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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929

 

 

 

 

What Makes a City Great

What makes a city great and strong?
Not architecture's graceful strength
Nor factories extended length,

But men who see the civic wrong

And give their lives to make it right
And turn the darkness into light.

What makes a city men can love?

Not titled fame nor wealth’s display

But women rich in virtue’s dower

Whose homes though humble still are great
Because of service of the state.

What makes a man full of power?

Not things that charm the outward sense
Nor gross display of opulence,

But right which wrong can not remove,
And truth which faces civic fraud

And smites it in the name of God.

This is the city that shall stand,
A light upon the Nation's hill,

A voice that evil can not still;

Its source of blessing not in brick
Nor stone nor wood, but

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Factory on over-time
production to supply demand

Never in the history of our business have we offered the
trade a cheese product that has made such an immediate
success as Velveeta. It seems to be a perfect product,
one with a universal appeal.

It is delicious in flavor; it contains all the healthful
properties of rich whole milk; it spreads like butter or
will slice when chilled, while for cooking purposes it
melts and blends so readily with other foods that its
superiority is at once apparent.

Velveeta has the support of a large national newspaper
and radio advertising campaign which is giving our
dealers large sales and quick turnover. If you have not
stocked Velveeta, or are not giving it prominent display,
you are overlooking some sure-fire profits. See your
distributor or jobber.

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Forty-sixth Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1929

Number 2390

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
E. A. Stowe, Editor

PUBLISHED WEEKLY by Tradesman Company,
from its office the Barnhart Building, Grand Rapids.

UNLIKE ANY OTHER PAPER. Frank, free and
fearless for the good that we can do. Each issue com-
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Rapids as second class matter under Act of March
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Detroit Representative

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Model Grocery Store Maintained For
Four Months.

No problem faced by the jobber is
greater than that of making retail
stores more efficient and larger volume
outlets. No sales plan of the whole-
saler can be effective unless the re-
tailers can hold and build public pa-
tronage. The Dannemiller Grocery Co.,
wholesale grocer and coffee roaster of
Canton, Ohio, is not only co-operating
in joint merchandising and advertising
with a selected group of retailers but
their recent campaign is designed to
assist all retailers as well.

Last October we sponsored a Better
Grocery Store Movement by first sub-
mitting a plan to retailers for an in-
dividual store survey whereby each re-
tailer co-operating in the movement re-
ceived a drawing showing a modern
rearrangement of his particular store.

Believing that we could not interest
the retailers in modern store arrange-
ment and display by working with
drawings and photographs alone, we
purchased a complete set of steel shelv-
ings and fixtures and installed a model
grocery in the residential district of
Canton. We rented a new store room,
33 by 46, and stocked this model gro-
cery with our merchandise.

This store was visited by thousands
of retailers and by jobbers from all
over the United States. The interest
in this store displayed by consumers,
retailers and jobbers is beyond any-
thing we ever expected, proving that
a store fully equipped will do more
to further the movement than anything
else.

Nothing was sold at the model store.
[t was a display room for grocers and
also for housewives and has proven to
be one of the greatest movements for
better grocery stores in the country.

Many of the retailers rearranged

their stores along the lines of the mod-
el store utilizing their old equipment
and cutting up long counters, purchas-
ing perhaps a few steel display stands
here and there, while others have sold
out their old equipment and purchased

complete stores. Installations have been
made by us in seven counties sur-
rounding Canton, and various cities
in these counties are still sending dele-
gations to view this model store.

The model store was maintained for
four menths and just a month ago was
sold to one of Canton’s most progres-
sive retailers who is now doing business
in this store. It will interest you to
know that in this size store, 33 by 46,
the entire outfit cost the retailer $700
exclusive of meat department.

The windows of the model store are
well lighted and all window displays
are arranged low permitting a clear
view through the entire store from the
sidewalk. On entering the store the
customer is attracted by a large green
goods display which adjoins one of
the windows. The consumer viewing
the store from this, surveys a beauti-
ful stock of merchandise on black and
white steel shelving on both side walls
extending almost the entire length of
the store, with meat market in the
rear. Glass display cases are grouped
around small wrapping counters in the
center of the store, from which point
the store is controlled. The absence
of long counters running parallel to the
shelves gives an air of freedom to the
store permitting the housewife to in-
spect merchandise on shelves and dis-
play racks.

Starting with the shelves on either
side, from the front of the store the
highest grade of goods are on the top
shelves and graded downward. One
section is used for each department,
two sections when necessary, while
the less profitable goods are in the
rear of the central control. Customers
coming in to buy unprofitable items
are obliged to pass displays of profit-
able goods in order to make their pur-
chases.

Many of the display racks are on
casters which can be moved daily or
weekly for special sales. A. steel
flour scooter on rollers is one of the
display features in this store; as well
as an eight-bin trade booster with
glass lids for bulk goods; also a rotat-
ing broom rack; several steel pyramids
on rollers with various sized shelves;
glass cases for pastry, candy, etc.

The following points of arrangement
should be observed in a modern store:

1. Counters away from shelves.

2. If possible, no working counters
closer than 12 feet from the front door.

3. Vegetables, bulk goods and cakes
close to scale and wrapping counters.

4. U-shape center control if possible.

5. Four feet from counter to shelf,
if possible, but six feet is ideal.

6. Fast moving goods close to de-
livery counter, telephone likewise.

7. Avoid counters lunger than 42 to
48 inches.

8. Make retailers realize that any set

arrangement of fixtures is not per-
manent. A good merchant will make
small changes of delivery, counters and
racks to keep the public interested
in the store, but according to principle
of saving steps and time for himself.
Opening of shelves to public gives them
an opportunity for self-service, assist-
ing retailer and not increasing over-
head.

9. Special location of vegetable win-
dow as to traffic and position of door.

10. Plenty of space in front of coun-
ters and meat counter.

11. Try to run combination of self-
serve and service store.

12. Do not have any display on coun-
ters or display cases above four feet
except on pyramid displays; leave
view wide open.

13. Get bulk goods away from un-
der counters. Put in trade booster and
increase sales about 87 per cent.

14. Place counter close to delivery
department.

15. Lighting system—plenty of light.

Frank Dannemiller.

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Change of Front By the National
Grocer Co. '

Battle Creek, July 9—We have wait-
ed patiently for every edition of the
Tradesman and have eagerly scanned
its pages, hoping that Mr. Stowe would
give us a statement regarding the Na-
tioral Grocer Co., knowing that when
he did so we would have the truth of
the matter. We did not join the R
stores. We could not see where'n it
would benefit us the ten dollars’ worth.
We rather enjoy running our own
business. If, after being in business in
one place five years, wo do not know
what our trade demands and what
specials to put out to meet the de-
mands or pleasures of our cus*omers,
it is time for us to make a change. We
have bought greceries of the National
Grocer Co. for vears and we can truth-
fiily say that no house has treated us
more loyally than it has. Its Battle
Creek salesman, J. I. Adams, has al-
way been the soul of honor in the high-
est sense of the term and the company
has stood back of him. We regret to
the highest degree this affair. If it is
due to financial trouble, which sonie
seem to think it is, and the banks are
putting their deal over, why does the
National Grocer Co. not come out
bravely and say: “Boys, we have lost
out and we have got to do something.”
This would draw out all the noble
qualities of the R merchants and the
National Grocer ‘Co. would find tirem
al. friends in need. Instead of doing
this, the house is starting chain stores
—the very thing it has condemned ‘n
no Sunday school phrases. It had
banquets with outside speakers ere,
denouncing the chain stores from everv
standpoint, organized the R stores to
fight to a finish these chain stores or
our country was lost. Now, was this
organization premeditated on _ their
part? If so, the company’s moral ebb
is as low as its finances are alleged to
be. A vear ago I saw something of
this sort on the blackboard, ‘Consist-
ency, thou art a jewel.” We regret
that this company, which we have en-
joved doing business with for so many
years, has so far forgotten the moral
code which embraces the law of com-

men brotherhood of man to man in
such a way that hereafter we will be
compelled to look with distrust on
many. We honor the manager at De-
troit who had the moral standing to
resign and take no part in this organ-
ization. Cc. W. Slade.

The Tradesman has made many at-
tempts to secure an official statement
from the executive staff of the Nation-
al Grocer Co. regarding the character
and extent of its proposed change of
front toward the retail trade in rever.-
ing its attitude from kindly co-opera-
ticn tc violent ertagonism and compe-
titicn, but has thus far been unable to
secure any satisfactory explanation,
excuse or valid reason.

In many cases the company has gone
beyond the bounds of good business
ethics in undertaking to coerce suc-
cessful merchants to transfer their
stocks to the National Grocer Co. in
exchange for 25 per cent. cash and 75
per cent. stock of doubtful value.
Where merchants demur to accepting
this offer, they are told that if they
fail to get into band wagon, the Na-
tional Grocer Co. will establish a new
store next door to the retailer and put
him out of business by cutting prices
and furnishing superior service. This
is a pretty severe make
against a house which has carefully
avoided such tactics ever since it was
established, but proofs of such threats
of coercion in the hands of the Trades-
man are in sufficient number to justify
this charge, much as the Tradesman
dislikes to take issue with a house
which has been its erstwhile customer
and which numbers many friends of
the Tradesman in its executive and
selling forces.

Of course, the National Grocer Co.
cannot ride two ‘horses and do it suc-
cessfully in a matter of this kind. It
cannot continue the jobbing business
and retain the patronage, co-operatioa
and friendship of the independent mer-
chant while it undertakes to conduct
500 chain stores at the same time. Such
a plan has never been successful in
this country and never will be suc-
cessful.

charge to

The Tradesman regrets the necessitv
of making this statement, but duty to
its friends of the retail trade compels
it to speak plainly on a matter so vital
to the best interests of the merchant.

—_>->___

The Michigan Retail Hardware As-
sociation will hold its thirty-sixth an-
nual convention and exhibition at
Grand Rapids, February 18, 19, 20 and
21. The Hotel Pantlind will be the
headquarters, and the exhibition will
be held at the Klingman exhibition
building. A. J. Scott, Secretary, Ma-
rine City, Michigan.

——

If you were the boss, would you

hire yourself for your present job?
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Looking ahead keeps us from falling

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Questionable Schemes Which Are
Under Suspicion.

The National Better Business Bu-
reau writes the Realm regarding an
advertisement sent out by a Florida
concern telling how to cut butter bills.
For twenty-five cents the person an-
swering the advertisement will be told
how to make three pounds of god
butter out of one pound. Those whos
remit the 25 cents for the instructions
advertised are given the following in-
formation:

“Take one pound of fresh churned
butter (not salted), put in a suitable
clean vessel, while fresh and soft, and
add the yolks of three eggs, mix well
together. Then add very slowly warm
sweet milk (just from the cow) and
beat rapidly as you add the milk. The
butter and eggs will take up the milk
slowly until you have three pounds of
the best butter. When the mixture
quits taking up the milk as you pour
it in, then it is done.

“Then salt and mould as you would
any butter. Not much ‘working’ re-
quired. If you do not make a success
of first batch do not feel discouraged.
Practice makes perfect in
instructions very

Try again.
anything. Follow
closely and have everything strictly
fresh.”

It is pointed out that the Depart-
ment of Agriculture requires that but-
ter should contain not less than 80 per
cent. of milk fat, and that the product
made in accordance with the above
quoted description would not compiy
The Depart-

ment also points out that similar pro-

with this requirement.

cesses have been found on the market
occasionally for many years and that
the products made of such processes
is a poor imitation of butter.

Persons answering the advertise-
ment also receive a number of circu-
lars from the advertiser offering a
number of other propositions on how
to start a chile parlor, how to be a
successful agent, twenty-four ways to
make money, etc.

Of course, a private individual could
use the butter making recipe in his
own home without coming in conflict
with the law, but any retailer endeavor-
ing to increase his butter sales with
the methods described would speedily
have the food inspector on his trail
and would be lucky if he escaped with
a fine. And where does the consumer
come in after adding eggs and milk

,

and doing the “working.’

Readers of the Realm will be inter-
ested in the following quotation from
a letter written by Commissioner
William E. Humphrey of the Federal
Trade National
Better Business Bureau:

“Replying to your communication

Commission to the

with reference to Marmola will say
that it is my intention to file applica-
tion for complaint against all publica-
tions that publish the advertisement
of Marmola, unless they express an in-
tention to discontinue it at once.”
Marmola, an alleged fat reducing
medium, was the subject of a cease
and desist order of the Federal Trade
Commission issued last month.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

A typical example of the co-opera-
tion existing between Better Business
Bureaus in variuos cities throughout
the country which often makes pos-
sible the prompt blocking of objection-
able enterprises, is shown in a recent
investigation of a Chicago mail-order
venture.

A Brooklyn member of the Bureau
received a copy of a circular prepared
and sent through the mails by the In-
dustrial Manufacturing Co., of 428
East 45th Place, Chicago, Ill, offering
for sale obscene photographs and other
objectionable matter. This business
man convinced of the harmfulness of
such literature placed the information
in the hands of the Bureau.

Evidence was obtained and forward-
ed to the Chicago Better Business Bu-
reau. It was determined that two col-
ored men were operating the “Indus-
trial Manufacturing Co.” and that they
were distributing obscene literature in
Chicago as well as through the mails.
At the instance of the Health Com-
missioner of Chicago, Jesse Gledeon,
colored, one of the operators, was ar-
rested, arraigned in Judge Finnegan's
Court and sentenced to six months in
the county jail. The obscene literature
was confiscated by the court.

With the popular interest in card
games has come the desire for new and
styles and colors in
making the
task a more difficult one. The in-

more elaborate
playing cards, printer's
tricate geometric designs employed on
the backs of many cards do not al-
ways lend themselves well to the lim-
itations of the machines. There are
occasions when the printing and cut-
ting machinery causes weird effects
not intended, while many cards come
through with slight irregularities not
easily seen at first by the average
plaver but of paramount importance
to the card “shark.”

Card manufacturers have been con-
fronted with this condition and have
which would enable

them to sell only selected perfect cards

sought means
and yet not take a total loss on others
that are below standard.

With this situation in mind, a re-
cent advertisement of a Brooklyn De-
partment Store was examined. The
announcement offered at 49c “Cards,
the usual 65c grade—at an exceptional-
ly low price only because they arz
sales-
people stated that the cards were per-
fect and the same as the regular 65c

issue wrapped.” Although

cards, it was determined that those
purchased by. the Bureau were irregu-
The man-
ufacturer recognized the cards as im-

lar in printing and cutting.

perfect ones which he had placed in
tissue wrappers and sold to a leather
goods manufacturer as “imperfect”
cards.

It is understood that all of the ir-
cards of this manufacturer
which are suitable for distribution are

disposed of in tissue wrappers rather

regular

than in the more costly cardboard tele-
scope cases. The trade is familiar with
this but the consumer has never been
given the advantage of this informa-
tion. There is, of course, a price ad-
vantage in buying irregular
tissue wrapped cards and many find
their way through legitimate channels

these

to retailers who properly describe and
sell them.

It is suggested that all who buy and
sell imperfect playing cards, “call a
spade a spade.”

—————_++>—___—__

SUPERANNUATED EMPLOYES.

Real Plan To Solve Problem Still
Lacking.

Henry ford, when he said a few days
ago that he prefers employes of 35 to
60 years, put a new phase on a prob-
lem pressing retailers for solution,
That is the question of making pro-
vision for superannuated employes.

The issues involved, both of mer-
chandising and social economics, take
on immediate and added significance
because of the growing number of re-
tail mergers and the entry of bankezs
into store financing, it was pointed out
yesterday. Bankers, scanning a long
list of old employes who may have
passed their best productive days, may
not regard such a list with a very kind-
ly eye in the store or stores in which
they have acquired a controlling or
supervisory interest. Pruning of the
staff to cut
of the day.

Moreover, even without the merger
aspect, the department
widespread American institution is now

“dead wood” is the edict

Store as a

entering the period in which enoug4
time has elapsed for the older person-
There are
a number of stores in the country
whose employes have served upward

nel to become a problem.

of twenty-five years. Sale of a store
in which they have served the best
part of their lives is no petty happen-
ing for employes of this length of ser-
vice. The story is told of one store
treasurer who, following the sale of
the store with which he was connected,
was ill for weeks because of realization
of what the situation meant to older
employes.

The disposition of retail executives
with whom the problem was discussed
was to regard it as a delicate one. The
charge that the department store field
is lagging behind other industries in
making provision for its superannuated
employes was denied by some. It was
agreed, however, that while a number
of stores are making provision by pen-
sion or other means for their older
employes, a comprehensive and decided
trend in this direction has yet to de-
velop.

That such a development, however,
is a matter of the comparatively near
future was the statement of one execu-
tive in close touch with what many
stores are doing.

"the retail craft,
larger stores,”

particularly the
said this executive, “ap-
preciate the growing importance of the
problem of the older employes and are
giving it much earnest thought. Meth-
ods of providing for them are being
studied, methods that will be fair to
the employe and to the store. It js
eminently likely that the studies being
made will bear fruit in workable plans
to accomplish their object. Because
of the many questions involved, the
problem, to say the least, is difficult.

“The retail stores,” he continued,
“are not alone in wrestling with the
social aspects of the problem. Other
industries have been and _ still are

 

July 10, 1929

grappling with it, achieving a greater
The great
cry going up of the difficulties men
over 40 are meeting in securing new

or less degree of success.

positions is evidence of one phase of
the situation.
Henry ford that he prefers employes
of 35 to 60 as making for a stable, ex-
perienced force are challenging. Should
his views be adopted by other indus-
trialists, a decided change in attitude
toward the older person in industrv
may develop.

“In retailing to-day the rapidity and

The recent remarks of

importance of style changes in almost
every kind of merchandise practically
demand a sales personnel and execu-
tive staff flexible in mind, quick to
adjust themselves to new ideas, things
and methods and to serve a public
which is youth-minded.

“In some stores and in some de-
partments, depending on the clientele
and on the merchandise, the older em-
ploye may continue to function to mu-
tual advantage. This also is true of
executive positions in which mature
experience and judgment plus knowl-
edge are prime essentials. But, gen-
erally speaking, the department store
or group of stores, to meet changing
merchandising conditions and to keep
in tune with consumer demand, mus?
be youthful. This is a basic element ‘1
the whole question.”

Among the means of provision for
employes the stores are studying, it
was indicated, are pension, group and
While
the discussions in a number of cases
quiet, the
with insurance actuaries are held t»
forecast eventual adoption by

retirement forms of insurance.

have been conversations
more
than a few stores of insurance suited
and adapted to the peculiarities of the
retail business.

It also was pointed out that a well-
known chain store organization has
devised a plan of stock ownership for
its employes, a step regarded as an-
other means of encouraging employes
to obtain a competency that will pro-
vide for their later years. With de-
partment stores rapidly passing from
private ownership to public financial
participation, this idea, it was added,
inay be feasily applied in the depart-
ment store field. Another large chain
is noted for its profit-sharing scheme
which meets the problem from anothe~
aspect.

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Grocery Trade Filled With New Spir t
of Optimism.

During the past five years we have
had the opportunity of studying retail
stores. We have studied them with
special reference to the plant equipment
and how the present plant enables the
grocer to serve his community. We
have found that the old-time grocery
store is inadequate to meet modern
conditions, and have gone even so far
as to suggest what we believe is a mod-
ern grocery store.

Before we can discuss the grocery
store, we must agree on a few of the
fundamentals. There are two major
considerations that differentiate the re-
tail business of to-day as compared
with fifteen years ago.

First, this is a shopping age. Women

are no longer tied to the nearest gro-
They shop about; usually

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

in their own car, and are free to buy
where their fancy dictates. It is the
task of the grocer to cash in on this
situation. The old-fashioned grocery
store does not get the shopper’s trade
as it should.

The second consideration is this: The
average grocer must bring down his
cost of operation. The old-fashioned
grocery store, with its long counters
and showcases, can not operate eco-
nomically. At the present time many
grocers have an operating expense of
from 18 to 20 per cent., and that is
too high. I don’t know how much the
grocer must bring down his cost, yet
I do know that in San Jose, Calif., there
is a large grocer who has his cost
of operation down to 10 per cent., and
that in Minneapolis there is a service
grocer, giving full service, at an oper-
ating cost of 13 per cent.

Another mistake that has been made
is that stores were built to suit men,
yet to-day 90 per cent. of the grocery
business is done by women. We must,
therefore, change our viewpoint and
build stores to cater to the whims and
fancies of women—that meet their ex-
acting demands.

It is a difficult matter to analyze
women and their buying habits. But
we do know they are dominated large-
ly by the sense of touch and sight.

It has been said that women buy
with their eyes. If that is true, then
in a scientific store we must have all
of our merchandise so it can be seen.
We know, further, that when a woman
is allowed to pick up an article the sale
is half made. The scientific store,
therefore, enables women to handle
everything that permits of being han-
dled.

The first consideration, then, in build-
ing a store is the floor space we need.
Many stores are too large for their
volume of business, resulting in a high
operating expense. We have found that
the best size for the average grocer
with a volume up to $75,000 is the store
from 20 to 30 feet wide and a rear
partition not more than 40 feet from
the door, with a good back room for
storage purposes.

Counters should be short ones, never

over 6 feet long. Neither should there
be too much counter space, but only
3 or 4 feet for each sales person.

Counters, we believe, shou'd be
placed crosswise at the rear of the
store, for in that manner we draw our
customers to the rear of the store and
thus increase purchases.

Rapid-moving merchandise should
surround our counters so that in so
far as possible the grocer can fill or-
ders with a minimum of steps.

In order to capitalize sight and touch,
increase purchases, and at the same
time cut the selling expense, we must
adopt the self-service principle, at least
to the extent of keeping the side walls
open and accessible to the customer.
That means removing the long coun-
ters, and in many instances throwing
out the long, clumsy show cases.

We generally need from one to three
short floor cases (4 feet long) for such
lines as tobacco, candy, and baked
goods. Frequently we need a refrig-

erator display case, These features

should be arranged into an island in
the center of the floor filled in with
display tables about 2 by 4 feet.

The island principle is widely used
in variety, hardware, and department
stores. It makes it possible for us to
keep the side shelving open and dis-
play all of our merchandise to a better
advantage.

Of course, all merchandise should be
price marked. The shelving must be
kept low so customers can reach every
item in stock.

But you may ask, will such a store
work? Yes; during the past two years
there have been approximately 10,000
old-fashioned grocery stores rearranged
into the island type, and we have never
heard of one that has gone back to
the old system.

When stores are rebuilt in this man-
ner sales increase on an average of 15
per cent., and in some instances as
much as 55 per cent. The operating
expense is also cut; sometimes by the
elimination of a clerk, but more gen-
erally by taking care of added volume
without any increase in the overhead.

Grocers everywhere are tremendous-
ly interested in the subject of better
stores. Never have they been so eager
for information as to-day, and if you
take this message to them intelligently
and sympathetically, you will get won-
derful response. Carl Dipman.

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May Fix Order Sizes.

Consideration of the small order was
again a leading topic among whole-
salers at one of the meetings of the
Wholesale Dry Goods Institute held
in New York City last week. It was
brought out that many of the orders
now being placed by retailers can be

 

handled only at a loss by the dis-
tributor. The wholesalers seemed to
agree that a standard shipping unit
or minimum size for orders is essen-
tial. Not much can be done, it was
thought, in reducing the expense of
handling orders on the present basis.

It is entirely possible that a mini-
mum order would overcome the prob-
lem which the jobbers now find so
vexing. Retailers might readily be
educated to its profits, since they would
be likely to enjoy better service and
perhaps an even better balanced stock.
On the other hand, no fixed limit
would probably be accepted if corre-
sponding advantages were not offered.
The wholesalers might turn the light
upon their own operations and see if
they have yet received the inducements
necessary to shape their own orders
to the mills and manufacturers on a
more satisfactory scale. The same
complaint they make about small or-
ders from retailers is made concerning
them by producers.

Before much progress can be ac-
complished in increasing the orders
which wholesalers receive, it appears
likely that further effort must be used
on the entire program of research and
promotion by which the secondary dis-
tributors hope to improve the methods
of the smaller retailers and to build
up trade with the larger firms. This
is the fundamental project, and if it is
successfully carried out the problem of
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4

MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Norwalk—Elmer Gilbert succeeds E.
C. Mathews in general trade.

Chelsa—George Kaercher has pur-
chased the meat market of Fred C.
Klingler.

Dearborn—The Union State Bank
has increased its capital stock from
$100,000 to $200,000.

Dearborn—The Dearborn State Bank
has increased its capital stock from
$200,000 to $300,000.

Wayne—Louis Mott, who conducts
a grocery and meat market here, has
opened another store.

Flint—The Home Owned Stores Co.
has opened a grocery and meat market
at 1923 Lewis street.

Hamtramck—The Wojoik Industrial
Bank has increased its capital stock

from $25,000 to $50,000.
3attle Creek—L. E. Downing has
sold his meat market at 467 Maple

street to Fay Wetmore.

Detroit—The Barton Bootery, 7542
Michigan aevnue, has closed out its
stock and retired from trade.

3ancroft—Cecil L. Waldie is the pro-
prietor of the new grocery and market
located in the Baker building.

Nashville—Mrs. C. G. Strow has
sold the Main Cafe to Mrs. Mae Brad-
ford, who has taken possession.

Lansing — Samuel J. Rapaport &
Sons, Inc., has enaged in business un-
der the style of the People’s Credit
Clothing Co.

Fennville—Van Hartesveldt Brothers
are the proprietors of the grocery and
market formerly operated by Robyler &
Van Hartesveldt.

Cedar Springs — The Hopkins &
Jamieson bakery has removed its plant
into the remodeled building formerly
occupied by the Farmers & Merchants
bank.

Harbor Springs—Natalie Shops, ine,
of Washintgon, D. C., has opened a
store here under the management of
Mrs. Carol MacBurney, recently of
Chicago.

Kalamazoo—Samuel M. Gerber, pro-
prietor of the Economy Self Service
Grocery and Market on North Burdick
street, will open a branch in the Wash-
ington square.

Kalamazoo—The Hill Co., baker, is
remodeling the store at 110 East Pater-
son street and will occupy it with a
complete line of baked goods, light
groceries and cold meats.

DetroitThe Jaffe Coal & Supply io.
5090 Lincoln avenue, has been incor-
porated with an authorized capital
stock of $1,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Jackson — The Peotler Roofing &
Shingle Co., 300 Pearl street, has been
incorporated with an authorized capital
stock of $25,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in property.

Detroit—The Fidelity Fuel & Roof-
ing Corporation, Lincoln avenue, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $15,000, $4,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Saginaw—The Bailey Pickle & Can-
ning Co., Young and Maple streets, has
been incorporated with an authorized
capital stock of $100,000, $50,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid in,
$25,000 in cash and $25,000 in property.

 

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Flint—The Independent Dairy Co.,
210 East Eighth street, has merged
its business into a stock company u:-
der the same style with an authorized
capital stock of 20,000 shares at $10
a share, $150,000 being subscribed aid
paid in.

Ann Arbor—Claude G. Drake has
merged his drug business into a stock
company under the style of The Quar-
ry, Inc., 317 West State street, with
an authorized capital stock of $100,000,
$75,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Detroit—Sherman Lewis, Inc., 25
Witherell street, has been incorporated
to deal in music, musical instruments,
etc., with an authorized capital stock
of 100,000 shares at $1 a share, $80,000
being subscribed and paid in, $10,000
in cash and $70,000 in property.

Saginaw—W. L. Case has merged
his undertaking business into a stock
company under the style of the W. L.
Case Undertaking Co., 413 Adams
street, with an authorized capital stock
of $30,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.

Detroit—Lou J. Eppinger, dealer in
sporting goods, etc., 131 Cadillac has
merged his business into a stock com-
pany under the style of Lou J. Eppin-
ger, Inc., with an authorized capital
stock of $150,000, $74,000 of which has
been subscribed and paid in in prop-
erty.

Frankfort—The Benzie Packing Co.
has been incorporated to pack fruits
and vegetables with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $30,000, all of which has
been subscribed and $20,000 paid in in
cash. The business offices of the com-
pany are at 715 East Front
street, Traverse City.

Bay City--The Nolet Packing Co.,
405 Morton street,
tail dealer in meats and food products,
has merged its business into a stock

located
wholesale and re-

company under the style of the Nolet
Packing Co., Inc.. with an authorized
capital stock of $200,000, all of which
has been subscribed, $7,000 paid in in
cash and $130,000 in property.

Lansing — The R Grocers feel so
keenly the unfortunate position they
are placed in by reason of the recent
action of the National Grocer Co. in
engaging in the chain store business
on its own account in opposition to the
independent grocer that they are seek-
ing a new alliance from which to obtain
merchandise at wholesale. They were
offered the stock of the Elliott Grocer
Co., but investigation disclosed that the
stock was so depleted and so largely
composed of unsalable merchandise that
the offer was peremptorily and unani-
mously declined.

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Western Gear Co. has
changed its name to the Western Man-
ufacturing Co., and removed to 3438
Scotten avenue.

Grand Rapids—The Industrial Co.
has increased its capital stock from
25,000 shares no par value to 50,000
shares no par value.

Detroit—The Concealed Bed Corpo-
ration of Detroit, 149 West Larned
street, has been incorporated with an

authorized capital stock of $50,000, $1,-

.

000 of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Detroit — The Ex-Cell-O-Tool &
Manufacturing Co., 1469 East Grand
boulevard, has changed its name to the
Ex-Cell-O-Aircraft & Tool Corpora-
tion and removed its offices to 1200
Oakman boulevard.

Wayne—The Weldon Foundry Co.
has been incorporated to manufacture
and deal in all types of castings, with
an authorized capital stock of 5,000
shares at $1 a share, $1,000 being sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Streamline Pump Co.,
4744 Twelfth street, has been incor-
porated to deal in electrically driven
pumps, machinery, etc., with an author-
ized capital stock of $10,000, $2,150 of
which has been subscribed and paid in
in cash. _

Detroit—The Rim & Wheel Service
Co., 5132 Third avenue, has been in-
corporated to deal in wheels, rims and
other auto accessories, with an author-
ized capital stock of $75,000, $40,000 of
which has been subscribed and paid
in in cash.

 

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Speciat
Auto Body Co., 425 East Vine street,
has merged its business into a stock
under the same style with
an authorized capital stock of $56,900,
$34,300 of which has been subscribed
and paid in.

Plymouth—The Plymouth Manufac-
turing Co., 924 West Ann Arbor street,
has been incorporated to manufacture
goods from imitation leather and ve-
lour, with an authorized capital stock
of $25,000, $2,500 of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.

Detroit — The Western Gear Co.,
Beard and Chatfield streets, has merg-
ed its business into a stock company
under the same style, with an author-
ized capital stock of $100,000, all of
which has been subscribed, $10,000 paid
in in cash and $40,000 in property.

Detroit—The American Whitegoods
Manufacturing Co., 2003 Myrtle street,

conipany

has been incorporated to manufacture
linen coats, aprons and other linen
goods, with an authorized capital stock
of $10,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and $3,500 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The Products Co.
Inc., 68 West Warren avenue, has been
incorporated to manufacture and deal
in perfume and toilet waters, with an
authorized capital stock of $50,000, $8,-
000 of which has been subscribed, $1,-
000 paid in in cash and $5,000 in prop-
erty,

Maxine

Detroit—The Mayson Manufacturing
Co., 3940 Gibson street, has been in-
corporated to manufacture machine
parts and tools, with an authorized
capital stock of $50,000, of which
amount $8,000 has been subscribed, $3,-
010 paid in in cash and $4,200 in prop-
erty.

3attle Creek—Directors of the Union
Steam Pump Co., at a recent session,
delcared a 60 per cent. cash dividend
payable to stock of record on June 25.
The pump company has found it nec-
essary to increase its heavy machinery
erecting and testing areas, and now
has an extension to these departments
under construction at its South Jeffer-
son plant. The new building is de-

   

July 10, 1929

signed to facilitate the handling and
loading of heavy pumping engines di-
rect from the manufacturing floor to
cars. Announcement also been
made by the officers of the company
of a meeting of the stockholders to he
beld soon at which approval wii! be
asked of the plan to increase the con:-
pany’s stock to $3,000,000. The increase
will be effected not by the sale of
further stock certificates but by the
declaration of a 200 per cent. stock
dividend.

has

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Late Mercantile Changes in Ohio.
Celina—Glenn Hamilton has opened

a market on West Fayette street.
Cleveland—John S. Ritter has open-

ed a meat market at 4223 Lorain

avenue.

Dayton—John Ventura has moved
his grocery and market to its new lo-
cation at 3901 East 3rd street.

Germantown—Raymond Reedy has
sold his meat market in the I. O. O. F.
building to Hiram Smith.

Greenville—Carmon Lambertson an‘ ,

Richard Hathaway are the proprietors
of the grocery and market at Fort Jet-
ferson avenue and Sweitzer street
which was formerly operated by J. R.
Siegmunt.

Hamilton—Clem Flum has opened a
grocery and meat market on
North 3rd and Vine streets.

Jackson Center—Fisher
who formerly

new

Brothers,
a grocery
store here, have opened a meat market
on Park avenue.

Kingston—E. W. Hatcher has re-
opened his meat market in the Cash
McGinnis building.

Toledo—Norman Smith has
chased the grocery-market of F. W.
Trautwein at 501 Tecumseh street.

Warren—Frank Esposito, who is in
husiness at Ravenna, will open a
branch meat market here.

Warren—Hazel K. Jones has opened
a delicatessen and grocery on West
Market street.

Carrollton—John Minor will open a
grocery and meat market in the build-
ing now being erected on Green street.

Cincinnati—W. L. King, who is in

conducted

pur-

 

- the grocery and meat business in the

Gerke building, will erect a_ store
building at Montgomery and Kincaid
roads.

Dayton—A meat market has been
opened by S. N. Sanders at 633 Wash-
ington street.
Metamora—The Salter Grocery and
Meat Market will be opened here.

Waynesville—A meat market has
been opened by E. J. Coyle in the
Keys building on Main street.

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Nine New Readers of the Tradesman.
The following new subscribers have
been received during the past week:
Dr. Louis Barth, Grand Rapids.
Kent Printing Co., Grand Rapids.
C. P. Denman, Detroit.
Walter C. Leach, Battle Creek.
W. B. Conner, Belding.
John C. Hicks, St. Johns.
George C. Thomson, Grand Rapids.
W. A. Sack, Boyne City.
Charles C. Kern, Whitehall.
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Essential Features of the Grocery
Staples.

Sugar—The market is 10c higher this
week and further advances are looked
for in the near future. Jobbers hold
cane granulated at 5.65 and beet granu-
lated at 5.45.

Tea—The market has been quict
during the week, with practically no
changes of any kind. The leaders are
still Indias, Ceylons, Formosas and
Javas. Prices throughout remain un-
changed. The only weakness is in
lower grades of tea.

Coffee—The market has had a very
quiet week. The situation shows no
very great change during the past
week, but certainly no increase in firm-
In fact the general market con-
dition can be said to be easier. Milds
have gone off perhaps “%c during the
past week. All of the above refers to
coffee sold in a large way. The job-
bing market for roasted coffee is un-
changed with a fair demand.

Cheese—Cheese is in small supply
and quiet demand. Prices are steady.

Dried Fruits—Business is slow in
markets all over the country at this
stage of the season, as it is more or
less a “between hay and straw’ per-
iod. Consumption is also light dur-
ing the hot summer months. Prices on
1929 California dried fruits have not
yet been formally announced by pack-
ers, and it is not certain just when
they will be issued, though they are
expected most any day. Fruit crops
in California this year will be both
short and late on account of unusual
weather, and it is now generally esti-
mated that most varieties of drie
fruits will not be ready for market un-
til about three weeks later than the
normal date. This extends the period
during which consumption must be
supplied by spot goods, naturally,
which puts holders of 1928 goods in
an apparently favorable position until
new crop arrives. Quotations on spot
dried fruits were well maintained last
week and no important variations are
to be noted. Peaches continued to
move in good volume, while prunes
and apricots were quiet, and the situa-
tion unchanged. Crop prospects abroad
have been followed interestedly by the
trade here, as they will have an im-
portant bearing on the markets in this
country. Prospects for the prune
crop in Yugoslavia this year are un-
certain and reports from there indicate
that estimates of the quantity of dried
prunes to be exported are being re-
duced due to infection by insect pests.
Conservative estimates place the ex-
port surplus at from 19,800 to 22,000
short tons, and this estimate may be
further reduced if weather conditions
are unfavorable during the harvesting
season,

Canned Fish—A little more business
is in prospect, but the week’s sales
have not been specially heavy. En-
quiry for salmon has been a bit better,
and actual orders for goods for im-
mediate shipment have been slightly
more numerous. Prices on all grades
of salmon have been steady, the fancy
grades showing the greatest firmness.
It is a little too early for reports 2f
value on the Alaska, 1929 pack, which
started in Bristol Bay toward the close
of last month. A smaller pack of reds

ness.

  

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

is expected in that area this year as
compared with last, and indications on
the opening day appeared better for
the marketing of the pack than they
did in 1928. The Columbia River
salmon pack is below that of the same
date last year.

Canned Fruits—The fruits situation
has been especially interesting. After
a long controversy, peach canners and
growers in California decided that un-
der the conditions of supply in raw
materials this season as a consequence
of the short crop following the frosts,
there was no practicable agreement
possible, and that each canning com-
pany will enter the field on its “own.”
Canners have been buying at the $80
price set by the California Canning
Peach Growers, and the latter is now
entirely sold up on its year’s tonnage
at $80 for No. 1 fruit and $50 for No.
2s. There are many factors in the
trade which are of the opinion that de-
spite the shortage it was inadvisable
to have made the cost so high in view
of the ultimate retail sale of the prod-
uct, for which a tremendous market
was created by the attractive prices
that have prevailed this
apricot situation has not developed so
fully, the crop being late. High prices
are expected, however, as a reflection
of the peach situation.

Canned Vegetables—Canned
tables have been quiet this week. Some

wear. Phe

vege-

weakness in prices on some items has
been noted, but in general the tone of
the market has continued steady.

Beans and Peas—Demand for all
varieties of dried beans and peas con-
tinues very quiet, without change in
price.

Nuts—The Sicilian almond market
has been on the advance this week on
spot almonds, presumably on account
of large buying for import by one of
Other world
almond markets were quiet, all of the
1928 crops having been distributed and

the European countries.

offerings having come to an end. fa
Turkey, the Levant filbert market has
skyrocketed, following an opening that
was generally believed to have been
too low, being probably speculative.
Some bullish reports have been com-
ing from Turkey regarding all sorts
of ailments that are supposed to be
filbert crop, but such
statements have not been verified. In
the local market, developments have
been lacking and quiet has continued
to prevail. All holdings of nuts, shelled
or in the shell, are light, and demand
is restricted. Prices have been steadily
maintained and no fluctuations of im-
portance have taken place. The prob-
lem of tariff increases has made for a
slight feeling of uncertainty in the lo-
cal trade, and some buying has been
postponed on account of the varied
possibilities.

Olives—The market in Seville has
firmed up considerably recently, with
sellers independent. Large sizes are
scarce. There are 599,000 hogsheads,
original packages, in the warehouses
of this country, which insures a supply
for this season. Fairly good assort-
ments are being offered on the local
market and larger sizes are becoming
scarcer. The bottling trade has been
quite busy and some rather heavy
sales have been

affecting the

reported by some.

Prices are quotably unchanged with
the tone of the market steady.
Pickles—Sales of pickles and relishes
have been heavy this week, with sweets
predominating. Large shipments of
Southern grown cucumbers have been
made to all Northern markets, the
greater portion being used for table
purposes. A considerable quantity has
been made into over-night dills, so.d
New York and other
large cities. New dill pickles should
arrive on the market in September and
October. The sale of this variety is

principally in

of people. The heaviest sales are made
in bulk, which shows that bulk pickles
are popular with the consumer. Prices
continue firm, with little change.

Rice—As was generally expected the
recent advances in rice have served to
slow up demand to some extent. Busi-
ness during last week was largely o!
routine character and of a nature in-
dicating profit taking on the part of
second hands. In view of conditions
prevailing in the primary markets this
can only tend, of course, to place the
market into a larger technical position
later on. At this writing the market
may be described as moderately active
but firm and renewed dmand of even
modest proportions is expected to
bring about further advances.

Salt Fish—Salt fish of all kinds are
moving slowly on the local market,
as demand is always light during the
In the 1928 line of salt fish
stocks on hand are well sold up, and

sunimer.

assortments held by the various big
jobbers and wholesalers here are pretty
much broken up. Such a condition
lends a firm tone to the market in the
face of a limited demand. Similarly,
stocks of 1929 spring mackerel from
Ireland are small and firmly held. Ar-
rivals to date have not been large and
demand has already taken a good por-
tion of the total amount. Prices have
not changed during this week.

Syrup and Molasses—The demand
for sugar syrup is quiet, as it always
is at this season. Production is still
light,
firm.

however; the market remains
Compound syrup is also in light
demand, but the market practically re-
mains steady as to price. Molasses is
moving in a sort of hand to mouth
way, with some pressure to sell, but

not much price cutting.

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Review of the Produce Market.

Apples—Harvest, $3.50 per bu.

Asparagus—Home grown, $1.40 per
doz. bunches.

Bananas—6%4@7c per Ib.

Beets—Home grown, 60c per doz.
bunches.

Butter—The market is
from a week ago. Jobbers hold prints
at 43c and 65 Ib. tubs at 42c.

Butter Beans—$4 per bu. for home
grown.

Cabbage—$1.60 per bu. for
grown.

Cantaloupes—California stock is held
as follows:

unchanged

home

mbes) 45 20200 $4.50
Tambos: 36 2.200 4.25
se 1.75

Carrots—Home grown, 40c per doz.
bunches.

Cauliflower—$3.50 per doz. for Ill. ,

Celery—Home grown, 60c per bunch.

   

5

Cherries—$3.50 per box for Calif.;
$3 per 16 qt. crate for home grown
sweet and $2.50 for sour.

Cocoanuts—90c per doz. or $7 pet
bag.

Cucumbers—$1.50 per doz. for home
grown.

Currants—$2.25 per 16 qt. crate.

Dried Beans—Michigan jobbers are
quoting as follows:

G HW. Pea Bears $8.69
Light Red Kiduey ....._._._..... 479
Dark Red Kidney $8.80

Eggs—Undergrade eggs, which are
plentiful, are still weak and hard to
sell. Fine fresh eggs, which are not
so abundant, are wanted at firm prices,
but without material change for the
week. Local pay 30c for
strictly fresh, candled.

Egg Plant—1l5c apiece.

jobbers

Garlic—23c per Ib.
Green Corn—30c per doz.
Green Onions—Shallots, 40¢ per doz.
Green Peas—$3 per bu. for home
grown.
Green Peppers—O60c per doz.
Honey Dew Melons—$3 per crate.
Lemons—Ruling prices this week are
as follows:

S60 Sunkist 20 3 $8.00
360 Sunkist . = 8.00
360 Red Ball. 8.00
300 Réed Ball 8.00

Lettuce—In good demand on the

following basis:

Imperial Valley, 4s and 5s, crate $4.59

Garden @rown, per bu. __________ 90¢
Limes—$1.25 per box.

Mushrooms—65c per Ib.

 

Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Valencias are now on the following
basis:
6. $7.25
10 oe 4.23
17600 7.00
00 6.509
NG ee 5.75
BSF 5.00
288 oo ee 4.50
a4 4.25

Onions—Texas Bermudas, $2.25 per
crate for yellow and $2.50 for white.
Parsley—$1 per doz. bunches.
Peaches — Elbertas from Georgia
command $5 per 6 basket crate.
Pieplant—Home grown is now in
market, commanding $1.25 per bu.
Plums—$3.25 per 4 basket crate for
Cah.
Potatoes—$5.50 for Virginia stock.
Poultry—Wilson & Company pay
as follows:

Heavy fouls... A
ignt fowls 2.202552 20c
Heavy Drojlers 0 30¢
Light Dbeoters 2.2 20c

Radishes—20c per doz. bunches.

Spinach—$1.20 per bu.

Strawberries—Home grown, $3 for
16 qt. crate. The crop is about all mar-
keted in this vicinity, but shipments
from Northern Michigan will come in
for some time.

Veal Calves—Wilson & Company
pay as follows:
Raney 2lc
Geed 22 17¢
Medi 222050 14¢
Poor 2 2 10c

Watermelons—40@50c for
or Georgia grown,

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

July 10, 1929

 

GONE TO HIS REWARD.

 

A. C. Neilson, West Branch Grocer
and Banker.

All business places in West Branch
were closed from 2 until 5 o'clock,
Monday afternoon while the services
for the late A. Charles Neilson were
being held. And, on every hand were
heard words of appreciation for this
beloved citizen, whose kind acts and
friends were legion.

Hundreds attended the funeral ser-
vices, and other hundreds came to the
Neilson home, to pay a last tribute of
respect to this good man, who for
almost half a century had been one
of the leading citizens of this city and
county, during which years he w2s
ever identified with the progress and
well-being of West Branch and Oge-
maw county. These hundreds came
not only from West Branch, but from
its vicinity, and even many miles away
—for everyone who really knew A. C.
Neilson, knew him as a friend.

Floral pieces were so many and 30
beautiful; messages of appreciation of
the good Mr. Neilson did during his
life were without number; and on every

 

 

A. C. Neilson. *

side were words of regret and sorrow
at his passing.

Summoned Grim
Reaper, while engaged in silencing an
alarm which had sounded in the State
Savings Bank, he left the stage of life,
as he might have wished it, simply the

July 3, by the

ceasing of his heart to function. Mr.
Neilson had troubled with a
heart affliction for some time.

been
Few
were aware of the seriousness of his
condition and his demise came as 2
severe shock.

Embarking in his early manhood, 1n
a mercantile career, in the pursuit of
his chosen vocation, he brought to
bear a tireless energy, an indomitable
spirit of industry, an independence of
thought, an unswerving sense of honor
and a lofty sense of idealism, which
combined to make him one of the most
successful business men of this sec-
tion of the State and to impress him
quality of leadership
among his Shrewd and
sagacious in business matters and ever
on the lookout for legitimate invest-
ments, he acquired a large competency
of this world’s goods, as well as the
larger fortune of the merited universal
esteem of all who knew him.

with a superb
fellowmen.

Confirming the faith which his fel-
lowmen placed in him, he filled many
offices of trust, including president of
the Michigan Retail Grocers and Meat
Dealers Association, alderman, mem-
ber of the board of education, president
of the tri-county fair, and was serving
as chairman of the board of county
road commissioners at the time of his
death.

He had not reached the proverbial
“three score and ten years,” but was
stricken at the time of an apparently
vigorous manhood, and while engross-
ed in the myriad duties of a ceaseless
activity in the interests of the com-
munity. He had little patience with
any hesitancies. In the numerous
duties and problems that arose, Mr.
Neilson could be depended upon to as-
sume his share of the responsibilities
and could readily sense the quickest
way to accomplish the desired results.

Mr. Neilson was born in Caledania,
Ontario, January 29, 1866 and came to
West Branch at the age of twenty
years. He saw West Branch and
Ogemaw county develop from the
days when the lumber industry was
important to a county with good high-
ways, modern schools, fine farms and
prosperous towns.

For nearly half a century he was a
part of the business life of our com-
munity, having engaged in the jewelry
and grocery business and in the later
years became connected with the Staxe
Savings Bank, which institution he
served as president at the time of his
death. During all these years, he was
ever a friend and counsellor and was
never too busy to give an audience to
those who sought his guidance in ther
affairs, and many are the successes of
other persons which may be traced di-
rectly to his counsel and guidance in
their hour of need—West Branch
Herald.

—_—_»22____
Remarkable Selling Campaign Pulled
Off By Lowell.

We have in Lowell an organization
with a membership of 150 business and
professional people, known as_ the
Lowell Board of Trade; organized for
the purpose of encouraging friendly
business relationship, to aid and assist
in maintaining a market for the abun-
dant crops and the wealth of live stock
grown and raised in the surrounding
trade territory. Practically every civic
enterprise is fostered within the or-
ganization, through their efforts many
worthwhile projects have been intro-
duced, each in itself a business stimu-

lant worthy of emulation.

Early in the spring of 1929 the
board of directors met and appointed
a committee to be known as the better
business committee, with instructions
to spare no expense in entering into an
advertising campaign worthy of recog-
nition; a campaign which might en-
courage the business people to become
more active in proving to the market-
ing public that Lowell is a good place
in which to trade.

Three special bargain days, one in
April, one in May, one in June were
advertised through the local press,
through the mail and by intensive bil!-
ing from house to house; completeiy
covering the entire trade territory.

The bargains offered were upon

worthwhile merchandise and_ reliable
service; the buying public responded
100 per cent. “from the first even unto
the last.”

As a special inducement and trade
invigorator it was proposed that the
business people offer with each cash
sale of one dollar, and for every dollar
paid on account, a ticket entitling the
holder to participate in the closing
event of the campaign to be held on
Thursday, June 27, when an automo-
bile would be given away absolutely
free. This project was agreed to and
to show their willingness to support
the same, offered and gave on Wednes-
day of each week two tickets instead
of one.

Nearly 200,000 tickets were issued.

The day of the presentation arrived
with lowering clouds which threatened
to prevent holding an outdoor meeting;
the crowd, however, arrived early, and
the program was carried out as adver-
tised. A band concert by the Ameri-
can Legion band, a game of base ball
between the Fox Colored Giants and
the Fineis Oils, which ran into over-
time and lasted up until 7 o'clock p. m.
the hour set for the presentation. Re-
creation park was the scene of action;
every inch of parking space along the
main street was filled, likewise all
streets intersecting. The thorough-
fare leading to the park was a jam of
vehicles and pedestrians; a crowd esti-
mated at four thousand was on hand
when the parade led by the band, fol-
lowed by a large truck bearing a large
iron can in which reposed the coupons
incident to the occasion, board officials
in cars, arrived on the scene.

A broadcasting outfit was installed
that all might hear, brief talks were
made, a committee to have charge of
the presentation was selected from the
crowd by the crowd, the band played
and all was in readiness to receive the
announcement of the favored one.

To Miss Hefferan, of Pranell, was
awarded the coveted gift, a fully
equipped Essex coach from the sales-
room of A. W. Blaser, local agent. A
mighty cheer went up from the admir-
ing throng, the band played “Every-
body loves a winner,” the crowd slow-
ly dispersed; some to the shopping
center, some to the movies, some +o
the free dance at the ford garage.

The success of the advertising cam-
paign is an assured fact; a new and
lasting friendship has been established
between the business people of Lowell
and those who find it most convenient
to market there; in a most convincing
manner it has been demonstrated that
the rural communities have much i:
common.

Another advertising plan is in the
making. E.R. Kriffin:

Sec’y Lowell Board of Trade.

—_+~--___

A Question To Real Estate Men.

It was more than a year ago that
someone who had heard one of my
lectures, regarding the practices and
dangers of the chain stores in any
community, recommended that I he
asked to speak before the Grand Rap-
ids Real Estate Board. But the re-
quest, I am told, was tabled on the
ground that the chain store was “a
good thing for the real estate men.”
The claim was supported by the argu-

ments that the chain stores always
took the choice locations, paid the best
of rents and paid them promptly.
Therefore, the chain stores were “a
good thing for the real estate men,’
regardless of their effect on other lines
of business; and, therefore, the real
estate men could not afford to be influ-
enced in any way against them.

Now that Kroger has _ bouglit
Thomas stores, bringing about any
number of duplications of location in
Grand Rapids, I am wondering where
the realtors and other real estate men
are comnig in? Do these gentlemen
know how many communities have a
Thomas store and a Kroger store next
to each other or directly across the
street from each other? And do they
expect that the Kroger people are go-
ing to operate these duplications in-
definitely? If not, there will be a lot
of vacant stores in Grand Rapids after
a while, and some already are now ap-
pearing. For instance, on Plainfietd
avenue in the heart of Creston Heights.

I would like to ask our real estate
friends, who formerly claimed that the
chain stores were such a good thing
for them, to whom the real estate men
now propose to rent these stores? This
is something to think about if you are
in the real estate business. If you are
a merchant, spring it on the real es-
tate man whom you may know to be
sympathetic toward the chain store for
business reasons. It will be something
for him to think about with good cause.

The moral of all this is simple—
think twice, as a business man, before
you say that the syndicates are a good
thing for you. Time may tell a dif-
ferent story, in which case you may
have to eat some of your own words.
I'll challenge any independent operator,
be he manufacturer, wholesaler or re-
tailer, worker, farmer or what-have-
you, to show where his independent
interests are certain of being served
indefinitely by the chain stores, mail
order houses and peddlers. It just
naturally isn’t done. No independent
is safe, regardless of the nature of his
business, with the constant increase in
syndicate operators and syndicate vol-
ume. W. H. Caslow.

—_>-.___
A New Advertising Medium.

Shoe retailers would do well to look
into the new return post-card author-
ized by the postoffice department. This
card may be mailed without postage,
the one to whom it is addressed guar-
anteeing to pay the postage on receipt
of the card. This card is being ex-
tensively used in advertising hosiery,
the back of the card being an order
blank on which the customer need only
check the size, color and quantity de-
sired. This card cuts down the cost
of returns enormously, for instead of
placing return postage on every card
you mail out you pay only for those
which are returned to you by cus-
tomers.

Try out one of these new cards next
time you send out a special offer. Your
postmaster will give you all the in-
formation you need about the use of
such cards.

-——_——__ $2 +>
Success comes by
leaps or bounds.

inches, not by

 

 

 

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July 10, 1929

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

7

 

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

 

John H. Millar, Representing Na-
tional Candy Co.

John H. Millar was born in Charles-
ton township, Kalamazoo county, May
27, 1857, his mother being of English
descent and his father’s ancestors be-
ing Scotch. Two years later he ac-
companied his parents to Detroit.
From the age of 5 to 16 he attended
school, when he entered the candy fac-
tory of Ames, Nay & Co., where he
remained one year. The next twe
years he sailed the Great Lakes sum-
mers, occupying the positions of look-
out and watchman, and working win-
ters in the candy factory of Thorp,
Hawley & Co. He then returned to
Kalamazoo county and spent three
years on the farm. Tiring of rural pur-
suits, he came to Grand Rapids in 1879,
entering the employment of the then
firm of Putnam & Brooks within an
hour after reaching the city. He
worked a year in their factory, sailing
on the Lakes the following summer
and returning to his former position
in the fall. A year later he took

 

 

 

John H. Millar when he entered the
factory of Putnam & Brooks in 1879.

wagon, selling
oysters doing general
delivering summers. In 1883 he took
the position of city salesman for the
house. In 1894 he became outside
position he heid
thirty-five years. Jan. 1 of this year
he was given a portion of the city
trade. He had _ gotten fairly started
when he was forced to go to the hos-
pital and undergo a critical operation
for gall stones. He withstood the op-
eration wonderfully well and is now
convalescent at his home, gathering
strength to resume his former position
with the house.

Mr. Millar was married April 28,
1887, to Miss Mattie Turner, who was

charge of the city
winters and

salesman, which

sample room clerk for Putnam &
Brooks. They reside at 1411 Byron
street. They have two children.

William Irvin, 41 years old, who trav-
eled ten years for the National Candy
Co., but is now on the road for the
Mueller Furniture Co., covering all the
available trade from the Mississippi
Valley to the Atlantic Coast. He is

married and has three children. The
youngest child was born May 2/7, 1927,

which happened to be his grandfather's
birthday. The other child, Gertrude,
is in the foreign department of the Old
Kent Bank, having charge of the issu-
ing of traveler's checks.

Mr. Millar has been a member of
Grand Rapids Council, No. 131, U. C.
T., having served that organization om
the Executive Committee three years.

Mr. Millar attributes his success as
a candy salesman to strict attention
to details, such as selling seasonable
goods—for instance, avoiding nut meat
candies in warm weather. He also be-
lieves that when a promise is made tc
a customer it should be lived up to. If
a grievance is reasonable he prefers
to give the customer the benefit of the
doubt and gives the merchant credit
for knowing his wants, preferring to
miss three orders than to sell one or-
der under pressure. He says that his
aim is to make regular trips, have at-
tractive samples and depend on good
demand for his

goods and_ natural

 

John H. Millar.

share of the candy business. Mr.
Millar never missed the early Monday
morning train during the  thirty-live

years he traveled on the road nor left

home without having had a warm
breakfast. His success is largely due

to steady work and persistent effort,
which have been made possible by un-
usually good health, he not having
lost a day by illness for over thirty

years.

 

EEE
Late News From Grand Traverse Bay.
Traverse City, July 9—Complaint is
being heard in many quarters of a
scarcity of houses for rent. Desirable
tenants experience much _ difficulty
while attempting to find homes for
their families. Sales of houses in a
number of instances have been follow-
ed by the ejection of desirable tenants.
A considerable number of summer
homes are under construction in the
Glen Lake region of Leelanau county.
The cherry fly has arrived and com-
menced its devastating career near
Old Mission. Farmers are busily em-
ployed in spraying their trees to save
the crop. The presence of the fly in-
volves much extra labor and expense
for materials and needed apparatus for
using the same. Cherries which have
been stung by the flies become wormy.
Traverse City is about to commence
the erection of two modern bridges
over the Boardman river. Old bridges
were condemned as unsafe several
years ago.
Weather during the past week has

been cold and rainy. Students from
Florida, Arizona, Texas and other hot
weather states, attending the rehearsals
and concerts of the National high
school orchestra and band at Inter-
lochen, have suffered much discomfort
on account of the cold weather.

Arrivals of resorters and tourists are
increasing in number steadily. The
season promises to be a very profitable
one for hotel and rooming house keep-
ers, restaurants and, incidentally, the
merchants. About one hundred resi-
dents have opened their homes to ac-
commodate visitors seeking lodgings.
Much extra furniture has been supplied
by dealers to lodging house keepers.

A large sized sturgeon caught in the
bay a few days ago and placed in the
basin of the city fountain attracts as
much attention as Barnum’s take mer-
maid did fifty years ago.

Highways in all directions to and
from Traverse City are in prime condi-
tion. An auto owner of Grand Rapids
drove his car from that city to Traverse
City via Muskegon and Manistee,
about 225 miles, one day last week in
four hours, attended the afternoon con-
cert of the high school band at Inter-
lochen and returned to his home via
Cadillac within the same number of
hours.

Frank Johnson and Howard Sweet
have purchased the Traverse City Ho-
tel and will conduct it. Both have had
experience in the hotel business. John-
son will be in charge of the culinary
department. Sweet will be in the office.

John Lewis, salesman for Lee &
Cady in the city of Detroit, is spending
a month with relatives in this city.
Lewis drove a small gas vehicle thir-
teen years in serving customers. His
employers paid Lewis $50 per month
for the use of his runabout in the
transaction of the _ firm’s_ business.
Finally he sold the derelict for $50 and
purchased an inexpensive but modern
auto. Lewis has been with his pres-
ent employer many years.

Claire L. Curtis, secretary and sales
manager of the Greilick Manufacturing
Co., is spending the furniture market
season in Grand Rapids. The company
manufactures a large line of tables for
various purposes and novelties.

Arthur Scott White.
—_——~» ~»
Three Queer Peas Starting Million
Dollar Variety.

Greenville, July 9—From three pecu-
liar looking peas sorted out of two
quarts of Swedish vetch seed six years
ago, Dr. William Hansen, a local vet-
erinarian and farmer, has developed
what he styles a “million dollar” va-
riety of field peas.

 

He now has nine bushels of seed,
some of which is to be used in varietal
tests and the rest distributed to farm-
ers for propagation. Many vines in the
1928 crop measured from six to 12
feet in length. After making a 12 inch
growth, the plants fell over and ran on
the ground. Nitrogen-bearing nodules
as large as 10c pieces knotted the roots
and enriched the soil.

At maturity the vines rotted off at
the surface and were harvested with a
havrake without cutting. The roots,
with their loads of nadules, remained
in the soil.

—_#$_ 22> >—__
Changes From Grocery Selling To
Stock Selling.

South Haven, July 9—I have sold
my grocery stock and bakery to a
young man by the name of Howard
Tait and his father. They will do
business under the style of Tait’s Gro-
cery and Bakery. The young man was
with me for the past ten years and
is a fine young man. I think he 1s
capable of going ahead. Sold the stock
and business and leased the store to
him. | am going on the road for a
company in Chicago, known as the
Midland States Security Corporation.
Will work in the State of Michigan
only, selling their stock.

J. E. Durkee.

 

 
 
    
 

 
 

AMERICAN
NATIONAL
° BANK °

 
  

 

 

Capital and Surplus $750,000.00

One of two national banks in
Grand Rapids.

Member of the Federal Reserve
System.
President, Gen. John H. Schouten

Vice President and Cashier,
Ned B. Alsover
Assistant Cashier, Fred H. Travis

 

 

Heinie And His Orchestra

Brunswick Recording Artists
Delighting West Michigan Dancers
AT RAMONA GARDENS

(Reed’s Lake, Grand Rapids)

 

Wonderful Music! Delightful Programs!

Popular Prices!

 

Dancing 8:45 until Midnight Every Night
Except Sunday and Monday

 

 

 

TREND OF FOOD MERGERS.

It is no secret that the food business
has for several years been going
through a series of consolidations. The
process really started when the retailers
began to combine into chains. This
movement impressed the manufacturers
with the importance of their getting to-
gether to distribute as a group, and
that in turn brought greater combina-
tions of chain stores. Now there is
serious discussion of a National union
of wholesale grocers and rumors of
further grouping among manufacturers
and chain stores.

Undoubtedly most of these combina-
tions have been developed by men who
wanted to make money for themselves.
The majority of the things done in
business have that object in mind. In-
vestment banking houses have been
especially guilty because they have
come in from the outside of the trade
and have made profits. However, that
also is very human and natural. The
bankers are merely performing the ser-
vice for which they are organized. The
attitude throughout the food trade to-
ward these combinations is largely a
question of the position of each indi-
vidual.

The truth of the matter is that there
has been some unwarranted promotion
and there are some evidences of a dis-
position to abuse the new power, but
in the aggregate the general process of
combining is in the direction of greater
efficiency in operation and lower costs
in distribution.

Any profit that may come to the
new groups will be because the mer-
chandising of their products is to be
combined to effect economies in opera-
tion. The profits to individuals from
the deal will be because stocks will ad-
vance or perhaps because the public
believes that greater profits are to be
made from the new set-ups.

No sane combination of this kind
would attempt to increase its profits
by raising prices to the consumer, and
certainly no important profit can be
made by taking anything away from
the American farmer. In fact, it is
significant that the most successful of
these food combinations are those
where the raw material from the farm
is but a small part of the base cost.

The ruthless power of commerce is
in process of being brought under or-
derly control, where a large part of
the business structure will be grouped
so that it will be owned by a great
number of people, and so that it can
be operated by employes working ona
profit-sharing basis that will provide
about as much initiative as individual
ownership.

It is possible that the bankers who
are doing much of this job haven't
as long a range of vision as that. Most
of them are doing each piece of work
for the compensation they get.

The ownership of business by mil-
lions of people and the new standards
of employe relationship are definitely
bringing something new into business.
During this process there will be mis-
takes and abuses. Some men will fail
to recognize the responsibility of their
new power. Probably the public will
pay too much for some securities. But

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

in the long run it is a constructive
movement and out of it will come
good.

Perhaps the excitement at Washing-
ton will serve a useful purpose, will
help emphasize the fact that the men
in these new places are carrying a large
measure of seryice to the public. To
that extent it will be a good thing.
But if it creates a public attitude of
blind opposition to the general reorgan-
izing of business, then it will be a
bad thing.

The process has gone too far to be
stopped. The problem to-day is how
to carry through to the stabilized op-
erations that will follow this period
of change.

 

CONFIDENCE RESTORED.

For the rather sharp change in busi-
ness sentiment, which, after a spell of
foreboding, has become more cheerful
again, there are a number of important
reasons. The stock market is buoyant,
wheat prices have recovered abruptly,
money rates are easier, an extreme
tariff is more unlikely and the opera-
tions in the key industries continue
exceptionally active.

The figures covering the major lines
of industry for the first half of 1929
will soon be published, but the evi-
dence has been plain for some weeks
past that new records would be scored.
Only in the building branch has there
been a real letdown, and this, princi-
pally, in residential construction. The
automobile and steel industries have
undoubtedly set new high marks in
production. It remains to be seen
whether motor sales will be as good
as anticipated.

With this good news making for re-
newed confidence it was not strange to
see sentiment improve. particularly
with the upturn in securities, the eas-
ing of money rates and the recovery
in wheat. Farm product prices, in
fact, have proved the mainspring in the
rise of wholesale commodity prices
during the last month or so.

Looking into the third quarter, less
than the usual seasonal slackening ap-
pears likely, but crop advices and mon-
ey developments should prove govern-
ing factors. Carloading estimates fur-
nished to the railroads by commodity
committees figure 6.9 per cent. above
those handed in a year ago, with only
a few decreases noted.

 

i a
CREDIT MEN TO SERVE TRADE

In its report to the National Asso-
ciation of Credit Men at the close of
the recent convention, the business ser-
vice committee detailed the results of
its test work in two cities on the
Coast whereby local retailers behind in
payments were assisted in various
ways. The committee explained that
offers of assistance were rarely refused
and the debtors were grateful for the
help given them in straightening out
their affairs. It was recommended that
the service be established by credit as-
sociations in other cities and a number
of advantages were cited for the sys-
tem.

Because the credit executive is the
first to see signs of trouble, the sal-
vaging of customers through the local
credit organization appears to be an

excellent method of attacking the prob-
lem of distribution waste. There are
retailers who struggle along from year
to year, but the real damage is caused
by those whose time in business is
very short. If the latter are taught
how to manage their financial affairs
and have their merchandising faults
corrected, they may become assets in-
stead of liabilities to retailing and to
their supply sources. On the other
hand, if the debtor proves through in-
vestigation to be in a hopeless condi-
tion, then his orderly exit from trade
is better for all concerned.

The credit bureaus are well placed
to render very valuable service along
the lines indicated, and it is to be
hoped that they will undertake the
work that has proved so successful in
the tests.

 

TARIFF CHANGE DUBIOUS.

Passage of a new tariff by the special
session of Congress is now regarded
as dubious in responsible quarters.
Since the close vote in the Senate on
the question of confining the changes
to the agricultural schedudes there has
been an abrupt change in sentiment
which progressive business men are
hailing as an indication that the ab-

_ surd rates jammed through the House

will either be considerably moderated
or else dropped altogether.

A last effort is being made to argue
that the increases proposed on man-
ufactured goods are only to compen-
sate for the advances put on raw ma-
terials from the farm, but in the end
it should be made evident that the
agriculturist loses more than he gains
by such procedure even if the rates
in his favor actually are effective.

From the very beginning of this
tariff making there have been three
highly important factors at work to
produce either a very lukewarm sym-
pathy with increases or else a positive
dislike of them. These have not been
present at all or to a similar extent in
former situations. They are the fact
that prosperity, while spotty, has been
general enough to yield very little
reason for boosting rates. Secondly,
the known fact that overproduction at
home and not imports is the cause
of severe competition. Thirdly, the
increased importance of export trade
since we have become mass producers
and a lending Nation.

 

STORE MERGER TREND.

Early in the year it was freely pre-
dicted that the merger movement in
the retail field would make considerable
progress in the ensuing twelve months.
Money conditions have probably dis-
couraged some ambitious plans, but
there have been enough instances to
prove that the forecast will come very
near the mark. In last week’s an-
nouncement of the purchase by R. H.
Macy & Co. of the Bamberger store,
which followed quickly on the news of
the Marshall Field purchase of Fred-
erick & Nelson in Seattle, was seen the
significant moves which had been ex-
pected.

The New York and Chicago stores
are leaders in their field, and these
were the headquarters being watched
for important developments to signify

 

July 10, 1929

the trend. Those developments, and
some others, have pointed to a careful
choice of the institution to be added,
outright purchase of the unit, preserva-
tion of the name and good will and
apparently, the use of a flexible con-
trol system which does not restrict the
buyers and other store executives so
long as they produce results desired
but at the same time aids them along
the most effective lines.

In retail quarters further expansion
of the two largest retail stores is ex-
pected, in which event there will come
the department store chains on a scale
to match the huge units in industry.

BILLY JONES.

If a Chinese parrot can pass the
United States customs barriers, why
not a Filipino goat? Why not, indeed,
when both bird and animal belong to
the private menagerie of the Secretary
of State Stimson? This is the pretty
problem posed by the action of cus-
toms officials at San Francisco in hold-
ing for deportation one William Ham-
ilton Bones, late of Manila, where he
served as. official bouncer for Mr.
Stimson during his service as Governor
General of the Philippines.

The literalness with which the De-
partment of Agriculture’s embargo on
goats is applied in this exceptional case
suggests that Mr. Stimson’s pet goat
is so unfortunate as to use the inter-
national language of direct action.
Therefore his deportation is threat-
ened as a gate-crashing alien. On this
hypothesis, it may be assumed that
Mr. Stimson’s parrot, Old Soak, es-
caped a charge of moral turpitude be-
cause his reputed cussing is done in
Chinese.

Secretary Hyde, to whom an appeal
has been made, has a chance to earn
the esteem of all direct actionists by
seeing that Billy Bones reaches Wash-
ington.

 

 

GOLD IN CONNECTICUT?

Connecticut has been advertising its
attractions as a summer resort, but it
has neglected to state that visitors who
keep their eyes open may pick up a
nugget or two of gold large enough
to pay their vacation expenses and
leave a surplus.

It is a citizen of Pennsylvania who
has brought this superlative drawing
card to the attention of the State au-
thorities and the public. He professes
to have found deposits of the yellow
metal in a Connecticut river bed and
has written to the Attorney General
at Hartford, asking how he should pro-
ceed to file his claim. While that of-
ficial searches the statute books in
quest of an answer to this unusual en-
guiry, the discoverer carefully refrains
from specifying more definitely the lo-
cation of his strike.

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS.

Most reports from retail trade con-
tinue to be of the cheerful variety
Cooler weather here and there takes
some of the edge off the buying of
seasonal goods, but the pre-holiday
volume ran very high in the aggre-
gate. Regular summer lines, together
with vacation and travel needs, are ac-
tive and sales of beach accessories
are reducing stocks to a minimum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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July 10, 1929

OUT AROUND.

 

Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

Saturday was another wonderful day,
but a little too warm for comfort, so
after making a few calls on Belding
merchants we “knocked off’ for the
remainder of the day and devoted the
time to exploration and sight seeing
We were richly
repaid, because we stumbled on the
remarkable county road known as the
Lowell and Lincoln Lake thorough-
fare, which we had never traversed be-
fore. It is wide and roomy, unusually

on roads new to us.

smooth for a gravel road, and affords
scenic views of the Flat River valley
and the high hills on both sides of
that stream which are exceedingly at-
tractive. I do not know. what the
thoroughfare has to offer North of
M 44, but between 44 and Lowell—a
distance of about ten miles—it is cer-
tainly one of the most remarkable sec-
tions of gravel road in Michigan.

In calling on the Belding Hardware
Co., the proprietor remarked: “You
can say that Belding is one of the
cleanest and sweetest towns in the
country.” “I have said that very thing
I replied, “that if I
were to repeat it again, Belding people

so many times,”

would just naturally accuse me of lack
of originality.”

The silk mills usually shut down
from two to four weeks during the
summer months for repairs. This year
business is so good with the various
silk factories that they are shutting
down only one week—greatly to the
satisfaction of both employes and local
I was told that the re-
frigerator and casket factories were
also running pretty close to 100 per

business men.

cent. This means that business con-
ditions in Belding are very satisfactory.
I did not hear a single complaint while
I was in the city.

I was sorry not to see E. C. Lloyd,
the dry goods merchant, who was
spending the week with friends in
Pennsylvania. His son greeted me
pleasantly and did me the honor of
renewing his subscription, which his
father would have done with equal
graciousness and alacrity.

A single feature of my calls on the
trade is that I am seldom asked to dis-
continue a subscription unless the sub-
scriber happens to be retiring from
business. It is sometimes a little dif-
ficult to induce a merchant to become
a reader of the Tradesman, but as
soon as he begins reading the paper
and becomes interested in the plans
we work out for the improvement of
business conditions and the advance-
ment of the merchant he becomes so
attached to the publication that he
seldom thinks of doing business with-
out it.

Lamont had a home coming July 4
for the first time in the history of the
village. The affair was attended by 93
people and proved so enjoyable that
it was unanimously decided to make
the event a regular annual feature here-
after. Among those present was an

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

old couple who were married July 4,
1866 —sixty-three years ago. The
happy husband said he had always
gotten along with his wife fine—‘“‘by
permitting her to have her own way.”
I think this programme finds a coun-
terpart in the experience of the aver-
age husband nowadays.

Frank T. Hulswit, President of the
American Commonwealths Power Cor-
poration, came to Grand Rapids July
4 and remained until July 7, when he
left for Minneapolis, accompanied by
his wife and younger son. His com-
pany purchased the Minneapolis gas
plant five weeks after he learned it was
for sale. From Minnesota the party
will proceed to Bangor, Maine, where
the older son is superintending the
construction of a new gas plant to re-
place the one purchased by the Huls-
wit company a few months ago. Not-
withstanding the marvelous success he
has achieved in the field of public
utility exploitation, Mr. Hulswit is the
same old “Frank” we all knew so well
and loved, admired and trusted so com-
pletely as a boy, young man and ma-
ture business man before he left Grand
Rapids to find a place for himself
among the financial giants of the
metropolis. So far as my knowledge
goes, Michigan has never before pro-
duced a man who could lose eight mil-
lion dollars in a single day througa
the treachery of supposed friends, back
off, take heart and double his lost for-
tune inside of forty months. If the
people ever decide to designate the
most remarkable man Michigan can
boast, my vote goes to Frank T.
Hulswit.

From high financial sources comes
the report that the Willys-Overland
Co. is now dominated by the Contin-
ental and Commercial banking group
in Chicago, and that the latter are
negotiating to bring the Packard Mo-
tor Car Co. into a merger of some
kind. The Packard management have
repeatedly stated that they never would
consider a merger with any other com-
pany and I believe they will stand by
that statement, no matter what may
happen. They do covet the plant of
the Reo Motor Car Co., because it is
so extensive and complete in every de-
partment. They fully realize the popu-
larity of the Reo on account of its
strength and durability, but deplore
the weakness of the engineering de-
partment of the Reo Co. and believe
that by putting Packard engineers in
the Reo plant they could produce a
car ranging from $1,000 to $1,500
which would be a world beater in that
class. They do not care to enter the
lower priced field above mentioned
with a Packard, which now dominates
the field in the $2,000 to $10,000 class,
but would like to be in a position to
market a car constructed under Pack-
ard auspices with the Reo name.
Whether this ambition will ever be
realized I have no means of knowing,
but I believe that such an arrangement
would be an admirable one—from the
standpoint of Packard stockholders
and Reo drivers.

I asked Frank Hulswit, when he was
here last week, what car dominated

the situation in New York, so far as
wealthy people are concerned. He
said very emphatically that the high
priced Packards of special design rang-
ing from $6,000 to $10,000, were al-
most the only cars seen at the clubs
composed of wealthy people of dis-
criminating judgment. In a group ot
100 cars ninety would be Packards and
the remainders Cadillacs and Lincolns.
Pierce-Arrows are no longer in evi-
dence to any extent, due to the changes
in management and methods.

Independent motion picture ex-
hibitors are organizing a campaign, di-
rected to members of Congress, pro-
testing against what they characterize
as monopolistic dealing on the part of
motion picture producers which own
It is be-
ing charged that discriminatory prac-

their own chains of theaters.

tices on the part of large producers
prevent free competition on the part
of independent exhibitors. The cam-
paign, although given practically no
publicity, has proceeded far enough so
that investigations probably will be
undertaken by the Department of Jus-
tice to ascertain whether combinatioas
of big motion picture producers, each
with its chain of theaters, violate the
anti-trust lows.

The Federal Trade Commission ‘s
about to undertake a systematic cam-
paign against fraudulent advertising,
particularly of extravagant claims for
patent
newspapers or magazines publishing

medicines, cures, etc. The
these advertisements will be solicited
to refrain from carrying such adver-
tisements and action may be taken
against those which refuse.

 

Certain studies by the Department
of Commerce, notably in the Louisville
grocery survey, suggest that loose
methods of extending credit to retail
customers are responsible for a large
percentage of failures of small retail
stores. Special emphasis will be given
this subject in future retail surveys
conducted by the Department of Com-
merce.

In meandering out of Lamont July
4 [ followed a dirt road running
parallel with U S 50 and rediscovered
Greatly
to my surprise, I found A. J. White
still doing business in a store he

the old town of Bass River.

erected forty-eight years ago. Mr.
White was 69 years old April 24, but
does not show his age. His nearest
competitor is at Allendale. The gravel
company which has been operating so
extensively in that locality for several
years has widened Bass River at the
mouth so as to enable it to load scows
which convey the material to trans
lake vessels at Grand Haven. I have
noticed the tug and scows in the river
for years, but had no idea where the
gravel came from. Mr. White told me
the gravel corporation had purchased
all the land it could obtain around
Bass River, which will prolong the
life of the company almost indefinitely.

In line with what I said under this
heading last week on the subject of
the handicap mercantile houses suffer
who send buyers to the Eastern mar-

9

kets to be entertained by manufactur-
ers and factory agents, I wish to re-
cord my own experience in connection
with the entertainment handicap.
When I engaged in the printing busi-
ness in 1883 I immediately decided I
would never permit myself to be placed
under obligation to any man who had
anything to sell. I reached this con-
clusion as the result of noting the
comparatively large sums the repre-
sentatives of outside paper and ink
houses expended in entertainment
every time they come to town. When
I saw a half dozen pressmen picking
Morton
House I knew a certain ink salesman

their teeth in front of the
was in town. Likewise when I saw a
number of printing foremen gathered
at the hotel I knew a type salesman
was here. The same condition applied
to paper buyers when paper salesmen
were in town. Whenever I was invited
to dine with a salesman in our line, I
always replied: “I want prices—not
dinners.’ As a result, I was able to
buy anything we needed in the print-
ing line at 10 to 20 per cent. less than
the shops did which permitted therr
employes to be ‘bribed by dinners,
For many years I
bought a very popular ink (Nubian) at

drinks and cigars.

60 cents per pound, while every other
office in town was paying $1 for the
It is still the custom of
some men to accept courtesies from
goods
from, but the employer pays for the

same article.

the salesmen they purchase
entertainment — frequently ten times
The ac-
ceptance of favors by a buyer place:

more than the original cost.

him under such obligation to the seller
that he cannot consistently object to
any price made him on the goods he
buys.

I had this same proposition out with
the Goes Lithographing Co. more than
thirty years ago. Whenever I went to
Chicago the sales manager always in-
sisted on my accepting his company
and paying bills for entertainment
which I could not afford to buy. I
never accepted any courtesies from
him and finally said: “Why not stay
away from me when I am in Chiicago
and give me the benefit of what you
would thus save in time and expense
by reducing your prices on goods sold
to the Tradesman Company?” ‘“Per-
fectly agreeable to me,” he replied,
“from now on your purchases will be
billed at 10 per cent. less than any of
your competitors who accept our hos-
pitality can obtain the same goods from
us.” This saving has meant thousands
of dollars to my company, because our
purchases have amounted to large

sums for many years. E. A. Stowe.
ee ce tlt ae ee

Mirrors Enjoy Better Sales.

Increased use of mirrors by building
constructors and interior decorators
and the strong influence of the mod-
ernistic vogue are outstanding influ-
ences in the mirro rtrade. While price
competition had been keen, reports in-
dicate that mirror sales for the half-
year period are ahead of last year an‘
the outlook for Fall is described as
good. A development which has at-
tracted considerable attention is the
use of coloros in mirrors, new enamel
processes being used.

10

NATIONAL WEALTH.

 

It Is Frequently Found in Neglected
Sources.

It may appear to some who are un-

:
familiar with the spirit and method of
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research that research into sma!
things may at times be trifling. No
“unknown” is trifling in honest re-
search. To scientist every strange

 

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iw at the end

 

The little tomato seed was a wasie
industry until chemists
To-day

-d as food and in making

» extract its oil.

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was a waste of the apricot
chemists found a way

principle. To-

 

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macaroons. [he seeds of the raisin

were a waste with the seeded raisin
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work 15 now being done

\ in spraying
this oil on the seeded raisins to keep
them soft and fresh until consumed.
Until only a short while ago the pan-
creas gland of the slaughtered calf
vas only

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sweetbread when used as food. Then

and hog of the packinghouse

a minor edible by-product
medical research found in the gland the
called

which relieves human kind from suffer-

marvelous substance insulin

ing and death from diabetes.
In these days of rapidly moving evo-
farmer

lution in industry—and_ the

must draw a lesson from it—one can
never tell but that the humble and
little respected by-product of to-day
may be a main product to-morrow.
The manufacturing industries can show
hundreds of examples of this. The
started out to

cornstarch industry

 

make cornstarch for cooking and laun-

dering Then “ence showed how t
i€ring. nen science snowed now

make glucose from the starch. Then
|

someone conceived the idea that the
if the

oil of the germ had attributes «
comparatively costly imported olive
oil.

To-day glucose, corn syrup, and corn
oil are main products of the corn re-
fining industry. There was a time
when this industry dumped into the
river all of the corn kernel that was
left after the starch had heen removed.
To-day these formerly utterly wasted
by-products are livestock food, selling
for well up into the millions a year.
Our chemical laboratories point out
to us an age of cellulose, which chai-

What is cel-

lulose? This is the substance—con-

lenges our imagination.

sisting of the three chemical elements
carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen—which
is the principal part of the solid frame-
work of plants. The wooden floors we
walk upon, the newspapers and mag-
azines and books we read, corn cobs
cornstalks, wheat straw and_ other
straws—these and myriad other things
are largely cellulose. Chemically, cel-
lulose is very similar in composition
to cornstarch and the sugars; it con-
tains the same elements and is con-
vertible into sugars by the action of
heat and acid.

Cotton is nearly pure cellulose. The

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

chemist already knows how to make
rayon and artificial silks out of cellu-
lose from cotton linters, cornstalks
etc., and industries of great size have
Who
can imagine the future in store for the
I have

sprung up to manufacture them.

humble and lowly cornstalk?
seen a beautifully printed and bound
book entitled “Farm Products in In-
dustry,” the paper of which was made
mainly of cornstalks. I have read
farm journals printed on paper the
most costly part of which had been re-
placed by cornstalk pulp. I have

handled

building

samples of insulating and

board made of cornstalks,
some as porous and light as cork and
some almost as hard and dense as iron.
Who can say now, in view of the in-
dustrial beginnings already made, what
part cornstalks, now worth $2 a ton
for their potash and $3 as feed, will
play in the building construction and
heat and cold insulation of the future?
Some day our books and daily news
may come to us on cornstalk paper.
Not long ago the idea was conceived
of manufacturing the bagasse of the
sugarcane mill into insulating board.
To-day an enormous business stands as
a monument to that idea, to the in-
genuity of private business, and to the
co-operation of the United States de-
partment of agriculture and the ca-
pacity of its scientists. Bagasse is the
pulp of the sugar cane left after the
juice. The
ls formerly used it as fuel for

extraction of the

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cane
sugar mi
the mills. To-day the bagasse pressed-
board industry takes not only all the
bagasse it can handily get in our South,
but is importing it from Cuba and is
other

also looking for materials to

utilize. Bagasse board has been sell-
ing for $100 to $125 a ton, as against
the fuel value of the bagasse at the
sugar mill, which is about $2 to $3 a
ton for the wet material.

A by-product may

even have by-

products of its own. In pressing the
cottonseed to extract the oil the cot-
tony fuzz on the seed was a nuisance.
This fuzz is called linters. To-day we
industry which makes a
product out of linters that looks and
feels like silk.

ment of the research chemist, made in

have a great
This is an accomplish-

the chemical explorations of cellulose.
Linters have become so valuable that
the seed is sometimes scraped so close
that it looks as if it had been shaved
with a razor. They were first used in
making mattresses, batting, high ex-
plosives (nitro-cellulose), etc. To-day
they are used to make the finish and
tops for our automobiles, substitutes
for leather, brushes, combs and mir-
rors, filmms—

camera including our

movies, casings for sausages, fine
papers, collodion for skinned fingers,
etc.

The farmer must begin to think more
in the terms of his by-products, as the
From the be-

ginning of time, practically the sole

meat packer has done.

business of the butcher was to seil
meats, hides, and fats. Then came
science and industrialism and great de-
mand for new goods of all kinds. The
packer discovered that he could cut
down his losses, increase his revenues,
reduce his overhead, and increase his
opportunities of making money, by
using everything that was in the live

animal as far as he could thereby make
a profit. It is a surprising statement
to make, but the by-products business
is the life of the meat-packing indus-
try of to-day, and for this fact the
chemist and the research laboratory
are responsible. What the meat pack-
er has done with by-products is an in-
spiration to all branches of our agri-

culture. Arthur M. Hyde,
Secretary of Agriculture.
——_o eas
Democratic Tendencies of the Prince
of Wales.

Los Angeles, July 6—Ampbassador
Dawes, while a Republican politically,
seems to ring true with real ideas of
Democracy. At a recent banquet in
London, after the Java was served, the
General asked the Prince of Wales if
he had any objection to his lighting up
his old hay burner, and the Prince
proved himself “quick on the draw”
by whipping out his old briar and re-
fueling, which was the cue for all the
other participants to start uD their
smudge pots and starting a barrage
which would have done credit to war
times. An act of diplomacy which
would have done credit to any National
alliance. If instead of rushing out
with war vessels, when they feel a
trifle bloodthirsty, the governmental
representatives would fill their pipes of
peace from another’s tobacco pouch,
meanwhile using their brains to settle
their troubles, instead of bombs and
poison gas, it would sure be some step
toward civilization.

Last week, at Burbank, I was favor-
ed with a “preview” of an appliance
which is to be used in saving thousands
of lives annually, and when one thinks
how this new product has been needed
for vears. one cannot understand way
someone didn’t think of it long ago.

It is an automatic gate for railroad
crossings. As soon as a train enters
the zone, about five city blocks away,
a gate begins to close. And as soon
as the train has passed it opens. No
gatekeeper is required, and at any hour
of day or night the gate is ready for
service. It would be impossible for
any motorist to drive on a crossing and
collide with the train where such a
gate was in use.

A local inventor devised the ap-
pliance, the Burbank chamber of com-
merce petitioned the state railroad
commission to give it a test, which
they have done. Fifty trains a day
and thousands of motor cars cross here
daily and while accidents are reported
frequently from adjoining crossings,
not a single occurrence of this char-
acter has happened here. It effectual-
ly does away with the crossing flag-
man, and certainly is worthy of con-
sideration by authorities engaged in
the enforcement of safety regulations.

Farm relief, whether or no, must be
based on recognition of the fact that
there is the producer or farmer at one
end of the line, the consumer at the
other, with the distributor between
them.

The producer is howling that he is
being starved; the consumer that he 1s
being robbed, but the distributor is
smiling and saying nothing.

Control the middle man and there
will be no necessity for commissions,
“debenture” or other legislation.

The Government seeks to establish a
fire-prevention policy in connection
with the various parks and forest re-
serves throughout the country. The
time to stop a fire is just before it
starts. By heading off the chances for
a blaze the fire hazard drops to noth-
ing. The Government has a fair or-
ganization and equipment with which
to cope with fires after they get under
way, but what they need is an im-
proved system and program to effectu-
ally ward off the blaze, which is the
thing that counts. But before this can

July 10, 1929

be done the users of these reserves
must be shown how important it is to
be careful. The same energy emploved
in putting out the fires engendered by
“fire water,” employed in this direc-
tion, would save our forests for pos-
terity, with the avoidance of famine,
which must ultimately result if our
mountains are denuded of vegetable
life.

One would hardly suspect it, but the
rather harmless and inoffensive rabbit
really masquerades for more than a

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11

 

dozen different mammals—some of
them of most terrifying aspect. But
it is only for their pelts. It is after
they have been skinned. Any honest
furrier will tell you that in fact the
fur of the rabbit has nearly fifty dif-
ferent uses in the trade. Most of the
near-seal coats with which the fair sex
are wont to detorate their shoulders
are made from the pelts of the meek
and lowly rabbit. With the co-opera-
tion of the dyer certain long haired
Belgian hares are able to supply the
market with some of the choicest fox
furs. It is even possible to duplicate
the spots of the leopard. The cover-
ing of a bunny may be used in almost
anything from a fur lid to a tiger-skin
rug. For its fur alone the rabbit in-
dustry ought to thrive. And_ then
think of the choice cutlets which con-
tribute toward the concoction § cf
chicken a-la-king.

Here, as everywhere else, there is a
vast army of men and women who
are struggling desperately to make a
living by unusual methods. Among
them are the high pressure salesmen
who work on a commission basis. Per-
haps a few of these contribute some-
thing to the community. The vast
majority, however, are to the com-
munity what a school of sleek, fast
moving bass are to the schools of
“Shiners” which linger in the vicinity
of their spawning beds.

It is easy to condemn these men and
women, but it is much harder to un-
derstand them. Life to them is a game,
one mad whirl of excitement and ad-
venture. Possessed by nature with a
subtle power over their fellow man,
they constantly engage in mental gym-
nastics until their wits become sharp
enough to pierce even the toughest
armour of defense of their contemplat-
ed victims. Naturally the very first
step in the high pressure man’s game
is to successfully delude himself. Just
as the average gunman uses the needle,
so do these individuals submit to a
season of self-hypnotism.

They must have a blind faith in the
thing they are selling. When they be-
come cynical and lose this faith, they
are sure to fail. They may possess
everything else—but without — self-
hypnotism they become crass and use-
less, after which transformation they
become simple confidence men and
employ others to carry on their work.

Every day or so I pay a visit to
Westlake Park, one of Los Angeles’
most delightful breathing spots. Here

the procedure of the real estate
solicitors fascinates me. They select
their victims by certain unmistakable

exterior signs. For instance, the East-
erner is unmistakable when he is dis-
covered on the park benches wearing
shoes of a high cut vogue. They hover
around him with the same_ tenacity
that a fly sticks to the molasses hogs-
head. A little tactful conversation in-
duces the proposed victim ‘ tell where
he is from. Incidentally the salesman
mentions the fact that he came from
some particular city in that particular
state. Being usually a metropolis he
can usually command instant attention,
especially when he, the salesman, is
“hungry” to meet someone of his kind.
He is very particular not to “flush” his
game, but eventually leads up to the
fact that he has a car and on account
of the fact that he is exceedingly loyal
to his home state wants his new-found
triend to enjoy it with him. If he is
still in the high-cut shoe stage he falls.
The spider turns his fly over to a
rusher, and from this time on the vic-
tim is subjected to free lunches (with-
out obligation) free lectures, etc., but
eventually lands in the sweat box and
is deleted of his roll, that is, a very
large percentage of them are.

But in the meantime the park vacu-

um cleaner continues his search for

certain types of foot-gear, and for
turning these prospects over to the
disinterested “friend” who provides

the car, he receives the princely sum
of $1 to $1.50, whether the victim in-

vests or not, in which event a further
percentage is made possible.

However, with the passing of time,
there must come a change in this hum-
drum existence, and he must ultimate-
ly choose between the legitimate field
or go the way of the bread line.

The legitimate field of endeavor will
be found hard and slow. It will re-
quire study and research rather than
guess work. Lies, false promises,
loose thinking—strong arm methods—
none of these will avail even a sem-
blance of success. On the other hand,
the natural ability of the high-pressure
man, once it is harnessed and trained
and put to work in a field of useful ef-
fort, will earn rewards beyond the con-
ception of the horde who continue to
follow the unscrupulous high-pressure
game on the unsound and dishonest
theory, “If I don’t get the money,
someone else will.”

Last Saturday there was opened up
the last link of the Roosevelt Turnpike,
a continuous paved shore line from the
Canadian border to the Gulf of Cali-
fornia, a distance of 1,300 miles. The
final link referred to was. from Santa
Monica to Oxnard, of beet-sugar fame,
a distance of some forty miles.

Paved roads for California are by no
means a novelty. In this one particu-
lar she can make a showing equal to
the combined accomplishments of
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wis-
consin, but this particular highway
was constructed because of its scenic
attractions alone. Its use will be lim-
ited to such traffic as does not savor
of commercialism. It is an offering
to the visitor in keeping with its for-
mer provisions for the dispensation of
“unusual” weather.

Frank S. Verbeck.

a
Stirring Appeal From an Old Veteran.

Lansing, July 9—Members of the
Michigan Retail Grocers and Meat
Dealers Association, together with

those who have never been connected
with a local or State association, can
you not see the progress of the live
members, how they work together for
co-operation to build up and maintain
the calling for which we have given
ourselves as servants to the public and
that we are worthy of our existence
when we deal honorably with our pa-
trons; when we keep our stores clean;
our stock complete and give service in
well doing to those who depend upon
us for the family supply? Every man’s
business has a cost of overhead and no
company or corporation can do busi-
ness without that cost, and while large
corporations may buy a few goods at
a lower cost it would not offset the
cost of the larger overhead, expensive
locations, high salaried officers, audi-
tors, trucking, loss, waste and a hun-
dred items too numerous to mention
that enter into large corparation ex-
penses that do not enter in the smaller
places of business. Many merchants
own their own store building and rent
their second or third floors. Others
have their wives, sons or daughters to
assist, which cuts expenses which cor-
porations must meet. Don’t get scared
out. They have their troubles. Many
have the hard fight and give up and
move by night. The large corpora-
tions have realized their own compe-
tition; that they have consolidated into
large corporations, which means great-
er expense, hence must charge greater
margins. That is where the individual
dealer will gain his foothold. The pub-
lic likes bargains, they are only in
cheap or inferior goods, upon which
no solid foundation can be relied upon,
therefore do not cheapen the quality
of your goods. Maintain the standard
of your business and reputation for a
quality store and the Customer who
has been away for a time is carefully
coming back, for he will tell you how
he has been deceived. Remember, trade
must be compared with the play of tug
of war. Hang to, hold fast. Set your
foot and heel. Don’t budge. Your
competitors’ overhead will weaken and

you win. help our neighbors to make better

To become a member of the State merchants. It is worth the five or
Association of Retail Grocers and more dollars per year to be a man
Meat Dealers or to organize a local among men of quality and be recog-
association write our State Secretary, nized with vour brother merchant as a
Herman Hanson, Houseman building, merchant, even though you are in a

Grand Rapids. One hundred and small town or im a back street un-
thirty-six members have been added noticed. Come on, join and learn of
during the month of June. Do it for others, as others learn of vou.

the upbuilding of our industry. To M. C. Goossen.

 

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The Fresher

the Better

That’s the reason our salesmen
urge grocers to buy ‘“Uneeda
Bakers” products in smaller
amounts, so that their custom-
ers can get them oven-fresh.

Naturally, everybody likes to
buy fresh, clean products, be-
cause they taste better. It
makes them come back
and buy more.
NATIONAL
BISCUIT COMPANY
“Uneeda Bakers”

 

 

 

 

 

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been so favorably
or solong before

the coffee-drinking
public

*It is a matter of record in

the history of the coffee r perros r

Scale thas Seal Picandd was Sl

the first coffee ever packed
in sealed tins.

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SEAL BRAND COFFEE

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FINANCIAL

Market’s Vigorous Advance Is Form-
ing a Fifth Peak.

With the advent of July the market
has pushed ahead vigorously into rec-
ord high ground under the impetus of
new life in all three major stock
rroups. <A fifth 1929 peak for indus-

|

alot 1
trial sl

iares is in the process of forma-
tion that already towers above any of
the four previously set this year. The
market thus is meeting a fresh test 3i
its ability to move beyond established

levels. Four times it has failed to hold

r into high territory. Fears

of credit difficulty each time induced

 

1; : + > } * +h, arli-p liapi-
liquidation and threw the market bacw.

In important respects the current

situation differs from those surround-

i the market before. Outstanding
these is the substitution of
ice in the credit position for

: : : So
fears that prevailed widely last

strong ii}-

 

he last month have

 

for quality
stocks and picking out issues in vari-
ous classifications offering the promise
of big 1929 earnings. Lately the pub-
lic likewise has become interested
again.

In its bulletin this month the Fed-
eral Reserve Bank at New York calis
“somewhat greater

;
bank

attention to the

+

willingness on the part of the s
to supply the market with funds” and
offers this explanation among others

for the easier tone in money. Che

counterpart of this interesting develop-
ment that the Federal Reserve Bank
did not mention is the greater willing-
ness on the part of the Reserve to sup-
ply the banks with funds. An it form-
al agreement was reached by the New
York banks in June to use their efforts
to prevent flurries in call money suc
as unsettled the market in March, an
apparently the Reserve authorities
themselves were not anxious in con-
nection with the mid-year settlements
fora repetition of last spring's experi-
ence. The result was that notwith-
1e heavy demands for money
seasonal in character and for the ex-
ercise of “rights” the approach of
July brought a decline both in time
money and the bill rate. The stock
market and business were relieved
from uneasiness over movements in
money for sufficient funds to meet
all requirements were constantly avail-
able.

New York City banks
heir borrowings at the Reserve Bank

to $425,600,000 on July 1 or to a vol-

increased

+
t

ume greater than the January 2 high
point and greater than at any time in
recent years. Aside from the norma!
.

disturbances that come with a flurry

rates there were particular

reasons why the Reserve at the mid-

 

year settlement period did not wish to
Whatever

ink about the stock

pinch.

 

the Reserve may
wnarir + Geri Rr :
market it definitely seeks to keep busi-
ness prosperous through a stabiliza-

tion in rates at as low a rate as pos-
i

sible to industry when the latter really
needs funds. The season nears when
the Reserve must expect to provide
funds to facilitate the crop movemeni.
“44

Brokers’ loans with this week’s sharp

gain of $227,000,000 have jumped $48:

Th}

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

000.000 in the last three weeks, indi-
cating a revival in market interest but
of course a part of the expansion must
be explained by funds raised with
which to exercise stock “rights.”
While the

extended funds in the last week there

Reserve more willingly

is no indication in its open market
operations of a reversal in policy as
yet. Indeed sales of bills reduced the
system's portfolio to $73,922,009 from
$8? 839.000 a week ago, and further
sales of Government securities te-
duced that portfolio to $141,382,000
What

the Reserve did was not to ease money

from $149,527,000 a week ago.

wut rather to extend credit facilities
to satisfy the heavy demands by al-
lowing the banks to discount some?
what more freely. Consequently note
that member borrowings at the region-
al institutions this week rose $108,-
000.000 to a total of $1,125,000,000.
Both the bill and Gevernment port-

folios now stand at their lowest level

 

in years which is to say that the Re-
serve is in an excellent position to

 

ease moncy ¥ and if 1f sees an ac-
vantage to business here and abroad
so to do. Paul Willard Garrett.
| Copyrighted 1929. ]
————_-_- > <->
Funds Suppl'ed More Freely by Fed-
eral Reserve.
A “greater willingness on the part

 

of banks to supply the market with
funds”

Federal Reserve Agent at New York

is openly recognized by the

in his July bulletin as one of the forces
during June amaking for easier money
than |]
dition to this signihcant shift in atti-

iad been anticipated, but, in ad-

tude, likewise is mentioned as contrib-
uting to relaxation a release of bank
reserves with the liquidation of cred't
a temporary release of funds through
Treasury tax operations and finally
renewed gold imports.

While the

direct comments on policy it does calt

Reserve Bank makes no

attention to an“upturn in rates late in
June, and to the $400.090,000 increase
in reporting member bank loans and
investnients between May 29 and June
26. which increase, it says, was largely
“in loans on securities and reflected a
renewed rapid increase in security
prices.”

How maturing stock “rights” have
affected the money market during the
last months has been a question puz-
giing to all. The Reserve, atter A
iuge volume of payments
subscrip-
vith
the interesting conclusion that “while

made in connectiion witih

rights,” emerges Vv
these payments were probably a fac-
he increase in the demand for
atter half of the
month ,a part of the proceeds of new
issues were loaned temporarily at
least in the call loan market by the
corporations receiving funds and so
constituted a supply of funds which
partly offset the increased demand for
loans. In this way corporations 1ss1-
jing new stock in effect lent buyers
part of the funds with which to buy
the stock. To this extent the trans-
action was a book-keeping operation
involving simply an exchange of ob-
ligations, though it appears in the
statistics on the one hand as an in-

i
crease in corporation capital and on the

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13

 

other hand as an increase in brokers’
loans for account of others.”
Essentially the rise in brokers’ loans
in the opinion of the Reserve reflects
not payments on “rights” but a rising
stock market. At least the
finds from its chart on the day to day
demand for loans that the volume fol-
lows. closely

Reserve

with a lag of one day
behind the movement of stock prices.
Even on days when the volume of
maturing small the
serve observes substantial increases in
the

“rights” is Re-
sympathy
with an advancing stock market. Con-
sequently the

demand for loans in
Reserve apparently is
inclined to minimize somewhat the ef-
fect of maturing stock “rights”? as the
important pressure making for an ex-
pansion in brokers’ loans and to at-
tach more importance than the
financial district to the action of the
stock market itself.

To argument that pav-
ments on “rights” lifted brokers’ loans

has

prove its

last month rather than speculation the
financial district points to the huge
June payments in connection with ma-
turine “tients. Vo

prove its argu-
ment that the speculation was re-
sponsible the Reserve points to the

rising stock market. Perhaps the dif-
ference in point of view will be settled
during July with the passing of the
peak in “rights” and when the loan
figures can be studied more closely in
their relation to the market's move-
Paul Willard Garrett.

[Copyrighted, 1929.]

>.

Large Output Planned By

Auto Makers.

Detroit, July 9—The automobile in-
dustry enters the second half of the
year after in the first half having made
from month to month new high rec-
ords and added to its already long line
many new and attractive models. That
the public is motor-minded and ready
to buy new cars seems to be shown by

ment.

Continued

th demands on manufacturers for new
models.

In some quarters is a feeling that
the industry has gone too far, both
as regards sales and production, that
the market has exhausted its possibil-
and that the demand from this
time forward will decline to consider-
ably below levels established earlier in
the year.

ities

Manufacturers watch their step and
it is unlikely that output in the forth-
coming period will be greatly out of
line with domestic retail and export
demands. The belief prevails in some
markets that the continuous all-year
demand in all price fields is so strong-
ly established that but little change wiil
occur in the next few months from
that of the last six. A seasonal de-
cline will appear and the actual pur-
chase of new cars will show a slight
drop, but the volume of business for
the the probably
will be in proportion to the operations
in the first six months of 1929,

Announcement was made by the

remainder of year

Studebaker Corporation that another
new line of Dictator Sixes will be
ready for the market this week, at

prices from $150 to nearly $300 lower.
Oldsmobile
cylinder roadster.

six
It is a convertible
model with new ideas in body designs.

announces 2 new

The ford Motor Co. is reaching for
a 10,000 car day, and indications are
that the desire will be satisfied soon.
The record now is 9,100, which was
This
compares with the former daily record
of 8,710 in October, 1925, the
Model T was being manufactured.

A new monthly

established one day iast week.
when

record also. was
hung up in June with 215,000 cars and
The former monthly
October, 1925,

units were produced.

record

204,000

trucks.
was in when

A light, inexpensive super-six is the
latest addition to the line of Hudson.

The
Motors is out with a new line of taxt-
cabs for 1930, powered by Buick motor

taxi-cab division of General

and with 122 inch wheelbase and seat-
ing six passengers.

Graham-Paige has added to its plant
in Detroit a completely equipped re-
search laboratory.

For the first half of this present year
it required 800,000 six cylinder Chev-
rolet cars to satisfy the demand, with
several thousand orders carried into
the second half, said W. S.
president of Chevrolet.
see Chevrolet

Knudson,
He expects to
exceed the 1,250,000
mark before January 1.
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Woodland’s New Bank.

For nearly fifty years F. F. Hilbert,
of Woodland, has operated a private
bank in that village.
he associated

Some time ago
with himself his two
sons, Lawrence M. Hilbert and Victor
Hilbert. Early last winter Lawrence
passed away. Victor is not in robust
health and was unable to take up the
duties of cashier, which were so long
performed by his brother, Lawrence.
This situation has influenced the father
F. F. Hilbert, to take steps toward con-
verting the private bank into a state

bank. Accordingly a new bank, called
the State Bank of Woodland, has been
organized, stock being = subscribed

largely by people living in the village
and surrounding territory. Under Mr.
Hilbert’s the private bank
has had a successful career. Woodland
is a fine field for a banking institution.
It is the center of one of the bes
farming districts in the State. Mr.
Hilbert’s connection with the bank as

direction

president and the association with hin
of John Velte as vice-president, both
long identified with Woodland, make
it certain that the bank will look after
the interests of Woodland. The cash-
ier, Keith Bowman, was for some time
connected with the bank of Caledonia,
but later was in Freeport for a brief
time. He is a banker of exceptional
ability.

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14
Mr. Hanson Hands It To Mr.

Caslow.

| was much pleased to read Mr.
Caslow's sermon dealing with
“The Evils of Group Advertising
and Buying”’ in last week's Trades-
man, this being a topic that is
much discussed not only in this
State, but in every state in the
United States and Mr. Caslow de-
serves much credit for having
solved the question that has been
so perplexing to many retailers in
the United States.

While | am obliged to disagree
with Mr. Caslow in more phases
than one for practical reasons. No
doubt his article, when read by
retailers with sufficient endurance
and tolerance, will stir them into
thinking, and thinking, prompted
by ordinary horse- sense, will
usually develop sound and safe
results.

There isn’t any question but
what Mr. Caslow might be right-
fully termed a theoretic idealist
and by his many theories has
brought to our attention several
ideas which are worthy of note.

Just how original his ideas are
is questionable to my mind and
1 am inclined to believe he has
“nigged”’ a little on “‘copy-cat-
ting,’ a term used by himself on
several occasions. No doubt he
knows the definition thereof.

While attending a National
convention of Secretaries in Chi-
cago last fall, | met with a full
time secretary from St. Paul, Min-
nesota, of an Association formed
by retailers of various with lines
with slogans galore on inserts and
blotters, also elaborate newspaper
copy dealing with institutional
advertising in favor of the individ-
ual retailers. In Cleveland and
Toledo similar organizations were
also functioning.

| presume it would be proper
to put the question to me, Why
was not this method employed on
my return? and in answer would
state, | knew the frame of mind
and attitude of the retailers of
Grand Rapids, as a result of their
experience with Mr. Caslow's
Home Trade League and presume
he will continue to play the hypo-
crite to the wholesalers and re-
tailers in response for their lack
of confidence in him, for which he
alone is responsible.

It is not my purpose to suggest
that this article belongs in the
section of the Tradesman known
as the Realm of Rascality, but it
is simply a case of spending the
receipts before they are received
and not entirely for the purpose
they were solicited and quitting
before collected and obligations
paid in an honorable manner.

Mr. Caslow refers to the in-
consistency of propaganda of the
original Grand Rapids advertising
group, who have boasted of their
carload buying and ridiculed them
in comparing their purchasing
power with the gigantic retail syn-
dicates.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Every manufacturer is in a posi-
tion to furnish a carload of mer-
chandise at a lower price than less
car load quantity, due to the re-
duced cost of selling, handling
and saving in freight rates and
does not necessarily mean the
workman's compensation must be
disturbed in the transaction and
can well be demonstrated with
Mr. Caslow’s own line and trust
he will be fair enough to answer
the following questions honestly
and squarely.

Mr. Caslow how much do you
charge for one copy of your book
in single copy lots? How much
per copy for 10,000 books?
Could you sell 1,000,000 books

at less cost per copy than you can

10,000 without disturbing the
workman's compensation and
without sacrificing a personal

margin of profit?

I am confident if the retailers
will meet with their fellow retail-
ers, discuss their business prob-
lems freely and candidly, based
on practical results, instead of
theories, it will resolve itself into
the aggressive retailers selling the
consuming public the merchandise
that appeals to them, properly
priced. Courteous personal ser-
vice and the increase in volume
will automatically provide suf-
ficiently for a reasonable profit.

Herman Hanson, Sec’y.
sss
Fall Millinery Novel.
Fall model hats
from

Among the latest
to be in this
Paris are several close-fitting, shallow

received country
crown, off-the-face styles in reversible
soleil which expose much of the wear-
er’s forehead. Winged effects at the
sides, one of which is longer than the
other, are featured. A novelty shape
is a new lightweight French soleil, re-
versible, which promises to be popular
here this Fall in the better-grade lines.
It weighs less than two ounces. From
described, the new

the model hats

American lines are being made up.
Colors featured in-this group are vari-
ous shades of brown, including choco-
late and chatain, wine reds, raspberry

and capucine. For immediate selling
felts now top the list, mostly in white.
>>> __—_
Fall Blouse Prospects Good.
With one of the

years rapidly drawing to a close, man-

best seasons 1
ufacturers of women’s blouses are con-
fidently facing the Fall. Most of the
new lines will be ready for display to
buyers next week. Nothing like the
volume of Spring business is expected,
but the trade sees a definite place for
blouses in the Fall mode. During the
early part of the season in particular,
good consumer buying is anticipated.
Tailored and semi-tailored styles are
featured in the higher-priced
lines, as largely the case this
Spring, but blouses of the frilly type
will have their place for less formal
At present the blue and brown
In the
materials crepes will be outstanding.

to be
was

wear.
shades promise well for Fall.

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The bone in the back is worth two
in the head.

 

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wish to announce that

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15

 

MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE

Scientific Fire Fighting Apparatus Will
Do Its Part.

A study of the subject of fire pre-

vention and extinguishment will prob-

ably surprise lay minds by the extent

 

to which the development of mechan-
ical devices for this purpose has beea
carried. Our modern forms of indus-
try have introduced fire hazards of a
severity that were totally undreamed
of years ago, but for every hazard a
suitable means of protection has been
devised. The situation is similar to
that existing in the navy. The greater
penetrating power of guns has led to
the development of thicker and tough-
er armour plate, which has, in turn,
stimulated the development of still
more powerful guns.

Means have been developed whereby
the heat, light or smoke from a fire
will automatically set in operation
means to extinguish the fire. Devices
have been developed, so sensitive, and
with such rapidity of operation, that
they will operate during the infinites-
imal pause occurring between the flash
and the detonation which occurs when
a powder mill explodes. The short
space of time intervening is almost imn-
perceptible, yet it is sufficient for the
extinguishing equipment, which is set
in operation by the flash, to function
and prevent the detonation, Such a
device installed on the east wall of
your home, could ring an alarm to
awaken you if the day dawned clear
and sunny (this should interest golf-
ers), and would permit you to sleep
on in case it were rainy. Equipment
of this nature can be arranged to sound
alarms in case of fire and simultaneous-
ly and automatically close fire doors,
shut down blowers, stop conveyors,
shut windows, start pumps, and re-
lease gas, foam or water on the fire.

Industry has brought about hazards
which will produce fires that cannot be
controlled or extinguished with water,
which we are accustomed to consider
the only satisfactory fire extinguishing
agent. Fires of this nature occurring
in oil, paint, and other liquids, are now
successfully ‘controlled by the applica-
tion. automatic or otherwise, of a thick
rubbery foam, formed by combining
two liquids, which floats on the sur-
face of the liquid, forming a blanket
which excludes the oygxen, smothers
the fire, and prevents rekindling.

There. are often to be found, great
concentrations of values in delicate
electric equipment or in costly fabrics,
which would be ruined nearly as much
by a springle of water as they would
be by fire. For situations such as
these, scientists, operating in the field
of fire protection have made practical
a gas extinguishing agent. This gas,
carbon dioxide, which we consume in
soda water, is compressed in cylinders
and when released in sufficient quan-
tities, will so dilute the oxygen content
of the air that combustion cannot con-
tinue and the fire is extinguished for
that reason. The carbon dioxide gas
has no injurious effect whatever on ma-
terial which would sustain damage
from water or smoke.

It is interesting to know that per-

sons can exist quite comfortably in an
atmosphere in which the oxygen con-
tent has been lowered to such an ex-
tent that it will not support combustion.
The carbon dioxide gas is not poison-
ous though in heavy enough concen-
trations it will produce suffocation.
Where equipment of this kind is in-
stalled, warning is given automatically
before the gas is discharged.

To one who has given thought to the
matter of fire prevention and fire pro-
tection, it would seem that further
progress of this so-called science should
be sought, not in the further develop-
ment of mechanical devices to prevent
and extinguish fire, but in arousing
National consciousness to a point where
we will employ a little more care in
preventing fires by our careless ac-
tions.

The installation of the mechanical
devices I have mentioned are, for eco-
nomic reasons, confined very largely to
merchandising and manufacturing
plants where the concentration of large
values, coupled with serious fire haz-
ards, warrants the necessary expendi-
ture, but most fires occur in homes
whether neither of these conditions
is a factor. In a civilization that has
produced these highly developed extin-
guishing devices, the most frequent
cause of fire still remains, the discarded
cigarette and the careless tossed match.
In many cases where expensive equip-
ments are installed to prevent fire, lack
of ordinary care and attention in main-
taining the equipment in operative
condition has rendered it useless when
fire occurred. Fire insurance com-
panies, knowing these conditions to ex-
ist fairly generally, maintain, at con-
siderable expense, inspection organiza-
tions to visit the properties at frequent
intervals to make sure that this equip-
ment, for which a credit in the fire
insurance rate is usually allowed, is
maintained in such condition that it
will function properly should the need
arise.

The most frequent cause of fires is
carelessness; as a Nation we may be
becoming “air minded,’ we are cer-
tainly not “fire minded.”

Statistics are at best rather dreary;
they can be made more interesting as
they effect us more closely. The causes
of fires to which the Chicago fire de-
partment responded on two days name-
ly April 20 and 21, 1929, were (elim-
inating those which did not involve
property as follows:
Matches (used carelessly in closets,

6 ee 6
Careless use of naphtha, kerosene,

wabiish remover 222.000 6
Plectric wiring -.- =) 5
Rubbish accumulation ~----------- 4

Spontaneous ignition of oily rags +
Combustibles (clothing, etc.) near

StOvee 2 ee 4
Cigarette stubs -2) 2 58
Defective chimneys —------------- 4
Defective oil burners ------------ 3
Smoking in bed ----------------- 2
Weivate Still 22 2200 1
Cause undetermined ~------------ 4

‘Total res 2 ose 100

The days chosen were picked at ran-
dom and are typical except as they

were Saturday and Sunday, which ac-
counts for the preponderance of home
fires; and also for the oil burner fires.
These, we find, occur rarely on any
day but Sunday, due, we believe to the
man of the house having some leisure
time in which he attempts to improve
on the manufacturer’s adjustments. Ad
justments made during the week are
generally done by service men, with
more dispatch, and less neighborhood
excitement.

The fires classified as “Careless use
of Naphtha, Etc.,” are distressing to
contemplate, they occur largely in con-
nection with home dry cleaning, and
are invariably accompanied by painful
injuries and occasionally by loss of life.
Fires caused by smoking in bed are

in the same category.

Electric. wiring fires occur almost
entirely, not in regularly and properly
installed wiring but in “sloppy” exten-
sions that have been added by occu-
pant. Unfortunately almost any sort
of a twisted connection will conduct
electricity, but not necessarily with
safety. Chicago has about the best elec-
trical code in the country and work
installed in conformity with it will be
safe. It is, however, manifestly im-
possible to discover and correct all the
violations committed by occupants, not
the least of which consists of the use
of the very flimsy cord sold with the
cheaper varieties of floor and bridge
famps which if kinked or stepped on
may short circuit and ignite the carpet
or decorations which it may be near.

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16

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

July 10, 1929

 

 

Greatest War in History Is Now On.

Grandville, July 9—The question of
bird life is the preponderating one in
the world to-day, which is why I am
again bringing the subject of bird pro-
tection to the notice of the public. It
is a question that will not down, and
although it may not be until after a
great calamity comes upon mankind
yet the truth will eventually dawn up-
on the people in such manner as to
cause a change in methods of dealing
with our feathered friends.

Insects or birds, which do you pre-
fer? It is sure to be one or the other,
and even that is not the most serious
part of the problem. It is estimated
that with bird life wholly destroyed
man could exist on earth but nine
years. Is not this fact enough to cause
grave consideration from our wisest
philosophers and statesmen?

Heretofore I have urged our State
of Michigan to take heed of the dying
condition of our feathered songsters.
Michigan alone is but a mere drop in
the bucket. The bird problem is not
simply a state affair but is as wide as
the Nation, nay more, one that con-
cerns the whole world.

The American people should take
the first step in an effort at bird
preservation. This must come sooner
or later else the flag formed by Betsy
Ross will wave over a dead and voice-
less Nation, its only inhabitants lizards,
snapping turtles, bugs and winged in-
sects, together with snails, snakes and
noisesome, crawling worms and ser-
pents.

The United States is challenged to
preserve her people from the insect
enemies that are increasing by the bil-
lion every year. Why such increase?
There can be only one answer—bird
destruction. More than three-quarters
of our one time bird population has
been wiped out. Is not this a startling
commentary on the intelligence of a
great people?

How long must this reproach afflict
our country? Michigan is not the only
offender. The bird question is as wide
as the continent. It will not down,
nor ought it to until the whole Nation
is aroused to its duty in the matter.

The effort of our National Congress
to legislate dollars into the pockets of
the farmer, while nodding assent to
bird destruction, the best friend the
farmer has, is on a par with the
man who bumped his head against a
stone wall to regulate the action of
his brains.

Our Nation has been doing this
bumping for a long time, and the full
meaning of such tactics is gradually
being opened to the minds of our Na-
tional legislators. They must heed if
they would not see this Nation made
a victim to the only army it has failed
to conquer, that of the bugs and creep-
ing insects of the natural world.

3ird life has been startlingly de-
creased until so few birds inhabit our
lawns and parks people are comment-
ing upon it. Dogs, men and guns are
a combination which is proving the
ruin of the country.

Farmers are in need of help against
this great army of insects now Swarm-
ing across their fields and gardens. The
help they need, however. is not that
of salaried officials to seek new mar-
kets, but help to raise crops to meet
the demands of public necessity for
foodstuffs.

The American market is the best in
the world, and farmers are wise to the
fact. They themselves have been in a
measure to blame for the crisis which
confronts not only farmers but every
man, woman and child in America
to-day.

The too free use of poisons, out-
spread to kill grasshoppers and spar-
rows, has worked havoc all along the
line. Without birds there will be no
farm crops. It is a matter of life and
death now confronting us all in Amer-
ica, and at such a time there should be
no hesitancy in placing the blame and

at once moving to backfire in spots
where it is needed.

Once, when riding through the coun-
try, I saw at least a score of dead
crows hung to a farm fence. Proud
no doubt was that farmer for the fact
that he had made such a wholesale
killing. That was a number of years
ago when the question of saving the
Nation’s life was not so manifest as
it is to-day.

Not a crow, not an owl, not a hawk,
not a sparrow should be slain in com-
ing years if we would rebuild our
fences and again stand a show of suc-
cessfully combating the vermin that
are increasing by millions to devour
the products of our farms.

Get the farmers interested in the
right way. Once convince them that
bird life of every specie is necessary
to successful farming and the work of
farm revival is half accomplished.

And there will be no agriculture
worth the naming unless the bird prob-
lem.is at once taken up and settled
right. Push the good work from now
on. Interest the President of the
United States in the subject of bird
renewal. Get it before congress at the
earliest opportunity that acts for bird
life renewal must be passed if the Na-
tion would not meet the fate of those
down and out nations of ye olden time.

While the subject of a renewal of
bird life is before our people we real-
ize that other nations of the world
should also be up and doing since
migratory birds meet destruction in
one sphere even if protected in another.
Our bird admirers should seek to in-
terest Canada, Mexico and even Eu-
rope in this great uprising for the
bringing back of birds that a mistaken
policy has doomed to destruction.

Wars of the human family are not
even one atom of interest compared
with this insect war on the human
race in all parts of the world. It is to
be war from this time forward, and he
who still excites the killing of anv
member of the feathered tribe is not
only an enemy to his country but to
all other nations of the world.

Old Timer.

—___ 2 __—_
Commends Stand of Local Organiza-
tion on Chain Stores.

Battle Creek, July 8—I was very
much interested in an article in a re-
cent issue of the Michigan Tradesman
in which the Grand Rapids Association
of Commerce is “taken over the coals”
because it has taken into membership
chain stores or, rather, their represen-
tatives: in other words, the chain

store’s branch manager.

I think this attack on the Grand
Rapids Association of Commerce is un-
warranted and rather than criticize the
organization, it should be commended
for being able to extract from the cash
boxes of the mail order barons and
other chains the price of single and
plural membership in the Association
of Commerce. .

As an independent merchant, one of
the big kicks we have against the chain
store is that in the past it has not sup-
ported our community affairs such as
the Chamber of Commerce, Commun-
ity Chest and any other activity neces-
sary for the welfare of the town in
which it pulls down its profits.

Personally, I commend the Grand
Rapids Association of Commerce if it
can get these parasites—these leeches
on the town—to come in with the num-
ber of membership that they should,
proportionate at least to the individual
merchant, who has always held the bag
on all the community affairs.

When the chain stores are finally
shamed into taking part in all these
community activities, the independent
merchant will have the edge on Mr.
Chain Store in one more place.

When the chain store continuously
shirks in its duty to the community ia
such activities, that is just one more
item to help to hold down its over-
head and continue to harp low over-
head makes low prices, et cetera.

My contention has always been that
the independent merchant can buy his
merchandise at as favorable a price as
any chain store. That being the case,
if the chain store does come 1n with
its bit toward all the community ac-
tivities, as does the independent mer-
chant, and becomes a part of the com-
munity and then can furnish the pub-
lic with the same quality of merchan-
dise as the independent merchant at a
lower price, then I say the chain store
is an efficient medium of distribution
and is entitled to the business. For
our part here in our store our hat is
off to it and I say it is welcome to the
business.

In Grand Rapids or any other town,
if these chain stores contribute with
the right number of memberships in
your Association of Commerce and
support liberally all the other town
activities, then I say Grand Rapids has
done a good job to make them see the
light. If it was the Association ot
Commerce which got them started on
the right track of community loyalty,
then, instead of censuring the Grand
Rapids Association of Commerce, it
should be commended for doing a
mighty fine piece of work, and I say,
“More Power to It.”

Joseph C. Grant.
arte ene
Mail Order Tires Will Lessen Church
Contributions.

Here is a sample of the proper
“cand” for the merchant to display.

One morning this week I happened
to be at the store of the tire and bat-
tery shop at 874 Grandville avenue.
Someone phoned Henry Van Ham, the
proprietor, soliciting a repeater on last
year’s advertisement in the Christian
Reformed Church programme for the
annual festivities of that denomination
at Franklin Park. Van Ham made no

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“bones” about replying straight from
the shoulder. He made no alibis. Th’s
was his refusal:

“Nothing doing. The Christian Re-
formed people know, or should know
by this time, that a certain amount of
my profit goes to the work of the
Christian Reformed church.
thing I give to the church and to mis-
sionary or other outside Christian ac-

Every-

tivities must come out of my business.
Yet I can step out of church any Sun-
day morning and find Sears-Roebuck
and Montgomery Ward tires on almost
every other car at the curb, bought by
our people. I am not ceasing my con-
tributions to Christian work because
of it, but I must cut down on past ex-
penditures in the future. This is where
I am going to trim first, hoping that
the word will get back to our people
that if they are going to continue their
present trade practices, the time :s
coming when our churches will be de-
pendent, directly or indirectly, upon
foreign syndicates who are not inter-
ested in anything but profits. I’m
sorry, but that is final. Please teil
them what I have said.”

And now, gentlemen, I repeat—That
takes sand. To say such things kindly
with a smile in the voice, firmly yet
sweetly, requires sincerity and a lot of
it—but it will pay. Try this out 9”
your church, fraternity, club, ete., and
see how it will work—but “don’t get
mad.” W. H. Caslow.

———_++.___

Exaggeration is the poison that kills
confidence.

ae

Organized knowledge applied is
power.

Uncle Louie Back at Charlevoix.

Charlevoix, July 5—After having
spent one of the most wonderful sea-
sons in Southern California among my
few relatives and a great many friends
I am back here to enjoy Charlevoix
the Beautiful for this summer. No use
for me to describe the restfulness of
this resort, as you know about as much
about it as I do. Trade conditions are
about the same as last season when
we left here and. while the summer
resorters have almost filled their cot-
tages, so far the hotel tourists have
not arrived, but (as far as I can learn)
bookings are heavy for the season.

I am informed that Charlevoix had
a very good winter and pictures which
I have seen of winter sports and snow
scenes disclose some of the nicest win-
ter features I have even seen. I un-
derstand that Earl A. Young, owner
and developer of beautiful Boulder
park, has a great many wonderful rolls
which shows the life in this region. I
notice several improvements on the
main (Bridge) street. Len Adams has
put on a new front which is very at-
tractive, on his cigar and news stand.
He also purchased the building across
the street, which is being used by his
daughters as a gift shop. Both seem
to be doing well. Martin Block has
renovated his grocery store and [
asked him if he still read the Trades-
man and he remarked that he couldn't
live without it. Kindly save his life.
In Herman's Central drug store you
find a great variety of winter scenes,
photos made by his celebrated pho-
tographer, Mr. Kirby. Our mutual
friend, Addie Holley, the girl who
knows it all and tells, has added to her
one store the other half of the build-
ing and is occupying the same with a
variety of toys for the children, which
surely takes well. Mr. Fessenden is
ready for the coming season with his
pills and things, as he calls them.

We had a nice Fourth of July cele-
bration which kept Mayor Bergeon
and Chief Weikel pretty busy, but
everything went off nicely.

The even for the future is the erect-
ing of a cement plant which will in-
crease the local population by many
laborers, who will have all year round
occupation when the plants are com-
pleted. L. Winternitz.

—_2-.____

German War Guilt.

It is thoroughly characteristic that
Germany should signalize the tenth
anniversary of the signing of the
treaty of Versailles by declaring a
day of mourning, lifting the ban on the
ex-kaiser’s return to the Fatherland
and solemnly proclaiming that Ger-
many was not “solely responsible” for
the kaiser’s war.

The “antiwar guilt” protest does not
seem particularly impressive. It is
too artificial, too well regimented. Its
quality is indicated by the ironic fact
that a journal bearing the ominous
title of Der Tag drapes its columns in
black. Will-power, even when nation-
ally organized, cannot change realities.
The “will to war’ and the “will to
win” for years were given mass-preach-
ing in Germany. Their impotence was
demonstrated. So. too, was demon-
strated the fallacy of the propaganda
by which the High Command tried to
force upon the world by sheer asser-
tion its own interpretation of military
or diplomatic events. Germany cannot
get rid of the name of “war guilt”
merely by willing it. History will have
to work out the final verdict. And the
final verdict in the long run will, we
believe, be greatly like the contem-
perary verdict.

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DRY GOODS

Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.
President—F. H. Nissly, Ypsilanti.
First Vice-President — G. EK. Martin,

Benton Harbor.

Second Vice-President-—D. Mihlethaler,

Harbor Beacn.
Secretary-Treasurer —

Charlotte. /
Manager—Jason E. Hammond. Lansing.

John Richey,

Merchants Should Never Sign Pattern
Contracts.

0.Two days were
spent in Pontiac. There are signs of
growth and_ business activity every-
where. Real estate additions are being
promoted, new office buildings erected
and new stores established.

The Chase Mercantile store has re-
cently changed ownership, now beinz
owned by J. M. Kobacker, of Toledo.
In the Chase store we enjoyed meeting
our old friend, F. J. Zielinski, formerly
of Manistee. I also saw O. E. Heath,
formerly of St. Louis and Port Huron:
George W. Sharp, formerly connected
with the Boston store at Pontiac. Mr.
Sharp is temporarily the manager of
the store and is very busy.

The former owner, Mr. Jacobson,
has retired from business on account
of ill health. Sorry not to have met
him in his accustomed place and hope
for his permanent recovery.

It is a treat to visit the Waite store.
J. M. Waite, the manager, always
takes a deep interest in the affairs of
the Michigan Retail Dry Goods As-
sociation. This is one of the real show
places among the high class dry goods
stores of Michigan.

Had a good visit with Rice, the man-
ager of the Boston store. He is al-
ways busy and at this time of the year
generally planning a golf game with
some of his country club rivals.

Found both Duker and McFetridge
busy waiting on customers and very
much interested in knowing of the
changes we observe in our travels
throughout the State. We believe the
dry goods men of Pontiac have pros-
perous days ahead of them.

I spent a few minutes. strolling
through the new Sears-Roebuck Co.
store. which is located in the North
end of the business section, opposite
the Masonic Temple.

A visit to Fowlerville and Howell
recently disclosed two more disagree-
able pattern tangles. The Fowlerville
merchant had a fairly good contract
which was made out for five years—
three vears too many. He felt that he
was receiving more pattern supplies
than necessary and a representative oi
the pattern company called and per-
suaded him to take out another con-
tract on alleged easier terms. The
later contract was also for five years
and the terms more binding and ex-
pensive than the previous one.

W. D. Adams, at Howell, is a little
more fortunate. His pattern contract
is about to expire, but the company
very gravely declared that they would
not accept the return of the cabinet
cases and sent a bill for $70 each for
three cases, with certain other acces-
sories amounting to $229. Our advice
to Mr. Adams was to nck up the en-
tire outfit and return to the company.
When we came away Mr. Adams was
feeling $229 easier.

A call at C. D. Hamilton's store re-
vealed a fine new coat of paint on the
front and improvements within. Sorry
we did not find the proprietor in at the
time of our call.

Fred S. Alley, of Morenci, has sold
has store on account of poor health.
His present address is 207 West Mor-
ell street, Jackson. Mr. Allev has had
a very vexatious time in attempting to
adjust his affairs with a pattern com-
pany, very unreasonable demands be-
ing made. We wonder why merchants
will sign pattern contracts at all.

We received a communication from
O’ Connell 3rothers, formerly dry
goods merchants in Lansing that they
are now located at 183 Pipestone street,
Benton Harbor. We are glad to hear

Lansing, July

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

from them and Benton Harbor will be
all the more a happy place to visit on
that account. They retired from busi-
ness several months ago but never
terminated their membership in the
Michigan Retail Dry Goods Associa-
tion. We have several other retired
merchants on our honorary member-
ship list.

We had a request recently for in-

formation regarding the Associated
National City Stores, Inc., a buying

organization, located at 225 W. 34th
street, New York City. The request
came from a store manager who con-
templated making business connections
with them. We sent a request to a
responsible party in New York and
have received a reply that they do not
give out information or copies of their
literature. Our investigator also states
that he would caution any store to in-
vestigate quite thoroughly before giv-
ing confidential information to thein
regarding their store figures and mak-
ing any connection with the company.
Our advice would be to insist on full
information and reliable references be-
fore making a business connection with
such a concern.

A substantial citizen, genial and
companionable was Chas. H. Kinsey,
of Caledonia. He had been in busi-
ness for thirty-nine vears. Was_ in
poor health last year, but we found
him behind the counter on our recent
visit there. His death occurred June
17. G. W. Kraft, employed by Mr.
Kinsey as store manager, is the ad-
ministrator of the estate. Mr. Kraft at-
tends our conventions and group meet-
ings and we trust will arrange to con-
tinue the business at the old stand. We
shall miss Mr. Kinsey on our future
calls there.

Over at Holly they park diagonally
on the sides of the street and parallel
in the middle of the same _ streets.
Trucks, touring cars and all kinds of
vehicles manage to dodge each other.
I was glad to get through alive. Streets
are made for traffic not for storage.

Recently we were requested by
Joseph. C. Grant, of the Joseph C.

‘ Grant Co., of Battle Creek, to furnish

figures regarding the operating expens-
es of department stores and we take
occasion at this time to state to our
members that research figures are easy
to obtain by communicating with this
office, as we have the bulletins of the
National Retail Dry Goods Associa-
tion, pamphlets and documents of the
United: States Chamber of Commerce
and easy access to the Detroit office
of the United States Department of
Commerce, R. L. Whaley, Research
Director; also the Research Depart-
ment of the University of Michigan.
We were able to secure for Mr. Grant
the information which he requested
and he has generously stated that he
is much pleased with our effort and
believes that this information will be
valuable to put in the bulletins to our
members. The statistical pages in this
bulletin are given as a result of his
suggestion and we trust that it will
lead to other requests of a similar kind
from our members.
Jason E. Hammond,
Mer. Mich. Retail Dry Goods Ass’n.
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Some of the Wonders of Modern
Progress.

Grandville, July 9—What we pay for
progress is doubtless worth the price.

Did you ever stop to think that the
smallest lad of to-day knows more
than did the wisest philosophers and
statesmen of a century ago. The boy
of the first quarter of the twentieth
century could give Washington and
Lincoln cards and spades and then win
the game.

Could Old Abe look down from his
home on high and see the radio, hear
it working and take in the significance
of the thing he would no doubt won-
der what next. There are many other

puzzles to cause him to rub his eyes
and take notice.
It is not necessary to refer to our

present unconventional fashions for
women. They are truly an undress
uniform that would have put to the
blush our dames of old. Fancy Mrs.
Washington or Mrs. Lincoln parading
the street in a suit of clothes weighing
less than a few ounces. But then
fashions change and no doubt our chil-
dren’s children will mayhap be drag-
gling their skirts in the dust of the
street with high chokers and hats that
spread a yard beyond the face. May
as well be out of the world as out of
the fashion.

While we have made many improve-
ments our laws are no better enforced
to-day than they were in the days of
our ancestors. We make great pre-
tentions to being up to date, yet some-
times this goes to the extreme of folly.

I call to mind that while as a boy I
played hipity-hop on the hill before
our house two lean looking men came
up the rise and confronted me. Hoos-
iers undoubtedly from their jargon. It
was flow almost noon.

“Boy,” said one, “we are hungry as
wolves, do you ’spose your ma would
give Sam and me a bit to eat?”

They soon explained that they had
worked through the winter on a log-
ging job and that when spring came
they were discharged without a cent of
pay. They were as I guessed from the
Hoosier state and had to make their
way back home without a cent in their
pockets. I felt sympathy for the poor
fellows and led the way to the house.

Seated in comfortable chairs the
men waited until a substantial spread
of bread, meat and potatoes, with a
whole dried apple pie, was set on the
table to which they were asked to draw
up. They certainly ate as though they
enjoyed the meal.

After it was over the taller man sud-
denly seized my mother’s hand, raised
it to his lips exclaiming: “My lady, I
kiss your hand.” His companion,
equally as grateful, said huskily. “My
lady I forget you no more.”

And so those two wandering woods
tramps passed from the scene on their
way to their Indiana home. That was
in the days when many poor fellows
after working many months in the win-
ter woods were cast adrift with their
wages unpaid and there was no redress.
The jobbers in the woods paid their
men if said jobbers were honest which
the most of them were but the ether
sort slipped out without paying their
men. Such villainy would not be per-
mitted at the present day. The Michi-
gan legislature later on passed a law
making the logs beholden for all debts
contracted in their cutting. That was
the beginning of improvement which
has steadily gone on until the present
day.

Fifty years of progress has made the

days of Lincoln seem like medieval
ages. Slang that would shock our
fathers is now of every occurrence. A
boy or even girl who cannot use words
verging on profanity isn’t in with the
flapper set.
: Yet of course we are progressing.
The advent of the automobile was the
greatest event of all time and it is liv-
ing up to its name as a harvester of
victims. The civil war was not con-
sidered a holiday affair and yet in no
year of the four during which it con-
tinued did such slaughter occur as goes
on to-day in time of peace. The autos
kill more than did the soldiers in blue
and gray in the time of the rebellion.

Society becomes deadened to the
sacrifices that are made daily to keep

July 10, 1929

the speed wagons oiled and in the race
for supremacy. Progress with a big:
P marks the days of the twentieth
century.

Cigaret smoking is not perhaps an
unmixed evil and yet when it invades
the circles of society and becomes a
habit with girls as well as men what
can we say in its defense? We call to
mind that Uncle Sam furnished free
cigarets to our soldier boys in the
trenches beyond the sea at the time of
the world war. That, however, may
have been forgivable since we were
anxious to do everything possible to
conserve the happiness of the soldiers.

An atmosphere of patriotism per-
vades the air of America to-day and
many small evils are glossed over for
the sake of harmony and good feeling.
We are certainly on the road to a great
destiny as a Nation if we keep our
temper and continue to welcome every
new invention that comes to the fore
in our time.

Men in overalls worked and strug-
gled through long hours of labor in
the early days without a murmur.
Eleven and twelve hours constituted a
day’s work with pay averaging less
than ten cents an hour. What would
our workingmen think of that to-day?

The time will perhaps never come
when men will be called upon to make
such sacrifices for wife, home and
children as they did in the early days
of the republic. We consider ourselves
on a higher level to-day, and talk of
less hours and only five davs a week
for labor.

Human progress cannot be staved by
jazz nonsense and the follies of dress.
We of America face a great future,
one that will be a surprise to those who
think themselves even now at the pin-
nacle of earthly glory. Old Timer.

—__——* 2 -e-

Turkish Towel Prices To Hold.

Jobbers and other buyers of Turkish
towels who may be looking for lower
prices when the new lists are issued
this month will be disappointed. R-«-
cent business has been such that mill
accumulations have been well cleaned
up, and there is said to be little rea-
son for revising prices downward. One
of the recent features of buying has
been the call for low-end, all-white
towels from beach and pool bathing
establishments, due to the unprece-
dented patronage of those places dur-
ing June. In general buying for home
use a feature has been the rapid rise
of orchid in favor in solid-color and
colored-border towels, although green
still tops the list.

—_»+- 2.
Wheel Goods To Advance in Price.
Price advances of 1 to 5 per cent.
on wheel goods and sheet steel toys
will go into effect on Aug. 1, accord-
ing to advices in the trade. The rea-
sons prompting the advance are the
abandonment of the 1 per cent. dis-
count by the steel companies, their
insistence on three months’ advance
orders and the labor situation in the
toy factories. The 1929 toy business
has been about 65 per cent. covered 4!
this time, according to Fletcher D.
Dodge, secretary of the Toy Manufac-
turers of the U. S. A. By Sept 15 the
figure will be about 80 per cent.

 

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Charmingly Varied Styles in New Seasonable Frocks
Among the many high grade makes you will find here—
Sherr Bros. dresses at $10.75
R. Sadowsky—coats for women and misses $6.75 and up

Other great dress values $3.75 to $10.75

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July 10, 1929

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

19

 

SHOE MARKET

Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers Association
President—Elwyn Pond.
V ce-President-—-J. E. Wilson.
Secretary—E. H. Davis.
Treasurer—Joe H. Burton.
Asst. Sec’y-Treas.—O. R. Jenkins.
Association. Business Office, 907 Trans-
portation Bldg., Detroit.

 

 

Selling Proper Shoe Care With the
Shoes.

A new method of promoting the
correct care of shoes is to be sponsor-
ed by one of the prominent New York
retail shoe shops during the next
season. This company, which main-
tains high style shops in New York
and other large cities, is instructing
its salesmen to sell the idea of the
proper cleaning of leathers at the same
time that they sell the shoes.

fall season, with suede leathers loom-

For the

ing up as the outstanding shoe ma-
terial, this company is stocking liquid
suede cleaners in the exact shades of
brown and style colors like nautical
blue, autumn green, antique purple and
chianti red as well as the staple black
with small bristle brushes, not wire
brushes, to be used to raise the nap.

An attempt is being made to pre-
vent the comebacks on the suede shoes
that crock. The customer is told that
the shoe leaves the shop in perfect
condition. If she takes it to a corner
shoe parlor, or just any bootblack, he
is liable to use powder instead of li-
quid cleaner and he will raise the nap
with a

 

in the easiest way possible
wire bristle brush. This
stockings and the

results in
crocking on the
breaking down of the nap of the leath-
er, all of which may bring the customer
to the conclusion that suede shoes
are impracticable.

Two of the leading suede leather
tanners now have liquid cleaners pro-
duced by the chemists in their own lab-
oratories and these liquid cleaners are
in exact colors that match up with the

standard leather colors.
—_——_. 2+

New Bathing Slippers.
In addition to the usual rubber bath-

 

ing slipper, there are now new versions
of the slip-on type. These have rough-
surfaced soles to prevent slipping on
smooth floors and some have slightly
raised heels. The uppers come with
both plain and printed effects. A moire
finish is also noted again this season
in many of these shoes. Modernistic
applique is a popular method of trim-
ming and is successfully used in white
on red, green, black and purp!e grounds.

The new wooden clogs are made
with two wide elastic straps, one across
the toe and the other across the in-
step. These straps are trimmed with
silver or gold kid cut in unusual de-
signs and applied to a plain piece of
leather or fabric. About the edges of
the sole and heel the same design is
repeated in gilt to match.

An outstanding feature of these clogs
is the many types of heels in which
they may be had. The plain straight
sole in one with the heel is here, also
the Cuban heel and the higher heels
in both French and Spanish shapes.
These clogs come with very highly
polished surfaces and in all the new
summer colors, as well as black, navy
blue and purple, and are guaranteed

not to chip.

Now She’s Rouging Her Toes!

Those who spent the winter at Palm
Beach and European resorts predict
that make-up below the knees will be
quite as important as make-up above
the neck. Already milady is cluttering
up her dressing table with tubes and
bottles of various concoctions designed
to impart a sunburn complexion to the
legs and ankles, and for the purpose
of tinting toe nails and heels.

Toe manicuring and make-up tech-
handed
Cleopatra, is going to be something

nique, something down by
of a fad, and the practice of rouging
the toes and heels may be as popular
as rouging the cheeks and the lips.
Lotions to give a smooth texture
to the skin and beautify the bare legs
are being sold, and are becoming a
part of all bathing beach equipment.
With this in view, it would seem that
the demand for barefoot sandals, open-
work oxfords and exaggerated cut-outs
would come in for considerable action
this summer. Linens, woven leathers,
woven straws, dainty light-weight per-
forated models in pastel shades and in
white kid will be seen along the board-
walk in increasing: numbers, it is stated.

———————e 2
Popularity of Leather Heels Seen
Growing.

A revolt against extremely high heels
has been in progress for some time
in Paris and is now sweeping into this
country, gaining advocates among
women who believe that a two-inch
heel or one slightly lower is just right
for smart daytime shoes. According
to American Leather Producers, this
development is the leather
heel into wide favor among women,
who are discovering that shoes with
these heels are only slightly, if any,

heavier than wooden heels.

carrying

In addition, women are discovering

that pegged leather heels of the modi-
fied Cuban type, ar,e exceedingly com-
fortable as well as attractive. Their
construction is such that they prac-
tically cannot pull off and the light,
specially prepared leather used gives
them a smooth resilience that accents
the advantage of their somewhat les-
sened height.

Many of these heels are shaped with
a slight curve and bevel corners that
iilusion of greater

give an optical

height than the measure reveals.

—_—_»>2..__
Novel Shoe Pads.

The problem of keeping one’s shoes
in shape has a new solution in some
shoe pads or tips now being shown.
These little pads are made to conform
to the shape of the forepart of the
shoe and are simply stuffed into the
shoe without regard to the heels. The
trouble with the other kind with the
heel and toe parts is that in keeping
the cracks and wrinkles out of the
shoe they pull it out of line. A silk
cord is attached to these new pads for
pulling them out.
sets of three, but may be purchased
individually.

The pads come in

 

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The Boston bag is copied on striped
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and bottom.
ized and two pockets are found for
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The linings are rubber-

a patented slide fastening or a tab
which snaps into a patented lock that
opens with a key. Another bag of a

more general character has a wooden

 

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as a handle. These handle-frame com-
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RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan.

President — A. J. Faunce, Harbor
Springs.

First Vice-President—G. Vander Hoon-
ing, Grand Rapids.

Second Vice-President —Wm. Schultz,
Ann Arbor.

Secretary—Paul Gezon, Wyoming Park.

Treasurer—J. F. Tatman, Clare.

 

Grocer Who Is Real Purveyor To His
Customers.

A man wanted some mushrooms on
his steak. Fresh ones were not obtain-
able, but he had noticed dried ones in
his grocer’s showcase. So he asked the
grocer how they should be prepared.
The grocer made a silly gesture,
shrugged his shoulders and answered:
“IT don't know. We never eat them
in our house.”

What kind of a purchasing agent for
his customers was that man? What
kind of buyer for his people is the gro-
cer who does not know how his goods
are to be prepared? Charles Slack,
splendid old-time Chicago grocer, used
to style himself “Purveyor to the Peo-
ple.” He was just that. He knew all
about every item in its store and every
service grocer falls short of his pos-
sibilities who does not have that same
knowledge so at his fingertips that he
can pass it to his trade intelligently
and interestingly.

A piece of fool propaganda was pub-
lished lately on “Beet Sugar’s Thera-
peutic Value,” in which this marvelous
paragraph occurred:

“Beet sugar contains a_ substance
which enables it to ferment more rap-
idly than cane sugar and thereby en-
tails less wear and tear on the body.
Any food grown from a seed contains
a substance similar to that in beet

Sugar cane rarely produces a
It grows by fermentation. Each
goes through the
cycles of fermentation higher types of

sugar.
seed.

time a substance

poisons are produced.”

“The first cycle with beet sugar goes
on when it is ingested as part of the
food. If you look up a chemical sub-
stance known as betain you will find
that it has a close relationship to those
substances considered so important to-
day known as vitamins. Beet sugar
is of first importance in the treatment
of many cases of gastric and intestinal
troubles.”

I am myself a friend of beet sugar,
but if the substance itself could speak,
it must surely cry out: “Save me from
my friends.” It would be difficult to
imagine more complete folly couched
in impressive.terms than that quota-
tion.

But how many “purchasing agents
for the public’ know the facts about
cane and beet sugar and other sugars?
Every grocer should know,
ample, that refined. sugar from any
source is precisely the same chemical
substance that any other refined sugar
is. Chemically, there is no difference
between refined cane and refined beet
sugar. Nor is there any difference in
the use or results of the use of either.

If maple sugar or penoche sugar be

for ex-

refined, each will come out white and
flavorless as cane or beet granulated
sugar; because the peculiar flavor we
enjoy in both of those sugars is due
to the impurities therein.

Cross & Blackwell have just occu-

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

pied a big new factory in Baltimore.
During the past year or so they have
distributed their marmalade into vir-
tually every grocery store in the land.
What are they after and have they a
fair chance to succeed?

That splendid English concern has
capture the American
its products

come over to
market for

Its plan is to concentrate a

on a large
scale.
campaign of advertising and merchan-
This in the
face of American preference for sweet

dising on its marmalade.

marmalade against what we call the
bitter British article.

3ut C. & B. hold that American
marmalade is not proper marmalade
at all, because it is not made from
Seville oranges, which have that pecul-
iarly bitter tang which is a character-
istic of all British marmalade.

Are they right or are they wrong?
You can prove nothing by me, for I
was brought up on Scots marmalade
—Keiller’s—and nothing else tastes
right to me. But I incline to think
they are right—that marmalade will
never become the staple in America
that it is in England unless and until
for that flavor
which tastes away the cloying sweet-

we acquire the taste

ness of our insipid article.

But no man is a true “purveyor to
his people” who is not posted on such
developments as this is.

I see that Bovril has begun to in-
vade our markets, too. Well, we sort
of play an offset to that. In London
I saw big signs advertising “B D V.”
3ut Bovril is written large on signs in
virtually every British railway station,
signs which look so like those used to
announce the station that strangers
often think it the name of the town
at which they have stopped.

What is it? What grocer knows?
Will he be able to tell his customers
when they ask? Will he be a true pur-
veyor if he cannot?

Blue Ribbon Wednesdays continue
to run in Stop & Shop store, Chicago.
They have been an institution for many
years now—not less than nine, I[
should say. A feature has always
been mushrooms in pound boxes at 49c
per pound. There is wonderful sales
psychology and business building go-
ing hand in hand—building staple and
growing business for the store every
day.

For mushrooms is a food which la-
bors under great disadvantages, but
those are handicaps which any grocer
can consistently help to remove and
profit himself thereby greatly.

Mushrooms labor under these handi-
caps: One-third of the people regard
them as a luxury, for the rich only.
One-third are afraid of them, on the
toadstool basis. One-third know noth-
ing about them. To this let us add a
fourth: that mushrooms are handled
by many retailers—almost all, in fact,
in bulk. Thus they are handled in
weighing, and they are such a delicate
plant that handling breaks them up,
makes them unsightly and unattractive

Mushrooms should be handled in
pound boxes only. Thus families will
get into the habit of buying them by
the pound. If a price is made that is
moderate, they'll get to using them as
a food, not as a luxury. And a narrow

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July 10,

 

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VINKEMULDER COMPANY
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Distributors Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

“Yellow Kid” Bananas, New Potatoes, Strawberries, Sunkist
Oranges, Lemons, Fresh Green Vegetables, etc.

 

 

 

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—

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BRING NEW LIFE

to your sales by recommending Yeast-for-Health to your
customers. They will appreciate your efforts, for nothing
is more prized than glowing health. You'll profit, too, for
healthy customers eat more of everything that you have

So be sure to boost Fleischmann’s Yeast-for-

Health and enjoy greater profits.

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July 10, 1929

MEAT DEALER

Michigan State Association of Retail
Meat Merchants.
President—Frank Cornell, Grand Rapids
Vice-Pres.—E. ©. Abbott, Flint.
Secretary—E. J. La Rose, Detroit.
Treasurer—Vius Goedecke, Detroit.
Next meeting will be held in Grand
Rapids, date not decided.
Two New Developments in Market
Refrigeration.

One of the most significant improve-
ments in the commercial electricial re-
frigeration field is the new two tem-
perature valve perfected by Frigidaire
engineers for the duplexing of differ-
ent types of units operated from the
compressor. By use of this
different
peratures may be operated from the

same
valve, two units with tem-
same compressor with separate, auto-
With it, in-
made

matic defrosting cycles.
stallations can be duplexing
equipment such as a butcher's box and
a display case, or a counter with
finned coils and ice freezing coils. In
many cases the same result can be ob-
tained with one compressor which for-
merly would have required two,
Another development in commercial
equipment which will prove an ad-
vantage to countless meat dealers ‘s
the new type of plate coil, These are
designed for use in refrigerator boxes
where head room is too limited for an
overhead coil installation, or where
provision is made for pipe coils along
the side walls. They can be placed
alone the side of a refrigerator or
cooler, leaving the ceiling space avai!-
able for use. All features which have
been incorporated in other Frigidaire
coils are present in the plate type. De-
frosting may be brought about auto-
matically. These coils are easy to in-
stall and can be moved without loss.

ee

Tentative Grades Established For
Canned Kraut.

The Department of Agriculture is

National

with a view to

working with the Kraut

Packers’ Association
setting up grades for canned kraut. At
the recent convention of the associa-
tion a tentative score card was work-
ed out and samples of kraut were
scored as to their grades.

The score card evaluates the vari-
ous characteristics of kraut according
to their importance and allots points
to each as follows: Color, 15; cut, 15;
absence of defects, 10; crispness, 15;
and flavor, 45. Two qualities or grades
of kraut are recommended—first qual-
ity grading, in the total score, from
85 to 100, and second quality from 70
to 85.

Of the

packed kraut experimentally graded at

samples of commercially
the convention only one was found to
fall below first quality.

—_——_.+.—_____
Meat Dealer’s Most Valuable Asset.
Butter, eggs and many other com-
modities are purchased by grade. The
customer, as well as the retailer, can
order them over the phone without
wasting time to inspect them, and be
perfectly sure of what he is getting.
Meat order
smoked meats by grade, but in most

dealers quite generally

cases find it necessary to buy their

fresh meats on an inspection basis.
Much time is wasted and the result 1s
not as good as it would be if the meat
were judged by experts.

Government grading seems on the

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

road to bringing about a degree of
standardization, but has not yet en-
tirely eliminated the necessity of buy-
Until :t
does, meat judging ability is one of the

ing on an inspection basis.

meat dealer's most valuable assets.
—_——_>*2.>—___—_

Fish Taste Best If Cooked Very
Little.
Practically all fish
United States, according to Harden F.
Taylor of the Atlantic Coast Fisheries
Co., is cooked too much.

used in the

Fish cooked
as much as meat is overcooked.
This is true for the same reason that
than
from de-
The body

temperature of cod and haddock, for

fish need lower temperatures

products to prevent them

teriorating during storage.

instance, during life is between thirty-
two and forty-five degrees, and they
will cook at eighteen degrees below
human body heat.

This is a tip that the meat dealer
who handles fish would do well to pass
on to his customers.

a

Rent Should Be 4 to 6 Per Cent. of
Sales.

How much rent should you pay?

The answer to this question in the
form of a definite proportion of total
sales is given in Babson’s Reports for
June 10, and the proportion for meat
markets is 4 to 6 per cent.

This is lower than the estimated pro-
portion for any of the other types of
business places listed. Next in order
come groceries and cafeterias with a
proportion of 5 to 6 per cent.; next,
restaurants, with a proportion of 8 to
10 per cent.; next, tea rooms, with 10
per cent., and, finally, candy and _ re-
fectory stores with 10 to 12% per
eent.

—
Decrease in Numbers of Wholesale
Grocers.
recently

Figures compiled by the

Thomas Publishing Co. throw inter-
esting light on what changing methods
of distribution are doing to the whole-
sale grocer. They were compiled in

response to many enquiries as_ to
whether or not the wholesalers in the
grocery field are actually decreasing
and show that the number of whole-
salers in the country has declined dur-
ing the past three years from 6,372 to
5,981, or

brokers

over six per cent. Grocery
during the
same period from 3,337 to 3,081, or ai-

have decreased

most 8 per cent.
a os

The Kick in a Kite.

I'd like to make a kite again

And fly it in the sky
I'd like to be a boy again

Then as it flew on high
Send up to it a messenger—
A paper leaf and passenger—
Along its string whose pull and power
Enchanted held me every hour

That simple thing did fly.

I truly thought as there I saw

My fragile flying kite .
It overcame the realm of law

And so brought strange delight
For there it swayed—above the earth—
Maneuver’ng—with soaring worth
Quite comparable to fleetest wing
Of lark or swift, till wondering

I wanted too, to fly.

What is the one desire to-day
Other than boyhood knew
When longings traced a farther way
Than ever airplane flew:
Nor shall the heart be satisfied
By what is past; for skies untried
Keep calling on and ever will
For dead js the man who has no thrill
That he was born to fly.
Charles A. Heath.

 

 

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Surprisingly Low

For Instance:

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or less, between 4:30 a.m. and
7:00 p.m.
You can call the following points and talk for
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HARDWARE

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—W. A. Slack, Bad Axe.
Vice-Pres.—Louis F. Wolf, Mt. Clemens
Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—William Moore. Detroit.

The Hardware Dealer and the Summer
Holiday.

“The store can’t get along without

is the typical attitude of

mie,” many

hardware dealers when confronted
with the prospect of a summer holiday.
“2 cant atiord wt. I the

time from the business.”

can’t spare

It is a curious circumstance that the
merchant who needs a holiday the most
is the one who protests most vigorous-
ly against breaking away from the
daily grind.

Witl

summer holiday is a recognized insti-

some hardware dealers, the

tution. When the time comes, they
pack their grips and set out; and never
hesitate to
the

calculate on the holiday as a regular

1

consider whether or not

business can spare them. They
item in the store routine and the stor

overhead—as something the business
must be trained to carry.

Of course there are instances where
the tendency is to carry
the

away from business,” the

the holiday

idea to extreme. “I need to get
dealer says;
and he tears himself away from the
store every now and then to attend the
annual this the
convention of that society, the outing
of the

that or the other diversion.

get-together of club,
other organization, and_ this,
i In fact the
business on which he depends for a
livelihood becomes a sort of secondary
consideration with him.

That man is just as bad in his way

1
as is the man previously described

who insisted on keeping his nose to
the
without holidays altogether.

The

however, very necessary. Midsummer

business grindstone and going

hardware dealer's holiday 15,
is the usual time to take it.

the

Since his

work is largely indoors, holiday

should provide relief from that
tion:

life,

1
cond.-
and that means plent E nutd
and tnat means plenty ot outdoor
And

the holiday is necessary for the hard-

fresh air sunshine.

and

 

ware merchant, it is just as necessary
for the hardware salesman.

There are of cottrse some dealers
who like to defer the holiday to a more
convenient season or even to a less
convenient season in order to get just
the sort of outing they want. Perhaps
duck-hunting in the fall may appeal to
them. Perhaps a trip to the sunny
South in mid-winter, when business
slack, may suit the dealer better than
a mid-summer trip to the North woods
or the lake shore.

Two weeks outing is not too long.
I have noticed that in
the

those who take regular outings, and

my own town

most successful merchants are
are not afraid to break away from th
everyday store routine.

give close at-
Anything

merchant to
his
worth doing at al

It pays a
tention to business.
Las worth one’s best

efforts. The hardware business is no

exception. To succeed in it, you have

to watch it closely, to study it fron

every angle, to make it the biggest
thing in your life, 1 i

best effec rts,

and to give it vour

But the individual should be bigger

MICHIGAN

than his business. He ought to win
and keep a wider outlook on life. He
should never despise his business, yet
on the other hand he should not stay
so close to it that his perspective is
lost. He has to break away now and
then, to withdraw to a little distance,
and to get a fresh viewpoint on things.
To master your business is import-
ant. But it is even more important
not to let your business master you.
So plan now for your holiday; and
see that it is a real holiday—a com-
from the daily

plete breaking

routine that has engrossed you for the

away

past eleven months.

There is in my town one merchant
merchant) who is a
and

(not a hardware

man of quick decisions intense

He

ness, and do it more quickly, and make

energy. can transact more busi-
fewer mistakes, than any man I ever
Last store did an
Christmas He

busy right up to Christmas eve. And

knew. winter his

enormous trade. was
early the ensuing Monday morning he
left for a trip that consumed all win-
ter and took him to Europe, Asia and
Northern and Central Africa.

This man has been doing precisely
that thing for more than twenty years.
the of .the
flings himself into the

Throughout rest year he

business with
intense energy. And right after Christ-
mas he drops it off his mind complete-
ly, and spends the winter months tray-
eling in sunny climes. In the process
he has seen most of the known world.
It has cost money, but it is his hobby,
and it has enlarged his vision.

Now the average merchant perhaps
afford to do that.
afford to follow that example in one

can’t But he can

respect—by drawing a sharp line be-
tween business and holiday. When you
are attending to business, put all you
have into business; and when you are

taking a holiday, make that holiday
complete.
Some years ago a merchant tele-

phoned me to come down town anid

see him about a little matter of busi-

ness. When I dropped into the store

: :

he said:
am

You're a good judge of advertising. I

going away for three weeks.
want you to drop in and give the boys
Don't

write the advertisements for them, but

some pointers now and_ then.
drop in and look over what they write.
George will do it; give him any hints
you can.”

Next morning I dropped in. The
merchant was in his little office. He
nodded to me. That was all. I dis-

cussed the advertising with George. I

made some suggestions. George
agreed or argued, according to wheth-
But
though the proprietor was only a few
feet

him, nor did the proprietor reveal the

er they appealed to him or not.

away, George never went near

slightest interest in what we ‘were
saying.

The holiday had already started; and
that did not

leave town for another day, had thrust

merchant, although he
the business quite out of his mind.

I mentioned the matter to him after-
ward.

“Aren't you afraid to leave this busi-
, 4 asked.
He smiled.

“Tm putting George on his own for

ness

ut

 

 

July 10, 1929

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

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Automobile Accessories
Garage Equipment
Radio Sets
Radio Equipment
Harness, Horse Collars

Farm Machinery and Garden Tools
Saddlery Hardware
Blankets, Robes
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN

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July 10, 1929

It will do him good. He may
mistakes, but he is in
and he is bright enough not
the same mistake
That is all I can ask.”

a while.
make

charge;
to make
time.

some

a second

business went
The
proprietor came back refreshed and re-
invigorated for a hard
ahead of him, and with clear cut new
ideas as to how to meet new problems
presenting George had
made a few mistakes. Also, he had de-
veloped an added sense of responsibil-
ity and a more intimate understanding
of the problems of retail business that
made him very much more valuable to

As a matter of fact,
on smoothly for nearly a month.

year’s) work

themselves.

the store.

I sometimes think that the hardware
says he can’t leave his
that there is no one to take his
is not giving his helpers the
It may seem
an extreme statement, but no hardware
trained until that
staff can carry on with the employer
absent just as efficiently and enthus-

dealer who
store,
place,
training they should get.

staff is adequately

iastically as if he were present.

A fatal tendency in some hardware
dealers is to center all the details of
the business in their own hands. Far
from trying to develop individual in-
itiative in their helpers and to educate
these deal-
ers aim to personally direct every item
The dealer maps out
the advertising, the window
does all the buying, directs the
selling, watches the drafts and collec-
tions—all these things require his per-
sonal attention if they are to be done
properly. Or, at least, he is convinced
that nothing will be done properly un-
less he does it himself.

A mark of the good executive is the
ability to delegate authority intelligent-
ly; to pick the man just fitted for each
job, and to put the responsibility on
The hardware dealer who doves
not learn to do this to some extent
will naturally feel that his business
can’t spare him, and that he can’t af-
ford to take a holiday.

Now is a good time to check that
fatal tendency to centralize everything
in your own hands. Instead of trying
to direct everything yourself, gradual-
ly put more and more of the responsi-
bility on your helpers. Plan always
to have at least one man in the store
who can take your place and fill it with
reasonable efficiency in an emergency.

Your helpers won’t be any the less
efficient in the performance of their
everyday work just because they are
able, for a day or two or a week or
two, to step into your shoes and look
after the business. And when they’re
able to do that, you in turn will be
able to take the holiday you need and
put business worries entirely out of

the latter to responsibility,

of store activity.
designs
trims,

him.

your mind.

Make your holiday,
it, a real holiday. The real holiday }s
a change of air, a change of scene, and
a change of occupation. What sort of
change you should have depends en-
tirely on what you have been doing.
You may find the rest you need in a
summer cottage at the nearest beach,
or in your own garden, or revisiting
the hamlet where you spent your boy-
hood, or calling on the wholesale es-
tablishments and big retail stores cf

when you take

  

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

    

the nearest city. The great thing is to
break away completely from your daily
work and put it entirely out of your
mind.

Say to yourself, “I won't think of
business for two whole weeks, not if
the store burns down.’ Toward the
end of the two weeks you'll find your-
self thinking of business in new terms,
with a clearer understanding of its
problems, your mind bubbling over
with new plans to achieve bigger re-
sults or cut down needless expense.

A good holiday is never wasted.

Victor Lauriston.
— ++ >
Takes Issue With Mr. Caslow on
Group Advertising.

Grand Rapids, July 9—In the last
edition of the Michigan Tradesman, an
article signed by W. H. Caslow ridi-
culing the advertising group in Grand
Rapids which was organized while I
was President of the Grand Rapids
Retail Grocers Association
which I have been active as a member
ever since the inception of the advertis-
ing group, almost three years ago.

I feel as a matter of fairness to our
members, as well as the readers of the
Tradesman, this unwarranted attack
by W. H. Caslow is misleading to
those who do not know Mr. Caslow as
well as Grand Rapids retailers have
occasion to know him.

About a year and a half ago, Mr.
Caslow called on our Secretary with
a proposition to organize all retailers in
a group for the purpose of securing
publicity to the consuming public, call-
ing their attention to the dangers to
the communities as well as themselves
in patronizing chain syndicates stores.

Our Secretary was warned by busi-
ness men in Grand Rapids, with refer-
ence to the instability of Mr. Caslow,
who had been engaged at one time as
a small retail grocer and of which he
rarely ever makes mention and to his
career as a community newspaper

editor, which was liquidated and sev-
eral hundred dollars still unpaid by
him.

Mr. Caslow, covering himself with
a cloak of religion, led us to believe
this was merely an unfortunate busi-
ness venture. We therefore recom-
mended the proposition submitted by
Mr. Caslow and our Association mem-
bers gave their moral as well as finan-
cial support in the new organization,
which was to cover newspaper public-
ity in every newspaper in the county,
but which wound up finally same as
the community newspaper edited by
Mr. Caslow, by liquidating and leaving
approximately $700 in unpaid accounts.

Our advertising group has been
functioning almost three years, adver-
tising weekly in the evening daily and
featuring the foot balls of the chains,
to show the consuming public that the
individual retailers cannot only sell
these items as low as the chains, but
can render delivery and convenient
charge service as well.

The jobbers being unable to furnish
the foot ball items at a price to com-
pete without showing a loss, we have
been in a position to purchase many
direct from the manufacturers and sev-
eral of these items ‘are purchased in
car lots.

We have no desire to injure the job-
bing business as a whole, but it is a
case where the consuming public have
been sold on price buying by the chain
syndicates and were making rapid in-
roads on the retail business, that it not
only endangered the individual retail-
ers but the wholesaling business as
well and this method of combat has
not only been practiced by the Grand
Rapids retailers, but is being practiced
in most every city of any consequenct
in the United States.

The members of the Grand Rapids
advertising group meet weekly and the
members who attend these meetings
are doing more business and making

and 1.

more profit than at any time during
their business career and are not only
paying their bills, but discounting
them, which will be vouched for by
every member that attends these meet-
ings regularly.
Gerrit Vander Hooning.
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Shirt Plan Offers Color Choice.
Some shirt manufacturers have de-
vised a plan to meet retailers’ wishes
for greater freedom of color choice in
the purchase of shirts in sets. Instead
of following the practice of offering
the same pattern in a set of three dif-
ferent shades, one of which may prove

a poor seller for the retailer, these
manufacturers are offering a_ single
shade in a set of three different pat-

terns. Thus the retailer can secure any

color he wishes, the set basis being one
of pattern and not of color. Incident-
ally,

and tans, with greens backward here,
although active in the Middle West.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

July 10, 1929

 

HOTEL DEPARTMENT

 

News and Gossip Concerning Michigan
Hotels.

Los Angeles, July 5—At a recent
meeting of hotel chefs and cooks in
Detroit a strong voice of protest was
raised against the mid-meal cigarette
habit. The kitcheneers seem to have
no objection to a man or woma‘i
touching off a fag with the coffee, but
they kick when the smoker begins to
light up with the soup. There are
some addicts who think they must
have a torch with every course and the
chefs say that the habit dulls the pal-
ate and impairs a proper appreciation
of the cookery. There are also a lot
of patrons who voice resentment at the
practice, but not by any means for
the same reason.

Mrs. Edward Lown, owning the
White House Inn, at Saugatuck, which
was damaged by fire last April, and
which has been rebuilt since, celebrat-
ed the re-opening by entertaining the
members of the Saugatuck fire depart-
ment with a chicken dinner, thereby
in a most substantial way showing her
appreciation of the efficiency of the
fire laddies.

A prominent hotel man here who has
recently added baths to many of his
hotel rooms, voiced a sentiment which
I have entertained relative to hotel
baths for many years:

“The number of travelers who in-
sist on having rooms with bath and
then fail to use the bath is quite large.
It is not at all unusual for people to
come in, register and then hurry out
to some evening entertainment with-
out taking time to more than give
their hands a stingy dip. Then thev
come in late, leave a call for 6 a. m.,
and at 6:15 are checking out, in order
to catch a train, sleepv-eved and look-
ing as though they hadn’t even washed
their faces.”

When you come to think of it, men
in their own homes take a bath not
to exceed a couple of times a week
on the average, but get him in a hoiel
lobby with pen in hand they make a
loud howl for their “bawth.”’ for the
reason presumably that it sounds weil
and gives out the impression that
bathing is an obsession with them. Of
course, the hotel man has no_ kick
coming, especially if he is long on
rooms with bath.

Reminding me of a nephew of mine
who at the tender age of five impor-
tuned his mother to provide him with
"cambric coffee, (a decoction of
warm water with a few drops af
coffee). When asked why, he said .t
made him feel “sporty.”

Edwin A. Sweet, who has been
president of the Continental-Leland
Hotel Corporation, Detroit. for some
time and resigned to give more atteu-
tion to personal enterprises, was re-
called to the service June 17, by being
again elected to the head of that com-
pany.

A writer in a hotel publication says
that the drug store came into the field
in the eating game because the hotel
man didn’t think the sandwich trade
was of sufficient importance to even
go to the trouble of supplying a tasty
article. Consequently the enterprising
druggist saw the point and nailed the
opportunity. There are still a few
“legitimate” caterers who mix up a de-
coction of veal scraps. chicken skins
and mayonnaise, which they foist on
the public for chicken sandwiches, but
while the drug store offerings may be
somewhat more abbreviated, they run
truer to form.

The East Michigan Tourist Associa-
tion is distributing a- very attractive
map. In the Northern country are
sketches of porcupine and bear stroll-
ing about the country adjacent to good

 

roads, with a hunter concealing him-
self behind a tree taking a bead on
some venison. There is also the miner
and woodsman. Various towns are
marked in an unusual manner. Benton
Harbor is marked by a bearded gen-
tleman; Detroit shows a party reach-
ing across into Canada for a cup of
“Oh, be joyful.” Also there is Kala-
mazoo with its bunch of celery and
Jackson with a convict at the stone-
pile.

John J. Shantz, son of the late Chas.
G. Shantz, who was, for many years
manager of the old Hotel Cadillac,
Detroit, has been appointed as an as-
sistant manager of the Detroit Statler.
His special duty will be to “speed the
parting guest.”

William H. Cartright, for many
vears identified with Michigan hotel
interests, especially in the resort field
and in the Petoskey district, will man-
age Hotel Ramona, Harbor Springs,
for the creditors of that institution.
With his exceptional ability in his par-
ticular line, he will, no doubt, place
the institution on a satisfactory basis.

In a recent issue of the Saturday
Evening Post, one writer sounds an
interesting note with reference to the
future prosperity of the country, es-
pecially making the claim that unless
all signs fail, there is nothing but
prosperity ahead of us. This seems
like a reasonably safe bet.

3ut one of his observations which
was especially interesting to me and to
the hotel operator particularly, was the
tendency on the part of many whole-
sale houses to reduce their traveling
forces. This is no doubt true as has
been observable for some time. There
are, however, many reasons for a fall-
ing off of the commercial trade, whicn
are not due altogether to reduction in
sales forces. As in many other fields
the automobile is responsible to a large
degree for the decreased transient ho-
tel business. The traveler no longer
waits for the departure of any par-
ticular train, but as soon as his can-
vass of one town is completed, he
hies himself to the next. He now has
an abbreviated territory, spends more
time at home with his family, and ac-
complishes just as much.

The commercial hotel, conveniently
located, is not doomed, but it must ar-
range its schedule to take Gare of a
different class of patrons, even more
numerous than the salesmen. who
have nothing else to do but travel and
spend money, leaving it usually where
they find the lamps trimmed and burn-
ing. And they are on the increase.

An astute hotel man who takes with
a grain of salt some of the general and
vague phrased expressions which the
orators use when they are expatiating
on the glory of things altogether, has
resolved for himself a formula which
has helped him to avoid false steps
while pursuing his program. For in-
stance he realizes when the tide of
tourists brings a lot of people to his
town, it is not especially for the rea-
son that they want to stop at any par-
ticular hotel. If, however, there are
those in the party who have stopped
with him before and gone away with
a favorable impression, then he has the
advantage for the time being. but this
advantage makes it all the more es-
sential that he follow it up with ad-
ditional reasons why they should cos-
tinue to patronize him.

While he fully realizes that people
stop with him because they like his ho-
tel better than some other, he must
at the same time be very sure to not
be cock-sure that he can hold them in-
definitely. The price of “libertv”
seems to hold the same old market
value when measured in terms of
vigilance.”

Again I hear the statement that the

chain store has just about ruined a ho-
tel’s trade with the commercial trav-
eler, as the once famous “knight of the
road” and his propensities for passing
out cigars to his trade—combined with

 

 

 

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HOTEL

Grand Rapids’ Newest
Hotel

400 Rooms “i+ 400 Baths

RATES
$2.50 and up per day.

 

 

 

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That is why LEADERS of Businesa
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PANTLIND
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“An entire city block of Hospitality”
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Rooms $2.25 and up.
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Is truly a friend to all travelers. All
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HENRY M. NELSON, Manager
European Plan
MANISTEE, MICH.
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150 Outside Rooms
Dining Room Service
Hot and Cold Running Water and
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$1.50 and up
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GRAND RAPIDS

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

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300 Rooms 300 Baths
Absolutely Fireproof

Moderate Rates
Under the Direction of the
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Occidental Hotel
FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $1.50 and up
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Conducted on the European Plan.
Hot and cold running water in all
rooms. Several rooms with bath. All
rooms well heated and well venti-
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“We are always mindful of
our responsibility to the pub-

lic and are in full apprecia-
tion of the esteem its generous

patronage implies.”

HOTEL ROWE
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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In the Very Heart of the City
Fireproof Construction
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Representing
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250 Rooms—150 Rooms with Private
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that beatific smile—have nassed from
the film.

This is only true in a certain degree.
When one takes time to investigate he
finds that the larger hotels still enjoy
a large demand for sample rooms. But
it may be considered a conceded fact
that “large line” travelers do concen-
trate their efforts on the larger towns
because they find it more satisfactory
to the customer and more convenient
for themselves, to open up their sam-
ples in larger quarters and then invite
the small-town merchant to come to
them as their guest, paying his trans-
portation expenses for so doing. The
country merchant rather enjoys the
little outing thus offered to him, and
has the advantage of viewing a much
more comprehensive line of samples.

The chain store, with its mass buy-
ing, may contribute somewhat to de-
creasing hotel patronage, but not to
any great extent. Frank S. Verbeck.

———s-~2

When On Your Way, See Onaway.

Onaway, July 9—By the way, how
about a trip into the swamp? To some
people the word “swamp” signifies a
filthy, undesirable place, while ito
others seeking to obtain knowledge
and pleasure of wild life, it represents
a most enjoyable and interesting time,
and to those who really do enjoy it
and who learn to look forward to such
privileges there can be nothing in the
way of nature lore to excell it.

Just now, during the latter part of
June and the first two weeks in July
is usually the time to prepare for real
swamp entertainment in Northern
Michigan. It might be well to procure
some bandana handkerchiefs, and light
leather gloves would not come amiss
for protection of the hands and wrists.
By no means do not go with bare arms
or “low-necked” hosiery. Rubber boots
may be preferable, although pretty hot
and the writer prefers a good leather
high top shoe even for wading in
water. A good soaking will do no
harm this time of year. What are we
after? We are seeking the most beau-
tiful flower that grows—a wonderful
gift to God’s flower garden—the pink
showy lady slipper, considered by
some to be a very rare plant, but in
this section it may be easily found
growine in great numbers. It is a
member of the orchid family and is
sometimes confused with the pink
moccasin flower, although the latter
grows on higher and drier soil, while
the lady slipper prefers very wet low
places. This year, in particular, owing
to frequent rains and flooded swamps,
the plants show rich deep color and
rank growth. Why is it that so many
people, although residents of Northern
Michigan for years, are still ignorant
of the habitat of this beautiful flower?
Well, I'll tell you and it seems so
foolish. Our vases are usually filled
with orchids regularly each season and
our admiring friends will enquire,
“Where did you find such beautiful
flowers?” What! In the swamp, ugh;
aren’t you afraid of snakes?” Bosh,
snakes. I hope the time may come
when this bugaboo about snakes will
exhaust itself. It is the most abused
and uncalled for fear that one can
imagine and it really is all imaginary.
The human race is facing death in a
hundred ways every day and treating
the matter lightly, but a harmless little
snake produces hysteria, pilly wrinkles
and nrostration. Listen to the incon-
sistency of these remarks: “I wouldn't
wade into that swamp for all the
flowers in Michigan, they can stay
there for all of me.” Yes, but things
that are worth having are worth go-
ing after. Like Gene Stratton Por-
ter, we enjoy the. beauties of our
swamps as did this grand good woman
enjoy the life in the Limberlost swamp,
where she studied nature and obtained
material for her wonderful books. We
sent Gene Stratton Porter specimens
from our swamps and have in our pos-
session two personal letters from her,
which we prize very highly, in which

she says, “I could shake you for de-
stroying so many lady slipper plants.
Do you not know that this is a para-
sitic plant and when pulled will never
produce another blossom?” We sent
her pictures showing hundreds, yes
thousands of these plants in bloom and
describing the vast quantities grow-
ing in this section, and her second let-
ter was worded like this: “Had I not
seen the pictures with your descrip-
tions I never would have believed that
they grew in such great profusion.
With us they are a very rare plant and
there are a few growing in the Limber-
lost swamp, but the owner will not
permit the picking of a single flower.
I would like to motor to your swamp
and wonder just where Onaway is lo-
cated.” We looked forward to her
coming some day, but it was not to be.
Fate would not permit.

Since that time we have not gather-
ed such quantities of lady slippers, al-
though the supply seemed inexhaust-
ible. The warning from this dear
woman still rings in our ears and we
are satisfied with enough without the
needless waste. Will others do the
same and heed the warning? It seems

not, for the roots are being dug com- ‘

mercially for medicinal purposes and
wild life is suffering the consequence.
Trailing arbutus, trilliums, lady  slip-
pers and bittersweet are fast becoming
depleted. If the time should ever come
when these plants will be protected by
law it will be a still greater pleasure
to seek them and enjoy their beauty in
the natural state. Yes, and photo-
graph them; brave a few. or many
mosquitoes and watch the graceful
moevments of those terrible (?) snakes,
the death-dealing reptiles (something
which never happens) just to feel the
carpet of moss, see the varied shades of
green among the spruces, balsams and
tamaracks. And oh! Those tiger
lillies contrasting with the little blue-
bells, the star flowers and_ fringed
orchids and hundreds of varieties. Take
your microscope and examine some of
these specimens under *he glass. Catch
a few bugs and you will have an en-
tire zoo right at your feet.

You might take along a small hand
axe and by all means a compass, for
on a cloudy day and directions uncer-
tain, something might happen. Com-
ing to a cluster of twenty-five to forty
pink lady slippers, some in full bloom,
others partly open, singles and in
pairs so gracefully arranged beneath
the evergreens, one is apt to become
so engaged as to partly forget the way
back home and the compass comes in
very handv, otherwise the experience
is sometimes rather—well, I have had
it happen to me. Squire Signal.

>>>
Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.

Sault Ste. Marie, July 9—Every day
brings many more tourists here now.
The hotels are filling up again and the
camp site is getting quite a number.
Each night seems to show an increase,
but they can still accommodate more
if the weather man will give us a nice
spell of hot weather it will drive the
tourists North, where nature plays an
important part. The breezes from the
Great Lakes make this the best place
to spend the “good old summer time.”

The fifty-fifth annual convention of
the Michigan State Firemen’s Associa-
tion opened here on Monday. It is
stated that 700 firemen are in attend-
ance. The first general assembly of
the convention was held at the high
school auditorium at 2 p. m. Monday
evening the delegates to the conven-
tion were entertained by the Sault-
Ontario fire department, where a spec-
ial program of local entertainment was
given. Wednesday evening all of the
delegates will attend memorial services
at the Central Methodist church. The
banquet will be held at the armory,
with Wilbur Brucker, Attorney Gen-
eral of Michigan, as the principal
speaker.

Traffic between Pickford and the

Soo is now being routed by way of
Rudyard, Kinross and Dafter on ac-
count of the construction work at Don-
aldson. This should not stop the
tourists coming here, as the detour 1s
good.

The flying school at the air port has
been started with a membership class
of thirteen students. It is expected
that we will soon have some high
flyers here.

The many friends of Chester Camp-
bell, a former Soo boy, were pleased
to hear of his late promotion with the
Chicago Tribune. He has recently
been advanced from the position of
Eastern advertising manager to classi-
fied advertising manager, one of the
most important executive positions on
the paper.

Charles Cushman has opened a new
bakery at 804 Ashmun street, which
will be called the Tip Top Bakerv. He
is turning out from 350 to 400 pound
loaves a day already. All styles of
bread are baked by home methods.
Eight different shapes of bread are be-
ing turned out. Mr. Cushman will al-
so start baking pastry in about three
weeks. The shop is eauipped with an
up-to-date double deck oven. All
bread, excepting the Italian style loaf,
is wrapped in wax paper. He is put-
ting on a delivery system and. will
have as his motto, “On every street
every morning.”

The Thomas restaurant, at St. Ig-
nace, is open for the season, serving
fish and chicken dinners. Mr. Thomas
was formerly in the dining car service.

Unless a man honestly tries to im-
prove himself and his work each day
he does not know what real happiness
is.

Jacob Schoop, the well-known meat
merchant at DeTour, left for Chicago
on a business trip last week.

Chester Crawford, the popular mer-
chant at Stalwart. was a business
caller here last week, taking back a
load of supplies.

William G. Tapert.

News of Interest To Grand Rapids
Council.

Most of the Grand Rapids counsel-
lors -are now. occupied with vacation
plans and the present weather is sure-
ly ideal for the pleasant occupation of
enjoying a rest. It behooves us all to
enjoy the warm weather while it is
here, because from past experience we
know winter is with us a long time.

The Salesmen’s Club held its annua!
picnic Sunday, June 30, and had with-
in one of the same attendance as last
year. An excellent time was had by
all who attended and the committee, of
which Art Hare was the chairman, can
be congratulated on the efficient worix
done. Ample prizes were on hand for
the sport events and the meal served
by Mr. Thomas was entirely up to ex-
pectations. The ball game which fol-
lowed the dinner certainly showed
which of the boys were ball players.
The score was 19 to 8 in favor of our
side.

Timothy Posthumus, who was with
the C. J. Farley Co. for a number 2f
years and later in charge of the no-
tions department, has severed his co1-
nection with that house, to become a
full fledged traveling man. We under-
stand he is selling piece goods and 1
general line of fabrics in Western
We all
hope Tim makes a big success of his
new connection.

Michigan for a Detroit house.

Lee Lozier has been visiting in Chi-
cago, although we understand that
during his vacation he could not re-
frain from stepping out and selling a
carload order of steel products which
his firm, the Pittsburg Steel Co., man-
ufactures. € Cc. MM.

 

 

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DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—J. C. Dykema, Grand Rapids.
Vice-Pres.—J. Edward Richardson, D:3-

troit.

Director—Garfield M.
dusky.

Examination Sessions — Beginning the
third Tuesday of January, March, June,
August and November and lasting three
days. The January and June examina-
tions are held at Detroit, the August
examination at Marquette, and the March
and November examinations at Grand
Rapids.

Benedict, San-

Michigan State Pharmaceutical
Association.
President—J. M. Ciechanowski, Detroit.
Vice-Pres:dent—John J. Walters, Sagi-
naw.
Secretary—R. A. Turrell, Croswell.
Treasurer—L. V. Middleton, Grand

Official Program For M. S. P. A. Con-
vention at Battie Creek.
Tuesday Aug. 6.

9 a. m. Registration Post Tavern Hotel.

10 to 10:45. Informal reception.
10:45.
by President J.

Formal opening of convention
M. Ciechanowsky.
‘Announcements.
Reading of correspondence.
Appointment of Resolutions Com-
mittee.
12 Nooon. Luncheon at the Tavern.
Address of welcome by Mayor John
Bailey.
Mr. Haberman, Secretary of Cham-
ber of Commerce.
Response by President J. M. Ciecha-
nowsky.
Claude C.

Toastmaster, Jones.

2 p.m. Bridge party for ladies at Post
Tavern.
2 p.m. Second business session.

President’s address, J. M. Ciecha-
nowsky.
Secretary's report, R. A. Turrel.
Treasurer's report, L. V. Middleton.
Report of Standing Committees.
Executive Committee, Howard Hurd.
Legislative Committee, D. G. Look.
Membership Committee, Purl Har-
ding.
Trade Interests, L. V. Middleton.
Speaker, Dr. Robert J. Ruth, Phar.
D.Ph.M., Chief Pharmaceutical
Division Professional Service, E.
R. Squibb & Sons.
Speaker, Leonard Seltzer.
6:30 p. m. Dinner dance at Kellogg’s
social hall.
Short inspection tour of
Toasted Corn Flake Co.
Wednesday, Aug. 7.

Third business session.

Kellogg’s

10 a. m
Unfinished business.
Reports, Prescott Memorial, by E.
E. Calkins.

Publicity Committee, R. T. Lakey.

Board of Pharmacy, Garfield Bene-
dict.

Speaker, Dr. Olsen, of Druggists Re-
search Bureau.

Speaker, George S. Jay, Vice-Presi-
dent Prohylactic Brush Co.

12 Noon. Luncheon for men at Tavern.
Speaker, Dean Edward H. Krauss,

Dean of College of Pharmacy,
University of Michigan.
Speaker, Dan W. Houser,
President M. S. P. A.
Toastmaster, Harry Cecil.
12:30 p. m. Luncheon for ladies at

Battle Creek Country Golf Club,
followed by bridge party.

For men, golf tournament

Past

1-30 0. m-
at Marywood Country Club.

Dinner at Post Tavern for all
registered.
8 p. m. Theatre party, choice Regent,
Post or Strand.
Thursday, Aug. 8.
9:30 a.m. Fourth business session.
Unfinished business.
Report of Resolution’s Committee.
Election of officers.
Speakers—Parke-Davis & Co., Gen-
eral Manager, Dr. A. W. Lesco-
hier, will speak on recent achieve-

6 p. m.

ments in medical science of particu-
lar interest to pharmacists.
F. F. Ingram, Jr., Vice-President and
General Manager Florian Co.
10 a. m. For all ladies registered. Trip
through the Postum Co., followed
by a luncheon at 1 p. m.

12 Noon. Luncheon at Tavern for all
men registered.

Speakers—J. H. Webster, Detroit
30ard of Education; J. C. Dykema
and J. Edward Richardson, mem-
bers of Board of Pharmacy.

Report of tellers.

Installation of officers.

p. m. Trip through
Sanitarium for all.

p. ra. Banquet at Battle Creek Sani-
tarium.

Speakers—Congressman
Hooper.

George Welsh,
Grand Rapids.

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Battle Creek

NI

Joseph L.

City

Manager of

Toastmaster, Senator J. A. (Bert)
Skinner.

Music by Battle Creek Sanitarium
orchestra.

The committee has proposed the pro-
gram with only one idea in mind, that
is, to supply speakers who will bring a
message and new ideas, which will
benefit every member and, in turn,
make for better conditions in phar-
macy.

The entertainment speaks for itself.
The Battle Creek Druggists Associa-
tion, through its members, has worked
hand in hand with the Travelers Aux-
iliary, and the general program com-
mittee with the one thought in mind
to make this convention the most in-
teresting in the history of the M. S.
P. A. Make your plans now to attend.

Battle Creek Hotels.

Post Tavern Headquarters

Single rates, $3 day and up.

Double rates, $5 day and up.
Kellogg Inn

Single rates, $3 day and up.

Double rates, $5 and $8 day.
LaSalle

Single rates, $1.50 day and up.

Double rates, $2.50 day and up.
Clifton House—LaVerne

Single rates, $1.50 day and up.

Double rates, $2.50 day and up.

The above are the hotel rates for the
M. S. P. A. convention at Battle Creek
Aug. 6, 7 and 8. Make your reserva-
tions early.

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Revision of Hard Candy Labels Calied
For.

Manufacturers of hard candy have
been warned by the Food, Drug and
Insecticide the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture against the use of false statements
on their labels as to the content of
fruit, fruit juices, or fruit flavor in

Administration of

their product. A notice urging im-
mediate revision of faulty labels to
comply with the requirements of the
Food and Drug Acts has just been
sent to makers of this type of candy.

The provisions of the law regarding
labels, say the food and drug officials,
are plain; they should bear no repre-
sentations that are false, misleading,
or deceptive in any particular; names
or pictorial designs of fruit should be
used only when that fruit, or its juice,
is present in sufficient quantities to
characterize the article. Otherwise, they
say, if the candy contains merely fruit
flavor, even though derived exclusive-
ly from the fruit named, the name of
the fruit should be used only if qual-
ified by the word “flavor” and without
pictorial designs of fruit.

An exception is made as to flavors
derived from the oils of citrous fruits.
No objection is made to the name
“Lemon Drops,” or similar names, pro-
vided the labels bear no pictorial de-
signs and no representations are made
indicating an actual content of fruit
or fruit juice.

Harmless acids added to fruit-type
hard candies to enhance their fruity
characteristics, according to the notice,
are also to be declared on the label.
Finally, the presence of synthetic flav-
ors and artificial colors in the candy
must be designated with the word
“Imitation” in type of the same size
and prominence as the fruit name, in
direct conjunction with it, and with
the words “artificially flavored and
colored” conspicuously displayed upon
the label.

—_22>_—__

Problem of the Leased Fountain.

“Ts the leased fountain always a
credit to the druggist?”

Fortunately in most cases the answer
to this important question must be yes.
Druggists should very carefully survey
the fountain management in their
stores and answer this question them-
selves and the answer may either spell
success or ruin.

Many people are first drawn into a
drug store by the need or desire for a
light lunch or a cold beverage. l) the
food is tasty, the service prompt, the
fountain clean and attractive and the
attitude of the attendants courteous
and agreeable the customer is favor-
ably impressed and the impression is
reflected to the store. If the
contrary impression is made the cus-
tomer probably will never come back
even for drug supplies. Remember
that few people know that soda foun-

whole

tains are leased.
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Sugar Water Said to Cure Ulcers.

A news report comes from Vienna,
Austria, to the effect that Prof. George
Recht, of the Vienna Polyclinic, has
advanced a theory, based on many ex-
perimental tests, that simple sugar wa-
ter is a positive remedy for ulcers of
the stomach and duodenum (a section
of the small intestine.) A method of
treatment is administration of three
ounces of the solution of sugar water
before meals, four times a day. Prof.
Recht is quoted as saying that the
pain ceases within on to three days,
followed by disappearance of the ulcers.

Panic Bracer.

Stir vigorously in a shaker with a
spoon the juice of one lemon, one table
spoonful of powdered sugar, two ounces
of shaved ice and four ounces of seltzer
water. Strain into a_ twelve-ounce
glass, fill the glass with seltzer water
and stir with a spoon.

——
Black Walnut Delight.

Put a No. 10 cone of vanilla ice cream
into a sundae cup and pour over it a
ladle of butterscotch dressing and cover
with plenty of chopped black walnut
meats. Decorate with whipped cream.

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Cantaloupe Nut Novelty.

Put a portion of cantaloupe in a sun-
dae cup and put in it a No. 16 mound
of vanilla ice cream. Sprinkle with
chopped nuts and top with a whole
cherry.

See
Jonesville High Ball.

Into a six-ounce phosphate glass put
one ounce of grape juice, add a little
cracked ice and fill the glass
ginger ale.

with

Se
Sunshine Sundae.

In the center of a six-inch plate put

a No. 8 mound of strawberry.
Hae ge

Handy Luggage For the Week-End
Trip.

Week-end trips call for a _ large
amount of preparations, even though
the time spent away from the city is
but short. Besides the clothing, there
is a host of accessories to be taken.
Luggage must
and small bits of finery must be in-
cluded to compete with those who go
a-week-ending as if they were going
away for the entire season.

Miniature trunks in suitcase sizes
and with handles at the side and on
top can now be obtained which are
useful for such occasions. They are
made of natural linen with awning
stripes in various colors, and have the
corners finished with metal.
built to hard
they do not look it.

 

be chosen with care

They are
although
Inside, the sec-

stand wear,

tions are removable. Some have small
shoe compartments, others removab'e
sections composed of six hangers; and
all have covers which snap to the sides
for the purpose of protecting the gar-
ments.

Another summer article that is par-
ticularly handy for short trips is the
satchel bag with double top handles
and a patented fastening that pulls open
or closed. It is bound and has the
bottom part in leather while the re-
mainder is of linen in modernistic
printed designs, in awning stripes to
match
colors

the new suitcases, or in plain
to match one’s costume. This
bag is made with rubber-lined pockets.

For carrying wearing dresses made
of the metallic fabrics there is a dress
bag of black gauze. It is cut with
rounded tops and is boxed throughout,
the seams being bound with tape. Tape
is used for fastening in place of the
metal slides and snaps, because these,
it is said, are liable to catch or tear a
frock. This black gauze is being put
forward in the same way as_ black
tissue paper is for packing metallic
shoes and costumes in order to pre-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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nishing them. These bags are all ab- feminine many women are taking up ;
solutely dust proof. the vogue of parasols. A_ peculiar Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
Other dress bags in colors either to rough linen is used for one good- i Cotton Seed _--. 1 35@1 50 Honadoans ee ¢ “
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match one’s costume or be a bit dec- looking model, which is made in Boric (Powd.)-- 9 @ 20 5 Sanaa oe a oe: = Benzoin Comp’d_ @2 40
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a : De ete aa 79 Hemlock, pure_. 2 00@2 25 Cantharides ____ @2 52
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the shops are selling them as suitcase ' lere are designs worked ¢ Tartaric ~_------ Lavender Gar’n. 1 25@1 50 Digitalis -_-..___ @2 04
and trunk accessories, for they take fia or natural-colored wool. An added Eemon |. 9 6 00@6 25 Gentian -_._____- @1 35
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a problem, and in case hat stands are : oo

not provided some of the new folding
ones might be carried. They come
three in cases made of different fabrics
to suit one’s taste and type of luggage.
These stands are made in two parts,
are absolutely steady and are high
enough to prevent the brims of the
hats from touching. Some are covered
bound
with fine grosgrain ribbon, and others
are made of satin, velvet or quilted
crepe.

with cretonne with the edges

ee
Smart Accessories For Summer.
Handbags that are especially suited
to summer frocks are usually difficult
to find.
be carried by its strap or as an enve-
lope model is made of ivory-colored
kid with an individual hand-tooled de-
sign either in colors or plain. This bag

One pouch bag which may

is quite durable and, although it comes
from Morocco, it is not too expensive.
It is particularly good for supplying a
dash of color, coming in bright red,
green, navy blue and purple.

the hips, and has extended side parts
to serve as a stay for the elastics which
are run through to hold the corset
in place. This arrangement gives the
” although
the fabric is used only on the outside
of the thighs.
desired there are special tabs provided
which are very simply adjusted. This
corset is made of fine twill or brocaded

corset the effect of ‘“‘panties

To hold garters when

fabrics, and comes in flesh color only.

°
A lounging coat that is smart for

wear at country houses, especially over
a pair of handsome pajamas, or for
train or boat wear, is made of maize-
colored crepe with an all-over stitched
bird design.
rolls back, and is attached to the nar-
row flat belt in front. With this coat
is included a pair of mules with back

The collar is long and

straps and a large flat envelope bag
which both mules and coat are carried
in. The bag has further uses also, for
it has a rubber lined pocket just inside
the flap, which is made in sections to
hold toilet articles.

 

Abalina, Apenta,

and West Baden.

your order for same.

Soda Fountain Catalogue.

Grand Rapids

 

MINERAL WATERS

Apollinaris,
Carlsbad Sprudel, Franz Joseph, Hawthorne, Hunyadi Janos,
Hydrox, Londenberry Lithia, Manitou, Kissingin, Kolak, Mt.
Clemens Lithiated, Piperazine, Pluto, Poland Water, Red
Raven, Rubinat Condal, Veronica, Vichy Celestin, White Rock

Michigan’s summer resort customers demand certain brands.
We stock all the above kinds and would be pleased to fil
You will find them all priced in our
Send for one it is FREE.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Michigan

Bethesda, Buffalo Lithia.

Manistee

 

 

Cassia (ordinary). 25@ 30
Cassia (Saigon) -. 50@ 60
Sassafras (pw. 60c) @ 50
— Cut (powd.)

5

ee 20@ 30
Berries

Cubed 2. @ 90

Wish oo = 6@ 25

Jumper 20 11@ 20

Prickly Ash ...... @ 1765

Extracts

Ejcorige 0 60@ 65
Licorice, powd. _. 60@ 70
Flowers
AICH 2 1 50@1 60
Chamomile Ged.) @ 650
Chamomile Rom. @ 175
Gums
Acacia, Ist _. 50@ 55
Acacia, 2nd __.. 45@ 50
Acacia, Sorts _._. 20@ 25

Acacia, Powdered 35@ 40
Aloes (Barb Pow) 25@ 35
Aloes (Cape Pow) 25@ 35
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 75@ 80

Asafoetida  -_____ 50@ 60

Pow. .. 90 @i 00
Camphor 90@ 95
Gusiae @ 60
Guaiac, pow'd __ @ 70
Rio @1 25
Kino, powdered__ @1 20
Miycrh 22 @1 15

Myrrh, powdered @1 25
Opium, powd. 19 65@19 92
Opium, gran. 19 65@19 92

Shellae ....... 65@ 80
SNGHAG 2 75@ 90
Tragacanth, pow. @1 75
Tragacanth ___. 2 00@2 35
Turpentine ______ @ 30
Insecticides
Arsenic _..... 08@ 20

Blue Vitriol, bbl. @ 08
Blue Vitriol, less 09%@17
Bordea. Mix Dry 12@ 26
Hellebore, White
powdered — ..__ 15@ 25
Insect Powder. 47%@ 60
Lead Arsenate Po. 1344,@30

Lime and Sulphur
Dey O8S@ 22

Paris Green __.. 24@ 42

Leaves

Buchu ... @1 06

Buchu, powdered @1 10

Sage, Bulk ______ 25@ 30

Sage, % loose __ @ 40

Sage, powdered... @ 35
Senna, Alex. -... 50@ 75
Senna, Tinn. pow. 30@ 35
Uva Ursi ____.... 20@ 25

Oils

Almonds, Bitter,

(ue oo 7 50@7 75
Almonds, Bitter,

artificial __._. 3 00@3 25
Almonds, Sweet,

tre 22 1 50@1 80
Almonds, Sweet,

{mitation  -__.

1
Amber, crude -_ 1 00@1 25
Amber, rectified 1 50@1 75
AMES ooo 1 25@1 50
Bergamont  -_-- 8 00@8 25
Cajeput ____.___ 2 00@2 25
Gaamia 22 4 00@4 25
Castor ... 5... 1 55@1 80
Cedar Leaf ---. 2 00@2 25
Citronella —-... 75@1 00
Cloves _...____.. 4 00@4 25
Cocoanut —_--~- 27%@ 35
Cod Liver —----- 1 50@2 00
Croton -..._.-.. 2 00@2 25

Rosemary Flows 1 25@1 50
Sandelwood, E.

) 1 SS 10 50@10 75
Sassafras, true 1 75@2 00
Sassafras, arti'l 75@1 00

Spearmint a T 00@7 25
Sperm 1 560@1 75
Sanyo. 7 00@7 25
Tar USP ____ 65@ 76
Turpentine, bbl. __. @58%

Turpentine, less_. 66@ 79
Wintergreen,

teat (22 6 00@6 25
Winter, green, ~—

Hirech = 3 00@3 25
Wintergreen, art 75@1 00
Worm Seed __._ 3 50@3 75

Wormwood —-. 20 00@20 25

Potassium
Bicarbonate ___. 35@ 40
Bichromate _.___ 15@ 26
Bromide 9. 69@ 85
Bromide 54@ 71

Chlorate, gran'd. 23@ 30
Chlorate, powd.

Or Mtal 2. 16@ 25
Cyanide oo 30@ 90
Wog@itte (22 4 36@4 60
Permanganate __ 22%@ 35
Prussiate, yellow 35@ 45
Prussiate, red __ @ 70
Suipoate = as@ 40

Roots
AlGamNet 30@ 35
Blood, powdered. 40@ 45
Cabinus: 2s 35@ 85
Elecampane, pwd. 25@ 30
Gentian, powd. ~ 20@ 30
Ginger, African,

powdered -.._.. 30@ $35

Ginger, Jamaica. 60@ 65
Ginger, Jamaica,
powdered _____ 45 60
Goldenseal, pow. 7 50@8 00
Ipecac, powd. _. 4 50@5 00
Eeorice 2. 35@ 40
Licorice, powd._. 20@ 30
Orris, powdered. 45@ 650
Poke, powdered__ 35@ 40
Rhubarb, powd --. @1 00
Rosinwood, powd. @ 650
Sarsaparilla, Hond.

ground _______ @1 10
Sarsaparilla, Mexic. @ 60
Seuills, 8. 85@ 40

Squills, powdered 70@ 80
Tumeric, powd... 20@ 25

Valerian, powd.__ @1 00
Seeds
Anise 2.2.8. 35
Anise, powdered 35@ 40
Bird, le 2 13@ 17
Canary _..... 10@ 16
Caraway, Po. 30 25@ 30
Cardamon ___.__ 2 50@3 00
Coriander pow. .40 30@ 25
Dy 15@ 20
Kennel... | 85@ 560
Niaw 2 7@ 16

Flax, ground -. 7@ 16
Foenugreek, pwd. 15@ 25
Hemp oo 8@
Lobelia, powd. —- 2 60
Mustard, yellow 17
Mustard, black_. 20@ 25

Poppy .....___..... 15@ 30
Quince ......._ 1 00@1 25
Sabadilla ....___ 45@ 50

Sunflower -..... 12@ 18
Worm, American 30@ 40
Worm, Levant — 6 50@7 00

Tinctures
Aconite ....... oe @1 80
Aloes —.... @1 56
Arnica... @1 50
Acafoetida  --.._- @3 28

Lead, white oil. 13% @14%
Ochre, yellow Dbl. @ 2%
Ochre, yellow less 3@ 6

Red Venet’n Am. 3%@ 7
Red Venet’n Eng. 4@ 8
Putty 22 5@ 8
Whiting, bbl ___ @ 4%
Mar ies Se 5%@10
E. EF. Prep... 2 55@2 70
igus Prep. _. 2 55@2 70
Miscellaneous

Acetanalid _____ 57@ 75
alum oo Oo@ 12
\lum. powd and

epound 09@ 15
Bismuth, Subni-

Wate 2 25@2 52
Borax xtal or

powdered __.. 05@ 13

Cantharides, po. 1 50@2 00

Calomel _ 2 72@2 82
Capsicum, pow’d 62@ 75
Carmine — 7 50@8 or
-assia Buds ___. 30q@ 38
Cieves 40@ 56

chalk Prepared_ 14@ 1b
Chiorotorm ____ 53@ 66
Chlioral Hydrate 1 20@1 50

Cocaine 12 85@i3 5u
Cocoa Butter ___ 60@ 90
Corks, list, less 30-10 to
40-10%
Copperas 03@ 10
CUpperas, Powd. 4@ 10
Corrosive Sublm 2 502 30
Cream ‘Tartar __ 35@ 45
Cuttle bene ___ “aa 5u
Dextring 15

Dover's Powder 4 owen 50
Kmery, All Nos. 10@ 3
kkmery, Powdered

Epsom Salts, bbls. 03%
ijpsom Salts, less 3%@ lv
Ergot, powdered __ @4 00
Flake, White __ 15@ 20
Formaldehyde, 1b. le
Gelatine 80@ gu
Glassware, less 55%
Glassware, full case 60%.
Glauber Salts, bbl. os
Glauber Salts less 04@
Glue, Brown __.. 20@ 30
Glue, Brown Grd 16@ 22

Glue, White -_._ 27%@ 36
Glue, white grd. 25@ 35
Glycerine .. a
Hops ee 756@

oding .. 6 45@7 00
Tledoform __..__ 8 00@8 30
wzead Acetate __ 20@ 30
aaeeq, @1 50
face, powdered_ @1 60
Menthol ______ 8 00@9 00
Morphine __.. 12 83@13 98
Nux Vomica ____ 30

Nux Vomica, pow. 15@ 25
Pepper, black, pow 57@ 70
Pepper, White, pw. 75@ 85
Pitch, Burgudry. 20@ 25

Quassia ee 12@ 15
Quinine, 5 oz. cans @ yr
Rochelle Salts _. 28@
Sacharine  ...... 3 sg ats
Salt Peter _...__ 1 22
Seldlitz Mixture we 40
Soap, green ... 15@ 30
Soap mott cast _ @ 25
Soap, white Castile,

Gane 2. 00

Soap, white Castile
less, per bar —. — 60

Soda Ash ____.__ 10
Soda Bicarbonate 3% 10
Seda, Sal _ 02%@ 08
Spirits Camphor @1 20
Sulphur, roll _... 3%@ _ 10
Sulphur, Subl. .. 4%@ 10
Tamarinds -..... 20@ 25

Tartar Emetiec .. Ke 15
Turpentine, Ven. 60@ 1765
Vanilla Ex. pure 1 60@2 00
Vanilla Ex. pure 2 256@2 50
Zinc Sulphate _. #60 wl

 

28

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

July 10, 1929

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

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

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

Prices, however, are

liable to change at any time, and merchants will have their orders filled at mar-
ket prices at date of purchase. For price changes compare with previous issues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ADVANCED DECLINED
Wisconsin Cheese
Beef
Lamb
Pork
AMMONIA BREAKFAST FOODS CANNED FISH
Quaker, 24-12 oz. case 2 50 Kellogg’s Brands. Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1 35
Quaker, 12-32 oz. case 2 25 Corn Fiakes, No. 136 285 Clam Ch., No. 2 _.__ 2 75
Bo Peep, 24, sm. case 270 Corn Flakes, No. 124 2 85 Clams, Steamed, No. 1 2 00
Bo Peep 12 Ige. case 2 25 Corn Flakes. No. 102 200 LCiams, Minced, No. % 2 25
rep, No. 24 . 270 Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 36
Moy Ne yey : y “© Clam Bouillon, 7 oz._ 2 6@
Kkrumbles, No. 424 -_._. 2 70 Chicken Haddie, No. 1 3 76
_.Bran Flakes, No. 624 2 45 Fish Wakes emall 1 2h
Bran Flakes, No. 602 150 Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 55
Rice Ixrispies, 6 oz. -_ 2 70 Cove Oysters, 5 oz. _ 175
rice Krispies, 1 oz. ,_ 150 Lobster, No. \%, Star 2 96
Kaffe Hag, 12 1-lb. Shrimp, 1, wet 33
cans 730 ©Sard’s, % Ol, Key _. 6 10
All Bran: 16 oz. ____ 225  Sard’s, % Oil, Key __ 5 75
All Bran, 10 oz. -_____ 270 Sardines. % Oil, k’less 5 25
All Bran, % oz. -_-- 200 Salmon, Red Alaska 3 25
Salmon, Med. Alaska 2 40
Post Brands. Salmon, Pink Alaska 2 25
Grape-Nuts, 24s ______ 3 80 Sardines, Im. %, ea. 10@28
Grape-Nuts, 100s ._-_..275 Sardines, Im., %, ea. 25
Instant Postum, No. 8 5 40 Sardines, Cal. __ 1 35@2 25
Instant Postum, No. 10 4 50 Tuna, %, Curtis , doz. 4 00
Postum Cereal, No. 0 225 Tuna, \s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
-- Post Toasties. 368 -. 285 Tuna, % Blue Fin __ 2 25
48, 1 Ib, -------------- * $2 Post Toasties, 248 __ 285 Tuma, is, Curtis, doz. 7 00
24, 3 tb. —__---—---- , Post’s Bran, 24s -.-- 2 70 '
10 Ib. pails, per doz. 940 pilig Bran, 128 -_----- 1 90
a6 ib. pails, per Gos 126° oman Meal, 122 ib. = S6
25 lb. an per _ be - Cream Wheat, 18 _.__ 3 90 CANNED MEAT
> 1b. pats, Der ape. Cream Barley, 18 ---. 340 Bacon, Med. Beechnut 2 70
Ralston Food, 18 ---- 400 Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 4 50
APPLE BUTTER Maple Flakes, 24 -... 2 50 Beef, No 1, Corned __ 3 10
: 9 9, Rainbow Corn Fla., 36 250 Beef, No. 1, Roast ____ 3 10
Quaker, 24-12 oz., doz. 2 z silver Flake Oats, 18s 1 40 Beef, No. 2%, Qua., sli 1 65
Quaker, 12-38 oz., doz. 3 35 Silver Fiake Oats, 128 225 Beef. 342 oz. Qua. sli. 2 15
90 lb. Jute Bulk Oats, Beef, 5 oz., Am Sliced 2 90
be 285 Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. 4 50
BAKING POWDERS Raiston New Oata, 24 270 Beefsteak & Onions, s 3 70
Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 35 Ralston New Oata, 12 270 Chili Con Ca, 1s _. 1 35
Queen Flake, 16 0z., dz 2 25 Shred. Wheat Bis., 36s 3 85 Deviled Ham, %s ___ 2 20
~ nate ane _. 95 Shred. Wheat Bis., 728 155 Deviled Ham, %s ___ 3 60
f i me : gaa a7 TiRCUG fin 170 Hamburg Steak &
ere i. a bee 4 Whenteee. Te 3 70 Onions, No, 1 ___-__ 3 15
eee ee Toe Potted Beef, 4 ae
Royal, 5 ib. ----- a > BROOMS Potted Meat 4 Libby. 52
Calumet. 4 0z., doz. 195 Jewell, doz. -----—--_- 28 Potted Meat, % Libby 92
Calumet, 8 02. ing 395 Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 8 25 potted Meat, % Qua. 90
Calumet, 16 ae . a ces 12 10 Fancy Parlor, 23 lb... 9 35 Potted Ham Gen yy i 1 45
Calumet, ; = aoe 18 60 Ex. Fancy Parlor 25 lb. 9 75 Vienna Saus. No. iy l 46
aut, loc, per doz. 95 EX. Fey. Parlor 26 Ib. 10 00 Vienna Sausage, Qua. 95
a Si. ont le ee : Veai Loaf, Medium __ 2 26
Rumford, 12 as Oe td ee
Rumford, 5 Ib.. doz.
er a Baked Beans
Solid Back, $ in. -.-. Campbelis .... 0 1 15
K. C. Brand solid Back, 1 im. ----116 Quaker, 18 oz. _-_-_._ 1 05
Per o 7 Pointed Ends -____- — &% Kremont, No. ¢ | 1.20
10c size, 4 doz. —--_- prider, No. 1 i200 l ie
15¢ size, 4 doz. ------ 5 50 Stove wider, No. 2 1 25
20c size, 4 doz. ------ 720 Shaker __--- —— 180 Van Camp, small ____ 90
25e size. 4 doz. ------ a ae... 200 Van Camp, med. ____ 1 15
50c size, 2 doz. —----- BSD Pepa 2 60
B0c size, 1 doz. ------ 6 85
10 Ib. size, % doz. -_-- 6 75 Shoe
Ne 4d 225 CANNED VEGETABLES.
BLUING Ne 00 3 00 Asparagus.
No. 1, Green tips _. 3 75
JENNINGS BUTTER COLOR No. 2%, Large Green 4 50
Dandelion __--------_ 3 85 w. Beans, cut 2 1 65@2 25
a. VV
The Original CANDLES See eee
Conteneed Electric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1 Green Beans, 10s __ @8
once Pheer, - nM —.. ven L. Beans, 2 gr. 1 36Q3
: Paraffine, 68 -------- Lima Beans, 2 * Soaked 1
2. 4 oe ; = ra : : Paraffine, 128 -.-.---- Me Red Kid. No. 2 12
a p> OZ., [oe Wicking _......--._ 40 Beets, No. 2, a 1 i6@2

 

Am. Ball,36-1 oz., cart. 1 00

Quaker, 1% oz.. Non-
freeze, dozen 8

Boy Blue. 36s. per cs. 2 70

BEANS and PEAS

100 lb. bag
Brown Swedish Beans 9 00
Pinto Geans —__-_- 9 25

Red Kidney Beans -- 9 75
White Hand P. Beans - 00
Col. Lima Beans ——_ Ou
Biack Eye Beans -- 16 00
Split Peas, Yellow __ 8 00
Split Peas, Green -- 9 00
Scotch Peas --------- 7 50

BURNERS
—. _— No. 1 and

2,
White. ‘wie No.

nat 2 foe. 2... — 2 25
BOTTLE CAPS
Dbl. Lacquor, 1 gross

pkg., per gross -._-_-_ 15

Tudor, 6s, per box —. 30

CANNED FRUIT
Apples, Ne. 19... 5

Apple Sauce, No. 10 7 5f
Apricots, No. 2% 3 40@3 90
Apricots, No. 10 8 50@11 50
Blackberries, No. 19 7 50
Blueberries, No. 10 __ 15 00
Cherries, No. .. ——— oe
Cherries, R.A., No. 2% 4 30
Cherries, No 10 ——- 1000
Peaches, No. 10 Pie 7 20
Peaches, No. 2% Mich . 20
Peaches, 2% Cal. —--. 2 90
Peaches, 10, Cal... 19 20
Pineapple, 1 i ee 1 45
Pineapple, 2 sli. ~--. 2 65
P’appie, 2 br. sli —... 2 25
P’apple, 2 br. sii. .... 2 40
E’apple, 2%, sli. ____. 3 20
Fappie, 2 cru 2. 2 65
Pineapple, 10 crushed 12 0U
Pears, No. a ee
Fears, io, 2% —..... 3 75
Raspberries, No. 2 bik 3 25
taspb’s. Red. No. 10 11 50
Raspb’s Black,

pe. 18 15 00
Rhubarb, No. 10 ----- 4 75
Strawberries, No. 2 __ 3 25
Strawb’s, No. 10 -_-_ 11 00

0
66
25
5
40
Beets, No. 2, cut 1 45@2 35
Corn, No, 2, stan. .. 4 16
Corn, Ex. stan. No. 2 1 40
Corn, No, 2, Fan. 1 80@2 36
Corn, No. 10 __ 8 00@10 76
Hominy, No. 3 oe 1 10
Okra, No. 2, whole _. 2 15
Okra, No, 2, cut _... 1 76
Mushrooms, Hotels 32
Mushrooms, Choice, 8 oz. 35
Mushrooms, —. Extra
Peas, No. 2. a 2
Peas, No. 32, Fait
ea nih OO

Peas, Ex. Fine, French 26
Pumpkin, No. 3 1 60@1 75
Pumpkin, — 10 5 00g 50
Pimentos, \%, each oe
Pimentoes, %, each _.

Sw't Potatoes. No. 2
Sauerkraut, No.3 1

Succotash. No. 2, glass 2 80
Spinach, No. 1 ____ — 1 26
Spnach, No. 2_. 1 60@1 90

Spinach, No. 3_. 2 26@2 60 ©

Spinach, No. 10_ 6 50@7 00

Tomatoes, No. 2 __.... 1 60
Tomatoes, No. 3 _... 2 25
Tomatoes, No. 10 --.. 7 80

Bar Goods
Mich. Sugar Ca., 24, 5c 16
Pal O Mine, 24, Sc -... 76
Malty Milkies, 24, be .. 75
Lemon Rolls 75

Trn Lav, 24, 6c .._..... io
No-Nat, 24. sc 76
CATSUP.,
Beech-Nut, small -__. 1 65

Lily of Valley, 14 oz... 2 25
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 65

Shidgers, 6 Ox. 1 65
Sniders, 16 oz. —.._-- 2 35
Quaker, 8 of. _.._..__ 1 30
Quaker, 10 oz. ..__.__ 1 45
Quaker, 14 oz. ____.__ 1 90
Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 50

Quaker. Gallon Tin __ 8 50

CHILI SAUCE
Snider, 16 oz. .......- 3 30
Snider, 8 oz. __-.... ea

Lilly Valley, 8 oz. .. 3 25
Lilly Valley. 14 ox. .. 3 36

OYSTER COCKTAIL.
Sniders, 16 oz. __-..... 3
Sniders, 8 os.

rs

CHEESE.
Boumerort: 45
Kraft, small items 1 65
Kraft, American 1 65
Chili, small ting _. 1 66
Pimento, small tins ; =

Roquefort, sm. tins
Camembert. sm. tins 2 26

Wisconsin Daisy —~_____ 25
Wisconsin Flat __...._ 25
New York June -_____ 34
BaD Sabo oo 42
re 35

CHEWING GUM.

Adams Black Jack -.-- 65
Adams Bloodberry ---- 66
Adams Dentyne __------ 66
Adams Calif. Fruit —-- -

Beechnut Wintergreen_
Beechnut Peppermint -
Beechnut Spearmint -._
Doublemint -.-...-.-... 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys __ 65
Spearmint, Wregileys _. 65
saley Frat __......_.__ 65
Wrigley’s P-K
Zeno

 

Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib.__ 8 60
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2 %6
Droste’s Dutch, 5 lb. 60

Chocolate Apples __.. 4 50
Pastelles, No. 1 _.-12 60
Pastelles, % Ib. ..-_-- 6 60
Pains De Cafe ____- 3 00
Droste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2 00
Delft Pastelles __..__ 2 15
1 Ib. oo Tin Bon

SES ue 3s 00
7 oz. “Rose Tin Bon ‘

9
13 sn ‘on De Cara-
2 i3 20
12 oz. Rosaces
% lb. Rosaces
\¥% Ib. Pastelles __--~- 3 40
Langues De Chats ._. 4 80

CHOCOLATE.
Baker, Caracas, a aT
Baker, Caracas, {s __.. 35

CLOTHES LINE.
Hemp, 560 ft. _.__ 2 00@2 25

ew Cotton,
ooo 50@4 00

healed. oe. J 5

Sash Cord ___. 3 50@4 00

COFFEE ROASTED
Worden Grocer Co.
1 ib. Package

Molroge ... 36
Leper 26

Peer 42
Pew oe 40
Morton House __-_----_- 49
i SSE aa eln igen 37
Royal Clu .........----- 32

“cvaughlin’s Kept-Fresh

Os,

by M ‘Laugh

 

Nat. Gro. Co. Brands
Lighthouse, 1 lb. tins_- 49
Pathfinder, 1 Ib. tins. 45
Table Talk, 1 lb. cart. 43
Square Deal, 1 lb. car. 39%
Above brands are packed
in both 30 and 50 lb. cases.

Coffee Extracts
M. Y., per 100 ------

Frank's 50 pkgs. -. 4 26
Hummel’s 50 1-lb. 10%

CONDENSED _—,
Leader, 4 doz.
Tagle, 4 doz.

MILK COMPOUND

Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. _. 4 50
Hebe. Baby. 8 do. -. 4 40
Carolene, Tall, 4 dos.3 80
Carolene, Baby ----.-- 3 50

EVAPORATED MILK
Quaker, Tall, 4 doz._. 4 50
Quaker, Baby. 8 doz. 4 40
Quaker, Gallon, % doz. 4
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 4
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 4
Oatman’s Dundee, Tall 4 70
Oatman’'s D’dee, Baby 4
Every Day, Tall —___. 4

Every Day, Baby ---- 4 70
Pet, fa oo 4 70,
Pet. Baby. 3 oz. 4 60
Borgen s Tal 2. 4 70
Borden’s Baby ----_--- 4 60

CIGARS

G. J. Johnson's Brand
G. J. Johnson Cigar,

ie 75 00
Worden Grocer Co. ~~
Airedale 3
Havana Sweets
Hemeter Champion -. 37 50
Canadian Club --.---- 35 00
Robe Emmett —----- 75 00
Tom Moore Monarch 175 00
Webster Cadillac ___._ 75 00
Webster Astor Foil_. 75 00
Webster Knickbocker 95 00
Webster Albany Foil 95 00
Bering Apollos .... 95 06
Bering Palmitas _. 118 96
Bering Diplomatica 115 00

Bering Delioses ___. 120 00
Bering Favorita _... 136 00
Bering Albas -_--.- 150 60
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Siemderd 2 16

Pure Sugar Sticks 6008 4 00

Big Stick, 20 lb. case 18
Mixed Candy
Kindergarten  ---------- 17
tengo 13
x~ &% 0. 12
French Creams <=... 15
Faris Creams -—.--.-... 16
Grocers... 11

Fancy Chocolates
5 Ib. Boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 76
Choc Marshmallow Dp 1 60
Milk Chocolate A A - -
Nibble Sticks -_-----
Chocolate Nut Rolls - 4 8
Magnolia Choc ----- _ 1 26

Bon Ton Choc. ------- 1 50
Gum Drops Pails
Anigea 2... 16
Champion Gums ------- 16
Challenge Gums ---.- —_
Superior, Boxes __..--.. 23
Lozenges Pails
A. A. Pep. Lozenges 15
A. A. Pink Lozenges .

A. A. Choc. Lozenges 1
Motto Hearts ------.- is
Malted Milk Lozenges 2

Hard Goods Pails
Lemon Drops --_.-----. i8
O. F, Horehound dps. .. 18
Anise Squares -.---..- 13
Peanut Squares -_--..-- 17
Horehound Tablets __-. 18

Cough Drops Bxs
Puimamese _..... 1 35
Smith Bros. _.._.__..- 1 60

Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows
4 oz. pkg., 12s, cart. 85

4 oz. pkg., 488, case 3 40
Speciaities
Pineapple Fudge ------ 19
Italian Bon Bons -_-.-. 17

Banquet Cream Mints. 25
Silver King M.Mallows 1 15
Handy Packages, 12-10c sv

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade 3 60
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ORIED FRUITS
Applies
N Y. Fcy., 50 lb. box 15%
N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16
Apricots
Ivaporated, Choice ____ 2%

Evaporated, Fancy -_._ 29
Evaporated, Rinoe .... if

Itron
i bon 40
Currants
Jackages, 14 oz. ______ 20
Greek, Bulk, It. —_.___ 20
Dates
Dromedary, 36s ______ 6 75
Peaches

ee one

Peel
Lemon, American _____ 30-
Orange, American _____ 30
: Raisins
Seeded, bulk

09
T hompson’s s’dles blk 071%
bone seediess,
OM. bape eee 1
seeded, 15 oz, ="
California Prunes
60@70, 25 lb. boxes__@10
50@60, 25 lb. boxes_. @11
40@50, boxes__@12
30@40, 25 lb. boxes__@13
20@30, 25 lb. boxes__@16
18@24, 25 lb. boxes__@18

Hominy
100 Ib. sacks — 8 56

Macaroni
Mueller’s Brands
9 uz. package, per doz. 1 40
¥ u2. package, per case 2 60

Bulk Goede
Elbow, 20 tb, 07
Egg Noodle, 10 lbs. __ 14

Pearl Barley
Chester 4 25
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Barley Grits -......_.. § @

Pearl,

8
ing =. 18

Tapioca
Pearl, 100 Ib. sacks .. 09
Minute, 8 0oOz., 8 doz. 4 va
Dromedary Instant  . 3 60

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FLAVORING
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Vanilla and
Lemon
Same Price
+ oz. ..125
1% oz. _. 1 80
2% oz. __ 3 0
3% oz. __ 4 20
2° OS. 2. 2 75
4 oz. _. 5 00
8 oz. _. 9 OU
16 oz. __ 15 00
3% of
Amersealed
At It 56 Years.
Jiffy Punch
3 doz. Carton ________ 2 25
Assorted flavors.
FLOUR
Vv. C. Milling Co. Brands
lily White D
Harvest Queen ______ 7 50
Yes Ma’am Graham,
68 ee 2 20

FRUIT CANS
F. O. B. Grand Rapids

Maeon

Halt pint ——n_ 7 o
One pimt 8 J. 116
One quart Ud 6 Ue
Half gallon ________ 13 16

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GELATINE 1SO-VIS MOTOR OILS Sausages SALT ove Large _. ‘ e TEA
Jell- 3 es peedee, oe Japan
- O, 3 doz ---- 2 85 In iron Barrels Bologna -._.___.-_____ 18 Colonial, %4, 2 Ib. —— %% sunbrite, 50s _____ 16 Metin.
A nute, 3 doz. -_----_- oe te... 17.1 Liver ---------------- 18 Colonial, 36-1% -—--- 125 Wyandotte. 48 __--—- 475 Choice a “<n
ymouth, White ---_ 155 Medium ___----------- 77.1 Frankfort ---------- = Colonial, Iodized, 24-2 200 yw Soe Bites 1@s2
Quaker, 3 doz. ________ 2 25 Heavy 77.1 Pork 31 Med. No. 1 Bblis 2 85 Wyandot Deterg’s, 24s 2 75 No. t Nibp oe 52@61
Ex. Heavy ~.2WW--. 71.1 Veal -------.---------- 19 = Med. No. 1, 100 Ib. bk. 95 SPICES it ue sa 4
JELLY AND PRESERVES Tongue, Jellied -.---- 35 Farmer Spec., 70 lb. 95 Whole Spices oo
Pure, 30 Ib. pails __--3 40 e Headcheese --------~- 18 Packers Meat, 50 lb. 57 anspice, Jamaica a an
Imitation, 30 Ib. pails 1 75 larine Crushed Rock for ice Chive camer  @6 mac 40
Pure, 6 oz., Asst, doz. 90 cream, 100 lb., each 85 Cassia, Canton —-_____ @22 a oo. at
Pure Pres., 16 oz., dz 2 40 Smoked Meats Butter Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 4 24 Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. @40 pe, Lay
Gi ekoe, medium ___ b7
von E Hams, Cer. 14-16 lb. @30 Block, 50 Ib. -------- 40 Ginger, African ._-.__ @19 —
JELLY GLASSES Iron Barrels Nome Gat. Beis Baker Salt, 280 Ib. bbl. 4.10 Ginger, Cochin ______ O25 English Breakfast
6 oz., per doz. _______ 36 Light —_-----  . 65.1 ish ess 24, 10 Ib., per bale __-. 2 45 Mace, Penang ________ 139 Congou, Medium 28
Medium: 65.1 Ham, dried beef ; 35, 4 lb., per bale ____ 3 6@ Mixed, No. 1 ________ @32 Congou, Choice ____ 35636
OLEOMAKGARINE aoe Ot Bete @46 50, 3 lb., per bale _.__. 2 85 Mixed. 5c pkgs., doz. @45 Congou, Fancy ____ a
Van Westanbrugge Brands Special heavy ---.---- 65.1 California Hama -. @17% 28 Ib. bags, Table -. 42 Nutmegs, 70@90 —____ @59 oui
Extra heavy ---------- 65.1 Picnic Boiled Old Hickcory, Smoked, ve oe 16 OF weg, 2
eee 65.1 Hams —-.------ 20 9% (on... 4 50 ila oo oa ~ 2
Sane Se oon ams ------ @44 ure Ground in Bulk Bancy 0
Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 150 Minced Hams __ __ oe ee ee ee 50
Finol, 8 oz. cans, doz. 2 30 Bacon 4/6 Cert. __ 24 @34 cians Jamaica ___ @35 TWINE
Parowax, 100 Ib 8.3 ce Zanzibar __.. @46 Cotto 3
Parowax, 40, 1 lb. _- 8.55 Cassia. Canton _____ @23 Cotton 3 a - s
Parowax, 20, 1 Ib. __ 8.8 A abel eae o- Wa tne
ote toe Beet ustard 22 @32 ' Yo
B Mace. Penang ______ 1 39 VINEGAR
Boneless. sump 28 gpg Renper, Biack ~~ 89 Cider, 40. Grain a
Nutmegs (0 @59 rite Wine, 80 grail 2:
Nucoa. 2 and 8 tb. = 20% Li Pepper, White | __ @s0 White Wine. 40 pole i
i i oo iver Pepper, Cayenne ____ @37 WICKING
Wilson & Co.’s Brands Calf Ce a Paprika, Spanish -.-. @45 No. 0. per gross 80
Oleo as. 10 Seasoning Ne 1, per gross ____ 1 26
Cartifed 0 24 Chill Powder, 15c ____ 1 35 Phe 2. per gross ____ 1 50
oo. 18 | Celery Salt, 3 02. 95 Peppy hor BTOSS ---. 2 30
Special Roll ___------- 19 RICE Sage, 2 oz erless Rolls, per doz. 90
~ Oni os 90 Rochester, No. 2, 4 50
eees ——— Rover Blue Rose ____ 05% an ; - Rochester. No. 3, doz. 2 00
AAG ieee eee i eer a : " oe
Swan, 144 4 20 oe re " Ponelty, 3% oz. 335 "°%% Per doz. -____. 15
Slug. it; mck gb oe 4Semdac, 12 pt. cans 3 0 a ne Eitchen Bouquet _. 4e WOONPENWARE
Searchlight, 144 box-_ 5 00 Semdac, 12 qt. cans 5 00 Fi ke ([ie@ 2 aves 20 Baskets
Mhio Red Label, 144 bx 4 20 ladteea’ 94 7. ae 2 40 aoe Tr ao oe < Bushels, narrow band
Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box 4 7 RUSKS ws oe Th : oo wire handles in
. 720-1c 4 00 PICKLES ye fom & Huck 2. ic
ooo As pe Putian Toe Husk Co. BORAX Tumeric, 2% of --_- 90 wood handles” 1 80
*Reliable, 144 ~------- 3 50 rand. Masket dtcan baa
*Federal, 144 ___----- 450 © gallon, 400 count -- 4 76 36 rolls, per case ___ 4 25 Twenty Mule Team STARCH Wotket Gate kauee 90
*1 Free with Ten. Sweet Small ‘2 rolls, per case _._.225 24, 1 lb. packages -- 3 25 Corn Market, extra _______ 1 66
12 short per cas6 _._._.150 48, 10 oz. packages -__ 4 35 Kingsfurd, 40 Ibs. _... 11% Splint, large _________ 8 50
Safety Matches 16 Gallon, 2250 _----- 24 60}, Cartons, per case __170 96. % Ib. packages _. 4 00 Powdered, bags ____ 450 ‘Splint, medium ______ 7 50
Quaker, 5 gro. case_-- 4 25 B Galion, 150 9 75 36 ne per case __ 2 55 Seo. 48, 1 Ib. pkgs. 3 60 SPlint, small _________ 6 50
NUTs—Whole Dill Pickles ee oe ins Gucke: pd Pein oe Barrel, 5 oT a 2 40
Almonds, Tarragona__ 25 oe s to Tit doz. i @ SALERATUS oe ae eee Gina: foe 10 gal., each... 2 55
<a e 2 No. Tins —.. Arm w» m. Family, Ox o 6 gal., per gal. ‘18
a 98 32 oz. Glass Picked. 2 75 nd Hammer 876 Crystal White, 100 _. 420 Argo, 48, 1 Ib. pkgs. 8 60 eat
Filberts, Sicily ------ 22 32 oz. Glass Thrown 2 30 Bie Jack, 605 _...____ 475 Argo, 12, 3 lb. pkgs. 262 49 at Gain, ails
Peanuts, Vir. Roasted 11% Dill Pickles Bulk SAL SODA Finke White, 10 box 420 Sliver Glas 4d is iy 2 at. Galvanized —_ 915
nuts, Jumbo, std. 14 5 Wal, 200 22) 15 ix : 3 2 , 48 Is __ : i oe
Boom a stay. 2 16 Gat, 600). 925 Granulated, 60 Ibs. cs 1 35 vo ae as oe = : 85 onal ag pkgs. _._. 5 85 2 ae Woe oa ‘¢
Pecans, Jumbo ------ 40 45 Gal, 1200 —.- 19 50 Granulated, 18-214 Jb. ’ p aoe <7 wee d Sh eee 14 ta tne ‘;
Pecans, Mammoth -- 50 packages, | 1 20 cade ois Geir ee 10 c ger, 50 Ibs. --_____. 06 Tra ilies ’
Walnuts, Cal. _--- 30@385 ee ee “ alm , 3 ps
SYRUP Mouse. Wood, 4 holes. 60
ee 07 Lava, 100 bo __-.---- 4 90 M dey —
Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20 CoD FISH Octagon, 1% -_--.... 5 @— : Corn a bea f — .
Salted Peanuts : Pummo, 100 box -.-. 4 85 a ae No. 1% 277 Rat, wood 2 ~ >
Fancy, No. 1 ---------- 14 PLAYING CARDS MG GIG ee 20 Sweetheart, 100 box _5 70 Bue hace we ar dz. : 91 Rat, Spring 1 00
Shelled Battle Axe, per doz. 2 65 =e %% Ib. Pure "i 19% Grandpa Tar, 50 sm. 310 Red Karo, No. 1% _. 3 05 a ”
ne 20 een oS oe — : = ‘oe ‘Somme - Grandpa Tar, 50 Ige. 3 50 oh aa No. 5, 1 dz. 4 2 tae. ea as
Peanuts, Spanish, H Whole Cod - ay no Quaker Hardwater ved Bera. No. 10  4@ wwediam Galvanized __ 7 a
125 )b. bags ------- 12», ; POTAS ee % Cocoa, 72s, box __-. 2 85 Imit. Maple Flavor Smatl Galvanized _.__ 6 75
Filberts -—----------- 32 Babbitt’s. 2 dos. --__ 2 Fairbank Tar, 100 bx 4 00 Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz, 3 50 Washboards
Pecans Salted —------- 80 HERRING Trilby Soap, 100, 10¢c 725 Orange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4.99 Banner, Globe .____ — & 50
Walnuts Manchurian --55 FRESH MEATS Holland Herring Williams Barber Bar, 9s 60 pe Sasi single 6 25
MINCE MEAT Beef Mixed, Kegs -_---.-._ 119 Williams Mug, per dos. 48 | Maple and Cane hohe Maa 3 50
: Mix SANnuUCK, per gal. _..._ I o : an nein
None Such, 4 doz. --- 6 42 Top Steers & Heif. oe wre half bbls... § 76 CLEANSERS Hanah & wal can 6 ae Single Peerless ______ 7 60
Quaker, 3 doz. case -- 360 Good St’rs & = 15% = Mised, bbls. 20 16 50 - ey Queen _____ 5B 50
: Med. Steers & Heif. -- 21 Milkers, Kegs 12 Maple PUIVGrSas - 7 25
Libby, Kegs, wet, Ib. 22 © aicaca & ¥halt, 16: : eo 20 P
by og Com. Steers & Heif. 16@20 Milkers, half bbls. __ 9 75 Michigan, per gal. _. 2 75 ne noe Bowls
OLIVES veut Milkers, bbls. ______ 18 50 Wellin ter mal = 996 toi, see ca
4 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 1 gs a ne 24 KKK K Norway __ 19 50 COOKING OIL 17 in. Butter ________ 18 00
. a hoes a an Coe 22 SD bale 1 40 Mazola 19 in. Butter 2 35 00
Pint ‘Jars, Plain, doz. 3 25 PEOCE an een - Gut Bunch 1 50 iis aly (¢ eo WRAPPING PAPER
art Jars, Plain, doz. 6 00 Boned. 10 Ib. boxes __ 15 Dee at ee ea 5 Fibre, Mani i 53,
Cu ac ae Pin. 2 10 Lamb oxes __ 15 Half Gallons, 1 doz. ~ 11 75 age cara white on
5 Gal. Kegs, each .--. 8 50 Sorne Lamb -.-_.-__ Gallons. % doz. 11 30 Butchers D no an
ois oe Lake Herring Yasue sauces STS sags oe
914 oz. Jar, Stuff., doz. 3 75 Poor ------------------ 20 % bbl., 100 Ibs. -.-___ 6 be Lea & Perrin, large... 6 00 voue oa 1
1 Gal. Jugs, Stuff., dz. 2 75 fe Perrin, small__ : = Magic, 3 doz. 2 70
Mutten eet er Sunlight, 3 doz. ____-
PARIS GREEN EE aioe Mackerel Royal Mint __------ 240° Sunlight, 1% doz =. 138
34 Medium —... 16 Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat 5 75 S : ne Yeast Foam, 3 doz. __ 3 70
* Sho You, 9 oz., doz, 225 yeast F
gn Poor ~------------------ 13 Pails. 10 Ib. Fancy fat 1 75 Aa ee east Foam, 1% dos. 1 35
And SPAM 3 15 YEAST—COMPRESSED
a Caper, 2 om 330 Fleischmann, per doz. 30
Maule i “Taser is _— 80 can cases, $4.80 per case
Medium hogs —------- Med. Fancy, 100 Ib. 13 00 ao
Heavy horg __-------- 16 : : Puan — oe
Loin, med. ------------ z WASHING POWDERS < "PEE Eo aL aS cee se
Butts ---.------------- “ oe : th 2 ee IAN STYLE SF i
. Bon Ami Pd, 18s, box 1 90 2 er Sema =
pop 0" na eae 19 SHOE BLACKENING ot ni Cake, 188 1 62%, <2 ABREU Pasa se RE anemone PL
b 15 ;
|: oS 06 5 aoe doz. -_ 135 Brillo 85 I
ee OE eee 6 . Z. Combination, dz. 136 Giimaline 4 ae ju
A hs aaa 1b Deicbect dee bee Ciimaline, 4 dos. TALIAN SPAGHETTI DINNER;
ul ; “SSI — a, 100, Se 2. 3 50
emegsaiions Bixbys, Doz. —_.--- ae coors Ee 8 te LOCAL PRIDE
= PROVISIONS Shinola, doz = 22. i 46 i
Barreled Pork " 2 hee nmeenencay Gold Dust, 100s __---- ATU OL Oe OT OO OM TE
Bel Car-Mo Brand Clear Back 25 00@28 00 Gold Dust, 12 Large 320 ©
ea fo Golden Rod, 24 ------ 425 Products of Van Buren Co.

24 1 lb. Tins ----------
2 do.
15 Ib. pails ~-----------
25 lb. pails ~.----------

8 oz., in case._

PETROLEUM PRODUCTS.
From Tank Wagon.
Red Crown Gasoline -- 11
Red Crown Ethyl ------ 14
Solite Gasoline -------- 14

In tron Barrels
Perfection Kerosine -- 13.6
Gas Machine Gasoline 37.1
v. M. & P. Naphtha 19.6

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

Lard

Pure in tierces ~----- 13
60 lb. tubs ---.advance
50 lb, tubs __--advance %
20 Ib. pails _.--advance %
10 lb. pails ..--advance

5 Ib. pails _.--advance 1

3 Ib. pails _---advance 1
Compound tierces ..-. 13
Compound, tubs ------ 13%

STOVE POLISH

Blackne, per doz. __.. 1 35
Black Silk Liquid, dz. 1 40
Black Silk Paste, doz. 1 25
Enameline Paste, doz. 1 36
Enameline Liquid, ds. 1 36
BE. Z. Liquid, per doz. 1 40
Radium. per doz. -__. 1 3h
Rising Sun, per doz. 1 35
654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 80
Vulcanol, No. 5, doz. 95
Vulcanol, No. 10, doz. 1 35
Stovoil, per doz. __-. 3 00

La France Laun., 4 dz. 3 60
Old Dutch Clean. 4 dz 3 40

Octagon, 968 ------ — 3 90
Rinso, 40s ~---------- 3 20
Rinso 248 _..-_______ 5 25
Rub No More, 100, 10

ee 3 85
Rub No More, 20 Lg. 4 00
Spotless Cleanser, 48,

a0 on 3 85
Sani Flush, 1 doz. -. 2 26
Sapolio, 3 doz. 3
Soapine, 100, 12 oz. - 6 40
Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. 4 00

Canning Co.
ITALIAN SPAGHETTI
DINNER
Local Pride Brand
12 50ec Family Package 4 50
SALSA SAUCE
Local Pride Brand

43 No. Y cans —. 80
24 No, 2 cane oo 3 15
6 No. 10 cans .-. 15 00

CHINESE SOY SAUCE
Local Pride Brand
12 8 om Sotties ....-. 2 25

41 gal. glass ss 97 0

CHINESE BROWN SAUCE
Local Pride Brand

43 8 oz. Bottles 2 25
4 1 wal places 24 00
NOODLES

Local Pride Brand
Chow Mein Chinese
24 No. 2 cans .. 2 25
BEAN SPROUTS
Local Pride Brand
Genuine Chinese Bean
24 NO. 2 cane Ege
& No. 10 cans 8 0c

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

July 10, 1929

 

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids

Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, June 25—In the matter
of Peter Jensen, Bankrupt No. 3718, the
trustee has filed his first report and ac-
count, and an order for the payment of
expenses of administration has been made.

June 25. We have to-day received the
adjudication and reference in the matter
of F. M. Gray, Jr., Inc., Bankrupt No.
3816. The matter has been referred to
Charles B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy.
This is an involuntary case and the
schedules have been ordered filed, upon
receipt of same, the list of assets and
creditors will be made herein. The bank-
rupt concern is located at Muskegon, and
its occupation is that of drilling oil and
gas wells.

June 26. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of George A. Jackson, doing
business under the name of Hastings
Upholstering Co., 3ankrupt No. 3831.
The matter has been referred to Charles
B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of Hastings, and
his occupation is that of an upholsterer.
The schedule shows assets of $14,885.62 of
which $500 is claimed as exempt, with
liabilities of $3,097.34. The first meeting
of creditors will be called and note of
same made herein. The list of creditors
of said bankrupt is as follows:
Lusske, White & Colledge, Inc.,

aa
Colonial Furn. Co., Grand Rapids 267.95
Mossman Yarnelle Co., Ft. Wayne 22.50

LaFrance Textile Industry,
Paiageipnia 329.55

Fashion Trimming Co., New York 54.00

A. F. Burch Co., Grand Rapids _. 472.80

National Spring & Wire Co., G. R. 566.21
Gobelin Fabrick Corp., N. Y.

 

A. K. Frandsen, unknown ____ :
G. R. Bedding Co., Grand Rapids 52.50
Hw. W. Selle & Co., Chicago _..._-—- 68.438
Decoration Fabrics Corp., N. Y. _. 91.78
RK. ©. Puller Lor. Co., Bastinges _. 42.81
Lniversal Garage Co., Hastings 43.50
Hastings Lumber & Coal Co.,

nasties 6... CR
Hastings City Bank, Hastings ___. 175.00
Feldpausch Meat Market, Hastings 20.00
Hastings Wool Boot Co., Hastings 40.00
Michigan Bell Tel. Co., Hastings 8.00
Consumers Power Co., Hastings __ 8.00
Fisher Bros. Paper Co., Ft. Wayne 16.06
H. 8. Cowdrey, Hastines _... 2.2
Carveth & Stebbins, Hastings —___ LZ
Ironside Shoe Co., Hastings —~---_ 10.40
Service Ol Co., Hastines —_______ 10.00
ma. Brees, Eastines ..._s..s‘(a tt‘; 70.00
Dr. C. FP. Lathrop, Hastings _... 18.00
Hastings Printing Co., Hastings —_ 7.25
Hastings Banner, Hastings _______ 8.00
i Hh. Book Case & Chair Co.,

Pascnass LCC‘
A. R. Pettit, Hastings ____ 4.00

June 27. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Lee J. Dornan, Bankrupt

No. 3832. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptey. The bankrupt is a resident of

South Haven, and his occupation is that
of a factory worker. The schedule shows
assets of $421 of which $12.60 is claimed
as exempt. with liabilities of $3,851. The
court has written for funds and upon re-
ceipt of same the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called, note of which will
be made herein.

June 27. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Joseph M. Williams, Jr.,
Bankrupt No. 3883. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee
in bankruptey. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of Grand Rapids, and his occupation
is that of a laborer. The schedules show
of $150 of which the full amount
is claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$806.73. The court has written for funds
and uvon receipt of same, the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called, note of
which will be made herein.

We have to-day received the schedules,
reference and adjudication in the matter
of Morton Fitzgerald, Bankrupt No. 3834.
The matter has been referred to Charles
B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of Grand Rapids,
and his occupation is that of a fireman.
The schedule shows assets of $1,060 of
which the full amount is claimed as ex-
empt, with liabilities of $1,240.33. The
court has written for funds and upon re-
ceipt of same the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called, note of which will be
made herein.

June 27. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Herman F. Higgs, Bank-
rupt No. 3835. The matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Grand Rapids, and his occupation is
that of a laborer. The schedule shows
assets of $500 of which $75 is claimed
as exempt, with liabilities of $2,483.69.
The court has written for funds and uron
receipt of same, the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called, note of which will be
made herein.

June 27. We have to-day received the
schedules in the matter of Sunfield Lum-
ber Co., Bankrupt No. 3810. The sched-
ule shows assets of $8,354.09 with liabili-
ties of $9,125.95. The first meeting of
creditors will be called, note of which will
be made herein. The list of creditors of

assets

said bankrupt is as follows:
Charles W. Bidwell, Sunfield $508.89
Anna Bidwell, Sunfield oe ee

‘

Sunfield State

Fisher Verkerke Lbr.

Co.,, G.  E.

  
 

3ank, Sunfield ____ 1,100.00
2,744.80

G. I. Strachen & Son, unknown __ 603.64
G. R. Sash & Door, Grand Rapids 101.838
Celotes Co., Chicaseo _....... 38.02
Reynolds Shingle Co., Grand Rapids 84.45
American Steel & Wire, Chicago__ 56.78
Behler Young, Grand Rap.ds _____- 32.16
iehon (op. Chicago .. 136.07
M. A. Brown, unknown _.. ss 208.0
Mrs. Eva Hendee, Sunfield ____ 250.00
Glen Cramer, Sunfield ______ ~ 500.00
Renny Leys, Sunfield _. 200.00
H. S. Reams, Grand Ledge _-_--_--__ 450.00
Max Slater, Grand Rapids ____,d0 randa
Max Slater, Grand Ledge _________ 175.00
Sunfield State Savings Bank,
Sune ae on
Anna Bidwell, Sunfield _____ a 594.17
Davison Lbr. & Cedar Co., Toledo 180.00
Chas. Biiwell, Sunfield ____.._.... 110.00
Laake Odessa State Bank, L. Odessa 150.00
Geo. T. Reiser, Lake Odessa —___. 75.00
Cromwell Lbr. Co., aSginaw ____.. 225.00
Alpha Portland Cem. Co., Chicago 110.00
Jackson Fence Co., Jackson __.___ 125.00
In the matter of John Fortuin, Bank-
rupt No. 3741, the trustee has filed his
first report and account, and an order

for the payment

tration has been made.

of expenses of adminis-

In the matter of Kalkaska Produce Co.,

Bankrupt No. 3584, the trustee

has

filed

his first report and account, and an order

for the
istration

payment of expenses ot
has been made.

admin-

In the matter of Try-Me Bottling Co.,
successor to Joyee Botting Co., Bankrupt
been
called for July 11, at the premises former-
ly occupied by the bankrupt, 419 Ottawa

No. 5654. The sale of assets

Grand
consists

avenue,
sold

tapids. The stock
of machinery,

has

to

be
equipment.

furniture, fixtures, all of a svuft drink
bottling plant, together with all bottles

and cases, as shown by the inventory on

file, appraised at approximately

$1,754,

together with all right, title and interest

ot the bankrupt, if any, in

and to

leas

of the premises now oceupied by it, and

all right, title and interest in and to

Try Me”
All interested in
present at the
mentioned.

sale
time as

such
date and

should

the
Authorized Bottler’s Franchise.
be

above

In the matter of Richard A. MacDonald,

individually and doing business

as the

Grandville Electric Service, Bankrupt No.
3697, the trustee has filed his first report
pay-

and account,
ment of expenses has been made.

and an order for the

In the matter of Clyde Arthur Buman,

Bankrupt No. 3566. The final

meeting

of creditors has been called for July 15.
The trustee's final report will be approved

at such meeting.
a first and final
ereditors.

In the matter of Fred W. Davis,
ing as Motor Inn Garage,
eae
moot.

been

dividend for

eailed for July 16. ‘The

There probably will be
general

trad-

Bankrupt No.
The final meeting of creditors has
trustee's

final report and account will be approved

at such meeting.
a first and final
creditors.

In the matter of Max A.
Bankrupt No. 3550.
creditors has been

dividend for

ealled for

There probably will be
general

Dietrich,
The final meeting of

July 15.

The trustee’s final report will be approved

at such meeting.

There will be no divi-

dend for general creditors of this estate.

In the matter of
Bankrupt No. 3509.
creditors has been

Clyde

called for

A. Morrison,
The final meeting of

ouwiy ib.

The trustee’s final report will be approved

at such meeting.

There probably will be
no dividend for creditors of this estate.

In the matter of Russell E. Cole, Bank-

rupt No. 3605.

itors has been called for July 15.
meeting.
dividend for creditors.

such
final

There will be a first

The final meeting of cred-

The
trustee's final report will be approved at

and

In the matter of Peter Stawarz, Bank-

rupt No. 3594.
itors has been called for July 15.
such meeting.
for general

June 29,
schedules, reference and
the matter of Charles J.
Joseph

creditors.

The final meeting of cred-

The
trustee’s final report will be approved ait

There will be no dividends

We have to-day received the
adjudication

Roguszka
toguszka doing business as Qual-

in

and

ity Wood Turning Co., Bankrupt No. 3836.
The matter has been referred to Charles
bankrupts are residents of Grand Rapids.
The

B. Blair as referee in bankruptcy.
The schedule shows

of $7,589.56.
funds and
first

empt, with liabilities
court has written for
receipt of same, the
creditors will be

will be made herein.

assets of $200
which the full amount is claimed as

of

ex-

The
upon

meeting
called, note of which
The list of cred-

itors of said bankrupt is as follows:

Ed Taylor, Grand Rapids
Robert Schroeder, Grand Rapids
Elwood Bignell, Grand Rapids
Mr. Brown, Grand Rapite __..._
G. R. Savings Bank, Grand Rapids

18.

35.

of

00
00

Polish American Bank, Grand Rap. 200.00

Edward DeGroot, Grand Rapids __ 139.00
Sterling Furn. Co., Grand Rapids __ 67.00
Louis Depfort, Grand Rapids _____ 160.00
Excello Machinery Co., Grand Rap. 52.15
S. S. Roguszka, Grand Rapids ____1,400.00
A. Maichrazak, Sr.. Grand Rapids 475.00
Mrs. B. Skopiec, Grand Rapids __ 200.00
Stonehouse Carting Co., Grand R. 89.55
Meyers Transfer Co., Grand Rapids 50.00
Goudzwaard Coal Co., Grand Rap. 22.50
Varnam, Grand Hapids _......_.... 35.00
Sheriff-Goslin Corp., Grand Rapids 100.00
Andy J. Egan, Grand Rapids ~~ . 20.46
Stanley Foundry Co., Grand Rapids 5.50

Armour Sand Paper Works, G. R. 18.04
Frank Edge & Co., Grand Rapids._ _ 4.76
Alden & Judson, Grand Rapids -- 15.76
Wood Batik Shops, Grand Rapids 6.60
VanderZand Hdwe. Co., Grand Rap. 13.40
Madison Square Tin Shop, G. R. 32.00
Sidney H. LaBaree, G. R. —---—- 39.15
G. R. Forging & Iron Co., G. R. 6.73
A. L. Holeomb Co., Grand Rapids 22.38
Central Wheel Co., Muskegon -. 12.50
Connor FounFdry Co., Grand Rapids 3.12
3auer & Pease, Grand Rapids ~--- 13.31
Charles Baar, Grand Rapids _---- 16.64
Van Keulen & Winchester Lbr.

es a 247.00
Couler Lbr. Co., Grand Rapids _--. 22.50
Michigan Bell Tel. Co., Grand R. 82.00
G. R. Direetory Co., Grand Rapids 25.00

Furniture Index Co., Grand Rap. 160.00
Frank Derecki, Grand Rapids -__-~ 200.00
Furn. City Fuel Co., Grand Rapids
Ponce De Leon Water Co., G. R. 22.90
Franklin Fuel Co., Grand Rapids 22.50
Ford & Blake Fuel Co., Grand R.
Franklin Fuel Co., Grand RapRids
Fixit Shop, Grand Rapids —~------ 9.00
Evert Stadt Hdwe. Co., Grand Rap. 12.29
Lewis Wenzel, Grand Rapids
Postal Telegraph Co., Grand Rapids -90
Barstis Bros. & Co., Grand Rapids 6.32
Valley City Bakery, Grand Rapids 32.25

cho Electric Co., Grand Rapids__ 2.34
Bowens Elec. Co., Gra,nd Rapids — 1.50
Ideal Shoe Store, Grand Rapids__ 6.40
Ter Molen Sisters, Grand Rapids 10.00

Stouten & Co., Grand Rapids ---. 3.80

Albert Hake Coal Co., Grand R. 62.95
Carl Meinke, Grand Rapids ------ 12.00
Mr. Lubinski, Grand Rapids ___--- 16.25
W. Leonard Market, Grand Rapids 21.00
J. Mooz, Grand Rapids _____- Li B00
Dinkel’s Garage, Grand Rapids ~~ 17.35
A. H. Bilis, Grand Banpids __._.__ 400.00
Kellogg & Burlingame, Grand R. 98.88
Martin Kurylowiez, Grand Rapids 150.00
L. B. Dolsen, Grand Rapids ___-_-- 400.00
tepublic Coal Co., Grand Rapids 53.00
Franklin Fuel Co., Grand Rapids __ 11.25
Furniture City Coal Co., Grand R. 37.50
Ford & DeGroot Coal Co., Grand R. 18.00
Felix Markul's, Grand Rapids -_-. 50.00

Dr. O. E. Cilley, Grand Rapids .. 53:00
Dr. Denham, Grand Rapids __---- 28.00
Frank Czubinski, Grand Rapids — 200.00
Mrs. S. Englant, Grand Rapids __1,200.00

_ 285.00

Joseph Englant, Grand Rapids
; 39.00

Dr. Edward Victor, Grand Rapids

Hanish & Krushman, Grand Rapids — 3.50
Ideal Shoe Store, Grand Rapids __ 5.00
Goudzwaard Coal Co., Grand Rap. 11.00
Great Western Oil Co., Grand R. 3.50

June 29. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Herman Knoop, Bankrupt
No. 3837. The matter has been referred
to Charles B. Blair as referee in bank-
ruptey. The bankrupt is a resident of
Grand Rapids, and his occupation is that
of a jeweler. The schedule shows assets
of $21.539.20 of which $250 is claimed as
exempt, with liabilities of $17,871.90. The
first meeting will be called promptly, note
of which will be made herein. The list
of creditors of said bankrupt is as fol-
lows:

City of Grand Bapids —.._ $800.00
G. R. Savings Bank. Grand Rapids 1,475.00
Amer. National Bank, Grand Rap. 1,800.00
City Loan Office, Grand Rapids unknown
Peoples Loan & Mtg. Co., G. R. 900.00
Industrial Mtge. & Inv. Co., G. R. 200.00
Henry Freund & Bro., New York 2,217.83
me. H. Padrith Co., Detroit | Bop. 49

mR. J. Dreyfus, New York ___.___ 3,194.64
John Knoop, Grand Rapids 425311
Baskin Bros. New York 2,164.36
Stricher Mfz. Co., Newark, N. J. 529.00
Zach A. Opmenheimer, New York 400.00
L. Seligman Jewelry Co., Chicago 595.12
Quast & Olsen, Chicago __...._._ 360.00

R. Wood & Son, Chicago ____._ 200.00
Zimmer & Reese, New York ____- 150.00
Benjamin Allen & Co., Chicago __ 22.00

Electric City Box Co., Buffalo, N.Y. 120.00

W. S. McCaw Co., Toledo eee Fie
H. Leonard & Sons, Grand Rapids 111.81
American Watch Co., Detroit _..__ 27.00
A. & Z. Chain Co., Providence, R.I. 57.50

Art Metal Works, Newark, N. J. 30.00
Henry Schmiel, Grand Ravids ____ 995.00
Steinman & Son, Grand Ranids __ 359,00
Cc. H. Knight Theatre Co., Chicago 159.56

B.P.0... Grand Rapids 12.08
Klingman Garage, Grand Rap‘ds__ 47.50
Lusk, Hartung Co., Grand Rapids 10.00
Naylor Furn. Co., Grand Rapids __ 10.00
Michigan Oil Co., Grand Rapids __ 33.74
Tatroe Tire Co., Grand Rapids ___ 13.00
Mary J. Field Co., Grand Rapids 85.00

J. G. Alexander Co., Grand Rapids’ 18.00
Dr. KE. J. Chamberlain, Grand Rap. 18.50

J. S. Crosby Co., Grand Rapids __ 60.55
Century Fuel Co., Grand Rapids __ 53.00
Fred J. Bidgood. Grand Rapids __ 50.00

Charles Trankla Co., Grand Rapids 8.05
Paul Steketee & Sons, Grand Rapids 11.19
Herpolsheimer Co., Grand Rapids__ 6.50
Peoples Loan Co., Grand Rapids__ 50.00
Bon Marche, Grand Rapids ______ 16.50
Butterworth Hospital, Grand Rapids 10.006

July 1. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Dell Gamble, Bankrupt No. 3737. The
bankrupt was present jn person and rep-
resented by attorney Homer H. Freeland.
No creditors were present or represented.
No claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. The first meeting then adjourned
without date, and the case will be closed
and returned to the district court as a
ease without assets upon the payment of
the filing fee, which the bankrupt was
ordered to pay.

On this day also held

was the first

meeting of creditors in the matter of
William J. Hooper, Bankrupt No. 3821.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attorney Robert H. Burns.
No creditors were present or represented.
No claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined without a reporter.
The rsfit meeting then adjourned without
date, and the case has been closed and
returned to the district court, as a case
without assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter o.
James H. De Vries, Bankrupt No. 3812.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attorneys Dunham & Cho-

lette. No creditors were present or repre-
sented. No claims were proved and
lowed. No trustee was appointed. The

bankrupt Was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. The first meeting then
adjourned without date, and the case
has been closed and returned to the dis-
trict court as a case without assets.
July 1. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
3ert I. Banta, also known as B. I. Banta.
Bankrupt No. 3792. The bankrupt was
present in person and represented by at-
torneys Dinham & Cholette. Creditors
were represented by attorneys Jackson,
Fitzgerald & Dalm; James T. Sloan and
Clapperton & Owen. Claims were proved

and allowed. The bankrupt was sworn
and examined before a reporter. M. N.
Kennedy, of Kalamazoo, was elected
trustee, and his bond placed at $2,000.

The first meeting then adjourned without

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Frank B. Wilcox, Bankrupt No. 3818. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney W. G. Bauer. Cred-
itors were present in person and repre-
sented by attorneys Jackson, Fitzgerald
& Dalm. Claims were filed. The bank-
rupt was sworn and examined without a
reporter. M. N. Kennedy, of Kalamazoo
was named trustee, and his bond placed
at $100. The first meeting then adjourned
without date.

July 2. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Barend Barendse, Bankrupt No. 36938. The
baknrupt was present and represented by
attorney William A. ulhern. No creditors
Were present or represented. One claim
was proved and allowed. No trustee was
appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. The first
meeting then adjourned without date,
and the case has been closed and returne |
to the district court, as a case without
assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Claude R. Beebe, Bankrupt No. 2814. The
bankrupt was present in person, but not
represented by attorney. No. creditors
were present or represented. No claims
were proved and allowed. No trustee was
appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. The first
meeting then adjourned without date, and
the case has been closed and returned
to the district court, as a case without

assets.
On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of

Samuel Vitale, Bankrupt No. 3819. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney Merton Fitzpatrick.
No creditors were present or represented.
One claim was proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. The first meeting then adjourned
without date, and the case has been clos-
ed and returned to the district court as
a case without assets.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Harry Davey and Bernard Klooster, trad-
ing under the name of Davey & Klooster,
Bankrupt No. 3773. The bankrupts were
not present or represented. Creditors were
represented by Francis L. Williams, at-
torney for the petitioning creditors an
by G. R. Credit Men’s Association. Claim«
were proved and allowed Edward De
Groot, of Grand Rapids, was elected trus-
tee, and his bond placed at $500. The first
meeting then adjourned to July 5, to per-
mit the examination of the bankrupts.

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Merchandise Value.
GET YOUR BEST OFFER FIRST.
Then wire, write or phone me and 1
will guarantee your in good American
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Grocer Who Is Real Purveyor To His
Customers.

(Continued from page 20)
margin in pound lots will be much
more profitable than a wide margin in
quarter pounds, with much wastage in
handling.

Again, no merchant can gain a sale
on mushrooms in volume without in-
creasing his entire business. Few can
build sales that run, as they do in Stop
& Shop, 1000 pounds on Wednesdays;
but all can increase sales on an item
which will bring distinction and profit
to the seller—provided he knows and
is a true purveyor to his customers.

The general trade impression in and
about Rochester, the Kodak City, is
that the old-line grocer is going out
of the picture. Well, I have attended
so many funerals of the grocer that I
am tired of going to them. Fact is,
Rochester grocers are in fine shape.

I stopped into a place that looked
familiar, the store of Chas. Titus. I
learned it established in the
sixties of the last century and has been
in the same family ever since. I saw
a display of Antonini olive oil and
Franco-American soups, among other
fine goods. I reflected that folks could
get such goods only where they were
carried.

Titus stopped by after a time and
we talked; and he told me, impressiv2-
ly, that he had just as good a chance
to do business—and make money—
now as at any time in past history.
Which, by the way, is indubitably so
of any grocer who is a true “Purveyor
to his People.” Paul Findlay.

—_——_+ ~~.
Scientific Fire Fighting Apparatus Will
Do Its Part.

(Continued from page 15)

The method of eliminating fires
caused by “Rubbish Accumulation” and
“Combustibles near Stoves” is of course
obvious.

It is very generally known that cer-
tain oils, used most commonly in paints
and polishes, will ignite spontaneously
under certain conditions. No rags or
soaked with paint and_ polish
should be stored in out of way places,
as ignition sooner or later is practically
certain.

Defective chimneys are generally a
by-product of poor construction, of
making the chimney serve also as a
structural member of the house. Cracks
caused by settlement are in the most
dangerous and difficult to locate places,
in the jost channels between the ceiling
and the floor above it, or at the point
where the chimney goes through the
roof. Chimneys should be examined
from time to time and should, of course,
have the soot removed to prevent burn-
ing out,, which is a hazard not only to
itself but to the neighborhood.

Fires caused by careless disposal of
cigaret stubs and matches total fifty-
eight out of 100 fires. They will be
entirely eliminated only in that happy
day when everybody is thoughtful and
when the fool killer has nothing left
to do.

The “Private Still’ fire could prob-
ably be attributed not so much to care-
lessness as to the hazards incident to
forced production.

It seems very apparent that most of

was

mops

the fires to which the fire department
was called on these days, say at least
seventy-five out of the 100, were due
to lack of ordinary intelligence as to
the consequences of their actions by the
persons involved, and it is precisely for
that reason that further progress in
the science of fire prevention is heavily
dependent on developing the “Fire
Consciousness” of the man in the street.
J. A. Neale,

Chief Engineer Chicago Board of

Underwriters.
——_2+~-<.___

Sketch of Colonel Perrin V. Fox.

Col. Perrin V. Fox learned carpentry
in his youth and became skilled in his
trade. During the early years of his
residence in Grand Rapids he was fre-
quently employed in the construction
of special, difficult forms of wood fin-
ishing for interiors of homes of the
well-to-do. In the construction of spiral
stairways, room mouldings and related
features the Colonel was adept.
During the later years of his life he
occasionally visited the old houses and
buildings which were devoted to com-
merce to inspect the specimens remain-
ing of his handcraft.

Col. Fox enlisted for service in the
army soon after the confederates open-
ed war on the Federal Government and
during his years of service was ad-
vanced from time to time from a cap-
taincy to the command of a regiment.
He proved himself of great value to
the Government, especially so when he
was employed in building bridges which
would enable the army to cross streams
and to permit the resumption of traffic
on railroads, which had been destroyed
by the retreating confederates.

After the close of the war, Col. Fox
returned to Grand Rapids and engaged
in the sale, successfully, of life insur-
ance policies. He possessed an inex-
haustible fund of wit and as an enter-
tainer he was greatly admired. At
times his stories bordered upon vul-
garity, but his way of relating them
was shock proof.

Physically, he was very strong. An
incident witnessed by the writer serves
to supply an idea of his strength. A
big horse, driven on Monroe avenue, on
a hot summer day, was annoyed by
flies. The animal switched his tail
shook himself, endeavored to drive
away the pests with his head and kicked
vigorously. A mighty kick passed over
the dash board of the vehicle. The
horse was unable to release his foot.
Col. Fox observed the dilemma of the
unfortunate animal, with its mathemat-
ical problem. It could put down three
(feet) and carry one. Col. Fox placed
his powerful arms under the abdomen
of the animal and lifted it bodily, there-
by loosening the imprisoned leg.

Col. Fox was a member of the Foun-
tain street Baptist church. As a mem-
ber of the building committee he ren-
dered valuable assistance to William
Hovey, its chairman, and the architects
employed in the erection of the first
church of the society.

John W. Champlin, an able lawyer
served the city of Grand Rapids one
term as its Mayor. The people had
voted a donation of $100,000 to aid the
Grand River Valley (now Michigan

Central) in the construction of its line
from Jackson. Mayor ChamplIn ex-
amined the official record of the com-
mon council, under which the vote on
the proposition to issue bonds of the
city to provide the sum of $100,000 was
taken, and decided that the proceedings
were ilegal. He declined to affix his
signature to the bonds. A settlement
with the railroad was effected later by
the payment of $25,000.

Mr. Champlin was elected a justice
of the State Supreme Court and occu-
pied the bench two terms creditably.

Arthur Scott White.

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Figures Don’t Lie, But—
Here’s one from up-state which |
pass on for what it is worth.

A. certain
flannel nightgowns makes a garment
to retail at a dollar. I believe the price
to the retailer is $8.75 per dozen. This
same manufacturer makes a nightgown
for a large chain of general stores, to
sell at the same price or less, as the
chain may choose. At one time, this
chain sold this “dollar value” at 89c.
No doubt, thousands of housewives
told themselves that they had saved llc.

Here is the lowdown, as it comes to
Whereas, the independent pays
the manufacturer $8.75 per dozen for
these garments, the chain forced the
manufacturer to make a “similar” gar-
ment for $7.25 per dozen, before sign-
ing a contract.

This difference had to come from
seme part in the process of manufac-
ture.

manufacturer of outing

me.

It must come out of the vard-
age or the quality or the workmanshi).
As a matter of fact, it caine from all
three. Cheaper quality and less gacds
gave less to the grower of the raw ma-
terials—the farmer. Lower piece work
rates deducted from the earning of the
worker in the plant. And all three
meant a cheat to the customer.

Superficial arithmetic would tell us
that the customer “saved” llc on the
89c item. But let’s get down to deeper
figures or a higher order of math--
matics. The fact is, upon calcula-
tions being properly made, that where-
as the independent retailer made a
profit (gross) of 37 per cent. on his
cost price, the chain made the same
kind of a profit to the extent of 43 per
cent.

Reminding us of an old adage,
“Figures don’t lie, but how liars can
figure. W. H. Caslow.

———2>___
Jumbled Conditions.

An interesting trend is seen by a
chain store executive who has stated
that the general store is coming back.
There may be good reasons for this
belief, but in many quarters the state-
ment will be questioned. If earnings
statements for 1928 are to be accepted
as good evidence of how the various
branches of retail distribution are far-
ing, then the award must go to the
specialty chains, and this rather upsets
the notion that general stores are to
grow in favor.
mixed situa-
tion in the retail field opens the way

However, the present
to many conjectures and theories. The
drug stores which are in reality small
department stores, the grocery stores
which are tobacco shops and the cigar
stores which also deal in many drug-

gists’ sundries, make the picture a very
jumbled one.

What it is possible to see in the
future is a plan of distribution by which
stores would handle goods in the gen-
eral classes of food, clothing and home
furnishings or perhaps a grouping by
customers. The largest establishments
of the future will, no doubt, cater to
both The
stores to other.

Perhaps a future day will see the

men and women. smaller

one sex or the

whole service of routine purchasing,
operation,
will re-
effort

orders

particularly for household

attended to by agents who

move a good deal of the now

necessary to put in with the
butcher, the
the tailor, ete.

——_—_+ <2. —__

Kitchen Range Enters the Decorative

grocer, the laundryman,

Scheme.
The kitchen stove is now being
adapted to the color scheme of the
kitchen. The range has “refined” lines,

and is made in attractive colors, rang-
ing from rich apple green to cool, lus-
trous gray. Many housewives create
a harmony of colors, including cur-
tains, floor coverings, dishes and the
kitchen range.

New models in ranges have a number
of ingenious accessories, such as a dial
which registers the oven’s temperature.
A placard in a handy place tells the
amount of heat and the length of time
necessary for cooking various foods.

The

longer a

modern range salesman is no

mere representative of his

firm: he aims to be an interior dec-

orator as well, in that he helps the

housewife to select a range to fit in

with the rest of the kitchen furniture.
en ee! a aD z ene
Business Wants Department
Advertisements inserted under this head

for five cents a word the first insertion
and four cents a word fer each subse-

quent continuous insertion. {tf set in
capital letters, double price. No charge
less than 50 cents. Small display adver-

tisements in this department, $4 per
Inch. Payment with order is required, as
amounts are too small to open accounts.

FOR SALE—Store building, residences,
barn, and other buildings, being the plant
used by the late Godfrey Hirzel in the
conduct of live stock and produce busi-
ness at Moorestown, Michigan. Good op-
portunity and location for continuing
same business or engaging in hardware
and implement business. Would consider
exchanging for city property. Address
enquiries to Fred C. Hirzel, Moorestown,
Michigan. : Ly

FOR SALE — Thriving grocery store,
with some dry goods, doing $35,000 busi-
ness yearly. Stock will inventory about
$3,000. Located on Broadway, best busi-
ness street. Otto Vanderlay, Muskegon
Heights, Mich. a 109 |

FOR SALE—Well located and well-pay-
ing grocery and bakery on main street,
on U. S. 12 highway, in Sturgis, Mich:
igan. Reason for selling, other business
Address Louis Loetz, Sturgis, Mich. 111 _

 

 

For Sale — Solid oak tables, desks
chairs and other office equipment. Used
only a few months in office of a local
broker. Cheap for cash. On display at
our office. Tradesman Company.

CASH FOR MERCHANDISE

Will Buy Stocks or Parts of Stocks of
Merchandise, of Groceries, Dry Goods,
Shoes, Rubbers, Furniture, etc.

N. D. GOVER,. Mt. Pleasant. Mich.

 

 

I OFFER CASH!

For Retail Stores—Stocks—
Leases—all or Part.
Telegraph—-Write—Telephone

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Saginaw, Mich.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

July 10, 1929

 

From __ the
Metropolis.

The Shedd Creamery Co. has moved
into new and larger quarters at the De-
troit Railway and Harbor Terminal,
4461 W. Jefferson avenue.

Officers elected in the Wholesale
Merchants Bureau of the Detroit Board
of Commerce in June will be inducted
into office Friday, July 12. Frank J.
Martin, of Burnham, Stoepel & Co.,
was elected president, George F. Minto
was elected vice-president and E. E.
Prine was re-elected secretary.

Late News Michigan

Frank L. Pierce, former manager of
the W. S. Quimby Co., Boston, packer
of LaTouraine coffee, has been appoint-
ed general manager of the company.
Mr. Pierce has been succeeded by A.
R. Frank, who has had charge of the
State sales for the company.

R. Sobin, general dry goods, has
moved his stock from 10226 Grand
River avenue to a new store at 14148
Fenkell avenue.

Mrs. C. A. Hawkins has opened a
dry goods store at 5015 Hamilton
avenue.

The Superior Pattern and Manufac-
turing Co. has moved from 2114 to
3280 Woodbridge, East.

The American State Bank of Fern-
dale, Detroit suburb, has announced
plans for the opening of Ferndale’s
first branch bank, to be erected at
Woodward and Bennett avenues.

Frank Howard Hayes, last of three
brothers who were intimately associat-
ed with the hotel business in Michigan
for more than fifty years, died in Har-
per Hospital last week after a brief
illness. He was 73 years old. Mr.
Hayes came to Michigan with his
brother, James R. Hayes, who died two
years ago. They first worked for
Major Farnum Lyon, of Saginaw, pro-
prietor of the Bancroft House, and J.
Boyd Pantlind, of Grand Rapids. James
R. Hayes became interested in the
management of hotels in Northern
Michigan, but he also took over the
Wayne Hotel, when it was built at
Jefferson avenue and Third street, to
replace the old Cass Hotel. Frank
Howard Hayes was steward of this
hotel for thirty-one years. Mr. Hayes
was born in Madison county, N. Y.,
Dec. 12, 1855, and came to Michigan
when he was 11 years old. His wife
died last year. A son, James R. Hayes,
II, lives in New York.
ber of Damascus Commandery, Knights
Templar, Union Lodge, F. & A. M. and
the Elks.

The Michigan Radio Distributing Co.
has been appointed Michigan jobber
for the Grebe radio line. George Stark,
Harry A. Paul and Ralph C. Paul are
associated in the house.

George A. Horner has been appoint-
ed comptroller of the Detroit and Cleve-
land Navigation Co., with offices at the
foot of Wayne street, Detroit. Mr.
Horner has been traveling auditor of
the line for the past eleven years. He
was formerly chairman of the Michi-
gan State Board of Accountancy under
Governor Warner.

Funeral services for Mrs. Myrta Gay
Grinnell, widow of one of the two foun-
ders of the Grinnell Brothers music
house, were held last Saturday, from

He wasa mem-

her home, 90 Arden Park. Mrs. Grin-
nell died suddenly in the Edgewater
Beach Hotel, Chicago. She had left
Detroit Monday to attend a wedding
in Chicago and was to have returned
here yesterday. Mrs. Grinnell was
born in Brighton, Mich., 56 years ago.
Her husband, Clayton A. Grinnell, died
April 30, 1927. He and his brother, Ira
L., founded the Grinnell music house.
Mrs. Grinnell is survived by her daugh-
ter, Geraldine, and a ward, Miss Leona
Ruth Barley.

Morris Dolinsky has sold his hard-
ware business to the Cuthbert Hard-
ware Co. The store is located at 1006
Seven Mile road.

A new hardware store under the
style of Metzler Hardware has been
opened at 8500 Russell street.

J. O. Christianson formerly of Min-
neapolis has purchased and_ taken
charge of the drug store of R. G.
Loomis, 1450 Baker street.

George Taylor who died at his home,
1740 Collingwood avenue, last Friday
night, was one of Detroit’s pioneer
merchants. For twenty-five years he
was a member of the firm of Marr &
Taylor, dry goods merchants, who con-
ducted a store on Woodward avenue
and State street, on the site of the
present Ernst Kern department store.
Twenty years ago he disposed of his
interest. Since that time, until two
years ago, when he became ill, he was
office manager of the Detroit City
Gas Co. He was a member of Pales-
tine lodge, No. 357, F. & A. M., and
Damascus commandery, Knights Tem-
plar.

Nearly eighteen years ago the White
Star Refining Co., of this city, was
founded by Harry B. Earhart. The
business was housed in a one-story
building and the entire force was com-
prised of three employes. Last week
Mr. Earhart turned the valve that put
the new 3,000,000 refinery located with-
in eighteen miles of the business cen-
ter of Detroit in service. The new
plant occupies nearly sixty acres of
land and is one of the most modern
in the country. The total storage ca-
pacity of the tanks alone is 20,000,000
gallons. To-day there are 1,000 persons
on the payroll of the company.

The Michigan Builders Supply Co.,
545 Hancock avenue, East, is succeed-
ed by the Boomer Supply Co.

The Lafayette Glass Co., manufac-
turer of glassware, has moved from
11802 Kercheval to 13201 Harper
avenue.

More than 100 employes and_ their
families attended the first annual pic-
nic of Printers, Incorporated, at Bob
Lo Island on Saturday, June 29. This
oragnization, only three years old, is
now rated among the largest printing
concerns in Detroit. Harry Singer,
plant executive, was in charge of the
outing arrangements.

That retail store buyers are interest-
ed in specially priced merchandise was
evidenced last week in the large at-
tendance at the semi-annual clearance
sale held by A. Krolik & Co. and the
weekly auction sale on Thursday of the
Merchants Clearing House. Both re-
port the biggest special sales volume

in years. According to H. J. Gilles,

general manager of the Merchants
Clearing House all records were brok-
en in auction disposal by that firm.
1,280 separate lots having been sold in
three hours.

The body of Harold Briskman, vice
president of the Briskman Glove Co.,
309 E. Jefferson avenue, was found
floating in the Detroit river on July 1.
Mr. Briskman disappeared on March
6. The automobile he was driving at
the time has not been found and is
now believed to be at the bottom of
the river near where the body was
found. Surviving are his widow, his
parents Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Brisk-
man, two sisters and a brother Charles.

James Golding.

—_—oo-a
Pioneers Connected With G. R. & I.
Railroad.

William A. Howard, a member of
the lower house of Congress, repre-
sented the first (Detroit) district of
Michigan during the civil war. Mr.
Howard was an earnest and able sup-
porter- of President Lincoln. Quite
often he was called to the White
House by the President for private
consultation. After the close of the
civil war, Mr. Howard was employed
by the Continental Improvement Co.,
builder of the Grand Rapids & Indiana
(now Pennsylvania) Railroad, to take
charge of its land grant department.
Mr. Howard also served a short term
as President of the railroad corpora-
tion.

John W. Starr, Jr., of Millersburg,
Pa., has written and published several
volumes giving the history of Abra-
ham Lincoln’s activities in civil life.
He is now making a study of Mr. Lin-
coln’s accomplishments in the service
of certain railroads. At times, in liti-
gation, he has been found on the side
of the people as against the roads.
having refused to accept retainers in
such instances from the corporations.

Mr. Starr in seeking for information
in regard to Mr. Howard's intimate
relations with ‘Mr. Lincoln, addressed
a letter to the writer of this paragraph.
He wished to learn whom he might
consult to aid him in the fulfillment of
his purpose. The writer suggested
that he consult Thomas J. O’Brien, a
son-in-law of Mr. Howard, and W. R.
Shelby, who, for a number of years
was intimately associated with Mr.
Howard in the administration of the
business of the railroad. The writer
also suggested that a son of Mr.
Howard and a married daughter whose
home was in Philadelphia, if livin,
might be able to serve the author.

Several stations of the Grand Rapids
& Indiana Railroad bear the names
of men who were prominently identi-
fied with the organization, construction
and operation of that corporation.
Shelbyville represents W. R. Shelby;
Edgarton, A. P. Edgarton, of Fort
Wayne, one of the first presidents of
the railroad company; Howard City
was named in honor of William A.
Howard; Tustin, the company’s first
immigration commissioner, Rev. Josiah
P. Tustin, formerly a rector of St.
Marks Church; Mancelona, Mancel D.
Talcott, one of the contractors who
built the railroad. There are several
towns in the country named in honor
of General Shelby, of Kentucky, soldier

and statesman, of whom W. R. Shelby
is a descendant.

Before the State Legislature passed
a bill to provide for a board empowered
to examine and to license, if such were
found to be qualified, persons in the
practice of medicine. Many quack doc-
tors flourished in Michigan. Among
the most notorious was N. J. Aiken,
who specialized in the treatment of
private diseases. He performed an
illegitimate operation on a young girl
in Grand Rapids which resulted in
death. He was charged with a crim-
inal offense, arrested and put under
bonds for a large sum. He escaped
punishment through the disappearance
of witnesses, to whom he paid large
sums. Aiken moved to San Francisco,
where he resumed his bad practice.
After several years spent in that city
he was charged with the crime of com-
mitting an abortion, tried in court, con-
victed and sentenced to imprisonment
for life. Under the charge of officers
he was transported across the bay to
San Quentin. When about to enter
the portals of the prison he suddenly
drew a revolver from its concealment
on his person. A bullet through his
brain closed his earthly career.

Dr. G. A. Clement is remembered
on account of the quackery of his prac-
tice and as a dealer in real estate.
Among the jobs he put over on a con-
fiding public was a sale of lots in
Clement’s addition near Belmont. He
assured purchasers that all his lots
were four by eight and they were not
rods but feet.

Dr. A. Robens was known as the
“Old Indian doctor,’ J. B. Malcolm
as a medicine doctor and E. Woodruff
was a botanical physician.

Arthur Scott White.
—_—_~+2->—___—_

Largest Department Store
Country.

In the race for the distinction of be-
ing the largest department store or-
ganization in the country, R. H. Macy
& Co. has taken the lead by the ac-
quisition of L. Bamberger & Co.,
Newark. Last year Macy’s did a vo!-
ume of about $90,000,000; Bamberger’s
about $35,000,000. The total exceeds
that of the present twenty-nine outlets
in the Hahn Department Stores, re-
cently organized, by $10,000,000, and
Marshall Field & Company by a slight-
ly larger figure. There will be no
changes in the policy or management
of either store.

Mr. Straus will head the Bamberger
store and Louis Bamberger, head of
the Newark store, will become a mem-
ber of the Macy board. Mr. Straus,
with his brothers, Percy S. and Her-
bert N., has had control of the merged
store since 1914. Previously it was
controlled by their father, Isidore
Straus, who went down with the
Titanic, and by Nathan Straus, his
brother, who sold it in 1914.

Macy’s is unique in many respects—-
one of them being the fact that it sells
only for cash and endeavors to main-
tain its price scale at least 6 per cent.
lower than any other store in New
York City. In addition to Bamberger’s
Macy’s now controls La Salle & Koch,
Toledo, and Davison Paxon Company,
Atlanta.

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SLOW BUT SURE STARVATION

Dominance of Chain Store Must Necessarily Result in Impoverishment

of the Community.

I have been accused of many things of which I had no knowledge during the time I have con-
ducted the Tradesman, but one accusation has never been laid at my door—that I have an inordi-
nate love for the chain store. I have fought this menace to legitimate merchandising with all the
vigor I could command ever since the viper showed its head. I shall continue to oppose it as long
as I have any breath in my body, not because it has no good features to commend it, but because
the bad features outweigh the good. Under existing conditions it has but one fundamental theory
—to make money for the owner. Such features as service to the public, duty to the communtty,
and fair treatment to clerks are entirely overlooked by the chain stores in the mad endeavor to
make as much money as possible and get the money so made out of the town in which it is made at
the earliest possible moment. Money made by a legitimate merchant usually finds lodgment in
the local bank and is utilized to assist in meeting the payrolls of local factories, from which it
comes back to the merchant in never ending procession and succession, but no local banker dares
to use the deposits of chain stores in meeting local calls and necessities; because he knows that
such action on his part will force him to either suspend payment or go on a borrowing expedi-
tion day after tomorrow or week after next.

The independent retail dealer sends out of town only sufficient funds to cover his foreign
purchases. The remainder of his bank deposits, which represent the profit he has made in his
store transactions, remain in the bank until invested in a home, devoted to payment on a home
already purchased on time, applied to the purchase of additional home furnishings, needed addi-
tions to his store building, desirable additions to his stock or fixtures or investment in local manu-
facturing enterprises which give employment to home people and thus contribute to the growth
and prosperity of his home town.

The chain store, on the contrary, sends the entire receipts of the store (less rent and wages
paid the store manager and his clerk) to the headquarters of the chain system in Detroit or else-
where. to be immediately transferred to New York, where they are absorbed by high priced
executives and clerks and divided among the greedy stockholders of the organization.

This steady stream of money, constantly flowing out of town every week, NEVER TO
RETURN, must ultimately result in the complete impoverishment of the community. It is a pro-
cess of slow but sure starvation.

This is the strongest indictment ever presented against the chain store—an indictment which
»yrecludes the possibility of a defense. because there can be no defense to a charge of this kind,
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based on the logic of events.

This indictment effectually outweighs and overcomes any possible advantage which can be
presented in favor of the chain store, because of its low prices on some lines of goods, alleged uni-
formity in methods and prompt service.

In the light of this disclosure, which no one can successfully contradict or set aside, the con-
sumer who patronizes the chain store, instead of the regular merchant, is effectually destroying
the value of any property he owns in the town in which he lives, placing an embargo on the further
progress of his own community and helping to bring on a period of stagnation in business, real
estate and manufacturing which will ultimately force him to accept less pay for his services and
reduce the level of living he enjoyed under conditions as they existed before the advent of the
chain store.

The decadence of the town, due to lack of employment and the diversion of all available
capital to the headquarters of the chains in Eastern money markets, will cause a depression in farm
products, due to lack of local demand, which will ultimately result in the impoverishment of the
farmer. He can still ship his wheat to Liverpool, but there will be no local market for perishable
products which must be consumed near at home.—E. A. Stowe in Michigan Tradesman.

 

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids, furnishes the above in

circular form as follows: 100, $3.75; 500, $7.75; 1.000, $12.75.

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