VOL. 2

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, ‘DECEMBER 17,

 

 

 

1884.

Michigan Tradesman.

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NO. 65. ;

 

 

JAMES C. AVERY. GEO. E. HUBBARD.

James C, AVERY & Go

Grand Haven, Mich.

Manufacturers of the following brands of Ci-
gars;

Great Scott, Demolai No. 9,
Eldorado, Doncella,
Avery’s Choice,

Etc., Etc.

—__—JOBBERS IN——
Manufactured Tobacco.

SHRIVER,
WEATHERLY & G0,

Grand Rapids, Mich., Wholesale and Retail

IRON PIPE,
Brass Goons, Iron AND Brass Firrines
MANTLES, GRATES, GAS FIXTURES,
PLUMBERS, STEAM FITTERS,

—And Manufacturers of—

Galvanized Iron Cornice.

Collections aud Insurance,

Special Attention given to oe in co
or Country.

FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT

 

Insurance,
Shoe and Leather...........-..------+-.- Boston
COOPEL...... 2202 ere eee cere neces Dayton, Ohio
CATO ee Pittsburgh, Pa.
igopmmanin.......-.------------- Cincinnati, ‘Ohio

Total Assets represented, $3,516,808.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

TOWER & CHAPLIN,

General Collectors,
16 Houseman Block - Grand Rapids

Westiield Whips "3es-F5

Send for f

PRICE LIST. N

 

 

 

 

ORDERS

 

PROMPTLY

 

 

 

 

FILLED.

 

 

And Lashes of All Kinds and Prices.

G. ROVS & CO, Gen! Agents

Grand Rapids,

STEAM LAUNDRY

43 and 45 Kent Street.
A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor.

WE D0 ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO
CHEMICALS.

Orders by Mail and Express promptly at-
tended to.

FOR SALE!

A complete millinery stock in excel-

Michigan.

 

 

lent location on principal business
street in this city. Good patronage.
First-class fixtures. Address for full

particulars,

PETER DORAN,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

KEMINK, JONES & 00,

Manufacturers of
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Fine Perfumes,
Colognes, Hair Oils,
Flavoring Extracts,
Baking Powders,
Bluings, Etc., Kite.

ALSO PROPRIETORS OF
RmEMINEX’sS

“Red Bark Bitters”

AND—

The Oriole Manufacturing Co

78 West Bridge Street,

 

MICHIGAN.

GRAND RAPIDS,  .-
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RET AILERS, TRILOBITE’S MISSION.

If you are selling goods to make
a profit, sell

LAVINE
WASHING POWDER.

This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a
larger profit than any in the Market, and is
put up in handsome and attractive packages
with picture cards with each case. We guar-
antee it to be the best Washing Powder
made and solicit a trial order. See prices in
Price-List.

Hartford Chemical Co,
HAWKINS & PERRY

STATE AGENTS,

GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN.

THE GRAND RAPIDS
“A 4 /) f Le
by 7 j l tf fC
COllLege

(Established 1866) is acknowledged to be the
mostcomplete,thorough, practical, economical
and truly popular school of its kind. Demand
for its graduates greater than the supply.
For particulars enclose stamp for College Jour-
nal. Address C. G. SWENSBERG, Grand
Rapids, Mich.

NEES

(RAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED C0.

91 CANAL STREET.

W. N. FULLER & CO

DESIGNERS AND
Engravers on Wood,

Fine Mechanical and Furniture Work, In-
cluding Buildings, Etc.,
49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade,
GRAND RAPIDS = MICH.

EDMUND 6, DIKEMAN,

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GREAT WATCH MAKER,

— AD

JEW HOR,

 

 

 

We carry a full line of
Seeds of every variety,
both for field and garden.
Parties in want will do

 

44 CANAL STREET

GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN,

ALBERT GOYE & SOND,

JOBBERS OF-
Horse Covers, Oiled Clothing, Awnings and Tents.
73 Canal Street, Grand Rapids.

LIVE GROGERYMEN

——SELL———

DETROIT SOAP CO.’S

FAMOUS——

EEN ANNE SOAP,

The Best Selling Brand on the Mar-
ket. A Strictly Pure, First-Class A 1
Family Soap. Big and Lasting Trade
and Good Margin to Dealers.

Cody, Ball & Co.,

Sole Agents for Grand Rapids.

GLOVER SEED
BEANS:

Dealers having a surplus of either Clover
Seed or Beans can always find a cash mar-
ket by addressing

W. 7. CAMOREAUX, Agent

91 Canal street.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The dawn came creeping up slowly over
Briggs’s Point. It was the dawn of a beauti-
ful morning in early June;
watchers around a sick bed, the shelter of
night was more acceptable.

A hopeless hush had fallen on the little

group as the light came stealing into the square
front chamber, and rendered that awful Pres-
ence more plainly visible.

In this very room, forty-eight years ago, El-
ihu Briggs first saw the light of day, and here
his eyes would close for the last time.

The eldest of his ten children, a plain but
delicate girl of twenty summers, leaned heav-
ily against the window-frame of solid oak.
Tears could not obseure the almost solemn
splendor of her dark eyes. Her father was
her companion, idol, friend. She did not real-
ize that minutes, not days, were allotted to
him; but the inevitable loss of one she so-lov-
ed lay like a crushing weight on heart and
brain.

The neighborhood was waking up. Cocks
were crowing; men hurrying to their day’s
work; women to the pumps; and, by and by, a
slouching, familiar figure came up the hilland
turned down to the store. Briggs’s store sup-
plied the Point with groceries, dry goods, and
Yankee notions. For four and twenty years
Trilobite Hastings had never failed to be the
first customer.

With one lingering look at her father, appar-
ently sleeping quietly, she took the great key
from its hook by his bedside and went down to
open the store. Shrink not, gentle, reader,
from such a flagrant violation of propriety!
Mine is a prosy, realistic tale of Michigan life;
of people who sacrifice feeling for duty ; whose
perceptions may be blunted, but whose char-
acters are as broad as their native forests.

A couple of men were talking with Trilobite,
but respectfully drew back for her to unlock
the door.

**How’s ’Lihu to-day ?”’ asked one.

“Bout middlin’ yesterday. Ask her’ re-
turned Skipper Jones.

Trilobite came shambling in, sincerely anx-
ious but dreading toinquire. Theothers drop-
ped down on nail kegs by the stove, waiting
to hear.

Trilobite helped himself to a glass of hard
cider, turning his back on the company, and
tossing it down his throat with a sleightof hand
that betokened years of practice.

“GuessI’!l take a plug o’ tobae’. ’Spose ’Li-
hu will be downin a few days,” said the Skip-
per.

Trilobite bent over the tawny {cat on the
counter, but was furtively watching the girl’s
countenance. '

“Vll take a gallon of your best molasses,
Heleny,” put in the third man, with ready
tact. He saw that the great sob which arose
in her slim white throat prevented speech.

As she took his can she lifted one hand to
her eyes with a pitiful, childish gesture.

A tall, bronzed fellow at this moment enter-
ed the store, and, taking her place at the mo-
lasses hogshead, said gently: ‘I can wait on
them, Helen, if you can trust me. I think you
had better go up to the house.”

No second invitation was needed.
flew to the house in alarm.

** He is dead,” said Perey Hoyt, in answer to

Helen

| the inquiring looks of the half dozen men who

had by this time congregated around the fire-
less stove.

“Dead! What’ll become 0’
Pity Lena, there, warn’t a boy. How much do
you ‘spose he was wuth? Forehanded ?
Ruther guess not.’’ Such were the remarks
that fell from their lips, mingled with the ex-
pressions of deepest sympathy.

Perey Hoyt closed the store,put up the shut-
ters, and tied a bit of crape to the knob, worn
bright and shining by the hands of two gene-
“ations of Pointers. As he turns away with
bowed head, we will look at him. Of Hercu-
lean proportions, keen gray eyes, with a glint
in their depths like a flash of steel; yet, with
as gentle and tender a heart as a woman, he is

the children?

a fair type of good, honest manhood in its ear-

liest state.

Days passed, and to Helen it became evident
that the store must be opened again, or all the
trade would go over to the Harbor, some three
miles from the Point. Her mother made a
feeble resistance, but eleven’ mouths to fill
looked appalling.

“Who ever heard of a givVs keeping a gro-
cery? It is ridiculous,” said Aunt Denham,
their only rich relative; but Helen was firm.

Teach she could not; her education was too
fragmentary. Sewing was not to be found.
She must keep the family together, and the
store for Sam, her father’s darling. She had
made a holocaust of all her pretty ambitions
beside her father’s grave.

One morning the shutters were down, the
store open, and one by one the loafers fell
back into their familiar places, and trade re-
turned. Itis not well to brood over trouble
in this every-day world; to be up and doing is
the best panacea for a heartache.

A pleasant light came into Helen’s great
brown eyes, a soft flush on her thin cheeks, as
she became interested in the task set before
her. There were moments, however, when
her lips quivered with pain, and hot tears fill-
ed her eyes.

These loafers were her greatest trial. To-
bacco chewidg kept the floor filthy, and their
coarse jests often covered her face with the
blush of shame. Yet she never wavered in
her purpose. Cladin simple prints, her dark
hair smoothly braided, and without ornament
save a broach at her throat, she weighed out
pork, drew kerosene and molasses, or measur-
ed tape or blue denim with the same quiet
dignity that had been a characteristic of her
girlhood.

“I’m learning to utilize Trilobite,” she said
one day to Perey. ‘‘ He comes so early every
morning that I get him to take down the
heavy shutters. Skipper Jones keeps me in
nice ‘whittlings,’ and ’Rasmus Cole sweeps
out for me every night while I am putting up
the goods. Poor ’Rasmus! He says Debby
scolds him so, he’d rather stay and sweep than
go home.”’

“J would gladly do it all for you, Helen, but
you will not let me,” returned Hoyt, sadly.

“No, no. You are too kind, too good to me!
It would not be right. I get along, pleasantly,
if it were not for the evenings, They are hor-
rible!’’ she continued. excitedly: ‘ To sit be-
hind this counter and listen to their talk, dull,
stupid, coarse! Itissohard. It is so degraa-

yet, to the silent |

 

| ing to be perched upon this stool, beneath that

poor old lamp, before them all.
not stay here evenings;
they—they joke me so,” blushing painfully.

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1

No, you must |
it only makes it worse, |

One who could see the hungry look in the |

man’s
of his voice, as he ce
would not wonder that “they joked her.”

“ You really must let me tend for you,” he
was saying, gravely, when an old gossip with
a basket of eggs interrupted their conversa-
tion, but Helen had time to say no, decidedly.
It Was queer te see what a will this little brown
wren ofa girl had. J must was ever on her
lips; and when the day was particularly hard,
baby Sam would receive a double portion of
almost motherly caresses. Once ina while she
would snateh time for a brisk walk with the
hoydenish twins, almost always choosing the
time when rain was falling or a brisk wind
blowing. She loved to wrestle with the ele-
ments, and fight out her own hard battles with
the forces of nature raging about her. The
twins tore their aprons, muddied their shoes,
or quarreled together. It was all the same to

4 “¢ .
them if they could only keep up an excite-

ment Helen was not naturally a woman of
business; and the life of self-abnegation
which she led had few compensations. The
antics of Rose and Daisy were a rest to her
sometimes; but far oftener a source of annoy-
ance, as they were as mischievous as magpies.
Aunt Dehham swooped down upon them, and
sarried Etta and Leonette, pretty, sensible
girls in their teens, and as like as two peas in
a pod, home with her for a visit of unlimited
duration. She missed young faces about the
house, she said, since her own daughters had
left her; and Helen inferred from her remarks
that she intended to adopt. them. Percy
Hoyt’s friendship was a pleasnre, but a bittey-
sweet. He inwardly anathematized the self-
ishness of Mrs. Briggs and her second daugh-
ter, Elise, in permitting the burden to fall on
Helen’s slender shoulders, but she would not
allow the slightest protest to cross his lips.
He did the trucking for the store. The next
time he went tothe city, after the conversa-
tion above recorded, he brought home a chan-
delier with four lights, which he put up over
the counter without asking Helen’s permis-
sion. Leavenworth, the village carpenter, de-
posited his tools inside the door the next day,

saying:
Mr. ‘Hoyt told me you wanted a Hittle of-

fice fixed up, with glass sides, where you could
stay, sort of by yourself, and see all that is
going on, Miss Briggs.”

“Yes, sir.”’ Helen flushed at the thoughtful
kindness that had anticipated, nay, interpret-
ed her unspoken wish. It was so pleasant to
be cared for by some one so strong and true as
Perey. But bars stronger than iron kept the
love of her heart under strong control.

With the store well lighted and this dear lit-
tle sanctum all to herself, where she could
employ her hands with some bits of girlish
finery when customers were few, her old spir-
its came slowly back. A few choice volumes
that she and her father had studied, Ruskin,
Cartyle, Mrs. Browning, and Shakespeare,
found a place on her desk for idle moments.
Her Sabbaths she spent with little Sam and
poor lame Lottie, with the exception of an
hour at prayer meeting, and the walk home
with Perey. This was the only favor she
vouchsafed him; and, as their homes lay in
the same direction, she could not very well
deny him that attention, which the most-indif-
ferent person might be allowed to show a lady
friend. To Perey, she was the one woman in
the world; and he lived on those brief, quiet
moments when her small gloved hand rested
onhis arm, and her soft voice was modulated
to a tone intended to reach his ear alone.

Gradually the girls, with whom she had
been a favorite, began to call at the store and
spend hours behind the friendly red curtains
of her office.

Helen Briggs had been the best scholar in
the neighboring academy, spent a winter in
the Athens. of America to perfect herself in
music, and the better class of people in the
village considered her a model for their daugh-
ters before she overstepped the grounds of
propriety, and ran a grocery store for the fam-
ily’s ‘support. When she first opened the
store, people looked askance at her, although
they bought of her goods.

“Oh! if they could only know what it is to
have so many depending on you for every-
thing!” she once said to the good old doctor.

“Vou area brave girl,’ he replied: ‘and
God helps those who help themselves.”

His words were like wine to the fainting—
they helped and strengthened her.

A country store isa power for good or evil.
People began to note that theirsons kept good
hours. “The little Briggs girl,” they said:
“never kept open after nine.”” No cider was
sold, the goods were always of the best quali-
ty, newspapers were filed, chairs took the
place of nail kegs. Helen’s word was as good
as a bond, and her influence unlimited. Gos-
sip and low stories were out of place; and the
pule-faced girl behind the red curtains learn-
ed to draw the shy boys out in discussions of
the times. Indeed, the store in winter even-
ings took on the aspect of a reading-room;
and, unconsciously, the tone of the neighbor-
hood became higher for the girl who kepta

grocery. Meanwhile, her trade was good; the
children sent to school; her mother almost

care-free.

Jt was a proud day for the little store-keeper
when she was appointed postmistress. The
extra pay enabled her to keep a horse, and a
poy todo the rough work. A little more care
and labor did not matter much to her.

“Tm out of business now,” said Percy: “‘and
off for sea unless Why can’t you say
yes, now, Helen?”

She smiled at his jest; fora large farm had
kept him busy enough, without the work he
had done for her. But this question, how
should she unswer it?

He had intercepted her on her way to the
house. The desolateness of winter wasaround
them and the gray bloom of twilight. She suf-
fered her eyes to take a survey of the whole
landscape before she answered. The cold,
dark waters of the bay, with boats long since
out; a huge barge, high and dry, on the de-
serted wharf. The ice-locked cove, where, at
times, the ring of the skater’s heel could be
heard. Everything, even the gnawed and bat-
tered horse-posts by the door. Lamps were
burning brightly in the windows of happy
homes. Why should she not have the same?
One look into the true face so far above her
own. He answers her pleading glance with
impetuous words:

 

: eyes, and listen to the tender pleading |
lmed her wounded spirits,

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“You must say yes, Lena;
here any longer.”
The wind came up, dismally rattling the old
}. Briggs,’ and drowning the plaintive
melody that Lottie’s fingers were drawing
from her piano, now sadly out of tune.
Her mother, kind but unable to cope with
the world; pretty, thoughtless Elsie; poor,

j

L can’t stand it |

Write to me once, at least, Lottie, my little

| sister, as I once fondly hoped to call you, for I

lame Lottie; Janetta, the student of the fami-

ly; the noisy twins, and their satellite,
Kate; and Sam, her father’s pride.

Who could eare for them all?

Aunt Denham’s quaint, rude comment on
death flashed across Helen’s
mind: ‘“’Twas just like Elihu to die and leave
a wife and ten children. He always would
shirk responsibility if he could.”

It should never be said of her.

“Some time, Percy, dear Perey, but not
now,” she said, with a firmness born of pain.

Dropping her hands, he left her without a
word, andstrode away in the gathering dark-
ness. A hot, angry glow overspread his face.
The waves of disappointment surged madly in
his heart. Helen’s devotion to her family
maddened him. This was his reward for pa-
tient years of waiting. She loved those chil-
dren better than she did him. The gods, in
the fable Socrates invented the Alsop, made
pain and pleasure to spring from one head.
He could vouch for its truth.

To Helen the dark, ice-rimmed bay and
desolateness of a December twilight were ever
typical of renunciation, as some strain of mus-
ic or perfume of flower reminds one of past
events.

Percy was alone in the world, and the love
he craved was denied him. An orphan at tive,
he was dependent upon a rich uncle. Squire
Hoyt had one son, Ellis, who domineered over
everything on the farm, from his parents
down to the eats and dogs. Perey went away
to sea at the early age of fourteen. At twen-
ty-one he was first mate of a large barque.
Then came a summons from the aunt, who
had been only soinname. Her husband was
a helpless paralytic. Ellis had forged his
name for large sums and fied to Australia.
He must come home and be a son to them.
The call of duty, not love, was obeyed, and for
five years he had cheered the old couple down
the road of life.

Farm work he disliked. This uncle was al-
most imbecile. and his aunt, with her sharp
tongue and miserly ways, made his home life
almost unendurable. Through all the dark-
ness had run a thread of light, to be near
Helen, to help her, and at last to win her for
his own.

The squire and his wife were dead six
months. Perey had been the owner of the
fertile farm, with its roomy farmhouse and
ample barns filled to overflowing. For, to his
surprise, all was willed to him. Elsie and
Janetta could carry on the store as well as
Helen, he reasoned, and he was willing to take
Sam if Helen would only consent to be his
wife. She had chosen; it was all or nothing
with him. She could live for Sam.

It was almost ridiculous to see sucha big,
noble man so jealous of a miserable little shav-
er like Sam. The young rascal divined his
sentiments, and always displayed a great
amount of fondness for “sister”? when Hoyt
was present.

Days dragged wearily on, but Perey did not
come back.

‘‘Hoyt’s gone on a long v’yage,”’ said Skip-
per Jones, one evening, as Helen was tying up
a dollar’s worth of sugar in a paper bag just a
size too small for the quantity: ‘‘ Kinder tho’t
he’d stay ’round here. Spillin’ your sugar.
Heleny!”

““So’d I,” piped Trilobite: ‘*’Twould be a
pity to spile two families with sich queer crit-
ters as Perey ’n’ Leny, here. The way Almiry
Hoyt used to ’buse that boy was a caution to
beholders!’’ See how he tended her in her last
sickness! Actooally used to take her up and
rock her when she was so tired of one position.
Shiver my timbers, if ’'d a done it!”

‘Your parcels are done up, Mr. Jones,’ said
Helen, in an odd, constrained voice: “Trilo-
bite, will you say to any one who comes in
that I will be in again in fifteen or twenty
minutes ?”’

“Takes it powerful hard, don’t she?” said
the skipper, the moment the door closed after
her retre% anit form.

“Ta, no,” said Trilobite: “ they’re allright!’
But mentally he vowed that no one should
gloat over the sorrow of ‘ ’Lihu’s little gall,”
not even if he ‘ lied to cover it.”

’

Briggs’s Point was a dull, grass-grown vil-
lage; and when absence enwrapped an in-

habitant in uncertainty, forgetfulness closed
over them as the waters that lapped the Point
over a stone from some urchin’s hand.

For three years Helena never heard his
name again; then it was in connection with
his deeding the property to Ellis, the rightful
heir.

“Round him in some furrin’ port playin’ the
pious, repentant dodge. Jest like the Prodi-
gal Son, fur all the world; an’ Perey gin the
farm rite up to him,” said Trilobite: ‘ I told
Serim iast night that Perey was a tarnal fool;
what do you think, Heleny ?”

“My opinion is like Serim’s—unobtainable,”’
returned pape

Serim was Trilobite’s
his house at home.

The very irony of fate married Elsie to the
returned prodigal in a few months. Helen
was sorely opposed to it, but Elsie was willful
and must take the consequences. Janetia
was the only one who showed any desire to
help Helen. She was teaching sc shooland pay-
ing Kate’s expenses at a normal school. Rose
and Daisy were at Olivet, as Mrs. Denham’s
adopted daughters, and rarely wrote hore.
Lottie, poor girl, had lived out her short life
in beautiful trust and patience. A sweet
flower for Paradise, thought Helen, as she
pressed her last lingering kiss upon the white
forehead, blue-veined and shaded by hair like
waves of burnished gold. The last weeks of
her stay on earth Helen had spent with her,
leaving the store to Trilobite’s faithful care.

‘Sister,’ said Lottie, gently: “‘do you re-
member Mr. Hoyt? Hesent me this by Ellis.
T think I ought to show it to you now.”

The pathos of that now! Helen dried her
tears, and Lottie drew a worn letter from her
bosom. A photograph and a card dropped
from it. Perey’s face, so like and yet so
changed. Helen read the kind, tender words:
“T send you the address of a San Francisco
firm, to whom you can forward a letter, in
case any change takes place at home, your

eat, sole companion of

home, that you think I would like to know.

little |

 

 

am hungry for home.”

A load was lifted from her heart. He had
not forgotten her in these long, weary rears.

“ Have you showed this to any one, Lottie 2?”
she asked, unsteadily.

“To no one but Trilobite, and he only cop-
ied the card. I’m—so tired, sister—don’t talk
now. When Rose and Daisy come, we—will.”

Rose and Daisy, the twins, had tumbled into
matrimony with the same alacrity they dis-
played in childish sports. It was one of Lot-
tie’s haliucinations that they were coming
home. But, alas! they could never see the
sister they loved so fondly. Rose was at sea
with her husband, and Daisy settled dewn in
a home ot her own on one of the western pra-.
iries.

“ShallT see Rose and Dsisy to-morrow ?”
was the last question her lips ever framed.

They were all gone now but

Sam, a great
fellow, fourteen

years old. He hated any-
thing that bore resemblanee to work or study
Even packing: eggs was too arduous ar ne
dertaking. He consumed many cigars, and
once or twice had returned from the e ity ina
shameful and shameless condition. o

Onthe last of these

,oceasions Trilobite was
in the store.
s '
“* Eat a good lot o’ butter, sonny.” he said:
Ss: rv, said:
twill counteract the pizen,” hurrying him

into the office, out of sight of too curious eyes
“This fellow needs a master,” he sis
but reproachtfully to Helen,

shame and loathing from Sam
state of idiotie
married Perey
mouth, you sir,

said kindly
shrinking with
» her boy, in a
intoxication. ‘You oughter
Hoyt. Shet up your silly
or [ll keel-haul yer.” The
last words were so savage that Sam checked
his idiotic babbling at once.

But his mirthless, drunken laugh rang in
Helen’s ears for days. Trilobite took him
home with him, that his poor mother might
not see his disgrace. :

“What have I not sacrificed for that boy!
Asaman, what a broken reed he Will be to
lean upon!” she cried, in her bitter anguish,

Trilobite had grown very near to her in the
years that were past; his {advice was always
good, and his sympathy was grateful to her
worn Spirit. He had that rare trait of know-
ing when to speak and when to keep silent,
that so few possess.

Troubles never A pompous
bald-headed grocer, from a neighboring towii
had set up a Store near the Point, and was
drawing her best customers away. Dark
shadows gathered around the brown eyss that
had looked on the world so bray ely for many
years. Tell-tale white hairs began to gather
around her temples. Last, but not
new trouble arose; but we will let
tell the story:

So the Widder
has she? Going
Well, well;
sake ye,
will!”

It was true. Mrs. Briggs married Stokes
who ran the opposition store, after
courtship.

About this time Trilobite displayed great
interest in the papers, especially the shipping
news. One morning the village parliament
was electrified by his departure New
York.

: * Took his old hair trunk with him,”’ said the
Skipper: “fur he said, ‘’twas mighty onsartin
when he’d come home’.”’ :

Helen felt as if her last friend had deserted
her. The rugged,

come singly.

least, a
Trilobite

has gone over to the enemy,
to leave you for Stokes.
when your father and mother fur-

Trilobite will take you up. So he

a brief

for

familiar face had become
almost a fixture in her store, and she missed
his homely words of comfort. Butin about a
month a postal eard came to her, signed 'T.
Hastings, saying that he would be home on

yy “oc © r re .
Thursday. Would Sam meet him at the
depot ?

r

Thursday came; it was a dull, rainy day,

gulls were flying over the bay, the snow about
the door was dirty and trodden. Half a dozen
men sat around the stove discussing polities;
asmall boy broke his bottle of kerosene on
the floor, and she took a poor bill of a runner.
In spite of it all, Helen felt strangely light-
hearted; her old friend was coming home. At
noon she laid the table for tea, intending to
entertain Trilobite as a guest. Cold chicken,
plum pickles, cake, bread and honey were all
ready.

She started Sam off an hour before ear-time,
and checked herself in the act of whistling,
the only masculine habit she had acquired.

Just as the sun was setting, after shining
out fora few moments to assure the world it

“was really there, Sam drove up to the door

with two passengers. Trilobite’s face shone
like a new moon, despite the dampness of his
attire. ‘‘Helleny!”* he called:
old Trilobite wi rial ‘good for anything but
fiddlin’ an’ fishin’ ?”’ naming the two things he
was never known to do. ‘ Weil, I forgive ye,
an’ here’sa present I brought you all the way
from New York.’

A bronzed and bearded man smothered the
glad ery of ‘* Perey! Perey!’ on his broad
breast.

The store was empty at this nave.

“He’s a goin’ totake you and $
with him; an’ I'll run this ’ere stand,” ex-
plained Trilobite, mounting a pile of meal
bags and contentedly filling his pipe.

Perey and Helen laughed, in the fullness of
their content, at his cool way of settling mat-
ters; and one of them, at least, resolved that
he should be gratified.

“did you say

sam off to se “ah

The property was all Helen’s; one by one
she had paid out each child’s share; and, last
of all, her mother’s thirds.

Later in the evening he entertained the
people who dropped in to trade a little and
hear the news, with an account of his journey;
while Sam lounged behind the counter, strok-
ing au incip‘ent mustache.

When he sought his lonely home, Trilobite
gave vent to his feelings in something like
thanksgiving:

“Lord! I’m een-a-most ready to say, now
let thy servant depart in peace! ’Lihu’s little
galis goin’ to be taken care of, ’n I’m goin’ to
keep the store, myself, Scrim, d’ye hear?
We'll sleep in her sanctum, an’ fry sassengers
every day. Lordy! aintI happy!”

So were Helen and Perey. Sam, under his
brother-in-law’s guidance, grew up a fine, .
manly fellow. Trilobite lived out twenty
years of borrowed time, and daily admired
the gay sign over the door, whose gilt letters
proclaimed: ‘Trilobite Hastings, grocer.”

RH

About 35,000,000 feet of logs will be cut on
Cedar river this winter.

 

 

  

 

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the Michigan Tradestiel.

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A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE
Mercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the Siate.

E. A. STOWE, Editor.

Terms $1 a year in advance, postage paid.
Advertising rates made known on application.

 

 

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1884.

 

 

Merchants and Manufacturers’ Exchange.

 

Organjzed at Grand Rapids October 8, 1884.

 

President—Lester J. Rindge.
‘ Viee-President—Chas. H. Leonard.
asurer—W m. Sears. s
Executive Committee—President, Vice-Pres-
ident and Treasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Ball, one
year; L. E. Hawkins and R. D. Swartout, two

years.
Apdixation Committee—I. M. Clark, Ben W.
,Putnam, Joseph Houseman.
Transportation Committee—Wilder D. Stevens,
B. Dunton, Amos. S. Musselman.
eaarenoe Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur
Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux.
‘Manufacturing Committee—Wm. Cartwright,

E. 8S. Pi , C. W. Jennings.
‘Annual ing—Second Wednesday evening
of October.

‘Regular Meetings—Second Wednesday even-
ing of each month.
Next Meeting—Wednesday evening, Jan. 14.

 

POST A.

' Organized at Grand Rapids, June 28, 1884.

 

 

OFFICERS.

Exeekiont-— Win. Logie.
Hirst Vice-President—Llioyd Max Mills.
Sepond Vice-President—Richard Warner.
etary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins.
cial Organ—The Michigan Tradesman.
Committee on re B. Edmunds,
Jehoteap aD Haugh, Wm. G. Hawkins,
‘Wallace aroidin and J. N. Bradford.
Regular Meetings—Last Saturday evening in
each month.
Next Meetin
27, at {The

—Saturday evening, December
tradesman”’ office.

 

 

¢®~ Subscribers and others, when writing
to advertisers, will confer a favor on the pub-
lisher by mentioning that they saw the adver-
tisement in the columns of this paper.

 

“A Terrible Temptation”—The gambling
dens.

 

Sagacious business men predict the return
~of prosperous times during the year 1885.

 

A moyement which deserves the immedi-
- ate co-operation of every business man—the
extinction of the gambling rooms.

 

Sixty million dollars will go to pensioners
during the current fiscal year. This vast
sum put in active circulation and widely dis-
tributed makes an immense amount of trade
in the aggregate.

 

However dull at times the news columns

- of the daily paper may become, there is one

item that thrills with unfailing regularity—

the announcement that the Western Nail
Association has affirmed the card rate.

 

- ©. C. Brisbin, bin, the Berlin bankrupt, states
that his sole possessions at the present time
area gorgeous reputation and a_ kicking
horse. If he will add to the above inven-
tory ‘“‘several thousand dollars rightly be-
longing to, dis creditors,” THE TRADESMAN
— Eaebede the correctness of the figures.

 

Sotiintn Seeks introduces a new charac-
ser this week in the person of Dr. C. Minor
Kobb, who proves himself to be fully equal
to his city professional brethren in human
discernment and business shrewdness, as is
evidenced in his use of the cabalistic charac-
ters, “DTTM,” which, translated, means
“Don’t Trust This Man.”

sa sa orn emer oereeraa aera

Dealers are e cautioned against : a new swin-
diing operation which is being played by a
slick-looking villain. His plan is to go into
a' store, ‘buy some small article and tender a
ten dollar bill in payment. By a shrewd
scheme he confuses the person making
change for him, and gets away with a five
dollar bill more than belongs to him. The
game will not’, work everywhere, but he is
quite successful.

 

 

--The strongest incentives to crime in this
city are its two dozen gambling dens. And
if Mayor, Belknap is able to puta stop to
their operations he will do the business men
of the place a service which they will ap-
preciate at its full worth. Many a pecu-
Jating salesman and embezzling cashier traces
his downfall to the gambling table, and bus-
iness,men generally recognize the fact that
the removal of temptation means that the
percentage of loss from this cause will be
greatly lessened.

 

 

a Belkna nap’s determination to put an
end to the career of the numerous gambling
establishments in this city will meet with
the approval of every honest man, and es-
pecially of the reputable business portion of
the' community. It is a matter of common
report that within the past year the tempta-
tions surrounding these hell-holes have caus-
ed the ruin of two mercantile houses and
wrecked a half dozen traveling salesmen,
and any attempt to lessen the evils resulting
from the existence of such dens will meet
with the encouragement and hearty co-oper-
ation of hundreds of innocent sufferers, as
well as those who are aware of the numer-
ous crimes for which these cess-pools of in-
iguity are directly responsible.

 

 

 

 

Whoare the Fakirs ?
From the Ovid Union.

-The goods ordered by the farmers from
the Grand Rapids fakirs, arrived Wednes-
day, and were delivered, like supplies to
the Indians out west. When the purchas-
ers found the quality inferior and short
weights, 12 and 14 ounces for a pound, with
spices which are said to be adulterated,
wasn’t there squealing though? In the lan-
guage of Nisbett of Big Rapids, “Now is the
time to kick.”

 

AMONG THE TRADE,

 

IN THE CITY.

D. C. Loveday & Co., hardware dealers at
East Jordan, have added a line of groceries,
purehasing their stock of Shields, Bulkley
& Lemon.

Richard Spencer has engaged in the gro-
cery business on East Bridge street, just
east of Union street. Clark, Jewell & Co.
furnished the stock.

Geo. Eastman Jr. has engaged in the gro-
cery business at the corner of Wealthy av-
enue and East street. Fox, Musselman &
Loveridge furnished the stock.

A certain city grocer does his own sign
painting. Ameng his recent triumphs are:
“Cairosean oyil 18 cents a gallon! Shugar
cheep as the cheepist! Flower by barrowal
or bagg.

John H. Delaney has purchased the fancy
grocery stock formerly owned by C. G. Mc-
Culloch & Co., and will carry on botha
wholesale and retail business on South Di-
vision street.

M. M. Ross, who has operated notion and
fancy goods stores at Wayland, Saugatuck
and Fennville in succession during the past
six months, isnow temporarily located at
92 Canal street.

W. T. Lamoreaux is constructing an elab-
orate office in one of the front show win-
dows of his bloek at 71 Canal street: and ex-
pects to occupy the entire building before
the beginning of the new year.

D. J. Peacock, who has just engaged in
general trade at Grant Station, purchased
his groceries of Shields, Bulkley & Lemon,
his boots and shoes of Rindge, Bertsch &
Co., and his dry goods of Paul Steketee &
Sons.

Michigan farmers have little to complain
of as regards the prices paid for hay
and oats. Ten dollarsaton for hay and
thirty cents a bushel for oats is better than
$5 and twenty cents, which are respectively
the ruling prices in most Indiana towns.

John Caulfield is making arrangements to
erect a fine brick residence on his lots on
the corner of Sheldon and Cherry streets the
coming season. The structure will be of
pressed brick, two stories in hight, and will
contain all the conveniences and improve-
ments incident to modern architecture.

 

“T can give you the reason for the exist-
ing ‘coolness’ between Tom Carroll and his
former friend and client, John Kendall,”
said a well-known legal gentleman, the
other day. ‘‘You see, when Turner & Car-
roll failed to get their account allowed in all
its voluptiousness, in the Kendall assignment
matter, they dfew John’s $250 exemption,
and refused to allow him any portion of the
amount. Hence the subsequent warmth.”

 

Several local traveling men have lately
been made the victims of a new trick by ho-
tel thieves. The scheme is for the thief to
sit at the writing table near some guest who
has put his overcoat in his chair and sat up-
on it. When he is absorbed in writing the
thief tugs at the coat with the apology, ‘‘Ex-
cuse me, sir, but you are sitting on my coat.”
The guest will naturally loosen up, and the
thief goes out with the coat. The loss is
not known until the letters are finished and
the thief is squares away.

“One of the peculiar changes of the times
is the growing popularity of Talman Sweet
apples,” said a well known produce dealer,
the other day. ‘“Itis not many years ago
that we never reckoned the Sweets anything
when lumping off an orchard, and they were
almost always left on tne trees. But we
don’t leave any now, you bet. Too many
barrels in a carload will sometimes injure
the sale, but ten or fifteen barrels will help
its sale. The Southern trade won’t look at
Greenings, and don’t like Spys, but you can
sell them Sweets till you can’t rest.”

M. C. Russell bought a quantity of bana-
nas from Wessels & Co., of New York, some
time ago, stipulating that they be shipped in
a refrigerator car. Instead of following di-
rections, however, the New York house ship
ped the fruit in acommon car, in consequence
of which it was unmerchantable when it ar-
rived here. Russell refused to receive the
bananas, and notified the house to that ef-
fect, but the latter insisted upon payment in
full, and began suit against Russell to col-
lect the amount of the claim. The case was
tried in justice court a day or two ago, and
resulted in a verdict of ‘‘no cause of action.”

A certain local cigar dealer does not like
waiting on “‘dead-heads,” not men who get
credit for cigars and never pay up, but peo-
ple who come in and ask him to do little ser-
vices for which he is not paid. In this class,
he includes those who want postage stamps,
those who want change, those who want a
light, those who want to see the directory,
and so on through a long list. There is also
the individual who wants to leave packages
for a little while, and the cigarman relates
that one day a countryman came in and left
three valises, and returned three times dur-
ing the day to get something out of them.
The dealer declares that very few of these
‘“dead-heads” ever purchase anything of him,
and proposes to shut down on them.

 

AROUND THE STATE.

P. H. Banega, grocer at Fremont, has sold
out.

Beamont & Collier are putting in a bak-
ery at Hart.

Place & Flickinger have engaged in the
meat business at Allegan.

E. E. Stone succeeds Drake & Stone in the
produce business at Leslie.

 

Frank Zimmerer will engage in the eco |
cery business at Muskegon.

H. E. Squires, late of Muskegon, has
opened a restaurant at Big Rapids.

Barker & Parker sueceed Burns & Johns
in the grocery business at Lansing.

Conrad Lehn succeeds Isaac Wibborn in
the hardware business at Manchester.

Davis Bros. have engaged in the jewelry
and confectionery business at Clinton.

Dr. M. S. Brownson has moved his drug
stock into his new building at Kingsley:

J. B. Lehman succeeds Motley & Lehman
in the boot and shoe business at Allegan.

S. H. Ballard has purchased the grocery,
stock and business of J. B. Taylor at Spar-
ta.

Dr. Geo. W. Crouter, the Charlevoix
druggist, is starting a branch store at Iron-
ton.

Stoddard & Porter, general dealers at
Richfield, have dissolved, Porter suceeed-
ing.

M. L. Coleman has purchased the E.S.
Porter grocery stock, at Lansing, for $2,-
600. °

E. 8S. Burrill, the Grant druggist, contem-
plates the erection of a brick store building
next spring.

Dan. C. Bennett has engaged in the gro-
cery business at Irvington. Gray, Burt &
Kingman furnished the stock.

Geo. W. Bliss & Son have sold their gro-
ecery stock at Plainwell to E. A. Owen.
They will continue in the boot and shoe bus-
iness.

Elizabeth B. Smart has retired from the:
firm of Wm. D. Carey & Co. Wm. D. Carey |
will continue the business under the same
firm name.

E. T. Conrad has sold his grocery and |
crockery stock at Cadillac to Lewis De-
Champlain, who will continue the business |
at the old stand. .

L. 8. Ballard has purchased a half interest |
in the furniture business of A. H. Smith, at.
Sparta, and the firm name will hereafter be
Smith & Ballard.

Geo. Adams, the lately deceased Battle
Creek grocer, willed his stock to his wife.
As soon as possible after an inventory is |
taken, the stock will be sold.

Day, Campbell & Co., of Detroit, have
durchased the Marantate dry goods stock at |
Bay City on mortgage sale for $3,100 over |
the first and second mortgages.

Albert Brand has purchased the interest |
of C. E. White in the meat market firm of |
Maentz & White, at Allegan, and the firm |
name will hereafter be Maentz & Brand.

Mr. Fowler, of the firm of Fowler

 

& |
Campbell, general dealers at Nashville, has |
sold his interest to John B. Messimer, and |
the firm.will hereafter be known as Camp- |
bell & Messimer.

Secor, Berdan & Co., of Toledo, have seiz- |
ed the grocery stock of C. M. Boss upon a |
chattel mortgage. Boss has been in busi-
ness less than a year, having succeeded Rob-
bins & Rathbon, at Ypsilanti, last March,

The inventory of the goods in the Maron-
tate store at Bay City is still is progress,
The liabilities will reach $45,000 and the as-
sets probably $25,000. The first and second |
mortgages are secured by sufficient stovk in
store. The outstanding accounts are stated
at $1,200.

A disagreement having occurred between
the partners in the firm of Lovejoy & Her-
rick, grocery dealers at Big Rapids, it was |
thought best to place the property in the
hands of a receiver, John R. Snyder having
been selected for that purpose. A note from
Mr. Lovejoy states that ‘‘the stock and ac-
counts will pay 100 cents and leave some-
thing for ourselves, if properly handled.”

| tion, are well known.

| ployed, turning out about 100 dozen

machinery is operated by a water

Michigan has fifty-nine railway corpora-
tions, but six of them are log roads, used on-
ly to haul pine to mills, which will disap-
pear with the timber.

Evart Review: Kalamazoo dealers are
buying eggs by weight. Our merchants
would do well to do likewise, as this is the
only honest and correct way.

C. A. Pearson, the Spring Lake hardware
and furniture dealer, contemplates shipping
a carload of clinker buats to New Orleans
for use on Lake Ponchartrain.

Levering is soon to have a saw, grist and

| turning mill, combined, the necessary build-

ings being now in process of construction.
Mr. Stockwell, of Grand Ledge, is the prime
mover in the enterprise.

The Chicago & West Michigan Railway
has made a contract for bringing down the
the S. N. Wilcox Lumber Co.’s logs to the
company’s mill, near Whitehall, and a
switch will be put in at the mill to facilitate
the operation.

Ionia Standard: W. W. Starkey has
commenced cutting his tub staves at his fac-
tory in this city. He has heretofore bought
his staves and shipped them in. He
will buy pine bolts and ship in the bolts and
saw the staves here.

According to the Charlotte Republican,
cotton can be grown in Michigan, but prob-
ably not very profitably. C. N. Riddle, of
Brookfield, recently exhibited a sample bolt
of his raising. The size and quality were
fully up to the ayerage grown in the South.
Mr. Riddle got his seed from Texas. He
grew some last year from the original seed.
That grown this year was from the seed of
that grown last year and matured in some
two weeks less time than the previous
crop.

Allegan Gezette: Farmers would find it
easier to tide over hard times if they would
depend less on one line of industry. There
are numerous little industries which go na-
turally handin hand with farming, and
which help out amazingly in hard times.
The success and profit of the celery culture,
which is gaining ground so fast in this  sec-
The extensive culti-
vation of horseradish was begun last year

_at Coldwater, one man raising 41,000 pounds

on a piece of ground 14x15 rods, and finding
demand for more than he had. Cucumbers
for pickles also find aready market, and
might be raised by many farmers with prof-
te

The fonia Overall Manufacturing Co.,
which has been in existence only a little
over a year, is now turning out twenty kinds
of overalls, and several kinds of cotton and
woolen pants and shirts, besides attractive
patterns in hunting and engineers coats.
At present about twenty-five hands are em-
pairs
per week, but as business improves and
the demand increases the capacity will be
inereased by the addition of more machines
and the employment of more help. The
motor.
Mr. E. D. Voorhees, the proprietor of the
factory, is an enterprising business man,
and is bound to meet with unusual success.

—e

 

     

, Season’s Work of the Grand Rapids Boom

Co.
F. Letellier, Secretary and Treasurer of

, the Grand Rapids Boom Co., furnishes Tire
| TRADESMAN with the following table, show-

ing the number of logs, and the amount in

| feet, handled by that corporation during the
| present season, together with the individual

owners of the same:

 

 

Owners. | Logs. | Feet.
Cc. C. Comstock | 95,167 10,143,243
C. F. Nason 26,589 | 3,648,547
Cupples Woodenware Co. | 30, 180 | 4,013,681
Michigan Barrel Co. 50,762 6,885,761
_R. H. Woodin 6,280 646,545
| R. W. Butterfield 3,070 292, O53

STRAY FACTS.

Mancelona people are moving in the mat- |
ter of a grist mill.

Lee & Brown’s new roller mill at Saranac:
is now nearly completed.

Hills & Son, of Saranac, have made 1 300,
barrels of cider this season.

The Newaygo pail factory has manufac- |
tured 200,000 pails the past year.

H. C. Garrett & Son have engaged in the |
manufacture of brooms at Wayland.

Nelson Banning, of Lyons, has six tons of |
evaporated apples, from his own orchard.

Henry Bergy has 13,000 pounds of evap- |
orated apples at his establisement at Cale-| |
donia. |

Crandall & Gridley, agricultural imple-|
ment dealers at Ithaca, have dissolved, Cran |
dall continuing.

Jackson is trying to get the Gale Manu-|
facturing Co. to remove there instead of re- |
building at Albion. |

Wm. Fitz Gibbons has manufactured 25,-
000 apple barrels this season at his shops at |
Saranac, Ionia and Belding.

Walter Blackmer & Co. have leased the |
Wilcox Paper Mill at Rochester, and are!
running it at its full capacity.

S. L. Seger, of Hillsdale, is going into the.
silk worm business. He has ordered fifty |
mulberry trees and 20,000 worms.

The A. W. Wright Lumber Co., at Sagi-
naw City, will employ a full crew about its
planing-mill and lumber yard all winter.

The Midland woodenware works, which
is operating on a capital stock of $75,000,
turn out 1,800 pails and 450 tubs per day.

A Coldwater man already has 4,200
pounds of horseradish ready for market and
thinks his an enterprise not to be sneezed
at.

Tobias Bergy contemplates starting up
his button factory at Caledonia again in the
spring, giving employment to about thirty-
five hands.

A pulp mill, for the manufacture of wood
into paper, is ameng the coming industries
of Petoskey, if the necessary arrangements

_ Macfee & Glover

 

can be made.

V7 | 105,909
50, O20 12,664,318
26,817 | 5,261,378
4,385 | “495,084

A. B. Long & Son
Letellier & White \
Grand Rapids Chair Co.
Dale & Dregge ord | 254,487
Total 295,269 | 44,311,199
The above figures represent the number of
logs actually delivered to the owners, about
5,000,000 feet of which are being carried
over by the owners in their own booms. In-
cluded in the above, are 68,187 logs, scaling
| 9,561,582 feet, which were carried down to
| Grand Haven, during the flood of June, 1883,

 

 

 

 

| | returned to this city by rail, and sorted ad

' delivered by the booming company. The
| totals this year are more than double last
year’s figures, when 21,921,707 feet were
' handled.

Regarding the progpects for next season,
| Mr. Letellier ventures the opinion that the
Maootning company’s operations will not ex-
| ceed 25,000,000 feet. C. C. Comstock will
| put in about five million, A. B. Long & Son
_ about nine million, the Cupples Wooden-
| ware Co. about four million, the Michigan
Barrel Co. about three million, Letellier
| & White about two million, and the Grand
| Rapids Chair Co. about half a million.
2 <>

You Will See it Next Week.
From the Wayland Globe.

Soliman Snooks, of Cant-Hook Corners,
this State, is the name of the new corres-
pondent of THe MicHiGAN TRADESMAN.
Soliman keeps a little store and is pust-mas-
ter at Cant-Hook Comers, and his exper-
ience in running a country store is immense,
and from his tell he is ‘thigh-cock-a-lorum”
in that part of the world. A photograph of

his “corners”? we would be pleased to see.
Sa <> -0-< ee
tos al Lumber Eocontes:

The Grand Rapids Boom Co. will hold its
annual meeting on Monday, January 5.

A. B. Long & Sons have about 6,000,000
shingles piled up at their mill at Blanchard.

Letellier & White will put in about 2,000,-
000 feet of logs this season, floating them on

Rogue and Flat rivers.
—_ OO

Boston people consume ten million quarts
of beans annually.

 

 

 

VISITING BUYERS.

The following retail dealers have visited
the market during the past week and placed
orders with the various houses:

Dr. Henry Lever, Newaygo.

A. W. Fenton, Bailey.

Kellog, & Potter, Gs seony ille.

H. Graham, Traverse City.

Gideon N oel, P

Mr. Ball, Bail &iS5., Grand Haven.

G. H. Walbrink, Allendale.

C. B. Moon, Cedar Springs.

R. H. Woodin, Sparta.

D. R. Stocum, Rockford.

F. A. Sisson, Sisson Bros., Freeport.

Jas. Campbell, Westwood.

Mr. Tanis, Den Herder & Tanis, Vriesland.
or Travis, of Koolvaard, & Travi is, Hamil-

n

0. Huyzer, Zeeland.

H.C. Peckham, Freeport.

Mr. Rigler, Rigler & Roush, Freeport.

Mr. Detterick, of Reese & Detterick, Rosini.

Geo. P. Stark, Cascade.

Mr. Kennedy, Kennedy & Kapnick, Cadillac.

Jacob DeBri, Byron Center.

D. €. Loveday & Co., East Jordan.

H. L. Carter, Sand Lake.

Teenue yor th & Co., Forman.
-& L. M. Wolf, Hudsonville.
Bassett & Sny der, & edar patie
W.S. Bartron, W.S. Bartron &
ton.

C. Cole, Ada.

G.S. Putnam, Fruitfort.

A. B. Gates, Rockford.

R. Carlyle, Rockford.

E. B. Sunderlin, Palo.

T. W. Preston, Lowell.

Decker Bros., Shiloh.

a Porter, Chauncey.

R. Steftin, Jamestown.

Jay Mar latt, Berlin.

Geo. A. Sage, Rockford.

E. Pangborn, Sand Lake.

H. Marshall, Whitehall.

Mr. Dickenson, of Dickenson & Raymond,
Fennville.

Mr. Bergy, of A. & E. Byrgy, Caledonia.

Dennis Haskeil, Gerkey.

E. B. Sunderland, Palo,

1.8. Jeffers, Palo.

oe Schroeder, of Schroeder & Harris, Shelby-
ville

W.F. Rice, Alpine.

Wm. Parks, Alpine.

D. W. Shuttuck, Wayland.

C. W. Wheeler, Shelbyville.

& Bergin, Low ell.

S. Bitely, Pierson.
Ww. H. Struik, Forest Grove.
i Omler, Wright.

¢ Co., Bridge-

H. W albrink, Allendale.
J. agin den, Grand Haven.
u. A. Gardner, Cedar Springs.
C. O. Bostwick & Son, Cannonsburg.
J. E. Mailhot, West Tr roy.
Wm. Ver meulen, Beaver Dam.
John Canfield, Hobart.
J.C. Benbow, Cannonsbure.
Baron & TenHoor, Forest Grove.
Geo. F. Cook, Grove.
W.S. Root, Tallmadge.
peine & Field, Englishv ille

.M. Dennison, East Paris.
BP Zz Quick & Co. ., Allendale.
Hoag & Judson, Cannonsburg..
Geo. Wilson, Bronard.
J.M. Crinnian, Lilly Junction.

C. B. Williams, Chippewa Lake.
O. E. Close & Co., Sand Lake.
G. N. Reynolds, Belmont.
Jay Marlatt, Berlin.
Rice & Lillie, Coopersville.
Henry DeKline, Jamestown.
D. E. McVean, Kalkaska,
A. J. Collar & Co., Reed City.
Gringhaus Bros., "Lamont.
E. L. Carbine, Scott.
Geo. Carrington, Trent.
Paige & Anderson, Sparta.
Purdy & Hastings, Sparta.
Holland & Ives, Kockford.
C. E. & S. J. Koon, Lisbon.
s. 7. Colson, Alaska.
J.C. Miller, Douglass.
Corbin & Wood, Sherman.
Pew & Mandeville, Palo.
J.B. Watson, Coopersville.
a W atson, of Watson & DeVoist, Coopers-
ville

——<>- 9 —<—____

“ Attached”? and ‘‘detached”’ are good
headlines for Chicago dailies,‘ the first for
engagements and the second for divorces.

a.

 

‘Most Men Would Think Otherwise.

A traveler for a certain wholesale grocery
house came across a new retail store just
started in a growing northern town the oth-
er day, and the proprietor was rubbing his
hands and smiling all over.

“Well, how does it go?” asked the tray-

eler.
-“Shoost like eaferytings,” was the re-
ply.

“No hard times here, eh?”

“Not a bit, trade vhas so booming dot I
can’t shleep nights.”

“What have your sales footed up for the
past week?”

“More ash seven hoondred
haf der broofs right here.”

And he brought out his day book and
showed the traveler where he had given
credit to the amount of almost $800, while
his cash book showed the receipt of about
$4.

dollar, und I

 

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Good Words Unsolicited.
McAdam & Brown, dry goods, Cadillac: “THe
TRADESMAN is a good paper.”’

McLeod & Trautman Bros., general dealers,
Moline; ‘* We prize the paper very much and
would not do without it. It is a paper that
every dealer ought to take. It is read by our
firm, and highly prized.”

 

 

LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES.

The Newaygo Company quote f. 0. b. cars as
follow:
Uppers] lt ineh......-...........:.. ver M apr a
Uppers, 14,1% and 2inch..

 

 

Selects, Eingh......... 28). 2a. oc... 35 00
Selects, 144, 1% and 2 ineh........ 38 00
Fine Common, PMCH. - 2... ce 3c. 30 00
SbOD. Pmmen 7.2. cen wees 20 00
Fine, Common, 144, 1% and 2inch. ...... 32 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 2, 14 and 16 feet 15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., mit. 16 av
No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 20feet................ 17 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 teet..... 15 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet................. 16 00
No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet........... .... ii
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 15
No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet................. 16
No. 1 Stocks, Sim, 20beet.... 1... 2.3L. 17
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18. feet................ 13
No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 20 feet... 20 ee: #8
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and J6 feet. Ve
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 feet............ 13
No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 feet... ........ 14
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet.. ll
No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 18 feet............. 2. a
No. 2 Stecks, Sin., 20 feet. ......22.22.. 13

Coarse Common or shipping culls, all
widths and lengths......0.. ....... 8
A and B Strips, 4 or 6in ..-............ ..

Hie
SSS SSSSSSSSSSSSESS SSSSSSESSESLES

as

@ Strips, 4orGineh................-... -- 28
No. 1 Feneing, all lengths................ 15
= 2 Fencing, 12, 14 and 18 feet. ce 12
2 beneing. 16 Feet... 2.20... 2 8... 12

No 1 Pencing. 4 inch... 2. tA ain. +. ce ee 15
No. 2 Peneine. 4 inch. .................... 12
Norway C and better, 4or6inch......... 20
Bevel Siding, 6inch, Aand B............ 18
Bevel Siding: 6 ineh, C................-.... 14
Bevel Siding, 6inch, No.1 Common.... 9
Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Clear..... ee 20
Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12, 12 to 16ft........ 10
$1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft.
Dressed Flooring, 6in., A. B............. 36
Dressed Flooring, 6in. C................. 29
Dressed Flooring, 6in., No. 1,common.. 17
Dressed Flooring 6in., No.2 common.... 14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal.
Dressed Flooring, 4in., A. Band Clear.. 35 00
Dressed Flooring, 4in., C..:.............. 26 00
Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5in., No.1 com’n 16 0¢
Dressed Flooring, 4 or5in., No.2 com’n 14 00
Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 additional.

XXX 18 in. Standard Shingles......... 3 50

De XM Sim. Phi... 5... 2.2... c.... 3 40
Pewee... ee. 3 00
No. 2 or6in. C. B18in. Shingles......... 2 00
NO 2ornin. ©. B16 in. ....:.....2....-.. 1 75
GN a 2 00

 

“OvYS?T

 

One of the most prominent and widely-known
oyster and fruit packing firms of Baltimore is that of

Messrs. W. R. Barnes & C0,

Packers of the celebrated “BIG GUN” brand of

Oysters,

Atlantic Wharf, Baltimore, Md.

A written description of this great Baltimore in-
dustry is inadequate to fully portray its magnitude,
its benefits to a large class of her citizens, and her
commercial advantages derived therefrom.

This great packing house is the stately and col-
lossal industry of a few years’ growth, and has been
reared and evolved by indomitable energy, inviola-
ble system, and inflexible uniformity in the excel-

lence of its products.

It is strictly within the domain of veracity to as-
sert that the products of no establishment upon the
continent engaged in a similar line of business, sur-
passes in quality and perfection of packing the goods
of this firm. They have steadily maintained their
deserved and universal reputation, not only through-
out the length and breadth of this continent, and
the label of W. R. Barnes & Co. is a favorite and
potent passport and guarantee to every grocer and
household of the excellence and perfection of every

article.

This firm have selected

Messrs, Eaton & Christenson

77 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.,
As distributing agents for their Oysters in Michigan.

Give them a trial.

All orders filled promptly. Send

in your holiday orders early.

 

 

   

107

 

Drugs & Medicines

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association

OFFICERS.
President—Geo. W. Grouter, Charlevoix.
First a President—Geo. M. McDonald, Kal-

amazo
— Vice-President—B. D. Northrup, Lan-

 

Third t Vice-President—F. rank Wurzburg, Gr’d

sees ry—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon.

Treasurer—Wm. Dupont, Detroit.

Executive Committee—H. J. Brown, A. B.
Stevens, Gev. Gundrum, W. H. Keller, F. W.
Fincher. ‘

Next place of meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday,
October 13, 1885.

 

Cirand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society.

 

ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884.

 

OFFICERS.
President—Frank J. Wurzburg.
Vice-President—Chas. P. Bigelow.
Secretary—Frank H. Escott.
Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild. as
Board of ae nn Peck, Chas. P. Bige-
low, Jas. S. Cowin.

Board of Trustees—The President, Wm. H.
Van Leeuwen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White,
Wm. L. White.

Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum, M. B.
Kimm, A. C. Bauer.
Committee on ceieetion=senne Watts, O. H.

Richmond, Jas. 8S. Cowin.

Committee on Trade Matters—H. B. Fairchild,
John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen.

Regular Meetings—F irst Thursday evening in
each month.

Annual Meetings—First Thursday evening in
November,

Next Meeting—Thursday evening, December
18, at “The Tradesman’’ office.

 

 

Mustard Paper of the United States Phar-
macopoia,

George McDonald of Kalamazoo, before the
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa-
tion.

“The mustard paper of the Pharmacopeeia
isthe process a good one, and is it advisory
for the dispensing pharmacist to prepare it?”

The writer, in experimenting with a view
to answering the above query, followed
strictly the directions of the Pharmacopezia,
which are that the powdered mustard shall
first be deprived of ias fixed oil by exhaust-
ing with petroleum benzin, and afterward
dried by exposure to the air. The dried
powder is then to be mixed with solution of
gutta percha to a semi-liquid or suitable con-
sistency for spreading. This mixture is
then to be applied by means ofa suitable
brush to one side of a piece of rather stiff,
well-sized paper, and the surface allowed to
dry.

The experience of the writer is that the
mixture cannot be applied with a brush, as
it peels up off the paper and follows the
brush, rendering it, in the writer’s hands, at
least, impossible to obtain a smooth continu-
ous covering in this manner. He found,
however, by spreading the mixture witha
common 8-inch spatula, a tolerable degree
of success was attained.

It is fair to presume that the mustard pa-
per of the Pharmacopeeia, was intended, if
not to imitate that furnished by foreign and
domestic manufacturers, at least to furnish
to the pharmacist a method by which he
could manufacture one of equal quality in
his own laboratory. The mustard paper of
the Pharmacopoeia differs, however, in many
respects from that supplied by the manufac-
turers. The first difference which would
suggest itself is that, asin the large manu-
factories the paper is spread by spec-
ial machinery, and by persons who are
experts in the business, the paper is more
uniformly spread and therefore more sight-
ly in appearance than it would be possible
for the majority of pharmacists to make it
by hand. But there are other points of dif-
ference of much more importance from a
purely practical standpoint. The mustard
paper of the Pharmacopeia is spread on
stiff, sized paper; that of the manufactur-
ers on soft, unsized paper. The mustard
paper of the Pharmacopeeia, is therefore
somewhat stiff and hard, that of the manu-
facturers soft and pliable, and more absorb-
ent than that of the Pharmacopeia. On
dipping in water the reaction resulting in
the formation of “essential oil of mustard”
is more rapid in the paper furnished by the
manufacturers than in that made by the pro-
cess of the Pharmacopeia. This is owing,
in part, to the character of the paper used;
but it is prubable that it is in a greater meas-
ure due, either to the use of aliquid for
mixing with the powdered mustard to bring
it toa suitable consistency for spreading,
which is composed of a solvent less volatile
than chloroform, and containing a smaller
percentage of resinous matter than the solu-
tion of gutta percha of the Pharmacopceia,
or to the use of a smaller proportionate
quantity of such liquid than would be nec-
essary to use in cases where the paper was
spread by hand.

In this connection the writer would say
that in the course of his experiments he
tried other solutions than that recommended
by the Pharmacopoeia for mixing with the
powdered mustard, and obtained better re-
sults from a solution of one dram of gutta
percha in ten fluld drams of coal tar benzole,
than from any other.

His reply to the query would be, that the
process of the Pharmacopoeia is not a good
one; and in view of the cheapness and su-
periority of the mustard paper offered by
both domestic and foreign manufacturers, it
is not advisory for the pharmacist to prepare
it.

 

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‘The Drug Market.

Business has been very satisfactory during
the past week, and collections are fully up
to expectations. Prices have remained
without change, with the single exception
of quinine, whicl? has advanced 14 cents an

ounce.

L. G. Ripley, whose drug stock at Monta-
gue was destroyed by the recent fire at that
place, has resumed business in his new
building.

 

THE CHLOROFORM HABIT.

 

The Use of Chloral Very Dangerous—Its Re-
sults.
From the Detroit Times.

“Few people outside of the medical pro-
fession realize to what extent the chloroform
habit has grown in this country,” said Dr. J.
E. Clark the other day.

“Name some of the effects it produces.”

“An exhilarating, tingling sensation in the
body. The feeling is, asnear as I can judge
similiar to that caused by the use of opium,
but briefer in duration. The victim of
chloroform mania, however, relapses soon
after inhalation into insensibility, but the
after effects are not so depressing in their
results as the effects of opium and mor-
phine.”’

“How long has the evil been recognized
among the medical profession as a habit?”

“Only within the past three or four
years.”’

“Tn which sex is the habit most com-
mon?”

“Among women, and frequently the
growth of the habit is the fault of physicians
who administer it for toothache, and so it
insidiously fastens itself upon its victim un-
til its grasp cannot be shaken off unless the
person so afflicted so wills it.”

“Ts the habit a common one in Detroit?”

“T cannot say that itis as common as the
morphine or opium habit. But it has grown
to such proportions that insurance compan-
ies have been compelled to interpolate a
clause in their policies interdicting its use.
An agent who is at all conscientious or un-
derstands his business will not insure per-
sons afflicted with the habit.”

“Name, doctor, some of the dangers aris-
ing from using chloroform?”

“A person, we will say, is afflicted with
insomnia. Chloroform is applied to a
handkerchief, and he or she lies down to
seek much needed rest. Unless the great-
est caution is used inhalation is continued
until the person seeking relief dies. Cases
are quite frequent where syncope or heart
paralysis ensues. Frequently, too, it acts
as an emetic. Should the person addicted
to the chloroform habit have a hard, undi-
gested substance in the stomach it is ‘liable
to come up and choke him to death. Then
again the tongue is liable to slip back, clos-
ing up the larynx, and asphyxia follows.
Theonly remedy in-such cases is to seize
the tongue quickly with a hovk and pull it
back.”

“Name some other
form habit.”

“Loss of memory; failure to formulate
ideas; loss of virility; dyspeptic symptoms;
pain in the region of the heart; a shuffling
gait, and aconstant desire to inhale. I
should remark at this point that at a recent
meeting of physicians held at the Detroit
Academy of Medicine the subject was grave-
ly discussed by twenty different physi-
cians.”’

“Ts the habit liable to supersede that of
morphine or opium.”

“1 think not. It merely extends the list
of dangerous habits. During the past year
three persons have died from the chloroform
habit in Detroit, among the number a _ prom-
ising young physician. Leta person take
an ounce or even half an ounce of chloro-
form and go to bed, and the chances are that
he will never wake up.”
>.>

A Turpentine Farm in Georgia.

To the dweller in the vast piney woods of
the South Atlantic States the yellow pine
bears much the same relation that the bam-
boo does to the Chinaman, or the palin to
the native of South America. From it he
builds his house and fences, and constructs
his rude furniture, carts and farming imple-
ments. Its light wood-knots serve him in
place of gas, kerosene, or coal, furnishing
him with light and fuel. He hews it into
squared timbers or railroad ties, saws it into
lumber, and, above all extracts from its
sap spirits of turpentine, rosin, pitch and
tar, which he exchanges for all the necessar-
ies and many of the luxuries of life.

The manufacture of naval stores, under
which general head are classed all the resin-
ous products of the yellow pine, was for-
merly confined almost exclusively to North
Carolina, where it was prosecuted so exten-
sively as to attach to the inhabitants of the
State the name of ‘““Tar Heels.”’ As the old
territory became exhausted, the industry
gradually moved southward, through South
Cafolina into Georgia where it now centers,
and from whence is derived more than half
of the entire supply. It has also invaded
Northern Florida, where the state convicts
are now employed in ‘“‘turpentining,’? much
to their own disgust, for they prefer the
railroad construction on which they have
been kept at work for some years past.

As the extraction of turpentine does not
unfit the trees for lumbering, and as the suc-
cess of both saw mill and turpentine still
depends upon a ready transportation to mar-
ket of their products, they are often found
in close proximity, and sometimes under the
same management.

Outside of those located on the banks of
navigable rivers, the largest saw-mills and
turpentine stills in Georgia are found along
the Central, the Savannah, Florida and
Western, and the Brunswick and Albany
Railroads. As the new and flourishing city
of Waycross, at the junction of the two last
named roads, is one of the most important
centers of the industry, it was here that in-
formation was sought concerning ‘turpen-
tining.”” With such courtesy were the writ-
er’s inquiries received that he soon found
himself seated on a railrod tricycle accom-
panied by a guide similarly mounted, and
rattling along at a merry pace over the rails,
through the solemn pine forest, toward Sat-

results of the chloro-

 

tilla river. On its southern bank, five miles
from Wayeros, is located the great Reppard
Mil), one of the finest and largest in the
South. That this mill is turning out one
hundred thousand feet of lumber per day,
and that within a radius of twenty miles
around it there is enough standing timber
to supply it for the next fifty years, argues
well for the prosperity of the Southern lum-
ber trade for some time to come.

Near this mill was found a turpentine still
in full operation, rapidy converting into na-
val stores the sap of thousands of trees,
which were afterward to be sawed into lum-
ber. While the mill was surrounded by a
village of small dwelling houses, shops,
forges, and a large store for its hundreds of

employes, forming thus a thriving settle-|-

ment in the heart of what two years ago was
an unbroken wilderness, the still had also
its own cluster of cabins and _ storehouses,

and its own commissary department.
oo
The Gripsack Brigade.

Jas. Barr now represents Chas. W. Allen,
of Chicago, in this territory.

W. W. Averill has returned from a three
months’ trip through Indiana and Illinois.

Mrs. W. S. Horn has gone to Muskegon to
spend the holidays with her parents and
other friends.

Isaac A. De Lamarta, traveling represen-
tative for E. T. Brown & Co., lies very low
at his home at 160 Sixth street, with malar-
ial fever. :

Dick Mangold, who has tarried with John
Caulfield the past year, has severed his con-
nection with that house, and is now in Chi-
cago looking up a new connection.

Such is fame! The Merchant Traveler
refere to the redoubtable Jim Fox as ‘Tim
Fox,” and the dainty junior partner in the
same house is dubbed ‘‘Loorirdge.”

Lawrence W. Atkins, who has been with
a New York clothing house for the past
three years, has engaged with Heavenrich
Bros., the Detroit clothing house the engag-
ment to begin January 1.

A drummer writes to the National Car
Builder asking what “was to hinder” rail-
roads from running special cars for commer-
cial travelers, whose samples were especial-
ly bulky, so that at each stopping place the
goods could be unpacked and arranged in
the car itself for show?

Wm. Boughton, who has represented the
boot and shoe house of R. & J. Cummings &
Co., of Toledo, in this territory for the past
six years, has received the usual annual in-
vitation to go in and “sort up,” which means
that he will continue to carry the line of
that house another year.

B. F. Emery, with Gray, Burt & Kingman,
will make less frequent visits to the ‘‘frozen
up” norghern trade for the remainder of the
season, devoting his energies to the princi-
pal business points in Southern Michigan, at
the same time looking after the interests ot
Wm. L. Ellis & Co., the Baltimore
packers.

A leading New York dealer asserts that a |
drummer rarely lasts over a half-dozen |
years, at the end of which time he is gener-
ally worn out and must give place to some
beginner who will renew the same exper-
ience. Either “‘a leading dealer’ is mistaken
or statistics are incorrect. Notwithstanding
the “‘boys” are obliged to work hard, they
last more than twelve years by a large ma-
jority.

English drummers are now soliciting trade
all over the United States for direct impor-
tation. Heretofore they have sold to New
York, and the merchants of that city, have
enjoyed the monopoly of supplying the rest
of the country, but the appearance of for-
eign drummers in Western cities means that
the foreign manufacturers are hereafter to
avoid the agency of New York and deal di-
rectly with their American customers.

—_—__—~. -- >
Purely Personal.

H. B. Fairchild spent a couple of days in
Detroit last week on business.

John L. Locke has been granted a patent
on an improved wooden scoop shovel.

S. M. Lemon, of Shields, Bulkley & Lem-
on, went to Chicago Sunday night on busi-
ness for his house and the Grand Rapids
Packing Co.

Daniel Lynch, formerly engaged in gener-
al trade at Blanchard, has removed to this
ciry and contemplates an alliance with some
jobbing establishment here.

Christian Bertsch, who has just returned
from the Eastern shoe manufacturing cen-
ters, reports a better feeling among Michigan
buyers than is exhibited by those from any
other part of the country.

Dr. Geo. W. Crouter, President of the
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association,
will spend a couple of months in Florida
and at the New Orleans Exposition this win-
ter. He will be accompained by his wife.

Frank E. Leonard started for New York
Sunday night, where he will spend a week
or ten days, buying holiday novelties and
meeting the agents of several foreign manu-
facturers. He was accompained by Harvey
P. Wyman, of the Chippewa Lumber Co,
a oe

A New Feature of the Craze.

The creditors of a certain northern dealer
recently met in this city pursuant to the call
of the latter.

“T have called you together,” said the
dealer,” to see if any of you have any sug-
gestions to make as to what I could do to
tide over the present hard times.”

“T suggest” said one of the principal cred-
itors, ‘‘that you open a roller-skating rink.”
9

Among the manufacturing possibilities of
Southern California, the Los Angeles Her-
ald mentions the manufacture of paper out
of what is known as “corn grass,” a kind of
pampas of luxuriant growth.

 

 

 

 

 

oyster |

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

Advanced—Quinine.

 

  

  
  
 

ACIDS.
Acetic, Ne Bes ee ee 9 @ 10
Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 35
Parbnlie = 6. 338 @ 35
ORG G Pa ae les @ 55
Murintic 18 deg... 2.2... ce: 8 @ 5
Nitric 86 d0r 2000... 605.55 Tt - @
IO oh cee eke Gs cae occ u4%@ 15
Sulphuric 66 deg................... 3@ 4
Tartaric powdered................ 48
Benzoic, English......... . 802 20
Benzotc, German.................- 2 @ Bb
MPAMMIG. 56 oie lec os 1 @ Ili
AMMONIA,
Carbonate... ...............3. @b 1 @ 18
Muriate (Powd. 22¢)..............6- 14
Aqua l6 deg or 8f.................- 6 @ 7
Aqua 18 deg or 4f................4. 7@ 8
BALSAMS.
oo ee ak @ 45
ele cuss weet: 40
eed Dee Peeled ete cee ce 2 50
PROV ee ee ek dd
BARKS.
Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20¢)........ 12
Cinchona, yellow................. 18
Bln, ROCCE. 62.22. coe cee sete 15
Elm, ground, pure................. 13
Elm, powdered, pure.............. 15
Sassafras, GL TOOU.... 6s... ee 10
Wild Cherry, select................ RB
Bayberry powdered............... 2
Hemlock powdered................ 18
WANOO Ge ees eke se 30
Soap ground... ... 2-652. 5..02.5-:. 2
BERRIES,
Cubeb, prime (Powd 60c).......... @ 55
SUMIPCR 66 occ ee a : @ 7%
Prickly ASH 20525227. ee 1¢0 @1 10
EXTRACTS.
Licorice (10 and 25 b poco 25¢).. 2
Licorice, pee eee cs 37%
Logwood, bulk (12 and 35 D doxes). 9
Logwood, 1s (25 Ib boxes).......... 12
Lgowood, 4s GO 2. es... 13
Logwood, 48 G0 ee ee. 15
Logwood,ass’d do .......... 14
Fluid Extracts—25 # cent. off list.
FLOWERS.
TANNICR ee cc et ce 10@ ll
Chamomile, Roman............... 25
Chamomile, German.............. 2
GUMS.
Aloes, Barbadoes................+- 60@ 75
‘Aloes, Cape (Powd 24¢c)............ 18
Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50
Ammoniac Pe eos esses sas ceases 6 28@ 30
Arabic. extra select..............- 60
Arabic, powdered select.......... 60
Arabic, Ist picked DOs occ se wns 50
Arabic,2d picked.................- 40
Arabic,c3d pickod.................- 35
Arabic, sifted sorts................ 30
Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c).. 30
IBOBZOIN 6. ees lace sce 55@60
@amphor.:.c..5..-5......:.-4..-.- 18@ 22
Geshu. 1s (% 14c, 44s 16c) : 13
Euphorbium powdered 35@ 40
Galbanum strained.. 80
Gambore.........:.........- a 90@1 00
Guaiac, prime (Powd 45¢).........
Kino [| Powdered, 30c].............- 20
IMASHIO Os ios ae oe os ee
Myrrh. Turkish (Powdered 47c).. 40
Opium, pure (Powd $5.75).......... 415
Shellac, Campbell’s................ 30
Shellac, HING@iESh.. 6. 2... 625... ete 26
Shellac, native.................505- 24
Shellac bleached...............+..- 30
TparAcanth ............-..--....-.- 30 @1 10
HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES.
Hogrhnound 22.00). 0o.. ss 25
MOWOMG. 262000 ce ese ee ce ee 25
Poeppermint.....-................ .-«.--..--- 25
NANO ee ec 40
Spearmint ............ sees e ee eee eect eee 24
Sweet Majoram......................-... 3... 35
PROT S see oe eee sca e es oa =
PRRVAING 26 06.8
SWORMWOO (0.2 6505.56 ces eck cee 33
IRON.
Citrate and Quinine............... 6 40
Solution mur., for tinctures...... 20
Sulphate, pure crystal............ it
GiUnahe = 2) ce ses ce ce. 80
| PRHOSpNate <.00 65.060 22. 6... 65
LEAVES.
Buchu, short (Powd 25¢)........... 12 @ 13
| Sage, Ttalian, bulk (48 & 4s, 12¢c).. 6
; Senna, Alex, natural.............. 20

 

Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30
Senna, powdered.................+

 

Senna Ce ee 16
Vive Drs 10
Belledonneg 2... css oe sk. 35
HOXMIOVG 6085 cc es ok 30
Wenvane soo ase 35
ROSE) NOG 87 oo oe ee: 2 35
LIQUORS.
W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2
Druggists’ Favorite Rye.......... 1 75 @2 00
Whisky, other brands............. 110 @1 50
Gin. Old Tom. .°. 5. .....25..--s-- 135 @1 75
Gin, Holland....:...:.....50..5-6... 200 @3 50
Brandy Pee es eee 5 coat site oe 1% @6 50
Gqrawes Wines! co.cc. fe 125 @2 00
Port WINCS od. ae vests 135 @2 50
MAGNESIA.
Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 0Z........ 22
Carbonate, Jenning’s, 20Z......... 37
Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 25
@aleined =.) .2....0... 632... ne. 65
OILS
AMONG, BWEEE. oo. owe. ce ce eee ees 45 @ 50
Amber, rectified................... 45
IANISC. gk =. ee coco es 2 10
MOV SOD ee we eee os 50
Bergamont, 200.6655... ee. 2 00
@aston: oc ce 18 @ 19%
Croton oo 68. ee. 2 00
Oajeput ..-......5;......-.2. 550... 75
GBSSIA ee ee 1 20
Cedar, commercial (Pure ibe) Bess 40
Citronella De snes s sas sie 85
@loves 23... 023 cas ee 1 25
Cubebs, P. & W.......... ceca, 5 26
IAM OVOR) 5666.26. es 1 60
BIVOWORU: 2 os. oo cece cs cee 2 00
Geranium # 02Z.............2 ee eee 75
Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75¢e).. 40
Juniper wood Bese el cle wae wes 50
Juniper berries...............0.206 2 00
Lavender flowers, French......... 2 01
Lavender garden do 1 00
Lavender spike do S 90
Lemon, new cCrop........-......+ 1 70
Lemon, Sanderson’s............-.- 175
EOMONGLOSS ooo ooo in ce eee 80
Origanum, red ower s, French.. 1 25
Oricanum, No. 1......-........... 50
POUMVEOVOL: ooo eee oe 1 49
Peppermint, white................ 3 25
ORO B07 8 oo ces ee. 8 50
Rosemary, French (Flowers $5)... 65
Sandal Wood, German............ 4 50
andal Wood, W. E. :....:...... .<- 7 00
SUSSATTAR oo. ce. esos. en ee toe 60
TPAVISY. oc oe es oe ee eee 4 50
Tar oy WO) GOO) 6a oe 100 @ B
Wintergreen ...... 2... 805s. . 2 2%
Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $6.50)..... 4 50
MAVIN oo ks oie cece eee eens 1 00
Wormse6ed . 2... 50. 2 50
Cod Liver, filtered..... . .. gal 1 50
Cod Liver, best......... ae 3 50
Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 6 00
Olive, Malag a. : @1 2
Olive, “4sublime italian 2 3. 2 50
Salad’ es ay secees ae eee ss 6 @ 67
Rose, Ihmsen’s............... B OZ 9 75
POTASSIUM.
Bicromate.. 22... 62620. c ees tb 14
Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... é

Chlorate, cryst (Powd 28¢).........
Jodide, cryst. and gran. bulk..... 2 90
Prussiate yellow................0-- 30

ROOTS.
AIKONCE oo eo oe a es 15
PNEBOS, CUb Eco oak ee cc es oes 27
Arrow, St. Vincent’s.............. 17
Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4s and %s.... 35
Blood (Powd 18¢c)..............006 ; 12
Calamus, 7 irae es Se cae» aes 18
Calamus, German white, peeled.. 38
Elecampane, powdered............ 23
Gentian (Powd l4c)................ 10
Ginger, African (Powd l6c)........ 13 @ 14
Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ 20
Golden Seal (Powd 30¢)............ 25
oles eee white, powdered....... 22
ecac, Rio, powdered............. 110
ip lap, powdered................... 387%
Licorice, select (Powd 12%)...... . 2
Licorice, extra select.............. 15
PAN GENO ce ea cea eee ene 35
Rhei, from select to choice.......100 @l1l 50
Rhei, powdered E.I............ --»-L10 @1 20
Rhei, choice cut cubes............ 2 00
Rhei, choice cut fingers........... 2 25
Serpentaria bias ss deve dba eee kana seis 75
See UU EDELG Gh be oC erar dk vie 65
Greanmctith Hondurus.......... 8 45

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|

| Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 18
| Squills, white (Powd 35c).......... 10
Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25
Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28c).. 20

SEEDS.
Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢)......... ; 13
Bird, mixed in b packages. ..... 56 @ 6
Canary, Smyrna... 2c 4@ 4%
Caraway, best Dutch (Powd meh ll @ WB
Cardamon, Aleppee............. 5 2 v0
Cardamon, Malabur..............8. 2 25
WOO RY fee os 25
Coriander, pest English........... 12
WOREIGE 15
Wlax, Clean) 3.0 se 38%@
Flax, pure grd (bbl 3%)........ tow 4 @ 4%
Foenugreek, powdered ee tae 8 @ 9
Hemp, Russian............2....:.- 54A@ 6
Mustard, white Black 10e)........ 8
QUNNC@ 6 aa 1 00
ape, Onslish.. ... 2... 6 @ 7
Worm, Gevant...... 0.6008 a 14
SPONGES.
Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50
Nassau do ag 2 es 2 00
Velvet Extra do do 110
Extra Yellow do dO = ..... 85
Grass do QO, .2c2: 65
Hard head, for Blnte MS@. 22 a. 75
Yellow Reef, eee. 1 40
siceueene:

Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.18) # gal.. 2 28
Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 50
Anodyne Hoffman’s........<...... 50

 

Arsenic, Donovan’s solution......
Arsenic, Fowler’s solution........ 12

 

Annatto 1 rolls...........0..0.... 45
Blue Soluble... 2... .. 2... 50
Bay Rum, pene Ps Soest ass 27%
Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2
AU eo 8 ib axe 3%
Alum, ground (Powd 9¢).......... 4
Annatto, prime................0005 32
Antimony, powdered, com’l...... 44@ 5
Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ T
Balm Gilead Buds................. 40
Means, Tonka... 6.2... 8. 2 00
Beans, Vanilla. .....-......0.2...:. 7 00 @9 75
Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 1 60
Blue Pill (Rowd (Oe). 2.0.3.0... 45
Mine Vitviol 3...) 622. 7*%@ 9
Borax, refined (Powd 18¢)......... 12
Cantharides, Russian powdered.. 2 50
Capsicum Pods, Afriean.......... 18
Capsicum Pods, African pow’d.. 20
Capsicum pote American do... 18
Carntine, NoO:40......... 1... 4 00
Cassia Buds... 2
Calomel. American................ 75
Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5
Chalk, precipitate English........ 2
Chalk, red fingers................. 8
Chalk: white tump................. 2
Chloroform, Squibb/s............. 1 60
Colocynth apples.................. 60
Chloral hydrate, German crusts.. 1 60
Chloral do do _cryst.. 17
Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90
Chloral do do crusts.. 1%
Chioroform ........000.0) 100 @1 10
Cinchonidia, P. & W............... 40 @ 45
Cinchonidia, other brands......... 40 @ 45
Cloves (Powd 2 SE. 20 @
@Cochineal 30
Cocoa Butter............... 2. 45
Copperas (by bbl Ie)........... 2
Corrosive Supe Bec e. ae 70
Corks, X and XX—35 off list......

Cream Tartar, pure powdered. .... 38 @ 40
Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 ib box.. 15
@reasote: 50
Cudbear, prime... ............0.... 24
Cuttle Fish Bone................... 24
Dextrine. 2. oi 12
Dover’s Powders.................. 1 20
Dragon’s Blood Mass.............. 50
Ergot powdered............-...0., 45
Ether Squibb’s................. 2... 110
Emery, Turkish, all No.’s......... 8
Epsom Salts. 2) 0) 0, 24@ 3
Hrgot, fresli.c... 50
Ether, sulphuric, U.S. P.......... 69
Blake white...) ...... 0 ok... 14

Grains Paradise................... 25

   

  
 

 

Gelatine, Cooper’s................. 90
Gelatine, French .................. 45 @ 7
Glassware, flint, 79 off,by box en
Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis..
Give, cabwict......... 2 @ ii
Glue white... 0... li @ 28
Glycerine, pure ae lj @ 20
Hops 4s and \s.......... sue 25 40
Iodoform # 0z...... pe SoG 35
INGIZO 8 @1 00
Rigs Powder, best Dalmatian... 25 @ 30
Iodine, resublimed ag eae a 4 00
Isinglass, American... 8 1 50
SRDOMICH 0... ek. eke 9
London Purple............ 10 @ b
Lead, acetate............... 15
Lime, chloride, (48 2s 10¢c & 4 llc) 9
UpUMe 1 00
pores ee ee Ee a 50
See ee 30
adder, best Dutch.............. RY@ 13
Manna, Se. 15
MOCRCUEY 60
Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... 9 oz 3 00@3 25
Musk, Canton, H., P. & Cos. 2... 40
Moss, Iceland.................- #8 ib 10
Moss, Enishe oo 2
Mustard, English.................. 3
Mustard, grocer’s, 10 ® cans...... 18
INTRA 20
Nutmers NO. bo... 7
Nux Vomiea. ........ 6... 10
Ointment. Mercurial, 4$d.......... 40
Pepper, Black Berry.............. 18
ONSINE oe oo ee 3
Pitch, True Burgundy.............
Quassia eee @
cee Sulph, P. & W........ Ib o21 00 @l 05
uinine, German.................. 9 @1 00
Seidtitz Mixture................... 28
Strychnis, cryst.................... 150
Silver Nitrate, cryst............... 79 @ 8
Red Precipitate............... Bb 80
Satfron, American................. 35
Sal Glauber ....-.'................ @ 2
Sal Nitre, large cryst.............. 10
Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... 9
Sal Boenole Ee one es 33
Sal Soda...... 2@ 2%
Salicin...... a 2
Santonin 3.02.0 6 75
Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scotch....... 38
Soda Ash [by keg 8e].............. 4
Bpermaceti .: 8... 25
Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s.... 4@ 5
Soap, White Castile................ 14
Soap, Green do. ..... .......... 17
Soap, Mottled do ...................... 9
Soap, G05 00. 06506 si ll
Soap. Maz7ini §. ci. o 2. ce 14
Spirits Nitre, SE..................% 26 @ 2
Spinkts Nitro, 48 ........... 12... 28 @ 8
Sugar Milk powdered.............. 30
Sulphur, flour. ..... i... 0.222.002. 384@ 4
Sulphur voll... 2... 5.8: 8@ 3%
Hartar HmMebic:: o.oo. so. ee
Tar, N.C. Pine, % gal. cans #$ doz 2 TO
Tar, do quarts in tin....... 40
Tar, do pintsin tin......... 85
Turpentine, Venice........... 2 ib 25
Wax, White, S. & F. brand........ 60
Zine, Sulphate. : .. 23... oc. s ek 7 @ 8
OILS.
@apitol Cylimder os. ec lee 75
Model OCvlinder o.oo. ccc eco oe cece ie eee 60
Shields Cylinder... .... 02. 3... s. eec ee ce
lGOradO PINGING. 2. ee oe ccs 45
Peerless Machinery........:......0..s.esccsece 35
Challenge Machinery..............cccsecceccee 25
Backus Fine Engine.....................00 000 30
Black Diamond Machinery.................... 30
Custor Machine Oi)... 2.0... .2.. soc e 6C
Paratine, 25 dee 2. fe cocks, 22
IPAUSMING. 28 GOP. oo... ok oe oe oe en cs wee 21
Sperm, winter bleached..................... 1 40
Bbl Gal
Whale winter. 2... ocean hes 80 85!
avd Gxt. tcc assess 64 10
ard NO bo ca 55 65
Linseed, pure raw................... 50 53
hAnsGed, NOUECG 2.5... 6.5... ccc vee ee 53 56
Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 70 90
Spirits Turpentine................... 35 40
VARNISHES.
No.) Tnrp Coach. ..... 2.260. ..2.6..65e 1 10@1 20
extra (DUE. cs. is ee cee 1 60@1 70
Coach Body. i... eas 2 75@3 00
No. 1 Turp Furniture................0. 1 00@1 10
Extra Turp Damar......... 55@1 60
Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.............. 7 75
PAINTS.
Bbl Lb
Boralumine, White bulk) ........ 9
Boralumine, ‘ DIS | .2..<..- 10
Boralumine, Tints bulk. }50 off. 10
Boralumine ‘‘ § TS. fo cess il
Red Venetian.................- 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3
Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3
Putty, commercial ............ 2% 24%@ 3
Putty, strictly pure............ 2% 2%@ 3
Vermilicn, prime American... 18@16
Vermilion, English............ 60@65
Green, Peninsular............. 16@17
Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 5%
Lead, white, strictly pure..... 5%
Whiting, white Span Sho : @i0
Whiting, Gilders’.............. @90
White, aris American........ 110
Whiting Paris English cliff. . 140

 

HAZELTINE,
PERKINS
& CO,

Wholesale

ruggists!

2and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 98 and
95 Louis Street.

IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF

rues, Medicines, Chemicals,
Paints, Oils, Varnishes,
and Drageist’s
Glassurare

MANUFACTURERS OF

ELEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS.
FLUID EXTRACTS AND ELIXIRS.

GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR

WoLF, PATTON & Co., AND JOHN L. Wuit-
ING, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE
PAINT AND VARNISH |
BRUSHES.

—Also for the—

GRAND RAPIDS BrusH Co., MANF’RS or
HAR, SHOE AND HORSE BrusuHes.

Druggists’ Sundries

Our stock in this department of our busi-
ness is conceded to be one of the largest,
best-assorted and diversified to be found in
the Northwest. We are heavy importers of
many articles ourselves and ean offer Fine
Solid Back Hair Brushes, French and Eng-
glish Tooth and Nail Brushes at attractive
prices. Ourline of Holiday Goods for the
approaching season will be more full and el-
egant than ever before, and we desire our
customers to delay their fall purchasers
of those articles until they have seen our el-
egant line, as shown by our aceredited repre-
sentative who is now preparing for his an-
nual exhibition of those goods.

We desire particular attention of those
about purchasing OUTFITS for NEW STORES
to the fact of our unsurpassed facilities
for meeting the wants of this class of buyers

| without delay and in the most approved and

acceptable manner known to the drug trade.
Our special efforts in this direction have re-
ceived from hundreds of our customers the
most satisfying recommendations.

Wine and Liguor Department

We give our special and personal atten-
tion to the selection of choice goods for
thedrug trade only, and trust we merit the
high praise accorded us for so satisfactorily
supplying the wants of our customers with
Pure Goods in this department. We con-
trol and are the only authorized agents
for the sale of the celebrated

Withers Dade & Co’s

Henderson Co., Ky., SOUR MASH AND
OLD FASHIONED HAND MADE, COP-
PER DISTILLED WHISKYS. We not:
only offer these goods to be excelled! by No-
OTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market, but
superior in all respects to most that are ex-
posed for sale. We GUARANTEE perfect
and complete satisfaction and where this
brand of goods has once been introduced the
future trade has been assured.

We are also owners of the

Drnggists Favorite Rye,

Which continues to have so many favorites
among druggists who have sold these goods
for a very long time. Buy our

Gls, Brandies & Fine Wines.

We call your attention to the adjoining
list of market quotations which we aim .to
make as complete and perfect as possible.
For special quantities and for quotations on
such articles as do not appear on the list such
as Patent Medicines, etc,, we invite your cor-
respondence.

Mail orders always receive our special ~
personal attention.

HAZELTINE PERKINS & CO

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

The Micheal Tradesmnall

A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH
WEDNESDAY.

 

 

E, A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors.

OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 3d FLOOR.

 

[Entered at the

Postoffice at Grand Rapids as
Second-class :

Matter.

 

 

__ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1884, _

BUSINESS LAW.

 

Brief Digests of Recent Decisions in Courts
of Last Resort.

 

HOMESTEAD—DEBT—EXECUTION.

The unexecuted intention of a widow to
occupy and claim land of her deceased hus-
band as a homestead does not exempt it
from the payment of the husband’s debts, ac-
cording to the decision of the Kentucky
Court of Appeals, in the case of Hicks vs.
Soaper.

REHYPOTHECATION OF SECURITIES.

Where the owner of securities pledges
them with a stock broker as collateral for a
loan, the latter has no right to rehypothecate
them in such a way that they cannot be re-
stored to the owner upon payment of the
loan, even though it be understood by both
parties that the broker will have to use the
securities to obtain the loan. So held by
the Circuit Court of the United States for
the Southern District of New York in the
ease of The Oregon & Transcontinental Co.
vs. Hilmers.

STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS—NEW PROMISE.
When the plaintiff seeks to remove the
bar of the statute of limitations by proof of
a new promise by , implication from an ac-
knowledgement of the debt, the evidence
should show an admission of a previous sub-
sisting debt, which the defendent is liable
for and willing to pay. So held by the Su-
preme Court of New Hampshire, in the case
of Holl vs. Gage. In this case, the court
held that the taking of security from the
principal by a surety upon a promissory
note was not of itself an admission to the
holder of an indebtedness which the surety
was liable and willing to pay sufficient to re-
move the bar of the statute of limitations.

COMMON CARRIER—LIMITATION OF LIABIL-
ITY.

The question of the liability of a common
carrier for the full amount of the actual loss
-of property in its hands by accident where
the bill of lading for such property, signed
‘py the shipper, limits the company’s liability
to a sum much below the real value, was in-
volved in the case ofHart vs. Pennsylvan-
ia Railroad Co., recently decided by the Su-
preme Court of the United States. In this
ease, it appeared that the plaintiff in error,
Hart, shipped five horses and other property
in one ear, by the Pennsylvania Railroad,
under a bill of Jading signed by him, which
stated that the horses were to be transported
“upon the following terms and conditions,
which are admitted and accepted by me as
just and reasonable: First to pay freight
thereon (at a specified rate), on the condi-
tion that the carrier assumes a liability on
the stock to the extent of the following
agreed valuation: If horses or mules, not
exceeding $200 each. * * * Ifa charter-
ed car, on the stock and contents in the
same, $1,200 for the cearload. But no car-
rier shall be liable for the acts of the ani-
mals themselves, * * * nor for loss or
damage arising from the condition of the an-
imals themselves, which risks, being beyond
the control of the company, are hereby as-
sumed by the owner and the carrier released
therefrom.” By the negligence of the rail-
road company or its servants, one of the
horses was killed, and the others were in-
jured, and the other property was lost. Ina
suit to recover damages, it appeared that the
horses were race-horses, and the plaintiff off-
fered to show damages based on their value
amounting to over $25,000. The court be-
low excluded this evidence, and the plaintiff
recovered a verdict for only $1,200. The
Supreme Court, in affirming the judgment of
the lower court, held, first, that the eyidence
was rightly excluded, and that the valuation
and limitation of liability in the bill of lad-
ing were just and reasonable and binding on
the plaintiff; second, that the terms of the
limitations covered a loss through negli- |
gence; and, third, that where a contract of |
this kind, signed by the shipper, was fairly |
made, agreeing on a valuation of the proper: |
ty carried, with the rate of freight based on |
the condition that the carrier assumed lia- |

bility only to the extent of the agreed valua- |
tion—even in case of loss or damage by the |
negligence of the carrier—the contract |
should be upheld as a proper and lawful |
mode of securing a due proportion between |
the amount for which the carrier might be |
responsible and the freight he'received, and
of protecting himself against extravagant |

andfanciful valuations. |
——_—_—__—» 2-2 -
Business is Looking Up.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.

 

 

i

A few weeks since the celebrated Schuy-| §

lerville paper mills manufactured forty-five |
tons of cardboard to be used exclusively in |
making playing cards. Other large orders |
for the same material are waiting to be fill- |
ed. These demands for a peculiar quality |
of paper show pretty clearly what our na-!
tional game really is and afford a text for
the moralist to elaborate. Draw poker and |
old sledge have still a strong hold on the |

popular heart.

ree ee

Look out for counterfeit $20 silver certifi-
cates, which have lately made their appear-
ance. They are well executed.

TIME TABLES.

Michigan Central—Grand Rapids Division.
MICHIGAN CENTRAL

toe Sse oats Sone
Nee py

   
 

DEPART.

+Detroit EXpress........---+++--eeereee 6:00 am
+Day EXpress........----0-2e cree eee! 12:45 9m
*New York Fast Line...........--.---- 6:00 p m
+Atlantic EXpress.........---eseseeeeee 9:20 pm
ARRIVE.
*Pacific EXpreSS..........----eeeeee eee 6:00 am
+Local Passenger..........-.---+e+eee 11:20 am
Ge ee tees 3:20 p m
+Grand Rapids Express.........---.-- 10:25 p m

*Daily.

+Daily except Sunday.
Atlantic and Pacific

Sleeping cars run on
Express.

The New York Fast Line runs daily, arriving
at Detroit at 11:59 a. m., and New York at9p.
m. the next evening.

Direct and prompt connection made with
Great Western, Grand Trunk and Canada
Southern trains in same depot at Detroit, thus
avoiding transfers.

The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a, m. has
Drawing Room and Pesrlor Car for Detroit,
reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10:30
a. m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day.

A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except
Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv-
ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m.

J. T. SCHULTZ, Gen’! Agent.

 

Chicago & West Michigan.
Leaves.

Arrives,
opal) Lee A ys 9:15am 4:07pm
+Day Express..........---- 12:25pm 11:00pm
*Night Express............ 9: 3pm 6:00am
MGXOGs oo a 6:10am 10:05pm

*Daily. +Daily except Sunday.

Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains.
Through parlor car in charge of careful at-
tendants without extra charge to Chicago on
12:25 p. m., and through coach on 9:15 a.m. and
9:85 p. m. trains.

NEWAYGO DIVISION.

Leaves. Arrives.
WikeG 66... ee 4:00am 5:15pm
EXpreSS..... .----- seer cree 3:50pm 4:15pm
EXPYeS8 .....--0-e cece es eseee 8:10am 10:30am

‘All trains arrive and depart from Union De-

ot.
The Northernterminus of this Division is at
Baldwin, where close connection is made with
¥F. & P. M. trains to and from Ludington and
Manistee.
J. H. PALMER, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

 

Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee.

GOING EAST.

Arrives. Leaves.
+Steamboat Express....... 6:20am
+Through Mail......-..---- 10:15am 10:20am
+Evening Express.......-.- 3:20pm 3:55pm
*Atlantic Express.......--- 9:45pm 10:45pm
+Mixed, with coach........ 10:30 a m

GOING WEST.
+Morning Express......-.-- 12:40pm 12:55 pm
+Through Mail.........--- 5:00pm 5:20pm
+Steamboat Express....... 10:30 p m
PURO 52). 5.5. a-s------- j:l0am
*Night Express......----.-- 5:10am 5:30am
+Daily, Sundays excepted. *Daily.
Passengers taking the 6:20 a. m. Express

make close connections at Owosso for Lansing
and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at
10:00 a. m. the following morning.

Parlor Cars on Mail Trains, both East and
West.

Train leaving at 5:10 p, m. will make con-
nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except
Sunday and the train leaving at 5:10 p.m. will
connect Tuesdays and Thursdays with Good-
rich steamers for Chicago.

The mail has a Parlor Car to Detroit. The
Night Express has a through Wagner Car and
local Sleeping Car Detroit to Grand Rapids.

D. PortrER, City Pass. Agent.

Guo. B. REEVE, Traflic Manager, Chicago.

 

Grand Rapids & Indiana.
GOING NORTH.
Arrives.
Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex 8:45pm

Leaves.
9:00 p m

Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:20 a m 10:25 a m
Ft. Wayne &G’d Rapids Ex 3:55pm 5:00pm
i'd Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:10am
GOING SOUTH.

G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 7:00am
Mackinac & Cincinnati Ex. 4:08pm 4:35pm
Mackinac& Ft. Way: eEx..10:5am U1 :45 pm

Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40pm

All trains daily except Sunday.

SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS.

North—Train leaving at 9:00 o’clock p. m.
has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and
Mackinac City. Train leaving at 16:25 a.m. has
ae Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse

dity.

South—Train leaving at 4:35p.m.bas Wood-

ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati.
c. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Pass. Agent.

Lake Shore & Michigan Southern.

(KALAMAZOO DIVISION.)

 

Arrive. Leave.
EXpresS.........------+-0+ 7:00 pm 7:35 am
Wan 2 oc 9:35am 4:00pm

Alltrains daily except Sunday.

The strain leaving at 4 p.m. connects at
White Pigeon with Atiantic Express on Main
Line, which has Palace Drawing Room Sleep-
ing Coaches from Chicago to New York and
Boston without change.

The train leaving at 7:35 a.m. connects at
White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with
special New York Express on Main Line.

Through tickets and berths in sleeping
coaches can be secured at Union Ticket office,
67 Monre street and depot. .

J. W. McK ENNEY, Gen’l Agent.

 

 

Needed by every retail grocer or confee
tioner, one or more of Kenyon’s Patent
Spring Paper Bag Holders. Each has ¢a-
pacity of containing about fifty bags. Their
great convenience can be learned by having
one mailed for 30e, four for $1, or one dozen
expressed for $2.50 from Kenyon Brothers,
Wakefield, Rhode Island.

 

 
 
       
     
       
      
    
      
       
      
       
    
         
 

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Common Sense
BOOK KEEPING,
FOR

RETAIL GROCERS,

AND
GENERAL STOREKEEPERS,
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TWO BOOKS ONLY
For All Purposes.

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combining both DAY BOOK AnbD LEDGER §&
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ments are furnished in one-third the time §
required by the usual process, @s_ hundreds §

who are using it will cheerfully testify. 7

AND ot
“THE COMPENDIUM,” requiring but 10f
minutes a day to record each day’s CASH )
transactions, and supply a complete self-
proving PROFIT an LOSS Balance sheet §
whenever desired,

Full details, illustrated by example, sent
free to MERCHANTS sending name and f
address to HALL & CO., Publishers, 154
LakE $tT., CHICAGO, ILL. If possible
send BUSINESS CARD.

  

 

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CHEW THEE

New Dark “American Eagle”

FINE CUT.
THE BEST IN THE MARKET.

Send an Order to your Wholesale Grocer for it. Manufactured by

American Eagle Tohacco (0.

Detroit, Mich.

BUY, SELL, DRINK

"TEL E-

BEST COFFEE in the WORLD

Chase c& Ganborn’s
Standard Java.

 

 

 

 

  
   
 
 

STANDARD

JAVA.

Warranted strict}

finest quality grown) PURE and of the

 

 

 

Always packed in Air-Tight Tin cans, thereb} perfectly retaining-Strength and
Flavor.

Over 15,000 Grocers

Throughout the United States and Canada

Pronounce it the FINEST COFFEE they ever sold and testify that it has large-
ly increased their sales by its SUPERIOR QUALITY.

The following testimonial coming as ft does from one of the largest if not the largest gro-
cers in the United States, is worthy of your consideration; :
CINCINNATI, December 20th, 1883.
Mussrs. CrraAsE & SANBORN, Boston, Mass.

GENTLEMEN—In reply to yours of the 18th inst., asking our views in regard to the
general excellence of your “STANDARD JAVA,” will say that our house was founded in
the year 1840, and from that time to the present our earnest united efforts have been to se-
cure goods which represented the very highest grade of quality, and the success we have
had and the reputation we enjoy we attribute to this policy.

About a year ago our attention was called to your “STANDARD JAVA,” we person-
ally tested it very carefully and to our mind it was most excellent. We then ordered a
sample lot and placed it before our customers for approval, and it was pronounced by them
a very fine Coffee. Since then as you know we have bought largely, and freely admit that
it gives the best satisfaction. It is uniform in quality, and we have daily proofs from con-
sumers that it is richer, finer flavored and more uniform than the Coffee we formerly sold
which was the finest brand of Ankola or Mandeheling Java in the market.

Yours respectfully,

(Signed, ) Tos2zph EF. Peebles’ Sons.

Send for Sample Lot.

We guarantee fo increase your Coffee trade. We have done it with others; we can with you.

CHASE & SANBORN,
Importers, Roasters and Packers,

Boston, Mass. U. SS. “A.

CANADIAN BRANCH, | MICHIGAN AGENT.
435 ST. PAUL STREET, | zx. TT. Chase,
Montreal, P. Q. Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids.

 

Old Country Soap.

This SOoapD for the Laundry stands unsurpassed. It is Pure,
having none of the fillings such as White Silex, Flour, Starch, Ete., so common to Light

One Pound Bar oo
Hotels, Laundries, Pri-

 

 

 

Colored Soaps. It is a full weight
Solid Soap, Steam Pressed, and always uniform and reliable.
vate Families, and all consumers of Soap will consult their own interests by Buying and

Trying CIAL Country Soap. Sold by all Retail Grocers
3 Tb bars of soap. 4 One Pound

Bars for 25 cents. Any Wholesale Grocer can fill your order, for 1 keep a large stock
f OIA Country Soap wrapped and wnwrapped with my

agents,

SHIELDS, BULKLEY & LEMON,

———WHOLESALE GROCERS ———
CORNER IONIA AND ISLAND STREETS, GRAND RAPIDS.

——MANUFACTURED BY-——

ALLEN B, WRISLEY,

Laundry, Toilet Soaps and Perfumes,

479, 481 and 483 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, Ill.

N. B.—Five and Ten Box Lots Delivered Free to Your Railroad Station,
SEE QUOTATION LIST FOR PRICES. :

 

CLARK, JHWELL & CO,

VW ELOLESALE:

Groceries and Provisions,

33. $5 and $7 PEARL STREET and (14, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS, " = : MICHIGAN.

 

 

 

BLANCHARD BROS. & CO

———PROPRIETORS

MODEL MILLS.

MANUFACTURERS OF——

Gilt Ele Patent and White Loaf Brands of Flour.

Good Goods and Low Prices.

 

 

We invite Correspondence.

EF'ull Roller Process.

CoRNER WINTER AND WEsT BRIDGE Srs., - GRAND RApIps, Micu.

ENTEHRPRISH CIGAR CO.

SOLE AGENTS FOR THE FAMOUS AND POPULAR BRANDS

OLYMPIA,

——_ADIID—

LA BELLE SENORA.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Butts’ Patent Processed

“Hulled Corn Flour”

——FOR

(riddle Cakes, Gems, Waffles, Etc., Ete

Finest and Best Selling Article of the Kind ever placed on the Market.
Guaranteed to be as Represented, or No Sale. For Sale by all J obbers in Grand
Rapids.

Butts’ Patent Processed Buckwheat

Is Warranted to be the Straighest and Best Goods Ever offered to the Trade.

F. J. LAMB & COMPANY,

—WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

Butter, Cheese, HEges,

Apples, Onions, Potatoes, Beans, Etc.

 

 

 

State Agent for the Lima Patent Egg Cases and Fillers.

NO. 8 AND 10 IONIA STREET,

GRAND RAPIDS. - MICHIGAN.

TRAMWAY PLUG

The Most Suecessful Brand

on the Markel.

RRARR RR eeeeeeeeeeeeoeeeeeeeerereseers reer

Still Leading. all: others in Sales--The
Popular Brand with the Trade,

ROI IL ILO A ALAA A AAA

Order Sample Butt.

RAALLAL LAA LAAN

 

 

OO eee

CODY, BALL & CO
Choice Butter a Specialty !

BANANAS, LEMONS, EGGS, CHEESE, VEG-
ETABLES, APPLES, CIDER.
Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders.

M.C, Russell, 48 Ottawa St., G'd Rapids,

 

 

 

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Dry Goods. __
oo
The Manufacture of Buttons.

The United States Economist says that
the button trade of New York is estimated
at from $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 a year.
At American rate of wages, many of the im-
ported buttons could not be put upon their
eards for the price they sell for. Glass but-
tons are made mostly in Bohemia, and chil-
dren are largely employed at the work,
which they do as quickly and neatly as
adults. The children get ten cents a day,
men from forty to fifty cents and women a
little less. Pearl buttons are imported from
Vienna, where they are almost exclusively
manufactured; and the all-important shirt
buttons are received mostly from Birming-
ham, England, where the majority of metal
buttons are likewise procured. The most
extensive of all the button manufacturing,
however is that of the Parisian and Berlin
novelties. In one manufacturing village near
Paris, where there are from 5,000 to 6,000
inhabitants, all the working people are en_
gaged in making the agate button, which,
even with thirty per cent. duty added to the
cost, sell, when imported into this country,
in the neighborhood of thirty-one cents per
great gross. The material alone, it is re-
ported could not be procured here for double
that amount. While our American manu-
facturers make no attempt, and probably
have no desire, to compete with European
producers employing hand processes, they ex-
eel in making bone, composition, brass, ivory
and gold buttons by machinery, and are able
to export considerable quantities of these
styles. In Providence, R. L., for example,
sleeve buttons and jewelry buttons are large-

ly manufactured expressly for exportation.
oe ee

 

Galluses Must Go.

This great American people or some por-
tion of them are moving for the organiza-
tion of an “Anti-Suspender Society.” Cir-
eulars, inviting to membership, are being
sent out from the head-center, which is Phil-
adelphia. These circulars gravely allege
that the habit of wearing any suspenders at
all is contrary to all the teachings of antiq-
uity and the experience of ages. Adam in
his palmiest or most fig-leafy days wore no
suspenders, and one may search the history
of all time in vain to find a hero or martyr
rushing to a glorious doom encumbered with
those useless and “effeminate straps.” And
so it goes on at some length, only to close
with the startling scientific statement: ‘On
the crossing of many suspenders,” it says,
‘ta piece of brass or other metal is fastened
to add greater strength to this infamous con-
trivance. This bit of metal when brought
in opposition to the gold or silver watch
chain on the front of the body is apt to give
rise to a voltaic current not strong enough
to be perceptible, but which in time acts on
the kidneys and liver to such an extent that
these organs become semi-paralyzed, and
losing their vitality, degenerate and give
rise to the many diseases which carry olf so
many unfortunate victims.” The society
has now thirty-six members, thirty-three of
whom, strange to say, have “Mrs.” prefixed
to their signatures. This fact is suspicious.
It looks very like a married women’s scheme
to get out of the work of sewing on buttons,
by inducing men to believe that it is health-

ier to hold their trousers up with the hand.
—_—__——<>_0_—__
Impermeabie Fabrics.

A process has been devised, according to
the claims set forth by a foreign inventor,
by which fabrics are not only rendered im-
permeable, and their rotting prevented, but
this without interfering with their softness
or increasing their weight. The end is at-
tained, it seems, by the use of a substance
extracted from birch bark, and which is em-
ployed for perfuming Russia leather. When
this bark is distilled, there is produced a
light oil, one-quarter of which consists of a
peculiar phenol, and this latter is what com-
muniecates that well-known odor to the
leather in question. It results, from recent
investigations, that the green tar of bireh
eoutains neither acid nor alkaloid; it forms
with aleohol a solution which is, at first,
yery fluid, but one which, when onee dried,
resinified, becomes proof against the action
of aleohol, and the solution unites with the
most brilliant colors. These qualities per-
mit of its entering thoroughly into every
portion of a fabric, not only filling the ca-
pillary vessels, but also covering them with
a varnish possessed of great elasticity, unaf-
fected by acids and the corrosive action of

sea water, and withstanding well the
changes in temperature.
————__—<-6--<—
Mr. Buysell’s Scheme.
“Say, Charlie,” said Mr. Buysell to his

clerk, “if you will buy a sealskin sacgue for
your wife I'll give you $25 toward the pur-
chase.”

“J will do it,” replied the clerk; “but, Mr.
Buysell, why this burst of liberality?”’
“No liberality about it, my boy. If your

 

wife comes out in a sealskin, don’t you see,
it will save me the expense of having to buy
one for Mrs. Buysell.” |
“How so?”
“Why, you don’t suppose she’d wear the
same kind of clothes as my clerk’s wife

wears, do you?”

~——— <<

 

 

An exchange states that the South has |
not yet been able to produce the best class |
of bed-tickings, although they have made re- |
peated essays. So far, they can only suc-
ceed in turning out coarse blue stripes. |
Pennsylvania is said to have the ruputation
of making the high-colored goods in the
world. Great attention in ingenuity is dis-
played in obtaining colors of a good and

staple quality.

 

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.
RR Ae
Spring & Company quote as tussvwoi

_ WIDE BROWN COTTONS.

 

  

 

 

 

 

Androscoggin, 9-4..23 |Pepperell, 10-4...... 25
Androscoggin, 8-4..21 |Pepperell, 11-4...... 27%
Pepperell, 7-4..... 41644/Pequot, 7-4......... 18
Peppereil, 8-4...... 20 |Pequot, 8-4......... 21
Peppere!}, 9-4...... 22% |Pequot, 9-4......... 24
CHECKS.
Caledonia, 'X_X,0z..11 |Park Mills, No. 90..14
ed X, 0Z.. es ere Mills, No. -_
tconomy, OZ....... rodigy, OZ..... Rae
Park Mills, No. 50..10 |Otis Apron......... 10%
Park Mills, No. 60..11 |Otis Furniture..... 10%
Park Mills, No. 70..12 |York, 1 oz.......... 10
Park Mills, No. 80..13 |York, AA, extra 0z.14
OSNABURG,
Alabama brown.... 7%|Alabama plaid..... 8
Jewell briwn....... 94\Augusta plaid...... 8
Kentucky brown..10%/|Toledo plaid........ Th%
a. brown... i Shae ia Sa q
sane brown........ ,4\New Tenn. plaid...11
Louisiana plaid.... 8 |Utility plaid........ 6%
BLEACHED COTTONS.
Avondale, 36....... 814/Greene, G, 4-4...... 5%
Art ecambrics, 36...11%/Hill, 4-4............. 84
Androscoggin, 4-4.. 8'4|Hill, 7-8............- Tq
Androscoggin, 5-4..12%4|Hope, 4-4........... 1%
aon ang Po ae Nea awe) aoe ann
allou, 5-4. 5 ric, 4-4..... pence Y%
Boott, 0.44 ee S%4|Linwood, £4....... 9,
oO [.5-5..,.-:-- i onsdale, 4-4....... h
Boott, AGC, 44 oe 9% Lonsdale cambric. 11%
oott. BR: 34. ......- 53 , GB, 44... 93
i ckatone, AA 4-4, ae om 3° uu NG
Chapman, X, 4-4.... 6% Masonville, 4-4..... 9%
Conway, 4-4... . .. 7% Maxwell. 4-4........ 10%
Cabot, 4-4.......-. . 74\New York Mill, 4-4.10%
faite is te bea bee “ee aey eer. a: aL
anoe, 3-4........-- Pocasse -M.C.. 7%
Domestic, 36....... 714 Pride of the West..12%
Dwight Anchor, 4-4. 914/Pocahontas, 4-4.... 8%
oa pe eee oa ae Pieces i
ruito om, 4-4.. 8% | Victoria, AA.......
Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. 814| Woodbury, 4-4 ee 5%
Fruit of the Loom, Whitinsville, 4-4... 7%
cambric, 4-4...... 12 |Whitinsville, 7-8.... 6%
Gold Medal, 4-4.. .. Wamsutta, 4-4...... 16%
ae wen 9-3. .::. 6% Williamsville, 36...10%
ilded Age......... 4
c SILESIAS.
Crown......--..--.- 17 |Masonville TS...... 8
No. 10... ...-..--s- 12%|Masonville S....... 10%
ee ee cae : ne ee 10?
AMNGHNOL... 2... eee eee 4ONSGale A.......-
Centennial......... Nictory O..........
a Ses: - oe: . ee
BVol....----.----- ictory. D........-.
London..........+-- 2%/| Victory K.......... 2%
Paconi®......-..--- a: Sai A ieee ae
Red Cross.......... 1 Phoenix B......... Ye
Social Imperial....16 |Phoenix XX...... 5
PRINTS.
Albion, solid........ 5% \Gloucester .......... 6
Albion, GTCY....-<.: 6 Gloucestermourn’g.6
Allen’s checks..... 5% Hamilton fancy... 6
he 8 aay oes se oe S artel oy 2s :
Allen’s pink......... ly|Merrimac D.........
Allen’s purple....... 6%4\M anchester ......... 6
American, fancy... 0% Oriental fancy...... 6
ere cope oS c oa are ee 6%
erlinsolid........- 5% Pacific robes........ 5
esa ey ase 6 : eo ees 6
Cocheco robes......- 6% Steel River........-. 5%
Conestoga fancy....6 |Simpson’s Bo os 6
Eddystone ..... .--- 6 |Washington fancy..
a TARCY....-..-. a Washington blues. 7%
arner pink........- 64)
FINE BROWN COTTONS.
Appleton A, 4-4.... 8 |Indian Orchard, 40. 8%
Boott ~ et oeuece ia saa Cees 36. 8
Boston F, 4-4....... aconia B, 7-4...... 16%
Continental C, 4-3.. 734| Lyman B, 40-in..... 10%
Continental D,, ag 8% ones ie << a. 5%4
2StOL: = 7 Me a e
ieee D718... 5M an R, aoe
rnin Sele Om “assis & - bc ae 7%
wight X, 3-4...... ewmarket N...... 74
Dwight ES : eas 6% oer E, 39-in.. 74
Dwight Z, 4-4....... 7 epperell R, 4-4.... 7
Biieht Bia f 9*(popperan Rae.
wight Star, 40-in.. * sppere »d-4.... 64
Sele el ‘ae 5/2 Seema 4-4..... :
treat Falls E, 4-4... 7 (Saranac R..........
Farmers’ A, 4-4..... 6% \Saranac E.......... 9
Indian Orchard, 4 7%
DOMESTIC GINGHAMS.
Amoskeag ...... on Renfrew, dress styl 9%
Amoskeag, Persian Johnson Manfg Co,
styles...........-- 10%} Bookfold......... 12%
Bates ...........---. 7%|Johnson Manfg Co,
pepsagestamapeees ae fee crore aoa ....12%
asgow checks.... 7 iSlaterville ress
Glasgow checks, f’y 7%} styles... SS 9
Glasgow checks, | White Mfg Co, stap 7%
royal styles...... 8 |White Mfg Co, fanc 8
Gloucester, new j\White Mant’g Co,
sper Sa VAL ee ee on
pices ea TZ GOrdgon .......-.-...
Lancaster...-...--- 8% |Greylock, dress
Langdale .........-- Wee) Styles... 2... 12%

WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS.

Androscoggin, 7-4..21 |Pepperell. 10-4..... 27%
Androscoggin, 8-4..23 i(Pepperell, ll-4..... 32%
Pepperell, 7-4...-... 20 |Pequot, 7-4......... 21
Pepperell, 8-4...... 2v14; Pequot, 8-4.........24
Pepperell, 9-4......25 |Pequot, re 21%

HEAVY BROWN COTTONS.
Atlantie A, 4-4..... 744; Lawrence XX, 4-4.. 8%
Atlantic H, 4-4..... 7 ‘Lawrence Y, 30....

 

 

Atlantie D, 4-4..... 614 Lawrence LL, 4-4... 5%
Atlantic P, 4-4...... 53, Newmarket N...... 74
ane fsa 4-4.... b% sbaeee reve’ 4-4... 4
GQriatic 36. ....-..- 7% Pequot A, 4-4....... 8
Augusta, 4-4........ 6% | Piedmont, OO). io. a
Boott M, 4-4........ 1% Stark AA, 4-4....... 74
faacalraha tiger eae a lle a 4-4... D%
Franiteville, 4-4.... 6% |Utica, 4-4......-.... 9
Indian Head, 4-4... 74%|Wachusett, 4-4..... 7%
Indiana Head 45-in.12%|Wachusett, 30-in... 6%
TICKINGS.
Amoskeag, ACA...13%)Falls, XXXX....... 18%
Amoskeag ‘4-4..19 |Falls, XXX......... 15%
Amoskeag, A..... 13 Falls, ABTS Ses 11%
Amoskeag, B...... 12 |Falls, BBC, 36......19%
Amoskeag, C.....- ll |Falls, awning...... 19
Amoskeag, D...... 10% Hamilton, BT, 32.12
Amoskeag, E...... 10 ‘Hamilton, De 9%
Amoskeag, F....... 944, Hamilton, H.... .. 9%
Premium A, 4-4....17 |Hamilton fancy...10
Premium B........ 16 |Methuen AA ce 13%
oS Ss “4 | ahensng or agemene
Uxtraiy-8.....- ....-144%/Omega A, 7-8.. al
Gold Medal 4-4...... 15 \Omega A, 4-4....... 13
COA GB. 2... .s 124% Omega ACA, 7-8....14
(tts eee 14 Omega ACA, 4-4....16
A ee ee 14 \Omega SE, 7-8...... 24
Bis 4s: 16 |Omega SE, 4-4...... 27
Ards 0... es 19 Omega MGB 5 32. 22
Cordis AAAs 32..... 14 |Omega M, 4-4....... 25

Cordis ACA, 32.....15 |ShetucketSS&Ssw 11%

Cordis No. 1, 82.....15 |Shetucket, S & SW.12
Cordis NO. 2......-. 14 \Shetucket, SFS ..12
Cordis No. 3......-- 13 |Stockbridge A..... 7
Cordis No. 4........ 11% Stockbridge frney. 8
GLAZED CAMBRICS.
Garner ......------- 5 Tre 2.3... 5...
Hookset.......-.... 5 Washington os 434
Red Cross........-- § |Edwards............ 5
Forest Grove......- iS; S. & SODK........ 5
GRAIN BAGS.
American A...... 17 50'Old Tronsides...... 15
BiAIK A se 21%|Wheatland ......... 21
DENIMS.
Poston. 2235-2 e ELON OCs. os 10%
Everett biue....... 14 |Warren AXA......12%
Everett brown..... 14 |Warren BB........ 11%
Otis AXA. °.......124i\ Warren CO......-.. 10%
Otig 318. -. 3.2. 1144\ York faney........- 15
: PAPER CAMBRICS.
Manville. .... 6 (825.8 Sons.....:2.- 6
Masgnville .....-..: 6. Garner ...........,. 6
WIGANS.
ted Cross. ...4.-5.. 7% \Thistle Mills........
Berlin .- <2 .22...-.- TAZ ROBO). 1.566. se sae 8
Garner ......--.-.-- T4|
SPOOL COTTON.
Brooks...........-.50 {Eagle and Phoenix
Clark’s O. N. F.....55 | Mills ball sewing.30
J.& P. Coats.......55 \Greeh & Daniels...25
Willimantic 6 cord.55 |(Merricks........... 40

 

 
 
   

Willimantic 3 cord.40 ‘Stafford
Charleston ball sew \Hall & Manning... .2é
ingthread........ 30 |Holyoke............25
CORSET JEANS.
Armory... 3. ..-.:.- 7%|Kearsage........... 84
Agdroscoggin sat.. 8144;/Naumkeagsatteen. 84
Canoe River........ 6 |Pepperell bleached 8&1
Clarendon. .:...... 64 Pepperell sat....... 9%
Hallowell Lmp..... 6% Rockport....... ak
Ind. Orch. Imp..... 7 |Lawrence sat. . 8%
TACONID 520525. 5-e- 7% Conegosat.... oe

 

COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS, —
A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows:

Ohio White Lime, per bbl............- 1 05
Ohio White Lime, car lots............. 90
Louisville Cement, per bbl............ 1 40
Akron Cement per bbl..........------ 1 40
Buffalo Cement, per bbl.......... es 1 40
OUR TOUR io os oasis fae hee e omnes 1 05@1 10
Plastering hair, per bu..............-- 25@ 30
Stucco, per Dbl........ 2... eee eee eee oo a IB
Land plaster, per ton.............++++- 375
Land plaster, car lots.........-.--+++++ 3 00
Fire brick, per M.........-+--eeeeeeees $25 @ $35
Fire clay, per Dbl......-...-- 2c cere ee 3 00
COAL.
Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots..$6 00@6 25
Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots.. 6 25@6 50
Cannell, car lots..........20-eeseeeees @6 75
Ohio Lump, Car lots.........--+2-2+6+ 3 25@3 50
Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots.. 4 50@5 00

SPRING
OMPANY.

WHOLESALE DEALERS IN

 

Fancy and Staple

RY GOODS,

td

ARPETS.

MATTINGS,

Or, CLOTHS

eTC..

6 and 8 Monroe Street, |

Grand Rapids,

&

 

ETC.

Michigan.

 

S.A. WELLING

WHOLESALE

MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS
LUMberinan's Supplies

—AND—

NOTION S!

PANTS, OVERALLS, JACKETS, SHIRTS,
LADIES’ AND GENTS’ HOSIERY, UNDER-
WEAR, MACKINAWS, NECKWEAR, SUS-
PENDERS, STATIONERY, POCKET CUT-
TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK-
ERS’ SUNDRIES, HARMONICAS, VIOLIN
STRINGS, ETC.

I am represented on the road by the fol-
lowing well-known travelers: JoHN D. MAN-
cum, A. M. SPRAGUE, JOHN H. EACKER,
L. R. Cusna, GEO. W. N. DE JONGE.

24 Pearl Street - — Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

School Books

—-AND—

School Stationery

—AT—

Wholesale,

EATON, LYON & ALLEN,

22 and 24 Canal Street,

The only general jobbing house in
Michigan in our line. Send for cata-
logues and terms.

 

 

If in Need of Anything in our Line, it
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PATENTEES AND SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF

Barlow’s Patent

Manifold Shinning books,

¥ ‘a / v :
Send for Samples and Cireular.

BARLOW BROTHERS

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Linderman’s

OVE-TAILED BREAD AN
MEAT BOARDS =

The Best Thing of the Kind Ever Invented.
SURE TO SELL.
A. 'T, Linderman, Manufacturer, Whitehall,
Michigan.

Send for sample dozen. 20x26, $4 per dozen.
Sells for 50 cents apiece. Sold to the trade by
Shields, Bulkley & Lemon, Grand Rap-

ids; W. J. Gould & Co., Geo. C. Weath-

erby & Co. Wm. Donnan & Co., De-
troit; Gray, Burt & Kingman, Cor-

 

bin, May & Co., Gould Bros., Chicago.

We are sole Michigan
agents for the celebrated
«}”’ brand, packed by J.
S. FARREN & CO., Bal-
timore, and are prepared
to fill orders for CAN or

est market prices either
from here or from Balti-
more direct. NO BETTER
GOODS PUT UP. H. M.
BLIVEN has charge of
this department and will
give your orders person-
aland prompt attention.
We solicit your order.

Putnam & Brooks.
Heckers Standard Mannlactares.

Hecker’s Self-Raising Buckurheat

Is made from best New York and Pennsylvania stock. Has a purple label printed in black
ink.
Boxes, 32 3 i packages, $5.15. 166 Ib packages, $5.

Efecker’s Self-Raising Griddle-Cake Flour

For all uses where a batter is required, and for i Ii "
ses i sre : or Muffins, Griddle Cakes, Waffles, Puddi
: here at requil dl s, 2 s ‘ 1ddings, Ap-
ple, Peach, Fish or plain Fritters, Ete. i Has a yellow label printed in ereen ink eee Bi
Boxes of 32 3 pound packages, $4.50. 16 6 pound packages, $4.35. :

Heclker’s Self-Raisinge Wheat Flours,

A little water, with the means of making a fire, being all that is requisite in any situation to
secure a loaf of excellent lightbread or biscuits, ete.

OYSTERS.

 

 

Superlative Boxes, holding 16 6 Ib papers............... 5 25
New Process Brand—Boxes holding 323 tb papers.... oe 5 00
New Process Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 Ib pappers..... ee a 85
Red Brand—Boxes holding 32 3 Le 4 50
Red Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 Th papers............. 2 ee 4 BS
Blue Brand—Boxes holding 16 6 tb ee)... ee 4 00

Elieckoer’s FR.clled Wheat, or Wheaten Grits

Surpasses all other preparation of wheat for producing and maintaining a healthful, active
condition of the system, and is peculiarly beneficial to dyspeptics and
persons of sedentary habits.
Boxes holding 24 2 tb packages, $ 3.50 8 box,

EHecker’s Partly-Cooked Rolled Oats.

Is made from specially selected grain. A very superior article.
Boxes holding 24 2 bh pkgs., $3,50 8 box.

rechker’s Farina

Is made entirely from wheat, and consists of granulated particles of the berry adhering to tk
outer pelicle after erushing. Itis an especially nutritious food for invalids 2 o
and infants, and a most delicious desert when made into jelly or cS
blane mange, and served with sauce or fruits.
Boxes holding 4 cartoons, 12 1b pps., each, $4.50.
Boxes holding 24 1 pound papers, each, $2.50.

Etecizser’s Hominy or Corn Grits

Is made from fine white flint corn.
Boxes holding 242 tb packages, $3.50 ® box.

PURITY AND STENGTH GUARANTEED.

Hacker's Perlect baking Powder

Is made from Pure Cream Tartar. Itis PERFECTLY HEALTHFUL, : its
Baking Qualities cannot be surpassed. ee

N. B.---We offer the trade every inducement in Quality and Price to warrant
them in pushing the sale of goods that have been recognized
as STANDARD FOR OVER FORTY YEARS.

George V. Hecker & Co.

 

See Our Wholesale Quotations else-
where in this issue and write for

Special Prices in Car Lots.
Weare prepared to make Bottom Prices on anything we hanile

A.B KNOWLSON,

3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich.

RINDGH, BERTSCH & CO.

MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF

 

BoOooTS AND SHOES.

We are agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and keep a full line of their Celebrat

> 2 * ‘ au & . e . FS
ed Goods—both Boston and Bay State. Our fall samples of Leather Goods are now ready
for inspection.

Our Goods are Specially Adapted for the Michigan Trade

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Gr 0 Cc evi e g COUNTRY PRODUCE
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an Apples—Firm, for red varieties. A choice WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. odo pps gai Te aia elec 2
CTT thea comands $2 nae neem Ce ee ae. TEAS.
F. F.Somm-r, proprietor of the match nature ts demand at 30c. pete eee go | Kerosene W. W a Jeban fi Cos — de Winoans Guineas fohoes
factory at Grand Haven, is now in full occu- teen pang : bl. Pa : : = do: Wopel toed...) s se. tes J apan ane to good............ eee nee
: : “ rh ee 5g | Japan flne........-.....eeeeeeeees 5 ; :
pancy of his new buildings all of which | mand 75@$1 emand. Unpicked com- |p Son : on a ee cece ee 70 PICKLES. faded AUER oc sc ce ences 40@50 | Straight, 25 Ib oo
have bee : : , and choice picked find good ship- gon, 20 pails.......-.-.eeeeeee reer 69 | Choicein barrels med Young Hyson.....0.. 00s esses sees seo | Cut Li do a neo
ave been erected in a new location since ping demand at $1.40. P’ | arctic % coon POWDER. oe ee A ieee none a Gola Bowder...0.. esos rage on ma
: : eh ic % DCANS........-- ee eee eee 2. 45| Dingee’ ONE seeesccceeceeeeseneseses cess BOG 6
te eI seth, Ug | ang oe ee ee con | Baas gnc Bg ER oe Sati | Royal 2 nals. os
7 in number and are so constructed and | able a so slow as to render it hardly quot- | Arctic Th oe ee ee rs Apioss ee eee : 00 TOBAGCO—AINE CUR—IN F 18. . xtra Bee eet i008
situated so as to offer the most resi ble. Dairy is plenty, many outside dealers ee ee: a) Pelee, 1: 2c. less in four pai he Ira, 25 TD DAMS... oo senna nosso Tos
situated 505 after utidanon do Bee ea eas ass sdpigaongeesian ce ee eee 12 00 . . : zag ee : 30 State Seal our pail lots or half barrels. eee aif H@iu%
. nain building is 24x86 feet in di really choice, how ; : >| Dry, No.2 : . a ee ee a 5 75 | Brother Jonathan..........+..s.s0+-+- @60 rench Cream, 25 fb pails..........-...0.0 13
| : : : ee 3 we. Chow C | pints....-.... ees 3 50 er Jonathan..... - SEES pails............- pe
mensions, the lower floor being occupied by @le for rolis and 15@16e oe aon nine oe ss eee ee Or emer an ee Pee ee 58 ob he a ere i
: ee : a . Liquid, 4 02,.......--+++++++- . 45 | Dingee & Co.’ ie Hearts «B18 | pei Ud... 2 o- oon ne eevee ecw en ee ® 725M pails.....- cesses eee
all the machinery incident to the manufac- Butterine—Compelled to take a back seat, on ee, aon 63 oe stylogisg x Fe a eee Be | semen prow or ob as eo ‘i
ture of matches, and the upper floor is util- ibe nt of the great amount of good butter in Aas 8 we eee ® gross 400 I 5 aaa ee Poches indie ee en sour ae ee : '
ized for the manufacture of paper boxes = ty wine fig a eyes commands Aretic 6 02 ae » Ob Importer Clay No. 216 ‘3B gross........ 2 2) 35 eee et oe a Pepper Bois ce :
on fa : 1. aot arse ee 2 orted Gay, BO. al, BrOGS........ ile se ee @5 po 5
ee fate ot paper ore. |S, whe dae gt vee for solid | AreHC Nov pepper box 2 oer ee OF | Red Bindi 2022s e ec ccseaee Gar | Coeeciate Urope steeaeeeeseees ease 15
packing room, and a third building, 20x30, Beets—No shipping demand ArcticNo.3 “ ee ae none Carolina.. ey, 6% Sree eS seeeceeeteenenseenen io bh yc Drops ee
: . A oo. 7e@ sae Roe BROOMS. a ss A ae rt ra arc i nen ON ee A Gait EQUS ann sosees esses nest acne recteee
is occupied by the shipping department. A Clover Seed “No local shipping demand. No. 1 Carpet...........-eeeeee cess teen? 395 | Good ate ee ee i : role Back... eeeceeetee co Ge |t i Licorice b ge ea ‘2
machine shop, 25x : _ ++ | Dealers are paying $3.59@4 for : No. 2 Carpet..........+- 225 | Ja a Oe ee ee Toile tapes L
e shop, 25x30 feet, contains the im-| stock g $3.50@4 for good to fancy | No.1 Parlor Gemi.......cscccceeeees oo JAVA oo eseeseenee es esee ener 5% | 0 So Sweet........0.... - Lozenses Eee cos eo 5
. 2.2 . VO. 1 Parlor G@M....---.-+ee steerer eee 2 5 East er ne or ae 72 PO EON onan eno meee es Ds oe rinted.. eR :
plements necessary for repairing machinery, | Cabbages—$5@$6 # 100 Ne. ; Sg se 1 "5 Peon e Erber (light & ee 65 Imperials ae oo phases ee.
as well as the construction of new machin- Celery—The winter stock now in market i ee ee 10) SF oe Mineatha oe ceeetteseees Ge | Cream ‘Big poe aa i .
ery, and the printing and chemical depart- very undesirable in quality, selling at 1@IKe Common Whisk... beveeens eens 3 ee | pet's SALERATUS. a ee Ger Molasses Bar... secre
ments. An engine room 20x30 completes per dozen. Clams, 1 tb aiamne geana 1 40 Church’s ae ee oe Hex Flower vs. ee eee eee 70 Sand Me Gi 00000. oe a
the complement of structures. Mr. Sommer 0 are large and fully equal to Clams, 2 standards... ree} 65 co eat Me oa oe oo ceetesneeetees GAs Plain Creams. 00000000
has made no parlor matches since the fire, |r aly s of the trade. Full cream stock | Cove Oysters, d & stan dande ea : OM | pwights..........-- ee @ oe MOVALGAE ooo occ p een cee @35 Basins Fe d Creams... eee 23
as the d d , | readily command 124@13%e, while cxim find | Oysters, 2  standards.......-.-.-- DY ek OO rere ete Goi EM ooo one ea cece ene 18 Oo eases. 15

emand for sulphurs has been great occasional sale at from 94@10c Core Oyeters, 1 ® sinek filled.........-.. GS a AS ee A re @ov | Wintergreen Berriea... 22. ee 2
enough to keep the factory running on that Cider—10c # gal. for canunonaweet Toners 1 Ae 2 tb slack filled... as 60 a @ 5% Eon eee: Me Wee, ccc e - ene ae ele oe

; ‘ i ' . 1 ee 1% eee i in gait ange |
grade. At present 250 gross are turned out Cranberries—Firm at $12.50 for bell and FSS ae ie Booket -o..e.--seeeveesss eet ee Connecter ses oe ee é 13%
each day, but by tl So cherry, and $13.50 for Cape Cod or Ge a 225 | 1003 pockets... 2 35 Good Luck...... @6 iL ges, plain in DBs. ....2.2.. 04. eR ~

’ y the addition of more ma-|b pe Cod or bell and | Mackerel, 1 fresh standards............ 3 25 3 pockets........---. 285 | Good andSweet.... oo... eee eee. oe eo i
chinery tl : ‘ ugle. Mack ’ resh standards..........-- 100 Saginaw Fine .........ss0cccccseseseees 265 | Bla Cet 2 2. < | Lozenges, printed i Peres 14%

y the daily output can easily be in-| Eggs—Trifle firmer, on account of ey emia eee aes 6 50 pe ond Oe 1 90 | Hair’ Litter cece ne enee eens cneeenerees 33 Chocolate Drops, in pails. ey 1B
| : resh sta 6 See j ar anette : : . ’ He
ereased to 600 gross. weather. Fresh stock commands 28c and aed Mackerel, 3 t in Aastra... e ce 3 = ae icouan, : 1 53 Governor, in 2 0z lin fol @30 Sat Prove in pafls.... 2.002.222... 74 38
ee Alene 200. Mackerel, B broiled... sooo --3 33 | Ashton, English, EG hei BS | Fox’s Choice.......... eee ieeeeeees Ges | Moss Drops, in pails...2...... gt
: geist S cent to Ruin Hops—Desirable State hops command 18@20ce. Salmon, 2 tb opie fee oF -: a Goa, wa ee a Lo bags. ie ae : » 2 ou : sour Dro n ma oe :

The Pentwater N. Bier & offerings are light. on Wr Sacramento. ;-... ae 1 “A PpUusnels. 20 eee 26 | Arab a0. less In four butt lots. yr a epeaenene Fie eeteacee a

entwa > * 2 : oO eal . : . lon, es HineaEacle... QF 2a SAUCES. oc pec aise cece iy sages . 2yj ae eee sacs 4
_the Pet ae te eee a Honey Wiijicswee ds Hien'ab M@ibe. Sardines, domestic 8... ee ue 1 85 se & Perrins Worcestershire, pints @5 00 Red seas Rough and Ready, 2x12..... a Imperials in bbls. = 14

y history of that place, thus recalls y—$9@$10 for new, and $10@$11 for pail- | Sardines, Aeon ee! 1B Pics & Perrins Worcestershire, ¥ pts. as or Star, EA eeealaeaiaee ci Lemons’ choi DOR ea aeneeo ‘
Messmore’s attempt toruin the town b ed. eee Mustard . - Paneer oad pinta: 5... 8 soe ar Hed Star, Bnet en a ae Lemons, choice,” wee ee ”
Messmore’s_attenpt tor a the tom oy ine near eo  aeaee Sardi nes, impor te 7 ‘ ee ees rm Pepper Se no ae ae - is oe Five cord Hikes Res eae k eee ces be : = jayers new, pb. ee a 25
: Neat. ae fnesy ported ge ceeccpecss es eeeee= 1 appar Banos, green... eas i : tees: ; lee do.
ing him considerable sums foraclaim which Pop ae : ae omg — Seeds oe a oe as Pepper Sauce green, are Titi ee ee a Bla Sevens dime euts....-..... a Go5 Date baskets 4 nae: aa
the courts su : .¢—Still si os Pm 0h be a be >| Casup. Pome. ints.. ee @1 70 | Binc PONG 8. eens ee ae Ce D
se Ss tinavi sacs declared to exist on- bags Still sick. There is a trifle improve- CANNED FRUITS. cas 2D ue: Tomato. Das oe a a tp ad OE AGO. os @35 Lig i Oo ¢ :

y in imagination: ‘Some sharpers at vend : ent in several markets, but the advance ae 3 tb standards e 90 foe % pints a a a B.F P. ig - ee eee a or Dates Cae ee @ a
. , tio | rent in se :, . ples, 9 standards, 3: ee a 2 ee ¢ oe Pe pees. t eee ee (
Rapids discovering an error made in record- | transport cae the additional expenses in Binckberries, Leen oe aiae Be ee 250 | Capers, French surfines.......... ae Bie Kentucky .........- sess esecsoees Gis | Dates Ford 30 box WI o3
apis lenver g an error 2 pals agen oe Blackberries, siandards..4....-000-000 | | Capers, French Ce eee @2 2 Be scene seca nes. @48_| Dates, Fard 50 b box ® I... @ 9
ng : : Ree on ty aloe sti igen yan ee 1 55 Olives, ‘Queen, 16 0z oe oe Deen @3 50 Ee Hour, 3x12. oe @4g_ | Dates, Persian 50 “tae @i

ty acres, nailer the enciacss aud Bet Fee ts Soave. Chickens, 0011 Cherries, Erie, white HONS NT as aos 1 30 Olives, Queen, 27102 bottle,..... ...-- @ - ete. 16" 2x12 and 3x12... Oe ner = Si awe CC @ 6% ie

resident lotsin the village, were omitted Turkeys, lic. Ducks, lic Boxee Crerace Scag Brandy, quarts. ........2 5 Olive Oil ee ona kG Cov's!.!)— @T 00 Blackbird oe seceeees QAR. | Cue oo ‘Qo. ee
1 : aie. é 1 il, iS, 4 Ke wa ib Boe er tJoccccecccece Qn Se ”
purchased for trifling sums quit claim deeds Squash—Slow sale at 4c 8 b. po et Oe ee i 10 ee 3: ie ark a Go. = a a0 Glory eee as eros wat a a ag :

. ) . ’ etre : 3 ait, 5 =) eta as De OTS eco y¥ nite, el on lg
from the heirs of Cobb & Rector and brought a ca Potatoes—Not desirable goods to han- Eee Plea ae a 135 | Halford Saice, pints ee @. silver vsteeeieeisentestesenceseinenes FW wes) tei Mao agen we
cae lai es ; q a present, Ay assonnt of thal eee ciabie ee eeine Le pe 1 45 Halford Sauce, 4 pints............... @3 59 | Silver Coin.... Cn ee @48 ae 64@ 7
property This tended possession of the | qualities. Kiln dried goods will soon be in Green Gages. standards 2 Tb ere. i 5 Soe ae large Po a 43 Black Prince [ So cos Almonds, foun = ne

a iis tepvded more to discourage market. Jersey: ‘ : Green Ga a, E PEMD ines vee cicieslasios ala ressing, Durkee’ Siremenner cs mca(Padl. ), onds, Ioaca ’ be aaa 229 @23

: 1. Jerseysare firmer and higher, selli wes Wime..-........--------- "7 59 | Preserved Ging ee’s, small...... G@2 90 | Black Racer [Dark] ............002. @36 | Becon oo eo0.
business progress than : 3 : gher, selling | Peaches, Brandy at reserved Ginger, Cant ints ee pip ater aay s d “Sato

, ee ae a eae Peaches, a se 3 10 ’ on, pints..... @1 35 | Leggett & Myers’ Star... @36 | Pecons i... «.----- GRO
: : : J 50 @ bol. | Peaches, Extra Yellow .. ‘ 20) | aye yers’ Star.......... 5 Fi s, Sici oe ‘
had occurred, and until the question of ac Turnips—25e #@ bu. Pe ics ctamdends. cet 240 | Old Country, 80 bars. 80 ibs oe . Se Se Lea ae a ee Es Gis Wainute ney do oe o
was fairly settled, Pentwater suffered a Timothy—No shipping demand, and dealers Pie oe oe —. ee Old Country, 40 bars,80 Ms. ninverapped . a McAlpin’s Gold Shield. . 00002200000.) @46 | Cocoa N Se Gh censccs oss. HOS
steady decline, and by the time the titl buy only for prospective wants. Pears, Bantlote, trie. Cs Queen Anne cee @ 5/4 Gace o Nuggets 6 and 12 ® cads. ..... Gal a
were decided in favor : itles GRAINS AND MILLING PRODUCTS. Pie ee es, 170 | Cameo...... ea @5 00 oe he Walk 68............ soe oat PROVEN
against tl ed in favor of the residents, and Wheat—2c lower this week. Lancaster, 75; Einces Ci ee ee. 2 . Letieg Ce nae Y TWISt.. eee .eeeeeceeeeeeeeees oss ae i Packing & Provisi
ainst the Grand Rapids sharpe Fulse and Clawson, 7! . Gee ee 145 irk’s American Family ........8 Sf fo a os oe
one-third of the as places get eH Corn—Jobbing al at 46c in 100 bu. lots pacpherrice Aig aie rcteeeeeeal 3 a. on ee vee ae 5 Crescoh ieee eee ea as areas new at...

. : : . : gee |, Erie...... 6... sees seers: 1 40 2 WAVON .... 6. ee ee ee ee ee ee ee eee Rae Aa @44 Pig, shor Pee M1 75
street as well as residences i . and 40@43c in carlots. Strawberries, Erie........--;--+-++++- 135 a. Seoeet ane 97 g, short cut, new, better th ions, Lit
were vacant. Rents were fet psi Oats—White, 33c in small lots and 30¢c in car re CANNED baa uP iy ee: 40 a White Rk cece eee: i ee | ee a Oe Gad Extra Clear Big, not Chi . se lah 13 5

; nd prop- | lots. "| Apricots, Lusk’ JITS—CALIFORNIA. sae mena _ .5% | Grayling, all styles.................+.. @48 | Clear new, Chicago packing’. 13 50
: ,Uusk’s.:.-..- : Proctor & G ior ge 510 | ing, all styles........... ear Back, new, Chicag ee ae

oe a ee Sek Eee oo oe, 2 2 an cane oy ee 675 | oo oe Gar cies A. wee pete packing........ 1 25 v
supervisor’s valuation prices.” Barley—Brew : ee 2 do. 1 IG Bee a pees Standard Clear, the best....-.00.00.2.0000. a
| acy Grapes Sea = Town Talk  % box 3 60 mi batter @44 Extra Clear Ethe NOSE... ... 6.2 o ke 14 50
= ar . : Flour—Unchanged Fancy Patent, $5.50% bbl Pears eee 2 50 a pg Bart... 4 10 ay ond Ea oe @36 ee rrr 13 50
‘ = Many Weeks. |insacks and $5.75 in wo ai - | Quinces ..... ae : Sl 6 3 40 e Hi reen Shield............... DAG DRY SALT MEATS—IN BOXES. _
Turner & Carroll seem to be meeting with bbl. in sacks and $4.75 in eg ee CANNED VEGET ee: 3 00 Procte eG bl Tce Gouna, : : - Sailors Bolace Keveeeeeeteeeeeee reece O35 ia eS heavy, 900. Cases...... 6%
rather more than the usu Meal—B ; JANNED VEGETABLES. ster & Gamble’s Velvet i ‘ eo @s6 ae ‘
al number of legal al—Bolted, $1.50 8 cwt. Asparagus, Oyster Bay... a ox | Procter & Gamble’s Good Luck....... G3 20 ame ee ae ts
defeats, three important cases, each involv- Mill Feed—Screenings, #14 @ ton. Bran, $13 Gone aac Erie... (ee 16 Hooker Gamble’s Wash Well... e 20 | Tramway, 3 02...... ee Long Clears li me ale Cases 2 iB
ee emerson cach iol ’ ee eee Beans, String, Erie ee 00 padger Ce 60 ibs oe eg Gui Cavendish. & on... | 40 g oars light, a ” Caees. So ts
4 : : [ : aa A Ce a y\Bpose 0 ee oy uo - a se ee 74a

against them within the t orn and Oats, $23 @ ton. Beans, Stringless, Erie. .......-...--0-- 30 Gowan & Stover’s New Process 3 bi Cee beeeene @15 Short Clears, heavy sae ee T ®

: a a — ems iene os, Brie. gest ; ; Tip io ess 3 br @18% Miners and “Puddl Bee ee neem ene eee @18 do. medium ee cee ee were meee eee q

The third case was tried in the United The Grocery Market. ie Brie oi veeseseceese ee re 115 | Hendkerchict a Te Gan roe ee Hew ee G28 | petro ne Cents cs: 600 Be eeee i
= . J : mn, od £ es (etna 26 pie Lone ¢ : Backs, 600 tb cases. :
States last Friday, Fletcher & Wanty appear- | The volume of business during the past Corn, ae eee i 1D Bapbice’s ea a ea @4 20 Seal of Grand Wands Gz? Extra short Clear fhucke 600 mh eases. i
ing on th r si : . Re er i 525 | King.... as @25 ixtra Long Clear Bac % na o
. ssid nn Heanpence ee | ~ oak has beén even better than coukt reas- Mushrooms, a ac aueaak ai us Pee 1 ee Dee G30 Extra Short Giae Waes on cases.. a
Z H. Myers, of Cassopolis, purchased | onably be expected, considering the unfa- Pee Oa, 100i ere ates. Birle. oi ~ New Fret ch eae 4 | Ten Pe si i oe a aa a ae 8
45 ac ae oat , 100 in case ...... cea’ N od wee 20 | Ten Penny aictittestsentages sees ees i crc uality, ¢ ee iA
ee a . of dry goods with fraudu- yorable weather, and the advent of sleighing She nee standard.......---.+-+ +: 4 an oe Nee ee CO eee 5 a fabs ennai ¥ and \4......... Got Bellies, extra quiaity, 200 P ce ae ue

nt intent, J. V. Farwell & Co i early this week is sur : ae Pe oe me but Washboard...0- 2 ---re--ce- 5 wiht Cini gandinied @1s | Tj ZC :
being victimized to the extent en briskness in eae ey i sn esc Poas, carly small sifted. 0-00. -- 1 60 Sea ceseeeteteneeetatieaneetn 3 25 eu Gia ca « i sand Me gece e : ”

, it $10,- ‘ ade which wi : ' Reena... aoe Me 3 25 aie elle Susie bane ¢ a a foe a

000. In January, of the present year he prove unacceptable. Teas a ce a ee a | PRtSbUEN «sgn en Pe pp Durham, tie ces ee 90 Se :

made an assignment to Henry W Smith, of | Orleans molasses are firm a 1 . BANOW Cita Mie cece Bo Gdenewib bee ee Pee ae Gio | ty pails mig rk
) ee : enone Suc ta b, z ee 4 i 30 ‘5 v1} ars : _, | DiMe eee cece DIV 3b P ils. 20i ’ RUGS: og oes wr uce 31

Cassopolis : : a ee : : cotash, standard........ S eme, 25 3 ib bars.  @e. toe. qoaes [ea ene 20 in a case. ie

c sno ven Farwell ey Teli cil: an tupepooon tinea: about a : roel, 25 bars i s ee @ oi See @2 Se er CUES oe. 8%

bt evin in the United States Court here, and steady. okie Rost Aheriean, 60 eile oo aie foe ie ceeeeeneseten | Gol SMOKED MEATS —GANVASSE ee 8

wee — : os fe ’ e EGS ae =p - CANVASS :
ee ton Lenina Boston premium ee @36 Palma ae ecks a De oe el uae @ 6 Todor. TY @%4. eo cured in aicchulehle tease. PLAIN.

: a 60 plas v Beene ace cama ae ans ‘6 3 WN * . 9 oe wee 4

the goods, which were subsequently sold. Lard cheese, which up to a recent date | German sweet eo Master S00 we ae wrapped........ Bee apex ele. a Gas a c ae mea 1%

E , : oo, a8) ee ee ie 03 10 | Maiden ............ ao |§8 red i 2
ec, rise erpie iee a aieimn of ayes German sweet... seesreeceets so Stearine, 100% Mcakes......... : Ge Me oe @25 Shoulder, cured in sweet uichle Lo, ay e
cover damages, but a case of fraud was es- now rivalled by cheese made chiefly from |g a. : Cotton Oi rs 100 3B cakes...... a 23 Roots | Gere ah _ Beet SE as a ie a

: : ‘ reen Rio...... . : Jotton OM, e, 3%  cakes...... 16 25 | 2s Si be : Bo ea ce nce ae esse eee il
tablished so clearly and conclusively that cottonseed or peanut oil. ee eae oe ti ee panes ee ee oc Honey Dew ........ a ee Qe |g ween BERF IN BARIELS. n
the replevin was sustained. Now “set your house in order” for the Green Mocha... 2c eB a Savon, yaaa oe ee. @ 6% Fe es Hate tee ox tee a 200 Ibs........10 75

_ new year. Get rid of the surplus shop-worn Roasted aan ee ee 10 @li pee 60-1 blocks. ee @ Bat CO seca. sai) Ce Meer sk On nnaSH eb BNOIGED.

The Sowers & White Bank Failure at Ovid goods, and “start new” January 1st Hoasted Mar 0000000000000 it a Loudon tails, 01 blocks GB | Newer Hage. Ma Pork SenatgAOn HnESH AND BiGicRD.

cs er alacant ere > nec ae ae ae ge - a a ba on Sacee Oe ag Ue 39 London Family, 4-Tb rie 80 7 eeccecece a a do % oo @ 60 ee aa c - a : : = See = b.
: : 2 a itititeneeretes i : Pe em a ne ong : ee ¢
ron expondent writes a follows: | Here et you reduce de sone bon Ground Io. sesseeseeneenenreer ris Niwot eal ces, wrapped; oy @3 85 do BBs Gas Liver Sausage... SI 9
pie ot ratios ot Ge erg ccsaiacteer | paweeai O15 imax, 100 cakes, wrapped........... ee j @51 rankfort SAUSAGe..0..19%:....-...-...2c d

; y. The | amount by one-half next year XXXX oo. eee eee (C"2 | Boss, 100 cakes » wrapped........... CEE COT ee By | Blood Sausage........0.0 cece 1
: . ‘ pene of Grand Rapids, was Frozen cranberries, if not mashed too nes ee ee ee Gu Morseilles Castile, PonetS do in box al 25 Long Toi ee a Bota ie oe :

not presen 4 = eee . : ee 5 Floating, 6 R x Clee ‘ gna, straight.......... ees :

Pp = yee received no invitation to | much, can be made go ES ee @15 g, 60 cakes...............-. @4 20 ricer Gor | Weogne, hick. : ee
attend. Considerable discussion bro ht |i ieee aaa 3160 t ie au For : mitra, tl .

ught ‘ : o LE. eror..... atl” en we ) 7
out no new facts. The banks hold a aauiel ee 60 foot Tate oe i 00 50 foot Cotton....2 00 Allspice ... aes oe ees cokes @18 Geayiin ee am Praeatee nas cee :
mortgage against a manufacturing firm for | sctern trot FISH ee Ue Oe Baie So ekin sss oo ae | Te barrels... .see eerie 12
ge int arate ——FISGEETANEOUS loop, smote Yr eee. Pe ee Gi | EERIE cana oon age enn ete 7
partners is believed to OR SALE—E Cod, w armouth........ oe WO Cle SN ees o secon eee G2 | cal gee
have settled with the outside creditors which Fk het ‘shortly, retir gered te oe Cousens. ue ee an Gi tation - @8 lin ee econ oe 33 0

aes a8 : re from business, | Cod, pi eae Peres Lg ears @25 SEE ST Mae ae ae iy SS 150
will dissolve 2 ; : show cases, scales, ¢ : : , | Cod, pickled, } 5@™%4 Bor 25 ‘2 Sd BER | UMIRIES oa one ae x
gage sh olve . injunction against the mort- caddies, and all ee ese, ae Halibut ae . oS re = 3 ee a a er aes oe ao ee ie, pes Tees wo : se *

, if reports are true. T rst-class grocery store. Wi pees 6 BEE es out MOH 6 ele 6@: : ate Lee hoa i PS aes | press Pare & iy for that date a
held by the bank agai he mortgage | taken immediately. tae, uFintu cheap, if | Herring, oot Dt ee Bae Oia Bip. lonsg igs and 348........... a2 | to make ita oo dst,

nk against another firm is al- “The Tradesman.” , ea Gare Weriee Holeud. ee ee eee 5 [Old Rip, long Cut......6.... cece. a5 oes |
so attacked, although $3,000 : : 67 | Mackerel, No. 1, % Ea eae ee se eee poe TWO Nickle, 48........0- 20 eeeeeeres Gt
itbtend 8 on has been col-| FOR SALE—Wellestablished drug. st Mt uoret No. be KNB... sees ss 10 ep Bais | Sar Duras ee 5 | pach ee far quotes thet
snow inthe hands of the a havin : r | Mackeret Nos LB A | as tags ee cco gp | Star Durham.............ccceeeceeeeee pe Mohrhard quotes the trac :

: ‘ s- : g a good patronage, situated on | T p26 DDL io. r : STARCH Golden F] SCRE cal done @25 | Fresh Beet, si Bre ae aan

sine! sce pepe jeading business hovought ’ d on Wet Wo. 4 BU cc eee 2 50 Gilbert’s Gloss 1 . en ahe@alinee. ........ cc. O20 Fres ES sides BU eo cca. ~ VS<.
ainst this mort- | ventor. ghfare. Stock will in-|T 1 Ben neenrens covanenaser 4 50 ‘e 88 1H... eee eee eee .,, | Seal of North Carolina, 202.....002... @A0 resh Beef, hind rter 0

gage fail there are anak believe ae veae Sao, for ful duaguaes one 2 White, No. 1:34 a ee 6 0 . ‘* 3 bb cartoons... Se o sce o Ayal Garalings i ao ou Neakton, Case ene sess ‘ ib a4

the bank will pay a la ee cist,” care “The Tradesman.” ’ rma- | White, Family, % Be é “ G : v eal of North Carolina, 8 0z........... ( a ae caneneees. ce. Wea ki

rge part of its indebt- : SUES WG. 4 40 Rsk acc sos 2 50 “ Corn, 1 ; | Sealof NorhCicshun thos hence. @AL 1 UA oles ned a nea oie

: ; ite, No.1, Ss : J tb : 3 : ina, 16 oz boxe! ) Sih eautsae. 9% #
edness. , ; Gs : ‘Adverti a Wh 0 kits............. ae Bh eae DDD. ee erences 7 | BigDeal, Xs lo SE, 1 7 pa aamameneiansetenertee 5s

f , if not the whole of it. A committee | in this. Een ac cate ot .r less inserted ite: No: t 12 ® Kits. ......5........----- 1 00 — estes 3) 40 box, bulk..... @ Apple J ack, a erisnats oo @27__| Bologna.. ne Se 2 @9
of three—John Hathaway, C. DeCamp and each and every insertion. Oe bent fa week, FLAVORING EXTRACTS. : Gloss, aN peck ee oie Milw. ees Brie es and % 148.040... az Turkeys es i an
A: M. Eaton—was appointed to examine in- additional word. Advance pay ment. pike Jennings’ 2 Lemon. Vanilla ; Gloss, he aokaees oe” By moon aan foe ihe: sineesees G2 — seaieceeseees = GE
De A ts vectors ce For ee ae Ens a Da ee eae ee g eee 0 40 “ Th ton crate.... @t ae s., B.& Bi ls pat ian a ey woe ee be in Cue in gens news ce @l4

9 at- w — = F in 2S * Pe sec Re cers se SN en ae 5 25 ULV p i So D “rhe ge ee a2 ‘i , :
torney, the expense to be met by voluntary siocly ionatet oe wage Bene Sree ‘both ee se 400 cpl co  eeceane es @b% Windsor eut plug Se a a Ey Dettenthaller quotes alloy
ata, the ex nie east Or wtNewayuo masse, both : BO a vcesceeecetneec 350 5 00 Mae G kage... 6.2... abu, Se @25 juotes as follows:

ssige 2 ios SN eNO Ore Marris, Bi $1.400. Rea- ee a oe Moy a. Gis | Mule Rar oe nee peas 3
Brief Answers to O ae Mich. . E. ris, Ashland _ : 2 pint reutd.......0).;- 4 50 ; 2D Mees oe 7 oo Mime ee, 3 Belscts Selects 200 .csieiiececieesceee 33 9

: oo — see . Mich. 2 stecenestene 7 f pecia prices Lae os ee teceeees ©, Old Congr Se ee eee ee ee kw oe 23 ae Se i as FERS OE 2e
ents. ee ee SALE—Four thousand dollars will b es oe 3 00 " . eee Silver 7 oe acerca cao oe a3 Sian a veicsnceeseeeansseneeenane 20
Turner & Carroll—Yes, you do seem to be See ee hendware business in 1 a ae eter Silver Gloss 6 ® = a Ca Eee a poe ee vceeneceateee i
“Josing your grip.” h , growing town. The annual fits a " A ou aa ee et 4 Le ee ) | Bavorite...2...0 otitis 7
: ave averaged $2,! a ea profits FRUITS OswegO G1O88.......s.seeeeeeeeeeeeee @8 VINEGAR. Medium 220000002000 eeteeeeeeeceeeeeiee 5
Mynders C. Russell—Yes, i ing. Address ae reasons for sell- Apples, Michigan.......... eens @6y, | Pure Cider.......... ee 15-
tremel ortif ssell—Yes, it must be ex-| man.” y oo ea pepe a York State, evap., bbis Ge Mose Be Q6% mepe Wink an yen noe Counts...... a » i

r y mortifying to admit th ’ iD .pples, Dried, York State, evap. : iel’s Pearl........ ee @6% fe @iz | Selects, per gallon. eee ees ae

tation asa wrestler is in the siete ae W ANTED-—Situation by young man ina ik a dried, pitted........ ists Gis in Close acids. @1 11776 Bb one es SS FRESH FI wae este voi Ie
s , oe rrocer ‘ OE as } WR re 66.95. vias. 3 Dw... eee eee eee eter ees ‘RESH FISH. :
Fox now wears : ge carieere. ee r general store, four years’ ex- | Currants, crop 0 Oe lor Oi @6% CI tees @10% Codfish ..........+..-+- Bs ee
s the ct -
Soli S ges box 276, Fremont. ae Address Care Peaches, Ga oa Se de @3% Poarline us Boece teeta rete neeteees volo" Haddock 20.0002... io ieee recs 7 *
oliman Snooks—Whenever you mak ; F ; 65* ee ea A ate weed bas @6 BHO UES is econ en. Seen :

: make up SALE P Sry Ver eeeneeee ee eeecce seers @5 oars OCs DOXCS 60.0 D Lavine, single box », 48 11) papers... oat ck ; 3

a list of the corn cure fiends . OR SALE—Welt-established retail groce ee Turkey, MCW... eeeeee cece Gene Table COrn.........-0eeeeeeeeeeeeey 40 tb @i , | Lavine, 5 orm Beet heatis GAs Mackerel, oS :
be sure sa ig ies ia torr , g ry nes, French, 50 ib boxes D6% | Table Corn. @b6Y% ine, 9 | ore boxes, 48 1 Ib pap’rs oR 2 Cl 2.2...
ee ee B business in, rrving country town, Sut Haisine, Valonelts.= ee ee sol? OTS ee ee 20 tb gi it ae single boxes, 100 6 oz i o 25 wae. 2

: : 3} and fi : aR gece ad . Stoc BiaiGe DARIAN. 6... oescs cece secs @1014 Se OA savine, 5 or more boxes, 3 07 ) @A 25 ee i.
lately placed one of those inhuman devices ae s. ee as 2,300. Full Leer or Sultanas Oe 9 @I0 Rising Sun gross. 881i oe. avin mee ore nes s is papers. oA 1B Pie aie ae
on the market. Retail Grocer, in care of ‘“The feaacaman,’* 6 Raion nai | —— Ig... @3 15 a seveeees 3 50|Above @ dozen ae e 5 ee « . oo ee folows: 2

ee aa Se ey i Haiciue deaperial ayers. gee a) 0 YEAST. Goon... HIDES.
oe es wea . We nnaker fabvintion sna bestory ahs 8¢ Raisins, Dehesias.. ee o a Gut Loaf SUGARS. pdb Bros....... 165 |Wilsons 1 65 ro Mela ean ci 8 Ib ; @ Y

| ; . IBIAS. oes even ence eeee ence b 3 | Cut Loaf......... } oe Noga ta eh Safe ag e 7 pee ete tsetse rs
yo wil neti tro AER Ns "heet of eterences, om ence. Can tae Detceins, “bones... - oe - ope eee Suan ere eae @ 74 WIC. ce oe 175 |National ......... 1 63 Dey oS . ig uae Ba
See ae ave announced such a de- .S., care “The Tradesman.” MATCHES. Powdered ........ a @ 1% MISCELLANEOUS Veale aking, areem oreured. sor w
termination every year for twent, EALERS wishing to sell Grand H Granulated, Geaaea 6 @ 1 | Bath Brick imported - | Deacon skins... Serer. .  plece 50
“es sage ALERS x tose ad an Se aven, No. 9, square...... aun Granulated, Fin PA... see ee eee ee ees @ 6% da ported .......-..+-.-+++ oo ee ar 8 piece20 @5
sant. bat ites dase venue ta a oe e “For Sale” fist at this office by send- pat aba ae esas. cs : 7 ¢ puteoteuary - Grain. he.) oo s @ 6% | Barl - American. 2.0.25... sau 60 | Shearlin sg SHEEP PELTS. @50
os . ress at this office by send: | Grand Haven, No. 200, parlor........2+.. St donery A............ eee eeeeees © Oi | Barley... coopers eeee ie sete Se ee
Sr ing thetr tne list is open to t P s. No|G ’ , parlor...... andard A...... Ge ie Pec ceed scree Fall pel ins ® piece..10 @20
ae ; e in rand Haven, No. Dene seegr s+ 0? oa 2 50 PDA. ees nese escnerseceeceeers . ers, NO. 1 ......-.-----:- eee 30 @5
Bad drinking water given toa few cows prospective buyers only. spection of | Grand flaven, Nov 1 ee 3 >| Hotes G, White... Ge ee nes V0 | Winter pelts..0- eo eo oe
owned by a single f : : ! ROSPECTI Oshkosh, No. 2..... , round............ Be ee ~ Olea Milk, Bagle brand......... te Woon —
gle farmer in Ayrshire, En- P SPECTIVE purchasers will be furnish ee eee res 133 | Extra O..... eee eceee @ Bid | Gaecil Tartar 5 and 10 tb cans......... sae, | Coarse washed...
gland, caused an outbreak of typhoid fever selling. by sani poe ag who are desirous of Seba e ee ae 1 . eo ice. 8 Bia Santee ear Np pane ee Ooo cone washed. ee a
: : ying at this office. ; chardson’ ee ee a ee Bee 314 ASHE... see eeeeeeeee eee a
in three hospitals, and the illness of 104 pa- and amount of capital. are ine ohaniaon’s - 6 i aes oe ae 270 a - GS | Memact Catlee, V0. <... .-cisecs ese e es " @13%4 cs cee “
tients. The germs of the di F ; rene ao 270 . exRere: Ee Bele 222. sens — xin a
: isease were trans- YOU WANT to get into busi Cte ae 179| Corn, Barrels... Gum, Rubber 100 lumps...........005. @30 ae oo - ‘
: mitted by milk. your business, to secure ip Srnstneae, £0 ter D0 We Gf, COCK OL acc secee ssi enrgeeses ge | Gur, Hubber 20 oo a La eee once. ina § U0
: Cc d to get a situation, to secure a clerk pital, MOLASSES. Ga raronkees. 36 | Gum, Spruce. .... ope rae @AQ | Fox, red... * 350 1 10

ce st in tans ee sr eagle obo Black Seep ae Com; 8 gallon “sg eee Gene a Hominy, 8 Bante taances eaneeat es WE, ee reesei er 25@ 1 10
toes from New : uy anything, advert. Be oe aioe aL 85 | H.C. Flour, 183 ® pkgs., ® box........ ( boosie ess ss ~— S

é Sok ak ka taloe want to buy anythi gaa 1 tise in the, Mis a el a 28@32| Pure Sugar cubes OPA @1 65 | H. C. Flour in ope Hox... meee 2 oe ee 25@ 1 00

Zo. or postage stamps to the amount shoul hah | Maw GrldAne ONOIOR. <5 ccc. cures ees 44@45| Pure Sugar Drips...-.-.---------4 bbl 22@ 34 | Oil Tanks, Patent ‘60 galion.......... , Ge Sh] MUNN apna es nas 2% 8

company each order. ould ac- | New Orleans, fancy. ..... -.-.....++. 11.150@52| Pure Sugar Drips...........5 4 ..¥4 bbl 30@ 38 Peas, Green Bush........ oe gone Gn ace ceesteeccseseceneeseneteneecees "4 00Gb 5 00

Con OF a 55@ Pure pute maces pape & 4 bbl @1 96 |__ do” Split prepared. -....o eee. 1 85@1, 40 | Raccoon... esse eee etieees : oS
‘ : ure Loaf Sugar. ..........5gal k @ 85 | Powder, Keg..........0ccc0ccceeeeeees Pe BY PSWUMK eee ees 5 90

ae walkegs @185! do ed Beaver,  B.scc.cccsssscslicc e218 O0@ 8 00

2 i noes ee

eta cganey 10@ 30s

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hardware.

The Screw Historically Considered.

The screw is not, as many suppose, of
modern origin, although it was not known
to the ancient Egyptians. The helix of the
Greeks was the first thing known to be
made inthe form of aspiral, and was by
them used in moving large, heavy bodies,
and must have been constructed similarly to
our jack-screws. 1t was invented by Archi-
medes, at Syracuse, about 250 years before
the Christian era. He also used a similiar
device for the purpose of raising water.
This last invention, however, has been used
by the Egyptians since the Christian era.
History gives us no account of how Archi-
medes formed his spirals.

Another inventor and philosopher, who
lived in the fourth century, tells how he
made screws. He used atemplate in the
form of aright angle triangle made from
thin brass which he wound around a cylin-
der, the edge of which he used as a guide to
form the threads, after which the brass was
removed. Of course this could not be done
on very fine screws.

Besson, a Frenchman, in 1569 invented a
lathe for cutting screws by the aid of a guide
screw; and Hindly, an Englishman, improv-
ed it for use in watch-making in 1740

Ramsden, in 1776, invented a machine
ealled a dividing engine, with which he
made screws of a good quality.

Maudslay paid great attention to the man-
ufacture of screws and invented several ma-
chines for the purpose—but finally settled
down to the stationary knife or cutter, and
reyolving rod. The rod revolved as in our
modern lathes, and the cutting tool was
fastened to a sliding plate, which was mov-
ed by a guide screw. This screw was
made to revolve by belts and pulleys simil-
iar to some old lathes now in use. By
changing the pulleys a different speed was
given to the guide screw and the screw was
eut finer or coarser as might be required.
From this sprung the gears now in use.
Maudslay at first made'the guide screws of
different sizes and changed them instead of

 

the pulleys, but this did not prove a success, ;

as screws could be cut only the same thread
as the guide screw used. To Maudslay,
more than anyone else, is Holtzapffel indebt-
ed for points in his lathe, which was in its
day the best in use, and is still very much
used. Holtzapffel wrote a treatise in three
volumes, which is still an authority. His
lathe is used not only for the purpose of cut-
ting screws, but for all kinds of fancy turn-
ing,

The finest screw thread used in watches

s 250 to the inch. These are made by au-
tomatic machines, and without the aid of a
magnifying glass no thread can be seen at
all. It takes over a hundred thousand of
these serews to weigh a pound. Automatic
screw machines are now in use in all large
“factories. A company in Hartford, Conn.,
holds the principal patents on this kind of
machinery.

It is impossible to recount the thousands
of different uses to which screws are put,
but it may be of interest to know that the
watch which you carry in your pocket, if it
has a compensating balance, has 44 screws,
22 of which are in the balance-wheel; and
if you have one of the best watches these 22
screws are made of gold.

In the modern screw machine different
sizes of dies are used. Knight, in his Me-
chanical Dictionary, describes them as being
stocked in a circular head, and such a one
is selected and presented to the plank as
may be of the size desired. It has also a
rest with a transversely sliding tool-post
whereby thé screw may be cut off or dress-
ed. There are various kinds of stocks
and dies used for cutting serews, but as
they are only used for.special purposes or
on a small scale, they require no particular

mention. Their origin is unknown.
fees :
The Value of Hand Grenades.

From the Boston Bulletin.

The various hand grenades in the market
have made quite a sensation in the past six
months. They have been extensively adver-
tised and a great many have been sold. It
looks, however, as if they had had their day.
In a certain sense they are valuable. The
fiuid which they contain is of fire extinguish-
ing nature, but experience is showing that
the hand grenades are of little value except in
the hands of those trained to use them. As
a resort of the “green hand” in an emer-
gency, they are quite likely to prove worth-
less and by no means fill the place of the
portable fire extinguisher. They are not
zyooked upon with much favor by the under-
writers. They do not afford the kind of
protection which the underwriters most en-
courage. It is their endeavor to have the
insured improve his fire risk by general care-
fulness and by improved methods of fire-
proof building, rather than by having ex-
tinguishing apparatus at hand which can
only be used in the incipient stages of the
blaze. The protection of hand granades
will afford no better rates on the insurance
policy than buckets of water conveniently
placed. Indeed, the latter are to be prefer-
red for universal use. No skillother than a
good aim is needed for the successful appli-
eation of water. A committee of Boston un-
derwriters have lately examined several
hand grenades but decline to formally ap-

prove them for miscellaneous public use.
There is an objection to their use not relat-
ed to their value as fire extinguishers in the
fact that it is not uncommon for them to

burst under the pressure of the fluid which’

they contain, and thus scatter the contents
about. The same chemical elements which
cause them to burst impart to them their fire
extinguishing properties. The glass jar con-

 

taining the fluid cannot well be made thick-
er or stronger as complaint is already made
that they do not break with sufficient ease
when their use is required. The hand gren-
ade Has an undoubted value as an atixiliary
fire appliance, but it does not seem to he of

a general character.
>_>

A Cure for Trade Copyists.
From the Iron Trade Review.

Some time since, the writer visited a large
stove-making establishment, and, being
shown about the premises by the obliging
manager, was finally led by many devious
passages into a little room, locked and _bolt-
ed, in a remote part of the shop. ‘This,”
said the manager, ‘‘is our designing and pat-
tern room. Nobody outside the workmen
here employed and the officers of the com-
pany is allowed in here, as a rule—there are
too many persons around who would steal
our ideas, if they could.” There is no
doubt that the situation was exactly as he
described it, but it is to be questioned
whether fancied secrecy would have served
the purpose sought as well as wide publicity.
Mr. Ben Pitman’s idea is that the best pos
sible protection against this form ot thievery
is to publish a new idea as broadcast as pos-
sible, especially if such idea is insufficiently
protected by the patent laws. ‘The very pub-
licity thus obtained, he urges, indelibly fixes
the name of the originator with the thing or-
iginated, and defeats the copyist at his own
game. Designers and manufacturers of new
machinery, improved appliances, and more
direct methods, would do well to view the
matter in the above light. The best detectives
have already learned the lesson, and, except
in rare instances, are able to capture sus-
pected criminals much more quickly and
certainly by getting the details of the crime
at once before the public than by pursuing
their work in secret. It is quite possible
that the lock-and-bolt plan is the strongest
possible temptation to the wholesale ap-
propriation of manufacturing ideas, now so

widely prevalent.
—____—_— 2.

During his recent visit to Mexico, Presi-
dent Wade, of the Mexican Central Rail-
road, says he was gratified to see how quiet-
ly everything is running and how rapidly
the people are accommodating themselves to
the new order of things. In one of the
States a native has begun the manufacture
of soap from the alkali plant that abounds
there, and in looks and quality it compares
favorably with the best white castile soap
in American markets. This may be devel-
oped into a !arge industry. In another place
near the railrcead a rich deposit of brimstone
has been discovered, and is now being work-
ed. These discoveries are stimulating the
residents there and at other points along
the line to greater enterprise and thrift than
they have ever before known, and in a
reasonable time the new life awakened may
be expected to give the road a steadily in-
creasing revenue.

—____-+-—_»>_9-——s>— ee

been made into public companies in Eng- |

land have, for the most part, proved a woe-
'ful disappointment to their shareholders,

from the fact that the selling price has gen-
erally been based on the profits made in the
best years. Wigram’s shipping business,
out of which several great fortunes have
been made, returned last year $615 on an

expenditure of $615,000.
—___—»> 0 sa ———

There are now in the United Stales six-
teen locomotice works, not including the

shops owned by railroad companies.
24

The Right Kind of an Accident Company.

Seven years ago when The United States
Mutual Accident Association of the City of
New York was organized it promised an ag-
gressive campaign against extortionate rates
for accident insurance, and the rejection of
just claims for indemnity and death losses
upon strictly technical grounds. It has
kept its promise, and by furnishing sound
accident insurance at extremely low rates
and adjusting its losses on a basis of fair-
ness and justice, has built up a membership
of twenty thousand, and carries to-day an
insurance of one hundred millions of dol-
lars.

The United States Mutual Accident Asso-
ciation has adjusted and paid honorably
and promptly over four thousand claims
amounting to nearly half a million of dol-
lars, at a cost to its members of only one-
half the rates charged by stock accident
companies, and invites all who appreciate
honesty, economy and fair dealing to join
its ranks. A $5,000 policy with $25 weekly
indemnity costs members of preferred occu-
pations only $13 a year, which may be paid
at one time or by assessments as they are
made,

To become a member write for circular
and application blank, and when received
fill out your application, inclose $5, and for-
ward it to James R. Pitcher, the secretary,
at 320 Broadway, New York, on receipt of
which a policy will be promptly mailed to
you.

 

 

 

PORTABLE AND STATIONARY

ENGIN ES

From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills,
Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft-
ing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for
Complete Outfits.

ww. cm Denison,
88, 90 and 92 South Division Street,

|GRAND RAPIDS, — MICHIGAN.

 

 

WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT.

 

Prevailing rates at Chicago are as follows:

  

 
  
 

AUGERS AND BITS.
Ives’, old —e SG oe ceeee ceed oe cesses dis 50
We Oe dis 55
Douglace’ eS soe be atege te ei nie des dis 50
PICKOOR 28 6 ee ek dis 50
BROWS 25 sess a es dis 50
WOOK BS: os ee, og oe ee dis40&10
Jennings’, genuine.................+--- dis 25
Jennings’, imitation........... ........ dis40&10
BALANCES.
SOTO ee dis 25
BARROWS.

Railroad ......... . ee Se ae $ 15 00
GAMACN es es net 33 00
BELLS.

Hand 23 ee dis $ 60&10
COW, 2. oe ee ae ae dis 60
ROBINS Gs ee ye ai cs ee ees dis 15
Gon ng . ee ak en eee sae dis 20
MOL: SATWONL..... 6. os dis 55
BOLTS.

Stove, te dis$ 40
Carriage new list-.................... dis 75
PGW oe ea dis 30&1(
Sleigh SHOR. ae ee dis 50&15
Cast Barrel Bolts..................... dis 50
Wrought Barrel Bolts................ dis 55
Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. dis 50
Cast Square Spring................... dis 55
BSL CHAIN ee dis 60
Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis 55&10
Wrought Square eee eck eae eke dis 55&10
Wrought Sunk Flush................. dis 30

Wrought Bronze and Plated Knob
MUSH oe: 50&10&10
WVOGS DOOl. 50s i. 2 es dis 50&10
BRACES.
ROTO 6 dis $ 40
RAGS] co a dis 50
SBROUMOLG 5. oe ke dis 50
Aen pal ee so dis net
BUCKETS,

AVell, PIRI secs. $ 400
Well SWAVGL =o. 50-0 oc 4 50
BUTTS, CAST.

Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis 60
Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis 60
Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 60
Wrought Narrow, bright fast joint..dis 50&10
Wrounht Loose Pin.................. dis 60
Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis 60& 5
Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis 60& 5

Wrousl Loose Pin, japanned, silver

TAUDDOG 55 oes dis 60& 5
Wop enttable Sue. sn ee es dis 60
Wrought Inside Blind........... ... dis- 60
Wrought Brass............ dis 65&10
Blind, Clark’s..... ..dis TO&10
Blind: Parker's. : 0. os. cs. es dis %0&10
Blind, Shepard’s........-3:....:...... dis 70

Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross 15 00
Spring for Screen Doors 3x3....pergross 18 00

   

CAPS.
MYR B10 ee per m§
iekKS CON ek ces ee:
GD ee ee 35
MAISKOL 6 oe ee ce ak 60
CATRIDGES.
Rim Fire, U. M.C. & Winchester new list 50
Rim Fire, United States................ dis 50
Centra: Wire. 2s 6 ee a dis ¥%
CHISELS.
Socket Hirmer 6025.05 o. . dis 65&10
Socket Framing......;..........2..5-.. dis 65&10
SOCKEE COMMOl.. oes so css dis 65&10
BOCKEESIIGKES:. oc. oe dis 65&10
Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis 40
Barton’s Socket Firmers............. dis 20
COA ss ee ee os. .os.. net
COMBS.
Curry, bawrence’s:.......-... 2... -..- dis 383%
TIOLCDRGASS 66 kk ce, dis 25
COCKS.
Briss: RACKING 6.) 2 ee. 40&10
ERED OS) ee 49&10
MBOOT es a 40&10
GMINA Ge a 60
COPPER.
Planished, 14 07 cut to size.............. Bb 37
AAXD? Axo, 14 560.000... 8. 39
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stock, ................... dis 35
Taper and Straight Shank. =. GIS) 20
Morse’s Taper Sook dis 30

ELBOWS.

Com. 4 piece, 6 in.................. doz net $1 10
Corrugated... 660.3 cs, ...dis 20&10
AGGUStODIC 2 se se. dis 14&10
EXPANSIVE BITS.
Clar’ 's, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. dis 20
Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2 2, $24 00; 3, $80 00. dis 25
FILES.
American File Association List...... dis 50&10
PISKLOWS 66 Pe dis 50&10
New. American... 2.52... .50. 0.6. dis 50&10
Nicholson’s...... eee ne aur dis 50&10
POE ee dis 30

| Heller’s Horse Rasps................. dis 3314
The great private businesses which have |

GALVANIZED IRON,
Nos. 16 to 20, 22and 24, 25and 26, 27 28

List 12 13 14 15 18
Discount, Juniata 45, Charcoal 50.
GAUGES.

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......... dis 50

HAMMERS. -
Maydole & Cols...) dis 15
ISS ee a. oe dis 25
Verkes & PMmMp’s:... 2.0 so. dis 30
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 40

Biaecksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand. .30 e 40&10
HANGERS.
Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis 50

Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60
Kidder, wood tra.K.-.. 0)... 8k. dis 40)
HINGES.

Gate: Clark's, 1,2, 625.5023, dis 60
Rint Jig pete? 50 |.

Screw Hook and Strap, to 12 ai 4% 1

pnd 1ONVOL. 3. ssi es 3%
Serew Hook and Eye, % See sa ea net 10%
Serew Hook and Eye $ 76 Coes cts net 8i4
Screw Hook and Eye 3 4 Doe net 7%
Serew Hook and Eye, %............. net %
Sirap and We... ses dis 60810

HOLLOW WARE.
Stamped Tin Ware....................05. 60&10
Japanned Tin Ware..................... 20810
Granite Iron Ware....... gee ees at 25
HOES.
PUN ee ee $11 00, dis 40
Gates 2 8. 11 50, dis 40
Gre sos ek le: 12 00, dis 40
KNOBS.
Door, mineral, jap. trfmmings...... 2 00, dis 66
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.... 2 50, dis 60
Door, porcelain, plated trim-

MINS eo ae list, JT 25, dis 60
Door, porcelain, trimmings list, 8 25, dis 60
Drawer and Shutter, porcelain... ..dis 60
Picture; H. L. Judd & Cols ei d 40
MOMACICC se oss ss dis 50

LOCKS—BDOOR.
Russell & Irwin a Co.’s reduced list dis 60

 

 

Mallory, Wheelnr & Co.’s................ dis 60
Reeteeia dis 60
WNOYWAIIC Bs. 6. oo eee ce dis 60
_ LEVELS.
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 65
MILLS.

Coffee; Parkers C0.’8.... . 0.050.006 lee dis 49
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfet Co.’s sen dis 40

Soffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........ dis 40
Cotfee;, Enterprise... -. 2... ii ck. dis 25

MATTOCKS.
AOZe IVe....-. 6... $16 00 dis 40&10
Hunt Hye.......... .....-- $15 00 dis 40&10
PMG ee, $18 50 dis 20 & 10
NAILS.
Common, Gra and Fencing.

100 10: O0Q.. eee: 8 keg $2 25
Md 900 0 0 BOe ee 25
pA Ona id AAV... ee eee: 50
40-BNG Dd BOY. eS 75
BG RAVANCE. oo. e. oi a. 150
BG MOC GAVANCE: 2. co 6. eee 3 00
Clinic DAIS: ACV 3.0 oc oe ee ccs 1%

| Finishing ) 10d 8d 6d 4d

Size—inehes f§ 3 2% 2 1%

Adv. @ keg $125 150 175 200

Steel Nails—Same price as above.
MOLLASSES GATES.

BEODOMLS PAGUOIN 2.226. 6s eka dis «70

Stebbin’s Genuine...... . 222... 60sec ce ee dis 70

Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25
MAULS.

Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled........... dis 50
OILERS.

Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent............... dis 55

Zine, with brass bottom..........-.. 2... oe 50

Braes OF COPVer. «2... 665. sss ee sce 40

PROADOCY. ceca seeks eee scans per gross, S12 net

TOC D 6 Ve i a) Ra Ea a oS ere Pn crane 50
PLANES.

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy..............-.66-- dis 15

MOTOTA BODCH 4... 0c see cs eee epee sete e dis 25

Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... ......... dis 15

ee Seay AE pare eee dis 20

Stanley Kule and Level Co.’s, wood and

PANS.

BEY, AGING oo ect a ees dis 40&10

Common, polished................... ... dis 60

Dripping. OU aS RE Rr re Gee #® tb 8
RIVETS.

Tron and Tinned... 2.2.2 5.06..5 5.605 dis 40

Copper Rivets and Burs.............. dis 40

PATENT FLANISAED IRON
‘“‘A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 L0 27 10%
“B’’ Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27
Broken packs 4c ® bh extra.
ROOFING PLATES.

IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... 5 5
IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........ ce
IC "20x28, choice Charcoal Terne........... 12 00

X, 20x28, choicC Charcoal Terne.......... 16 90

 

ROPES.

Sisal, 4 In. and larger..................004.
Manilla Delete eae ee sie cure ses cc ee oe 18%
SQUARES.

Steel and Tron; : 2.02 dis 50
Ary ONG BCVOIS: o.oo ee a dis 50
NINO ee as dis 20
SHEET IRON.

Com. Smooth. Com.
NOK 010-14 3 ec $4 20 $3 00
NOSPID tO 17.202 0.0.2 420 3 00
INOBD IS CO 21 ee orcas oe 4 20 3 00
INOS. 22 CO 24.60. eee 4 20 3 00
NGS 2010 2650 ey 4 40 3 20
INOS 2 ee. 4 60 3 40

All sheets No, 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SHEET ZINC.

  

In casks of 600 ths, 8 th.................. 6
In smaller quansities, P tb.. 6%
TINNER’S , SOLDER.

Nov, Nenned: 0. 13 00
Market Half-and-halt........52... .... 15 00
Strictly Half-and-half.................. 16
TIN PLATES.
Cards for Charcoals, $6 75.

Ic, l0xd4, Clrarcoal..............26 005. 6 50
IX, 10x14,Charcoal..............., Ly 850
IC, Wx. Charcoal. : 0.66.03. 6 5. oak. 6 50
Ix, dgxilg. @Charooal ....5..2.22.2.. 26: 8 50
IC, T4520; CHOrCORl.... oss ee ke 65
IX, 14x20, Charcoal...................% 8 50
IxXX, 14x20, Oharcoal... 2.20. es. 10 50
IxxxX, 14x20, Charcool.... 0... .55...5...-.- 12 50
IXXXX, 14x20, @harcoal . 3.0.6, 14 50
IX, 20x28, Claws 18 00
DC, 100 Plate Charcoal.................. 6 50
DX, 100Plate Charcoal.................. 8 50
DXX, 100 Plate Charcoal.................. 10 50
DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal................ 12 50

Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6 75
rates.

TRAPS.
Steel Game, 2.0 ee
Onvida Communtity, Newhouse’s....... dis 35
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. 60
Hote kiss) eee 60
Sib. @ W: Mio. CO's oe eos, ook 60
Mouse, Chokers... 22.2 000..5.0 2. 20c #2 doz
Mouse, delusion................5.... $1 26 @ doz
WIRE.
Bright Market... 08.3... dis 60
Annealed Market................2. 00.0085 dis 60
Coppered Market... 5.00... 050.0505 54 .. dis 55
Mixtra Bathing 8500 ele ee dis 55
Tinned: Marketi ee... kis 40
Minned Broome... ecole 8 tb 09
Sunned Mattress. 2. .2 0.0... 54s 2 Tb 8%
Coppered Spring Steel.................. dis 37%

Tinned Spring Steel...................... dis 387%
Plain Pence............... ... 8 b 3%
Barbed Fence.........

 
 
 
 

Copper. ......-.: ...new list net
ISRASS ee new list net
WIRE GOODS.

Bright... 5.6205 6 is 70
Berew Byes: ... .: 5.22.5... ses. .tdis 70
IROOKS 6) oo eo ce ee Sa ea. dis 7
Gate Hooksand Eyes.................... dis 70
WYrENCHES.

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..........

Coe's: Genuine’: 320 0e66 et. dis 50&10
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, dis 65
Coe’s Patent, malleable.....2........ dis 70

MISCELLANEOUS.

Pumps, Cisterm....:-..............2.. dis 60&20
DCROWS oo ee 70
Casters, Bed and Plate................. dis 50
Dampers, American...................:. 3314

OVER 14 YEARS

Experience in some of the Best Hotels in Michigan enables me to
truthfully say that the

Bailey House, Stanton.

Is the Best Hotel in Montcalm County

In point of Neatness and Cleanliness of the House, Size and Condition of Rooms, Variety and
Style of Takle, Thoroughness of Service, and anything that makes a Hotel

ATTRACTIVE AND PLEASANT.

The house has recently been repainted inside an@ out, repapered and calcimined, and is now

in the best possible condition throughout. It is amply suppled with

Fire Escapes and Hand Grenades,

Commodious and well-managed Barn and Fine Running Water all seasons of the year. OPEN
DAY AND NIGHT.

B. F. Littlefield, Promrietor

 

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Lily Monroe St.

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Wholesale & Commission-Butter & Ewes a Specialty,

Choice Butter always on hand.

125 and 127 Canal Street,

All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention:

Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

 

 

The New Era All Clamp skate

—AND—

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The original cost of a roller skate is of
minor importance to you, provided you buy
the one that can be run at the least possible
cost in time and money.

We claim the NEW ERA to be the most

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and this in connection with their IMMENSE
POPULARITY with those who have used
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Our CLAMP SKATE is the only screw
clamp skate made which operates all the
clamps with one key at the Same time.

H'oster,

Stevens
& Co.

10 AND 12 MONROE SI.
AGENTS FOR MICHIGAN.
Send for Circular and Price-Lists.
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case with many other tobaccos?

Lorillard’s Rose Leaf Fine Cut Tobacco
is also made of the finest stock, and for aro-
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Lorillard’s Navy Clippings
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Curtiss, Dunton & Go.,

——JOBBERS OF——
Woodenware, Twines and Cordage, Paper, Stationery, Ker-

osene and Machine Oils, Naptha and Gasoline.
51 and 53 Lyon Street

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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We have a large Western order trade for Apples in car lots, as well as a
good local demand, and also handie Evaporated and Sun-Dried Apples largely.
If you have any of these goods to ship, let us hear from you, and we will keep
you posted on market prices and prospects.
Liberal Cash Advances made on Dried Fruit, also on Apples in carlots.

HARL BROS.

L169 Ss. Water st, Chicago, Tl,
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We also handle Beans and Pota-

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TRIPLE EXTRACTS,
SPECIAL ODORS--Fleur de lis, Marie Antoinette, Jockey
Club, White Rose, Fleur D’Orange.

Also a full Assortment Sta maarct Odors, put up in 1, 2,
and 4 oz., 1-2 pint and pint Glass Stoppered Bottles.

Jennings & Smith, Perfumers,

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Dissertation on Corn Cures—Postotitice War
in Prospect.

Cant Hook Corners, Mich., Dee. 15, ’84.

Mister editor of TRAIDSMAN:

I did intend to go to Grand Rappids this
weak to lay in a new stock of goods. I am
getting kind of low on several things, to wit:
Nails, ribbons, kerocene ile, prints, codfish,
calomil, ete., ete. Our city doctor, C. Minor
Kobb, M. D., uses a pile of calomil. He
says “I don’t care a dum what ails a man,
I tell you, Snooks, go for his liver.” The
liver is his main holt. He prescribed for a
feller who had a bad corn field on his foot,
tother day, as follers, to wit, namely:

R
Hyd. Cloride M gr. xxv.
Mx. Chart, Sex. Div.
Sig—1 each night.
My div. 25c. DTTM.
No. 751. Koss, M. D. :

I filled it for only 50 cents, whitch was
cheap, considerin’ Dock’s dividend out of it,
but I don’t know whether it cured the corns
or not. Dock has a theary that corns come
from liver complaint, but my theary is that
they come from being in love. I never was
bothered with ’em at all after I was cured
of love, by marrying the object of my affee-
tions, my late pardner. I ’spose you know
Tam a widderer, Mr. Stowe, and that I have
been in that state over a year. It has been
my impresshun that it sort of helps my
trade, becos, you see, the wimmin folks
kinder like to traide with a single man, es-
pecially widders. There is Widder Spriggs,
for instance, comes from way over in Pine
Holler, about 7 miles, just to traid with me.
She said to me last weak, says she, ‘* Mister
Snooks, you keep the best 40 cent Jappan
there is in the country, to chear a poor, lone
body up; I should think you would be so
lonely, after living in the married state with
such a esteamibell pardner as you had. I
~ feel for you, Brother Snooks, I do, indead.”
She reached out her hand to feel for me, and
IT says: “Sister Briggs,” says I, “excuse me,
but I see a drummer is waiting for me in the
offis, just please allow Bill to wait on you.”
Oh, I am onto these little snaps, and don’t
you forget to remember it. :

While I was writing the above, that corn
patient of Dock’s come back. Hesays them
powders diddent help hiscorns a mite, but
that his systim in general is better. I sold
him a box of “‘Dobse’s Patent Corn Buster.”
That will make his toes swell up so he can’t
get his boot on in 24 ours from now, so 1
will get a chance to sell him flax seed fora
poultis, and then some of my ‘‘Lumberman’s
Liniment,” to heal his toes up. This keeps
traid going and prevents money from settling
into the great trade senters. I have got nine
kinds of corn extracters in stock at pressent
and all the presinks not in yet, for some
darn cuss comes along about evey 4 days
with a new kind, and swars that it is the
only genuine thing in the market. A feller
wood naturally suppose that all the men in
the country out of a job had gone into mak-
ing corn cures and that all other branches
of bizness was running on 4 time.

I see by the papers that you have a boy-
cot on your street cars. Now, that is a good
thing, I ’spose, in a big city, and must make
it pleasanter for the boys. LT like to see im-
provements and I hope we will get the lat-
est stile of boycot on our stage before long.
Some men seems to kick against all such in-
ventions, tho’, I notis. I hear a lot of talk
lately about Nights of Labor. That may
work all right in your big city, but I tell
you this night work will brake a man up af-
tera while. I used to be a night engineer
in a saw mill, had to file saws and clean
up saw dust, you know, all night. It
broke up my constitution so 1 had to go into
a light business. I only have to work fif-
teen ours a day now.

I s’pose you wood like to hear more about
our thriving little city, whitch is destined to
be a great manufacturing senter yet. We
have a railroad (coming) that is going to
strike rite plum past my store, whitch will
make it handy to take off males. By the
way, Old Potts is going *round with a perti-
tion to get himself appinted postmaster un-
der the new administration. The under-
handed old cuss, I will let him know that I
am just as good a dimecrat as he is. To be
sure, I was a republikin before *lection, but
I have changed my mind sense, and now
think a change was needed, but I don’t
think a change is needed in the post offis,
not by a jug full.

“Principiss obstuy, pro temper nur
vomica,” as the Latin poet observes, and
just remember that Uncle Sol is on deck.

I am going to send you a map of our city
next week, and perhaps tell you a little
about the place.

Yours Cornicopically,
SOLIMAN SNOOKS,
G. D., P. M. and J. P.
A Sure Way to Get Rich.

The owner of a chair shop in a certain
town in this State figured away for a week
before he saw his way clear. It was evi-
dent that he must either reduce wages or
discharge some of the men, and he was
working to get around it. He finally called
them together and said: “ Ghendlemens, it
yhas hardt times. I haf blenty chairs, but
no orders. I vhas oaferproductioned for der
market. I doan’ like to shut up shop, und
I doan’ like to cut down vages, so E§ fix it
some udder vay. My capital was $12,000
und my stock ou handt vas $7,000. I water
my capital $3,000 und I put up der prices
on my furniture $2,000, und so you all haf
work all winter at the same old wages, und
like enough I make one thousand dollar to
poot.”’

 

 

 
    

This Baking Powder makes the WHITEST,
LIGHTEST and most HEALTHFUL Biscuits,
Cakes, Bread, etc. TRY IT and be convinced.
Prepared only by the

Arctic Manufacturing Co.,

GRAND RABIDS, MICH.

 

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ANNIEILATOR.
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Farmers, practice economy and clear
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Office, Hercuies Powder Company, No.
40 Prospect st., Cleveland, Ohio.

L. S. HILL & CO., AGTS.
GUNS, AMMUNITION & FISHING TACKLE.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICE.

 

OwvsTERs!t
We duplicate Chicago and Detroit prices and

guarantee as strictly fresh stock and as well
filled cans as any in the market—at bottom

prices.
SEDs!

Clover, Timothy and all kinds field seeds at
bottom prices. Write for quotations when in
need of seeds.

Oranges and Lemons

Green and Dried Fruits, Butter, Eggs, and all

kinds of Produce.

MOSELEY BROS.,

122 Monroe Street. Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

WESTERN MEDICINE 0S TONIC LIVER PILLS.

Purely Vegetable; contain no calomel, minera:
poison or quinine. Act directly on the Liver, ‘‘tone
eee)” the system, aid digestion and
raat purity the blood. POSITIVELY CURE
|MEDICINE ZADACHE AND CONSTIPATION. | In-
ware 7 valuable for Biliousness, Indiges-
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Wtedaeey on receipt of price, 25 cts. Sample
package free. WESTERN MEDICINE
 CompANy., Grand Rapids, Mich.

    

  

   

  

PLEASANT TO TAKE, ACTS MILOLY, CURES QUICKLY

DUNHAM'S SURE CURE FOR FEVER & AGUE.

7One Dose taken during the Chill
arrests the disease in 20 minutes. :

NEVER ENOWN TC FAIL. Money re-
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50c. Ask druggist for it. Sent pre-
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WM. SEARS & CO.

Cracker Manufacturers,

Agents for

AMBOY CHEESE.

37, 839 & 41 Kent Street. Grand Rapids, Michigan.

ELDS, BULKLEY & LEMUN,

 

 

class.

Gandy
Nuts

Oranges
Oysters

~ PUTNAM & BROOKS,

Virginia

low prices are looked for.

We manufacture a full line, use
the best material obtainable, and
guarantee our goods to be first-

We carry an immense stock of
and Tennessee Peanuts,
Almonds, Brazils, Filberts, Pea-
cans, Walnuts and Cocoanuts,

We handle FLORIDA Or-
anges direct from the groves.
The crop is large and fine and

We are agents for the CHL-
EBRATED J. S. FARREN &
CO.’S Oysters and are prepared
to fill orders for large or small
lots, cans or in bulk, at the low-

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John Caulfield,

Sole Agent.

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FANCY GRO

 

CERIES

After our long and persistent efforts to meet the wants of All Grocers by carrying @
complete line of Staple and Fancy Groceries, it now affords us much pleasure to know
that our endeavors have been Successful and Appreciated, and that to-day we are re-
garded by the trade as not only the Headquarters in our line for the trade tributary to
this market, but also the Fancy Grocery House. The ONLY House in Michigan
that carries a complete line of Fancy Groceries. Below we mention a few Fancy
Groceries which will be greatly in demand during the next thirty days and which we
are selling at very close prices.

Citron, Orange Peel, Lemon Peel, Sultana Raisins, De-
hesia Bunch Layers Boxes, Dehesia Bunch Layer 1-4 Boxes,
Imperial Cabinets, London hayers, Muscatels, Valencias,
Ondaras and Layer Valencias in 14 and 28 Ib. boxes. ALL
NEW FRUIT. New Layer Figs, New Turkish Prunes, New
French Prunes in 50 lb. boxes, New French Prunellas 50 lb.

 

PEREINS & HESS,

——DEALERS IN——

Hides, Furs, Wool & Tallow,

NOS. 122 and 124 LOUISSTREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

boxes, New Currants, New Black Pitted Cherries 50 Ib.
boxes, New Dried Raspberries, New Dried Blackberries, New
China Preserved Ginger, New French Peas, New French
Mushrooms, New Italian Macaroni and Vermicelli 20 lb.
cases in 1 lb. pkgs., New Scotch Marmalade, New English

 

 

 

MUSEKECON BUSINESS DIRECTORY.

Orange Marmalade in 1 Ib. Stone Jars, New English Goose-
berry, Strawberry, Raspberry, and Black Currant Jams in 1

 

S, $, MORRIS & BRO,

—AND—

Jobbers of Provisions,

CANNED MEATS AND BUTTERS.

Choice Smoked Meats a Specialty.

Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Streets.

Ib. stone jars. Full line of A. Lusk & Co.’s California Can-
ned Fruits, Apricots, Quinces, Grapes, Golden Drops, Green
Gages, Egg Plums, Peaches and Pears, French Brandy
Peaches in Glass, quarts, French Cherries in Brandy, quarts.

Full line of Crosse & Blackwells’ English Pickles. Full
line of Dingee’s Pickles in glass. Lea & Perrins’ Worcester
Sauce, Halford’s Sauce, Spanish Olives 16 and 27 oz. bottles,
French Capers, French and Italian Salad Oil for table use in
1-2 pints, pints and quarts, Durkee’s Salad Dressing in pints
and quarts, Colman’s English Mustard, Epps’ English Cocoa,

 

W.D. CARHY & CO.

OYSTERS!

—AND JOBBERS OF—

Fruits and Produce.

ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. BEST GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES.

Cox's English Gelatine, Durkee’s Celery Salt. Mackerel in
3 lb. cans Soused in Tomato Sauce and in Mustard Sauce,
Brook Trout Soused and Spiced in 3 lb. cans, Smoked Hali-
but, Yarmouth Bloaters, Scotch Fin-in-haddies, Rochester
Ready Cooked Food Co.’s Cooked Oatmeal, Hominy and
Wheat 2 Ib. papers and Beans and Peas for Soups in 1 lb.
papers, Hecker’s Self-Raising Buckwheat 3 and 6 1b. papers.

Please read the above carefully and if in want of anothing in our line send in your
orders and same shall receive the closest and most prompt attention.

 

ORCUTT & COMPANY,

WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION

Rutte Rows Cheese, Fruit, Grain, Hay, Beef, Pork, Produce

MUSKEGON , MICH.

Consignments Solicited.

BLDS, BULKLEY & LEMON.

Grand Rapids.