S73
SS
YI-FS
4)
Ay
UA
©
Oy
SoS
Kalamazoo—The George C. Doxey
drug stock, located at 348 West Mich-
igan avenue, was sold under the direc-
tion of M. N. Kennedy, custodian, with
Abe Dembinsky acting as auctioneer.
The major portion of the stock was
purchased by Charles R. Greene, who
will cotisolidate it with his own and
the balance of the stock went to other
retail local druggists.
MEN OF MARK.
Harold McB. Thurston, President
Bankers Trust Co.
The biographer of large experience
who has ttraced the lives of all sorts
of individuals is impressed with the
fact that one’s career is much deter-
mined by inherited traits and early
environment. The ancient paradox
that the child is father of the man is
so nearly true in every instance as to
While
this is true of the native character, the
trend and eventuality of the individual
life are largely governed by environ-
ment and circumstances. Whatever
these accidental influences may be,
however, the man as he was born will
forth from the cradle to the
The strong and forceful will
be an axiomatic expression.
show
grave.
exhibit these traits in any encounter
with the adversities which always ac-
company progress from poverty and
obscurity to success and wealth or
fame, while the _half-
hearted and weak will falter by the
way and fall out or fall down entirely.
Yet while character has
position and
inborn
special potency in shaping the destiny
of the individual, the locality of birth,
conditions of youth and
early manhood or womanhood, and the
childhood,
circumstances environing every step of
the forward movement, are the bar-
riers and impediments that determine
the direction and results in one’s ca-
reer.
There are personal characteristics
and there are racial peculiarities, each
transmitted to the child by parentage.
These two distinguishing traits ° are
conspicuously evident in the subject of
this sketch. His parents were of Eng-
lish descent and were steadfast in their
religious affiliation. It is needless to
say that they were the offspring of a
long line of sterling characters, for of
all the numerous peoples and races
settled in the United States there are
none to which the term ‘
more applicable. Earnest, energetic,
enterprising, intelligent, conscientious,
aspiring, orderly, liberty-loving, the
English, although perhaps tenacious
and to a degree intolerant of opposi-
‘sterling’ is
tion in thought and opinion, are, as a
rule, steadfast supporters of education,
good government and human progress.
The course of these people is always
onward and upward, never backward
or downward. In every community
where they ‘have a habitat they are al-
ways ranked with the best elements of
the community. In following Mr.
Thurston’s career we shall see how his
inherited qualities and those of his
parents exemplify this characterization
of the race. Originating in compara-
tive obscurity, in a section of meager
development and few social or educa-
tional advantages, he sought a home
and a career in one of the leading ci-
ties of Western Michigan and through
dint of character force struggled for-
ward and gradually emerged into am-
ple opportunities that led to success.
Harold McB. Thurston was born at
Fremont October 25, 1890. Both of
his parents were of English descent.
When he was four years old his par-
ents removed to Muskegon, where he
MICHIGAN
attended the public schools, graduating
from the high school in the lterary
course. The next five years he was
in the employ of the Muskegon Sav-
ings Bank, starting as office boy and
ending as teller. He then entered
Harvard College, graduating in the lit-
erary course in 1916. He immediately
found employment as assistant to the
President of the Manufacturers Com-
mercial Co., private bankers, in New
York City. On the declaration of war
with Germany the next year, he under-
took to enlist in the service, but was
rejected on account of defective eye-
sight. He entered service under the
auspices of the Y.M.C.A. and was as-
signed to duty at Camp Greene, North
Carolina. He was subsequently made
TRADESMAN
Co., which had already been financed
and opened for ‘business by Mr. Riblet.
In December, 1924, Mr. Riblet retired
from the business and Mr. Thurston
was elected President. In July, 1927,
practically all of the stock in the Trust
Company was acquired by the National
Lumberman’s Bank and the Hackley-
Union National Bank, Mr. Thurston
continuing as manager of the institu-
tion. Both of the purchasers declared
dividends to their. stockholders, which
were used to acquire the outstanding
stock of the Trust Company on a basis
of $150 per share. Recently the Hack-
ley-Union National Bank sold its haf
interest in the Trust Company back to
the Company at $233 a share. This
stock is now being placed by Mr.
Harold McB. Thurston
associate of ‘the Personnel Director in
New York City. On the close of the
war, about a year later, he returned to
Harvard as General Secretary of the
Phillips Brooks Home Association, lo-
cated and maintained as a memorial
to the great Unitarian clergymen, to
undertake the social service and re-
work of the University. In
1919 he returned to his former posi-
tion as assistant to the President of the
Manufacturers Commercial Co. His
next position was with H. L. Doherty
& Co. as manager of the Investing
Company Division plan for the em-
ployes of that organization all over the
country. A year later he returned to
Muskegon to assist—with Fred W.
Riblet—the work of creating a profit-
able condition for the Muskegon Trust
ligious
Thurston with interests that will be
friendly to the institution and result in
adding to its line of customers and
supporters. On the sale of the Trust
Company to the banks, the name of the
Company was changed from Muskegon
Trust Company to
Company.
Bankers Trust
On December 31, of last
year, the Company had resources of
$2,574,473.76 and bonds and indentures
of $1,964,957.60. Under Mr. Thurston’s
management, the company devotes its
entire attention to trust business ex-
clusively. It has built up a large vol-
ume of business by loaning money on
real estate, which loans are covered by
bonds which are sold to their custom-
ers on a 6 per cent. basis. The Com-
pany owns the Bankers Abstract and
Title Company, which maintains a
April 30, 1930
complete set of abstracts for Muske-
gon and Oceana counties.
Mr. Thurston was married in 1917
to Miss Shirley Smith, of Muskgon.
The family includes four children, a
boy and three girls. They reside in
their own home at 292 Huston avenue.
Mr. Thurston is a member of the Con-
gregational church, a third degree Ma-
son and Elk, a member of the Kiwanis
Club, a member of the Century Club
and a director of the Muskegon Coun-
try Club. He was President of the
Chamber of Commerce for one year
and is now president of the Y. M.C.A.
tor the second year. He is a trustee
of the Old Peoples Home and a mem-
ber of the Board of Education for the
fourth year. Mr. Thurston has recent-
lv purchased 300 foot frontage on the
South side of Mona Lake, on which
he expects to erect a commodious
country home in the near future.
Mr. Thurston is a remarkably self-
reliant man. He is a man of keen dis-
cernment and sound judgment. We
have met few men whose judgment of
men and affairs is more sound, just
and unerring; and he is a man who
knows his own judgment, has absolute
confidence in it, relies implicitly upon
it and, exercising it, stands by it to
the end. He is an intelligent man in
the broad sense of that term, given to
careful thought and deliberate reflec-
tion. He does his own thinking and
forms his own opinions. He is a man
of real force and originality, a force
that has in it the slow resistless power
of the tides; an originality that can
be appreciated fully only by those who
know him best. In social intercourse
with his friends his keen, active intel-
lect, his rare sense of humor, his orig-
inal ideas and characteristic epigram-
matic manner of expression make him
a most attractive and interesting com-
paiion. His business associates find
him acting slowly and cautiously, de-
liberately, but dependable always and
absolutely reliable, and his final action
is invariably intelligent and right. His
conception of duty in the positions he
has accepted outside his financial in-
stitution is to bring to the consideration
of public matters the same deliberate,
intelligent, independent judgment,
study and reflection which characterize
his private life. He forms his own in-
telligent opinions, he makes up his own
mind, he acts wisely and courageously.
He can never be in such a capacity a
trimmer or an automatic register of
what he might think that
thought. His mind is too intelligent,
his judgment too sound and deliberate,
his opinion too sensitive, his nature too
honest and brave for that.
—_++>___
Blankets have been slow in
places, the retailers say.
others
most
An advance
sale of such covers this week elicited
only a moderate response, it is said.
A similar event last year is reported
to have disposed of 1,200 less blankets
than in one the previous year. The
opinion in some Brooklyn centers is
that this type of fall delivery sale has
lost its appeal since the consumers
have learned that they can buy blan-
kets in August and September just as
cheaply as when they place their order
in April.
ae Po aromas neces ertncosoonamnanunne
mame ————_
Attitude needs latitude.
Quality Coffee that
satisfies and repeats
is the greatest asset
a grocer can have.
0 a 0 0 Oem +
Our Coffee has Quality
Our Coffee always
Satisfies
Our Coffee Repeats
0) a 0am) amm(
Morton House
Quaker
Nedrow
Imperial
Majestic
Boston Breakfast Blended
LEE & CADY
4
MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.
Lapeer—George E. Conly, dealer in
boots, shoes, etc., has filed a petition
in bankruptcy.
Alanson—W. W. Fairbairn & Sons,
have remodeled and redecorated their
hardware store.
Detroit—The Peoples Wayne Coun-
ty Bank has increased its capital stock
from $11,000,000 to $15,000,000.
Detroit—Publix Chain Stores, Inc.,
Dime Bank building, has changed its
name to the Grayson Shops, Inc.
Owendale — The Owendale Dry
Goods Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $10,000.
Grand Rapids—The Elliott-Yeiter-
Schauweker Co., 1217 Madison avenue,
has changed its name to Yeiter Shoes,
Inc.
Detroit—August Van Slembrouck,
dealer in boots and shoes at 14508 Har-
per avenue, has filed a petition in bank-
ruptcy.
Ann Arbor—The Faust-Kennedy-
Potter Co., dealer in builders’ supplies,
has changed its name to the Faust-
Kennedy Co.
Howard City—The Michigan Mer-
cantile Co. has made extensive altera-
tions and improvements in the interior
of its store.
Belding—Alto White and Reva Sus-
sex have opened an independent gro-
cery store under the style of the Silk
City Grocery.
Lansing—F. A. Rouse has remodel-
ed his grocery store and meat market
at 100 East Grand River avenue, in-
stalling modern fixtures, shelving and
counters throughout.
Royal Oak—The Royal Oak Savings
Bank has changed its name to the
Oak State Trust & Savings
3ank and increased its capital stock
from $250,000 to $300,000.
Holland—R. Bouwes and J. Rose-
boom have opened a miodern home-
owned fruit store at 34 East 8th street
under the style of the Bouwes & Rose-
boom Home Owned Store.
Royal
Kalamazoo — In the involuntary
bankruptcy case of Ray Scher, trading
as Ray’s Cut Rate Store, clothing, 224
East street, the stock has
been sold to Loius Hepner.
Wayland — Frank S. Cozzens has
sold his grocery stock and meat market
to John Gurney, Jr., who will continue
the business, under the style of Gur-
ney's Food Department Store.
Kalamazoo — Stanley's Home De-
partment Store, located at 2718 Port-
age street, has been re-opened under
the management of John Dennany. The
store has been closed since last fall
following a fire.
Nashville—M. C. Owen, who has
conducted a general store at Maple
Grove for several years, has sold the
stock and store building to D. W. Ir-
win, recently of Grand Rapids, who
has taken possession.
Owosso—The Owosso Ice & Fuel
Co., 104 Cass street, has merged its
business into a stock company under
the same style with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $1,000, $500 of which has
been subscribed and paid in.
Grand Rapids—The City Ice & Fuel
Co. of Flint, 63 Market street, S. W.,
has been incorporated to deal in ice
Michigan
MICHIGAN
and fuel with an authorized capital
stock of $1,000, $500 of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.
Detroit—The Central Tea Company,
2456 24th street, has merged its busi-
ness into a stock company under the
same style with an authorized capital
stock of $2,000, all of which has been
subscribed and paid in in cash.
Detroit—Greater Value Stores, 34
La Belle street, has been incorporated
to deal in men’s clothing, shoes and
furnishings, with an authorized capital
stock of $50,000, $20,000 of which has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.
Detroit—The Eagle Baking Co.,
Inc., 2181 Watsion street, has merged
its business into a stock company un-
der the same style with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000, all of which
has been subscribed and paid in in
property.
Detroit—The Gladdon Electric Co.,
2958 Sheridan avenue, has been incor-
porated to conduct an electrical supply
and repair wholesale and retail busi-
ness with an authorized capital stock of
$5,000, $2,500 of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in.
Detroit—Riamsey, Inc., 1514 Wood-
ward avenue, has been incorporated to
manufacture and _ sell
pound and
com-
chemical products
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in.
Detroit — The Quality Paper Co.,
2009 Elmwood avenue, has been in-
cleaning
other
corporated to deal in paper, paper box-
es, candy, twine and dry goods with
an authorized capital stock of $3,000,
$1,500 of which has been subscribed
and $1,000 paid in in cash.
Charlevoix—W. E. Parmelee, Ferry
avenue, has merged his wholesale and
retail lumber business into a stock
company under the style of the W. E.
Parmelee Lumber Co., with an author-
ized capital stock of $50,000, $35,000 of
which has been subscribed and jpaid in.
Detroit—Sea-Pak, Inc., 2970 West
Grand boulevard, has been incorpo-
_ rated to manufacture and sell water-
proof cigarette holders, jewelry boxes,
etc., with an authorized capital stock
of 100,000 shares at $1 a share, $65,000
being subscribed and $15,000 paid in in
cash.
Saginaw—Millard F. Blaisdell, 1436
South Warren street, dealer in stone
and miarble, has merged the business
into a stock company under the style
of M. F. Blaisdell, Inc., with an au-
thorized capital stock of $1,000, all of
which has been subscribed and $250
paid in in cash.
Wyandotte—Involuntary bankruptcy
proceedings have been filed in the U.
S. District Court at Detroit against
Abraham Wise, furniture dealer, by
Lawhead & Kenny, attorneys, repre-
senting Art Lamp Mfg. Co., $31;
Catherine B. Cahalan, $426; Vaughan
Furniture Co., $42.
Lawrence—R. M. Morris, recently of
Koehler, Wis., has purchased Lom-
bardy Inn here and will remodel it in-
to a tourist hotel and convert the
grounds into a tourist camp. Lome
bardy Inn was built sixty-eight years
ago and has an interior finish and
floors of black walnut.
TRADESMAN
Cadillac—Owing to the death of
Mrs. Matilda Erickson, the stock of
the Erickson Jewelry Store has been
closed out at special sale and the store
closed. Mrs. Erickson learned the
jewelers trade while a young girl and
was the only woman watchmaker in
the State of Michigan.
Kalamazoo—Paul A. Brunso, a grad-
uate of the Royal Recommended Pas-
try Shop of Copenhagen, Denmark and
of the University of Copenhagen, has
taken over the Ver West bakery at
346 South Burdick street and will con-
tinue the business under his own name,
specializing in Danish pastry.
Hart—The Wigton Hotel has been
closed by the sheriff, who conducted a
sale of the furnishings to satisfy the
debts. The furnishings were owned by
Joe Wiegers, who has conducted the
hotel several years. The hotel build-
ing is owned by Mrs. Joe Beatty Burt.
This is the first time in forty-six years
that Hart has been without a hotel.
Lowell—Willard S. Winegiar, for 42
years actively engaged in the drug
business here, has sold his interest in
the drug stock of Winegar & Hartman
to his partner, William Hartman, who
will) continue the business under his
own name. Mr. Hartman started clerk-
ing in the store he has just purchased,
twenty-one years ago and in 1924 be-
came a partner.
Lansing—James Sepeter has engag-
ed in the restaurant business at 115-17
East Michigan avenue, under the style
of Sepeter’s Bungalow Sea Food Res-
taurant. It will be under the personal
management of Mrs. James Sepeter,
while Mr. Sepeter will continue to
give his persinal attention to the Grand
Inn, 109 North Grand avenue, which
he has conducted for the past three
years.
Manufacturing Matters.
Detroit—The Hardinge Detroit Cor-
poration, 4245 Cass avenue, has chang-
ed its name to the Michigan Engineer-
ing Corporation.
Paw Paw—Neils Harss, recently of
Saugatuck, has purchased the Paw
Paw Bottling Works and will bottle
grape juice as soon as_ the season
opens.
Bridgeport — The Bridgeport Core
Sand Co. has been incorporated with
an authorized capital stock of $100,000,
$55,000 of which has been subscribed
and paid in.
Ronald Sanders
Co., manufacturer of musical instru-
ments, is removing its plant here from
St. Mary’s, Ohio, locating in the Fac-
tories, Inc., building, 1906 Reed street.
Detroit—The Rotary Holding Co.,
607 Shelby street, has been incorporat-
ed to develope combustion engine, etc.,
with an authorized capital stock of
10,000 shares at $1 a share, $10,000
being subscribed and paid in.
Kalamazoo — The
Detroit—McGregor & Reading, Inc.,
12935 Lyondon avenue, has been in-
corporated to do logging, merchandis-
ing and manufacturing, with an author-
ized capital stock of $25,000, $1,000 of
which ‘has been subscribed and paid in
in cash.
April 30, 1930
Detroit—The International Boxing
Corporation, 6460 East Jefferson
avenue, has been incorporated to make
crating, boxes, etc., with an authorized
capital stock of 5,000 shares at $10
a share, $10,000 being subscribed and
$1,000 paid in.
Detroit—The Detroit Electric Fan
Co., 539 East Woodbridge street, has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style with an
authorized capital stock of $10,000, $8,-
750 of whick has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.
Kalamazoo—The Lithibar Co., man-
ufacturer and dealer in concrete and
other construction machinery, has been
incorporated with an authorized cap-
ital stock of 5,000 shares at $10 a share,
$19,500 of which has been subscribed
and $15,500 paid in.
Detroit — The Protecto Products
Sales Co., 3000 Union Trust building,
has been incorporated to manufacture
and sell a preserving product, with an
authorized capital stock of 2,500 shares
at $1 a share, $2,500 being subscribed
and $1,500 paid in in cash.
Muskegon—The Irwin street plant
of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co.
will be closed down May 1 as a sequel
to the sale of the musical instrument
interests of the company to the War-
ners Pictures Corp. The operation of
the branch plant has never been satis-
factory, it is said, owing to the remote-
ness from the main plant.
Jackson — The Cardon-Phonocraft
Corporation ‘has been made a defend-
ant in a patent infringement suit filed
in the Federal district court at Detroit
The infringement is claimed to exist
by the DeForest Co., of Passiac, N. J.
in a part of a machine known as a
“bongbarder” used in the manufacture
of radio tubes. : Officials of the Car-
don-Phonocraft Corporation are con-
fident that they have adequate defense
grounds. The DeForest has started
suits against several other companies
on similar infringement claims, accord-
ing to an official of the Jackson con-
cern.
—_~+~--__
Why Deal With An Independent
Store?
1. Satisfaction of knowing the
man who gets our trade and
money.
2. He's a fellow citizen.
3. He owns or hopes to own
his home.
4. He uses his profits to buy
or build his store which enhances
real estate values.
5. He enlarges his business for
greater service to his customers.
6. He pays taxes to enable the
Government to protect you and
me, provide schools for our chil-
dren, and hard roads for our auto-
mobiles.
7. He supports the churches,
the hospitals, the Chamber of
Commerce, and all civic move-
ments for community betterment.
8. He is personally interested
in his customers, can extend. ac-
commodation and credit to the
sick and the people out of work
temporarily.
9. He is a community builder.
ee
aercergemeneresy
y
ate ance onmeEa
BERG sisi
-tion of any.
April 30, 1930 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5
Essential Features of the Grocery Columbia River salmon will be the Bananas—5@5%c per Ib. 202 7.00
Market. same as last year. Japanese crab meat Beets—0c per doz. bunches for new Onions—Home grown yellow. $2.50
Sugar—The market has made no is a little lower, meaning that the bulk from Texas. per 100 Ib. sack; Spanish, $2.50 per
change since a week ago. Jobbers hold
cane granulated at 5.55 and beet granu-
lated at 5.35.
Tea—The market has shown a fair
degree of activity during the week, but
never got beyond fair, most of the
time was dull. India, Ceylon and Java
teas are still selling better than any-
thing else, although there is still some
demand for China Pingsueys, Con-
goes and even smaller demand _ for
Japans and Formosas. News from
primary markets, especially on the first
three teas named above, has been
steady to firm.
Coffee—The only important news in
the coffee market during the week has
been advices from Brazil that a new
loan had been consummated, which the
holders there hope will support the
market. To carry this loan a heavy
tax is to be placed on every bag of
Brazil coffee, amounting altogether to
about $2.50 per bag. How this is go-
ing to support-prices in this country is
not easy to see; certainly it has not
done so yet. The market for the week
showed no advance whatever, and at
the present writing there is no indica-
Undoubtedly the market
on all grades of Rio and Santos will
theoretically have to advance to pay
the new tax. Spot coffee also remains
unchanged for the week and this in-
cludes all grades of milds. The jobbing
market on roasted coffee shows no
change for the week.
Canned Fruits — California fruits
have shown a little better tone during
the week, as cheap goods have been
working out. Apricots are in strong
statistical position and in fair demand.
The general demand for California
fruits, however, is quiet with peaches
as the weakest item.
Canned Vegetables—Southern toma-
toes show no change and Floridas are
still offered under the Marylands and
some have been sold. Future tomatoes
are quiet. There is some demand for
future corn, especially the Western
brands. Peas are selling very slowly
with a little demand for futures.
Dried Fruits—The market appears to
be gradually working into steadier
shape as stocks on hand diminish.
Prices on the entire line are still some-
what easy in tone, but shading of list
quotations is becoming less marked,
and on a number of items a hardening
tendency has become less marked, and
on a major dried fruits have shrunk to
a point where Coast replacement buy-
ing will soon be necessary. Operators
commenced important buying of Ore-
gon prunes a week or more ago, and
continue to buy from the Coast. Stocks
of the latter have been practically
cleaned up on the spot, and the few
offerings now heard of put prices firm.
Peaches are also cleaning out in good
shape, and it was estimated by an
operator yesterday that in another
month or so there will be a bare mar-
ket. Remaining supplies on the Coast
are quite limited. Standard and extra
choice are said to be unobtainable.
Canned Fish—Salmon is unchanged
with no more than fair demand. It is
understood that this season’s price on
of the packers have made a decline,
which one of their number made two
or three weeks ago. Sardines show
no change for the week.
Salt Fish—The past week has wit-
nessed an even duller demand in mack-
erel and other cured fish than was the
Prices were un-
changed, but business was very slug-
gish. Stocks of mackerel are no more
than fair for the season and large fish
are still scarce.
Beans and Peas—The
case during Lent.
demand for
dried ‘beans is still very quiet. The
undertone is still easy without any
heavy decline during the week. Pea
beans and red and white kidneys are
weak. California timas, on account of
light supply, are firm and tending up-
ward. Blackeye peas are also scarce
and firm.
Cheese—Demand is moderate, with
rather light offerings. No change in
price.
Nuts—The Mallorca market on al-
mond meats has advanced about 2c per
pound. Markets in Spain followed
suit in advancing quotations on shelled
nuts, filberts are quoted
Almonds are firmly
held in Spain. Jordans are practically
exhausted and marketing of other
types is said to be nearly completed for
the season. Pistachios have advanced
10c per pound in Sicilia and there are
few sellers. In the local market there
is no activity in shelled nuts and the
market remains. stationary. Prices
show no change throughout the list. In
nuts in the shell there is likewise little
activity. Old crop Brazils are now
hed by one operator who asks 12%c
per pound for large washed, the only
size now available.
Vinegar—Movement of
Barcelona
there lc higher.
vinegar is
increasing as the warm weather ap-
proaches. The trade here had a rather
quiet week for the time of year, but
anticipated better activity in the near
future.. Prices are firm at previously
quoted levels.
Syrup and syrup
remains unchanged with a fair buying
and a comparatively small production.
Compound syrup is rather quiet, but
without change in price.
also had a quiet week, but a regular
every day business in small lots, how-
ever. Prices are unchanged.
Sauerkraut—Canned kraut is very
quiet. The market shows no particu-
lar change, but the price tone is rather
weak. Bulk is slow here also, though
canners up-State and in the Mid-West
report good seasonal movement.
Molasses—Sugar
Molasses has
r+ >___
Review of the Produce Market.
Apples—Kent Storage Co., quotes
as follows:
Baldwins, A Grade... $2.50
Baldwins, Commercial ___-___ _-. 1.60
Stacks, A) Grade 22250000 2 25
Jonathans, A. Grade ....__ 2.75
Jonathans, Combnercial _~_-_-___- 1.75
Spys, A Grade, 2% in. min. --___ 2.75
Spys, Commercial, 2% in. min.__ 1.75
Cooking apples, any variety ~___- 1.25
Artichokes—Calif. command $3 per
crate and 75c per doz.
Asparagus—$2.50 per crate for TIIl.
or $1.25 per doz.
Butter—The market is lc lower than
a week ago. Jobbers hold 1 Ib. plain
wrapper prints at 38c and 65 Ib. tubs
at 36'%c for extras and 35%c for firsts.
Cabbage—New red commands $4.75
per crate of 60 Ibs.; new white stock
from Texas is selling at $5 per crate
of 75 Ibs.
Carrots—65ce per doz. bunches or $3
per crate for Calif. grown; new from
Texas. $2.25 per bu.
Cauliflower—$2.25 per crate for Cal.
Crates hold 9, 10, 11 or 12.
Celery—Florida stock, $5 for either
4s or 5s. Bunch stock, 85@90c.
Cocoanuts—90e¢ per doz. or $6.50 per
bag.
Cucumpers—$1.75 per doz. for Ill.
grown hot house.
Dried Beans—Michigan jobbers are
quoting as follows:
@: i Pea Beans 3 $6.00
Eight Red Kidney 7.00
Dack Red Kidney _.____.______ 7.50
Eggs—For the most part of the past
week the egg market has been weak
all over the country and shows several
small fractional declines. Demand has
not been very good since the last re-
port.
ly fresh.
Egg Plant—$2.25 per doz.
Grape Fruit—Extra fancy
Local dealers pay 22c for strict-
Florida:
ING 36) oe $4.25
No 46) 220 5.50
IN 54) 6.00
INGt Ge 6.75
NG 70 2 7.50
INO SO) oe 7.50
Choice, 50c per box less.
Green Onions — Shallots, 75c per
doz.; home grown, 25c per doz.
Green Peas—$3.50 per hamper for
Calif. grown.
Lemons—The price will be higher
next week.
follows:
The price this week is as
SOO; Sumcacst 0 $7.00
SOO Sunkise 0 7.00
S60) Red Bail 2 6.25
O00 Red (Bate oo) 675
Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:
Imperial Valley, 4s, per crate ____$4.50
Imperial Valley, 5s, per crate ____ 4.50
Hot house grown, leaf, per Ib. _ 9c
Limes—$1.50 per box.
Mushrooms—65c per Ib.
Mustard Greens — $2 per bu. for
Texas.
Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Navels are being offered this week on
the following basis:
BC $5.25
A 6.50
FO 7.50
WG 8.25
200 9.00
ALG) 9.25
257 ee ee 9.25
BOO 9.25
620 8.50
Floridas are held as follows:
10) ES ee $4.50
AG ee 5.75
Oe 6.25
00 6.75
QUO 7.00
7) S| OE 7.00
crate; Texas Bermuda, $2.50 for white
and $2.25 for yellow.
Parsley—50c per doz. bunches.
Peppers—Green, 75c per dozen for
California.
Pineapples
3.25 per box, according to size.
Cubans command $3@
Potatoes—Home grown, $2 per bu.
on the Grand Rapids public market;
country buyers are mpstly paying $1.75;
Idaho stock, $4.50 per 100 Ib. bag;
Idaho bakers command $4.75 per box
of 60 or 70; new potatoes from Florida
command $3.85 per bu. and $9.25 per
bbl.
Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:
Fieavy fowls 2 00 27c
Fight fowls 22050 24c
Radishes—60c per doz. bunches of
hot house.
Spinach—$1 per bu.
Strawberries—$3.50 per 24 pint crate
Ea.; $6 for 24 at.
Alabama.
from crate from
Sweet Potatoes—$2.75 per bu. for
kiln dried Jerseys.
Tomatoes—$1.50 per basket; three
basket crate, $4.50.
Turnips—$1.40 per bu. for old; new
$1 per doz. bunches.
Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:
Haney l4e
Good 2c
WEGCR i Ile
Poor te ol te Se ay coal Sec ca oa cog 10c
—__+~-+___
Chain Store Growth Means To All
of Us.
|. Elimination of independent
dealers.
2. Distribution of profits at
some great center among absentee
stock holders.
3. A salaried managership of
local places of business.
4. Foreign domination of local
business and price fixing.
5. Loss of local employees to
their home communities after they
make good, by being shifted to
other points.
6. Loss from standpoint of civic
interests and an important and
unfortunate change from a social
standpoint.
———————
Nation of Clerks and Managers.
U. S. Senator Couzens in U. S.
Senate:
“Everythng is to be gained and
nothing is to be lost by stoppine
the mergers until such time as
Congress can study the matter
further. There has been a mania
for consolidations and mergers,
not only with the railroads but
among banks, food products man-
ufacturers, public utilities and re-
tail stores. No one knows where
this is to end, unless it be when we
become a Nation of clerks and
managers.”
ine
Detroit—The Chicago Coal & Sup-
ply Co., 9336 Hubbel street, has been
incorporated to deal in fuel and build-
ing materials, with an authorized cap-
ital stock of $5,000, $2,000 of which
has been subscribed and paid in.
THREE BUSY DAYS.
Annual Convention of Michigan Gro-
cers and Meat Dealers.
The annual convention of the Mich-
Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers
i Apnil 21, 22 and 23,
uarters at the Bancroft Ho-
yinaw,
up its registration booth,
April 21. In con-
egistration booth,
T
space was provided by the Hotel to
display the refrigerator case presented
to the State Association by the Mal-
bourn Manufacturing Co., of Lansing.
Gerritt Vander Hooning
shelving and display tables presented
Co, of
Grand Rapids, the merchandising cab-
by the Terrell Equipment
inet with Local Pride Chinese products
Van Buren County
Canning Co., of Hartford, and a beau-
presented by the
Link floor case filled with
Brach & Sons Co.,
-of Chicago, assuming an atmosephere
tiful Blue
candies by the E. J.
of activity at the opening hour. Re-
rs steadily streamed in and when
n opened at 2 p. m., 176
had registered—an unusual attendance
for the opening session.
Inasmuch as no stenographic report
was made of the convention. an ac-
count of same will be made from mem-
oranda, dealing with the most im-
portant portions of the proceedings.
called to
President of the
Meat
introduced
Meeting was order by
Kretchmer,
Retail
Association,
Charles
Saginaw Grocers and
Dealer’s who
Attorney, substitut-
the Saginaw City
ing for the Mayor, who welcomed the
retailers to Saginaw.
First Vice-President Gerritt Vander-
Hooning responded to the greetings
in behalf of the State Association and
President, A. J.
Faunce, of Harbor Springs.
introduced State
President Faunce delivered his an-
nual address, outlining the progress
made by retailers during the past year,
as well as the progress of the State
Association, which was printed in full
in the Michigan Tradesman under date
of April 23.
Secretary Hanson then read his an-
nual report, reviewing his activity dur-
ing the past year and which was also
pfinted in full in Michgan Tradesman
under date of April 23, together with
MICHIGAN
the motion made by Mr. Schultz, of
Ann supported by Mr.
Leonard, of Benton Harbor, that the
Arbor, and
report be accepted as read, with the
exception of the clause pertaining to
resignation, which was referred to the
Executive Board. Motion prevailed by
unanimous vote.
Treasurer Tatman, of Clare, then
read his annual report in detail, show-
ing a balance on hand in treasury of
$708.37, which was referred to Audit-
ing Committee.
President Faunce then announced the
following committees:
Sergeant-at-arms—A. L. Leonard, of
Benton Harbor.
Auditing Committee—Wm. Schultz,
&
Ann Arbor: O. R. Wilson, Shelby;
Theo. Bathke, Petoskey.
‘The question box was placed in
charge of First Vice-President Gerritt
VanderHooning.
Committee — Walter
John Affeldt, Lan-
Leigh Thomas, Ann Arbor.
Walter
Warren
Durkee, Flint; Nelson Young, Bay
City. :
Rules and
Resolution
Loeffler, Saginaw;
sing:
Credential Committee —
Thomasma, Grand Rapids;
Order—A. J. LaBarge,
Pontiac; Edw. Weide, Bay City; Peter
Dykstra, Grand Rapids.
Nominating Committee — Matt
Heyns, Grand Rapids; Chairman, H.
McCormack, Ithaca; Martin Smith,
Central Lake; Paul Schmidt, Lansing;
Frank Marxer, Saginaw.
Reports of local associations were
then called for by the President and
the call was arranged alphabetically.
Ann Arbor being the first to re-
spond, report being made by Victor
Sorg, Secretary, announcing that a
very active local had been formed in
Ann Arbor, which was actively engag-
ed in
chain
from
turned over to
the State Secretary a list of fifty mem-
reclaiming the business
invasion. He
O. H. Bailey, Sr.
bers, together with the per capita tax
of $62.50.
3ay City was next to respond. Re-
port made by Secretary Edward Weide
and a list of twenty-seven members,
together with per capita tax of $40.50,
showing an increase over last year of
thirteen members.
ee:
TRADESMAN
The Grand Rapids local report was
then given by President Thomasma,
who outlined the set-up of the Grand
Rapids local and its activities. He re-
ported a total of 148 members, 112
being retailers, the remainder being
associate members and members of
the Credit Bureau, with a cash balance
in Treasurer's hands of $2,800. He
also reported having paid the per cap-
ita tax to the State Association on its
full retail membership.
Lansing was reported by Secretary
Bailey, Jr. Local functioning very ef-
furnish the list
with the per
would
together
capita tax, within a week.
ficiently and
of members,
Pontiac report was given by R. J.
LaBarge, local Secretary, a new local
still in process of organization, going
turned in
roll! of fifty-seven members, together
strong and a membership
with the per capita tax of $71.25.
The Saginaw report was rendered by
Secretary Wm. A.
a detailed
Rorke, who gave
account of the progress
made by the Saginaw retailers, their
activity in the Home Defense League,
fifty
capita
and turned over the names of
together with] per
tax of $62.50.
Secretary Rorke then anounced fif-
members,
teen Saginaw retailers wearing white
ribbons would be at the service of vis-
iting retailers, a theatre party as the
guests of the Saginaw Association for
Monday evening, and a luncheon for
the ladies on Tuesday.
Meeting adjourned at 4:30 p. m.
April 22,
Tuesday, the convention
was called to order by President
Faunce at 9:45 a. m.
Report made by A. J. LaBarge,
Rules and Order
Committee, that members wishing to
be recognized by the chair should an-
nounce their names and city first and
that Robert’s Rules of Parliamentary
Law should govern the proceedings of
the convention.
chairman of the
President Faunce then requested the
announcement of members who have
passed away during the past year and
Secretary Hanson reported A. E.
Bay Ctty, J. D. Cozad,
member of the Schultz Grocery Co.,
of Ann Arbor, and George F.
Swartz, of
Arm-
strong, of Flint, had been reported to
him during the past year. All present
were requested to stand and with bow-
ed heads as a tribute to the deceased
members.
NOW PLAYING
“PUTTIN ON THE RITZ”
All - Talking - Singing
With HARRY RICHMAN, JOAN BENNETT,
JAME GLEASON, LILYAN TASHMAN
April 30, 1930
Leigh Thomas, of Ann Arbor,
President of the Ann Arbor Associa-
tion, gave a very interesting talk on
“Clean Up Your Own Back Yard,’
urging the retailers to be consistent
their
order to
in making purchases in other
lines, in command respeci
from the other business men as well
as consumers, and urged = niember
present to strive for a stronger Stat.
Association during the ensuing year.
The following questions were read
by Chairman VanderHooning — in
charge of the Question Box.
Would it be more beneficial to the
State Association, if one or two ses-
sions be confined only to delegates?
Giving a chance to discuss some ob-
jectionable methods used by manufac
turers or jobbers?
Would the State Association func
tion better if the State annual dues be
increased to $3.50 and registration fees
at convention be made $5.
it be practical?
Can anyone
And wou'd
suggest what
could be made in convention progran.s
change
— Starting —
SATURDAY, MAY 3rd
The Big Surprise
Sensation of 1930!
“ROADHOUSE
NIGHTS”
with
HELEN MORGAN
CHARLES RUGGLES
FRED KOHLER and
CLAYTON, JACKSON
and DURANTE
Laughs! Songs! Thrills!
—You See and Hear All in
one Big Gorgeous Thrill
Frolic!
Added ‘Kent’ Features
“BIG TOP CHAMPIONS”
“AESOP FILM FABLES”
“FARO NELL”
“Paramount Talking News”
Coming Soon
“BENSON MURDER Case’”’
Shows
Daily
At
1-3-5-7-9
- Dancing
Starting Friday, May 2nd
RUTH CHATTERTON in “SARAH and SON” All Talking
Two Days Only, Friday and Saturday, May 2-3
1930 BLOSSOM QUEEN and 28 ESCORTS IN PERSON
'
i
+
+
seenemeeanenr aesiaineie nen eRe
BIR vee screre
April 30, 1930
MICHIGAN
acs rnc MeL URAC UO NAR SAD ION NS HA A MLLER ST IE AND cI
TRADESMAN
that would increase attendance? If not,
what type of program is best liked?
Would it be advisable to make such
increase as may be necessary finan-
cially that this Association have a
paper or trade magazine issued mfonth-
ly? If so, how much increase wou'd
be necessary? Secretary Hanson made
reply to this question, to the effect
that if a monthly publication was _ re-
quired it wou!d be necessary to obtain
a new editor, as a quarterly requires
all the spare time that was possible
Ole Deters
to arrange at this time. Mr. Sorg, of
Ann Arbor, then suggested that mem-
bers subscribe for the Michigan Trades-
man, which carries articles of our As-
sociation activities from time to time,
as well as other valuable reading mpt-
ter.
Why should this convention not
take action to instruct its officers to
introduce and sponsor a bill at the
next Legislature relative to a Sunday
closing law and night closing which
would meet ali legal objections, also
to have a penalty heavy enough for no
man to take a chance to evade?
Will this convention go on record
in support of the Capper-Kelly bill?
Will this convention go on record to
use its utmost effort to eliminate chain
stores and how?
Meeting adjourned at 10:30 a. m. in
order to afford an opportunity for vis-
iting retailers to visit the Schust Co.
plant and other places of interest in
Saginaw as the guests of the whole-
salers.
Tuesday afternoon 1:45 p. m. con-
vention convened in the Auditorium
building and a short talk on retailers
advertising was given by W. L.
George, of Grand Rapids, and some
specimens of the local advretising used
in Grand Rapids was displayed.
The convention was honored by the
arrival of Shirley Haas, Secretary of
the Louisville Association, Walter
Nichols, Secretary of the Cleveland
Association. Homer McConkey, Secre-
tary of the Ohio Association, M. C.
VanBuren, Secretary of the Toledo
Association and Mr. Post, President
of the Toledo Association.
Winfield H. Caslow, the Main Street
Crusader, of Grand Rapids, then gave
a talk to members present and was
followed by Max Cullen, who substi-
tuted for Mr. Hartzell, who was unable
to attend, and the present day meth-
ods of cutting beef and lamb were
demonstrated and explained.
This was followed by a talk by
Shirley E. Haas, Secrtary of the Louis-
ville Association, and who was in no
small measure responsible for the
Government survey made in Louisville
which consisted of disclosures which
will mean much in righting the retail
food business.
Meeting adjourned at 5:30 p. m.
‘Tuesday evening a very fine banquet
was arranged by the Saginaw Associa-
tion and was attended by 325, neces-
sitating using two rooms in the Ban-
croft Hotel. President Eugene Ber-
thiaume, President of the National
Association of Retail Grocers, was
present and gave a short talk. Walter
J. Nicho!s, Secretary of the Cleveland
Retail Grocers, extended an invitation
to all retailers to attend the National
convention at Dayton, Ohio, June 16
to 19 and outlined a few of the con-
structive plans now under way, in ar-
ranging the program of the convention.
David B. Chindblom, President of the
Muller Bakeries, of Grand Rapids,
gave a short and very interesting talk,
Henry DeVries, of the Schultze Bak-
ing Co., was on hand with a new line
of “Dutch impersonations” and R.
Perry Shorts, the principal speaker of
the evening, delivered a most wonder-
ful masterpiece, which held the atten-
tion of everybody present for forty-
five niinutes.
Wednesday, April 23, 9:45 a. m. The
convention called to order by President
Faunce.
David B. Chindblom, held over from
Tuesday program, was the first to
talk, and was followed by Eugene
M. C. Goossen
Berthiaume, National President of the
Retail Grocers.
Secretary Hanson read a letter from
Past President of the National Asso-
ciation, Francis Kamper, asking the
Michigan Association to furnish $100
to carry on the work in connection
with the Louisville Survey, which has
taxed the Louisville Ass’n. severely.
Motion made by Affeldt, of Lansing,
supported by Bailey, of Lansing, that
the request be referred to the Execu-
(Continued on page 30)
SERIOUS problem confronted the manage-
ment of a certain Western Michigan
organization. Once a profitable enterprise, it
was now, with a rapidly mounting overhead and
heavy obligations, struggling along in the
shadow of insolvency. Facing facts squarely,
the management filed application for a Receiver-
ship. The Court appointed The Michigan Trust
Company. Within five years creditors were paid
100 cents on the dollar with back interest. The
property was turned back to the owners rehabil-
itated with credit restored and a cash surplus.
This is just one of the many tasks which The
Michigan Trust Company is equipped to handle.
The great bulk of our work is in the settlement
of estates and the investment of trust funds
where more than 40 years experience and good
business judgment count so heavily.
Why not arrange now to enlist our services for
your estate by appointing us Executor under
your Will?
THE MICHIGAN TRUST co.
GRAND RAPIDS
FIRST TRUST COMPANY IN MICHIGAN
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
April 30, 1930
PRETTY RAW DEAL.
Usually, unless our
gone back on us, the 30th of April is
an unusually warm day for midspring,
a genuine summer day; but is it so now
in 1930? Is it? Even the 6th of April
has proved unseasonably hot, year
after year; but was it so this year?
And taking this current spring by and
large, it has proved on its average just
about as bad as was that of a year ago,
both in March and in April. It has been
a raw prolongation of winter—and a
pretty raw deal on the part of the
weather man.
memory has
To be sure, we have had one or two
really warm days and quite a spell of
hot days one time, along in March.
But the trend of the season has been
very unseasonable—we look on the
face of spring, yet do not recognize
her. The turf and the trees are doing
their darnedest to keep up the tradition
of spring, and we admire their cour-
age, hut it is the weather, the weather,
that is the burden of our lament. Last
Wednesday, for example, there was
snow in Washington, there was a be-
low freezing temperature in Pittsburgh,
and in Springfield, Mass., not to go
further North, there was ice forming
under the hand of a twenty-degree
temperature; all this on April 23! With
one eye on their manuscripts and the
other on the sky, the time-honored
are getting cock-eyed;
and if that be so, how is it with the
spring poets
farmers and the fruit raisers?
So don’t discard your winter under-
wear yet and keep at least three types
of overcoat handy—one for Monday,
one for Tuesday, one for Wednesday,
Preparedness is a
Socrates would march bare-
and then some.
virtue.
footed in winter, but don’t you try it,
in this wintry spring. Socrates was a
remarkable man in more ways than one
and doubtless could have put it over
almost any kind of American spring
It is easy to
weather, including
simply by ignoring it.
explain that our
spring weather, depends on the direc-
tion of the wind, but that doesn’t seem
to help matters much in relation to
comfort and coal bills.
In the abstract, spring is spring, but
in the concrete, when is spring?
UP TO THE FARMER.
The next move in farm relief is up
to the Alexander
Legge, chairman of the Farm Board.
farmer. So Says
The farmer, he declares, “after many
years of patient fighting” has at last
received recognition rom the Govern-
ment, which stepped in and bought
tens of millions ot bushels of wheat,
thus averting an approaching panic in
The question now
is, will the farmer do his part? Spec-
ifically, will the producers of farm
products get together and act collec-
tively “so that they may get the bene-
fit to be obtained through co-operative
the wheat market.
processing or marketing of their grain
er other farm products?” In Mr.
Legge’s opinion, this in a sentence is
the whole farm problem.
He both analyzes the situation and
sounds a warning when he says, “The
American farmer is the world’s cham-
pion individualist, and when six million
of him, each governing his actions ac-
cording to his personal horizon, goes
off by himself, and regardless of what
the consuming demand may be, and
generally ignorant of it, keeps on pro-
ducing, he naturally winds up by won-
dering why he cannot get better return
for his effort.”
Will the farmers stick together more
successfully this time than heretofore?
Their best friends are the first to ad-
mit their suspicion of co-operative
movements and their tendency to fall
away from them. This attitude re-
sults, in part, from the fact that they
have sometimes been victims rather
than ‘beneficiaries of such movements.
Toward the present one, however, any
such feeling would be foolishly un-
justifiable. If it should fail through
lack of co-operation by the farmer
himself, it would be a long time be-
fore he had another opportunity to
avail himself of Government assistance.
It may not be quite fair to say that
the success of the present experiment
depends entirely upon the action of the
farmers, since it is a question whether
the plan itself is sound or not, but it
certainly cannot have any chance of
success without the hearty co-opera-
tion of those for whose relief it has
been devised and put into effect.
NOT MUCH PROGRESS NOTED.
Very little change has been noted
in the course of industry and general
business during the week. There was
a small gain in steel operations, with
somewhat larger orders from the
lower priced automobile manufactur-
ers. Structural steel awards still
pointed, however, to a_ subnormal
condition, which building _ statistics
continue to reflect. Construction con-
tract awards so far this month have
been running about 30 per cent. under
a year ago. :
While some divisions of building are
showing the increases which were
planned and promised at the business
conferences as a means of moderating
the depression, the program in the ag-
gregate still falls quite short of last
year’s operations. It is understood,
however, that there has been some
easing in mortgage funds lately. This
is accepted as a highly significant de-
velopment and may push forward the
plans which were held up while money
ease was more nominal than real.
Further price weakness in commod-
ity prices postpones the time when
buying will be less hesitant on this
important score. The Annalist index
has dropped to 133.1 and in the last
week only the fuel group advanced,
with building materials unchanged and
other products all lower. Until this
movement has spent itself, it is likely
that there will not be much in the way
of confident operations or substantial
recovery in business.
DRY GOODS CONDITIONS.
Unfavorable weather continues to
hold down trade results in many parts
of the country. There is little induce-
ment to the public to buy new and
lighter apparel with temperatures at
freezing levels. Clearance sales have
been launched, but do not attract very
active response. With the _ holiday
over, trade in house furnishings picked
up somewhat and more intensive pro-
motion of these lines was in many
cases adequately rewarded.
Retail sales in the month now clos-
ing are not apt to show much gain
over the same period last year, in
spite of having the Easter business
included. For this reason, the total
volume for March and April should
be under that of a year ago and by a
little more margin than was expected.
Given more favorable weather, how-
ever, store executives believe that the
showing from now on will be better.
Employment and purchasing power
have not improved much, but they
should make more progress from this
point on. Difficult conditions in in-
dustry are being worked out, outdoor
activities are expanding, the new tar-
iff should bring at least some artificial
stimulation and savings are being ac-
cumulated. In addition, the stores
handling women’s apparel see a wider
demand from the first Summer season
of the new styles.
More buyers visited the wholesale
merchandise markets during the week,
which is usual after Easter. Their
operations, however, were not extensive
and it is apparent that merchandise
appropriations are being rather rigidly
restricted. The markets hear that re-
tail stocks are quite low and on this
they base the opinion that more sea-
sonal weather will find the stores
short of supplies and more active in
their purchasing.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES.
At the recent stockholders meeting
of the largest steel producer a question
was asked concerning what the com-
pany was doing in the way of research
activity. It was explained that the
laboratory is now operated with a staff
of twenty-eight scientists, “whose
work will be of great benefit to the
company.”
This activity of the huge corpora-
tion is in distinct contrast with what
had to be reported three years ago
when a similar question developed that
no organized research was being car-
ried on. The query at that time led
to the engagement of an eminent
metallurgist and a beginning of the
program which is now under way.
While there has been this change
of viewpoint on the importance of re-
search, there still remains room for
considerable progress in this and other
major industries. The steel business
itself does not seem to be offering the
support it might to the cause of weld-
ing. A plan to advance this method
of construction apparently received
little attention.
One might imagine that in the new-
er industries, often born of research,
there would be a full appreciation of
its continuing value. Observers are
puzzled to find, however, that this is
not always the case. The aviation in-
dustry is an instance, it is pointed out,
with none of the major interests oper-
ating a laboratory “worthy of the
name.”
The growing interest in research
displayed by the textile industries is
being commended by those who are
acquainted with their difficultiés and
also with the frequent solutions offered
by the scientific approach to problems
in industry.
BETWEEN TWO FIRES.
The resignation of William G. Kel-
logg as president of the Grain Stabil-
ization Corporation, just announced by
the Farm Board, may answer criticism,
but it can hardly solve the major
problem. Mr. Kellogg was accused of
poor judgment in the marketing of
wheat and was blamed in some quar-
ters for the slump from $1.17 to $1.06
a bushel. The situation was compli-
cated by the failure of a Minneapolis
firm which had been acting as broker
for orders issued by him. At the time
of failure the firm had Grain Stabiliza-
tion Corporation grain worth $120,000
in its bins, all of which has been re-
covered.
The marketing of Farm Board wheat
is a problem to test the ablest. When
prices rise to a profitable point, the
logical thing is to sell. Disposal of
large quantities, however, inevitably
forces the market price down. Thus
the man marketing Farm Board wheat
is between the devii and the deep blue
sea—he must neither sell at a loss nor
must he beat the market down by
“unloading.”
The Grain Corporation has on hand
a large quantity of 1929 wheat. Mean-
while another harvest is approaching.
Obviously, the man who steps into Mr.
Kellogg’s shoes will find them less and
less comfortable.
POOR PITTSBURGH.
The people of Pittsburgh must be
ready to believe that troubles never
come singly. For three months the
city has had virtually no taxicab ser-
vice, and now the street car employes
are threatening to strike. Their con-
tract will expire May 1, and thus far
all offers from the company have been
rejected by overwhelming votes. With
only a few cabs running in the down-
town district, the daily acts of violence
continue. The street cars have been
more heavily patronized than usual,
but if they suspend operations a large
portion of the public will have to culti-
vate the almost forgotten art of walk-
ing. In such an emergency as now
threatens, the people of most com-
munities would look first to their
mayor and other public officials to
take vigorous action. But the utter
breakdown of municipal and county
authority at Pittsburgh and the failure
to adopt any constructive measures
remove any hope of official assistance
in protection of the rights of the public.
THE SOUL OF WATKINSON.
The tide of public indignation over
the Ohio Penitentiary horror seems to
be seeking to make a scapegoat of the
guard, Watkinson, who caused many
convicts on the upper tier to be suffo-
cated in their cells because he refused
to unlock the doors. It was a dreadful
refusal. Perhaps he who made it
should meet stern punishment. But
his judges should try to picture the
struggle that evidently raged within
that sullen soul. Should he “let ’em
burn,” as he said, or should he let
them out, against his orders and in the
face of the fear that they might join
the rebel convicts and set other build-
ings on fire? Only a Conrad, perhaps,
could make us realize what went on in
the soul of Watkinson.
e
r
:
Lome eERERCR
eee S eeeeednmieeaetendnrneaiiameteacs ce a
April 30, 1930
MICHIGAN
SAE ANNE ACN SNC a DUNO ESS RE es oN Lee NS i ne RALAUAEROSEE Sa RETO RANA
TRADESMAN
OUT AROUND.
Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.
I do not now recall any interior city
in Michigan which has a more beautiful
setting than Ionia. Located in a val-
ley on one side of Grand River, with
high hills on both sides, the business
portion of the city presents a very
compact appearance from the higher
levels. When I wanted to show a
friend a view worth going a long ways
to see, I took him up to the top of the
high hill on which the asylum for the
criminal insane is located, but since the
new cement road running North from
U S 16 was completed, I hesitate for
a few moments at the 'top of the high
hill overlooking the city, as the thor-
oughfare affords a more elongated and.
comprehensive view of Ionia than the
asylum viewpoint. In my opinion, it
is worth a 500 mile trip ‘to be able to
admire and absorb the wonderful
panorama thus presented.
Nothing pleases me more in visiting
Ionia nowadays than to note the
changed attitude of Ionia people to-
ward Western Michigan. Forty years
ago Ionia was an alien to her sister
cities and counties in this part of the
State. In business, politics, religion
and social and fraternal activities, she
took her cue from Detroit and Wayne
county and never aligned herself with
Western Michigan. Ten times as many
Detroit papers were taken in Ionia as
Grand Rapids papers. No Western
Michigan candidate in any political or
fraternal organization received any
recognition in Ionia, which was so
completely obscessed by her affiliation
with Detroit and Wayne county that
she could not be prevailed upon to co-
operate with any Western Michigan
locality. I never could understand this
peculiar condition, but it existed and
was rigidly maintained for fifty years
or more. Now the situation is com-
petey reversed. Tonia no onger bends
her knee to Detroit and has become
thoroughly Western Michigan in senti-
ment, thought and action,
Ralph Chase, who has conducted a
grocery store at his oil station a mile
or two East of the city limits for the
past five years, has formed a co-part-
nership with C. McCarry, who has
been manager of a local Kroger store
for the past three years, and engaged
in the grocery business on West Main
street under the style of Chase & Mc-
Carry. Sales on the opening day were
in excess of $1,100. Mr. Chase’s or-
iginal store will be conducted by his
wife.
J. H. Shoemaker, a general dealer at
302 East Main street, has been in
something of a mess for a couple of
weeks, caused by the introduction of a
modern plate glass front to his store
and the application of fresh paint on
the inside. Mr. Shoemaker has done
business at his present location eleven
years. For eight years prior thereto
he was engaged in general trade at
Lyons.
Guy W. Rouse, who was sentenced
to the Ionia prison for three and one-
half to five years by Judge Verdier, of
the Superior Court, Grand Rapids, is
eligible to parole the latter part of
May. The disposition of his case will
be passed on by the Board of Pardons
at its May meeting. Unless Rouse re-
imburses Kent county the $1,800 it cost
to extradite him from California, he
will have to remain in prison another
year. It is understood his Grand Rap-
ids friends have raised the $1,800 in
$100 subscriptions, so that the extra
year will not’ have to be spent in
prison. Rouse tells friends who call
on him at the prison that he will not
take up his residence in Grand Rapids
whenever he is released; that he will
spend one day in Grand Rapids and
then head for Los Angeles, where his
wife awaits him.
Every business man with whom I
talked.in Ionia expressed regret that
Governor Green had decided to retire
from the office of chief executive at
the end of his present term and hurl
his hat into the ring for the Senator-
ship. I think they all realize that
Couzens will be a harder man to beat
than Groesbeck was—not because he
is any smarter, but because the two
public gifts of a charitable character
he has made since he became Senator
will give him a following, especially
among women voters, which it will be
very difficult to overcome. Mr. Couzens
does not deserve any consideration
from the Republican party, because
he has been anything but loyal to the
party which elevated him to the Sen-
atorship and has kept him in the Sen-
ate. He has not always voted with
the party. He has been anything but
a patriot and a good citizen. He has
been a law unto himself—arrogant, ob-
streperous and unreliable. In no case
has he properly represented the senti-
ment, aspirations and wishes of Mich-
igan people. He has no right to ex-
pect the vote of any Michigan Re-
publican or patriot in his ambition to
continue to misrepresent the party
which sponsored him and the State
which suffers by his irregular methods
and disreputable stand in many mat-
ters which come up in the Senate.
The announcement that Governor
Green had broken with Senator Van-
denberg was also received with much
disappointment in Ionia. Mr. Vanden-
berg gave Mr. Green wonderful sup-
port in both of his campaigns for Gov-
ernor. Especially is this true of the
first campaign, four years ago, when
the lines were sharply drawn. The
Governor showed his appreciation of
such service by appointing Mr. Van-
denberg Senator to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Mr. Ferris. In
making that appointment, Mr. Green
did himself a great honor, as well as
meeting the wishes of the rank and
file of the Republican party of the
State. I have no knowledge of the
origin of the controversy which has
resulted in the present strained rela-
tions—strained to the breaking point—
between these two estimable gentle-
men. I am sorry it has occurred, and
I suppose it is now too late to heal
the breach. Mr, Vandenberg’s stock
holdings in the syndicate which now
owns the Grand Rapids Herald, Lan-
sing State Journal and Battle Creek
Journal have been taken over by Gov-
ernor Green and his friends.
The preliminary remark of the chair-
man of the committee created by the
City Commission of Grand Rapids to
recommend a location for the new
auditorium already foreshadows the
location which will be selected. His
statement that it will not be where
dogs howl and garbage is handled
practically shuts out the island site
from further consideration, notwith-
standing the fact that both of those
features could be removed a quarter
mile farther South and located on land
where the city is now erecting its
sewage disposal plant. The auditorium
will be located opposite the West end
of Pearl street bridge, according to the
plans which the “powers that be” had
in mind when the committee was
created. Grand Rapids is supposed to
be governed by a Commission, but
back in the shadow stand two impos-
ing figures who completely dominate
the situation as effectively as though
we were under the absolute control of
two czars. Popular government went
into the discard when these two men
assumed the job of governing the city.
Ossian Simonds, the world famous
landscape architect, was in the city
(where he was born and raised) over
the week end. He was asked regard-
ing the proper location of the auditor-
ium and immediately stated that the
only proper location would be the
island site. He said the greatest asset
any municipality could have was a
river flowing through the center of the
city; that Grand Rapids was excep-
tionally favored in that respect, but
had not taken advantage of the situa-
tion as it should have done; that the
location of the auditorium on _ the
island would afford a view of the river
which would naturally result in the
beautification of the banks on both
sides and lead to further improvement
and embellishments of a permanent
character.
When asked abcut the difficulty of
obtaining a solid foundation without
going down forty feet or more, Mr.
Simonds said that such an objection
was puerile—that all Chicago was
built on a swamp which necessitated
builders going down from fifty to sixty
feet and that such a condition was re-
garded as a positive advantage.
E, A. Stowe.
——_++ >
Millionaire Salesmen.
Cyrus S. Eaton started a rather acri-
monious debate on the subject of high
salaries paid to executives when in the
fight over the Bethlehem Steel-
Youngstown Sheet & Tube merger, he
told the court in which he was trying
to bar a block of stock from the polls
that Engene G. Grace as president of
Bethlehem gets a salary and bonus of
a round million dollars a year, an un-
precedented amount. Wall Street was
quick to find flaws in the statement,
objecting on two grounds: first, that
the bonus end of the payment is large
only in good years, and, second, that
Mr. Eaton erred ir? giving Mr. Grace
first place when a score or more of
other men can be mentioned who do
as well or better. On one point, how-
ever, the critics were all agreed, name-
ly, that Mr. Grace earns all he gets
because of his superlative ability as a
salesman, an ability which is shared
by many of the men who rival or sur-
pass him in compensation for services
rendered. In many cases now manage-
ment of sales is the chief affair of the
head and takes precedence over all
other considerations. That the re-
wards should be commensurate with
the preponderate importance of the
work done to make business a success
is in accordance with the best modern
practice.
—_—__~-
A Business Man’s Philosophy.
Good writing is never hard reading,
although many people, having slight
respect for their own judgment, get
to thinking that what is hard to read
must therefore be important.
Some of the best writing appears
It is enjoyed and
forgotten like the weather.
in the newspapers.
In reporting prize-fights, baseball
and football games, fires, trials and
minor incidents of the day, newspaper
men frequently produce perfect ex-
amples of lucid, vivid, concise expres-
sion.
The greatest writers have always
been able to please the masses. Young
Writ-
ing that is over the heads of common
writers should remember this.
people is usually equally unattractive
to the highly educated. They may
endure it if the writer really has some-
thing to say, but they don’t relish the
labor required to get at the meaning.
William Feather.
+--+
Under Critical Eyes.
A lot of women notice the finger
nails of most people they come in con-
tact with.
Dirt on the face is not half as of-
fensive to them as dirt under finger
nails, and sofled hands.
It is not expected that you or any
other person can make an absolutely
100 per cent. pleasing impression on
every person you wait on.
But your average of hits in this re-
spect will be much higher if you keep
your hands and finger nails clean than
if you do not.
We hope your store provides good
facilities for washing hands; for clean
hands are even more important to the
store than clean display windows.
——__+ >.
Why Be Slap-Dash?
Sales slips are one of the important
records of the store’s business trans-
actions. They should be made out
clearly and legibly.
Speed is necessary in waiting on
many customers, but it always pays to
take the extra seconds to make sure
your salese slip is correct and can be
easily read.
Why get into the slap-dash sloppy
habit of doing anything, when your
progress in life depends so much on
your reputation for doing things well?
Some of every store’s most annoy-
ing losses are traceable to carelessly
written sales slips.
4
10
FOURTH ANNUAL RE-UNION.
Of the Old Time Traveling Salesmen
of Grand Rapids.
The fourth annual re-union of the
Old Time Traveling Salesmen was
held at the Rowe Hotel in Grand Rap-
ids, Saturday, April 26.
There were present about 100 Old
Time Travelers and their wives with a
few invited friends.
The meeting was held from 2:30 p.m.
until 10 p.m. At 6:30 a banquet was
enjoyed by all present.
During the banquet, music was fur-
nished by the Crescent trio orchestra
and, to the delight of all present, all
the numbers played were old time
tunes, and you could several
groups in different parts of the room
singing the old tunes being played by
the orchestra.
George W. McKay, founder of the
idea of these annual meetings, was
chairman of the evening and the ban-
quet opened with the singing of one
verse of America and the invocation by
Rev. Lewis B. Whittemore, pastor of
Grace Episcopal church.
After the banquet, Mr. McKay read
extracts from letters he had received
from some of the Old Time Travelers
who had been invited, but were not
able to attend, as follows:
E. D. (Dell) Wright, Waukesha,
Wis.: Regret that I cannot be with
you at this time, I fully realize what
I am missing, would like to see the
old boys and talk about those days on
the road thirty vears ago. With best
regards to all. Dell.
R. B. (Dick) Landon, Los Angeles,
Cal.: Best regards to all the boys I
know.
Pat F. Dela Hunt, Hollywood, Cal.:
Boys, mighty sorry I am too far
away to get to the banquet and greet
you all. Please remember me to all
and accept best wishes for a delightful
time. Pat.
W. H. Downs, St. Petersburg, Flor-
ida: Regret that I cannot be with
you, but I wish to send my best re-
gards to all the old timers.
Harvey A. Gish, Grand Rapids: I
have been selling goods on the road
since 1895, have been with Drs. Hess
& Clark, Inc., Ashland, Ohio, twenty-
five years and never missed a pay day.
I am leaving for Winnipeg, April 6.
My best wishes to all the old timers.
Gish.
Irving W. Feighner, Spokane, Was.:
Hope to see some of the old timers
next summer when I come to Michi-
gan. Best regards to all.
J. A. Morrison, Colorado Springs,
Colo.: I desire to acknowledge receipt
of your kind invitation to be present at
the fourth annual re-union of the Old
Time Traveling Men, and wish to ex-
press regret at my inability to be pres-
ent in person, but assure you, on that
hear
day, I will be with you in spirit. My
birthday occurs on April 25, on which
date I will be 70 years old or young.
Have not been very well for a long
time. Some time ago I gave up and
entered the Boulder Sanitarium, Boul-
der, Colo., for treatment. This Sani-
tarium pursues the same _ treatment
that they do in Batte Creek and I am
MICHIGAN
glad to report that I feel pretty sure
that they have solved the problem, as
I am much better than I have been
since 1924. I trust now that my con-
dition will enable me to carry on for
some years yet to come.
William H. Schrader, Cadillac: This
is to inform you that it will be impos-
sible for me to attend the Old Timers
meeting. Would like awfully well to
be there and have a good visit with
some of my old friends. In looking
over the list I find quite a few of the
Old Tinaers that I used to put my foot
up on the brass rail with. Those were
good old days, but gone forever now.
About all the Old Timers who come
up into my territory any more is our
good friend, Hi Garrett, I have the
pleasure of seeing him occassionally.
Remember me to all the boys and as-
sure them that I regret that I can not
be with them.
L. Max Mills, Salem, Oregon: The
very welcome invitation to be present
at. your fourth annual re-union is at
hand and while I would most certainly
enjoy clasping each of you by the
hand and listening to the well-known
voices of the past, it does not seem
possible for me to do so at this time.
But I am hoping that I may be per-
mitted to be with you once more be-
fore making my last trip on earth.
My health for one of my age, 77
next month, is remarkable. I am on
duty at my desk and able to call
“Front” from five-thirty p. m. to four-
thirty a. m. seven days in the week.
I run up home to Portland, fifty-two
miles, for Saturday and Sunday every
fourth week. Mrs. Mills lives in our
very comfortable home there, with our
youngest son, L. M. Junior, and next
door is our eldest son, Wayne, and his
family, so I leave her there, as it is
much more pleasant for them all. And
it is only a two hour run up there, so
it is almost like being at home. I
have been night manager of this hotel
since the first of last June, my shift
being from 5:30 p. m. to 4:30 a. m.
and as most of the arrivals of the day
are from 5 p. m. to midnight, you can
see I have the most important part of
the rooming to do, but the latter part
of the night, | have time to read, ete.
My employers are both very pleasant
gentlemen, and I enjoy the work. The
hotel is only five years old. We have
just finished painting and decorating
and are looking forward to a good
business this season, and if any of the
Old Guards get to Salem, your hotel
room won't cost you a cent while I am
on the job. Kindest regards and best
wishes to you all from your old friend.
Harry C. Rindge, Trilport, France:
The kind invitation to the Old Time
Traveling Men’s re-union has just
reached me and I regret that the dis-
tance between here and where you are
prevents me having my legs under the
table with you all at this fourth re-
union, for I would like very much to
be there and shake hands with my old
friends, for the names on your recep-
tion committee bring back many mem-
ories of the peculiar good will and
friendship that exist in the traveling
fratermity. We are now old timers.
Travel conditions have changed. I re-
TRADESMAN
call forty years ago at this time of the
year roads were mighty bad. It took
two strong horses to pull the wagon
that contained my mud-complexioned
sample trunks from one town tto an-
other. I used to tell my customers
that the ‘time would come when us
Knights of the Grip would arrive at
their town in a flying machine, take
their valued order and fly, to the next
emporiam of commerce, and the bad
roads would not matter. Well, what
I then said is now almost true. Good
roads and autos to-day get us over
more territory and less loss of time.
May you, who still lug the sample
case never get skunked. Regards.
Arthur S. Fowle, St. Petersburg,
Fla.: Dear Old Timers, Wilbur, Leo,
Sam, Dave, Manley, Harry, John,
Dick and all of yea, I send most sin-
cere greetings, and I regret exceeding-
ly that I cannot be with you on the
26th. Hope for better luck next time.
Geo. W. Thayer, Grand Rapids: I
have been holding off in my _ reply
trusting I could join the Old Timers
this year, but I am seemingly out of
luck, as I am unable to make the
grade I am enclosing check for $5
half of which you may apply to gen-
eral expense, and the balance to the
floral fund.
Edward Frick, Douglas: Sorry, I
will not be able to come Saturday,
Have put off writing until this late,
but matters of some importance have
come up, so cannot see my way clear
to be with you without neglecting my
duties ‘here. So decided to enclose one
dollar for the floral fund, and I wish
all there able to attend a pleasant and
joyful time. Hope you may have a
large attendance.
Received Regrets from Wilbur S.
Burns, C. U. Clark, John M. Shields,
Miner E. Lawton, J. Leo Kymer, John
Grotemat, W. G. Bancroft, H. C. Tim-
merman, Rufus Boer, B. F. Girdler,
J. J. Spade, D. E. Keyes, E. J. Ed-
monds, A. Scully, R. E. Groom, Waldo
M. Ball, Earl A. Warren, Fred A. Cas-
tenholtz, Egbert Kuyers, Henry J.
Vinkemulder, D. N. White, D. A. Van
Velzel.
Fred J. Hanifin, Owosso: Thanks
very much for the invitation and wish
I could be there, but as I cannot, only
in spirit, I offer you the following, as
regards your most excellent reception
committee. Some thing to look back
upon when Geo. Abbott sold baking
powder, wore a big plaid vest, red tie
with a ring on it, and swore right up
and down that he got a $125 per month
and expenses.
Con Broene sold paper collars, hair
pins, arm shields, tights, hair rats, la-
dies’ fleeced lined pants, etc.
Wilbur Burns sold soap, and was
the silver tongued orator for the U.
CT.
3ill Berner dollar
had a million
smile and could play good ball.
Dave Drumniond shot a great game
of pool.
Leo A. Caro and Frank Starkey
were the handsome salesmen from
Grand Rapids.
Sam Evans sold prunes and codfish
in car lots and was the last word in
courtesy,
April 30, 1930
Dave Hoogerhyde managed the ho-
tel and livery at Sheridan and told the
proprietors where to get off. Dave
carried sixteeen trunks in those days
and sample rooms 50 cents per day.
Manley Jones, Walter Lawton and
J. Harvey Mann, were three of a kind,
all very fine gentlemen, combination
hard to beat.
Harry Mayer
cookies.
O. W. Stark sold candy and was a
red hot U. C. T.
John Millar was the candy kid of
them all, I used to hang around the
livery barn and work like time to get
the chance to drive him and get a piece
of Black Jack gum.
“Dick” Warner, Jr., sold teas and
sold crackers and
- spices, and then came along and sold
my boss 500 pounds of DeLands soda,
(when Arm & Hammer was the big
seller). You know Dick was the Beau
Brummel of them all. The next trip
after he sold my boss that big order
of soda he blew into town all lit up
like a Christmas tree, a pearl gray
derby, bat wing collar, big puff tie,
with a seven carat diamond stuck in
it (no 5 & 10c store one either) and a
great big black cigar, and a striped
suit that was sure a knockout, gloves
and spats to match derby, and patent
leather shoes. We got to be pretty
good friends lin those days and he took
me over to the hotel to show me his
outfits. He had two trunks loaded
with ‘the very latest men’s wear. And
he never called on another dealer until
he had changed outfits completely, so
was a sennsation in our town and oh
boy, how the girls had to have some-
thing from our store. Later Dick came
along selling salt that would not get
wormy. He carried a box with a big
fat worm in it to show the trade what
grew in common salt, but owing to a
secret process known only to his firm
it was the only salt that would not get
wormy. Dick used to be the “berries”
and hope he is yet.
After the reading of these letters,
Mr. McKay introduced Dave Drum-
mond as toastmaster.
Mr. Drummond introduced Mrs.
George E. Abbott, wife of one of the
Old Time Travelers, who gave us sev-
eral harp selections including some old
time songs that were joined in by the
entire assembly.
Rev. Lewis B. Whittemore was then
introduced and gave a wonderful talk
on “Friendship.” Rev. Whittemore in-
formed the audience that he really felt
quite at home with them, because he
was invited to their first meeting four
years ago to give the invocation and
it happened that this meeting was the
first meeting of its kind he attended
after coming to Grand Rapids. After
Rev. Whittemore’s talk, the toastmas-
ter asked that all stand in silence for
a moment in respect to the ten Old
Time Traveling Salesmen who had
passed to the great beyond since the
last meeting, as follows:
John Merryweather.
Miner H. Parton.
Myron K. Walton.
Walter S. Brackett.
John G. Kolb.
John J. Berg. |
een
: poem ~
April 30, 1930
Richard Warner. Sr.
Joseph S. Perkins.
Frank L. Palmer.
Cornelius Cary.
The toastmaster then proposed to
call on some of tthe old timers for
reminiscences, allotting three minutes
to each person, at the end of which
time a large bell was rung to stop
them.
Every man (with the exception, of
course of Leo Caro) who was called
upon to give some of his experiences
in the past was rather backward about
getting started, but every one of the
dozen or more who were called upon
had to be stopped, after they did get
started, by the bell, with the exception
of our old friend, Stevenson, of Mus-
kegon, who has traveled many, many
years for the Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co. The reason Stevenson did
not have to be stopped by the bell was
because he talked three different times.
During the reading of the letters of
regret from the absent ones, a great
deal of enthusiasm and laughter was
induced as the different names were
given by Mr. McKay. The letters of
our old friends Max Mills and Fred
F. Hanifin created a great deal of
mirth.
Mr. McKay also read the names of
twenty-two others from whom he had
received letters of regret without read-
ing the letters themselves.
The meeting closed with the singing
of “God Be With You Till We Meet
Again,” accompanied by Mrs. Abbott
on the harp.
Mr. McKay was elected chairman
for the next meeting which is to be
held, as usual, the last Saturday in
April, 1931, at the Rowe Hotel.
Mr. E. A. Stowe of the Michigan
Tradesman was spoken of several times
by the Old Time Travelers as one of
the best friends the Traveling Fra-
ternity ever had.
George Abbott raised a fund during
the winter in $1 checks, with which
he purchased an upholstered chair for
George McKay. Leo Caro made the
presentation speech. George was so
overcome he could not say a word.
Roy Randall.
++.
Will Be More Cellulose Acetate Goods.
The probabilities are, say some con-
verters and mill men, that more cellu-
lose acetate fabrics will be placed on
the market next year. Constant easing
in quotations of cellulose acetate yarns
are putting these fabrics into the
reach of the popular priced trade. Al-
ready it is possible to obtain ninons
of choice quality in the gray at around
4314 cents, according to reports; print-
ed versions of these cloths have been
selling at 75 cents wholesale.
——_»>+.—____
Orders For Better Glassware Drop.
Demand for medium and high price
glassware has fallen off in the last two
weeks. The only exception is said to
be the steady call for beverage sets.
These are being purchased in light
green, amber and pink shades. Orders
for crystal sets trimmed with black
glass have been more limited than was
anticipated. All types of drinking
glasses which can be retailed at 5 and
10 cents are in demand.
MICHIGAN
MAKING SUGAR IN FLORIDA
Graphic Description of Factory Lo-
cated at Clewiston.
Sebring, Fla., April 26—A million
pounds of sugar per day from one mill
now in operation, and a capacity of
4,000,000 additional pounds, is the most
interesting project and the one of
greatest potential profit that this writ-
er has seen in three months of motor-
ing about in Florida. This is the
project of the Southern Sugar Com-
pany, the central offices and central
mill of which is located in Hendry
county, on the South bank of Lake
Okeechobee. Our party, accompanied
by a lady from Virginia, visited it last
Friday and all were struck by the
spirit of enterprise evidenced in the
undertaking. But a few years ago the
160,000 acres of muck lands which the
company controls were just so much
inert soil, much of it covered by water,
in which snakes and other reptiles
abounded. Now 12,000 acres are un-
der cultivation and from them go every
day a continuous string of tractor
hauled crate mounted trucks, carrying
cane, and trains of flat cars on which
are mounted enormous crates with
cargoes of cane which produces sugar
of high quality.
On the way to Clewiston, a pleasant
town of much prospect from this in-
dustry, some eighty odd miles distant
from this city, we picked up only a few
miles out a wayfarer seeking the same
destination in search of employment.
He served as a source of much inter-
esting information and of unconscious
amusement. As we proceeded along
the highway through the embordering
palmetto plains, I asked him, “What
is this land good for?” Gazing thought-
fully about for a moment, in hushed
voice he replied. “Jes tuh ‘hold the
wo'ld tugathah, ah reckun,” and con-
tinuing, “This yeah sand is so white
that it jes done hu’t mah eyes.” Our
passenger was from Georgia, “A
Georgia cracker done come to Florida,”
he explained. Later, after we had left
him, fortunately, with the job he was
seeking, we discussed the question as
to how many remarks like that it
would take to establish him as a “wise
cracker,” the accomplishment of which
has gained Will Rogers a fortune of
a million dollars.
At the mill we found a “Visitors
Door” sign and every symbol of wel-
come by the acts of the employes—
the white ones. The mill force con-
sists of 160 persons, working in eight
hour shifts, operating the mill con-
tinuously. This ferce is about five to
one colored, ‘but none of the latter paid
us the least attention, except to give
us precedence everywhere about the
premises. The cane goes through the
process of complete grinding and
pressing, the extraction of the syrup,
its reduction into sugar and the sack-
ing of the latter into coarse sacks hold-
ing 320 pounds each. The sugar
comes by gravity down chutes into the
containers and is automatically weigh-
ed. One man attaches the sack to the
chute, pulls the lever which fills it and
checks the weight, while men, with
trucks onto which it is dropped, take
it quickly away. This sugar is ship-
ped to Savannah to be refined, which
is a quantity process.
his project has been in progress
two years. That is to say the cane
has been under production, in increas-
ing quantity, and its grinding and
quality of product tested in a lesser
quantity, but this Clewiston mill was
only put into operation the first of
this year and the men with whom I
talked seemed entirely sanguine as to
its success. I have the authority of
the Department of Agriculture for the
statement that this is the largest single
unit sugar factory in the United States.
The utilization of the cane fiber, a
by product, in the manufacture of
Nationally known building materials
is contemplated, and a mill for the
TRADESMAN
manufacture of fiber building board
will be erected for this purpose. The
rapid development and expansion of
these related enterprises, which com-
bine agriculture and industry in a way
quite unknown in this section, seems
especially promising to this writer, who
has never been quite able to under-
stand the tourist trade as the real
foundation of a continuous growth,
even though Michigan shares with
Florida in millions of dollars there-
from each year.
Hence I am happy to find a real
enterprise, a productive, progressive
enterprise, one that does not live off
something else,*like some of the para-
site tree growths, or the humans who
seem to have come into the world with
the notion that the world owes them
a living and that their chief enterprise
and exercise is to collect it. Having
been fortunately born—with the neces-
sity to work—this writer has no under-
standing of those who do not them-
selves work nor train their families in
this duty to society.
In the opening paragraph of this
contribution the writer used advisedly
the expression ‘fon the South bank of
Lake Okeechobee.” for it is, indeed, a
bank which separates the lake from the
town and up which we clambored to
gaze across “the largest lake wholly
within the United States which has no
natural outlet.” This latter expression
we quote from a previous one, but this
bank is largely increased in height by
deposit of the dredgings from the
canal, which is one of several in the
system of drainage and water control,
which is essential to the solution of
the redemption of the most fertile
lands within the boundaries of the
State.
The drive to and from showed on
our speedometer a distance of 172
miles and, except for about twenty-five
miles, is a hard surfaced road and for
half the distance equalling a city boule-
vard. Some sixty miles from this city,
en route to Clewiston is the promising
little city of Moore Haven, a few miles
to the West of Lake Okeechobee and
which on the night of Sept. 19, 1926,
was devastated by an overflow of the
Caloosahatchee canal at this point.
There had been for three days a storm
apparently like unto that which cov-
ered the world in the days of Noah and
the keeper of the gates of the canal
followed literally his instructions not
to open them, except ‘by direction. And
the persons in authority did not know
of the danger which threatened Moore
Haven and its 500 residents and no
word came to the keeper of the gates.
Finally the pent up waters, aided by a
tornado, swept over the dikes and
through the streets of the stricken
town seethed an irrestible flood, six
to ten feet deep, which tore down and
floated away houses with their helpless
and hapless occupants. Moore Haven
was then far from the nearest habita-
tion of sufficient size to relieve its
distress. The way to Sebring was
through a wilderness, but with gen-
erous hearts and open hands the peo-
ple of this city went to the relief of
the unfortunate. The accommodations
of every hotel and private home were
offered the stricken. No one knows
how many perished in that cataclysm.
No exact survey has ever been made.
The information here given comes
from various sources, the most color-
ful and circumstantial being given the
ladies of our party by a prideful boy
scout. whom they questioned in the
town while this writer was interview-
ing the editor of the Glades Democrat,
who has been there but a year and had
no first hand knowledge, while this
young guard of citizenship, who in re-
ply to the same enauiry, saluted in due
form and replied, “I had that honor.”
He was rescued with his family, spént
some time in this city, then a longer
period at Lakeland and finally return-
ed to his home town after its restora-
tion had been partially completed, Now
AOR AREA AheaeNcA erEER A
il
he is a young American citizen grow-
ing up under the teachings and tenets
of that great patriotic institution, which
ought to have the encouragement of
every right thinking citizen. Such
confidence has this lad in his Govern-
ment that his last word to us was, “It
can never happen again, because the
weather bureau will give us warning.
Our nearly four months in Florida
have been a pleasing and informing
experience. We have not sought en-
tertaining excitement, such as may be
found without searching, but have
rather looked for rest and information.
We do not presume to suggest a pro-
gram for anyone. Those of greater
familiarity might more safely under-
take it, but the proposition is so largely
a matter of taste and circumstance that
we feel it better for every party or in-
dividual to suit themselves from ex-
perience. Although we have been on
both coasts our visits were too brief
to make an intelligent estimate of
either. Our better acquaintance with
the Ridge section, from Lakeland to
Lake Placid, and its similarity, in many
ways, to the Fruit Belt of Michigan,
gives it our preference. If we come
again during the next season we shall
try a more Southern location first, re-
turning up the Ridge early in Febru-
ary—because February had the de-
lights of spring and early summer—
and proceeding to some points further
North, earlier than the present date,
because it is now too hot here for a
lifetime resident of the region “Where
the North begins and the Fine Fruit
Grows.” About the day when this
will reach the editor we shall begin
our homeward trek and toward that
circle of friends where we know love
and friendship. Harry M. Royal.
——_>+~>____
Our Visitor.
Come in--Spring!
Be right at home!
Every thing
Is yours! Just roam
Down the dale—up through the wood,
All about the neighborhood!
Any place—any where
You are welcome Lady Fair!
Come in—Spring!
All winter long,
Wondering
We heard your song
When your babbling, bubbling streams
So were running through our dreams
In the night, that the dark
Lifted to the meadow lark.
Come in—Spring!
Prepare to stay
Till bud and wing
Hold holiday!
Every little blade of grass
Will salute you as you pass
Through the vale, ‘cross the lea
Which await your imagery.
Come in—Spring!
Most welcome guest
For thou dost bring
The loveliest
Hapvinesses of the year
As your chorals reappear.
Strike the chord! Let us sing!
At the festival of Spring.
Charles A.
——__» >
Better and Better.
How gracious are the years to me
As I am growing old
How common things are charming me
With stories never told
How every little blade of grass
Now fascinates me as I pass
Across the April mold.
Heath.
How kindly go the years with me
As I am growing old
How rich are they in luxury
As pageants new unfold
When dawn is cheering sunbeams on
Or sunset tells of glories won
And wears a crown of gold.
How happy are the years for me
Though I am growing old:
They never chide, but lovingly
My hand in theirs they hold
And with a sure serene survey
Are gu'dinz where fond memories play
Anew with joys of old.
Inspiring are years to me
And if the truth were told
Youth conjures with longevity
Through new beliefs for old
'Till this wide world becomes a _ place
So beatuiful I slow my vpace
As I am growing old.
Charles A. Heath,
12
FINANCIAL
Continuation of Development in Food
Products Field.
Large expansion programs and cor-
porate readjustments, such as the pro-
posed transfer of :adio activities of the
General Electric Company and the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufac-
turing Company tc the Radio Cor-
poration of America, are expected to
feature financial developments this
year.
The Gold Dust Corporation, for in-
stance, is generally believed to have
under consideration plans for extend-
ing its activities in the field of food
products. One suggestion that will
not down is that the company hopes
to increase its holdings in the Beech-
Nut Packing Company, in which it
owns about a one-tenth interest.
Loose-Wiles has been mentioned as
a possible affiliate, while the food
products business of the Glidden Com-
pany has been suggested as a possible
acquisition.
The company in its present form
represents a consolidation of the old
Gold Dust Corporation and the Ameri-
can Linseed Company, whose food
products division only was retained. A
90 per cent. interest in the Standard
Milling Company, one of the oldest
flour concerns in the country, is held.
Standard Milling’s cereal products,
including flour, oatmeal and breakfast
foods, are well known in the trade.
Products of the old Gold Dust unit in-
clude soap, washing powder shoe
polishes, etc., and products contributed
by American Linseed include mayon-
naise, peanut butter, nut butter, pickles,
etc.
Adjustments incident to this expan-
sion program have been going on for
a year or more, and it is doubtful
whether the full benefits of the con-
solidation have been reflected in earn-
ings. Net profits for 1929 were $7,-
586,000, or $4.03 a share on the com-
mon.
Capitalization includes a funded
debt of almost $15,000,000, 61,160
shares of $6 cumulative preferred and
1,788,052 shares of common stock. Re-
tirement of more than $10,000,000 of
funded debt is scheduled to be effected
this year, it is reported.
The corporation is understood to
have wished to “write off” its plants
entirely, on the basis that value of
manufacturing plants is uncertain, but
on advice of the Stock Exchange, a
net value of $13,421,465 was placed on
the plants, estimated to be worth at
least $20,000,000, according to an
analysis of Potter & Co.
William Russell White.
[| Copyrighted, 1930.]
> 2 -e
Harvard Looks For Better Than
Seasonal Gains.
When the doctors disagree in their
diagnosis ‘the ordinary layman must
indeed be puzzled over the prospect
for a visible recovery in business dur-
ing the second quarter now begun.
No less eminent authorities than the
Harvard Economic Society and the
Standard Statistics Company, Inc. start
from the same sets of figures but
evolve conclusions on the trade out-
look essentially different. Harvard in
MICHIGAN
this instance is the optimist, and
Standard the pessimist. Perhaps Har-
vard is influenced in its judgment by
a desire to reconcile some earlier pre-
dictions on 1930 business. Harvard at
any rate finds more ground for cheer-
fulness in current conditions than any
of the outstanding business prophets.
It stakes its reputation on a fore-
cast that improvement from this point
on will be more than seasonal. Specifi-
cally it says “the business improve-
ment that appeared during March was
of about seasonal proportions. In
April, activity appears to be still ex-
panding; and along with increase in
the volume of business has come
greater strength in commodity prices.
During the quarter now begun, we ex-
pect prices to improve further and ac-
tivity to show a more than seasonal
increase over the first quarter, so that
by May or June the spring recovery
forecast in our Letters of last Novem-
ber and December should he clearly
apparent.”
This refreshing comment at a time
when so many people find themselves
unable to recognize even a seasonal
upturn is based by Harvard on new
evidences of commodity price stabiliza-
tion and indeed the expectation that
with a world-wide money ease com-
modity prices “will presently advance.”
Standard is not so cheerful. While
it concedes the possibility of some
gain in May its emphasis rather is on
the probability of a slow pick-up in
business. Indeed this organization goes
so far as to say that “progress of for-
eign agriculture during recent years
affords considerable basis for believ-
ing that American agricultural su-
premacy is seriously threatened.
To intensify the present plight of
American farmers, general overpro-
duction of basic commodities exists
everywhere, effecting a depressing in-
fluence on prices of raw materials and,
consequently, on the purchasing power
of a majority of the world population.”
Experience teaches that at times
like these nobody can rely on statis-
tics to point the way to recovery. The
figures are always darkest just before
they begin to brighten. About all we
can read in the statistics now is that
the ground has been prepared for a
substantial upturn when demand as-
serts itself again but presumably the
signposts will not become clearly mark-
ed until the second half of the year.
Paul Willard Garrett.
[ Copyrighted, 1930.]
> + +
Net Rise of 34 Per Cent. in Wages.
Paul H. Douglas, after eight years of
prodigious research, has prepared a
book on “Real Wages in the United
States, 1890-1926,’ which will be pub-
lished next week by the Pollak Foun-
dation of Economic Research as the
most comprehensive answer to the
question so many persons nowadays
are asking: “Whose prosperity?’
When we speak of the enormous
gains in wealth over the Jast quarter
of a century do we mean gains by
those who were wise enough to get in
and out of the stock market at the
right time or do we mean an improve-
ment in the position of those working
for a wage?
Professor Douglas of the University
’
TRADESMAN
I> Dace up-
on a time, you went
to your banker for
accommodation ...
now you go to him
for service. And the
whole evolution of
banking, as con-
ceived by the Old
Kent, lies in that
difference. Do you
know just how far
the Old Kent goes to
serve you? If you
don’t, why not find
out? An investiga-
tion might prove
lastingly profitable!
April 30, 1930
0LD
KENT
BANK
3S
14 OFFICES
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS
$4,000,000.00
The Measure of a Bank
The ability of any banking institution
is measured by its good name, its financial
resources and its physical equipment.
Judged by these standards we are proud
of our bank. It has always been linked
with the progress of its Community and
its resources are more than adequate.
h
GRAND RAPIDS SAVINGS BANK
“The Bank Where You Feel At Home”
16 CONVENIENT OFFICES
Jor aes tena rea
5S REROS —memanl
AOR EI AS AAAI ERNE OD OC
ie
#
;
&
§
April 30, 1930
of Chicago finds that the cost of living
in this country has gone up 135 per
cent. since the closing decade of the
last century. But in the same period
dollar wages in all manufacturing in-
dustries have gone up 215 per cent.
What this obviously means is that real
wages have risen in the present cen-
tury to date roughly 34 per cent. Put
in a different way it means that work-
ers in manufacturing industries now
“can buy with their wages four units
of goods for every three they could
buy in the decade 1890 to 1899.”
No part of this gain in real wages
was made previous to the war. It has
come entirely since 1924. While this
34 per cent. advance in real wages
represents a general index for a variety
of manufacturing industries the gains
have been widely distributed. They
range from a 17 per cent. advance in
the real wages of leather workers to a
46 per cent. gain by non-ferrous metal
workers. Between these extremes
come the employes in the food, tex-
tile, clothing, iron, lumber, printing,
glass and land vehicle industries.
Unskilled workers have benefited not
quite but almost as much from a gen-
eral change in conditions as the skilled.
Real wages for unskilled workers since
1914 have risen 32 per cent. Railroad
workers on the other hand have en-
joyed no better than a 22 per cent.
gain.
A further interesting observation
made by Professor Douglas is that in
the years just before the stock market
crash “real wages in manufacturing
concerns were increasing at a rapid
rate.” He finds that the purchasing
power of wages in 1928 was, for ex-
ample, 3 per cent. above that in 1927.
He further ventures the belief that this
“rate of gain seems to have been con-
tinued through the first half of 1929.”
Paul Willard Garrett.
[‘Copyrighted, 1930.]
———> + ___
Stock Market Runs Into a Paradox.
Something of a paradox is presented
by the market with stocks now up as
high as they are entitled to go on
visible business prospects but apparent-
ly buttressed against a smash by an
indisputably strong technical position.
When plotted beside the curve on
business the post-panic advance in
stocks seems unwarranted. More than
half the ground that was lost by the
market in the autumn decline has been
recovered since November 13. No
such rebound has been felt in business
as in the stock market. Indeed when
allowance is made for seasonal varia-
tion it is difficult to see in the statis-
tics any impressive signs of a trade
pick-up. We may be on the verge of
a substantial revival in business. The
strong hope everywhere is that im-
provement will be felt within the next
month or two months in both the
motor and building industries.
But the fact is that in 1930 so far
the market has made substantially
greater progress than industry. That
is why prophets in the financial dis-
trict feel that stocks have gone for-
ward to levels as high as they deserve
on the basis of the reports received to
date from business. This attitude to-
ward the market has induced some
profit-taking in the last two weeks and
MICHIGAN
has tended to restrain market en-
thusiasms.
And yet there is another school of
thought that concentrates its attention
on the technical aspects of a market.
The scholars of this group point out
that in times past severe setbacks in
the market usually have come as a re-
sult of an extended credit position. Or-
dinarily investors who hold stocks out-
right do not let go easily. They fol-
low the market down in the confident
hope that conditions will turn. It is
when brokers’ loans rise to levels sub-
stantially higher than stock values
that the mischief generally begins. And
with a current level of only 151.9 for
brokers’ loans as against a level of
205.4 in stock values it must be evi-
dent that at least technically the mar-
ket occupies firm ground.
The shrewd man nowadays is the
one who can most accurately appraise
these two factors. What is the mar-
ket entitled to do on the basis of busi-
ness prospects? How far would a mar-
ket technically strong break on dis-
appointing business news? Or, indeed,
will the business news from now on
be disappointing? We shall see.
Paul Willard Garrett.
[Copyrighted, 1930.]
—___e +.
Keener Competition Foreseen in
Automobile Manufacturing.
With the season at hand for peak
business in the automobile industry
numerous investors in securities of
motor car producers are much interest-
ed in the probable results for the first
six months and for the full year.
An average annual demand for 5,-
000,000 American-produced cars and
trucks is regarded as “not an unreason-
able expectation” by Frazier Jelke &
Co. in a comprehensive study of the
situation. A normal replacement de-
mand should approximate 3,900,000
vehicles a year, the firm estimates.
If this year’s replacements fall be-
low normal, because of the heavier
than normal purchases last year and
the general business depression, then
replacements should be larger than
normal next year, it is believed.
“Possibly the days of easy profits in
the motor industry have passed,” says
the firm. “Certainly competition will
be more severe in 1931 than it was in
1923 or 1929.
“Probably the small producer will
encounter greater difficulties in the
future than he has in the past. There
will have to be readjustments in dis-
tribution. But the final effect of all
these changes quite logically may be
more substantial and less speculative
qualities in good motor shares.
“The stock market appraisal of the
automobile industry now is only a little
more than half as high as at the close
of 1928. Only a few companies earned
anything in the final quarter of 1929,
and first quarter profits outside of the
lower priced field were poor. The mar-
gin of profit per car has decreased
sharply as production has declined,
putting some motor company dividends
in doubt.”
Replacement demand depends on a
few factors difficult to determine in
advance, it is pointed out, such as the
average age of cars, rate of obsoles-
TRADESMAN
A Modern,Well Equipped Institution,
Serving a Progressive and Rapidly
Growing Community, in Every
Trust Capacity.
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY
OF MUSKEGON
GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL BANK
Established 1860—Incorporated 1865 — Nine Community Branches
GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL COMPANY
Investment Securities
Affiliated with Grand Rapids National Bank
L. A. GEISTERT & CO.
Investment Securities
GRAND RAPIDS — MICHIGAN
506-511 GRAND RAPIDS TRUST BUILDING
Telephone 8-1201
14
cence of design, business conditions
and dealer organizations.
New designs incorporating engineer-
ing advances, such as the self-starter,
balloon tires, etc., often increase the
rate of replacement, while unfavorable
business conditions and ineffectiveness
of dealer organizations tend to slacken
Big changes in dealer practices
and manufacturer-dealer relationships
are in progress, the firm says.
William Russell White.
[| Copyrighted, 1930.]
> 2-2
Pioneer Incidents of the Grand River
Valley.
The first grist and sawmille erected
by a individual — George
Ketcham— in the lower Grand River
Valley was located on Buck Creek at
Jenison. The site is now occupied by
mill, built by the
sales.
private
a more modern
Jenisons.
Capt. Stoddard was the first navi-
gator of a steamboat, the J. W. Mason,
on Grand River. He died near Hast-
ings in 1854.
Lucius Lyons did not confine his
activities to Grand Rapids. Although
he led the pioneers in their efforts to
develop the lower Grand River Valley,
he entered heartily into the enterprises
In 1837 he engaged
in building a hotel and a dam in the
river at Lyons, Ionia county. The
town was named in his honor. The
pressure of hard times compelled him
to abandon several of his undertakings
and the village of Lyons languished.
Daniel Ball secured interests in the
village in 1856 and invested $8,000 in
the water power plant. The panic of
1857 compelled Ball to quit, not only
at Lyons but in Grand Rapids as well.
Citizens organized the Lyons Water
Power Co., purchased the Ball interests
and completed the mill race and dam,
which afforded ample power for a grist
mill.
The village of Muir, Ionia county,
bears the name of W. K. Muir, a popu-
lar president and superintendent of the
Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad—1870
to 1880.
John C. Blanchard, a prominent
practitioner of the bar in the Grand
River Valley, knew and respected an
Indian Chief Pewamo. Blanchard con-
ferred the name of the chief to a vil-
lage near St. Johns.
Hector Hayes is named by historian
Everett as the man who first supplied
the citizens of Grand Rapids with
scientifically fatted beef from his home
in North Plains, Ionia county. Hayes
had raised a yoke of steers. One of
the pair, as he grew to maturity, was
the most ungainly brute which ever
disgraced a farm. The animal was so
big he could not be matched and so
ill-shaped that had he been mated with
an equal, Hayes would not wish to be
known as its owner. Hayes fed him
one whole year, then led him to Grand
Rapids and sold him to a club of citi-
zens. The animal was decked with
ribbons, paraded through the streets
and killed on the following morning.
Villagers eagerly sought cuts from the
They had eaten nothing but
of other sections.
big ox.
lean beef and enjoyed the ox greatly.
Hayes figured up the results of his ex-
perience as follows:
Ox Dr:
MICHIGAN
Cost first four years —_.2-.- $50.00
Feeding five tons of hay at $8
per ton 40.00
One hundred bushels of pota-
toes 20c per bushel __--___- 20.00
75 bushels corn at 30c per bu. 22.50
Marketing: @ 2 5.00
Pot ee $137.50
x.
Cash On sale 2 $56.00
Prott? 81.50
The ox served well the corporeal
system of citizens of Grand Rapids.
Upwards of a score of years ago
Benjamin S. Hanchett as the general
manager of the Grand Rapids Railway,
purchased a club coach for operation
on the tracks of the company. The
coach contained upholstered easy chair,
rugs, cretonne curtains and all con-
veniences necessary for the comfort of
guests. The coach was used by many
sightseers, more or less distinguished
in trades, manufactures, banking, edu-
cation and politics, also by picnic
parties from the schools and work-
shops. Mr. Hanchett entertained
many guests personally. When a party
of more than common _ importance
sought for the pleasures the coach of-
fered, a hamper of sandwiches, a tub
of red champagne, a case of Kusterer’s
Silver Foam or Pilsener and a liberal
supply of cigars, with a black man at-
tendant, provided. The coach
transported tourists to the John Ball,
Comstock, North and Reed’s Lake
parks, twenty-five or more miles, as
desired. Strolls through the parks and
the amusements presented at Ramona
and at the fair grounds enabled guests
to spend a day pleasantly. Large
parties filling several regular coaches
of the railway company, gaily decor-
ated, were often preceded by the club
coach, conveying a brass band. After
a few years of service and the coming
of automobiles by the thousands the
coach was disposed of. It remains,
however, pleasantly in the memories
of many who had enjoyed its opera-
tion.
St. Mark’s is the oldest church edi-
fice in Grand Rapids. The nave was
erected in 1850; the transept twenty
years later. Next oldest church edifice
in Grand Rapids is the First Presby-
terian, located on Scribner avenue. It
was erected about 1860. In the begin-
ning of its service, Grace Episcopal
church occupied an abandoned school-
house, located on the Northeast corner
of Prospect avenue and Wealthy street.
Arthur Scott White.
—_—_+++>—___
Kitchen Cabinets in Good Demand.
Kitchen cabinets retailing at from
$30 to $50 have enjoyed an active de-
mand from consumers, according to
reports from retail stores to manufac-
turers. The cabinets have been selling
freely for the last two months.in local
department stores, and a similar de-
mand is noted outside of the metro-
politan district. White continues to be
the most popular shade for this equip-
ment although ivory is rapidly gaining
in popularity. Light green and some
blues are selling in limited quantities.
were
——_—_—_»-2
The hard-boiled attitude is used to
cover up an inferiority complex.
TRADESMAN
Weather Retards Porch Furniture.
A week of warmer weather is all
that is needed at this time to start re-
orders on porch and bungalow furni-
ture. Early orders on this type of
merchandise are about normal and
stores are stocked with sufficient mer-
chandise to carry them over the first
buying activity. Stick reed pieces have
been most popular in the buying done
thus far, with burnt-bamboo next in
demand. Reed and rattan have sold
in good volume. Natural, green and
red shades are wanted.
—_2> >
Preparedness.
A drug store advocates prepared-
ness with this sign above its soda
fountain: “Take home a brick. You
may have company.”
Activity is motion with a purpose.
Corduroy Tires
Sidewall
Protection
Made in
Grand Rapids
Sold
Through
Dealers
Only.
CORDUROY TIRE CO.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
American standard of living
is constantly on the up-
grade. With mass markets
demanding mass production,
industry is bound to keep
the productive dollar alive.
Our wants are always a step
ahead. With this ever in-
creasing market at our door
excellent investment oppor-
tunities are numerous.
Direct wire connections to
leading financial centers is a
service available to you
through this strong invest-
ment house.
A capacity to serve that wins
everlasting confidence.
ETTER,
URTIS&
ETTER
Investment Bankers and Brokers
— PHONE 4774 —
Grand Rapids Muskegon
April 30, 1930
Jennings’ Pure Extracts
Vanilla, Lemon, Almond, Orange,
Raspberry, Wintergreen.
Jennings Flavoring Extract Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
.
GUARANTEED
542% and 6%
Ma-
Rate turity
$15,000 American Home
Security Co. -. 6% 1943
Guaranteed by Metropolitan
Casualty Insurance Com-
pany of New York
$35,000 Central Secur-
ities Company... 6% 1940
Guaranteed by United States
Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
$ 5,000 Federal Home
Mortgage Co... 542% 1938
Guaranteed by National
Surety Company
$11,000 Union Mortgage
Company -..-.. 6% 1932
Guaranteed by Southern
Surety Company
$25,000 IIlinois Standard
Mortgage Corpo-
ration 220 6% Serial
Guaranteed by Metropolitan
Casualty Insurance Com-
pany of New York
$10,000 National Union
Mortgage Company 6% 1946
Guaranteed by National
Surety Company
The
Industrial Company
Associated with
Union
Bank of Michigan
Grand Rapids,
Micht
Resources over
$5,600,000.
N
Fenton
Davis
&
Boyle
Lwestment Bankers
wv
Detroit
Grand Rapids
Chicago
The reason you are
thoughtfully invited to ex-
ercise exacting investiga-
tion of our offerings is:
“No hoping’ will get
Greater Returns out of
any Investment than it 1n-
herently contains.”
April 30, 1936
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
15
MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE
Four Little Devils.
There are four little devils that haunt
every salesman.
The first is on the job bright and
early. He jumps on your shoulders
and whispers: “No use trying to see
your man before 9:30—give him time
to open his mail.” And if you waver
for an instant he straightway devours
the front end of a precious morning.
The second gets into the game at
midday. “It is now 12:15,” he adroitly
suggests. “If you see a man now he
will be grumpy and hustle you out, so
as not to be late for lunch.” If you
agree and knock off for lunch yourself,
he will tell you that “You won’t see
* your man before two o’clock—he won’t
be back from lunch.”
The third appears early in the after-
noon and whispers: “It’s getting dark;
you can’t start an interview when your
man will be tired and inattentive.’ And
before you know it, this third little imp
will gobble up the other end of your
day.
The fourth is perhaps the worst of
all. His day is Saturday. “You can’t
do anything on Saturday,’ he says.
“It’s a short day, and no one will have
time to listen.” And so he will swallow
up the whole day.
If you don’t watch out, these four
little devils will steal ten hours a week
from you, and you'll wonder why your
pay envelope is so thin.
—_>2..
Destroyed Dollars.
Dollars, reprsented by property, die
when fire destroys. Whether the blaze
consumes a great tract of forest or a
one-car garage, it means a permanent
economic loss. The money invested
can never again work to produce
profits. It is definitely and literally
dead.
This is a direct loss. The indirect
loss, in waste of time and unemploy-
ment, may be even greater. The tax
that would be paid on a_ destroyed
building is reassessed against other
citizens. The rates charged by insur-
ance companies are determined by the
aggregate average fire loss. Every citi-
zen in the community pays for every
fire. Something that contributed its
share, large or small, to progress and
social or industrial development, has
been totally destroyed. Instead of an
asset, it becomes an expense.
These are simple matters, but they
are seldom realized. A few minutes’
thought must bring home to every
citizen the appalling danger of our
gigantic annual fire waste. Thrift, in-
dustry, saving, hope — fire destroys
them in the flickering of an eye. And
the ‘bill is charged against the National
pocketbook.
—_~++>—___
Where the Mutuals Gain.
Said a leading stock company repre-
sentative recently in an address to his
fellow agents:
“Do not misunderstand me. Every
agent is entitled to and should receive
a fair commission for the business he
produces and services. By the same
token a company is entitled to a fair
profit on its capital and surplus, but we
must not overlook the fact that the
insurance buying public, whose interest
is always paramount, is also entitled to
a fair rate for the insurance it buys
and we have no right to burden it with
an excessive expense ratio or profit.
If we do this we can find no fault if
the business goes to our mutual com-
petitors.”
The wise insurance buying public is
beginning to look at the matter in the
same light. The better the operations
of the stock companies are being un-
derstod by the buying pubtic, the more
is that public inclined to try a system
not burdened with quite so many prof-
its and expenses. The mutuals are
growing about as rapidly as is good
for their own well being.
—_+~+ +
Chains in Switzerland Are Held in
Check.
The chain store system on the scale
known in the United States and Eng-
land does not exist in Switzerland,
says Harry C. Stebbins, representa-
tive at Berne of the United States
Department of Commerce, largely be-
cause of the thorough and _ efficient
organization of the co-operative store
and its advantages in being a very old
and time-honored institution. In ad-
dition to this, concerted opposition on
the part of the retailers has ‘hindered
any great growth of the chain idea.
“Several other factors contribute to
the difficulty of establishing chains in
Switzerland,” says Stebbins. “One
difficulty is the apparent lack of train-
ed executive ability, owing to the
many other outlets for such talent af-
forded by other enterprises. Further-
more, certain risks must be taken; for
instance, the buying and carrying of
large stocks so that the goods may
be retailed at a low price. The Swiss
are too conservative to take the chance
of having a large stock left on their
hands, and buyers are rather unre-
sponsive to intensive salesmanship.
“The art of window dressing has
not reached the advanced stage at-
tained in the United States. In
Switzerland it consists of grouping
unrelated products together with ap-
parently no scientific attempt to seize
the attention of the passer-by. The
result is a miscellaneous display of ar-
ticles with no definite emphasis on any
one.
“The practice of having a ‘leader’
which is sold at a loss to attract the
purchaser into the shop with the hope
that, once in, he may be induced to
make other purchases, is unknown in
Switzerland. While there is no law
against it, it is frowned upon by all
trade organizations, and it is never
practiced openly. Stores even have to
have permission to conduct a clear-
ance sale, and these are allowed twice
a year only—in January and July.
“One-cent sales’ and similar devices,
common in the Urited States are un-
known in Switzerland.
“The American system of “cash and
carry” does not find favor in the
Swiss chain stores, as a purchaser
who prefers to buy his goods on this
basis gets them at the open market
place, where prices are still lower be-
cause of the lack of overhead. As a
result, all the chain store systems have
free-delivery service, which at the very
outset prejudices their chances for
rapid expansion. Then, again, small
unit profit, which is one of the axioms
of successful store retailing,
does not appeal to the Swiss.”
chain
There are great unused sections in
How much would
progress if, for
all of our brains.
be added to human
one single week, each one of us were
to make every obstacle the subject of
a little real thought?—-Bruce Barton.
Affiliated with
320 Houseman Bldg.
The Michigan
Retail Dry Goods Association
Insuring Mercantile property and dwellings
Present rate of dividend to policy holders 30%
THE GRAND RAPIDS MERCHANTS MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
Grand Rapids, Mich.
OUR FIRE INSURANCE
POLICIES ARE CONCURRENT
with any standard stock policies that
you are buying
Te Net Cots BO% Less
Michigan Bankers and Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
of Fremont, Michigan
WILLIAM N. SENF, SECRETARY-TREASURER
oe
Michigan.
444 Pine Street
Have You Received Full Value For Your
Money?
In years past we have all paid considerable money for fire insurance;
have we not? Some of us, however, have gotten out of it much cheaper
than the rest because we have had our insurance placed with THE
FINNISH MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY of Calumet,
This old and strong company shares its profits with the policy-holders
by paying dividends of 40 per cent every 3 years. You can get in on
this too, if you want to. Rates are no higher than anywhere else, and
no extra charges. It will pay you handsomely to look into this.
THE FINNISH MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
CALUMET, MICHIGAN
Phone 358
Always Sell
Rowena Yes Ma’am Graham
Rowena Golden G. Meal
' LILY WHITE FLOUR
“The Flour the best cooks use.”’
Also our high quality specialties
Rowena Whole Wheat Flour
Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.
‘VALLEY CITY MILLING CO.
Rowena Pancake Flour
Rowena Buckwheat Compound
Grand Rapids, Mich.
16
MICHIGAN
April 30, 1930
TRADESMAN
FORE AND AFT.
Story of the Past and Vision of the
Future.
Milwaukee one day last
summer on a lake steamer at 12 o’clock
noon, I thoughtfully seated myself in
the stern of the boat so as to enjoy
the gradually receding of the
city as we passed out of sight. It was
a beautiful day, and with the sunlight
playing on the prominent features of
the city, I had a most enjoyable hour
looking aft from the steamer. I have
on occasions left Chicago at night and
from the aft of the steamship enjoyed
the lights of the city until they were
completely obliterated by distance and
only a reflection upon the sky remain-
ed. The view from aft remains with
me as a beautiful vision.
Leaving
view
On the other hand, coming into the
New York after a few
sojourn in Europe, it was
perfectly natural to locate myself in
the fore part of the ship, so that as
the salient features of the city came
into view I could enjoy them. The
from the fore as the Liberty
statue came into sight, the wonderful
skyline of the great buildings of the
city and the the
coming home and the view from the
harbor, gave me a wonderful thrill of
We choose our times for
aft to add to our
harbor of
months’
view
connection between
emotion.
location fore and
pleasures.
In Fall River, Massachusetts, in one
of the main streets is a great boulder
estimated to weigh 100,000 tons. It is
just where it was left after the glacial
epoch which brought into being
through its grinding process the agri-
cultural possibilities of this whole
North range of country. It was poised
so wonderfully that the pressure of a
hand would move it, and for many
years it was a great joy to thousands
of people who visited it because of
the oscillating movement and its re-
lationship to a great period in the
earth’s geologic history. This is an
automobile age. The great rock stands
in the way of traffic and the official
body of the city is considering the
breaking of it into pieces and using it
for building purposes and thus give
way to the demands of our modern
machine traffic. To me it seems a
sacrilege to make this sacrifice, be-
cause, as we look aft, this memorial of
the glacial period in so prominent a
location, wonderfully preserved, should
be kept forever.
Another view from the fore indi-
cates values that have come down to
us through the ages that can be legiti-
mately transformed into great build-
ings and monuments. Long before the
glacial age granite and marble were
formed which can be quarried and
placed into remarkable architectural
structures. The Taj Mahal, the Wash-
ington Monument, the Lincoln Me-
morial and the Bok Singing Tower are
all built from material created before
the glacial epoch, and we do well in
our view ahead to utilize these products
of nature in the erection of impressive
architectural monuments.
Down in Ohio, a little ways from
Cincinnati, they have opened a great
mound placed there by a nation that
lived in this country long before the
Indians were its sole inhabitants. We
are viewing from aft a wonderful civ-
ilization through the findings in this
mound. A friend told me yesterday
that he had made a great trip about
the world, and in answer to my ques-
tion as to what stood out prominently
among the things he saw, he mention-
ed the treasures which had been un-
earthed in Egypt and known as the
Tut-Ankh-Amen collection. In the
backward look this treasure from a
wonderful civilization is of vital im-
portance to the human race. Turn the
transit and look ahead and to-day the
most important steps of progress are
connected with the building of good
cities, of an educational and
the formation of a vision of future de-
velopment.
system,
Here upon the table is a specimen
that was given me by the City Man-
ager, taken from John Ball Park. The
park superintendent, in removing an
oak tree and into wood,
found that the crosscut struck
something hard znd sparks flew, and
in examining the saw, the edge was
taken off it entirely. Thinking there
must be something in there that didn’t
show on the surface, he had a work-
man carefully remove a block, and in
that block was a horseshoe buried.
After taking out the block, the super-
intendent counted the rings that had
been formed outside the horseshoe up
to date, and there were fifty-four of
them, indicating that the first ring of
wood placed there in the growth of
the tree was fifty four years ago. It
must have been some years previous
to that when the horseshoe was placed
upon the tree. There were two nails
in it, indicating that possibly some
hunter who was enjoying the wonder-
ful possibilities to hunters in those
days on that Western ridge of land
may have picked up this horseshoe
and, not desiring to carry it with him,
took the two that were in it
and nailed the shoe up on a smooth
place on this oak tree. Nature did the
rest. It is a mighty interesting speci-
men, and it is a view aft. Turn the
transit and take a fore view and see
what wonderful interest there is to-
day in tree planting, in the develop-
ment of forests that seventy or a hun-
dred years from now shall be of in-
estimable value to the State and the
country. We need the view fore and
aft to complete our useful knowledge
of events.
sawing it
saw
nails
Looking aft, what wonderful things
we recognize as coming from our an-
cestry. Health, wealth, culture and
character haye come down to us
through a long line of ancestors. We
do well to recognize these wonderful
values, but we cannot complete our
view without turning to the fore and
featuring our hopes, our aspirations,
our prophesies, in what shall come in
the future.
In the evolution of religion we get
great comfort and joy in what we can
learn about the magnificent influence
of a Confucius in developing a wonder-
ful philosophy for the betterment of
the human race. And, following him,
the philosophy of Socrates which was
a type of useful religious exercise,
EASURE ISLA
TRADE MARK
. MODERN “ALL “STEEL
\. SALES hcg
( %
Costs Less Than
$400 per Store!
Over a hundred Michigan gro-
cers have made their stores
centers of public interest and
sources of greater sales and
profits by completely equip-
ping with Tyler All-Steel
shelving, counters. tables and
floor displays finished in beau-
tiful colors. And the average
cost has always been under
$400. You owe it to your own
future prosperity to investi-
gate today the amazing possi-
bilities of a bright, inviting,
scientifically modern — store
equipped throughout with
steel. Tyler expert planning
service will submit store lay-
outs and definite costs—in ad-
vance, and without obligation.
WRITE for complete
: ° Model 70 all-steel table, just > ot
information NOW! the ‘tens a Ge tie ae aan ites.
TYLER SALES FIXTURE CO.
MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MICH.
Above,
on a background photo of a
typical modern grocery, is shown Tyler
Investment Securities
E. H. Rollins & Sons
Founded 1876
Phone 4745
4th Floor Grand Rapids Savings Bldg.
GRAND RAPIDS
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
New York
San Francisco
Boston Chicago Denver
London
| Uncle Jake Says —
"The world owes a living only to the
man who earns it, hence a lot of people
are getting head over heels in debt.”
KVP DELICATESSEN PAPER
has a wonderful earning power. The many uses and
protective qualities of this sheet will actually earn
money for the user.
If by the quality of this sheet and the service we give
you, we do not earn the right to ask for your business,
we have no right to expect it.
KALAMAZOO VEGETABLE PARCHMENT CO.
KALAMAZOO. MICHIGAN
April 30, 1930
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
17
merits our thoughtful consideration.
Buddha developed through a religious
motive adherents who promoted his
philosophy and added greatly to the
progress of the world’s ideals. The
Christian philosophy came later and
perhaps has exerted a greater influ-
ence for good than all the others.
This view aft of the development of
the religious life of the world connects
itself not only with these men whom
I have mentioned, but such other
names as St. Augustine, Luther, Cal-
vin, Robertson, Jonathan Edwards,
Emerson, Beecher and many others,
and awakens in us a spirit of gratitude
and emotion which controls our re-
ligious aspirations.
But as we look to the fore, there is
one thought made most prominent in
our researches, that our sojourn here
upon earth is short, and, be it never so
eventful, is quickly ended. The great
yearning of our hearts is for its con-
tinuance, and the greatest thought that
controls our natures is the desire for
immortality. We have no knowledge
concerning it, but we have various
types of vision controlling mankind
which stand out as the most promin-
ent features of our religious nature.
Fore and aft completes the architecture
of a ship. Fore and aft are attached
to each other in connection with a
well-rounded life. And in the highest
and noblest thoughts of the human
race, there is the most intimate rela-
tionship between the story of the past
and the vision of the future.
Charles W. Garfield.
—__¢2 > __
Women Take Another Step Forward.
Grandville, April 16— The result of
the primary election in Illinois placing
Ruth Hanna McCormick in nomination
for the United States Senate is a vic-
tory of great importance to the woman-
hood of America and cinches the fact
that the giving to women the suffrage
was not a mistake.
Many of those who opposed the
suffrage movement for women on the
ground that home was woman’s sphere,
and that men should do the voting and
the making of laws for the Govern-
ment of the country will by now con-
cede the righteousness of woman suf-
frage.
The prohibition question has forced
itself to the front, and with regard to
this we may safely place the woman
voter in the dry column. The gentler
sex have been the worst sufferers of
saloon iniquity in the past which no
woman’s ballot will again place in the
ascendancy in this country.
The Democratic candidate in oppos!-
tion to Mark Hanna’s daughter 1m-
agines now is the accepted time to
spring the liquor issue on the Nation.
The drys welcome the struggle, and
with a vast army of women voters,
aided by their friends, will settle the
question for all time, and we do not
doubt in favor of the strict enforce-
ment of the prohibition law.
Mrs. McCormick has entered the
lists at an important era of our political
life. She is not only the leader of her
party in Illinois but 1s the foremost
figure in the movement for better
homes through a strict construing of
the Volstead act. we
Ruth Hanna McCormick is the first
of her sex to seek the mantle of United
States senatorship, and if the sun does
not cease to shine she will be tri-
umphantly elected in November. —
There can no longer be a question
as to the propriety of women voting.
Ministers of the gospel go arm in arm
with their wives to the polls these days
seeking to promote the welfare of the
Nation through the ballot box.
The cry that women did not want
the ballot is no longer heard. The
most home-loving of her sex sees in
the ballot the opportunity to place the
Nation in line with all the best inter-
ests of state and Nation.
What more fitting than the daughter
of Mark Hanna should lead the van
in this crusade for better morals and a
more serious consideration of the
drink habit. There will be no back-
ing down where: Mrs. McCormick is
concerned. The blood of the stalwart
citizen who was the friend of Mc-
Kinley courses through her veins. Her
nomination was altogether fitting.
Now that the whole womanhood of
America has come to look upon her
right to the ballot as fitting and just
there may be no further concern for
the safety of the Republic. A free
ballot and a fair count is the greatest
power for good ever known.
Partyism is forgotten when we con-
front the question of an honest en-
forcement of the prohibition law. The
wets may plan and devise that which
they imagine will whet the appetite of
the one time drinker, but right in the
pathway stands the united mothers and
daughters of America, holding the
greatest power on earth in the shape
of the ballot, a ballot which recently
nominated one of the most. brilliant
minds in America (even though en-
sconced in the brain of a woman) for
the Senate of the Nation.
Will Mrs. McCormick be able to de-
feat the wilv and politically invincible
candidate in opposition? Will she?
The writer predicts her election by a
majority which will astound the
politicians.
When the women of the country
begin to enter politics in dead earnest,
flocking to the polls in droves, there
will be no denying that the woman
voter will receive her crown of honor
and wise men will thereafter think
well before they enter into any political
bargain that has not the approval of
the woman voter.
Those who are in their teens to-day
will live to see the hour when a woman
will enter the White House at Wash-
ington as president of the United
States. The vote for women has come
to stay as has the Volstead act, and
the sooner the wiseacres of any party
recognize this fact the sooner will
their sleep be undisturbed by dreams
of abolishing laws that have the en-
dorsement of milady’s ballot.
There can be no doubt that Ruth
Hanna McCormick is a woman of
superior intellect such as we need in
high public places of trust. The writer
of this once frowned on the idea of
woman suffrage, but time has opened
his eyes to the fact that the ballot was
the one thing needed by womanhood
to crown her the queen of the feast.
The voters of Illinois are wise in
their generation and know a good
thing when they see it. Women are
advancing all along the line in politics
as well as in home affairs. There is
no unsexing of her nicer qualities from
the fact that she has a mind to think
and to reason out any question that
man may encounter in the government
of the world.
The men bosses of the Illinois par-
ties. both Democratic and Republican,
have a surprise coming that will set
them back in their reckoning several
degrees. When we sang of “Home,
sweet home” in other days it was a
somewhat different institution than
that which exists to-day when woman
stands on an equality with her com-
panion in every walk of life. A cap-
able woman in the United States Sen-
ate will surely be the starting point
for a new era in law making.
Old Timer.
—3o->
A mistake doesn’t become a crime
until it is made the second time.
Another Help
jor Grocers who sell
tiie
N
HE Monarch Display Table
and Display Jar are particu-
larly fitted for the merchandising
of canned foods. Two or three of
these movable, practical and du-
rable displays are equal to a staff
of efficient demonstrators working
in your store six days every week.
The Monarch Way is the outstand-
ing achievement in the modern
trend of food merchandising. Let
us tell you the facts. Write for de-
tails today.
REID, MURDOCH & CO.
P. O. Drawer R M, CHICAGO
Branches:
New York - Boston - Pittsburgh <:
Wilkes-Barre - St. Louis ay
Phoenix - Tampa - Jacksonville Be :
Los Angeles - San Francisco ek
MONARCH IS THE ONLY NATIONALLY ADVERTISED BRAND OF t
FOODS SOLD ONLY THROUGH INDEPENDENT MERCHANTS
At
Ever a
a
HEKMAN’S
Cookie-Cakes
and Crackers
and Crackers
ASTERPIECES _
F THE BAKERS ART
SW
OS
ow a
— S at Na ¥
Af y I pai Mp 2.
com) a ty CS
—— i? \
mem 4 rq
nn BiLIN EF 4
Dex Mc
=
r | Mn tl Ti
fo Ml"
in
18
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
April 30, 1930
DRY GOODS
Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.
President—J. B. Mills, Detroit.
First Vice-President—Geo. E. Martin,
Benton Harbor.
Second Vice-President—J. T. Milliken,
Traverse City.
Secretary-Treasurer—Thomas Pitketh-
ly, Flint.
Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.
Plan Children’s Day Toy Promotion.
Adoption of plans to stimulate in-
Children’s Day,
June 21, was announced last week, by
Fletcher D. Dodge, secretary of the
Toy Manufacturers of the United
States of America. The promotion
effort, he said, will be on a substan-
tially wider scale than a year ago, with
one feature being an award of $1,000
for the best window display by retail-
ers. Mr. Dodge added that a whole-
sale “Summer toy week” will be held
at the Hotel McAlpin, New York, from
June 9 to 14, at which special show-
ings will be made by fifty exhibitors,
in addition to those at local show-
rooms. Plans to hold the 1931 toy
fair here in a single central location
have been abandoned for the time be-
ing, he said.
terest in toys for
—___+ ++.
New Ideas in Sheer Fabrics.
Wash goods are going to close the
season with a sharp accent on sheer
weaves, not merely because of season-
al drift to fabrics having warm-weather
comfort, but because of the continuing
style tendency for sheer weaves. This
is the most definite fact at the com-
mand of converters seeking new
thoughts for 1931. It has already led
to considerable experimenting with
constructions having both lightweight
qualities and open-weave qualities. Of
the latter, there are a number of cloths
inspired by the dress nets which were
shown in the Paris openings. Cloths
of this type are no novelty to the fine
goods industry, although they are
something “different” to the newer
generation of converters.
—_+~-+___
Marked Rise in Favor For White.
The marked rise of white to favor,
with pure white in the lead, is the out-
standing development featured in the
color index for silks issued last week
by Cheney Brothers. Beige and brown
tones have decreased in popularity, but
yellow has been coming to the fore. Of
outstanding importance are the blue
tones, the index shows, with prefer-
ence given to the bright, dark blues,
and navys ranking next in _ favor.
Pastel tones hold a strong position,
which will undoubtedly be strengthen-
ed as the season advances, according
to the index. The clear pastels and
the very light tints such as perle blue
are important for evening wear and
are expected to be outstanding in
Summer fashions.
—__»-+—___
Bleached Table Cloths Are Selling
Well.
One linen department finds that
April_ sales are almost equal to last
year, while another experienced a mod-
erate decline in business. Huck towels
have been a good item recently in one
store as have bath mats, particularly
of chenille.
napkins are said to be especially ac-
tive in another department.
Terry towels have not been in out-
standing demand during recent weeks
Bleached table cloths and.
despite some active promotions of
them. One sale this week resulted in
doubling the sales for the day, as com-
pared with last year, which was not
as much as expected in view of the
advertising allotted to the event.
——»-+___
Hat Trade Now Showing Gains.
Sales of men’s Spring hats are now
showing increases, following a period
of hard sledding prior to this month.
The volume selling type continues to
be the raw-edge snap-brim felt, al-
though a trend to the turned-up brim
in this type is reported. Increased in-
terest is also noted in hats with welt
and bound edges. The latter, in the
Homburg shape, is credited with in-
creasing favor among young college
men. Grays have ousted browns from
color leadership. Blues and greens are
also sought, the latter shade reflecting
increased popularity of green suits.
Plans for an opening day for straw
hats are now being considered.
——__—-e-e
Re-orders on Novelty Jewelry.
Arrival of warmer weather is ex-
pected to stimulate greater activity in
Crystal items in novelty jewelry. Re-
orders are beginning to come through
for 16 inch and pendant chokers, brace-
lets and earrings of this material.
Business in bracelets is ahead of last
year because of the short sleeve and
sleeveless vogue, while the demand
for earrings also shows a gain. Lead-
ing stores, it was also indicated, are
showing a revival of interest in metal
necklaces. These are plain and are
wanted in gold and silver effects. Stone
set merchandise is quiet, with crystal
and pearl necklaces, however, doing
well.
a
Small Reading Lamps Popular.
Small reading lamps, suitable for
use beside chair or lounge, are re-
ceiving more attention at the hands
of the retail trade. Department stores
have been ordering them in good vol-
ume to retail at from $7 to $15. They
are offered with spun metal bases and
novelty shades. Although the articles
have been on the market for some
time, they have just attained real
popularity and are counted the most
active item in the market at present.
Lamp shades of chintz are being or-
dered freely in the low-end ranges, but
parchment styles still retain first place
in demand.
——_+++—____
Price Jobbers’ Hose About May 1.
While a definite date has still to be
set, leading Fall lines of women’s full-
fashioned silk hosiery sold through the
jobbing trade will not be priced prior
to May 1. In view of the reductions
made on these goods, as well as on
some of the direct-to-retailer lines dur-
ing the last six weeks, the new prices
are being awaited by both jobbing and
retail buyers with more than ordinary
interest. Buyers expect lower quota-
tions, but there is some question
whether the recent recessions have not
anticipated—at least for the time be-
ing—the lower raw silk prices on which
these expectations are based.
Oo
Fall Clothing Orders Light.
Reports from clothing salesmen on
the road with Fall lines indicate that
the advance business thus far from
retailers is light. Retailers have had
only fair to disappointing results with
Spring clothing and are unwilling to
place business for the new season un-
til better immediate turnover cuts
down current stocks. Topcoats, how-
ever, have sold fairly well, with some
warrant that the consumer interest
shown in flannel suits will develop
into good buying later. The situation
with respect to Fall clothing is re-
flected in the small duplicating being
done on Fall woolens.
——_+-.
Await May Garment Collections.
Not for a long time has a due date
for women’s ready-to-wear bills been
looked forward to with more eager-
ness by garment manufacturers than
May 10. It is said that not until then,
under the 8—10—end-of-the-month
billing system so common in the needle
trades, will the full effects of consum-
er Easter demand be known one way
or the other. The way consumers ac-
tually bought will show up-very plain-
ly in settlements by retailers. While
the tendency is to hope for the best,
an undercurrent of uncertainty is re-
flected in comments heard in the mar-
ket.
—_++»____
Summer Spreads Outstanding Sellers.
Summer spreads have been the most
conspicuous sellers in bed coverings.
The bordered cretcnne spreads which
have sold so widely were reduced this
week in Brooklyn from $1.75 to $1.49
in One store, which expected to clear
them out by Saturday. A similar bed
cover has been selling at $1.48 in an-
other center. The large variety of pat-
terns available in candlewick spreads
is said to be responsible for the ac-
tivity they have experienced so far this
Spring. One store reports having sold
its largest quantity during a recent
demonstration.
—_~+~--___
Weather Slows Summer Rug Sale.
Unseasonable weather is considered
the main reason for current inactivity
in Summer floor coverings. Although
the early orders were well up to nor-
mal, the increased demand naturally
expected at this time has failed to de-
velop. A tendency to accept a wider
range of lines in Summer goods has
been noted this year. Druggets, hook-
ed scatters and even some brilliant
two-tone effects in axminster weaves
have been successfully promoted this
year. Grass and fiber floor coverings
also enjoyed an excellent early season
business.
—_+++—____
Stores Rounding Out Stocks.
Special merchandise made at a price
is now being sought by retailers to
round out their stocks for post-Easter
promotional events. No great difficulty
is being encountered with deliveries,
it was said, most firms offering ship-
ment within three days to a week or
slightly longer. Business in Summer
lines has not yet reached the active
stage, being confined at the moment to
the cheaper dress lines. Arrival of
more buyers in the market here next
week is expected to pave the way for
an expanded demand for delivery from
May 5 to 15.
—_+++_—__
Making an excuse is confessing in-
feriority.
eo dl Ae seing
experience was buying them.
departments.
Wholesaler
Only Given An Opportunity.
20-28 Commerce Ave., S. W.
The Story Of The Retailer
Who Thought He Had To Buy
Or New York —
wm a oS a SS : fy, mr se
For upwards of twenty years he had bought nothing from us.
He received some dresses from Chicago which didn’t quite suit him.
He noticed our ad in the Michigan Tradesman that Mrs.- Farley was
personally buying our dresses in New York. He said that he thought
perhaps he could get some good dresses from us if a woman with her
From Chicago
He came in and bought twelve dresses from us after looking them
ever carefully and finding them much better than he had been getting
from Chicago or New York. He also bought merchandise in other
_ One day when he opened a package from us, he in i
circular Tegarding our Model — ‘ a
remodelling so he came down to see the Model Store.
he got just the information he wanted and was going back home and
use the information rceived from us to improve his store.
He also said that he found our assortments and selection of mer-
chandise and Prices Just as good or better than in Chicago, and from
now on, he was going to buy from us as he needed (merchandise. By
this policy, he had already reduced his stock considerably and he said
oi Pee peeag it ap considerable more.
€ mis sales better because his stock was alwa .
Naturally this also resulted in a better profit. eee
MORAL
Many Another Retailer In Michigan Would Also Find That His
In Grand Rapids Could Help Him Make More Money If
“GOODS WELL BOUGHT ARE HALF SOLD”
C.J.FARLEY & COMPANY
“Not in the syndicate nor do we retail”
He had been thinking about
He told us that
He said this policy also
Grand Rapids, Michigan
April 30, 1930
SHOE MARKET
Michigan Retail Shoe Dealers Association.
President—Elwyn Pond, Flint.
Vice-President—J. E. Wilson, Detroit.
Secretary—Joe H. Burton, Lansing.
Asst. Sec’y-Treas.—O. R. Jenkins.
Association Business Office, 907 Trans-
portation Bldg., Detroit.
Are Your Windows Getting Attention?
“Here are six shoe stores in one
block and their windows all look alike.
The same man might have trimmed
them all.”
The speaker was a merchant whose
store is always doing something new,
and we were walking along a busy
Chicago street when he made the
above comment. He was absolutely
right. Not one of those six stores had
a window that stood out from the
rest. Ten minutes after looking at the
six windows you could not remember
which was which!
Are your windows just like the
others in your town? If they are,
you're not getting your money’s worth
from them—and they cost you plenty!
How can you make yours different?
There are dozens of ways. Tie them
up with local events. Is there a new
player on the ball club? Show his pic-
ture in the window. Did Mrs. Smith’s
peonies get the Garden Club prize?
Get a picture of her garden!
Don’t let a week go by without
some attention-getting feature in your
windows. And whenever possible tie
up the feature with your merchandise.
Make people want to look in your
windows because they know there will
be something interesting there. You
can be sure that they will not over-
look your shoes while they’re looking
at whatever else has drawn them to
the window.
—_++ >
“Odd Lot” Table Keeps Stocks Clean.
Most shoe retailers put their odd lots
out on tables at sale time, or occasion-
ally on Saturday, but here’s a little
plan for a permanent odd table that
an Iowa merchant finds successful.
Near the front of the store is a table
with a neat card reading “Odd Lots—
Bargains If Your Size Is Here.” On
this table go the broken sizes and odd
lots—jbut never more than two or three
styles at one time. Attached to each
pair is an ordinary shipping tag giving
the sizes available in that style, the
original selling price, and the “Odd
Lot Price.”
Customers are allowed to look over
this table without having a salesman
at their elbow. If they find something
interesting a salesman approaches and
offers to be of service.
Every week in the want ad section
of the local paper are one or two ad-
vertisements calling attention to spec-
ial items on these tables.
—_++>——__
A Good Way To Get Advertising
Ideas.
Do you ever find yourself at a loss
for an idea when you sit down to write
an advertisement? If you have a file of
good advertisements clipped from
newspapers, you'll find it solves the
problem.
Many merchants find it worth while
to secure an armful of newspapers
from other cities occasionally, and go
through them for advertising ideas.
It’s surprising how many good ideas
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
can be accumulated in this way. Don’t
confine yourself to shoe advertise-
ments alone. There’s often a good
idea for a shoe advertisement in some
other store’s advertisement of some
entirely different merchandise.
Have several folders, one for “lay-
outs,’ one for “headings,” and such
other classifications as suggest them-
selves and your file will be easier to
use,
—_+-~+_____
This “Stunt” Is Good Advertising.
In an Iflinois town where interest in
baseball is great, a shoe dealer gives
every man who buys a pair of shoes an
opportunity to put down his best guess
as to the total runs that will be scored
by the local team during the next
month. The winner each month gets
a pair of shoes free.
The guesses are entered on a big
card and toward the end of each
month this card is put in the window,
which creates more interest. On the
first day of each month, the card for
the last month is put in the window
with the winning guess ringed in red.
This “stunt” created a lot of interest
all last summer and the shoe dealer
felt well repaid because his windows
were a center of attention and his
men’s business showed a healthy in-
crease.
+.
Troubles and Eggs.
Said a chain store general manager:
“A lot of our troubles come from
eggs.
“Too often clerks are too ready to
say that eggs are ‘fresh’ when they are
actually ‘storage’ eggs.
“Very often we have to raise the
dickens with a manager for writing
his card sign ‘Fresh Eggs’ instead of
‘Best Storage Eggs’ or just ‘Eggs.’
“Anybody who thinks they can get
away with that stuff, and satisfy gro-
cery consumers, is foolish.
“Our fellows who do that don’t think
they are getting away with anything.
They are just careless, but that care-
lessness works out as badly for us as
if they actually intended to deceive.”
So be sure and sell eggs, like every-
thing else, for just what they are.
—_—_+2.
Size It Up.
The biggest trade-puller any gro-
cery store has is plain, every day
courtesy.
You aim to be courteous in both
manner and speech when you meet
customers face to face.
You also aim to be courteous when
you answer the telephone, but does
your voice actually convey what you
want it to?
Does it sound as if you want the
customer to hurry up and get done
with it? Does it sound flip, smart, or
is your phone answer one that im-
presses the customer that you are
ready to give her all necessary time
and consideration?
—_—_+ + —____
A Bad Answer.
The customer said: “Those lemons
look too green in color to me to be
good.”
The clerk answered: “That shows
how much you know about lemons.”
And before the clerk could say any-
thing more the customer turned away
without buying.
The clerk’s answer may have seem-
ed a smart thing to say, but it was one
of the worst answers he could have
made.
It would have been just as easy to
answer: “But you will find them very
satisfactory. They are far better in-
side than they look outside.” And
then explain why.
—_2+++____
Suggests Groceries With Meat Sales.
“Groceries and meats are merchan-
dising twins,” said Charles Grasekamp,
grocery and meat merchant of Glen
Rock, New Jersey. “When a cus-
tomer comes in for lamb I suggest peas
and mint sauce; when she buys corned
beef I have a sure order for cabbage
19
and maybe mustard too; when she
buys mushrooms and onions I often
get a nice order for beefsteak; and so
on.
“Sales suggestion, I believe, is at its
best in a grocery and meat store.”
———_+<+-
Don’t Forget Mothers’ Day.
Sunday, May 11 is Mothers’ Day.
Don’t fail to tie up with this in your
advertisements and in your windows.
If you sell hosiery a special Mothers’
Day box displayed in windows and on
counters will produce sales. Comfort
slippers and shoe certificates can also
be suggested.
—_++-___
Skill and quietness go together.
storage.
We are now making reservations for April eggs for
Come in and see us for rates.
ee
ABE SCHEFMAN & CO.
COR. WILLIAMS ST. AND PERE MARQUBETTDH RY.. GRAND RAPIDS
MICHIGAN SHOE DEALERS
MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO.
"MUTUAL PROGRESS
CASH ASSETS
fate
oe 4...
2) /
a ....._......
ey...
oe $
eae 151,393.18
Ps 241,320.66
Meanwhile, we have paid back to our Policy Holders,
in Unabsorbed Premiums,
$425,396.21
for
Information write to
L. H. BAKER, Secretary-Treasurer
LANSING, MICHIGAN
460.29
7,191.96
85,712.11
201-203 Ellsworth, S. W.
VEGETABLES
We specialize in
CHOICE HOME GROWN AND SHIPPED-IN VEGETABLES
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS
VAN EERDEN COMPANY
Grand Rapids, Mich.
RETAIL GROCER
Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan.
President Harbor
Springs.
— A. J. Faunce,
First Vice-President—G. Vander Hoon-
ing, Grand Rapids.
Second Vice-President — Wm. Schultz,
Ann Arbor.
Secretary — Herman Hanson,
Rapids.
Treasurer—J. F. Tatman, Clare.
Trustees—O. H. Bailey, Lansing; M. C.
Goossen, Lansing; Grover Hall, Kalama-
zoo; O. L. Brainerd, Elsie; Ole Peterson,
Muskegon.
Grand
Money-Capital Always at Service of
Brain-Capital.
Not long ago I was shown all over
the Loblaw warehouse in Toronto,
famous for its completeness and the
economy of its operation. Suppose that
for a moment, we forget that this is a
chain facility and examine it on its
merits simply as a business machine.
It is located far out of town, where
land is cheap and space can be occu-
pied with little expense. It has ample
room for trackage and truck loading
platforms. Because truck haulage in
large volume over a given routing is
the extreme of economy to-day, such
a location justifies itself for service of
its city stores; and for shipments to
suburban points, the location is really
This last is worth noting
because many stores in small centers
immaterial.
take from a car upwards of assorted
groceries every few days.
All groceries come into the ware-
house in carlots, are unloaded on
roomy platforms, being piled in the
cars directly onto “skids.’ Those
skids are of standard size and pattern.
When loaded, they are picked up on a
slide-under truck and “trains” thereof
are then hauled into various storage
different floors. Ar-
riving at the man who
handles the hauling truck distributes
those skids into their permanent places,
removing from under them the truck
portion. Thus the merchandise on
each skid remains stored on that skid
until needed.
Right here a man who thinks hur-
riedly and superficially will be apt to
exclaim: “My, what a lot of money
is tied up in those skids!’ Looking
about those concrete rooms, vast in
extent, filled with goods all piled be-
low the level of an ordinary person’s
eyes, so that the entire room can be
seen clearly from any point, the num-
ber of skids is quite likely to be im-
pressive. When one pictures all the
various floors similarly equipped, this
impression is emphasized.
But about this time, your guide is
likely to remark: “Notice the absence
of men. Under the old system of
warehousing goods each of these
floors would have four to ten men
placing merchandise and replacing it
for out shipments. We require no
such help. The truckman places each
skid permanently and it stays there
until he comes again for it.”
That sets us thinking a bit. I do
not know—did not immediately think
to ask—how many skids are required
in that warehouse. But let us guess
at 2,000. thousand skids
suffice for storage of a lot of groceries.
What do they cost each? I do not
know. They are substantially made;
virtually indestructible. No reason
why they should not last generations;
localities on the
destination,
Two will
MICHIGAN
hence depreciation would cut no ice
except for the chance of obsolescence,
due to unforeseen improvements which
may come along any time.
Let us be grandly liberal and say
they cost $10 each, which I feel is
about twice their value. Two thousand
at $10 is $20,000. At 6 per cent. that
costs $1,200 a year. Minimum annual
depreciation allowable by sound busi-
ness practice is 10 per cent. yet such
skids must certainly take the minimum
rate. That, then, ‘s $2,000 more. So
the total charge against that apparent-
ly tremendous item of equipment is
$3,200. How much man-power can
be secured for $3,200 annually?
Looking at this matter from such
an angle throws a different light on it.
We then see how such an investment
is the soundest kind of good business;
and how vastly less expensive it is
than human labor.
The truck loading platform for out-
going goods runs the length of the
building. I forget how many trucks
there is room for, but I do not forget
that the outer edge of the platform is
built in sawtooth fashion, so that the
dozen or more trucks can come and
go independently of each other. There
is no waiting in line. Here is a de-
vice that is worth many thousands
of dollars annually.
On the main floor, within the ware-
house, merchandise is brought forward
and stored in stalls in precisely the
same order as it goes into the stores.
Orders from the stores are listed from
front to back, in similar order. Any
order for any store when received by
the shipping clerk is assigned a hang-
ing truck which rans on an overhead
electric railway along the front of those
merchandise stalls. Whus the order is
assembled without trucking or steps,
each item being loaded on the hang-
ing truck as it is ran along the stor-
age stalls.
Arriving at the loading platform, the
truck is switched to the back of. the
wagon truck, waiting in its saw-tooth
space, and the goods are checked out
by the driver. He gets what the store
order calls for and he gets it in ex-
actly the order in which it will be
placed in the store when it gets to
destination. Virtually the entire string
of wagon trucks can be loading at one
time.
Throughout the upper floors, where
the manufacturing, coffee roasting and
packing, butter cutting and packing,
bacon slicing and packaging, tea blend-
ing and all other special functions are
carried on, similar order prevails.
Steps are saved at every turn. Time
and energy are conserved. Waste mo-
tion and consequent expense are ob-
viated. The result is a vast inter-
locking machine that functions with
well lubricated efficiency, running
smoothly on its bearings.
The common reaction of most men
to such a picture is: ‘““Yes, but see the
capital controlled by Loblaw. No won-
der he can do such things on such
scale.”
3ut such reasoning is a putting the
cart before the horse—if we can now
recall what a cart or a horse looks like.
For the truth is that money-capital al-
(Continued on page 31)
TRADESMAN
April 30, 1930
ASSOCIATED TRUCK LINES
The Outstanding Freight Transportation Line
of Western Michigan.
State Regulation means Complete Protection.
ASSOCIATED TRUCK LINES
Phone 93401 108 Market Av.. Grand Rapids, Mich.
¥ SANITARY
Se HANDY PACKAGES
10c Each
Always in Demand
For Every Occasion
BE SURE YOU HAVE A SUPPLY.
National Candy Co., Inc. PUTNAM FACTORY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
The Toledo Plate & Window Glass Company
Glass and Metal Store Fronts
GRAND RAPIDS -t- ote MICHIGAN
EGGS - EGGS - EGGS
We are in the market to buy Fresh Eggs and Fresh Packing
Butter and will pay full Grand Rapids Market date of arrival.
Send us your orders for Egg Cases and Egg Case Material.
Wire or Phone for our quotations.
KENT STORAGE COMPANY
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
CHICAGO—GRAND RAPIDS ROUTE
Merchant Freight Transportation with Store Door Delivery
Over Night Runs between Chicago and Grand Rapids
DAILY SERVICE
GRAND RAPIDS MOT
General Offices 215 Oakes St., ae. porn o_o _—
Chicago Terminal 1800 South Wentworth Ave.
In More Homes Everyday
RALSUM
America's ‘finest Bread
\\
\
y) SANCTUM BAKORIUM
i NEWS
Despite the modern trend to
abolish kitchen drudgery,
HOLSUM could never have
achieved its supremacy with-
out the merit of quality.
April 30, 1930
MEAT DEALER
Michigan State Association of Retail
Meat Merchants.
President—Frank Cornell, Grand Rapids
Vice-Pres.—E Y. Abbott, Flint.
Secretary—E. J. La Rose, Detroit.
Treasurer—Pius Goedecke, Detroit.
Next meeting will be held in Grand
Rapids, date not decided.
Cheaper Cuts Don’t Always Attract.
The most economical meats do not
entice buyers equally at all periods of
the year, and there seems to be no
permanent seasonal demand or periods
of neglect. In the winter one might
expect more soup to be used and more
meat cooked by moist heat. Normally
the expected happens, and when it is
frosty there is usually little trouble in
selling stewing, boiling, and soup meats
at a fair price. In the great meat con-
suming sections of the East the de-
mand lately has not been very active
for the more economical cuts of meat
and in some cases it has been very
bad indeed.
in various ways, the nutriment is neces-
sarily no greater in the most expensive
cuts of meat than in the cuts which
cost least. This dissipates the thought
As has been so often said
that health might be sacrificed for
saving.
It is indeed difficult to determine
why certain cuts of meats sell so well
at certain times and then for no per-
ceptible reason fall into popular disuse.
Of course in the final turn of the mar-
ket all of the various cuts are moved
into consumption, but often they sell
at prices which require other more
popular cuts to higher than
usual returns returns if the net result is
to be satisfactory to the retailer.
It is found that normally the cuts
from the forequarter of beef—except-
ing the rib—sell at lower prices than
those from the loin and parts of the
round. This being a normal condition
it is much more intensified when the
forequarter cuts referred to fail to sell
as well as usual. Of course there is no
reason why price adjustments should
not provide both market action and
change of home menus, but when the
change is forced by price without the
aid of considerably greater’ use it
comes so slowly and such a
is necessary that people inter-
bring
price
change
ested in marketing despair about mak-
ing things come out entirely to suit
them, even were they to leave out the
best interests of consumers.
Some consumer-buyers seem to think
that dealers in meats have no interest
at all in what the consumers pay.
Nothing is really further from the
facts. Every clear-thinking dealer in
meat knows that he is in business to
please his patrons. He knows that if
he fails in this duty his customers will
drift away from him and to some ex-
tent from meat eating. When many
people find meat prices or meat qual-
ity unappealing to them they are apt
to look upon their meat purchases
with less enthusiasm. So it is not
merely a case of altruism or immediate
gain when meat dealers try to have
meat prices move along reasonably
even keels and have consumer demand
meet the supply more or less accurate-
ly without undue price adjustment to
make the two coincide.
—_2»+>__—__
It is mental attitude not years that
stamp one as being old,
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
Reindeer Meat Is Just Ahead.
It will probably be some years be-
fore the waiter will ask you, in the or-
dinary way he speaks of beef, how rare
or well done you want your reindeer
steak; but it will not be long before
reindeer meat will be available in most
large cities. Alaskan herd owners,
both white and Eskimo, and the Gov-
ernmental agencies are trying to de-
velop a market in the United States
for the surplus now produced. Twenty
years ago every effort was bent toward
increasing the herd of over a thousand
animals brought by the Federal Gov-
ernment from Siberia to supply food
for the natives of Alaska. It has in-
creased to between 800,000 or 900,000
reindeer, more than half being owned
by the Eskimos, who have succeeded
admirably in bringing their herds up
to more than the amount they require
for their own needs. They now want
to sell their extra supply, and the De-
partment of Agriculture has come to
their aid with a booklet which will
tempt any cook to set out instantly in
search of a butcher side of
reindeer hanging in his icebox.
The carcass is different in size and
shape from cattle or sheep and the
cuts vary accordingly. The texture
of the meat is fine, and most of it is
tender. It has a flavor of its own, not
gamy, but described by one who eats
it often as “between lamb and duck.”
The characteristic tang of venison is
lacking, and some people think it is
more like young beef than anything
else. There is little fat on it, either
in well-defined layers or mixed gen-
the tissues, and the
of Home Eco-
the use of fat
bacon with most cuts. It is reassuring
to know that the Government’s experi-
mental stations have never encountered
any contagious diseases among the
Alaskan and inspection of
meat is carried on only to make sure
that proper handling and storage fa-
cilities have kept it in good condition.
A side of reindeer will yield steaks,
The
roast
with a
erally through
cooks of the Bureau
nomics recommend
reindeer,
chops, roasts, stews and soups.
round is the best cut, and a
about five inches thick from the upper
end will weigh from seven to twelve
pounds. Since there is very little fat
on it, strips of salt pork should be in-
serted at intervals through the meat.
About 25 minutes in a hot oven browns
the outside and sears up the juices.
Then the cook allows 25 minutes to
the pound for the roast to finish cook-
ing in moderate heat. Some tart and
fruity accompaniment like cranberry
sauce, currant jelly or fried green
apples should be served with the roast.
Even kitchenette cooks who have no
ovens need not deny themselves experi-
ments in reindeer cookery. The de-
scriptions of savory stews and crisp
brown reindeer cutlets are as appetiz-
ing as an apertif. All that is wanted
now is a reindeer meat market.
—__+ ++
The Modern Druggist.
“Now, there’s what I call a great
druggist.”
“Ves, but don’t you think he makes
his chicken salad a little too salty.”
—_—_++>—___
Half-baked ideas increase the ills
they assume to cure,
GRAND RAPIDS PAPER Box Co.
Manufacturers of SET UP and FOLDING PAPER BOXES
SPECIAL DIE CUTTING AND MOUNTING
C HIGAN
G R AN D RA,PIDS, Mi!
We Cater to Independent Merchants Only
FRUITS AND PRODUCE
BANANAS A SPECIALTY
D. L. CAVERA AND CO.
THE HOUSE OF PERSONAL SERVICE
Phone 9-3251
M.J. DARK & SONS
INCORPORATED
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
—
Direct carload receivers of
UNIFRUIT BANANAS
SUNKIST ~ FANCY NAVEL ORANGES
and all Seasonable Fruit and Vegetables
\
On to Dayton
It is time to make plans to attend the Annual Convention
of the National Association of Retail Grocers at Dayton,
Ohio, June 16th to 19th inclusive.
New ideas, new inspiration, better business, will result
from attending the Convention. Then there is the pleasure
of meeting old friends and making new ones, and seeing
other parts of the country. Let your motto be—‘‘On To
Dayton In June’.
Write your local Secretary now so that you will be in-
cluded in the plans for special trains.
Compliments of
STANDARD BRANDS INCORPORATED
VINKEMULDER COMPANY
Grand Rapids, Michigan
BRANCH AT PETOSKEY, MICH.
Distributors Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
Cantaloupes, Peaches, ‘Yellow Kid” Bananas, Oranges,
Lemons, Fresh GreenVegetables, etc.
GRIDDLES — BUNSTEAMERS — _~ URNS
Everything in Restaurant Equipment
Priced Right.
Grand Rapids Store Fixture Co.
7 N. IONIA AVE. Phone 67143 N. FREEMAN, Mgr.
HARDWARE
Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—Louis F. Wolf, Mt. Clemens.
Vice-Pres.—Waldo Bruske, Saginaw.
Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.
Suggestions For the Hardware Dealer
in May.
With the end of April, the hardware
dealer will begin to fairly appreciate
the value of whatever preparatory
work he did in the dull winter months.
While he may not have been able to
carry out his plans in full, he will un-
doubtedly have feund his work much
easier because of the preparations
made for it. With plans outlined, ideas
for window displays and newspaper
advertising assembled and outlined, he
is now in a position to concentrate
upon the most important factor in se-
curing spring business—personal sales-
manship.
For, after all, nothing counts for so
much in business-getting as your per-
sonal work and that of your sales-
people.
The hardware dealer’s activities in
May will represent to a very large ex-
tent a continuance and expansion of
the efforts already put forth in April.
For example, housecleaning lines are
still a considerable factor in business,
and call for occasional window display.
It is perfectly true that many fore-
handed people have long since finished
their spring housecleaning. But there
are others just in the middle of it, and
there are still others who are putting
it off until the last possible moment.
Hence, a strong appeal to house-
cleaning trade is timely in May, es-
pecially in the early part of the month.
Housecleaning displays appeal very
strongly to the womenfolk, and help
to attract them to the hardware store.
One of the great objectives of the mod-
ern hardware business is to interest
women customers, and to educate them
out of any lingering idea that the hard-
ware store is a rather dirty and dis-
reputable place for men to meet, chew
tobacco, gossip and buy white lead and
nails.
That idea has been pretty well wiped
out by actual experience of the modern
hardware store. Women nowadays
realize that the hardware store is not
merely bright, clean and attractive, but
that it offers a great many labor sav-
ing devices of special interest to them.
Nevertheless, the hardware store
‘must continue to make an especial ap-
peal to feminine customers.
Instead of sidetracking houseclean-
ing lines right now, it is therefore
sound policy to put on at least one or
two more displays of these goods. Do
not repeat the same displays as last
month, but try to introduce some new
stunts and novel ideas.
For instance, try in your display to
remind the housewife that the season
is rapidly getting on. The time in
which to do her housecleaning grows
less and less. Hence, it is to her ad-
vantage to be well equipped for the
work in order to hustle it through. As
a variation of this idea, you could
stress the thought that the wise house-
wife is the one who does her house-
work as quickly as possible, and gets
as much time as possible outdoors
these bright, invigorating spring days,
MICHIGAN
Full equipment saves time and gives
more leisure.
How can such an idea be brought
out in a window display of houseclean-
ing lines.
That is for the ingenuity of the win-
dow trimmer to determine. But the
simplest form of display might be
something like this. Take your big-
gest window and divide it. In one
section show a scrubbing brush, a pail,
a mop (all old) and a cake of soap. In
the other show a complete assortment
of housecleaning aids. Label the first:
1830. Time for nothing but house-
cleaning. Label the second: 1930.
Plenty of leisure for enjoyment. Work
in a few near showcards further bring-
ing out the idea. If dummy figures
can be procured, one old and shabby,
the other neat and chic, it will, of
course, add immensely to the effective-
ness of the display.
The paint department logically links
up with housecleaning lines. For in-
stance, in connection with a regular
housecleaning display you can show in-
side paint and varnish specialties—floor
stains, wall tints, enamels, varnishes,
polishes, etc., as well as a full equip-
ment of brushes. Use your display to
emphasize the importance of cleanli-
ness as well as the ease with which
paint specialties can be applied.
The paint campaign proper should
be an important feature in May. Re-
-member, that persistent effort is neces-
sary in this department; but that, al-
though the process of paint education
takes a lot of work, to the persistent
man belong the spoils. Push paint
for all it is worth this month; and, if
time permits, do a dittle personal can-
vassing of special prospects or keep in
touch with them by telephone.
Right now garden tools can be
played up. Into displays of this kind
work a needed touch of spring color-
ing. Use plenty of green to emphasize
the arrival of spring and the growing
season. A spread of turf, a wheel-
barrow full of turned up sod, a box of
seedlings—anything that suggests gar-
dening, out of doors work, new growth,
will help to make the display effective.
Here is a point worth emphasizing.
The best window displays are those
which carry a definite message. Many
- window trimmers do not realize this.
A display of garden tools is put in the
window; but the trimmer merely shows
the tools themselves. To a limited
extent they suggest gardening. But
if the display can be made to carry a
distinct and clear-cut message it will
be immensely more effective.
It is here that a few neat show cards
help immensely. For instance, “Early
planting, early harvest;” “the first
growth is, the best growth;” “start
your back yard garden now.” Slogans
of this sort, helped out with a hint of
green in the display—turf, growing
plants, a miniature garden marked off
with strings, pegs and seed packets—
these will grip the attention of any
passer-by and carry a clear cut mes-
sage to him.
Your gardening display early in the
month paves the way for a lawn tools
display a little later. It is a good idea
to group in one display as many allied
lines as possible. To the average cus-
TRADESMAN
tomer the one necessary lawn acces-
sory is a mower. But you can make
a really effective display by showing
everything useful in the care of a lawn.
For example, show the mower and
with it a grass-catching attachment.
Display a length of lawn ‘hose, on a
reel, with nozzle or spraying device
attached. Then introduce a lawn seat.
On the seat you can display a lot
of smaller accessories—grass clippers,
turf edgers, oil can for the mower,
lawn fertilizer, grass seed—and to be-
gin with, why not carpet the window
with sod and make a real lawn of it?
This is a good time of year to dis-
play carpenter’s tools. In springtime
the workman usually sees to it that his
kit is in good shape. Tools of any
kind make very effective displays, and
care and time devoted to such displays
will be well spent.
With really warm weather later in
the month, hot weather goods should
be shown prominently. It is good
policy to show refrigerators, ice cream
freezers, screen doors and similar lines
April 30, 1930
early in the season. People don’t buy
such goods on the spur of the moment.
They see them displayed or advertised;
the wife wants something and the hus-
band insists he can’t afford it; and it
takes a lot of more or less acid dis-
cussion in the family itself before the
buying point is reached. If you start
them discussing the matter early
enough, they will have decided to buy
by the time hot weather actually
comes. If they don’t start the dis-
cussion until hot weather arrives, the
decision may not be reached until it
is half over, and that usually means
that buying is put off for another year.
So show your hot weather lines
early; and repeat with one or two dis-
plays as the season progresses.
Hot weather lines include gas, gaso-
line and kerosene stoves. While there
is an all-the-year-round market for
kitchen ranges, these light cooking de-
vices are especially in demand in spring
and summer months, as are electric
ranges and the smaller electric cook-
ing devices. These goods should be
The new patterns are so colorful
Campau Ave. and Louis St.
Estimates without cost or obligation.
CHAS. A. COYE, INC.
COYE AWNINGS
for
Your Home and Store
you will surely want to see them.
Grand Rapids, M‘ch.
Automobile Tires and Tubes
Automobile Accessories
Garage Equipment
Radio Sets
Radio Equipment
BROWN & SEHLER
COMPANY
Farm Machinery and Garden Tools
Saddlery Hardware
Harness, Horse Collars
Blankets, Robes
Sheep Lined and
Blanket - Lined Coats
Leather Coats
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Michigan Hardware Co.
100-108 Ellsworth Ave., Corner Oakes
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN
Be
Wholesalers of Shelf Hardware, Sporting
Goods and
FISHING TACKLE
April 30, 1930
shown now, with emphasis on the de-
sirability of keeping cool while cooking
in the hot weather; and another dis-
play can follow in June with a show-
ing of gasoline and kerosene stoves
designed especially for summer camp-
ers and cottagers.
Throughout the spring months the
sporting goods department should be
aggressively featured. Beginning with
fishing ‘tackle, the hardware dealer
should, as time goes on, include base-
ball, tennis, football, boating and
yachting supplies and automobile and
bicycle accessories.
A rather neat and attractive display
of fishing tackle can be made some-
what like this. Take a net and stretch
it in a semicircle the full lenth of the
window, or else diagonally from the
back wall of the window to the floor.
For background use apple green with
artificial leaves and moss for the floor.
On this net display small goods such
as floats, quills, artificial minnows,
lines, etc. On the floor show your
hooks in boxes, minnow buckets and
larger goods which couldn’t be very
well shown in the net.
Toward tthe middle of May develop
your campaign for June trade. The
important feature is, of course, the
wedding gift trade. In catering to this
trade the hardware store has the ad-
vantage that it offers an appealing line
of practical gifts. Many of these are
ornamental as well as practical, but
on the whole the practical should be
emphasized. Suggestion is very help-
ful in developing this trade; and the
store prepared to give intelligent as-
sistance to customers in selecting gifts
is bound to enjoy a good trade.
June weddings are preceded by
numerous “showers” and smaller gift
lines suitable to these events should
be shown in May. Here, again, the
ability and willingness of the sales
staff to help customers in the selection
of gifts is of great assistance in get-
ting the business. Victor Lauriston.
—_—_»>>>—_—__
Recent Trade Changes in Ohio.
Toledo—The U. S. District Court at
Portland, Ore. has appointed O. S.
Crocker, Portland, receiver in the in-
voluntary bankruptcy case of S. E.
Newkirk, dealer in clothing and fur-
nishing goods.
Norwalk—Notice of a meeting for
the declaration of a 5 per cent. divi-
dend has been mailed to creditors of
J. Kahn Co., department store dealer.
This probably will be declared and
paid the latter part of April.
Akron — There are seventy-four
creditors listed in the schedules filed
in the voluntary bankruptcy case of
Eugene Fewkes, trading as Gene’s
Five-cent to One Dollar Store. Butler
Bros., Chicago, with claim of $526, is
the only creditors with claim of $500
or more.
Sandusky—Plans for distributing the
40 per cent. composition in the matter
of Braunstein Stores, Inc., chain dry
goods stores, have been changed. Orig-
inally it was intended that 15 per cent.
be paid in cash and the balance to be
evidenced by notes for 5 per cent. each
due in 30, 60, 90, and 120 days and
ten months thereafter. The plan which
is being followed now has a mortgage
MICHIGAN
on the stock and all property of the
president of the debtor company. This
is held by Russell Ramsey, of San-
dusky, as trustee for the creditors.
When time arrives for the partial pay-
ment to be made, the trustee turns
sufficient cash over to Fred H. Kruse,
the distributing agent, who then issues
checks to the creditors. The creditors
will receive no notes, as all payments
will ‘be made by cash when they be-
come due.
Columbus—Liabilities are estimated
at $7,000 and assets, consisting of
stock in trade and fixtures, at $3,000,
in the bankruptcy case of Albert Las-
zlo, shoe dealer. Ingalls & Selby are
attorneys for the petitioner.
Cincinnati — Morris Singer, retail
shoes, 4037 Hamilton avenue, lists as-
sets of $29,932, of which $26,000 is real
estate and $2,500 stock in trade. Lia-
bilities are $35,676, of which $5,621 is
unsecured. Unsecured creditors with
claims of $500 or more are: Pearl
Market Bank, Cincinnati, $800; Brown
Shoe Co., St. Louis, $640; Marks &
Stix, Cincinnati, $561; Weyenberg
Shoe Co., Milwaukee, $591.
Cincinnati—Mark Frank, merchan-
dise manager of the men’s and boys’
clothing, hats, luggage and trunk de-
partments of the Mabley & Carew Co.,
has been made a director of the store,
with which hé has been connected for
twenty-seven years. He is a successor
on the board to Al. Knapp, merchan-
dise manager of men’s and boys’ fur-
nishings, women’s hosiery, gloves and
handkerchiefs, who, as noted, resigned
recently in order to regain his health.
Mr. Knapp had been with the store
for thirty years.
Bellefontaine — The Hill and Mc-
Donald Complete Food Market was
recently sold to Charles Wise and
Pearl Robinson.
Orrville—Construction has just be-
gun on a new meat packing plant and
slaughter house, the first of its kind
here, known as Beehtoe’s, Inc.
~~...
Evening Meditation.
A complete full day
Neither great nor
Yet content alway
When the shadows fall
If a voice within
From the heart can say
“Yes—to-day has been
A complete full day.”
small
A complete full day
While the night draws near
TJnperturbed I may
In its atmosphere
Pray the morrow’s sun
Send a kindly ray
On the course to run
For another day.
Let desire that day
Be discreetly wise
And to not gainsay
Where its duty lies
For a deed once done
Is a deed alway
And is not re-run
On a yesterday.
A complete full day
Is not born of fears
It’s achievements stay
In the role of years
tiving joy the more
As the shadows play
On my bolted door
At the close of day.
Charles A. Heath.
Carry On.
It is not home with mother gone
Though every day I try
With heart and soul, with brain and brawn
To feel she did not die
But carry on with just the kids
As she would have me do
Yet when alone no hour forbids
My feeling lonely too.
I cannot let the chidlren know
TRADESMAN
The loss within my heart
For strong pulsations never flow
When death has shot his dart
Yet must I carry on like when
Mother was helping too
But little did I reckon then
How much these mothers do.
For mother’s job was more than work
Her day did lead to toil
Beyond the time when others shirk
And burned the midnight oil
To knit and sew, to darn and mend
Or fix the morrow’s food
For scarcely never tasks do end
Which come with motherhood.
With mother gone there is no balm
To heal the aching wound
The hearthstone is so weirdly
When she is not around
Even the burning back-logs there
Diffuse a fainter light
calm
When unreflected by her fair
Sweet countenance at night.
Charles A. Heath.
—_—__»2-
Study is finding out what men of
wider experience know about your job.
—__~—>___
The more you use your own brains,
the less the foreman has to use his.
—_—__-
Praise what is to be praised before
finding fault with what is wrong.
SIDE LINE MEN WANTED
ORDER BOOKS “COGpON
Autographic Registers and Forms
THE WIRTH SALES BOOK CO.
4446-52 N. Knox Ave., Chicago
o
> 00 Oc:
“e oe
EW ERA
LIFE ASSOCIATION
Grand Rapids.
SOUND COMPANY, SOUNDLY
MANAGED BY SOUND MEN.
The
AMERICAN
NATIONAL
° BANK °
Capital and Surplus $750,000.00
One of two national banks in
Grand Rapids.
Member of the Federal Reserve
System.
~
President, Gen. John H. Schouten
Vice President and Cashier,
Ned B. Alsover
Assistant Cashier, Fred H. Travis
Sand Lime Brick
Nothing as Durable
Nothing as Fireproof
Makes Structure Beautiful
No Painting
No Cost for Repairs
Fire Proof Weather Proof
Warm in Winter—Cool in Summer
Brick is Everlasting
GRANDE BRICK CO.
Grand Rapids.
SAGINAW BRICK CO.
Saginaw.
The Brand You Know
‘| xh
“a Stn 4 f
One VN ale
Look for the Red Heart
on the Can
LEE & CADY Distributor
I. Van Westenbrugge
Grand Rapids - Muskegon
(SERVICE DISTRIBUTOR)
Nucoa
KRAFT(({) CHEESE
All varieties, bulk and package cheese
“Best Foods’
Salad Dressings
Fanning’s
Bread and Butter Pickles
Alpha Butter
TEN BRUIN’S HORSE RADISH and
MUSTARD
OTHER SPECIALTIES
FRIGIDAIRE
ELECTRIC REFRIGERATING SYTEMS
PRODUCT OF GENERAL MOTORS
For Markets, Groceries and
Homes
Does an extra mans work
No more putting up ice
A small down payment puts this
equipment in for you
F. C. MATTHEWS
& CO.
111 PEARL ST. N. W
Phone 9-3249
Phone 61366
JOHN L. LYNCH SALES CO.
SPECIAL SALE EXPERTS
Expert Advertising
pert Mrechandising
Ex
209-210-311 Murray lies
GRAND RAPIDS, MI GAN
24
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
April 30, 1930
HOTEL DEPARTMENT
Verbeck En _ Route
California.
Cheyenne, Wyoming, April 25—One
of my hotel friends out here grasps my
idea of operating a real homelike in-
stitution, in a discourse of very small
compass: “Get back to just a small
amount of ‘ye old landlord greeting’
and remove about one-third the un-
necessary service.” Sure, put out a
little salve but make it tasteful. Too
much effort is being made to make the
new hotels the most palatial in the
world (with not enough customers of
this type to have to pay in proportion
to its worth). Provide motor storage
with the room price, provide for the
$2.50 guest and build accordingly so
you can eliminate as far as possible the
outstretched hand for the tips, and in
its place, substitute the outstretched
hand of hospitality and cordiality.
Home From
Every once in a while somebody
who is not interested financially in the
operation of hotels and_ restaurants
bursts forth in song—or rage—and
talks about the Jesse James’s in that
line of industry. Even in their palm-
iest days, the food dispenser never
made even a small percentage of the
profits you will find in any other line
of business. You will find the shoe
man combining fifty cents worth of
raw material with a dollars’ worth of
elbow grease and working off the fin-
ished product for fourteen dollars and
nothing is heard of it, or the medicine
dispenser packing away three cents’
worth of ingredients in a tin can and
offering it for a stingy dollar. And
then there is the bootlegger—well we
won't go any further. Of course it is
true that cow meat, in the cow, is
probably worth a couple of cents a
pound; with the packer, sixty, the
retailer, ninety, and on the platter in
the restaurant, $2.50, but it is well to
bear in mind that the transportation
company takes the first grab, and then
there is the organfzed banditry in the
kitchen which picks out the succulent
portions for “home” consumption, so
that when the guest has paid for the
dainty morsel finally peddled out to
him, there has been no wonderful mar-
gin of profit for the individual or con-
cern which undertakes to “feed the
brute.”
The individual who essavs to make
the trip from Los Angeles to Grand
Rapids or thereabout, on rubber tires,
has some treat ahead. I am now
undertaking that enterprise and am ac-
cordingly enjoying myself to the limit.
You certainly do get the “low down”
on all the high altitude scenery and if
you do not undertake to overdo the
thing you will be stuffed with informa-
tion and enjoy a great many thrills
before you have encompassed the
journey. For instance the party, of
which I am a fortunate member, left
Los Angeles about 8 o’clock in the
morning and by mid-afternoon were
in the midst of the Mojave desert, and
some desert it is, I will say. Here we
find filling stations about the only sign
of life. Here, also, occasionally, we
find a sign reading: “Gas, fifty cents:
one quart of water free with each gal-
long.” T suggested to a station tender
who told me that he had to haul water
a distance of forty miles, that it would
seem more practical if he would drill
a well on the premises. He said it
might be so, but the distance would be
greater. We find the customary horde
of hikers along the route, but we have
so camouflaged our assortment of bag-
gage in such a manner that it looks as
though it would be impossible to pack
in an additional parcel of luggage,
without the aid of a shoe-horn. Few
people encourage the hobo in his per-
ambulations for the reason that in too
many instances where it has been
done the ultimate victims have dis-
covered they were entertaining bandits
unawares. From San Bernadino to
Las Vegas, Nevada, there is not a
thing of interest—just sage brush,
mesquite and an occasional Joshua
tree. We cross one edge of Death
Valley and encounter in the Devil’s
Playground, an interesting stretch of
about ten miles of picturesque sand
plain where the white sands perform
strange pranks, shifting and creating
wierd and fantastic formations. This
region has been a favorite with many
painters. At Las Vegas we find a little
city of possibly 25,500 population, a
division point on the Union Pacific
Railroad, quite an agricultural center,
and a stopover point for “suckers” who
are on their way to the notorious
3oulder Dam district, the improvement
of which is fully ten vears distant.
Here we find a very good hotel, and
having negotiated about 300 miles of
real estate prospects, are disposed to
woo a little of nature’s sweet restorer
without the aid of a “slumber” song.
Las Vegas is the supply point for a
large era of mining territory for a
radius of 100 miles and is really quite
in the center of an area of irrigable
farming land. Twenty-five years ago
it was one of the “livest” of Western
towns, but it has settled down to
regular paces, and is now quite metro-
politan and is half a mile high in ele-
vation.
Moapa comes next with a full stock
of Indian legends, including the “Val-
ley of Fire,” where archaeologists have
recently unearthed remains of a pre-
historic city which had an estimated
population of 20,000, without a single
“old timer” ‘to prove it. But whatever
else they say about it, they do raise
acres and acres of the finest asparagus
I ever saw, which is shipped East in
carload lots.
At Caliente we find a decidedly neat
and busy tourist camp. I't is supplied
with a great many conveniences and
one principal item is water, seemingly
in “bathing” quantities. We decided
it was worth while, and were not dis-
appointed. Reasonable charges only
were exacted for lodging and auto
storage and a food dispensary “hard
by” re-familiarized us with Rhode
Island Red fried chicken, which was
exceedingly appettzing; so much so, in
fact, that we laid in a supply for our
noon-day meal, which we enjoyed in
the society of jack rabbits and prairie
dogs.
At Cedar City, Utah, our night con-
trol was a very comfortable hotel. The
delay the following morning in the de-
livery of an order of boiled eggs, was
occasioned, as explained by the wait-
ress, being due to the high “attitude”
which raised the boiling point. Cedar
City is about a mile or so above sea
level. From here we are on our way
to Zion National Park, which contains
a flaming gorge, a matchless carving
by the greatest of all sculptors—
erosion. It has immense, vividly col-
ored walls, and unscaled precipitous
buttes that rise several thousand feet
above the canyon floor. Spectacular
trails lead to the Canyon rims. We
would have enjoyed being there longer,
but already a portion of our party are
talking strongly about “home” com-
forts to be found ahead of us. Moral:
When you go camping, take real camp-
ers and not department store “shop-
a
pers.
Later in the day we negotiate the
Wasatch mountain range, through
Echo Canyon. Near the little village
of Castle Rock, the walls on the North
side of the canyon have the form of a
castellated tower, and as the highway
descends, the red and yellow cliffs of
shale, sandstone and conglomerate,
twisted, split and carved into vague
semblances of many familiar objects,
and frequently with small hollows, the
abode of swallows. In some places
these bluffs rise thousands of feet
above the roadway, and we have to
detrain, or demotor, or whatever you
Halloran Detective Agency
High Grade Detective Work
506 G. R. Savings Bank Bldg.
Grand Rapids Michigan
Phone 65626
e
Wolverine Hotel
BOYNE CITY, MICHIGAN
Fire Proof—60 rooms. THE LEAD.
ING COMMERCIAL AND RESORT
HOTEL. American Plan, $4.00 and
up; European Plan, $1.50 and up.
Open the year around.
Hotel Hermitage
European
Grand Rapids, Mich.
RATES:
Room and Bath $1.50 - $2
JOHN MORAN, Mgr.
Warm Friend Tavern
Holland, Mich.
Is truly a friend to all travelers. All
room and meal rates very reasonable.
Free private parking space.
E. L. LELAND, Mar.
HOTEL OLDS
LANSING
300 Rooms 3800 Baths
Absolutely Fireproof
Moderate Rates
Under the Direction of the
Continental-Leland Corp.
Grorce L. Crocker,
Manager.
ee
Occidental Hotel
FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $2.00 and up
EDWART R. SWETT, Mgr.
Muskegon ote Michigan
Columbia Hotel
KALAMAZOO
Good Place To Tie To
CHARLES RENNER HOTELS
Four Flags Hotel, Niles, Mich., in
the picturesque St. Joseph Valley.
Edgewater Club Hotel, St. Joseph,
Mich., open from May to October.
Both of these hotels are maintained
on the high standard established
by Mr. Renner.
The LaVerne Hotel
Moderately priced.
Rates $1.50 up.
GEO. A. SOUTHERTON, Prop.
BATTLE CREEK, MICHIGAN
Park Place Hotel
Traverse City
Rates Reasonable—Service Superb
—Location Admirable.
R. D. McFADDEN, Mgr.
CODY HOTEL
GRAND RAPIDS
RATES—$1.50 up without bath.
$2.50 up with bath.
CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION
HOTEL KERNS
LARGEST HOTEL IN LANSING
300 Rooms With or Without Bath
Popular Priced Cafeteria in Cen-
nection. Rates $1.56 up.
E. S. RICHARDSON, Proprietor
MORTON
HOTEL
Grand Rapids’ Newest
Hotel
400 Rooms -%- 400 Baths
RATES
$2.50 and up per day.
NEW BURDICK
KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN
In the Very Heart of the City
. Fireproof Construction
The only All New Hotel in the city.
Representing
a $1,000,000 Investment.
250 Rooms—150 Rooms with Private
Bath
Buropean $1.50 and up per Day.
RESTAURANT AND GRILL—
Cafeteria, Quick Service, Popular
Prices.
Entire Seventh Floor Devoted to
Especially Equipped Sample Rooms
WALTER J. HODGES,
Pres. and Gen. Mgr.
“A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE
COMPANY HE KEEPS”
That is why LEADERS of Businesa
and Society make their head-
quarters at the
PANTLIND
HOTEL
“An entire city block of Hospitality”
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Rooms $2.25 and up.
Cafeteria ote Sandwich Shop
“We are always mindful of
our responsibility to the pub-
lic and are in full apprecia-
tion of the esteem its generous
patronage implies.”
HOTEL ROWE
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
BRNEST W. NBIR, Manager.
April 30, 1930
want to call it, in order to encompass
their peaks in your view.
This night we have set aside for a
night in Salt Lake City, with its square
meals, movies, saints and sinners. Of
this beautiful city, I have had much to
say in the past and I will not weary
those readers who say they read my
various communications and “try” to
like them, with anv further nauseating
details. She is still there in all her
pristine glory, wide streets and salt.
Two nights spent in the City of
Saints, reupholsters us wonderfully
and we amble along to Ogden, where
we stop only long enough to avail our-
selves of a gasoline bargain. Stopping
momentarily in front of a statue in
front of the court house park, I dis-
cover a monument erected 'to the mem-
ory of William B. Ogden, many times
mayor of Chicago, former president of
the Chicago & Northwestern Railway
and a director of the Union Pacific
rail line. He it was who furnished the
excuse for naming the city. It was a
good town and looks it.
From Ogden to Evanston, Wyoming,
where we spend the night, we pass
through a fertile, scenic canyon for a
distance of about forty miles. We
cross over and under the Union Pacific
tracks, in some cases found curves
which in many instances make it ex-
ceedingly convenient for the locomo-
tive engineers to gaze upon the tail
lights of the train they are engaged in
hauling. At Evanston they have de-
veloped many coal mines, and it is a
considerable shipping point for live
stock. From Evanston we pass on to
Granger, where the railroad branches
off, a side line going West to Idaho
and Oregon, while the main line con-
tinues on to Cheyenne and Denver,
with Omaha as the ultimate destina-
tion.
From now on for ‘several hundred
miles we pass over the crest of Rocky
Mountains, and we trail along the
banks of Green River, the scenic effect
being most exhilarating. The altitude
at these points—that is of the highway
grades—averages somewhere near 7,-
000 feet. At Rock Springs there are
natural. gas fields yielding 200,000,000
cubic feet per day, and in addition
thereto, much coal. There are splen-
did roads going to the South entrance
of Yellowstone Park, a distance of 265
miles.
Up to a point slightly East of
Cheyenne, all the way from Los
Angeles a distance approximating
1,300 miles, I do not believe we en-
countered twenty miles of debatable
highway. It is absolutely almost 100
per cent. To be sure ‘it is not all of
concrete construction. It is almost
beyond understanding when you con-
sider the sparsely settled areas we
pass through and the almost unsur-
mountable obstacles to be met with.
In road construction they follow the
canyons as far as practicable, then re-
sort to the “switchback,” but as a last
resort they drill a hole through moun-
tains and the traveler continues on his
way, almost without interruption.
To be sure Uncle Sam renders con-
siderable financial assistance in con-
structing these roads, but Wyoming’s
quota is no small item. Other states
further Eastward, with much greater
financial resources are disgracefully
deficient when it comes to road build-
ing.
At Point of Rocks, just West of
what is called the Continental Divide,
are a series of limestone cliffs, eroded
in bizarre shapes and containing the
remains of fossils. This little filling
station here is just a short distance
from one of the early transcontinental
trails over which passed the “Covered
Wagon” of fiction, and most of the
early day trafic. A stone house easily
discernible from this point is one of
the stations of the celebrated Pony
Express.
Red Desert which we pass through
a few miles further on, is famous for
MICHIGAN
its having been a favorite hunting and
battle ground of the Indians. The
buffalos they used to gather in are
now extinct and the offshoot of the
aborigines, at least such as we saw,
have most certainly disintegrated.
Cows and sheep take the place of the
buffalos, and false-alarm cowboys
complete the stage setting.
Frank S. Verbeck.
Announcement has been made of the
leasing of the Griswold Hotel, Detroit,
to James Constant, proprietor of the
Sea Food Grotto, which occupies a
part of the building. The lease runs
for five years and involves approxi-
mately $500,000. Workmen will begin
at once to remodel the hotel to enable
it to re-open under new management
by May 10.
Unless the mortgage for $3,700,732
held by the Detroit & Security Trust
Co. against the Tuller Hotel Co. is
paid by May 15, the hotel property will
be sold at public auction, Judge Ira
W. Jayne ruled last Thursday. The
mortgage, naming the hotel company,
Lew Tuller and William H. Mallen,
receiver for the hotel, was foreclosed
several days ago.
The Otsego at Jackson is being re-
modeled very completely. F. J. Gig-
nac is the new manager, coming here
from Hotel Olds, in Lansing.
— ++
Already a Feature of the Air.
W. R. Roach & Co., one of the
foremost canning organizations in the
country, are sponsors, together with
other members of the National Can-
ners Association, of a Nation-wide
radio program which is rapidly be-
coming one of the most popular fea-
tures of the air.
“The Hour of the Canny Cook, as
the National Canners radio program is
known,” says Mr. Roach, Chairman of
the Board of the W. R. Roach & Co.,
“is designed primarily to enlighten the
housewives of America on the ad-
vantages, varieties and uses of canned
foods.
“The programs have been on the
air since the 17th of March, and go
out over the facilities of the National
Broadcasting Co. from WEAF and
forty-seven associated stations from
coast to coast. The programs are of
the morning or household type, going
on the air at 10:45 to 11 a. m., Eastern
standard time.
“They include practical and helpful
suggestions for varied uses of canned
foods. Interesting dialogues, prom-
inent guest speakers and clever dramas
are used to illustrate practical applica-
tions of canned foods in the kitchen of
the individual housewife.
“Although the Hour of the Canny
Cook has only been on the air four
weeks, it has already shattered rec-
ords for winning in so short a time
such unusual popularity. Not only are
the total number of letters impressive,
but the true interest in the subject of
canned foods is even more significant.
It is truly a revelation to the sponsors
of the program to discover the im-
portant part that canned foods occupy
in the everyday life of the American
housewife. The National Canners As-
sociation has received thousands of
requests for special recipes, numerous
TRADESMAN
enquiries regarding varieties of can-
ned foods and all letters indicated an
almost universal interest in this im-
portant subject.
“It gives to the Sponsors of these
programs a feeling of real satisfaction
to realize that they are putting on a
radio program that is such an import-
ant contribution to more efficient
home-making, a program that is eager-
ly looked for and truly appreciated by
millions of housewives throughout the
Nation.
“It is planned to continue the Hour
of the Canny Cook for at least several
months to come,” concluded Mr.
Roach.
Canning is of such real interest and
importance to so many citizens of this
community that Nation-wide
programs will be of unusual interest
to them. They may be heard in this
locality every Monday, Tuesday, Wed-
nesday and Thursday morning over
stations of nearest N. B. C. red net-
work stations.
—_~+--___
When On Your Way, See Onaway.
Onaway, April 29—Aunt Lucia, pre-
sented by local talent sponsored by the
Eastern Star, made a decided hit play-
ing two nights at the school. ‘“Skip-
per” Schlienz, the girl with the million
dollar smile and Vern Tran as Cleo-
patra escaped ‘between acts and put
on a side show, returning in time to re-
instate without being expelled. A se-
vere penalty imposed will prevent
further violations.
Armon Lee, Manager of Gumms
Store, Inc., impersonating the “Beauty
Winner,” created a fit of jealousy
throughout the entire audience; every-
thing has been settled out of court,
however.
Supt. Schonhalls sacrificed his dig-
nity and lost control of himself entire-
ly in the presence of Aunt Lucia. Age
is no barrier when the right party ap-
pears.
J. R. Johnston registers from Al-
pena, representing the C. J. Farley Co.,
of Grand Rapids. Mr. Johnston has
covered this territory for a number of
years and has the confidence of all of
his customers by representing his mer-
chandise just as it is and living up to
the slogan of his house, “Not in the
syndicate, nor do we retail.”
Albert Sohl and Bernard Nagel, of
the Detroit News staff, and Marcus
Schaff, State Forester, have been en-
gaged planting trees in Presque Isle
Forest Reserve this week.
R. M. Harden, of Cadillac, is writ-
ing a lot of insurance in Onaway this
week.
H. G. Eastwood, of Grand Rapids,
representing Campfire Corporation is
a jolly, good fellow, a nature lover,
distributes the “sweets of companion-
ship” like the goods he sells. May his
campfire ever glow.
Dignified John Isbister, of the Ona-
way Electric and Power Co. in drama
or in jbusiness, carries the same volt-
age and his meters never slip.
Doctor L. D. McMillan, United
States Marine Hospital, Buffalo, New
York, is visiting his family and trans-
acting business in Onaway this week.
Dewey Smith, of the Lee Hardware
Co., running mate for John L. Wright,
prefers competition to slack times and
monopolies. Tempting offers are be-
ing presented him.
B. C. Berry, of Bay City, veteran
fox hunter and business man, has his
eye On this territory for next season’s
fox hunting.
Our register is rapidly filling with
new comers this week. Rev. Reba
Post, of Grand Rapids, Mr. and Mrs.
F. W. Watson and C. C. Watson, of
Detroit, are doing business in our
county.
these
25
Promoting the boys camp and sum-
mer school for the proposed Black
Lake location, Dr. Jorgensen and L.
O. Golezynski, of Ypsilanti State Nor-
mal College, have been actively en-
gaged going over the territory and ap-
proving sites this week.
Squire Signal.
444
In Sympathy With Independent
Merchant.
Governor Fred W. Green
writes:
“I do not know what the results
of the growth of the chain store
movement will be, but | do know
it has been deleterious to com-
munity life in which such organ-
izations do not take any part. [|
am unequivocally in sympathy
with the Independent Business
Man who keeps a good clean
store. In every locality it is the
progressive responsible merchant
who constitutes the backbone of
his community. He takes pride in
his home town; he is always will-
ing, yes, eager to be helpful in
public spirited enterprises.”’
—_+-.____
Garden Pottery Sales Set Record.
Sales of garden pottery by manu-
facturers so far this year have broken
all previous records for Spring busi-
ness. The growing vogue for pottery
in the decoration of small lawns of
suburban homes has brought the gen-
eral volume to a new high point. Small
pieces retailing at prices from $5 to
$35 are active, with those in ranges
from $10 to $15 most popular. Bird
baths and pedestals in natural cement
are wanted.
FOR SALE
A modern cleaning and dyeing
business. 1929 gross, $27,709.45.
Equipment consisting of lease,
washers, filters, tumblers, press-
es, racks, delivery trucks, cash
register, adding machine, etc.,
with all
in good condition,
etc., together other
equipment
with the good-will of the busi-
ness, will be sold as a going con-
cern at public auction to the
highest bidder, subject to debts
of the concern on Saturday, May
31st, 1930, at ten o’clock a. m.
Terms of sale: One-third to
one-half cash, balance in equal
monthly payments in one to two
years, with interest. Inquiries so-
licited. Bids may be made in
person or by mail to reach the
undersigned on or before the
above date. For further informa-
tion write Minnesota Cleaners
and Dyers, Inc., c/o Stanley J.
Domzalski, Receiver, 2020 Davi-
son Avenue, East, Detroit, Mich-
igan.
nc Le ET Er I yy CNR
DRUGS
Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—J. Edward Richardson, De-
troit
Vice-Pres.—Orville Hoxie, Grand Rap-
s.
Director—Garfield M. Benedict, San-
dusky.
Examination Sessions — Beginning the
third Tuesday of January, March, June,
August and November and lasting three
days. The January and June examina-
tions are held at Detroit, the August
examination at Marquette, and the March
and November examinations at Grand
Rapids. :
Michigan State Pharmaceutical
Association.
President — Claude C. Jones, Battle
Creek.
Vice-Pres'dent—John J. Walters, Sagi-
naw.
Secretary—R. A. Turrell, Croswell.
Treasurer—P. W. Harding. Yale.
How To Pay Salespeople in Drug
Stores.
Is the commission plan the proper
way to pay salespeople in a drug store?
That is the question which this drug-
gist asks of the Druggists’ Research
Bureau. The druggist writes as fol-
lows:
“We have been wanting to put our
clerks on a straight percentage hasis.
That is pay them a certain percentage
of their gross sales.
“We believe this is the logical way
and the fairest way to pay clerks, pro-
vided you get started out at the be-
ginning with the right per cent.
“We have written the Department
of Commerce at Washington, the Na-
tional Cash Register Co., several drug
journals and the Research Bureau of
Harvard University and very much to
our surprise we have not been able to
get very much definite information.
“The Harvard Bureau referred us to
you.
“Now our store is just an average
drug store in an average town of ap-
proximately 5000 population. We tell
you this to give you some idea of the
nature of our business, as it usually
costs more to sell goods in the larger
cities than in the smaller ones.
“Each clerk in the store has other
duties besides selling goods—such as
straightening up stock, etc., but this is
usually done at hours when it inter-
feres very little with selling.
“We will certainly appreciate any
information you can give us on the
subject.”
Salary costs in the usual drug store
run anywhere from 12 to 20 per cent.
We are assuming that the
proprietor, if he is active in the man-
agement of the store, is drawing a
salary comparable to that which he
of sales.
MICHIGAN
would receive if he were employed by
someone else to do a similar work.
You can calculate exactly what sal-
ary percentage costs are in your store,
in total at least, by dividing your sales
for 1928 into the total amount you
paid out for salaries during the year.
Be sure to include in this total amount
of salaries an allowance for yourself
if you are active in the management
of the store.
Of course, it is possible to do this
same thing for each clerk, if you know
his individual sales for the year.
In this connection, we are sure you
will be interested in some experiences
which people have had who have tried
this commission plan in their drug
stores.
The minute you put a sales person
on a commission basis it seems to have
the following reaction. The one thing
upon which he concentrates quite
naturally is building up as large as
possible a total of sales as quickly as
You know as well as we do
that it is comparatively easy to get a
large volume of sales in such items,
for example, as cigars and cigarettes,
but on account of the low margins on
which such merchandise is customar-
ily sold it is extremely difficult to
make any worthwhile profits on this
volume of sales.
Another usual reaction is that every-
body wants to be out on the floor
ringing up sales. If you have any vol-
ume Of prescriptions, at all, you know
what this means. Prescriptions, par-
ticularly, capsules and powders, may
be pushed aside and delayed and some-
times the people who bring them in
are treated none to courteously. Never-
theless, the profit earned on a 60 cent
prescription may ‘be many times that
on a patent medicine sold at a cut
price, but the sales person working on
commission naturally favors the pat-
ent medicine because it can be sold
more quickly and because the amount
of the sales may be larger.
More important than that, an un-
fortunate reaction in stores in which
sales people work on commission is
that people who make 5 and 10 cent
purchases are not treated with proper
consideration and courtesy. The pur-
chaser of a 5 cent package of Life
Savers to-day may be buying a $2.50
compact to-morrow. If she is not
treated courteously when she makes
her 5 cent purchase, you know per-
fectly well that she is not likely to
possible.
TRADESMAN
come back to the same store for her
larger purchase. The sales person
working on commission, however, has
a tendency to look only at immediate
sales volume and give no considera-
tion to future possibilities. From your
experience we are sure that you real-
ize that no store can succeed fully un-
less it gets the repeat business of its
clientele.
If you are wondering whether or not
salary costs and perhaps other costs
in your store are higher than they
should be, won’t you send us a copy
of your profit and loss statement for
the year for confidential analysis? We
will make a report direct to you and
at no cost to you. Furthermore, rest
assured that any facts that you send
us will be treated in strictest con-
fidence and never revealed in a way
April 30, 1930
that will permit them to be identified
with your store.
Druggists’ Research Bureau.
—_> +> —____
Phone Brings “His Master’s Voice.”
“T put my phone off here in this
quiet place away from the center of
things,” says a Southern Michigan
grocer, “so that I can without diffi-
culty catch every word of my tele-
phone customers. I may be in a hurry
but they are not.
“T try to be a good listener and to
recognize instantly the voice of every
customer. It compliments her. And
I try to speak quietly and directly into
the mouthpiece, making it easy for her
to hear.
“T am sure this policy has paid me
well, for in truth I am listening to ‘my
master’s voice’.”
TWO FAMOUS
BRANDS, KNOWN FOR
QUALITY WHEREVER
MEN BUY CIGARS
THESE LEADING
QUALITY CIGARS
ARE GOOD CIGARS
TO TIE TO
Distributed Throughout
Michigan by
Lee & Cady
COUCEUCCULITUDRRERODEOGDDODOTOROGOED
PT occ
UU
GRAND
STORE EQUIPMENT
CORPORATION
GRAND RAPIDS ~ MICHIGAN
COCO
GRAND RAPIDS
SHOWCASE CO.
CCDC U COCO
| Le eee IIT IMT EEE EET TTD LN TPO NN ENTS TT
DRUG
STORE
PLANNING
Recommendations to fit
individual conditions.
DRUG STORE
FIXTURES
Planned to make every |
foot of store into
sales space.
RAPIDS
DU
WELCH-WILMARTH
CORPORATION
VOU Cee eee eee eee eee
UTED BEST EEE
Se tae
27
April 30, 1930 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
4
| : eo 2.50 PRICE CURRENT
Hides and Petts. Horse, NO. Bannan -: WHOLESALE DRUG
e NO. ea 06 SHeCGry 2 ee 20@o :
oe No. 2 ------------------------ - Pri Tallow. 0514 Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.
Cured Not ee 7 Prime --__----~~--_---______--_--.--- hs Belladonna ..._.. @l 44
Gua, NOD 2 06 NO ee . Acids Cotton Seed -._. 1 35@1 2 Heaeate @2 28
Ge Gok No 1 ee “oo oe wa Ga ake
. ia eee a a 10% Wool >, Boric (Powd.)-- 10 @ 99 Bigeron _-- 00@4 ——_ Pp Sei
i Galanin net 15 Unwashed. medium (02 e* ao -- my e 44 Hucalyptus -.-_ 1 25@1 50 ee nee Sia
i Calfskin, Cured, INO 2 a 11% Unwashed, rejects Pi ans a nt. NM CRN oe oF : 2 Soe 52 @ 66 Hemlock, pure... 2 00@2 Capsicum ay @2 28
No. 1 owed Unwashed: fine @\5— Cutric ~_---____. Juniper Berries. 4 50@4 75 ai a
: a Muriatic -_-..... 3%4@ 8 Juniper Wood .156@175 Catechu -_-_.._-
Nitric --------- 2 @ 15 \ard, extra _... 155@1 65 Cinchona 2 16
| Oxalic ---.-.--.. Wc “5 lard. No. |... 12@1 4% Colchicum 1 80
a Sulphuric ~__-_. 34@ 8 Lavender Flow... 6 00@6 35 Cubebs _.....__ 2 76
f Tartaric ~—----- 52 @ 6 Lavender Gar'n_ 1 25@1 50 Linseed, re less 1 22@1 35 ne, Colorless.
BE IN CASH 9 AND Water, 14 deg... 5%@ 13 ie @ ata os @1 56
I Gaice (aaa) os & 25 Neatsfoot --.. 1 25@1 35 na + ae
Chloride (Gran. Olive, pure __.. 4.00@5 00 Myrrh -_-._.._.
SQUANDERED - - OR PROTECTED Oilve, Haines," | Wel) NuxVomiaa--- | tg
| Balsams yellow .-----. 3 00@3 60 Opium -—_--......
Opium, Camp. -- @1 44
FOR YOUR FAMILY BY A Copaiba —_____. 1 00@1 25 Olive, Malaga, Opium, Deodorz’d @6 40
Fir (Canada) _. 2 75@3 00 green -______. 663% taas @1 92
: Fir (Oregon) _. . eee : Orange, Sweet 6 “s =
i Peru 2220 Origanum, pure.
t TRUST AGREEMENT Peru —--——--—~ 2 dogs 26 Origanum, pure. | @2 50 een
( Pennyroyal -.-. 3 00@3 25 ne
: Barks Peppermint ons yrs . ee eo oP in
} “i es 3 4ead, white dry 13%@14%4
Cassia (ordinary). 25@ 30 Rose, pure @
| GRAND RAPIDS TRUST CO.
Grand Rapids, Michigan
WE WHOLESALE
A. J. REACH and WRIGHT & DITSON SUMMER
ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT
PLAYGROUND BALLS
PLAYGROUND BATS
TENNIS RACKETS
RACKET CASES
GOLF BAGS
BASE BALLS
; INDOOR BALLS
TENNIS BALLS
RACKET PRESSES
VISORS TEE’S
| GOLF BALLS GOLF WOOD CLUBS
MATCHED GOLF SETS STEEL SHAFT CLUBS
REGISTERED GOLF CLUBS
| CWT o
Write for Catalogue and Net Price List. Write Promotion
Department, care of
CTD
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
Grand Rapids Michigan Manistee
eerste
Cassia (Saigon) -. 50@ 60
Sassafras (pw. 60c) @ 60
Soap Cut (powd.)
SRG 20@ 30
Berries
Cubeb @ 90
Bight oo aa a ae
Juniper 2... 10@ 20
Prickly Ash _._.... @ 176
Extracts
Ejcorica, 2 60@ 65
Licorice, powd. _. 60@ 70
Flowers
Arnicg, ooo. 1 50@1 60
Chamomile Ged.) 30@ 40
Chamomile Rom. @1 25
Gums
Acacia, Ist ______ 50@ 55
Acacia, 2nd __.. 45@ 50
Acacia, Sorts _._. 35@ 40
Acacia, Powdered 40@
Aloes (Barb Pow) :
Aloes (Cape Pow) 25 35
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) 75@ 380
Asafoetida ______ 50@ 60
row. ... 90 @1 00
Camphor 7@ 95
Guaige 2 @ 60
Guaiac, pow’d __ @ 70
Bing 2 @1 25
Kino, powdered__ @1 20
Myreh 22 @1 15
Myrrh, powdered @1 25
Opium, powd. 21 00@21 50
Opium, gran. 21 00@21 50
Shellac, Orange 50@ 65
Shellac, White 55@ 70
Tragacanth, pow. @1 75
Tragacanth ____ 2 = 35
Turpentine ______ 30
Insecticides
Arsenic... bp 20
Blue Vitriol, bbl. 08
Blue Vitriol, less 09%@17
Bordea. Mix Dry 12%@ 23
Hellebore, White
powdered -..... 15@ 35
Insect Powder.. 4734@ 60
Lead Arsenate, Po. 1344@27
Lime and Sulphur
Dey oe 09@ 23
Paris Green ____ 2614@46%
Leaves
Buchy 0.0 @ 90
Buchu, powered @1 00
. aaa 6g 30
Sage, % loose __ 40
Sage, powdered,_ @ 2%
Senna, Alex, .... 50@ 75
Senna, Tinn. pow.
Uva Urai
Oils
Almonds, Bitter,
7 50@7 75
3 00@3 36
1 50@1 80
1 00@1 25
1 1
UG ee
Almonds, Bitter,
artificial
Citronella ....._ 75@1 00
Cloves 4 00@4 25
Cocoanut -.-... 27%4@ 35
Cod Liver —..... 1 40@2 00
Croton oo 5 50@5 75
Rosemary Flows 1 25@1
Sandelwood, B.
I 12 50@12 75
true 2 00@2 26
Sassafras, arti’) 78@1 00
Spearmint —..___ 7 00@7 25
Sperm 2. 1 60@1 75
Fane 7 00@7 25
Tar USE 65@ 75
Turpentine, bbl. @ 62
Turpentine, less 69@ 82
Wintergreen,
leaf __..-_-... 6 00@6 235
Wintergreen, sweet
Birch 2 3 00@3 25
Wintergreen, art 75@1 00
Worm Seed ___. 4 50@4 75
Wormwood, oz. ____ @2 00
Potassium
Bicarbonate ___ 35@ 40
Bichromate _____ 15@ 26
Bromide ________ 69@ 85
Bromide -.._... 54@ 71
Chlorate, gran’d_ 21@ 28
Chlorate, powd. 16@ 23
On tal 17@ 24
Cyanide — 30@ 90
FOGG: ct 4 06@4 23
Permanganate __ 22%@ 35
Prussiate, yellow 35@ 45
Prussiate, red __ @ 70
Sulphate 35@ 40
Roots
Alkanet 20 30@ 35
Blood, powdered_ 40@ 45
Calnmus 0 35@ 85
Klecampane, pwd. 25@ 30
Gentian, powd. _ 20@ 30
Ginger, African,
powdered _____ 30@ 35
Ginger, Jamaica. 60@ 65
Ginger, Jamaica,
powdered _._.__ 45@ 60
azoldenseal, pow. 6 00@6 50
Ipecac, powd. __ 5 50@6 00
Licorice .....____ 35@ 40
Licorice, powd._. 20@ 30
Orris, powdered. 45@ 60
Poke, powdered. 35@ 40
Rhubarb, powd __
Rosinwood, powd. @
Sarsaparilla, Hond.
ground @1
10
Sarsaparilla, Mexic. @ 60
uills 0
2
Squills 2... 85 4
Squillg,) powdered 70@ 80
Tumeric, powd... 25
Valerian, powd.._ 1 00
Seeds
Amin So @ 35
Anise, powdered 35@ 40
Bird, ig _..... §=619G 17
Canary 16
Caraway, Po. 30 25@ 30
Cardamon __.._. 2 i 75
Coriander pow. .40 30 25
BW 22 5@ 20
Fennell ......-._ 85@ 60
Pine %@ 15
Flax, ground .. 9%@ 15
Foenugreek, pwd. 15@ 25
Hemp 8@ 15
Lobelia, powd. —-_ @1 30
Mustard, yellow 17 25
Mustard, black_. < 25
Poppy .--------- 15@ | 30
Cae . 1 75@2 00
Sabadilla __..___ 45@ 560
Sunflower -_..... 12@ 18
Worm, American 380@ 40
Worm, Levant ~ 6 50@7 00
Tinctures
Aconite __..__ a 1 80
AlOGS 2 $i 56
Acafoetida --__-- @2 28
Arnica...
Lead, white oil. 13%@144
Ochre, yellow bbl. @ 2%
Ochre, yellow less 3@ 6
Red Venet’n Am. 3%@ 7
Red Venet’n Eng. 4@ 8
Futty. ...... | 6@ 8
Whiting, bbl ___ @ 4%
Vilting 54%@10
L. H. P. Prep... 2 80@3 00
Rogers Prep. __ 2 80@3 00
Miscellaneous
Acetanalid _____ 57@ 76
A Oo@ 12
\ium. powd and
Sround ... o9@ 16
Bismuth, Subni-
Gate 2 25@2 5:
Borax xtal or
bowdered .... 05@ 1;
Cantharides, po. 1 29@1 50
Calommed __ol 2 lé@M2 82
Capsicum, pow’'d 62@ 75
Carmine ...._ 00@9 ov
Cassia Buds 222. ssw 45
Cloves 22. Vv@ 66
chalk Prepared_ 14@ lo
Chloroform 2... 49@ 56
Choral Hydrate 1 20@1 5¢
Cocaine 12 85@i3 bu
Cocoa Butter
--- OU@ gu
Corks, list, less 30-10 to
: 40-10%
Copperas 2... Os@ lo
Copperas, Powd. 4@ lo
Corrosive Sublm 2 25@2 3u
Cream ‘Tartar __ 33@ 45
Cuttle bone ..___ 40@ 560
Yextrine wool 6@ 15
Jover’'s Powder 4 00@4 50
Emery, All Nos. lo@ 15
kmery, Powdered @ 15
Epsom Salts, bbls. @03%
ipsum Salts, less 3%@ lo
Ergot, powdered
Flake, White ._
Formaldehyde,
Gelatine ....0 0 8u
Glassware, less 55%
Glassware, full case 60%.
Glauber Salts, bpl. 02%
Glauber Salts less 04 10
Glue, Brown ._.. 20 30
6
Glue, Brown Grd 1 @ 22
Glue, White .... 27% 36
Glue, white grd. 26 36
Glycerine __.. 19@ 40
One <8 ee 95
odine 6 45@7 00
Tocoform ....... 8 00@8 30
Lead Acetate _. 20@ 30
Mace @1 50
Mace ‘powdered. @1 60
Menthol -.______ 7 00@8 00
Morphine -... 13 58@14 33
Nusa Vomica .... 30
Nux Vomica, pow. nD 25
Pepper, black, pow 67 70
Pepper, White, pw. 75@ 85
Pitch, Burgudry. io
Quassia ....... 13
Quinine, 5 oz. cans @
Rochelle Salts .. 28@ 365
Sacharine ._.... 3 60@375
Salt Peter .... ioe 32
Seidlitz Mixture 30; 40
Soap, green ... 15 30
Soap mott cast — 26
Soap, white Castile,
CBN seinen eas 00
Soap, white Castile
less, per ber .. @1 60
Soda Ash ._...... 3@ 10
Soda Bicarbonate 3K%@ 10
Soda, Sal .... 02%@ 08
Spirits Camphor @1 20
Sulphur, roll _... 4@ li
Sulphur, Subl. .. 4%@ 10
Tamarinds ...... 0®@ 25
Tartar Emetic .. 70 76
Turpentine, Ven. 16
Vanilla Ex. pure 1 50@32 00
Vanilla Ex. pure 2 aan
@1 60 Zino Sulphate ._ 06@
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
April 30, 1930
GROCERY PRICE CURRENT
These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing
and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are
liable to change at any time, and merchants will have their orders filled at mar-
ket prices at date of purchase. For price changes compare with previous issues
S
ADVANCED DECLINED
Veal
Lamb
Smoked Hams
oo Kaffe Hag, 12 1-lb. Strawberries
Parsons, 64 oz. ------ 2 95 Pane oo ee GA) INO. 2 4 50
Parsons, 32 ng silat 3 35 All Bran, 16 oz. wu gee Ne. 1 oo 3 00
Parsons, 18 oz. ------ 420 . All Bran, 10 oz, _---_ 270 Marcellus, No. 2 --___ 3 25
Parsons, 10 oz. ------ 270 All Bran, % oz. _-_-_ 2 00 Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 3 75
Parsons, 6 0z. __.--- 1 80
CANNED FISH
Gra ee “sapere 3 390 Clam Ch’der, 10% oz. 1 35
Gr P Nate 1008 275 Clam Chowder, No. 2_ 2 75
eee are Clams, Steamed. No. 1 3 00
Instant Postum, No. 8 5 40 Clams, Minced, Ne. % 2 35
instant Postum, No. 10450 Finnan Haddie, 10 oz. 3 30
“ostum Cereal, ng 0 : = Clam Bouillon, 7 0oz.. 2 50
Post Toasties. 368 -- 285 Chicken Haddie, No. 1 2 75
Post Toasties, 248 -- 285 fish Flakes, small __ 1 35
Post's Bran, 248 -—- - 2 70 Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz. 1 55
Pills Bran, 128 ------- 90 Cove Oysers, 5 oz. -. 1 75
Roman Meal, 12-2 Ib. 3 35 [obster, No. %, Star 2 90
Cream Wheat, 18 ---- 3 90 Shrimp, 1, wet —------ 2 00
Cream Barley, 18 ---- 340 Sard’s, 4% Oil, Key _- 6 10
Ralston Food, 18 ---- 49 Sard's, % Oil, Key __ 5 75
Maple Flakes, 24 ---- 250 Sardines, % Oil, k’less 4 75
Rainbow Corn Fla., 36 250 Saimon, Red Alaska... 3 35
silver Flake Oats, 18s 1 40 Salmon, Med. Alaska 2 60
Silver Flake Oats, 12s 2 25 Salmon, Pink, Alaska 1 95
90 Ib. Jute Bulk Oats. Sardines, Im. %, ea. 10@22
- oie a ack he |. Pt oa %, Se: e
10. ils, per doz. 9.40 alston New . ardines, Cal. -. 1 35 5
4 ails, het doz. 12 60 Ralston New Qata, 12 270 ‘una, %, Curtis, doz. 3 60
25 lb. pails. per doz. 19 15 Shred. Wheat Bis., 368 385 Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz. 2 20
25 Ib. pails, per doz. 1915 Shred. Wheat Bis., 728155 Tuna, % Blue Fin -- 2 25
Triscuit, 248 ----..---- . i. Tuna, 1s, Curtis. doz. 7 00
APPLE BUTTER Wheatena, 188 -------
Quaker, 24-21 oz., doz. 2 15 CANNED MEAT
Quaker, 12-38 0z., doz. 2 40 BROOMS Bacon, Med. Beechnut 2 70
Jewell, doz. .--------- 25 Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 4 50
BAKING POWDERS Standard Parlor, 23 lb. 8 25 Beef, No 1, Corned -- 2 80
i Fancy Parlor, 23 lb... 9 25 \Beef No. 1, Roast _- 3 00
Arctic, 7 of tumbler 1 $s Parlor 25 ib. 9 75 Beef, 2 oz., Qua., sli, 1 35
Royal, 10c, doz. ------ s = ey Pacer a0 1b. 10 00 Beef, 3% oz. Qua. sli. 2 25
Royal; tor, dor 1 OS ee 175 Beef, 5 oz., Am. Sliced 2 90
Royal, 6 oz., doz. ---- 250 Wigir"No 3 ___------ 248 Beef, No. i, B'nut, sli. 4 50
Royal, 12 0z., doz. -- 4 95 — Beefsteak & Onions, s 3 70
Royal, 5 Ib. -------- 25 40 Chili Con Car., 1s --. 1 35
Calumet, 4 oz., doz. 95 BRUSHES Deviled Ham, %s --.. 2 20
Calumet, 8 oz., doz. 1 85 Scrub Deviled Ham, %s ---- 3 60
Calumet, 16 oz, doz. 325 Solid Back, 8 in. ----150 Hamburg Steak &
Calumet, 5 lb., doz. 1210 Solid Back, 1 in. ---- 1 75 Onions, No. 1 -__--- 3 15
Calumet, 10 lb., doz. 18 60 pointed Ends -------- 1 25 Potted Beef, 4 oz. ____ 1 10
Rumford, 10c, per doz. 95 Potted Meat, % Libby 52
Rumford. 8 oz., doz. 1 85 ae Potted Meat, % Libby 90
Rumford, 12 oz.. doz. 240 _ 180 Potted Meat, % Qua. 85
Rumford, 5 lb.. doz. 12 60 shaker o--ennan 200 Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 45
ago nae a aS 960 Vienna Saus., No, % 1 45
K. C. Brand FecnesS Vienna Sausage, Qua. 95
i Veal Loaf, Medium -- 2 25
l0c size oe
15c size No. 4-0 --------------~ 4 2 Baked Beans
20c size, No. 2-0 -------------- Campbells _---------. 05
25c size. Quaker, 18 oz ------ 95
50c size, BUTTER COLOR Fremont, No. 2 —----- 1 25
c size Dandelion ~----------- 285 Snider, No. 1 ~----.-. 1 10
10. Ib. size, % doz. Snider, No. 2 -------- 1 25
CANDLES Van Camp. small ---. 90
BLEACHER CLEANSER iectric Light, 40 Ibs. 12.1 Van Camp, med. _--- 1 15
Lizzie, 16 0z., 128 ---- 215 iymber, 40 Ibs. ----- 2.8
BLUING Paraffine, 68 --------- it CANNED VEGETABLES
: Paraffine, 12s ------- 14% Hart Brand
Am. Ball,36-1 0z.,cart. 1 00 40
1 Non- Wicking --------------
Quaker, 1% 0z.. =. Tudor, 6s. per box -- 30 Baked Beans
freere, doson —————- = Medi Plain or Sau. 90
Blue, 36s, per cs. 2 70 Be :
or ' CANNED FRUITS No. 10, Sauce -..--... 6 50
Perfumed Bluing Hart Brand :
Lizette, 4 0z., 12s -- 80 Lima Beans
Lizette, 4 oz., 24s -- 1 50 Apples 7 Little Dot, No. 2 --- 3 10
Lizette, 10 oz., 12s __ 130 No. 10 ---------------- 75 Little Quaker, No. 10-14 00
Lizette, 10 oz., 24s -- 2 50 3 Little Quaker, No. 1__ 1 95
Blackberries Baby, Mo: 2 2.2. 2 80
BEANS and PEAS 2 18. Baby, No; 1. 1 95
100 Ib. eas peiae of Michigan ---- 3 25 Pride of Mich. No. 1.. 1 65
Brown Swedish Beans 9 00 ‘ Marcellus, No. 10 ---- 8 75
Pinto Beans -------- 9 25 Cherries :
Red Kdney Beans -- 9 75 Mich. red, No. 10 ----12 50 Red Kidney Beans
White H’d P. Beans 775 Red, No. 10 --------- 13 80 No, 10 0 6 50
Col. Lima Beans __-- 14 50 Red, No. 2 ---------- ; te NO 6 3 70
Black Eye Beans -- 1600 Pride of Mich. No. 2-- 365 No, 2 ---------------- 1 30
Split Peas, Yellow -- 800 Marcellus Red ------ 325) No ft 90
Split Peas, Green ---. 9 00 Special Pie ~---------- 2 70 :
Scotch Peas —_____-__ 6 25 Whole White --------- 3 10 String Beans
Little Dot, No. 2 ---. 3 45
BURNERS Gooseberries Little Dot, No. 1 -_-. 2 50
Queen Ann, No. 1 and No. 10: 00 Little Quaker, No. 1. 2 00
on. 36 Little Quaker, No. 2__ 3 00
White Flame, No. 1 Pears Choice Whole, No. 10-13 25
and 2, doz. —...... S35 19 ov. glass —_...___- 5 65 Choice Whole No. 2. 2 60
Pride of Mich. No. 2% 4 20 Choice Whole, No. 1-_ 1 80
BOTTLE CAPS Cut, No. 19 1. 10 75
Dbl. Lacquor, 1 gross Plums Cut. No; 2 Wc 2 15
pke., per gross -- 16 Grand Duke, No. 2%-- 3 25 Cut, No. 1 ----------- 1 60
BREAKFAST FOODS Yellow Eggs No. 2%4-- 3 25 Pride of Mich. No. 2_. 1 75
Kellogg’s Brands. i Marcellus, No. 2 -_-. 1 60
Corn Flakes, No. 136 2 85 Black Raspberries Marcellus, No. 10 --- 8 50
Corn Flakes, No. 124 2 8&8 No. 2 --__------------ 3 75
pkg., per gross ---- 16 Pride of Mich. No. 2. 3 25 ' Wax Beans
Pep. No. 224 10 Pride of Mich. No. 1-- 2 385 Little Dot, No. 2 ---. 2 80
Pep, No. 202 2 00 . Little Dot, No. 1 ---- 2 10
Krumbles, No. 424 --- 2 70 Red Raspberries Little Quaker, No. 2__ 2 70
-Bran Flakes, No. 624 2 45 No. 2 ---------------- 325 Little Quaker, No. 1__ 1 95
Bran Flakes, No. 602 150 No. 1 -----~---------- 3.75 Choice Whole, No. 10-13 25
Rice Krispies, 6 oz. -- 2 70 Marcellus, No. 2 ----- : 75 Choice Whole, No. 2_. 2 60
Rice Krispies, 1 oz. 110 Pride of Mich. No. 2--_ 4 25 Choice Whole. No. 1_. 1 75
Pride of Michigan _-
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_
Beets
Small, No. 2% 3
Etxra Small, No. 2 -- 3
Fancy Small No. 2 -- 2
Pride of Michigan ee
1
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_
Marcel. Whole, No. 2% 1 85
—
Diced, No. 2: —--_____ 1 40
Diced, No. . ie 7 00
Corn
Golden Ban., No. 3_- 3 60
Golden Ban., No. 2-. 2 60
Golden Ban., No. 10-10 75
Little Dot, No. 2 ----
Little Quaker, No. 2_
Little Quaker, No. 1-
Country, Gen., No. 1_-
Country Gen. No. 2_-
Pride of Mich., No. 5. 5 20
Pride of Mich., No. 2_ 1 70
Pride of Mich., No. 1_ 1 35
Marcellus, No. 5 22 4 30
Marcellus, No. : pape: Ve |)
Marcellus, No. os 4D.
Fancy Crosby, No. 2.
oo co
So
Fancy Crosby, No. 1-- 1 45
Peas
Little Dot, No. 2 ---. 2 75
Little Dot, No. 1 ---- 1 90
Little Quaker, No. 10-12 50
Little Quaker, No. 2-- 2 50
Little Quaker, No. 1_- 1 75
Sifted BE. June, No. 10-10 35
Sifted E. June, No. 5-- 5 75
Sifted E. June No. 2-- 2 00
Sifted E. June, No. 1__ 1 40
Belle of Hart, No. 2_. 2 00
Pride of Mich., No. 10_ 9 10
Pride of Mich., No. 2-_ 1 75
Gilman E. June, No. 2 1 40
Marcel., E. June, No. 2 1 40
Marcel., E. June, No. 5 4 50
Marcel., E. Ju., No. 10 7 50
Templar E. Ju., No. 2_1 35
Templar E. Ju., No. 10 7 00
Pumpkin
Do, G00 50
MO, 2a— oo 1 80
Ne: 2 1 45
Marcellus, No. 10 -_-. 4 50
Marcellus, No. 2% --- 1 40
Marcellus No. 2 —~_--- 1 15
Sauerkraut
MO. 10 5 00
No: 265 2 1 60
NO. 8 1 25
Spinach
No. 24% 2 2 50
INO; 2. 1 90
Squash
Boston, No. 3 ~------- 1 80
Succotash
Golden Bantum, No. 2 2 75
Little Dot, No. 2 ---. 2 55
Little Quaker ~------- 2 40
Pride of Michigan -_.. 2 15
Tomatoes
No, 10° oo 6 50
INO, 2M 2 2 35
INO. 2 oo 1 65
Pride of Mich., No. 2% 2 25
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1 50
CATSUP,
Beech-Nut, small -.-. 1 65
Lily of Valley, 14 oz.__ 2 26
Lily of Valley, % pint 1 65
Sniders, 8 oz. -------. 1 50
Sniders, 16 oz. ~~... 2 3b
Quaker, 10 oz. ~_-_-- 1 35
Quaker, 14 oz, -----.. 1 90
Quaker, Galon Glass 12 50
Quaker, Gallon Tin _. 8 60
CHILI SAUCE
Snider, 16 oz. ~------- 3.15
Snider, 8 oz. _..__..__ 2 20
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. —. 2 25
Lilly Valley, 14 oz. -. 3 25
OYSTER COCKTAIL
Sniders, 16 oz. -.---- 3 15
Sniders, 8 oz, -.---- 2 20
CHEESE
Roquefort ~---------- 58
Pimento, small tins 1 65
Wisconsin Daisy -_.. 23
Wisconsin Flat --.---- 23
New York June -__--- 35
San HASO 2.422.) 40
Ti 23
Michigan Flats -____- 22
Michigan Daisies .___ 22
Wisconsin Long Horn 23
Imported Leyden -___ 28
1 lb. Limburger ____-- 30
Imported Swiss __.... 58
Kraft Pimento Loaf__ 31
Kraft American Loaf 29
Kraft Brick Loaf _.__ 29
Kraft Swiss Loak -__ 36
Kraft Old Eng. Loaf 46
Kraft, Pimento, % Ib. 2 35
Kraft American, % lb. 2 35
Kraft Brick, % Ib. —-_ 2 35
Kraft Limburger, * Ib. 2 35
Kraft Swiss, % Ib. .. 2 50
CHEWING GUM
Adams Black Jack ---- 65
Adams Bloodberry ----. 0d
Adams Dentyne ------ 65
Adams Calif. Fruit -. 65
Adams Sen Sen .-.--.-- 65
Beeman’s Pepsin ------ Oo
Beechnut Wintergreen_
Beechnut Peppermint_-
Beechnut Spearmint --
Doublemint -~----------- 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys -. 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65
Juicy Fruit 22... 65
Krigley’s P-K ~.-.--.- 65
Zeno 22 65
Weaverry. 4.202 65
COCOA
Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib.__ 8 50
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 50
Droste’s Dutch, % lb. 2 35
Droste’s Dutch, 5 Ib. 60
Chocolate Apples -.-. 4 50
Pastelles, No. 1 — 12 60
Pastelles, 4 lb. ------ 6 60
Pains De Cafe ------- 3 00
Druste’s Bars, 1 doz. 2 00
Delft Pastelles ------ 15
1.lb. Rose Tin Bon
Bong 22226) 18 00
7 ‘Rose Tin Bon a
13 oe ae De Cara-
Ue 222s 13 20
12 oz. Rosaces ---.-- 10 80
1% lb. Rosaces -------- 7 80
% lb. Pastelles —.---- 3 40
Langnes De Chats -. 4 80
CHOCOLATE
Baker, Caracas, %s ~--- 37
Baker, Caracas, %s ---. 35
SLOTHES LINE
Femp, 50 ft. --. 2 00@2 25
Twisted Cotton,
BO ft< 2222 oe 50@4 00
Braided, 50 ff. co 2 25
Sash Cord ___--- 2 85@3 00
COFFEE ROASTED
Lee Cady
1 Ib. Package
Melrose. . 9 30
Diperty os 18
Quaker jo 33
Nedrow 2200 32
yaaa Ffouse .... 40
Ben: oe eas 31
Roval IGG 27
dmiperial 222 41
Majesae oo 36
Boston Breakfast Blend 29
McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh
Coffee Extracts
M. Y., per 100
‘Frank's 50 pkgs.
Hummel's 50 1
--.4 25
Ib. 10%
CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 doz. 7
Eagle, 4 doz.
MILK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tall, 4 doz.
Hebe. Baby, 8 doz.
Carolene. Tall, 4 doz. 3 80
Carolene, Raby rs 3 50
EVAPORATED MILK
Quaker, Tall, 4 doz. _. 3 90
Quaker, Baby, 2 doz. 3 80
Quaker, Gallon, % doz. 3 80
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 4 35
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 4 25
Oatman’s Dundee, Tall 4 35
Oatman's D’dee. Baby 4 25
Every Day, Tall .-.. 4 25
Every Day, Baby .... 4 25
Pet. Wan 23 4 35
Pet, Baby, 8 oz. ---. 4 25
Borden’s Tall ~_.----- 4 35
Borden's Baby ------ 4 25
CIGARS
Aivedate 228 35 00
Havana Sweets _.___ 35 00
Hemeter Champion_. 4 50
Canadian Club ___--- an
Robert Emmett -__- 78 00
Tom Moore Monarch 1765 06
Wehster Cadillac ____ 75 fin
Webster Astor Foil__ 75
Webster Knickhocker 95
Webster Albany Foil 95
Bering Apollos __...- 95 00
Bering Palmitas -_ 115
Bering Diplomatica 115 fe
Bering Delioses .... 120
Bering Favorita -... 135 by
Bering Albas —-~.-_- 150 vs
CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
lure Sugar Sticks-600c 4 00
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 18
Horehound Stick, 5c .. 18
Mixed Candy
Kindergarten -~..-.____ 17
Leader foe 13
French Creams -......_ 15
Paris Creams --_-..._.. 16
Grocera. 220 11
Fancy Mixture -_-..... 17
Fancy Chocolates
5 lb. boxes
Bittersweets, s ted 1 75
Milk Chqgcolate A A 1 75
N.bble Sticks -.__... 75
Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 ta
Magnolia Choc -_-... 1 46
Bon Ton Choc. -_---- 1 60
Gum Drops Pails
Aide: cise lo
Champion Gums --_-_-. 16
Challenge Gums -.___- 14
Jelly Strings: 20... 2. 18
Lozenges Paiis
A. A. Pep. Lozenges __ 15
A. A. Pink Lozenges _. 1:
A. A. Chow. Lozenges. 15
Motto Hearts —._._.____ 19
Malted Milk Lozenges .. 21
Hard Goods Pails
Lemon Drops -.-...._.
O, F. Horehound dps.__ 1%
Anise Squares _.._____ 15
Peanut Squares _______ 17
Cough Drops Bxs
Putnam 6 2200 1 45
Smith Bros, --....._. 1 60
Luden’s - 22 Pee 1 60
Package Goods
Creamery Marshmallows
4 0z. pkg., 12s, cart. 85
4 oz. pkg., 48s. case 3 40
Specialties
Pineapple Fudge —_____ 18
Ital.an Bon Bons ______ 17
Banquet Cream Mints_ 23
Silver King M.Mallows 1 lo
Handy Packages, 12-10c sv
COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade 3 50
100 Economic grade 4 50
500 Kconomic grade 20 00
1000 Economic grade 37 50
Where 1,000 books are
ordered at a time. special-
ly printed front cover is
furnished without charge.
CREAM OF TARTAR
6 ib. boxes 2 43
ORIED FRUITS
Apples
N. Y¥. Fey., 50 lb. box 15%
N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16
Apricots
Evaporated Choice ... 22
Evaporated, Fancy ____ 28
Evaporated, Slabs _____ 18
Citron
20 01D. Ox oe 40
Currants
Packages, 14 oz. -.... 18
Greek, Bulk, Ib. WL 13
Dates
Dromedary, 36s —_____ 6 75
Peaches
Evap. Choice --..__.._. 19
ONO 22
Peel
Lemon, American _.-.. 30
Orange, American —.... 30
Raisins
Seeded, bulk -..-._._ 08
Thompson's s’dless blk 07%
oe 8 seedless,
seeden, a5 Of; oo 10”
California Prunes
60@70, 25 lb. boxes_.@12%
D0@60, 25 . boxes. -@13%
, 25 lb. boxes_.@14
. 25 boxes__.@15
. 25 lb. boxes__@22
25 lb. boxes_.@29
Hominy
Pearl, 100 lb. sacks -_ 3 506
Macaroni
Mueller’s Brands
9 oz. package, per doz. 1 30
9 oz. package, per case 2 60
Bulk Goods
Elbow, 20 Ib. __---- 1@8%
Ege Noodle, 10 Ibs. .. 14
Pearl Barley
Prenton: 2 ue 7K
DO eS 7 00
Barley Grits --..-_-. -- 5 0
April 30, 1930
MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 29
Sage
BN ROO 5 ‘ PROVISIONS SHOE BLACKENING — Brillo -——___----.----- 8 TABLE SAUCES
2 in 1, Paste, doz. ___1 35 Climaline, 4 doz. -.-. 420 Lea & Perrin, 1} 6 00
Clear Back __ 25 00@28 00 = 5 a 5 : Se cee
Taploca BE. Z. Combination, dz. 1 35 Grandma, 100, dc ---_ 350 [Lea & Perrin, small__ 3 36
Pearl. 100 Ib. sacks __ 09 Short Cut Clear26 00@29 00 Dri-Foot, doz. _.---- 2 00 Grandma, 24 Large -. 3 50 Fenner oo 1
Minute, 8 oz. 3 doz. 4 05 Bixbys, Dozz. --__-_- 135 Gold Dust, 100s -____- £00 Royal Mint 3 40
Dromedary Instant __ 3 50 Shinola, doz. --_----- 90 aa ee ia Large 3 20 Tobasco, 2 oz, -------- 4 38
a Pra 7 ce eae a Sho You, 9 oz., doz, 2 25
Jiffy Punch Dry Salt Meats Old Dutch Clean’ @da340 Av7i-. large ---....._ 4 75
3 doz. Carton __ ____ 2 25 DS Bellies -_ 18-20@18-17 STOVE POLISH Octagon, 968. 3.91 Ac} small _-_--------- 3 15
Assorted flavors. We ee a ia he a ee OS ‘'
Black Silk Liguid, dz. 140 Rinso. 248 _____.... 5 25
oo FLOUR : Lard eae na oe : = Rub No More, 100, 10 TEA
. C. Milling Co. Brands Bel Car- ure in tierces _____- 114 s ine Paste. doz. 1 35 ef 3 85
oe L: ar Mo Brand ‘6 ik hue eee iz Enameline Liquid, dz. 135 Rub No More, 20 Le. 4 00 : Japan
Harvest Queen ______ i Fo Ga 50 lb. tubs _---advance 4% ©. Z. Liquid, per doz. 140 Spotless Cleanser, 48, oe ae
Yes Ma’am Graham. 5 Z OZ. In case -___ 20 lb. pails _...advance % Radium, per doz. aw E do 20 Ge 3 85 Bones ec cc
oo one ee ee 10 te uals edesacs & WGI SOM. per doz. 135 Sani Flush, 1 dex. 225 NOY Nites ~~ ines
a 26 tb. pails ---_________- 5 ih. pulls | advance 1 654 Stove Enamel, dz. 2 80 Sapolio, 3 doz. _____ ~ 315 Ne. ! ae ~----------- 54
Lee & Cady Brands 3 lb. pails ____advance 1 Vulcanol, No. 5, doz. 95 Soapine, 100, 12 02. _ 6 40 ee
ee ei + 69 PETROLEUM PRODUCTS Compound tierces _._ 11% Yulcanol, No. 10, doz. 135 Snowboy, 100, 10 oz. 4 00
Home Barcel! 6 60 From Tank Wagon Compound, tubs _____ 12 Stovoil, per doz. -.--- 3 00 Snowboy, 12 Large -- 2 65 Gunpowder
Kitchen Gold _....... 7 29 Red Crown Gasoline __ 19.7 Speedee, 3 doz. _----- 720 Choice 40
Red Crown Ethyl ---_ 22.7 Sunbrite, 50s ________ 16 30. Ul a
FRUIT CANS Solite Gasoline -_---__ 22.7 Wyandote, 48 _______- A a aS é
aaksn . Suasages SALT Wyandot Deterg’s, 24s 2 75
F. 0. B. Grand Rapids in fron Barrels oe ipag oe 18 Colonial, 24, 2 Ib. __. 95 Ceylon
Half pint 00 750 Perfection Kerosine -_ 14.6 Ver 2 18 Colonial, 36-1% ______ 1 25 Pekoe, medium --__-__- 57
One pint) 775 Gas Machine Gasoline 38.1 Frankfort 9-7) 21 Colonial, Iodized, 24-2 1 50
One quart 2.0000 oi VY. M. & P. Naphtha__ 18.8 Pork eal 31 Med No. I Bhis. 2 85 SPICES
Half gallon __________ 12 1: Veal _-_.___ ee 19 Med. No. 1, 100 lb. bk. 95 Whole Spices English Breakfast
1SO-VIS MOTOR OILS a Jellied ________ 35 Farmer Spec., 70 Ib. 95 Allspice, Jamaica .-_. @40 Congou, Medium --_.__-
Ideal Glass Top In tron Barrels eadcheese ---.________ 18 Packers Meat, 50 Ib. 57 Cloves, Zanzibar __.. @50 Congou, Choice ____ 35@36
Halt pint 20 900 jiehe 77.1 Crushed Rock for ice Cassia, Canton -______ fer Congou, Fancy _... 42@43
One pint 2 95 Medtum 200 Ted cream, 100 lb., each si Cassia, 5¢ pkg.. doz. @4é E
One quart 2... lio = deavy 2 (ls! Butter Salt, 280 Ib. bbl.4 2! Ginger, African _____ @19
Half gallon __________ 36-40 Ex. Heavy -_.__- ____ q1 Smoked Meats Block, 50 Ib. 40 Ginger, Cochin @40 Oolong
: Hams, Cer. 14-16 Ib. @25 Baker Salt, 280 lb. bbl. 4.10 Mace, Penang -_--_- 199 Medtum — oo. 39
GELATINE e Hams. Cert., Skinned ci 24, 10 Ib., per bale _.._ 2 45 Mixed. No. to @32 Choe: ee 45
Jell-O, 3 doz. ____ 285 arine 16-18 Ib. __ @25 50. 3 lb., per bale ____ 2.x; Mixed, 5c pkgs, doz. @45 Fancy --------__-_----_- 50
Minute, 3 doz. _----_405 {* Ham. dried beef 28 bl. bags. Table. 42. Nutmegs, 70@90 _____ ess
Plymouth, White ___.155 % Knuckles ________ 42 Old Hickory, Smoked, ' oan. 105-1 10 @59 TWINE
Quaker, 3 doz. ___.__ 2 25 California Hams -. @17% 6-10 Ib, --_------__- 460 Pepper, Black @59 Coton, 3 ply cone 40
Iro aera a Cotton, 3 piy Balls ___. :
JELLY AND PRESERVES Light oe 65.1 Hams (200 20 @25 Wool. 6 oy — ---- =
Pure. 30 Ib. pails ____ 3 30 Medium _. "7 gs] Boiled Hams _______ @41 es i
Imitation, 30 Ib. pails 185 Heavy —--------W_ 65.1 Minced Hams -______ @20 Pure Ground In Bulk
Pure, 6 0z., Asst., doz. 90 Special heavy _____ 65.1 Bacon 4/6 Cert. 24 @32 Allspic J i @ my vee
Pure Pres., 16 0z., dz. 240 Ex mG a ce mcs + RG Cider, 40 Grain —___ 23
pone Looe = Cloves, Zanzibar ___. @53 White Wine, 80 grain__ 26
JELLY GLASSES Tranmission Oli _... 65.1 a. a. oe Oe ee ae 8
8 oz.. per doz. ________ 36 =Finol, 4 oz. cans, doz. 1 50 io Beef Mote @32 WICK
Finol, a : j oneless, 3400 £x\ eee SSP 8&8 Mace. Penang 1 39 ING
OLEOMARGARINE a ae Romp uee aoe a ee 139 No. 0, per gross 80
Van Westenbrugge Brands Parowax. 40, 1 i. 86s 1 anata Hid he oe No. 1. per gross _____ 1 25
Carload Distributor Parowax. 20. 1 Ib. _. 88 ha we @50 No. 2. per zross _____ 1 50
Liver oe & Hite _ @80 No 3 per grose 2 30
as fe Penper, Cayenne ____ @37 Peerless Rolls per doz. 90
Cat OC 55 Paprika. Spanish .._. @45 Rochester, No. 2. doz. 50
Pork a Rochester, No. 3, doz. 2 00
22 10 Rayo. per doa ____ 75
i
in
Q on Seasoning
Te a aa Chili Powder, 15¢ __-_ 1 35 WORE WARS
$ Far Bl 5
Q Boca ae Fa ncy Blue Rose __._ 5.65 Celery Salt, 3 oz 95 Baskets
” petri = Meme oo. 07 Sag 9 : ushets, narrow ba
ae ancy Head ese er Sasa Fon 0: 90 oe 1 pe band.
SS . + On Be eal Oni Sz rire ian fe TE
= Five case lots ------ 2 30 a ee 135 Bushels. narrow band ™
pera oe am 26. oz. __ ; ° Ponelty, 2% of | 3 a5 wood handles _____. 1 89
iwe case lots __.__- 3 Kitchen Bouquet ___. 4 50 eee oon — 90
a weaves Market. single handle_
Certified 20 24 Semdac, 12 pt. cans 3 00 RUSKS Wome toe cee a Market. extra - 1 =
Nie 1x Semdac, 12 at. cans 5 00 Dutch Tea Rusk Co. Gavore fan 0 go celnt, large 8 50
Special Roll ----------- 19 PICKLES Brand. BORAX Mivine ¢ of 0 90 aon medium 27 oo
( 36 rr 27 Ge 7 SRE sma
MATCHES Medium Sour 18 na foe ae Twenty Mule Team Tumeric, 2% oz. -.-_ 90 _ 6 50
Diamond, 144 box _. 4.40 5 gallon, 400 count -- 475 192 rons ae Ch
- : : » per case __._.150 24, 1 Ib. packages -_ 3 25 urns
ee i ean Sweet Small 12 cartons, per case __170 48, 10 oz. packazes __ 4 35 Barrel, 5 gal., each __ 2 40
Searchlight, 144 box__ 4 71 : wee m 18 cartons, per case __ 2 & ey ee TT oe ae Barrel, 10 gal., each... 2 55
Onio Red Label, 144 bx 420 16 Gallen, 2250 __-___ 2000 se ce e-- 255 96, %4 oz. packages -- 4 00 STARCH Ste @€ ual per eat” Ge
Ohio Blue Tip, 144 box 5 ww 5 Gallon, 760 __---__- 9 75 m ver coer... 6 6 c oe ee ae
Ohio Blue Tip. 720-1c 4 00 ie haces e os os i. aay
*Reliable, 144 __-----. 3 15 Gal. 40 D i ioe 10 25 SALERATUS SOAP Sowa aT pS. 11% 10 ae Cinteanane
*Federal, 144 ---.---- 3 95 al. to Tin, doz.__ Aria and Hanne. 3 75 ered, bags -_-. 4 50 a ek tate ned ---- 2 60
No. 2% Tins _________ 2 25 -- Am. Family, 100 box 6 30 Argo, 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 3 60 $ - Galvanized __ 2 85
Safety Matches 32 oz. Glass Picked__ 2 76 Crystal White, 100 _.3 85 Cream, 48-2 _______ 4 80 ei at. Galvanized Se a6
Quaker, 5 gro. case_.. 4 25 32 oz. Glass Thrown 2 40 SAL SODA Se oo a : i Quaker, 40-1 ____ 07% i0 7: mo Jr. 5 00
; F -—— els Naptha, - ox 50 : aay 40
i “lake White, 10 box 38 85
NUTS—Whole Dill Pickles Bulk Granuiena GAs pe 2
Poin ga ete 7 s 5 a Cees 2 = Granulated, 18-244 Ib. ae Gy utes 106 las : 85 Gloss Mouse Weas f hetes. 60
nari Mixed aoe 24 45 Gabe foe Je 30 00 packares . 0 1 00 Pairy. 100 box ......_- 4 Al ue 48, 1 lb. pkgs. 3 60 Mouse, wood, 6 holes_ 70
. 3 Palm Olive, 144 box 10 50 rgo, 12, 3 Ib. pkgs. 2 62 Mouse, tin, 5 hol
Pace oS eaaila Ve PIPES Lava, 100 box ___----- 4 9 Sa co Ib pkgs. -. 2.97 Rat. wood _ eon 1 oS
; 5 4 ( 3 0 Silver Gloss, . Rat socime
Peanuts, Jumbo, std. 13 Cob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20 COD FISH ti i ae ao 5 = Pete a Is Pa et eee 1 0
Pecans, oo aerate 7 PLAYING CARDS Middles ________ ne 20 Sweetheart, 100 box __ 5 70 Tiger, A re egg ee eee
Pecans, Mammoth -_ 50 Battle Axe, per doz. 265 Tablets, % Ib. Pure __ 19% ae eels 80 tbs. --.-___ 06 Tubs
Walnuts. Cal. .. 27029 Torpedo, por dow - O50 doz. _---__________ 1 40 Trilby Soap, 100, 10¢ 7 2 Large Galvanized ____ & 75
Hickory -------------- 07 Tubs, 60 Count, fy. fat o 9 Wood boxes, Pure __ 30 Williams Barber Bar 9s 50 sy serge Galvanized __ 7 75
Salted Peanuts POTASH Whale Cod __...._. 111%, Williams Mug, per doz. 48 bisa Small Galvanized _.__ 6 75
Gases. Me 2 14 Babbitt’s, 2 doz. ---- 2 75 BI K Washboards
FRESH MEATS HERRING Blue Karo, No fda. aay 22mner. Globe ___ 5 50
Shelled Beef Holland Herring CLEANSERS Hine Hare, No 16 811 Cote Zale — ob ts
Almonds Salted -------- % op Steers & Heif. _... 23 Mixed, Kegs —______. 90 Red Karo, No. 1% — 306 Double te Sess ~--— .
~~ — ¢ 12 Good St'rs & H’f 15%@21 Mixed, half bbls. 9 75 te Red Karo, No. 5, 1 dz. 4 29. Single Peerless. ~7777~ oo
Br 8S --------- 32 Med. Steers & Heit. a e Mixed. bbls sane ~ = Red Karo, No. 10 -. 401 Northern Queen oka 5 30
Sa . Steers ef. 2. . 2 ee dw Uni Tonia
ol Gaited: ls 32 Com : Miversal 9
Wats Bardo 67 a Pape a 1 00 7”
OTT aaa tanet 14 » ha 8. -- 9 75 3) Imit. Maple Flavor _ _Wood Bowls
MINCE MEAT eee 12 Milkers, bbls. -_____ 18 50 PY] Orange, No. 1%, 2 dz 325 [3 'n. Rutter 00
oe ow * . te fen K K K K Norway __ 19 50 g Urange, No. 5, 1 doz. 4 99 = in. ae —— 9 00
Tibby. Kegs, wet, Ib. 22 ean S © tells ______.. 1 40 A Sie Nees ue
wee : : am Got toneh 1 50 H 7 Satter 00
OLIVES Spring Lamb ---------. 25 eT = Maple and Cane
4 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 1 35 Good -_.-- “ig; vonee 10 i Boxee .. 16 ql unucs cee cal i“ WRAPPING PAPER
10 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 2 35 Bedium ey a0 ! Kanuck, 5 gal. can _. 6 50 Fibre, Manila, white 05%
14 oz. Jar, Plain, doz. 45 Poon 22. i i "i Ne f Wibre 06%
Pint Jars, Plain, doz. : oH sh ati Lake Herring H ones alg ee 06
. doz. Bbl., Te 7
a cio ag Ag 4°96. Good 220 a8 % 1, 100 Ibs. ---. 6 50 Maple Kraft Stripe na
6 Gal. Kegs, each .... 750 Medium ---------------- 12 Michigan, por eal 8 8% 9 == 2
aid oa. dar, State. Gow & ah F008 --~-------- 10 Machavat Welchs, per gal. ---_ 3 26 YEAST CAKE
6 oz. Jar, Stuffed, doz. 2 35 Tubs, 6 Magic, 3 doz. __ 2 70
9% oz. Jar, Stuff, dor 9 ty Loi ae oo Lbs, 60 Count, fy. fat 6 00 COOKING OIL Sunlight, 3 doz. ____- 2 70
| Gal. Jugs, Stuff., dz. 2 50 eases eS ea 21 Pails, 10 Ib. Fancy fat 150 0 can cases, $4.80 per case ema ree 1% Reis 3 35
pechene ehon rian een oe es ner . s oam, doz. 9
Shoulders ...-..----_-- z ; a r, co ae
a oe” 4g pee 16 wee womens §2..°,. — -s C S Oe
ager mesons emae 22 Neck bones ----------- A pe White Fish Bon Ami Pd., 18s, box 1.90 Half Gallons, 1 doz. 1175 YEAST—COMPRESSED
oe te 30 rimmings -~-~~--------- - Fancy, 100 Ib. 13 00 Bon Ami Cake, 188 --1 62% Gallons. “ fog. -.. 11 30 Fleischmann, per doz. 30
30
THREE BUSY DAYS.
(Continued from page 7)
tive Board, which failed to prevail. The
pledge was subscribed for by the fol-
lowing Locals:
Grand Rapids 2. ee $25.00
Ann Arbor 15.00
Pontiac 2 10.00
cas
fae City 10.00
Muskegon
Session adjourned at 11:30 a. m.
Meeting called to order again Wed-
nesday afternoon 1:45 p. m. by Pres-
ident Faunce.
Report made by Leigh Thomas, of
the Resolution Committee, who intro-
duced resolutions as follows:
Whereas—This 1930 Convention of
Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers As-
sociation is drawing to a close and this.
convention having been one of the
most instructive conventions held in
Michigan; therefore be it
Resolved—That we do make recogni-
tion of the efforts of the wholesalers,
jobbers of Saginaw and the Saginaw
Local Association who have made this
convention possible. Supported by
Davis, of Ypsilanti. Motion prevailed.
Whereas — The High
School Debating League have taken
Michigan
the chain store question as their sub-
ject for 1930-1931 season; therefore
be it
Resolved—That the Michigan Retaii
Grocers and Meat Dealers Association
heartily endorse and offer their assist-
ance in the debating of subject. Sup-
ported by Marxer, of Saginaw. Mo-
tion prevailed.
Whereas—The Michigan Association
of Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers
only 400
members, which seems insufficient in
now have approximately
number to get the ultimate results out
of Association work within this State;
therefore be it
Resolved—That the board of direc-
tors bend every effort to increase this
membership in the State Association.
Supported by Davis, of Ypsilanti. Mo-
tion prevailed.
Whereas—The Grocery Trade Prac-
tice Conference, held in Washington,
adopted certain rules for the Grocery
Trade; therefore be it
Resolved — That we endorse the
adoption of these rules and believe that
a strict adherence to these rules will
materially lessen the unsound and un-
economic practices of the grocery in-
dustry. Supported by Schultz, of Ann
Arbor. Resolution prevailed.
Whereas—The National Convention
which is to convene in Dayton June
16 to 19 inclusive; and
Whereas—To the best of our knowl-
edge no National convention has ever
been held in Michigan, therefore be it
resolved, that Michigan delegates be
instructed to bid for the National con-
vention to be held in Michigan at a
near future date. Motion by Vander-
Hooning, supported by Sorg, of Ann
Arbor. Motion prevailed.
Motion by Davis, of Ypsilanti: The
first members who advise Secretary
that they will attend the Dayton con-
vention, be appointed as delegates and
be furnished with the proper creden-
tials. This up to the number of dele-
MICHIGAN
gates to which Michigan is entitled.
Supported by Vanderploeg, of Grand
Rapids. Motion prevailed.
Whereas — The equipment to be
given away has been a big help in the
success of this convention and in jus-
tice to donors of this equipment be it
Resolved—That the equipment to be
given away at this convention shall
not be sold by the winners, providing
he does not want same for his own
store, until he converses with the don-
ors of such equipment as he may win.
Supported by Sorg, of Ann Arbor.
Motion prevailed.
Whereas—The_ chain
in the United States is becoming mon-
store system
opolistic in tendency and practice and
unless they are checked by proper leg-
islation they will soon control the pro-
duction, manufacturing and distribution
of the major products used by our peo-
ple; and
Whereas—Such a system of manu-
facturing and distribution is detriment-
al to our country as a whole for the
following reasons:
1. It is destroying the smfill towns
and cities by its system of manufactur-
ing and marketing which depends up-
on importation, cheap manufacturing,
cheap help and selling at practically
cost, well known and advertised arti-
cles as advertising inducements.
2. It is destroying the local market
of our farmers and produce growers
by buying little or nothing locally and
depending for their supplies on the
product of other countries or regions
where labor is cheap thereby causing
the abandonment of farms except in
a few favored regions.
3. It is preventing the development
and raising the taxes of the rural sec-
tions by transferring the earnings to
the large cities.
4. It is denying our childrn the
right of ownership of local manufac-
turing and mercantile establishments
and substituting in their places hired
management who are indifferent to the
needs of the community they serve.
5. It is demoralizing labor in small
cities and removing its
local earned wealth and thus prevent-
villages by
ing further development in the com-
munities they serve.
6. It is throwing ‘the burden of our
taxation upon the cities, generally by
lowering the value of real estate in
our villages, small cities and rural
communities; therefore be it
Resolved—For these and other rea-
legislative
bodies in both our State and Nation
sons, we remind our
of their solemn duties of protecting
our people as a whole by passing with-
out delay the much needed legislation
to protect us frony a monopoly which
is destroying our rural sections and
thus help to restore them to their
former independence, wealth and pros-
perity; and be it further
Resolved—That our Secretary be in-
structed to resolutions
printed and a copy mailed at once to
each of our Senators and representa-
tives in Congress, the President of the
United States, the Governor of Mich-
have these
igan and to each Senator and Repre-
sentative elected for the coming legis-
lature; also to other mercantile man-
TRADESMAN
ufacturing and labor organizations and
farm bodies whose creative activity
and wealth makes possible the happi-
ness and prosperity of this great Na-
tion and to ask of them their much
needed support in the interest of the
restoration of power and wealth to our
common people where it justly belongs
and without which we fail as a Nation.
Supported by Dykstra, of Grand Rap-
ids. Resolution prevailed.
Chairman Heyns, of Grand aRpids,
reported the Nominating Committee
. had been served with notice from
President Faunce that he could not
be considered as a candidate for re-
election for personal reasons and be-
cause he was geographically located to
a disadvantage, and requested of the
naminating committee that his name
be withheld for re-election. Nomina-
tion recommended by the committee
were as follows:
President—Gerritt VanderHooning,
Grand Rapids.
First Vice-President — William
Schultz, Ann Arbor.
Second Vice-President — Paul
Schmidt, Lansing.
O. H. Bailey, Sr., Lan-
Treasurer
sing.
Directors—Ole Peterson, Muskegon;
Frank Marxer, Saginaw; Leigh Thom-
as, Ann Arbor; M. C. Goossen, Lan-
sin; R. J. LaBarge, Pontiac.
There being no other nonfinations,
mominations were declared closed. Mo-
tion by Davis, of Ypsilanti, and sup-
ported by Eberhard, of Grand Rapids,
the rules be suspended and the Secre-
tary instructed to cast a unanimous
ballot for the officers recommended
by the nominating committee. The
motion prevailed and the officers were
declared duly elected by the Secretary.
On motion by Tiatman, of Clare, a
rising vote of appreciation was ex-
tended our retiring President, Mr.
Faunce, of Harbor Springs, supported
by Schultz, of Ann Arbor. Motion
prevailed.
Selection of convention city was the
next order of business.
Ann Arbor placed in nomination the
city of Ann Arbor and read several
letters from influential Ann Arbor in-
stitutions. Supported by Sorg, of Ann
Arbor.
Affeldt, of Lansing, placed in nom-
ination city of Lansing, which was
also supported by O. H. Bailey, Sr.
Paul Gezon, of Grand Rapids, nom-
inated Grand Rapids for the next con-
vention city, which had no support.
After a short discussion by the con-
testants, Affeldt, of Lansing, withdrew
his nomination with the consent of
Bailey, the support, and Ann Arbor
was made the unanimous choice for
next convention city.
Wm. Schultze and Theo J. Bathke,
of the auditing committee, submitted
a written report reading as follows:
The committee to whom the Treasur-
er’s and Secretary’s books have been
referred, have duly audited them and
found them correct and prepared in
excellent manner.
After a very inspiring talk by C. V.
Fenner, personal representative of W.
K. Henderson, of Shreveport, Station
April 30, 1930
KWKH fame, the awarding of the
prizes proceeded.
Martin Smith, of Central Lake, was
awarded the grand prize, the refrigera-
tion counter.
Roy Koeze, of Grand Rapids, the
second prize of shelving.
John C. Plassey, of Rochester, third
prize, table and counter.
W. G. Durkee, of Flint, fourth prize,
merchandising cabinet.
Matt Heyns, of Grand Rapids, fifth
prize, floor candy case.
With the convention hall crowded
to the doors up to the closing hour at
4:30 p. m., the nyeeting adjourned and
the convention was declared closed.
Herman Hanson, Sec’y.
—_oeo_
Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.
Grand Rapids, April 16—We have to-
day received the schedules, reference and
adjudication in the matter of Ebenezer
A. Benjamin, Bankrupt No. 4089. The
matter has been referred to Charles B.
Blair as referee in bankruptcy. The
bankrupt is a resident of Muskegon
Heights, and his occupation is that of a
factory worker. The schedule shows as-
sets of $250 of which the full amount is
claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$17,997.50. The court has written for
funds and upon receipt of same the first
meeting of creditors will be called, note
of which will be made herein.
In the matter of Curtis BE. Monaweck,
doing business as Consumers Roofing Co.,
Bankrupt No. 3905. The final meeting of
creditors has been called for May 6. The
trustee’s final report will be approved at
such meeting. There w-ll be a final divi-
dend for creditors.
In the matter of Paul Caruso, Bankrupt
No. 3688. The final meeting of creditors
has been called for May 5. The trustee's
final report will be approved at such
meeting. There will be no dividend for
creditors.
In the matter of Louis F. Deitz, Bank-
rupt No. 3838. The final meeting of cred-
itors has been called for May 5. The
trustee’s report will be approved at such
meeting. There may be a small first and
final dividend for creditors.
In the matter of Joseph R. Ross, in-
dividually and doing business as the Elm
Candy Shonpe, Bankrupt No. 3497. The
final meeting of creditors has been called
for May 5. The trustee’s final report and
account will be approved at such meeting.
There may be a first and final dividend
for creditors.
In the matter of Proudfit Loose Leaf
Co., Bankrupt No. 3823. The final meet-
ing of creditors has been caled for May
6. The trustee’s final report will be ap-
proved at such meeting. There will be
a first and final dividend for creditors.
In the matter of George A. Jackson,
doing business as Hastings Upholstering
Co., Bankrupt No. 3831, the trustee has
heretofore filed his final report and ac-
count, and final meeting of creditors was
held Mareh 28. The bankrupt was not
present or represented. The trustee was
present in person and represented by at-
torneys Hilding & Hilding. The trustee’s
final report and account was considered
and approved and allowed. Claims were
proved and allowed. An order was made
for the payment of expenses of adminis-
tration, preferred claims and a first and
final dividend to creditors of 2 per cent.
No objections were made to the discharge
of the bankrupt. The final meeting then
adjourned without date, and the case will
be closed and returned to the district
court, in due course.
In the matter of Hendrick Candy Co.,
a corporation, the trustee has hereofore
filed his final report and account, and a
final meeting of creditors was held March
28. The bankrupt was not present. but
represented by attorneys Hilding, Hilding
& Tubbs. Creditors were present by
George B. Kingston, attorney. The trus-
tee was present in person. Claims were
proved and allowed. The trustee’s final
report and account was considered and
approved and allowed. An order was
made for the payment of expenses of ad-
ministration, as far as the funds on hand
permit. There were no funds for divi-
dends. No objections were made to the
discharge of the bankrupt. The final
meeting then adjourned without date,
and the case will be closed and returned
to the district court. in due course.
In the matter of F. M. Gray, Jr., Inc.,
Bankrupt No. 3816. the final report and
account of the trustee has heretofore
been filed and a final meeting of creditors
was held March 17. The trustee was
present in nerson and represented by at-
torney Edward GC. Farmer. Creditors were
represented by attorneys Crass, Foote &
Sessions. Claims were proved and allow-
ed. The trustee’s final report and ac-
count was considered and approved and
allowed. An order was made for the pay-
ment of expenses of administration, pre-
ne Map eee ert heen Ree.
iv. ee
April 30, 1930
MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN
$1
ferred individual, State and United States
claims in full and for the declaration and
payment of a first and final dividend to
creditors in general of 1.4 per cent. No
objections to the discharge of the bank-
rupt were made. The final meeting then
adjourned without date, and the case
will be closed and returned to the district
court, in due course.
April 8. We have to-day received the
schedules in the matter of Gale L. David-
son, Bankrupt No. 4058. This is an in-
voluntary matter. The bankrupt is a
resident of Ionia, and his occupat.on is
that of a dealer in furniture. The sched-
ule shows assets of $10,521.10 with liabil-
ities of $10,126.96. The first meeting of
creditors will be called and note of same
made herein. The list of creditors of
said bankrupt is as follows:
Clty Of Loma, oe $235.02
Rome ©€o., Chicago 22.00 250.00
Wolverine Upholstering Co., G. R. ole 00
Wroehler Mfg. Co., Napervile, Lil. 275.00
W. E. Wilson, Traverse City ____ A 500.00
National Bank, Ionia ____.______ 2,300.00
State Savings Bank, Ionia ________ 700.00
Brumn Auto Co., Ionia —____ _. 68,45
Ades Iuhts, Tonia. 500.00
A. & W. Products Co., Cleveland __ 66
Ace Table Co., Greenville —__-_- 42.75
Born Corp... Chicago 23° 19.25
Branch & Cooper, Ionia ~___-_____ 33.99
Booth Co., Indianapolis, Ind. -___ 28.45
Brickwede Bros., Marietta ~.______ 70.00
Bunnell & Flint, Ionia ~~.__._ ~ 122.02
Bird & Son, Chicago _......._._. 78.50
Biltwell Upholstering Co,, G. RK. _. 50.00
Bush & Lane Co., Holland oe ie 260.56
Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago 29.40
Caswell Rynan Co., Huntington __ 88.00
H. T. Cushman Co., N. Bennington 59.85
Gerrit DeGroot, Grand Rapids ____ 20.40
Dearborn Co., Ch. cae 4. abd
Herpolsheimer Co., Grand Rapids__ 251.58
Hey-wood Wakefield Co., Chicago — 130.12
Ionia Couny News, Ionia oe OA
Lombard Coal Co., Ionia _.._._____ 19.25
Metal Stamping Corp., Streater, Ill 27.50
Michigan Bedding Co., Detroit ____ 60.35
Marquardt Co., Milwaukee ______ 46.79
Mills Mutuals, Lansing -_________ 21.47
Michigan State Industries, Ionia__ 40.00
Prufrock L.tton Co., St. Louis __ 149.00
Orleans Chair Co., Orleans ________ 13.70
Peck & fill, Chicago 0... 120.90
Parch Net Art Co., Huntington, Ind. 20.00
Pioneer Mfg. Co., Cleveland ______ 40.50
IW. EB) Soule. Tonia: ten 8.67
St. Jonns Table Co., Cadillac ~_____ 32.1)
Showers Bros., Bloomington ______ 98.07
Thomasville Chair Co., Thomas-
MCU ON. Co 67.58
Union Bed & Spring Co., Chicago 28.25
BoM. Wirtz, fonia 13.50
Witheim Co., Sturgis - 12.50
West Leonard Uph. Co., Grand R. 65.00
Yeakey Scripps Co., Grand Rapids 260.20
Ypsilanti Reed Co., lonia ________ 149.36
Ionia Sentinel Standard, Ionia __._ 81.55
Cook Motor Car Co., Ionia _______ 22.85
m. ©. Vaeeart, lovia ..... 200.00
Lovel Mfg. Co., Jamestown ______ 261.80
Kompass & Stall, Niles -.---..-___ 16.39
Ione Kuhtz Davidson, Ionia —_____ 450.00
a ©, Bloss, Detroit - ==. 250.00
On this day also was held the first
meet ng of creditors in the matter of
Elmer L. Ford, Bankrupt No. 4039. The
bankrupt was present in perso nand rep-
resented by attorneys Corwin, Norcross
& Cook. One creditor was present in
person. One claim was proved and al-
lowed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. No trustee
was appointed. The first meeting then
adjourned without date, and the case has
been closed and returned to the district
court, as a case without assets.
On this day also was hel dthe final
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Horace T. Dekkar, Bankrupt No. 3864.
The bankrupt was not present or repre-
sented. The trustee was present in per-
son and represented by attorney Arthur
Van Duren. The trustee’s final report
and account, was considered and approv-
ed and allowed. Claims were proved and
allowed. An order was made for the
payment of expenses of administration,
preferred tax claims, and a first and final
dividend to creditors of 5.4 per cent. No
objections were made to the discharge of
the bankrupt. The final meeting then
adjourned without date, and the case
will be closed and returned to the distritt
court, in due course.
In the matter of John J. Seltenreich,
individually and doing business as Sur-
plus Machinery Co., Bankrupt No. 4050.
The sale of assets has been called for
April 24. at the premises formerly occu-
pied by the bankrupt, 426 E. Main street,
Kalamazoo. All the stock in trade will
be sold, consisting of new and used ma-
chinery and parts, office equipment, car
wheels, bushings, packings, belts, hand
axes. generators, small tools, rollers,
tanks. blowers, ete., appraised approx-
imately at. $2,661.40. All interested in
such sale should be present at the date
and ns above stated.
April 8. On this day was held the com-
nosition hearing in the matter of George
H. Huizenga & Co.. Bankrupt No. 4051,
and the matter of Johanna Kooiker, in-
dividually, Bankrupt No. 4062, the two
eases having been consolidated by order
of the district court. The alleged bank-
rupts were present by Johannes Kooiker
in person and represented by attorneys
Hilding & Hilding. Creditors were pres-
ent in person and represented by attor-
neys Corwin, Norcross & Cook; Diekema,
Cross & Ten Cate; Arthur Van Duren
and Lokker & Den Hender and by G. R.
Credit Men’s Association. Claims were
proved, checked and allowed for composi-
tion purposes only. Johannes Kooiker
was sworn and examined with a reporter
present, the testimony to be transscribed
and filed. After the examination terms
of composition of 15 per cent. to general
creditors, in addition to administration
expenses, preferred and secured claims,
were offered. The meeting then adjourn-
ed to April 18, to permit the filing, by
creditors, of acceptances or rejections of
the composition offer in writing.
April 9. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of Ray
Scher, doing business as Ray’s Cut Rate
Store, Bankrupt No. 4040. The bankrupt
was present in person and represented by
attorney Joseph S. Folz. Creditors were
represented by attorneys Jackson, Fitz-
gerald & Dalm. The custodian was pres-
ent in person. Claims were proved and
allowed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined with a reporter present. After
the examination of the bankrupt he of-
fered in writing terms of composition
with his creditors of 25 per cent. in cash
upon acceptance and 35 per cent. in notes,
without interest, payable monthly. The
creditors elected M. N. Kennedy, of Kala-
mazoo, trustee and placed his bond at
$2,000. Stipulation was entered into be-
tween the bankrupt and the trustee to
continue with the sale of assets noticed
and to impound the funds derived from
the sale pending the acceptance or re-
ject‘on of the composition offer of the
bankrupt. The meeting then adjourned
to April 21, to permit the filing, by cred-
itors. of acceptances or rejections of
creditors to the offer filed.
April 14. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Charles N. Hoag, Bank-
rupt No. 4088. The matter has been re-
ferred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Kalamazoo, and his occupation is that
of a book-keeper. The schedule shows
assets of $75 of which the full amount is
claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$759.90. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called, note of
which will be made herein.
April 14. On this day was held the
first meeting of creditors in the matter of
Forest G. Havens, Bankrupt No. 067. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney W. G. Bauer. One
creditor was present in person. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. The first meeting then
adjourned without date, and the case has
been closed and returned to the district
court, as a case without assets.
On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Celmyr McConnell, Bankrupt No. 4064.
The bi iunkrupt was present in person and
represented by attorney S. B. Streeter.
No creditors were present or represented,
except one by representation. No claims
werep roved and allowed. No trustee was
appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a revorter. The first
meeting then adjourned without date
and the case has been closed and returned
to the district court, as a case without
assets.
On this day also was held the first
meet ng of ecrediors in the matter of
Raymond W. Edwards, Bankrupt No.
4030. The bankrupt was present in per-
son. but not represented by attorney. No
creditors were present or represented.
No claims were vroved and allowed. No
trustee was apwointed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. The first meeting then adjourn-
ed without date, and the case has been
closed and returned to the district court,
as a case without assets.
On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Frank Duso, or Dusseau, Bankrupt No.
4021. The bankrupt was present in per-
son and represented by attorneys Dilley
& Dilley. No creditors were present or
represented. No claims were proved and
allowed. No trustee was appointed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. The first meeting then
adjourned without date, and the case has
been closed and returned to the district
court, as a case without assets.
On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Lynn Castner, Bankrupt No. 4063. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney R. G. Goembel. No
creditors were present or represented.
No claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was apnointed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined, without_a re-
porter. The first meeting then adjourned
without date, and the case has been
closed and. returned to the district court,
as a case without assets.
April 15. On this day‘ was held the
first meeting of creditors in the matter
of Lee O. Townsend, Bankrupt No. 4031.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attorney Homer H. Free-
land. No creditors were present or rep-
represented. No claims were proved and
allowed. No trustee was appointed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out -a reporter. The first meeting then
adjourned without date, and the case has
been closed and returned to the district
court, aS a case without assets.
On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Samuel Meretsky, individually and doing
business as Meretsky Bottling Works,
Bankrupt No. 4054. The bankrupt was
present in person and represented by
attorney Benjamin T. Smith. Creditors
were present in person and represented
by attorney Horace T. Barnaby and G.
R. Credit Men's Association. Caims were
proved and allowed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined, with a _ reporter
present. Shirley C. DeGroot, of Grand
Rapids, was elected trustee, and his bond
placed at $100. The first meeting then
adjourned without date.
April 19. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Julius N. Dunneback,
Bankrupt No. 4091. The matter has been
referred to Charles B. Blair as referee in
bankruptcy. The bankrupt is a resident
of Grand Rapids, and his occupation is
that of a mechanic. The schedule shows
assets of $90 of which the full amount is
claimed as exempt, with liabilities of
$645. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called, note of
which will be made herein.
In the matter of Ebenezer A. Benjamin.
Bankrupt No. 4089. The funds have been
received and the first meeting of creditors
has been called for May 7.
In the matter of Frank A. Young,
Bankrupt No. 4079. The funds have been
rece.ved and the first meeting of cred-
itors has been called for May 7.
In the matter of Delbert Mulder, Bank-
rupt No. 4086. The funds have been re-
ceived and the first meeting of creditors
has been called for May 7.
In the matter of Charles N. Hoag,
Bankrupt No. 4086. The funds have been
received and the first meeting of creditors
has been called for May 7.
In the matter of Gerald Donker, Bank-
rupt No. 4065. The funds have been re-
ceived and the first meeting of creditors
has been called for May 7.
In the matter of Fred Van _ Halst,
Bankrupt No. 4070. The funds have been
received and the first meeting of cred-
itors has been called for May 7.
April 21. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Royal A. Woodrick, Bankrupt No. 4075.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attorney L. D. Averill.
Creditors were present by attorneys only.
No claims were proved and allowed. No
trustee was appointed. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined without a reporter.
The first meeting then adjuorned without
date, and the case has been closed and
returned to the district court, as a case
without assets.
On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Milo Meyers, Bankrupt No. 4069. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney Willard Meader.
Certain creditors were present in person.
Claims were proved only. No trustee was
appointed. The bankrupt was sworn and
examined without a reporter. The first
meeting thend adjourned to April 28, to
permit further proceedings, if desired.
In the matter of Otto F. Stoeffler,
Bankrupt No. 4061, the sale of assets at
auction was held April 9. The trustee
Was present in person. The official auc-
tioneer was present in person. Numerous
bidders were present in person. The
stock in trade, tools, fixtures, furniture
and equ pment, were sold to S. Whitbeck,
of Grand Rapids, for $1,895. The sale
was confirmed and the meeting adjourned
without date.
—_>-+—____
Money-Capital Always at Service of
Brain-Capital.
(Continued from page 20)
ways is at the beck and call of brain-
capital. Nothing is so easy to get as
ample money to put back of any sound
idea, provided you have the idea.
A few short years ago Loblaw was
a poor man. He was not a success
from the start. He was tried in the
crucible of failure. After
comes, we are all prone to forget
early struggles. But once Loblaw
had worked out a logical merchandis-
ing idea he could get money easily
enough.
Loblaw without capital—or virtual-
success
eee
Do You Wish To Sell Out!
CASH FOR YOUR STOCK,
Fixtures or Plants of every
description.
ABE DEMBINSKY
-Auctioneer and Liquidator
734 So. Jefferson Ave., Saginaw, Mich
Phone Federal 1944.
ly so—was like William Wrigley, Jr.,
who started his vast business on $32
cash capital. Asked how he began
with such chicken feed, he said he
borrowed $5,000 from the banks. Ask-
ed how he got $5,000 from the banks
when his own resources were $32, he
said: “The banks knew I was always
working.” That is to say, the banks
perceived the capital in Wrigley’s well-
earned reputation for industry, enter-
prise and ability to get things done;
and they gambled on him with great
profit.
It was a restaurant man fresh from
failure who thought out the system of
checking portions which is now in uni-
versal use and has turned that former
business gamble into one of the most
certain of ventures. He got employ-
ment at once and marched to fortune
after he had explained to a former
competitor how his plan would work
out.
“All men are created equal’
we all have an equal chance to use our
brain and brawn, but it is up to us to
use those or we are lost in the shuffle.
but the
cheapest thing to get and the easiest
any enterprise
means
Success is not adventitious;
is all the mere money
or plan may require once the sound-
ness of its basis is made even fairly
apparent. Paul Findlay.
Better ask the second time than spoil
the work.
Business Wants Department
Advertisements inserted under this head
for five cents a word the first insertion
and four cents a word for each subse-
quent continuous insertion. if set in
capital letters, double price. No charge
less than 50 cents. Small display adver-
tisements in this department, $4 per
inch. Payment with order is required, as
amounts are too smali to open accounts.
HOUTEL- “GOING. BUILDING WITH
COMPLETE furnishings and fixtures.
Sacrifice price, to close estate. $75,000.
Eckhart & Buffum, Rm. 14 State Bank
Bldg., Rock Island, Il. 285
For Sale Or Rent—-Country store, gas,
cream station. Selling to clear up estate
of deceased partner. Address Cummins
& Smith, Minden City, Mich. 282 _
FOR SALE—In good. condition, “Bowser
pump and tank, 100 gallon capacity; dis-
play grocery case 20 ft. long; Toledo com-
puting scale; Rotospeed stencil duplicator;
wooden display tables six to ten feet
long. All offered at sacrifice prices for
ready sale. Write, Lionel Hirschberg,
120 S. Washington Ave., Saginaw, Mich.
283
For Lease—Large store, fine location
for dry goods business. M-78 goes through
town. Mrs. C. H. Waterman, Athens,
Mich. : : 28
Store For Rent—New store, 18 x 65,
between West End Drug Store and A. &.
P. grocery. Good location for dry goods
with dresses, millinery and beauty parlor
in the rear; or hardware, or any other
business. Address Dunwell’s West End
Drug Store, Kalamazoo, Mich. Steam
heated. 278
if you are interested in buying a busi-
ness anywhere in the United States or
Canada, write for our monthly bulletin.
UNITED BUSINESS BROKERS, 2365 Ist
National Bank Bldg.. Detroit, Mich. 157
For Sale — Solid oak tables, desks
chairs and other office equipment. Used
only a few months in office of a local
broker. Cheap for cash. On display at
our office. Tradesman Company.
I OFFER CASH!
For Retail Stores—Stocks—
Leases—all or Part.
Telegraph—Write—Telephone
L. LEVINSOHN
Saginaw, Mich.
BK) ey there Rhys
Established 1909
32
Late News From the Metropolis of
Michigan.
A drive to raise $1,000,000 to adver-
tise Detroit over a three-year period,
will start April 30, when Harvey J.
Campbell, chairman, will announce a
plan of action to 750 members of the
“sales army.” Eighteen page adver-
tisements emphasizing the value to the
city of the $386,000,000 left there by
visitors since the first of 1927, when a
community advertising program was
inaugurated, will be run in Detroit
newspapers. The advertisements were
prepared by members of the Adcraft
Club under the supervision of Ward
H. Marsh and W. R. Ewad.
The Miller Peanut Products Co.,
has opened a new retail store at Wood-
ward avenue and the Seven-Mile road
to serve the residents of that section
of the city. The “Little Miller and
the Mill” is becoming a familiar trade-
mark in that locality. The company
sells fresh salted peanuts.
As an aid to serving their National
Groceterias and numerous “R” stores
in Detroit and vicinity National Gro-
cer Co. recently commenced operations
of a new wholesale fruit and vegetable
market located on the Michigan Cen-
tral tracks, West Jefferson avenue,
with trackage facilities for unloading
six cars at a time. The warehouse in-
cludes, among its many other features,
several artificial banana ripening rooms
where, by the application of heat in
various stages the “R” stores and
Groceterias can order their bananas in
any state of ripening which they de-
sire. The principal advantages to this
method of handling fruit and vege-
tables lie in the fact that by buying in
carload quantities, lower prices are ob-
tainable, and at the same time each
store is assured a daily supply of ab-
solutely fresh fruits and vegetables, an
advantage which every housewife ap-
preciates. Although it was apparent
from its inception that such an innova-
tion would be a worth-while undertak-
ing, according to C. C. Vigil, chairman
of the board, National Grocer Co., its
operation has been even more success-
ful than originally anticipated.
Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings
were filed in the U. S. District Court
here against Jacob Hoff, retail dry
goods, 11907 Gratiot avenue, by Irwin
I. Cohn, attorney, representing David-
son Bros, $280; I. Shetzer Co., $350;
M. Starr Co., $87.
Involuntary bankruptcy proceedings
have been filed in the U. S. District
Court here against Harry J. Dean Co.,
furniture dealer, by Max Kahn, attor-
Firth Carpet Co.,
Inc., $116; Cohea
ney, representing
$2,139; Foxcraft,
Bros., $2,408.
Warrants for two former managers
of branch groceries operated by Saun-
ders’ Michigan Stores, Inc.’ charging
emblezzlement of approximately $2,700,
were recommended Saturday by Oscar
A. Kaufman, assistant prosecuting at-
Robert address un-
known, is charged embezzling
$1,732. Richard Cheynoweth, 11845
_La Belle avenue, is charged with tak-
ing $1,015. The complaints were sign-
ed by Clark Swart, representative of
the corporation.
An involuntary petition in bank-
torney. ,roza,
with
MICHIGAN
ruptcy has been filed in the U. S. Dis-
trict Court here against Harry Saks
and Samuel Saks, operating as Saks
Bros., men’s and women’s wear, by
Irwin I. Cohn, Detroit attorney, repre-
senting Schoenfeld & Schoenfeld, $761;
Jacob Burrows, $618; M. Starr Co.,
$167.
In the case of Kahrnoff Bros., retail
clothing, with stores at 11430 and
11647 East Jefferson avenue, a com-
position offer of 25 per cent. has been
confirmed and order for distribution
has been entered in involuntary bank-
ruptcy proceedings against Kahrnoff .
Bros. Assets are given as $12,885 and
liabilities as $24,360 in schedules filed.
Creditors with unsecured claims of
$500 or more are: U. S. Hat & Cap
Co., Cleveland, $600; Joseph Kahrnoff,
Detroit, $3,500; John Weber, Inc.,
New York, $978; Well Made Pants
Co., Baltimore, $577; A. & G. Cap Co.,
Scranton, Pa., $607; Grossman Cloth
Co., New York, $2,400; Hoosier Fa-
dones Co., Inc., Michigan City, Ind.,
$1,480; Marks Mfg. Co., Des Moines,
$689; Resisto Mfg. Co., Baltimore,
$531; Sternberg Bros., Philadelphia,
$2,673; Alex Schreiber, Detroit, $722;
Detroit Edison Co., $600.
The 40 per cent. composition offer
presented in involuntary bankruptcy
proceedings against Beverley’s, Inc.,
women’s apparel, has not yet ‘been
confirmed by the court.
The report of the trustee has been
filed in involuntary bankruptcy pro-
ceedings against Louis K. Wohl, Inc.,
trading as the Ames Co., women’s
wear at 1275 Woodward avenue. Sale
of fixtures at $5,000 and of merchan-
dise in parcels at $683 has been con-
firmed.
A composition offer of 25 per cent.
has been accepted by creditors in in-
voluntary bankruptcy proceedings
against the State Cut Rate Stores, with
stores at 864 Michigan avenue and
Fort street and Junction avenue. The
offer is payable 15 per cent. in cash
and the remainder in promissory notes.
Assets are given as $50,100 and lia-
bilities, $59,450 in schedules filed.
Simon Shetzer is the receiver. Cred-
itors with unsecured claims of $500 or
more are: Ainsworth Braman Co., De-
troit, $1,466; B. & B. Clothing Co.,
Toledo, $708; I. H. Barnett & Co.,
New York, $537; Bean & De Ville,
Detroit, $1,780; Endicott Johnson Co.,
Endicott, N. Y., $1,029; Edson Moore
& Co., Detroit, $3,186; Firestone Foot-
wear Co., Cleveland, $964; L. M. Falk
Shoe Co., Detroit, $1,608; Hood Rub-
ber Co., Detroit, $1,319; A. Krolik &
Co., Detroit, $3,227; Well Made Pants
Co., Baltimore, $603; Knickernit, Inc.,
Cleveland, $1,997; George H. Kirch-
ner, Detroit, $4,000; Larned Carter
Co., Cincinnati, $684; Meyer Bros.,
New York, $1,296; D. Manester, Chi-
cago, $2,056; Niagara Pants & Over-
all Co., Buffalo, $541; John Niemee,
Chicago, $1,000; Mrs. Joseph Osman,
Chicago, $800. Detroit: Rice & Ash,
$1,464; Schoenfeld & Schoenfeld, $1,-
338: Shetzer & Co., $2,679; U. S. Rub-
ber Co., $740; Bernice Waiss, $700; H.
Weiss, $1,325; A. Yentsch, $1,000; De-
troit & Security Trust Co., $3,190;
Jacob Carp and Herman Weiss, $3,300.
TRADESMAN
Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.
The Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. re-
cently extended the territory in which
its “Torson” shoe for men is sold by
increasing its salesforce through the
addition of M. E. Green, of Cleveland,
in Ohio territory which he has cover-
ed for Selz, Schwab & Co. for the last
seventeen years; W. B. Caldwell, of
Appomattox, Va., in the Virginias;
District of Columbia and Maryland;
Ernest Hoegner, of Newcastle, Pa.,
traveling Western Pennsylvania; W.
L. Callahan, of Asheville, N. C., now
in the Carolinas and Tennessee, and
Pat Stevens of Sioux Falls, S. D., to
represent the Grand Rapids company
in South Dakota and Northern Iowa.
Mr. Hoegner was formerly connected
with the International sales force in
New England while Messrs. Stevens,
Callahan and Caidwell come from
Selz’ salesforce disbanded when ‘that
company recently discontinued busi-
ness.
The stock of men’s furnishings and
clothing of the L. & J. Store, 813-815
Franklin street, S. E., was sold at pub-
lic auction under a trust mortgage to
R. Goldman, who has removed it to
Detroit.
Claude L. Peifer is at Holy Family
hospital at LaPorte, Ind. He recently
injured his leg and was sent there for
treatment for ten days. He sends
special greetings to old friends and
asks to be remembered.
Eldred A. Crandall has sold his in-
terest in the Bertch market to his part-
ners and engaged in the grocery busi-
ness at 1229 Madison avenue under the
style of Crandalls. The stock was
furnished by Lee & Cady. Mr. Cran-
dall was with the Bertch Market for
about six years. Prior to that time he
was on the road several years for the
Worden Grocer Co.
Joseph W. Putnam, local manager
of the National Candy Co., left last
Wednesday for Washington, where he
and his wife will spend a week or ten
days and then proceed to other East-
ern cities. They will be gone about
thirty days. They are traveling by
automobile.
The hardware stock owned by
Kaiser & Company, at Stockbridge,
was recently closed out under receiver-
ship sale. The store will be re-opened
by W. T. Ostrander, who formerly
owned the stock under the name of
Gaylord & Ostrander. Mr. Ostrander
will hereafter conduct the store under
his own name. He was in the city this
week and replenished his stock at the
Michigan Hardware ‘Co.
Claude Lawton has engaged in the
grocery business at Walker avenue and
Lamont road. The stock was furnish-
ed by Lee & Cady.
Morris Bros., formerly engaged in
the hardware business at Comstock
Park, have engaged in the grocery
business at the same place. Lee &
Cady furnished the stock.
—__> +.
Chain Store Gossip.
Revived merger conferences between
Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery
Ward, whether they ‘bear fruit or not,
afford further evidence that the push
toward consolidation is still strong.
Changes in the management of Kro-
ger, second largest grocery chain,
April 30, 1930
which eliminate the founder and his
family as well as Mr. Albers, long
leader of the chain association, point to
radical new policies in the company’s
development, now largely a matter of
concern to Wall street bankers.
Cigarette production last month was
only 5.5 per cent. more than in March,
1929, evidence of a slight slackening in
the pace of the fastest-growing indus-
try over a long period. Last year the
gain was 14 per cent. In 1927 it slump-
ed to 5 per cent., but even in 1921 and
1922 it was 9 and 7 per cent., re-
spectively.
Although Kroger’s sales increased
$80,000,000 last year — only $4,000,000
less than A. & P., the largest grocery
chain—its net profits for that period
gained only about $1,000,000, as com- -
pared with more than $2,500,000 for
the other chain. Kroger conducts
about 5,600 stores, chiefly in the Mid-
dle West.
Schulte Retail Stores earned $1,072,-
000 last year, a yield on common stock
of $1.49 a share. The year before the
earnings were $5,244,000, $3.96 a share.
This deplorable loss in profits, Jerome
Eisner, a director, told the stockhold-
ers, was due to the cigarette price war.
Cigarettes cost the company 11.3 a
package. At two packages for a quar-
ter the company retained only 4 per
cent. Grocery chains and department
stores could afford to sell cigarettes at
a loss for advertising purposes. To-
bacco stores, dependent on cigarettes
as ‘their chief stock in trade, were thus
obliged to do business on a price level
that yielded little on their investment.
There could be no better illustration of
profitless sales resulting from a sort
of competition in distribution of goods
that violates essential principles of-
sound merchandising. But apparently
the manufacturers are indifferent or
else impotent under present conditions
to help make the trade of handling
their products a profitable business.
>. —___
Sixteen New Readers of the Trades-
man.
The following new subscribers have
been received during the past week:
Ralph Cady, Washington, D. C.
H. V. Bolt, Grand Haven.
Anthony E. Wolosecki, Grand Rap-
ids.
Bruce Drug’ Co., Evart.
W. R. Roach & Co., Scottville.
C. Dutmers, Muskegon.
F. R. Husted, Ionia.
J. & M. E. Glanville, Cascade.
John A. Fritz, Bay City.
C. J. MacBride, Bay City.
B. A. Patterson, Lake City.
John Immik, Grand Rapids.
Arthur VanDugteren, Grand Rapids.
J. L. Kruse, Grand Rapids.
Luther Jay Marton, Grand Rapids.
D. S. Stowe, Grand Rapids.
>>
Allegan—K. Markle & Sons
greatly extending their meat business.
During the past year or more they
have been slaughtering animals and
are
shipping meat to outside markets.
They will remodel and enlarge their
plant and place facilities for a modern
packing plant. They have established
a branch in Chicago ‘but will also mar-
ket beef and pork in Michigan cities
by means of trucks.
Merectaitliis
The Searching Finger of Fire
% Who wouldn’t like to have his name on
the front page of the home-town paper and
those of the surrounding towns, woven into
a story of some big, worthwhile accomplish-
ment?
But suppose the story told ot a disastrous
fire—a fire which spread to other homes, per-
haps made families homeless, some of them
penniless, with helpless children clinging to
despairing parents, wondering what it is all
about.
In the above picture you see the accusing
scar of a previous rubbish fire in the rear of
a retail store and in spite of it a second pile,
awaiting the searching finger of fire, the stray
spark, the discarded match or cigarette.
Rubbish and litter is not only a serious
fire hazard. It is an offense against public
welfare with which no good citizen wants to
be charged; because neglect of duty along
these lines frequentlyleads to a disastrous con-
flagration, bringing great loss toa community.
St
SUPEEDOTUUDUETECUE CUE UDU ELE GDEUUT CCU COGEOMODGRUGCCRTGROOROROOGEU ECU ROR URGE COOEUU ORDER DEE TOU COR UCD EER ECOPE DEE EEO EEE EEC
STRENGTH ECONOMY
THE MILL MUTUALS
AGENCY
Representing the
MICHIGAN MILLERS MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
(MICHIGAN'S LARGEST MUTUAL) ©
AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES
Lansing Michigan
Combined Assets of Group
$45,267,808.24
20% to 40% Savings Made Since Organization
FIRE INSURANCE — ALL BRANCHES
Tornado—Automobile—Plate Glass
DUUECHOSKEROQUEEOGUQCGOODEUUCECOCOEEOSUG0G0EGEECOUECEECHOUEQUEEOSOCEOCEGEODORDOCUEROGECROGUCUOEOORORORE EY
To
A
WHEN
You have a customer buying
SEEDS
He expects you to furnish Seeds that
GROW
Reliable Seeds will produce more
PROFITS
“Pine Tree Field Seeds” are reliable
DISTRIBUTED BY
ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.
25 Campau Ave.
Grand Rapids. Michigan
More Profit to
YOU
When you sell
goods with an established price which
by increasing turnover.
protects your margin of profit — then
rapid turnover makes you money. In
KC
Baking
Powder
Same price for over 38 years
25) ane 2
(more than a pound and a half for a quarter)
pushing
with the consistent quality and price
advertising behind it — with the price
plainly shown on the label — you can
increase turnover and get more profit
on your baking powder investment.
Millions of Pounds Used by Our
Government