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| Life Within: Sleep and Death

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Once read thine own breast aright Let us give thanks for two things. Sieep and Dearh
And thou hast done with tears; Sleep, who takes little children to his arms

Man gets no other light
Search he a thousand years.

Sink in thyself; there ask what ails thee, at
that shrine. Lulls all the fever in ovr youthful limbs

And blesses them, and gives them ro rhe day

With rosier cheeks: whose touch, we know sot how

* * * * Who comes more slowly m the after years

When life grows chiller, burt is still our friend
We would have inward peace,

Vet will nos tock withie: Nerving us for endurance or for toil,

We would have misery cease, Who blinds us to the giamour of the world
Yet will not cease from sin; Wreathes other skies beneath the arch of aight
We want all pleasant ends, yet will use no And wafts us through that other varying wortd

harsh means. ne
So bright, so sad. so strange and perishable

wr $ frie: ly hans G 5 : "he fort
We do not what we ought, And Death, whose friendly hand undoes the kn«

What we ought not we do; That time's benumbing fingers fumbied at
And lean upon the thought And rids us of the body whose embrace
That chance will bring us through;
But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier
powers.

Ensphered us in a world within a wortd
And gives it back to Nature whence it came
f ; Leading us forth into 2 universe
: Strong with fresh hope, and eager im desire
And yet for those who know
Themselves, who wisely take
Their way through life, and bow
To what they cannot break,
Why should I say that life need yield but Of good and evil, to know what I am
moderate bliss? And what the world is. Now, I wait for Death

To find the life we vainly sowghr for here

I have lived long enough to know the taste

: : As patiently as one who waits for sleep
Is it so small a thing

: Far in the night, not tossing restlessiy
To have enjoyed the sun, - ’

To have lived light in the spring, Knowing that sleep will surely come, though late
To have loved, to have thought, to Nor idly do I linger: but as one
have done; Who knows his friend will come. yet none the less
To have advanced true friends, and beat Is very busy with his wonted toil

down baffling foes? :
As the slow hours roll onward, rill he hears

That we must feign a bliss The welcome steps within the corridor
Of doubtful future date, And the door opens and the friends clasp hands
And while we dream on this And are at ome forever; so I work

Lose ali our present state,
And relegate to worlds yet distant our
repose?

At the sore tattered tapestry of life
Of which we know not origin or end
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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25,

Number 1427

 

SPECIAL FEATURES.
New York Market.
The Old Fourth Ward.
News of the Business World.
Grocery and Produce Market.
Indiana Retailers.
Editorial,
10. Stoves and Hardware.
11. Maximum Business Success.
12. Butter, Eggs and Provisions.
14. Dry Goods,
15. To-day and Ten Years Ago.
16. Shoes.
18. Behind the Counter.
20. Woman’s World.
22. The Moral Hazard.
23. The Express Receipt.
24. The Commercial Traveler,
26. Drugs.
27. Drug Price Current.
28. Grocery Price Current.
30. Special Price Current.

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HELPING ONE ANOTHER.

This was the mild reproof which a
high school principal gave to a young
lady whom he caught in the act of
prompting her seatmate: “In the kin-
dergarten you were taught the little
song, ‘Help One Another,’ and now it
takes all my watchfulness to keep you
from doing it.”

Not only school girls but the com-
munity as a whole may well heed the
caution. When we feel friendly to-
ward another, especially a weaker
one, there is too great a tendency to
prompt; to help in some way. We for-
get that the best help is self-help.
That to push them out from _ the
shore into the current, first supplying
them with oars, is the best way to
make self-sustaining men and women.

The child does not learn to walk
by being led continually. He strikes
out boldly for himself, and if he does
get a few falls it is only a spur on-
ward. The best teacher is not the
one who solves the hard problem but
who by a hint can put the pupil up-
on the correct method. Strength is
acquired in the act of digging and
not in spending the gold after some
one else has brought it to the sur-
face.

The real heiper is the one who can
guide to a culture which will de-
velop muscle; which will render the
weak arm strong; which will inspire
confidence; which will arouse a bet-
ter and loftier purpose; which will
not pick up the toddling child and
carry him along, but will rather coax
and encourage him to make the wav-
ering steps more steady.

When prompted to help another
stop and think if your method is to
be a real help or the _ reverse.
Help worthy of the name promotes
strength, reliance and earnestness.
That which but calls for more help
of its class is usually a misnomer, an
injury; a damage instead of an assist-
ance.

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FALLING OFF.

A net gain of a thousand a year
may mean very much or very little
to a man. It depends altogether up-
on which way he is going. If it is
an increase over previous years,
good; but if it is a falling off, even

 

although slight, there is something
wrong, and the leak or break should
be at once located and repaired.
Measures of value are always com-
parative. Even the dollar has no
standard uniformity but is constantly
fluctuating. In our own lives we can
not say we are doing well if we are
accomplishing less than last year.
Added experience and skill should
keep us on the trend upward. “What-
ever your present self may be,” wrote
Charlotte Bronte, “resolve with al]
your strength of resolution never to
degenerate thence. Be jealous of a
shadow of falling off. Determine rath-
er to look above that standard and to
strive beyond it.”

There is not only the cash profit to
guide in the estimate, but personal es-
teem is a part of the inventory which
must not be ignored. Is our standing
in the community gaining or losing?
Are our patrons increasing or dimin-
ishing in number. Increased prosper-
ity of certain customers may be re-
sponsible for the rise in profits. Some
special occasion may induce some of
them to purchase heavily this year
and be quite moderate during the
next.
rests on a more secure basis. It is
not the amount of the bona fide sales

community which tells in the end.

If you are establishing a reputation
for working in cheap or shoddy
goods; if people are learning that you
need watching, then are you certainly
falling off, even although the sales
list does not show it. Patrons may
resolve to match your game and still
patronize you; but the tottering repu-
tation is the most dangerous symp-
tom in the “falling off’ sickness.

Digging Gum.

There will be a crusade in spruce
gum digging in the Maine woods this
winter. About twenty men will leave
Skowhegan within a short time to
begin gum digging operations near
Jackman. Gum has grown scarce |
the last few years and the demand is
so great that it has become a bust-
ness to many Maine men. Last year
James Carey, Frank Cronin and Joe
Cass dug 1,300 pounds and sold it all
in Maine. It is estimated that from
50,000 to 100,000 pounds will be dug
this season—Kennebec (Me.) Jour-
nal.

———

Among all the numerous parcels
post bills pending before Congress,
there is not one which
business principles and
They are all extravagantly
nesslike and certain to prove
trous in operation. And yet
ness men are condemned by paid agi-
tators as being obstructors of prog-
ress because they oppose the absurd
schemes of impractical theorists —

recognizes
methods.

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

January 23, 1911

 

on
NEW YORK MARKET.

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

New York, Jan. 23—“High Jinks”
on the Coffee Exchange caused some
uneasiness in the spot market and for
awhile it looked very much as if a
decline were unavoidable. That was
on Saturday. To-day the cables are

all on the bear side

 

crops knocked
out by rain and hail and the drought
having had a very demoralizing ef-
fect. This will doubtless cause hold-
ers to tighten their grip and maybe
will accelerate the movement of buy-
ers who have been holding back. In
2,736,000

bags, against 4,614,119 bags at the

store and afloat there are
same time last year. In an invoice
way Rio No. 7 is quoted at 1334@
13%ec. Mild sorts are moving in an
every-day manner and no change is
observable.

A steady although slight improve-
ment is reported in the tea market
Stocks in first hands are only of
moderate proportions and the gener-
al outlook seems to be in favor of the
seller. The statistical situation is
certainly on his side.

Rice is well sustained, although the
movement is only moderate. No par-
ticular change has occurred in rates
and prime to choice is still held at
4A74@ 5c.

The whole list of spices is holding
its own, and ginger and nutmegs are
especially well sustained. Pepper is
rather backward, but the line gener-
ally is fairly well held.

Orders for molasses indicate a
slackening in trade. The demand is
for small quantities and only “once in
awhile.” Good to prime is still held
at 25(@32c.

Syrups are without

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change. Fancy, 25@2i7c.

Canned goods are gaining in
strength every day and the market
for futures is developing some good
business; corn, especially, is meeting
with increasing enquiry. Tomatoes,
standard 3s, f. o. b. Baltimore, are
quoted at 85c and this seems to be
pretty well established. If lower rates
are named the goods are most care-
fully scrutinized. Other lines are al!
well held and prices are nowhere
weak.

Butter has not regained its accus-
tomed place at the top of prices for
foodstuffs, but on the contrary has
shown still further decline and
creamery specials are now being
worked off at 27c; extras, 25@25'%c;
firsts, 22@24c; held specials, 2414@
25c; extras, 23@24c; imitation cream-
ery, 18@19c; factory held, 1714@18c:
current make, 18c.

Cheese is moving very moderately
at unchanged figures—1534@1l7c for
full cream. The market is “uncertain.”

Eggs show further decline and the
whole market is in a sort of “slump-
ish condition.” There is a big accumu-
lation here and figures are apt to be
revised at any time to a lower lev-

 

el. Best Western, 30@33c; fresh-gath-
ered selected extras, 27@28c; refrig-
erator firsts, 19@20c.
>>
Motor Truck Show.

It is estimated by those who have
made a close study of the motor
truck business the last six years that
there are approximately 20,000 motor
trucks and delivery machines now in
service, of which a very large pro-
portion—probably 50 per cent.—are
trucks of from two to seven tons ca-
pacity. There are by careful count 139
active builders of motor trucks, de-
livery wagons and other forms of in-
dustrial motor vehicles in America,
and of this number thirty-six are
manufacturing gasoline trucks of
from three tons capacity up, ten
build electric trucks of one ton ca-
pacity or more and the rest make
trucks of from one to two and a half
tons.

Assuming that the average value of
motor trucks, ranging from 2,000 to
14,000 pounds capacity, is approxi-
mately $3,000, which is a conservative
estimate, the 10,000 such machines in
service represent an investment of
about $30,000,000 in power vehicles
alone.

Leading pleasure car manufactur-
ers with established reputation? have
for several years been testing thor-
oughly in actual service motor trucks
of their own design until they are ab-
solutely sure of the ability of the ma-
chines to perform satisfactorily the
work for which they were designed.
These models are now on the market,
together with other machines that ar2
the product of factories established
for the exclusive manufacture of in-
dustrial motor vehicles, some of
which have been in existence ten
years or longer.

An excellent opportunity to make a
study of practically all. the types,
styles and sizes of motor trucks and
delivery wagons that are in the mar-
ket to-day will be presented to the
manufacturer and merchants by the
automobile show to be held in Chi-
cago from January 28 to February 11,
under the auspices of the Nationa!
Association of Automobile Manufac-
turers. More than fifty of the lead-
ing builders of these machines will
make displays of their products dur-
ing the second week of the show,
when from 150 to 200 of these vehi-
cles will be on exhibition at the Coli-
seum. The principal officers and
heads of departments of hundreds of
the largest and best known manufac-
turing and selling companies engaged
in a great variety of trades through-
out the entire central section of the
country have already signified their
intention of visiting the show with
the object of posting themselves on
the latest developments in this field.
Chere is no doubt, from present in-
dications, that the exhibition will be
very largely attended and that a
large number of orders will be placed
at that time.

>...
Seasonable food products are the

ones to push hardest. They are also
the ones to display in the show win-
dows. Best results are obtained
from working on goods naturally in
the best demand.

 

INVITATION TO MERCHANTS.
To the Retail Grocers and Generai
Merchants of Michigan:

Bay City, Jan. 24—You are invit-
ed to attend the convention which is
to be held at Port Huron Feb. 7, 8
and 9. We expect this to be one of
the best meetings that has ever been
held in this State by our organization.
The Port Huron Association is do-
ing its utmost to make it a success
and with your help it surely will be
so. This will be a good time to meet
your brother merchants and to plan
for the betterment of conditions in
vour business, so put aside your cares
for a few days and be one of us.

M. L. DeBats, President.

Trees For the School Yard.

For twenty-five years our school
yard has stood with no tree or shrub
decoration except the great “witness
tree” maple, whose long elbowed
arms coax the boys to climb and
“skin the cat” contrary to the
peace and dignity of the Board of
Education. It stands open to what-
ever storms may blow from. the
Western sea or the Eastern moun-
tains. It also is unshaded from the
sun that shines between, except by
the clouds above and by this lone
tree beneath. The schoolhouse is x
tidy three-room building quite fit to
he framed by a planting of such or-
namental vegetation as grows wild
and free on this evergreen edge of
our continent. That it should con-
tinue to stand thus naked has seem-
ed unnecessary to us. So last Sat-
urday, at the special school meeting,
we proposed a “planting-bee” for
making an evergreen dress for its
nakedness. It only needed the sug-
gestion. Everybody agreed, and half
the house volunteered. The next
Wednesday the “bee” eventuated.
Three teams and twelve good men
and true were on hand early with
tools and a hundred young fir trees
to belt the grounds with green. Six
hours sufficed to do well what
whole neighborhood had been wait-
ing a quarter of a century to see done.

There are three or four ways of
planting a school yard. One is to take
the money out of the treasury and
hire a man to do it. Another is to
let the women of the district get up
a 50 cent dinner, feed it to the men
for 15 cents, wash up the dishes and
hire a man out of the profits. .Yet
another is to talk about it for twen-
ty-five years and let Nature plant it
while we are talking. The best way
's the “bee.” A bee is more than 2
planting. As a_ social function it
beats the “municipal dance” in so-
cialistic Milwaukee. It brings to
gether the four corners of the school
district, and sets men to digging in
the dirt together, thus bringing about
again the pure democracy of youth
when we made dust cakes and pics
in the roadway. While we were thus
on a dirt level the grizzled old pio-
neer of the district confided to me
that the school clerk was a light-
weight and not “onto” his job.” The
clerk whispered that the pioneer was
a chronic kicker that would not be
satisfied with a Philadelphia lawyer
for a clerk. We told both that the

 

other man was a good school district
citizen in spite of his faults. The
prophet of the district assured me
that the old curmudgeon across the
street would not be present, for he
had refused to let the children so
much as cut a Christmas tree in his
woods. An hour later this old cur
mudgeon came over with his, shovel
and worked shoulder to shoulder
with the clerk, the pioneer and the
prophet for the good of the com-
1onwealth. At the noon hour the
lacies, who had been warming up
tl_z interior while the men were beau-
tifying the exterior, called the work.
ers in to a hot luncheon of generous
farm dimeusions and quality. Go.od-
fellowship ard good gossip were on
‘ap, good plans for a better school
and school grounds were discuss:i,
and by m/‘l-afternoon we disban-led,
agrecing to n.e-t again soon for an-
other improvement bee. — Sharp-
shooter.
—_»>~-.—___
Mistletoe, a Forest Pest.

Persons familiar with the mistle-
toe only as a feature of Christmas
decoration will be surprised to learn
that in many sections of the country
it iS an injurious pest, causing con-
siderable damage to forest growth.
William L. Bray, forest pathologist,
who has made a special investigation
of the injuries wrought by this partic-
ular parasite, which grows upon va-
rious species of broad-leaved trees
throughout the Southern States, Tex-
as, New Mexico, Arizona and Cali-
fornia, states that there are locaii-
ties in which mistletoe becomes so
abundant upon the trees, and so
harmful to them, as to make the con-
trol of it or its extermination a se-
rious practical question.

The species of mistletoe that has
played so important a part of the
world’s romance is found only in Eu-
rope, where it grows on the apple,
hawthorn, sycamore, poplar, locust
and fir trees and occasionaly upon
oaks. The American mistletoe is
similar in habit and appearance to
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THE OLD FOURTH WARD.

 

Some of the Men Who Gave It
Prominence.
Written for the Tradesman.

When the village of Grand Rapids
was incorporated as a city in 1850 aj!
that part of the territory lying west
of the river and north of Bridge
street was designated as the Fourth
Ward. The original division of th:
territory within the city limits pro-
vided for five wards. The Fourth
Ward, or-at least that part of it ly-
ing between the Scribner swamp
(Broadway was the eastern boundary
thereof) and the river was a very at-
tractive residence section and many
well-to-do and intelligent people took
up homes on the strip. Among those

whom the writer recalls were Col-

onel Thaddeus Foote, Seth Hol-
comb, William Harrison Demetrius
Turner, Alexander Milmine, D. Rk.

Utley, Capt. James D. Robinson, Lu-
cius Patterson, F. B. Day, J. W. Wil-
liamson, Major A. C. Prince, Captain
Samuel W. Turner, Frank Ward, E.
Hf. Turner, the Scribners, S. O. Dish-
man, Robert Swain, Captain Baker
Borden, W. H. Wheeler, the Widdi-
comb brothers, Charles E. and Joh»
W., “Tom” and “Bert” Belknap, A.
S. Richards, Lewis Martin, J. W.
Hayward, Rev. Father Ehrenstrasser,
W. W. Anderson, the Stevens broth-
ers, John Wheeler, Dwight Marvin,
“Doc” Robens, Smith Robens, Reu-
ben H. Smith and C. B. Clark, while
west of the swamp Billius Stocking
(sometimes unkindly called “Bill
Socks”) and K. S. Pettibone lived
and owned large tracts of land, which
in later years enriched their descend

ants. West Bridge street was a nar-
row country road and in the spring
time the water from the Scribner

swamp flowed over it for weeks un-
remittingly. The only sidewalk, lo-
cated on the south side of the street,
was supported by trestles high above
the roadway, and when the water
had undermined the supports the use
of the walk ceased for a time.
tween the river and Front street
there were many large and beautiful
trees, and it was a favorite resort for
strollers in the warm months of the
year. It was a long, narrow natural
park of great beauty, especially when
viewed from the eastern embank-
ment of the stream.

3e-

At one point the story of man’s
inhumanity to nature was told in the
form of ]

a large stone factory, lo
cated on Front and Fourth streets
owned by William Harrison, used
in the manufacture of wagons. At

the west end of the bridge on Bridge
street a little wooden church was
accupied by the Methodist Episco-
pal denomination. Farther west
the street a faithful little
German Methodists occupied a small
church of wood, and near by Father
Ehrenstrasser read the service to a
small number German Catholics
in a building no larger than that of
the German Methodists. On the cor-
ner of Scribner and First streets the
Presbyterians met for worshipin the
basement of the old stone building
they still occupy. These were the
only religious edifices in the ward.

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There were no social clubs or libra-|eal sketches of A. J. Daniels, Miss | What Other Michican Cities Are Do-
ries in the city in 1850, and the resi- | Clarke, Miss McArthur, Mr. Volland ing.
dents of the ward were obliged to|Miss Cole and Miss HT Written for the Tradesman
satisfy their desires for entertain-|sale at 50 cents ea The Lansing Business Me
ment in a simple way. Fish could |of this memorial is n f its tenth annu:
always be caught and the bridge was jhave been taken a ; 2A r rts 1
a favorite resort for wielders of the jceeds from the sale tt "
line and the rod. Dances were held}and also of specia r r nt F
frequently in the ball room of the |be added to the schola T 1Za9
old Planters’ House, on Court street, |Jast report of nd show far
and the statesmen of the ward as-/ principal of $5,286.62, and t r ng Lansm
sembled frequently at the fire engine |twenty-four students wi r The auton aE
house on Scribner street to discuss | ceived scholarships, e| tracted 150,000 p ring
and settle in their own minds at|been graduted from tf! ; it
least the affairs of the nation. When |and nine are now students there. Th zgregated '
Scribner and Turner’s addition was|loans to the beneficiaries have been rs
platted two of the thoroughfares | $9,700, and $6,100 have be Muskeg .
running north and south through the| hack. The entire F ,
ward were named in honor of the |tively employed, a = .
owners. Upon the War of the Re-| will widen the — —
bellion breaking out some one ques-| work. Three of yl — ce
tioned the loyalty of the elder Scrib-|the city schools —o oe
ner, although several of his sons en-| versity education ipsa te
listed in the army and rendered im |All the alumni r . encanta
portant service to the Union cause.|are added to the , - : ’ = -
The name of Scribner street was|the additions this year will reach | next ee
changed to Linco!n, but the origina! | $1,000. Regard! or tne md 4a ' — vi
name was restored in 1868. For many | gfaduates and former students at t — —
years the ward was controlled polit-| high school are imvited to the r i Mey .
ically by the Republicans, but be-|ception and reunion to meet : on
tween 1870 and 1880 hundreds of Pol-| friends and renew old acquaintances. | Mer ' igo
anders, Canadians and Germans mov- | A ‘Scat Decal si - ce : ;
ed into the district and allied them- | A. Poisier, for twenty-cight years 2|. oa
selves with the Democrats. Many of | i . hs |
the men of the Fourth Ward enter- | tt ‘
ed the army when war broke out be- ia : :
tween the states, and acquitted them C oid «+ :
selves bravely on the field of battle ot alk | .
Colonel Thaddeus Foote, Captain J "
. Robinson, Major A. C. Prince :
Captain J. W. Williamson, Captain | . i nee
\lex Milmine, Captain S. W. Turner, :
William George, Harry and Joh :
Widdicomb, W. H. Jones, Sm . a :
Robens, Charley Swain, A. S. Ri el
ards, J. W. Hayward, Dwight \ as Get - - r : :
vin and Captain Charles E. Belkna; to keep ’
were of their number. tet do not fore ee 1

Demetrius Turner was the does not go my a he
chanical engineer who built the are y that it A ecensetiined i oneieamnsee
ist engines used at the city pump-/ there r tor i
ing station. S. O. Dishman, Alexa [ thank y all for g
der Milmine, E. H. Turner, E. H have done n I thank t 3 nd
Thompson and William Widdicomb | times who h their i, F
served the ward several years in the |the ones who ha t me I pr: 1 A
Common Council at different periods |the good Lord t $s then FOU E r ne
in their lives. Mr. Milmine was the | have not the heart to do it myself a. 2. ee”
most loquacious, persistent, pugna- | Above all, if your fishing interfer ’ : :
cious, verbose and unsquelchable al-|-vith your business sell your busine me ' :
derman the city ever knew. Aldermau| I thank you all again for the g : ,
Dishman discovered the fitness of| you have done me and nope y "7 —
General [. C. Smith for the position | are all as happy as I am press F rgnor

of fire marshal when the department
was but a disorganized and ineffi
cient hi if

to himself a
sreat deal of credit for the splendid
organization General Smith

mob, and took

created

and led so sucessfully in the early
seventies of the past century.

None of the individuals mention- |
ed above are now living excepting |
William and Harry Widdicomb and |
the Belknap brothers.

Arthur S. White
———_>--+—____
High School Reunion.

Invitations will be sent out this |

week by the Executive Board of the |
Grand Rapids High School Alumni |
Association for the annual reception |
and reunion to be held at the new |
high school on Fountain street the |
evening of Jan. 30. Memorial books
containing portraits and biographi-

 

 

WoRrDEN GROCER ( OMPANY

The Prompt Shippers

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 25, 1911

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Movements of Merchants.

Petoskey—John Friend has sold his
meat market to John Long.

Girard — The firm of Carle &
Boughton has dissolved, Mr. Bough-
ton retiring.

Eaton Rapids—Ira McArthur, Jr.,
has his fixtures in and will soon open
his cigar store.

Sturgis—Scattergood, the jeweler,

will occupy a handsome new store
about March 1.
Owosso—Chas. and Franz _ Loh-

man will open a grocery store at 538
ast Main street.

Mancelona—F. N. Canada & Co.
have opened a grocery store at the
old Hopkins stand.

 

Mancelona—Darling’s grocery and
meat market has been sold to Frank
La Bar, of Kingsley.

Pentwater—Ora Fuller & Co. have
purchased D. A. Krauss’ interest in
the City Meat Market.

Detroit—The Detroit Garage Co.
has changed its name to the Detroit
Taxicab & Transfer Co.

Pellston—N. W. Sage has entered |

into partnership with Robert Devine
in the mercantile business.

Grand Ledge—Thos. West has pur-
chased the North Side meat market
and grocery of Burton Gates.

Kalkaska—Montie Darby has pur-
chased the restaurant conducted for
thirteen years by Chas. Bacon.

Fremont—Roy Miller has sold his
interest in the M. & M. grocery to
his partner, Harry Meeuwenberg.

Sturgis—Clyde Yeagla and George
Landis have purchased the cigar store
and billiard hall of Bion Damon.

Hart—The grocery. firm of Rey-
nolds & Tice has dissolved, Harry
Tice purchasing Mr. Reynolds inter-
est.

Sturgis—A. E. Stewart has come
here from Ft. Wayne to accept a po-
sition in H. C. Rehm’s clothing
store.

Traverse City—M. Morrell, of Sher-
man, has purchased the H. E. Trum-

ball grocery and will continue the
business.

Colon—I. W. Teller & Son have
sold their agricultural implement

business, with coal and wood, to J.
L. Peters.

Adrian—G. A. Nufer & Son are
closing out their grocery stock. Mr.
Nufer has been in business thirty-
three years.

Ludington—A. Poirier has sold the
grocery business he has conducted
successfully since 1883 to L. G. and
Otto Jebaoy.

Otsego—Thos. S. Tait has sold his
interest in the grocery firm of Tait
& Wood and J. B. Wood will con-
tinue the business.

 

Saranac—M. H. Herman has sold
his recently purchased dry goods and
grocery business to Melvin Dodge
and Thad Mercer.

Eaton Rapids—Harry Knapp, of
this city, has bought a hardware stock
at Stockbridge and will go there to
carry on the business.

Benton Harbor — The Peck &
Moore Furniture Co. succeeds the
Peck Furniture Company, and _ the

business will be enlarged.

Dowagiac—Chas. Tuttle has with-
drawn from the grocery firm of Mar-
tin & Tuttle. The business will be
continued by Mr. Martin.

Oscoda—Luther and Nada Mills
have opened a new grocery under the
arm name of Mills Bros., with Luther
Mills as the active manager.

Freeport—The meat market firm of
Hyde & Tubbs has been changed to
Hyde & Son, Mr. Tubbs retiring and
being succeeded by R. D. Hyde.

Reed City—W. T. Riggs has re-
turned from New York, where he
purchased the stock for the new store
he will open in the Densmore build-
ing.

Holland—F. W. Woolworth & Co
have leased the Vander Poel store
and will open a 5 and 10 cent bazaar.
The company has a string of such
stores.

East Jordan — Peter and James
Block, of Charlevoix, have leased the
East Jordan creamery with an option
to buy and expect to start making
butter April 1.

Petoskey—The Petoskey Hardware
Co. has engaged in business with an
authorized capital stock of $20,000, al!
of which has been subscribed and
paid in in cash.

Hastings—A. B. Hedrick has_ pur-
chased the interest of his partner, A.
Riley, in the People’s 5 and 10 cent
store and will continue the busines;
at the same stand.

Otsego—Robert K. McAllister, of
the grocery firm of McAllister Bros.,
has sold his interest in the business
to his brother, J. A. McAllister, who
will continue the same.

Traverse City—Rowland Dougless
and Arthur E. Kellogg have formed
a partnership and about March 1 will
open an up to date shoe store in the
First National Bank’s old building.

Sturgis—Fred Swinehart, salesman
with H. C. Rehen for three years, has
formed a partnership with Chas. Re-
hen to open a clothing and tailoring
establishment in the Wait building.

Laurium — The Copper Range
Hardware Co. has engaged in busi-
ness with an authorized capitaliza-
tion of $10,000, of which $7,700 has
been subscribed and $1,000 paid in in
cash,

 

Durand—Vic Mikan has purchased
a half interest in the McBride Cream-
ery and will be associated in the busi-
ness with Jesse Frick. This is the
creamery in which C. W. Harder was
interested.

Eaton Rapids—John W. Hastings
has sold his interest in the Hastings
& Fowler plumbing and heating busi-
ness to his partner, Wilbur Fowler,
who will continue the business on his
own account.

Litchfield—The firm of R. J. Shat-
tuck & Co. has changed hands, the
stock of hardware having been sold
to O. B. Ingraham & Co., Mr. Shat-
tuck and his father, E. A. Shattuck,
retaining an interest.

Owosso—Roy Gute has resigned
his position in Ferris’ store and will
go to Michigan City, Ind., to take a
position with the Savelson Dry
Goods Co. as manager of the cloak
and suit department.

Allegan — The firm of Brown &
Corboy has become I. A. Brown &
Co. Mr. Brown bought Mr. Corboy’s
interest and then Percy Howe, of
Lyons, bought an interest in the busi-
ness from Mr. Brown.

Kalamazoo—The paint and wall pa-
per business formerly conducted by
David Parks, but which was later
purchased by W. M. Houtcamp, has
been incorporated for $10,000. The
business will be enlarged.

Escanaba—The Escanaba Clothing
Co. has engaged in the wholesale and
retail men’s furnishings business,
with an authorized capital stock of
$6,000, of which $3,000 has been sub-
scribed and paid in in cash.

Eaton Rapids—Wilbur Fowler has
bought the interest of his partner, J.
W. Hastings, in the plumbing busi-
ness. Mr. Hastings expects to en-
gage in the hardware business when
he finds a desirable location.

Middleton—The firm of Ely, Slo-
cum & Hudson, owners of the Bank
of Middleton, has completed arrange-
ments for the establishment of a bank
at Elwell. The new institution will
be known as the Bank of Elwell.

Corunna—The affairs of the firm of
Stowell & Jillson are in the hands of
Edwin P. Sherman, of Bancroft, re-
ceiver. The liabilities are estimated
at $8,000. The firm succeeded J. A.
Watson & Co., general merchants.

Traverse City—W. D. Eaton, for
eight years traveling salesman for the
Burnham & Stoepel Company, of
Detroit, has purchased the grocery,
dry goods and notions store of H. E.
Turnbull and will continue the busi-
ness.

Petoskey—John Fochtman has sold
his interest in the Royal Cigar Store
to John L. A. Galster, Owen McMa-
hon and J. B. Herrick. Mr. Herrick
will be manager of the concern and
Frank Ferriman will continue to act
as clerk.

Detroit—A new company has been
organized under the style of the Rose
fill Coal Co., with an authorized
capital stock of $25,000; of which
$15,000 has been subscribed, $500 be-
ing paid in in cash and $14,500 in
property.

Shelby—Chas. W. Edwards, who
recently sold his mercantile business
here to R. K. Gellatly, has gone into
partnership with P. F. Dela Hunt, of

 

 

Kalamazoo, and purchased the dry
goods business of Dunn & Co., at
Rockford, III.

Sebewaing—The general mercantile
business of John Rummel & Co. has
been merged into a stock company
under the same style, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $20,000, of
which $18,000 has been subscribed
and paid in in cash.

Detroit—A new company has been
organized under the style of the
Stewart Snyder Co., to engage in the
retailing of men’s clothing, furnish-
ings, etc., with an authorized capital
stock of $5,000, of which $2,510 has
been subscribed and $2,010 paid in in
cash.

Petoskey—Mrs. C. A. Raynolds, L. -
E. Myers and Clare Harding have or-
ganized the Petoskey Hardware Co.,
to take over the hardware store on
Lake street formerly conducted by C.
A. Raynolds. Mr. Myers, manager
of the new company, has had twenty-
five years’ experience in the hard-
ware business.

Cadillac—George C. Webber has
sold his half interest in the Webber-
Ashworth Furniture Co. to A. H.
Vebber, M. E. Thomas, E. F. Saw-
yer and Franklin H. Ashworth. The
Webber-Ashworth Co. will continue
to be the firm name and it is the in-
tention of the new owners to make it
a household term in every home in
Northern Michigan.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Fremont — The Fremont Leather
Co. has increased its capital stock
from $70,000 to $100,000.

Detroit—The capital stock of Wil-
liams Bros. Co. has been increased
from $650,000 to $750,000.

Detroit—The American Brass &
Iron Co. has increased its capital
stock from $10,000 to $30,000.

Battle Creek — The Battle Creek
Oven Rack Co. has increased its capi-
tal stock from $12,000 to $25,000.

Detroit—The capital stock of the
National Drill & Tool Co. has been
increased from $75,000 to $200,000.

Caro—The capital stock of the
Thumb Co-operative Creamery Co.
has been increased from $6,560 to

£9,000.

Detroit—The Mailometer Co., man-
ufacturer of mailing machines, has in-
creased its capital stock from $200,-
000 to $300,000.

Holland—The Holland Bakery, bet-
ter known as the Van Dyke bakery,
is completing an addition that wil!
almost double its capacity.

Kalamazoo Levey & Lewis,
wholesale fruit dealers, are backing
the organization of the Miller Candy
Co., to manufacture candy.

Detroit—The Jewel Chemical Co.
has been organized to manufacture
perfumes, extracts and other chemical
products, with an authorized capital
stock of $10,000, of which $6,000 has
been subscribed and paid in in cash.

Kalamazoo—R. C. Miller & Co.,
dealers in confectionery and fruits,
have merged their busmess into a
stock company under the style of the
Miller Candy Co., to manufacture and
sell candy at wholesale, with an au-
thorized capital stock of $10,000, al!
of which has been subscribed and
paid in in property.

 

 

January 25, 1911

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The Grocery Market.
Sugar—The market has taken rath-
er a peculiar turn this week. Quota-
tions show that Michigan sugar has

dropped ten points, to 4.94, while
Eastern has advanced fourteen, to
5.24.

Coffee—The condition of the mar-
ket continues about the same as dur-
ing the past two months. Prices on
the whole line are very firm, but show
no change since a week ago. The con-
ditions in Brazil are also unchanged
for the week just past. Many of the
coffee dealers are looking forward
now to the sale of the 1,200,000 bags
to be sold during the month of April,
but it is thought by prominent coffee
brokers that there will not be more
than 500,000 sold in the United States.
Prices on spot coffee have reached
such a high point now that some of
the wholesalers, it is said, are putting
out a coffee compound or substitute
to fill the place of cheap coffee.

Canned Fruits—Prices on the whole
list are holding very firm. New York
gallon apples are 60c per dozen high-
er than a year ago in January. Re-
ports from the coast say the stocks
in packers’ hands are small and that
the clean up will be much earlier this
year than last. It looks as though
higher prices on most of the line will
put into effect before but
prices have remained unchanged dur-
ing the past two weeks.

be long,

Canned Vegetables—The market ou |
tomatoes is firm, but prices are un- |

changed and the demand is of about
usual size during January. Prices of
corn are higher than a year ago and

the market is firm, which is hard to |

account for, as the pack this
son was of a fair size, but spot stocks
are not large at this time of year.
There is still a demand for cheap
grade peas, but it is impossible for
the wholesaler who is out of this
grade to obtain any, and it is thought
that those having any left will
be all sold out inside of thirty days.

Dried Fruits—The whole line of
dried fruits is firm at present prices.
The past season has proved a very
good one for the grower or packer
who had any amount of stock to sell,
as prices have been advancing ever
since opening prices were made.
Prunes have advanced a little again
this week and prices are so high on
them and on apricots that it has prac-

S€a-

few

tically put them in the luxury class. |

The demand for New York evaporat-
ed apples is very good, even at the
present high prices. The market on
raisins is unchanged for the week and
stocks are of good size, both with
the wholesaler and the packer on the
coast.

Spices—No changes are quoted in
the market since a week ago. There
has been a fair business done in most
of the line and prices on pepper and
cloves hold very firm. The primary
market is higher than spot goods.

Rice — The demand during the
month of January has been very
good. Prices are steady on Honduras
styles and an advance is shown on
Japan sorts. This is thought to be in

sympathy with the firm market at
primary points.
Provisions — Values ranged down-

ward last week and sentiment in the
trade has been largely disposed to a
belief in lower prices. Nevertheless,
the hog receipts have been disap-
pointingly light—a trifle under those
of a year ago—and this has resulted
in occasional rallies in prices, which
at the last were affected somewhat by
the closing weakness in wheat and
considerable liquidation by important
longs and their followers. Meat ship-
ments out of Chicago last week were
over 3,000,000 pounds less than those
of a year ago, while the lard ship
ments were larger. There were some
very good deliveries of lard—2,756
tcs.—on January contracts late in the
week. Pork showed a gain last week

 

 

of 10c, while other futures lost 374@
14714c: lard lost 274@45c and ribs

lost 1714@25c. Last week’s range of
prices of the principal articles on th=
Chicago Board of Trade were:

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High Low 1911

Wheat—
[May |....$ Le2 $ 987% $ .99s
| Tuly 975% 9514 953%
| Sept. 9554 931 9354

Cor
| May 5014 A9TK 50s
| July 5134 501% 507%
| Sept. 5238 51 5134
| Oats—
| May el se
| July 35 BAUR 3414
| Sept. 337% 3314 3314
| Pork—
| Jan. 20.50 19.7714 20.10
|May 19.10 18.55 18.60
| July 18.65 18.0714 18.10
| tag
| Jan. 10.50 10.00 10.00
|May ....1012% 9.80 9.8214
| July 10.0714 9.70 9.70
| Ribs—
| Jan. 10.75 10.50 10.50
| May 10.0774 9.85 9.85
July 9.9214 . 96714 9.70

——-2

Kalamazoo—The A. M. Todd
| Ltd., manufacturer of essential
i has merged its business into a stock
‘company under the style of the A
i'M. Todd Co., with an authorized cap-
lital stock of $200,000, all of which has
lbeen subscribed and paid in in cash.

oils,

The Produce Market.

with the demoralized condition in
eggs are down, and dealers are very
cautious in taking the stock that is
offered. Fresh eggs are coming in

with some freedom, but apparently

mand is little more than from hand
to mouth. The same is true of butter
The bright weather has rushed the
lettuce and the price has dropped off
to 12c. California oranges are plen-
tiful. Apples are holding steady, al-
though spices are Potatoes
are unchanged.

scarce.

Appies—Northern Spys are very
scarce at $1.50@1.75 per bu.; Bald-
wins, $1.35@1.50; Greenings, $1.25
3lacktwigs, $5.50 per bbl.; Western
apples, $2.25@3 per box.

Bananas—Prices range from
2.50, according to siz

Beans—$2 per bu. for hand-picked
$2.75@3 for red kidney.

seets—50c per bu.

Pe

Butter — Local handlers quote
creamery at 26c for tubs and prints

packing

biisg

20c for No. 1; stock, 12@13¢
Cabbage—60c per doz.
Carrots—50c per bu.

Celery—20c for home grown

 

 

Cocoanuts—60c per doz. or $4.25
per sack.

Cranberries — Cape Cod How
$9 per bbl.

Cucumbers—$1.50@2 per doz

Eggs—Local dealers are paving 2)
@r22c delivered.

Grapes—Malagas, $676.50 per keg

Grape Fruit—$3.75 for alf

Honey—18c per fh r white cl
er and 14c for dari

Lemons — Californ $3.50 4
box.

Lettuce—12c per fb. for lea

Onions—Spanish, $1.60 per crate
home grown, 85c per Du

Oranges — Califorr Na 6
and 238s, and Floridz 263 to 216
$2,252.50.

Pop Corn—90c per bu. for ear
3144@3%4c per fh. for shelled

Potatoes—The market is stea t
25(@@30c, at outside buying points.

Poultry—Local dealers pay 1i2c¢
hens; lic for spring Sc OF !
roosters; 13c for ducks; llc for geese
and 19¢c for turkeys.

Radishes—40c per doz.
Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried, $1.50
per hamper.
Veal—Dealers pay 6@11c.
—_—_—_.-2

 

Ca. |

Death of Peter P. Steketee.

Peter P. Steketee, senior member
iof the firm of P. Steketee & Son
S Pr;

i died at his home, 10

istreet, Sunday night,
|death the city loses one

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that medical

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| colony.
The local markets are quiet, which |

is usual at this season. In sympathy |

Chicago and New York butter and |

looking for still lower prices the de- |

He opened a dry
store in this city im 19362 and con-
ducted it successfully 1

as they became old enough. Peter
| P. Steketee entered the firm im 197%

with an extensive wholesale and job-
|bing department, as well as_ retail
There are very few business hous
in Grand Rapids that have been
long under a single contro! in which
a father has been succeeded by son

 

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 25, 1911

 

 

INDIANA RETAILERS.

 

Convention at Anderson Transacted
Much Business.

The greatest convention in the his-
the Mer-
chants’ Association was held at An
Wednesday
19.

tory of Indiana Retail

derson, Ind., Tuesday,
and Thursday, Jan. 17, 18 and
This was the eleventh annual session
of the organization and was attend.
ed by 400 delegates, alternates and
visitors. The delegates came from
hundred
parts of the state.

nearly one eities in all

The session started Tuesday after-
noon with an excellent programme,
including three addresses of welcome.
given by Mayor Foster, in behalf oi

the city; President A. W. Brady, ci

the Indiana Union Traction Com-
pany, in behalf of the Commercial
Club, and Edward Smith, in behalf
of the Anderson Merchants’ \sso-

ciation. Responses were made by J.
b. Walsh, of Terre Wm. E
Mish-

awaka, in their respective order. The

Haute:
french and Mayor Herzog, of

afternoon ended with the annual ad-
President
Anderson.

>

dress by Ralph B. Clark,

of
In the address of
W hich

Clark:
was the keynote of the con-

President

vention, he emphasized the following
points:
the
atforded

Opposition to a garnishee law
that the
merchants

on Association
protection

through its credit and rating system:

ground
the

the advocation of 43 = law against
fraudulent advertising of any kind;
the damaging effects which the trad-

ing stamp evil had on the merchant,
and the advocation of a law prohibit-
ing the same; the evils of the par-
cels post to the retail merchants and
the support of all means available
against its passage: the detrimental
effect of the postal bank,
which tended to money
from local centers, and the
of the Association Fire
Co., which had paid its
well.

savings
take the

benefits
Insurance
investors

The first day ended with a
ion for the city’s visitors.

Wednesday morning the usual con-
vention committees appointed
and addresses were made by E. B.
Funk, Ind., “More
or Greater Harmony Among Mer-
and May-

recep-

were

of Princeton, on
chants of Kindred Lines,”
or George Durgan, Lafayette,
Ind., “The Merchant as a Tax-
payer and Citizen.”

In the afternoon George Green, of
of the Illinois
advocated

of

on

Chicago, Secretary
Merchants’ Association,
more binding ties between the mer-
chants of neighboring states, attack-
ed bitterly the transient merchant
and the trading stamp evils, closing
by expressing great pleasure at see
ing the in such
a successful convention. William
Bryan, President Indiana
University, followed with an address
3enefit Science Is to the Mer-
William Dudley = Foulke,
President of the National Municipal
league, was the last speaker of the

Indiana Association

Lowe of
on the “
chant.”

afternoon. In the evening a theater
party the
chants.

was given visiting mer

 

 

Thursday was devoted almost en-
tirely to business. The Legislation
Committee reported that laws were
being drafted making it an offense
to sell merchandise the tradinz
stamp plan, and prohibiting fraudu
lent advertising, which would be pre-
sented to the Indiana General Assem-
bly for its action. The report was
favored by the convention in a unan-
vote.

by

imous

Resolutions were adopted:

1. Endorsing the Indiana public
accounting law, which it was believ-
ed had been the means of a great
public saving.

2. Favoring the commission plan
f city government, as tried in a
number of cities.

8. Favoring additional legislation
to promulgate the National good

roads movement.

4. Favoring the passage of a law

prohibiting the impure mixing = of
paints.

5. Thanking Anderson and every
person who had assisted in this, the

of conventions.

Secret ary

greatest
Palfrev’s report showed
a large increase in the membership
and that ten cities had been added to
the list in which there are organiza
tions during the year.

A resolution which tended to fav
or parcels post, but had its real pur-
of
was

being
killed

at

pose covered with a guise
express rate
the brilliant
President Clark, who is
ponent the

ment, insisting

an reform,

through oratory
a bitter op-
post move-
assisted the

of parcels
that it
mail order houses.

The election of officers resulted as

follows:

President—W. \WW. Adamson, Terre
Haute.

Vice-President —- W. R.. French,
Evansville.

secretary — T. F. Palfrey, Vin

Cennes.

Treasurer—Geo. M. Hoffner, Fort
Wayne.

The directors will be appointed by
the new President.

Gary was awarded the 1912

over Fort Wayne

con
vention and in
dianapolis.

The closing remarks were made by
Clark, had served
in that capacity for five consecutive
years. His last words were: “I
to my Mr. Adamson,”
then taking off a wig which he wore
he placed it on the head of the new
President, who is also adorned with

ex- President who
give

you crown,

a head resembing a billiard ball. The
wig fitted well and the incident cre-

ated amusement.

"3-2
Business News From the Hoosier
State.

Lynn — Thos. Price, grocer and

prominent citizen, is dead, aged 63

years.
Richmond — Joseph Mandel, for
eight years Manager of the Globe

Credit Co., will take charge of a new
store, the Paris Cloak and Suit Co.,
tailored women’s clothing, about the
first of March.

Ft. Wayne—The Collins Ice Cream
Co., of Huntington, has dissolved. Al-

ifred W. Wilkenson takes over the ice

 

and coal part of the business and re-
mains in the old quarters, while F. S.
Plaster takes the ice cream and but-
ter end and will have plants here and
at Huntington.

Indianapolis—At the annual meet-
ing of the Indiana Business Men's
Association last week officers were

elected: President, Fred Frohmuth,
Muncie; Vice-President, J. H. Eller,
Noblesville; Secretary, A. Bogue, In-
dianapolis; Treasurer, Edmund P.
Thayer, Greenfield. A model gar-
nishee bill was approved and will be
sent to the Legislature, providing for
a levy of 10 per cent. of the debtor’s
income after judgment has been ob-
tained. An individual’s wages, salary,
earnings, income from trust funds or
other profits are subject to the gar-
nishee. The parcels post received the
unqualified condemnation of the As-

sociation and the use of trading

stamps was discouraged.
22-2.

Sugar Consumption in the United

States.

The people of the United States
consume half their own weight in
sugar every year. This may seem a
startling statement, but if we take
the quantity of sugar produced in
the United States, and add to this
the quantity brought from our own
islands and the quantity imported
from foreign countries, and subtract
therefrom the amount exported, we
get a grand total of considerably
more than seven billion pounds con-
sumed in the country; and by divid-
ing the population into this grand to-
tal we get an average of 8114 pounds
per capita, speaking in round terms,
for 1910, and about a like quantity for
1909. It is not assumed, of course,
that each person necessarily con-
sumes sugar equal to one-half his in-
dividual weight; but taking the total
consumption and comparing it with
the total population in the section
known as Continental United States,
the yearly consumption of sugar is
found to be about 81%4 pounds per
capita.

In fact, the people of the United
States are larger consumers of sugar
per capita than those of any other
country of the world except England
for which the latest figures show a
consumption averaging 86 pounds per
capita, against our own average of
8114 pounds per capita. The next
largest per capita consumption is in
Denmark, 7734 pounds; followed by
Switzerland, 64 pounds; Sweden, 54
pounds, and Germany and Holland,
each about 43% pounds.

Not only is the United States the
second largest sugar consumer per
capita, but the total amount consum-
ed annually is much greater than that
of any other country, aggregating, as
above indicated, more than seven bil-
lion pounds, against about four bil-
lion pounds in England and about
three billion pounds in Germany.

About one-half of the sugar con-
sumed in the United States is
brought from foreign countries, about
one-fourth from our own islands and
the remaining one-fourth is produced
in this country. The total production
of sugar in the United States now
amounts to one and_ three-quarters
billion pounds a year, of which more

 

than one billion pounds is beet sugar
and about three-quarters of a billion
cane sugar. It is only recently that
the production of beet sugar in the
United States has come to exceed
that of cane sugar. In 1900 domestic
production of cane sugar was twice
as great as that of beet sugar, and
twenty years ago was more than six-
ty times as great; but the growth of
beet sugar production has been very
rapid in recent years, and in 1907, for
the first time, exceeded in quantity
that produced from cane and has s9
continued since that time.

Of the sugar brought from other
countries, nearly all is made from
cane. While about half of the world’s
sugar is made from beets, most of it
is produced in Europe and consun.-
ed in the country of production or in
other parts of the grand division.
while most of the world outside of
Europe obtains its sugar supply from
cane grown, of course, in the tropi-
cal and subtropical sections. Of the
cane sugar which we consume, most
of that coming from foreign countries
is drawn from Cuba, the Dutch East
Indies and smaller amounts from the
West Indies, Mexico, Central and
South America. All of that coming
from our own islands—Puerto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines—is cane
sugar, while of the domestic product
about 40 per cent. is produced from
cane. The beet sugar of the United
States is grown chiefly in Colorado,
California and Michigan, and some in
Utah, Idaho and Wisconsin, whilc
most of the cane sugar is produced
in Louisiana, with smaller quantities
in Texas, Florida, Georgia and South
Carolina.

The sugar “habit” is evidently 1
growing one with the people of the
United States and probably with
those of other countries, since the to-
tal world production of sugar, includ
ing all countries for which statistics
are available, has increased 50 per
cent. in the last decade and about
doubled in fifteen years. In our own
case the consumption has shown 2
rapid growth, the per capita consump
tion having been, in 1880, 40 pounds;
in 1890, 51 pounds; in 1900, 59 pounds,
and in 1910, approximately 8117
pounds.

What is the cost of this enormous
quantity of sugar consumed in th:
United States? This is more difficult
to answer. The valuation of that
brought from foreign countries and
our islands is set down at about one
bundred and seventy-five million dol-
lars in 1910, and the stated value of
that produced in the United States
at approximately seventy-five million
dollars, although this comparatively
high figure, when considered by the
price per pound, is due to the fact
that the valuation is based upon the
refined article, while that of the sugar
from abroad is the value of the unre-
fined article in the country of produc
tion. If, however, we accept a gen-
eral average of 5 cents per pound as

'the retail price paid by our people

for the seven and one-third billion
pounds of sugar consumed by them
in 1910, we should get a total of $366.-
000,000, or an average of approxi-
mately $1,000,000 a day, paid for sug-
ar by the people of the United States.

 

 

January 25, 1911

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN T

 

 

   

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WATCH THE LEGISLATURE.

The serious task ‘of making
unmaking laws has begun all
the country. In most of the
the state legislatures have settled
down in earnest and bills in which
the merchants, especially the retail
merchants, are interested are find-
ing their way into the hands of the
various committees appointed to
take charge of them. The same is
true of the national legislature,
which is considering bills of nation-
al importance.

and
Over

states

It is not a hard matter to make
laws, but it is powerfully difficult to
unmake them. Most of the statutes
hit the merchants in two ways: one
because he is a citizen of the state
in which he resides and the second
because he isamerchant. Therefore,
he has to be doubly careful what
lgislative matters are allowed to
pass. It is not enough to watch the
daily papers for the introduction of
bills inimical and friendly to his in-
terests; he must know the meaning
of the bills, their purpose, and
whether there is a little “joker” con-
cealed in them somewhere.

To do this intelligently he must,
if he is a member of an association.
take up such questions in open meet-
ing, discuss them and see that his of-
ficers get copies of the bills that are
introduced and explain them thor-
oughly. Tf he is not a member then
he will have to depend upon writing
tc the men who introduce the bills
to get copies and explain them. When
he has done that he ought to dis
cuss them with his neighboring busi
ness men.

No matter in what state you live, if
the legislature is meeting this year,
watch it. Watch the bills which are
introduced. See will
harm or help you and take whatever
action is necessary.

whether they

Don’t let anyone
“slip something over on you!”

 

STAND FIRMLY FOR REFORM.

While the threatened slump in
prices of butter and eggs may seri-
ously affect some of the speculators
who have been holding tons of them
in cold storage while the laboring
people were going without nourishing

 

 

food simply because they could not
afford to pay the abnormal prices, to
the thinking person this will seem al-
most like retribution. There is spec-
ulation, the shrewdness of which we
may admire without at the same time
questioning the honor. So long as
as those whose goal is riches restrict
their medium to gold or oil, the mass-
es are not so vitally injured; but when
it comes to using the staff of life
for their mainstay and thereby wrest-
ing it from the working classes, hu-
manity enters a protest.,

Some one has said that it is not
so much “the high cost of living” as
“the cost of high living” which is
troubling us to-day. This is true in
one sense; in another it is not. The
high living of to-day is the fare of our
fathers; that which they found neces-
sary to give the strong physical foun-
dation for a useful life. Meat and po-
tatoes and bread and butter were
plain living once; but now we must
hunt for the cheaper forms; for meat
and butter seem to belong only to
the rich.

Now it is found that, not content
with charging the highest prices for
necessary foods, they also curtail in
weights. The pound loaf, costing
5 cents, more frequently weighs from
eleven to fourteen ounces. Butter is
made into pound prints which also
fall short in weight. Even if we se-
cure that of good quality we are
cheated in the amount if we are not
continually on our guard.

You can not serve your patrons
better than to plant both feet square-
ly for a reform in the sale of food
products. Do the best that you can
on prices; stand firmly for quality
and make a fight for quantity. It is
mean enough to cheat in any form:
but ten times more despicable to jug-
gle with the bread of the working
man and his family. A people that are
half starved can not progress.

 

THE POWER IN PETROLEUM.

Figures show that in the fifty years
since Colonel Drake first released the
petroleum from the soil nearly 2,000,-
“90,000 barrels of oil have been pro-
duced in the United States, to say
nothing of what has been done in
foreign fields. Eighteen states have
given it in paying quantities, and no
doubt there are others yet to hear
from.

Now the scenes are shifting into
Latin America, with wealth of great-
er worth to the world than the gold
and silver of the Incas. That the
quest for this may have a greater
power in developing these Southern
neighborlands than the more appar-
ent agricultural pursuits can not be
doubted. Yet the two are going more
and more hand in hand. The one is
the most powerful ally of the other.

That the discovery of oil made mil-
lionaires in a day would not, possi-
bly, come as a surprise to the man
who spent his all in releasing the
subtle fluid and died poor: that
through its influence even the wildest
of “Mother Shipton’s prophecies”
have been materialized is quite anoth-
er matter. Look at almost any of the
industries and accomplishments of
modern times, excepting those of elec-
tricity, and oil in some form is at the

 

bottom of the work. It has rendered
good roads at nominal expense a ma-
terialization; it has exchanged for the
slow and hard-pulling row boat the
swift naptha launch; it has enabled

man to even become master in the
cloudland.

In the industrial work the applica-
tions seem but in their infancy. Gas-
oline as applied to machinery gives a
power which will accomplish won.
ders. Men are now plowing, harrow-
ing and seeding their land with one
movement at a rate many times that
of horse power. They are making ap-
plications in textiles and in the arts
which have revolutionized manufac-
turing interests. Yet we are just in the
beginning. Truly, this is a world of
wonder, and the man who is awake
can always find new possibilities and

new paths to progress.
EEE

THE GREELEY CENTENNIAL.

Horace Greeley, styled by Whittier
as “our later Franklin,’ was born at
Amberst, N.. H., Feb. 3, 1811. His
early life was a struggle with pover-
ty. When the home was shifted to
Western Pennsylvania we learn that
he was admonished by his employer,
Judge Sterrett, of the Erie Gazette:
“Don’t go about the town any longer
in that outlandish rig. Let me give
you an order on the store. Dress up
a little, Horace.” He had spent but
six dollars for personal expenses dur-
ing the seven months previous, and
the more than a hundred dollars due
him was zealously hoarded to help his
father in paying for the new farm.

When he left Erie for New York
his bundle of clothes was carried on
a stick over his shoulder. He walked
through the woods to Buffalo, sixty
miles, completing the trip via the Erie
Canal to Albany, and thence down
the Hudson on a barge, with an out-
lay of only five dollars.

With twice that amount in his
pocket on his arrival he traversed the
city streets for days in vain, his ec-
centric garb and odd manners. win-
ning a prompt “No” from all to
whom he applied. At last he heard of
an office wanting printers, and was
at the door by 5 o’clock the next
morning. The foreman was not fav-
orably impressed with the appearance
of the green country lad but finally
said, “Fix up a case for him and we
will see if he can do anything.” When
the proprietor came he objected to
the unattractive youth and gave or-
ders for his dismissal at the end of
the day; but here solid work con-
quered. When night came he showed
the largest and most correct day’s
work that had been made and he was
retained.

 

He was a reformer and a_ philan-
tropist, kind hearted and thoroughly
honest. He proved that the boy with
no chance may rise to the top; yet he
was a striking illustration of how one
can stand in his own light by being
utterly without regard for the con-
ventionalities of his times.

Se

Do you read your trade journal as
carefully as you should? And _ that
means advertising columns as well as
reading pages. A trade journal un-
read is an opportunity cast away.

 

THE FAST CURE.

This seems to be attracting atten-
tion anew in the magazine world, al-
though the principle upon which it is
founded, that of allowing an over-
worked member to rest for a time

which varies in length with the ag-
gravation of the malady and the per-
severance of the individual, is as old
as the hills.

A modification is the no-breakfast
pian, which was pressed by its prin-
cipal advocate, Dr. Dewey, a few
years ago through two or three vol-
umes. The plan is a simple one, be-
ing founded on the premise that sleep
is not an exhaustive process; that orie
awakens in the morning with the food
taken the evening before, mainly un-
used.

He mmintains that there is no dan-
ger of starvation until the skeleton
stage is reached; that one can think
clearer if not over-fed, and if there
is a tendency toward too much or
too little adipose tissue the practice
of skipping breakfast will counteract
the evil.

He especially recommends the
Practice in stomach trouble, or to
those subject to headache, and that in
many instances relief is found by such
treatment, has been proved.

While many claim that this may da
for students and those leading a sed-
entary life, it has also been tested by
the farmer and the blacksmith with
equally satisfactory results.

The fast cure of several days’ dur-
ation is but a more drastic measure
along the same lines. Both depend
upon the theory that we are apt to be
intemperate and to eat more than is
for our welfare. Nature sometimes
calls a halt; if we can anticipate her
movement, the better it will be for us.
Call the doctrine a fad; but there are
instances in which it seems indisput-
ably beneficial. It should be experi-
mented with cautiously. Extremes re-
garding health rules may be danger-
ous, and no two persons are exactly
alike constitutionally. An imposed
rest may save a forced rest; but there
should be moderation in all things.

 

 

Parcels post boomers often point
to the German parcels post service as
an example of efficiency. It is both
efficient and satisfactory; but the
boomers are very careful never to
reveal the reason why this is true,
which is because the service is oper-
ated on the zone
based on distance.
zones in the German parcels post
service. The longest distance is ap-
proximately 700 miles and the charg¢
for carrying an eleven pound parcel
that distance is 65 cents. Yet the
boomers want to put in a flat rate
of even less than that amount in this
country of magnificent distances and

expensive costs.
EEE

with rates
There are six

system,

 

At the last elections for the new
parliament in England there were
elected 21 men who are connected
with the grocery business and its al-
lied trades. The business men on
the other side apparently take more
interest in politics than those in this
country.

 

 

January 25, 1911

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

SCIENCE AND ACTUAL FACTS.

There is nothing like science. What-
ever can be reduced to a scientific
theory and backed up by mathematics
is accepted as more than Bible truth,
because the Bible does not accord at

all with the demonstrations of the
scientists.

These remarks recall that some
seventy years ago Dr. Dionysius

Lardner, professor of physics in the
University of London, demonstrated
philosophically and mathematically
that there never would be any practi-
cal steamship transit across the At-
lantic Ocean, because the vessel
would require all its tonnage space
for carrying the coal necessary to
make the voyage and it would be
impossible to reserve any room for
freight or passengers. Dr. Lard-
ner’s figures were deemed conclusive
by the scientists, but the hard-head-
ed shipbuilders and sailors refused to
heed them, and the result is seen in
the great fleets of steamships that
sail every sea to-day.

This is much on the order of the
scientific demonstration made some-
thing over twenty years ago by Prof.
Joseph Le Conte, of the University
of California, to prove the absolute

impossibility of making a heavier-

than-air flying machine that would
fly.
The Professor's argument, which

was published in 1882 in the Popular
Science Monthly, is briefly to the ef-
fect that the strength of a muscle
increases as the square of any lineal
dimension, while the weight of a
muscle increases as the cube of the
lineal dimension. Hence it is that
the weight of an animal increases
with far greater rapidity than its
strength increases. A flea’s muscles
are not stronger than those of an
elephant, as been inferred, be-
cause it can leap farther in proportion
to its size. The slight weight of the
fiea relative to its muscular strength
accounts for its astonishing ability
as an insect acrobat. Nature reached
its possible limit in the evolution of
a walking animal when it evolved
the dinosaur of the Jurassic period.
The whale probably passed this limit
and was compelled to take to the sea
11 order to move about at all. In
like manner nature reached her limit
in flying machine size when she
evolved the condor, and the bustard,
whose weight is about fifty pounds.
Larger birds, like the ostrich, are
too heavy to fly. If nature has reach
ed her limit in developing a flyinz
machine weighing fifty pounds, man
cannot expect to do better. Man
never has done better than nature in
point of efficiency even with his best
steam engine. The animal body, in
fact, is about twice as effective as the
best Cornish engine. “No machine
that we may hope to devise, for the
same weight of machine, fuel and di-
recting brain, is half so effective” as a
bird.

has

The professor then crowns his
scientific dictum with the trite ques-
tion: “Ts it not demonstrated that

a true flying machine, self-raising,
self-sustaining, — self-propelling,
physically impossible?”

is

all

 

So much for science demonstrating
man’s inability to fly save in lighter-
than-air balloons. But in face of the
fact that men, and women, too, are
flying in heavier-than-air machines in
the principal
world, the cocksure
some of them are of their superior

countries in the

scientists, as

should down from
their lofty perches of dictatorial cer-
tainty and roost a little lower while
waiting to learn if their mathematics
will save them from disastrous down
falls.

knowledge,

get

 

SAVE THE FRYINGPAN.

Earnest students of social prob-
lems have arrived at divers conclu-
sions regarding remedial action to

correct the more
kind, but it has remained for an at
torncy at Iola, Kas., to hold aloft the
frvingpan as the fountain from which
Hows the woes of the world. This
attorney, Chris Ritter by name, car-
ties his indictment of the fryingpan
to the extreme. He says that this
humble instrument f domestic
economy is responsible for dyspepsia

grievous ills of man-

ot

sown broadcast among all members
of the household. The bad temper
brought on by dpspepsia causes

spoiled children, irritable husbands.

slatternly wives and leads directly
to the divorce courts, the peniten-

tiary, the insane
ebriate’s

asylum and the in-
grave. The genius of
the fryingpan, like Stevenson's “Bot-

evil

tle Imp,” brings a curse to all with
whom it comes in contact.

Being convinced that an endless
train of piteous afflictions arise from
the aroma of the skillet, Mr. Ritter
is constrained in the interests of hu-
manity to take the natural remedy
He has prepared a bill for the Kan-
sas Legislature making it a misde-
meanor for any person to fry beef,
pork, mutton or any meat other than
fowl. Apparently Mr. Ritter has
boundless confidence in the imbecility

of the Kansas Legislature, for he
seems certain that his bill will be

enacted into law along with the hun-
dred and one other freak measures
introduced. He hopes to see the dawn
of that supreme when this
greasy wrecker of homes will be rel-
egated to the scrap heap in Kansas.
He hopes to be known to fame as the

da y

man who put the fryingpan out of
business.

We are not in the least in sympa-

thy with Mr. Ritter’s campaign
against the fryingpan. It is an an-
‘tent and honorable article of do

mestic economy that has nourished 2
nation sturdy men. Along the
coast of New England
the fryingpan was the symbol of hos
pitality. From its ardent
arisen the of a thousand
happy homes and in the simple, in
nocent

ot
rock-bound
bosom has
incense
fashion of our ancestors no
without it
pioneers

lireside was
When the
westward

complete
hardy pushed

in search of newer and

the
ingpan was of paramount considera-
(10n.

more comfortable abodes, fry-

The exiles in far places held to
it as the tie that bound them to civ-
On the mountain
trails, in the camps
where miners raved of gold the fry-

lization. lonely

of cowboys and

 

   

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

   

 

 

 

ingpan was a sacred thing. T elder person i@ere its the light
Idier’s camp, the emigrant’s kit, t nearted turn made of serious matter
pre-empter’s prize were that i ak a
instrument wherein th ae se
to a mellifigous tur: mg thmgs rignter : c f
frying yan has been responsi . foot S persona ndependen
zeny divorces it has be r ¥ gift Of to-day proba
ble for a hap ¥ Hore t
it has caused dyspeps I i per wearm z r
decadent peor t has 2 a and r c ,
sustenance and satisfacti ¢ r agt HE
large proportion of the human race
It was one of the great discover ng ago Black wrot E
of all time. Let g C r 7 -
be laid upon its handle Q 3
A HEN NOT A BIRD else by While we “
The United States Customs rt | bashful t the . 5
is doing a good deal lately to enliven | to be than the sets ne
the rather prosaic administrat mess so frequent + ore
the customs service of the Govern- Peshans the t _
ment. Some of its decisions would | to the adule : :
rival Solomon’s celebrate tum to comr + 2
tween the rival mothers. Recently | adent a+ ow ls oe ee.
the learned court render i . is — i
ion that a hen was not a bird and that | fare + ie ee ee :
eggs were eggs, whether in ¢1 sinc ‘ he —. |
or out of it vis learned decision |in th ie . teacher ,
was brought about by the contention | child of todac « ti .. les
of an importer that eggs from Chin ‘ror : !
which sie with 11 shell remowed | came coccne ‘. ’ a) the J
and frozen in cans, should be admitte logue is icin Co he ..
free of duty, the same as the eos foo and m ;
birds. The Hector stor where + r tee a. .
ruled that a he: $ not a bird but / the aa thr q _— .
a fowl, and that the Cl tl > v9 + "
should pay tl Wi dut s they ih ner 4 :
competed with domestic ees +E , u
appeal, the Customs Court sustai1 str iT ser
the decision of the collector thos :
hen is not a bird -
In another de a
Court ruled that “rats” are ri RENAME THE COUNTY
ipparel. OF our r : c E
tion are not of th riety tl r
San Francisco friends are so afr coe en
4f as possible neewor , . A. dat t wi
plague, but the artistic cr r f fe 1 fan
which the ladies dress ¢ r hatr aft rt Femost F
way, but rules t rat re wear n t r
ing appar t sess man 1
like corsets or other ar F 1
nine gear. S r Q i F r n TE 2
decisions, a - t rd an r fs
a rat 1s wearin ppar 7 sar . 7 F z 7
cOUrFT no long S e d ; ft t . 2 -
yan was not gSweef notat IT rg
nw regvar
the co - rreguiarit
IS PERTNESS ON THE GAIN? — - this kind — oo
Take the average school girl or DOlitical character bears the nar ‘
boy in the average town and the mid- %Ome pertect Fespectabie peopie. 5
dle aged person can not but be im- the new nam MES €
pressed with the pertness show t t ——— + oo
comparison the conduct regard role we f vr E f
ed as becoming when they wer that has the ad wr
dren mean harm; are not another Boodle n
good at heart: gy h equir t rid r
ed the habit of fli: ba smart | roug n ¥F gener
retort to everything said, without r r .
gard to the dissi ' r tm me
We see it im the , r
schools. Instead « di matter, an
there is the argumentativeness whic! r 2
tends to belittle the opinion of the the right thing

 

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8 Ss IOVES AND HARDWARE =
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Cream Separators Good Sellers if the | chine oil in place of the more ex-
Trade Is Pushed. | pensive separator oil. Once is usual-
Cream separators are a line that|ly enough.
will stand right back of any deal- Separaters sell best at that season

er who will push them. <A farmer
with eight or ten cows is often skep-

tical about believing that a $100

arator will pay for itself in a single |,
year, out of profits earned over and |

above those formerly earned by the

pan system. He is always open to

conviction along a plain unvariash-
ed money-making plan.
We hear much

purity of country life in comparison

these days

to cold blooded city business propo-
Do not take too much stock

sitions.

in that when you talk to the farmer
alone about the great labor saving,
retired-milk-pan days of the separa-
tor. Save that steam for the red-|
faced overworked woman who will
really appreciate it. Show her the

few parts to be washed in your sepa-
rator and drop a hint or two about
washing the cream rim on milk pans,
sweetness,
keynote in

essential to
the

which is so
will strike

wife.

and you

every farmer's

Once her efforts are enlisted your

sale is just a matter of time, for she
will bring the subject up at the end
of every hard day’s work. There is
more truth than poetry in_ those
“Who Wears the Pants” stories so
often told, and many of

the great
food-producing districts are ruled by

petticoats. The farmer’s wife is nev-

er overlooked by a good separator }
man.
lf every cream separator in the |

world that needs repairs or is work- |

ing badly could be inspected and the
reasons for the disorder put in a
list, you would be surprised at the
size of it. I would stake my life that
95 per cent. of the reasons would
be that the machines were not on the
level. By this I do not mean poor

machines, but good ones that have |

been screwed to 1 inch floors or nev-

er leveled since the day they were.
fastened to plank floors. I have seen
$15
the result of |

machines needing as high as
worth of repairs as
such carelessness. They had been
moved from the milkhouse to the

kitchen for the winter and leveled

on a1 inch floor with a glass of wa-|
ter and a bum eye for an instrument. |
More depends on this subject of}

keeping a machine absolutely level
than any other one thing in the life
of a separator. Pound that fact
home at all times, and it will build
a reputation for the machine you
handle. Few farmers spare oil, they
rather are inclined to flood with it
or use a trial order of mowing ma-

sep- |

about |

; ons.

|when green grass first begins to in-
crease the milk supply. Many farm-

ers are using a machine sold by cat-

|a@logue kouses. This kind of competi-
/tion is a joke to any merchant who
will stock a durable machine and talk
| quality and cleanliness for the cheap
jaffairs so commonly sold by mail
jare among the impossibles when it
comes to cleaning. Even a quality
separator calls tor the occasional at-
tention of a man well informed on its

mechanism. A correspondence course

on repairs does not build up. busi-
ness. The farmer would rather see
;}your man with a wrench.

Get hold of one of those discarded
|catalogue house separators and use 1!
ion floor in
demonstrations to

pects.

your sales comparison
price-wise  pros-
from local farmers
been earned with
your machines are good selling weap-
These are all things that help,
but the man in the buggy with a
| cream the back is the
| real sales. The strings
such a man soon has out for future
business on will

practical

Letters

telling what has

separator in
creator of

hardware
the
such a venture.

quickly
demonstrate side of

In many states hunting licenses are
demanded from the men who like to
shoot. Being caught in the field with
a dog and gun is conclusive evidence
| against any one trying to evade this
law. ff the kind of
could be used on milkmen
;cream separators the blue milk ar-
|tist who leaves a bottle on your
back steps would be nabbed in the

same evidence

who use

;morning. He knows a good _ thing
1 .
|when he sees it and the separator

|has
| his

really replaced the pump out at
place. Did you land the sale?
There was good money in it.—Iron
| Age-Hardware.
———-- 2-2...
Convention at San Antonio.

Instead of holding their meeting
|in the East, or in some central city,
the Southern Hardware Jobbers’ As-
sociation and the American Hard-
| ware Manufacturers’ Association will
April to San Antonio, Tex-
jas. Beside the usual pleasure and
|advantage of these Practically joint
|conventions, although most of the
| sessions are held separately, those
| who go to San Antonio will not
jonly be the recipients of a cordial
| welcome and a lavish and considerate
hospitality but will have an opportu-
nity to get in touch with the marvel-
ous interests of Texas, the Continen-

i}go in

Ital State, whose extent, resources
and development, although’ appreciat-
ed in a general way, will be, it is
safe to say, a revelation to
The trip down,
the passing through a number of
states and various important trade
centers, the visiting of some of the
principal cities in Texas, the side
excursions which may be enjoyed, 2
possible trip to Mexico and the ex-
hilaration of a voyage one way or th
other if there is a fancy for the brac-
me ais Of the are attractions
which will make a strong appeal to
the membership of the two associa-
tions. The getting close to the Tex-
as merchants and meeting on their
native heath this fine body of men
will, however, be the chief induce-
ment. Already the official commit-
tees in charge of arrangements are
considering their plans.

many
visitors. involving

sea,

One proj-
ect, which is naturally regarded with
much favor, is for the visitors from
the North
from

and West and presumably
some points in the South
a special train, such train
made up of emanating
such points as Boston, New

also
to go by
to be
from

cars

 

 

This is What the

Royal System

Is Doing for Retailers

The A. J. DeerCo, Fairfield, Ind.
Hornell, N.Y. July 21, 1910.

Gentlemen:—The roaster is working
to perfection. It roasts to our entire
Satisfaction and is a great ad to our
coffee business. Should you ever have
any prospective buyers who wouid like
to ask some one who has one anything
about it, do not hesitate in referring
them to us as we cannot recommend it
too highly Yours truly,

(Signed) The White Tea Store.

 

The A. J. Deer Co.

1246 West St. Hornell, N. Y.

 

 

 

SNAP YOUR FINGERS

At the Gas and Electric Trusts
and their exorbitant charges.
Putin an American Lighting
System and be independent.
Saving in operating expense
will pay for system in short
time. Nothing so brilliant as
these lights and nothing so
cheap to run.

American Gas Machine Co.
103 Clark St. i Albert Lea, A.inn.

Walter Shankland & Co
Michigan State Agents

  

 

 

 

66 N. Ottawa St. G and Rapids, Mich,

 

 

A Gooa investment

PEANUT ROASTERS
and CORN POPPERS.

Great Variety, $8.50 to $350.04
EASY TERMS.
Catalog Free.

KINGERY MFG. CO.,106-108 E. Pear! St.Cincinnatl,O

Acorn Brass Mfg. Co.

Chicago

 

 

 

Makes Gasoline Lighting Systems and
Everything of Metal

 

or 8tore—from cellar to garret—with 100 to 700
{Candle-Power brilliancy—at less than % cost of
kerosene (and ten times the light)—giving you

Gas at 15c Per 1,000 Feet
(instead of $1 to $2, which Gas Companies
charge). With the “‘Handy’’ Gasoline Light-
ing System or ‘‘Triumph’’ Inverted Indi-
vidual Light you get the best known sub-

yy stitute for daylight (and almost as cheap), can
read or work in any part of room—light
ready at a finger touch—don’t have t. move
these Lights—the light comes to you. Write

for Catalogue and Circulars (to Dept. 25).

Brilliant GasLamp Co, 42 StateSt Uncago

 

 

 

Established in 1873

Best Equipped
Firm in the State

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.

 

 

 

 

 

Wholesale Hardware 2

Weaver’s Choice Xcut Saws
Are Sold and Guaranteed by

CLARK-WEAVER CO.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

 

 

 

Wholesale

10 and 12 Monroe St.

 

 

Foster, Stevens & Co.

ut

or 31-33-35-37 Louis St.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Hardware

 

 

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January 25, 1911

Britain, New York, Philadelpnia,
Baltimore, Pittsburgh and going to
St. Louis, where it will be joined by
another train or two from Chicago
and the West. It is not unlikely that
the delegates while enjoying going to

)seven out of a hundred businesses in-

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

MAXIMUM BUSINESS SUCCESS.

 

Have a Definite Purpose and Keep
it Always in View.
Statistical folks tell us that ninety

 

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ead of each depart:

Basimess success i the ces
the efficient management Mew 2

Materiais ai tae

Wilmarth Show CaseCo.

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the convention in this way will pre-|dulge in the somewhat expensive |that in organization e de Show Cases
fer to return by various routes and jluxury of failing. Of course there’s| with materials is doomed - r And $ =
make such stops as may be desirable.|a reason. Two great reasons instant-| The wise man knows that he ’ tore ixtures
; oo : : ‘ ‘ st is tack ldeal eth on — er " : «fas
AML this would take some time, and | ly flash into mind. The first is lack leal with men and ma Grand Rapids “ Machizan
a little money notwithstanding the|of defiinite purpose. The second is|of these two. men are +
reduced rates and hospitable wel-j|lack of ability to successfully or-| portant. 3
come, but the opportunity is so ex- | ganize. The busine niower 4 Grand Raods Electrotype Ce.
ow JUSITIC SS JtD 2 z -
ceptional as combining business, Christopher Columbus, who, ac-|Columbus 46 oot : ' Leos S¢.. Grand Rapids. Wice
E Ith of vi ; i , : wee oo. ’ sa ' Wakevs of Highest Grwte Bieetrotrjes
breac om of view and pleasure that we | cording to all reports has been dead the ability ¢ re ze an imstit sil medera metheds Thonsamds of sacieted
trust San Antonio will witness a not-|for many years, was a business man fit to reach th reas mistemers $ onr Jess Mivertisemet
able gathering. fo more than ordinary importance as|tenants car tin + See S Comgeeee Dae 66 Pilates Seciinery
- + eg tthe tILS S AOT A Z % Troe sid Pntecy = Iooties
en an example of present day business | that purpose efficiently, All th
Keeping Brushes in Stock. builders. Shcic thdlocts with loccien — naan aang
it€l HBCiPeTsS OFaity ft 7

Some hardware men whose con-} He started with a purpose. He lexecutive and their imstitation an FECT] —
duct of their paint department can | wanted to find the most direct way tl faith in the judement of the ON wil sty
hardly be criticised so far as the|market. The Far East offered the|mind And the meee whe c ree 2 a — cm
ings of paint business is concern: | market but the long trip around the [the picture of a definite our * aul eae ae ae
ed, says Hardware and Metal, are | great unknown southern continent ate i wind Sie Sibu h . seiner sulting articias
rArs<; iotanée ¢ ; ms * a in ‘ ” WO wade. tddreme s
very neglectful of their brush stock,|up profits. Columbus believed that clhaed of ct08 dows to the mus < GROADD Seas. sewn wien
and carry such an incomplete line | by sailing directly west he couid|tends the Guanes, eames Sout n:sialass hichinieneelilestahenimmniiiiiiia ii I

that customers in some cases, finding
it impossible to be suited in the
store where they buy their paints, go

 

reach the eastern shores of Asia.
To use modern terms, he carried
his idea to the firm of Ferdinand &

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

elsewhere for their brushes. In this Isabella, who were in the governmen- ee a _ . a
way a good customer may be lost to |business in Spain, and secured an zig-zaes | iD is a
the store. | advertising appropriation which he ae te msoelf . oe

An essential to building up a good | thought was sufficient to carry th: |,, higher sour
paint trade is to carry a stock of the | firm’s message to the eastern buyinz|yes5 can grow eger
best brushes and be able to explain | public. Not having enough to en- | ati ‘ a -
the virtues of each type of brush and | gage in a campaign of general pub-| TI _ GRAND RAPIDS
recommend the kind best suited for |licity, he invested all that he had 3 St ‘
each particular class of work. What a media—otherwise known as | KP : — —
will suit a master painter will hard-| ships—called the Santa Maria. th Sige : : THE WeBSaiN GENCY
ly suit a less experienced amateur | Pinta and the Nina. He loaded thes- | “© °*€<"* 5 —so
working on his own home. What} ships—or filled his advertising space Se foueionatasel a —
will do for floor paint may be alto-|if you want it that way—with copy b : re z aaron
gether unsuited for use in thinner li-|that would bring in the orders. ong cc. em . YOUR DELAYED
quids, You know the rest. He kept his ee . place eaaw maa at gy PREIGHT Easily

A good stock of brushes will also | purpose in mind. He was no huma: SS ‘ ‘ a aid Quickly. We can teil you
help a hardware man to build up aj weather vane. “Today we saile a ps how BARLOW BROS
business with master painters, but | westward, which is our course,” 1 ae a : a i c ; eg
unless a complete line is carried it | wrote each day in his log. No mat - oT er nn
is useless to look for trade in this|ter what advertisers said to him, ne | The org ro ssp: Sales Books SPECIAL OFFER FOR 54.00
quarter. Brush manufacturers, as a|matter what threats were made, no|Men he want — =e Geel eatemaunties wD Geigieal SHE set Se
rule, do not care to sell direct t..|matter how mutinous the crew, Co |¢@ SS Svigiaat Bilis. 5.500 aaglaee Cagis UD See a
painters, but if the hardware man |lumbus kept his purpose in mind a er F Cartew Pager, 2 Parent _catier Covers, We dew citi cs
will not put in a fair stock, and the |doggedly wrote “To-day we sailed |and then must keep ie ov dadidinapen, gn lnammenstn atte aan
painter goes to the brush manufac-| westward, which is our course.” {ficiently toward th pean eee ge. Sar Caines dina
turer, it is hard for the latter to re- Then on the 7th of October, as the |Of a definit it edie eee ed ee ae ee
fuse to supply the painter with | history books have it, Martin Alonzs | Ummistakab! d.
goods. In some places hardware { Pinzon, commanding the Pinta, cam - ee ee
men make a bid for the lead, color|aboard the Santa Maria and pointed
and oil trade of the master painter |Out that birds were flying southeast
by supplying the painter with brush-|ward and that land must be in thar Get the
es at very close prices, or by giving| direction. Columbus wavered, He
the local painter an opportunity toj|betrayed his faith in his theory—in ar, 99 < S
select what he wants from the trav-|his purpose. The course was altered un Beam Line oT Goods
eler’s samples when the salesman | He landed on a little island. Had he

visits the town.

if carried out cautiously, but ia

bringing the master painter and trav- | pose—he would have reached Florida |

Both are good plans |

 

sailed directly west—had he followed
kis theory—had he held to his Pur-

For Fall and Winter Trade

“= -

eler together a risk is taken unless | OF one of the present Carolinas.
the dealer can place confidence in his | Many a business man, starting with
customer. ja definite purpose, feeling absolute

Horse Blankets, Plush Robes. Far
Fur Overcoats, Fur Lined Overcoats

SO emmneener

&

The brush trade must be cultivated | confidence in his theory, never doubt- Oiled Clothing

just as assiduously as the paint or|ing his ability to win, has traveled
any other branch of trade, and deal- | toward great business success and, by

h

 

ers who neglect it or do not carry | listening to fool advice, has turned |

the stock can hardly expect to get the |aside and landed on an island in

|

Cravenette Rain Coats,

Rubber Rai Coats

Trunks, Suit cases and Bags

Gloves and Mitte

ns

1

business. |stead of the mainland of achievement. |
—_o---—___ Some day the number of failures These goods will satisfy your customers and in-
Knew He Was Stuck. Iwill be cut down when executives :
a ro ie ie eh ccinece tertrati,,|| €Fease your business. Ask for catalogue.
You're sure you can spare t! is |jlearn that every business institutio: 3

fiver, are you, Pipe?”

“Wrench, if I had not been per-
fectly sure that I could get along
without it I never would have lent it

|
|
|

}aging:

must have four departments. First,
there must be the executive or man

second, financing or ,conserv-

 

Brown & Sehler Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

ing; third, providing or manufactur-
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cepted. Dealers

much can be done as there is but a :
limited outlet and this is being work- who “pike” each box from one to
= | ed as much as possible. '
22. __ and drug act is violated daily by

Good Cheese Properly Handled Does|nearly all wholesale dealers in
Not Shrink.

In the discussion of the bill in| reason or. purpose that all other
Congress requiring the net weight of | grafters do unlawful acts. The Board
all food containers to be printed on|of Inspectors in Washington have

January 23, 1911

T

who are fortunate|cheese as to weight. The short
as enough not to own any butter are be-
ing solicited by the owners of held
A y butter to help

weight of cheese is not caused by
shrinkage in transit or by cheese fac-

unload. Not tory men, but by the cheese dealers

three pounds. Section 10 of the food

cheese, deliberately and for the same

= |the outside, it has been contended|been bluffed as to the shrinkage of

Butter and Egg Smash. | fresh receipts are declining daily,|that cheese dries

out, shrinks and|cheese in transit—cheese will not

The butter and egg markets are all; With a corresponding weakness in| loses weight, and that it would be|!shrink one ounce per box in transit
“oc i oa . . e i
badly demoralized. In Chicago fresh| held stock. Storage eggs are now of impossible to label a new cheese with | from Sheboygan to New Orleans in

- ” |

butter is selling in an extremely lim- | hardly any certain value. Any quanti- any weight which the

cheese would |summer weather. This has been ‘prov-

ited way, and storage goods not at; ty of good graded stock can _ be|show after it had been made awhile.|ed conclusively by employes of the
all, except where dealers are putting| bought at 18 cents and a lot of the|A. D. DeLand, of Sheboygan, Wis., a| Government weighing 100 dairies and

i
out their own stock through the egro- | eggs are not worth over 15 cents.

veteran handler of cheese, however,|marking the ounces on each box in

cery trade. The fresh creamery re-| The quantity of storage eggs in the|declares that good cheese properl+ my warehouse, and having Govern-
ceipts are double those of a year ago,| market is unusually heavy. Chicago] handled will shrink practically not at | ment officials in New Orleans weigh
and supply the light demand. A| carried into the new year 350,000 to/all. Here is what he writes: “Much|the same cheese on their arrival in
feature of the trade is the unusual] 425,000 cases. Chicago uses 75,000/is being published relating to short|New Orleans. The result showing
amount of packing stock for this} cases per week under normal condi- weights of cheese on inter-state ship-|there was not an average of one

a drug on the market, and the heavy

+
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t

cream, so farmers are shipping their] year.

packing stock to the central mar-| In New York.
kets. The process people also are!
operating sparingly and consequent- |
ly are buying very little packing |

stock.

time of year. Centralized butter is| tions, but the demand has been dis- ments; as I have been a ‘buyer orjounce per box shrinkage, and the
appointing, and the movement far}dealer in cheese about forty years,| Board of Inspectors should have this
holdings of storage centralized goods} short of expectations. January weath-|I wish to correct
are a leading cause of the bad situa-| er, on the whole, has been unfavor-|ideas the public may
ion. Reports from all over the coun-| able for the movement, and extreme-|found, by actual test of a percentage|seem that the Board of Food and

some erroneous|test on file. Other tests have been

get. I have|made with like results. It would

ry are that centralized factories are|ly favorable for production. Receipts|of each lot of cheese that I have Drug Inspectors has been bluffed ‘to
doing little and have stopped buying| are 100 per cent. larger than last bought from cheese factories that|a standstill,’ as they have done noth-
fully 95 per cent. of cheese factory|ing to stop this abuse. The easy
butter prices are|men give full weight. Only those fac-|settlement of the few flagrant cases
|'down and storage conditions are un-|tories that use common barrel salt|that they have prosecuted has only
satisfactory. There is but limited|and other cheap supplies need be sus-| caused the guilty parties to laugh at
movement in storage stock and hold-|pected. When a shipment of cheese, |the result.

|ers of creamery butter are doing all|to me or any other dealer, has been “The shrinkage of  paraffined

Receipts of fresh eggs continue to| they can to move their butter. It|tested, inspected and paid for, that | cheese is very little. I have this day

I
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1em from storage goods. Prices of| any offer that is within reason is ac- being prosecuted

 

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Star Egg Carriers and Trays

FOR SAFE EGG DELIVERY

At the time of delivery every egg is left in a neat Star Egg
Tray upon the table, in plain sight where both the customer
and the delivery boy can see that there is neither miscount nor
breakage. This avoids all complaints.

They Save you time and money, too. Write today
for our booklet ‘‘No Broken Eggs,” and ask your jobber. It
will pay you.

 

STAR EGG CARRIERS are licensed under U.S Patent No. 722,512, to
be used only with trays supplied by us Manufacturers, jobbers or agents sup-
Plying other trays for use with Star Egg Carriers are contributory infringers
of our patent rights and subject themselves to liability of prosecution under
the U. S. patent statutes.

 

 

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Eggs Cost Too Much For You to Ask Your Customers to Put
Up With Breakage and Miscounts.

  

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January 25, 1911

at the factory, over one year ago, and
held in storage during the year, and
each cheese weighed to-day only
three ounces less than the marked
weight of twenty-two pounds on each
box.

“Cheese dealers do not pay for
short weight, but demand full weight,
which is right, and why wholesale
grocers, jobbers or any one buying
one box or a thousand boxes should
submit to this fraud is
son.

“The Board of Food and Drug In-
spectors has been urged repeatedly
to stop this fraud on the public, but
they have not done so. They can not
realize the extent to which this abuse
is catried or they would be more ac-
tive in suppressing it. The guilty
party is the one who invoiced and
shipped the cheese out of the state,
and jf all short weight cheese were
confiscated and for the benefit
of the Government it would not re-
quire many prosecutions to stop the
abuse.”

beyond rea-

sold

Do You Know About Pecans?
Again, been the
previous the pecan
demand,
the
the
channels,

itl
has
cru-

of

has
years,
not equaled the
to acquaint
Texas, through
and other
of the pecan
state,

as case
crop
and the
children
public
the value
wealth

sade
schools
wath
the
being taken up with re-
newed vigor. It proposed that at
every school in the sections where
pecan trees grow a day apart
for the planting of the tree in mem
ory of the late Governor James Ste
phen Hog

tree in of

1s

the

is

be set

g, who requested that a pe

can tree be planted at the head of
his grave. During his public life he
was constantly drawing attention to

the possibilities of pecan culture,
pointing out what a great addition it
would make to the wealth the
state.

The pecan tree,
San Antonio country,
along the waterways.
ful, large
id growth.
cultivated,

of

the
wild
It is a grace-
tree of comparatively rap-
Of late years it has been
and San Antonio now has

indigenous to

grows

ctory
ready
Froma
the
has

million

the largest pecan ret
in the United
market for the delicious nut
value half a million dollars,
pecan handled in that
grown to three quarters of
dollars annually. The

aandling fac
States, with a
of
crop city
a
nut is handled

by machinery and shelled pecans in
great quantities are shipped North
about this time of the year, at the

end of the season. The “paper-shell
pecans, a nut with a shell
to remove, is, of
popular, and this

is being cultivated. There have
individual trees that produced as
high as $150 worth pecans in one
season. Lately orchards
thousands of acres extent

been set out in Southwest
voted to orange, and pecan
trees. The pecan tree reaches produc-
ing growth in about thirteen to fif-
teen years.—St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.

very
course, the

the variety

easy
most
that

bee

is
n

arge of
have

Texas, de-

in

lemon

es ;
It is never too late to organize—
but there will never be a better time
than right now.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

When the coffee
article a broad and
will overspread their faces
idea of there being any
in the coffee trade.
blooded

For aff
prot
probably the coffee trade
the palm. They

positions

view
tunes of
“one less

their neighbors,

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people
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haughty

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Coffee Trade Superstitions.

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tl spite of all that there re mary
superstitions in the coffee trade that
* - e oat 7 ” t

are as absurd as any that h e
known in history.

[here are superstitions mpor
ers, roeasters, grocers, hoth he 5
and re and consumer erst
trons of tyers and s rs \ ca

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t
all supe rstitions

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L€t h 2 p rents yTOTNETS 9ter
teachers tn ¢ o an
tell this ts hen ¥ r “ne

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shins eo 1 aa
that th ty 3 $2
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chees 3 h = S
perstit s r
their strenctl r t
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the S47 tiie 4
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all supe 3
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Special Sales Plans For the Usually | The exterior decoration should sug-

Dull Season.
The retail business of the
of the year,
small or rural
obstacles which,
discouraged the
He comes face to
nigh insoluble problem; a
extremely difficult of
hence doubly difficult of
results. That languid dullness of
late January and February
has come to be regarded by
merchants as an unavoidable char
acteristic of the season. White sale
clearance sales, remnant and pre-in-
ventory sales, and various. others,
have been employed as trade stimu-
lants, yet in many cases. immediate
results have not been forthcoming.
The Remnant Sale.

The white sale proper is perhaps

early part

new especially in a
community, presents |
more than once, have

country merchant

face with a well-

analyzation,
conclusive

of early
many

most popular, yet is rarely an initial |

success excepting in very large
ies. The “Remnant Sale” is worth
nothing in this connection. Several
large mercantile establishments have

combined — essential characteristics

of white clearance and remnant sales |

in one, which has generally proved
successful. Hundreds of
of fabrics of all kinds, from expensive
silks to the cheapest of wash goods,
are cut into remnants, and the sale
invariably proves a crowd attrac-
tion. There are but few records
of this having been tried and made a
the
proper

very bolts

special advertising by
but, on the
be little

subject of
small merchant,
scale, there seems to
for difficulty.

The Standard Mercantile
pany, of Tomahawk, Wis., annually
offers a sale of advance shipments on
white that has proved
satisfactory. Early lots of embroid-
eries, laces, muslin underwear, etc..
are displayed conspicuously at low
prices tables or a special de-
partment used for this pur-
pose. In connection with this, the
weeding of the January inventory is
placed on sale. This comprises all
odd lots or slow sellers which have
been inventoried at cut prices, and
offered to the trade at a much low-
ered. percentage. This has resulted
not only in stimulating trade, but al-
so as a clearance device, and tends
to leave the stock in a much cleaner,
healthier condition.

As far as possible the goods them
selves should be displayed on aisle
tables, shelf racks, ete., within
access of the prospective buyer. Dur-
such sales the clerks’ time can
be wasted in displaying goods.
prices are worthy of the adver-
goods will sell themselves.

ground

Com-

goods very

aisle

being

easy

ing
not
the
tising the

problem

cit-

|

{gest “Sale!” in every particular.
|Large muslin or canvas signs may be
oe across the store front or
jeven from cornice to cornice, across
| the street. In general, the windows
| should be stocky—not over-crowded
'and with very little attempt at deco-
ration. They, too, should suggest
“Sale” to the onlooker, without un-
|necessary diversions of any sort.

| The sale customer, unlike the holi-
| day shopper, is not looking for ar-
| tistic material regardless of price,
but for attractive prices, not to say
s{|regardless of material. Large an
nouncement cards or _ streamers
should be placed in every window,
calling attention to the event, and
these should be numerous enough to
catch any passing glance. In many
instances it has been found desirous
to push blankets, knitted and muslin
underwear and, of course, furs and
coats. Usually the dry goods will
take care of themselves.

Such a sale is, of a natural conse-
quence, a responsible undertaking.
Although often productive of the bes:
results, the merchant should careful-
\ly preconsider the possible and prob.
abie effects upon his home market,
his competitors and the final
reflection upon himself. Once firmly
established, has. ofter
proved very

 

upon

however, it
successful.
As a final word: It might be sup-
posed that such discounting would
reflect seriously upon the trade for
some time afterward. Records in sev-
eral instances, however, show that
no serious results have been experi-
enced, but, on the contrary, the
hooks show an evenly balanced busi-
;ness that compares well with that
lof any period of the year. This,
is largely due to the times
after the
sale advance
goods arrive,
August event the fall
is ready for attention.

———_> +

Cap Craze Costly.

The vogue of felt auto caps and
lof those of wool, crocheted or knit-
ted, has seriously interfered with the
demand for general utility hats
among the younger women and_ schoo!
girls. These caps are of such sim-
ple construction that many of them
could be made at home, the only
|trimming required for the most elab-
|crate being one or at the most two
quills which could be stuck on at
any angle, and call for no particular
artistry or skill on the nart of the

 

doubtless,
of the sales.
closing of the
shipments of
after the
material

Immediately
January
spring

and

 

Tf | maker.

| In some cities milliners make the
best of a bad matter by marking up

a number of the hated trade destroy-
ers and selling them at $2 each in-
stead of the $5 to $10 hats which
would have been demanded for this
particular branch of trade had the
felt auto caps never beén invented,
but profits are pitifully small at the
best on account of the numbers
made at home.

Not all cities, however, are so help-
such matters. St. Louis, for
instance, has a way all her own of
nipping such unprofitable fads in the
bud. When any such trade killer is

less in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
 

 

 

introduced one of the leading mer- €
chants orders a lot of the objection-
able commodity and gives it away \
free to the negro feminine popula-
tion, who strut proudly about the
shopping district conscious of wear- XxXOoONn
ing the latest scream in fashionable
headgear. Naturally that is the end Summer Fabrics
of the fad so far as the women of
St. Louis are concerned. The most popular, practical,
ae gre durable and economical
; of all sheer dress materials. As
The modern way to get results 18/1} Jinen-like as the finest Irish linen.
through organized effort. As dainty as the finest lawn. As
durable as the heaviest cotton. Try
‘*Flaxon’’ for Shirt Waists, House
' Dresses, Evening Frocks, Chil-
We are manufacturers o dren’s and Infants’ Garments, Lin-
- gerie, Stylish Skirts, etc. White,
Trimmed and checks, stripes and plain.
‘*Flaxon’’ in red on selvage of
Untrimmed Hats) | «9.
Prices from.9% to 18% cents.
For Ladies, Misses and Children Write for samples.
Corl, Knott & Co., Ltd. P. Steketee & Sons
20, 22, 24, 26 N. Division St. Wholesale Dry Goods
Grand Rapids, Mich. | Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Man Who Knows |
Wears ‘‘Miller-Made’’ Clothes
And merchants ‘who know” sell them. will |
send swatches and models or a man will be
sent to any merchant, anywhere, apy time.
No obligations. i i i iL oe
Fine Clothes for Men Chicago
H. A. SEINSHEIMER & CO. >
CINCINNATI Seay sour ni
MANUFACTURERS OF anaes
BOYS’ CLOTHES
ie Li
Contains some ‘‘nifty” patterns
Prices $9 to $42 per dozen ‘

 

Wholesale Only

 

 

Style and workmanship warranted

Satisfactory or money

Giant Rapids
Dry Goods Co.

Look it over

refunded

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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January 25, 1911

MICHIGAN

TRADESMA

 

TO-DAY AND TEN YEARS AGO.

 

Pure Food Laws Have Made Many
Changes.

Ten years ago general food laws
were new in America. The public
and the trade had little exact knowl-
edge of the way in which commer-
cial foods were put together. Courts
and juries were uncertain as to what
was really fair play in the applica-

tion of the food laws. Susiness eth- Oleomargarine was widely sold as

| butter.

ics were in a state of confusion,
competitions were correspondingls
dificult and the consumer was a vic
tim of all these disadvantages.

The year 1910 witnessed a very
different condition of affairs, and as
a result of a growth rather than a
revolution. Thanks to numerous

agencies, especially that of the pub-

lic press, the people know to-day |

ten times more about market food:
than they did then. What is fair
play is a question far more easily
decided by courts and juries than it
was ten years ago. The people have
come very largely to believe that
whatever may be true in “love and
war,” in business the common rule
of ethics is practicable and _ that
counterfeiting and clipping in com-
modities are, at least, as bad as the |
counterfeiting and clipping of the
coins for which they are exchang-
ed. With the wider acceptance of
fair rules in the game and with wid-
er knowledge of the real nature of
commercial foods, fair competition
in trade has been made less burden-
some to the honest dealer.

This subject opens a wide field. We
shall try to contrast the conditions
ten years ago and to-day by a f
illustrative statements rather than}
trespass upon your time by an ex
haustive survey. Broadly speaking,
all classes of adulteration have de-

creased. Dilution with worthless jc

materials and the abstraction of val-
uable constituents are far more rare.
Spices diluted with cereals or with
worthless parts of spice plants were
then largely on sale; to-day they are
rarely found. Watering and skim-
ming of milk are being rapidly sup-
pressed. The wholesale adulteration
of lard by the use of cheaper fats.
once common, has now _ almost
ceased. Formerly water was_ sub-
stituted for meat in various sausag-
es; now that practice has largely dis-
appeared. Then skimmed cheese was

 

frequently sold; of late we  haveler

found no cases of this kind. Former
ly mixtures of a little alcohol, much
water, coal tar color to dye and a

trace of oil of lemon were sold as}

Iemon extract; to-day bottles bear-
ing this label usually hold their full
amount of genuine lemon with the
proportion of alcohol necessary to
dissolve it.

Likewise, the substitution of 2
less valuable for a more valuable
substance is less fraudulently prac
ticed, for such preparations are now
generally so labeled as to warn the
buyer of their true nature; whereas, |

ten years ago this honest practice | j

was very generally disregarded, the

 

holding

olive oil labeled decorated bottles
cottonseed oil. Pictures of
maple groves, accompanied by the
names of
maple syrup” beguiled the consumer
into buying far inferior compou
and imitations, and little of the gen-
luine article of these descriptions
were obtainable in the markets. Th
manufacturing trade admitted that
95 per cent. of the so-called maple
| syrup

“maple sugar” and “pure

 

S$ were really a compound

ae nee ale
Simple distilled vinegar, a

lmost without savor. and colored
| ‘a
i with

cider

caramel, was wideley sold as

vinegar; and when fresh pea

ran short,

sold

sumer.

dried stock was too ofte

without warning to the con-

To-day every one of thes

frauds has almost stopped

Ten years ago the use of injuriou
jantiseptics and of colors and flavor
lfor deceptive purposes were very
general. Hamburger steak, too oft
en made of stale scrap, was fresh

 

ened in appearance by the
sulphites; potted meats were very
{generally adulterated with boric
lacid: likewise oysters and 3
laged and unclean were he
ever with the aid of formalin and
boric acid. Mixtures of glucose,
\thickeners, artificial acids, .oal tar
dyes, artificial flavoring and shel!
fish, aged and unclean milk were
sold under the names of jellies, jams

|and preserves without the least indi

| cation
jtion nature

i

ly contained saccharin, s

| somet

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of their onaneaied or imita

imes

\from tomato canneries

Canned goods frequent

boric at

  

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itives and . to please the cust
ler’s eye, ickened with starch, put
ip in han rsa bottles with attrac
itive labels, especially arour th
| neck, formed a large volume of th
|goods sold as ndies

|to tickle the ur litt
lones, were made of cheap materials
stiffened by the aid of  sulphites
Over the counters of our beautiful
marble soda fountains were sold, an-
der the names of our most d 1s
fruits, mixtures of syrup, artificia
flavors and coal tar dyes. or fruit s
heavily sirable pr
servative drinks were
chie fy SW harin and
made of st
flavors and

practices ha een greatly r

|in volume dg

| particular, itions $

| eatly impr‘ ved, largely hm t Se

i ae co-operati: mon ti ae g ot
canners themselves, that th

ery of adult ym in this as
goods has become extrem rar

We do not wish to - fer

stood as announcing the arriv

the “food millennium.” V not
mean to say that we h

stopped adulteratior n nishra
ing. Our country still holds me

|who are h <

|pense of gh

jbors and Pu

| sentiment ir
jfood law ven their
inner sae but they are strong!
united and ever alert to repe

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The Findings Case a Source of Much
Profit.

It seems that the day oi

“greas

ing” and “tallowing” shoes has not
entirely passed. At least, some mer-
chants ignore shoe polishes and oth-
er profit-producing articles in shoe

findings, although there is a ready

sale for findings in nearly all ciasses
of stores. A neat case close to the
entrance of the shoe section, or well
in front, in the exclusive store, is a
good investment.

Out of the many findings
offered all allow a liberal profit, and
Arch
supports, for instance, should not be
They are
and a sale very often makes a
manent customer. The

of bunion protectors.

are of real value to the buyer.

overlooked.
per-
same ‘s true
Often custom-
ers can not be properly and comfort-
ably fitted with shoes, due to painful
bunions.
Stretching the certain

shoe at a

point relieves the distress temporari- |

ly, and the shoe is drawn out of
shape. How much better pleased
the customer would be with a pair
of bunion protectors which insures

permanent relief and in many cases |}

are an absolute cure. A sale of this
sort is sure to bring the customer

back, and the profit made, while a|

small item at the start, grows in-
to quite an account on aggregate
sales.

Shoe trees keep shoes in shape.

Thev should be placed in snow or

water soaked shoes, and the

That dried up, small- feeling is not
there as would be the case had the

shoes not been placed on lasts or|
trees. Customers informed on these |
advantages by salesmen appreciate |

the clerk’s interest even if they do
not buy.

Knee protectors for children are
another item that meets with ready
sale if stocked and shown. Much of
the wear on stockings is prevented
when growing children are fitted
with this article. The price is nom-
inal also, so that most mothers are
likely to purchase these
Good shoe laces, neatly packed, will

protectors.

sell, and in a large measure do away |

with the “giving away” habit in
many stores.

Polishes and dressings will sell
easily. The importance of keeping
shoes clean and in condition
materially increases their wearing
quality. Most customers know this
and a merchant can work up a nice

gooc 1

articles |

necessities |

foot- |
wear will then retain original shape. |
and the wearer may put the shoes |
on the following morning with ease. |

business on this findings line alone
if he wants to go after it.

Too often merchants lose sight of
the small things in their store or in
a department. The large sales do not
always show the best profit at the
end of a season. The frequent sales
of boxes of polish, shoe laces and
numbers of other 10 or 15 cent ar-
ticles reach quite a sum at the close
of the year.

Customers buying shoes do _ not
need to be neglected in taking care
of the findings case. It is easy to
handle both and give complete satis-
‘faction. Findings, if properly pushed
and well displayed, will pay a iarge
portion of the running expenses of a
shoe department.

These
| pay a good profit and add prestige
ito the shoe department:

Arch supports.

Barefoot sandals.

Cork insoles.

Bunion protectors.

| Circlettes.

Corn cures.

Corn files.

Dressings.

Felt insoles.

Hair insoles.

Heel plates.

Heel protectors.

Knee protectors.

| Shoe laces.

Leather ankle supports.

Leggings.

Rubber boot socks.

Rubber heels.

Silk oxford laces.

Shoe polishes.

Shoe trees.

Spats.

| Stocking heel plates.

Overgaiters.

Toe and heel plates.
——o-o-o

School Book Bag of Rubber.
One of the newest offerings in
| school supplies is a rubber cloth
'school bag, in which juveniles can
‘carry their books protected from the
/elements. The new bag comes in
itwo styles, either gray or tan rubber
|cloth, and measures 13x17 inches.
It is of the draw-string type,
employing strings composed of dress-
ibinding braids, in gray or tan, to
imatch the bag. Plaid fabrics are
“used as lining and the bag is in
every way substantially made. At re-
| tail the bag can be sold for 25 cents.
In addition to being sold as a
\school utility this rubber cloth bag
‘could be offered through the leather
‘goods department; also among the
‘automobile supplies, or with the tour-
‘ist goods, as it can readily be em-
| ployed for various purposes.

 

necessary shoe accessories

 

 

Shoe Manufacturers Take Action.
At the recent annual convention of
shoe manufacturers in New York res-
olutions were adopted regarding the
relations of the manufacturers with
the retail dealers, which are of much
interest to the latter, as follows:
Reported Combine of Last Mak-
ers—Whereas, the shoe manufac‘ur-
ers have recently received from a ma-
jority of the last manufacturers print-
ed price lists, effective December 1,
1910, identically the same in form,
and contents setting forth a uniform
increase in price through a _ reduc-
tion of discount, and, whereas, it ap-
pears that said last manufacturers are
in a combination in restraint of trade
which is a violation of the Sherman
act; therefore be it resolved, that we
instruct our Secretary to call the at-
tention of the Attorney General of
the United States to these apparent
violations of the Sherman act and ask
that the same be investigated.
Returned Shoes and Cancellation—
Resolved, that the members of the
National Boot and Shoe Manufactur-
ers’ Association ask the aid of retail-
ers and their associations in its cor-
rection of the evils of returned mer-

 

chandise for trivial cause and cancel-
lation of orders after goods are in
process, to the end that what are
termed “floor goods” may be lessen-
ed in quality; thus materially lower-

ing the source of supplies of the

“fake” sample shoe stores, or so-call-
ed “factory outlets;” be it further re
solved, that the Secretary of our As-
sociation be instructed to take up
with the associations of retailers the
question of formulating a plan for
the minimizing of these evils.

No Guarantee of Fabric Shoes—
Whereas, velvets, corduroys, silks
and satins have been introduced in
the manufacture of shoes solely to
meet the demand of the consumer
without regard to their wearing qual-
ities, resolved, that the members of
this Association assume no responsi-
bility for the wear of shoes made of

 

 

 

Honorbilt

Fine Shoes
For Men

A SNAPPY LINE

 

 

 

 

ee a,

146-148 Jefferson Ave.

Selling Agents BOSTON RUBBER SHOE CO.

DETROIT

 

 

 

 

HIDES

 

fair treatment.

If you are buying hides you can make
shipments to the

Wolverine Tanning Company
Rockford, Mich.

with the assurance that we will allow you
the highest market price.

To Our Customers

Being owners of the Wolverine Tanning
Co. we will guarantee that you will receive

 

 

 

Hirth-Krause Company

Hide to Shoe
Tanners and Shoe Manufacturers

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

January 25, 1911

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17

 

velvets, corduroys, satins and silks;
and, further resolved, that each mem-
ber of this Association notify his cus-
tomers by a card with each pair or
shoes, or direct means, as follows:

Notice—We use velvets, corduroys,
silks and satins not because of their
durability or adaptability as fabrics
from which to make shoes, but solely
to meet a demand of the consumer,
and we can not assume any responsi:
bility for even a nominal amount of
wear for such materials, and the pur-
chasers of such shoes buy them at
their own risk. Under no citeum-
stances should the buttons be reset
with wire fasteners on these goods.

Favors Organization of Retailers—
Resolved, that this Association views
with favor the organizations of re-
tailers forming throughout the coun-
try and will be pleased to co-oper
ate with them for the correction of
evils in the trade, and for the general
uplift of the shoe industry.

Samples and Styles—Resolved, that
the movement inaugurated at the last
convention to eliminate the number
of samples and to influence the trend
of styles to fit in with the merchan-
dise on the shelves of the retailers
and with the lasts and patterns of
the manufacturers has heen produc
tive of good, and it is the sense of
this convention that the Committee
be continued with the same person-
nel, with full power to fill vacancies,
and to make such additions to its
membership, including prominent re-
tailers of the United States, that it
may deem proper from time to time.

Retail Bankrupts — Resolved, that
when requested by any member of
this Association, the Secretary ascer-
tain who of the members may be in-
terested in any case of bankruptcy
and put members so interested into
relation with each other. It is fur-
ther recommended that in all cases
of failing debtors, so far as practica-
ble, members endeavor to concen-
trate their claims in order that ac-
tion relative thereto may be guided
by proper investigation.

———+-~<
Unwise Cut Price Shoe Sales Injury
To Legitimate Trade.

A shoe manufacturer, who is
member of the National Association
of Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, the
other day declared that, in his opin-
ion, the cut price sales held semi-
annually by most shoe merchants
constitute the greatest known injury
ts the legitimate shoe business of
the United States to-day. There ts
probably little doubt that this is true.

How many shoe dealers before
marking their stock down so close
to the cost mark that it leaves them
no net profit stop to consider the
real reason for a cut price sale? We
doubt if there are many.

Now the only real reason under
ordinary circumstances for a_ cut
price sale should be to clear out near
.the close of the selling season with-
cut a loss, shoes that threaten to re
main on the shelves. It is good
business for the shoe dealer to turn
his shoes into cash, but it is not good
business to sell these shoes at cost
so long as there remains a possibilt-
ty of selling them at a profit.

 

 

Profit is something that a great
many shoe dealers forget to keep im
mind. It is stfange that ofttimes a
shoe dealer will put on a cut-pri
sale in the very midst of a
selling season and hand out t
public the profit that belongs in hi-<
cash register. Profits are needed f
the successful conduct of I
ness.

 

 

It is well understood that every
manufacturer, wholesale and retail
merchant is in business to mak
money. He is entitled to a profit, and
that no one will deny. Yet so long
as the shoe merchant is willing t
sacrifice his profit, just so long wv
the public postpone buying merchan-
dise at regular prices, knowing that

by waiting for the sales it can

money. “Saving money” means noth
ing more nor less than the  trans-
fer of the legitimate profit of t

dealer from the cash register of the
merchant to the pocket of the con-
sumer,

Whose fault is it? Surely not that
of the consumer, for were he con
vinced that there would be 1
price sale Fe would buy his shoes!
at regular prices and contribute to
the prosperity of the dealer.

T 1

In some citres where the mer
chants are well organized the prac
tice of having cut-price gales ha

been regulated. What is the result?
Just this: Better business men, who
are happy in the knowledge that their |

business is making a profit for

 

in January as well

and in August as well as in March or
April. Speed that day when the shoe
merchants of this country will be
sufficiently courageous to stand up
squarely in their boots and say
are through With cut-price methods
and from now on will sell our goods
at a proft, or not

at aff?

If organization is needed to haste
that time, then organize. This paper

has from time to time pointed out
the benefits derived from organiza

tion, and we are thankful that
some cities and section
try good progress
this direction. Organization is still

ne £ the ere
mons Of tHe cot "

yt ot

nas been made

in its infancy in the retaii she
trade. The movement needs TECH NOt
only of conviction but of courage t

 

act. Someone must take the
in every city and town. Ask 3
self this question: “Why shouldn't
make this start?” Some one

have to.

Through its organization the Man-
ufacturers’ Association has accom
plished a lot of good for the r
tailers as well as f i I

 

sincerely believe that

 

ufacturers would
sible association of
ers of the country.
would work harmoniously, to the en‘

 

that all would profit thereby.—Sh«
Retailer.
a

Farmers and merchants who have
made use of the de I
now available on all rural j
routes have no use for the proposed
rural parcels post, which would mere-
ly increase delivery costs without any
compensating advantage whatsoever. |

 

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co.. Ltd.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

Our Bertsch Shoe

During 1910

Replaced a Lot of High Priced Lines in

Many a Store

Indications already pomt to 2 record
hbreakine vear durins
Dreakin: ’ Gi Cats a

Lvealers are recoenizing tiem 2s tie
tnoroug ¥y mROoTeESsSt snoee i S¢€7 anow tial
when a pair is sold 1 means 2 custcmer
eatiehed and thar he wi oe Ieockke Seer on
Satisied 42hc tia E ac a x
yiher pair when mext fe needs footwear

. ~ -

Uur salesmen w show G tie sew
asts when they call or a card will Orme¢
Samipies

t

They Wear Like Iron

 

 

 

Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co.
Grand Rapids. Mich.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

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Employers and Employes; They} Kind words are worth much and

Should Work Together.

The character of the employes has
much to do with the success of a
business, and their individuality is
greatly influenced by their surround-
ings. The disposition and habits of
the employer exerts an influence up-
on the employe for the benefit of the
business or against it. The disagree-
able, grouchy employer generally
has employes have the same
characteristics. We give out what
we receive in this world. A bad dis-
position begets a bad_ disposition.
The employer who is always ill-tem-
pered and grouchy receives little sym-
pathy, and is always detested. No
matter how smart or how thorough
his knowledge of the business may
be, these qualities are often neutral-
ized by an unfortunate temper. More
and better work will be obtained from
employes by a genial, good-natured
man than by the sour-faced, grouchy
man who lacks the education of self
discipline and _ self-control.
question of surroundings should be
more carefully studied by employers
than is generally done.

The business will be greatly aided
and stimulated if the
assisted by loyal and united employes

who

surround-
Where there is antagonism and

working among congenial

Ings.

constant bickerings between employ- |

er and employes the business suffers.

Employes, even the worst of them,
should encourage-
ment, as well as necessary criticism.
[t is easier, however, to tear down
than to build up, and easier to cen-
sure than to praise. The encourage-
ment which employers
their employes is often worse than
none at all, for they qualify their
compliments in such a way as to take
off the benefit of their commendation
While praising the work done,
are apt to add some
might better have been left unspoken.

There are some employers who are
afraid that a little encouragement or
praise of an
him so

receive friendly

some give

they

words which

employe might make

future usefulness. Some
withhold the cheering word for fear
the employe might ask for a raise in

spoil his

salary before the time was ripe for it. }

There are some employers

knowledge of their business is merely

theoretical or what they have gather- |

ed from reading books. Others have
never had practical experience in that
which they attempt to judge.
men can neither praise nor criticize
their employes for fear of exposing
their ignorance. Where such con-
ditions prevail it is no wonder that
employes are restless and dissatistied.

Such

This |

employer is |

satisfied with himself as to!

whose |

cost little. They give encouragement
to greater efforts to please on the
There
profit in a frown. It never erased
the cares of life, and its memory may
cause grief. Give praise with justice
and moderate criticism with kindness.

Different persons have different
limits of capacity. There are many
misfits in the business world. Some
men occupying positions as _ book-
keepers would do better work as me-
chanics, while others who are meehan-
ics ought to be book-keepers. In what-

part of the employe. is no

he is suited for it or not, if it is seen
that he is doing his best to fill the po-
sition, a word of cheer would urge
him to improve and develop. A man’s
ability cannot be measured by the
yard-stick. There are some who do
not understand themselves or their
capabilities. To such, a word of
|praise, advice in a kindly spirit, and
at the right time, might possibly have
|an important bearing upon their fu-
‘ture life. If a man shows no capa-
| city for the position in which he
imay be placed, it is much better for
/him and his employer if he were told

 

|so. This, however, should be done
}in such a manner as not to discour-
jage him from endeavoring to obtain
|a situation more suited to his talents.
Nothing is more necessary to .the
welfare of a business than properly
trained employes—not mere machines
‘who are governed by the operation
of a push button, but live, energetic,
}active employes cvho know _ their
‘duties and are capable of performing
them. There are many who may not
jbe thoroughly familiar with the busi-
‘ness but are perfectly willing to learn,
‘and should be given the opportunity,
not alone by practice but by instruc-
{tion as well. In some of the large
|stores there are regular schools of
‘instruction for the employes. While
ithis course may not be practical in
ithe small stores, much good can be
idone by frequent
tween employer and employe.

conferences be-
There
should be weekly or monthly meet-
lings at which matters affecting the
business may be freely discussed. A
certain retail firm assigns a subject to
an employe upon which he is expect-
ed to speak at the fortnightly meet-
|ing. One time, in the grocery store,
\it may be rice, where grown, differ-
lent grades, how prepared and best
methods of promoting its sale. At
another time the subject may be ad-
|Vertising, window dressing, delivery,

figuring costs, returned goods, etc.,

|in any retail business. A general dis-
speaker's re-
the meeting

follows the
Before

| cilssion

marks. closes

ever position a man may be, whether }

 

 

We Want Buckwheat

If you have any buckwheat grain to sell
either in bag lots or carloads write or wire
us We are always in the market and can
Pay you the top price at all times.

WATSON & FROST CO.
Graad Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

Evidence

Is what the man from Mis-
souri wanted when he said
‘*SHOW ME.’’

He was just like the grocer
who buys flour—only the gro-
cer must protect himself as
well as his customers and it is
up to his trade to call for a
certain brand before he will
stock it.

“Purity Patent”
Flour

Is sold under this guarantee:
If in amy one case ‘‘Purity
Patent’’ does not give satis-
faction in all cases you can
return it and we will refund
your money and buy your
customer a supply of favorite
flour. However, a single sack
proves our claim abott

“Purity Patent’’

 

Made by
Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co.
194 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich.

    

 

 

 

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Stata

\ Wt IGT-MILLINGTO
NI

Are You a
Troubled Man?

We want to get in touch
with grocers who are having
trouble in satisfying their flour
customers.

To such we offer a proposi-
tion that will surely be wel-
come for its result is not only
pleased customers, but a big re-
duction of the flour stock as
well.

Ask us what we do in cases
of this kind, and how we have
won the approval and patron-
age of hundreds of additional
dealers recently.

The more clearly you state
your case, the more accurately
we can outline our method of
procedure. Write us today!

VOIGT MILLING CO.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

    
   
    
   
  
 
    
  
 
  

|

 

 

 

 

FANCHON
FLOUR

Has a State Wide
Reputation

a

JUDSON GROCER CO.

Are Distributers

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

January 26, 1911

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19

 

the subject to be discussed at the
next meeting is announced, so that
the employe, to whom it may have
been assigned, will have ample time
in which to prepare himself. There
is also a suggestion box into which,
during the intervening periods be-
tween the meetings, employes can
drop questions, suggestions, criticisms
and even complaints, either general
or personal, without their identity be-
coming known. These are acted up-
on at the meeting. In this way the
firm finds out what are the feelings
of the lesser employes towards those
who may be placed over them, and
the grievance, if it is one, is generally
adjusted to the satisfaction of all con-
cerned.

By holding these conferences each
employe has the chance to see just
what he and his work are good for
in relation to the work of his fellows
and the business, and he naturally be-
gins to take an intelligent view of
affairs. As a result his work is made
to count. The employer who denies
his employes’ explanation of things
necessary to his interest, no matter
how small, is unwise. If employes
are anxious to learn they show an
ambitious tendency, and in this they
should be encouraged. Such meet-
ings as described enable the employ-
er to get into touch with his em-
ployes in a semi-social or personal
way, give him an opportunity of dis-
covering talents and using them to
better advantage, which, perhaps
would otherwise have remained hid-
den and their use lost. If we must
prepare employes to be future em-
ployers, and there is no doubt about
it, let it be done correctly, in order
that the benefits which the present
employer enjoys may be_ preserved
to him. Nothing but good results
follow a getting together and talking
it over.

——_—_>2
Good Advice To the Boy.

At this season of the year a few
words of advice and encouragement
to apprentices may not be out of
place. Our learners are, I am afraid,
too often forgotten when business is
discussed by the elders. It is from
the youngsters that we shall, in years
to come, have to select our assistants
and it is move especially to them that
T want to talk. The writer has been
through the mill and thoroughly
sympathizes with the lad who has had
a zood education and then is put to
the drapery trade. It may be his own
choice or perhaps he had no voice in
the matter. In either case the first
year or two comes as a serious biow
to his aspirations. To have the ever-
lasting round of dusting,
cleaning and in some cases parcels to
take out is in many cases quite suf-
ficient to give ones ardor a dampen-
ing that takes a lot of getting rid of.

But this hard work is the finest trial
a youth can have. How can you ever
hope to be a manager or a master if
you do not understand every detail
of your work. There is no degrada-
tion in hard work. There is great

window

benefit and future glory in store for
you if you only put your heart and
soul into your work, whatever’ your
Work so that your

position may be.

 

 

master and those above you will miss/|

you when you are away ill or on your|
Let them feel that you are |

holidays.
a real help to the business. Don’t be
frightened of doing a Iittle more,

even a great deal more, than is ex-|

pected of you. Be enthusiastic im
Do all you can to help
on the business. It will pay
long run. There is sadly too much
time spent in thinking about thie

“sweat of thy brow” as

your work.

being the
curse of humanity. Hard work never
killed any man in
Lack of {
and pessimism have been the rain of
many.

the drapery trade

Instead of bemoaning your fot be}

up and doing, and at the end of the
day you will

much lighter heart and mind. You
will have many trials, but if you res«
lutely make up your mind to over

j 1 : “af i
eave pusiness with 4

come them many will only turn ont
to be very small

You who have your way to carve
out in life can not afford to spend
time in worry.
your business, take as much

Get enthusiastic about
interest
in it as you do in the scores of crick
et. Just show the same anxiety for
the day’s business as you do for th
latest score of your favorite county
team.

Don’t watch the clock. It is a slow
job. It takes the minute hand just
sixty minutes to get round and if you
keep hard at work it will pass ever
so much quicker. Don’t be
to throw down your work exactly as

so ready

the clock reaches closing time
You should feel the interest
the shop is your interest, that yor
are part and parcel of the business
Know all about the goods you have
to sell. If you don’t know what
material is made of, then ask some-
one who does. Make yourself intell-
gent so that you can talk to your
customers as one who knows and not
have to make rash statements about
the merchandise
knows only
ignorance.

which your customer
too well are a display of

Cultivate a knowledge of your busi
ness in your spare time and the in
formation you store up now will
invaluable in later years.

Have ambition, be determined t
rise, and then when the opportunit
comes your knowledge will enahbl
you to fill the new and higher posi-
tion you have the chance to fill. Op-

portunity knocks at every one’s door |
once at least and if your house is not |

in order to receive it then there i;
poor chance of a second visit.
Shakespeare says in one of his
plays: “There is a tide in the affairs
of men which, taken at the flood leads
on to fortune.” Be prepared to take

advantage of this tide when it comes. |

Unless you are already prepared
for it there will be no chance of

going with it. You can not get your- |

self in readiness at the moment it}
comes. It is only by years of steady |
application to your business that you}
will be enabled to take full benefit
of this tide.

this: “Be enthusiastic.”
Geo. P. Wadsworth.

or)

it and the devotion to Worry ;

night next, the twentieth.
The best advice I can give you is}

regularity.

   

—— ~~

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*

Pay Your Running

hoon

4

from your sale of Uneeda Biscunt. g
Yes, we mean just that. Let
your sales of Uneeda Bucust VA
take care of your rent, your ‘
heat, your light—but pick one :

big item of expense and let 1

Uneeda Biscuit pay for it. Ia
Grocers do it all over the
country. It's the usual thing for
the big stores. 4
The sales will do it too. You
don't need to worry about that
—the people in your locality
know Uneeda Biscuit, wont
Uneeda Biscuit and buy Uneeda
Biscuit. It’s up to you to supply R
them—but put your Uneeda KY
Sales on a systematic basis

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YOU CAN HEAR
AND BE HEARD

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Every BELL TELEPHONE
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‘Company's dividends m these columns
checks for dividends will be sent out of the offce om Friday
These checks go with
Be sure to get one next time. Write to or m-

quire of the secretary of the company. Grand Rapids

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 25, 1911

 

 

 

 

 

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Post Toasties

Any time, anywhere, a
delis htful food—
“*The Taste Lingers.”’

Postum Cereal Co., Ltd.
Battle Creek, Mich.

 

 

 

Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color

A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter Color
and one that compl es with the pure
food laws of every State and
of the United States.

Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Co.
Burlington, Vt.

 

 

 

A Wife’s Duty as Enlarged by Mod-
ern Science.
Written for the Tradesman.

A shrewd observer of the distin-
guishing traits of the two sexes re-
marks: “A man will spend his every
cent for something to eat—blow his
last half dollar for a square dinner:
a woman will buy a few crackers and
a tiny slice of cheese, nibble away in
some obscure corner at her luncheon,

and use the money saved to purchase |

a coveted bow of ribbon.”

This is simply a bright way o

Stating the trite fact that a- man|

thinks more of eating than a woman
does. In proportion to size and
strength he may not consume anv
larger amount of food than she does.
but some way he sets greater stor>
by it.

This is witnessed by his willing. |

ness, when circumstances will per
mit—and sometimes when they will
not—to pay extravagant prices for
toothsome viands and elegance of ta-
ble service. If they had only wom-
en patrons to depend upon, the best
hotels and restaurants would all be
driven into bankruptcy in a month’s

time and chefs would be compelled to |

doff their caps and aprons and go to
shoveling snow or working on the |
streets.

So indisputable is the fact that the |
average man cares a great deal about |

his victuals, that wives often are
counseled to accept this trait as an

essential part of the masculine na-|@

ture and cater to it. The blushing
bride is told that the way to a man’s
heart is through his stomach. and is
frankly advised that if she wants
ta have a contented hushand and
happy home she has simply to “feed
the brute.”

Sixty years ago this theory of do-
mestic felicity rarely was called in
question. The good dames of thos>
days, if they were possessed of ener-
gv and culinary skill, loaded their
tables with all kinds of rich and in-

digestible concoctions designed to |

tickle the palates of their lords and
masters, and they could do so with-
out hindrance from the scruples of
hygienic knowledge.

Tf the brute died—and some of
them did—the demise was regarded
as a dispensation from the hand of
an inscrutable Providence. The wid-
ows of those days were widows in-
deed—without life insurance. When |
such a one entered the battle of life |
alone and unprotected, her mind was |
not torn with poignant misgivings
that she herself was to blame for her}
solitary condition.

Nowadays a woman who has fed
the brute fatally accepts her endow-

}
3}

ment or straight life from the insur-
ance companies, and so is better able
to.meet the future than was the
widow of sixty or seventy-five years
iago. While her husband’s lodges
are passing resolutions that, “Where-
as this brother has been removed
from the scene of his earthly useful
ness by the hand of an _  All-Wise
| Power,” she, if a woman of reading
|and intelligence, is harrowed in her
soul by dreadful suspicions that it
|was the victuals that he ate that kill-

 

: | ed him.

Sometimes the man who is fed on
|the brute plan does not die, or does
not for a good while, but drags out
fa miserable existence for years and
years, with a long train of digestive

ailments and ills consequent upon di-
'gestive ailments attached to him.
Whether the poor fellow who lives
on in this way can be considered any
'more fortunate than his brother who
died is an open question. Whether
the woman who is left a widow is any
more to be pitied than the wife who
has to live with a dyspeptic grouck
'for a husband is a still more Open
question.

Verily, knowledge complicates the
problem of a wife’s duties! The old
arguments are as potent as ever. The
/homemaker of to-day takes eS same
| pride in her cooking and has the
same desire to gratify the wishes and
|indulge the tastes of her husband as
‘did the homemaker of sixty years
ago; but here stands stern-eyed Sci-
ence interpreting the laws of physi-
cai well-being and commanding inno
uncertain tones that a man, particu-
larly one of sedentary habits and in-
door life, can not pamper his appe-
tite, can not eat in excessive amount.
can not eat habitually of rich, un
wholesome food and keep his health.

Some women, on becoming con-
vinced of the necessity for observ-
jing the laws of hygiene, rush to the
/extreme of trying to compel a hear-
ity man to subsist on messes of nour-
ishment that might or might not be
acceptable to a confirmed invalid.
When a wife and mother attempts
to force on to an ordinary household
/a course of diet similar to that
which is said to prevail at a certain
|great health institution located at
'Battle Creek (the institution which,
| by the way, we all love to poke fun
| at, but which many of us are glad
ito take refuge in to regain the health
lost through our own folly), I say
‘that when this kind of regimen is
|forced on to an ordinary household
there is bound to be trouble.

Do the cooking course and_ the
school of domestic science offer safe
guidance to the housewife perplexed

 

 

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Packed 40 five cent packages in

carton. Price §1.00.

Each carton contains a certificate,

ten of which entitle the dealer to

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

over this question of proper food?
That all depends. When these insti-
tutions dispense clear information as
to the constituent properties of foods,
and the balance of the different kinds
necessary to keep the human
in a state of health, they ought to af-
ford great help. From the
cooking school that
fudge and angel’s food and cute little
ways of getting up things for pink
teas but little benefit can be de-
rived.

How shall the wife so order her
table that her husband may
his meals and at the same time not
contract dyspepsia? Here is a fine
field for womanly tact and even
finesse.

body

sort of

enjoy

Perhaps a husband may be of th
kind who can be brought by deft
measures to become interested in
health fads. Then all will be
easy. I am acquainted with one mai
who declared to me that he had edu
cated himself up to the point where
the idea of eating meat in any form
or shape was repugnant to him. (!
give this simply as an example of
the length to which the masculine
mind will go when it takes a start in
a given direction. Personally I do
not repudiate the moderate use of
flesh food.) I have known of other

very

men who were enthusiastic advocates |

of raw food. Men of these types are,
of course, rare. There are very
many, however, to whom the finan
cial argument will appeal. Simpler
food will give the much desired de-
crease in the cost of living.

There are men without numbei
who may be shunted off graduall»
irom an unhealthful diet onto a
healthful one without ever realizing
what is taking place. Try substituting
fruits and plain foods cooked so as
to bring out their true flavor and de-
liciousness for some of the rich pas-
tries and knick-knacks. A shrewd
woman who is attempting to reform
the diet of her household will not
blow any trumpets before her nor
let it become too obvious just what
she is up to, and she will see to it
that her conversation does not smack
strongly of quotations from health
magazines, nor of references to Bat-
tle Creek. Quillo.

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Upon every mother—the poorest,
most ignorant and unthinking, as well
as the one who is blessed with wis-
dom and wealth—is laid a certain re-
sponsibility that can not be shifted
to any one else. Whether or not she
realizes this fact makes little differ-
ence. It is there and remains there
just the same. She may be the kind
of a woman who knows how to meet
the various emergencies of every day
existence, she may have the
brain and the quick ready fingers, or
she may be the poor weak woman
who, when most needed, can only
stand and wring her hands and wipe
away the tears. No matter. which
kind of a woman she really is, to the
child she must be the one wonderful
being to whom, in time of trouble or
sorrow, he reaches out his tiny arms
for help and comfort.

A little education in the right di-

clear

 

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transform the

and

rection will
mother another
son. Every mother should, i
be physician and nurse.

be equal to all minor ils
dents. If she is not, it is

into

cause she has not had the

linclination to learn.
fans all to]

Every family should cownt
its home furnishings a little emer-
gency cabinet. This may be an ela

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bathroom or

 

it may be only a tin breadh th
light cover and handles by which it
imay be carried about convenient
|from one room to another. S

box may be purchased for 25 or 50

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cents, according to size. In it should
be kept together

everything that is likely to be need

ed in an emergency, when there is
no time to be spent sending to th
corner drug store, or running here

and there trying to dig
bottles and
ny upsets the
or Mary experiments disastrously
with the sharp edge of the bread

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hot coffee on his hand

knife, or Willie falls from the rear
fend of the ice wagon, the little
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night barking with croup—and the
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to know what to do and
“a. AS that it
a mother to keep her wits
to make the quickest possible
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22

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN.

 

January 25, 1911

 

THE MORAL HAZARD.

 

 

How the Insurance Adjuster Some-
times Turns Detective.

That elusive and _ intangible ele-
ment known in the fire insurance
business as “the moral hazard,” is
strikingly brought out by Jacob Bar-
tle Parker, an experienced
who writes in the Saturday
Post about “Conscienceless
surance.” He says:

adjuster,
Evening
Fire In-

“If a white man fools Indian once,
white man’s fault; if he fools Indian
twice, Indian’s fault.”

If the reader has ever lived in or
traveled through that section of the
United States which is now a part of
one of our youngest states—Okla-
homa—and was originally known as
the Indian Territory, lving opposite
Fort Smith, Arkansas, he will recall
having often heard the expression
quoted at the beginning of this arti-
cle.

And by way of introducing this
narrative, the expression can be ap-
propriately paraphrased to-read: “If

an insured person fools insurance

company once, insured’s fault; if he
fools company twice, company’s
fault.”

Conscienceless fire insurance is

sought only by persons who have
deliberately determined to commit a
crime.

It is remarkable how simple a
thing will often result in disclosing
the perpetration fraud,
seemingly there is nothing tangible
upon which to pursue an investiga-
tion—thus serving to prove the truth
that “honesty is the best policy” even
when seeking insurance.

ot a when

An insurance adjuster’s work calls
for the very best there is in a man—-
diplomacy, the keenest of secret serv-
ice instinct and the mind of a Lin-
coln—for the insurance adjuster must
act as an impartial arbiter between
the insured, who has suffered loss or
damage, and the company must pay
the sum finally agreed upon; or must,
in some cases, give information that
will demand prosecution of the in
sured for fraud.

I was one day ordered by a com-
pany to visit the town of D
where a clothing merchant’s store, a
one-story brick building, sandwiched
in between two two-story buildings.
had been destroyed by fire. I learned
that the merchant had recently stock-
ed up heavily by purchasing a lot of
second-hand goods on which he had
procured insurance of ten thousand
dollars, placing the value of his stock
at fifteen thousand dollars. A _ visit
to his store revealed the almost com-
plete destruction of the place, al-
though TI observed in about the cen-
ter of the store a pile of partially
burned goods and a lot of charred
planks. Securing a negro I had him
lift one of the planks, which I found
was resting on a partially burned
wooden horse used by the merchant
as a support for some hastily impro-
vised counters upon which he had
displayed his goods. I told the negro
to replace the plank, and then quickly
withdrew from the ruins.

Beneath that plank I had seen evi-

 

 

dence that would convict the mer-
chant of arson—a broken coal-oil lamp
around which was coiled a piece of
copper wire, and at the end of the
wire a piece of fish and the body of
a dead cat which had been caught
in the falling clothing and thus had
escaped the flames. The merchant
was a bachelor, but a visit to a lit-
tle restaurant where he ate _ his
meals elicited the information that
on the evening of the fire he had
procured a piece of fish and taken it
with him as he left the place. From
another source I learned that he
had borrowed a cat with which to
catch rats. The rest was very sim-
ple. He had returned to his store
and had arranged his bait upon the
temporary counter, where the slight-
est pull would upset both lamp and
clothing. He had then locked the
door of his store and left it to the

mercy of the cat. In the mean
time the merchant joined some
cronies and whiled away the time

playing pinocle and waiting for the
alarm of fire.

The merchant soon visited me at
my hotel and related a hard luck
story that would have brought tears
to the eyes of the Egyptian sphinx
I listened intently as he told me
that he believed rats had gnawed
matches and caused the fire, but that
as he was anxious to have a quick
settlement he would accept nin=
thousand dollars cash for his insur-
ance of ten thousand dollars. He
would thus be able to purchase an-
other stock at once and_ recover
from his disaster, as it was his busy
season.

We then sat in silence for a min-
ute or two, when I startled him by
asking him why he had not used a
piece of string instead of a copper
wire? He, of course, feigned the
ereatest surprise possible, and in
response to his enquiry as to what
I meant I escorted him over to the
ruins of his store where, lifting the
fatal plank, I pointed to the telltale
lamp and wire and bait, and the dead
cat.

With the addition of a few more
facts the clothing merchant confess-
ed, and at his trial he was found
guilty and is now serving a prison
term of five years.

 

Out in an agricultural section a
storehouse containing cottonseed and
hay, one night succumbed to the
flames. I couldn’t find enough ruins
to determine what had been on the
site of the fire.

I finally found the owner of the
destroyed storehouse and asked him
if he had saved his books so that he
could give me a statement showing
how many tons of hay and cotton-
seed were stored in the building. He
assured me that he had his books,
and he soon stated the amount of
stock he had had in storage. Upon
my request that he put it in writing
he did so, and then I had him ac-
company me to a notary public and
make affidavit to the correctness of
his figures. Thereupon I arranged to
meet him in an hour and discuss the
adjustment of his loss. My next

 

move was to obtain the exact meas-
urement of the building that had been
burned, and with these figures I was
soon able to tell exactly how much
hay and cottonseed could be stored
in it. The more I calculated with
his figures the more impossible |
found it to crowd into that store-
house more than about one-tenth of
the quantity that he had sworn was
contained therein at the time of the
fire.

He was prompt, however, in keep-
ing his appointment with me, and
replying to my enquiry of whether
he was positive that he had given
me correct figures he said: “Yes, sir.
I took them from my own books
which I kept.” He was persuaded to
do a little figuring himself, and I soon
learned from the worried expression
on his face that he realized that he
had trapped himself. I smoked and
quietly waited, and he finally broke
the silence by saying: “Confound
that clerk, he has made errors in his
figures!” “Maybe he has,” I said,
“but it was you, not your clerk, who
made oath that those figures were ex-
actly correct. You evidently forgot
the size of your storehouse when you
were estimating the size of the in-
surance that you should receive from
the company.”

Mind you, that man did not set
fire to his storehouse. He was inno-
cent of the cause of the fire, but he
was one of those conscienceless men
who look for an opportunity to beat
the company. He finally produced
invoices that proved just what
amount of goods he had in storage,
and was paid accordingly.

 

As a copper wire convicted one
dishonest merchant, so a _ postage
stamp sent another offender to the
wearing of stripes, although he favor-
ed blue serge.

One chilly autumn day I received
orders from my people to proceed to
an isolated town some _ thirty-two
miles from a railroad. The trip was
made by wagon through a swampy
country, my sole companion being a
likely-looking stranger whom [ had
picked up at the livery-stable in the
nearest town. He had expressed his
intention of going to the same town
for which I was destined, and as he
agreed to pay half of the livery bil!
I was willing to take him as a pas-

 

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January 25, 1911

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

senger. After we had proceeded for
two or three hours he finally enquired
my business, and I stated that I was
a missionary visiting the out-of-the
way places.

He had noticed ’a quart bottle in
the pocket of my overcoat, and hi
smiled as he remarked: “You are th
first missionary that I have ever seen
carrying a bottle,” to which I replied
that the sparsely settled country ne-
cessitated such precaution. Finally
we grew confidential enough to dis-
cover that both were bent upon the
same mission—investigation of the
burning of a country store and post
office—the only business house in the
town. He was a postoffice inspector,
and he agreed to give me whatever
information he had in return for the
same compliment from me. We
found that neither had anything to
offer, save a letter in my possession
which the insurance company had re-
ceived from the merchant. It was
crudely constructed, but it explained
that everything had been burned, in-
cluding the postoffice supplies and
the merchant’s personal belongings
which were in the building.

We finally arrived in the town and
met the merchant, who was occupy-
ing a little frame house with a neigh-
bor. He told us how the store had
burned and that he had not saved
even a postage stamp, and he added
that were it not for his insurance
he would be absolutely penniless.
The postoffice inspector first broke
in upon his calmness by enquiring
whether he had any registered letters
in the postoffice when the fire occur.
ed. He replied that he had several,
but that nothing was saved.

“Then where did you procure the
postage stamp which you used in
writing this letter to the insurance
company?” enquired the inspector.

This disconcerted the merchant.
and he broke down confessed.
He is now serving a five-year term
for setting fire to his store.

—_—_ >.
Sale of Bankrupt Stock.

The stock of J. R. Whiting & Co.,
of St. Clair, Michigan, will be
at public

and

sold

auction on

31st day of January, 1911, at 1:30]
o’clock in the afternoon at their
store in St. Clair. Their equity in

the store building will be sold at the
same time, either with or without the
stock.

The store will be open for inspec-

Tuesday, the |

 

tion on Saturday and Monday pre-
vious to the sale. The stock con-
sists of dry goods, clothing, shoes, |

groceries, etc., and inventories nearly |
iliability, they can be

$30,000.

All prospective bidders will be re- |
quired to put up a certified check |
for $1,000, and the purchaser will be |
required to put up a certified check |
for $2,500 on the day of sale. The |

sale will be subject to the confirma-
tion of the Referee in Bankruptcy.
J. S. Duffie, Trustee.
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You never see the windows

high class store giving the theatric«
bill posters any of their space. Win
dow room is worth more to
owner than anyone else
for it.

of a
1

will

ithat the

 

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ihas signed his name, signifying that

THE EXPRESS RECEIPT.

 

Take Time To Verify Before Sign-|

ing It.

Nine out of ten express messengers
or employes who call to deliver good
come in a great rush, drop the pack
age or merchandise, whatever it is
slam open the receipt book and point
cut the line where the receiver is t
sign. The entire
formance of
package is to secure the signature o
the receiver and at the same ti
his acknowledgment that the package
has been received in good

delivering an

 

as quickly as possible, and without
an opportunity on the
1eceiver to examine the goods and
verify the condition of
receipt of which he has acknowledg
ed.

Whether this method of deliv

part of the
pare Ls

 

express is a part of the acknowledged |

and admitted business of the expres

companies, whether it is a {
the schooling of the express m
gers, or whether it is a habit :
by long usage need not be s

whichever way it is,

 

 

 

the effect

the receivers of express is the

 

When a package is delivered to on
of the express pani
there is a printed document
which the company imsists is a con
tract. This contract the company

great

 

issued

 

once proceeds to force the sender of

s
the merchandise to live up to. At th

same time it proceeds to

repudiate

its own agreement either now or late-

on. It asks the
package. It
shall

sender to value the

sis baw ult
insists

; a
document to the effect

sign a

has been de-

livered and accepted, and it requires
£

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mercnandise

a corresponding contract on delivers
offering the

public and

 

After contract to

insisting that it be signed
the express

company, on the same

sheet, disclaims all responsibility
whatever nature, and if an express

company is prosecuted for the rece

ery of damage of the goods in tra:
defends the case in court
avoids payment if possible

People ir

people en

general,

ca ke eee

it a Fetal VULSERIC S

oc “i
izwage G

should insist upon taking time to

a receipt, that is to say, unless for
various

reasons, and ther:

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good reasons, they are satisfied

yond all doubt that the goods

ed in the package are all right

perfect condition; they should not
sign a receipt until they have opened
the package and examined t
In spite of the disclaimers of express

and

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transportation companies to
and are he
strictly accountable by the law, ar
they know it, and that is why th:
are in such a tremendous rush t
cure the signature of the receiver ur

on the receipt book. After a receiver

he has received the package in go
order, he would have no standing

whatever in court, and could not

claim with any effect that he signed}

ithe receipt in ignorance of the condi

|

t len .
ne pacKage

tion of the contents of ¢t

its; The fact of the matter is, he should
pay |}know, and the fact that he did not}
know something which he might have]

effect of the per-/|

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;
that the sender

 

a wn had he taken care to ascert ush the process of receiptimg f

t

| would be of mo ser t goods ymaged g ut or
court rt law JO res j~ Tere efore the ae fr pte
sengers might get fractious r ne express company is ry read
delay or n ration in signing t te make the thing right i te
Fé eIpt OOK ut tn i re nn r a wT red

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jobber and manufacturer. Farther, | i
mail orders can never take the place G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.
E of the live energetic salesman. If S.C. W. El Portana
z all houses  shovld abolish — their Evening Press Exemplar
$ sales forces, perhaps they could do
3 business by aa a but only ee
é one house or but a few houses who
< should cut off their salesmen would
very quickly find their business by bs .
mail decreasing to the point of van- The Smile That
ishing. Competitors would be very 5 99
quick to instruct their salesmen to Won't Come On
ee go out and capture this business.
ies re eee : : "| We said above thet hn deuceict They all wear it in some hotels.
Unfair Treatment of the House That) that every now and then some ie oe ee ee eee a a ei, The moment you step in Ora
Gives You Credit. simistic manufacturer makes up his A wide awake, energetic, well post- ae
The old tWaveling salesman had mind that there is not an honest man ed and optimistic salesman brings Hotel Livingston
gone out to lunch with the merchant|'!" the universe! up-to-date information, explains spe-
who owned the little three-man store| “I know you are honest. I know cial wares, can induce the dealer to Grand Rapids Mich
and over the cigars he opened up} you don’t mean to do wrong, but place orders in a hundred instances ? rl
with: “Boy, I have known you ever} when you owe a house money you|—— you see the word welcome written
since you started into the business! should give it an absolutely level across every face
twenty years ago. I have sold you; deal. Tell them the truth about your
some goods and I have watched you|conditon. If you can not pay tell , li
all your business life. Not as a sales-| them so, tell them why and as long e res In
man from my house, but as a personal! as you have a little cash to spend for
iriend of yours, I want to tell you) the things you must have to keep Absolutely Fireproof
that you are not giving my “hs a re Ereiess going, for - a Beenie, Gatace of MM Beret Hotel Cody
square deal! You owe us money.) heaven spend it with the people who
That's not startling, for many other) are your creditors! Most convenient hotel to all Subways Grand Rapids, Mich.
merchants owe us money, and I'll tell] «Tae your own business for an ex-|[{ and Depots. Rooms $1.50 per day and A. B. GARDNER, Mgr
you, aiter thirty-five years with MY} ample. You know that one of the upwards with use of baths Rooms 5k ' :
house I know there is no more gen-} oreatest difficulties that you and ev- $2.50 per day and upwards with private
erous house in the country than ours. ery other merchant has to contend beth. Best Becteurent in Mew Vouk eT en eee oe bee Ste
Now we have given you credit up tO} with is the credit feature, and you City with Club Breakfast and the world water have been put in all the rooms.
: io CONE t, and tas know| also know that when you have lost famous — oe —
rere 15 EE BEORDCKE Of YONE BRY-/ an account that the actual mones 44 The lobby has been enlarged and
ing us till you get in the money for| your books is one - your least losses. “CAFE ELYSEE” vine ee
the goods you sold at the holiday | The greatest loss is that as long as The rates remain the same—$2.00,
times and we do not expect it. | the man owes you money he will do NEW YORK —— —
“Now all this you know as well as/ his trading elsewhere.
I do. You know we have treated) “Just try and keep that thought be- 7»
you fair and square, as ninety-nine | fore you in your dealings with the
out of a hundred jobbers and manu-| houses from which you buy. Try to
facturers treat their patrons. I want remember your attitude toward the
to ask you, as your friend, have YOU! neople who are buying on credit
done the same by us? Have you al-\ from you. Von know how you feel The
ways treated us as we have treated) when a man buys from you and you
you? I noticed you had in your! chase him for six months for the Bi t
stock a line of goods exactly the | money, and when you finally get him igges
same as we sell, and I also happened} y, 4 position which calls for a show-
to notice that they came from a house | down he begins to growl about the Seller
which charges a little more than WE! goods being unsatisfactory.
charge. Don’t you think it would | “This has tanecned to you. of
have ‘been only fair if Pe A POUT ce el ae iat Glen you allow NUMBER of causes have combined to make Shredd d
that order in to my house? a bill to run too long with some A : 3 :
The kindly old salesman looked! house and they draw on you boc ae Wheat the biggest seller among cereal foods. Our
quizzically across the table at the| money and you get all worried about Magazine, newspaper and street car advertising, our demon-
business man, who flushed up and re-| the bill, don’t begin to growl about :
plied with spirit: the goods being poor sellers and giv- Strations and sampling campaigns have made Shredded
pet 7 have pot thoreaeed ty Ealing dissatisfaction, for in reality it is Wheat well known and therefore easy to sell. Thousands
debtedness a penny! Do you think I} not the fault of the goods. It’s your
would go and run up some other bills} fault! You have allowed that bill to cf visitors to Niagara Falls have gone through our factory
she ye you about 2 can pay?|] as subj ith y
sr ae oe tay i “i REPRE & RPEe apical _ and have seen Shredded Wheat being made under sanitary
some to tide me over the holidays!” | The Traveling Salesman. conditions and have advertised it to their friends, But, by
The old man smiled again. “That | In pharmaceutical associations and . :
is just what I was trying to make you| drug trade organizations we often none of these means could we have built up such an enor-
say! You don’t deal with us because hear debated the proposition to do mous sale if Shredded Wheat had not been so nourishing "
you owe us money which you can not|away with the traveling salesman. ; :
pay. You are rewarding our confi-| Advocates of this proposition argue and satisfying. People who eat it once always eat it, which
dence in you by buying some place|that the salesman can be replaced by one ane Eee
else when yon have cash to spend.|tmail orders, anil the expense of (he means once you start your customers they will always buy
You get in to us as far as you can/| sales force saved, to the profit of the it. Start as many as possible, because there’s good profit
and then begin to give some other! retailer. There are just two diffi- :
iellow the money, and the fool-killer| culties in the way of the abolition for you in every sale of
still procrastinates! The President) of the salesman. First, the retailer
of the United States should appoint) wants and needs him; and second;
a few good strong men and arm them/ the manufacturer and jobber can not
with broad axes to go around the get along without him. Hence this
country and act as executioners of! discussion is fruitless. Cut out the
people who act just as you are acting! salesman, and the retailer would
right now toward the hevse which probably not benefit appreciably, for a.
pays my expenses! It is no wonder!/any saving effected would go to the
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5

 

where if the trade were not visited
in pefson no orders by mail, or but
very few, would be forthcoming.

The visits of the salesmen are
welcomed by the retail dealer. He
is a mine of information of a sort
which the retailer can use to his
own material advantage, to keep
posted on new developments, on
new goods, news happenings, market
operations and in a thousand ways
he is a blessing.

The real wide awake business
druggist always has time to talk to
the salesman and inspect his offer-
ings, even although an immediate
putchase may not be made.

The salesman is also a factor of
great importance in bringing the re-
tail trade into closer union and har-
mony, he is one of the biggest as-
sets of state and local pharmaceuti-
cal associations, he contributes a
fund of information and optimism
which goes far to smooth out trade
and professional differences and heal
the sore spots and irritations.

The salesman is not an expense
to any business. He is a profit win-
ner to both sides, the seller and the
purchaser. If he were not he could
not hold his job a minute. Sales ex-
pense, so termed, is an unavoidable
and necessaty part of the cost of
manufacttire and distribution and
can not be done away with, wheth-
er the salesman travels to “cover a
territory” or whether he stands be-
hind the counter. Advertising is the
life of business, and one of the
greatest and most essential forms
of advertising is the work of the
salesman.

We do not fear that he will ever
be abolished, and this occasional
suggestion that he be wiped out is
merely ludicrous when one thinks of
it seriously —Practical Druggist.

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Owosso Council’s Good Time.

About twenty of the Owosso Coun-
cil of U. C. T., with their wives, were
charmingly entertained by Mr. and
Mrs. R. P. Bigelow at their home in
Owosso on Friday evening, and en
joyed one of the times of their lives.
After a short session at cards, dainty
refreshments were served, and then,
with G. W. Haskell as toastmaster,
speeches were made by Chas. Shaw.
W. L. Parker, ¥. 0. Copas, Jr., Gus
Stephan and W. D. Royce.

Commander C. V. Page easily mad
the hit of the evening in an accept-
ably worded invitation to the mem-
bers of the Council and their ladies
to attend a similar entertainment at
his residence in four weeks.

The Edward K. Tryon Company,
fre arms and sporting goods, of
Philadelphia, recently celebrated the
100th anniversary of its founding with
a round-up of its traveling represen-
tatives, old employes and friends, and
a banquet. A. G. Longheld, of this
city, is the representative of the com-
pany in this district.

Three Rivers—A new company has
been organized under the style of the
Major Glady Co. to manufacture
furniture and do general mill work,
with an authorized capital stock of
£10,000, of which $5,000 has been sub-
scribed and $3,600 paid in in cash,

 

Hillsdale Council Entertains. {tings and carpet rag sewings Sales Systems im Bohemia
Hillsdale Council, No. 116, United | From Geauga county he wants i vis 4 leading

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Commercial Travelers of America,/know about “sugar off” parties n Pree - : -
has long been known as one of the|occasional “wood cutting” or art | » _— ota
most progressive councils under the | raising” also would Ip the g os e e
jurisdiction of the Grand Council of | cause, according to the sé “ ae ad
Michigan. To back up that fact with | farmer te Ens es 2 ue
a positive demonstration an invitation | Just to show his regar ct a ie : ;
was extended to Grand Counselor C.| women and ss, Sand! - oo on
A. Wheeler and others of the Gratid| “How many farmers provide was a Se

officers to visit it and the date was|ing machines for their x= - ie

set for Saturday, Jan. 21. Unfortu- that all may be included in ae : .
nately not all of the officers could ar-|ings of a returned farm hospit salle

range their work to be there, but | petter results with the ir wel. | en

Grand Counselor C. A. Wheeler, | ti the farmers mak ; - wt ing a
Marquette, Grand Executive Commit- oe effort to ber ant 2 oman . i

teemen A. G. McEachron, of Detroit, | £4] to the school te it rs 2

and John D. Martin, of Grand Rap- | ——_—_» 2

ids, responded; also Senior Counsei-| Putter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po- : oo : :
er Hatch and Junior Counselor Nye, | tatoes at Buffalo. : .

of Coldwater Council. The meeting | Buffal Jan 25—Creamer : .

was called to order at 2 p. m. with | 27e¢; dairy, fresh, 19@22c; rofl r

all officers of Hillsdale Council | f, 1215 sie
their stations. Hillsdale Council is the | —Strictly fres a :

home council of Grand Past Counsel- | cold storage cand i, 20 -

or A. T. Lincoln, who as Grand Coun- Live Poultry os

selor of so oh: ~k 2 1 5 i <

zealous in : to|old cocks, 10@1 s 3 : ’

get from the firm he travels for, leave | turkeys, 20@2 see ape :
of absence every other week so he| Dressed Poultry—Old ’ plays the sign “An

could devote that time to the U. C.j} 1! fowls, 14@15e; chicken - where neither Amet '

T. A bunch of candidates, all “good |16c; turkeys, 24@27 te

men and true,” were initiated and dur- | geese, 14415 ft '

ing the meeting not a ritual was to be} Beans—Pea $2.15; F ' .

seen anywhere. By request the Ray | #5: \ kidr $2.75 - . on '

of Hope lecture was delivered by A.| medium, $2.15 e eter

G. McEachron, of Cadillac Council ‘ot 9 ae E . " r
No. 143, of Detroit. In ing . VHericam 1

card party and social were giv tl The Drug Market. rag - r r
much fun was had in the rivalry to 4 a ee ™ Tem

buy the lunches as they were put up| ig od fad . ' cited

at auction. B. J. Rigdon, Conductor eee a r

of Hillsdale Council, was the auc-| Praa ee . ‘ f exci r

tioneer. Near midnight the party], -

broke up with the strong impression |~ o. s Where

that the members of Hill -—l . ; . t ter

cil, No. 116, are strictly his ot a. : r ner

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Back To the Farm. oc ee ws a ae
Spelling bees, husking bees and) pace ne euenne__tiac - .
sewing bees are to be revived as the} a“ “  -« 1-2 cm or , : -
chief attraction in a new back to the] pon Tea ae . self American
country movement. With the “hees” | HP : .- anes
will go ines met ese . son
phones, | | Kalamazoo Grocers and Meat Deal- ..-_ .
other savers for of ¢ ers’ Banauet. aes :
day. fo. © teed ste '
A. P. Sandles, Secretary of t Grocers and Meat r ’ ’
Ohio State Board of Agriculture, is | sociation ies :
sponsor for the latest «| Marsh was toast r : -
the high cost of living problem |the speakers were Henry 5 rg
He has started oe. #. 8 t . . .
sand circular letters Mt n F r an on
letter wants to know ; igs | Off by Jam Han : ren
forgotten years ago in many fat rg r : . sii
ing communities. When enough re- | chairmar A eer ' te wine
plies have been received Sandles will | rangements oe a Ow
begin his propaganda in earnest. The Pe a
“The trouble with the farm is that | ,- oe ok us Be | ea!
it does not offer enough amusement, Nios ae ss
Sandies declared. “The boys and ete: ~ . est tes ee ell , towns
girls have to go to the city to bel... |. Ce i. et Cte :
entertained; get in the habit of the|, isaac M.D. Elgin, of the Gran UC. S& Consul, Prag
city, then stay there In the Id ete. Ce eo : .
days, when the country people furn-|_ . Coen er
eh i Ae | age 1d Safe at Last
ished their own entertainments, peo-| i. veue 9
ple went from the city to join them |p wrtland. Oregon, and F
in having a good time.” has : a Ww ,
In his letter he asks wheth a ; -
sections to which the letters 3 ahaa aia
have ‘old time _ spelling scho Some n 7
country dances, husking bees, s |ing honest when t f
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Michigan Board of Pharmacy.
President—Wm. A. Dohany, Detroit.
Secretary—Ed. J. Rodgers, Port Huron.
Treasurer—John J. Campbell, Pigeon.
Other Members—Will E. Collins, Owos-
so; John D. Muir, Grand Rapids.

Next Meeting—Grand Rapids, Nov. 15,
16 and 17.

Michigan Retall Saeeente Association.
President—C. A. Bugbee, Traverse City.
First Vice-President—Fred Brundage,
Muskegon.

Second Vice-President—C. H. Jongejan,
Grand Rapids.

City.
gs rer Hlenry Riechel, Grand Rap-
Ss.

Executive Committee—W. C. Kirch-
gessner, Grand Rapids; R. A. Abbott,
Muskegon; D. D. Alton, Fremont: §. .
Collins, Hart; Geo. L. Davis, Hamilton.

Michigan State Pharmaceutical Assocla-

on.
President—E. E. Calkins, Ann Arbor.
First Vice-President—F. C. Cahow,

C Vice-President—W. A. Hyslop.
Boyne City.

Secretary—-M. H. Goodale, Battle Creek.
Treasurer—Willis Leisenring, Pontiac.
Next Meeting—Battle Creek.

Grand Rapids Drug Club.
President—Wm. C. Kirchgessner .
Vice-President—O. A. Fanckboner.
Secretary—Wm. H. Tibbs.
Treasurer—Rolland Clark.
Executive Committee—Wnm.
Chairman; Henry Riechel, Theron

uigley,
orbes.

The Microscope Is a Wonderful Aid
To Science.

remarkable instruments that is used
at the present time. In its early his-
tory, however, it appeared principally
as a plaything and a wonderful teo!
for the early magicians.
is applied in almost every

tion.

investiga-
Tt is only a few years back that

it has been considered an

absolute
necessity in medicine, pathology, an-
atomy, surgery, etc.

The bacteriological field could never
have been produced without its aid.
bacteria individually being invisible to
the eye. Such results as Koch, Pas-
teur, Virchow, Senn and a
others have presented to mankind
were before shrouded in mystery.
Now a tuberculous bone affection caa
be given the proper kind of treatment.
A bite from a mad dog

host of

need not be feared, for the methods
of relief are at hand. In the water
you drink the typhoid germs can be
detected to a certainty. You will
hardly find a school, college or uni-
versity that does not have its own
microscopical laboratory and plenty
of students eager to avail themselves
of the opportunities to study.

The originator or inventor of the
mucroscope is still somewhat in doubt.
In the British Museum there is a
semblance of a supposed Assyrian
lens of rock crystal, being oval in
shape, with plano-convex surfaces,
which was found by Mr. Layard in
the excavation of the Sargon’s Palace
at Nimrond. Mr. Mayall, an eminent
English authority, pronounces it onl;
an ornamental piece of rock crystal

Secretary—H. R. McDonald, Traverse |

The microscope is one of the mos+

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of the beginning of the microscope is
| Probably coincident with the starting
|of spectacle making, Holland being
lone of the leading countries in specta-
cle lens grinding. Spectacle making
has been in existence nearly six cen-
turies, and to it is attributed the be-
iginning of the telescope and micro-

scope.

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The first microscopes were nothing
more than simple lenses, generally
with bi-convex surfaces, mounted in

T.|a holder or frame of some kind. so

) that they could be brought to the ob-
|jJect and focused with the eye; also
heliow glass globes filled with water;
a]

aiso

small globules formed by fusing
the end of a fine thread of glass wire
mounted in some sort of a holder, and
were used for the magnification of
Hooke used a mi-
croscope, which is reported to have
had its lenses made with such beads
of glass, and the discoveries that he
made, afterwards introduced into his
‘work of micrographia, are
wonderful.

objects. Robert

certainly

Leuewenhoek seems to have been
the first one to improve the simple
microscope by grinding and polishing
the lenses, an improvement over the
glass beads. This gentleman made
the discovery of the capillary circula-
tion of the blood by examining the
bat’s wings and the tail of the tad-
pole and fish. It has been said that
in the workshop of an optician his
two children were playing with some
discarded spectacle and they

lenses,
found that by placing certain

lenses
over each other at a proper distance
the image was increased. This is
probably the origin of the first com-
‘pound microscope.

Gallileo had some claim on the in-

vention of the first compound swing-

ing tail piece, which carried an ad-
justable mirror and condenser.

Charles Spencer, living in a back-
woods village in New York, revolu-
tionized objectives, going beyond the
English limit of 135 degrees and mak-
ing one of 146 degrees with a one-
twelfth inch focus.

Robert Tolles, of Boston, opened a
new era for the microscope in pro-
ducing and perfecting what is known
as the immersion system of lenses
He applied a highly refracting sub-

b

stance like glycerin, Canada alsam,
between the objective and cover
glass, which bent in the reflecting

rays so that they could be used by
the objective. The making of pho-
to-micrographs is another branch of
the science.

Mr. Huber illustrated his lecture
with diagrams, and he exhibited mi-

|croscopes, and allowed the people to
used for decorative purposes. The era!look at objects through them. One

of the microscopes was 100 years old
and is owned in Peoria, Ill.
Joseph Huber.

A Valentine Season Hint.

There is an exceptionally profitable
feature of the valentine season which
many retailers are wont to overlook.
This is the use of suitable merchan-
dise for employment as valentines to
be sent by customers as gifts to their
friends.

Following the holidays, there are
many persons who would, if
gested by the retailer, make
of this character. It is a well-known
fact that Christmas gift-giving in
a great many instances, incurs obli-
gations which the recipients would
gladly wipe out by the presentation
of a valentine gift.

A piece of cut-glass, a box of hand-
kerchiefs, gloves, books, candy, hand-
made novelties, f jewelry or

sug-
giits

fans,
many other items or lines could be
appropriately employed in this man-
ner.

By repeatedly suggesting “valen-
tine gifts” from year to year many
stores could no doubt arouse consid-
erable enthusiasm, and thereby in-
crease their sales for the first half
of February of each year.

Another phase of the valentine
season selling is the
small

featuring of
and novelties to be
employed as prizes, favors, etc., for
Saint Valentine parties and other
affairs. For this purpose card
prizes, stationery novelties
and other small articles appropriate
can be advantageously used.

souvenirs

social

party

In displaying valentines a specially
arranged booth will serve admirably
to make an impression upon the
store’s visitors. One of the most ap-
propriate forms of arrange-
ment would be the employment of
heart-shaped sides in substitution
for the more conventional overhead
rail and pillars.
of the hearts near the
floor, their greatest width will pro-
vide “windows” or selling space at the
ccunter line.

booth

By having the points
rTe-t On OF

Such a booth should be canopied
and draped in white, and the over-

head structure should not be too
heavily laden with display valen-
tines. On the contrary, it is con-

sidered better policy to show only
a few of the medium, popular and
best grades and thus avoid an over.
crowded appearance. Of course it
will be necessary to present suffi-
cient variety to interest the store’s
visitors. Once they are interested,
the selling can be readily accom-
plished by the salespeople assigned
to the booth.
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A Southern paper says: “Quality is
always a good talk‘ng point, and ad-
mits of being approached in many
ways, among others from the side of
relative cheapness.” Price is equal-
ly effective these days as a talking
point and neither should be aband-
oned.

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Your side of the argument may be
convincing so far as you are con-
cerned, but what is the use if it does

 

not convince the other fellow?

Vaccine—Keep it Cool.

During the last few weeks, since
ihe winter season approached, there
have been smallpox scares here and
there in the country with the re-
suit that very large quantities of vac-
cine virus have been employed. In
many instances, as usual, complaints
have been numerous that some of the
commercial vaccines on the market

have proved ineffective. Typical
“takes” have frequently failed to re-
sult. The manufacturers of biological

products, several of whom have con-
ducted exhaustive investigations on
this point from time to time, have
more than once declared and proved,
however, that in the majority of in-
stances the reason why vaccine virus
is ineffective is because it has been
improperly stored and kept by the
druggist. The virus will not stand
being overheated, and when kept in
a warm place in the pharmacy very
Tt should be
a refrigerator or at least in a
basement. And it should be
ordered in small quantities and ofter.

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rapidly loses its virtue.
put in
cool
give assurance of bein
Of course it must
be understood that in a considerable
number of instances vaccine fails to
produce vaccinia because the individ-
ual is already immune. Under
circumstances it is the height of in
justice to blame the vaccine—the man
himself is too healthy!

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Useful Mucilage Container.

This can be

reasonably fresh|!

such

 

made as follows: Se-
lect a four, or even a_ three-ounce
wide-mouth bottle, and pour into it a
five-cent bottle of mucilage: tie over
the mouth of this bottle three thick-
nesses of cheese-cloth and then turn
the bottle over (upside down) and set
its mouth into the mouth of a small
ointment jar. The mouth of the bot-
tle is always wet on the outer side of
the gauze and when paste is needed
for a label the label is rubbed across
the movth of this bottle. That is all.
The under jar serves as a support for
the bottle and catches the few drops
f mucilage that drop through the
With an ordinary bottle of
mucilage the loss will not amount to
five drops a day. This will not do
for pasting large numbers of labels
at one time, but for the prescription
counter it possesses the following ad-
vantages: Does not dry up, can not
spill. It is cleaner, no brush is need-
ed. Prevents waste, no cover is need-
ed. It is simple in construction.

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Eatce.

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When a merchant reaches a point
where he can take no advice from
anyone about running his store, he is
getting to where he needs it.

 

 

 

Merchants, Attention

Just Opened
Alfred Halzman Co.
Wholesale Novelties, Post Cards
BERT RICKER, Manager

A complete line of Christmas, New Year,
Birthday, Comics, ete. Our stock is not rusty—
itisnew. Fancy Christmas Cards from £3.50
per M.up. Write for samples or tellus to call
on you any where in the state. /

We are located opposite Union Station and
fill mail orders promptly. Our prices will in-
terest vou—ask for them.

Citz. Phone 6238 42-44 South Ionia Street
Bell Phone 3699 Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

January 25, 1911

MICHIGAN TRADE

 

_ WHOLESALE DRUG

 

Acidum
COUCH <0... .
Benzoicum, Ger..
Borage .........
Carbolicum
Citricum
Hydrochlor
Nitrocum
OxAticum  .......
Phosphorium, dil.
Salicylicum
Sulphuricum
Tanmienm .2.....
Tartaricum

Ammonia
Agua, 18 dee ...
Aqua, 20 deg.
Carhonas .......
Chloridum ......

Aniline
Bigek 2 oe: 2
Brown ..........
Bel.
Velgw 2.2... 2

Cubebae
Junipers
Xanthoxylum

Balsamum
Capaina,  . 632,
WEP Coc le, 2
Perapin, Canad...
TOMtan 2 ...2./..

Cortex
Canadian..
Flava

aird..

Cinchona
Buonymus
Myrica Cerifera..
Prunus Virgini

Quiliaia, era...
Sassafras, po 30
Vins . 1...
Extractum
Glycyrrhiza, Gla.
Glycyrrhiza, po

Haematox
Haematox, 4
Haematox, %s

Haematox, \4s

Ferru
Carbonate Precip.
Citrate and Quina
Citrate Soluble
Ferrocyanidum $
Solut, Chloride
Sulphate, com’!
Sulphate, com’l, by

bbl., per cwt.
Sulphate, pure

Flora

Arnica 3 ..:.......

ARtNeMIS .....;.

Matricaria .......

Folia

Barosma ........

Cassia <Acutifol,

Tinnevelly ..
Cassia, <Acutifol
Salvia officinalis,

ws and %s
liye Unrest 2.2...
Gummi
1st pkd.
Acacia, 2nd pkd.
Acacia, 3rd_pkd.
Acacia, sifted sts.
Acacia, po
Aloe, Barb
Aloe, Cape
Aloe, Socotri
Ammoniac
Asafoectida ...... z
Benzoinum
Catechu, is
Catechu, %s
Catechu, 4s

Acacia,

 
  

Campoorae ....,
Euphorbium
Gaihanum ......
Gamboge po..1
Gauciacum po 35
inh ..... po 45c

Mastic
Myrrh
Opium
MNeCHAG .......44
Shellac, bleached
Tragacanth

Herba
Absinthium wef
Eupatorium oz pk
Lobelia 02 DE
Majorium ..0z pk
Mentra Pip, oz pk
Mentra Ver oz pk
tue oz pk
Tanacetum. . ,V..-
Thymus V 062 pk

Magnesia
Pat...
rat.

K-M.

Calcined,
Carbornate,
Carbonate,
( arbonate

Oleum
Absinthium <<... 7
Amygdalae Dulce.
Amygdalae, Ama 8
Anisi

Auranti Cortex 2
Berear |... .. 5
Cage 620 ke
Curvoonili ..... 1
Cea oo.
CRenppadii ...:.. 4
Cinnamon ...... 1

Conium Mae ....
Citronehs  .......

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wean =... 1 75@1 85
Cupenae ....... 4 80@5 00
Beto G 2 2 35@2 50
Bvechthitos ..... 1 00@1 106
Ganitheria -....: 4 80@5 00
Geranium .... 02 75
Gossippil Sem gal 70@ 75
Heqeoma ....... 2 50@2 75
JURIDECrA ........ 40@1 29
Ee@vendilia ......; 90@3 60
TAmOuNe 245... ... 1 15@1 25
Mentha Piper ..2 20@2 40
Mentha Verid > 40@3 50
Morrhuae, gal. ..2 00@2 75
Myricia .........6 O6@s of
Olive ........... 1 00@3 00
Picis Liquida 10@ 12
Picis Liquida gal. @ wx
CHI - he sco- 94@1 06
Moshe OF. 62022. 8 00@8 50
KRoesmarini ..... @1i 00
MAeene 66... 22. 99@1 00
Santa _......... M4 50
Sasdairas ....... 90@1 00
Sinapis, ess. 0Z... @ 65
BUCCI ..4-.--..5. 407 45
Tyee ...4.....- 40@ 50
Tiryme, opt. ...- @1 69
Theobromas 15@ 20
ire oo 90@1 60
Potassium
Pa-Care. 140.0... 1I5@ 18
Dicnromate ..... 1i3@ 15
Bronuae .....;.. 30@ 35
CO oe ese eae 124 5
Chmrate .... po 12g 3
Cyamage ..2..... 30@ 40
TOM Ge 6 dase, 2 25@2 30
Potassa, Bitart pr 30@ 32
Potass Nitras opt 7% iD
Potass Nitras .... 6@ 3
Prussigte§ ....-... 23@ 26
Stiphate po .... is@ i138
Radix
Aconitum ...-... 0@ 2%
BAG och 30@ 35
AymebtIse 6.55..,. 10@ 12
Arum oO ........ @ 2
Calamus ......-. 20@ Af
Gentiana po 15. 12@ 1.
Glychrrhiza pv 15 l6@ 18
Hellebore, Aiba 12@ 15
Hydrastis, Canada @3 00
Hydrastis, Can. po m2 66
iigla, PO --....- 20@ 25
Ipecac, PO ...... 2 25@2 3s
Ite plow ........ 35am ef
lalapa, pr. ...... TVG iD
Maranta, 46 .... _@ 35
Podophyllum po 15@ 18
WOE oso ce. 75@1 60
Reel, cut ...-.... 1 00@1 25
MOCL PV. (2... T5@1 Of
Sanguinari, po 18 @ 15
Scillae, po 45 20@ 2
Benen 2.6... %@
Serpentaria ..... 50@ 55
Smilax, Bi. ....-- @ 2
Smilax, offiis H @ 48
Spieelia .........1 46@1 50
Symplocarpus ... @ 2
Valeriana Eng .. @ 2
Valeriana, Ger. 15@ 20
Aineiver A ...... 12@ 16
Gineiper J: ...... 25@ 28
Semen / :
Anisum po 22 .. @ 18
Apium (gravel’s) 13@ 15
ore, tS 44 6
Cannabis Sativa 7@ 8
Caradanmion .....°. 70@ 90
Cart po 15... .. 12@ 15
Chenopodium 25@ 3
Corianarum ..... 2@ 14
Cydonium  ....... Ta@1 Of
Dipterix Odorate 3 50@4 90
Moenicunim ..... @ 30
Foenugreek, po 7a 9
Pagt ....-23.2.-. 6a 8
Lini, grd. bbl. 5% 6@ 8g
Popeia ....2... Ta@ 30
Pharlaris Cana’n 9@ 10
Rae 5@ 6
Sinapis Alba .... 8@ 10
Sinapis Nigra ... 9@ 10
; Spiritus _
Frumenti W. D. 2 00@2 50
MrUMent ...... 1 25@1 5
svunipers Co. ....1 @2 SO
Junipers Co OT 1 65@2 00
Saccharum N E 1 90@2 10
Spt Vini Galli I a@és 50
Mini Alba ....... 1 m2 0)
Vint Operte  ._..1 2 Of
Sponges
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool carriage .. @1 2
Florida sheeps’ wool
CATTIO“G® ..... 3 00@3 50
Grass sheeps’ wool
Garmriage. ...... @t 25
Hard, slate use @i 00
Nassau sheeps’ wool
Cattiase ...... 3 50@3 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool carriage .. a2 oo
Yellow Reef, for
(erate Use 4... @1 40
Syrups
CaCIA: 6 ol, @ bb
Auranti Cortex @ 50
Berm Wa i...... @ 50
Ppeeac ........... @ 60
Biel Arom ...... @ 50
Smilax Offi's 50@ 60
WCCEe + 424.... ? @ 3590

 

 

 

Seillae
, Tolutan
Prunus

virg,
Ppimaeyr «CL,
Tinctures

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Aloes & Myrrh
Anconitum Nap’sF
Anconitum Nap’sR
Poa ee
Asafoetida ......
Atrope Belladonna
Auranti Cortex
Barosma
Benzoin
Benzoin

Cantharides

 
 

Ca.

Capeecumm .......
Carcawon ......
Cardamon Co.
Cassia Acutifol

Cassia Acutifol Co

 

HOG «L. w...
Cinchona Co.
Columbia
Cubebae
Digitalis

 

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camphorated
deodorized

 

Stromonium

Teste .-..e ee,
Valera o.oo 4s el
Veratrum Veride
PADGADEY (1.4.14.
Miscellaneous

Aether, Spts Nit 3f 304
Aether, Spts Nit 4f 34a

Alumen, grd po 7 3@
Annatio ...... $1) 4%
Antimoni, po 4p

 

   

 

 

Antimoni et po T 40@
Antifehrin ..... “
Antipyrin . 4 w
Argenti Nitras oz a
Arsenicum ....... 16@
Balm Gilead buds 66@
Bismuth 8 N .. 20
Calcium Chlor, Is @
Salcium Chlor, %s @
Calcium Chlor, 4s @
Cantharides, Rus. @)
Capsici Fruc’s af a
Capsici Fruc’s po a
Cap’i Fruc’s B po iG)
Carmine, No. 49 a“
204

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Chloroform ..

Chloral Hyd Crss 1 254
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C Germ 384
( honidine P-W 38@
C We oil. 3 0603
( list, less 70%

Cc aa “
C . DEL 73 @
c prep a
CO recip Ia
Ga bra a
bo a
Cupri Sulph. 3@
D 7@
EB a
Paery, OO ..... “
Ersota ...-po G& 664
Ether Sulph . 35@
Flake White ... 12%
CSU | eee ee @
Gambler ween 3@
Gelatin, Cooper “a
Gelatin, French 55 @
Glassware, fit boo 75%

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Grana

 

Humutlus ..... s- oa
Hydrarg Ammo’l a
Hydrarg Ch..Mit @
Hydrarg Ch Cor a

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Hydrarg Ungue’m 454
Hydrargyrum aS @
Ichthyobolla, Am. 991@
Indigo to ee 73@
Iodine, Resubi ..3 00@
lodoform ...... 3 9E@

Liquor Arsen et
Hydrarg fod. @
Liq. Potass Arsinit 10@

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Lycopodium 0G ta ATM 3 ay“ ™ < "
cael ana Tart 75 —
Maci ea, [5@ 70) Sala z
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Watch This Space

For a picture of our new home

and an announcement of the

date upon which we will occupy
the same. It is located at the

corner of Oaks and Commerce

Loot i
feet from the

streets only 300
front entrance of Union Derot

Yours respectfully,

Hazeltine & Perkins
Drug Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich

 

 

 

 

 

Who Pays for
Our Advertising?

ANSWER:
Neither the dealer nor his customers

By the growth of our business through advertising we save enoug
in cost of salesmen, superintendence, rents, interest and ase r
plant to cove of, if mot a w advertising 5 ;

LOWNEY’S COCOA

AND
PREMIUM CHOCOLATE for BAKING |

All LOWNEY’S products are superfine
pay a good profit and are easy to sell.

 
  

—

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

January 25, r911

 

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT

These quotations are carefully corrected weekly, within six hours of mailin,

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

Prices, howeve

T, ar:

liable to change at any time, and country merchants will have their orders filled a
market prices at date of purchase

 

a

ADVANCED

DECLINED

 

 

 

 

 

 

Index to Markets 1
By Coumas ARCTIC AMMONIA
2%
Co} | {2 0% ovals 2 doz. box. .7
A ; AXLE GREASE
Ammonia ........-+--: ‘azer’s
Axle Grease ........-.- 1] 1%. wood boxes, 4 doz. 3 0(
1lb. tin boxes, 3 doz. 2 $5
8 34gIb. tin boxes, 2 doz. 4 26
Baked Beans ........-- 1/ 10%. pails, per doz....6 00
Bath Brick ........-.. 1) 15%. pails. per doz ...7 20
Bluing ........+- secede : 25tb. pails, per doz...12 00
ool ala le Rg 1 BAKED BEANS
Butter Color .......-.- 1} 1%. can, per doz.......
2%. can, per doz...... 1 40
c 3tb. can, per doz....... 1 80
CanG@les .......s2.-s:. 1
Canned Goods ...--. - 13 wae
Canned Meats ........- 7
Carbon Oils ..........- 2 BLUING
oe beeen ee eehe ees 2 Sawyer's Pepper Box
Cereais pe nneees 0800 0s 2 Per Gross
aes. ee 2/ No. 8, 8 doz. wood bxs 4 06
Chewing Gum ........- 8) No. 5, 3 doz. wood bxs 7 00
Chicory ......--..-++:- 8) Sawyer Crystal Bag
Chocolate | beeen Rive 400
oe 3 _ BROOMS
Cocoanut .... 3; No. 1 Carpet 4 sew ..4 00
Cocoa Shells . 3} No. 2 Carpet 4 sew ..3 75
Coffee ......-.-- 3} No. 3 Carpet 3 sew ..3 50
Confections .....-. ll wage 4 Carpet 3 sew =
Mrpekors ......-------- ei 2arior Gem ......-.-- 15
main Taree ....... 6 | Common Whisk ...... 1 40
Cream Tartar Fancy Whisk ....... oon
D Wwarenoguse ....._.... 4 50
Dried Fruits ........ ; 5 BRUSHES
F Solid B: "so 75
0) ack, a
Farinaceous Goods ...- §/ Solid Back. 11 in. 95
ee eee) s e+ Pointed Ends ......... 85
Fish and Oysters ...... 10
fishing Tackle ........ N 3 ove ™
Flavoring Extracts .... 5) NO. 8 --.++-+-++.---e-:
Snir cee Srp 2 8. 1 25
Fresh Meats .........- Mp 8 oe. 1 7%
Shoe
Me. 8 .......; obese 1 00
Gelatine ......-....--. RR FT wee eee ke ee 1 80
Grain Bags ....:-...-.-:; BING 4 . ooo cbaeeee 1 70
Grains ....... eee bee eee bine 8 ah
BUTTER COLOR
H Dandelion, 25c size ....2 00
Hides snk ee ....... 10 CANDLES
re iB Paratine Gs . ....... 8
J Paratine, (2s ........ Sly
SO Se 20
CANNED GOODS
L Apples
Eioerine ............... 6) 3m. Standards 1 00
" [een |... 42... 3 20@3 50
Pretcnes 48... 6). m, eT nes 90
oa epee. ; Standards gallons @5 00
Molasses ... a. 6
So ¢| Baked ............ 85@1 3v
ere Red Kidney ...... 85@ 95
N Sivway .... 7°@1 16
Nite .................. 11] Wax ............. TH@1 26
Blueberries
° Srangem 2... oe. 130
(MeRS ........-......- 6 PM occa. * 6 56
uf ittle N ag 1 0G@1 2
Little Neck, lib. 00@ 5
Na Rena ac iteae i g| Little Neck. 2m. @1 51
Paayinge Caris ........ 6 Clam Bouillon
Perea | 61 Burnham's % pt. ....- 2 2
Burnham's pts. ...... 3 75
Presimions ............ 7| Burnham’s qts. ....... 7 50
Cherries
Rice ee 7] Red Standards . @1 40
Salad Dressing ........ ii White.  . @1 4
eeerean «85s... 7 he
aide aan a ae ioe 0@1 00
Salt Fish ee 7 Om 6.8 le. 1 0V@1 10
a. 7|Pancy .-.-.-...-- 1 45
Shoe Blacking ........ 7 French Peas
Ree:sCicss ws se. s|Monbadon (Natural)
Heeb =... 8 per doz. ........... 2 45
Mae & Gooseberries
Spices ................. RiNo. 40 00. 6 00
Sewanee 8 iin eny
SyTupS .....-........-. 8 Branton 2.6 00.00: 85
7 Lobster
oy RA Rite. ................. 2 40
Mopeero .......-.2..2.: g)ilD. .................. 4 25
werme ......:. 0... ei tienic Talis ......:.... 2 75
Mackerel
Vv Mustard, if. ......... 1 8¢
Wineser ........ bec ecas Si Mustard: Zlib ........- 2 80
Rouned, tt6i. ......... 1 80
SNA, ED 2 id
Weeceene ............... Si Tomato, 1b. .......... 1 50
Woodenware ......... 9) Tomeco 2th 2 80
Wrapping Paper ...... 10 Mushrooms
Rites ......:... 17
Vv Buttons, %s .... 14
teem Cake ........... 0%) Buttons, 15 ...... @ 23

 

1th.
2tb.

Cove,
Cove,

Peas
Marrowfat ..... 95
Early June ..... 95
Early June Sifted 1 15

Peaches
mie cece
No. 10 size can pie

Pineapple
oo iS
96

90

Raspberries
Standard ........
Salmon
Col’a River, talls
Yol’a River, flats
Red Alaska
Pink Alaska

Sardines
Domestic, 4s .......
Domestic, %4 Mus.
Domestic, % Mus.
French, %s .. .. 7
French, %s ...... 18

Standard

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CARBON OILS
Barrels

Perfection ......
D. S. Gasoline
Gas Machine
Deodor’d Nap’‘a
Cylinder
eine |... ke. 16
Black, winter ... 8%

CEREALS

Bear

Higey-U-See, 36 DKgs.

Post Toasties T No.

Pp U eeceees

Post Toasties T No.
36 pkgs

2 doz.

Grape Nuts,

Mapl-Flake, 24 lib.
Ralston Health Food

So 2...
= Wheat Food,

Pp c
Kellogg’s Toasted Co

Vigor, 36 pkgs.
Voigt Cream Flakes

 

Apetiao Biscuit, ‘24 pk 3

a6 pee .. 1
Malta Vita, 36 lIb. ...
Pillsbury’s Vitos, 3 dz.

KGS jon cs see
on = Biscuit,

Flakes, 36 pkgs in cs. 2

Piums
AOMRS ... 5 1 00@2 50

1 25
1 2
1 80
oi
3 00

2 50
2 40

12 25

._ 2 40

5 1 60@1 75
.-1 20@1 30

_

14
23

10

Breakfast Foods
Food Pettijohns 1
Cream of Wheat 36 2Ib 4

. 2 Bd
2
+2
3
2 80

wm DODO bo
~3
So

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24

mi

mest, 20 Bib. .......... 10
Rolled Oats
Rolled Avena, bbls. ..4 25
Steel Cut, 100 Th. sks. 2 10
Monarch, bbl <<... 1. : 4 00
Monarch, 90 tb. sacks 1 80
Quaker, 18 Regular ..1 38
Quaker, 20 Family -4 00
Cracked Wheat
Buk -: oe 344
24 2b. packages ...... 2 50
CATSUP
Columbia, 25 pts. ..... 415
Snider’s pints ......... 2 35
Snider’s % pints ...... 1 30
CHEESE
Acme... t.. @15%
Bloomingdale ... @16
gersey <2. @15
Werner... ....... 1646
Riverside ....... @164%
Br a. @17
ioe @15

 

        

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Limburger ...... 16 Circle Honey Cookies 12 | Champagne Wafer .
Pineapple .......40 @60 Currant Fruit Biscuits 12 Per tin in bute
Sains aie . Cracknels ......... poe 50 eee tt eccccesesee 100
— oe Cocoanut Brittle Cake 18 | Festino .......""""'"" } 3
‘eeaen eae Soruce Cocoanut Sugar Cake i1 Bent’s Water Crackers 1 40
Beeman’s Pepsin ..... 65 Cocoanut Taffy Bar ..13 CREAM TART
Adams’ Pepsin ....... 65 Cocoanut Bar ........ 10 | Rarrele or a ARTAR
oe —— Aaah = Cocoanut Drops ..... 18 |Boxes ...... wie i a
Black Jack ’.........-. 55 Cocoanut Macaroons ..18 [Square cans /)77)7'1', 3g
Largest Gum Made... 55 Cocoanut Hon. Fingers 12 ee ess oo.
en Te eee cceae ee ce Cocoa.
ok ol nut Hon Jumbles 12 ORIED FRUITS
UCAERR: co.cc cecccacss Be Coffee Cake ......... 10 Snnd Apples
Spearmint ............ 65 Coffee Cake, iced ..... 11 Mveporeted’°7°"" ® !
a CHICORY : Cremipets ............ 18 -- 10%@11%
uu See teats cs oe. Dinner Biscuit ....... 25 : Apricots
te a6 i Dixie Sugar Cookie ... 9 | C#lifornia 2.000), 12@15
Pranck’s ............ 7 Family Cookie ........ 9 Citron
oe fs erca ae 6 Fig Cake Assorted ....12 |Corsican ..,,., ; @165
HOCOLA | Fig N a. ureent
Walter Baker & Co.’s 7 — ce - Imp'd 1 Pepge tg
Ol aut — gg Florabel Cake ........12% a pkg. @10
Premium ........ «eeeee 81 Fluted Cocoanut Bar 10 os -- @ 9%
un eer teas ..-. $1 Forsted Creams ...... ILemon American 13
7 a + Peguigieais me Frosted Ginger Cookie 8 [Orange American a
Premium, %s ........ 30 Fruit Lunch Iced ....10 a
CIDER, SWEET eo Gems «.......:. 8 Connosiar Cluster 3 25
“Morgan’s” Ginger Gems, Iced .... 9 | Dessert Cluster ..°' 00
Bee oa = gal 10 00 Graham Crackers .... 8 panier Muscatels 3 Cr 54
Trade barrel, 28 gals 5 50 qa, . ie soose Muscatels or! git
% Tarde barrel, 14 gal 3 50 Ginger Snaps Family 8 |1L. M. Seedeq 1 tb. %@8”
Rolled, pe el 60 Ginger Snaps N. B.C. 7% Ci, i
ard, per gal. ....... 25 Ginger Snaps N. B, C. i ‘Sestee une
COCOA Bauare ............., 8 Sultanas wits  °+ is
Bakers 2006 00.8. 37! Hippodrome Bar 12 100-125 51H ones +. 12
iNevelaed ....5....... 41 Honey Cake, N. B. CG, 13 | 99-100 25%) poxes:-@ 8
Colipninl, Ms ......2 2. 35 Honey Fingers ‘As. Ice 12 80- 90 25th.  e 8%
Colonial, %5 |... ._.. 33 Honey Jumbles, Iced 12 70- 80 25%) boxes & ©
oe 42 Honey Flake ........ 123%} 60- 70 25th. boxes 9147
Meee 45 Household Cookies .... 8 | 69- 60 25th) boxes. Ay o1,
Lowney, Ks .......... 36 Household Cookies Iced 9 30- 40 26%. oxen sie”
Downey, Ys 0. S6 imperial ...5,.055.. 5. %c less in 50Ib. ca hag
ownuey, 165 §.20 200. 36 Jersey Lunch ........ 9 —
Downey is 1... 40 Jubilee Mixed ...... 10 FARINACEOUS @oops
Van Houten, \&s ...... 12 Kream Klips ..:..... 25 ; cane
Van Houten, %s ..... SIU ioriiccccsccs, Bee ti 7
Van Houten, %s ...... 40 Lemon Gems ........ 10 | Med. Hand Picked .:2'35
Van Houten, is ....... 72 Lemon Biscuit Square g | Town Holland ......°3 35
Life OO eee 33 Lemon Wafer . 7 Farina
Wilber, 465 .......:.... a2 emonm 52... 6.5... << 2 25 1 th
Mabur, Me, 2 Mare Ane .....-...;. 8 |Bum oo noe 1 50
|Marshmallow Walnuts 17 oP A ee 3 50
COCOANUT ' Molasses Cakes Hominy
a ga per tb. Molasses Cakes, iccd’ y | Pearl, 100 tb. sack
8, 5b. case ....... 29 Molasses Fruit Cookies oe ke
S, Bin. CHEE .,..... 28 Teed 11 Maccaroni and Wermicelli
8, 15tb. case ...... 27 | Moasses Sandwich ...12 | Domestic, 10 th. bo
8, 15Tb. case ....... 26 Mottled Square “7°19 «| Imported; 25 Ip. b oo
8, 15tb. CABR .isces 25 Oatmeal Crackers... 8 lee : ae
“5 & %S, 15th. case 26% Orange Gems feck ie ee
Scalloped Gems ..... 1 ee ee oo te cece go 3 75
: ones | Benny Assorted 2211/3" 9 Se =
lo eanut Ge eet eacce
Common ......... 10@18% Preteen Hand iia. 8 |. =
Par... “1: 4@ Eretzelettes, Hand Ma 9 [Grech guaiconsin. bu.
Chotee ....5) 2°. s+eeee 16% Pretzelettes, Mac. Md. g | Green, Scotch, bu. ....2 80
Maney 22061053. o---+ @© | eicin Cookies ...... ap [| "PUL MD. -..0......... 04
Santos Raisin Gems ......... ll Sa
Common ......... 12@13% | Revere, Assorted .... 14 : cats
ae . 14% Rittenhouse Fruit East India ...... sreeee
COD oceenecnccccess SEG) OMPUIL ....-,- sboure 10 [| aermeOn, Becks ....... 6,
MEy 2. ocesccs.,. BD” | e.g | Seren, bieken che |.
Peaberry ......... ee eos — seeeeeee 10 Taploca
cotch Cookies ...... 10 ue
Fair ...MaracalBo 4, [Spiced Currant Gake sig |{T2Ke- 19, 0m. sacks.. ¢
Choice .0..00.0001011 19 | Sugar Fingers .......13 | pearl’ 24 im pees”: 4%
Midis ioe Leait Biscuit 16 vo) ee seen ee
/ Spice zinger e . 2 FLAVORIN
Baney LILI, 1g Spleed Ginger Cake toa‘ 19 Foote & Jenks
Guatemaia Sugar S$ ; larg e Col
Choice 222.0002). as small picind way gy No. 2 ag “er 4
nic Sunnyside Jumbies ’. 19 | N° ? — Seis e ee +2014 09
Atrican 2200). 12 | Superba ......... +--+ 98 | No. 3 ae os ao
Fancy African ....... 17 | Sponge Lady Fingers 25 |No. 8 size 1'°°°°''"* ne
Om 2.0 25 (Sugar Crimp ........ 9 . . oe =
ee 31 we teeeee 7 sip Terp. Lemon
Mocha Oe Rs te cere oe No. Rize . 26... sss 9 60
Arabian ...... oe 21 ee i ee -++18 00
Palas Alber Geentt __." | No. BIO ovat sees -21 00
e New Tere tesntn Animals es -@ S No, & size... 3... ...36 00
Arbuckle ©.) /7. 20: 21 50 Arrowroot Biscuit ... Jaxon M illa.
$30n 2 21 50 Athena Lemon Cake ‘ $0 1 oz. oval apy isire
McLaughlin’s XXXX Baronet Biscuit ...... 100|2 0z. oval ...... 000088 20
McLaughlin’s XXXX sold Bremmer’s Butter a oz flat .........) oe
to retailers only. Mail all eaters ...... «. 168615 Oz. fiat-.....:. ---.108 00
orders direct to W. F.} Cameo Biscuit ...... 1 50
McLaughlin & Co., Chica-| Cheese Sandwich .--. 100|, _J@xon Terp. Lemon.
Zo. Chocolate Wafers .... 1 00 : 02, Oval ....+...00.
Extract Pace ee --- 100/4 a — oar cn-trame br
Holland, bo aust Oyster ........ 1 00 (aay oct eee cse
fae a a. - Fig Newton ricareres 1 90 B02, fat 2.0.3. - «63 00
Hummel's foil, . & He eae
Simocte Ge fe 4 49 Mrotana oo. 1 00 oe -
CRACKER Ginger Snaps, N. B. C. 1 00/2 oz per doz ;
Be A Ss Graham Crackers, Red Se Cee as 3 ov
National Biscuit Company| “label .............. 100 GRAIN BAGS
“a cn Lemon Snaps ....... - . 60; Amoskeag, 100 in bale 19
ae utter Oatmeal Crackers ....1 00| Amoskeag, less than bl 19%
Sev iog: So, bb. 6% bx 6 | Old Time Sugar Cook. 1 00 :
, -eymour, Rd. bbl 6% bx 6 | Oval Salt Biscuit .... 100| GRAIN AND FLOUR
Soda Oysterettes ......... 50 Wheat
N. B. C., boxes ...... 6 |Pretzelettes, Hd. Mad. 100| Red ................. 93
Select no" eaepee 2 Royal wot... 1 99 WOE ieee 92
ratoga akes : altine Biscuit ...... - 100
Zepnyrette ........... 13 Saratoga Makes cceeee 1 50 Winter Wheat Flour
Oyster Social Tea Biscuit ....1 00) paic; Pg aeands 2
N. B. C. Rd. bbl 6% bx 6 | Soda Crackers N. B.C. 1 00) otentS (noone ee ae
Gem, bbl, 6% boxes .. 6 | Soda Crackers Select 1 00 ee ch atents ...... 5 09
ama. 8. S. Butter Crackers 1 50) goes ee tite: ‘i
___ Sweet Goods Uneeda Biscuit ...... 58) qcond Straight ..... ‘i
BwmaAIs 36. st ... 0 |Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer 1 00|Clear ................ 4 00
Apricot Gems 12 |Uneeda Lunch Biscuit 50|, Flour in barrels, 26¢ per
Atlantics ......... :-. 12 | Vanilla Wafers ...... 1 00} Darrel additional.
Atlantic, Assorted ... 12 | Water Thin Biscuit .. 1 00 Lemon & Wheeler Co.
Avena Fruit Cake ... 12 | Zu Zu Ginger Snaps ... 60| Big Wonder %s cloth 4 50
Brie 2.00 12 | Zwieback ©2007 .01) - 100| Big Wonder \%s cloth 4 50
Bumble Bee ......... 10 In Special Tin Packages.| Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
agete 9 Per doz. | Quaker, paper ....... 470
Cartwheels Assorted .. 9 | Festino ............ -. 260) Quaker, cloth ....... 4 60:
Chocolate Drops ..... -16 ‘Nabisco, 25c ........ - 2 50 Wykes & Co.
Choc. Honey Fingers 16 = Nabisco, 10¢ ......... - 18 Beupse 1.2... sae

 

 

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Lemon & Wheeler Co. POTASH “ackere! S 4$0' Solinte. me - x %
White Star, %s cloth 5 50|Babbitt’s .............. 4 00, Mess, 100 Ibs. ........ 16 50 3 3 t. sma
White Star, 4s cloth 5 40 PROVISIONS — we |... 7 v0 3 N W g 2 ; 2
White Star, Y%s cloth 5 30 Barreled Pork _ oe 2. 1 35 3. 1 55| Willow 35
Wobden Crocar Co. Clear Gack ......... 22 00! Siess’* 8 OM governs 1 50 ‘ ¥ 5 Pate
American Eagle, % cl 5 35 Short Cut sett eeeeee 20 00 | No. 1, 100 ibs. wesaaye 15 3a Butter Plates
Grand Rapids Grain & Suort Cut: Clear ..... 20 90; No. 1, Ad bs. i dl ae oe od 6 60 26 ; ;
“We % > MOAR Goce es, ae Go mo. 1, 10 Tee. .1.....- L 40 a rp
Milling Co, Brands Brisket, Clear 23 00| No. I, ths 1 40 os T
Purity, Patent 030...) 5 00 Pig” vine wegen ale aa 33 00 ee oe ee aa ailone
Seal of Minnesota ....6 10 a ’ "Peantie coor nee pt 00 7s . x Ban Cetiiad al . +)
Wizard Flour ........ 4 gy|Clear Family ....... a6 “6 te 0” 6 ee ee ee ep 32 | - 2
Wizard Graham ...... 4 60 Dry Salt Meats _ aac 0Ul i @ <6| Gendicted tan 7 2 ‘) woe
Wizard Gran, Meal . 2 Gaim © Beties ....-....... 16 10 a oe eee sa” gel eka ~ : :
Wizard Buckwheat ..6 uv _ Lard | ere ent | ai : er hurts
Pure in tierces ...12@124%| % tbs. ......... Je 45 | fe ; ar z
Rye 4 40 ace | R
" ising Wheat Sieur Compound Lard ...... Iie | SHOE BLACKING Eve : nA CONFECTIONS
ss eee Brace 80 tb. tubs....advance 14| Handy Box, large 3 dz 2 tid Be . i Cicthes Pins Stick Cardy
Gold Hoe family 5 49/82 Ib. tubs ....advance %|Handy Box, small ....1 25| Bi 3
coking iford bakers ¢ 30100 mm. tins ....advwance % | Bixby's Royal Polish %&, | Be x
Golden on ae bakers 4 3" 120 tb. pails ...advance % | Miller's Crown Polish $5 | Nil 2 ' ag 4 “ ;
a Ge Cas go “a 10 tb. pails ...advance %| _ SNUFF __ | Sif =| Car 2
udson Grocer 0.s Brand 5 tT ile advance 1 | Scotch, in bladders .....37 anni . ee rates and Fillers .
Ceresota, %s 64 Ih. pails ...advan | ia 4 5 Gunpowder =39
aa ee tee 6 30| % tb. pails ...advance 1 | Maccaboy, in jars ....... 36 sunpowde t t y dz. 2
Ceresota, Me atvise «aes do S ked M t | French Rappie in jars / Moy m meei S = i ¥ ‘ Ms
Ceresota, Ys 6 20 moked Meats ;
Ce " Hams, 12 fb. average..15 | SOAP Moyune 21 No. 2 n 29 a e
Lemon & Wheeler's Brand ? é 4 | fy Cc Moyune, fan £5 “ Fee
Wingold s 6 05|tiams, 14 Ib. average. .14% | 7 oe Pinewies. medion 5 | Cas [a | —- se
Win ole % eS 5 95 Hams, 16 Ib. average..15 | \merican Family 4 oF Pin y. ed Z 2 wal ret Caney
Wingold” es (ee $5 | Hams, 18 Ib. average. 15 | Dusky Diamond, 59 802 2 86 | fF" ¢ . 7
aa ek a stiu| Ham. dried beef sets .16%|Jap Rose, 50 bars 3 6} Young Myson
Laurel, 4s cloth’ ees 6 Ou b i Vee, ‘ «| Choice 3
Laurel, 4s cloth 5 99 | California Hams ..11@11% Bees ioe anes 2 i “- $
isn GP Cabal ani Picnic Boiled Hams ..15 fhite Russian ores CL Fa vue : .
et eg 2 ieee ae 22 | ueme. oval bars -..- "3 00] | Gatong Mop Sticks
Voigt Milling Co.'s Brand|#«rlin Ham, pressed ..11 | 3atinet, oval .........2 70 diten ring
Voigt’s Crescent (6 bot ced Mant -..... 11 | Snowberry, 190 cakes 4 0 soni aoe a s
Voigt’s Flouroigt le gg eeeon 3.62.55. 1.. 17@17%4 | : Proctor & Gamble Co PN i "nas eas _
Voigt’ ra : Sausages | Lenox Satter eeeees o oe end . . — <
‘an. eo 5 00; Bologna .............. 9 |lvory, 6 oz. ....-..--. ‘oe x5) 12 ttor
Voigt's | Royal ey 6 SGT tevet 7... se 7%@ 8 |Ivory, 10 oz. ........ 6 to Pari . a oy i
ykes & Co. Pranetort .)..... GMG10 (OIA oles ss eee - 2 “es in Pails
Sleepy Eee 4s cloth..6 20] Pork ........:....-... il Lautz Bros. & Co. Cov oe 5+ noep Standa
ibe Eve a clan WO iio isi nce 11 |aAcme, 30 bars, 75 ibs. 4 00) Ceylon, <<< aes op Standard 2
Sleepy Eye, %s cloth..6 lu| ae 6£ian we 4 ( Fancy genan es as } = ,
Sleepy Bye, %s cloth..6 00] Longue --..-.......... il 1cme, 25 bars, 75 Ibs. 4 00 hig [2-w he 3 Fancy—itn Pails
Sleepy Hye, a. paper 6 00| Headcheese .......... 9 \eme. 25 bars, 70 Ibs. 3 30] UBACCO ar all ri “23s
seepy liye, 4S nite 6 00 Beef Acme, 100 cakes ‘ 3 25 o Fine Cut “ : ;
Wate ee aa DOCTORS § 3 oat eee 14 00| Big Master. i) bars ee SE EOE ose wees il 4% 4 r & <a ea ze 3
Pole ee nee tump, new <ecteeseee 14 00|German Mottled ....-.:; , 50 Hiawatha, 16 oz. . 66 «5 2 <
aa eee Pig’s Feet German Mottled, 5 bxs 3 45| Hiawatha, 1 oz. 56. oothoicks x
oe ee ee ese SO a 1 20|German Mottled, 10 bx 3 40|No Limit, 7 oz. 3 @ laren 2 :
Golden Sheaf Flour ..4 20| 7 ite 40 ts 2 15|German Motled, 25 bx 3 25|No Limit. 14 oz a ee cae ; 2 7
Marshall’s Best Flour 6 15 4 DDIS., J IN wea oe ae Lo 2erman wiOtied, - Do > do O LAM as IZ. s id % a , or
Fe ce : a ae 4 00} Marseilles, 100 cakes 6 00/ Ojibwa, i6 oz. . 4) 2
Perfection Buckwheat 3 00 6 aweottiuen a a crema ek t
Pia ; 1 Oe 12... 9 00| Marseilles, 100 ckes ide 4 90| Ojibwa, sc pkg. : I % ea
Lip Top fAncge lovey 2 . Tripe Marseilles, 100 ck toil 4 0 Ujibwa, jc ... 47 T rags
ee ee ee kits, 16 the, 52. -.- 20s 90 | Marseilles, 4¢bx toilet 2 10| Petoskey Chief, 7 oz ..1 36 2
ee Oe ee. oe i. 1 60 A. B. Wrisley Petoskey Chief, 14 oz. 3 76
OE CORR one nae ns - 35/4 bbls., 80 Ibs, .......3 00|Good Cheer ...... ---4 00 Sterling Dark, ‘Se > 76
Hoyle Scratch Feed 1 5é ;
yie r ae ecd ..1 v0 ; ——— 7 Oia CommGty ........-. 3 40 Sweet Cuba, ic .. > Gu)
ea ZOeS, Der Wee ......... 35 Soap Powders Sweet Cuba, ide i 10 ‘
SOULCG cece ia J. 6 401 Beef, rounds, set ..... 20} Snow Boy, 24s family __ | Sweet Cuba, 1 Ib. = 7 . = -
Golden Granulated ...3 60| Beef, middles, set .... 70 OME oes ca ese 4 00 | Sweet Cuba, 16 oz. £ Ww 46s
St. Car Feed screened 22 v0|Sheep, per bundle .... 80|3now Boy, 60 ic ....-- 2 40 Sweet Cuba, % Ib. 2 1612 3
No. 1 Corn and Oats 22 0vu Uncolored Butterine Snow Boy, 30 i0c 2 40| Sweet Burley, ic > 6 3
Corn, cracked ...... zi 00{ Solid dairy ...... 10 @12 Gold Dust, 24 large ..4 50' Sweet Mist, % ar. —o ~
Corn Meal, coarse ..21 00|Country Rolls ..10144@1614| Gold Dust, 100-5e ..... 4 09 iSweet Burley, 24 ib. ca 4 90) ~ e,. Sancy—tn 3th. Banes
Winter Wheat Bran 25 0u Canned Meats _[Biveoime, 24 4. -....- 3 301" Tiger, % gross .. 3 OO , N Z ‘
Buftalo Gluten Feed 30 00 so 7 : 2 60 a ed de ona awa : Si Tiger, 5¢ tins .... & 56/| Lf ‘
i orne DEE «cosh SPISOGDING 2.8 ces cee ene 0 FUncle Daniel, i Ib. eoe ie < a z
Wie Boe Roast beef, 2 Ib. ...... 3 60|Babbitt's i776 ........ $I fUncle Daniel, 1 ox. 11.15 22480. 2 F p 2 3
O P Linseed Meal ..37 50 oo ae 1 i. ...... 1 99 |Roseine ...-.-------. = Plug . semanas
Laxo-Cake-Meal 35 00] 7,0°t© am, “AS .«.-..-- ov AmmOuUrs -.-_.--.---- Siam Navy, 15 on .... 2 ¥ashooards
Roemeess Meal et 00 Bate i 7. 2S ---- 90) Wisdom sa as 3 8 Drummond, Nat Leaf, €
on JE VEC £ , 745 eevee on Soa ompounds 2 aa is 60 | »’"*
Brewers’ Grains "..1.2/ vo| Deviled Ham, %s 11. 90| Johnson's Fine -...---.5 10| Drummond Nat. ieaf |
Baa 8 Potted tongue, 4s .... 50| Johnson's MAXX _..... 4 25 oe a ee. 95 ¢ Singl
ys ert Or Feed 24 O68 Potted tongue, %s .... 90|Nine O'clock - 3 WB patitle Ax 37) be TS
Mote: ILCOE bas sas oo « 26 00 RICE R iNo-Mere |... 2 85 . — “——? tt a é 3 x sa “
7 “a SUD-INO-BLOTE «cccecvrs o De Sivacey ..__......-. : at eg Sus i
Oats WANG 6.45040 La. 7 @ T% Scourin j i as ae | N t ; - “
Michigan carlots .... 36% Japan ede e awa. 5%@ 6% Enoch ‘Morgan's Sons Big oa v" al } ‘ = os
3 Boot Jack 35
Less than carlots ..... 3d STOMOM .1.0,..05., 2% @ 314] Sapolio, gross lots ....9 00 Hollies Uc... OO A 4 wae . a5
Corn a SALAD DRESSING _|Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 50 l€limax’ Golden eee a i : er :
pp shage ed a Vegeces. 5d ee ? Diet 42... 2 23 Sa polio, single boxes 2 25? bays —— 33 | Window Clearers | imperial
ess than carlots 2 Se Columbia We 4 Sanolio, halid ......... 2 25% oe oe Biz etnies |
Hay Durkee’s, large, 1 doz. 4 50) Se caine ‘Manufac turing C ee ey apa : ae aes <=
Cariots. .....2....... 16 Durkee’s, small, 2 doz. 5 : Seourine, 50. cakes ....1 36/7: Co : alfa } a
Less than carlots ... 17 |Snider’s, large, 1 doz. 2 Scourine, 100 cakes _..3 50 oa oo 2. ss Wood Bowls aw
MAPLEINE Snider’s, small, 2 doz, 1 3: SODA oa oe kc. a Ce 6
2 oz. bottles, per doz. 3 Ou SALERATUS SS ee Sie Goid Rope, 14 to Ib. .. 38 S
How Onteans in al toe see eee Granger ‘Twist 0/0000) 6 s
4 d < 2 ¢ je z &
Mancy Open Kettle .. 42) Deland@ ............. 3 00 Whole Spices oe . a ce 5 ts
Cholee. 0. i $a| Dwight’'s Cow ........ 3 00} Allspice, Jamaica .....13 [Horse Di oe ae al Ass s-ty ...-4 3%
MOO gece e esses. ett Pog 3 00! Allspice, large Garden il eons a ig wwe eens OE WRAPPING PAPER se
WO ee cs es eee... 8... 1 80| Cloves, Zanzibar ...... 16 re. ee SS n Stra $e
Half barrels 2c extra W eo ---& 00] Cassia, Canton ....--.. 1 ea = cars Se
Case, 5¢ Oak Got..-...22 fl -
Per an MEAT 2 85 Granulated, bbls. ..... 80 | Ginger, African Jolouas 91g mismet Ta athas lege ada 48 ss
oer ae Granulated, 100 tbs. ecs. 90} Ginger, Cochin ........ 144% Nobby Spun Koll . as
% co. . bingy, Ue 80| Mace, Penang ........ 70 — eeceredewees “os = M 2% : =
. . Oe eee see Lump, 145 Th. Kegs .. 9% Biised, Mo. f _.....--. 16% ecacney dtdéeddeede wa t 1
OLIVES SALT Mixed No. . 1 Picnic Twist . Wateee % ¥ ls
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 10@1 20 Common Grades _| Mixed, 5c pkgs. doz...45 } Piper Heidsick .......- 693i Wax B ic, role _. 3 “
Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 95@1 10/100 3 th. sacks 2 40| Nutmegs, 75-30 ....... 36 | Redicut, 1% ox ....-.. 38 ; YEAST CAKE 3m
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 0@1 00| 60 5 Ib. sacks .... ..2 Nutmegs, 105-110 .....29 Red Lion .......... 36 Mag loz : Cc :
Stuffed, 56 cz. ....... --. 90] 28 10% tb. sacks -2 10} Pepper, Black ........ 14 | Sherry Cobbler, 10 oz 26/3 z Z Putnam Menthol i «@
Stuffed, 8 oz. ...... «+ek SB) 56 th. sachet .......... 32| Pepper, White _....... 25 | Spear Head, 12 om .... 4$| Sunlig % z ) Smith Bros. is
Stuffed, 14 oz. ..... so ae) Of Wh sacha 17| Pepper, Cayenne ...... 22 |Spear Head, 14% of -. 44 3 a > NUT S—Wihole
<r = stuffed) 4 tila & 3 we a : ‘ -aprika, Hungarian .. Spear roa 7 oz. = {ea i Z ) 2 aes
COOK C Oe eee eo “ on Pa dairy in ari IAS ) Pure Ground in Bulk square ? «vere ore oS 3 * Oa 2 E ‘ 3 ral
> ® OZ. ...... 90/28 tb. dairy in drill bags 20] Anispice, Jamaica ..... 12 FRESH FISH ;
Lunch, 10 oz. ......... 1 35] Solar Rock Cloves, ‘Zanaibar a r
Lunch, 6 OF cee eas. 2 aise Wh, sacha 2.) |... 24| Cassia, Canton ........ 12 -
Queen, Mammoth, 19 ae Common Ginger, African ....... 12 2 hee
We boss ele a ee 3 75 Granulated, Gre 5. .., 90| Mace, Penang ......... 7 3
Queen, Mammoth, 25. | Medinin, fie 20.1... ... 95| Nutmegs, 75-30 .......35 ~
on OZ a 7. ea 5 25 a FISH Pepper, Black ... 11% g '
ive ow, 0Z, CS, L od Pepper, Woite ......-. 13 3 2 3 tg
Der GOZ .....:..... 2 25| Large whole .... @i7 Poster Cayenme ...... 16 c ;
TOOTH PICKS — Small whole ...._ @ 6%| Paprika, Hungarian 45 $ arg
oa paeiaa Tooth Picks 2 a i a bricks 7144@10% STARCH a eetitaete
Pak oo. oo. St Polloek ......... @ 5 Corn Hf Hickory Nuts ger bu
PICKLES a Halibut _| Kingsford, 40 tbs. .... 7% wi aio, — —
Medium oT BeeIOe 22.00. 15| Muzzy, 20 1th. pkgs. .. 5% at its
Barrels, 1,200 count ..7 75 OCRUDES 26550. 6 cca. 16 Muzzy. 40 Iitb. kes. ..5 Oaklan 5
Half bbls., 600 count 4 50 Holiand Herring eT ao Stat . "
- * oss State 3 ’ z 2 36
5 gallon kegs .......... 2 25 x. M. wh. hoop, bbis 12 00 Kingsford 49 gr “ <a
5 ar i Sree
Small Y. M. wh. hoop, %bbl. 6 25! Silver Gloss, 409 Ifbs. 7% Barrels Mack .
Barrels Rede meas ---9 00 Y. M. wh. hoops, kegs 75 Silver Gloss, 16 3tbs. 6% WICKING lie '
Hall barrels .......... 5 251 Y. M. wh. hoop Milchers Silver Gloss, 12 6fbs. 8% No. 0 per gross ‘ 3 woe S .
5 gallon kegs ......... 1 90 MOSe 3d ie coc 85 Muzzy No. 1 per gross 46 a ad Roe, ¢ ccc ‘i ™ =o ES o
Gherkins Queen, bbis ......... 11 00/48 1%. packages ...... 5 No. 2 per gross yi) Speckied Bass $6 a i
PUOUTOIR oes a se 11 00} Queen, % bbls. ...... 5 75116 5tb. packages ...... 4% No. 3 per gross 13 wines AND PELTS Auicante Aimonds Bee
Etat, Darreis .........2. & 00  Qucen, keza ........... 65112 6b. packages ...... 6 WOODENWARE ; sordan Almonds oe
5 gallon kegs .......... 2 75 Trout Som. bee 2% _ Baskets : N - Peanuts
Sweet Small m0, t, 300 lee. -........ T 50 SYRUPS Bushels .... «ences & OL Green N 2 “y FPancy H P Jungs o :
eS rels 01s... ooe-setd SO} No, 1, 40 Ibo. ........3 25 Corn Bushels, wide band ..1 15; Cured No. 1 } Roasted St
aTAME DGrreis, ..:...... 7 60 Ma, 1 16 We... 90i Barrels ...... a 23 Market .......-..-....- @| Cured No. 2 4 ‘ tae, HB P jam
5 gallon kegs ........ 3 00 No. 1, $ Ibe. .......... 15! Half barrels ..-....... 2§ Splint, large .......... 3 Calfskir, green. No. I 12 Be @3i

 

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Special Price Current

 

 

| Jute
ae... ESE 75
Were occa ee 90
ma. 1.05
Gs 1 50
Cotton Victor
oe 10
POO. nies ba. 1 35
WOR ec 1 60
| Cotton Windsor
Ort. 3g 30
Pe chee 1 44
| 70ft. seececessessess 180
Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00 | 80ft. Soke cbr ecce cee o 2 00
Paragon ......-.. 55 6 00) Cotton Gestion
ie 35
BAKING POWDER oe 95
Royal oe 1 65
10c size 90) Galvanized Wire

‘No. 20, each 100ft. long 1 906

Ib. cans 1 35 No 19) each 100ft. long 2 10
6oz. cans 1 90 | COFFEE
tb. cans 2 50 Roasted

&,1b. cans 3 75 Dwinell-Wright Co.'s B’ds.
ltb. cans 4 80)
sib. cans 13 00}
5th. cans 21 50

 

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White House, 1%b.
White House, 2mm. ........
Excelsior, Blend, 1fb.
Excelsior, Blend, 2%b.

  

 

 

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SOAP

Reaver Soap Co.'s Brand

 

100 cakes, large size..
50 cakes, large size..
100 cakes, small size..
50 cakes, small size..

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COINS

Tradesman Co.’s Brand

 

 

Black Hawk, one box 2 50
|Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40
| Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25
TABLE SAUCES

Halford, iarge ........ 3 75
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: Tip Top, Blend, lb. ......
Wabash_ Bakin Powder
slg eenads dig edd Misoe ...............
2 » -- Royal High Grade ...... oS
o0 oz. Un Cans ........ » © Superior Blend ...........
5 02. ray te 1 os Boston Combination ......
16 oz, tin cans ......., 75),Distributed by Judson
it os. tin cans ..6.. 65 Grocer Co., Grand Rapids;
i) oc tin @ans ....... 55 Lee & Cady, Detroit; Sy-
8 og, tin Gans ........ 45 mons Bros. & Co., Sagi-
2 of. tin cans ........ 35 naw; Brown, Davis &
32 oz. tin milk pail ..2 00 Warner, Jackson; Gods-
16 of tin bucket... 99 mark, Durand & Co., Bat-
11 OZ. glass tumbler .. 85 tle Creek, Fielbach Co.,
6 oz, glass tumbler .. 75 Toledo
16 oz. pint mason jar 8d FISHING TACKLE
to 1 tn. |... ee. 6
CIGARS Rnten 7
Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand /1% to 2 in. ............. 9
; Sim. . 5.2... cee 11
ee ee. 15 |
Ke ccebeepeeebe sk ceed 20)
Cotton Lines
(eit... ..... 5
4 . 15 Pee oe i
23. to (eet . 2... 9
ge feet... 10
| 6, ab feet ..........5 11
5 No; 6, 15 feet ......._... 12
3. C. W., 1,000 lots ..... Oh iti. 7, 1G tk ......-. 05 15
Ml Pormane .............- No & 16 fect 18
Evening Press .......... Be No, 8 16 feet ..... 20
POM 8 ec 32 i tds
Brand —
eee Sere oe ce. 20
Ben Hur Dtogiim ....-...-..---..
ee 8. ..... 35 Large ......-.- petteeeee 34
Perfection Extras ....... 35 Poles 5
oneees ==... 35 Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 65
Londres Grand ......... 35 | Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60
Penne 35, simboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80
SeOUOIONS 06.0... wee ek 35 |
Panatellas, Finas ....... cl... ee ee, fl
Panatellas, Bock ....... 251 > oe — a 3 oe
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10 5c pkgs., per case ..2 60
8 10¢ pkes., per case 2 60 Full line of fire and bur-

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165

 

For Sale—One of the oldest established
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boots, shoes and rubbers, $1,581.26; hats
and caps, $137.49; hardware, $310; drugs
and paints, $1, 078. 68; flour, feed and
grain, $562; store fixtures, $1,339.06; ac-
counts receivable, $346. 15; horses, ve-
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look it over and make me an offer. Gil-

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state; located on fine country
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least $8,090. Have accumulated enoug!
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For Sale—Stock and

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sickness. Address Pr. O. Box
Ind.

Man and wife with $2,500 in
yet possession of one of E I t and
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Tradesman, 153

care

general stock

three

To Exchange Fi or
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renthle. Have some unimproved
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$1,900.

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bert E. Carter, Receiver, Plumb-Hayes
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purposes. Also large feed mill. Will ex
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January 25, 1911

 

 

A PLANT NOT WANTED.

 

The Committee Inspected the Work-
ers’ Homes.
Written for the Tradesman.

“Your Committee,” said the chair-
man of the industry section of the
Dingwell Business Men’s Association,
would respectfully report that the
proposition of the Harrow Box Com-
pany does not appear, after a care-
ful study of all the conditions, to be
worthy of consideration by this Asso-
ciation.”

“What's that?” yelled the real es-
tate man.

“An adverse report?’ wailed the
lumber dealer.

“Lay it on the table!’ shouted the
representative of the railroad.

“What does this mean?” demanded
cne of the capitalists of the town.
“T would like to ask if the members
of the Committee visited Harrow, as
instructed by this Association at a re-
cent meeting.”

“We did,” replied the chairman.

Well, what’s wrong down there?”

“Give me time and I'll explain why
the Committee thought best to make
the report which has been presented.”

The capitalist snorted but did not
give the chairman the floor.

“Did you ask about the financial
standing of the concern?” he demand-
ed, lifting his stubby forefinger in
menace.

“Yes, we found out all about that,”
was the reply.

“Oh, you did! And you found out
how much the concern’s bank balance
is, I presume?” snorted the other.

“We did not,” replied the chair-
man.

“T thought
wrong,”

there was somethinz
chortled the capatilist. “Wel!
did you find out how much money the
concern brought to the town every
year?”

“We were told,” was the reply, “but
that cut no figure with us.”

The capitalist, who owned the site
which the Box Company had been
thinking of taking if the bonus asked
was handed out, turned appealingly
to the audience of business men, all
now deeply interested in the discus-
sion.

“Gentlemen,” he said, shoving his
fat hands out appealingly, “we ought
to have another committee appointed
in this matter. Here’s a concern pay-
ing good dividends—as high as fif-
teen per cent—reported against. Tf
we are going to run this Association
in this manner we may as well dis-
band. Did you ascertain,” he con-
tinued, looking with withering scorn
at the grocer, whe had made the re
port, “how many hands are employed
by this concern?”

“Of course we did.
hundred.”

“And the Committee reports against
this concern coming here and giving
work to two hundred of our people!
Tt is outrageous! It is absurd! JT
never heard anything like it before!”

“Tf you will make a motion,” said
the chairman of the meeting, “we'l!
get this discussion into shape.”

“T move that the report of the Com-
mittee lie on the table, that the Com-
mittee be discharged from further
consideration of the subject, and that

About two

a new committee be appointed by the
chair,” cried the capitalist.

“Second!” shouted the lumber deal-
er, who had been talked with regard-
ing material for the plant in case it
(was moved from Harrow to  Ding-
well.

“Second!” roared the local agent of
the railroad.

“Now get to going!” said the
clothier. “I’d like to know what this

is all about.”

“Before the discussion begins,”
said the chairman, “I should like to
know if the Committee ascertained
the amount of raw’ material pur-
chased each year by the company.”

“About a hundred thousand dollars’
worth,” replied the chairman of the
Committee.

“And how much does it pay ouc
in wages each week? continued the
chairman.

“About six hundred dollars,” was
the reply.

“Six hundred dollars!”’screamed the
capitalist. “This Committee wants to
throw six hundred dollars a week out
of the city. It wants to prevent
two hundred laborers getting employ-
ment!”

“Let the chairman of the Commit-
tee explain!” suggested the clothier.

“T don’t see as there is anything
to explain,” said the capitalist, wip-
ing his heated brow with a huge hand-
kerchief.

“The chairman of the Committee
has the floor,” said the chairman of
the meeting, with a smile, for he
knew what was coming.

“We went over to Harrow,” began
the chairman of the Committee,
“and started in to look through the
factory. We found the conditions
indescribably bad as to light and
pure air. In fact, I have never seen
a worse condition in any manufac-
turing plant, and I have investigated
some.”

“That is why they want to move
here!” roared the lumber dealer.
“They want to get a_ larger _ site,
where the employes can have all the
light and pure air necessary.”

“They want to move here,’ con-
tinued the chairman, “because they
expect the city to give them $20,000
and take $30,000 worth of stock in
the company—which stock would be
entirely at the mercy of the three
big owners, who are now drawing
$10,000 salaries and paying dividends
of about 4 per cent.”

“State facts!” cried the capitalist.

“While going through the factory,’
continued the chairman of the Com-
mittee, “we observed many children
under 12 years of age employed. We
asked about it, and were informed
that the workers were all over 16!
We did not believe this, and took
other means of finding out.

“We also observed that a large
number of the operatives could not,
or did not, speak the English lan-
guage. We also discovered that most
of the children worked by the piece
and not by the day or hour.”

“Well, what of it?” demanded the
lumber dealer.

“When we left the factory we
asked citizens we talked with, about

 

the hours of employment there. We

 

were told that the average was ten
hours a day, although the children
were often required to work nights,
sometimes until quite late.”

“Better there than on the street,”
said the capitalist.

“Then,” continued the chairman of
the Committee, “we went to the
section of the city where the oper-
atives live.”

“What has that to do with it?”
asked the real estate man.

“It has this to do with it,” was
the reply. “We do not want. slum
districts in this town. We do not
want any four-story buildings di-
vided into three-room flats, with
six or eight people in every flat. We
do not want buildings put up with
no regard for sanitation, with low
ceilings, small windows and no ven-
tilating system. We do not want
a line of little hovels on each side
of the factory—dirty little buildings
where the front yard is the sewer.”

“People will live where and how
they please,” said the real estate
man.

“They won’t in Dingwell,” was the
reply, “if we can help it. Well, we
knew how the factory looked and
how it smelled, and we knew how the
homes of the workers looked and
smelled to heaven, and decided that
we did not want this company to
move those people here, or bring our
own people down to those condi-
tions.”

“Tf they spend their money here,
what difference will it make?” asked
the capitalist in a rage.

“If you want to know whether a
factory will be of benefit to a town,”
said the chairman of the Committee,
“Gust take a trip through the streets
where its workers live. If you find the
employes living in neat little homes of
their own, with their children going
to school instead of the factory, you
know that institution will be of ben-
efit to the town, to the merchants, to
the business men generally.”

“Trying to drive away six hundred
dollars a week!” yelled the real estate
man.

“Now, let me tell you about that
six hundred a week,” continued the
chairman of the Committee. “There
are nearly two hundred workers in
that factory, and the payroll is only
six hundred a week. What does that
mean? It means that the average
sum earned there is about three dol-
Jars a week! It means that the chil-
dren average about a dollar and a
half for sixty hours’ work. It means
that the men with families earn about
seven dollars a week.

“Now, gentlemen, the Committee
understands that this concern is a big
moneymaker, but we want a concern
here which is of some benefit to the
town, and not entirely to the three
owners of the stock. We want a con-
cern which distributes a fair share of
the profits among the workers.

“This concern will not give employ-
ment to our people, even if they
would work for the starvation wages
given, for the people employed
there now will follow on here. They
will work as cheaply as they are
working now, and that will tend to
reduce wages in the city. We do not
want wages reduced. We want our

 

concerns to get good profits and pay
good wages. You all know that the
working man is not only the produc-
er of our wealth; he is the consum-
er. The reason why savings banks
have increased their deposits this year
is because wages have been forc-
ed up.

“Now, if you want such a concern,
if you want to rob the schools, if you
want to fill the hospitals and the poor
house with these workers, the hos-
pitals when they are ill, the poor
house when they grow old, if you
want a nest of undesirable citizens
here, just turn this report down.”

“The report is adopted,’ said the
chairman, after the vote, “and the
city will look for something more de
sirable to boost the town.”

Alfred B. Tozer.
ee
Why Do We?
Written for the Tradesman.

Because one has done
things a certain way is no excuse for
continuing to do them so after that
way has been proved wrong.

We all

fits, mental

always

have wandering impulses,
excitements: we
sometimes—if not in words we think

swear

it just the same, which is just as bad,
we boil over inside and break out on
all sides; we throw hot coals of fire
on some things and put water on
others; we get impatient and fever-
ish, hysterical and maggoty-headed,
over-zealous and _ enthusiastic, un-
controllable and inextinguishable on
some things and yet we hold on to
things that we know are wrong.

Why do we do these things?

Pleasure, gratification, enjoyment,
refreshment, experience, a_ blissful
-tate of mind, sparkling eyes of wis-
dom and a happy heart leaping with
productive mental calmness are
characters born in the mind that is
willing to give up everything for the
Truth?

Suffering, mental coolness, reck-
lessness, a marble heart, insensibility,
unconscious actions, an easily excited
mind, one that is filled with dissatis-
faction, are all born in thé mind
that continues to follow the old way
of doing and saying things.

Unhappiness, wretchedness, depths
of misery, nightmare and agonies of
all kinds, hell on earth and every-
where else, bad times and evil days
mentally, sacrifices of all kinds, dis-
contentment and a thousand other
things come to us when we fail to
accept proved truths and continue to
follow the wrong.

I have learned that it is foolish-
ness to enquire at the box office who
is going to sit beside me when I buy
my ticket for the theater, and if
those who sit on either side of me
do likewise we all enjoy the play.

Edward Miller, Jr.
se? > ____

Virtue is its own reward, but some
people seem to think it requires a
lot of advertising.

 

BUSINESS CHANCES.

For Sale—House, large lot and barn in
Ann Arbor. Fine condition. Rooms rent-
ing for sixty-five per month. Best loca-

 

tion in Michigan for corner grocery. No
Address A, H., care we as
: 170

exchange.
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Price-Cutting = containing a biscuit—popular and well known. Upon examunation | found these decidedly rancid and unfit for ‘ood. i. ai
= leamed later that all these goods had been bought m large quantities im order to get the once, and, as is oftem the case re
ate the quantity could not be disposed of while fresh and saleable. Age does not improve anything edible. There is a lime a a a a
even to ageing Limburger and Rocheford cheese—where loud smell gives some class in the nostril of the emeure. but { have
a : fz yet to find the first cereal or package foods, or foods sold in any form. that improve by age. and the sooner manufacturers a a
No Quantity 5 of food-stuffs change their system of quantity price and follow the “Square Deal” policy of 2 Battle Creel cereal the better , Sid oniy n
it to favor = for themselves, the reputation of their product, and the better for the grocer. [ just want to add here that among the Cereals _ the genuine
— = put out as damaged by smoke, none of which had the least nace of smoke, were “Kelloco's Toasted Com Ketlogg sacxage

 

Flakes,” (and three other brands*) and others, not one of them cnsp and fresh bur Kellogg's Toasted Com
Flakes. Why? Kellogg's was the only cereal there not bought im quantity. Single case ourchases keor
Nothing to = on the shelf fresh, crisp, wholesome and appetizing. From every standpomt, considerng quality, capital or
encourage over- | warehouse room, the square deal policy is the best and only policy for the Grocer
buying goods E *Names furnished on application.

=

# REPRINT FROM “UP-TO-DATE”
Edited by J. W. Rittenhouse, official organizer of the Retail
Merchant’ i is,

 

ization and Maintaining im Pennsylvania the largest
of Organized Merchants im the United States.”

IT PAYS EVERYONE TO STICK TO

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RR SERRA BEERS RARE

oe grocer really

 

 

RGO

CLOSS

Starch

doesn’t want
to sell bulk starch.

He realizes the trouble
and loss in handling it—
scooping and weighing and
putting it in a paper bag,
to say nothing of the little

 

 

broken pieces which settle

at the bottom of the bin and which he can’t well serve to his customers.

But what is there to take its place?

Argo—the perfect starch for all laundry uses—hot or cold starching—in the big clean package
to be sold for a nickel. That’s the answer.

You don’t have to explain it but once to your customer—If she tries it, she’ll order it again.
To sell Argo—stock it.

CORN PRUDUCTS REFINING COMPANY

NEW YORK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common-Sense
On Safes

 

pose of.

 

We Employ No Salesmen
We Have Only One Price

Yes, we lose some sales by having only one price on
our safes, but that is our way of doing business and it wins
oftener than it loses, simply because it embodies a correct
business principle.

IN the first place our prices are lower because we practically have
no selling expense and in the second and last place, we count one
man’s money as good as another’s for anything we have to dis-

If You Want a Good Safe—

and want to pay just what it is worth and no more

—Ask Us for Prices

 

 

Grand Rapids Safe Co.

Tradesman Building

Grand Rapids, Mich.