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Our Heroes

Here's a hand to the boy who has courage
a To do what he knows to be right;
When he falls in the way of temptation,
He has a hard battle to fight.
Who strives against self and his comrades
Will find a most powerful foe;
All honor to him if he conquers—
A cheer for the boy who says “No!”

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ey There’s many a battle fought daily,

The world knows nothing about;
There’s many a brave little soldier
Whose strength puts a legion to rout.
And he who fights sin single-handed

Is more of a hero, I say,
Than he who leads soldiers to battle,
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Be steadfast, my boy, when you're tempted,
To do what you know to be right;

Stand firm by the colors of manhood,
And you will o’ercome in the fight.

‘The right,” be your battle-cry ever,

\ In waging the warfare of life;
; And God, who knows who are the heroes,

, Will give you the strength for the strife.

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store display material he provides to
help you sell his product. Perhaps it
concerns a new or unique use for the
product. Or it may be a customer’s
experience with it. Certainly, if it en-
ables you to interest your customers
more easily, it’s worth knowing.

It may be an old story to you...
but a new one to your customers.

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Cincinnati, O.

 

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ERA OF STATE MONOPOLIES.

From the country of the cartel
the interesting view that the
age of free industry is drawing to a
close and that it will be succeeded by
an era of monopolies under State fran-
and

comes

chise supervision. Professor
Schmalenbach of Cologne, considered
one of the greatest authorities on in-
dustrial economics, is the prophet, and
he upholds his forecast in an interest-
For free industry, he con-
tends that “proportional working costs”
must be relatively important as com-
pared with “fixed industrial costs.’
The former are wages and raw ma-
terial purchases, which fluctuate with
plant operation. The latter
grouped as overhead and administra-
tion

In substance, what he argues is that
the substitution of machine for hu-
man labor has greatly increased the

ing fashion.

’

may be

expenses.

item of fixed costs and has brought
about the race for volume, since to
keep machines idle is so much more
expensive than to keep men idle.
From this point Dr. Schmalenbach
goes on to explain that in the end this
race for volume output and the com-
petition it means will destroy indus-
try and make necessary a regulated
production, which will only escape the
Socialist ideal by still paying its profits
to individuals and not the State. The
cartel period he pronounces as a tran-
sition stage, holding that these com-
binations are failing because
lack competition allow
wastes and inefficiencies.
Considering not only the source of
this view and the experience on which

they

and various

it is founded, special interest also at-
taches to it, of course, because the
conditions described are similar to
those faced by so many industries in
this country. The race for volume is
a very live problem and it has been
understood for some time that the sub-
stitution of machine for human labor
has been as much at fault as the over-
expansion brought about by the war.

Various steps have been taken to
overcome the problem here. Producers
have been urged to eliminate all but

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1928

profitable business. Trade associations,
and particularly the new institutes, are
gathering and furnishing statistics so
that supply may be better adjusted to
demand. Finally, there have been num-
mergs aimed at greater ef-
flency and “stability.”

A solution that is being pressed from
many quarters ‘is that the legal re-
straints on price, production and mar-

erous

ket control should be removed. It ap-
pears to be worth while repeating that
Dr. Schmalenbach considers the cartel
a failure because of the lack of com-
petition. And experience is usually a
better teacher than theory.

 

SEE GAIN FOR QUARTER.

Somewhat less than the usual sea-
sonal letdown is noted in the indus-
tries which have been active, and the
assumption is that the summer will sce
operations fairly well maintained. Esti-
mates gathered by the Regional Ship-
pers’ Advisory Boards for the quarter
just starting indicate that industrial
production should be 6.4 per cent.
above the volume for the third quar-
ter of 1927. These forecasts have been
found fairly accurate, and, in this in-
stance, bear out the that the
dip that started a year ago is not like-
ly to be repeated this season.

The statistics coming forward on
the half year’s operations in industry

notion

prove that reports of a mixed situa-
tion have not been at all misleading.
Even the iron and steel business fur-
nishes a striking contrast in a record
steel output and the lowest iron make
1924. Other variations are con-
stantly showing up, and can be found
not only between industries but be-
tween manufacturers in the same field.
Progressive industry and progressive

since

management are each distancing com-
petition.

With the one addition of the sub-
stantial demand that has come forward
for farm machinery, the desire for new
seems to
have written the industrial record for
the first half of the year.

housing and automobiles

 

SILK, COTTON AND WOOL.

After a brief shut-down which em-
braced all but a small percentage of
mills, the cotton goods industry re-
sumed operations Monday, but on a
limited Stocks are reported
over large, as they have been for some
time. Not only has the market this
problem on its hafds, but fluctuations
in the price of raw material add to
unsettlement and tend to hold back
the buying that might otherwise de-
velop.

In contrast to these unsettled cir-
cumstances in the cotton goods line
is the manner in which the silk indus-
try is forging ahead. The consump-
tion of raw silk in June set up a new

scale.

 

record for the month, and the figures
surprised even the trade. Demand has
broadened out so that selling is not apt
to be so competitive as it would with
business concentrated on only a few
fabrics. Fears that rayon might ser-
iously cut into the market for genuine
silk have proved quite groundless, and
the artificial fiber is also hanging up
new records.

Little activity is noted in the woolen
goods market beyond sales of coatings
to the garment manufacturers. Men's
wear openings will be later than usual.
Wool has been dull, and the market
tends to favor buyers while waiting for
the London sales this week. This will
be the smallest July offering.

 

HAMILTON AND JEFFERSON.

Beneath the splurge and roar of the
bombastic Bowers-speech at Houston
current of condemnation of
Alexander Hamilton and exaltation of
Thomas Jefferson.

There is lack of gratitude and true
understanding in this position of the
keynoting historian. Had it not been
for Hamilton it is very probable that
there
Democratic convention

ran a

National
“key-

been no
to be
noted” to by Mr. Bowers.
Hamilton was largely responsible for
the Federal Union. During the stress-
ful hours of the formation of our Na-

would have

tional Government Jefferson was ab-
sent as our Minister to France. Had
Hamilton failed it is quite conceivable
that only state conventions would be
possible to-day.

Jefferson’s beautiful and_ historic
home, Monticello, offers to Mr. Bow-
notice a mute little ironic com-
ment upon the bone-dry plank adopted
by the Democratic convention. In that
gracious mansion the historian has
found the first dumbwaiter in America.
It runs from Mr. Jefferson’s cellar to
Mr. Jefferson’s dining room. It has
space for just two bottles.

ers’s

 

NOT WORRIED.

A casual remark by Charles M.
Schwab at an industrial conference
that he is “not afraid that politics is
going to hurt business” is worthy of
consideration as the United States
faces another Presidential campaign.

Theoretically and _ traditionally, a
Presidential year is a poor business
year. This belief has widespread ac-
ceptance, although there has seldom
been any very substantial foundation
for it. There have been a few excep-
trons in which politics was the prom-
inent factor. The Democratic threat
at the end of the first Cleveland ad-
ministration to overthrow the protec-
tive-tariff system depressed business
for a time.

But these dangers are largely of the
past. For it is generally recognized

A DESMAN

Number 2338

that the country will not tolerate a
party or a movement which threatens
sound business organization, high
wages and other factors which have
contributed to national prosperity in
recent years.

 

HITTING THE LOAN SHARKS.

One of the strongest forces operat-
ing to weaken the position of the loan
sharks has had little public recogni-
tion. This is the establishment of
loan systems by business concerns for
the benefit of their employes.

Some of these company loan-funds
have been set up and are maintained
solely by the company. Others repre-
sent joint efforts by the company and
the being
invited to contributions to the
fund and the company paying interest
on these contributions. Losses under
either arrangement have been negligible.

In the General Electric Company, to

its emplovees, employees

make

take a single instance, an employe who
has become a member of the relief and
loan plan, to which any employee is
eligible after a year of service, may
borrow from the funds a sum not in
excess of $200. He repays the amount
borrowed by deductions from his pay
without charge for interest.

FACING CRITICAL TEST.

The United States has reached the
zenith of prosperity because she has
held to the high moral standards of

 

her founders. The settlers of Amer-
ica had the vision of free democracy
and Christian standards of life. Is that
vision fading?

Crime, sexual looseness and con-
tempt for law are increasing. There

is bribery. corruption in government,
indifference to the suffrage. Easy di-
vorce is undermining marriage. The
United States is about to face the most
critical test—possession of enormous
wealth. When we and
poor our struggles bred men. Now
that we are steeped in pleasure we are
in danger of losing the simple virtues.
She will

were young

America is sound at heart.

continue Christian. But the people
must consider and choose. Our spir-
itual progress must keep pace with

our wealth and material development
or the United States is headed for ruin.

Experiments are being made in
ondon with a view to applying to rapid
cookery the principle of the new dia-
thermic electrical apparatus which is
now used only medically for the treat-
ment of pneumonia, rheumatism, arth-
ritis and other rheumatic ailments. It
is claimed that recent tests show that
the apparatus could bake a potato in
sixty seconds, broil a steak in thirty
seconds and fry an egg in two seconds.
The apparatus is considered especially
adaptable to cookery because it intro-
duces an intense internal heat.

 

 

2

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

 

Questionable Schemes Which Are
Under Suspicion.

Mecosta, July 10—Just a line to re-
port on two slick shop lifters who re-
‘cently came into my store. One bought
a few goods, while the other walked
out with three $9 silk dresses. They
were well dressed, about thirty-five or
forty years of age, and drove a dark
green car, nearly new. The car was
small, but we could not get the make

or number of the license.
A. A. Pangborn.

 

The Renee Garment Co., of Gary,
Ind., is sending out letters stating that
if women will send it $1.50 in cash to
pay for cutting and binding, it will
send its first smock to sew. Those
who respond to this request and send
in the money are not able to obtain any
reply to their letters.

Regarding this swindle, the post-
master at Gary writes as follows:

The Renee Garment Co. operated a
business in Gary which was not in
accordance with the postal regulations.
Under date of Friday, April 13 the
proprietor was called into the office
for an interview with the inspector
operating in this district and he was
given to understand his business was
fraudulent and he agreed to quit busi-
ness May 1. However, in the _mean-
time local police raided the offices of
the Renee Garment Co. and on April
17 the proprietor signed an order to
me to refuse and return all mail ad-
dressed to the Renee Garment Co.

So ends another one of those work-
at-home concerns whose proposition
promised to be a profitable thing—for
the promoter.

 

“Grape” as a name of a beverage
should be used only to describe a prod-
uct made actually from the fruit of
the grape, according to the terms of a
stipulation agreement made between
the Federal Trade Commission and a
manufacturer of beverages. The bev-
erage made by the company in the
present case was not prepared from
the juice of the grape in such substan-
tial quantity as to be properly repre-
sented or described by the use of the
word “grape,” it was held. The manu-
facturer of beverages agreed to dis-
continue use of the word “grape” as a
trade brand for a product not compos-
ed entirely of the juice of the grape or
the fruit of the grape. However, it
was provided that if such beverage
should be made for the most part of
the fruit of the grape the word grape
could be used with the proper qualifi-
cations.

 

Unfair trade practices in the paint,
varnish and lacquer industry will be
considered at a trade practice confer-
ence to be held with the industry by
the Federal Trade Commission. The
Commission has authorized the hold-
ing of such a conference on the ground
that seventy-five per cent. of the mem-
bers of the industry have requested it
but no time or place has been set.
Commissioner Garland, S. Ferguson,
Jr., will preside at the meetings.
Among unfair practices to be consid-
ered are commercial bribery, adultera-
tion of competitors’ goods, misbrand-
ing and misrepresentation in advertis-
ing and labeling. The Commission has
ip the past disposed of 149 complaints

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

against different members of the paint
and varnish industry regarding one or
another of these unfair practices, and
rinety-one orders to cease and desist
were issued, while fifty-eight com-
plaints were dismissed. Of the fifty-
eight approximately thirty-eight were
settled by stipulation. The remainder
were abandoned because of want of
jurisdiction.

 

Adrian, July 10—I note a complaint
recently made to your Realm of Ras-
cality from a woman whose husband
paid $23 for a course of study for fire-
man or brakeman. When he sent his
money to the Railway Educational
Association he might as well have
stuck it in the stove for all the good
their course would do him, for either
job, as all railroads examine their own
men when they hire them, and they
only require an eighth grade educa-
tion and perfect health. All the in-
formation he got for his $23 he could
have got from any man in engine or
train service for the asking. I note
he must return his diploma to get half
his money back, and for all the good
it is he may as well burn it as it is
absolutely useless.

At the present time nearly all the
men who hire firemen and brakemen
are practical railroad men, and can
nearly judge by looking at a man
whether he will make good or not. All
so-called training associations make
big claims for helping men to get big
paying jobs, which is not true, because
all big paying jobs are held by men
with 10 to 15 years’ service, the get-
ting of which is governed by ability,
fitness and semiority, so how could they
be of any help to anyone?

It is true that on some runs a fire-
man can make $160 in two weeks, but
to do so he must work from twelve to
twenty hours a day, and that means
actual work, not including the time it
takes to go to and from work, which
is usually one and a half to two hours,
and then pay 14 to 20 cents carfare.
There are very few men on the rail-
road who have a regular time to go to
or from work except in yard or pas-
senger service.

When a man is first hired for either
position he has to make from one to
three trial trips to see if he is any
good and get a little insight as to what
is expected of him, and he does not
get any pay for them either. Then he
is marked up on the extra list to wait
his turn out, which may be in eight
hours or two days, depending on the
amount of traffic, weather conditions
or the number of regular men off. All
he can do is stay around home and
listen for the telephone or look for the
call boy to come after him. There are
extra men on the railroads to-day that
have ten years’ service who are only
making $90 a month and trying to raise
a family and buy a home, or else pay-
ing $40 a month rent. At the present
time the railroads are laying off men
instead of hiring brakemen or firemen
and will not hire any new men until
all furloughed men are called back,
which may be in five vears from now.

My advice to young men on the
faims is to stay there if they can make
ends meet and save ever so little. I
krow the boys in the country are not
all sprouting wings, nor in the city are
they all growing horns, but there is a
bunch of sharpers both male and fe-
male in all cities, lying in wait for the
unwary to lead them astray, and then
laugh at them for being fools or easy
marks.

I feel that I am qualified to speak
thus, as I have thirty-four years’ ex-
perience on the Lake Shore as laborer
on the track, fireman and enoineer.

W. A. M.

The writer of the above letter knows
what he is talking about, so far
railroad employment is concerned, and

 

 

   

July 11, 1928

 

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He who serves others best, serves himself best.
Selling Beech-Nut goods—and plenty of them—
has helped many a grocer convince customers that
his interest in their welfare is entirely sincere. The
exceptionally fine character of Beech-Nut foods
brings buyers back for more, to the best interests of

all concerned.

BeechNut

“FOODS OF FINEST FLAVOR”

BEECH-NUT PACKING COMPANY, C ANAJOHARIE, N. Y.

 

WHITE HOUSE COFFEE

The Package of “Repeats”’

‘THE way to test the selling value of

coffee is to take it home and try it,
yourself. See how your own family
lkes it. That is what we ask you to
do with White House.

Give it a thorough test in your own
home, in comparison with any other

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you will push it in your store.

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July 11, 1928

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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his sentiments on correspondence in-
struction to fit men for such positions
are worthy of consideration by those
who are lured by the claims of such
easy money schemes.
—_—+_2-.__
Sears Roebuck To Open Ten New
Stores.

More competition for the retail deal-
er is coming. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
will open ten retail department stores
during the second half of this year, ac-
cording to the company’s plans. This
will give Sears a total of twenty-nine
of these stores, known as class A
stores, at the end of the year, and in
addition the company will open a num-
ber of smaller branches which are
specified as class B and class C stores.

The expansion program calls for the
opening of one class A store in Boston
about the middle of July; two in
Cleveland, two in St. Louis, one in
Omaha and one in Des Moines during
August; one in Milwaukee and one in
Boston early in September, and one in
Los Angeles in October.

The number of class B and class C
stcres to be opened during the next
six months is still uncertain. It is ex-
pected that twenty to fifty of these
stores will be placed in operation, de-
pending largely upon locations, rentals
and other considerations.

As of June 30 of this year, Sears,
Roebuck & Co. had nineteen retail de-
partment stores in operation and
slightly more than 160 smaller stores.
These class B and class C stores vary
in size from a single room and handling
only one line of goods, such as tires
and tubes, to buildings of several
stories and handling almost as full a
line as the class A_ establishments.
The company had only a few of the
smaller stores in operation at the be-
ginning of 1928.

It is not yet possible to obtain sep-
arate sales figures for the department
and other retail stores, but it is under-
stood that a considerable portion of a
gain of $16,372,509, or 12.6 per cent.
in the first six months of this year was
due to the company’s expansion in the
chain store field.

——_~+-+—___
The Ten Giants of American Mass
Distribution.

The ten retail trade corporations
doing the largest amount of business
in the United States through chains of
stores are listed below in order of the
size of their operations. Four of these,
with total sales of $1,107,000,000 a year,
are in the grocery field; three are de-
partment store companies with annual
sales of $376,000,000; two sell $405,-
000,000 worth of goods in variety
chains and one concern dispenses $58,-
000,000 of drug store supplies. These
ten corporations alone distribute $1,-
946,000,000 worth of commodities a
year—approximately 5 per cent. of the
nation’s entire retail trade.

1. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.:
Field, groceries; stores, 17,500; sales,
$750,000,000.

2. F. W. Woolworth Co.: Field,
variety; stores, 1,581; sales, $272,000,-
000.

3. Kroger Grocery & Baking Co.:
Field, groceries; stores, 3,765; sales,

$161,000,000.

4. J. C. Penny Co.: Field, depart-
ment stores; stores, 1,005; sales, $151,-
000,000.

5. S. S. Kresge Co.: Field, variety;
stores, 440; sales, $133,000,000.

6. Gimbel Brothers: Field, depart-
ment stores: stores, 6; sales, $123,000,-
000.

7. American stores: Field, grocer-
ies; stores, 2,000; sales $120,000,000.

8. May Department Stores: Field,
department stores, 6; sales,
$102,000,000.

9. Safeway Stores: Field, groceries;
stores, 916; sales, $76,000,000.

10. United Drug Co.: Field, drugs;
stores, 465; sales, $58,000,000.

stores;

—_+2-<___-

Enquiry Into the Grocery Industry.

On June 1, 1928, the Federal Trade
Commission approved the recommen-
iation ‘that a trade practice conference
be held for this industry and designat-
ed Commissioner C. W. Hunt to pre-
side.

Certain practices have been suggest-
ed for discussion at this conference, as
follows: misrepresentation and secret
rebates; unfairness of different types
of so-called “free deals;” subsidizing
salesmen, other forms of commercial

bribery; misleading statements re-
labeling or advertising of food prod-
ucts; lottery schemes and gift enter-
prises; fraudulent methods of manu-
facture and distribution by irrespons-
ible manufacturers or merchants;
wasteful practices, considered burden-
some alike to tthe trade and consumer,
such as unwarranted cancellations and
returns; discriminatory prices, different
in same or different markets, and sales
below cost for purpose of killing com-
petition or building monopoly; con-
sideration of re-sale price maintenance
legislation.

The date for this conference has not
yet been determined.

Problems Solved By
Growers.

The cranberry is a distinctly Ameri-

Cranberry

can crop whose successful marketing
is worthy of notice in a study of agri-
cultural problems. It is one of the
hardest of crops to bring to maturity.
Cultivation, expensive land treatment
at various seasons, constant vigilance
against insect pests and diseases and
the picking of the harvest by hand
comprise some of the problems of the

growers.

Yet, despite these adversities, 600,-
000 barrels of these berries, represent-
ing an estimated crop value of $6,000,-
C00, have been marketed.

Well, for one

thing, the growers have a strong co-

How do they do it?

operative organization.
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But You Don't!
You can worship God in the woods

 

 

and in the fields—but you don’t, do
you?

You can worship God on the lakes
and on the rivers—but you don’t, do
you?

You can worship God on the roads
in your car—but you don’t, do you?

You can worship God in a different
church each Sunday morning—but you
don’t, do you?

You can worship God in your lodge
or at your club, and neglect your
church—but you don’t do you?

You can worship God by sending
your children to Sunday school—but
you don’t do you?

You can worship God by going to
church and taking the children with
you—but do you?

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Sweet Mixed, Sours and Dills.

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Home Styles, and you and your wife
try them—let your friends taste them
— pass them around the office— that
will give you an idea of their appeal.

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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Bay City—The Martindale Bean Co.
has decreased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $30,000.

Kalamazoo — W. Dross succeeds
Peter Sidorowicly in the grocery busi-
ness at 612 Mill street.

Broersma_ succeeds
J. W. Lippert in the grocery and gen-
eral mercantile business.

Greenville — Fitzhugh H. McNay
succeeds D. M. Ahlstand in the gro-
cery and dry goods business.

Grand Rapids—The Grand Rapids
Trust Co. has increased its capital
stock from $150,000 to $750,000.

Manton—Frank Coleman succeeds
Coleman & Yeager in the confection-
ery, grocery and restaurant business.

Grand Rapids—David Bolp succeeds
Dallas Himebaugh in the grocery
‘business at 408 Turner street, N. W.

Detroit—Bernie’s Snappy Clothes
Shop, 220 Monroe avenue, has chang-
Ford’s 2 Pant Suit

Burnips—John

ed its name to
Shop.

Owosso—The Dickson Oil Corpora-
tion, East Main street, has changed
its name to the Northway Oil Corpo-
ration.

Kalamazoo—G. Vanderbeek — suc-
ceeds John D. Robbins in the grocery
business at 1502 West Michigan
avenue.

Pontiac—The Oakland Lumber &
Supply Co., 702 South Paddock street,
has increased its capital stock from
$100,000 to $125,000.

Grand

 

Rapids—Jos. Goldman, 703
Division street, has sold his stock of
dry goods and furnishings to L. Levin-
sohn, who has removed it to Saginaw.

Muskegon Heights—Malcolm Hoos,
Charles Silk and E. Duffield Wade
have opened an ice cream and confec-
tionery store at 1013 Peck street, under
the style of the Rainbow Inn.

Muskegon—Fire damaged the store
building and clothing stock of S. A.
Silverman, 56 Western avenue, entail-
ing an estimated loss of $4,000, which
is fully covered by insurance.

Lansing—The SKF Air Service, Inc..
401 City National Bank building, has
been incorporated with an authorized
stock of $50,000, $30,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid
in in property.

Alden—The Alden Marketing Co.
has been incorporated to deal in farm
products, with an authorized capitai
stock of $35,000, of which amount $3,-
subscribed and $2,045
paid in in property.

Sault Ste. Marie—Cowell & Burns,
who conduct a chain of clothing and

capital

055 has been

men’s furnishings stores in several
Northern Michigan cities, have opened
a second store here, which is located
at 210 Ashmun street.

Saginaw—The Muir Drug Co., Inc.,
operating a chain of cut-rate drug
stores in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan,
have opened a Saginaw store at 518

Genesee avenue, with E. D. Plummer,-

of Grand Rapids, as manager.
Detroit—The Boyd Shoe Co., 3315
3arlum Tower, has been incorporated
to deal at retail in shoes and apparel,
with an authorized capital stock of
$50,000, $10,000 of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.
Remus—The Remus (Co-Operative

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Creamery Co. is erecting a modern
plant of brick and tile, 60x100 feet in
size which will be electrically operated
and the capacity of the plant will be
double that of the present one.

Kalamazoo—L. Levinsohn, of Sagi-
naw, has purchased the stock of cloth-
ing and shoes of the Kalamazoo Sal-
vage Co., 234 East Main street, from
Nettie B. Wenzel, and will conduct
a closing out sale on the premises.

Marquette—Automatic Utilities, Inc..
has been incorporated to market auto-
matic household and commercial ap-
pliances, with an authorized capital
stock of 500 shares at $100 per share,
$8,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Harbor Springs—The Betty Lane
Shop, of Clearwater, Florida, has op-
ened a branch store in the recently
remodeled Marshall building. Exclu-
sive lines of women’s apparel and ac-
cessories will be carried. Miss I. W.
Carrier is the manager.

Petoskey—The Misses Orrel Negus
and Marcella Meyer, teachers of Do-
mestic Science, have engaged in busi-
ness at 103 East Main street, under the
style of the Silhouette Coffee Shop.
Waffles and special parties by appoint-
ment will be specialized in.

Iron Mountain — The Nicholson
Farm Market, 100 East Ludington
street, has been incorporated to deal
in farm products, with an authorized
capital stock of $4,000, all of which
has been subscribed, $700 paid in in
cash and $300 in property.

Detroit—The Eastlawn Accessory
Shop, 14126 East Jefferson avenue, has
been incorporated to deal in automo-
biles and auto accessories at retail,
with an authorized capitals stock of
$10,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.

Ludington—James A. Rye and Frank
Washatka, proprietors of the Busy
sig Store, are conducting a closing out
sale of the entire stock, having leased
the building to other parties who want

immediate possession. This is Lud-
ington’s oldest department store.
Traverse City—The Burns Grocer

Co. has been incorporated to deal in
groceries and food stuff generally as
jobber and as manufacturers and pack-
ers agent, with an authorized capital
stock of $50,000, all of which has been
subscribed and $20,000 paid in in cash.
Benton Harbor—J. B. Toland has
merged his garage, automobile, trucks,
parts, supplies and accessories business
into a stock company under the style
of the Jesse B. Toland Co., 260 Ter-
ritorial street, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $25,000 common and $15,-
000 preferred, in which amount $23,000
has been subscribed and paid in, $13,-
000 in cash and $10,000 in property.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Jackson—Purchase of the plant of
the American Lady Corset Co., has
been announced by S. H. Camp, owner
of the S. H. Camp & Co., manufactur-
ers of surgical and semi-surgical braces,
supports and corsets. The Camp com-
pany will occupy the building during
August. The corset plant has three

floors and basement containing be-.

tween 65,000 and 70,000 square feet of

floor space. The Camp company has
been located at Jackson, but its old
quarters were outgrown.

—_—-o-e-o
Prohibitions Promulgated By the Fed-
eral Trade Commission.

Unauthorized by the United States
Government the use of the phrase “U.
S. Army” as a brand on shoes is an
unfair trade practice, the Federal Trade
Commission holds in announcing a
stipulation agreement made between
the commission and a manufacturer of
shoes. ‘The manufacturer made shoes
on the Munson last and finished them
to simulate shoes manufactured in ac-
cordance with United States Army
specifications and Government require-
ments. In selling these products the
company advertised the shoes with the
marking “U. S.” and “Army.” The
fact was the shoes were not manufac-
tured under Government requirements.
The respondent agreed to cease and
desist from this sort of misrepresenta-
tion.

Two partners in the business of sell-
ing and distributing men’s shirts signed
a stipulation agreement with the Fed-
eral Trade Commission to discontinue
advertising themselves as manufactur-
ers, when they do not own, control or
cperate a factory. They will also stop
representing that they sell genuine
English broadcloth shirts and rayon
silk shirts when such shirts respective-
ly are not imported from England or
any other country and do not contain
silk, the product of the cocoon of the
silk worm.

“Shrunken” material from which
overalls are manufactured has a definite
meaning in the overall trade. A manu-
facturer and distributor of overalls
labeled his products with the follow-
ing: “The material in this garment is
shrunken to the degree possible by the
mills.” This representation was held
by the Federal Trade Commission to
be an unfair trade practice as the ma-
terial in reality was not what is known
as “Shrunken.” The overall manu-
facturer signed a stipulation agreement
to cease and desist from this misrepre-
sentation.

Unfair use of the term “Norway
pine” or “spruce” is the cause of a
stipulation proceeding between the
lederal Trade Commission and a man-
ufacturer and seller of ladders. The
respondent agreed to discontinue use
of the word “Norway pine” or “spruce”
to designate wood used in the manu-
facture of ladders not made of Norway
pine or spruce.

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Beware of Adulterated Olive Oil.

Food agents of the Department of
Agriculture are continuing to find
cases where cottonseed oil is being
Eranded and sold in such a manner as
tc lead the purchaser to think the prod-
uct is olive oil. Seventeen prosecu-
tions have been ordered by the Bureau
during the past six weeks in a vigor-
ous attempt to put a stop to the fraud.
“The practice of misbranding,” Dr.
Kellogg, director of the Bureau of
Foods, explains, “consists of using tin
cans, having specially designed labels
in attractive colors, the brand names
usually being in Italian, with designs
of pictures of olive trees, olive branch-
es or foreign scenes, all having the de-

July 11, 1928

sired effect of showing the product to
be imported olive oil; whereas; the oil
as a rule is cottonseed oil. In some
cases the labels include in small type
the words ‘vegetable oil,’ ‘table oil’ or
‘cottonseed oil.’ Another method of
defrauding the public is to extract a
part of the olive oil from the cans
properly labeled, replacing with cot-
tonseed oil and resealing in such man-
ner as to overcome any suspicion of
tampering with the cans. The public
is warned against the purchase of these
misbranded products. Pure olive oil is
usually properly labeled as such and
any cans not so branded, but which
have designs and inscriptions purport-
ing the product to be imported, and
which have the words ‘table oil,’
‘vegetable oil,” etc., inconspicuously
shown, may be looked upon as con-
taining cottonseed oil and_ therefore
misbranded.”
2 __
Late News From Charlevoix.

Charlevoix, July 10—C. J. McCarthy
has opened what he calls a_ tourist
headquarters. He has several billiard
tables, two bowling alleys, a lunch
counter and cigar stand in his place.

Mrs. M. E. Gregory demonstrated
health food at Martin Black’s grocery
from July 2 to 7. This week she is in
Petoskey.

The Florence Stove Co., of Detroit.
has a demonstration at the Staley
Bros. hardware store.

H. Cory is back again with his
beautiful line of linen and rugs. He
is located at 223 Bridge street.

David Abdallah, of Cincinnati, has
opened a new store with art linens,
laces, etc, and makes _ trousseau
specialties.

The LaFrance Shoppe, of Chatham,
Mass., and New York, with E. G.
Khoari as manager, is now located in
103 Bridge street. He is showing a
fine line of French lingerie, shawls and
hats.

All sidewalk signs and other ob-
structions have been removed from
Bridge street. This pleases the pedes-
trians very much.

Addie Holley’s gift shop now has a
full line of novelties ready for the tour-
ist trade. She has added an assort-
ment of Cincinnati’s best candy and
expects a good business with tt.

I am pleased to note that the Hallet
Hotel and Inn keep their Michigan
Tradesman before the traveling public.
I found the last four issues in their
reading department. :

Joe Bawenbach, of Alexandria, Va..
who is interested in ‘the Cincinnati
Soap Co., arrived there to-day and is a
guest at the Elston cottage for the
season.

Capt. A. Taylor, of this house,
caught a 3% pound steel head trout
in Lake Charlevoix to-day and we
shall enjoy his catch. :

L. Winternitz.
samireneceeeniap aerate
An Army of Mechanical Men.

In R. J. Wensley’s electrical man,
or “televox,” a machine that carries
out telephone orders, we have an ex-
tension of the human intelligence with
boundless possibilities. One man can
command the services of a whole regi-
ment of Wensley’s automata. His is
the brain that animates them all; they
are but his distant artificial senses and
muscles. He is endowed with a hun-
dred hands to grasp tools and switch-
es, a hundred ears to receive orders,
a hundred mouths to report the condi-
tion of machines in lifeless, remote,
automatic electric stations, all disposed
geographically to suit his purpose, all
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July 11, 1928

Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—Jobbers hold cané granulated
at 6.75 and beet granulated at 6.55.

Tea—The week has brought news
of strengthening of tea in the Eastern
first hands market. The holiday has
interfered with the business from first
hands, but the undertone is undoubted-
ly stronger than it was some time ago.
Prices on this side are being well main-
tained, on account of the conditions
abroad. No special change has oc-
curred in any desirable tea during the
week.

Coffee—The market for Rio and
Santos, green and in a large way, has
worked up a fraction since the last
report. There have been fluctuations
both ways, but the net result for the
week is probably ™%c advance. Mild
coffees remain about unchanged for
the week. The jobbing market for
roasted coffee is practically unchanged,
with a fair demand.

 

Canned Fruits—The trade is waiting
for opening prices on California packs
by the leading canners, expected any
day. Pineapple ‘business has been con-
cluded and more contracts would have
been placed if packers were in a posi-
tion to take on the business.

Canned Vegetables—Peas are one of
the most important packs now before
the trade as the canning season is well
under way. Buyers have the idea that
there will be a liberal if not a big pack
and until they are satisfied as to the
outcome of the season they are inclin-
ed to wait before covering the balacne
of their requirements. Corn is also
neglected and is still weak on current
pack. The only show of strength is on
the part of canners who are withdraw-
ing new corn as they are not sure what
the pack will be as the crop is late and
lias not made a favorable start. To-
matoes have been showing more
strength and both 2s and 3s of full
standard quality cannot bé had for the
inside prices which were current a
week ago. The movement has been in-
creased by the purchase of stocks for
later outlets because of the restricted
acreage, the poor stand and the pros-
pects of a greatly reduced pack on the
part of the smaller canners who are

usually price disturbers.

Dried Fruits—Peaches have attract-
ed but little attention and there seems
to be no hurry to book business at the
quotations which have so far been put
out by packers. No pinch in supplies
is in sight and until the market settles
the local trade prefers to wait. The
prune situation has not reached the
stage where either buyer or seller is
ready to trade. Packers want more
for their packs than the buyer is will-
ing to pay and neither will make any
concessions. The raisin market is
quiet, as packers and distributors are
more concerned with the movement of
old*crop than with the sale of new
goods. Five-cent raisins on the Coast
are admitted to be cheap and it is hard-
ly thought that the market will go any

lower. The association, which has

most of the carryover, thinks that there
will be an upward reaction, as the big
buyers are coming in for their later
requirements in a volume way and

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

their purchases are eating holes into
the surplus. ‘The movement of spot
dried fruits all of last week was routine.
The market is :well maintained as ‘to
quotations and the jobbing- demand is
normal, but there is no heavy trading
for early fall outlets, as sellers are not
willing to make concessions, and buy-
ers are indifferent at the moment. In
a month or so a better movement is
expected, as stocks are not heavy in
the jobbing field.

‘Canned Fish—Alaska salmon is sell-
ing somewhat better on account of
warm weather. Alaska pink salmon is
very active and stocks are light and
the market is firm. Red Alaska sal-
mon is quiet but not. quite as weak as
it was. Chinook salmon, representing
the better grades,-is scarce. There is
a good demand for Maine sardines on
account of scarcity of material, prices
being unchanged for the week. The
pack ought to increase very shortly.
Shrimp is selling in a routine way with
stocks spotty. Tuna is wanted; steady
undertone.

Rice—The market is unchanged as
to the trading basis, but there is a
better undertone, which is more mark-
ed in Blue Rose than in the other
domestic varieties. Stocks of Blue
Rose are being exhausted and it is pre-
dicted that there will be a more or
less bare market in all positions by the
time new crop is available. The South
remains firm, with a narrowing of of-
ferings. Prices there have been ir-
regular in some quarters, as holdings
vary and where a miller has a small
balance he sometimes disposed of it to
clean out his warehouse.

Nuts—Nuts in the shell are quiet
except Brazil nuts, which are being
offered at opening prices by some im-
porters and s. a. p. by others who have
not yet quoted their selling basis. The
Brazil market has been firmer lately
due to the prospects of a shorter crop
than last year, while sentimentally the
situation has been changed by the
trend of the market on competing nuts,
which has been upward. Shelled nuts
have been well maintained and no
weakness has been shown since the
whole line moved upward a short time
ago. Light supplies on the spot and
difficulty in making replacements in
primary markets are responsible for
the change in the situation. More
business is passing in walnuts than in
almonds or filberts, as the two latter
varieties are sparingly offered even at
full quotations. Where they are avail-
able the holder often prefers to sell in
a small way to keep his supply for his
regular customers.

Syrup and Molasses—The syrup
market is easier on account of the fact
that the supply now exceeds the de-
mand. This is the first time it has
done this for months. Compound
syrup is unchanged at the last advance,
with a quiet demand. Molasses is dull
and quiet and will be for several weeks.

Cheese—Supplies of cheese are still
small, as there is a fair demand. The
market has been steady throughout.

Salt Fish—The entire line of salt
fish is uiet, as it usually is during the

“summer, when the demand is restrict-

ed. The better grades of mackerel are
held firm with supplies moderate. The

outcome of the catch along the Ameri-
can shore is unknown but no accumu-
lations have occurred so far. The
spring catch in both Norway and Ire-
land was light this season.

Vinegar—The understocked market
causes firmness, but it hampers trading
which is reduced as the desired grades
are hard to obtain in all positions.

Sauerkraut—Consumption is at a
minimum with bulk packs less active
than canned. The market is steady on
good grades and easy on some of the
poor lines which are being urged for
sale.

Macaroni—The market is steady in
manufacturing and jobbing circles with
ne heavy demand as nearby replace-
ments are considered more than any-
thing else.

Beans and Peas—-Demand for the
entire line of dried beans is slow, with
no change in prices for the week. Dried
peas are hkewise neglected, but un-
changed in price.

2-2

Review of the Produce Market.

Apples—Western Jonathans, $3.50
per box; Rome Beauty, $3.50 per box.

Asparagus—$1.50 per doz bunches
for home grown.

Bananas—5@5%c per lb.

Beans — Butter, $1.65 per Climax
basket for Tenn.

Beets—New, 60c per doz. bunches.

Black Raspberries—$3.50 per 16 qt.
crate.

 

Butter—The market has been doing
its fluctuations recently in very narrow
I:mits. The only change during the
week was an advance of le per pound.
At this writing the situation is quiet,

with a moderate demand. Fairly
steady prices. Jobbers hold fresh
packed at 43c and prints at 44c. They

pay 24c for No. 1 packing stock and
12 for No. 2.
Cabbage—Home grown, $1 per bu.
Cantaloupes—Imperial Valley stock
from California sells as follows:

Vummbos, 495 22000 $4.75
fens, SOG 2000 $4.50
Stemiards = 0 $4.50
PS 1.85

Carrots—Home grown, 50c per doz.
bunches.

Cauliflower—New from Calif. $3.50
per doz.

Celery—Home grown, 50@60c_ per
bunch, according to size.

Cherries—$2.50 per crate for sour
and $3 per crate for sweet.

Cocoanuts—$1 per doz. or $7.50 per
bag.

Cucumbers—Home grown hot house,
$1 per doz.

Dried Beans—Michigan jobbers are
cuoting as follows:

€@ EE Pea Beans = 3) $10.25
bight Red. Kidney ..... 9.10
Park Red Kidney _... .- =. 9.25

Eggs—There has been a good de-
mand for fine fresh eggs during the
past week, and prices have been well
sustained, ‘but the demand this week
is weak. Jobbers are paying 28c for
strictly fresh.

Grape Fruit — Florida commands
$6.50@7 per crate.

Green Onions—Home
per doz. bunches.

grown, 20c

Honey Dew Melons—$2.25 per crate.
Lemons—The upper movement which

always comes with midsummer weath-
er was started. The market is steady

on the fallowing basis:

56G Sunkist 2 $10.00
S00 Sunkist 2.000500 2 10.00
360 Red Ball 2 9.50
300 Red Bal 9.50
Lettuce — In good demand on the
following basis:
Home grown iceberg, per bu. ~---$2.00
Outdoor grown leaf, per bu. _--- .90
New Potatoes—$2.50 per bbl. for
North Carolina stock.
Onions — Texas Bermudas, $2 per
crate for yellow; Spanish, $2.25 per

crate.

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California

Valencias are now on the following

basis:

265 $9.00
He 2. 9.00
70 eee 9.00
OU 9.00
MG 9.00
Oe 9.00
ZOQ 9.00

Red Ball 50c cheaper.
Peaches—Hilly Bell are now in mar-
ket, commanding $2.50 per bu.
Peppers—Green, 50c per doz.
Pieplant—Home grown, $1 per bu.
Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

Heavy fowls 2220090 ee
Eiaht fowls 22200 oo 15c
Heavy broilers 00 0 30¢
Hieht W. E. beoilers =o 18¢c

Radishes—20c¢ per doz. bunches for
home grown.

Red Raspberries—$4 per 16 qt. crate.

Strawberries— Michigan
now in ample
$3@3.50 per 16 qt. crate.

grown are
supply, commanding

Tomatoes—Home grown hot house
are now in market, commanding $1.40
per 7 lb. basket; 6 lb. basket
Cahf. fetch 75c.

Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:

from

Panty 2200 alc
Good =. 19¢
Medi 203 l6c
Poor a a ae 10¢

Watermelons—50@75e for Florida.
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Learn Your Groceries.
Do you know that—
Celery originated in Germany.
That chestnuts came from Italy.
The onion originated in Egypt.
Tobacco is native of Virginia.
The citron is a native of Greece.
Oats originated in North Africa.
The poppy originated in the Easi.
Rye came originally from Siberia.
Parsley was first known in Sardinia.
Spinech came from Arabia.

The sunflower was brought from
Peru.
The mulberry tree originated in
Persia.
Walnuts and peaches came from
Persia.

The horse chestnut is a native of
Tnibet.

Cucumbers
Indies.

came from the East
The quince came from Creet.
The radish is a native of China and
Japan.
Peas are of Egyptian origin.

 

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6

When On Your Way, See Onaway.

Onaway, July 10—An achievement
that Onaway may well be proud of
was successfully accomplished June 28.
The big annual road bee, supervised
by Vern Tran and sponsored by the
community council, made a _ record
surpassing that of last vear by gravel-
mg North Elm street its entire length
from State street to the Hankey ele-
vator. It was a sight to behold. From
5:30 a. m., when John Smiley secured
first prize by delivering the first load,
until 7 p. m., there was
stream of trucks and teams dumping

gravel. Many business places closed.
Farmers came in with their entire
equipment. In fact, hardly a person,

regardless of profession or calling,
failed to respond. The air was full of
shovels and the grading and levelling
proceeded at top speed. Young men
and even small boys, entered into the
work with enthusiasm and worked as
though their life depended on_ it.
asitors from Flint and Detroit be-
came so interested that they could not
resist, but grabbed and did
their share. Then came the big dinner
at the Odd Fellows’ hall, served by
the ladies. Hundreds were fed a won-
derful repast, which included ice cream.
Everybody was welcome and there was
no charge. Same at supper time, after
a hard day’s work.

Liberal cash prizes were given for
the first and last load of gravel, the
one hauling the largest number of

“joker” load, decided by

 

Cos
snoveis

loads and the
number.

Then came the big dance at the
Assembly hall, free to everyone. Prizes
were given for dancing and the old
fiddlers’ contest was a big drawing
card. How the old fellows did fiddle!
Men years old showed the
crowd how it could be done.

Here’s what happened: Signatures
were secured, running up into the
hundreds, petitioning to make the road
bee an annual affair. Sufficient funds,
showing a nice balance in the treasury,
provides a splendid start for next year,
when North Lynn street will be im-
proved in the same manner.

The city commissioners showed their
appreciation by co-operating in every
way with the community
council to make Onaway a better place
in which to live. Tourists who hap-
pened to be in the city on bee day ex-
pressed never having
seen such a display of public spirit.

Onaway celebrated the Fourth in a
glorious manner. A big and happy
crowd. Street parade, children’s pa-
triotic parade, costumes drawing good
prizes, contests, good music, races at
the fair ground and a big dance, spon-
sored by the American Legion, made
Onaway seem like a city of much
larger population.

The tourists are returning, bringing
with them many new faces to enjoy
the Onaway scenery. No sickly hand
shakes from these people, but a grasp
that indicates sincerity and genuine-
ness; that’s what we like.

Souvenir post cards, written in our
places of business by our visitors, carry
such expressions as this: “Wonderful
ccuntry, great scenery, good fishing,
excellent drinking water, fine camping
accommodations, great atmosphere for
sleeping, courteous treatment and ac-
commodating people.”

Now, this is no flattery.
ine and they are sincere.

Their first remark in entering is, “I
want to register. 1 registered last

eighty

 
   

 

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possible

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themselves as

It is genu-

year. There’s my name and that of
my friends also and we are coming

again next year.”
When on your way, see Onaway.
Squire Signal.
+ 2. _____
Gas and Oil Situation at
Muskegon.

Muskegon, July 10—RMillions of
cubic feet of gas pouring daily from
the numerous wells along the Muske-
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operation of manufacturing plants and
for cooking and heating in Greater
Muskegon. Pipe lines are being laid
te the field by the Muskegon Traction
& Lighting Co., which in another two
weeks expects to go from artificial to
natural gas.

The change will mark the first time
in the ‘history of the state that a large
industrial city has operated under
natural gas. At the same time, prac-
tically all residents of Greater Muske-
gon will profit directly for the first
time from the oil boom that. struck
Muskegon when the discovery well
was put down last December.

D. J. Powell, general manager of the
local company, says the change to
natural gas will result in a 50 per cent.
reduction in gas prices from the start
Forty per cent. of this reduction will
be represented by the increased heat
units of the natural gas, while a re-
duction in the rates will make up the
other 10 per cent. reduction.

Greater Muskegon is consuming
slightly more than a million cubic feet
of gas a day. It is estimated that 25,-
000,000 cubic feet of gas are pouring
daily from the oil wells along the river.
More wells are being put down daily
and new supplies of gas obtained.

First gas wells were obtained in the
Traverse formations, and it was only
within the last few weeks that the
wells were put down to the Dundee
sands.

It will cost around $40,000 to make
the change in appliances here to use
the natural-«gas. Stove burners must
be regulated and on some new equip-
ment will have to be installed owing
to the increased heat units of the
natural gas.

Previous to the decision of the local
company to go to 100 per cent. natural
gas, some of the local industrials, in-
cluding the Continental Motors Corp.,
were figuring on obtaining their own
supply. It is possible that the Con-
tinental will put down its own wells on
land it owns in the oil field. This plan
is being considered.

Muskegon is shipping 1,300 barrels
of oil daily from the field. However,
many believe that the future lies in the
gas wells and that the big revenue will
come from this source. Eventually
Muskegon expects to obtain exceed-
ingly low-priced gas. At the same
time, outside oil operators are here
figuring on the possibility of supply-
ing Grand Rapids and other cities from
the local field.

—_++-.___
Death of Prominent Detroit Druggist.

Detroit, July 10—Edward C. Kinsel,
pioneer Detroit druggist, whose store
at Michigan avenue and_ Griswold
street has been a downtown landmark
for nearly four decades, died in his
home at 130 Chicago boulevard last
Saturday, after an illness of one week.
He was 65 years old.

Mr. Kinsel was stricken with a heart
attack Saturday near Omaha, Neb.,
during a motor trip to Yellowstone
National Park. He was brought back
to Detroit Sunday.

30rn in New York City in 1863, Mr.
Kinsel received his education in the
public schools there. He came to Mich-
igan in 1888 and established a drug
store, his first business venture, in
Alpena. After two vears in the North-
ern city, Mr. Kinsel came to Detroit
and for three years operated a store at
the corner of Sixteenth street and
Michigan avenue.

In 1893, he moved to a location two
doors from Griswold street on Michi-
gan avenue. At that time he was as-
sisted by a single clerk, William Fraser,
who remained in his employment until
his death several years ago. By then
the business had grown until it was
known as one of the largest drug con-
cerns owned by one individual in this
country. The firm now employs 133
workers.

Several years ago the company was
incorporated with the members of Mr.

Kinsel’s immediate family as officers.
Although the pioneer druggist remain-
ed president of the corporation, he has
not been concerned actively with di-
rection of the business for many years,
devoting his time to his home and to
travel.

In 1897, Mr. Kinsel married Harriet
A. Meyer, of Detroit.

He was for many years actively
associated with State and _ National
pharmaceutical organizations and for
ten years was treasurer of the Ameri-
can ‘Druggists’ Syndicate.

Mr. Kinsel was a member of Pales-
tine lodge, Michigan Sovereign Con-
sistory, and King Cyrus chapter, Mon-
roe Council, Moslem temple. His
clubs included the Detroit Athletic
club. Bloomfield Hills Coun'try Club,
Detroit Golf club, Grosse Pointe Coun-

July 11, 1928

try Club and the National Town and

Country Club.

Hens Pay Light Bill By Laying More
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. Eggs.

Dundee, July 10—The hens on C. B.
Hiser’s farm, near this place, are pay-
ing their owner’s monthly electric light
bills, records compiled from his farm
indicate.

After installing electric lights in his
henhouse last winter, egg production
from ‘his flock of 170 hens soon in-
creased two dozen a day. At 40 cents
per dozen, this meant an icreased re-
turn from the lights of 80 cents per
day or $5.60 per month. His entire
light bill was around $5 per month.

The cost of lighting Hiser’s hen-
house for a few hours a day during the
winter months was estimated at 28
cents per month.

 

 

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Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, July 10—The
homecoming week ended Saturday,
July 7, and was a huge success. About
1000 of the old timers returned to
their old town. They all noticed many
improvements and many changes which
made the Soo more beautiful and all
conceded that for climate and natural
scenic beauty we had it all over the
other places, with the many advantag-
es, fishing, hunting, lakes, rivers, and
surrounded by summer resorts, with
the locks as another attraction and be-
ing situated on the border of the
Canadian shore, which was an added
attraction to many of the visitors. A
good time was had by all.

The steamer Manitou made her first
trip of the season from Chicago July
4, bringing in a large number of home-
comers, from Chicago. She will make
weekly trips during the Summer, car-
rying freight and passengers, arriving
here each Wednesday. This service
will afford an excellent water trip for
the Chicago people during the summer
when they can escape the excessive
heat of the windy city.

The Thomas restaurant, at St. Ig-
nace, has opened for the season. This
is one of the best eating places there.
They specialize on chicken and fish
dinners. Mr. Thomas was formerly in
charge of the cooking on the dining
car service and has attained a reputa-
tion which has made his place of busi-
ness very popular, not only with the
traveling public, but with the local
people as well.

The new brick building being erect-
ed by the Pickford Grocery Co., at
Pickford, is coming along so that it
will be ready for business before snow
falls. When completed this will make
the lively little-town look better than
before the fire.

Since the new Sugar Island ferry
started running many cars have cross-
ed, to be the first to visit this new
island by auto, but found the roads
were not as yet ready to make the
trip around the island. Much of the
road is now under construction. When
completed there will be a sixty-four
mile drive around this beautiful island.
The formal opening of the ferry will
be held August 1.

The Gleason pavilion, at Jordan
Beach, near Brimley, will be open with
its new additions July 14. The dance
floor is 90 by 30 feet and the rest
rooms in the pavilion will be open all
week, with dancing twice each week:
and regular every Saturday night.
This new place is situated about
twelve miles from the Soo on _ the
banks of the river where a cool breeze
awaits the patrons.

A. H. Eddy, the well known grocer,
who retired a short time ago, has taken
up the florist business and is bringing
to market some of the finest sheaves
of gorgeous peonies of all colors, be-
tween white and. red, which have ever
been shown here. Raising flowers
was always one of Mr. Eddy’s hobbies
and he is now thoroughly enjoying the
business.

Hugh McDonald, one of DeTour’s
prominent business men, met with an
almost fatal accident Thursday evening
when returning to his home. The au-
tomobile in which he was riding turn-
ed over on U §S 2 by the breaking of
the steerjng rod. Mr. McDonald’s
skull was fractured and he was im-
mediately taken to the hospital. He is
reported as out of danger and hopes
for his recovery are favorable. The
other occupants in the car escaped
without injury.

An old Scotch proverb: Never be
the first to say, What’s yours.

William G. Tapert.
——_++>__—_
Selling and Buying Groups.

Wyoming Park, July 10—I have
been asked a number of times my
opinion on the various new merchan-

dising plans being introduced in the
State, all of which are meeting with
some degree of success.

We have the R stores, the Alma
group, and others, and, of course, the
oldest group in the State is the Inde-
pendent Quality Service Stores which
are now in more than thirty towns in
Michigan.

To my. mind there is but one gauge
by which to measure the usefulness of
these organizations to the merchants
they serve.

Some think that painting the stores
one color and putting in a few ban-
ners in the window is the thing.

I am not opposed to this, but think
it good for some people.

Others say the merchant must buy
cheaper and so they organize buying
groups and cash-and-carry wholesale
houses. That’s fine, too, but it will
not make a merchant successful who
would otherwise fail in business.

The one big thing these organiza-
tions must do to make better mer-
chants out of their members is to have
regular meetings and gradually but
consistently raise the standards of
their members and put new pep in
them.

Bulletins might help, but they
have to le very well prepared if they
are to be read faithfully, for everyone
knows there is a lot of stuff sent to us
to read, good, bad and indifferent.

To my mind cheap goods, red, green,
or yellow store front, window stream-
ers, etc., while fine in themselves, are
not enough. We have got to have bet-
tex merchants with a new idea of how
to do business.

Especially we must have merchants
who can change their methods for the
new and later ones which are being
skown us daily by different people, not
the least of which is the chain store.

That has been the reason why the
quality service stores of Michigan tad
such success—the weekly meeting.

Paul Gezon, Sec’y.
—_—

Don’t Sign on the Dotted Line.

Ludington, July 10—Activity of two
men, who said they represented a Chi-
cago concern and worked among mer-
chants last Thursday. caused local au-
thorities to make a quiet investigation
as to the bona fide character of the
business in which they were engaged.

At one business house the men took
orders for several thousand coupons
tc be given in trade and apparently
redeemable in certain premiums. After
getting the merchant’s check, the men
left and the business man discovered
that the order he had signed was dated
July 8, which is Sunday. Other ap-
parent discrepancies caused him to
telephone his bank and stop payment
on his check.

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The Seven Arts of Man.

To dress so well that no one will
think about how you are dressed.

To talk so convincingly that pro-
fanity is unnecessary.

To believe in yourself without being
a bore.

To keep the friendship of the man
you have to criticize.

To tell all the truth that needs to be
told and no more.

To play as a recreation and not as a
dissipation.

To earn dividends without working
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Lee Denies Sale of Lee & Cady.

Detroit, July 10—Gilbert W. Lee,
President of Lee & Cady, wholesale
grocers, emphatically denies that any
part of that business is being sold. He
says he has no idea how such a rumor
started, and adds that, on the other
hand, the business is being expanded.
This firm is one of the largest con-
cerns in the wholesale gracery business
in the United States.

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July 11, 1928

 

BUSINESS SELF-GOVERNMENT.

More and stronger trade associa-
tions, organized under proper condi-
tions and with adequate safeguards,
are foreshadowed by recent decisions
and rulings of the Supreme Court, the
Department of Justice and the Fed-
eral Trade Commission.

Ovreproduction, business depression
and unemployment, it is now realized,
are comparable only to disease in the
devastating and far-reaching injuries
that they inflict upon the morals and
well being of the entire Nation.

Whatever will facilitate a closer
adaptation of production and distribu-
tion to the requirements of demand
will serve to bring under human con-
trol one of the most baleful causes of
human unhappiness.

Trade associations are better fitted
for this work than any other human
agenéy.

They have the facilities and the law
gives them the right, so long as they
avoid all unlawful price agreements,
co collect and disseminate statsitics re-
garding production, stocks on hand,
sales and all other trade information
necessary to enable each producer and
distributor to regulate his business with
full knowledge of the condition of the
market.

Trade associations, if they perform
this work in the manner now approved
by the law, can confer upon mankind
a benefaction approximating the con-
trol of disease by modern hygiene.

Business ethics are created, not by
laws, but by the opinion of business
men.

All the laws in Christendom are
powerless to raise the business stan-
dards of a single industry above the
level reached by the preponderance of
public opinion among the reasonable
and fairminded men in that industry.

This truth most people entirely over-
look when they are pushing new legis-
lation to improve business standards.

Business _ self-government, simply
because it is self-government and not
government imposed from an outside
authority, is creating for business high-
er standards and more rigorous en-
forcement than have ever been attain-
ed either by the governmental author-
ities on the courts.

Forward-looking leaders in the busi-
ness world now recognize in trade as-
sociations a long awaited opportunity
for business men, through methods of
trade self-government of their own
selection, to correct a large number of
vexations and long standing trade
abuses.

Between the point now reached by
the law, and the point which the law
in the progress of the courts may
reach five or ten years from now, there
is always a twilight zone.

Through this twilight zone, it is the
pioneers in business and the pioneers
in the law who must blaze the way,
‘for the- business world and also for
the courts, toward those improved
standards of economic and _ business
ethics to which in the long run legal
principles in the majority of cases
eventually tend to conform.

Like everything else in the twilight

zone, this subject abounds in many
practical problems.

Only through experiments of this
character, however, can any advance
ever be made in the development of
business law, and it is a hopeful sign
that at last the more forward-looking
leaders, not only in the business world
but also in official and legal circles, are
to-day enterprising enough occasion-
ally to attempt these experiments, par-
ticularly on those special occasions
when the surrounding conditions are
such as very strongly to warrant such
exceptional measures.

 

NO MORE CABINETS NEEDED.

Continued deermined efforts during
the past three years of the Coolidge
Administration for the establishment
of a Federal Department of Education
makes one wonder whether President
Coolidge, like President Harding,
hasn’t a General Sawyer, who, instead
of bawling constantly for a Depart-
ment of Public Health, asks for a
Department of Education so he can
creep into Cabinet honors as teacher.

If all cur Presidents have little two-
by-four friends for whom they wish to
esablish Cabinet positions tailored to
fit their limited capacities in public
life, we will soon have fifty or sixty
Cabinet positions, among them being

the following Federal department
heads: Religion, athletics, transporta-
tion, superpower, petroleum, hotel

management, Rotary, Kiwanis, brick
layers, carpenters, street cleaners, wait-
ers, cobblers, merchant marine, house-
keepers, stenographers and every other
walk and trade of life. Perhaps if
“Big Bill’ Thompson the Builder had
won recently in Chicago he would
have demanded an Italian pineapple
throwers’ Federal department with 4
Cabinet head such as himself or Len
Small.

Of course. we taxpayers would be
glad to see fifty or so new Cabinet
positions established, so the Hiram
Wesley Evanses, Nelson Antrim Craw-
fords and Jim Luceys may all have
all the honors they do not deserve,
despite the fact it may cost us a billion
or so more in additional taxes. By all
means let us have more Cabinet posi-
tions. Tex Rickard should get some
of his six hundred millionaires to have
him made Secretary of Athletics.

However, speaking seriously, it
would certainly be a waste of Govern-
ment funds to establish a Federal De-
partment of Education when already
every State has such a department.
The discussion only goes to show how
foolish it is in a huge country like the
United States to establish a Federal
department to try to cope with so huge
a problem, when already the states
have broken the educational problem
up into forty-eight sections and are at-
tempting to solve it as it should be
solved—according to the needs of each
State.

A Federal Department of Education
would be an intruder in the field. The
lawmakers in Washington should see
how foolish it is to try to to establish
another Federal department every few
years. Let the President create some
order like the French Legion of Honor
and give his personal friends who seek

honors they do not deserve pretty lit-
tle ribbons and pieces of bronze which
cost nothing instead of Cabinet posts
which costs hundreds of millions.

 

The English Institute of Patentees
has issued 4ts 1928 edition of “What's
Wanted.” This is a contented world.
if we may take the volume as a guide
to human needs. There is nothing
much more exciting in it than the sug-
gestion of a “magazine hammer which
will suply a nail every time the ham-
mer head is struck and drive the nail
in with one blow.”

Other inventions for which pleas are
made include a safety razor blade that
will remain sharp, a fountain pen that
will write in three colors, a silent lawn
mower, a contrivance for filling a pep-
per pot without getting pepper in the
eyes or nose of its operator, an auto-
matic mailing machine which will in-
dicate a letter’s weight and then frank
it when the proper coins are dropped
into the slot and a bus seat which will
give tickets and announce the journey’s
end.

If this list of desidrata exhausts the
ideas of the English Institute of Pat-
entees we most seriously doubt that
its members will contribute to the
scientific advancement of the human
race. The automatization of life has
already gone far enough.

What fun could children have with
a hammer which could not possibly
mash their fingers? What a loss to
suburban life would be the elimination
of the lazy whir of the lawn mower
when some one else is pushing it! And
as for fountain pens, what we really
need is on which will write in one
color, let alone three. Talking bus
seats?) Why not have them forcibly
eject the absent-minded traveler when
he reaches his destination?

If we
must have more inventions let them
be on the grand scale. We need some-
thing which will eliminate the need
of doing any work during the summer
months. We need a weather control-
ler which will keep the cities cool and
the seashore and mountain
comfortably warm.

3ut these are trivial matters.

resorts
The English in-
ventors are wasting their time if they
aim no higher than pepper boxes and
razor blades.

 

 

A MAKER OF GOOD WILL.

The announcement that the Near
East Relief is preparing to wind up
its affairs marks the close of one of
the most remarkable chapters of hu-
manitarian service in the history of
this country. In the past thirteen
years the Near East Relief and the
two earlier organizations out of which
it was born are reported to have spent
altogether more than $100,000,009.
What this has meant to the people for
whom it was expended cannot be
measured in dollars and cents.

In this country the society was able
to dramatize its work so effectively
that generous aid was invariably forth-
coming in its campaigns for funds.
Those parthetic appeals for the refu-
gees—and especially the children—of
the war-torn regions of Eastern Eu-
rope, Asia Minor, Turkey and Russia

would have loosened the purse strings
of a far less generous nation than
America.

Abroad the society carried out its
relief so efficiently that for hundreds
of thousands of Greeks, Armenians,
Russians and peoples of other races it
meant not only life, but life with new
hope and a new confidence in the fu-
ture.

The starving were fed, the sick were
cared for, the homeless were provided
with shelter and the orphans were
given homes on a scale which we do
not believe had ever before been at-
tempted by a single organization. The
society also performed heroic service
at the many disasters which in recent
years have descended upon the Near
East and added their victims to those
of the war. It is credited with having
saved 1,000,000 lives in South Russia.
It has taken care of some 130,009
children in its own institutions.

One significant result of this work
is the friendship and gratitude which
the society has won for this country
throughout the Near East. It has
built up a tremendous reservoir of
good will for the United States.

 

STONE AGE MUMMIES.

If the mummies which have been
found on one of the Aleutian Islands
by members of the Morrissey expedi-
tion prove to belong to the Stone Age,
they will have a great interest for
scientists. Their appeal to the public,
on the other hand, will be limited.

Mere antiquity does not arouse pop-
ular curiosity like  picturesqueness.
Tutankhamen was a late comer by
comparison with inhabitants of the
Stone Age, but the very fact that he
lived at a time when the civilization
of his region had reached a high point
made the discovery of his tomb an
event of tremendous interest. It was
fairly certain to contain objects not
only of antiquarian and historical im-
portance ut also of intrinsic beauty
and value.

Our part of the world is at a disad-
vantage in this respect, although stu-
dents of the Mayan civilization in Cen-
tral America are enthusiastic over the
possibilities of further discoveries there.
We cannot expect to uncover ancient
cities which will rival those of Egypt
in the richness of their treasures. The
objects yielded by excavations in this
hemisphere are comparatively few and
bare.

To the scientist in search of lost
traces of man’s long trail, however,
some discovery made in a deserted
spot in the New World may transcend
all the glories of the Pharaohs. In
that chance lies the lure of archeolog-
ical ventures in the Americas.

 

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS.

Where the weather turned warm,
but not too warm, retail trade jumped
ahead during the week in much the
manner that was expected. When the
heat made shopping uncomfortable
sales suffered. The holiday also cut
into totals, but some of the best re-
sults of the year were reported for the
period just before the Fourth.

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Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

The thermometer was so aggressive
last Saturday that all thought of busi-
ness calls were abandoned except in
the case of a few choice spirits who
gave us cordial greetings, despite the
withering blasts of Old Sol. With the
hot wind from the Southwest a near
approach to Lake Michigan appeared
to be the only resource which offered
relief.

I was told at Muskegon that the
American Light & Traction Co.,
which owns the gas plants at Grand
Rapids and Muskegon, plan to give
both cities the benefit of natural gas
from the wells of North Muskegon in
the near future. Pipe for the Mus-
kegon connection is already on the
ground and the pipe line to Grand
Rapids will be laid as soon as another
gas well is brought in.

It pleases me to be able to chronicle
the fact that both cities are to share
in this wonderful bounty of nature
brought from the bowels of the earth.

Another trip over the scenic high-
way from North Muskegon to Michil-
linda led us to the camp of the Grand
Rapids boy scouts, which is said to be
the finest camp of the kind in the
United States. It is located on the
North side of Duck Lake, about two
miles South of Michillinda, and is
capable of almost indefinite improve-
ment and expansion. The club house
erected by Hon. Wm. Alden Smith in
memory of his son, the late Wm.
Alden Smith, Jr., is utilized as a mess
room and assembly hall. It is equipped
with piano, radio, ample tables, chairs
and benches, roomy porch looking out
on the lake and has monster fireplaces
at each end. Nothing the donor could
do will be of greater service to boys
than this remarkable gift. Mr. Smith
also assisted in the erection of the
office and commissary which is remote
from the club house or memorial lodge,
as the larger building is to be known.

At Whitehall I was told that the
Widoe family, which has been prom-
inent in the business circles of that
tcwn for above fifty years, would
leave Monday for California, where
they will make their home hereafter.
The clothing stock has been closed out
and the building sold. The latter has
been leased to the A. & P. Tea Co.,
which will put groceries in one of the
stores and meats in the other.

I am in receipt of a letter from the
owner of the National Grocer, stating
that he has been forced to make an
assignment and abandon the publica-
tion of the paper; that no paper has
been issued since March and that no
further issues will ever appear.

Announcements of this character are
getting very common of late years, be-
cause few trade journals can face the
increased expenses which have attend-
ed their publication. Rents and wages
have increased four fold since the
Tradesman was established. Paper has
nearly doubled. Nothing which goes
into the production of a trade paper
can be purchased at the prices current
ten, twenty, thirty or forty years ago.
One of the most outrageous increases

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the trade journal has to face is the
augmented cost of postage.

Because of these increases in cost
the publication of a trade journal is
now a precarious undertaking. Since
the Tradesman was established thirty-
five mercantile trade journals have
started and died in the four states in
which the Tradesman most largely
circulates. Notwithstanding this alarm-
ing death rate peculiar to publications
of this class, the Tradesman is more
firmly established in the esteem of the
trade and the estimation of its friends
than at any previous time in its his-
tory.

To be entirely candid, the mercantile
world suffers no loss in the demise of
the National Grocer. With a high
sounding name and large pretensions as
a medium of National circulation and
influence, it never cut any figure or
exerted any influence as a publication
of sterling merit. It never expressed
an editorial opinion which was worth
reading and contained no reading mat-
ter of vital interest to the trade. It
owed its existence solely to an anxiety
on the part of the publisher to create
an advertising following based on the
theory that it was a medium of Na-
tional circulation. I presume that
statement was absoluely correct, be-
cause it might possibly have succeeded
in obtaining one or more subscribers
in each state in the Union. Such a
thing as securing a renewal probably
never occurred, because the publication
was utterly devoid of any contact with
the trade which made it worth reading.

Grand Haven has many wonderful
public accomplishments to her credit,
but the entrance to the city from the
North and East is still very unsatis-
factory and dangerous, because of its
narrowness and poor condition. Grand
Haven is probably groaning under the
cost of the new bridge, but this gigan-
tic undertaking will never be complete
until it is accompanied by a _ proper
entry ito the city, in keeping with the
improvements already made, via
Seventh street. It is very unfortunate
that a proper entrance to the city
could not have been provided for when
the bridge was constructed.

John L. Lynch, the’ sales executive,
has purchased several tracts of land on
West Leonard street, two miles West
of Eastmanville, which he is develop-
ing in his usually energetic manner.
Some of his purchases run back to
Grand River, giving them a water
frontage which will be much appreciat-
ed in the years to come when the
river is freed from the deposits of
refuse and sewerage which are now
poured into its capacious maw from
the cities located on the river. With
the assurance of the State road de-
partment that West Leonard street
will be cemented from its junction with
U. S. 16 through to Nunica another
season, real estate values all along that
thoroughfare are pretty sure to ad-
vance very materially, especially lands
having an available frontage on the
river.

I had a call Saturday from H. O.
Hem, chief engineer of the Toledo
Computing Scale Co. Mr. Hem is
conceded to be one of the most expert
men in his line of business in the coun-

try. Mr. Hem told me what many of
my readers may already know—that
the ordinary water cooled automobile
engine actually utilizes only one-third
of the energy of the gasoline; that one-
third of the energy is consumed in
combatting the water cooling system
and another third goes out in the ex-
haust; that the air cooled engine util-
izes two-thirds of the energy inherent
in the fuel. I have long cherished the
idea that a water cooled engine is the
most expensive piece of machinery in
the world; that air and oil are infinite-
ly better cooling agents for an internal
combustion engine than any other
feature known to the engineering
world and that the time is coming
when the utterly wasteful methods
pursued by automobile manufacturers
will be superseded by more economical
devices. Just because we have a
superabundance of gasoline is no rea-
son why we should waste it with the
wretched prodigality we now employ.
E. A. Stowe.
—_+.—___
Lewis Porter, a Pioneer Grand Rapids
Clothing Merchant.

Lewis Porter was a dealer in men’s
clothing several years before and sev-
eral more years following the close of
the civil war. His store site on Mon-
roe avenue, near Lyon, in recent vears
has been occupied by the Pantlind Ho-
tel. Mr. Porter also made suits and
odd pieces to order.

Barney O'Flynn had no breeches to wear,
So he bought him a skeepskin and
made him a pair
With the skinny side out and the wooly
side in.
“They're nice, warm and nobby,”
says Barney O'Flynn.

Mr. Porter did not line the trousers
he made for customers with the wooly
sides of skins, but with heavy cotton
sheeting. In his day in trade the com-
fortable union suit of to-day was un-
known. Men wore heavy red flannel
undershirts and trousers lined with
cotton to warm their bodies in seasons
of cold weather. Mr. Porter sold paper
collars (a dozen in a box for 15 cents)
and string neckties as wide as a shoe
lace for men. Socks were woven by
hand and shirts were provided with
plaited bosoms.

During the early years of the civil
war Senator Zach Chandler became
active in politics. Congressman Frank
W. Kellogg, of the Grand Rapids dis-
trict, who had been a powerful political
leader, had died and Porter became an
adherent of Chandler’s, ever ready to
respond to the political orders of the
Senator. Porter rendered important
service not only to that individual, but
to the Republican party. In the
course of time Porter entrusted the
management of his store to Col. E. S.
Pierce and moved to Washington,
where he assumed the occupation of
a parliamentary agent — sometimes
called disrespectfully a lobbyist. Porter
had many faithful political followers in
Kent county. “Doc” Ellsworth, of
Lowell, Rev. C. C. Miller, a Baptist,
of Oakfield, Neil McMillan, of Rock-
ford, R. C. Luce, of Grand Rapids, and
A. B. Turner, were among his follow-
ers. Miller was a noisy, vigorous little
radical in his speeches, which were
delivered on many occasions, likewise
in many places. He uttered and re-
uttered the demand expressed in an

9

old war son, “We'll hang Jeff Davis
on a sour apple tree,’ be fulfilled
literally. Not only would he suspend
old Jeff on the lower end of a rope,
but would serve all prominent partici-
pants in the war against the Federal
Government in the same way. Miller
finally obtained a clerkship, through
the assistance of Porter and Chandler,
in one of the Federal departments at
Washington, where he remained until
death ceased his earthly career.

Porter sold his store in Grand Rap-
ids to E. S. Pierce & Co. and became
a permanent resident of Washington.
Chandler President
Grant a commission for Porter as post-

obtained from

master at Washington—a_ profitable
job, which he kept a score of years.
Porter purchased the ground that is
now enclosed by Monroe, Commerce,
Division and Fulton streets and erect-
ed thereon the store and office build-
ing that bears his name. The prop-
erty formerly was owned and occupied
by the Park Congregational church
scciety. The church structure, after
the society sold it, was occupied by
shop keepers until fire destroved it,
after which occurrence the _ present
building was erected. Before the down
erected in
Grand Rapids the Porter property was
considered by many the most valuable

town skyscrapers were

tract of real estate in the municipality.
When Porter died a daughter inherit-
ed the property. When the daughter
died it passed through the woman’s
husband to relatives of the latter.
Finally it was purchased by and is now
the property of Edward Lowe.
Arthur S. White.

——_>-.__

Great popular interest will follow the
intensive study of lightning phenomena
which is to be conducted in Tennessee
by the engineers of one of the great
electrical manufacturing companies.
They have found a mountain which
appears to have a marked and peculiar
attraction for electrical discharges from
the upper atmosphere and where an
average of twenty thunderstorms a
month have been recorded. The ex-
periments will be a continuation of
laboratory work in the artificial pro-
duction of high-tension discharges and
will be aided by the use of elaborate
apparatus developed in the course of
these preliminary studies. It is not
too much to hope that valuable infor-
mation may be elicited which will
simplify and improve existing methods
for the transmission of high-tension
power currents. Whether the elec-
tricians will be able to harness for ter-
restrial uses the vast reservoirs of
energy from which lightning bolts are
drawn is another question.

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OUR GRAVEST PROBLEM.

 

Inefficient Distribution Costs America
$8,000,000,000 Annually.

The wastefulness of our distribution
system is beyond question the gravest
industrial and
commercial community of this country.
The efforts of our business machinery
to make headway with the present
combination of scientific mass produc-
tion and haphazard antiquated distri-
bution is like a modern giant-capacity
truck trying to deliver its load of up-
to-date efficiently produced commodi-
ties by creeping along the highway of

issue now before the

commerce under the power of a “one-
lung” prewar vintage motor.

All the economics and laboriously
achieved savings represented in the
load are completely eaten up by the
flagrant wasteful futility of the motive
power. If distribution is simply mo-
tion applied to materials, as it has been
defined by one distinguished authority,
then certainly much will have to be
done before we can rightfully claim to
be getting anywhere in terms of profit-
able operation.

Our production methods are with-
out equal the world over, with maxi-
output records per worker as
well as per industry in most of the
major staples whereby the industrial
pre-eminence of nations is appraised.
But this is only one-half of the ledger.
It the record is to balance and if we
achieve substantial solvency
during ‘the stress of increasing inter-
national as well as domestic competi-

mum

are to

tion, if we are to survive any tempor-
ary uncertainties which are bound to
occur in various localities or trades, we
must not accept our present method of

operating with complacent satisfac-
tion.
To let well enough alone at this

crucial stage of the world’s business
history would indeed be to invite a

disastrous breakdown with the first
stretch of rough going.
The modernization of our sales

strategy is absolutely essential if we
are to retain our present commercial
supremacy.

Using the calculations of the group
of engineers appointed by Secretary
Hoover to study waste elimination, I
estimate the Nation’s losses from in-
efficient distribution to approximate
$8,000,000,000 annually.

The details of this truly appalling
charge on our National resources and
earning power could be elaborated al-
To take
item at random, the careless adminis-
tretion of retail credits through over-

most indefinitely. a single

extensions, slipshod installment selling
and the like, piles up an annual loss
which has been reliably estimated at
not less than a billion dollars a year.
There is no way of checking accurate-
lv. in dollars and cents, the losses in-
volved through inadequate sales opera-
tions—overselling poor markets and
ignoring good ones; nor is it possible
to appraise or even to guess with rea-
sonable accuracy the losses involved
in scores of other phases of our dis-
tributive processes.

It is alleged, for example, that it
costs too much to distribute commodi-
ties; that the margin between producer

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and consumer is too great; but when
we come to examine the actual profits
of wholesalers and retailers, there is no
sign of any widespread opulence. In
fact, they are pretty well at the bottom
of the scale in terms of business in-
come with an average profit of 2.2 per
cent. in 1925 as compared with 5.9 for
manufacturers and 12.5 for bankers.
Time after time various earnest trade
organizaions have made determined as-
saults upon some phase of the prob-
lem in their special field only to be
overwhelmed by an entirely new de-
velopment in distributive machinery.
Chain stores have expanded unbeliev-
ably and what is more important, they
have gone beyond their original cash-
and-carry principles, bringing them in-
te closer with the so-
called independents. Mail order houses

competition

no longer rely exclusively upon pon-
derous catalogues but are constructing
retail outlets of their own in scores of
cities. Other new distribution factors
have developed in abundance; house
to house
wholesale buying, installment selling,

canvassing, co-operative
hand to mouth buying and numerous
other innovations.

With our entire distributive system
in such a state of flux it is doubly im-
portant that every possible effort be
made to gauge these transformations
and estimate their effects
whole business system. In these days

upon. the

it is vital that every effort be made to
eliminate
sales

item of
The

philosophy of lowering prices so as to

each unnecessary

expenditure. fundamental

increase consumption, of minimum
margins of profits and mass turnover,
which have been so conspicuous an
item in the success of many of our in-
dustrial undertakings, can be applied
with equal effect to distribution. But
such application is obviously impos-
sible unless our distributors match our
producers in the scrutiny of details in
cost and the complete efficiency of
their respective processes.

To-day every prosperous manufac-
turer knows accurately each item of his
costs. But can we safely make the
same statement of our distributors? It
is certainly the exception rather than
the rule for any establishment to have
accurately distributed

by percentages as among its various

its sales costs
commodities or among such items as
warehousing, advertising,
clerical hire, traveling salesmen, mar-
ket analysis, etc.

delivery,

Answering the query, “What are you
doing about it?” which was recently
submitted to a large number of dis-
tressed firms, seventy-three per cent.
of them reported that they were en-
deavoring to reduce production costs,
but only twenty-nine per cent. indi-
cated any efforts to cut sales expenses.
That grave discrepancy tells the tale
of impending tragedy.

Among the 10,300 queries reaching
the department of commerce each day
for business data, the trend of those
dealing with domestic trade problems
reveals the major shortcoming of the
enquiring firms as “blind” marketing—
attempting to sell in territories whose
sales possibilities have not been care-
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sales campaign in a certain state simply
because it was listed as “prosperous
territory,’ ignoring the fact that
eighty-five per cent. of its dwellings
are made of brick and offer at best
enly a moderate potential demand.

Coupled with this is another inex-
cusably wasteful sales method, the
danger of “going national’—of en-
deavoring to gratify the vanity of the
firms’ executives (or perhaps of suc-
cumbing to the allurements of some
high pressure advertising salesman) by
“spreading the line all over the coun-
try.” This is, of course, an excellent
policy for a commodity with deserved-
ly nation-wide appeal, but not so profit-
able in the long run for thousands
which are less favored.

Much good work in revealing the de-
fects of our distributive system
been accomplished by the marketing
research activities of some 540 agencies

has

recently catalogued by the department
of commerce,
trade

periodicals,
banks,
newspapers, advertising agencies, trade
associations, fifty Govern-
But their best efforts,
however thorough they may be, are
utterly fruitless unless they are actual-
ly applied by manufacturers and mer-
chants to their individual sales prob-

including
journals, universities,
and some

mental bodies.

lems. It is only through widespread
publicity, through aroused conscience
of trade the fine service
spirit of National publications, and
particularly the determined pressure of
militant the
land that this grave problem can be
ultimately solved. Julius Klein,

Director Bureau of Foreign and Do-
mestic Commerce.

associations,

consumers’ throughout

—_—_2>2+>____
Why I Am Not Wealthy.

To avoid misunderstanding of what
here follows, we must know what its
One dic-
tionary says it is large possessions of

meant by the term wealth.

money, goods, lands, property, worldly
estate. The wealthy person possesses
a greater proportion of the aforesa:d
than the generality of people.
Whoever then desires to be wealthy
aspires to a higher degree in possession
of property than the average person.
In various other respects people aspire
to excel their fellows. Whether this
is an originally predominant trait in
human nature or whether it is an over-
development we are not sure. Certain
it is that in the home, at school, among
workers and, in fact,
where, efforts are constantly put forth
tc incite the child, the youth, the man,
the woman, to try to outdo others.
these days a

almost every-

In medical practice
stimulant is employed only as a last
resort. But the stimulant of the honor
ot excelling one’s schoolmates or as-
seciates seems to be used to the ex-
clusion of nearly every other incentive.

Now the person earnestly engaged
in amassing wealth may deny that he
aims to be regarded as superior to
those who are not wealthy. But the
natural result of the possession of
wealth is to cause one to realize that
he possesses power which ‘gives him
an advantage over others. Then comes
the test. Will he use the advantages
which wealth gives in ways to benefit

his fellow men or will he use them to

?
oppress, defraud and harm them:

It is an error to think that wealth
and riches are interchangeable terms.
They may be in a limited sense, but
wealth is really insignificant compared
with riches.

A child, a youth, may be richer than
he ever will be in later years, even after
the accumulation of great wealth. The
riches of a child consist in inherent
capabilities, in undeveloped bodily and
The lat-
ter is sometimes termed personal mag-
Then we may say there are
outward riches, such as opportunities,
surroundings and helpful environments.

The wealthy man
manently depleted these inherent rich-

mental and spiritual power.

netism.

may have per-
es. He has exchanged them in their
fullest development for mere wealth.
He has neglected or spurned the riches
of ‘honor, truth,
poor because he can never obtain them.

friendship, respect,
The opportunities are gone forever.
When accumulated or inherited
wealth vanishes these true riches, once
secured, remain. They cannot be
stolen; they cannot be lost through
unwise or unfortunate business

nor by political or

ven-

tures, physical

calamities.
Wealth, like

must be paid for.

commodities,
Men often pay too

other

much for wealth. Besides those en-
during riches just mentioned, men ‘give
valuable time, labor, thought, hard
-arned experience. Yes, and men give
everything of obtain

wealth and never accomplish their pur-

real value to

Life was a game of chance and
they wagered all and got nothing of

pose.

value.

Now, I have not told why I am not
wealthy and can only add a hint. Some
other person might better explain the
matter.

In early years the great aim was to
obtain an education. With only a few
weeks’ attendance at high school and
no possibility of a college course, I
have not yet completed my education,
for wealth has never
deeply impressed me. <Not crafty or
wrote the phrenologist in

and the desire
speculative,”
my head chart more than forty-seven
vears ago, and twenty-five years’ ex-
perience in keeping store has not man-
ufactured those propensities for me.

Still, I believe I could use wealth
wisely if I had it. Good habits are
hard to overcome. For instance, dili-
gence, economy, self-denial, caution in
investments. E. E. Whitney.

—_—_.+.+___

Weather Has Not Checked Felts.

Reports from millienry manufactur-
indicated that the warm
weather has brought an increase in the

ers while
call for larger hats in the higher-priced
lines, there has been no falling off, in
the popular-price lines, in the demand
for close-fitting felts. These
have sold well lately in the better mer-
but white for
The call for
the lower and medium-price felts has
embraced white and numerous pastel
shades. ‘Some
that larger hats in these price ranges
have not picked up more than they
have, due to the greater comfort they
give the wearer on hot days because
they do not set so closely around the

head.

models

chandise, mostly in

sports and country wear.

surprise is expressed

 

Licensed Grocers Soid 40,000,000
Pounds of Nucoa in 1927.

 

Nucoa Sales for 1928 Increasing 56 Percent
It Pays To Own a Federal Margarine License

Every grocer who renews his federal margarine license is getting set
for increased Nucoa profits in 1928.

Any grocer who postpones taking out a license until fall is losing a bet.
Nucoa summer business is a sweet-profit-maker. Besides Nucoa’s in-
herent purity and delicious flavor, which is preserved through all times
of the year, frequent deliveries from the 250 Best Foods distributing
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FINANCIAL

Midsummer Automobile Sales Better
Than Expected.

Detroit, July 10—Midsummer de-
mand for cars continues to be consider-
ably ahead of the expectations of man-
ufacturers and dealers, considering the
fact that many new models are to be
announced before the real fall cam-
paign is opened. New models certain-
ly mean increased sales.

Present indications are that manu-
facturers will get them on the market
at the earliest possible moment, and
several announcements are expected to
be made in the near future.

Cars are more sturdy, better equip-
ped and better to look at than ever be-
fore, while the price trend continues
downward. It hardly seems possible
that prices can be much further re-
duced and maintain the present stand-
ard of quality and equipment.

Last week’s announcement of some-

 

thing new and improved came from
the Studebaker Corporation and Dodge
Brothers, Inc. The former announces
four new lines, while Dodge Brothers
has a new sport roadster in the Victory
Six line.

The Chrysler-built Plymouth models
were given their first public showing
last Saturday. The new
built in six body styles: coupe, two and
four door sedan, de lux coupe, road-
ster and phaeton. In the higher price
field the Chrysler
nounced its new “65” and “75” series

models are

Corporation an-

of fifteen new models.

At the Society of Automotive Engi-
ners forty new automotive standards
were proposed, including eighteen bal-
loon tire and rim sizes, to greatly re-
duce the existing number.

The engineers also condemned as
antiquated and unreasonable the de-
mands of various states for the in-
stallation of two separate brake mech-
anisms despite the
presence of four-wheel brakes. It was
this requirement that delayed ford in
the mass production of his new Model

on automobiles,

A car.

Increasing production and sales by
Chevrolet and ford companies were
responsible for an output of nearly
half a million cars in May, and a cor-
responding number in June, the high-
est outputs since April, 1926.

General Motors sales of cars and
trucks in June will set a new record
for that month, and bring total sales
for the second quarter to more than
585,000 units.

Nash have approximately
25,000 hand for the new
cars, announced a week or two ago,

Motors
orders on

with the three Wisconsin plants being
pushed to capacity production. Sales
of Chrysler cars for the first half will
exceed the total output of 1925, with
an estimated production this year of
250,000 cars.

 

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Emergency Financing By Municipali-
ties Defended.

Issuance of revenue bonds as a
means of emergency financing under
municipal sponsorship has come to be
generally accepted as the proper prac-
tice to be adopted.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

between municipal obligations

ences
and so-called revenue bonds it is well

for the investor interested in these
securities to understand some of the
essential characteristics of bonds is-
sued by public bodies.

A revenue bond is defined in a book-
let on the subject issued by Stranahan,
Harris & Oatis as “a bond which, al-
though issued by and in the name of
a municipality, is not an obligation of
such a municipality, lies wholly with-
out the debt limitation of such city and
is restricted by its terms to payment
solely from the earnings or revenues
derived from the operation of the
utility.”

Obligations issued to finance con-
struction of toll bridges may be cited
common example of revenue

High construction costs and

as a
bonds.
a large percentage of foreign travelers
across toll bridges are factors that sug-
gest the advisability of issuing direct
obligations that do not impose on local
taxpayers an unfair cost.

“For
pamphlet referred to, “a revenue bond
issued by a local municipality, to be
payable out of proceeds of the busi-

these reasons,” says the

ness, presents one of the highest types
of instances which might of necessity
require the issuance of revenue bonds,
ron-operative against debt limitations
and and
protecting the privileges of the tax-

wholly favoring the rights
payers.

“Unquestionably revenue bonds can
be issued only for revenue-producing
enterprises, and the favor shown such
securities by investors should not be
unduly regarded by offerings of issues
primarily sponsoring municipally oper-
ated properties in competition with
private ownership or for dubious en-
terprises the necessities for which are
not apparent.”

The right of a city to issue revenue
bonds in an emergency is defended as
often vital and economical.

“Debt limitations should not neces-
sarily be avoided,” says the firm, “and
it might well be argued that invest-
ment bankers should not seek means or
measures to assist a municipality in the
avoidance of such debt limitations.

“However, an emergency may exist,
for example, in connection with the
city’s water supply, where the neces-
sity for the acquisition of the water
plant or for discovering new sources of
supply are vital to the health of the
city’s inhabitants. In a case of this
kind, where, as a business proposition,
the self-sustaining quality of the utility
is beyond question, the city might rea-
sonably employ this type of security
for its financing, and investors might
logically be urged to consider the high
investment qualities of a quasi-munici-
pal obligation of this nature.”

William Russell White.
[ Copyrighted, 1928.]
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13

 

No Cheap Funds For Business This
Fall.

If this week’s sharp upturn in brok-
ers’ loans indicates a resumption in
speculation the chance for downright
easy money in business ‘this fall is
small.

It turns out that in advancing $147,-
812,000 this week brokers’ loans have
recovered 37 per cent. of the $403,-
000,000 decline in the three preceding
weeks. A part of this upswing doubt-
less represents the usual expansion of
the mid-year period. Responsibility for
the reversal in the trend of loans can-
not be laid entirely to this seasonal in-
fluence, however, for the character of
the market itself has changed in the
last week.

Those who follow the money posi-
tion closely in Wall Street were dis-
appointed to find that so large an in-
crease in brokers’ loans had occurred
with the recent improvement in the
market. Nobody contends that the
country’s reservoir of credit has been
exhausted or anywhere nearly so. The
difficulty connected with a resumption
of the rise in loans lies elsewhere than
in the possibility of an exhaustion in
the credit supply. It lies rather in the
bearing on the price of credit at this
particular season of the year.

If the thorough liquidation in loans
that was under way for three weeks
had continued until it had induced a
substantial reduction in the total vol-
ume of reserve credit, and until it had
enabled member banks to. pay off a
good portion of their debts at the re-
gional institutions, a strong position
would have been presented to industry.

Through such adjustments as were
under way it that industry
might expect the aid of the Reserve

seemed

banks in getting at least reasonable
Certainly the Federal
created to aid
business and it is with the approach of
autumn that the season’s heaviest de-
mands for business funds arise. That
the Reserve banks might turn their

money this fall.

Reserve system was

attention to these needs was at least a
hope so long as the relaxation in stock
speculation was accompanied by de-
clining loans.

What price business will be com-
pelled to pay for its funds in the early
autumn now depends more than ever
upon the performance of the stock
market. If speculation is resumed and
a new expansion in brokers’ loans be-
gins the Reserve officials will have no
alternative. They are too definitely
committed on the evils of the 1928
abnormal growth in credit for them to
make it easy for the market to get
more funds.

Much as the Reserve system would
like to provide cheap money for the
use of business late this summer and
early autumn it will be forced to charge
industry dearly for funds unless ithe
market is willing to give up a portion
of what it now controls.

Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1928.]
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Brighter Outlook For Rubber Stocks.

A great many investors have been
confronted with substantial losses in
tire and rubber stocks this year, and
many probably have wondered whether

it is wise to continue to hold securi-
ties of this industry.

A surprisingly large
amateur investors purchased stocks of
this class around the high levels pre-
vailing early in the year, according to
investment bankers. In the light of
subsequent events it is plain that was
the time to have sold—that is, at the
first hint Great Britain might abandon
the scheme to restrict output of crude
rubber.

Apparently the worst has passed,

number of

however, and market observers are in-
clined to believe a recovery may be
expected in the last half of the year. A
repetition of heavy inventory losses is
not regarded as likely, at least, and
this factor proved the greatest handi-
cap in operations in the first six
months.

In commenting on the outlook for
rubber securities, H. A. Grant, of Or-
ton, Kent & Co., insists this is not the
time to be bearish on rubber issues.

‘He explains the decline in stocks as
a reflection of heavy inventory losses
that must be taken by manufacturers
of rubber goods in the first half of the
year as a result of the drastic price
drop in crude rubber that followed
Britain’s abandonment of the restric-
tion scheme, effective
Moreover, a general downward revision
of about 15 per cent. in manufactured
products has been put into effect. As
a result, income statements for the
first six months are likely to prove dis-
appointing in most cases, he believes.

The collapse of the Stevenson
scheme is regarded by Mr. Grant as
another bit of evidence of the futility
of artificial price regulators. The
Dutch planters, he points out, are the
ones who reaped the greatest benefit,
for they profited by high prices and
suffered none of the inconveniences of
limited production.

“Prospects for the second half of
1928 are decidedly brighter,” says Mr.
Grant.

“From a manufacturing standpoint,
the most desirable condition is to have
rubber stabilized at low prices with a
tendency to firm. Under such condi+
tions manufacturers do not have to
worry over possible inventory losses
and can figure costs with reasonable
certainty.

November 1.

It seems such a condition
exists now.”

A banner year may be expected in
1929, he believes, as a result of the re-
turn to price stability and a great in-
crease in the number of automobiles
for which tires will be demanded. An-
other factor that should contribute to
earnings, he thinks, is increased diver-
sification in manufacture.

William Russell White.
[Copyrighted, 1928.]
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Universal Athletic Co., Detroit.
Petoskey Review Publishing Co.,

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National Pecan Groves Co., Detroit.

Flanders & Co., Muskegon.

Colborn-Fulton Lumber Co., Charlotte

West Side Plumbing & Heating Co.,
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MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE

Hazards We Face in Our Own Home.

Every time I see some one purchase
a short term accident policy to cover
He needs
insurance protection more while right

a railroad journey | smile.

in his own home than he does on a
railway, for more accidentss occur in
residences than on trains. From the
moment he enters one depot until the
time he leaves another, he is protected
by steam railroad employes who guard
him against sneak thieves, fire, insan-
itary conditions, food poisoning, the
possibility of tripping over baggage in
the Pullman cars and collisions. Mil-
lions of dollars are spent by the lines
to safeguard their passengers. Every
possible safety device, appliance and
method known to insure safety for
both passengers and crew have been
adopted.

As vou enter your own home you
unconsciously face a hundred hazards.
There is no paid, trained, alert army
of safety engineers, inspectors and em-
ployees in the average dwelling. When
the tired business man gets home he is
too weary to be concerned over the
possible perils in the one place which
he has always regarded as a haven
of peace, safety and refuge.

The old fashioned expressicn “safe
Statistics
on the number of accidents that take

at home” is inded a fallacy.

place in industry, on the streets and
highways, and in other public places,
prove that this feeling of security is an
illusion. There are almost as many
fatal accidents in residences as in in-

dustry or on the streets. If you are

a careful worker you are comparative- -

ly safe in any modern factory, work-
shop or industrial establishment that
has an organized safety program. If
you are a cautious automobile driver,
you are not likely to get into a crash.
Many a man who has worked in a
hazardous occupation or who has driv-
en a taxicab or delivery truck safely
for years has been killed or seriously
hurt in his own home.

General Pershing came through the
world’s war unharmed, but his family
lost their lives in their own home. A
dare devil who went over Horseshoe
Falls in a barrel died as a result of
slipping on an orange peel.

The same causes of accidents that
are responsible for 50 many fatalities
in industry and on the streets are to be
blamed for the casualties at home;
carelessness, thoughtlessness, reckless-
ness and ignorance.

At least 50,000 men, women and
children are injured by falls annually.
The shaky stepladder, the favorite
rocking chair, the wobbly straight chair
are stepping stones to death and to
the hospital. Every family ought to
have a real, honest-to-goodness sub-
stantial stepladder. If you want to
flirt with an accident, just use some
substitute to hang pictures, get some-
thing off the top shelf or change the
curtains. Thousands of people tumble
off bureaus, boxes and other articles.
Countless thousand fall from porches,
platforms, roofs, poles, trees and out
of windows.

Bathe regularly, of course, but watch

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

your step when in the bathtub. Use
a soap that floats or place the bar
somewhere else than in the tub, if
you want to avoid slipping.

In winter watch your porch steps
and sidewalks.

You had better sprinkle either salt,
sawdust, dirt or ashes around if you
desire to live a little longer.

Polished floors may be fashionable,
but they are dangerous. Rugs are sani-
tary, but beware lest you trip over
one of them.

Give your tots all the toys you can
afford and they need, but teach the
youngsters to put them away after
playing with them. Many a person
has tripped over marbles, tops, trains,
books, blocks and animals belonging
to boys and girls.

Netx to falls, burns and scalds fig-
ure in accidents at home. Hundreds
of men—and some women, too—who
smoked cigarettes, cigars or pipes in
bed, have awakened in another, possi-
bly hotter world. Only recently a
Boston woman, 69 years old, fell asleep
while smoking her pet pipe. She is
still in the city hospital. Too many
mothers have placed kettles with li-
quids in them so close to the edge
of the stove that children have been
able to investigate the contents with
serious results. Youngsters also like
to play around tubs or boilers with
water. Sometimes the child is drown-
ed or scalded to death. More than
one mother has started downstairs
with a baby in one hand and a pail
of hot water in the other but failed
to reach the bottom successfully.

Asphyxiation and suffocation come
third on the list of home accidents.
Thousands of folk are overcome every
year by unburned illuminating gas and
carbon monoxide, from improper com-
bustion of illuminating gas and other
fuel. Parent, warn your little ones
against toying with the gas apparatus.

Poisons that are supposed to relieve
pain and suffering take a terrible toll.
They are fourth on the list. Almost
every household has an assortment of
poisons, ranging from iodine to bi-
chloride of mercury. These should be
kept locked up! A separate medicine
chest is urged. Too often these poisons
are kept in the same cabinet with cas-
tor oil and cough syrup. This indis-
criminate storing of harmless and dead-
ly remedies is courting disaster. While
bottles containing poisons usually are
so marked, hundreds of people every
year seize the wrong container, in the
dark or in a hurry. Know the antidote
to every poison! You may save your
own life or that of somebody else some
day. If you have bottles that are not
properly labeled, throw them away.
Some people wisely stick pins in poison
bottles so they can be identified in the
dark.

Fifth on the list of chief home ac-
cidents comes playing with firearms
or sharp instruments. Thousands and
thousands of warnings have been is-
sued about the use of firearms, but the
“I didn’t know it was loaded” fool

continues to present the same old

excuse every week in the year. Chil-
dren should never be allowed to toy
with guns and pistols. Consider every
firearm loaded until proved otherwise.

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15

 

Be sure that all sharp instruments are
placed where children cannot reach
them. Hundreds of children who play
cowboy, Indian or robber, brandishing
weapons, inflict serious injuries on
themselves or others. Another wise
precaution is to keep matches out of
reach of children.

Splinters and electrical and mechan-
ical equipment cause untold misery.
Protruding nails, which should be
turned down, are responsible for many
cases of blood poisoning. Tins and
broken bottles should be put some
place other than in the> back yard or
cellar. Cuts, scratches and_ bruises.
if neglected,, cause infections, which
sometimes result in blood poisoning
or lockjaw.

Home dry cleaning presents its own
perils. Even the family garage is not
safe. Carbon monoxide, that odorless,
colorless, deadly gas, causes hundreds
cf deaths every vear. Always leave
the windows and doors open when in
a private garage. And don’t smoke
near explositives. Heated flat-irons
and bricks do not make good. bedfel-
lows. They often set the bed ablaze.

There is no great joy in taking the
children shopping in crowded stores,
on street cars or in dragging babies
3ut never leave them
alone in the house. Get somebody to

to the movies.

stay with them, somebody who actual-
ly will look after their welfare. Many
a mother has left her child alone and,
on returning from even a brief trip
around the corner, has found the
precious one scalded, overcome by
escaping gas or the victim of some
other accident. Fires often break break
out in houses when children are left.

Remember, children imitate their
parents. They see daddy strike a
match to light his Havana and they
want to do likewise. They watch big
brother sharpen his pencil and they
try to use a knife. They watch their
uncle clean his gun and they want to
play with firearms.

Just as every up-to-date factory,
work shop and industrial establishment
has a safety director, so should every
home. Both parents and children
should co-operate in seeing that dan-
gerous things are kept in their proper
places. Children can be taught to look
after themselves and the welfare of
others. The training being given to-
day by community safety councils, the
Red Cross,, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts,
Y. M. C. A. and other organizations
is of great value.

Boys and girls save hundreds of
lives every year. Many a 16 year old
can put his parents to shame in this
respect. A small boy can warn his
mother against leaving the scalding
coffee where baby can overturn it.
A little girl can caution father against
throwing discarded matches into the
waste basket. Every day the newspa-
pers tell of youngsters who have tele-
phoned for the police, the fire appa-
ratus, the neighbors, on finding the
house on fire, a parent overcome by
escaping gas or similar accident. Chil-
dren have dragged their parents to
safety.

Hundreds of public, private and pa-
rochial schools throughout the coun-
try co-operate with the National Safety

Council in teaching boys and girls how
to prevent accidents. In numerous
communities there are school patrols
composed of older children who escort
the smaller students across the streets
and to their homes. Safety playlets
are being presented in schools. All
are helping to conserve lives, limbs
and property. Health and safety must
not be neglected in any educational
institution. Life is complex enough
without physical handicaps. And death
A. A. Mowbray.
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Something Wrong.
“Something Wrong” was the title of

is so permanent!

a poem printed on the front cover of
the Tradesman way back in November,
1914 or 1915.

Something wrong may be found al-
most anywhere we may look, but little
good comes from seeking faults, mis-
takes, imperfections, unless we propose
to correct those wrongs or point out
remedies.

It might be said that the proof read-
er fulfills a mission in seeking for
errors to be corrected, but that idea
is a reversal of fact. He examines the
proofs to see if everything is correct.
He is looking for perfection, not
faults.

The mission of the Michigan Trades-
man is not alone to give information
as to markets, trade conditions, finan-
cial matters and unwise, inefficient
methods of merchandising. Its higher
objective is to advocate the most hon-
orable standards in business; to stress
the greater importance of spiritual
goods which may be accumulated with-
out detriment to any essential com-
mercial enterprise and without deplet-
ing the stock of any other person. It
aims to help its readers to attain that
high level in the conduct of business
which raises it above the selfish, sordid
strife for personal gain.

There is something wrong with the
man or woman who habitually reads
the Tradesman and is not touched by
its frequent presentation of high ideals
and sentiments.

There is something wrong with the
merchant who uses this paper to ad-
vance his business interests and never
passes it on to his family or friends
for enjoyment and benefit.

There is something wrong with the
merchant who is pitted against the
buying public and never seeks to bene-
fit his customers as well as himself in
all transactions.

There is something wrong with the
business man who reaps reward from
present advantageous conditions, facili-
ties and improved methods who does
not feel a deep obligation to those who
have striven earnestly to secure and
maintain these public benefits.

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Irreligion the Danger of the Hour.

Grandville, July 10—It thas been esti-
mated that 25,000 churches stand idle
in the United States, and that the word
“For Rent” might with propriety be
nailed on them. Why is this?

There has been considerable discus-
sion of late as to the social condition
cf the modern Americans. Are we on
the down grade morally or is this new
revelation of church desertion a mere
scare to frighten timid people?

The question of what is wrong with
the church has been frequently asked,
with no. satisfactory answer being
given. We know there is something
cut of joint in schoal conditions, yet
we are assured that the destroying of
rural schools has been for the best and
that such is the result of modern
progress.

Can it be that the delivering up of
thousands of churches throughout the
ceuntry to oblivion is for the best?
Spiritually we as a people are not up
to old time requirements. Attendance
at church was for a long time regard-
ed as a duty which to disregard was to
write one down a heathen.

Modern discoveries have put a
damper on church attendance. There
are too many other frills to be looked
after and the church is fast losing its
hold on the hearts of the people.

The State of Ohio alone comes in
for the closing of nearly 1,000 church-
es. Can it be that Ohio is the better
for the experience? There is a chance
for considerable doubt on the question.
We might ask what has come to take
the place of the moribund church.

Interurban railways have been go-
ing out, superseded by bus lines all
over the country. Steam rail passen-
ger traffic has lost much _ business,
many tracks being taken up, leaving
the passenger trade to the bus lines.

The fact that there is a spirit in man,
however, forbids the closing of those
spiritual centers known as churches
without any attempt to replace them
with something higher and better if
such can be found.

Doubtless the one word automobile
fully accounts for the despoilation of
the American church system. Our
people have become reckless seekers
after pleasure and refuse to confine
themselves, even for a portion of one
day each week within the walls of a
church building.

What, then, is to be the outcome to
church abrogation? Are we as a peo-
ple losing our spirituality so rapidly as
to fling all worship of a supreme being
to the winds and seek solace in world-
ly affairs to the exclusion of every
other consideration?

If this be true, is not the Nation
treading the downward path which will
eventually lead to destruction? Church-
anity and Christianity may not be in
strict conformity, and yet to cast off
all church ties in order to go pleasur-
ing on Sunday seems going a bit too
far.

About 600 churches in one state
stand wholly forsaken. As the years
go by this number will increase until
a majority of church buildings are
given over to bat and rat, while father,
mother and children seek worldly
pleasure in the woods and country.

Such conditions bid fair to close the
jast church and give the people over
to mere physical enjoyment with all
spiritual responsibilities left out. Pos-
sibly, ta a limited extent, this out of
doors method of enjoyment might not
be bad, but to ostracise religion to the
extent of complete extirpation of our
churches seems not quite the proper
thing.

Have the American people become
materialists in a sense that the worship
of a divine being has no power to hold
them in line for those spiritual thoughts
and delights which have been the up-
building of a faith which links the soul
to the skies?

Whatever the results of this falling
off of religious worship, there is sure

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

to be a lowering of that full fledged
manhood and womanhood which char-
acterized the fathers and mothers,
founders of the Republic.

Right thinking men and women of
to-day note with alarm the trend of
the public away from the churches and
a following of false gods into the wil-
derness of man-made frivolities. Even
the non-church goer will in no wise
rejoice at the closing of the churches.

Next to the free schools of our land
the churches have been a mark of
progress which teaches that life is real,
life is earnest, and the grave is not its
goal. To wipe out those churches
means an appeal to the grosser natures
of our humanity, a relapse we may say
into heathen customs that bodes ill
for the whole community.

I call to mind one country church
edifice built by the untiring energy of
an early missionary among the pines.
Much labor and money was spent on
this church and the country for miles
around attended divine worship here
for a score of years.

As new ideas dawned and autos and
radio entered, there came a falling off
of interest in church attendance. What
was once considered a valuable place
for the expression of religious faith
fell into disuse and to-day no regular
services are held there, although the
church building still stands, a mark of
earlv day religious faith.

The churches are going out; this
fact cannot be denied, and we are en-
tering upon a new era of non-going
church people, who worship material
things in place of the Great I Am of
earlier days.

A nation which forgets its God and
spends all its leisure in doubtful
amusements may not be expected to
prosper. It is the earnest hope of all
good citizens that this anti-religious
crusade may come to an end and that
the now deserted places of worship
may again come into their own.

Old Timer.

——_>~>
Political Campaigns Not As of Old.

Grandville, July 10—Now that the
candidates are nominated the campaign
will soon be on in full force, yet it is
not likely to hold a candle to those
long-ago presidential blowouts which
wrenched the country from center to
circumference.

We are a different people to-day
than we were in the days of Lincoln.
An old ditty ran:

Fling out your broad banner against the
blue sky,

With Lincoln and Hamlin we'll conquer
or die.

The new party of Lincoln did con-
quer at the election, the result being
the outbreak of civil war. ‘How is
Douglas now?” asked the Republican
boy of his Democratic neighbor when
the election became known. “Qh say,
you got your man, but how is the
Union now?” flung back the Democrat
boy.

Even the lads took part in that cam-
paign in which Douglas was referred
to as being “short and thick, a regu-
lar plug.” Douglas was, however, a
good sport and held Lincoln’s hat at
the inaugural. After that the man re-
ferred to as a “reg’lar plug,” stood by
the Union and led the war Democrats
to stand shoulder to shoulder with the
Republicans for the preservation of the
Union.

Marching clubs were known to go a
score of miles to be in at a mass meet-
ing and pole raising in the country.
Campaigns then were a_ continual
Fourth of July celebration all through
the summer and fall.

In late years the American people
do not take themselves so seriously.
One Republican boy painted the length
of his father’s new barn with the
words, “Hurrah for Old Abe.” The
marker used was charcoal and those
black letters remained for years, visible

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paigns for the election of a president
were enthusiastic to the verge of hilar-
ity. Other matters seem to have come
to occupy the minds of our people to
the exclusion of any great enthusiasm
in political campaigns.

From this seeming indifference it is
easy to argue the fact of the small per-
centage of our voting population. that
go to the polls on election day. Peo-
ple seem indifferent to-day where once
they were wrought up to the greatest
enthusiasm.

It was a noticeable fact that in the
new country, among lumbermen, the
crews. generally affiliated with the
party to which the boss belonged.
Voting then was open and above board.
Now a voter goes into a booth, marks
his ballot, comes out and casts it un-
terrified by the frowns of any master.

It may be doubted if the present sys-
tem of polling is any improvement on
the old when the public knew how each
man voted. There was no attempt
then to cover up what had been done.

Smith and ‘Hoover are likely to have
the field to themselves. There are no
indications that a third party will be
in the field. Third parties sometimes
cut a wide swath, as for instance the
Bull Moose party of Roosevelt. A
Democratic president was elected for
eight years as a direct result of that
third party movement. Nothing at the
present day, however, portends any
bolt from either of the old parties.

During the Fremont-Buchanan cam-
paign thus ran a ditty:

Old Buchanan's got no wife

He lived a bachelor all his life;

He hopes to be the Whitehouse lessee

Instead of Fremon’ts charming Jesse.

In the making of a campaign verse
there was no end. Nowadays we see
very little poesy in connection with
politics. It would be interesting to
know how many girl babies were nam-
ed for Jessie Fremont.

There are numerous Lincolns and
Grants among the boys who are now
middle aged and old men, reminders of
the political faith of their fathers.

In somewhat later times the Green-
back party stirred considerable en-
thusiasm among the masses. Numer-
ous pole-raisings were pulled off, some
bearing a ragbaby at the mast head.

Even with the prohibition question
agitating our people and the fact that
nearly one-half the voters are of the
gentler sex, there seems a dead center
to all things political and we are not
likely to make much stir during the
present campaign.

Why is this? One thing seems cer-
tain, the women did not take kindly to
their acquirement of the ballot. Prob-
ably not half the women in the coun-
try wanted to vote, more especially on
the farms, and so there is a lack of
that enthusiasm which carried all be-
fore it in the days of manhood suffrage
alone.

Has the country become better for
having the women vote? If the Vol-
stead act is due to them, then we may
answer in the affirmative, but was it?
Not likely. If I remember correctly
the State of California once voted wet
since women became voters in that
state.

May we not well say let prohibition
be our boast ever mindful what it cost.
The present election will excite no end
of interest, yet the old time manifesta-
tions of that interest are not likely to
be revived.

‘The ‘Nation stands on a firm founda-
tion which the success of any party
will neither enhance nor tear down.
Once you were asked to vote as you
fight, but that was during the excite-
ment of civil war, which is not likely
to soon again visit this country.

We may indulge the hope that there
may be a full outpouring of the elec-
torate to the end that the real judg-
ment of the people may be known.

Old Timer.
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This stock has been acquired from individuals and does not involve any financing by the Company.

20,000
Odin Cigar Company

(A Michigan Corporation

Common Stock
(Without Par Value)

GUARDIAN TRUST COMPANY SECURITY TRUST COMPANY

Transfer Agent Registrar
CAPITALIZATION Authorized Outstanding

Preferred Stock ($10.00) par value________ $200,000 $200,000
Common Stock (Without par value) _______ 40,000 shares 30,000 shares

The Company has no funded indebtedness.
Mr. R. O. Brandenburg, President of the Company, summarizes his letter to us as follows:

HISTORY AND BUSINESS: The Odin Cigar Company was incorporated under the laws of the State

of Michigan in June, 1928, for the purpose of acquiring as a going con-
cern, the business, good-will, and all the properties and assets, subject to its liabilities, of the Lubetsky
Brothers Company, incorporated in 1922, under the laws of the State of Michigan. From its inception
the business has been successful and has grown to its present proportions through reinvestment of earnings.

The Company is engaged in the manufacture of the Odin Cigar, which is well and favorably known
in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana,, and is one of the most popular 5c cigars in this territory. The Com-
pany’s output for the past three years has been in excess of 33,000,000 cigars per year, and production
will be increased materially this year.

_ The Company’s plant is located in Lima, Ohio, It is of modern fireproof construction—ample facili-
ties are provided for further expansion.

SALES AND PROFITS: Net profits of the predecessor company,adjusted to give effect to elimina-

tion of certain non-recurring charges after deducting all expenses, including
adequate depreciation and proper deduction for Federal Taxes, as certified by Messrs. Seidman & Seidman,
and Lawrence W. Scudder & Company, were as follows:

Net Earnings

Year Ended Net Profits Pfd. Dividend Net Earnings Per Share
December 31 Net Sales After Taxes Requirements Common Stock Com. Stock
1924 $1,191,117.15 $ 99,269.36 $14,000 $85,269.36 $2.84
1925 1,250,444.80 98,880.06 14,C00 84,880.06 2.82
1926 1,205,772.03 111,492.61 14,000 97,492.61 3.24
1927 1,107,958.12 107,647.87 14,000 93,647.87 3.12
GENERAL: Statistics obtained through Bulletin issued by the Revenue Department show-an increase
in the sale of low priced cigars as against a decrease in the sale of higher priced cigars.
ASSETS: Current Assets of the Company as shown inits Balance Sheet, as certified jointly by Messrs.

Seidman & Seidman and Lawrence W. Scudder & Company, as of May 26, 1928, amounted
to $494,407.02 as against current liabilities of $154,841.10, showing a current ratio of over 3.19 to 1.

DIVIDENDS: It is the intention of the Directors to place this stock on a dividend basis equal to $1.40
ner share annually, by declaration of a quarterly dividend of 35c per share, payable
September 15th, to stockholders of record September Ist.

MANAGEMENT: The management responsible for the success of the predecessor company will

retain a substantial interest and will be represented on its Board of Directors.
Mr. R. O. Brandenburg, formerly Secretary and Treasurer of the Bernard Schwartz Cigar Corporation,
Detroit, will be elected President of this Company, and has signed a contract of service as General Man-
ager, for a period of five years, and has become substantially interested in its common stock. Mr. Bran-
denburg’s contract provides that when net annual earnings of the Company, after taxes, depreciation and
preferred dividends, shall reach $140,000.00 and $175,000.00 respectively, Mr. Brandenburg shall receive
further shares of the no par value stock in compensation for his services.

We offer this stock ‘“‘when, as and if issued and received by us'’ and subject to approval of all legal
matters by our counsel. The Company’s accounts have been audited by Messrs. Seidman & Seidman
and Lawrence W. Scudder & Company. It isexpected that stock will be available for delivery on or
before June 25th, 1928. We reserve the right to reject any and all subscriptions in whole or in part.

It is expected that in due course application will be made to list this stock on the Detroit Stock Exchange.

Price $19.00 Per Share, to Yield 7.35%

A.G. GHYSELS & CO.

INVESTMENT SECURITIES

PENINSULAR CLUB BLDG.
Grand Rapids

BUHL BUILDING
Detroit

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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,
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Jason E. Hammond. Lansing.

Manager

President Mills Makes Inspection Trip
in the East.

Lansing, July 9—The position I hold
for only a short time is one which
should call for a few words of apprecia-
tion. Please allow me to say a little
about a trip I just took through New
England.

Calls were made on dry goods and
department stores in quite a number
of small. medium and a few large cities.
Business conditions through New
England are not as good as they are
in this territory. Lines are over-crowd-
ed. Stocks are heavy and_ profits
small. Chain stores are everywhere
and while at least one large chain is
now for sale, we have to admit that in
most cases their stores are cleaner,
stocks better arranged, merchandise
kept in better shape and more thor-
oughly and intelligently marked for
customers’ convenience.

Merchants who are wise among our
membership should study these con-
ditions in an attempt to improve their
surroundings and the appearance of
their own stores. We found it to be
true in New England just as the head
of one great group has stated—that
carefully operated independent stores
do have and will continue to have the
advantage over the chain store, but we
must quickly and quietly get rid of
undesirable merchandise and have the
wanted goods in stock at the right
time and at the right price. By per-
sonal investigation, if necessary, we
should satisfy ourselves what these
competing stores are doing.

An enormous order from one chain
store system, given two months ago,
has tied up the Bemberg Hosiery Sup-
ply. Some of them are just now avail-
able. This is just a sample of what
we may expect. The trend of mer-
chandise to-day is toward the chain or
group. If you are interested send to
Gerwig & Gerwig. 39 South LaSalle
street, Chicago. Five or ten dollars
will bring vou facts concerning any or
all of the big chains and large groups.

The Department of Commerce at
Washington realizes more clearly than
some of us know that the problems of
the independent retailer are important
to all. even including this great De-
partment at Washington. We, as re-
tailers. are receiving attention from no
less authority than Mr. Hoover, who
has entered a program of help for
American industry, finding markets
abroad and assisting in the program of
standardization and simplification at
home.

O. M. Butler has been placed in De-
troit by the National Department of
Commerce. His address is 607 Free
Press building, Detroit. Letters can
be sent to him confidentially. He has
printed information on almost any
subject in connection with retailing
which has already been prepared by
the Government. No problem is too
small for him to handle. Our Man-
ager, Mr. Hammond, will be glad to do
this for any member who prefers to
work through our office. Mr. Babson
says encouraging words lately con-
cerning smaller operators. We hope
he is right.

That is, perhaps, enough of a tech-
nical nature. My trip through the East
was most pleasant. We found cour-
tesy everywhere, and hard roads. Many
New England roads are narrower than
our best roads in Michigan and, in-
stead of cement, they use a good deal
of tar. which necessitates much slower
driving. The roads through the moun-
tains and foot hiils show many hairpin

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

curves, but they are all well marked,
well banked and we saw only careful
drivers and came back home without
even damaging a fender, but with the
idea that as individual merchants we
must be more keenly alive to condi-
tions just ahead of us.

It would be possible to call the roll
of some stores still doing fairly good
volume which must bring their meth-
ods more nearly up to date if they are
to keep in the lead.

We saw one large store in Ohio
which has, for instance, the only stock
of carpets and rugs of any size within
many miles and reported business good
in that department, but unless they un-
load and clean up and adopt different
methods, changing times will make a
different methods, changing times will
make a different story. Their stock of
silks and woolens showed each piece
wrapped in papers carefully put away.
Two women sat behind the counter
doing nothing. A small, scant display
on a long counter was unattractive.
Hosiery stock at least half of it was in
boxes which plainly showed they were
very old. Glove stock the same way.
Employes were visiting. General lack
of real modern business methods ap-
parent.

On the other hand, up in Worcester,
Mass., a new Filene store, one of
seven they have recently installed in
small cities, looked like a little section
of Fifth avenue. Filene is now con-
ducting in addition several summer
shops at the ocean resorts in summer
and several small shops in Florida dur-
ing the winter. They are one of the
older organizations of Boston with an
active program.

We stopped in one Connecticut city.
After showing us around the proprietor
said, I would be glad to have you make
some criticisms. We told him that if
we did he wouldn’t want to hear them.
He occupied the best corner in a good
town.

As independent retailers we believe
we are an economic necessity. It is
up to us to prove this by our deeds in
the conduct of our business. All the
aids which we may secure from Har-
vard Bureau, Ann Arbor Bureau of
Business Research, from our own or-
ganizations or anywhere else will be
of little value unless our stores show
our customers, the public, what they
want to see at the time they want it
done. Figures must be available from
our offices which show us where to re-
duce stocks, where to increase stocks,
when to make displays of certain kinds
of merchandise, what new merchan-
dise is desired. We must use our own
records, do business on facts not
hunches; on figures, not guesses.

The stores using direct-by-mail ad-
vertising are benefitted by the postal
revision bill which passed both Houses
ot Congress. Section 435%, referring
to third class printed advertising, pro-
vides that the bulk rate is 12c per
pound where mail matter is sent out
in not less than twenty pounds or 200
pieces. This gives merchants. the
benefit of 1c a piece for sending out
direct by mail advertising in quantities
of 200 or more.

Application for such permit must
be made by each merchant to his local
postmaster who, in turn. forwards the
request to Washington for a granting
of the permit. One merchant writes
that he sends out 4,000 each month and
this change in the postal rates saves
him about $25 per month. This is an
item worth looking after. Get further
information from your local  post-

master. F. E. Mills,
Pres. Mich. Retail Dry Goods Ass'n.
—__>->____

For the Finishing Touches.
Vanity cases are shown in shapes
and sizes that will be convenient for
carrying with sports costumes and
clothes for outings. Some are made
in rather pretentious sizes and very

ornamental, to carry separately. They
come made with enamel or gold-chas-
ing, some inlaid, some studded with
onyx, crystal or jade, or in a great
variety of other styles.

The more popular case is the small
one containing a powder compact,
rouge and lip stick, which may be
slipped into the hand bag. Some of
these are exquisite examples of work-
manship in the different metals. Many
of the less expensive models are made
of composition materials in pretty
colors.

Jewelry is a negligible quantity with
sports clothes, but some fascinating
novelties are to be found in _ pins,
buckles, and in vinaigrettes of silver
and gold enamel, which marks a re-
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vanity boxes, separate powder boxes
and cigarette cases. In these, cubistic
and geometric patterns are attractively
worked out in contrasting colors.
Wooden beads are a novelty in
sports trinkets, some being beautifully
carved. Ivory, white coral, lapis, and
crystal chokers are also much worn.

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SHOE MARKET

From a Little Sideline a Big Depart-
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That it specialty
shop to operate a shoe section in con-
junction with its ready-to-wear lines
is emphasized by the recent experience
of Pack-Wolin’s, in Detroit. This
shop had never carried until
March of this year; now its shoe sec-

pays a

shoes

tion is going at a rate which the man-
agement did not expect to attain until
the second year, and it is one of the
most profitable departments of the en-
tire business.
?ack-W olin’s
wealthy women of fashion, featuring
dresses at $75 to $500 or more and
other ready-to-wear at corresponding
prices. Mrs. Lora F. Pack and Mrs.
Frances B. Wolin, proprietors, are ag-
gressive merchandisers and their busi-

caters exclusively to

ness has. experienced a phenomenal
growth, even for Detroit. They had
largely
they were not familiar with the line,

never carried shoes, because
but last year they acquired the lease
on the site and three-story building at
1434. Washington boulevard, where
they have been located for the past
eleven years and after remodeling the
entire building and taking over the en-
tire ground floor, they found that they
had some space to spare.

It was determined to devote this
space, about 45 by 40 feet, to shoes,
and Mrs.
to make this shoe section the most at-

Pack personally undertook

tractive one to be found anywhere.

She succeeded. The entire treatment
is in ‘the most approved modernistic
manner, without emphasizing angular-
‘ty, as so many such efforts do. The
wall fixtres are broken at frequent in-
‘ervals by arches and display cases, and
the posts are faced with solid mirrors
on all sides to a height of eight or ten
feet, above which are graduated square
sections tapering to the ceiling.

The

but harmonious.

coloring is rich and _ striking,
The walls and ceil-
ing are gray, while the woodwork and
fixtures are lavender, tinged with blue.
and the boxes are blue. The settees
are covered with purple satin and the
fitting chairs are upholstered in a mot-
‘led material.

To quote Mrs. Pack: “It is the most
charming department I have ever seen
anywhere. It doesn’t look like a shoe
department, but neither does it look
like ‘the so-called shoe salons—which
don’t look like anything!
tomers admire it very much, too, and
there is no doubt but what it has

Our cus-

brought additional trade in the other
departments.

“One woman told me just the other
day that she could resist our dresses,
our coats, and our hats, but that she
just couldn't resist our shoes!

“We really felt
about taking on
didn’t know anything about the line
and hecause there are already many

hesitation
because we

some
shoes,

very fine shoe shops and departments
in the city, but it has been a success
from the first. Within two
months we were doing as much busi-

very

ness as we had expected to be doing
during the second year, and it is in-
creasing right along.”

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

While Pack-Wolin’s caters exclusive-
ly to the wealthy women of fashion,
if has found that newspaper advertis-
ing brings very good returns and it
also

uses the medium regularly. It

advertises extensively in club maga-

zines and similar mediums. For its
shoe advertisements it has designed a
distinctive cut which is used degularly;
that of the shoe featured, mounted on
a platform composed of the initials of
the frm: oP Wo

While neither Mrs. Pack nor Mrs.
Wolin is familiar with shoe retailing,
they have engaged a capable man who
does know how to merchandise fine
shees and he now requires the assist-
ance of four sales people.

Shoes for all occasions are stocked
and prices range from $13.50 to $40.
Mrs. Pack said that it 1s not at all un-
usual for one of her customers to come
in and buy six or eight pairs of such
shoes at a time, or when one is going
away on a trip, to buy a dozen or more
pairs at a time.

No wonder it is a satisfactory busi-
ness!

Streeter learn
Resale Price Maintenance.

Wholesalers, retailers, department
stores and chain store owners in vari-
have been
sent schedules by the Federal Trade

Commission requesting

cus parts of the country
prices and
other statistical data regarding their
respective businesses, and in addition
they have been urged to state fully
their opinions on the subject of resale
price maintenance. Active co-operation
has generally been met with in every
quarter, many companies voluntarily
requesting that copies of the sched-
ules and questionnaires be sent them.

The enquiry is now well under way.
To date some 22,000 have
been sent and a large proportion of
returns have been received. Field work
is progressing rapidly due, in part, to

schedules

the desire of business men to aid in
this constructive work.
—_+2>—____

“Day Wear” Shades Creeping In.

One of the most important of the
ready-to-wear trends of the new season
and one which is being reflected in the
fabric trades, is the growing invasion
of the evening wear field by the so-
called street shades. There is still a
wide showing of the high colors gen-
erally regarded in recent seasons as
correct for formal wear, but makers of
the higher-grade lines of this apparel
are more and more stressing modifica-
tions. of them. This trend is expected
here to become even more marked as
It is already
very noticeable in cutters’ purchases of

the season advances.
evening wear silks, and promises also
to have an important bearing on the
color trend of the season's dress ac-
cessories.
——_>2~>_____
All Artificial Silk Must Be Known as
Rayon.

To clear up the confusion arising
from the use of brand names for ar-
tificial silk, the Rayon Institute is now
taking a definite stand that all kinds of
the fiber must be
name rayon.

known under the
The Federal Trade Com-
mission, the Department of Commerce
sureau of Standards and the Better

Business Bureau have endorsed rayon

as the generic name for all fibers of
cellulose base.

There are .our natural and one ar-
tificial fibers extant to-day. The for-
mer comprise cotton, wool, silk and
The rayon, whether
made by the nitrocellulose, cupraam-
monium,

linen. latter is

viscose or cellulose acetate

processes.

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Czech Covers Make Beach Coats.

Table covers and bedspreads from
Czechoslovakia are now finding a use
differing from that for which
were intended. A manufacturer in this
country is making them up into beach
coats, which the says are taking very
well because of their originality. In

they

fact, he reports difficulty in getting
enough of the covers and spreads to
meet his needs. The coats feature
scenic, geometric and floral designs in
colors on light grounds. Being made
of cotton, the cloth of the garments is
not rough to the skin and readily ab-
sorbs moisture. The garments, avail-
able in sizes 14 to 20, are priced to re-
tail at $5.95.
oe eg
Record Likely on Jewelry.

Early interest in novelty jewelry for
Fall is proving exceptionally keen, im-
porters and manufacturers say. Al-
though the new lines are not complete
as yet, the offerings being made have
met with a response said to warrant
the expectation of a record
Costume jewelry of the couturier type,
either stone set or plain, again dom-
inates. Crystal effects in chokers and
necklaces are strongly favored. Pearls
are also well regarded in both choker

season.

19
and opera length strands. Complete
sets of items, including earrings, brace-
lets and necklaces will be played up,
particularly for the later season.

oe

Mexican Piece Goods Market Poor.

American exporters are cautioned to
use the greatest care in extension of
credit for the cotton piece goods mar-
ket in Mexico in a dispatch received
by the Merchants’ Association from a
correspondent in Mexico. The as-
sociation has been investigating condi-
tiens in Mexico and is informed that
they have been in a very depressed
state and the demand for textiles in
Mexico has been very dull for many
months. Both imported and domestic
products are affected, the report states,
and most of the native mills are oper-
ating on a reduced scale.

>.
See Good Season on Derbies.

Regardless of whether brown derbies
stage a revival Fall, be-
cause of the example set by Governor
Smith, the trade is quite
confident regarding the prospect for

during the
men’s hat
black ones. Nice advance orders for
the latter have been placed, manufac-
turers say, and the indications are that
the business done will compare well
with last Fall.
urged to feature the derby as an extra
hat for formal wear early in November,
this allowing time for the exploitation

Retailers are being

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Retail Grocers and General Merchants
Association.
President—Hans Johnson, Muskegon.
First Vice-President — A. J. Faunce,

Harbor Springs.
Second Vice-President —
Hooning, Grand Rapids.
Secretary—Paul Gezon, Wyoming Park.
Treasurer—J. F. Tatman, Clare.

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Features Incident To the Retail Gro-
cery Business.

Excess stocks: Eighty-five per cent.
of grocers carry twice the stock they
should carry. When your stock ex-
ceeds 70 per cent. of your monthly
The way
Simply stop buying. Buy

sales it should be cut down.
is obvious.
every week and every day only what
you need for immediate sale and buy
those in the minimum quantity. To
stock down to a point
where it will be turned monthly is one

get current

of the most vital fundamentals of suc-
Cess.

3eware of Sudden Changes: If you
are doing a credit business and, be-
cause of certain difficulties or seeming
disadvantages, are tempted to change
make a careful sur-
first.

suddenly to cash,

vey of actual conditions I re-
cently met a man doing $40,000 a year,
three-quarters of which was credit. If
suddenly to

cash, he would be in line to lose three-

he should change over
quarters of his business at once as a
first effect of the change. Probably
not all would be lost, but most credit
customers have the credit habit. He
might readily cut his sales to $10,000
Is that a serious consideration?

Shortage of Capital:
erally, if you get short of capital on

a year.
Speaking gen-
fault is

an advancing market, the

yours. It shows you have not advanc-
ed your prices in accordance with en-
hancing values—you have not gone up
with the market. Remember goods
are worth what it will cost to replace
them at any time, no more, no less. If
you follow market changes promptly
and strictly you will never be short of
money on such
This equally on a
market, but differently.

changes.
declining

account of
applies

Future Buying: Future buying is not
Manv
distributors have followed the lead of
S. & W., San Francisco, in some modi-

what it was a few years ago.

fication of their plan whereby futures
contract,

cries being spread over ten months.

are purchased under deliv-
The plan as yet is confined only to
private label goods and contract buy-
ing should likewise be confined to such
lines, except by merchants who have
accumulated both capital and experi-
find their with
economic safety.

ence to own way
3uying against fu-
ture time, except as stated, remains a
gamble, and gambling does not belong
Chains know better than
Let the individual
follow their lead and thus corral one
of their outstanding advantages. Let
this sink in: If you don’t buy until
you need goods, you are apt to have
money in the bank in place of idle
surplus stocks; and have
money buy to best advantage. Indeed,
have the

in business.
tc indulge in it.

men who
we can always buy if we
money. Further, men with money are
always offered the best bargains. Keep
stock low to the verge of starvation.
Keep your money in the bank. The
money will not deteriorate, nor shrink

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

in value. Surplus stocks do both, be-
sides costing for storage, extra
handling, insurance and interest. Con-
centrate on sales. Buying will mostly
take care of itself.

To Meet Competition, Beat It: Com-
petition, skillful or unskillful, may be
hard to with. A. skillful com-
petitor who owns stock on a low cost
may use that advantage as advertising
to attract trade at low prices. Unskill-
ful competitors may sell too low at
times they know no better.
such difficulties? The
strictly business way is to advance and
decline with the market regardless.
Cut expense to the bone and render
careful service. Strive to make your
store ever more attractive and enticing;
build trade and good will on considera-
tions other than price. This can be
It is being done every day by
individual grocers and plenty others.
When the tide turns and markets de-
cline—or advance, as the case may be
the careful, conservative buyer will
have the advantage of being able intel-
ligently to follow the market instantly.
Frovided you are always in line with
replacement values with your prices,
one thing will balance another—you
will be lower fully as often as higher
than the blind operator. Back such
condition with excellent service and
you will be practically immune to com-
petition.

Value of Income Tax: There are in-
equalities in taxation—all taxation.
Since it was inaugurated in France
some 1,200 years ago, the best minds
have worked on its intricacies. So
probably the income tax is far from
a perfect example of equity. Never-
theless, the fact that grocers have to
make income tax returns is, perhaps,
the best single thing that ever has hap-
pened to them. Many a man who was
sailing on uncharted seas, never know-
ing where he was at, now automatical-
ly knows something of his affairs at
least once annually by reason of the

cope

because

How to meet

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income tax.

Watch Credit Constantly: Any time
is a good time to revise credits; but
there is a right way to doit. The mer-
chant must put himself mentally in the
position of an uninterested outsider
with no stake in the success thereof
and, from that angle, with his knowl-
edge of the character of each customer,
study his list of accounts. Let him
then make the following segregations:

Doubtful Accounts: Those are to be
discontinued. Handle with hard com-
mon sense, but also with diplomacy.
Any that are not going to be paid, stop
now. Let him take the loss now rather
than put in more to be lost later on.
To those he wants to let down easily
in the discontinuance, let him talk de-
pression, enhanced operating costs and
tight money which all make necessary
the calling in of capital.

Accounts too large and slow but
good: Give them the same talk. Get
those accounts down to payment in full
at regular intervals. Keep them there.
3e inflexible about regular payments
with no balances.

” Solid, Satisfactory Accounts: Most-

ly let those alone. They are the main-

stay of any credit business. The rule
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July 11, 1928 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21
MEAT DEALER a few fat oxen on sale during the year
Michigan State Association of Retail 2/so, and we know that these classes
ee a gee woe on «cone VINKEMULDER COMPANY
Vice-Pres.—E. P. Abbott, Flint. pres mercial or dietary standpoint, with our Grand Rapids, Michigan
Secretary—E. J. La Rose, Detroit. o us ° ° .
Treasurer—Pius Goedecke, Detroit. corn-belt, long-fed steers. Distributors Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
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fies Meat and Its — Strawberries, Pineapples, New Potatoes, Oranges, Lemons,
‘Memory of Meat Quality. It is, per aps, quite natura that peo- Bananas, Vegetables, etc.
It is always interesting to one with ple should think of things bought from
a well developed sense of humor to 4 port of cost before thinking of their
hear people tell about things that ex- value. This may even apply to such, x

isted or happened when they were
young. Usually they look back to their
childhood days lovingly, and their re-
miniscences are well worth listening to.
Everything that was eaten during the
golden period under review tasted so
much better than what they get to-
day that they usually positively state
that there is no longer quality equal to
those days and no cooks to prepare the
food for the table so well.

Of course, the days they are talking
about take in their mothers and their
excellent ways of doing things, and
since each of them had the most won-
derful mother that ever graced this
earth we are not going to criticize them
for giving their mothers all the credit
they do. A loquacious gentleman was
the center of a very interested group in
one of the wholesale markets one day
He was talking about beef
what he

this week.
and the difference
gets to-day and what was produced in

between

a foreign country where he lived as a
boy. He told of the old oxen and older
cows that were especially fatted for
market after their usefulness had pass-
ed in their primary position in the
scheme of things. He told how good
the meat from those well-fed and bet-
ter cooked beef critters tasted, and how
he would like to get meat to taste like
that to-day. Some have the same feel-
ing about such things as oranges and
bananas.

‘IT remember of a well-to-do man say-
ing to me a short time ago that he
would give a great deal to get a few
bananas and have them taste to him
as they did when he first tasted the
fruit. Many of us have a keen mem-
ory and a great deal of affection for
certain dishes we used to eat when we
were youngsters. .

One clever writer makes his charac-
ters go into ecstasies over their native
dishes as found in special restaurants
in a new country, which happens to be
the one we live in. I am not sure any
of us would have things different if
we could, for there is something hu-
man and altogether touching in this
loyalty to the days which are now lit-
tle more than memories, but in our less
emotional and more analytical minds
we know.that most of the things we
consider better than the things
now enjoy are simply myths of the

we

memory.

With respect to meat we know that
at no time in the lives of any of us
has better produced and better pre-
pared meat been made available to
consumers. We know that the highest
grades possible of production are on
sale for those who want them. We
know that super efforts are being made
to find the best kinds of feed, and that
quality of livestock is being improved
all the time. We have old cows well
fattened in this country, and we have

important things as different kinds of
food. It is often found that a thing
that costs relatively high when bought
lasts longer and gives far greater satis-
faction all around than something else
that is priced law, and so when the
matter is figured out the higher cost-
ing article was cheaper in the end.
Regardless of this the natural dispofi-
tion to save makes a great many of us
see only the difference in the immed-
iate expenditure.

This is apt to be true with regard to
meat just as well as other things. We
can hardly expect high costing meat
which carries a strong appeal to the
taste and appetite to last longer than
lower qualitied meat, but when the
satisfaction to be derived from its use
is considered fully it may be found to
be the cheaper of the two kinds. Be-
sides there is no waste where high
qualitied meat is concerned as a rule.

Suppose, for the sake of illustration,
a housewife should select or have sent
on her order a cut of corned beef that
proved so salty that no one cared for
it very much. In the first place a meal
would be virtually spoiled and the left-

over portion might conceivably be
thrown into the garbage pail. Suppose,
aiso, that a steak was bought that

proved to be too tough to be enjoyed.
The chances are at least some of it
would be left over and when it became
cold it might not be found satisfactory
for further use. Here we would find
actual waste.

We do not feel that so very much
meat is actually wasted this way, for
good housewives can utilize sound
meat in nearly all cases unless it is un-
usually unsatisfactory, so perhaps we
should charge dissatisfaction against
low qualitied meat more than actual
money loss. It seems strange that
people should ever try to make un-
satisfactory food take the place of high
quality. The appeal to the appetite
and the real good to be gotten out of
what we like would seem too valuable
to easily disregard.

There are some, of course, who of
necessity buy things because they are
low in price, but the average family
can afford good, wholesome food, even
though they may have to do without
some other things they would like to
have. After all, food is so extremely
essential to health and life that it
would seem that it should receive first
consideration. There are few com-
modities that cannot be produced rea-
sonably high in quality, and such qual-
ity will be produced as far as it is
possible to do so if those who are en-
gaged in the enterprise receive the
proper support of consumers.

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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.

Midsummer Hints For the Wideawake
Hardware Dealer.

While the summer is still young, hot
weather goods should be energetically
pushed. The best period to sell timely
goods is that period when they are just
coming into their timeliness. Carrying
goods over from one season to another
involves the tying up of capital and
the risk of depreciation.

“Keep the stock clean,” is a sound
and I have noted
that it is followed by many of the most
A big city

business principle;

successful business men.
department store which, in a period of
half a century or more, has achieved an
enormous success, adheres strictly to
this principle. Timely goods are push-
ed when they are timely, and new lines
are pushed when they are new; and by
means of aggressive advertising and
good display, sales run into substantial
figures and the bulk of these goods are
sold at a normal margin of profit.

But presently the sales begin to lag.
The remaining goods begin to look
shopworn. The timely lines cease to
be as timely as they were, with the
season drawing to a close.

Does this firm store the goods for
another season, or put them back on
the shelves in the hope that occasional
calls will ultimately exhaust the left-
overs of stock at the regular price?

3y no means. The left-overs are
fling on the bargain counters at price
No matter
necessary, those

cuts that attract attention.
what cut may be
goods are cleaned out, at once. Nothing
is carried over. And the fact that price
cuts on a few conspicuous lines are
drastic, helps to sell lines on which the
cut is not quite so deep.

You may say, “A big department
store can afford to do that. But a
small town merchant cannot.” Yet the
other day a small town merchant cited
this practice of the big department
store.

“And we do just the same thing,” he
said. “There was a time when I'd put
the left-overs away until next year. In
those days most lines were staple,
there were few changes in style from
year to year, and the carryover prac-
tice at that wasn’t a sound one by any
means. But now style changes, and
the constant introduction of new lines,
makes the carrying over of old stock
decidedly precarious. So, the minute a
line begins to slow down, we put it in

the bargain basement and clean it out

completely.”

The principle of securing a quick
turnover is always sound. It is a safe
assumption that a stock cluttered with
left-overs is a source of danger. The
one time that merchants who were
overstocked made money was in the
war years, with their phenomenal rise
in prices and their actual shortage of
many commodities. I recollect one
firm that had never achieved anything
conspicuous, and whose profits from
preceding years had gone mostly into

poorly bought stock. When the war-

time prices developed, that firm’s book-
keeping profits were huge, due partly

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

to actual sales to an insatiable public
at higher prices, and partly to en-
hanced inventory. In 1920 the firm
moved the old stock to new premises
and prepared for a long period of boom
A few months
later came the slump, and demonstrat-
ed that even war-time prosperity
couldn’t upset the sound principle that
it pays to keep the stock clean. As
the movies say, “Came bankruptcy.”

It will pay you, having bought care-
fully, to push hard your well-selected
stock of hot weather lines. Aggressive
selling methods in July will do a great
deal to reduce these lines to the ir-
reducible minimum before the season
is over.

The hardware dealer’s selling cam-
paign in July and August should con-
centrate on the quick sale of timely

prices and expansion.

lines. In the early part of the season
these lines should be displayed prom-
inently. Hammocks, garden seats and
swings, lawn mowers, screen doors and
window screens, refrigerators, ice
cream freezers—these lines should be
displayed where folks can see them.
Use your windows as opportunity of-
fers to push the sale of seasonable
goods. Bring these timely lines to the
frent of the store. Play them up for
all they are worth. Don’t wait for
people to ask for them; talk them up
with every customer who comes into
the store. If a man is buying a lawn
seat, suggest an ice cream freezer;
circularize your prospect list regarding
some of these lines; get out a letter
dealing with hot weather goods and
hot weather comfort in the home.
Don’t wait for business to come; go
right after it.

There’s always a tendency in hot
weather for effort to slacken. This
tendency is, curiously, most in evi-
dence when the first spell of real hot
weather comes. The salesman feels
all in, down and out; as though striv-
ing were not worth while and as
though it were impossible to put forth
even the slightest effort.

Don't let this hot weather lassitude
Fight it for all you are
Determine that you are going

overcome you.
worth.
tc keep your selling efforts right up to
the mark. When the tendency o quit
shows itself, fight back by putting just
a little more effort and aggressiveness
into your selling.

Of course every hardware dealer,
and every member of the staff, should
have a holiday; and summer is the
time to take it. But while you make
provision for a real good holiday, un-

til the holiday time comes, keep push-

mg for all you are worth. Don't
slacken effort.

Toward the close of the season it
may be desirable to hold a midsummer
bargain sale in order to clear out
broken lines and odd lots of stock
which have not “caught on.” You will
need the floor and shelf space to make
room for new stock.

A chance to save money will always
appeal to a large number of people.
Even a slight price concession will
often serve to turn these left-overs of
hot weather stock into hard cash.

Don’t, however, put off your clear-
ance sale until too late. Toward the
close of the season, practically nobody

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

23

 

is willing to pay full prices for hot
When the

actually over, even a substantial price

weather goods. season is
cut will not persuade people to put
into an article for which
no use can be found in the next ten
months. But if the price cut is offered
enough, if you show the
a certain measure of

their money

early buyer

money saving
together with a certain amount of im-
mediate benefit and use of the article,
then you are going to make some sales.

A bargain sale, to do a store any
lasting good, must be more than mere
A man may buy a “$10
lawn mower marked down to $7.95;”

but if he finds the same lawn mower

camouflage.

in another store regularly priced at $8
he resents what he regards as deceit.
To find his apparent saving of $2.05
cut down to a mere Buffalo nickel will
his confidence in the hardware

A policy of

shake
dealer's honesty. “mark-
ing up to mark down” has brought dis-
credit on bargain sales in other lines of
bargain sales in

business. Thus far,

hardware stores have been the real
thing; and it is to the hardware deal-
er's advantage to keep them genuine.

In a bargain sale it is good policy
to have moderate but real cuts on the
lines you want to get rid of; with con-
spicuously slashing cuts on a number
of individual features. These features
are designed to attract customers to
the store: the moderate cuts on other
should be sufficient to sell the
3ut coupled with your bargain
other

lines
goods.
lines, you can show, in

your early fall

some
part of the: store,
lines at regular prices. Thus your mid-
summer clearance sale will

least to bring your fall lines to the no-

serve at

tice of a large number of customers.

Advertise your midsummer clearance
sale for a limited time. Quote specific
prices, showing the actual reductions.
A little description of each important
item listed will help. Use the show
windows to help your sale along; show
your feature bargains there with cards
emphasizing the price reductions. Some
dealers conduct a sale as if they were
afraid of it. It is better to hold no
bargain sale at all than to let the sale
drag along in a half-hearted, ineffec-
tive way.

One reason for clearing out the odds
and ends of hot-weather stock is to
secure capital. But there is another
way of getting ready money. That 1s
by “jacking up” your collections. The
hooks should be gone over very care-
fully during the summer months, and
long overdue accounts should be given
special attention. Get right after the
slow pays. Get after them sy stematical-
ly. A series of collection letters may
secure settlement. A personal call is
sometimes effective. If you cant get
cash, take a note at thirty days. Or if
split the account into in-
But whatever the method,

necessary,
stallments.
arrange for systematic settlement, and
get the customer to pay something.
Many
creasingly big account on his books,
“Oh, that chap’s perfectly good. That
money’s as safe as if it were in the
bank.” But the fact that a customer
can pay is no reason for giving him
unlimited credit. Credit is a con-
venience which should not be- abused.

a dealer will say of an in-

Too often the dealer himself, by al-
lowing accounts to run too long or
become too big, is responsible for the
slow pay habits which later cause him
a lot of trouble and a great deal of
loss.

Clean up as large a portion of the
outstanding accounts as possible before
the fall buying starts. And while you
are at it, work out, if you can, some
scheme to impress on your credit cus-
tcmers the fact that an account at the
hardware store is an obligation to be
met within a reasonable time limit.

Victor Lauriston.
——_+->—___-
Helping Hand in Country No Longer
Available.

Anyone who grew up in a country
home among descendants of New Eng-
land families would think it strange to
have long continued sickness or death
and receive no offers of
A family

noting no offers of

in the home
aid from neighbors. in suf-
fering or sorrow,
assistance, would be apt to wonder if
they had selected a residence where
there Christianity
sympathy.

was no or human

In every neighborhood there used to
be kind hearts and willing hands for
every
Differences of
vocation all

time of necessity or distress.

religion, politics or
melted away when need
was discovered in a fellow creature.
Not only was there a willingness to
help, but everyone seemed

capable to do what was needed.

nearly

It seems not to be so to-day. All
are more independent. Each
chooses whom it prefers to nurse and
to work. Those
assistance are

family

would gladly
deterred by a
There has come
to be a feeling that none but trained
nurses can care for the sick. The
methods of grandmothers are belittled

who
render
sense of incapacity.

The ability
of common people is distrusted. Every

by physicians and nurses.

detail in the sick room must conform
Many
have never had opportunity to exercise
their talents—to test their own re-
or ability and dare not step in
and do what nature and common sense
dictate.

to the latest scientific methods.

sources

But the difference to-day is not due
to changed humanity; it is the result
of changed methods and _ conditions.
Few patients in rural homes have
daily visits from their physician. If
such are needed the patient is usually
removed to a hospital where the doctor
can see him as often as necessary and
where a nurse is always at call when
a constant nurse is not
the home duties

needed. So
and the farm work can
go on more satisfactorily than it ever
could with a sick person in the house.

The fact of a sick neighbor cannot
impress the members of a community
as it once did, nor permit the old-time
expressions of sympathy. Not every-
thing was altogether lovely in those
by-gone days.
the home of

Too often the visitor to
sickness brought no
cheer or comfort to the sick one or to
other burdened members. Not a hand
lifted to help in necessary work. So,
when we realize a loss in these times,
we should

seek for a compensating
gain,

E. EB. Whitney.

    
 

 

 

 

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by HART

 

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Brussel Sprouts and French Beans

HARRY MEYER, Eiaeribater
816-820 Logan St., Ss.
GRAND RAPIDS,

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CORDUROY. TIRE COMPANY

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rounds of delicious toast made
with fresh eggs, whole milk
and finest wheat. High in
energy and tissue building
food values. Rich in flavor.
Splendid for infants and grow-
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SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
Expert Mrechandising
209-210-211 Murray Bldg.
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All branches of cartage and transfer
338 Wealthy St., S. W.
Phone 65664

 

CASH REGISTERS — SCALES
NEW AND USED
Expert Repair Service

Remington Cash Register Agency
10 lonia Ave,. S. W. Phone 67595
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

TER MOLEN & HART

Steam Tables and Coffee Urns
Built and Repaired
Successors to
Foster Stevens Tin Shop,

59 Commerce Ave
GRAND RAPIDS,

 

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FLORALCo., Inc.

52 Monroe Avenue

GRAND RAPIDS
Phone 9-3281

 

 

 

 

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Products Analyzed and Duplicated

Process Developed and Improved
Consultation and Research

The Industrial Laboratories, Inc.
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24

HOTEL DEPARTMENT

Los Angeles Leads All Other Cities in
Air-Planes.

Los Angeles, July 7—The Douglas
Lake Hotel, situated five miles North-
wes! of Pellston, lias been remodeled,
and its owner, John A. Bryant, is look-
ing forward to a profitable season. One
of the conveniences added is a new
coffee shop for the better service of
fishermen who cannot arrange to be
on hand at regular meal hours. Doug-
las Lake is the location of the summer
camp of the engineering class of the
U. of M. and the Northwoods camp
for girls.

 

The Michigan Supreme Court denied
Lew W. Tuller a writ of mandamus to
set aside a receivership of his Detroit
property, the Hotel Tuller. Mr. Tuller
applied to the Supreme Court on the
ground that the lower court procedure
was invalid because he had not been
personally served with a summons.

Miss Earhart’s demeanor, after she
accomplished the Atlantic flight, was
very much like that established by
Lindbergh, and it certainly ought to
meet the approbation of all Americans.
In fact, she is doing us proud. The
first American woman to fly the At-
lantic might have been one of those
who habitually assumes a “high-hat-
ting’ pose, but this lady has not as-
sumed any such attitude. On the other
hand, she has directed her entertainers’
attention to her pilot, upon whom she
seems to think, and quite logically, that
the spotlight should be turned, rather
than upon herself. American pride in
Miss Earhart is not in the least likely
to be dimmed by any speech or action
of this woman, who, judging by her
public utterances, is not one easily
spoiled by publicity or praise.

 

Los Angeles to-day stands in the
lead of all cities in the world in the
matter of air-plane supremacy. A
Government survey just completed re-
veals the fact that in number of planes
owned and operated, in the volume of
air mail and passenger business and in
the number of airports in use she is the
premier city of the world.

It is worthy of mention that the first
commercial airport in America was es-
tablished here, and to-day the amount
of air mail going out of and coming
inte this city is greater than any other
city in this country, not even except-
ing New York. This mail is equal to
20 per cent. of the WNation’s total
weight and more than 30 per cent. in
postal income for this class of service.
Manufacturing plants here also turn
out in the neighborhood of fifty planes
per month.

The air trip is no longer a curiosity
in the lives of hundreds of business
mer, who have become accustomed to
this speedier mode of travel. Nor is
a letter by air such a curiosity as to be
admired by excited neighbors and
friends, as it was only a short time ago.

No such marvelous spectacle has
been seen the world around in all the
annals of history as is displayed by the
growth of aviation in the past decade
—and of all the cities on earth, Los
Angeles leads.

The germs of mining fever are in the
blood of all Californians. About a
month ago a vein of copper, which, the
discoverers believe, is both exception-
ally large and rich, was discovered in
the Santa Anita canyon, between M:.
Wilson and Monrovia Peak, a short
distance from Los Angeles, and ever
since a miniature “gold rush” has been
in evidence. Every day pack trains of
a dozen or more burros bring out
loads of ore and take back supplies of
provisions, reminding one of whai he
has read of the days of the fortvy-
niners. Prospectors are rushing i: in
great numbers,

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Not only copper, but silver, gold
and other minerals are found in such
ore as has been assayed in quite con-
siderable quantities. Of course, it is
reasonable to suppose that in the early
days prospectors were hardly thorough
in their search for precious metals, and
there are great possibilities for im-
portant discoveries being made at al-
most any time. It was in the Santa
Anita canyon that “Lucky” Baldwin,
known to fame, made a ten-strike and
amassed a fortune a half-century since.

With the opening of the presidential
campaign the ugly head of religious
intolerance has reared itself. It is said
by short-sighted politicians and others
that the matter of church affiliation by
candidates of the two major parties
will be made an issue of the campaign;
that many voters will be influenced
one way or the other thereby. Such a
viewpoint is, to say the least, un-
American, and ought not to be toler-
ated to well-thinking individuals, es-
pecially American citizens.

We have had this very subject agi-
tated by the members of an organiza-
tion, termed as defenders of an “in-
visible government” and it never
functioned.

The personal faith of a candidate for
public office, where there is no evi-
dence to indicate that such a belief
would sway him from his public duty,
if elected, is no political issue, and it
is an insult to the intelligence of the
American electorate to even suggest it.

There is no controversy so bitter, so
destructive and so absolutely profitless
as a religious controversy or even the
mildest religious discussion. There is
not a scintilla of evidence to back up
the contenders on either side, and yet
nations have been wrecked by so do-
ing, homes have been broken up and
friendships destroyed over disputes, the
evidence in which would not win a
lawsuit in a petty justice court.

The United States was founded on
the principle of religious liberty; it
grew by offering a refuge from bigotry
and oppression and it will only remain
great so long as toleration is maintain-
ed. To attempt to introduce any re-
ligious qualification whatsoever, for-
mally or by inuendo, is to attack the
National constitution and all law based
thereon.

Freedom of speech, freedom of the
press and freedom in religious beliefs
are the basis for all American legal and
social institutions. For more than a
century and a half religious toleration
has been recognized as one of the cor-
ner stones of American greatness, and
those who seek to destroy this worthy
sentiment are by no means patriots or
even worthwhile citizens. If such a
movement were encouraged to gain
headway and to assume the propor-
tions of a real controversy, the ill ef-
fects of such a campaign, no matter
how it resulted, would not die out in
many generations.

Devotion to a religious belief, which
we accord to every American citizen,
is to be admired, but bigotry is as
slimy as its name would indicate and
is nowhere to be encouraged in po-
litical life. The right of every individ-
ual to worship God in his own way,
without interference, is as outstanding
as in the days when our forefathers
were preparing a code of civil rights
which is to endure forever, and he who
would disturb the equanimity of such
an arrangement, should be disqualified
from flocking with other blue-blooded
citizenry.

Ages ago a vast blanket of sediment
was deposited over what is now po-
litically known and designated as Utah,
Nevada and Arizona. Through mil-
lions of years, layer on layer, this cov-
ering continued as though Nature were
attempting to prevent the discovery of
its substance. Eventually surface pres-
sures became so great that this shell
cracked, thus creating Grand Canyon

 

 

July 11, 1928

 

“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.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

Delightful Lake Trips

At Popular Prices

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between CHICAGO and all NORTHERN
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Ludington to Mackinac Island, inclusive

 

Vacation Lake Cruises

$22—$33—344

Round Trip—Mealsand Berth Included

LOW RATES ON AUTOS — Ask for illustrated
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HOTEL KERNS

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300 Rooms With or Without Bath
Popular Priced Cafeteria in Con-
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WESTERN HOTEL

BIG RAPIDS, MICH.

Hot and cold running water in all
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 only All New Hotel in the city.
Representing
a $1,000,000 Investment.

250 Rooms—150 Rooms with Private
Bath.

Buropean $1.50 and up per Day.

RESTAURANT AND GRILL—
Cafeteria, Quick Service, Popular
Prices.

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

 

 

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BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN

Fire Proof—60 rooms. THE LEAD.

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up; European Plan, $1.50 and up.
Open the year around.

HOTEL OLDS
LANSING
300 Rooms 300 Baths
Absolutely Fireproof

Moderate Rates
Under the Direction of the
Continental-Leland Corp.

GrorGe L. CROCKER,
Manager.

 

 

 

 

 

United Detective

Agency, Inc.
Michigan Trust Bldg.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
CIVIL CRIMINAL
and
INDUSTRIAL WORK

Only Bonafide and Legitimate Detective
Work Accepted

 

PHONE—6-8224 or 4-8528
If No Response Call 2-2588 or 8-6813
Dictagraph and Auto Service
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HOTELS

Four Flags Hotel, Niles, Michigan, in
the picturesque St. Joseph Valley.

Mishawaka Hotel, Mishawaka, Indiana

Edgewater Club Hotel, St. Joseph,
Michigan, open from May to October.

All of these hotels are maintained on
the high standard established by Mr.
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Occidental Hotel

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

 

 

 

Columbia Hotel
KALAMAZOO

Good Place To Tie To

   
   
 
 
     
  
  
  
   

 

 

MORTON
HOTEL

Grand Rapids’ Newest
Hotel

400 Rooms - 400 Baths

RATES
$2.50 and up per day.

 

 

CODY HOTEL

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

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

25

 

and the myriad of lesser gorges that
radiate therefrom, and ever since that
era, water, wind, frost and chemical
reactions have been continually en-
gaged in shaping peaks and canyons
galore. To-day one of these latter,
Zion Canyon, is also world famous. It
is huge enough to awe; beautiful
enough to appeal to the devotee of art,
yet small enough for the human mind
to grasp and to appreciate.

It listened good. so in company with
a party of congenial friends, we de-
cided to make Independence day one
of exploration and investigation, hiking
over to Zion National Park, Nevada,
where we checked in for the night, and
at whiqh point we were 4,100 feet
above ocean level. We proceed by a
series of switchbacks along the sand-
stone talus slopes of Pine Creek until
it reaches the base of cliffs within a
distance of five miles or thereabouts

and at an elevation of 4,886 feet, when .

we come face to face with an im-
penetrable granite wall, where a tun-
nel in process of construction will
make a highway connection between
Zion National Park and Grand Can-
yon. It is called the Zion-Mt. Carmel
Highway, and is prenounced one of
the outstanding engineering projects
of the day.

There are six switchbacks between
our starting point and the beginning
of the tunnel sector. These switch-
backs are so situated that they are from
1,400 to 2,000 feet apart and do not
give the impression of a succession of
heavy curves. The line is so well
marked by the topography of the can-
yon proper that they are visible for a
distance of many miles and remind one
of an enormous gridiron. But in the
building of the tunnel the presence of
the incline highways will be camou-
flaged by high cliffs, ridges and forest
growths.

It seems really like pioneering, even
when one is so near to intense civiliza-
tion conditions, and we roll on over
a partially iny~proved highway, facing
chasms which most certainly look
“Spooky,” but it is all in the game and
we accustom ourselves to liking it.

We were given an opportunity of
inspecting one of the sections of tun-
nel construction, but being attired in
ice-cream-Fourth-of-July toggery, de-
cided it would be best to defer this
visit to a later date, which will cer-
tainly be accomplished if opportunity
presents itself, for of all the excursions
we have made since our sojourn in
California this is outstanding.

Officials here gave us much informa-
tion as to the plans which are being
carried out. For instance, at the base
of an enormous cliff, or peak the road
enters a tunnel and for a distance of
considerably over a mile, it will re-
semble the burrowing of a mole, in
that it will be just within the face of
the cliffs, with frequent openings at
the side, these openings, called gal-
leries, affording light and ventilation.
There will be six of these galleries in
the tunnel, from which motorists will
be enabled to view some of the choic-
est bits of scenery afforded by the high
Sierras. They may look down upon
the floor of the canyon, thousands of
feet below and over to the scenic
beauties on the opposite side of the
awesome gorge. The width of this
tunnel is to approximate twenty-two
feet, which is considered ample for the
passing of the largest trucks and pas-
senger busses, with a maximum grade
of 6 per cent., and provisions for side
rails and low center dividing web.

To overcome the exigencies of com-
plicated construction it will be neces-
sary in several instances to cut through
ridges with short tunnels, the longest
exceeding 600 feet, with various others
ranging from 100 to 300 feet. Bridges
there will be in large numbers, sup-
ported, in many instances, by huge
concrete arches across abysses which

>. sure do look formidable to the laymen,

but a mere bit of detail with the en-
gineers.

Mind you all the construction work
on the major portion of this under-
taking, is in solid rock-granite mostly.

Now to me this immense outlay
seemed almost unwarranted but later
on I was to learn that it will, for in-
stance, reduce the distance from Salt
Lake to Phenix, Arizona by hundreds
of miles, supply transportation facili-
ties for moving ore, various farm prod-
ucts, and motorists will be enabled to
visit Zion Canyon, the North rim of
Grand Canyon, ‘heretofore almost in-
accessible, and other sections of the
Colorado and Boulder Dam territory.
Some large contract, in a very, very
large country, I am prepared to. tell
you.

I see it has been definitely settled
that my friend, George Woodcock, who
formerly conducted the Hotel Mus-
kegon, is going to have a new hotel
in that city, to be completed some-
where about March 1 of next year. For
this purpose the old Park Hotel, situat-
ed about a block from the former Hotel
Muskegon, has been acquired, the old
building is to be demolished and _ re-
placed by a new six-story structure,
modern ‘and: fire proof, at a cost of
$300,000. There will be a= spacious
lobby, large dining room on the first
floor, ‘and all guest rooms will have
an outside exposure, which with a view
looking over Muskegon harbor will
make the surroundings specially at-
tractive. I am glad George is going to
have this hotel, for he deserves the
best Michigan affords. When I was
engaged in hotel operation he was a
near neighbor of mine, and I have
every reason for believing that when
it comes down to the point of dispens-
ing hospitality in a way that is ac-
companied by genuine sincerity, he
absolutely knows the way.

Michigan hotel operators want a
more effective bad-check law. As a
general proposition the present law is
far ahead of those in othcr states I
have heard of, but there are certain
technicalities in the enforcement of
same, which almost nullify the act
itself, in that under this law the hotel
is obliged to give.the bad-check passer
five days notice before a warrrant for
his arrest may be issued. This gives
the crook ample time to get away,
leaving the hotel man to hold the bag,
as it were. Im addition thereto, offi-
cials of the various banks through
which tthe checks pass must be produc-
ed as witnesses, which handicaps the
administration of justice.

In most states a return check, prop-
erly endorsed with the reasons for
non-payment, is usually sufficient evi-
dence, being considered prima _ facie
evidence of intent to commit fraud, but
Michigan acts do not so provide, which
interferes with its application.

Frank S. Verbeck.
—_>2>____
Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.

Grand Rapids, July 10—J. C. Major
has organized a stock company under
the style of the J. C. Major Co., to
engage in the sale of women’s ready-
to-wear and hosiery at 106 Monroe
avenue. The corporation has a capital
stock of $50,000; with $5,000 paid in.
Mr. Major was on the road for Mar-
shall Field & Co. for many years and
is thoroughly versed in the business he
has. espoused.

The project to round up a dozen or
more large dry goods houses, located
in the principal cities of Michigan, out-
side of Detroit and Grand Rapids, has
been temporarily abandoned by the
promoters. The matter has been given

much thought and effort, but the pro-
moters face obstacles which apparent-
ly could not be overcome.

A recent issue of the Lucedale, Miss.,
Times contains voluminous announce-
ments regarding the twenty-fifth an-

niversary of the Bank of Lucedale,
which was established by Greg. M.
Luce, formerly of Grand Rapids. Mr.
Luce was elected President of the
bank when it was founded and has
continued in that capacity ever since.
He is also the owner of a packing
plant at the same place producing
stringless beans, whole and cut; sweet
potatoes; okra, whole and cut okra and
tomato sauce; corn, okra and tomato
sauce; turnip greens; beets, whole and
cut; pimentos. Mr. Luce also owns the
Luce farms, surrounding the cannery,
which consists of 1,200 acres, 120 of
which are in paper-shell pecans of
bearing age. He hys already this year
harvested and packed the output of 200
acres of turnip greens, and will pack
the output of 500 acres before the end
of 1928. Besides his activities at Luce-
dale, Mr. Luce is first and foremost
in many large industries at Mobile,
where he has permanently resided since
he located in the South about thirty-
five years ago.

At a meeting of the stockholders of
the Alfred J. Brown Seed Co., held
June 21 in the offices of the Associa-
tion of Commerce for the purpose of
re-organization, a decision was reach-
ed to postpone definite action to July
17. The company’s fiscal year closes
June 30 and it was voted to have the
books of account audited by a firm of
public accountants for the purpose of
submitting a verified balance’ sheet
and operating statements, so that
proper action could be taken with re-
spect to re-organization. It is under-
stood the directors of the company are
agreed that re-organization is neces-
sary to conserve the interests of the
stockholders and M. Thomas Ward,
attorney for the company, outlined to
the meeting a plan of re-organization.
After considerable discussion, however,
it was learned that the plan could be
considered only as a tentative one, in
view of the fact that figures of June
30, 1927, were the only ones presented
and that no figures giving effect to op-
erations for the expired portion of the
fiscal year 1928 or to the acquirement
of certain benefits alleged to have ac-
crued to the company through lhitiga-
tion were available at this time. Much
credit is stated to be due the present
management for reducing unnecessary
overhead and it is thought a much
greater economy can be effected
through re-organization, the result of
which will be relief from the present
high fixed financial charges necessitat-
ed by the company’s cumbersome and
extravagant capital stock structure. At
the adjourned meeting to be called
July 17 it is planned to ask the present
stockholders to surrender their interest
in approximately $94,000 of accumu-
lated dividends on preferred stock and
to give their consent to re-organiza-
tion plans submitted at that time
which it is believed will place the com-
pany on a much stronger financial
basis and enable it to earn a satisfac-
tory return to its stockholders for the
future.

G. H. Ghysels & Co. have leased the
corner store in the Peninsular Club
building, formerly occupied by the
Grand Rapids Trust Co., and have re-
moved their brokerage business to that
location. The beautiful furnishings
used during the Trust Co. occupancy

have been largely retained, giving the
establishment a very attractive and
commodious appearance. Mr. Ghysels
is spending several days in the city,
assisting Manager Watson and his as-
sociates in getting the machinery of
the organization in good working order.
——_~. 2s
Mike Howarn on the Mend.

Grand Rapids, July 10—Word_ has
just reached this city that Michael J.
Howarn, the old war horse of Cadillac
Council No. 143, U. C. T., is seriously
11 in Mercy Hospital at Bay City.
“Mike” was unable to attend’ the Su-
premé Council meeting at Columbus
the last week in June on account of
the death of one of his sisters. A few
days later he was taken sick and rush-
ed to the hospital, where an operation
was performed. At last report he was

“coming fine,” which will be very
welcome news to his many friends
throughout the State and, in fact,

throughout the entire Supreme Juris-
diction of U. C. Tism. His present
home address its 107 South Farragut
street, Bay City.

Homer R.

3radfield.

 

 

PARK-AMERICAN

HOTEL
KALAMAZOO

A First Class Tourist and
Commercial Hotel
Also Tea Room, Golf Course and
Riding Academy located on U.S.
No. 12 West operated in connec-
tion with Hotel.

ERNEST McLEAN

Manager

 

 

 

 

 

“A MAN !IS KNOWN BY THE
COMPANY HE KEEPS”

That is why LEADERS of Businesa
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

 

 

 

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.

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BLANEY PARK

22,000 Acres of “Something Different”

BEAR CREEK GOLF COURSE
LAKE ANNE LOUISE

WISCONSIN LAND and LUMBER

COMPANY
Blaney, Michigan

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DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—J. C. Dykema, Grand Rapids.
Vice-Pres.—J. Edward Richardson, D:>-

troit.
Director—Garfield M. Benedict, San-
dusky.
Examination Sessions—Detroit, third

Tuesday in June; Marquettt, third Tues-
day in August; Grand Rapids, third
Tuesday in November.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical
Association.
President—J. M. Ciechanowski, Detroit.
Vice-President—Sumner J. Koon, Mus-
kegon.

Secretary—R. A. Turrell, Croswell.

Treasurer—L. V. Middleton, Grand
Rapids. oe
Hair Curling Cream.
Powdered castile soap ------ 2 ozs.
Gam Arabic 2 ozs.
Japan Wax 12 drs.

Civcermn = 1 oz.
tallow 82 4 ozs.
Oil of Rose Geranium ------ 1 dr.
Renealdehyae __ 10 drops
Artificial Neroli Oil -------- 30 drops
Water 4 ozs.

Dissolve the soap in one-half the
water, heated to the proper degree;
dissolve the acacia in the other por-
tion of water and mix the two solu-
tions and place on the water-bath. Add
the fats and glycerin. When the wax
and tallow have melted, remove from
the bath and thoroughly stir.

—_~+ +2
Heliotrope Sachet.

Ors nook cat 2... 8 ozs.
Red cose peiais _.. 4 ozs.
Tonka 2 ozs.
Randis 1 oz.
Nee 20 ozs.
il of bitter almond ______. ___ 2 dps.

Mix the first two ingredients and
grind to powder in a mill; confuse the
vanilla, tonka, and sufficient of the
orris root together until the first two
are reduced to a fine powder; triturate
the musk and oil, the latter first dis-
solved in a small amount of alcohol,
with a portion of this powder, add the
remaining ingredients, and mix the
whole initmately in a mortar.

+.
Sunburn Cream.

This is really excellent for relieving
the smart of sunburn. It must, of
course, only be applied after exposure
important, as fat of any
description applied before exposure is

this &

detrimental.

[sqnm garam 1 oz.
Peach kermel of 1 oz. (2)
Lauoln, Tdiydrous _____ Y oz.
Lame walter 20 2 oz. (4)
Bone % dr.
Tincture of benzoin ~------- 2 dr.

Make an emulsion.
Quantities in parentheses
thinner cream.

give a

——_-—- > -- —
Thymol Lotion (for Red Noses).

Hydrogen peroxide, 20 vols. __ 4 ozs.
iy) 3 gr.
Pegg 4 oz.
ieted water to 20 ozs.

Note.—If color is required it must be
one which will not oxidize.

As a rule, the beauty doctor gives
advice on dietetics, for which this
lotion gets the credit.

>
Cucumber Lotion.

wk Ot 1 egg
(euerin 40 c.c.
Tincture of Quillaja _.._____ 7 c.c.
Oil of sweet almonds ________ 25 cx.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Cucumber essence ---------- 25 c.c.
Rose water __enough to make 250 c.c.

To make the cucumber essence, ac-
cording to the Year-Book of Phar-
macy, peel the cucumbers before ex-
pressing their juice; take as much al-
cohol as there is cucumber juice, add
half of it to the juice and in the other
half macerate the peelings for three

days. Mix the two liquids and filter.
——_o++___
For Keeping Hair in Curl.

i. Borax powder —-..__________ 1 oz.
Gam Arabic 2... 30 gr.
Spirit Camphor = 6 dr.
Water, warm —___._._____._ 16 oz.

Dissolve solids in warm water, and
when cool, add the camphor.

Wet the hair with above and roll on
papers as usual, let dry, unroll, and
form into ringlets.

2. Gum Arabic ...-.0 1 oz.
Sear 1 oz.
Bort Ac: Yy oz.
Rose Water 9 15 oz.

Mix and dissolve.
Use like preceding.

—__2.+-.————_
For Hair Curling Without Papers.

1. Sodium Bicarbonate ~------- Y oz.
Bown 1% oz.
Cologne Water _-__..._.-- 2 oz.
Aleouol 2 2 oz.
Tincture of Cochineal ~------- 1 oz.
Water 00002 24 oz.

Dissolve the two salts in the water,
add the other ingredients, and strain or
filter.

2.Tinct. Benzoin —_-..._ 1% ozs.
Alcohol to make —..... 8 ozs.
Perfume with oil of rose.
Astringent Lotion (for Enlarged
Pores.)
Distilled Witch Hazel ------ YZ pint
Bore Acid —. 2.2 Y oz.
Givccrm 2 174 oz.
Menino. 3 gr
Aicohiol 0 3 oz.
Pernume 2... a trace
Distilled water —...._____- to 20 ozs.
For use after face massage.
2.2
Buttermilk Lotion.
Lactic Acid (10 per cent.) --- 2 drs.
Giyceria Y% dr.
Essence of White Rose —---_- 1% drs.
Tincture of Benzoin ~-----~--- 1 dr.
Distilled Water 2... 6 ozs.

Mix the acid and glycerin with the
water and add the essence and tincture
previously mixed.

——_- > +o ___
Nail Enamel.
Eosin, alcohol soluble ~----- 10 grs.
White wax... dr.
prt porate 0 1 oz.
Socrmacen 22.005 \% dr.

Dissolve the eosin in the smallest
amount of alcohol necessary, melt the
ingredients together and stir in the
eosin solution.

_oe-s
Liquid Rouge.

Cornnine 2 51.00 Gm.
Distilled water ......_____ 775.00 Cc.
Stronger Ammonia Water — 64.00 Cc.
Geen 110.00 Cc.
Perfume to suit,
20 make 1000.00 Cc.

— 72 >___

White Lip Stick.
White Wax 300.00 Gm.
Spermaceli — 2... 300.00 Gm.

 

Liquid Petrolatum ~------- 400.00 Gm.

0 make 220 1000.00 Gm.
————— oe

What Experience Teaches the Sales-
man.

To meet the customer with a smile
instead of a frown.

To approach the customer with a
brisk, business like air instead of a
downcast slouch.

To talk quality instead of price when
closing a sale.

To boost your own wares
of “knocking” others.

To interest yourself in the customer's
problem even if you do not feel in-
clined to do so.

To respect the judgment of others
instead of slighting it.

To demonstrate and convince in-
stead of holding an argument.

To answer questions with patience
instead of assuming a bored air.

To show the caller your interest in
the merchandise instead of trying to
“get by” with the least effort.

Never to argue with a customer, no
matter if you are in the right, as arg-
uing will not help to sell the goods
in the end. =

To keep in mind the wants and
wishes and requests of your prospec-
tive customers instead of working along
reverse lines.

To use tact in every transaction in-
stead of trying to force the issue.

To treat every caller with the same
politeness as you yourself expect when
making a purchase.

To keep your merchandise neat,
clean, and businesslike instead of in
disorder.

Not to slight a customer no matter
how great the temptation. It is the
customer whom you consider worthless
that, as a rule, would produce sales.

Always to make it'a fixed rule to
greet your prospects cordially, each
time they call, even if the visit proves
nonproductive. Some day the good
will you assemble will serve you in
good stead. Also, you cannot afford
to be impolite even if your prospect is.

Not to waste time during your busi-
ness hours by talking to any other per-
son than the one you have business
with.

To say, “Thank you,” every time
a sale is made instead of allowing the
customer to store away a wrong im-
pression as to your appreciation.

— ++.
Not the Home of the Free.

About two months ago a junk dealer
named Braverman was shot, presum-
ably because he would not join a union
that was organized for graft. The
police did little or nothing about the
matter until the newspapers demanded
action. Then they arrested Harry J.
(“Lefty”) Lewis, labor agent and head
of the above-named union. It took a
month to get a jury, and two weeks
to try the case. ‘While the selection
of the jury was in process, the home
of the principal witness for the state
was bombed. At the trial eight wit-
nesses testified that Lewis was the
man who fired the shot. He was ac-
quitted by the jury, which held that
the state had failed to make a case.
The witness whose home was bombed

instead

July 11, 1928

is wondering just what the future holds
for him. It appears a juror who held
for conviction was warned by his fel-
low jurors that such a course was
hazardous. This land may be the land
of the brave, but it isn’t the home of
the free, so far as Chicago is con-
cerned.—Congregationalist.
ee

The Old G. R. & I.

It’s now the ‘‘Pennsylvania,”
But that don’t mean a thing

To us who headed South in fall
And headed North in spring.

The name I used to call it then
T’ll call it till I die,,

The name they named it long ago,
The old G. R. & I.

They give you service in them days
They never give you now,

And when you traveled on their train
They didn’t ask you how.
Yes, many a brakeman come
Conductor passed me by,
And never noticed me upon

The old G. R. & I.

along,

Why. I remember goin’ South
One winter with a cough,
And no conductor punched my face
Or brakeman pushed me off.
They took me back to their caboose
And got me warm and dry—
Yes, that’s the kind of boys who ran
The old G. R. & L. 5

They gave you service in them days,
But now them days is past,

Like lots of other things in life
That’s just too good to last.

When someone says to put me off,
To put me off they try,

On all the roads, and even on
The old G. R. & I.

And what about the other guys
Who used to flip a freight?
I haven’t met a single one,
Or heard of one of late.
Another generation’s here,
And you may wonder why
A fellah never meets ’em on
The old G. R. & I

Well, I can tell you where they are,
And tell you what they done:

They’re askin’ farmers for a lift
On U. S. 31.

A lot of youngsters of to-day
Ain’t never seen a tie,

Ain’t like the men who patronized
The old G. R. & I.

A box-car once was good enough;
Them days is dead and gone;

The younger generation wants
A cushion to set on.

I tell you what, the young folks now
Are livin’ purty high:

They’ve got too nice to travel on
The old G. R. & L

An honest man will steal a ride,
A bum will stand and beg.
Before you'd catch me doin’ that
l’d walk to Winnipeg.
This generation worries me,
And there’s good reason why:
They ain’t much like the men who rode
The old G. R. & 1.

They’re dead and gone, the good old gang
A fellah used to know,
Who rode the sidedoor Pullmans in
The days of long ago.
They really took an interest in
The roads they traveled by,
And bragged about the service on
The old G. R. & I

I think I'll look that sister up,
They say she married well;

I'll do the long-lost brother act,
For times begin to tell,

And I want somewhere I can set,
Some place that’s high and dry,

And think about the days upon
The old G. R. & IL
Douglas Malloch.

—_—_~++.—____
Dealers Are More Careful.
The day of slip-shod merchandising
is gone forever. The percentage of
failures among merchants who em-
ploy antiquated methods is not far
from 100 per cent. It is a hard enough
row to hoe in the retail game these
days if all the settings are favorable
so that the antiquated system of by-
gone times is merely a prelude of
bankruptcy in these times of keen
competition. The untidy, dirty, unat-
tractive store is doomed. Dead stocks
have no place in merchandising to-day.

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Cheating cheats the cheater most
5 7 ‘
ob owe a WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT
: ————— ee . 1862 - - 1928
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hie t gges tinsel; humility, 4 slnandeed of ucaiity tor'Gvor t8 Seare Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
1 . ‘ ue gold. SEELY MANUFACTURING CO. Acids Cotton Seed .... 1 35@1 50 Belladonna eee @1 44
a 1900 East Jefferson. Detroit Borie (Powd.)-. 10 @ 20 Cubebs -------- 6 50@6 75 Benzoin --_-__-__ os 3
f The thing you neglect. will not Peewee bore CXtal 16 @ 2 Beoram ceoe> oan Care §=6—9te
nies aa Gaebolie 38 @ 44 Bucalvptus .... 1 26@1 56 Buchu @2 16
e g you. Civic 2 53 @ 70 Hemlock, pure__ 2 00@2 25 Cantharides --_- @2 52
; : Ce L So Mannie 9 1. 3%@ g Juniper Berries_ 4 50@4 75 Capsicum ----_-- @2 28
Nea 9 @ 1s Juniper Wood —~150@1 75 Catechu -_______ @1 44
Guake 2 15 @ 25 Lard, extra ---_ 1 55@1 65 Cinchona -_______ @2 16
v Sulphuric eee 34%4W y Lard, No. 1 -_-_ 1 25@1 40 Colchicum ------ @1 80
Parianic 52 @ 60 Lavender Flow... 6 00@6 25 Cubebs —_....___. @2 76
‘ Lavender Gar’n. 85@1 20 Digitalis - --____ @2 04
Lemon —...2.. 5 00@5 25 Gentian —._.___.. @1 35
Ammonia Linseed, raw, bbl. @ 78 Guaiac —--~-___---- @2 28
Water, 26 deg.__ 06 @ 16 Linseed, Prag bbl. @ 3 Guaiac, Ammon._ @2 04
Water, 18 de 05%@ 13 Linseed, b less SS@1 0L fodine: @1 25
‘ ; wae 4 ae 040 11 Linseed, raw, less 85@ 98 Iodine, Colorless. @1 50
Carbonate __..__ 20 os Mustard, arifil. oz. @ 35 Iron. Clo -._____ - @1 56
Chloride (Gran.) 09 b 99 Neatsfoot ---_-- MGs Kin @1 44
Olive, pure __.. 4 00@5 00 Myrrh ___-~------ @2 52
* Olive, Malaga, Nux Vomica ---- @1 80
__ Balsame vile 2.85@3 25 Opium -.-------- @5 40
Copaiba -.____. 1 00@1 25 Olive, Malaga, Opium, Camp. -- @1 44
Fir (Canada) _.275@3 00 green __..__._ 2 85@3 25 Opium, Deodorz’d @5 40
Fir (Oregon) 65@1 00 Rhubarb @1 92
oo 00@3 95 Orange, Sweet 12 0@12 260 ee eee =
; WITH .. 2 00@2 25 Origanum, pure_ @2 50 ‘
—— Origanum, com'l 1 00@1 20 Paints
Pennyroyal _.-- 3 50@3 75 : ,
ae z ) Lead, red dry —- 13% @13%
YOU! ti. a Barks Peppermint ---7 pga oo Lead, white dry 134@13%
‘ _ Cassia (ordinary). 25@ 30 : four 5 Lead. white oil_ 13%@13%
: ; Rosemary Flows 1 25@1 50
y ; A Cassia (Saigon) -. 50@ 60 Och llow bbl. @ 2%
J Sandelwood, E. ee aS
Y ] : Ge 10 - Sassafras (pw. 60c) @ 50 L 10 50@10 75 Ochre. yellow less 3@ 6
ou can trave in peace y i qu ea Cut (powd.) 20@ 30 Sassafras, true 1 75@2 00 Red co Am. 3%@ 7
ee ee 8 — oC le eg Red Venet’n Eng. 4@ 8
* @: if your valuables are Wy Sant sages a 8S fy
safe in the Old National Meld ald Lh lhl t oows oe Whiting, .---- 54 @10
L -----+----- @i0U tany --------~- “4 L. H. FP. Prep... 2 90@3 06
Mish ool UG 8h Car USP 65@ 75 > 2 90@3 05
ue vaults! NRT S tO guniper. —__-__ 10@ 20 Turpentine, less 66@ 79 eee ee 2 ee
A aw Prickly Ash -..... @ 75 Turpentine, bbl. _. @ 59
i Wintergreen, Miscellaneous
Deposit boxes for your LP gealah abn 6 00@6 25
p V i aee Extracts Wintergreen, sweet Acetanalid _____ 57@ 15
- papers . . . storage : os es a Aa
, : * Ww Secd 5 50@5 75 ground ses 9@ 15
space for your sterling CANDIES Geers Wotwecsa . is 50@18 75 Bismuth, Subni-
d ] ea ' ig trate 22 3 15@3 40
e : and p are ot 2$0z.0R OVER Ariica aay Gee a Borax xtal or
7 . hamomile ed. powdered __.__ 05@ 3
Chamomile Rom. @ 50 Potassium
are available at low Bicarbonate ---. 35@ 40 Gantharides, po. 1 50@2 a0
Z Bichromate —.-._. 15@ 25 el -------- 72@2 82
¢ cost. Gums Browids (oo 69@ 85 Capsicum, pow’d 62Ww 75
Acacia, Ist --...- 50@ 55 Bromide ________ 54@) 71. Caemineg 7 00@7 50
A Wonderful 10c Seller Acacia. 2nd 272 45@ 50 Chlorate, grand. 23@ 30 Cassia Buds > 30@ 35
r— : : Acacia, Sorts ___ 20@ 25 Chlorate, powd. ; Cloves __________ 40@ 50
Sh OLD Twelve different kinds of popular ee eowaetee So @ of Stal 16@ 25 oe ae 14@ 16
i : : . Aloes (Barb Pow) 25@ 35 Cyanide _________ 30@ 90 uloroform = __ d3@_ 66
e candies are put up in this attractive Aloes (Cape Pow) 25@ 35 Iodide ____._.__ 456@4 75 Chloral Hydrate 1 20w1 50
N ATIONA ] BANK package. as a Pow.) ie - Permanganate -. 20@ 30 eee es 12 85@13 5u
/ : safoetida  ~_____ Prussiate, yellow 35@ 45 coa butter -._ 6d3W 90
“i 4 A Beautiful Display oo ees a “ Prussiate. red _. @ 70 Corks, list, less 30-10 to
pet NOP Sulphate: 20s 54 40-1050
? MONROE at PEARL eciadie cas ce INC ee ee te oo Ger tae 3
d ” : Guaiaec, pow’d —_ @ 70 opperas, Powd. 4@ 10
AB nk EV 1; b d, PUTNAM FAC TOR Y Kino @1 25 Roots Corrosive Sublm 2 25@2 3vu
an 1 GUe O Kino, powdered @1 20 Cream Tartar 35@ 45
" GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN a. “-  @1 25 4Alkanet .:-----__ 30@ 35 Guttle bone 10@ 50
ee eee Blood, powdered_ 40@ 45 Dextrine - +2
DE, morn, howdercd |. Gi & aeeca baa 7
| Saat «Gitum. nowd 19 @19 92 © ONS 35@ 75 Dever’s Powder 4 o0@4 50
Opium, gran. 19 65@19 92 Elecampane, pwd. 25 30 Emery, All Nos. 10@ 15
Shellac _______ 65@ 30 Gentian, powd. - 20@ 30 Emery, Powdered @ 1b
4 ee Ginger, African, fi Ss , .
Ghatae 75@ 90 deted 30@ 35 “psom Salts, bbls. @ 00
Tragacanth, pow. @1 75 EeccrS ----—- %@ 2 Epsom Salts, less 3%@ 10
CARBONATED SOFT Pragacanihy Po, gh (Singer, Jamaica. 800 8 hee” pawdered” * Ge 0
weenie. CG a8 peo pie ee ae White 156@ 20
r DRINKS Goldenseal, pow. 7 50@8 00 ae Ib. 30g as
: ‘ if Insecticides Ipecac, powd. __ @6 00 Glassware. less 55%
of the Better Quality are in demand in Rei 08@ 20 Licorice -----_--- 35@ 40 Ghiseare full oe 60%.
Ve . Michigan all the year around, especial- Blue Vitriol, bbl. | @07% Teer. vere 2 3 Glauhes Sale, bbl @02%
. . : u . 1 > Oe ae a a
ly during the hot months. Here is a list Bordea. Mix Dry 12@ 26 pees uhh a a a che tea — 209 3 30
° : ubarb, -- @ Se Gerd .
: of the leading Brands we stock: | ‘aed ae Rosinwood, powd. @ 50 Gua wine we
u ae Sarsaparilla, Hond. aAnGs ite ---. 2477%2@ 35
b 4 Ginger Ale, Carbonated— Toad tarsencte Fo. ee@oel ground -------- at 4 Sets ge lek a0 v
Ready to Serve Lime and Sulphur Sarsaparilla, Mexic. _@ 60 Hops 22 75@ 95
ee 08@ 22, Squills -----.---. 35@ 40 fodine ____ 5G
| o : ‘ . Paris Green -... 24@ 42 on nan pa foo s pe amma 3 0008 30
Less ase Doz. Case umeric, powd.-- 5
Cliquot Club, 15% oz., 2 doz. in case ________ $1.75 $3.35 Valerian, powd.__ @1 00 lence oS “| ae
Cliquot Club (Dry) 15% oz., 2 doz. in case__ 1.75 3.35 Leaves Mace, powdered_
QuOt ab (D a 2 » powdered_ @1 60
Canada Dry (Pale) 12 oz., 48 to case — 2.05 7. 40 Baon 2 @1 05 Menthol —__.... 50@8 00
Canada Dry (Pale) 12 0z., 48 to cases, 5 case lots____ 7.30 Buchu, powdered @1 10 Seeds Morphine __-_ 12 83@13 98
: Canada Dry (Pale) 12 age 48 to case, 10 case lots___ 7.20 Sage, Bulk 25@ 30 Anis @ 35 Nux Vomica @ 30
Canada Dry (Pale) 12 oz., 1 doz. to case __-_-_-_____ 1.85 Sage, % loose _. @ 40 qi powdered 35@ 40 Nux Vomica, pow. 15@ 25
Canada Dry, (Pale) 6 cee ‘Size, 100 to case ____ 1.75 12.50 Sage. powdered__ @ 35 Bird, 1 r 13@ 17 Pepper, black, pow 57@ 70
Cantrell & Cochrane’s 16 oz., 2 doz. to case __ 2.40 4.50 i . oo : i 7. T5@ 85
: a Gontvell & Cochrane's (oaicy 124 Senna, Alex. -... 50@ % Canary ---.---.-. 10@ 16 Pepper, White, pw. 75@ 85
_ ti eee ale) 12% oz., 5 doz. a ae oo Tinn. pow. 80@ 35 Caraway, Po. 30 25@ 30 Pileaaes Burgudry_ eh 25
Vernor’s 15% oz., 2 doz. to case ____________ 2.00 3.50 ee ee — oe NOW 40 an pe Gatnine, a $ 59
Vernor's 24 02,. i doz. to case ...____. 2.60 2.40 A saa coo aoe 20 Rochelle Salts 28@__ 40
e Vernor's 24 0z., 1 doz. to case, 5 cases, $2.35 Oils Bonnell foil 35@ 50 Sacharine 2 60@275
a : _, case; 10 oo —— 2.25 Aino. Bitter, “wi a GOS ee CC
y White Rock, 12 2 08-5 doz to case... 2.00 3.75 (eR ame if true _-________ 50@7 75 Wiax, ground —. 7@ 15 Seidlitz Mixture 30@ 40
White Rock, 1% Pins, 2 doz. to case ______ 2.60 5.00 Ae Bitter, Ss 15@ 30
; tt ‘ . Foenugreek, pwd. 15@ 25 Soap, green -.. 1o@
f White Rock, Nips, 100 10 Caso, 20 1.20 9.00 artificial __.__ 3 00@3 25 fem 8@ 15 Soap mott cast — 25
gs. White Rock (Pale Dry) Quarts, 2 doz. case __ 3.20 5.75 Almonds, Sweet, Lis woe @160 Soap, white Castile
— White Rock (Pale Dry) Pints, 50 to casse _-_. 2.10 7.50 ee 100640 wee ace te es | oe "@15 00
r White Rock (Pale Dry) Pints, 1 doz. to case ______ 2.10 Almonds, Sweet Mu 2 hi ‘astil
eee : E nds, OW ’ ustard, black_. 20@ 25 Soap, white Castile
White Rock (Pale Dry) Splits 100 to case ___. 1.65 12.25 imitation 1 00@1 25 15 30
: ; ; ---- v Poppy ---------- @ less, per bar -- 60
Silver Spray (A Soft Drink) Amber, crude -- 1 25@1 50 Quince —_------- 1 25@150 goaa Ash 3@ 10
e 12 oz: 2 doe. to case oe ee oe $2.25 $400 Amber, rectified 1 50@1 75 sanadilla __-___- 45@ 60 aos. pie honats
: 2 nice 1 25@1 50 a Soda Bicarbonate 3%@ 10
» (i102; © Coe 1G Cane yoo be a 1.35 560. a ee = Sunflower --.--- 12@ 18 ¢g
, op : Bergamont 9 00@9 25 Ww % ne ee ae ose ¢
i 12 oz., 3 case Lots $3.95 case; 5 case $3.90 case; rs ~~~" 9 00@2 25 Worm, American 30@_ 40) Spirits Camphor @1 20
le 10 cashes Ue Ge ee 8.85 Cajeput -------- 0 2 Worm, Levant - 6 50@7 00 gion 1 3
4 Cacsia:, 5 00@5 25 ulphur, roll ---_ 3%@ 10
t t4 Castor ——_-___- 1 55@1 80 Tene. we &
Cedar Leaf ---- 2 00 25 dete 8 eee ees ee
1 Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Company || siitneta*{ = itor a, Tinctures Tartar Bmetig —— 10@ 75
: Gidea oe 2 00@2 75 Aconite --------- @1 80 Turpentine, Ven. 50@ 75
- t ’ MANISTEE Michigan GRAND oi Csaanct oe oau@ gs Aloes 22) @156 Vanilla Ex. pure 1 50@2 00
. > Cod Lievr __---- 2 00@2 45 Arnica ---------- @150 Vanilla Ex. pure 2 25@2 50
a j * ———— Groton 22 2 00@2 25 Acafoetida ------ @2 28 Zinc Sulphate _. 06@ 1]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and are intended to be correct at time of going to press.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing

Prices, however, are

liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled
at market prices at date of purchase.

 

 

 

 

 

ADVANCED DECLINED
Cal. Lima Beans Raisins
Wainuts, California Peanuts
_____ ee = [Saas
AMMONIA se oe No. 102 2 00 — — —. 10 oz. 1 36
Quaker, 24-12 oz. case 250 HeP, No. 224 ________ a 49 ove Oysters, 5 oz. — 175
Quaker, 12-32 oz. case 2 25 ee eal 7 ie. : + oc tony _ %, Star Ad
Bo Peep, 24, sm. case 2 70 has eink saggy 7 624 2 25 Sz < . -
Bo Peep, 12. Ige. case 225 j3°57 makes’ No. 602 150 Sardines, % Gli, leas 6 60
Rice hrispies, 6 oz. _.2 70 Sardines, % Smoked 6 76
ie germs sg hat _. 1 5) ——— a — 3 76
Kaife Hag, 12 1-lb. salmon, Med. Alas 2 85
ae ere 7 30 Salmon, Pink, Alaska 2 35
All Bran, 16 oz. __.-_. 2 25 Sardines, Im. %, ea. 10@z8
Ail Bran, 10 oz. __._ 2 70 Sardines, Im., %, ea. 26

    

      

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APPLE BUTTER

Quaker, 24-12 oz., doz. 2 25
Quaker, 12-38 oz., doz. 3 35
AXLE GREASE
48, 1 Ib.
24, 3 Ib.
10 Ib. pails, per doz. 8 50
15 lb. pails, per doz. 11 95
25 Ib. pails. per doz. 19 15

BAKING POWDERS

Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 35
Queen Flake, 16 oz., dz 2 25
Royal, 10c, doz. __._.- 95
| Boyal. 6 oz.. doz. __-- 2 78
Royal, 12 oz.. doz. __ 5 20
Reval, 5 tb. ____.__._ 31 20
Calumet, 4 oz.. doz. 95
Calumet, 8 oz.. doz. 1 95
Calumet, 16 oz., doz. 3 35
Calumet. 5 Ib.. doz. 12 75
Calumet, 10 Ib.. doz. 19 00
Rumford, 10c, per doz. 95
Rumford, 8 oz., doz. 1 85
Rumford, 12 oz.. doz. 2 40
Rumford, 5 Ib.. doz. 12 50
K. C. Brand
Per case
10¢ size, 4 doz. ~----- 3 70
ide size, 4 doz. ______ 5 5D
Sie ave, 4 dex. ______ 7 20
Roe size, 4 Gos. ____._ 9 20
S0c size, 2 doz. _..___ 8 80
S0c size, 1 doz. ______ 6 85
10 Ib. size, % doz. __.__ 6 75
BLUING

JENNINGS

The Oriainal

Condensed
12 oz., 4 dz. cs. 3 00
3 oz., 3 dz. cs. 3 75

 

Am. ball,36-1 0z., cart.
Quaker, 1% oz., Non-

freeze, dozen
Boy Blue. 36s, per cs. 2 70

BEANS and PEAS
100 Ib. bag
Brown Swedish Beans ; 00

Pinto Beans —__.._.. 50
Red Kidney Beans__ 11 00
White Hand P. Beans 11 50
Cal. Lima Beans ___. 11 50
Black Eye Beans -_ 8 50
Split Peas, Yellow -- 8 00

Split Peas, Green -_ 8 00

Scotch Peas _..__._ 5 15
BURNERS
Queen Ann, No. 1 and
- Bee 5
White Flame, No. t

bo
by
eo

wes. OO 22

BOTTLE CAPS

Single Lacquor, 1 gross

pke., per gross __-- 16
Dbl.‘ Lacquor, 1 gross
pkg., per gross ___. 16%

BREAKFAST FOODS

Keliogg’s Brands.
Corn Flakes, No. 136 2

85
Corn Flakes, No. 124 2 85

Ail Bran, % oz. ___. 2 00
Post Brands.
Grarpe-Nuts, 24s ______
Grape-Nuts, 100s ____
Instant Postum, No. 8
instant Postum, No. 10
Vostum Cereal, No. 0
Post Toasties, 386s __
Post Toasties, 24s —_
Posts Bran, 245
ats ran, ie 2
Roman Meal, 12-2 Ib._
Cream Wheat, 18
Cream Barley, 18
Ralston Food, 18 ____
Maple Flakes, A
Rainbow Corn Fla., 36
Silver Flake Oats, 18s
Silver Flake Oats, 12s
90 lb. Jute Bulk Oats,

Do DO DO Rm CO OO bo to tS to > OTS GO
wo
S

ee 4 25
Ralston New Oata, 24 2 70
Ralston New Oata, 12 2 70
Shred. Wheat Bis., 36s 3 85
Triscuit, fis 22 1 90
Wheatena, 18s —~__-___ 3 70

BROOMS
Jowen, @n%. 5 -
Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 8 2
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib... 9 3

Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 75
— Fey. Parlor 26 Ib. 10 =

Whisk, No. 3 _._.___... 3 15

BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. -... ) 60
Solid Back, 1 in. .... 1 16
Pointed Ends -_-_.. — >
Stove
Shaker ---... ee 1 80
Ne. Oo -- 2 00
Poors 2 60
Shoe
No 49 2 2 26
mm. 2... - 3 60
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion __........ ee
CANDLES

Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1
Plumber, 40 ibs. _._.. 13.8

Paraffine, 68 - ___ as ae
Paraffine, 128 —....... 14%
Wicking 40

Tudor, 6s, per box _. __ 30

CANNED FRUIT
Apples, No. 10 _. ie — =
Apple Sauce, 10
Apricots, No. 24° 3 iee3 se
Apricots, No. 10 8 50@11 00
Blackberries, No. 10 7 50
Blueberries, No. 10 __ 13 =
Cherries, No 3 2
Cherries, No. 2% .... 4 00
Cherries. No. 10 -.. 15 00
Loganberries, No. 10 8 50
Peaches, No. 3 -..... 3 75
Peaches, No. 3% Mich 3 20
Peaches, 2% Cal. 2 25@2 60
Peaches, 10 3
Pineapple, 1 sli.
Pineapple, 2 sli.
P’apple, 2 br. sl.
P’apple, 2 br. si.
P’apple, 2%, sli.
P’apple, 2, cru.
Pineapple, 10 cru. —_
Pears, No. 2
Pears. No. 2%  —....-
Raspberries, No. 2 bik 3 i
Raspb's. Red. No. 10 11 50
Raspb’s Black,

I 15 00
Rhubarb, No. 10 _... 6 00
Strawh's. No. 2 3 25@4 75

CANNED FISH
Clam Ch'der, 10% oz. 1 35
(am Ch., Ho. 3 __.... 2 6@
Clams, Steamed. No 1 3 90
Clams, Mineed, No. % 2 25
Finnan Haddie, 10 og. 2 20
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.. 2 Ke
Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 75
Fish Flakes, small .. 1

 

Sardines, Cal. __ 1 35@2 25
Tuna, %, Curtis , doz. 4 00
Tuna, \s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
Tuna, % Blue Fin __ 2 25
Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz. 7 00

CANNED MEAT
Bacon, Med. Beechnut 8 30
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 5 40
Beef, No. 1, Corned __ 3 10
Beef, No. 1, Roast .... 3 10
Beef, No. 2%, Qua. sli. 1 60
Beef, 3% oz. Qua. sli. 2 25
Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. 4 00
Beefsteak & Onions, s 3 70
Chili Con Ca., 1s _. 1 35
Deviled Ham, Ks -.. 2 20
Deviled Ham, %s -.. 3 60
Hamburg Steak &

Onions, No, 1 _.... 3 15
Potted Beef, 4 oz. 1 10
Potted Meat, %4 Libby 50
Potted Meat, % Libby $2%
Potted Meat, % Qua. 90
Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 85
Vienna Saus., No. % 1 46
Vienna Sausage, Qua. 95
Veal Loaf, Medium __ 2 25

Baked Beans
Campbells... .. 1 15

Quaker, 18 oz. _...__. 1 05
Fremont, No. 2 -_-___ 1.25
Smiger, 10. 0 oo 95
Snider, No. 2... 1 25
Van Camp, small _... 90
Van Camp, med. -... 1 15

CANNED VEGETABLES.
Asparagus.

No. 1, Green tips _. 3 75
No. Zi, Large Green 4 50
W. Beans, cut 2 1 65@1 75
Ww. Beans, yy Ia
Green Beans, = 1 65@2 =
Green Beans, 10s .. @7 50
L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 36@2 65
Lima Beans, 2s,Soaked : 15
Red Kid, No. 2 .....
Beets, No. 2, wh. 1 76@2
Beets, No. 2, cut 1 160@1
Beets, No. 3, cut -... 1 60
Corn, No. 2, stam, .. 1
Corn, Ex. stan. No. 3 i
Corn, No, 2, Fan. 1 30@2
Corn, No. 10 .. 8 00@10
Hominy, No 3 1 00@1 15
Okra, No. 2, e. aw Bw IS
Okra, No. 2, cut... 1 ab
Dehydrated Veg. Soup 90
Dehydrated Potatoes, lb. 45
Mushrooms, Hotels .. 33
Mushrooms, Choice, 8 os. 40
Mushrooms. Sur Extra 60
Peas, No. 2, BE. J. _.-. 1 66
Peas, No. 2, Sift,

OUR cancwimanne:

Peas, No. 2, Ex. Sift.
g. J.

1 26

40
36
1°
25
36
76

Pumpkin, No. 3 1 35@1 60
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@i 60
Succotash, No. 2 1 65@3 60
Succotash, No. 2, glass 3 80

 

Spinach, No. 1 1 35
Spnach, No. 2.. 1 60@1 90
Spinach, No. 3.. 2 35@2 60
Spire.ch, No. 10. 6 $6@7 00
Tomatoes, No. 2 1 20@1 30
Tomatoes, No. 3, 1 2 26
Tomatoes, No. 10 6 00@7 50

CATSUP.,
Beech-Nut, small ____ 1
Lily of Valley, 14 oz.__ 2
Lily of Valley, % pint 1
Paramount, 24, 8s _... 1
Earner. 24. 16s __ 2 25
Sniders, 16

5
5
5

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a

eoerenn--

Quaker, 14 oz. 90
Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 00
Quaker, Gallon Tin _. 8 00

CHILI. SAUCE

Snider, 16 oz. -......- 3 30
Snider, 8 oz. _....... 2 30
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. .. 2 25

Lilly Valley. 14 oz. _. 3 26

OYSTER COCKTAIL.
Sniders, 16 os. ........ 3
Sniders, 8 os. _...... 3 30

CHEESE.

toquefort _..........
small items
Kraft, American -.
Chili, small tins ..
Pimento, small tins
Roquefort, sm. tins
Camembert, sm. tins
Lonenorn oo 29
Wisconsin Daisy —-_- _
Sap Sago
rigk <0 35

CHEWING GUM.

Adams Black Jack -_-. 65
Adams Bloodberry -.-. 66
Adams DVDentyne __-----. 65
Adams Calif. Fruit -_.. 66
Adama Sen Sen ________ 65
Beeman’s Pepsin —__.... 65
Beechnut Wintergreen.

Beechnut Peppermint  —

Beechnut Spearmint -.-

Doublemint _ ....--.... 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys __ 65
Spearmint, Wrgileys __ 66

{
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tnd
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SeSRESE

juicy Fru. 3. 65
Wrigley’s P-K  J...-... 65
PO ee
Teaberry 22 65
CLEANER

Holland Cleaner
Mfd. by Dutch Boy Co.
30: 3m CAR@ 22 5 50
COCOA.
Droste’s Dutch, i Ib._. 8 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 50
Droste's Dutch, % Ib. 2 35
Droste’s Dutch, 5 Ib. 60
Choculate Apples -... 4 50
Pastelles, No. 1 _..12 >

Pastelles, % Ib. .--_-- 6
Pains De Cafe _-..-_ 3 00
Droste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2 00
Delft Pastelles -_-... 2 15
1 lb. Rose Tin Bon
Bom —l. 00
7 oz. ona Tin Bon
Re 9 00
13 ez. Creme De Cara-
ome oo 13 26
12 oz. Rosaces  _.-.-..10 80
% Ib. Rosaces -__.... 7 80
% Ib. Pastelles __-... 3 40
Langues De Chats .. 4 80
CHOCOLATE.

Baker, Caracas, %s -... 37
Baker, Caracas, %s _.-. 35
COCOANUT
Dunham's
15 Ib. case, %s and Ks 48
is D>. eam, is 47
15 tb. cams, “se ......._ 46

CLOTHES LINE.
Hemp, 50 ft. ____ 2 00@2 25
= Cotton,

ae 3 50@4 00
nee. “BO ft. ----.__ 2 25
Sash Cord

3 50@4 00

 

HUME GROCER CO.

ROASTERS
MUSKEGON, MICE

 

COFFEE ROASTED
1 Ib. Package

Melrose oo 36
Raberty 25
Quaker oo 42
Neqrow 40
Morton House --_-__-- 48
Bene 37
Royal Citb 2. 41

McLaughliin’s Kept-Fresh

 

Brands
tins__ 48

Nat. Gro. Co.
Lighthouse, 1 Ib.
Pathfinder, 1 lb. tins__ 43
Table Talk, 1 lb. cart. 41
Square Deal, 1 Ib. cart. 38
Above brands are packed
in both 30 and 50 Ib. cases.

Coffee Extracts
M. Y.. per
Frank’s 50 pkgs. __ 4 25
Hummel’s 50 1 Ib. 10%

CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 dos. -..... 7
Kagle, 4 dos. _....... 9 00

MILK COMPOUND

Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. -. ¢ 66
Hebe, Baby. 8 do. 4 40
Carolene, Tall, 4 doz.3 80
Carolene, Baby -_---- 3 50

EVAPORATED MILK
Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. _. 4 50
Quaker, Baby, 8 doz. 4 40
Quaker, Gullon,
Carnation, Tall,

ly doz.
4 doz.

4

4
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 4 70
Vatman's Dundee, Tall 4 80
Oatman’'s D’dee, Baby 4 70
Every Day, Tall __--- 4 80
Ievery Day, Baby -_-. 4 79
Pet Sa oe 4 3v
let, Baby, 8 oz. -... 4 7
burdens Tall -_-----_ 4 80
Burdens Baby _ ---- 4 70
‘an Cump. Tall —_. 2. 4 50
Nan Camp, Baby ___. 4 40

CIGARS
G. J. Johnson’s Brand

G. J. Johnson Cigar,
AOR
Worden Grocer Co, Brands
Aivegare 35 00
Havana Sweets 35 00
Hemeter Champion —__ 37 50
Canadian Club
Little Tom
Tom Moore Monarch 75 00
Tom Moore Panetris 65 00
T. Moore Longfellow 95 00
Webster Cadillac _._. 75 00
Webster Astor Foil__ 75 00
Webster Knickbocker 95 00
Webster Albany Foil 95 00

Bering Apollos __.. 95 00
Bering Palmitas 116 00
Bering Diplomatica 115 00
Bering Delioses __.. 120 00
Bering Favorita _... 135 00
Bering Albas -__-___ 150 00
CONFECTIONERY

Stick Candy Pails

Stamierd oo 16

Pure Sugar Sticks 600s 4 00
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 18

Mixed Candy

Kindergarten -_..____-. 17
er oe 13
a A ee ae
French Creams 16
Paris Creams _........- 17
rece 11

Fancy Chocolates

5 lb. Boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 76
Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 70
Milk Chocolate A A 1 75
Nibble Sticks -.....__ 1
Chocolate Nut Rolls . 1 8
Magnolia Choc ....... 1 35
Bon Ton Choe. _______ 1 50

Anise
Champion Gums  -...... 16
Challenge Gums ~....... 14
Pavorite ee

Superior, Boxes ___.-... 23

Lozenges Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges 16
A. A. Pink Lozenges 16
A. A. Choc. Lozenges 16

Motto Hearts -.-... 19
Malted Milk Lozenges 21
Hard Goods Patis
Lemon Drops ------ on ae
Oo F. Horshound aps. __ co ae
Anise Squares -.--.. <a as
Peanut Squares -_--.. eae
Horehound Tablets __. 18
Cough Drops Bxs
Patnems 1 35
Smith Bros. _._------- 1 60

Package Goods

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

Specialties
Pineapple Fudge 22
Italian Bon Bons .-.... 17
Banquet Cream Mints. 27
Silver King M.Mallows 1 25
Handy Packages, 12-10c 80

Bar Goods
Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 5¢ 16
Pal O Mine, 24, 6c -.-. 76
Malty Milkies, 24, 5c .. 75
Lemon Rolls 16
Tru lay, 26, Se ... 75
No-Nut, 24, Se ~....... 75

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade 3 60
190 Economic grade 4 60
500 Economic grade 320 60
1000 Economic grade 37 66
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time, special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.

CREAM OF TARTAR
6 1D. DORON 225028 43

 

July 11, 1928

ORIED FRUITS
Applies

NY. Fey., 60 Ib. box 16%
N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16

Apricots

Evaporated, Choice -... 22
Evaporated. Fancy ~-.. 28

Evaporated, Slabs —---- 17
Citron
ih. bon 2
Currants
Packages, 14 oz. --.... 19
Greek, Bulk, Ib ---~__ 19
Dates

Dromedary, 36s _... 6 76

Peaches
Iivap. Choice —_...__
Evap. Ex. Fancy, P.P. 18

Peel

Lemon, American _... 30
Orange, American __.. 30

Raisins
Seeded, bulk -_.-. -.
Thompson's s'dles blk 07%
Thompson's seedless,
15 OSs 09%,
seeded, 15 oz. ________ 09%

California Prunes
60@70, 25 Ib. boxes_.@09%
50@60, 25 lb. boxes__.@10
40@50, 25 1b. boxes__@11
»0@40. 25 lb. boxes__@12
2030, 25 lb. boxes__.@16

Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks ~ 3 50

Macaronl

Mueller’s Brands
9 oz. package, per dos. 1 30
9 oz. package, per case 3 60

Bulk Goods

Elbow. 20 Ib. -_.---.. 07%
Ege Noodle, 10 Ibs. __ 14

Pearl Barley

Chester ee 4 50
ee 7 Ov
Barley Grite _-. 5 ou
Sage
Mast: india: {25020 ly
Taploca
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks ._ 09
Minute, 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 .

Dromedary Instant .. 3 50

FLAVORING EXTRACTS
55 Years Standard Quality.

 

JENNINGS
PURE
FLAVORING
EXTRACT
Vaniila and
Lemon
Same Price
% oz. 1 25
1% oz. 1 80
2% oz. 8 20
3% oz. 4 60
2 oz. 2 60
4 oz. 6 00
oz. 9 00
16 oz. 15 00
2% Ounce
Taper Bottle
siffy Punch
3 doz. Carton __..____ 2 2
Assorted flavors.
FLOUR
Vv. C. Milling Co. Brands
Lily White -_........ S 90
Harvest Queen ___... 9 84
Yes Ma’am Graham,
oe nim 2 a0

FRUIT CANS
F. O. B. Grand Rapids

Mason
Mat vint 2.
One pint -.-.. occas
(ONG QUAFE (ne
Half gallon -_.......13

eu

Ideal Glass Top.

Half pint 220 9 00
One pint’ 9 30
Qne auart .. 11 18

Half gallon _.........18 4

 

 

July 11, 1928

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

GELATINE

 

26 oz., 1 doz. case __ 6 50
3% oz., 4 doz. case__ 3 20
Jell-O, 3 doz. ~--._-.- 8
Minute, 3 aoe, 22 4 06
Plymouth, White -__- i 3
Quaker, 2 doz, ...-.- 2 55

JELLY AND PRESERVES

Pure, 30 lb. pails -_.-3 30
Imitation, 30 Ib. pails 1 75
Pure, 6 oz., Asst., doz. 95
Buckeye, 18 oz., doz. 2 0U

JELLY GLASSES
8 oz.; per doz. 2... 35

OLEOMARGARINE

Van Westenbrugge Brands
Carload Distributor

 

Nucos, 1. 2. 21
Nucoa, 2 and 5 Ib. -. 20%

Wilson & Co.’s Brands

Oleo
Certified 90 24
Nat oo 18
Special Roll  -_---.---- 19
MATCHES
Swan, 144-00 20
Diamond, 144 box  __~ 5 vu

Searchlight, 144 box__
Ohio Red Label, 144 bx
Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box
Ohio Blue Tip. 720-1c
*Blue Seal, 144 _____-
*Reliable. 144
*Federal, 144
*1 Free with Ten.

ee ee OT 01 0
be
co

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. 6 20
Dove, 36, 2 lb. Black 4 30
Dove, 24, 2% ib. Biack 3 90
Dove, 6 10 lb. Blue L. 4 45
Paimetto, 24, 2% Ib. 5 76
NUTS—Whole
Almonds, Tarragona__ 26
Brazil, New ...-.- 24
Faney- Mixed _..-..- 25
Filberts, Sicily ----__ 22

Peanuts, Vir. Roasted 11%

keanuts. Jumbo, std. 15
Pecans, 3 star ------ 20
Pecans, Jumbo ----.. 40
Pecans, Mammoth --. 50
Walnuts, California 28

Salted Peanuts

Pancy, No. 1 222.202. 14
Shelled

Almonds .2..2 ---- = 60

Peanuts, Spanish,

125 lo. bags —.-.__ 12 ,,
Filherts 9.22.22 32
Pecans Salted -------- 89
Wemuts ooo200 57

MINCE MEAT

None Such, 4 doz. --- 6 47
Quaker, 3 doz. case _. 3 50
Libby, Kegs, wet, Ib. 22

OLIVES

5 oz. Jar, Plain, doz.
10 oz. Jar, Plain, doz.
26 og. Jar, Plain, doz.
Pint Jars, Plain. doz.
Quart Jars, Plain, doz.
{ Gal. Glass Jugs, Pla.
& Gal. Kegs, each ----
3% oz. Jar, Stuff., doz.
& oz. Jar. Stuffed, doz.
9% oz. Jar, Stuff., doz.
1 Gal Jugs, Stuff., dz.

sees cone amano
©
>

PARIS GREEN

27 Qe alps ace eniace 34
a as 32
28 -Ond 68 ooo 8 30

 

Bel Car-Mo Brand
26 1 iD. Ving

8 oz., 2 do. in case.
iS Ib. patla .._..._... ad
26 1D. pails 000 3

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS.

From Tank Wagon.
Red Crown Gasoline  -. 11
Red Crown Ethyl ------ 14
Solite Gasoline -_-_--. 14

In Iron Barrels

Perfection Kerosine _. 13.6
Gas Machine Gasoline 37.1
M. & P. Naphtha 19.6

1SO-VIS MOTOR OILS
In tron Barrels

Ege eo T7.1
Medium. 20 77.1

PICA 17.1
x. Heavy V7.1

larine

lron Barrels

  

Eight 22 66.1
Medium ___ wo Gb
Heavy ou... -- 66.1
Special heavy ---.-... 65.1
Extra heavy ~----.--.. 65.1
Frolarne “RO oo. 65.1
Transmission Of] .... 65.1
Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1 50
Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2 25
Parowax, 100 lb. __.. 9.3
Parowax. 40, 1 lb. __ 9.5
Parowax, 20, 1 lb.  . 9.7

FoR

ris
Pessoa pwns

 

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 76
5 Gallon, 750 ~-----.. 9 00

Dill Pickles

 

Pork
Light°hogs _. 3. 11%
Medium hogs --_------ 10%
Hieavy hogs .. 10%
how. Wee. 25
et 21
SoOulrders © 28 17
Sparevrinps: 20 13
Neck bones —..1-_:__.. 06
Trimmings. ........<. 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 ~_.____ 13%
60 lb. tubs -_._.advance %
. tubs _..-advance \%
. pails _.-_.advance %
. pails _...advance %
5 Ib. pails -..-advance 1
. pails _.._-advance 1
Compound tierces ____ 13
Compound, tubs ______ 13%

Sausages

Poum 2.6 2 18@20
19

a.
Tongue, Jellied ___.-. 35
Headcheese _......___ 16

Smoked Meats
Hams, Cer. 14-16 lb. @26%
Hams, Cert., Skinned

S6-05 Py eo @26
Ham, dried beef

Knuekies .
California Hams ~. @17%
Picnic Boiled

Hams oo 20 @22
Boiled Hams ___-__ @35
Minced Hams --_-_ es
Bacon ‘4/6 Cert. _. 24 @32

Beef

Boneless, rump 28 00@38 00
Rump, new __ 29 00@32 00

Liver
Beet 20
Cale. ous Sse ee 65
PORN oo ee 10

RICE
Fancy Blue Rose ___-_ on

Pancy Head: 2...
ROLLED OATS
Silver Flake, 12 New
Precess (2s 2 25
Quaker, 18 Regular __
Quaker, 12s Family —.

2
Mothers, 12s, China__ 3 80
Nedrow, 12s, China  __ 3 25
Sacks, 90 lb. Jute  __ 4 25
RUSKS
Dutch Tea Rusk Co.
Brand.

36 rolls, per case -._. 4
18 rolls, per case __-. 2
12 rolls, per case -_._ 1
12 cartons, per case -. 1 70
18 cartons, per case _. 2

5

36 cartons, per case __ 5 00
SALERATUS

Arm and Hammer  .. 3 76
SAL SODA

Granulated, bbls. -... 1 80
Granulated, 60 Ibs. cs. 1 60
Granulated, 36 2% Ib.
packages ....- 2 40
COD FISH
Migdiles: 0 16%
—* % Ib. Pure S tag

wee ore ee memes

Wood boxes, Pure .. 29

Gal. 40 to Tin, doz. _. 9 25 whole Cod ___________ 11
HERRING
PIPES Holland Herring
Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20 Mixed, Keys ________ 1 00
Mixed, half bbls. _. 9 00
PLAYING CARDS Mixed, bbls. -----_-- 16 00
Battle Axe, per doz. 265 Milkers, Kegs -_____. 110
Bievele 220 475 Milkers, half bbls. __ x 00
= e ee 2 io
orway -. i 0
POTASH 8 tb. pala 22 1 40
Babbitt’s, 2 doz. --_. 2 75 Cut Lunch —- ---.L 1 65
Boned, 10 lb. boxes __ 16
Lake Herring
FRESH MEATS % bbl., 100 Ibs, ______ 6 50
Beet Mackerel
Top Steers & Heif. _. 22 Tubs, 100 Ib. fncy fat 24 60
Good St’rs & H’f. 15%@19 Tubs, 50 count __-__- 8 00
Med. Steers & Heif. 18 Jails. 10 Ib. Fancy fat 1 75
Com. Steers & Heif. 15@16 White Fish
Vent Med. Fancy, 100 Ib. 13 00
ee 23 SHOE BLACKENING
Good 2 22 2 in 1, Paste, doz. __ 1 35
Meédiim oo 3 21 E. Z Combination, dz. 1 35
Dri-Foot, doz. ... --2 00
Lamb Bixbys, Doz. -_.... -- 1 35
Spring Lamb ___--_-__- 36 Shinola, doz. _.-_...... 90
Good ---_----__..____.- 32 STOVE POLISH
Meg oo 30 Blackne, per doz. _.-. 1 35
POGh ee 21 Riack Silk Liquid, dz. 1 40
Black Silk Paste, doz. 1 25
Mutton Enameline Paste, doz. 1 35
008 18 #nameline Liquid, dz. 1 35
Madium —_ 16 8. Z. Liquid, per doz. 1 40
Poor —— 13 Radium, per dos. _.. 1 85

Rising Sun, per doz. 1 36
654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 80

Vulecanol, No. 5, doz. 95

Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 1 35

Stovoil, per doz. ___. 3 00
SALT

Colonial, 24, 2 lb. --.. 95

Colonial, 36-1% -.--- 1 25

Colonial, Iodized, 24-2 2 00

Med. No. 1 Bbls. _-__ 2 85
Med. No. 1, 100 Ib. bk. 95
Farmer Spec., 70 lb. 95
Packers Meat, 50 lb. 57
Crushed Rock for ice
cream, 100 lb., each 75
Butter Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 4 24
Block, 50 Ib.
Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4 10
24, 10 Ib., per bale _.-. 2 46
35, 4 lb., per bale -... 2 60
50, 3 lb., per bale ___. 2 85

28 Ib. bags, Table __ 42
Old Hickcory, Smoked,
G10 Ib; 22 4 20

 

Per case, 24, 2 Ibs. .. 3 40
Five case lots ----.. 2 30
Iodized, 24, 2 Ibs. __.. 23 40

 

BORAX

Twenty Mule Team
24, 1 lb. packages -. 3 25
48, 10 oz. packages -. 4 35
96. % lb. packages __ 4 00

SOAP

Am. Family, 100 box 6
Crystal White, 100 __ 3
Pixport. 100 box ..._-_ $
Big Jack, 60s __...... 4
Fels Naptha, 100 box 5 560
Flake White, 10 box 3
Grdma White Na. 10s 2 q

Swift Classic, 100 box 4 40
Wool, 100 box —__---- 6 60
Jap Rose, 100 box -_-. 7 85
Fairy, 100 box --- .- 4 00
Palm Olive, 144 box 11 00
Lave, 106 bo —.. 4 90
Octagon, 120 -......_ 5 00
Pummo, 100 box —-.-. 4 85

Sweetheart, 100 box —- 35 70
Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 2 10
Grandpa Tar, 50 lIge. 3 50

: Quaker Hardwater

Cocoa, 72s, box __-. 2 86
Fairbank Tar, 100 bx 4 00
Trilby Soap, 100, 10c 7 25
Williams Barber Bar, 9s 6v
Williams Mug, per doz. 48

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80 can cases, $4.80 per case

WASHING POWDERS

Bon Ami Pd, 3 dz. bx 3 75
Bon Ami Cake, 3 dz. 3 25
Brilo oo 85
Climaline, 4 doz. __-. 4 20
Grandma, 100. 5c _.. 3.55
Grandma, 24 Large _. 3 55
Gold Dust, 100s ___--_ 4 00
Gold Dust, 12 Large 3 20
Golden Rod, 24 ____-- 25
Jinx. 3 dow —...... 50

La France Laun., 4 dz. 3 60

Luster Box, 54

Old Dutch Clean. 4 dz 3 40
3

Octason, S68 —........ 90
Rinse. 409) 2.20 3 20
Rinse, 348 25
Rub No More, 100, 10
Oe 3 85
Rub No More, 20 Lg. 4 00

on Cleanser, 48,

20
Sani Flush, i dos. _.
Sapolio, 3 "doz.
Soapine, 100, 12 oz. _
Snowboy, 100, 10 oz.
Snowboy, 24 Large --

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Speedee, 3 doz. ____-- 20
Sunbrite, 72 doz. _... 4 00
Wyandotte, 48 —____- 75

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Whole Spices
Allspice, Jamaica ___. @25
Cloves, Zanzibar -_-. @38
Cassia, Canton __-.-_ @22
Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40
Ginger, African __--__ @19
Ginger, Cochin -_- __ @25
Mace, Penang 1 39
Mixed, No. I ._... @32
Mixed, 5c pkgs., doz. @45
Nutmegs, 70@90 _____ @59
Nutmegs, 105-1 10 @59
Pepper, Black  ____-- @4€
Pure Ground in Bulk

Allspice, Jamaica __. @35
Cloves, Zanzibar .____. @46
Cassia. Canton @28
Ginger, Corkin — @35
Mustard. @32
Mace, Penang ____- = 1 ag
Pepper, Black _.= @59
Nitwens . @59
Pepper, White = @7s8
Pepper, Cayenne _... @3
Paprika, Spanish @45

Seasoning
Chili Powder, 15c ____ 1 35
Celery Salt, 3 oz. _... 95
Sage, 2 07... = 90
Qnion: Sale _... 1 35
Gare 3 1 35
Ponelty, 3% oz. —._. 3 25
Kitchen Bouquet ____ 4 50
Laure] Leaves ____--- 20
Marjoram, 1 oz. ____-- 90
Savory. I ez. ..... _- 90
‘Thyme, I of. ...... 90
Tumeric, 2% oz. _... 90

STARCH

Corn

Kingsford, 40 Ibs. -... 11%
Powdered, bags _... 4 50

Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. : 60
Cream, 48- Pe 4 80
Quaker, 8 07%

Gloss

Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 3 60
Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs. 2 96
Argo, 8, 5 lb. pkgs. —. 3 35
Silver Gloss, 48, Is _. 11%
Elastic, 64 pkgs. -_.. 5 35
Tiger, 45-1 3 30

‘Niger. S@ Ihs. 2.0. U6
CORN SYRUP
Corn
Blue Karo, No. 1% —-- 2 63
Blue Karo. No. 5, 1 dz. 3 67
Bie Karo, No. 30 __ 3 47
Red Karo. No. 1% __ 2 9f
Red Karo, No. 5, § dz. 4 05
Red Karo, No. 10 3 85
imit. Maple Flavor
Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz. 3 36
Orange. INO: 5, 1 doz. 4 T5
Maple.

Green Label Karo __ 5 19
Maple and Cane
Kanuck, per gal. .... I &¢
Maple
Michigan, per gal. .. 2 50
Welehs, per gal _... 3.25
TABLE SAUCES
Lea & Perrin, large__ 6 00

Lea & Perrin, small__ 3 35
Penner oo 1 60

Royal Mint. .......___ 2 40
Tobasco, 2 02. —..----— 4 25
Sho You: 9 oz., doz, 2 25
Ak. Tage 2 4 75

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Choiea: 2 37@46
Raney oo 54@59
No. 1. NGOS 2 54
1 Ib. pke. Sifting __..._ 13
Gunpowder
Choleg: 40
Baney oo 47
Ceylon
Pekoe, medium  -_...... 67
English Breakfast
Congou, Medtum ___._. 28
Congou, Choice ____ 35@36
Congou, Fancy ___. 42@43
Oolong
Medium a.
@nglee 2 45
Raney (2 50
TWINE
Cotton, 3 ply cone ____ 40
Cotton, 3 ply pails _... 42
Wool, 5 ply 18
VINEGAR
Cider, 40 Grain 97
White Wine, 80 grain__ 25
White Wine, 40 grain_. 19
WICKING
No. 0, per aross ___. is 1G
No. 1, per gross =. ¥ 36
No. 2, per gross ____ 1} &6
No. 3, per gross ____ 2 00

Peerless Rolls, per doz. 90
Rochester, No. 2, doz. 60

Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
Rayo, per don, _. _. 76
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 __.__. 1 60
Splint large 8 50
Splint, medium —____-. 7 60
Spimt, small... 6 50
Churns
Barrel, 5 gal., each __ 2 40
Barrel, 10 gal., each. 2 55
3 to 6 gal., per gal. _. 16
Pails
10 qt. Galvanized _... 2 50
12 qt. Galvanized __.. 3 75
14 qt. Galvanized __.. 3 25
i2 qt. Flaring Gal. Ir. 5 00
10 qt. Tin Dairy ..... 4 66
Traps
Mouse, Wood, 4 holes. 60
Mouse, wood, 6 holes. 70

Mouse, tin, & holes __ 65
Kat. wood _... | =. 1 00
Rat, spring .: |. 1 00
Mous6é, spring 30
Tubs
Large Galvanized _... 8 75
Medium Galvanized __ 7 50
Small Galvanized -... 6 78
Washboards
Banner, Globe .____ —_ 5 50
Brass, single —..__ 6 00
Glass, single ___...____ 6 00
Double Peerless _____ 8 50
Single Peerless _____- 7 60
Northern Queen _____ 5 50
Universal: 0 25
Wood Bowls
Sin: Hutter: 5 00
Is in; Botier 9 00
WT in. Butter ... 18 00
§ in. Hatter 25 00

WRAPPING PAPER

Fibre, Manila, white. 05%
No. ft Bibre oo 07

Butchers D. F. -..... 0%
rate fo ee 07

Kraft Stripe 09%

YEAST CAKE

Magic, 2 dom. 2.5... 2 70
Sunlight, = dow __... 2 70
Sunlight, 1% doz. _. 1 36
Yeast Foam, 3 doz. _. 2 70

Yeast Foam, 1% doz. 1 35

YEAST—COMPRESSED
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Procedings of the Grand Rapids

Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, July 3—In the matter
of Herman M. Timmerman, Bankrupt No.
2415, the first meeting of creditors was
held on May 28. The bankrupt was pres-
ent and represented by attorney L. D.
Averill. Creditors were present in per-
son. Claims were proved and allowed.
The bankrupt was sworn and examined
without a reporter. C. C. Woolridge was
named trustee and his bond placed at
2100. The trustee has filed his return
showing that there are no assets over
and above mortgages and exemptions.
The case therefore heen closed and re-
turned to the district court, as a case
without assets.

in the matter of Joe Chiarello, Bank-
rupt No. 3426, the first meeting of cred-
itors was held on May 28. The bankrupt
was present in person. No others were
present. One claim was proved and al-
lowed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a _ reporter. Harris
S. Whitney, of Benton Harbor, was nam-
ed trustee, and his bond placed at $100.
The first meeting then adjourned without
date. :

In the matter of Gillmore & Son, Bank-
rupt No. 2432, the first meeting of cred-
itors was held on May 28. The bankrupts
were present in person and represented
by attorneys Balgooyen & Cook. Cred-
itors were represented by H. H. Smedley,
attorney. Claims were proved and al-
lowed. The bankrupts were sworn and
examined, without a reporter. George
D. Stribley was named trustee. and his
bond placed at $250. The first meeting
then adjourned without date.

In the matter of Maurice J. Reddy,
Bankrupt No. 3424, the first meeting of
creditors was held May 29. The bank-
rupt was present and represented by at-
torneys Rogoski & Landman. No cred-
itors were present or represented. One
claim was proved adn allowed. The bank-
rupt was sworn and examined without a
reporter. No trustee was appointed. The
first meeting then adjourned without date
and the case has been closed and re-
turned to the district court. as a case
without assets.

In the matter of Ernst C. Greiner,
Bankrupt No. 3429, the first meeting of
creditors was held on May 29. The bank-
rupt was present in person and repre-
sented by C. A. Mitts, Jr., attorney.
Creditors were sepresented by H. H.
Smedley and L. Fk. McKnight. attorneys.
Claims were filed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined before a reporter.
George D. Stribley, of Muskegon, was
named trustee, and his bond placed at
$100. The first meeting then adjourned
without a further date.

In the matter of Clessie De Moss,
Bankrupt No. 3423, the first meeting of
creditors has been filed on May 29. The
pankrupt was present in person. No
others were present. One claim was
proved and allowed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined, without a reporter.
No trustee was appointed. The first
meeting then adjourned without date,
and the case has been closed and re-
turned to the district court as a case
without assets.

In the matter of Henry Nanninga, Jr.,
Bankrupt No. 3437, the first meeting of
ereditors was held on May 31. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorneys Jackson. Fitzgerald
& Dalm. No creditors were present or
represented Mo claims were proved and
allowed. No trustee was appointed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. The first meeting then
adjourned without date and the case has
been closed and returned to the district
court, aS a no-asset case.

In the matter of Dana B. Rice, Bank-
rupt No. 3445, the first meeting of cred-
itors was held on June 4. The bankrupt
was present and represented by Lewis
R. Williams, attorney. No creditors were
present or represented. No claims were
proved and allowed. No trustee was ap-
pointed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. The first
meeting then adjourned without date and
the case has been ciosed and returned
to the district court, as a case without
assets.

In the matter of Joseph Antonides,
Bankrupt No. 4349, the first meeting of
creditors was held June 4. The bankrupt
was present in person and represented
by attorney Roy M. Watkins. No cred-
itors were present or represented. No
claims were proved and allowed No
trustee was appointed. The bankrapt
was directed to pay the filing fee, upon
receipt of which case will be closed and
returned to the district court, as a case
without assets.

In the matter of Archibald J. McDonell,
3ankrupt No. 3433, the first meeting of
creditors was held June 4. The bankrupt
was present in person and represented by
attorneys J. T. & T. F. McAllister. No
creditors were present or represented.
One claim was proved and allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. “No trustee was appoint-
ed. The first meeting then adjourned
without date, and the case has been
closed and returned to the district court
as a case without assets.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

July 3. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Titus N. Heyier, Bankrupt
No. 3480. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptecy. The bankrupt is a resident of
Lincoln township. and his occupation is
that of a laborer. The schedules show
assets of $5,15/.22 with liabilities of $19,-
299.91. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same, the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called. note of
which will be made herein. The list of
crediters of said bankrupt is as follows:
Saskatchewan Elevator Co.. Win-

nipee, Man. 2 $1,160.00
Northern Trust Co., Winnipeg __ 4.300.00
North. Dominion Loan Co., Winni-

nor MAO ee 3,260.00
Horace Francors, Calif. ~ ______ 4,250.00
International Harvester Co., Cal-

Cary, Atperta 2.2 400.00

Mat Emerson, Pollockville, Alb. 387.71
Canadian Bank of Commerce,
Youngstown, Alb. 656.00
Bank of Commerce, Youngstown 140.00
Jonah Pratt Lbr. Co., Youngstown 600.00

John McBurney, Jenner, Alb. _-__. 375.00
W. C. Robinson, Youngstown __ 75.00
James Curtis, Youngstown ____.. 140.00
Union Bank, Hanna, Alberta ____ 868.00
Cockshutt Plow Co., Calgary, Alb. 220.80
W. Winning,, Pollockville, Alb. __ 237.80
Flowerdale Municipality, Sunny-

mere «Al U8 . 1,000.00
Chas. Hainbaugh, Stevensville __ 1,230.00

In the matter of Asa Elwell, Bankrupt
No. 3441, the first meeting of creditors
was held June 4. The bankrupt was
present in person No creditors were
present or represented. No claims were
proved and allowed. No trustee was ap-
pointed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. The first
meeting then adjourned without date, and
the case has been closed and returned
to the district court, as a zase without
assets.

In the matter of Henry J. Bordeau,
Bankrupt No. 3435, the first meeting of
creditors was held June 4. The bankrupt
was present in person. No creditess
were present or represented. The ar-
torney for the bankrupt was _ present.
Claims were proved and allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. No trustee was appoint-
ed. The first meeting then adjourned
without date, and the case has been
closed and returned to the district court
as a case without assets.

In the matter of Louis V. Lillibridge,
3ankrupt No. 3430, the first meeting of
creditors was held June 5. The bank-
rupt was present and represented by
Robert H. 3urns, attorney. Creditors
were present in person and represented
by R. J. Claland. attorney. Claims were
proved and allowed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined without a reporter.
No trustee was appointed. The first
meeting then adjourned without date,
and the case has been closed and returned
to the district court. as a case without
assets.

In the matter of Harry P. Lovell, in-
dividually and as H. & J. Toggery Shop,
Bankrupt No. 3440, the first meeting of
ereditors was held June 5. The bankrupt
was present in person and represented
by attorneys Corwin, Norcross & Cook.
Creditors were represented by Hilding &
Hilding & Tubbs and G. R. Credit Men’s
Association. Claims were proved and
allowed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. Edward
De Groot, of Grand Rapids, was named
trustee, and his bond placed at $1,000.
The first meeting then adjourned with-
out date.

In the matter of Milo Stephens, Bank-
rupt No. 3436, the first meeting of cred-
itors was held June 5. The bankrupt was
present and represented by attorney
Charles H. Kavanaugh. No _ creditors
were present or represented. No claims
were proved and allowed. No trustee
was appointd. The bankrupt was sworn
and examined without a reporter. The
first meeting then adjourned without
date, and the case has been closed and
returned to the district court as a case
without assets.

In the matter of Lambert Niemeyer,
Bankrupt No. 3442, the first meeting
of creditors was held on June 5. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney John W. Powers.
The creditors were represented by Willis
B. Perkins, Jr., attorney. Claims were
filed, but not passed upan. The meeting
then adjourned to June 12. At that time
the meeting was further adjourned by
agreement to June 19. At this adjourn-
ed meeting the same appearances were
present and after further examination
of the bankrupt the meeting was ad-
journed to July 12. To date no trustee
has been appointed.

In the matter of David Cullom, Bank-
rupt No. 3439, the first meeting of cred-
itors was held on June 5. The_bankrupt
was present or represented by attorney
Charles H. Kavanagh. No credjtors were
present or represented. No claims were
proved and allowed The bankrupt was
sworn and examined without a reporter.
No trustee was appointed. The bank-
rupt’s first meeting then adjourned with-
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and returned to the district court as a
case without assets,

In the matter of Ferris Nigma, Bank-
rupt No. 3434, the first meeting of cred-
itors was held June 25. The bankrupt
was present in person and represented
by attorneys Wykes & Sherk. No cred-
itors were present or represented. One
claim was proved and allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. No trustee was appoint-
ed. The first meeting then adjourned
without date, and the case has been
closed and returned to the district court
as a case without assets.

In the matter of David B. Hagerman,
Bankrupt No. 3456, the first meeting of
creditors was held June 25. The bank-
rupt was present in person and repre-
sented by attorney J. R. Gillard. Cred-
itors were represented by G. R. Credit
Men's Association. Claims were proved
and allowed. The bankrupt was sworn
and examined without a reporter. Shriley
De Groot, of Grand Rapids. was elected
trustee, and his bond placed at $500. The
first meeting then adjourned without
date.

In the matter of Rex Snelgrove, Bank-
rupt No. 3443, the first meeting of cred-
itors was held on June 25, and adjourned
to July 2. At the adjourned date no
appearances were had. The bankrupt
was not present or represented. No
creditors were present, Claims were
proved and allowed. No trustee was ap-
pointed. The examination of the bank-
rupt was waived by lack of creditors’
appearance. The first meeting, as ad-
journed, then adjourned without date,
and the case has been closed and re-
turned to the district curt, as a case
without assets. 4

In the matter of Elmer R. Beach,
Bankrupt No. 3462, the first meeting of
creditors was held June 25. The bank-
rupt was present and represented by at-
torney Don E. Minor. No creditors were
present or represented. No claims were
proved and allowed. No trustee was ap-
pointed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. The first
meeting then adjourned witnout date
and the case has been closed and re-
turned to the district court as a case
without assets.

In the matter of Joe Polance, Bank-
rupt No. 3460, the first meeting of cred-
itors was held June 26. The bankrupt
was present in person and represented
by attorneys Corwin, Norcross & Cook.
No creditors were present or represented.
Claims were proved and allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. No trustee was ap-
pointed. The bankrupt was ordered to
pay the filing fee and upon receipt of the
same the case will be closed and re-
turned to the district court as a case
without assets.

In the matter of Leonard C. Davis,
3ankrupt No. 3465, the first meeting of
4creditors was held June 20. The bank-
rupt was present in person and repre-
sented by attorney Clare E. Hoffman.
No creditors were present or represented.
No claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt
was directed to vay the filing fee, upon
receipt of which the case wiil be closed
and geturned to the district court, as a
case without assets.

In the matter of Peter A. Clapp, Bank-
rupt No .3466, the first meeting of cred-
itors was held on June 28. The bank-
rupt was present and represented by
attorney Charles H. Farrell. No cred-
itors were present in person, but rep-
resented by Jackson, Fitzgerald & Dalm,
attorneys. Claims were proved and al-
lowed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. No trus-
tee was appointed. The first meeting
then adjourned without date and the
case has been closed and returned to the
district court, as a case without assets.

In the matter of Mathewson A. C.
Fox, Bankrupt No. 3464, the first meeting
of ecred4itors was held on June 26 The
bankrupt was present and represented by
attorneys Weston & Fex. No creditors
were present or represented. No claims
were proved and allowed. No _ trustee
was appointed. The bankrupt was sworn
and examined without a reporter. The
first meeting then adjourned without date
and the case has begn closed and re-
turned to the district court as a case
without assets.

—_+>>>—___

Features Incident To the Retail Gro-
cery Business.

(Continued from page 20)
always to enforce, however, is the com-
plete payment of each when due with
no balances.

Such process, gone through with in-
flexibility, with no personal bias in it
whatever, will maintain the credit in-
vestment on as solid a basis as the in-
vestment in either stock or equipment.
And why not?

The Cost of Credit; If asked what

it costs to extend credit, the vast ma-
jority of merchants, grocers included,
would be apt to answer, “Half of one
per cent.” What do they mean—what
have they in mind? They think only
of credit losses, and they mainly
answer with such figure because they
have heard from somewhere that such
ratio is “about right.” Well, credit
costs all of 5 per cent. Take sales of
$35,000 annually on credit. Direct
losses of unpaid bills, % per cent., $175
per year. Conservative depreciation
charge on outstanding balance at any
time, say $5,000, at 10 per cent., $500.
This leaves $1,075 to cover labor, post-
age, stationery and other collection ex-
penses to make $1,750. Do you think
it can be done for less? Do you do it
for less, considering all these factors
honestly? At that, credit is worth its
cost—and more—if intelligently ad-
ministered. And its cost can readily
be recovered in the price. A cash price
of 15c advanced to l6c will provide
614 per cent. extra margin—enough to
pay for credit with a fine profit on the
service. And where the cash man will
sell one 15c item, the credit man can
sell half a dozezn—cutting all costs.

—_+>-___
Traverse City Jottings.

Traverse City, July 10—Articles of
incorporation have been filed with the
Secretary of State by the Burns Gro-
cery Co. It will enter both the whole-
sale and retail field. Leland Burns,
formerly with Hannah, Lay & Co.,
will manage the business. A. E.
Davidson, of Grand Rapids, and A. L.
LaFranier, of Traverse City, are as-
sociated with Mr. Burns as_ stock-
holders. The capital stock of the com-
pany is $50,000.

Ivan York, Manager of the Grinnell
Bros. music store, has been trans-
ferred to ‘the firm’s store in Adrian.
Charles Everett is the successor of
Mr. York in Traverse City. The busi-
ness was founded by three Grinnell
brothers, all of whom are now dead.
A factory and twenty stores are now
operated ‘by the heirs of the deceased.

‘The mercury ranged from 75 to 92
during the past three days and resort-
ers have been uncomfortable. The
heat hastens the growth of corn, which
was backward. Many fields of pota-
toes are in bloom. A heavy crop of
hay has been growing, much of which
is cut and in storage. Cherries are
ripening and growers are advertising
in the newspapers for pickers.

Arthur Scott White.

—_~22s———_
The Seven Mistakes of Man.

1. The delusion that individual ad-
vancement is made by crushing others
down.

2. The tendency to worry about
things that cannot be changed or cor-
rected.

3. Insisting that a thing is impos-
sible because we ourselves cannot ac-
complish it.

4. Refusing to set aside trivial
preferences, in order that important
things may be accomplished.

5. Neglecting development and re-
finement of the mind by not acquiring
the habit of reading.

6. Attempting to compel other per-
sons to believe and live as we do.

7. The failre to establish the habit
of saving money.

——— >>

Grocer Must Be Well Informed.

We wonder sometimes if the aver-
age grocer is as well informed as he
should be about the products that he

sells. Take such an insignificant and
lowly item as salt—how many grocers
know of the many valuable uses that
can be made of this common every-
day product. Then there is baking
soda, another item of universal use
but very little understood by the men
who sell it. Also how many grocers
realize the medicinal value of many of
the fresh and canned vegetables and
other products that they carry in stock,
etc. We wonder if the average grocer
would think it worth his while to in-
form himself upon some of. these
subjects.

2 ___
Your Letterhead.

All you actually need on your let-
terhead is:

1. Your name.

2. What you sell.

3. Where you sell it.

From these, work up. If your busi-
ness is one that depends to a great
extent on the personality of the own-
ers, put their names on your letter-
head.

If your letterhead is used for local
correspondence, put your telephone
number on it.

If your house is really an old es-
tablished one and your business is such
that age will add to its prestige, put
“Established 1878” in very small type
below your name.

In writing a letter, the big idea you
want to get across is in the letter
itself. Don’t put anything on your
letterhead that detracts from your
message.

Your letterhead is your approach,
your introduction. The kind of start
your message will get depends a great
deal on your letterhead.

—_22+>___
AUCTION SALES

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN
DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN.
SOUTHERN DIVISION.
At a Court of Bankruptcy held in and
for said District and Division, at Grand
Rapids, this 27th day of June, 1928.
Present: Charles B. Blair, Referee in
Bankruptcy.
In the Matter of
STANLEY SACKETT, Bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that pursuant
to an order heretofore entered herein, I
shall sell at public auction and to the
highest bidder, on Monday, July 16, 1928,
at 2 P. M. Eastern standard time, at the
premises formerly ocupied by the Bank-
rupt. Number 214 E. Main Street, Kala-
mazoo, Michigan, all of the stock in trade
and fixtures of this estate, all of which
is scheduled by the Bankrupt at the ap-
proximate sum of $1573.00 and consists
of attendant fixtures for the operation of
a retail grocery and meat market.
ABE DEMBINSKY,
Court Auctioneer,
Saginaw, Phone Federal 1944
M. N. KENNEDY, Custodian,
Kalamazoo. Michigan.

In the Matter of

PAPE & HANSEN, Bankrupt.

Notice is hereby given that pursuant
to an order heretofore entered herein, I
shall sell at public auction and to the
highest bidder, on Tuesday, July 17, 1928,
at 2 P. M. Eastern standard time, at the
premises formerly occupied by the Bank-
rupt, Number 515 E. Dowland Street,
Ludington, Michigan, all of the stock in
trade and fixtures of this estate, all of
which is inventoried at the sum of $1207.15
and consists of Groceries and attendant
fixtures for the operation of a retail gro-
cery and meat market.

ABE DEMBINSKY,
Court Auctioneer,

Saginaw, Phone Federal 1944
EARL A. MILLER, Custodian,
Ludington, Michigan.

o>
In the Matter of
WESTLUND LUMBER COMPANY,
Bankrupt.

Notice is hereby given that pursuant to
an order heretofore entered herein, I
shall sell at public auction to the highest
bidder, on Wednesday, July 18, 1928, at
2 P. M. Eastern standard time, at the
premises formerly occupied by the Bank-

rupt, Elk Rapids, Michigan, all of the
stock in trade and fixtures of this estate,
all of which is inventoried at the sum of
$3660.10, which consists of a retail lumber
yard with machinery, stock and office
equipment.

ABE DEMBINSKY,

Court Auctioneer,

Saginaw, Phone Federal 1944
CORNELIUS W. MOORE, Custodian,
Belmont, Michigan.

An itemized inventory and appraisal
will be on hand at the date and time of
sale. The property may be seen prior to
the date of sale by application to the
below named custodian or auctioneer.
All sales are for cash and subject to
immediate confirmation by the Referee
in Bankruptcy.

CHARLES B. BLAIR,
Referee in Bankruptcy.

 

 

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
734 So. Jefferson Ave., Saginaw, Mich.
Phone Federal 1944.
Buyers inquiring everyday—

Business Wants Department

FOR SALE—BEstablished dry goods and
grocery business in good thriving Mich-
igan town of 700 population. Only dry
goods business in town, and only two
other groceries. Doing good cash busi-
ness. Have best of reasons for selling.
Address No. 887, c/o Michigan Trades-
man. 887

MANUFACTURERS OF A PRODUCT
of thirty-seven years standing wnat to
hear from several salesmen able to take
a sideline that has held and built itself
where properly introduced. Men who
have been on their territory some time
and have made the smaller communities
closely are wanted. To several such—
who appreciate the significance of to-
morrow and value a sound year to year
addition to income—we will give active
co-operation, exclusive territory, and full
sales credits. Give details — territory.
how covered, lines, etc. Address No. 888,
c/o Michigan Tradesman. 888

Kor Sale Cheap—Two horse power al-
ternating current motor. Good condition.
Also job printing outfit. Parmelee,
Matherton, Mich. 889

TEA ROOM—Blue Bird, at Manistee,
Mich. Doing very nice business, estab-
lished four years, on main street. Sale
price, $2,000. Address 410 River St.,
Manistee. 890

For Sale—Meat market and grocery.
For full particulars, write Vint Pullman,
Tustin, Mich. 884

For Sale—General store in small vil-
lage. Good ten-grade school, community
church, many social activities. In addi-
tion to general merchandise, store han-
dles good line of tires and fencing. Gas
and oil station, also ice cream parlor in
connection. Address No. 885, c/o Mich-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

igan Tradesman. 885
FOR SALE—Seven lots on Eastern
avenue, Grand Rapids, valued at $7,000.

Will trade for desirable stock of goods
or other income property. Arthur Mul-
holland, Reed City, Mich. Ge 2 aee
GENERAL store, good business, seven
nice living rooms, all modern. MHessler’s,
East Flint St., Lake Orion, Mich. 876 _

FOR RENT

Wonderful corner location in central
block of city of Cadillac. Store room
about 21 ft. by 82 ft. Seeqmiller Bros.,
218 No. Mitchell St., Cadillac, Michigan.

FOR SALE—Splendid business prop-
erty in the beautiful town of Byron.
Twelve-grade school. Twenty-two miles
from Flint. Brick store, full basement,
six rooms above. Four car garage. Also
complete grocer and meat market equip-
ment. Would cost $8,500 to build this
store. Cash, terms or trade. You can
buy this right. Act quickly. Inquire
Moffett Grocer Co., 212 Smith St., Flint,
Mich. 872

CASH FOR MERCHANDISE

Will 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, ciothing, fur-

nishings, bazaar novelties, furniture, etc.
LOUIS LEVINSOHN, Saginaw. Mich.

Want a Profitable Business?—Must sac-
rifice for quick sale, due to ill health.
well-established growing wholesale fried
cake business in Grand Rapids. Com-
pletely equipped. Runs on small capital.
‘ash business. No experience necessary,
Six busy months ahead. -Address No,
861, c/o Michigan Tradesman. 861

 

 

 

 

  

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Some Ridiculous Requests Made of
Merchants.

A prominent real estate dealer came
into the store in February and bought
two rooms of cheap wall paper amount-
ing to about $1.08 per room. It was
for a house then vacant. The next
day he called at the store and wanted
to know if we didn’t have a stove to
set up in empty house while paper was
being hung. On being informed we
didn't, he said he would think afte-
he had bought two rooms of paper,
that we would furnish to
keep it from freezing while the paper
hanger put it on. Ed. Kipp,

Winterset, Iowa.

some way

A customer priced a certain article
of hardware in and when
told the price he said, “Why, I can’t
pay you any such a price as that be-

our store

cause your competitor down the street
priced’ it to at about half that
much.”

The manager said, “Well now that
is cheaper than I can buy it and if I
were you I should go and buy it from
him.”

The
he hasn't got it.”

Mrs.

me

customer answered, “Yes, but
Paul Walters,
Lamar, Ohio.

Threshing time brings a dinner
crowd to the cook. One of our cus-
tomers was short a couple of pie tins
and wanted to borrow two tin plates to
bake pies in once and would return
them for stock after use, saving her
20 cents. C. H. Holcomb,

Carthage, S. D.

A lady had been owing me $16 for
a long time and her credit was no
She came into the store one
morning to look at a bedroom suite.
She finally decided on one and said
she would take it and also pay the old
bill. As I was waiting for her to pro-
duce the money, she spoke up and said,
“Just make out a_ note, and will sign

Tid C. P. Dischler,

good.

Heron Lake, Minn.
I work in a furniture store. The
other day a handsome young papa

came into the store and asked to see
our line of baby carriages. Cheerfully
I paraded one after another before
him until he had our stock of
some 60 perams, sulkies and cabs.

seen

“Exactly what color is that one?”
he would ask.

“Buff,” I replied in my best sales-
manship manner.

“What's that shade?”

“Caramel.”

“Now, just what color is this?”

“Etruscan ivory.”

And went over all
the colors two or three times.

so on, until we

Finally: ‘What's that one again?”

“Beige.”

“Well, that suits me.”

“Where is it to be sent please?” (My
order book in hand.)

“Oh, I don't want to buy any. We
got one second hand and my wife
wanted to be sure to get exactly the
right shade of paint for it so I came
in to get the latest color.”

To say the least, I was speechless
until after he left.
Kathleen Jennings,

Rock Fall. Il.
>>
Do You Know the Answers?
In preparing these questions, the

Chamber of Commerce of the United
States stated that a retailer who can
answer them properly may consider
himself 100 per cent. efficient.

1. Do you keep a “purchase ac-
count” that shows a total of all goods
bought?

2. Do you know what you save an-
nually by discounting bills?

3. Do you know what it costs to
buy goods?

4. Do you know what you owe?

5. How often do you take stock?

6. Do you figure stock at cost or
selling price?

7. Do you make allowance for de-
preciation and dead stock?

8. Do you know what is due you?

9. Do you make depreciation of fix-
tures and delivery equipment?

10. Can you furnish your bank a
financial statement at once?

11. Are collections made as rapid-
ly as accounts increase?

12. Do you know what it is costing
you for allowances for customers?

13. How ofte do you make up a
“profit and loss account?”

14. Into how many “separate ac-
counts are your expenses divided?

15. Do you own the building in
which you do business?

16. Do you charge rent therefor?

17. Do you charge your own sal-
ary as an expense?

18. Do you charge interest on mon-

ey invested?

19. Do you know the percentage of
expense to sales?

20. If a fire took place, could you
from your books give a complete state-
ment of all accounts?

With the existing conditions out-
lined, plus conscientious effort for im-
provement, every progressive dealer
should close his 1928 books substan-
tially ahead of the 1927 record.

2.2 2>_ __
Michigan Invites You.

Come where the glow-worms
And fire-flies Moht
Regions of forest
Like stars in the night.

Come where the delicate
Arbutus grows,

Breathing a fragrance
Surpassing the rose.

Come where the rubythroat,
Poised in its flight,

Whirs like a bowstring
And shoots out of sight!

Come where the lily pads
Lie on the pond—

Come where the sands sing
A few rods beyond.

Come where the dunes are—
Come where the bees

Store up their honey
High in the trees.

Come where the piper
30bs on the beach:
Come where the hazel nuts
Hanz within reach.

Come where the black
Strips like veneer:
Come smell the SWeet-grass,

Come, see the deer,

ash

Come where the woodchuck
Runs up the creek:

Come where the grouse
And the chipmunks are thick.

Come, see the wintergreens,
Come see the ferns—

A hundred varieties— |
Wild ducks and terns.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

Come where the Indian
Loves to behold

The sun as it sets
In a basin of gold.

Come where the fishes
Flash in the spray—
Come for the summer—
Loaf here and play.
John C. Wright.

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Beware of This Itinerant Painter.

Muskegon, July 10—This might be
useful to publish in the Realm. If you
think it is not worth while to publish,
throw it in the waste basket: but I am
certainly sure this bird will ply this
same trick in some other city.

A man by the name of Faye Sackett,
painter and paper hanger, came to
Muskegon, worked a few weeks and
contracted debts wherever he could get
trusted. He then departed without
paying any of his creditors. He claim-

ed to come from the North—Mar-
quette, Petoskey or somewhere near
those towns—and departed at night

without paying anybody.
Of course he has a car. He bought
a new pair of tires and only paid $3
on them, got his car repaired and never
paid much on the repair bill and left
me with an account, of $8.80 after pay-
ing me every Saturday for three or
four weeks.
I understand he travels from city to
city, works a while and skips.
F. X. Groleau.
—#_\_~+--__
Beyond the Soo.

I view with rapture every line
When Nature at her best
Is conjuring with leaf and pine
To make this wooded crest
Beyond the Soo, whose waters deep
Shall be Niagara's and sleep
Upon the ocean’s breast.

I love a moon in silver sheen
The like midsummer brings
When shining full all in between
The wood. where softly sings
The standing choir of piney trees
Which zephyrs tune to melodies
Upon a night serene.

The waters of the open lake
Are quieted withal:
A twinkling star can ever break
The tempest’s maddest call
Until the billows £0 below
And leave a mirror there to show
Reflections which enthrall.

A tree, a lake, a shore, a wood
Are truly gifts divine
And these I never understood
With forest cliff and pine
ntil the sun, the moon. the sea
Depicted them in imagery
And Arcadie was mine.
Charles

A. Heath.

 

renee

Pretzels Are Back in Favor of Public.

Pretzels, necessary to the success of
every bar and beer garden in preprohi-
bition days, continue to hold their pop-
ularity, as the Department of Agricul-
ture has found 27,000,000 pounds are
consumed annually in United
States. :

And the large consumption of the
salt sprinkled and peculiarly shaped

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culinary product has caused the de-
partment to undertake tests to deter-
mine what kind of flour makes the
best pretzels. The industry’s annual
production is valued at nearly $5,000,-
000.

Eleven New Readers of the Tradesman
The following new subscribers have
been received during the past week:
A. G. Carrier, Swartz Creek.
Adeline S. Holley, Charlevoix,
Mrs. C. Noble, Charlevoix.
C. J. MarCarthy, Charlevoix.
F. A. Sawall, Detroit.
Am. Institute of Food Distribution,
New York City.
Post Products Co., Detroit.
L. E. Ward, Lansing.
W. B. Caldwell, Lansing.
E. H. Bigelow, Lansing.
Shoemaker & Ferley, Lansing.

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