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PRIVATE OWNERSHIP.

Beyond any question the city of
Grand Rapids possesses in the tem-
perament and ability of Mr. Samuel
H. Ranck one of the highest grade
public librarians now in service in the
United States. Wide awake, re-
sourceful, energetic and resultful as
an executive officer, he sees broadly
and clearly as to the scope, purpose
and opportunities of a public library
and the consequence is that the Grand
Rapids Public Library is one of the
model institutions of that character
in this country.

But when Mr. Ranck talks of the
“unearned increment” of the water
powers in Michigan which are al-
ready or may be hereafter developed,
he is wading in beyond his depth.

“Unearned increment” is a_pleas-
ing phrase because it opens the way
for the tangles of the theorist, the
visionist and their dreams. A water
power, so far as the general public is
concerned, is very unlike unoccupied
real estate. A thrifty, careful man
who has a little money and is will-
ing to wait settles in a neighborhood,
a village or a city and buys a tract
of unimproved property and then re-
tires serenely to enjoy his leisure
while his investment increases in val-

ue. Meanwhile someone buys ad-
joining property, plats the same,
puts down pavements, sewers and

sidewalks, puts in water and gas sup-
plies and then erects stores and diwell-
ing houses. Then the sells the vari-
ous improvements and the original
settler in the neighborhood partici-
pates in the “unearned increment.”

That is to say, the chap whose orig-
inal funds were utterly inadequate to
carry out the improvements made;
the man who does nothing at alll to-
ward developing the improvements;
the man who would, had it not been
for the public spirit, the energy and
the money of patriotic business men,
have been satisfied to die with his
investment worth less than it was
originally, gets the benefit of the un-
earned increment.

On the other hand, the corporation
which exploits a water power takes
up a thing which, in its natural state,
is worthless, a veritable cipher. It
creates at large expense something
out of nothing. It dredges, blasts and

 

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1909

digs, it builds dams, puts in an elec-
tric power plant and a factory to util-
ize the power thus secured—perhaps is
required to build a railway on which
to bring in new material—it furnishes
employment for hundreds of men
and in many cases it develops an in-
dustrial center which becomes per-
petual. In doing all of this it de-
stroys nothing, because it is absolute-
ly impossible to annihilate even a sin-
gle drop of the original natural re-
sources, and it does not utilize a sin-
gle thing that is not paid for at its
full value.

According to Prof. Gardner S. Wil-
liams, of the University of Michigan,
the State of Michigan possesses about
500,000 horse power of water power.
Not only is the State too poor to im-
prove these water powers, but, under
present constitutional provisions, she
is not permitted to improve them.
Such a resource is valueless to the
State unless it is made available.

Along comes a man or a group of
men and they buy up flowage rights;
that is to say, they acquire, as a rule,
large areas of land which are fre-
quently so worthless that they are
carried on the tax rolls at a merely
nominal valuation. The farmers who
dispose of these rights frequently se-
cure exorbitant prices for the prop-
erty and chuckle over the way in
which they “socked it to the promot-
ers.” Then the purchasers spend large
sums of money putting in dams and
generating plants and at last comes
the perfect availability of a resource
worth millions of dollars in the ag-
gregate to the State.

Prof. Williams is eternally sound in
his advocacy of the private ownership
of water power facilities, and it is be-
yond any question that such owner-
ship will bring about industrial and
ethical conditions which, should the
State undertake the same _  proposi-
tion, would require at least fifty years
of effort. Private corporations pos-
sess the mioney and they are not
loaded down with a multitude of pur-
poses. The sole aim is to produce
large amounts of power; they  per-
form this work speedily, economical-
ly and well.

And what do they do with the “un-
earned increment?”

Ask the farmers along the rights of
way of these properties, the value of
whose farms increases from 25 to 50
per cent.

How so? The construction of dams
creates conservation basins or artifi-
cial lakes, by means of which floods
are harnessed and held for use as
needed. This fixture permanently
raises what the engineers call “the
water plane” and thus thousands of
acres of barren land, irrigated by wa-
ter coming up from the depths of the
earth instead of from the clouds
above, are made forever fertile and

 

Number 1322

valuable Wood lots are saved and
new areas of forestry are created.

Ask the villages and cities which
after years of innocuous desuetude
are awakened by the fact that they
are bceoming industrial centers; ask
the manufacturers and merchants in
Grand Rapids as to the value to them
of having water power electricity in
this city, increased—as it would be by
the construction of the proposed ship
canal across Michigan—fully 100 per
cent.; ask the people of Ionia, St.
Johns, Hubbardston, Maple Rapids,
Ashley, Brant, St. Charles, Chesaning,
Saginaw and Bay City tow they
would profit by the presence of cheap
power and cheap freight rates for the
handling of the coal and salt depos-
its in their neighborhoods—profits
which would come through the con-
struction of the Grand-Saginaw Val-
leys Deep Waterway. And all of these
values come to the adjacent property
owner, not because the invests, plans,
works, accepts risks, and all that, but
because some man or group of men
sizes up the possibilities, the cost and
takes the bull by the horns and does
things beyond: the power of the ordi-
nary individual.

 

According to Prof. Williams’ esti-
mate water power costs, undevelop-
ed, from $25 to $75 per horse power.
The earnings of this horse power, de-
veloped, are from $30 to $90 per horse
power per year. To operate this
power the cost is about one-half of
the income, leaving 50 per cent. with
which to cover interest, depreciation
and profit, or from $15 to $45 per
horse power for such purposes.

Prof. Williams also admitted that
the greatest present needs in consid-
ering the Michigan water power prob-
lem are a complete topographical sur-
vey and maps of the Lower Penin-
sula, so that the State may know ex-
actly what she possesses as to the
flow of all rivers and streams; the
various elevations, the watershed
areas; the location of ‘highways, rail-
ways, bridges and dams, the charac-
ter of soils and all the topographical
facts. Then we will know what we
have and may work intelligently to a
State plan by which the waters may
best be conserved and the power util-
ized and by which permanent protec-
tion against damages by floods may
be secured.

This topographical survey may be
made, under the constitution, by the
State itself; and not until such sur-
vey is made can intelligent effort to-
ward possible necessary legislation be
carried forward fairly.

 

No life is so short that it has no
time for good and kindly deeds nor
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ards.

I was looking over a lot of adver-
tisements the other day. Many of
them could also be adapted to use for
displays in show windows.

Here is one to set people to think-
ing about a store's reliability:

All
You
Need To Know
About An Article
Is To Know
That
It Comes From Us.

The following owght to augment
sales for the books it is intended to
boom:

Don’t
Throw Your Money Away
On
Books
That Can Not Benefit You
In
The
Least
But Put It
into
a
First-Class Encyclopedia

An entire window- of shining tin-
ware could have this card for a sug-
gestion to the buying public:

Window Brightness
For
Dull
Times
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And
See
How Well
We Can Do By You

Here is a card that might help in

a haberdasher’s window:
We Print a Cardi
Every

Correct Garments
For
Men
Step in and Get One

This was seen during a fierce thun-
derstorm:
Here’s a Tip
Don’t Get Your Dip
Wet
By the Torrents
Buy a Rainstick

of
Us
This for a big bunch of rubber
heels:
Walk
on

Kitty-Feet

Rubber Heels
Take All the Jar
Off
Your
Spinal Column
A harness dealer's window held
this placard:
Hold
Your
Horses
With These Lines
A
Whip
If You Need It
A florist’s window caused a smile
at the old familiar lines:
“The rose is red,
The violet’s blue;
Honey’s sweeet
And so are you,”
which were also once observed in a
delicatessen shop, inspired by a spe-
cial sale of the product of our little
winged friends, the bees.

In a stationer’s window I once saw
a great pile of pens—just pens. Over
this, suspended by dark threads from
the ceiling, was a card reiterating the
oft-quoted words:

The Pen
Is Mighitier
Than
The Sword
Be Mighty

A meat market had this as a re-
minder for the next day:

Order
Your Sunday Meats
Here
Something Extra Fine
in
Beefsteak
and
Broilers
Wihat more fair than what follows?
If
Anything
Is Unsatisfactory
None
So
Quick
To Exchange
Or
Money Back
Wouldn’t this have a
sound with the public?
Listen to Jones
Not
The
One
Who “Pays the Freight”
But
The
One
Who “Delivers the Goods”

Here’s a good word for the em-

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January 20, 1909

Good Salesmen Never Speak Well
Our Windows Ror
and A
Our Clerks
An appeal is made to the purchas-
er’s pocketbook in this:

Store.
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It Is Our Thoughts Which Make Us.

Your Evansville, Ind., Jan. 13—On Jan.
Dollars 6, you published the following, “No
Are Wasted man can take iniquity into his creed
If and keep it out of his character.”
You Truer words have never been wri
Dian’ written

Get Your Dollars’ Worth or spoken. And yet thousands of

We people fail for no other reason than

Aim they think they can take injustice,

To Give unrighteousness, sin and crime into

Dollar for Dollar Value their creed. I have often wondered

This proposition to the carpenter |at this. And yet, I ask, why do peo-
ought to seem to him to be the epi-|Ple do these things? —

Se ak baraceas Injustice, unrighteousness, sin and

If crime seem to be everywhere. We do

inot have to goto books to find them.

This : :

Chia We see them written in the faces of
Reuck ie Ae people. Yes, all of your iniquity is

an planted right deep down in your
Ware iL To character.. You can not hide it.

Coed Your creed can not carry it for you.

It It does not carry it. You are loaded
: i'down with it yourself. Think hard

Back eg oe ;
At Our Expense along this line. This: is good for all
of us. None of us are perfect. We
all make mistakes. We all know
what is right, but why don’t we lis-
ten? Sin and crime, think of it. What

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the care with which these delicate}. a ee :
ee ere 1is the greatest sin? The greatest sin
7 pop Os lis to think that our creed can save
f ur ius in the end. There is no hope
D . |for us in.a creed, if we do not be-
All ” ve ‘lieve in saving our own soul. Why
: Lene Pp ido we foolishly believe in a creed
oC ithat will save us in the end? There
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oe oe eer |To-morrow will never come. If you
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ithink about the end?’ Your soul has
ino use for a creed if you do not try
| to save it yourself.

| If you have a bright soul (Bright

Another card on the same subject
reads like the one below:

Bright, Clean

Merchandise | Thoughts) your character will shine
Sells ‘as bright as the heavens. What has
Better iyour creed to do with this? Is it not

Entire Lines | your thoughts that make you? If

Of lyour thoughts are right, your soul
Laces | will live forever, and then if this is

Kept in Cabinets |true, why think of the end?
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Deportment Still Counts in Business.

Business men of the older school
are disposed at the present time to
resent some of the shortcomings in
deportment which they find in the
younger generation, They are inclin-
ed to find fault with the young man
because of his general lack of rever-
ence for anything. They criticise his
dress as loud. They see in him al-
most the antithesis of the young man
as he was in their day.

Remembering all that was required
of themselves in deportment, these
older observers of the younger gen-
eration may go a little too far in
their criticisms of the present type of
young business man. They may ex-
aggerate a little their own early vir-
tues; they may fail to recognize that
the times and the manners of men are
subject to change.

But it remains that for the young
man entering business not a little of
his chances for success may depend
upon his deportment. There can be
no cut and dried standard of pose
and manner measuring up to every
line of occupation. —

At the same time there are some
standards of deportment in every day
business relations that may be count-
ed upon as always in good taste. Al-
ways the young man may be open to
the sensing of anything incongruous
in his manner ‘and pose, and if he
shall be open to such guidance, hav-
ing regard for the rights and sensi-
bilities of others, he is reasonably safe
from making himself non
grata with others.

persona

Occasionally one sees the extreme
modest type of young man in public
places, who, in the effort to be re-
gardful of his deportment, goes to
painful extremes. Perhaps he enters
a general office which has a general
lobby outside a railing which is set
aside for the general public. He may
remove his hat on entering the door
and stand at the railing, hat in hand,
waiting attention from an attendant.

In my observations the young man
may be guilty of a faux pas costing
him dearly if his mission to the place
admits. Almiost universally the office
attendant is disposed to show his con-
tempt of such a caller. He decides
that such a man, seeking audience of
some one inside, is cringingly anx-
ious. In the experience of the attend-
ant those persons cringingly anxious
to get inside are persons whom he
has found it wise to dismiss, if he
can,

Men in business in metropolitan life
have remarked often that a visitor
from the country is likely to have a
distressing loudness of speech in the
city office. The visitor, to the extent
that he has acquaintance and friend-
ship for the city man, may startle a
whole general office force by his ex-
plosive speech and loud laugh; which
are not to be muffled by ordinary walls
of the private office. There may be
nothing possible in the speech which
could not be shouted from the house-
top, but in the citizen the sitwation
may be embarrassing.

In these busy, crowding times a
little of the old fashioned courtesy
and consideration which once ruled
among gentle people comes to the

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

hurried man of business with all of
its old subtleness and balm. When oc-
casionally a hurrying man passing
through a doorway ahead of you
pauses a moment to hold it open and
you nod the “thank you” that springs
unthought to your lips, can’t you feel
that mutually the two of you have ex-
perienced a little something not ex-
actly related to the sordid cares of
life?

There is plenty of time, still, for
these small observances of gentle
breeding. Deportment, based on hon-
est decency, still is at a premium in
the world. The young man at large
can not afford to forget the fact.

John A. Howland.
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Every Credit Man Ought To Study
Human Nature.

Evansville, Ind., Jan. 8—The three
lined item which appeared in your
Jan. 6 issue and which reads as fol-
lows has a wonderful thought in it:
“Tf you understand a man the first
time you meet him there isn’t much
about him to understand.” It will
take a lifetime to understand some
people. In fact, some people are not
understood until they have been ex-
plained by others many years after
their natural life. Take Ralph Waldo
Emerson. Even today there are but
few who understand his sayings when
they read them or hear them. Still
all could understand him if they
would simply do as he told them. He
said, “There is one mind common to
all individual men. Every man is an
inlet to the same and to all of the
same.”

Tf our minds are an inlet to all
there is, we ought to be able to know
any one just as soon as we see them
or even hear of them.

I know of a few men and women
who can tell you the character of
people as soon as they see them or
get a letter from them. <A man’s
character is built up of his thoughts
and any one who has studied the Na-
ture of Human Intelligence can read
many things which are not put on
paper.

In my opinion, every credit man
ought to study human nature, he
ought to know what the Power of
Thought is and how it works.

The business world knows every-
thing else and it ought to know these
things, too, but I am sorry to say
the people have run after the dollars
so much and fast that they have real-
ly forgotten themselves. People, as
a rule, don’t even stop long enough
t6 eat.

There are some people who think
they know a man after they have
had business dealings with him for
years and yet they did not.

We make up our minds about peo-
ple and things too quick. We should
never let others tell us too much
about things and people. We are in-
clined to look outward for advice,
but the true word comes from within
our own minds.

You can not understand a man the
first time you meet him, that is,
know him in and out, but you can
know enough to satisfy you as to
what you should do if there is going
to’ be a business deal-on hand.

Edward Miller, Jr.

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The Office Boy.
He is

jokesmiths and illustrators. His lot
and carry. Often his
work is that of an automaton. Some-
times he is assumed to lack the most
rudimenary attributes of intelligence.
Not always. Note the establishment
of a raining class devoted to boys
who wish to do office work. The as-
sumption which underlies the work of
this class is that the boy himself has
ambition and is bent upon effecting
an entrance into a life of business.
He is first inoculated with precepts
of obedience and loyalty. He is then
schooled in the local geography. He
is taught to copy letters, to do up
parcels, to answer telephone calls, to
manipulate a switch. Finally comes
rudimentary book-keeping—how to
keep a simple stamp or cash  ac-
count. Poor little office boy! Often
enough his life is without enough of
marbles, tops, baseball and flying
kites; without enough, also, of the
weapons which the school can give.
Classes for his benefit, if this
succeeds, may well follow in
towns—Collier’s Weekly.
—_——_ ~~. ___

It doesn’t pay to let diseases or
affections of the eye go unchecked,
Mr. Horse-owner. The most valuable

one
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January 20, 1909
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P Pisawcll-C. S Get bas sold bie
Plainwell—Earl Irick, baker, has |interest in the meat market firm of
closed his store. /Honeysett & Scott to his partner,
Otsego—A retail cigar store ‘has ‘Reuben Honeysett, who will continue
been opened by G. F. Merrill. the business.

Woodland—Ferris & Merriam have) Alma—W. W. Pearson, of Fre-
opened their new meat market. ‘mont, will soon open a department

Detroit—Edson, Moore & Co. have Store with a new stock throughout,
increased their capital stock to $900,- having leased three floors of the
nab. | Vermuellen block.

Boyne City—A bazaar store has) Saginaw—John Huebner will open
been opened by Ed. Kennedy, of Cad-|a meat market at the corner of Court
illac. |and Fayette streets. He formerly

Litchfield—C. M. Stoddard suc-|conducted a grocery and meat market
ceeds A. J. Hager in the grocery at 906 Madison avenue.
business. : Clare—The Citizens’ Bank of Clare,

Lakeview—-H. Blanding & Son are| which has been a private institution
the promoters of another factory to|since 1903, has been reorganized as
make novelties. 'the Citizens’ State Bank of Clare,

Marquette—A grocery store has with a capitalization of $20,000.
been opened by Fred Papin at 130, Gwinn—A new company, known as
Baraga avenue. ‘the Gwinn Lumber Co. will continue

Otsego—Gamble & Williams, cloth- the business formerly conducted by
ing and shoe merchants, are about to the local branch of the Consolidated
dissolve partnership. Fuel & Lumber Co., of Ishpeming.

Reading—Stewart McGowan has Battle Creek—Chas. W. Centner,
sold his hardware stock to G. B.| formerly of Champaign, Ill., is now
Gunnison, of Jackson. a member of the dry goods firm of

Coats Grove—Geo. Wonderlich, of Chas. E. Blood & Co.asa partner. Mr.
Lake Odessa, has purchased the gen- Centner will have charge of the fur-
eral. stock of Ernest G. Smith. nishings department.

Ithaca—J. F. Cihak is putting in a| Clare—In the death of Nathan
stock of pictures and picture frames. Bicknell, at the age of 62, Clare’s last
He will also continue his photograph- pioneer merchant in active business
ic work. |passes from view. When he located

Luther—Calvin & Son, who re-'here thirty-four years ago the coun-
cently purchased the cheese factory try was a howling wilderness.
here, contemplate converting it into | Detroit—The Peninsular Poultry &
a creamery. |'Egg Co. has been incorporated to

Elsie—The Michigan Milk andiconduct the produce business. The
Food Products Co. has completed its company has an authorized capital
$60,000 plant for the manufacture of stock of $5,000, all of which thas been
milk flour. subscribed and paid in in cash.

Lansing—Geo. R. Babcock and W.| Aflegan—Mrs. L. S. Turner and
A. Jenkins have engaged in the fruit) Miss Florence Jewett, who formerly
and produce business on Grand ave-| conducted a millinery business here
nue, North. ‘under the style of Turner & Jewett,

St. Louis—Fred B. Ensley, hard-| wil] remove to Grand Rapids, Feb. 1,
ware merchant, will soon leave for where they will continue in the same
California, having sold his stock tO |Jine of business.

J. H. Palmer. | Plymouth—The grocery firm of

Otsego—C. G. Piper is succeeded ‘Bogert & Co. has been succeeded by
in the confectionery business by Ar- W. W. Murray. Mr. Murray will be
thur I. Shears. Mr. Piper will remain assisted in the store by his daughter,
with the new owner. 'Lela Murray, who was formerly em-

Benton Harbor—The Puterbaugh ployed in the clothing and furnish-
& Downing Co., which conducts a/jings store of E. L. Riggs. «
clothing store, has decreased its cap-| Lansing—A corporation has been
ital stock from $16,000 to $8,000. formed under the style of Young

Coopersville — M. Durham has/|Bros. & Daley to deal in hay, grain
bought the hardware stock and build- | and wood. The company has an auth-
ing of E. W. Howell, and will con-orized capital stock of $1,000, all of
tinue the business at the old stand. [which has been subscribed, $11,375

Traverse City—Geo. W. Miller is|being paid in in property.
closing out his clothing stock with} Wexford—A corporation has been
a view to retiring from trade. Mr.|formed under the style of the Econ-
Miller will probably go on the road. |jomy Mercantile Co. to deal in mer-

Boyne City—John Patterson, of!chandise and farm products. The
Mancelona, removed his dry goods;company has an authorized capital
stock from that place to this city, |stock of $8,000, all of which has been
where he will continue in business. ‘subscribed and $4,000 paid in in cash.

Movement of Merchants.

 

 

Manistee—James Hanson will re-
move his grocery stock from the cor-
ner of First and Cypress streets to
the corner of First and Poplar streets.
L. N. Roussin will occupy the same
building as Mr. Hanson with a meat
market, which is nearly ready to
open.

Lansing—Calvin Wolverton, broth-
er of Hiram Wolverton deecased, who
formerly conducted a bakery and con-
fectionery, is here from Linesville,
Pa. It is possible that Mr. Wolver-
ton may reopen his brother’s store
and continue the business as soon as
the estate is settled.

Calumet—The clothing and bazaar
firm of Arne & Ruttenberg, who have
conducted business for several years
past under the style of the Savings
Bank Department Store, have dis-
solved partnership. Oscar Rutten-
berg has leased a store on Quincy
street and will conduct business there.

Ishpeming—Philip Quayle succeeds
Thomas F. Gill in the furniture and
undertaking business. Mr. Gill will
remain in the employ of Mr. Quayle
as undertaker and emblamer. Mr.
Quayle intends to put in a line of
picture frames and also engage in
the upholstering business to some
extent.

Lansing—J. E. Shanholtzer, of Des
Moines, Ia., and W. P. Mathews, of
Detroit, will open a ladies’ furnish-
ings store about February 15, under
the style of the S. & M. Cloak Co., at
225 Washington avenue, North. Both
members of the firm will move to
Lansing and be actively engaged in
the store. .

Menominee — Woodford & Bill,
dealers in musical instruments, have
merged their business into a_ stock
company under the style of the
Woodford & Bill Piano Co., with an
authorized capital stock of $69,000, of
which $54,000 has been subscribed,
$2,143.66 being paid in in cash and
$41,856.34 in property.

Cadillac—George C. Webber, who
formerly conducted a house furnish-
ing store, is a member of the new
corporation which will conduct the
same line of business under the style
of the Webber-Ashworth Co., having
an authorized capital stock of $17,000
common and $8,000 preferred, of
which $20,000 has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Greenville—There was a wild com-
motion in J. E. Van Wormer’s south-
end grocery recently and the way the
clerks and customers scattered was a
caution. All this commotion was
caused because a bunch of bananas
fell down and from the center popped
out a live tarantula which seemed to
be bent on mischief. It was secured
before it did any harm.

Moorestown—L. M. Richards thas

turned back to John F. Butcher, form-’

erly of Mt. Pleasant but now of Vas-
sar, all of the property in this place
and vicinity which he purchased of
Mr. Butcher something over a year
ago. Mr. Butcher will stock the mill
with logs as usual and the lumbering
business will be continued under some
management not yet determined.
Detroit—Edward J. Hickey, who
formerly conducted a clothing store,
has merged his business into a stock
company under the style of the E. J.

Hickey Co., which will conduct a gen-
eral merchandise business. The cor-
poration has an authorized capital
stock of $100,000, all of which has
been subscribed, $23,444.12 being paid
in in cash and $76,555.88 in property.

 

Manufacturing Matters,

Manistee—The Noud Lumber Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$25,000 to $32,000.

Marshall—The New
Co. has increased its
from $25,000 to $50,000.

Traverse City—John Caron, of the
firm of J. A. Caron & Co., manufac-
turers of excelsior, is dead.

Morley—The flour mills at this
place have been purchased by B. G.
Pettie and Wm. F. Turner, who will
begin operations by imstalling a gas-
oline engine,

Saginaw — The Saginaw Cement
Shingle Co. has been incorporated
with an authorized capital stock of
$3,500, all of which ‘thas been  sub-
scribed, $350 being paid in in cash
and $500 in property.

Detroit—The Wayne Chemical Co.
has been incorporated to conduct a
manufacturing business, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $10,000, al!
of which has been. subscribed and
$1,000 paid in in cash.

Detroit—The National-Fire-Proof-
Metal-Lath Co. has been incorporated
to conduct a manufacturing business
with an authorized capital stock of
$10,000, all of which has been sub-
scribed and paid in in property.

Menominee—The Fisher & Hutch-
inson Co., which manufactures boxes,
has been dissolved, D. J. Fisher will
conduct the business alone. Mr.
Hutchinson will now devote his at-
tention to the banking business.

Kalamazoo—B. F. Witwer, who
formerly conducted the Witwer Bak-
ing Co, here, has abandoned the bak-
ery business at South Bend, Ind.,
and will take the management of the
business of the Morton Baking Co.,
at Windsor, Ont.

Lansing—A corporation has been
formed to conduct a manufacturing
business under the style of the Hart-
man Cream Separator Co., which has
an authorized capital stock of $25,-
000, of which $16,250 has been sub-
scribed and $2,500 paid in in cash.

Union City—The Peerless Portland
Cement Co., which recently erected
a chimney constructed entirely of
cement with steel reinforcement, in-
tends to build a storage building 50
x 300 feet in dimensions which will
also be of steel and cement exclusive-
ly.

Bay City—A corporation has been
formed under the style of the Pierce,
Nye & Budd Co. to manufacture ma-
tine and automobile gasoline engines
and machine work. The company has
an authorized capital stock of $5,00¢,
all of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Coldwater—The Wolverine Port-
land Cement Co. has closed its plant,
two miles west of Coldwater, for the
season. It thas just completed
an eleven months’ season, which is
the longest they have ever had, it
being possible to run late on account
of the open winter and the fact that

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The Produce Market.

Apples—New York Spys, $5@s.50;
Snows, $4.50; Baldwins, $4.50; Green-
ings, $4@4.25.

Bananas—$1.25 for small bunches,
$1.75 for Jumbos and $2 for Extra
Jumbos.

Beets—$1.50 per bbl.

Butter—The market is
at unchanged prices. There is a very
good consumptive demand for all
grades, botlf of solid and print, and
the supply is about normal for the
season. Stocks in storage are decreas-
ing very fast and the market is thor-
oughly healthy throughout. Fancy
creamery is held at 31%4c for tubs
and 32%c for prints; dairy grades
command 24@27c for No. 1 and 18@
Igc for packing stock.

Cabbage—$1 per bu. or 3c per tb.

Carrots—-$1.50 per bbl.

Celery—$1.50 per box of 4 doz.

Citron—6oc per doz.

Cocoanuts—$5 per bag of go.

Cranberries'-$15 per bbl. for Bell
and Bugle from Wisconsin.

Eggs—Fresh continue very scarce
and the retail price is very high. All
receipts are sold on arrival every day.
The future, both as to supply and
price, depends on the weather, but the
present outlook is for continued high
prices until the weather moderates.
Local dealers pay 29@3oc f. o. b.
Grand Rapids, holding candled fresh
at 32@33c and candled cold storage
at 29@3o0c.

Grape Fruit—Florida commands
$3.75 for 7os and 80s and $4 for 46s,
54s and 64s.

Grapes—Malaga command
per keg, according to weight.

Honey—-1sc per fb. for white clov-
er and 12c for dark.

Lemons—Messinas are in fair de-
mand at $3 and Californias are slow
sale at $3.25.

Lettuce--leafl, 16c per fb.;
$r per doz. and $2 per hamper.

Onions—Yellow Danvers and Red
and Yellow Globes are in ample sup-
ply at 75c per bu.

Oranges—The market is steady on
the basis of $3 for Floridas and $2.85
@3.10 for Navels.

Parsley—35c per doz. bunches.

Potatoes—Local dealers are hold-
ing at 7oc. The market is looking
strong.

Poultry—Paying prices: Fowls, Io
@ttc for live and 12@13c for dressed;
sptings, 11@12c for live and 13@14c
for dressed; ducks, 9@1oc for live
and 11@12c for dressed; geese, IIc
for live and 1t4c for dressed; turkeys,
13@14c for live and 17@18c for dress-
ed.

Squash—tc per fb. for Hubbard.

Sweet Potatoes—$4 per bbl. for
kiln dried Jerseys; $1.75 per hamper.

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New Knitting Factory in the Field.

A new corporation has been form-

ed under the style of the Clark Knit-

ting Co., which has an authorized
capital stock of $25,000, of which

$15,000 has. been subscribed, as_ fol-
lows:

Mm Edward Clark). .o310. 3.0. $5,000
We EP Downs 2.0 5,000
Wames A Storer 2). 2000), 5,000

The officers of the company are as
follows:

President—A. Edward Clark,

Vice-President—W. H. Downs.

Secretary and Treasurer—James A.
Storer.

The company has leased the two
top floors of the north factory build-
ing formerly occupied by the Grand
Rapids Felt Boot Co. It is install-
ing machinery to be propelled by
electric power and will manufacture
ladies’, youths’, misses’ and children’s
union and two-piece garments. Plans
are being made to begin operations
about March x. Mr. Storer will have
charge of the office, Mr. Downs,
formerly with the Star Knitting
Works, will represent the company
on the road and Mr. Clark, with the
Star Knitting Works for twelve
years, will personally superintend the
factory.

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The many friends of Fred J. Fer-
guson, who for many years conduct-
ed a grocery store at 133 South Divi-
sion street and for some time past
has been engaged in the livery busi-
ness at 142 Kent street, will regret
to learn that Mr. Ferguson has been
in failing health for some time past
and is at present confined to his
home at 65 Cass avenue on account
of his illness.

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A corporation has been formed un-
der the style of the McIntosh & Ran-
ney Co. to manufacture washing ma-
chines and deal in automobiles. The
company has an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, of which $6,020 has
been subscribed, $20 being paid in in
cash and $6,000 in property. The of-
fice of the company is at 31 Powers
building.

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Holding Back the News..

“IT suppose your wife was tickled to
death at your raise in salary?”

“She will be.”

“Haven’t you told iher yet?”

“No; I thought I would enjoy my-
self for a couple of weeks first.”

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with dirt and it will not be strange if
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The Grocery Market.

Tea—Spot prices in Japans are
holding firm for the entire list and
there is a strong demand for ll
grades. Some heavy sales have been
made during the last two weeks to
Eastern jobbers and all stocks in
first hands are being held at the ad-
vanced prices, nothing being offered
under 20c. Congous and Formosas
show an advance of from %4@rc, the
large shortage being primarily re-
sponsible for the advance, although
the proposed duty on tea is having a
strong influence on the market, as it
is thought that should an import tax
be put upon coffee it would carry tea
with it. Speculation is active, even
certain coffee houses being among
the large tea buyers. The Treasury
Department has ordered all custom
offices to collect a duty on fancy con-
tainers of tea at the same rate as
when imported without tea and this
action is likely to cause an advance in
teas packed abroad in fancy cans or
boxes.

Coffee—The
proposed duty
market strong.

agitation over the
tends to keep the
The receipts at Bra-
zil still show a large increase over
the corresponding period of last
year, there being already over 2,000,-
ooo bags more than the season of
1907-08. Mild coffees are steady and
unchanged. Java is steady and Mo-
cha a little easier.

Canned Goods—The tomato

warranted figures. Corn

very firm, but dull.

ent.
as to prices for I909 are on a level
with those at which the market open-
ed last year. Pumpkin and squash re-
main steady. Apricots are said to be
getting into small compass on the
coast and the market reflects a firmer
tone. Owing to the moderate demand
for peaches and pears the tone of the
market is easy. Gallon apples con-
tinue firm, in spite of the fact that
demand is of very moderate propor-
tions. Strawberries and _ raspberries
are not very plentiful and hold firm.
While trade is seasonably slow the
strong statistical position of salmon,
with the exception of pinks, keeps
prices on a firm basis. Domestic sar-
dines are easier than for some time.
Imported sardines are quiet but firm
and no fresh features are presented
in other lines of canned fish.

Syrups and Molasses—The Corn
Products Refining Co. has made a
change in its selling plan which has
every appearance of being a decline
in price. Compound syrup is un-
changed and in fair demand. Sugar
Syrup is in moderate demand at rul-
ing price. Molasses is firm and as to
finer grades not very abundant, but
prices show no change for the week.

Dried Fruits—Currants are in fair
demand at unchanged prices. Peaches
are dull and unchanged in price. Apri-
cots are scarce and firm, but fairly
active. Citron, dates and figs are un-
changed in price and in fair de-
mand. Prunes are nominally unchang-
ed, but it is probable that a good
round order would get concessions.
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ket has become even more demoral-
ized during the past week. Fancy
seeded can be bought on the coast
for 4%4c per pound and 3-crown loose
at 234c. An average price for the
latter would be 4c. This further de-
cline in the face of the pending pool
in California is clearly indicative of
very great demoralization. The sea-
son is getting on and holders proba-
bly realize that present stocks must
be gotten rid of.

Rice—Reports indicate that the de-
mand the country over has been wun-
usually heavy and that stocks are rap-
idly diminishing.

Rolled Oats—The strong tone
which has characterized this market
for some time still prevails. Jobbers

predict that a higher level will be
reached by spring.

Cheese—An advance of Wc has
been made, due to increased consump-
tive demand and short supply. The
market is healthy at the advance and
the outlook is steady to firm, this
applying to all grades.

Provisions—The increased demand
for everything in smoked meats, to-
gether with a higher cost of ‘hogs, has
resulted in an advance of “%c in
Pure lard is firm and un
changed. Compound lard is firm at
4c up, due to the very good
sumptive demand, as well as increased
cost of Dried beef,

hams

con-

raw material.

barrel pork and canned meats are wun-
mar- | :

: : |changed.
ket is again somewhat unsettled by |

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offerings from some packers at un-| |. oa
: iselling fairly at

continues |

Peas are without |

animation and a steady tone is appar- | :
' i y : PE |mand for hake and haddock, as com-
Iit is stated that packers’ ideas | eg :

ipared with the former demand when

Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are

unchanged prices.
The need of complying with the food
greatly curtailed the de-

law has

sold for cod. Salmon is in
dines show no special activity in any
grade or variety, and no change in
price. Mackerel has been very dull
during the past week. Both Norway
and Trish mackerel are unchanged in
price, but both are steadily main-
tained in spite of pronounced dulness.
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Grand Rapids Fixtures
Chicago.

The Grand Rapids Fixtures Co. has
arranged with the Superior Brass &
Fixtures Co., of Chicago, to handle
its line of show cases in Chicago, and
after Feb. 1, it will, in its show case
rooms at 233, 235 East Jackson Boule-
vard, show a complete line of the
Grand Rapids Fixtures Co.’s_ cases
and other store fixtures. This will,
in addition to its other lines, give the
Superior Brass & Fixtures Co. one of
the most complete and _ up-to-date
lines of window and store fixtures
ever shown in Chicago, and it will be
well worth while for any merchant
interested in store or window fixtures
to pay a visit to this show room be-
fore purchasing.

This show room is not only show-
ing a very complete line of all kinds
of store fixtures, but is very con-
veniently located for the outside buy-
er, and merchants should not over-
look it in visiting Chicago.

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If we were half as careful of our
foundations as we are of our furni-
ture we might build more endur-

Shown in

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 20, 1909

 

 

FURNITURE EXPOSITION.

 

Origin and Development of a Unique
Feature.

January is a busy month in Grand
Rapids. So is July. One marks the
opening of the spring, the other of
the fall season in the furniture trade.
Upon both occasions manufacturers
at all the furniture producing centers
and small towns send samples of their
wares to Grand Rapids. Buyers from
all over the country, from every state
in the Union, from every city of im-
portance in the land and from for-
eign lands come here to see the goods
displayed, the home lines and the
sample lines alike. The home lines
serve as the main attraction, for the
Grand Rapids manufacturers set the
styles and the pace in the furniture
world. The outside lines, however,
help to make Grand Rapids the mar-
ket it has become. The Grand Rap-
ids specialty is high grade case gioods.
The outsiders show medium and cheap
case work, chairs and parlor goods,
which are produced here in limited
quantities, and many specialties. With
the aid of the outsiders everything in
the nature of furniture is shown here,
furniture for the kitchen, the parlor,
the dining room, the porch, the bed-
room, the laundry, the library and
the lawn, and all this in almost end-
less variety, and in any desired grade
as to price. In addition are mattress-
es and pillows, hammered copper
wares, terre cotta adornments for the
home and carpet sweepers.  Every-
thing the ordinary furniture dealer
carries in stock is offered here, even
coffins, for the small town dealer oft-
en serves also as-the village under-
taker. The Grand Rapids manufac-
turers produce the fine goods that can
not be found elsewhere; the outsiders
supply the goods that are not produc-

' ed here and the combination makes
Grand Rapids mighty.

When the outsiders first began
coming here the locals were inclined
to be resentful; to regard them as in-
truders. This feeling has passed. The
outsiders are now welcome. And it
may be added the outsiders when
they come make themselves entirely
at home, as is proper that they
should.

The development of Grand Rapids
as a great furniture market is) a mat-
ter of only a quarter century. Many
buyers and sellers are still coming
here semi-annually who were in at
the birth. And whether buyers or sell-
ers they are inclined to be proud of
the city’s growth as a market and to
take unto themselves some of the
credit.

The exhibit made by Berkey &
Gay and Nelson, Matter & Co. at the
Centennial exposition at Philadelphia
first attracted the attention of the
trade to Grand Rapids as a furniture
producing point. Before the Centen-
nial buyers came here occasionally.
Charles H. Scarrett, of Scarrett, Com-
stock & Co., of St. Louis, was one of
these. He bought the old round end
spindle beds made by the Widdi-
combs. He bought them by the car-
load in the white and shipped them
to St. Louis to be finished and then

sold in the frontier towns. The finish |

in those days was a isimple process. It
consisted of sousing the beds into
vats of paint and setting them aside
to dry.

After the Centennial buyers came
in greater numbers and soon seasons
were established. The local manu-
facturers expecting the buyers called
in their traveling men to show the
goods and help entertain the visitors.
Among the salesmen were Geo. Stod-
dard, Knapp, Green, Fred Hills, Har-
vey Beaseley, Chas. P. Limbert, E. J.
Morley and M. L. Fitch. Several of
these salesmen carried other lines.
Morley, for instance, was with Stock-
well & Darragh and carried other
lines. Limbert was with the Worden
and also represented the Charlotte
Manufacturing Co. and Munk & Rob-
erts. Hills represented the Wm. A.
Berkey Co. and the Marble & Shat-
tuck Chair Co., of Cleveland. These
salesmen sold the home goods at the
factory and in the evening exhibited
their side lines in photograph at the
hotels. Hearing of the success of the
Grand Rapids openings manufactur-
ers at other points began sending
their salesmen here, with photo-

graphs. Ed. Colwell, now with the
Gunn, then representing the Con-
mersville Furniture Co. and Sam

Steininger, then with the Muskegon
Valley Furniture Company, now at
the head of the Detroit Cabinet Com-
pany, were among these salesmen.
In 1883 it occurred to Fred Hills
that a photographic display was dull
and uninteresting as compared with

the real goods. He strongly urged
his Cleveland connection, the Mar-
ble & Shattuck Chair Co., to send

samples of their goods here, as buy-
ers came here to look at furniture,
not at pictures. The company sent
on a few samples and they were ex-
hibited in the rotunda of the Morton
House. This was the first outside ex-
hibit made in Grand Rapids.

The following season Ed. Colwell
prevailed upon the Connersville Fur-
niture Company to send a few sam-
ple bedroom suits, and they were ex-
hibited in a vacant Monroe _ street
store. Either the same season or the
season following Sam _  Steiminger
brought in samples of the Muskegon
Valley goods, and these samples were
also exhibited im a vacant store
rented for a month.

In 1888 the Blodgett building was
erected. The Phoenix Furniture Co.
leased four floors of the south
of the building for their city retail
store. Philip J. Klingman, represent-
ing the Boston Chair Co., the J. Way-
land Kimball Co., leather chairs, and
the Charlotte Manufacturing Co., took
the first floor of the north half, about
6,500 square feet. Klingman and
Chas. P, Limbert were great friends.

ers to be dependent on empty stores
for space. They formed a_ partner-
ship and leased five floors of the
north half of the Blodgett building
for a period of years, designing to
make this a permanent exposition
building, exhibitors to take space ac-

 

cording to their needs under yearly
contracts. It was a bold undertakinz
for the young men, but they had faith

half | *
|ing for exposition purposes, but it is

 

|outside exhibitors.
|cal manufacturers take space in the
buildings as more advantageous than
|trying to persuade the visiting buyers
Both appreciated how inconvenient | to come to the factory show rooms.
it was for the exhibiting manufactur- |The larger and more important con-

 

in the future of the market, and
nerve. .They pooled their own lines
and aiso secured other tenants, and
the first exposition opened with ten
lines, which were spread around to
fairly fill the 32,500 square feet of
space. A year or two later the Phoe-
nix gave up its retail store and Kling-
man & Limbert purchased their lease,
adding 26,000 square feet to their
space.

The Klingman & Limbert partner-
ship lasted five years, and was then
dissolved, the partners making an
even division of lines, assets and
space, one taking the south half, the
other the north half of the Blodgett
building. Both wanted more room,
and when the Masonic Temple was
built Klingman leased that and Lim-
bert took his space in the Blodgett.
A year or two later Klingman took
the Pythian Temple, now the Ashton,
and then for a couple of years he ex-

hibited his lines at the Michigan
Chair factory.
In 18098 the Furniture Exhibition

building, or the Klingman, as it is also
called, was built by Dudley E. Wa-
ters and Klingman leased the entire
building. It covers the entire block
on Ottawa street from Pear] to Lyon
streets, and its six floors contain a
total of 325,000 square feet of space.
It was thought this would hold all
the furniture samples that would ever
be sent to Grand Rapids for exhibi-
tion. The building rapidly filled up,
however, and to meet the demand for
still more room the seven story Ma-n
ufacturers’ building was erected in
1906, fronting 100 feet on Ionia street
and extending clear through to Divi-
sion street. This year the six story
Furniture Exchange building, repre-
senting the old Auditorium rebuilt,
was opened to exhibitors. These four
buildings, the Blodgett, the Klingman,
the Manufacturers’ and the Exchange,
have a tota! floor space of something
like 675,000 square feet, or, to put it
in another way, approximately 15%
acres. And for the exposition this
season it is all taken. To this space
for the July opening will be added the
126,000 square feet, or nearly 3 acres,
in the Leonard refrigerator factory
building at Ionia street, and the rail-
road, which is being remodeled for
the purpose. Grobheiser & Skinner,
who own the old Swedenborgian
church site on Lyon street, extend-
ing from Tonia to Division street, are
talking of building a ten story build-

doubtful if this project will material-
ize, at least not immediately.

Not all this acreage is occupied by
The smaller lo-

cerns, however, show their goods “at
home.” The factory show rooms
tepresent 350,000 square feet more of
space, or something more than 8
acres.

The total space used for furniture
display purposes is approximately 24
acres, to which the Leonard 3 acres
will be added for next July’s opening
of the fall season, And this space is

actually occupied. It is packed full of
furniture of every kind and descrip-
tion, with narrow aisles between the
long rows to permit the salesmen and
their customers to pass through,
Some of the space reservations are
extensive. The Mayhew Company, of
Milwaukee, chairs and _ upholstered
goods, for instance, occupies the en-
tire top floor of the Manufacturers’
building, nearly 20,000 square feet.
C. H. Medicus & Son, of New York,
high grade parlor goods, occupies the
entire top floor of the Furniture Ex-
change, about 12,000 square feet. E.
J. Morley, representing five lines,
takes the entire south half of the top
floor of the Klingman, about 18,000
square feet. The John Widdicomh
Company, of this city, which lacks
show space at the factory, occupies
the entire top floor of the Blodgett
and could use twice as much space if
it were available.

In the exposition buildings the total
number of lines represented is some-
where between 300 and 400, and, as
stated, everything in the mature of
furniture is displayed, from the high-
est priced to the cheapest, and with as
wide a range in artistic merit as in
cost. In this estimate the Grand Rap-
ids factory. displays are not included.
How many individual pieces of furni-

 

 

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ture are shown can not be estimated,
but the number runs far up into the
thousands. The Mayhew Company
alone has 1,200 pieces. The other
lines run from a dozen to 500 and
more pieces. The local lines exhibited
in the factory show rooms run from
1,500 to 2,500 different pieces, many
of them in any of half a dozen differ-
ent woods. No estimate thas ever
been made of the number of pieces
shown and this interesting point will
have to be left to the imagination.

The space in the exposition build-
ings is rented om a per square foot
basis and rentals are for a year or
longer periods. The actual use of the
space is only for two months in the
year, during the semi-annual open-
ings, but the rent is for the twelve
months. The expense of making an
exhibit may seem high, but if it did
not pay the exhibitors would not
come.

Twenty years ago when the expo-
sition idea began, the number of
buyers to visit the market was about
100. They were the big men in the
trade. The average of the orders
they gave ran high. The number of
buyers in Grand Rapids this season
will be about 1,000. Since passing
the 500 mark there has been a mate-
rial lowering in the average buying
capacity. Many small dealers who
used to depend entirely on the travel-
ing men now come to market as well
as the big men in the business. They
look upon the semi-annual visit as
educational and the expense thereof
as an investment which yields good
dividends in the information and ideas
they gain. They add to the number
of visitors but cut down the average
sales.

Going back to the infancy days of

the exposition, it is interesting to
recall that of the concerns) which
miade the first exhibit under the

Klingman & Limbert plan in the
Blodgett building in 1889, only two
are still in the business. The exhibi-
ters were the Boston Chair Co. of
30ston, Wm. L. Elder, of Indianapo-
lis, the Henshaw Co., of Cincinnati,
W. J. Kimball .Co., of Paris, Me.,
Munk & Roberts, of Connersville,
Ind., Wait & Barnes, of Sturgis, the
Worden Furniture Co., of this city,
Ring, Merrill & Tillotson, of Saginaw,
the Charlotte Manufacturing Co., of
Charlotte, and Grobheiser & Crosby,
of Sturgis. Of these ten manufactur-
ers the last two alone survive.

Among the buyers who came to
this market at that date were Chas.
Shearer, of the Paine Furniture Co.,
Boston; C. H. Brockway, of Wanna-
maker’s; Fred Pullman, of Geo. C.
Flint & Co.; Martin Lambert, of the
‘Lambert Furniture Co., St. Louis;
Chas. Scarrett, of Scarrett, Comstock
& Co., St. Louis; Robt. Keith, of the
Robert Keith Furniture Co., Kansas
City; W. A. McLaughlin, now of Sie-
gel, Cooper & Co., New York. Ex-
cept Pullman, who died a few years
ago, these buyers are still making
their regular semi-annual visits to
Grand Rapids and are always wel-
comed as old friends.

Philip J. Klingman, who with Chas.
P. Limbert originated the permanent
furniture exposition idea, and who had

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

the nerve to take the big Waters
building, collects the rent from the
takers of space as a side line to the
management of one of the biggest
retail furniture stores in Michigan.
Mr. Limbert, his old. partner, is mow
a prosperous manufacturer of furni-
ture and exhibits his line on the
first floor of the Blodgett building,
where he located twenty years
—__»-<____
Buildings Owned by Local Banks.

The Commercial Savings Bank last
week purchased the building in which
it is located, at Canal and Lyon
streets, paying $35,000 for the prop-
erty. The purchase was’ made by
Wm. H. Anderson from the estate of
Mary Adele Tateum, and ‘by him
turned over to the bank. It is the
impression in business circles that a
good bargain was made. No plans
have yet been made for the remodel-
ing of the building to make it more
desirable for banking purposes and to
afford more room, which the bank
needs for its business It is posisi-
ble the saving department, together
with the director’ room, may be movy-
ed to the basement, which is only two
feet below the street level, while the
first floor will be devoted entirely to
the commercial department and exe-
cutive offices.

This purchase adds another bank to
the list of those that own and occupy
their own “homes.” The property is
on a corner as are the other banks’

ago.

properties. The National City was
the first to be a home owner. Its
site at Pearl street and Campau

square was purchased many years ago,
way back in the day of the City Na-
tional and of Thos. D. Gilbert. The
property is listed in the bank assets
at $50,000, which includes the furni-
ture and fixtures. This valuation is
certainly conservative enough.

The Kent was the second to buy
its own building, at the corner of Canal
and Lyon streets, opposite the Com-
mercial Savings. When the Kent and
State consolidated, this became a
branch. The main offices of the consol-
idation were located at the State Bank,
which is leased property, at Ottawa
and Fountain streets. The old Kent
valued its corner at $25,000 and car-
ried a credit of $5,000 for furniture.
The old State Bank valued its West
Side branch, which it owned, at $235,-
coo, credited $24,946.10 to furniture
and fixtures, mostly at the main of-
fice. The Kent State Bank puts the
banking house asset at $49,000 and
furniture and fixtures at $29,500, a to-
tal of $78,500, or $1,446.10 less than
individual estimate. The property in-
cludes the Kent Bank corner, the
West Bridge and Scribner street cor-

ner and the furniture for the main
bank and of all the branches.
The Old National occupied the

Sweet's Hotel building at Pearl and
Canal streets under a _ ninety-nine
year lease, but a few years ago pur-
chased the property and owns it out-
right. It is carried in the inventory
at $212,604.74, which includes the fur-
niture and fixtures.

The Fourth National owns what
used to be known as the Tower block,
at Pearl and Canal streets, opposite
the Old. Including the furniture and

‘fixtures it is listed at $125,000.

The Peoplés Savings Bank has an
equity of $35,000 in its building at
Ionia and Monroe streets, and will
pay the remaining $50,000, which the
building cost, when the mortgage
which came with the purchase from
Wm. Alden Smith becomes due. The
bank has written off its furniture and
fixtures.

The Grand Rapids National is a
tenant instead of a home owner and
carries its furniture and at
$60,000:

fixtures

The Grand Rapids Savings is also a
tenant and has written off its furni-
ture and fixtures. When the bills
come in for the extensive remodeling
and improvement of its - enlarged
quarters this item may reappear.
The City Trust and Savings and
the South Grand Rapids banks are al-
so tenants and value their furniture
and fixtures at $1,500 and $3,000
spectively.

<—

Before the purchase of its present
home the Commercial Savings owned
its South End branch, inventoried at
$25,000, and listed its furniture at $12,-
522. The Fifth National valwed
furniture at $2,000. The total of the
two banks before the

its

house $25,000 and furniture $7,000, a
total of $32,000, with the recent pur-
chase to be added.

The Michigan Trust Co. is a ten-
ant of the Michigan Trust Building
Company. Its furniture, fixtures and
vaults five years ago were inventoried
at $20,000, but this has been cut down
year by year until now this
only $9,000 and no doubt even
will in time disappear.

In buying ‘homes of their own the
banks have had a shrewd
corner lots, and without
their positions are strong strategeti-
cally. Three of the Campau square
corners are held by banks. At Lyon
and Canal are two banks. At Ottawa
and Monroe the Grand Rapids Na-
tional is on one corner and just off
the opposite corner is. the Kent State,
with frontage on Ottawa and Foun-
tain streets. At Ionia and Monroe are
the Peoples and Grand Rapids. Sav-

this

eye for

exception

ings. The City Trust and Savings
is the only “inside” bank. It has
a Monroe street front, but no side

entrance. Some day when this bank
grows big it may buy a corner of its
own that will command the up-town
district. The trend of business east
and southward some of these diays
may make an up-town corner worth
having.

 

 

consolidation |
was $40,685.70, and now it is banking |

asset is |

 

Salesmen— Men with Grit and
“(Go’’—It’s Your Chance

I want a few reliable salesmen
to canvass the retail trade. Samples
in coat pocket. Don’t worry try-
ing to revive dead lines. Get one
with breath in it now. It’s a boom
year for you if you connect right.
Get wise to the ‘‘Iowa Idea.”’
Straight commission. New and
very profitable for both the sales-
man and retailer.

(Mention this paper.)

BOSTON PIANO & MUSIC CO.
Willard F. Main, Proprietor
lowa City, lowa, U. S. Ae,

 

 

 

 

 

Why Don’t You?

Be Consistent.

 

Why don’t you weigh your sugar
four or five times;

Put your potatoes into the bushel
basket,

Put them back into the pile,

Measure them up again,

Pour them back into the pile,

Measure them over again,

Repeat this operation two or three
times more,

Bruise and damage them by each
operation?

FOOLISH! SILLY! OH, YES!

But not as much so as keeping your aec-
counts in the old way, writing each transac-
tion over and over again three or four times,
“pruising’’ your business by rehandling,
making clerical errors, being always behind,
never ready for instant settlement, never
giving adequate information either to you
or your customers, inviting jangles and
disputes, driving profits away from your
door.

BAD BUSINESS!
FOOLISH BUSINESS!
DON’T DO IT!

Put an AMERICAN ACCOUNT REGIS-
TER on your counter. Do it all with one
writing only; save money, time and repu-
tation; establish mutual confidence be-
tween you and your customers; put system
in your business.

 

THE AMERICAN
CASE AND REGISTER CO.

Alliance, Ohio

J. A. Plank, General Agent
Cor. Monroe and Ottawa Streets
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Foley & Smith, 134 S. Baum St., Saginaw, Mich,
Bell Phone 1958 J

Cut off at this line.

 

Send more particulars about the American
Account Register and System,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

January 20, 1909

 

 

 

 

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Wednesday, January 20, 1909

 

 

 

 

 

THESE THINGS MEAN MUCH.

A gratifying result of the present
semi-annual Furniture Exhibition and
Sale is the fact that in the matter of
- attendance the event has established
the banner record thus far of the
greatest of Grand Rapids institutions.
As to sales, the record is also reas-
suring, even although it was confi-
dently expected; because of the well-
known fact that most of the large
warerooms elsewhere are at present
practically empty. The year of cau-
tion and conservative buying, just
ended, has created a demand and nat-
urally that demand comes to this
market,

Since the last exhibition and’ sale
in July over 100,000 square feet of
room thas been added to the exhibi-
tion space available in Grand Rapids,
and that this increase of the grand
total does not cover the demand is
shown by the fact that already plans
are completed and estimates made for
a still further increase by over 100,-
000 square feet, which will be made
during the next six months.

This means more than merely a
guarantee as to the standardization of
high grade furniture by the furniture
designers and artisans of Grand  Rap-
ids; it means more than a mere as-
surance as to the constancy of the
Grand Rapids reputation as the piv-
otal furniture mart of the world.

It means that the entire industrial
growth of our city is promoted; that
the manufacture of wood working
tools and machinery at this point must
increase; that the production of spe-
cialties in brass and iron must be en-
larged; that our imports in fabrics, in
glass and other materials are growing
each year. It means, also, that the
excellent hotel facilities in Grand
Rapids must be added to and their
very desirable reputations must be
maintained.

It means, briefly, that to the reputa-
tion of Grand Rapids as an advan-
tageous shipping point, with an abun-
dance of hydro-electric power avail-
able and possessing all the public
utilities and conveniences of a me-
tropolis, is added the unquestioned
fact that she is no longer simply a
furniture manufacturing town, but is

 

in reality a great and Successful cen-
ter of splendidly varied industries.

And it is the city of miscellaneous
interests that wins out in the long
run. The city where one may ob-
tain the best results in wood, paper,
iron, brass, leather, grains, fabrics, and
all of the miscellaneous results de-
rived from such staples, does mot
carry all of its eggs in a single bas-
ket and is able to successfully with-
stand numerous obstacles.

Then, too, there is an indescriba-
ble, almost mysterious influence de-
veloped where a large variety of in-
dustrial interests are centered; a sort
of companionship and harmony made
possible by the differences of sys-
tems, practices and results that are in
evidence. They seem to broaden the
views of the individual, be ‘he arti-
san, superintendent or owner, and
with this breadth comes the higher,
better and more. steadfast atmos-
phere of civic righteousness.

 

HEMMETER PRACTICAL JOKE.

In the old days when red _ liquor
and chasers were, as merchandise to
be disposed of at a profit, more
prominent in the business sense of
John P. Hemmeter than they are at
present, perhaps. John had quite a
widespread reputation as an inveter-
ate practical joker. And in this re-
spect he was held, in various degrees,
in esteem by the lumber jacks of the
Saginaw Valley. John was versatile,
ingenious and sometimes thoughtless
in developing these jokes, but they!
brought in business to the bar where
he was stationed.

Evidently Mr. Hemmeter has not
forgotten his cunning as a practical
joker, neither has he lost his in-
zZenuity in the matter of securing
publicity for his vagaries, as is shown
by his proposition to the Michigan
Knights of the Grip. In a seemingly
magnanimous spirit he offers to put
up a fund of $5,000 to be known as
the “John P. Hemmeter Charity
Fund.”

And therein cracks out the grue-
some humor of John’s sense of fun.
The idea that the members of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip are
seeking charity is an offense against
decency. And then this generous
philanthropist proposes to retain pos-
session of the five thousand dollar
fund without providing security
therefor and with no definite condi-
tions expressed as to the disburse-
ment of the fund. Here is where
the excrutiating comedy of the thing
comes in. While it is claimed that
others will contribute to this fund,
the bequest is to be known only as
the Hemmeter fund and whatever of
advertising value accrues comes to
John exclusively.

It is quite clear that the Hem-
meter idea is based solely upon the
publicity theory and that there is no
intention of permitting the project
to stray off in other directions. As
a practical joker, John is still par
excellence.

 

When a man ends well the world
tries to find out how he began.

 

If a fool is out of his place any-

where on earth it is in a store.

A FIRST CLASS PROPOSITION.

At last the State of Michigan pos-
sesses a strong organization, the pur-
pose of which is to further the plan
of placing State offices and clerkships
under civil service rules. This asso-
ciation, formed at Lansing last Mon-
day, is called The Michigan Civil
Service League and is officered as
follows:

President—Ray Stannard Baker,
East Lansing.

Vice-President—James B. Angell,
L. L. D,, President of the University
of Michigan.

Secretary—Frank M. Byam, Grand
Rapids.

Treasurer—Charles W. Garfield,
Grand Rapids.
These gentlemen are thoroughly

well known and esteemed all over
the State and they will be received
in their new field with glad acclaim
by all citizens who desire to see the
setting up of a standard of merit in
the engagement and advancement of
State offices and clerkships, as oppos-
ed to mere political patronage with
nothing in the form of system or effi-
ciency to recommend it.

Ray Stannard Baker is eminent as
a Magazine writer upon social, polit-
ical and economic topics, and being
a citizen of Michigan who thas made
a thorough study of social conditions
not only in this State, but all over
the country, he is peculiarly an ex-
cellent choice for the presiding off-
cer of such an association. Presi-
dent Angell, eminent as a_ scholar,
teacher and councillor and revered all
over the world as a broad minded
and most potent force in the affairs
of the world, lends tremendous influ-
ence to the association.

Membership in this Civil Service
League is open to all who are inter-
ested in the movement, and applica-
tions for this privilege and honor
are already being received from all
parts of the State. All persons who
may consider this matter are inform-
ed that at the initial meeting Mon-
day the League adopted a constitu-
tion which states that the object
of the organization is to secure the
establishment and maintenance of a
system of appointment, promotion and
removal in the civil service founded
upon the principle that public office
is a public trust, admission to which
shall depend upon proven fitness, as-
certained by examinations which, so
far as practicable, shall be competi-
tive, and that removals shall be made
for legitimate cause only, such as dis-
honesty, negligence or inefficiency,
but not for political opinion or re-
fusal to render party service.

Incidentally it may be stated that
the League practically endorses the
main features of the civil service bill
providing for a civil service com-
mission, introduced by Senator Mac-
kay, of Detroit, and now before the
Legislature of Michigan for consider-
ation,

—————

It often happens that the man who

seems to take most interest in Heay-

en has the least investment there.
EST ERTEe

You can tell what a man really is

 

 

 

by what he brings out in you.

ALWAYS RIGHTEOUSLY BUSY.

U. S. Senator Tillman may go on
framing up replies to President
Roosevelt’s expose as to certain land
transactions on the Pacific coast;
Congressman Wm. Willett, Jr., may
concoct his gallery-searching attacks
upon the executive head of the na-
tion and Senator Foraker may per-
sist in his effort to inject vitality in-
to the Brownsville dead-duck affair,
but none of these things can jinter-
rupt the broad vision and patriotic
energy of Mr. Roosevelt. In spite of
these attacks and while the daily pa-
pers are throwing fits in efforts to
unravel the Pulitzer libel suit identity,
our President is just as busy as ever.

No man appreciates the value of
having a comprehensive plan to work
to more clearly than does Mr. Roose-
velt, and none have a keener sense
of the value of historic objects, as-
sociations and monuments than that
which he possesses. And so, as a
step forward in the direction of co-
ordinate effort between municipali-
ties and commonwealths, President
Roosevelt has requested the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects—the most
competent authority on such matters
in the country—to designate the
names of thirty men representing all
parts of the country to compose a
Council of the Fine Arts. This body
will include architects, sculptors,
painters, landscape architects and lay-
men, with the Supervising Architect
of the Treasury Department as _ its
executive head. The object of this
Council is to advise upon the char-
acter and design of all public works in
archiecture, paintings, sculpture, all
bridges, monuments and other works
in which the art of design forms an
integral part; and to make suzgges-
tions and recommendations for the
conservation of all historic monu-
ments.

Had President Roosevelt been less
large in the sense of civic rectitude;
had he been more conventional in a
political sense, such a project would
not have entered his mind probably;
but if it had he would have carried
it out along well known political lines
where political service would have
counted for more than would practi-
cal skill and excellences in the vari-
ous professions.
the
the

President Roosevelt joins in
protest against the decision of
trustees of Trinity Parish—an enor-
mously wealthy concern—to close the
historic old St. John’s chapel in
Varick street because it “does not
pay;” he works for the conservation
of National natural resources; he acts
promptly and effectually on a sugges-
tion by. the Italian government that
material for dwelling houses and
American carpenters and joiners to
superintend the construction be sent
as a part of the relief for sufferers
contributed by the United States.

In brief, his great big brain and
hand are in constant touch with all
points where good, straightforward
and fearless American citizenship can
be of service, and his connection with
those tiny tempests in a teapot in the
National Capitol building are mere
routine incidentals, necessary, pet

 

haps, but not especially interesting.

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January 20, 1909

MICHIGAN

 

 

 

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tomers?

It was pretty busy times in Laster-
ville and the proprietors, clerks and |
all hands had been overworked for |
weeks.

There was no question of hours, |

extra work or any of the material |
Did you ever no- |
tice that in the village shoe store the |
smallest clerk seems to be as vitally |
interested in the success of the busi- |
ness as is the proprietor himself? I |

for labor troubles.

verily believe that except on a man-|
of-war, or in a newspaper office, there |
is no place where the esprit de corps |
is so strong as in a village shoe store, |
and in spite of everybody more or less |

tired out, and, in spite of the fact that

there was a good show at the Opera |

House,

poned meeting of the club was large. |

Almost a full membership.
“We have to discuss this evening,”
said Mr. Laster in opening the meet-

ing, “a subject which I am sure will |
prove of considerable interest, even |

if it is not a very vital one, and that
subject is—but I will let the chair- |
man of the committee break it to|
you in his own way, Mr. Rustelle.”
Mr. Rustelle—
President did not announce this sub-

ject, although I make no apologies |
for it, but it is one in which we shall |

be obliged to draw the strictest veil

of secrecy around our debate or we|
may be misunderstood and perhaps |

maligned. I
(Cries:) “Subject!

 

Subject!”

Mr. Rustelle—The subject is this: |

“Which are preferable as customers,
from the salesman’s standpoint, men
or women?”
Mr. Izensole—Dot’s easy.
fer has der money mit ’em.
Mr. Rustelle—Barring that.
Mr. Ball—lI suppose, being the old-

Vichef-

est, I have to begin, and, while I nev- |
er thought of the matter as a point |

blank question I know that it ‘has al-

ways been running through my mind |
I might |
answer like the man who had nine |

in a general sort of way.

wives, that the one ‘he loved best was
the one with whom he chanced to be
existing at the moment.
swer again that it all depends. There
are men and men, and there are wom-
en and women, as customers in a shoe
store as well as in any other posi-
tion in life.

The Chairman—(sotto voce): That
is a nice piece of language. Classify-
ing “customers in a shoe store” as “a
position in life.”

Mr. Ball—I heard you, you old pur-
ist. If I should quote some of your
language once—like the time I heard
you say, years ago, that a certain la-
dy’s foot was “Simply immense in

Do You Prefer Men or Women Cus-

the attendance at the post- |

I am sorry that the |

I might ane |

| that shoe!” oh, I see you remember
labout it—perhaps you wouldin’t be so
critical. If you do not shut off those
| side remarks [’ll tell about the time—
| The Chairman—Order!

| Mr. Ball—Oh, of course, I’m going
ito be President of this club next year.

The Chairman—I’ll vote for you.

Mr .Ball—Thank you kindly, . sir.
But, as I was saying, there is a great
difference. There is no customer on
earth that I would rather wait on
'than a poor widow with just so much
;money saved up to buy three pairs of
shoes for ‘her boys. If the boys are
‘not spoiled boys, and too many times
ithey are, and that woman wants the
ibest possible value in service and
‘looks for those boys, she is the easiest
icustomer in the world; the most in-
iclined to believe you when you tell
‘the truth, the most appreciative when
| you take trouble to find just the rizht
i'thing. Not quite so much money in
that trade perhaps, but hour for hour,
‘the day and the week through, I be-
lieve that such a trade is preferable
ito that of any class of men’s trade I
‘could recall.

Mr. Kip—How about widowers?

Mr. Ball—I don’t know. We al-
|ways turn them over to the lady
clerks.

Mr. Ball—Now with a young wid-
‘ow, thinking of a second, and with
none too much money, you have a
customer that you might just as well
iturn over to the newest, youngest,
‘cheapest clerk you have.

Willie Fitem—Lord, but I’ve had
l'em turned over to me and I never
‘exactly understood before.

| Mr. Ball—We learn something
ievery day, Willie. But, as I was say-
ling, taking them all in all, class for
i class, and age for age, except for the
isingle fact that the man too often
carries the pocketbook exclusively, I
believe the women are the more de-
\sirable customers from the salesman’s
standpoint, and I’m not too certain
they are from any other standpoint.

The Chairman—Very good. Now,
| Kip.
| Mr. Kip—Admitting all that Mr.
Ball has said, I think that if I were
‘establishing an exclusive shoe store
| for either men or women I would
choose to cater exclusively to the men.
poe

Mr. Rustelle—Beg pardon, but that
is aside from the question. The idea
is to consider customers in a general
shoe store where men buy for them-
selves and their wives and families
and women for their families, them-
selves and occasionally for their hus-
bands as well.

Mr. Kip—Oh, well, I rather think,
even in that case that I would vote

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 20, 1909

 

for the men as the nearest, on the
average, model customers. They are
not model shoppers, I don’t mean, for
they very often take stuff, to save
time, which the women could never
be induced to touch, but from the
salesman’s_ standpoint they know
more quickly when they see that
thing and seldom come into a shoe
store with indefinite ideas, except, oc-
casionally, when they come in for the
purpose of buying some shoes _ for
their wife’s wear. The woman is a
natural barterer. She does not at all
mind going into three or four stores
and looking over everything that is
offered before she decides what she
will buy and very frequently does it
all over two or three times. Now,
you could not induce the average man
to do that sort of thing. John Jones
comes into my store. He wants a
pair of shoes for himself. He knows
that we are fair people, tolerably up-
to-date in footwear, that we keep a
stock of men’s shoes inventorying
something like $7,000 and he judges
in advance that something that we
have will suit him. He comes in,
looks our offers over as to price, style
and quality, takes what he likes best
or thinks is the most suitable at the
money he wants to pay, planks down
the doo-dads and goes along about
his business, which is not buying
shoes at all. Me for the men.
Mr. Ball (Hi.)—Me for the ladies.
Of course you'll say that it is be-
cause I am just married and that it
would not be becoming for me to
argue otherwise, but such, I assure
you, is mot the case. I prefer the
women as customers for exactly the
reasons Mr. Kip gives against them.
They know what they want usually
and ask for it right on the start. If
you haven’t it you might just as well
hang up your shoe horn as to. bother
to show what you have. It is usually
a failure. When a woman says she
wants a patent leather shoe with a
brown cloth top in button and you
haven’t it, you might just as well say
you haven’t and if she doesn’t enthuse
about your ordering it for her let her
go out and turn to the lady who is
just coming in for something that you
have. Of course, if you are not busy
it does no harm to show up any nice
things you have in stock, but usually
you'd better let her go. It saves
time. Now, a man comes in with no
more idea what he wants than a
baby. He wants a pair of shoes. Has
not given the subject a moment’s
thought until he happens to discover
that his footwear looks shabby. He
simply comes in and says “shoes.”
And there you are. One thing he
knows, usually, that he doesnt want
shoes just like he had before. Occa-
sionally there is an “end to end” shoe
wearer, but ordinarily he wants some-
thing different. You begin to paw
over stock. He means to be easily
suited, but it is all a new subject to

 

him and my experience is that he will
say, more times than the woman will
who looks at goods, “I'll think it
over and come in again.” He is all
at sea. Me for the women.

Mr. Tanner—We think a good deal |
of the men’s trade in our store and
we have a line of customers who, if

the rest of our men customers would
live up to them, would make me en-
But I can
hardly say that, as general custom-

thusiastic for the men.

ers, that is, buying for themselves and
others, the men are as desirable as
the women. From the general con-
dition of things, the women give more
attention to. the matter than the men
do. A woman wih a family knows
more about the needs of her children
in the footwear line than the man
does and she comes in with definite
ideas, has the sizes (mostly she brings
the children or persons for whom the
shoes are to be bought with her), and
in general she is a customer, like a
pupil, who has the lesson prepared. I
like that sort best.

Mr. Cobb—I vote for the men. I
don’t know as I can tell why.

Mr. Lutherby—There isn’t any dif-
ference as between their being male
or female. I’d rather wait on little
Mrs. Allowance than I would on Old
Skinner, and twisting it around, I’d
rather wait on Judge Sound than I
would on old Mrs. Grippenny. It’s
all in the people and men and women
are mostly alike.

Mr. Schumann—Wouldn’t the shoe
store be an earthly heaven if we could
have a trade as big as we do now or

just a trifle larger, and all the cus-

tomers were Judge Sounds and Mrs.
Allowances? But, unfortunately, they
are not. But taking them all in all,
age for age, class for class and pay-
ing ability for paying ability, give
me the women every time.

The Chairman—That sounds good
but what does it mean?

Mr. Schumann-—Simply that I’d
rather sell to a poor little girl than
to a poor little boy, to a rich little
girl than to a rich little boy, to a mean
old woman than to a mean old man,
to a giddy young girl than to a giddy
young man, to a—

The Chairman—We get the idea.
Thank you, and all of you. The wom-
en have as they always deserve to
and, inasmuch as Sam Simmions told
me yesterday that he was going to
have his shell oyster parlor in run-
ning order by to-night, I move we all
go down there, and my friend, Mr.
Ball, will pay for all the oysters we
can eat, aS we sit in a now in front
of a shelf and squirt pepper sauce in-
to the scheels, slide them to their
last home and eat crackers on the
side.

Hearing no objections it is so or-
dered—Ike N. Fitem in Boot and
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

   

 

TALKING IN STORES.

 

Some Clerks Too Chummy with Their
Friends.
Written for the Tradesman.

In some succinct advice to clerks
I not long ago saw the following:

“If you can influence your friends
to trade where you work so much the
better for the store; but if you sim-
ply influence them to loaf there so
much the worse for the store.”

I was all the more impressed with
the above because I had lately suffer-
ed at the hands of a clerk whom it
might do some good to read the lines
just quoted.

I was in a great hurry when I en-
tered the store where she draws her
pay—I had almost said, “where she
is employed,” but that would be too
nice a phrase to apply to such treat-
ment as she extends to many of the
customers.

If I were the only one I had ever
heard of who had been grievously
neglected by this clerk I should let it
go as a possible carelessness that was
not often repeated, but time and time
again have I theard others mention
her remissness and all the cases were
those arising from the fact that the
young lady in question is receiving
far too many of her friends at the
store. Really, according to all ac-
counts, she is using the establishment
as a sort of private reception parlor.

The day I had reason for dissat-
isfaction there were two fellows and
one girl monopolizing this clerk’s at-
tention quite to the exclusion of
every one else. As remarked I was
in a great rush. I had only fifteen
minutes in which to buy some goods
at this girl’s counter, do them up in
a box, address the package and get it
to a certain party who was to take
the Interurban in twenty minutes.

That girl parleyed with her cronies
so long after my approach that finally
[ could wait no longer for her to
stop the talkfest and had to butt in,
as the boys say, and tell her she would
have to wait on me as I had to get
the goods I should purchase off on
the train.

The girl reluctantly started to wait
on me. Even after I had detailed
my situation she kept throwing words
into her chums’ conversation, which
went right on as though I had not
been obliged to interrupt it.

After having to state several times
just exactly what I wanted, I finally
got what I called for, the bunch the
meanwhile shooting glances at me
which, had they been poisoned barbs,
would surely have accomplished my
utter annihilation.

With difficulty I got to the Inter-
urban waiting place just as the car
began to move. My friend, who had
given up my coming, happened to be
seated on the side next to me, and
succeeded in having the conductor
grab the package for her just in the
nick o’ time. One moment more and
it would have been too late.

I had come almost on a run, so
that now I was obliged to step into
the waiting room and sit down to re-
cover my breath.

Of course, all that wouldn’t have
feazed that indifferent clerk had she

known it; but just the same it incon-
venienced me greatly.

That clerk really merits being re-
ported to her employer for the wel-
fare of his place of business. How-
ever, who wants to do that? She’s al-
most worse than no clerk in her de-
partment, but she may have a widow-
ed mother to support or a little sis-
ter dependent on her pay envelope.

So I guess, after all, it is best to grin
and bear all such delinquencies.

J. Wardell.
——_--2—~e_—_____
Make the Goods Talk.

Advertising is making the goods
speak. It is putting a truthful, ani-
mate tongue into inanimate merchan-
dise.

Merchandise itself can not lie.
Sooner or later its true character will
develop—in its use—in the satisfac-
tion it gives to the owner.

When exaggerated or false state-
ments are made about goods it is a
human tongue that talks or a human
hand that writes; it is not the mer-
chandise that speaks—therefore it is
not advertising.

Advertising is also news—news
more vital to the family than nine-
tenths of the so called news that
goes into the newspaper.

Whoever makes the goods talk—
whoever exhibits the true nature and
uses of an article of commerce—who-
ever correctly and interestingly tells
the news about his merchandise—he
is the true advertiser—John Wana-

maker in Dry Goods Economist.
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Two Ways of Traveling.

Don’t travel on the blind baggage
Only the Weary Willie tourist, grimy,
fearful, hungry, perhaps with a furtive
look in his eyes, crouches in the shad-
ows waiting to flip himself aboard the
express.

And the blind! Flattened against
the front of the car as the train hurls
itself forward; the wintry wind. pierc-
ing him through and through; cin-
ders and smoke and grime and dirt
pouring over him, cutting his face, fill-
ing his lungs, the Weary Willie has
but one consolation: He is going for-
ward.

But back in the Pullman, sleeping
restfully, confident that all is well,
sheltered from the cold and the wind
and the cinders. is The Man Who
Knows Success.

He, also, is going forward.

But how differently.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

January 20, 1909

 

AN UNCONSCIOUS REFORMER.

 

How a Department Store Manager
Learned His Lesson.
Written for the Tradesman.

“T would rather my father should
wear patched garments and be known
as a poor man by the whole town
than that he should say, ‘I seen,’

‘them things,’ ‘when I git back’ and

a few other of the choice vulgarisms
you indulge in habitually.”

The criticism was made with em-
phasis and carried with it the flavor
which can be developed only by the
voice of a disgusted woman—and a
young woman at that.

Harriet Blakely was the speaker,
and as she stood resolutely, defiantly,
at her place behind the counter of
the large department store, her eyes
snapping and her breast heaving
strongly and regularly, it was evident
that having delivered an ultimatum
she was prepared to accept dismissal
from her position serenely and sat-
isfied that she had performed a duty
by which she had long been  con-
fronted.

But the proprietor of the store, a
well groomed, rather handsome man
of perhaps 35 years of age, merely
stared at the girl grimly as he en-
twined his watch fob about his fin-
gers for an instant and then, with a
broad smile, as though relieved by
some happy thought, he turned and

 

walked leisurely toward the rear of|

his store.

“I do not care even a little bit.”
said Miss Blakely as she resumed her
morning work of carefully examining
the boxes, shelves and cases in her
section to see that everything was
ship-shape for the day’s business;
“Mr. Hanson drives me mad a dozen
times every day with his poor Eng-
lish and his current slang,” and the
department manager, who had stood
near throughout the scene, suggest-
ed: “Never mind, ‘The Prince’ has
forgotten it by this time.”

And Richard Hanson, who was in-
variably referred to by all in his em-
ploy as “The Prince,” had forgotten
it; because upon reaching the eleva-
tor he addressed a floorwalker with,
“Did you have them books taken up
to the fifth floor?”

“2 *

By means of that intangible myste-
rious system of communication com-
mon to all establishments where large
numbers of employes are engaged it
was quite well understood by all the
men and women whose duties were
confined to the first floor of the Han-
son Department Store that Miss Har-
riet Blakely was obliged to work to
support not only herself but to con-
tribute to the care of others; that her
father was a man of refinement and
education but was deficient as a
manager, as a man of business; and
that while, by no means exhibiting a
spirit of haughtiness or even exces-
sive pride, there was that about her
demeanor, her dress and her man-
ner of speech which seemed to set
her apart from her daily associates.

And because of this there was
“talk” among the other clerks and at-
taches of the establishment, to which
the lady herself was wholly indiffer-
ent, seemingly. Indeed, there was a

distinct spirit visible throughout the
main floor of opposition and even dis-
like for the young lady, so that when
it was known that she had assaulted
“The Prince” orally and openly the
first curiosity expressed was as to the
cause of her anger, and this was at
once followed by expectant curiosity
as to her inevitable dismissal.

Miss Blakely was in her place the
following day as usual and there was
nothing apparent that she _ had
been even reprimanded; all of the
heads of departments denying any in-
formation on the subject. And, furth-
er, it very quickly became noised
about that “The Prince” had sudden-
ly left the city “for New York or
somewhere, it was not exactly known
where.” Thus several days passed
and with mo news percolating through
the establishment, either as to Miss
Blakely or the proprietor of the
store, the matter was practically for-
gotten. Even the manager of the
store professed to be in absolute ig-
norance of any turmoil socially, com-
mercially or financially. He was
wholly unconcerned and during a pe-
riod of two months the great depart-
ment store moved along busily, sys-
tematically and prosperously with
perfect harmony evident everywhere.

“What was it that made you so
angry?” finally asked the manager of
ithe department in which Miss Blake-
ily was employed, and she replied that
it was really foolish in her to so
lose her temper, for after thinking
over the case carefully she had con-

 

harm. And then it came out that in
a conversation with her Mr. Hanson
jhad merely asked for her opinion as
to why it was that so fine and intel-
lectual a man as was her father had

independent financially—why it was
that he was a poor man?

“Sure,” responded the department
manager, “he meant no harm. He
asked the question out of the good-
ness of his heart.”

“I think so now myself,” said Miss
Blakely as she placed a box of goods
upon the shelf behind her, and the
two separated with a mutual under-
standing that nothing further should
be said upon the subject.

Just three months after the day Mr.
Hanson departed so unceremoniously
and late in the afternoon Miss Blake-
ly had left her section to go to the
stock room with an order, and reach-
ed the elevator cage just when, with
a great roar and pressure of wind,
mingled with shrieking voices and
the shouts of people on the upper
floors, one of the elevator carriages
dropped from the fifth floor to the

basement. Instantly there was a
great tumult of excitement, clerks,
customers, floorwalkers, cash girls

and all hurrying toward the elevator.
Not so with Miss Blakely. Her first
move was to a telephone and to send
in a call for ambulances. Then, as-
suming the authority of a_ director,
which all seemed to heed, she divert-
ed and drove back the. crowd from
before the elevator, dispatching mes-
sengers to close and guard the front
doors; others—the men—to the stair-
way leading to the basement, to drive
the crowd from going in that direc-

 

been unable to succeed in becoming |

 

tion, and still others to prevail upon
the clerks and customers to move to
the front of the store out of the way.

Thus, when the ambulances and
their surgeon attendants arrived, they
found a clear field awaiting them and
but two persons seriously injured—
the elevator conductor and a little girl
who had received a compound frac-
ture of her left forearm. The con-
ductor’s injuries were more serious
and of an internal character. First
aid to the injured had been provided
and everybody was loud in_ their
praise of the presence of mind and
executive ability of Miss Blakely
when “The Prince” appeared upon the
scene.

x *k *

A week later everybody in the es-
tablishment knew that Miss Blakely
had resigned her position, to take
effect on the following Monday, the
tenth anniversary of the  establish-
ment of the Hanson Department
Store; and that there was to be a
soiree dansante and a dinner on the
carpet department floor on the even-
ine of that day, given by “The
Prince” to all of his employes, and
that Mr. Walter K. Blakely, father of
Miss Blakely, was to address the as-
sembly briefly upon ‘Success in Life”
on that occasion.

“Soiree Dansante,”’ observed one of
the porters as he read over his invi-
tation. “What in thunder’s that?” and

ia clerk from the dress goods depart-

iment explained that it was French for
ibarn dance; at which the porter ex-

cluded that “The Prince’ meant no}

claimed: “That’s good, but it ought

jto cover the Virginia Reel and Money

|

 

|Musk.” At this a packer from the
icrockery department added: “Yes,

Oy?
a cake walk.” Then the dress goods
clerk explained: “It covers the whole
outfit and means a good time, dances
until you can’t rest and ‘eats’ until
you're full.”

The anniversary celebration came
in due time and as one of the daily
papers said: “It was generously con-
ceived and admirably carried out by
a man who is not only a good adver-
tising patron of his home town pa-
pers but who appreciates the good
will and interest of those in his em-
ploy.’ The two large rooms of the
carpet department were transformed
into a veritable banquet hall and an
assembly room, brilliant with colors
and artistic decorations cleverly in-

|terspersed with electric light effects,

and in a balcony arranged in the up-
per portion of the great archway be-
tween the rooms was a full orchestra

iwhich provided delightful music dur-

ing the banquet and for dancing. Up-
on the walls were various legends,
prominent among them being: “Never
say ‘git’ for the word ‘Get;’” “Never
say ‘I seen;’” “Ladies and gentlemen
do not use slang;” “‘Them things,’
‘them books,’ ‘them people’ are unpar-
donable expressions;” “Try to use
good English always;”’ “one but vul-
gar people deal in slang.”

It was noticeable that Miss Blake-
ly sat at the right of “The Prince,”
who acted as toastmaster; and that
her father sat at his left; yet it was
still more noticeable that in his va-
rious remarks as master of ceremo-
nies Mr. Hanson used excellent Eng-
lish and to the total exclusion of

 

slang. And altogether the occasion
was, aS expressed later by the so-
ciety editor, “most enjoyable.”

Mr. Blakely’s remarks upon “Suc-
cess in Life” were admirably free
from cant and century old epigram-
matics, telling plainly, frankly and in
terms clear to the youngest mind
present as to the mental, tempera-
mental and ethical requisites for suc-
cess, and he closed with: “As for ex-
ample—and I speak by suggestion
and consent of your beloved employ-
er, Mr. Hanson—whenever a man or
woman discovers that he or she is de-
ficient in the use of the mother
tongue, it’ is unquestionably a step
toward success to overcome such a
fault as soon as possible. Any em-
ploying merchant, any manager, sales-
man or other person engaged in any
capacity whatever in such an_ estab-
lishment as the Hanson Department
Store who uses good English and
who does not indulge in slang is
better and more successful in his or
her respective sphere of activity than
are those persons who are not in the
habit of and possibly are not so well
equipped for correct speech.”

Enthusiastic applause at times em-
phasized Mr. Blakely’s remarks, and
when he took his seat there was the
heartiest outburst of all, which might
have continued for several minutes
had not Mr. Hanson arose and, lift-
ing his hand for attention, said: “And
now, my friends and_ associates, be-
fore we begin our dancing and in or-
der to give further zest to our pleas-
ures I want to make a confession.”
Then, in an intense silence, the gen-
tleman related how during his three
months’ absence from the city he had
been both student and pupil at the
little farm home of Mr. Blakely, a
mile or so beyond the limits of the
town, for the sole purpose of im-
proving his knowledge of English and
correcting his grammar because he
had been aroused to a knowledge of
his failings in these directions, and
because by that awakening he had
been brought to a keen realization of
the fact that such an improvement
would be beneficial not only to his
business but would add to his enjoy-
ment of life in general. Continuing
he said: “And as to the latter con-
sideration I now take great pleasure
in introducing to: you the instigator.
the moving spirit in bringing about
my reform.”

Then, taking Miss Blakely’s hand
as she arose, he said: “And, more
than that, my friends, this lady is my
affanced wife. To test my use of
English I corresponded with her quite
regularly by mail during my absence,
and in order to inform me as to my
errors or my progress she wrote reg-
ularly to me; and we are both ready
to admit we fully agree that it pays
to speak correctly.”

Although the “soiree dansante” did
not end until hours after midnight
all employes were promptly at their
respective posts at the usual hour
next morning, and so far as could be
judged by appearances at least every
one was more alert, more courteous
and better contented than ever be-
fore in the history of the establish-
ment, Charles S. Hathaway.

ed LEA NO egos ee me

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Why Armour Made Terms With Nel- sai

son Morris.

The late Philip D. Armour was the
acknowledged father of the modern
packing house industry. He was a
man of great mental and physical re-
sources—big in brain, rich in vital
power, bold in initiative and cautious
when he should be.

Armour had two peculiar character-

istics—he refused to own more land
than he could use, believing that the
land really belonged to all the peo-

ple, and should only be appropriated |
His |
second peculiarity was that his only)

by those who could utilize it.

stimulant was tea. If he had an un-
usually big problem to pass upon, he
cut down his food and increased his
tea. Tea was his tipple. It opened
up his mental pores and gave him
cosmic consciousness.

Armour had so much personality—
so much magnetism—that he had but
one competitor in his business. This
man was Nelson Morris.

Now Morris was a type of man that
Armour had never met. Morris was
a Jew—a Bavarian—who loved music,
art and philosophy. Nelson Morris,
small. black of beard, humming bars
from Bach and quoting Schopenhaur,
buying hogs at the Chicago Stock
Yards and then killing these hogs for
the gastronomical delectation of
Christians, was a sort of all ’round
Judaic genius.

The Mosaic Law forbids the Jews
eating pork, but it places no ban or
bar on their dealing in it.

Nelson Morris bought hogs at 4 a.
m., or as soon as it was light. Ar-
mour found him at it when he arrived,
and Philip Armour was usually the
earliest bird on the job.

Yet Armour wasn’t afraid of Mor-
ris—the Jew merely perplexed him.
One day Armour said to MacDowell,
his secretary, “I say, Mac, Nelson
doesn’t need a guardian!”

The Jew was getting on the Ar-
mour nerves—just a little.

Armour was always in friendly
terms with his competitors—he was
on friendly terms with everybody,
he had no grouch and never got in
a grump. He called everybody by
his first name, and socially was ir-
resistible. He got up close—invited
confidence—made friends, and held
them. There was never a man he
wouldn’t speak to. He was above
jealousy and beyond hate, yet, of
course, when it came to a show down,
he might hit awfully hard and quick,
but he always passed out his com-
mercial wallop with a smile.

When Sullivan met Corbett at New!

Orleans, Gentleman Jim landed the
champion a terrific jolt on the jaw

_with his right, smiled sweetly and!42 State St,

 

 

 

said, “To think, John, of your com-
ing all the way from Boston to get
that—also this,” then he gave him
another with his left.

One morning at daylight, when
Morris got to the Stock Yards, he
found all the pens empty. Armour
and his pig buyers had been around
with lanterns all night hunting up
the owners and bulling the market.
“To think,” said Armour to Morris,
“to think of your coming all the way
from Bavaria hoping to get the start
of me!”

Both men smiled serenely. The
next week whole train loads of pigs
were coming to Chicago consigned
to Nelson Morris. He had sent his
agents out and was buying of the

ifarmers direct.

Soon after, Armour casually met
Morris and suggested that they lunch
together that day.

The Jew smiled assent out of his
black beard. He had scored a point
—Armour had come to him.

So they lunched together. The
Jew ate very little. Both men talk-
ed but said nothing. They were
waiting. The Jew ate little, but he
drank three cups of tea.

Armour insisted on paying the
check, excused himself somewhat
abruptly and hurried to his office.
He sent for his lieutenants. They
came quickly, and Armour said:
“Boys, I’ve just lunched with Nel-
son Morris. I think we’d better come
to an understanding with him as to
a few little things we shall do and a
few we shall not do—he drinks noth-
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January 20, 1909

NEW YORK MARKET.

Special Features of the Grocery and
Produce Trade.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Jan. 15—Speculative
coffee is humming and sales of May
were made yesterday at 6c, thus es-
tablishing a new level for Rio. 7s,
and the end is not in sight. Foreign
advices report an advance of lac in
Europe. There is a strong feeling
that a duty will be levied, but there
is also a strong feeling that it will
not be levied. Jobbers tell of a pret-
ty good demand all the week for the
actual spot article and others Say
there is no improvement to speak of.
At the close Rio No. 7 is worth 71%
@73%c in an invoice way. In
and afloat there are 3,674,564 bags
against 3,852,663 bags at the
time last year. Mild grades
been more sought after,
buyers and sellers seem unable to
reach an agreement as to values, the
sellers being very firm in their views.
Good Cucuta is held at toc.

have

In the sugar trade refiners
showing mighty little interest in
taws and the market drags. Refined
is also in limited demand and closes
at the usual rate of 4.55¢ less 1 per
cent. cash, with the 7 days’ delay;
ederal, 30 days or a month. Buyers
are not purchasing ahead of current
wants, as the situation in raws is
somewhat uncertain to their think-
ing.

Pingsuey teas are very firmly
maintained and Formosas in first
hands are in extremely light supply.
While the cheaper grades are most
asked for, the whole line shows im-
provement and sellers feel much en-
couraged over the outlook. Prices
not, perhaps quotably higher,
but the tendency is toward a higher
level beyond a doubt.

Rice shows little
not unlikely that the weather has
something to do with the situation
and, if se, there seems no immediate
prospect of an improvement. Good
to prime centrifugal, 22(@3oc.

are

change. It is

Spices are quiet. Scarcely any-
thing is being done in an invoice way
and regular orders are for small
quantities. Prices are practically
without change in any regard.

Buyers of molasses are takinz
small quantities, as is usually the
case at this time of year, but the
situation is firm and sellers are not
at all inclined to make any conces-
sion. Syrups are in light offering
and firm.

Canned corn is said to be improv-
ing day by day--and holders profess
to see daylight, after the long night.
Some good-sized lots have changed
hands, however, at quotations rang-
ing from 65@7oc. This for Standard
N. Y. State. For Maryland, Maine
style, the market is rather quiet at
something like 5714@6oc. Tomatoes
move in small lots and, while the
nominal quotation is 7oc for stand-
ard threes, it is said to be easier than
it was to pick up the goods at 67%c.
Peas of the cheaper grades are sell-
ing around 65@7oc and buyers seem
to hesitate about paying more. Other
goods are practically without change.

The supply of butter which will

 

| firm
store! plies here and on the way, the out-
| look
Ssame€/as at present

although |

llead to fair dealing.
are |

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

grade as top is in not very abundant |
supply, nor is the demand very active |
at the closing price of 33%c. Aside|
from this, the market is abundantly |
supplied and the general situation is, |
perhaps, in favor of the seller. Ex-|
tras, 32@33c; held specials, 30c; ex-

New York Greenings and Baldwins
Get our prices

M. 0. BAKER & CO.

Toledo, - A = Ohio

 

 

tras, 28@29%c; firsts, 261%4@27%4c;
imitation creamery, 23@24c; Western
factory, firsts, 2114@22c; process, 2
@24%ec.

Cheese is in moderate supply and
improving demand. Stocks here are

in few and strong hands and the

Phone Cit. 5746

Custom Tanning

Deer skins and all kinds of hides and skins |
tanned with hair and fur on or off. |

H. DAHM & CO.,
Care E. S. Kiefer’s Tannery,

 

market will be well sustained for
the remainder of the season. Full
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Eggs are quiet, but quotations are
and with only moderate sup-

is for prices certainly as high

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Send us your buckwheat grain;
we pay highest market price.

 

 

 

Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co.
L. Fred Peabody, Mgr.
Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

for some little time.

Fresh gathered extras are worth 36c;

firsts, 33@33'4c; seconds, 31@32%c;

refrigerator stock, 281%4@3oc.
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16

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 20, 1909

 

JACKSON’S OPPORTUNITY.

 

How She Can Regain Her Former
Position.*

In this present age of struggle and
strife one of the gratifying facts that
is prominent is found in the ambition
of individuals and in the efforts of
municipalities all over the land to-
ward the betterment of the public
welfare.

Brave indeed must be the man
who undertakes to lay down oracu-
larly the formula which is certain to
meet conditions in every community;
which is bound to coincide with the
views of all men. So it happens that
I find myself this evening in some-
what the position as did the great
big brawny iron-worker in the city

of Gary, Indiana—the U. S. Steel
Co.’s ideal city—by-the-lake.
This man, accustomed as he was

to handling hundred-weight masses of
iron as so many ounces, felt when he
found himself in Gary and in the
service of the Steel Co. that he had
at last secured a permanent home.
And he resolved that, come
might, he would remain there and
bring up his family in comfort and
contentment, in spite of the lure of
labor leaders; he would see that his
dear wife should have some of the
luxuries of life and that their children
should be given an education which
would lift them mentally and socially
to a better lot than had been his por-
tion.

And so, healthy, strong, industrious
and contented, he bought a horse,
harness and buggy that his wife and
children might have a healthful form
of pleasure at their command. And
they utilized the resource to their
fill, enjoying every minute of each
drive over the sandy flats of the sur-
rounding country.

Presently, with the coming of snow
and ice, it became necessary to put
new shoes on the horse, and the iron-
worker, confident that he knew how
to shoe a horse—for was he not able
to handle a steel billet under a steam
hammer and had he not seen and
handled thousands of old horse shoes
as they came in piles to the scrap
mill? — carefully sized up his
horse’s hoofs, bought a set of four
shoes at a hardware store and at a
small forge he had rigged up in his
little shop next to his stable he be-
gan the operation. He was skilled in
heating iron and shaping the metal
and experienced but little awkward-
ness even in paring the horse’s hoofs
to get a perfect fit; but when it came
to holding one hind thoof between his
knees, holding the shoe to the hoof
and driving nails as they should be
driven in such cases he—well, the
first thing he knew he was slatted
heavily against the side of his shop
with a leg which felt as though it
had been broken, with a sore pair of
shoulders and with his horse’s face
turned toward him and seeming to
smile in derision.

Rubbing his leg with one hand
and his head with the other, the iron-
worker looked quizzically at the ani-
mal and observed: “Dog-gone you, I

*Address delivered by E A. Stowe before

public meeting of business men conducted
under auspices of Jackson Council, U. C. T.

what

know as much about this thing as you
do, anyhow, and more’n that, I'll be
dog-goned if both of us haven’t got
a lot to learn yet!”

I feel perfectly safe in saying that

I have been slatted against the side |
of my shop repeatedly in’ my efforts |
to evolve ideas and plans in the line |
of co-operation for the general good, |
and I dare say there is not a single |

business community—not even a sin-
gle business man who amounts to
anything—that has not had similar
experiences.

This slatting business is one of the
penalties a man has to pay for being
proud of and ambitious for his home
town as a whole; and I tell you, gen-
tlemen, it is quite as painful and al-
most aS exasperating to be misquot-
ed, misjudged and misrepresented by
a fellow citizen as it is to be kicked
against the side of a house by a horse
or a mule.

As I have already said, it is, per- |.

haps, impossible to lay down any
set formula for the development of a
successful co-operative community.
No two cities are alike, no two men
are alike and in no two separate lo-
cations are industrial, commercial and
financial conditions identical. Thus we
find our problem.

 
  

But we still have one reliable peg
left upon which to hang a theory. A
very large majority of men, no mat-
ter where they live or what may be
their occupations, are intelligent,
proud of and loyal to their home
towns, and, being fair minded and
square, are open to conviction upon
any proposition affecting the public
welfare. As a foil to this fact comes
the opposite truth, that all human be-
ings are more or less selfish.

Believing thoroughly in the recti-
tude of these two postulates I would
suggest as the first factor in the cre-
ation of a broad, strong, public spirit

‘of co-operation that each individual
who engages in such an effort shall
idecide that he will stick to it without
reference to whether or not he is
chosen as a leader; that he shall hold
ino feeling of embarrassment because
much
imoney to the cause as some other

ihe is unable to contribute as

|man can give; that he shall resolve
to give of his time and influence ac-
cording to ‘his actual ability so to
bestow and, finally, to resist, to the
last limit, all feelings of jealousy or
resentment as to the part taken by

other fellow citizens in the miove-
ment.
From the purely material stand-

point of this case the chief factor is,
of course, the power of money. And
all histories of co-operative move-
ments demonstrate beyond cavil that
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17

 

of wealth, in spite of their riches, are
quite as generously benefited by co-
operation as are the wage earners, the
salaried men and the smaller opera-
tors in industrial and commercial en-
terprises. And having wealth, it is
their duty—-and I am very glad to say
a very large majority of our financial
leaders generously recognize this
duty—to give of their plenty toward
the development of harmonious, wun-
selfish effort in their respective com-
munities.

As I view the matter, however, it is
an unfortunate fact that it seems to
be a human nature characteristic in
the development of a general public
welfare campaign to assume that be-
cause a man is very wealthy he is
necessarily a man to be named as
president or director or commitee-
man to act in such a campaign. This,
it seems to me, is a great mistake, As
a rule, most men of wealth are be-
yond middle age. They have made
their records as business men; they
have been surfeited with honors at
the hands of their neighbors; they
fee] that they are entitled to their
leisure and, finally, they realize full
well, in a great many instances in-
deed, that their selection as leaders
is chiefly because of the money and
influence they will contribute to the
cause,

Every wealthy man appreciates this
fact as keenly as do the men who
appoint him to such honors. And
that such distinctions are honorable
they also appreciate; but, as one of
this class recently observed to me:
“What's the use of having a big bank
account? Where is the need of be-
ing credited with having influence? If
they will only leave me out of the
work I will give them more of my
money and every bit of whatever in-
fluence I may possess.”

Then, too, gentlemen, I want to tell
you the desire on the part of men of
wealth to be relieved from the work
of the enterprise is not born of in-
difference or laziness. The average
man of wealth has his mind and hands
just about as full of work as you can
imagine. As a rule, wealthy men are
like a certain preparation which, it is
said, works while you sleep.

And so I say to you, give the man
of wealth the relief work to
which he is entitled; and do not fear
that you will lose his money and in-
fluence thereby. He will, if favored
in this way, give
most effectually of both money and
influence, and he will rejoice equally
with yourself over every step in ad-
vance, every triumph won in your
campaign. Moreover, you will find
him, in case you are disappointed in
any effort, in case a seeming victory
develops only a_ defeat, helping
you to begin anew. True, he may
criticise, as he will have the right to
do; but you will find that in almost
every instance his comments will be
fair, frank and valuable, without mal-
ice, envy or suspicion, and with only
the good of your cause at heart.

There is yet the other side to this
thought: Young men should consti-
tute the mainspring in every public
welfare movement, whatever may be
its purpose, The young man not

from

generously and

only has the “gimp,” but he ‘has his
record to make and so is generated
his ambition.

I am no disciple of Dr. Osler and
do not mean to say that when a man
has reached 60 years of age he is
without energy, ambition or public
spirit; neither do I desire to be un-
derstood as declaring that all young
men are wise, enthusiastic and in
every other way capable and desira-
ble. There are old men and old men,
and young men and young men, and
every community is capable of differ-
entiating between the extremes in
search of the happy mediums. But I
do most sincerely believe that it is
very wise indeed in this age to give
the young men a chance.

This is an age when men remain
young more years than was the case
thirty-five or forty years ago; when
men just turned the half century mark
ate in their prime; when men who
are 70 years of age are still strong,
ambitious, hopeful and active. This
is an age when, young men ‘have ed-
ucational advantages along practical,
industrial, commercial and financial
lines which forty years ago were in-
conceivable. The young man who
to-day is graduated from a grammar
school has a better education than
was received in the early 70’s by the
average chap who was_ graduated
from the high school; and _ the
high school graduate of to-day is
better prepared to face a business life
ithan was the average college gradu-
ate of the class of 1870.

This is an age of civic revival. Men
—young men and old men alike—have
a clearer, broader, better conception
as to their duties as citizens than was
the case only a few years ago; and,
better still, they have a stronger faith
in the dignity and value of citizenship
and a confidence in their own ability
to realize such citizenship in all of
its merit and inspiration,

I am an optimist and as such, hav-
ing been invited to give you my views,
TI feel that I want to give you—
somewhat gingerly, perhaps—a bit of
warning: We are, all of us, sincere
in our desire to be of value not only
to our own neighborhood, our own
town and our own State, but to the
United States at large. In this, as I
see it, we confront the danger—that is
to say, the average citizen confronts
the danger—of striving to
over too much territory.

And so, it seems to me, it is the
duty of the average citizen to confine
his public spirited efforts very largely
indeed to his own home town, Doing
this he will be obliged, of course, to
take some active part in efforts af-
fecting neighboring towns, the coun-
ty, the State. And so the danger I
refer to is developed. Whatever you
do as public spirited citizens, play
fair with your neighbors. In this way
only you can best serve the truly
vital interests of your own bailiwick.
And caution, great caution, is neces-
sary in preserving this attitude be-
cause of the perpetual presenice of
scores of faddists, men and women of
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parlor reformers, more interested,
perhaps, in the notoriety they them-
selves attain than in the actual good
results they achieve and who, as a
rule, are dependent upon the cash
donations and social influence of those
whom they seek to convert.

I need not catalogue these fads.
You are, all of you, well acquainted
with them, and in all fairness we all
agree that in spirit many of them
have values, great values. But the
point against which, it seems to me,
a warning is wise is the undeniable
fact that the faddist who seeks only
notoriety—and there are many in the
guild—is entitled to much less atten-
tion and support than are those la-
dies and gentlemen who are carrying
forward their work for the sole sake
of their respective causes.

A striking example of what I mean
is afforded by Mr. Gifford Pinchot,
the chief of our National Bureau of
Forestry, who, a very wealthy man
and because the believed in and was
willing to fight for the cause of for-
estry, worked for years without pay
and spent hundreds of thousands of
dollars of his own money before he
succeeded in obtaining anything like
the recognition he and his cause de-
served. And equally striking and ad-
mirable is the example afforded along
the same lines and in similar ways
by my own beloved fellow citizen and
neighbor, Mr. Charles W. Garfield.
Such men, whatever their cause, are
certain to be sincere, wise and worthy
of our confidence and co-operation;
the causes of such men are laudable
and the inspiration of such efforts is
the essence of genuine public spirit.

No city can afford in this present
age of competition and perpetual de-
velopment of new resources, improy-
ed facilities and increased civic
righteousness to look askant and ina
jealous spirit toward any other city.
Jealousy is the exact sign embodying
covetousness, avarice and selfishness
in one single form. If a neighboring
city is prosperous, rejoice; because,
looked at fairly, it is a prosperity
which becomes contagious and epi-
demic if it is treated as a desirable
fact, no matter where it may be first
developed. Help yourself first, of
course. That is a law of Nature, but
at the same time bear in mind that the
good will, the needs and the very
desirable co-operation of your neigh-
bors are tremendously influential.

It may be that, as I have gone on
in a general way as to individual duty
in the diection of civic righteousness,
you have felt that I have neglected
the key-note query I received when I
was invited to address you:

“How to unite the business inter-
ests of the city.”

Purposely I have reserved my views
on this problem for the last of my
effort because I want you to take
them home with you. And while you
may disagree with me, perhaps, I de-
sire that you will think them over
carefully.

 

1

It is fair, I assume, to believe that |men who have sufficient confidence in

there is not a business man in Jack-
son who would decline to do any-

than one flight of stairs to climb, even
although there is an elevator.

ings
possible, and do not be afraid to call
public meetings.
keep always in mind the fact that he
IS a member and whenever any mat-
ter arises in his mind which the be-

public meeting see to it that such a
meeting is called. When I say public
meeting |
whether they are members of your
Association or not, be welcomed.

newspapers.
dence and they will treat you right.
Moreover, they will help you beyond
measure in developing a public esti-
mate of your organization
work which will be favorable.

thing; but get together frankly, fairly

 

MICHIGAN

And believing this to be true, I can
not but entertain the strongest kind
of confidence that every citizen be-
lieves in the old adage, “In union
there is strength.”

And so I say to you, Don’t stand
around dreaming about your loyalty
to your city and don’t go on coddling
the conceit that you are a believer in
the values of united effort.

Get busy! Get together as though
you were all partners—as you really
are—in one of the most firmly estab-
lished, one of the best located, one
of the most prosperous and promis-
ing enterprises in Michigan. Get to-
gether and organize and do it with
an unalterable determination to stick
together no matter what happens.

Appoint a committee of your best
men to prepare and submit an esti-
mate as to the approximate expense
of conducting and maintaining an ac-
tive, energetic association in which
every member shall be thoroughly in
earnest and absolutely sincere. And
in making up this estimate include a
liberal item for a competent, wide
awake secretary, who shall devote his
entire time to keeping the members
of the association busy with commit-
tee work and individual effort. In-
clude another good liberal item for
the purpose of carrying on investiga-
tions as to available new industries
and others for printing special re-
ports, stationery, and the like, and
then another and a generous one for
postage. Do not ask your Secretary
for time service. If you catch him
looking at the clock dismiss him. Let
him go and come as he likes and
when he pleases, and the results will
prove the wisdom of this advice. Have
an association office? Certainly, and
have it centrally located and not more

Provide a room for public meet-
seating at least 100 people if

~~.

Let every member

ieves may be profitably handled at a

mean that all citizens,

And do not be afraid of the daily
Give them your conf-

and its

In brief, do not be afraid of any-

and fearlessly and have for your As-
sociation’s battle cry: “We stick
to 16”

As a guess, based on experience, I
should say that for such an associa-
tion as you hhave a desire to create
you should have at least 200 business

each other to enlist in such a cam-

you want the man who, if the is neith-
er director, committeeman nor off-
cer, will keep his eyes, ears and mind
wide open in behalf of the Association
and its work,

business man despises a quitter;

known to every business man that hun-
dreds of good business propositions
go to the wall each year because of
quitters; men who, when things
not go just exactly according to their
views, refuse “to play” and go off in
a corner glum, vindictive and useless.

thing in his power to advance the
social, educational and material prog-
ress of his city,

paign as you ‘hope for, and enough
decision and determination to stick to

 

TRADESMAN

and feel things that do not harmon-
ize with their judgments.

Differences of opinion are certain
to develop and mistakes are certain
to occur. It is inevitable. But, be-
cause of this, no member ought to
lose heart or temper. Whatever the
Association does, support it even al-
though for a time it goes against the
grain. Stand by and for the Asso-
ciation at every point and you will
win; and the mistake you foresaw
will be corrected in time. Stand by
and for the Association so that when
some error of judgment occurs for
which you are responsible you. may
rely in perfect confidence upon re-
ceiving the support of your associ-
ates.

Do not criticise until you are abso-
lutely certain as to all facts and then,
when criticising, preserve your tem-
per and make it clear that your atti-
tude is wholly in the interests of the
city and the Association.

And, another thing, I believe that
an association having 200 members
who will agree to pay $20 a
year as dues will prove more efficient
than would a membership of 400 pay-
ing $10 annual dues. And in this
connection let me urge you to avoid
soliciting the membership of any man
who is not perfectly well able to pay
the annual dues. A man, to be a
through-and-through sticker to and
for a public welfare organization, must
be not only public-spirited, broad-
minded and in earnest, but he must
be at least easy as to finances. The
man for whom it is a hardship to di-
vert even so small an amount as $10
a year for the public welfare, no mat-
ter how much the may desire to do
so, should not be solicited. His good
citizenship is his best contribution and
is sufficient for any such cause.

No, gentlemen, you want the
citizen who can afford to pay
his dues and who will pay them,

and who, paying them, will also at-
tend meetings of your Board of Di-
rectors that he may keep tab on what
your Association is doing; who will
accept position and act conscientious-
ly and well as a committeeman. And

I think it a fact that the average
a
It well

‘welcher”’ in business. is

do

It is so with a Board of Trade,
Citizens’ Association, Commercial!
Club or whatever it may be called;
and no man. should fail to appreciate
that when he enlists in behalf of any
public welfare proposition his man-
hood, his patriotism and his honor
should bind ‘him to that organization
or movement, through thick and thin,
to the bitter end or the glorious
triumph. And I want to tell you,
gentlemen, with all the sincerity at

 

it until they win out, even although
they should see things, hear things

my command, that I believe thor-

January 20, 1909

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200 members who will stick and keep
their faith can not fail to record a
triumph in whatever they undertake.

There is nothing at all the matter
with Jackson; no matter what other
cities are doing you have your own
problems and you are competent to
solve them. It goes without saying
that such a community as this will
be loyal to itself and its products;
that you recognize and appreciate
your mutual interests; that employers
and employes will Play fair for Jack-
son and that all are truly desirous of
doing all in their power to make a
better city where already there is a
good one.

But that which you have to learn.
which all cities have to learn, is as to
the value of united effort free from
individual interests, personal Opinions
and ambitions. And this effort must
have a center around which to con-
duct its operations, and this effort and
this center must be constant, relia-
ble and strong not alone for one year
but for two,, five, ten and twenty
years. Join hands and stick, gentle-
men,

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Some Swamps Should Be Preserved.

Swamp science is more profound
than is popularly supposed. There is
a widespread idea tl}

lat Swamps, pure-
ly as such

, are disease breeding. But
this the swamp experts declare to be
pure prejudice. There are swamps
and swamps. And no non-alluvial
Swamp can be objected to on hygienic
grounds,

The Dismal Swamp is said to be
free from malaria. Even the dark
water of such swamps drinkable
and credited with special virtues by
some authorities. Now that it is con-
ceded that malaria is spread by mos-
quitoes even the muddy coastal
swamps, always reputed “malarial,”
have been robbed of most of their ter-
rors.

Most swamps, Dr. Roland Harper
thinks, should be preserved, because
they are so well adapted to
tion, because they protect the sources
of streams, because they are refuges
for wild game and rare plants, and,
lastly, for their beauty. It has been
stated that there is no evidence in
literature that the beauty of natural
scenery, even of mountains, was fully
appreciated anywhere up to a century
or two ago.

Even yet few people can see beauty
in swamps and many regard them
with aversion, but they will probably
be appreciated more hereafter than
they are now. Nature undefiled is
said always to be beautiful. And
Swamps become repulsive to the na-
ture lover only when they are partly
drained or contaminated with rub-
bish or sewage.

Dr. Harper thinks there is no need
of hastening the disappearance of our
Swamps. There is more danger that
they will disappear too soon than
that they will interfere with health
and progress by remaining. Too
much interference with nature’s equi-
librium is often followed by unexpect-
ed disastrous consequences, and
Scarcity of timber and increase of
floods may not be the worst results

is

foresta-

 

oughly that any organization having

 

of the contemplated wholesale de-
struction of the swamps.

  

 

January 20, 1909

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

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Put Yourself in the Child’s Place.
There are not many people nowa-
days who are brutal enough to ac-

tually beat their children. Our civili-
zation is nothing to boast of as yet,
but we have at least reached a point
where a big six-foot man can see him-
self for the coward and bully that he
is when he strikes a little, helpless,
two-foot child because he happens to
be nervous or out of humor or to
have had too much to drink the night
before.

There is, however, another form of
torture to which good, conscientious
and affectionate parents subject their
children continually; and the suffer-
ing that it inflicts upon the defense-
less little creatures makes even the
rod or the knockout blow on the ear
seem kind.

This is the habit that fathers and
mothers fall into of making a child
the butt of their jests and of discuss-
ing its peculiarities and its faults and
frailties before its face.

It must be remembered that a
child’s world is a very little one, but
what happens in it is just as impor-
tant to it as the things that happen
out in the great world to grown peo-
ple.

To have the family circle shriek-
ing with laughter over some blunde:
of Janie’s is just as sore a mortifica-
tion to Janie as it would be to Janie’s
mother to know that she was a figure

of fun to all of her acquaintances and
to hear the cackling of their ribald
mirth at her expense.

For Johnny to be publicly  cor-
rected before guests and sent from
the room is every whit as crushing a
shame to him as it would be to John-
ny’s father to be stripped of his
honors and position and cast out in
disgrace from among his fellow-citi-
zens.

Yet every day we see parents guil-
ty of this inhumanity to their chil-
dren. They do not mean to be un- |
kind, but they are brutal, neverthe- |
less; and it seems both strange and
sad that the adult imagination is so}
dull that the grownup can not put
himself in the child’s place occasion-
ally and see things from the child’s
point of view.

Take the matter of the litthe naked-
legged child that you see shivering
along the streets these cold days,
with the purple gooseflesh standing
up on its bare limbs. The poor, suf-
fering little thing is the victimof the
folly of some vain mother and unob-
serving father.

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blighted by having to wear Fauntle-
roy curls, and that army of infantile
martyrs who at present are being of-
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forth a normal, happy, self-respecting
boy of the short-haired variety?
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Grocers handling the line know this—and the result is that all recom-
mend Bixota.

Stock Bixota at once if you want more flour business at better profits.

Red Wing Milling Co. Red Wing, Minn.
S. A. Potter, Michigan Agent, 859 15th St., Detroit, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 20, 1909

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

til it is old enough to fight its own
verbal battles it is never safe from
little weaknesses canvassed in its own
presence as freely as if it were a stick |
or a stone and without emotion on
the subject.

This is the more remarkable
cause grownups are as full of feelj
as a sensitive plant, and any one of |
them would have heart failure at hav-
ing his or her peculiarities vivisected
while he or she helplessly looked on.

Mrs. Jones, for example, has no
hesitation in saying to you right be-
fore Mary that Mary is an ugly duck-
ling, and she really does not know
where the child got her complexion.
Certainly not from her family, who
are all noted for their beautiful skins!
She does not even notice, as she
speaks, that the child has slunk out
of the room, ashamed and wounded,
with ‘her heart full of bitter rebellion

be- |
ings

at the fate that made her what she is. |

Isn’t it strange that Mrs.
can not put herself in Mary’s place,
and reflect what her feelings would
be if she should overhear a group of
acquaintances discussing what a fat,
homely, unattractive woman that
Mrs. Jones is, and how different she
is from her pretty sisters?

I warrant that Mrs. Jones would
say a few things to her critics that
would leave blisters where the words
hit. Yet between the sufferings of the
child who is toid to her face that she
is ugly and the chagrin of the grown
woman who finds out that she is not

regarded as a living picture, the agony |

of the child is incomparably greater,
because the grown-up has, at least,
philosophy with which to console her-
self, whereas the child has nothing but
the gaping wound of its innocent van-
ity that has been stabbed to the
quick.

Then there is little Johnny Smith,
who is dull and slow and always at
the foot of his class in school, while
his quick-witted brother Tom takes
off all the prizes. Do you think that
Johnny does not mind when he hears
his mother and father bragging to
strangers about Tom, and complain-
ing that they do not know whatever
they are going to do with Johnny,
who is so stupid and seems as if he
can not learn?

Be sure that Johnny suffers just as
much as his mother and father would
if they heard themselves compared in-
vidiously with people more brilliant
and more talented, and if they had

Jones |

| their defects held up for public scorn
j and ridicule.

In all the world there is no sport
|more cruel than the baiting of a little

child, whose very attempts to de-
| fend itself we call impertinence. And
ithe wonder is that any
jbe found hard-hearted
thoughtless enough,
a pastime.

Surely they would not if they ever
put themselves in the child’s place.

Dorothy Dix.

2
How To Run a Railroad.

Have money—want more. Begin
at the top—there are no room and
ismall pay at the bottom. Procure a
pair of sharp shears for clipping cou-
pons; no other tools are needed. Get
control of a bank and borrow enough
money to buy a large chunk of stock.
| Hypothecate the stock and buy more.

parents can
enough, or
to engage imsuch

| After some practice this operation can
be carried on indefinitely, and almost
wholly without the use of real money.
Do not worry about the actual work
of operating the road. This is all done
by hirelings and has already been at-
tended to. Go to Europe and have
good time. Some of the more con-
scientious railroad owners return to
America occasionally to order a re-
duction in operating expenses and a
raise in freight rates, but this is not
labsolutely necessary, as such matters
can just as well be attended to by
correspondence. Having gone through
ithe motions of buying one railroad, it
will be found that people will present

others to you.—Success.
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\Some Things We Have Observed. |

| That the more a wife keeps her
‘husband in hot water the less tender
he becomes.

That the young woman with teeth
like pearls is rarely dumb an
oyster.

That no man is really as clever as
his fiancee thinks he is.

That while of 30 wall
claim she is not over 26, a woman of
60 will say she 75.

That the way some break
their husband’s iron will is by rusting
it out with eye-water.

That while matrimony was once
looked upon as a life journey, it now
proves too often only an excursion
trip.

That while Love may laugh at
locksmiths, the milliner and the dress-
maker make him feel mighty serious.

as as

a woman

wives

 

 

Grand Rapids Floral Co.

Wholesale and Retail

FLOWERS

149 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Flour Profits

Where Do You Find
Them, Mr. Grocer?

On that flour of which you
sell an occasional sack, or or
the flour which constantly
“repeats,” and for which there
is an ever increasing demand‘

Vingold

 

 

 

HE FINEST FLOUR INTHE COE FINEST FLOUR INTHE WORD)

7

 

is the best ‘‘repeater’’ you can
buy. Your customers will!
never have occasion to find|
fault with it. When they try
it once they ask for it again
because it is better for all
around baking than any other
flour they can buy. Milled
by our patent process from

choicest Northern Wheat,
scrupulously cleaned, and
never touched by human
hands in its making. Write

us for prices and terms.

BAY STATE MILLING CO.

Winona, Minnesota

LEMON & WHEELER CO.

Wholesale Distributors
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. KALAMA7NO. MICH

BRIGHT LIGHT

 

 

 

Sold by all Wholesale Grocers

Jennings
Extract of Vanilla

is prepared from the choicest variety
of carefully selected and properly
cured vanilla beans and contains no
coloring matter nor any of the arti-
ficial or synthetic principles so often
employed.

Jennings
Terpeneless Lemon Extract

An absolutely pure flavoring ex-
tract from the fruit. The flavor of
this extract is taken from Messina
lemons by our own special mechan-
ical process.

 

Jennings
Flavoring Extract Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

HIGHEST IN HONORS

Baker’s Cocoa
‘ CHOCOLATE

50

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business or home. More and better light for
the least money is the result you get from the
Improved Swem Gas System. Write us.

SWEM GAS MACHINE CO. Waterloo, la.

 

 

 

Better light means better results in either

IN
EUROPE
AND
AMERICA

 

Re aigtored
U.S. Pat. Off

A perfect food, preserves
health, prolongs life

Walter Baker & Co., Ltd.

Established 1780 DORCHESTER, MASS.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHEN YOU SEE THE NAME “BAKER’S”

YOU KNOW THAT

IT MEANS COCOANUT

AND ONLY THE BEST

All grades guaranteed absolutely pure.

No preservatives— No adulterants.

Serial number 2206 on every package.
Send for samples and circulars.

BRAZIL——PREMIUM—M—TABLE TALK

THE FRANKLIN BAKER CO.

Delaware and Fairmount Aves.

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Story of Steel and Discovery of
Bessemer Process,

Fifty years ago when the increas-
ing use of iron created a demand for
a material more durable than iron,
and not so expensive as the laborious
process of steel-making of that day,
an Irish-American named William!
Kelly found himself in a desperate
position financially.

He was an ironmaker, and by the
old process needed charcoal, which
was difficult to obtain. Unless he
could save fuel he was on the verge
of bankruptcy.

One day he was sitting in front of
the “finery fire,” when he suddenly
sprang to his feet with a shout, and
rushed to the furnace. At one edge
he saw a white-hot spot in the yel-
low mass of molten metal. The iron
at this spot was incandescent. It was
almost gaseous. Yet there was no
charcoal—nothing but the steady
blast of air. :

Why didn’t the air chill the metal?
Every iron-maker since Tubal Cain
had believed that cold air would chill
hot iron.

But Kelly was more than an iron-
maker. He was a student of metal-
lurgy, and he knew that carbon and
oxygen had an affinity for each oth-
er. He knew what air was and what!
iron was and like a flash the idea
leaped into his excited brain—there is
no need of charcoal.
fuel.

 

Or supposed injustice made an in-
delible mark upon his character.
Henceforward he was bitterly ag-
gressive in the protection of his
rights.

Seven years after Kelly’s success
at Eddyville, Bessemer invented the
Bessemer process, as the result of
a conversation with Napoleon IIL.,
who wanted better material for his
cannon. The new process was per-
fected by a third inventor, Robert
Mushat, a Scotchman. He _ solved
the problem of how to leave just suf-
ficient carbon in the molten metal to
harden it to the required quality of
steel.

The method in the beginning of
the new process was to endeavor to
stop at exactly the right moment.
Musha’s common sense told him that
it would expedite matters consider-
ably if all the carbon were first burnt
out of the iron and the exact quan-
tity needed put back.

Kelly made $500,000, and is little
known; Bessemer received $10,000,-
000, world-wide fame, and a knight-
hood, while as for Mushat he lost
his patent through failing to pay the
necessary fees, and got nothing ex-
cept a pension of $1,500 a year from
Bessemer.

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For Sale or Rent.
Modern factory building; steel and

Air alone is/concrete construction; cement floors;
excellent light and ventilation; equip-

Like almost all great inventors, he|ped with elevators, sprinkler system,

was derided, though his experiments|electric lights and side track.
He had to give!other factory buildings.

proved successful.

Aliso
Can furnish

in, he had no capital behind him. It/electric power and hot water heat at

was not until Bessemer took the idea! reasonable

rates. Can also furnish

in hand that it became a commercial iron and brass castings, nickel-plating,

success.
Bessemer was

 

stamping, japanning, or general ma-
one of England’s| chine work. Buildings suitable for any
greatest inventors, having one hun-| kind of manufacturing or

storage.

dred and twenty patents to his cred-| Particulars upon application.
it. He was the son of an inventor—|CHELSEA STOVE & MFG. CO.,

a Frenchman who had been driven |
to London by a social explosion in|
Paris.

His first invention, a method of|
stamping public documents, was, SO |
he considered, stolen from him by)
the British Government. He was |

very poor at the time, and this real

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Chelsea, Mich.
22. __

The girl with a shapely ankle can
always find an excuse for crossing a
muddy street.

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No man ever travels far standing

on his dignity.

{ YOU NEED THIS DATER IN

Your Business—We’ll Send One Free

Don’t trust to memory. Don’t burden your mind with dates. Stamp it on and be sure.
the advantage of stamping date of receipt on every can of paint he handles.
in stock. No uncertainty as to which colors go fast, which slow—you
mates. Good thing! Better than that! To make it easy for you we
us on his business stationery and ask for it. Write today.

THE MARTIN-SENOUR COMPAN x,
Chicago

Mica Axle Grease

Reduces friction to a minimum. It
Saves wear and tear of wagon and
harness. It saves horse energy. It
increases horse power. Put up in
1 and 3 Ib. tin boxes, 10, 15 and 25
Ib. buckets and kegs, half barrels
and barrels.

Grand Rapids Supply Company
Valves, Fittings, Pulleys
Hangers, Belting, Hose, Etc.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

STEIMER & MOORE WHIP CO.
Westfield, Mass.
Not a branch. Build your trade direct.
GRAHAM ROYS, Agent
Fitch Court, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Freight rates from here. Write either for catalogue.
“G. R. KNOWS HOW”’

Hand Separator Oil

is free from gum and is anti-rust
The Celebrated Royal Gem Lighting System/and anti-corrosive. Put up in ¥%,

with the double cartridge generator and per-| 1 and allon c :
fected inverted lights. We send the lighting 58 ans
systems on 30 days’ trial to responsible par-
ties. Thousands in use. Royal Gem eannot
be imitated; the Removable Cartridges pat-
ented. Special Street Lighting Devices. Send
diagram for low estimate.
ROYAL GAS LI ‘HT CO.
218 E. Kinzie St., Chicago, II.

 

 

 

 

 

STANDARD OIL CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

Established in 1873

Best Equipped
Firm in the State

Foster,
Stevens & Co.

Wholesale
Hardware

Fire Arms
and Ammunition

Steam and Water Heating
Iron Pipe
Fittings and Brass Goods
Electrical and Gas Fixtures
Galvanized Iron Work

 

 

The Weatherly Co.
18 Pearl St. Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Used Autos

Runabouts - $80 to $350
Touring Cars $195 to $750

I make a specialty of the sale of used
automobiles and am the largest dealer
in Western Michigan.

Send for my list. I can take your
old car in exchange.

S. A. DWIGHT

1-5 Lyon St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

Fine Cold Day Sellers

Clark Foot Warmers

Lower in price than ever. Clark Heaters have a reputation for excellence.
No casting in a Clark—no soldered joints or screws to work loose—every part is

solidly rivited. They fill the bill for carriage,
wagon, sleigh or automobile.

Drop us a card for new catalogue.

 

 

33-35-37-39-41 Louis St.
10 and 12 Monroe St.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your jobber has this line.
Clark Coal Is Best

Costs no more than inferior grades and
every brick carries a written guarantee
to give at least 25% more heat than
any other fuel on the market.

It is the one fuel that always pleases.

The ideal fuel for foot warmers or self-
heating sad irons.

Chicago Flexible Shaft Company

 

 

99 La Salle Avenue, Chicago

 

Every paint dealer will quickly see
Why? No guesswork then as to how long it’s been
‘11 know. Then date all bills, invoices, memoranda and esti-
ll send one Dater free to each regular paint dealer who will write

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January 20, 1909

The Value of Paint Advertising.

The Gospel of Paint, as it has
been preached in magazine advertis-
wrought

ing, has wonders

country. In sections where paint
was seldom used it is now a matter
of course. In sections where it was
generally used in the old days the
uses have been. greatly extended.
Paint brightens homes and lives. It
is, in many ways, the cheapest deco-
rative material. It saves property by
preserving materials and fittings.
The lightening of woman’s work has
been perhaps best of all—for paint
gives better sanitary conditions and
saves an enormous amount of clean-
ing.

In the old days a few merchants
could supply all the paint materials
necessary for the annual or semi-
annual painting season and the field
was limited generally to the paint]:
necessary for the exterior of house
and barns. Now, the economy and
satisfaction in the touch of varnish
here, mixed paint there, a little gild-
ing or some enamel work in another
place, have been so convincingly
taught by the manufacturers of these
various products that the field of the
retail dealer has been greatly widen-
ed. And the painter, too, though not
called in for the little jobs,
still reaps the benefit because the
people have developed a taste for
well-kept property and he still gets
the big jobs and more of them.

Let any reader who wishes to fol-
low these details write to any of the
big American paint houses for in-
formation.

always

——_o +> >__
Turning Over Your Stock.

It is a recognized and indisputable
fact that too many dealers overbuy.
They buy more goods than they real-
ly need, and at the end of the year,
instead of being able to show a cash
profit, their books will simply figure
an increase in the stock ledger.

Take a dealer, for instance, who
claims that his business for the past
five years has netted him on an aver-
age Io per cent. each year. Estimate
that his sales have been $50,000 each
year and then ask him to show you

bank account for $25,000, which is
the amount of money the business
would earn under those conditions.
He will tell you the money is almost
all gone into increased stock, and this
very fact nullifies his own argument.

It is possible to turn a retail hard-
ware stock as many as four to six
times in a year. While it may not
be possible to turn over all your
goods so many times a year, yet there

are some staples which can be turn-)

ed over even oftener, and this applies
with special force to the dealer who
is located near the maker, or near the
manufacturer or jobber. .

Modern business conditions are
trending to a more definite training
towards doing more business on less
stock. The best rule is to buy freely
of goods which you sell every day of
the year, but sparingly of slow-sell-
ing goods. The dealer with a good
bank account at his command is al-
ways able to buy for spot cash, and
spot-cash buying often dictates better
prices than otherwise obtainable.

You will find by careful experiment-

in this|

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

ing just what lines fail to net you a
fair profit during the year. If you
have kept a careful record of your
sales, this will be comparatively more
easy than if you had simply done it
in a haphazard way. This is one rea-
son why dealers should keep stock-
card records. It enables them at any
time to tell when and what lines are
not paying the required percentage of
profit, and also enables them to de-
tect the quick sellers as well as the
slow-moving items.

By keeping a stockcard record you
not only eliminate overbuying, but
you also check yourself from adding
one new line after the other until your
stock becomes a mixture of odds and
ends which have no definite relation
the one to the other, and which also
have no comparative measure of val-
ue,

By following this method your buy-
ing simply keeps pace with your sell-
ing. You may, however, gét the
reputation of being too careful, but
it is far better to be called conserva-
tive and to be able to show a nice
bank account than it is to be called
progressive and be hemmed around
with a lot of unsalable merchandise.
On the other hand, it will pay you
well to keep constantly informed,
through your trade paper and other-
wise, regarding the new specialties
which are constantly being placed on
the market. The dealer who is first
in his town to display new goods,
which possess distinctive features of
merit, can often reap good profits in
addition to impressing his customers
with the fact that he is enterprising
and up to date-—Hardware.

——— oe ae

One reform in the currency that we
want hurried along is the matter of
getting your change back in a de-
partment store.

 

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Largest oe Furniture Store
in the World

When you're in town be sure and call. Dlustra
tions and prices upon application

Klingman’s Sample Furniture Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich.
lonia, Fountain and Division Sts.
Opposite Morton House

 

 

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DUDLEY E WATERS, Pres.
CHAS E. HAZELTINE V. Pres.
JOHN E. PECK, V. Pres.

Chas H. Bender
Melvin J. Clark
samuel 8. Corl

Claude Hamilton
Chas. S. Hazeltine
Wm. G. Herpolsheimer

We Make a Specialty of Accounts of Banks and Bankers

The: Grand Rapids National Bank

Corner Monroe and Ottawa Sts.

DIRECTORS
Geo. H. Long
John Mowat
J. B. Pantlind
John E. Peck
Chas. A. Phelps

We Solicit Accounts of Banks and Individuals

F. M DAVIS, Cashier
JOHN L. BENJAMIN. Asst. Cashier
A. T. SLAGHT, Asst. Cashier

Chas. R. S igh

Justus S. Stearns
Dudley E. Waters
Wm. Widdicomb
Wm. S. Winegar

 

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS
WE CAN PAY YOU
3% to 34%

On Your Surplus or Trust Funds If They Remain 3 Months or Longer

49 Years of Business Success
Capital, Surplus and Profits $812,000
All Business Confidential

THE NATIONAL

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Progressive

 

 

Capital and Surplus

$1,200,000.00

Assets
$7,000,000.00

 

 

 

 

 

No. 1 Canal St.

 

Commercial and Savings

Departments

 

H. J. Hartman Foundry Co.

Manufacturers of Light Gray Iron and
General Machinery Castings, Cistern
Tops, Sidewalk Manhole Covers, Grate
B rs, Hitching Posts, Street and Sewer
Castings, Etc. 270 S. Front St., Grand
Rapids Mich. Citizens’ Phone 5329.

 

 

 

A DIVIDEND PAYER

The Holland Furnace cuts your fuel bill in
half. The Holland has less joints, smaller
joints, is simpler and easier to operate and
more economical than any other furnace on
the market. It is built to last and to save fuel.
Write us for catalogue and prices.

Holland Furnace Co., Holland, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

Our Crackerjack No. 25

Write for our catalog A.

 

 

Non-binding doors and drawers, non-
warping pilasters and frames. Great
improvements for our wall cases and
show cases.

We guarantee that it is impossible for
a door or drawer to bind under any
climatic condition.

Do you realize what this means in the
wearing qualities of fixtures? 1,000
cases in stock, all sizes and styles.

GRAND RAPIDS SHOW CASE CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
The Largest Show Case Plant in the World

 

 

 

All Kinds of Cut
Flowers in Season

Wholesale and Retail

ELI CROSS
25 Monroe Street Grand Rapids

 

 

 

 

 

PURE OIL

OLI ENE The highest grade PENNSYLVANIA oil of unequaled excellence.
blacken the chimneys, and saves thereby an endless amount of labor.

It will not
It never

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Smokeless and Odorless

van Rapids Oil Company

Michigan Branch of the Independent
Refining Co., Ltd., Oil City, Pa.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

January 20, 1909

 

 

 

 

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Out With the Old and In With the
New.

Saginaw, January 18—The fourth
quarterly meeting of the old Board
of Directors of the Michigan Knights
of the Grip was held at Lansing, Sat-
urday, Jan. 16, the full Board being
present.

The Secretary and Treasurer both
presented voluminous reports, show-
ing the receipts during the year of
$17,770.92 and disbursements amount-
ing to $13,826.39, leaving a balance
on hand of $3,944.53, divided among
five funds as follows:

ReeteNa bee, $ 8409.21
eath benehit ..2.........0.. 2,473.80
Employment and relief ..... 100.27
TAOUON og. 126.00
Special charity ............. 305.25

John P. Hemmeter, of Detroit, ap-
peared before the Board and proposed
to contribute $5,000 to the relief of
sick and indigent members during the
next five years, the fund to be known
as the John P. Hemmeter Charity
Fund. None of the money is to be
turned over to the Knights of the
Grip. All of the money is to be re-
tained in the hands of J. P. Hemme-
ter, who will honor drafts on him, sign- |
ed by officers of the Association, after
due investigation. It is proposed to
pay $5 a week for ten weeks in cases
of illness, or where the traveling man
has to locate in a more congenial
climate a gross amount of $50 will
be paid. The matter was referred to
a special committee, which recom-
mended that it be turned over to the
new Board for action.

President Schram then read his ex-
augural address, as follows:

In compliance with the request of
the members assembled in Saginaw,
August, 1907, I submit my _ semi-
annual report for the last five months
of my tenure of office.

During the last six months of 1908
there have been several things to con-
tend with that prevented us from
making our regular increase of mem-
bership, as we usually do at this time
of the year. In the first place, there |
were many men out of work and)
many more were working at reduced!
salaries. As for myself, I have not|
been in my usual good health and |
have had considerable sickness in my
home, both of which have prevented
me from doing as much as I had ex-
pected to do. However, we have
made some progress. We have paid,
during the last year, twenty-five death
claims, almost immediately on receipt
of proof of death, and have quite a
little money left, as your Treasurer’s
report will show. I am somewhat
disappointed with the result of our
circulars sent to the hotels of the
State, as very few have replied. But
I have great confidence and expecta-
tions for the result of the circular
sent to the manufacturers and job-

 

I did not send out the circular to the
manufacturers and jobbers until the
first of the year, because I have been
informed that very many firms set
aside the first of the year a certain
amount for charity, and at the end
of the year this fund is mostly used
up. So by getting our circular before
these men early in the year, we stand
a better show to receive some con-
tributions. I expect this charity fund
to reach the $25,000 mark before the
end of 1909.

I want to thank each and every
one of the members of the Board of
Directors, as well as the Secretary
and Treasurer, for their hearty co-
operation with and support of me dur-
ing my term of office. Theyhave been
ready and willing, at all times, to
work for the best interests of our be-
oved Association and I ask for my
successor the same loyal and wnani-
mous support they have given me.

On motion of Mr. Weeks, the fol-
lowing resolution was unanimously
adopted:

Whereas—John W. Schram, the re-
tiring President of this Association,
has discharged his duties as President
of this Association in an able and: effi-
cient manner during the year 1908;
therefore

Resolved—That the members of
this Board, and of the Association
through them, extend their sincere
thanks and best wishes to our retiring
President and that it is the hope that
much peace and prosperity at-
tend him and his good wife during
the balance of their earthly career.

The offer of Ex-President F. N.
Mosher to turn over to the charity
fund the $7 due him for procuring
seven new members for the year of
1908 and his check for $3, making $10
in all, was accepted with thanks.

A vote of thanks was also extended
F. L. Day for securing a new member
and the $2 was turned over to the
charity fund.

The death claims of K. F. Morse
and F. B. Evans were allowed and
ordered paid.

The $117 left over from the promo-
tion fund was transferred to the em-
ployment and relief fund.

The following bills were
and ordered paid:

audited

 

bers, as one man has already donated
$5,000 to the charity fund and many
others have indicated their intent to
subscribe and, no doubt, will do so.

Seatian & Peters .......-2.... $ 31.00
W. 3 Meimtyre ...5. 20222: 24.00
NO 6G 6.50
MioUWG Boley oo 7.23
mA. Weeks .............07). 7.78
Bete MOO soe a eee la 2.98
We. 2. Barnard... 2565... 10.16
Ne Piney ool 6.16
oa. ©. Meoppelt ooo. es 5.81
Ts Sor VE ie a 7.60
ao We chhamn oe 6.50
M. V. Foley for stamps ....... 8.00
F. J. Kelsey & Son ........... .70
J; © Watthts salary ...2...2:. 73.88
M. V. Foley’s salary ..4....... 184.70

There being no further business,

the meeting adjourned and the new
Board of Directors were called to-
gether.

President Frost announced his
standing committees as follows:

Finance—H. P. Goppelt, Saginaw;
A. A. Weeks, Grand Rapids; F. L.
Day, Jackson.

Printing—M. C. Empey, Bay City;
N. B. Jones, Detroit; W. D. Barnard,
Manistee.

Railroads—M. S. Brown,
F, L. Day, Jackson;
Grand Rapids.

Legislative—Jno. A. ‘Weston, Lan-
sing; Frank N. Mosher, Port Huron;
E. O. Wood, Flint.

Hotel—J. D. Robinson, Flint; A.
S. Cowing, Kalamazoo; W. G. Tap-
ort, Traverse City.

Bus and Baggage—Jno. C. Saun-
ders, Lansing; Frank P. Burtch, De-
troit; Chas. Deihl, Jackson.

Employment and  Rellief—M. V.
Foley, Saginaw; Jno. B. Kelly, De-
troit; Herman Vasold, Saginaw.

Chaplain—Rev. Frank C. Ward,
Lansing.

Sergeant at Arms—F. C. Below,
Manistee.

The following resolution was unan-
imously adopted:

Resolved—That we, the officers
and Board of Directors of the Mich-
igan Knights of the Grip, do hereby
most emphatically denounce the at-
tempt of the railroad companies of
this State to have the Legislature
pass a bill to allow them to charge
one and one-half fare from passen-
gers when fare is paid on trains. The
passage of such a law will be most
unfair and a very great inconvenience
to the traveling public. Oftentimes
it would be utterly impossible to pur-
chase tickets before getting on trains,
on account of the number of people
waiting to purchase same. A great
number of other reasons could also
be given that would make it abso-
lutely impossible to buy a ticket be-
fore getting on trains and, conse-
quently, people would be compelled to
miss trains and connections that they
desired to make.

The Legislative Committee of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip is
hereby instructed to use its utmost
efforts in preventing the passage of
this bill.

The matter of accepting the $5,000
gift from John P. Hemmeter, of De-
troit, was then taken up and discuss-
ed at some length. James Hammill,
of Lansing, opposed the acceptance
of the gift on the ground that the
proposition smacked too much of ad-
vertising. N. B. Jones opposed the
acceptance of the gift on the ground
that it would entail a large amount
of extra expense on the Association.
President Frost was inclined to side
with Mr. Hammill, especially as
Hammill asserted that he would with-
draw from the organization in the
event of the gift being accepted.
After a long and somewhat acrimon-
ious debate, the matter was referred
to a committee composed of H. P.
Goppelt, A. A. Weeks and N. B.
Jones, who will take the matter in
consideration and report their con-
clusion at the next meeting of the
Board.

Saginaw;
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The meeting then adjourned. The

 

next one will be held at the Secre-
tary’s office in Saginaw, March 6, 1900.
M. V. Foley, Sec’y.

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January 20, 1909

Gripsack Brigade.

James A. Bassett, who has traveled
for the Michigan Drug Co. and its
successors for over thirty years, died
at his home in Ypsilanti last Mon-
day. Deceased was a stockholder in
the A. H. Webber Co., druggist at
Cadillac.

A Negaunee correspondent writes:
Louis Dousseron, who has been en-
gaged in the painting business here
for a year or more past, has sold out
to William Laurice, and has accepted |
a position as traveling salesman for
the American Tobacco Co. He will
start on the road next Monday.

Geo. W. McKay, who has repre-
sented the Lyon Factory of the Na-
tional Candy Co., Chicago, in Michi-
gan and Northern Indiana for the past
two years, has abandoned this work
and will take up his residence on his
forty acre farm near Coopersville. Mr.
McKay will also dispose of this home
at 21 Calkins avenue.

Reed City Clarion: C. F. Wil-
liams, who has been on the road for
the past eight or ten years as trav-
eling salesman for different candy
companies in Grand Rapids, Kalama-
zoo and Traverse City, is now travel-
ing salesman for the George Zeigler
Candy Co., of Milwaukee, Wis. He
returned home Saturday night from
closing a contract with that firm and
left for Tustin and Luther Monday.

An Ishpeming correspondent writes
as follows: Charles Annen, who, for
several years past, has traveled in the
Upper Peninsula and ‘Wisconsin for
the Annen Candy & Biscuit Co., of
Green Bay, is making his farewell
trip. Harry P. Annen, his brother,
will be his successor. Charles Annen
is to remain in the house, looking
after certain branches of the manu-
facturing department. He is one of
the most popular commercial men
traveling in this section and his many
friends will miss him.

The efforts made by the railroads
of Michigan to secure an amendment
to the 2 cent law, permitting con-
ductors to charge 3 cents a_ mile
where the traveler pays on the train,
has fallen flat. Prominent members
of both branches of the Legislature
assert that the railroads are wasting
their time in asking for such an un-
reasonable measure, and those con-
versant with the situation insist that
the railroads better keep their engi-
neers and conductors on their beats
instead of sending them down to
Lansing to lobby for a measure which
is so manifestly unjust, unfair and un-
warranted. Leading members of the
Legislature state that if the railroads
of Michigan sell an interchangeable
500 mile book for $1o flat, good on all
trains, no matter in whose hands the
book may be, and good until used, it
would meet the objections which the
railroads offer that the taking up of
cash fares requires too much of the
conductor’s time. As a matter of fact,
the conductor can detach a mileage
slip about as quickly as he can take
wp and punch a ticket, and such a plan
would do away with the necessity of
the traveling man going to the depot
a sufficient time in advance of train
time to procure a ticket. As a mat-
ter of fact, the traveling man, in
nine-tenths of the cases, does not wish

 

tra time ;

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

to spend fiftten or twenty minutes’ ex- tcnis behind the bar of a saloon, he | drunk, and the tried to get help to aid

25

in hanging around the de-|can hardly be expected to possess|him and was told that there was no

pot. He wants to stay with his cus-|the finer attributes of a gentleman or |help for that man; that even this wife
tomer until the last minute and, con-|he would not have suggested that the |and daughters had given him up.

sidering the manner in which train

|fund be designated the “John P.

| With the aid of a boy, the man was

service has been curtailed and also | Hemmeter Charity Fund,’ when it | taken home and now is honored and

the manner in which the travelingcould just as well have been called respected, being John Burns.

There

public has been discriminated against the John P. Hemmeter Fund, which | were twenty present and among these
in every possible manner at every |would have relieved the recipients of |Gordon Z. Gage and wife, W. Merch,

turn of the game by the railroads, it
is no more than fair that the Michi-
gan railroads should concede the
right of the traveling public to have
the privilege of such a mileage book
as this.

Lansing Republican: James J.
Frost, who was Saturday installed as
President
of the Grip at a meeting of the board
of directors in this city, has been a
resident of Lansing for twenty-nine
years and is one of the oldest and

best known traveling salesmen in the|

State. Mr. Frost came to this city
in April, 1880, and has been con-
nected with the Clark Co.
manufacturer, for many years. At
the annual convention of the Michi-
gan Knights of the Grip at Manistee
last August, he was unanimously
elected President of the organization.
The movement to thus honor him
was started among his friends before
the meeting and a canvass was car-
ried on without his knowledge. Not
until the time for the election of of-
ficers came and he was placed at the
head of the association did Mr. Frost
become aware that he was even
thought of in that connection. Need-
less to say the honor came as a
pleasant surprise to him, all the more
so because of the unanimity of his
election. Mr. Frost has been con-
nected with the Michigan Knights
of the Grip ever since the inception
of the organization, being one of its
charter members. He has served in
various important committee capaci-
ties and has thrice been chosen
Treasurer of the association. When
he first took hold of the finances of
the organization, there was very lit-
tle system or any protective provi-
sions whereby the funds of the as-
sociation were safe-guarded. He
evolved the present method of con-
ducting the financial affairs of the
Knights of the Grip and it has been
found very efficacious. The Treas-
urer is obliged to attend every meet-
ing of the directors which may be
called and to have with him a cer-
tified statement from the bank of de-
posit, covering the sum which he
holds in trust at the time. This,
together with the frequent reports
which are required of the official,
keeps the members well infonmed and
guards against loss.
oo
Charity Tempered With Shrewdness
and Selfishness.

The proposition of John P. Hem-
meter. of Detroit, to set apart $5,000
as a charity fund, to be disbursed
through the kindly offices of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip, ap-
pears to be somewhat indefinite and
unsatisfactory. This is due, perhaps,
quite as much to Mr. Hemmeter’s
lack of social advantages and business
training as to any other cause. Be-
ginning life under somewhat unfor-
tunate circumstances and graduating

of the Michigan Knights ,
Hemmeter in insisting on his name |

vehicle |

his bounty from the humiliation of
having the word “charity” flaunted in
their faces. Possibly this objection
can be removed by a conciliatory ad-
justment. As it is predicted that the
fund will be contributed to by others
as well and that it will ultimately
not to use a harsher term—of Mr.
being connected with the fund is
clearly apparent.

So far as the position of James
Hammell is concerned, it is evidently
based on prejudice and jealousy, and
iany man who so far forgets himself
las to be dominated by such passions
should receive no consideration what-
ever from large hearted and broad
minded men. Mr. Hammell’s threat
to withdraw from the organization
‘should be permitted to be carried in-
to execution, because any man who
attempts to accomplish a selfish pur-
pose by holding a club over his fel-
lows in such a manner should be
promptly and permanently relegated
to the background.

Under no circumstances should the
Committee accept the Hemmeter
proposition in the way in which it is
presented, because, on the face of it,
it bears every evidence of insincerity.
If Mr. Hemmeter wishes to deposit
$5,000 with some trust company and
execute papers making $1,000 payable
each year to the Michigan Knights of
the Grip, to be disbursed by the offi-
cers in such a manner and under such
circumstances and conditions as he
may designate, the proposition would
be worthy of consideration, but to of-
fer to actually make a gift and yet
retain the money in his own posses-
sion is too ridiculous and farcical to
receive any serious consideration at
the hands of business men of or-
dinary acumen or business discern-
ment.

 

—_—_++ +
Movements of Gideon Workers.
Detroit, Jan. 19—Flint Camp has

elected officers for the ensuing year,

with Brother Frise as President.

Twelve members were present and

an enthusiastic meeting was _ held,

every man voting to stand in his
place round about the Camp.

C. F. Louthain, who recently re-
|moved from this city to Grand Rap-
ids, will have for his home address
37 Warren avenue.

Rev. S. P. Todd, Field Secretary of
the State for the Gideons, is engaged

 

village.

National President

amount to $25,000, the selfishness— | ing in and giving out.

Bible readings and otherwise helping

|
at Brighton for two weeks in giving |
|
to advance the Lord’s work in that |

Charles M.
Smith led the Griswold House meet-

;A. C. Holmes, Mrs. Williams, one
ibrother from Scotland, one from Or-
jegon and members of the basket ball
jteam from the Y. M. C. A. The meet-
jing was instructive.

| Wheaton Smith is now in Chicago
|with the A. F. Sheldon school, tak-
We miss our
ibrother in our meetings.

George A. Fricke, of Flint, expects
| to undergo an operation in Detroit
| Hospital this week. We hope our
lbrother will soon be on the road
lagain with health and vigor.

| Gordon Z. Gage expects to move to
iIndiana this week, where he can have
‘his companion with him on some of
jhis trips. He knows that with her
linspiration he can sell more goods.
Aaron B. Gates.

 

Imlay City Business Men Active.
Imlay City, Jan. 19—At the last
meeting of the Imlay City Business
Men’s Association the Secretary was
requested to write the officials of the
Grand Trunk to find out the cause of
the difference in freight rates, it be-
ing cheaper to ship from Capac than
from our home town; also to write
the Bell Telephone Co. to inquire
the cause of rates being cheaper
from Almont than home town. The
motion was carried to notify the
prosecuting attorney to enforce Sun-
day closing of stores, etc. The Presi-
dent was appointed to get rates and
dates for the annual summer excur-
sion. Steele, Frank Raths-
burg and Mate Bowen were appoint-
ed to attend the State convention to
be held at Bay City, Feb. 9. Twenty
dollars was voted to W. C. Burkholder
for expenses of doctor bill for in-
juries received in the Fourth of July
accident by explosion of fireworks.
A meeting will be held next week to
plan for the business men’s banquet.
—_—__.-~<-____

Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po-
tatoes at Buffalo.

Lewis

 

Buffalo, Jan. 20—-Creamery, fresh,
27@32c; dairy, fresh, 183@24c; poor

to common, 14@18c.

Eggs—Strictly fresh, candled, 31@
32c; cold storage, 29¢.

Live Poultry — Fowls, 12@14¢;
ducks, 14@15c; geese, 12@13c; old
lcox, 9@Ioc; springs, 13@15c; turkeys,
| t8@2o0c.

Dressed Poultry—Fowls, 13@14¢;
springs, 14@16c; old cox, 11c; ducks,
16@18c; turkeys, 22@24¢.

Beans—New Marrow, hand-picked,
$2.40@2.50; medium, hand-picked,
\$2.35@2.40; pea, hand-picked, $2.35@
2.40; red kidney, hand-picked, $2.15@
2.20; white kidney, hand-picked, $2.50
@2.65.

Potatoes—7o@75c per bu.

Rea & Witzig.

 

 

 

 

ing last Sunday evening. Subject, |
“Jesus by the Well.” M. E. White, of —
Indianapolis, was present and follow- There is something missing in a
ed up the subject with experiences man’s religion when he has to be
which he had had. One was an Irish- shown the rule before he will do
man whom he found in the ditch | right,

 

 

 

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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—W. E. Collins, Owosso.
Secretary—John D. Muir, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer—W. A. Dohany, Detroit.
Other Members—E. J. Rodgers, Port

Huron, and John J. Campbell, Pigeon.
Next Meeting—Ann Arbor, Jan. 19, 20
and 21, 1909.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Assocla-
tion.

i
President—M,. A. Jones, Lansing.
First Vice-President—J. E. Way, Jack-

son.
Second Vice-President—W. R. Hall,
Third Vice-President—M. M. Miller,

Manistee.
Milian.
Secretary—E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor.
Way, Sparta.

Treasurer—A. B.
Formula for a Cucumber Cream.

It must be rememberedthat in many
preparations bearing this or a similar
name, the “cucumber” is found on the
label only. We give some formulas,
however, which actually contain cu-
cumber. juice:

 

Wee Se es 3 drs.
Beeeeeren jek eS 3 drs.
a ee Ozs.
Cucumber juice, fresh ........ 7 OZS.
Pxteact cucumber ............. I Oz.
Another formula is:
meee ee 600 parts
Mane oe 1,000 parts
Teche tela ............ 2 parts
Mose quater ............2. Io parts

To the liquefied suet and lard add
the tolu tincture; when nearly cool
gradually imcorporate the cucumber
juice and rose water, previously mix-
ed, stirring constantly.

The above formulas are for prepa-
rations which come under tne head
of pomades, rather than creams.

Extracts of cucumber is prepared
by cutting eight pounds of peeled cu-
cumbers into thin slices and mace-
rating for several days in ten pints
of warm alcohol, if, after expression,
the odor is not quite strong enough,
a fresh quantity of cucumber is add-
ed. The expressed tincture is finally
filtered.

Dietrich gives the following formu-
la for a “Milk of Cucumber:”

Pek 8, 20 gms
Sodiwm acetate ............ 20 gms.
Mose waiter ........2...2... 850 gms.
meer WORD .. 5.5.02... ese, 25 gms.
Timeture benzoin ........... 25 gms.
Cumarin triturate .......... I gm.
PAWOETI 6 60 gms,
oe tose 6. ce. 2 gtt.
MiMTiT PITIS. ..2.2.......5 5. 2 gtt.
Matt ask 6. 3 gtt.
Len betoumpt |. |... 5 gtt.
P. W. Lendower.

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Methods of Attracting Trade.

If you thave skating in your town,
which, of course, you-have, advertise
hot drinks for skating parties, get the
young people to drop in after the
recreation for a hot beverage just as
they did in summer for a soda. The
business won't comg to you unless

 

 

you convince the public that you have
just what they want. Don’t think be-
cause you live in a small town you
cannot sell hot drinks, because you
can.

Men in office buildings were sur-
prised one morning to pick up from
their desks a card which said, “Will
you sell five cents’ worth of your
time?” and securely fastened to the
card was a shining nickel. The rest
of the card merely contained an an-
nouncement of some specialties for
them, but every man read! it to the
last word. They had to read it. Hu-
man nature couldn’t resist.

A Massachusetts merchant employ-
ing three clerks has this novel plan
of stimulating trade in dull months.
Each clerk takes entire charge of the
store for a week, buys the goods, ad-
vertises—in fact, does everything as
if the store were his own. At the
end of the month he gives a $35 suit
of clothes to the clerk that had made
the most money. He had found it
the best and most profitable plan he
ever tried.

A druggist with a well-filled con-
fectionery case, who kept his candy
fresh by advertising, would ask of a
promising customer: “Is there any
one at home fond of candy?” To an
affirmative reply he would say: “I
will give you a sample of one of our
special confections to take to her.
This is particularly fine candy, pure
and fresh.” Then he would put sev-
eral pieces of the candy into a small
cardboard box on the lid of which a
label had been pasted, bearing a list
of candies carried in stock, with pric-
es, a blank space being left on the
label in which to write the name of
the candy to be sampled, with price.
The label also read: “Confectionery
delivered by free messenger. ’Phone
400 1D.” The box was wrapped and
tied to make a dainty package. A cir-
cular or folder of some candy manu-
facturer was often inclosed.
2s
Formula for a Women’s Vegetable

Relief.

Compound elixir of viburnum
the National Formulary has
recommended in the treatment of
diseases peculiar to women and _ it
may answer your purpose. It is said
to be very useful in hysteria, dys-
menorrhoea, irritable condition of the
uterus and nervous disorders accom-
panying these complaints. The fol-
lowing have also been recommended:
(1) Fluid extract squaw vine, 4 fluid
ounces; fluid extract of cramp bark,

 

of
been

 

2 fluid ounces; fluid extract of blue
cohosh, 2 fluid ounces; fluid extract of
damiana, 2 fluid ounces; fluid extract
of helonias, 2 fluid ounces; fluid ex-

ltract of cinchona,

sherry wine, 50 fluid ounces.

2 fluid ounces;
(2) Re-
duce to powder: Cramp bark and
partridge berry, of each, 4 ounces;
poplar bark, unicorn root and cassia,
of each, 4 ounces, and beth root, 114
ounces; add boiling water enough to
cover, let stand until cold and then
percolate with water until 5 pints of
liquid are obtained. To the perco-
2 boil, remove from the fire, strain
and when cold add 16 ounces of al-
R. E. Johnson.
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Formulas for Carbolic Salve.

Try the following:

cohol.

c.
Perseus cs: 16 ozs.
WellOW Wak .2. 6655 6k. 35535 1% Ozs.
CAMmBnOn oe iou ee: LOZ;
Rerhote aol 2. 2.62.2; 24 OZ.
Oil of sassafras ....:....... 30 min.

Melt the carbolic acid and while
warm add the camphor and oil of sas-
safras. Melt the wax and add to it
the petrolatum, melting them to-
gether; while cooling, but still liquid,
add the solution of camphor in car-
bolic acid, etc., and stir occasionally
while cooling. This is an excellent
carbolic ointment, the caustic proper-
ties of the carbolic acid being neu-
tralized by the camphor.

2.
More 12. 4bs.
Deel Sitch 6: “412 ibs.
WVimte wax i oo 2 2 ibs.
(ny camphor 66.0.0... 2 | OZS:
Carbolic acid crystals ...... 2, ths.
Calomel (00 ioe 24 tbs.

Melt the lard, suet, wax and cam-
phor together.

Melt the carbolic acid crystals and
add; strain and stir well; when nearly
cold add the calomel and mix thor-
oughly; when cold fill into contain-
ers. Martin Neuss.

Ne
Providing for Puppies.

Druggists are neglecting a profita-
ble line by lack of proper attention
to the sale of dog foods and medi-
cines. In England these goods form
an important part of the “chemist’s”
stock. Of course, England still leads
in the breeding and care of dogs, but
“man’s best friend” is rapidly grow-
ing in popularity and numbers in the
United States. This is particularly
noticeable in the number of pet dogs
owned by women and the devotion
which they bestow upon their pets
seems to indicate that the consump-
tion of food and medical specialties
for dogs might be largely increased, if
druggists would feature the lines.
Food and medicine are combined in
biscuits of various forms, and these
are prepared for grown dogs and pup-
pies. There are biscuits made with
malt, malt and cod liver oil, malt and
milk and various laxative and diges-

used simply as food luxuries or con-
fections. Dog medicines and canine
specialties furnish a good margin of
profit and their manufacturers supply
attractive advertising matter in wide-
ly varying forms.

You can not cheer the world with
a smile that starts at the teeth.

 

late add 24 ounces of sugar, bring to

tive combinations. There are also bis-
cuits of fish. meat, meal and other.
forms as well as those which are

Get the Grand Rapids Idea in Your
Mind.

Evansville, Ind., Jan. 9—The two

line item in your Jan. 6 issue, “Re-
viewing old troubles is a sure way
of recruiting new ones,” is a thought
every person ought to study and
think over every day until he has
really learned that it is a very dan-
gerous thing to review old troubles
of the past, yes, even of yesterday.
I never let anything trouble me for
a day. That is too long. - In fact,
we ought not to have any troubles.
We make our own conditions or we
allow them to be made for us. We
ought to be the Master of all things
in and around us. When we are the
Master, there is not any trouble. I
see that in the future Grand Rapids
is going to “Know How.” Well, that
is the point. Know How to do every-
thing about your business and you
will not have any trouble.

The trouble many have is, they
start out to do things and they know
that they don’t know. Every man
knows if he knows and he knows if
he doesn’t know. My advice toall is.
do what you know and do it well and
leave everything else alone. If we
all would take this advice we would
have but little trouble.

Doing things which we know but
little about is a dishonest act. I
mean we will learn that we have de-
ceived ourselves, and if we deceive
ourselves we are not honest with our-
selves. :

There are always thoughts coming
to us and telling us that we ought to
do this or that and at the same time
we know we are not able to master
the idea. Why is this? Just because
the thought wants action. Every
thought wants some one to give it
action.

Thoughts can not live without ac-
tion. All of our trouble is in this
fact. All kinds of thoughts come to
minds which act quick; they love to
catch us asleep, as it were.

So if you are having trouble, the
more you think about it the more
the very same thoughts which caused
the trouble will worry you. If you
tell them to “get out” the better it
will be for you, for you at once give
better and bright thoughts a chance
to come into your mind. Always re-
member, you can think only one
thought at a time.

So if you are thinking troubling
thoughts, how can you ever expect to
be able to think good uplifting
thoughts.

Get the Grand Rapids idea in your
mind and “Know How.”

Edward Miller, Jr.
~~
Remedy for Poison Ivy.

Dr. Taylor says in the treatment
of ivy poisoning cloths are wrunz
from a hot saturated solution of Ep-
som salt, and applied under dry air-
tight coverings, and repeated three
or more times daily, according to the
case.

_—_ ooo
Preserving Chloroform.

The United States Pharmacopoeia
directs chloroform to be kept in glass
stoppered bottles. This is not cor-
rect, as glass stoppers are not air-
tight. The evaporation with cork

 

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sas ae eae PR E CURRENT Lupulin ......... @ 40|Rubia Tinctorum 12@ 14| Vanill
oe Lycopodium 10@ 75|s : a cd eee ue ne

Se aes oor “ie a oe La’s 18@ 20|Zinci Sulph ... %T@ 8
joie age tes 1 75@1 865) Scillae .. @ 650 Magnesia Sulph. oe eons sO Ee o
Benzoicum, Ger.. 70@ 75 — steseeee 2 15@2 25| Scillae egg o* Hr he iro Sulph. “belYo1 % as Drac’s - " bbl. gal

SAE cases @ 12|Erigeron .. folutan ......... oo Me cseccass 13| Lard, Not ne
Carbolicum 16@ 23|Evechthitos ....! 2 35@2 50 utan ...-.-.- @ 50) Menthol : pa oo oc 10@ 12|Lard, No. 1...
Citricum ........ .271 00@1 10| Prunus virg .... 30, eee es "2 69q2 5 |Sapo. Wo 122021! 13 sed, pure ‘rai 2@ 46
Ae rs: 50g 5 Gaultheria 8 50@4 00 Gingiber ........ a 50 woe ae ‘oe a Seidlitz Mixture 43 22 lier ee ao 2
oe : : ’ INAPIS cccccccecs
iro see 39 10 Gossippit Sem gal fe 75 Tinctures Rory is. bar is “ars 15|Sinapis, opt. .... g = a s Pt . str 65@ 70
Cree noruie, Calt = oe ae 00@3 60| Aloes ........... 60 Myristica anton... Snuff, Maccaboy, Whale ie ne ..Market
oi al ay ie : es ce feadceae 40@1 20|Aloes & Myrrh.. 60|Nux Vomi o. 1. 25@ DeVoes ....... @ 651 sr OF .« 10@ 7
Suipitaricum MQ 4i/ Pavenduta 2002. 208 60 Sucontzens Meyse  AOe Senix ca po is @ 10|snuft, Sh DeVo's @ 61) Green, Paris ....29%@33%

annicum ....... 75@ 85! Mentha Pines | + on| A a Pepsin Saac, H & wa eae 1 oo ie Peninsular 13
Pertsiedia 38@ 40/M iper ..1 75@1 909| Arnica .......... 601 PD Go” Soda, Boras, po.. 6@ 10|Lead, red .... $ 16
a Me nta Ver . a sors zi Asafoetida eo Pie es ek @1 00 Soda. et. Pot’a Tart ie 28 Lead, white ..... the 5
ime” «aw Myricia as $0@1 851 ‘auranti Cortex. £0! pew! Lp saeress @2 00} Soda, oe 3@ 5 Ochre. _ Ber..1% 2
Aqua, 20 deg. Te gle eee ean 00@8 00] Barosma ........ 50) Pp a c”)6lUR el oe 8%@ 4|Putty, commer'l 2% duu
Carbonas ...-..- tee sci ritls liquide ... 10m 19/2 eee ear ae a Se Suiphas ".. "gh _3| Putty, strictly p on 2603
Chloridum .. ... 12@ 14 ae Liquida gal. @ 40| Benzoin Co. .... 50( Piper os po 80 @ Gelsnts’ Coltgne ... @a'eel Rea ys eneetay . i 2 3" 5
a BEEN ecco Guiana. mip. A po @ 80|Spts, Ether Co. 50@ 55|Shaker Pr x Tee
osae 02. Capsicum ... E ara DO 28 @ 18) Spts. all “Tang. 78Q a3

Black. s<is...-.5- @2 25) Rosmarini on ooo. 15 Pix Burgum .... @ 8 Sate aig ot ee Eng. no ©

oo Cadacn 7B —, Acet .... 12@ 16} Spts. Vi'i Rect b $ aes oe

oe Casala ‘Aeutitor” i | Bulvis Ip'eet Opil 1 80@1 60) Spts, vii R’t 10 a @ Whiting Gilders” “8 =

Sass as UutITO. oO 0 : : pS ‘i Rit 5 gl 4 ’

Sinapis, ess. oz.. @ 68| Castor ...-.-eee 1 00 gccucu doz. @ 15) Strychnia, Crys'l 1 1091 80 White Darl —
sie. 28@ 30 Suocint ok @ 45 @Catechu ......<.- 50| Quassia im, pv. ue 28) Sulphur Subl \ 4 cif aris Eng.
eo oe i teme G...... 40@ §|Cinmchona ....... 60/ Quin N eccces oe 10) Sulphur, Roll "240 8%| Whiting, white  @1 40
Xanthoxylum 30@ 35 oe opt. .... @1 60 ha Co. .:. 60 Grae. S ger se UO 21 Secnete Vou << 10 | ee Varnishes .

ii Theobromas -... 15@ 20 Columbia... 50|Quina, SP & W.17Q 21| Thebrromae °°, 809 86 Nov i Turp’ Coach! 1001 20
Copatia “svees saci) eee (erie 50 romae ...... 0@ 65 No. 1 Turp Coachi 10@1 20
oe. 75@2 85 Potassium MR sates 50 ie

PoenBhL. Canada 75@ 80| Bi-Carb ......... 15@ Ferri. Chicridum™
Polutan . 0.0)... 40@ 45|Bichromate ..... 13@ is Gentian oe. 80 G i

eons Sromide ......:.. 25@ 30|Gentian Co, ... 60 “ J. Johnson Cigar Co
Abies, Canadian. ean 1@ 15/Guiaca =... - Grand R i
die, oe i] Chore soe. Hag e/ Gulkes, arin; apids eS
Ginchona ava. 18 Toate a 30@ 40 fodine. cae 50 . Evening Press Exemplar
iris Cae “ otassa. Bitart pr 30@ 32] Lodine, colorless 75 St t
Peas wienet. = Potass Nitras opt 7@ 10 Kino ......eee oe 50 a ioner O Theda Be Oar Lents
Quillaia, gr’d. 15 Li co ~~ hon Le 80 :
desaiece.” p6 36 24| 8 aninte 62050 80 28 WEE... c cec cas 50
Chile Geo... 20 Binpnate pe We 16) Vemes es a 1 .

Oo <...2...26....
: Sei a Opt vee 1B Valentines, Hammocks CASH CARRIERS
auveyreniza Gia HQ 201 Aeoe oo. BB [aa d te ne
Haematox ..... C 11@ 12 bachem . oa. 10@ 12 . s a v \ nn ane anne
Haematox, is 18@ 7 Arum sol ay @ | Reet . da wales ae Sporting Candas \ Store Fixtures and Equipment for Merchants
ox, s 4@ 15 Blamus: 26.042 .. @ 40| 'Sanguinaria .... inane

Haematox, 4s 16@ 17|Gentiana po 15.. 12@ 15 ita og ae 80

Ferru Glvehrrhiza pv 15 16@ 18|Stromonium ..... er tren ce aes
es ‘: Sfichors, Atha 12@ 15| Tolutan eS S 265 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago
on ang Guise 2 00 = — @2 50! Valerian ..... ae 50

rate ble. . rastis a @2 60 -
Grate aa, lium ss sone ag, Blears et FP can
olut. Chloride .. necac. po ......: one lu 2 i
fae eer com’! . 2 be DION 22)... ' 35m in Miscellaneous os ee
ulphate, com’l, b alapa. pr. ...... 25@ 30] Aether, Spts Ni be
co cwt. .. ’ 19 aoe Ys .. @ 35 pina Spts Nit if 340 38 Grand Rapids Mich l a a alesis
e, pure .. ophyllum po. 1B@ 18|Alumen, grd poT7 3 4 ’ alogue oO 0

. i ra oe 150 18 a era pO | 33 A g post cards and booklets.
ie, 20 ef cut 2.01.3: an@1 25| Antimoni, po .... 5 i
Arthemia 2. bag se | BOSE OV 75@1 0n|Antimoni et po T Fy 50 ee
lee 30@ 35 Sancuinart. no 18 @ 16 Antifebrin ....... @ 2

a Scillae. po 45... 20@ 2) Antipyrin ....... @ 2% ae
Se olla 50 | SOMOBA, wee eee ees es@ 9n|Argenti Nitras oz @ 53 : ee : : : ie ooh
pena eusiten” @ Sernentaria ..... 50@ 68|Arsenicum ...... 10@ 12

Tinnevelty 15@ 20 Smilax Mo. .:.... @ 25| Balm Gilead buds 60@ 65
Se es ane to OE ee a ee a ee
Salvia’ officinalis, ae 14521 60) Cou Clot, 48 @ 10
plocarpus oF ium or, 8

wae oe as soe “a a Valeriana Ene. a 95| Calcium Chlor, as g 12

Shen Valeriana. Ger... 15@ 20|Cuntharides, Rus. @ 90
i i aa Fingiher A .....0.. 12@ 18|Capsici Fruc’s af @ 20)
2 2a oe ef Zingiber J ....-. °5@ 22|Capsici Fruc’s po @ 22
Acacia, 3rd pkd. @ 35 Semen one ha m0 OA 26
Acacia, sifted sts @ 18|Anisum po 20 .. @ 16 Carphyllus : ne 22
pong douse. oe S aa (gravel’s) 4a 15 | Cassia vructus .. @ 35 e

fp OED ccc 5 es A Ie oes @ ¢

Py Cane ....: @ 25|Cannabis Sativa 10 & one ¢ 13 ‘
Aloe, Socotri -...  @ 43 Cardamon....... n@ 90/Cera Alba : 50@ 55
oe ates . 55@ 60/Carut po 15 ..... 15@ 18|Cera Flava .... / 40@ 42
0 oetida ...... 35@ 40| Chenopodium 96@ 80|Crocus ........-- 30@ 35
Benzolnum ...... 50@ 55|/Coriandrum ..... 12@ 14| Chloroform ..... 54
Bocce Mae g = Cydonium, ......- 75@1 00! Chloral Hyd Crss 1 35@1 60
Catechi, 8.2... See eet ee eee ue ru O
Comphorac | Lage 60@ 65 Foonugreel ‘po... 7@ 9 Ciononidre. ‘Germ ao B ”

OR cas ce €| Cinchonid
— seeeees @1 00| Lint. erd. bbl. 2% 3@ 6 Cocaine a aN oe a 5003 0
Gamboge ....po;.1 251 $5|Tobelia, -.---.-; 5@ 80| Corks list, “jess 75% Gr d R i i
omen eg Elem Ch HS Nicene gs 4 and Rapids, Mich.
ooo. 8 eee reta. ...-.: bbl. 75 |
tomas ee g pe Sinapis Aloa .... 8@ 10|Creta, prep. ..... ¢ 5 |
Qt ccs cose 4 60@4 70] naPis hee eee hl UG i |
ot aoa bso - Saber @ at ©6Drugs er

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Shellac, Wieashed! $9, §3| Rromentt W. D. 2 Soe? §0] Cope Suh." 9g HB & |
iain Wiens Ge. 1 Matec ace [Ue el ‘ |
Absinthium ..... 45@ 60| Tuniperis Co O T 1 65@2 00 Emery, po or = emicals |
Eupatorium oz pk g0|Saccharnm_ N EB 1 99@2 10| Brgota oe ca |
Lobelia... 02 DK a5 |fnt, Vint Gall! 1 75@6 50| mther Sulph’ 65 eo all t . s |
orium oz. Dp n Aw sid s cms 1 25@2 00 co P M d |
Mentra rae oz pk Ee Vini Oporto ..... 1 25@2 00 a are. 4 i = a ent € Icines
ee ae : DS CO GaNe oo. ice ce ss
Rue 022.1 oz pk 39 Sponges Gambler ......... 8@ 9 i ’ ‘
wennect ee Extra yellow sheeps’ Gelatin, Cooper... 60 S d
eimecs v- .oz pk 25 wool carriage @1 25| Gelatin, French.. 350 60 ruggists un ries |
cana Florida sheeps’ wool SEO wares et Ba9 75% ; |
carriage ...... 00@3 50 ss than box 70 S
Sostmunie, Pat 130 30 Grass _sheeps’ wool, ~ Glue, brown ee ne 18 tationery |
Carbonate, Pat, 18@ 20| ‘carriage ....... | @125|Givee mae ot BO Hammock d Sporti
a £ se... eeeeeeese |
Carbonate ......- 18@ 20| Nard. slate use. ot @| ’|Grana_ Paradial 36 OCKS ail porting Goods |
sede eee seus 00 ye ice “a 5:3 5008 75 Hyamre a 60 |
Amygdalae Dule. 75 oT ee i 2 ick i 1 |
ere Sees Le - ect! cottage = 2 00 i Sh. Mt @ a1 Orders solicited with prompt service and accuracy assured. |
Anist os cnageed fal s slate use ..... @1 40 ee = Rum @ 97 |
Bergamii ........8 50@9 00 Syrups H roan =e =
Ceol -. 2... .0. 85@ 90) Acacia ....... , a ae : i |
Garvopni meee ; 16 , 20 Avram pe @ a ee Am. Rit 1 00 P. S.—Our Sundry Salesmen will call in a few days
ue ccleG cine 1 erri Resubi i i |
Chenopsdi tees 26 2 Fert Tod .-.:.-. @ 60) fodine, Resi “3 85 ss@s 90 with a full line of samples. Please preserve for them your
SS ea et eee ee
nium Laws : are 200...
Conium Mee 200 90. Senega ........  @ 6&0 Liq Potase Arsinit 1 3 «|

 

 

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These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailing, ‘aie wee one 55 sietoread a a oS oe oo
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and are intended to be correct at time of going to press. Prices, however, are|Beeman’s Pepsin ...... 5 ak Sundried .0 2.000...
; : . : Adams Pepsin ........ 55| Fig Cake Assorted 12 | Evaporated 9
liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled at Best Pepsin catty 45 aut Nut Mixed ...., 6 |, Apricots
i est Pepsin, 5 xes.. “roste Team: 4... 8 alifornia (2.7
market prices at date of purchase. Black Jack ........... 55| Frosted Honey Cake sake Citr osugad
D nt Gum Made .. Fluted Cocoanut Par io (Corsican @17
INED On SON 6... inger Gems ........ 8 Cu
ADVANCE. DECL Sen Sen Breath Per’f 1 00| Ginger Gems, Iced.... 9 |Imp’d 1 Tb. — 8%@ 81
Long Tom ..........5.. 55/Graham Crackers |... 3 | Imported bulk ...8 "@ giz
Mecatan ois. esc 55)Ginger Nuts ........7. 10 Peel r
Hop to it ............. 65|Ginger Snaps N. B.G"-7 | Lemon American 13
Spearmint ............ 55 Ser Snaps Square g |Orange American oes
ppodrome Bar ..... R o
Bulk EHICORY 5| Honey Cake, N. B. Cc: i2 Cluster, 5 oe 2 25
ot Ge a Einar As. Ice 12 | To0se Muscatels 2 cr."
HOAPIO oe 5|/#20ney Jumbles ......, -oose Muscatels 3 ¢
Franek’s bee ue 7 Honey ta lig Iced zy = gece at ee aa
chener’s .............. 6|##0ney Flake ......... » WM. Seede - TH@8%
Index to Markets 1 9 CHOCOLATE roe Gookies reed 100-1981 fornia Prunes
Walter Baker & Co.’s* | Tocg Honey Coen 48 90-100 25mm, poxes--@ 4
By Columns ARCTIC AMMONIA Oysters German Sweet ........ | Moperial ek | BO. op Sore DOMES. @ 4%
Doz.|Cove, 1tb. ......... 6 Ol Premium ..... ieee, oe S | 70- 80 gum Poxes..@ 5%
12 oz. ovals 2 doz. box..75|Cove, 2m. ....., 1 60@1 85/Caracas .............. Oli Ketams Kitae O'S 8 60- 70 sp boxes. .@ 6%
. Col AXLE GREASE Cove, lib. a -- @1 20 . Walter M. Lowney daa fam Yeu 27?" ire 50- 69 oa ioe 1%
, ums remium, Be cen as Bele Ret ease cess hea pea €s..@ 73,
Ammonia .............. : ie en se doz. 3 00| Plums .......... 1 00@2 50| Premium, %s ......... 32 os Bien’ Boca. i 7 pe mee 8%
Axle Grease ........... ” : 5 eas COCOA m 5Tb. es..
cn a ‘. a. 4 - Marrowfat ...... S0@1 25) Baker's -/............ 3 pecan Water ........ 16 Be A in 50%. cases
B 101. pails, per doz...6 00| Early June’..::: 95@1 25|Cleveland ............. 41) og Cabin ‘CG i. 8 CEOUS GooDs
Seren beam --------+- Fite galley per dos... 7 9) Matiy June Sified'1 15@1 66 Colnninl, We... 6s... 85) Lusitania Mixea 277°" it | Dried timeean®
oo seretessres 195m. pails, per doz...i2 00 ois Peaches pips as cage MB ia oe. : Mary. Ann os Med. Hana wa ft
ee eneseeeeesseone sec cesccee C0) eee: Me TABS IONS |: 0 oso wis Sino sie 6 a oie be Marshmallow Wal ts 1 Brown Holl ce 6 266.9
a BAKED BEANS No. 10 size can pie @3 00/Huyler .......... 4519 alnuts 16 tae A
RE es tion (ow Bet, One; -- Pineapple inane. eo 36 a, Peceec thee ets 24 1m, (harina
Butter Color .......... - - - cba we :< Grated Sea 1 85@2 50 Lowney, tie 36 sakes reo ai oa ; Bulk per ue a 50
. - et oe aCCG Se. 95@2 40} Lowney, %s .......... 6 : , . eee 50
Candies 4 1) american t.ho. 15 sas Pumpkin Lowney, 1s yg a Some ici: oe 14 |Flake, 50 fe
Re more eres. Simei oe) “ 85|Van Houten, %s ..... 12/n 0) Yumble ....... " - Sack ....1 00
Canned Go oe oa. ll 85 Gocd ivan Go oe a een 12 | Pearl, 100 t. sack 2
ee , aS 2s. 3 : : 0.2 45
ooo re 3 BLUING de 1 00| Van Houten, 16s oa 40 en Crackers ..... 8 | Pearl, 200 tb. sack --.4 80
CRIBUD  ... se s0ess Be Gems)... 8 Maccaronj
Arctic Galion | 2... 5.2.2 .. 2 60; Van Houten, is ....... 72 and Vermicell!
1 ~~. e Oval Sugar Cak D
—— chereceeseat anes gS — eS oe n= $ “ Raspberries DVERD oe e. 35! Oval Suipee ja ro : neti Es as oe
Soe ee er DIITTIIT g]16 oz. roun 0z. box Standard ........ Wilbur, t68 ....,...). 39 : z : oe . x..2 50
Gueory” eo Seececoce Sawyer’s Pepper Box Salmon Wilbur, 376. 2250 0: 4 oe a , Assorted Ne Co Pearl Barley
ra ay . oe Per Gross. Col’a River, talls 1 95@2 00 COCOANUT Protesis H a “Mal” % Ao Ae Sie 4a hws os cig 3 00
CO! Tinea s No. 3, 3 doz. wood bxs 4 00 Col’a River, flats 2 25@2 75|Dunham’s ks & \s 26% Pretzelett a Seed Oe oe: 3 00
eee AONOM senor ee -. 8} No. 5, 3 doz. wood bxs 700|/Rea Alaska ....13501 60|Dunham's 4s ~..*°.. fo eee gt ee 8 ee 3 65
a BROOMS Pink Alaska |. ... 90@1 00|Dunham’s ¥s ... Reales Conkiag 2 Green, Wisttt’ .
Cocoa Shells ....... «e+. 8/No. 1 Carpet, 4 sew ..2 75 Sardines Ravena Jumbles ...__! 12 |Green’ g Sin, bu,
ie dees eee eee ee> - ,3| No. 2 Carpet, 4 sew ..2 40| Domestic, \s --.3%@ 4 Rev oe wcotech, bu 2 45
Confections een cheee +--+ I1/ No. 3 Carpet, 3 sew ..2 25| Domestic, %s ..__. @ 5 Cc oo. ue Pe 04
Crackers ....... erseeees B/No. 4 Carpet, 3 sew ..2 10] Domestic, Must’d 6%@ 9 ao Scalloped’ “Gems *"."” ‘Ab Jean - Sago
Cream Tartar ......... 4| Parlor Gem .......... 2 40) California, %s ..11  @14 Cheiec Scotch Cookies .11777° 1 Gee es - 68
Common Whisk California, %s ..17 @24 Fancy Snow Creams ......”: 16 Ga a weet. a8
D «| Fancy Whisk French, 4s ......7 @14 spiced Money Nuts... 12 | encn Dike...
Dried Fruits .... neater Warehouse .......... 0; French, %s .....18 @28 Soe sack Sugar Fingers ......__ 12 |Flake, 110 .
F BRUSHES Shrimps eo Roser Gems ..... S iPear, 126 mw cae: f
Farinaceous Goods §| solid Back Sta 75 eae “err roe coe is? ea wo ig | Pearl. 24 kes... 7%
LcLebbeleec be eoeee OBO) DOHC HACK 6 IM......- BV oe ee fi UMmoIeES .... ; See ©
a and Oysters .....- 10} Solid Back, 11 in..... 951 Pair... 2... : 85 See LE ee Spiced Gingers ...... 9 een ene EXTRACTS
Fishing Tackle ........ Pointed Ends ........ ith 2... 1 00 Maracaibo Spiced Gingers Iced ..10 ColenaX Jenks
Flavoring Extracts .... 5 Stove Maney 2). 6 1 20@1 40) Mair 16 | Sugar Cakes (0002) 8 aa ew Brand
— to eg No. 3 Coe eres : o et potrawberries Choice ...... reget 19 Sugar Cakes, Iced .... 9 |no. 9 Bere <
MO na occceces> + state ee eesenes ace n eecnee ene Mexican ugar Squares, large or ro ; :
cise ons NO Doon nae eeseeeee A Pi veney ...--. cncs, ee cere i | MN oe — porpencless 1
Tomatoes BACY ees ee PUDENDA 20.525, 6 8 : ss --3 00
Gelatine .....cccccccces OG: BB ...2t. 1 00 Gook _..22 @1 10 Guatemala Sponge Lady Fingers 25 N Vanilla
Grain Bags ......-+-+-- BINo. 7 oo... ce eee 130) Pair ie 95@1 00|Choice ................. a6 |Suger Crimp .........8 {N° 2? Bien Claes ....1 99
aaa 8 No. 4 veeseeeecesteees ; citeacy .... seve @1 40} Java 12 | S¥ivan Cookie “221202. 12 [NO 3 fee Class «2... 2 00
Oe 8) geese eee ae : TACA as Vanilla Waf rf 0. ass 2. 4 00
H BUTTER COLOR Manone . eee a ova + Jaxon Brand
Piers 2... 8s. - ne. e- 6 w., R. & Co.’s 25c size 2 00 CARBON OILS OO 25 | Waverly 1.1.22: 8 Vanilla
Hides and Pelts ....... 10| w.) R! & Co.'s 50¢ size 4 00 Barrels CG. ee - ifautiee .. 10 |2 °z. Full Measure ...9 10
\ CANDLES Perfection ....... @10% Mocha : eo a 4 oz. Full Measure ._ "4 00
Paralline, 68 ........:... 10; Water White Wi iArabian (~9 22: 21 n-er Seal Goods 8 oz. Full Measure.. 8 00
3 Paraffine, 12s ..... ..10| D. S. Gasoline @13% Package Per dos. Lemon ""*
Be 6) Witte 25s... 20|Gas Machine .... @24 New York Basis Albert Biscuit ........ i ool? 0% Full Measure; 25
eee CANNED GOODS ro Nap’a re Gaui ae orcs nares be fe eas on 4 oz. Full Measure _..9 40
Apples Slinger... 2 Mworth: oo... 8 oz. Full PAAd 8
igenie |... 3... ee: ss: S!sm. standards 100|Engine .......... R @2e |jersey .. 0.1.2 15 00| Butter Thin Biscuit ..1 00 jennings Go oi: Ha 50
ion @2 50| Black, winter ....8%4@10 a ie 50 totais |, nee. ? 4 Terpencions sere .
cLaughlin’s XXXX _|Cheese Sandwich ..... .
nt ged ae aa ce or te 1 75 Ser Se McLaughlin's XXXX sold| Chocolate Wafers ....1 00 N Doz.
B22. we. 1 2@ Breakfast Foods 0 2 Panel
Meat Extracts ...... eee 5 50 2 to retailers only. Mail all}Cocoanut Dainties ....100/° 2 Panel .......... 75
6| Standards gallons @ Bordeau Flakes, 36 1tb. 2 50 : No. 4 Panel
Mince Meat ........... ; okie Cream of Wheat 36 2th 4.50/0rders direct to W. F. Faust Oyster ......... 1 00 No. 6 P Fe eon. d 50
See ee gi Beked .....-...... BO | $5 | eee sey 8e PRaE.--2 $5/ Mclaughlin & Co. Chiea“| Fig Newton j20--0....1 fer Sian to
emtare 3... oe cecccces ae go. ive *cloc CA cseck UNTO es FONG...
ae soe + a Tee pe : 4 Extract Frotana ....... wees onssk 00 Z fig ao Measure ...1 25
1 ig ee 5@1 25 é * '4.39| Holland, % gro boxes 95] Ginger Snaps, N. B. C. 1 00 - Hull Measure ....2 oy
Mute ....... peace es bae - 11) Wax pees ee ma @ Horee, 38 2b... 2:..... 4 30 Felix, % gross ........ 115|!Graham Crackers ....1 00 Jennings D. C. Brand
oO plac idded Grape Nuts, 2 doz, ...2 70 Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85|Lemon Snap ......... 50 Extract Vanilla
standard ......:.. 1 35] Malta Ceres 24 1tb...2 40 :
Wigs 6) Gallon $M lsectta Vite se ame es re. 1 43 De ot fe Ms. e Pen Doz.
Se ree ? are ae . atmea rackers .... : GO ae ce ee 1 Ob
sat P sion, ca oa . ne ea = National oe Company eo He yd Noe : ots ecseseeccs ® 00
PCB. seer eee eeseccocs : gfe eeacong ie ee , ° > Bran Old Time Sugar Cook. . BCL 3 50
Pickles ......... ciasgous © Clams Ralston Health Food Butter Pretzelettes, Hd. Md. ..1 00|Taper Pane! /1''''"*** 2 00
Playing Cards 1.21.77! 6| Little Neck, Ib. 1 00@1 25] "3¢ 2p. 1... Schemes ST) OEE sor S [Royal Toost .........01 08]! o% Full Menauro 77-7 oo
Potash ..----ssseeeeeeee 4 Upesised Gicc " Boullion @} 9| sunlight Flakes, 36 if) "2 85 N. @.) Square 30... 6 | Saltine ) 0)... ee -,1 00/2 0z. Full Measure |''1 9
Provisions ............. 6 ins i oo < Ses ee 20 1Ib : - Soda | Saratoga Flakes ....: 1 60/4 oz. Full Measure .//°3 50
, ss rere t neste? N. B. C Soda 6 {Social Tea Biscuit ....1 00}No. 2 Assorteu Flavo 1 00
R Burnham's pts. ....... 3 60 Voigt Cream Flakes 4 60 : - \&, SOGA ....-+6.- rs 10
Rice ee 7) Burnham’s ate: 7 20 Zest, 20 2tb a. 10 Select Soda .......... 8 soda, N. B.C... :. 1 00 GRAIN BAGS
. Cheevies se of auch ce 6 rs Flakes ...... 3 tent ek aianie t ve Acetone, —- in bale 19
Red Standards @1 40 ax “epnyrette 230.002... ultana Fruit Biscu eag, less than bl 191%
Salad Dressing ....... 7 ; = Rolled Oats Uneeda Biscuit ....... 50
Saleratus ...... a tceets . 7| White go eel @1 40) Rolled Avena, bbls. ..6 Bh « oreo g |Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer 1 00 GRAIN mee
Sal Soda ............ oe. ai tee 75@_ 85) Gece! Cut, 100 tb. sks, ia ee Uneeda Lunch Biscuit | 50|/New No. 1 Witte ....4 =
B gaesee> ee eee GODT = 2-2-5 1 00@1 10| Monarch’ 90 Tb. sacks 2 9)| Faust, Shell 7/7/77.” 7%| Vanilla Wafers ...... oti New No. 2 Red .°°*”” 1 00
AME WOM one csceccune 7 , Water Thin 00
q7|Fancy ........... 45 Quaker, 18 Regular ..1 50 Sweet Goods. : aan. 5 Winter Wheat Flour
TOE lc da 7 French Peas Quaker, 20 Family i eiAninas 190 | Zu Zu Ginger Snaps 0 Local Brand
oe ee ops e~ [1] | Sur Extra Fine ........ 22 Cee ae Ric heenis 0 ag | owicbaak ....... veeeeed 00! B tente? eee
ian eee ~oblgeairaeud iells eee eta PROM whee esac sys 8% Brittle ................ 11 | In Special Tin Packages.|Second Patenig °° ""
Oe eee 18] 242 tb. packages’ 8 80[Cadet 0. vee 8 4 Per doz.|Straight ns, "7"17778 25
ee . g| Moyen ..............++. CATSUP PRAM -s+-scaasnoe® i Menting ......,....... 8 BB Becona ‘Stral
Soups ...... : ght 4 75
: Gooseberries Columbia, 25 pts. ....415| Cassia Cookie ......... @ i Neniaee 3.5.55... ++ 2 56] CF cs
BDIDED .4-.eiessss cocose 8 , Dp Cae ee 4 00
aa g| Standard Snider’s pints ........ 2 25| Cavalier Cake ........ at i Nabiess _.... 00/ Flour in barrels, 250
BOR ose s sss 8 Sikomant Snider’s % pints ...... 1 36/Currant Fruit Biscuit : Champaigne, Water -. 3 58 barrel additional, © P*T
TOCKVCIS § 64 cs ca ces oh t z >
T CHEESE Coffee Cake, pl. or iced 10 | Sorbetto ies esa 10 a pit ~~ moa:
ee: eRe a Acme 22, @15 |Cocoanut Taffy Bar ..12 | Nabisco -- 1%5|Quaker don °7°*" a es
TOBACCO ....... .. brecee BIT ae Wikis 5 @i2_ ;Cocoanut Bar ........10 |Festino 2.000. 1 50 w a ae
NE vee eeeeenees ++e++ 9) Picnic Talls Gem @15%|Cocoanut Bon Bons ..16 | Bent’s Water Grackers 1 40) mei ykes & Co.
Mackerel mOONey 6.255565: @15%| Cocoanut Drops ...... 12 Holland Rusk Kantes Manion “2 0
Vv sen @16 | Cocoanut Honey Cake 12 ansas Hard Wheat Flour
9| Mustard, 1. ........ 1 80) Warner’s 36 packages .......... 2 90) Fanch
MOONE cme oe nee Co d, 2b 2 80] Riverside ........ @15_ |Cocoanut Hon, Fingers 12 | 45 packages 32 on, %s cloth ...6 00
oa” ves 1 80|Springdale ..... @14% | Cocoanut Hon Jumbles 12 | ¢9 Rokoees cee Judson Grocer Co,
9 — = ee $951 Brick. 3.0.5: 2.4. 16 | Cocoanut Macaroons ..18 enc hache %)Grand Rapids Grain &
Woodenware “<2....01.1. 3] Tomato, It. 00000002. 1 50| Leiden 20.0200.0, 1G | oe Tig ee ga 20 |Barrels or drums <...29| yy;Milling Co, Brands
Wrapping Paper ...... 10 ro, ee. edness 2 80 Econ a eeines a. oe aoe ee Boxes ae Gratien, assorted oe 5
2 ushrooms eeee s r Cookie a9 uare Cans ...., oeset OR Buckwh : Cae ee es 6 coe
rages seseeeees@ 24/Sap Sago ........  @33 | Dixie Suga: - ne €at ........... 6 00
ee » Eteees oe 28' Swiss, domestic:. @1¢ |Family Snaps .........§ |Fancy caddies 0000.01 1la5| Ryo Meat oe ca eS

 

 

 

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Spring Wheat_ Flour 9 10 11
; ae ae Brand __|vure in ones 11% HO IDSs. 2.8 112 55 Pure C
golden’ Horn, family’s $5/80"1b. tubo advance S| * PS “geen MM) Rale ees bib. size, 24 in cases. 7 Pelts
Duluth Imperial ...... 5 95/5 > fubs....advance | Ani AGS Ses petal ch cae Se ee: Ola ow
wiecaual ie ee ea ~ tins...) advance 4 Cae ee ae seeeeee 10) [Choice oe xs a Sa 16 in case.. 68 oa Sedues @
Judson Grocer Co.’s Brand | + bails....advance % Caraway a aie 0" TEA a: Loib. size, 5 in aan. a Shearlings “+2... 350) $0
Ceresota, 44S ..--.-..- @ 60) pam Smoked Meats Cardamom, Malabar. 1 00 1 : Japan b tt i‘ Tallow
Ceresota, 445 «.+.-...-. 6 50) Ha 1s, i2 Ib. average. .11%4| Celery ........ 15 Sundried, medium ....24 | No. 1 on er Plates ING. ©. oo. i
Géresota, 445) 6 -:..52.. 6 40) as 14 Ib. average..l1j¢| Hemp. Russian |... . , Sundried, choice .. “ge =| No. Z phe 450 in crate 461No. 2.2.0 @ 6
Lemon & Wheeler’s Brand! jj; ms, 16 Ib. average..11i,| Mixed Bird ........... %|Sundried, fancy ...... 36. | No. & Oval, 20 im crate 40 | Wook” @4
Wineoid) a 6... eke s. Reig 18 Ib. average..1114| Mustard, white ...1._! 4 | Regular’ medium 111": ” INO & Uval, Zo0 in crate 40| Unwashed on
Wingold, %4S .... a fo Bams 020... 1244 | Poppy : Cette 10 Resular chotee 000 = NNO. 5 Uval, 250 in crate 0U} Unwashed. lag ++--@1i
Wingold, Wes ey 5 90 1am, dried beef Seta 2) oe 9 Regular A Churns ’ BEG ec ecuc @13
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand Calitornia Hams ..... Ty, * | Basket-fired a dium — 36 | Barrel, 5 gal, each ..2 40 CONFECTIONS
Lourcl, Ae eke ..... 6 20 Picnic Boiled Hams ..14 . SHOE BLACKING Basket-fired, ae 31 Barrel, 10 gal. each. .2 ale Stick Candy Pails
tauree tn lah |e 18 Bolled) Hams 01.) : 19 Handy Box, large 3 dz 2 50| Basket-fired, ; Oice ..38 Clotnes Pins 09 | SANGarE 26.1... oe
Laurel, “%4s&%s cloth 6 00 Berlin Ham, pressed .. 9 Handy Box, small ....1 25} Nibs » fancy ..43 | Round head, 5 gross bx 55 sander BH sce 8 ‘
Laurel, 445 cloth ...... 6 re Bam (ices: 4 a Boxe Polish’ | a5) Siftines 28. 10 an sound head, cirieas . 7 Standard Twist .2221! 3
Voigt Millin Co.’s » OE ae 12 bs a s Crown Polish.. =) i Pogo ses setse : as ‘
Voigt’s Orla tbat oe oe pate. ae 3 _ SNUFF - TO feuage Meier Due a Eee, hae ay ase
Voigt’s Flouroigt » Ib. pails....advance 1 5 ne in bladders ...... 37 | Moyune means No. 1 com aa 12 dz. 20) Ota HH onc cscceees 10
(whole wheat flour) 5 35 8 Ib. pails....advance 1 Benes. Mm Jara... 35 | Moyune. ate” se 30 No. 2 camulece 2. Se tag Cream ........12
Vere Hygienic Bologna Sausages Toney “=e in jars..43|Moyune, fancy ........ a Case No.2 tillersissets 1 35 ig stick, 30 Ib. case 8%
pelo cae aage ioe : - Liver ee : I. & Bie & eo pee medium 7- |Case, mediums, 1z2 sets 1 lo toda Candy
Wykes & Co Frankfort FO mane 9 American Family Og 90 Pingaer goa ns _ Faucets Comat Co
Sleepy Eye, %S cloth..6 iO) tre Cotten g |Pusky Diamond,50 802.2 80 Vouna tr 49 |Cork, lineu, 8 in....... qujspeeal ....,.)... ah
Stecpy fee. ice ree Bee ir reeiess : Dusky D'nd, 106 Gon 3 80| Chol oung Hyson Cork lined, 9 in........ 80} Conserve
Sleepy Eye, igs cloth. .6 00| LOnSUe veeesseeeeeee 7 Jap Hoce, 60 bars 2 eireney 30 |Cork lined, 40 in....... yo| Royal ....
Sleepy Eye, %s paper. .6 00 iWeadcheese ..0...1,..5. 7 Savon Imperial sonar 50 | oe iene 3G |. Mop Sticks WOUNGN.  c.ci.550c05 a
Sleepy Bye, 4s paper..6 00 beef White Russian ....... 3 50| Formosa a — Trojan spring .......- gy| Broken .......
\ Meal fxtra Mess). 100)... Dome, oval bars ...... 3 50| Amoy ede We 42 |/tchpse patent spring 86 “ae LOM .....0.., : ov”
Bowed oc... ........ se. 4 00} Boneless a ag a) Satinet, OVGE: o0000 0... 215 Amoy, ee” Sie as wee 25 NO. E COnmmOn .:...... ov ae ee 9%
ee i a ie emp, new 0, 0U/Snowberry, 100 cakes 1 eeu a 32 No. 2 pat. brush holder 38: Kindergarten ........
Seas arAnuIAted 5.64 10 iT he eases la 50 4 00 English Breakf ‘ Solan Ae oo tases lu
St. Car Feed screened 27 50 Pig’s Feet Proctor & Gamble Co. | Medium oa iziIb. cotton mop heads 1 40 Bon Ton Cream .. %
rie 1 a Oats 27 50|% Epis. eee ac 1 00 eet epee mec aae eee ee - ideal No. 7% ..5......... 85 oo teens ':
‘orn, cracked .......26 00} 4 m 40 the... By, 6 OZ. coc ce Raney re ose ; Pails OE vetsehidiie a.
Corn’ Meal, coarse ...26 00 i bbis. Rs Ea ae Evory, 10 of) 1000.5. = S eis a cecece +240 2-hoop Standard ...... 215 Hand Made Cream" e
Winter Wheat Bran. .24 50/1. bbl. Sg v0 Slaw 3 25} Ceylon hates” 3-hoop Standard ...... 2 35 Premio Cream mixed 14
Middlings ............ 26 501. _. [ripe ,. Lautz Bros. & Co. way) 32 |2-wire, Cable ......... 2 25|Faris Cream Bon Bons 10
Buffalo Gluten Feed 31 00} Kits, 15 Ibs Acme 70 bars 0 | |) egAceo 42 |8-wire, Cable 2 45 F ;
4 ttt ee eee ees SO dae ae tae TOBACCO Cedar DEG we esenceee 40). ancy—in Pails
Dairy Feeds bis. 40 rps.) 1 60} 4 || 30 (bare 02... 4 00 F , all red, brass ..1 25|GYPsy Heart
_ _ _ Wykes & Co. % bbls, 80 ioe.......3 lao is... .4 00| Cadillac ag Cut Paper, Eureka ........ 2 25| Coco Bon Boas Ee ae “
O P Linseed: Meal |. 733 00). Casings Acme, 100 cakes ..... 3 25| Sweet Be eres 54 MUDRe 25...) 1... cas cee 270|tudge Squares |. °'°"* i4
Cottonseed Meal 30 go | 1408S, per Ib....... 39 | Big Master, 70 bars ..2 80|Hiawatha, 51p. pa artes Toothpicks Peanut Squares 11.'"' 13
Gluten Feed oo es Beet, rounds, set ae p Marseilles, 100) calces ‘| 80 Telegram’ Ib. pails. .55 : Hardwood Gdideescedecs 2 50 Sugared Peau vac ii
Malt Sprouts ......... 25 99 | Peet, middles, set ‘r++ 29/ Marseilles, 100 cakes 5¢4 00, Pay Car .....202111 euus8 PoOhtwood ......2...... 2 75|/ Salted Peanuts noe =
oo oe Gi pieen, per bundle .... gu|hestecuteey 100 ch toll. 4 Get raul Pie: i... YP a 1 50| Starlight Kisses 11111! ii
Hammond Dairy Feed 25 00 so ee Rurierine eS aa a 2 10 zoos tt eeeees : eal ..... Trap Scteeas 1 50 oe Blas Goodies ...2! a
vis airy ..... 0 @l: : B. Wrisle eae claw Ts s -ozenges, plain ......
iniehigan ok _.| Country Kolls ea Good Cheer ..... 7: . ...4 00| Liger aus Me ccctses 41 }Mouse, wood, z holes.. 22) 0Zenges, printed ee ie
phage lace ee 52] Canned Meats Old Country || ./...0.. 3 40 Sepa tt ssh: 41 |Mouse, wood, 4 holes... 45;¢hampion Chocol ae
ee o4/Corned weet, 2 Ib.....2 50 Soap Powders Red Cross .... Mouse, wood, 6 holes.. 70|clipse Chocolates ..14”
‘s Corn Corned beef, 1 tb...... ar Lante Wes. & Co Re ts eset 31 {[44ouse, tin, 6 holes .... bo)/UreKa Chocolat +14
CW .-..-4--.......... 67| Roast beef, 2 Ib. ..... 2 59| Snow Boy ........... "4.00|Hiawatha ....277° veneeB5  [tcal, WOU .......seeee su | WUlntette haraittes” aa
: Hay Roast beef, 1 Ib. ...... 1 by| Gold Dust, 24 large ..4 50/Kylo Oe eh 41 jxat, spring ........... * 7¢| Champion Gam boas’ s
No. 1 timothy carlots 10 00 Potted bam 4s ....... 45|G0ld Dust, 100-5¢ ....4 00 Battle Ae oe 35 ae i Tubs Moss Drops ops $3
No. 1 timothy ton lots 11 00 Potted ham, %s .... 85 Kirkoline, 24 41b 3 80 American minis ee. 37 zu-in, Standard, No. 1 8 75] 4-emon Sours 1.11221! lu
HERBS Deviled ham, 4s ..... 45| Pearline Te ep eCaee Mawe 23... 7 18-1n, Standard, No, 2 7 7o|{mperials .....0000"" "
Sage .050002.7) 5... 16 Deviled ham, tes. 35|S0apine ........... "°°" 4g| Sear Head, 7 ox..... |: 4 iv-in, Standard, No. s 6 Zo iial. Cream Opera .. a3
Hops . 6. 1,| Potted tongue, %s .... 45|Babbitt’s 1776 ..... '7°3 q5|Spear Head, 14% ‘oz. 44 zU-in, Cable, No. 1 ....9 25|4tal. Cream Bon Bons" ;
Laurel Leaves ........ i2| Potted tongue, %s .... 85 Rossine (2 3 60 Nobby Twist ... i 13-in, Cable, No, Zz ....8 zo|0lden Wafiies is LZ
Sees Lee se eceeess S| ra RICE oe dae dea sa cae ae ee SOUND aisle 39 riggs va No. 3 ....7 zo| Hed Rose Gum met
RS DANCY 60... q oe onesty ...-..... |. a UDP wees ee eee zy | Auto ;
Per doz. oe seo go|Japan ........... by of Soap Geceiaaae 2 Toddy oo ee 3 No. 2 Wibre .......... *) 2 Pale ue aa dada
JELLY Broken .:....... Johnson’s Fine ...... 5 10 fe eee es 3s No, 3 Hibre ........... 8 Zo| Vid ashioned eae
So oe ee ice, 4 2c! SALAD DRESSING | rere Se te 425\4,Per _Heidsick ..... 69 | Br aacards es Kisses, luIb. bx 1 30
16 Ib. pails, per pail .. 65 Columbia, % pint ..... 9 og Nine O'clock ......... 3 35 | Eoot el ee 86 FOURS GHODG . «++ 000005 2 6u|Orange Jellies . 5
30 Ib. pails, per pail .. 98 Columbia, 1 pint ...... 4 09|Rub-No-More ... 3 75 | money Dip Twist ep > IGWOY coce ccc ccs ccs 1 %|Lemon Sours ....... 0
aa ce Durkee’s, large, 1 doz. 4 50 > nee . Black Sade. ag ony 2 Acme dea geaaas 2 7| Vid Fashioned Hore- 60
Bue... ee Durkee = wari o deen o6 Enoch Morgan’s Sons. of Seeley! .40 re _ AGING 20.4... 5.. 2 zo hound drops .... 60
Calabria .............. g5| Suider’s large, 1 doz. 2 35 Sapolio, gross lots ....9 00 re a ieceae ee ec lL, 34-- ap ay Peerless ...... 4 2o| Peppermint Drops . ¢v
Sieg gn 14 Snider’s small, 2 doz. 1 35|Sapolio, half gro. lots ‘4 50 aa Bwist 3... 00.. 52 Single Peerless .....0. 3 60} Champion Choc. Drps q0
Root ose, 11 SALERATUS Sapolio, single boxes..2 25/Great Navy 9°" Se Re, GSE: or < se: 3 5u}H. M. Choc. Drops 1 10
MATCHES Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Sapolio, hand ...... "6 Sa reat Navy : cea | Euples .....-: 3 vv| H. M. Choc. Lt. ana
@ PD) Grittenden Co Arm and Hammer ....3 10|Scourine Manufacturing Co|S Sm OG BBE nsccneerenes 275| Dark No, 12 1
Noiseless Tip ...4 50@4 75 oe aa 3 00|Scourine, 50 cakes ....1 80 onic mayank bp ccc cceccccces 3 65| Bitter Sweets, as’td. 1 x
eo Dwight’s Cow —— is Scourine, = cakes ..3 50} War ath as og [22 in a See 1 6; So oe Crys, 60
a za i SO ee eer OU Pe ene cess ocean]... HL, nee ew eee cee cccees 5 . - Licoric
Haney Open Orleans | Wyandotte, “i003 "113 00| Boxes _....... sscehee ase Bamboo, de ue 6 4 Be ie ic 1 85| Lozenges, plain DEA. 0
Choice 225022070). 35 SAL SODA Kegs, English .......... amie i, we 27 G UM, seceeeeeceeeeeees 2 3u| Lozenges, printed .... 6
Gaga TS og Grepuiated, Bois. ...-- 85 SPICES Hon L, 16 oz. pails ..31 | 43 | Wood Bowls Emperigis ...,.... ea
WA 20 Granulated, 100 tbs cs, 1 00 Whole Spices Gone Dew 2.8 0 fis m. Buttery -......-. 1 25; Mottoes) ...)..5 21 0.. “
ide Be as cc, | mm Ble, +--+ ia] Mienice 2... a: 10 ome — iy [te Be Bier «-- as sas 2 25|Cream Bar ...../ 22. 60
MINCE MEAT Lump, 145 Ib. kegs .... 95| Cassia, China in real take ees 40 19 ps ee Seu ecuece 3 7d | G. M. Peanut Bar .. 60
Per ease is. 2 90 Cc SALT Cassia, Canton . | Is Gin Dried |” ® lee Ba 6 00|Hand Made Crms 80@90
% Ib oe 100 3 oo 2 25 oe. ea, bund. 2g|Duke’s Mixture 111" "! a Assorted. ae as 514 * Sire Poin dees 65
He hoe 181° 69 5 ee 5|Cassia, Saigon, broken. 4@|Duke’s Cameo ......_. WRAPPING PAPEE 2 Wi Gen 2... .... 60
OLIVES 6 Mi SACKS) 5 ec 4 2 15|Cassia, Saigon, in rolls, 55}Myrtle Navy ....0. 00! 43 1 Co : PER intergreen Berries 60
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 20@1 40 28 10% tb. sacks ....2 05|Cloves, Amboy ’ Yu VV teste sees 44 |COmmon straw ....... 1%,|Olu Time Assorted 2 75
» 1 gal. 56 Ib. ‘loves, yna ..... 23;24um Yum, 1% oz. .. Fibre Manila i 2: 2 75
oe eee | et 86 Ib. sacks .........- $2|/Cloves, Zanzibar ..... 16| Yum. Yum, fin “balis 49 | Fibre Manila,” iT ieae sent oa
Mansa 3 ld @1 a : _ Warsaw Naivices We 55 eo cokes cau: 38 a Manila ........ ~.-&4 | Len Strike No. 1 ..6 50
Queen, pints ee 2 £0 ob Ib. dairy in driu bags 40|Nutmegs, 105-10 = Corn Cake. 4% OZ... 26 Bic Manila cn escetns 3 |Ten Strike No. 2 oe
Queen, go eh: 28 Ib. aap in ie bags 20|Nutmegs, 115-20 * Plow Boy, ig “a = Wax eo eb ten bea Summer as-
ueen, 28 oz, 5 Olal Ree Pepper, Si Plow Boy. 3% oz... ‘ fi ; , Sortment ........ 67
Stuffed 6 on 56 Th, sacks ......+0. 24] Penper a oe a Poe a Wax Butter, full count 20 |Scientific Ass't.....18 00
ce . Bee Granulated, fine « le 80 he Oe eats 1 ae teks he ; Mact YEAST CAKE _ Cracker Task -— 3 25
: . tum. fine 0.0.) J en (et eee... 65.8.8; aq | Magic 2 dog |....0.... 1 15| Check gets :
PIPES edium, fine ese. (80 Allspice Cant Hook S P - ers, 5c pkg. cs 3 50
Allspice _..-.. ee eee ee eee 14| cant Hook ............ unlight, 3 doz. ..... Sor : ‘
a No. 216 per box 1 25 a. Cassia, Batavia ....... a Country Club ....... a as Sunlight, 1% ‘Gos - 30 Teuuke 4a a0Ge 5 3S
Gen’ T. D., full count A Large whole @7 —- Saigon See 55 roe fa ee 39 |reast Foam, 3 eos SE Me we sorneees 25
Cee creseccereesses noes oves, nzibar 4 MR oe 6 Yeast C é ecco AOE ES A AV eee erees
peg Strips or bricks |.7%@10% Ginger, Gocsie 24| Sei Binder, 1603. Box, itv22| Yeast Foam,’ 1% ‘dod-- $8|Putnam. ‘Menthol 1 9
Medium =| Pollock =...... inger, ‘ochin 18 . as... 24 FRESH FISH Smi ue
Barrels, 1,200 count ..6 00|) °°" e 5 |Ginger, Ja: Sweet Mar mith. roe. «-. ss 1 25
ees oe i ’ maica 1G... . <<*
Half “bbis., 600 count 3 90/strips .. eee 19 | MEE oss aie 28 | Royal Smoke 200. ] luna sats Almonds. Geese oc “
mat ore ee Mustard .. NE Whitefish, N a ’ na
H @hunks 202.0. 05..4..: 13 eee deucus ue. 18,;¢c Aa, sn, Ot ...... 14 Almonds, D
ee ee oat 4 50 Holland Herring Pepper, Singapore, blk. 17 Cation * Diy... 3... oq (Eroue .... 1.2... 11 |Almonds, Cone a
Ma Bh Saco ae Pollock <.-....... Pepper, Singp. white.. 28/ Jute, 2’ pl We ices, ee 4 | shell .....: :
ag teamboat .... 85] White Hp. bbls. 8 50@9 50 Pepper, Cayenne ...... 20' Hem DEY sc 205 ogee 14 PECRNG | once ese cicess “ fea
No. 15, Rival. assorted 1 25/White Hp. tbls. 4 50@5 25 PAG einen ees 20) Hemp, 6 Bly ooo... We PEON once s ees 46 | @lberts ....-...0 e.
i oe eo i 2 ee eee ee 8 STARCH Wool | ie ted ae 7 Oe ct ‘o° (Cal Rd... 7
: Golf, in fin. orwegian ...... Corn ’ : W112" | Boiled Lobster .....11'30 | Walnuts, soft shell 1 é
Ne oe tia “—- 7 Round, 400 Ibs. ....... 3 75 Kingsford, 40 Ibs. .. 7%| Malt Wits wae 40 COG, asgtecc reste etee: 10% | Walnuts, Wane Caw
No. 632 Toum't whist isc. : a “ Muse = ese 5% Malt White Wine Mee ins - oi a ee ite pablo nits, . tency Nein
Trout oo e Cider, B & B..... Te ash cates hsces- 8 | Pecans, aa”
oe OO a Pa: 7 50] .. wingers aus a Robinson 13%| Perch «.-..--...se0ees 6% Pecans. Tuan : ois
te ee ee eeeee : No. 1, 40 tbs. ..........3 25|Silver Gloss, 40 lfbs. 7% re Cider, Silver ....15 Smoked, White ......13 Hickory Nuts per bu
PROVISIONS No. i, 10 tbs. ........ 90|Silver Gloss, 16 3Ibs. 6%|No. 0 WICKING Chinook Salmon ...... 16 Ohio new ..... ;
a Baelad Park No. 1, 8 Silver Gloss, 12 6Ibs. 8%|No. 1 = =e pote! 30 rami pecseass 25 Coecaiets Se
Saou es . 16 50 Muzz gl ace ee feces 0 1@ sw eeeeee 124% |Chestnuts, New Y
Clear ‘Baek =... ..:..3. 21 00 SS 48 IIb. jackace tcece Oo Ne yee aoe et - La fea uae on Ve oe
eon Cut one 18 00| Meas’ o ib. packages ..... 4%| WOODENWARE speckles i oS s Mawar
; or ear ....18 00 , Tb. : e ASS .....--- 9 Spanish
4 ee sees 17 00 ceoee, © aie de a, OO HIDES AND PELTS Poon Gane. ee
ao Clea oo 20 00lnNo 7 a ae SYRUPS : fo ogee cages as 110), Hides Walnut Halves ...30@35
Pig ee fa -. ey Ss. Corn we wide band ...1 25 pp We. geese 9 |Filbert Meats .... @27
ear Family ....... 17 00INO i ay Barrels. 022.05. Seeat $1) Splint, large .......... Gured No: ero 2 een aoe ~ ee
=. p Dy, Salt Meats , Half barrels’ <.......: :..83| Splint, medium 21.22, 3 00 Cured Now 2 010001: 8 | Peanut wis
- PY 16a) oc, 3k: ~¢ Pls ee ececee ; a Steet i eanuts
iii. - Wed Wo 8 ee ae ee ee ee “eke a 3 yy | Calfskin, green, No. 1 12, | Fancy H, P. Suns 5%@ 6%
Es 100 the. ....--.-.0.76 $60 Sid. cans $s in cn 319 Willog, Gothen mena 7 aa) Coltenin. groan, Te 2 106) eae) «ae
B cs. 2.10 Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 35 Calfskin cured, No. 1 13 Choice, H. P. Jum-
BO WA heicceccenesas @ 7%

Extra Shorts Clear ..11% 60
8. ...... ..5 26 190 8%Ib. cans 2 ds. in os. 3 16 Willow, Clothes, small 6 35 C#fskin. cured, No.

 

  
   

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5Ib. cans 21 50
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Cc. P. Bluing

Doz.

Small size, 1 doz. box..40
Large size, 1 doz. box..75

CIGARS
Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand

 

Ss. C. W., 1,000 lots ....31

Patan 4... 33
Evening Press .......... 32
Exemplar ......... besos see

Worden Grocer Co. brand

 

Ben Hur
Perkection. ....220..-sse%- 35
Perfection Extras .......35
RIONTIES go isco kos kee 35
Londres Grand ......... 35
BtanG@ard .......6: seuss 35
PUPIGANOS: 6.65. 56sec aos 35
Panatellas, Finas ....... 35

. Panatellas, Bock ....... 35
Jockey Club ............. 35
COCOANUT
Baker’s Brazil Shredded
70 %%. pkg. per case 2 60
35 %%b. pkg. per case 2 60
38 %tb. pkg. per case 2 60
18 4%. pkg. per case 2 60
FRESH MEATS
Beef
Oarcass  ...055.2.. @ 9%
Hindquarters ....6 ois

poco case cece 14
Bounds ~..:....-.« 6 @ 8%
CCR Ss. 6 @7%
RIE ice ce vanes @ 4%
SAVGOS 65 e 5 ees @ 6

Pork

Pe ee ee @11%
Dressed. ......... @ 8
Boston Butts . @ 9%
Shoulders ....... @ 8%
Leaf hie 6 sh @11%
Trimmings ...... @8

3Ib. cans 13 00 '

Mutton
Carcass: 2525552 @9
LAMBS 2. 5 @10
Spring Lambs .. @10

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Carcass ......-: 6 @9

CLOTHES LINES
Sisal

60ft. 3 thread, extra..1 00
72ft. 3 thread, extra..1 40
90ft. 3 thread, extra..1 70
60ft. 6 thread, extra..1 29

72ft.«6 thread, extra..

 

Galvanized Wire
No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 90
No. 19, each 100ft. long 2 10
COFFEE
Roasted
Dwinell-Wright Co.’s B’ds.

 

White House, l1tb...........
White House, 2tb..........
Excelsior, M & J, 1tb......
Excelsior, M & J, 2tb......
Tip Top, M & J, ltb......
ROyal JAVA™ soo os ca sce ane
Royal Java and Mocha...
Java and Mocha Blend....
Boston Combination ......
Distributed by Judson
Grocer Co., Grand Rapids.
Lee, Cady & Smart, De-
troit; Symons Bros. & Co.,
Saginaw; Brown, Davis &
Warner, Jackson; Gods-
mark, Durand & Co., Bat-
tle Creek; Fielbach Co.,
Toledo.

Peerless Evap’d Cream 4 00
FISHING TACKLE

m to: 8 in... cc 6
an, 0.2 im: oo 7
346 6 2.tm. esse cs 9
4% 10 2 im, <2. 2.225. .c 11
BAM, ose alee e cence ss 16
Ban. 6k cess peeceecee 20
Cotton Lines
Ne. 3. 0) feet <..-. 00. .; - 6b
wo; 2,45 feet ......... ace
No. 2, 16 feet .:..:.. os 2
No. 4, 15 feet -. 3 -.10
No.6, 16 feet ...... pened
No.6, 15 feet ....... coc oan
Ma. 7, 15 feet ......... oo 1B
Ne. B45 feet ...2..5... 18
Nip. 8: 36 feet: 2032. i os. o 20

 

Poles
Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 65
Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80

GELATINE

Cox’s, 1 doz. Large ..1 80
Cox’s, 1 doz. Small ..1 00
Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 25
Knox’s Sparkling, gr. 14 00
INCISORS . - 60 cos ce con

Knox’s Acidu’d. doz.}..1 25
OSIONO ovis cess cccecue. 20
Plymouth Rock .......1 2

 

0|Company. Thirty-five sizes

SAFES

 

Full line of fire and burg-
lar -proof safes kept in
stock by the Tradesman

and styles on hand at all
times—twice as many safes
as are carried by any other
house in the State: If you
are unable to visit Grand
Rapids and inspect the
line personally, write for
quotations.

SOAP
Beaver Soap Co.’s Brands

CSDHS

iT eae)
Pie

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pT
100 cakes, -arge size..6 50
50 cakes, large size..3 25
100 cakes, small size..8 85
50 cakes, small size..1 95

Tradesman’s Co.’s Brand

    

 

Black Hawk, one box 2 50
Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40
Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25
TABLE SAUCES
Halford, large ........ 3 75
Halford, small ........ 2 25

 

 

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Fancy Goods and Toys

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Wheels—32 x 4.
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale—Up-to-date feed mill. Good loca-
tion, doing good business. Good point for cus-
tom work and sale of feed. Wiull sucritice
price on account of poor health. Wil Kitron,
Route No, 3, Benton Harbor, Mich 241

Hardware clerk, nine years experience,
wants position. Age 26. Married. Ref-
erences furnished. Address No. 283, care
Tradsman, 283

 

 

 

 

For Sale—The best paying general mer-
chandise business in Hastern Montana.
Will sell stock and fixtures and lease
property or sell outright. Stock will in-
voice about $6,000. Here is a chance to
step into a nine year establishment on
strictly cash system. Population 450.
Reason for selling out, on account of
poor health. Write or call Sam Green-
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For Sale—Drug stock in good inlana
town. Prospects for railroad by P. M.
Railway Co., good. males: $70 to $80
weekly. Will answer all correspondence
in detail. Invoice about $3,500, with
building and two lots. Address No. 290,
care Tradesman. 290

li you wish to buy an up-to-date stock
of hardware for a small amount of mon-
ey, address Hardware, care Michigan
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For Sale—$10,000 stock general mer-
chandise, located in prosperous town 500
Southern Michigan. Thriving business
which can be increased. Splendid oppor-
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Small stock of drugs and groceries in
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Address No. 286, care Tradesman. 286
Wanted—Stocks to sell or trade. List
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For Sale—Improved fruit, vegetable
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$4,000 cash will buy an up-to-date
ladies’ tailored garment and furnishings
and millinery department. Best location
in best 6,000 population city in Central
Michigan. Inventory over $5,000. Rea-
son for selling, failing health. Address
No. 275, care Tradesman. 275

For Sale—A drug, book and stationery
stock in oné of the prettiest cities in
Southwestern Michigan. Will invoice
about $3,500 to $3,800. Fine fixtures,
soda fountain and a good location in the
city. Good reasons for selling. Address
No. 273, care Tradesman. 27

Drug store for sale, straight prescrip-
tion drug store, invoicing about $3,500.
Located in health and summer resort.
Business good. Best of reasons for sell-
ing. Cash only considered. P. O. box
432, Eureka Springs, Ark. 272

For Rent—Two stores in new modern
fire proof building, steam heated, Best
location in a good town. E. A. Burton,
Hastings, Mich. 271

For Sale—One No. 3 Gem City acetylene
lighting plant, suitable for store, hall
or. Ais saalacii Will Lamb, ee:

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For Sale—Up-to-date store, consisting
of dry goods, shoes, groceries, etc. Only
one other handling dry goods and shoes
in town of 600 population. Best location.
Doing a cash business. Address Robert
Adamson, North Adams, Mich. 267

Wanted—To handle output of factory.
Machinery preferred. Good opportunity
for manufacturer with meritorious ar-
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experience to market it. Address X,
care Michigan Tradesman. 266
For Sale—One of the _ nicest, finely

equipped drug and _ grocery stores in
Southern Michigan. We will be able to
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stock, reasonable rent of building. Lo-
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_ For Sale—Timber lands on Voncouver |
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For Sale—A dry goods stock in Cold-
water, Mich. Fine opening for dry
goods business. Best location in city
of 7,000. Small stock, can do good
business. The owner wants to retire on
account of his age. Address C, E. Wise,
Agent. Coldwater, Mich. 80

For Sale—Only exclusive stock of cloth-
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$4,500, in Michigan town of 1,500 popu-
lation. Brick block, good location. Good
farming country. Good reason for sell-
ing. Address No. 279, care Michigan
Tradesman. 279

For Sale or Exchange—$10,000 stock
dry.goods, notions and fixtures. Good
town and country, 29 miles from Detroit.
Sell cheap on easy payments or exchange
for improved real estate if free and clear,
on basis of cash values. Address No.
258, care Tradesman. «28

For Sale—At less than half price, a
banker’s safe, burglar proof chest and
double time lock. Also tellers’ counter
desk. Address No. 259, care Michigan
Tradesman. 259

300 to $500 made per month; the most
needful machine in the world; sells read-
ily; agents wanted; must have money.
Write C. C. Johnson, Beatrice, Neb.

256

For Sale—Bazaar*tock in good factory
town of 6,000 population. Doing good
business. Stock will invoice about $3,000.
Rent, $50 per month. Or will sell build-
ing. Good reason for selling. Address
E. B., care Michigan Tradesman. 255

Wanted—To buy, forspot cash, shoe stock,
inventorying from $3,000 to $8,000. Price must
be cheap. Address Quick Business, care
Tradesman. 187

Wanted—To buy, cheap for’. cash
stocks of dry goods, clothing, shoes and
men’s furnishings. H. Kaufer, Milwau-
kee, Wis.

Wanted—Will exchange good lands in
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I'm the man who'll take ’em off your hands
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Write PAUL FEYREISEN
12 State St., Chicago

 

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Stores,. business places and real estate
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A Kalamazoo, Mich., merchant wants
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For Sale—Hardware and_ furniture
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Merchandise Auctioneers and Sales Managers
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G. B. JOHNS & CO.
GRAND LEDGE, MICH.
Merchandise Brokers and Leading Salesmen
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January 20, 1909

 

PARCELS POST.

 

  

Activity of Catalogue Houses
Through the Granges.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 19—Official
Washington is gradually losing inter-
est in the many controversies between
President ‘Roosevelt and Congress.
Members who have not been annoy-
ed by the utterances of the President
are settling down again into the reg-
ular routine of their duties and the
congressional mill is beginning to
turn out its grist. So far as legis-
lation is concerned there is nothing

new to write about.

I spoke to a member of Congress
who represents a rural district the
other day and in answer to my query
as to whether there would ever be
a parcels post established he replied
as follows:

“T can not say definitely that the
measure will never become a law; but
this is certain: I don’t look for a
parcels post for many, many months
and, if the agitation against it con-
tinues, it may be two or three years
before we have one, if we have one
then. My district is largely a farming
district. My constituents believe in
supporting home industries and do
not believe in patronizing mail order
houses when they can get the same
goods and get them as cheap else-
where. It would be unfair to give
the large mail order houses the right
to use the mails to suppress the small
dealer. Such a system would ulti-
mately bring about the failure of
many a retailer and would also force
the jobber and traveling salesman
out of work. I shall vote against
the parcels post measure.”

I might add that petitions favoring
the establishment of such a system,
however, have been coming in within
the past few weeks from the farmers’
granges throughout the country. They
are all forwarded to their members,
and a significant feature is that all
of these petitions are patterned after
the same original. This can mean but
one thing—that misrepresentations
have been made to the rural mer-
chants and farmers who are forward-
ing them. Can it be that a systemat-
ic effort is being made by the cata-
logue houses to overcome the great
opposition against their pet scheme?
Obviously they would not forsake
such a measure when it would so
benefit them. So, if any of you have
not signed petitions against the par-
cels post you had better get to it at
once. Delays are dangerous, so the
copy books teach. As a result of
prevalent use of “spots” and “rots”
by bakers in several of the states the
Government pure food officials intend
to keep an eye out for violators of
the interstate commerce ruling gov-
erning the shipment of goods under
their ban from one state to another.

Five cans of “spots” -were seized
last week in Philadelphia by the State
pure food officers. Twenty hours of
Sherlock Holmes work on the part of
State Agent H. P. Cassidy resulted
in the arrest of one Abe Samuelfsky,
who is alleged to have made arrange-
ments with the Excelsior Baking Co.
to deliver them the “spots.” Cassidy

seized the cans when the wagon drew |

up in front of the establishment. I

asked Mr. Linton, Chief Clerk of the
Bureau of Chemistry, what steps the
Department intended to take regard-
ing shipment of rotten eggs from one
state to another, it having been alleg-
ed that several large packing houses
had shipped crates of such eggs.

“Of course,” said Mr. Linton, “we
can take no action when the eggs
are shipped from one part of the state
to another, but if rotten eggs are
shipped from one state into another,
then, if the concern is caught so vio-
lating the law, the Government will
take action. We had such a case
some time ago out West.”

I understand that the Government
agents are on the lookout for decayed
eggs, the use of which by baking con-
cerns is said to be growing. State
Food Commissioners have been ac-
tive in this direction and, with the
aid of the Government, ought to be
able to stop this work. Heads of
baking establishments say that the
eggs they use are only eggs which
would not present a nice appearance
when cooked, but which really are not
at all harmful when used in cakes,
bread, etc. Still it is not advisable
for dealers who speculate in “spots”
and “rots” to advertise the fact.

Dr. Wiley is going to try a series
of experiments for the purpose of as-
certaining a way in which oysters
culled from distant beds can be
shipped to far off points without
losing their flavor or becoming
bloated from water. Shippers of
oysters have announced that they will
co-operate with the head of the Bu-
reau of Chemistry. It is to their ben-
efit to do so, for the successful term-
ination of these experiments would
boom the oyster market immensely.
Nearly every one relishes this bi-
valve. The old Romans, who were
wise in their time and generation, ap-
preciated to the utmost this luscious
tidbit. We Americans are not a whit
behind them. Anent this new work
the doctor says: “There are two
ways of shipping opened oysters at
present. One is to ship them on ice
and the other is to ship them in a
sort of ice cream freezer, this patent
bucket costing the shipper 13 to 15
cents extra a bucketful. The principal
complaint against shipping on ice is
that the oyster absorbs water and is
bleached out.”

Wiley says his tests will determine
whether or not it is possible to ship
opened oysters so they will reach the
consumer in as good condition and
with as fine flavor as oysters shipped
in the shell.

The Ways and Means Committee
is getting badly “balled up” by the
friends of a protective tariff on coffee.
The resident commissioners from
Porto Rico, the Phillipines and Ha-
wali are all giving facts and figures
to show why the coffee industry of
their respective islands should be pro-
tected. One book of statistics, pre-
pared by Abraham Lincoln Louisson,
says: “The coffee industry, above all
others, can settle Hawaii with a large
white population, can create a com-
monwealth of home builders upon the

 

soil, so that the United States, in
making of Hawaii the Malta of the
Pacific, may secure a yeomanry to
man her fortifications and guard her

 

Outposts and defences in perilous
times.” That appeals to the patriot-
ism of the members here, especially
those who believe that in times of
peace it is best to prepare for war.
So be it. Frank W. Lawson.

—————_

FORTY-TWO DAYS MORE.

Six weeks from to-morrow Theo-
dore Roosevelt will deliver his exaugu-
ral address, give his good wishes to his
eminent successor and retire to pri-
vate life.

After that date he will have no au-
thority to “call” the House or in any
way embarrass the more ponderous
opposite end of the Capitol; he may
not, as a matter of jurisdiction, call
for books and papers from anyone,
and he will be unable to set horse-
back-riding examples for the digni-
fied, exclusive and ease-loving mem-
bers of the Army and Navy Club;
that is to say, examples which will
have any weight with those  gentle-
men.

And what will the retirement to
private life by Mr. Roosevelt signify?

So far as the distinguished gentle-
man is himself concerned, it means
that he has enjoyed every minute of
his strenuous incumbency of the
Presidential office and proposes to go
on having a good time, but along dif-
ferent lines. Whatever may be the
ill will harbored against ‘his official
capacity, it will disappear in the de-
velopment of Theodore Roosevelt,
citizen; and whatever of adimiration
and confidence has been generated by
his record as President, it will become
much intensified with every review of
that record.

Will the world consent to permit
Theodore Roosevelt to retire to a life
that is truly private?

Theodore has said that he is going
to force sweh a result; that he has
much on his mind that he wishes to
discuss all by himself and settle for
himself; that he needs, beside a play
spell, a chance to get back to his nor-
mal and physical activity and an op-
portunity to do things unofficially.

Now comes the news that numer-
ous “occasions” are being quietly con-
sidered by European governments,
both national and civic, contingent
upon the possibility of a hurried tour
through the continent after his A fri-
can hunting expedition; that all sorts
of “special correspondent” plans are
being devised by great daily papers
to keep tab on the huntsman and his
party during that expedition; that spe-
cial and urgent invitations for him to
become the guest of the Czar, Emper-
or Wilhelm and the President of
France have already been received.

Just what may be his replies may
not be known; but after attending to
the formalities and proud pleasures of
extending a welcome to the returning
globe-circling American fleet next
month; after winding up his official
relations at Washington and after at-
tending various postpresidential re-
ceptions in New York and elsewhere,
Mr. Roosevelt will be in a frame of
mind, probably, to remark: “Gentle-
men, please give me a bit of time for
myself. I’ll see you later.”

And Judge Taft may, perhaps, ob-
serve: “All right, Teddy, I’ll hold this
thing down to the best of my ability

\

until 1917—let’s see, you'll be 59
years old by that time—and then I
want you to come back and take hold
again.”

“Dee-lighted,” will be the reply.

 

INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS.

Adame. © Hart: oo es
American Case & Register Co. ..
American Computing Co.
Franklin Baker Co. ...........
Walter Baker @& Co. .2....-:

mestgos Hue Co... eae
Bay State Milling Co. .....
G. E. Breckenridge Auction Co.
BULIOU S5EDS. Go Soe
Boston Piano & Music Co. ...

Roy Baker 2) Me 14
MO. Baker & €o: ).......
Becker, Mayer & Co. ......
A. J. Brown Seed Co. ......
Brilliant Gas Light Co.

Brown & Sehler Co. ......

  
   
    
  
 

Baviow. BOS, vt ee a
Chicago Flexible Shaft Co. ............. 22
Chud) Biviswait Co. 6. 24
Corn Products Refining Co, ..........; 20
Hil CTOSS: Gea 23>
Curus-lieser Mixture ©o, ....5...../..., 27
Wommerciol Credit Co. 2.060505). 2250, 1
Citizens Melephone Oo. 222000) 2
Consumers Henhting (Oo. 6.0.05) .00 10
Won RNGLi ee CG oe ii
Crenon: & Roden Co... 06 oso | 15
Wa ta, Mondra ie Co. oe 15
i. 2). Crittenden Co. (be aa 15

H. Dahm & Co.
BN, OMAP Re oe 22

 
  

soun VV. Barwell (Co. , .65,0.0 00050) 8) 19
POOR ee JORIS Se 3
HOSLCK, tewens ge CO...) i) 22
Poul Peveisen . 2.0... 31
Ca loreal Oa es 21
Co Re Sunnly, Coe 85
( e Netional Banke oo. 23
a OU OO eos
Ge Stationery Co: 30.60) oe
G. R. Wire Imsurance Agency ....:).... 1
(ake 0) ee a
i ot. Show, Case Co. 2 2
(ae. Roe Gg Rubber Co. ... 22: 10
iG. , Dry Goods Co... 6.6.2. at
HUOE | Oo Grokvenor 2.662. .,5 0 1
G B®. Grain & Milling Co...) 0. 15
BH: J. Hartman Poundry Co. .......:... 3
Hazeltine ‘& Perkins Drug Co. ....:..: 27
Holland Durnace Co. ... 60. 0366... ee; 23
Holland Rusk Co, ..... ieee see ea ce ces 6
Elerold-Bertsen Shoe Co.) ..6..005,..... 9
Partin Reaise (CO) 66... 10
ideal Cilothing Co. 22) 302 11
Jennings Flavoring Extract Co. ...... 21
G, B&B Johns & Co:>.....:; eee ee 31
G: J. Johnson Cigar Co.- 2.620000. 27
Jennings Flavoring Extract Co. ...... 30
suason Grocer CoO: 22500. 662 15
mineman  Hurniture Co. 6.2.6. 6605... 3
ene State Bank... co. ee i
mineery Mir, CO. 2... 14
Py uecnard & SONS <0 30
de0tel SAVIRSStON | 2. eek 24
Martin -senour CQ, 8.0 22
Mitchel Areney oo 30
Michigan State Telephone Co. ........ 24
Michipan irust Con s65500. 52.50. 5e ee
Gustay Ao Mochs @& Co. ....5..565. 0502. AT
Moneyweight Scale Co. ...:..60.06....-: ae
Mayer Boot & Shoe Co. ....5..65...2... 10
Moseley  BrOs. 6 ee eee. 14
National Civ (Rank ooo 23
Old: National Bank ....50.35555.400052.. 23
National Cash Register Co: .:.......... 13
Putnam Factory Nat. Candy Co, ...... 16
mericins Novelty Co. 650 oe 3
POstum *Gerenk CO. 2.0.0.6 cis Sle. 6
ted Wines Milling Co. ... 2... 20
hOVaL Gas Bient Oo, 662 le ess 22
ER Ca he OWA oe ee 14
Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co. ...... 9
DaDOUO @) st i ae 16
Drandara Oy Ooo ea 22
steimer & Moore Whip Co.............. 22
pHnline Company 202.06) oe, 27
Swem Gas Machine Co, .........:...:.. 21
NN Shure Co, ..2...5 522... : eee ee. 3
Geo. S. Smith Store Fixture Co. ...... 16
te EL SRrOUD Ee eo e e es 14
dyed Smith a Co: 2... on se 14
Henry Smith: 2.22.5 2 Aolelaiota wi blalsd s pla ea cis 14
. Bteketee: & Sons: 225 .55.......-...05- 11
@oump Hiyoaner Co; 622.606.6022... . 3
Voret, Milling: (Co. 2. b oe. ke 20
Vinkemulder Company ....... +. oie
Worden Grocer Co. ....... “6
Wells © Richardson Co, ..:.:..:.. .14
Wealthy Avenue Floral Co. - <s0dD
Wokes & CO. oi ee. odo
Dhe Weatherly (Co. io... ces ae sees 22

 

 

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For Sale—At 65¢ on the dollar, if taken
at once, good stock of dry goods, no-
tions and some clothing. Inventories
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An experienced man with capital can
secure good position and interest in es-
tablished bank and fixture company. Box
363, Bloomington, Tl. 293

Seattle-Alaska World’s Exposition—
Summer 1909. For business location on

round floor, address with stamp, Box

467, Seattle, Wash. 296

For Sale—Drug stock, best opening in
state. Will accept 10 per cent. less
than cash wholesale price. _ Invoices
about $3,000. Town 2,000. Address No.
301, Syracuse, Ind. 295

For Sale—An up-to-date stock general
merchandise, strictly cash trade. Lo-
cated In one of the best farmer towns
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YOU OUGHT TO KNOW that all Cocca made by the Dutch method is
treated with a strong alkali to make it darker in color, and more soluble
(temporarily) in water and to give it a soapy character. But the free alkali
is not good for the stomach. Lowney’s Cocoa is simply ground to the
fineness of flour without treatment and has the natural delicious flavor of
the choicest cocoa beans unimpaired. It is wholesome and strengthening.
The same is true of Lowney’s Premium Chocolate for cooking.

The WALTER M. LOWNEY COMPANY, 447 Commercial St., Boston, Mass.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And yet you hesitate, saying—‘‘Go thy way, and when
I have a more convenient season I will call on thee.”

But you never: call, simply go on paying $100
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will do it. |

Can you make money easier? Will you continue to
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trouble to ask us how it is done and how much of an
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A card will bring the
answer.

 

 

IDEAL
LIGHT & FUEL CO.

Reed City, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s a Dandy
Narrow Frame Case

 

It’s our No. 463.

It’s specially made to fill the demand
for a narrow frame case, and if it’s a
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This case differs from many of the so-
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narrow, the top frame being only 1
inch in width at the front and ends
of the case.

Another point: This case isa

    

art LET WITH A OLE Ls 3

Our cases are proving so popular and
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Grand Rapids Fixtures Co.
936 Jefferson Ave. , Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

And the Moral of it is: ‘‘Because the
coffee is ALL RIGHT.’’ It must be a
mighty satisfaction for a manufacturer to
be able to honestly and truthfully draw
such a moral from existing conditions of
prosperity as do our friends, Dwinell-
Wright Co., of Boston and Chicago.
Let the good work go on ad infinitum,
and may the few dealers who are not now
selling ‘‘White House’’ Coffee’ come
right into the fold of companionship with
this superb blend which makes ‘‘easy
money’’ fer the thousands of grocers
handling it.

Distributed at Wholesale by

Judson Grocer Company
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

 

Imitation Is An Acknowledgment —
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Article Imitated

The McCASKEY REGISTER COMPANY is the pioneer in
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The McCASKEY REGISTER total forwarding system is ac-
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A Medium Sized Rat

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can cause you a lot of trouble. Suppose your store
should burn to-night and your books containing

$5,000 Worth of Accounts

be destroyed. You say, ‘‘Oh, I could get my books

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