. Kendall to found a
school of furniture designing; owing
to complicated conditions in the will
this has not been accepted, but no
doubt some way will be found for
making use of it. The city’s first and
for many years its only trust fund was
$2,000 given by Thos. D. Gilbert to
equip the old Central high school with
laboratory equipment. The money
was used for the purpose and every
year since the school budget has con-
tained an item of $140, interest on this
fund. Miss Emma Cole, for many
years a teacher in the city schools,
left $1,500 as a fund in aid of the
teaching of botany. The city schools
should have an appeal to those of
means who attended or whose children
attend them, because of the many ways
special funds could be used, but in
this city philanthropy has not turned
in that direction.

The Kent Scientific Museum hasn’t
a Special fund of any kind, although it
has been an established institution for
upwards of fifty years. This is in
marked contrast with the museums in
other cities. The city parks and play-
grounds could use the income from
special funds, but these, too, are with-
out endowment and depend on the tax-
payers for support.

—————_—-—-—-——____..

Ribbons Used in Many Ways.

The use of ribbon in finished mer-
chandise is extensive this season, and
the ribbon manufacturers have bene-
fited accordingly. At the present time
much of the holiday merchandise of
a utility nature is ornamented in some
way with ribbon, frequently combined
with lace. Garter and shoe tree sets
and handkerchief cases are outstanding
items which retailers are selling and
reordering. Also included are pillow
adornments, fancy powder puffs and
vanity bags for dances, ete. Staple
satin ribbons in bright colors are used
for much of this merchandise, but nov-
elty kinds, particularly metallic effects,
are also employed.

TRADESMAN

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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.

 

He Will Put Himself Out of Business.
Written for the Tradesman.

A few weeks ago I was present at
the formation of a local grocers’ as-
sociation. The newly appointed sec-
retary was evidently proud to be so
honored by his associates. Driving
home late that night we stopped at
said secretary’s store for some lemons
—intended use thereof not now to be
specified. I had not taken special note
of the slovenly appearance of the new
official, but when I glimpsed his store
I sized him up more carefully. For
that store was a caution—no less!

Shortly afterwards that man learned
that a unit of a chain system was
about to be opened near him. He was
quite excited by the news. Moreover,
he was going to give the newcomer
“a run for his money.” He was going
to crimp the new man for fair. How?
Why, he was going to give away a
large loaf of bread to every customer
the day the new store opened. He
was going to show the chain a few,
believe me!

A cool headed man to whom this
“grocer” told his plan spoke about it
this way: “Well, maybe you better
think that over again. If you give
away bread it will cost you a lot of
money and there will be no lasting
benefit. If you take my advice, you
will clean up a bit. Put your place in
something like decent order. Use a
little soap and water, applied with el-
bow grease. That will cost you
nothing but work, but it will be a
thousand times more effective than any
give-away scheme. Besides this is
going to be a long campaign. That
chain man is not coming here for a
week or two. You will have his com-
petition hereafter—don’t forget that.”

That was altogether too simple and
obvious a course for that “grocer” to
pursue. Besides, it involved work.
Remarkable how men—a lot of them
at that—shun work. Among all the
explanations of the why of chain suc-
cess, I have never yet seen that factor
emphasized—not even mentioned. But
take it from me, chain grocers do
work. |

And this tale forcibly reminds me
of what Sam Seelig said before he
quit selling groceries and took up golf
as a permanent profession: “The ig-
norant, dirty, slipshod grocer is going
out of business. There is no help or
hope for him. But we (the chains) are
not putting him out. He is putting
himself out.” So don’t let us lose any
sleep over the inevitable fate of any
grocer who cannot awaken to the
trend of the times.

Incidentally, is it not really humor-
ous that such a man as I have de-
scribed should be chosen secretary of
a new association? It is. Yet when
such an organization is new there is
more enthusiasm and good-resolution
stuff in the members than is apt to
survive many meetings. One reason
surely, why such associations so often
fall by the wayside is that what they

 

MICHIGAN

have associated to do is not taken
seriously by those same members.

Right in line with this question of
keeping clean stores and otherwise be-
ing up and coming, a new association
in Los Angeles started something it
will be unable to finish when it cast
asparagus—directly or indirectly—at
the local Piggly Wiggly. For said
Piggly Wiggly used the occurrence for
a nice bit of favorable advertising,
turning every point indicated by the
association right back in its teeth.

The grocers had said—or hinted—
that P-W advertising was untruthful.
P-W offers $10,000 to the community
chest, “in addition to its original sub-
scription,’ for every lie nailed in its
advertising. It also says it thinks that
its outright contributions to charity
exceed the total of all subscriptions of
its grocer critics combined. It would
be hard for anybody to tell the public
of its good works more pointedly or
effectively—and the Los Angeles gro-
cers furnished the opening.

The grocers also apparently had
said that “certain chains” had favored
certain church organizations with
special discounts. P-W comes back
thus: “Piggly-Wiggly has done this.
In the past year P-W has worked
with over a hundred churches and
clubs. These organizations do not like
to ask for donations, yet need money.
If our plan enables them to earn this
money, we have again contributed to
the welfare of the community.”

What better stuff could P-W print?
Who gave it the chance? And so it
went, clear down the line, taking up
point by point the reported criticisms
of the local grocers. And let it be
noted that the chances are rather good
for P-W to put this across, because,
by and large, there are no stores any-
where which, for neatness, cleanliness,
attractiveness and general excellence
of arrangement can be compared with
the P-W stores. How come that gro-
cers do not know this? Probably be-
cause grocers do not visit chain units
to see for themselves—even granting
that some grocers could recognize a
clean store if they saw one.

 

How utterly foolish it is for such
specimens of alleged grocers as the
secretary with whose story I opened
this paper to judge chain organizations
adversely! Every so often I read how
local grocers get together and chortle
with high glee or something like that
when they think they have discovered
an absence of ideals or sound prin-
ciples in some chain organization,
ownet or manager.

Let such men procure the report of
the last chain grocers convention and
read the talk of M. B. Skaggs; this
for example:

“Men—or what we call the human
element—are receiving more considera-
tion than heretofore. Whether the
chain grocery store shal! continue to
gtow and eventually provide the solu-
tion for the problems of distribution
of food, or shall stagnate and be super-
seded by some more efficient and
economical method, will be determined
by the sincerity of purpose and
breadth of vision of the men engaged
in its operation. If the movement is
allowed to degenerate into a mere
money making scheme, if the indi-

 

December 15, 1926

TRADESMAN

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viduals in the organization are there
smply for personal gain, then the
chain store will go the way of all
other purely selfish enterprises—into
oblivion.”

Maybe you do not think Skaggs is
sincere, But are you sincere when you
say you are after something besides
money? Do you wish to be regarded
as sincere? Well, you will not get
that across unless you accord similar
seriousness to other merchants who
say the same things—and Skaggs said
this wondrous well. It is the truth,
interpret it how we will, that if we
aim too exclusively at our own inter-
ests in business, we miss the target.
We may survive, but never do we at-
tain our full measure of development.

J. M. Fly, former president of the
National Chain Grocers Association,
says: “We have always believed in
quality without extravagance rather
than cheap goods cheap. We have
discovered that there has been, for
some years past, a consistent trend
toward better quality, even on the part
of the poorest class of trade.”

Consider that Mr. Fly’s organiza-
tion operates in and about Memphis
and you may realize that he knows
something about “the poorest class.”
For the Old South still ‘thas a flavor
of poverty and the ways of the poor
hardly known in other sections. If,
then, he is correct, it is obvious that
good quality is sought by all and un-
derstood by chains as well as, perhaps
generally better than, by the run of in-
dividual grocers.

I point out these to readers of the
Michigan Tradesman in order that
they may realize that business chang-
es constantly. No man has a monopoly
on any branch of trade. Nobody has
a cinch on any selection of customers.
To cry “unfair” in face of trade in-
novations is about as useful as_ it
would be to say it to a hungry grizzly
bear.

Margins are daily becoming narrow-
er. Coffee has passed out of the class
of easy profits. It is now handled on
a staple margin. Packaged merchan-
dise is removing the excuse for most
of the old style service charge. Gro-
cery merchandising is becoming scien-
tific.

I did not make these conditions. The
chains did not make them. If there had
never been a chain store development,
something else would have supervened
to eliminate slipshod merchandising.
It simply gets down to this: The
grocer who would survive and prosper
henceforth must know his groceries
vastly better, more accurately, than in
the past. And no mere slurs at mer-
chants who have chosen other meth-
ods than his own will get him any-
where particularly—unless it be into
the discard. Paul Findlay.

een emen we
Pork Sausage and Cooler Weather.

Every year when the frost comes on
the grass in the country and the city
dwellers begin to think of starting the
old furnace, the mind automatically
turns to pork sausage and griddle
cakes. About the middle of October
each year is when pork sausage manu-
facturers get busy with their cold

MICHIGAN

weather product, but seasons differ and
if the cooler weather begins ahead of
schedule time the demands go up for
the seasonable product, regardless of
what the calendar says. At the pres-
ent time the more enterprising res-
taurants are offering pork sausage on
their menus and if one stands around
“and listens he will find that about two
out of three order it. Some retail
shops are lagging behind the season
this year and as yet do not carry this
odoriferous morsel, to their own busi-
ness injury and lack of satisfaction to
their patrons. There are many brands
of pork sausage and many of them are
excellent, though slightly different as
to spicing and fat and lean contents.
Some makers who are looking to
profits more than satisfaction to their
patrons include too much fat in their
mixture and in some cases beef and
other kinds of meat that do not help
the finished sausage. A little veal may
be added to the formula and by so
doing the manufacturer may find that
his product suits his particular trade
better than when it is left out, but in
such a case he should not call the
sausage pork sausage, but may proper-
ly use the term fresh sausage, break-
fast sausage or any similar term that
does not carry the intimation that it is
made entirely of pork. The basic in-
gredients of good pork sausage are lean
pork, some fat pork, salt and pepper.
To these may be added many other
spices in varying quantities. Sage is
a popular seasoning in some sections,
but for some unaccountable reason
Sausage seasoned with sage does not
go well around New York, unless the
quantity is so small that its presence
gives little more than a suggestion of
its presence. The pork must be fresh
and of high quality if the sausage is to
be good, and the mistake of adding too
much fat results in the finished prod-
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HARDWARE

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

key.
gat diaeresis L. Glasgow, Nash-
ville.

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

 

 

Last Minute Suggestions in Regard
To Christmas Displays.
Written for the Tradesman.

At this season of the year more than
at any other, the hardware dealer
should put heart and soul into his win-
dow displays. What is worth doing
at all is worth doing well; and this
old principle of action is applicable
especially to the window trim.

Recent years have witnessed a mark-
ed development in hardware window
displays; but even now some mer-
chants fail to grasp the underlying
principle of the really artistic yet busi-
ness-getting window. So we_ have
windows that though artistic are not
business-getting; and other windows
that, though primarily business-getting
yet for lack of a few artistic adjuncts
fail to produce all the results they
should.

As Christmas Eve draws closer, the
hardware dealer must more and more
depend on his window trims. The pub-
lic attitude toward Christmas buying
has measurably altered. Two weeks
ago, the merchant’s task, by means of
newspaper advertising and window
display, was to drive home the idea
that the Christmas buying season had
actually arrived, and that it was
worth while to do that Christmas
shopping early.

Now the stage has been reached
where everybody knows it is Christ-
mas, nearly everybody is looking for
Christmas gifts, and the hardware
dealer's task is to help eager cus-
tomers make an intelligent selection
of gifts. It is along these lines that
he can confer the largest benefits, not
merely on his customers, but on him-
self. And the window trim, used two
weeks ago to drive home the general
idea of Christmas buying, should now
be used to suggest suitable gifts to
people who are doubtful as to what
they should buy.

The idea is difficult to uproot that
unless a merchant can show some-
thing spectacular in his display, or
present a design very much out of the
common, it is hardly worth while to
pay much attention to the windows.
Such is not the case. Some of the least
spectacular Christmas windows are the
most effective. Staple hardware lines
can be so arranged as to attract cus-
tomers and bring business to the
store.

The merchant right now has no need
to run a spectacular display, a model
Santa Claus with reindeer, aeroplanes,
or the like laden with Christmas goods.
Those spectacular - features were a
great deal more useful a couple of
weeks ago when the vital task was to
get the Christmas idea across. To-day
the ordinary gift lines that the dealer
is carrying, helped out by simple
Christmas decorations, will not mere-
ly command attention but make sales,
which is something the spectacular
window does not always accomplish.

Whatever is done should be done
with enthusiasm and in no half-hearted

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

way. Nothing should be attempted
beyond the scope or ability of the mer-
chant to accomplish. If you have a
spectacular display, make it spectacu-
lar beyond all doubt. Do not put on
a display that is neither one thing
nor the other. Do not utilize me-
chanical devices which work one
minute and go on strike the next. Do
not attempt any lighting effects that
fail at the very moment when they are
needed. In fact, do it well or don’t do
it at all.

Unless a dealer has two windows to
devote to display, and unless he has
in previous years established a repu-
tation for handling Christmas gifts,
it is unwise, thus late in the season, to
devote his entire space to spectacular
trims. A window filled with stock
gives a far better idea to the observer
of the lines the merchant carries than
a more elaborate design. In addition,
the “stocky” window has the advan-
tage that the deaer can price his
goods without spoiling the effect. And
right now the great problem of most
Christmas buyers is to find gifts with-
in a Certain price limit.

Here is where the value of the price
ticket comes in.

There should be the most absolute
co-ordination between the window and
the interior. The interest of the ob-
server must not be aroused by the
window trim only to be dissipated the
moment she steps inside the store. In
fact, the entire secret of successful
Christmas advertising is a happy com-
bination between newspaper or circu-
lar announcements, window trims and
interior dispay.

An important feature is to see to it
that the Christmas window is properly
lighted. Light is always essential to
effective window display; but never
more so than when the days are short
and darkness sets in early.

It is too late now to alter your
window lighting for the present sea-
son. But see that the “dead” electric
light bulbs are replaced by live ones,
that dirty bulbs and shades and re-
flectors are cleaned and kept clean, and
that the illumination is A-1. Try to
so arrange your display that no item
shown will interfere with the effective
illumination of the whole.

It pays to keep the windows lighted
through the evening, even when the
store is not open after 6 o'clock. Peo-
ple on the street are more apt to
stop and look at a lighted display after
night than to look in the same window
at the same display in the daytime.
The artificial light seems somehow to
enhance the attractiveness of the dis-
play.

There should be proper co-ordina-
tion, not merely between newspaper
and circular advertising, window trim
and interior display, but between the
sales staff and all these forms of ad-
vertising. It has been a quite common
experience for me to go into a store,
ask for some article advertised or dis-
played in the window, and be referred
by one clerk to another—simply be-
cause the salespeople were not inter-
ested enough to know or care what the
store was advertising for that particu-
lar day. I have gone into a store and
asked for some particular article shown
in the window, and had to point it out

December 15, 1926

 

 

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December 15, 1926

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

before I could get it—simply because
the salespeople didn’t know even what
was being displayed.

Of course there are comparatively
few salespeople so “dumb” as this; but
there are a great many people who
pay no attention to the store’s news-
paper or window advertising, and who
do not take the interest to find out
what specials are being offered from
time to time. It is up to the merchant
to drill his staff in respect to these
matters: to take them into his con-
fidence as to just what he wants them
to do and just what he is aiming to do,
to see that they keep posted all the
time as to specials and advertised lines.

This is particularly necessary right
now, when in almost every store there
are some untrained helpers.

Some merchants adopt the policy of
reserving what they consider their
strongest and most spectacular Christ-
mas window trim for the last few days
before Christmas. If there is a dummy
Santa Claus, it is put in the window
then: if there are any spectacular ef-
fects, they are saved for the last few
days.

This is a mistake. After the middle
of December, hardly anyone needs to
be told that Christmas is coming. The
Christmas spirit is in the air. The
time to use Santa Claus and the spec-
tacular Christmas effects is early in the
season, when it is essential to get the
public thinking along Christmas lines.

Of course, all through the season,
Christmas accessories should be used
in connection with all window trims,
and as far as possible Christmas effects
should be worked into the interior dis-
plays. But they should not be used
to such an extent as to distract atten-
tion from the stock.

The form a window display should
take may be determined by a clear
understanding of the mental attitude
of the public. Early in December, the
average individual is still thinking of
other things than Christmas. Hence,
you have to play up the Christmas
idea. After Dec. 15, the average in-
dividual is asking himself: “What on
earth can I buy for $2 that will make
a nice present for So-and-So? “How
can I stretch $25 to cover all the gifts
I ought to buy?” And it is up to the
dealer to meet this attitude by proffer-
ing the practical suggestions which
will answer such pressing questions.

Hence the “stocky” window display
for the last week or ten days—with
just enough in the way of decorative
Christmas accessories to give it the
needed Christmas touch.

As a general principle, any display
should perform a double function. The
window as a whole must attract atten-
tion and cause people to stop and take
a closer look at it; and the individual
items shown should be of a nature to
induce the passer-by to go inside the
store for a still closer look.

What will most interest the average
individual right now is the goods which
answer the question: “What can I
possibly buy for So-and-So?” So-and-
So may be mother, father, sister,
brother, husband, wife, daughter, son,
baby, or neighbor. So right now the
most effective window would be one
which presents a wide variety of

specific gift suggestions for all sorts of
people.

If you have more than one window,
you might devote one display to gifts
for women and another for men, and
the biggest of all for children. Or
if only two, one for children and the
other for grown-ups. Because with
most purchasers the price limit is
pretty definitely set, it will pay to
ticket everything. From now until
Christmas it will pay to feature the
“stocky” window full of practical gift
suggestions, Victor Lauriston.

—_+--___.
Small Apartments and Cooked Meats.
If one follows the talks given by
men interested in the economics of
meat selling, the emphasis given to
small apartments and cooked meats
cannot escape notice. In one of the
so-called better sections of New York
this week we were talking business
matters over with a meat dealer who
has been in business for a good many
years. Only a comparatively few
years ago the section referred to was
considered the bon ton section of New
York. This was in the days when the
brownstone front was considered the
last word in city abodes. To-day we
find apartment houses coming into the
neighborhood and many of the old
families moving out to Long Island
and other suburban districts, and the
homes they left behind are being torn
down to make places for sky scraping
apartment houses, or in many cases
the old houses are being used for busi-
ness instead of homes. Modern apart-
ments are built on the theory that effi-
ciency in city dwelling means as few
rooms as may be found suitable to
necessities and as little room in the
kitchen as will meet the actual needs
of the residents. With kitchens small
and easily heated, the natural disposi-
tion of those working in them is to
spend as little time there as seems
necessary, and with families small, as
a rule, it is often thought as economi-
cal to buy prepared foods at the higher
cost as to prepare the meals in their
entirety at home, especially when the
cost of gas or electricity used in cook-
ing is considered. Considerable credit
should be given to manufacturers of
foods to-day, and by bringing real
dietitians into their business progress
has been made so that the best of these
foods compare favorably with results
of most home cooks and show an ad-
vantage over untrained cooks. With
this acknowledgment we stop and
wonder if the art of cooking in the
home is being seriously neglected and
if so what our future housewives will
have to offer as special home attrac-
tions, since it has been said many
times that the way to a man’s heart is
through his stomach. We are willing
to give full credit where it is due and
say a good word for deserving food
manufacturers, but we are still old
fashioned enough to believe that there
is nothing that can compare with a
home cooked meal done by a compe-
tent home cook or housewife from the
points of economy, delicious taste, pur-
ity and confidence in it, to say nothing
of the sentiment of such a meal. The
time has not arrived yet when the
average husband prefers the synthetic
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24

COMMERCIAL TRAVELER

“Should Auld Acquaintance Be For-
got?”

Grand Rapids, Dec. 14—With the
help of Edward Frick, Warrey Y.
Barclay and others I have compiled a
list of 231 names of Old Time Travel-
ing Salesmen, many of whom we
knew personally and called them by
their first name.

It is a desire on the part of some of
the boys to hold a reunion in the near
future. Some Saturday for a 1 o’clock
luncheon at the Pantlind. I have
about 100 names on my mailing list
that I think could be reached.

Geo. W. McKay.

Abbott, Geo. E.

Alden, Geo. W.

Amaker, Perry.

Andrews, “Ed”

*Baker “Hub”

*Baker “Ad”

Baker, Walter

Barber, Harry E.

*Barker, Perry.
Barclay, W. Y.
Bass, Chas. H.

*Beecher, “Had”

*Bertsch, Russell

Berner, William.

Bellamy
*Blake, W. F.

*Blocksma, Ralph.

*Boughton, Wm.
*Braisted, “AI”

*Bradford “Jim”

*Bradford “Cass”
Burns, Wilbur S.

*Bailey, C. L.

Blickle, John.

Boer, Rufus.

*Burgess, Major Walter N.

Brooks, Charlie.

*Carroll, “Pat’’

Caro, Leo A.

*Christensen, J. C.

Chase, Herbert E.

*Chase, Frank.

Chappell, Geo. W.

Castenholtz, Fred.

Clemens, O. D.

Cleland, Hermon.

*Conlan, Frank.

Coffey, Geo. A.

*Coffey, G. K.

Collins, W. B.

Cummins, John.

Cornell, F. L.

*Copus, R. J.

Crookston, C. R.

Crawford, Cornelius.

Cramer, Homer.

*Doak, A. J.

*Drew, Charlie.
*Davis, D. A.

Davenport, Byron.

Dawley J. Henry.

Dively, R. M.

De Graff, H. F.

Dudley, Walter B.

Downs, W. H.

Drummond, Dave.

Dryden, Frank.

Dykema, Fred.

*Edmonds, W. B. “Taffy Bill”
*Edmonds, Frank E.

Edmonds, Elmo.

*Emery, Wm. F.

*Emery, Frank.

*Evans, J. B. “Dock”

Evans, “Sam”

Ephlin, Fred.

*Ferguson, Thomas.

Fell, John.

Fightner

Fitzpatrick

Prick, “Ed”

Fox, James

Fox, Peter
*Gates, Aaron B.

*Gane, George.

Garrett, H. W.

Goodrich, D. L.

Grotemat, John.

*Gregory, Harry.
*Haugh, Dave.
*Hatch, “Sam”
Hayden, Stewart.

*Hawkins, “Windy”

 

 

MICHIGAN

Harvey, E. F.
*Herrick, Clif.
*Heinzelman, Geo. H.

Heinzelman, Paul C.
*Hopkns, Irving J.
*Horn, W. S.
*Hoogerhyde, Dave.
Hoops, W. H.
Hondorp, John.
Houghton, Judd.
Huntley, G. R. Show Case
*Ireland, James E.
Ives, Howard.
*Jennings, “By Gee Kripe”
*Johnson, Valda.
*Jones, Will.

Jones, Manley.
Johns, D. W.
Keasey, W. R.
Keyes, D. E.
*Kenning, John E.
Kennedy
Knox, J. S.
Koster, Louis J.
Kuyers, Bert.
Kuppenheimer, Augustavus.
Kymer, J. Leo.
Kolb, John G.
Kortenhoff, E. C.
Lankester, Peter.
Lawton, Walter S.
Landon, “Dick”
*Lemon, Samuel M.
*Levy, Morris.
Levy, Oscar.
Leggett, Charley.
Logie, William.
McKay, Geo. W.
McKean, W. W.
McMahon, James.
*McBurney
*McIntyre, John.
McIntyre, Chas.
McIntyre, Harry
*McInnes, J. B.
*McWhorter, Dave.
McCall, Harry
McGuire, Al.
McPhee, G. N.
*Mallory, M. M.
*Massie, James.
*Martin, John D.
*Mayo, William
Major, Joe.

Mayer, Harry.
Martineau, W. H.
*Meigs, Arthur
*Morrison, Ad.
Morrison, Sam.
*Moore, “Jim.”
Morley, Fred E.
Millar, John H.
Millar, Wm. I.
*Miles, Frank
Mills, Lloyd M. “Max”
*Nash, M. J.
*Newhall, Geo. A.
*Newman, “Sam”
Nienow, A. H.
*Owen, Geo. F.
*Orsinger, Frank W.
*Oswald, Gus.
Oggel, John P.
Oosting, Kryn.
Oostema, Peter.
Osterly, Fred.
Parmenter, Frank
Parker, Frank J.
Perkins, J. S.
Perkins, S. W.
*Pierce, Franklin
Pierce, Geo. A.
Pittwood, W. H.
Pipp, William.
Peck, “Bert”
*Raynor, George.
*Remington, Charlie.
*Reed, Joe F. O.
Reynolds, Chas. P.
Rindge, Lester J.
*Rindge, Will.
*Robinson, “Hi”
*Robinson, Charl‘e
Rogers, A. A.
Rose, George
Roberts, Frank
Rockwell, Arthur C.
*Savage, “Dick”
*Sage, George
*Sears, ‘Steve’
*Seymour, “Seymour Crackers”
*Seymour, Geo. H,

 

TRADESMAN

Sevey, Geo. W.

*Sharp, A. C. ‘Gus”

Shields, John M.

Shields, George

Silbar, U. S.

*Skillman, John “Carload”

*Smith, Ira.

*Smith, Dave, S. W. Co.

Smith, George
*Snitseler, Henry

Shrader

Schroeder

*Skinner, Chas. O.

*Stratton, B. E. “Barney”
*Spurrier, Frank

Stowe, E. A.

Stowitts, Geo. W.

Starkey, Frank H.

*Townsend, “Will”

Thayer, Geo. W., Jr.

Thayer, Glenn P.

Thompson, “Scot.”

Timmerman, H. C.

*Treusch, Morris H.
*Tegge, William.

*Underwood, D. C.
*Van Drezer, P. M.
*Van Leuven, Will.

Van Syckle, W. A.

Warner, Richard “Dick”

Warner, Little Dick.

*Watson, Jesse C.
*Waldron, F. D.
Walton, W. K.
*Weldon, “Cy”
*Wheeler, “Art”

White, D. N.

Whims, M. W.

Wilson, W. K.

*Wilson, Arthur

Williams, Geo. T.
*Williams, Clark

Winchester, Harry

Wilkinson, “Tom”

Woltman, Jerry

Wright, E. D. “Dell”

Those who do not answer are
designated by a star *.

Their faults we write upon the sand,
Their virtues upon the tablets of love

and memory.

Compiled by Geo. W. McKay, with
the assistance of Ed. Frick, W. Y.
Barclay and others.

—_—_~+-—__

If you have an insatiable appetite
for business you may find the most
grouchy customer digestible.

 

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a rooms, $2.50 and up.

ard B. James, Manager.

DETROIT, MICH.

HOTEL

ULLER

Hotel Roosevelt
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250 Rooms—$1.50 up.

Cafeteria in Connection

Moderate Prices

One-half Block North of
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HOTEL KERNS

LARGEST HOTEL IN LANSING

300 Rooms With or Without Bath
Popular Priced Cafeteria in Con-
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E. S. RICHARDSON, Proprietor

 

 

WESTERN HOTEL

BIG RAPIDS, MICH.
Hot and cold running water in ali
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rooms well heated and well venti-
lated. A good place to stop. Amer-
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WILL F. JENKINS, Manager

REIDS HOTEL
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Rates $1.25 and up
Bath $2 to $2.50 Single
DAVID REID, Prop.

HOTEL OLDS
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Absolutely Fireproof

Moderate Rates

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Fire Proof—60 rooms. THE LEAD-
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The best is none too good for a tired
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Columbia Hotel
KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To

 

 

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NILES, MICH.
80 Rooms—50 Baths
30 Rooms with Private Toilets

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Occidental Hotel

FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $1.50 and up
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Muskegon =te Michigan

 

 

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CLARE, MICHIGAN

Absolutely Fire Proof, Sixty Rooms,

All Modern Conveniences. RATES
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KALAMAZOO, MICH.
One Block from Union Station
Rates, $1.50 per day up. -
JOHN EHRMAN, Manager

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

25

 

Working Along the Interesting Santa
Fe Trail.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, Dec. 10
—Qne traveling West via the Santa
Fe route, and desirous of seeing the
country, will do well to arrange his
trip so that nothing will be missed
between Kansas City and the Needles.

For instance, ycu may take a train
from Kansas City in the morning,
pass through Topeka, view all along
the line evidences of Kansas agricul-
tural prosperity and arrive at Hutchin-
son by twilight, where you will find
one of the Fred Harvey hotels and 2
real welcome awaiting you.

On the following morning a con-
venient train will take you to Trini-
dad, Colorado, arriving there about
supper time.

At a respectable hour the next
morning you will find a comfortable
train for Las Vegas (if you wish to
make the Indian detour of three days)
or Lamy, if you desire to go to Santa
Fe. Return to Lamy, for a continu-
ance of your trip.

At Lamy, a delightful Harvey ho-
tel, El Toritz, will give you much joy,
and you wiil do well to stop over there
until the following morning, when you
can take the fast mail to Williams,
Arizona, the entrance to the Grand
Canyon. From there on, which is a
24 hour ride, you can take a sleeper
right from the Canyon direct to Los
Angeles.

I am not speaking of this from a
publicity standpoint, but the fact is
that when you make a trip to any far
distant point you always miss _ that
portion of the scenery which you pass
through during your Pullman night
ride. Furthermore, by carrying out
this program you secure each night, a
comfortable rest, plenty of time to
partake of fine meals, and when you
are journeying by dayight, you can
enjoy all the Pullman comforts, if you
are willing to pay for them, or you
are provided, free of charge, with
seats in reclining chair car, with por-
ter service. If the latter plan is fol-
lowed your first-class hotel accom-
modations will be less than the sleeper
charge.

In makirfg the Indian detour, which
is well worth while, you leave the
Castenada Hotel, at Las Vegas, in a
Packard eight car, with guide, over
the same trail as used by pack trains,
the celebrated pony express of pioneer
days, and the swaying Concord coach-
es of the early 60’s, which made the

run from Independence, Missouri, to |

Santa Fe, in two to three weeks time,
for which the charge for transporta-
tion was $150 for each passenger.

In about 20 minutes from the hotel
you reach Kearney’s Gap, named after
General Kearney, who, at Las Vegas,
took possession of the territory, which
is now New Mexico. It was later in the
Same years that he captured Santa Fe.
A few miles further on we see the
thrusting bulk of Starvation Peak,
where, in 1800, the Indians are said
to have besieged and starved to death
a band of Spaniards. A monument
commemorates this spot and event.

A short distance further on is the
more picturesque Spanish-American
settlement of San Jose. Here, in the
early days was the scene of another
Indian battle, but for the life of me I
failed to find any evidence of same
in the manner of fighting warriors,
scalps or Indian relics. Nothing but
a few hard working squaws, many
Pappoose, and a few dirty, mangy red
men—“braves” as it were. The vil-
lage, however, is made up of adobe
houses or huts in various stages of re-
pair and interesting in detail.

At Cicuye, we spent a full hour
among the partly excavated ruins of
a great pueblo continuously occupied
for 1200 years. Here was the largest
sentiment in New Mexico, a commun-
ity of 2,000 inhabitants. Succeeding
centuries, with the ravages of war and
pestilence, sealed the doom of this city
and it was abandoned nearly a century

ago. At this point stand the massive
walls of an old Spanish church, built
before the landing of the Pilgrim
Fathers, and still in a fairly good
state of preservation.

We digress a few miles to partake
of a luncheon at a very comfortable
ranch house known as Apache Inn, an
all year round tourist resort, and then
return once more to the Santa Fe
trail.

At Glorietta, scene of a decisive
Struggle during the civil war, we are
at an altitude of 7,500 feet, but in the
distance view the snow capped peaks
of the Sangre De Cristo mountains,
some of which rise to a height of 16,-
000 feet. After much twisting, turn-
ing and climbing, we reach Santa Fe
for luncheon at the La Fonda Hotel,
a modern, but adobe structure, an im-
portant link in the Harvey chain, a
feast for hungry people.

My earliest recollections of Santa
Fe was, when the writer was a very
small boy, one of our neighbors in a
little Wisconsin town—Neenah— W.
G. Rich, was appointed governor of
New Mexico by President Grant It
was in his printing office, after his
return from the wild and woolly West,
that I acquired my knowledge of the
printing trade, starting in as the
“Diablo.”

In the whole United States there is
no building comparable in any way,
historically, with the old adobe presidio
of Governors, at Santa Fe. It was
constructed by Spanish settlers who
came to New Mexico in 1598, and was
originally for use as a fortress in de-
fense against the Indian tribes of
those days It was contemporary with
the iVHla of Santa Fe or presidio, as
now known in history. At the time of
its building it was supposedly 400 feet
long, passing the Plaza as at present,
but it has been changed and remodel-
ed, and the citadel which was once
the home of governors—among them
being Gen. Lew Wallace, who wrote
Ben Hur while under its roof, has since
been converted into a museum, in
which I spent several interesting
hours with an old custodian who told
me much about old Santa Fe, all of
which would be interesting if I only
had the space to enlarge on the sub-
ject.

Architecturally, Santa Fe will ever
be known as the “city different.” All
over the United States there exists no
town or city but has borrowed its
architecture from Europe In New
Mexico, familiar to Santa Fe for 300
years, were the terraced dwellings of
the pueblos, the crumbling Franciscan
missions, the Haciendas of the Span-
iard and the Mexican, built from the
soil itself. Truly an American city of
10,000, this type still prevails, with
most awesome and beauteous effect.
Measured by any standard it is attrac-
tive and in Santa Fe, most appropriate.

The entire afternoon having been
disposed of in viewing museum ex-
hibits, monuments—one of them
marking the burial place of the re-
nowned Kit Carson—the old mission
church of St. Michel, the oldest in
America, in a fair state of preservation
and many interesting relics of the past,
we were entertained in the evening by
an historic lecture, which is given for
the benefit of tourists under the
auspices of the Santa Fe Chamber of
Commerce, which has a legitimate
claim to the distinction of being one
of the livest wires in the country.

The next morning was the begin-
ning of another day of interesting re-
search. On the broad highway, con-
gested with motor cars, one visions
horseback Indians in full war regalia
of the long ago, but off the beaten
path the world stands still.

At Tesque we again find many char-
acteristic features of pueblo life. Here
is a quaint church, the plaza (or park)
the adobe houses where each succeed-
ing story shrinks back on the roof of
the one below, and the mud ovens
shaped like the old-time bee hive.

There is the flash of color and dress
in blanket, and the curious beaded
moccasins of the populace, or such
portion of it as are not barefooted.
Sometimes the beautiful Navajo blan-
kets resemble the horse type supplied
by Montgomery and Sears, but the
usages of aboriginal society prescribe
the hand made affair. They use them,
but mostly on sale at bewildering
prices,

For the first time we get an interior
view of the huts which are absolutely
devoid of flooring of any kind, but
with much pretention of decoration
such as the black, blue, white and red
cord woven into ropes. Outside the
huge corrals, roofed with cedar logs,
are piled high with fodder.

From Tesuque we motor to San
Juan, the largest of the inhabited
pueblos in this section, and the hotel
San Gabriel ranch resort, at Alcalde,
to Espenola, with a brief stop at the
little inn there, prior to taking up the
road to Puye, where a very excellent
basket lunch is served. Puye lies to
the West across the Rio Grande river,
high up on the Pjarito plateau. The
way to it is one of wild grandeur,
climbing always, winding like a snake
up the canyons. Everywhere on the
open uplands are evidences of an ex-
tinguished race. Then grass gives

away to forest and without warning
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26

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids

Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Dec. 3—We have to-day
received the schedules, order of reference
and adjudication in the matter of Lyon
Music House, Bankrupt No. 3043. The
matter has been referred to Charles B.
Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt concern is located in Grand
Rapids. The schedules show assets of
$1,946.59 of which $250 is claimed as ex-
empt, with liabilities of $4,466.30. The
first meeting of creditors will be called
promptly and note of the same made

herein. The list of creditors of said
bankrupt are as follows:
City of Grand Rapids _______..___ $166.50
National Cash Register Co., Grand
Bante 15.00
Brown & Sehler, Grand Rapids __ 9.54
Chicago Musical Instrument Co.,
RCAP oe 19.70

Century Music Co., New York City 6.08
Eureka Talking Mach. Co., Chicago 122.08
Everybody Talking Mach. Co.,

Prtiatelpnia 2 14.13
Frank Products Co., Pittsburg —_ 2.89
Fred Gretscg Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. 10.14
Hoyland Lemle Co., Chicago ____ 20.00
S. E. Lind Co., Detroit 10.14

Lyon & Healy, Chicago __________ 431.16
U. S. Music Co., Chicazo 33.00
Mrs. G. J. Paulder, Grand Rapids 150.00
Lambert Paulder, Grand Rapids 1,000.00
Quall Musical Mer. Co., Baltimore 13.60
Starr Piano Co., Richmond, Ind.__ 350.20

Starr Piano Co., Detroit __________ 235.16
Selmer Inc., New York City ____ 6.65
Schultz & Moening Co., Chicago 75.00
Mich. Bell Tel. Co., Grand Rapids 14.50
Commercial Finance Corp., Grand
RcANORCNAS ee 716.66
Leo Feist Inc., New York City __ 8.52

Bert Ten Harkel, Grand Rapids__ 500.00
Weiss & Weiss, Grand Rapids __ 110.00
Wurzburg Dept. Store, Grand Rap. 34.15

Dec. 6. On this day was held the ad-
journed first meeting of creditors in the
matter of James Monahan, Bankrupt No.
3015. The bankrupt was not present or
represented. No appearances were had.
No trustee was appointed. The first
meeting 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 final
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Ross L. Renwick, Bankrupt No. 2789. The
trustee's final report and account was
considered and approved and_ allowed.
Administration expenses were approved
and ordered paid. Claims were proved
and allowed. An order was made for the
payment of expenses and for the declara-
tion of a first and final dividend to cred-
itors. The amount of the dividend has
not been determined and upon the same
being made certain note of the amount
will be made here.

On this day also was held the final
meeting of creditors in the matter of
John R. Dertien, Bankrupt No. 2673. The
bankrupt was not present or represented.
The trustee was present in person. Claims
were proved and allowed. The trustee’s
final report and account was considered,
approved and allowed. An order was
made for the payment of expenses of ad-
ministration and for the declaration and
payment of the services of attorneys as
far as the funds on hand permit. There
will be no dividends for general creditors.
No objections were made to the discharge
of the bankrupt. The case was adjourned
without date and the same will be closed
and returned to the district court in due
course.

In the matter of Orville R. Wakley,
Bankrupt No. 3035, the funds for the
first meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for Dec. 21.

In the matter of Irvine Mortensen,
Bankrupt No. 3040, the funds for the
first meeting have been received and
such meeting has been called for Dec. 21.

In the matter of Joseph Cieslewicz,
Bankrupt No. 3041, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for Dec. 21.

In the matter of Stuart F. Lyon, indi-
vivdually and doing business as Lyon
Music House, Bankrupt No. 3043, the first
meeting has been caleld for Dec. 21.

In the matter of Amie Bourdon, Bank-
rupt No. 3039, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for Dec, 21.

Dec. 7. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Roy H. Quay,
Bankrupt No. 3044. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Grand Rapids, and his occupation is
that of a battery repairer. The schedules
show assets of $437.80 of which $225 is
claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$724.51. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of the same, the first
meeting of creditors will be called and
note of the same made herein. The list
of creditors of said bankrupt are as fol-
lows:

Nathan Sklar, Grand Rapids _____ $100.00
Industrial Mortgage & Investment
Co., Grand Rapids ______________ 70.00

 

MICHIGAN

Stehouwer Bros., Grand Rapids __ 30.00
Dr. T. W. Hammond, Grand Rapids 135.00

George Backart, Grand Rapids ____ 15.00
John Boersma, Grand Rapids ____ 15.95
Thomas Krapp Motor Sales Co.,

Grand Rapids 2 19.00
Ed. Morris, Grand Rapids __________ 35.00
T. Kleimen & Son, Grand Rapids 18.56

Christenson Ice & Fuel Co., Grand
Bapids <2 ee 5.00
Leonard McCaul, Grand Rapids __
Dr. D. A. Dickson, Grand Rapids
Bert Vandershwur, Grand Rapids
Dr. Rowland F. Webb, Grand Rap. 5.00

Central Grocery, Grand Rapids __ 5.00
Cnase Bros., Grand Rapids _______ 7.00
Mr. Epstine, Grand Rapids _______ 8.00

Dr. C. H. Bull, Grand Rapids ____ 30.00
Dec. 7. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of J. Thomas Deacey,
Bankrupt No. 3045. The matter has been
referred to C. B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Evart, and his occupation is that of
a proprietor of a moving picture theater.
The schedules show assets of $11,866.50
of which $641.50 is claimed as exempt,
with liabilities of $16,474.69. The first
meeting of creditors will be called
promptiy, and note of the same made
herein. The list of creditors of said
bankrupt are as follows:
County treasurer, Hersey ________ $ 715.93
G. R. Trust Co., Grand Rapids__ 5,350.00

Frank S. Smith, Ewart ___.___ 27.00
Evart State Bank, Evart _____ 5,437.63
Hersey Banking Co., Hersey ____ 1,337.50

First National Bank of Manistee 2,169.00

William R. Shore, Evart ________ 214.00
James H. Deacey, Evart ________ 130.00
Ralph W. Miles, Detroit ________ 457.00
National Theatre Supply Co.,

MORI OU es 16.53
Columbia Pictures Corp., Detroit 12.00
Geo. W. Minchin, Evart ______ 346.10
Dr. D. D. Rowe, Saginaw ________ 30.00
Stewart Bros., Big Rapids ______ 60.00
C. Arthur Preston, Oconta, Wis._ 18.00
Evart Milling Co., “Evart ____ 104.00
William B. Turner, Evart ______ 50.00

In the matter of James K. Shanahan,
Bankrupt No. 3016, the trustee has filed
in court his report of the receipt of an
offer in the sum of $500 from A. M. Ep-
stein, of Kalamazoo, for all of the assets
of this estate as shown by the inventory
and appraisal on file. The property con-
sists of men’s and boy’s furnishings, etc.,
and is located at Lawton, and appraised
at $954.04. The date fixed for sale is
Dec. 20. The sale will be held at the
referee’s office. An inventory is in the
hands of the referee and also in the hands
of M. N. Kenney, trustee, 250 S. Burdick
street, Kalamazoo. All interested should
be present at the time and place named.

In the matter of Henry Bosscher and
Robert Westveld, trading as De Young &
Co. and De Young Bros., Bankrupt No.
3029, the trustee has reported the re-
ceipt of an offer of $750 for the stock in
trade and fixtures of said estate. The
property consists of a complete stock of
groceries and fixtures for the conduct of
such business, all of which is located at
Grand Rapids, and appraised at $2,500.51.
The sale will be held at the office of the
referee in bankruptcy. The sale will be
held at 2 p. m., Dec. 20. An inventory
is in the office of the referee and in the
hands of Edward De Groot, trustee, 450
Houseman building, Grand Rapids. All
interested should be present at the time
and place of sale.

Dec. 8. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Holland Canning
Co., a Michigan corporation, Bankrupt
No. 3046. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptcy. The bankrupt concern is located
at Hoiland. The schedules show assets
of $204,503.80 with liabilities of $183,246.09.
The first meeting of creditors has been
called for Dec. 21. The list of creditors
of said bankrupt are as follows:

TRADESMAN

C. J. Lokker, Holland __________ 500.00
Henry Gerrlings, Holland ______ 500.00
Daniel Ten Cate, Holland ~_____ 500.00
National Lumberman’s Bank,
Massiveron eo ee 7,650.00
First State Bank of Allegan __ 3,000.00
Old Nat. Bank, Grand Rapids. 3,375.00
Peoples Savings Bank, Grand R. 5,400.00
H. Brower & Co., Hamilton _.-_ 3,000.00
Andrew Steketee, Holland ____ 5,000.00
Arnold Mulder, Holland ________ 800.00
First State Pank, Holland ____ 25,000.00
Peoples State Bank, Holland __ 14,200.00

Holland City State Bank, Holland 15,000.00

Fred Bertsch, Holland ______-__-_ 500.00
®B. Brower, Holland —| 1,500.00
H. Brinkman, Holland __________ 500.00
Benner Chemical, Chicago ______ 250.00
C. 1: Corey, Holland 1,000.00
H. Gerrlings, Holland _______ 725.00
E. H. House, Saugatuck ______ 1,512.65
T. Johnson Co., Chicago ________ 5,771.30
H. Kraker, Holland ____________ 100.00
C. J. Lokker, Holland __________ 1,725.00
L. Lugers, Holland _____________ 1,725.00
Leonard Seed Co., Chicago ____ 500.00
Michigan Trust Co., Grand Rap. 800.00

Pie Bakeries of America, Detroit 16,299.30

D. Ten Cate, Holland ___.____ 1,625.00
U. S. of America, Chicago ______ 6,000.00
W. Vander Ven, Holland ______ 1,500.00
Westerlin & Campbell Co., Chicago 650.00
Guarantee Bond & Mortgage Co.,

Grand Rapids, 2200 4,500.00
J. Arendshorst, Holland ______ 177,27
Biddie Purchasing Co., Chicago -60
Bradley Stencil Mach. Co.,

Chicago. 92.50
John Boone, Holland ____.__ 19
W. G. Bragg, Richmond, Va. __ 11.08
Continental Can Co., Chicago__ 341.98
Costello & Co., Decatur, Il. 62.73
Chess & Wymond Co., Louis-

Willie, Wey, 919.51
Dunkley Co., Kalamazoo ________ 255.00
DePress Hdwe. Co., Holland __ 185.62
F. H. Drobisch & Co., Peoria, I 3.00
W. H. Edgar & Son, Detroit __ 2,966.00
Evans Coal Co., Detroit ________ 793.30
Fennville Canning Co., Fennville 155.61.
F. G. Findley Co., Milwaukee _ 48.31
De Grondwet, Holland ________ 36.25
Holland Bedding & Upholstering

o., totand 202 12.00
Evan W. Hock, Inc., Baltimore,

NN ee Bc Co et 30.87
Imperial Lithographing Co.,

Malwaukes 2000 205.90
T. Johnson Co., Chicago ________ 640.98
L. M. Kenny Co., Saginaw ______ 49.17
W. C. Lunt Co., Kansas City, Mo. 4.84
Logan Brokerage Co., Wichita,

Bans ee 46.25
Lee, Kaufman & Gale, Chicago 13.91
Mid West Brokerage Co., Mil-

MV AUKSD ee ae 5.62
Magee-Wajert Co., Pittsburgh,

ee Se ee 3.19
Geo. Mooi Roofing Co., Holland_ 21.74
J. J. MacKinnon Co., Columbus 212.62
Michigan Lithographig Co.,

Grand “Rapigs (oS 1,798.95
G. Moeke & Sons, Zeeland ____ 578.64
National Grocer Co., Detroit __ 430.51
National Grocer Co., Decatur, Ill. 25.00
Northern Coal Co., Detroit ____ 891.39
J. M. Paver Co., Chicago ______ 35.21
Pittsburgh & Ohio Mining Co.,

Cleveland 06 500.00
A. W. Pinger Co., Minneapolis_ 9.62
F. Raniville Co., Grand Rapids 102.74
Russell Brokerage Co., St. Joseph,

RA) ee 6.19
Ruggles & Rademaker, Manistee 111.30
Superior Pure Ice Co., Holland_ 14.52
J. & M. Steiner Co., Milwaukee * 15.40
Standard Oil Co., Holland ______ 129.54
O. W. Stoltz & Co., Ottumwa,

TOW 11.25
Scott-Luger Lumber Co., Holland 92.47
J. A. Schoo & Co., Louisville,

ea 6.98
State Accident Fund, Lansing __ 175.02
Steketee-Van Huis Printing Co.,

olan os 241.47
Tildesley Coal Co., Cincinnati _ 83.34
Thomas Brokerage Co., Ft. Wayne -20
Tenser & Phipps, Pittsburgh __ 82.35
Vanden Berg Bros., Holland __ 212.69
Visscher Brooks, Holland _______ 171.90
White Bros. Elec. Co., Holland 30.27
Wa-Ken-Va Fuel Corp., Cincin-

RUA ee ee ea 191.60
Western Mich. Packing Co.,

SaQllane oe ee 572.56
C. W. Wackker, St. Louis, Mo. 46.46
John McGee, Fennville ________ 20.36
Peoples State Bank, Holland __ 2,097.71

In the matter of Genevieve B. Malloy,

Bankrupt No. 3021, the trustee has filed

City of Helland os $ 1,960.44
Gerrit J. Diekema, Holland ____ 46,050.00
Con Depree, Holland _______ 2,500.00
G. J. Diekema, Holland _______ 2,500.00
C. M. McLean, Holland ___—___ 2,500.00
A. H. Landwehr, Holand ______ 2,500.00
C. J. Lokker, Holland _____._ 5,000.00
Luke Lugers, Holand _____ 5,000.00
Henry Gerrlings, Holland _____ 5,000.00
Daniel Ten Cate, Holland _____ 5,000.00
Martha D. Kollen ____-. 1,000.00
P. Henry DePree, Holland ______ 1,000.00
Hein Brinkman, Holland ________ 1,000.00
Jacob DePree, Hollad _________ 1,000.00
E. P. Stephan, Holland ____ 1,000.00
Albert H. Meyer, Holland ______ 1,000.00
Dick Boter, Holland ___ 1,000.00
Thomas H. Marsilje, Holland __ 1,000.00
Frank Bolhuis, Holland _______ 1,000.00
Du Mez Brothers, Holland ____ 1,600.00
Henry Pelgrim, Holland _______ 1,000.00
Henry Derks, Holland ____ 750.00
John E. Kuizenga, Holland ____ 750.00
J. B. Mulder, Holland ____._ | 500.00
Henry Winter, Holland _______ 500.00
Jacob Gerrlings, Holland ____ 500.00
Henry J. Luidens, Holland ____ 300.00
Fred T. Miles, Holland ______ 250.00
B. A. Mulder, Holland _____ 500.00
Luke Lugers, Holland ________ 500.00

his first report and account and an order
has been made for the payment of ex-
penses of administration.

In the matter of Harry Epstein, Bank-
rupt No. 2952, the trustee has filed his
first report and account and a first divi-
dend of 10 per cent. has been ordered paid
to general creditors. Administration ex-
penses have also been ordered paid.

Dec. 7. (Delayed). On this day was
held the final meeting of creditors in the
matter of The Regent Theater Co., Bank-
rupt No. 2958. There were no appear-
ances. Claims were proved and allowed.
The trustee’s final report and account
Was approved and allowed. Administra-
tion expenses having heretofore been or-
dered paid and the claimants under the
first and second mortgages having receiv-

 

December 15, 1926

ed the balance of the funds to apply on
such mortgage, the meeting adjourned
without further proceedings. No objec-
tions were made to the discharge of the
bankrupt. The final meeting then ad-
journed without date and will be closed
and returned to the district court at an
early date.

In the matter of Ross L. Renwick,
Bankrupt No. 2789, the final dividend to
creditors has been determined to be 33
per cent.

Dec. 9. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Anthony E. Pitch,
Bankrupt No. 3047. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident

_of Danby township, Ionia county, and his

occupation is that of a farmer. The
schedules show assets of $725 of which
the full interest is claimed as exempt,
with liabilities of $2,691.93. The court
has written for funds, and upon receipt
of the same, the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called and note of the same
made herein. The list of creditors of said
bankrupt are as follows:

Dr. R. W. Alton, Portland ______ $ 74.50

Dr. V. A. Benedict, Portland ____ 84.50
Peter Trierweiler Pewamo  ______ 95.25
Anthony Piine, Pewamo —________ 1,050.00
Bernard Sontag, Portland ________ 800.00
Effie M. Wrath, Portland ________ 587.68

Dec. 10. We have to-day received the
schedules, order of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Mike Maloley,
Bankrupt No. 3048. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee
in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of Grand Rapids, and his occupation
was that of a grocer. The schedules
show assets of $250 of which the full in-
terest is claimed as exempt, with liabili-
ties of $1,790.98. The court has written
for funds and upon receipt of the same,
the first meeting of creditors will be
called and note of the same made herein.
The list of creditors of said bankrupt are
as folows:

Brunswick, Balke Collander Co.,

ChaCaeo 2 oe $489.20
Grombacker & Major, Grand Rapids, 87.05
Dunn Elec. Co., Grand Rapids __"109.03

Birk Candy Co., Chicago ~_______ 292.89
Hekman Biscuit Co., Grand Rap. 89.79
H. A. Nejem, Grand Haven _____- 177.36

Mike Davies, Grand Rapids ____ 43.90
Specialty Candy Co., Grand Rapids 1.60
Holland-American Wafer Co.,

Grand Rapids’ 20 7.70
Mich. Bell Tel. Co., Grand Rapids 27.72
A. E. Gidrie, Grand Rapids ______ 31.15

Vanden Berge Cigar Co., Grand R. 288.92
Holland Cigar Co., Grand Rapids
Sani Pakt Product Co., New York
Meyering Elec. Co., Grand Rapids
Chase & Sanborn Co., Chicago __ 75.10
Dec. 10. We have to-day received the
Schedules, order ‘of reference and adjudi-
cation in the matter of Earl Shedlon,
Bankrupt No. 3049. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee
in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of the township of Antwerp, Van
Buren county, and his occupation is that
of a salesman. The schedules show as-
sets of $371 with liabilities of $3,636.52.
The court has written for funds and upon
receipt of the same, the first meeting
of creditors will be called and note of
the same made herein. The list of cred-
itors of said bankrupt are as follows:

Arthur Sheldon, Lawton __________ $ 40.00
Lewis Dales, Lawton _____.._____ 60.00
Mrs. John Gardner, Lawton ______ 27.21
Eliza Dibble, Lawton ____.... 19.95
Ruth Stearns, Lawton _____._____ 5.24
Amster & Clark, Lawton ________ 232.50
Carl Bartlett, Lawton __________ 200.00
First National Bank, Lawton ____ 63.50
National Bank, Paw Paw ___.__ 160.00
Geo. Spencer, Lawton _____..._. 120.00
National Bank, Lawton _______ 400.00
E. A. Wildy, Paw Paw __________ 1,129.00
Geo. Lambert, Lawton _______ 87.62
Abbott Bros., Lawton ____________ 25.00
Bernard Stern, Lawton __________ 24.00
Carl Bartlett, Lawton ____.... 24.00
Amster & Clark, Lawton ________ 232.50
Joan McKeys, Lawton __________ 232.50
First National Bank, Lawton __ 263.50
Frank Merchant, Paw Paw ______ 160.00
Geo. Spencer, Lawton ____________ 120.00

Dec. 7. (Delayed). On this day was

held the final meeting of creditors in the
matter of Earl Woodhams, as Woodhams
Sheet Metal Co., Bankrupt No. 2726.
There were no appearances. The trus-
tee’s final report and account was ap-
proved and allowed. The bills for admin-
istration were approved and ordered paid.
An order was made for the declaration
and payment of a final dividend of 10 per
cent to general creditors. No objections
were made to the discharge of the bank-
rupt. The final meeting then adjourned
without date. The case will be closed
and returned to the district court at an
early date.
———_~?.2-.—_____.
Little Words.
“Love” and “home” are little words,
And “flower” and ‘‘sea”’ and “star”;
And yet they help the heart to find
Where God and glory are!
Edith Daley.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27
DRUGS Cardboard covered with red brick
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Mee oi oe a SALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
resident—James B. Way, Jackson. mantels, for + ind i i
pavicesPreesident ee cad a sp use in windows, on count- Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
*Director—H. H. Hoffman, Lansing. hris ; Acids Cotton Seed -_-_ 1 25@1 5
Coming Examinations—Detroit, Jan. 18, poi seas oe cae be form- Boric (Powd.) __ 12%@ 20 Cubebs oo 5006 73 foo oe o: 0
19 and 20; Grand Rapids, March 15, 16 4 of cardboard cut in conical shape Borie (Xtal) _. 15 @ 25 eaten ~------~ £ (G9 25 Benzoin Comp’d- @2 65
4 : : - “arbolic _... 3 ? ucalyptus ____ 150 Buc 5
: a Se cong a naga en green crepe paper; Citrig 7 g c Hemlock, pure__ 1 1302 00 feat oe 33
To Dispente Hit Class Malted Mik yo, oai’n ee an mane: Neate, ————- 7c | We woe ieee ee or as
In order to serve a first class malted A ss oe we logget Mee @ int ei ieee Ce 99s
og ee : co eaves, evergreen needles, etc. Sulphuric ______ maa § Tee Ret 1 ees 40 Colchicum ____ =
milk, it is important to d'spense Cranberries threaded Tartaric ~-___-- 0 @ 0 enaet ow 7 0@7 15 Cubehe os
nothing but a reliable brand. In the : Se threaded and hung por- Lemncct Garn- | $5@1 20 Digitalis ________ = =
: tiere fashion can be used as hangin i os co a Goan ge
next place we have found that a little 1 : [ on Ammonia Linseed, raw, bbl. @ 89 Ginger, D. S. __ @1 30
re powder GE coe eke oS cca decorations. Water, 26 deg...06 @ 16 Linseed, boiled bbl. @ 92 Guaiac _.___ oe @2 20
gooc Cotton, covered with artificial _ Water, 18 deg...05%@ 13 Linseed, bid. less 99@112 Guaiac, Ammon... @2 00
drink, that plenty must be used. You faa ba tac +i ai snow noe 14 deg... 04%@ 1 woe rw. less 96@109 Iodine ___________ @ 95
will get the best results and a rich eo) Sotepoard shapes and Chi ide (G ran. is Se Neatet aa ate “" @ 38 Iodine, Colorless. @1 50
: : used in various places to d t h oride (Gran. 09 @ 20 Ne 5 A at $5@1 60 Iron, Clo. @1 35
drink by filling the cup from one- wakes Chavis " denote the bse iy oe 3 78@450 King @1 40
: es istmas atmosphere. Bals co 5 ere on
sala oo i of loose pow- . ——~+~++___ Copaiba ___._ 5@1 25 Ollve, “Malaga,” °@2 % Nux Vomica —-  @1 55
der. ve next thing we discovered atrons of a Drug Store For One Day. Fir (Canada) __275@3 00 green __ 2 75@3 00 Geni. Camp. __ e a
was that a little salt improved it, un- Purchasers of postage stamps 26 c ea) 3 0093 23 oa Sawer Gece Oplum. Becdorsd = @s Se
S : : e | a s s = oN  Peéra oo 5 riganum, pure_ @2 50 Rh 2
less sweet flavor was to be added. Salt People with checks to be cashed__ 5 Tole 2 2 00@2 25 Origanum, com’! 1 00@1 20 ubarb -------- @1 70
brings out the flavor and prevents a telephone users 2. 15 penser Le : -
plain malted milk from having a flat Salesmen ee SF aa pais Rose, pure “1B s0@14 00 Paints
taste. The water must then be added Smokers looking for free matches 11 Cassia ‘eae. 500 60 cciwed a eT Teed: wee ary, hee
so as not to lump the powder, for Men with advertising cards for win- Sar Co pay _* I s7on---7--~ 10 50@10 75 Lead, white oll BM 15%
malted milk is never good unless it is dows - 7 “Pai 18@ 25 Sancatran arti : 1B@1 00 es ar
Bees ore) sy eee vccogipt wm esmrtere mse tcen, San 08) 1c mee Mah yes Seen et cE SINISE 5 Seteiameme tet emma _ > c » I
. smooth drink. The boys must be Job hunters ______.___ 6 a ee a wes a Boa Vena ace ees
Bi e : : rete erries We rere ao Red Venet’ :
instructed to whip the drink smooth People looking for liquor ________ 26 Cubed @100 2any  ---------- 9 00@9 25 Putty oe co 8
with the electric mixer in case they Bootleggers to sell liquor 6 th. ee Theruentn (mi "oa wie bbl. —— 9 %
ho no OURS Sers tO) sell liquor ; ontine, . a Whiting 22...
fail to secure a smooth drink when Idlers to read magazines ________ 12 Prickly, sa *O1 28 Turpentine, less 1020115 L. H. P. vlna 2 sos 05
adding the water. When adding the Investigators for advertising a ‘naa OO Tee
water do not fill the cup quite full. agencies co  . 4 Extracts Wintergreen, sweet —e
After mixing add a spoonful of whip- Men to decorate windows for some on mowed oS Wintergnida, art : 15)! 00 i
bed Geegnt ind gue again adenc ue s : orice, powd. -- 50@ 60 Woe cd "__-- 8 00@8 25 Acet ae ai
enough water to fill the cup. In this People to tae city disectary oo 6 Flowers ee OS kee 08@ 2
way a rich creamy malted milk is se- Th iri — A @ 4% “eroung
: ‘ ose desiring change for bill ile (Ged.) i SUE acm ¢ .
cured, a little different from other and Tourists see pono pas 7 . Chamarmtte a o 50 Bicarb oa 35@ 40 ae ian
Sg : “ Lourists asking information ______ “- icarbonate -_-- 5 Peete 8
more business. If you don’t believe it ld ladies for advice on @ gain 9 Bichromate -__-- 15@ 25 Borax xtal or o
makes a difference try it, then you ; ; ‘es oe fon ie on ee eee, = B02 On
oe , 3 Flappers also for advice on a pain 9 Acacia, 1st ______ 50@ 55 Bromide ------ 54@ 71 Cantharades, po, 1 50@2 00
: Newspaper merchandising crew Acacia, 2nd _... 45@ 50 ies cae CO SMomer -___._. aa” a
renee 8 ns Acacia, Sorts _.. 20@ 25 ee, new: 16 . Capsicum, pow'd | 35@_ 40
Simple But Useful. a +--+ 5 Acacia, Powdered 35@ 40 Cyanide 300 90 Carmine, a5----- 7 00@7 50
Christmas decorations need not be Customers ----------------______- t ao {earn Paw) 30 33 eo oe ge oo - oe gee ——-- 509 55
: i ; : o : . =e ‘Aldes (Soc. ‘ermanganate -. 20G 3) Chalk Prepared. 14 16
expensive. It is possible with simple Stumbling Block or Stepping Stone. Asatte 2 500 60 Sven veuow 40@ $0 Chloroform °____ 510 60
materials, plus a novel idea, to attain Isn’t it strange that Princes and Kings EOW.) 75@1 00 Bt voseg eal 350 40 Pn name | ie. S
decorative and interesting effects. pie — gy oad in sawdust rings, Gnu eo 30 oe Cocoa Butter ~ : ‘330. 73
a : mon folks like fa ee = : i ess.

A little thought will evolve many Are Builders for Eternity? tees a ee ae Roots Copperas.” wh %@ 10
Cee : fro) Gee 1 10 Seas =e ‘i
possibilities in decoration, and the fol- 7 each i given & bee of inca Kino, powdered__ 61 go Alkanet __._____ 30@ 35 Copperas, Powd. 4@ 10
lowing suggestions may help you A shapeless mass and a book of rules; Myrrh -----___. 2 ae Beto oe “ cram i ie ee
along : And each must make, ere life is flown : aa a men = ee ak 2@ 30 Cuttle bone ~~ . 10@ 50

: : : ’ pium, powd. 5 ’ ° ee ae
A stumbling block or a stepping stone. Opium, sa 19 65@19 92 Gentian, powd._. 20@ 30 Dextrine -_-_____ 6@ 15
Gime 65@ 80 Ginger, African, Dover’s Powder 3 50@4 00
Shellac Bleached 10@ 85 (Powdered -——__ nee Doo oe le. a 2
ragacanth, pow. @175 Ginger, Jamaica. 60@ 65 , ere
Tragacanth __1 75@2 25 Ginger, Jamaica, _  Bpeen So Oe.
BLANK BOOKS FOR 1927 Turpentine —~-—- @ 30 (powdered -___-_ ie Dot en ease
Goldenseal, pow. @8 50 ponte. ta gh -= _@2 50
Are your customers supplied? We Insecticides ieee peal fa 35@ 40 Formaldehyde, “it 15%@30
: ce ee Licorice, powd._. 20@ 30 Gelatine -_---__. 80@ 90
carry a large line of Blue Vitiiol, bbL “7 Orris, powdered. 30@ 40 Glassware, less 55%.
Blue Vitriol, less 08@ ig Poke, powdered 35@ 40 Glassware, full case 60%.
LEDGE Bordea. Mix Dry 13@ 22 Rhubarb, powd.__ @1 00 pile at ee ae
RS, Hellebore, White Rosinwood, powd. @ 49 Glauber Salts less 04@ 10
JOURNALS powdered —_____ 18@ 30 oe noe 9 Glue, Eeows Grd 130 20
. Insect Powder __ 35@ 45 _ Sround ________ 0 ; .
CORDS Lead Arsenate Po. 8 31 Polak aa Mexican, a we Tees 274@ =
oe 4 5 , ite Td.
RECORDS, time end Suber 4 4, Sule eG WS Gets BO ie
ds Gee 2 Squills, powdered 60@ 70 Hops --------__- 10@ _ 85
Oa of eee ee es ae
B , powd... @1 00 lodoform --_____
: Leaves Lead Acetate _. 20@ 30%
Mace 2 @1 50
Buch 723 85@1 00
: M i. a
All Sizes and Styles. Buchu, powdered_ | @1 00 : naede wie 098 $0
feet x; co Prego yy S ae or ue 85 Morphine ____ 11 18@11 93
; i nise, powdere 40 Nux Vomica
Also COUNTER BOOKS, PETTY DAY BOOKS, TALLY |] S282, pawderea"”@ 5 Bira, 1a TT 18@ 17 Nux Vomlea, pow. 179 25
: eee UE) " :
BOOKS, BUTCHERS, GROCERS OR GENERAL STORE Senna, Tinn. pow. 30@ 35 Caraway, Po. 30 25@ 30 pebber, Whiterow, som 22
PASS BOOKS, ORDER BOOKS, MINIATURE BLANK hae ease OO ® Coriander pow. 730 206° ge Bitch, "Burgudry " 20@ 25
MEMOR- Dill — fe 8 a... ue
: Se EE | eee momen Quinine, 5 oz. cans 59
ANDUM BOOKS Oils Fennell —___—__- 6G @ Uncheie Sale Ma
A Almonds, Bitter, Plax —------.---- 08@ 15 Sacharine 80
Simple Account, and ane a et Foon, orga wd 80 be Salt Peter nes a a
Sheacaod Arch Piles monds, er, oenugreek, pwd. Seidlitz Mixture. 30@ 40
, artificial __.___ 3 00@3 25 Hemp —-_-_-___.. 8@ 15 soa =
LETTER FILES, etc. Almonds, Sweet, Lobelia, powd. -. _@160 Soap mott cast. 2%0 38
true 150@1 80 Mustard, yellow 17@ 25 Soap, white castile
B q dav’ Almonds, Sweet, Mustard, black-_. 20@ 25 ~ case 2 50
etter order to ay. imitation -__. 1 00@1 25 Poppy - _-___-_-- 15@ 30 Soap white castile
Drop in and see sam- Amber, crude __ 1 25@1 50 Quince -_______ 1 00@1 25 less, per ba 14
Amber, rectified 150@1 75 Rape —--.-______ 5@ 20 "ee oo :
1 k i i Soda Ask 3@ 10
ples or ask our sales- muse 1 40@1 60 Sabadilla -__.___ 50@ 60 Soda Bicarbonate 3%@ 10
Bergamont ____11 50@11 75 Sunflower ____-_ 11%@ 15 «
“— 4 Cajeput 150@1 75 Worm, American 30@ 40 soutte Manrsre “2S
Boel Seats Sees Bhat ae S g @assia 20200) 4 00@4 25 Worm, Levant _ 5 00@5 25 rea ea 2 =
: Castor 1 50@1 75 Seika Sem. tae ae
ee L Sulphur, Subl. _. 4%@ 10
azelt ne er ns ug ompany Cedar Leaf ____ 1 75@2 00 : Tanvasinda QO 2
Citronella ______ 1 25@1 50 Tinctures =§_—s Tartar Emetic __ om
Wholesale Only Ce 3 00@3 25 Aconite ____-__- @180 Turpentine, Ven. so 1
Manistee MICHIGAN Grend Rapids boa steal 3 os = en @i 45 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 75@2 25
Po aaa esa (ann a @110 Vanilla Ex. pure 2 50@3 00
pe oetida @2 40 Zinc Sulphate _. 06@ 11

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

December 15, 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
are liable to change at any time,

going to press. Prices, however,
and country merchants will have their orders

 

 

filled at market prices at date of purchase.
ADVANCED DECLINED
Rolled Oats Veal
Pork
Lard

Canned Salmon

 

—————

AMMONIA
Arctic, 10 oz., 3 dz. es. 3 75
Arctic, 16 oz., 2 dz. es. 4 00
Arctic, 32 oz., 1 dz. es. 3 25
Quaker, 36, 12 oz. case 3 85

 

10 Ib, pails, per doz. 8 50
15 Ib. pails, per doz. 11 95
25 Ib. pails, per doz. 19 50

BAKING POWDERS

Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 35
Queen Flake, 16 oz., dz 2 25
Royal, 10c, doz. 95

Royal, 6 oz., do. ___. 2 70
Royal, 12 oz., doz. __ 5 20
moval, S$ ib. 2 31 20
Rocket, 16 oz., doz.__ 1 25
K. C. Brand

Per case
10c size, 4 doz. ..__._ 3 70
15¢e size, 4 doz. ~.____ 50
20c size, 4 doz. ______ 7 20
25c size, 4 doz. ______ 9 20
50c size, 2 doz. -_.___ 8 80
80c size, A oz, 8 85
10 Ib. size, % doz. ____ 6 75

Freight prepaid to jobbing
point on case goods.
Terms: 40 days net or 2%
cash discount if remittance
reaches us within 10 days
from date of invoice. Drop
shipments from factory.

BEECH-NUT BRANDS.

 

Mints, all flavors _... 60
tm 70
Fruit Drops 0 70
Caramels - 70

Sliced bacon, large __
Sliced bacon, medium
Sliced beef, medium _
Grape Jelly, large ___
Grape Jelly, medium__
Peanut butter, 16 oz.
Peanut butter, 10% oz.
Peanut butter, 6% oz.
Peanut butter. 3% oz.
Prepared Spaghetti __
Baked beans, 16 oz.__

Pot bet et DO HE DO DO CO OT
2
a

BLUING
The Original
Condensed

UW? oz., 4 dz. cs. 300
13 0Z., 3 dz. cs. 3 75

   
  

BREAKFAST FOODS

Kellogg’s Brands,

Corn Flakes, No. 136
Corn Flakes, No. 124

Corn Flakes, No. 102 2 00
Pep, No. 224. 2 ; =
Pep, No. 202

Krumbles, No. 424 ___ 2 7
Bran Flakes, No. 624 2 45
Bran Flakes, No. 602 1 50

Post’s Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s _____ 3 80
Grape- Nuts, 1008
Instant Postum, No. 8
Instant Postum, No. 9
Instant Postum, No. 10
Postum Cereal, No. 0
Postum Cereal, No, 1
Post Toasties, 36s __
Post Toasties, 24s
Post’s Bran, ‘24s

BROOMS
Jewell, doz. 5
Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 8
Fancy Parlor, 23 lb.__ 9
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 Ib. 9

tO bo tom EN OT
bh
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Ex. Fcy. Parlor 26 Ib. 10 00
Toy 1:75
Whisk, NG. 3 so 2 75
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. ____ 1 50
Solid Back, 1 in. ____ 1 75
Pointed Ends ______._ 1 26
tove
phaker oo 1 80
NO. 00 2 00
Peerless 2 60
Shoe
No. 4-00 2 25
MO. 202 3 00
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion __________ 2285
CANDLES

Electric Light, 40 Ibs. =
Plumber, 40 ibs. oe

Paraffine, 6s —
Paraffine, 12s _
Wicking os 40
Tudor, 6s, per box _. 30

CANNED FRUIT
Apples, 3 lb. Standard 1
Apples, No. 10 __
Apple Sauce,
Apricots, No.
Apricots, No.
Apricots, No.
Apricots, No. 10 8 50@11
Blackberries, No. 10 8 50
Blueber’s, No. 2 2 00@2
Blue berries, No. 10__ 14

 

2% 3 40@3

Cherries, No. = 6 ae
Cherries, No. 2%6 ____ 4 50
Cherries, No, 10 ___ 14 00
Loganberries, No. 2 __ 3 00
Loganberries, No. 10 10 00

No. 1 1 50@2

No. 1, sliced 1
Peaches, No. 2 2
Peaches, No. 2% Mich 3
Peaches, 2% Cal. 3 00@3 25

Peaches,
Peaches,

Peaches, 10, Mich. —_ : 50
Pineapple, 1 mw 1 75
Pineapple, 2 sli. _.__ 2 80
P’apple, 2 br. sl. --.. 2 40
P’apple, 2%, sli. .___ 3 00
P’apple, 2, cru. -____ 2 60
Pineapple, 10 cru, __ 9 50
Pears. No. 2 2... 3 15
Pears, No. 2%  __.___ 4 25
Piums, No. 2 __ 2 40@2 50
Plums, No. 2%  —______ 90
Raspberries, No. 2 blk 3 25
Raspb’s, Red, No. 10 13 50
Raspb’s Black,

NO. 19) 220 12 00
Rhubarb, No. 10 4 75@5 50
Strawberries, No. 10 12 00

CANNED FISH

Clam Ch’ an, 10% oz.
Clam Ch.,
Clams, Sioamoa: 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 oz.
Cove Oysters, 5 oz. —
Lobster, No. %4, Star
Shrimp, 1, wet
Sard’s, 4% Oil, Key __

Sardines, ¥% Oil, k’less 5 50
Sardines, % Smoked 75
Salmon, Warrens, %s 80
Salmon, Red Alaska 10

Salmon, Med. Alaska
Salmon, Pink Alaska
Sardines, Im. \%, ~ i“?
Sardines, Im., %, e

Sardines, Cal. 1 5@1 .
Tuna, i, Albocore ne 95
Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
Tuna, ‘36s, Curtis, doz. 3 50
Tuna, 1s. Curtis, doz. 7 00

ABD 09 ND OD C1. > MEDD Ht et 9 89 09 69 ROOD Ea
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CANNED MEAT

Bacon, Med. Beechnut 3 30
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 5
Beef, No. 1, Corned __ 3
Beef, No. 1, Roast ____ 3
Beef. No. 216, Qua. sli. 1
Beef, 3% oz. Qua, sli. 2
5 0z., Qua. sli. 2
No. 1, B’nut, sli. 4 5
Beefsteak & Onions, s 3
Chili Con Ca., 1s 1 35@1
Deviled Ham, G8: 0 8
Deviled Ham, bs .. 3
Hamburg Steak &
Onions, No, 1 ____. 3 _
Potted Beef, 4 oz. _._.11
Potted Meat, % Libby Bake
Potted Meat, % Libby 92%
Potted Meat, % Qua. 90
Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 85
Vienna Saus., No. % 1 45
Vienna Sausage, Qua. 95
Veal Loaf, Medium __ 2 65

Baked Beans
Campbells, le free 5 _. 1 15

Quaker, 18 oz. ______ 85
Fremont, No. 2 -.____ 1 20
Snider, No. 1) 95
SHider, No, 2 2. 1 25
Van Camp, small _... 85
Van Camp, Med. __-- 1 15

CANNED VEGETABLES.

Asparagus.
No. 1, Green tips  -. 3 75
No. 2%, Large Green 4 50

W. Beans, cut 2 1 45@1
W. Beans, 10 az
Green Beans, 2s 1 45@2
Green Beans, 10s __ @7
L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@2
Lima Beans, 2s, a
Red Kid, No 2 2) 5
Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 7502
Beets, No. 2, cut 1 10@1
Beets, No. 3, cut -... 1
Corn, No. 2, stan. —_ 4
Corn, Ex. stan.
Corn, No, 2, Fan. 1 s0@2
Corn, No. 10 -- 8 00@10
Hominy, No .3 1 00@1
Okra, No. 2, whole __ 2
Okra, No. 2, cut --.. 1
Dehydrated Veg. Soup
Dehydrated Potatoes, Ib.
Mushrooms, Hotels
Mushrooms, Choce, 8 oz.
Mushrooms, Sur es

25

Peas, Ex. Fine, French 25
Pumpkin, No. 3 1 35@1 60
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 0u@4 75
Pimentos, 4%, each 12@14
Pimentoes, %, each __ 27
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 2 25
Sauerkraut, No.3 1 40@1
Succotash, No. 2 1 65@2
Succotash, No. 2, glass 2
Spinach, No. 1 2.
SRnarh, No.

Spinach, No.
Spinach, No. 10_
Tomatoes, No. 2
Tomatoes, No. 3,
Tomatoes, No. 10_. @8

CATSUP,

B-nut, small 1
Lily of Valley, 14 oz.__ 2
Lily of Valley, % pint 1
Paramount, 24, 8s ...1
Paramount, 24, 16s 2
Paramount, 6, 10s __ 10
Sniders, 8 oz.
Sniders, 16 oz. ~-----__
Quaker, 8% oz.
Quaker, 10% oz. ~_---- :
Quaker, 14 oz.
Quaker, Gallon Glass ‘2 50
Quaker, Galion Tin __ 9 00

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CHILI SAUCE

Snider, 16 oz. ________ 3 30
Snider, 8 og. _..-.. 2 30
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. __ 2 25
Lilly Valley. 14 oz. __ 3 25

OYSTER COCKTAI C

Sniders, 16 oz.
Sniders, 8 oz.

CHEESE.
Roquefort
Kraft,

pees 58
small items 1
Kraft, American 1
Chili, small tins __ 1
Pimento, small tins 1
Roquefort, sm, tins 2
Camembert, sm. tins 2
Wisconsin Flats and
SOGIIOR 2 29
Toerhorm. 2
New York New 1926 _
Sap Sass

 

CHEWING GUM.
Adams Black. Jack ____
Adams Bloodberry ____
Adams Dentyne
Adams Calif. Fruit ____
Adams Sen Sen _____._ 5
Beeman’s Pepsin ______

Beechnut Wintergreen_ 70
Beechnut Peppermint _ 75
Beechnut Spearmint ___ 70

Doublemint _____.._
Peppermint, Wrigleys __

Spearmint, Wrgileys __ 65
suiey Wrote 65
Wrigleysa PK: 65

ENO 2 65
Peaberry 65
COCOA.

Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib.__ 8 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 50
Droste’s Dutch, 4 Ib. 2 35
Droste’s Dutch, 5 Ib. 60
Chocolate Apples ao 2 BO
Pastelles, No. 1 _____12 60
Pastelles, % Ib. ____-_ 6 60

Pains De Cafe - _ 3 00
Droste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2
pee Pastelles

   

Bee en 18 00
7 oe Rose Tin Bon 0
ee ee ee 0

13 oz, ‘Gua De Cara-
Ne ee a 20
12 ne Rosaces ______ 10 80
% Ib. Rosaces ______ 7 80
% Ib. Pastelles __..__ 3 40

Langues De Chats __ 4 80
CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, %s ____ 37
Baker, Caracas, 4s ____ 35
COCOANUT
Dunham's
15 lb. case, %s and \%s 48
15 Ib. case, %s _____.. 47
15 Ib. case, %s 46

CLOTHES LINE.

Hemp, 50 ft. ____ 2 00@2 25
es Cotton,

DD 2h. Ss 3 50@4 =
Braided, OO 46. 2
Sash Cord ---- 3 50@4 00

HUME GROCER CO.

ROASTERS

 

COFFEE ROASTED
1 Ib. Package

Melrose 0 36
dsiberty. 2 28
unker 2 43
Nedrow.) 41
Morton House _________ 47
Mens 2 38
Royal Clb: 2: 42

McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh

Vaccum packed. Always
fresh. Complete line of
high-grade bulk coffees,
W. F. McLaughlin & Co.,
Chicago.
Maxwell House Brand.
1 i ting: 2 49
S 2b. tine 1 44

Telfer Coffee Co. Brand
okay oe 42

Coffee Extracts

M. Y., per 100 12
Frank’s 50 pkgs. __ 4 25
Hummel’s 50 1 lb. 10%

CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 doz. ________ 6 75
Eagle, 4 doz. ~_--...__ 9

MILK COMPOUND

Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. __ 4 50
Hebe, Baby, 8 do. __ 4 40
Carolene, Tali, 4 — 80
Carolene, Baby oe 50
EVAPORATED MILK
Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. __ 4 75

Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 4 65
Quaker, Gallon, Z dz. 4 60
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 5 00
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 4 90
Oatman’s Dundee, Tall 5 00
Oatman’s D’dee, Baby 4 90

Every Day, Tall ____ 5 00
Every Day, Baby ____ 4 90
Pet, Taw 5 00
Pet, Baby, 8 oz. ______ 4 90
Borden’ ® tallo . 00
Borden's Baby  ______ 4 90
Van Camp, Tall _____ 4 90
Van Camp, Baby —___ 3 75
CIGARS

G. J. Johnson’s Brand
- = Johnson Cigar, ‘
7

Tunis Johnson Cigar Co.
Van Dam, 10¢ ______ 75 00
Little Van Dam, 5c — 37 50
Worden Grocer Co, Brands
King Edward _______ 37 50
Master Piece, 50 Tin. 35 00
Canadian Club 35 00
Little Tom __._______ 37 50
Tom Moore Monarch 75 00
Tom Moore Panetris 65 00
T. Moore Longfellow 95 00
Websteretts _________ 37 50
Webster Cadillac ____ 75 00
Webster Knickbocker 95 00
Webster Belmont__ 110 00
Webster St. Reges 125 00
Bering Apollos __.. 95 00
Bering Pawita _____ 115 00

Bering Delioses ____ 120 00
Bering Favorita ____ 135 00
Bering Albas ______ 150 00

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Standard 2. 16
Jumbo Wrapped _____ 19

Pure Sugar Sticks 600s 4 20

Big Stick, 20 Ib. case 18
Peanut Brittle, 30 ib. 10
Mixed Candy
Kindergarten __..._____ 17
Bpager 2 14
ot Oy eee ae
French Creams ________ 16
Cameo es 19
Grocers 202 cise a.
Fancy eee

5 lb. Boxes

Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 70
Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 70
Milk Chocolate A A 1 70
Nibble Sticks  _______ 1 85
No. 12, Choc., Light — 1 65

Chocolate Nut Rolls — 80
Magnolia Choc _____ 115

Gum Drops. Pails
PAMING oo ee 16
Champion Gums _____ -- 16

  

Challenge Gums _
Favorite

Pails

Lozenges
A. A. Pep. Lozenges 18
A. A, Pink Lozenges 16
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 7
Motto Hearts -_______
Malted Milk Lozenges 2

Hard Goods Pails

Lemon Drops -~ 18
O. F, Horehound dps. _. 7:

Anise Squares  ..____ pee
Peanut Squares ______
Horehound Tablets __-- _ 18
Cough Drops Bxs
Putnam's 20 1 35
Smith Bros. .......... 1 50

Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows

4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart.

4 oz. pkg., 48s, case 3 40
Specialties
Walnut Fudge __._._. aoe ae
Pineapple Fudge __ ... 21
Italian Bon Bons -_... 17

Banquet. Cream Mints. 28
Silver King M.Mallows 1 50
Walnut Sundae, 24, 5c 80
Neapolitan, 24, 5¢ -....
Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, Be 80
Pal O Mine, 24, 5c -... 80
Mailty Milkies, 24. Be -~ 80
Bo-Ka-To-Ka, 24, 5c —. 80
COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade 2 50
100 Economic grade 4 50
500 Economic grade 20 00
1000 Economic grade 37 50
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.
CREAM OF TARTAR
6 Ib. boxes ~.--__._ cana ee

DRIED FRUITS
Apples
N. Y. Fey., 60 Ib. box 15%
N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16
Apricots

Evaporated, Choice __ 27 j

Evaporated, Fancy __ 30
Evaporated, Slabs _. 25
Citron
30:1: Bow, See 40
Currants
Packsieen 14 Oz... 15
Greek, Bulk, Ib. -_____ 15
Dates
Dromedary, 36s ___. 6 75
Peaches

a gee

Peel
Lemon, American _... 30
Vrange, American __._ 30
Raisins

Seeded, bulk _________ 09%
Thompson’ S s'dles blk 9%
oo 8S seedless,

1S OB 10%
Seeded, 15 oz.

California Prunes
90@100, 25 lb. boxes__@08
25 Ib. boxes__@10
25 Ib. boxes__@11
25 lb, boxes__.@12
25 Ib. boxes_.@15
20@30, 25 lb. boxes_.@22

FARINACEOUS GOODS

Beans
Med. Hand Picked _. 06
Cal. Limas =
0

Brown, Swedish ______
Red Kidney SS il
Farina
24 packages ________ 2. 50
Bulk, per 100 Ibs. 06%

3 60

Hominy
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks __

Macaroni
Mueller’s Brands

9 oz. package, per doz. 1 30
9 oz. package, per case 2 60
Bulk Goods
Elbow, 20 Ib. 09
Egg Noodle, 1 Olbs. _. 14
Pearl Barley
oo Re ee -- 4 60

D000 oe 7 00
Barley Grits ~.......__ 5 00
Peas
scotch, Ip, 2 -- 05%
Split, Ib. yellow -.--.. 08
Split green __________ 09
Sage
East ms eee eo 10

Tapioca
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks _. 09

Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05
Dromedary Instant __ 3 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS

 

Doz. Doz.
Vanilla PURE Lemon
1 35 _. % ounce ___ 1 35
180 _.. 1% ounce ___ 80
320 _.. 2% ounce ___ 3 20
3 00 ___ ounce ___ 3 00
5 50 _.. 4 ounce ___ 5 50

UNITED FLAVOR

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

96

Jiffy Punch
3 doz. Carton —--...._. 2 26
Assorted flavors,
FLOUR
Vv. C. Milling Co. aw
Lily White  --..-.....
Harvest Queen  -...__ 9 80

Yes Ma’am Graham,
SS So 2 40
FRUIT CANS
F. O. B. Grand Rapids
Mason
Half pint —..__
One pint —___
One quart __._.
Half gallon

 

ideai Glass Top.
Rubbers.

Halt pint
One pint

 

 

 

 

December 15, 1926

 

   
 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 29
GELATINE OLIVES
Bulk, 5 gal. keg ---_ 9 00 Good aie 14 Ee bee weene Sewer 7
aon oe ~— _. 6 00 Medium eae ae 12 % bbl., 100 lbs. ~_--__ 6 50 Bon Ami Pd, 3 dz. bx 3 75 Japan
ee 10 SET EESS ef ee ee 27@33
Par ie aes hee a te ee Ces Coe ene 54059
‘ oz. Jar, plain, doz. 135 Light hogs __-________ 15 "Tubs, 60 coumt. 2". 6 50 Grandma, 100, 5c ---- 400 No. 1 Wihhe 54
% oz. Jar, pl., doz. 160 Medium hogs ---___--- 15 Pails, 10 lb. Fancy fat 175 Grandma, 24 Large . 375 1 lb. pkg. Sifting en 13
nee te oe ee 23” w Sea tes taraw 3 20 G <_—
: , . des boing: Med. i228.) ¢ hite Fish xol1d Dust, 12 Large 3 20 unpowder
Ow O20 Can Sew Gog. bao. Bugis oo a Med. Fancy, 100 lb. 13 90 Golden Rod, 24 Date 4 25 Choice ----------------- 40
4 oz. Jar, stuffed, dz. 250 Shoulders —_____-__--- 18% Z . dinky) 3 GOS. 258 450 Fancy ----------------- 47
12°07 ee "Stuffed, 3 50 Specoris ee 20 SHOE BLACKENING i; ee Laun., 4 dz. 3 60 Ceyton
s Wack hones: 8 uuster Box, 54 — ~~~ 3 75 > ;
aes, ta eee 8 0 op lOZ xx---aen ae 4 50@4 75 4 08 2 in 1, Paste, doz. 135 Old Dutch Gutnsean Cee .
7 -- Pe oe Jar, stuffed dz. 7 00 E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 35 Octagon, 60s --_~- ye . £00 English Breakfast
One doz. free with 5 cases, Bie aeech PROVISIONS Dri-Foot, doz 200 Rinso, 40s 320 Congou, Medi
Jello-O, 3 doz. ------- 3 45 Barreled Pork Bixbys, Doz. ________ Rinso, 24a ee Sty Chole. ane
Minute, 3 doz. -------- 4 05 Clear Back 30 00@32 00 Shinola, doz “7 Ge ab No Mose, 160, 16 os Ca Co ee
Piro White ---- 198 Short Cut Clear 31 00@33 00 _ ee gui Lo ae so
Be On TCMe a OE ge. ( Oolong
Dry Salt Meats STOVE POLISH Rub No More, 20 Lg. 4 00 :
we SF Belles” oleae 08 Binekine, ver don, 125 “Sb Ge 8 ae ne 3
lac “e polcees E ec al cn eet ectensen erect 5 a
JELLY AND PRESERVES Black Silk Liquid, dz. 140 sani Flush, 1 doz... 225 Fancy ----------------- 50
P 30 Ib. pails 3 30 : : _ Lard Black Silk Paste, doz. 1 25 Sapolio, 3 4d A
ure, | p ---- Pure in tierces _.-2__ 14%, Enameline Paste, doz. 1 35 a ide ie ea > Telfer Coffee Co. Brand
Imitation, 30 lb. pails 1 75 60 lb. tubs ___-advance %4 Emameline Liquid, dz. 1 35 oes 100, 12 oz. -6 40 W. J. G, -------------- 59
Pure, 6 oz., Asst., doz. 1 10 50 lb, tubs __--advance 4 HE. Z. Liquid, per doz. 1 40 ae ae “TS
Buckeye, 18 oz., doz. 2 00 20 Ib. pails ___.advance % Radium, per doz 1 85 Secuee a 4 a. 0 ~~
: iar , + ---- ° e, OF. Soe .
aeEe™ GLASSES 10 1S ees _---advance % Rising Sun, per doz. 135 Sunbrite, 72 doz. ___- ; = Cotton, 3 ply cone ---- 33
8 oz., per doz. -------- 5 Ib. pails ----advance 1 654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 80 Wyandotte, 48 475 Cotton, 3 ply pails ---- 35
OLEOMARGARINE é lb. pails ___-advance 1 Vulcanol, No. 5, doz. 95 ne 7) Weel, 6 ply 2 18
Van Westenbrugge Brands noeneens tierces —.__ 11% Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 1 35 SPICES
Carioad Distributor . Bel eh ekana Yompound, tubs __---- 12° + Stovoil, per doz. ____ 3 00 Whole Spices VINEGAR
PD jaie ane sh Allsvi ‘ Cider, 40 Grain: —_- 20
oa a pases Sausages . SALT eo eee ---- rs White Wine, 80 grain__ 26
5 Ib. pails, 6 in crate ot gaa ee cee ernnaiay tp Colonial, 24, 2 Ib. ---. _ 95 Cassia, Canton en “ole we. 6 oe
12-2 tbe pals Liver sop Colonial, 36-1% "> 1 25 Cassia, Se pkg., doz. @40
4 Ib. pails ----------- Pork | —..- af 18@20 Colonial, Iodized, 24-2 200 Ginger, African ____.. @15 : WICKING
60 Ib. tins --_____.____ 2 20 Med. No. 1 Bbls, -.-. 2.60 Ginger, Cochin -_____ @30 Res Bes Eno te)
oe a cence ea ae AA NS tot ef nee, Pename ———- 1 ae eee ae
TEAHRChORss farmer Spec., 70 lb. 90 Mied, No. 1 --_---__- 2 Ne & : ree 6
N 1 Ib. PETROLEUM PRODUCTS oe --- 18 Packers Meat, 50 Ib. 57 Mixed, 5c pkgs., doz. ois Re Se Der Sree. *
Nucoa, 1 Ib. ~_~---_-_- : Iron Barrels Smoked Meat Crushed Rock for ice Nutmegs, 70@90 @78 Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Nucoa, 2 and 5 Ib. ____ on Perfection Kerosine __ 14.6 Hams, Cert., 14-16 Ib 28 cream, 100 lb., each 73 Nutmegs, 105-110 ___- @70 ssp Roepe a nica
Wilson & Co.’s ehapie Red Crown Gasoline Hams. Cert.. - @28 putter Salt, 280 ib. k 24 Pepper, Blac ee foe eee
Cia Tank Wagon ee @29 Block, 50 ib.  o Se a @45 Rayo, per doz. ‘ee
Mie 2 OO eeu, nn ea a9 Baker Salt, 280 lb. bbl. i a
Special Roll _--__--—- ee otis Gases Ot Sea Hane @32 Thos iw Table 5 75 saa, pines hag tgs ore
MATCHES eas ee oe ae, Tape Se Ae toes OFS Baskets
Sues tas gue. Capitol Gylleder —< mae oe 35 @37 28° 10 Ib. ee EE Bushela, naceow band,
Sen nd 1d box ww. 6 28 Atlantic Red Engine-- 21.2 Boiled Hams —_— 38 O46 28 Ib. bags, Table 42 ee Caen oe a ee sa
Searchlight, 144 box. 6 25 Wit Bias RS ence Hane oa Ft U1 ee IS @38 Bushels, narrow band,
Ohio Red Label, 144 bx 4 75 bacon - 24 @3 Waa tee CS weed bance — 80
Ohio Blue Tip, 1 OS aaa ia ee tty oe posal eg
p, 144 box 6 25 a Pepper, Black @ a drop handle- 90
Ohio Blue Tip, 720-1c 4 50 rine Beef Hatmeee Gis wee eee eee
Blue Seal, 144° 6 00 Boneless, rump 26 00@28 0 Pepper, White —_—--- ae: ae ae <
Relate, 14... 4 75 Rump, new _.. 27 00@30 00 Pepper, Cayenne __-- oo ee se
Safety Matches : Iron Barrels Paprika, Spanish __-. @42 Sort, TAME 4-4 7 60
Quaker, 5 gro. case__ 4 25 on ee eer eee 22 Mince Meat : ---- @42 Splint, small -------- 6 60
MINCE MEAT edium --.------------ 4.2 Condensed No. 1 car. 2 00 Seasonin Churn
None Such, 4 doz. —_ 6 47 Heavy ---------------- 6.2 Condensed Bakers brick 31 Chili Powder, 15 . »- Barrel, 5 gal. Tanck 2 40
Soe doz. case __ 3 60 we heey --- op Moist in glass ~-_----- 6 50 Celery Salt, 3 rt ae a Barrel, 10 gal., each-. 2 55
ih oie oe he eee oo Et east. 2a 5
sat Aedes Transmission Oil ---- 62.2 Pig’s Feet ae e oh Te eo = eo ee
Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1 50 Cooked in Vinegar Garlic ios aES CS ee _Eag Cases
Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2 25 % bbls. -----_------- 2 50 woe a 135 No. 1, Star Carrier - 5 00
Parowax, 100 lb. __-- 9.3 % bbls., 35 Ibs. ~----- 4 50 eS Ee eee aa
Rerawas 40; to Tb: 0 9.6 36 bbis; 22. 2 10 00 La . . E anes --- 450 No. 1, Star Egg Trays 6 25
Pires 20. fie 87 a 25 00 Mario To oe 20 No, 2, Star Egg Trays 12 50
Kits, 15 Ibs. —------- 1 75 onc Lica gi tat anata bes Mop Sticks
4 bbls., 40 Ths. ----- 3 50 Tse. tot... "90. SrOian Seen 2 00
% bblis., 80 Ibs. -_---- 5 00 per case, z4, Z Ibs. -- 2 40 Tumeric, 2% oz. ---- 99. ©=sC zEKXlipse__ patent spring 2 00
Cusine Five case lots __---- 2 30 No. 2, pat. brush hold 2 00
Hogs, Med., per Ib. --@55 Todized, 24, 2 Ibs. __-- 2 40 STARCH pent Cot. ‘Mop Heads 2 a
Beef, round set _-.. 23@36 16 0. Cot. Mop Heads 3 20
ae ners set__ ¢: e SOAP Corn Pail
Sheep, a skein ---. @2 65 Ci iS ails
_ Gold Brer Rabbit i ee es hee 6  etecee tags ee 1S ot Sand 3
No. 10, 6 cans to case 5 70 RICE Export. 120’ box __-- 480 Argo, 48,'1 Ib. pkgs. sq 12 at Sohenes -— ¢ S
No. 5, 12 cans to case 5 9% Fancy Blue Rose _--. 06% Big Four Wh. Na. 100s 375 Cream, 48-1 pkgs. 3 60 14 qt. Galvanized --- 3 10
No. 216, 24 cans to cs. 6 20 Fancy Head —__------ 08 Fels Naptha, 100 box 5 50 Gusta 64 80 12 qt. Flaring Gal. Ir. 5 00
No. 114, 36 cans to es. 5 15 Broken 2 cam ee Wee ee ee 07 10 qt. Tin Dairy ---. 4 00
Green Brer Rabbit Grdma White Na. 10s 4 10 Gl
No. 10, 6 cans to case 4 45 ROLLED OATS Rub No More White 3 cc Mous laa
No. 5, 12 cans to case 4 70 shiver EED PATS 9 05 Naptha, 100 box 400 ATE 4% 1 Ib. pkgs. 360 Mouse! wood, 6 holes. 20
No. 2%, 24 cans to cs. 4 95 Quaker, 18 Regular __ 1 80 Rub-No-More, yellow 5 00 Pata 12, 3 Ib. pkgs. 2 96 ‘<a nie , bear ‘ nab 70
No. 1%, 36 cans to cs. 4 20 Semdac, 12 pt. cans 2 70 Quaker, 12s Family -- 2 70 ae Classic, 100 box 440 Give. ‘Glo 4 an tar hat aed 00
nc Was Brake cemGae, 12 ut. cans 460 Mothers, 12s, M’num 325 7) Mele Boree, 100 ba 1 by Sulver Gloss, 8S. tf —- OS Rat. spring
No. 10, 6 cans to case 3 00 Nedrow, 12s, China .. 3 25 Wool, 100 box ---_-- 50 Elastic, 64 pkgs. ---.5 35 yi0y wae ae
oe Se PICKLES ob dia | 5 oe TaD Howe, PO tee Tas See 48-1 ______---.- ‘oe ee oo ”
No. 214, 24 cans to es. 3 50 Medium Sour Sacks, 90 lb. Cotton __ 3 40 Bairy, 100: box, —_-- 59. Tiger, 50 Ibs. --__-_-- 06 Tubs
na ie, 36 paced aa > on Barrel, 1600 count __ 17 00 Palm Olive, 144 box 11 00 Large Galvanized -_-. 9 25
New Orleans ae Halt pbls., 800 count 9 00 RUSKS _ $00: Da coe 4 90 CORN SYRUP Medium Galvanized —. 8 00
ae Open Kettle ___ 74 5 oe . ae 2 4 te Holland Rusk Co. oe Pt on ope ba co Small Galvanized _-.. 7 00
hoice ----------------- 62 39 Gallon, 3000 __---- 42 00 18 roll Eiplpwoa Sweetheart, 100 box _5 70 Blue Ke ra 4h p Washboards
eee ee 41s Ganon: 600 Sg 1e rou packages -——-— 230 Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 10 ue Karo, No. 1% __ 236 Banner, Globe ----- 5 50
“Halt barrels 5c extra Dill Pickles 36 roll packages __--~ 450 Grandpa Tar, 50 lige. 3 50 Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 23 Brass, single hi es @00
decta us Wa Gans ca me 1. 22 00 36 carton packages -- 5 20 Quaker H ew . Blue Karo, No. 10 -. 303 Glass, single --------- 6 00
Dove, 36. 2 x ee a0 Ba) 18 carton packages 2 65 = Red Karo, No. 1% 264 Doub :
Dove, Ib. Wh. L.5 60 1000 Size, 45 gal. -- 22 50 = Oe Raa Ns Pa Bel Sitme bores o
ove, 24, 2% Ib Wh. L. 5 20 pee Fe 2 oe ha, Mo '16 94k Wetinern Queen i=
Dove, 36, 2 lb Biack 4 30 PIPES SALERATUS ee eee ee Ree ee 5 50
Dove, 24, 2% Ib. Bisck 3 90 Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20 Arm and Hammer -- 3 7 Williams Barber Bar, 9s 50 Imit. Maple FI Universal -—-——-.<- 7 25
Dove, 6 10 Ib. Blue L. 4 45 PLAYING CARDS Williams Mug, per doz. 48 = epiniy ashi Window Cl
Palmetto, 24, 2% Ib 525 pattie Axe doz. 2 15 SAL SODA Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz. 309 12 in 4
NUTS Bieseie i eee 75 Granulated, bbls. ---- 1 80 CLEA Cronge, Mo. G1 dos, 458 4g iy 1 =
Nein ee ee ede ‘9 Granulated, 60 Ibs. cs. 1 60 NSERS Orange, No. 10 -_~--- 4i1 fin 2 30
Almonds, Tarragona__ 27 POTASH Granulated, 36 2% Ib. tae
Breail, New -—----- 27 Babbitt’s, 2 doz. _-_. 2.75 Packages ----------- 2 40 . Maple. an eee
aay Selesa 23 < reen Label Karo, in. Butter —___-_-_. 5 00
Filberts, ok 23 ee oe COD FISH P Green Label Karo __ 5 19 - in. ai peo 9 00
eanuts, Virginia Raw 09% Mindless 15% i . SS 18 60
Peanuts, Vir. roasted 10% pee ee Pe Soa Tablets, % ib. Pure: —— 19% H Maple and Cane 1 Oe 25 00
7 : nal :
Peanuts, Jumbo, rstd. 19% fed. Steers & H’f. 13%@15 don 1 40 Ew Mayflower, per gal. -_ 1 55
Peanuts, Jumbo, std. 124% Gom. Steers & H’f. 10@12% W004 boxes, Pure -- 29% Fl nee ee
Pecans, 3 star __---- 20 Whole Cod 4. 11% : Maple Fine, Bante, WONG oe
Pecans, Jumbo __---- 40 T cone 14 A Michigan 1 245 oo Se saree =
Pecans, Mammoth -~- 50 Genk Be ee ee oe 13 HERRING Hi Welchs i —" <9 an 3 - ercuets D. F. 06%
Wieass Gaewa «6 Ul : ; A oo en renee 07%
ead Medium 2.) 12 Holland Herring z Kraft Stripe - 09%
Bc oe wy Ome 10 Mixed, Keys —_-------- 1 00 A Ware SAUCES
ee ee 13% Veal Mied, half bbls. ---- 9 50 | Lea & Perrin, large. 6 00 YEAST CAKE
---------------- ay 2s ee AG Mixed, bbis: 2... -_ 17:00 3 Lea & Perrin Magic, 3
6 , small__ 3 35 Magic, 3 doz 270
Shelled Good ----------------- 15 Milkers, Kegs ------- 10 i Pepper .25250 0 1 60 Sunlight * dom 2 70
Almonds _.____-- 70 Medhim 25.002 - 12 Milkers, half bbls. --10 25 oval Mint 22 2 240 Sunlight, 1% doz. _.13
i Sie, wa 3 = an “ ee ee eS 19 00 *EODASGO, 2 OZ. 5 425 Yeast Foam, 3 doz. __ 2 ae
ae pring Lamb -------- < KK orway -- 19 50 Sho You, 9 0z., doz. 27 ‘ a rag
eur eee ‘ ee aoe pel ere e Sib. pallet 1 40 A-1, large pil rane . 5 7 Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 1 35
ee a Put Dues) 1 65 A-1, small _---315 |_YEAST—COM
0 pI ee PR
Walnuts ceverseseee 80 POOP pererpyerrereee-e- 24 Boned, 10 Ib, boxes -- 18 80 can cases, $4.80 per case Capers, 2 02, s-,g@f-- 2 30 Fleischmann, per —— -

 

 

 

30
GRAND RAPIDS BOOM Co.

 

Its Contribution To Our Once Great-
est Industry.

An interesting and important re-
cent addition to Ryerson Library’s
historical collection is the books and
records of the Grand Rapids Boom
Co. The lot comprises seven large
books, four of them of a character in-
cident to accounting, two containing
the daily tally of logs handled over a
period of more than twenty years, and
most of all, the record book of the
cerporation annual and other meet-
ings, with annual reports. These old
books were in the keeping of the late
Francis Letellier and were turned over
tc the historical section of the Library
by his estate under instructions which
he left. Mr. Letellier was secretary
of the Boom Co. from its organization
in 1876, except for one short interval,
to its dissolution thirty years later.
The historical value of these old rec-
ords is in the aecurate information they
contain regarding what was once this
city’s chief industry—an industry so
long departed that its very existence is
now little more than a tradition and
its former importance scarcely a
memory.

The sawmill for the manufacture of
boards for the pioneer home bu'‘lding
was the first of civilization’s indus-
tries brought into the wilderness. The
grist mill came next. The first mill
here was built with Government aid
in 1832 at the Slater mission on Indian
Mill creek, near the present Fuller
Station. When the Pantlind annex
was built the excavators for the foun-
dations turned up bits of the timbers
cf the second mill, built in 1834. Other
mills were built as the demand for
heme building materials increased,
some on the river front, some on the
creeks and streams above and below
the city. These early mills were
driven by water power w'th 4,000 or
5,000 feet a day as a good run, and
often shut down when the water flow
was too high or too low. The first
steam mill with circular saw was
built in 1853 on the West side river
front North of Leonard street.

Early lumbering was mostly for
home construction here or for the
farmers and settlements within team-
ing distance. Such excess as there
might be was rafted down the river
to Grand Haven and thence shipped
by schooner to Chicago or Milwaukee.
Regular outside trade did not develop
until the building of the Grand Trunk
Railroad in 1858. It was then that
lumbering became a real industry.
During the war period the industry
languished with everything else, but
when peace came there was a boom,
and with it more and larger mills and
increased production. In 1867 Grand
Rapids had seven mills and they
handled 11,750,000 feet of logs, be-
sides the logs that were teamed in by
the farmers.

The manufacture of lumber, shingles
and other forest products had an
earlier and larger development at
Grand Haven and Spring Lake than at
Grand Rapids. Our only outlet was
Ly rail or teaming. At Grand Haven
ard Spring Lake the lumber was load-
ec trom the mill docks to lake schoon-

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ers for shipment to any point from
Chicago to Buffalo. The down river
mills, according to a memorandum in
one of the books, handled about five
times as many logs as were handled
here.

The Grand Haven and Spring Lake
operators, after cleaning up the local
stumpage, came up river for their log
supplies; they lumbered on the Flat
and Rouge Rivers,’ Fish creek, the
Maple and other tributaries of the
Grand, and it was from these same
districts that the Grand Rapids oper-
ators secured their supplies. The logs,
cut during the winter, regardless of
destination and ownersh‘p, came down
in a bunch with the high water in the
spring. When they reached Grand
Rapids the law of the river required
the Grand Rapids owners to pick out
their own and to pass the others on.
To do this the Grand Rapids oper-
ators had an informal organization.
When it was formed and by whom is
not a matter of record, but fragment-
ary documents and reports give an
idea. This first organization had an
existence as early as 1865. In 1867
Ichabod L. Quimby was its president,
William H. Powers secretary and
treasurer and the other members were
C. C. Comstock, B. R. Stevens, W. B.
Ferris, Robert Cutler and Berkey
Bros. & Co. In 1867 the association
handled 11,750,000 feet of logs. In
1869 the volume of business was so
large that a stronger organization was
feund necessary to handle it.

The Grand Rapids Boom Co. was
incorporated by Ichabod L. Quimby
and Francis Lettellier, and they called
a meeting for the organization, to be
held March 5, 1870. At the organiza-
tion meeting Mr. Quimby, with 48
shares, Mr. Letellier, 15 shares, C. C.
Comstock, 33 shares, W. J. Long, 30
shares and Lewis H. Withey, 24 shares,
were elected directors and held all
the stock. The directors elected Mr.
Quimby president Mr. Letellier sec-
retary and Mr. Withey treasurer. Won-
derly & Co. later took over 27 shares
of the Quimby holdings.

The Grand Rapids Boom Co. in-
vested about $20,000 in boom, piers
and equipments. The sorting grounds
extended from the Quimby mill, about
where the filtration plant is now 1o-
cated, two miles up river. Down the
middle of the stream were two booms
about 100 feet apart to define the
channel. On either side were boom
pockets, into which the local logs were
pushed according to ownership, to be
delivered into the individual mill lower
down as needed. The down river logs
were passed into the channel through
to the chute in the dam, and then
over the dam and through the rapids.
The down river owners had to look
after their own when the logs passed
through the Grand Rapids sorting
grounds and over the dam. The Grand
Rapids owners paid 27% to 50 cents
per 1,000 feet for the handling of their
logs, the price varying in different
years. In time many hardwood logs
came down with the pine, maple, elm,
beech, oak and ash, and the charge for
these was 50 per cent. higher than for
pine. The hardwood logs lacked pine’s
bouyancy and were harder to handle.

The sorting of the logs into many

Ownerships was made possible by
branding. Each operator had _ his
mark, duly registered with the secre-
tary of the Boom company. This
mark in raised steel characters, was
placed on the face of a sledge hammer.
When the logs, hauled from the op-
erating camp were dumped upon the
rollway to await the spring freshet, the
camp sealer tallied them and then gave
them a blow on the end with the
brand hammer. The stamp or brand
was undisputed evidence of ownership,
as universally recognized in lumbering
as the cattle brands on the Western
ranges. The log runners knew the
brands and the sorting was done ac-
cordingly. Mill owners often pur-
chased logs from independent oper-
ators and this gave them title to the
logs bearing various brands, but the
method of sorting was the same. When
logs came down without brand, as they
occasionally did, the Boom Co. claimed
ownership and nobody questioned its
right to the proceeds of sale.

The records of the Boom Co. meet-
ings are mostly formal statements of
business transacted, directors and offi-
cers elected, fixing the charge for the
season of handling the logs, declara-
tion of dividends and the annual re-
ports of the secretary. Mr. Letellier
was secretary from 1870 to the end
except for a two year period, and in
1874 the duties of treasurer were add-
ed. Mr. Quimby was president until
1875, then Mr. Comstock for two
year and then Mr. Withey to the end.
B. J. Watrous was elected superin-
tendent in 1874 and the company
never had any other.

The first annual report of record, as
of Dec. 23, 1871, showed earnings for
the season from handling stockholders’
logs $9,697.13, from non-stockholders’
logs and other earnings $5,848.09, op-
erating expenses $12,488.15 and a divi-
dend to stockholders of 20 per cent.,
$3,000. The non-stockholders were
Wm. T. Powers & Sons, Michigan
Barrel Co., Winegar & Co., Haire &
Goodsal and B. J. Watrous. The re-
ports in the old book show quantity of
logs handled each year over a period
of twenty-five years, from 1870 to
1894 inclusive, and for eighteen of the
years the number of logs is given as
well as the quantity. Here are the

figures:

Logs in feet No. of logs
18/0 26,257,728
fa 33,251,605
172 33,068,290
feys oe 56,339,522
DA 39,688,985
A875) 41,830,671 197,734
18/6. 2 33,689,699 187,812
RO77 37,838,092 216,313
WS/B 25,177,982 131,408
1879 32,040,455 152,205
1880 oo 38,678,579 195,116
AGG) 53,277,398 264,626
1G? 2 54,353,498 291,634
1BRS 32,752,338
ISSA fe 44,400,287 295,904
A685 es 22,731,199 141,718
1S86 oo 24,002,737 136,444
1887 30,947,053 215,734
ISS 31,633,462 230,760
S889 ces 14,723,782 150,201
1090 7,195,192 83,286
1894 8,692,492 138,609
A892 ee 5,921,601 62,692

December 15, 1926

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

31

 

1893 2 6,197,330 70,924
(4 3,266,566
737,956,543 3,163,120

The number of logs for the entire
period, at the same ratio as for the
eighteen years, would make a total of
about 5,600,000. At an average of
three logs to the tree this would in-
dicate a slaughter of 1,866,000 trees to
keep the Grand Rapids mills running.
Some of the pine tributary to the Fiat
and Rouge rivers and around Lincoln
Lake was as fine as grew anywhere,
running 60 to 80 feet to the first limbs
and measuring three o five feet at the
butt. No record was kept of the logs
brought in by the farmers, both pine
and hard wood.

For ten years, as shown by the rec-
ord book, from 1870 to 1880, Grand
Rapids lumbering jogged along at a
fairly even level, with few changes in
personnel and not much variation in
the output. In 1881 came a boom
with a total of twenty-three operators,
big and little, and a jump of nearly 50
per cent. in production. The 1882 op-
erations were still heavier, and then
came the fateful 1883, the year “the
logs went down.” The harvest for the
1883 season was larger than in the
preced’ng year and the Grand Haven
and Spring Lake mills also had extra
heavy cu‘s. The early conditions for
log handling were favorable. Many
of the down river logs had been put
through, but the river above the Grand
Trunk bridge where the Boom Co. did

its sorting was still full of logs. Tor- .

rential rains came in July and what
happened is told in the following notes
inserted in the records:

Monday, July 23, 1883—The raise of
wa‘er in Grand River caused by the
very severe and unprecedented rains
of the past three days increased the
pressure against the logs so as to move
them aginst the upper foot sticks with
such force as to break them, letting
the whole jam aginst the lower foot
sicks and the D., G. H. & M. Railroad
bridge.

Thursday morning the continued in-
crease and raise of water in Grand
River caused the bridge to give way

at 7:30 o'clock a. m., letting the jam.

of logs down Grand River.

In the same handwriting, that of
Secretary Francis Letellier, but with a
freshness of ink that indicated’ much
later entry is the following:

It was estimated 100,000,000 feet of
logs went down stream. The secretary
thinks that the greater part of the
damage to farmers’ lands by flooding
and breaking of booms was due to the
railroad company filling the bed of In-
dian Mill Creek (which used to me-
ander under the trestle work and pil-
ing, finally entering the river South
of the brigde), thus turning the flow
of that stream as well as the overflow
of the low lands above, the embank-
ment making a barrier or dam and
narrowing the river several hundred
feet at this point. The opening of
Broadway street through the embank-
ment referred to gave the accumulated
water North of the track an escape; it
flooded the low lands on the West
side from Leonard street to Fourth
street, doing immense damage Filling
of the river by riparian owners also
helped to make trouble.

In those days the telephone was not
all but universal. When the logs
broke away Ichabod L. Quimby, with
other owners, anxiously watching the
situation at the bridge, hastily mount-
ed a draft horse and galloped to town

to warn the people of danger. Instead
of taking to the hills nearly everybody
hastened to points of vantage along
the river front to see the logs go by.

The break away of the logs occurred
forty-three years ago and yet it is
often recalled, less and less frequently
as a personal recollection, more and
more often as a town tradition, but
always as a landmark in local history.
The pressure of flood and logs took
out three spans in the Grand Trunk
bridge and below Pearl! street, knock-
ed two spans out of the G. R. & I.
Railroad bridge, and the Chicago &
West Michigan bridge also went out.
The three city bridges, old wooden
structures at Leonard, Bridge and
Pearl streets, survived the battering.
With time to prepare for it, heavy
freight trains were run out on the
Lake Shore bridge below town and
that was saved. The low lands on the
West Side were flooded. The new
cedar block pavement in Canal street
North of Leonard street, was afloat,
but not beyond repair. No lives were
lost.

Returning to history as found in the
officiat records, it is apparent the
Grand Rapids lumbermen were not
quitters. A special meeting of the
Boom Co. stockholders was called Fri-
day afternoon, the day following the
calamity and those attending were C.
C. Comstock, C. H. Lone, “LL, H.
Withey, Francis Letellier, L. D. Nor-
ris, Geo. G. Briggs, of the Michigan
Barrel Co., and I. L. Quimby. The
purpose of the meeting was to decide
what to do about it and after a long
discussion an adjournment was taken
to Wednesday evening, Aug. 1, at the
office of Norris & Uhl for action. The
minutes of the meetings are meager as
to details, but the following seems to
have been done.

Grand Rapids’ log owners pooled
their interests in salvage work.

Negotiated a loan of $8,000, after-
ward increased to $13,200 to repair
damages.

Co-operated with the Greenville and
Grand River logging association, in
which T. Stewart White and Thomas
Friant were active, in conducting a
rear drive of the river below the city,
clearing the banks and low lands of
logs.

The salvaging was started without
delay. Many logs were recovered just
below the city and these were hauled
into the old steam boat channel and
thence teamed back to the mills.
Crews followed the logs down the
river, the advance force to keep the
logs in the river while the flood was
up, those coming after them to rescue
the stranded logs on the river banks
and bayous. Many of the logs were
floated so far in shore that they could
not be saved and the loss from this
source was heavy alike to the Grand
Rapids and the lower river owners. In
the lower reaches of the river the
Grand Rapids logs were bunched into
rafts and towed to Ferrysburg, loaded
on Grand Trunk flat cars and brought
back to be dumped into the river from
the bridge. Those who brought back
their logs were C. C. Comstock, A. B.
Long & Sons, Robinson, Letellier &
Co., Michigan Barrel Co. R. H.
Woodin, C. F. Nason, Grand Rapids

Chair Co., L. H. Withey & Co., R. W.
Butterfield and Cupples Wooden Ware
Co. Their recovery was 56,338 logs,
measuring 8,364,044 feet in 1883, and
68,187 logs measuring 9,561,582 feet
in 1884, a total of 124,525 logs, meas-
uring 17,925,626 feet. Instead of
bringing their logs back, some of the
owners sold to the lower river mills.
Repairing the damage included bring-
ing back from down river 3,808 feet
of old boom, building 1,000 feet of new
boom, building fifty-one new piers and
buying $730.10 worth of rope, and
these items with other costs rolled up
a bill of $13,200. The Boom Co. was
ready for business in time for the 1884
logs. The earnings in three years paid
the losses and the company resumed
dividends with an initial declaration
of $25 per share.

Lumbering on the Grand and its
tributaries was at its peak for the 1883
season, and this applied alike to the
Grand Rapids and the lower river op-
erators. It continued to be an im-
portant industry for another ten years,
but one by one the operators cleaned
up and quit. The 1884 cut, as shown
by the Boom Co.’s records, fell off a
third, compared with 1883, and then
year by year, with occasional rallies,
it faded away. In 1894 the only mill
receiving logs was the Michigan Bar-
rel Co., 3,266,566 feet. The activities
of the Boom Co. seem to have ended
with the 1894 season. The records
tell nothing of meetings of directors
or stockholders thereafter and no re-
ports were made. Francis Letellier
was custodian of the properties and
everybody seems to have been con-
tent.

The next entry after the 1894 annual
is a typewritten call for a special meet-
ing of the stockholders to be held Feb.
28, 1900, signed by President L. H.
Withey. At this meeting steps were
taken to wind up the company’s affairs
upon the expiration of its charter. The
final meeting was held Aug. 8, follow-
ing, and it was attended by L. H.
Withey, Francis Letellier, A. B. Long
& Sons, Michigan Barrel Co. and the
estates of I. L. Quimby, C. C. Com-
stock and J. H. Wonderly. The sale
of the company’s real estate on the
river front, now a part of Comstock
Park, to the Consolidated Sportsmen’s
Club for $1,000 was approved. The
personal property, described as the
“calamities” was sold to the Michigan
Barrel Co. for $500. A dividend of
5 per cent. was declared to the stock-
holders and then a balance after the
payment of all claims remained of
$825, and this was distributed to the
stockholders in a special and last divi-
dend of $5.50 per share. The final
dividend was paid in checks on the
National City Bank, and these checks,
duly endorsed and cancelled, are pre-
served as part of the records.

Scarcely a trace remains of what
was once this city’s chief industry, not
even as cherished landmarks, and
those still living who then were active
in it can be numbered on the fingers.
The A. B. Long & Sons’ mill, one of
the largest in its day, was remodeled
for the Kent Furniture Co. and is now
occupied by the School Equipment
Co. The Barrel Co. mill, remodeled, is
now a part of the Grand Rapids Show

Case Co. plant. One of the Comstock
mills, operated by the Cupples Wood-
en Ware Co., is a unit of the Furniture
Shops plant. The other mills have
disappeared, some burned and some
dismantled. Some traces of the piers
defining the channel through the
rapids are still to be seen, but these
are slowly disappearing and it will
not be long before they will be
erased. Lumbering was a great in-
dustry in its day. But it is gone. The
books and records of the Boom Co.
remain, and from them the future his-
torians will glean the story.
Lewis G. Stuart.

—_+---____
Garment Mark Downs.

An interesting question came up a
few days ago in the course of a con-
versation concerning “bad guesses” on
the part of buyers. It was this: When
merchandise, especially women’s ap-
parel, has to be marked down, is it be-
cause the selection of the buyer is
wrong or because the price at which
it is originally offered is wrong?

In asking the question, the man who
brought the matter up expressed the
opinion that the latter was usually the
case, pointing out that if the article
was wrong in itself, especially in its
Style,it could not be sold at any price.
If this were not so, he added, the fre-
quently repeated statement that wo-
men will not purchase at any figure
garments that do not conform to the
mode in line and color is in error.

Although no clean-cut agreement
was reached on the matter by the
group in which it came up, there was
a disposition to believe that, buyers’
opinions to the contrary, many wo-
men put more emphasis on the prices
asked for the goods than on their
strictly style element. This, it was
argued, is apparently proved by the
fact that only a very small part of any
ready-to-wear apparel stock ever is
wholly unsalable.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN December 15, 1926

 

Working Along the Interesting Santa
Fe Trail.
(Continued from page 25)
we come out at the foot of the tall
cliff at Puye.

From right and left as far as we can
see the base of the sheer wall is honey-
combed with dark openings of every
size and shape. Many are far above
our reach, the rooms and_ granaries
hollowed from the soft rock behind the
upper stories of dwellings. that have
succumbed to the ravages of time.

Facilities for climbing being provid-
ed, we slip into the midst of a vast
communal dwelling of 1,000 rooms,
and whichever way we turn is the
panoramic view of mountain, forest
and valley. One could hardly ever ex-
pect to forget this day’s experience.

The drive back to Santa Fe is mem-
orable. There is color everywhere. It
is seen in the brown floor of the val-
leys, the blue of the sky, the dark
green of the cedars and the snow
white mountain tops. En route we
stop briefly at Santa Clara Indian
pueblo, famous for its Indian pottery.
Here also we get a thrilling view of a
sunset in Sangre de Cristo mountains,
to be remembered enthusiastically.

The third day of our outing carries
us far to the Southwest. The great
settings around us are altered, mile by
mile in a bewildering manner. Hori-
zons_ shift and change constantly.
Whole mountain ranges appear and
disappear like magic. At the top of
La Bajada Hill we face a sudden
panorama where space and distance
alike defy the calculation of the un-
trained mind. We view a snow cap-
ped eminence seemingly three miles
away and are told that it is sixty miles
before you reach the foothills.

At Santa Domingo, the largest in-
habited pueblo of the lower Rio
Grande basin, we find a heap to look
at. The Indians of Santa Domingo
are strong for racial blood and tribal
customs. They live in the past, but
preserve their legends for the future.
At times there are held here ceremon-
ials dating back hundreds of years.
But they look wholesome and are the
real Indian type known to the early
frontiersman. If you ever reach New
Mexico, be sure and make a journey
to this ancient city.

Below Santa Domingo the huge
foundations of the Sandia mountains
seem to crowd us nearer to the rich
irrigated lands that line the Rio
Grande above Albuquerque. Here the
cottonwoods, thick as a forest, lay a
carpet of green in the spring, now de-
veloped into a golden flame against the
bottomless blue of the sky. Due to
the lower altitude of this valley they
maintain their color long after the
trees of the upper valley are stripped
for the winter.

Here at Albuquerque for lunch at
the Avorado, the pride of the Harvey
chain of hotels. The Avorado pro-
vides for its guests a museum of In-
dian antiquities unequafled in the
country, and it is here where you can
witness the weaving of blankets and
baskets and manufacture of pottery.

But this article is long enough and
I must say a word about New Mexi-
can roads. From a mass of trails in
early days has been developed a great
state highway system of 10,000 miles,,
of which 3,500 comprise the Federal
system; 4,000 miles of state roads have
been improved, either by grading or
surfacing. Practically the entire Fed-
eral system has experienced improve-
ment of some description and 1500
miles have been made permanent by
concreting.

This Federal aid has been a great
boon to the people of this sparsely
settled state, but what about the con-
venience to the tourists who line the
roads at all seasons of the year. They
are as well marked as the highways of
Michigan, and, all reports to the con-
trary, one will have no trouble to find
plenty of water, oil and provisions
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useful different gift—an Ex-
tension Telephone. She will
appreciate it.

 

MICHIGAN BELL
TELEPHONE CoO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Mill Mutuals Agency

Lansing, Michigan
A. D. BAKER Secretary and Treasurer

Representing the

Michigan Millers Mutual

Fire Insurance Company

and associated companies

Combined Assets of Group $33,389,609.28

Combined Surplus of Group 12,306,262.36

Tornado

Fire Insurance—All Branches

Automobile Plate Glass

 

20 to

 

40%

 

 

SAVINGS MADE
Since Organization