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Meeting of Directors of Michigan
Retail Dry Goods Association.
Lansing, April 24—At a meeting of
the directors of our organization, held
at Lansing April 18 there were pres-
ent: Fred E. Mills, President; F. H.
Nissly, Vice-President; John Richey,
Secretary-Treasurer; Jason E. Ham-
mond, Manager. Also directors P. L.
Proud; BD: M. Christian and A. K.

Frandsen.

The manager made a verbal report,
using as the basis the financial report
recently made by a certified public ac-
countant showing the record of re-
ceipts and disbursements for the fiscal
period ending March 31. All directors
had been provided with a copy of the
same. After a general discussion with
suggestions as to form of future re-
ports the auditor’s report was accepted
by unanimous vote.

Suggestions regarding future reports
were that the records of accounts re-
ceivable including membership fees in
arrears and amounts received from
other sources should be given more in
detail. These suggestions will be fol-
lowed in making future reports.

Suggestion by former President A.
K. Frandsen that the manager send
formal letter to active members of our
organization, asking them to furnish
lists of prospective new members. This
suggestion was acquiesced in by mem-
bers present. This formal letter will
be sent out in the near future.

The addresses given at our recent
convention were commeuted upon and
especial attention was called to the
work of Prof. Carl N. Schmalz, of the
University of Michigan. It was sug-
gested that an interview be had with
Mr. Schmalz in the near future to the
end that simpler blanks for research
work be formulated and sent to small
merchants asking for their co-opera-
tion with the University Bureau of Re-
search in doing this work for stores.

In discussing settlements of troubles
arising from pattern contracts much
satisfaction was expressed that it is
becoming easier to reach agreements
with pattern companies. The new
sample pattern forms recently issued
by the Home Pattern Co., were dis-
cussed and it was requested that a
similar form be prepared for the use
of our members.

The question of expenses of directors
in attending official meetings was dis-
cussed. Those present modestly re-
frained from advocating the adoption
of such a resolution. In fairness to all

concerned it was decided that in view
of the different methods of travel and
ways of computing traveling expenses
by auto, bus or railroad, that expenses

of directors should be paid according
to the cost of railroad tickets over the
shortest route from the residence of
each director to the place of holding
the meeting. Manager was directed to
make out vouchers to pay traveling
expenses by this method.

The question of district or regional
meetings during the current year was
discussed and recommendations were
made with reference to the topics to
be placed on our programs. It was de-
cided that correspondence should be
had with members in different parts of

the State, asking for suggestions re-

garding the location of meetings and
the number of them, and the class of
speakers desired.

The expenses of travel by the man-
ager were discussed and explanation
was made that one-third of the travel-
ing expenses were borne by our fire
insurance company. Manager report-
ed the present physical condition of
the car owned by the Association and
recommended the exchange for a new-
er one of later model. After discus-
sion it was voted that the manager be
authoried to exchange for a Reo coupe
already tentatively selected by him and
previously inspected by Mr. Mills at an
expense of $400 to the Association, the
balance to be paid by the manager.

After some more or less informal
discussion the meeting adjourned.

For many years the store of the J.
R. Jones’ Sons Co., of Kalamazoo,
has been a popular place for shoppers
in Southwestern Michigan and_ the
sons and daughters of the original
owner of the store have been prom-
inent and highly respected citizens in
that locality.

W. O. Jones, former director and
secretary of our Association, also di-
rector of our insurance company, is
well known and asteemed among. all
of the members of the Michigan Re-
tail Dry Goods Association whom he
met—and he has met the most of them.

With sadness we record the passing
of Mrs. Jones, whose death occurred
late in March after a severe illness of
several months. The sympathy of Mr.
Jones’ friends will go out to him in
full measure in this hour of his sorrow.

The beautiful home among the oaks
and hills of the West side of Kalama-
zoo will be a lonely place for him and
his daughter, Patricia. Knowing him
as we do, we are sure that he will be
brave and uncomplaining at this time.
His many friends will rally to his side
to bring consolation and cheer. We
wish for him yet many years of pros-
perity and comfort.

John Richey, Sec’y.
———_2--+____
Smith or Hoover—Which Will It Be?

Grandville, April 24—Both the old
parties are lining up substantially for
the two leading candidates, Hoover
and Smith. Unless we have winter in
June there is little likelihood of any
other carrying off the palm.

And why should it not be so? To
be sure there are criticisms of both
these men, yet there is little doubt that
they represent the best thought of the
two parties. Being so, their nomina-
tion would seem to be a foregone con-
clusion. This in spite of the fact that
a disgruntled Iowa farmer solemnly
avers that with Hoover a candidate
one million Western Republicans will
repudiate him.

This threat has not seemed to deter
the people from continuing to daily in-
struct the delegates for the cabinet

officer. On the other side, Al Smith
has antagonized even more Democrats
than Hoover has Republicans.

It is doubtful if any candidate who
could be picked would satisfy the
whole party on either side.

Al Smith has more enemies in his
own party than, perhaps, any other
man who might be mentioned. If the
Governor of New York is so unpopular,
how is it that he carries the State of
New York so readily? There must be
a screw loose somewhere.

Right from the sunny South—from
Texas, in fact—comes this statement
from a leading educator of the Lone
Star State: “If you want to turn every
Protestant pulpit in the State of Texas
into a belching volcano nominate Al
Smith. Nominate Al Smith and watch
every Southern state become doubtful.
There isn’t money enough in Tammany
Hall to stop one single Methodist cir-
cuit rider from doing his duty.”

It is doubtful if this blast has any
effect on the fortunes of the New York
candidate. He comes from the most
populous state in the Union, a state
which is nominally Republican, yet
this Democrat has no trouble in sweep-
ing it by a big majority in guberna-
torial campaigns.

At the present time, despite religious
bigotry and _ prohibition sneers, Al
Smith is by far and away the choice
of the rank and file of his party, their
choice for president of the United
States.

The cares and anxieties of the time
will soon be swept away by delegates
in convention assembled. Nothing short
of a miracle can deprive the governor
of New York of enough votes to make
him his party nominee. Of course, as
to his chances of election, that is an-
other thing.

To win the nomination is, perhaps,
easier than to win the election, but
that Al Smith is slated to make the

run seems as assured as anything in ~

the future can be.

Herbert Hoover also is meeting with
some obstacles to his race for the Re-
publican nomination for president. He
is a man who has, of course made:
some enemies, as has every man in
public life who amounts to a farthing.

That million of of Republicans out
West which a Hoover hater has pro-
claimed ready to bolt their party’s
choice, should it fall on Hoover may
be discounted very materially.

Lincoln was lambasted and lampoon-
ed by many disgusted men of the new
party, yet he won that party’s nomina-
tion at a critical time in the Nation’s
history, making a record which. shows
brighter and brighter as time goes
down the ages.

Hoover, providing all signs do not
fail, is sure of nomination. It will be
Hoover and Smith, no others. If some
voters prefer to entertain a grouch and
stay away from the polls, well and
good. Even that will in no way de-
cide the result.

Al Smith, as governor of New York,
has precedents to go by from the fact
that the illustrious Grover Cleveland
graduated from the governorship of the
Empire State into the presidential
chair. An illustrious example which
may well hearten the present governor
in his campaign for the presidency.

If Smith can win the governorship
of the most populous state in the
Union, why should his chances not be
good for winning in a National cam-
paign?

In many respects Grover Cleveland
was a great president. His foreign
policy was widely commended, as was
his enforcement of United States laws
when assailed by striking railroad men.
I recall that scene in Chicago when
U. S. soldiers came to the rescue of
derailed mail cars damaged by a howl-
ing mob of union strikers.

A man named Altgeld was then gov-
ernor of Illinois, a member of Cleve-
land’s own party, whose ideas of state
rights clashed with the Nationalism of
President Cleveland. Despite the IIl-
inois governor’s protests. President
Cleveland proceeded to do his duty re-
gardless, and for that one act he re-
ceived the plaudits of all loyal citizens
of America.

With such an example before him
Al Smith need not go far wrong. The
jump from a governorship to President
of the whole country may seem a far
drive yet not only Cleveland but Theo-
dore Roosevelt accomplished the feat.

The fact that the most populous state
in the Union endorses Smith gives him
a running start over all his opponents
and if he carries on as he should there
can be little doubt of the outcome.

As for Hoover, he has enemies who
say he is not a U. S. citizen. Well,
anything for an argument. The Ameri-
can people will decide in November.

Old Timer.

eco ____
Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, April 24—Frank S.
Verbeck writes from Los Angeles
that he has purchased a four-flat build-
ing in Hollywood, worth $30,000, which
brings in a gross income of approxi-
mately 12 per cent. and his own apart-
ment free. The building is strictly
modern and up-to-date, including
artificial refrigeration and five garages.
Possession of the purchase will take
place May 1.

Ambrose A. Weeks writes Geo. Me-
Kay as follows from the McColgan
Hotel, McComb, Miss.: “Your very
cordial invitation to be present at the
second re-union of Old Time traveling
men reached me at this hotel. I re-
gret exceedingly that it will be impos-
sible for me to be present and take
part in your festivities. On March 13
I had the misfortune to step off an un-
guarded porch, falling three feet to the
ground and fracturing my right femur
near the hip. For four weeks I lay i1
a plaster cast at the city hospital in
this city, but I am now convalescing
nicely in this hotel. The fracture was
not entirely through the bone or it
would have been much more serious.
I left the hospital last Saturday and
came here, since which time I have
been able to dress myself and, with the
aid of a pair of crutches, get to my
meals and enjoy the freedom of the
lobby. I am planning to go home
about May 3. I am sure you will have
a glorious time on the 28th and I only
regret my inability to be with vou and
meet many of the old boys like Leo A.
Caro, Fred Dodge, Manley Jones,
Richard Warner, Sr., Henry Saunders,
Fred Knight and many others [I recall
in the old days gone by. While I am
one of the Old Guard I am still in the
ring and by reason of my accident, it
is the first time [I had to take the
count.”

—_——_>+-2—____

C. E. Walker, at Cedar Springs, re-

news his subscription to the Trades-

man and writes: “I cannot get along
without the Tradesman,”

 

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April 25, 1928

 

THE LANSING CONVENTION.

 

Official Report Prepared By Secretary
. _ Gezon.

With perfect weather and large
crowd on hand our thirtieth convention
assembled in the beautiful ballroom of
the Hotel Olds and was called to or-
der by Pres. E. E. Van Antwerp, of
the Lansing Association, who called
on Rev. Fr. John Gabriels for the in-
vocation. Fr. Gabriels in a few words
said he hoped the meeting would bring
us closer together and that it would

 

 

Hans Johnson, President.

benefit us and the public and that the
Divine blessing would rest upon us.
The

hearty welcome to Lansing and urged

mayor of Lansing gave us a
a closer fellowship between:merchants
and public officials. He pointed out
that the business men who are organ-
ized. are the easiest to deal with.

Mayor Troyer took occasion to con-

demn the man who has goods charged

when he is out of money and who for-
sakes the service store when he has a
dollar.

In the absence of Vice-President

Hans Johnson, Paul Gezon was called
upon to respond to the welcome ad-
dress.

He called

city of Michigan because she knew how

Lansing -the convention

to entertain and is perfectly organized.
Pres.
optimism. He

Bailey's address was full of

urged merchants to
feature style, order and display in their
stores. He warned against the adop-
tion of all kinds of new ideas until they
can be carefully studied.

Secretary Gezon’s report was well
received and showed that we are mak-
ing progress as an association.

Treasurer Albrecht presented the
following annual report:
3al. on hand, April 15, 1927 $1,713.35
Casis rpremwed 2,041.15

Dole oe $3,754.50
Caen pam off 2,382.91
Balance on hand $1,371.59

Owing to the fact that he has gone
out of business, Mr. Albrecht handed
in his resignation as Treasurer, which
was reluctantly received by the con-
vention.

Herman Hanson, of Grand Rapids,
gave a report of his trip to the Omaha

of the

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of the National Grocers
Association. He spoke well of the Na-
tional officers. The report was very
interesting and was enthusiastically re-
ceived.

As delegates to the 1928 convention
National Association at New
Orleans the following were appointed
by President. Bailey: D. L. Davis,
Ypsilanti; L. W. Van.Dusen, Lansing;
M. C. Goossen, Lansing; E. Schnee-
berger, Ann Arbor.

The following committees were ap-

convention

pointed by the President:
Credentials—Ed. Weide, Bay. City;

Chas. Foster, Lansing; Mr. Kardux,
Holland.

Resolutions—J. F. Tatman, Clare;
A.J. Dichm, Remus; £. W. Van

Dusen, Lansing; Matt Heyns, Grand
Rapids.
Ypsilanti;

Auditinge—D. L. Davis,

L. Loetz, Sturgis; G. Reutter, Lansing.

 

A. J. Faunce, Vice-President.

One of the most instructive and in-
spiring addresses was that given by
Carl W. Dipman, editor Progressive
Grocer, York “The
Modern Store.” He built up a model
talk
audience was delighted in every way.

New City, on

store as his proceeded and_ his
This feature was through the courtesy
of the Wholesale
Association secured by F. ft.
Green, Secretary, of Saginaw.

Michigan Grocers

and
Below are a few of the ideas de-
veloped:

“There is very little printed informa-
tion on how to build a store.”

“We must cut down our margins and
increase our turnover by better dis-
plays.”

“Many stores are too large for the
amount of business they are doing. A
doing $75,000 business a year
larger than 30 by 40

store
should not be
feet.”

Step by step he showed how to plan
and build such a store, and he said that
even the store’s location should be
chosen with a thought to the woman’s
convenience.

“All goods are bought through ap-
peal to one or more of the five senses,
sight, smell, taste, hearing, feeling.
Therefore get your goods out where
they are accessible to the customer.”

“Discard practically all of your floor

’ the store.’

cases and leave shelves open to the
public.”

“Have fast selling items within
reach of the wrapping counter and the
high profit items nearer the front of

“Don’t pile goods in a fancy display
but pile them loosely on tables.”

.The discussion which followed this
address intelligent and showed
that the members had thoroughly en-
joyed the demonstration.

John J. Miller spoke a few words to

was

us, taking the viewpoint of the whole-
He said grocers spend too much
time in buying and that there are too
many traveling men on the road.

On Tuesday evening we enjoyed a
fine banquet at the Hotel Olds. The
guest of honor and main speaker was
President J. W. Coode, of the National
Retail Grocers Association, who gave
a real message from one who has risen
from the ranks to a place of promin-
ence and who now is optimistic of our
future. He said if the grocer is giving
a real service in his community he will
remain. It is his opinion that the
growth of the chains can partly be at-
tributed to the ease with which they
can secure money at banks and from

saler.

investors.

 

 

 

 

Paul Gezon, Secretary.

He said, “The idea of a co-operative
jobbing house is unsound. Jobbers are
our best friends, but the jobber who
expects to maintain his margin of 11%
per cent. is going to fail.”

He thought 6% per cent. to be about
right for a jobber’s margin to-day. He
advocated highly
goods at cut prices to meet competi-
tion,

In the business session which closed
the convention the following officers
were elected:

President—Hans Johnson, Muskegon

First Vice-President—A. J. Faunce,
Harbor Springs.

Second Vice-President—G. Van Der
Honing, Grand Rapids.

Treasurer—J. F. Tatman, Clare.

Secretary—Paul Gezon, Grand Rap-
ids.

Directors—O. L. Brainard, Elsie;
Grover Hall, Kalamazoo; Ole Peter-
son, Muskegon; F. Burke, St. Johns;
Wm. Schultz, Ann Arbor.

Grand Rapids was chosen as the
convention city for 1929,

selling advertised

The total registration was 391, with
four grocers from Indiana in attend-
ance.

The following resolutions, recom-
mended by the Committee on Resolu-
tions, were unanimously adopted:

Whereas—The Lansing Association,
with the aid of the wholesalers, job-
bers, wholesale fruit dealers, the Olds
Hotel and other commercial
tions, have succeeded so well in pre-
paring for us a most successful busi-
ness convention as well also having

institii-

provided for our pleasure a most ac-
ceptable programme; therefore be it

Resolved—That we the delegates
assembled in convention most sincere-
ly thank them by a rising vote of
thanks.

Whereas—It is the well-known prac-
tice of much present day advertising
by outside competition to grossly ex-
aggerate and mislead; therefore be it

Resolved—That it is the sense of
this meeting that we take steps to ac-
quaint the public with this nefarious
practice.

Resolved—That we extend a special
vote of thanks to Reid, Murdock &
Co. and W. F. McLaughlin & Co., of
Chicago, for sending us speakers.

Whereas—Carl Dipman appeared on
the programme through the courtesy
cf the Wholesale
Association; therefore be it

Michigan Grocers’
Resolved—That we extend a special
vote of thanks for their very efficient
help in making the Lansing meeting a
success.
Resolved—That we
thanks to the frierd the

extend our
retail

best

 

J. F. Tatman, Treasurer.

of Michigan have—E. A.
Stowe—the man who is fearless in his
fights against unfair competition: and
that we recommend that every gro-
ceryman and meat dealer in Michigan
read the Tradesman.

Whereas—Pharmacy laws have been
enacted of late years prohibiting the
sale by grocers and general dealers of
many articles which belong quite as
much to the grocery stock as the drug
store; and

grocers

Whereas—The Director of the Board
of Pharmacy has carefully refrained
from permitting any violations of these
prohibitions from being reviewed by
the Supreme Court, because he real-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 25, 1928

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

izes that such prohibitions are clearly
urconstitutional; and

Whereas—The existence of such
prohibitions in the statute permits
agents and inspectors of the Board of
Pharmacy to unduly alarm merchants
who are not fully informed as to their
rights in the premises; and

Whereas—These prohibitions could
be used by unscrupulous inspectors as
a means of extorting blackmail from
merchants who would rather submit to
extortion than to subject themselves to
threatened arrest and prosecution; and

Whereas—The right to handle the
articles named has never been question-
ed by right thinking men, because their
sale does not require technical educa-
tion or a knowledge of poisons and
antidotes; therefore be it

Resolved — That our Legislative
Committee be requested to confer with
Governor Green with a view to adopt-
ing the best and most expeditious
method of eliminating from the statute
the articles now on the prohibited list
which all classes of merchants should
be permitted to handle without let or
hind-ance. Paul Gezon,

—_~+-.>—___
B'ackberrying in Pioneer Days on the
Muskegon.

Grandville, April 24—Among_ the
duties of pioneer days devolving on the
boys and girls was supplying the lard-
er with things good to eat, and there
was nothing finer than the big, luscious
wild blackberries. There were worlds
of them after a few logging jobs had
been pulled off.

It seemed natural for the blackberries
to follow the lumbering of pine lands.
Usually these blackberries came in the
wake of a forest fire which swept
through the pine choppings like a
whirlwind.

One of our schoolmams came from
the goodly State of Maine and it was
worth while to take her up the Mus-
kegon two or three miles to a high
rollway, to aid her climb to the top
from the river side, and see her delight
at rounding up the berries with great
glee.

Although Maine was known as the
Pine Tree State she said she had
never seen such blackberries as grew
on the Muskegon rollways. Miss Mac
was very much interested in these
blackberry excursions until one day
we heard a startled scream and saw
Miss Mac come tearing through the
bushes, lacerating her hand and neck
from the sharp thorns that grew on
the bushes which bore the berries.

And what think you it was all about?
She had seen a snake and these pretty
and harmless reptiles sent her into
spasms. She was even more prejudic-
ed against even the most harmless of
these reptiles than are some of our
ladies of the present day when they
encounter a fierce English sparrow in
their pathway.

Although Miss Mac lived and thriv-
ed in the Muskegon woods for several
years she was never able to overcome
her antipathy toward a snake.

Birds and snakes are, of course, not
in many respects alike, nor are the two
on friendly terms, since I have seen a
small bird fluttering in agony as it
slowly disappeared down the throat of
a seemingly harmless snake.

Usually the summit of the rollway
was crowned with a set of old shanties
where the loggers had been housed
during their work cutting down the
tall pines which went to make fodder
for the mills at the mouth of the river.

In these shanties berrying parties
found shelter and plenty of debris to
burn for heating the can of tea or
coffee that some thoughtful debby had
brought to the feast.

Sec’y.

Opposite one of these rollways, and
across the river, was a strip of low
land on which a thoughtful settler had
planted a field of corn. In blackberry
time this corn was usually in prime
condition for roasting so that crossing
the stream in a canoe some of the boys
procured an armful of ears which were
roasted at the shanty fire.

Blackberrying was nearly always a
pleasant pastime rather than work.
That is for the boys who paired off

with girls to make the party more
pleasing.
Snakes were not the only disagree-

able features of these berrying parties.
Now and then a skunk put in an ap-
pearance and scented the whole neigh-
borhood, much to the disgust of the
merrymakers.

At times one would run into a flock
of young partridges which would scat-
ter through the bushes to the amuse-
ment of the maiden aunts and the
young girls. Nobody thought of kill-
ing one of these. The most surprising
thing I ever knew pulled off was the
climbing of a tree hy a woodchuck,
chased there by a fierce blue racer.
These animals are not supposed to
climb trees, but have been known to
do it when chased by snakes.

Toward sundown all the berrypickers
would gather at the shanty and make
ready for the return home. Tired
enough were these pioneer berry-
pickers after an all day’s struggle to
fill their baskets and pails from the
tall bushes whose spines were no re-
specter of persons who ventured among
them.

The teacher, Miss Mac, enjoyed
these berry parties without limit while
the fruit season lasted. Later on came
a dose of fever and ague which put a
different face on the matter and sent
the pretty Maine teacher back to her
Penobscot home sooner than she had
expected. She came later to Michigan,
however, and enjoyed other years of
roughing it in the pine woods.

Pioneering was not all sugar and
cream. There were many drawbacks
which had to be taken into account,
one of the worst being those annual
visits from the fever and ague fiend.

Rollway blackberrving was among
the first adventures into the woods
after food for the larder. Later on,
when the cutting of pine extended far
back from the winding course of the
river, more fields were opened .up for
berrying and thousands of bushels of
the wild fruit were gathered, much of
that secured by the Indians being so!d
in the outside town markets at a living
price.

Indians would take many bushels at
a trip down the river in canoes a dis-
tance of nearly thirty miles, counting
the crooks of the stream. Canoes and
Mackinac boats were used for this
purpose. Some of these larger craft
were made of birch bark the fashioning
of which into boats and utensils for
the house was a common occurrence.

Birch bark canoes soon became a
thing of the past and the later crafts
for skimming the waters of the river
and lakes were dugouts, usually from
ash trees. Some of these were scaled
down to very thin sides and bottom,
just sufficient to carry a single human
occupant and one deer which the reds
often shot on night excursions up and
down the river.

Blackberrying on the Muskegon, so
long a thing of the nast, still haunts
the minds of old timers as they sit and
dream of the long ago. Old Timer.

The Last Frontier.
“What's your advice to women on
this clothing question?”
“Don't give up the slip.”
—-se?>______—_
The woman who marries for money
gets all she deserves.
—-> 2.
Man sets up the drinks
drinks upset the man,

and the

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will find it so good that you'll feel en-
thusiastic about selling it to others.

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vegetables than when selling Best Foods Salad Dressings.
In many stores green groceries and Best Foods Dressings
are displayed together. The combination gives the display
a more colorful and appetizing appearance. One sells the
other — effects faster turnover on vegetables and greater

sales of both.

There are no finer salad dressings made than Best Foods—
none that employ purer ingredients or that are made under

more sanitary conditions.

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appearing in Good Housekeeping this month and arrange to
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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Port Austin— The Lakeside Motor
Sales has increased its capital stock
from $2,000 to $5,000.

Alpena—The Alpena County Savings
Bank has changed its name to the
Alpena Trust & Savings Bank.

Lansing—Peters Coal Co., 735 East
Michigan avenue, has changed its
name to the Peters Coal & Seed Co.

Flint—The Big Four Oil Co., 122
Paterson building, has increased its
capital stock from $50,000 to $100,000.

Grand Rapids — The Thorne-Cook
Co., Inc., 408 Davison avenue, South,
has changed its name to the Cook Tire
Co.

Detroit—The Betty Ross Shoppe, 540
Farnsworth avenue, lingerie, has
changed its name to the Veltex Mills,
Ine.

Bridgman — The Bridgman Supply
Co., lumber and builders’ supplies, has
increased its capital stock of $90,000 to
$106,000.

Kalamazoo — The Superior Auto
Service Co., 1211 South Burdick street,
has increased its capital stock from
$10,000 to $35,000.

Ingalls—The Ira Garley Lumber Co.
has changed its capitalization from
$100,000 common to $60,000 common
and $40,000 preferred.

Jackson—The Reliance Automobile
& Supply Co. 135 West Cortland
street, has changed its name to the
Wilbur Dunn Cadillac Co.

Jackson — The National Research
Laboratories, Inc., 615 South Park
Avenue, has changed its name to the
Medical Products Corporation.

Sand Lake—The general stock of D.
Hunter was sold at public auction by
Abe Dembinsky, auctioneer, to Sam
Sewall, of Saginaw, who will close it
out.

Marquette — John Siegel, who has
conducted a grocery store here for the
past thirty years, has closed out his
stock and retired from trade, owing to
failing health.

Grand Rapids—The Piggly-Wiggly
Johnson Co. has increased its capital
stock from $100,000 and 500 shares no
par value to $200,000 and 5,000 shares
shares no par value.

Gladwin—The Gladwin Fur Farms,
Inc., has been incorporated with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, all
of which has been subscribed, $1,500
paid in in cash and $4,500 in property.

Martin—R. S. Marshall has sold his
undertaking stock and equipment to
Conrad Haveman, who has taken pos-
session. Mr. Marshall will remove to
Moline and conduct undertaking par-
lors there and at Byron Center.

Detroit — The Fife-Pearce Electric
Co., 1446 Gratiot avenue, has merged
its business into a stock company un-
der the same style, with an authorized
capital stock of $50,000, $5,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

Detroit—The A. Stewart Flour Co.,
3732 Philadelphia avenue, has been
incorporated to deal in flour and other
grain products, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $5,000, $1,500 of which
has been subscribed and $1,200 paid in
in property.

Flint—The Peer Roofing Co., 1919
Howard avenue, has been incorporated

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

to deal in roofing, paints, eavestrough-
ing, etc., at wholesale and retail, with
an authorized capital stock of $10,000,
$4,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in property.

Detroit—The Detroit Home Furni-
ture Co., has been incorporated to con-
duct a furniture, rug and carpet store,
with an authorized capital stock of
$100,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in, $10,000 in cash
and $90,000 in property.

Lansing — The Busch Jewelry Co.,
201 South Washington avenue, has
been incorporated to conduct a retail
jewelry store with an authorized cap-
ital stock of 1,000 shares at $1 per
share, of which amount $250 has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Big Rapids—W. A. Stillwell, dealer in
crockery, glassware and stationery, has
secured a long-time lease of his store
in the Fairman building and will put
in a new plate glass front. He has re-
cently been elected chairman of the
Mecosta county road commission.

Detroit — The Eagle Automotive
Supply Co., 2123 Gratiot avenue, has
been incorporated to deal in automo-
bile accessories, parts, etc., at whole-
sale and retail, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $10,000, all of which has
been subscribed and paid in in property.

Monroe—The Reh Nurseries, Inc.,
608 O’Brien street, has been incorpo-
rated to conduct a nursery and deal in
nursery products, with an authorized
capital stock of $80,000 common and
20,000 shares no par value, of which
amount $1,000 has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Kalamazoo — The Kersten Radio
Equipment Co., 1415 Fulford street,
has merged its business into a stock
company under the style of Kersten
Radio Equipment, Inc., with an au-
thorized capital stock of 20,000 shares
at $12.50 per share, of which amount
5.000 shares has been subscribed and
$10,000 paid in in cash.

Grand Rapids—The Ferris Coffee &
Nut Co., 414 Front avenue, N. W., has
been incorporated to deal in coffee, tea,
extracts, etc., at wholesale and retail,
with an authorized capital stock of
$50,000 common and $50,000 preferred,
of which amount $32,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in, $3,600 in cash
and $28,400 in property.

Detroit—F. H. Albrecht has sold his
grocery stock at 2408 Fifteenth street
to A. Berghoff, who has conducted a
grocery store in the same vicinity for
the past thirty years. Mr. Albrecht
has been engaged in the grocery busi-
ness for thirty-seven consecutive years,
sixteen years in Detroit and the re-
mainder of the time in Chicago and
Kalamazoo. He retired from trade be-
cause of ill health and will spend the
next six months at his summer cottage
at Woodhall Lake, Oakland county.
Mr. Albrecht served the Michigan Re-
tail Grocers and Meat Dealers’ Asso-
ciation eight years as Treasurer, re-
tiring at the Lansing convention at his
own request.

 

Manufacturing Matters.
Ypsilanti—The Streicher Die & Tool
Co., 306 River street, has merged its
business into a stock company under
the same style, with an authorized cap-

ital stock of $25,000, $22,550 of which
has been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Benton Harbor—Held Ozone & In-
dustrials, Inc., has changed its name
to the General Ozone Corporation and
increased its capitalization from $80,000
and 10,000 shares no par value to $80,-
000 and 30,000 shares no par value.

Detroit—The Radio Investment Cor-
poration, 2840 Book Tower, has been
incorporated to manufacture and sell
radio apparatus with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
cash.

River Rouge — The Motor Patents
Manufacturing Co., Inc., 10226 West
Jefferson avenue, has been incorporated
to manufacture motor accessories, with
an authorized capital stock of $20,000,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

St. Joseph — Berrien Laboratories,
Inc., Commercial National Bank build-
ing, has been incorporated to manufac-
ture and sell medicated chewing gum,
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, $2,400 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Farmington—The Preuize Manufac-
turing Co., Inc., Orchard Lake Road,
R. F. D. 2, has been incorporated to
manufacture gauges and metal tools,
with an authorized capital stock of
$20,000, of which amount $14,500 has
been subscribed and $2,700 paid in in
cash.

Detroit—United Airways, Inc., 1020
Book building, has been incorporated
to manufacture and sell airplanes, with
an authorized capital stock of $100,000
common, $50,000 preferred and 10,000
shares at $1 per share, of which amount
$18,000 has been subscribed and $2,000
paid in in cash.

Grand Rapids — The Ewald Stein
Radio Corporation, 123 Auburn avenue,
N. E., has been incorporated to manu-
facture and deal in radio apparatus,
with an authorized capital stock of
£10,000 preferred and 1,000 shares at
St per share, of which amount. $6,020
has been subscribed, $12 paid in in
cash and $4,248 in property.

Adrian — The Line-O-Scribe Co.,
Inc., one of Adrian’s newest industries,
has taken over the plant of the Mich-
igan Fence Co. The company will
start at once on an order for nearly a
thousand machines for the J. C. Penny
system of stores. This order alone will
require about six months to fill. About
fifteen men will be employed at the
start, which number is expected to in-
crease,

Palmyra —Within the next month
the new $100,000 unit of the Simplex
Paper Corporation’s plant, considered
one of the most modern paper manu-
facturing plants in this country, will
be in full operation. The building, 50
by 200 feet and of fireproof construc-
tion, has been completed and workmen
now are installing the last of the ma-
chinery. The company expects to
manufacture 80 per cent. of the basket
caps used in the United States next
year in packing and shippng fruit and
vegetables. A spur of the Toledo &
Western Railroad will be built to the
new building. The Adrian plant of
the company is strictly a. fabricating
unit and it is here that the water proof

April 25, 1928

packing paper is manufactured as wel!
as many other varieties of the product.

————_7. 2s
A Blessed Secret.

It is a blessed secret, this
of living by the day.

Any one can carry his burden,
however heavy, until nightfall.

Any one can do his work,
however hard, for one day.

Any one can live sweetly,
patiently, lovingly and purely
until the sun goes down.

And this is all that life ever
really means to us—
just one little day.

Do to-day’s duty; fight to-day’s temp-
tations and do not weaken and
distract yourself by looking for-
ward to things you cannot see and
could not understand if you saw
them.

God gives us nights—to shut down the
curtain of darkness on our little
days.

We cannot see beyond.

Short horizons make life easier and
give us one of the blessed secrets
of a brave, true, holy living.

—_>+.____
Method in His Madness.

A litle Hebrew boy was standing on
a street corner, making the welkin ring
with great sobs and exclamations of
distress. About him there soon gath-
ered a large crowd of would-be sym-
pathizers.

“What is the matter, my little man?”
asked one of the crowd. “Are you
lost?”

The boy ceased his wailing. “I am,”
he answered. “I’m los:. Won't vou
take me to Goldblatt’s Cut-Rate Tail-
oring Shop, at 234 Rosen street, which
has just opened up a marvelous sacri-
fice sale on men’s pants and suits at
50 per cent. below cost.”

—_2+-.___
Twelve New Readers of the Trades-
man.

The following new subscribers have
been received during the past week:

P. H. Haynes, Flint.

Boyd Redner & Son, Dowagiac.

O. L. Brainard, Elsie.

G. Vanderhoning, Grand Rapids.

D. J. Riordan, Lansing.

Alphonse Lemble, Ann Arbor.

H. N. Spencer, Detroit.

Burkhart Store, Saline.

Geo. McInnes, Banning, Calif.

V. C. Wolcott, Union City.

Thomas B. Ford, Flint.

W. F. Mellen, Oak Park, II.

——— > >—___
Apple Butter Time Nowadays.

This is the apple butter season, so
now is the time to sell it. Lay in a
stock of good apple butter, and you'll
find lots of calls for it. If your selling
talks don’t forget to suggest it to your
customers. People will appreciate
your calling it to their attention. They
like it, but as a rule people don’t think
of asking for such an item unless it is
brought to their attention by your
clerk or yourself.

—_2-.___

Charles Salotti, dealer in confection-
ery and groceries at 65 Third street,
Laurium, renews his subscripton to the
Tradesman and says: “1927 was one
of our most prosperous years and the
Tradesman sure has helped make it
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April 25, 1928

Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.
Sugar—Jobbers hold cane granulated
at 6.75 and beet granulated at 6.55.

Tea—The total volume of business
in the local tea market last week was
small, according to the reports of deal-
ers. Dealers complain of the poor de-
mand, and some say that actual sales
on some days last week were the small-
est in several weeks. The firmer tone
at the London auctions failed to excite
buyers, who let nothing disturb their
strict hand-to-mouth policy. The
stronger London market did, however,
tend to make some sellers a little more
independent, and they were less in-
clined to shade prices, especially on
good leaf grades. The market gen-
erally had a steady undertone.

Canned Vegetables—No change oc-
curred in vegetables last week. Toma-
toes remain weak at former prices and
are not active beyond necessary re-
placements. Peas are also taken as
wanted at the market and in the grades
most abundant. Corn is a slow seller
and is no more than steady in tone.

Rice—Rough rices in the South have
been hardening in value to keep pace
with the narrowing of offerings and
due in a measure to the unfavorable
growing weather which threatens to
delay the maturity of the early varie-
ties. Millers, who have been forced
to advance their quotations to the
grower, have reflected this price change
in their finished rices. While these de-
velopments are recognized here they
have not affected the general jobbing
quotations, but there is a better feeling
and all operators have confidence in
the situation. Stocks throughout the
trade are reported to be light as the
movement toward the consumer has
been without interruption and inven-
tories lately have not been increased in
a material way.

Dried Fruits—California prunes are
uniformly firmer in tone than on the
spot and with fewer outside packs
quoted the situation has improved.
Peaches have been reduced to small
compass and no pressure is used to
move present holdings. The top
grades of apricots are off of the mar-
ket but there are standards and choice
to be had. ‘These are steady but in
limited demand. An improvement in
raisins has been promised by the buy-
ing back of contracts with Eastern
distributors, which will mean that the
low priced fruit around 434c will not
be sent Eastward to prolong the per-
iod of competition among distributors.
The association and independent pack-
ers are not selling raisins on the low
basis of the season and, while there
has not been a great deal of business
put up to them by some of the depress-
ed jobbing centers, sellers on the
Coast are waiting for a favorable re-

action which they anticipate in the’

near future. The spot market has been
quiet all week, with a fair jobbing de-
mand, but with no changes in quota-
tions in any offering. Oregon prunes
have been more unsettled than other
packs but Californias are steady at go-
ing prices, with a better call from in-
terior markets which are seeking fair
sized replacements. Peaches and apri-
cots are in seasonable demand. The

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

trade is a little slow to take the apri-
cot grades which are available. Raisins
are at former prices and are moving in
a routine way.

Canned Fish—Maine sardine canning
was begun last week, but so few fish
were brought into the canneries that
nothing of consequence was accomp-
lished. It is believed that it will be
the end of May before any quantity of
fish is packed. Prices have been named
and business is being placed in a con-
servative way, more for the styles
which are short than the general line.
All carryover is in small volume and
broken assortments. Salmon has also
been quiet. Pinks are firm at quota-
tions, with business possible at $1.92,
but most of it is done at $1.95. Some
holders will not shade their asking
price of $2. Reds and mediums are
dull and weak. Crab meat is being
sought in resale blocks at going prices
and is hard to uncover at listed quota-
tions. More interest is being paid to
tuna in the jobbing field. Shrimp is
more important for retail distribution
than for factory shipment for later
dates.

Salt Fish—The demand for all types
of salt fish since Lent has been remark-
ably good and some distributors are of
the opinion that the spring and summer
movement of mackerel will be similar
to that during the season three years
ago, which was well above the aver-
age. There is a fair quantity of mack-
erel to carry the trade into new pack,
but there have been no accumulations
to cause weakness. Retailers have been
buying steadily as they have allowed
their stocks to run down to a minimum.
Other types of salt fish are steady
without any change in prices.

Nuts—The entire assortment of
shelled and unshelled nuts is dull, with
weakness in a number of offerings.
There is less than a seasonable demand
and when business is placed it is most-
ly for small or moderate sized parcels
since trade is on a_hand-to-mouth
basis and will take only what is needed
for definite outlets. Walnuts are more
plentiful than other types, and the
mere fact that the large crop has not
completely cleared has caused a limit-
ed demand from all branches of the
trade. Incidentally, the quiet walnut
situation has affected other nuts.
Brazil nuts have been quiet for several
weeks, but the market has been shap-
ing itself for a broader demand since
primary markets have gone down to
levels which importers think afford a
safe basis for buying. The domestic
trade has been inclined to postpone
covering normal requirements. Shelled
nuts are in as limited demand as nuts
in the shell and, while the market is
moderately stocked, there are ample
offerings available for present needs.

Pickles—Retailers are giving the
market better than usual support and
all types of pickles are in good demand.
Stocks in first and second hands are
uniformly light and there is freqquent
repeat business placed for complete
assortments. Stocks at primary points
are not as extensive as usual and
picklers are not overloaded, as they
have been in the past when forced
liquidation was required to go into a
new crop in a favorable position.

Sauerkraut—Cool weather has been
favorable for the demand, but there is
a shrinkage in distribution nevertheless
but prices have not been affected as
there are no excessive holdings of bulk
or canned kraut.

Vinegar—All grades are firm, due to
unusual shortages in stocks in all
branches of the trade and the price
trend apparently still appears to be up-
ward. No talk has occurred so far of
new crop sales.

> 2
Review of the Produce Market.

Apples — Baldwins, $2.25@2.50;
Northern Spys, $2.50@3; Western Jon-
athans, $3 per box; Rome Beauty, $3.50

 

per box,

Asparagus—45c per bunch for Geor-
gia.

Bagas—Canadian, $2.40 per 100 Ib.
sack,

Bananas—5'4@6c per Ib.

Butter—The market is Ic higher than
a week ago. Jobbers hold fresh pack-
ed at 43c and prints at 45c. They pay
24c for No. 1 packing stock and 12c
for No. 2.

Cabbage—Old is entirely out of mar-
ket. New from
to $6 per crate.

Carrots—$1.25 per bu. for old: new
from Texas, $2.50 per bu.

Cauliflower — New
$3.50 per doz.

Celery—60@90c per bunch according
to size; Florida, $4.75 per crate.

Celery Cabbage—$1.50 per doz.

Cocoanuts—$1 doz. or $7.50 a bag.

Cucumbers—Indiana_ hot
per crate.

Eggs—The market is le higher than
a week ago. Local handlers pay 26¢
for strictly fresh.

Grape Fruit — Florida commands
$6@6.50 per crate.

Green Onions—Chalotts, 65c per doz.

Lemons—Quotations are as follows:

Texas has advanced

from Florida,

 

house, $2

GOO Sunkist =) $7.00
N60 Sunkist 2220 7.00
MOO Red Ballo 6.50
o00 Red Bale oo 6.50

 

Lettuce —In good demand on the
following basis:
Arizona Iceberg, 4s, per crate __$4.00
Arizona Iceberg, 6s, per crate __ 3.50
Hothouse leaf, per Ib. 12c

Onions—Texas Bermudas, $3.50 per
bu. crate; home grown command $4
for white or vellow—both 100 Ib. sack.

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

OE ee $5.75
1200 6.50
0 6.75
7G oe 7.50
BOW 2 7.50
ite oe Oe 7.59
Bo a ee 7.50
Ae ee ee 6.75
Red Ball 50c cheaper. All sizes of

Floridas are selling at $6.
Peppers—Green, 65c per doz.
Potatoes—The market is steady on

the basis of $1.50 per 100 lbs., gen-

erally over the State.
Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

Heavy fowls -00 05 26c
Paent fowls 93 Oe
Heavy Brotlers 6 26c
Esahe W. £L.. Broilers 2... 27. 18c

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

Sweet Potatoes — $2.50 per hamper
for kiln dried stock from Tennessee.

Tomatoes—$3.50 for 10 lb. basket of
hot house; $1.40 per 6 Ib. basket from
Calif,

Veal Calves— Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

BANG l6c
GOOG ee ee l4e
Medi 2 _2. (Ze
POOR 10c

—>++___
Daily Train Service to Harbor Springs
Temporarily Resumed.

At the hearing accorded representa-
tives of Harbor Springs business men
before the State Railway Commission
at Lansing last Wednesday, it was de-
that the Pennsylvania
should reinstate its daily train service
from Petoskey to Harbor Springs im-
mediately.

When the resort season closed last
fall, the Pennsylvania Co. reduced the
service to a daily train, leaving Petos-
key at 7 o'clock a. m., arriving at Har-
bor Springs at 7:25, leaving Harbor
Springs at 7:50 and arriving at Petos-
key at $:20. This, of

Harbor Springs people to use busses,

cided System

course, forced
automobiles and other means of com-
munication in getting back and forth
between Petoskey and Harbor Springs.

On March 19, without notice to any-
one, the Pennsylvania Co. suspended
the daily service and substituted a two-
day a week service instead. This,
naturally, aroused the antagonism of
the people to such an extent that they
appealed to the Railway Commission
for assistance. At the hearing last
Wednesday the antipathy to the ac-
tion of the railroad was so manifest
that the attorneys of the Pennsylvania
System voluntarily agreed to resunie
daily service temporarily in considera-
tion of the Commission continuing the
matter until further notice. This means,
of course, that next fall Harbor Springs
will again be confronted by the same
problem which she has had to face
during the past winter.

When the resort season
June 24, Harbor Springs will have a
three-day a week resort train until
Aug. 24: from Aug. 26 to Sept. 16,
when the terminates, it will
have a seven-day a week train. From
June 26 to Sept. 16 it will also have
the benefit of the Chicago resort train,
which will run from Mackinaw City to
Chicago via Harbor Springs.

Harbor Springs has no complaint to
make over the summer service when
the railroad is making thousands of
dollars from resort fares and_ the
freight which comes in as a result of
the influx of tourists. But in the win-
ter time the service must be neces-
sarily curtailed. How complete that
curtailment will be rests entirely with
the people of Harbor Springs in get-
ting ready for the hearing which will
probably be held early in the fall. Har-
bor Springs must be better prepared
with facts and figures to present her
case at that time, because it will then
be settled on its merits and not because
of any innate fear on the part of the
railroad that it will be deprived of
good will through its action in curtail-
ing train service.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

   

April 25,

1928

 

Paper Which Was Not Presented at
Lansing.

Port Huron, April 23—When our
friend, State Secretary Gezon, first
asked me to speak to you at this con-
vention, I told him he should get an
orator, because I realize the possibili-
ties of co-operation and would like to
see it handled by someone capable of
putting it forth in the proper way. He
first asked me, after I had written him
a letter on my views, to speak on the
subject of the problems of the individ-
ual retail grocer of to-day. I told him
that if I spoke on that topic I would
be apt to curse first the manufacturer,
then the jobber and then the retailer
for present day conditions. He must
think a lot of you fellows because he
wrote back at once and said I had bet-
ter speak on the benefits of quality
service. When I got to thinking it
over I thought that possibly he
thought the manufacturer and jobber
were too big to be spoken about that
way and just to spoil any notion he or
anyone else may have in that respect
I ask, who made or makes the manu-
facturer or jobber? You know, and
so do they. Nobody but the individual
grocer who sells 88 per cent. of the
merchandise sold. When someone
starts to howl about all business going
to be cash-and-carry in a few years’
time, laugh at him. I think about 7
per cent. of all the business done in
this wonderful Nation of ours is cash.
But one thing we must do and that is
to co-operate. Neither you nor I can
expect to buy one case and receive the
low price. But we can co-operatively.
Neither you nor I can afford to pay $50
or $100 for an advertisement, but we
can co-operatively. And when we buy
and advertise co-operatively, we can
and will get concessions. Some time
ago a song was written—it was quite
popular—under the title “Then Your
Pipe Goes Out.” It’s all right to sing
a song and take it as a jest, but you
and I know that all the wonderful
achievements of to-day—steam, elec-
tricity, automobiles, air planes and
radios—are the result of so-called pipe
dreams. ‘So light your old pipe and
we will vision, not dream, about the
possibilities of co-operation. Our
vision is already areality. All over the
country are quality service groups, the
advance guards of co-operation. You
who have not heard of, or seen, the
achievements of these groups, ask
someone who has. I can tell you how
one little group of men got together
who had never received a price con-
cession unless it was a manufacturing
deal or a jobber’s inventory special,
who are buying all articles at 5 and 2,
8, 10 and 15 per cent. under list. Just
a short time ago we received the op-
nortunity to buy an article which is
staple, that last year we thought we
did fine when we secured 10 per cent.
This year we will buy at 15 per cent.
off list, with 10 per cent. extra in free
goods and an extra 5 per cent. per
case if our order is 100 cases. That is
just advancing in co-operation. That
same group a few weeks ago advertis-
ed and sold fancy head rice at 3 cents
less for 4 pounds than A. & P. did and
our profit was 31 per cent. I am not
going to mention any more of the 100
things co-operation does for you, first
on account of time, second, I fear
some of you might want me to quit
talking long enough to allow someone
to give them a good booting for not
enquiring into the only logical and
practical way the individual grocer has
to pay his taxes, support his church or
lodge, educate his children, give to
charity, and receive any recompense
for his labor. The second vision I see
is the State divided into districts with
a principal city as the center or head
and these all joined under one state
association where faithful and loyal
managers look after the best interests
of all. When this is done even in a
single district, you and I, Mr. Grocer,
can buy our one or five cases as our
business requires, turn it over, buy

again at prices at which we can meet
competition and exist. Did I hear some-
one say we were going to be jobbers?
No, we don’t have to be. Just buy
your supply, not a whole bunch. You
will be surprised at the amount when
a group buys together. You will get
the price and pay your bills every
week. Two per cent. on a dollar is
just 2 per cent.; but eighteen turnovers
a year makes it 36 per cent. You can
do that when you buy just as you need.
There are many things co-operation
will work out for you.

Your trucks, insurance—automobile
and fire — supplies, and about every-
thing in fact you need. You save more
than it costs you. On $5 a week we
pay for our advertising, buyer, tele-
phone, stationary, dues to State as-
sociation, and in a year’s time have
about $2,560 to use as necessary. But
that is the smallest thing. We have
created a fellowship among our mem-
bers more valuable than gold or silver;
that spirit of co-operation; the biggest
asset to the individual grocer.

I could talk for hours on rights and
wrongs of our business, but I do not
want to make you tired. Does it seem
like a rash statement to make that with
every individual grocer co-operating
we could rid ourselves of practically
all of our troubles? I wish we could
get enough co-operation to try it. It
seems as though many grocers are
either too conceited in their own
power or ability or—I won’t say too
dumb—but too stubborn to see the
possibilities of co-operation. | What
would happen if all the individual mer-
chants banded together and would say
to some of the manufacturers, you are
unfair to us; we are taking your goods
off your shelves and patronizing the
one who gives us a fair deal and would
stick to it. Just picture the results in
a few months’ time if you have any
knowledge of who sells the volume of
groceries. There would be some grand
awakenings in this little world of ours.
Did I hear someone say they could not
do without some brands? Possibly
not altogether.

Who runs your business? Are youa
salesman or a penny machine, Mr.
Grocer? If you have given the public
good merchandise without always try-
ing to take advantage of them, you can
kill any article you have on your
shelves and replace it with another.
You see this advertisement? I am
using it to brine out a point with no
malicious thought. It is advertised
from coast to coast. They say you
have to have it because it is advertised.
If that advertisement makes vou carry
the goods, doesn’t it make you get the
price which is also advertised? Here is
another hot one. We've done it al-
ready. You are right, Mr. Del Monte.
We’ve thrown out your brand and in
our little group have taught our trade
and neighbors that there are as good
and better canned fruits than yours by
selling almost a carload of others last
season. My only prayer to-day is that
grocers all over the country refuse to
sell goods just because they have a
little less line of resistance behind
them. Do you know that sometimes
you can tell people to go to hell and
get along just as well as though vou
never knew them. Of course, if they
don’t go there it isn’t your fault.

Have the individual retail grocers in
Michigan enough courage to fight for
a principal? Let us show the rest of
our brother grocers in the United
States that we believe in co-operation
and let us select a few of these popular
articles from manufacturers who are
so unscrupulous in their ideas of fair-
ness and let both jobber and retailer
throw them out of their stocks. Show
the manufacturers on just a couple of
articles that we want and are going to
get a fair deal. If they cannot give
us that, others will.

Not long ago a salesman came to
our city selling soap. I think salesmen
can do a lot for you and I hated to
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April 25, 1928

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

one, but it was his firm, not him, we
had the axe sharpened for. He said
we have an additional allowance of 72
cents a gross. I said fine. [ have
three gross.. But he said I can only
give it to you on what you buy. I told
tum we were not selling much of his
brand and again I heard that old song,
* We advertise it—you have to have it.”
Don’t you get mad when they tell you
you have to do with this or do without
that? I think that when manufactur-
ers sell their products to firms who
will make footballs of their prices, we
should kill the product. Their orders
dropped from seventy-two gross last
year to five this time. What do you
think manufacturers would do if all
over the country the individual grocer
took the same stand? Why advertise
to your trade you cannot sell an ar-
ticle as cheap by asking more money?
Hide those articles, if they ask for
them, give them what they want, but
at the same time offer any other brand
at a little special. It does not take
any time and your trade thinks more of
you for offering it, even if they don’t
buy. Use your head. You won't hurt
it any.

Little did that great emancipator, Abe
Lincoln, when he saw them selling
slaves and remarked if he ever got the
chance he was going to hit that thing
hard, think he was going to be the man
to do it. You never can tell what re-
sults your efforts may bring. Just
stop and think: There are about 250,-
000 groceries in the United States and
50,000 chain stores which do about 12
per cent. of the business. Manufac-
turers give them better discounts than
jobbers, millions for advertising allow-
ance, and the individual merchants sell
88 per cent. of the goods. You say
we know it. What are we going to do
about it? Let’s acknowledge we have
been taught something and get some
of these plums. How? Just by co-
operation. The jobbers in some places
need some lessons in price reduction.
In the past Mr. Jobber hooked the
little fellow rather hard, but realizes
to-day that our existence is his, so he
has to come across and help. Plain
English, but true. Why should job-
bers howl to manufacturers when they
sell to quality store groups direct and
threaten to blacklist them? Why
don’t they do it to those who sell the
chains? They are bigger than our
little groups; but not jobbers any more
than we are. They service only their
own stores. Why fight us, jobbers?
Fight the ones who are making life
hell for you.

Just one thing more, then I'll shut
up. Let every individual grocer wake
up to the possibilities of co-operation.
Visit your neighbor grocer; spread the
gospel of co-operation. Let’s not sit
and howl about conditions. Let’s fight
to make things better. The foundation
motto of this wonderful Nation of ours
was, In Union there is Strength. You
Yankee, English, French, Dutch, Irish,
German—I don’t care what nationality
vou are—we are all brother grocers in
this great melting pot. Look back
with pride to your National heroes;
they were all fighters. To-day you
and I must stand shoulder to shoulder.
God has given each one of us the
ability to help himself. We have it.
Just co-operate, and when, by experi-
ence, we have learned the possibilities
of co-operation, these words will be
more appreciated.

There isn’t much in this old world
but sunshine after all. The hopes and
fears, the smiles and tears, the worm-
wood and the gall are all mixed up. So,
when I analyze the whole, I find the
sunshine dominates my heart, and
bronco soul. Ye grouchy pessimists
whose eyes reach not the skies of blue,
join eyes with mine where God’s sun-
shine shall meet your lengthened view.
Then let your soul reflect it back in
smiles of sweet content and shame will
roll athwart your soul for all the
growls you've spent.

Harry C. Schuberth.

 

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

Questionable Schemes Which Are
Under Suspicion.
Petoskey, April 19—I received a
check a few days ago from the Super-
keen Co. for $2.50, the amount I paid
them for a so-called razor blade sharp-
ener. Without your help I do not
think I would ever have heard from
them. Want to thank you for your
efforts. A. J. Crago:

 

 

Pumice stone sold in the United
States is of two kinds. One kind is
that which has been ground in the
United States while the
ground abroad. The domestically
ground product seems to be preferred
by the American trade, although most
of the raw product is of foreign origin.
An American pumice stone company
imported the stone ground in a for-
eign country and sold it in this coun-
try. In its advertising the company
used the word “mills.”” This was held
to imply that the firm operated a fac-
tory, which was not the truth and
tended to make purchasers believe they
were. getting domestically ground
pumice stone. These practices were
held by the Federal Trade Commission
to be unfair and in a stipulation pro-
ceeding entered into between the com-
mission and the pumice stone com-
pany, the latter agreed to discontinue
the practices.

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Seven corporations manufacturing
pyroxylin-coated material or imitation
leather have signed a stipulation agree-
ment with the Federal Trade Commis-
sion to the effect they will discontinue
trade practices tending to stifle compe-
tition. It was charged these companies
made mutual understandings with the
object of eliminating competition
among themselves through such means
as the following: (1) maintenance of
uniform so-called ‘standard costing
procedure’ or list prices arrived at
through comparison of cost data sub-
mitted by the several corporations;
(2) adoption of uniform discounts to
consumers and to jobbers or distribu-
tors, and (3) limiting each and all of
these corporations to the acceptance of
contracts calling for delivery of prod-
ucts over a period not to exceed ninety
days.

 

Pure beeswax candles are used by
certain religious i
church ceremonies and are made ac-
cording to specific ecclesiastical re-
quirements regarding ingredients. A
manufacturer of candles for altar use
in churches labeled his product “Bees-
wax Church and Altar Candles.” It
was found by the Federal Trade Com-
mission that these candles were not
manufacured wholly of beeswax nor
did they conform to ecclesiastical re-
quirements so as to be properly and
accurately designated “altar” candles.
The candle maker agreed in a stipula-
tion made with the Federal Trade
Commission to cease and desist from
the use of the words “beeswax” or
“wax’’ to describe his products when
such candles are not made entirely of
beeswax and to use the proper qualify-
ing words to describe candles not
made wholly of beeswax. He also
agreed to stop using the word “altar”
in an inaccurate sense in advertising
his candles.

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§

LITTLE CHANGE IN BUSINESS.

With weather conditions again the
chief retarding influence, retail trade
last week fell back to a rather spotty
condition. Some of the Easter momen-
tum carried along, but many stores
found it necessary to apply pressure
in order to keep sales up.

In retal quarters, however, it is felt
that a fairly good basis is being built
up on which to expect improved pur-
chasing power through the gain in
farm product prices, the spreading ac-
tivity in industrial areas and the re-
sumption of outdoor work.

The fact seems to be that many re-
tail organizations are now geared up
for quick changes in style merchandis-
ing, and they do not find changes num-
erous enough to suit their new system.
But, no doubt, this problem will be
worked out.

Marking up of the rediscount rate at
Chicago and Boston receives first at-
tention, of course, in comment on the
general business situation. Evidently,
the ineritia of the Reserve Banks with
respect to the mark of speculation has
been overcome once more and an at-
tempt is again under way to curb se-
curity inflation. The sale of Govern-
ment securities by the central banking
system has been the largest in weeks,
an operation aimed at the same target.

In the present circumstances it
scarcely needs mention that the manip-
ulation whereby speculation might be
brought under control is bound to be
a delicate one, inasmuch as pushing up
money rates on the stock market means
raising them on trade and industry as
well. In addition, it implies less co-
operation with the Bank of England
and with those countries of Europe
which are preparing to return to the
gold standard.

Just what the results may be are
difficult to foresee. From the busi-
ness standpoint it is felt that so many
are involved in what has been going
on in the Street that an abrupt decline
might have more serious consequences
than usual.

Apart from this speculative develop-
ment, the general business situation has
seen little change during the past week.

GOOD AND BAD ADVICE.

Dorothy Dix jumbles up good and
bad advice to the lovelorn in an ex-
traordinary way. Her chief fault is her
lack of idealism. She seldom soars.

A yellow primrose on the river’s brim
A yellow primrose was to him [her],
And it was nothing more.

Dorothy’s knowledge of life is far

from profound. For instance, she said
in a recent lucubration: “Nor is it
strange that women understand men
better than men understand women.”
This would be very strange if it were
true. But the truth of the case seems
to be that men’s understanding of
women is about on a par with women’s
understanding of men. Man’s powers
of reflection give him an advantage
over woman when it comes to forming
judgments on character, while this ad-
vantage of man’s is slightly offset by
woman's powers of intuition.

The sex element always obtrudes to
perplex man’s judgments of woman
and woman’s judgments of man.
Blinded by sex, good, sensible women
marry scoundrels, and good men marry

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

shrews and worse. This is why men
and women in love should always seek
counselors of the opposite sex, for
men understand men better than wom-
en understand men and, vice versa,
women understand women better than
men understand women.

Recently a man wrote a very good
letter to Dorothy. He said: “I wish
that I had lived years ago, in 1850 or
1875, when women were right mental-
ly. Then I might have tried marriage.
But what is the woman of to-day com-
posed of? One ticket to nowhere, one
lipstick, one powder puff, a package
of cigarettes, a whisper of clothes, and
the devil’s wind to blow them about.”
This man wrote cynically and exag-
gerated. The majority of our girls are
hardly so bad as this.

But Dorothy replied but lamely to
his letter. Among other feeble things
she said: “Grandmother couldn’t walk
a mile. Granddaughter thinks nothing
of hiking twenty-five.” But grand-
mother hiked many a mile about her
kitchen and house and in going errands
and doing acts of kindness and mercy.
And grandmother never hiked to the
divorce court.

THEY TEACH US GEOGRAPHY.

We have taken it quite as a matter
of course that our own long distance
flyers should teach us a few lessons in
geography as they made their trans-
continental and transoceanic flights.
Lindbergh gave us an entirely new
conception of the geographical layout
of Central America and the Caribbean;
Brock and Schlee reminded us of vari-
ous countries in Eastern Asia which
were strangers to the front pages of
American papers. But it has taken
three foreignors—two Germans and an
Irishman—to place on the map of the
world what one of them has termed
the “Labrador-Newfoundanl-Nova Sco-
tia coast.”

We are still rather hazy about the
exact location of several of the places
which have figured so largely in the
recent dispatches, but we have at least
learned of their existence. And we
have learned that at this time of year
they are rather cold and that no mat-
ter how springlike it may be farther
south, Greenly Island and Murray Bay
are still enjoying all the delights of
winter.

It is unfortunate that their climate
is so rigorous. When Commander
Byrd was forced to land at an obscure
French seaport it shrewd inhabitants
were quick to utilize the resultant pub-
licity for the development of a popular
seaside resort. It does not appear that
the handful of residents on Greenly
Island will be able to emulate their
example.

 

 

DARK SIDE OF LINDBERGH.

In a recent news film we noticed the
attitude of Colonel Charles Lindbergh
toward a man who, tugging along a
six-year-old boy, sought to touch the
magic hand of the world-famed_ bird-
man. Fed up on handshaking and pat-
ting little boys on the head, Colonel
Lindbergh unceremoniously beckoned
the stranger away. The face of the
latter dropped, the child vanished from
view and the flyer went sternly abotu
his business,

It is well known that Colonel Lind-
berth is bored to distraction by public
attention and one can understand it
and sympathize with his desire to rest
from the limelight. The part of the
hero is not easy. There are times
when one wishes to be alone. How-
ever, we confess to a sense of disap-
pointment that our gilded young super-
man is. losing some of that charming
poise and simple candor which has so
endeared him to the world. He might
better go on patting little boys’ heads
and shaking hands with his admirers,
patiently discounting even offensive in-
trusions, as all this is a legitimate
feature of his role. If it gives pleasure
and stimulates high
worth while, however tiresome.

We have known some heroic figures
figures, in their day almost equal to
that of the sturdy eagle, who lived to
mourn the loss of popularity and good
will through unfortunate attitudes of
indifference. Colonel Lindbergh may
retire gracefully if he so desires. But
while he continues to be he hero of
the sweetest of youth, we
hope he will not hold up forbidding
hands to folks who truly love him and
naturally wish to demonstrate their
affection.

emotions, it is

dreams

 

WAR ON RATS.

There will open at Havre in May an
international conference on war. It
is war on rats, to be sure, but still it
is war, and we confidently predict that
its chances for success are immeasur-
ably brighter than those of any of the
many conferences for peace which are
now being held at periodic intervals.
The participating nations should for
once be able to lay all their cards on
the tabie and boast of their weapons
of offense and defense, glory in their
aggressive designs and look scornfully
at their unprepared or pacifistic neigh-
bors.

We do not know a great deal about
rats and it may be that there is some-
thing to be said for them. There may
be a strong pro-rat party which will
bring to the conference a plan for
total disarmament of all anti-vermin
weapons. But public opinion will be
on the side of the militarists and it
will only be necessary to conjure up
frightful visions of fierce, long-tailed
rats scurrying about the world with the
germs of bubonic plague or some other
dread disease to silence who
would strive for peace.

those

Here is an opportunity for the world
to give vent to all its blood-thirsty
emotions. Rats are increasing rapidly.
In France alone they annually destroy
a million francs’ worth of property.
The peril must be checked.

 

THE TEXTILE SITUATION.

A representative committee to study
all the distribution phases of cotton
textiles has been announced during the
past week and marks the latest step
of the industry to cope with its prob-
lems. Wastes all along the line from
producer to consumer will be investi-
gated. In the meantime, a degree of
curtailment and the strike at New
Bedford, called because of the 10 per
cent. wage cut, have imparted a little
more strength to the market. Active

 

April 25, 1928

spindle hours in March rose over Feb-
ruary, but were about 5 per cent. un-
der the rate a year ago.

Of: the textiles, silks continue to be
the most active. However, there have
been concessions on some goods in
oversupply, particularly those prints
which have been produced in such large
quantities and  unorignal qualities.
Summer goods have been sought for
the fresh garment offerings and some
ordering has been done on fall goods.

In the men’s wear branch of the
woolen market there are rumors that
advances may soon be announced on
suitings. These increases will prob-
ably be applied to numbers which are
priced low for volume and on which
sufficient business has developed to
hold up output. The wool market has
turned quiet, with, in fact, some price
easing reported.

 

 

 

EDWARD M. STATLER.

How can they say that America has
lost forever the pioneer chances thai
made possible Alger’s garish stories of
the rise of a bootblack to the overlord-
ship of a bank? How can they say that
these opportunities are closed, that
“those days have gone forever?” Henry
ford’s life disproves this. The big men
in radio and the movies disprove it.
The life of Edward M. Statler, which
ended last week, disproved it. Unlike
ford, Statler did not need a new indus-
try as a field for his genius. He took
one of the oldest businesses in the
world, that of running a hotel, and built
himself up from nothing to the chief-
tancy of an enterprise worth millions
upon millions. Like the great mer-
chants of the generation just preced-
ing him, he took the sanctity of the
customer as his fundamental rule and
upon it constructed vast and beautiful
hostelries that are miracles of good
management. Sound policy and sound
management are a team that will still
win in America. Edward M. Statler’s
effective life once more demonstrates
this great and hopeful fact.

 

EDUCATION IN INDUSTRY.

According to a report by the Federal
Bureau of Education, the youth with-
out education to-day is barred from
three-fourths of the classified indus-
tries. Figures collected by the bureau
show that at least a high school edu-
cation is now necessary in order to
reach even the middle rungs of the
ladder of industrial success, while the
number of men who have a chance to
climb to the topmost rungs of execu-
tive responsibility without a college
education is negligible.

The truth doubtless is that educa-
tion alone doesn’t insure success to-
day any more than formerly. The in-
divdual qualities of mind, character and
personality still count as heavily as
ever. But in an industrial system such
as exists to-day there is an immense
amount of technical work that only
those specially prepared for it can en-
gage in, and those possessing this edu-
cational foundation naturally have an
advantage over those lacking it.

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In our wonderful climate father bare-
ly has time to lay away the snow shovel
and the coal scoop before he has to
oil and limber up the old lawn mower.

 

 

 

 

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April 25, 1928

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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MEN OF MARK.

 

George L. Crocker, Manager of Hotel
Olds, Lansing.

It is a typical American expression,
almost slangy in vernacular, this
“keeping up the gait.’ We might even
say, perhaps, “continuing activity” or
even “maintaining the pace,” but some-
how they do not seem so expressive.
“Keeping up the gait” is terse and
truthful. It has a Yankee flavor that
suggests one of the chief characteris-
tics of the people we are. It means
that we have found work to do and
that we are doing it. It means that we
are moving forward with the forward
movement of events. It means that we
are contributing our full share to the
cause of progress. It thus becomes a
high compliment, whether paid to a
Nation as a people or to a man as an
individual.

So far as the individual is concerned
the pace that has been set for him is a
fast one. It is demonstrated in the
hardihood of the first settlers and in
the patriotism of his revolutionary
forefathers. It is seen in a material
and commercial growth far exceeding
that of any other countrty. It was
this pace, or gait, that conquered the
wilderness and the savage: that peopled
a continent with hundreds of millions
of civilized men in a period of 400
years; that erected on this continent a
republic that is the model of the world
and that brought across the water to
an unknown land supremacy in both
war and peace.

This article concerns one man who
has been keeping up the gait. He
comes of a family whose deeds are
woven into the fabric of our history.
The name of this family is written
large upon the record of one of our
greatest states. The men who bore
it were among the pioneers of Michi-
gan. They aided in erecting the first
settlements; they helped to secure the
political liberty of a large territory;
they made a wild stretch of country
habitable, and they created a common-
wealth whose commiercial importance
is recognized around the globe. The
name of Crocker appears on the
earliest records of this country and has
continued on every page of its history.

It is one of the present day repre-
sentatives of that family that this ar-
ticle is designed to treat. His fore-
fathers had their part in contributing
to the greatness and glory of the Re-
public. Later: members of the family
fought in its wars and assisted in win-
ning its way in the markets of trade.
Likewise George L. Crocker has done
his work of maintaining the record
achieved by his family. He has ac-
complished this progress by the hard
and simple method of sticking to his
work industriously, taking good care of
the money he earned and then making
the money he saved increase itself by
means of careful investment. This is
the direct method by which many of
our greater business men have achieved
their present position in life. He
recognized that nothing valuable is ob-
tained without conscientious work. He
was wise enough to put his money as
fast as it was acquired into a business
of whose possibilities he had personal

knowledge. As a result his interests
were placed on a safe foundation and
had the benefit of his technical knowl-
edge of a great industry.

George L. Crocker was born on a
farm near Flushing, Nov. 27, 1874. His
father’s ancestors came from Devon-
shire, England. His mother was of
Yankee descent. He attended the coun-
try school so far as that would take
him. He then attended the public
schools of Flint until he had completed
the eleventh grade. His first business
experience was as clerk in the hard-
ware store of George W. Hubbard, at
Flint. Two or three years later he en-
tered the employ of the Fletcher Hard-
ware Co., at Detroit, as order clerk.
Mr. Crocker was, however, not desir-
ous of continuing in the hardware

 

later returned to the Soo and his for-
mer position at the Iroquois.

From that point he went to Detroit,
where he became connected with the
Hotel Normandie, which has just re-
cently been torn down. He remained
with this hotel about a year, when he
was induced to come to Grand Rapids
and take a clerkship in the Morton
House under the redoubtable Mort
Rathbone. After a year with the Pant-
lind family he went to the Wayne Ho-
tel, Detroit, where he acted as room
At the end of
that time he left to accept a position

clerk for four years.

with the Palmer House, of Chicago,
where he remained a year. He then
became the Assistant Manager of the
Hotel Dyckman, at Minneapolis, where
he remained about two years. The

George L. Crocker.

business, and through his uncle, Edwin
O. Wood, he secured a position as
bell-boy in the Grand Hotel, at Mack-
inac Island, during his summer vaca-
tion at school. He then went to Sault
Ste. Marie, where he intended to be-
come connected with contracting work,
but found upon his arrival at the Soo
that this work had not been started
and would not be for some months. He
therefore became connected with the
Iroquois Hotel at that point as night
clerk. This was in 1896 and Mr.
Crocker liked the hotel business so
well that he has been connected with
it ever since.

After leaving the Soo Mr. Crocker
went to Butte, Montana, affiliating
there with the Butte Hotel Co., which
conducted the McDermott Hotel, but

next step in Mr. Crocker’s career was
to start out for himself in a hotel at
Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he
also remained about two years. His
next position was as Manager of the
Hotel Planters, Chicago, where he re-
mained about a year. During the
kaiser’s war he went to the Morrison
Hotel as Assistant Manager.

After leaving the Morrison he was
connected for a short time with the
Servidor Co., of New York City, at
which point he became connected with
the United Hotels Company chain,
managing their hotel at Steubenville,
Ohio. From that city he was trans-
ferred to the Durant Hotel, at Flint,
which hotel he managed for a number
of years.

When the new Nicollet Hotel was

built at Minneapolis, Mr. Crocker was
selected for the role of Manager of
this beautiful hostelry, which position
he occupied for two years, leaving
there to come to Lansing to assume
charge of the new Hotel Olds, which
he has conducted with much ability
and great success for nearly three
years.

Mr. Crocker was married Feb. 12,
1913, to Miss Olive Anderson, of
Minneapolis. They both live in the
hotel. Mrs. Crocker supervises the
housekeeping work of the hotel, above
the office floor, handling that depart-
ment in a very efficient and painstaking
manner.

Mr. Crocker is a member of the
Episcopal church. He is a 3rd degree
Mason and has started in on the
Chapter. He is a member of the
Greeters and was a charter member of
the B. P. O. E. at the Soo.
up to but one hobby, which is golf. He
attributes his success to hard work. He

He owns

was recently honored by election as a
director of the Continental-Leland
Corporation, which conducts the Hotel
Olds; the Detroit-Leland at Detroit;
the Mansfield-Leland at Mansfield,
Ohio, and the Bankhead at Birming-
ham, Ala.

Mr. Crocker is one of the most popu-
He has the

glad hand for everyone, makes friends

lar landlords in Michigan.

easily and holds them indefinitely.

Mr. Crocker has won his way from
the bottom to the top by hard work,
careful attention to business and nat-
ural commercial genius. In affairs of
business his judgment is sought, ap-
preciated and followed; and his ex-
ample has been the means of bringing
to other men similar success to that he
has achieved himself. He has main-
tained his own rights and has respected
the rights of others, and his biography
therefore is a story of earned advance-
ment and honorable action.

To those who know Mr. Crocker in-
timately these elements of character
are even more familiar. He is admired
also for his lack of ostentation, for his
quiet determination and for his inter-
est in problems affecting the welfare
of others. A close student of business
and a steady laborer in his own field,
his love for outdoor life is likewise
known to the people of Lansing and to
all his social and business acquaint-
ances. To know him well is merely to
increase one’s admiration for the man
and his methods of life.

——— ++ >
You Never Can Tell.

She came into the drug store several
times a week to use the telephone
booth, giving as a good reason that
the rates were lower than if she tele-
phoned from her apartment, and the
service more prompt.

On every occasion she opened the
door as far as it would go and looked
carefully into the corners of the booth,
so unfailingly that a clerk one day
asked the reason.

“Seventeen years ago,’ she replied,
“I dropped 5 cents on the floor while
telephoning, and when I picked it up
I found 30 cents lying right beside it.
I thought it might possibly happen
again.”

 

 

10

OUT AROUND.

 

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

Out Around last week included a trip
to Lansing to attend the closing ses-
sions of the thirtieth annual convention
of the Michigan Retail Grocers and
Meat Dealers’ Association. The attend-
ance was the largest ever recorded by
the organization and the average char-
acter of the grocers was also very high.
The speeches, reports, addresses and
papers presented were all short, direct
and pertinent to the occasion.

It was certainly a great pleasure to
meet so many leading grocers and
meat dealers—men who have devoted
their lives to the distribution of pure
and wholesome food in order that the
people may be kept in a good condition
of health and strength.

The programme was carried out
without much variation from the orig-
inal arrangement. None of the speak-
ers failed to appear and the work of
the gathering moved along smoothly
and effectively. The plans for Tues-
day and Wednesday evenings were re-
versed, in order that President Coode,
of the National Association of Retail
Grocers, could give his message Tues-
day evening. His talk was informal,
but right to the point. It is quite evi-
dent he is the smartest man who has
ever held that important office.

Wednesday evening was given up al-
together to enjoyment of a pleasing
and rational character which was con-
ducted with a zest which was infec-
tious to the nth degree. [I heartily
commend the example thus presented
to the consideration of the committee
who will handle the entertainment fea-
tures of the Grand Rapids convention a
vear hence.

QO. H. Bailey retired from the posi-
tion of executive officer after serving
two years, with the hearty good will
of every member of the organization.
Mr. Bailey’s administration was mark-
ed by progressive conservatism, which
lifted the organization stil] higher in
the estimation of every member and
well wisher of the Association.

The retirement of Mr. Albrecht, after
serving the organization well and faith-
fully for eight years as Treasurer, was
entirely voluntary on his part. It was
due to ill health and to his retirement
from the grocery business in order that
he may devote his entire time to the
restoration of his health. Mr. Albrecht
was a model official and has the love
and respect of every grocer who is so
fortunate as to enjoy his acquaintance.

President Hans Johnson enters upon
the duties of President with the hearty
good will of every member. He
promises an aggressive administration,
to which ambition every member will
give cordial assent and earnest co-
operation.

The re-election of Paul Gezon as
Secretary was a foregone conclusion.
No name was mentioned in opposition
to him. His ability to handle the work
of the office in an eminently satisfac-
tory manner is conceded by all and his
honesty and faithfulness have never
been questioned.

The election of J. F. Tatman, of
Clare, as successor to Mr. Albrecht.
was a worthy recognition of a man

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

who has labored incessantly for the
good of the organization ever since it
emerged from the unfortunate environ-
ment which hampered its advancement
in the early days of its history. Mr.
Tatman is a thoroughly representative
grocer in every sense of the term.

I was somewhat amused to listen to
the comments on _ the resolutions
recommended by the Committee on
Resolutions regarding an amendment
to the present pharmacy laws. A gro-
cer said: “I see by the Tradesman that
grape fruit juice is now recommended
by physicians as a specific for diabetes.
As this makes grape fruit a remedial
article, in addition to being a food, it
is in order for our friends, the drug-
gists to add it to the list of articles
which can be handled by druggists
only.”

A meat dealer remarked: “Now that
liver has been found to be a specific for
enemia, in consequence of which the
hospitals are taking all the calf liver
they can secure at from 75 cents to $1
per pound, I suppose it will be in order
for our druggist friends to insist on
putting liver in the list of remedies
which cannot be handled by anyone
but a regular pharmacést.”

I could not help admiring the man-
ner in which the convention and those
in attendance were cared for by the
Hotel Olds. Everything apparently
moved along like clockwork from start
to finish. Every delegate I talked with
was loud in praise of the service hand-
ed out by the hotel management. ‘There
may be better conducted hotels’ than
the Olds, but the food, cooking, ser-
vice and housekeeper all appear to be
fully up to the high standard Manager
Crocker has insisted on maintaining in
every hotel he has ever been connected
with. He has managed many hotels
for a man of his years and the experi-
ence he has thus acquired is carefully
conserved for the benefit of the pa-
trons of the Hotel Olds.

E. A. Stowe.

———_+2<+___

Grocer Sends Bills at Last of Month.

The housewife who buys on credit
receives a number of statements about
the first of each month. The average
person pays bills in the order of their
appearance. This gave a grocer the
idea of issuing statements up to and
including the last Saturday in the
month. The idea worked remarkably
well for him, and when his customers
first were advised by letter of the
change of billing date, they dropped in
specially to tell him how much more
convenient it was for them—an_ un-
looked for advantage.
: ee rene

Advice .on Cheese He Contrabands.

Milwaukee, April 23—The problem
now is what to do with more than
368,000 pounds of cheese which is
rapidly filling up Wisconsin warehous-
es and which cannot be sold because
it contains more than the legal amount
of moisture in the brick form and more
than 39 per cent. in the American type.
C. J. Kremer, dairy and food commis-
sioner, suggested that loaf cheese-
makers purchase the illegal product
and blend it with their product. ‘This
is the only solution I can see,” he ex-
plained. “I intend to prosecute every
sale of high moisture cheese as long as
I am commissioner.”

—_>~+ +
Success comes from the concentra-

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Off for
Niagara Falls!

A Summer trip that is full of
thrills. See the Great Cataract,
the Gorge, the Whirlpool Rapids,
the great Power Houses,the “Home
of Shredded Wheat”—at the ex-
pense of The Shredded Wheat
Company. To school children and
their teachers. Tell your customers
about it. For particulars address

| The Shredded Wheat Company

Niagara Falls, N. Y.

 

 

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Manufacturers of SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES
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A standard of quality for over 60 years

SEELY MANUFACTURING CO.
1900 Jefferson Ave., East, Detroit

1862

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Extracts

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Investment Bankers

GRAND RAPIDS

Grand Rapids National Bank Building
Phone 4212

Chicago

First National
Bank Building

Detroit

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Building

 

 

 

 

VINKEMULDER COMPANY
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Distributors Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

Now Offering: Cranberries, Bagas, Sweet Potatoes,
“VinkeBrand” Mich. Onions, Oranges, Bananas, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

11

 

MEN OF MARK.

Paul Kempter, Supervising Steward
Pantlind and Morton Hotels.

This is the story of a man who has
always had-a- peculiar liking for cook-
ery. As a boy, he haunted the kitch-
ens of the hotels conducted by his
father, because he found the culinary
department full of interest. He was
repeatedly asked to accept a college
education, but preferred to learn the
hotel business instead, particularly the
cookery end of hotels and ocean going
vessels. He was later offered sub-
‘stantial interests in large industrial un-
dertakings owned and operated by his
brothers, but declined to avail himself
of their generosity because of his love
for the occupation he preferred. In
the pursuance of this determination the
subject of this sketch has achieved a
high place among the men who have
made catering and culinary pursuits
their life work.

Paul Kempter was born in Stuttgart,
Germany, Sept. 28, 1879. His father
was manager and proprietor of leading

 

Paul Kempter.

hotels in Italy, France and Germany.
His mother was anxious to have him
take a college course, but he had
liking at the time for the
higher education and persuaded his
mother to permit him to take a hotel
training instead. He worked in varying
capacities in leading hotels at Stutt-
gart, Cannstat, Paris, Strassburg, Co-
logne, Elberfeld and the Royal Baths
of Oyhnausen. He was one year with
the North German Lloyd line on its
lines between Genoa, Italy, and New
York. Later he worked on liners be-
tween Cuba and Spain, conveying the
soldiers back to their own
country. Forming a liking for Amer-
i, he worked in New York and New
Jersey. He then returned to Stuttgart,
where for two years he managed the
Prager Hof for his mother. He in-
duced her to sell out at a good profit
end he returned to this country, secur-
ing an engagement with the late J.
Boyd Pantlind, who then conducted the
old Pantlind Hotel, as well as the Mor-
ton House. He handled the cafe
three years. When Mr. Pantlind
opened a grill in the Morton House
he put Mr. Kempter in charge as chef,

so-called

Spanish

Grand Rapids had never before had so
popular an eating place and never has
When the Morton House was
torn down, Mr. Kempter. went to the
Pantlind as steward, a position he still
holds. About a month ago he took on
the same position with the Hotel Mor-
ton also. He is conceded to be one
of the best buyers in the hotel line in
the United States. No one who sells
him goods ever gets anywhere by offer-
ing him any commission or compensa-
tion.

since.

Mr. Kempter wa: married Aug. 2,
1916, to Miss Glad- 3 Haven, of Grand
Rapids. They have two boys—one 10
and one 9 years of age—and reside in
their own home at 306 Eureka avenue,
where they have a flower garden with
many small fruit bushes and trees.

Mr. Kempter is deeply interested in
botany, horticulture and fruit and has
a ten-acre tract on West Fourth street
which contains 900 fruit trees, planted
twelve years ago, now in full maturity.

Mr. Kempter is an ardent lover of
the Great Out Doors and spends at
least two weeks every summer explor-
ing some stream or lake. He _ has
made two surveys of Grand River, one
up and one down stream.. Last year he
made a survey of the Fhornapple. In
addition to his canoe, he takes along a
complete camping equipment. He has
a large of ‘Indian arrow
heads which he has picked up himself
on these trips.

collection

Mr. Kempter is a member of St.
Lutheran Church. He also
owes allegiance to Valley City Lodge,
F. & A. M., DeWitt Clinton Consis-
tory, Saladin Temple (Mystic Shrine),
Masonic Country Club, B. P .O. E.,
Grand Rapids Schwaben Verein, In-

Johns

ternational Chefs Association, Hotel
Men’s Benefit Association, American
Forestry Association and Michigan

Forestry Association.

In 1912, as the guest of his two
brothers, who are both great German
industrial leaders, he spent two months
inspecting the principal hotels of Con-
tinental Europe. His brothers both
made him very flattering offers to re-
main in Germany and engage
ness with them. While he was hesi-
tating over which offer he would ac-
cept, he received a characteristic let-
ter from J. Boyd Pantlind, saying
“Hurry back.” That message decided
the matter immediately and he took
the first steamer for America, which
will be his country from now on as
long as he lives. He made the de-
cision largely because he liked the at-
mosphere of America better than Ger-
which was then under the curse

in busi-

many,
of kaiserism. His love and respect for
the Pantlind family was an attraction
he could not withstand.

Mr. Kemppter is a prince of courtesy
and good nature. He makes friends
easily and holds them indefinitely. His
home life is ideal in every respect. His
wife is a talented musician and home
and good music are synonimous terms
in the Kempter household. Mr. Kemp-
ter is held in high esteem by his em-
ployer and the patrons of the two ho-
tels he serves so well and faithfully
and he has every reason to feel satis-
fied over his past accomplishments and
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Evening Station-to-Station rates are effective from 7:00 p. m.,
to 8:30 p. m. and Night Station-to-Station rates, 8:30 p. m. to
4:20 a.m. A Station-to-Station call is one that is made to a
certain telephone rather than to some person in particular.

If you do not know the number of the distant telephone, give the
operator the name and address and specify that you will talk
with ‘“‘anyone’”’ who answers at the called telephone.

A Person-to-Person ca!l, because more work is involved, costs
more than a Station-to-Station call. The rate on a Person-to-
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12

FINANCIAL

Shift in Treasury Plan Seen.

Wall Street is swinging slowly to
the view that instead a long-term issue
to refund the September maturities
Secretary Mellon is likely now to em-
ploy a short-term device to attain that
end.

On January 9 this year the Govern-
ment made its first major move to set
the stage for retiring $2,148,000,000 in
Third Liberty 414s through an offer to
accept Thirds in exchange for 3% per
cent. notes. Approximately $600,000,-
000 of notes were issued at that time
and a like amount of Thirds sur-
rendered.

Financiers got the impression that
the next major step probably would be
in the form of a long-term issue which
many predicted would be offered this
spring. This view has been modified
lately as the underlying forces at work
on money have tightened rates. It is
reckoned either that Secretary Mellon
does not plan a long-term issue or that
he anticipates cheaper money later on.
Wall Street’s impression now is that
whether the Secretary of the Treasury
expects to refund the remaining $1,-
458,000,000 outstanding Third 44s
through an issue of near or distant ma-
turities he will postpone action per-
haps until June. This thought is based
on the opinion that some relaxation in
the money market may come at that

 

time.

Whether or not money rates will
soften with the approach of summer
nobody knows but bankers point to the
seasonal decline in commercial loans
almost certain to come then, and the
prospect for relaxation in business and
market activity during the conventions.
If meanwhile the gold outflow and
mounting demands for market money
force the member banks to increase
their borrowings at the Federal Re-
serve banks an effective check will be
set up against any pronounced down-
turn in money.

The time will come when in shaping
its financing programs the Government
will want to call attention to the pos-
sibility of an exhaustion eventually of
the supply of Government securities.
So many uses have been devised for
the advantageous employment of secur-
ities representing the National debt
that the instruments have been worked
into the very financial structure of the
Nation. Not only individuals in search
of gilt-edged investments and corpora-
tions anxious to find temporary em-
ployment for their funds but the Fed-
‘eral Reserve system itself will feel the
loss of these certificates of Govern-
ment debt when and if all such obliga-
tions are paid off.

‘Mindful of this condition perhaps
the Government now is formulating
plans to perpetuate if not directly then
indirectly instruments suitable to sat-
isfy a demand that now has become
Nationwide. Paul Willard Garrett.

[Copyrighted, 1928.]
—_2+2—___
Stocks Yield Less Than Bonds.

With the record rise in the stock
market the yield on dividend-paying
common industrial stocks has been
forced down to a new low in history at
4.57 per cent. which represents a

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

smaller indicated return than is avail-
able from high-grade bonds of the same
description.

No tendency in the great bull mar-
ket of the last few years has been so
marked as the improving position of
stocks as revealed in a closing of the
gap between stock and bond yields.
We need go back only to 1921 to find
a time when the Standard Statistics
Company’s index showed the average
yield for thirty-three industrial stocks
around 8.5 per cent. as against a yield
of 6 per cent. for industrial bonds. Per-
sistently the margin between the two
curves has been narrowing until now
the yield on stocks is less than that on
bonds.

In a new computation completed to-
day Standard finds that dividend pay-
ing common stocks yield 4.57 per cent.
as against 4.68 a month ago and 5.60
a year ago. High-grade industrial
bonds yield 4.77 per cent. as against
4.79 a month ago and 4.84 a year ago.

While conservative authorities all
agree that the recent pace of market
improvement has been too rapid to
continue admission is general that
stocks have passed permanently onto
a lower yield basis than ever before.
Wall Street now is particularly im-
pressed with this trend since the mar-
ket has become the broadest in history
and virtually all leading groups are
participating in the improvement.

Some prognosticators in the last
fortnight have contended that the ad-
vance has been restricted to a few
groups put up as a blind to cover dis-
tribution by large operators in other
sections of the list. Significant is it in
this connection that Standard’s new
computation shows that in last week’s
almost record rise on the stock mar-
ket, representing the eighth consecu-
tive weekly advance, all the major in-
dustrial stock groups rose to new
record highs. Except for the coal,
leather and shoe, miscellaneous metals,
sugar, theater and the tire and rubber
groups all of them topped their pre-
vious records.

Whatever may be the corrective re-
actions induced by such spectacular
performances as have been lately wit-
nessed in the market American in-
vestors apparently recognize more
than ever before what great benefits
come through a permanent ownership
in leading industries. To those with
this vision the approach of lower yield
levels for stocks has not ‘brought dis-
couragement since they reckon on oc-
casional stock dividends and extra dis-
tributions.

It need scarcely be added that the
lure of such benefits affords the real
reason why so many quality stocks
have been forced up to levels at which
they actually return a smaller cash
yield than bonds.

Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1928.]
— ++ >___
Milk Sold in Sticks.

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and, for convenience, let it freeze
around a stick, which serves as a
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are helpful to them in their financial
affairs-- business or personal.

Rendering banking service along broad
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established this institution in the confi-
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Reveal Fresh Move To Tighten Money

Last week’s Reserve bank statement
shows a _ reduction in Government
security holdings, which means that the
Federal Reserve system is redoubling
its efforts to tighten money.

All during February and March the
portfolios of Government securities. at
the Reserve institutions were left virtu-
ally untouched. At the beginning of
the year the Reserve banks held $627,-
000,000 of Government securities, but,
in an effort to offset easing influences
at work on money, these holdings were
heavily sold during January. Almost
half of the total was unloaded upon the
open market—and there began the Re-
serve system’s first major move to
firm up money. Week after week since
the end of January has gone by with-
out any further sign either of sales or
purchases in a significant amount of
Government securities. A week ago
the twelve Reserve banks held $378,-
000,000 of Government securities.

For two months the Reserve au-
thorities have reckoned that the ma-
chinery set into operation early in 1928
sooner or later would get in its full
work. Sales of Government securities,
an increase in the rediscount rate, con-
tinued heavy gold exports, a record
seasonal rise in commercial loans and
a rapid expansion in borrowings at the
Reserve banks by members all have
portrayed an underlying influence for
dearer money. And they explain why
money consistently has held higher
than a year ago, and why bankers’ ac-
ceptances have tightened—not to men-
tion the call rates.

If this week’s Reserve statement
shows the Government’s hand again in
the market unloading Government se-
curities it must be interpreted then to
mean the Federal Reserve system does
not believe the medicine is working
fast enough. A fresh move now plain-
ly would show the system’s impatience
with the present credit expansion con-
nected with the stock market. The
way has been opened for another in-
crease in the rediscount rate and if the
sale of Government securities is not
efficacious in itself the more potent
lever doubtless will be employed.

Reserve officials would be pleased to
accomplish their end through the sale
of Government securities either to do-
mestic or foreign institutions without
adopting a higher discount rate for
two very good reasons. They do not
want to discourage the record expan-
sion in commercial credits now under
way and they do not want to handicap
Secretary Mellon in his plans to re-
fund the big ‘September maturities.

A large proportion of the increase
in brokers’ loans in the last year repre-
sents funds contributed by “others,”
meaning in part foreign lenders. By
passing a portion of its Government
holdings on to large foreign lenders
perhaps one important source of brok-
ers’ loans could be partly cut off.

Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1928.]
— 72>
Facts Are Chief Requisite to Sound
Judgment.

The absence of facts leaves individ-
uals subject to unsound influences and
it is because of this that many of the
industries have initiated a program of

education for their employes. The in-
dustries have learned that their em-
ployes are more dependable and more
valuable when they are rightly inform-
ed on the motives, ideals and functions
of business.

In the past the line of demarcation
between the so-called working classes
and thinking classes was more sharply
drawn and there did not seem to be so
much ambition in the working classes
to forge ahead. Thanks to the spirit
of democracy in this country, the bar-
riers of class are being broken down
and in their place is the ambition to
get ahead and the desire for better liv-
ing conditions.

But ambition alone, without a knowl-
edge of the fundamentals of business,
leaves a fertile field for the seeds of
unrest and discontent to be sown—a
fact of which radicals and strike pro-
moters are well aware. To meet this
problem, many employers have _ pro-
vided educational facilities for their em-
ployes. Some of the companies en-
gaged in this work are the Bridgeport
Brass Co., the Standard Oil Co. of
New York, the General Electric Co.,
the Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
facturing Co., of Pittsburg, and others.
These corporations recognize that this
is not purely an altruistic enterprise;
that the employer as well as the em-
ploye reaps the benefits of educational
opportunities for the workers.

The bankers of the country have
seen the need of a program of educa-
tion in the schools in the fundamental
knowledge of business methods, so that
the boy or girl graduating from the
eighth grade or from the high school
will at least be acquainted with the
purposes and functions of a good bank
and be unafraid to use the services of
the bank for his own good.

Many of us realize how large a part
the banks play in the building up of
their communities, and we know, too,
how quickly banks are affected by pub-
lic opinion. A rumor about a bank,
even though untrue, spreads quickly.
Without any real reason for it, a bank
may be ruined, with the consequent
loss and suffering to the depositors.
There has been an appalling lack of
knowledge about these business insti-
tutions which concern the happiness
and success of every man, woman and
child in the country. The people
should be educated to realize that their
prosperity and the prosperity of the
banks are linked so closely together
that the success of one is not possible
without the success of the other. When
a knowledge of the principals of bank-
ing and of other business is more gen-
erally disseminated, the masses of the
people will be better prepared to form
their own judgments when propagand-
ists try to influence them in order to
further their own ends. The truth
about all things is the crying need of
the day. Solomon Levitan.

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MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE

Spot the Arsonist—Then Convict Him.

Is it any wonder arson is called “the
crime of crimes’? Consider the vicious-
ness of it—the baseness to which the
perpetrator of the crime lowers him-
self.

In a recent case, investigated by the
Arson Department of the National
Board, it was revealed that the crim-
inal actually planned to burn an old
man to death, and leave indications
that he himself had been killed and the
house accidentally consumed by the
flames. He would disappear and col-
lect, through another person, the in-
surance on his life as well as the fire
insurance. Apparently the plans would
have been carried out successfully had
not the old man escaped by jumping
from a second story window.

The criminal in this case was trying
to raise money to settle urgent claims
against him self and his wife. He went
to a municipal lodging house and asked
for an old man to act as caretaker for
a residence to sell. At the lodging
house he gave a fictitious name and
address: the manager did not note at
the time any significance in the fact,
that of all the many applicants, he
chose one who answered to his own
general description. With the old man
he drove to the scene of the crime,
arriving in the evening. On the way
purchases were made of kerosene, ether
and a sleep-inducing drug; at each stop
the victim of the plan was left in the
car.

The criminal took painstaking efforts
to insure the success of his dastardly
deed. While building a fire in the
furnace, the old man, who was assist-
ing with the work, was encouraged to
drink excessively of wine containing a
quantity of the sleep-inducing drug. A
little later he was taken upstairs and
made comfortable for the night on a
cot, and in the course of a few hours
a handkerchief soaked in ether was
placed on his chest.

Fortunately for the old fellow the
wine made him sick, which counter-
acted the effect of the sleeping potion.
Several times he was startled to find
his employer in the room, and on one
occasion he found the wet handker-
chief, which he threw to the floor.
Finally, becoming frightened, he lay
awake, watching the door of the room,
waiting for he knew not what! In the
morning hours there was a sudden
flash of fire up the stairs, driving right
under his door. Crying out in panic-
stricken alarm, he jumped from bed,
threw up the window, and though but
half-clad dropped to the ground.

Fire apparatus summoned by neigh-
bors extinguished the blaze, but in ex-
amining the place afterwards the fire-
men found conditions indicating sus-
picious origin. An investigation con-
ducted by a special agent of the Na-
tional Board, the fire officers and the
prosecuting attorney, brought out dam-
zging evidence
who was arraigned in court, entered a
plea of guilty to a charge of assault
with intent to kill, and was sentenced
to the penitentiary for seventeen to
twenty-five years.

Another case had a more tragic end-

against the arsonist,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ing for some of the people involved.
According to the confession of the in-
jured arsonist, the figure behind the
scenes was a manufacturer who hired
two ‘torches’ to fire his plant, one go-
ing inside for the actual laying of the
fire, while the other stood guard out-
side. Something went wrong, result-
ing in a premature explosion and fire
which killed the man working inside,
and burned to death two boys whose
home was in rooms above the factory.

It fared badly, too, with the man who
watched outside. So great was the
force of the explosion that it blew out
the front of the building, throwing him
to the ground and burning him so
severely that he almost succumbed.
Strangers who took pity on his plight
aided him to escape, but the finding of
the dead arsonist in the ruins led .to
investigations. Those who had helped
the man escape told their stories and
he was finally taken into custody, only
to be sent to a hospital, where his life
hung in the balance for some time. He
confessed his part in the terrible crime
and in doing so implicated the chief
arsonist—the manufacturer, who was
held withont bail awaiting trial.

These are strong examples of the
terrible consequences that so often fol-
low an attempt to burn property in
order to collect the insurance. They
may also serve as warnings to the
arsonist, of the searching investiga-
tions instituted whenever the origin of
a fire appears suspicious. Heavy
penalties are often imposed, which
serve as added deterrents of criminal
acts of this nature.

+2. ____

Modern Art Helps Curtain Sales.

The modern art movement has
stimulated the sale of draperies and
curtains. While the popularity of the
new styles is regarded as a fad, the
increase in sales is welcomed by sales
managers, long harassed by hand-to-
mouth buying.. Another gratifying
trend has been the growing call for
better
The

has been

grade curtains and draperies.
movement thus far
confined to the better end
goods. In cretonnes vivid colors are

in good demand.

modern art

Road Trade on Bags Not Good.

Salesmen claim that the bag business

 

was never so bad. Buyers in general
seem indifferent to the lines displayed
and complain repeatedly about the lack
of originality in styles. They also state
that prices are too high for them to
make much profit. A_ solution sug-
gested is that bags be shown which
have been designed and executed to
match certain costume types. The
“general” bag is called passe, because
it has no place in many wardrobes.

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Hides and Pelts.
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15

 

THE ADDAC CASH REGISTER.

 

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introduced. the Addaé Calculating €ash
Register, a combination, of autonratic
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any classifications of sales or expenses
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total or balance.

The Addac Calculating. Cash Regis-
ter is so different’ from usual cash reg-

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
 
  

ister design as to command attention
from both users and those who are
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Its outstanding feature is versatality.
It may be changed almost instantly
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Tribute To the Memory of L. Z.
Caukin.

In paying a tribute to Mr. Caukin, I
am thinking of him as a boy with one
of his brothers and their dog going
the farm looking for
chucks and rabbits and shaking the
butternut and walnut trees in the fall

about wood-

 

 

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH

   

I knew him

of the then and
during his country school days. I
knew him very well during the six or
seven years he was employed in the
private bank at Sparta, and during that
time he often spoke for the temperance
cause and during those same years he
sang in the church choir at Sparta and
later on was a student at the Univers-
ity of Michigan. After he graduated
from the University of Michigan he
returned to the Sparta Bank for a year,
and then returned to Ann Arbor and,
after graduating from the Law Depart-
ment, came to Grand Rapids and as-
sociated himself with Myron H. Wal-
ker in the practice of law. That part-
nership continued a few months, and
at a time when a receiving teller was
needed at the Fourth National Bank,
I invited him to take that position. I

year.

remember what he said to me at the
time; that he- had taken.a law course
and been admitted to the bar and real-
ly wanted to continue in that profes-
said to him that I would be
very glad if he would think the matter
over and if, later on, he thought’ favor-
ably of coming to the bank, to drop in
and talk with me about it.

Three or four days after that he said
to me that he had gone over the mat-
ter with some of his friends and had
decided to accept the position offered
by the bank. During the thirty-four
years he was with us in the bank I do
not recall a time when he scowled at
work that he was asked to do.
Neither do I recall a time as the execu-
tive officer of the bank of ever frown-

sion? |

any

‘ing at anything he ever did.

He was so well liked by the cus-
bank and the banking
our city that when our bank

was consolidated with the Grand Rap-

tomers of our

men of

ids National Bank, he was invited

a neighboring bank to accept a posi-
tion as an active Vice-President with
That position he held
until he passed away on the 17th of this

month.

their institution.

At his funeral service his friends and
paid him a wonderful
tribute by filling the auditorium at the

acquaintances

church to its capacity.
Using Mr.
in paying a tribute to a friend,
His
contribution to society has been along
the quiet

Congregational
some of Caukin’s own
words
he never aspired to public office.
ways of good citizenship,
clean living and kindly relations with
all his fellows. To deal justly and to
walk with his
unostentatious way of life.

humbly God was his
He has left to his family and friends

the greatest gift any man can leave—

an untarnished reputation and a
memory of life well lived.
William H. Anderson.

 

>.
Shopwork in Country Schools.
The growth of consolidated and
union high schools during the last few
vears has given a decided impetus to
the development of industrial courses
in the districts.
school,

rural Larger enroll-
with the
amount of money available
for physical equipment, make it pos-
sible, for the first time, to offer shop
work to pupils in many rural
munities, says the United States
reau of Education.

ments per together

increased

com-
Bu-
Some of these con-
solidated schools have erected a sep-
arate shop building and have installed
equipment for the types of work best
suited to meet the needs of the com-
munity.
ag
Corporations Wound Up.

The following’ Michigan
tions have recently filed notices of dis-
solution with the Secretary of State:

corpora-

Jackson Corset Co., Jackson.

Modart Corset Co., Saginaw.

Perch Creek Cedar Co., Escanaba.

Hackley-Phelps-Bonnell Co., Grand
Rapids.

Metascale Process Co., Detroit.

United Electrotype Co., Detroit.

Three Winners, Inc., Hancock.:-

Central Wheel .Co., Sturgis.

Stark Hickey, Inc., Detroit.

General Gas Construction Co., Kala-
mazoo. |.
Lunde Boat Bldg. Co., Ludington.

Detroit Tire Pop-Valve Co., Pontiac.

 

   

16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN April 25, 1928

  

HOW’S BUSINESS?

221% Increase in Marshall Bed Spring Sales
193% Increase in Marshall Bedding Sales

118% Increase in Number of Customers : a oo
22% Increase in{Furniture Mat Sales

11% Increase in Upholstery Spring Sales so
17% Increase in‘ Amtomobile Construction Sales

15% Increase in Total Sales . . . All Departments bee

For the first quarter of 1928 over the same period of 1927 and

WE THANK YOU FOR IT. -

YOU people who bought Marshall Bed Springs, Mattresses and Pillows.
YOU retail furniture dealers who handled the Marshall line. “ys

YOU manufacturers of upholstered furniture who used our springs and
mats in your furniture.

YOU automobile engineers who specified our springs and you purchas-
ing agents who bought them. . be

OUR sources who have co-operated with us in supplying our raw materials,
sometimes on very short notice, and the men and women of our organ-
ization who have worked to maintain the quality and service to achieve
these results. we

National Spring & Wire Co-- Che Marshall Co. |
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[Who Do Not Handle The Marshall Line]
There is a reason for the increase shown on the opposite page. Nothing magic — just
honest merchandise — fair prices — excellent service — co-operation.
While we are fairly well represented, we want more merchants of the better class to
. : handle the Marshall line.
COIL BED SPRINGS 8 Styles . . . complete range of prices
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DRY GOODS

Michigan. Retail Dry Goods Assiciation.
President—F. E.. Mills, Lansing.

First Vice-President — J. H. Lourim.
Jackson.
Second Vice-President—F H. Nissly.
Ypsilanti.
Secretary-Treasurer — John Richey,
Charlotte.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond. Lansing.
Modern Touch in Accessories.

Geometric designs are shown in
many charming accessories for the new
style of dress. The smartest bags in
this style are smaller than those of
last season.and present fine workman-
ship and beautiful materials. Black
and white is particularly smart and is
offered in bags for every occasion.
One envelope purse-bag is made of
black suede with a single row of large
brilliants marking an uneven angle on
the flap. A soft bag of black satin for
afternoon or evening is studded with
rhinestones in an all-over pattern of
diamond shape. In another, white
satin is pleated into a black onyx frame
that is studded with brilliants.
Polka-dotted crepe and silk is used
for the bags that match the polka dot
frocks and are especially chic in black
and white and blue and white. Those
shown in one shop are made with
frames of imitation ivory and are lined
with white. In leather bags of the
more tailored sort the geometric pat-
tern is illustrated in many combina-
tions, and almost all of the modern
type of bags are of envelope shape and
severe in the manner of decoration.
Modernistic art is flamboyant in the
These are gay, fresh
but colors are more

printed scarfs.
and summery,
subtly blended than in the first of this
style that appeared. Evening scarfs
are growing more delicate in color and
pattern. They are to be had in chiffon,
ninon, crepe and marquisette, and in
squares of net in traceries of metal
thread.
——_.+-__

Smart Novelties of the Season.

In keeping up with the prevailing
vogue for bringing accessories into en-
semble effects with costumes, one of
the leading designers of women’s and
misses’ dresses is featuring some new
summer frocks in flat crepe with hats
to match. The hats come in
shapes, turbans and
crowns are gored and fitted to meet

sport

berets. Their

the various head-size requirements.
The dresses are in both one and two
piece styles. Trimmings consist of

fagotting, monograms, buckles at the
waistline, odd seaming and color con-
trasts in collars, cuffs and pockets. For
those who prefer the rough silks, there
are a few made up in Shantung and
pongee silk.

Although prints are in favor, many
women prefer solid tones and for these
an extra dash of color is furnished in
such accessories as handbags and belts.
New straw belts with modernistic
buckles and in striking colors are to be
seen with bands of kid in bright colors.
The handbags to match are unusual in
that they are made up in the styles
formerly noted only in the fine leathers
and silks. The most sought-after
models ‘are those with strap back
handles and with metal frames either
covered with the kid used in the belts
or finished in bright yellow gold.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

A combination of ‘bag and scarf is
proving successful. The bags are in
pouch shapes with composition frames
in alluring colors that complement
those used in the scarfs.
are in hand-blocked, modernistic de-
signs and are now to be had in new
sizes and startling color combinations.

The scarfs

In shoe-and-bag combination there
is to be seen a strong tendency toward
heavy crash linen handbags to match
the new shoes. These bags are lined
with printed silks and challis in small
patterns and are very attractive when
in the new envelope The
shoes are somewhat usual, for though

models.

stylish they are made with exception-
ally comfortable heels. A two-eyelet
oxford is also noted among the new
well as several new
A plain opera
pump is also in evidence, which has no
other trimming than a neat binding or
small bow at the side.

Lighters for women smokers are be-

collections, as
models in single straps.

ing shown in a wide variety of colors
in enamel leather and lacquer finishes,
supplanting those with gold and silver
plating. One reason advanced is the
vogue for colors in handbags and other
accessories. The taper lighters for
home use are also gaining favor and
are now being offered in bright-colored
backgrounds with odd designs worked
out in contrasting colors.

Patent leather bags with trimmings
of snake, lizard or kidskin are being
displayed to go with shoes of similar
leathers.

a
Will Hold Back Felt Hats.

The response to the letter sent out
by the Retail Millinery Association of
America asking the stores to refrain
from showing felt hats until June 1,
with a view to giving straw and other
seasonable models a “break,” has been
large and favorable. An executive of
the association said yesterday that the
.ction of the retailers in this matter
would mean additional business for all
concerned. Another significant thing
was said to be the new trend against
killing off “regular” business by offer-
ing special merchandise for no other
reason than that it has been customary
at certain seasons. This is reflected in
the noticeably reduced number of post-
Easter sales of millinery around the
country.

+...
Pearl Lines To Be Shown.

Although opinion for a while seemed
divided with regard to the renewed
vogue for pearls, it is now a fact that
several of the large dealers of novelty
jewelry plan on
lines during the

extensive
months.

showing
next two
Necklaces, chokers, earrings and brace-
lets are offered for immediate delivery,
made up in pastel shades with colored
crystal used in part. But, as the Fall
season advances, it is claimed the ten-
dency will be toward pearls in deeper
ivory and flesh shades and in new
lengths and styles which have not been
finally decided upon.
————2++___

Jewelry Gains as an Accessory.

One of the leading domestic manu-
facturers of jewelry
that jewelry will soon be
classed with gloves and hosiery in ac-

novelty claims

costume

cessory importance. He pointed out

that there is an increasing demand for
various types of jewelry from sports
items to elaborate evening numbers.
3uyers are asking for items to fit in
with various costume needs, and con-
stantly want new color effects and new
styles, he added. For Summer, color-
ed crystals in new combinations and
an imitation antique silver are being
featured.

—_—_++.____
Children’s Dresses For Fall.

In contrast to the present policy in
the adult lines, children’s dresses are
now being shown for Fall. The styles
favor two-piece models with skirt and
middy in contrasting colors and ma-
terials. Jersey, wool flannel
and velveteen are used in the dresses
Party frocks are also

plaids,

for school wear.
being displayed. These, however, are
featured in one-piece hanging
straight from the shoulders and made

styles

of chiffon, georgette or crepe de chine,
with hand-embroidery and lace for
trimming.

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Cautious on Modernistic Rugs.
Buyers do not seem greatly impress-

ed with the rugs

modernistic patterns.

showing the new
The
turers who show them do not have a
great many in their lines and will not
make them up for stock in any sub-

manufac-

stantial quantity. The rugs are con-
sidered by both buyers and sellers as
extreme novelties to which consumer
reaction, so far as floor coverings are
concerned, is still an unknown quan-
tity. On the other hand, buyers ex-
press commendation of the designs of
Oriental type in which the ground is
well covered.

 

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Linen Apparel Ordered.

Despite the early ordering of Sum-
mer silk dresses there has been a
small but repeated demand during the
past few weeks for linen dresses and
ensembles of the better kind. Buyers
seem confident of the success of the
linen costume as a Summer item, bas-
ing their belief on its acceptance dur-
ing the recent Palm Beach season. All
kinds of linen is being used from the
handkerchief weights to the
heavy crashes. Solid colors and prints
in all-over patterns and hand-blocked
designs are used alone or in striking
contrasts.

sheer

—_»+._____
Imported Handbags Active.

Some of the leading specialty shops
find business excellent on women’s im-
ported handbags. As a result these
houses intend to place larger orders
on them for next Fall and to show
various copies of the same bag in dif-
erent color combinations. Aside from
the selling power of a French name on
a bag, it is claimed that many of the
foreign bags are being made
cheap enough to compete fairly well
with the domestic article. American
copies will be sold alongside the im-
ported bags.

—_>-.____
Garment Originality Criticized.
Lack of originality in the styling of

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garments and use of the same fabrics
by firms selling different grades of
merchandise are blamed in some quar-
ters for troubled conditions in ready-
to-wear industry. It is pointed out
that while buyers are very anxious to

April 25, 1928

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SHOE MARKET

Put Yourself in the Customer’s Place.

After analyzing his day’s tasks and
finding time to plan his business, our
friend Bond set out to analyze his
business itself in a general way. One
of the first things he did in connection
with this move was to make an outline
of what the public might rightfully
expect of his or any other store. The
outline follows, in summary:

1. Convenience of location.

2. Advertising that is truthful, in-
teresting and attractive.

3. Windows which present an ac-
curate cross-section of the stock car-
ried by the store.

4. A well-planned and well-execut-
ed store front and interior.

5. An intelligent selection of stock
in-line with the wishes and needs of
the people of the community.

6. A. well-trained salesforce thor-
oughly conversant with the store, its
merchandise and its policies, and ready
to serve and help patrons in every way.

7. Prompt deliveries, quick filling
of mail orders, etc.

8. Due
tomer in the handling of complaints
and a willingness to make adjustments
merchandise or

 

consideration of the cus-

in cases where the
store were at fault.

Bond checked up his store in accord-
‘ance with this creed. Wherein the
store did not live up to the creed he
took steps to remedy the deficiency.
Meanwhile he kept raking up, thinking
over and acting upon numerous ques-
tions having to do with the general
conductance of his store.

For example, he asked himself: “Am
I running my business as though my
‘competitor down the street is the one
person who concerns me most?”

He found that he was, at least to a
large extent. He discovered in fur-
ther analyzing this situation that his
viewpoint was all wrong. He learned,
for one thing, that the competitor in
his own line was by, no means his most
powerful competitor in this day. In-
stead, a much keener competition was
coming from a great variety of indus-
tries which, not only locally but Na-
tionally, were striving to wrest from
the consumer his share of the latter’s
dollar.

30nd determined that in order to
‘compete successfully with this condi-
tion he must be as alert and efficient,
as progressive and aggressive, as the
merchants in all lines in his own town.
In fact, he decided even this would not
be enough. Rather, it would be neces-
sary also to compete successfully with
the huge mail order houses whose
branches were reaching into his com-
munity as well as into many others;
also with the growing number of man-
ufacturers’ retail sales establishments,
with door-to-door canvassers and with
other types of competitors.

Another question he asked himself
was: “Am I ‘giving style the attention
it deserves in the present scheme of
things?”

He probed thoroughly into this sub-
ject. He found that leading merchants
are becoming more convinced that style
and its close ally color will be of para-
mount importance in merchandising

@

for the next few years at least. He
leatned that not only were these two
factors emphasized to a greater extent
than ever before in style items such as
women’s wear and men’s wear but that
they went right down through the line
of merchandise.

Henry ford, for instance was plan-
ning the expenditure of millions upon
millions in putting out a car of greate-
er style and beauty. Style and color
were very conspicuous factors in hous-
A textile manufac-
turer had come out with color sheets.
In fact stvle and color had even been
carried into the kitchen. As one de-
partment store merchandising expert
told him: “Even pots and pans must
harmonize with the new kitchen furni-
ture and finishes to-day. And try and
sell an old-fashioned round coffee per-
colator! You can’t give them away.
The public wants paneled percolators
to-day.”

Bond resolved then and there to put
his stock into order to meet this new
condition.

Still another which he
asked himself was: ‘Has the new day
brought any real change in the general

es and furniture.

question

order of merchandising?”

He found that it had. A very im-
portant “To-day,” he told
himself, “the merchant must find out

change!

what the customer wants and make
every attempt to supply it. The old
method of deciding what the customer
should want and trying to force that
onto the customer is gone.”

“Does service play as large a part in
retail business to-day as ever?” was
another question Bond asked himself.

“An even greater part,’ was his
finding.

But, on the other hand, the public is
not willing to pay anything extra for
increased service. Consequently the
merchant’s problem is to find ways and
means to increase service without in-
creasing the cost of it.

By such procedure Bond continued
the process of analyzing his business
in a general way. “Was his advertis-
ing up to standard?” “Would he be
better off to sell his merchandise at
regular prices the year around: or
would it be best to hold markdown
sales from time to time?’ ‘Were his
window displays all that they should
be in attractiveness and = appeal?”
“Were his employes doing all they
could to satisfy customers and_ pro-
mote good will for the store?”

He found many things that he could
improve upon. And he expects to find
plenty of others from time to time; for
he is continuing the process, of course.

Nor did Bond stop the analyzing
process with this field. He also went
into analyzing his stocks. How he did
the job and what fine results he ob-
tained will be told in the next article
of this series.—B. G. Priestly in Shoe
Retailer. :

—_2+ >___

“Slender” Hose Gaining Favor.

“High spots” in the silk hosiery
field are few at the moment, but one
of them is the slow but steady increase
in the demand for stockings made es-
pecially for womer with slender legs.
These hose are made the usual length,
but are not so full as standard size
rumbers in the ankle and calf. While

improving, the call for them is not so
active as the demand for outsizes for
plump women, although there are more
slender ones than stout. This is at-
tributed to the unwillingness of many
buyers to stock special sizes. Right
now the biggest demand for “slender
hose” is from girls ranging from 12 to
15 years.
—_—_+~+>____
Rush on Sport Hose.

There has been a large increase in
the demand for women’s, misses’ and
juniors’ sport hosiery during the past
few weeks. One of the leading im-
porters of novelty items is taking or-
ders for May 15 delivery. So far the
demand has been confined to lisle mesh
stockings, fancy jacquard weaves, new
clock effects and stockings made of a
silk and rayon mixture in tweed color-
ings. In the medium-weight silk
stockings, which are now classed by
some buyers as sport numbers, there
has been a call for colored clocks on

light grounds.
—————-. +.
New Weaves More Practical.

One of the outstanding features of
high-grade Fall dress goods which the
mills are playing up is their practicality.
Goods formerly of a fragile character
have now been greatly improved for
volume production as regards durabil-
ity, while retaining their essential fea-
weave and_ lightness.
This development, it was said yester-

tures of close

day, will eliminate previous complaints
about goods of this character, notably
with regard to spotting, a characteristic
which caused many retailers trouble
during the last two Fall seasons.
oe
Where Garter Girdles Sell.
One of the large manufacturers of

 

ribbon articles is pushing the ribbon
garter girdle as a special Summer item.
By actual test this manufacturer says
he has proved that sales of garter
girdles can be greatly increased when
they are carried in either the corset or
lingerie department instead of the rib-
bon section. He further advocates
featuring all articles made of ribbon
in their respective departments, instead
of putting unrelated articles together
because they happen to be made of
ribbon.
————_—_ --S ——————

Beach Accessories Being Sought.

A strong early demand is developing
for novelty beach attire and accessories
and indications are that a particularly
good season will be had in this type of

merchandise. -Stores are placing or-
ders for both finished garments, not-
ably beach coats and capes, and for
yard goods for making these items.
Printed silks in plain or rubberized
Taffeta is featured for
the dressier types of bathing costumes.

versions lead.

-arasols for beach use have been in
growing demand.
—_»22——___
Think Big.

Make it your business to know what
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RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and General Merchants
Association. :
President—Orla Bailey, Lansing.
First Vice-President — Hans Johnson.

Muskegon.
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Treasurer—F. H. Albrecht, Detroit.
Another Example of “Try, Try Again.”

A Michigander, at present an ex-
grocer, shows that optimism is not
dead in the retail grocery business. He
writes that he “went out of business a
few years ago by being too good to
the other fellow; scraped together a
little money and bought a cash and
carry; burned out third day and lost
the usual twenty per cent. on the in-
surance—was under-insured on fix-
tures, which increased the deficit, and
still had balance to pay on business, so
came out rather badly; but will get up
again although along in years.”

That’s optimism; but it shows that
optimism alone will not compensate
for being under-insured. If there is
any time more than any other when a
business man needs to be fully insured
—on everything—it is in the beginning,
when his equity in his store is smallest,
when he has most debts, most expenses
and feels most like cutting out every
avoidable expense. How vital this
point is can be seen in view of this
man’s loss of his business because of
such “savings.”

But this grocer has gathered some
worthwhile knowledge of the business
and has thought out a definite plan of
procedure for his next venture. It is so
logical that I copy it, because I can
see no room for improvement in it.

“Assuming,” he writes, “that the
buyer has $1,000 cash and can rent a
place with some shelving and a com-
mon counter, he can buy a scale on a
down payment with monthly instal-
ments and put his cash where it ought
to be—in goods to go out over the
counter, not in fixtures.

“By cutting thin the slow turners,
he could get a stock that would make
a fair showing for cash and carry, in-
cluding enough smoked meats, lard,
fruits and vegetables to make a start.
Slow movers must be bought by dozens
and halves, costing more, of course,
but not tying up money on the shelves.

“Now figure out stock carefully, item
by item, at selling price with idea of
getting 16% per cent. Staples will run
as follows: Smoked meats by the piece,
12 per cent.; cut, 20 per cent.; lard 12
per cent.; butter, milk, bread 10 per
cent.; sugar, 8 per cent.; laundry soap
8 to 10 per cent.; tomatoes 10 per cent.
account present high price and com-
petition.

“Between 35 and 40 per cent. of the
business will be in goods that carry
less margin than necessary to cover
average cost of operation. Remainder
is figured to carry 16 to 21 per cent.
with very few items at 25 per cent. I
have checked all this dgainst actual
sales slips at both cost and selling
prices to a total of $476.10 of sales.
Costs on such sales totalled $395.76,
showing difference in money of $80.34
and percentage on sales of 16.8, which
justifies my calculations.”

“Assume that sales were $16,000 a
year or rather better than $50 per day,
gross earnings would be $2,666.66.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Against this budget cost of operation,
including living wage for owner. If
this last seems high, consider that this
is a one-man business, boss doing all
the work, including management—
buying, selling and accounting—and
percentage will seem allowable:

Wares $1,328.00 or 83 %
Advertising ______ 64.00 0r 4 &
Wreapping _._-_ >. 80.00 or 5 %&%

Office supplies ___ 32.00 0r 2 %
Rent. oo 360.00 or 2.25 %
Heat and light ___ 80.00 0r 5 %
Pases 22.500r .15 %
Insurance _._.. |. 37.80 or .236%
Tnterest 2 80.000r 5 %

Miscellaneous ____ 144.000r 9 %
Total Expenses ___$2,228.30 or 13.936%

“Interest is figure at 8 per cent. on
invested capital, insurance at current
local rates, taxes same way. So we
have

GGeoss Earnings = $2,666.66
Less Expenses .2 2,228.30
Showing net of 438.36

This is 2.724 per cent. on sales.

“Worked out this way, with stock of
$1,600 and sales of $16,000, we would
get rather better than thirteen turns a
year, which would be slow enough and
might well be bettered.

“Divide this net profit by number of
turns: $438.36 divided by 13.3, result,
$32.95 plus per turn. Suppose it were
speeded up to six more turns, there
might be added six times $32.95 with
practically no more expense, and this
would result in a net addition of
$197.70.

“It should be added that if one
listens to the advice of his friends and
therefore accommodates a few good
pay customers with credit, he will soon
be broke; for cash margins will not
stand credits.”

There is much more in this man’s
letter. The remainder will be treated
in the next article; for it is all as good
stuff as what I have copied. The point
is that this man has studied business
in the light of his own rather hard ex-
perience and learned a lot therefrom.
He has kept sweet under adversity and
therefore is now in line to profit by
past hardship; and I think anybody
will agree that he has not fooled him-
self very much in making his present
calculations. I have a few—very few
indeed—comments to make on_ his
statements.

First: Given $1,000 cash capital, the
first thing to do is set aside 10 per cent.
as reserve fund. That is the rule in all
lines of business; and it should be fol-
lowed regardless of any other factor.
In a region where interest runs eight
per cent. such reserve can be made to
earn 5 per cent. and be on demand at
any time. That is what a reserve is
for. It is set aside never to be touched,
yet always available for the time that
is never intended to come.

The remaining 90c on each dollar
must do the work of 100c, and we must
discount every bill—buying nothing for
which we cannot pay spot cash.

Annual earnings of $438.36 equal
43.836 per cent. on the invested capital
of $1,000; and that is a splendid ratio.
Let my friend include in his calcula-

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What Is Meat Worth When Scarce?

When meat is scarce it takes on a
new value in relation to other meats
in the same class or in relation to other
classes of meat. This is not new to
men in the industry, but at times it is
brought to their minds with consider-
able force. There is a natural demand
for high quality merchandise that holds
it in the upper price register and, con-
versely, the lack of demand for the
poorer quality causes it to sell lower.
One might think that a more or less
definite relationship would be estab-
lished between products of high and
low grade and that prices for all grades
of a certain class would move up and
down the price scale together. This
is not the case, however, and if one
can conceive of lines run in a horizontal
way representing the different grades
of the classes of meat it will be found
that those lines might run reasonably
parallel for some time at certain sea-
sons, only to find them bulging out
like an over-inflated bicycle tube at
other seasons. To illustrate this con-
dition more clearly we may assume
that with all four usual market grades
of steer beef on the market; namely,
choice, good, medium, and common,
the full range of value is from nine
cents a pound for common to nineteen
cents a pound for choice. Here we
have a spread of ten cents a pound be-
tween the best and the worst at whole-
sale. Gradually the quantity of com-
mon beef becomes lighter and lighter
in supply and prices gradually increase
showing the effect of the change on
medium quality. With the scarcity of
common beef, due to most cattle being
on dry food, we may find more highly
finished beef available, and a great
deal of this falling in the choice and
good grades, especially the part of the
good grade bordering on choice. The
increase in supply of this higher finish-
ed beef is apt to cause the market to
become lower, and the result may be
that choice steer beef will not sell
above eighteen cents a pound, while
common sells up to fifteen. This makes
a price spread of only three cents a
pound. When such conditions come
about in wholesale meat markets it is
not strange that people stop and won-
der what is the real relationship be-
tween different grades, or if there is
any that can be called such. When
wholesalers can pay fifteen cents a
pound for common steers beef when
choice is worth only eighteen common
might be considered cheap at nine
when choice sells at nineteen.

 

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Chilled or Fresh-Frozen Meats —
Which?

This morning two men, both meat
retailers, were discussing the merits of
certain kinds of meat in the wholesale
market. One man_ said the best
chicken he could buy was a fresh-
frozen one. The other retailer said a
chilled bird is better. Others in the
little crowd expressed opinions in favor
of both sides of the argument. Here
we find expression of honest opinion by
experts. As usual with experts, there
was a difference of opinion. The dif-
ference was in respect to what we may
consider a technical point. The re-

tailer who favored the fresh-frozen
chicken said that such chickens are
chilled as soon as killed and handled
properly until sold, and that there is no
chance for deterioration. The time
held in storage is understood to be only
as long as necessary to hold them over
a season rather than for pure specula-
tion when they might be held a year or
more and in which case the meat would
lose flavor and food value. He said
chilled chickens are not by any chance
sold in better condition than the fresh
frozen and often not in so good condi-
tion. The retailer who favored the
chilled chicken said the flavor of an
unfrozen chicken when in ideal con-
dition cannot be improved upon, but
conceded the properly handled fresh-
frozen chicken good, too. You may
say “of what interest is this argument,
or difference of expressed opinion?”
The interest and value of the discus-
sion is that it is evident that these two
expert retailers recognized only a slight
difference, if any, between chilled and
fresh-frozen meats. Neither of these
retailers sells frozen meats generally,
except poultry and a few other things
such as livers, oxtails, and kidneys. In
many cases they could buy lamb, veal,
beef, and pork cheaper in a frozen
state. They are willing to freely state
these frozen meats are nearly if not
entirely as good as chilled meats, but
they realize that a prejudice exists
among the consumers against any kind
of meat that is frozen. Frozen poul-
try can be defrosted and sold with the
skin on and if the job is done expertly
few outside of trained poultry men can
tell the difference. With other meats
the skin is not present to protect the
appearance and almost anyone can
notice the difference. The eating qual-
ities of the meat are the same in each
case. If all meats that have been
frozen were sold in a frozen state and
then properly defrosted in the homes
great economy and convenience to the
industry would result.

 

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Advertise By Wagon.

“If I were a dealer in a small town,”
an advertising man told us recently, “I
would make it a practice about, once a
year to advertise a special sale or a
demonstration by means of my deliv-
ery truck. Perhaps it would be even
better to use a horse and wagon be-
cause they are less common than motor
trucks.

“A good advertising wagon in a small
town would attract almost as much at-
tention as a circus parade.”

“What would you put on your
wagon?” we asked him.

“Such a wagon as I] have in mind
might carry signs only. These would
direct attention to the store or to some
unusual offering, or it might be pos-
sible to have the body of the wagon
made up to represent sume article of
merchandise.

“I'd put a man aboard with a bugle,
and I’d have a couple of boys running
alongside to hand out advertisements
and circular matter.”

There is no doubt that such a scheme
would attract attention. For a store
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HARDWARE

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—Herman Dignan, Owosso.

Vice-Pres.—Warren A. Slack, Bad Axe.
Secretary—A,. J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—Wiliam Moore, Detroit.

Some Suggestions In Regard To
Spring Paint Sales.

By this time, the wide-awake hard-
ware dealer will have his spring paint
campaign well under way. The uncer-
tain weather in many parts of the
country may have an adverse effect on
sales; but this condition is only a tem-
porary one. The real painting season
is still in the future; but by this time
the dealer should have made a strong
beginning with his selling campaign.

It should always be kept in mind
that in paint selling, persistence is the
key to success. If you don’t sell a
prospect to-day, you may. sell him to-
morrow; if you don’t sell him in April,
he may buy in May, or June, or next
fall, or Eventually, that
painting job will be done — and the
dealer who lands the businss is the
dealer- who, through good report and
ill, keeps persistently after the pros-
pect.

No large paint business was ever
built by the dealer who started his
spring campaign with a rush, and, if
the results were not immediate, quit
cold. Results in the paint business are
not quick, but they are
You may not get much business the
first year; but if your paint is the right
kind, and you keep pushing, the sales
you make now will help you to bigger
3ut through it

some time.

cumulative.

sales another season.
all you must do your part.

Attractiveness of goods in the paint
department is a great aid in making
paint sales.

Customers visiting the paint depart-
ment are much more impressed with
its importance if they find the goods
neatly arranged and attractive.
neat arrangement of the paint stock
shows that the dealer and his sales-
people are alert to the importance of
the department, and believe in the paint
they are trying to sell.

Neat arrangement of the stock not
only impresses the customer, but also

For

aids the salesmen in quickly securing
wanted goods from the shelves. In
this way long waits on the part of cus-
tomers are avoided. There is nothing
more annoying to a customer than to
come in for a quart of paint, and stand
waiting while the salesman moves rows
of cans, and consults other salesmen
as to where he can find just what he
wants.

Customers do not enjoy such delays.
They like efficient service. And ef-
ficient service can be given where the
salesman can tell at a glance if he has
the goods in stock: and he can do this
if the paint stock is arranged as it
should be.

It may seem strange, but it is true,
that comparatively few paint orders are
taken over the counter without first
showing the prospect a can of the
paint. Even though the color is not
shown on the outside of the can, the
customer in nearly all cases likes to
see a can of the paint. If the sample
can shown has a clean and attractive
label, the customer will make the pur-
chase much more readily than if the

 

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label is torn, or discolored with oil,
a condition often found in paint de-
partments. Thus care of the stock is
much more important than would ap-
pear on the surface.

In some progressive paint stores, an
inventory of the paint stock is taken
every week during the busy season.
One firm carrying a $2,000 stock of
paint makes it a point to take stock
every week. In this store two men
can take stock of the full line in less
than twenty minutes. This is possible
owing to the orderly arrangement of
the goods; whereby the “caller-off” can
tell at a glance just how many cans
there are in each row. The stock is
taken every week in order to prevent
loss of sales on account of shortage in
any of the lines.

It is the aim of those in charge of
the paint department to make as many
sales as possible, and to always have
on hand a good stock of each color.
In many of the smaller stores the stock
is not taken quite as often; but it is
important, nevertheless, that the small
dealer should also have a complete
range of colors in stock, in order to
meet the demands of customers.

In taking stock of the paints, some
attention should be paid to condiiton.
1f for instance a number of labels have
become soiled or torn, it is a matter of
only a moment or two to make a note
of the size of the cans and the num-
bers. At merely nominal cost, or pos-
sibly without cost at all, new labels
can be secured from the manufacturer;
the cans will look as good as new; and
while this may seem a triffng matter,
yet it has a considerable influence up-
on paint customers.

Dusting should also be a regular
feature in the paint department. Dust
accumulates very rapidly on top of the
cans; and it is worth while to keep
them clear. Dustless dust-cloths should
be used, as these pick up the dust in-
stead of scattering it.

It is often worth while to study the
arrangement Of your paint stock with
Quite fre-
quently a relatively simple re-arrange-
ment of the goods will make a wonder-
ful change in the appearance of your
paint department.

a view to improvement.

One dealer last year made such a
change. Under the old arrangement,

the large-sized paint cans, including
gallons and half gallons, were placed
on the top shelves, and he smaller sizes,
such as half-pints, pints and quarts
were on the bottom shelves. The whole
display looked top-heavy.

The dealer entirely reversed the ar-
The gallon were
placed on the bottom shelves. and the

rest of the cans were placed on the

rangement. cans

shelves above in order of size, the half
and quarter pint sizes occupying the
top shelf. The new arrangement look-
ed much better, and the larger cans
were much more easily handled on the
lower shelf.

hardware firm

A small-town some

years ago introduced into its paint de-
partment the idea of figuring on the
whole paint contract, including labor
and even the selection of colors. Dis-
cussing their methods in this regard,
the head of the firm states:

“People don't want to be bothered

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with overseeing a job and worrying
about how it is going to come out. The
man who starts to paint his hous isn’t
generally a stickler over a couple of
dollars, and is only too glad to have
the responsibility. of supervision taken
off his shoulders. It is the old story
of the man with the cash wanting
everything handed to him ready-made
so long as he has the money to pay
for it. Thus an important end of our
business has come to be figuring on
entire jobs.

“In doing this, the aim, of course,
is to secure a bulk price which will let
us out with a fair margin of profit.
True, the margin we can get is not as
large as that in selling paint by the
can, but we catch a great deal of busi-
ness that otherwise we would not be
able to get. We measure the whole
house, figure on the amount of paint
required to give the specified number
of coats, and adding the cost of appli-
cation, we charge at the rate of so
much a square yard.

In many cases we are given prac-
tically a free hand as to selection of
colors,~of course, submitting our pro-
posal before
Where we make a particularly success-
ful job, it stands as the very best ad-
vertisement obtainable for the service
we render; for after all, the public idea
of what is is controlled to
a large extent by what they see other
people doing and having.”

In following out these methods, the
firm. found it quite essential to co-op-
erate Closely with the painters, and
keep continuously in touch with them.
Frequently when it comes to figuring
on a job, the painter is sent to look it
over before any estimate is given. Thus
by placing work in the hands of the
painter a mutually beneficial relation-
ship is established.

The advantage of this method is, of
course, that in a small community it
brings in a lot of business the dealer
would not secure in any other way.

“Paint should be given one side of
the store at the very front,’”’ was the
dictum expressed by a progressive re-
tailer not long ago. His argument was
that, although in reality a staple, paint,
even now, was not fully recognized as

commencing. to paint.

necessary

Some
people considered it more or less of a
decorative luxury. To educate these
people to the true value of paint, it

one of the necessaries of life.

was necessary to keep the subject be-
fore them; and this the dealer accom-
plished by placing his stock at the very
front of the store.

“This space,” he explained, “was
formerly occupied by goods which were
staples or necessaries in the real sense
of the word. People couldn’t get along
without them. What, then, was the
need of giving them a large part of
the best space in the store, when I had
other stock which badly needed that
preferred position?”

It is not always possible, of course,
to devote a large part of the front of
the store to the paint stock. Lack of
space is one of the problems most hard-
ware dealers have to face; and as a
result it frequently happens that paint
cannot be so prominently housed. How-
ever, if a front seat in the orchestra
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the end row in the top gallery should
be selected. In other words, an hon-
est effort should be made to give the
paint stock a position as close to the
front as possible.

“T have always contended,” states
one hardware dealer, ‘that the goods
shown at the front of the store must
a more rapid turnover and a
bigger profit than the goods placed
further back, in order to pay for the
valuable space occupied. Recently I
moved the paint from a rear position
to a prominent place in the front, and
I decided that I would assess that de-
partment an extra margin of the over-
head expense on that account. If the
department did not pay the same profit
as formerly, over and above this addi-

show

tional assessment, I was prepared to
I need not
My paint
profits, after. allowing for the heavier
expense, exceeded ‘the old figure by a

shunt it to the rear again.
have feared on that account.

good sum.”

Position is not the whole thing, of
Cases are sometimes found
where men who keep their paint stock
to the rear sell more than those who
display their paints prominently at the
front. Prominence of position cannot
overcome the effects of untidy arrange-
ment and unkempt appearance. . But
good position, plus attractive arrange-
ment, plus, always, good salesmanship,
will secure the dealer maximum results
in his paint business.

course.

Victor Lauriston.

——_—_+ + +___
Plain and Fancy Selling.

Did you ever stop to think that there
are other ways of selling to your cus-
tomers besides handing the goods over
to them and receiving their money?

Well, there are quite a great many
ways of selling, and an expert has out-
lines some of them as follows:

To have the walk in front of the
store well kept and swept—that is
selling.

A nicely painted front, clean show
windows—that is selling.

Artistic display of merchandise in
season—that is selling.

A clean floor, polished counters and
shelving—that is selling.

To show goods of a class together
and well-displayed—that is selling.

To feature one line instead of half a
dozen duplicating lines—that is selling.

To greet customers that enter your
door with a pleasant smile and good
morning—that is selling.

To go to the door with customers
and invite the mto come again—that
is selling.

To insure the customer all possible
courtesies from your clerks—that is
selling.

To give vour customers goods that
you can heartily’ and honestly recom-
mend—that is selling.

When your delivery man takes an
order to the customer, to place the
goods in orderly fashion where direct-
ed, with politeness—that is selling.

When your delivery man calls atten-
tion of the customers to new items—
that is selling.

In bad weather
over the phone for her order—that is
selling.

Anything less than this is business
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HOTEL DEPARTMENT

Holiday Visit To the Last Chance
Canyon.

Los Angeles, April 20—The good
Methodist ladies down in Virginia have
organized for the purpose of supply-
ing the sinews of war for the “dry”
cause, and propose levying toll on the
hen fruit product to help pay campaign
expenses. In other words all eggs
layed on Sunday will be so applied.
Whereby the innocent hen is to be
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Will Rogers says that all he knows
is what he “sees in the newspapers,”
and J will have to admit that in the
absence of first-hand information, dur-
ing my California sojourn, I am de-
pending much on the same source of
knowledge, when I broadcast the state-
ment that Hotel Kerns, at Lansing, is
passing through a transformation stage,
whereby the blue room, banquet and
ballroom and three dining rooms are
being redecorated. The banquet room
has been done in lavender and gold,
and the blue room with a special de-
sign of wall paper in black and gold,
which gives a tapestry effect. New
electric lighting effects have also been
installed to harmonize with the new
color details, as well as draperies. But
this is no sudden departure by the
Kerns’ operators. Each recurring sea-
son has seen changes of this character
in that establishment. Mr. Richardson
has always been firm in advocating a
division of profits with patrons, by
adding to their comfort and enjoyment
under his roof.

Ray Dean, of Lansing, will build a
new fifty to sixty room hotel in the
capital city, at a cost in excess of $100,-
000. It will ‘be five-stories, centrally
located and of fire-proof type. Each
room will be provided with bath and
outside exposure. The ground floor
will be of white tile construction and
the upper floors of brick. It is intend-
ed that the hotel will be ready for oc-
cupancy early in the summer.

 

Last Chance Canyon, in the heart of
California’s petrified forest is a trip of
upwards of 125 miles from Los Angeles
and is well worth while. Every visitor
to the Golden State, and particularly
this section of it, should make it. Its
name was probably based on the in-
cident that it was the last stand of the
placer miners in the early days, after
they had washed out all the soil in the
reputed gold sections farther North.
In its day it rendered up many millions
of the yellow metal and even to-day,
with a lack of water, “dry washing”
produces day wages and possibly a
little more, but evidences of much ac-
tivity are lacking.

But there are here other attractions
which appeal to the tourist. For in-
stance, it is one of the few areas near
the haunts of civilization where may
be found evidences of forests of cedar,
pine, redwood and fir, once luxurious,
but now, by the ceaseless changes of
time, turned into stone, but passing
away from the effects of erosion.

Before starting our charioteer made
the assertion that he would have no
trouble in encompassing the trip in a
day. For over a hundred miles we
journeyed over a paved highway, and
the remainder of the trip on one con-
structed of decomposed granite, which,
like the crushed lava of Hawaii, makes
an excellent and nearly permanent
roadway.

Again we pass through the desolated
valley of Santa Clara, which bore the
brunt of the deluge caused by the
breaking away of St. Francis dam,
through Saugus and Mint Canyon,
over the picturesque hills and down the
long, straight shoot to Mojave, through
the Joshua forest, just now coming
into bloom.

From Mojave the Owens Valley
road, with its sixty foot surface, won-

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derfully planned and constructed, is
followed to the mouth of Red Rock
Canyon. Here the Last Chance Can-
yon road turns off and skirts the foot
hills for several miles and you look
across the Mojave Desert and see
snow-capped ‘Old Baldy, seventy miles
away. In the foreground is an im-
mense dry lake, glittering with salt
deposits. Midway in the desert rises
Black Butte, a great dome of lava
thrust up during the period of planetal
construction, and to the right on the
horizon, standing alone, is Fremont
Peak, named after the famous pioneer
and explorer.

Here we reach the entrance to Last
Chance Canyon, which is, like the most
of the gorge, narrow, but provided
with ample auto trail, the canyon aver-
aging 200 feet from wall to wall, and
for a distance of three miles we follow
it, with its sheer sides of beautifully
colored rocks, where we find a sudden
opening into a valley possibly a quar-
ter of a mile in width, with a wall of
limestone on one side and rolling foot-
hills on the other.

On the North wall, several hundred
feet above the floor of the canyon, is a
ledge of varying width reached by a
gradual trail. It is here that the petri-
fied treés are found, as well as the
standing stumps. It is claimed these
trees were buried for ages in limestone
and have been uncovered by the rav-
ages of time with the assistance of the
geologists who have shown marked in-
terest in the discoveries here. It is
said the trees are not as numerous as in
the Petrified Forest of Arizona and
lack the coloring of same, but they are
more flint like and take on a much
higher polish. Grays and blacks pre-
dominate in coloring, the latter being
in great demand for jewelry settings.
While the Arizona showing may be on
a more extensive scale than that of
Last Chance, it has not the variety of
original woods to be found here. It is
further claimed that remains of camels
and other prehistoric mammals have
been unearthed here in the canyon, the
evidence of which, however, is lacking
or circumstantial, but the facts easily
imaginable by the uncanny surround-
ings.

The early miners, taking out millions
in gold, were only vanguards to those
who have and are taking out other
millions in the form of silica and borax,
endless deposits of which are develop-
ing, approaching the borax production
of Death Valley, all of which is being
hauled out daily by trucks. The walls
of the canyon are pitted and tunnelled
in man’s hunt for gold, some occupied
transiently by hikers. and are really
tenantable, but not for long periods
for the reason that there is no water
directly available, the only supply be-
ing eight miles distant, as we were
well advised by the last gasoline pur-
veyor we ran across.

The canyon floor is at an elevation
of 2,400 feet. The climate is very
balmy at present, but is subject to tem-
peratures of 120 and un later on in the
season, and, unlike Los Angeles, the
nights do not offer much relief.

Our return trip to the City of the
Angels was uneventful, but traffic was
much congested after reaching the
flood district and we almost wished we
had selected other than a holiday to
make the journey. Many of the motor-
ists had been out to the desert to see
the wild flower spectacle, the exhibit
consisting of white and yellow daisies,
scarlet paint-brushes, purple _ star
flowers, lupins and cloth of gold.

 

One of the Los Angeles hotels, a
short time since, broadcasted to the
public the information that every room
was supplied with a complete radio
service. Now they are as vociferously
advertising the fact that this service
has been discontinued, and soliciting a
return of their old patrons.

I listened to a very heated discus-
sion over this innovation at a meeting
of apartment house and hotel oper-

 

April 25, 1928

 

“A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE
COMPANY HE KEEPS”

That is why LEADERS of Business
and Society make their head-
quarters at the

PANTLIND
HOTEL

“An entire city block of Hospitality”
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Rooms $2.25 and up.
Cafeteria -i- Sandwich Shop

 

 

“We are always mindful of
our responsibility to the pub-
lic and are in full apprecia-
tion of the esteem its generous

patronage implies.”

HOTEL ROWE
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
ERNEST W. NEIR, Manager.

 

 

 

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Warm Friend Tavern
Holland, Mich.

140 comfortable and clean rooms.
Popular Dutch Grill with reasonable
prices. Always a room for the Com-
mercial traveler.

E. L. LELAND, Mgr.

 

MORTON
HOTEL

Grand Rapids’ Newest
Hotel

400 Rooms “i 400 Baths

RATES
$2.50 and up per day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HOTEL BROWNING

150 Fireproof Rooms
GRAND RAPIDS, Cor. Sheldon & Oakes

Facing Union Depot; Three Blocks Away.

Columbia Hotel
KALAMAZOO

Good Place To Tie To ees

 

 

CODY HOTEL ,

GRAND RAPIDS

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

CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION

 

 

Occidental Hotel

FIRE PROOF 5
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $1.50 and up
EDWART R. SWETT, Mgr.
Muskegon aes Michigan

 

 

HOTEL GARY

GARY, IND. Holden operated t
400 Rooms from $2. Everything
modern. One of the best hotels in
Indiana. Stop over night with us
en route to Chicago. You will like
it. C. L. HOLDEN, Mgr. ~*

 

 

HOTEL KERNS

LARGEST HOTEL IN LANSING

300 Rooms With or Without Batn
Popular Priced Cafeteria in Con
nection. Rates $1.56 up. .

E. S. RICHARDSON, Proprietor

WESTERN HOTEL

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

WILL F. JENKINS, Manager

 

 

 

 

NEW BURDICK

KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN
In the Very Heart of the City
Fireproof Construction
The on'ty All New Hotel in the city.
Representing
a $1,000,000 Investment.

‘50 Rooms—150 Rooms with Private
Bath.

European $1.50 and up per Day oe

KESTAURANT AND GRILL—
cafeteria, Quick Service, Popular
Prices.

Entire Seventh Floor Devoted to
Especially Equipped Sample Rooms
WALTER J. HODGES,
Pres. and Gen. Mgr.

 

 

 

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LA NS I N G
300 Rooms 300 Baths
Absolutely Fireproof ‘+

Moderate Rates

Under the Direction of the ,
Continental-Leland Corp. : ¥

 

GrorcE L. CrocKER,
Manager. ‘ '

 

 

 

Wolverine Hotel

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

Open the year around.

 

 

 

 

HOTEL FAIRBAIRN

Columbia at John R. Sts. Detroit
200 Rooms with Lavatory $1.50, $1.75, $2.00
100 Rooms with Lavatory and Toilet $2.25
100 Rooms with Private Bath $2.50, $3.00
Rates by the Week or Month
“A HOME AWAY FROM HOME”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

25

 

ators and it was the opinion of a ma-
jority of those present, that such a ser-
vice was bound to prove a nuisance,
the public generally not being anxious
to have programs supplied to them
without selective privileges, at least,
and others deemed it a disturbance. Of
course, the idea was a generous one,
but like every other form of entertain-
ment it may be a passing fancy.

Last Monday I was among the
thousands who made a pilgrimage to
Point Firmin, to witness the departure
of the entire Pacific naval fleet for
Honolulu, for summer maneuvers.
Point Firmin overlooks the channel
entrance to San Pedro harbor and also
the bay by that name.

Characterized as the greatest series
of war activities in the history of the
Navy, the cruise will simulate opera-
tions against an imaginary enemy
force with ultimate invasion of Califor-
nia as its objective, defense of the
Hawaiian Islands and other American
outposts in the Pacific will be con-
sidered.

In all, there are 125 surface vessels
in this armada, including the airplane
carriers, Lexington and Langley, and
several hundred airplanes, all of which
are to take part in this campaign. Its
equipment will include, as soon as it
reaches ‘San Francisco, eighty-nine
fighting vessels as well as destroyers,
submarines and auxiliary ships. The
maximum mobilization will occur at
Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, early in May
when the Hawaiian contingent of
twenty-two ships will be added to the
fleet.

The flagship of this fleet is the
cruiser Texas, Admiral Wiley, a com-
panion ship to the California.

‘The airplane carrier Lexington,
which only reached Los Angeles har-
bor ‘Sunday morning last, from the
East, was the subject of much interest
during the few hours she was stationed
here. En route she dropped in at San
Diego, for a few hours and discharged
thirty-five planes, giving one an idea
of the wonderful capacity. The Lex-
ington, which cost Uncle Sam the tidy
little sum of $45,000,000, is 880 feet
long, 106 feet wide with a depth of 75
feet. It is the largest and fastest ship
in the United States Navy, carries a
complement of 1,904 men, of which 172
are commissioned officers.

These practice cruises serve the two-
fold purpose of developing the latest
ideas in naval procedure and keeping
Uncle Sam’s sailors free from monot-
ony during peace time. They are,
therefore, of much importance to the
navy and to the country which is pro-
tected by these great gray ships.

Point Firmin is adjacent to the com-
prehensive fortifications of Fort Mc
Arthur, which is equipped with dis-
appearing guns of the largest and most
modern type. It is the Mecca for most
tourists who come. to Los Angeles,
where every courtesy is shown to
visitors. This evidence of hospitality
is also shown in naval affairs, small
boats, or launches, during certain hours
of the day, are devoted to the duty of
showing the Nation’s taxpayers just
how their money is being disbursed.

Walter Hodges and family, of Ho-
tel Burdick, Kalamazoo, have been
vac; tioning in Florida, on on their re-
turn trip, followed the Atlantic coast,
stopping in Washington en _ route.
Whether to settle the Tapot Dome
imbroglio or back up Will Rogers’
services as a traveling ambassador I
am unadvised, but I do know that I
am glad Walter is assuming a view of
life which will give him and his much
joy and an opportunity of familiarizing
himself with the possibilities of our
great Nation. He is a keen observer
and will have a store of knowledge,
the recital of which will give his
many friends a maximum of joy also.

Robert ‘Weaver, former operator of
the Cooper-Carlton Hotel, in the Hyde
Park district of Chicago, has taken

 

over the management of the Belcrest
Hotel, on ‘Cass avenue, in Detroit. Mr.
Weaver was appointed manager of the
Belcrest by its owners. It is one of
the finest residential propositions in
Detroit and Mr. Weaver’s reputation
is such that it will prove a guarantee
of successful operation.

T. F. Marston, secretary and treas-
urer of the East Michigan Tourist and
Resort Association, announces that J.
H. Brooks, proprietor of the Brooks
restaurant, in the charming little city
of Rogers City, has purchased a frame
building which he will raze and im-
mediately start the construction of a
small, but modern hotel, which will
meet the requirements of his town.

F. S. Harrison, formerly of Marsh-
field, Wisconsin, has purchased the
Kimbark Hotel, at Bay City, from H.
F. Heldenbrand and son, who have
been successfully operating it for sev-
eral years, which will give the latter
an opportunity of giving their un-
divided attention to the operation of
the new Hotel Heldenbrand, at Pon-
tiac. The Kimbark is a strictly mod-
ern hotel, with fifty rooms, and the
younger Heldenbrand distinguished
himself by adopting various innova-
tions which made him extremely popu-
lar with the traveling public, especially

commercial men. Mr. Harrison is
known to many Michigan travelers
through his connection with Hotel

Blodgett, Marshfield, which is easily
one of the most successful hostelries
in the Badger State. With his experi-
ence and the “Hildy and Son” prestige
he is bound to find easy sailing in Bay
City.

As a personal bereavement comes the
knowledge of the passing of that won-
derful man, Ellsworth M. Statler, the
greatest and most efficient hotel oper-
ator the world has ever known, the
pioneer of everything worth while in
universal purveying of hospitality.

A bell-boy in a Wheeling hotel, with-
out a single advantage over his con-
temporaries, his accomplishments were
prodigious and his rewards manifold.
Everything we see or hear of in ser-
vice, in the supplying of creature com-
forts to the masses, had its incipiency
in the brain of this talented and virile
individual.

Others will no doubt take up his
work where he left off, but there was
only one Statler. Hotel men in par-
ticular and the traveling public gen-
erally owe much to his magnificent
initiative.

One of my most treasured posses-
sions is a personal communication I
received from Mr. Statler, several
years ago, which closes with the sug-
gestion: “Wherever there is a Statler
Hotel, you will ever be an honored
guest.” Maybe I will be pardoned if
as a souvenir, I, at this time, give it an

added value.

Dr. Frank W. ‘Holmes, who for sev-
eral years has owned and managed the
Gull Lake Hotel, at Gull Lake, is
floating a bond issue for the purpose of
refunding other indebtedness, and
making further improvements on his
very desirable holdings. . They will
prove a good investment. I have
watched the outstanding career of this
long-headed individual for _ several
years. In spite of many vicissitudes—
not the least of which was the loss of
his hotel by fire, three years ago—he
has surmounted every difficulty and
created a perpetual income paying
proposition. . Frank S. Verbeck.

—_»++.-—___

Hays Mercantile Co., dealers in dry
goods and groceries at Ithaca, renew
their subscription to the Tradesman
and write: “It is a great trade journal
for all kinds of merchants, a solace for
the dying, and an inspiration for the
living.”

Must Make It Interesting For the
Tourist.

Reed City, April 18—In your last
week’s Tradesman [ read the article
what tourist means to Michigan by
Roy H. Randall. J agree with him
very much and feel that we should do
all we can to keep Michigan before
the public as a great tourist state and
also do all we can to better conditions.
We know a lot of money is spent in
Michigan yearly by tourists, but there
is another side to the story, and that is,
will we be able to keep this tourist
business and for how long if we con-
tinue to close up all the beauty spots
along our rivers and lakes?

It is getting more and more so every
year that all camping places to which
we used to send tourists are closed up
and owned by or leased by some one
person who permits only a few of his
friends to enjoy the rights of our most
favorable fishing and camping spots.

The old pine stump land for miles
along the Pine river is now leased_for
fishing rights and no trespassing is
allowed. The land is worthless, but
the trespasser setting foot on _ this
ground is fined or kept off. Now how
long are the good people going to come
to Michigan if we allow this thing to
go on? Wisconsin is inviting the
tourists and gives them certain rights
along the shores of their streams and
lakes. So are other states. It seems
to me that we ought to look into this
matter at once and not wait until we
have lost what we now highly value
and welcome. The writer has _ for
years directed sportsmen and tourists
to camping places, but the last year or
so it has been a great problem where
to direct these good people because of
fear of getting them in trouble. I beg
to ask of you, Mr. Stowe, what you
think of the matter? Our highways
are cut right through the farmer’s best
fields and he has to take it, regardless
of whether he likes it or not. Now
tell me, if we can pay the price it costs
to go through the best farms, why can
we not afford to keep at least a few
feet along the water's edge for our
tourists? This waste stump land ought
not to cost a great deal and how about
opening up the section lines? This
would give the tourist and camper a
chance to get to the streams every
mile and would be helpful in case of
forest fires, of which we hear so much.
Please tell me why this is not done.
The fact is that folks are not coming
to Michigan to look at the sky, for they
can do that where they are. We have
to give them that for which they come
and if we do they spend their money
freely and without regret. By allow-
ing a few wealthy men to lease or buy
all the fishing rights and beauty spots
we are killing our tourist business in
Michigan.

[ would be very pleased to get your
view of the matter. If you are not a
fisherman or hunter, you are at least
a good thinker and I am certain you
are a booster for good old Michigan,
my Michigan. Fred Hemund.

As the above letter was based on
statements originally made by Roy
H. Randall, of this city, a copy of Mr.
Hemund’s letter was immediately for-
warded to Mr. Randall, with the re-
quest that he make reply thereto. Mr.
Randall's reply is as follows:

Grand Rapids, April 21—I received
your letter of April 19 which came to
my home and also a copy of the letter
written by Fred Hemund, of Reed
City, in regard to the communication
which you published in your paper a
couple of weeks ago, signed by me.

You know I am not a very good
newspaper correspondent and the only
reason why I wrote that letter which
you published in your issue of April 18
was because I thought the information
contained in that would be valuable to
some of your readers in Northern and
Western Michigan.

However, after receiving a copy of
this letter which you received from Mr.

Hemund, I have written to the Con-
servation Department at Lansing, as I
understand a certain amount of ac-
tivities have already been started to
conserve just such fands as Mr. He-
mund describes in his letter and as
soon as I get a reply to this letter [
sure will pass this information on to

you, that you, in turn. can com-
municate with Mr. Hemund.
I am personally gjad that Mr.

Hemund wrote the letter he did and I
wish that a great many others in that
vicinity would take this matter up, be-
cause this is just the kind of publicity
we need for the conservation of the
land for future tourists of Michigan.

Roy H. Randall.

—_. +. —___

Items From the Cloverland of Michi-

gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, April 24—-With the
favorable weather for the past few
days it looks as if it would not be long
now before the opening of navigation.
The steamer Charles Hutchinson, load-
ed with grain, cleared through the cus-
toms office Friday afternoon and cast
off her winter mooring at the Union
Carbide dock to make her way up the
river to Brady Pier, waiting to pro-
ceed down the river. The Hutchinson
was the first steamer to turn a wheel
in the river since last winter.

The Pittsburg Steamship Co. expects
to start its fleet within the next week.
this will liven up business here again
and give employment to many seamen
who are waiting for the opening.

The Oldsmobile agency has opened
a salesroom at 724 Ashmun street with

four of the models on display. The
formal opening will take place this
afternoon and evening. H. R. Ziebell,

of Milwaukee, will conduct the visitors
through the salesroom and explain the

features of the new car. The sales-
room will be decorated with flowers
and music will be provided for the

visitors. A. H. Passmore has_ the
agency for the Oldsmobile and Harry
Van Dyke is the city salesman. The
location is one of the best on the South
side and both Mr. Passmore and Mr.
Van Dyke are well known throughout
the city and county and will get a big
share of the automobile business.

Anyone who has steered a business
through the seas of the last seven
years has done something.

John Fehner, the well-known mer-
chant of Raber, was a business caller
here last week, taking back a load of
supplies. He reports some improve-
ment of the roads and expects to make
weekly calls during the summer.

The D., S. S. & A. Ry. has discon-
tinued its service from Humbolt to Re-
public by authority of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. The nine
miles has been serving the mining
operations.

Ten years ago we were in the midst
of the third Liberty loan drive. About
all we have to show for our invest-
ment is the word “drive.”

Al. Sparling and Simon McKee, for
the past year with the Taylor garage
here, have resigned to engage in busi-
ness for themselves. They are erect-
ing a garage on Portage avenue, on the
old site of the Hotel Iroquois. They
will also conduct an automobile laun-
dry in connection. They are both well
known energetic young men and
hustlers and should make a success in
their new venture.

I. Hansen, for the past year book-
keeper for Swift & Co. here, has re-
signed and accepted a similar position
with the Hewett Grocery Co. He
is succeeded by C. Dalinger, formerly
with Swift & Co. at Green Bay.

Compromise may be cowardly, but
it is better than driving head-on and
wrecking yourself against a stone wall.

William G. Tapert.
——_>+

Pfeil & Hahn, grocers at Niles, re-
new their subscription to the Trades-
man and write: “We can spare the

$3 better than to be without the paper,”

 

  

DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—J. C. Dykema, Grand Rapids.
Vice-Pres.—Alexander Reed, Detroit.
Director—H. H. Hoffman, Lansing.

Next Examination Session — Third
Tuesday in June at College of City of
Detroit. _ co :

Michigan State Pharmaceutical
Association.

President—J. Howard Hurd, Flint.

Vice-President—J. M. Ciechanuwski,
Detrcit.

Secretary—R. A. Turrell, Croswell.

Treasurer—L. V. Middleton, Grand
Rapids,

Chain Store Merchandising.

Two years ago Liggett stores dis-
continued their policy of renting win-
dows to manufacturers once a month
which netted them $600,000 a year.
Now it is planned to put this practice
into effect again. A store selling “con-
venience” items such as drugs can sell
a considerable number of “shopping”
items such as coffee, tea, foodstuffs,
electric appliances, rubber goods, do-
mestic goods, by using their windows
to advantage.

The secret of drug chain merchan-
dising lies in grouping a number of
Nationally known products on which
they establish a low price in order to
work in their own private brands at
substantially higher margins. The
salesmen are trained to push private
brands and get commissions ranging
from 2 to 10 per cent. on these items.
Each package on the shelves has a
small card which the clerk may tear
off as he makes the sale and in this
way tabulate his commission. For in-
stance, on a bottle of Peptone tonic
the salesman gets 10 per cent. commis-
sion. However, the best means of in-
creasing sales is by the well-known
1 cent sale which has been found to
increase business from 50 to 100 per
cent. Whereas the package price of a
standard article is 50c it sells for 36c
everyday, and it is offered at 2 for 5lc
during the 1 cent sale. These sales
serve a twofold purpose; they intro-
duce the company’s private brands to
new customers and bind the old cus-
tomers closer to the company’s articles.
It is noticeable that the Walgreen Co.
is following the practice of the Wool-
worth stores in using its basement and
is devoting as high as 50 per cent. of
the floor space to a soda and luncheon-
ette department on the first floor.

Soda. One of the first steps in a
chain drug store is to manufacture
most of the products used at the soda

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and luncheonette counter. There are
many advantages for a chain in making
its own ice creams, and syrups, and
other fountain requisites. For exam-
ple, the Walgreen chain bakes its own
bread, prepares sandwich ingredients
in its own commissary, besides owning
and operating two dairies at Holgate,
Ohio, and Shelbyville, Ill., which sup-
ply all cream, milk and butter needs.
Walgreen also maintains ice cream
plants at Chicago, Milwaukee and St
Louis, which ship to all points except
New York. The Liggett Co. also has
a factory manufacturing fountain sup-
plies.

Patent Medicine. This department
is the one in which the chains have
the greatest advantage in developing
their own private brands and is there-
fore the one in which the independent
manufacturers will feel the competition
most. The Puretest medicine line of
Liggett has been successful in such
cases as witchhazel, aspirin tablets,
boric acid, castor oil, lye lotion, corn
solvent, disinfectant, bicarbonate of
soda, epsom salts, milk of magnesia,
hair tonic, foot powder, peroxide, etc.
Walgreen, too are developing this line
—an example being their Phospho-Cod
Tonic. Other products being develop-
ed by chains are cough syrups, min-
eral oils, suppositories. Cleansing fluids,
are also being manufactured, Walgreen
producing Justrite spot remover, etc.
Health tonics are also a potent factor.

Rubber and Electrical Goods. The
chain drug stores are certain to give
increasing competition to department
stores and hardware stores on electrical
lines. The Liggett stores carry “Elec-
trex” curling irons, toasters, hair-dress-
ing sets and coffee percolators. Tak-
ing New York City only, the Liggett
stores last year sold 16,000 electric
fans, 15,000 electric heaters and they
expect to raise these quantities to 20,-
600 this year. The Liggett Co. con-
trols the Seamlesless Rubber Co. which
manufactures such items as fountain
syringes, rubber gloves, pocket combs,
adhesive plaster, hot-water bottles.
Chain manufacture in this department
is a later development only possible
with volume distribution of Nationwide
proportion.

Candy and Cigars. These two de-
partments average 5.7 per cent. and
have been successftl in the case of
those chains who stress particular lines
with a regular concentrated sales ef-

fort through its windows. The num-
ber of loose candy items is usually
limited to a few popular items such
as nougatines, Jordan almonds, wafers,
cough drops, wrapped caramels, gum-
drops, chocolate drops. Private brands
in cigars have been quite successful.
The Liggett Co. controls a chocolate
refinery and a cigarette company.
Stationery. This is one of the first
items in which a chain develops as its
own private brand. A few of the brands
manufactured by Liggett in their own
controlled factory are Lord Baltimore
and Hallcroft writing paper.
Pharmaceuticals. The first drug line
developed privately by the chain is
usually the pharmaceutical. All com-
panies of fifteen stores or over main-
tain a central factory laboratory.
Toilet Goods. Like pharmaceuticals,
the toilet goods line is early developed
as a private brand by the leading chain
store organizations. Cold creams, per-
fumeries, face lotions, and the general
cosmetic line are the most successful
private brands. Walgreen’s
present developing a line of this mer-
chandise.
The table which follows shows an
accurate index of the costs of doing
business in chain stores to-day:

are at

Wages of sales torce -..-___ 10.0
Advertigane (2) 20 is
Administration expenses ~-_----- 6.0
Renate 7.0
Heat, light, services, purchased__ 1.0
Breakage, insurance, taxes, etc.__ 4.0
Total expense 2... Lu. 29.5
Gross marci 8 82S
Net proht ..0 0 3.0
Stock-turn (times a year) __ 5.9

Departmentalized Volumes.

The editor of a prominent drug trade
publication stated recently: “My first
experience in business was clerking
in a drug store, and at that time 90)
per cent. of the store’s revenue was
obtained from the filling of prescrip-
tions and 10 per cent. from toilet goods
and other articles. To-day, the per-
centages could be reversed.” Let us
see how the volume of drug chain sys-
tems is divided at present into its vari-
ous departments.

The most successful chain drug sys-
tems seem to be those who combine
transient trade with community or resi-
dential patronage, thus striking a happy

April 25, 1928
between convenience and
Such stores generally
percentages of

medium
shopping items.
show the following
gross in various store departments:
Per Cent.

of Gross
Soda fountain and luncheonette __ 35
Toilet goods and proprietaries -_-- 20
(subdivided as follows):
per cent
Creams and Rouges —----- 48
Dentifrices —_._....--_- -._ 3.4

Talcum and toilet powders_ 2.8
Perfumeries and toilet wat. 2.8

Mair Tonics —o 2 1.4

Mair dyes 2 12

Miscellaneous __---------- 3.6
Prescriptions: 2) 15
Patent medicines _.-.---__-___._- 15
Rubber goods, sundries, etc. ----- 1)

Cigars, candy, cigarettes, stationery 5
Novelties and miscellaneous ~__--- 2

One of the large drug chains shows
the following departmentalized percent-

ages of gross:

Per Cent.
of Gross

Medicines—patents, raws, prescrip-
tions, ete, 22220. ee. 33
Toilet woods: 22.2222... 25
Soda fountains =... #5 15
Cigars, cigarettes, pipes, etc. ----- 14
CONG ee ]

Sick-room supplies and rub. goods 6
Margin of Profit by Commodities.

Per Cent.
General margin 90 45.7
Soda fountam oo... 49.2
Patent medicines —. 2 20.5
Rupper Goods 22200) ee 91.2
Toiletries and perfumeries ____- 38.6
Stationery ee 55.0
Pancy saods 200 45.0
Drugs (raws, prescript’s, patents) 36.4
Prescriptions 22) oe a
Cigars, cigarettes, candy, station’y 22.5
Prostivingees 25.0
Sunares 2: oo. 66.6
Bioloeicais 2 100.0
Pharmaceuticais ..0. 50.0
Closmencs 33.3

We believe that chain drug expansion
will continue at a greatly accelerated
rate during 1928 and that such com-
panies as People’s Drug, Owl Druz
and Walgreen will enter several new
states. We believe that
grocery stores and variety stores will
become increasingly important as dis-
tributors of the Nationally known sta-
ple drug products.

With the merger of Sterling Prod-

also chain

 

 

 

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STORE EQUIPMENT
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DRUG
STORE
PLANNING

Recommendations to fit
individual conditions.

DRUG STORE
FIXTURES

Planned to make every
foot of store into
sales space.

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The United States District Court
sitting at Buffalo, N. Y., ruled during
the week that reputed presence of glass
in sausage is sufficient ground for
negligence action. The ruling sustain-
ed an action filed by James Neupert, of
‘Wellsville, against Armour & Co., Chi-
cago packers, for $30,650 damages and
medical fees in the death of his wife,
Mrs. Sarah Neupert. Harold S.
New York attorney and counsel for
the packers, had moved to strike from
the bill of complaint an allegation that
Armour & Co.,

Brown,

as alleged manufactur-
ers of the sausage, had implied a war-
ranty of the product to the retail pur-
chaser. Neupert alleges that his wife
died after a piece of sharp-edged glass
lodged in her throat while
Armour sausage on Dee. 11,

Aa ne

Clean Up the Cat.
If the grocery store needs a cat, then
by all means she must be clean and
well kept. Nothing will drive away
the trade of a particular woman more
quickly than a badly-kept cat. For

eating
1925.

 

 

INSECTICIDES FOR 1928

 

BLUE VITRIOL, “FORMALDEHYDE, BFC.

WE, CARRY STOCK OF ALL THE ABOVE
PERHAPS THE LARGEST LINE IN THE
STATE. WRITE FOR PRICES.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Company

Michigan

MANISTEE

 

 

 

 

2-story manufacturing building,
with 7600 sq. ft. office space on
second floor, located Dowagiac,
Mich., on main line Michigan
Central Railroad. Approximately

85,000 sq. ft. floor space. Write
Beckwith Company, Dowagiac,
Michigan.

 

 

Sand Lime Brick

Nothing as Durable
Nothing as Fireproof
Makes Structure Beautiful
No Painting
No Cost for Repairs
Fire Proof Weather Proof
Warm in Winter—Cool in Summer

Brick is Everlasting

GRANDE BRICK CO.
Grand Rapids.

SAGINAW BRICK CO.
Saginaw.

 

 

 

 

 

PARIS GREEN
ARSENATE OF
LEAD
ARSENATE OF

 

 

CALCIUM
FUNGI BORDO
DRY LIME AND
SULPHUR
PESTROY TUBER
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Cassia (ordinary). 25@ 30
Cassia (Saigon)... 50@ 60
Sassafras (pw. 60c) @ 50
— Cut —

3

ee a 30
Berries

Cuheb 2. 2 @1 00

iS @ 2

VUniper: 0 10@ 20

Prickly Ash —... @
Extracts

Licorice. < 60@ 65
Licorice, powd. -.. 60@ 170

Flowers
Arnica 2.8. 1 75@1 85
Chamomile (Ged.) @ 40
Chamomile Rom.. @ 60

Gums

Acacia, Ist .___. 50@ 65
Acacia, 2nd .... 45 50
Acacia, Sorts -.. 20 265
Acacia, Powdered 35@ 40
Aloes (Barb Pow) 25@ 35
Aloes (Cape Pow) 25@ 35
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 75@ 80
Asafoetida —-_---_ 50@ 60

WOW. 2 75@1 00
Camphor ........ 85@ 90
Guaiae .o. @ 80
Guaiaec, pow’d __ @ 90
Kime 2222 @1 25
Kino, powdered_-_ @1 2
MVE: oo @ 7%
Myrrh, powdered @1 00
Opium, powd. 19 65@19 92
Opium, gran. 19 65@19 92
Shellac —....-___ 65@ 80
Sheilee 220 75@ 90
Tragacanth, pow. @1 75
Tragacanth ..._ 2 ar 35
Turpentine -_ _-- 30

Insecticides

Arsenic _......._ Os@ 20
Blue Vitriol, bbl. @07%
Blue Vitriol, less 09@ 16
Bordea. Mix Dry 12@ 26
Hellebore, White

powdered  ._--.- 18@ 30
Insect Powder 42%@ 50

Lead Arsenate Po. 13144@30

Lime and Sulphur
Dry ole 0s@ *
4

Paris Green __.. 24@
Leaves
Bushy 2 @1 05
Buchu, powdered @1 10
Sage, Bulk __-.._ “3 30
Sage, % loose -. 40
Sage, powdered__ 35
Senna, Alex. -... 509 75
Senna, Tinn. pow. oe 35
Uva Urat 35
Olie
Almonds, Bitter, ‘
6 - 7 50@7 75
Abionael Bitter,
artificial __...- 3 00@3 25
Almonds, Sweet,
rue 2 1 50@1 80
Almonds, Sweet,
imitation ---. 1 00@1 25

Amber, crude _. 1 25@1 60

Amber, rectified 1 59@1 75
Anise 2 1 25@1 50
Bergamont __-. 9 00@9 25
Cajenut —. >. 2 00@2 25
@aasig 3 00@3 25
Oaster 1 45@1 10
Cedar Leaf __.. 2 00@2 26
Citronella  -_---- 1 25@1 560
Cloves 2. 2 50@2 76
Cocoanut 22... 27%@ 35
Cod Giver ...._. 2 00@2 45
Croton: _.._. 2 00@2 25

Rosemary Flows 1 25@1
ee E.

Oe Ee 10 50@10 76
Sassafras, true 1 ual 60
Sassafras, arti’l 1 00
Spearmint -- 2... 8 00@8 25
Sherm 1 50@1 75

ile es oes 7 00@7 25
Tar USP ._.._. 5@ 75
Turpentine, bbl. — @ Gi
Turpentine, less 68@ 81
Wintergreen,

leaf 1... 6 00@6 25
Wintergreen, sweet

bireh oo. 00@3 25
Wintergreen, art 75@1 00
Worm Seed __.... 5 50@5 75
Wormwood —-. 16 50@16 75

Potassium
Bicarbonate  -_-- ie 40
Bichromate -__-- 15 26
Bromide _...._< 69@ 85
Bromide .._.____ 54@ 71
Chlorate, gran’d 23@ 30
Chlorate, powd.

Or Xtal... .- 16@_ 25
Cvagide 22: -- 30@ 90
lodide 2-5 4 36@4 55
Permanganate 20@ 30
Prussiate, yellow 40@ 50
Prussiate, red — @ 7
Sulphate —_.____ 35@ 40

Roots
Alkanet § 2.2.0 30@ 35
Blood, powdered. 35@ 40
Calamus 22... 35@ 75
Hlecampane, pwd. 25@ 30
Gentian, powd... 20@ 30
Ginger, African,

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

powdered ___-._ 45@ 50
Goldenseal, pow. 7 50@8 00
Ipecac, powd., -. gs 00
Licorice —......__ 35 40
Licorice, powd... 20@ 30
Orris, powdered. 30@ 40
Poke, powdered. 35@ 40
Rhubarb, powd..- @1 00
Rosinwood, powd. @ 40
Sarsaparilla, Hond.

ground .....___ @1 10
Sarsaparilla, Mexic. @ 60
Sanilla _........... 35 40
Squills, powdered 70@ 80
Tumeric, powd... 20@ 25

Valerian, powd... $1 00

Seeds
Anise ...... 2
Anise, powdered ag
Bird, is ........ 1%
Comary _..._... 10
Caraway, Po. .30 25@
Cardamon ----.- 3 25@3
Coriander pow. .30 ae
Be 15@
Penne 35@
Ries 12
Flax, ground .... 7@
Foenugreek, pwd. 15@
IOMY ocak ns 8@
Lobelia, powd. .. @i
Mustard, yellow 17@

Mustard, black... =<

Poppy --.-------- 5@
Quince —.......... 1 =a.
Sabadilla,. .._..__ 45@

Sunflower Sena 114%@

Worm, American 30@
Worm, Levant — 6 00@6

Tinctures
Aconite —........ @1
AIGGN oe @1
Arnica —........_.. @1
Asafoetida -_--.. @2

80
56
50
28

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27
oa “ veep: . ae a ee ae . . My . ae EP , ie
ucts with the United Drug, this organ there is nothing in a house that tells WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURREN i
ization plans to take over two chains the story of neglected housekeeping so
in Ohio and Indiana and gradually quickly. The customer will picture Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of icsue.
build up a chain of 1,000 stores. Later, dirty storerooms and basements. But Acids Collen Seid LM Re
it is planned to take over the 9,000 if the cat be clean, she brings con- Borie (Powd.) .. 12%@ 20 canes ee ee 75 Benen eee < “
: : a : a i Bi c oe Eero) 22 6 00@6 25 enzoin Comp’d- 4
Rexall agencies Ww hich would give the fidence. oo a = 7 > Eucalyptus ---. 1 25@160 Buchu _____..-_- @2 16
United Drug Co. one-fifth of the chain Pussy needs food not supplied by Citric ee 53 @ 70 oe ae i ieee = aa --- ¢; .
an : 4 a I ie 2 3 : = sicum ~---—--
store outlets. There are several plans mice, augmented by salmon. Milk is cor ab gaa cole “¢ “ er Wood .1 ver 7% Catechu _._..__ @1 44
now to combine independent drug often out of the question, but evap- i oe oe ora a x tad Ts “ ; el a S. a ¢;
» stores into chains in New York, Chi-  orated milk, half water, will be found  ‘fartarie _._-___ 52 @ 60 _— oe 6 ae = Cubebe ._..____- @3 -
toe 4 4 ; avende yar’ 2 i 2
cago and other cities. These plans acceptable to most cats, and nothing Lemon 4 aoa 50 pene me Se < 35
call for absorption eventually of most puts a gloss on their coats like a well a a. “au asin Tot a 2 : a a ¢ Mr
: : i ater, eg.-- 4ins oile « uaiac, Ammon._
of the independent drug stores doing beaten egg several times a week. Water, 18 a -. 054%@ 18 Diane bld less 87@1 00 fodine ---------- @1 25
ae : : ore Water, 14 deg... "a li inseed, raw, less 84@ 97 Iodine, Colorless_ @1 50
on per day and over, in the large A Cachanate ae 25 Mustard, artifl. oz. a i ta on @1 56
cities, Some women, like successful gam- Chloride (Gran. 08 3 20 eatsioot -....- Kino -----.------ 1 44
The day of the independent druggist fers, have winning ways. aa gee lo ‘oe a eae ¢ =
has passed in the metropolitan areas : —— yellow -...-_.. 2 85@3 25 Opium --_-------- @5 40
i ie : eu : Copaiba 1 00@1 25 Olive, Malaga, Opium, Camp. -- @1 44
and as store systems develop expansion Fir (Canada) 2 75@3 00 green =.=... 2 85@3 25 Opium, Deodorz'd @5 40
in neighborhood sections appears to be Sela naa oe Sos = pst an 5 ng 2 Rhubarb -------- @1 92
inevitable. Tolu =__----.--. 2 00@2 25 Origanum, com’l 1 00@1 20
FOR SALE OR FOR RENT hoa jue
é Peppermint ---. 5 50@5 70
Bad Smash For Armour & Co. Modern concrete and_ brick Barks Bana. a i seen 00 Paints

Lead, red dry __ 13%4@13%
Lead, white dry 134@13%
Lead, white oil__ 134@13%
Ochre, yellow bbl. @ 2%
Ochre, yellow less 6
Red Venet'n Am. 314 1

Red ee n Eng. 4@ 8
Paty ......... 5@ 8
Whiting, BBE __. @ 44%
Whiting —........ 5%™@ *
L. H. P. Prep... 2 90@3 ¢-
Rogers Prep. -. 2 90@3 ¢
Miscellaneous

Acetanalid  __-._ 57@ 7a
Algm 02.0 08@ 12
Alum. powd. and

ground ......... o9@ 15
Bismuth, Subni-

trate 3 15@3 40
Borax xtal or

powdered -... 64@ 15
Cantharades, po, 1 5u@2 00
Calomel _.._._... 2 72@2 82
Capsicum, powd 50W_ bu
Carmine _._____ 7 00@7 50
Cassia Buds _... 35@ 40
Chives: 22 as bd
Chalk Prepared_ 4 16
Chloroform -... 53@ 60
Chloral Hydrate 1 20@1 6u
Cocaine ____._ 12 85@13 50
Cocoa Butter __.. 65@ 90
Corks, list, less 40%-50%
Copperas ____--. 2%@ 10
Copperas, Powd. 4#@ 10

Corrosive Sublm 2 25@2 30
Cream Tartar .. 35 45

Cuttle bone -..._ “ 50
Dextrine ......_. 15
Dover’s Powder 4 00s 50
Emery, All Nos. 10@ 15
Emery, Powdered @ 15
Epsom Salts, bbls. @ 3
Epsom Salts, less 3%@_ 10
Ergot, powdered __ w4 00
Flake, White -. 15@ 20
Formaldehyde, Ib. 11%@30
Gelatine  _...-.. 80@ 90
Glassware, less 55%.
Glassware, full case 60%.
Glauber Salts, bbl. on
Glauber Salts less 04@
Glue, Lrown -_... 20@ BS
Blue. Brown Grd 16@ 22
Glue, Whte -.... 27% ae 35
Glue, white grd. 25 35
Givcerine 20@ 45
O06 2. 5@ 95
Jodine _......___ 6 45@7 00
Iodoform -.-.-.. 8 00@8 30
Lead Acetate .. 20 30

Mace
Mace, powdered. @1 60

7 60@8 0
Morphine -_.. “12 enous 98
Nux Vomica -... @ 30
Nux Vomica, pow. 15@ 25
Pepper, black, pow 50@ _ 60
Pepper, White, pw. 65@ 75
Pitch, Burgudry 20@ 25
Quassia 12@ 15
Quinine, 56 oz. cans @ 59

Rochelle Salts ~ = 40
Sacharine -..... 60@2 76
Salt Peter ..-..- * ie 22
Seidlitz Mixture. 30@ 40
Soap, green _... 15@ 30
Soap mott cast. _. @ 25
Soap, white castile

aM ..... @16 00
Soap, white castile
legs, er bar .. aS

Soda tacaiouate 249 10
Soda, Sal 02%@

Spirits Camphor @1 20
Sulphur, roll -... 34@ 10

Sulphur, Subl. -. 4%@ 10
Tamarinds __..-. 20@ 25
Tartar Emetic _. 70@ 15

Turpentine, Van. 650@ 75
Vanilla Ex. pure 1 50@2 00
Vanilla Ex. pure 2 25@3 60
Zinc Sulphate _. 06@ ll

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

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

 

ADVANCED

Salted Peanuts

Rolled Oats—Sacks
Salt—Med. No. 1

Baked Beans—Van Camp

DECLINED

Roquefort and Longhorn Cheese

Nuts
Olives

 

AMMONIA
Arctic, 10 oz., 3 dz. cs. 3 75
Arctic, 16 oz., 2 dz. cs. 4 00
Arctic, 32 oz., 1 dz. cs. 3 00
Quaker, 24, 12 oz. case 2 50

 

10° ib. pails,
15 lb. pails,
25 lb. pails,

per doz.
per doz. 11 95
per doz. 19.15

BAKING POWDERS

Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 36
Queen Flake, 16 oz., dz 2 25

Royal, 10c, doz. -.-. 95
Royal, 6 oz., do. --.. 2 70
Royal, 12 oz., doz. __ 5 20
Roral, 6 ib. 31 20
Rocket, 16 oz., doz... 1 25
K. C. Brand

Per case
10e size, 4 doz. ------ 3 70
15c size, 4 doz. -.---- 5 60
20c size, 4 doz. -_---- 7 20
25c size, 4 doz. __---- 9 20
60c size, 2 doz. _.-.--- 8 80
Bic size, 1 doz.  ..._- 6 85
10 Ib. size, % doz. __-- 6 75

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

BLUING

JENNINGS
The Original
Condensed

oz., 4 dz. cs. 3 00
oz., 3 dz. cs. 3 76

 

BREAKFAST FOODS

Kellogg’s Brands.

Corn Flakes, No. 136 2 85
Corn Flakes, No. 124 2 85
Corn Flakes, No. 102 2 00
Pep, No. 224 -------- 2 70
Pep, No. 202 -___..__ 2 00
Krumbles, No. 424 --- 3 70
Bran Flakes, No. 624 2 25
Bran Flakes. No. 602 1 60

Post’s Brands.

Grape-Nuts, 24s -_---
Grape-Nuts, 100s ----
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, 248 ---.

BROOMS

Jewell, doz. 5

Standard Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 25
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib.__ 9 25
Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 Ib. 9 75
Ex. Fcy. Parlor 26 Ib. _ 60

BOTS DO OS NO wm CHET ED OO
ANOONIwWANOR IC
SSas

ecocone

BRUSHES
Scrub

Solid Back, 8 in. ---. ) 50
Solid Back, 1 in. ---. 1 75
Pointed Ends ------. ote

 

 

BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion __.--. —- 23 85

CANDLES

Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1
Plumber, 40 Ibs.

Paratiine, 66 _...... 14%
Paraffine, 12s  .....-. 14%
Wicking -- 40

Tudor, 6s, per box _. 30

CANNED FRUIT

Apples, No. 10 -. 5 15@5 75
Apple Sauce, No. 10 8 0U
Apricots, No. 3% 3 40@3 980
Apricots, No. 10 8 50@11 @0
Blackberries, No. 10 7 50
Blueberries, ‘No. 10 __ . =
Cherries, No. 2

Cherries, No. 2% ---- : oo
Cherries, No. 10 -.. 15 00
Loganberries, No. 10 8 50
Peaches, No. 2 -.---- 3 75
Peaches, No. 2% Mich 2 20
Peaches, 2% Cal. 2 25@2 60
Peaches, 10 22: 3 50
Pineapple, 1 sili.
Pineapple, 2 sli.
Fappie, 2 br. sl. .... 2 26
P’apple, 2 br. sl. .... 2 40
P’apple, 2%, sli. ..--. 3 00
P’apple, 2, cru. -.-.. 2 60
Pineapple, 10 cru. -. 8 50
Pears, No. 3
Pears, No. 2% 3 60
Raspberries, No. 2 bik 3 25
Raspb’s. Red, No. 10 11 50
Raspb’s Black,

Ne. 1) 15 00
Rhubarb, No. 10 --_. 6 00
Strawb’s, No. 2 3 25@4 75

CANNED FISH

Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1 35
Clam Ch., No. 3 -.--.. 3 5@
Clams, Steamed, No. 1 2 00
Clams, Minced, No. % 2 25
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 30
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz. 2 50
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 75
Fish Flakes, small .. 1 36
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 35
Cove Oysters, 5 oz. — 175
Lobster, No. %, Star 2 90
Shrimp, 1, wet ---... 2 26
Sard’s, % Oil, Key -. 6 10
Sardines, % Oil, k’less 5 60
Sardines, % Smoked 6 76
Salmon, Warrens, %s 3 10
Salmon, Red Alaska 3 76
Salmon, Med. Alaska 2 85
Salmon, Pink Alaska 2 00
Sardines, Im. %, ea. ——
Sardines, Im., %, ea.
Sardines, Cal. 1 *G5@1 ~4
Tuna, % Biue "Fin an @ 2S
Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
Tuna, %, Curtis , doz. 4 00
Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz. 7 00
CANNED MEAT

Bacon, Med. Beechnut 8 30
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 6 40
Beef, No. 1, Corned __ 3 10
Beef, No. 1, Roast ____ 3 10
Beef, No. 2%, Qua. sli. 1 50
Beef, 3% oz. Qua. sili.

Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli.
Beefsteak & Onions, s
Chili Con Ca., 1s
Deviled Ham, %s ---
Deviled Ham, %s ---
Hamburg Steak &
Onions, No, i ._.... 3 15
Potted Beef, 4 oz. ___ 1 10
Potted Meat, % Libby 62%
Potted Meat, % Libby 92%
Potted Meat, % Qua. 90
Potted Ham, Gen. %
Vienna Saus., No. %
Vienna Sausage, Qua. 95
Veal Loaf, Medium -_

Oo DO ++ CO mm LO 09 08 ON OO
mt
°

Haked Beans

Camppelis 115
Guaker, 18.08. 2000. 1.00
Fremont, NO 2 1.25
Snider, No, 1°. 95
Sniger, No. 2 0 485
Van Camp, small | aad 90
Van Camp, mea. 2° 7 16

CANNED VEGETABLES.

Asparagus.

No. 1, Green tips  . 3 76
No. 24%, Large Green 4 60

W. Beans, cut 2 1 65@1 75
Ww. Beans, 7

Green Beans, 2s 1 65@2 25
Green Beans, 10s _. @7 60
L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 35@2 65
Lima Beans, eee : 15
Red Kid, No. in 2 oe
Beets, No. 2, = 1 75@2 40
Beets, No. 2, cut 1 10@1 26
Beets, No. 3, cut -... 1 60
Corn, No. 2, stan. — 1 18
Corn, Ex. stan. No. 2 1 35
Corn, No. 2, Fan. 1 80@z 36
Corn, No. ie. 8 00@10 75
Hominy, No 3 4 00@1 15
Okra, No. 2, whole —. 2 15
Okra, No. 2, ent 01 75
Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, lb. 45
Mushrooms, Hotels .. 33
Mushrooms, Choice, 8 os. 40
Mushrooms, Sur Extra 650
Peas, No. 2, 65

1s

Peas, Ex. Fine, French 26
Pumpkin, No. 8 1 26@1 66
Pumpkin, No. 10 4 00@4 76
Pimentos, %, each 12@14
Pimentoes, %, each _ 27
Sw’t Potatoes, No. 2% 2 25
Sauerkraut, No.3 1 356@1 60
Succotash, No. 2 1 66@2 60
Succotash, No. 2, glass 2 -
Spinach, No.
Spnach, No. 2.. 1 60@1 rf
Spinach, No. 3.. 2 26@2 60
Spire.ch, No. 10. 6 56@
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 pet

@

«a

Tomatoes, No. 3, 1 9@
No. 10 6 00

“nr
Snes

Tomatoes,

CATSUP,
B-nut, ame ........... 1 90
Lily of Valley, 14 oz.__
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 65

Paramount, 24, 8s .... 1 35
Paramount, 24, 16s __ 2 25
Sniders, 8 oz. -------- 1 76
Sniders, 16 oz. -------~- 2 65

Quaker, 10 oz.
Quaker, 14 oz. -...... 1 90
Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 00
Quaker, Gallon Tin —. 8 00

CHIL! SAUCE

Snider, 16 oz.
Snider, 8 oz.
Lilly Valley,

 

nm. on
Lilly Valley. 14 os. .. 3 25

OYSTER COCKTAIL.
Sniders, 16 oz. ........ 3 3@

Sniders, 8 oz. _....._ 3 30
CHEESE.
Roquefort __ 55
Kraft, small items 1 65
Kraft, American  .. 1 66
Chili, small tins _. 1 66
Pimento, small tins 1 66
Roquefort, sm, tins 2 26
Camembert, sm. tins 2 25
Longhorn __- oe
Ww isconsin Daisy a ee
SAD BARD Go 40
cit

CHEWING GUM.
Adams Black Jack ____ 65
Adams Bloodberry ___. 65
Adams Dentyne _______ 65
Adams Calif. Fruit ____ 66
Adams Sen Sen -.______ 65

 

Beeman’s Pepsin --.-.- 65
Beechnut Wintergreen.
Beechnut Peppermint ~.
Beechnut Spearmint --.
Doublemint
Peppermint, Wrigleys __ 65
Spearmint, Wrgileys __ 65
snicy Frat 65
oe P-K

COCOA.

Droste’s Dutch, 1 lb._- 8 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 %5
Droste’s Dutch, 5 lb. 60

Chocolate Apples ---- 4 50
Pastelles, No. 1 ---—12 60
Pastelles, % Ib. ------ 6 60
Pains De Cafe ----- _- 3 60
Droste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2 (0

Delft Pastelles
1 Ib. a Tin Bon

ene ee ~ 00
7 oz. ae Tin Bon
ene 00
13 oz, Creme De Cara-
ane 13 20
12 oz. Rosaces ------ 10 80
% lb. 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 Ib. case, %s and %s 48
15 lb. case, %8 47
16 ib. case, 4S 46

CLOTHES LINE.

Hemp, 50 ft. _.__ 2 00@2 25
Twisted Cotton,
St 3 es 00
Braided, 50 ft. ------- 2 25
Sash Cord _... 3 50@4 00

 

HUME GROCER CO.

ROASTERS
MUSKEGON, MICE

 

COFFEE ROASTED
1 Ib. Package

Meress 2 35
TADETES 2 25
Cure 41
Netwow. 39
— House  -_---- -
socal Cink 40

McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh
Vaccum packed. Always

fresh. Complete line of

high-grade bulk _ coffees.

W. F. McLaughlin & Co.,
Chicago.

Coffee Extracts
M. Y., per 100 __.___

Frank’s 50 pkgs. _. 4 25
Hummel’s 60 1 Ib. 10%
CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 doz. -..... 7 00
Bagle, 4 doz. __-.__..__ 9 00
MILK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. _. 4 50
Hebe, Baby, 8 do.  . 4 40
Carolene, Tall, 4 doz.3 80
Carolene, Baby _..... 3 50

EVAPORATED MILK

Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. __
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz.
Quaker, Gallon, % doz.
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz.
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz.
Oatman’s Dundee, Tall
Oatman’s D'dee, Baby
very Day, Tall
Every Day, Baby ____
Pe ee oe
Pet, Baby, 8 oz.
Borden’s Tall
Rorden’s Baby

Van Camp, Tall
Van Camp, Baby

Re Be Be Be Re fe oe OT me ee eo oe
o
o

CIGARS
G. J. Johnson’s Brand

.. = Johnson Cigar,

eect pier 75 00
eon Grocer Co. Brands
Airedale 35 00
Havana Sweets __.. 35 00
Hemeter Champion -- 37 50

In Betweens, 5 for 25 = 60
Canadian Club ----.-- 5 00
Little Tom. —__.._._... at 60

Tom Moore Monarch 75 00
Tom Moore Panetris 65 00
T. Moore Longfellow 95 00
Webster Cadillac _._. 75 00
Webster Knickbocker 95 00

Webster Belmont. 110 00
Webster St. Reges 1245 00
Bering Apollos .... 95 00
Bering Palmitas -. 116 00

Bering Me chong 115 00
Bering Delioses __-. 120 00
Bering Favorita ---. 4 00
Bering Albas --.---. 160 00

CONFECTIONERY

Stick Candy Pails

Standard ..... 2 16
Pure Sugar Sticks 600s 4 00

Big Stick, 20 lb. case 18
Mixed Candy
Kindergarten  --~.------ 17
ees 0er 14
ie ag
French Creams -------- 16
Paris Creams -.....---- 17
Grocers oi

Fancy Chocolates
5 lb. Boxes
Bittersweets, Ass'ted 1 76
Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 70
Milk Chocolate A A 1 80
Nibble Sticks -..----- 1 86
No. 12. Choc., Light — 1 65

Chocolate Nut Rolls — : 85
Magnolia Choe -...... 1 26

Gum Drops Pails
Anise: 2 aan AG
Champion Gums .-..-. a. 46

Challenge Gums ....... 14
Favorite
Superior, Boxes __...-.. __ 23

Lozenges Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges 16
A. A, Pink Lozenges 16
A. A. Choc. Lozenges -
Motto Hearts
Malted Milk Lozenges i

Hard Goods Pails

Lemon Drops ------~.. 18
oO. F. Horehound dps. .. 18
Anise Squares 18
Peanut Squares --.--..-- 17

 

    

Horehound Tablets __-- 18

Cough Drops Bxs
Putnam’s ------------ 1 36
Smith Bros. ..-------- 1 60

Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows
4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 86
4 oz. pkg., 488, case 3 40

Specialties

Walnut Fudge -....-.. 23
Pineapple Fudge ~----.. 22
Italian Bon Bons 7
Banquet Cream Mints. 27
Silver King; M.Mallows 1 25

meat

‘Bar Goods

Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 5c 75
Pal O Mine, 24, Be -... 76
Mality Milkies, 24, 5c .. 76

Lemon Rolls ......... 75
‘Tru Lay, 24, $6 2 75
No-Nut, 24, 5e  ....... 75

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade 3 50
100 Economic grade 4 60
500 Economic grade 20 60
1000 Economic grade 37 60
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 lb. boxes

DRIED FRUITS

Applies
N Y. Fey., 50 lb. box 15%

N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16
Apricots
Evaporated, Choice _.__ 24
Evaporated. Fancy ____ 28
Evaporated, Slabs -... 18
Citron
10 1b. box conn ae

April 25, 1928

Currants
Packages, 14 oz. --._.. 19
Greek, Bulk, Ib ----~__ 19

Dates
Dromedary, 36s -... 6 75

Peaches
evap. Choice 16
Evap. Ex. Fancy, P.P. 18

Peel
Lemon, American -... 30
Orange, American .__. 30
Raisins

Seeded, bulk ~__----__. 9
Thompson's s‘dles blk 8%
Thompson's seedless,
1908. 10
Seeded, 15 oz.

California Prunes
60@70, 25 lb. boxes__.@08%
50@60, 25 lb. boxes__.@09
40@50, . boxes__.@10

40, 25 Ib. boxes._.@10%
20@30, 25 lb. boxes._.@16

FARINACEOUS GOODS
Beans

Mel. Hand Picked _. 10%
Cat tities 11
Brown, Swedish —_____ 09%,
ted: Kidney 2. il
Farina
24 packages _______. 2 60
Bulk, per 100 Ibs. -.-. 06%
Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks -. 3 60
Macaroni
Mueller’s Brands
9 oz. package, per dos. 1 80

9 oz. package, per case 2 60

Bulk Goods
Elbow, 20 Ib. 07
Egg Noodle, 10 Ibs. _. 14

Pearl Barley

nestor 220 es 4 50

000 7 00

Barley Grits ~.-.---... 5 00
Peas

Seoteh, 1b. 2... OM

Split, Ib. yellow —.--.. 08

Split green ......... _ o8
Sage

woet ini oo 10

Taploca

Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks .. 09

Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05

Dromedary Instant —. 8 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
55 Years Standard Quality.
JENNINGS
PURE
FLAVORING
EXTRACT

Vaniila and
Lemon

Same Price
1 26
1 80
3 20
4 50
2 60
5 00
8 oz. 9 00
16 oz. 15 00

 

2% Ounce
Taper Bottle

Jiffy Puneh
3 doz. Carton ...._.._ 2 %
Assorted flavors,

FLOUR
Vv. C. Milling Co. Brands
Lily White  - 1... - 9 90

Harvest Queen -..... 9 80
Yes Ma’am G
BON oo coee 8 a0

FRUIT CANS
F. O. B. Grand Rapids

Mason
Halt pint... 7 80
One pint _.-.--_. RIG, Be |
One quart ........... 9 10
Half gallon uw... soak 35
ideal Glass Top.
Pee 9 00
One ee es 9 30
One avart ‘.2........ 11 15
Half gallon -.....--.-15 40

 

 

 

 

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GELATINE

 

1 doz. case __ 6 50

26 0Z.,

3% oz., 4 doz. case_._ 3 20
Jell-O, 3 doz. _....--. 2 85
Minute, 3 doz. __--.--_ 4 06
Plymouth, White —_-- ; 55
Quaker, 3 doz. __---- 2 56

JELLY AND PRESERVES

Pure, 30 Ib. pails -_.-3 30
Imitation, 30 lb. pails 1 75
Pure, 6 oz., Asst., doz. 95
Buckeye, 18 oz., doz. 2 06

JELLY GLASSES
8 oz., per doz.

OLEOMARGARINE

Van Westenbrugge Brands
Carload Distributor

   

Best Foods

ib. 21

Nu
oo ~~ 20%

Nucoa, 2 and 5 Ib.

Willson: & Co.’s Brands

Oleo
Cartified —.. 24
Nut: foes 18
Special Roll ~--------- 19
MATCHES
Swan, 144 2.2 4 50
Diamond, 144 box —_- 5 75
Searchlight, 144 box-- 5 75
Ohio Red Label, 144 bx 4 20
Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box 5 70
Dhio Blue Tip, 720-lc 4 25
Blue Seal, 144 ~------- 5 20
Reliable, 144 _-_------- 4 15
federal, 144 ~_------- 5 50

Safety Matches
Quaker, 5 gro. case_. 4 50

MOLASSES

Molasses in Cans
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Wh. L. 5 60
Dove, 24, 2% Ib Wh. L. 5 20
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Black 4 30
Dove, 24, 2% Ib. Black 3 90
Dove, 6 10 Ib. Blue L. 4 45
Palmetto, 24, 2% Ib. 5 75

NUTS—Whole
Almonds, Tarragona__ 26

Brazil; New —._....-- 24
Fancy Mixed —_------ 25
Filberts, Sicily ------ 22
Peanuts, Vir. Roasted 12
Peanuts, Jumbo, std. 17
Pecans, 3 star ~----. 20
Pecans, Jumbo -----. 40
Pecans, Mammoth -. 50
Walnuts. California  ~_ 25
Salted Peanuts
Fancy, No. 1. 22.22. 15
Shelled
AIMONOS so ce 60
Peanuts, Spanish,
ta6: 1b. base...  ,
Milherts. -. 32
Pecans Salted ------_-_ 89
Walnuts 22-02. 55
MINCE MEAT

None Such, 4 doz. -.- 6 47

Quaker, 3 doz. case __ 3 50
Libby, Kegs, wet, lb. 22

OLIVES
Bulk, 5 gal. keg wot BO
Quart Jars, dozen ee
Bulk, 2 gal. keg 3 25
Pint Jars, dozen ____ 2 90
4 oz. Jar, plain, doz. 1 35
5% oz. Jar, pl., doz. 1 60
8% oz. Jar, plain, doz. 2 35.
20 oz. Jar, do... 4 26
3 oz. Jar, Stu., doz. : 35

6 gz. Jar, stuff:d, dz. 2 25
9 oz. Jar, stuffed, doz. 3 50
12 oz. Jar, re

4 50@4 75

doz.
“1. Se stuffed ds, 7 90

PARIS GREEN

Pe ipiaia ese AGE aes ies ee eee 31
i ee 29
28 and 58 22 27

PEANUT BUTTER

 

Bel Car-Mo Brand
241 ib. Tine —.....
8 oz., 2 do. in case__
15 Ip. pails =...
20 ibs. patie:

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS.

From Tank Wagon.
Red Crown Gasoline —. ll
Red Crown Ethyl ---.-. i
Solite Gasoline  ~_.___..

In tron Barrels
Perfection Kerosine .. 13.6
a Machine Gasoline 37.1

Vv. M. & P. Naphtha 19.6

ISO-VIS MOTOR OILS
In tron Barrels

Bae os W741
MGC 2c 771
RECON WA
me Heavy W721

olarine

Iron Barrels

 

Rae oo 66.1
Medium: 2) 65.1
Heavy: 225 2 65.1
Special heavy -.....-. 65.1
xtra heavy oo. 65.1
Polarine “F’’ .o. 1. 65.1
Transmission Of] .... 65.1
Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1 50
Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2 25
Parowax, 100 Ib.  _.. 9.3
Parowax. 40, 1 Ib. __ 9.5
Parowax, 20, 1 Ib. 9.7
Semdac, 12 pt. cans 2.75
Semdac, 12 qt. cans 4.65
PICKLES

Medium Sour
5 gallon, 400 count -_ 4 75

Sweet Small

16 Gallon, 3300 ~~... 28 75
5 Gallon, 750 ~---.... 9 00

Dill Pickles

Gal. 40 to Tin, doz. _. 9 00

PIPES
Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20

PLAYING CARDS

Battle Axe, per doz. 2 75
Bicyele 20000 4 75

POTASH

Babbitt’s, 2 doz. -___ 2 75
FRESH MEATS
Beef
Top Steers & Heif. __ 22

Good St’rs & H’f. 1544@19
Med. Steers & Heif. 18

Com. Steers & Heif. 15@16
Veal
Top | ee bo
Good 2 ee ae
Mediuns: oe 17
Lamb
Spring Banmp ... 9... 32
OGG 2s oe 30
Mena 28
a oo ee aise La aed PACE 21
Mutton
GOO a oe
PRORION 16

Pork

Fight hoes 22000 oo. 11%
Medium hogs ____---- 10%
Heavy hogs <......... 10%
Pan MOOG. eo aL
Utes ee ig
Shoulders Cee ee
Spareriba = 225005. 14
Neck bones. 20 07
Trimmings: oo 14

PROVISIONS

Barreled Pork
Clear Back _. 25 00@28 00

Short Cut Clear26 00@29 00
Dry Sait Meats
D S Bellies __ 18-20@18-19

Lard

Pure in tierces ____ is
60 lb. tubs _.._.advance %
50 Ib, tubs _.._.advance %
20 lb. pails _.._.advance %
10 lb. pails _.._.radvance %
5 lb. pails _...advance 1

3 lb. pails _.__-advance 1
Compound tierces ____ 13
Compound, tubs _____. 134

Sausages
BOOMS: 2 so 14
Diver oto os
Brankiort 2.2000
Pork iv
WOR
Tongue, Jellied -__._. 3
Headcheese 2... 16
Smoked Meats

Hams, Cer. 14-16 lb. @23
Hams, Cert., Skinned

16-18 lb. —.. Gees
Ham, dried “beef

KRruckies: 2030 @40
California Hams ~. @17%
Picnic Boiled

Hams 220 20 @22
Boiled Hams ___. @3
Minced Hams ____ ois
Bacon 4/6 Cert. _. 24 @30

Beef
Boneless, rump 28 00@30 00
Rump, new __ 29 00@32 00

Liver
i 20
Calf 2. oe 65
PO i
RICE
Fancy Blue Rose ___-~ 06
Fancy Fread .....- 07%
Broken. -.2.0.0-00 03%
ROLLED OATS
Silver Flake, 12 New
Process: 2 25
Quaker, 18 Regular -. 1 80
Quaker, 12s Family -. 2 70
Mothers, 12s, M'num 3 25
Nedrow, 12s, China _. 3 25
Sacks, 90 Ib. Jute —_ 4 00
RUSKS
Michigan Tea Rusk Co.
Brand.
40 rolls, per case ___. 4 70
18 rolls, per case __.. 2 25
18 cartons, per case__ 2 25
36 cartons, per case__ 4 50
SALERATUS
Arm and Hammer -. 3 75
SAL SODA

Granulated, bbls.
Granulated, 60 Ibs. cs. 1 60
Granulated, 36 2% Ib.

packages ......__ 2 40
COD FISH
Middiles 2 ee 16%
Tablets, % Ib. Pure -. 19%
O68 1 40
Wood boxes, Pure .. 29%
Whotie Cod 2... 11%
HERRING

Holland Herring

Mixed, Keys  — _------ 00
Mixed, half bbls. -. 9 00
Mised. bbis.: 22. 16 00
Milkers, Kegs —~ ----. 110
Milkers, half bbls. _. 10 00
gp eg DBS. 2 18 00

K K, Norway -. 19 50
2 tb pelle 200 1 40
Cut Tunch ooo 1 65
Roned. 19 Ih. hores _ 15

Lake Herring
% bbl., 100 Ibs. --.__
Mackerel
Tubs, 100 Ib. fncy fat 24 60
Tubs, 50 count 8 00
Pails. 10 lb. Fancy fat 1 75
White Fish
Med. Fancy, 100 Ib. 13 00

SHOE BLACKENING

2 in 1, Paste, doz. __ 1 36
E. Z. Combination, dz. 1 35

Dri-Foot; doz.  ...._ 00
Bixbye, Dom 22. 1 35
Shinola, doz. _._._-__ 90
STOVE POLISH
Blackne, per doz. __-. 1 35

Rlack Silk Liquid, dz. 1 46
Black Silk Paste, doz. 1 25
Enameline Paste, doz. 1 35
Enameline Liquid, dz. 1 35
B. Z. Liquid, per doz. 1 40

Rising Sun, per doz. 1 35
654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 80
Vulcanol, No. 5, doz. 95
Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 1 35
Stovoil, per doz. ____ 3 00
SALT
Colonial, 24, 2 Ib. _-.. 95
Colonial, 36- Ie oo 25
Colonial, Iodized, 24-2 2 00
Med. No. 1 Bbls. 2 85
Med. No. 1, 100 lb. bk. 95
Farmer Spec., 70 lb. 95
Packers Meat, 50 Ib. 57
Crushed Rock for ice
cream, 100 lb., each 175
Butter Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 4 24
Block, SO Ib. —.._.... 40
Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 10
24, 10 lb., per bale -... 2 46
35, 4 Ib.,. per bale -_.. 2 60
50, 3 lb., per bale -_.. 2 86
28 Ib. bags, Table .. 42
Old Hickcory, Smoked,
Gato Ws 20
Per case, 24, 2 Ibs. .. 3 40
Five case lots -.-... 30
TIodized, 24, 2 Ibs. __-. 2 40

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Twenty Mule Team

24, 1 lb. packages —-
48, 10 oz. packages __
96. % Ib. packages __

SOAP

Am. Family, 100 box
Crystal White, 100 __.
Export, 100 box —...__
Big Jack, 608 _.......
Fels Naptha, 100 box
Flake White, 10
Grdma White Na. 10s
Swift Classic, 100 box
Wool, 100 box  -_-.--
Jap Rose, 100 box __-.
Fairy, 100 box
Palm Olive,
ava, 100 bo. 8...
Octagon, 120 -........
Pummo, 100 box -.--
Sweetheart, 100 box —
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm.
Grandpa Tar, 50 lIge.
Quaker Hardwater
Cocoa, 72s, box __..
Fairbank Tar, 100 bx
Trilby Soap, 100, 10c

box ~

3 25
4 35
4 00

6 30
3 85
4 00
4 60
5 50
90

144 box i i 00

5 00
4 85
5 70
2 10
3 50

2 85
4 00
7 25

Williams Barber Bar, 9s 60

Williams Mug, per doz.

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Radium, per dos. .... 1 & 80 c=n cases, $4.80 ror case

WASHING POWDERS

Bon Ami Pd, 3 dz. bx 3 756
Bon Ami Cake, 3 dz. 3 25

Perey 85
Climaline, 4 doz. -__. 4 20
Grandma, 100, be .... $ 66
Grandma, 24 Large __ 3 65
Gold Dust, 100s ___-__ 4 00
Gold Dust, 12 Large 3 20
Golden Rod, 24 __-.-. 4 25
wae, 2 Gee. 2. 4 50

La France Laun., 4 dz. 3 60

Luster Box, 54 3

Old Dutch Clean. 4 dz 3 40
3

Octagon, $Gs —....... 90
Rinse, 408 0. 3 20
Rinse, 246 25
ae No More, 100, 10
Thee Ep se 85
Rub No More, 20 Leg. 4 00

Spotless Cleanser, 48,
20 om, 2 3 85
Sani Flush, 1 doz. _. 2 26
3

Sapolio, 3 doz. __.._. 15
Soapine, 100, 12 oz. ~ 6 40
Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. 4 00

Snowboy, 24 Large _. 4 80
Speedee, 3 doz. 7

Sunbrit;, 72 doz —... 4 00
Wyandotte, 48 ____. 4 75
SPICES
Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica ___. @25
Cloves, Zanzibar -_.. @38
Cassia, Canton —..___ @22
Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40
Ginger, African __-___ @19
Ginger, Cochin —__._. @25
Mace, Penang kL 39
Rrved, Ne. ft 2. @32
Mixed. 5c pkgs., doz. @45
Nutmegs, 70@90 _____ @59
Nutmegs, 105-110 _. @59
Pepper, Black ___._. 46
Pure Ground in Bulk
Allspice, Jamaica ___. @29
Cloves, Zanzibar _. @45
Cassia, Canton | @28
Ginger, Corkin 20. @38
Mustard 00. @32
Mace. FPenarg _.__.. 1 3$
Pepper, Black @55
Nutmegs ase @esg
Pepper, W Hite @72
Pepper, Cayenne __.__ @36
Paprika, Spanish __.. @52
Seasoning
Chili Powder, 15c ..__ 1 35
Celery Salt, 07, 9G
Sage, 42 om, 2 90
Onion Salt 1 35
GariG (2 1 35
Ponelty, 3% oz. _... 3 26
Kitchen Bouquet ____ 4 50
Laure] Leaves _______ 20
Marjoram, I oz. ___.._ 90
Savory. | oz ..... 90
Thyme, £ om, 90
Tumeric, 2% oz. ___- 90
STARCH
Corn
Kingsfurd, 40 Ibs. _... 11%
Powdered, bags __.. 4 50
Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 3 60
Cream, 48-2 4 80
Quatver, 40-5 2 07%
Gloss
Argo. 48, 1 Ib. pkgs. 3 60
Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs. 2 96
Argo, 8, 5 lb. pkgs. ._ 3 35
Silver Gloss, 48, Ils __ 11%
Elastic, 64 pkgs. ____ 5 35

Mieer. 46-8 2 8 30

‘Tiger, 50 lbs, . U6
CORN SYRUP
Corn
Blue Karo. No. 1% __ 2 49
Blue Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 3 43
rue Kare, No. 10 _— 3°22
Red Karo, No. £4 _. 2 77
Red Karo, No. 1, 1 dz. 3 81
Red Karo, No: 10. 3 61

Imit. Maple Flavor

Orange, No. 114, 2 dz. 3 22

Orange, No. 5, 1 doa. 4 51

Orange, No, 16 4 31
Maple.

Green Label Karo __ 5 19

Maple and Cane

Kanuck, per gal. =... 1 50
Maple

Michigan, per gal. .. 2 50

Welchs, per gal. -_.. 3 10

TABLE SAUCES
Lea & Perrin, large_. 6 00
Lea & Perrin, small__ 3 35

PeDOP oo 1 60
Rovar Mint... 2 40
Tohasco, 2 027, ........ 4 25
Sho You, 9 oz., doz. 2 70
A=), large 2... 5 20
Aol. ama... ua & 15

Caper. 2 oz. _......-.. 3 30

— a : —_
Zion Fig aa
Unequalled for’
Stimulating and
Speeding Up
Cooky Sales

-  Obtainable from Your _
Wholesale Grocer

Pat Me Cis tse ee tetris Cr)

Baking Industry

Pare Met Tray

 

TEA

Japan
Méediugy 2.2.2). | 27@33
Chotee (i: _.. 37@46
Waney 2 54@59
No. t NinDS 54
L ib. pre. Sifting __.... 13

Gunpowder

Crelce 40
Raney 220. 47

Ceylon

Pekoe, medium __...... 57
English Breakfast

Congou, Medium —__..__ 28

Congou, Choice ____ 35@36

Congou, Fancy __.. 42@4?
Oolong

Medium _.... See ese =

Ghee 40

MAaNCY 50
TWINE

Cotton, 3 ply cone _.. 40

Cotton, 3 ply pails _... 42

Wool G aly ..... . 18
VINEGAR

Cider, 40 Grain 26

White Wine, 80 grain__ 25
White Wine, 40 grain_. 19
WICKING
No. 0, per gross .___. 75
No. f, per grosa ____ ‘ts 25
No. 2, per gross __.. 1 50
ING. 3, per grogs __. 3 06
Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Rochester, No. 2, doz. 650
Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
Rayo, per doz. _____ 75
WOODENWARE
Baskets

Bushels, narrow band,
wire handles  ___.__ 75
Bushels, narrow band,
wood handles ____.- 1 80
Market, drop handle. 90
Market, single handle. 95
Market, extra __...... 3 60
Splint. large ... 8 50
Splint, medium  ____-- 7 50
Splint, small... 6 50
Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each __ 2 40
Barrel, 10 gal., each_. 2 55
$ to 6 gal, per gal. .. 16
Pails
10 qt. Galvanized ___. 2 50
12 qt. Galvanized ._.. 2 75
14 qt. Galvanized _... 3 25
12 qt. Flaring Gal. Ir. 5 00
IQ qt. Tin Dairy =... @ ¢¢
Traps
Mouse, Wood, 4 holes. 60
Mouse, wood, 6 holes. 70
Mouse, tin, & holes _. 65
Hat, wodd@ 0. 1 00
Rat, (spring 1 00
Mouse, sprig ___... 30
Tubs
Large Galvanized -... 8 75
Medium Galvanized _. 7 56

Small Galvanized .... 6 76

Washboards
Banner, Globe ..... ~~ & §6
Brass, single... 6 00
Glass, single —........ 6 00
Double Peerless ____ 8 50
Single Peerless  -_____ 7 60
Northern Queen —____ 5 50
Universal 40 7% 25

Wood Bowls
1% in. Butter 2... 5 =
i5 in. Hutter 2... 90
17 in, Butter 2... 18 00
18 in. Batter ......... 25 00

WRAPPING PAPER
Fibre, Manila, white. 05%
No. 1 Fibte ec < OF
Butchers D. F. __-... 06%
Kratt 07
Kraft Stripe oe 09%

YEAST CAKE

Magic 3 dom 23. 2 70
Sunlieht, 2 dos: ....... 2 70
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Proceedings of the Grand Rapids

Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, April 11—In the matter
of Fred Marks, Bankrupt No. 3399, a sale
of the assets of t..e estate at auction in
the State Theater Building, in the city of
Kalamazoo, has been called for April 26.
The property is of the approximate value
of $1,500 and consists of barber tools,
chairs, lotions, ete., tor the conduct of a
barber shop. Ali interested should be
present qt the date and time of sale.

in the matter of Gladys Miller, Bank-
fupt No. 3398, a sale of the assets at
auction has been called to be held on
April 27, at Eaton Rapids, in the prem-
ises formeriy occupied by the bankrupt.
The property tor sale consists of a com-
plete stock of furniture and attendant
and kindred lines for the conduct of
such a retail business. All interested
should be present at the date and time
of sale. Information as to the sale may
be had by application to A. Dembinsky,
auctioneer, 114 Cherry street, Saginaw.

In the matter of Frank S. Schlicht,
doing business as Frank S. Schlicht Mo-
tor Co., Bankrupt No. 3157, the adjourned

final meeting has been adjourned to
April 18.

In the matter of Fairview General
Store, ete., Bankrupt No. 3106, the ad-
journed final meeting of creditors has

been adjourned to April 20.

April 11. On this day was held the
first meeting of creditors in the matter
of Leon Bitley, Erl Bitley and Bitley
Bros., Bankrupt No. 3359. The bankrupts
were present in person and by C. Ww.
Benton, attorney. Creditors were repre-
sentea by atiovrneys H. H. Adams and
Jackson, Fitzgerald & Dalm and by Kala-
mazoo Association of Credit Men. Claims
were proved and allowed. The bank-
rupts were sworn and examined witn a
reporter present. M. N. Kennedy was
named trustee and his bond placed at
gz,000. ‘’se urst meeting then adjourned
without date.

Ap-ii 13. We have to-day received the
scheduies, rererence and adjudication in
the matter oi vrus Brenton Cress, Bank-
rupt No. 3469. ‘tne bankrupt is a resi-
dent of Belding, and his occupation i:
that of a laborer. ‘1: e matter has been
referred to (naries B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. ‘i.e schedules show assets
of none with liabilities of $453.44. Tre
court has written itor funds and upon
receipt of the same the first meeting of
creditors will be caitled and note of same
made herein. The list of creditors of
said bankrupt is as rollows:

Dr © Smits, Laasins LS F700
ry A. Rowse tansine =. eS
Cahill Coai Co., Lansing _________. 12.50
Rudy Westmeyer, Toledo -__-___-_ 20.00

Caroline C.amiperlin E3t., Lansing 194.11

Brices Coal Co... Lansing 5.50
North Lansing Coal Co., Lansing_. 2v.50
Lansing Dairy Co., Lansing ____.__ 9.00
Dr. Fred L. >ezer. Lansing —_.... 5.00

April 13. We have to-day received the

schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Gysbe:tus Jonn Biekema,
3ankrupt No. 3410. Tne matter has been
referred to Char.es B. Blair, as referee
in bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of Kalamazoo, and his occupation
was that of a dry goods merchant, and
now a sSailes.nan. ‘ihe schedules show
assets of 92,104.09 of which $1,240 is
claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$2,567.59. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of the same the first
iscetin, of creutors will be called, and
note o. the same will be made herein.
The list of creditors of said bankrupt is
as follows:
Kalamazoo Loan Co., Kalamazoo__$ 95.82
Grinnell Bros., Kalamazoo ______ 320.03
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., Chica. 1,541.92
Johnson Paper & Supply Co.,

Realise «ok ie
Arend Wolteresom, Kalamazoo __ 129.3
Dr. Benj. Nibbelin, Kalamazoo __ 60.50
B. J. scamidt, malamazoo __.._.. 33.25
Union Coal Co., Kalamazoo ___._. 21.50
Dewey A. Hinckley, tralamazoo__ 60.00
Albert Carr, Malamazoo —2.. 2... 30.00
Fred Ransler, Kalamazoo _.___.___ 17.00
South Side Lumber & Fuel Co.,

Mammneoo ee 8.50
Mrs. Cornelius Smith, Kalamazoo 12.09
James Wilson, Kalamazoo _____-__- 8.80
Don FE... Moe; Kalamazoo _......____ 7.15
Chambers & Lowe Co., Kalamazoo 13.61
John Feindt, Kalamazoo _....____.._ 55.00

Schust Biscuit Co., Saginaw _____. 136.00

April 13. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and aljudication in
the matter of Edward J. Hervey, Bank-
rupt No. 3411. The matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Grand Rapids, and his occupation is
that of a jeweler. The schedules show
assets of $354 of which $250 is claimed
as exempt. with liabilities of $745.77. The
court bas writt<«n for funds and upon re-

 

ceipt of the same the first meeting of
creditors will be called, and note of the
same raile herein. The list of creditors

Fred Bidgood, Grand Rapids ___-_~ $121.00
of said bankrupt is as follows:

Henry T. Heald, Grand Rapids __ 140.00
Klingman Estate, Grand Ranids __ 50.00
K. K. Crystal Co., New York .. 97.40
Swart Child & Co., Chicago ----_- 55.83
American Optical Co., Chicago -_ 1.05
Newall Mfg. Co., Chicago ------. 30.69

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

M. J. Lampert & Sons, New York 98.7
C. HW. Knignt, Chicago .....-.... 12.41
L. H. Keller Co., New York __-- 88.22
Franz & Bailey, Grand Rapids -_ 24.60
Herald Pub. Co., Grand Rapids __ 7.50
Dr. Ralph Allen, Grand Rapids 6.00
E. Stahr, Grand Rapids —..._-___. 3.65
Mich. Bell Tel. Co., Grand Rapids 4.02
G. R. Dis. Co., Grand Rapids ____ 4.68

April 2 (delayed). On this day was

held the final meeting of creditors in the
matter of Clarence Clark. Bankrupt No.

3122. The bankrupt was not present or
represented. No creditors were present.

The trustee was not present. Claims
were proved and ailowed. The final re-
port and account of the trustee was ap-
proved and allowed. An order was made
for the payment of expenses of adminis-
tration, as far as the funds on hand will
permit. No dividends can be paid. No
objections were made to the discharge
of the bankrupt. The final meeting of
ereditors then adjourned without date,
and the case will be closed and returned
to the district court as a case without
assets over and above expenses.

On this day also was held the final
meeting of creditors in the matter of
John L. Oom, Bankrupt No. 3244. The
bankrupt was not present or represented.
The trustee was present in person. The

trustee’s final report and account was
approved and allowed. An order was
made for the payment of expenses of
administration, as far as the funds on

hand permitted. No dividends were de-
clared. The final meeting then adjourned
without date and the case will be closed
and returned to the distrirt court in due
eourse. No objections were made to the
discharge of the bankrupt.

In the matter of South Haven Produce
Co. and Franklin De Cook and Willis De
Cook and De Cook Bros., Bankrupt No.
3403, the funds for the first meeting have
been received and such meeting has been
ealled for May 2.

In the matter of Gysbertus John Dieke-
ma, Bankrupt No. 3410, the funds for the
first meeting have been received and
such meeting has been called for April 30.

In the matter of Charles W. Carr,
Bankrupt No. 341, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meetiny has been called for April 30.

In the matter of Sam Ray, Bankrupt
No. 3406, the funds for the first meeting
have been received and such meeting has
been called for April 30.

In the matter of Edward J. Hervey,
Bankrupt No. 3411, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for April 30.

In tne matter of William Rudolph,
Bankrupt No. 3391, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for April 30.

Marcn 22 (delayed). On this day was
held the sale of assets of the matter of
Harry C. Knight, Bankrupt No. 3353.
The bankrupt was not present or repre-
sented. The trustee was represented.
The auctioneer was present in person.
The stock, fixtures, furniture, truck and
equity only in the cash register was sold
to H. H. Bruner, of Baroda, for $255.
The sale was confirmed and the meeting
adjourned without date.

April 16. We have to-day received the
reference and adjudication in the matter
of Louis Tucker, doing business as The
Leader Store, Bankrupt No. 3400. This
is an involuntary case, and the schedules
have been ordered filed. Upon receipt
of same, list of assets and liabilities as
well as list of creditors will be made
herein. The bankrupt is a resident of
Dowagiac.

April 14. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Frank C. Wagner, in-
dividually and as copartners witn Lester
Raymer, formerly doing business as Wag-
ner & Raymer, Bankrupt No. 3412. The
bankrupt is a resident of the township
of Portage, Kalamazoo county, and his
occupation is that of a laborer. The
schedules show assets of $310 of which
the full interest is claimed as exempt.
with liabilities of $925.52. The court has
written for funds and upon receipt of
the same, th, first meeting of creditors
will be called, and note of same made

herein. The list of creditors of said
bankrupt is as follows:
Kalamazoo Citizens Loan & Invest-

ment Co.. Kalamaroo —......_. $245.24
Joe Moerman, Kalamazoo ______-_~ 245.00
Syndicate Advertising Co., New Y. 73.08
Viscosity Oll Co., Chicago —.. 50.60
Tide Water Oil Sales Co., Toledo 90.00
American Oil Co., JBCKS0n =... 24.00
Gazette, Kalamazdo 38.00
Alemite Lubricator Co., Grand R. 62.70
Warren Refining & Chemical Co.,

Clee Awe 9.50
S. A. Hopson Co.;: Detroit .. 2. 18.00
Paper City Press, Kalamazoo ____ 5.00
Hathaway Tire Co., Kalamazoo __ 25.00
Michigan Music Co., Kalamazoo__ 40.00

Apri 17. We have to-day receivled the
schedules, reference and adjudication in

the matter of Ernest S. Losey, Bankrupt
No. 3413. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair, as referee in bank-
ruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident of
Grand Rapids, and his occupation is that
of a factory employe. Th, schedules

show assets of $225 of which the full in-
terest is claimed as exempt, with libaili-
ties of $1,924.13.

The court has written

for funds and upon receipt of same, first
meeting of creditors will be ealled, note
of which will be made herein. The list
of creditors of said bankrupt is as fol-
lows:

Chaffee Bros., Grand Rapids ------ $589.25
Rom Dilley, Grand Rapids --~----- 214.00
Baxter & Hunt Hdwe. Co., G. R. 12.25
Donaldson Motor Sales Co., Gd. R. 163.25

Matilda Hilarides, Grand Rapids _. 45.18
Jacob C. Rapaport. Grand Rapids 35.75
Louis Landauer, Grand Rapids ---_ 39.77
Ethel W. Smith, North Park ----~ 19.88

Wm. DanBraber, Grand Rapids -- 165.00

Peoples Credit Clothing Co., G. R. 30.40
Himes Coal Co., Grand Rapids -___ 30.00
F. M. Bell, Grand Rapids -~------ 8.50
Dr. Leon E. Sevey, Grand Rapids 25.00
Dr. John M. Whalen, Grand Rapids 8.50
Spielmaker & Sons, Grand Rapids 8.00
Creston Battery Service, Grand R. 12.00
S. H. Metcalf & Co., Grand Rapids 76.75
Robert Kuns,lman, Cleveland ---- 16.45
Bargain Tire Exchange, Grand R. 39.00
Ideal Coal Co., Grand Rapids —_-_ 18.70
J. Maxim, Grand Rapids __-_-_--- 73.20
William Thomas, Grand Rapids -— 25.00
Dinkels Garage & Bat. Shop, G. R. 16.00
Ray Howard, Grand Rapids ___--- 70.00
William Bellamy. Grand Rapids _~ 52.00
Heyman Furn. Co., Grand Rapids 20.25
Benjamin F. Earl, Grand Rapids__ 60.00
Boltwood & Boltwood, Grand Rap. 50.00

April 17. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in

the matter of Leonard A. Welling, Bank-
rupt No. 3414. The matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as refer,e in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Grand Rapids, and his occupation is
that of a laborer. The schedules show
assets of $75 of which the full amount is
claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$686.77. Th, court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same, first meeting
of creditors will be called, note of which
will be made herein. The list of cred-
tors of said bankrupt is as follows:

A. R. Bloxam, Grand Rapids —_--__ $ 10.00

Henry Pyle, Grand Rapids —_______ 60.75
Cass Johnson, Rockford __________- 30.23
Rockford Co-onerativ. Co.. Rockford 9.75
Riverside Fuel Co., Grand Rapids 20.90
wre. J. x’. Cardwell, Winter Park,
Potties 2 a ee 90.00
Hermitage Garage, Grand Rapids 31.50
Federal Produce Co.. Cincinnati __ 36.45
Stanfield Pharmacy, Rockford _ 5.65
sherwood Hall, Grand Rapids ____ 9.87
Franklin Fuel Co., Grand Rapids__ 10.00

Cc. F. Sears Dry Goods. Rockford__ 3.27

Prang Cr. Dept. Stor,, Grand Rap. 54.45
Fr. C. Clapp, Grand Rapids —_._.... 30.00
National Clo. Co., Grand Rapids __ 11.00
Creston Battery Shop, Grand Rap. — 3.00
Henry Burch, Rockford ___-_______ 12.50
Minch Gros., Rockford _ =. 20.00
Peake-VanderSchoor, Grand Rapids 33.34
Alemite Lubricating Co., Grand R. 6.11

Specialty Candy Co.. Grand Rapids 12.60

R. B. Squares, Rockford __________ 72.00
G. R. Overland Co., Gran dRapids 43.00
Christiansen Ice & Coal Co.,

istama Hapige 35.40
Shipman Coal Co., Grand Rapids __ 35.00

April 19. We bave to-day rec,ived the

 

April 25, 192s

schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Herman M. Timmerman,
Bankrupt No. 3415. The matter has been
raterred to Charles B. Blair as referee in

bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Eureka township, Montcalm county,

and his occupation is that of a marl
digger. The schedules show assets of
$415 of which the full interest is claimed
as exempt, with liabilities of $9,880.70.
The court has written for funds and up-
on receipt of same, first meeting will be
called, note of which will be made herein.
The list of creditors of said bankrupt is
as follows:

County Treasurer, Montcalm Co. $ 70.00
Greenville State Bank, Greenville 2,250.00
Fed. Land Bank, St. Paull, Minn. 930.10

Ole Anderson, Greenville ~--------- 30.00
Cnarles Riley, Greenville. ----_--- 150.00
Meyer Bros., Greenville _--------. 50.00
Commarcial Bank, Greenville ~~~ 250.00
Frank Woodward, Dorr __----~---- 1,000.00
Cc. G. Anderson, Stanton —-------- 1,000.00
co Stine Joni oo 250.00
Roy Siple, Carson City —..__._.--_- 300.00
Sandel Bank, Belding —_-_.-.--~_- 265.00
Swift & Co., Greenville ~--------- 300.00
Mrs. Jennie Hoffffman, Holalnd __ 288.00
Mrs. A. J. Nykerk, Holland —_-__--- 144.00
Mrs. Mary HKtterbeek, Hamilton __ 144.00
George Timm,grman, Hamilton ____ 244.00
Mre: Howe, Orleans: 400.00
Elgin Condon, Smyrna —~-.----=--- 75.00
& F. Staines, lonia -...._--.-. 250.00
Root & Walker, Fenwick ___----_ 75.0u
Belding Mercantile Co., BeBlding 37.46
Manufacture Oil & Grease Co.,
CipveranG 2 ee 59.40
Bank ot Orl.ans. Orleans —_._.-__ 34.11
J. Callaghan & Sons, Greenville. 52.25
Chittick Oil Co.. Greenville -_____ 65.97
Chureh Plumbing Shop, Greenville 22.85

Greenville Lumber Co., Greenville__ 247.16
Consum,rs Oil & Gas Co., Greenville 93.00

Johnson Oil Co., Greenville -__--__--_ 35.00
Henry Jacobson, Greenville -_--._ 43.27
Leroy Favior, Belding 0... 22 33.34
Dr. John R. Hanson, Greenville __ 75.00
Dr. Johnson, Greenville _____------ 53.00
Greanville Tool Co., Greenville ___ 16.00
Patrons Mutual Fire Insurance Co.,
i ee ee 66.46
Dr. Root, Greenville {20.0200 14.00
Unite 1 Memerial Hosp., Greenville 44.00
Dr. Savage estate, Greenvill, ____ 9.50
Wilber Garage, Greenville __ . ~___ 8.85

April 19. We have to-day received th>
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of John Edward Shaw, Bank-
rupt No. 3416. Th, matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Grand Ledge, and his occupation is
that of a farmer. The schedules show
assets of $250 of which the full int,rest
is claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$4.953.18. The court has written for
funds and upon receipt of the same the
first meeting of creditors will be called,
note of which will be made herein. The
Net of creditors of said bankrupt is as
follows:
vittiam C. McGowan,

Lansing —_$725.09

Wisher Gros., Ft. Wayne oo 64.75
E. J. Brooks & Sons, Chicago _-__ 96.00
Berdan Co., Toledo 0 69.00

 

 

 

 

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Due 1946

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Swift & Co., Kalamazoo __-=------ 43.70
Verden Broom Co., Davenport, Ia. 39.40
Dudley Paper Co:, Cléveland _._--- 24.37
Weidler Coffee Co., Cleveland --.. 95.13
Chop, Stevens, Detroit —_=------_ 2 76
Winchell Flotir C0;, Sagifiaw ---_ 26.

Otté Ziégler, Larising __..-------- 23.03
Kent Groeery Co:, Grand Rapids__ 398.30
Steéle Wedeles Co., Chicagd -=.. 47.97
Michigai Fruit Co., Lansing —____ 41.71
Heckman. Biscuit Co. Lansing ~. 36.52
William Yerks, Grand Ledge _-_-1,025.00
G. Li: State Bank, Grand Ledge __ 20.00
industrial Bank, Lansing _____-__ 374.50
Hous,hold Finance Co., Lansing -_ 75.00
Chas. Ewing, Grand Ledge eee 75.00

G. L. Implement Co., Grand Ledge 67.50
Wm. Schavey & Son, Grand Ledge 140.00
Knickerbacker Hdwe. Co., Grand L. 10.50

Grist Mill Co., Grand Ledge ---.-- 10.50
Massey Harris Implement Co.,

rand: Fede) oo 9.50
Mich. Telephone Co., Grand Ledge 25.00
F. N. Monroe, East Lansing Maes 24.90
Lewis Bros. lansing 200) 17.00
Leon oC Neil, Grand Ledge __--____ 173.00
Abcey & Walters, Lansing ~____-~_ 20.00
Chas. Spaulding, Perry ee 144.00
Oldsmobile Co., Lansing ~_--__-_-- 77.63
Barradle Garage, Grand Ledge __. 70.40
Williamston Elevator Co.. Wiliam-

ROC 25.00
R. A. Lumber Cq., Williamston _. 8/.00

Producers Elev. Co., Williamston

Croel Elevator Co., Pottersville é

Lioyd Fuller, Williamston ...-. =. 375. 300
Bert Iedu, Lansing 222002 es 60.00
earl Ridenour, Larvsing 2 ......... 90.00
Claude Jacobs, Lansing ~_...._.- 25.00

April 19. We have to-day received the
sci.edules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Glenn W. Searl, doing busi-
hess as Super Auto Service, Bankrupt
No. 3417. The mater has been referred
to Charies B. Blair as referee in bank-

ruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident of

Muskegon, and his occupation is that of
a laborer. The schedules show assets of
$922.82 of which $575 is claimed as ex-
eupt, with liabilities of $1,617.85. The
court has written for funds and upon
receipt of same, first meeting will be
called, note of which will be made here-
in. The list of creditors of said bank-
rupt is as follows:

Jack Carson, Muskewon -_......- $284.80
luiward Scnhimke, Muskegon ______ 153.00
Paul Wiesie. Muskegon ____-._._. 168.00
Motor Rebuilding & Parts Co..

Muskegon ____- ee nO
Reliable Tire & Accessories Co.,

Misgeon 13.75
Dr. Wolford, Grand Rapids ee 10.00
Donelson Bros., Muskegon —___ ~~ ~~ 46.00

Musk. Mach. & Pat. Co., Muskegon 282.00
Keliable Tire & Access., Muskegon 13.75

Dr. Wolford, Grand Rapids Sa aa es 10.00
Donelson Bros., Muskwecon ..._..._ 46.00
Muskegon Machine & Pattern Co.,
Miuskeron 43.74
Bishop Radio Shop, Muskegon ____ 20.00
Standard Oil Co., Muskegon ______ 10.53
DeVette Oakland Co., Muskegon __ 7.40
Midway Garage, Muskegon  ______ 31.00
Body Auto Saies Co., Muskegon H. 44.63
udBid’s Jewelry, Muskegon ee 33.00
Muskegon Citizens’ Loan & Invest-
ment Co,. Muskegon —o0 470.00

April 19. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Desera L. Charon, Bank-
rupt No. 3418. The matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of. Grand Rapids, and his occupation is
that of a restaurant keeptr. The sched-
ules show assets of $3.050 of which $1.050
is claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$3,469.20. The first meeting will be called
promptly and note of the same made
herein. The list of cereditors of said
bankrupt is as follows:

George Barendse, Grand Rapids __$ 4.00
Commonwealth Loan Co., Grand R. 200.00
Personal Finance Co., Grand Rap. 270.00

tay Watkins, Grand Rapids ______ 32.95
G. R. Kolatona Co., Grand Rapids 13.00
National Grocer Co., Grand Rapids 317.00
Black Family Shoe Store, Grand R. 6.70
G. R. Awning Co., Grand Rapids... 19.27
Post & Brady Co., Grand Rapids 23.60
G. R. Fixture Co., Grand Rapids_. 9.50

Opaline Sign Co.. Battle Creek ____ 15.00
L. & L. Jenison Co., Jenison __-. 59.25
Woodhouse Co., Grand Rapids -..__ 41.28
J. K. Hilton, Grand Rapids  ~_____ 10.80
Plaats Shoe Shop, Grand Rapids __ 12.50
Anderson Shoe Co., Grand Rapids 7.90
Dr. O. H. Gillett, Grand Rapids __ 10.00
Burton Fuel Co., Grand Rapids __ 25.50
Elenbaas Bros., Grand Rapids ____ 45.50
Drieborg & Apple, Grand Rapids__ 55.00
Wilson & Co., Grand Rapids -_._ 25.00
Young & Chaffee Furn. Co., G. R. 7.50
Stanley Strong, Grand Rapids ____ 22.00
Mrs. Geo. Ford, Grand Rapids ____ 300.00
Kent State Bank, Grand Rapids __ 825.00
G. R. Savings Bank, Grand Rapids 436.00
Woodka Bros., Grand Rapids ____ 128.00
X Cigar Co., Grand Rapids 2. 15.00
G. HH: PP. Cigar Co., Detroit —__.._ 3.75
G. R. Gas Co., Grand Rapids -__. 72.00
Consumers Power Co., Grand Rap. 32.00
Hl. Schneider Co., Grand Rapids __ 21.43
Carrick Coffee Market, Grand Rap. 6.80
Lee & Cady, Grand Rapids —__-~-_- 25.95
Consumers Ice Co., Grand Rapids 19.05
Harry Weiner, Grand Rapids -_-_ 26.85
Houseman & Jones, Grand Rapids 32.50
E. J. Smitter, Grand Rapids _____- 41.99

Hobart Co., Inc., Grand Rapids _. 26.63
VandenBerge Cigar Co,, Grand R. 150.00

 

3axter & Hunt, Grand Rapids —. 55:40
Nus Baum Motor Supply Co.;
CAPRIS SOy ee 13: 60

April 17: On this day was held the
first meeting of creditors in the matter
of Charles O. Peters. Bankrupt No. 3294.
The bankrupt was present and repre-
sented by attorney Elmer N. Peters. No
creditors were present or _ represented.
One claim was proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. The first meeting then adjourned
without date. and the case has been clos-
ed and returned to the district court as
a case without assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Harold A. Tanis, Bankrupt No. 3369. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney Theodore H. Elfer-
dink. The creditors were represented
by Boltwood & Boltwood, attorneys.
Claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. The first meeting then adjourn-
ed without date an dthe case has been
closed and returned to the district court,
as a case without assets.

April 20. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication tn
the matter of Harry KE. Brown, Bank-
rupt No. 3419. The matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as referee it
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Breedsville, and his occupation is that
of a farmer. The schedules show assets
of $850 of which $500 iS claimed as ex-
empt, with liabilities of $4,126.49. The
eourt has written for funds and upon
receint of same. firSt meeting will be
called, tiote of Which will be made here-
in. The list of creditors of said bankrupt
is as follows:

Snerro’ & Son, Bangor __.... oo 3 39.00
Bangor Produce Co., Bangor ___.__ 184.50
Arthur W. Wakeman, Bangor ___. 172.00
Bangor Co-operative Assn., Bangor 169.17
CSrar Geim Bameor . 205 0 31.00
Bangor Fruit Exchange. Bangor ~_ 151.12
Sam Wits, Los Aneéies .......... 5.45
Dr. J. A. Schaffee, Bangor 3 125.50
Crover H. Page, Breedsville _.____ 150.00
Etta Bvers, Breedsville ______ ___ 375.00
i. i Waber, Kendalis os 700.00
Chas. Giddings, C hicago cee _. oo..00

People’s State Bank, sooming: lale 280.10

 

Effie Smith, Breedsville oe P4000
John Smith, Breedsville ‘o> S500
Mary Mitchell, B loomingdale. a 446.50
Mb. erin Co. Bansar 2 | 6400
D. ¢. Austin, Dixon, Il. - 250.00
S. H. Chemical Co., South Haven 21.50
Albert D. Hoppin, Bangor ______ 175.00
West Bend Equipment Co.,

West Bend, Wis). 29.65

April 21. We have to-day received the
sche lules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Gerald B. Hoffmaster,
Bankrupt No. 3420. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee
in bankruptey. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of Kalamazoo, and his occupation is
that of a laborer. The schedules show
assets of $545 of which the full interest
is claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$1,106.68. The court has written for
funds and upon receipt of same the first
meeting of creditors will be called, note
of which will be made herein. The list
of creditors of said bankrupt is as foi-
lows:

Ross DeBow, Kalamazoo __________ $185.00
Music Shop, Kalamazoo —-_-.--__ 21.75
bam Folz Co., Kalamazoo ____.._ 20.00
Lucas Coal Co., Kalamazoo ______ 26.00
G R. & I. Restaurant. Kalamazoo 15.00
M.D. Ellis, Kalamazoo... 3 16.00
G. Broekema, Kalamazoo ________ 246.47
Miss N. Somers, Kalamazoo ______ 310.00
Frank Moss, Kalamazoo __________ 8.15
G.. Morrison; Kalamazoo —...... 10.00
Dr. E. Ames, Kalamazoo ________ 37.00
© K. Blain, Kalamazoo 22... 15.00
Wise Hardware Co., Kalamazoo __ 13.85
Parchment Coal Co., Kalamazoo __ 20.00
Hoekstra Sales Co., Kalamazoo _. 9.10
Hayes & De France, Kalamazoo __ 4.00
Ralston’s Grocery, Kalamazoo ___. 65.90
J. E. Welborn, Kalamazoo ________ 15.78
Coffee Shop, Kalamazoo __________ 32.60

April 21. We have to-day received the
schedules. reference and adjudication in
the matter of Chauncery C. Billman,
Bankrupt No. 3421. 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 laborer. The schedules show
assets of $166 of which the full interest
is claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$1,148.10. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same, first meeting
will be called, note of the same will be
made herein. The list of creditors of
said bankrupt is as follows:

Don Farrant, Grand Rapids ______ $230.00
Chaffee Bros., Grand Rapids ____ 513.00
Lillian Anderson, Grand Rapids __ 400.10
James Holloday, Wayland ________ 5.00

In the matter of Floyd H. Taylor, doing
business as Taylor Beverage Co., Bank-
rupt No. 3407, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for May 8.

In the matter of T. S. Sebring, doing
business as Sebring Tire & Battery Shop,
Bankrupt No. 3351, the funds for the first
meeting have been received and such
meeting has been called for May 8,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN,

Another Example of “Try, Fry Again:”
(Contintied from page 20)

tions a fund to Be built tip for Hittiself

out of such earnitigs.

At the end of his first motith, let ini
pay into a special fund $20. Add an-
other $20 next month. If le makes
right arrangements with a banker who
knows what his aim is, he can get 6
per cent., compounded semi-annually.
Let him make his reserve $25 per
month the second year. Compounded
the same way, the fund will be $576 at
the end of second year; yet he will have
retained plenty of capital for expansion
in his business.

The way to make a business grow
sturdily is like the way we make a
shrub grow strong. We clip the buds,
letting the strength go into the trunk
and limbs. We keep a business poor,
scratching for every penny it seems to
need—and it gets strong rapidly.

Let a youtig man fealize that $25
per motith set aside at 6 per cent. com-
pounded semi-atinually will grow to
$25,000 in thitty years, during which
time his $25 monthly contributions will
have totalled only $9,000—to which
others have added $16,000, handing it
to him on a silver platter:

That's how to get money out of
your business. Paul Findlay.

 

Business Wants Department

 

“DO YOU W ANT TO. SELL OR TRADE
your stock of goods, store building, or
other real estate’? Write or see me at
once. John G. Emery, 43 Pearl St., Grand
Rapids, Mich. 831

FOR SALE—On account of illness of
six months, I will sacrifice my cash and
earry market. Located in town ot’ 50,000
population. Any reasonable offer accept-
ed. 1 must sell. Here is a bargain tor
someone. Write me for full particulars.
Address No. 852, ¢/o Michigan Trades-
man. 83

 

 

W anted—Position | in grocery or gener al
store where there wonld later be a chance
of buying Interest in store. Small, hust-
ling town preferred. At present manager
of grocery store. Would be interested in
Store tor sale. State terms, etc., in let-
ter. G. W. Watson, 52 Grove. Grand
Kapids, Mich. 833
For Sale—-Birchlee Cottage—Four lots,
ninety-foot water tront, birch, oak trees.
bishing, bathing, boating. West side
Bear Lake, Manistee county. U. S. 31.
Bargain. S$. Brunk, Eaton Rapids, Mich.
$25
GENERAL STORE—For sale—size 28
x 42, with warehouse 18 x 42, with good
seven-room house, all in good condition.
witn % acre of land, on main gravel
road. Only $4,500 for buidlings and stock
consisting of groceries, shoes and dry
goods, small hardware, and fixtures, all
in first-class condition, at invoice price.
This is within fifteen miles of Grand
Rapids and is a very good proposition.
If interested. come and see me. Jchn

Hage, Grandville. ae Sat
KOR SALE — Established dry goods

store on one of the best corners in Mus-
kegon Heights. Newly outfitted. Will
sell on easy terms. Address No. 828,

 

c/o Michigan Tradesman. 828
FOR SALE—Grocery store doing good
business. Good fixtures and complete

stock. Steam-heated living rooms above.
No chain store competition. Death of
my husband reason for selling. Mrs. M.
J. Flennery, Box 315, Edmore, Mich.
830°

CASH FOR MERCHANDISE
Wiil Buy Stocks or Parts of Stocks of
Merchandise, of Groceries, Dry Goods,
Shoes, Rubbers, Furniture, etc.
N. D. GOVER, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

CASH For Your Merchandise!

Will buy your entire stock or part of
stock of shoes, dry goods, clothing, fur-
nishings, bazaar novelties, furniture, etc.

_ LOUIS LEVINSOHN, Saginaw, Mich. _

Pay spot cash for clothing and furnish-
ing goods stocks. L. Silberman, 1250
Rurlingame Ave.. Detroit, Michigan. 566

FOR RE NT—DRY GOODS AND notion
store wanted. County seat of 2,500.
Splendid location and building, moderate
rent. K. E. Wilcockson, Sigourney, ie

31

AUCTION SALES.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES FOR THE WBSTERN
DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN: :
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
At a Court of Barkruptey held in atid
for said District and Division, at Grand
tapids, this 12th day of April, 1928:
Present: HON: CHARLES B. BLAIR,
Referee in Bankruptcy:
In the matter 6f
FRED MARKS, Bankrupt
Notice is hereby given that purSuant td
an order heretofore made herein, I shall
sell at public auction and to the highest
bidder, on Thursday, April 26, 1928, at 2
p. m.. Eastern Standard time, at the
premises formerly occupied by the Bank-
rupt, in the State Theatre Bldg., Kala-
mazoo, Michigan, all oi the furniture, fix-
tures. equipment and tools of said estate,
all of which is appraised at tne sum of
$1,500.00. The Bankrupt operated a bar-
ber shop.
ABE DEMBINSKY,
Court Auctioneer.
M. N. KENNEDY, Custodian.
Kalamazoo, Michigan.
_—— >

In the matter of
GLADYS MILLER, Bankrupt

Notice is hereby given that pursuant to
an order heretofore entered herein, I shall
sell at auction and to the highest bidder,
on Friday, April 27th, 1928, at 2 a. m.,
Fastern Standard time, at the premises
formerly occupied by the Bankrupt, in
the City of Eaton Rapids, Michigan, all
of the stock, fixtures and assets of this
estate scheduled by the Bankrupt to be
of the approximate value of $3,121.81.
The property consists of furniture, tapes-
tries, household turnishings, ete. , with
attendant fixtures.

ABE DEMBINSKY,

Court Auctioneer.
JOIIN BUNKER, Custodian.
Eaton Rapids, Micuigan.

NOTICE: For further information re-
garding the above Bankrupt Auction
wales, an itemized inventory and apprais-
al will be on hand at the date and time
of sale. The property may be seen prior
to the date of saie by application to the
custodian or auctioneer. Lroperty will be
offered in bulk or parcels to suit dealers.
sales are for cash and subject to confir-
mation immediately by the Referee.

HON. CHARLES B. BLAIAR,
Referee in Bankruptcy.

a
TRUST MORTGAGE SALE.
By order of the Trustee I will seil at
Public Auction to tie highest bidder on
Friday April 27tn, at 10 a. m,,
Eastern Standa.d tiie, all the stock and
lixtures of
WM. K. BROERSMA,
866 Grandville Ave.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Stock consists of ladies’ and children’s
suits, coats, dresses, Sweaters, etc. Fix-
lures consists of show cases, cash reg-
ister, safe and very high grade office
equipment, tables, etc.
Sales are tor casn and subject to con-
firmation by the Trustee.

ABE DEMBINSKY,
Commercial Auctioneer
Saginaw—Phone Riverside 3667W.
EDW. DE GROOT, Trustee,
Grand Rapids Credit Men’s Assn.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Friday April 27th, 1928, at 10 a. m.
>_>
RECEIVERS SALE.

MICHIGAN TRUST CO., Receivers

By order of the Receivers, [ shall sell
at Public Auction on
Saturday, April 28th, 1928, at 10:30 a. m.,
Eastern Standard time, all the stock af

UNIQUE FURNITURE CO.
(Manufacturer)

1020 Hovey St., Grand Rapids, Mich.
Inventoried at approximately $14,000.00.
The stock consists of Bed Room Suites of
the highest type, solid walnut, solid ma-
hogany interiors, fiddle back, maple front,
walnut backs, dust proof drawers.

Sales are for cash and subject to con-
firmation by the Receiver. Stock will be
sold in bulk and small lots to suit buyers.

For further information inquire of'

ABE DEMBINSKY,
Commercial Auctioneer,
Saginaw, Michigan.
THE MICHIGAN TRUST CO.
Receivers
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

Consult someone that knows
Merchandise Value.
GET YOUR BEST OFFER FIRST.
Then wire, write or phone me and I
will guarantee you in good American
Dollars to get you more for your store
or plant of any description.

ABE DEMBINSKY
Auctioneer: and Liquidator
Saginaw, Mich., Phone Riverside 3667W.
Buyers inquiring everyday—

No Sale—No Charge.

mnpeanermanans

 

 

 

 

32
JOHN COODE AT LANSING.

Summary of His Talk Before the
Retail Grocers.

At the retail grocers and meat deal-
ers convention, held in Lansing last
week, National President Coode ap-
peared on the programme for the re-
tailers and, as is his usual custom, he
delivered an address which was
straight and to the point.

Among the things which Mr. Coode
emphasized was the need for a square
deal for the retail grocer, and excerpts
of his talk are herewith published:

I am a service grocer and I have
been in the chain store business, and
I give them credit for being good mer-
chants in many ways, but there never
will come a time when the chain store
organization can take away from the
retail service grocer his place in the
community if he will only make him-
self a merchant. I believe there is a
field and a place for both of us, but the
retail grocer has gone along in an even
channel and has let lots of things get
away from him by his carelessness and
thoughtlessness. But the day and
time has arrived when the people want
to know and have got to know, and
the method of distribution is so differ-
ent to-day from what it was ten years
ago or twenty years ago that it is al-
most marvelous. I can hardly appre-
ciate it myself when I go back twenty-
five years and see the great change in
the distribution of food that has taken
place and what the housewife wants
to-day that she did not think of yes-
terday.

Should the individual grocer become
a part of a chain store system? As
long as the consuming public want to
pay cash and buy cheaper, there will be
chain stores. There are a number of
so-called systems being offered to the
retailers by the jobbing houses which
are supposed to be a cure-all for the
troubles of the retail grocer. But first
the retailer must agree to buy all of
his goods from one house for a definite
length of time. He must paint his
store certain colors. He must permit
inspection of his books by a supervisor
and must conform the conduct of his
business according to certain prescrib-
ed lines as outlined in his contract.

It takes more than colored paint to
make a successful store. A store which
is a success does not need to join a
chain store system, and one that is not
successful otherwise will not obtain
success from this plan. No stereotyped
form of business will fit every com-
munity. The necessary thing is profit
in successful retailing. Personality is
the thing which governs. Success must
come from within your own store and
not from without. A merchant is either
a success or a failure by reason of him-
self. No one can force himself to
succeed if he would otherwise fail.

Now I have another word I want to
say here. People should not be started
in business who cannot buy their open-
ing stock for cash and have enough
capital to finance their business prop-
erly. Credit should not be overextend-
ed to the retailer. It is the merchan-
dise that should be sold and not the
credit. Business should be run on a

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

tsandard of ethics which is good
for the buyer and seller alike.

Another mistake the jobber has made
in the past is financing too many re-
tail grocers. A jobber should figure
whether the retail grocer is a good
moral risk; whether he is honest and
intelligent and capable of making a
success of his business. When a job-
ber sets a man up in business in close
proximity to a man who is successful
and doing a profitable business, he im-
mediately commences to break down
the successful merchant, and he should
look carefuly into the matter of credit.

I believe that the average jobber has
sufficient intelligence to know that
when a retail grocer is out of business
he has lost a most valuable asset, and
I am one of those who are thoroughly
convinced that the jobber does appre-
ciate the retail store if the retailer is
just a merchant who can show and per-
form his function like he should do.

Last and not least and most im-
portant of all, is a reasonable profit.
Profit is the life blood of business, the
thing which gives impulse to the work-
er. We should always work for profit
and not for volume. Profit denotes
the quality of your work and volume
the quantity.

All we want is a square deal. No
man should try to get more than he
is entitled to. My friends, that is all
the individual retail grocer wants, a
square deal, and I say to you, we must
have that, for the consuming public
have got to have their merchandise at
a right and fair price, and, my friends,
that is the way we must go, and the
way we have to go.

I am not fighting any organization
in the world; I am fighting for the
consuming public, that they shall be
served economically, properly and
right: and I believe that the jobber
will have to see the light of day, that
he has to serve that service grocer—
that is the independent merchant—on
the same basis as he does the chain
store, and that has got to be done and
it must be done, and it is up to us retail
grocers to know that we have to be
merchants and we have got to deserve
that close distributing system that the
jobber gives us. We have to pay our
bills promptly. We must have cletn. in-
viting, attractive grocery stores, and do
our business in the right way.

—_+ +> __

When You Buy Goods on Consign-

ment.

The buying of goods on consignment
or with the right of return in case they
are not sold, is a common practice in
the retail world. In this manner, a re-
tail merchant may be able to carry a
larger and more diversified stock, than
he otherwise could carry if compelled
to buy outright.

On the other hand, by consigning
goods the wholesaler may be able to
get his stock in trade more quickly be-
fore the buying public than if he re-
lied solely on out and out sales. The
practice then has much to commend it,
and in many instances may be follow-
ed to advantage by all concerned.
However, a retail merchant should not
overlook certain legal phases of the
subject, because contracts of this kind
are peculiarly subject to after disputes.

In the first place, where a merchant
agrees to accept goods on consignment,
or with the right to return what he
does not sell, the terms of the con-
tract should be clearly understood be-
tween the parties. And, to guard
against after controversy over this
point, it is usually prudent to reduce
the terms to writing.

In the second place, the merchant
should keep each account of this kind
separate, and in such a manner that he
can comply with the terms of the
agreement, in respect to returning the
unsold goods. If this is not done, and
the goods are commingled with other
stock, in such a manner as to prevent
an accounting, the merchant may place
himself in a position to be held liable
for the goods received whether he
wants them or not. The ease with
which a situation of this kind may de-
velop into a costly dispute may be
illustrated by the following:

A traveling salesman called upon a
merchant, and the latter selected mer-
chandise from the samples displayed
to the value of about $3,000. No pay-
ment was made at this time. There-
after the salesman again called upon
the merchant, took back part of the
goods, and received a payment of $500
on what remained. The merchant put
the goods in stock, sold what he could,
and kept no particular account of the
order. Payment was not made for the
goods, and the wholesale firm brought
an action to recover the balance claim-
ed to be due.

Upon the trial of the cause there was
a conflict in the evidence as to whether
the merchant had bought the goods,
or whether he had the right to return
what he did not sell. But under either
theory the merchant had treated the
account in such a manner as to ren-
der himself liable. He testified as fol-
lows:

“When you ask me if the goods are
now mine or Croft's [the seller] I may
say that they are in my possession,
and it is undecided who owns them. I
have been selling them from time to
time. I don’t know how much I now
have left without taking an inventory.
I can’t say whether I have $100 worth
or $50 worth, or how much, without
taking an inventory and pick out these
goods from among other goods.

“These goods are commingled with
our stock, and have been ever since
the goods were put in our cases, and
they have been displayed in our show
cases and shelves and shown to cus-
tomers and sold whenever we could
sell them.”

So there we are. The merchant had
failed to pay for the goods. And by
his own testimony he had failed to
keep an account of the goods, or ten-
der back what he had not sold. On
this state of facts the court in deciding
the case said:

“If defendant [the merchant] had
the option to return the goods received
by him, or any part of them, it was his
duty to exercise such option within a
reasonable time. It is apparent from
his testimony that he did not do so.

“If he retained them after asking
Croft to take them back and sold what
he could thereafter, and was unable on
the trial to state positively what he

 

April 25, 1928

then had on hand, he was in no posi-
tion to insist that he should not be re-
quired to pay for what he had re-
ceived.”

The court thereupon affirmed a judg-
ment for $1,155.44, the amount shown
to be due upon the account. Holding,
that under the evidence of record he
was clearly liable for the unpaid and
unaccounted for balance of the goods
received by him.

The foregoing case aptly illustrates
the importance of reasonable care on
the part of a merchant in accepting
goods on consignment. He may carry
stock in this manner with profit to
both himself and the seller, but, in
doing so, he should for his own pro-
tection clearly understand the terms of
the contract, and then comply with its
provisions in a businesslike manner.
Otherwise, as illustrated, arrangements
of this kind may easily prove a fruit-
ful source of costly after contention
and dispute. Leslie Childs.

—
One Tradesman Gives Pleasure to
Three People.

Muskegon, April 24—I suppose you
know what a fine periodical you edit
and that you receive so many compli-
mentary letters that one more will not
make much difference. However, I
thought you might be interested in
knowing how very much you are ap-
preciated by at least three more read-
ers. My father, now a man of 7/
years, was in the drug business in Port-
land for almost fifty years. He is one
of the three living men who registere:]
in pharmacy in Michigan when the
pharmacy law went into effect. He
advises me as long as I live to be a
subscriber to your paper. He admires
your fearlessness and honesty and
feels you are of untold value to the
commonwealth and wherever else your
paper goes. We save all our old num-
bers and take them to a Grand Haven
patient of mine, a former postmistress
at Ravenna, where she always read
your copies as they came through the
mail. Since leaving there, being ill and
mostly confined to the house, she had
missed the glowing columns of the
Tradesman so, since I found this oui,
I have saved our copies and taken
them to“her once or twice a year, for
which she is very grateful.

L. I. Powers, M. D.

—_a ge
Re-Union of Old Timers an Assured
Success.

George W. McKay, Chairman, has

received eighty acceptances to the
second annual re-union of the Old
Timers Saturday evening of this week.
He hopes to have 160 before the er:l
of the week. The reception will b>
held on the mezanine floor of the
Rowe Hotel from 3 to 6 p. m. The
banquet will be served at 6:30 p. m.
and the toastmaster promises to close
the festivities at 10 o'clock sharp. The
programme for the post prandial ex-
ercises is as follows:

Music—Crescent Trio.

George W. McKay

America—Audience.

Leo A. Caro—Toastmaster.

Rev. C. W. Merriam—Address.

B. F. Girdler—Vocal Solo.

Mrs. Pearl Girdler— Pianist.

Charles G. Graham—Readings.

Reminiscences— By Old Timers,
limited to three minutes each.

2.2.

Howard City—The Jennings Hard-
ware Co. has purchased the stock of
the Larry Hardware Co. and will con-
solidate it with its own.

Chairman.