2 The Michigan Tradesman, GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1885, 225 NO. 80. KEMINK, JONES & G0, Manufacturers of Fine Perfumes, Colognes, Hair Oils, Flavoring Extracts, Baking Powders, Bluings, Etc., Etc. ALSO PROPRIETORS OF KREMIN ES «Red Bark Bitters” ——AND- The Oriole Manufacturing Co. %8 West Bridge Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. JOHN CAULFIELD Is our Agent in Grand Rapids for our Famous alvanic Soap EASY “WASHER BJ) Jonnson & LO MILWAUKEE. RETAILERS, If you are selling goods to make , a profit, sell LAVINE WASHING POWDER. This Washing Powder pays the Retailer a larger profit than any in the Market, and is put up in handsome and attractive packages with picture cards with each case. We guar- antee it to be the best Washing Powder made and solicit a trial order. See prices in Price-List. Hartford Chemical Co HAWKINS & PERRY STATE AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, = MICHIGAN. FOR MAHOGANY ! ADDRESS HENRY OTIS, IMPORTER, NEW ORLEANS Wan’s Oil, Magic Ye ‘Ke The King of All ‘sosvosiq A10,VUIUIVYUT ' For Sale by F. Brundage & Co., Muskegon; Hazeltine, Perkins & Co., Grand Rapids; H va . Son, Holland. Manufactured by oY. ANDERLIN DE, Muskegon, G.ROYS & CO No. 4 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids. MAAN mm WS TAT os anil NEW GOODS. New Prices down to the whale- bone. Goods always sale- able, and alwaysreliable. Buy close and often. ORDERS PROMPTLY PLLED JAMES C. AVERY. GEO. E. HUBBARD. James C, AVER Y & CO Grand Haven, Mich. Manufacturers of the following brands of Ci- gars; Great Scott, Demolai No. Eldorado, Doncella, Avery’s Choice, Etc., Ete. — —JOBBERS IN—— Manufactured Tobacco. W. N, FULLER & CO DESIGNERS AND Engravers on Wood, Fine Mechanical and Furniture Work, In- eluding Buildings, Etc., 49 Lyon St., Opposite Arcade, GRAND RAPIDS = MICH. PETER DORAN, Attorney-at-Law, Pierce Block, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Practices in State and United States Courts. Special attention given to We carry a full line of Seeds of every variety, ‘MERCANTILE COLLECTIONS. both for field and garden. Parties in want will do HHI well to write or see the (RAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED C0. 71 CANAL STREET. DRYDEN & PALMER’S ROCK CANDY. Unquestionably the best in the market. As clear as crystal and as transparent as diamond. Try a box. Jonn Caulfield, Sole Agent for Grand Rapids. STEAM LAUNDRY 43 and 45 Kent Street. A. K. ALLEN, Proprietor. WE DO ONLY FIRST-CLASS WORK AND USE NO CHEMICALS. Orders by Mail and Express promptly at- tended to. EDMUND 8, DIKEMAN, “ne GREAT WATCH MAKER, JHWHELER, 44 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, = Collections and Insurance, Special Attention given to Collections in at or Country. Also MICHIGAN. Insurance, Shoe and Weather... 02.2.4. 25.44. Boston COORRE 65. 5ok ies eee es Pelee Dayton, Ohio Pin. 5 soos 5 uiees Pittsburgh, Pa. Germania... oo 2500055 5026-55 a Cincinnati, ‘Ohio Total Assets represented, $3,516,808, CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. TOWER & CHAPLIN, General Collectors, 16 Houseman Block - Grand Rapids General Stock for Sale Anyoné wishing to purchase a clean stock of general Merchandise, situated at a good trading point near Grand Rapids, would do well to apply this week to RINDGE, BERTSCH & C0., or SHIELDS, BULKLEY & LEMON. GRAND RAPIDS. ALBERT GOYE & SOM}, MANUFACTUREBS OF AWNINGS, TENTS, HORSE AND WAGON COVERS. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Oiled Clothing, Ducks, Stripes, Etc. State Agents for the WATERTOWN HAMMOCK SUPPORT. SEND FOR PRICES. 78 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. FIRE, LIFE & ACCIDENT The Drummer’s Soliloquy. To drum, or not to drum, that is the question— Whether ’tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The bluffs and stave-ofts of the crabbed mer- chant, Or to pack up samples for keeps, to-day, And, by returning, end them. To quit—to travel No more; and, by a resignation, to say we end The trials, and the thousand natural blunts Thata drummer’s heir to—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To resign—to loaf; To ge! perchance to want; aye, there's the rub, For in that idle time what thoughts will arise, Of the salary we might have drawn, Must give us pause. There’s the point That makes drumming of so long life; For who would bear the eleven months’ travel, The Sampsonian butter, the hotel sheets, The teeth-wrestling steak, the ten-minute din- ner, The baggage-smasher’s wrath, and the spurns i That the traveling man from the merchant takes, When he himself might all this avoid By simply resigning. Who would a grip-sack bear, To grunt and sweat under a heavy load, But that the dread of somethihg worse— The unprofitable change, which to so many Has proven futile, puzzles the will, And oo us rather bear those troubles we lave Than fiy to others we know not of! Thus from choice are we drummers the start, »And by compulsion do we follow it; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er by fear of change; And enterprises of worth are put aside, While our few saved dollars on ‘‘futures lose, And so keep on “a drumming. _—_<—-@—<>— we ”? The Drummer. The drummer is a man who goes Where every breeze of commerce blows; Who carries trade to every shore, And kicks because there isn’t more; Who hates the drummer tax like sin; Who helps the railroads with his “‘tin;’ Who likes hotels that treat him well, And gives the others merry—don’ t swear, please; ree smiles at all the girls he meets; Who never waits for other s’ treats; Who loves his wife and kids at home, Wherever he may have to roam; Who tells the truth to sell his wares; Who has his little griefs and cares, The same as every other“nan. But who in all holds to his grip, And stiffly keeps his upper lip; Who when the time comes for reward Is not forgotten by the Lord. ——--2 <> AN OLD TIMER. Reminiscences of a Veteran Dealer. The distinction between meum and tuwm is very important in every de- partment of life. Two — singular _ il- lustrations of tnis fact occurred in the writer’s early business career. We had a rear arch or passage-way under our store, for the receipt and delivery of heavy goods, opening upon a back street, the gate to which was seldom shutinthe day time. In the passage wasa pump supplied with water from avery deep well that never failed to furnish a supply for all our numerous uses, as well as for a tenement population in our rear, to whom we always accorded the privilege of supplying themselves to their heart’s content. One day a washer woman—who finding the water sufficiently soft and hard, made great use of it—came up into our office and inquired if any one in our establishment had lost a breast-pin. On making inquiry of all hands from partners to employes, we failed to find any one so unfortunate as to have lost a pin of any sort, much less one of consider- able value, as the one found turned out to be. The woman said she found the breast- pin—which she kept fast hold of—lying up- on the brick pavement near the pump. We advised her to leave it with us for a claim- ant. Oh no, she “would niver do _ that, shure;” and added, “if ony wun clairms it, lit um come tome, an ef they kin prove property, they shall have it, else Oi’l keep it meself.” Wethen demanded the pin, it having been found on our premises—holding that whatever was upon our premises was our property until otherwise proved. We old the woman we should like to ask hera very simple question, viz., “‘Is the pin your property?” ‘‘Mebbe it is,” she replied. *‘Did you lose it?” ‘‘No more Oididn’t.”” “Then you must give it up.” But she stoutly re- fused, and went home. : The writer consulted a lawyer in the neighborhood, in whom we had_ confidence, and after hearing a full statement of the case, he advised that “inasmuch as the pass- age-way had been left open so many years for the accommodation of the neighbors wishing to avail themselves of water from the pump therein’ located, the arch has be- come something in the nature of a highway; anyone finding property thereon has a right to hold it until a rightful claimant appears.” Whether this is good law—as we supposed while to enter upon litigation for the pin, and possibly lose both pin and cost of prose- cution. At another time, a customer while stand- ing between two parallel counters, picked up from the floor a one-dollar bank-note, and in- quired whether any of our-people had _ lost it. On being answered in the negative, he claimed to appropriate it to his own use. We were taken aback by such a claim from an apparently respectable and intelligent person. However, we both agreed to submit the case to our lawyer. who gave a similar decision as in the forenamed ease. He said, “The open passage between the two counters was dedicated to the public, not in fee-sim- ple, but as a highway, which they were in- vited to occupy for purposes of traffic, etc.” So the finder got the dollar. Now to this last case there is a sequel. Some months after the dollar-note was found floating around our floor we had occasion to repair one of the counters of our retail de- partment, and the carpenter employed for the work found a good-sized handful of it to be—or not, we did not think it worth’ bank-notes gnawed into small scraps which for an unknown length of time had _ consti- tuted a luxurious bed for - some little four-| legged rodents who had crept up into the sliding till in the counter and abstracted the tantalizing “soft money” without asking leave of anyone. We did not go to a lawyer this time, thinking that the purloiner or pur- loiners had probably been executed by some one of our faithful cats, either by inherent agility in catching such prey, or when atten- dant upon a jail-delivery from some of our numerous cage-traps. En passant, speaking of bosom- -pins, there was a ridiculous fashion about a half- century ago among office-boys and clerks as to “loud”? and tawdry jewelry. One could searcely cross a street without encountering a fop bearing upon his shirt-front an intag- lio ora mock-cameo bas-relief of Julius Cwsar, Napoleon Bonaparte, or Alexander the Great; they were about half the size of the palm of one’s hand. We had in our em- ploy a lad of sixteen or seventeen years of age who was a born wag. On being called one day he presented himself with a tremen- dous brooch upon his shirt-front, consisting of one of the largest and most hideous-look- ing shells, known, I[ believe, to naturalists as belonging to the genus Cgpria, species Ca- put serpentis, set in a brass ring, with a pin nearly large enough to nail a clapboard. We were so pleased with the sarcasm, that for the life of us we could not reprehend the youth for his grotesque adornment. » Still the pleasant fellow was so overflowing with fun, that we felt obliged to ask his parents to withdraw him from our employ. And just now the mind of the writer re- verts to another lad whom we received into our service at the urgent solicitation of his father, who was in the government service and a personal friend. The youth was very respectful and obedient. But he bore the look, when quiescent, of profound abstrac- tion and meditation. After a few months we told his father that we hardly thought it wise for his son to continue with us as he did not manifest any interest in his position beyond the exercise of a willing and obedi- ent messenger-boy. The father received our adyice kindly, followed the boy’s natural in- clination, put him upon a train of scientific studies with competent instructors, and in due time the young man blossomed out a full-grown professor in one of our promin- ent iy ntions, and has made valuable con- tributions to our scientific literature, espec- ially in the department of Paleontology. The funny boy mentioned in the previous paragraph has for many years been a mer- chant of good standing in the city of New York. We once had a boy who from the first ex- hibited a remarkable gift for pen-portraiture at sight, and at every opportunity made sketches of every one in the store. He also made portraits of customers while they were being waited upon by other clerks. Sucha proceeding necessarily interfered with his appropriate duties in business hours, and was surely to be discouraged by his employ- ers. When we learned of it, we advised his father to encourage his predilcetion for art, but to withdraw him from our service. The parent complied with our suggestion, and the lad is now one of the most distinguished ar- tists in this country. There can be no tenable objection to a clerk’s diversion out of business hours in any laudable way by occupation in literature, art or science. Such diversion from the routine of his business requirements may be wise and healthful, adding dignity to his charac- ter, and facilitating ease and grace in socie- ty. But as intimated by Coleridge, they should be ‘‘an honorable augmentation to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon.” Methinks some reader may conclude that we must have had a queer set of boys in our employ. But they were not so as a general thing. The cases named are exceptional ones. Most of our apprentices and clerks remained with us during their minority, and some scores we started in business for them- selves. It is hoped that it will not be egotistical for the writer to state that in very early life he became deeply impressed with the impor- tance,of diversifying life by turning off the mind from the consideration of the one ob- ject that constituted his regular business ay- ocation, as tending to strengthen and expand the mental faculties. In addition to this, daily walks and other outdoor exercises were resorted to by way of promoting bodily health and vigor. It is highly desirable for every young man engaged in so exacting a profession as that of the merchant, to adopt some such methods in order to attain what the books term ““mens sana in corpore sa- no”—a sound mind in a sound body. But none of such diversions, prudential and nec- essary though they be, should be allowed to trench upon the hours allotted to legitimate business. ee “ A new design in mourning note paper and envelopes has the black border stamped in imitation of heavy crape. It is very effect- ively lugubrious in appearance. Russia drinks 80 per Cenk more tea than England does. Peanuts are nota paying Grop in North a MYSTERY OF hace cum Ways to Translate the Queer Little Sym- bols. From the Pittsburg Times. The system of marking prices on goods in general use among retailers is for each to adopt a word or term which shall contain 10 unrepeated letters to correspond with the numerals. Thus, for instance, the word: A Nn ¢€¢ bh oO fF i t es 12 3:4.5'° 6-7 58-9 6 The cost of an article has been usually marked on it, the salesman knowing what to add; but this plan is losing in popularity and is being replaced by the better method of marking the selling price. Employing the key word ‘“‘Anchorites,” an article marked say, ‘‘a. i. 0.,”? would indicate $1.75. Some merchants have both cost and selling rates marked, in which case the two are separated by a line, the cost being on top and the sell- ing price under. Humorously inclined indi- viduals not frequently get up a key word or term which would make customers smile were they aware of the contrast between the mysterious cost marks and that from which they are derived. No little ingenuity is dis- played in the selection, but after the essen- tial of 10 unrepeated letters there is nothing wanting but the simplest orthography that the foot of the spellers in the salesmen class may have no inducement whatever to go wrong. The tit-tat-toe cost mark is the only one known, which does not employ the al- phabet. It may be understood by drawing the ordinary tit-tat-toe game diagram and marking the figures beginning at the upper left hand space, thence to the right, and re- peat until the nine spaces are filled. In this device x is substituted for the ‘‘nought.”* To express say $1.59 by the tit-tat-toe, the hie- roglyphie would be an L with the horizontal part run directly opposite from normal; a square, and an L set wrong end up, a good deal like the small boy’s sketch in school books, under which he places the caution: “Don’t steel this book mi oanest frend, for feer the gallus will be your end.” It will be observed that these characters represent the parts of the tit-tat-toe diagram in which the numerals 1, 5 and 9 occur. >_> Provided Against Famine. It was in Detroit. The editor entered the counting-rogm. “Say, look here; this war in Soudan is be- coming serious.”’ “So?” said the business manager. “Yes, sir; all the gum au abie comes from Soudan.” “Well 2” “Well, sir, this war has created a gum- arabic famine.” “All right, let her fam. We'll keep right on getting out this paper, just the same. I’ve got four barrels of flour-paste in the cel- lar and a wagon-load of gum tragacanth to fall back on.” << She Might, “Mamma, is there any danger kitchen floor?” “No, my child, it’s all safe.” ‘“Weell, is there any danger of my falling down every time I go in?” “No, of course not; but why do you ask such a foolish question?” “Nothing, only every time 1 go in there and find papa talking to the hired girl, he always says, ‘Look out; she might tumble,’ and then the girl always goes away off into one corner and papa into another.” Negligence of Conductors. A passenger who, through the negligence of one conductor on a railroad train, is not furnished with a stop-over ticket to which he is entitled, and who, on attempting to re- sume his journey after a stop, is required by a second conductor to pay additional fare or leave the train, may elect to leave the train, and in that case may recover from the rail- road company not merely the amount of the additional fare which he is subsequently ob- liged to pay in order to reach his destina- tion, but all damages sustained by him as the direct and natural consequence of the fault of the first conductor. * ee | An orange grower, near Anthony, Fla., will ship this year between 800 and 1,000 boxes of oranges. From the same grove last year he only shipped 50 boxes. This in- crease, though large, is not unusual, and demonstrates the wonderful bearing capaci- ty of an orange grove. a oe a Se A. London firm of pencil makers manufac- tures its shavings and sawdust into an article which they call the ‘Dust of Lebanon.” It is sprinkled upon the fire to remove the un- pleasant smell of cooking noticeable in a room after a meal. ae es The number of persons who are falling heir to fortunes in foreign lands is legion just now. This is a much easier way to get a fortune than to work for it, but it is not so sure. about our _ es “Your sonar | is very religious.”” “Ay, so he says.” ‘‘He deals in canned goods, does he not?” ‘‘Yes, and in cant ones likewise.” ——__—~>9 <> By ‘creosoting timber you add to its strength. A chain is never stronger than its weakest link. In Cuba molasses is being used as man- ure. : Minority Represéntation. From the New York Tribune. There is pending in the Michigan Legisla- ture a bill providing for the representation of minorities in corporations, on the eumu- lative plan. Every stockholder is to have the right to vote, in person or by proxy, the number of shares of stock owned by him for as many persons as there may be directors to be elected, or to cumulate such votes upon such candidates as he may please. Under this provision, with equal effort and skill on both sides, the representation in the board will correspond as closely as possible to the relative strength of different interests. The minority will then have, as they have not now, the right to be present at meetings of the directors, to examine the books, to know what is being done in the company, and to be heard in opposition to any measure which they consider adverse to their interests. A similar provision was put into the’ Constitu- tion of Illinois in 1870, and has worked well ever since; was incorporated in the Consti- tution of West Virginia in 1872, Pennsylva- nia in 1873, and Missouri 1875, and has been of marked service in all those States. This measure is opposed only on the ground that it is desired by the minorities in certain important corporations for their own defense. But this does not seem to bea reason for rejecting, but rather a reason for adopting it. Even in political matters, the tendency of progress has been toward great- er defense and recognition of the rights of minorities, while in a business’ corporation it is a well-understood principle that each individual stockholder has rights of which he cannot be lawfully deprived by the action of a majority. But the defense of those rights through the courts is at all times diffi- cult, costly and attended with delay, and, moreover, the injury to the corporation re- sulting from litigation and exposure of its opperations, is often so serious that minori- ties endure great injustice rather than resort to such aremedy. In all parts of the coun- try the abuse of corporate power has become a fruitful source of financial and industrial difficulties. It is reasonable to believe that the adoption of the measure pending in Michigan, by preventing such abuses, and giving minorities power to protest against them in season, and if need be to defend their rights by timely legal proceedings, would prove inealenlably beneficial to busi- ness interests and would promote the wel- fare of the State? i Jokes about Jewelers. A hard case—A. watch’s. ‘The most perfect artificial eyes are made in Thuringia, Germany. “What can we do with this hideous, old- fashioned set of jewelry?” one partner asked another. ‘‘Why, stick it in the show- window and mark it ‘Very unique! Not for sale and we will sell it before noon.” “There is a remarkable rage among rich . people here,” writes a Philadelphia corres- pondent, “for clocks. Almost every con- ceivable article has a clock on it. Even plates contain a timepiece, as well as bed- steads. ‘There are many fashionable houses which contain as many as fifty or sixty clocks each. It would be no little trouble to care for these timekeepers, if they were ever wound up; but they never are. They are for ornament solely.” A Chinaman was caught in a clever trick at a jewelry store in San Francisco a short time ago. He bargained fora $100 diamond ring, and offered in payment what appeared to be five $20 rolls of silver. He took up the ring and broke one of the rolls, which contained half dollars. He pushed over the other four, but there being something suspicious in his movements, the storekeeper sent for an officer, who took charge of the money and unopened rolls. When the lat- ter were undone it was discovered that they were lead rolls, at each end of which a half dollar was placed. > - |

-— It is generally thought the gimlet-pointed screw is only about forty years old, being in- vented by an American named Sloan. A Worcester, Mass., newspaper, however, says it has seen a half dozen gimlet-pointed screws which were taken from an old piano made in London in 1755, at which date these screws are supposed to have been made. But mechanics continued to use square-point- ed screws nearly a century after 1755. oe ———_-.- : A Chicago co-operative grocery store was closed by the sheriff last week. ‘ cae ee s Phe Michigan Tradesman A JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE Hercantile and Manufacturing Interests of the State, E. A. STOWE, Editor. Terms $la year in advance, postage paid. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1885. Merchants and Mamufacturers’ Exchange. Organized at Grand Rapids October 8, 1884. President—Lester J. Rindge. Vice-President—Chas. H. Leonard. Treasurer—W m. Sears. _ Executive Committee—President, Vice-Pres- jdent and Treasurer, ex-officio; O. A. Ball, one year; L. E. Hawkins and R. D. Swartout, two years. Arbitration Committee—I. M. Clark, Ben W. Putnam, Joseph Houseman. Transportation Committee—Samuel Geo. B. Dunton, Amos. 8S. Musselman. Insurance Committe—John G. Shields, Arthur Meigs, Wm. T. Lamoreaux. : Manufacturing Committee—Wm. Cartwright, E. S. Pierce, C. W. Jennings. ; Annual Meeting—Second Wednesday evening of October. Regular Meetings—Second Wednesday even- ing of each month. Sears, POST A. Organized at Grand Rapids, June 28, 1884. OFFICERS. President—Wm. Logie. é First Vice-President—Lloyd Max Mills. Second Vice-President—Stephen A. Sears. Secretary and Treasurer—L. W. Atkins. Executive Committee—President and Secre- tary, ex officio; Chas. S. Robinson, Jas. N. Bradford and W. G. Hawkins. Election Committee—Geo. H. Seymour, Wal- lace Franklin, W. H. Downs, Wm. B. Ed- munds and D. 8. Haugh. Room Committee—Stephen A. Sears, Wm. Boughton, W. H. Jennings. : : Regular Meetings—Last Saturday evening in each month. : : Next Meeting—Saturday evening, April 25, at “The Tradesman’’ Office. A. B. Foote the Hilliards general dealer ex- pects to receive an appointment as mail route agent, Col. Messmore having agreed to secure him such a position under certain conditions. It will be interesting to know how much “influence” Messmore really has with the Cleveland administration. If Mess- more is to have a hand in apportioning the public patronage, all decent people might as well emigrate to Mexico. Col. Messmore is in Washington, demand- ing recognition at the hands of the adminis- tration. Less than two weeks ago he was proved to be a perjurer in the Cireuit Court and recent litigation in another court devel- oped the fact that he bought goods under false pretenses the last two months he was in business. Such set-backs would be suffi- cient to place an ordinary man in the back- ground, but a thoroughly disreputable char- acter is usually a stranger to modesty or decency and ignores public opinion. If President Cleveland yields to the clamorous importunities of Messmoré, as expressed through his friend Hendricks, and places Messmore in a position to exhibit his dis- honest tendencies, he will alienate hundreds of friends, both within and without his own party, in this locality; while if he chooses to relegate the knave to merited obscurity, he will receive the thanks of every lover of pure morals and honest hands. TS John Connors, of Charlevoix, in a Tight Place. From the Charlevoix Journal. Through all the business career of John Connor, in Charlevoix, there has been more or less of trouble and tribulation, and since the fire last fall he seems to have had more than his usual amount. The stock of boots and shoes then partially destroyed was cov- ered by a chattel mortgage in favor of W. D. Robinson & Co., of Detroit, who took pos- session of that portion saved, to secure them- selves, Afterward, Mr. Connor was again permitted to take possession of the stock, to sell for them on certain conditions. The condi- tions were not fulfilled, and again the stock came into the hands of the attorneys of Rob- inson & Co. The latter then sent an agent here to adjust matters, and he found the stock 400 pairs short of the sheriff’s invento- ry. A search warrant found some fine shoes sewed up in a bed tick in Connor’s house. Further search brought forth large portions of the missing stock from Mrs. Connor’s farm and elsewhere. On Friday Connor was arrested, but re- leased on bail. There have been found in his possession, secreted in various places, 167 pairs of boots and shoes, and 53 pairs of stockings. On Sunday Kerr Budd became involved, having in his possession a trunk with instruc- tions to take it. into the country ‘‘for a wo- man.” Failing to reach the place, he re- turned, leaving the trunk in the livery barn for further orders. The transaction being suspicious, the sheriff caused the arrest of Budd and the trunk to be opened, when it was found to contain 51 pairs of fine ladies’ shoes. Budd claims he was employed to do the work, and knew of no crookedness, but he was held with bail for examination, to follow after Connor’s examination. These discoveries have caused much excitement, and promise to putin an unenviable posi- tion several prominent citizens. And the end is not yet reached. ———__ > +> “Boots Mended While You Wait.”’—-Cred- ulous party (handing in his boots)—‘‘Look sharp, now, and [ll wait.” Shoemaker— “We're so full of work you can’t have them under a couple of days.” Credulous party —*“A couple of days! Why, you raseally old humbug! you have got it stuck up in your window that you mends ’em while you wait.” Shoemaker—“Jist so; and if you’ll wait a couple of days you’ll have em.” AMONG THE TRADE. IN THE CITY. J. VanderVeen succeeds J. & E. A. Van- der Veen in the hardware business on West Bridge street. Fox, Musselman & Loveridge are enlarg- ing their office room by the removal of their cigar department to the rear of the office. H. E. Grand-Girard, of Big Rapids, was in town Monday and Tuesday, making arrange- -| nents to engage in the produce and commis- sion business at Big Rapids. Dr. W. Ryno, formerly engaged in the drug business at Coloma, writes THE TRADESMAN that he has partially completed arrangements for locating in Grand Rapids in the near future. ‘I'he Densmore veneer cutting and drying machinery now in process of construction in this city for the St. Ignace Manufacturing Co. is nearly completed and will be shipped as soon as the ice moves out of the Straits. G. B. Wright has sued Peter Ross, of Wayland, for $133, and the matter was to come up before a justice at Dorr one day last week, but was adjourned for two weeks on account of the alleged sickness of one of Ross’s relatives. Rumor has it that when the sale of their retail grocery stock is an accomplished fact, Rice & Moore will remove their wholesale department to one of the stores in’ the Gil- bert block, and extend their operations in that branch of the business. Pp. H. Carroll, traveling representative for Seltz, Schwab & Co., of Chicago, has formed a copartnership with Mr. Robinson, former- ly with J. R. Wylie & Bro., of Martin, un- der the firm name of Carroll & Robinson, and engaged in general trade at Middleville. A portion of the stock was purchased here. “All things considered,” said a well- known produce dealer, ‘‘cheese sold higher in proportion than any other farm product last season. The factory that made a decent article found no difficulty in unloading and invariably satisfied its patrons. I do not look for high prices the coming season how- ever.” The Northwestern Lumberman makes the following reference to a firm which sev- eral Grand Rapids people have reason to re- gard with interest: It is stated that Wetzel Bros., of Grand Rapids, have contracted for and partially paid for 10,000 acres of mineral and timber lands in Union county, Tenn., and that they will put up a number of saw ‘mills on the Nolachucky river. Fred Nichols, formerly of Grand Rapids, but for the past two years indentified with Lon Pelton and Henry Strope, at Morley, has formed a copartnership with D. W. Hig- gins, and purchased the Strope saw mill at Bell’s Siding, a few miles north of Morley. The boys will erect a store building, put in astock of groceries and endeavor to make the point a place of considerable importance. F. M. Priestley is organizing a stock com- pany, with a.capital stock of $10,000, for the purpose of engaging in the manufacture of children’s express wagons. The name of the corporation is to be the Priestly Express Wagon Co., and the following gentlemen are among the incorporators: Forrest M. Priest- ley, Jas. A. Hunt, T. F. Richards, M. S. Crosby, C. H. Gleason and Albert Standish. The new concern will purchase the machin- ery and outfit of Gordon Corning, and ex- pect to be able to organize and begin 6pera- tions within the next two weeks. AROUND THE STATE. Edward Talbot, grocer at Hudson, is clos- ing out. E. P. Haynes, general dealer at Onondoga, has sold out. John A. Schoonover, grocer at Fife Lake, has sold out to Jos. Ervin. Mrs. Silas Slaight, grocer at Ludington, has assigned to F. P. Dunwell. Corey & Whittaker, general dealers at Bronson, will dissolve April 10. Chas. P. Hunt succeeds Thurtle & Hunt in the grocery business at Jackson. Jas. Putnam succeeds Hitchcock & Put- nam in general trade at Northport. C. M. Stevens succeeds 8. 8. Gale in the hardware business at Mt. Clemens. W. W. Quick succeeds Quick & Morton in the grocery business at Howard City. U. T. Watrous & Co., general dealers at Sebewa, have sold out to S. F. Deatman. Pauley & Dickinson, druggists at St. Ig- nace, have dissolved, Pauley succeeding. Hunt & Beecher, grocers at Mason and West Bay City, have dissolved, each contin- uing. Spillane Bros. succeeds Geo, L. Spillane & Co. in the grocery and bakery business at Flint. West & West succeed H. Putterville in the grocery and crockery business at Grand Ledge. J. L. Thompson, boot and shoe dealer at Harbor Springs, will open a branch store at Cross Village. R. B. Jennings, late of Tennessee, has en- gaged in the grocery and provision business at Cedar Springs. F. G. Richards has bought the E. T. Brown & Co. agricultural implement stock at Spar- ta, and will continue the business. The R. A. Kanaga boot and shoe stock at Nashville has been closed out on a $1,400 chattel mortgage, held by H. 8. Robinson & Co., of Detroit. Allegan Gazette: J. M. Killean succeeds to full ownership of the grocery stock of D. S. Ward & Co. and continues the business for the present. R. McKinnon, dry goods and grocery deal- TN er at Wayland, is removing his stock to Hopkins Station, where he will resume bus- iness, adding a line of crockery. Assignee Fairman favors THE TRADES- MAN with the following statement relative to the estate of H. E. Grand-Girard: Assets —goods, $584.63; accounts, $786.09; furni- ture and fixtures, $384.46; house and lot, $800; total $2,555.18. Liabilities—duecred- itors for merchandise, about $1,500; mort- gage on house and lot, $550; exemption, $250; total $2,300. MANUFACTURING MATTERS. C. A. Bristol and H. F. Powers have leas- ed the Wickwire & Doty mill at Banfield. Lovell Bros., of Ionia, will make about 1,500 of their refrigerators the coming sea- son. The machinery for the new stave and heading factory at East Jordan is on the ground. Dewing & Sons expect to cut 10,000,000 feet of lumber at their mill at Allegan the coming season. Stephen Biteley, the Pierson mill opera- tor, has about one month’s cut yet to run, when he will remove his saw mill to Bite- ley’s Siding. E. S. Doty, of Allegan, has signed with Bosworth & Co., furniture manufacturers of New Richmond, Wis., and will take the road about June 1. Higbee & Hugh, the Morley mill opera- tors, have sold Foster & Co., of Greenville, all the lumber piled in their yard—about 4,- 000,000 feet. : Battle Creek Moon: L. R. Peebles has purchased of H. G. Brooks a half interest in his low water steam alarm, for attaching to boilers to give the alarm when the water is low. They will immediately enter upon its manufacture in this city. Marshall Statesman: The Marshall shirt factory was purchased Tuesday by Wm. Reilly, one of the partners, and E. D. Clark, of this city. They will continue the busi- ness as before and no changes will be made at present. Mr. G. F. Cole will take the road for the new firm, while Mr. Fred Stone will be retained as cutter. STRAY FACTS. East Saginaw has a chewing gum factory, employing ten operatives. Sheridan & Sullivan, liquor dealers at Ma- ple Rapids, will dissolve May 1. Willard Cahoon, of Saranac, will shortly open a steam laundry at Hillsdale. The Frankfort Steamboat Co. has been organized with a capital of $50,000. The company has but one boat now, but more will be added. A Charlevoix friend favors THE TRADES- MAN with the following: Brown & Co. have purchased a corner lot, on which they will erect a fine brick block for the accom- modation of the growing business of the Bank of Charlevoix. E. H. Green inténds to build at the same time a block of two stores, adjoining the bank block. This is one of best locations, and will be the finest business block ever built in the village. — 2 Muskegon Matters. Frank Alberts & Co.’s shingle mill, at North Muskegon, started up Friday. LeClere & Stryker, grocerymen at Muske- gon, have dissolved, John LeClere contin- uing. A. M. Goodwin & Co., merchant tailors, have dissolved. ‘They are succeeded by W. Gayan & Co. Business men 6n the Big Rapids branch are complaining that the C. & W. M. has put up freight rates. A. W. Miller and W. H. Coggshall will engage in the manufacture of shirts at Mus- kegon, the necessary machinery having al- ready been ordered. F. S. Doerenbicher lately returned from a successful business trip in the interest of the Muskegon Valley Furniture Co., and took the road again Monday. The case of Stowe vs. Wm. D. Carey & Co. has been adjourned from time to time on account of the illness of Mrs. Root, the plaintiff having agreed to stay the pro- ceedings until her recovery. The partnership existing between Jacob Bauknecht and Robert Abbott, under the firm name of Bauknecht & Abbott, has been dissolved, Mr. Bauknecht succeeding. The business is the handling of wood, coal and shingles. A revised statement of the condition of the Muskegon Car and Engine Works reads as follows: Value of supplies, $29,506.77; accounts receivable, $4,543.28; real estate and plant, $110,000; total, $144,050.05. The liabilities are between $75,000 and $80,000. The above figures are not the amounts the property represents on the books, but are what the assignors consider the market val- ue of the assets. ——__—<>_ 9 Furniture Facts. J. R. R. Daggett succeeds Gier & Daggett n the furniture business at Quincy. Wm. McNaughton has purchased a one- half interest in Walker’s furniture store at Big Rapids. D. M. Estey, president of the Estey Fur- niture Co., of Owosso, was in town a couple of days last week. Haight & Bretz, furniture dealers at Sara- nac, have purchased a business lot, on which they will build a brick block this spring. Bloomingdale Leader: A. Taylor has sold his interest in the Gobleville furniture factory to his partner, Edson Howard. Con- sideration, $4,000. ——>-~<— > ‘““Where’s Jones?” “Dead.” “Dead? Well, I declare! Paid the debt of nature, hey?” “No; compromised at less than fifty per cent.” “How so?” “He left his better half behind him.” A GRAND SUCCESS. The Most Enjoyable Social Party of the Sea- son. The first annual social party of the travel- ing men of Grand Rapids, which was given at the Ionia street Armory last Friday even- ing, was an unqualified success, both in point of attendance and enjoyableness, and | the occasion will long be remembered by the | boys and their friends as one of the most | pleasant incidents of their lives. About 200 | people were in attendance, and from begin- ning to end nothing occured to mar the pleas- ure of those present. A spirit of fraternal | good-fellowship seemed to prevade the hall, | putting everyone at ease, and dissipated any misgivings which might have arisen in the minds of strangers. It was a matter of com- mon remark that everyone present seemed bent on having a good time and on seeingthat everyone else had a good time, as well, and to this determination was undoubtedly due, n great part, the success of the event. The man is yet to be found who is not profuse in praise of the way the affair was managed, and too much credit cannot be giyen for the excellent manner in which the reception committee discharged their duties; nor can anything but praise be accorded the floor man- “No smoking allowed—don't you -see that sign?” : And even this comfort we are forced to re- sign. Then out on the platform we plod on and plod, And envy the man who carries the hod. Our employers expect us to sell lots of goods In towns which are lonely and far out in the woods. We travel on freight trains, we drive in a hurry, : Expenses foot up and we are in a flurry. Now, if you men who sit in the store, And consider the traveling men a bore, Would think the situation carefully o’er, You would greet him with smiles as he en- ters your door. He posts you and you certainly can Buy your goods best of the traveling man; Don’t send him away with ascowland a jeer And your balance will please at the end of the year. And you who send out the traveling men Encourage them if only by scratch of the pen, They have troubles enough of their own to carry Without being -grumbled at like the Old Harry. >_< The Gripsack Brigade. agers for their part in the programme. Taken as a whole, the traveling men have every | reason to regard the outcome of their first | annual ball with no small degree of pride, | and the many pleasant features developed | place the success of future gatherings of a similar nature beyond preadventure. | MINOR NOTES. The decorations were unique and appro- priate. and bunting, regulation “grips”? were hung at regular intervals along the sides and through the center of the hall, giving an ex- tremely pleasing effect. Notable among the gripsacks, was the box which Crookston car- ried for abouta dozen years. Geo. Sey- mour’s express car ornamented a hook over the stage. Dr. J. B. Evans state’s prison hair cut and A. D. Baker’s ditto shave were much admir- ed. os Several ladies remarked that Jim Brad. was the best waltzer in the crowd, and more than one fair one was green with envy be- cause he did not ask to write his authograph on her programme. The reason why W. G. Hawkins was not placed on the floor committee was the fear | Hiram S. Robertson, with Arthur Meigs & Besides a liberal display of flags | Jas. E. Day, general agent for the Mus- selman Tobaceo Co., of Louisville, was in town last week interviewing the jobbing trade. Mr. James B. McInnis will go on the road for Shields, Bulkley & Lemon, taking North- ern Miehigan as his territory. Co., will remove from Breedsville to this city this week, taking up his residence on Cherry street. Mr. James H. McCall, formerly of Mar- shall, and late assistant manager of the Do- mestic Sewing Machine Co., of Chicago, has accepted the state agency of the Lewis hand fire extinguisher, with headquarters at Kala- mazoo. S. H. Hart, who has heretofore covered Eastern Michigan for the Detroit White Lead Works, will hereafter devote his en- gies to the Western Michigan trade. Mr. Hart was in town last Friday, and took a hand in the traveling men’s party. Grand Rapids Leader: The Knights of the Gripsack and their friends and ladies en- joyed a ball at the Ionia street armory last night. About 200 people were in attendance, and such a time as only drummers can have was enjoyed until a late hour. It wasa that the sound of his voice would rack the. building and bring down the roof. | Soliman Snooks was unable to be present, | to the great disappointment of himself and | the boys who had anticipated meeting the | gentleman. nic on July 4. The next thing on the programme is the | Reed’s Lake or by an excursion down Grand river has not yet been decided upon. sion clan. acknowledgment of the success of the gath- ering. A Detroit trayeler declared that the event “laid over” anything they could get up at that place. Let those who intimated that the traveling men of Grand Rapids cannot engineer a suc- cessful ball forever after hold their peace. Among the guests from abroad were H. F. Miner and wife, Ronanza; M. H. Lane and wife, of Kalamazoo, and Mrs. Fontes Grimes, of Florida; Wm. Averill, Muskegon; D. C. Pelton, Nirvana; O. G. Maxfield and wife, Coopersville; W. H. Dreher, Dansville, N. Y.; S. H. Hart, J. H. Bassett and G. B. An- derson, Detroit. The following poem, written by G. B. N., a veteran of thirty years’ experience on the road, was intended to be read during inter- mission—a part of the programme which was unintentionally omitted. It is entitled THE TRAVELING MAN’S LAMENT. You who envy the traveling man’s life, And fondly imagine it free from strife, Take your samples for one short trip, And if not pious an oath you’ll let slip. You get in a town at night quite late, The good rooms are taken, such is your fate, The supper is cold and not fit to eat, And the beds for hardness are not to be beat. You rise in the morning quite unrefreshed, You swallow your breakfast and then go in quest Of a merchant who lives at the end of the town, And you find from his home he has not yet come down. Your samples you place by the side of the door, And fondly imagine an order in store; But after waiting an hour or more He greets you by saying, ‘‘No room on my floor.” You may draw your arguments down very fine, Expatiate at length on your very fine line, But the magic quickly goes out of your lore, When you find a competitor has been there before. Sometimes your customer is a man of that kind That by talking and talking and talking him blind, You may get in an order, although very small, It helps pay expenses and that’s about all. Perhaps atwenty mile ride you have had, Over roads that are hilly and terribly bad, But your courage goes up when he asks you to call, As he will probably want some goods in the fall. You go to the depot the next train to get, It is four hours late—it is no use to fret, You get out a cigar to have a good smoke, ° When you feel in your ribs the stationman’s poke. Mr. Snooks writes that he will | Mrs. Reed finds a market for their goods by surely be present at the traveling men’s pic-| making two or three trips a season to the second annual picnic on Saturday, July 4. | Whether the event will be celebrated at. The outside visitors were profuse in their | great success. Michigan has a lady commercial traveler in the person of Mrs. A. W. Reed, of Rich- mond, where she and her husband carry on a factory for the manufacture of knit goods. larger cities in this and southern and west- ern states. Whitehall Forum: A Whitehall business man got it down pretty fine recently when | he refused to buy goods of a drummer who | stopped at a hotel whose proprietor was the Arthur Meigs represented the wholesale | son of a man whose friends had offended the grocery trade and M. C. Russell the commis- | aforesaid business man in some way. The | drummer compromised by going to another hotel out of town. Several of Dick Savage’s friends have eaused him to be taken to a private inebriate asylum, to remain tor two or three months, in hopes of effecting a permanent cure. In order that all of the expense of the under- taking may not fall on a few shoulders, con- tributions are solicited from those of his friends who would like to assist in his sup- port while he remains at the asylum. All such are requested to send their favors to THe TRADESMAN, when they will be turned over to the gentleman who has the matter in charge. Mrs. J. B. Evans gave a house-warming at their new home on South Union street last Saturday evening in the shape of a surprise on the genial Dr., the following being it at- tendance: O. A. Ball and wife and son Fred, Heman G. Barlow, A. C. Sharp and wife, D. S. Haugh and wife, Algernon E. White and wife, John Saurs and wife, Walter McBrion, | Ed. Metheany, S. G. Stadon and wife, | Wallace Giddings and wife, Mrs. Peck and H. B. Chamberlain and wife, of Plainwell. Progressive euchre ruled during the early evening, Mrs. Stadon and Mr. Giddings cap- turing the principal prizes and Heman Bar- low and Mrs. Chamberlin the boobies. TRe- freshments were served before the party dis- persed. Geo. W. Alden was born in this city Nov. 12, 1855, and one year later took up his resi- dence in Detroit, where he remained until thirteen years of age, when he returned to Grand Rapids—worked for a short time in the mechanical department of Henry S. Smith’s establishment—then two years in the painting and graining department of the Michigan Barrel Co.’s factory-then five years as a turner for the Widdicomb Furni- ture Co.—then four years as salesman for Whitworth & Co., retail hardware dealers— then two years in business on his own hook, getting out hardwood supplies at Empire, Leelanaw county—then back to Grand Rap- ids and in the employ of Foster, Stevens & Co. as stock clerk—later order clerk—still later salesman in retail department—then on the road where he has been for the past eighteen months, covering the G. R. & L, to Big Rapids, and the L. S. & M. S., Michigan Central, and G. R. & I., south—likes travel- ing—tries to please his customers—persis- tent worker—got lots of friends, and will have a good many more before he dies. le 6 ee a Tan Bark. Local tanners pay $4.75 cash for tan bark delivered at their yards in this city. The prospects for the coming season are said to be excellent. MISCELLANEOUS. Advertisements of 25 wérds or less inserted in this column at the rate of 25 cents per week, each and every insertion. One cent for each additional word. Advance payment. ANTED—Partner (one posted in groceries preferred) to open a “Knights of Labor’ store in Grand Rapids. Reliable party with $2,000 cash or the owner of a stock of groceries can investigate by addressing K. of L., Care THE TRADESMAN. 80 yy man competent as book-keep- er or general salesman (or both) who can loan on a security $1,500 to $2,500. A good salary and a permanent engagement awaits the right party. Address “Reliable,” care THE TRADESMAN,” 80 Eo RENT—A desirable store on Canal st., near Monroe. Inquire of L. S. Provin, opposite Sweet's Hotel. 80 OR SALE—Whole or half interest in the Prindle drug stock, on the corner of West Bridge and Front Streets. Stock invoiced at $7,000 and can be bought at adiscount, as_ the principal owneris dead. Address, J.H. Walker, receiver, care Powers & Walker, Grand Rapids. Vy ae Si bya young manina grocery or general store. Four years’ experience. Goodreferences. Address Care Box 276, Fremom, Mich. 82* Wa good drug clerk. One who has had some experience in the wall paper trade and grocery trade preferred. Call or address, Albert E. Smith, Cadillac, Mich. 79* OR SALE—A nice, clean stock of drugs and stationery. No old stock. Will in- ventory less than $1,500. Doing a nice busi- ness. Owner has other business to attend to. Inquire of The Tradesman. 73tf OR RENT—New store building, at Elmira, neatly finished, with counters, drawers and shelves on both sides. Will rent orsellon easy payments. Inquire of D.C. Underwood. VOR SALE—Cheap for cash, a small stock of drugs and medicines in suburbs of Grand Rapids, Mich. Apply to H. B. Fairchild, City. T6tt ANTED—A situation as traveling sales- man or clerkin a jobbing establishment. Have had eight years’ experience in retail trade, and can give good references. Address, “M,” care “The Tradesman.” 81* Wy ehotion as billing clerk or copyist in jobbing establishment by a young lady of experience. Best of references from past employers. Address ‘‘Billing Clerk,”’ care “THE TRADESMAN.” OR SALE—The brevier type now used on THE TRADESMAN. The font comprises 222 pounds, including italic, and is well-assorted and very little worn. Address this office. A $4 Fountain Gold Pen, 16 carets, iridium point, best make, FREE. For particulars write to publisher of The Treasury, New_York City, P. O. Box 2126. No stamps required. THE ON DY Luminous Bai IN THE WORLD. Patented Feb. 13, 1883. Re-issue Aug. 28, 1888. FISHING SURE CATCH DAY OR NIGHT. HARD AND SOFT RUBBER MINNOWS. No. 7, 70e each; No. 8, 80e each; No. 9, 90¢ each. aol FLYING HELGRAMITES. No. 0, 80c each; No. 1, 85c each; No. 2, 90¢ each; No. 3, $1 each. Samples of above Baits sent post paid on re- ceipt of price, or any three for $2. MALL. GLASS MINNOWS, TRIPLE HOOK FEATHERED, 60c each. SOFT RUBBER FROGS, TRIPLE HOOK FEATHERED, 60ce each. SOFT RUBBER GRASSHOPPERS, SINGLE HOOK, 60e each. SOFT RUBBER DOBSON, SINGLE HOOK, 60¢e each. DEXTER TROLLING SPOON AND MINNOW Combined, Triple Hook Feathered, 60c each. AKRON TROLLING SPOON, Triple Hook Feathered, No.1, 50c each; No. 2, 55¢ each; No. 3, 60e each; No. 4, 65e each. Send for descriptive circulars and testimomials. Liberal discount to the Trade. Enterprise Mfg. Co., Akron, Ohio. j ILI A Word Why Stocking Heel Protectors Should Be Worn, A pair will save their eost five times over. Also prevents slipping of the Boot or Shoe at the heel. G. R. 16 MONROE ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MAYHEW, MICH. AND SHIPPING BASKETS BOXES Ne er a MANUFAGTURED AT — i THE MICHIGAN BASKET FACTORY OF Mo AW. WELLS & ST. JOSEPH, MICH. ‘ FOR ILLUSTRATED PRICE /LIST: Are You Going to ihelve a Store, Pal- igo ‘oy SEND G Tf so, send for prices and fur- ther information. Fesleston & Patton's PATENT Adjustable Ratchet Bar AND Bracket Shelving Irons Creates a New ERA in STORE FURNISH- ING. In entirely su- persedes the old style wherever in- troduced. Satisfaction Guaranteed All infringe- ments pro- secuted. o ui yi J Da! ) 4 ft E00) A ye R AP ‘ofl 1 POA eo ri yaa Ae ct it p Ifnottobe had from our local ardware Dealer, 2FIRC. rf A) is LA Al sf i i ji CLs orders di- rect to W. PATTON, Sole Manufacturer, MACON, Mo. send your - C. S. Yale & Bro have put in a new safe, OBBERS with burglar-proof chest. & ae A Ete SS See re 127 Drugs & Medicines Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association, OFFICERS. President—Geo. W. Crouter, Charlevoix. First Vice-President—Geo. M. McDonald, Kal- amazoo. Second Vice-President—B. D. Northrup, Lan- sing. Third Vice-President—Frank Wurzburg, Gr’d Rapids. Secretary—Jacob Jesson, Muskegon. Treasurer—W m. Dupont, Detroit. : Executive Committee—H. J. Brown, A. B. Stevens, Gev. Gundrum, W. H. Keller, F. W. Fincher. : ; Next place of meeting—At Detroit, Tuesday, October 13, 1885. Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Socioty. ORGANIZED OCTOBER 9, 1884. OFFICERS. President—Frank J. Wurzburg. Vice-President—Wm. L. White. Secretary—Frank H. Escott. Treasurer—Henry B. Fairchild. : Board of Censors—John Peck, Chas. P. Bige- low, Jas. S. Cowin. : Board of Trustees—The President, Wm. H. Van Leeuwen, Isaac Watts, Wm. E. White, Wm. L. White. : Committee on Pharmacy—Hugo Thum, M. B. Kimn, A. C. Bauer. Committee on Legislation—Isaac Watts, O. H. Richmond, Jas. S. Cowin. ia Committee on Trade Matters—H. B. Fairchild, John Peck, Wm. H. VanLeeuwen. oe Regular Meetings—First Thursday evening in each month. : Annual Meetings—First Thursday evening in November, : : Next Meeting—Thursday evening, April 2, at ‘The Tradesman”’ office. A GUM ARABIC FAMINE. The Sticky Material Advancing—Gum Sen- egal as a Substitute. ‘From the Philadelphia Record. The war in the Soudan has seriously af- fected the trade in gum arabic. Prices have already more than doubled, and since the supply of this article is drawn wholly from the country in the Mahdi’s possession, a continuance of the trouble for a much longer period will result in a gum arabic famine. Previous to the bombardment of Alexandria by the British fleet the supply of the gum was abundant, and prices were exceptionally low, ranging from nine to ten cents a pound for ordinary sorts gum arabic—that is, the gum as gathered without subsequent prepa- ration for market. After the bombard- ment the price advanced to twelve and fiften cents a pound, the native dealers be- lievingjthat the war then beginning would interrupt the shipment of gum from the in- terior. Subsequently El Mahdi cut off com- munication between the Soudan -and the seaboard and, his followers having posses- sion of the gum country, the shipments eeased. The transportation, which is by al- ternate camel ana water routes, is surround- ed by many difficulties, and under the most favorable circumstances, from eight to ten months are required to move the gum from Kordofan to Cairo and Alexandria. Since the “False Prophet’s” arrival in the vicinity of Khartoum practically no gum arabic has found its way from the Soudanese territory to the usual markets, and the price has still further advanced to 25 and 30 cents per pound. It is a fact that gum arabic is to-day sell- ing cheaper in New York and this city than in any other part of the world, not excepting Cairo and Alexandria. This is in part due to the fact that many large consumers in this country, owing to the advance in price, have adopted substitutes where possible. The importation of gum senegal, from Sene- gambia, on the west coast of Africa, has been greatly stimulated by the high price of gum arabic. This gum is similar tothe gum arabic in nature and quality, and makes an efficient substitute. But for this importa- tion from Senegambia and the bringing into use of substitutes of various inferior gums the price of sorts arabic would not be less than fifty cents a pound. The supply of gum senegal is limited, however, and its price is rapidly advancing. The stock of gum arabic in the warehouses of the world is exceedingly small, and should the war continue a year longer it will be ex- hausted. Even should the war end at once it would be two years before a fresh supply eould reach the markets of the world. It is estimated that only about 20 per cent. of the crop of 1883 was gathered, and nothing is known of the crop of 1884, which was prob- ably not gathered at all. What portion of this year’s crop may be saved will depend on the termination of the rebellion and the peaceful settlement of the country. Native dealers in gum in Cairo and Alexandria are so confident of higher prices that they refuse to sell, and have practically with- drawn from the market. The gum is used extensively in the manu- facture of fine confectionery and for sizing colors in textile goods. It is used in large quantities on the Government envelopes, which are manufacizred by a New England firm. Probably a larger quantity of the gum is consumed at this manufactory than at any other single establishment in the country. The adhesive substance on postage stamps is dextrine, which gives a more pliable sur- face than could be produced by gum arabic. The unit of commerce for gum arabic is a bale containing five hundred pounds. Europe consumes ‘about twelve thousand bales annually, and America half as much. The business in this country is practically in the hands of two houses, one in New York and one in this city, of some thirty year’s standing. Gum arabic exudes from the ac- cacia tree just as gum comes from some of our native trees. It is gathered by shaking the trees, and the time for the picking in the neighborhood of Kordofan, Darfur and. out- lying districts, is about one month after the rains, which will usually bring it in Septem- ber. The gum requires some time to dry and harden, and it takes three months to transport it from Khartoum to Suez by way of Berber and Suakim, and six months from Khartoum to Cairo by the Nile. Much of it is sent to Trieste, wheré it is picked and put on the market in grades. Poisonous Coffee. From the Scientific American. Most people think if they buy coffee in the berry roast and grind it at home, they are sure of having obtained a healthy article the Simon Pure Java. But it may be they have been both deceived and poisoned. In Brooklyn the health inspectors have recent- ly found several well-known coffee dealers who were in the habit of doctoring . cheap Central American coffee so as to make it re- semble and sell for true Java. This was ac- complished by polishing the coffee berries in rotating cylinders, with the addition of such stuffs as chromate of lead, Silesian blue, yel- low ochre, Venetian red, dropblack, burnt- umber, charcoal, soapstone, chalk and Prus- sian blue. Some of these substances contain lead, copper, arsenic, and when doctored coffee was subjected to chemical tests these metals were found in poisonous quantities. The Health Board promptly ordered the dis- continuance of this mode of adulteration, and the enterprising dealers will now have to move across the river into New Jersey or some other state where nefarious traffic may be conducted without interference of the au- thorities. a > >__ A New York Srummer in Luck. Leopold Gumprick, a New York commer- cial drummer, finds that his wife is one of the heirs of Levi estate, which for over eigh- ty years been going begging for some one to take it. Toward the close of the last cen- tury one Rosalie Weil, a young German nurse, married a wealthy Jew in Italy nam- ed Jesua Levi, who, dying, left his fortune to his wife. Mrs. Levi moved to England and died in 1808, having no will and no heirs, so far as was known, and the $2,000,- 000 was deposited in the Bank of England. The cout of chancery has recently made de- termined efforts to find the heirs on account of the magnitude of the estate, which is over $50,000,000 and with partial suecess. Mrs. Gumprick, who but a few years ago was em- ployed as a seamstress in Germany, is found to be one of the heirs and is entitled to one- fifth of one-ninth of the estate. >_< How to Get Along Quietly. “How do you get along with the boss and his business manager?” asked Sam Peters of Hostetter Maginnis, who had accepted a clerkship in a certain store. “O, I get along with them first rate. If I am talking with the boss, | abuse the busi- ness manager, and if I am talking with the business manager, I abuse the boss. In this way both of them are sorter stuek on me.” —_—-o -<—-- The Drug Market. Business continues “elegant,” as a local job- ber expresses it, and collections are fully up to the average in good times. Quinine and lard oil are on the downward tendency, and linseed oil, bromide of potash and gum ara- bic are on the rampage—particularly gum arabic, which is likely to go to unexpected figures before the close of the Egyptian war. oe ee It is not generally known that nutmegs are poisonous, but Dr. Palmer writes to the American Journal of Pharmacy detailing the case of a lady who nearly died from eat- ing a nutmeg and a half, and he points out the fact that the toxic effects of the drug are described in both the National and United States Dispensatories. a The regular monthly meeting of the Grand Rapids Pharmaceutical Society will be held at THE TRADESMAN office to-morrow— Thursday—evening. SS SSN s \¥ ® TRADE MARK. O. H. RICHMOND & CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MANUFACTURERS OF Richmond’s Family Medicines, RICHMOND’S LIVER ELIXIR. The best selling liver and blood medicine in the market, 50 cents. Richmond’s Cubeb Cream, Richmond’s Ague Cure, Richmond’s Cough Cure, Richmond’s Easy Pills, Dr. Richards’ Health Restorer. Retailers, please order of your jobbers in Grand Rapids, Chicago or Detroit. If bg job- ber does not handle our goods, we will fill your orders. Pills and Health Restorer can be sent by mail. 141 South Division St., Grand Rapids. DUNHAM'’S a. THE BEST IN THE WORLD! PRICE 50 CENTS. WESTERN MEDICINE CO, atarrl GRAND RAPIDS§, MICH. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced—Linseed oil, gum arabic, bromide potash. Declined—Quinine, lard oil. ACIDS. Acetic, No. 8.20 cic se ee 9 @ 10 Acetic, C. P. (Sp. grav. 1.040)...... 30 @ 35 MAEDONG oo. ee eae ee a 33 @ 35 Citric... 3... ieee @ 5b Muriatic 18 deg........ See 3 @ 5 INIGHIG SB. GOR s,s 65. 55 cence ees - 1 @ PB ORGNO ee oe bet ee ses uU%@ 15 Sulphuric 66 deg................+-- 38 @ 4 Tartaric powdered................ 50 Benzoic, English............. 8 OZ 18 Benzore, German......-.......6ee- 2 @ 15 PANIMNG 0265 ees ease ene eran os 12 @ bb AMMONIA. Carbonate. <...:.......- 2. 0<. es eb 15 @ 18 Muriate (Powd. 22C)...........0e005 14 Aqua 16 deg or 3f... ......---.005- 5 @ 6 Aqua 18 deg or 4f..........-..--+6- 6 @ 7% BALSAMS. Copaiba ........ ccc cece ee cee eee eens 55@60 SU a coc es : 40 MPU es oe eae pans 8 ace aie 2 00 WONT 0 ie ie occ sae 50 BARKS. Cassia, in mats (Pow’d 20¢)........ 1 Cinchona, yellow........+.-.-..++ 18 Him, select.............0-.00+ecseees 13 Elm, ground, pure............-..-- 14 Elm, powdered, pure.....:.......- 1b Sassafras, Of root............--++-- 10 Wild Cherry, select...............- 12 Bayberry powdered............--- 20 Hemlock powdered..........-..- i 18 WROD foo ooe cos coer ae bec ccea ess oe 30 Soap ground. . .........-.eeeeees 12 BERRIES, Cubeb prime (Powd 1 00c)........ @ 8 JUMIPCE.. -..- os. 2 sees cote sere ce ss . 6@ T Prickly Ash.............edeeeee eres 50 @ 60 EXTRACTS. Licorice (10 and 25 ib boxes, 25¢)... 27 Licorice, powdered, bean Moon ce 37% Logwood, bulk (12 and 25 Ib doxes). 9 Logwood, Is (25 ib boxes)........-. 12 Lgowood, 48 do 3.322... 13 Logwood, 4S GO) es. 1b Logwood,ass’d do _....... oo 4 Fluid Extracts—25 # cent. off list. FLOWERS. ATIC. . 6c 2. 55 6.2 sic cs coos ewe 10 @ ll Chamomile, Roman.............+- 25 Chamomile, German.............- 25 GUMS. Aloes, Barbadoes..........---+++++ 60@ 75 Aloes, Cape (Powd 24¢)........+++- 17 Aloes, Socotrine (Powd 60c)....... 50 AMMODIAC .....-.. 2. ee ee ee ee ee ee eee 28@ 30 Arabic. extra select...... os 65 Arabic, powdered select. 65 Arabic, Ist picked.. 55 Arabie,2d picked... 48 Arabic, 3d picked... 45 Arabic, sifted sorts.......... : : 35 Assafoentida, prime (Powd 35c)... 25 Benzoin...........secccccescscceces 55@60 Camphor .........--..-++-- ie 22 Catechu. 1s (% l4c, 4s 16c 13 Euphorbium powdered 35@ 40 Galbanum strained... 80 Gamboge.........-- ices 90@1 00 Guaiac, prime (Powd 45c 35 Kino [Powdered, 30c]...........-.- 20 IMASTAC! 66 ene. kobe cee nests « Myrth. Turkish (Powdered 47c)... 40 Opium, pure (Powd $5.50).........- 4 00 Shellac, Campbell’s...........-.-+- 30 Shellac, English...........-...-0+: 26 epeliac Baler = - ellac bleached. Tragacanth ...........-.2eseeee ones 30 @1 00 HERBS—IN OUNCE PACKAGES. Monrvbound =. os. es ces =e .25 PODCUR 6 os... 3s wae ee - Peppermint............---+++-- 2k WMO ee ce 40 Spearmint ................- 24 Sweet Majoram............ -35 RIAN aos so oe store seo: 2D WAVING ee pee .30 WI GUO WOO - 6. 2. i. 5 io Sa ce ce ie se ee 25 IRON. Citrate and Quinine............... 6 40 Solution mur., for tinctures....: - 20 Sulphate, pure crystal............ 7 COCALO Se ees es ene ce 80 PHOSPhate .....,-.0cecceccescccgene 65 LEAVES. Buchu, short (Powd 25¢)........... 138 @ 14 Sage, Italian, bulk (48 & 48, 12c)... 6 Senna, Alex, natural.............. $ @ 20 Senna, Alex. sifted and garbled.. 30 Senna, powdered................- 22 Senna tinnivelli........... .....6-- 16 TWA OUR Ss a5 oo aes oe os ce scan 10 Belledonna........... au ee alee sts cies « 35 MOROIOVO. . 66502 os cet es. 30 Je Vevau Woe) ee ogg a Ae tae 35 RMOse Ted. ss ce. 2 35 LIQUORS. W., D. & Co.’s Sour Mash Whisky.2 00 @2 25 Druggists’ Favorite Rye.... ..1% @2 00 Whisky, other brands..... ..110 @l1 50 Gin, Old Tom................. ..135 @1 % Gin, Holland................. ..200 @3 50 PANN cokes oe asses 1%5 @6 50 Catawba WinesS................5 125 @2 00 Wort WANES: . 6.56. . oee ce sie wc es cs 135 @2 50 MAGNESIA. Carbonate, Pattison’s, 2 02........ 22 Carbonate, Jenning’s, 202......... 37 Citrate, H., P. & Co.’s solution.... 2 2 WRCIDEG Foss. ea eee ce 65 OILS. AlMOnG, SWECE.... 2. sec erccccceccs 45 @ 50 Amber, rectified................... 45 PATISO: 3.3 3 cs oe ss Gn dslds css chun Geese 1 85 pHyed OF. 556. 2 ke cee es A 50 BCLCAMONE: 6.5 oo 5. ose. e cok vee cee 1 80 COSROR os es ooo os iS veloc cic wie 18 @ 19% TOT a. 5 ek cc cs se ones 2 00 (COACRUG sooo co en voce ss %5 (CBBSIA oo eos eae css eee saa sees 1 00 Cedar, commercial (Pure 75¢)..... 35 CACTONOUR 5 isc toe ioe e snes MCIOVOR occ oo ee cics ceases ae 1 Cod Liver, filtered..... ..... 8 gal 1 Cod Liver, best......... cook, 3 Cod Liver, H., P. & Co.’s, 16 6 IDG DSS EP. BOW. ows ee hess q PIGCEOM: 5 6.55 s.ssce sess cha sos sss 1 PAT OWOOK. 6 oo ove ies cess cess ses 2 Geranium # 0Z..............0.060- Hemlock, commercial (Pure 75c).. Juniper wood...............- Ss cess Juniper berrieS...............0..06 Lavender flowers, French......... Lavender garden do Lavender spike do Lemon, new Crop...............06. Lemon, Sanderson’s............... TL OMOUPTARS 665... kos nc ce ve oes Olive, Malaga........... A Olive, ‘‘Sublime Italian . ee Origanum, red flowers, French... Origanum, No.1.................. POW POV AL. oes oso co kics see sln sie a's Peppermint, white................ Soa WR OL oo oe so hens eis aad semary, French (Flowers $1 50) Salad VA ewe cence Sandal Wood, German.. Sandal Wood, W.I..... Sassafras........ es Spearmint. . PERRY foe a a eae ces, Tar (by gal 50c)............... Ae Wintergreen ... 2... 6. 66.2 scsse se Wormwood, No. 1(Pure $5.00)..... WV OEMSOCK | oo ois cai ae sane POTASSIUM. BicroOmMaAte ©. 2 6. os seb sso ek ® Ib Bromide, cryst. and gran. bulk... Chlorate, cryst (Powd 28¢)......... Todide, cryst. and gran. bulk..... Prussiate yellow................6. ROOTS. SRAUOE oo soe. cls sc ces seeess AIGNOD, COU: 6.5. cscs ce cece cscasis Arrow, St. Vincent’s.............. Arrow, Taylor’s, in 4s and s.... Blood (Powd 18c) Calamus, ee Ee Ge KC Res el w Cease Calamus, German white, peeled.. Elecampane, powdered............ Gentian (Powd 15c)................ Ginger, African (Powd 16c)........ Ginger, Jamaica bleached........ Golden Seal (Powd 30c)............ Hellebore, white, powdered....... Ipecac, Rio, powdered............. alap, powdered.................5+ Licorice, select (Powd 12%)...... Licorice, extra select.............. PU, UTUNO os os oa oe bok boise oh esky oe 58 Rhei, from select to choice.......1 Rhei, powdered E. I............... ok Rhei, choice cut cubes............ eee ececes sete comes > Ss 18 ss Rhei, choice cut fingers..... aevis SSSNSSSSSSARSASSRASSSSESSSSSRASSSSSSET ronxw 2 sem OR oe died DODO xn loll lend BScse @ RARSSSSRESARS an mee RESSRALSSH Serpentaria..............c2cceeceee 80 BONGEGS (22). 02 hi 65 Sarsaparilla, Hondurus........... 40 Sarsaparilla, Mexican............. 20 Squills, white (Powd 35c).......... wb Valerian, English (Powd 30c)...... 25. Valerian, Vermont (Powd 28¢c)... 20 SEEDS. Anise, Italian (Powd 20¢).......... 15 Bird, mixed in packages........ 5 @.6 Canary, Smyrna.............. -- 4@ 4% Caraway, best Dutch (Powd 20c). 15 @ 18 Cardamon, Aleppee............... 2 Ub Cartamon, Malabar................ 2 2% COlONy eo eae 20 Coriander, pest English........... 10 MONNGE ee es ea 15 Migx Clean: 66 ee a 3x%@ Flax, pure grd (bbl 34%)............ 4@ 4% Foenugreek, powdered............ 7 @ 8 Homp, Russian... .2.:2.. 0.2.6.0... 56 @ 6 Mustard, white Black 10e)........ 8 Quine 2 a, 15 Rape, Hoglsh... oo... ce. 6 @ 7% Worm, Levant... 2..0.2..2... 6.53 14 SPONGES. Florida sheeps’ wool, carriage..... 225 @2 50 Nassau do do = 2, 2 00 Velvet Extra do do week 110 Extra Yellow do dQ 2.4535 * 85 Grass do GG 2... 65 Hard head, for slate use...... ae 7d Yellow Reef, GO | 2 iste... 1 40 \ MISCELLANEUS. Alcohol, grain (bbl $2.22) # gal.... 2 32 Alcohol, wood, 95 per cent ex. ref. 1 2 Anodyne Hoffman’s............... 50 Arsenic, Donovan’s solution...... 27 Arsenic, Fowler’s solution...... ee 12 ema EM rolis...02 6.30.5... 0.:. 45 MOY ee oo ee cua: b 24@ 3% Alum, ground (Powd 9¢)...... - 8@ 4 Annatto, prime.................005 Antimony, powdered, com’]...... 44@ 5 Arsenic, white, powdered......... 6 @ 7% Blue Soluble. oo... ce. 50 Bay Rum, imported, best......... 2 75 Bay Rum, domestic, H., P. & Co.’s. 2 00 Balm Gilead Buds................. 40 Beans, Tonks. . .. 02.5 6s. 1 35 Beans, Vanilla... .. 2... .0.2..-.... 700 @9 75 Bismuth, sub nitrate.............. 2 30 Blue Pill (Powd 70e)............... 50 Blu Vitviol oo... ce 6 @ 7% Borax, refined (Powd 18¢)......... 12 Cantharides, Russian powdered... 2 25 Capsicum Pods, African...... sce. 18 Capsicum Pods, African pow’d... 22 Capsicum Pods, Bombay do... 18 Carmime;, NO. 40: 0020.6 coe, 4 00 Cassia BUGS... ise. 12 Calomel, American................ 75 Chalk, prepared drop.............. 5 Chalk, precipitate English........ 12 Chalk, red fingers........ ek 8 Chalk, white lump................. 2 Chloroform, Squibb’s............. 1 60 Colocynth apples.................. 60 Chloral hydrate, German crusts.. 1 50 Chloral do do__icryst... 1 %@ Chloral do Scherin’s do ... 1 90 Chloral do do crusts.. 1 %5 Ghlorotorm:).. - 3.22.06 8% @ 9% Cinchonidia, P. & W......:........ 40 @ 45 Cinchonidia, other brands......... 40 @ 45 Cloves (Powd 28¢)................4. 18 @ 20 COCchHIne@sh occ os. 40 Cocoa Butter...... aise nce eo a Gae: 45 Copperas (by bbl le)............... 2 -| Corrosive Sublimate............... 70 Corks, X and XX—40 off list...... Cream Tartar, pure powdered..... @ 40 Cream Tartar, grocer’s, 10 i box.. 15 Creasote.......... 50 Cudbear, prime.. 24 Cuttle Fish Bone 24 Dextrine ........... 12 Dover’s Powders.... 110 Dragon’s Blood Mass 50 Ergot powdered... 45 Ether Squibb’s............. 110 Emery, Turkish, all No.’s. 8 Epsom Salts....:... .. ‘ 2@ .3 Ergot, fresh........ 50 « Ether, sulphuric, U. 60 Flake white.......... 14 Grains Paradise.. 25 Gelatine, Cooper’s 90 Gelatine, French ............ .. 465 @ 70 Glassware, flint, 79 off, by box 60 off Glassware, green, 60 and 10 dis.... : Glue; Ca omet. 2... oc... eee... 2 @ ili Glueswhite ss 605.025. .. 14 @ 28 Glycerine, purée: .... 25. soe... 16 @ 20 Hops 4s and 448.00... 5.50... 0:. 25@ 40 Todoform @ 02Z............ ay 40 ImGigo . & @1 0 Insect Powder, best Dalmatian... 35 @ 40 Iodine, resublimed......... ee 4 00 Isinglass, American.. .¢ 1 50 JBPODICR 2560.66. 8 London Purple......... --- 10 @ Head, acetate: .. 6. 60. ee le. 15 Lime, chloride, (4s 2s 10¢ & 4s 11ce) 8 Up Une ee ee 1 00 Lycopodium .............. 50 Mate oso eas ce 50 Madder, best Dutch.. RY@ 13 Manna, S. B........ 7... a 45 aero nee at a 50 Morphia, sulph., P.& W...... oz 3 00@3 25 Musk, Canton, H., P. & Co.’s. - i 40 Moss, Iceland .. ......0.60 000603 #8 Ib 10 MOSS: Enishi 0c. ko 12 Mustard, English..........-.....2. 30 Mustard, grocer’s, 10 i cans...... 18 INDIE MHA eee ee. 23 INubmers, NO. 1). obs cco cla 60 INGER ViOMICR: ooo. oes eo ck. 10 Ointment. Mercurial, 4%d.......... 45 Paris Green cg ie ce ites ces 17 @ 2 Pepper, Black Berry.............. 18 Pepsin: 22 oso ek ae ce 2 50 Pitch, True Burgundy............. 7 QUASSIa cae. 6 @ 7 oe Sulph, P, & W........ boz 9 @ 95 uinine, German.................. 909 @ 9° Red Precipitate............... #8 Ib 835 Seidlitz Mixture................... 28 Strychnia, eryst.'s............ 2... 1 60 Silver Nitrate, cryst............... wT @ 80 Saffron, American................. » 85 Sar GIdnpet 2. ee @ 2. Sal Nitre, large cryst.............. 10 Sal Nitre, medium cryst.......... 9 Sai Rochelle... 5.0.5. eos. oc... 33 Sal Soda. 20.2 6... es eee 2 @ (2% SANOING: oe ee 2 15 BANTOWIN, 2850. a ee 6 50 Snuffs, Maccoboy or Scoteh....... 38 Soda Ash [by keg 8e].............. ‘4 Spermaceti.. ... 6.2. ke. 35 Soda, Bi-Carbonate, DeLand’s.... 4%@ 5 Soap, White Castile................ 14 Soap, Green do ..:.. .......... 17 Soap, Mottled do ................ 9 Soap, dO dO. .....6.2.2 00. :.. il Soap, Mazzini...................2.. 14 Spirits Nitre, 3 F................... 26 @ 28 Spirits Nitre,4 PF ..........6.....0-- 30 @ 8 Sugar Milk powdered.............. 33 Sulphur, Gout... eo. oe ce 384@ Sulphur, roll............ Pees. 3@ 3% Martar MMevic, 6 oo occ a cece ca cess Tar, N. C. Pine, % gal. cans # doz 2 70 Tar, ' do quarts in tin....... 1 40 Tar, do pintsin tin......... 85 Turpentine, Venice........... 8 Ib 25 Wax, White, S. & F. brand........ 55 Zine, Sulphate..................425 7@ 8 OILs. Capitol Cylinder. 6... 6. <2. cin. oo. oe. ce ce ee 75 Model Cylinder... .......cie.cccee ees Meu ces ke 60 Rilelds: CVENGeGr: os os oe oe ak oe oa doc ek cees 50 MldOradO HNGINS. oo sees cece ccc cece cieces 45 Peerless Machinery................ cece ee ene 3d Challenge Machinery................0:e.ceeeee 25 Backus Fine Engine.................ccceeeeees 30 Black Diamond Machinery...................- 30 Custor Machine OW. ese ees vec ce ee cce ee bees 6C WaAramnGs2o GEG. 666s cone ss oe cc cee ec se eu cobs 22 Paratine, 28. COM, ooo oc ccc noise ce ce cee be bes 21 Sperm, winter bleached..................... 1 40 Bbl = Gal Whale, WINter.. .. 6 o.oo esas ee ce dees 70 %5 WAU OSUEE oo. oboe bees ceiccee se oo 60 70 QUO Or boos oe eos ceeds anata cegsvscs 60 Linseed, pure raw................06. 52 55 Linseed, boiled ......5...0. cc cee sees 5d 58 Neat’s Foot, winter strained........ 70 90 Spirits Turpentine................... 36 40 VARNISHES. Wo. l Purp Coneh.... 22... cece kes. s 1 10@1 20 MOST CUE ooo ca cs ee acces ce ees 1 60@1 70 OGRO0 BOGY ccs os osees os os con oes 2 75@3 00 No. 1 Turp Furniture................%. 1 00@1 10 Extra Turp Damar..................4. 1 55@1 60 Japan Dryer, No. 1 Turp.............. 10@ 5 PAINTS. . Bbil Lb Red Venetian..............0.05 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Marseilles...... 1% 2@ 3 Ochre, yellow Bermuda....... 1% 2@ 3 Putty, commercial ............ 2% 2%@ 3 Putty, strictly pure............ 2% 2%@ 3 Vermilion, prime American. . : 13@16 Vermilion, English............ H@6 Green, Peninsular............. 16@17 Lead, red strictly pure..... .. 5% Lead, white, strictly pure..... 5 3d Whiting, white Spanish....... @i0 Whiting, Gilders’.............. @90 White, Paris American........ 110 Whiting Paris English cliff.. 1 40 Pioneer Prepared Paints..... 1 20@1 40 Swiss Villa Prepared Paints.. 1 W@1 2 HAZELTINE, @ PERKINS & CO, Wholesale ruggists! 42 and 44 Ottawa Street and 89, 91, 93 and 95 Louis Street. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF Drags, Medicines, Chemicals, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, and Dragaist’s Glassware, MANUFACTURERS OF ELEGANT PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS, FLUID EXTRACTS AND ELIXIRS. GENERAL WHOLESALE AGENTS FOR Wo Lr, PATron & Co., AND JOHN L. WaHit- ING, MANUFACTURERS OF FINE PAINT AND VARNISH BRUSHES. —Also for the— GRAND RApips BrusH Co., MANF’RS OF HAtrk, SHOE AND HorsE BRUSHES. Drugeists’ Sundries Our stogk in this department of our busi- ness is conceded to be one of the largest, best-assorted and diversified to be found in the Northwest. We are heavy importers of many articles ourselves and can offer Fine Solid Back Hair Brushes, French and Eng- glish Tooth and Nail Brushes at attractive prices. We desire particular attention ef those about purchasing OUTFITS for NEW STORES to the fact of our unsurpassed facilities for meeting the wants of this class of buyers without delay and in the most approved and acceptable manner known to the drug trade. Our special efforts in this direction have re- ceived from hundreds of our customers the most satisfying recommendations. Wine and Liguor Department We give our special and personal atten- tion to the selection of choice goods for thedrug trade only, and trust we merit the high praise accorded us for so satisfactorily supplying the wants of our customers with Pure Goods in this department. We con- trol and are the only authorized agents for the sale of the celebrated Withers Dade & Co’s Henderson Co., Ky., SOUR MASH AND OLD FASHIONED HAND MADE, COP- PER DISTILLED WHISKYS. We not only offer these goods to be excelled by No OTHER KNOWN BRAND in the market, but superior in all respects to most that are ex- posed for sale. We GUARANTEE perfect and complete satisfaction and where this brand of goods has once been introduced the future trade has been assured. We are also owners of the Drnggists Favorite Rye, Which continues to have so many favorites among druggists who have sold these goods for a very long time. Buy our Gins Brandies & Fine Wines We call your attention to the adjoining list of market quotations which we aim to make as complete and perfect as possible. For special quantities and for quotations on such articles as do not appear on the list such as Patent Medicines, etc,, we invite your cor- respondence. Mail orders always receive our special and personal attention. HAZELTINE, PERKINS & C0 Edwin Densmore’s Observations in the South, 5 Edwin Densmore, the well-known me- chanical inventor, has recently returned from a four weeks’ trip through the South- ern States and was seen bya reporter of Tue TRADESMAN and questioned as to opin- ions he had formed while absent. He said that his trip included the principal'cities be- tween Grand Rapids and Washington via Montreal and New York, from which place he proceeded to Raleigh, Augusta, Savan- nah, Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Palatka and St. Augustine, and thence home by way of Macon, Atlanta, Chattanooga. In a mechan- ical way, particularly in the manufacture of lumber and shingles, the country as a whole seems to be twenty-five years behind the times—that is, with the same machinery and amount of help used in the North, they are able to manufacture only about one-third the amount of lumber commonly turned out here, owing to the want of mechanical skill. He found a notable exception to the general rule in Savannah, where a live business man by the name of Smart, who is the manager for Bacon & Co., saw and planing mill oper- ators, has succeeded in accomplishing as much with improved machinery as any Northern manufacturer. He succeeds in keeping the negro laborers steadily at work by making it an invariable rule of the estab- lishment never to hire a laborer who has left their employ, and in this «Way prevents the loss incident to other concerns which are at the mercy of unreliable blocks. To the credit of the latter, however, it may be said that while they are perfectly willing to go without hats or boots, they will buy books for their children, apparently being awake to the necessity for better education. Mr. Densmore says that the common sup- position that Northern men cannot endure the climate of the South is without founda- tion. The extremes of either heat or cold, are not so marked as in the North and, with proper care, a Northener can accomplish as much as in a Northern climate. The opin- ions of those prejudiced against the country cannot be relied upon in this respect, and no and can make a tour of the South without thinking a great deal more of the country than he imagines he would. The people are generally extremely hospitable, aud are free to talk about their institutions and peculiar- ities. The original planters are satisfied that slavery is abolished. Instead of living on large plantations and being burdened with the care of slaves, they reside in villa- ges and lease their land to the negroes in thirty-acre tracts, furnishing a mule and the cotton seed in return for one-quarter of the crop. As the average yield is a baleanacre. worth about 10 cents per pound, the owner receives on an average about $10 per acre for the use of the land, which is much more than the usual returns under the system of slavery. Most of the timber eut in the Gulf and Atlantic states is cut square and shipped to Europe, where itis resawed. In squaring the timber, itis commonly the case that more good material is wasted than is saved, Such timber, which frequently measures from 40 to 60 feet in length, commands $12 per thousand at the seaport towns. The Southern pine is similar to our Norway, with the exception of containing more pitch, which prevents its use for doors, window frames or casings. The cyprus shingles are cut without the sap being taken off, and us- ually to five inch, no attention being paid to the grain and no jointer being used. First quality shingles were selling at Palatka at $4.50 per thousand, and even at that price an operator claimed he was losing money, although the only expense was the getting out of the timber, the stumpage being noth- ing. Three-quarters of the casing used on lemon, orange and vegetable boxes is ship- ped by water from Maine, although the best of timber for that purpose exists in endless quantities near at home. The great need of the South at the present time is the presence of Northern men and machinery, to utilize the native material, and take advantage of the splendid opportunities for business en- terprise and activity. _ or -O- Purely Personal. M. H. Walworth, of the firm of Walworth & Lawton, South Bend, Ind., is in town. Myron Hester, of Hester & Fox, left Mon- day for afour days’ trip along the line of the G. R. & I., north. H. M. Harroun, general dealer and saw mill operator at McLane, is in town in con- sultation with attorneys on an important matter of litigation. John A. Herold, formerly of the firm of Palen, Herold & Co., boot and shoe dealers on Monroe street, has engaged in the gro- cery business at Victoria, near Washburn, Dakota. H. B. Chamberlain, of the firm of Cham- berlain Bros., grocers and bakers at Plain- well, spent Sabbath in the city, the guest of Dr, J. B. Evans. He was accompanied by his wife and son. Geo. H. Kelley, formerly with Dun’s Mer- cantile Agency, but for the past six months traveling agent for M. H. Treusch, left last week for Chicago, with the intention of re- engaging in the agency business either at that place or at St. Paul. F, M. Hentig, of Casnovia, was in town last week on his way home from Pittsburg, whither he went with two carloads of pota- toes, apples, beans and hnions. When he left there on the 16th, the market was flood- ed with frozen produce, on which the ship- pers will barely realize enough to pay the freight. a It has been resolved to hold an interna- tional exhibition of industry, science and art in Edinburgh next summer. The Michigan Tradesman, A MERCANTILE JOURNAL, PUBLISHED EACH WEDNESDAY. E. A. STOWE & BRO., Proprietors. OFFICE IN EAGLE BUILDING, 3d FLOOR. {Entered at the Postoffice at Grand Rapids as Second-class Matter.| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1885. Some Facts about Dynamite, Nothing is more common than to hear peo- ple express surprise, in view of the recent dastardly outrages in England, that the manufacture and sale of dynamite by irre- sponsible parties is not strictly prohibited by law. This, however, has been done, and, so far as the law can be executed, there is no danger. The trouble lies in the ease with which the explosive can be made. The base of all the higher explosives is ni- tro-glycerine, which is formed by the action of concentrated nitric acid, in the presence of strong sulphuric acid, upon glycerine at a low temperature. Great care has to be tak- en in regulating the temperature during the operation; but, upon a small scale, the ni- tro-glycerine may be readily prepared by dropping the glycerine into the mixed acids, the mixture being kept artificially cooled. Of course glycerine, as also nitric and sul- phuric acids, are so widely used medicinally and for industrial purposes, as to make their purchase an easy matter, where nitro-glycer- ine itself would not be sold. But with the nitro-glycerine which can be produced there- with, dynamite of any degree of strength can easily be made, by just mixing with infuso- rial earth, sawdust, charcoal, or even with sugar, or any one of many similar substances —these latter just serving to soak up and hold the nitro-glycerine. ‘The strongest dy- namite is that in which infusorial earth is used, which will soak up three parts by weight of nitro-glycerine to one of its own. For commercial purposes dynamite is packed in cartridges of various sizes, from one to two inches in diameter, and about eight inches long. It is commonly supposed that dynamite is easily exploded by con- cussion, but under ordinary conditions this is not the case. Neither is it exploded by fire, Itis easily ignited, and in burning gives a most intense heat; but it cannot, us- ually, be made to explode in this way when unconfined. The ordinary way in which it is exploded is by means of fire and concus- sion at the same instant. For this purpose a strong copper percussion cap containing fulminate of mercury is used. Without the cap the cartridge is not considered dangerous by those accustomed to handling it, and the cap is not inserted until just before the cart- ridge is to be used. The best dynamite is about twelve times as powerful as gunpowder, and is very effec- tive for blasting purposes. It freezes at about 45°, and itis almost impossible to explode in a frozen condition. It may be used under water. The paper shell of the cartridge has a covering of paraffine, which is not easily penetrated by water; but even if dynamite is wet its explosive properties are not destroyed, though if it re- main in the water any length of time the glycerine is washed out, and the destructive value of the compound Jost. There isa marked difference in the explosion of gun- powder and dynamite; the former if placed on the floor of a building and exploded, might blow out the windows without ser- iously injuring the structure; but dynamite exerts a powerful force downward, and for this reason is used by the socalled ‘‘dynamit- ers,” as they can hastily place anywhere in a building without confining it, as would be necessary with gunpowder. oe -2- <—— The Oldest Pun on Record. From the Frankfort Express. The Grand Rapids TRADESMAN comes to our table regularly. It is a spicy sheet, de- voted to the business interests of Grand Rapids and “Bro. Soliman Snooks.” E. A. Stowe is the editor and he manages to Stowe a deal of good reading into its columns. Here Stowe his good health. ———— >> ___—_ The Test of Success. From the Grand Rapids Democrat. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN is eighteen months old, and probably can make a better financial showing for a yearling than any other newspaper venture ever attempted in this city. 2 ee “No Better Paper.” ’ From the Evart Review. Tue MICHIGAN TRADESMAN, of Grand Rapids, has just finished the first year anda half of its existence. No better paper’of its kind is published in the State. > —> Good Words Unsolicited. A. West, g@ocer, Ivan: “Ihave sold goods for the past fourteen years and I think your paver is well worth the money.” S. D. Waldron, general dealer, Wateryliet: “Beyond question, THE TRADESMAN is the bus iness man’s paper par excellence.” M. L. Gibson, cheese maker and dealer, Alle- ; “Please accept my sincere thanks for I consider it gan: copies of your valuable paper. indispensable.” ee gs Florida oranges are being exported from Boston to Liverpool] in large quanti- ties. A lot of 100 boxes, which were ship- ped some three weeks ago, arrived in good condition, and were sold at satisfactory prices, although they came in competition with the Mediterranean oranges, which are sold in England at low prices. —- oo Piano manufacturers claim that there are 8,000,000 Americans who can play on their instruments. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. WIDE BROWN COTTONS. : Pepperell, 10-4...... 25 Androscoggin, 9-4. .23 Androscoggin, 8-4..21 |Pepperell, 11-4...... 27% Pepperell, 7-4...... 16%|Pequot, 7-4......... 18 Pepperell, 8-4...... Pequot, 8-4......... 21 Pepperell, 9-4...... 22448\Pequot, 9-4......... 24 CHECKS. Park Mills, No. 90..14 Caledonia, XX, 0z..11 Park Mills, No. 100.15 Caledonia, X, 0z...10 Economy, 02Z.....-- 10 (Prodigy, 0z......... i Park Mills, No. 50..10 |Otis Apron......... 10% Park Mills, No. 60..11 |Otis Furniture..... 10% | Park Mills, No. 70..12 |York, 1 02.......... 10 | Park Mills, No. 80..18 |York, AA, extra 0z.14 \ OSNABURG. / Alabama brown.... 7 |Alabama plaid..... a Jewell briwn....... 9% Augusta plaid...... 7 Kentucky brown..10%'Toledo plaid........ 7 Lewiston brown... 9%|Manchester plaid.. 7 Lane brown........ 94% |New Tenn. plaid...11 Louisiana plaid.... 7 |Utility plaid........ 6% BLEACHED COTTONS. Avondale, 36....... 84|Greene, G, 4-4...... 5% Art cambries, 36...11%/|Hill, 4-4............. 1% Androscoggin, 4-4.. 844)Hill, 7-8............. 6% Androscoggin, 5-4..1244;Hope, 4-4........... 6% Ballou, 4-4.......... 6%|\King Phillip cam- Ballou, 5-4.........- 6 bric, 44........... 11% Boott, O. 4-4........ 8%|Linwood, 44....... 7% Boott, E. 5-5........ 7 |Lonsdale, 4-4....... 7% 91%4| Lonsdale cambrie.10% 5\4|Langdon, GB,4-4... 9% 7 jLangdon, 45 14 Boott, AGC, 4-4..... Boott, R. 3-4....... Blackstone, AA 4-4, Chapman, X, 4-4.... 6 Masonville, 4-4..... 8 Conway, 4-4... ... 7 |Maxwell.4-4........ 9% Cabot, 4-4......--- . 63%'New York Mill, 4-4.10% Cabot, 7-8...:.-5..:.- 6 |New Jersey, 44.... 8 Canoe, 3-4.......-.- 4 |Pocasset, P.M.C.. 7% 74|Pride of the West..11 Pocahontas, 44.... 7% Slaterville, 7-8...... 6% 84|Victoria, AA....... 9 744|Woodbury, 4-4...... 5% Whitinsville, 4-4... 7% Whitinsville, 7-8.... 6% 334; Wamsutta, 4-4...... 16% 6 |Williamsville, 36...10% Domestic, 36 Dwight Anchor, 4-4. 9 Davol, 4-4.........- 9 Fruit of Loom, 4-4.. Fruit of Loom, 7-8.. Fruit of the Loom, eambric, 44...... 1 Gold Medal, 4-4.. .. Gold Medal, 7-8 Gilded Age......... 8% SILESIAS. Crowh.-......---.-- 17 |Masonville TS...... 8 No. 10.. 1244\Masonville S....... 10% Coin ....;- 10 jLonsdale........... 9% Anchor.... 15 iLonsdale A......... 16 Centennial Nictory O.......... Blackburn 8 |Mictory.d..........< Davol...... .14 {Victory D.......... London...... .12%| Victory K.......... 24% Paconia..... 42 iPhenixa.......... 19% Red Cross.........- 10 |Phoenix B......... -10% Social Imperial....16 {Phoenix XX ....... 5 PRINTS. Albion, solid........ 5%|Gloucester .......... 6 Albion, grey.......- 6 |Gloucestermourn’g.6 Allen’s checks.....- 5%4|Hamilton fancy....6 Ailen’s fancy......- 5\4'\Hartel fancy........ 6 Allen’s pink........- 61%|Merrimac D......... 6 Allen’spurple....... 6%\Manchester ......... 6 American, fancy....5%|Oriental fancy...... 6 Arnoldfancy........6 |Oriental robes...... 6% Berlinsolid......... 514|Pacific robes........ 6 Cocheco fancy...... 6 |Richmond....... Cocheco robes......- 644'Steel River...... SS Conestoga fancy....6 |Simpson’s........... 6 Eddystone ..... .--- 6 |Washington fancy.. Eagle fancy.......-- 5 |Washington blues. 7% Garner pink......... 6% FINE BROWN COTTONS. Appleton A, 4-4.... 7% Indian Orchard, 40. 8 Boott M, 44.......- 634|Indian Orehard, 36. 7% Boston F, 4-4....... %14|Laconia B, 7-4...... 16% Continental C, 4-3.. 644;Lyman B, 40-in..... 10% Continental D, 40in 8%|Mass. BB, 4-4....... 5% Conestoga W, 4-4... 6%|Nashua H, 40-in.... 8% Conestoga D, 7-8... 5%|)Nashua R, 4-4...... 1% Conestoga G, 30-in. 6 |Nashua O,7-8....... 634 Dwight X,3-4...... 514|Newmarket N...... 64 Dwight Y, 7-8....... 534! Pepperell EH, 39-in.. 7 Dwight Z, 4-4....... 63%|Pepperell R, 4-4.... 7% Dwight Star, 4-4.... 7 Pepperell O, 7-8.... 6% Ewight Star, 40-in.. 9 {Pepperell N, 3-4.... 6% Enterprise EE, 36.. 5 |Pocasset_C, 4-4..... 6% Saranac R Saranac E.......... Great Falls H, 4-4... 7 [Saranac R.......... Farmers’ A, 4-4..... 6 Indian Orchard t-4 7% DOMESTIC GINGHAMS. ‘ 1% 9 Amoskeag ......... 14;Renfrew, dress styl 7% Amoskeag, Persian “|Johnson Manfg Co, styles.......- ...10%| Bookfold......... RY Bates........ . 714 Johnson Manfg Co, Berkshire ......... 6%| dress styles...... 12% Glasgow checks.... 7 |Slaterville, dress Glasgow checks, f’y 7% BLVIOS 0.5 oc. cee 1% Glasgow checks, White Mfg Co, stap 7% royal styles...... 8 |White Mfg Co, fane 8 Gloucester, new White Manft’g Co, standard ......... 7%| Earlston.......... 8 Plunket ...... .. 1%|Gordon............. [% Lancaster .... 3 eo dress Langdale ........--. (36; SBtYIOS .......2..... 12% |- WIDE BLEACHED COTTONS. Androscoggin, 7-4..21 |Pepperell. 10-4..... 27% Androscoggin, 8-4..23 |Pepperell, 11-4..... 382% Pepperell, 7-4...... 20 |Pequot, 7-4......... 21 Pepperell, 8-4..... .22%|Pequot, 8-4. Pepperell, 9-4.....- 25 |Pequot, 9-4. HEAVY BROWN COTTONS. Atlantic A, 4-4..... 714|Lawrence XX, 4-4.. 7% Atlantie H, 4-4..... 7 \Lawrence Y, 30.... 7 Atlantic D, 4-4..... 6144|Lawrence LL, 4-4... 5% Atlantic P, 4-4...... 5% |Newmarket N...... 6% Atilantie LL, 4-4.... 544 |Mystic River, 4-4... 54 Adriatic, 36......... 7%\Pequot A, 4-4....... 1% Augusta, 4-4........ 6% Piedmont, 36....... 6% Boott M, 4-4......-. 634 Stark AA, 4-4....... 7% Boott FF, 4-4....... 7% \Tremont CC, 4-4.... 5% Graniteville, 4-4.... 534/Utica, 4-4........... 9 Indian Head, 4-4... 7 |Wachusett, 4-4..... 1% Indiana Head 45-in.124%|Wachusett, 30-in... 6% TICKINGS Amoskeag, ACA...14 ;Falls, XXXX....... 18% Amoskeag ‘ 4-4..19 |Falls, XXX......... 154% Amoskeag, A...... 13 jFalis; BB........... 11% Amoskeag, B...... 2 |Falis, BBC, 36...... 19% Amoskeag, C.....- ll (Falls, awning...... 19 Amoskeag, D...... 10%|Hamilton, BT, 32..12 Amoskeag, E...... 10 |Hamilton, D....... 9% Amoskeag, F....... 914;Hamilton, H....... 9% Premium A, 4-4....17 |Hamilton fancy...10 Premium B........16 |Methuen AA....... 13% Extra4-4.........--- 16 |Methuen ASA...... 18 OKA 3-0. oo ok ee 144%|Omega A, 7-8....... 11 Gold Medal 4-4...... 15 jOmega A, 4-4....... 13 CCA G35 3522 124% Omega ACA, 7-8....14 CTT oo... ss eee 14 |\Omega ACA, 4-4....16 RC 7-8 ....14 |Omega SE, 7-8...... 24. BF 7-8.. . 16 Omega SE, 4-4.....: 27 Aas .2.5:: 19 Omega MEGS 6. 22 Cordis AAA, ¢ 14 ‘Omega M, 4-4 25 15 |ShetucketSS&SSw 11% 15 \Shetucket, S & SW.12 Cordis No. 2.. 14 \Shetucket, SFS_ ..12 Cordis No. 3.. 13 |Stockbridge A..... 7 Cordis No. 4........ 114% |Stockbridge frncy. 8 GLAZED CAMBRICS. Cordis ACA, 32. Cordis No. 1, 82. Garner ..... h iBmpire ...........-.- Hookset.... 5 |Washington........ 434 Red Cross.... . 6 |E@wards......-...... 5 Forest Grove....... IS. S. & SOMS........ 5 GRAIN BAGS. American A...... 18 00;Old Ironsides...... 15 Stark A. .....-.... .22%|Wheatland ......... 21 DENIMS. Boston .. 2.5.5... -26 6% \Otis CC............. 10% .13'44\Warren AXA...... 12% .184|Warren BB... 65.5: 11% Everett blue.. Everett brown Otis AXA..... .12%\Warren CC......... 10% Otis BB..........-.- 11%\|York fancy........ 138% PAPER CAMBRICS. Manville............ 6 |S.S.&Sons......... 6 Masgnville......... 6 |Garner............. 6 WIGANS. Red Cross......-.... 714 |\Thistle Mills........ BGM 55. cons ss se TNROSO:. .5 62s. cece aes 8 Gamer .........---- % SPOOL COTTON. Brooks... .........-> 50 [Baar and Phoenix Clark’s O. N. F.....55 Mills ball sewing .30 J.&P. Coats.......55 |Greeh & Daniels...25 Willimantic 6 cord.55 |Merricks........... 40 Willimantic 3 cord.40 (Stafford ............ 25 Charleston ball sew ‘Hall & Manning....25 ing thread........ 30 .|Holyoke............ 25 CORSET JEANS. ATMIOED 6.66552 35555 74 \Kearsage..........-. 855 Androscoggin sat.. 84 Naumkeag satteen. 8% Canoe River........ 6 \Pepperell bleached 8% Ye Clarendon. ........ 6%4|Pepperell sat....... 9 Hallowell Imp..... 6% \Rockport........... 7 Ind. Orch. Imp..... 7 |Lawrencesat....... 8% TACOMID . 3. iis see 74 \Conegosat.......... q COAL AND BUILDING MATERIALS, A. B. Knowlson quotes as follows: Ohio White Lime, per bbl............. 1 60 Ohio White Lime, car lots............. 85 Louisville Cement, per bbl............ 1 30 Akron Cement per bbl................ 1 30 Buffalo Cement, per bbl............-.- 1 30 Car lots = Mo hee eess see 1 05@1 10 Plastering hair, per bu..............-. 25@ 30 Stucco, per bbl.........--. eee reece eee 1 Land plaster, per ton..........-.-+--+- 3 50 Land plaster, car lots.........--..++++. 2 50 Fire brick, per M......-..-+-s-e+sese0 $25 @ $35 Fire clay, per Dbl........---+seeeeeeees 3 00 COAL. Anthracite, egg and grate, car lots..$6 00@6 25 Anthracite, stove and nut, car lots.. 6 25@6 50 Cannell, car lots........--.sssseeeeeee 00 Ohio Lump, car lo 3 10@3 2 4 50@5 00 sige Blossburg or Cumberland, car lots.. * BOX, MUSSELMAN & LOVERIDEE Wholesale Grocers, Sole Owners oF ARAB PLUG! The Best and Most Attractive Goods on the Market. Send for Sample Butt. See Quotations in Price-Current. Chey BOOT PLUG Tohacc AND GET A PAIR OF BOOTS. BOOT PLUG Is anew brand of Tobacco, with a new sweet flavor that can not be excelled. Chewers who have given it a trial will take no other. The Consumer Gets the Boots We pack a TIN ORDER in one of the lumps in each Butt which is good for either one pair of heavy No. 1 Kip Boots, or one pair of Fancy Calf Boots, or one pair of Calf Button Shoes. EROoOVV TO GET THE Boow?;Ts. Send the Boot ‘Order with size wanted, Name, Town, County and State plainly written to the undersigned, and they will forward the boots by the next Express. DON’T FORGET TO MENTION THE KIND WANTED. Charles W. Allen Gompaly, Tobacco Manufacturers, Canal and Monroe Streets, CHICAGO, ILL. FOR SALE BY ALL FIRST CLASS JOBBERS. JENNINGS & SMITH, PROPRIETORS OF THE Arctic Manufacturing Co., 20 I:nyon St., Grand Rapids. ASK YOUR JOBBER FOR Jennings Flavoring Extracts, — AND———_ Arctic Baking Powder. me. FATUAS, Wholesale & Commission—Butier & Egos a Specialty. Choice Butter always on hand. All Orders receive Prompt and Careful Attention. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 97 and 99 Canal Street, - Grand Rapids, Michigan. See Our Wholesale Quotations else- where in this issue and write for Special Prices in Car Lots. We are prepared to make Bottom Prices on anything we handle. A.B. KNOWLSON, 3 Canal Street, Basement, Grand Rapids, Mich. STRAIGHT GOODS--NO SCHEME. CH Ei W > RED SS STAR PLUG. John Caulfield, Sole Agent. SSRI & COMPANY, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN Staple and Fancy DRY GOODS, CARPETS, MATTINGS, OII, CLOTHS Tc. ETC. 6 and 8 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. AN - ] ‘JOYIVIC OU} UO ONIHL LSALVAN OUL 4 i Covered with Tin. A GLASS C ——FOR SALE BY—— urtiss, Dunton & Co, Woodenware, Twines and Cordage, Paper, Stationery, Ker- osene and Machine Oils, Naptha and Gasoline. 51 and 53 Lyon Street - Grand Rapids, Mich. JOB PRINTING. © The Tradesman office has now first-class facilities for doing all kinds of Commercial Work, Such as Letter, Note and Bill Heads, Statements, Cards, En- velopes, Blank Orders, Circulars, Dodgers, Ete. NEW TYPE, NEW PRESS, CLEAN WORK, CEO. N. DAVIS & Co. General COMMISSION and Brokerage, For all kinds of foreign and domestic FRUITS, PRODUCE, and MANUFACTURED GOODS of every description. | Having been in business in this city for the past twelve years, and having an exten- sive acquaintance with the Wholesale and Retail trade-in this vicinity, we are able to give our shippers the benefit of our long experience. Any goods consigned to us will have our best, attention. We have STORAGE vw over FIFTY carloads, either for light or heavy goods, and will furnish same for any length of time, at reasonable rates. If, at any time, there should be anything in this market you should wish to purchase, no matter what it is, we would be glad to correspond with you. 71 Canal Street, Grand Rapids. @, a 7 i ; t i { i } oe Dairy Matters. Michigan Dairymen’s Association. OPganizea at Grand Rapids, February 25, 1885. President—Milan Wiggins, Bloomingdale. Vice-Presidents—W. H. Howe, Capac; F. Cc. Stone, Saginaw City; A. P. Foltz, Davison Station; F. A. Rockafellow, Carson _ City; Warren Haven, Bloomingdale; Chas. E. Bel- knap, Grand Rapids; L. F. Cox, Portage; John Borst, Vriesland; R. C. Nash, Hilliards; D. M. Adams, Ashland; Jos. Post, Clarks- ville. Secretary and Treasurer—E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids. € 2 : Next Meeting—Third Tuesday in February, 1886. Membership Fee—$1 per year. Officiai Organ—THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Cheese Factories in Michigan. The following is a list of the cheese factor- ies,in this State, so faras known. Those cog- nizant of other factories, or of any errors in the present list, are requested to notify the Secretary of the Michigan Dairymen’s As- sociation, as it is desirable that a complete list be published in the forthcoming report of the Association: Mnrk taker 6 Co... . oo. ose ee Adrian G: 8: Horton... 8... 0.4... .2. 22.2... Adrian Alexander Lobban (Davison).............. Atlas Ac P. Foltz Gtiehfield).... 0.00. od Stlas Theobald Rottach.................. Anchorville eae. MONRO. 65. ee Anchorville Hiram Barrows......................... Armada ipopoid Mayer......... 5.2.2.2... 06. Athlone E. F. Preston...... bee ees Bismarck Warren Haven & Co.............. Bloomingdale Frank Wilmot (East) ............ Bloomingdale G. D. Scofield (South)....... .....Bloomingdale ——— #@nGersONn........... 55... Brockway Martin Wait & Sons................ ... Butler Sea Capac pose cass ses---sO08F SPLings Be S- SAVARC. 3 Coopersville So. ea. Mastinueh _..-. 06... 8. Croswell J. 4, menderson. . Croswell James Skinner (Star)........... Davison Station sncop Beller. oo oo Detroit Regenmorter & Demstra............... Drenthe Hibert Wiikinson.....................2.. Dundee wsien Miller... ... Eckford Durtee © PIN... sc Elm avas WaGy. |... Elm Wildy. © Keaton... os ee Elm M.S. Doyle....... oes each ee cee Elsie W. H. Smith (Old Fairfield)............ Fairfield B. E. Peebles (Peebles)................. Fairfield Bulan Gawer.... .... 2.5... se Fairfield Theodore Rottach..................- Fair Haven Wvan ANITA Farmington Calvin Lapham............. ge. Farmington Bamuel Locke | ...-..5...5..05..05 Farmington Aver POWEr:.. 2... 6... Farmington ASR SINIGN: cae Farmington Daniel Richards (Burton).................. Flint We. U5OlVeEr.. Fostoria ag TAMPERE Cr... 5 Frankenmuth Otto Herder (Original Fairfield)....Fruitridge semps Wepp.-. oo. 6.03. 3. Goodsells Frank E. Pickett (Coldspring)......... Hilliards 8. M. Eggleston (Springdale).......... Hilliards K. B. Edgell (Springbrook).... Hopkins Station sel MNO. 3 ee Tosco Jas, A. Dunbar (Dunbar)..........:...... Jasper B. Davis & Co. (Amboy)........:......... Jasper a, A. Beldon.......-...... ... Judge’s Corners SeOOSIN 25.2 2652s 5-8. L ivonia Be JORMA Livonia Bamuel WGC. ....... -. 8... Lowell isynn Cheese M’f'e Assm................ 2. Lynn eek sya ec Mason A 3; Colvin (Medina)... Medina Oe ee ee es .Morenci eur Pelerim... 2... New Holiand Walter Bosrdwell..... 2 Olivet oa. TIBWOIG.... 5... Parshallville a oo ow oe oe os bo ope soc bes so c5 ss Partello WA Smith... Plank Road John Varsen........... ool ebe sacks Plank Road Raisin Union Cheese Co......... Raisin Center Cheese and Butter Ass’n.......... Rawsonville Fuller & Gleason...................-. Richmond Peter Blake. |. oo 5 River Bend Wells Drone & Co.... 02... Saginaw GW. War 3. St. Charles ote. WAS os Salt River Davis & Brown... .........02.2. South Fairfield a oe. SOUMEOR oo. Sparta Center PIrgher es DUPAR. 8... ict Stark Geo, Wear... Tyner HW. Dikeman................... Vermontville John Borst (Fa’rview)................ Vriesland Watson Cheese Co. .... 2.5.2... 20. Watson SOAS, NEN Wayland Geo. Wmiwell. 5... Wayland Leighton Cheese Association.......... Wayland Ae 0D. Winfield Mt, Haywood & Coe... Weston P. ©; Ostrander (Nile)... oe Weston F. B. Gurden (Riverside)................ Weston Geo. Delano (Raisin Union)............ Weston Davenport & McIntyre.................... York Richard Redhead (Amber).............. Zeeland S. H. Oatman (Clover Hill)............. Zutphen Idle factories at Saranac (Rathbun), Salt River, Reese, Mt. Morris (Vienna). Creameries in Michigan. The following is a partial list of the creameries in this State. Those knowing of other establishments of the kind, are respect- fully invited to make the fact known, as it is desirable that a complete list appear in the forthcoming report of the Michigan Dairy- men’s Association. Brooks | Smith... Nashville Moe MOOK Portage Bi aK Bradley 5 Morel... Charlotte Centreville Creamery Co............ Centreville Lowell Creamery Co. ................... .. Lowell Potter & Harris (Maple Kiver)............. Ovid SRPOUSOINUM. Dutton ——_— eo Manufacturers of Dairy Appliances. The following is believed to bea complete list of the manufacturers of dairy appliances in this State: Buckeye Churn Co., churns............ Dundee Geo. Sinclair, cheese boxes........ Hudsonville Delaware Co. Creamer Co. -Benton Harbor Michigan Dairy Salt Co................ Saginaw J. Van Putten & Co., butter tubs...... Holland Flint Cabinet Creamery Co...... ......... Flint Aeme Manufacturing Co............ Kalamazoo Walter E. Ames, (butter tubs).......... Hudson a, da. Punk (churns). ...... 22... sek Sturgis —— 2 oo What Dairying Has Done for Iowa. G. L. Tremain, of Humboldt, Iowa, writes to Bradstreet’s as follows, relative to the ad- vantages of dairying over wheat raisiug; All northern Iowa was formerly a spring- wheat country, and, like others, had its pros- perous and its disastrous years. Very many of the mortgages then made were foreclosed, and the mortgagor went on west. “All wheat’? was followed by more corn, timothy, clover, and blue grass. Short horns and Poland chinas were introduced, and after a time it was found that first qual- ity butter could be made here. Farm mortgages multiplied—not that the mortgag- or would buy a self-binder and a steam- thresher, but that he might buy some divi- dend-paying cows, or build a creamery— foreclosures dropped off, and lawyers be- wailed the great falling off in business. I have been here in Iowa thirty-five years, have seen this country prosperous and also prostrate from our crop farming, but have never known a mortgage foreclosed ona dai- ry or a stock farm. 9 <> The Watson Cheese Co. is the name of the corporation which has bought Miles L. Gibson’s factory at Watson. ~ The Preservation of Butter. From the London Grocer. The question of preserving butter is one which has not been sufficiently examined. It was recently stated by a writer professing to the preservation of butter is the water which it contains, and it can be shown by al- most any analysis that an ordinary sample of good butter has in it a much larger pro- authority that salt had no preservative qual- | ities when mixed with butter. Professor Stewart, on the other hand, declares that : salt is preservativé inasmuch as it is a pow- | : erful antiseptic. One of the chief obstacles | : Is the best device ever invented for Quoting Prices. Advertising Arrival of Goods, Calling Attention to Old Ones, etc., etc. portion of this element than it ought to have. Everyone knows that water promotes de- composition through the medium of the oxy- gen and hydrogen which it contains, and | this results in the rancid taste which is so objectionable. Butterine which has been absolutely dried—which in fact, has had the whole of the water eliminated from it—can be kept equally as well as lard if it be pre- pared in the same way, but its flavor is not so delicious, although it is perfectly sweet. | $2.00 You can do more Advertising For the small sum of $2.50 by using THIS SIGN Than for $100 used in any other way. MI In the ordinary way water cannot be ex-| tracted from butter, and therefore if it is in- tended to keep, it must be salted, and in or- der to keep for a long period there is no plan equal to that of brining it when it is in its granular form, so that the salt permeats almost every particle; thus there is a com- plete intermixture, decomposition is checked, and the flavor is developed. It is quite common for the consuming public to ask a butter dealer for mild butter. In other words, they want a sample which has been properly salted, the flavor maintained and in which the development of that’ disagrea- ble taste which is consequent upon decom- position is not to be found. Salt has anoth- er effect, in adding firmness and improving the texture of the butter, for it will be read- ily seen that as the particles in a mass dis- solve they attract the water which the but- ter contains and thus make it drier than it was before the salt was added. Professor Stewart, who has made a number of experi- ments in salting butter, says that he can recommend pure white pulverized sugar which has been mixed with three times its weight of fine salt, one ounce of the mixture being used for every pound of butter. This improyes both the flavor and the keeping quality if the salt and sugar are completely dissolved. We endorse the Professor’s opin- ion that the best salt for use in a butter mak- ing dairy should be as fine as flour, and that then indeed it should be sifted in order to extract all the objectionable grains and for- ranges 25% Chart—-Patented February 19, 1884. teers Rare etrerset SS Every person on the street will read what you have to. say, because it is something entirely new, and ANY LIVE BUSINESS MAN CAN ATTRACT MORE CUSTOMERS BY THE USE OF THIS CHART Than in any other manner. Description: The accompanying cut represents the chart in use. | Size of Chart, 2 feet wide by 3 feet high, made of hard | wood, elegantly finished. The feet are so constructed as to be removable at will, and when removed the framecan be hung up on the wall or in the window. The letters are 2 inches in height, kept in a strong, neat box contain- ing labeled appartments for each letter. tains 300 letters, figures or characters. Each box con- place the upper edge of the letters in the groove in the under edge of a slat in the frame and allow the letter to settle down in the groove in the upper edge of toe lower slat. THE CHART Can be set up more rapidly than it can be printed.! +steamboat Express eign matters which it may contain. >_> Money Value of Refuse Milk. Prof. L. B. Arnold, in the N. Y. Tribune. A Cattaraugus county correspondent writes to the Tribune that in his dairy of twenty cows he cannot afford to keep pigs, but feeds all the skimmilk and buttermilk back to the PRICE OF CHART & BOX OF LETTERS, COMPLETE $2.50. Sent to any address on receipt of price. Make all Post Office Orders, ete., to Albion, Mich. Agent wanted in United States and Canada. HJ. Gortright, Gaul Agt, Duck Lake, Mich cows, calculating that ‘enough of this refuse | to make a pound of pork (worth 5 cents) will make a pound of butter (worth 3 cents).” This conclusion rather overleaps the mark. According to experiments of Professor Henry and others, 100 pounds of skimmilk fed to young and thrifty pigs will make at least six pounds of pork, and if ju- diciously supplemented with corn it might make more. The experience of dairymen in Chautauqua county has shown that when butter-making cows have had their skim- milk fed back to them it has increased their annual product of butter from twenty-five to fifty pounds. It is considered a good return for a com- mon cow, giving giving 4,000 pounds of milk in a year, to increase her butter yield forty 2 - pounds by having her own milk fed back to a her; in other works, 100 pounds of skimmilk y might be expected to add one pound to her yield of butter. With equal skill in feeding milk to cows or to pigs one might reasona- bly anticipate six times as many pounds of pig pork from 100 pounds of milk as he would get of butter by feeding the same to his cows. Which would be the more profitable would depend on what the pork and butter would bring. At the prices nam- ed by our friend, the income from each |’ would be the same. F. E. Pickett, the Hilliards cheese maker, writes THE TRADESMAN as follows: “The patrons of Coldspring factory, at Hilliards, held their annual meeting on March 14. F, E. Pickett was elected secretary and sales- man, and A. Tanner was elected treasurer. {it was agreed to pay the same price for manufacturing as last year, viz.: 114 cents per pound for cheese, the maker to furnish everything and deliver the product on board the cars. There was received at the factory last season 767,088 pounds of milk, which, after being manufactured into a fine quality of cheese, was sold. for $8,169.92, which * CPURE \ Oranges, Lemons, , \. Bananas, Figs, Dates, / Putian & Brooks, Wholesale Mannfacturers of CANDY | AND DEALERS IN NUTS, / eT C. gave good satisfaction to the patrons.” SALT. ONONDAGA F. F. SALT Sole Manufacturers. AMERICAN DAIRY SALT CO. (Limited.) Chemically purified and WARRANT- ED pure as any in the market. Used by a great majority of the Dairymen of the country. Un- excelled for Butter, Cheese, the Table and all Culinary purposes. Got medal at Centennial | “for purity and high degree of excellence.” | Dairy goods salted with it took first premiums | *™ at New Orleans World’s Fair, N. Y. Interna- | tional Fair, Milwaukee Exposition, and always | : BEE * A : PORTABLE AND STATIONARY wins when there is fair competition. It is! American, and CHEAPER and BETTER than any | GC} INT S foreign galt. Try it. Address | EG INT : L ES J.W.B arker, Sec’y, Syr acuse, N.Y. | From 2 to 150 Horse-Power, Boilers, Saw Mills, | Grist Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shaft- jing, Pulleys and Boxes. Contracts made for CREAM TESTER. ! compiete outsts. : With six glasses for testing six cows’ milk at | \7G7, Cj. Denis on, same time. Price $1; large size glasses $2, either free by mail. Agents wanted. Circulars 88, 90 and 92 South Division Street, GRAND RAPIDS, with full particulars for stamp. L. EDSON, Union Center, Broome Co,, N. Y¥. DETROIT SOAP CO.’SsS QUE SOAP IS NOT EN ANNE A (“smash up the clothes boiler,” ¢‘throw away the wash-board,” “wash without labor’) Soap; is not A (grand piano, gold watch, house and lot with every bar, “save the wrappers’’) Soap; is not A (towel, napkin, dish-rag, dry goods store thrown in) Soap; is not A (here to-day and gone to-morrow) Soap; is not A (sell a quarter of a box, and have the balance left on your hands) Soap; BUT IS The very best article in laundry and general family Soap ever put on the market. Big and lasting trade. Good margins to dealers. Grocers, if you have never tried ‘QUEEN ANNE SOAP,” buy a sample box and you will always continue to handle it. CODY, BALL & CO, Wholesale Agents for ‘Queen Anne’ and all } - MICHIGAN, of Dztroit Soap Co.’s Standard Brands. f Grand Rapids. TIME TABLES. er The Niagara Falls Route. AS fe DEPART. i SDetrort Express... 2... 2... ec ccs ees 6:00am PPD ay EX DEOSS. 6c. ook ee ess 12:45 9m | tAtlantic Express...................005 9:20 pm ARRIVE. *Pacitie Express. .-. 2:2. 1.25 ..ec se: 6:00 am re oe 3:20 p m | tGrand Rapids Express............... 10:25 p m i Daily except Sunday. *Daily. | Sleeping cars run on Atlantic and Pacific | Express. Direct and prompt connection made with | Great Western, Grand Trunk and Canada | Southern trains in same depot at- Detroit, thus avoiding transfers. The Detroit Express leaving at 6:00 a. m. has | Drawing Room and Psrlor Car for Detroit, | reaching that city at 11:45 a.m., New York 10:30 a.m., and Boston 3:05 p. m. next day. A train leaves Detroit at 4 p. m. daily except | Sunday with drawing room car attached, arriv- | ing at Grand Rapids at 10:25 p. m. J.T. ScHuLtTz, Gen’l Agent. Chicago & West Michigan. eaves. Arrives, PPMP o.1 oe 9:15am 4:05pm UtDay Hxpress....:.:......: 12:25pm 11:15pm | Night EXpress............ 9:35pm 6:00am | *Daily. tDaily except Sunday. Pullman Sleeping Cars on all night trains. | Through parlor car in charge of careful at- | tendants without extra charge to Chicago on | 12:25 p. m., and through coach on9:15 a.m. and | 9:35 p. m. trains. NEWAYGO DIVISION. Leaves. Arrives. | Pepress... 0... <2 55... -. 8. 4:15pm 4:08pm PEPMBROSE (0500 0e eee 8:05am 11:15am | All trains arrive and depart from Union De- po | The Northernterminus of this Divisionis at | Baldwin, where close connection is made with fF. & P.M. trains to and from Ludington and | Manistee. J. H. CARPENTER, Gen’! Pass. Agent. J. B. MULLIKEN, General Manager. t. a Lake Shore & Michigan Southern. (KALAMAZOO DIVISION.) Arrive. Leave. | PODEGRS. (0 oi 7:00pm 7:35am | MME 9:35 a m 4:00 pm All trains daily except Sunday. The otrain leaving at 4 p.m.connects at | White Pigeon with Atlantic Express on Main To set up a line, | Line, which has Palace Drawing Room Sleep- | ing Coaches from Chicago to New York and | Boston without change. | The train leaving at 7:35 a.m. connects at | White Pigeon (giving one hour for dinner) with | special New York Express on Main Line. | Through tickets and berths in sleeping | coaches can be secured at Union Ticket office, | 67 Monre street and depot. J. W. MeKENNEY, Gen’l Agent. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee. G OING EAST. Arrives. Leaves. Lasele 6:20 am |#Through Mail............. 10:15am 10:20am | tEvening Express......... 3:20pm 3:35pm | *Atlantic Express.......... 9:45pm 16:45pm | tMixed, with coach........ 10:30 a m | GOING WEST | (Morning Express......... 12:40pm 12:55pm i PPbroush Mail. -........-. 5:19pm 5:15pm | tSteamboat Express....... 10:40 pm b PMIROG 5 05.5.2 e se TJ:lvuam 5:30 & m | *Night Express............. 5:10am tDaily, Sundays excepted. *Daily. Passengers taking the 6:20 a. m. Express | make close connections at Owosso for Lansing | and at Detroit for New York, arriving there at | 10:00 a. m. the following morning. | oe Cars on Mail Trains, both East and | West. | ‘Train leaving at 5:15 p. m. will make con- | nection with Milwaukee steamers daily except | Sunday. | Themailhas a Parlor Car to Detroit. The | Night Express has a through Wagner Car and | local Sleeping Car Detroit tc Grand Rapids. | D. Porrer, City Pass. Agent. GEO. B. REEVE, Traffic Manager, Chicago. Grand Rapids & Indiana. GOING NORTH. | Arrives. Leaves. | Cincinnati & Gd Rapids Ex 8:45 pm | Cincinnati & Mackinac Ex. 9:20am 10:25am | Ft.Wayne& Mackinac Ex 3:55pm 5:00pm | @’d Rapids & Cadillac Ac. 7:10am | GOING SOUTH. | G. Rapids & Cincinnati Ex. 7:00am | Mackinac & CincinnatiEx. 4:06pm 4:35pm | Mackinac& Ft. Way: eEx..10:25am 11:45pm | Cadillac & G’d Rapids Ac. 7:40pm | All trains daily except Sunday. | SLEEPING CAR ARRANGEMENTS. | North—Train leaving at 5:00 o’clock p. m. | has Woodruff Sleeping Cars for Petoskey and Mackinac City. Train leaving at 16:25 a.m. has epeines Sleeping and Chair Car for Traverse ity. South—Train leaving at 4:35p.m. bas Wood- | ruff Sleeping Car for Cincinnati. i Cc. L. LoCK woop, Gen’! Pass. Agent. Detroit, Mackinac & Marquette. | GOING | GOING GOING ; eer SPATIONS. Mere Ac. | Ex. Ac. | Ex. } I aay | 4 50,Ar. Ishpeming Dep.} 1 30 ie M.| £40000... Negaunee.........| 1 40; A M. 6 50| 3 30]........ Marquette ........ 2 20) % 30 308 B21)... Reedsboro ....:. ; 4 19\11 05 412 00.A Q cs 5 45) 110 11012 15D manles A| 5 30/12 40 EE 25) FE 02)......-.. Newbury :2.. 22: 6 38) 2 40 7 30/A M.| PM. | 8 30|\Dep. ....St. Ignace....Ar.}09 00) 6 30 |_7 00|Ar. Mackinaw City Dep.) 9 30 \P M.!} | 900 Dep. Grand Rapids Ar.| 7 00 AM.| Gabo =e: Detroik -- ee: 3 30 Connections made at Marquette and Negau- nee with the M. H. & O. R.R. for the iron, gold silver and copper districts; at Reedsboro with a daily stage line for Manistique; at Seney with tri-weekly stage for Grand Marais; at St. Ignace with the M.C.andG. R. & I. Railways for all points east and south; also daily stage line to Sault St. Marie. F. MinLican,G. F. & P. A. THE COOLEY CAN, Improved by the Lockwood Patent. 3 I Used in the creamery for butter only, they paid the patronsin July, 1884, 60c and the skim- med milk per 100 ibs. Lowest price of the year. In the creamery for gathered cream they paid the patrons from Ilse to 27e¢ per cream gauge for the year 1884. In the factory for but- ter and cheese they paid the patrons $1.75 per 100 ibs. average, for the season. They show better results in dollars anti cents than anything : yet invented. Write foractual work- Hid GS ing figures furnished : by successful creamery men of known reputation, who have used them as above. SOHN HOY D, Sole Manufacturer, 199 LAKE ST., CHICAGO. a Grind your own Bone, Meal, Oyster Shells, WiGRAHAM Fiour and Corn Winthe SS ELAN D DELTsT (F. Wilson’s Patent) 100 per — cent. more made in eeping tale try. ‘Also POWER MILLS and RM FEED MILLS. Circulars and Testimonials sent on application. WILSON BROS., Easton, Pa. ae clea aes “G ri Ge ICS. H hear rres Ro ow that ae vravondnee =o — ae was sto Chie cer. Ss exas § rs are ae man wh played b ry last ago Gro am Ra iftings Supported It hg kee y two t week of cer. Rev. P thbun, aG in was to ps a st hugs a tri ower , a Galv: Texas. fellow Id to m ore on § on an old ao. s, asked hi ee | : of th s who h e about eventh d Ger- “Poor is your ch him: rocer, meeti WHOL in ront ndin : oe "IM asin rly. gon?” Fraz - CE 0 : th g, all of of gont wo y lan g. Lh . Th . 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Lam t bu find ons ask ocerie you ¢ aan ee “110. | ae oo 3h A oes eee 3 25 do" Besa... 19) Holland Mi plug a ee meet oeteene &¢ ind nk entiath ss such 7 ae aA 3 from an Succotash, Sebi 90 N wel, 25 Db oo a ros. om 4 a Pi do oo BT ee oy wee erkir IDES ee 9 eo é to have ed wi men t 1e fol SITIN 1 my matoes. eee 1 8€ ae ) bars a ee oo 4 0 oe 1p 55 Mail n Agi ea 16} G@ as & He » PEL certs @ vineed the C chan ith bo ai lowi NG B es, Red ae - eset ool a 35| Ki Pouch. 16 | Part ee = an my hi ged th g ord narket ing retai UYE Bost ee io Pal meri ae ee Holl r He ee 51 F ight oh. 16 | Far Pass GAS AND @U can yself cago my opi oods aon duri tail d RS a on i Se ca @ bane ee eee Ouch | Wall ore @b6 OT bg srieabe sell tha mark opin s witl ring t Aalsa Baker's :.-.. ee 12 oe ne ae ee bat oe OS Pipe ae leeced. @T Ica aah ae Chi ce t yo ott son i ie 1 the he i ers I Baker's o.oo eres 20 Mast ock lock hinge @6 Solid Qeveeseeeieees 26|D ney B ipe rr. 3 Dry ured pee 7 Cs . Ss: ° cag leap ur wi , bavin n| H . Cave vario past w have vi OB geecce sonst 36/G es 90 Ste er, ae ca 8, pl ee @5 Red BA aoc ees 22 urha Ges 30) ki hides and AG 8 | alf ski & I 0 doe , and holes g cor A M. H nder, C us ho eek a visited ee 38 Mionns -++. 100 ee 0-34 Tb kes nLOeKS...- +... @ 15 Clo mfort oe ae Bee ey at ae pane @ 8% oF eine ndi s—th sell , ale i n- 7 R.B arrour ; Croto uses: nd pl G a ae 35 jenn n Swe C arseil ’ 100 cake: ae 5 15 M mort... P Old 7 Durhs B. & peer ee 14|De cured. green frei ana Rai anks t as go 1ouse .F aug a, MeL n. : aced see ae cor Fren a Swe oes otton on Sandan per. @ 5% aa 30 Gol ade ye oe hearli —¢ oe acon skins, ght ilro oO th od go S R. H. {finer Co. Ni ane Green ava se . LI@1L FFEE ch Sw Bt 2 Laut : Oil, white C8 cereeee ce te @ Ris Hiaw: ar oo 32' Ni denF sees Ss .25@26 m lings s 12 pie skins. @16 to si rates ad C e Gra. ods a: R Lv , Bon: irvan Roa: ‘Mocha. . 1i@? 4 |Roa eae 53| ae oF Dil, white, cakes a. ee @3 4 | Old atha...... ake lake,cabit a er ski pur Coft i ne 15 M dock «...2.2.2.5- weceerneees = Colds emis €05 J aidaievill 7 J: ; Freeman, Lis) Gr J FLA ae 7 00 “ 6 tb ara pure lee Gum Oo ffee, we ee os 8 Pi Mio oo eve ceeteeeneses 1 %5 pring Cres ee cde tod M G. Benbow, ee ove. ennings’ 2 ee Poe 259 |M 1 tb DkES., puree ia @6 Gum, Hahbe Ve Cosas 15@25 Mackerel. aes 110 ge ioe sea He find OW c one 6 202 een ae 90 Muzz ; pk ro) “ lo cs DB u , Rub r 100 Goes @13 itefi 2 vost nti 5 n Tne egtth® ae aha Seas 2 Bec: ea 1 1ZZY Glo (Bul gs., C Oss... @6 2) m,S ber eh see sees % gid 9 ak —— eee M. ee Hanley = “Gor. cette femén : Ot a oss ae oe on as eta Tumps. 2.00...) 80 oe beeneene i aiad as be ocery = eee es Sprit eCoy, Gra waste ‘ os aout aati “s e ae ae eotec: Sues a8 Peas. reen eee is certs 1 25 Ap cou fe Ses good en fai Mark vue | i ring & Lit Cro navies. Ae pia co “3 00 ia) oy ee @8 Powd Split Yoh. eevee sees ee @30- oth bess slag 5 are fir duri ir and et. rhea indl = “ No. ea 1 50 a Corn, ! owen @s \F Bee cc - _ @A0 her r care ee ae » m ng th col piborn & ee Bai ee pitaper RITE mR ee SS Cees @6 otner ae Be ag . 30@: @s ee ee 9 the i er and e lecti Put rn & C Hemi ailey ee 4 ilbert’ peo ed [ee @35 . rieti nd hi CE ‘npr a trifl past = in i Pp ienam . ne jase. a 1 nua ces 4 00 te ener @a% oe @4 0 Bu ies readi igher. . stron oveme e higl eek nave Siesc Wel Barn nioe Oak Gra ae pon. = 5 00 “ ge 1 gp @1 ° ckwh ily con Baldwi g, wi nt in gher, 0 . Coff sicton & Lil Sh spar oa nt. a Daal ca ee aut © CAN oe Qos Bean eat—$2 baat oe Th ith am trad , On ac ees ibble Lille aytow eaeioe OS A an : 3 00 “ pene oe @b% utna NDY beteeneeeeees @ gy, | choi s—Unpi 2.50 8 andin and e or ark e T count Aaro Poona, Pes er Co Ao 7 BO) Ne ryste oo @ v4 mn & Bre oe @3 50 ice pi npick ewt $2.75 advan ange t ed up omat on “Gunde Bur aber C ., Lon Appl 8, Michi ee 15 aCe Corn .? hb grees 634 Strai rook ITS A @1 9 $1.25 picked ed cong — cin rade i ward 0es Rapids Smi der, Z nip’s 0., Li g Lak A es, Dri igan Se 5 00 gara Lau 1B BT neces @5% alent 25 8 qu ND : } find = da g sl 1S tend are pids ith, F und Cor ille €. pple ried “ 8 see 4 25 ' L Bal i @ 74, rst , 25 ote NU Bu g00 and 5 crop! owly good enc C. H.. , Fost er B ners y P.O Che Sy Dri - evap., bbl 6 00 : aund Co. a6 Cut Le box STICK as fol 7S. utter— d sbi 5@ s Te an y- C. H. Demi a eee Societe ied, evap. 8 me Giare, 40 aie paige 5% oe a a low choic Dai ippi ee na a are he V da pri oy. prente , Black & itro , dried va ees toss, 401 ii ai — os ee ee ny ping dem - nd near al : price Cc er g, D ckm Co. Cur nm... ied, RD es bbbis.-......... at Glo » 401 8, 18 bulk... @4 Roy G0 esters: had i rolls fin de na na and Palermo aco on tia E Ca» Bangor. eee a a cite oe i oi oa eens in ens nds slow mand at tion nia fruit promise 1austed lori- Chas. Hanson sheng » Big Peni ic vee oe ae 2 Loss, 6 Lox, stiawea. 2. B3% Extra, Ee ree. ee on mat a setenor e at 16G1% aoe the Calif _ ee st good ee ville. foe Bo iy oe Beanas, eee oe Cut Peete a6 eee ae Gis for _ 22¢ srs oa poe fe : for e vari ornia m p p, al Na; on, C ros., M Prunes, Fre id B16 | Cu Loaf suG age a5 | gut Specs cor LD georee pa nile d cree oo ge iety f oran resent : 9 so Beet &E arroll ’ orley Rai ins, be ase ee IB essen pe eee @4% Pp “Sy aagea oo @b% ee ream, 235 oe 10@10 3eets— acked airy ‘ erear : ons are ot ie ges wi indice-| 3 glen 6 Toads & Robi ne a eS 2@13 ped ore | Br cao ies OO Ot ages —_ cae a go 8 are pres ill b a-| M Hulli Wasting Ca obin isins, on cag el ee wocgereeeeeeetirass oer eo ses Ag nan over ippi bar — = od d not ¢ sent e the M. V lin, sting ledoni son, Mi Sains, Galtgnac BOKER. 6. ees) @1 70| oe ee n, 200 ee @% Deal Se ping d = at 1 oe high emand oming i , at lea in| UE es) en , Middl pels 1c tanas.... Se @% | & anulnod Lem Bgge etoccc 1084 ere @ ed Goo oma aahe er. T “he g in fas a“ L. F Btu as. sig a e- Raisins, Loose eee expe Contecti ed, Standard ceeieeeteteeties @ Seu on Dr hse ccc ie Cabba uote choi od loc nd. a good he ban es are fi st, and Ce ae opis Lake. Hane 5 ndon Li seatels | 94@10 Standard A es ae Pe r Drops... peocouanns 13 Cel ges—% mece 5 a ‘ one ana s rm with| © attire een e. isins, De don ee Bin. te Bl pee / eae paseereeeeesetees @ 8% oe ae ee ae 1 Cc ery—15 5@S6 3 ock at ipping ing in , and seaso and a li sf Be ng Bro ckford. , Dehesi sAYCTB 5 sooo 8 at ee Tee @ 6% | # ocol PSone weg ts 1% hee 5@25¢ ® 100 =. dem fr the frui n a lit C.E. Cols 8., 1 rd. sias PB ee eeeeeeceee 10 | oe C. ee @ 634 M mee Bio : ne se—Mi cB di | Vers and Nut eely uit wi promi tle D 1&8 on, Al uamor ee Ree @2 Y eee @ 656 Gu Choc rops re “a ands 12 Michi OZ ery li : sae _ The wills ion ty sr. G.B or K ee it. ater Whi tener @3 50 ee 614 Li m meodate ji cco 1 at fr 12@13% igan f : ittle m sie abost nin on be 7 Pe Pes 3 ee oo & 20 prc @6 Licorice DS . rop oe 4 from 91 6c, whi ull er oving S. the y tra e@ co H.B nen ols,” isbo oo 123 EO oe RR ce @ 5 B Li Drops... Se 15 Cide A@I ile ski ee a sa de i m- . Bak an, Ze Ma on. ran %4 IL. @4 25 ee % | Lo icori oe 15 er—lb Oe. kim readi es - me, with . steady. Monty io Zeeland, Grand es “sro Test £ 25 Corn “ severe a ps ae Ee ae 16 cranberses gal. fo pp RB com . —— a Bay. go r08., Cedan i ava con MO: . oes aes ee Rie yes, print ee ‘ ie sees r i yo) iat Caniaatd, wha cared | ee Spring Grand Haven, No g, square ale pobte oe GB Mottoes Se i quarter Apples—E pocnnee bateele of soli ispens , who uae Sk r, Jen Imont Be a H ven Ne. 8; square... orn, ee ream es » | 28 3, 4@1%0. av forb ms cas e wi le Mr. J in, W nis : sh a , No. UTES ooo C 5 See M acereee tees oh ges—V 412€ auo el ao was ee cant ertere sath alr eon Qshikosh No. Be re a s| Bure ee oe ie ee AB fovepas ery plent rated, T@8e; comm aga Ww s af um » pr A e irk J wedish. Pe aus rou e.. "1 65| por ug gh or a ; ee ~.16 ol stew dé ntif as * this ci as the atte mer ol ey uds out Sac eee BAe 3 re Suna pe (Se 1@15 days mh t “— i city secon tr Ma x syst H, one Keley, Piers on, Ca eat ee 50| Pure Pee ero ceneeiteerteitanes 2 _ ade ieee ee: +15 Ho = s having he lar on mace a! 8 out . ae i, aos o. ©. Sead dtr ie nnonsburg tetova . 3 . : : : ere é . hiciad i : = e a Loat § Deve = FE | = a : : ee a : A ee aa a : ee eee LC or a igan ence ng forced . receipts y bu ne s n a le t0 J ron M sen, rd, Even : ich son’ 0.6 eee — 110 se a bbl @l Bur Roe ee ne: 14 Ho few are payi me peice of foie a ae oD tka ae i a ilehardsou N09 . eras ee a _ Suumr ripe... « gathers ox 35 2 ae 20 es 15e fo ge 8 grow i ; e, Spri nee nC ae i eS ; ee gS 0@ 38 ee 22 —Bai snewit : rb Caul 0 com » all of w ne ne a, Se . No. I Pe 27 pan - eee @ Lo gers 18 om iled, $ a cnr field e out hich xpensi | AW on g rp er. Bl Cee 2 9 | Japa ordin ‘e gal k 1 196 | L zeng oconananrt 18 ions—$: , $13@$14 comb i fich- T will di of th exp ive- M. He Blain, I Rockio P ack St pe 70 | Ja dae eo EAS ee @ % eee plai Bigger = Pop C 3B b S14. is fir HE TR dispe e retai ense Ja eyboer oe ‘orto Strap ooo 170 oan fin to good... : @1 8 Loze ges, pl in in oe oto orn— bl, fo m atl buy ADES. rse pri il dea has wat Tol er & B nD. r New 0 ea oe 255| X pan d eC... odo 5 | Loz nges, ain in pails es 22 al to Wer r yell a. ers MAN rinter’s i ler m. V a tede. Fait Ne RICO oe 1 ou es Choco » prin bbis..... oe a oe she ¥ Sarvs on < : wh for r’s i . M Joh Fe euion , Dre oni gi 5 | & Bega Recent inted i eee sane ib a dem ree, t rre inter ? 0 wil the nk fr r. 5 nD eul 8. nthe New rlea. ; good Ss unFP greece Gu olat 2 rint in pai Se P and ? hes d. ests 1 und be eely i One eS a en, B ee gunrowee rien 2q25 |S ropes ti ob i 13% otato - Ch upply the fa and b oubted nefit yin} on DeBri] Beare i ge H@l Cones, gorse Sas va Ueope ops, in pails. eee s@M | Son es—E pe en not rth uy W ly of cl S$. L. M ri, BY rand rDam fancy... betereeeteetss 6@18 ee 35 | Mo Coe in co ee 12 nt of a. ven com being est. her look ose f ponies yron estaceiag le is 40@50 | M i ba ree Ze . firm _ : See h e th to 180 olf, H Cent ven Ste ee —— = 15@5 oss rops, i rl 14% ther shar er t nds 37 is ca eir m their n, Ala Enon : St el cut “gyoning ee ae pis Sou Drop oe a parti n Stat p adv han b * mned oney C. F ska. nville es oe sees OATM ‘a - 48@50 Sta Se . 30@50 Im r Dro 8, In Ls oe 14. g cular es, a yanee i efor goods goes M H. Bi URNIT . olled ‘ut, % b ee e BAL .. O2@5 B te Se So < . -35@ RO vepaes ps, in es i%@ outh chang. thous in th e, on co r.G gelo URE Oat: bis... 50 f 5 rothe al.... eee @55@6 peri s, in eee 64 g | choi - De ge in gh the he © ae lumn ae sllman, Gilmar a. Choice ro 3 3 mae 48 tbs Bigg Grows - 60 nee PAIL 2 25030 Oran nee foe” es Eee aes ie aie lots, ah io Northern ie en F.J. Ande n, Wils : Choi ein ba: PI uaker 60 bs..... 2 0. K ud. own... . 82/Hi chles - Grances, M pes eae 9% P of busi ivered ae cag cue shan W ; Suita, Kes a son & Din ce in Tee a CKLES r bbls ee gp, | Our aes 58 Hiawatha be Lem ges, ee So ee 12 2 oultry siness on bo 2 to 35 of th ‘ Nich Kea riam: Co. y. Di gee’s ‘a do ed. oe .2 40 Pea ia 50\M obe ac. Fi ons alenci and Pals os 14 ens, 12 y—Ve ~ v ard c ) cent > e olso rne ont. 2 oun A ngee’ quarts _2 << ______ Utilizing Waste Sheet Metal, From the Philadelphia Bulletin. The Columbia Rolling Mill Co., of New York City, operates a process for the utiliza- tion of waste material in the sheet metal line in the production of taggers’ iron, such as is used for buttons, tags, and objects of like nature. The process consists in heating the material in a kind of oven or grate, which burns off all extraneous mate- rial and renders it suitable for further treat- ment. After being sorted the sheet metal is passed under a rubber-coated roll, which flattens it out, the rubber being used so that the sheets are not hardened, which would require them to be annealed. The metal, in packs containing a number of sheets each, is next passed between a pair of chilled-iron rolls, which reduces the thickness of the sheets. They are then annealed and re- passed through the same rolls and trimmed up to the finished size, after which they are given their final annealing, when they are sorted and boxed and are ready for ship- ment. a Porcelain Kettles. In an answer to an inquiry the Scientific American says: Iron ware is enameled with porcelain by first cleaning the surface free from moulding sand, then heating the arti- cles in an oven to alow red in the dark, or what is called a black heat, to slightly oxi- dize the surface and free it from grease. Then brush the powdered enamel mixed with water, and dry quickly. Then bake with a red heat. For the second or finishing coat, brush on the glaze coat and treat as the first. For the first coat make a mixture of sixty-six parts calcined flint ground to a pow- der, thirty-four parts borax. Melt these to- gether and pulverize, then add twelve parts potter’s clay. Mix the whole with water to the consistency of paint, and apply as above. For the glaze coat take fifteen parts borax, seventy-three parts: powdered glass, twelve parts soda. Mix and melt, then pulverize and apply with water. Bake at a red heat. Are a Going to RueI"e sa, Pal se 4yrf | é If so, send jor prices and jur- ther er Malton. Foolesten & Patton's A j PATENT aay” fy © Adjustable Ratchet Per * x AND Sgeer =——_Dratket Shelving Tous ay” Creates a NEW ERA in STORE FURNISH- Inc. It entirely su- persedes the old style wherever in- troduced. eae ae Sere oi, Es Satisf Guaranteed a SEI OIE NY " ea a AD, £ ls A BE 9c ae 1s if ag «fs infringe- Her x Ro ‘ ot ai qe pisces: ag Hae? 6 secuted. es . 4 R fe a a. ul Ub Ifnottobe D WW had from i i coon => your local iA MAI et inch ~~ Hardware ae ag saler, send your i i f Czsp orders di- Ui u rect to “Torrance, Merriam & Co., Manufacturers - TROY, N.Y. LUMBER, LATH AND SHINGLES. The Newaygo Manufacturing Co, quote f. o. b. cars as follows: Uppers, linch...................... per M “ 00 Uppers, 14, 1% and 2ineh................ 00 Selects; 44nCh.. ge ss dots 3B 00 Selects, 14,1% and 2 inch......... ...... 38 00 Fine Common, linch............. ...... 30 00 BhOD, LiNGNe 2. oo a ee ee 20 00 lage Common, 1%, 1% and ZINCR. 22... 32 00 No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., 12, 14and16 feet . 15 00 No.1 Stocks, 12 in., feck. 16 QO No. 1 Stocks, 12 in., PO TeeL oc oe. 17 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 15 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in.,18 feet................ 16 00 No. 1 Stocks, 10 in., 20feet........... .... 17 00 No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet...... 15 00 No. 1 Stocks, 8 in., 18 i Glee a seuicesss 16 00 No.1 Stocks, 8in., QVTOCb. <6... l eee ce sass 17 00 No. 2 Stocks, 12 i in., 12, 14 ond s feet 12 00 No. 2 Stocks, 12 in., 18 ‘feet. ... 13 00 No. 2 tocks, 12 in., SU TOCL.. oc heels es 14 00 No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 12, 14 and 16 feet..... 12 00 No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 18 i a ee oy oe 13 00 No. 2 Stocks, 10 in., 20 T6eC ee 14 00 No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., 2, 14 A 16 feet...... 11 00 No. 2 Stocks, 8 in., fleck... aoe A 00 No. 2 Stecks, 8in., 20 feet................ 13 00 Coarse Common or shipping culls, all widths and lengths......... ....... 8 00@ 9 00 A and B Strips, 4 or 6in ............... .. 33 00 C Strips, 4or6 inch. ..........4.-..-206 6s 27 90 No. 1 Fencing, all lengths................ 15 No. 2 Fencing, 12, 14and 18 feet.......... 12 o. 2 Fencing, 16 feet.......... 6... ..ec00e 12 No. 1 Fencing, 4 inch..................... 15 No. 2 Fencing, 4 inch..................... 2 Norway C and better, 4or6inch......... 20 Bevel Siding, 6inch, Aand B............ 18 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, C.............-...... 14 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, No.1 Common.... 9 Bevel Siding, 6 inch, Clear.............. 20 Piece Stuff, 2x4 to 2x12, 12 to 16ft........ 10 $1 additional for each 2 feet above 16 ft. Dressed Flooring, 6in., A. B............. Dressed Flooring, 6in. C................. Dressed Flooring, 6 in., No. 1, common. Dressed Flooring 6in., No. 2 common. Beaded Ceiling, 6 in. $1 00 additiinal. Dressed Flooring, 4in.,A. Band Clear.. Dressed Flooring, 4in., ME Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5 in., No. 1 com’ n Dressed Flooring, 4 or 5in., No.2 com’n Beaded Ceiling, 4 inch, $1 00 oe. ae 18 in. Standard Shingles. . : mass ped eel DOD Wei Wiowc Bass ASS 1610, Thin... 0.20... ies a RA GTS ee ete o.2 or6in.C. B18in. Shingles......... No. Zor 5 in. C. B. 16 in................... Lath SSsS8S SEES eon See ene ee ee a) er eg. \ = WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Steal, In. and nee G i sand larger. oo a Oe WM ee a ek so ek ences 14% Prevailing rates at Chicago are as follows: SQUARES. AUGERS AND BITS. Steeland Iron.................. cece. dis 50&10 Ives’, old style DO ee dis a0 oe BGOVOIR. fo coe aes a eee = 50&10 SU OO os oss oo ence ces eee eees S GY | PATE oe eee ee eee eee eens concen 8 peered Pe ie on che ae aD SHEET Con g in Com eee ec ese eee eee eee eee e eee. eerste eee m. moo a Gia | Noe Mto Mc. $420 $3.00 . RG ee se ais40&10 Nos. 15 to 17.21... ee eee ee eee 20 3 00 Jennings’, genuine Lo dis et be iol been neta teen esas ones : S 5 . ennings’, imitation........... ........ is . WE eee ee cece ee ereees ‘ e BALANCES. Nos ny EO 26 440 3 20 CoE 3 OdOdOoO CASES Sein oo cee cee dis 25 | NO.27............-.----.00+ esse eee 4 60 3 40 mee ‘ af Sieeae - Eaeee No, 18 and lighter, over 30 inches At the following low prices until fur- MAUPORG 6G a ee $ 13 00 | wide not less than 2-10 extra. ther notice. eee eee eee meee eee e eres see eeerer ee 2 SHEET ZINC. 7 7 P Garden. ori net 35 00 In casks of 600 DS, @ W..--..secceeee eee. 6 It is a good time to buy, as stocks of Canned Hand ey ee dis $ 60&10 In smaller quansities, MeO oe eee: 6% | Goodsare generally light throughout the coun- OW os ae TINNER’S SOLDER. : Se it in ti I i i = ee ee an os Now, Retined cnc eos rene 13 00 iy ee » Seen —_ * — si a I al ak a aries ne dis 9) | Market Half-and-haif...2 0000000000022. 15 09| line are without delay fully replenished. You Door. Bargent. dis 55 Strictly Half-and-half.................. 16 may rest assured that the dealer who buys his BOLTS. TIN PLATES. ie j TE ee ass ete Oe Seer SA rcs His celentoe cam cetita: Cease mow li8bie.. 20 dis 75 | IC, 10x14, Charcoal...........++-+-+++- Soe eee Oe compentor H eS ee one we “ B0sC te! EE cla - Ne : Pe wale ed ce Sie at ae = all Cast Barrel Bolts.....................dis 50 | 1X, 12x12, Charcoal ....... 8 50 Rapids nag pupae peer 2m Yr e ga Wrought Barrel Bolis.......2..2/1.1! dis 55|1C, | 14x20,Charcoal............ Gr ee For Eee. Cast Barrel, brass knobs............. dis 50 | LX 14x20) Oharcoal.........5...:.-... 8 50} 3 th Tomotoes, Standards our best brand 95 Cast Square Spring................... dis 55 IXX, 14x20, Charcoal....-..--- 0-000 005. 10 50| 3 tm Golden Pumpkin, Adrian............ 90 Cast Chain. dis 60 IXXX, 14x20, Charcool...- 0... sees 12 501 3 » Pie Peaches, Standards 110 Wrought Barrel, brass knob......... dis 55&10 IXXXX, 14x20, Charcoal isis che are aie ciots ciate les 14 50 2 is : Rae eter Se eee ee ate : Weoneny Square Regge ce dis 5&0 oa : moe Charcoal... bee ase dee ese : . 3% Yellow Peaches.......... .........- 1 65 Bee ee is 30 A Dr pena ests oa woes 21% tb i i ie Ss ards..... 2 Wrought Bronze and Piated Knob DX. 100 Plate Charcoal....0.00.0..0.004. 83 Sins a Seo ore a WAM ee 1100 Blate Charcoal..........-...-... MUU) eee ree eee Ives: Door... ee dis an DXXX, 100 Plate Charcoal................ 1250) 2% Blueberries... ...2.....2 2. 2. eee 1 30 BRACES. : Redipped Charcoal Tin Plate add 1 50 to 6 75| 2m Blueberries, Standards............... 1 40 IBOPOT oe ee ee dis $ 40 rates. 2 ib Pears, Erie Duchess, very fine 1 %5 Nate dis 50 TRAPS. foo alone pie Spotords dis Bj | tee, GAMEC 8... es. 2 tb Red Cherries, Evans, Day & Co., stan 1 00 Am Ball dis net | Onoida Communtity, Newhouse’s....... dis 35! 2 Red Cherries 85 BUCKETS. Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s. 60 5, eee ini Re ee ae Wale ror On a ee 60 | 24 ib Bartlett Pears, California. ..... veeee 2 65 Well Swivel 2. 2 8 6A 50 . P.& ae COs oss. ss. 3 ae: Yarmouth Succotash, large cans......... 1 35 BUTTS, CAST. OUSO, CHOKORs. 6 08 50. ee 5 see ws os 20c @ doz} < - Cast Loose Pin, figured............... dis 60&10 | Mouse, delusion...............--.-.4 $125 Bdoz| > pte oe Shs oe eae ee ‘> Cast Loose Pin, Berlin bronzed...... dis 60&i0 WIRE. ns a At See " Cast Loose Joint, genuine bronzed..dis 60810 | Bright Market....................... dis 60&1¢| ® ® Sweet Corn, Standard................ 10 Sone i arrai.| pupbt fast joint. as 50&10 | Annealed Market............. .....6+ dis 70| 2% Corn (common)...................+++- 15 Pca is. Coppered Market............. ....5+- dis 55&10| 9 Tie . 5 Wrought Loose Pin, acorntip........ dis 60& 5 Een Baring ee dis 55 DE ee ORR rent s Wrought Loose Pin, japanned........ dis 60& 5| Tinned Market. .............c.ccccccceees dis 40| 2 ® Peas, Soaked.................-...+.--- % Weve Loose Pin, japanned, silver _ aie a oe CO i 09| 2 ib Lima Beans, fine extra quality...... 1 Pe ee is inned Mattress.........................-B D 8%} 2 i 3 1 WroughtTable. dis 60 | Coppered Spring Steel...) a rs s rought Inside Blind................ dis 60 | Tinned Spring Steel..................s+ dis 37% | 1 Lobsters, picnics............-..-+.+.. 1 65 Wrought Brass Bes oe aul aie sees dis 65810} Plain Fence......................cce eee: % fb 3144| 1 I Columbia River Salmon, Booth’s.... 1 45 Blind Clark’ seo. oe i ee dis %0&10 | Barbed Fence................ 000. cece eee ce es 1% Sacramento River 1 30 Blind, Parker’ fg settee eee eee cece eens dis (0&10 | Copper. .:. 02.6.5 2... new list net ee ce ieee Blind, Shepard’s........:.......,.00.. dis WOVBrass. new listnet| | 1 Mackerel, Potter & Wrightington Spring for Screen Doors 3x2%, per gross 15 00 WIRE GOODS Standarde 00055000. 1 10 Spring for Screen ee 3x3....pergross 18 00/ Brioht......0.....00.0. cesses Ce dis %0&19| 1 Cove Oysters, Standards............. 1 00 Ely’ 0 per m $65 oo ee a Ga 2 ib Cove Oysters, Standards............. 1 80 Ee ee Be a oe ce & Gate Hooks and ‘hyes...... gas. 10810 \4 tb Sardines. 4s American............... 6@7 ee 60 WYrENCHES. 4 tb Sardines, 4s Importdd............... 13% ee CATRIDGES. ees See nickeled....... eis Sardines, mustard, large boxes...... 10 Gas eee sie shee cs ce cucis aces ov 2 as —_ - x: ae Sener new list 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought, ais 65 | Our celebrated brand of full cream im Fire, Unite DMCS. oe. 6. dis 50} Goe’s Patent, malleable dis 70 “Durham Cheese” 12 Centra: Fire.........-... SS dis % cnr iui Bia Kaiba 6 ae ees SELS. his a9 | Bumps: Clete... 55-5. ge eee - ee is 70 Soraws wom dist 8 No: I White Wish; pails. ............-.....- 95 socket Framing. ...................... dis 10) Gustess, Rediand Plate. (0.4 di 50 | No. 1 Mackerel, new and large 5 00 SookebCOrners... ... oc... se. cee ceees dis Wl Nomen fe : Ce es ; ; re ’ fate dis 0 mpers, American...................+. 334 |.No. 1 Mackerel, medium pails............. 69 Butchers’ Tanged Firmer............ dis 40 4 PA a : ‘ Barton’s Socket Firmers...........,. dis 20 Payne Bo Gayeling sponte, thus saving ie net SOLID OT BEI, COR APER || a large expense, enables me to sell cheaper COMBS. i ing di- lus dipienwte a ; than our competitors. Customers dealing di Po aia 25 rect usually find it more satisfactory, besides COCKS. ’ saving the annoyance to them of the drummer oo Racking’s............-.........-.. oe FORK S PATEN rE. system. Send in your orders which will have Beer .. oes : : ae Le i ee Co 40&10 prompt attention, and make your remittances WENN ooo eee oe oe 60 at maturity direct to the house. COPPER. l res Fully Planished, 14 Oz Cut 0 S120... ss... Db 34 ak’ ene x52, 14x56, 14 x60........... ee ee 37 DRILLS Morse’s Bit Stock.................... dis 35 Taper and Straight Shank............ dis 20 Morse’s Taper Sodnk................. dis 30 ELBOWS. lle 4 ere, OU eee cece doz net $1 00 IOTMURRLCE «62S oss oe dis 208&10 WY ka Adsgustable. oo. coe ek ee. dis %&10 olonnatoe EXPANSIVE BITS. Clar’s, small, $18 00; large, $26 00. dis 2 Ives’, 1, $18 00; 2, $24 3, $30 00. dis 25 5 A File A ation Li erica 5 oe a GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. NeW AMeCrNCan. .o 3. 6... 2b es ce dis 60 N ahoinen & Sy SS see ram et ae er ues dis 60 Hever s os cee ee dis 30 Heller’ : Horse Rasps: ...... 2.2.2 ..5. dis 33% GALVANIZED IRON, Nos. 16 to 20, 22 and 24, 25 and 26, a 28 List 12 13 14 18 a Discount, ae 45@10, Charcoal 50010. | a AUGES. Stanley Rule and ave! COPR ssc. : dis 50 HAMMERS, Maydole fee 8, dis 20 ion ea Bee es ee ke ees dis 25 Veukes RePMM So. ee ae 40 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30 ¢ list 40 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel, Hand..30 c 40&10 HANGERS. Barn Door Kidder Mfg. Co., Wood track dis 50 Champion, anti-friction.............. dis 60 Kidder, wood tra.k................... dis 40 HINGES. Gate; Clark's, 1.2, 82... os... dis 60 State: 20 ee es: per doz, net, 2 50 Serew Hook and Strap, to 12 in. 4% 14 PNG JONGOL oso ae oss oer ce eee 3% Screw Hook and Eye, % ............ net 10% Serew Hook and Eye %.............. net 8% Screw Hook and Eye %.............. net 1% Serew Hook and Eye, %............. net 7% Strapand ©. oes ee oe 60810 HOLLOW WARE. - Stamped Tin Ware... 2... 6... see 60&10 Japanned Tin Ware..................... 20&10 Granite Iron Ware.............200..000% 25 HOES. GO oe os ie oe, $11 00, dis 40 GUID 2.66 ee 11 50, dis 40 Grubs oe 12 00, dis 40 KNOBS. Door, mineral, jap. trimmings....$2 70, dis 6624 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.. 3 50, dis 6624 Door, porcelain, plated trim- MINS oo ee es list,10 1, dis 662g Door, ‘porcelain, trimmings list, 115 55, dis TW Drawer and ee porcelain ate dis 70 Picture, H. L. Judd & Co.’s.. ......... d 40 a i ee es dis 50 LOCKS—DOOR. Russell & Irwin go Co.’s new list...dis 6624 Mallory, Wheelnr & Co.’s.............. dis 66% ASPAN IOVS 55 os occ ries cee k cece a 6, ok, dis 662 WOrwalk8o..5 66 sco ak. oe, dis 662 LEVELS. Staniey Rule and Level Co.’s............. dis 65 MILLS. Coffee, os COZR. ee Se ee dis 40 Coffee, P .S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s oe dis 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’ Pea ue dis 40 Coffee, Mnterprise:. 22 2.5. eee dis 25 MATTOCKS. BOZO EVO. 2.2. eee as $16 00 dis 40&10 Pst WiVe. cos. 2 ss ee acs $15 00 dis 40&10 NES... es a $18 50 dis 20 & 10 NAILS Common, Bra and Fencing. 100 tO GOGo es ec es ce oe cee @ keg $2 35 Rd and 0.0 AAV ee es 25 GA and 10 BOW: sea ess 5 40-and' 5d AdV........-.0sc00% eee eee ds 75 BA AAVANOG. 62. aoe oars as ee ese 1 50 3d fine advance............ Rees, soe a es 3 00 UNC WATS HAV oe eee eek es 1 75 Finishing t 10d 8d 6d 4d Size—inches js 3 2% . 2 1% Adv. @ keg $125 150 175 2 00 Steel Nails—Same price as above. MOLLASSES GATES. Stebbin’s Pattern ............ccccccecceee dis 70 Stebbin’s Genuine...... 2... ee cece ee eee dis ‘0 Enterprise, self-measuring.............. dis 25 MAULS. Sperry & Co.’s, Post, handled........... dis 50 OILERS. Zine or tin, Chase’s Patent............... dis 55 Zine, with brass bottom............. .... dis 50 BYASS OF COPPOL. . 65 co. se. occ ce cect se dis 40 TRORDOU. ooo ae oe aces eae e cae per gross, $12 net OUNISTORO So i ares oaks 50 PLANES. Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.............-..005- dis 15 Bciote BOnGh: ou os oe eee dis 25 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.... ......... dis 15 Bench, first quality....................... dis 20 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s, wood and PANS. BUY, AOMO ss res os oe oe ee dis 50 Common, polished..................-.4. dis608&10 TODA. oes ics eee ee a es . bh 6@7 RIVETS. Iron and Tinned... .3.......2 00.6.4. Copper Rivets and Burs.............. dis 50810 PATENT FLANISAED IRO. “A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. vod to 27 10% “B’? Wood’s pat. planished, Nos. 25 to 27 Broken packs 4c ® hb extra. ROOFING PLATES. IC, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne........... ib 75 IX, 14x20, choice Charcoal Terne.. vee 1D IC "20x28, choice Charcoal Terne...... son Hy 00 Ix, 20x28, choieC Charcoal Terne...... pees i 90 Foster, Stevens & Co., Agts, The Hubert Patent Adjustable Horse Poke Foster, Stevens & Co. AGENTS—— 10 and 12 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. Send for Circulars and Prices. WILSON’S Cabinet Creamery and Barrel Churn AND ALL DAIRY SUPPLIES. To first pur- chaser in new locality, we will give special terms. The woman’s friend. It saves three-fourths of the labor in . butter-mak- ing; easily op- erated; you raise sweet cream from sweet milk: you have sweet milk to feed which trebles its value. Send for circular. Agents wanted. Address, FLINT CABINET CREAMERY co., FLINT, MICH. MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS Lumberman’s Supplies —AND— NOTIONS! PANTS, OVERALLS, JACKETS, SHIRTS, LADIES’ AND GENTS’ HOSIERY, UNDER- WEAR, MACKINAWS, NECKWEAR, SUS- PENDERS, STATIONERY, POCKET CUT- TLERY, THREAD, COMBS, BUTTONS, SMOK- ERS’ SUNDRIES, HARMONICAS, VIOLIN STRINGS, ETC. Particular attention given to orders by mail. Goods shipped promptly to any point. I am represented on the road by the fol- | lowing well-known travelers: JoHN D. MAN- gum, A. M. SPRAGUE, JOHN H. EACKER, L. R. Cesna, and A. B. HANDRIcKs. ' 24 Pearl Street - (rand Rapids, Mich. GRAND RAPIDS GRAIN AND SEED OO, SEED MERCHANTS, WAREHOUSES: | vecavars 7i Canal St., and “Cor. mises a Ionia and Williams 71 CANAL ST. Streets. GRAND RAPIDS, March 30, 1885. DeaR Strs—Below we hand you jobbing prices for to-day: Clov er, Choice recleaned.. ..60 ib bu 5 00 UNG oo oe oe aes 4 90 RO INO. Fee 5s kc ec es “ 4%5 2 Mammoth PPHHne: ©. 26. . 5 50 sO White... 2. i em 12 00 fC BAISVROG . oe... e. 25c # hb * 12 00 ** Alfalfa or Lucerne 2sc Qh ‘ 15 00 Timothy, OhOle@...: 251. ccs 45 ib bu 1 75 PING. 2 oe ce wees le 1 65 Hungarian Grass.................- 48 Ib bu 1 00 Millet, Common... ......2.-...6.2... Ge 1 00 German - 1 25 Hed Pop. 22500... .. 5.2 ee. 4fbbu 80 Vie GLeash. 222.) os. 5 2 00 Orehard Grass:.......2.:... 2.8: s 2 50 IUGR Wheat: 2c. 56s. ce 48 ib bu. 1 00 Peas, White Field.................. 60 i bu 1 25 Hye, Winter. 2.2... 2... 2 56 tb bu 75 Spring ............ +. ee ee ee eee 1 00 Wheat, Spring... 22... ccss of 1 25 Barley, Sprhige 23. os 1 75 Re Prices on Rape, Canary, Hemp aan "a other seeds on application. The above prices are free on board cars in lots of 5 or more bags at a time, Cartage on smaller quantities. We also carry the largest line of Garden Seedsin Bulk of any house in the State west of Detroit, and would be pleased at any time to quote you prices. All pels Seeds are spot Cash on receipt of W. 7. Lamoreany, Agt. If in Need of Anything in our Line, it * will pay you to get our Prices. PATENTEES AND SOLE MANUFACTURERS OF Barlow’s Patent Manifold Shipping Books. Send for Samples and Circular. BARLOW BROTHERS, GRAND RAPIDS’ - MICH. C. S, YALE & BRO,, —Manufacturers ot— FLAVORING EXTRACTS ' BAKING POWDERS, BLUINGS, ETC., 40 and 42 South Division, St. GRAND RAPIDS, = = MICH GRAND RAPIDS MF’ CO, MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF AGRICULTURAL MPLEMENTS | FARMING TOOLS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS. Dairy Implements a Specialty, Factory--Corner Front and Earl streets. Office and Sales- rooms--10, 12 and 14 Lyron street, Grand Rapids. 231 The Michigan Tradestal. SOLIMAN SNOOKS. Incidents of 2 Donation Party at the Cor- ners. Cant Hook CorNnERS, March 27, Mister Editer of Traidsman: DEAR StnR—Well, things are gettin set- tled back to just about the same old track, and I am gettin well and stronger, so I can make my letters longer. ‘ Bizness was a triffle better, when I wrote you my last letter. But since that time more cold and snow has made all trade a_ little slow. : Old Potts got home one day last week, but of his travels he wont speak; but we found out, oh! what a pitty, the old man never passed your city. It seems, if we have got it right, he struck your city just at night, and feeling rather blue and grim, he went and got a drink of gin. Still he felt a little low, and took a glass of beer or SO, which made him feel a triffle frisky, so he hada drink of whisky. ‘Two chaps came in, a lit- tle merry, and all hands took a Tom and Jerry, they claimed to be Chicago drummers, put were in fact,a pair of bummers, on the watch for somthin green as hereafter will be seen. They gave old Potts a lot of talk, and got him out to take a walk, out toa box car standing nigh, on the track of the G. R. & I., and roped him into a three card game, which looked so simple and so plain, that the sucker got on to the trick and won ten dollars right. off, slick. But somehow, then he lost his knack, and they won all the money back, and all the cash he had beside, and then away did softly slide. And furth- er, we have just found out, he shoved his shot gun “up the spout,” for cash to bring him home again and so good bye, to Mary Jane. Our donation come off on Tuesday night, I tell you twas a screecher. It netted seven 35, which we gave to the preacher, besides the lots of goods and things, too numerous to mention, which I will try and tell you of, pray give me your attention. At first I thet I’d write in verse and make a little poem, but I thot of that Detroit chap, although I dont kno him that said of all the verses he ev- er set his eyes on, that “Soliman Snooks’es takes the bun for literary pizon.” 1 think he called them ‘“‘arsenic” tho, which I think rather mean, and I wood not have cared so much, had?he said Paris green. Atany rate, I made my wind right up to write in plain prose, in a plain straightforward manner, as everybody kno’s, and tell about the doins, as plain as I can write, we had at parson Mugger’s on last Tewsday night. Of all the fun, beneath the sun, when I am well and hearty, oh give me, boys, the tender joys of a donation party. The friends appear from far and near with baskets of provision, and hand them out, withouta doubt to pay for their religion. The pres- ents neat laid at the feet of the beloved pas- tor, comprise all things from curtain rings to a roll of porus plaster. You bet your life that his good wife is also not forgotten. All sorts of goods from woolen hoods to that me roll of cotton. Old deakin Skinner eats no dinner on days we have donations. He does this so not to miss his whack and evnin rations. His wife donates a pound of dates anda pot of cur- rant jelly. It will not pay, the people say, for filling Skinners stomach. There is farmer Minns, brings wife and twins and some saleratus bisket. The yel- low things, the one that brings, wont eat, nor dare to risk it. Just see the pies! bless my eyes! dried ap- ple, mince and pumkin, too, and then such eakes the sisters make, frosted red, green white and blue. The girls and boys make lots of noise, running up and down the house, but the lovers all sit next to the wall and whisper still as any mouse. Just listen now and hear the row, the ba- bys squall like thunderation. Lets walk about and hear the ‘talk and listen to the conversation. “Why, sister Drew, how do you dew; I have not seen you ina year.’’ ‘Hello thar, Jake, good evnin, shake.” ‘Dont you think Mary’s hair looks queer?’ “Oh, what a bother!” ‘Just like his father.” “Jimmy, dont pull Jennies hair.” ‘For mercies sake, there Johnny Drake, “Only ten yards? well I declare.’ “Ob mamma, see!” “Come here to me.” ‘Yes, she is very good and pius.” ‘Who smashed my hat? just look at that.”” 1 think Ile cut mine on the bius.” Thus the humming of toungs a running, keeps up a perpetual din, till the tea is hot and the supper got, and then you bet we all rush in. The parson good says “Bless this food,” while all is hushed in adoration; but . at amen, we start agen and eat and talk like all creation. “Do youtakecream?” ‘Well I shood scream.” “Bro. Snooks, please pass the milk.’ ‘‘Will you please pass the ap- ple sass?” Don’t spill that tea on my new silk.” “Ile take some cheese, if you please. ” “Can we have butter down this way?” “Will Mr. Sickles pass them pickles?” “Just hear the younguns at their play.” ‘Have some butter, Bill?’ ‘“I gess{ will, havent had a bit to-night.” “Well, one good snuff will be enough.” “Jemima! I should think so, quite.” “This bread looks nice. Haye a slice?” “Is that pupkin pie played out?” “Yes; every pie, out on the fly; but here’s a bowl of sour erout.”’ Well, supper is done; now for the fun, the little ones come to the table, and mid laffter and din, they eating begin and keep it up long as they’r able. Says one old dame, 1885. “J think its a shame the way we haye clean- | ed things out, Sister Mugger must borrow for breakfast to-morrow, they’ve nothing but sour crout.”’ While the wimmin folks clean up the muss with many a smile and joke, us men go out in the kitchen, and have a social smoke. Then we gather in the parlor and the or- gan starts to blow, pumped by a pretty maiden of eighteen; and they sing Alleen Allanna, also the Starry Bannah and the Lit- tle Old Log Cabin by the Stream. Wilkins and the young folks want to start a dance, but such a wicked thing we coodent see. So we started “snap and catchem,” we knew that would fetch em, and hada real old fashioned kissin bee. I think Bro. Stowe that this is enuff non- sense for one catch; so I will close without telling you about ‘the splendiferus letter I just got from a beautiful young lady of Grand Rappids. She seems to be smart and dashing and she is going to the Travelin Mans ball. She says she knows Johny Mangam, and lots of the boys. She also says she has seen you and that you are an awful flirt; but 1 think the young lady is mistaken, she must have seen Fairchild, Beecher, or some of them fellows. 1 hope to see her at the ball, any how, if I can get to go to it. I must write to her I guess. Yours ever so much, SoLIMAN SNOOKS, G. D., P. M. and J. P. POLIVEIRA'S afisian Sauce ‘rezQ0dde UB SB [BALI INOYILA PUB ‘pL-IOM OY} UL dONBY 4S0q PUB JSOTyI Voy Ol} fod pus ojquivyed YuRIsBry JSOU OUT, ‘AJIUTOIA puv spidey puvary coy syuesy 90s ‘AWHSd 8 SNIXMVE 3 C Sl 41 POWDER This Baking Powder makes the WHITEST. LIGHTEST and most HEALTHFUL Biscuits, Cakes, Bread, ete. TRY IT and be convinced. Prepared only by the Arctic Manufacturing’ Co., GRAND RABIDS, MICH. SHRIVER, WEATHERLY & CO, Grand Rapids, Mich., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL IRON PIPE, Brass Goods, Iron and Brass Fittings, Mantels, Grates, Gas Fixtures, Plumbers, Steam Fitters, —And Manufacturers of— Galvanized Iron Cornice. [1760 Lox WILT AA | 1885 | Rose Leaf, Fine Cut, 3 Navy Clippings - Snuffs Jo! MUSKECON BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ORCUTT & COMPANY, WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION Butter, Hows, Cheese, Fruit, Grain, Hay, Beef, Pork, Produce MUSKEGON , MICH. A. W. MOSHER, Wholesale and Commission Dealer in Farmer's Produce, Butter, Hos, E CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. Pine street. - Consignments Solicited. Muslezon, Mich. 5. 5. MORRIS & BRO, PACKERS —AND— J obbers ef Provisions, CANNED MEATS AND BUTTERS. Choice Smoked Meats a Specialty. Stores in Opera House Block, Packing and Warehouse Market and Water Streets. APPLES! We have alarge Western order trade for Apples in car lots, as well as a good local demand, and also handle Evaporated and Sun-Dried Apples largely. If you have any of these goods to ship, let us hear from you, and we will keep you posted on market prices and prospects. We also handle Beans and Poita- toes. Liberal Cash Advances made on Dried Fruit, also on Apples in carlots. EARL BROS., Commission Merchants, 169 s. Water St., Chicago, Tl. REFERENCE FIRST NATIONAL BANE. CLARK, JEWELL & CO, WWELOLESALIE Groceries and Provisions, 33, 8 and 87 PEARL STREET and 114, 116, 118 and 120 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, . - - MICHIGAN. WM. SHEARS & CO. Cracker Manufacturers, Agents for AMBOY CHEESE. 37, 39 & 41 Kent Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. RINDGE, BERTSCH & CO. MANUFACTURERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN BOOTS AND SHOES. AGENTS FOR THE BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CoO. Our spring samples are now ready for inspection at prices as low as the lowest. We make a Gent’s Shoe to retail for $3 in Congress, Button and Bals that can’t be beat. 14 and 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Choice Butter a Specialty | Oranges, Lemons, Apples, Cranber- ries, Cider, Buckwheat Flour, Etc. Careful Attention Paid to Filling Orders. M,C, Russell, 48 Ottawa St., Gd Rapids. ——DEALERS IN—— NOS, 122 and 124 LOUISSTREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. PEREINS & HESS, Hides, Furs, Wool é Tallow, LEONARD & SONS. Importers and Jobbers of Crockery, Glassware & Lamps * 16 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. AGENTS FOR Knowles, Taylor & Knowles American W. G. Ware, AND Wedgewood & Go,.’s English Ware. Special Prices given on STONEWARE in Car Lots. The “GOOD ENOUGH,” 5:and:10 gal."OIL CANS. The “ EMPRESS” 1-2, 1 and 2 gal. OIL'CANS. Galvanized Iron Grocer’s OIL TANKS, $7.00 each. Engraved Globe Crimp Top Lamp Chimneys. “LA BASTIE” Toughened Glass Chimneys will not Break. We Sell our Labeled “ FLINT ” Glass Chimneys at the same Price others ask for Second Quality, when five boxes of any styles are taken. We deliver Lamp Chimneys, Stoneware and Kerosene Oil at any depot in this city free of Cartage. Send for our Illustrated Price List of Crockery, Glassware and Hanging Lamps, showing Package Lists and open stock Prices of our full line. AN D— Wholesale Grocers. BLANCHARD BROS. & CO ———PROPRIETORS——— MODEL MILLS. ——MANUFACTURERS OF —— Gilt Edge Patent and White Loaf Brands of. Flour. Good Goods and Low Prices. Bull Roller Process. . CoRNER WINTER AND WEST BRIDGE STS., - We invite Correspondence. GRAND RaApips, Mics. ae nes aeI