Published W eekly. VOL. 9. MUSKEGON BRANCH UNITED STATES BAKING CO, Successors to MUSKEGON CRACKER CoO., HARRY FOX, Manager. Crackers, Biscuits Sweet Goods. MUSKEGON, MICH. ATTENTION PAID TO MAIL ORDERS. E GREAT SEAL CIGAR! 10 CENTS STRAIGHT !? Like Its Little Old Daddy THE GREEN SHALL Is the Best of Its Kind Made. Wholesaler an Order. MOSELEY BROS., - WHOLESALE - FRUITS, SKEDS, BRANS AND PRODUCE, 26, 28, 30 & 32 OTTAWA ST, Grand Rapids, Mich. SPECIAL 7 Send Your THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS. GRAND RAPIDS, FEBRUARY 17, 1892. Michigan Tradesman. $1 Per Year. NO. 489 G. S. BROWN & CO.,, Foreign and Domestis Fruits Oranges and Bananas a Specialty. Send for quotations. 24-26 No. Division St. SEEDS .., A ~32 GRAIN THE NEW YORK BISCUIT C0. Ss. A. SEARS, Manager. Cracker Manufacturers, 37,39 and 41 Kent St., Grand Rapids. Jobbers of W. 5. MOREHOUSE & CO. othy “ied Top, Millet, Alfalfa "eee Gras ane she a rass ian ae , Ete Choise . lower tk Tino Seeds sity or future deliv 3] a nee solicited. Hu —— ian, vg en a Gr. vc = ite 5-327 Ss : 5-327 Es adhe me TOLEDO, oO. Something New! You can always find something new and especially Candy of ‘A. E. BROOKS & CO., Wholesale Confectioners, 46 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich fine by ordering your rand Aapidls Look Hiucing Ay. Sole Manufacturers chigan of MULLINS PATENT PLAT ‘OPENING BLANK BOOK. Flat Opening Le’ gers and Journals always on Hand. 29-31 Canal St. Grand Rapids, Mich GET THE Best! Jennings’ Flavoring Extracts SEE QUOTATIONS. Cc. A. LAMB. Cc. A. LAMB & CO, WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION Foreign and Domestic Fruits and Produce, 84 and 86 South Division St. F. J. LAMB. TELFER SPICE COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Spices and Baking Powder, and Jobbers of _ Teas, Coffees and Grocers’ Sundries. 1 and 3 Pear! Street, GRAND RAPIDS | ORANGES AND BANANAS! We ave Heiguartes! Mail Orders Receive Prompt Attention. Cc. Mm RAFF & CA. 9 North Ionia St., Grand Rapids. Florida Oranges a Specialty. No Bogus! G ENU INE Peninsular Butte mn Fas teners in lots Heaton . Fast Shank Buttons, best on the market at HIRTH & KRAUSE, 12-14 Lyon St., Gd Rapids Headquarters for Shoe Store Suppuies. of 10 #t. gr. at 454 $1 > per gt. gr. 40¢ «YUM-YUM | Clear Havana Filled 5c Cigar. Olney & Judson Grocer Co., Agents. F. I DETTENTHALER Heyman & . Company, JOBBER OF OYSTERS SALT FISH POULTRY & GAME = ==> t cA as 8 ———__ First-Class Work Only. Maii Orders Receive Prompt Attention. See Quotations in Another Column. CONSIGNMENTS OF ALL KINDS OF POULTRY AND GAME SOLICITED. 63 and 65 Canal St., i GRAND RAPIDS. PB —— TEMON & WHRELER COUMPAN, OYSTERKRS IMPORTERS AND P»B Wholesale Grocers GRAND RAPIDS. Manufacturers of Mow Cases Of Every Description. WRITE FOR PRICES. If you desire to serve your trade with the best Oysters | the market affords specify the P. & B. Brand when) ordering. For general excellence and uniform good quality | they have no equal. Place your orders with any of the Grand Rapids cabbies or send direct to the packers. ‘ THE PUTNAM CANDY KI — PUTM AN C0 OS | e Grocers, Diamond Crystal Table and Dairy Salt. 99.7 PURE. Put up in pockets and wooden boxes and sold at only a slight advance over the price of inferior brands. Order a sample barrel or case of your jobber and be con- _vinced of the superiority of Diamond Crystal -: "GA ee is annette eat ) i GR MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1899. NO. 439° Commercial Agency Furnishes semi-monthly lists and special reports which enable subscribers to save both time and money. Especially adapted to merchants, phy- sicians, real estate dealers and all others dea ing with the public. Reports made with the greatest possible dis patch. Collections carefully attended to and promptly reported. We respectfully solicit an investigation of our system, as it will insure your giving us your membership. STEVENSON & CUMINGS PROPRIETORS OF Cooper's Commercial Agency, 65 Monroe &t., Grand Rapids, Telephone 166. J. L. Strelitsky, bigars a the following celebrated brands man- Jobber of ufactured by the well-known house of Glaser, Frame & Co.: Vindex, long Havana filler................ $35 Three Medals, long Havana filler........ 35 Elk’s Choice, Havana filler and binder... 55 Ee Bier €e Sitemee... ....... e La Doncella de Morera, ................. 65 i 55 ro. Weeremes..... cl... 65 Also fine line Key West goods at rock bottom — All favorite brands of Cheroots kept in stock. 10 80. Jonia St, Grand Rapids, ESTABLISHED 1841. ALAR REL REIN SRE AA ES THE MERCANTILE AGENCY m.G. Dun & Go. Reference Books issued quarterly. Collections attended to throughout United States and Canada H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Wholesale and Retail Jobbers of Building Papers Carpet Linings, And All Kinds of Roofing Materials, Coal Tar and Asphalt Products We make a specialty of the seamless asphalt ready roofing and two-ply coal tar ready roofing which is far superior to shingles and much cheaper. We are practical roofers of twenty-five years’ experience which enables us to know the wants of the people in our line. Cor. LOUIS & CAMPAU STS., Grand Rapids, Mich Ij W!LL PAY YOU To Buy ALLEN B.WRisLeyY’s GOO: CHEER SOAP Leading \¥ iolesale Grocers keep it. Wayne County Savings Bank, Detroit Mich. $500,000 TO INVEST IN BONDS Issued by cities, counties, towns and school districts of Michigan. Officers of these municipalities about to issue bonds will find it to their advantage to apply | to this bank. Blank bonds and bla: ks for proceedings | supplied without charge. All communications and enquiries will have prompt attention. This bank pays 4 per cent. on deposits, compounded semi-annually, 8. D. ELWOOD, Treasury. OYSTERS! Bulk. We quote: Standards, per gal a $1 65 Solid Brand in Cans. See... a ee... 2) Standards ......... 18 Daisy Brand in Cans. Sere .......... = CemGee........... 16 Pavorner.......... 14 Mrs. Withey’s Home-made Mince-Meat. Large bbls..... ue ake Dbls. OM 491D. pails ......... G4 Wib. patie ......... 6% 1G1e pals ........ q 2 1b. cans, (usual weight)..........$1.50 per doz. ch * “ ny wi te cae ss OU Dee GON, Chotce Dairy Butter............... oe ee 21 Pure Sweet Cider, in bbis., ... 15....144 bbl... 16 Pure Giger Vigewar, | 10 Sweet Florida Oranges..... .. .......82 50@3 (0 ae Cl. 3 75Q4 25 Will pay 40 cents each for Molasses half bbls. Above prices are made low to bid for trade. Let your orders come. EDWIN FALLAS & SON, Valley City Cold Storage. THE _ 4? aco PROMPT, CONSERVATIVE, SAFE. S. F. ASPINWALL, Pres't W. Prep McBa:n. Sec'y THOS. E. WYKES, WHOLESALE Lime, Cement, Stucce, Hair, Fire Brick, Fire Clay, Lath, Wood, Hay, Grain, Oil Meal, Clover and Timothy Seed. Corner Wealthy Ave, and Ionia St. on B.C, &, &. Office, 45 S. Division. DUHLOSS, ADLER & CO, MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF Pants, Shirts, Overalls AND—— Gents Furnishing Goods, 184, 186 & 188 JEFFERSON AVE., DETROIT, MICH. FIRE The Bradstreet Mercantile Agency, The Bradstreet Company, Props. Brecutive Offices, 279, 281, 283 Broadway, N.Y. CHARLES F. CLARK, Pres, Offices in the principal cities of the United States, Canada, the European continent, Australia, and in London, England. Grand Rapids Office, Room 4, Widdicomb Bldg. HENRY IDEMA, Supt. WHO ROBBED THE BANK? Baxterville was a town of about 1,500 inhabitants—a staid, quiet place which never boomed or hustled. ‘‘The Bank of Baxterville,’’ as the sign read, was a two-story brick building, plain and sub- stantial, and George Carter, sole owner of the bank, was personally known to almost everybody in the county. He was a man of 45, unmarried, and an old maid sister kept house for him. The banker was known as a methodical man, careful in his investments, and no one had any fear of disaster overtaking him. Now and then he had been warned that safe blowers might pay him a visit, but he had not taken any extra precautions. He had a large fire and burglar-proof safe, andaman slept in the room at night. On acertain April morning soon after the close of the war Mr. Carter arrived at the bank at exactly 8:30. That was his usual time toa second. ‘The curtains were always up and the watchman was always at the door. On this morning, however, something was wrong. The curtains were down and the door was locked, and it was only after a panel had been sawed out of it that entrance was gained. There sat Davis, the watchman, bound fast to his chair and a gag in his mouth, and the safe door stood wide open. A hole had been drilled and the bolts thrown back, and the $21,000 safely locked up the evening before was gone. Davis had all the particulars at his tongue’s end. He had been aroused at midnight by someone knocking on the door, and asking him for a light by which to mend a broken harness. He dented that he had been asleep, but claimed to be ‘“‘thinking.” Suspecting no evil, he opened the door, and three men at once rushed in and overpowered him. After making him secure, they got their tools out of a bag and began operations, and in an hour or so had the safe open. His Statement thus far was all right and reasonable. From there on it was a puzzler. I was sent down from the city in answer to the telegram for a detective, and Davis was, of course, the first man to be examined. He had not been blind- folded, and he saw all that took place, though the burglars wore masks and he did not get sight of their faces. He de- clared that they did not get adollar in money, and that they cursed and raved | | he was ina desperate mood, but when and threatened to burn the building in consequence. They pulled everything out of the safe and opened all the large | envelopes, but the sack they had brought along was lying on the floor as proof of | Davis’s story. At 5 o’clock of the previous evening, Mr. Carter had placed in that safe $21,000 | in greenbacks, most of it in small bills. | The packages would have filled a law- | yer’s waste basket. Had the burglars | got them the sack would have been used, | as that sort of men do not sit down and | count up and divide their plunder on the | spot. Davis was not only believed to be | honest, but Mr. Carter believed his story. It is needless to observe that I did not. I judged from his physiognomy that he was chicken-hearted. He had no marks to prove that he had resisted the bur- glars. I believed he lied when he said he was not asleep. Asa matter of fact, I made up my mind that he had “stood in’? with the burglars and either been left”? on his share, or had secreted it around the building and then let them bind and gag him. I think the theory was not only reasonable, but just the one which any other detective would have adopted. Fortunately for the bank and its de- positors, the proprietor had plenty of reserve, and business went on as usual. I was told to go ahead on the case and work out anything 1 could, and my first move was to search for Davis’s share of the money. No sign of it could be found about the building. In spite of all my efforts, he stuck to his story just as he first told it, and I had to admit to myself that he appeared perfectly honest and sincere. In describing the burglars as well as he was able, he mentioned that one of them was a very tall man with a hackingcough. Thatexactly fitted Steve Pratt, a burglar who had been out of Joliet only two months after serving a ten years’ sentence. Steve had his throat injured by swallowing a fish bone and kept up aconstant hacking even in his sleep. He described another as yery short and very stout, with a falsetto voice, and I suspected he was Alf Taylor, who was then supposed to be in Canada. The third man I could not place. While still suspecting Davis of having a hand in the job, and securing the ser- vices of a local officer to watch him, I began a hunt for the others. I got track of Steve Pratt after a few days and lo- cated him in Cincinnati. He was too quick for me, and I followed him to Chicago. He got the start of me again and led the way to Buffalo, and there seemed to sink into the earth. For two long weeks I was engaged with the local officers searching for him, but our efforts met with no success. One day I took a run down to the Falls with a friend, and we went to the International Hotel, on the Canada side, for dinner. We were seated in the office when there was a sudden outery from the clerk behind the railing. A man had coolly walked in behind him and taken all the money from the till and was walking out with it. We had a pretty hot time to secure him, as we had him fast I recognized the chap I had been hunting for. He was Steve Pratt, and no mistake. He denied it, of course, but inside of three days I pro- duced such proofs that he finally knocked under. Iwas never more astounded in my life than when 1 came to interview him about the Baxterville Bank affair. He verified the story of the janitor in every particular. “I shall get ‘soaked’ for this hotel job, anyhow,” he said, ‘‘and so I might as well tell you about the other. There were three of us. We threatened to kill Davis, and overawed him. We got the safe door open to find we had been fooled. I’m a convict and all that, but I’m talk- 2 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ing straight when I say that we did not I sat down to interview the lady, how- | The New York Commercial find a dollar. Here is what we did find ever, the case might not have been helped | and all we brought away. I took it for|along any. It had occurred to me, as luck—a Spanish piece with a hole in it.” you may have suspected, that the sister at 4:30 o’clock.”’ state of somnambulism. I had a talk “Then he or some one else took it out | with her doctor, and he agreed that her | Bankers sometimes | condition during the first week of April |favored such a thing. indeed, on the | before we got there. rob themselves.”’ News, speaking of Michael Kolb & Son," sibs CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS, “Pp Carte it S92 ; saf oo " stat : ae But Carter put $21,000 into that safe; had robbed the safe herself while in a established 1838, Rochester, N. Y., says: “The clothing industry. has been one of the leading features of the city of Rochester for many years. Many of the present firms began business in a very lexplained to him that it was not so} morning the robbery was discovered he| modest way, but have since developed in this case, and he was as much mysti-| had been called in, to find her very much fied over the On| exhausted, and she had declared that she leaving the bank, they had was as stiff and lame as if standing at| door from without and had carried the | the washtub all day. I was now satisfied that I was on the 1 found that Mr. Carter al- | ease as I had been. locked the key a mile before throwing it away. They | had gone empty handed and mad enough | right trail. into some of the leading manufacturers | So extensive is the in- | dustry carried on here that a very large | per cent. of the city’s inhabitants are | in the country. supported by it. Good hands can get plenty of work and demand a fair com- pensation for their labor. One of the oldest firms here engaged in the clothing | to kill Davis. I don’t go much on the| ways carried his key home, and that the} trade is that of Messrs. MicHAEL KOLB declaration of convicts caught again red-| watchman never left his in the lock at} & Son. | thirty-four years ago by the senior mem- handed, but in this case it did seem as if| night. I went for Davis again, and he| the truth was being spoken. Had Steve} finally admitted that he was asleep from got his $7,000 out of that boodle he would | 10 o’clock until aroused by the burglars. not have been dead broke so quick, for, | The end of the case was as mysterious as unlike nearly all others of his ilk, he/| the beginning. One night when I had was amiser and never gambled. I re-| reasoned it all out and felt satisfied in turned to Baxterville with my news and | my own mind, but could see no way to asked Mr. Carter if it was not possible | secure proofs, 1 got so nervous that | that he had placed the money somewhere | arose at midnight and went out on the /street for a walk and asmoke. I took > he replied, with more | no heed of my direction, but at the end else. “It is not. sir! acid in his voice than the occasion seemed | of ten minutes found myself in front of “That safe was there to put | the banker’s cosy home. It was in total my money in. | putit there. I stacked | darkness, as wel! as others in the village, up the packages with my own hand. I) but I leaned up against a tree box and locked the door myself. Lalone knew} stood gazing at the windows as if ex- My bookkeeper never | pecting something to happen to pull my Something did happen. to demand. the combination. handles a dollar of the money.”’ ‘But you have searched elsewhere—in | these cupboards and drawers?”’ ease through. | l was within six feet of the gate, and I lasked. | suddenly saw a figure in a female dress “No, sir; but, as you seem to wish it,| come‘ around from a side door with a we will do so now.” |large market basket on her arm. She For a long hour we searched desks and was fully dressed, and from the first drawers and cupboards, but we made nO|jnstant 1 believed it was the banker’s He was as sure that he put] sister. I thought she looked full at me the money in the safe as he was that he as she passed out of the gate, but, never- was a living man, and the bookkeeper | theless she walked off up the street with was sure that he saw him carrying some | the basket on her arm. I followed a few of the packages back there. What had yards behind her, and she held steadily become of that money? If it was there, | on and went straight to the bank. 1 was why didn’t Steve Pratt and his gang get | sure of herthen. She paused at the door it? That they didn’t 1 was now pretty | for a few seconds to unlock it and then well convinced. The only way that 1) qisappeared inside. Five seconds later, could reason it out was that someone | Davis was shouting and a woman’s voice safe before the Pratt| could be heard uttering shrill screams. discovery. had robbed the gang got there. done by opening the door in the regular | mystery was solved at last. There stood The banker had said that he alone Miss Anna, just aroused from sleep, and I led up to the} in the basket on her arm was that miss- matter again, and he admitted that his|jng money, Davis was lying down, but sister also had it as a safeguard against | not asleep, when she entered, and he had accident. | at once seized her. | I now began work on anentirely new| ow did she get the money from the) theory. I felt that the key of the mys-| safe? She had been reading about bur- tery was in the hands of the sister, though | glars and gone to the bank in her sleep. I was far from hinting any such thing to/ She had entered and secured the money a living soul. I took up my quarters in| and left again without arousing Davis. the town and began on the new theory.| The burglars came later on. She had ) I soon found that Anna Carter was @/taken the money home and concealed it, spinster of 35, and was generally regard- but in what spot she could never deter- ed as astrong-minded woman. She had} mine. She probably did not walk again money of her own, and knew how to in-/| until the night she returned it. There vest it to make a profit. She now and| was anew safe and a new combination, then, so it was said, gave her brother | put as she knew the word she might have hints which he found to be valuable in a/ restored the money and escaped_unseen business way. Coming down closer to} put for the vigilance of the watchman. the burglary, I found that she had been | To this day no one in that village except under the care of the doctor off and on for | prother, sister and Davis knows how that with some nervous | money was restored. They even declare way. knew the combination. | j } a month previous trouble. For some reason which she did not ex- |] had to throw up the case for want of plain, Miss Carter refused even to see Me | prains to strike a clue. C. B. Lewis. while I was consulting with her brother - Ee There are plenty of peo- at the house. For the finest coffees in the world, high | ple, and good people, too, who dislike | grade teas, spices, etc., see J. P. Visner. | detectives, but I take no offence at it. | 304 North lonia street, Grand Rapids, Every man to his notion, say I, provided | Mich., general representative for E. J. If so, however, it was) I opened the door and entered. and the |’ | that not adollar was recovered, and that, as 1 { ! } This concern was established ber of the firm, and has enjoyed a won- derfully successful career. They have for many years occupied their large building at Nos. 135 and 137 North St. Paul street, but for want of more room and improved facilities wich which to} better prosecute their extensive business they have resolved to erect a fine, large building in the spring, consisting of six stories above ground, two basements, and with a frontage of seventy-two feet. ‘he structure is to be an imposing one and an ornament to the city, and one of which its owners may justly feel proud. As a further evidence of the prosperity of the clothing manufacturers Mr. Kolb states that quite a number are contem- plating building their own houses, which will probably occur during the present year. In this respect, however, he does not propose to be outdone. ‘The business with this house for the past year has been all that could be desired. Sales have been larger, collections easy, and their books show a decided increase over the year preceding. The outlook for the present is even more flattering than it | has been for many years past. Although they manufacture a general line of goods their specialty consists of a fine grade. in these they are not surpassed, the strictest attention being paid to every detail, and none but the most skilled hands are employed in their manufacture. /As a guarantee of the most thorough | workmanship and finish being given to goods turned out of fhis house, it may | be stated that the senior member of the firm, Mr. Michael Kolb, devotes his whole land undivided attention to the manu- |facturing department of the establish- jment, he having been a practical man in the manufacturing of clothing, and is eminently fitted to fill so important and respo.sible a position. His son, Mr. Jacob M. Kolb, attends to the business on the road. In connection with their manufacturing they also do an extensive jobbing trade, but principally in fine goods. With a long and honorable career this firm bas established a demand for their goods in almost every State in the Union, and enjoy the most implicit con- fidence and esteem of all with whom they have dealings.” Mr. Tripp, a clothing traveler says: “Wm. Connor—There can be no diffi culty selling Kolb’s goods, for they are as staple as flour, and thatis why you sell so many.’’ Write our Michigan representative, William Connor, for printed opinions of the leading clothing merchants in Michi- gan. William Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, ‘Thursday, Friday, Satur- day. March 3rd, 4th, 5th, with a full line of Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s samples Customers’ expenses allowed. Mai} orders promptly attended to; or write William Connor, Box 346, Marshall, Mich., and he will soon be with you. W. H. WHITE & CO., Manufacturers of Hardwood Lumber, BOYNE CITY, MICH > DocKs ee \ & CO" WE.Jordan (WP JUBINVILLE MILL Producti take aor Y Ens" 19 SouthArm” Traces man CO HERE _& COS MILL by DATITE & CO. Pe YAddis po) Y Boyne Falls a craca act dplananaeiartuianegsseeainenionnypuneosadanabonie his notion does not lead to crime. Had ! Gillies & Co., New York City. We operate three mills with a capacity of 9,000,000 £ follows: Boyne City mill, 7,000,600; Boyne Falls mill, 3,000,000; Deer Lake mill, 2,000,000. Our facilities for shipment are unsurpassed, either by rail or water. eet hurd woud aud 4,0 Uv fect weimiocs, as ea ome ae ae er aL Is meteeinin td Eecairs ; 3 t ae ae iat, PRR ie meteeinin a All Honor te Owosso--Reads Like Old Times. Written for THE TRADESMAN. If there be a reader of THr TRADES- MAN who ever considered himself a mem- ber of the Michigan B. M. A., and who neglected to read the report of the an- nual meeting of Owosso’s B. M. A. in the issue of Feb. 3, I would mildly sug- gest that he crawl under the counter and rescue the paper before it goes to the pa- per mill and carefully read the article in question. Among the larger number who, no doubt, did read the report, I wonder how many were surprised, like the writer, to learn that there was one B. M. A., at least, that was actually alive, able-bodied and prosperous. Let us hope that there may be others like it in the State. Should there be such, it is their blessed privilege at this time to do a little good missionary work, and re- vive ‘the drooping energies of their de- sponding brothers and colaborers by re- porting to THE TRADESMAN. As an ex-retailer an ex-president of a once-upon-a-time prosperous local association, it reminds me of the time when similar reports were sent in from so many towns and villages scattered all over our beautiful State, de- scriptive of the good work that was be- ing accomplished in the unification of disturbing elements; the developing of power through concerted action, and the successful application of this power in bringing about wholesome measures and in advancing the business interests of the community, and last, but not least, the collection of old bad debts and the prevention of new ones. The report from Owosso would have been of high grade in the palmiest days of the Asso- ciation; but, at this time, when the insti- tution has apparently settled into a con- dition of eternal somnolence, it is cer- tainly a refreshing bit of glorious news. It is refreshing, because it will brighten the memories of thousands of retail mer- chants, and recall to their minds the many substantial benefits received by them through their B. M. A. before they fell from grace. Itis glorious news, be- cause every friend of the Association will hail it with delight, and his faith in the ultimate success of organization amon’ retailers will be strengthened, for, if this report proves anything, it proves that the business men of Owosso are making a grand success of their lo- cal organization. “Oh, but Owosso is a_ wide-awake, booming young city, with a population of 6,544,’’ I hear some selfish, drowsy old merchant say; ‘‘and it enjoys advantages which we do not possess. It would be impossible for us to make so good a showing.’”? Very true, but you do not understand me;I refer to the spirit of unity. This spirit prevails at Owosso, and it is possible in your town, regard- less of its size or advantages. Indeed,the greatest advantage of which apy town or village can boast is a spirit of unity among its business men. ‘‘Union is strength,” and ‘‘Where there’s a_ will, there’s a way.” Without this spirit of unity, even Owosso could accomplish but little; with it, Poketown itself might secure a new lease of life. But you must remember, my sleepy friend, that, although the last census gives Owosso a population of 6,544, in 1880 she had only 2,501, and that this enormous percentage of increase was brought about, to a great of merchandise, and THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. extent, this same B. M. A. When this Association was organized five years ago, Owosso was not what it is | It has passed through a period to-day. through the instrumentality of | | | your neighbors to meet and examine the | existing state of affairs; and, if you can | discover the faintest spark of life, fan it | of prosperity equaled by few villages in the Southern Peninsula, and it has pre- | BB Mm. AL secret of its marvelous growth. Did you notice, in reading their report, that the secretary receives a salary of $50, that $11 was paid for ringing the bell, that the retiring officials provided an ‘‘elegant lunch’? for the Association, which intellectual feast, during which addresses were de- livered on pertinent subjects? ‘‘Small matter,’? say you, but they indicate with unvarying precision the kind of material of which the members of the Owosso B. M. A. are made; and between the lines we may read the secret of the great ten- acity and wonderful utility of this Asso- ciation, namely, harmony, liberality and intelligenee, or, in served its was followed by an other words, a spirit of unity actuated by a motive to do good. Retailers of Michigan, read this report of Secretary Lamfrom’s carefully and ponder well its full import. Think of the advantages which each one of the sixty-three active members ciation of this Asso- your isolated position; the executive force derived through concerted action; the greater opportunities for gain through fraternal, harmonized action, and the reduction of bad debt losses through concerted, de- fensive action. Your chances for suc- cess in mereantile life, other things be- ing equal, would be far greater if your lot were cast among these Owosso mer- chants, than in your present condition, where you are unable to remedy the many abuses and annoyances to which you are continually subject, and where you fall the easy victim of every wander- ing dead-beat and wily swindler who comes along. Every intelligent retailer knows that the manufacturers and wholesalers have their associations and organized agencies of various kinds for their mutual protec- tion and benefit. He knows, further- more, that, whether he commands a bus- iness of $25,000 per year or only one of $1,000 per year, whether he be located in a city of large dimensions or in the deep- est canon of the far West, the sleuth- hounds of some mercantile agenzy will find him out and publish his standing from one end of creation to the other. He also knows that all classes and inter- ests have their unions and organized systems for mutual protection, even to the common laborer; but the saddest fact that oecurs to his mind, and one that ought to bring the tinge of shame to his cheek, is that the large class to which he belongs is divided, subdivided and re- subdivided against itself, notwithstand- ing the fact that no class of business men on earth ever suffered so much of the very quintessence of abuse, and all for the lack of organization, as this same class of retail merchants. To what shall the cause of this unfor- tunate state of affairs be attributed? A base selfishness conceived in ignorance, or senseless indifference? Make answer who will. After you read this article, do not say, ‘‘There’s a good deal of truth in that,” and then throw THE TRADESMAN under the counter and forget all about it, but go to work. WaAker up. If you are a dead member of a dead B. M. A., get has over you in intact; this is the} into existence, and see to it that your association never languishes again for lack of interest and concerted action on the part of its members. Until you do this, never assert, as you have frequently done in the past, while chuckling over the decline of the P. of I. interest and the dropping out, one by one, of their lodges, that the farmers do not know enough to make a success of organization. Wait until you move out of the glass house yourself before you commence to throw stones. In conclusion, I would say that organ- ization is your only salvation. In no other way can you burst asunder the bonds that now enslave you; in no other way you make your day’s work shorter and secure the recreation and rest you so much need; in no other way can you reform universally acknowledged abuses, and in no other way can you pro- tect yourself from the infinite variety of suck the lifeblood from you in your present helpless condition: and, finally, never can you become a potent factor in developing the material resourees and enhancing the prosperity of the community in which you do busi- ness, except through organized effort. Once more 1 would say, all honor to the B. M. A. of Owosso. E. A. OWEN. > <—- Notice to Stockholders. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Company will be held at the General Office, in the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Wednesday, March 2d, 1892, at 1 o’clock p. m., for the election of, thirteen directors to serve for the ensuing year and for the transaction of such other business as may be suena” at the meetin oF. HUGHART, Sec’y. can leeches which Great Feat! He has great feet, but they are nothing like the great feat that WapHam’s GRAPHITE AXLE GREASE Can be relied upon to perform every time. To try it once is to become an ardent ¢ ad- vocate of it. To praise it too highly is impossi ble. | See What is Said of it. APRIL 25th, 1881. Wadhams Oil & Grease Co., Milwaukee: Dear Sirs—For the past year I have been using your Graphite Axle Grease and have found it will do better work than any other grease in the market. Yours truly PHILLIP SCHARETT, Barn Foreman, Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Wagon Jack Free ! We are sending to every dealer whe handles “GRAPHITE AXLE Gt EASE,” one Daisy Wagon Jack, worth $1, to be given to the holder of the printed order contained in one of the 1-lb. boxes in each case of one-third gross, on presentation of said order to your —— FREE of charge. For sale by all Groc ers, Hardw: are Dealers, Harness Dealers and by the Manufacturers. Wadhams Oil & Grease Co., Milwaukee, Wis. and Seattle, Wash. Agents Wanted We can give you exclusive territory on a large includes the: COLUMBIA VICTOR RUDGE KITE TELEPHONE OVERLAND LOVELL DIA- MOND Also others too numerous to mention. Rubber and Sporting Goods, Mill Wholesale and Fire Department Supplies. STUDLEY & BARCLAY, 4 Monroe St. - - line of Bicycles. Send for catalogue. Our line CLIPPER PARAGON IROQUOIS PHGINIX GENDRONS and all the Western Wheel Works Line. and retail dealers in Bicycles, Cyclists’ Sundries, rand Rapids, Mich. Cc. G A. VOIGT & CO.,, Proprietors of the STAR ROLLER MILLS. OUR? BRANDS; OUR PATENT. GILT EDGE. STAR. CALLA LILY. GOLDEN SHEAF, PEARL. BOSS. BAKE RS’ CHOICE, PATENT ROLLER FLOUR. SPECIALTIES: GRAHAM, RYE and BUCKWHEAT FLOUR, RANULATED and BOLTED MEAL. Prompt attention — te mail orders. Mich, Grand Rapids, THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. AMONG THE TRADE. AROUND THE STATE. Wakefield—Jas. Raizon, druggist, is moving to Ewen. Owosso—J. W. Squier succeeds Cole & Co in the grocery business. Alpena—M. Wolf succeed Wolf & Dar- ling in the notion business. Ithaca—S. E. Parish succeeds Parish & Seott in the grocery business. Easy—Yeomons & Yeldon succeed G. A. Freusel in the drug business. Saginaw—J. Doyle succeeds Tallmadge & Doyle in the harness business. Northville—M. F. Stanley succeeds the Stanley Air Rifle Co. in business. Coldwater—F. E. Calkins succeeds C. W. DeClute in the meat business. Jerome—H. H. Winters succeeds C. S. Yawger inthe hardware business. Port Huron—Miller & Worden succeed Jacob Bernatz in the coal business. Port Huron—J. J. Frickey succeeds W. T. Haskell in the grocery business. Au Sable—Elisha Dietz succeeds Simp- son & Wietz in the grocery business. Carson City—F. J. Cutter has closed his harness shop and left this place. Battle Creek — Matt Phelen succeeds Albert Allen in the jewelry business. Clare—J. A. Chase & Co. succeed Her- rick & Harris in the grocery business. Kitchi—Griffith & Dougherty succeed M. F. Cooley in the grocery business. Lowell—Kate Eagan has closed out her millinery stock and quit the business. Port Huron—Chas. Ross sueceeds Ross & Haywood in the dry goods business. Carson City—C. B. Williams has closed out his bazaar stock and moved away. Bailey—Spring & Lindley are succeed- ed in general trade by Lindley & Lind- ley. Alpena—H. G. Beach succeeds Beach & Alger in the hardware and tin busi- ness. St. Johns—C. A. Spaulding & Co. sue- ceed Nixon & Co. in the hardware busi- ness. Battle Creek—Gardner & Spencer suc- ceed J. D. Atherton in the grocery busi- ness. Spring Lake—E. J. Pruim & Son suc- ceed Pruim & Buckley in the hardware business. Lansing — Hutchinson & Cooley suc- ceed Dains & Hutchinson in the bazaar business. Detroit—Oscar E. Rasch & Co. succeed Rasch & Reckmeyer in the wholesale fur business. East Jordan—H. Mitchel! succeeds H. C. Holmes in the confectionery and cigar business. Shelby—Benj. Morse succeeds Morse & Ernst in the clothing and boot and shoe business. Minden City—Jus. H. dealer, mortgage. Battle Creek—C. M. Hubbard, former- ly of Manistee, this place. Delton—William Vara is to oceupy the Dillon, general has been closed under chattel is now in new harness shop now being erected at | this place. Gladwin—Ida E. thur, hardware Pinconning. Battle Creek—C. O. Stewart succeeds W. W. Clark in the fruit and confection- ery business. Hersey —John A. Edwards succeeds Edwards & Pierson in the saw and grist mill business. (Mrs. Thos.) dealer, McAr- has moved to business at | | Battle Creek—Kleindinst & Wing suc- \eeed C.C. Kleindinst in the piano and | organ business. | Dimondale — E. E. Norton succeeds | Norton & Jones in the agricultural im- plement business. Glendale— Vickers & Pratt succeed Vickers & Myers in the agricultural im- | plement business. Battle Creek—Toronge & Lyman suc- iceed Nellie S. (Mrs. J. F.) Gould in the tailoring business. Allegan—William S. Jones, a tinner by | trade, recently came here from Holland | and opened a shop. Three Oaks—Chamberlain, Hollett & Bradley, general dealers, are succeeded by Hollett & Bradley. Camden—C. D. Rhodes & Co. succeed Campbell, Neufang & Co. in the grocery and boot and shoe business. Delton—D. M. Hyde and J. R. Edgett will conduct their furniture store ander the style of D. M. Hyde & Co. Lake Ann—R. S. Mott will erect an addition to his present store building and occupy same with a drug stock. Lowell—J. W. Broadbent is now in the employ of the King Milling Co., having gone out of business on his own account. Albion—Geo. Bullen and Capt. Tucker have formed a copartnership and pur- chased the dry goods stock of W. B. Crane. Hopkins Station—Jas. T. Harvie has sold his hardware stock and tin shop to Lillie & Adams, who will continue the business. Otsego—C. W. Edsell, assignee of the Russell Carriage Co., will continue the business for another season with C. A. Russell as salesman. Detroit—The J. M. Bour Co. has been | incorporated with $10,000 capital to deal jin teas, coffees, spices, ground cereals, | ete., in Detroit and Toledo. Breckenridge — Ezra Wood has pur- chased what is known as the Endrican sawmill, a mile anda half southeast of this village, and will stock it. Negaunee—Wm. Hendrickson succeeds Frank Mulvey in the meat business. The latter succeeded Mulvey & Weste- meyer in the same business. Lowell—The Lowell Grocery Co. has settled the attachment which Johnson & Wheeler, of Detroit, had upon their stock and are again open for business. | Schoolcraft—P. C. Pursell & Co. suc- | ceed J. L. Clark in the agricultural im- |plement business. The firm also suc- | ceeds Pursell Bros. in the same business. Lowell—Kopf Bros., who recently pur- | chased the furniture stock of A. L. | Coons, of this place, will continue the | business under the style of the Lowell | Furniture Store. | Grand Haven—Cornelius N. Addison | has retired from the grocery firm of C. | N. Addison & Co. The business will be continued by the remaining partner, John Cook, under his own name. Kalamazoo— Wheeler & Pitkin have | purchased the stock of plumbing goods | belonging to the estate of the late Thomas Dorgan, paying $6,500 therefor. The | stock has been moved to the establish- ment of the purchasers. Farwell — W. H. Safford, hardware ‘dealer of this place, made an assignment Saturday to L. L. Kelly. The principal creditors are Morley Bros., Saginaw; | Sherman S. Jewett & Co., Detroit, and J. L. Littlefield, of this place. Morley—D. Farr, formerly in the agri- | cultural implement and livery business at | location. | Howard City, but for the past few months running a livery stable here, talks of re- turning to the latter place and engaging in the agricultural implement business. Lyons—W. S. Barnard, who has long been identified with the business inter- 'ests of this place, having conducted a |store here many years, died on the 3d, | from the effects of la grippe, and was He was a good citizen | buried on the 6th. and an honest man. Summit City—G. C. Willey has sold his general stock to Avery & Tedman, who will continue the business at the same Mr. Avery has been teller and book-keeper in Mr. Tedman has been a practicing phy- sician at Frankfort. Both partners will remove to this place. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Detroit—Brown & Wilson are succeed- ed in the tailoring business by W. J. Wil- son. Muskegon—The style of Heap’s Patent Earth Closet Co. has been changed to Heap’s Manufacturing Co. Lowell—L. P. Thomas has leased the plant of the Lowell Furniture Co. and is manufacturing bean planters and har- vesters. Chauncey—Oscar House has sold his grist mill and groeery stock to Truman and Ernest Hubbel, who will continue the business. Michigamme—M. Gauthier has sold to F. W. Read & Co. 300,000 feet of white pine logs, which will be hauled to their mill over the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Farwell—Gregory & Stevens have sold their shingle mill to M. F. Robinson and A. Shekell. The purchasers have made repairs and intend to run the mill the entire year. Saginaw—J. Ahrens & Co. propose to merge their cigar manufacturing busi- ness into a stock company under the style of the Ahrens Cigar Co. The capi- tal stock will be placed at $40,000. Marquette—-Ferguson Bros. have taken the contract from A. Bergland to cut and load on ears 1,500,000 feet of white pine near Kitchi. The logs will probably be hauled to this city for manufacture. Muskegon—The McGraft Lumber Co. is building a planing mill in connection with the company’s yard. The building is 60x120 feet, with a brick boiler house, 30x50 feet. The plant will be fully equipped wit! modern machinery. Detroit—Articles incorporating D. S. Phelps & Co. have been filed. The busi- ness is the manufacture of refrigerators and the capital stock is $15,000, all paid in. The incorporators are Eliza T. and David S. Phelps and Elisha Taylor. FOR SALE, WANTED, ETC Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cente a word the first insertion and one centa word for each subsequent insertion. No advertise- ment taken for lessthan 25 cents. Advance payment, BUSINESS CHANCES. LIBERAL CASH BONUS TO THE MAN conversant with the manufacture of some line of furniture or refrigerators who will in- vest ten to fifteen thuusand dollars as working capital and take an active part in the business. For particuiars, address Lock Box 138, Middles- borough, Bell Co., Ky. 397 the First National] | Bank of Traverse City four years and | DRUG, BOOK AND WALL-PAPER STOCK with fixtures, $2,600. in Washtinaw Co., Mich. Business established 30 years; stock clear and free from shopkeepers; prosperous business, good community ; will sel] with or without build ing. G. B. Mason, Saline. Mich. 373 GROCERY DOING THE NEARSST TO A cash ctusiness of anything in the city of Grand Rapids is for sale, as owner must leave city before April1. Stock and fixtures all new, as store has only been running less tnan a year Will bear investigation. ‘Grocer,’ care Michi- gan Tradesman. © OR SALE—GOOD NEW STOvK OF BOOTS and shoes in best town in Michigan. Cause of selling, ill health. Address No. 383, care Michigan Tradesman. 383 OR SALE—FIRSIP-CLASS GROCERY BUS- iness in the best town of 5,000 inhabitants in Northern Michigan. The purchaser can have a trade of $50,000 a year at the start. No town in the State has better prospects. This is the chance of a life time. Address No. 363, care Michigan Tradesman 363 WIOR SALE CHEAP — WELL SELECTED * drug stock — New andclean. Address F. A, Jones, M. D. Muskegon, Mich. 391 a a BUSINESS CHANCE—ADDRESS b H T. T., Courier-Herald office, Saginaw, E. S., Michigan, and get full particulars. To parties with capital and hustlers in business, who wish to locate in the best city in the State, this is a ehance of a life time, and investigation will prove it, to buy the best stock and an established business in the city. Investigate business and reasons for selling. 409 ANTED—TU EXCHANGE GOOD PAYING city real estate or timbered lands for stock of merchandise. Address No. 402, care Michigan Tradesman 402 r. SALE—A PBRKINS SHINGLE MILL } complete. Will sell for cash or exchange for stock of merehandise The mill isin good repair and is capable of cutting 50,000 shingles to-morrow. Reason for selling, have finished cutting where the mill now stands and owners have too much other business to attend to. Ad- dress M. & S., care Michigan Tradesman. 403 SITUATIONS WANTED. Precest — REGISTERED PHARMACIST wants steady position by March 15, in Grand Rapids or vicinity. Young man, refer ence A No. 1 Address 396, care Michigan Tradesman. 396 MISCELLANEOUS. D° YOU tsE COUPON BOOKS? IF SO, DO you buy of the largest manufacturers in the United States? If you do, you are customers of the Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. JOR SALE—TWO HUNDRED ACRES LAND (160 IM- I proved), located in the fruit belt of Oceana coun- ty, Mich. Land fitted for machinery, good fences, large curb roof barn with underground for stock, horse barn and other necessary farm buildings. New windmill furnishes water for house and barns. Eight- een acres apple bearing orchard, also 1,000 peach trees, two years old, looking thrifty. Price, $35 per acre, or will exchange for stock of dry goods. If any difference will pay cash. A. Retan, Little Rock, Ark. S41 7IOR SALE—CHEAP ENO.GH FOR AN IN vestment Corner lot and 5-room house on North Lafayette St., cellar, brick foundation, soft water in kitchen. $1200. Terms to suit. Address No. 1-7 care Michigan Tradesman. 18% JOR SALE OR WILL TRADE FOR STOCK of merchandise, the [. 0. O. F. block in Sparta. For particulars, write to Box 219 Spar- ta, Mich. Here’s a bargain! 386 OR SALE—ABOUUT 100 POUNDS OF NON- pareil type, well assorted as to figures, fractions and leaders. Just the thing for a country paper for use in tax sales and general work. Laid in two cases. Will sell for 25 cents per pound and $i per pair for cases. Tradesman Company, Grand xapids, Mich, 359 W= HAVE VERY FINE RED GUM TIM- ber and want to contract with consumer to saw and pile 100,000 to 1,000,000 feet. E M. Ford Land & Timber Co., Gilmore, Ark. 401 ro SALE —BEST RESIDENCE LOT IN Grand Rapids, 70x175 feet, beautifully shad- ed with native oaks. situated in gooi residence locality, only 200 feet from eectric street Car line. Will sell for $2 500 cash, or part cash, pay- ments to suit. E. A. Stowe, 100 Louis St. 354 ATIONAL CASH REGISTER AND GRO- cery store fixtures for sale cheap Inquire of Kritzer Milling Co., Newaygo. Mich. 399 y ANTED—GOOD LOCATION FOR HARD- ware store by alive dealer who carries a good stock. No second-class town need apply. Address No. 406, care Michigan Tradesman. 406 OR SALE — STORK, COTTAGE, BARNS, etc. Best country location in Michigan. Postoffice and ticket office in store Trade cash. Fixtures go with the store. Stock ail sold out. Part cash, half cost price takes this property. This is a rare chance, Address No. 407, care Michigan Tradesman. 407 OR SALE—NEARLY NEW YOsT TYPE- writer. Reason for selling, we use a Bar- Lock and consider it superior in every respect. Tradesman Company, 100 Louis street. fg ie wt ge levers SALESMAN FOR Michigan; commission first month, salary and expenses afterwards. Experience unneces sary if you area hustler. A good copeten’y for any bright young man wishing to travel. Address Imperial Portrait Co., Chicago. 400 REGISTERED OR ASSISTANT . Set Sanna nnnunnnn : JANTED 7 SALE — FINE STOCK Or BAZAAR | W drug clerk. Gne who can speak Swedish goods. Will inventory about $2,000. established trade. street, Menominee, Mich. 382 : ; Well | preferred. i For particulars, address J. F. | tin, Mich. Anson, admin’r for J. L. Neden Estate, 433 Main | WwW ANTEDA GOUD LOCATION FOR FUR- Wages moderate. J. M. Perry, Tus 404 niture and undertaking business in @ OR SALE—FIxST CLASS BREWERY BUS-| town of 1,500 to 5,000 inhabitants; would buy iness and outfit. Terms reasonable. Alpena, Mich. Location magnificent. Address August Leins, | lanti, Mich. 408 estabiished business. W. & W., box 35, _ OR SALE — GOOD DIVIDEND - PAYING | WK SALE—A CLEAN GROCERY STOCK, | K stocks in banking, manufacturing and mer cantile companies. Grand Rapids. doing a good business. poor health, W.L, Mead, Ionia, Mich. 395 Reason for selling, . A. Stowe, 100 Louis St., 370 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 5 GRAND RAPIDS GOSSIP. Leo F. Hale has put in a supply store in connection with his sawmill near Bear Lake. Musselman & Widdecomb fur- | nished the stock. Mrs. T. Richar and 1. C. Richar have formed a copartnership under the style of Richar & Son and opened a grocery store at 355 Washington avenue, Muske- gon. The stock was furnished by the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. J. W. Parke, who removed his whole- sale notion business from South Bend to this city about two months ago, locating at 4 Pearl street has re-shipped his stock to South Bend and resumed business at that place. Chas. B. Dressler, formerly engaged in the meat business on Jefferson avenue, but for the past year and a half a gentle- man of leisure—during which time he has spent several months in Germany—has opened a meat market at 231 South Division street. John Snitseler recently took a $1,500 mortgage on the general stock of Boven & Knol, at Graafschap, as trustee for Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., the Olney & Judson Grocer Co. and Musselman & Widdicomb, whose claims aggregated $1,500. The firm subsequently uttered a bill of sale to Mr. Snitseler for the same amount, and on Friday the latter sold the stock entire to Rutgers & Tien, at the same place, who consolidated the stock with their own. Rindge, Bertsch & Co., which has been a familiar name to the patrons of this market for nearly two decades, passed into history last Friday, being succeeded by the firm of Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., Christian Bertsch retiring to embark in other business. No change will be made in the office or traveling foree of the house, which will continue the same policy which has given the house a repu- tation second to none in the State. 2 Gripsack Brigade. A. D. Baker and family have returned from the Empire State and ‘‘Ad”’ has re- sumed his visits to the trade. W. F. Blake was called to Farmington Me., last week, by the fatal illness of his mother, who died before he could reach her bedside. G. J. Walker, formerly salesman for LeBaron & Cobb, on South Division street, has taken the position of city salesman for W. H. Downs. A. J. MeDonald, formerly city sales- man for the Wells-Stone Mercantile Co., at Saginaw, has taken a similar position with the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. Robert Hanna, who was cigar sales- man for the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. until about three months ago, since which time he has been traveling for a Phila- delphia house, has resumed his former position with the B.-B.-P. Co. Russell Bertsch, who has traveled sev- eral years for Rindge, Bertsch & Co., has retired from the road and will hereafter devote his entire time to the retail shoe business of Herold & Co., on Monroe street, in which he is a partner. His suc- cessor is Fred Osterley, who has worked in the house for the past half dozen years as packer, billing clerk and shipping clerk. New York Sun: ‘‘Women commercial travelers are said to be a great success, and in a number of tea and coffee houses, dry goods and canned goods, as well as | the silk firms, the bright, attractive in- vader is excelling her masculine proto- itype in ingratiating herself and her samples in the eyes of merchants, and is booking more orders than her discom- | fited male competitor.” | W.M. Patton, traveling representative for a Chicago wholesale grocery house, was assaulted by Clovis Dupont, a drunk- en man, at Bay City, Saturday night. In falling, Patton fell upon a_ beer keg and was badly hurt and is thought to be injured internally. He is now under a doctor’s care at the Rousch House. Dupont, the assailant, is under arrest. He says he mistook Patton for a man against whom he held a grudge. ~~ 2 <> -——-— The Grocery Market. Sugar is without change. No further decline is probable, as the present basis is clearly below the cost of production. While higher prices will undoubtedly soon be announced, conservative dealers are of the opinion that the advance will not come this month. All pie peaenes and cheap seconds at the Baltimore market have been picked up by speculators, who have advanced the price 5 to 10 cents per dozen. The holders are acting on the assumption that the peach crop of 1892 will be small, on account of the excessive crop of 1891. The Maryland Legislature, now in ses- sion, promises to enact a law which will reduce the supply of oysters for the pres- ent, with a view of making a larger sup- ply for the future. The proposed law shortens the season, taking off one menth in the spring and two weeks in the fall. The peanut market is strong and ad- vancing, with every prospect of consider- ably higher prices during the remainder of the season. Oranges and lemons are in good demand and prices are steady. The Florida crop is nearly all used up, but the California crop is coming in to take its place. Rio coffees have advanced ic per pound and all manufacturers of package goods have advanced their quotations %¢c¢. Corn syrup is le higher than a week ago, but local jobbers continue to quote same at the old price—22c. SA Purely Personal. I. C. Richar, who has arranged to em- bark in the grocery business at Muske- gon, was in town a couple of days last week. Frank E. Leonard and Frank Stone are still in New York, buying goods for H. Leonard & Sons. ‘The former contem- plates a trip across the Atlantic for the purpose of visiting the great pottery dis- trict of England. + <—— Do You Want to Save Time and Labor? Then send for Gringhuis’ Itemized Ledger. Would you like a short form of double entry book-keeping? ‘Then try our Customers’ or Itemized Ledger, with our new columned Cash Book. Send for sample sheets and price. GRINGHUIS ITEMIZED LEDGER Co., 403 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich. > Country Callers Calls have been received at THE TRADESMAN Office during the past week from the following gentlemen in trade; L. A. Seoville, Clarksville. Jno. W. Hines, Clarksville. tichar & Son, Muskegon. S. Bitely & Co., Casnovia. Geo. W. McKee, Alto. Eugene O'Connor, Kent City. > | Use Tradesman Coupon Books. cOUGK Cameras. \!\ $6. $10. $15. Picture Frames, Mouldings, Typewriters PERKINS & RICHMOND, 13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 5000 Sold. Patented 1887. Why Wanted, It’s the origina’ of its class. It’s the favorite with Druggis's, Clothiers, Shoe S ores, Hatters, Gro cers. Hardware Dealers, General Merchants, Bak ers, Butchers, Millers, Ho tels, Dairymen, Laundries STOP and investigate the Amer ican Cash Register before purchasing. YOU will probably say as this party does: DEAR Sirs: We will say that for our business we greatly prefer your ‘Desk Cashier” to the National, even at the same price, for every business selling bills of goods. or odd number sales your Desk Cashier is preferable to the National, not considering price. We are so well pleased with it that with our three Desks we consider our Cash sys tem almost complete. Yours truly, Cuas. RuEDEBUSCR Co., General Merchants, Mayville, Wis. a 7 and in fact every retail dealer who wants correct methods. Write us this day for de scription and prices. State and local agents wanted. 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BY GINGHAMS. te the preliminary ceciaration 0 14 arl street. is this 544 Lawrence 4 > a yrelimina aan! 1 16 Pearl street, is thi * Madras cheese cloth 6% Amoskeae ...... ---- ie fangece, o% 4 + ‘ Before ar Can becom ¥ mutual consent. on ac- 6% Newmarket ¢ : eee 5% “ re San 84 > Norns : tor nre- oe ee 7; - 8... “ Janton .. 4 - 7 st take certain steps, pre . f the retirement of Ghristiar nl “ a. 6% ‘6 AFC. . 12%) Lancaatiire. .-te, wens 6 ' r ret of 1} COURT OF the retirement 7% " ie Hd . er "Sel ecinasien Z| ak 4 ed by e federal laws - ' Bertsck 5%4 : of “ Angola.. 10% [Monogram eee ea is Rg ea . the ahove oe oe “ > 34; Normandie......... 7% wi All accounts due to and from the above cheese Cl. 3% Note Big Wu 6 Arlington staple... 6 Persian.. rd ae ica firm will be settled by Rindge, Kalmbact 7 Oxford R... -- 6% | Arasapha fancy 4% “send Dress.. rn an the .c Lester J. Rispoe, Li gla aaa hee oe Bates Warwick dres ae neenie ie c & Co. JEL BG J. - 6% Solar oie aa 6 ly “ staple Yl we eeee - 4 pr CuUBISTIAN esinie H, r Top of the Heap. --- ™% | Centennial......... oa — Deak ae *. i“ 3 i cae » . BLEACHED COTTONS. Crierton ..-....... 2 ee j fore a FREDERICK KREKEL, paps "a |Geo. Weshington, e io cumberland. staple. 5% ee ou we 3 : le 8 ‘ ea i p sr sees D | WADGSD...-.....---- ae —“. , - a 3A CH. - 8 |Glen Mills... +,, | Cumberlan rs r.. 7% 1a g J. Geo. KALMBAC -7 |Gold Medal.. 22°... 7% oe 4% waa. ge ai ar Wx. Locre. 10 |Green Ticket...... 3% | Elfin. --+- TH 6 : . alls 634 : 8% Whittenden.. % a 8 iGreat Falls...... - 6% | Byerett classics 5” ; heather dr. 8 ' ' : Grand Rapids. Mich., Feb. 12, 1392. --+» 444 |Hope......-.---..+5. ‘4 | Exposition. 74 ‘ blue 9 ec al- : . 4G 5 : OL indigo blue " must declare that he renounces his ai Bo weed le te OmbL. 4@ 5 Glenarie............ 6% amsutta staples. . -_ mus eclar : aie Cabot 7 King Phillip....... 4% | Glenarven.... ...... ie tbrook.......... egiance to any prince, potentate or state, NEW FIRM. c hot % 6% a mbt ic 191g | Glenwood...... Bi Westb eae = \ naming the prince or state Charter Oak. -- oe Lonsda © Varo au | Hampton .. Se % 4\Wi eoreeer.... .... 5 parti 1iariy HamMmiveg aS pte i ee 1 Lonsdale.... @ 8% Johnson Jhalon el n j reof he is at the time a subject or The manufacturing and whole nak boot : * Middlesex. @5 | Johnso indigo blue 9% i4| York... een 6% \ re ari ies . t be made and shoe business of the former firm of 8% No Name.. --++ Th ' zephyrs....16 2 citizen. This declaration must be ma ne | and s bu - : sa oe cei 8% ave... oe | GRAIN Bags. 154 at least two years prior to the time of his | Rindge, Bertsch & Co. will be cont Re -$ |Our Om West..12 | Amoskeag...........16% a Pe "1.15% at iCa : " location by the remaining ... 7 |Prideof the ee 19% Georgia 14 te is ship. it has been/ at the same location by the remain 73g Rosalind. a 4s | American... a 16%|Pacific ..... oe af 5 at . q he old firm under th style 8% Sur er : : held that the declaration may be made | members of the old firm under the sty 4 Utica’ Mills : BA | a a. 45. [Barbour Pp ee C ee ee 6% “ Nonpareil --4) | Clark’s Mile En D oe before city, police and county courts of | 04 ‘ Vinyard.... --+ 8% | Conte" J.&P.......45 |Marshall’s.......... ” the various states, when such courts are : . 434) White Horse... ... © ee co 2244) ) the various stat a bil 0p 4 ill at Rock... . . 8% | KNITTING COTTON. oe courts of record and have a clerk. - ’ LP BLEACHED COTTONS. | White. Colored. ing < Tennessee, a probate , Cabot... cere Lo 7% Dwight Anchor..... 9 one —— os bs a t2 Case arising in aii ? ; dl No. 5 oi jm ‘ adami : e al 1 generous Farwell..... re ; 36 .. court was held incompetent. In admit- Thanking the trade for the generou UxB pLEACHED CANTOR FLANNEL. ve a a= oe = ¢ tate courts in the part they patronage accorded us for the past Tremont N ... eueae sa Mi a - rae 11 “ = .36 -— 1” - a. 4 ting aliens, state courts in th ' ' tronag sey i Patina M......... a aa catia " . United States courts. being a twenty-seven years and bespeaking a Ha ray ' ic : nn o | "ae a 4 take act as Lnite at oe oe t¥ ity ¥ 3 an a ss ‘ 7 i. | i dwards....... | ; . sring ur cus-| Middlesex AT..... : - g oo sort of agent of the government for this| .ontinuance of same. assuring our eu oe K.------ 9 | | goes White é Star...... -- 4 |Lockwood.......... 4 r " —_ nay be made! + all orders sent us will be &s no. ee... 9 Tia Cie - recs... .... ie purpose. The declaration may be made tomers that all order fornia aaa daeee +s el: before the clerk of the court under the | carefully and promptly attended to, we aaa son Bo o---* 2: 74 Middlesex mae z lola ica. i } t t ly j aciesex F i ....-. &“ { pee aceeceas aw and not necessarily before the court | si Respectfully, Ae el A 6 ni ae in Fireman ae. eer ea Paths law and n sea pct le a Tad Ee Creedmore.........- SOMES aoe ne ae ° -0---- - i itself. It was held in a federal case that | L. J. Rinpee, a ¥..... 10% 7 Bono as 16 | Talbot XXX.........30, oe the United States court had no} J. GEo. KALMBACH, | CARPET WARP. un Nameless...........27%|Buckeye.... . a ion | F; KREKEI Peerless, white......18 |Integrity, colored. 18% MIXED FLANNEL. se ake the alien’s declaration | “"REDERICK 2EKEL, | 2 |White ae... % 47 ee ee ee a ig | Integrity ne : “eM “ colored..21 | Red & Blue, plaid. sal Western W Lie eel Be at the private residence of the party, i Wa. Lore. — a DRESS coops. “ _ a R.-.. 2. ese: "ge %|D See 18% i + rec si i i 2 Ce cee eens A Windsor. . * 233 and for that purpose to carry the record —— cea ° se saeuaperomiid tet 2 | 602 Western stteeeee zl eens... oF Se of the court from the clerk’s office to} 5 : coe Sis eee fe oo Bb. " SOMET FLANNEL. 9 10% cnn , 7 . ° ' am e ashe sl . ome | i ne such residence. After a foreigner by | ise inca 16 : pe Nameless... s4o10"| Reka 12% ; as thus declared his intention to| ce revere «ee e]B i oad F i eee 'D PADDING. birth has thus declared his ir i ( | i] i pool cinvase AnD oe ‘ SS | rown. Black. become a citizen, he is regarded as hav- | | Coraline............99 ae “ roe 50 Slate. =" a mom, _ 3 b wo i | ani SO Urignion.. ........ 73} gu telqs 5 1 ing secured to himself and his children | Seria Wobsin oes © OBS .......... 9 00 10% 10% ne s : 4 - ights of a naturalized | Grand Rapids...°. 4 50\Abdominal....-.. a io as 2% 20 20 20 who are minors the rights of a natur L | Grar t ei tansy H 12% 12 124!: ti ccept so far as pertains to yot-} { Hetero. ane ee nee 7% 0z....10% citizen, except » fara P ee ae means 74 Rockport. . . 6% Severen, 8 oz........ 1B West, rs . = ing. The declaration having been made, | | A Malet, 6 Heom......... - 6% Mayland, Se ibaa we 13% d and th inal affi- | | Brunswick. .... .... 6%)Walworth .......... 6% | Greenwood, 7% 02. 74 F re ee it must be recorded and the original &% | Brunswi sani Greenwood, 8 os.. 11% Stark oo 12% davit, or a copy properly certified by the All en turkey reds.. 5%|Berwick fancies.. % | Boston, 8 02......--- 1044 |Boston, 10 0z....... oo . ane by the } 4 honee..-..-.. 5% Clyde Robes.. os od Se clerk or deputy clerk, attested by th The . pink 4 purple 6% C a tale | White, doz --- 5 |Per bale, 40 doz... .87 50 m mm . } } cas seeeee court’s seal, is competent evidence of the | : — ad He DelMar ne mourn’g 6 Colored,-doz........ de eka ter the declaration of} Ce “Poneman ao eee le ce 10 declaration. After e . c ae | Model Ls eee vo. chocolat 6 Slater, Tron Cross. . a oe Reet on intention to become a citizen has been | American fancy.... 544 “6 rober... Red ac... ‘s0%4|Beatord eee rats 1x i a ro | ip of “ sateens. o Bee... Gutiac tae 10 properly made and recorded and tw rt Form. eee ee 3a Hamilton fancy. ... 6 ‘“ wat Ak... Bl dling Mee eoe eo: 10 years have elapsed, final proceedings may | Argentine Grays... 6 m chester fancy”. on 1 ae ral suerns : : | S ir i 2 Bcc e cece ceeeeee eee be had for admission to citizenship. | | Anchor Shirtir oe new éra.6 | % SEWING SILK. ' be had for | Arnold *% 6 5 {Corticelli zune ng, ist be had before d Merino ...6 Merrimack D fancy. Content, Os ----<28 ee, ae ee 30 These proceedings must be ha peTore Arnol lor cloth B.10% Merrim’ck sbirtings. 4 twist, doz..3744| per %oz ball. uch court as described above. : “ - C. 8% . i — os os doz. .37%4) cua 4 was i : a ee oe century cloth 7 acific fancy st OOKS AND EYES—P In the first place, an alien must de- | U. Oy “ gold seal..... 10% See os..,.. 6% No 1 Brk & White. = No 4Brk & "White. ae ’ i ill ort | ‘“ green seal TR 10% Portsmouth robes... 6 “ 3 a i“ 35 clare, on his oath, that he wil SUpPpOo Greatest p er On ar « “yellow seal..10% Simpson mourning.. : “ 3 us : e “ 10 ae : : ; Foshan ates: | ‘s 2 eee STeys .. ... ime Constitution of the United Sinan! « SDaekey red..10%| “Soll binck. 6 |Noz-20,MC....... 50 TNo 4-15 F 3%......40 “nounces and abjures all alle- | lid black.. 5 |Washington indigo. 6 | . a 86.......: “45 that he renounces an J Ballou soll colors. 5%| “ Turkey robes.. 7% 3—1 - giance and fidelity to every foreign | & a al blue, green, | | ‘\ India robes.. Hs No 2 White & BPk.12. ‘No ‘8 White & ” “2 prince potentate or state, particularly | red and orange ea 4 . plain Tky XX ‘ at iy < “ = “ 26 ) Mos sve i i . i Saye Bideenecs “ ¢ .- naming the prince, potentate or state, of “ ofl wen... oe “ee Be agi a 6 eg sy ae 26 i ie an... Oe coe ee ee ee which he was before a subject or citizen, | “ Fonlards .... 53 Martha Washington No2 ' -e any hereditary title | illing? ‘fan... Turkey red %...... ™% iii aii ak . and he shall renounce any h nine ] ee 9% | Martha Washington A See 1 40|\Steamboat.... ... = ec order, if he bes borne any such tithe, | * ee elurueice a Ol cee. i 35 Gold Eyed.......... : ili- | “ 4 34x 2 Wee ci or been a member of any order of nobili | Cocheco fancy... 6 |Windsorfancy...... 6% | Marsh speeie roll iii: : aa ras ' aken, confers the | FRE CH madders... 6 old ticket ls A. 295 6-4. 3 4... te G4. ty. This oath, when taken, ; “ XX twills.. 6%! indigo blue....... 10% “eo. cag’ 10| i i7 i é é der of | ‘ a... .. Gaal TTON TWINES. ghts of citizenship, and an ort ee me 18 rig - ee im is not essential. | SHAPE AACA 12% | Cotton Sail Twine. .28 ee | ee Ce ee SENS. Sore ONS Gee | Gamilton'N.<.--.... TlPemberton AA." Je" | Crowm.......7-....- 12 |Rising a 17 i is | 7 i we He must take the oath at the time of his th ” sae S ek si pat erton 10% piesa ee = North Sta nun + m 7 eee eis |lUv Dl UD ee | OP ac becsac ae Eee eee. admission. It is not sufficient that he! A tt Awning. il swift TE ic cose a” = a Wool Standard 4 iyi? ime of his giving Faner............ 8 Pomel River. 2 Cherry Valley...715 |Powhattan ......... took both oaths at the time of his g | Np: | First Prize.......... ees Ea Nig NG 18% oe ; -itize 2 8 F My :..... PLAID OSNA notice to become a citizen. He must, ” _ | COTTON DRILL. Ataheie oo 6x Mount "Pleasant... . 6% as made aprelimi-| send for Illustrated Catalogue. See price list tark A fs 7 2. SR occepk ee isen 5 ——— in eee ee eee 7i4|Prymont .......---- 5% i * . back , n this jo i ee ee ee . UGUStA ............ FQ ETYMONE .... nary declaration, which is to be proved | Entton, a ~- Slee Heap........ 10 rae ai ee ee entre. ox : > ‘ mei ri - SATINES. ca oe i by the secerd; that he tas seslied with- | SCHILLING CORSET CO., | | Simpson... ........ 20 |Imperia:............ 10% COLI pag]Sibley a..00. =—— : in the United States five years, at least, WI oe oe a ae se teeee 3" Haw River. eae ; Toledo...........+4- ; Ce ; : a : j . i Co. 16 Peverces We Pape 2 tt and within the state or territory where Detroit, Mich. and Chicago, | ee 40% Haw J the court sits for one year, and that, dur-/ penton sesscires THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. ing that time, he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same. It should be noted that the oath of the applicant is in no case allowed to prove his residence. {t must be proved in court by the testimony of witnesses. The oath of an alien as to his good moral character should be corroborated by other evidence. One alien cannot vouch for another. All the proceedings, including the court’s action thereon, must be re- corded, and the record is conclusive evi- dence of the fact recited. The naturali- zation of an alien confers upon him the privileges of a native citizen, save only such as are withheld from him by the Constitution of the United States. The principal disability is the following: Under article two it is provided that ‘‘No person, except a natural born citizen, ete., shall be eligible to the office of President.” Wa. C. SPRAGUE. a 2 +> Solely to Secure Delay. “The average eustomer imagines that we knock off a cent or two from the price of articles worth even dollars simply as an appeal to the economical side of the purchaser,” remarked a retail merehant the other day. “But the average cus- tomer is mistaken. The real object in dropping a cent and marking a $2 article | $1.99 is to keep the purchaser waiting et | the counter until the change is returned | from the cashier. Three times out of | five the customer sees something else that he wants, and another sale is made before he leaves.” SPOUT NO. I. Hardware Price Current. These prices are for cash buyers, who pay promptly and buy in full packages. AUGURBS AND BITS. dis. eee 60 (eens 49 gen reen, @oramne.........,........ 0... 25 Senuingn, Wares ..............<........2 50&10 AXES. First Quality, S @ Beeeee.. 2... 8750 i mm ereee.................. 12 00 . oe eeee...... 2... 8 50 " Geel... 13 50 BARROWS. dis. eS 8 14 00 Goes. 2... net 30 00 BOLTS. dis. —_ ee ele e teed eee. 50&10 Carrlage mow Gat.......-....-:.-.-.- : Plow. eee . Sleigh TE BUCKETS. Woo, wieam............. $3 50 Well, swivel ee ae 40 BUTTS, CAST. dis. Oant Loose Pin, Geured........ ............- Wk Wrought Narrow, bright 5ast 7 eae eee 66&10 Wrought Loose Pa, .- 60&10 Wrouget Fanic................ i -60&10 Wrouent bates Bung... 60&10 Ween Dress. .-..............., % Bed, Cie s............................ 7&10 Blind, 70&10 Hod Seaver s........:................... 70 BLOCKS. Ordinary Tackle, list April 17, °85........... 69 CRADLES. ON a os cc Let cues oe a CROW BARS. Oe perb 5 CAPS. oe perm 65 rg s C.R,..... eee een cee ete. 60 Susket ewe ' 60 CARTRIDGES. ia eee... 50 Coe) Pee. dis. 25 CHISELS. dis. NO 70&10 poenet eee 8. 70&18 Becrercoreer.......-............... waste ee Bocecs Gicee.........-........-.....-+....,-- 70&10 Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ oes 40 coMBS, dis. Corey, Lawrence's. ......................... 40 ee 25 CHALKE, White Crayons, per gross.......... 12@i2% dis. 10 COPPER, Planished, 14 oz cut tosize... .. per pound 28 14x5 Se, Cee... 26 Cold Rolled, 14x56 and 14x60... a 23 Cold Rolled, FE ee ca ean ‘ 23 re ee ee ie es 25 DRILLS, dis. Morac’a Bit Stocks. .................-...+ a 50 Taper and straight Shank................... 50 Moraes Taper Siame...................... . 50 DRIPPING PANS. eo ov Tie eee, ber pournd......-.............. Ge ELBOWS. Com, 4 ae OM ie tc tae doz.net 75 Corrugated . eee 40 ee SS ae eee ra 2. Ieee “dis, 40810 : EXPANSIVE BITS. dis. Clark’s, small, $18; ‘Tatge }) O2B... 2... ee eee 30 Tves’, 1, $18; 2, #24; De eel. c ee 25 me List. dis. (ee a 60&10 ee ce ee csc ll 60410 Pe ee 60810 ee 50 Hiatiee's ores Wasee:..................... 50 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20: 22 and 24; 2 and 2%; 27 28 List 12 13 14 15 16 7 Discount, 60 GAUGES. dis. Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 50 HAMMERS. ey S08 ee eee ee ee bee. 25 | aos... oe 25 | Yerkes & Plumb’s. ... Gis, 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast ee 20c list 60 | Biacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand... .30c 40&10 | HINGES. Gate Clare's, 1,2.5.-..--.--.......... dis.60410 | cece ey een, per doz. net, 2 50 Screw Hook and Strap, ee in. - 3 14 and longer 8% Screw Hook and Eye, ag Ee 10 =... ee «6 ' igs ia 2... ee th " . oy = .............--.008 756) Strap and ee ee eee cme . dis, SO HANGERS dis, Barn tian Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood traek. — Champion, anti-friction...................- 60a 16 Ridder, wood track ...............- aoa, 40 | | HOLLOW WARE. ae ee. 60 ee SS 60 Beers ... .... ee eee ewer i. Gray enameled.. .. 40&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Stamped Tin Ware. -hew list | Jepanned Tin Ware....... Granite Tron Ware ..... new list Bg 10 | ROPES. | Sisal, % — and sdasmeasias oe . | Manilla Oe a SQUARES. dis. Steel and Iron..... Sa 7% Try and Bevels........ ae 60 os... ...................- eee ae 20 SHEET IRON. Com. Smooth. Com. [ree ote $4 05 $2 95 Nos, tol? ....... eh ii eee eee 8 (5 | Nos. 22 to 24 ......... . 4 05 3 15 Nos. 25 Siew... ..£ea 3 25 No. 27.. . 46 3 35 a sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 3) inches wide not less than 2-10 extra | SAND PAPER. car ecet 12 Ge... Lo. or 50 SASH CORD. | Silver Lake, wee 4........... / list 50) Drab A ed es ee . 55 | . White B. ee ai 50) | [ Peer. " 55 | _ Whitec..... CC 35 Discount, 10, SASH WEIGHTS, | Solid Eyes...... _ ' ..... per ton $26 SAWS, dis, ° ieee ........ 20 WIRE GOODS. dis, Silver Steel Dia. X Cuts, per foot 70 Brignt...... toon Leyes a on eT ‘Special Steel Dex X Cuts, per foot.. 50) Serew Hyes................... .-70&10&10; ‘ Special Steel Dia. X Cuts, per fvot. 30 Hook’s . 7 | ‘© Champion and Electric Tooth X Gate Hooks and Eyes.. Cuts, per root... 4 ee a LEVELS. “TRAPS dis, Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s | Steel, Game..... | ' CO&1G KNoBsS—New List. | Oneida Cc ommunity, Newhouse’s ' 35 Door, mineral, jap. trimmings . Oneida — Hawley «& Nort ms... 70 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings. . ae Ss | Mouse, choker... -........- --+--. 196 per dos Door, porcelain, plated trimmings... eee eeu 55 | Mouse, delusion. _..- 81. 50 per doz, Door, porcelvin, trimmings...........-...- 55 | WIRE. dis, Drawer and Shutter, porcelain..... oe. 70 | Bright Market.... .......-.................._ 6& LOCKS—DOOR. din. | Annealed Market......... ! a. oa Russell & Irwin Mfg. Co.’s new list ....... 55 | Coppered Market. Lee ees 60 Mallory, Wheeler & Co.’s.............-.---- 55 | Tinned Market. ee eee ce 62% ates... 55 | C oppered Spring Be 50 Norse e........................ Seed eee 5B | Barbed Fence, galv ae 3 00 MATTOCKS, WMI ._. 20 . 818.06, dis. 60 HORSE NAILS. ieee. .-.............. 15. 00, dis. 60 | Au Sable......... wacccesccee GIS, COG10G25E10405 Bee... . | $18. 50, dis. 20&10. — Oe eee ewe e ewes wees dis. 05 MAUL. aie | Newtiwostern..................... dis. = Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled............... | WRENCHES, MILLS. dis, | Baxter’ s Adjustable, nickeled.. Coffee, Parkers Co.’s........ on 40 | Coe’s Genuine ................ oe P.S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables.... 40 | Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought,..... a © =6Landers, Ferry & Cle .k’s............ . ‘ Enterprise MOLASSES. GATES. ‘dis. Gieneeete Petters... ................ . ++ -s 0010 Step es Gemmene..................-..-.-..- 60810 | Enterprise, self- es es NAILS" Gieel meine OONG............ ....... -...-.... 1 80 Wire eect OMG... 8. cw ween. 2 00 Advance over base: Steel. Wire. ee... Base Base ee ee Base 10 30.. 10 2 eee 15 30 i... 15 é .. 15 35 i. 20 40 ... 25 50 oS Sa ee 40 65 Me eee us, shee den eueeme c6 60 90 ries cee took ae ener esas 1 00 1 50 ee eek a eka oes ae wen 1 50 2 00 eee eg cs 150 2 00 ee ee 60 90 : : ees eee ae ee T 1 00 Fintsh Se 85 1 00 Se 1 00 1 2 ee eee snes 115 1 50 oo 85 7 . ee. 1 00 90 . Oe tee: Suen coe Maer © .......-.... 1 PLANES. Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy .........-......- ES Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.......--.-----++ Bench, first quality.............--.sseeeeceee Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood. . .... PANS. ry, AGO. .;....0..-....--.---- tua dis.60—10 Glue ois ee ee dis. 70 IVETS. dis. Teen and Tinned..................-..--...-- 40 Copper Rivets and Burs..........------+-++- 50—10 PATENT FLANISHED IRO ‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. “4 to 27 10 20 ““B Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27... 9 20 th Pp. Broken packs 4c per pound extra. Coe’s Patent, malleable MISCELLANEOUS | Bird Cages’........- | Pumps, Cistern. Screws, New I fae 70&10 Casters, Beda d Plate 50G10&10 Dampers, American. Lo i. 40 Forks, hoes,-rakes and all steel goods...... 65 METALS, PIG TIN. ee ' 26¢ Pie Bare..... .... .-............,.... |. 28¢c ZINC. duty: Sheet, 24c per — 600 pound casks...... o 6% Vee poand.......... Lee 7 SOLDER. ‘ — 4@Q Extra Wiping - The prices of the ‘many ‘other | qualities a solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. ANTIMONY or ..... per pound 16 Hallett's........ “ 3 TIN—MELYN GRADE. 10x14 IC, C ‘harcoal. ae a“ 0 7 oo 14x20 IC, ae : 7 50 10x14 1x, c 9 25 14x20 IX, ‘ 9 25 Each additional X on this grade, 21.75. TIN—ALLAWAY GRADE, 10x14 IC, Charcoal Lees ee ‘ $6 75 14x20 IC, bees ee uae i. 6 75 = rl ’ 8 25 14x20 IX, . 9 25 Each additional X on this grade 81.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, “ Werccete.....--... 14x20 IX, . - é x28 1c, * us ee 18 50 6 7 2 5 14x20 IC, ‘ ~6Allaway Grade 00 14x20 IX, . ial ' is 50 20x28 IC, - - " 12 56 20x28 IX, " ° . 15 50 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE. 14x28 IX.. 814 00 1 fe....-... 15 pee 4 forX No. s Boll lers, l | per pound 10 POSTS SAPSPOUTS with heavy Wire Hanger, tona t break size, stock. Actual like Hangers cas that does no spout. We are agents for this Spout and carry a full We also have the ANCHOR SAP SPOUT. a oe 4 : . sate 8 Michigan Tradesman Retail Trade of the Wolverine State, Published at 100 Louis St., Grand Rapids, —— BY — THE TRADESMAN COMPANY, One Lolilar a Year, - Pestage Prepaid. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communications invited from practical busi- ness men. Correspondents must give their full name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a@ guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at Grand Rapids post office as second lass matter. ce When please say that you saw their advertisement in THE MicHIGAN TRADESMAN. ~ writing to any of our advertisers, E. A. STOWE, Editor. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1892. READ YOUR POLICY. The Supreme Court has handed down an opinion which brings home to every fire insurance policy holder the para- mount importance of becoming familiar with its conditions, instead of Jaying it away until the event of a loss. In this case the plaintiff suffered a loss of $400, and notified the agent and then let matter rest. The policy contained a clause requiring a proof of loss to the company within thirty days after the loss. the refused to expiration of limit, and the The plaintiff there- upon brought suit in thirty day he company pay loss upon that ground. the court below, setting up, among other things, that the agent waived the provision of the clause referred to, but, as the policy contained another clause to the effect that the agent had no authority to waive any of the provisions thereof, a verdict was di- rected for the defendant. This was af- firmed by the Supreme Court, which held that, as are plainly printed on the policy, it must be pre- these conditions sumed that the holder of a policy was | acquainted with them. The loss was conceded, but, through a mere technicality, the company managed to avoid its payment, spending much more money in defending the suit than would have made good the loss, which happens to fall on the poor and deserv- ing woman. it will interest THe TRADESMAN’s readers to learn that the name of this company is the Dwelling Hcuse Insur- ance Co. It did the same as many other companies would have under the circumstances—took advantage of a mere technicality to defeat an honest claim— but any company which pursues such a done course should be avoided by the insuring public, as they would avoid aman who is honest when he has to be honest. There are plenty of companies which do business on the broad plane of equity so that there for patronizing sharpers and schemers. and fairness, is no excuse The paper on ‘Stump Lands and Pine Jains,” prepared by Hon. S. S. Walker, of St. Johns, and published in Tue TRADESMAN of last week, has attracted J‘ficial Organ of Michigan Business Men’s Association. the | This was not done until afcer the | wide attention and created a larger de- | mand for extra copies of that issue than the office was prepared to supply. sidering the number who would copies of the treatise for future reference, Mr. Walker has generously provided 500 |reprints of the article and would, un-| | doubtedly, respond to any requests from interested in the subject, ad-| persons |dressed to him at St. Johns. | TRADESMAN is not authorized to make | this statement, but is confident Mr. | Walker will sustain the paper in the disposition attributed tu him. THE The worst thing in February is the} | outrageous abuse of St. Valentine’s day. The occasion is used by weak little minds | for venting petty spite by sending a hor- rid caricature made more abominable by | atrocious doggerel to the object of their )ill-nature. Of course no one should feel | hurt by receiving one of these contempt- | ible missives, but some people are very sensitive and many hearts are, in con- | sequence, deeply wounded. The custom | is undoubtedly losing ground as people | become more refined, and in the progress of time it will be wiped out altogether. eachaeonaioiiae | In the retirement of Christian Bertsch, | | the jobbing trade of Grand Rapids loses a man whose name has ever been a syn- | onynu for honesty and integrity of purpose lof the highest type. Beginning life |umder the most humble circumstances, | he has steadily risen by his own exertions luntil he occupies an enviable position | among business men. Every one who | knows him will join with THe Trapes- | MAW in the hope that his future may be | as pregnant with good deeds and worthy | actions as the past has been. sibilant | That which would have been considered | an innovation twenty years ago, is now } the rule in all trades; the growth and | concentration of population and compe- tition are constantly shifting trade con- ditions, and the progressive and ambi- | tious dealer must necessarily be alive to | them; hence it is that many articles here- tofore not to be found in the stock of the merchant should now be there if the dealer wishes to be considered fully abreast of the times. Grand Rapids may not be fully abreast | of the times in some things, but in one i respect, at least, she is ahead of most |cities of her size and importance—the Con- | like | Potatoes are not keeping well in Eng- | | calico at 2 | One firm says it receives often as much | as $50 a day in the way of postage stamps, and that it is inpracticable to get rid of this amount. There is but little doubt | that it wasa mistake to discontinue the issuing of fractional currency, as it was an undoubted convenience in the way of transmitting small sums of money. Be careful of your tongue, but be more | careful of your pen. Don’t sign any kind of an agreement for a stranger. | Confine your dealings in business to | known friends and the black wings of trouble will not be so liable to hover over | | you. |land or on the continent. They have) | grown badly in the pits, lost weight and | vigor, and those to be used for seed will |not grow satisfactorily. As the season | progresses, good marketable potatoes are jlikely to be scarce all over Europe. Should these countries have to import} | seed potatoes, they would get their sup- | | ply from Canada, which still has a large |stock. The quantity of potatoes on hand | |in the United States is so large that the | | outlook for higher prices is by no means flattering. | Making good plans is right and proper, but plans which are not carried out might as well not have been made. The house that goes no farther than the plans and specifications is not a comfortable one to live in. There is only one thing that is worse than a standing account and thatisarun- ning one. AEE A She Secured a Bargain. A certain store was making a leader of cents per yard. The female bargain seekers were as numerous around the calico eounter as political ar- guments during a presidential campaign. As one of the jostling crowd departed with her ten yards—that being the limit sold to one person—an acquaintance, vainly waiting while more bold or adroit women secured attention from the calieo clerks, who were as busy as a speckled hen scratching for a brood of fifteen hungry chicks, noticing her, panted out: ‘“‘How did you get it?” ‘Why,’ said the lady of the secured calico bargain, exhibiting a pair of hose which would have been dear at 25 cents, ‘I bought these at another department for 75 cents, and made the clerk go to the calico coun- ter and sell me ten yards.” em Detroit—The Standard Pearl Button Co., of this city, is about to experiment in the manufacture of buttons from the shell of the clams found in the south tributaries of the Mississippi. These shell, it is said, do not lose their irides- cence as clamshells found further north are said to do. Champion—The shingle mill built and operated by Dyer Bros. & Co., on Lake Michigamme, during last season, was shut down in the fall, and the mill changed hands on a mortgage. The prop- erty is now owned by the Browne, Chapin Lumber Co., which will operate it this winter, starting up this week. Manistee—The sawmill of Buckley & Douglas is running night and day. The pond at the foot of the long slide is thawed out with exhaust steam from the engines. They will saw until the docks are full, and next season will have more room, as they intend making a piling ground of part of their recent purchase of dock near the mouth of the river. Manistique—The Manistique Lumber | completeness and excellence of her elec- tric street car service. Rapid transit is particularly valuable to business men, | whose minutes dollars, are many times system which worth and a enables them to reach their places of business | with the least possible delay comes in for a large share of their gratitude. nN Boston merchants take a sensible view in their request that the government re- , turn to the issue of fractional currency. Co. has refused to pay taxes in Alger ; county, because in the general assess- ment was the item of $1,000 for sheriff’s |salary. Judge Steere held that the com- | pany’s position is tenable, and decided with it. As the law declares that county sheriffs shall receive no compensation | but stated fees, and as the fees do not | amount to but $200 a year in Alger coun- | ty, it will probably be difficult to fill the office satisfactorily. te | Use Tradesman or Superior Coupons. NEW INDUSTRIAL COMBINATIONS. The most important feature in busi- ness circles recently has been the an- nouncement of a number of new aggre- gations of capital invested in industrial enterprises. Following closely upon the vote of the stockholders of the American Sugar Refiners’ Company to add $25,000,- 000 to its old $50,000,000 share issue, the two great electric supply companies—the Edison of New York and the Thompson- Houston of Boston—have agreed to a con- solidation; several of the largest litho- graphing concerns in the country have formed a business combination; the cot- ton pressers and rice cleaners of New Orleans have joined forces, and the Na- tional Cordage Company reports that it has recently taken in, or is about to take in, the remaining manufactories of cord- age, bagging and twine, in the United States, which have hitherto held aloof from it. Special attention has been called to the Distillers’ and Cattle Feed- ers’ Trust by transactions of its officers in its stock, which are not favorably viewed by those who have lost money by them. A big anthracite coal combination is talked about, and Chicago Gas Trust certificates, though not so prominent to the public eye as they were a fortnight or so ago, are still tolerably conspicuous. Al- together, the affairs of these enterprises have, for the moment, taken precedence of those of railroads, and their merits as money-making instrumentalities are more actively discussed. It would seem that since, in the case of railroads aggre- gation earliest began, it had also earliest ended. The force underlying it is, in- deed, as powerful as it ever was, but it finds little left upon which to exert it- self. All the small companies that could be merged in greater ones have long since succumbed to their fate, leaving the field to a few giants, each able to maintain itself against its brethren, but none big enough to swallow them. The industrial companies are now in the midst of the process, and with them it has yet some time to continue. To repeat what 1 have often said upon previous occasions, this formation of companies with big capitals and the ab- sorption by them of smaller ones, ex- cites no alarm in my mind. It is not the quantity of money in a concern that makes it formidable, but the degree of intellectual ability that directs its affairs —and great ability in business is as rare as any other great mental or physical en- dowment. There is a natural limit of growth to aggregated capital, resulting from the natural limitations of the human mind. Most men cannot carry on enter- prises of more than a certain magnitude, just as they cannot lift more than a cer- tain weight. The attraction of gravita- tion, the strength of bone and muscle, and the nutritive power of food combine to fix the bodily size and strength of the human race at what it is, and only a change in those constituent forces will allow a change in the dominant type. Steam and electricity, it is true, enable men to accomplish much more work in finance, trade and manufacturing than they couid a century ago, just as in ages of which geologists tell us, when a differ- ent atmosphere and different food sup- plies existed on this earth, plants and animals grew to an enormous size com- pared to that which they attain in our | day. The fact, to which I have already | adverted, that railroad combination has | pretty nearly come to an end, results THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. from this law of nature, and it will not fail to vindicate itself in the case of in- dustrial enterprises. The original im- petus which they receive from their founders will eventually expend itself, and then, iike other corporations, they will settle down into jog-trot of earning salaries for their officers and making moderate dividends. It is not without reason that the pro- moters of these great industrial combina- tions solicit from the public contribu- tions of capital on the ground that the larger the business they do, the less will be the ratio of expenses to gross profits. This, as a general truth, nobody can dis- pute. It has been illustrated over and over again in commercial history, and many an immense fortune remains to bear witness to it. Still, against this advantage must be effset the tendency of all concerns not managed exclusively for the benefit of the managers to avoid tak- ing risks and to adhere to stereotyped precedents. This eventually brings their dividends down an amount far less than that earned by private persons in the same line, and to a point just enough above the rate of interest on borrowed money to compensate for the additional risk attending them. This has been the experience of investors in railroad stocks, and it will be that of those who buy the industrials. For the present, however, investments in industrial companies are yielding handsome returns and are tempting pur- chases. All that is lacking to recom- mend them to cautious people is the ab- sence of trustworthy knowledge of the companies’ affairs and of confidence in those who conduct them. When I first mentioned them four years ago, I said that they were fair gambles for those who could afford to lose the money they put into them if that should be their luck. Experience has demonstrated that my estimate was, on the whole, correct, and, while some of the stocks which were then coming on the market, have turned out badly, either from misman- agement or from dishonesty, the majority have done well, and can be sold at a con- siderable profit. As to the opportunities which the in- dustrial stocks afford for unfair Stock Exchange operations, which is charged against this class of investments as a pe- culiar defect, nothing could be less well founded. Those who condemn Sugar Refineries, Lead Trust, Distillers’ and Cattle Feeders’ Trust, and Cottonseed Oil Trust stocks as mere gambling coun- ters manipulated by sharpers for the pur- pose of preying upon the public, must be very inexperienced in the ways of Wall street or else must wilfully misrepresent the facts. From the commencement of railroad building shares in railroad com- panies have been dealt in speculatively, and a man need not be as old as I am to remember Fisk and Gould’s operations in the old Erie Railroad stock against Daniel Drew and Commodore Vander- bilt, and the Commodore’s own alternate cornering and letting out of New York Central stock until it suited his purpose to make it a conservative investment. His son, William H., played a like game with Western Union Telegraph stock, and the street was so often deceived with rumors of the company’s approaching “cutting of the melon” that when it finally came most of the speculators in the stock were caught on the wrong side of the market. When, on the other hand, the same William H. Vanderbilt,in 1879, ostentatiously parted with $20,000,- 000 of New York Central Railroad stock at 120, in order, as he said, that the publie might be permitted to share in the profits of the road, almost everybody be- lieved him and eagerly bought the stock all the way from 120 to 155. Then came the building of the West Shore Road and its acquisition,after acostly war of rates, by the New York Central, with the re- sult that the Central stock fell to below 90. I might go on inthis way, indefi- nitely, drawing illustrations not cnly from railroad stocks, but from those of mining companies, petroleum compan- ies, coal companies and gas companies, but I think I have mentioned enough to prove that industrial stocks are not dan- gerous above all others. General business, my friends tell me, is a little quiet just now in this country, and what I read in the foreign newspa- pers gives me the impression that it is very dull over there. This being so, the surplus of production over consumption, or of profits over expenses available for new investment, is necessarily restrict- ed, and this accounts both for the pre- vailing low rate of interest on money and for the comparatively slack demand for new securities. Sooner or however, this aspect of things must change, and then the problem of invest- ing money will come to the front and de- mand a solution. Railroads have seen their best days, banks and trust com- panies afford but a limited opportunity for new capital, while the field of indus- try is as vast as are the elements of na- ture and the ingenuity of man. Great Britain has cultivated it for many years, and her capitalists have dotted the globe with their various undertakings in it, making for the last few years extensive acquisitions in this country. Our capi- talists are not inferior in boldness and in enterprise to their British cousins, and the reason that they have not hitherto followed their example has been that they have found abundant employment in developing our own natural resources by building railroads. If I am correct in judging that we must now look around us for new forms of investment, it seems only reasonable that industrial undertak- ings should take with capitalists, both small and great, the place heretofore oc- cupied by railroads, and should, like railroads, employ large aggregations of capital. MATTHEW MARSHALL. ———__ — Ferry—B. F. Archer has sold his hard- ware stock to his son, Chas. B. Archer. Da) Pails and Syrap Cans Paper Packed Screw. WRITE FOR PRICES Wm, Brimmeler & Sons Manufacturers and Jebbers of Pieced & Stamped Tinware, 260 8. IONIA ST., TELEPHONE 640. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. later, | Crockery & Glassware LAMP BURNERS. ee Oe. 45 50 oe .C... %5 Tubular.. 75 LAMP CHIMNEYS. + tee box. 6 doz. in box. mo. 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Vernor, Detroit. Treasurer—Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Meetings for 1892—Grand Rapids, March 1; Star Is- land (Detroit), July 5; Marquette, Aug. 31; Lansing, November 1. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Ass’n. President—H. G. Coleman, Kalamazoo. Vice-Presidents—S. E. Parkill, Owosso; L. Pauley, St. Ignace; A. 8. Parker, Detroit. Secretary—Mr. Parsons, Detroit. Treasurer— Wm. Dupont, Detroit. : Executive Committee—F. J. Wurzburg, Grand Rapids; Frank Inglis and G. W. Stringer, Detroit; cS = Webb, Jackson. Next place of meeting—Grand Rapids, Aug. 2,3 and 4. Local Secretary—John D. Muir. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society. President, W. R. Jewett, Secretary, Frank H. Escott, Regular Meetings—First Wednesday evening of March June, September and December. Grand =e Drug Clerks’ Association. resident, F. D. Kipp; Secretary, W.C. Smith. Detrolt Pharmacettica! Society President, F. Rohnert; Secretary, J. P.;Rheinfrank. Muskegon Drag Clerks’ Association. President. N. Miller; Secretary, A. T. Wheeler. WHO OWNS THE PRESCRIPTION? All classes of physicians have long felt thatthe honor and glory of consulting practice had its drawbaeks, and that one of those drawbacks was the giving of prescriptions over which no professional control was retained. In the case of the older practitioner, ranges from $5 upwards for each consultation, and who can always command full con- whose fee sulting rooms, this is a matter of com- paratively small importance; but the question assumes a very different com- plexion when the family physician re- ceives the small fee of $1 for a profes- sional visit, and gives up to the patient for his unrestrained use a prescription which may run a week, a month, a year, or a lifetime. It ishardly surprising that, under these circumstances some rather sharp notes of alarm should have been sounded in the professional journals, nor is it very strange that those notes of alarm should followed by tions indicative rather of fear than of wisdom. One family physician proposes have been sugges- to claim an absolute medical proprietor- ship in prescriptions. ‘‘My prescrip- tions are mine,” says he, ‘‘and 1 mean to stick to them.” He has been driven to this bold attitude of self-defence by the discovery thatone of his lady patients lent a particular prescription of his to eight other ladies, and so, as he puts it, practically robbed him of eight fees. Another family physician becomes quite Jesuitically hairsplitting in his attempt to deal with the difficult and complicated question. ‘*‘My own opinion,’”’ he says, ‘is, and always has been, that the pre- scription does not legally belong te any of the parties concerned, but should be destroyed after it has fulfilled its mis- sion.” The idea of a _ prescription ‘fulfilling its mission’? is distinctly poetical and original. This gentleman continues: ‘‘We pay for a railway ticket and it is taken from us on completing the journey. The pre scription is nothing more than a conven- ient good—‘‘be- tween doctor and druggist, and probably would not be entrusted to the patient if we had any more convenient way of com- municating our order. We do not ad- dress the prescription to the patient; we advise the druggist how he has to compound a certain number of ingre- dients for the patient, and this being done the prescription should be destroyed or returned to the author.”’ Now all of this is exceedingly interest- ing and instructive to the student of missive,’’—missive is | psychology, as that science asserts it- | self in the medical mind. It shows how | the ‘natural man” still exercises a dom- | inating influence over the professionally | differentiated specialist. The first dector | stands forth with all the truculence of a |medical Dick Turpin, and insists that his prescriptions shall be returned to him |on pain of—we know not what. The | second glides into the subject with in- | sinuating logic, and shows how proper |and natural it is that the doctor, who is the ‘‘author” of a prescription, should retain all the powers of copyright in his own work. It isa pity that patients do not oceasionally read professional jour- nals. The discussion would have been greatly improved, from the point of gen- eral edification. if one or two patients had added their contributions. Argu- ments are mostly inconclusive which discuss one side of the question. It seems to us that the interests of pa- tient and doctor are not opposed to each other in this matter, but are identical. On the one hand, those doctors who wish both “to eat their cake and have it,” make a mistake; and, on the other, those patients who use a prescription for a longer time than it was ordered to be used, or give it to their friends, make a still greater mistake. As a matter of fact, where proper relations exist be- tween doctor and patient, it is probable that very little injustice is done to the former. One thing seems to be quite certain, and that is, that the doctor who gives a prescription to his patient cannot both give and keep it. All he can to instruct the sick person how long to take the medicine prescribed. If the latter continues to take it longer, he is exceedingly foolish. No honorable doc- tor ever thinks of limiting the time dur- ing which a prescription may be used merely for the sake of getting an addi- tional consultation fee out of his patient. Any patient who has good reason to be- lieve that his doctor is keeping him an unnecessary length of time on his visit- ing or consulting list ought to seek an- other doctor at once; and any doctor who asks his patient to return to his consult- ing room when there is no necessity for further consultation isa deliberate cheat, and deserves all the contempt and obloquy which can be poured upon him. The physician, including, of course, every member of the profession, occupies a po- sition of peculiar delicacy towards his pa- tient. The patient is ignorant, the physi- cian has knowledge; the patient is fear- ful, the physician has the confidence of experience. What kind of a doctor is he, then, who takes advantage of his patient’s trustfulness to worry his mind with fear, and to extract from his pocket unneces- sary fees? He is a scoundrel. But, on the other hand, while physi- cians must be as honorable as Cwsar’s wife, because their position is one of such unlimited freedom, patients must not forget that he who dispenses honor and justice with his prescriptions is en- titled to honor and justice in return. Wise men and women will use a remedy forthe exact period for which it has been prescribed. If they use it a little longer, the reasonable physician will not object; and they probably will not do themselve any great harm. Butthey should remember that, in using a prescription longer than the specified time, there is always a posi- bility of their doing a serious injury to their own health; and this injury to their health is an injury and injustice to the do is physician; not, be it noted, in the mere loss of one or two paltry fees, but in the wound it may inflict upon his reputation and his feelings in that his misused pre- scription has been a source of injury rather than of benefit to his patient. Should patients ever give medical pre- scriptions to other persons? As a rule, certainly not. They may do untold in- jury by such acts. This is not said to frighten them; itis plainly and simply true. Modern remedies are of such a kind thatthey ought only be handled by experts. The subject is of much impor- tance, and space forbids us to expound the patient’s aspect of the case as fully as it demands. But this is to be insisted upon— if a high sense of duty compels the doctor to shrink with disgust from taking the least advantage of his patient, the very same sense of duty should compel the patient to make it amatter of con- science to avoid doing any kind of injury to the doctor. _ 2 To Mend Bad Writing. The much chirographically puzzled pharmacist will rejoice to learn that in one part of the world at least the hiero- glyphic-writing doctor is to be disciplined by his government. The Austrian Minister of the Interior has recently issued an order that the burgomasters of all districts must exer- cise strict supervision over the medical men practicing within their jurisdiction in the matter of legibility of prescrip- tions. They are charged to see that every prescription is clearly and legibly written in all its parts, so that there may be no doubt as to the remedy, the dose or the signature. While this sort of regulation seems rather too ‘‘paternal” to American ideas, there is no doubt that some means ought to be provided everywhere by which medical men would be compelled to pay a decent regard to the matter of writing. Vexatious delays and minor mistakes oc- cur daily in the filling of badly-written prescriptions, and serious and sometimes fatal errors result from the same cause. A doctor should no more allow haste or carelessness to influence his hand- writing than his diagnosis and his de- cision as to treatment. While not much can be done with those habituated to il- legibility, our medical colleges could do a great deal by insisting in their teaching on the importance of plain writing, and requiring as a prerequisite to graduation, the ability to so prescribe that the direc- tions would be unmistakable. or - 2 << The Drug Market. Opium is dull. Morphia is unchanged. Quinine is weak and lower for foreign. Domestic is unchanged. Salacine has advanced. Lycopodium has advanced. Ipecac root has advanced. Castor oil has advanced. —————~— -- << Detroit—Jos. Mulhern succeeds Thos. W. Goodale in the grocery and meat bus- iness. CINSENG ROOT. We pay the highest price for it, Address ists PECK BROS., “Guino Rarife. FOURTH NATIONAL BANK Grand Rapids, Mich. D. A. Buopeett, President. S. F. AsPINWALL, Vice-President. Wma. H. ANDERSON, Cashier. CAPITAL, - - - $300,000. Transacts a general banking business. Make a Specialty of Collections. Accounts of Country Merchants Solicited. 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F. FOSTER, Saginaw, Mich. atearaniaice Mite riences a _MICHIGAN TRADES MAN. 12 Wholesale Price Current. Advanced—Assofcetida, ipecac root, lycopodium, salacin. Declined—German Quinine. ACIDUM. Aceticum . 8@ 10 Benzoicum | German. 50@ 66 Borecte ........ ' 20 Carbolicum .....-. .. =e & Ones ............. Ce & Hydrochior ...... a. 2. o Nitrocum io. 10@ 12 Oxalicum .... ws oe Phosphorium ae 20 Salicylicum . Lee es ed SORE TO Sulphuricum. ... ——- Ia © ansoans............-1 Gant © Tarsarices............ ay 3 AMMONTA, an.= 16 Gem.......... Ram 5 20 deg.......-.. 54@ 7 a kee Oe Chloridum ..... 12@ 14 ANILINE. MN chek eben venen 2 00@2 2% Brown. . 2e1@® Red.. . £6 Velo 2 50@3 00 BACCAE, Cubeae (po. - —. 2.2 Juniperus 8@ 10 Xanthoxylum.. 25 30 BALSAMUM. C er 50@ 55 eee de ce ole coc @i 30 Terabi n, Canada ..... 35@ 40 Tolutan .. 3 WO CORTEX. Abies, Canadian.... 18 Causia® .........-.---:--- it Cinchona Flava .......-.-.- i8 Euonymus eo: oo 30 Myrica Cerifera, _ oo. 20 Pranus Virgini.......-... . 2 Quillaia, grd.............--- 14 Sassatree .....- oe 4 Ulmus Po (Ground eo ae EXTRACTUM, Glycyrrhiza Glabra. AG = po ae 2 do Haematox, 15 Ib. box. 11@ 12 i... 4... 13@ 14 " MOE os sunes 14@ 15 ; 148. 16@ 17 FERRUM. Carbonate Precip...... @ 15 Citrate and Quinia. - @3 50 Citrate Soluble....... @ 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol.... @ 50 Solut Chioride........ @ 15 Sulphate, ha 11... 1 3 ™ pure. . os Ff FLORA. Arnica... .---- 2 25 Anthemis .......... 258, an Matricavia —_isC(-:e; 25@ 3 FOLIA. Baro W@ 7 Coasia | ‘Acutifol, “Tin: nivelly ole aus BQ wz "Ale. 35@ 50 Salvia officinalis, %4s8 i i and }48.....----+++-- 12@ 15 SS eee 8s@ 1 eUMMI. Acacia, 1st picked.... @ 80 “ce 2d “c _ @ 55 “ “ . « 40 ” sifted sorts.. @ 2% . oe 60@ 380 Aloe, Barb, (po. 60). W@ 60 «Cape, (po. 20)... @ 12 “ Socotri, 7 &). @ WO — 18, (4811 4X8, “1 ‘ C ama oe .. B5@ 60 Assafostida, (po. 35). - 35@ 4 Bensoinum.........--- W@ 55 Camphorm®.......------ W@ 53 Euphorbium po ...... 35@ 10 Gaanagm. .......-.-- i @3 50 Gamboge, po.....-.--- 2Q 7 Guaiacum, (po _ ... @ 25 Kino, (po. 25)..-.----- @ wv Mastic ... Pn a een ee g . Myrr DMs ceo one Oni re a 2 0P@2 10 a ee BQ 3 hae bleached.....- 30@ 35 Tragacanth .......---- 30@ 7 HERBA—In ounce packages. Abeta .......----.------ 25 Eupatorium ... ae 20 are ek tac n bene es 25 bt : we et 8 ent a r aa pa Vir per oe ee ee 30 Tanacetum, V.....--.------- 2 Thymus, V........--------++ 25 MAGNESIA. Caleined, Pat.......--- 55@ 60 Carbonate, a 20@ od Carbonate, K. & M.. WQ@ % Carbonate, Jenning®.. 35@ 36 OLEUM, Absinthium. .........3 50@4 00 Amygdalae,Dulc... .. 45@ 75 —_ alae, Amarae....8 00@8 25 a 80@1 9° ‘Aurantl — eed 2 50@2 7% Bergamlil .............3 75@4 00 COED besa ssucenes 6@ % Caryophylli ..........- NG % ee ae = Chenopodii ..........- “ee 1 1 90g 33 35 Cubebae. . |@s 50 Exechthitos 2 50@2 75 Erigeron 2 252 50 Gazuiltheria ............2 O02 10 Geranium, ounce.... @ % Gossipli, Sem ” : 50Q@ 75 Hedeoma wooed 4000 60 Juniperti.. 502 00 Lavendula KAZ OO Paris ...............8 Sos OO Mentha Piper Dine eee ee Ce OO Mentha Verid.. 2 20@2 30 Morrhuae, gal 1 00@1 10 Myrcia, ounce. @ wd Olive i... See Ss Picts Li fqn ida, , (gal 3h) 10@ 12 mirc: ..... ...1 O8@1 24 Rosmarini.. 75Q1 00 Rosae, ounce @6 50 muennr. 2... 40Q 45 Sabina 90@1 00 Santal «o»..0 Coane OF Sassafras. . . 2 & Sina pes ess, Ounce @ 65 iy xiii : i @i 00 Thyme 40@, SO = om .. ee @ 60 Theobromas........... 15 2 POTASSIUM. mr Oar... .. 15@ 18 Bichromate . 13@ 14 promide,...... 2G 227 Carb . ct.as PO ae Chlorate, (po. 16). 14@ 16 Cyanide _ 50@ 55 iodide i ...% 80@2 90 Potassa, Bitart pure. . 26@ 30 Potassa, Bitart, com... @ 1 Potass Nitras,opt..... 8@ 10 Potass Nitras.... ~. we & Prageieee .............. 2a @& Sulphate po..... ._. io BADIX. Aconitum Althae. Anchusa . Arum, po Riana... a Gentiana, (po. 15) mn ie Glychr rhiz a, (py. 15) 16@ 18 Hydrastis Canaden iO. 40)... . @ 3 — Ala, po 15@ 2 Inula, po. 15@ 20 Tpeene, po. 2 30@2 35 Iris plox (po. 83@38) . oo @ Jalapa, a . £6 & Maranta, 14s. a @ 35 Podophyllum, 1 PO eee. 15@ 18 Rhet..... i<..- Won OO " Gos. @1 7% ee nercny panel 7@1 35 Sp rigelia i. 48@ 53 Sanguinarti a, (po %).. @ w Serpentaria.. t 35@ 40 Senegr .. . #2 © Similax, Officinalis, 5 @ 4 M @ Ww Scillae, (po. 35) . 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Feit dus, po.... ' @ 3 Valeriana, Eng 0.302) @ % es G 15@ 2 ingiber a 10@ 15 Pinger j......... 18@ 22 SEMEN. Anisum, (po. 20). me @ 15 Apium (graveleons) 20@Q 2 Bird, 1s. os 4m 6 Carul, (po, 18). ideas 8@ 12 Cardamon..........-..1 O@il © Cosiandram........... 10 i Cannabis Sativa....... 44@5 Da 75@1 00 Chenopodium ....... 10@ 12 Dipterix Odorate......2 10@2 20 Foeniculum.. ‘ @ . Foenugreek, po. ‘ 6@ BR gc chee tees oe sen 4 @ “4, Lint, grd, (bbl. 34). . @ 4% Lobelia. . eS “350 40 Pharlaris Canarian. . ... BRG@ 4% MO oes ce ees cases 6@ 7 Sinapis, Albu.. . 2 8 Ni gra.. i. oe 12 a Frumenti, . r ..2 00@2 50 D. F. RS Looe 1 75@2 00 . -1 10@1 50 Juniperis Co. 0. T....1 T@1 75 baa eae. 1 75@3 50 Saacharum N. E...... 1 75@2 00 Spt. Vini Galli... -1 75@6 50 Vini Oporto ...... -1 25@2 00 Tae Se.........---- 1 25@2 00 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool carriage -2 25@2 50 Nassau sheeps” “wool Garciaee ..........-. 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool carriage....... 110 Extra yellow sheeps’ ees... 85 Grass shoops” wool car- WON oo, ie a 65 Hard for slate use. vi Yellow Reef, for slate i ee 1 40 SYRUPS. Accacia ..........-..-- 50 Zingiber 50 wo ee 60 a 50 Auranti Cortes............. 50 Boa: APO. ........-: a Similax Officinalis.......... 60 - - Co... 50 a ee 50 Ce EE I ee 50 Oe eve ee wras 50 Tolutan . ou 50 Prunus virg.. 50 TINCTURES. Aconitum oe oe. 68 a‘... i... 60 “and myrrh. 60 Arnica . a 50 Asafcetida.. a 0 Atrope Belladonna 60 Benzoin. eee cies | ae ' Co... ea ee. eo ee 50 Barosma .... Lette eee Cee... ...-4:-4-e-.. O Cepere ............--..-.. Oe Ca damon... .. 5 ney i ee cee eae 1 00 Catechu .... .. oo Cinchona Steteceacee. Oe - COs... ....,......,.. oe Columba . _ 50 a, ae Cunene....,... Lov eaccl. ae eae... ....... 50 Brees... La a 50 Gentian ...... Severe tcc ces s. Oe -~................. 60 Guaic a. Le. 50 ammon Ge 60 Pe ee. 50 Hyoscyamus .. Iodine. . | Lo, se... oe ' Coloriess.. ctor eeee, Perri Chloridum....... 35 Bine ... \ oe 50 Lobelta 50 Mytr....... 50 Nux Vomica........ 50 Ont ......; eae 85 ** Camphk norated........... 50 ' _—e............... 2a Aurantl Cortex. 50 Quassia .... 50 Oe ae 50 Rhefl. ics...) oe Cassia Ac utifol ao. cas. 50 Serpentaria ....... 50 Stromonium... 60 Toluten ... 60 Valerian . oe oo Veratrum Veride........ 50 MISCELLANEOUS, ther, Spts Nit, 2F.. SQ BB ‘<7... 2 & Alumen . _ «es Se o . ground, (po. 1 os 4 Annatto. ce ac toe ° Antimon!, ‘po \ 4@ et Potass T. 55a 6 AMpyrn ............ @1 40 a @ Argenti Nitras, ounce @ 64 Arsenicum . 5@ 7 Balm Gilead Bud. 38@ 40 Bismuth S. N.. 2 10@2 2 Calcium es 18, “(KS Hs ie 18) @ 9 cunltertans Russian, DOs. @1 2 Capsici Fr uc tus, af... @ 2 : po. @ % ‘ a. 3 po. Q@ Ww Caryophyllus, (po. 16) 12@ i3 Carmine, No. 4....... 3% Cera Alba, 8S. & F..... 50@ 55 Core Fieve............ 38@ 4 oy @ 40 Cassia Fructus........ @ 2 Centrars..........,..- @ 10 eee ow... @ 40 Chioroform ........... GQ @ . squibbs . @1 2% Chloral Hyd Crst...... 1 25@1 50 Be er 20@ 25 Cinchontdine, PRa&W 6G BD German 3 @ 12 Corks, list, ‘dis. per .. 60 Crease .........-. @ 30 Creta, (01, 7%).......-. @ 2 © ioee...-......... 5@ 5 . recip eee 9@ 11 ‘ cooee.........., @ 8 Crocus ... 3@ 35 eee... @ &4 Cue fee... Se «¢ res trene ...........-,.- 10@ 12 Ether Sulph.. 68@ 70 Emery, = numbers. ; cas 6 Ergota (po. S a 85@ 90 Flake White.......... 12@ 15 Galla eee ce @ Co 7 @s Gelatin, ——- ae @ 7 7rOnGe.......- 0@ 60 Glassware flint, 75 and 2%. by box 70 Gine, Brown.......... 9@ 15 - We oa cc ae ee 13@ 25 Giveeres ..:........ .-15%@ 20 Grana Paradisi........ @ 2 i 25@ 55 Hydraag Chior Mite.. @ 9) Cor @ 80 ” Ox Rabews @1 60 " Ammoniati. @i 10 “ Unguentum. @ 55 Hyé@rarsvrum ......... @ 70 Te Ng Am.. .1 25@1 50 a 75@1 00 ain. Resum........ 3 75@3 85 TN cots eee as @4 70 DOVGNS ices Se Lycopodium .......... 45@ 50 Macis . 7 80 Liquor Arsen et “Hy- PARE TOG oa es @ 2 Liquor Potass Arsinitis 1 12 = Sulph (bb! DMR) eld cels cree cena 8 Mannia, 8. F......... 40 | Morphia, S. P. & W.. | 3. N.Y. @ S. iN. .1 95@2 20 & ce... .... ‘> Moschus Canton...... ) Myristicn, No.1....... m0 2 | Nux Vomica, (Po 20) .. 10 | Ow. Sepia.. 25 | Pepsin Saae, "H. &P.D. 1 Co. @2 00 | Picis Liq, Nac, i gal | doz a @2 00 Piels Liq., ‘quarts @1 00 | pants ....... @ % | Pil Hydrarg, (po. 80). @ 50 | Piper Nigra, (po. 2). @ 1 | Piper Alba, (po $5) @ $s | Pix Burgun.. a 7 | Foam Seep... |... 14@ 15 | Pulvis Ipecac et opii..1 10@1 20 | Pyrethrum, boxes H | SPD. Co. dos... @1 25 | Pyrethrom, pv.....-.. W@ 35 ee ee 8@ 1 | Quinia, cow... 31@ 36 | S. German.. ..21%@ 28 | Rubia Tinctorum..... 12@ 14 | Saccharum Lactis py. @ 8B i Salacin.... .. .--2 00@2 10 | Sanguis Draconis... 40@ 50 Bansonuie ............4. 4 50 [sao W............... Ea oe - -=....., 10@ 12 * €.... ...... @ 15 Seldlitz Mixture...... er a — aa De Soda Boras, (po. 12) Soda et Potass Tart... Soda Carb Soda, BiCarb......... Pe ea ene Soda, Salphas......... Spts. Ether Co . 7a a a ‘* Myrcia ' Vini Roce, bbl. Less 5e gal., Snuff, Scotch, De. ¥ oes @ @ @ @ 1@ 2 a os may 2 27@2 37 cash ten days. Strychnia Crystal..... é Sulphur, Subl. 2 4 one. ........- 2%@ 3% Tamarinds . a 8@ 10 Terebenth Venice..... 2%@ 3 Theobromae . ——— @ & Vanilla.. 1.1... -9 00@16 00 Zinci Sulph.. . we @ OILs. Bbl. Gal Whale, winter....... 7 70 Eera, @xtya........... 55 60 org oo f........... 45 50 Linseed, pure raw.... 36 39 | Eutra Turk Damar....1 Lindseed, boiled .... 39 42 Neat’s Foot, winter Gererned ........... 60 SpiritsTurpentine.... 39 45 PAINTS, bbl. Ib. Red Vonetian.......... 1% 2@3 Ochre, yellow Mars....1% 2@4 er... 20 Putty, commercial. “ “strictly pure.. Vermilion Prime Amer- WOM cc. ok 13@,16 Vermilion, Er iglish .-. tae Green, Peninsular..... V0@Q75 oo ........,. 7 @7% C White .... .7t om Whiting, white Span.. Qi Whiting, Gilders’. QU White, Paris American 1¢@ Whiting, Paris Eng. che .................. 1 4¢ Pioneer Prepared Paintl 20@1 4 Swiss Villa Prepared rain ...... . .-1 OO@i1 20 VARNISHES, No. 1 Turp Coach....1 10@1 3 Extra Turp.... ..-160@1 70 Coach Body seveaee t00ne OO No. 1 Turp Furn......1 @@i 10 55@1 60 10@ 7 Japan Dryer, No. ote............ trial order. Paints, Oils HAZEL TINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. Importers and Jobbers of DEALERS i DRUGS CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES, 2s Varnishes. SW188 WILLA PREPARED PEEXYS. Line of Staple Dragsisis’ Sundries. We are Sole Propricters of Weatherly’s Michigan Gatarrh Remedy. We Mave te Beck and Offer » Puli Lime af Vi SISKIBS, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES, RUMS. We sell Liquors for Medicinal Purposes only. We give our Personal Attention to Mail Orders and Gearantes Satisfaction. Ali orders are Shipped and Invoiced the same day we receive <:em. Send in a Haxelting & Perkins Drug Go. GRAND RAPIDS. MICH THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Grocery Price Current. The quotations given below are such as are ordinarily offered buyers who pay promptly and buy in full packages. APPLE BUTTER Trout. _—— = - CCIE ase ns Bi aoa, 5 .........._..... 2 ae t \ Mason's, 10, 20 or 30 Ibs.... 6 — 5 Cn 4 ° > th. etanGerd........ 85 — OREASE. York State, gallons. . 2 40 Graphite. Hamburgh, 2 50 ig gr. Cases, per gr. $8 50 Apricots. 12% Ib. pails, per ies 7 50] Live oak....... 2 25 25 Ib ---+++-12 00) Santa Cruz........ ... 2 00 100 lb. keoee, per ib... ..... - lak. |. Cc 2 50 250 Ib. % Dbis., per tb...... AiGuuienl........ 1 90 400 lb. bbis., . EG 3% Blackberries. adger. cay... 90 pr. cases, porgr......... Cherries. _- pails, per doz. Pied iat a 1 20 a kegs, per Ib 3 Pitte ssgestatoest 1% ef Whit 1 20 50 Ib. Le bbls., per Ib sll 3% Erie 1 20 400 Ib. bbls.. per Ib....-.... 3 | Damsons, Egg Plums and Green BAKING POWDER. Gages. a> cans, 3 doz . = ~ - Beate ten @ 25 . | 7 aan —......... 7 : of = ae 1 60 Gooseberries. ee a ie es 10 Common aa 1 10 Arctic, ‘ * CANS ... ...-.. ; = | aeaaailiaiie “ 4 0 ee 110 . 5m “ ...... 9 60| Maxwell . oe 1 50 Dr. Price's. | Shepard’s .... Co 130 er doz | California............. 2 2 Dime cans _ 99 | Monitor Lo 1 35 -oz < 4 os Oxweee ... ............ 1s 6 oz 1 90 | Pears roe Te oe ; Domestic. bee 1 25 oo ; sp | Riverside........... 210 214 Ib se or 40 | Pineapples, 41b “ 162 |Common.... 1 30 5-Ib - 210; Johnson’ 8 sliced.. 2 50 mb * «1 i grated...... 2 75 RE ane Ked star, is > cans... 40 | Common . os 1 10 => Sco Bi Reapberries. Telfer's, 4 Ib. cans, doz. 45 | Bia Black Hamburg....... i 50 : % > , ete aI Erie. black i 1 40 | Strawberries. BATH BRICK. lia 1 2 dozen in Case. | Hamburgh ............ 2 2& English . . od hhh 1 33 ee , oe a ee 1 35 en nts c | Whortleberries. BLUING. ro 1 20 Arctic, 40z ovals.. ieee 400/F. & W. eo 13 = a “ an - nd | Blueberries . — 1 2 nis, rounRG ....... 0 MEATS. 2. bi 23 “ a . os cgult 4 00 | Corned beef, Libby's. 1 80 “ a. & “ _.. § 00 | Roast beef, Armour’s. oe ican... Potted ham, +: ena: . 2H : _=-. as “tongue, <" an 1 10 Yo. url.......... ae “ we i. 95 ast 2 25 “s Chicken, %& tb....... 95 No. 2 carpet. su nui : so VEGETABLES. ParlorGem 00000000138 Beans. Common Whisk. 12 Hamburgh stringiess.......13 Fancy i= frm style eon 2 2 lk ss C os ........... 140 Warehouse...... ......- 3 00 | Lima, ee ee ox | Lewis Boston Baked........1 35 Stay e, No o ay ; - Bay State Baked............ 13 i a wens Pae................3. Rice Root Scrub, 2 row..-. 85 Corn. Rice Root Scrub, —. en a Palmeto, goose............. ol tivities... .............. BUCKWHEAT FLOUR. —— Te eedaaee tu — oney Dew..... L- eo Morning Glory = --2-2...-. 1 10 e oe... .... campies Hamburgh marrofat . . early Sue 1 50 Hotel, 40 lb. boxes. . 2 a Champion Eng...1 50 Star, 40 oo! Hamburgh pelt pole ...... 1s Wicking oe il fancy sifted..... 1 = ee 0 Lee | re standard. ae ——. v an Camp’ s Marrofat . CANNED GOODS. Karly June...... 1 30 FISH. Archer’s Early Blossom... 1 35 Clams. French 7 Little Neck, i a oe. 7 ’ > . iii soe ¢ eee 16218 Clam Chowder. Pumpkin. ss ee..............1 8 Erie......-. a eailie cen % qu . Cove Osten. ee 1 20 Standard, I Succotash. _ 2 1b. i 1 40 Lobsters. + -_ Star 1 b.. 2 59 | Honey Dew..........-.----. 1 60 "2 Ib. 3 50 Tomatoes. Picnic, 1 2b. — ee is hones den enen : = tee, ....... I i oes, 1 30 Mackerel. Geeie 2 50 Standard, . .. ..1 2) ——— 2 Ib.............. 2 25 CHOCOLATE—BAKER’S. ee ee 3 00 3 7 — Tomato Sauce, 3lb.........3 09 | German Sweet........ ... we Mosh... 300 — me. ok = Salmon. Breakfoct Cieie ae Columbia River, flat.... .. 1 85 CHEESE, ae... 1 75 Amboy 2S aa... . oe ne ear ac mrereoeee ..-.----. +. @12% Sardines. ee American os erent in@ © 5 — i a oleae ee -6%' ee 1 Imported ea idee receenwe iig@12 es .....,<. -,...- @i 00 e id te eerie oa 1914 | LAmburger ........... @10 Mustard xs... eee eres ee ft eeeeneee.............. @ Boneless . Poses pha Dt eierest..........,..- @35 ae or Orer. .......-. 5 per cent, ee 10 1000‘ — COUPON PASS BOOKS. S ‘an be made to represent any enomination from $10 down. | a 8 1 v0 50 “ce © 00 100 L So Ge Q2 = C Ser weltzer, imported. @30 oo domestic .... G15 |} oc CATSUP. e Half pint, common......... 80 ee i. <. e 10 4 doz. in case. Heir _ os eee... ..._.... 7 40 — oak fancy.. eee ooo cee sche 2 00 | Genuine Swiss............. 8 00 ane ee 3 American Swies.. ...... ~- 0 CLOTHES PINS. CRACKERS. Sere eee... 40 ites COCOA SHELLS. Seymour a: - ih hee . @3 | Seymour XX: cartoon... 6% Lon quently ------ 2% | Family XXX, catioon...... 6% en ee: :-- ee. tee cae Ls ig COFFEE Salted XXX, cartoon ...... 6% GREEN. oes) He 7% Rio. Boston. .... Lc ........... Butter biscuit... ....... 6% ee ia En : ae... Ll Soda, XXX................ 6 Peaberry ... ................0 | Soda, City................... i* Santos. eee, seen... ..... ase 8% Fai 6 Covers: Warer........ ......00 oe bette ete eeeeee es oe — Reception Flakes.. ........10 P i 00h 16m tbl Om ee J em 18 Oyster. ca Sern te oe Se cous Pee ere rani i City Oyster. XXX. 1 s Mexican and Guatamala. Farina Oyster.. a. A CREAM TARTAR. oe... Te Strictly pure...... - eT es a Maracaibo. CO ee ‘ioais rae : i Java. — ee es oe ee 25 ES. rivate Growth............. 27 Sundried. dined in bbls. 5 Oe 28 quartered 5 Mocha. Evaporated, 501b. boxes @7 ———........ ......... 23 APRICOTS. : ee 26 Californiain bags ...... 8 ROASTED. Evaporated in boxes. ... 8% To ascertain cost of roasted BLACKBERRIES. coffee, add %c. per Ib. for roast- | In boxes... eh ing and 15 per cent. for shrink- | _ NECTABINES, age. ae. 7% PACKAGE. 25 lb, bomes..............8 @ou PEACHES, Mctaughiian RX. apne | Peeled, in boxes... 2 Lion, 60 or 100 lb. case... 20.00 - eee le @ : : Cabinets coe Be ae 7 @ 8% Popeyes | Californiain bags ..... @7 packages PITTED CHERRIES, (omer 00) Barrels... ... ......... 11 accompany | 50 1b, boxes \ 11% ing illustra- | 25 “ — 12 oe ue PRUNELLES. with an ad- | 301b. boxes.. racer. gS ee RASPBERSIES. “nae in barrels... 17 Eabine oem ire... uy sai pe Cc 18 TRACT. a Valley TT 7 Foreign. Felix 1.8 CURRANTS, Hummel’ 8, og wk aeee ete ene 1 50 | Patras, in barrels...... @4 i 2 50 [ in 4-dbis oe @ 4% re eer ' n less CHICORY. a @ 4% Bulk.. st ottsceesssess++ 4% | Citron, Leghorn. 35 1b. boxes 2 — ....... 7 Lemon “ 25! CLOTHES LINES. Orange . - . RAISINS, Cotton, so dos. : = Domestic. “ aa “ 1 60 London layers : crown. a re ge a i --1 6 “ os “ 1 90 fen ney .. 18 Jute — “ 90 Loose Muscatels, boxes.....1 2 “ 72 tt “ 1 00 70 Ib bags @5% Bes oC Foreign. Ondura, 29 lb. boxes.. 74@ 7% Sultana, 20 o 11 @12 Valencia, 20 ‘ . 64@ 6% PRUNES. a... @ California, 990x100 25)]b pxs. c 80x90 _ ..9% axel“ ..9% . 60x70 . ..9% Turkey ae 6% pie. ever... 25... 11 ““Tradesman.’ : 1, per beedeod........... $00 ENVELOPES. eT eee 2 50 xXx hi 83 a 300} rag, white. ae a. " CUE 3 or 1 60 —_— * Se 40u 1 65 — ~ Le . 5 00 1 50 “Superior.”’ S 1. per hundred........... 2 50 i 35 ; . “ 3 00 1 25 85, 4 00 | 100 “ 5 00 j 95 i 6 00) 1 00 FARINACEOUS GOODS, — Farina. Oe Te. Meee... oe. “Universal.” ' - Hominy ' 1, h ee . ; 2 eer jundred ee . = NE shee eden co cise 375 z 3, oe ie 400 ile ce en eee eel ee 42% 85, ceaeeecoeue 5 00 Lima Beans. 810, a ieee tone € © | Dried...........-.---..- 4 Above prices on coup eared Maccaroni and Vermicelli. are subject to the following quantity discounts: Domestic, 12 lb. box.. Imported once not ioy@tie Pearl Barley. CEE ATE 3 @4 Peas. POON, WE... «2... ccceses os 10 eee Oe 5 00 Sago. I eins 4% Reet tage. ..-........-..... 5% Wheat. ee FISH--Salt. Bloaters. [ne 110 Cod. ee... a3 Whole, Grand Bank... 6 S Boneless, oe ...... T@s Boneless, strips........ 74e@s Halibut. eee i. 12 Herring. ooo ics eae 20 Holland, — eee 19 50 tie, 75 Round shore, \% bbl... 3 00 \% bbl.. 1 50 Mackerel. No. 1, % bbls, 90 Ibs........ 11 mo. to oe... ......- 12% Family, 3 Dbila., 100 Ibe.... 5 way kits, 10 Oe aa % Sardines. Buesian, KOes.............. 45 Trout. No. 1, % bbis., 100lbs.......- 6 2 No. 1, kits, 10 NE Whitefish. No. 1, % bbls., 1001bs.. --8 00 No. 1, kits, ie a 10 1 Family, % bbls., 100 1bs ... 3.50 r kits 10 ee uk FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Jennings’ D C. Lemon. Vanilla 2 0z folding —.. 25 3 02 -.1 00 1 50 402 r ne 4 50 2 00 6 oz . oo oo 3 00 8 oz . ....@ 410 GUN POWDER. . a es 5 50 oe ee 3 00 HERBS. EE 15 Hops oe INDIGO. see, 3 Ib. bones ...... 55 S. F., 2,3 and & ib. boxes. . 50 JELLY. Chicago goods......... @3 Mason’ 8, 10,20 and 30 lbs.. 6 lb as 8 LICORICE. cere... 5. 30 Penne. 25 ee 18 Condensed, : a. Letras ens ee 1 2 Oe... 24 2 2 MATCHES. ho, © entpeer............... 12 mmemer Peeser.......... 2)... 170 eee eee 110 Rat eacer......:........ 400 MINCE MEAT 8 or 6 doz. in case per doz..1 00 MEASURES. Tin, per dozen. [oo .... $1 75 Half o- . oa —* eee leew eree 70 Pint . oe 45 Half rint ie ous 40 Ww en, for ee per doz. 1 gallon . ic Half gallon. oe ........ CES EB! 315 Fint...- ee _ ca MOLASSES. Blackstrap. Bear house... ........... 13% Cuba Baking. eeeary .. 4. ences. 16 Porto Rico. ae 16 eer ...... ..- Coupee 20 New Orleans. Pee 14 Tice ee ek, 17 Petre eo0d............,... 22 ee 27 oo a 35 One-half barrels, 3c extra OATMEAL. Derreie wee... 5... @4 40 Half barrels :00...........@2 30 ROLLED OATS. Dales 10... ... @4 40 eat wee .......... @2 30 PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count........ $4 00 Half barrels, 600 count.... 2 56 Small. Barrels, 2.400 count... .. 5 Half barrels, 1,200 count..: 2 75! PIPES OFZ ‘g? Wee ees 1% D. full count........ % Cob, Noes Sieverbesuence cao 1 25 POTASH. 48 cans in case. meee se ......,........,. 4 00 Fenns Salt Co.'s ........- 3 2% ROOT BEER Williams, oerGor ... ..... 1% 3 doz. cane... ... 5 @ RICE. Domestic. Carolina _— Ce : 7 a a 6 - No. ; eee @5 ea mported genen, Oat... -... ........ 6 Ce 5% Eo. bad enecwe ness oe ce 5 PR, oon eee teen tues ences. 5 SAUERKRAUT. Silver Thread, Ue... 6... $4 00 i Dei...... 2 50 SPICES, Whole Sifted. I ke ye 10 Cassia, China in mats...... 8 . Batavia in bund....1 ' Saigon in rolls...... 1.35 Cloves, Amboyna. ee © ee ee Bees Peteree....... ..---.. 80 Nutmegs Poeey..........,.5 80 No. 1 Lede eeebceaeees %5 _ No. a“ blak Pe t, Singapore, | ack....15 ppe gap a 5 ae.. ... 19 Pure Ground in Bulk. OE 15 Cassia, Batavia bias ene see te 20 and Saigon .25 " ree 35 Cloves, Amboyna. . ol Zansibar...... oe Ginger, a ee pae cece wes 15 SS 18 Y je eee phase cee 20 mace Valeve............... 80 Mustard, ae. “988 Trieste. .25 Weteaie cl 27 Nutmegs: No. . bie a e r, Singapore, blac 2 oe ae 30 " Ciena. . ees 25 Oe 20 “Absolute” in Packages. 4s Yas a 84 155 CO, onus nese 84 155 ee a 1s Ginger, ae cect aes a 1S s.............,. te oes .......-.-.-... 8&4 155 yy, a 84 155 Sase...... a SEEDS. Awe |, . | Canary, Smyrna. as 3% a 8 Cardamon, Malabar . 90 Hemp, Russian....... 4% Mixed Bird ......... 446 6% Mustard, white ...... 6 aver i ‘ 9 : be 6 Cuttio bome .......... 30 STARCH. Corn. 20-1b boxes Se 6% 40-lb s cues Gloss. 1- ‘> packages bee eee ey 6 bese ces ectancas 6 z lb Sage e eee ae cock 6% 40 and 50 Ib. boxes.......... 4% Ree... ce, 4% SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 french Rappee, in Jars..... 43 SODA. ee She pe english oes oe 4% SAL SODA. Roos. ..........s... 1% Granulated, boxes.......... 1% SALT 100 3-lb. sacks.. -- oo oe 2 00 28 — sacks cae: 1 85 of - ee eee 2 2% 24 3- iS ees 150 56 ib. dairy in linen bags. oa 28 Ib. drill — Warsaw. 56 lb. dairy in drill bags... 35 a ' a Ashton. 56 lb. dairy in linensacks.. 75 a 56 lb. dairy in linen sacks. 75 Solar Rock. 56 id. sacks...... Saginaw and Manistee. Common Fine per bbl..... SALERATUS. Packed 60 lbs. in box. COORD 8, ae ene cra 8 eS ES ee! 3 Dwights.... .. , oka PIO Bee vic ore eae eeeseeas 3 $sss THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. 13 SOAP. SWEET G00 Ds. Plug. FISH and OYSTERS LAUNDRY. nee : . ° oe 4 00@6 00 POULTRY. Thompson & Chute Brands, Suger aa. i 3 = Lee 2 toll rn ee 5 ee eee ee ee Silver, 100 12 oz. [ea 68 | endl Gwonne 2 = EN 20 OwWs. cai Hf eee 3 00@5 00 | for dressed fowls: Snow, 100 10 oz . BGs Lt Coes : ONO..o-00-000.---.--- 22 | wn RESH FISH BTCY....----- +--+ _ 50@1 Ov | Spring chickens...... 10 @12 ae... teliacoae _ Lau 26 foe --.......... @i0 | lynx............... _...2 Glaes OF) owl. .......-........, 2 Geek German Family, 601 1b ... 2 55 tees AG | Here Fe Re. 000.02... 2g | Trout ................ @10 | Martin, dark... ...... 1 0@3 00 | Turkeys 12 @14 “ eth... 810 WASHBOARDS. eee. 31 | Halibut................15 @I17 “pale &yeliow 50@1 00| Ducks ...............12 @13 Laundry Castile, 75 11b.... 3 05 | Good Luck.................. ‘ai : eee ee Se -- oe Marbied,7o11b ........ 3 05 | Northern Queen........ 9 OO fee eet tonne See S G10 | Muskrat.... ......---. O@ = Savon Improved, 60 1 lb... 2 50] Peerles single..............2 50 Hiawatha............. a ees soe es oo 15@_ 30 Seugowes Wiles. 2 %| "double... 50 | Valley City .....--2--; si | Mackerel ............. 15 @25 | Otter, dark............5 00@8 00 | PAPER & WOODENWARE Olive, 100 10 0z............. 2 50| Universal Protector..... 5 op | Jas. G. Butler & Co.’s Brands. Californs --.c-c0--++-e10 @12_ | Raccoon.......-.------ 23@ 75 Golden, 8011lb .. .. ...... 325] Water Witch .... ......... 3 g5 | Something Good............. 3g | California salmon .. 15 @i8 | Skunk............-----1 00@1 30 — Economical, 30 21b.... ... 221 — : HS SE A CE a ce ee 26 | No. 1 Fickerel......... @10 | Wolf......... .-.....-- 1 00@3 U0 | Straw ...... .....-. 1% Standard. 26316 ......... 3 35 wanes Out of Sight.............. "om | Pike. .........-----0-- @ 8 | Beaver castors, lb.....2 00@5 00 | Rockfalls ........ apne. Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. japan—Regular wise Senet Ware ..---- Ge DEERSKINS—Per pound Sec tere testes Old Country, 80 1b ...... 3 30 ; EASE 12% | Bloater, per box ..... 1 %5| Thin and gree Hardware ............--.++++. 2% tood Cheer, 6011b ......... Colonel’s Choice. 1.13 oysTERS—Bulk. a y | Bakers seoweerew ats ace ae White Borax, 100 %-Ib...... Warpath ..... ‘114 | Mediums, per gal..... a2” al 54@8 Proctor & Gamble. Banner .... aa Selects, 6 _ 1 60 R a ee <7 | Jute Manilia........... @6 CONOR 3 King Bee... ...20 | Clams Oa ee 35| Red Express No.1......... 5% ore WO 66 Man Oriee 17. | Shrimps a 1 25 cl cm 7 No, 2......---. 4% 2. ae 4 00 SUN CURED. Witwer Mead... 2 Seallops oe 1 75| GRAINS and FEEDSTUFFS TWIN ee Se i............... . et ete 24 ee Wana. 48 C ste ? witicd Gorman........... Shea @2 Gold Block......... oe 9g | Fairhaven Counts.... @35 | No. 1 White (58 1b. test) nla Otton................... RB Fows Take cL aa 24 Gre | Peerless.......ee sree-+eee 24 ed D. Selects ........ @20 | No.1 Red (60 Ib. test) ate ee = : Bs ia TOILET. | PO 32 quad | ROB Roy.......--.+e0e-- + 24 r 7. veseecee ce core GBB le ake = ; Snow, ea Sel Gat ae ete Gane 28 «De... ee ee ee eee @w aT N ST ‘ocoa Castile, 24 Ib........ 3 00 Tom and Jerry...........-+- 95 | Amchor................ ee 1 60 | NO- 5 Hemp ....... ° pr att TE ve BASKET — a Pipe. Ce 3 —— ee = Granulated ............... 1 99 | No.6 "------ a a Si rine i re @ nr | DEEL .ncccccccccccccnces | RUT LUM cee eee eee eee ee wnt ee 4 ' sim ey oe. . - Choice eu dele c uate. @25 Red 32 SHELL GOODS. Straigh or ., | Tubs cc. 7 00 4 Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ... 2 50 Cholcest........-... -; @35 TERA Ean nner erennenesere- +s 32 Oysters, per 100 12 5 oe “= a as FW re ia 6 00 : “ hand, 3doz....... 3 59 | Extra choice, wireleaf @40 | Handmade................-. 40 | Clams ao — oD P &“ Rarvels........ 27 " News. 5 00 i Potash Flakes, 72 1002... 5 00 GUNPOWDER. rece... 3 Se RENT Titec a atent ‘“ — a _ = Pails, No. 1, two-hoop.. a 1 35 4 Common to fair....... 25 @35 eo : __| HIDES, PELTS and FUK=| Graham ‘sacks... ..: 2 20| or aot, eee ee codes Extra fine to finest....50 @65 VINEGAR, Perkins & Hess pay as fol | Rye Tea al a Oe io i 1 00 . Choicest fancy........ 75) GIRS g | lows: MILLSTUFF3S. ‘i RE Cut Loaf.............. @ 5% OOLONG. 2 | OBR eee een LS HIDES. ee 17 00 ie ag eee ARI IRAE 2 00 ee SG teks 2 oe $1 for barrel. Green... ............. 8 @4 | Sereenings.............-.. 14 00 , 2 7 Fowteres . oo @ 4%6 ak WET MUSTARD. be Cured. .......... ¢ 4% te "ee eor aD 18 00 ** assorted, 17s and 19s 2 50 { a A 2 HI a, | Bulk, per g ee aia 5 |Mixed Feed... ....... 000 ‘158, 17s and 19s 2 75 Confectioners’ A...... @ 43, | Common to fae 23 @26 | Beer er ores cocee a 5 @6 |Coarsomeal..... .....- 17 50| Baskets, market. iasngiaati 35 eee @ 4 Superior tofine........ 30 @35 S i incase... 1% | Kips, green ........... 3 @4 a «shipping bushel.. 1 2u White Extra C......... @ 3% YOUNG HYSON. reast—-Compressed. * cured.........-.. @5 . : ‘full hoop “— .. 1:30 Extra C @ 3% | Common to fair....... 18 @26 | Fermentum per doz. cakes.. 15 Calfskins, green...... 4 ee te eee ¢ se MN aan ss 3 1 50 ¢ C oon owe ses 3¢ | Superior to fine....... 30 @40 " mee |p i < cured ..... . @ 6% | Less than car lots.......... 46 ‘© willow el’ths, No.1 5 7 i ee eaconsking.......... 10 @30 OATS. v [ « Noz¢62 Less than bbls. 4cadvance | pas, eT seeme~ ne ——~ | No. 2 hides % off. Car lots... ... 35 7 no Os 7 2% } ate oeeseccsseeseseos dS ORs FRESH MEATS. is PELTS Less than car lots...........37 . —— . ee s STEP LADDERS. Be 40 @50 |, Swift and Company quote as = eH = 3 29 oa it " : No.3 5 0c See ct oo i “| No. 1 Timothy, car lots....13 50 ecg 7 TOBACCOS Beef, carcass I%@ 6% — ase ee ee “ si | hindomelinen : 2 | Washed... ...........20 @e ne un ; a ; = Fine Cut. u ——— “ . @ 6% | Unwashed ....... ....10 eo TTa_«T tt Nt a ea, | eae nea otherwise noted. em MISCELLANEOUS. OILS. WO eee cee cesses sees tes 1 75| Hiawatha ............- 60 Tallow .... .. Teste cess 34@4 | me stand Sed Seine Raa he EHS 2 25 | Sweet Cuba......... oe Grease butter ........1 @2 ene oe oe. sane pe MeGint' 24 eT 1%@ 2 | 28 follows, in barrels, f. 0. b. RUPS. eect el, : ‘ oh a 2 Ginseng ..............2 00@2 50 | Grand Rapids: Barealn for 92 Little Darling.. Cee 2 | Pork lola... ......... FURS. W. W. Headlight, 150 ius. ee iu ¥% bbl.. 20 shoulders ..... @6 | Outside prices for No. 1 only ee «~SF coo. See... eeekee s,s ee 20 Sausage, blood or head @4% | Bad - | Water White, ........ @7% Pure Cane. $08 Me he) el 19 Hyer... a Se 50@1 00 | Naptha.............-.- @i 19) Valley City.......... 33 “ Bea tort. ; on Ee 15 00@25 00 | Gasoline .............. @ 8% 4 Aone = pp 7 ieee — ge RE a S Ong 00 | Cylinder .............- 27 @36 S01 Tornado. 0)... 20 | Veal... (a. oe 40@ 50| Engine ..... ..-. ....138 @2l nee eh aed emd aces aes ‘ ts hease............ 16@ 2) Bisek, % to SD deg .. @ 7% HILLSIDE JAVA! Grocerymen: Are you entirely satisfied with your sales of High Grade Coffees? Are you sure that you are selling the best to be obtained ? Hillside Java is a scientific combination of Private Plan- tation Coffees, selected by an expert, and from which it is possible to make a beverage that will please you. Cup qualities always uniform, and is a trade winner 7 wherever introduced. Do you sell it? Roasted and Packed only by 7 Be Eee & CoO., 140 Summit St., Toledo, O., also Detroit & New York. We are represented in Michigan as follows: Eastern Michigan, P. V. Hecuier; Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana, M. H. Gasser; Western Michigan, Thos. FER@uson [‘“‘Old Fergy”’}. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. PRODUCE MARKET. Apples—Dull and slow of sale. Dealers hold at $1.75@#2.25 per bbl., according to quality. Beans—Easy and quiet. Dealers now pay $1.30@1.40 for unpicked and country picked and hold at $1.65@1.75 for city picked pea or medium. Butter—Lower and in smaller demand. Choice dairy is in moderate demand at 18@20c. Fac tory creamery is held at 25c. Celery —20c¢ per doz. ( sabbages—“S0@-40e per doz. Cider—Sweet, 12@15c per gal. Cranberries — Repacked Cape Cod are in fair demand at $6 50 per bbl. Dried Apples—Sundried is held at 5@5%e and evaporated at 64%@ic. Egegs—Fresh are be ee = come in slowly. Dealers pay 20c and hold at 2 Honey—i5c per Ib. Onions—Dealers pay 56@60c and hold at 65@ 70e, extra fancy commanding about 80c. Potatoes—Local buyers are paying 18@20c, ship p ing almost altogether to theSouthern States io seeding purposes, yuash—Hubbard, 1%c per ib. CANDIES, FRUITS and NUTS. The Putnam Candy Co. quotes as follows: STICK CANDY. Full Weight. Bblis. Pails. Standard, cd ee ne TEE NEES EN TCA 6 7 Ne 6 7 Hi Oe ook a 6 2 Boston (xeem........... "20 ib. cases 8te OE 7 8 Extra 0. H....... " cases 7 8 MIXED CANDY. Full Weight. Bbls, Pails. eee. os 6 7 ae 6 7 ee 6% 7% Nobby.. le 8 English eee 7 8 Conserves . ea 5 Broken Taffy. eee ‘baskets: 8 Peanut Squares...... Lees 8 9 French Creams... Loe eee 10 i tS aa 13 Midget, 30 Ib. beskets.. 8 a ee 8 Fancy—lIn bulk Sweet Potatoes—$3@3.25 per bbl. for choice Full — Pails, Muscatine stock. Lozenges, a... oo Turnips—25e per bushel. printed. a ll ———- — — bith tac erecennsenen - s< z Chocolate Monumentals.................-+- 1 PROVEEONE. ee 5% The Grand Rapids Packing and Provision Co. eee. ee 3 quotes as follows: Ne ne 10 Mess. new ner ne 12 50 Pancy—In 5 lb. boxes. Per Box. eee ae — Se ee ee ee ee = Extra clear pig, no. 14 00 en es een eee ieee mene. eppermint Drops.............-.-..-.-..0 +--+ 60 (Saar tak back... NAN i Chocolate Drops... . ee ig alee gaa Sale . aaaian clear, short cut.......... ol ee eee Pees... Clear back, short cut... ae _— oe es ee eee «ino Standard clear, short cut, best............. 14.00 att erent trees cement inn i i es ee ee 80 SAUSAGE—Fresh and Smoked. Lozenges, eee eet eee 60 ee 4 eeuanene wet ee cree cece secs eeee ee OD i Imperials. . . ie in oe he ek eke ae 60 Tongue Sausage. i 70 Frankfort Sausage _ ae OO eee ee 5 ee 55 na ee 5 | Hand Made Creams. <-ecere eee «a Bologna, thick...... Co 5 OO EE Head Cheese. : oe Decorsied Grenii. oe oe String Rock oe iain Lanp—Kettle Rendered CIs tie bens nice bee nceecansnel Mm NN 8% Wintergreen A TL AEE 60 ee. 8% CARAMELS, GRANGER No. 1, a 2 _ Pe. uns oto 34 eee re No. 1 : bee Soe eee le 51 50 lb cases..... 7% No. 2 3 . 2 —O 28 a 7x | No 3 ' . Pate, 6 im & Cane.......... ‘By 6 LEMONS. 50 Ib. Cans.. ee oe 5% Messina, choice, 360... eesessseee 8 T5@E WO Extra Mess, warranted 200 Ibs............... 6 50 ‘ fancy, 300... ee eee a 00 Extra Mess, Chicago packing................ 6 “ ee ee a4 n Pe Cee 9 50 pen FOREIGN FRUITS. vc SMOKED MEATS—Canvassed or Plain. i anaes 9% | Figs, fancy layers, 6b. . ae 93% mi c CC —_ . . SS 10 a —— — =e... Se 6% cn ag en ca “ best boneless..........................- 8% | Dates, Fard, 10-Ib. box.................. 9 aE ~<) ~ BOI. ee eee eee eee es @s Breakfast Bacon, boneless.................... 8% | ‘“ Persian.50-Ib. box............... 44@ 5 Pores ee, ees ko ees Oe NUTS. ong Cieme, BORVY.........--. 0 oe owe 6% Almonds, Tarragona.................... @l6 eee See es Ivaca.. ee @15 i cele ect eee ss Californias... ca Bi6 oe. 5 eS @i% oO 12 Walnuts, Grenoble. ou aa hE SET a Ee ee @ CUTS for BOOM EDITIONS Ce @10 Table Nuts, fancy.. ee ee a eae a ER @12% recess, Foe me. ©. ....... .........8 Be PAM Pp H LETS Cocoanuts, full sacks............. 20... @4 00 sil , PEANUTS. For the best work, at reasonable prices, address Fancy, H. Pa a @ 5% y ry ry . ae. @ 7% THE TRADESMAN COMPANY. Fancy, H. P., eee eee obeys @ 5% meee... ..... 7 @™% Choice, H. Ps eee @ 4% o peartes 6 a! 6 ELSIE ROLLER MILLS A. SCHENCK & SON, Elsie, Mich. OUR BRANDS: Our Best Patent Straight. SPECIALTIES—ALL THE ABOVE. Granulated Meal, Old-fashioned Graham, Buckwheat Flour, Feed. Prompt attention to Mail orders. TERRE INGS & BESS DEALERS IN Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow, NOS. 122 and 124 LOUIS STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. WE CARRY A STOCK OF CAKE TALLOW FOR MILL USE. 24-26 No. Division St., Ka the wmerehontt Is the Fact that the * WOULSON SPICE Ub EES LION COFFEE, - - 0. D. JAVA, -STANDARD MARACAIBO - Coffees of every description are roasted by the Woolson Spice Co., of Toledo, O., who are veterans in that business and invite atrial of the above named grades. All are guaranteed to please. Lion Coffee is composed of Mocha, Java and Rio, sold only in 1-lb. packages, witha picture card in every package. Write your jobber for prices, or address L: WINTER NITZ, RESIDENT AGENT, 106 Kent St. Grand Rapids. SEEo Ds FOR 1892. Before you sort up on seeds this spring be sure and write for our PRELIMINARY WHOLESALE PRICE LIST OF GARDEN SEEDS IN BULK. We have all the novelties besides a full line of Standard Sorts. Our Vegetable Seeds are the high- est grade and perfectly reliable. We sell what we catalogue and name prices as low as any good seed house in the country. We carry the largest stock and most complete assortment of Garden Seeds in the State, west of Detroit. GRASS AND CLOVER SEED, A special feature in our business is field seeds, of which we are always in good supply. Lowest cash market values day of shipment. Prices sent on application and samples forwarded free. ONION SETS AND SEED POTATOES. Prices on onion sets and seed potatoes will be mailed upon application. headquarters for these articles. GARDEN IMPLEMENTS We carry a large line of seed drills, hand cultivators, ete., and will make close figures on anything in this line. We are Seed Catalogues free with an order of $25 pondence and quote prices with pleasure. ALFRED BROWN, SEEDSMAN, and upwards. We solicit your corres- Grand Rapids, Mich. SHE Ds. puabaiateaes: seis des Raa S nde Pin : « RNR FIRE INSURANCE. Its History and the Laws, Rules and Customs Which Govern It. Written for THE TRADESMAN, FIRST PAPER. There is no subject more worthy of careful attention on the part of business men than the one standing at the head of this article, and I will venture the assertion that, in proportion to its im- portance, it is less understood by busi- ness men than any other subject. This contract of indemnity, whereby one party, in consideration of a specified payment called a premium, undertakes to guarantee another against loss by fire, is a principle which was acted on at a very early period. It is said that princi- ples of insurance were acted on during the Second Punie War, and we are told that the Emperor Claudius was an in- surer, because, in order to encourage the importation of corn, he took upon him- self all the loss or damage it might sus- tain. There are still extant rules of sundry ‘“‘guilds,’’? or social corporations of the Anglo-Saxons, whereby, in return for certain fixed contributions, the mem- bers guaranteed each other against loss from ‘‘fire, water, robbery or other cal- amity.’? On the opening of Queen Eliz- abeth’s first Parliament, in the speech of the Lord Keeper Bacon, is found this allusion: ‘Doth not the wise merchant in every adventure of danger’ give part to have the rest assured?”’ ~ How many losses by fire have already occurred since the advent of the new year, ruining merchants whom Bacon would not have classed as ‘‘wise mer- chants,’”? had they lived in his day, be- cause they had neglected to protect themselves ‘‘in every adventure of dan- ger.” A wise merchant will never risk his goods and wares to destruction by fire and carry no contract of indemnity, and he will never permit a moment to elapse between the expiration of an old policy and the taking out of a new one. The utility of fire insurance is uni- versally admitted. 1t obviates the ruin- ous effect which a fire calamity has upon an individual, by scattering its forces and apportioning the loss among the many. These inevitable losses are thus shifted from those who could illy afford to bear them to those who, in the aggre- gate of premiums and _ losses, actually derive profit from the business. The whole law of insurance, like every other branch of commercial law, has grown up out of the business and is, therefore, the result of exigences grow- ing out of the rugged, practical experi- ence of sagacious business men engaged in mercantile pursuits. As commerce developed and business intercourse be- came more general among men engaged in mercantile and manufacturing pur- suits, ways and means were occasionally adopted, by mutual consent, for the fa- cilitation of business and the protection of those engaged init. A code of rules and regulations thus crept into existence which the commercial world to-day recog- nizes as commercial law. A considera- ble portion of this unwritten law, which is recognized and defined by our supreme courts in the decisions they render from time to time, is devoted to the subject of fire insurance. In the absence of statu- tory law this commercial common law, as defined by the courts, will rule and govern all technical points which may grow out of litigation on the subject. The rules governing the law of insurance, having been begotten in necessity, will be found to be eminently practical. I shall not touch upon the subject of the purpose of insurance, as that is understood by everybody, but shall dis- cuss the many questions which present themselves in the accomplishing of this purpose. THE POLICY. The instrument which expresses the | contract entered into between the in- | surer and the insured is called the policy. Since an early day printed forms have | been used, which, although awkward in expression, from long use have, to a cer- tain extent, acquired a fixed meaning | from judicial decisions and the usage of trade. In early times the business of insurance was done almost altogether by individual insurers. A poliey was writ- ten, for a stipulated amount, quite often larger than one person would care to assume, and it was offered in the market to responsible parties, as a risk to be} taken in the whole, or for such specified part thereof as they should write against their individual names. ‘The names were written under the policy, and the signers were called ‘“‘underwriters.’’? Now, poli- | cies of insurance are made by incorpora- ted companies. A valid contract of insurance may be | effected - without a written policy. It may be made orally and be binding, even where the insurer is an incorporated com- pany in whose charter a special mode of contract is specified as binding upon the company. Anagreement to insure orally made by the president, secretary, or other authorized officer or agent of such a company will be binding upon a com- pany in case of loss. It is the settled law of the United States that a contract is made by letter when either party re- ceiving a letter containing proposals, puts into the mail an answer of accept- ance, not having previously received from the proposing party a letter with- drawing the proposals, and the contract of insurance is no exception to this rule. In law no delivery of a policy is es- sential, as in the case of a deed, and, when a party has made an agreement for insurance of his property, and has paid the required premium, he will be treated in equity as insured, whether a policy has been actually executed or not. If the policy in such a case has been exe- cuted, the insurer would be considered as holding it for the benefit of the in- sured, and, should he refuse to deliver it in case of a loss, the insured party could immediately maintain an action at law for its possession. A question of considerable difficulty often arises in regard to whether the agreement has been perfected, and in commercial towns actions on agreements to insure are not uncommon; but they are always sustained where it appears | that the terms of the agreement have been fully settled by the concurrent as- sent of both parties, leaving nothing un- | done except the delivery of the policy. | A receipt for a premium, accompanied with an agreement to deliver a policy of same date as receipt, will give immediate effect to the insurance. It is only neces- sary that the parties should have agreed as to the subject matter to be insured and the terms of the insurance, in order to perfect and complete the contract of insurance. As to the evidence of such agreement between the parties, it mat- ters not whether it is contained in a pre- pared and perfected policy, or rests sim- | | | | Chadwick Thread. Guaranteed Equal to any Thread on the Market, 40 CENTS PER DOZEN. Carried in all Numbers, White and Black. W. H. DOWNS, AGENT SOLE Grand Rapids, Mich. | We are very large receivers of the above ar- | ticles and are prepared to sell your shipments | promptly at the highest market price and to give you quick returns.We also receive and sell HAY, GRAIN, WOOL, HIDES, GRASS SEED, BEANS, POTATOES, GREEN AND DRIED FRUITS, OR ANYTHING YOU MAY HAVE TO SHIP, Lib- eral advances made onshipments if requested. bade gy prices or any information you SUMMERS, MORRISON & CO.. Commission Merchants, 174 S. WATER ST., - CHICAGO, ILL. Reference: Metropolitan Natl. Bank, Chicago. Be sure and Mention this Paper. 17 Years of Development HAVE RESULTED IN THE AUTOGHAPHIG REGIST En. Which makes, automatically, a fac-simile dupli eate and triplicate, while making original bills, receipts, orders, checks, ete. The original is given to the customer, the duplicate to the cash ier, and the triplicate is rolled up inside ts a record, and can be taken out at any time for ex- amination. It is absolutely incorruptible, al ways ready, and does not permit dishonesty or carelessness. It is alike a protection to ,the cus tomer, the salesman and the merchant. These Machines are rented, not sold, and | the saving in cost of Each 20,000 bills Pays the Rental. SUITABLE FOR ANY BUSINESS. Send for a Full Descriptive Pamphlet Showing Different Styles. CHICAGO Autographics Register Go, 154 Monroe St., Chicago. Cuas. P. STEVENS, W. VERNON Boors, Pres’ Sec'y and Gen. Mgr res't. JOBBERS OF BOOTS & SHOES Felt Boots and Alaska Socks. State Agents for | | | If you have any beans and want tosell, we want them, will give you full mar ket price. Send them to us in any quantity up to car loads, we want 1000 bushels daily W. Y. LAMOREAUX & 60, 128, 130, 132 W. Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, Ought,to Send At Once For Sample Sheet and Prices. OfsLedgers and Journals; bouni with Philad: Iphia Pat, Flat openin: back. The Strongest Blank'Book Eve: Made. MICH | GRA* D Barnett Bros. se Gommission Merchants RAPIDS, AND DEALERS IN | Apples, Dried Fruits, | Onions. Twenty-five years’ experience and ample | facilities for the transaction of business. | Refer by permission to the editor of this |paper. Write for information which will | be cheerfully furnished. BARNETT BROS. | 159 So. Water St., Chicago. 16 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. committed to no paper, or it may be found in letters which have passed be- tween them. It is well established in this country that an acceptance of a pro- posal for insurance constitutes such agreement between the parties, and it consummates the bargain, provided the offer has not been rescinded at the time of the acceptance. As to what consti- tutes an acceptance, the general doc- trine is that a letter of acceptance must have started on its mission and passed into the post office, or beyond the recall of the sender. It is not sufficient for the minds ef the parties to merely determine; they must have met, and the writing of a letter of acceptance, so long as it is sub- ject to the control of the writer, will not conclude the bargain. A vote of a board of directors, for instance, would be in- sufficient if not communicated to the applicant. The peculiar circumstances connected with each case must determine it, and it will occur to most business men that there are ways of expressing an assent or acceptance of a proposition other than in writing or in spoken words. Silence and delay, sometimes, are equally effect- ive, when the proposition is made in such form, or under such circumstances, as to render it the duty of the party to communicate a refusal if he does not mean to accept. INSURABLE INTERESTS. Before pursuing the subject further, it would ‘be well to consider what the law recognizes as insurable interests, for, if the relation between the party insured and the subject matter of the insurance does not come within the requirements of the law the contract of insurance, in ease of loss, cannot be enforced against the insurer. The law will enforce no wager policies against fire. The party insured must have some interest in the subject-matter not only at the time of the insurance, but also at the time of the loss. As the law allows different persons to have sep- arate and distinct interests in the same property, it will permit each to protect his interest by means of insurance. For example, in a simple dwelling house one man may be tenant for a year, another may have alife estate and athird may be the owner of the fee. The owners of the life estate and the estate in fee may each mortgage his estate; there would then be five distinct and separate estates, owned by five several persons, all of whom have separate and several and in- surable interests. The interest of each is, of course, restricted and limited to the value of his estate. As the tenant fora year will be only entitled to recover upon his policy the value of the occupancy and enjoyment of the estate for one year, so the owner of the life estate will be confined to the value of his estate. The estates of the mortgagor and mortgagee are not so clearly independent of each other. Where the mortgagee insures solely on his own account, it is but an insurance of his debt, which, if after- wards paid, terminates the policy to all intents and purposes, for, should a loss occur, he could not recover, as he would sustain no damage thereby; neither can the mortgagor take advantage of the pol- icy, for he has no interest therein, it hay- ing been effected by the mortgagee on his own account and at his expense. Of course, should a loss occur before the debt is paid, the insurers are bound to ' ply in words uttered by the parties and | pay the amount of the debt to the mort- gagee, if it does not exceed the insurance. Some very fine questions have arisen in the courts in connection with the ad- justing of losses sustained by mortgagees, which will be considered when that phase | Fro: of the subject is reached. The vendor of real estate, before actual conveyance, or of personal property after sale and before payment and delivery, has an insurable interest, and an insol- vent debtor whose property is vested in assignees may, nevertheless, insure it. One having a mechanic’s lien upon a} building has an insurable interest there- in; so has a purchaser holding an execu- tory contract for conveyance but having as yet no actual title. sion for sale on commission has an insurable interest in them to the full extent of their value, and, upon loss, may recover in his own name the full amount, upon an averment of inter- | est in himself. The adjustment of the account between himself and his princi- pal is not a matter in which the insur- ance company has any interest which the law recognizes. Where the goods of the insured were levied on by the sheriff, by virtue of an execution, and the sheriff took actual possession and left them locked up in the store of the insured, with doors and windows fastened, and, while out of town, having the key with him, a fire occurred totally destroying them, it was held that the insured had still an insur- able interest in the goods to their full value and was entitled to recover. A husband has an insurable interest in goods settled to his wife’s separate use, they living together and jointly us- ing the property; and it has been held that an insolvent retains an insurable interest in goods concealed from his creditors. A sheriff who has goods in his custody under process has a special property, and this gives him an insurable interest therein. A warehouseman has sufticient interest to authorize him to insure property en- trusted to him, but a mere hope or ex- pectation without some interest in the subject of insurance, would, if insured, create only a wager policy, and all such policies are void. In all of these cases the party insured must have an interest in the property at the time of loss; otherwise, the policy is void, although the loss is, by the terms of the policy, made payable to a third person, and such third person at the time of the loss has an interest in the property. In pursuing this series of articles I shall confine my researches in this im- portant department of commercial law to matters of especial interest to those engaged in mercantile pursuits. E. A. OWEN. How’s This ? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney | for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and fin- ancially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax, Wholesa'e Druggists, oledo O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucus surfaces of the system. Price 75c per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free, 3Al A factor who has the goods of his principal in his posses- | Grand Rapids & Indiana. Schedule in effect January 10, 1892. TRAINS GOING NORTH. Arrive from Leave going | uth. North. | For Saginaw and Cadillac...... 5:15 7:06 am | For Traverse City & Mackinaw 9%:20am 11:30 am | For Saginaw & Traverse City.. 2:00pm 4:15 pm | For Petoskey & Mackinaw ..... 8:10pm 10:30 pm m Kalamazooand Chicago. 8:35 pm | Train arriving at 9:20 daily; all other trains daily | except Sunday. | TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Arrive from Leave going South. North. |e Cee... 6:20am 7:00 am | For Kalamazoo and Chicago... 10:30 am | For Fort Wayne and the East.. 11:50am 2:00 pm Pee Cee 5:30 pm 6:00 pm | For Chicago 1 ee ill 10:40 p m Trains leaving at 6:00 p. m. and 11:05 p. m. run daily; all other trains daily except Sunday. Muskegon, Grand Rapids & Indiana, From Muskegon— Arrive. | For Muskegon—Leave. | 7:00 am 10:10am | 11:25 am 4:40 pm | 5:40 pm 9:05 pm SLEEPING & PARLOR CAR SERVICE. NORTH 11:30 a m train.—Parlor chair car G’d Rapids to Petoskey and Mackinaw. 10:30 P m train.—Sleeping car Grand Rapids Petoskey and Mackinaw. | SOUTH--7:00 am train.—Parlor chair car Grand Rapids to Cincinnati. 10:30 am train.—Wagner Parlor Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. 6:00 pm train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand pids to Cincinnati. 11;05 p m train.—Wagner Sleeping Car Grand Rapids to Chicago. Chicago via G. R. & I. R. R. Lv Grand Rapids 10:30 am 2:00pm 11.05 pm Arr Chic: 3:55 9:00 pm 6 50am AZO m 10:30 a m train through ie Parlor Car. 11:05 p m train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. ‘° Lv Foo 3 7: am 3:10pm 10:10 pm Arr Grand Rapids 2:00pm 8 35pm 6:15 am 3:10 p m through Wagner Parlor Car. 10:10 Pm train daily, through Wagner Sleeping Car. Through tickets and full information can be had by calling upon A. Almquist, ticket agent at Union Sta- tion, or George W. Munson, Union Ticket Agent, 67 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich. LOCKWOOD. 0. L. 5 General Passenger and Ticket Agent. Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railwa, In connection with the Detroit, Lansing & Northern or Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwauk e offers a route making the best time betwe : Grand Rapids and Toledo, Via D., L. & N, Ly. Grand Rapids at..... 7:25 a. m. and 6:25 Ar. Toledo at..... p. m. - «»--1210 p. m. and 11:00 p. m. VIA D., @. H. & M, Ly. Grand Rapids at.....6:50 a. m. and 3:45 p. m. Ae. onceeee........... 1:10 p. m. and 11:00 p. m Return connections equally as good. W. H. Bennett, General Pass. Agent, Toledo, Ohio. To those who need a window Displaying Rack we now offer our fine antique Rack, as per cut above, when cash accompanies the order, for 30 r cent. less than list. o. 1 Rack, 6% feet high, 15 % brass rods, $10 00 7 ae oe ot x0 7-16 wooden, 810 No, 0 Rack, 5% - 15 % brass rods. 10 00 - oo. . 20 7-16 wooden, 8 00 No. 00 Rack, 34% “ 12 34 brass rods, 8 00 se “6 “ “ 12 4 steel ac 6 00 12 7-16 wooden, 6 Give number of Rack and width of window. Remember that strictly the net list price will be on the above Racks unless cash accompanies the order, and for 30 days only. Gringhvis Itemized Ledger 6o., 403 West Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Commercial Trav- IMPORTANT c.ccma'accsttan Notice is hereby given that the American Casualty Insurance and Security Co., of Balti- more City, Maryland, is furnishing the most lib- eral accident policy, affording more protection for the money than is given by any other com- pany or association doing business in the United tates. Its policy is short and simple, is free from all objectionable and unnecessary clauses and conditions, and isan absolute contract se- cured by acash capital of $1,000,000. with over $500,000 surplus, hence there are no contin- | gencies as to amount to be paid the insured or is beneficiary, asin all association certificates Those wishing the ao gener issued, should call up telephone 1003, or address W. R. FREEMAN, Agent Grand Rapids, Mich. MIGHIGAN CENTRAL “* The Niagara Falis Route.’ Detroit Express 7:00am 10:00pm BON occ oc uss 7:05am 4:30 pm Day Express.. 1:20pm 10:00am *Atlantic & Pacific Express --10:30pm 6:00am — ee 5:40pm 12:40pm All other daily except Sunday. Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific Express trains to and from Detroit. Elegant parlor cars leave Grand Rapids on Detroit Express at 7a.m., returning leave Detroit 4:45 Pp. m. arrive in Grand Rapids 10 p. m. FRED M. Briggs, Gen’l Agent. 85 Monroe St. A. ALMQUIST, Ticket Agent, Union Depot. Gro. W. Munson, Union Ticket Office, 67 Monroe St. O. W. Rueeis G. P. & T. Agent., Caicago. TIME YABLE DETROIT SUNT AWA ta NOW IN EFFECT. We ZN EASTWARD. Trains Leave \tNo. 14/tNo. 16|tNo. 18|*No. 82 G’d_ Rapids, Ly| 6 50am/}1' 20am Tonia ........Ar) 7 45am/11 25am St. Johns ...Ar} 8 28am/12 17pm Owosso ..... Ar| 9 03am] 1 20pm E. Saginaw..Ar|10 45am] : Bay City.....Ar}11 30am tie ........ Ar/10 05am Pt. Huron...Ar/)i 55an Pontiac ...... Ar/10 58am Dero... Ar|11 50am WESTWARD. *No. 81 |tNo. 11 |tNo. 13 Ga Rapides, Ly........ . 1 00pm} 5 10pm Petavesn, Ar........ 8 35am) 2 10pm] 6 15pm mow teeeee : (eicosa nie * C *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Trains arive from the east, 6:40 a. m., 12:50 a, m., 5:00 p. m. and 10:00 p. m. Trains arrive from the west, 10:10 a. m., 3:15 p.m. and - m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlcr Buffet car. No. 18Chair Car. No. 82 Wagner Sleeper. Westward—No. 81 Wagner Sleeper. No. 11 Chair Car. No. 15 Wagner Parlor Buffetcar, JOHN W. Loup, Traffic Manager. BEN FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agent. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Ticket Agent. CHICAGO AND WEST MICHIGAN R’Y. GOING TO CHICAGO. Lv.GR’D RAPIDS...... 9:00am 12:05pm *11:25pm ar, Cee ae.....:.... 3:65pm 5:15pm *7:05am RETURNING FROM CHICAGO. Ly. CHICAGO..... ... 9:00am 4:45pm *11:15pm Ar. GR’D RAPIDS..... 3:55pm 10:10pm *6:10am TO AND FROM BENTON HARBOR, 8ST. JOSEPH AND INDIANAPOLIS, Ly. Grand Rapids. ... 9:00am 12:05pm *11 :35pm Ar. Grand Rapids..... *6:10am 3:55pm 10:10pm For Indianapolis 12:05 p m only. TO AND FROM MUSKEGON. inv. Rm... .. 10:0Cam 12 0pm 5:30pm 8:30pm ae, oe... 10:55am 3 55pm 5:25pm ........ TO AND FROM MANISTEE, TRAVERSE CITY AND ELK RAPIDS, i. Oren Mereos,.... .......... 7:25am 5:17pm Ar. Gram Mapids.....2..... -11:45am 9:40pm THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Between Grand Rapids and Chicago—Wagner Sleepers—Leave Grand Rapids *11:35 p m.; leave Chicago 11:15pm. Drawing Room Cars—Leave Grand Rapids 12:05 pm; leave ae 4345 pm. Free Chair Cars—Leave Grand Rapids 9:00 a m; leave Chicago 9:00 a m. Between Grand Rapids and Manistee—Free Chair Car—Leaves Grand Rapids5:17 pm; leaves Manistee 6:50 a m. DETROIT, LANSING & NORTHERN R, R. GOING TO DETROIT. Ly. GR'D KAPIDS..... 7:15am *1:00pm 5:40pm Art. DTM... .....<. 12:00 m *5:16pm 10:40pm RETUKNING FROM DETROIT, iV, DeVoe. ......... 7:00am *1:15pm 5:40pm Ar.GED HAPIDS..... 11:50am *5:i15pm 10:15pm To and from Lansing and Howell—Same as to and from Detroit. TO AND FROM SAGINAW, ALMA AND 8T, LOUIS, 3 25pm |10 55pm 4 27pm |12 37am 5 20pm} 1 55am 6 05pm) 3 15am 8 Opm/} 8.45am 8 45pm) 7.:0ain 7€5pm)} 5 40am 6 00pm) 8 50pm} 7 30am § 25pm} 5 37am 925pm} 7 00am Trains Leave tee eens eee eee JAN’Y 3, 1892. JAN’Y 3, 1892 by. Grand Mareds............... 7:05am 4:15pm AS. CARE TONGS oe 11:50am 10:40pm TO LOWELL VIA LOWELL & HASTINGS R. R. Ly. Grand Rapids........ 7:15am 1:00pm 5:40pm Ar, en Lowe.......... SitGtee S:item =... THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Between Grand Rapids and Detroit — Parlor cars on all trains. Seats 25 cents. Between Grand Rapids and Saginaw—Parlor car leaves Grand Rapids 7:05 am; arrives in Grand Rapids 7:40 pm. Seats 25 cents. *Every day. Other trains week days only. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen. Pass’r Ag’t. 4 STUDY LAW AT HOME. Take a course in the Sprague Correspon- ‘ence school of Law [inco rated]. Send ten cents [stamps] for particu- lars to J. COTNER, Jr., Sec’y, No. 375 Whitney Block, DETROIT, - MICH, : ’ esha an ar See aaa eee in pO ~ lin tcc BOE e..-, ~*~ =< Sica SR eit -RINDGE, BERTSCH & Co. Manufacturers of Boots & Shoes Agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co Send us your mail orders and we will try and fill them to your satisfaction. We have the new line of Storm Slips in cotton and wool lined for ladies; also the Northwest or Roll Edge line of lumberman’s in Hurons and Trojans The Finest Quality and Best Article for ‘ eneral Cleaning known i in n the World. Sold by all wholesale grocers, or orders may be sent direct to the factory. | Telephone No. 945. P. STEKETEE & SONS WHOLESALE URY BOUUS & NOTIONS GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. tra Papi Storage & Tranter Co,, init Winter St, between Shawmut Ave, and W. Fulton st, GRAND RAPIDS,‘ MICH. Gane Warehovsemen and Yransfer Agents, COLDcSTORAGE FOR BUTTER, EGGS, CHEESE, FRUITS, AND ALL KINDS OF PERISHABLES.: Dealers and Jobbers in Mowers, Binders Twine, Threshers, En- gines, Straw Stackers, Drills, Rakes, Tedders, Cultivators, Plows, Pumps, Carts, Wagons. Buggies, Wind Mills and Machine and Plow repairs, Ete. J. ¥. F. BLAKE, Sup’t. STANDARD OIL CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. DEALERS IN Illuminating and Lubricating -OILs- NAPTHA AND GASOLINES. Office, Hawkins Block. Works, Butterworth Ave. BULK WORKS AT GRAND RAPIDS, BIG RAPIDS, ALLEGAN, MUSKEGON, GRAND HAVEN, HOWARD CITY, MANISTEE, CADILLAC, LUDINGTON. PETOSKEY, HIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR RMPYY CARBON & GASOLINE BARRELS. IF YOU WANT The Best ACCEPT NONE BUT Silver. Thread sauerkraut. Order this Brand from Your Wholesale Grocer! Spring & Company, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Dress Goods, Shawls, Cloaks, Notions, Ribbons, Hosiery, Gloves, Underwear, Woolens, Flannels, Blankets, Ginghams, Prints and Domestic Cottons. We invite the attention of the trade to our complete and well assorted stock at lowest market prices. Spring & Company. The Famous Leonard Cleanable DRY. COLD- AM. REFRIGERATORS. ; All New Designs for 1892 The Drawers are Closed at Back so warm air cannot enter Kefrigerator when open. The Entire Line Remodeled, Beautified, and Improved. We Lead, 4- Others ~. Follow! >"> : ae ea tea a oe Style of No. 7. Four Doors. Raised Carvings. Style of No. 61. Grocers’ Refrigerator. A Lining of Wool Felt has been added to the Charcoal Filling, “o™srs*=teen™ te whieh er Our Carvings are Real Not cheap stamped work, which looks well in pictures only. The Trimmings on our Carved Line are Solid Bronze, “**-Prom Pete The Ice Racks in our Carved Line are Solid Galvanized Iron. ‘° Wooten Sticks to Mould and Decay: Our Locks are the only Reliable Refrigerator Locks in the World, “*°""*'=*"ste*oor7eo—eeeeeeeeeeee Our Solid Iron Shelves are the Neatest and Strongest, 2s “een Pren* down, ours never to Our Movable Flues for Cleanliness are Demanded by the People, S=-s*\*rSerture the Sales ___ We sell on the Exclusive Agency Pian. Sees ° For Families, Grocers, Butchers, Apartment Houses, Hotels, Resta ts, Clubs, al Cc bined We make Refrigerators for every purpose. with Sideboards, China Closets, show Cases, Kitchen Cabinets, Ete. Hew Catalogucs now Ready. Sond for ane: ee are reece eee eee ee Now is the Time to Place Your Order !? H. LEONARD & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.