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THE FIRST AUTUMN.

Where God had walked
The golden-rod
Sprang like fire

From the burning sod.

The purple asters
When He spoke

Rose up beautifully
Like smoke.

And shouting glory
To the sky

The maple trees
Where He passed by.

But when God blessed
The last bright hill
The holy world
Grew white and still.
Marshall Schacht.

 

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LAWRENCE PACKING COMPANY

CANNERS OF

Michigan Asparagus, Berries and Cherries

 

“EQUAL TO THE BEST AND BETTER THAN THE REST”

LAWRENCE, MICH.

 

MICHIGAN HOUSEWIFE APPRECIATES
MICHIGAN ASPARAGUS

Bay City, Michigan
Oct. 15, 1931
Lawrence Packing Co.
Lawrence, Michigan

Gentlemen:

I am enclosing a wrapper from a can of Home Style Cut
Green Asparagus Tips which you put up.

I cannot commence to tell you how much we enjoyed this
healthful article, and how much we are disappointed at not
being able to buy any more.

Our grocer says he cannot get it. Will you kindly name us
your wholesaler or jobber in our city or Saginaw, Michigan.
Thanking you, | am

‘ Yours very truly,
Mrs. Raymond L. Campbell
600 S. Farragut St.
Bay City, Michigan.

 

 

 

 

-There’s Profit
in that word... FRESH

Customers demand fresh as well as quality foods.
And grocers who can supply this combination can’t
help but profit, because they serve satisfied cus-
tomers—daily purchasers.

CHASE & SANBORN’S DATED COFFEE repre-
sents one of the most profitable items because it is
always fresh and always high quality. The date on
the can proves its freshness. The
reputation of over 65 years proves its
quality. And great advertising cam-
paigns continually create desire for
this fine coffee.

 

 

 

 

 

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and quality.

 

The result will be bigger profits!

CHASE & SANBORN’S
Dated COFFEE

A Product of STANDARD BRANDS INCORPORATED

 

 

Home Baker
Flour

The list of Merchants {who
are selling Home Baker Flour

is constantly growing.

There is always a cause for

every effect.

Extremely high quality
Priced very low
Every sack guaranteed
Made to our own formulae
Sold only by Independent

Retailers.

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Baker Flour.

An asset to any dealer.

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Forty-ninth Year

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN
E. A. Stowe, Editor

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

UNLIKE ANY OTHER PAPER. Frank, free and
fearless for the good that we can do. Each issue com-
plete in itself.

 

 

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month or more old, 15 cents; issues a year or more
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Entered September 23, 1883, at the Postoftice of Grand
Rapids as second class matter under Act of March
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JAMES M. GOLDING
Detroit Representative
507 Kerr Bldg.

 

 

SOME TRENDS IN TRADE.
Sidelights on the General Business
Situation.

The President’s plan to stabilize bank
credits has attracted more attention
than was generally anticipated here.
It is typical of other plans to follow,
which will be founded on sound, eco-
nomic principles. Regardless of per-
sistent rumors, there is no hope of any
fantastic scheme or panacea to start
another stock boom or to bring about

a quick revival of business.

Within a few days the President is
expected to announce a plan to im-
prove the situation of railroad bonds,
and it is known that he is considering
plans for the relief of other industries,
to supplement the financial program.
It is also expected that out of the vari-
ous committee reports on National
housing conditions a greatly improved
method of financing home building will
be forthcoming. The complete pro-
gram of the Administration will con-
sider the basic economic factors of
credit, financing, production and dis-
tribution.

Redistribution of our topheavy gold
store has been going on at a rapid rate
ever since Great Britain suspended
specie payments, half a billion dollars’
worth having gone out in the three
subsequent weeks. But as_ France,
which has more than it can use, is get-
ting most of it, the probable effect of
the outflow on world business is ob-
scure.

Average commodity prices were un-
changed last week, the Irving Fisher
index number remaining at 68.1, where
it stood the week before. In Great
Britain the slow rise which began with
depreciation of the pound continued,
the Crump index number advancing to
64.8 compared with 64.2 the week be-
fore and 60.5 three weeks ago.

Although U. S. Steel forward orders
fell to a new low point in September,
contrary to early expectations of some
revival in that month, continued en-
quiries from the railroads and automo-

GRAND

bile industry have stimulated a confi-
dent feeling among steel producers.
Gains are looked for in the current
month.

Savings to the amount of $107,000,-
000 are held by 82,061 housewives in
the Bowery Savings Bank, New York.
lf housewives generally are equally
prudent and well off, reserve buying
power among those who do most of
our spending in retail stores must still
be very large. This is a pretty good
back log against the time when we are
all busy again.

The asked-for 15 per cent. increase
in railroad rates would cost the average
American family $3.06 a year, or less
than one cent a day, according to an
analysis put out by the Chesapeake &
Ohio Railroad. The average family’s
chewing gum bill, it is further pointed
out, takes 87 cents more than that.

Comment of department store men
throughout the country indicates a
widespread agreement with the New
York Better Business Bureau’s criti-
cism of the recent tendency among
New York department stores to adver-
tise price cuts in derogation of com-
petitors.

The chain store investigation by the
Federal Trade Commission under the
Brookhart resolution is nearing com-
pletion and, if nothing unforeseen hap-
pens, will be ready for Congress in De-
cember.

The Indiana chain store tax case has
become the precedent for all other
states which desire to tax chain organ-
izations, because of the refusal of the
U. S. Supreme Court to rehear the
case. This final decision by the Court
lets the bars down on the question of
discrimination. The Court in its deci-
sion also recognized as consistent the
difference between independent and
chain merchandising, not only in own-
ership, but also in organization, man-
agement and type of business trans-
acted.
decisions will follow
after scheduled hearings before the
Supreme Court. The A. & P. Tea Co.
has questioned the validity of a North
Carolina law which levies a tax of $50
for each store in excess of one operated
in the State. And in the case of the
Penney Stores, Inc., a statute of Mis-
sissippi is questioned. This statute pro-
vides that the rate of wholesale tax
shall be doubled in the case of an op-
erator of more than five stores.

Truth in advertising received a blow
when the Supreme Court refused to
modify its judgment in the so-called
Raladam case, in which it was held
that the Federal Trade Commission
does not have the authority, in the ab-
sence of unfair competition, to prohibit
the advertising and selling of products
considered not to be in the public in-

Further chain

 

On May 25 last the Supreme
Court held in this case that the Com-
mission was without jurisdiction to en-

terest.

force an order requiring the Raladam
Co. to cease and desist from advertising
its product, Prescription
Tablets, offered as a remedy for obesi-

Marmola

ty. The final confirming of this deci-
sion will curtail the Commission’s cam-
paign against false and fraudulent ad-
vertising, for in each case it will have
to show that such advertising is an
injury to competitors.

Advertising of New York department
stores has been followed for more than
a year by the Federal Trade Commis-
sion, and soon the investigation will
result in the calling of a trade practice
conference in New York City. The
purpose will be to arrive at a group of
legal and ethical rules which will, in the
future, eliminate many of the price
comparisons and criticisms of competi-
tors that have prevailed in the adver-
tising of New York department stores
for some time.

The merchandising of
publications, urged for years by busi-
ness men, now has an authoritative
champion in Congressman Sol Bloom,

government

who is working out a plan that will
information on the subject the
widest possible circulation. Recently
he informed this bureau that he con-
siders such a plan to be most neces-
sary, and that he would do everything
he could to put it into execution. “As
it is,’ he said, “numbers of very valu-
able books and reports are printed and
stocked away. A few copies get into
circulation, where many thousands
should be circulated. The reason is
that the Government has no means of
merchandising. My idea is to formu-
late a definite plan of distribution, so
that information regarding all Govern-
ment publications can be sent to all of
the people of the country who will
benefit.”

An experience in
aroused Mr. Bloom’s
subject several years ago. When the
Government published the “Federal
Code” Mr. Bloom thought the volume
would be of interest to the lawyers of
New York. He sent a letter describing
the volume to all of the lawyers in the
city, and the return was so large that
he had to phone the Superintendent of
Documents to send two men to handle
the business. Without his simple plan
the lawyers of Manhattan bought about

give

merchandising
interest in the

a score of the “Federal Code’; after
they were properly advised they
bought several thousand copies. Mr.

Bloom mentioned another book, “The
Formation of the Union,” which sells
at cost for $2.85 a copy. “This is one
of the most valuable books ever printed
by any Government,” he said, “and
although it had a very limited sale, it
should be in every school and library

Number 2509

in the land. It would be—if it were
properly merchandised.”

The bicentennial
bration continues to attract the atten-
tion of Department
stores in every city are now co-operat-
ing, and already the influence on man-
ufactured articles of many kinds has
been noted. The Bicentennial Commis-
sion, Washington building, has pub-

Nation-wide cele-

manufacturers.

lished a special booklet on this phase
of the copies of

manufacturers can

organization work,
interested
procure on request.
Commercial broadcasting abroad is
being studied by the Department of
Commerce and a recent report, “Broad-
cast Advertising in America,”
answers almost every conceivable ques-
tion regarding the medium in the ter-
ritory covered.

which

Latin

3riefly, the report
presents a country-by-country outline,
which is intended to sketch the status
of commercial broadcasting as late as
June, 1931, in the Western hemisphere
outside of the United States and Cana-
da. Similar reviews, covering the most
important commercial countries of the
remainder of the world, will be made
available shortly.
—_++-___

Novelty Jewelry Reorders Good.

Following the active retail trade at
the start of the week, a liberal volume
of reorders on novelty jewelry reached
manufacturers. The

demand covers
gold and silver finish jewelry and
aluminum types. In one quarter the

demand for plain gold finish types is
said to be particularly heavy, inasmuch
as this finish harmonizes with the
strong color trend toward black, brown
and green. The call for reproductions
of antique styles continues good, al-
though some firms have dropped the
Eugenie or Second designa-
tions on the ground they have been
overdone,
—_+-+.____

Tentative Homeware Orders Given.

Retailers, shopping through the
homewares markets this week, placed
tentative orders for large quantities of
merchandise to be shipped Nov. 1.
These orders, however, were not “firm”
but must await confirmation. So far as
actual sales were concerned the whole-
sale markets are less active this week
than last. There was some call for
chinaware in the cheaper retail ranges
and a moderate demand for silver
plated hollow ware, but in other lines
sales are disappointing.

—_——e~+-+____

Seven New Readers of the Tradesman.

The following new subscribers have
been received during the past week:

Paul Tank, Rogers City.

W. G. Davis, Homer.

R. W. Bulkeley, City.

John Etzel, Harbor Beach.

W. E. Chapman, City.

Nelson E. Pettibone, Howell,

W. A. Branam, Baldwin.

Empire

 

 

 

DETROIT DOINGS.

 

Late Business News From Michigan’s
Metropolis.

An ordinance requiring all establish-
ments that sell food to live up to re-
quirements of the Department of
Health, and to conduct their business
in buildings conforming to the Building
Code, has been adopted by the city
council of Detroit. The measure also
brings within one $5 annual fee the
licensing expense for selling all kinds
of food, which is calculated to be an
advantage to hundreds of small gro-
cers, who now are forced to pay a
number of separate license fees for
selling milk, cigarettes, soft drinks and
other goods. The ordinance does not
include restaurants or meat markets
which are covered by the terms of
other ordinances, nor hucksters’ wagons
nor markets now operated by the city.
It does require open-air markets to
carry on their business in “a building
meeting the requirements of the build-
ing code.” Broad powers to inspect
and require cleanliness in all food-
selling establishments are placed in the
hands of the Department of Health by
the ordinance.

More than 1,000 retailers from all
parts of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana
are the guests of Buhl Sons Co. all
during this week. They are here to
attend one of the most comprehensive
and colorful exhibitions of hardware
ever to be staged in this city. The big
Buhl store has been beautifully decor-
ated for the occasion and every known
article of hardware has been placed on
exhibition. The store is to be open
until midnight every evening during the
week. Refreshments and _ entertain-
ment of a high order are on the pro-
gram.

The American Woolen Co., long
recognized as one of the largest com-
panies of its kind in the world, has
opened a Detroit branch office at 7-244
General Motors building it 1s announc-
ed by Lionel J. Noah, president. The
company, with assets of $110,000,000
and forty-seven mills with 10,000 looms
has been engaged recently in selling
broadcloth, Bedford cords and other
types of flat automobile fabric to the
automotive industry. The office is in
charge of E. C. Kavanagh, representing
the president. Associated with him is
Emler H. Heck, widely known among
motor car manufacturers, having served
as purchasing executive for several
leading companies. A highly trained
staff of technical experts and direct
factory representatives also be
maintained in Detroit.

Harold W. Bervig, secretary of the
Michigan Retail Hardware Association,
has announced that convention dates
have been changed from Feb. 2-5 in-
clusive to Feb, 9-12, 1932, inclusive.
This change was made to avoid con-
flict with the Wisconsin convention.

will

Regner Graef & Co., local retail
men’s furnishings chain stores with
headquarters at 2521 Woodward

avenue, and ten other stores in this
city have failed. Nominal assets given
as $111,513 include real estate, $23,000;
cash on hand, $500; bills and notes,
$1,000, and stock in trade, $81,743, while

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

liabilities listed at $57,506 include se-
cured claims, $6,000, and unsecured
claims, $51,506, in schedules filed in the
U. S. District Court here.

Assets are given as $623 and liabil-
ities, $17,231 in schedules filed by
Louis D’Agostino, merchant tailor, in
voluntary bankruptcy.

The National Automobile Show has
become something concrete and definite
with the automotive industry since the
drawing for exhibit space, and that fact
is having its important influence upon
executive thinking. At any rate, there
is a new note of optimism and a mark-
ed acceleration of activity which looks
toward -January and the New York
show.

With the future dominating Detroit's
thinking to the extent it now is, it is
natural that reports of various plans
begin to fill the atmosphere. One of
the most compelling at the moment
concerns the introduction of a steam-
driven passenger car next year. Many
are of the opinion that the novelty of
steam propulsion would assure the car
of a large public interest, particularly
from the standpoint of what modern
engineering could do to advance a prin-
ciple which had so many advantages in
the early days.

Sponsorship of the new six-cylinder
car to be made by a company headed
by George M. Graham now is assumed
to be provided by an estabished man-
ufacturer. The car is going to be ex-
hibited in the New York show.

Detroit found data of genuine in-
terest in the comparison of motor truck
and freight car capacity in the current
buletin of Colonel Leonard P. Ayres,
the Cleveland Trust Company’s busi-
ness analyst. Colonel Ayres’s figures
show that the total capacity of motor
trucks is less than one-twentieth that
of the Nation’s freight cars and that
the total business they obtain probably
is about one-thirtieth. The figures tend
to sustain the point of the automobile
industry that highway transport is less
of a menace to rail business than the
railroads have been willing to believe.
At least, that is the sentiment in De-
troit.

Among the details of new _ cars
which have come back from the Paris
salon several have proved especially
interesting to motor company execu-
tives here. The new small cars de-
signed to compete with American prod-
ucts have been studied in detail. So
has the Mercedes-Benz with all four
wheels independently sprung. That
kind of springing is the subject of close
investigation in several laboratories in
America.

Robert H. Crooker, just appointed
advertising manager’ of Chevrolet, is
well known in the automobile industry.
Crooker’s elevation to the post vacated
by R. K. White recalls that he was
the first advertising manager to handle
a million-dollar appropriation. That
was when he was associated with the
old Chalmers Motor Car Co.

—_+++___

It is much more important to be
something interesting and admirable
than to have everything in sight. To
be or not to be, that is the real ques-
tion. -

ONE OF THE OLD GUARD.

 

L. A. Sears, President Warrensburg
Canning Co.

L. A. Sears (“Lon,” as he is affec-
tionately known by his countless
friends and associates) President of
the Warrensburg Canning Co., a Vice-
President of ‘W. R. Roach & Co., and
one of the Old Guard, has been a
pioneer, a staunch leader, a constant
shining light in the canning industry
for half a century.

“Ton” first saw the light of day in
1860, in the sunny ‘State of Kansas.
Reared on his father’s farm near Law-
rence, it was about 1875 that his father
started the industry of drying sweet
corn. “Lon” made a full-fledged hand
on the farm during the growing, har-
vesting and drying of the sweet corn.
In the handling—up to the point where
it was placed on the dryer—the process
was similar to our present methods, up
to the point of husking. In those days
the work of husking and cutting the
corn off the cob was all done by hand.

In 1880 “Lon’s” father sold out his
farm and drying business and joined
with his brother at Circleville, Ohio,
where they were drying corn in a large
way and also doing some canning.
“Ton” spent one season at Circleville
in the cannery. That Fall the company
decided to build a factory at Three
Rivers, Michigan, and the following
Spring “Lon” was sent to Three
Rivers, with the instructions to build
and to operate a corn canning factory.
He remained there nine years as plant
manager. He introduced and estab-
lished the “Sugar Loaf,’ and associat-
ed brands and labels among the gro-
cery trade and their customers,

About this time Mr. Sears married
Miss Inez Taber, who is a very charm-
ing wife and mother.

In the Spring of 1901 his company
decided to build a plant at Pentwater,
Michigan, and again “Lon” was called
upon to build, equip and operate the
cannery. For several years he had
personal charge of the operations at
this point which were most successful
under his directing hand.

In 1906 the Sears-Nichols Co. marg-
ed into a corporation and “Lon” Sears’
guiding hand shaped the early policies
of this very well-managed organiza-
tion, until 1915, when he severed his
relations with the Sears-Nichols Co.
and joined with the writer in taking
over the Warrensburg Canning Co.,
and at the same time becoming associ-
ated with the W. R. Roach & Co., with
headquarters at Hart, Michigan. He
still is a Vice-President and director
of the W. R. Roach & Co,

Mr, Sears was the third President of
the National Canners’ Association. He
was one of the founders and has serv-
ed in almost every office of both the
National and State associations, and
has constantly served the N. C. A. on
its important committees. He believes,
preaches and practices the faith of
team-work within the industry,

“Lon” and I have labored, planned,
struggled and played together before
he went to Pentwater. We have work-
ed in double harness, both in our per-
sonal and company affairs and in the
Association’s work. We have pulled
together when the going was not so

 

October 21, 1931

smooth and we have pulled in unison
when the road seemed easier,

“Ton” is a broad-gauged, tireless and
fearless worker—a loyal friend and
business associate. ‘The canning in-
dustry as a whole needs more men of
his caliber—the vision to see—the will
to do—and the capacity and persever-
ance to carry on.—W. R. Roach in
Canning Age.

—_~++>—_—_

Items From the Cloverland of Michi-
gan.

‘Sault Ste. Marie, Oct. 20—There is
great rejoicing now that the detour
coming into the Sault is no longer
necessary. The contractors have finish-
ed the center of the cement on U § 2,
so that the cars can now get through
without the detour. We are also prom-
ised that within the next ten days the
M 28 meeting U S 2 on the Ashmun
street hill will be opened, so that we
will have all good cement roads going
out of the Sault. While the construc-
tion was somewhat of a handicap dur-
ing the tourist season, we will now ap-
preciate the good roads more than
ever and will look forward to the in-
crease in our tourist business for next
season.

‘Walter Fletcher, for the past ten
years one of our popular hardware
merchants on the South side, has sold
out to Ted Steffens, the well-known
traveling salesman, who has taken over
the business. Ted, as his many friends
all know him, needs no introduction to
the public, having traveled throughout
Cloverland for the past fifteen years
representing the National Grocer Co.
until the ‘National was taken over by
the Soo Wholesale Grocers. He made
many friends with the merchants and
their customers, Ted for the past year
has been selling automobiles, but when
Mr. Fletcher offered to retire from the
hardware business, the opportunity was
embraced and he will continue the well
established ‘business which has been a
success all these years.

Mr, and ‘Mrs. Carl Stauffer, of Mus-
kegon, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Shaw at their summer cottage at Birch
Point,

‘Most fellows’ idea of a square deal
is to hold all the trumps.

‘The first trout of the trolling sea-
son was taken at Mackinac Island last
week by Captain Ed. Couchols, with
Orville Stejele at the oars.

Arthur Marriott, for many years
manager of the Park ‘Hotel, also the
New Murray ‘Hill Hotel, has moved

‘ into his new residence on Cedar street.

It is one of the finest residences on the
street. Mr. Marriott has closed his
summer home on Sugar Island and
will spend the winter here.

_V. R. Conway, the well known drug-
gist, accompanied by his wife, have
left for an automobile trip through
Lower Michigan. They will spend a
month visiting relatives in Detroit be-
fore returning.

‘The Catel recreation bowling alleys
have opened for the winter season. The
alleys have all been refinished and are
as good as new. A schedule of winter
tournaments will be arranged.

Mrs. B. King and Earl Bye, of the
Edison Sault Electric Co. there, won
the Nation-wide derby recently staged
by the Kelvinator as a_ sales race
among distributors. The Soo horse, in
charge of Mrs, King and Earl Bye,
won on the Fairmont track and will
receive a share of the $18,000 stakes.
In addition to the cash prize they have
each received a walrus bag. Dayton,
Ohio, and Lowell, (Mass., were close
seconds. It looks as if the Sault was
the best city or has the best salesmen
considering this being a National
affair.

_'We thought that there were two
sides to every question, but we find
that prohibition has three—the wet
side, the dry side and the inside.

William G, Tapert.

 

 

October 21, 1931

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.

Grand Rapids, Oct. 8—We have received
the schedules in the matter of the Cor-
donic Manufacturing Corp., a corporation,
in bankruptcy No. 4549. The bankrupt
concern is a resident of Holland. The
schedules show assets of $188,873.83, with
liabilities of $242,967.04. The list of cred-
itors of said bankrupt is as follows:
Manufacturers Finance Co., Chi. $25,327.10
Mortgage on land, Holland ~_____ 15,000.00
Condenser Corp., Jersey City -_ 6,236.98
Polymet Mfg. Co., New York -. 3,754.79
Dongan Electric Co., Detroit ____ 896.88
Foreign & Domestic Veneer Co.,

EOuisville ob co 4,394.53
Selden Mfg. Co., Chicago —-____ 217.49
Kingston Products Co., Kokomo 231.22
Associated Cabinets Fac., Chicago 26,000.00
Acme Elec. & Mfg. Co., Cleveland 305.75
Acme Metal Products, Grand R. 44.45
Acrovox Co., Brooklyn =... 1,018.76
Aluminum Goods Mfg. Co.,

WMamitOWOG 502 683.20
American Elec. Heater Co., Detroit 100.41
American Glue Co., Boston ____--__ 48.00
Amrad ‘Corp., Chicaro 3.83
Arco Electrical Corp., Niles --__ 4,673.96
Arcturus Radio Tube Co., Newark 16.91
Automatic Winding Co., Newark 2,482.22

Bassick Co., Bridgeport ~_________ 56.92
Henry Baumgartel, Hollad ~_______ 2.00
Behr Manning Corp., Grand Rap. 171.63
Belden Mfg. Co., Chicago ________ 57
Bemis Bros. Bag Co., St. Louis __ 16.12

Best Mfg. Co., Irvington ——_____ 3.00
Bolhuis Lum. & Mfg. Co., Holland 337.08
Nicholas Bonnett & Co., Inc., Det. 97.83

Wm. Brand & Co., New York __-_ 28.47
G. A. Brackett Co., Milwaukee ___ 24.00
H. R. Brink, Holland = o-2 252.81

Burroughs Adding Mach., Grand R. 80.00
Bush & Lane Piano Co., Holland__ 736.08

Candy & Co... Chicaro 3. 17a
George B. Carpenter & Co., Chicago 53.34
Carter Radio Co., Chicago —~-______ 1,746.33

Central Radio Labor., Milwaukee 2.83
Chicago Telephone & Sup., Elkhart 237.11

Cinch Mfg. Corp., Chicago ________ 558.07
City Treasurer, Holland _. 14.16
Condenser Corp. of America,

Jersey City 20 3,706.04
Continental Diamond Fibre Co.,

Chicgrq 2200 2,374.08
Cornell Electric Mfg. Co., Inc.,

hone island City ~-- 2 801.90
Corwin, Norcross & Cook, G. R. __ 105.58
Crescent Elec. Co., Detroit  ~_____ 972.65
Crowe Name Plate & Manufacturing

€o., Chicago 22020 2,689.28
Detex Watchclock Corp., Chicago 1.02
Vv. J. Dolan & €o., Chicago 533.75
DePree Hardware Co., Holland___ 34.40
Dongan Electric Mfg. Co., Detroit 60.16
Dudley Paper Co., Lansing ________ 43.65
A. Motorcycle Service, Chicago __. 12.75
Arthur Johnson & Co., Chicago __ 3.40
Burlap Paper Co., Chicago _______ .30

Faithhorn Corporation, Chicago —_ 120.77
Graphie Arts Electric, Chicago _. 76.15
International Telehost, Chicago __ 1.15
Western Union, Holland __________ 19.62
H. H. Eby Mfg. Co., Philadelphia 3,075.31
Hddie Mfr. €o., Chicago 7.59
Electro-Motive Eng. Corp., N. Y. 1,106.26

John C. Fischer Co., Ann Arbor __ 2.28
Foreign & Domestic Veneer Co.,
Douisville 220 oe 91.65
General Instrument Corp., N. Y. 5,796.30
General Radio Co., Cambridge ____ 25.04
A. R. Giard & Associates, Worcester 19.41
Gentz Studios, Grand Rapids ______ 45.00

Globar Corp., Niagara Falls ____ 4,306.80
Gold Seal Electric Co., New York 925.16
L. F. Grammes & Sons, Allentown 30.55
G. R. Dowell Works, Grand Rapids 25.13
G. R. Electric Blue Print Co.,

Grand Rapids 05. 2b 18.34
G. R. Electrotype Co., Grand Rap. 54.13
G. R. Wood Finishing Co., G. R. 2.90
Grand Sheet Metal Works, Chicago 3,436.45
Great Lakes Plating Co., Chicago 1,168.21
Harbor Plywood Corp., Chicago __ 76.80
Hart & Cooley Mfg. Co., Holland 903.47
BE. B. Hawkins Mef. Co., Grand R. 24.19
Holland Printing Co., Holland ____ 361.65
A. L. Halcomb Co., Grand Rapids 11.49
Horder’s Inc., Chicago 0. 30.20
Howe Scale Co., Rutland ~_________ 35.76
M. D. Hubbard Spring Co., Pontiac 55.08
Igrad Condenser & Mfg. Co.,

Rochester @22 0 1,997.16
Independent Electric Co., Muskegon 123.23
I. X. L. Machine Shop, Holland __ 13.40
W. K. Jackson, Holland __..__ 35.00
Jensen Radio Mfg. Co., Chicago__ 428.37
Jewell Electrical Inst. Co., Chicago 168.92
W. A. Johns Paper Co., Chicago 29.95
Keeler Brass Co., Grand Rapids__ 207.40
Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Co.,

(ORICA Oc 1,989.60
Kennedy Oil Co., Ine., Grand R. 25.50
Kester Solder Co., Chicago ________ 242.81
Kimberley-Clark Corp., Neenah __ 83.98
Krz-Kosch. Co., Dayton —.. 3 73.32
Lacy Mfg. Co., Fayetteville ~______ 233.68
Lindeman Wood Finish Co.,

Mdianapols 200 oe 17.52
Linen Thread Co., Chicago ________ 17.40

C. J. Litscher Electric Co., G. R. 88.08
Manhattan Electric Supply Co.,

Cnleaeo: 2 7.76
Mansfield Lock Washer Co.,

VEL SERRELONYS 5 39.27
Mnfrs. Appraisel Co., Pittsburgh__ 50.00
Mnfrs. Sales Co., Buffalo ____._____ 48.37

Mechanical Plating Co., Chicago__ 526.81
Micamold Radio Corp., Brooklyn__ 415.16
Michigan Tag Co., Grand Rapids__ 48.25

‘rupt.

Monroe Paper Products Co., Monroe 918.14
Mutual Veneer Co., Grand Rapids 75.10
Muehlig & Lanphear, Ann Arbor —__ -88
Magnavox Co., Chicago ____.______ 4.31
McMullen Mach. Co., Grand Rap. 31.68
National Co., Inc., Malden ~_______ 90.37
Theodore H. Neubauer, Chicago __ 279.05
Nichols & Cox Lumber Co., G. R. 494.00
Ornamental Products Co., Detroit 10.20
Ottawa Furniture Co., Holland__ 5,087.28
Otis Elevator Co., Detroit ~-______ -65
Oxford Radio Corp., Chicago ____ 6,470.29
Thomas W. Parker Co., Grand R. 10.92

Peirce Mfe. Co.,:Chieago 1,423.26
Penn Rivet Co., Philadelphia ~-____ 2.48
Fhoell: Mie. Co, ‘Chicase |. 330.96
Polymet Mfg. Corp., New York __ 51.88
Precise Produtcs Co., Rochester__ 2.02
Quadriga Mfg. Co., Chicago ~_____ 75.66
Radio Coil & Wire Corp., Chicago 1,787.21
Radio Condenser Corp., Camden __ 8.87

Radio Mfg. Association, Chicago__ 50.00

RCA Radiotron Co., Cleveland __14,210.41
Rice & Rice, Grand Rapids ______ 635.65
Rola. €o.. Cleveland 6.25

Joseph T. Ryeson & Sons, Chicago 15.26
Shakeprcoof Lock Washer Co., Chi. 291.12
Spaulding Fibre Co., Detroit ____ -61
Standard Transformer Corp., Chi. 3,303.89
Standard Oil Co., Holland 9.98

Stanley Mfg. Co., Dayton __-____ 59.28
Steel Sales Corp., Chicago ..___ 1.66
H. & J. Stevens Co., Brooklyn __ 30.50

Edwin B. Stimpson Co., Brooklyn 109.00
St. Louis Basket & Box Co., St. L. 78.57
Charles A. Strelinger & Co., Detroit 1.65

Tandler Co., Inc., Grand Rapids __ 144.42
Tanglefoot Co., Grand Rapids ____ 64.40
Judson L. Thompson Mfg. Co.,

DO@GrOit o 9 1,103.57
Tracy Clock Co., Grand Rapids __ 43.60
United Shoe Mach. Co., Boston __ 41.17
United Screw & Bolt Corp., Chicago 113.17
United Stove Co., Ypsilanti _.... 43.50
Utah Radio Products Co., Chicago 2,466.15
Tyler Van Ladegend, Holland ____ 2.21

Visscher-Brooks Ins. Agency, Hol. 280.60
Waddell Mfg. Co., Grand Rapids__ 62.32
Warm Friend Service Sta., Holland 15.44
George E. Watson, Chicago ________ 21.50
Weatherproof Body Corp., Owosso 179.25
West-Dempster Co., Grand Rapids 30.48

West Disinfecting Co., Detroit __ 11.00
J. Westenbroek & Co., Holland __ 44.96
Western Rubber Co., Goshen ______ 210.23

Wetsinghouse Elec. Sup. Co., Det. 392.15
White Bros. Electric Co., Holland 6.22

Yaxley Mfg. Co.,, Chicaeo _ |. 659.77
Zapvon Co. Chicago 35.00

Zeeland Wood Turning Co., Zeeland 16.00
F. R. Zerrick Mfg. Co., New York 58.69
Brandt Advertising Co., Chicago__ 94.04
Automatic Winding Co., Newark 3,034.67
Jesen Radio Co., Chicazo — 6,500.00
General Instrument Co., New Y. 8,343.11
Crowe Name Plate Co., Owosso 1,264.10
Radio Coil & Wire Co., Chicago__ 4,323.84
Globar Corporation, Niagara Falls 10,341.73

Yaxley Mfg. Co., Chicago ______ 5,382.49
Arco Electrical Co., Niles ______ 3,494.59
Carter Radio Co., Chicago ______ 5,747.92

Utah Radio Corporation, Chicago 2,300.00
Polymet Mfg. Co., New York __ 2,600.00
Nichols & Cox Lbr. Co., G. R. __ 250.00
Grand Sheet Metal Works, Chi. 1,195.87

In the matter of Barney B. Mann, Bank-
rupt No. 4297, the final meeting of cred-
itors was held July 30. There were no
appearances, except that of the attorney
for the bankrupt. The trustee’s final re-
port and account was considered and ap-
proved and allowed. Claims were proved
and allowed. An order was made for the
payment of expenses of administration,
as far as funds would permit. There were
no dividends for general directors. All
secured claims, numerous in number and
large in amount, have heretofore been
liquidated and paid in full. No objections
were made to the discharge of the bank-
The final meeting then adjourned
without date, and the case will be closed
and returned to the district court.

Oct. 8. We have to-day received the
schedules, reference and adjudication in
the matter of Clinton E. Van DevVort,
Bankrupt No. 4656. The schedule shows
assets of $2,185.31 of which $1,460 is claim-
ed as exempt, with liabilities of $3,388.84.
The bankrupt is a resident of Comstock
Park. 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 E. C. Poiter, as Potter
Shoe Store, Bankrupt No. 4636. The first
meeting of creditors has been called for
Oct. 22.

Oct. 9. We have received the schedules,
order of reference and adjudication in the
matter of Richard Brandsma, Bankrupt
No. 4657. The bankrupt is a resident of
Grand Rapids, and his occupation is that
of a municipal employe. The schedules
show assets of $453, with liabilities of
$1,348.39. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called.

In the matter of Salid Abdalls, Bankrupt
4342, the trustee’s final report and ac-
count, heretofore filed was considered at
the final meeting of creditors held Aug. 28.
The trustee’s report and account was
approved and allowed. Claims were al-
lowed. An order was made for the pay-
ments of expenses of administration, a's
fas as the funds on hand would permit.
There were no dividends. No objections
were made to the discharge of the bank-
rupt, the final meeting then adjourned
without date, and the ca'se will be closed

and returned to the district court, in due
course.

Oct. 9. We have received the schedules,
order of reference and adjudication in
the matter of Henry Jacobs, Bankrupt
No. 4658. The bankrupt is a resident of
Holland. The schedule shows assets of
$262.50, with liabilities of $7,183.93. The
court has written for funds and upon
receipt of same the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called.

In the matter of Mabel Barnum, Bank-
rupt No. 4273, the final report of the
trustee has heretofore been filed, and a
final meeting of creditors was held July
30. The bankrupt was not present or rep-
resented. The trustee was present. Cer-
tain creditors were represented by G. R.
Credit Men’s Association. The trustee’s
final report and account was approved
and allowed. Claims were proved and
alowed. An order was made for the pay-
ment of expenses of administration, pre-
ferred claims, and a first and final divi-
dend to general creditors of 9.6 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 the matter of Clarence B. Jones,
No. 4273, the final meeting of creditors
was held July 30. The trustee was pres-
ent in person and represented by attorney
Dorr Kuizema. The bankrupt was rep-
resented by attorney Horace T. Barnaby.
was considered and approved and allowed.
The trustee’s final report and account
was considered and approved and allowed.
Claims were proved and allowed. An or-
der was made for the payment of ex-
penses of administration and for the pay-
ment of preferred claims in full and a
first and final dividend to general cred-
itors of 8.5 per cent. No objections were
made to tohe discharge of the bankrupt.
The final meeting then adjourned without
date. The case will be closed and re-
turned to the district court, in due course.

Oct. 12. We have received the sched-
ules, in the matter of J. R. Thompson,
Inc., Bankrupt No. 4631. The bankrupt
is a resident of Kalamazoo. The sched-
ules show assets of $2,336.32, with liabili-
ties of $4,216.82. The list of creditors of
said bankrupt is as follows:

Hi. ©). Com. Kalamazoo $ 63.25
S. E. Brenner, Kalamazoo ________ 50.00
Karl Deal, Comstock 20.30
day Haslan, Kalamazoo 20.00
cy. ©, Cox, Kalamazoo 102.44
Citizens State Savings Bank,
TCG 277.00
American Excelsior Co., Chicago __ 1.24
Acme Quality Paint Store, Kala. 385.31
Bowers Tool & Die, Kalamazoo __ 10.00
Burroughs Adding Ma. Co., Kala.__ 1.50
Barnes Printing Co., Kalamazoo __ 31.00

Celery City Lumber Co., Kalamazoo 20.00
Consumers Power Co., Kalamazoo 108.34
Egyptian Lacquer Mfg. Co., Chicago 19.75
Excello Letter Service, Kalamazoo 2.50
Faries Mfg. Co., Chicago —_________ 19.70
Friedley Vashart Co., Chicago -45
General Builders, Inc., Kalamazoo 162.89
Gerline Brass Foundry Co., Kala. 54.75

Goris & Arnstein, Chicago ________ 12.00
Glass Service Co., Kalamazoo ____ 30.05
Hargie Plating Works, Kalamazoo 27.00
Hill-Custis Co., Kalamazoo 8.50

Hayden Supply Co., Grand Rapids 6.20
Hooker-Paint & Glass, Kalamazoo 166.79
Fred J. Hotop, Kalamazoo ________ 36.85
Ihling Bros. Everard, Kalamazoo __ 66.65
Johnson Paper & Supply Co., Kala. 47.98
Kal. Engraving Co., Kalamazoo ___ 101.00
Kalamazoo Glass Co., Kalamazoo. 1,326.95
Kal. Lumber Co., Kalamazoo ____ 23.34
Kal. Mach. & Tool Co., Kalamazoo 1.50
Mich. Bell Telephone Co., Kalama. 50.12
Mich. San. Towel Sup. Co., Kala. 1.76
Merchants Pub. Co., Kalamazoo__ 15.50
Peck, Stow & Wilcox Co., Kala.__ 115.03
Ruemelin Mfg. Co., Milwaukee ___. 40.00
Russia Cement Co., Chicago ______ 19.40
Superior Coal Co., Kalamazoo ____ 236.26
Union Trim & Lumber, Kaamazoo 6.30
Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp.,
Walaa 124.36
Wicks Insurance Co., Kalamazoo__ 290.23
Oct. 12. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference, and adjudication
in the matter of William O. Cole, Bank-
rupt No. 4660. The bankrupt is a resident
of Shelby, and his occupation is that of
a merchant. painter and decorator. The
schedules show assets of $1,546.06, with
liabilities of $5,813.86. The court has writ-
ten for funds and upon receipt of same
the first meeting of creditors will be
called. The list of creditors of said bank-
rupt is as follows:
Waxes 2...) ES ee $ 67.64
Frank Kern & Delia Kern, Shelby 1,020.00
Frak E. Kern & Della A. Kern,

SHOU, ee 150.00
Receivers of Churchill & Webber,

CEE 456.64
Mrs. Emma Cole, Shelby ~_________ 624.06

Peck & Hills Furn. Co.. Chicago__ 154.65
Star Peerless Wall Paper Co., Joliet 112.70
Bussy & Briggs Co., Chicago __._ 24.55
Bailey Wall Paper Co., Cleveland 229.29
Bona Fide Prod. Corp., Brooklyn 120.10
Columbia Mills, Ine., Detroit ______ 49.81
Phillip Drinkaus Co., Detroit ____ 34.06
William Greg__ory & Son, Ludington 19.00
Griffin & €o., Shelby. 1.11
G. R. Calendar Co., Grand Rapids 22.60
George A. Hawley & Son, Hart ____ 22.40
Huenefeld Co., Cincinnati ______2___ 81.06

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Joliet Wall Paper Mills, Joliet -... 206.54
Kelly Service Station, Shelby -___-__ 53.41

H. Veonard & Sons, Grand Rapids 20.12
National Mattress Co., Grand R. 23.00
Oceana Canning Co., Shelby —--~-- 23.98
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., G. R. 13.27
J. B. Pierce Wall Paper Co., Cievel’d 90.43

-A. . Hankin, Shelby ........_.. __. 2.80
Simmons Co., Chicago ...... 47.35
John Seven Co., Grand Rapids ____ 294.09
John Seven Co., Muskegon ________ 415.24
OQ. W. Siebert Co; Garner _._..._.. 31.18

Southern Stove Works, Evansville 45.00
Harry S. Westmacott, Montague 353.87
Sarah J. and Geo. Wheeler, Shelby 455.00

Ypsilanti Rede Furn. Co., Ionia __ 22.55
Churchill & Webber, Shelby ~~. 536.35
Oct. 12. We have received the sched-

ules, order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Oliver M. Smith, Bank-
rupt No. 4661. The bankrupt is a resident
of Benton Harbor, and his occupation is
that of a school janitor. The schedules
show assets of $90, with liabilities of
$2,155.36. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same the first meeting
of creditors will be called.

Oct. 12. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference, and adjudication
in the matter of George Van Kersen,
Bankrupt No. 4659. The bankrupt is a
resident of Kalamazoo, and his occupation
is that of a salesman. The schedules show
assets of $50, with iabilities of $2,593. The
court has written for funds and upon
receipt of same the first meeting of
creditors will be called.

Oct. 12. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference, and adjudication
in the matter of Robert N. Hughes, Bank-
rupt No. 4662. The bankrupt is a resident
of Grand Rapids, and his occupation is
that of a plasterer. The schedules show
assets of $250, with liabilities of $4,594.50.
The court has written for funds and upon
receipt of same the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called.

In the matter of Cordonic Mfg. Co.,
Bankrupt No. 4549. The first meeting of
creditors has been caled for Oct. 27.

In the matter of Norman M. Fry, Bank-
rupt No. 4645. The fest meeting of cred-
itors has been called for Oct. 27.

In the matter of Marion Stephan, Bank-
rupt No. 4655. The first meeting of cred-
itors has been called for Oct. 27.

Oct. 13. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Ronald Arnold, Bankrupt
No. 4663. The bankrupt is a resident of
Kalamazoo, and his occupation is that of
a mechanic. The shedules show assets
of $250, with liabilities of $1,494.75. The
court has written for funds and upon re-
ceipt of same the first meeting of cred-
itors will be called.

In the matter of Richard Brandsma,
Bankrupt No. 4657. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Oct. 28.

In the matter of Albert Wells, Bank-
rupt No. 4627. The first meeting of cred-
itors has been called for Oct. 28.

In the matter of George A. Van Ker-
sen, Bankrupt No. 4659. The first meeting
of creditors has been called for Oct. 28.

In the matter of Clinton E. Van Devort,
Bankrupt No. 4656. The first meeting of
creditors has been called for Oct. 28.

In the matter of J. R. Thompson, Inc.,
Bankrupt No. 4631. The first meeting
of creditors has been called for Oct. 28.

Oct. 12. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Elwin J. Campbell, Bankrupt No. 4561.
There were no appearances. By agree-
ment with attorneys for the bankrupt,
the meeting was adjourned to Oct. 13.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Leo H. Goss, Bankrupt No. 4607. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney Frank I. Bake. No
creditors were preent or _ represented.
Caims were filed only. The bankrupt was
Sworn and examined without a reporter.
M. N. Kennedy, of Kalamazoo, was ap-
pointed trustee, and his bond placed at
$100. The first meeting then adjourned
without date.

Oct. 12. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Louise Carrothers, Bankrupt No. 4594.
The bankrupt was present in person and
represented by attorney Homer H. Free-
land. Claims were filed only. No cred-
itors were present or represented. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. Fred G. Timmer, of Grand
Rapids, was appointed trustee, and his
bond paced at $100. The first meeting
then adjourned without date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Roy E. Bellaire, Bankrupt No. 4608. The
bankrupt was present in perso and rep-
resented by attorney Charles H. Lillie.
No creditors were present or represented.
Claims were filed only. The bankrupt was
sworn and examined without a’ reporter.
Fred G. Timmer, of Grand Rapids, was
appointed trustee, and his bond placed
at $100. The first meeting then adjourned
without date.

Oct. 18. On this day wa's held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Thomas E. Wilde, Bankrupt No. 4624.
The bankrupt was present in person, but
not represented by an attorney. Several
creditors were present in person. Claims
were filed only. The bankrupt was sworn

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MOVEMENTS OF MERCHANTS.

Muskegon—F. F. Emmons has pur-
chased the Fletcher Fowler grocery
stock, 829 Marquette avenue.

Burr Oak—Phil Botzner has sold his
meat market to Lawrence Reed, of
Galesburg, who has taken possession.

Rochester—Mr. Terrell, recently of
St. Clair, has purchased the Eldred
bakery and will remodel it before open-
ing it.

Royal Oak—The Frank A. Wilkin-
son Drug Co., 401 South Main street,
has been incorporated with a capitaliza-
tion of $10,000.

Burr Oak—The Willard Sager gro-
cery stock was sold to satisfy a chat-
tel mortgage, to B. E. Seaver, whose
bid was the highest.

Detroit—The Centralized Drug Co.,
2600 John R. street, has been incor-
porated with a capital stock of $4,000,
all subscribed and paid in.

Ann Arbor—F. B. Gage, recently of
Saginaw, has opened a linen shop at
605 East William street, under the
style of the House of Linens.

Rochester—Mrs, Holbrook and her
son have leased the Flescher store
building and will open a modern res-
taurant and lunch room there.

Rochester—H. C. Feet, manager of
the local A. & P. store, has leased the
adjoining store and will open a meat
market in connection with the grocery.

Detroit—The Davis Coal & Coke
Co., 6201 East Six Mile Road, has been
incorporated with a capital stock of
$10,060, $2,000 being subscribed and
paid in.

Lake City—Arthur Keelean, former
manager of the M. Jenema general
store, has purchased the stock. The
former owner will continue his general
store at Dinca, R. R. Falmouth.

Sagignaw—Walt H. Richter has en-
gaged in the drug business at 929
North Bond street under the style of
Richter’s Pharmacy. A complete foun-
tain and luncheon service will be given.

Lansing—The Norton Hardware Co.,
305 South Washington avenue, has
merged its business into a stock com-
pany under the same style with a cap-
ital stock of $50,000, $24,000 being sub-
scribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Lalley Light & Power
Corporation, 6640 Charlevoix, dealer in
special hardware, machinery, motors,
etc., has been incorporated with a cap-
ital stock of $5,000, $2,500 being sub-
scribed and paid in.

Grand Rapids— Pollacks’, Inc., 44
Fountain street, has been incorporated
to deal in mimeographs and_ office
equipment in general, with a capital
stock of $10,000, $1,000 being sub-
scribed and paid in.

Detroit — Holley-Mackay, Inc., 132
Madison avenue, millinery, specialties,
notions, has merged its business into a
stock company under the same style
with a capital stock of $2,000, all sub-
scribed and paid in.

Charlotte—The Fred A. Richy Co.
succeeds Richey Bros., 127 South Coch-
ran avenue, in the dry goods and gen-
eral merchandise business with a cap-
ital stock of $10,000, $9,000 being sub-
scribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Check-Air Products
Co., 820 Michigan Theater building, has

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

been incorporated to deal in automo-
biles, auto accessories, novelties, etc.,
with a capital stock of $150,000, $1,000
being subscribed and paid in.

Manistique—J. P. Propst, local pio-
neer business man, has sold his grocery
stock and store building on River
street, to Frank Jenks, who will con-
tinue his services as traveling salesman
and install his son, Thomas, as man-
ager of the store.

Detroit—The Netting Co., 1504 Ran-
dolph street, has merged its electric
fixtures, mantels, fireplaces, etc., busi-
ness into a stock company under the
style of the Netting Lighting & Tile
Co., with a capital stock of $3,000, all
subscribed and paid in.

Kalamazoo—Marinus Van Haften,
proprietor of a clothing and sporting
goods store, 709 North Westnedge
street, has filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy in the U. S. District Court
at Grand Rapids, listing liabilities of
$3,181 and assets of $1,798.

Detroit—Dennen’s Book Shop, Inc.,
37 East Grand River avenue, has merg-
ed the book and stationery business
into a stock company under the style
of Dennen’s, Inc., with a capital stock
of 25,000 shares at $1 a share, $1,000
being subscribed and paid in.

Manistee—William Hoops, 54, prom-
inent local meat dealer, died at his
home here to-day from a ruptured
aorta. He was born and reared in
Manistee and: had lived here all his life.
He was a member of the local lodge,
No. 250, B. P. O. E., and also was
a Modern Woodman.

Grand Ledge—The Grand Ledge
Coal & Ice Co., West Jeqgerson street,
has sold its stock and property to the
Lansing Ice & Fuel Co. It is planned
by the purchasers to increase the mer-
chandising field of the local plant,
serving Portland, Mulliken and_ all
towns near Grand Ledge.

Flint—The H. A. Smith Stores, Inc.,
of Port Huron, has taken over the
Modern Market, 1742 North Saginaw
street, as the first of its chain here and
the thirtieth in the Thumb district of
Michigan. Clarence R. Kersten, buy-
er of fruits and vegetables for the com-
pany, is the manager of the local store.

Hastings—In the involuntary bank-
ruptcy case of E. C. Potter, doing
business as the Potter Shoe Store,
creditors with claims exceeding $500
are: Marion Goodyear, rent, $560; Wil-
liam Grigsby, $868, and. E. C. Edmonds,
$6,855, all of this city. Stock and fix-
tures are listed in the schedules at
$3,900 and debts due, $933.

Cheboygan—Jos. M. Buerger, trav-
eling salesman for Harry Suffrin and
Browning-King & Co., of Detroit, has
severed his connection and opened a
men’s furnishings goods store in the
newly remodeled store building former-
ly occupied by the Maloney insurance
agency. The new store will be the
only exclusive haberdashery North of
Saginaw.

Ludington—W. A. Larsen has sold
his store building at 308 West Luding-
ton avenue and grocery stock to John
S. Sniegowski, who has taken posses-
sion and will conduct the business
under the style of the Serve-You-Well
Grocery. Mr. Sniegowski was born

in Ludington and has had considerable
experience in the grocery business as
well as other lines.

Kalamazoo—Karl W. Lambooy and
Ennis L. Schafer have purchased the
plant and equipment of the J. B. Bak-
ing Co, 2109 Portage street, taking
immediate possession. Both Mr. Lam-
booy and Mr. Schafer are experienced
in the baking business, having been
associated with the Muller Bakeries,
Inc., the former as manager of the
Kalamazoo Bread Co., local branch of
Muller and the latter as general sales
manager. The company does an ex-
tensive wholesale business.

Ironwood—At a meeting of creditors
of Charles Seaman, trading as the
Style Shop, held at the Chicago office
of the Associated Dress Industries of
America, an offer of settlement of 20
per cent. cash was made, which later
was increased to 25 per cent., accept-
ance to be limited to two weeks. The
committee appointed to represent the
Chicago creditors, headed by Frank
Halperin, manager of the Chicago of-
fice of the Associated Dress Industries
of America, is recommending to Chi-
cago creditors that they accept this
offer. The debtor’s statement shows
assets of $9,472 and liabilities of $88,-
=02. As stocks are up for collateral
with banks and individuals, the offer
is made to merchandise creditors only.
The other members of the Chicago
committee are H. Goldstein, Eisenberg
& Sons: H. Lipson, Lipson Bros.; A.
Winter, Nat Ribback Co., and J. Er-
lich, Weiss Grossman Co. Under lia-
bilities are about $16,000 in accounts
payable to merchandise creditors, $9,-
000 to the Seaman building, exclusive
of rent, $15,600 rent and $34,000 of
notes payable, secured.: Acounts re-
ceivable are $7,100 and inventary, 120
pieces at depreciation, is $2,268.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Detroit—The Pfeiffer Products Co.,
3700 Beaufait avenue, has increased its
capital stock from $130,000 to $750,000.

Detroit—The Crittall Casement Win-
dow Co., 10951 Hern avenue, has in-
creased its capital stock from $500,000
to $750,000.

Owosso—The Soule
Inc., 209 Mathews buildings, has been
incorporated with a capital stock of
$25,000, of which amount $14,660 has
been subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—The Advance Metal Prod-
ucts Corporation, 925 Stanley avenue,
has been incorporated with a capital
stock of 50,000 shares at $1 a share,
$1,000 being subscribed and paid in.

Detroit—Geib & Miller, Inc., 3004
West Grand boulevard, manufacturer
and dealer in dental supplies, has ‘been
incorporated with a capital stock of
$50,000, $5,000 being subscribed and
paid in.

Detroit—The Consumers’ Steel Prod-
ucts Corporation, 1965 Porter street,
has been incorporated to manufacture
and deal in steel products with a cap-
ital stock of $10,0000, $6,000 being
subscribed and paid in.

Scottville—Sam Sincoff and Charles
Knack have remodeled the Knack
creamery, installing modern butter-
making machinery, etc., and will con-

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October 21, 1931

duct the business under the style of
the S. & K. Creamery Co.
Detroit—The Uni-Flo Grille Prod-
ucts Co., 2265 West Grand boulevard,
devices for cooling, ventilating, has
been incorporated with a capital stock
of $8,000 common and $2,000 preferred.
$10,000 being subscribed and paid in,
Detroit—The Baker Candy Co., Inc.,
2443 First National Bank building, has
been incorporated to manufacture can-
dy, syrups and deal in raw material for
confectionery, with a capital stock of
$10,000, $1,000 being subscribed and

paid in.
Kalamazoo — The Paper Makers
Chemical Corporation, with general

offices in this city, has become affiliated
with the Hercules Powder Co., of Wil-
mington, Delaware. The Paper Makers
Chemical Corporation will continue un-
der its own name, as will its subsidi-
aries.

Burr Oak—The Burr Oak Manufac-
turing Co. property, recently sold to a
syndicate from Grand Rapids and
Kalamazoo, has been resold. The real
estate was sold at auction to Samuel
Gerber, Kalamazoo. It comprises the
main factory building and two smaller
buildings. The equipment was sold in
small lots to several bidders and will
be removed within ten days.

——_2~-~+___
Collected Charges For Resetting Ring.

Merchants of the city are warned to
be on the watch for a young man at-
tired in a dark suit who called at the
news stand in the Strand theater when
the proprietor was absent and _ told
Mrs, Mary McFadden, the clerk, he
had brought back a ring which F, C.
Vreeland, the proprietor, had had re-
set and that there was a charge of
$3.40 due on it. The clerk paid the
charge and the man left. When the
package he delivered was opened it
contained a cake of soap.

The address on the package was
written in a scrawled hand in pencil.
Inside the wrapper was another which
bore an address in the same almost
illegible scrawl for the “manager of
the Mutual building.” The trick there
failed and the ‘Strand news stand was
the only victim.—Lansing State Jour-
nal,

Carried Potato in Pocket Forty Years.

To a potato he has carried in his
pocket for forty years, Aaron P. Fer-
guson, of Newburgh, N. Y.. attributes
his health and good fortune. He is 70.

The potato, which is two and a half
inches long, has been carried by Fer-
guson for more than 40 vears, in which
time, he contends, he has not been ill.
He began carrying the potato, Fergu-
son said, in keeping with a tradition
that, if a potato is carried in the watch
pocket, the carrier will
rheumatism,

——_~+.»—___

Some of the secrets of restoring re-
tail business, where it has shown signs
of decadence, were pointed out by Dr.
Julius Klein in a recent address. His
brisk, resolute modernization program
for stores included more rigid effi-
ciency, remodeling of equipment and
arrangements, the installing of stock
control systems, the careful training of
sales people, and co-operative adver-
advertising,

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October 21, 1931 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5
Essential Features of the Grocery Sales Corporation has been launched Review of the Produce Market. Heavy fowls oa 16c
Staples, has moved some buyers to cover them- Apples—Wolf River, 60@/5c; Maid- Light fowls ----.-.-_.__.______. 12c
Sugar — Local jobbers, hold. ¢ane selves on some varieties which are ex- en Blush, 75@95c; McIntosh, $1; Wag- Ducks ___._.1............,.--.. 12c
granulated at 5.20c and beet granulated pected.to advance above present levels. ner, 75c; Baldwins, 75c; Jonathans, Geese _.____._.....------------- 10c
at oc) Nuts—Marked declines in the esti- 0c. Sweet Potatoes—$2.50 per bbl.. for
Canned Fruits—The Hawaiian pine- mated pecan crop have been reported Bananas—4¥2@5c per Ib. Virginias.
apple pack this season is put at 12,613,- from various growing centers through- Beets—/5c per bu. Squash—$3 per. 100 Ibs. for Hubbard,
911 cases in a report from Hawaii re- out the country, and Schleys, it is re- Butter—The market is 1/2c lower

ceived from the Coast yesterday, The
packers have called a halt on canning,
and earlier reports that the pack would
run to 16,000,000 cases this season may
now be definitely discarded. World
conditions and other factors induced
the canners to stop when the year’s
pack approximated last year’s produc-
tion. Prices have been pared down to
a point where continued operation of
the canneries would only entail losses.
This news from Hawaii should have an
effect, om) all fruits. It
should stimulate a greater degree of
confidence among buyers and sellers
alike. When indications last spring
pointed to a pack of 16,000,000 cases,
there was considerable speculation as
to what was going to happen to Cali-
fornia fruits. By the same token, fu-
ture sentiment regarding all fruits
should now be benefited. There was a
carryover of pineapple last year, it is
true, but prices were far above those
now quoted, and consuming outlets of
much wider scope remain to be de-
veloped,

Canned Vegetables—Caution is still
the watchword but the price structure
is well maintained. Whatever ground
standard tomatoes lost on the Penin-
sula was more than compensated for
by the advances on futures quoted by
a large California factor. The corpora-
tion has sold out on New No. 2 S. P.
Del Monte tomatoes. Sales of new
pack pumpkin and squash have been
fair, although ‘buyers are inclined to
hold out a little longer for further in-
formation on this year’s pack and a
better idea of how first prices are go-
ing to hold up. Canned corn continues
The short pack of Crosby and
Bantam in Maine, now estimated at
about 25 per cent. below last year, has
inspired confidence among the larger
canners, but New York State will have
a large pack, estimated at about 1,000,-
000 cases. Western standard crushed
corn continues easy,

Dried Fruits—Imported figs are
cleaning up rapidly in this market.
Stocks of old crop Smyrnas are now
practically out of first hands entirely
and so far shipments of new crop figs
have been so light that there is only a
small supply of them available. Cali-
fornia offers little for shipment. Black
figs were reported as firmer last week
on the Coast, but buyers are taking
their requirements slowly. As far as
this market is concerned, price chang-
Stocks of fruits generally
are in moderate supply, and in some
cases shortages exist. There is at
present a growing shortage in Cali-
fornia 30s among the prunes, all
bleached raisins are in light supply,
fancy Thompsons and seeded are avail-
able in only conservative quantities
and some sellers are cleaning up on
choice apricots. The California mar-
ket is steady, but generally inactive.
Prices to growers were unchanged in
latest advices from primary markets.

Canned Fish—Announcement from
the Northwest that the new Salmon

auspicious

easy.

es are few.

ported, will be particularly hard hit.
Prices have been modified and pecans
are now on a price basis which should
move them with little difficulty. In
the walnut line unshelled Nonpareils
have been closely sold up by most ship-
pers on the Coast and buyers are hav-
ing some difficulty in getting their re-

quirements. Unshelled Brazils are
moving somewhat slowly. In the
shelled group imported walnuts, al-

monds and filberts are in light supply
here. Very little remains from the old
crop and new crop nuts have not be-
gun to arrive here as yet in any con-
siderable quantities. Spot prices ap-
pear steady, but revisions are expected
when new crop walnuts arrive in ample
supply.

Pickles—The demand for genuine
dills is one of the features of the mar-
ket here. Midwestern packers are
holding prices firmly in view of ¢he
light supply of good stocks. While
there were no price changes last week,
it is probable that buyers would raise
quotations on indications of sustained
demand,

 

Rice—Confidence in the Southern
rice market is growing, as_ interior

banks and Farm Board credit have
come to the aid of the growers to
check the downward trend in prices.
An effort is now under way to get the
Government to finance the remainder
of the Blue Rose crop, and if this
movement proves. successful higher
prices may be expected by the trade.
Extra fancy Blue Rose is now selling
as low as 25c at the mill, which is an
unnatural level from the standpoint of
healthy trading. Early prolifics sold
very well this year because of the
good quality of the first crops and the
low prices. Long grains are steady and
holding movements, already organized
by growers, appear to be effective in
stabilizing prices. Buying is now sat-
isfactorily active here and there is a
good seasonal volume of business done
day by day, but the trade continues to
anticipate requirements closely.
Sauerkraut—The feeling in sauer-
kraut is one of increasing strength be-
cause of the reduced pack expected in
the present season. Prices are well
maintained on a somewhat firmer basis
than several weeks ago and they may
work still higher if consumption is

sustained,
Vinegar—There is little change in
the vinegar market. Manufacturers

are now busy packing new sweet cider
vinegar and buyers are holding off un-
til they can get a better idea of just
what the new pack will amount to.
There is a little better feeling in re-
gard to covering requirements, but
trading is still essentially of a fill-in
nature.

—_2+++___
Used To Questions.
Attorney (to woman witness after
cross-examination): I hope J haven’t
troubled you with all these questions?
Witness: Not at all. I have a small
boy of six at home,

e

than a week ago. Jobbers hold 1 Ib.
plain wrapped prints at 33%c and 65
lb. tubs at 32%c for extras.
Cabbage—60c per bu.
Carrots—60c per bu.
Cauliflower—$1.25 for box contain-
ing 6@9.
Celery—30@50c according to size.
Celery Cabbage—/75c per doz.
Cocoanuts—75c per doz. or $5.50 per

 

bag.

Cranberries—$2.25 per 25 lb. box of
Early Blacks from Cape Cod.

Cucumbers—No., 1 stock $1 per bu.;
dills, 75c per bu.

Dried Beans—Michigan jobbers are
quoting as follows:

€ Tl. Pea Beans i) $2.75
Lioht Red Kidney «sss 8.50
Dark Red Kidney = 9.50

Eges—The only change during the
week was an advance of 3c in the best
grade. 30c for
strictly fresh offerings of hen’s eggs
and 20c for pullet’s eggs.

Ege Plant—$1.25 per doz.

Grapes—Calif. Tokay, $2.25;
aras, Wordens and Concords, $2
doz. for 4 lb. basket; Delawares, $2.50
per doz. 4 lb. baskets.

Green Onions—20c for Silver Skins.

Green Peas—Calif., $2.75 per crate of
40 Ibs.

Green Beans—$1.75 per bu.

Honey Dew iMelons—$2.25 per crate
of 12 to 16.

Jobbers are paying

Lettuce—In good demand on the
following basis:
Imperial Valley, 6s, per crate ____$3.75
Imperial Valley, 5s, per crate ____ 3.75
Home grown leaf, per bu, ______ 605
Lemons—Present quotations are as
follows:
S60 Sumeist 6 $9.00
S00) Sumkist 2 9.00
oo) Red Ball.) 8.00
S00 Ree Bal 8.00
Oranges—Fancy Sunkist California
Valencias are now sold as follows:
126 $6.50
[50 ee 6.50
C76 6.25
200 oe 6.00
AG §.75
OF 5.50
A 5.50
See 5.00
Onions—Michigan, $2 per 100 Ibs.
for yellow and $2.50 for white.

Parsley—40c per doz. bunches.

Pears—Bartletts, $2.25@2.50 per bu.;
Flemish Beauties, $2; Kiefers, $1 per
bu.; California, $3.50 per box,

Peppers—Green, 40c per doz. for
home grown.

Pickling Stock—20c per 100 for
cukes: $1 per 20 lb. box for white
onions,

Pieplant—75c per bu. for home

grown.

Potatoes—On the local market trans-
actions hover around 40c per bu. In
Northern Michigan carlot buying
points the price ranges from 15@18c
per bu.

Poultry—Wilson & Company pay as
follows:

Tomatoes—Home grown, $1 per %
bu. basket,

Veal Calves — Wilson & Company
pay as follows:
Raney 10@12c
Goed 9c
Medium 0 oe
Poor Cds &c

——_~
Retail Grocers Vote “No” on Sales Tax
Last week the Merchants Journal

sent out 1,000 return post cards to 1,000
names of merchants chosen at random
from the subscribers to the paper.

Several questions were asked on this
post card. The first one was:

“Are you in favor of a Federal tax on
all retail sales?”

The replies are still coming in, but
if they continue to come in the same
proportion as those already received,
and if the entire 1,000 cards should
come back—which, of course, they will
not—the vote would be about as fol-
lows:

For the sales tax, 140.

Against the sales tax, 850.

In doubt, 10.

Nearly all of those who voted in
favor of the Federal sales tax qualified
their “yes” vote with some such
pressions as these:

“Ves, if it will take
other taxes.”

“Yes, i it
merchants.”

ex-
the place of all

lessens taxes of retail

“Yes, if it replaces other taxes.”

“We favor sales tax for all revenues.”

"Yes all any.”

The votes received from these 1,000
post cards will give a very fair cross
section of the retail merchants, es-
pecially the food merchants of Kansas
and Oklahoma. The vote might be
extended to all of the ten thousand
grocers and meat dealers of this sec-
tion without showing
change in percentage.

any material

Some of the replies were very em-
phatic against the tax. One merchant
made a string of “noes”
the card.

clear across
Another said: “We are taxed
too damned much now.”

One card said: “If it lessens taxes,
if it does not, No.”

Another replied: “Not in favor of it
at present; might be later.’ That mer-
chant evidently felt that he did not
know quite enough about the proposed
sales tax and its effects, to form an
Opinion,

Those merchants who voted for the
sales tax apparently did so with the
idea that it would replace all the per-
sonal property tax which merchants
now pay. But the Federal tax cannot
do that. The Federal sales tax would
be to make up the deficits in the income
tax, tariff and other sources of Federal
income,

Of course, it might be that there are
a lot of good arguments in favor of the
I-ederal sales tax which the retail mer-
chants have not heard about, and they
might swing some votes over to the
“yes” side, but as it stands now the
noes have it—Merchants Journal.

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6

MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE

Farmers Lack Organization For Fire
Fighting.

Twelve months and twelve days after
my barn, sheds and other property
near Ann Arbor were destroyed by a
fire which came nearly a mile from a
pile of burning rubbish, a tile barn on
a more desirable site was completed as
to exterior, tile wall, steel beams for
floor above basement, steel window
frames and metal roofing were includ-
ed in the building.

From the experiences during the fire
one year ago a number of lessons may
be drawn, the most significant of
which is that farmers lack organization
and, consequently, a plan for fire fight-
ing. Men who have had experience
fighting fires in fields and marshes and
know what weapons are most effective
seem to forget past occurrences and
grab a shovel and perhaps a pail and
hasten to the scene. A shovel is use-
less when the ground is hard and bak-
ed, for no ditch can be dug nor soil
thrown upon the flames. To try to
beat out a fire with a shovel is only to
spread it faster.

Some had forethought to fill a milk
can with water and put in their autos
along with burlap sacks. Swatting a
line of advancing fire with wet sacks
seems the most effective way.

Neighbors were called by telephone
and the Dexter fire department called
when the fire was creeping through the
woods nearly a half mile away, but not
enough were there or not all properly
equipped to halt the flames. When the
fire reached the open field it came on
as fast as men could run, and was
fought on three sides of the building
at the same time, the fire engine with
two lines of hose throwing water from
a cistern beside the house and all the
men present failed to keep the barn
from taking fire. Farm machinery
was run out of the buildings to the
blackened hay field and efforts centered
on the house, which was eventually
saved with slight damage.

From that point most of the people
present were only spectators.

While I and a few young men were
removing household effects to the op-
posite roadside about 100 fence posts
burned off at the ground surface. One-
half of them could have been saved, if
an effort had been made, but there
was no chief nor captain to direct. Six
squares of asphalt shingles had been
carried from the granary and dumped
by a corn crib which later burned and
the shingles burned or melted, A horse
rake was crumpled and twisted and
rendered useless which one man could
have pulled to safety in a minute’s
time. A top buggy had been drawn to
the burned over field, but evidently the
top caught fire from sparks and was
destroyed.

These things are mentioned, not in
a mood of complaint, because care and
discretion were evident in all workers,
but to show the result of lack of or-
ganization, plans and leadership, Spec-
tators who arrived while the fire was
in progress did not realize that any-
thing further could be done, but would
have taken hold if called upon,

Besides co-operating with a nearby
village and maintaining appropriate
fire fighting equipment, as is done here

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

and elsewhere, there should be several
groups in each township. Each unit
should select a captain and substitutes
and meetings should be held to discuss
means and methods of fire fighting, ac-
cording to varying conditions and
emergencies. If such units were form-
ed a part of their activities or attention
might well be given to fire prevention.
The United States Department of Ag-
riculture, the Michigan ‘State College
or a county farm bureau could furnish
free bulletins covering all phases of
fire prevention

Devoting space to this matter which
concerns farmers, as the Tradesman
has done during the past year, is cer-
tainly meritorious “service above and
beyond its line of duty” and worthy of
praise, E, E. Whitney.

—_++-+—__—_-
Height of Kindness,

A son in college was applying pres-
sure for more money from home.

“T cannot understand why you call
yourself a kind father,” he wrote his
dad, “when you hhaven’t sent me a
check for three weeks. What kind of
kindness do you call that?”

“That’s unremitting kindness,” wrote
the father in his next letter.

SWORN STATEMENT FURNISHED
THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

Statement of the ownership, manage-
ment, circulation, etc., of the Michigan
Tradesman, published weekly at Grand
Rapids, Michigan, required by the Act
of Aug. 24, 1912.
State of Michigan,
County of Kent, °**

Before me, a@ notary public in and for
the State and county aforesaid, person-
ally appeared Ernest A. Stowe, who,
having been duly sworn according to law,
deposes and says that he is the business
manager of the Michigan Tradesman and
that the following is to the best of his
knowledge and belief, a true statement of
the ownership, management (and if a
daily paper, the circulation’, etc., of the
aforesaid publication for the date shown
in the above caption, required by the
Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in sec-
tion 443, Postal Laws and Regulations,
to wit:

1, That the names and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing editor,
and business manager are:

Editor—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

Managing Editor—E. A. Stowe, Grand
Rapids.

Business Manager—E. A. Stowe, Grand
Rapids.

Publisher—Tradesman Company, Grand
Rapids.

2. That the owners are: (Give names
and addresses of individual owners, or,
if a corporation, give its name and the
names and addresses of the stockholders
owning or holding 1 per cent. or more
of the total amount of stock.)

BE. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

F. E. Stowe, Grand Rapids.

F, A. Wiles, Grand Rapids.

3. That the known bondholders, mort-
gagees, and other security holders owning
or holding 1 per cent. or more of total
amount of bonds, mortgages, or other
securities, are NONE.

4. That the two paragraphs next
above, giving the names of owners, stock-
holders, and security holders, if any, con-
tain not only the list of stockholders and
security holders as they appear upon the
books of the company, but also, in cases
where the stockholder or security holder
appears upon the books of the company
as trustee or in any other fiduciary rela-
tion, the name of the person or corpora-
tion for whom such trustee is acting, is
given; also that the said two paragraphs
contain statements embracing affiant’s
full knowledge and believe as to the cir-
cumstances and conditions under which
stockholders and security holders who do
not appear upon the books of the com-
pany as trustees, hold stock and securi-
ties in a capacity other than that of a
bona fide owner; and this affiant has no
reason to believe that any other person,
association, or corporation has any inter-
est direct or indirect in the said stock,
bonds, or other securities than as 80
stated by him.

E. A. Stowe, Business Manager.

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this 8rd day of October, 1931.

(SEAL) Florence E. Stowe.
Notary Public in and for Kent Co., Mich.
(My commission expires Jan, 18, 1935.)

 

October 21, 1931

 

Mutual Insurance

With losses lower, with expenses lower, with no inside profits
for invested capital you would expect the net cost of MUTUAL
insurance to be less. It is.

The saving ‘in cost is not made at any sacrifice in safety and
strength, The Mutual plan of operation is right, Mutual insur-
ance is better protection, Because it is better it costs less.
May sound unreasonable if you are not informed, An investi-
gation is convincing, For the sake of yourself and your busi-
ness, investigate.

Finnish Mutual Fire Insurance Company
444 Pine Str., Calumet, Mich.

 

 

OUR FIRE INSURANCE
POLICIES ARE CONCURRENT

with any standard stock policies that
you are buying

The Ne Cots @O% Less

Michigan Bankers and Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
of Fremont, Michigan

 

WILLIAM N. SENF, Secretary-Treasurer

 

 

 

SAVINGS

S Year after year, without fail,
the Federal Mutuals continue
to save insurance dollars for
policyholders. The total sav-
» ing already amounts to more

than 39 million dollars. This
tremendous amount of mon-
ey has stayed right at home in the local communities of the
policyholders throughout the United States. Such economy
for the policyholder is brought about through the selection
of preferred risks and efficiency in management.

FEDERAL HARDWARE & IMPLEMENT MUTUALS

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1909 22 Years 1931

Losses Paid Promptly — Saving 30%
For FIRE and WINDSTORM Insurance

 

 

THE GRAND RAPIDS MERCHANTS
MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
affliated with

THE MICHIGAN RETAIL DRY GOODS ASSOCIATION
320 Houseman Bldg. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

October 21, 1931

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

7

 

IN THE REALM OF RASCALITY.

Questionable Schemes Which Are
Under Suspicion.

There is evidently a bad condition
in the Northern Peninsula and North-
ern Michigan, judging from the follow-
ing letter from a well-known traveling
man:

Hancock, Oct. 18—On June 22 you
received a wire from me in regard to
the operations of shoplifters I picked
up while working this territory. Your
issue of June 24 was given to me when
I reached here October 16 and in read-
ing same, I came across the article
written in regard to the shoplifters—
and in which you published your tele-
gram to me. This telegram I did not
receive, In fact, the Western Union
here has no record of receiving same.
On June 16 there were in this_ter-
ritory eleven professional shoplifters
from down our section of the 'State of
- Michigan working up here,

‘The prosecutor of this county was
influenced by these people to order
their release, but told the sheriff to re-
turn the stolen merchandise as identi-
fied to their rightful owners, then taken
to the edge of the county and turned
loose. I fought against this, calling in
the State police and had them eventu-
ally landed in Sault Ste. Marie, where
they were bound over to the circuit
court, Sept. term. In September, their
attorney (the best in Sault Ste. Marie)
pleaded illness of one of the trio and
had their case put over until the De-
cember term of court—and they were
released on small bail.

When these people were picked up
they had a book containing the name
of the best lawyer to hire in each
county of this State. This I am calling
to your attention, showing how well
organized this band is, about seventy
in all, Over $500,000 worth of mer-
chandise is stolen by these shoplifters
each year in the State of Michigan
outside of Detroit. This trio shipped
from Cheboygan over $3,000 worth of
merchandise, which they had stolen
the preceding week or ten days—
dresses, coats, men’s suits, overcoats,
hosiery—which was discovered but
none identified.

Two weeks ago four people out of
six at Lapeer were found not guilty by
a jury of attempted larceny (circuit
court case). These people were caught
on a Saturday night by a customer of
mine—the Palmer store—in possession
of three good dresses and were still
shoplifting when accused and arrested.
They were part of this ring and have
been operating three years steady, to
my knowledge. They were picked up
on information I gave my account in
Lapeer,

I am enclosing newspaper articles on
the trio booked for trial at the Soo in
December. Police records of these
three show they are notorious pick-
pockets—alias this and alias that.

Can’t the dry goods, ready to wear,
clothing stores and independents be
aroused to stop this stealing, which in
ninety-nine cases out of 100 they are
not aware of?

About June 18 two out of four shop-
lifters were arrested in Escanaba. They
were found guilty (pleading so) and
fined $50 each and because the Cham-
ber of Commerce insisted on a jail
sentence—given five days each also—
after two and a half days they were
out,

For eighteen years J have made a
good living through my sales to my
customer friends and they are being
robbed continually and are not aware
of it.

William G. Rice, owner of the
newspapers of Calumet, Hancock,
Houghton and Lake Linden will bear
out my statement as to what happened
here,

J am enclosing newspaper clippings,
which [ will appreciate your returning

to me after you are through with same,
Send them please to Sidney Styer,
Lake Orion, Mich.

I will at any time convenient to you
give you all the information [ have on
these people to show you how big their
operations are.

I would also like to know why your
telegram to me was never delivered.

‘Sidney A. Styer.

The notorious Apple Hat Co., of St.
Louis has “discontinued” its cute little
trick of sending copies of menacing
letters to its alleged delinquents, the
originals of which letteres it claimed to
have sent to the Postmaster General
of the United States.

The “discontinuance” must have
been due to the complaint filed with
the Postmaster General by the Mer-
chants Journal.

Evidently that complaint was
promptly investigated by T. M. Milli-
gan, Chief Inspector of the Post Office
Department.

Mr. Milligan informs the Merchants
Journal that the proprietor of the
Apple Hat Co, was interviewed during
the course of the investigation, and the
proprietor stated that the practice of
sending these letters to alleged delin-
quents, “had been discontinued.”

It must have been “discontinued”
about the time that the Post Office in-
spectors arrived in 'St. Louis and haul-
ed the Apple Hat Co. on the carpet,
for the Merchants Journal has copies
of the objectionable letters dated Sept.
21, and received by E. J. Rogers, a for-
mer Nebraska merchant, about Sept.
24.

In a letter to the Merchants Journal
concerning the system of sending with-
out orders, an assortment of caps, the
Postoffice Department says:

The Department is aware of the an-
noyance to which recipients of un-
solicited merchandise are often sub-
jected and has advocated the enact-
ment of a law prohibiting the practice.
Although the bill to make such matter
unmailable was passed by the Senate
during the last Congress, it was not
acted upon by the House of Repre-
sentatives. So far as postal laws are
concerned, addressees of unsolicited
articles ARE UNDER NO OBLI-
GATION TO RETURN THEM.

This information is under date of
Oct. 10, 1931, so it is absolutely up to
date, and reaffirms the former rulings
of the Department relative to un-
ordered merchandise,

From the general tone of the Post
Office Department letters, it is evident
that the Apple Company had _ better
watch its step. It is not in very good
standing with the Post Office Depart-
ment,

That fact makes it all the more as-
tonishing that the Apple Co. would
have the nerve to actually try to “use”
the ‘Postmaster General’s title and
prestige to scare merchants to whom
the concern thad sent its unordered
consignments of caps.

The use of this scheme to scare mer-
chants was reported to the ‘Merchants
Journal by E. J. Rogers, a merchant
who formerly lived in Nebraska, and
who is now located in Oklahoma. Mr.
Rogers says the Apple outfit sent him
a dozen caps, unsolicited, back in 1929.
He simply threw the caps aside and
forgot them. Since then, for two years
he has been annoyed with a series of

threatening letters from the Apple Hat
Co. and its various subsidiary ‘“collec-
tion agencies,” “attorneys,” etc., all
part and parcel of the same outfit.

Finally, after he had sold his store
and moved away from Nebraska, he re-
ceived a threatening and actionable let-
ter on a letter head of the “United
Credit Protective Association,” St.
Louis, which is apparently merely an-
other name for the Apple Hat Co.

The whole scheme was merely to
scare some ignorant or weak-kneed
merchant by making him think that he
had done something in violation of the
postal rules and regulations, and that
the Postmaster General was about to
investigate him,

As a matter of fact, the Apple out-
fit was the one which was about to be
investigated by the Postoffice Depart-
ment.

The next session of Congress will in
all probability enact the law which will
put a stop to its system of sending out

merchandise unsolicited and unordered.

And you might write a letter to your
Congressman and ask him to vote for
that bill and do all he can to hasten its
passage.—Merchants Journal.

——_>+.—____
Good Advice.

He: I’m going to speak to your
father now. And what shall I tell him?

She: Well he’ll want to know what
you work at. By the way, what do
you do?

He: I’m selling electric refrigerators
now.

She: Perhaps you'd better not men-
tion that. Father drives an ice wagon.

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CHAIN-STORE TAXATION.

It would be well for crusaders against
the chain stores not to become too
jubilant over the decision of the Su-
preme Court of the United States in
upholding | the Indiana tax through
denying a rehearing of its decision
reached last May. That decision was
on a division of five to four by the
court and the dissenting opinion by
Justice Sutherland made some strong
points against the tax.

What seemed to be the strongest
argument in this dissenting opinion is
now being used before the same court
by counsel for some of the largest
chain-store systems who are disputing
the constitutionality of the tax imposed
by the State of North Carolina. This
Commonwealth passed a law in 1929
taxing each of two or more stores
under the same ownership $50 a year.

The chain stores in their appeal are
pointing out that this legislation is
unconstitutional because its classifica-
tion is not related to revenue and is
made regardless of size, value or na-
ture of the business. It is based mere-
ly on ownership. Justice Sutherland
explained that a similar classification
would make the amount of an income
tax depend upon the number of sources
from which that income was derived,
without regard to the character or the
sources or the amount of the income
itself.

In the majority opinion, on the other
hand, it was considered the duty of
the court to sustain the classification
adopted by the Indiana Legislature if
there were substantial differences
shown between the chain stores and
other stores. These differences were
accepted as having been proved not
only in ownership but also in organiza-
tion, management and type of business
transacted. That proof is being at-
tacked in the North Carolina case, and
until it is shown that good manage-
ment and efficient organization are pos-
sessed only by the chain systems, sup-
porters of the tax must continue uncer-
tain of the outcome of their effort to
tax away competition.

 

ARTIFICIAL VALUES.

The outlook for tightening credit is
not one to encourgae business interests
in the present circumstances, because
this phenomenon is one ordinarily as-
sociated with the end of a prosperity
cycle and the first stages of a depres-
sion. Toward the close of 1920 redis-
counts started their descent, which was
continuous to the Fall of 1922.

If interest rates are to be higher and
Government taxation much more oner-
ous in order to make up the huge de-
ficit that is piling up, then the handi-
caps to reviving business must be con-
sidered very severe in comparison with
former occasions of the kind. Should
inflation be the plan which our rapidly
developing oligarchy has decided upon
as the way out, other difficulties are
foreseen, foremost of which is the im-
possibility of moving wage rates down
and pushing prices up.

The more the problem is studied the
more it grows clear that the efforts
made soon after the stock market col-
lapse in 1929 to hold up artificial values

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

were misdirected. Criticism falls fre-
quently, of course, on the delay in
wage liquidation, but it seems to be
sound economics which contends that,
by holding up purchasing power, a bet-
ter basis would have been established
for recovery and more stable prosper-
ity. It can be definitely demonstrated
that the average income of the over-
whelming majority of our citizens is
still too low to carry our volume of

production.
The artificial values chiefly to blame
for our present predicament were

largely to be found in real estate, in
foreign loans and ina number of manip-
ulated commodities. Prices of the lat-
ter have been well liquidated, although
surpluses in many case still exert their
pressure on quotations. The real es-
tate and foreign-loan emergencies re-
main to be dealt with.

AWAITING FURTHER PLANS.

While there has been a fair upturn
in sentiment as a resulf of recent steps
taken to deal with the foreign situa-
tion and with banking distress at home,
the general attitude in business is to
await further developments and action.
Particularly is this so with respect to
the conference of Premier Laval and
President Hoover. Events have rather
thoroughly emphasized the effect of
foreign conditions upon the domestic
situation and we have pointed to the
urgent need of a definite plan for eas-
ing difficulties abroad.

The British elections next week also
give pause to business interests here,
particularly as the adoption of a tariff
would add to our trade problems.

In the domestic situation another in-
crease in the rediscount rate by the
New York Federal Reserve Bank was
the outstanding development of the
week, since it marked the end of the
easy-money policy of the system, which
had ‘failed completely in its purpose of
stimulating business recovery. Under
that policy we have enjoyed, it is point-
ed out, the easiest money and_ the
tightest credit in our experience.

Loss of more than $600,000,000 in
gold was the prime reason for the re-
discount advance, although some effort
was made to explain it as a move to
make interest rates more attractive to
depositors and thus check hoarding.
The sudden expansion in rediscounts
by almost a half a billion dollars since
last April without much evidence of a
business recovery so far, poses the
question of what trade and industry
will find in the way of accommodation
when their activities actually do pick
up. Increased interest rates and large
credit expansion in the midst of a de-
pression are unusual. If we start off
on this level, credit should become very
cramped before much headway is made
in business.

 

EXPORT GAIN LESS.

The unfavorable trade balance of
August was reversed last month, ac-
cording to the figures issued toward
the close of the week, and exports
exceeded imports by $10,000,000. This
shift was explained by increased ex-
ports of wheat and cotton. Purchases
of cotton by Japan and Germany more

than doubled the August shipments.
The Orient bought almost half of the
wheat exports, although, perhaps, the
arrangement of te Farm Board with
China was. an important factor.

While reference was made in the
news dispatches to a seasonal improve-
ment in foreign trade for the month,
there was only a fractional gain for
imports. Exports failed to make the
usual seasonal gain.

On a daily average basis, experts for
the month, which totaled $181,000,000,
were 13.5 per cent. ahead of those in
August. The seasonal trend is an
increase of 17.4 per cent. The daily
average of imports, valued for the
month at $171,000,000, was 6 per cent.
higher than in August, while the seas-
onal gain is 5.6 per cent.

The loss from September, 1930, in
exports was more than double the de-
cline in imports, since they were 42
per cent. lower and imports 20 per
cent. With the exception of July and
August, September exports were the
lowest since 1914.

Full effect of the currency upheaval
caused by British suspension of gold
payments has still to disclose itself in
the foreign trade returns. Export in-
terests are so beset with difficulties
that there is a growing sentiment to-
ward giving up such business entirely.
Their dire trouble emphasizes in an-
other way the necessity of reaching
some solution of world-wide trade
problems.

CURBING CAMPAIGN FUNDS.

As Republican and Democratic Party
managers are wrestling with the prob-
lem of providing the sinews of war for
the next Presidential campaign and
looking forward to the poorest pickings
in many years, proposals are taking
shape at Washington for legislation
to cut expenditures to the minimum.

The last Presidential campaign set a
new high mark for spending. The Na-
tional and state organizations of both
parties raised a total of more than
$17,000,000, of which $16,586,000 was
spent and accounted for according to
law. There were no charges that any
of this money was illegally used. The
Republicans emerged from the cam-
paign with a moderate surplus and the
Democrats with a $1,500,000 deficit,
which has since been considerably re-
duced, thanks to the generous gifts and
loans from Mr. Raskob.

Since Presidential electors have been
held by the Supreme Court to be state
officials, the constitutionality of the
proposal to limit expenditures of Pres-
idential candidates will be questioned.
The plan to regulate outlays by Con-
gressional candidates in their primary
as well as their general election cam-
paigns will also be subject to challenge
on constitutional grounds. The ruling
in the Newberry case was not con-
clusive on this point. Those most ac-
tive now in advocating the curbing of
candidates’ outlays in the direct pri-
maries helped to institute that system of
making nominations, which has impos-
ed such a heavy financial burden on
candidates and their supporters. It is
not surprising that the continued trend

 

October 21, 1931

toward Federal invasion of State pow-
ers should now take the form of an
attempt to control primaries.

 

WOMEN IN INDUSTRY.

Suggestions for the relief of unem-
ployment have included the proposal to
remove the employed woman from in-
dustrial and professional competition.
The proposal, however, is absurd in the
face of the facts. This country has
outlived the prejudices which once
made it remarkable for a woman to
earn her own living. According to new
figures derived from the census, there
are nearly 11,000,000 women gainfully
employed in the United States, rep-
resenting about 22 per cent. of the
working population. These women
have a place in the economic system
which can no longer be disputed by
reactionaries.

It is a curious discovery of the sta-
tistics that women outnumber men in
the so-called professional occupations.
The explanation lies in the great ma-
jority of women teachers, while an-
other large group is engaged in nursing.
The women have invaded, however,
such fields as the law, medicine and
the fine arts. But it may be concluded
from the census studies that in the
great majority of cases the working
woman has proved her right to her
employment by doing work which suits
her sex and genius.

The working woman, however, is
still a less important factor in the
world’s work than the housewife at
home. Nearly twice as many women
are caring for homes as are contribut-
ing more directly to the support of
themselves and their families.

 

DRY GOODS CONDITIONS.

Seasonal apparel has became more
active, although the best reports are
received from the home furnishings
division. Stores are using more adver-
tising to move merchandise, with good
results in most cases when the weather
is at all favorable.

Renewed confidence receives frequent
mention in trade reports as the basis
for considering the retail outlook as
improved. A reduction in the number
of bank failures will help along this
better feeling and last week’s report
of a smaller increase in currency with-
drawals pointed to some abatement of
public anxiety.

Trade results for the first half of
the month have been somewhat better
than in the first two weeks of Septem-
ber, but that is not saying much. Re-
tail prices are still moving downward
although there is a strong trend among
progressive stores to guard their quali-
ties more carefully.

There was a quick reflection in the
wholesale merchandise markets during
the week of improved retail demand.
More buyers were on hand and mail
orders were received in larger volume.
The slow season, however, has brought
along its usual development of many
special orders which are required to
“sweeten up” stocks. Should the
weather stay cold for any length of
time, deliveries on some goods might
offer a problem, Because the markets
are farily clean,

October 21, 1931

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

OUT AROUND.
Things Seen and Heard on a Week
End Trip.

The death of Arthur Scott White—
better known to his friends as “At”’—
removes a picturesque figure from the
streets of Grand Rapids, where he had
lived since Jan, 1, 1870, when he came
to the city to take the position of city
editor of the Grand Rapids Democrat.
The many important editorial positions
he held and the responsible duties he
performed as editor and publisher of
trade journals have been repeatedly
played up in tthe Tradesman, to which
he was a regular contributor for nearly
fifty years.

Mr. White was by nature formal
and picturesque. He liked people or he
didn’t. Generally he did. His con-
versation was colorful and apt to be
energetic. He said what he thought and
felt and said it plainly and ruggedly.
He had a talent for speaking his mind
with great earnestness and complete-
ness—usually without giving offense.
And as he spoke he acted. He was a
positive, decided man, with courage
and honest earnestness, who did things.
His conduct was continually guided,
however, by the iron rule of a big
heart. People who knew At White
were always glad to see him arrive and
sorry to see him go. Now that the
Good Lord has summoned him over
to the Other Shore he will be missed
sorely by a great many people who
are going to find that an association
and friendship they valued perhaps
more than ‘they realized thas been
erased from their lives.

 

The present day writer in the field
of trade journalism must first of all
hold the interest of his readers. If he
is at the same time loyal to his cause,
he will avoid all of the many familiar
paths to so-called “reader interest”
which flatter or pander or threaten or
merely drug the reader with high-
sounding language. Mr, White had
this outstanding trait in journalism,
that he combined a remarkable com-
mand of language with courage and
loyalty to the industry whose mem-
bers he served through his own pub-
lication and also those he served in the
capacity of contributor.

Loyalty is, properly speaking, some-
thing different from the patriotism
which says “my country, right or
wrong,” and different from an affec-
tion for another which idolizes all he
does merely ‘because the man himself
attracts one. Loyalty, whether it be
to a cause or to a man or group of
men, will be jealous for the welfare of
its object. Nor, indeed, can one give
supreme loyalty to an unworthy object.
Hence the loyal man may on occasion
be the severest critic and the most ex-
acting master.

The journalist of the present era is
denied any form of criticism or mastery
other than appeal. He can command
neither acceptance nor obedience. His
appeal is addressed primarily to the
reader’s fairness and common sense.
He has a gift for arranging facts so
they are interesting in themselves, and
back of the fact is always to be felt, if

not seen, the courage of a writer who
does not know how to trim his argu-
ment to fit a prejudice and who is un-
willing to sidestep a difficulty. His
sense of fairness appears to be so keen
that he cannot warp the facts, even for
his own predilections, Nevertheless, he
wields a formidable weapon, a weapon
which only that journalist may wield
who has the requisite courage and de-
votion and a sound knowledge of his
subject.

 

The announcement of the death of a
grandson of Louis Campau reminds me
of a happening in the life of the found-
er of Grand Rapids. Coming to
Grand Rapids in 1827 Mr. Campau ac-
quired practically all the land on both
sides of ‘Monroe avenue, which then

 

owners of frontage on (old) Monroe
avenue with the following appeal:
“There is a flaw on the title of your
property which you probably do not
know about. Mrs, Toussaint Campau

‘signed the deed transferring the prop-

erty to her *brother-in-law before she
was of legal age. She is now old and
penniless. Two thousand dollars will
keep her nicely for the remainder of
her life. If you will hand me your
check for $50 [I will bring you a quit
claim deed from the old lady, which
will quiet your title.
was approached by Mr. Ryerson saw
the point at once and handed him a
check for $50 except the late Albert
Preusser, who appeared to be very
affronted suggestion
and ordered Mr. Ryerson out of his

Everyone who

much over the

Arthur Scott White.

ran from Grab Corners (now Campau
Square) to Fulton street. He failed as
the result of the panic of 1837, pre-

viously transferring his real estate
holdings to his ‘brother, Toussaint
Campau. On the return of good times

Mr, Campau rallied financially and had
Toussaint deed the property back to
him. Toussaint in the meantime had
been married to a young lady who was
not of age when she signed the deed.
Fifty or sixty years rolled by, during
which time Toussaint died. On one of
his visits to Grand Rapids Martin
Ryerson (ithe elder), of Chicago, found
the widow of (Mr, Campau in poor cir-
cumstances without enough income to
supply her modest requirements. Re-
calling the circumstances of the deed-
ing of the property back to Louis
Campau, Mr. Ryerson approached the

store. Mr. ‘Ryerson was naturally
angered over the occurrence and start-
ed suit against Mr, Preusser, who set-
tled the case by paying the attorney
for the complainant $3,500, so the
Campau widow had $5,000 to keep her
comfortable the remainder of her life,
instead of $2,000, as Mr, Ryerson orig-
inally undertook to provide for her.
This bit of local history was told to
me ‘by the late Thomas B. Church
about fifty years ago, I do not think
I have deviated a word from the re-
cital originally given me,

 

I was greatly pleased to hear the
message of Major Ferry K. Heath,
Second Assistant United States Treas-
urer, over the radio Saturday evening,
when he graphically described the
manner in which new Government

will be erected during the
next seven years at a cost of over
$700,0G0,000. As Major Heath is in
charge of this extensive and compre-
hensive building programme, he speaks
by the card. ‘The moncy for this cam-
paign has already been appropriated by
Congress, so there can be no check up
on the plan, which will be carried out
under the supervision of Major Heath,
who was raised in Grand Rapids and
lived here until the kaiser started his

buildings

war seventeen years ago.

 

Major Heath is only one of many
Grand Rapids men who have won dis-
tinction in the field of big undertak-
ings. JI sometimes wonder if any other
citv of 200,000 people has so many
able representatives in positions of
trust and great responsibility.

 

In common with all loyal citizens of
Grand Rapids, I hope and pray that
our own Carl Mapes may ‘be elevated
to the position of Speaker of the House
at the next session of Congress, No
member of the House has ever been
more faithful to his constituents than
Mr. ‘Mapes has been and his knowl-
edge of parliamentary law is said to be
in advance of any other member of
Congress. Whether he finally lands the
second highest position in the Govern-
ment service or not, it is a great honor
to any man to be considered in the
selection of a such a
superman as Nick Longworth.

successor to

 

In publishing an account of the
founding of the Peninsular Club
(Grand Rapids) about six weeks ago,
[ suggested ithat the ‘fiftieth annivers-
ary of that event should be properly
celebrated by that organization, but
the suggestion appears to have fallen
on ‘barren ground. Having been a
member of the club about forty years
courage to
suggest to an officer of the Club that
the anniversary be properly observed.
The reply was so disheartening that
I dropped the suggestion like a hot
potato, ‘They won’t let us thave liquor
in the Club. We cannot have a good
time without liquor.” This sentiment
may ‘be entertained by a considerable
percentage of the membership, but I
do not ‘think it represents the rank and
file of the membership ‘by any means.

I recently mustered up

 

Among the life insurance policies
left by the late Arthur H. Herpol-
sheimer were three which contained
the double indemnity feature—double
payment of the principal sum in case
of death by accident. The companies
uttering these policies are as follows:

AGitie o2 $10,000

Mautable 00 30,000
New York Ede . 10,000

The Continental Accident Insurance
Co, also ‘had a $10,000 policy.

The three life companies paid the
face of ‘their policies, but refused to
pay the double indemnity. The Con-
tinental refused to make any payment
whatever,

The excuse given for not paying the
$60,000 alleged to be due the widow
was that death was due to suicide and
not ito accident. One point in favor of
the defense was that the body was
found thirty-four feet away from the

(Continued on page 23)

 

 

 

  

10

FINANCIAL

Cheap Money Has Not Helped Busi-
ness.

Finally, the Federal Reserve Bank
has come back to economic realities, It
took the first major step in this direc-
tion last week when it advanced its re-
discount rate from 1% to 2% per cent.
By the further increase this week to
3% per cent. the central bank rate has
been brought to a level more nearly in
keeping with our business and mone-
tary conditions. That these increases
mark the end of the cheap money pol-
icy of the Federal Reserve system is
self-evident,

This cheap money policy has been an
almost complete failure from every
point of view. It was introduced
simultaneously with the collapse of the
stock market in the fall of 1929. At
that time the rate was reduced in a few
weeks from 6 to 4% per cent. During
1930 it was further reduced, by five
changes, until on December 24 it was
2 per cent, Last May the rate was
reduced to 1% per cent., and it remain-
ed at this record low figure until a
. week ago.

The customary justification offered
for the easy money policy has been
that it would act as an incentive to
business. This assertion, however, in-
volves much fallacious reasoning. In
the first place, there is only an indirect
and delayed relation between the rates
of the Reserve system and the charges
made to ordinary business borrowers
from commercial banks.

In consequence, the maintenance of
the low rediscount rates has had the
effect in the main of merely making
the interest on call loans and prime
bills unprofitably low. The result has
been that banks have found it extreme-
ly difficult to keep their funds invested
in assets which could be converted
readily into cash at a figure which
would give them a reasonable return.
Gradually, it is true, the commercial
banks have lowered their rates to busi-
ness ‘borrowers, but the reduction has
been small and frequently has been ac-
companied by a tightening of require-
ments for collateral.

Further, the contention that lower
interest rates will speed up business is
true to a very limited extent. Interest
payments on commercial loans in the
case of most business firms is too small
a proportion of total expenses for a
slight change in the rate to have any
great effect,

The failure of the low rates to be of
benefit to the bond market has been
too obvious to need comment.

Whether the Federal Reserve sys-
tem would have been willing to admit
the failure of the cheap money policy
without the pressure of the gold ex-
ports of the past few weeks is open
to question. This, however, is beside
the point. The important thing is that
our central banks now have restored
rates to a level at which it will be pos-
sible for banks to make a reasonable
return on liquid assets,

It is doubtful if the advance will cur-
tail gold exports toa great extent.
Most of the gold has been leaving this
country, not because of the low inter-
est rates prevailing here, but because
of the desire of foreign countries to
convert their short-term balances into

 

  

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

metal. To the extent that this has
been the cause, the higher rates result-
ing from the advance of the rediscount
rate will not have any effect, although
it is possible that the withdrawal of
gold, because of other factors, will not
continue at its recent rate.
Ralph West Robey.

[ Copyrighted, 1931.]

a
Proposal To Reintroduce Silver Can-

not Be Maintained.

Propoganda for the reintroduction
of silver into the monetary system of
this and foreign countries is becoming
more and more aggressive. The claim
made for the proposal is that it would
increase the purchasing power of the
world and thereby hasten the return
of business prosperity. There is a
small element of truth in this conten-
tion. Nevertheless the plan as a
whole is unsound from the point of
view of the monetary system and any
immediate gains would be far more
than offset by later difficulties.

The whole plan, in the final analysis,
belongs n the same cateegory as the
attempt of the Government to main-
tain an artificial value for agricultural
commodities through the activities of
the Farm Board. Basically the only
difference between the two schemes is
in the method followed. In the case
of silver it is proposed to set a definite
price by legislative act, through a law
stating the amount of silver which is
to be equal to one dollar, while the
Farm Board has attempted to maintain
certain prices through purchases.

From ‘the experience of the Farm
Board it should be evident that it is
impossible to improve the condition of
the country by any such plan, Whether
it is tried with one or several com-
modities “makes comparatively little
difference except in the period before
there is a breakdown.

We have been able to sclect one
commodity, gold, and say that it must
have a definite relationship to dollars.
This has been possible by defining a
dollar as 23.22 grains of pure gold.
Two commodities, however, cannot be
handled in this way. ‘That is, a dollar
cannot be defined as both 23.22 grains
of gold and one bushel of wheat. Soon-
er or later the ratio between the two
will change in the open market and
the mint ratios will be out of line. The
result will be that one or the other
will disappear from circulation,

In other words, we can have either
a gold or silver standard, but we can-
not have both as a standard and still
keep the two metals in circulation. The
history of the United States from 1792,
when we adopted the bimetallic stand-

ard, 1873, when we stopped the free
coinage of silver, furnishes ample
proof of this. During this whole

period there was no time when both
metals were in circulation in any sub-
stantial volume.

There is no reason for extending
preferential treatment to silver. It is
nothing more than an ordinary com-
modity which happens to possess cer-
tain qualities that in times past have
made it suitable for money. The only
possible justification for reintroducing
it into the monetary system at present,
then, would be to give us a wider
metal base for our monetary system.
We do not need this wider base, and

consequently we do not need the silver
in the monetary system.

Further, should silver be put into
the monetary system it would have to
be at the current market price. Other-
wise it would drive all the gold out of
the system at once. The proposal that
silver should be remonetized at 14 to
1, as suggested a few days ago, there-
fore, must be viewed as absurd. The
present ratio in the market is about
65 to 1. Ralph West Robey.

[ Copyrighted, 1931.]

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tion in various industries and that we
shall not have lasting stability of busi-
ness in this country until some modifi-
cation is obtained. The most recent
evidence of the discontent is the plan
of the United States Chamber of Com-
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Almost no one maintains that all re-
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difficult because its solution depends
upon the state of industrial develop-
ment in a country. Ait certain stages
it is desirable to force the largest pos-
sible degree of competition into the
economic system, At other stages
such competition results in overproduc-
tion with all of its attendant ills. In
1890, when the Sherman anti-trust law
was passed, the United States in gen-
eral was in a position to benefit from
a large amount of competition. Now
we find that it has less and less advan-
tages,

It is not difficult to see the reasons
for this. In the last century our indus-
trial equipment was comparatively
small in many lines and we could gain
by increasing the volume of production.
Competition had this effect.

That is, in a competitive market
there is a constant effort on the part
of various producers to get as large a
share of the total volume of business
as possible. In order to do this, or,
more specifically, to be able to take
advantage of every increase of busi-
ness, each producer builds as large a
plant as possible. In a highly com-
petitive economic organization, there-
fore, we ‘find that an immense amount
of capital is invested with the result
that the total productive capacity may
be considerably above current con-
sumption,

Once a country ‘becomes fully de-
veloped industrially, or, that is, once
the markets are more or less complete-
ly exploited, this rapid accumulation of
capital and its resultant productive
capacity become wasteful. Then so-
ciety may gain by slowing down the
speed with which capital is invested in
productive equipment.

During ‘the past two decades it is
probable that the industrial develop-
ment of the United States has passed
the point at which it is desirable to
maintain the old pace of capital invest-
ment, If this is so, larger units and
less competition should be permitted
through a modification of the anti-trust

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Short Selling.

Extracts from speech of Richard
Whitney, President of the New York
Stock Exchange, delivered before the
Hartford Chamber of Commerce, Oct.
16, 1931, and broadcast by the Colum-
bia network.

laws.

“Just what is short selling? Let us
imagine a man has become convinced
that a certain security is selling at too
high a price. He feels certain that it
will sell lower and he wishes to take
advantage of this situation, To do so
he tells his broker to sell the stock on
the exchange. The order is sent to the
floor and is executed the same as any
other order. The broker who buys is
not aware that the man who is selling
has not possession of the stock. The
contract is made and delivered the next
day and the buying broker demands
that the seller deliver the stock to him
in accordance with the contract. The
man who has sold the stock must ob-
tain it in order to carry out his con-
tract. ‘This is done by the seller bor-
rowing the stock from other persons.
You can readily see that the man who
thus sells does substantially the same

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thing as the man who buys only he
pays for it with borrowed money.

“Few people seem to realize that a
short sale is nothing but a contract to
deliver stock in the future and the
short seller is obligated to return this
stock, Every man who has sold short
is as J have said, a potential buyer of
securities and this is the source of
ereat stability to the market because
experience shows that when prices sud-
denly decline, the short sellers pur-
chase stock in order to discharge their
loans. This tis especially true in a
crisis.

“The Stock Exchange has recognized
this fact and has permitted short sell-
ing because it was convinced that no
security market could long continue
in business if short selling were for-
bidden, For many years the short
sale has been a feature not only of se-
curity markets but of all branches of
business. Confident students have
long declared that short selling by re-
straining inflation and cushioning sharp
declines tends to. stabilize prices.
Short selling enables persons who hold
securities at a considerable distance
from New York City to liquidate them
speedily and safely. Short selling is
employed as a hedge not only for the
purpose of making speculative profits
but for insuring against losses, Any
halt or hindrance to short selling would
drive from the stock market the most
important source of buying power and
can only lead to excess of sellers and
further declines in prices.”

The above complete speech can be
obtained in book form and the writer
would suggest to the readers of this
column that they obtain a copy through
their brokerage house or [I will be
pleased to obtain one for anyone in-
terested, jay Hi. Petter.

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Initial response to the ‘first show-
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Spring has ‘been quiet, which, how-
ever, is in line with the trade’s expec-
tations. No volume activity is expected
to develop for some time to come, it
said. In the meanwhile, uncer-
tainty continues to exist over the pres-
ent price situation, many mills holding
off new quotations until they are fair-
ly certain that present levels have been
stabilized to some extent and that they
will not have to jockey quotations after
they have been named,

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The history class was
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The question about “the most
famous French general’ had been
answered correctly by one of the
students. And a girl had volunteered,
“Duke of ‘Wellington,’ when an Eng-
lish general was mentioned.

“We must not forget our own coun-
try,’ remarked the teacher. “Who can
quickly name a noted American gen-
eral?”

“General Motors!” piped up one of
the smallest boys in the class,

discussing

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told him it was triplets?”
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department.”
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RETAIL GROCER

Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Associa-
tion of Michigan.
President—William Schultz, Ann Arbor.

_ First Vice-President—Paul Schmidt,
Lansing.

Second Vice-President—A. Bathke, Pe-
toskey.

Secretary — Herman Hanson, Grand
Rapids.

Treasurer—O. H. Bailey, Sr., Lansing.

Directors — Ole Peterson, Muskegon;

Walter Loefier, Saginaw; John Lurie,
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Where Is There a Better Business?

Coming home from Europe on the
Leviathan I was accosted by a genial
young man who made sure he was
speaking to the right person, then said
he was from Brooklyn and had attend-
ed some of my meetings in years gone
by and had benefitted from what he
heard there. That was a pleasant open-
ing, so we got on fine together, And
his story was a pleasing one.

He and his brother-in-law are equal
partners in a delicatessen store in a
Long Island suburban town, Their
sales are $54,000 a year. Each draws
$60 salary per week. Every summer
one of them goes on a 60 day vacation,
with full pay. Generally, each goes
on a trip such as my friend had just
taken—to European countries—though
their travels already have embraced
several states and they have the whole
Pacific ocean and coast before them.

Immediately, I thought of what a
secure, care free life those two men
had, for there was not a furrow on the
forehead of the man [ talked with, and
I could not help reflecting on how few
lines of business have such a capacity
to produce comfort, security and satis-
faction. Are there any other lines?

Moreover, this is a solidly conserva-
tive business—I mean this specific
Brooklyn concern. The inside facts
will withstand critical examination.
There is nothing extravagant or far
fetched about it.

The drawing accounts of the two
partners equal a trifle more than
11.55 per cent. on sales. That is not
an excessive ratio for even the grocery
business on specialized service lines
to-day, but it becomes well inside
limits in a delicatessen business, one
of long margins. Moreover, these two
men virtually are the only expense for
labor, doing practically all of the work
between themselves. It is exacting
work. It runs to excessively long
hours. From the outside, the delicates-
sen business seems a mere slave's life.
But it will be noted that delicatessen
merchants are a cheerful lot, seeming-
ly not the least oppressed by any sort
of grind.

What is the reason back of such at-
titude? It must be that the idea that
“all work and no play” is a mistaken
notion, Or perhaps we can put it the
other way: “There is no fun like work”
and get the right slant. There is won-
derful satisfaction in making progress.
Perhaps that is the factor which lies
behind the cheerfulness of delicatessen
merchants, for most of them make
money: or, maybe J should say that the
successful men among them make so
much money that they can well be
cheerful under long ‘hours of labor.

Now, therefore, if we start with 11.55
per cent, expense for salaries and
think the other items run to moderate
ratios, we shall have a business which
can cope with any competition in its

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

line. For those two partners can each
lay up a goodly competence, backed by
ample life insurance; can each own his
home and educate his children; can
provide all the necessaries and every
bit of luxury that is good for any fam-
ily. When we add that each can take
such a rest as I have indicated, for
complete recuperation, every year—
why just what more could any man
want? More and once again, just
where could he so surely ‘find it all
outside the food business?

And the best of this is that the story
is not only not unique, It is not a bit
remarkable or unusual. For we may
go to San Francisco or Santa Monica,
to Milwaukee or Memphis, to Kokoma
or Amarillo and find parallels to this
Brooklyn firm,

I know of no busier man anywhere
than the famous “Herman” of San
Francisco. He is so continually on the
job that one is apt to wonder when he
rests. The same applies to Mrs. Her-
man. The hours are long and ‘Sunday
is like any other day. But Herman
was recently reported as absent in
Europe. He and this wife were gone
for quite a period and wrote snappy
cards to the boys back home. There
is no brighter eyed man anywhere
than Herman, and a reason probably
is that his busineess grows in volume
every year and he knows _ precisely
where he is heading every day.

Herman, of course, has a big busi-
ness, much of it wholesale, but the rule
holds just as good in a small way. Not
half a mile from Herman’s is a man
who with his wife has kept a delicates-
sen for the past four years. They be-
gan in the smallest way. Their store
is not larger now, but it is so filled
with stock that more could not be put
into it. That couple works alone— no
expense whatever except their rent and
light,

And there is vast satisfaction in the
wife’s face as she tells how she has
two daughters in college, one to be a
French teacher, the other a physician;
all made possible, secure and certain
by the little delicatessen shop,

Where, I ask again, could greater
certainty and security be found?

Let it be noted, too, that here is a
line that is decidedly individual. There
are few elements of co-operative scope
among delicatessens. Mostly they are
based on personal specialties. Herman's
is his famous potato salad. When you
consider how the individual touch in
cooking can be made to count, it is
plain how personality enters this line
of trade. It is a line as secure against
general competition as any can be.

Yet as I write I can look into the
windows of A. G. Draeger, who has
just lately affixed over his doorway
the general sign of the Associated
Food Stores, his shop being about No.
121 of that voluntary chain, sponsored
by individual grocers and established
almost thirty-five years ago. Draeger
carries a fine assortment of varied gro-
ceries besides his special line of deli-
catessen goods. Which indicates that
there is such variety of capacity in this
food business that nobody needs to
follow a set pattern. Individuality has
full play therein.

I know of nothing that so complete-
ly differentiates the functions of chain

merchandising from that of the indi-
vidual as this delicatessen business. For
the chain has one fundamental appeal
—price. There are plenty of other
factors in business, and the fact is that
price is the last of the three or four
major appeals. But it is also a fact
that cleanliness, order, brightness,
good lighting and snappy windows are
now much on a par in all stores worth
considering. ‘Hence, we get back to
the one differential—what do the goods
cost?

The chain has to be mighty vigilant
to be always, or even most always,
right on all branded merchandise.
When wrong, there is no alibi and no
offsetting service. The individual can
be wrong to a considerable extent—
that is, to a moderate percentage—on
many staples and well known articles
and yet get by on his individuality of
service or character.

‘There remains the element of qual-
ity, and to that element no organiza-
tion seems to be more awake than the
chain grocers. ‘This summer has seen
the individual grocers put at a distinct
disadvantage on bread prices because
the bakers who supply them have
been negligent—or worse—about price
reductions. ‘Those bakers have lately
awakened—too “lately” I believe.

Of course, they contend that flour is
but one element in their product, but
that contention will not hold water
well among women. For women re-
gard flour as the basis of bread and
talk of labor, labels, distribution,
sugar, shortening and all that will not

October 21, 1931

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thought now or they may find them-
selves too late to take effective thought
against the really fine line of bakery
products turned out by some chain
bakeries, Paul Findlay.
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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
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Sell More Meat By Suggestive Selling.

A retailer who is interested in in-
creasing his sales is primarily interested
in two things: getting new customers
and increasing the size of his orders
to the customers whom he already has.
If a retailer tries to increase each sale
he will find that at the end of the week
his sales will show a nice increase,
while his selling expenses will have re-
mained approximately the same. One
way of increasing individual sales is
through the medium of suggestive sell-
ing. After you have sold an order,
mention to the housewife other items
which you have in stock in which she
may be interested. Mention ineat to
her for breakfast; there is a sizable
market which remains yet to be tapped,
although some retailers have been able
to cash in on it. The ready-to-serve
meats offer a good opportunity for the
retailer to increase each individual sale.
They are not competitive products with
other meats as a general thing, and the
sale of boiled ham or sausage or other
prepared meats to a customer, in addi-
tion to her order for roasts or steaks
or stew meat, is usually just that much
added business.

Incidentaly, the sausage department
in a store can be made to pay a real
profit, especially in the summer. De-
mand for sausage is relatively good in
hot weather, whether demand for other
meats is good or not. It is an inex-
pensive food, for it is low in price, high
in food value and has a minimum of
waste. In some stores the sausage de-
partment has been made to pay enough
profit to defray the rent of the entire
store, and in many other stores sausage
sales yield enough margin to balance
up summer business with winter busi-
when cured
meats are usually somewhat heavier.

ness, sales of fresh and

One of the evils in present day meat
retailing is the delivery of the small
order. Delivery expense, which is con-
siderable in any store which gives this
type of service, can be made to pay
only as long as the orders are of a
certain size. It is true that many re-
tailers will deliver a small order in the
hopes that this will give him an entree
into a customer’s business. But if the
small orders continue, the expense gets
to be too much to charge to advertising
Many stores have a min-
imum figure for delivery orders, and
if the amount of the order falls below
this amount they make a charge for
delivery or refuse to accept the order.
Another way of preventing this loss is
to call customers at stated times during
the week and get them in the habit of
buying their meat supplies for several
days at one time.

To-night for dinner every man in
this group undoubtedly will have meat
of some kind. Probably you will eat
meat for lunch; I know I shall. We eat
meat because we like it, and because
we know that it is good for us_ I tell
you that meat is a good food, and it

or good will.

does not cause any expressions of
surprise to come over your face. But
if all the people in this State who do
not know that meat is good for them
were to be told that, and convinced of
it by the proof that we have, to the
extent that they would buy meat, there
would be enough increased business
so that all of us could retire and play
golf.

However, meat has been for many
years, and still continues to be one of
the most prominent foods in the diet.
For that reason, a few food manufac-
turers having some special item which
they wished to sell, have discredited
meat. Some food specialists have filled
the minds of people with untrue propa-
ganda about meat, and a man or woman
will listen to advice about his diet be-
fore he will listen to almost anything
else. In spite of this, meat continues
to be popular, but the situation calls
for action on the part of everyone con-
nected with the meat and_ livestock
industry.

Tell
them that it contains protein, and min-
erals and fat, and that many cuts are
high in vitamin value. Tell them that
liver is probably the best cure for per-
nicious anemia known by the medical
profession, and that in addition to that
it can be prepared in ways which are
sure to appeal to the people to whom
the housewife serves her meals. Tell
them that meat is a healthful and nutri-

Talk meat to your customers.

tious food, that it is one of the most
delicious foods available, that it builds
good strong bodies and pure red blood.
Tell them that history doesn’t name
a non-meat eating nation which has
ever ruled the world, while pages of
history are full of the names of coun-
tries made up of meat eating people
that have held the high positions.

No one need hesitate to recommend
meat to his customers. The informal
medical profession endorses its use, and
our appetites which after all dictate our
diets more than any one thing, tell us
that a meatless meal is woefully in-
complete. Sales of meat can be in-
creased only as you, the contact men
in the industry, tell Mrs. Jones and
Mrs. Smith that meat is good for them,
and show them how they can use it
economically and easily, and in you the
entire industry rests its confidence that
this job will be well done.

John H. Moninger.

ee
A Business Man’s Philosophy.

As soon as one leaves the major
business district of a large city one
immediately walks into a shabby dis-
trict, Why is it that cleanliness, or-
der and enterprise seem to associate
themselves only with ‘high rents?

Is it that men who are fit for com-
petition only in low-rent districts are
naturally shiftless, dirty and disorder-
ly? Are they unable to discipline
themselves sufficiently to rise to the
standards of first-class ‘business?

It may be argued that the small
business man lacks capital even for
minor improvement. But lack of cap-
ital does not account for dusty win-
dows, disarranged stock and dirty side-
walks. A few rags, a bucket, a broom
and a little muscle would work won-
ders,

The truth, perhaps, is that most
stores stay small and dirty because the
proprietors are so lazy that they are
unable to rouse tthemselves to do any-
thing they are not ordered to do. They
will wait on customers because a cus-
tomer is in the nature of a ‘boss. Tf
they were employed as manager of a
chain store they might hustle, because
they would have a hard-boiled over-

seer. Lacking a good boss they are
helpless. They drift along, eking out

a bare existence, unable to wake them-
selves from a natural stupor. The
poorer quarters of our cities are filled
with this type—and so are the rural
districts, William
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“Waiter, didn’t you tell me that this
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Wholesale and Retail

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HARDWARE

Michigan Retail Hardware Association.
President—Waldo Bruske, Saginaw.
Vice-Pres.—Chas. H. Sutton, Howell.
Secretary—Harold W. Bervig.
Treasurer—William Moore, Detroit.

Looking Ahead To Thanksgiving Day

Trade.

Thanksgiving Day is only a little
more than a month distant. So it is
not too early for the window trimmer
to give some thought to his Thanks-
giving displays.

 

The Thanksgiving display should be
one of the best of the year. Nor
should it be an isolated event. It should
come, rather as a sort of climax to the
fall selling and as a curtain raiser to
the Christmas holiday trade. In plan-
ning and arranging your window trim,
it will be worth while to bear these
facts in mind,

It pays, throughout the year, to
make your displays seasonable and
wherever possible, to tie them up with
topics that are in the public mind at
the moment. Because at this particu-
lar season a good many people are
thinking of the approaching Thanks-
giving holiday it is good business to
put on a hardware display with a dis-
tinctively Thanksgiving color.

No window trim is sufficient, how-
ever, if it merely takes on a certain
bit of timely color. Every window trim
should have a definite purpose. That
purpose is to help sell goods. And
when you have mentally outlined what
you consider a good Thanksgiving
display, pause and apply the acid test:
“Will this display help to sell goods?”

At the same time, every reminder of
changing seasons, every hint that time
is moving on, will tend to stimulate
buying activity. But the more inti-
mately you link your seasonable, color-
ful display with the goods you want to
sell, the more effective that display will
be.

Before the Thanksgiving holiday,
harvest hints and harvest color can be
worked into a good many attractive
displays of seasonable lines.

Late October or early November
will often be found a good time to
push cutlery. Cutlery lends _ itself
readily to attractive display. Carving
sets should sell readily at this season.
Nobody cares to carve the Thanksgiv-
ing turkey with a dull knife.

One hardware dealer used numerous
autumn accessories to lend seasonable
color to a cutlery display. An appro-
priate ‘background was contrived by
the use of a grape border, Sheaves of
grain, corn stalks, yellow ears of corn,
pumpkins, fall and winter apples,
pears and quinces, were all worked in-
to the display. Such accessories lent
the maximum of timely color to the
display at very slight expense.

These timely accessories were help-
ed out by the use of neat show cards
bringing out the significance of the dis-
play. “A sharp knife for the Thanks-
giving turkey,” “Cutlery for the holi-
day season,” “A well set table adds to
the joy of the feast,” and similar
slogans were used. Each article on
display was accompanied by a neat
price ticket. The goods featured in-
cluded carvers in pairs and in cases,
kitchen knives, butter knives, steel
knives and forks, meat forks, kitchen
ware, fruit spoons and sintilar articles.
Silver fruit baskets were also shown.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

It is usually good policy to make
such displays as comprehensive as pos-
sible. The autumn accessories attract
attention to the window; and the more
lines you can show without crowding,
the more likely you are to get sales.
Of course everything shown should
“tie in” with the main topic of the dis-
play; anything incongruous is apt to
spoil the effect,

Opportunities in early fall for color-
ful displays should be utilized to the
full. “What have I to do with pump-
kins and autumn leaves?” you are apt
to say. “I don’t sell them, I sell hard-
ware.” Yet it is these very items,
easily procurable, that enhance the at-
tractiveness of the window and induce
people to stop, look and think serious-
ly of buying seasonable articles. For
one passer-by who will stop to look at
a display of hardware, four or five will
be ‘halted by the biggest and yellowest
pumpkin in three counties—and will,
incidentally, look over the timely hard-
ware lines arranged about that pump-
kin.

At the same time, you must show
the goods you want to sell. Don’t let
a zest for attractive accessories run
away with your judgment,

A hardware dealer some years ago
decided to put on a Thanksgiving dis-
play that would make everybody “Stop,
look and listen!’ He weighed a num-
ber of schemes, rejected one after an-
other, and at last had a veritable brain-
storm, “That will pull the trade,” he
decided.

So he fenced in the entire window
with poultry netting. Inside this pen
he placed a turkey gobbler and two
hens—live ones, Corn was scattered
about, dry grass and sawdust. Every-
body who came along stopped to look
at those turkeys. The crowd at times
blocked the sidewalk.

“Pulling any business?” the dealer
was asked,

“Naw,” he grunted. “It’s funny, too.”
There’s a crowd looking at those birds
all the time. But nobody comes in.
Take it from me, this seasonable color
stuff is the bunk.”

Yet the thing was simple enough.
The dealer was not selling turkeys, yet
he advertised nothing else. He had a
striking, arresting feature in this win-
dow, but no seasonable goods. One
live turkey, with a comprehensive dis-
play of carving sets and cutlery, would
have carried an eloquent message to
everyone and stimulated sales.

“Show the goods” is a slogan to re-
member in connection with every win-
dow trim you put on. And bear in
mind that acid test of every display,
“Will it help to sell goods?”

Large stores with ample window
space can put on very elaborate dis-
plays. One such display, put on some
years ago by a big city hardware store,
was hard to beat in the matter of ef-
fectiveness.

A background was painted in, show-
ing a log cabin with door ajar, and in
the distance the horizon with a pine
tree outlined against it. In front of
the doorway were shocks of corn, and
a block to which a Thanksgiving tur-
key was tied. The axe stood nearby.
The floor of the window was covered
with turf, dotted with pumpkins. Two
arrows sticking in the cabin wall made
clear the significance of the display—

an Indian attack on a Massachusetts
settlement just as the Puritan couple
were leaving their log cabin to attend
Thanksgiving service. The display
was devoted to emphasize the tradi-
tional origin of the Thanksgiving
festival; and numerous items of sea-
sonable hardware lines were skilfully
worked into the display.

In this case the display occupied one
of several windows in a large store;
and the adjoining windows were filled
with seasonable goods. The passerby,
stopping to look at the central “pic-
ture window,” inevitably lingered to
examine the seasonable lines display-
ed nearby,

For the average hardware dealer,
such a display would be impracticable.
Few stores have window space suffi-
cient for a display so elaborate. Nor
would the incidental outlay of time and
money be justified. But simpler dis-
plays are easy to contrive.

For instance, a harvest background
can be used to advantage in display-
ing cutlery. A broad frieze can be
contrived of a wide board covered with
white material. Each upper rear cor-
ner, and also the rear center of the
window, can be decorated with a sheaf
of grain, preferably wheat. From
each of these sheaves suspend gar-
lands of vegetables, fruits and grain.
These garlands can ibe contrived by
pinning the various items to the board
border to give a festooned effect. At
the back of the central sheaf, make a
sunburst of grain. This can be formed
by attaching a series of laths, like
spokes, to a common center, and cov-
ering these spokes with ears of corn.
The center, where the laths all join,
can be covered in the same way. For
the background of such a window, use
whatever you have—mirrors, paneled
wood or gathered or pleated cloth.

A sheaf of wheat, arranged in pedes-
tal form, may be made an additional
feature, This is done by covering a
pedestal with a thick outer layer of
wheat and tying it midway to look
like a sheaf. On top of this pedestal
place a glass shelf on which to display
small articles of stock.

Another harvest idea is to mount a
huge sheaf of wheat on top of a high
pedestal, and tie about the center of the
sheaf a large bow of bright ribbon. Ex-
tend the streamer ends in graceful
drapes to the floor. Or bright-colored
ribbons can be used to connect the
sheaf in the center of the window with
the four corners. A small spray of

October 21, 1931

wheat can be used to decorate the
show card used with your display and
heads of wheat can be glued tto the
price tickets.

Another attractive idea is a model
kitchen with the Thanksgiving dinner
in preparation. This display has the
distinct advantage that, apart from the
foodstuffs shown, practically every-
thing on display is part of the hard-
ware stock,

While all these may be called
Thanksgiving displays, they should not
be kept until the last day before the
holiday. Never forget, your purpose
is to sell goods, and you can’t do that

if you hold your big display until prac- ~

tically the last minute. It is timely to
talk Thanksgiving a full month before
the holiday; and to string along a series
of seasonable displays from now until
then.

As a curtain raiser, a Hallowe'en dis-
play is timely right now. The familiar
jack o’ lantern, contrived out of a big
pumpkin with a powerful electric light
bulb inside, makes a good centerpiece.
A really imposing jack o’ lantern of
mammoth proportions can be built of
orange tissue paper on a couple of
wagon wheel rims or discarded tire
casings. But the pumpkin face will
suffice and involves less work. Small
pie pumpkins can be made into smaller
jack o’ lanterns for the corners of the
windows, With these simple features,
work in seasonable goods of all kinds.

Victor Lauriston.
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What Represents Your Net Profit.

The retailer's dollar received for
merchandise sold by weight has been
divided into $.80 for costs, $15 for
overhead and $.05 for net profit, ac-
cording to a survey recently made by
a National scale company.

In weight the division was 12 4/5
ounces for cost, 2 2/5 ounces for over-
head and 4[5 of an ounce for net
profit.

As little as one-quarter ounce over-
weight will affect the net profit, for the
loss must come out of the four-fifths
of an ounce, the profit part of the
pound,

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Hen Intelligence.

Betty: Black hens are more clever
than white ones, aren’t they, Ma?

Ma: What makes you think that,
dear?

Betty: Well the black ones can lay
white eggs, ‘but the white ones can’t
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DRY GOODS

Michigan Retail Dry Goods Association.

President — Geo. E. Martin, Benton
Harbor.

First Vice-President —J. T. Milliken,
Traverse City.

Second Vice-President—George C. Pratt,
Grand Rapids.

Secretary-Treasurer—Thomas Pitketh-
ly, Flint.

Manager—Jason E. Hammond, Lansing.

 

of Smart Women Prefer

Short Hair.

There are just as many new styles
in faces, complexions, figures and coif-
fures as there are in costumes. The
mere fact of being dressed by a great
Paris couturier is no longer sufficient to
establish a reputation for elegance.
Every element of the stylescape must
be co-ordinated into the perfect sil-
houette of the moment, if one is to

Majority

achieve chic in the true Parisienne
sense of the word.
The new hats demand an absolute

revision of the coiffure in almost every
case. They are not really, nearly so
hard to wear as the late tonsure skull
caps, but they can’t be put on anyhow,
and they throw the profile—the left
one particularly—into high relief.

On first thought, one might conclude
that the Second Empire and eighteenth
century hats would foster a wealth of
curls and chignons, but on second, one
realizes that such small hats perched
on a complicated coiffure would create
a fancy effect, absolutely fatal to the
contemporary notion of good style; for
the modern versions of those jaunty
millinery epochs are made to fit the
head—as far as they go anyway—and it
is essential to dress the hair so as to
make the face and head look as small
as possible. This treatment, by the
way, is favored by Paris couturiers for
evening, also, as the small head makes
a woman look tall.

Paris hairdressers and milliners have
got together this season and signed the
death warrant of all bunchy effects.
Those bird’s-nest curls at the nape
have vanished and likewise those little
rouleaus that at least seven out of ten
girls favored last Winter.

There are still curls, it is true, but
they are so flattened and convention-
alized as to give a wavy outline, that
may correct without seeming to hide
the shape of the head.

Few smart women in Paris have re-
turned to really long hair, probably be-
cause Antoine, who creates the coif-
fures of at least 80 per cent. of the
famous elegantes, is definitely opposed
to the return of the chignon. He works
miracles with a rather long shingle,
however, so that cropped heads offer
just as great variety, to-day, as did the
abundant tresses of the Empress Eu-
genie and her attendants.

The majority of well-turned-out
women noted about Paris this Fall
have adopted. some version of Antoine’s
wind-blown bob with the hair straight
or ever so little curled—the ends effile
so they’re like feathers—-and made to
lie in natural looking curves on the
head and sweep forward on the cheeks,
by means of a water wave. If there’s
a parting at all, it is placed on the cen-
ter or on the right side so as to lavishly
garnish that important left profile.

As the majority of the new hats re-

veal a considerable portion of the back
of the head, the dressing of the back
hair must be carefully studied, also.
The wind-blown bob often features the
hair cut in a feathery fringe all round
the back as well as in the front and
held in place by a semi-circular comb
fitting the head from ear to ear—in
back, of course.

These comb-bandeaus are worn with
curled hair also, the coiffure being
loosely waved and the ends arranged
over the ears and in the back, in flat-
tened ringlets.

Combs of all sorts have come back
into fashion for day as well as evening
wear. Auguste Bonnaz is making sets
of two small combs in cristalombre or
shell for daytime and in gold or silver
for evening, that may be worn in a
number of different ways—one on each
side holding curls or lovelocks in place
over the ears, or both in back, ensuring
chic of curls or chigron,

The curved golden combs, set with
pearls or coral, so often seen in por-
traits of both Josephine de Beauharnais
and the Empress Eugenie, have been
revived for evening, with Directoire and
Victorian ensembles. They may be
worn at the back of the head, or de-
tached from the comb proper to form
a coronet. Jewelry designers are creat-
ing narrow circlets on the same prin-
ciple, but with a more modern air.

Combs or ornaments of some sort
for the hair are part of all the new
evening parures being shown by Mau-
boussin, Van Cleef and Arpels, and
Cartier, to name only a few of the
great Paris jewelry creators.

lew coiffures either for day or eve-
ning leave the forehead bare, which is
good news to the many women un-
blessed by the marble brow. Light
fringes, curved fish hook locks or curls,
that bear, however, no resemblance to
the uncompromising bangs of our
grandmother’s day, soften and change
the outline of the face.

The hats that turn definitely sky-
ward in back—and there are many of
them—are responsible for a return to
the location of the “Psyche Knot,” for
the chignon, if any; for that arrange-
ment fills in the space under the hat
and creates a gradual becoming slant
toward the nape.

Antoine designs a very modern ver-
sion of Madame Recamier’s well-known
head dress, using both straight and
curly hair, that is equally smart with
such hats or with evening gowns of
the Directoire persuasion. There’s a
fish-hooky, but feathery, fringe of
straight hair all round, but the hair,
left longer in the psyche spot in back,
is dressed in a bunch of curls, held by
jewelled combs in the evening.

Cendron, a young hair-dresser who
is creating quite a stir in Paris at the
moment, has devised a new and ex-
tremely practical coiffure expressing
the same idea, for semi-long, straight
hair. A few locks are cut short soft-
ening the forehead and over the ears,
while in back the hair is swept up from
the nape into a simple twist, fastened
with a shell pin for daytime and with
a jewelled arrow for evening wear.—
N. Y. Times.

Submit Notion Stock Control Plan.

A special bulletin on stock control,
designed primarily for the use of no-
tions departments in retail stores but
applicable to toilet goods, homewares
and novelties, will be issued by the
National Notion Association this week.
Directors of the organization at a
special meeting last week approved a
report submitted by a committee ap-
pointed to investigate the question. The
stock control study undertaken
some months ago at the suggestion of
notion manufacturers who felt that un-
balanced stocks in stores were cramp-
ing the profit possibilities of notion de-
partments, The method worked out,
according to members of the commit-
tee, can be applied to any department
in which small items are handled.

was

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Active Call For Electric Heaters.
Manufacturers of room-size electric

heaters have profited considerably dur-
ing the last few weeks through extreme
variations in the Jobbers,
supplying merchandise to both hard-
ware and electrical stores, re-
port an increase in consumer interest.
Wholesalers have furnished a larger
repeat order business this
units made to retail around $5. Calls
for other electrical appliances are lim-
ited. Several producers have offered
special inducements to get wholesalers
to increase ‘holiday purchases of per-
colators, toasters and similar articles,
but their efforts have met with slight
success,

weather.

goods

week on

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Food Index Drops To New Low.

Another sharp drop in food prices
last month carried the September in-
dex of wholesale grocery quotations
compiled by New York University for
the National Wholesale Grocers’ As-
sociation to the lowest point on record.
The index number for last month was
75.9 per cent. a drop of 2.5 per cent.
under the August figure and 15.5 per
cent. under September, 1930. Items
which averaged higher last month were
oats, tomatoes, pineapples and evap-

orated milk. Lower- quotations were
reported on beans, flour, cornmeal,
rice, prunes, peaches, sugar, coffee,

corn, cottonseed oil, lard and

densed milk.

con-

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To Delay Spring Curtain Buying.

Spring curtain orders will be placed
later this season than in any similar
period in the last five years, according
to reports from the New York market.
Spotty conditions prevailing in the mar-
ket have made curtain manufacturers
uncertain regarding Spring demand and
they are planning to stay out of the
market until late January, and possibly
until February. At present only a few
of the larger producers are enjoying a
good volume business and they are
furnishing only low-end products to
retail from 79 cents to $1.25. The mar-
ket for better curtains, it was said, is
almost at a standstill.

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Trade Holds Back New Glassware.

Discouraging sales during the early
part of the Fall season caused a num-
ber of glassware producers to hold up
new patterns originally scheduled for
late Fall and holiday sale. The manu-
facturers had planned to put their
goods on display early in September,
but will go through the remainder of

the year with the pieces they showed
last Spring. The new goods will be
held until January, when the annual
glassware market opens in Pittsburg.
Although business showed a slight in-
last week, the trade believes
the current season will be the least
profitable in more than three years.

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Pocketknife Promotion a Success.
Promotional undertaken
this year by manufacturers of pocket
knives have resulted in a 10 to 15 per
cent, increase in business, according to
estimates furnished iby cutlery manu-
facturers. Two of the largest produc-
ers of pocket knives have sponsored
their
drives this Fall, while others have pro-

activities

wood-carving contests in sales
moted the use of knives through ex-
The
demand so far has been best for jack

cents to $1,
beginning to
pen

tensive advertising campaigns.
knives retailing from 25
but jobbers are now
ornamental
knives for holiday sale,
a
Women’s Sport Coats Reduced $1.
A reduction of $1 a dozen to a basis
of $14 on women’s ribbed sport coats
for quick delivery has been put into
effect by one of the leading knit-goods
mills. This mill also made public the
fact that it had met the new market of
$9.75 per worsted ribbed
bathing suits, established toward the
close of last week by some of the lead-
ing volume mills,
however, were reported to be holding
their quotations at $10.25, ibut it was
thought possible that the entire mar-
ket will swing into line on the new

place orders. for

dozen on

producers. Some

basis before the end of the week.

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Woolen Competition More Severe.

Competition in the woolen and wor-
sted market reached its severest stage
of the current season last week, with
further price reductions on goods for
Spring. Demand for goods continues
spotty. Some houses get their
full share of business and others ob-
tain only a small portion. Price cuts
have emanated chiefly from the latter,
it was said. From present indications
the strike at Lawrence, Mass., may be

Very

an extended one and selling agents see
a shortage of worsteds resulting, in
the event that suspension is  pro-
longed.

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Shortage of Part-Wool Blankets.

The scarcity of
blanket more
acute during the week when last-minute
orders from jobbers and retail buyers
reached the Eastern market in fair
Some mills are sold up
for several weeks in advance on these

certain part-wool
constructions became

sized volume.

styles and cannot promise definite de-
livery dates. Solid colored numbers
continue outstanding, with some favor
shown to plaids. A few all-wool styles
are also moving actively, although quo-
tations on these numbers have not been
as steady as on the part-wool styles.

Not Guilty.

Judge O’Flaherty: Haven’t you been
before me before?

Prisoner: ‘No, y’r honor, Oi niver
saw but wan face that looked loike
yours, an’ that was a photograph of an
Irish king,

Judge O’Flahenty: Discharged, Call
th’ nixt case,

 

 

16

HOTEL DEPARTMENT

News and Gossip Concerning Hotels
and Landlords.

Los Angeles, Oct. 17—Last week
Los Angeles indulged in one of ‘those
functions known as a “charity ball,”
supposed to have been promulgated for
the purpose of relieving the unemploy-
ment situation. The local papers in-
dulged in many columns in describing
the costumes, illustrating many of
them, which ought to produce a thrill
in the “bread line,’ but not a single
word concerning the financial results.
Thousands upon thousands of dollars
were spent upon costumes, Designers,
modistes and others made a heap of
money, but few of the unemployed, if
any, participated in this type of dis-
bursement. J] wonder what percent-
age of the ‘total cost of the affair will
ever find its way to the men and wo-
men who really need it, or whether a
thought was bestowed upon the sup-
posed beneficiaries. Was it charity—
love—that led these men and women
to buy these splendid costumes for this
“charity” carnival? Through last win-
ter thousands of women throughout the
country went down to the breadlines
and labored—as ‘thousands will do
again this coming winter. They went
among the unfortunate and helped
wherever they could. They were
dressed in simple, inexpensive clothes.
They worked with a love for humanity
—J speak of those who worked freely
—for long hours. There was no
parade, no carnival about it, but the
unfortunate were helped. There are
thousands of stories to be told of the
dark winter of a year ago—thousands
of stories of little acts of neighborli-
ness. To those who gave heed to the
plight of the jobless thousands, the
outstanding cause for cheer was the
unselfishness desire on the part of
those who had jobs, who depended on
wages, to help those who were jobless.
Neighborliness ruled. And the man
who was out, the family in hunger,
the homeless woman, were the neigh-
bors of all. Charity is an unpleasant
word, used too much in recent times.
It is a shame that thousands who want
to work should be forced to accept
charity—but somehow the charity that
lives in the homes of the Nation seems
a lot better than the charity carnivals,
with their lavish costumes and _ their
costly pageants.

 

‘Hotel ‘Whitcomb, St, Joseph, having
gone into what is termed a “friendly”
receivership, in which Elmer E, Cross
is named receiver, that indefatigable
and astute individual, Charley Renner,
has been called in to take charge until
at least, they can find out what it is
all about, thus verifying to a large de-
gree my statement of long ago that,
given time that “Crazy Dutchman,” as
we used to call him, would have every-
thing in sight dn the Southwestern
Michigan hotel game. Mr. Townsend,
who has managed the Whitcomb since
the retirement of Mr. Jenkins, some
months ago, will remain on the board
of directors. The latter years’ history
of the vicissitudes: of the Whitcomb
borders on tragedy. The older Whit-
comb was a money maker on a modest
investment and Tupper Townsend put
in the best years of his life in catering
to a clientele who liked the hotel be-
cause of fond recollections of the days
when its magnificence was acclaimed
everywhere. But the late Mr. Wells,
with a commendable spirit of enter-
prise, decided that its patrons deserved
‘better physical attractions and put it up
to Mr. Townsend to iron out the rough
spots. The New Whitcomb is really a
monument to the tireless Townsend,
who helped raise the money and super-
intended its construction to the almost
irreparable ruin of his own health, The
death of Mr. Wells, soon after the
building was completed, left its financ-
es in a somewhat chaotic condition and
it will require very strenuous attention

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

on the part of the new management to
bring it back in the limelight, but if it
can be done, Charley Renner will be
the magician to turn the trick. More
wishes for success, Charley.

The Wisconsin Hotel Association
held its annual meeting at Milwaukee,
the first of the present month. J men-
tion this fact for two reasons, one of
which is that my old-time friend, ‘Her-
man QO. Kletsch, manager of the Re-
publican House, of that city was re-
elected Secretary for the fortieth time,
I should say, and the other is that the
Wisconsin organization stands _ for
something—is an accomplisher. It is
run on strictly business principles, and
has a business manager, H. L. Ash-
worth, who also stands for much. They
don’t get together and waste their time
passing resolutions of a perfunctory
character and go ‘back home and go to
sleep, but they strictly live up to the
tenets of the institution, which means
much for its membership. When a
“skipper” makes a skip, they don’t sit
down and sob about it, but they turn
the account and responsibility over to
their manager and he collects the coin
or sees that the perpetrator gets sev-
eral uncomfortable moments in the
hoosegow. Then again, Mr. Ash-
worth, has the date of every conven-
tion etched on his very brain, and he

also gathers them in, in addition to

broadcasting the advantages of Wis-
consin as a resort state.

They say that Manager Christen-
berry, of the Park Avenue Hotel, in
Detroit, distributes overnight tooth
brushes to all of his guests. Some-
thing new develops in the advertising
game at every whirl of the motor.

Ray H. Reynolds, who manages Ho-
tel Owosso, at Owosso, when he can’t
find anything else to keep ‘him out of
mischief, is always devising some
scheme to improve his offerings to his
patrons. Just now he is engaged in a
program of redecoration, laying new
carpets and improving the lighting ef-
fects of his establishment,

George Jennett has purchased the

property and equipment of Hotel Crow,

‘Saugatuck, and has already taken pos-
session of same. The hotel was erect-
ed by Elmer Crow some years ago and
operated by him as a combined res-
taurant and hotel. [ don’t know what
Elmer proposes doing, but whatever it
is, he has my very best wishes for
prosperous times.

It is told that at the golf tournament
sponsored by the Wisconsin Hotel As-
sociation, at Milwaukee, recently,
Milton Magel, whom we all know, had
quite a time winning the championship
cup. He had to play the 16th and 17th
holes with a lantern, and had to forego
the 18th altogether. No mention has
been made of the “nineteenth.”

 

The Pullman Company have asked
permission from the Interstate Com-
merce Commission to increase their
berth rates on sleepers. They sure
ought to get their wish. During the
war period these charges were doubled
and still remain at the higher figure.
Of course they practically drove away
most of their patrons, but they are still
bothered with a few old-fashioned
acrobats who are doing penance for
something or other, and still think they
can stow themselves in a Pullman
berth without maiming themselves per-
manently. The sleeping car people
may get a readjustment of their rates,
but there will never be any improve-
ment in their sleeping accommodations.
And for these reasons will continue to
haul.a ‘battery of practically empty
cars on almost every through train
throughout the country.

Uncle Sam is sure getting after those
low fellows who are selling those al-
leged grape juice bricks, which, if co-

 

October 21, 1931

 

 

“A MAN IS KNOWN BY THE
COMPANY HE KEEPS”

That is why LEADERS of Business
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

 

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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.

 

MORTON
HOTEL

Grand Rapids’ Newest
Hotel

400 Roums -t- 400 Baths

RATES
$2.50 and up per day.

 

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Occidental Hotel

FIRE PROOF
CENTRALLY LOCATED
Rates $2.00 and up
EDWART R. SWETT, Mgr.
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Warm Friend Tavern
Holland, Mich.
Is truly a friend to all travelers. All
room and meal rates very reasonable.
Free private parking space.
GEO. W. DAUCHY, Mgr.

CODY HOTEL

GRAND RAPIDS

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

CAFETERIA IN CONNECTION

 

 

 

HOTEL

CHIPPEWA

MANISTEE, MICH.

Universally conceded to be one of
the best hotels in Michigan.
Good rooms, comfortable beds, ex-
cellent food, fine cooking, perfect

service.
Hot and Cold Running Water and
Telephone in every Room.

$1.50 and up
60 Rooms with Bath $2.50 and $3
HENRY M. NELSON, Manager

 

 

“We are always mindful of
our responsibility to the pub-
lic and are in full apprecia-
tion of the esteem its generous
patronage implies.”

HOTEL ROWE
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
ERNEST W. NEIR, Manager.

 

 

Park Place Hotel
Traverse City
Rates Reasonable—Service Superb
—Location Admirable.

GEO. ANDERSON, Mgr.
ALBERT J. ROKOS, Ass’t Mgr.

 

 

In
Kalamazoo
It’s the
PARK-AMERICAN

 

Charles Renner, Manager

W. D. Sanders, Asst Mer.

 

 

 

 

New Hotel Elliott
STURGIS, MICH.

50 Baths 50 Running Water
European
D. J. GEROW, Prop.

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

17

 

ordinated with corn sugar, raise havoc
with the shelf papers in the pantry. It
seems they have been represented as
“docile” when, in fact, certain of the
species become “fractious” at times.
But the thousands of malt houses lo-
cated everywhere, selling daily millions
of cans of malt syrup, presumably for
lubricating pancakes, will continue to
flourish until the enforcement depart-
ment has another thought filtered into
its think tank.

Now the California hoteliers, already
protected to certain extent by a law
which outlaws canines unless annexed
to a leash, want more teeth into the
act so they may politely say they
“would be glad to accommodate,” etc.,
“but there is the law, you know.” The
canine in California, as it is, certainly
leads a dogs Ite” He may be
decorated with a license tag, but the
big, bad policeman sends him to the
slaughter house if he appears in public
with out a leash, and a dozen ‘“‘strings”’
wouldn't save him if his owner per-
chance took him for a stroll in a public
park,

Seems funny, but the fact remains
well established that most of the
Chinese restaurants in Los Angeles are
owned, operated and largely patron-
ized by Japanese, only the cooks and
waiters being Chinamen, The manager
of one | occasionally patronize, down
in the Plaza district, tells me that he
and his cashier are Japanese, and most
of the patrons are Americans.

Have you ever wondered, as you saw
a fight in a movie, in which tables and
chairs were smashed over the heads of
combatants, how the hero could come
through for the final close-up without
showing a face which was beaten into
the semblance of a pounded beefsteak?
I have, and it has ever been a great
mystery to me, but one which was
solved for me the other day, when I
went to a workshop, or laboratory, the
other day, over in Glendale, where they
make a specialty of building furniture
which smashes but does not anihilate.
The proprietor of the establishment
used to be a carpenter in one of the
studios. But he lost one of his hands
in an accident and it was presumed
that he had become incapacitated. But
not so. This man used his head to
overcome the loss of a hand, and he
discovered in various experimental
ways that the fiber of the desert yucca,
could be used, on account of its light-
ness, for preparing feather weight ar-
ticles with a hazardous appearance,
which were not so ugly in their con-
tact. He began his experiments with
the stalks, after they had gone to seed
and dried up. It is against the law to
take yucca from the National forests
while it is growing, but after it has ma-
tured and the seeds have been scat-
tered by the wind the removal of the
dry stalks is somewhat of a public
service. This genius began removing
them by the wholesale. From those
yucca stalks, he began manufacturing
in a shop at his home, “fake” furniture
—chairs and tables which look like
solid wood, when pictured on the
screen, but so light that you could lift
the heaviest of them with your little
finger. Those ttables and chairs can
be smashed over an actor’s head in a
manner that is “killingly”’ funny and
yet do the smashee no harm at all.
And slapstick is so completely out of
fashion that this new departure makes
a decided hit. He is an artist in his
line and sometimes makes even grand
Pianos which you see frail artists toss
out of windows, with an artificial
“smash,” and when they are dropped
on one’s toes or bounced off a badly
loaded truck you see the audience
really go wild with mirth, getting their
money’s worth—because of the idea
that it must cost a lot to make pictures
when grand pianos are smashed up like
that. But when they come from this
genius’ shop, they don’t really cost a

great deal, and the comedian who
comes in contact with them, is. still
able to appear in public, and dance and
play golf if sufficiently demoralized.

 

Also J attended the dedication of the
British Old Peoples Home here the
other day, which seemed to me to be
an event of more than passing signifi-
cance. There are said to be three of
these homes iin this country, one near
New York, one in a Chicago suburb,
and this newest one at Sierra Madre,
a dozen miles from Los Angeles. The
home just dedicated, to be sure, is
small, but as it is to serve eleven West-
ern states is destined to grow, and
provision for growing has been made
by locating it on a large tract of
ground, with plenty of idle land near
by which can be utilized later on if de-
sirable. It was stated at the dedica-
tion that many applications had been
filed from prospective inmates, and
would be financed in the near future.
It is conducted on the same plan as
many fraternal organizations in Mich-
igan have adopted. Anyone descend-
ing from English parentage may, for
a certain modest sum, if they can pro-
vide it, secure a home here, and if they
are indigents, efforts will be made to
secure them the accommodations just
the same. It gets away from the
county farm idea and is a real effort
along charitable lines.

The longest building in the world, so
claimed, is the Los Angeles Union
Terminal building, which is 1,100 feet
in length, covering three city blocks.
It has a right to be the longest for it
is the throbbing heart of the world’s
greatest produce market, and when one
arises at an early hour to go down and
see it at the height of its activity, he
has certainly got something to talk
about. It is the only market anywhere
to which an average of 3,000 truck
loads of fresh fruits and vegetables are
brought every day of the week, except
Saturday, for distribution far and wide.
According to the superintendent, fresh
lettuce is distributed from this market
every business day of the year, and the
same can be said of garden peas and
other vegetables, and the same may
also be said of fruits, noticeably
strawberries, and the citrus products.
So unrivaled is the productive area,
covering Southern California and
reaching along the West coast of Mex-
ico, ‘Hawaiian Islands, and South
America even makes its considerable
contribution. It is claimed that in this
market are thirty divisions where only
peas, string beans and asparagus are
handled. This market is wholesale
only and is open to anyone. Any farm-
er may drive his truck into it and se-
cure stall room for an insignificant
sum, backing his truck into the allotted
space and selling, at wholesale only,
from its rear end. These farmers be-
gin driving in at about 8 p. m.—men
of all nationalities, speaking numerous
tongues—and women, too, in many
instances. There are over 400 “regu-
lars’ who take the same places night
after night, and a traffic cop directs
the more transient ones. First come
the long-distance truckers, who almost
hide their huge vans with a wealth of
vegetables of all colors, many of them
coming from a section 200 miles dis-
tant. These are followed by the local
growers, the traffic being handled with
clock-like exactness. But the real
show begins about 4 a. m, when the
buyers approach from the nearest
towns, followed by the local and sub-
urban grocers who absolutely fill the
huge market to its capacity. These are
followed by the peddlers, or hucksters,
with double-decked wagons, and last
come the cheaper retailers,, driving
queer vehicles of every description, to
pick up “job lots” from the market’s
enormous remnant counters. For
everything must be sold, everyone
must clear out by noon, so that the
whole 21 acres may be cleaned up for
the night following. Every day many

tons of good food are thrown away in
the market. To illustrate, Los Angeles
eats more bananas than any other city,
though it ranks behind New Orleans
as an exporter of this particular fruit.
But bananas which are ripe when they
reach the brokers are ruthlessly cut
from the stalks—to the great joy of
hundreds of women and children who
daily go through the market, picking
out of the huge trash cans large quan-
tities of food to carry home. Many
bring children’s carts and even baby
buggies to transport their gleanings,
and when one really sees how much
good food is discarded, it is hard to
understand how anyone could really
go hungry. I saw fruits dumped which
had only begon to “spot.” It certain-
ly is a marvelous experience, if one
will only set the alarm to “alarm” at
3.2. m, You say “uch,” but you are
missing something just the same if you
are unwilling to make the sacrifice.
Frank 'S. Verbeck.

George H. Snow, 58, manager of the
Reed Inn, at Jonia, and former circus
entertainer, died following a stroke of
apoplexy at ‘his home there last Friday
night,

Mr. Snow was born in Vermont.
During his early years he was connect-
ed with several including
Barnum and Bailey, with which he
was an acrobat.

Following his circus career he op-
erated a hotel in Deland, Fla. Nine
years ago he came to Belding where
he operated a hotel for three years be-
fore moving to Ionia to operate Reed
Inn. He was prominent in fraternal
circles and was well known through-
out the State.

He is survived by the widow and
one sister, Mrs. T. N. Haubennestel,
of New York'State. A son, Raymond,
died Aug. 26 of tropical fever which
he contracted while in the navy.

The body of Mr. Snow was taken to
Vermont for interment,

circuses,

The formal opening of the ‘Mather
Inn, in Ishpeming, which has been un-
der construction since early summer,
will take place the first week in Janu-
ary, according to present plans. The
construction work will be finished on
Nov. 15 and about six weeks will be
required for furnishing and equipping
the hostelry.

The seventy-five room LaSalle, in
3attle Creek, originally operated by
Milton Magel, now of Milwaukee, has
been leased for a term of years to the
Raymond F. Smith Corporation, of
Chicago. D. N. Olson has been sent
on from Chicago to manage the house.
R. Taylor Smith, of Chicago, is assist-
ant manager,

The Wentworth, at Lansing, which
has been closed for several months,
will be remodeled by executors of the
estate of the Mrs. Ellen Wentworth.
A new lobby is part of the plan. The
hotel has about forty-five rooms,

 

Edgar E. Pitts, past National presi-
dent of the Greeters, who is associated
with Tuller, has invited Charter No.
29 to be his guests at an old-fashioned
barn dance, with autumn refreshments,
at his farm off Middle Belt Road, near
Farmington, this fall. The affair will
be sponsored by the Women’s Auxil-
iary of the charter and will be held
near Hallowe'en.

To Improve Wholesale and Retail
Grocery Practices.

Pittsbur¢é, Oct. 20—-The U:. S. Bu-
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com-
merce will inaugurate in Pittsburg
this month an experimental plan for
the development of better nrerchandis-
ing in the food products industry.

Che project will be the most inten-
sive and far-reaching effort ever under-
taken to improve wholesale and retail
grocery practices. It will include not
only the research features of the Louis-
ville survey, but will be extended to
embrace a complete merchants’ train-
ing program,

A staff of Government experts on
all phases of merchandising will direct
the program for a six months’ period.
Subjects to which especial attention
will be paid will include store arrange-
ment, stock layout, window displays,
illumination, refrigeration, packaging,
handling of perishables, delivery, buy-
ing, credit, accounting, etc.

Many facts of vital interest to the
food and associated industries will un-
questionably be developed as the work
proceeds, Ralph C. Edgar.

Demand For Sheets Slackens.

Primary market sales of wide sheet-
ings and sheets slackened during the
week and the volume placed was only
fair in comparison to some recent to-
tals. A few mills, however, are fairly
well placed on advance business, which
will keep them running for some time
to come. Interest in holiday goods has
not developed very strongly yet, and
only a few sales of solid colored and
colored border goods in fancy pack-

iges have been placed. Volume buy-
ing of these numbers is expected to

start in shortly, however,

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Slight Spurt in Glass Orders.

Arrival of comparatively cool weath-
er in some sections of the country has
given a little spurt to the market for
flat glass for building purposes. There
has been a slight increase in demand
for window glass. Plate glass, how-
ever, continues to lag. Production of
both sheet and plate glass types is
much below the average for this sea-
son of the year and the outlook is for
a falling off in production after Nov. 1
rather than an increase.

Stocks in the
hands of distributors are lower than
they have been since 1919,

Ditto.

Teacher: How many days are there
in each month?

Johnny: Thirty days hath September,
all the rest I can’t remember. The
calendar hangs upon the
bather me with this at all.

wall—why

 

Hotel and Restaurant
Equipment
H. Leonard & Sons
38-44 Fulton St., W.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

NEW

   

Decorating

and
Management
Pactus FAMOUS
Grand Circus Park. Oyster Bar.
800 Rooms - - ~- 800 Baths

Rates from $2

HOTEL TULLER

HAROLD A. SAGE, Mgr.

 

 

 

 

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DRUGS

Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Orville Hoxie, Grand Rapids.
Vice-Pres.—Clare F. Allen, Wyandotte.
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 ex-
amination at Ironwood, and the March
and November examinations at Grand
Rapids. :

 

Michigan State Pharmaceutical
Association.

President—J. C. Dykema, Grand Rapids.
_First Vice-President—F. H. Taft, Lan-
sing.

Second Vice-President—Duncan Wea-
ver, Fennville.

Secretary—R. A. Turrell, Croswell.

Treasurer—Clarence Jennings, Law-
rence.
No Profit on the Stuff You Give Away.

The conduct of a retail drug business
is, aside from its professional aspect,
quite a complicated undertaking. Real
merchandising is not merely the ex-
change of goods for money. Neither is
the selling of goods at a price greater
than first cost always profitable. Turn-
over is not the key to profits nor is
volume a guarantee of success, These
things are important, like stones are to
the house builder, but many things
must be considered, controlled, and
effectively applied if a successful busi-
ness structure results, In a final
analysis, a successful business must
show a net profit after “overhead” has
taken its toll from the combined bene-
ficent influences of turnover, volume,
stock control, gross margin, and care-
ful buying.

 

The net profit on your business is
figured on your entire business opera-
tion for the period and not from single
sales or sales of single items. The
value of a sale depends on its final ef-
fect on the entire business. For this
reason it is unwise for the retailer to
permit manufacturers or salesmen to
mislead him with impressive arrays of
statistics, and figures which prove that
he will make money selling an item,
the gross margin on which is less than
the dealer’s average overhead, merely
because the item has a rapid turnover.
Net profit is not a function of turnover,
it is perhaps more dependent on vol-
ume than it is upon any other single
phase of business, and at that, it is
more dependent upon total volume of
business than upon volume of sales of
any single item. In other words, a re-
tail business on account of the many
fixed charges which make up “over-
head,” must be viewed as a whole. Tihe
percentage of these charges varies with
the volume, hence one cannot assign
a percentage of overhead as the ex-
pense of handling any given item until
the total volume of the business as a
whole has been compared with the to-
tal overhead cost. A quickly sold item
takes but little of a clerk’s time and
since it is soon gone, it looks reason-
able that little rent, light, insurance
and interest should be charged against
it. However, such is not the case,
clerks are not continually busy selling
such items alone. There is idle time
to be charged off and the fact must be
considered that if clerks were hired to
sell a single item, the overhead would,
in most cases, be enormous indeed.
The same thing applies to other items
of overhead. You could not rent a
building solely for the sale of even so
rapid a seller as tooth paste; it must

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

have the aid of the rest of the business
to pay expenses. You cannot charge
tooth paste with only the rental of the
two foot space it occupies. Consider
how much tooth paste you would sell
if two feet were all the space you had.

The logical conclusion from all this,
is that it is necessary to consider a
single sale not only on a basis of its
own merits but in its relation to and
effect on the whole business. It takes
a lot of sales of a lot of things to make
a drug business profitable. Some of
those things are slow movers, but it is
necessary to have them. Some of
what appears to be overhead directly
chargeable to these slow movers must
be charged against the fast sellers be-
cause if you expect to sell a man things
he wants often, you are compelled to
keep on hand, things he wants selldom.
This again indicates that your average
percentage of overhead cost applies
equally to every sale whether turnover
is fast or slow. Your business is an
entity and must be viewed as a whole.
Statisticians will not agree, nor will
efficiency experts and manufacturers
of rapid selling items, but can they tell
you how much of your daily food is al-
lotted to one leg? How much food
would you save if you cut off a leg?
The question is preposterous of course,
but I find my business will not run on
tooth paste ‘figures. Other things must
be carried and tooth paste must help
carry them,

A single sale of a single item should
indicate a profit when compared with
the average requirements of the whole
business. On that basis, a normal vol-
ume will produce a net profit. Volume
is not the result of turnover but is the
sum of individual sales. Turnover is
important, but all it actually saves or
makes, is the difference between the in-
terest on the small amount actually in-
vested and the interest on the larger
sum required to buy a year’s supply at
one time. The rest of the profit, if
any, is attributable to the sale itself. A
single sale may or may not add to the
total volume of business. Business
experts tell us that each sale is just
that much more volume. I know that
figures do not lie, but here is where
one liar begins figuring.

A manufacturer has a new item or
perhaps wants to boost an old item.
What does he do? He looks about for
some wanted item and onto this popu-
lar item the saddles his slow stock. He
offers a wonderful special. With each
tube of toothpaste he will give free a
well-known ‘brand of tooth brush of
equal value. He will advertise the
wonderful bargain in national mag-
azines, you pay 34 cents—the consum-
er gets a dollar value for only 49 cents.
Of course you will make your usual
liberal profit on the sal.. As a booster
and leader it is a knockout. \Sure! it
knocks the retailer out. You have only
a given number of prospects for the
sale of toothbrushes in your trade ter-
ritory. When you give away that
tooth brush, you cut your total volume
of sales 50 cents. When you sell the
toothpaste you have only increased
your. volume of business?

When one manufacturer pulled this
stunt, the effect was but little noticed,
but when perfume is packed free with
face powder, your perfume sales stag-
nate! Lipsticks with face powder,

rouge with face powder, shaving lotion
with shaving cream, razor blades with
shaving cream, cleansing tissue with
napkins, nurse-bottles with talcum,

soap with face powder, and so on down.

the line the procession goes. Where is
your volume. Half the goods needed
in your territory and which ordinarily
would be bought by your customers
are given away. Are you conducting
a business or only a free dumpcart for
manufacturers’ surplus?

It is time the retailer entered a pro-
test to the manufacturer against such
methods. They are basicly unfair and
in the face of the manufacturer’s na-
tional advertising, such deals are diffi-
cult to avoid, especially as some weak
brother in every town will likely put
them on. In addition to the unfairness
of the deal, manufacturers quite often
give the retailer a backhanded slap in
the face by branding the rider article
all over as “free goods,” “not to be
sold.” As much as to say that they

will force the play whether you like

it or not. Retailers in general are too
prone to accept ideas and propositions
offered by manufacturers without ques-
tion. We have, in a way, come to look
to them for guidance and direction.
They have told us so often that they
know all there is to know about busi-
ness that we have begun to believe it.
They assert positively, their interest in
us and friendship for us until we al-
most forget to watch their left hand.
I am in favor of more independent
thinking by independent retailers. Let
us not be misled into giving up our
profits for the sake of putting over a
leader. Let us not boost present busi-
ness at the expense of future volume.
It is doubly foolish at this time when
volume has already approached the
vanishing point, to permit manufactur-
ers to force us to give away goods we
are out to sell, Charles M. Callum.

——___ +> —____
Proceedings of the Grand Rapids
Bankruptcy Court.

(Continued from page 3)

and examined without a reporter. Fred
G. Timmer, of Grand Rapids, was ap-
pointed trustee, and his bond placed at
$100. The first meeting then adjourned
without date.

On this day also was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of En-
gelburt Van Allsburg, individually and
doing business as Packing House Market,
Bankrupt No. 4622. The bankrupt was
present in person and represented by
attorney Alphon H. Lyman. Creditors
were represented by attorneys George B.
Kingston and Belcher & Hamlin. Claims
were proved and allowed. The bankrupt
was sworn and examined without a re-
porter. Philip Schnoorbach, of Manistee,
was elected trustee, and his bond placed
at $500. The first meeting then adjourned
without date.

Oct. 14. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Anton Reim, individually and as Anton
Reim & Co., Bankrupt No. 4630. The
bankrupt was present in peron and rep-
resented by attorney P. A. Hartesvelt.
No creditors were present or represented.
Claims were proved and allowed. The
bankrupt was sworn and examined with-
out a reporter. The first meeting then
adjourned without date and Fred G. Tim-
mer, of Grand Rapids, was appointed
trustee, wiht bond of $100.

Oct. 14. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference, and adjudication
in the matter of Clifford F. Worden, Bank-
rupt No. 4531. The bankrupt is a resident
of Grand Rapids, and his occupation is
that of a laborer. The schedules show
assets of $300, with liabilities of $687.50.
The court has written for funds and
upon receipt of same the first meeting
of creditors will be called.

Oct. 14. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference, and adjudication
in the matter of Roy BE. DeMars, Bank-
rupt No. 4664. The bankrupt is a resident
of Muskegon Heights, and his occupation
is that of a pharmacist. The schedules
show assets of $600, with liabilities of

$4,923.47. The court has written for funds -

and upon receipt of same the first meet-

October 21, 1931

ing of creditors will be called. The list
of creditors of said bankrupt is as fol-
lows:

City of Muskegon -~----------------- $ 88.00
Muskegon Loan Co., Muskegon -- 238.32
First State Savings Bank, Mus. H. 30.00
Belbirnies, Muskegon ~------------- 30.71
Dr. E. D. Berry, Muskegon Heights 9.00
Dr. M. E. Stone, Muskegon ------- 8.00

Dr. J. A. Facette, Muskegon ------ 7.00
Dr. Wm. LeFevre, Muskegon ---. 3.00
J. Arthur Dratz, Muskegon ~~------ 5.50
Jeanott & Nelson, Muskegon ------ 10.43
Pruim & Kanaar Coal Co., Mus. H. 17.53
City of Muskegon Heights ---_---- 11.52
Pine Street Furniture Co., Muskegon 59.37
Sanitary Dairy Co., Muskegon --. 19.85
Mercy Hospital, Muskegon -------- 63.00

Dr. Geo. L. LeFevre, Muskegon -- 122.00
Square Clothing Co., Muskegon 3.00
Dr. G. M. Johnson, Traverse City. 122.18
Kalamazoo Stove Co., Muskegon-. 53.60
Joseph W. Reicha, Suttons Bay -. 24.25

Waegner-Kelly, Inc., Muskegon -- 64.50
Boyer Co., Chicago ~--------------- 53.69
Michigan Magnesia Co., Detroit-___. 8.40
Steindler Paper Co., Muskegon ---- 34.52
Mills Paper Co., Grand Rapids_--. 27.15
Paquin Bros., Muskegon ---------- 155.00

BE. L. Nessen, Muskegon Heights__ 54.43
Val Blatz Brewing Co., Muskegon 7.85
Muskegon Bottling Co., Muskegon 78.57
Coca Cola Bottling Co., Muskegon 13.25
W. W. Richards Gandy Co., Musk. 436.31
George D. Stribley, Muskegon ~~ 1,200.00
Daddy Scarfs Co., New York ---. 28.00
Mich. Home Tele. Co., Muskegon. 12.75
Piper Ice Cream Co., Muskegon ~~ 333.33
Greenwood Co., Chicago ~--.-.---- 3.65

General Cigar Co., Chicago ~------- 85.79
Foley & Co,, Chicago —-______-_____ 7.20
Armond Co., Des Moines -------.-. 24.39
Photo Shop, Muskegon Heights --- 14.10
Putnam Dye Co., Quincy ---------- 12.00

Conrad Anderson News Co., Musk. 13.46
Consolidated Cigar Co., New York 54.65
Wm. R. Warner Co., St. Louis ---. 70.13
John T. Wiersema, Muskegon -_.. 42.76.
Vadsco Corporation, New York ~-~ 350.50:
Vandenberg Cigar Co., Grand Rap. 75.00
Kemper Coffee Co., Grand Rapids 13.78
Peoples State Bank for Savings,
Muskeron 220 se 185.00
First State Sav. Bank, Muskegon H. 200.00.
Citizens Loan & Investment Co.,

Muskegon) 22 oo 185.00:
A. W. Stevenson, Muskegon —--__- 87.00:
Willis Johnson, Muskegon —__-__~_ 65.00

Oct. 14. We have received the sched-

ules, order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Corinne M. Groleau,
Bankrupt No. 4665. The bankrupt is a
resident of Muskegon. The schedules
show assets of $8,450.15, with liabilities of
$5,088.91. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called.

Oct. 14. We have received the sched-
ule in the matter of Paul Weinberg,
Bankrupt No. 4632. The schedules show
assets of $5,850, with liabilities of $9,-
122.78.

Oct. 14. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Marinus Van Haften,
Bankrupt No. 4666. The bankrupt is a
resident of Kalamazoo, and his occupa-
tion is that of haberdasher and sporting
goods dealer. The schedules show assets
of $1,798.65, with liablities of $3,181.85.
The list of creditors of said bankrupt is
as follows:

City of Kalamazoo 2200 $ 97.85
Simons Bros., Saginaw __.-.-_____ 64.63
VanLeeuwen Dry Goods Co., G. R. 65.53
B. Cleenewerck & Son, Kalamazoo 43.60
Star Paper Co., Kalamazoo ______ 37.34
B. F. Goodrich Rub. Co., Chicago 74.50
VanCamp Hardware & Iron Co.,

Indianapolis: (28
Edson Moore & Co., Detroit ~_____ 333.27
Crawford, McGregor & Conby Co.,

PDAVCOR: a ee 245.44
Carl Skinner & Son, Kalamazoo __ 15.05
A. W. Walsh Co., Kalamazoo ____ 32.87
Armour & Co., Chicago __________ 12.72

Bank of Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo __ 100.00
Jacob B. Bosker, Kalamazoo ___-1,100.00

 

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John Van Haften, Saginaw ------ 318.00
S. H. Burma, Kalamazoo -----~---- 19.50
H. D. Lee Mercantile Co., S. Bend 15.00
Ww. Cc. & Cora M. Lampe, Kalama. 100.00
Slidewell Neckwear Co., New Y. 16.25

In the matter of John B. Stemm, Bank-
rupt No. 4308, the trustee’s final report
and account ha heretotore been filed, and
a tinal meeting of creditors was held on
July 30. The bankrupt was not present,
but represented by attorney Elias K.
Harmon. ‘The trustee was present in
person and represented by attorney Clare
J. Hall. Creditors were present by
Charlies Kimmerle. Claims were proved
and allowed. The trustee’s final report
and account was approved and allowed.
The matter then adjourned to Sept. 18,
at which time it was determined that no
turther assets would be received and an
order was made for the payment of ex-
penses of administration, a supplemental
tirst dividend of 10 per cent. and a final
dividend of 15.9 per cent. All preferreu
claims have heretofore been filed and paid
in full. No objections were made to the
discharge of the bankrupt. The matter
then adjourned without date and the case
will be closed and returned to the district
court, in due course.

Oct. 14. On this day was held the first
meeting of creditors in the matter of
Lewis Gowell, Bankrupt No. 4629. The
bankrupt was present in person and rep-
resented by attorney A. S. Hinds. No
creditors were present or represent.
One claim was proved only. The bank-
rupt was sworn and examined without a
reporter. No trustee was appointed. The
tirst meeting then adjourned to Oct. 26,
to permit amendment of schedules.

In the matter of Albert H. Scholten,
Bankrupt No. 4322, the final meeting of
creditors was held Aug. 24. The bankrupt
was not present or represented. The
trustee was present in person. The trus-
tee’s final report and account was con-
sidered and approved and allowed. Claims
were proved and allowed. An order was
made for the payment of expenses of ad-
ministration and a first and final divi-
dend to creditors of 27 per cent. No ob-
jections 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 M. & D. Bootery, al-
leged Bankrupt No. 4537, the matter o.
the offer of composition of 28 per cent.
to its general creditors has been accepted
by a majority in both number and amount
of creditors with claims proved and al-
lowed. In addition to the amount paid
to general creditors, the alleged bankrupt
agreed to pay all costs and expenses of
administration and preferred claims and
priority claims. The matter has been
certified to the district court as an ac-
cepted composition before adjudication.

Oct. 16. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference and adjudication
in the matter of Bush & Lane Piano Co.,
Bankrupt No. 4667. The bankrupt is a
resident of Holland. The schedules show
assets of $166,207.72, with liabilities of

$165,000. The list of creditors of said
bankrupt is as follows:
City of Holland 2.2 oo $6,537.09
Peter Grevengoed, Holland ---.-~ 783.30
E.G. Baker, Holland —._....-.__ 805.76
J. Streur, Holland oo. 71.70
i. Strour, Holland 2. 350.85
¢. Sandy, Holland 2.2.0 6.00
R. Looman, Holland —....-_...._._ 42.60
WW. Selvie, Holland -. 2 58.84
F. Dunnewold, Holland ~----------- 35.49
B. Woldring, Holland —.....-. 5.25
G. TerMeer, Holland _..... 5.22
E. Mokma, Holland ~-__-----~---_- 4.28
Mrs. G. L. Nesbit, South Bend ---_ 37.50
H. BD. Keeler, Detroit ..._.._.___ 188.51
EK. Schertz, Holland -....- 30.00
First State Bank and Holland

City Bank, Holland __-------- 150,000.00
United Shoe Mach. Co., Boston __ 269.50

Amer. Corrugating Co., Grand R. 176.77
Brake Service Corp., Detroit ~----- 120.00
Barlum Realty Co., Detroit ------ 990.25
Cornish Wire Co., Holland ~------- 99.75
Central Radio Corporation, Beloit 134.13
Condenser Corp. of Amer. N. Jersey 300.00
DeJur Amsco Corp., New York __--~ 750.00
Inter. Resistance Co., Philadelphia 206.01
Holland Printing Co., Holland ~-_
Howard B. Jones, Chicago -------- 55.99
M__cBride Insurance Co., Holland 296.25
Michigan Screw Co., Lansing ~~~
Radio Specialties Co., Detroit -_-_
Radio Mfrs. Association, Chicago__ 200.00
Riverside Brass & Aluminum Fdy.

Co.. Grand Rapids —..._._. 261.60
Spalding Fibre Co., Inc., Detroit ~_ 206.95
Sevison Magneto Eng. Co., Toledo 107.66
Standard Varnish Works, Chicago_. 83.15
W. P. Williams Co., Grand Rapids 108.69
S. S. White Dental Mfg. Co., Phila. 101.36

¢. b. Beach, Holland 2. 2... 117.90
Mich. Bell Tele. Co., Holland ~----- 72.98
Mich. Bell Tele. Co.,.Detroit ~_---_ = a

Aerovox Co., Brooklyn eee
American Record Co., Scranton -_
Anaconda Wire & Cable Co., Mus-

ee
Automobile Equipment Co., Detroit 24.38
Associated Truck Lines, Holland__ 36.59
Benjamin Baldus, Holland ~_~----- 6.00
Braclay, Ayers & Bertsch, G. R. 14.00
Burroughs Adding Mach. Co., G. R. 5.55
Alfred R. Blome, Detroit ~....--_-. 11.70
Central Factory Supply Co., Detroit 23.50
Champion Spark Plug Co., Toledo__ 4.14
De Fouw Electric Sup. Co., Holland 3.45

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14.10

De Pree Hardware Co., Holland -_ 9.04
Detroit News, Detroit ~-----------_ 36.38
Duffy Manufacturing Co., Holland 20.96
Fris Book Store, Holland ~--------- 4.32
Geerds Electric Co., Holland -_---- 3.23

Gregory Mayer & Thom Co., Detroit
Hodges Tool & Mnfg. Co., Grand R. 23.79
Holland Furnace Co., Holland ---- 15
Holland Ready Roofing Co., Holland
Howe Printing Co., Detroit --_----- 37.00
I.X.L. Machine Shop, Holland ---._ .

Jewell Electric Instrument Co., Chi. 6.66

Lievense Battery Co., Holland __-- 12.00
Lilly Varnish Co., Indianapolis ---_ 5.00
Model Drug Co., Holland ~--------- 3.40
National Lamps Works, Detroit __ 7.56
Neptune Meter Co., New York ---. 12.36
Ernst & Ernst, Grand Rapids ---. 76.70

Crowe Name Plate Co., Chicago __ 606.94
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Prices quoted are nominal, based on market the day of issue.

Acids

Boric (Powd.)-. 10 @ 20
Boric (Xtal) -.10 @ 20
Carbolic -------- 38 @ 44

ire —........ 40 @ 55
Muriatic ------- 3%@ 8
Nitric .—~......- 9 @ 15
Oxalic .....----- 15 @ 26
Sulphuric ------ 3%@ 8
Wartarie ...____.- 38 @ 52

Ammonia

Water, 26 deg.-. 07 @
Water, 18 deg.-- @
Water, 14 deg... 5%@ 13
Carbonate ------ 20 @
Chloride (Gran.) 08 @

Fir (Oregon) -- 85
Peru —..___._____ 25
Tolw 2. 2 00@2 25

Barks
Cassia (ordinary). 25@ 30
Cassia (Saigon) -- 40@ 60
Sassafras (pw. 50c) @ 40
Soap Cut (powd.)

Ste 15@ 25
Berries
Cuben @ 175
Mish 222 @ 2
Juniper ---------- 10@ 20
Prickly Ash ------ @ 50
Extracts
Licorice ---------- 60@ 75
Licorice, powd. -. 60@ 70
Flowers
Ariies 75@ 80

Chamomile Ged.) 35@ 45
Chamomile Rom. @ 29

Gums

Acacia, Ist ---—- @ 50
Acacia, 2nd ----- @ 45
Acacia, Sorts -.-_ 20@ 30
Acacia,, Powdered 22@ 35
Aloes (Barb Pow) 35@ 45
Aloes (Cape Pow.) 25@ 35
Aloes (Soc. Pow.) Oe 80
Asafoetida 50@
lon. @

 

Camphor -------- 87@ 96
Guaige @ 60
Guaiac, pow’d --- @ 70

no @1 25
Kino, powdered__ @1 20
Meyrrn @1 15
Myrrh, powdered @1 25

Opium, gran.
Shellac, Orange
Shellac, White
Tragacanth, pow. 1 25@1 50
Tragacanth -... 1 — 25
Turpentine -. 25

Insecticides

Arsenic... a 7 w&
Blue Vitriol, bbl. @ 6
Blue Vitriol, less 07@ 15
Bordea. Mix Dry 10%@ 21
Hellebore, White

powdered -..... 15@ &
Insect Powder. W@
Lead Arsenate, Po. 11 as
Lime and Sulphur

Dey COCO
Paris Green -... 2%@ 45
Leaves
Buche ._..._...... @ 60
Buchu, powdered @ 60
Sage, B a. 26@
Sage, % loose -. g 40
Sage, powdered... 35
Senna, Alex. -... 50@ 175

Senna, Tinn. pow. = 35
Uva Ursi 20@

Olis

Aimests. Bitter,
06 2... 7 50@7 75
Almonds, Bitter,
artificial ..__-- 8 00@3 25
— Sweet,
Hi eel 1 50@1 80
slaeaen. Sweet,
imitation --.. 1 —e? 25

Amber, aa. 75@1 00
Amber, rectified 1 50@1 75
wise 200g 1 50@1 75

Bergamont -... 6 00@6 25
1 50@1 75
3 00@3

 

25

1 40@1 60

-. 2 W@2 25

Citronella --.--. 75@1 20
Cloves 22. 3 00@3 25
Cocoanut -----. 32%@ 3%
Cod Liver ------ 1 40@2 00
Croton . ..---—. 8 00@8 35

Cotton Seed -_.-
Cubebs -_._
Eigeron -_
Eucalyptus — a 00@i 25
Hemlock. pure_. 2 00@2 25
Juniper Berries. 4 00@4 25
Juniper Wood ~-— 1 50@1 75
Lard, extra -... 1 55@1 65
lard. No. f _... i
Lavender Flow--
Lavender Gar’n. 1 25@1 50
Lemon 2 00@2 25
Linseed, boiled, bbl. @ 65
Linseed, raw, bbl. @ 62
Linseed, bld., less 72@ 80
Linseed, raw, less 69@ 77
Mustard, artifil. os. @ 30

1 25@1 50

   
 

Neatsfoot -..... 1 25@1 35
Olive, pure -... 3 00@5 00
Olive, Malaga,

yellow ......___ 3 50@3 00
Olive, Malaga,

green... 2 85@3 25
Orange, Sweet 6 00@6 25
Origanum, pure_ @2 60

Origanum, com’l 1 00@1 20
Pennyroyal -... 3 25@3 50
Peppermint -... 4 50@4 75
Rose, pure -_._ 13 50@14 00
Rosemary Flows 1 60@1 75
ern E.

Bie ae a 12 60@12 75
Sassafras, true 2 00@2 25
Sassafras, arti’l 75@1 00
Spearmint _.__. 4 ¢0@4 25
Sperm 2 1 25@1 50
Tang: 6 00@6 25
‘Far US __._. 65@ 75
Turpentine, bbl. _. @ 47
Turpentine, less 54@ 62
Wintergreen,

[ene 6 00@6 25
Wisterersen. anon
eM: --- 3 00@3 25
oo art a 1 00
Worm Seed -_._ 6 00

25
Wormwood _. 10 00@10 25

 

Potasslum
Bicarbonate —____ 40
chromate  __._. ino 25
Bromide ......___ 69@ 85
Bromide —_..____ 71
Chlorate, gran’d_ no 28
Chlorate, powd. ve 23
Xtal 24
a 26 90
fedide 4 3404 56

Permanganate __ 22%@ 35
Prussiate, yellow 35@ 45
Prussiate, red _. 70@ 175
Sulphate 3

Alkanet ...______ 30@ 40
Blood, powdered___ 30@ 40

Calamu Tg REE ono 25@ 65
Elecampane, pwd. 20@ 30
Gentian, powd. _ 20@ 30

Ginger, African,
powdered ._____ 20@ 25
Ginger, Jamaica. 40@ 69
— Jamaica,
powdered ...___ 35 40
Goldenseal, pow. 3 doo8 50

Ipecac, powd. _. 3 aor 60
Licorice 40
Licorice, powd._ iso 25
Orris, powdered_ 35@ 40
Poke, Powdered 28@ 40
Rhubarb, powd. __ @1 00

Rosinwood, powd. @ 650
Sarsaparilla, Hond.

Gtound @1 10
Sarsaparilla, Mexic. @ 60
Sage 2g 40

Squills, powdered =e 80

Tumeric, powd... 15@ 25
Valerian, powd. _. @ 60
Seeds
A @ 30
Anise, powered @ 35
Bird, is 13@ 17

AP 10@ 15
Caraway, Po. * a 30
Cardamon  ..___ 25@2 50
Coalanter pow. “30 Fr 4 25

ee 20
Fennell ee 200 30

OS 6%@ 15
Flax, ground _. 6%@ 15
Foenugreek, pwd. 15@ 25
Hemp 2 8@ 15
Lobelia, powd. -... @1 100
Mustard, yellow 10@ 20
Musard, black... ne =
Popes ..
Quince 2 00g? 3
Sabadilla -.-..___ 7 o
Sunflower —-_.._.. 12

Worm, American 25@ 30
Worm, Lavant — 5 00@5 75

Tinctures
Aconite @1 80
POON @1 56
Asafoetida —_.__- @2 28
Arnleea |. @1 50
Belladonna _______ @1 44
Benzoin ......__.. @32 28

Benzoin Comp’d. @2 40

 

Buchu @2 16
Cantharides @2 52
Capsicum -. @2 28
Catechu @l1 44
Cinehona .......... @2 16
Colchicum ...... @1
mete oo @2 76
Digitale oc. @2 04
Gentian —__... ee @1 3
Guste @2 28

ane 1 26
Iodine, Colorless_ 1 50
hom, Cla @1 56
Bia @1 44
Mare @2 52
Nux Vomica —.__ 1 80

eae 5 40
Opium, Camp. @1 44
Opium, Deodorz’d @5 40
Rioters . @1 92

Paints

Lead, red dry _. 13% @13%

Lead, white dry 13%@13\%
white ofl 134%@13\%
Ochre, yellow bbl. @ 2%
Ochre, yellow less 3@ 6
Red Venet’n Am. 3%@ 7
Red Venet’n Eng. 4@ 8

Puy 6@ 8
Whitin. ne : 4
Whiting _....___. 5%@10
Rogers Prep. _ 23 45@2 65
Msceillaneous

Acetanalid ~..___ 57@ 75

Mim 06@ 12
Alum. powd. and

Sround -......, 09@ 16
Bismuth, Subni-

Wate... 2 12@2 40
Borax xtal or

powdered  __.___
Cantharides, po. 1 2501 50
Calomer 2 40@2 70
Capsicum, pow’d 42@ 65
Carming .. 8 00@9 00
Cassia Buds -.. 35@ 45
Clavaa ... 35

45
Chalk Prepared__ ® 16
Uhloroform ______

64
Choral Hydrate 1 om1 60

Cocaine 12 85@13 85
Cocoa Butter __.. 40@ 90
Corks, list, less 30710 to

40-10%
Copperas ...____ 3%@ 10

Copperas, Powd. 4#@ lv
Corrosive Sublm 1 75@2 00

Cream Tartar ____ 28@ 42
Cuttle bone -_. 40@ 6u
Hextrine 6%@ 15
Dover’s Powder 4 00@4 50
Emery, All Nos. 10@ a

bmery, Powdered @
Epsom Salts, bbls. Goss
Epsom Salts, less 3%@ 10
Ergot, powdered __ @4 00
Flake, White ___ 169 20
Formaldehyde, Ib. 090 35
Gelating 60@ 70
Glassware, less 55%
Glassware, full case 60%.
Glauber Salts, bbl. gra
Glauber Salts less 04@

Glue, Brewn ___. 20@ 30
Glue, Brown Grd 16@ 22
Glue, White -___ 27% 35
Glue, white grd. 2g 35
Glycerine ..._.._.. 16@ 35
Hom 2. 95
lege 6 45@7 00
Iodoform  -.___._ 8 30

Mace ... 1 60
Mace powdered__ 1 60
Menthel 5 50@6 20

50@
Morphine _.__ 13 58@14 33
Nux Vomica ____ 26
Nux Vomica. pow. 15@ 25
Pepper, Black, pw. 35@ 45
Pepper, White, po. 55@ 65
Pitch, Burgundy. 10@ 20
Quaiia, = 20
Quinine, 5 oz. cans 60
Rochelle Salts __ 2260 35
Saccharine ._.. 2 60@2 75

Salt Peter -._.__ 11@
Seidlitz Mixture 80@ 40
Soap, green -_.. 15@ 30
Soap, mott cast. @ 2%
Soap. white Castile,

COG oi @15 00

Soap, white Castile
less, per bar __. @1 60
Soda As

h 8@ 1
Soda Bicarbonate 3%@ 10
Soda, Sal -..___ 08
Spirits Camphor 1 20

Sulphur, roll _... 4@ 11
Sulphur, Subl. _. 4%@ 10
Tamarinds ______ 0@ 2%
Tartar Emetic _. 50@ 60
Turpentine, Ven. 50@ 175

Vanilla Ex. pure 1 50@2 00
Venilla Ex. pure 2 25@2 50
Zine Sulphate _. 06@ 11

Webster Cigar Co. Brands

Websterettes  ____ 50
SOO 50
Webster Cadillacs __ 75 00

Golden Wedding
Panatellas -....__ 75 00
Commodore -__.-... 95 00

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

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Canned Milk

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Sardines
Canned Pumpkin

Nuts—Whole, Salted and Shelled
Japan Tea

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Cider Vinegar

 

AMMONIA
Parsons, 64 0%. ------ 95
Parsons, 32 oz. ------ 3 35

   
 

24, che 6 25

10 Ib. pails, per doz. 9 40
15 lb. pails, per doz. 12 60
25 lb. pails, per doz. 19 15
25 Ib. aaa, ged doz. 19 15

APPLE BUTTER
Quaker, 24-21 oz., doz. 2 10
Quaker, 12-38 oz., doz. 2 00

BAKING POWDERS
Arctic, 7 oz. tumbler 1 35
Royal, 2 0z., doz. ---- 93
Royal, 4 0z., doz. -—- 1 80
Royal, 6 oz., doz, ---- 2 45
Royal, 12 oz., doz. -—- i 80
Royal, 2% Ibs., doz. 13 75
Royal, 5 lbs., a ee 6
10c size, 8 oz. -- 3 70
KC, 15c size, 12 oz. -- 5 50
KC. 20c size, full lb.-- 7 20
KC. 25c size. 25 oz. -- 9 20
KC, 50c size, 50 oz. -- 8 80
KC, 5 lb. size -------- 6 85
KC, 10 Ib. size ------ 6 75

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BLEACHER ee
Clorox, 16 0z., eee
Lizzie, 16 oz., 128 ---- 2 15

BLUING
Am. Ball,36-10z.,cart. 1 00
Boy Blue, 18s, per Cs. 1 35

BEANS and PEAS

100 lb. bag
Brown Swedish Beans 9 00
Dry Lima Beans 100 Ib. 7 50
Pinto Beans -------- 9 25
Red Kdney Beans -- 9 75
White H’d P. Beans 3 80
Bla, ck Eye Beans
Split Peas, Yellow . -- 5.60
Split Peas, Green ---- 6.50
Scotch Peas -------- 5 20

BURNERS
verre Ann, No. 1 and
Box 2
white waa, No. 1
and 2, doz.

BOTTLE CAPS
Obl. Lacquor, 1 gross
pkg., per gross ------ 15

BREAKFAST FOODS
Kellogg’s Brands.
Corn Flakes, No. 136 2 85
Gorn Flakes, No. 124 2 85

Pen, No, 224 2 70
Pen, No, 202 2 00
Krumbles. No. 424 --- 2 70
Bran Flakes, No. 624 2 46

Bran Flakes, No. 602 1 60
Rice Krispies, 6 oz. -- 2 25

Rice Krispies, 1 oz. __ 1 10

aoe. Hag, 12 1-lb
ee 50

An ge ng or. 2 25

All Bran, 10 oz. --.-_- 2 70

All Bran, % oz. ---- 2 00
BROOMS

Jewell. doz . (cB 2b

Standard Parlor, “93° Tb. 7 00
Fancy Parlor, 23 Ib. 8 00
Ex, Fancy Parlor 25 Ib. 8 40
Ex. Fey. Parlor 26 Ib. 9 00
ON ee 1 75
Whisk, No.:3. 2 25

ROLLED OATS
Purity Brand
Instant Flakes

Sriall, 246 0 177%
Small, 48s -.-- 3 60
iaree, 186 —.2.. 3 25
Regular Flakes
Bimal, 245. 1 77%
Small, ass 22s 3 50
Large, ane 3 25
China, large, 12s ___-3 05
Chest-o-Silver, lge. *3 25

*Billed less one free display
package in each case.

Post Brands.
Grape-Nuts, 24s ______ 3 80
Grape-Nuts, 100s -_._ 2 75
Instant Postum, No. 8 5 40
Instant Postum, No. 10 4 50
Postum Cereal, No. 0 2 25
Post Toasties. 36s -_ 2 -
Post Toasties. 24s __ 2 8

Post’s Bran, 24s -_-. 2 :
BRUSHES
Scrub
Solid Back, 8 in. -.-. 1 50
Solid Back, 1 in. -_-_ 1 75
Pointed Ends ----.---- 1 25
Stove
Bhatier (2 oo 1 80
No: SP oe -- 2 00
Peerless ------...------ 2 60
Shoe .
No, 4-0 2
No, 2-0 <.--...-_----- 3 00
BUTTER COLOR
Dandelion ------------ 2 85
CANDLES

Electric Light, 40 lbs. 12.1
Plumber, 40 lbs. ----- cate

Paraffine, 6s ~-------- 4%
Paraffine, 12s ------- 14%
Wicking -------------- 40

Tudor, 6s. per box -. 30

CANNED FRUITS

Hart Brand
Apples
No, 10... === ——-— 5 25
Blackberries
No, 2 2 35
Pride of Michigan ---- 3 25
Cherries
Mich. red, No. 10 ----
Red, No. 10 —-.-.---_- 7 75
Raa. No, 2 -- = 3 50
Pride of Mich. No. 2-- 3 00
Marcellus Red -------- 2 55
Special Pie ~--.---—- — 1-43
Whole White -------- 3 25
Gooseberries
No: 10 8 50
_

19 oz. glas
Pride of Mich. No. 2% 3 60

Plums
Grand Duke, No. 2%4-- 3 25
Yellow Eggs No. 2%-- 3 25

oo Raspberries
hie. 2 2 3 65
Pade. of Mich. No. 2-- 3 10
Pride of Mich. No. 1-- 2 35

Red Raspberries

Na Oe ee 4 50
No) 2 3 15
alareeiinin No. 2 3 60

Pride of Mich. No. 2-. 4 00

Strawberries

 

3
Marcellus. No. 2 .---- 3 25
Pride of Mich. No. 2-- 3 60

CANNED FISH
Clam Ch’der, 10% oz.
Clam Chowder, No. 2_
Clams, Steamed. No. 1
Clams, Minced, No. %
Finnan Haddie, 10 oz.
Clam Bouillon, 7 oz.
Chicken Haddie, No. 1
Fish Flakes, small —-
Cod Fish Cake, 10 oz.
Cove Oysters, 5 oz. —_
Lobster, No. %, Star
Shrimp, 01, wet. 2
Sard’s, % Oil, Key —_
Sard’s, 4 Oil, Key —_
Sardines, 4 Oil, k’less
Salmon, Red Alaska__
Salmon, Med. Alaska
Salmon, Pink, Alaska
Sardines, Im. %, ea. 1U@zz
Sardines. Im., \%. ea. 25
Sardines, Cal. _. 1 15@1 40
Tuna, % Curtis, doz. 2 65
Tuna, 4s, Curtis, doz. 1 80
Tuna, % Blue Fin __ 2 00
Tuna, 1s, Curtis, doz. 4 75

2 DO CO He OT OT Bo BS pt DO DO 08 BO GO DO
rm.)
o

CANNED MEAT

Bacon, Med. Beechnut 2 70
Bacon, Lge. Beechnut 4 50
Beef, No. 1, Corned -. 2 50
Beef No. 1, Roast -. 3 00
Beef, 244 0z., Qua., sli. 1 35
Beef, 4 oz. Qua. sli. 2 25
Beef, 5 oz., Am. Sliced 3 60
Beef, No. 1, B’nut, sli. 4 50
Beefsteak & Onions, s 3 70
Chili Con Car., Is -.. 1 35
Deviled Ham, \%s --... 1 50
Deviled Ham, %s _-_. 3 85
Hamburg Steak &
Onions, No. 1 --.. 3 15

Potted Beef, 4 oz. ___. 1 10
Potted Meat, 4% Libby 52
Potted Meat, % Libby 90
Potted Meat, % Qua. 85
Potted Ham, Gen. % 1 45
Vienna Saus. No. % 1 36
Vienna Sausage, Qua. $0
Veal Loaf, Medium __ 2 25

Baked Beans
Campbells ..-......... 80
Quaker, 16 oz. -----... 18
Fremont, No. 2 ~~ 1 25
Van Camp, med. -_.. 1 25

CANNED VEGETABLES
Hart Brand

Baked Beans
Medium, Plain or Sau. >
No. 19 Sauce 22.2... 45

Lima Beans
Little Dot, No: 2: ~-.. 2 30
Little Quaker, No. 10 13 00
Little Quaker, No. 1 -- -

 

1 80
Pride of Mich. No. 1-. 1 55
Marcellus, No. 10 ---. 8 20

Red Kidney Beans
10 6 3

No. 20 2 5

No 6 2 iccoue 6 40

No. 2 1 30

Noo ee 90
String Beans

Little Dot, No. 2 ---- 3 20

Little Dot, No. 1 -.-- 2 40

Little Quaker, No. 1-- 90
Little Quaker, No. 2 __ 2 90
Choice Whole, No. 10_12 75
Choice Whole, No. 2_. 2 50
Choice Whole. No. ae 70

Cut, No. 10) 2s 25
Crit; NO, 8 fos o ce ees 2 10
Cut, No: #22 1 60
Pride of Mich. No. 2__ 1 75
Marcellus, No. 2 ---- 1 50
Marcellus, No. 10 -_-- 8 25

Wax Beans
Litlet Dot, No. 2 -_-. 2 75
Little Dot, No. 1 -_-. 1 90
Little Quaker, No. 2_. 2 65
Little Quaker, No. 1 1 80
Choice Whole, No. 10.12 50
Choice Whole, No. 2__ 2 50
Choice Whol, No. 1__ 1 765

Cit. No, 10-2. 10 25
Cut. No. : oe eo 2 16
Gut) No; oe 1 45
Pride of ‘Mains ee iS
Marcellus Cut, No. 10- 8 25
Beets
Small, No. 2% — __--- 3 00
Etxra Small, No. 2 3 00
Fancy Small No. 2 -- 2 45
Pride of Michigan ~- 2 20
Marcellus Cut, No. 10_ 6 50
Marcel. Whole, No. 2% 1 85
Carrots
Diced. No. 2 ..-.___. 1 30
Diced, No. 10 _------- 7 00
Corn

Golden Ban., No. 3-. 3 60
Golden Ban.. No. 2-_-1 90
Golden Ban., No. 10 10 00
Little Dot, No. 2 ---_ 1 70
Little Quaker, No. 2 1 70
Little Quaker, No. 1-1 35
Country, Gen., No. 1-1 35
Country Gen., No. 2_. 1 70
Pride of Mich., No. 5- 5 20
Pride of Mich., No. 2 1 60
Pride of Mich.. ae: 124
Marcellus, No. aay
Marcellus, No. 2 ool 40
Marcellus, No. 1 ---. 1
Fancy Crosby, No. 2_. 1

1

Fancy Crosby, No. 1_- 45
Peas

Little Dot, No. 1 ---- 1 70

Little Dot, No. 2 ---. 2 50

Little Quaker, No. 10 12 vu
Little Quaker, No .2-. 2 35
Little Quaker, No. 1__ 1 60
Sifted E. June, No. 10-10 00
Sifted E. June, No. 5_-
Sifted EB. June, No. 2--

5

1
Sifted E: June, No. 1-_ 1 40
Belle of Hart, No. 2-_ 1 85
Pride of Mich., No. 10 8 75
Pride of Mich., No. 2__ 1 65
Marcel., x. June, No. 2 1 40
Marcel., BE. June, No.5 4 50
Marcel., E. Ju., No. 10 7 50

Templar E. J., No. 2 1 32%
Templar E. Ju., No. 10 7 00

Pumpkin
NO; AQ eae 4 35
IND Wie) ee 1 35
NO. a Sens ee 1 05
Sauerkraut
NO: 10e co So 5 00
No, 24 22 1 60
INO. 2 2 1 25
Spinach
NO: 26 cee 2 25
INO: 2 22 1 80
Squash
Boston, No. 3 __---. = 80
Succotash
Golden Bantum, No. 2 2 40
Little Dot, No. 2 ---- 2 35
Little Quaker ~__.____ 2 25
Pride of Michigan -_ 2 05
Tomatoes
INO: 102 5 80
No, 24%. 22 2 26
No, 2 3 1 60
Pride of Mich., No. 2% 2 10
Pride of Mich., No. 2__1 40
CATSUP.,
Beech-Nut, small --_. 1 50
Beech-Nut, large ---. 2 30
Lily of Valley, 14 oz.__ 2 25

Lily of Valley, % pint 1 65

Sniders, 8.02. —.--._-- 1 35
sniders, 16 0Z.. =... 215
Quaker, 10 oz. ~-_.___- 1 25
Quaker, 14 oz, ~--__-__ 1 65

Quaker, Gallon Glass 12 00
Quaker, Gallon Tin __ 7 28

CHILI SAUCE
Snider, 16 07. 3 00
Snider, 8 oz, —2.- 2 10
Lilly Valley, 8 oz. —___
Lilly Valley, 14 oz

OYSTER COCKTAIL

Sniders, Med, ________ 2 60
CHEESE
Roguefort: 2222 60
Wisconsin Daisy --..___ 19
Wisconsin: Plat 19

New York June ____

pap Saro oo 40
erie | Bs 19
Michigan Flats  ...____ 19
Michigan Daisies —_____ 19
Wisconsin Longhorn ____ 19
Imported Leyden ______ 27
1 Ib. Limberger _______ 26
Imported Swiss __-____ 58

Kraft Pimento Loaf __ 27

Kraft America Loaf __ 25
Kraft Brick Loaf ______ 25
Kraft Swiss Loaf ______ 32

Kraft Old Eng. Loaf__ 45
Kraft, Pimento, % Ib. 1 85
Kraft, American, % Ib. 1 85
Kraft, Brick, % Ib. __ 1 85
Kraft Limburger, % Ib. 1 85

CHEWING GUM

Adams Black Jack ---- 65
Adams Bloodberry ---- 6
Adams Dentyne ------ 65
Adams Calif. Fruit -- 68
Adams Sen Sen ------ 65
Beeman’s Pepsin ------ bo

Beechnut Wintergreen_
Beechnut Peppermint--
Beechnut Spearmint -- _
Doublemint ------~.---- 65
Peppermint, Wrigleys -- 65
Spearmint, Wrigleys -- 65

Juicy. fruit. 2.00 65
Krigley’s P-K  -_------- 65
Zeus 2. 65
(eaperry. oo. 2 65

 

Droste’s Dutch, 1 Ib.__ 8
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 4 60
Droste’s Dutch, % Ib. 2
Droste’s Dutch, 5 lb. 60

 

Checolate Apples -_.- 4 30
Pastelles, No. 1 _--- 12 $v
Pastelles, % Ib. -- 6 60
Pains De Cafe 3 00
Droste’s Bars, 2 00
Delft Pastelles __-_-- 2 15
1 lb. Rose Tin Bon

Bons 22202 18 00

7 oz. oe Tin Bon
Bo

eee eee we 00
13 02. ‘owe De Cara-
GUC 2 13 20
12 oz. Rosaces —.----— 10 80
1% Ib. Rosaces -------- 7 80
% \b. Pastelles —-_-_-- 3 40
Langues De Chats -. 4 80
CHOCOLATE
Baker, Caracas, 4s ---- 37

Baker, Caracas, 4s _-.- 35

SLOTHES LINE
Pemp, 50 ft. _.. 2 00@2 25
a Cotton,

50 f

ce 5@2 00
Braided, BO: ft. ee 1 90
Sash Cord —..—- 2 00@2 35

COFFEE ROASTED
Blodgett-Beckley Co.

Old Master -__.-__--- 40

Lee & Cady

1 Ib. Package
Breakfast Cup ------- 20
Diberty. 22s 17
Quaker Vacuum -_-___ 33
Nedrow. 22220 29
Morton House -__-_- 37
Reno 220 27
Pmiperiat 2 39

IMBIeStiC 2200 30%
Boston Breakf’t Biend 25

McLaughlin’s Kept-Fresh

 

Coffee Extracts
M:. Y., per 100 ..2-_-
Frank’s 50 pkgs. .. 4 25
Hummel’s 50 1 Ib. 10%

CONDENSED MILK
Leader, 4 doz.
Eagle, 4 doz.

MILK COMPOUND
Hebe, Tall, 4 doz. _-.
Hebe. Baby, & doz. -.
Carolene. Tall, 4 doz.
Carolene, Raby -_____

EVAPORATED MILK

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Ry 2ED-UnsmceTenO
———S

ape, ad 3 .
Pare; Baby eos 3 4

Quaker, Tall, 10% oz. 3 10
Quaker, Baby, 4 doz. 3 10
Quaker, Gallon, % doz. 1 55
Carnation, Tall, 4 doz. 3 45
Carnation, Baby, 8 dz. 3 45
Oatman’s Dundee, Tall 3 45

Oatman’s D’dee, Baby 3 45

Every Day, Tall —--- 3 45
Every Day, Baby ---- 3 45
Peto halt 2 3 45
Pet, Baby, 4 dozen -_ 1 73
Borden's: Tall -- = 3 45
Borden's Baby 22-2 3 45
CIGARS
Airedale (oo. 5 00
Hemeter Champion --38 50
Canadian Club ---~-- 3d vu

Robert Emmett —
Tom Moore Monarch 75 00
Webster Cadillac __.. 75 00
Webster Astor Foil. 75 00
Webster Knickbocker 95 66
Webster Albany Foil 95 00
Bering Apollos ___-_- 95 00
Bering Palmitas —_. 115 00
Bering Diplomatica 115 %(
Bering Delioses -.__ 120 0¢
Bering Favorita -._. 135 0¢
Bering Albas —____- 150 ¢:

CONFECTIONERY
Stick Candy Pails
Pure Sugar Sticks-600c 4 00
Big Stick, 20 lb. case 17
Horehound Stick, 5 lb. 18

Mixed Candy

Kindergarten -...-._- 17
LOSGGr 2 13
French Creams  —....... 14
Paris Creams 2220220. 15
SUPER | se 10
Haney Mixture: 220 17

Fancy Chocolate
5 lb. boxes
Bittersweets, Ass’ted 1 60
Milk Chocolate A A 1 65
Nibble Sticks ~....___ 1 50
Chocolate Nut Rolls — 1 70

Blue Ribbon 2-0. 1 30
Gum Drops Pails
Champion Gums -..._. 15
Challenge Gums __..... 13
Jelly. Strings (2 16
Lozenges Pails

A. A. Pep. Lozenges __ 15
A. A. Pink Lozenges __ 15
A. A. Choc. Lozenges_. a
Motto Hears t....___.__

Malted Milk Lozenges _ :

Hard Goods Pails
Lemon Drops —....._... 17
O. F. Horehound drops 16
Anise Squares ~._.._____ 16
Peanut Squares 23° 18

Cough Drops Bxs
Putnamis oo 1 35
Smith Bros oo. 1 60
buden'e: 222023 1 50

Specialties
Pineapple od pL a

Italian Bon Bons -....
Silver King M.Mallows 1 15
Handy Packages, 12-10c 75

COUPON BOOKS
50 Economic grade 2 &@
100 Economic grade 4 50
500 HEeonomic 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 lb: boxes: 220 eae ae

DRIED FRUITS
Apples
N. Y. Fey., 50 lb. box 13
N. Y. Fey., 14 oz. pkg. 16

Apricots
Evaporated, Choice __ 13
Evaporated, Fancy __ 18
Hivaporated, Slabs

ix: Haney) 220 ee 25
Citron
LO 1b. pox 220 36
Currants
Packages, 14 oz, ~_-___ 17
Greek, Bulk, Ib. ~_____ 164%
Dates
Dromedary, 36s ______ 6 75
Peaches
Evap. Choice 9. 12%
Dancy 222 2 26
Peel
Lemon, American ______ 28
Orange, American _____ 28
Raisins
Seeded, bulk 2 By

Thompson’s s’dless blk 8%
ie aa seedless,

California Prunes
90@100, 25 lb. boxes_._.@0514
80@90, 25 lb. boxes__@05%
70@80, 25 lb. boxes_.@6%4
60@70, 25 lb. boxes__.@06%
50@60, 25 lb. boxes_.@07%
40@50, 25 lb. boxes.__.@08%
30@40, 25 lb. boxes__@11
20@30, 25 lb. boxes_.@14
18@24, 25 lb. boxes_.@17

Hominy
Pearl. 100 Ib. sacks _.-3 60

 

 

 

 

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October 21, 1931
MI
: CHIGAN TRADESMAN
acaroni MULLER’. 2
thasll 4 Giseds eee *s PRODUCTS DIN Pickles Bulk :
9 oz. package, per doz. 130 Spaghetti 9 oz. Se eget oe eee Gold Dust, 12
9 oz. package, per case 2 20 Elbow Sie acoek. - : = Ga. G4 it : oa Herring Golden Rod va Large : = TABLE SAUCES
2890 46 Gal 12000 xed, - So 5
EEE Noodles. to a se 45. Gal, 1800 =. 08)! 3060 «= Mixed, hai? oo ; ’ La France Laun., 4 dz. 3 60 ‘en & Perrin, large-. 5 75
Bulk G Hen Picea: celli, 6 oz. 2 20 Mixed, bbls. cone Old Dutch Clean., 4 dz. 3 40 Pe Perrin, small__ 3 35
Ell oods g Alphabets, 6 oz... 2 20 Pp Wie Bes Octagon, 96s --------- a a a 1 60
mMbow, 20 1p. 2. 5@07 Egg A-B-Cs 48 pkgs.__ 180 Cob, 3 IPES Milker , ' ee 94 Rinso, 40s --- 3 20 haae i. 2 40
Egg Noodle, 10 Ibs. -_ 14 ‘ob, 3 doz. in bx. 1 00@1 20 ers — bbls. -- 2 othe es 5 25 aoe 408, i 4 25
. + nao-n--- 50 Rub No More, 100, 10 4 o You, 9 0z., doz... 2 2
NUTS—Whole oz as A-1, large a
PLA Lake Herri 8 aor enna 3 85 oc oo 4 75
eane Pearl Barley oe ie Battle oo “ % Bbl., 100 — aaa More, 20 Lg. 4 00 aT ees 2 85
ta ee i a Vaney a aa Torpedo, per doz. _._- 2 50 oe Cleanser, 48, cs b  ceteekn ee 3 30
erecta: (nn a9 Milberts, Sicily —-- 173 Sani Flush, 1 do Ze _
ee 3 76 : : a he Mack ani ush, 1 daz, . 2 2 TEA
‘ roo Vir. Roasted POTASH Tubs, 60 C oT Sapolio, 3 doz. -- a Blodgett-Beckley Co
Peanuts, Jumbo, std. Babbitt’s, 2 doz oe nee isk 1 Mt6w Seapine, 160, 2 on . 2° 1d Royal Garden, % It ” an
Sage Pecans, 3, star ---_-- 25 : | 275) Patie, 10 ih Raney fat 1 a¢ Snowboy, 100, 10 pe a ‘ 40 Royal Garden, a s
East India 10 Popecc iste a 40 Snowboy, 12 Large __ 2 a oc ean nae
So ‘ ’ ammoth —-_ Speedee fen oo ae
eo Cal, ------ inc02s a Mea White Fish oe. aay oe i 7 Medium — )
Tapioca ickory -------------- Top Steers & Heif 16 fo 10@ bh. ts 6 Wyandotte, Asa 4 15 Choice ee a ao 35
Pearl. 100 lb. sa Good St’rs At, --—— s, bls. Ie lei aes 18 50 Wyandot. Deterg’s as, © an Fancy ._. — a 40
ck & H K 4
Minut S09 M f, 16 K K K Norway g’s, 248275 WN 4 12@52
oe 8 oz., 3 doz. 4 05 Salted Peanut ed. Steera & Helf. .. 1g & IP pails v ... 14 50 o. 1 Nibbs 54
romedary Instant __ 350 Fancy, No. 1 -- ° Com. Steers & Heif. __ 11 Cut Lunch none: i 60 SOAP 1 Ib. pkg. Sifting - 12
ee Boned, 10 lb. boxes __ 16 = Family, 100 box 5 60 ‘ ~ ia
i Yrystal Whi 4 ; unpowd
Jiffy Punch Shelled Veal SHOE BLACKENIN Big Jack a 100 --_ 350 Choice ---_-___ ie
3 doz. Carton : To : G » 60s _- i. a 40
Assorted flavors. 225 Almonds Salted -------- 95 acre ae ns 13 2.in1, Paste, doz. 1 130 Fels Naptha, 100 box 5 50 WEE sei 47
avOTS- gerere ee Medium oe 11 * aon “az 1 30 ae White, 10 box 3 35 ae
a ee es _ =e -—---— Ti- - i r ¢ AT 13 AY; i bende be ap
FL we — " aie tee ol ‘<< ian tee m0 ae 10s 3 50 Pekoe wane
v. 6. aes o Pecans Salted —--------- 73 Shaole, 464°... isn ie ei eo. LL o
Lily White g Co. Brands br etal: Burdo 6<. 7 Sp mmr 90 Palm Olive, 144 box__ : a English Breakfast
Harvest ec ia a ae 15 4 STOVE POLISH las. I tek Nee Cee one” oe
es Ma’am Graham, _ a. 1 ackne, per doz Detagon, 120 __.___ 5 00 . , Choice ____ 35@36
oe... B oz... fae Soo 0 Congou, Fane - 35@36
50s ---------—------- 130 yo, MINCE MEAT a. a eas om Taal, a. 23 ee te ~ Tae... oe
ie on lll ae Inameli Rais Gene tan OF ea & ie
Quaker, 3 doz. case - : = Eases Paste, doz. 1 30 Gana Tar, 50 sm. 210 Medium oo
Lee & Cady B Libb K = ov Mutton nameline Liquid anapa Tar, 56 | r Cc Tt Seared eee eae nee $4
Aine rands y. Kegs, wet, Ib. 22 Good -- Bo & Eton id, dz. 130 Trilby Soap, 16 ee S60 Chdlee 2. “y
H can Eagle ___- (oa dl 10) Baan iquid, per doz. 130 Willia Urs 0. te 795 Caney 4u
ome Baker —______. ee 08 oo per doz. ___-1 30 Williame Mee te ae 2 Cll eu
peed sing a ’
: : oe ee e a 1d0%. 1 30 ns Mug, per doz. 48 (4.4, TWINE
oz. Jar, Plain, doz. Wrrte: el, dz. 2 au ‘otton, 3 ply c a
—. . oz. Jar, Plain, ae a hot Pork Sate hela 10, doz. 1 30 wien ales Costan, 3 ify Balls CS =
* © BR. Geand Rant ot ie). ee oe ee 17 i fn ea 5  Allspice, Ja wel, ¢ wy... _
Half pint o.- apids int Jars, Plain, doz. Should ~--------------- 13 SALT Cloves an tg ---- @30 —
o pint a 7 35 yee aS crm doz. Suarertic cc it se 10 F. O. G. Grand Rapid Cassia, fa ae on F. PEP pi veswesiog
ne iduart (2 85 G a ass Jugs, Pla. Nack hones 0 10 Colonial, 24, 2 bids Cassia, 5c pkg., doz. W249 Cid 3. Grand Rapids
7 eon 2 55 5 2 al Kees, éaeh 5 7 25. Eri 90nEeS --------_- 05 Colonial, Sh | |6Ginger, 4 ce -. doz. @40 cer. ‘10 Grain __. :
ea 1 55 3% oz. Jar, Stuff., doz [ Trimmings ----- 09 Cc al, 30- 14> oo ae M: »_ Africa a aS W hite Wine, 380 ae
Cae dae Stuffed’ ee Colonial. lodized. 24-2 1 35 Min Penane 109 © fite Wine, 40 i a
9% oz. J S a PROVIS ed. No. 1 Bbls. ---- 2 Mixed, No. 1 _______. @s8z : —. 7
Halt — Glass Top ‘ 1 Gal. pee aoe eo 249 «Cl Barreled Pork ee ae 100 Ib. bk. 1 00 Reoniea pigs. doz. @15 io WICKING
int ------------ 00 at “a - 4 ‘lear Back __ pec., 70 Ib. 7 a. Nv. UW, per gross —_
oo OU ee 9 50 Short Cut fet “— 00 Packers Meat, 50 Ib. ; a Salers, 105-1 10. = ho ose .¢
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October 21, 1931

 

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.

 

The Quality Shoe Wearer Comes
Back.

There is to-day, there always has
been, there always will be a market for
quality footwear. While this market,
embracing shoes at $10.50 and more,
comprises only 8 to 9 per cent. of the
entire footwear volume sold in the
buying centers of this country, it re-
pays careful cultivation. While gen-
eral business conditions may reduce or
increase this volume, the degree of
change is a great deal less than usually
appears on the surface,

Since 1929 there has been a decline
in the quality footwear volume in some
stores, Yet, in the final analysis, the
decline itself has ‘been of less import-
ance than the mental attitude it has
bred—than the fears it has fostered.

From an analysis of every scrap of
information available—both from our
retail and dealer organizations—we are
convinced that there will be a very
welcome increase in quality volume,
which will become apparent as soon as
the Fall season is well launched. Sup-
porting this belief we have a number
of encouraging elements to consider
which are presented and analyzed here-
with,

If we make an analysis of the rea-
sons behind the reduction in the sales
volume of quality footwear in certain
districts, we discover that they have
either spent their force or can be cor-
rected by the dealer himself, These
reasons fall logically into three groups:

1. Thousands of women who had
worn quality footwear for years have
been forced to adopt shoes of lesser
quality through personal circumstanc-
es. During 1930 this conversion was
felt very sharply, but relatively little
further change in the downward di-
rection is expected for the Fall of 1931.

2. Thousands of other women, as
well off financially as ever, began buy-
ing lower priced shoes through fear
and caution rather than through neces-
sity. This factor of fear, we feel, has
entirely spent its force and we are al-
ready finding these customers return-
ing to our stores for the quality shoes
they have always worn,

3. A third and very vital source of
loss has been occasioned through the
starvation of quality stocks—through a
cutting down of inventories to such a
point that many customers who were
prepared to buy quality shoes were
forced to seek the sizes, patterns or
materials they desired in the lower
priced field. Obviously this is one of
the ills the dealer has brought on him-
self and should be quickly and com-
pletely cured,

In the first place, the woman who
has always worn a quality shoe has
accustomed herself to the “feel” that
only quality imparts. She has known
pride of ownership. She has known
comfort. ‘She has known a confidence
in the product and the style of the
product that comes to everyone who
pays a better-than-average price for
the merchandise he buys.

These quality customers are coming

back to our stores by the dozen, Some
of them are a little shame-faced. A
few are cross. But many of them tell
us frankly that their experiments with
lower priced shoes were unsatisfactory.
They did not, as they had expected,
find any real economy in lower priced
footwear, and in addition, sacrificed
the other elements of comfort, pride of
ownership and style confidence, We
predict that 50 per cent. of our losses
from this source since 1929 will be
wiped out by the welcome return of

our old customers to the quality field. -

The dealer who graded down his
line to a point where the could no
longer be considered a quality mer-
chant is now in a cat-and-dog fight
over the available business in the low
priced field. He is far from being
happy, and the knows that it will be a
hard and painful job to get his quality
customers back again,

So while there is slightly less total
volume of quality business to be had
just now, there are fewer merchants to
share it. This is of both immediate
and future importance to every quality
merchant; for not only will there be a
share of the business the other fellow
had dropped, there will be in addition,
the definite assurance that much of the
quality competition has been eliminated
permanently. The quality shoe mer-
chant is in an infinitely pleasanter po-
sition to-day than the fellow who is
trying to establish a reputation for
quality with a low priced line of shoes,
and if he will merely take advantage of
the currents, if he will watch his op-
portunities, his selling methods, his
promotion plans and his stocks, he will
not only hold his own, but will make
far strides toward a more prosperous
and a more secure future.

Loose and indifferent methods of
merchandising will not bring results
to-day. We are in a period of transi-
tion and it is necessary rapidly to ad-
just our means to the ends in view.
All slack must be taken up. Wasteful-
ness and guess-work must be eliminat-
ed and every opportunity, as it pre-
sents itself, must be used to the ad-
vantage of profit. Little things that
were once inconsequential are now
vital, We cannot, we must not, meet
a 1931 market with 1929 methods,

The problems, really, are quite sim-
ple. If you can keep your present
group of quality customers, if you can
get a fair share of the new customers
being developed every day, and finally,
if you can increase the degree of loyal-
ty of these customers, you will have
solved every possible question. But to
do these things, you must take cer-
tain definite steps. As never before,
you must apply sound, sane and
thoughtful principles of merchandising
in every effort you undertake,

Consider first of all the caliber of
your personnel. Your floor men must
not only be neatly dressed and well
mannered, they must be intelligent and
properly trained. The responsibility
for the training must rest largely with
the department manager, and_ this
phase of the work will be discussed
later on,

Your store and window displays
must reflect the character and quality
of your product. A few dollars more
spent on the proper training and the
proper display equipment will uncon-

sciously impress the thousands who
pass your store or enter your shoe de-
partment,

There has rarely been a season
when the types of materials appearing
in dresses, suits and coats have so
greatly influenced footwear styles. All
of us in the retail stores are having to
study fashions closer than ever before.
The wrong shoe this season will be so
utterly wrong that the salesman must
be mighty sure he knows what he is
talking about before he recommends a
specific pattern or material to any cus-
tomer,

Men on the floor must be made to
understand that the ordinary kind of
shoe selling is out. They’ve simply got
to buckle down and render a type of
service that is in keeping with the
product they are selling. You should
be no longer satisfied with a salesman
who knows less about current styles
than the woman he serves.—Boot and
Shoe Recorder,

——_2>~+~-___

Five “Musts” For Successful Shoe
Salesmen.

1. Courtesy. Sincere and never fail-
ing. The first step in courtesy is to
greet the customer with a smile.

2. Ability to handle customers. A
good memory for names and faces is
an asset. Also ability to recall cus-
tomer preferences.

3. Alertness. The salesman must be
quick to learn stock and selling points
on ‘merchandise. He must grasp ideas
quickly.

4. Willingness to work. Above all
the willingness to put forth real effort

in selling instead of following lines of
least resistance.

5. Interest in the business. A liking
and zest for selling that will inspire the
salesman to concentrate his attention
and efforts on his work.

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Corporations Wound Up.

The following Michigan corporations
have recently filed notices of dissolu-
tion with the Secretary of ‘State:
Remington Rand Business Service,

Inc., Detroit,

Weast Coal Co., Detroit.
Beneficial Loan Society of Detroit.
Stone & Webster Engineering Corp.,

Detroit.

Gross Construction Co., Detroit.
United Detective Agency, Inc., Grand

Rapids,

West Side Motor Sales, Bay City.
Greenpoint Metallic Bed Co., Inc.,

Lansing,

Mother Hubbard Flour Co., Inc., De-
troit.
Beverly Investment Co., Grosse Pointe

Farms,

Grosse Pointe Motor

‘Grosse Pointe Park.
Second Land Co., Detroit.

Cedar Creek Gas and Oil Co., Muske-
gon Heights.

Greening ‘Realty Co., Detroit.

Thumb Hi-Speed Gas Corp., Imlay

City.

Murok Realty Corp., Detroit.

Higbie-Bonbright Co., Detroit.

Rathbun & Kraft Co., Battle Creek.

R. i Tower Iron Works, Inc., Green-
ville.

Charles Wolf Co., Flint.

Chatham-Trenary Land Co., Marquette

C. & A. Co., Cloverdale.

Washington Boulevard Fur Shop, De-
troit.

Kalamazoo Wholesale Grocery Co.,

Kalamazoo.

Adams Hospital, Detroit.
Majestic Oil Co., Grand Rapids.

Sales, Inc.,

 

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OUT AROUND.
(Continued from page 9)
building. If death had resulted from
an accidental fall, the body would have
probably landed nearer the building.
The report that deceased held in his
hand a piece of fabric torn from the
curtain in his room when the body was
picked up in the street was found to
be untrue. The radiator and window
ledge were 49 inches wide, which
would render it impossible for deceas-
ed to fall over so wide a space without
first acquiring considerable momentum.

 

The widow brought suit against the
companies above named for $60,000 in
the Federal Court. She was represent-
ed by Stuart Knappen, The life com-
panies were represented by Edgar H.
Johnson and the accident company by
Dale Souter. The attorneys appear to
have worked together to determine the
facts in ‘the controversy, resulting in
the conclusion that death was the re-
sult of suicide. An appeal was then
nade to the companies for a generous
settlement, resulting in an offer of 20
per cent., which was agreed to by the
complainant, The offer was probably
made on 'the theory that it would cost
the companies about 20 per cent. to
carry the cases through ‘the courts ‘to
final conclusion,

 

I called on a local grocer one day
last week who showed me his charge
slips against both active and inactive

customers. The former charges ag-
gregated about $1,000. They are
promptly «paid at regular intervals,

some weekly and some monthly, The
latter, on which no payments are be-
ing made because the debtors are out
of work and have no income, average
$125 apiece. Both classes of accounts
are kept in a wooden box on a shelf.
In case of ‘fire they would be complete-
ly destroyed, with no other records.
The grocer said he kept his annual in-
ventory, record of purchases and rec-
ord of daily sales in a wooden drawer.
In case of fire these would be destroy-
ed also. He carries moderate insur-
ance in a stock company because the
representative is a friend of his. The
agent never told him he must keep
such records in a fire proof safe or his
insurance policies would be invalid,
legally speaking. He said his agency
friend adjusted all losses for the com-
pany carrying his risk and would take
his word as to the amount of his loss
if he should ever have a fire. I told
him very frankly that he was in the
position of a man sitting on a volcano
—that no stock insurance company
would pay a loss in full unless it had
something tangible on which to ‘base
its adjustment, [ failed to convince
him that he was taking chances which
no merchant who owed for goods
could afford to take. The fire proof
safe requirement is not a rule of the
insurance company, but a statute en-
acted by the Legislature and one of the
most sensible enactments ever created
by our law making body.

 

William D. Bosman (Foster, Stevens
& Co.) is the happy possessor of a sec-
tion trem a book in which mercantile
invoices were pasted during the year
1872—fifty-nine years ago. The pur-
chases were made by the late Charles

H. Deming, of Dutton, covering hard-
ware from Wilder D. Foster and Fos-
ter, Stevens & Co., groceries from L.
H. Randall and others, crackers from
Sears & Merchant, dry goods from
Tyler, Graham & Co., and flour from
the various city mills then in existence.
Flour ranged in price from $7 to $9
per barrel and Japan tea ranged from
95 cents to $1.10 per pound. Mr, Dem-
ing was in business a great many years
at Dutton. During most of his life he
wore a heavy red beard. He was very
frugal, a careful buyer and a prompt
payer. He suffered a heavy loss in
the failure of the Frank Cook bank, at
Madison Square, a short time before he
died,

I am told that the New Yorker Ho-
tel is the only mammoth hostelry which
ever made money the first year it was
conducted. This condition did not
‘Gust happen,” but was due to careful
planning by the management. All the
office employes were engaged a year
before the hotel opened. They were
selected from many different sections
of the country. They were instructed
to call on all the people in their states
who would be likely to visit New York
and invite them to be guests at the
New Yorker after it opened for busi-
ness. The result was the hotel opened
with a full house and it has been full
ever since.

 

 

Among tthe outstanding guests at
Lamont last week were Paul Kempter
and wife, the former steward at the
Pantlind and Morton hotels and the
latter a vocalist of gracious manners
and charming presence. Mr. Kempter
learned the culinary department of ho-
tel keeping in Germany, coming to this
country when 19 years of age. He has
been identified with the Pantlind or-
ganization in various capacities for the
past twenty-nine years. He is one of
the best posted men on the purchase,
care and handling of foods I have ever
met, having given that branch of the
hotel business lifelong study. During
the evening I asked him if the new
method of freezing imeats quickly
would eliminate the drying up of the
juices in meats which are frozen under
the present method of refrigeration. He
said the originators of the new system
insisted that the presence of natural
juices in meat would not be impaired
by the new method. He very much
doubted that such a claim could be
sustained, but he had an open mind—
on that and every other subject—and
was willing to be shown that he was
laboring under a misapprehension. Mr,
Kempter undertakes to keep in touch
with every advance made in the culin-
ary end of the hotel business, both in
this country and Europe, and eagerly
devours and carefully preserves every
new book and other publication which
has a bearing on either the profession-
al or practical side of his occupation. I
am told that he has one of the finest
libraries on culinary science of any
man in the United States.

 

The membership roll of the Ameri-
can federation of labor dwindled 71,000
during the past year. The loss in ac-
tual membership is probably much
greater than that, because most of the
unions are keeping delinquent mem-

bers on the roll, whether they pay their
dues or not. The effort of the unions
to engage in banking and other lines
of business with union funds has
proved disastrous, The Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers sank $20,-
000,000 of its hundred million resourc-
es in the swamps of Florida.
E. A. Stowe.

—_—_~+++—___
Proceedings of the Grand Rapids

Bankruptcy Court.

(Continued from page 19)

Warm Friend Tavern, Holland -. 48.85
Nies Hardware Co., Holland ~~~... 41
Postal Telegraph Co., Holland --.. 18.38
Radio Engineers Inc., Detroit ~----- 4.00
Rex Printing Co., Detroit eres 4.50

Service Machine & Supply Co., Hol. 13.10
Standard Bros. Hdw. Corp., Detroit 4.32
Standard Oil Co., Grand Rapids =. @meo
Tele. Direc. Adver. Co., Detroit-. 15.00

Harry Ten Brink, Holland -------- 6.75
Ter Haar Auto Co., Holland ----~-- 2.10
Webster Electric Co., Racine ---- 39
Westenbroek Co., Holland —------- 12.05

Western Union Tele. Co., Holland 16.21

Coats & Burchard Co., Chicago-. 862.78
A & Morris, Detroit ____________ 4a 664.23
Wm. H. Gallagher, Detroit ---~-- 2,049.32
Barlum Realty Co., Detroit ------ 255.02
Jennings & Busby, Detroit ------- 604.50
C. L. Beach, Wynand Wichers, O. P.
Kramer, Henry Winter, Hol. 31,351.45

W. H. Beach, Holland ---------- 5,075.00
Lansing Stamping Co., Lansing 1,797.59
Sterling Mnfg. Co., Cleveland_. 1,068. 63
Dubilier Condenser ‘Corp., New Y. 230.00
G. R. Pattern Works, Grand Rap. 67.38
Island Creek Coal Co., Cincinnati 135.51
Shakeproof Lockwasher Co., Chi. 21.67
National Elec. Prod. Co., Pittsburgh 36.00
Aluminum Products Co., LaGrange 97.50
Indevendent Electric Co., Muskegon 162.96
Angle Steel Tool Co., Plainwell -. Ga.a0
Jefferson Electric Co., Chicago -- 221.24
Burgess Battery Co., ‘Chicago a2 erece
H. H. Eby Mnfg. Co., Philadelphia 91.00
Chicago Telephone Co., Elkhart __ 140.19
Amer. Steam Pump Co.. Battle Crk. 126.90

Belden Mnfg. Co., Chicago ~------- 88.59
William Winstrom, Holland ------ 52.28
Elmer Metzger, Buffalo ~...-------- 28.65
W. B. Tunstall, Worcester ---~----- 10.13
. R. McGreery, Battle Creek ----- 4.17

A. A. Morris, Detroit ---------_-- 3,752.31
CG, LE. Beach, Holland .....________ 713.00

Diekema, Cross & Ten Cate, Hol. 553.41
Charles H. McBrigde, Holland__ 1,200.00
Oct. 17. We have received the sched-
ules, order of reference, and adjudication
in the matter of Joseph C. Ford, Bank-
rupt No. 4668. The bankrupt is a resi-
dent of Grand Rapids, and his occupation
is that of a laborer. The schedules show
assets of $3,600, with liabilities of $1,-
445.73. The court has written for funds
and upon receipt of same the first meet-
ing of creditors will be called.
Unscramble the Chain Stores.

To secure its allegedly low prices for
the American consumer, what have the
chains found it necessary to do? They
have:

Ceaselessly hammered down prices
paid to the farmer;

Pounded away at manufacturers un-
ti! they, in turn, have had to beat down
prices paid to the farmer and grower;

Established an hourly wage rate for
storekeepers and clerks entirely out of
keeping with American standards of
living;

Begun the absorption of manufactur-
ing, thus depriving the manufacturer
of profits and his employes of wages;

Gradually done away with the ser-
vices of brokers;

Displaced the individual wholesaler
with their own warehouses;

Destroyed the individually
business;

Taken the profits out of the retail
community, thus sapping its commer-
cial lifeblood.

Unless the chain system finds a way
to fulfill all the obligations and re-
sponsibilities to the community now
shouldered by the independent mer-
chant, I firmly believe that the only
solution lies in the complete unscram-
bling of the chain systems back to in-
dividual ownership. If the chain lead-

owned

ers take this in hand it can be done in
an orderly manner and all investments
will be fully protected. Small business
will then take the products of big busi-
ness and, with proper, helpful super-
vision, do a job of distribution that will
surpass in efficiency and effectiveness
anything heretofore attempted.
J. Frank Grimes.
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

October 21, 1931

 

SALES AND LUXURY TAXES.
Beth Will Be Before the Next Con-
gress,

Senator David A. Reed, of Pennsyl-
vania, one of the conspicuous figures
on the Finance Committee and a mem-
ber in good standing of the “White
House Breakfast Club,” is the first to
announce plans for the imposition of a
general sales tax of ‘‘one-half of 1 per
cent. on everything sold in the United
States. This,’ Senator Reed added,
“T favor, not as an emergency addition,
but as a permanent part of the tax
laws. It would bring into the Treas-
ury not less than $2,000,000,000 a year
—almost half of the total expenses of
the Federal Government.”

(As the Census of Distribution fig-
ures show that retail sales of all types
of commodities in the United States
during 1929, a boom year, amounted to
$50,000,000,000, a sales tax of one-half
of 1 per cent. would produce not more
than $250,000,000 a year or only one-
eighth of the amount referred to by
Senator Reed.)

Hardly had the Senator from Penn-
sylvania delivered himself of his sales
tax plan when Representative Isaac
3achrach, of New Jersey, a power in
the House Ways and Means Commit-
tee, stepped forward with a proposal
for tax on “luxuries and nonessentials,”’
though he neglected to append a list
of these, in addition to greatly increas-
ed income taxes, a higher rate of Fed-
eral estate taxes and a restoration of
the gift tax.

A third development in the situation
was the proposal, by State Senator
Burchill, of a 5 per cent. retail sales
tax in New York State, “designed to
bring to the State in a single year
$120,000,000 more than any of the
sources of taxation now in force” and
proposed as a means of raising the $25,-
000,000 in additional revenue needed
for unemployment relief during the
coming winter. Principally through
the efforts of the New York State
Council of Retail Merchants, this bill
was defeated, the Legislature agreeing
to raise the needed $25,000,000 through
a 50 per cent, increase in income taxes,

“There can be little doubt, therefore,
that sales taxes, both National and
state, will be active issues during the
coming winter and, because of this, the
views of the following leaders of the
House and Senate are of marked im-
portance:

“Tt think a general sales tax should
be adopted only under the most press-
ing exigencies and, in my judgment,
no such condition exists at the present
time.’—Daniel ©, Hastings, United
States Senator from Delaware.

“T will oppose the sales tax as a tax
on consumption—a tax which consum-
ers, already under strain and perplexi-
ties, would have to pay. A tax of this
nature would further reduce buying
power and would be based on the needs
of the people, rather than on their
means.”—-Duncan U. Fletcher, United
States Senator from Florida.

“Senator Reed’s tax plan is the old
Smoot tax plan. J] presume Senator
Smoot did not have the courage to
offer it again. ‘Senators Smoot and
Reed and Secretary Mellon would like
to tax the public directly on every-
thing they purchase, But the plan

hasn’t a chance of receiving the ap-
proval of the Finance Committee or
the backing of even a_ respectable
minority in Congress. A sales tax is
certainly not the instrument to use if
we are to set up a revival of business
in this country.” — Pat ‘Harrison,
United States Senator from Missis-
sippi.

“T favor a sales tax because it can
be levied in such a way as to be paid
chiefly by. those who have plenty of
money to spend, [ realize that this pro-
posal will be vigorously fought by the
stores whose unpleasant duty it would
be to collect such a tax. No one likes
to pay taxes, but we cannot spend
money without raising it through
taxation.’—/Hiram Bingham, United
States Senator from Connecticut.

“The sales tax proposal is simply a
joke. It would put a burden upon men
who have large families and who are
already staggering under heavy bur-
dens.”—Burton K. Wheeler, United
States Senator from Montana,

“Business is slowly getting on its
feet and we should do nothing to halt
the picking-up process. A sales tax
might easily strangle business, and I
am not convinced that any increased
taxation whatever is mnecessary.”—
James E. Watson, United States Sen-
ator from Indiana,

“T am not in favor of increasing
taxes and I am opposed to the imposi-
tion of a sales tax. It is a lazy, unfair
method of revenue raising.’—M. D.
Hatfield, United States Senator from
West Virginia.

“Senator Reed’s proposal would
place the bulk of the tax burden upon
the masses, who are least able to bear
it. I predict that the proposal will not
receive enough votes to wad a shot-
gun.’—Harold Knutson, Representa-
tive from Minnesota.

“A sales tax would be particularly
unwise and unfair under present cir-
cumstances because, under such a plan,
charity itself would be taxed. Neither
do I favor a so-called luxury tax, for
what is a luxury to one family is a
another.”—William L.
from Con-

necessity to
Tierney, Representative
necticut.

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Gabby Gleanings From Grand Rapids.
P. Steketee & Sons, who have been
engaged in the wholesale dry goods

business here for over fifty years, have

decided to close out their stock and
devote all their attention to their rap-
idly growing retail business. They ex-
pect to be able to accomplish this re-
sult by April 1—possibly by Jan. 1.
The house has always stood well with
the trade and its retirement will be a
matter of very general regret. Orig-
inally the house was managed by
Peter and Daniel Steketee. Of late
years the management has been in the
hands of Daniel and Donald Steketee,
both of whom will be identified with
the retail business as soon as_ the
wholesale stock is closed out.

Bob Ruschman, grocer and meat
dealer at 938 South Division avenue,
has leased the store next door South of
his present location and is preparing to
occupy both stores by the end of the
present week. Mr. Ruschman is the
only merchant in the city who keeps
his store open 24 hours per day, seven
days a week, giving 20 hour delivery

service every day. He has pursued
this policy for three years and finds it
to be a profitable proposition.

Wilbur R. Keasey, traveling repre-
sentative for W. S. Quimby-Bell, Con-

rad Co., of; Chicago, has been given a

leave of absence until next spring and
will spend the winter in Arizona. Mr.
Keasey entered the employ of Bell,
Conrad & Co., Chicago, in 1879, and
has therefore been with that house and
its successor a total of fifty-two years,
which probably entitles him to the
claim of being the oldest coffee sales-
man in the Middle West. Indeed it
is doubtful if any other man in the
United States can sustain a similar
claim.

Elbert Kuyers, who has been con-
nected with P, \Steketee & Sons forty-
three years—two years in the house
and forty-one years on the road—has
retired from the road and engaged in
general trade at Stanwood, where he
will do business on the cash and carry
plan. P. Steketee & Son furnished the
dry goods, Lee & Cady the groceries
and H. Leonard & Sons the crockery
and glassware. He will occupy the
premises known as the Thomas
Mitchell store. He has painted the
front of the store red and the inside
white. Mr. Kuyers has taken the
Tradesman ever since 1885—forty-six
years—and says he has derived great
pleasure, profit and satisfaction there-
from. Mr. Kuyers is a square shooter
and will give the people within the
trading area of Stanwood the oppor-
tunity of buying good goods at right
prices. His lifelong association with
the dry goods line will enable him to
serve the people of Stanwood better
than they have ever been served be-
fore.

C. H. Shattler has sold his grocery
stock at 1557 Kalamazoo avenue to M.
E. Chapman, who has conducted gro-
cery stores at Hart, Rockford, Belding
and on South Division avenue, Grand
Rapids. With his wide and varied ex-
perience in the grocery business Mr.
Chapman ought to achieve a large
measure of success in his new location
in Boston Square, which is the trading
center of a large and growing section
in the Southeastern portion of the city.

In the death of Owen P. Davies
Grand Rapids loses an ideal citizen
and business man. Mr. Davies’ heart
was so large, his kindness so unfailing
and his thoughtfulness and charity to-
ward all so sure that no one could
come under his influence and not be
made better. In the midst of an ex-
ceedingly busy life he was a great read-
er and his every day conversation
showed familiarity with the best
thought of the age. His many deeds
of kindness to the poor and suffering
will never be known except by those
who received his assistance, and their
number is legion. He never thought
of himself or his own wishes when an-
other’s need was known to him; and
his service for others was always given
in a genial, smiling way that warmed
the heart of the recipient. He had the
rare characteristie of a lack of resent-
ment toward any who misjudged or
wronged him, and having only the
highest motives himself, he attributed
their attitude to misunderstanding in-
stead of malice.

Next District Meeting of Dry Goods
Merchants,

Lansing, Oct. 20—The meeting of
the committee to arrange a program
for the Saginaw meeting was held on
Thursday, Oct. 15. The date and place
is the Hotel Bancroft, Wednesday
afternoon and evening, Nov. 4.

It was the opinion of the committee
that, inasmuch as there is much agi-
tation with reference to a sales tax, a
discussion of this topic would be a very
appropriate one for our meeting. Our
Secretary, Mr, Pitkethly, has arranged
a debate on the subject, “Resolved,
that the sales tax is the best method of
taxation.” A quartette of able young
men residing in Flint have already de-
bated this question and it has been ar-
ranged that the affirmative will be pre-
sented by Cecil J. Lynch, Attorney,
and'R. C. Dickinson, Manager General
Motors Acceptance Corp. The nega-
tive to be presented by Howard Kline,
attorney, and Romaine Johnson, deal-
er in electrical appliances.

The rules of a well regulated debate
will govern and the debate limited to
about ten minutes for each speaker.
Mr. Pitkethly will assume a neutral
attitude and see that each side of the
question is properly presented. The
debate will not exceed one hour.

An invitation has been extended to
Col. James L. ‘Walsh, Vice-President
of the Guardian Detroit Bank, to give
a brief outline on the topic, “The Re-
lation of the Hoover Plan to Retail
Business.” ‘We believe that business
men generally are anxious for the suc-
cess of the Hoover Plan as represented
by the public press. Mr. Walsh will
be asked to give an outline of the plan
and his opinion, as an experienced
banker, as to the beneficial results
which it will bring.

The meeting will be entirely in-
formal, A modest supper will be
served. ‘Price will be low enough so
no member need remain away. Every-
thing will be done to encourage dis-
cussions. Bring wives and store ladies.

We were surprised to learn on our
recent visit to the store of the C. W.
Ryckman Co., of the death of C. W.
Ryckman, the proprietor. Mr. Ryck-
man was one of the friendly men on
whom it was a pleasure to call. At
the time of his death we were absorb-
ed in getting ready for our Detroit
convention and the information of Mr.
Ryckman’s death escaped our notice.
Calling at the store, I found the son
and daughter continuing the business.
Mr. Ryckman had been in declining
health for some time and_ business
cares caused by the dullness of trade
contributed to hasten his death. He
was a ‘fine, friendly man and one who
will be much missed by his neighbors
and customers. Jason E, Hammond.
Mer. Mich. Retail Dry Goods Ass’n.

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Millinery Activity Still Brisk.

Orders for millinery continue not-
ably good. ‘The trade thus far has
managed to retain the brisk activity
which has featured purchasing of this
merchandise from the-very start of the
Fall season. In one quarter the millin-
ary demand is estimated as 40 per cent,
ahead of the corresponding period a
year ago, a record which is considered
the more remarkable in view of the
disappointing trade in other lines of
women’s apparel and accessories. Felts
continue to receive volume buying in-
terest. Velvets are coming to the fore
in formal types. Turban styles are
gaining,

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about a year since our honeymoon,
when we spent that glorious day on the
sands. I wonder how we'll spend the
first anniversary?

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