! eS Vie oS a G6 ae - BS Bs GY COCK x Ws 4 sf yy 0) Var ¥) ( as SRC noGy. » ,. fy > rf a Ss ye iS a. a S ” (ds [) Y (Ge aD XC a - = oe S PUBLISHED WEEKLY fos 27 NOLS <> WAS, AD ype LAF Twenty-Ninth Year . GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1911 Number 1459 ~) Cf wet » 15) “VAY B D i INA 5) = ALN AS ee WLZZZ- Sore ae a a ‘£5 BaD De 5 CFS ERP) SFL Que NI ZR" ets yw sg Y EN \ == eis eo Ra SI ale A Cf Zs Che Cown of Do Good My friend, have you heard of the town of No Good, On the bank of the river Slow, Where the Sometime-or-other scents the air And the soft Go-easy grow? It lies in the valley of What’s-the-use, In the province of Let-er-slide; It’s the home of the reckless I Don’t care, Where the little Give-it-ups abide. The town is as old as the human race, And it grows with the light of years; It is wrapped in the fog of the idlers’ dreams, Its streets are paved with discarded schemes And sprinkled with useless tears. Che Cown of Some Good My friend, have you heard of the town of Some Good, On the bank of the river Work, Where the noise of the hustle fills the air And high ambitions lurk? It lies in the valley of Nows-the-time, In the province of No-delay; It’s the home of the careful ever alert, Where the big Stick-to-it stay. The town is as young as the day before, And it grows in the darkest years; It is wrapped in sunshine of successful dreams And praises are sung to its honest schemes And echoed in Joyous cheers. Experience has taught thousands that there is no economy in cheap, inferior YEAST. Use FLEISCHMANN ’S—it is the best—hence the cheapest. Klingman’s Sample Furniture Co. The Largest Exclusive Retailers of- Furniture in America Where quality is first consideration and where you get the best for the price usually charged for the inferiors elsewhere. Don’t hesitate to write us. You will get just as fair treatment as though you were here personally. Corner Ionia, Fountain and Division Sts. Opposite Morton House Grand Rapids, Mich. Here’s the Danger of Abject Failure From the Careless Loss of One Little ’% Ounce 200 weighings per day with this loss would amount to 100 ounces passed out to your trade for good measure. Keep this up for 300 work- ing days and it will cost you 30,000 ounces; and at a conservative valuation of the value of these wasted, ‘‘good measure,’’ complimen- tary donations, you will actually give away $300 in values. You never had the matter put up to you so very frankly before: but these are facts. We are not magnifying your losses. On the contrary we are under-estimating them. We don’t want to discourage you, we want to encourage you; because there is a way out of all this losing game. fo wit: The Moneyweight Weigh. We can save all this undermining. profit-wasting guess work. We will reduce your methods to an exact science, and prove to you in one year's time that the System we are ready to install hasn’t cost you onecent. Don't you think it about time to spend a penny of this dead toss, and get positive proof of this matter. Moneyweight Scale Co. 58 N. State St. MASONIC TEMPLE, CHICAGO Grand Rapids Office, 74 So. Ionia St. Detroit Sales Office, 148 Jefferson St. Please mention Michigan Tradesman when writing The Computing Scale Co. Dayton, Ohio Direct Sales Offices in All Prominent Cities Here’s What It Means Mr. Merchant, it isn’t a case of trying to stop forgetting—but of relieving your mind of things you shouldn't attempt to remember. Pencil and paper were invented to chronicle thoughts, transactions, agreements. USE THEM. But—use them judiciously. SYSTEMATIZE their use. The American Accourt. Register and System for Merchants was perfected to meet the. mer- chant’s needs. With them. he has nothing to remember beyoud the very ordinary things. No forgotten charges. No C,O.D.’s overlooked. No month-end disputes over bills Every day's business balanced each day— WITHOUT BOOKS. 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Salem, Ohio The American Case & Register Company, Salem, Ohio, 165 Wilson St. Dear Sirs:—Kindly send me full particulars about your Account Register and System for Merchants, without cost to me. PIO 55 Sk ose ns wok eee aia ge eee WA GOTOSR ooo ios EEE he RE ea Sea eine gees ie CAN PROVE IT. All we ask you to do is to inquire. Do that TODAY. “ SNOWBOY ) Wont hurt SF As MOTTA SS \) y \ NF y a id } < We are telling YOUR customers about SNOW BOY z Washing Powder every day. How much SNOW BOY have you in stock? Quick Profits SVOWBOY ashing powder Lay Brese. Buffalo, N. Y. ee [RADESMAN Twenty-Ninth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1911 Number 1459 SPECIAL FEATURES. News of the Business World. 5. Grocery and Produce Market. 6. Financial. 8. Editorial. 10. Detroit Produce Market. 12. Butter, Eggs and Provisions. 14. Shoes. 16. Dry Goods. 18. Saginaw Valley. 20. Woman’s World. 22. Hardware, 24. The Commercial Traveler. POWER OF NEATNESS. If there is a single feature which counts for more than all others, es- pecially in a store containing eata- bles, it is the neatness in the estab- lishment—or the lack of it. It has allured customers when all else drew them elsewhere. Said a friend recently, “I do like to buy my bread and cakes at Blank’s. Everything is so exquisitely neat. True, I walk a whole block past an- other bakery; but it pays me well. We eat the stuff with a greater rel- ‘sh. In fact, when such goods can be bought at reasonable figures, it does not pay to slave over the fire.” The ways of the merchant are scru- tinized even more closely than those of the housewife; for he is, in 32 measure, a public character. If his ways are slipshod there is a recogni- tion of it, and customers slink back. They want the best, served in the best manner. And this is utterly in- compatible with greasy clothing and soiled hands. What if the enforced tidiness does make a little larger laundry bill? It is better to pay it than to lose enough in trade to pay a dozen laundry bills. Sleeve pro- tectors are cheap. Towels aand soap are within the reach of all. The sat- isfaction of making a good showing is worth much. There is more in habit than one would think. The man who gets up early, sweeps and dusts before any customers arrive, beholds the sun rise and sees that everything is bright and shining has the advantage in every way, and he can do the work of the day better because of the fact. When surroundings and_per- sonal apparel deserve a _ constant apology no one can give their best personal service—to say nothing of the impression made by the goods. THE POWER OF AMBIGUITY. A large department store which makes specialties every week and al- most every day in the year came out a few days ago with the announce- ment of a sale of summer dresses at exceedingly low figures. Now a visitor who had but the day before looked over the bargains in left- overs read the advertisement a sec- ond time to make sure that the prize was not the contents of the table she had been looking at. There could be no mistake. The wording was plain. It was a new purchase of summer clothing, even although the season was well advanced, just be- cause they were so beautiful and cheap that the temptation “to us was irresistible, as it will be to you.” She changed her plans for the day in order to make the second trip down town, yet could see nothing there that she had not seen the day before. On enquiring for the “posi- tively new consignment,” the clerk nodded to the old tables. Persisting. she was informed that they got no new summer stock in so late in the season. “But the advertisement this morning said you had some new goods in to-day. It was new copy and the wording was to that effect.” “Oh, these are all new goods,” was the reply, “but they have been on the tables before.” Here was a simple case of ambig- uity, misleading and done intentional- ly. It is needless to say that the woman walked away wiser and that she caught through this a new fea- ture in a house which she had before deemed thoroughly reliable. The scheme may have sold more dresses on that particular occasion. But, did it pay? HOW WE LIVE. Whether we live or only exist de- pends largely upon ourselves. We see those surrounded by the most sub- lime pictures nature has to offer, in- sensible to these heavenly gifts, and thinking only of how large the pota- to crop will be. True, scenery alone will not furnish subsistence; but the man who learns to look skyward while he toils renders it something no longer entitled to the old word degrading; and while his crop may be just as prolific as in the old way, his life is rendered less irksome. To be able to make the most of our possi- bilities we must learn to seize the little grains of sunshine as they are poured forth and convert them into golden nuggets of happiness. Hall has said: “Remember you have not a sinew whose law. of strength is not action; you have not a faculty of body, mind or soul whose law of improvement is not energy.” Our divinely endowed faculties were loaned to us for a purpose. It is not ours to render them inert through inaction, but to exercise them sanely in many ways. Man is not born with one idea, neither is he destined to walk in the same path through life. Diversified fields are open on every side. His calling may seem a lim- ited one. He may specialize along a narrow line. Yet his pastime should lead into other ways which will be a revelation as well as a rest. Every muscle is designed for ac- tion, and the recreation which most uniformly calls these into action is regarded as the highest physical cul- ture. Every thought should lead to intellectual development in the same way. Energy is called for at every step. The power to apply it is giv- en. And if we neglect or refuse to develop the divine gifts, the loss is ours; the fault with ourselves alone. Our best service is a duty which we owe to ourselves as well as to the Divine Master. The president of the street railway company of St. Louis has awarded $500 in prizes for essays on the best methods of transporting passengers pleasantly and safely. The first prize for a description of “The Model Motorman” was given to a motorman, who wrote that those who followed his occupation “should be neat and clean and never drink; answer ques- tions politely and briefly, and never be drawn into conversation; stop the car conveniently at crossings for pas- sengers to alight; be cheerful and obliging about opening front door for passengers; should not quarrel with teamsters over right of way; watch for children and others darting across streets from behind vehicles; sound gong and run slowly in passing school houses or children on the street.” The man who won the prize for the best essay on “The Model Conductor” wrote that he “should make rides so pleasant passengers will want to ride with him again; call out important streets and _ transfer points; notify passengers when reach- ing streets where they have asked to be let off; register fares as soon as collected to avoid disputes; keep bill in sight while making change to avoid disputes as to its denomination; give passengers bills when requested, in- stead of loading them down with small change; assist aged or infirm persons, children and women with babies in getting on and off cars; watch intoxi- cated people to see they do not fall off and get hurt.” The automobile is making a great deal of difference in many lines with which it would not ordinarily be re- garded as closely associated. It has changed the summer hotel business quite a little and those resorts that are along the line of good highways have enjoyed a material boom in their business. Now it is said that the re- ceips of the Pullman company are considerably less than before, and the reason assigned is that the class of people who can afford to pay for Pull- man tickets are traveling through the country by automehile. They are not doing it for the purpose of saving money, because automobiling is much more expensive than having a state- room in a Pullman car on a limited train. They have more time and op- portunity to see the country, and find jt a more enjoyable method of travel- ing when they have leisure. Certainly the automobile is making itself felt in various ways. The National Retail Monument Dealers’ Association has been hold- ing a convention at Cincinnati and among the subjects discussed: was the cost of gravestones. The President of the Association said that the peo- ple are demanding better stones with which to mark the graves of their dead, and that thereby it costs more to die than it used to. He said mon- uments would not cost more than a third what they do if people did not ask for better stones. Either people are getting better wages or pay more attention to the dead than in gone by. [tt costs a deal to live, and now the monument men say it costs more to die. What is a poor person to do? years good The boyhood home of Mark Twain Mo., built by his fa- has been purchased by in Hannibal, ther an enterprising to the city, in 1839, citizen and presented that it may be preserved. It its not a pretentious home, for Mark Twain a poor boy, but the purchaser and donor of the building says that the life of the famous humorist shows that poverty in order was is rather an incentive than a bar, and he hopes other boys of humble birth and surroundings may be inspired by Mark Twain's life to improve them- selves. The idea is an excellent one, and it is intended that the home pre- sented to Hannibal shall be preserv- ed as long as possible.: cane eee A decision was recently reached in a North Carolina court whereby the Western Union Telegraph Company was found to be hable for failure to deliver a message which it received for transmission after regular office hours. The decison was to the ef- fect that he company is liable unless the sender is notified that the message can not be promptly deilvered, al- though when accepting it the operator ‘€ there is nothing other end of the receiving office is found agrees to send it the matter at the and the to have no means for prompt delivery. line,” The Chicago Board of Review had an awful shock a few days since, when a woman taxpayer appeared and pro- tested against the assessment made on her property. She was so angry that she told them if they didn’t reduce her assessment she would become a suf- fragette instantly. The threat had the desired effect and the board, after a brief consultation, did as asked. This is a club which many other wom- en can use in the same way. she Has the. undertaker promised you a rebate on the immediate delivery of your body? If not, why are you so active in his behalf? 2 What Some Michigan Cities Are Do- ing. Written for the Trod«sman. Bay City has granted an extension of time from Sept. 1 to July 1 next to the Tittabawassee Power Co., where- by the latter contracts to deliver elec- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN from noon until midnight. This would be in violation of a State law and, as the editor of the Escanaba Journal well remarks: “The 300 per- sons who signed the petitions ought to be ashamed of themselves.” Menominee will entertain the Picture taken at U. C. T. picnic Saturday, August 26, by W. E. Smith tric current in Bay City at 8-10ths of a cent per kilowatt. The week of October 16 is the date set for Jackson’s third annual indus- trial fair. The show is held under the auspices of the Chamber of Com- merce, its purpose being the adver- tising of Jackson-made products. Saginaw’s varied. industries will, for the first time, be fully represent- ed at the fourth annual industrial ex- position to be held in that city Sept. 22-30. More than 5,000,000 celery stalks are being shipped out of Kalamazoo daily, which is a record-breaker for that market. President Taft will visit Bay City Sept. 18 and the programme for the day includes a mass meeting in We- nonah Park and the dedication by the Fresident of the new National Guard armory. Promoters of the electric road from Battle Creek to Coldwater state that dirt will begin to fly in April. The line will help both terminals, partic- ularly Coldwater, a one-road city. Secretary Browne, of the Port Hu- ron Business Men’s Association, re- ports that no fewer than five im- portant industries are headed that way and that none of these asks a bonus or the investment of local cap- ital. Every dog in Jackson must wear a license tag, the city having resolved to enforce the ordinance on this mat- ter. Ann Arbor has adopted a traflic ordinance. Another reform in con- templation, in connection with the city government, is a purchasing de- partment. “Again we hold our breath,” says the editor of the Manistee Daily News, “while the Board of Trade endeavors to slip the halter over a promising new industry seeking a good location.” Petitions signed by 300 people of Escanaba have been sent in to the city Council asking for an amend- ment of the pool room ordinance so as to permit these places to remain open until midnight and on Sundays county fair, Sept. 12-15, with day and night shows. The Lenawee county fair will be held in Adrian Sept. 25-30, one of the features this year being motor cy- cle races under the auspices of the Interstate Association. The twenty-seventh annual fair of the Charlevoix County Association will be held at East Jordan Sept. 12-15. Work on a big factory for the manufacture of macaroni and similar flour products at Tecumseh has be- gun. The main building will be 60x 435 feet and the plant will be the largest of its kind in the United States. Hancock has lines out for several new industries, one of these being the Kelley Chair Co., of Grand Rap- ids. The Bureau of Information offices, which hae been conducted by the Board of Trade of Traverse City with such excellent results this season, will remain open until Dec. 1. Aft- er that date the office of the Board will be removed to the Sutherland block. Experimental Tungsten lights for street lighting are being tried out for street lighting at Grand Haven by the Business Men’s Association. The Board of Public Works of Cadillac has ruled that all shade trees must be trimmed to a height of eight feet from the ground, in or- der that the city arc lights may do their best work and the trimming must be done before Sept. 12, the opening day of the Northern Dis- trict Fair. Cadillac is donning her best clothes for the fair and wants to be seen. Sault Ste. Marie will hold a Horse Show Sept. 19, strictly for farm hors- es, and it is expected there will be 500 entries. President Taft, Govern- or Osborn and other notables have been invited. The Mancelona Broom Co. will re- move its plant from Mancelona to Big Rapids. Almond Griffen. ———— ~-.s A good remedy for wrinkles—baby smiles. Grand Rapids 1911 Trade Extension Excursion. The Grand Rapids wholesalers and jobbers will make their annual Trade Extension Excursion this year over the G. R. & J. north to Mackinaw. They will start at 7 o’clock the morn- ing of September 26 and four days will be taken for the trip. They will travel by a special train of three compartments and one combination compartment and observation § cars, two diners, a day coach and a bag- gage car and will sleep and eat on board. The itinerary has not been completed in all its details yet, but the first stop wil be at Rockford, the first night will be spent at Big Rap- ids, the second at Mancelona, the third at Petoskey, the train pulling out in time to reach Cheboygan for a two hour visit Friday morning. Fri- day afternon will be spent at Harbor Springs and the start for home will be in time to catch the last street cars Friday night. The towns to be visited this season are all peculiarly and emphatically Grand Rapids terri- tory—with the exception of Cheboy- gan—and it is territory the Grand Rapids wholesalers and jobbers have been working for years. The social feature of the trip will be stronger than usual, because not a town will be visited but will have old friends to be met and greeted and ancient ac- quaintances to be renewed. The wholesalers and jobbers will mect next Monday night at the Pantlind for their annual dinner and details for the trip will then be arranged. It is expected more than fifty will take the trip this year and the number may be double that. —~-22>—___ Rough Talk By Preacher. In speaking at a Seventh Day Ad- ventist meeting at Portland, Ore., recently, the Rev. Luther Warren, of Los Angeles, urged all truth seek- ers to cast newspaper stories, maga- zines and novels out of their homes, declaring them to be the chief thing that militate against religion and right living. On the other hand, he urged them to read the Bible or such literature as would lead them to love the Bible. September 6, 1911 ing them. They are forced to read them in our schools, or they will not be allowed to graduate. “From the fairy tales of the cradle we are teaching falsehoods. That is the reason this is an age of skepti- cism. “T see people shedding tears over the troubles of the imaginary hero of some popular novel; but who ever sheds a tear when one reads of the toils of the hero of the New Testa- ment? We waste all our tears on the devil. “I feel more hope for the home | enter to find the whisky bottle on the table than for the home I enter to find its table littered with the devil’s lies, in popular novels and maga- zines. “The only right way is to throw out of the home every bit of reading that does not make one turn with love to the Bible, which is the only book that has truth.” ——_>+>——___ Kick on the Price of Sirloin. Daily our ears are assailed by the mournful chant on the high cost of living and on the soaring prices for anything and everything. No one can seriously dispute the statistics which reveal the glaring fact that the gen- eral level of prices on foodstuffs ani wearing apparel is from 50 to 200 per cent. higher now than ten years ago. And, during this steady pro- cession in the past decade, this coun- try has witnessed the introduction 9f a greater and a costlier list of luxu- ries than in any previous period. It is the American habit, it seems, to acquire everything within one’s reach that will conduce to a larger degree of personal comfort. The American wants the best and the lat- est in articles which enlarge his field of happiness; and it is this habit which has made the nation among the richest in the world. Coney Islands, moving picture shows, automobiles, steam yachts and motorcycles may be classed as luxu- ries elsewhere; but here they are ne- cessities. Fully $400,000,000 go into articles and entertainment in this country each year that another peo- ple would save. But his spending hab- it keeps business alive. The anomaly Picture taken at U. C. T. picnic Saturday, August 26, by W. E. Smith In part, he said “Satan has been making millions ot lies. Some people call them novels. Books and magazines and newspaper stories are written by the thousands, full of lies, and our children are read- of the situation is that, while the American will howl down the price of a sirloin, he rarely debates the price of his luxuries. _— 7-2 Greece imports every pound of coal that it consumes. ES Se September 6, 1911 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Separate drawer National Cash Register encourages clerks to sell more goods by giving each one credit for his sales. wm ~ This creates a friendly rivalry which results in each man increasing his ability as a salesman. By showing who makes mistakes it makes clerks careful and accurate in handling money and accounts. “ee Give your clerks an incentive to give you their best efforts by giving them credit for good work. Write for booklet explaining Multiple-Drawer National Cash Registers The National Cash Register Company Dayton, Ohio Salesrooms: 16 N. Division St., Grand Rapids; 79 Woodward Ave., Detroit RGR REA MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Movements of Mercharts. Rochester—O. G Grabiel has en- gaged in the grocery business. Eastlake—William Rodgers has sold his Home bakery to W. Eaton. Durand—Jones & Healy are clos- ing out their stock of groceries. Thompsonville—E, DeLaney suc- ceeds Tanner & Sons in the grocery business. Boyne .City—B. J. Suick has add- ed a line of groceries to his stock of furniture. Portland—Raymond Jenkins has opened a cigar, tobacco and confec- tionery store. Detroit—The Newton Beef Co. has - increased its capital stock from $15,- 000 to $100,000. : Big Rapids—Alexander Young, son of A. V. Young, has engaged in the Ye-Boot-er-ee. Fenton—C. L. Stone, successor to King & King, has shanged the name of his store to the “Fair.” Marquette—A. W. Lindstrom wil} engage in the grocery business on North Third street Oct. 1. Rochester—Misses Anna and Laura Volz will open a millinery establish- ment in Horn’s store Sept. 14. St. Joseph—Milo Hyde has sold his interest in the jewelry stock of Gil- bert & Hyde, to Joseph R. Gilbert. Portland—C. N. Smith and Otis Higgins, of Flint, have taken over the meat business of William H. Earle. Alma—J. M. Montigel & Co., lum- ber dealers, have dissolved partner- ship and will retire from business. Hudson—C, H. Smith and Robert Allen, of Reed City, purchased the A. F. Folsom bakery and will conduct same. Sheridan—R. E, Lomer has sold his grocery stock to I. C. De Hart and Benj. Heath, who will take posses- sion Oct. 1. Gladwin—Myers & Engelhart are preparing to put a line of shoes, dry goods, etc., in the Leonard building when completed. Corunna—Arthur Berry has pur- chased the meat stock of George Jar- vis and will continue the business at the same location. Hancock—Glass Bros. have pur- chased the clothing and shoe stock of Joseph Gaberson and the bazaar stock of I. Epstein. Battle Creek—The capital stock of the T. H. Butcher Co. dealer in men’s furnishings, has been increased from $15,000 to $40,000. Owosso—John Lener has engaged in the furniture and _ upholstering business in the building on West Main street, which he recently pur- chased. Battle Creek—S. F. McKay has purchased an interest in the Weick- genant Grocery Co.’s_ stock. The business will be continued under its present style. Detroit—The Detroit Piano Co. has been incorporated with an auth- orized capital stock of $2,000, of which $1,000 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Vassar—The Vassar Farmers Ele- vator Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $30,- 000, of which $20,610 has been sub- scribed and $4,000 paid in in cash. Port Huron—The Deibolt Gray Co. has engaged in the hardware business with an authorized capital stock of $20,000, of which $10,000 has been subscribed and $3,090 paid in in cash. Dowagiac — John Newman, the Cushman grocer, has purchased the Thomas Kilborn property, corner Telegraph and East Railroad streets, and will occupy it as a grocery store. Dowagiac—R. S. Hitt, who pur- chased the Dowagiac Steam bakery several months aga of Aloise Lieber, has sold it to M. R. Birkholz, of Champaign, Ill., who will continue the business. Maple Rapids—F M. Osborn, who formerly conducted a jewelry and bazaar store in this village, has bought the R. H. Hewitt stock of goods, and will re-engage in business here at an early date. Benton Harbor—O. Kline, who es- tablished the City Bakery some time ago, has sold a half interest to F. W. Hawley and the business will be continued under the style of Kline & Hawley. Union City—Daniel Aach, of Kal- amazoo, has leased the Leonard store building recently vacated by the Peo- ple’s Store and will at once place therein a stock of clothing and furn- ishing goods. Kalamazoo—A. H. Stulting, for many years well known in the cloth- ing business here, has accepted the position of manager of the clothing department of the Wm. Fishel store, on East Main street. Arcadia—The Arcadia Clothing Co. has merged its business into a stock company under the same style with an authorized capital stock of $25,000, of which $15,000 has been subscribed and $3,500 paid in in cash. Flint—A new company has been or- ganized under the style of the Bazley Market Co. to deal in meat and pro- visions, with an authorized capitali- zation of $5,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Houghton—E. R. Hixson has de- cided to consolidate his two Hougb- ton groceries, continuing the Flor- ence street store in East Houghton and vacating the down town store at Pewabic and Shelden streets. Coldwater—George H. Baker has purchased the meat market of the Eaton Grocery Co. on South Monroe street. Mr. Baker had been with the Eaton Grocery Co. for eight months preceding the transfer of ownership. Greenville—F. W. Horton has suc- ceeded his father, D. D. Horton, in the coal business and he has bought the coal business of S. A. Booth, and combining the two business will run them under the name of F. W. Hor ton. Lenox—A new department store has been organized under the style of the Neddermeyer Co., with an au- thorized capital stock of $10,000 com- mon and $5,000 preferred, of which $8,800 has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Fife Lake—Louis Morris has sold his dry goods stock to James Jonas, of Charlotte, and will sell his house- hold goods at auction September 9, and will make his future home in Traverse City and also run his store in Kingsley. Ludington—The dry goods business of the Adam Drach estate has been merged into a stock company under the style of the Adam Drach Co., with an authorized capital stock of $20,000, all of which has been sub- scribed and paid in. St: Johns—John H. Corbit has sold his stock of hardware, farm imple- ments and gasoline engines to Bresien Bros., composed of three brothers, William, Herman and Fred, who come from Chesaning, where they have been contractors, builders and farmers. Cadillac—-E. G. Olander and Chas. Osterberg, proprietcrs of The Fair, at 202 N. Mitchell street, have leased the store building at 109 N. Mitchell street, now being vacated by H. C. Jorgessen. They will occupy their new quarters about Sept. 10. Springport—H. Bowersox has sold his grocery business to L. F. Orrison, of Albion. Mr, Orrison is well known here, having been in business here about nine years ago, but for the past eight years he has been working in the store of Mr. Rodenbach, at Albion. Houghton—Isaac Miller, who has been conducting a department store, has merged his business into a stock company under the style of Millers’ Department Store, with an author- ized. capital stock of $30,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash. Houghton — The Portage Lake Hardware Co. has leased from Joseph Strobel the store room in the Strobel building about to be vacated by H. E, Stewart, general agent for the C. M. & St. P. railway. The store adjoins that already occupied by the com- pany and will exactly double its store and basement space. Union City—The dry goods firm of Merritt & Balcom, in this city, has been dissolved, although the different lines will be conducted individually by the members of the firm. Mr Balcom will conduct the dry goods and kindred lines, while Mrs. Mer- ritt has taken over the millinery business, which she will hereafter conduct. Charlotte—The Ketcham building, occupied by Hubbard & Houghtaling, has been sold to John Tripp, proprie- September 6, 1911 tor of the John Tripp Clothing Co. The building was one of the first brick structures put up in this part of the State. It. was built and owned by Seth Ketcham, new of Denver, Colo- rado. Mr. Tripp expects to move his clothing and shoe stock to the newly purchased property as soon as the present lease expires, * Manufacturing Matters. Owosso—The capital stock of the Owosso Motor Co. has been decreased from $200,000 to $100,000. Detroit—The capital stock of the American Pattern Works has been in- creased from $2,000 to $10,000. Detroit—The Pingree Co., manu- facturer of shoes, has increased its capitalization from $600,000 to $650,- 000. Charlotte—David Dunkle and Frank Payne, former employes of the Char- lotte Manufacturing Co., have opened a meat market in the Triangle build- ing. Detroit—The Columbia Castings Co, has engaged in busness with an authorized capital stock of $30,000, of which $20,000 has been subscribed and $3,000 paid in in cash. Marquette—M. F. Goldberg has opened a glove factory on Spring street. The latest improved machin- ery has been installed and it will be operated by electricity. Spruce—The Spruce Valley Cream- ery Co. has engaged in business with an authorized capital stock of $6,000, of which $3,650 has been subscribed and $2,500 paid in in cash. Bay City—The National Motor Truck Co. has been incorporated with an authorized capital stock of $300,000, of which $151,010 has been subscribed and $30,210 paid in in cash. Bay City—The Bay City Cream- ery, under a foreclosed mortgage, has been taken over by L. H. Walker, and will be continued under the style of the L. H. Walker Creamery. Detroit—The Michigan Brass & Foundry Co, has been incorporated with a nauthorized capital stock of $30,000, which has been subscribed, $1,000 being paid in in cash and $29,- 000 in property. —_2+.____ Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po- tatoes at Buffalo. Buffalo, Sept. 6—Creamery, 23@ 27c; dairy, 20@25c; poor, all kinds, 14@18c. Eggs — Fancy, candled, 21@22c; choice, 19@20c. Live Poultry — Fowls, 14@15c; ducks, 14@15c;__ turkeys, 12@14c; broilers, 14@15c. Beans — Marrow, $2.50; medium, $2.50; pea, $2.50; red kidney, $3.25: white kidney, $2.65. Potatoes—New, 90c@$1 per bu. Rea & Witzig. —————_ > ——__. Lightning does many queer tricks, but the latest story of its pranks comes from LaCrosse, Wis., where a woman was frying eggs. She turned to slice some bacon, when there was a deafening crash. After she recov- ered from her excitement she ran to the stove to turn the eggs, but the lightning had flopped them on the floor, turnig them neatly, while the frying pan lay in a corner. oo ae ee Ae ee eee September 6, 1911 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN eae ne GRO CERY 4*> PRODUCE MARKET aE, ooeett _ WWE: = Y = } “ y 4 \ si jieie , ass 7 S Qe) er ZA The Produce Market. Apples—Wealthy, Maiden Blush and Twenty Ounce Pippin, fetch 75c per bu. The crop is large and the market is easy. Bananas—$1.50@2 per cording to size and quality. bunch ac- Beets—60c per bu. Butter—There is a strong consump- tive demand for everything in this line and the market is steady and un- changed. The quality of the butter arrriving is showing some improve- ment both in quality and quantity, but not sufficient to affect prices. Throughout the market is healthy and no radical change is expected in the immediate future. Local dealers hold No, 1 creamery at 25%c. They pay 22c for No. 1 dairy and 16c for pack- ing stock. Butter Beans—$1 per bu. Cabbage—$2 for small crate and $2.50 for large. Carrots—60c per bu. Cauliflower—$1.50 per doz. Celery—18c per bunch for home grown. Cocoanuts—60c per doz. or $4.50 per sack, Crabapples—Hyslips $1.25 per bu. Cucumbers—25c per doz. for hot house. Eggs—Receipts of eggs are showing fine quality, owing to the _ better weather. The market is healthy at ruling prices and the receipts are cleaning up daily for actual consump- tion. No material increase in receipts is likely in the near future and the market seems likely to remain about on the present basis for some little time. Local dealers pay 16c, loss off, del. Grapes—Worden’s fetch 10c for 4 lb. basket and 13c for 8 lb. basket. Wordens in bulk, command $1 per bu. Green Corn—1l5c per doz. Green Onions—t5c per doz. Honey—15@16c per lb. for white clover and 12c for dark. Lemons—California, $4.75@5 per box; Verdellis, $4.50@4.75. Lettuce—85c per bu. for leaf; $1 per bu. for head. Musk Melons—Michigan Osage, 75c per crate. Onions—90c per bu. for home grown. The crop is good in some sections, but the yield is below the average, indicating higher prices later in the season. Oranges—Late Valencias, $4.75. Peaches—Late Crawfords and EI- bertas, $1.75@2 per bu.; Prolifics and Ingalls, $1.25@1.50 per bu. The local crop is large in volume and fine in quality. Demand is stronger, owing to the fact that consumers are now "getting in shape to can their winter supplies, Pears—Sugar, $1 per bu.; Duchess, $1.25 per bu.; Clapp’s Favorite, $1.25 per bu. Peppers—40c per doz. for red; $1.25 per bu. for green. Pickling Stock—20c per 100 for cucumbers; $2.50 per bu. for small onions. Pieplant—75c per box of about 45 Ibs. Plums — Lombard, $1.25 per bu.; German Prune, $1.65; Damsons, $1.75 2. Pop Corn—Old stock, $1 per bu.; new, $4.50 per bbl. Poultry—Local dealers pay 10c for fowls, and 11c for springs; 6c for old roosters; 10c for ducks; 8c for geese; 12c for old turkeys and 15c for young; broilers, 114@2 lbs., 12c. Radishes—10c per doz. Squash—30c per bu. for crookneck. Tomatoes—75ce per bu. Veal—Local dealers pay 6@11c. Watermelons — Georgia diana command $2 per bbl. —__e-+-. ____ Bigger and Better Than Ever. The West Michigan State Fair is scheduled for next week, opening Monday. The entries indicate that the fair will be stronger than ever before in cattle, both milk and beef, with more than 500 head to be shown. There will also be a strong showing of horses, sheer and swine. The fine crop of fruit this year will be reflect- ed in the agricultural and horticul- tural display and the prosperity of the farmers has encouraged the manufac- turers of agricultural implements to make a greater display than ever. The main hall or manufacturers’ build- ing, which was almost empty last year, will be well filled this time, which means that the city’s commercial in- terests are back in line, as they ought to be. For entertainment there will be automobile races with two kings of the buzz wagons giving stunts, the Wright biplane will make daily exhi- bition flights and there will be horse races besides, to say nothing of side shows and attractions. All the indi- cations point to a successful fair, and never has success been more desired or needed. The building of the agri- cultural hall last year left the Asso- ciation in debt and the burning of the old grand stard calls for extra- ordinary expenditures during the com- ing year. A successful fair will pay the old debt and make the new grand stand easy and, more important still, the Association will be encouraged to go ahead. 2-2 ———_ The Buick Motor Sales Co, has changed its name to the Grand Rap- ids Auto Co. and I[a- The Grocery Market. Sugar—Raws are now higher than they have been for years. Refined grades are 6%c in New York for Arbuckles and 6.35c for other brands. It is expected that all refiners will be on a 6%c basis before the day closes. Refiners are rigidly holding buyers down, and supplying only the sugar needed for actual wants. The consumptive demand is fair. Very likely the present stringency wiil continue until the middle of October at least, when a good part of the trade will begin to be supplied by beet sugar. Later—Since the above was writ- ten, Howell has withdrawn from the market and the American Sugar Re- fining Co. has advanced its price to 6.40c. Tea — There is practically no change in the market. Prices remain high and the demand is good. The rejection by the appraisers of 50,000 pounds of colored China tea (princi- pally Gunpowders), which arrived at San Francisco from China recently, will evidently convince the Chinese that this Government will uphold the pure food law and will not permit the entry of colored teas into this coun- try. Importers’ and jobbers’ stocks of these teas in this country are baie, with no relief in sight until next year. Congous remain firm. India and Cey- lon teas seem to be gaining ground. The increase in India exportations from April 1 to July 30 is about 3,500,000 pounds over the same _ pe- riod of last year. Formosas are firm, with good demand, the advanc- es showing 14%@2c over last year. The first crop was exceptionally good and the summer crop, which produc- es the superior teas, is bringing high prices. Coffee—The option market on Rio and Santos has boomed remarkably during the past week, and may or may not affect the actual coffee mar- ket. Up to the present writing it has not affected the price of actual Rio and Santos coffee to any material degree. Values in Brazils are prac- tically the same as a week ago, and the demand is fair. Mild coffees are exceedingly dull and rule at un- changed prices. Java and Mocha are unchanged and dull. Canned Goods — Tomatoes are without change. Corn shows no change from last report; demand is light. Peas are still firm, high and quiet. No general price has yet been named on new New York State apples, but one or two packers are reported as willing to take orders at $2.75 for gallons. This is not a par- ticularly high or a particularly low price. The price for spot goods is about $1 above that. California can- ned goods show no change and no activity. Small standard canned goods are unchanged and quiet. Dried Fruits—Future apricots are still very high, and have sold only in a very small way. Raisins are un- changed for the week, but the situa- tion is strong. Currants fairly active and unchanged. Prunes are unchanged on the formerly reported high basis, and in very light demand. Peaches are high and sales for future delivery 5 have been very light. The situation shows no change for the week. Syrups and Molasses—Glucose is without change and compound syrup is likewise unchanged and dull. But a small movement is reported in sug- ar syrup, which rules at unchanged prices. Molasses is dull at ruling prices. Cheese—In consequence of the make of cheese being lighter than usual for the season, stocks are re- ported smaller than a year ago and prices have advanced about %4c over last week. At the present time the quality of the cheese arriving is very fine, as the weather has been favorable for producing a high quality article. Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are unchanged in price and quiet, though steady to firm. Domestic sardines are inclined to be weaker, and some hold- ers have sold during the week at the same price delivered as has been rul- ing f. o. b. This is equivalent, in the case of Philadelphia, to a concession of 13%4c. The demand is fair. Import- ed sardines are unchanged and dull. As reported elsewhere, prices on new Alaska salmon have opened during the week on a basis much higher than last year. The pack is short and the situation very strong. Not a packer on the coast has auy surplus to sell. Mackerel, generally speaking, is steady, with but trifling changes in price. The demand is fair. Provisions—Hams are unchanged and in seasonable demand. Pure and compound lard are firm at an ad- vance of %4c, owing to improved con- sumptive demand and a_ reported shortage in hogs. Dried beef, canned meats and barrel pork are unchang- ed and in fair demand. ee -- — Buchanan Business Men Plan Cele- bration. Buchanan, Sept. 5—Buchanan is figuring on another stunt for Sept. 20 —-a one day celebration to be called a Harvest Jubilee. Business men are taking hold witl customary vim and want to have it eclipse anything ever yet attempted in the burg. Messrs. C. H. Baker, M. L. Ham- lin, C. F. Pears, A. M Worthington, W. A. Palmer, D. L. Boardman and Sig Desenberg were authorized t7 go ahead with it. There will be a flood of light pa. rade. An effort will be made to have every automobile in Buchanan and vicinity in line, and invitations will be extended to Niles and other towns to participate. During the day there will be au- tomobile races, slack wire perform- ances, a balloon ascension, band concerts, etc., and in the evening the town will be ablaze with light. ——_.2.-o————— A new company has been organ- izer under the style of the Wilson Cloak & Suit Co., with an authorized capital stock of $10,000, all of which has been subscribed and $7,500 paid in in cash. Those interested are Ju- lius M. Baer, Flora Baer and Abra- ham Berlinger, all of Chicago. The business office is located at 128 and 130 Monroe street, this city. —_—_-_->>>———— Obstinacy in others is the same as firmness in yourself. EER SEE = MICHIGAN x \ fa “Ty = et maa eed oun ! Stee el Sot cD ; ; ee = 3 ( = pad cs = ” ai : : = ~ : a aig = = x 6 = e 3 aye J = z oe = , = = : 3 , pices 4 aie = ¢ — ; : ‘ “al : E r = me Q SY Leap oan | Quotations on Local Stocks and Bonds Bid Asked Am. Gas & Elec. Co. Com, 57 60 Am. Gas & Elec, Co., Pfd. 43 44 Am. Lt. & Traction Co. Com 293 298 Am. Lt. & Traction Co. Pfd. 105 106 Cities Service Co. Com 744% 15% Cities Service Co, Pfd, 78 79 Citizens Telephone Co. 93% 92% Com. Savings Bank 58 161 Com’wealth Pr.Ry.&Lt.Co. Com. 57 59 Com’wealth Pr.Ry.&Lt.Co, Pfd. 89 90 Dennis Bros. Salt & Lbr. Cc. 90 Denver Gas & Elec, Co, Bonds 92144 94 Fourth National Bank 180 5 Furniture City Brewing Co. 95 98 General Motors Com. 42 43 General Motors Pfd. 80 82 Globe Knitting Works, Com. 125 136 Globe Knitting Works Pfd. 100 =101 Grand Rapids Brewing Co. 201 210 G. R. Gas Light Co., Bonds 100 101 Grand Rapids Ry. Co. Bonds 100 101 G. R. National City Bank 158 165 Grand Rapids Savings Bank 165 Holland Sugar 17% 17% Kent State Bank 250 8 252 Lincoln Gas & Elec. Co. 30 32 Macey Company Pfd. 95 99 Michigan Pacific Lbr. Co. 12 Mich. State Tele. Co. Pfd. 9914 100% Michigan Sugar Co, Com. 106 107% Old National Bank 196 198 Pacific Gas & Elec. Co. Com. 66 67 Pacific Gas Blec. Co. Pfd. 88 90 Peoples Savings Bank 210 Sag. City Gas Bonds 97 98% St. Louis Sugar Com. 18% 19 United L. & R. Co. Com. 5246 551% United Lc & RCo. ind Pia, Sept. 5, 1911. Big Things and Big Corporations. Are pygmies more virtuous than giants? Is there intrinsic evil in be- ing big; innate goodness in being lit- tle? Such seems to be the gospel of most of the critic-reformers of things corporate. The big corporations bulk darkly on their horizons, as did the windmill on Don Quixote’s. The milder crusaders would split them into sections; the bolder would smash . them into smithereens. Now comes the latest and most surprising advo- cate of disintegration, and from the same state as the Chief Justice— President Farrar of the American Bar Association. He, too, would set up the test of the needle’s eye and let only the tiny live. It is true that he sanctions the cor- poration as a necessary principle. But the great big corporation gets no mercy. The keynote of his criti- cism runs: “The economic advantages, if any, that flow from these vast aggrega- tions of capital are drowned in the firm belief that they exercise too much political power, selfishly and unscruplously bar the door to private enterprise, cramp the industrial free- dom of individuals, destroy equality of opportunity and extinguish all hope and hence all ambition for industrial independendence and au- tonomy.” The thing to do is to “break them up;” to destroy the “existing crop without hope of successors.” “Mo- nopoly comes by virtue of size, or- ganization and strength.” The ani- mus against mere size, per se, is the controlling emotion, fortified foren- sically by some of the dark deeds of some of the big corporations in the past. It is not even excellent to have the giant’s strength. What does this doctrine of disso- lution mean? ,In a word it urges that evolution reverse itself. We may find in political history a par- tial parallel to this economic current. Not going back to the cave or stone ages of individual license, or even to the family or tribal unit, it is not so remote historically since government was measured successively in units of cities, duchies and states. All these have been swallowed up in a rela- tively few great nations. Who criti- cises the size or power of any of them? Were a crazy statesmanship ever to draw fanciful bounds to national bigness—in the temper of some cor- poration-critics—we might imagine European jealousy of ourselves tak- ing an anti-trust form. We appear likely to be soon a concentric clus- ter of fifty nations. Why should not the old Powers decree at The Hague that we were menacing the world by our bigness, that nations must not exceed a certain size, and that we must ‘divide if we pass the 100,000,- 000 or 200,000,000 mark? Such fear of the power of bigness would be lit- tle less consistent than the kindred fear of corporations. The nation is the sum of the peo- ple’s will and strength and support, coalescing and expanding indefinite- ly. A corporation—of the big type— is likewise the inevitable stream of innumerable rills of resource and en- deavor. It flows in the justifying channel of efficiency of conservation of power and elimination of waste. To send all the nation’s workers a step back toward the old cottage or small-shop systems would be akin to sundering our civic ties. The corporation, of course, is not TRADESMAN Merchant’s Accounts Solicited Assets over 3,000,000 “Qeanopipips SavincsB aN, Only bank on North side of Monroe street. Kent State Bank Main Office Fountain St. Facing Monroe Grand Rapids, Mich. Capital - - - - $500,000 Surplus and Profits - 250,000 Deposits 6 Million Dollars HENRY IDEMA -.—___ A Little Matter of Hogs. A professor who spent his vaca- tion at a farm house was asked whether he wouldn’t come again. 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Sample copies, § cents each. Extra copies of current issues, 5 cents; of issues a month or more old, 10 cents; of issues a year or more old, $1. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice as Second Class Matter. E. A. STOWE, Editor. September 6, 1911 THE NEW BOARD OF TRADE. The Grand Rapids Board of Trade will soon enter upon a new season of activity, with Martin Charles Hug- gett, the new Secretary, as the ex- ecutive officer. Mr. Huggett is a relative by marriage of Senator Wil- liam Alden Smith and _ for several years has been his Secretary, and it was largely through Senator Smith’s friends that he secured the place at a salary of $4,000 a year. Mr. Hug- gett has not had previous experience in Board of Trade work and his ad- ministration will be followed with in- terest, no doubt, to see if experience is absolutely essential to success. For two years or more we have heard lit- tle else than the importance of hav- ing experienced men in charge of such work, and it has even been sug- gested that some of the colleges should add board of trade work to their curriculum that there might be a supply of trained men constantly in the making. It is possible that those who have been most earnest in urging the importance of training are them- selves commercial executives and, as such, may be interested in exalting the value of the services they ren- der. But Grand Rapids is going in- to the new season with an entirely new executive with no previous ex- perience, and it will be interesting to note what are the results., If Mr Huggett has more than the usual amount of common sense, the ability to get men together and make them work and a reasonable degree of modesty, it is possible the experi- ence and training we have been hear- ing so much about will never be missed. One of the Board of Trade ques- tions which will be taken up at an early date, probably, is that of a com- plete reorganization. With the dues at $10 a year, the Board now has a membership of about 1,200, and a large proportion of the membership, never coming in contact with the actual work done and knowing lit- tle or nothing of the results accom- plished, look upon it as a gentle “touch,” and—to be entirely honest in the matter—some of them are not far wrong. The reorganization plan, when presented, will, no doubt, pro- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN pose an increase in the membership dues to $25 or even $50 as the first and most important step. This will naturally cause a marked shrinkage in the membership, but those who are left will be the live, active aggres- sive men who do things and who will value their opportunities to serve the public interest. The Board would then be a compact body of workers instead of a top heavy organiza- tion in which the disposition is ta let somebody else do the work. The matter of keeping the Board in clos- er touch with the people could be ar- ranged, it is suggested, by admitting delegate members from the various trade organizations. The retail gro- cers, for instance, could have a dele- gate, paying the regular dues and having as much of a voice in the proceedings as any other member and would be expected to represent the retail grocers in whatever might be done. The lumbermen, the whole- salers, the builders and contractors, the furniture manufacturers—in fact, all organizations of trade and busi- ness—could be represented in th same way. This matter of a reor- ganization will, undoubtedly, be tak- en up early in the season, but prob- ably nothing will be done until the close of the present fiscal year in February. The matter is very im- portant and should be discussed from all points of view before action is taken. The present organization, it may be admitted, is not ideal. The city has outgrown it and the experi- ence of other cities has pointed to better ways. IRISH HOME RULE. When the British Parliament reas- sembles in October it is practically certain that the Liberal government will redeem its pledge to the Irish Nationalists by introducing the prom- ised home rule measure. It is also teasonably certain that the bill, if satisfactory to the Nationalists and meeting the approval of the Radicals and Laborites, who form part of the Liberal coalition supporting the min- istry, will pass the House of Com- mons before the fall session closes. That the House of Lords will reject the measure and maintain its oppo- sition for the full limit of two years is equally certain, but under the new law limiting the veto power of the lords the measure must eventually become law unless the present minis- try is defeated on some other propo- sition before the two-year limit ex- pires. But while a home rule bill is cer- tain, the framing of such a bill will be found to be full of embarrass- ments. Scotland, and probably Wales, will demand control of purely local matters and the granting of legisla- tures of their own. The ministry is also likely to be confronted by the same difficulties that confronted Mr. Gladstone in determining just what part Irish representatives will play in imperial legislation and just what control the imperial government will reserve over Irish affairs. The con- trol of the customs and of foreign relations will present some embar- rassments quite aside from the op- position that is certain to be encoun- tered from the Unionists. While the new Irish home rule bill will no doubt resemble in many respects the measure which Glad- stone endeavored to pass, it is pret- ty certain to contain many modifi- cations and improvements. Separat- ist sentiment is less radical in Ire- land than it used to be and economic conditions in the Emerald Ilse have also greatly improved. The land question, which was so serious a matter in the days of Gladstone, has been in a large measure solved by the land legislation of recent years. It ought, therefore, to be possible to formulate a home rule bill that will meet general Irish approval and at the same time disarm in a great measure the English opposition to any change in the existing relations of the various parts of the empire to- wards each other. | While the curbing of the veto pow- er of the lords has removed the main obstacle to the passage of a home rule bill, there is still enough virility in the Unionist party to make it cer- tain that the bill when introduced will be stubbornly fought at every stage. —_——_——_—— PENNSYLVANIA’S SHAME. While one of Pennsylvania’s citi- zens is about to embark for the Fa- therland to join his wife who has been faithful and true during the twenty-seven years when he was ut:- justly imprisoned for murder, anoth- er dark crime is being perpetrated within the limits of the state. To the man who has been so deeply wronged by a Commonwealth— wronged of the best years of his life —and, worst of all, a good name, she refuses to attempt a _pe- cuniary recompense—a moral one be- ing, of course, entirely out of the question. Carnegie has pensioned Toth $40 per month as a small recog- nition of the wrong, and as this will] not keep himself and wife here, he joins her in the Motherland, Hun- gary, where she has existed during the long years of his incarcaration for a crime which he had nothing to do with. Anw now a deed so cruel that even barbaric nations could scarce exceed it in brutality is enacted almost at the doors of the staid old Quaker city of Philadelphia. Those who were a part in its enactment satisfy their conscience with the defense that the victim deserved it. But two wrongs never make one right: and any act of violence unpunished is sure to breed others of its kind. The revolution in Mexico was but a growth of lawlessness. The forcible wresting from legal hands of any matter, public or personal, can not but prove a curse to the people. Tardily, Governor Tener is com- ing to the front with the order to let no guilty man escape. The en- tire affair from beginning to end must be deeply deplored by every law abiding citizen. That a people who have been for generations fam- ed for their quiet, peaceful disposi- tions should so far forget them- selves as to become Participants in what must be known as the Coates. September 6, 1911 ville horror but emphasized the folly of acting according to impulse in a critical time. THE AUTOMOBILE TRADE. When the hand workers in the cot- ton mills in Nottingham, England, in 1812, broke up and threw out of the windows the newly-installed spinning and weaving machinery it was the act of people who believed that ma- chinery would work the ruin of ali the laboring classes in the popula- tion. The millions of skilled workers constantly employed in designing, improving and manufacturing innu- merable mechanical appliances for every possible purpose of industrial production are a striking commen- tary on the vindictive hatred with which labor-saving machinery was greeted only a century ago. If the hostility of the hand workers to ma- chinery had been able. to prevent its use in the business of life the peo- ple of the twentieth century would be truly in a semi-barbarous condi- tion, instead of enjoying the highest civilization and a fair degree of com- fort and refinement. It might have been supposed that the use of machinery has limits which would soon be reached, but so far from that there are urgent demands for mechanical appliances for which the business of the world is suffer- ing, and every day these needs are realized. One of the most recent mechanical appliances to come into general and extensive use is the automobile, or motor car. According to trade sta- tistics, 20,000, worth $40,000,000, were built in 1904. In 1910 there werc built 185,000, worth over $242,000,- 900. A recent investigation discovered approximately 675,000 autos register- ed in the United States, and without doubt a goodly portion of these still have vitality enough to last several years. This is particularly true in the agricultural regions where utili- ty is more desired than style. The farmers are expected to take up the slack in production every year, and in many instances are quite willing, but the rural “stocking” does not stow any more easily or rapidly to meet more esthetic tastes than does that of the city dweller. Cars last longer these days than formerly and‘ most new designs are not sufficiently different from the preceding year’s to encourage buy- ing unless heavy allowances are made for the old machines. Manufactur- ers have been going ahead almost every season, 1911 being the excep- tion, enlarging their factories and turning out as many machines as pos- sible irrespective of past perform- ances as well as future. The use of automobiles is only limited by the extension of the coun- try roads. Everybody who is able to have one wants an automobile, and the country people are show- ing great activity in making roads so that they may join the ever-grow- ing procession of automobilists. : a ee ee Chivalry is a polite name for a ‘square deal. eh eek 6 a ae ea September 6, 1911 FOOD AND HEALTH. There is an old proverb to the ef- fect that one man’s meat is another man’s poison, and, therefore, it is un- wise, to say the least, to propose to bring up the entire population on the same diet. The nature of the work, the amount of physical exertion and the degree of exposure to heat, cold and wet must make great differences in the amount and character of the food re- quired by each individual. Then there are habits and customs that also ai- fect the health of individuals, so that in attempting to account for and tc regulate the physical condition of in- dividuals each must be~ considered personally. Nevertheless, there are general rules that may be applied in a multitude of cases, because all hu- man beings are organized on the same general plan. We are constantly called on to notice great changes in the character of the diseases that are the chief foes of human health. Perhaps con- sumption, or tuberculosis, is as com- mon as-ever, but there are others known as degenerative, such as heart and kidney diseases and arterio-se- lerosis, the latter disease of the blood vessels resulting from indiscretions in habits and diet, which so weaken the vessel walls that when excessive business strain, worry or excitement of any sort occurs increasing the blod pressure, the result may be a rupture of. the vessel and the oc- currence of apoplexy—a common cause of death of many of our most prominent professional and business men. These affections, which. were, ap- parently, little known to the ancients, are largely charged by Dr. Norman E. Ditmann, writing in Harper's Weekly, to alcoholic drinks. It should be known that wines” and beers, strictly fermented liquors with only a small percentage of alcohol, were known and largely consumed by the Greeks and Romans, but distilled or spirituout liquors were entirely un- known in Europe until the twelfth century of the Christian era, and did not come into use as a beverage be- fore the fifteenth. Thus it came about that spirituous liquors and tobacco got into use at a very late period, and they have been working on the human system only for some four or five centuries, and it is not strange that diseases practi- cally unknown to the ancients, such as Bright’s disease, and appendicitis, should have become every-day occur- rences. Then it is possible that the habitual consumption of _ several chemical substances used as preserv- atives of food products put up in air- tight cans has also operated to bring into common life diseases that were previously mere curiosities, if known at all. During the past year the con- sumption of alcoholic liquors (whis- ky, brandy, gin, beer and wine) in the United States was 1,917,737,286 gallons. Excluding children under 15 years of age, the average consump- tion per capita was twenty-nine gal- lons. According to the medical writer MICHIGAN TRADESMAN mentioned above, this large consump- tion of alcoholic beverages may ex plain a large part of the degenerative diseases in this country, and the re- lation between alcohol and heart and Bright’s diseases is suggested by the nearly parallel rise and fall of the al- cohol consumed and disease mortali- ty in New England. The present generation of Americans are far heavier drinkers than their parents, for since 1880 the per capita con- sumption of alcoholic beverages has increased more than 110 per cent. An excess of meat diet is also held to be injurious. According to an es- timate by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, during one year (1906) 16,753,295,000 pounds of meat products were consumed in the Unit- ed States, costing $2,345,461,000, and that one-half of this meat was not required as food to keep our bodies well nourished, we appreciate the ex- tent of a waste amounting in one year to $1,172,730,500. Such an amount deducted from our annual household budget could not fail to reduce the high cost of living materially. It is held by some of the medical authorities that when an excess of meat is consumed, a part of the ex- cess is converted by intestinal bac- teria into poisonous products which irritate and over-burden the kidneys and liver and give rise to a train of symptoms, the forerunners of the de- generative diseases known as_ the symptoms of auto-intoxication. These are headache, mental depres- sion, lassitude, weakness and lack of endurance—a chain of symptoms quite common among Americans. The consumption of an excess of meat being wasteful and harmful, how much meat should a man of average weight (154 pounds) con- sume? While no measure can be fix- ed in this case upon any rule of aver- ages, it is not to be doubted that the ordinary family could thrive on much less meat than is commonly used and Save money. —_—_—_—_—_—_——————— ALL FOR A HAT. Sharing the attentions of many ar- dent admirers who professed to be deeply in love with her, the daugh- ter of a West Virginia citizen braved on of the severest storms of the summer early in the morning recent- ly to elope with her fiance, of the same vicinity, but just as they were about to board a train for Hagers- town, Md., they were arrested by a policeman, who had been wired by the girl’s father to stop them. The runaways’ had driven twenty-five miles over rough and rugged moun- tain roads, through a drenching rain, in murky darkness. Several times they lost their way, but brilliant flashes of lightning enabled them to get on the right road. The girl was persuaded to return home when her father prom- ised to buy her a new hat. Much as the “lady in the case” admired her beau, she “passed him up” for a hat. And still these “darlings” tell the lords of creation they are not fickle. [EEE Many a widow gets busy and mar- ries a man because he does not want her to. WoRrbDEN GROocER COMPANY The Prompt Shippers Grand Rapids, Mich. a es MACAULEY SAID Those inventions which have abridged distance have done the most for civilization. USE THE BELL And patronize the service that has done most to abridge distance AT ONCE Your personality is miles away Every Bell Telephone is a long distance station. We Have No Branch Houses Our business is all done under One Roof, One Expense One Management The constantly increasing volume keeps us VERY busy attending to this one plant. We have no time to establish or worry about branch houses, but concentrate our We think we Can serve our trade better with one complete stock than several indifferent ones scattered about. efforts on the main chance. Judson Grocer Co. Wholesale Grocers Grand Rapids, Mich. 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN September 6, 1911 Detroit Produce Market Production of Market Milk. Of all branches of the dairy busi- ness the production of a high grade article of market milk is the most exacting. Certified milk has its place and is fast becoming an important factor in the milk trade of all the larger cities: but the question of improving the quality of the market milk is of far more interest, for the reason that it concerns the larger number of con- sumers and the larger number of pro- ducers. Among the conditions that control the value of market milk are the health of the cows, the care of the milk, the quality of the milk, the flavor and taste, the color and the general appearance of the milk. In actual practice I have found these conditions so closely related that it is difficult to tell where one leaves off and the other begins. And all of the conditions must be right if we produce a good, wholesome grade of milk. The cows that are producing milk must be in good physical condition and have healthy surroundings and healthy attendants. They should have an abundant supply of pure wa- ter and clean wholesome food, and some form of succulence at all times when being fed a heavy ration of grain feeds. Corn ensilage will pro- vide this in economical form. The herd should be tested for tu- berculosis at least once every year and examined frequently for other diseases and derangements, such as tumors, garget and skin diseases. That diseases may be transmitted in milk is an undisputed fact, hence care should be exercised in all the work and equipment that pertains to it. There must be regularity in feeding and milking, governed according to the time of trains, the distance to d-- liver and the size of the herd. Market milk is produced at a price where a man must have cows that will give a large quantity regardless of quality, although it should at all times be reasonably good. W. M. Kelly. —_——_—<——- > —___ Flies and Tuberculosis. The impression is becoming quite general that the co-called typhoid fly is a carrier of the typhoid germs only. This is a wrong idea. The fly is not a carrier of any disease in the sense that the germs develop within the body of the fly. On the contrary, the fly carries germs upon its body by virtue of the germs ad- hering to its coat. In some cases the fly may devour disease germs, which will leave the body of the fly through Bi r SS s S the alimentary canal unimpaired. In this latter case the “fly speck” may become a dangerous thing. The tubercle germ may adhere to the body and legs of flies, as well as typhoid or pneumonia germs, and be transplanted upon the skin or in the food of a healthy individual; or the germ can be swallowed by the fly and voided, without loss of virulence, upon foodstuffs prepared for human consumption. Some poor sick mortal expector- ates upon the street. This material will soon be circled by flies walking in and eating of it. The result is that the germ of tuberculosis, pres- ent in the expectorations of con- sumptives, is successfully carried from place to place, with always a possibility of disastrous results. The fly is dangerous, no matter from what point of view he is looked upon. His usefulness in the world has not been discovered. The mass of people must realize the signifi- cance of the crusade against the fly. There should be no stopping until the fly is exterminated in the United States. Each one can help a little, which in the aggregate will help very much. John F. Nicholson. — +2 >—____ A Valuable Sausage Wrapper. An autograph of the Czar, Peter the Great, has been discovered by a St. Petersburg professor of history in peculiar circumstances. The pro- fessor is exceedingly fond of saus- ages and never fails when his cook returns from her morning’s shopping to visit the kitchen to make sure that his sausages are of the best quali- ty. As he was examining a fresh ar- rival the other day he was struck by the wrapping, a very old paper inscribed with old-fashioned manu- script. Leaving the sausages with- out another glance, he went to his study and deciphered the paper, which he soon recognized as a letter in Peter the Great’s handwriting. On making enquiries, he larned that the sausagemaker had recently purchas- ed for 10 shillings a large bundle oi very old papers sold by the admin- istration of the Ural mines. fessor promptly bought the remain- der for double the price, and he hopes to make his fortune through further valuable discoveries. ——__ o-oo. High Retreat. Goodly—When work is over you should seek things that are elevated. Gamely—That’s just how I spend my evenings. Goodly—Ah, I’m glad to hear it. Reading the standard works of the highest authors, I presume. Gamely—No; sipping lemonade on the roof garden. . ee xs , N N \. S S The pro- . x ¥ S s s SN : S A perfect cold storage for Poultry and all kinds of Fruits “ac per dozen. Liberal advances. Railroad facilities the best. ESTABLISHED 1891 F. J. SCHAFFER & CO. BUTTER, EGGS AND POULTRY 396 and 398 East High Street, Opposite Eastern Market i isi ia, Mich. . * Associate Houses | fonisEeg & Poultry Co. Ionia. Mich = Detroit Mich, Just what you have been looking for— A reliable place to ship your. P O U | I r y At market prices ruling day of arrival NO COMMISSION PROMPT RETURNS We want your shipments Let them come and we will do the rest Poultry Poultry 323-327 Russell Street Schill er & Koffman DETROIT (Weekly quotations furnished on request) Cash Butter and Egg Buyers HARRIS & THROOP Wholesalers and Jobbers of Butter and Eggs 777 Michigan Avenue, near Western Market—Telephone West 1092 347 Russell Street, near Eastern Market—Telephone Main 3762 : DETROIT, MICH. Egg Cases and Fillers Direct from Manufacturer to Retailers Medium Fillers, strawboard, per 30 doz. set. 12 sets to the case. case included, 90c. No. 2, knock down 30 doz. veneer shipping cases, sawed ends and centers, 14c. Order NOW to insure prompt shipment. L. J. SMITH ee Carlot prices on application. Eaton Rapids, Mich The Cigar You and your father used to smoke GREEN SEAL Ask for the New Standard Size 3 for 25c or the Regalia Straight Ten Size Detroit Cigar Manufacturing Co. Detroit, Mich. 1: DETROIT, MICH. and Produce. Eggs stored with us usually sell at a premium of Absolutely fireproof. Correspondence solicited, Y September 6, 1911 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 Takes Two Weeks To Cure a Prune. Prunes, and all other fruits to be dried are, in California, cured on shallow wooden drying trays whicn are placed on the drying ground and allowed to remain there day and night without protection until the fruit is fully cured. Usually these trays are about 3x6 feet in dimen- sions and they are set directly upon the ground, although in some cases a support about a foot high is built upon which the tray may be rested. Before being’ put on the trays the prunes are usually graded as to size by a mechanical contrivance, and aft- er this preliminary grading are dip- ped in a weak lye solution to crack the skins, which facilitates the cur- ing process. Tt requires from ten days to two weeks to cure prunes in the sun. When the fruit is sufficiently dried 1t is taken to the sweatroom and sub- jected to a process of handling which saves it from subsequent damage after storage and at the same time equalizes the moisture in all of the individual fruits, giving the whole mass an:even and uniform appear- ance. All cured fruit will draw damp if stored in a mass without previous sweating, and this sweating is merely permitting the damping to take place under conditions of con- trol. Sometimes the fruit is heap- ed in small piles on the floor of the sweat room and turned occasionally, or it may be placed in shallow boxes and dumped from one receptacle to another at intervals. From one to three days are required to complete the operation. From the sweat room the prunes are taken to the packing room and there graded, finished and packed ready for shipment. Prunes are grad- ed according to the number required to make a pound; thus 20-30s_ re- quire from twenty to thirty prunes to the pound; 30-40s from thirty to forty prunes per pound, and so on, grades ranging to as small as 100- 120s. This grading is done by a machine with riddles one above an- other, each with a slight incline, and a spout on the side to carry off the fruit of a certain grade as it comes along. Prunes are “finished” by exposing to steam or immersion in hot wa- ‘ ter for an instant to soften them. The packing is usually done by wom- en workers who put the fruit in twen- ty-five or fifty pound boxes, each box containing but one size of fruit. The first layer is flattened by hand or machinery and each piece laid in the box with precision; then the box is filled without special arrangement and when full is conveyed to a press- ing machine which presses the fruit closely without, however, crushing it. The box cover is then nailed on and finally is turned bottom side up, stamped and labeled, the original bottom, in which the first fruit was packed, thus becoming the top when the box is opened, so that the flat- tened or “faced” fruit, as it is com- mercially called, is seen first. The same general process is fol- lowed in curing all kinds of fruits in California. That is, they are grad- ed, placed on trays in the sun, clean- ed, sweated and packed in the same manner. In the case of peaches or apricots, which must be pitted and halved, the fruit goes from the or- chard to the cutting sheds, where the nimble-fingered women perform the work with a rapidity that is sim- ply marvelous. These fruits, which are cut open, are treated with a sul- phuring process which consists sim- ply of subjecting the fruit when first placed upon the trays to the fumes of burning sulphur for forty or fifty minutes to prevent oxidation and preserve the bright color of the fruit. California fruit packing houses are models of cleanliness and are fitted with every possible mechanical con- venience to facilitate handling ofthe fruit and to make attractive the prod- ucts that go out to the markets of the world. Nature has been gener- ous to the California fruit grower. Size and quality and delicious flavor are fundamentally natural attributes, but practical gratitude for these blessings has not been wanting anf orchardists have made of their in- dustry a science unsurpassed in any part of the world. Trees are stud- ied, cultivated and sprayed, the fruit carefully handled at all stages and attractively packed and every effort made to preserve the natural quali- ties that have made California dried fruits popular the world over—Ele- nora Elizabeth Reber in Twin City Commercial Bulletin. —_—~---2——_—— Farmers To Sell To Consumers. A committee of the Pennsylvania State Grange met at Sunbury, Pa, and set on foot plans which if suc- cessful will result in the sale of the members’ farm products direct to consumers. The plan is for the As- sociation to receive the farm products of its members and distribute them to Association stores in the large centers of population. Auto trucks will be the carriers and the Asso- ciation wiil be operated on the per- cent. system. the Association is to lower the cost of farm products for the benefit of both farmer and consumer, by dis- pensing with the middle men, who it is claimed, receive the greatest prof- it and are largely responsible for the high cost of living. The scheme still has to be adopted by the Grange.— Grocery World. ——_+--2—_____ Somehow you never expect mucl: from the man whose fingers are yei- lowed by smoking cigarettes. Considering the way that most ot us live, it is no wonder none of us get an encore. The Clover Leaf Sells GRAND RAPIDS NG pLESTATE i )9 Ay Office 424 Houseman Bik. If you wish to locate in Grand Rapids write us before you come. We can sell you property of all kinds, Write for an investment blank. The main object of — af = ESS BSS ‘The Favor of the Trade’’ 1 Does your business have it> Do you enjoy the goodwill of your trade? Y ie You say ‘“‘yes’’—but, con- YK x sider the matter imperson- ay: & growing? For growth | is the sure sign that yh Ws your business possesses a yi goodwill. SS Sea > SS your business The various products of the National Biscuit Company enjoy nN the favor of the trade throughout A YK these United States—they enjoy y the goodwill of over one hundred millions of people. Mr. Dealer—in the past twelve he years hundreds of millions of A ry In-er-seal packages have been a sold, to say nothing of the in- conceivable quantities of National Biscuit Company products sold from the famous glass-front cans. ees 1 NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY —will you share—in these im- mense sales > Have you shared —do you share | SC ESS SSA 9 Mr. Bread Merchant | If you wish to sell the BEST BREAD that will give general satisfaction and prove a regular rapid repeater, order Figola Bread from us today. City Bakery Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Dollars for You Mr. Grocer. in pushing HOLLAND RUSKS. Good for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Hol- land Rusks are so appetizing served with fruits and cream. Urge your customers to try them. Weemploy no salesmen. We put the quality in our goods, Jobbers and retailers like to sell them because they are repeaters. Order a sample case. Five case lots delivered. —— Advertising matter in each case, bait Holland Rusk Co. Holland, Mich. gts , Mea iyYS Sac 12 MICHIGAN = — TER, EGGS 4» PROVI the Strength of the Soil. Written for tne Tradesman. In a recent interview James J. Hill, a keen observer and an in- cisive thinker, handed out some in- formation that is calculated to make the thoughtful reader wonder what this country is coming to if the American farmer does not change his tactics. “When the most fertile land in the world,” says Mr. Hill, “produces so much ‘less than that of poorer quali- ty elsewhere, and this low yield shows a tendency towards steady de- cline, the situation becomes clear. We are robbing the soil. “Take the case of wheat, the main- stay of single-crop abuse. Many of us can remember when New York was the greatest wheat-producing state in the Union. The average yield of wheat per acre in New York for the last ten years was about 18 bushels. For the first five years of that ten-year period it was 18.4 bushels, and for the last five years 17.4 bushels. Farther west, Kansas takes high rank as a wheat producing state. Its average yield per acre for the last ten years was 14.16 bush- els. For the first five of those years it was 15.14 and for the last five years 13.18. “Up in the Northwest, Minnesota wheat has made a name all over the world. Her average yield per acre for the same ten years was 12.98 bushels. For the first five it was 13.12, and for the last five it was 12.8. We perceive here the working of a uniform law, independent of lo- cation, of soil and of climate. It is the law of a diminishing return due to soil-destruction. Apply this to the country at large, and it reduces agriculture to the condition of a bank whose depositors are steadily drawing out more money than they put in. “Nature has given us the most val- uable possession ever committed to man. It never can be duplicated, be- cause there is none like it upon the face of the earth. And we are rack- ing and impoverishing it exactly as we felled the forests and are now rifling our mines. Our soil, once the envy of every other country, the at- traction which draws millions of im- migrants across the seas, gave an average yield for the whole United States during the ten years begin- ning with 1896 of 13.5 bushels of wheat per acre. Austria and Hun- gary each produced 17 bushels per acre; France 19.8; Germany 27.6, and the United Kingdom 32.2 bushels per acre.” Conserving Now statistics like these are cer- tainly not conducive to an optimistic and roseate view. They are plain, blunt facts—and they hurt. Mr. Hill is not one whit less patriotic because he has called our attention to these deplorable facts. Certainly he must be presumed to wish quite as hearti- ly as anybody else that these things were not so; but a fact is a fact, no matter how much it grieves us to ad- mit it. The American custom of seeding a given field to the same crop year by year, never giving the soil a chance to recoup; and, not unfre- quently, as in the case of wheat and other crops, burning the stubble—is a perennial source of amazement to expert agriculturists of older and wiser countries. They look upon this custom—and rightly so—as a foolish and destructive policy. And they are frank to predict that, if it is kept up long enough, it will plunge the whole country into inevitable ruin. The prodigality of the American people is a topic to give one the willies. The way we cut down, burn up and utterly destroy our natural resources is enough to give one an acute case of ingrained pessimism. The pressing, practical question is, Where is this thing going to stop? Will we keep right on extravagantly wasting our resources—deaf to warn- ings and blind to solid, substantial arguments for moderation and sani- ty, until ultimately the whole coun- try will be plunged into hopeless ruin and desolation? Sometimes it looks as if something like this were abso- lutely inevitable—and yet it is pleas- anter to assume that we’ll get wiser as we get older; and by and by set- tle down to a rational basis in the use of our natural resources. Concerning Mr. Hill’s statement of the law of a “diminishing return due to soil-depletion,” there is this, how- ever, to be said, namely, that the proper preparation of wheat land has much to do with the yield. A farm bulletin has recently been issued by the Agricultural Department of the Kansas State Agricultural College, which shows this quite conclusively. The bulletin is entitled, “How to Grow Wheat in Kansas.” It starts with a forceful illustration of an in- crease of wheat yield from 4%4 bush- els to 38% bushels per acre, due wholely to differences in preparing the land before seeding. The experi- ment and comparative results are set forth by the bulletin in detail; I will merely quote a few excerpts. The experiment involved eleven methods of preparing the land. Land disked, but not plowed, cost $1.95 per acre for preparation, and ee eo a oe ae TRADESMAN September 6, 1911 SUMMER SEEDS If in need of seeds for summer sowing such as Turnips. Rutabaga, Dwarf Essex, Rape, Sand Vetch, Alfalfa, etc., ask for prices. Alfred J. Brown Seed Co. Grand Rapids Wanted—Butter, Eggs. Veal, Poultry and Huckleberries F. E. Stroup, Grand Rapids, Mich. References:—Commercial Agencies, Grand Rapids National Bank, Tradesman Company, any wholesale grocer Grand Rapids. Swiss Cheese Cutter Patented Oct. 26, 1909 Size of machine 36 inches long, 10% x 9 inches—all up-to-date. Merchants should have one of these cutters. They fill a long felt want and will keep the cheese fresh and clean and make Swiss cheese profitable to the merchant instead of unprofitable. Thirty days free trial. Price, $20 f. 0. b. Rutland. Those interested send their address to L. J. KUNICK, Rutland, Illinois. Also patent is for sale or trade. What have ‘you that is worth $5,000? Address above. COFFEE Our coffee is roasted the day you order it and is the finest you ever tasted. Compare these prices with what you are paying: Fine Santos Coffee 18'4c to retail at 25c Lucky Strike Coffee 2214c to retail at 30c Coffee Ranch Coffee 24c to retail at 35c Pure Mocha and Java Coffee 28c to retail at - - - - 40c Not over 10 days on any account Coffee Ranch J. T. Watkins, Prop. Lansing, Mich. Roy Baker General Sales Agent Michigan, Indiana and Ohio Sparks Waxed Paper Bread Wrappers And Weaver’s Perfection Pure Evaporated Egg Wm. Alden Smith Building Grand Rapids, Michigan The Diamond Match Company PRICE LIST BIRD’S-EYE. Safety Heads. Protected Tips. 5 size —5 boxes in package, 20 packagesincase, per Case 20 pr. 100s... oe ees oes se $3.35 Lesser quantities, .)..2. 5.5. o.s00 000502023 $3 BLACK DIATIOND. 5 size—s boxesin package, 20 packages in case, per ABE OO OT. ONS 8 os cs in aaa ok Wessér quantities :-. 23.0.0... $3.50 BULL’S-EYE. 1 size—1o boxes in package, 36 packages (360 boxes) in 2% gr. case, per case 20 gr. lot.......... $2.35 Lesser quantities ............. 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Lesser quantities...................... 1.40 cist ne $1.50 BEST AND CHEAPEST PARLOR MATCHES. 2 size—In slide box, 1 doz. inpackage, 144 boxes in 2 gr. case, in 20 gr. lots. .................. Lesser quantities... <..... 222.6602 3. cu $1. 3 size—In slide box, 1 doz. in package, 144 boxes in er. case, in zo gr. lots... ..... 0.20 $2.40 Lesser quantities... 2.2... ....0cccce0 0s ‘ -- $2.55 SEARCH-LIGHT PARLOR MATCH. 5 size—In slide box, 1 doz in package, 12 packages in 5 gr. case, in 20 gr. lots........... --- $4. Lesser quantities: ..:. 00000, 55.0. 3) UNCLE SAM. 2 size—Parlor Matches, handsome box and ackage; red, white and blue heads, 3 boxes in flat pack- ages, 100 packages(300 boxes)in 4 1-6 gr, case, per case in 20 gr. lots..................0.5 : Lesser quantities. 60065205262 $3.66 SAFETY [IATCHES. Light only on box. Red Top Safety—o size—1 doz. boxes in package 60 packages (720 boxes) in 5 gr. Case, per case AD AO'SE 20S oo oes cee ie leis es Lesser quantities...............0ce0. 000000 0, $2.75 Aluminum Safety, Aluminum Size—1 doz, boxes in package, 60 pack es(720 boxes) in 5 gr. case, per case in 20 gr. lots ......... 1.90 Lesser quantities .. 2... .....0c0 00060000000, $2.00 Headquarters for all kinds of fruits and vegetables Our weekly price list free THE VINKEMULDER co. Grand Rapids, Mich. We have the output of 30 factories. Brick, Limburger in 1 Ib. Bricks, Block Swiss Write for prices. Milwaukee, Wis. . - » September 6, 1911 preduced 4% bushels of wheat per acre. The crop, when sold, returned $1.47 per acre over the cost of prepa- ration of ground. Land plowed three inches deep (too shallow) September 15 (too late for best results) gave a yield of 1414 bushels, a return of $8.52 per acre after paying for the labor re- quired to prepare the ground. Land plowed a proper depth (sev- en inches) Sept. 15 (too late) produc- ed 1534 bushels per acre and gave a return of $9.08 per acre after deduct- ing the cost of preparation. Land disked July 15, to stop the waste of moisture, plowed seven inches deep September 15 (too late for the best results, even when land had been previously disked) produc- ed 23%4 bushels per acre, showing a return of $14.50 per acre after paying the cost of preparation. Land plowed August 15, worked sufficiently to preserve soil mulch thereafter, yielded 2734 bushels per acre, with a net value of $18.29 per acre. Land listed July 15 (the right time), five inches deep, worked down level at once, to avoid waste oi moisture, gave 35 bushels per acre, from which there was left $24.35 aft- er paying cost of preparation. Land plowed July 15 (the right time) seven inches deep (the right depth), gave a yield of 38% bushels per acre, the highest yield in the ex- periment. And after paying for the cost of preparation there was left $25.74 per acre, the largest net re- turn of any method under trial. Now the illuminating thing about this experiment is that this variable yield was produced on the same land with the same weather conditions, and the results here tabulated prove conclusively that the difference in yield is due wholely to a difference in the method of preparing the soil prior to seeding. Obviously, therefore, the Kansas State Agricultural College has shown the farmers of Kansas how to “grow wheat in Kansas.’”’ What the Kansas Agriculutural College has done for Kansas farmers, other agriculturai colleges in other states should be performing a similar service for their farmers. This experiment throws an inter- esting sidelight on the general theme of robbing the soil. Perchance the soil is stronger and more productive than the average vield (under pres- ent methods of soil preparation) would lead us to infer. If so, then we are losing millions every year be- cause we are blundering along in au inexpert manner. One thing, however, is evident, and that is that our State Agricultural Colleges are of inestimable value t> the practical farmer. They teach him not only how to rotate his crops so as to prolong the life of the soil, but also how to prepare the soil for the reception of the seed, so that the yield will be greatest. And in this service—which is rendered free toe him who is enterprising enough to avail himself of it—there is ground for hoping that better farming condi- tions will ultimately prevail in this country. Chas. L. Philips. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 Hats Off To the Farmers. Written for the Tradesman. One must be careful how he talks nbout “hayseeds’”’ nowdays, and it will be safer if we drop the word en- tirely in its application to farmers. Farm journals are full of advertise- ments of automobiles, hot water heating systems, bath room and toilet fixtures and the like, the manu- facturers reporting amazing develop- ments with the rural trade in all the modern appliances that heretofore have been confined to the city home. Instruction in agriculture in the public schools of Michigan is just getting under way and excellent re- sults are bound to follow. Some of the other states are ahead of us along these practical lines. The Unt- versity of Wisconsin has graduated a large number of young men in ag- riculture in recent years, who are now earning on the average annual incomes of $1,253 apiece, a showing that other departments of this school will find it hard to duplicate. Scien- tific agriculture is truly a wide and fascinating field for the young man, and it is a remunerative one as well. The Ohio State Board of Agri- culture will take up the work inaug- urated by the agricultural boards of. New York and New Hampshire in pushing the “back to the land” move- ment by gathering and _ publishing information about abandoned farms and good farm lands for sale. Under a new law in Ohio assessors must re- port abandoned and untilled acreage and the State Board of Agriculture will get in touch with the owners of these lands, and descriptions of the farms, including prices, will be pub- lished in the Board’s monthly bu!- letin. The Ohio Board will also open a Farm Labor Bureau in Columbus to aid the farmers in the help problem. Idle men will be shown that there is plenty of work at good wages right at home and they need not go to Kansas or the Dakotas for jobs. In New York six and a half mil- lion dollars worth of so-called aban- doned farm land has_ been _ sold through the agency of the State Board, much of it going to city peo- ple. Almond Griffen. 2. .____ An Incentive. Mrs. B—What a beautiful you have? Mrs. W.—Yes; my husband keeps it that way. Mrs. B.—He must be very indus- trious. Mrs. W.—Yes. He never misses a day with his lawn mower, although | could scarcely get him to touch it un- til the neighbors began to complain about the noise it made. —__+--.—___ He Made the Sale. “Ves, the property is cheap enough. Why do you want to sell it?” “You won't give me away?” “No.” “Well, sir, it’s because I’m the only man in this neighborhood that does not move in high society, and I’m lonesome.” lawn —_+-2->———_ The good merchant is a good de- tective. He finds out all he can about customers. There is no surer way of losing 2 friend than by getting into an argu- ment. Ground Feeds None Better _— 2 Take care of the little things. The boy grows up to be a man. WYKES & CO. @RAND RAPIDS Dandelion Vegetable Butter Color A perfectly Pure Vegetable Butter Color and one that complies with the pure food laws of every State and of the United States. Manufactured by Wells & Richardson Co. Burlington, Vt. Post Toasties Any time. anywhere, a delightful food— ‘‘The Memory Lingers.”’ Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. Battle Creek, Michigan TR AC Your Delayed Freight Easily and Quickly. Wecan tell you how. BARLOW BROS., Grand Rapids, Mich. Hart Brand Canned Goods Packed by W. R. Roach & Co., Hart, Mich. The Flavor de Luxe MAPLEINE Original and Distinctive Flavors Cakes, Can- dies, Icings, Puddings; Ice Cream, Etc., and makes a Table Syrup better than Maple at a cost of 50c a gallon. Sells on Merit Backed up by Advertising See Price List. Order a supply today from your jobber, or the Louis Hilfer Co., oo St., Chicago. CRESCENT MFG. CO., SEATTLE, WASH. Michigan People Want Michigan Products ISBELL’S SEEDS stsotsx“oxvers We make a great specialty of supplying Michigan eens with our HIGH GRADE SEEDS IN BULK. Drop us a card and we will have our salesmen call and give you prices and pointers on how to make money selling seeds. Do it quick. S. M. ISBELL & CO. : Jackson, Mich. Rea & W itzig A. J. Witzig PRODUCE COMMISSION 104-106 West Market St., Buffalo, N. Y. “BUFFALO MEANS BUSINESS” We make a specialty of live poultry and eggs. market, Ship us your poultry and eggs, W. C. Rea You will find this a good REFERENCES—Marine National Bank, Commercial Agencies, Express Companies, Trade Papers and hundreds of shippers. Established 1873 Established 1876 We Sell Medium, Mammoth, Alsyke, Alfalfa Clover, Timothy Seeds SEND US YOUR ORDERS Moseley Bros. Wholesale Dealers and Shippers of Beans, Seeds and Potatoes Office and Warehouse, Second Ave. and Railroad Both Phones 1217 Grand Rapids, Mich. Wanted— Peaches ana Grapes Also advise what you have in Winter Apples Both Phones 1870 M. O. BAKER & CO. TOLEDO, OHIO Trees Trees Trees FRUIT AND ORNAMENTALS A Complete Line GRAND RAPIDS NURSERY CO. 418-419 Ashton Bldg., Desk B~ :-: Grand Rapids, Mich. te TRADESMAN AGRE TEARS IS RE R o September 6, 1911 Ancient and Present Day Shoe Pre- cepts. Time was when shoe stores suc- ceeded in spite of themselves, and all one had to do was to rent a shop, buy a shoe stock, hire a clerk (“not experienced” preferred), hang out a shingle and let’er go Gallagher! That was not yesterday. It isn’t to-oday and probably won’t be to-morrow. True, even now we follow the same procedure—with the exception that we must rent the best store in the best location in our city, gather to- gether the best products of the best shoe manufacturers of the land, em- ploy the best help and most experi- enced shoe fitters that money can hire, hang out the most attractive sign obtainable, over the best arrang- ed and trimmed windows of the busy thoroughfare, before we can hope 10 have even a fighting chance for re- tail shoe business success! You old chaps of the peg-cutting age had a cinch as shoe merchants, compared to your grandchildren, the merchants of to-day. In fact, your griefs and troubles of then are the few real pleasures of the business to- day. Widths and half sizes you knew little about, and a few hundred pairs of EEF’s, in plain toe effects, made a complete shoe store, which to some of you then seemed like a “colossal aggregation.” You sat on your comfortable(?) shoemaker’s bench and told the cus- tomers to play with the cat awhile until you finished hand-stitching the sole on a shoe, as you were afraid the wax would become chilled. To-day it is a different story. Thousands and tens of thousands of dollars are necessary to completely stock a modern shoe store. Widths and half-sizes and styles galore seem very necessary. Store system and the greatest possible and intelligent attention are expected by the cus- tomer who enters your store or de- partment, and that instantly, which leads me up to a few present day suggestions: Have each customer met as they enter your store—yes, met with a most cordial, “How do you do” and “Glad to see you” manner. Put a smiling faced salesman on the job and see that he does not have a ca- nary bird voice or just as bad—that “all important” air. Don’t begin by asking a customer, “What do you want. to ‘git’ or buy?” Make it easy for them. Ask what you may show them and then exhibit a willingness to do so. Don’t keep asking a _ customer, “How do you like this?” Rather avoid interrogations (after you get the idea of the particular kind of footwear wanted) and talk on the assumption that the shoe will be liked. For in- stance, “This shoe will supply the comfort you need, and, I think, is well adapted for your wants. This shoe is a very classy creation and is pleasing our dressy trade.” If you decide a customer’s “kick” is unreasonable don’t lose your head. Just say as sweetly as you can that you are sorry, but that you can not allow the claim. On the other hand, if you intend to adjust the claim, make an allowance, do so without tear accompaniment—and with ex- pression and words that assure the customer you are doing it because you want to. An allowance grudg- ingly given is like a cow kicking over the well filled bucket of milk, and had better not be given at all. Don’t make any promises on 1epair goods as to time of delivery, and no guarantees on patents, and you will find increased pleasures in the shoe business, Don’t be afraid to ask a profit on your shoes—the old idea of “in busi- ness for health” won’t work in these days of expensive merchandising. Buy from few houses and be “some- body’s customer.” You can not expect the help to dress beyond their incomes, but you COMFORT SHOES TRADE WINNERS American Rubber Co.’s Fine Specialties SOLD BY DETROIT RUBBER CO. Bath Caps Water Wings, Etc. Ayvads Water “Wings Get our illustrated 1911 bathing circular, full of excellent values. Write today. Goodyear Rubber Co. W. W. Wallis, Mer. Milwaukee, Wis. IN BUSINESS SINCE 1853 “Buy ’em where they have ’em’”’ We ship orders the day received Simmons Boot & Shoe Company Toledo, Ohio Foster, Stevens & Co. Wholesale Hardware ot 10 and 12 Monroe St. oe 31-33-35-37 Louis St. Grand Rapids, Mich. School Shoes What preparation have you made to supply the boys and girls in your locality with good, strong shoes for school wear? _Remember that the school children of today will be the heads of families tomorrow, and early impressions are lasting. PLAYMATE shoes for the girls and ROUGE REX shoes for the boys will make them perma- nent friends of your store. They have the fitting and wearing qualities that please. Many of our best customers send in a sizing order every Monday morning so as to lose no sales. Get the habit—it pays. HIRTH-KRAUSE CoO. Tanners and Shoe Manufacturers Grand Rapids, Mich. September 6, 1911 can expect them to be clean, neat and to have their shoes carry a shine. One simple shoe sale, made in a courteous manner, often leads to a lifetime customer. It is so easy to be obliging to the averge customer and it pays 50 well in the end that you always should practice it. A shoe store’s best reputation is that of having a willing and pains- taking sales force. If a merchant is a sticcess as a shoe salesman and fitter of footwear, let him have his sales force follow his method and line of argument. If a young or inexperienced sales- man is a failure on account of the neglect of the merchant or sales manager to properly instruct him, the fault does not lie with the sales- man. Shoe storekeeping is not one round of pleasure, unless you find that pleasure through unusual interest in your business and unusual profit earning in its success. In finding fault, as a merchant. manager or clerk, always follow closely with a suggestive remedy. Running a retail shoe business on the “shoe profit” plan is like put- ting a horse in a treadmill—it does not get very far, or advance very fast—and in time it can not hold your own. Merchants who are too busy t9 read the trade journals of their lines, will some day fall far enough be- hind the informed, journal-reading trade, to have lots of time—and less business. Would you like to go back to the peg-cutting age, When widths were few and plain toes the rage? Would you like to go back when less styles made less grief? Blamed if I would—nor you—that’s my belief. —Boot and Shoe Recorder. —- —_22s The Proportion of Welts to McKays. It is stated, on good authority, that out of approximately two hundred and sixty million pairs of shoes pro- duced in the United States annually, probably not more than eighty mil- lion pairs are Goodyear welts, leav- ing approximately one hundred and eighty million pairs made by other processes, such as McKay _ sewed, Standard screwed, pegged or turned. Probably not many of our read- ers realize that two-thirds of the shoe business of this country is done upon the cheaper methods of fastening the sole and upper together. We have come to look upon the Goodyear welt as the shoe of com- fort for our own wear and apparent- ly we do not give much thought to the fact that two-thirds of the con- sumption of shoes is on other lines than welts. This does not mean that Goodyear welt shoes are not gaining in public favor, however, because while Goodyear welts now form 30 per cent. of the total output of shoes, it should be remembered that the Goodyear method of making shoes has not been in operation a third as long a time as other methods of fas- tening. Twenty years ago the Goodyear MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 welt was a new proposition and was very gingerly accepted by shoe man- ufacturers. The machines, at that time, were very crude and inefficient compared with the later models now in use. Besides that, there has been great development in other machines forming a part of the present Good- year system of machinery, and assist- ing the principal Goodyear machines to make possible the present high standard of Goodyear welt shoemak- ing. Again, while it is sometimes sat that the basic patents on the princi- pal Goodyear machines have expir- ed, it is true that the models now in use that are nearly or quite twice as efficient, as the old models conta11 numerous important improvements, each of which constitutes a patented invention without which the ma- chines of to-day would be like the machines of twenty years ago. Each and all of these improvements and additional machines have been avai!- able for the shoe manufacturers’ use as fast as they were completed. Old and obsolete models have been ‘Sunked,’ and the newer machines put in their places, and it has been this progressive policy that has made it possible for the Goodyear welt shoe to now represent at least 30 per cent. of the total volume of shoes and to gain this position in a com- paratively short space of time. The facts cited herein are worthy of consideration by shoe retailers, and by the public in general, in con- nection with the present agitation in some portions of the trade on the shoe machinery question, together with the fact that there has been some attempt to regulate shoe ma- chinery by legislation, and the fur- ther fact that there is now pending an investigation by the federal au- thorities.—Shoe Retailer. oo oo A Kind Parent. “They say Mandy Dimples has eloped with that city chap who has been hangin’ round her so long.” “Is ol? man Dimples chasin’ em?” “Chasin’ ’em! He lent ’em $20 to pay expenses. SWATCHES ON REQUEST Weare manufacturers of Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats For Ladies, Misses and Children Corl, Knott & Co., Ltd. 20, 22, 24, 26 N. Division St. Grand Rapids, Mich. - eg | VPPPVTSUSTLVOTUTTTULTVTTETTN PVD, * Se ran RAPIDS / The Manufacturing of Shoes is a Most Interesting Process And if you are a shoe merchant or a shoe clerk a most interesting one. When you visit the West Michigan Fair Sept. 11 to 15 visit us also, and let us learn you all we can about modern shoe con- struction and incidentally point out the superior features of our brand of footwear. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., Ltd. 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, any time. No obligations. Miller, Watt & Company Fine Clothes for Men Chicago Stock Up Now for Fall on the H. B. Hard Pan The Sturdy, Strong Shoe for Men Designed to Withstand the Hardest Kind of Service. We make line in Blucher or Bal cut, lace or congress, plain toe or with tip, single, double or three sole, high or low cut. When it comes to a “big line” this one is surely a win- ner. There is a shoe for every purpose and they DO wear. Most of our customers already have their fall orders shipped them, but we made up a big stock and can ship at once most everything in our line. Order now, or if you are not now selling the H. B.. Hard Pans, drop us a card and we will send our salesman with his samples to show you the line. They Wear Like Iron Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. Makers of Shoes t-2 Grand Rapids, Mich. 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN September 6, 1911 tee SOA — = yo — TNR OHNE a ne a — F = ned = > = : Se — oo : . re ' eo sc. = f =. = : ee ce Te » 2 ‘t Lean C6644 (3.3 ose dy ( — ~ Ne ELI FU a P Retailers Better Off Than Manufac- turers. The large buyers who have been in Eastern markets during the last few weeks, and whose _ operations have been expected to determine the trend of conditions, and the proba- bilities for fall and winter retail trade, have at least shown to the world that trade conditions are im- proving, and that the tone of busi- ness is decidedly more brilliant than it was a year ago. The only deter- rent feature seemed to be the fact that some of these buyers refused to purchase as heavily as expected, and as laregly as they are willing to con- fess business warrants, because they are of the opinon that prices for cot- ton goods will be revised on a lower basis. This is because they base their ideas upon the outlook for a large cotton crop. It may be that this will have some effect upon the raw cotton market, and, in some degrec, upon manufacturers, but by the time the retailer has been reached the probability is that any slight reduc- tion will have been lost, and that he will pay about the same range 2f figures as prevailed a year ago. Those who are looking for an immediate effect upon the market for finished fabrics by reason of reduced prices for raw cotton forget that mills have been through two years of very high cotton prices, followed by two more years of dull business and that they will likely claim some benefit to themselves from a more advantage- ous Taw cotton market. They desire to recoup themselves for the four years of weary waiting, and their side of the question at least merits consideration if their statements are true. They have not been able to make the finished fabric respond to the higher raw markets, and now feel that any reduction in the latter should be coming to them. It is as certain as anything can be that a much larger volume of busi- ness is going to be done this fall than for several years, and the re- fusal of jobbers to buy until satisfiet as to values will not interfere with this merchandising. The persistency with which small orders are being placed for immediate delivery and the regularity with which the move- ment of merchandise on order is keeping up give color to the belies of merchants that trade is not near- ly as poor as some buyers would have the trade think. Brown and bleach- ed cottons will undoubtedly be re- vised, as well as many other domes- “ties if cotton values grow more fav- orable, but to assume that the revi- sicn will be on anything like the plane that large buyers talk about is not in keeping with the best judg- ment of leading merchants. Consid- erable interest attaches to the char- acter of the reports that will be made in the market by retailers during this month. If the precedent of the last half year is followed, it will turn out that retailers have been forced to accept a shrinkage of net profits, but in no such ratio as merchants and mills have been forced to oper- ate in the past half year. The next cotton report and the retail reports referred to may be sufficient to start business on a healthier level, but, in any case, the feeling in the market is that buyers have overshot the mark refusing to purchase, with the idea that with light stocks in hand they cam force a revision that will spell bankruptcy for half the mills and half the merchants in the coun- try. A tour of the leading dry goods jobbers, who have prepared for the fall and winter trade, shows that these wholesalers are confidently of the opinon that it is going to be a splendid season for dress goods. Pile upon pile of new goods, of various qualities, weaves and designs, pro- vide for the varying taste and desire of a multitude of retailers and their customers, who must be -pleased, and who are going to purchase much more liberally than they did a year ago. It will be a dress goods sea- son, and dress goods are going to be called for in quantities of unusual magnitude, if present indications are fulfilled. While the wealth of va- riety exhibited allows any taste to be stisfied, there are some things which are expected to lead in the demand, and for which sumptuous preparations have been made. Plaids ate being shown in all qualities, and with a great degree of attention to patterns and colorings, proving that plaids are more than likely to be leaders. These goods are of exceptional value and will be big sellers. The same patterns are found in a variety of colorings, and there are many other designs. Serges are being shown in vari- ous colors and patterns and of all qualities. Both the French and storm serges are made to retail at prices varying from 50 cents up in all wool goods. Serges are not only in favor for one-piece and jacket suits but they are also being taken in some- what heavier weights for outer gac- ments in both plain and reversible styles, some of the new reversible novelties having fancy striped back of black and white in combination with either blue, green, red or black, Special attention is being given by buyers to serges and cheviots in plain and novelty weaves. Woolens in heavy weights are being featured strongly in an unusual variety o2f styles and patterns. More attention is being given to rough faced mate- rials than for several seasons, and for this reason zibeline novelties are looked upon as good. Rough weaves are coming strongly into favor in both plain and novelty weaves, most of them in the form of stripes or stripes and figures combined. Stripes in woven colors predominate, mostly in inconspicuous designs. It is said that producers of wool fancies to sell at poular prices are running overtime, and manufactur- ers of fancy woolen dress goods have a large amount of orders. Advance orders placed by leading retailers are for serges, cheviots, wool velours, ratines and for va- rious satin-faced weaves, including what is called peaux de gazelle, a fabric which is made out of a fine, Justrous wool. Scotch fabrics, English tweeds and other rough fancy materials made up in dark grounds, illuminated with colors, very often with knotted yarn effects at intervals on the surface, are all good. Reversible materials arc in strong position both in Europe and in this country. High-class Paris dressmakers are using them freely. a Stick To One Brand. It is a mistake for a small mer- chant to carry in stock a variety of brands of such goods as have to be fitted; for example, gloves, hose, cor- sets, etc. Take corsets, for instance. There are a dozen different brands which are standard, and one is practically as good as another. If you only carry one of these brands you can have it in an assortment of shapes and be able to fit twice as many cus- tomers as you could by doing as many retailers do and carry four or five different makes. The merchant in the small town who tries to carry too many differ- ent makes is almost sure to get too big a stock on hand. Once in awhile you will lose a customer who is wed- ded to some special make of corset which you do not carry, and who refuses to take any other make. But to offset this, you can more perfect- ly fit those who do buy and make satisfied customers of them. By confining yourself to one brand you can buy enough of that brand to control it for your town. At the end of the season you have a mucli cleaner stock and have not had, az any time, as much money invested a3 your competitor who is carrying short lines of four or five brands. You can advertise and push your own brand and get the full benefit of the advertising. —_~++--___ White Goods. A tremendous demand has devel- oped for piques and poplins, in wide welts, the vogue for heavy white goods for skirts having produced this demand. Few narrow welts are called for, and they are compara- tively neglected. The turn to these heavy goods has been so sudden and unexpected that the market has been left almost bare and a continuation of the run will result in a hopeless attempt on the part of jobbers to fili orders. Light weight goods have been pushed out of the running for skirting purposes and are called for but little. Voiles continne to be pop- ular for light dresses and waists. They have been the leading sellers this summer and are _ still moving freely. The average man is more polite to people he never expects to meet again than to those whose good will is really worth cultivating. When a widower marries a milliner or a dressmaker he is probably figur- ing on getting back part of what his first wife spent. —22___ Most women are as modest as the styles will permit. : eae It is more blessed to receive than it is to deceive. Exclusively Wholesale Imperial Apron Gingham This Gingham is a full Standard Count, large line of patterns, pure indigo dye and full width. Special price, 6%c yard. Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co. =! Grand Rapids, Mich. We close Saturdays at one o'clock ‘e 11 |, September 6, 1911 : MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Manufactured Under “Ina oP Class by 4 Sanit ) Itself” are Conditions ‘e Made in Five Sizes G. J. Johnson Cigar Co. Makers Grand Rapids, Mich. ‘ment along 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN September 6, 1911 CO EOD News and Gossip of Interest to Busi- ness Men. Board of Trade Conference. The quarterly Conference of the Saginaw Board of Trade, held at We- nona Beach, Wednesday afternoon, August 30, was among the most suc- cessful events ever given under the auspices of the representative and flourishing body in question. Over 200 members of the Board left Sag- inaw on open cars at 1 o’clock, and made a fine run to the Beach, some fifteen miles distant, the weather and other conditions being ideal for the outing. Arriving at the Beach, the entire party marched to the Casino, where, with President John A. Cim- merer occupying the chair, a most in- teresting programme was given. The general topic was transportation and transportation facilities and needs and each speaker adhered largely to this interesting subject. Among oth- er things Mr. Cimmerer said in his opening remarks: “The Saginaw Board of Trade is an organization of business men. It is organized to do business. It is not a religious oganization. It knows no party, no creed, no craft, no section and no person in particular. It has only one object, one purpose and one actuating motive, and that is Sagi- naw.” Mr. Cimmerer reviewed the lumber history of Saginaw and proceeded to talk of its development of coal and brine, as well as its general develop- diversified industrial lines. He pointed to the appropria- tion of $700,000 for rivér improve- ment—work on which is now under way—and spoke of the future, when the completion of the work will have again placed Saginaw on the map as a port at which important maritime operations and commerce would be carried on. J. P. Beck, chairman of the Com- mittee on Transportation, was then introduced and spoke of the advan- tages Saginaw enjoys by reason of its fine facilities for moving mer- chandise and produce. He showed that the city is served by twelve ra- diating lines of railroad, embraced in four systems, the Pere Marquette, the Michigan Central, the Grand Trunk and the Detroit & Mackinac. He al- so referred to existing electric or in- terurban lines, the Saginaw & Flint, with its direct Detroit connection, and the Saginaw-Bay City line. Sur- veys by the Lansing & Northwestern on a new interurban from Owosso to Saginaw, and by the Saginaw & Flint, for extension to Bay City, and from Saginaw to Caro, were also re- ported upon by Mr. Beck. Projected extension of the Grand Trunk system from Ashley to Muskegon was refer- red to, and the movement for a union passenger station and for a down town central ticket office re- ceived attention. J. W. Symons, chairman of the Rivers and Harbor Committee, en- larged upon the future of Saginaw, which he held to be assured by the public spiritedness of its people and business men. W. H. Klenke delivered a spirited address upon the topic of “Going After New Members,” in which he advanced valuable suggestions. Secretary Joseph P. Tracy intimat- ed that the next step for Saginaw to take would be the annexation of the Bay as its own, and the putting it to the uses for which it is intend- ed by nature. The meeting unanimously adopted a set of resolutions presented by Ed- ward Schust and embodying the fol- lowing heads: Transportion lines on the river and connecting waters. Electric railroad connection to the Thumb territory, via Caro to Har- bor Beach. Through Pere Marquette service between Saginaw and points north of Port Huron. Through passenger serivec on the Michigan Central between Saginaw and points on its Owendale-Vassar branch. Down town central ticket office for all roads. Union passenger station. Saginaw Industrial Exposition. Preparations and arrangements for Saginaw’s Fourth Industrial Exposi- tion and Land Show are well ad- vanced and the big event will take place under the auspices of the Wholesalers’ and Manufacturers’ As- sociation at the Auditorium Sept. 22- 30. The great central section of the vast main hall of the Auditorium, one of the finest public buildings in Mich- igan, has been taken by the automo- bile companies manufacturing ma- chines in Saginaw, of which there are several, and companies making acces- sories and appliances in this city in connection with the auto industry will also exhibit in this space. An- other big section has been taken by manufacturers of glass and glass products, and here will be shown the Symons Brothers & Company Wholesale Grocers Saginaw :: Michigan HENNING’S HORSE RADISH AND SUMMER SAUSAGE Quality and price right Order through your jobber CHAS. W. HENNING & SONS, Mfrs. SAGINAW, MICH. Always Reliable Phipps, Penoyer & Co. Wholesale Grocers Saginaw :: Michigan SAGINAW MILLING CO. SAGINAW, MICHIGAN Samico, Uncle Sam, Upper Crust, King K, Blue Bird Flours Mill Feeds, Seeds and Grains Bread made from SAMICO won first premium in 1909 and 1910 at Michigan State Fair, Detroit SCHUST BAKING CO., Saginaw, Mich. Mfrs. of Crackers and Fine Cookies Not in the Trust Our goods are the best and prices lowest. Why not write today for a price list Branches—Grand Rapids, Bay City, Flint It Satisfies Holds trade and makes new customers St. Laurent Bros. Pure Peanut Butter All size glass. Tin and fiber pails. Also preparers of the famous Valley Brand Salted Peanuts. Order through your jobber. ST. LAURENT BROS., BAY CITY, MICH. Our Brands of Vinegar Have Been Continuously on the Market For Over FORTY YEARS Think of it—FORTY years of QUALITY We cannot afford to dispense with QUALITY in the make of our Vinegar, and you cannot afford to handle any Vinegar that lacks QUALITY. Order from your jobber, SPECI- FY AND SEE THAT YOU GET “HIGHLAND” Brand Cider and White Pickling “OAKLAND” Brand Cider and White Pickling “STATE SEAL” Brand Sugar They will please both your customers and yourself. Oakland Vinegar & Pickle Co. Saginaw, Mich. pee . » £4 September 6, 1911 wares of a new group of Saginaw in- dustries, including plate glass, glass bottles and receptacles of all kinds, fine cut glass and tableware, optical glasses and down to the finest lens- es. Machinery for making these va- rious articles will also be shown in operation. Leather manufactures, hosiery, corsets, waists, gowns, etc., all made in Saginaw, will be exhibit- ed. Candies, cigars, meat producis, wood working plants, pianos, machin- ery and all and sundry branches of the industrial arts will be represent- ed, and present indications are for the most successful exposition yet held in the city. The Land Show will be of special interest to farmers and others, and will contain an ex- hibition of the products of Michigan lands open for settlement, with ali available data to guide intending set- tlers, while at the same time men of prominence in agricultural work will be present to lecture to the gather- ings that are expected, the pro- gramme being one of unusual. excet- lence. Visit Country Fair. Saginaw business men enjoyed a tather novel experience Friday, when, under the auspices of the Wholesal- ers’ and Manufacturers’ Associatior, a special train took an excursion par- ty of over 400 to the Caro Fair by the Michigan Central Railroad. The Fair people designated the occasion as “Saginaw Day” and special attrac- tions marked the event. About every wholesale house and manufacturing establishment in the city were repre- sented on the excursion, and many of the retailers also went along and had a pleasant outing. Business Notes. Orrin W. Munger, an early settler and prominent business man of St. Jchns and Clinton county, is dead, aged 76 years. He was long engaged in the dry goods business and was al- so a large purchaser of wool from the farmers of Clinton and Gratiot counties. He was a member of the Legislature in 1863. City traveling men who cover the territory tributary to Saginaw were guests at a banquet given by the Wholesalers’ and Manufacturers’ As- sociation Saturday afternoon, at the Hotel Vincent, and a most enjoyable time was spent. In connection with the Board of Trade movement for newer and bet- ter signs for Saginaw, City Engineer Roberts has notifieed Secretary j. P. Tracy that he has placed an or- der for 1,000 new street signs. Busi- ness men are responding splendidly to the Board’s appeal. W. B. Mershon, prominent mant- facturer of Saginaw, has been named a delegate to the National Conserva- tion Congress at Kansas City, Mo.. Sept. 25, 26 and 27, by Governor Os- born. A delegation from the Saginaw county special Committee on Good Roads, with members of the Board of Trade of Saginaw, attended pub- lic meeting held at Bridgeport and Birch Run Saturday and Monday nights in the interests of the macad- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN am road which is projected from Sag- inaw to Flint. There was a large at- tendance and substantial aid promis- ed the project. Manager Mandy, of the Welch Au- to Co., of Detroit and Pontiac, an- nounces that the merchandise and machinery of the company have been moved to Saginaw and installed at the Marquette Motor Works, where active operations in car manufactur- ing are being carried on, with an in- creased force. J. P. Beck, of the Board of Trade, and County Road Commissioner John Ederer attended the State Good Roads convention at Lansing as Sagi- naw’s representatives. Saginaw retailers share in the gen- eral consternation at the sky rocket movement of the sugar market, noted during the week. The Schmidt-Vogt Co. held its formal opening of the new abattoir, just erected and equipped, on Thurs- day, the establishment being visited by thousands. Julius Vogt and Hen- ry M. Schmidt are the principals of the company, and Emil Saley, form- erly with Armour, Chicago, is super- intendent. The concern is equipped as are the best and most modern of the Chicago packing houses, differing only in point of capacity, and will slaughter and handle wholesale meats of all kinds, under the name, “Queen Brand.” Among business visitors to Sagi- naw houses during the week were L. J. Heinlein, Vassar; Walter Camp- bell, Goilford; A. Birch, Wheeler: Peter Ryan, Merrill; Henry Sheldon, Elmer; B. T. Hutchinson, Alabaster; Mr. Yawger, of Yawger & Pearsall, Hale. J. W. Brady. —_+ +. __ New Foods From “Useless” Fish. Experts in the United States are giving careful study to the methods in vogue in certain fish factories in Northern Europe, with a view to the economical preparation of products from fish that hitherto Americans have regarded as useless. Among these is the preparations of fish pastes from fish that have no commercial value either as fresh or salted food, but which, at the same time, possesses a high nutritive value. It is said that the flesh of both the shark and the whale (which latter can not, of course, be properly classi- fied as a fish) are largely utilized for the preparation of a fish extract that resembles in some respects the popu- lar extracts of beef, being at the same time far cheaper. All fishy flavor is eliminated by chemical proc- esses, and the extract is valuable for the foundation of soaps and in gen- eral cookery. Whale meat is nutritious, but its excessive amount of fat renders it unpalatable to most persons. So this fat is removed before the extract is boiled down to a syrupy consistence and sealed in jars. In many of the fish factories of Norway a “fish meal” is made that is eaten extensively by the natives of Northern Europe. In these several ways fish which were formerly re- jected as being unfit for food are be- ing utilized to the advantage of many. 19 $2,900.00 In Prizes To Increase Oatmeal Consumption 185 Prizes, Ranging from $100 Down Open to Grocers and Their Clerks HE Quaker Oats Company starts its Fall ad- See the October magazines and women’s publications. They vertising with a new innovation. come out about September 25th. We offer there 185 prizes, totaling $2,500.00. There are five prizes of $100.00 each, ten of $50.00 each, etc. They are offered by us to those who send the best letters, illus- trating the good which people get from eating oatmeal. You men who sell oats should have a chance at those prizes. Be sure that you see those announcements. And notice this when you read such announce- ment: The object of our advertising—as it has been for years—is to increase the oatmeal con- sumption. We are not merely after existing trade. Nine-tenths of our aim is to increase the sale of oatmeal. A recent house-to-house canvass which we made in twelve cities shows that two-thirds of all families are now using oatmeal. About half of them use it daily. Our object now is to bring this greatest of all foods into constant, universal use. And that is for the good of all. The Quaker Oats Company is doing more than all others to nurture the trade in oatmeal. It has done more than all others to make people like oatmeal. Quaker Oats is, beyond any question, the finest oat food in existence. By quality, by advertising and by right business methods we are constantly building the trade in oatmeal, If you believe that these efforts are good for you—and good for all—we ask you to help. The Quaker Oats Company CHICAGO 1) My cH ‘il s ae aS - OE" 7 IR me | WOMANSiWORLD —=s ——— ee ey a. Why Do We Hear So Little of the Fathers? Written for the Tradesman. As matters now stand, mothers certainly are getting the best of it. Their toil and troubles, their brood- ing care and watchful solicitude, their affection and sympathy—all are held up for universal cOmmendation. A halo of sentiment surrounds their heads. A vast quantity of poetry, some of it not so poor in quality, is written in their praise and all the high honors of parenthood are show- ered upon them. Mother’s Day, when everyone is expected to wear a white carnation, rapidly is coming into na- tion-wide observance. Nothing but good can result from giving fitting recognition to the love and devotion of mothers. No one can find any fault with this. But how about the fathers? It is some work to be a good father and a long job and a steady one and entirely without salary or other financial emoluments. What is even worse, no particular glory attaches to it. The prime qualification of a good father is utter self-abnegation. It is not so hard to exercise self-denial, even of the extreme sort, if we can be placed on some kind of a pedes- tal for doing it. Most of us are will- ing to work for a cause—to die for it if need be—if only we can have our names and pictures in the papers and pose as heroes and benefactors This is human nature. Now a father—just a plain, com- mon father—may self-abnegate as much as a foreign missionary (he has very ample opportunities along this line), but no one thinks anything about it, it is all taken as a matter 92f course. Since one gets little or no credit for being an extra good father, it very naturally has come about that the average man, who it must be ac- knowledged is a somewhat inert creature when considered morally and spiritually, neglects all but the more urgent of his paternal duties. He provides food and clothing, but he fights shy of organizing himself into a Fathers’ Meeting and spend- ing his scant leisure -discussing the relative merits of corporal punish- ment and moral suasion or the com- parative values of the various brands of infants’ food. He prefers to read his paper or fan a baseball game. The reason we do not have more good fathers is because we do net make more fuss over those we do have. It is high time fathers were promoted to some of the ornamental branches of parenthood, so to speak. { am convinced that if the great body of intelligent men would take up the study of “The Boy” in the same thorough-going way that earn- est, conscientious women are now making a study of “The Child,” something would happen. That something would be that well-to-do fathers would become acquainted with their own boys and spend as much time as possible in sympa- thetic companionship with them; they would give careful oversight to their education and training and, as a result, the sons of our best fami- lies would pan out better than many of them now are doing. The grown man is always singing the praises of mother’s pies and mother’s molasses cookies and moth- er’s matchless tenderness. If he rises to eminence and power, he ascribes it all to mother’s influence. Far be it from me to depreciate this in the least. Give to mother’s love their full meed of praise and honor; but didn’t father have anything to do with it? Doesn’t he deserve a lit- tle credit for the formation of your character? You remember how you could hoodwink mother, and when you got into any scrapes she always thought the other boys were all to blame. Were there ever such travesties of punishment as_ those whippings of mother’s, administered at such lone intervals and only when she felt it to be her bounden duty, and so soft- ly and gently and with tears stream- ing from her loving eyes? But you could not pull the wool over father’s eyes—not a bit of it. He could see clear through all your deviltry, be- cause he had been right there him- self. When he called you to the woodshed to square matters, it was not his eyes that the tears streamed from. Don’t you think those sterner episodes had something to do with making you what you are and that father should be given honorable mention as one of the indispensable factors contributing to your suc- cess? Time was when fathers were con- sidered of more account than they are now. Scarcely a great nation of antiquity but the father held the most exalted place in the family. Un- der the patriarchal form of govern- ment the fathers were the rulers, and we have but to turn the pages of old Jewish history to learn the esteem in which they were held. When Aeneas, one of the Trojan heroes and afterward founder of the Roman empire, was escaping from Troy aft- er its capture by the Greeks, al- theugh his wife Creusa became sep- arated from him and was lost in the 139-141 Monr Se Both Phorw CRAND RAPIDS MICH Cog Gear Roller Awnings Are up to date. Send for catalog. AWN/INGS TENTS fu FLAGS & COVERS/ Bc, SAILS & RIGGING |hns Get our prices and samples for store and house awnings. The J. C. Goss Co., etreit. Foote & Jenks’ CQLETIAN’S ~(RAND)_ Terpeneless High Class Lemon and Vanilla Write for our ‘‘Premotion Offer’’ that combats “Factory to Family” schemes. Insist on getting Coleman's Extracts from your jobbing grocer, or mail order direct to FOOTE & JENKS, Jackson, Mich. . YOU HAVE MADE A MISTAKE when you buy a Christmas line without first seeing our samples. If our salesmen do not call on you write us and we will see that one does. THE WILL P. CANAAN COMPANY 105 N. OTTAWA ST. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MILWAUKEE VINEGAR COMPANY Manufacturers of Guaranteed Grain Distilled Vinegar Sold by all Jobbers MILWAUKEE, WIS., U. S. A. Don’t Pay a Fancy Price for Vinegar SEND US AN ORDER TO-DAY FOR Nob eclion) ' COMPOUND | GRAIN, SUGAR AND GRAPE VINEGAR The price is 13% cts. per gallon with one barrel free with each fifth barrel shipped this season F O B Kalamazoo, Lawton, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, Jackson, F O B ° . ° Detroit, Alpena, Traverse City or Bay City. ° . ° STOCK ALWAYS ON HAND AT THESE POINTS An Ideal Pickling and Table Vinegar Satisfaction Absolutely Guaranteed Lawton Vineyards Co. a Kalamazoo, Mich. NOTICE Now is the open season for NIBBLE STICKS We furnish bait with every box. It catches ‘em every time. Use nothi ng but the ORIGINAL NIBBLE STICKS made by PUTNAM FACTORY, National Candy Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. September 6, 1911 confusion, it is mentioned that h2 bore his aged father Anchises on his shoulders and succeeded in getting him to a place of safety. I have lately been much interested in a picture showing a cross sec- tion of a great Cunard liner. It is like a huge several-story hotel put under water. On one floor are the elegantly furnished drawing rooms, and next below are the first-class state rooms, also palatial in their ap- pointments. Next is the first-class dining room and below that the sec- ond-class state rooms. Down farther comes the steerage dining saloon with its hundreds of immigrants seat- ed at table. Below all these, below the store rooms filled with boxes and barrels of supplies and hung with dressed beeves and hogs, below even the cargo and the baggage, down in the very bottom of the hold are the ' boiler rooms and the furnaces, an4 here, stripped to the waist on ac- count of the intense heat, are the stokers, the men who tend the fires. They occupy a most important po- sition in seafaring economy, for it is by their efforts that the ship is kept going. But there are no gold- braided uniforms for them and we never hear of their taking any par- ticular pride in their positions. There seems to be no esprit de corps among stokers. _ In the average American family in comfortable circumstances, father stokes. It is by the toil of his body or brain that the household is kept going. Under present conditions we can not well let father off from stok- ing, but would it not be well to bring him up to the drawing room more frequently and make something of him?- The poets should get busy and write some verses about fathers. Perhaps we might have a Fathers’ Day. Once attention was turned to the subject, it would not be difficult to give fathers a place of honor in popular estimation, and a chance tu supply some of the ideas and ideals of the family life, as well as the means for its material subsistence. Quillo. 2-22 ____ Is Chivalry the Real Name After All? A few years ago a sweet woman died. She left two little girls and a fine, stalwart son behind her. When she had been dead a year or so her husband married again. He married a pretty woman, with exceedingly bright eyes and the most fascinating lisp in the world. The woman with the bright eyes was very poor when the man mar- ried her. She was a seamstress, and had never had quite enough food in her life, and it made her very un- happy to have to sew pretty clothes for other women when she knew she could wear them so becomingly her- self. So she married the man—for he was very rich. And he bought the woman who had married him diamonds, and two automobiles, and emeralds, and a fine house in town and a beautiful coun- try place, and because he was very rich and powerful the woman who MICHIGAN TRADESMAN had known his first wife came and visited the second wife, and she.went into that strange place called ‘so- ciety.” But she had a great deal of time on her hands, and so she flirted with the man’s fine, sturdy son, and she introduced the man’s sweet, inno- cent daughter to people she would much better never have known; and she entertained very shady people in- deed at the great place in the coun- try—and the man who had married her loved her so that he would not believe his own eyes. But one day the half-grown boy did believe his eyes and killed a man who was visit- ing the woman who had married his. father. And then there was a trial. And the boy’s life hung upon the testimony of the woman who had married his father. And the lawyers on both sides oi the case agreed not to put the wom- anon the stand. ‘She is a woman, after all,” they said. And the woman made her bright eyes very big and lisped beautifully when she thanked them; and the papers in the town where all this happened printed fine editorials on “the chivalry of the American bar.” The boy? Oh, well, his case is not settled yet; and what’s the difference? His mother is dead, anyhow. Chivalry? I wonder if that’s the real name for such things as this? I hope not. I have always believed that chiv- alry was the sentiment that made men protect the innocent and the weak. I can not see why it should be called into effect to protect the wick- ed and the strong, do you? “After all she is a woman.” Very pretty, gentlemen. It is a pity the lady in question did not remember that fact just a lit- tle sooner herself, isn’t it? Winifred Black. eS oo She Was Taller. Jessie—I suppose he fell in love with you first thing. Tessie—No; he didn’t fall. reached up and kissed me. ———__~» oe _____ Only the feminine passion for get- ting things cheap can explain some women’s choice of a husband. He just 21 We have a lot of choice buckwheat suitable for seed. Write for prices. Watson-Higgins Milling Co. Grand 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 ome 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 about ‘Purity Patent’’ Made by Grand Rapids Grain & Milling Co. 194 Canal St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Just as Sure as the Sun Rises Ea) ONO DED | Weeve. Makes the best Bread and Pastry This is the reason why this brand of flour wins sutcess for every dealer who recommends cm Not only can you hold the old customers in line, but you can add new trade with Crescent Flour as the opening wedge. The quality is splendid, it is always uniform, and each pur- chaser is-protected by that iron clad guarantee of absolute satis- ieanteyen Make Crescent Flour one of ‘your trade pullers—recommend it to your discriminating cus- tomers. OM et a OU ARE ALWAYS SURE of a sale and a profit if you stock SAPOLIO. You can increase your trade and the comfort of your customers by stocking HAND SAPOLIO at once. It will sell and satisfy. HAND SAPOLIO is a special toilet soap—superior to any other in countless ways—delicate sBeugh for the baby’s skin, and capable of removing any stain. Costs the dealer the same as regular SAPOLIO, but should be sold at 10 cents per cal. Dr nr ee sci takinidis [sick Sec ui c aiken Sos casts sates isteldin teissistacaiiandanaauiiedanakaaaaaaeaeaaaee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN NN wceta(( ssa eee AN eS eS lA Mia ac eh f —— oe 0 fale es a) hint was yp HARDWARI = = = G reser iy fe J Ne cee Re ryuucet AWN eS ALL trl AWA ~ 3 oD S55 | Private Cost Marks Invite Suspicion and Distrust. Experience has determined that the best results in business follow from the one-price plan. Where a scale of prices is maintained it is never This may appear like a but its truth has been abundantly, determined in experience. The tendency is always to give the lowest price as a special inducement every time a sale is made with difficulty. Friends put in a claim to be on a par with the most favored customers. Other men who know that more than one price is made, even when they get the best price, always entertain a suspicion that some other man has been more favored than they have been. A price scale leads to distrust and makes trouble; there can not be any doubt about that. Business at its best is filled with enough of trouble and worry with- out voluntarily adding to them by the futile attempt to maintain a two or three price scale. Those men who have been the longest in the imple- ment business have convinced them- selves that the ideal plan is to have one price, and when time is asked make the distinction between cash and time price one of interest on the note. Misunderstandings are avoid- ed and every man knows that he is buying just as cheaply as every oth- er man, and that if he asks the fav- or of credit he is giving something in return for it. This introduces the subject of marking goods. A few years ago it was almost a universal custom for business men to have a secret price mark and to mark all of their goods with that mark. There are some who continue to follow that prac- tice to this day. Those who do this are at an evident disadvantage. They are inviting suspicion and distrust. li a plice mark must be interpreted to the customer, how is he to know that every interpretation will be the same? He will have a right to sus- picion that if some other and possi- bly more desirable customer asks for an interpretation of the same cabal- istic signs that his interpretation may be different. Even although the dealer inviolably keeps to the one price system, and persists in marking these prices in hieroglyphics, his cus- tomers will suspect him of decep- tion. maintained. paradoxical statement, No business man can afford to in- vite this. His every move should be so frank and devoid of duplicity, or even the suspicion of duplicity, that every customer may confidently know that he is getting as good a price as any other man whatsoever. The only way this can be attained is by using plain figures and con- spicuously displaying them. Don’t leave it for the clerk or for your- self to enlighten the probable cus- tomer as to what the selling price of a tool may be. Mark it, mark it plainly, so there can be no mistake. With the obvious advantages of such a system before every business man as evidenced by the great merchants of the country, it is a mystery why some men will persist in adhering to the obsolete secret price mark. If you are addicted to that habit, stop it at once. You will observe a_ differ- ence in the attitude of oo trade at once. It is all-important in these days of intense competition to foster and encourage confidence and mutual re- spect. If you, at the very outset ot a trade, conceal the essential thing of that deal, the price, by hiding it under a marking system that no one but you or your clerks can under- stand, you are preventing the growth of that mutual confidence that is the life of trade. You may rigidly ad- here to the one price system, but if you use a secret price mark you can never succeed in making your cus- tomers believe it. You lose their confidence at the very outset, and, once lost, confidence is the last thing to be regained. A business without confidence is foredoomed to failure.— Implement Age. ROBIN HOOD AMMUNITION ( Net Made by a Trust Ask for special co-operative selling plan. Big Profits Robin Hood Ammunition Co. Bee St., Swanton, Vt. THE AUTOMATIC LIGHT. Once the same as electricity or city gas. No generating required. Simply pull the chain and you have light of exceeding brightness. Lighted and ex- tinguished automatically. Cheaper than kero- sene, gas or electricity. Write for booklet K. and special offer to merchants Consumers Lighting Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. A. T. KNOWLSON COMPANY Wholesale Gas and Electric Supplies Michigan Distributors for Welsbach Company 99-103 Congress St. East, Detroit Telephones, Main 2228-2229 Catalog or quotations on request September 6, 19! A Corking Calendar of Startling Stunts West Michigan State Fair Grand Rapids, Sept. 11, 12,13, 14,15 A Rare Week of Rare Attractions The “BIG SHOW” of the year, and the BIGGEST in our history Education, Inspiration and Amusement, Something for Everybody The Wright Biplane Will be in daily flight. The sight of a century! First “Aviation Meet” in the history of Western Michigan! See the daring “Bird Men” cleave the clouds! This is the most famous aeropjane in the world! It will carry passengers, too! Want a ride? This is the machine that carried Johnstone to a height of TWO MILES at Belmont Park! You MUST see this wonderful exhibition! THE RACING CARD | | $18,000 Premiums TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. ’ sed aa ee aia ae Have attracted the finest rc PICO cei ees eg urse eae 294 Pace........ .... Purse $500 and most complete exhibits THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. we have ever shown. S10 Pose Purse $500 Every inch of show space BAD ATOL.- 20 es Purse $500 has been taken. Premium 2:24 rote... Purse $500 * a * . oO n riculture, in- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. — = cc ig _ - 2:16 Paced... . 8. 3s Purse $500 sy eur apa og Paek Purse $500 ments, stock, automobiles, 2°30 Trot. 0 Purse $500 etc., etc. See the World’s Motor Speed Kings The Greatest Automobile Races on Any Michigan Track Burman, who holds the world’s record for a mile, and Har- roun, the world’s long-distance champion, will be the stellar at- tractions—with others of almost equal sensational merit. It’s worth the price of admission to see Oldfield’s 200 H. P. “Blitzen Benz” shattering track precedents. See the Dare-Devils Shatter Records and Precedents BAND CONCERTS DAILY By the Furniture City Band, the Ramona Band, the Second Regiment Military Band, the Press Newsboys Band, the Pythian Band, and the Grand Rapids City Band. The $50,000 Live-Stock Show Alone is Worth Going Miles to See And There Will Be a Thousand Other Attractions for You REDUCED RATES ON ALL RAILROADS ES Se $$ $< $e ae Paice September 6, 1911 The Power of Hard Work. Much has been said about efficien- cy in business. Much will be said about it in days to come. Many a man will spend days and sleepless nights in trying to devise ways whereby he can attain efficiency, and by means of which he may enjoy the emoluments that efficiency will bring to him. For when all is said and done success in business resolves it- self into efficiency, and into efficien- cy alone. A successful business must have been an efficient business—the one is the measure of the other. It is a singular trait of human na- ture that men are prone to look for hidden directions and difficult cours- es, neglecting perfectly obvious an‘ easy roads. There is a popular mis- conception to the effect that success in any enterprise—social, political, business or mental—is to be obtained only by virtue of severe travail and difficulty; and this is true in a quali- fied sense. It is true that success can not come to any one in any walk of life unless unusual exertions are expended to attain that success. At the same time it by no means fol- lows that there should be any diffi- culty in divining the particular meth- ods to be employed. Men think that the road to success is an unusual one, and that it is a difficult one to dis- cover. Rather the truth lies in the fact that the road is a perfectly plain one, and that the only difficulty lies in the keeping in it. Every man who has ever been a success in any direction of endeavor will assert that he has attained his end rather by the devotion of sheer hard work than by the employment of any other means. Men are disin- clined to believe this from their in- herent desire to see in the prosecu- tion of success measures and attain- ments different from those employ- ed in the conduct of ordinary busi- ness. That this is a mistaken view of the matter is certain. It is always a test of the validity of any soluticn that it is general, in other words, that it contains common factors or methods that apply to innumerable examples of like nature. It is a fact that every instance of success has been attended by the virtue of hard work, therefore hard work is a com- mon factor in every case of suc- cess. We are rather inclined to be- lieve that hard work is about the only factor that is common to every case. It follows inevitably then that hard work must be undergone if suc- cess is to come. This justifies the statement made above that difficulty of some kind must be encountered. But it reveals the comforting fact that the difficulty lies in a direction so common and so well understood that no man need shy at it; every man knows instant- ly what hard work is, and practical- ly every man is abundantly able to apply it. A writer on business top- ics said recently that “there is no better talent or genius than the pow- er to do hard work. Hard work, in- telligently directed, is success in any business.” This coupling in apposi- tion of talent, genius and hard work, making them, if not synonymous MICHIGAN TRADESMAN terms, at least terms of equal im- port and effect, is eminently correct Talent, without the power of appli- cation, comes to naught. Genius, without the power to apply its dis- coveries by means of labor, is futile. Hard work, even in the absence of either talent or genius, can accom- plish much. Of the three, if there is any degree of comparison, hard work is the best. It has produced more in the history of the world than have the other two combined. This is comforting doctrine to the young man especially. It tells him that he need waste no time in re- pining because he is not a genius in business. He need spend no time trying to ascertain whether he has a talent for business. All he has to do is to get busy, and day after day apply himself to the best of his strength. Hard work is the panacea for the power of working hard, other things being equal, will make a suc- cess. One qualification only to the broad assertion of this doctrine is necessary. The hard work must be intelligently directed. If the young business man doubts the intelligence possessed by himself to direct his business, he can always borrow from the experience of older men, ani by association with the acknowledged successful men in his line of endeav- or he can supply his own deficiencies. Is it not patent where this sugges- tion leads?—Implement Age. —_—_-o- - + ___- Scouting at Home. “So, you wish to be a boy scout, Earlie?” “Ves, dad.” “Well, those tall weeds in the back yard would make excellent cover for an enemy. I think it would be good military tactics for you to cut ’em down.” —__>- The Standpatter. “What is a standpatter?” “A standpatter is a man who does not want a new deal.” “And why do people desire a new deal?” “In the hope that some of them will get a chance to stand pat.” Acorn Brass Mig. Co. Chicago Makes Gasoline Lighting Systems and Everything of Metal 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 Peart St. Grand Rapids, Mich. 23 DON’T FAIL. ie 3 - — line er iad aie] PEANUT ROASTERS, CORN POPPERS, &¢. LIBERAL TERMS. KINGERY MFG. CO,,106-108 E. Pearl St..C'scinaatt,0- Snap Your Fingers At the Gas and Electric Trusts and their exorbitant charges. Put in an American Lighting Sys- tem 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. Local agents wanted every where. American Gas Machine Co. 103 Clark St. Albert Lea, Minn. Walter Shankland & Co. Michigan State Agents Grand Rapids, Mich. 66 N. Ottawa St. 32 So. Ionia Street Mr. Retailer—Just a word to tell you that we absolutely stand behind every roll of OUR TRAVELERS ROOFING. Clark-Weaver Company The only EXCLUSIVE WHOLESALE HARDWARE in Western Michigan Grand Rapids, Mich. before. grounds, as headquarters. Don’t forget the West Michigan State Fair Visitors _Every dealer throughout the state should visit this fair, which will be even bigger and better this year than ever We extend to the trade a cordial invitation to make free use of our down town store and our exhibit tent at the We will exhibit from our entire lines of Collars, Har- nesses, Robes, Blankets, Saddlery Hardware, Implements, Fur and Waterproof Clothing, Trunks, Suit Cases, Bags, Etc., and we promise to all visitors ample proof of the qual- ity and quantity of the famous SUN BEAM goods. Don’t forget the place—Grand Rapids. Don’t forget the dates, September 11 to 15. BROWN & SEHLER CO. Up town—5 and 7 W. Bridge St. Fair Grounds—Exhibit Tent, Implement Section REYNOLDS FLEXIBLE ASPHALT SLATE SHINGLES AN HONEST PRODUCT AT AN HONEST PRICE PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION REPRODUCED Our Price is Reasonable We Invite Your Inquiries For Particulars Ask for Sample and Booklet We Are Ready and Anxious to Serve You Reynolds Slate Shingles After Five Years Wear Manufactured by H. M. REYNOLDS ROOFING CO., WRITE US FOR AGENCY PROPOSITION Wood Shingles After Five Years Wear Grand Rapids, Mich. Michigan Knights of the Grip. President—J. C. Wittliff, Detroit, Secretary—F, M. Ackerman, Lansing. Treasurer—Lou J, Burch, Detroit. Chaplain—A. G. MacEachron, Detroit, Directors—H. P. Goppelt, Saginaw; F. ;_ W. J. Devereaux, Pt. Huron; John D. Martin, Grand Rapids; C. H. Phillips, Lapeer; I. T -Hurd, Davi- SO mn. Grand Council of Michigan, U. C. T. Grand Counselor—George B. Craw, Pe- toskey, Junior Counselor—John Q. Adams, Bat- tle Creek. Past Grand Counselor—C, A, Wheeler, Detroit. Grand Secretary—Fred C. Richter, Traverse City. aot Treasurer—Joe C, Wittliff, De- troit. Grand Conductor—E. A. Welch, Kala- mazoo. Grand Page—Mark S. Brown, Saginaw. Grand Sentinel—Walter_ S§. Lawton, Grand Rapids, Grand Chaplain—Thos. M. Travis, Pe- toskey. Executive Committee—James F. Ham- mell, Lansing; John D. Martin, Grand Rapids; Angus G. McEachron, Detroit; James E. Burtless, Marquette. It Was a Nightmare. “That,” remarked Homer Tuttle, “is about as near as anybody will ever come to seeing a real ghost. | don’t believe in ’em. But I do be- lieve in dreams, and I can_ prove there’s something in ’em, too. When- ever I struck New Orleans I used to visit a poolroom, where I scrap- ed acquaintance with a chap named Jackson, who was picking the win- ners day aiter day. “He told me that sometimes he dreamed about the way races were going to come out; and always won when he played those dream tips. One day he came in and said: ‘I had a dream last night in which I heard somebody yell: “Jessie R. wins by a neck!” Never heard of the skate, did you?’ “I never had, either; but, strange to say, on the next card that was posted there was a horse named Jes- sie R., and she was twenty-to-one. Say! Maybe we didn’t get aboard; I with my last lone five spot for first place, and he with a twenty for the same. “Then the man in the window be- gan to call the race. Jessie R., no- where; not even in the stretch. I be- gan to kick myself for a fool to bet on a dream—and then came, ‘Jessie R. wins—by a neck!’ ““*Jackson, old man,’ I said, ‘the next time you have a dream, don’t forget me, and I'll do the square thing. Eat a Welsh rare-bit and some mince pie before you go to bed. Don’t worry about dyspepsia. You'll have money enough to get the best doctors in the world.’ I felt that if Jackson could only keep on dream- ing we'd both be millionaires. “As luck would have it, he did not have another dream until after the button business called me on to the next town, though, if { could have been sure he’d do some more dream- ing I’d have thrown up my job and stayed. “I didn’t see him again for a cou- ple of months. Then I met him in the same poolroom, and the first thing he said was, ‘I had a dream last night. I dreamed the chap in the window call- ed out, ‘Hotstuff wins by a nose.’” “Did we play it? We did—to our last cent. It was an right-to-one shot, and we put every penny on first place. Pretty soon the old boy in the window begins to call the race. We didn’t hear Hotstuff among the leaders, and I began to worry, for I didn’t have but a nickel left in the world; but Jackson says: ““Never fear, old sport. My dreams have never failed me yet. They are the sure goods. You can depend on "em every time.’ “Then we heard, ‘Hotstuff in the stretch!’ and my heart began to beat gain. Then, ‘Hotstuff wins by a nose!’ —and Jackson and I fell into each other’s arms and yelled for joy. ““Jacky,’ I cried, ‘I’m going to quit selling buttons this very day, and you and I will follow the races in a private car.’ “Just then I hear the window go up with a bang, and the chap behind it yells out, ‘Hotstuft disqualified!’ “We went out into the cold, cold world, and sat on a park bench to think it over. ‘You're a fiine dreamer, you are,’ I said. “Well, says Jackson, ‘I took your tip about what to eat, and that was a Welsh rarebit dream. I guess it must have been a nightmare.’ “For the next week I lived on three dollars and fifty cents, borrowed money, including room rent and food ——so you can imagine what I ate.” 22... Outsied the Ring. He stood at the foot of the stairs for ten minutes before he could mus- ter up enough courage to ascend to the office of the dentist. “What is it?” “Toothache.” “Get into the chair!” “But—but—” “Get in!” “I just called to ask if—” “Yes, I know. Tooth is loose and must come out.” “But I can’t stand it. That is—” “Open your jaws.” “Easy, now—” “Tooth is out. A dollar, please. By the way, what is your profession?” “A prize fighter” —_2+>____ A man does not have the virtues of Christ because he knows where to read about them; as well try to feed upon a cook book. TRADESMAN lot of people are waiting until it is increased. Virtue is its own reward—and a i Manufacturers of Register System of goods, money, labor, anything. ALLIANCE, OHIO September 6, 1911 The McCaskey Register Co. The McCaskey Gravity Account The one writing method of handling account Hotel Cody Grand Rapids, Mich. A. B. GARDNER, Mgr. Many improvements have been made in this popular hotel. Hotand cold water have been put in all the rooms. Twenty new rooms have been added, many with private bath. The lobby has been enlarged and beau- tified, and the dining room moved to the ground floor. The rates remain the same—$2.00, $2.50 and $3,00. American plan. Ali meals 50c. TWICE DAILY G. & M. Lineand G. R. & Holland Interurban The Breslin Absolutely Fireproof Day Trip, Leave - - - 7:40 A.M. Night Trip, Leave 8 and 9 P.M Broadway, Corner of 29th Street Increase Your Sales of BAKER’S Cocoaand Chocolate ANY GROCER who Most convenient hotel to all Subways and Depots. Rooms $1.50 per day and upwards with use of baths. Rooms $2.50 per day and upwards with private bath. Best Restaurant in New York City with Club Breakfast and the world famous “CAFE ELYSEE” NEW YORK handles our prepa- . tations can have a @ beautifully illustra- ted booklet of choc- olate and cocoa rec- ipes sent with his compliments to his Customers entirely free of charge. Ask our salesman or write Chase Motor Wagons Are built in several sizes and body styles. Carrying ae capacity from 800 to 4,000 pounds. Prices from $750 Registered to $2,200. Over 25,00 Chase Motor Wagons in use. U.S. Pat. Off Write for catalog. i Adams & Hart Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. 47-49 No. Division St., Grand Rapids DORCHESTER, MASS. FROU-FROU is as good as money, skill and long experi- ence can possibly make it—there is no better wafer in the Universe. IMPORTED FROM HOLLAND After experimenting for years we have backbone enough to demand a fair price f the ti labor and experience it cost us to bring FROU-FROU up to its present high sitectostataa Don’t lose sight of the fact, however, that the nearest likeness ever Bo ght Produced is only a crude imitation, and still it costs you and your customers as much if not more than . : TUCO A OTT TT KROU-FROU THE WORLDS GREATEST WAFER Cee CELLED PES PIPTU ETI TN TFT) IN Hae EL CEURUER PUGET ITD ITAL e ru Haan ni B Send for samples, prices and the address of our nearest distributor. BISCUIT FABRIEK “DE LINDEBOOM” AMERICAN BRANCH Grand Rapids, Mich. is i i t & ene gy se a ed ee oe a ea ee Q, Ow = ot ee ive wap Mane: Pm September 6, 1911 News and Gossip of the Traveling Boys. Art Borden, formerly with the Fletcher Hardware Co., has changed positions and is now District Mana- ger of the Anderson Tool Co., of Anderson, Indiana. Art will open a local office at once. We wish him success because—well, every one knows why who is acquainted with him. Wm. Fitzgibbons, with the Grand Rapids Dry Goods Co., broke his arm last Friday. Bill was to be initiated into the U. C. T. on Saturday, which makes it doubly tough. A. B. Boyce, the man of mystery, with Edson, Moore & Co., says: “It’s hard luck enough to be a married man, without being reminded of it during business hours.” O. W. Stark, Dick Amerson and Sam Seely went on a fishing trip recently. Before they started fishing, they agreed they were to have a drink whenever they caught a fish. They do say the drinks they took were much larger than the fish they caught, as fishing was very poor. Manley Jones, E. A. Clark, Chas. F. Aupperle and Carleton Bosworth joined the U. C. T. Saturday night. No bones broken. H. B. Wilcox, “Pill Peddler for Peck’s,” has been spending ten days at Crystal Lake. He fished every day and for his labor got one sunfish, two blue gills, one perch and a letter from home. Fred Read, manager of the Stearns, Ludington, is advertised in a Detroit paper as “the best natured landlord in Michigan.” We think he's the biggest crab. He could have es- caped this for a good cigar. Gard Wallace, who until recently traveled for M. M. Stanton & Co and made his headquarters in Grand Rapids, has accepted a position with Cohen Bros. & Co., Milwaukee. Gard will cover the western half of-Mich- igan for them. This territory was recently covered by the late Dick Moore. Vacuum cleaners run through the G. R. & I. coaches on the northern division wouldn’t cause any ill feel- ing from the traveling men. Louis Praeger found some beauti- ful(?) oranges on a P. M. train the other day. But, then, what’s. the use, the boys have guyed him enough about this. Free lunch and ladies invited at the next meeting of the U. C. T. Glad to see the communication signed U. C. T. regarding the in- creasing of rates by the hotels in Alma, St. Louis, Clare and Mt. Pleasant. The columns of the Trades- man are open to the traveling men and it will print any communications which concern their welfare. Get busy, boys! Seems to us like a mighty poor time to advance rates and it is up to the boys whether the hotels can make it stick or not. Some of the U. C. T. ladies seem jealous at the mention their “hub- bies” get in this column. We wiil mention the ladies, too, if they will do something funny or out of the or- dinary. Who will be first? The Tradesman has_ temporarily reduced the subscription price to $1 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a year to increase its circulation. The traveling men should take advantage of this offer. A. F. Smith was at the head of the K. U. on labor day. There was a big batch of applica- tions read off at the last meeting of the U. C. T. Was your name on one of them? Charley Roth, who covers the Mid- dle West for the Macey Co., is one of the shrewdest and brightest boys on the road, but he sometimes slips a cog just the same. During the heated term he was a’ guest at the Sto’away cottage (owned by E. A. Stowe) at Neahtawanta. He was very much enamored with a couple of Seattle girls who were guests at the cottage and who made his life miserable by the pranks they played on him. When the time came for him to leave—and he naturally de- ferred that event as long as _ pos- sible—he sought to even up things with the girls by tying their bath stockings in hard knots. Imagine his consternation and chagrin to learn—a few days later—that he had exercised his revenge on a gentle old lady whose hair has been whiten- Dislike To Think Grocers Are Dis- honest. Bay City, Sept. 5—A discussion re- garding the advisability of securing a set of standard weights and measures for the city and establishing a sealer of weights and measures was again started in the Council last night when the Comptroller reported that the weights cost $346.87. Wood wanted them bought at once and declared that the charter provides that the city must own them. Ald. Watt offered several bets to back up his contention that all the grocers and butchers in the city are honest and asked that a com- mittee of three be appointed to in- vestigate the condition of the scales and measures in the local stores, Al- dermen Mercer, Brennan and Compau were appointed. Alderman Watt said he would furn- ish an automobile to iake the commit- tee to the stores and would furnish the scales. Alderman Mundy said that if Alderman Wood was appointed on the committee and went to his store he would throw the Fourth warder out. and measures would Alderman Group taken at U. C. T. picnic by W. E. Smith. ed by the winters of nearly eighty years. Charley is disconsolate and the girls are hilarious over his mis- take. J. M. Goldstein. ——_>-2-2—___— Coldwater Reporter: Last. week John Hach started out on the nine- teenth year of service as a traveling salesman for the Tappan Shoe Co. Mr. Hach has long been identified on the road as a thoroughly up-to-date salesman and has done much towards making a demand: for the Tappan throughout the country. His connection with the company be- products gan before the factory was situated in Muncie, Ind., and he has seen the business grow from a small begin- ning. On the road this salesman is well known and prominently, too. He is an ardent U. C. T. member and as- sisted largely in promoting the loca council of that order. Through this work he has become acquainted throughout the entire country with commercial salesmen of the highest and best class. Mr. Hach is at pres- ent visiting the trade in Ohio. He reports good sales for this season. “You can’t do it,” replied the Fourth warder. Mayor Woodruff said that the gro- cers wanted their scales and weights tested to protect them in buying. Ald- erman McMillan said that a number of people had complained to him re- garding the weight of coal. An ordinance regulating the storage of inflammable rubbish and gasoline, naphtha and other similar products was referred to the ordinance commit- tee. An ordinance to prohibit nui- sances caused by dense smoke, soot, cinders and other deleterious material went to the same committee. ——+-2-. Recent Happenings in Hoosierdom. Evansville — The Vulcan Steam Shovel plant, now in course of con- struction, will begin operations about Dec. 1, employing 700 men, the most of whom will have to come here from other cities and rent or buy homes here. Terre Haute—The Warren Water Heater Co., manufacturer of the Un- dertank, a gas water heater, with a factory in Sheldon, Ia., has located its offices here. The offices were moved to Terre Haute on account of a continued increase in Eastern trade, and it was decided to get closer to the market. Warren—Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Granger Elec- tric and Manufacturing Co., with a capital stock of $50,000. The object of the corporation is to manufacture and sell electric irons, toasters and similar articles. Vincennes—The Board of Trade has closed a deal with the American Motor Co., of Brocton, Mass., where- by the plant will locate in Vincennes. It manufactures motorcycles and au- tomobiles and employs 350 men at a weekly payroll of $2,000. The plant costs the Board of Trade ten acres of land in South Vincennes for a site and a $25,000 bonus. —_++>—___ Manistee Advocate: Chas. Brad- ley, of Elmira, N..Y., arrived yester- day from Milwaukee. His mission is demonstrating Union Leader Tobac- co and he is at Clement & DeCair’s store. He is seven feet four inches tall. His father, Henry Bradley, is seven feet and one inch. He has a brother, 17 years old, six feet four inches and weighs 280 pounds. Mr. Bradley says his brother will soon be the largest of the family. Chas. Bradely is 19 years old and says he has not grown any in three years. His mother is five feet ten inches tall. He traveled with the Barnum show for two seasons. His father is in the same line of work and only makes one day stands in the larger towns. Mr. Bradley reaches nine feet two inches. If you don’t _ be- lieve it, just go to Clement & De- Cair’s store and measure the height of a postage stamp pasted on the wall. His traveling partner, M. F. Reed, shares his bed with him, which is usually the longest bed in the ho- tel. —_>-.s———_ At a meeting of the Board of Di- rectors of the Michigan Knights or the Grip, held in the office of Sec- retary F. M. Ackerman, at Lansing, last Saturday, arrangements were made for the annual convention to be held in Detroit December 27 and 28. A committee appointed by the last convention reported out a sic‘ benefit proposition for members, which was discussed and will be rec- ommended to the knights. This pro- vides for sick benefit for all mem- bers who desire it. The new mem- bers must pay an assessment of $2 under the sick benefit and also an assessment of $2 under the death benefit, but the yearly dues of $1 cov- ers both—the two funds. Sick and death benefit will be entirely sepa- rate. The organization, which has about 1,200 members, already has a death benefit for members. ~~ A Battle Creek correspondent writes: Herbert Sager, who _ has been traveling for the Taylor Bros. Co. this summer, has accepted a like position with the Blackburn Candy Co., of Chicago, to begin next week. His territory includes Southern Ohio and Indiana. —__~2+2___. Montana broke all her records for coal production last year by mining 2,920,970 short tons. MICHIGAN DRUGS*"DRUGGISTS. oe” Michigan Board of Pharmacy. President—Wm, A. Dohany, Detroit. Secretary—Ed. J. Rodgers, 5 Treasurer—John J. Campbell, Pigeon. Other Members—Will E. Collins, Owos- so; John D. Muir, Grand Rapids. Michigan Retall Drugglsts’ Assocfation. President—C. A. Bugbee, Traverse City. First Vice-President—Fred Brundage, Muskegon. Second Vice-President—C. H. Jongejan, Grand Rapids. —. ae Secretary—Robt, W. Cochrane, mazoo. Treasurer—Henry Riechel, Grand Rap- Executive Committee—W. C. Kirch- gessner, Gran apids; R. A. Abbott ad R Muskegon; D. D. ton, Fremont; S. T. Collins, Hart; Geo. L. Davis, Hamilton. Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa- on. President—E. W. Austin, Midland, First Vice-President—E. P. Varnum, Jonesville. Second Vice-President—C. P: Baker, Battle Creek. Third Vice-President—L. P. Lipp, Blissfield. Secretary—M. H. Goodale, Battle Creek. Treasurer—J. J. Wells, Athens, Executive Committee—E. J. Rodgers, Port Huron; L. A. Seltzer, Detroit; S. C. i Hillsdale and H. G. Spring, Union- e, Grand Rapids Drug Club. President—Wm. C. Kirchgessner. Vice-President—O. A, Fanckboner. Secretary—Wm. H. Tibbs. Treasurer—Rolland Clark. Executive Committee—Wm. Quigley, Chairman; Henry Riechel, Theron Forbes. Placing Pharmacy on a Professional Footing. In order to place pharmacy on a professional footing we must do the following: 1. Raise the standard of prelimin- ary education, beginning with two years high school education at least, making mathematics compulsory (50 per cent. of American pharmacists are not able to figure out simple ex- amples, as, for instance, making a 10 per cent. solution of aqua ammoniae from a 26 per cent. solution). 2. Only a_ registered pharmacist should have the right to open a phar- macy, which should be under his per- sonal supervision. 3. Restrict cutting of prices on prescriptions and stop giving away presents and trading stamps. 4. Raise the course in pharmacy from two years to three years and have only one degree for pharma- cist, namely, Phar. D. The degree of Ph. G. is as ridiculous as the degree of any elementary school would be. Physicians, dentists, veterinarians, ail have one degree, Doctor of : 5. Restrict the number of drug steres according to the growth of population. Unless we do this, phar- macy will never amount to anything. Just look back fifteen or twenty years to what medicine, dentistry, veterin- ary and law were then and what they are to-day. Is it not because they are continuously raising the stand-~ ard of their professions, while phar- macy is fast asleep? I have heard remarks to the effect that pharmaceutical colleges are afraid they will not have enough stu- dents. If this is the truth, I think the officials greatly mistaken First of all, one college is quite suffi- cient for New York, and, second, the es . harder the requirements are to be- college come for a pharmacist the less com- petition will we have and a better class of people will then be in the field of pharmacy. Some pharmacists will say that as it is mighty hard to get a clerk now, what will it be when the standards are raised? In answer I will say this—that fully 50 per cent. of the proprietors to-day are nodt making as much as the _ ordinary clerks do, and in addition to that are prisoners in their stores. They do not see their families and do not know that they are alive. Would it not be better for them to close up their shops and go clerking? They would certainly make the same salary, if not more, with no worry. Is it any wonder that pharmacy is the worst paying proposition in this country to-day? Look at those in it. A great number of them are merely tradesmen with no education. Why, ten years ago it was, and even now it is, easier to become a pharmacist than a bricklayer, plumber, black- smith or tailor. This is the reason why some pharmacists have no pro- fessional pride, self-respect nor eth- ics. They are isolated from the world and all they know is the store. Some of them do not even read the daily newspapers, not to mention drug journals. According to their ideas, belonging to any pharmaceutical or- ganization is “madness.” Therefore I will repeat: “Let us all take a hand in it and put pharmacy on a professional basis and this will be its only salvation. A. L. Merin. +o —__ Liquid Aromatic Shampoo Soap. In a paper reali before the Penn- sylvania Pharmaceutical Association, P. Henry Utech describes the prep- aration of a soap which he has found to be a profitable specialty. He says: The preparation which we _ have been most successful in exploiting is one which we have named Liquid Aromatic Shampoo soap. The formu- la is one suggested by Wilbert some years ago, with but slight modifica- tion. Numerous experiments were carried out with the ordinary fixed oils, such as linseed, sesame, mala- ga olive oil and mixtures of these with cottonseed oil, but all were found to be objectionable for reason or other. The formula we now use is as fol- lows: Sodium hydroxide ........ Potassium hydroxide ..... Cottonseed oil some 80 gms. 80 gms. pee a. .-.1,000 cc, TRADESMAN Alcohol — 5, 3455 225.6500 ses 500 cc. Water ee es oes 2,500 cc. Dissolve the hydroxides in 500 cc. of water. After solution has been ef- fected, add the alcohol and, finally, the cottonseed oil, in several portions .and shake thoroughly. Allow to stand for several hours, shaking the mix- ture occasionally, until thoroughly saponified. Finally add water suffi- cient to make 2,500 cc. To the soap liquid thus prepared add: Potassium carbonate ......... 30 gm. Perpinegl 2562 ee 12 cc. “Evergreen A” sufficient to produce a grass-green color. This soap can be made at a cost of about 75 cents a gallon. Dispense it in four-ounce bottles at 25 cents. The trade packages of similar products seldom contain more, and retail at 50 cents—a good talking point. By putting a little personal push back of this product it can be made into a very profitable specialty. +2 The Drug Market. Opium, Morphine and Quinine— Are unchanged. Celery Seed—Has advanced. Oil Cloves—Is higher. Cloves—Have advanced. Oil Lemon—Is higher. Oil Bergamot—Is higher. Oil Bay—Has advanced. Rochelle Salts and Seidlitz Mix- ture—Have declined. Sugar Milk—Is higher. Balsam Tolu—Has advanced. Lycopodium—Stocks are reduced and prices remain high. September 6, 1911 Good Things in Store For Michigan Druggists. Traverse City, Sept. 5—The com- ing annual meeting of the M. R. D. A., to be held at Flint, promises to be the best-in the history of drug- gists’ meetings in Michigan. Among the good things will be an address by Judge Errant, of Chicago, the at- torney of the National Association of Retail Druggists. Also one by Hon. Colin P. Campbell on Legislation. The Flint druggists are planning for a good time and it seems as though every druggist in the State should plan to get away from busi- ness for two days at least and go to Flint for October 3 and 4. The membership of the Association con- tinues to grow and one member has sent in forty applications since the last meeting. “On to Flint” is the “war cry” until Oct 3. C. A. Bugbee, Pres. +>. Perfumed Ammonia Water. aL: Stronger ammonia water. 6 ozs. Lavender water ......... to. oz: SOM Soap: so. 10 grs. Water, enough to make..16 ozs. 2. SOf soap 202. 55.2553... 1 oz. Borax oe 2 drms. Cologne water .......... YZ oz. Stronger ammonia water. 5% ozs. Water, enough to make..12 zs. Rub up the soap and borax with a portion of the water until they are dissolved, strain and add the other in- gredients. In place of the lavender and cologne waters other perfumes may be used. and burn in‘a year. @ A child can do it. is the greatest of them all. The Paper Mills Want Your Waste Paper And Will Pay Good Cash for q You have no idea how much Waste Paper you sweep out q Why don’t you send for a HANDY Baling Press—try it for thirty days—and find ovi for yourself how much ae you can make on your Waste Paper. q@ It will pay a good part of all your rent. q@ No experience necessary. Simply dump the paper int the HANDY PRESS every evening, and when it full, pull down the lever and press it down. The Handy Paper Baling Press Strongly built—hand i - pearance and is built in five sizes, $40, $50, $65, $75 and $85. WRITE FOR PARTICULARS THE HANDY PRESS CO. 251-263 So. IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. it if Properly Baled S ry" ped oe s Chewing Gum ......... 3 BLUING Salmon Neo. £0 Braided Cotton 185 Red Rose Gum ‘Drops 10 Hippodrome Bar ...777"38 a ead egy ace aaa ea gt ie, eireos 1th Tell _...2 90 Ro 2) eased Cotten PS Auto Bubbles ......... 13 Honey Cake, N. B28 j eee eee 3 er Gross arrens, 1 Ib, F oS oe Hon ingers As. Ice . » Gide Se bee eee 3 No. 3, 3 doz. wood bxs 4 00 Red Alaska .:. 1 51 83 No. 60 Sash Cord ....1 90 Fancy—in 5tb. Boxes Honey aoe = ' r, 2 N 5,3 a4 ab 7 00 =e No; 60. Jute 2 ..c..:... 80 Ol 7, mbles, Iced 12 ey Clothes Lines ....... + 3 Neb. 8 fee wo uae Pink Alaska ....130@140 No. 72 Jute 2.0.77 4 ee Honey Jumbles, plain 13 t — ee ; Blue a poo ee eee see 4 00 Domestic, %s."°°, 8 25 No. 60 Sisal .......... 85 Orange Jellies Loe 50 Sousa ad a: 12% 4 eee Domestic cate Galvanized Wire Lemon Sours ........ 60 Hou te : Confections ............. 4 » % Mus. ....3 50 sehold Cooki Crackers Ecctrosesre! Boo gee 400 Domestic, % Mus. ""@ 7 Ne, is pen 100rt: long 2 1) O14 Fashioned ‘Hore. Imperial a oe Cream Tartar .......... 8 Ne fe Get te ee oo = eas jou ct eepae Pon ee - — hiigca’"” ae No. 3 Carpet 3 sew ..3 50 a d Bakers 20k es, 37 Ch i a e Mixe eee eed P D Shrimps ampion Choc, Drops 65 Kream Klips wes k ¢ Dried Fruits 6 Parlor Gem” 24 6) Dunbar, ist, doz.......1 35 Soe eo 35 Hi: M- Choc. Drops 110 Lemon Gems”. 8 ; PROP Per eres. ON: een A 2G els om Dunbar The, doz... ..2 35 anes BS tees eecee H. M. Choc. Lt. and Lemon Bis it Saue eee ; Common Whisk ...... 110 , . oe Colonial, %s .......... 33 cuit Square 8 F Fancy Whisk ......... 1 35 Succotash RG orients 42° Ritter ‘Sweeter axed 242 Lemon ‘Wafer .-....-.16 Farinaceous Goods ..... 6 Warehouse ........... 450 sch ate te tte 1 4 BIUVICN ete see 45 Brilliant Gums, Cryae 50 Marne tte 2 . Fishin Tackle oo 6 ae Peers: Lowney, Ks OE ne, 36 A. A Licorice Drops 90 M. eee er eerocesys 8 ; Mou: Haacs .. 6 PRUSHES. foneirne _ 25@1 40 Lowney, 4s °.......:. 36 Lozenges, printed ~ 65 arahuiallow Coffee Flour --seseseeereeeeees 1 sonia Back 8h “Seen ries Lowney, 4s .......... 36 Lozenges, plain ..... 60 Marshmallow ‘Wains; 12% Fresh Wish ...........-. 7 §olld Back, 8 in. ...... 75 Standard .......... Lowney, is 2202220201; 40 Imperials 1.0.0.0...) 60 Medley mote alnute 16 - Fruit Jars .........0203- 7 Pointed Exds eee 85 a Van Houten, \%s ...... 12 Mottoes .....: secsees 6D Molasses Cakes’ sance7ee eee ceeees » MS -seoee ream oecccee . Good ose i164 20 on cence te 4) GM Peanué'Har'=, 69 Molasses Cakes, “Teed” § Gelatine .......... cue | Fancy aS Van Houten, 1s ....... 72 Hand Made Crma di@oo = “Toeg'e® Nrult Cookies, | oeac ebb oe os Afers.......,66 wwolaseec ek tt seeee eacee Grain Bags .......++.04 7 No. 10 Wilber, 5 |... 2.21 83 String Rock ...2..... 60 © yoitSses Sandwich |: 1112 CARBON OILS Wiler, 48 oo... 5. 32 Wintergreen Berries 60 Ost mcd, Square ....... 10 Barrels COCOANUT Orange Gan nets ++. 8 Herbs 8 De meas” 2. % eee a Pop Corn Penny, Assorted”. : * ae Ropes neoeee reser e - 8. oe s, ~ CABS oo Cracker Jack ........3 265 i : : 4 Hides oe 55-555 ; Gas Machine eee 20 Ys, Bib. case ....... 28 Giggles, 5c pkg. cs. 3 50 Poe ue ace 9 ; i Horse Radish .......... BUTTER COLOR peosora Nap’a — te ms, 1oIb. case 000. 27. +.Fan Corn, 60's .....1 65 Pretzelettes, Hara Ma’ : | J mie ee Oe tM ea. eee a On My 1000 27277773 28 Pretzelettes. Mac Md: 8 WN obi ayacces seek. 8 CANDLES Black, winter ..8%@10 %3 & %s, 15Ib. case. 22 oo Haisin Cookies .......” 10 Jelly Glasses .......... 8 Paraffine, 6s .......... 8 CATSUP Scalloped Gems ne ao Cough Dro Revere, Assorted |__|’ 14 M Paraffine, 12s ......... 8% Columbia, 25 pts, ....415 %s & %s, pails |1.)) 13% Putnam Menthal 4 00 Rittenhouse Fruit is — Wicking ....... eae 20 Snider's pints ........ 235 Bulk, pails ........ - 12 Smith Bros. ..... oo 25 Raval tance cee “ae a. ws 8 CANNED GOODS inder’s ae Se 135 Bulk, barrels ........ 11 Road nee g ~ Molasses .........------ . pica @1 00 Breakfast Foods GPFr eee BORSTEO Alauaee Wee a ee eo o- » rragona . ee 2 ee ASM foo sss0-- toe . eee | 3 20@8 50 Bear Food Pettijohns 1 95 6 Almonds, Drake .--. 15 Scalloped Gems"7.0..1 10 N Blackberries ao a neg ~ 2% : eS Almonds, California Spiced Gree eee + 2 AD est 1 50@1 90 g-O-See, pkgs. 2 8 f eee ee: cs eee isa se © Gtandaelic Glcas Oe oe Post, Toasties T No. 2 ; Braziis pen fee re Cks Icd 10 Beans DKS. .......... 28 Filberts ..... - 12@18 sg oe, A Bers... oe... Dives ” _ ee, Spi a0 Port Thesties T Nos Cal, NO. Tie g Sueer Cakes sess ese. : ' Cece ec ercreeseveee Red Kidney ...... 85@95 f BB. shee es alnuts, soft she 1 . cee scecces o ve Pp sae 70@1 15 Apetiao Biseuit, 24 pk 3 00 Walnuts, Marbot ... 017 Sugar Squares, large . ae DKES. ...-...--- Tabl ts, tt Wine” Pipes ............ eceeeee ; Blueberries ne Grape Nuts, 2 doz. ..2 70 Bo. ee oS Sultana Fruit Biscuit 16 Pickles ao. eeeee eee e es . hon 130 Malta Vita,'36 1M. ...2 85 Pecans, ex. large .. 14 gumnyside Jumbles ....10 pene Came -...----- talon 650 Mapl-Flake, 24 1m. .:2 70 Pecans, Jumbos .... 16 Guperpa oo aoe ee i eeee ess renee : Clams Fillsbury's Vitos, 3 dz. 4 25 Bair oseetessseeeeerees 19 Hickory Nuts, per bu. Triumph Cokes eo oo neers Little Neck, 1%. 1 00@1 25 ston Hea ‘0 halts 2.2.52)... 28 On NOW soc cccoces tones R Little Nock 2tb. @1 50 BO 2D. oe 4 50 Mexican Cocoanuts ............ Vanilla Wafers ..... --16 & Rice 3 oe ie Saxon Wheat Food, 24 Choice 19 Chestnuts, New York Wafer Jumbles cans ..18 re ee eee eee eee. oes ume ak aie... segs £0) fea ete State, per bu. .... Waverly 2.72. eeeee ee 10 \ a Salad Dnesshty 9 Boe od cee ; oo ee — mon : ke 3 60 Guatemala Shelled In-er Seal Goods : a. 9 oat aed Kelloge’s Toasted Gam Fair pe bescpuieuasiciiccs caae Spanish Peanuts 9 Albert Bi per doz. : oa Flakes, 36 pkgs in cs 2 80 eenry ga a ene Shier Halves .... 58 Animals ee sts : > air 90@1 00 Vigor, 36 pkes, ....... 275 private Growth ...24@29 yaaut Halves ...45 36. ~—« Arrowroot. Biscuit "177° 90 Gond .5....22 2 100@1 10 Voigt Corn Flakes ....450 Mandling ..........30@34 ey Baronet Biscuit 1 00 Panky :..--05 @1 45 Washington Crisps Aukola .........11129@81 joe ae $3 Bremmer’s Butter French Peas 36 ices 80 Mocha ee see sc uepecces cs S00 MOMper dom. svse-)...245 Rolled Avena, ‘bis, ..5 60 hott Bean --..--24828 ancy x1 Brats 44, Cameo Sandwich "2.271 69 Gaosehinias Steel Cut, 100 Ib. sks 275 4. f. OG 28 Boat Roasted ..... . @ 8% Chocolate Wafers 77°" "4 00 No 10 0. 6 00 -viisegdiag ane ao zoe =. . Bogota ; — raw, H, P, — ‘ Cocoanut Dainties "::./1 00 apeiny. Quaker, "18 Regular ..145 Faney 100000 Re Newent ae Standard .:.°.0.2.. 23. 85 Quaker’ 20 Focal 0 y . Fig Newton .......... 1 00 CANNED MEATS wracked Wheat) Exchange Market. Steady Y biscuit e Five O’clock Tea .....1 00 T pertain ee racked eat Spot Market, Strong ationa iscuit Company fFrotana ....... ae Table Sauce 10 41d 2 40 WK ccc ccccccccasces 3% Package Brand Ginger Snaps, N. B C. 1 00 pate Heuets ...--..-3:. SD PRD anne eee e eee ene os 24 2m. Ore te eeee 2 50 + 7 York Bee ae ons — Graham Crackers, Red - bee hpecete-esees 55, De eee seo. ck BF r ag i - B. C. Sq. bbl. 6 bx a bemesess- sub cue 40 «6Picnic Talis =... 2. 275 Acme eee ose. @14yu tion oe seeeeee. 21.00 Seymour, Rd, bbl. 6 bx 544 i Snat Seca aaas 1 - MAD 23. ce il Mackerel Bloomingdale ... 15 McLaughlin’s XXXX Marshmallow Daintice : Vv Mustard, 1tb. ........ 180 Carson City ....: @15% Mclaughlin’s XXXX sold yw pc pooee : atmo oa 1 00 Vine : 143 Mustard, 2%. ......... 280 Hopkins ......... @12% to retailers only, Mail all wee tt? _ oa Ol St EERE (050i. -05,-2-0s. Soused., a%6ID. 2.1 60° Steen, oe aioe dae 6 ee ecu Shere E bese sens a Oo ed Buser Cook, 1 00 used, Ib, ...-......2 75 Warner .......... x : i. PIOCCL 6 0 cinco enes's eecene 4 cceeee Wicking .....”. 11 Tomato, 1%, Bricks! Qipg@ Motauentin & Co, Chica Seracoga ales”. Spee ae ae —- Woodenware °2...../111) 1] Tomato, 2. ee oe ee ee S tow aan ee Ae ' Wrapping Paper ....... 12 Mushrooms Limburger ....... @14 Holland, % gro boxes 95 Oyster Saltine Biscuit’. . "7 or + * Hotels @ 16 Pineanp ‘ e Biscuit ........ 1 00 _ bese ciceec. pple 8g 40 @60 Felix, STORS. fic. See 115 N. B.C. Rd. boxes .. 5% Saratoga Fl k Buttons, ¥%s .... @ 14 Sap Sago ....... @20 . ; Q@Kes ...... 1 50 Yeast Cake 12 Buttons, is 93 :: @ Hummel’s foil, % gro. 85 ,Gem, boxes .......... 5% Shell Oyster ....... 1 00 Sete te tees @ Swiss, domestic @13 -Hummel’s tin, % gro. 143 ‘Shell’ .....,....,.)y++++. TH Social Tea Biscuit 227" cd peiemateee a — » ssa: A ear nae EN » ' September 6, 1911 6 7 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 8 9 10 Soda Crackers N. B. C. 1 00 Crackers Select 1 00 8S. S. Butter Crackers 1 50 Uneeda Biscuit ....... 50 Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer 1 00 Un Lunch Biscuit 50 Vanilla Wafers ....... Water Thin Biscuit . Zu Zu Ginger Snaps .. 50 Swieback 22. .55.5.2... 1 00 In Special Tin Packages. Per doz. Festino ........ aia 2 50 Nabisco, 25c ..........2 50 Nabisco, 10c .......... pagne Wafer .. Per tin in he Sorbetto ........ eee sue Nabisco ......... eekeee 1 7 estino =... 3... eos -.1 58 Bent’s Water Crackers 1 40 CREAM TARTAR Barrels or drums . 33 BOxXG@S | 6 6eesccccn se 34 Square cans ..... oat 66 Fancy caddies ........ 41 DRIED FRUITS Apples Sundried ........ Evaporated ........12@13 Apricots California ........ 14@16 : Citron Corsican ........ @15 I d fone @10 mp’d 1 Ib. o Imported b Fe : @ 9% Peaches Muirs—Choice, 25 tb. bx 9% Muirs—Fancy, 25 Ib. b. 11 ae oa Ib. b. 1046 ee Lemon American ... 13 Orange American .. 13 Raisins Connosiar Cluster ....8 25 Dessert Cluster .......4 00 Muscatels 3 Cr 6 Loose Muscatels 4 Cr 7 i. M. Seeded 1 Ib. 84%@ 9 California Prunes L. M, Seeded 1 Ih. 9@ 9% Suiltanas, Bleached ...12 100-125 25tIb. boxes..@11% 90-100 boxes. .@12 80- 90 25Ib. boxes..@12% 70- 80 boxes. .@13 60- 70 25tb. boxes..@13% boxes. .@14 - boxes..@14% 4c less in 50tb. cases FARINACEOUS GOODS Beans Dried Lima _....... wee S Med Hand Picked ....2 45 Brown Holland 2 Farina 25 1 Th, packages .... Bulk, per 100 Ibs, ....4 00 Original Holland Rusk Packed 12 rolls to container 8 containers (36) rolis 2 85 5 containers (60 rolls) 4 75 Hominy Pearl, 100 Ib. sack ....1 75 Maccaroni and Vermicelli Domestic, 10 Ib. box.. 606 Imported, 25 tb. box ..2 5¢ Pearl Barley Chester cs. estes 50 Himpire ..1.....ce0e..- & 00 Peas Green, Wisconsin, bu, Green, Scotch, bu. .. Split, tb. Hast India ..:.......3. German, sacks ....:... 6 German, broken pkg. .. Taploca Flake, 100 Ib. sacks .. 6 Pearl, 130 Tb. sacks .. 5 Pearl, 36 2 25 le eeceeee Minute, 36 pkgs. ......2 75 FISHING TACKLE to © in. ...... weeeeas a 6 1 £052 90s oe. a ce es 7 1% to 2 in. 2 ete ss aolecce 1% to 2 in Delegesiesics sae A ek cece ce cece e sss co Sin. 2.5. pacman sees ences 20 Cotton Lines No: 1,10 feet ........... 6 INO: 2; 40 160t eee cesT No. 8, 10 feet............ 9 No, 4, 15 feet deesens SLO Wo.:5, 15 feet... ..25... 11 INO. 6,.15 feet 2.0.06... 2 No. 7, 15 feet ...........15 No. 8, 15 feet seceeeees- 18 Wo. 9, 10 feet ......... 26 Linen Lines. | Small ..... gasldbociepens see Medium ...... sosees secc cee Clos mcbevesstes ce Oe Poles Bamboo, 14 ft., per doz. 55 Bamboo, 16 ft., per doz. 60 Bamboo, 18 ft., per doz. 80 FLAVORING EXTRACTS Foote & Jenks Coleman Vanilla No. 2 size ...........14 00 No. 4 size ............24 00 No, 3 size ............ 0 Nor 8 sige o.oo. esas Coleman ‘erp. Lemon No. 2 size ....... denen @ G0 No. 4 size ............18 00 INO: 3 SIZ@) cies c cen ---31 00 No & aize ...... woe 86 00 Jaxon Mexican Vanilla 1 om. Oval ......202e0015 00 3 ox. grat See oS Seo e Jaxon Terp. Lemon LOR: Oval: oe. uk 10 20 204, OVAL ooo. ke --16 80 4°02) lat occ. oo 33 00 S308: Mat 2. 63 00 Jennings (D. C. Brand) Terpeneless Exract Lemon No. 2 Panel, per doz. 15 No. 4 Panel, per doz. 1 50 No. 6 Panel, per doz. 2 00 No. 3 Taper, per doz. 1 50 2 0z, Full Measure doz, 1 25 40z. Full Measure doz. 3 40 Jennings (D. C. Brand) Extract Vanilla No. 2 Panel, per doz. 1 25 No. 4 Panel, per doz. 2 00 No. 6 Panel, per doz. 3 50 No. 3 Taper, per doz. 2 00 1 oz. Full Measure doz. 90 2 0z. Full Measure doz. 2 00 40z. Full Measure doz. 4 00 No, 2 Panel assorted 1 00 Crescent. Mfg. Co. apicine 2 oz. per doz. ....... -.3 00 Michigan Maple Syrup Co. Kalkaska Brand Maple, 2 0z.. per doz...2 26 FRUIT JARS, Mason, pts, per gro. ..5 00 Mason, qts. per gro, ..5 35 Mason, % gal. per gro. 7 75 Mason, can tops, gro. 1 65 GELATINE Cox’s, 1 doz. large ....1 75 Cox’s, 1 doz, small ...1 Ou Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 25 Knox’s Sparkling, gr. 14 00 Nelson's) coo i 1 50 Knox’s Acidu’d. doz, ..1 25 Oxfords co 75 Plymouth Rock Phos, 1 25 Plymouth Rock, Plain 90 GRAIN BAGS Amoskeag, 100 in bale 19 Amoskeag, less than bl 194% GRAIN AND FLOUR Wheat Red) cece os ee. s 84 White ...... Cece ccece 86 Winter Wheat Flour Local Brands Patents: o0.4555... B&B 2b Second Patents ....... 5 00 Straight ......0...3... 4 60 Second Straight ..... 4 20 BOAT ec glo cca es a 8. 90 Flour in barrels, 26c per barrel additional. Lemon & Wheeler Co. Big Wonder ¥%s cloth 4 50 Big Wonder %s cloth 4 50 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brana Quaker, paper .........4 10 Quaker, cloth ......... 4 20 Wykes & Lo. Mclipse =... .5. cs as 4 40 emon & Wheeler Co. White Star, %s cloth 5 40 White Star, %s cloth 5 30 White Star, %s cloth 5 20 Worden Grocer Co. American Eagle, 4 Grand Rapids Milling Co. Brands Purity, Patent ccccoee 5 00 Seal of Minnesota .. 5 60 Sunburst |: 65.0555. -- 5 60 Wizard Flour ......... 4 60 Wizard Graham ..... 4 60 Wizard Gran. Meal .. 3 80 Wizard Buckwheat .. 6 00 BYGi-scees cscs scsi cs 4 80 Spring Wheat Flour Roy Baker’s Brand Golden Horn, family ..5 40 Golden Horn, bakers ..5 30 Wisconsin Rye .......4 65 Judson Grocer Co.’s Brand Ceresota, %s .. -.-.6 40 Ceresota, \s .. Cerésota, 46s 0005)5 0.2. 6 Lemon & Wheeler’s Brand Wingold, %s .......... 6 20 Winzold, 3485 20. .0e268: 6 10 Wingold, %s .... -..d 90 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand Lourel, %s cloth ...... 5 95 Laurel, 4s cloth ...... 5 85 Laurel, 4% & %s paper 5 75 Laurel, %s cloth ......5 75 Voigt Milling Co.’s Brand Voigt’s Crescent ...... 0 Voigt’s Flouroigt .... 4 70 Voigt’s Hygienic Graham ............ 4 20 Voigt’s Royal .........5 10 Wykes & Co. Sleepy Eye, Sleepy Eye, Sleepy Eye, ¥%s cloth..6 00 %s cloth..5 90 4s cloth..5 80 Sleepy Eye, %s paper 5 80 Sleepy Eye, %s paper 5 80 Watson-Higgins Milling Co. Perfection Flour ......5 00 Tip Top Flour ..... ---4 70 Golden Sheaf Flour ..4 20 Marshall’s Best Flour 5 50 Perfection Buckwheat 3 00 Tip Top Buckwheat 2 80 r Dairy Feed 24 00 Alfalfa Horse Feed 26 00 Kafir Corn ............1 80 Hoyle Scratch io -.1 60 Mea Bolted: cscs ceneceseuss & 40 Golden Granulated .. 3 60 St. Car Feed screened 28 00 No, 1 Corn and Oats 28 00 Corn, cracked ....... 27 50 Corn Meal, coarse .. 27 50 Winter Wheat Bran 25 00 Middlings ........... 28 00 O P Laxo-Cake-Meal 35 00 Cottonseed Meal ....29 00 Gluten Feed ..........27 00 Brewers Grains .....26 00 Hammond Dairy Feed 23 60 ts Oa Michigan carlots .... 44 Less than carlots .. 46 Corn Cavlots -f6 62005 eos. 70 Less than carlots .. 73 a Carlots ...... - socee Ld 00 Less than carlots ... 19 00 HERBS Sage ..... Seeececcucess AD HIODS: oo oe sie ss mgtouadsce 1a Laurel Leaves ..... esiet 1D Senna Leaves ........ 25 HIDES AND PELTS Hides Green, No, 1 ..... ceceek Green; NO. 2 26.250505.°9 Cured, No. 1 ...... «11% Cured, No, 2 ..........10% Calfskin, green, No. 1 13 Calfskin, green, No. 2 114% Calfskin, cured No, 1 14 Calfskin, cured No, 2 12% elts Oid Wool ....... 30 MODS. 6c. ss eae 259 50 Shearlings ..... 5@ 35 allow No. 1 weeecces 6 N@o 2 oc. 0 sarees 4 Wool Unwashed, med. 18 Unwashed, fine 13 HORSE RADISH Ber dog oo JELLY 5Ib. pails, per doz. .. 15tb. pails, per pail .... 55 30Ib. pails, per pail .... 95 JELLY GLASSES 4% pt. in bbls, per doz 15 ¥% pt. in bbls., per doz. ..16 oz. capped in bbls, DOP OZ. ees hak ces oc eo 20 MAPLEINE 2 oz. bottles. per doz. 3 00 MINCE MEAT Per case MOLASSES New Orleans Fancy Open Kettle .. 42 @norce .0366.3-5 55... ok, 86 Ceeccecesccossicsince sie pS oe ee Se Half barrels 2c extra MUSTARD % Ib. 6 Ib. box ....... 18 OLIVES Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 10@1 20 Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 95@1 10 Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 90@1 05 Stuffed, 6 oz, .......... 90 Stuffed, 8 oz. ........0.1 35 Stuffed, 14 oz. .........2 25 Pitted (not stuffed) EA OB. occccsscccack 25 Manzanilla, 8 oz. ...... 90 Lunch, 10 oz. .......,.1 35 Lunch, 16 oz. .........3 25 Queen, Mammoth, 19 ORS cecasccswecscas se 40 Mammoth, 2 OB, cs cccccccesscscec® OO Olive Chow, 2 doz. cs, per doz. ....02.2.-8 25 PICKLES Beutel’s Bottled Pickles 8 oz., per doz. ........ 90 10 oz., per doz. ..... ee. 90 16 oz., per doz. .......1 45 24 oz., per doz, ........1 90 32 0Z., per GOZ. ........ 2 35 edium Barrels, 1,200 count ..7 75 Half bbls., 600 count 4 50 5 gallon kegs aap esrsest 25 Barrels ....... Wececcrace OS a parrel a ele siere ‘= a gallon kegs .......... Gherkins Barrels 2.522 ..c.cc-- eck 00 Half barrels ..........5 00 5 gallon kegs ......... 2 75 Sweet Small Barrels ....... cocccee eke 00 Half barrels ......... 7 50 5 gallon kegs ..........3 00 PIPES Clay, No. 216, per box 1 75 Clay, T. D., full count 60 COD oo oie kia see has eee PLAYING CARDS No. 90 Steamboat .... 5 No. 15, Rival, assorted 1 75 No. 20, Rover, enam’d 2 00 No. 572, Special ...... 1 75 No ee aga fin. 2 00 No. 80 eyele. ...<.'. No. 632 Tourn’t whist 2 25 POTASH Babbitt’s ......... Sas 00 PROVISIONS Barreled Pork Clear Back ....17 50@18 00 Short Cut. ..:... ooee 6 50 Short Cut Clear ......16 00 PCAN 6S a ace ces coceeeeld 00 Brisket, Clear ...... 23 00 PUR oo ie ose ceca oe .-. 23 00 Clear Family ....... 26 00 an Salt Meats S P Bellies ............ ar Pure in tierces ..10@10% Compound lard ..84%@ 9 8 . tubs....advance . tubs ....advance tins nena vence § .. advance Pails o. advance 5 Ib. pails ...advance 1 - pails ...advance 1 Hams, 18 th. av. 15 @15 Skinned Hams, ..17 Ham, dried beef sets ..18 California Hams 914@10 Picnic Boiled Hams ..15 Boiled Hams ..... 24@2444 Berlin Ham, press’d 9@ 9-. Minced Ham ........ Bacon 5.02502: 14447@15 Sausages Bologna... ....02. aiccees: Biver 252.3. . T4%@ 8 Frankfort --9 @9% Pork |. 221. a a) Veal se EE Tongue ... «1k Headcheese .. 9 Beef Bancless veces. o... 15 00 Rump, new ..........16 00 Pig’s Feet bbs. sc ee... 95 % bblis., 40 Ibs. ...... 1 90 bbls. oot... 4 00 BORD vet ee ees aes 8 00 Tripe Kits, 15 tbs, .......... 90 % bbis., 40 Ibs. ......1 60 4% bbis., 80 Ibs, ....... 3 00 Casings Hogs, per Ib. .. daccdcs SO Beef, rounds, set ..... Beef, middles, set .... Sheep, per bundle .... Uncolored Butterine Solid dairy ...... 11 4 Country Kolls ..... 11@18 Canned Meats Corned beef, 2 th, ....3 50 Corned beef, 1 fb. .... Roast beef, 2 tb. Roast beef, 1 Ib. ..... Potted Ham, \%s ...... 650 Potted Ham, %s .... 90 FS RICE @ 6% Japan Style .... 44%@ 5% Brok wie e/a cgataera @ 3% SALAD DRESSING Columbia, 4 pint .....2 25 Columbia, 1 pint ......4 00 Durkee’s, large, 1 doz. 4 50 Durkee’s, small, 2 doz. 6 25 Snider’s, large, 1 doz. 2 35 Snider’s, small, 2 doz, 1 35 SALERATUS Packed 60 Ibs. in box. Arm and Hammer ..3 00 Wyandotte, 100 %s ...3 SAL SODA Granulated, bbls. ..... 80 Granulated, 100 tbs. cs. 90 Granulated, 36 pkgs. ..1 20 SAL T Common Grades 100 3 Ib. sacks ..... ...2 40 60 5 Ih. sacks .... ..2 25 28 103% Ib. sacks ....2 10 56 Ib. sacks .......... 82 23 Jb. sacks 22.2... sc ke Warsaw 56 Ib, dairy in drill bags 40 28 Ib. dairy in drill bags 20 Solar Rock 66 Ib. sacks ........... 24 Common Granulated, fine ....... 95 Medium, fine ....... -e-1 00 SALT FISH La h oe @ 1% rge whole .... Strips Pees to 10% rips or bricks @ Pollock 2.52... < @ 5 Halibut Strips oo ieee. 38 Chunks .... 16 Holland Herring Y. M. wh. hoop, bbls. 11 00 Y. M. wh. hoop, %bbl. 6 00 Y. M. wh. hoops, kegs 75 Y. M. wh, hoop Milchers MORES cece cesicecs 85 Queen, bbls. .........11 00 Queen, % bbis. ...... 5 75 Queen, kegs ‘ 65 Tro : No. 1, 100 tbs. ........7 50 No. tT, 40: Ibs. 0... 2. 28 26 No. 1, 10 Ibs. ......... 930 No. 38 Whee. 3.c cca. 16 a ess, Tbs. Rae eee 0 Mess, 10° Whe... 2... 3. 1 85 Mess, MS oe Se: s a ole clare 50 No: 1, 100, tbs, .....: 15 50 No. 7,40 tise 20.252. 6 60 No: 1, 10 Ibs, 2.0.62. 1 70 INO: 2.8 Mis. co... e 1 40 Whitefish 100 tbs, ...... Mele aa ve 9 75 OO IDR: wae ace ce es 5 25 ROEWBe ick ose e cee 112 IDR: cca ace << 92 SOU ADRS eect ccs owe ss 4 65 40: Ths. 2.0. pinata ala oe 2 10 1OcThs: occ. ices eccee: 60 MSs Gs ccc ce ss 35s 68 SEE Paseo ee ees ces 10 Canary, Smyrna ...... 4% CATEAWAY Soccce cece ss 0 Cece ereseersesces Hemp. Russian ........ 4% Mixed Bird’ 2 ooeckescs 5 Mustard, white ....... 10 BPOpyy e300 coon eae 9 Raper eco cose a a 6 SHOE BLACKING Handy Box, large 3 dz 2 50 Handy Box, small ....1 25 Bixby’s Royal Polish 85 Miller’s Crown Polish 85 SNUFF Scotch, in bladders ..... 37 Maccaboy, in jars ...... 35 French Rappie in jars ..43 SODA IBOKCG4 ccc oe ee dacs 51g Kegs, English ...... 2 4% SPICES Whole Spices Allspice, Jamaica ..... 13 Allspice, large Garden 11 Cloves, Zanzibar ......20 Cassia, Canton .... Cassia, 5c pkg. doz. Ginger, African ... Ginger, Cochin .. Mace, Penang Mixed, No. 1 Mixed, No. 2 .... ‘ Mixed, 5c pkgs. doz... Nutmegs, 75-30 ..... Nutmegs, 105-110 Pepper, Black ... . Pepper, White ........ 25 Pepper, Cayenne ...... 22 Paprika, Hungarian .. Pure Ground in Bulk ee. Allspice, Jamaica ..... 12 Cloves, Zanzibar ...... 23 Cassia, Canton ........ 12 Ginger, African ....... 18 Mace, Penang ......... 78 Nutmegs, 75-80 ....... 35 Pepper; Black ...5.0.. 16 Pepper, White ....... 230 Pepper, Cayenne ...... 22 Paprika, Hungarian ..45 STARCH Corn Kingsford, 40 Ibs. .... 7 Muzzy, 20 1%. pkgs. .. 5 Muzzy, 40 1b. pkgs. ..5 Gloss Kingsford Silver Gloss, 40 ltbs. Silver Gloss, 16 3tbs. 6 Silver Gloss, 12 6Ibs. 8 Muzzy 48 1tb. packages ...... 5 16 5Ib. packages ...... 4% 12 6Ib. packages ...... 6 50Ib, boxes’ ...2........ 2% SYRUPS Corn Ba@rrelg oos5 ccc... | 25 Half barrels .......... 28 20D. cans % dz. in cs. 1 65 10Ib, cans, 4% dz. in es. 1 60 5Ib. cans, 2 doz. in es. 1 70 242Ib. cans, 2 dz. in es. 1 75 Pure Cane Rain oie. wale cea - 16 Good ...... Slam oucdc sc sis sae Choice ge sits gscecue ess 25 Michigan Maple Syrup Co. Brand Kalkaska, per doz. ....23 35 TABLE SAUCES Halford, large ........ 75 Halford, small ........ 2 25 TEA Japan Sundried, medium ..24@26 Sundried, choice ....30@33 Sundried, fancy .....36@40 Regular, medium ....24@26 Regular, Choice ....30@33 Regular, fancy ..... 36@40 Basket-fired medium 30 Basket-fired choice 35@37 Basket-fired, fancy 40 .3 Nips ....; wieeecaagen Sittings 2... 665... 10@12 Mannings: ......-.... 14@15 Gunpowder Moyune, medium ...... 23 Moyune, choice ....... 32 Moyune, fancy ...... 40@45 Pingsuey, medium ..25@28 Pingsuey, choice ...... 3 Pingsuey, fancy 40@45 Young Hyson Choice ...... Rica ce wees, .OC MOY cc ces tec ae. 40@50 Oolong Formosa, fancy ..... 45@60 Formosa, medium ......25 Formosa, choice ........32- English Breakfast Medium oo. 0020: 26 Choice ............. 30@35 Pancy i..<2325.2... 40@66 India Ceylon, choice ......30@35 WAney ....365..5502..45@5 TOBACCO Fine Cut BaOt) Oicccwas. ooccc suc 1 45 Hiawatha, 16 oz. ...... 60 Hiawatha, 1 oz ...... 56 No Limit, 8 oz. ........1 72 No Limit, 16 oz. .... Ojibwa, 16 oz. ........ 40 Ojibwa, 5c pkg. ...... 1 85 OUbwe. 56) 200.6 ek. 47 Petoskey Chief, 7 oz. ..1 90 Petoskey Chief, 14 oz. 3 80 Sterling Dark, 5c ...... 5 76 Sweet Cuba, 5c ........5 70 Sweet Cuba, 10c .....11 10 Sweet Cuba, 16 oz. tins 5 00 Sweet Cuba, 16 oz, foil 4 50 Sweet Cuba, 16 oz. bxs 4 80 Sweet Cuba, % ID. ....2 25 Sweet Burley, 6c ......5 76 29 Sweet Mist, % gr. ....5 Sweet Burley, 24 tb. cs 4 Tiger, 4% gross ........ 6 Tiger, 5c tins ace oom Uncle Daniel, 1 tb. Uncle Daniel, 1 oz. Plug Am, Navy, 15 oz. .... Drummond, Nat Leaf, 2 j 1 a per doz. Battle Ax Bracer Big Boot Jack . Bullion: 16 oz ........ Climax Golden Twins . ee Work oerereee Granger Twist G. T. W Horse Shoe ....... Honey Dip Twist Jolly Tar en OF ... Keystone Twist SINCE Coc. oe: Nobby Spun Roll . Parrot Pesaehey ..... Picnic Twist ... Piper Heidsick . Redicut, 13, oz. med Eien 0000 Sherry Cobbler, 10 oz. Spear Head, 12 oz. .... Spear Head, 14% oz, Spear Head. 7 oz. Square Deal ......:.. . Star Standard Navy .... men Penny . 2.0... 5. Town Talk 14 oz, Yankee Girl i Smoking ; Sweet Core ............ 34 Want Car... coo. 32- Warpath .............. 26 Bamboo, 16 oz. ...... 25 Lx L dic ely aa 21 I X L, 16 ox. pails ..3i Honey Dew .......... 40 Gold Block ........... 46 Misgmen 2.6. 4 Chips 3: Kin Dried ........... 2) Duke’s Mixture ...... 4a Duke’s Cameo ........ 43 Myrtle Navy ......... 44 Yum Yum, 5c per gro 5 & Yum Yum 10c per groll 50 Yum, Yum, lib. pails 39 Cream .. 06 3 Corn Cake, 2% og..... 26 Corn Cake, itd. ......31 Plow Boy, 1 Ox.....39 Plow Boy, 3 oz.....39 Peerless, a% Ce 2... 35 Peerless, 13% os. ...... 39 air Mieke |... 36 Cant’ Hook ............ 30 Country Club ....... 82-34 Borex-X44x% ......... 30 Good Indian ..... aise aoa Self Binder, 16oz. sox. 20-23 Silver Foam ........... 24 Sweet Marie .......... 32 Royal Smoke ......... 42 TWINE Cotton, 3 ply .<.....- 25 Cotton, 4 ply ........ 35 Jute, 2 ply ..... 14 Hemp, 6 ply ... a Flax, medium ........ 24 Wool, 1 tb. bales .... 8 VINEGAR eee apple cider 22 Oakland apple cider ..17 Robertson’s Compound 131, Robinson’s Cider ......16 State Seal sugar ......13 40 grain pure white ..10 Barrels free. WICKING No. 0 per gross ........ 0 No. 1 per gross ......40 No. 2 per gross ......560 No. 3 per groae@: ....... 76 WOODENWARE Baskets Bushiels: oc. cen ccs ccce 1 00 Bushels, wide band ..1 15 Market. .... 2.4. inawace 7 Oe Splint, large. ..c3s cess < 50 Splint, medium ..... .-3 00 Splint, small ......... 27 Willow, Clothes, large 8 25 Willow, Clothes, small 6 25 Willow, Clothes, me’m 7 25 Butter Plates Wire End or Ovals. % tb., 250 in crate ...... 30 Tb., 250 in crate ...... 30 tb., 250 in crate ......30 2 tb., 250 in crate ......35 3 Ib., 5 Tb., 250 in crate Churne Barrel, 5 gal., each Barrel, 10 gal., each ..2 55 Clothes Pins Round Head. 4 inch. 5 gross 4% inch, 5 gross Cartons, 20 2% di Egg Crates and Fillers Humpty Dumpty, 13 ds. 20 250 in crate ......40 wdaseaue +222 40 cebac ames «OD din vue cOe loz. bxs. 55 30 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Special Price Current 12 No. 1 complete ........ 40 No. 2 complete ....... 28 Case No. 2 fillers, 15 BOIS: ocasussscensess A oO Case, medium, 12 sets 1 15 Faucets Cork, lined, 8 in. ...... 170 Cork, lined, 9 in. ...... 80 Cork lined, 10 in. ...... 90 Mop Sticks Trojan spring ........ 90 Eclipse patent spring 85 No. 1 common ........ 80 No. 2 pat. brush holder 85 deal MO: 7 ..26.0506555 85 12%. cotton mop heads 1 45 Pails 2-hoop Standard ...... 2 00 3-hoop Standard ..... -2 35 2-wire Cable ......,....2 10 Cedar all red brass ...1 25 @-wire Cable ..........2 30 Paper Eureka ......... 2 25 RADHS ...-+...53..05-- 2 30 Toothpicks Birch, 100 packages ..2 00 Micali ........- pee ee 85 Traps Mouse, wood, 2 holes 22 Mouse, wood, 4 holes 45 Mouse, wood, 6 holes 70 Mouse, tin, 5 holes .... 60 Kat, wood ..... eereeee UD Kat, spring ............ 7a Tubs 2u-in. Standard, No. 1 7 60 is-in. Standard, No. 2 6 6v it-in, Standard, No. 3 o ov zZv-in. Cable, No. 1 ....8 OU 18-in, Cable, No. Z ....7 UW it-in. Cable, No. 3 ....6 Ww No. 1 Fibre ..........1U za No, 2 Fibre .. -9 ZO No. 3, Fibre . 8 Zo Washboards Bronze Globe .........2 50 Dewey ........ Sekeese 2 1e Double Acme . .3 75 Single Acme .. 3 16 Double Peerless . -3 76 Single Peerless -3 20 Northern Queen .. 3 29 Double Vuplex .. 3 vu Good Luck -2 7a Universal ........ oo. 3 UW Window Cleaners OD AN oc cece sce sess er 1 65 OS Oo cece ete aces ce 1 89 06 0 pee cc cee see em z 30 Wood Bowls 43 im. Butter -.......<5 1 60 1p im. Butter ....6.ccce 2 25 17 in. Butter .......... 415 19 in, Butter ...... 2-6 10 Assorted, 13-15-17 ....3 00 Assorted, 15-17-19 ....4 25 WRAPPING PAPER Common Straw ...... 2 Fibre Manila, white .. 3 Fibre, Manila; colored 4 No. 1 Manila .......... 4 Cream Manila ......... 3 Butchers’ Manila ......2% Wax Butter, short c’nt 13 Wax Butter, full count 20 Wax Butter, rolls ....19 YEAST CAKE Magic, 3 doz. .........1 15 Sunlight, 3 doz. .......1 00 Sunlight, 14% doz, .... 50 Yeast Foam, 3 doz, ...1 16 Yeast Cream, 3 doz. ..1 00 Yeast Foam, 14% doz. .. 568 AXLE GREASE Mica, tin boxes ..75 9 00 Paragon ......... 55 66 00 BAKING POWDER Ro. a size 90 4b. cans 1 35 60z. cans 1 90 lb. cans 2 50 %ib. cans 3 75 1b. cans 4 80 stb. cans 13 00 5Ib. cans 21 560 13 CIGARS Johnson Cigar Co.’s Brand S. C. W., 1,000 lots ....31 El Portana ..... Sole co 33 Evening Press ........ 2.32 Mixemploy oo ose 32 Worden Grocer Co. Brand Ben Hur Perfection .....:........ 35. Perfection Extras ...... 35 Lonares: 2 eee se as 85 Londres Grand ......... 35 Standard ..0.0..-2..5552 35 Purtanoes: . 6020.05. ose: 35 Panatellas, Finas ....... 35 Panatellas, Bock ........ 35 Jockey Club ............ 35 COCOANUT Baker's Brazil Shredded 10 5c pkgs., per case 2 60 86 10c pkgs., per case 2 60 16 10c and 38 5c pkgs., per cage -....:..5. 2 60 COFFEE Roasted Dwinell-Wri,.< Co.’s B’ds White House, 1th, ........ White House, 2tb. ........ Excelsior, Blend, 1tb, ..... Excelsior, Blend, 2tb. ..... Tip Top, Blend, 1tb. ...... Royal Blend .............. Royal High Grade ........ Superior Blend ........... Boston Combination ...... Distributed by Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids; Lee & Cady, Detroit; Sy- mons Bros. & Co., Sagi- naw; Brown, Davis & Warner, Jackson; Gods- mark, Durand & Co., Bat- tle Creek; Fielbach Co., Toledo. Small size, doz. ......40 Large size, doz. ......75 SAFES Full line of fire and bur- glar proof safes kept in 14 stock by the Tradesman Company, Thirty-five sizes and styles on hand at all times—twice as many safes as are carried by any other house in the State. If you are unable to visit Grand Rapids and inspect the line personally, write for quotations. SOAP Beaver Soap Co.'s Brand 100 cakes, large size.. 50 cakes, large size.. 100 cakes, small size.. 50 cakes, small size. . = 68 0D wcCann RAS Gowans & Sons Brand. Ten box lots ..........2 90 Twenty-five box lots ..2 &5 J, S. Kirk & Co. American Family .....4 00 Dusky Dismond 50 8 oz 2 80 Dusky D’nd 100 6 oz 3 80 Jap Rose, 50 bars ....3 60 Savon Imperial .......3 00 White Russian -3 60 Dome, oval bars ......3 00 Satinet, oval ..........2 70 Snowberry, 100 cakes 4 00 Lautz Bros, & Co. Acme, 30 bars, 75 Ibs. 4 Acme, 25 bars, 75 Ibs. 4 Acme, 25 bars, 70 Ibs. 3 Acme, 100 cakes ......3 25 Big Master, 72 blocks 2 German Mottled ...... 3 German Mottled, 5 pxs 3 45 German Mottled, 10 bx 3 40 German Mottled, 25 bx 3 35 Marseilles, 100 cakes ..6 00 Marseilles, 100 cks 5c 4 00 Marseilles, 100 ck toil 4 00 Marseilles, %bx toilet 2 10 Proctor & Gamble Co, TIONG oc sccisc anes Sc 00 Ivory, 6 OZ ......222+004 OU Ivory, 10 oz. ..........6 75 far cc. ce sees eeeeed 85 Tradesman Co.’s Brand Black Hawk, one box 2 50 Black Hawk, five bxs 2 40 Black Hawk, ten bxs 2 25 A. B. Wrisley Good Cheer ..........4 00 Old Country ..........8 40 Soap Powders Snow Boy, 24s family size Snow Boy, 60 Sc ......2 4 Snow Boy, 30 i0e ....2 40 Gold Dust, 24 large ..4 50 Gold Dust, 100-5c .....4 00 Kirkoline, 24 4tb, : : 80 Pearline ...... -3 75 Soapine ..... = -410 Babbitt’s 1776 3 75 Roseine .... -2-3 50 Armour’s ..... 70 Wisdom ... Soap Compounds Johnson’s Fine ........6 10 Johnson’s oocenet Be Nine O’clock ..........38 30 Rub-No-More .........3 85 Scouring Enoch Morgan’s Sons Sapolio, gross lots ....9 50 Sapolio, half gro. lots 4 85 Sapolio, single boxes 2 40 Sapolio, hand ......... 2 40 Scourine Manufacturing Co Scourine, 50 cakes ....1 80 Scourine, 10@ cakes ...3 &@ September 6, 1911 Lowest | Our catalogue is ‘the world’s lowest market” because we are. the largest buyers of general merchandise in America. And because our com- paratively inexpensive method of selling, through a catalogue, re- duces costs. We sell to merchants only. Ask for current cata- logue. Butler Brothers New York St. Louis Minneapolis Chicago Wilmarth Show Case Co. Show Cases And Store Fixtures Jefferson and Cottage Grove Avenues Grand Rapids, Mich. Hand and Power For All Purposes ELEVATORS Also Dumbwaiters Sidewalk Hoists _. State your requirements, giv- 4 ing capacity, size of platform, lift, etc., and we will name a money saving price on your exact needs. Sidney Elevator Mfg. Co. Sidney, Ohio Mica Axle Grease Reduces friction to a minimum. It saves wear and tear of wagon and harness. It saves horse en- ergy. Itincreases horse power. Put up in 1 and 3 lb. tin boxes, 10, 15 and 25 lb. buckets and kegs, half barrels and barrels. Hand Separator Oil Is free from gum and is anti- rust and anti-corrosive. Put up in 44, 1 and 5 gallon cans. STANDARD OIL CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. Wheat pays. The Shredded Wheat Company Niagara Falls, N. Y. "THE biscuit form of Shredded Wheat, combined with its fine flavor and mutritiousness made it an instantaneous success. Our ad- vertising has been unique—besides magazines, newspapers, car cards, sampling and demonstration, We’ve Used Niagara Falls to Advertise Each year, thousands of visitors to the Falls have gone through our factory. They’ve seen every detail in the process of manu- facture from the golden grain to the finished biscuit. methods have given them confidence in its purity and wholesomeness, They have gone home and told their friends about Shredded Wheat, and as a result Shredded Wheat is de//er known and therefore easier ¢o sel than any other cereal food. Take advantage of this and keep Shredded Wheat prominently displayed— you'll have lots of sales, and every sale means good profit to you. Shredded Our sanitary a ae oy 4 : % i i q 5 ; 4 * wt oases \ PE oy y , SSRN EF Pa » ce ANB a aha — 6 2 ahs himen isIE Sree - September 6, 1911 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN BUSINESS-WANTS DEPARTMENT an \dvertisements inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for euch subsequent continuous insertion No charge less ar bs eCronn ones TE aCe Clash must accompany al! alan BUSINESS CHANCES. Good tarm in Kingman County, Kansas, to exchange for stock of merchandise. Geo. V. Smith, 158 N. Market St., Wichita, Kan. 644 Factory Site—150 horse water power, on railroad, near county seat. Virgil Nash, Allegan, Mich. é For Sale—Or trade, drug store in Indi- ana country town. Address Wm. H. Rupp, Hoagland, Ind, 642 For Sale—National cash register in Al condition, original cost $525. Used three years, easy payments. J. V. Zuber & Co., .Fessenden, D. 641 Wanted—Several good, clean stocks of general merchandise in exchange for im- proved farms in Central and Northern fowa. For further information write Iowa Realty Co., Emmetsburg, Iowa. 640 ‘lo Exchange—I will trade general mer- chandise for cash register, computing scales, flour scales, small safe. Address Lock Box 87, Olney, Ill, For Sale—A first-class stock of gro- ceries in best county seat town in Kan- sas. Will invoice 7 to 8 thousand. Sales last year over 80 thousand. Will reduce stock to suit purchaser. Business estab- lished over 40 years. Reason for selling, other business. Address A. B, C., care Michigan Tradesman. 638 Do you want to purchase any line of hig.. class business in the West? If so, Write us. Members Portland Realty Board. Address Portland Investment & Realty Co., Yeon Bldg., Portland, i ag 3 For Sale—Shoe stock in a live manu- facturing town of 10,000 population, Stock invoices about $5,000. Can be reduced. Elegant location. Rent reasonable. be seen to be appreciated. Liberal dis- count. I wish to leave the state. Ad- dress No. 597, care Michigan Tradesman. 597 Must Township bonds for sale, $5,000 for building State Reward road, in Greenwood township, Wexford County, Michigan. For particulars enquire of John Bell, Town- ship Clerk, Baxter, Mich. For Sale—A first-class bakery and property. Address 124 §. Franklin street, Greensburg, Ind. 630 For Sale—Good paying, well established dry goods and shoe business in city of 46,600 inhabitants in Central Eastern Michigan. Best location in city. Stock about $10,000, fixtures $600. Store build- ing 50 ft. front, 40x54 long, also five room house in rear of store. Six fine living rooms over store, all with gas, sewer, water and electric lights. A bargain for $7,000. $6,500 will buy it, % cash, bal- ance easy payments. Stock can be re- duced to suit buyer. Don’t write unless you mean business. Address No. 628, care Tradesman. 628 Completely furnished hotel and restaur- ant for sale, everything in first-class condition. Best location in city. Feed from 500 to 600 people a day and take in from $75 to $105 daily. Rent very reason- able. Price, $2,500. Good place for any- one to make money. Owner leaving city. Enquire J. A. P., 324 Cherry street, To- ledo, Ohio. 635 Canada Farm Bargains 320 acres improved near town, black soil. good buildings, a large portion ready for drill next spring, half crop payments. Also half section of clean raw land for $20 per acre. BROWN & PHILLIPS. Regina, Sask. Wanted—Retail shoe store, have store building in good Michigan town, also Oklahoma farm and some cash to ex- change. Address Haley, care emir ee Wanted—A small McCaskey Account Register. Address Burns & Kibler, Per- sia, Towa. 624 For Sale at a Bargain—Best grocery and meat market in city 1,800. Doing an annual business of $20,000. Stock and fixtures will inventory about $3,000. Can be reduced to suit purchaser, Satisfac- tory reasons for selling. No trades. Cost of doing business less than 10%. Address No. 620, care Tardesman. 620 For Sale—A first-class stock of general merchandise near Grand Rapids, in the best farming community in the state, Fine location and pleasant place to live, build- ings for sale or rent. Address L, care Tradesman. 621 For Sale—In a good country town, a store building with living rooms in rear. Address M, Gare Tradesman. 616 For Sale—Complete stock dry goods, groceries, shoes, $7,000, Michigan town of 1,400. Large payroll. Old business. Snap. Going West.. No trade. Address No, 613, care Michigan Tradesman. 613 For Sale— A moneymaking live busi- ness, 100 miles south of Chicago. Annual sales $25,000. $4,000 general merchandise and store buildings $3,500. Population 400. Address Box 83, ae a Drug stock for sale in city of 7,000 in- habitants in northern part of state. Stock is new and clean. Will invoice about $3,500. Address Snap, care of Tradesman. ace For Sale—Only drug store in small Southern Michigan town, surrounded by some of the best farming country in state. Old established business, inventorying $1,700. Good reason for selling. Address Drugs, care Tradesman, 610 Elegant corner hardware store in sub- urb of Chicago; great building locality; tin shop in connection; modern building; rent $45;business of $15,000 yearly cash. Old stand. Price $6,000 cash. Addison, Crilly Building, Chicago, 609 Fully equipped modern steam laundry, cheap, St. Clair, Michigan; population 3,000. Address W. L. Larama, St. Clair, Mich. 605 Clerks—Add to your income handling our sales books in your home town. We make all styles. Write us, Battle Creek, (Mich.) sales Book Co. 603 LISTEN, MR. MERCHANT We are ready, right now, to conduct a business building, profit producing advertising campaign, that will increase your cash sales from three to six times, dispose of old goods, and leave your a in a stronger, healthier condition than ore. Comstock-Grisier Advertising & Sales Co. 907 Ohio Building Toledo, Ohio For Rent—Large, roomy brick store building, centrally located. It has been occupied as boot and shoe store for the past fifteen years, but also good opening for clothing, drug, grocery or harness business. It is located in the growing and prosperous manufacturing city of Grand Ledge, Michigan, population 3,000. Fine surrounding country. Address A. Barnes, Dentist, Grand Ledge, eo ae For Sale—A drug store in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Best location in the city. Ad- dress Pharmacist, 449 Academy St., Kala- mazoo, Mich. 595 Merchandise sale conductors. A. KE. Greene Co., 414 Moffat Bldg., Detroit, Ad- vertising furnished free. Write for date, terms, etc. 549 Well improved farm with good build- ings for sale or trade. Address Geo. B. Conrad, Cutcheon, Missaukee Co., "aa Reo 5 passenger touring car in fine condition, for sale at a bargain, 1909 mod- el. Top, windshield, speedometer, will demonstrate. Box 815, Grand Ledge, Michigan, 588 For Sale—Restaurant and lunch room in city of 2,000. Address Brown & Ray, Washington, Il 576 Valuable residence with electric light and bath, in good town, to exchange for merchandise. Address No. 575, care Tradesman. 575 For Sale—The largest and best located two-story solid brick building in Merrill. Business established fifteen years. Must give up business on account of ill health. Parties interested will do well to investi- gate. Address No. 568, care oo For Sale—Grocery stock and. fixtures, doing good business. Good location. Good reason for selling. Address No, 566, care Tradesman. 566 Grocery stock for sale, located in city of 12,000, store building can be rented or will sell the property. Address No. 555, care Tradesman. 655 For Sale—Good clean stock hardware in Central Michigan, town of 600 popula- tion. Address Hardware, care Michigan Tradesman. 545 For Sale—One 300 account McCaskey register cheap. Address A. B., care Michigan Tradesman R Our 13 yellow reasons digested in 13 minutes saves 1300% on Florida land in- vestment. Just opened 500 ac. richest muck in Sanford celery delta at $50. Flowing wells, irrigation, proven district, rail and water transportation, Title Bond & Guarantee Co., Sanford, Special Sales—Mr. Merchant, why not put that sale on to-day? Get rid of your odds and ends, and accumulations. Per- sonally conduct all my own sales. N Harper, Port Huron, Mich. For Sale—General hardware store doing a thriving business. Address No, 543, care Michigan Tradesman. 542 Write us for plans and prices on a rousing ten-days’ sale. Address Western Sales Company, Homer, La. 411 Safes Opened—W. L. Slocum, safe ex- pert and locksmith. 62 Ottawa street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 04 Will pay cash for stock of shoes and rubbers. Address M. J. O., care Trades- man. Cash for your business or real estate. I bring buyer and seller together. No matter where located if you want to buy, sell or exchange any kind of business or property anywhere at any price, address Frank P. Cleveland, Real Estate Expert, 1261 Adams Express Building, Chicago, Illinois. 984 I pay cash for stocks or part stocks of merchandise. Must be cheap. H. Kaufer. Milwaukee, Wis. 92 If you want to trade your store or city property for farm land, write us, stating what you have; it’s fair value and where you want your land. We can get you a a Interstate Land Agency, — HELP WANTED. ‘Wanted—Married clerk who speaks Hol- land to work in general store in country town. Wages, $40 per month. Address No, 636, care Michigan Tradesman. 636 Wanted—An experienced clerk, one who can speak German, for general store, Not too good to work but a hustler. Burns & Kibler, Persia, Iowa. 627 Wanted — Experienced salesman ac- quainted with and calling on the dry goods trade, to carry up-to-date line of child- ren’s, misses and Junior wash dresses, on liberal commission, Quality of merchan- dise, prices and style Al. The C. W. Powell Mfg, Co., Ypsilanti, Mich, 606 Wanted—Clerk for general store. Must be sober and industrious and have some previous experience. References required. Address Store, care Tradesman. 242 Local Representative Wanted—Splendid income assured right man to act as our representative after learning our busi- ness thoroughly by mail. Former ex- perience unnecessary. All we require is honesty, ability, ambition and willingness to learn a lucrative business. No solicit- ing or traveling. This is an exceptional opportunity for a man in your section to get into a big paying business without capital and become independent for life. Write at once for particulars. Address E. R. Marden, Pres. The National Co- Operative Real Estate Company, L 371 Marden Bldg., Washington, D. C. 443 Want ads. continued on next page. STEEL STAMPING ALL KINDS Patented articles made and sold on royalty basis GIER & DAIL MFG. CO. LANSING Churches modest seating of a chapel. Schools Lodge Halls luxurious upholstered opera chairs. We Manufacture > Public Seating Exclusively We furnish churches of all denominations, designing and building to harmonize with the general scheme—from the most elaborate carved furniture for the cathedral to the The fact that we have furnisheda large majority of the city and district schools throughout the country, speaks volumes for the merits of our school furniture. Excellence of design, construction and materials used and moderate prices, win. We specialize Lodge Halland Assembly seating. Our long experience has given us a knowledge of re- quirements and how to meet them. Many styles in stock and built to order, including the more inexpensive portable chairs, veneer assembly chairs, and Write Dept. Y. €merican Seating Compa 215 Wabash Ave. GRAND RAPIDS NEW YORK ft architectural CHICAGO, ILL. BOSTON PHILADELPHIA denomination. tion. Four Kinds of Coupon Books Are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or Free samples on applica- TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. 32 BUSINESS CONDITIONS. Bank Statements, Old National Lease Slump in Stocks. The bank statements have been called for, showing conditions atthe close of business September 1, and it is expected they will be out this aft- ernoon. Considerable interest attach- es to what the showings will be. Un- der normal conditions there ought to be a substantial increase in the de- posits, representing the cashing in of the fruit crop and the growth of the family savings during the summer months, and there usually is an ex- pansion in the loans and discounts, indicating what the merchants and manufacturers are doing in prepara- tion for the fall and winter activities. There is an old saying, however, that all signs fail in dry weather, and this summer has been dry. The prolong- ed furniture strike has been part of the drouth. Unsatisfactory condi- tions in general business have had their influence here. The possibilities of widespread labor troubles are felt in Grand Rapisd as well as in other - parts of the country, and what the bank statements ought to show may be just the other way. The banks, while feeling the uncertainty, have had a fairly good season and those that declare quarterly dividends will have their usual melon cutting on October 1. Th Commercial Savings, in fact, has already declared its quar- terly 2 per cent., and has transfer- red $10,000 from undivided profits to surplus. This will put the surplus at $50,000, or 25 per cent. of the capi- tal and there will still remain about 10 per cent. in undivided. The Fourth and Peoples at 2%4 per cent. and the Kent State at 2 per cent. are the oth- er quarterly dividend payers, but they have not yet acted. That they will meet the expectations of stock- holders as usual may be put down as a certainty. The plan to finance the building of a new hotel to replace the Pantlind has not yet been perfected. In a gen- eral way, the idea has been to or- ganize a hotel company to take over the property, build the hotel and manage it. The financing of the project, no doubt, will involve the is- suing of mortgage bonds to be tak- en by business men, manufacturers, the banks, caapitalists and others in- terested in giving the city better ho- tel facilities or who may desire a tolerably safe investment. The car- rying through of the plans will make. a material change in the Old Na- tional’s statement. The hotel proper- ty is now carried on the books as the home of the Bank and as an as- set of $266,776.73. If it is taken over by the hotel company the Old Na- tional will drop out of the landlord banks and become a tenant and the “banking house, furniture and fix- ture” account will drop down to a comparatively nominal figure. The Bank will, of course, hold its old corner—the corner it has occupied for more than fifty years—but it will be under a lease. There may be some interesting points in connection with this lease. In the old days the bank held a ninety-nine year lease of its MICHIGAN TRADESMAN quarters from Martin L. Sweet. Lat- er the Bank acquired the property and the point that may be raised is whether the old lease can be revived or whether a new lease will be neces. sary. The old lease would mean an abiding place for fifty or sixty years, which would be very nice, while a new lease with the hotel corporation might be only for the twenty years of its corporate existence, and then renewal. There is no possibility of controversy arising, but there are some interesting questions that might be raised. Since the slump in the stock mar- ket there has been considerable in- vesting by local capitalists in the list- ed stocks and preference has been given, it is stated, to those of sub- stantial and known value, like New York Central, Union Pacific, Atchi- son, United States Steel, etc. This movement has diverted interest from the local securities, and even the best of the local have dragged. This, no doubt, will continue until the stock market goes up again, and then those who have been putting their money into the standard and listed securities will “clean up” and will then have more money than ever for nearby en- terprises. One of the advantages of the listed securities is the ease with which they can be converted. How- ever good may be the locals, it is oft- en difficult for the holder to get his money out should he need the mon- ey. There are some notable excep- tions, of course, but, as a rule, the local stocks are notoriously slow, an this detracts seriously from their attractiveness as investments and makes some people cautious about taking hold of them. This condition is probably unavoidable, but it is un- fortunate, because it is the direct cause of a great deal of Grand Rap- ids money going out of town. Vegetables and Produce To Be Sold by Weight. Toledo, Sept. 5—If the grocers and hucksters of Toledo keep their agreement no more groceries, vege- tables or other produce will be sold by measure in this city and the dealers will adhere strictly to the new law which provides that all such commodities must be sold by weight or numerical count. During the last few days W. W. Kelchner, City Sealer of Weights and Measures, has secured the signatures of more than 500 grocers and huck- sters of Toledo to an agreement by which the dealers bind themselves to buy and sell only by weight, begin- ning September 15. “Most of the grocers and other dealers in the city,” said Kelchner Friday, “have been complying with the new law since it went into ei- fect a few weeks ago, but I have had considerable trouble recently with several hucksters on the Superior street market. In many cases _ the measures used. by these hucksters were short. When I asked why they did not obey the law they told me that the grocers with whom they dealt refused to buy or sell except by measure. The hucksters said that they could not sell exclusively by weight and hold their trade. “I did not believe these _ state- ments to be true,” said Kelchner, “as I had talked with most of the gro- cers in Toledo and found, with only one or two exceptions, that all were heartily in favor of the new law. In order to convince any skeptical per- sons that Toledosgrocers wish to buy and sell only by weight I circulated the agreement and nearly every deal- er in the city signed it.” Kelchner said that the new law will be strictly enforced and that any dealer who is detected in selling any of the tabooed commodities by meas- ure will be prosecuted. The number of pounds to the bush- el for staple commodities is as fol- lows: tbs. fen Oboes 2. 60 weet polators .............,.., 50 Onions 2205. - aes veer ca 55 Driee peaches 2.0 33 ited abples 2. 22 WOMCR 48 Cpmnets 56 Beqeues 6g a 48 WS 60 Carrots eee Coa ee te 50 a 56 MOONS 4. 60 ee 60 Wee 60 ee. 56 Oe a 32 Cpvet Seed 60 Timothy seed 2260s 45 Temp e600 ooo a, 44 Meee ceed 8g. 50 September 6, 1911 Buckwheat: soos oe 50 HLOUNBY 2604 60 lax sseed: 2.0) 45 os oe 56 Batley 205.0) oe ee 48 Mal ia ok ee ee 34 Hungarian grass seed .......... 50 Pie ee ee oe 70 Bituminous coal .........2:...;. 80 Cannel coal 260205223 ee 70 (otn,.. shelled <5) ee 56 COPD, GR 6a sce ei a as 68 —_~r--.__ The cradle must go. The Chicago Department of Health has had its field nurses investigating the extend- ed use of the self-rocking cradles and declares they should be done away with. These cradles can be wound up and will keep rocking for half an hour. According to one doc- tor, they cause a baby to get sea- sick, and contract nervous diseases. The old fashioned cradle and the new fangled kind are condemned alike. BUSINESS CHANCES. For Sale or Rent—Good store building, double front, with living rooms above; only one other store in town. Price right. W. B. Alfke, Owner, Lily, S. D. 649 For sale or exchange for farm, stock shoes and dry goods. Address Merchant, care Tradesman. 647 Wanted—To rent. ‘store in small town cr city for shoe stock. Address No. 648, care Tradesman, 648 For Sale—Clean stock of general mer- chandise, including buildings in country town in the Thumb of Michigan. Inven- tories $3,000. Reason for selling, failing health. Can reduce stock. Address Lock Box 107, Colling, Michigan. 646 A complete drug stock for sale at a great bargain or will exchange for real estate or will take an automobile as part payment. Can be seen at our store. We also have a full line of new and second- hand store fixtures. 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