LN N \ a rt ‘i ee a aN Po On ED EES AN Sis GPG Yet hog ne OS oe ¥ ay Dp 9 RK & Va y : SS | \ aE te Tica Ce AGN & CHCA C 3 : Uy a oe am. BG DN vA\ ¢ ‘> EN r 153) he Vp * i & (ESO eS BLO MLA op OO Sc PUBLISHED WEEKLY 75 Can Sos S FN os : Ko ie SMAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS#S<& 7 Wis OOF I SILL VL EG SOS Toes LU ey SS SS B SOF OSG SQV LOO DE ASE FESS SCZ Twenty-Ninth Year GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1912 Number 1489 You Never Can Tell You Know You Do You never can tell when you send a word When someone’s step comes up the walk Like an arrow shot from a bow Your cheeks take on a rosier hue; By an archer blind—be he cruel or kind— And though no other hears his knock, Just where it will chance to go. You hear it well—you know you do. It may pierce the breast of your dearest friend, : : Tipped with its poison or balm, And when his arm steals round your chair, To a stranger’s heart in life’s great mart You give a smothered scream or two, It may carry its pain or its calm. As if you didn’t want it there; But oh, you do—you know you do. You never can tell when you do an act nee : Just what the result will be, You let him kiss your blushing cheek; But with every deed you are sowing the seed Somehow your lips meet his lips, too; Though its harvest you may not see. You tempt him, pretty thing, to speak. Each kindly act is an acorn dropped You wicked flirt—you know you do. In God’s productive soil, : And when he timidly doth press Though you may not know, yet the trees shall grow, Ge aids ta tale a wile ub you, And shelter the brows that toil. Wide any Lael vou anawet yes, You never can tell what your thoughts will do You darling girl—you know you do. In bringing you hate or love, For thoughts are things and their airy wings ab op ah a a taupe - hit doves! ey foliow the law of the universe— s Each thing must create its kind, From the Universal Prayer And they speed o’er the track to bring you back Whatever went out of your mind. If I am right, thy grace impart Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Still in the right to stay; If | am wrong, oh teach my heart ap ofp op To find that better way. arr im alike ane foolish pride : And impious discontent, On File At aught thy wisdom has denied Or aught thy goodness lent. If an unkind word appears, Teach me to feel another’s woe, File the thing away. To hide the fault I see; If some novelty in jeers, That mercy I do others show, File the thing away. That mercy show to me. If some clever little bit Pope. Of a sharp and pointed wit, ab ob oh Carrying a sting with it— File the thing away. A strong life is like a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share in its strength and discipline, but can also go forth alone to the solitude of the infinite sea. We ought to belong to society, to have our place in it and yet to be capable of a complete individual existence outside of it.— If suspicion comes to you Hamerton. 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Wholesale Hardware ot 10 and 12 Monroe St. = 3133-35-37 Louis St. Grand Rapids, Mich. Buffalo, hinge Powder N.Y, SL RENN wees tatonnertoapespone cis seat meS " spin i | ZN oe AY , Special Features of the Grocery and Produce Trade. Special Correspondence, New York, April 1—There is a con- tinued ‘steadiness in the coffee market though this is about all that can be said. The option market js strong and this has had a good effect on the spot article. Sales generally are of small lots for current needs. At the close Rio No. 7s were quoted at 1434c in an invoice way. In store and afloat there are 2,668,809 bags, against 2,448,- 082 bags same time last year. There is a lack of desirable milds in stock, and prices seem to be too high for much business. Good Cucuta, 1634c. Orders for teas have been usually for small amounts. Prices show no change. However it is confidently believed that from now on we shall have a steadily improving situation. Mighty fittle doing in sugars. Withdrawals of granulated under previous contract have been almost nil. With a drop of from 5.80c to 5.50c dealers who had loaded up at the top price are not inclined to make purchases now save as the old stocks are worked off as best they may be The rice market continues firm and a fairly good volume of business is being done all the time. With the advancing season the demand is likely to improve, ,and quotations are well sustained. Prime to choice domestic, 538@534c. Prices of spices are well sustained and the demand is all that could be looked for at this time of year. For- eign advices report some decline in Pepper, but no changes have taken place here on any article. Singapore black, 1144@11%c in a large way. White, 1614@163 ; an order was made by the referee closing United States Salvage Co., Chicago 170 . A _ Welt & Sofs Paper Co., Detroit 13 35 No recommendation an f0'the bankrupts Ynifed,shoe Mactinery Go, Bostin #8 discharge was made by the referee, T. J. Edwards, Boston ........ a oe ime ‘ee, matter of the Hik Cement & Hazeltine & Perkins, Se LS Lime Co,, bankrupt, of Elk Rapids, cred- Tisch, Hie u 4 np Ra. aa 5 > 50 itors having been directed to show cause, Charis ER re Chica, Pies ” 4 if any they had, why an order for sale St aes S G ’ Gra ae 4 30 of the assets in accordance with the offer B ae cy “e — phage — ae of the bondholders’ committee should not Fae ee nha 2a lena 6,000 00 be made, and no cause having been ames L. Snyder, Rockford ty shown and it appearing that such sale $14,209 55 will be for the best interests of this pt a estate it was determined that an order March 28—In the matter of Rebecca A. authorizing and directing such sale in ac- Grove, bankrupt, formerly merchant at cordance with said offer be made, Lyons, the first meeting of creditors was d to show cause, Armstrong, Wilkins & Co., Lucius Beebe & Sons, Boston Brockton Heel Co., Brockton B. D. Eisendrath, Tanning Co., a o Ross-Moyer Mfg. Co., Circinnat Surpass Leather Co. : “New : York The Thread Agency, New York ws Tolman Job Print, Brockton . . $278 630 56 189 37 86 61 6 357 18 § 27 4 - -2,689 5 50 A. C. Lawrence Leather Co., Boston 52 5 50 John Lawrie & Sons, Chicago .... 3 ‘ 1 68 Tubular Rivet & Stud Co., Boston 10 75 24 80 25 09 In the matter of Fargo Shoe Manufac- held to-day and by unanimous vote of turing Co., of Belding, bankrupt’s creditors present and represented, Gerrit schedules of assets and liabilities were J. Wissink, of Grand Rapids, was elected received, and an order made calling the trustee and his bond fixed at $ 3,000. An first meeting of creditors to be held at order was made authorizing the trustee the office of the referee on April 15, for to sell the assets after giving ten days the purpose of electing a trustee, prov- notice of such sale to all creditors. First ing claims, and examining the officers of meeting was then adjourned to April 22, the bankrupt company, The in- at the office of the referee. ventory and report of appraisers shows March 29—In the matter of Peter Steg- total assets of the appraised valuation enga, bankrupt, a rural mail carrier from of $17,303.23, which in cludes the building Holland, the first meeting of creditors and plant. The Peoples Savings Bank was held. It appearing from the bank- TRADESMAN 3 > rupt’s schedules and his examination that date, should not be approved and accept- there are no. assets excepting those ed and the sale authorized and confirmed. claimed as exempt, an order was made <-> ___ that no trustee be appointed. In the matter of Maynard J. Lalone, Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Po- se pep ha of Traverse City, the adjourn- tatoes at Buffalo. ed final meeting of creditors was held : ae . and a final order of distribution made. Buffalo, April 3—Creamery but- There were not more than sufficient as- ter, 28@32c; dairy, 23(@28c; rolls, 23 sets to pay the administration expenses ‘ and no dividend was declared to ordinary @25c; poor to good, all kinds, 20@ creditors. Creditors having been directed 25¢ to show cause, if any they had, why a met : cone omentins the reine Cheese—Fancy, 18@18%c;_ choice, discharge should not be made y the ref- ee i a eree, and no cause being shown it was 17@17%c; poor to good, 12@16c. determined that such favorable certificate Eggs—Choice fresh, 21c be made. : ae! : 5 March 30—In the matter of Calvin D, Poultry (live) — Turkeys, 17@19c: Jones, bankrupt, a laborer from Muske- chickens, 16@17c: fowls, 16@18c: gon, the first meeting of creditors was : Pa ae es held to-day. No creditors were present ducks, 17@19c; geese, 13@14c. or represented, and it appearing from the - ) 1 es ' bankrupt’s schedules and his examination Poultry (dressed) — Turkey s, 18@ that there are no assets excepting eX 22c; chickens, 15@18c; fowls, 16(@18c. emptions, no trustee was appointed. Un- “ sce ea ee less further assets are discovered or Beans — Red kidney, $2.50(@2.65; further proceedings requested by creditors : : "E(A)O On- kes the estate will probably be closed at the white kidney, $2.75@2.90; medium, expiration of twenty days. $2.65@2.70; marrow, $2.90@3; pea, In the matter of the Henry Motor Car Co., bankrupt, of Muskegon, the trustee, $2.65@2.75. John * Moore, i Murkewot, fied a ee Potatoes—$1.40@1.45. port showing tha e ha isposed o < eas the greater part of the assets of this Onions—$2@2.25. Rea & Witzig. yoae na Log he has ran an offer ——-_.$>->-———_ rom Charles F. Latimer o 7,500 for the balancé < the property on hand, exclu- “Blue Sky” Laws Protect. Sive of bills and accounts receivable and NI inv ; cash on hand; that this offer is about No law coy protect i corer the amount of the appraised valuation of against the chances of loss; but it is ack tee We cee ee isi possible, as has been proved in Kan- made by the referee directing creditors sas and in Germany, to render it to show cause, if any they have, on April ‘ ee 11, why such offer, or any other offer more difficult to deceive investors by which may be received by the trustee on . ee 3 pe or before such date, should not be accept- making it Just as perilous to tell lies ed and the sale authorized and confirmed. about shares or bonds and obtain April 1—In the matter of the North oe s American Boiler Co., bankrupt, of Mus- Money sia them - to tell lies which kegon, the trustee, John H. Moore, has make swindlers liable to the penal- filed a report showing that he has re- 5 z eae : ceived an offer of $360 from Phillip Pp. ties for obtaining money on false pre- Schnorbach, of Muskegon, for all of the : machinery shown on the inventory ana ‘'€"S€S. appraisal on file herein; that the ap- —_+-+____ praised valuation of such machinery, The meanest trick a leap year girl which is in a poor state of repair, is : $460 and recommending that such sale be Can play on a man who rejects her confirmed. Such sale would not include : : : the possible interest of the bankrupt’s proposal is to take him at his word. estate in the mortgaged real estate. An es order was made by the referee directing It is wonderful what large cata- creditors to show cause, if any they have, a ye on April 18, why such offer or any other logues from small garden seeds will offer or any further offer which may be | received by the trustee on or before such STOW. POWDER Absolutely Pure The only baking powder made trom Royal Grape Cream of Tartar NoAlum, No Lime Phosphate ALL grocers should carry a Full Stock of Royal Baking Powder. It always gives the greatest satisfaction to customers, and in the end yields the larger profit to the grocer. April 3, 1919 . MICHIGAN TRADESMAN oh ae Hudson—Oren Howes, who has con- Manufacturing Matters. ducted a dry goods store here for the Adrian—The Adrian Cereal (,, has past thirty years, has admitted his changed its name to the Barley | ods Movements of Merchants. Alamo—A. Newton has engaged in the dry goods and grocery business. Donald—George A. Feneley has op- ened a clothing and men’s furnishing store here. Jackson—B. C. Hoffnagle has opened a men’s furnishing store at 1003 East Main street. St. Joseph—Fetke & Rutkoski have opened a clothing and men’s furnish- ings store here. Kalamazoo—R. S. Johnson & Son have engaged in the meat business at 202 North Rose street. Detroit—The capital stock bf the Scheiwe Coal & Coke Co. has been in- crased from $30,000 to $100,000. Holland—Marinus VanPutten has engaged in the wholesale paper busi- ness at 34 East Fourteenth street. Detroit—The Charles A. Berkey Co., wholesale jewelers, has increased its capital stock from $25,000 to $50,000. East Jordan—M. E. Ashley & Co. succeed B. C. Hubbard, & Co., in the women’s furnishings and suit business. 3oyne City—Everett Northrup lost his store building and drug stock by fire March 29. The loss is covered by insurance. Sparta—C. G. Loase has sold_ his hardware stock to Charles W. Friz, re- cently of Grand Rapids, who will con- tinue the business. Pontiac—F. C. Shook has erected a store building on West Howard street which he will occupy April 15, with a stock of groceries. Kalamazoo—P. B. Appledoorn & Son have purchased the shoe stock of Taze- laar & Witters, which they will con- solidate with their own. Sparta—Ward Maynard and Vernie Andrus have formed a co-partnership and will open a shoe and men’s fur- nishings store here April 15. Cadillac—James Russell has sold his grocery stock to Joseph Mishler and will devote his entire attention to his dry goods and shoe business. Sparta—E. M. Marvin, formerly of Grant, will engage in business here May 1, carrying a stock of confectionery, fruit, cigars and bazaar goods. Port Huron—George E. Warren has sold his store building and grocery stock to Carl A. Kunze, who will continue the business at the same location. Sparta—C. A. Moore has leased the Rice building which he will occupy with a stock of sporting goods, books, sta- tionery and post cards, April 15. Kalamazoo—E. H. Pudtrich & Co., wholesale jewelers of Detroit, will open a branch wholesale and retail store in the new Hanselman block, May 1. St. Johns—Bradley & Britten, gro- cers and real estate dealers, have dis- solved partnership, J. W. Bradley tak- ing over the interest of his partner. Yale—The Kerr Lumber Co. has been organized with an authorized capitalization of $5,000, all of which has been subscribed and paid in in cash, Kalamazoo—F. E. Sherk, formerly of Grand Rapids, has purchased the drug stock of the late John L. Wallace and will continue the business at the same location. Gaylord—Cook Bros., dealers in dry goods, clothing and shoes, have dis- solved partnership, A. A. Cook taking over the interest of his brother, Fred E. Cook. : Otsego—The Menter & Rosenbloom Co., who conduct a credit clothing busi- ness at Kalamazoo, will open e@ branch store here under the Management of J. A. Greene. ° Battle Creek—John Stillman, who conducts a department store in Kala- mazoo, has leased a store building at 60 East Main street, where he will pen a branch store. Benton Harbor—Henry W. Diamond & Son, grocers, have purchased the grocery stock of W. C. Wilmot and will continue the business at the same loca- tion as a branch store. Plainwell—Merle W. Gee. recently engaged in the hardware business at Benton Harbor, has purchased an in- terest in the B. M. Salisbury general stock of merchandise. Detroit—The Hoit Lumber Co. has been incorporated with an authoriz- ‘ed capital stock of $30,000, of which $15,000 has been $3,000 paid in in cash. Detroit—The Baker Electric Com- pany, of Michigan, has been incorpor- ated with an authorized capital stock of $15,000, of which $11,000 has been sub- scribed and paid in in cash. Big Rapids—Bertrau, Almroth & Co. have added a line of groceries to their stock of general merchandise. The de- partment will be under the mMmanage- ment of William Whittaker. Bendon—The A: A. Allen store has changed hands, Hector McLean taking possession. He will add a grocery de- partment to the present stock, making a full line of general merchandise. Albion—Louis C. VanGorden, form- erly of Eaton Rapids, has purchased the drug stock of Homer C. Blair and will continue the wholesale as well as retail business at the same location. Reading—Chester Hanna has sold his interest in the hardware stock of Mc- Clave & Hanna, to A. McClave and the business will be continued under the style of the McClave Hardware Co. Detroit—A new company has been organized under the style of the De- troit Delicatessen Kitchen, with an authorized capitalization of $5,000, of which $2,000 has been subscribed and Paid in in cash, subscribed and son, Thomas to partnership in the busi- ness, and it will be continued under the style of Oren Howes & Son. Saginaw—W. H. Lewis, who has been engaged in the grocery business for the past sixteen years, has sold his store to E. Pangman of Mayville, to accept the position as sales manager for the Lee & Cady Co., in the Saginaw district. ; Dowling—Charles and John Ormsbe have formed a co-partnership under the style of Ormsbe Bros. and pur- chased the general stock of merchandise of George A. Robinson and will contin- ue the business at the same location. Pinconning—The State Bank and the Peoples’ Bank of Pinconning were merged at a meeting of the directors and will continue under the name of the Pinconning State Bank. The new concern is capitalized at $25,000 and has resources of $300,000. Mancelona—Frank Schroeder and A. W. Sessions have formed a co-partner- ship and purchased the furniture stocks of Wisler & Co. and J. W. Mathewson, which they will consolidate and contin- ue the business under the style of the Schroeder-Sessions Co. Lake Linden—Joseph E. Prince and George Fillion Jr., have formed a co- partnership under the style of the Prince-Fillion Co. and engaged in the hardware business. The new firm will also conduct an undertaking establish- ment in connection with their store. Jackson—The Beckwith United Stores has been incorporated to car- Ty on a mercantile business, consist- ing of women’s and men’s clothing and furnishings and other merchan- dise, with an authorized capital stock of $25,000, of which $12,500 has been - subscribed and $4,500 paid in in cash. Grand Ledge—William Capwell, the pioneer stock buyer of Grand Ledge, is dead, aged 82 years. Mr. Capwell located in Grand Ledge upwards of fifty years ago, and as a buyer’ and shipper of live stock, was one of the best known men in Southern Michigan. He.was actively engaged in business more than half a century. Detroit—Judge Phelan sentenced two Woodward avenue merchants, R. L. Barker and John Barbas, proprietors of a candy store and restaurant at 301 Woodward avenue, to the county jail until such time as the alley in the rear of their places of business is cleaned up. Both men spent several hours in the county jail before word was brought to the court that the alley had been cleaned. Detroit—William A. Moore, for twen- ty-five years prominent in the retail Srocery trade as a member of the firm of McWilliams & Moore, died Monday, after a lingering illness in his home at 396 Jefferson avenue. He retired six months ago, when he became afflicted with organic ailments. Mr. Moore was born in St. Thomas, Ont., 64 years ago and came to Michigan in 1876 and work- ed in Grand Rapids several years. In 1886 he came to Detroit and formed a partnership with Felix McWilliams and opened a store on Cadillac square, where it is still conducted under the firm name. Co. Detroit—The Eby Manufact; ing Co., manufacturer of columns and wood handles, has increased its ipi- tal stock from $100,000 to $130.660 Kalamazoo—The Kazoo Drum Supply Co. has been organized {, purpose of manufacturing drum. and supplies for band and Orchestra. | \. Adams is the manager. Detroit—The Wolverine Tire has been incorporated with an au. thorized capital stock of $15,000 com- mon and $10,000 preferred, of w! ich $15,000 has been subscribed and paid in in cash, Benton Harbor—W. J. Harper sold a half interest in the Columhi:n Cigar Co. to W. D. Kidd and the | ness will be continued under the same style. The plant will be enlarged the capacity doubled. Detroit—The National Remedy Co, has engaged in business to manufac- ture and sell drugs, medicines, chem- icals and toilet articles, with an au- thorized capital stock of $1,000, which has been subscribed and $250 paid in in cash. Allegan—Stratton Bros. & Co., have sold their flouring mills in this city Charles Stratton, of Galesburg, and Edward Killian, of this city, for $50.- 000. The Stratton Bros. have con- ducted the business for the past four teen years. Detroit—Charles Purdy, building con- tractor, has merged his business into 2 stock company under the style of th Purdy Lumber & Manufacturing (o., with an authorized capitalization $25,000, of which $15,000 has been sul- scribed and paid in in property. Detroit—The McRae & Roberts Co., manufacturer of steam brass goods, has merged its business into a stock company under the style of The McRae Brass Manufacturing Co., with an authorized capital stock of $1,000, of which $500 has been sub- scribed and paid in in property. —— ee Bean Market Weak and Unsatisfac- tory. We have had an unsatisfactory de- mand for beans again this week. The market has gradually weakened and there seems to be an inclination on the part of the elevators to move out their stock of beans at the present high price. Foreign beans are now beirig oi- fered in New York and other East- ern markets at 20c per bushel below Michigan beans, which would indi- cate that we would have to lower our price to get any business in that di- rection. Red kidney beans are at a stand- still, with no buyers, and the same is true of brown Swedish beans, yel- low eyes and other fancy varieties. E. L. Wellman. Crs the Co. Any person, in any walk of | life, who puts jealousy, hate and fear out of his life will be distinguished. All good things shall be his. They will flow to him. 2 When a bachelor is landed by 2. leap year girl, he can imagine about how a fish out of water feels. 1912 las ids ng nd pi- he nd April 3, 1912 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN crue a Ph yeas LS , Sera (ih Ler The Produce Market. Apples — Johnathans, $5.50; Bald- wins, $4.50; Spys, $5.50; Russets and Greenings, $4; Western box applés, $3 per box. Asparagus—$1.50 per doz. Bananas—$1.50@2 per bunch, ac- cording to size and quality. Beets—65c per bu. Butter—The consumptive demand for fresh butter is increasing consid- erably, and all receipts are absorbed on arricval on the ruling basis. The quality is running fine. Stocks of held butter are light and the market throughout is clean and healthy on the present basis. Very probably there will be a complete clearance of all grades before grass butter arrives. Creamery extras command 31c in tubs and 32c in prints. Local deal- ers pay 24c for No. 1 dairy and 18c for packing stock. Cabbage—5Sc per fb. for either. new or old; California, per crate, $4. Celery—Florida, $2.50 per crate; California, $1.10 per doz. Cranberries—Late Howes, bbl. Cucumbers—$2 per doz. for hot- house. $6 per Eggs—The increase in the demand has been so large as to keep receipts well cleaned up and _ prices hold about the same as they were a week ago. The New York and Chicago markets show an advance in prices and it is reported that supplies are arriving in much smaller quantities than a week or ten days ago. From now on it is expected a great many will be put into storage, as April eggs are considered the best for that purpose. Local dealers pay 19c, case count. Grape Fruit—Choice Florida, $7 per box of 54s or 64s; fancy, $8. Grapes—Imported Malaga, $4.50@ 5.50 per bbl. according to weight. Green Onions—40c per doz for Southern. Green Peppers—60c per small bas- ket. Honey—20c per fb. for white clover and 18c for dark. Lemons—California, $4.25; Messina, $4.25@4.50. Lettuce—Hothouse, 15c per tb.; head, $2 per bu. Nuts—Ohio chestnuts, 16c per fb.; hickory, $1.75 per bu.; walnuts and butternuts, 75c per bu. Onions—$2.50 per bu. for home grown; $2 per crate for Spanish. Oranges—Floridas, $3.25@3.50 per box for all sizes; Navels, $3.25@3.50 Pieplant—California, $2.50 per 40 fb. box. Potatoes—$1.50 per bu. for old stock. Poultry—Local dealers Pay 12%c for fowls and springs; 7c for old roosters; 10c for geese; 14c for ducks; 16@18c for turkeys. These prices are for live weight. Dressed are 2c higher. Radishes—35c per dozen for hot- house. Squash—2c per tb. for Hubbard. Sweet Potatoes—$6.25 for Jerseys. Tomatoes—Six basket crates, $5.25. Turnips—50c per bu. Veal — 5@8c, according to the quality. —_—_o-+.—_ Sandusky Joins the Band. Port Huron, April 1—I went to Sandusky, one of the live towns in the Thumb district, last Thursday and organized the Sandusky Improvement Association, with the following offi- cers: President—F. J. Corbishkey. Vice-President—Ken. McKenzie. Secretary—Allen K. Moore. Treasurer—J. C. Knight. J. T. Percival, Sec’y. +> Announcement is made of the en- gagement of Claude H. Corrigan and Miss Nellie M. Hurd, the marriage to take place the latter part of April. This is the culmination of a romance which dates back to the days when they were school children together. They were chums and playmates and then they were lovers waiting for Fortune to smile, and now that For- tune has smiled they are to be mar- ried and everybody will wish them happiness. Mr. Corrigan is a son of the late Philip Corrigan, long mana- ger of the Star Clothing House and in his day one of the best known clothing salesmen in the city. Less than two years ago Claude H. Cor- rigan, after serving an “apprentice- ship” in the office of Child, Hulswit & Co., opened an office of his own as a dealer in stocks and bonds on commission. His pleasing personal- ity, hustling abilities and straightfor- ward, above board methods have won for him the confidence of a large and influential clientele, and to-day he is one of the best known of the local brokers and has a business that has already grown large and is rapidly growing larger. —_—_2-2——__ Wm. Judson, President of the Judson Grocer Co., left San Francisco, March 30, for Grand Rapids, but is detained at Grand Island, Neb., by water and may not reach home for several days. Mrs. Judson is with her. husband. —_— 72> S. S. Lockwood has sold his grocery stock at 533 Palmer avenue, recently purchased from H. DPD, Johnson, to G. E. Warren. The Grocery Market. Sugar—Refined grades have declin- ed 10 points, granulated being held at 5.40,-New York basis. Refiners are not anxious to secure any new busi- ness, because they are oversold and two weeks behind in filling orders. Direct reports from Cuba state that ‘the weather has been ideal and grind- ing operations are in full blast. The production will be large according to recent statements, but the cane is not yielding as much raw sugar to the ton as in past years. The agitation of free sugar is causing many buyers and speculators to go a little slow un- til it is more definitely known what may be accomplished in free sugar legislation. Tea—The steady demand for Ja- pan at good prices continues, the bet- ter grades finding a ready sale. The records show that the year 1911 brought more tea into the United States from Japan than any previous year and less from China, and that, too, at an average per pound better price. Java teas are finding a foot- hold in this country and importations are growing. Formosas are in good demand at good prices. Ceylons and Indias are coming in freely. Blacks are maintaining the recent advance, with very few calls for Greens. Coffee—Wholesalers report a fair business from the retail trade. A re- port says: “The washed coffee situa- tion is strengthened by the droutl in Colombia, and explains why re- ceipts arriving are so light.” The quo- tations on Rio 7s continue to hold within about 1c of prices of Santos 4s, as against 2c two years ago. This would indicate that the market is really too high on Rio in comparisoz with Santos, but it is said to be gov- erned by the supply and demand. Canned Fruits—The demand is fair, but it is more than likely that the high prices of some varieties has less- ened the consuming demand to some extent. Peaches have been meeting with the best success from the con suming trade and prices are still very reasonable. Hawaiian pineapple is cleaning up closely with some whole- salers and canners who issued quota- tions on futures at a little advance over opening prices of a year ago state that orders have been so heavy that some are already sold up. The demand for berries is small, but stocks are equally so and prices are firm. Canned Vegetables—Prices are still low on all grades of corn. Peas and tomatoes which the retailer can sell at 10c per can are no longer obtain- able, and from present indications there will be none to retail at that price during 1912. The market on both spot and future tomatoes is firm and canners report holdings well cleaned up in spot stocks, and as fu- tures are firmly held it would seem that there is nothing to indicate lower prices for months to come. Dried Fruits—Peaches and apricots are unchanged and dull. Raisins are dull at unchanged prices. The Cali- fornia interests will again hold Rais- in Day late in April. Currants are normally active at unchanged prices. Other dried fruits are dull. Prunes are pretty well cleaned up on the coast and prices there are well maintained on that account, but all secondary markets are hopelessly weak on a bas- is 2@2%%4c below the highest price. The chance is that the market will not recover during the remainder of the season. The demand is only mod- erate. Syrups and Molasses—Corn syrup has advanced 114c per gallon and compound syrup has advanced 6 scales. The demand is easing off on account of the warmer weather. Sugar syrup is dull at ruling prices, and mo- lasses is active only in a very moder- ate way. Rice—Prices are firm and higher than they were a month ago. Re- ports from the South state that screenings and broken rice are in much smaller supply than usual, which is one of the reasons why the market has been so firm on other grades. Cheese—What few cheese are left in storage are barely enough to sup- ply the consumptive demand until new cheese begins to come forward in sufficient quantity. This will not be for another month at least. Starch—Muzzy bulk and best bulk and package have advanced 15c per 100 pounds. Fish—Cod, hake and haddock are in fair demand at maintained prices. Salmon is scarce, firm and in light demand. There will probably be no change during the balance of the sea- son. Both domestic and imported sardines are quiet at ruling values. There has been no change in the mackerel market during the week Values are steadily maintained. Sup- plies are comparatively small and in strong hands. The demand is fair. Provisions—Smoked meats show an advance of %4c per pound. Pure lard is firm at '%4c per pound, and compound an advance of oth are in improved consumptive de- mand. Barrel pork is firm at 25c per barrel advance. Canned meats and dried beef are in moderate consump- tive demand at unchanged prices. —__+22.____ This city was allotted $100,000 of the underwriting of the new securi- ties to be issued by the enlarged United Light, and this was all taken the first day and twice as much could easily have been placed. The underwriters will pay 98 for. the first preferred and receive 20 per cent. bonus in second preferred. Putting it in a more definite form, for $980 they will receive $1,000 of first pre- ferred and $200 second preferred stock, with a present income yield of $66, or at the rate of 6.73 per cent. In three years the second pre- ferred will be exchangeable for eith- er common stock or first preferred, which means that the return on the investment will become 7.3 per cent. or better. As a permanent invest- ment this looks good, and it is also good as a “flyer” for a quick turn. At 92 for the preferred and 75 for. the second an immediate sale would yield $1,070, or a profit of $90, which is not at all bad. “Y@vc. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN . April 3, 1919 An me An Ideal Investment Y, z : 5 a we : 20 Carefully selected list of Bonds and Preferred Stocks of | = 5 F I N AN Cc ] A L: : 3 | Public Utility Companies ” large cities netting 5% to 77. .o. = = = = Descriptive circular on request. wee = = pian aom Tey 733 Michigan Trust Bldg., nid oeayy NW ll C0 Sa A. E. Kusterer & Co, 7 "issn rst Bide, Grand Rei __ Wo ss \ l = 7 Ke LQG = — pl If all your time is not taken Bucket Shcp Ruins Another Trusted Employe. The arrest of Edward Johnson, Teller at the Michigan Trust Com- pany, last week on a charge of em- bezzlement caused that same shock to the community which always comes with the announcement that an officer or attache of a banking in- stitution has gone wrong. The aver- age of honesty in the banks is so high and the instances of misplaced confidence are so few and rare that when a man does go wrong it natur- ally creates a sensation. Besides, the popular impression is strong that the banks have safeguards in inspections, examinations and audits which make dishonesty difficult. The discovery of Johnson’s departure from the pathway of rectitude is the second that has been made in local banking circles since the year opened and there is no disguising the fact that it hurts. The first case was that of Kryn Van’t Hof, Manager of the West Bridge street branch of the Kent State. Two instances so close to- gether have stirred the banks to greater vigilance in looking after their safeguards against fraud, and it is likely until continued immunity in- vites carelessness that audits will come at frequent intervals. One of the local bankers, however, declares that recent episodes will cre- ate no commotion or unusual inspec- tions in his institution. “If any of our boys have been doctoring the books the discovery of Johnson’s crookedness will but make them the more careful to cover up their own tracks and make detection more dif- ficult,” he said. “I believe in audits, but the time to make them is when they are least expected and when there seems the least ground for sus- picion. I have implicit confidence in our own men and when an audit is made I regard it as much for the purpose of proving their honesty as it is to guard against dishonesty.” “We may be ever so vigilant, but in the final analysis it comes down to a question of personal honesty,” said another bank official. “We have to trust somebody, and those who are trusted have opportunities every day in one form or another to take what does not belong to them. How- ever shrewd may be their method, detection is certain to come in time. Those who have access to the money vaults—what is to prevent them walking away some day with their pockets full of currency? It might be weeks before the loss would be discovered, but it certainly would -be found out some time and our sys- tem is such that the responsibility would be placed at once. A trusted employe may alter the books and his peculations might go on for months, but eventually the show down would come and with it disgrace and ruin. We have to trust men and we do trust them, but a bank is the poorest place in the world for the man who is inclined to help himself, because de- tection eventually is bound to come. Confidence in Van’t Hof gave him immunity for a long time, but he was caught. Confidence in young John- son gave him his chance, but his turn to be found out came at last, and it comes to every man sooner or later who tries to juggle with the bank’s money.” The case of young Johnson is sad He comes of a fine old family of farmers up in Sparta. He received a good education and as a boy secured a position as messenger in the Mich- igan Trust Company. He showed such ability that he won rapid pro- motion. When he had advanced to a Position which commanded sufficient salary he married a Kent City girl, the sweetheart of his school boy days. They had a nice home in the East End and the prospects were bright. And now his hopes are shat- tered, those whom he loved are in sorrow, a blot is upon his career. What brought him to ruin was the eagerness for sudden wealth. He thought the bucket shop offered a short cut to riches; it led to ruin. He gambled in stocks and lost. It was the old story. i Many do not undertsand the meth- ods of the stock market and of the so-called bucket shops. Custom has made trading on margins legitimate, and but for margin trading transac- tions representing a million shares a day would be impossible. Buying and selling on margin is hazardous, espe- cially for those of limited means, but it involves actual transactions and transfers and the amount of real money required serves as some check on the gambling spirit. In “legiti- mate” marginal dealing a ten point margin is called for. If United Steel, for instance, is at 70, and the order is to buy 100 shares, the buyer must deposit $10 a share, or $1,000, with his broker; the stock is actually bought and the broker, in effect, lends the buyer the balance of the amount due, holding ‘the stock as security. If the stock slumps down to 60 the buy- cr must protect his deal by the de- posit of $1,000 more and at 50 the call is made for another deposit which will cover his investment down to 40, and so on down. The buyer is privileged at any time if he does not like the Prospects, to put You Can Add to Your Income The Preferred Life Insurance Co. of America ASK US HOW Selling Life Insurance for Grand Rapids, Mich. WILLIAM A. WATTS, Sec’y and Gen’! Mer ence GRAND RAPIDS NATIONAL CITY BANK Resources $8,500,000 Our active connections with large banks in financial centers and ex- tensive banking acquaintance throughout Western Michigan, en- able us to offer exceptional banking service to Merchants, Treasurers, Trustees, Administrators and Individuals who desire the best returns in in- terest consistent with safety, avail- ability and strict confidence. CORRESPONDENCE PROMPTLY REPLIED TO Fourth National Bank Savings Deposits 3 Per Cent Interest Paid on Savings Deposits Compounded Semi-Annually Le | Capital Stock $300,000 Lm : United States Depositary Commercial Deposits 1 3% Per Cent i Interest Paid | on i Certificates of i Deposit | Left One Year Surplus and Undivided Profits $250,000 1912 i | April 3, 1912 in a stop loss order, which means the stock is to be sold at market and what is left of his “margin” is re- stored to him. If, instead of going down, the stock rises, when he thinks the top has been reached he can or- der the sale of the stock and take his profits. In the final adjustment he is credited with whatever dividends may have been paid on the stock and is charged with interest on the loan and the usual commissions. If the speculator believes stocks are going down the proceeding is the same ex- cept that he “sells,” with the Margin the same but the order reversed. The seller is “short” and when the mar- ket has struck what “he believes is bottom he buys to ‘make the delivery and the difference is his profit. If the stock goes up instead of down, if the market becomes bullish instead of bearish, then short must put up the margins and stands to lose, for he will have to buy to make the final delivery at a higher price than he sold at. Either selling or buying un- less the margin is maintained the deal is closed and the money that has been put up is lost. In bucket shops, instead of $10 a share deposit all that is demanded in the concerns that pretend to some degree of respectability is $2 a share, or $200, for a 100 share deal, and in the cheap joint $1 a share and even less is all that is required. Buying Steel at 70, a drop to 68 would call for another deposit, or selling at 70, a rise to 72 would wipe out the mar- gin. It is purely a gamble and with the game in his own hands all the chances are in favor of the manager. It is the most insiduous form of gambling, demoralizing in the ex- treme, always holding out to the vic- tim the hope of winning, and yet hope deferred but whets the appe- tite. Success at first is more danger- ous than loss for the taste of easy money is good and the desire is strong for more, but playing the bucket shop in the end is certain to lead to ruin. This city has two bucket shops and they have been conducted openly and without restraint. The law. forbids them, as it forbids poker joints and faro layouts, but they are run just the same and young Johnson has goneto his ruin. How many others have been following the same trail remains to be seen. The bank clearings for March reached a total of $15,223,700.55, a gain of 34 per cent. over March a year ago, and the showing is notable, not only because of the large in- crease, but because in all the history of the Grand Rapids Clearing House never has such a total been reach- ed. The nearest approach to it was that of last December, when the to- tal was $13,311,006.85. The Decem- ber total made a new high mark, but March’ exceeds it by nearly two mil- lion. The clearings for the first three months of the year total $39,792,- 567.55, and this is the largest show- ing for any single quarter in local records. It exceeds the total for the last quarter of the old year by a million and a quarter. The bank MICHIGAN TRADESMAN clearings are generally regarded as a straw showing the direction of the wind, and locally the straw seems to point toward an unusually large vol- ume of business and an activity un- precedented. The absorption of the Tri-City Light and Power Co. by the United Light and Railways Co., the details of which have already been given, will be completed this month, and then one of the prettiest “killings” ever scored by Grand Rapids men will be come a matter of history. Three or four months ago United Light was around 80 for the first pre- ferred, 70 for the second preferred and 50 for the common, and at these figures the stocks-were not in great demand. To-day the first preferred is around 93, the second near 80 and the common is several points above par. Three months has added ap- proximately half a million dollars to the value of the securities. With inside information of the coming deal Frank T. Hulswit, Richard Schaddelles and Ben C. Robinson were the largest buyers, but they passed out the tip to their friends and those who had the money, or who could borrow it, shared in the good thing. The deal has been well con- ceived and cleverly executed and_ it has brought a fine profit to Grand Rapids. Through it Mr. Hulswit has won recognition and standing as a fi- nancier of ability and skill, and it will be strange indeed if this suc- cess does not lead to still other and larger achievements in the future. The United Light and Railways Co. by this deal becomes a ten million dollar proposition, and indications are not lacking that it will become still larger. United Light will receive a common stock dividend of 75 per cent., and it is this prospect that has boomed the old common stock to above par. When the new stock is issued it is to be expected the ex-dividend quo- tation will be considerably below the present level, but it is believed it will not go below 70, and it is likely the drop will stop before 70 is reached. The present holder. of $1,000 in common stock will after the dividend have $1,750 of stock and at 70 this would be worth $1,225. There seems to be a nice margin of profit in the stock buying it at par, and it is said there has been some heavy buying the past week by in- side parties. -_o— 2.2. Quotations on Local Stocks and Bonds. Bid. Asked. Am. Box Board Co., Com. 30 Am. Box Board Co., Pfd. *92 Am. Gas & Elec. Co., Com, 82 3 Am, Gas & Blec. Co., Pfd. 47 48 Am. Light & Trac. Co., Com. 300 302 Am. Light & Trac. Co., Pfd: 107 108 Can, Puget Sound Lbr. 3 34 Cities Service Co., Com. 8814%4 91% Cities Service Co., Pfd. 83% 84% Comw’th Pr. Ry. & Lt. Com, 64 66 Comw’th Pr, Ry. & Lt. Pfd. 901% 91% Dennis Salt & Lbr, Co. 100 Fourth National Bank 190 195 Furniture City Brewing Co. 75 Globe Knitting Works, Com, 112% 115 alobe Knitting Works, Pfd, 100 »=-101 G. . R. Brewing Co. 210 G. R. Nat’l City Bank 178-481 R. Savings Bank 85 G. 1 Holland-St, Louis Sugar, Com. 9% 10% Kent State Bank 260 Lincoln Gas & Elec. Co. 36% 38 Macey Co., Com. 200 99% 100 Macey Company, Pfd. Michigan Sugar Co., Com, 88 90 Michigan State Tele. Co., Pfd. 100 101% National Grocer Co., Pfd. 87 88 Pacific Gas & Elec. Co., Com. 67 68 Pacific Gas & Elec. Co., Pfd. 91 92 Peoples Savings Bank 250 United Light & Railway Com. 105 110 United Lt. & Railway ist Pfd. 92 94 United Lt. & Railway 2nd Pfd. 79 83 Bonds. Chattanooga Gas Co. 1927 95 97 Denver Gas & Elec. Co, 1949 95 97 Flint Gas Co. 1924 96 97% G. R. Edison Co. 1916 97 99 1915 100% 100% 1916 100 «101 1920 95 100 1916 99 G. R. Gas Light Co, G. R. Railway Co. Kalamazoo Gas Co. Sag. City Gas Co. April 2, 1912.. The announcement of an increase in the dividend rate of Kent State Bank stock sent this issue up to 260 bid with only a few shares offered at 275. There are several orders in the market with in- dications of higher prices. Other Bank stocks are in good demand. Macey common sold at 200 and the preferred at 9914. Citizens Telephone re- mains firm with the bids just about tak- ing care of the offerings. This stock will be quoted ex-dividend after April ist. Globe Knitting common was offered down to 115 with bids at 112%, Some bids were to be had for. Canadian Puget Sound Lumber at $3 and stock was of- fered at this price at the close of busi- ness, There was some good buying in Pa- cific Gas & Electric common. At present prices and dividends, this issue nets about 7% per cent. with prospects of ad- ditional profit through enhancement in the market value, Commonwealth common sold up to 65% and there was a little stock offered to- day at 6544 with the market quite firm at this price. Sales on the preferred were made at 92. American Light and Trac- tion common sold at 302 and closed at 300% @302. The continued rise in quotations on United Light & Railways Co. securities indicates that the recent deals in which the company figured were not discounted in advance. First preferred sold up to 93 and the common at 106; 82 was bid for . the second preferred. The market on this issue as well as on the common was very strong and shows signs of advances to even higher prices, Merchant’s Accounts Solicited Assets over 3,000,000 EE gf —— “(Gen DR EIDSG WINGER AN K. 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 - - - President J. A. COVODE - - Vice President A. H. BRANDT - - - Ass’t Cashier CASPER BAARMAN -_ .- Ass’t Cashier 34% Paid on Certificates You can transact your banking business with us easily by mail. Write us about it if interested. We recommend the purchase of the Preferred Stock of the : Cities Service Company at prevailing low prices Kelsey, Brewer & Company : Investment Securities 401 Mich. Trust Bldg., Grand Rapids, Mich. Our Files of Information ON Investment Securities are always open for the use of investors. Citz. 1122 C. H. Corrigan & Company Bell M-229 INVESTMENT SECURITIES 341-343 Michigan Trust Building Grand Rapids, Mich. 244% Every Six Months Is what we pay at our office on the Bonds we sell. $100.00 Bonds—5% a Year THE MICHIGAN TRUST CO. OLD NATIONAL BANK GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN SOLICITS The accounts of merchants. OPENS Saving accounts with anyone, any- where, paying 3% semi-annually on all sums remaining 3 months. Bank- ing by mail is an easy matter, let us tell you how easy. ISSUES Savings Certificates of Deposit bear- ing interest at 312% if left one year. 3% if left six months. EXTENDS Courteous treatment to all. CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $1,300,000 RESOURCES $8,000,000 LET US SERVE You mies anna mee SESE SADE SN NETO ONT TES HEI I a OC TY DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF BUSINESS MEN. Published Weekly by TRADESMAN COMPANY Grand Rapids, Mich. Subscription Price. One dollar per year, payable strictly in advance. Five dollars for six years, payable in advance, Canadian subscriptions, $2.04 per year, payable in advance. Sample copies, 5 cents each. ra copies of current issues, 5 cents; of issues a month or more old, 10 cents; of issues a year or more old, 25 cents. Entered at the Grand Rapids Postoffice as Second Class Matter. E. A. STOWE, Editor. April 3, 1912 TWO YEARS MORE. This city is to have two years more of George E. Ellis. The pros- pect is not pleasing, but as Boss Tweed once remarked, “What are you going to do about it?” One thing that most of us will do first will be to give devout thanks that the proposed city charter, giving the city’s executive autocratic powers, was not adopted. With every board member an Ellis appointee the May- or for a fourth term may have much power, but there still remain a few wholesome checks and safeguards upon his administration. With every branch of the city government man- ned by men of his choosing there ought to be no difficulty in placing responsibility where responsibility belongs. How is it that Ellis is re-elected for a fourth term? The result is a triumph for machine politics and the much-vaunted primary election sys- tem. Under the old caucus and con- vention system Ellis could never have been nominated for a third, to say nothing of a fourth, term. Under the caucus and convention system no political party would have dared put George R. Perry at the head of the ticket. With the primary sys- tem it was easy for them to win the nominations. Ellis controlled the municipal vote and this in his favor made it easy for him to trim a rival for the Republican nomination who under any circumstances was none too strong and who under the con- vention system would never have been heard of. Perry, with his abil- ities as a campaigner, had a walk away against the only Democrat who dared stand up against him. When it came up to the people to make the final. choice, what was offered them was Ellis or Perry, and the vote showed how they relished what was offered them. Those who felt that they would have to hold their noses to vote for either of the candi- dates remained at home, and the re- turns show that about one-third of the voters did not go to the polls at all. The city’s full vote is around 20,000. Ellis receiver a total of 6,499 and Perry 5,926, a total of 12,425, and the Socialist candidate received enough more to swell the grand to- tal to 14,740. About 6,000 voters re- mained at home, or approximately one-third of those entitled to vote. They stayed at home because in de- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN cency and self respect they could not vote for either candidate. Under the circumstances to stay at home was the only way open to them to ex- press their contempt and dissatisfac- tion. The city has endured six years of the Ellis regime, and we have two years more coming, and perhaps two years more after that and then two more. For six years the city has blushed and apologized and made ex- cuses and changed ‘the subject when the Mayor has been mentioned. This has become so much of a habit that to keep it up may not be difficult, but the habit will never be enjoyable for those who like to take some de- gree of pride in their home town. ionieninerenagunesa nomena SIGNIFICANCE OF EASTER. Easter has been styled the “queen of the Christian holidays.” It is cer- tainly next to Christmas, the most important, for, wrote the Apostle to the Corinthians: “If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.” In an age of the world when many who claim the profoundest knowl- edge and the highest culture teach that, if a thing can not be weighed, measured, separated into its constitu- ent parts by the chemist, examined as to the minutiae of its structure by the microscope, or otherwise test- ed as to its material nature and qual- ities, it is either to be rejected as having no existence, or else it is laid aside as of doubtful existence, to be further examined, it is not strange that not merely doubt, but even de- nial, is declared as to the possibility of a real resurrection from actual death which involves the decay of the human body. The scientific materialist will recite the fact that there is no destruction of matter, but that material things can be utterly disorganized as to their composition, form and structure, and yet the matter will still survive in some other form; but that, neverthe- less, when a man suffers that abso- lute paralysis of all his functions, and the dissolution of his physical organ- ization called death, he can never more appear as he was in the form and functions of a human being. It is to such gross materialism that many scientists have come through their study of matter to the exclu- sion of the spiritual nature of our humanity. But while the spiritual part of us can not be weighed, meas- ured or otherwise tested by material means, it is difficult to see how in- telligent beings can fail to admit the existence of something which their physical analysis has not been able to discover. These wise, in their Own conceit, philosophers are bound to admit that there are qualities and facts of matter which their chemis- try and lenses have never been able to grasp. No scientist has ever been able to segregate from matter in the mass an atom or a modecule; but they all proceed, nevertheless, by as- suming atomic and molecular exist- ence, and, if these assumptions were discarded, their elaborate and com- plicated fabrics of what they call science would fall to irretrievable ruin. Information concerning spiritual things can not be got from. the study of matter, but it must come from some spiritual source. Man can only see spiritual things when his spiritual vision is open, and his spir- itual senses are quickened. All that is noble and pure and just and lovely in human character must be attributed to man’s spiritual nature, and since he is the only liv- ing creature invested in a material body that possesses or has ever man- ifested those qualities, and since the science of the chemist and the mi- croscopist can find no elementary matter in man that is not in the bodies of “the beasts that perish,” then there must be something in man that places him beyond and above all other of his fellow-creatures, and al- lies him to the divine beings whose existence and whose relations to him have been learned from spiritual sources. Holding such belief Easter becomes something more than a mere holi- day, for it is a memorial of the re- appearance in his divine essence of one who was slain as to his mortal body, but survives in his spiritual en- tity to be the head of the most hu- mane and, at the same time, the most divine religion that was ever estab- lished upon the éarth. THE EASTER WINDOW. Whatever your business Christ- mas and Eastertide are seasons which you can not afford to neglect. While the preparations for the latter are less elaborate—unless it be in the millinery department—they are none the less insistent. In many instances an elaborate display is neither need- ed nor fitting; but the mere touch which shows that the spirit is pres- ent is most appropriate. Flowers are in harmony with al- most any line of goods. The single plant, the vase of lilies or daffodils, « costs little and does much to give a touch of elegance. Even a. bunch of artificial flowers will serve as a re- minder, one which will do duty on many occasions if cared for. When all nature is bursting forth into bud and blossom it is fitting that you show an appreciation of your sur- roundings. Your window will not only be more attractive but the goods in its vicinity will gain through prox- imity to “the sweetest things God ever made that He did not put a soul into.” The season is symbolical of a new life. Put some of your own pro- fessional life into it as well as that conventional. New goods require new forms of presentation. Take extra pains to call attention to them. You may have a whole shopful, but if some special attraction is not given they may as well be folded up with- in your shelves, Your shop windows should speak as with a new life. The flowers are typical of it; it is yours to prove that you are ready to make good with the more substantial things. Prove that the sincerity of the lily, the beauty of the hyacinth, the rich coloring of the tulip are em- blematical of your stock. The flow- ers will fade, but your Purposes and Promises should be permanent. April 3, 1519 cee FIXED PRICES UPHELD. In the case of patented articles, at least, the patentee has a right to «; force a contract requiring dealers to sell the patented goods at a price named by him. The last decision the United - States Supreme Court recently rendered, was given by the majority of a divided court, three jps- tices dissenting. The case involved alleged infrins.- ment in selling supplies for use on a patented rotary mimeograph. A no tice on the machine set forth that ; was to be used only with supplies made by the patenting company, The opinion of the Majority of the court is reaffirmation of the princip! which has prevailed for some hun dreds of years in all Civilized cou tries, that the owner of goods has 2 right to dictate terms upon which he will sell them. The Opinion of th minority is illuminating in showin. how rights of ‘Property have dimin- ished in the minds of the highest au thorities. : Chief Justice White and Justices Hughes and Lamar dissented. « Chief Justice White declared thai Congress should act to head off “un- told evils” that would follow to-day’s construction of the patent laws. He said that under the Majority’s ruling the patent laws could be Stretched so as to include in a patent every con- ceivable thing used in every Ameri- can household. The decision, of course, covers only patented articles, but by implication it may be said to cover all goods covered by copyright. Considered in connection with other recent deci- sions, it can not be said to offer much encouragement to the fixed price pro gram now favored by Pacific coast merchants. —_—_—_—_—_—_— EASTER SUNDAY. On the seventh day of the month the Christian world will celebrate Easter. It is the anniversary of the overthrow of death. The resur- rection victory not only assures the future life—it emphasizes the death- lessness of matter. | The opening of the tomb finds its resemblance in the bursting of the bud. THere is the glory of conquest in the awakening of nature. Winter sleep is like death. Vegetable life has then the appearance of being de- stroyed. The warmth of spring, with its balmy air and_ reviving rains clothes the barren limb with the ver- dure of the leaf. There is-a lesson here even for ma- terial man. He may feel the same in- fluence. The resurrection impulse should touch even his body—it must affect his intellect. It is not possible to entirely escape the animating force that imparts returning life to na- ture. If the spirit in the human yields to it the impress will be for good. The best that is in man _ is brought to the surface when he com- mences to contemplate nature. To wander alone in the forest is to real- ize the wonderfulness of creation. Solitude in communion with unseen i forces awakens deep convictions. It is the infinite speaking to the finite. It is God addressing man in the res- urrection of all life. * - April 3, 1912 PARCELS POST For the Benefit of the Mail Order Concerns. Washington, March 31—The Mis- sissippi Legislature passed resolutions opposing parcels post. The people of the South are beginning to realize that parcels post is being urged by retail mail order houses to give their wares a delivery at a nominal rate re- gardless of haul; that it would mean a much more strongly centralized Federal Government, great increase of authority and large addition of employes, making it much more diffi- cult for the people to get a change of administrations; that for the Fed- eral Government to carry merchan- dise long distances at the same rates as charged to the young and grow- ing diversified industries of the South would ruin the latter. Much energy and capital have been placed in new industries in the South. The subject will receive attention at the South- ern Corhmercial Congress at Nash- ville, Tenn. April 8, 9 and 10, and in the meeting of representatives of commercial organizations in Wash- ington April 15. State Sanitary Inspector Wallis, of Idaho, has denounced as false the re- port of a Chicago retail mail order house that the stores of Twin Falls, Idaho, are filthy. The Payette, Ida- ho, Independent, commenting says that starvation wages paid by retail mail order houses lead to immorality and degradation. The Cedar Falls, Iowa, Commer- cial Club recently burned many re- tail mail order catalogues publicly. These were contributed voluntarily by citizens who responded to the ap- peal of the Commercial Club to sup- port home industries. Meanwhile, the House Postoffice Committee has re- ported a bill to protect and subsidize distant concerns at the expense of those of the districts which they rep- resent by providing the former with a carriage for long hauls into the trade territory of their home indus- tries and dealers with a general sys- tem of parcels post at as low a rate. The only exception is that made for parcels from one point on a rural route to another point upon the same route, a condition of which re- tail mail order houses. will take equal advantage by shipping in large amounts to an agent by freight par- cels to be remailed to points on such routes. Learing that the Senate Postoffice Committee had practically discarded all idea of a flat rate system for par- cels post, big retail mail order houses began to bombard the House Post- office Committee and representatives; in some cases with telegrams and letters, but more generally through representatives of organizations largely supported by such houses. These concerns have been anxious for a flat rate. They have grown upon this carriage up to four-pounds limit. They want to extend this now to eleven pounds and later place the limit much higher. The Senate Com- mittee has been working upon a zone system like Germany’s. Opponents of parcels post say that if we must fol- low European examples in our coun- MICHIGAN try of long distances, this would be far preferable to a flat rate. This new legislation is attached to the House appropriation bill for post- offices. The advocates of parcels post have felt that, although the Senate Committee has discarded the flat rate proposition by attaching it to an ap- propriation bill, the senators would have to surrender their convictions. Under the Holman rule of some years ago such measures might be attached to appropriation bills if they made reductions and not increases. Whether the rider sticks remains to be seen. It appears that the plan first proposed of “cloture” to prevent de- bate has been abandoned. That the whole propaganda for parcels post aims at Government ownership and operation of railroads and other socialistic schemes, with the effect of wiping out state lines and local self-government, in the building of a huge centralized sys- tem, is apparent. Advocates of par- cels post claim that the whole ten- dency of the times is toward cen- tralization of trade and government. Louis D. Brandeis recently showed the House Committee investigatiny the Steel Trust that centralization did not make for efficiency, but, that since the organization of this trust, the United States had fallen far be- hind other nations in production of steel. s The Postmaster-General has used as argument a situation to which he has contributed to say that our do- mestic rate must be brought down to equal international rates, made not by Congress but by the Postoffice Department. The average length of haul for each pound of merchandise under the international conventions under domestic rates is 687 miles. The average length of haul for each pound under the international con- ventions is less than 200 miles. Un- der the international rate a fraction of a pound is charged as much as a pound. The annual report of the Postmaster-General for 1902, page 535, stated: “Of the parcels received from Germany more than 35 per cent. are delivered in the cities of New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City, Hobo- ken, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, and more than 72% per cent. are delivered east of the Mississippi.” While Socialists are striving for Government ownership of railroads and all like utilities, labor unionists say that, under President Taft’s order forbidding unionism of Government employes, such revolutionary changes would lose the unions a vast mem- bership and render futile organized protests upon transportation lines. The character of such resolutions of labor bodies is indicated by resolu- tions just passed by the Bridge Tend- ers’ union of Milwaukee, Wis., which says: “We look with apprehension and alarm upon these designs for the addition to the Government force of a large army of Federal employes and a vast equipment which will be there- by rendered necessary. We _ recog- nize that the present movement for parcels post is being engineered largely by the mail order houses of TRADESMAN the country which handle non-union goods and products almost exclu- sively.” Advocates of parcels post have been calling wholesale and_ retail merchants parasites upon our eco- nomic-system, Edward B. Moon, Sec- retary of the American League of Associations, demonstrated that the wholesaler enabled the manufactur-— er to use capital in production which otherwise’ he must employ in mar- keting his products; that the whole- saler by taking a consignment of manfactured goods frequently financ- es a meritorious struggling industry; and that his extension of credits to the retailer enables the retailer to credit his patrons. To bring the country suddenly to a cash business, necessary if concentrated in great re- tail mail order centers, would work hardship. He showed that the prof- its of these retail mail order houses were usually greater than those of wholesaler and retailer combined and that, if present methods of trade dis- tribution were destroyed through par- cels post, the country might look for a trust of great retail mail order houses. It has been argued before the Senate Committee that rural carrier wagons are now seldom filled and that lowering the rate and increasing the weight limit would fill these. Lowering of rates upon second-class matter is not advocated to just fill each mail sack and no more. It has been shown that many rural carriers travel on horseback and use motor- cycles, and that additional equipment would be necessary; that many post- offices would have to be enlarged or rebuilt and many employes added if first and second-class matter is not to suffer continuously the delays of the Christmas season. Newspaper publishers of many smaller cities and towns have pro- tested unsuccessfully against the Postoffice Department furnishing printed envelopes. The Govern- ment paid for the manufacture of printed and stamped envelopes for the fiscal year 1911, $1,488,-~ 491.41. If the Government enters in- to the carriage of merchandise upon the huge scale contemplated, inva- sion of other fields of private business may be expected. An advocate of parcels post demanded: “Give us something with teeth in it!” An op- ponent asks, “Can the Constitution withstand the teeth of Socialism?” Fred T. Lofin. Be careful how you economize. Anybody can cut down expenses, but to do it, without cutting down re- ceipts as well requires caution. Wilmarth Show Case Co. Show Cases And Store Fixtures Take Division St. Car Grand Rapids, Mich. TR ACE Your Delayed Freight Easily and Quickly. We can tell you how. BARLOW BROBS., Grand Rapids, Mich. SUNBEAM TRUNKS Suit Cases and Bags are “Competition Proof” The snappiest, strongest and easiest selling line made. Backed by the iron-clad Sunbeam guarantee, and adver- tised DIRECT to thousands of customers. 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The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company is an Ohio cor- poration with general offices in Cin- cinnati. It has an authorized capi- talization of $500,000 of 6 per cent. cumulative preferred stock and $500,- 000 of common stock, a little more than half of which is outstanding. It operates in New York, Chicago, Co- lumbus, St. Louis, Philadelphia and Cleveland. “ At the mass meeting and banquet to be held at the Wayne Gardens Tuesday evening, April 2, by the De- troit Board of Commerce for the purpose of ratifying and boosting Cadillaqua, J. Hamilton Lewis, of Chi- cago, will be the principal speaker. Although Mr. Lewis’ acceptance of the invitation was received late, some 400 reservations have been made already, and the officers of the Board of Commerce who are arrang- ing the event expect that at least 2,000 applications wil be received. Mr. Lewis’ talk will not be on pol- itics but on Detroit, its early his- tory, its later development, its in- dustrial supremacy and its perennial birthday celebration — Cadillaqua— which will be inaugurated during the fourth week of the coming July. There will be other speakers during the evening, and a program of local talent. The banquet at the Wayne Gardens will be the first public meet- ing in behalf of Cadillaqua. That Detroit may have the next annual Michigan Land and Apple Show is within the possibilities, and the Board of Commerce has had the matter under consideration for some time, having conferred with officials of the various State development or- ganizations, such as the Upper Pen- insula Development, Northeastern and Northwestern Development bu- reaus, fruit growers and others. The Board officials were advised that if the rest of the State is willing to have the show here, those associa- tions will be entirely satisfied. A dispatch from Lansing says: “Let Detroit have the next State Apple Show. This is the talk that is go- ing the rounds of the State legisla- tors. The men who are talking this are not only from Detroit but from the State, where they grow apples. They want the western section of to attract the greatest possible amount of attention. The growers themselves want to go to Detroit. They claim that city has: the rail- road facilities to handle the exhibits. If Detroit wants the Apple Show, ap- parently, all the business men have to do is to signify their willingness to provide a place where the exhibit can be held.” The proposed removal of the plant of the Abbott Motor Car Co. from Detroit to some city where adequate freight facilities will be obtainable and the possible closing of the Buhl Malleable Iron Works, where men have already been laid off, are the latest developments in the un- pleasant industrial situation, the re- sult of freight congestion, due to inadequate terminal facilities and the railroads on which the city is dependent. Detroit manufacturers have pleaded with the powers that be. The Board of Commerce has in- stituted a searching investigation, but the difficulties continue and, ac- cording to industrial leaders, the out- look is worse each day. The ques- tion of the removal of the Abbott Motor Car Co. plant from the city is now before the Board of Direct- ors and definite action is probable within a few days, said C. E. Bai- ley, Vice-Praesident of the com- pany. W. E. Wolfenden, who for thirty- one years has been.in the employ of the Pere Marquette or roads closely identified with it, has been made General Passenger Agent of the Pere Marquette, with headquarters in Detroit. He began his service in 1881 as an operator for the Chicago & West Michigan at Woodville. Re- cently he has been General Western Passenger Agent, with headquarters in Chicago. + A launching by the season debu- tantes christened the steamer, Cal- cite, when it was dropped off the ways in the yards of the Detroit Shipbuilding Company at Wyan- dotte. Miss Elva A. Farr, a daugh- ter of President M. E. Farr, of the shipbuilding | company, dashed the bottle across the bow and pronounc- ed the name of the vessel. She was accompanied by twelve young wom- en, all prominent in Detroit social circles. The Calcite is said to be the largest of the conveyor type on the Great Lakes. It is 446 feet long, with a beam of 54 feet and a carry- ing capacity of between 7,000 and 8,000 tons. TRADESMAN Charles W. Warren & Co., jewel- ers, on the ground floor of the Wash- ington Arcade, have leased addition- al space from the owner, Frank J. Hecker, which will practically double their floor space. The present store is “L” shaped, surrounding the square store occupied by Arnold Robinson & Co. They have secured this space, the Robinson company removing to the rooms now occupied by Oscar W. Gorenflo, drugs, in the same build- ing, who has leased the space oc- cupied by the barber shop. Numerous Federal officers declare that large increases in local forces will soon be necessary owing to the great increase in business. The rapid growth of Detroit and the prosperity of the entire Eastern district of Michigan is the cause of the in- crease in business. Charles W. Ward, Jr., is now meeting with success after three years’ hard work on an_ invention, his idea being. an automatic signal that would protect electric trains in the same manner that steam trains are protected on roads using the block signal system. Exhaustive tests have been made and the Lake Shore Electric Railway, over which the D. U. R. cars to and from Detroit and April 3, 1919 ——_—_ Toledo run, is now equipped wish In the past, the great trouble with the automatic controller has been its cost and its inability to operate at a speed greater tiyy twenty-five miles an hour. The Ward device, which is simple and inexpen sive, has been tested to speeds in excess of sixty miles an hour | has never failed to work, it is stat. ed. It is applicableto either a trol! j or a third rail system. The device ; so arranged that when a car enters “block” or a section, it is immediate), given warning if there is anothe: car within that block. This js espe- cially desirable on single track road: where there have been many acci dents on account of a lack of know! edge of another car coming. pe eee Guess His Name! Barber—You are losing your hai: very fast, sir. Are you doing an; thing to save it? Customer—Yes, I am getting a di vorce. this device. KEMBERLING & BLISS _ (English and German) EXPERT MERCHANDISE AUCTIONEERS 516 Chamber of Commerce, Detroit, Mich mee FOR USE OVER G Manufacturers The APEX BREAD TOASTER TOASTS BREAD AS YOU LIKE IT AS, GASOLINE AND BLUE FLAME OIL BURNERS Order of your jobber, or A. T. Knowlson Company, Detroit, Mich. and receivers of WE ARE SPOT CASH BUYERS Butter, Eggs and Poultry Dressed Vea! 02 consignment Give us your shipments and receive prompt returns Schiller & Koffman 323-25-27 RUSSELL ST. DETROIT S My Boo SS Ll) ~ XS SN i a S i S Y P \ ‘ < A perfect cold storage for Poultry and all kinds of Fruits and Produce. Wy WW SP ERC REA OE DETROIT, MICH. Eggs stored with us usually sell at a premium of sc per dozen. Liberal advances. Railroad facilities the best. Absolutely fireproof. Correspondence solicited, April 3, 1912 FIFTY YEARS AGO. Recollections of Business Men of the Past. Written for the Tradesman. Fifty years ago the National Hotel occupied the site of the Morton House. T. H. Rathbone was the Proprietor. One of his sons, J. Mor- timer Rathbone, is now assisting Mr. Pantlind in the management of the Morton: House. Another son, Theo- dore, is the steward of a large hotel at Fort Worth, Texas. Fifty years ago a nursery and green house was located on the north side of Rose street, east of College avenue. It was the property of Geo. C. Nelson. Geo. K. Nelson, a son, still resides in Grand Rapids. Lyman E. Patten, still a resident of Grand Rapids, was a salesman in the employ of a retail merchant fifty years ago. He was single and board- ed in the Chubb house, located on the site of the City Hall. K. S. Pettibone, who platted and owned Pettibone’s addition, on the West Side, was a civil engineer. Benjamin T. Pierce, now engaged in the compounding of ice cream, on Sheldon avenue, produced ambro- types (a form of photography) fifty years ago. His gallery was located on Bridge street, near Water. General B. R. Pierce, now in the lo- cal postal service, was a practitioner of dentistry. His office was located on the northeast corner of Canal and Pearl streets. General Pierce served his country during the Civil War, in the army, winning distinction and rapid promotions for bravery and effi- ciency. He settled in Mobile, Ala., after the war had ended and was ap- pointed postmaster of that city by President Grant. George R. Pierce, a skillful gun- maker and machinist (the father of Mrs. F. E. Leonard), was the first en- gineer of the first steam fire engine (the David Caswell) purchased by the city. When the Phoenix Furniture Company was organized forty years ago, Mr. Pierce was engaged to operate the big engine planted in the company’s works to run the ma- chinery. In this connection it might be well to mention that David Cas- well, in whose honor the steamer was named, was the chief of the volunteer fire department of the city fifty years ago. e S. S. Porter and James W. ‘Sligh (the father of Charles R. Sligh and Mrs. L. E. Hawkins) were partners | in the dry goods and clothing business and occupied a store in the Giant building, corner of Monroe avenue and Lyon street. Harvey P. Yale was the postmaster of Grand Rapids. His office was lo- cated on Pearl street, at the entrance to the arcade. He also practiced law with General S. G. C. Champlin as a partner. E. K. Powers, whose bakery and candy store was located on the north side of Monroe avenue, near Pearl street, handled real estate quite ex- tensively. Several additions to the original plats of the city bear his name. William Riordan and Frank Kaiser operated a tannery on the east side of MICHIGAN Commerce street, corner of Oakes, and sold footwear at retail on the south side of Monroe avenue, near Pearl street. Riordan represented the first ward in the Common Council several terms. Thomas Robbins was a river boat pilot and after retiring from that service served the city as a police patrolman. His home was on Ells- worth avenue, near Island. An only son is now in the employ of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad. J.-H. Roberts operated a brewery on Fountain street, on the ground now used by the Sacred Heart Acad- emy. : L. A. Rogers was a dentist, active in Masonic circles. Foster Tucker lived on East Leon- ard street, near the city limits. He was a crafty and successful politician and held many minor offices—super- visor, county treasurer, etc., during his life. A. J. Tucker, a son, operates a bindery in the city. Mrs. Alice Twamley was a millin- er, located on the southeast corner of Lyon and Canal streets. She erected and still owns the Twamley building. Ocenus Van Buren lived on Stock- ing street many years and was. en- gaged in the dairy business. He was related by blood to former President Martin Van Buren and during his life was active in politics as a Democrat. Mrs. Phila Hamilton and Miss Van Buren were his daughters. Claude T. Hamilton, of the Michigan Trust Company, was a grandson. By his thrift and attention to his business as a retailer of footwear. M. F, Viekke acquired a competence and spent the remainder of his days in rational enjoyment. He delighted to visit friends, loved good stories and related many himself. He loaned sums of money and bought and sold real estate moderately, just to keep his mind busy, he explained. He was the embodiment of good nature, and his kindly disposition made him pop- ular, Charles W. Warrell, a Virginian by birth, was a printer. He was em- TRADESMAN ployed many years in the printery of the Grand Rapids Eagle and also served the city as an alderman and City Clerk. He died a few years ago. The Michigan Brewery was estab- lished and operated by Peter Werich fifty years ago. The plant is now known as the Peterson brewery. His local competitor, Christopher Kuster- er, possessed an abundance of spring water and advertised the fact widely. In commenting upon this advertise- ment one day, Werich remarked: “I do not make beer out of water. I make it out of hops.” Mr. Weirich served the fifth (now eighth) ward several years as a member of the Common Council. There were two men named Wells in the banking business in Grand Rapids fifty years ago, R. Wells and Wiliam J. Welles.’ Both failed during the panic of 1857, but in later years Welles paid his creditors in full. For a number of years before his death he was employed by the Grand Rap- ids National Bank. George A. Whittlesey was an ac- tive and efficient solicitor of life in- surance. A son employed in the City National Bank helped himself to a bunch of money one day and dis- appeared. He was not apprehended. George Widdicombe and sons (the sons have since dropped the “e’’) were engaged in the manufacture of furniture on a moderate scale on Bridge street, corner of Mill. The sons associated with the father were: George, Jr. (deceased), and William. The firm retailed a small stock of goods on Canal street, near Huron. Capt. John W. Williamson, a coop- er, was active in local politics and when the Civil War ensued he rais- ed a company of volunteers and ren- dered good service to the Federal Government. H. A. Wilson, a skilled cabinet- maker, was located in a little shop on the south side of Fulton street. near Lagrave. His daughter is still] a resident of the city and for a score of years has been in the employ of Julius A J. Friedrich. Arthur S. 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Viewing the terraces, one compares them with such works as the pyramids or the great wall of China, or even with the Roman viaducts. By way of contrast with like achievements of more civilized races it should be mentioned that the Ifu- gaos are absolutely primitive, even lacking a system of writing and a well defined religious belief. Their writing up to the time when the American school teacher invaded the country consisted of a few rude hier- oglyphics scratched on a rock or in the sand. The finest of these terraces are along the sides of a steep canyon in Nueva Viscaya province. The rice paddies climb like giant steps up the canyon sides to a height of 1,200 feet or more, and it is said they extend into a secondary range of hills, mak- ing the extension almost 3,000 feet. The length of the canyon is about twelve miles and is negotiated by a winding foot path that in some places will not allow two to pass. In one place the trail extends along the retaining wall of a rice paddy. This wall is 18 inches wide and there is a sheer drop of 70 feet below to the next paddy. The paddy varies from 8 to 40 feet in width and is approx- imately 300 feet long, following the contour of the canyon. Some of the terraces, each of which is flooded with water before the rice planting in the early spring, are wonderful feats of engineering. At times they follow the contour of a canyon for as great a distance as half a mile without varying scarce- ly two inches, say, from a dead level. The retaining walls of each terrace are built to be about 15 inches above the water level. All retaining walls are perpendicular and built at right angles to the level of the earth. In the art of intensive cultivation the Ifugaos have progressed far. They irrigate and fertilize in a single operation. Water deflected from mountain streams or arising from springs passes through decomposed vegetable matters, ashes, black allu- vial soil and manure, and is then con- ducted to the topmost rice terrace, carrying in suspension rich fertiliz- ing matter, which is evenly distrib- uted. There is thus no part of a rice pad- dy which is not fertilized. From the topmost terrace the water flows through a gap in the retaining wall to the terrace next below, still car- rying fertilizing matter in suspen- sion. Most of the work in the pad- dies is done by the women, who wade about stirring up the sediment. Some- times the rice straw of a_harvest- ed crop is covered over with dirt and allowed to rot. The result produces the finest rice raised in the Philip- Pines, of great size, and, it is said by experts, of practically perfect form. Ranchers in the West occasionally Tun an irrigating ditch through fer- tilizing matter, but the practice is not general. A rmemanas Trials of Tomato Canners. “Truly the tomato canner has fall- en upon evil days,” says Thomas J. Meechan. “Now comes the Mary- land Legislature with a bill to limit the hours for women working in can- neries to ten hours per day, which during the past week developed un- looked for strength. It it should be- come a law it will, undoubtedly, in- crease the cost of canning material- ly. With the recent ruling of the Government that the cans must be packed chocked full of tomatoes with no added water, and the strike ot farmers for higher prices for the 1912 crop, the canners, to use the vernacular, are up against it for fair. The familiar axiom that there js ney- er a loss without a compensation may work out in this instance, but it is very difficult to see where the com- pensation is coming from in this mat- ter. The report of the House Com- mittee in charge of that bill will not be made for a week or more. Mean- time the big canners in Baltimore are unwilling to make firm prices on their brands of tomatoes for future delivery until they feel reasonably safe to do so. The canners located at country points, however, are not unwilling to take a chance on orders ranging from one to four or five car- loads at the current prices, but they are not seeking any big business. The buying of futures was fully as large this week as it’ was in any previous week, and the outlet is ex- cellent for a big, broad market. Ev- ery market is liable, of course, to re- actions from time to time, but it will require something entirely unantici- pated at this time to cause any low- er prices for the 1912 pack of toma- toes until the actual canning season is on.” “Ves, lady, it was awful! T’anks fer de pie. You see ‘twas dis way: I heard de chug chug a-comin’ an’ smelt de gasoline an’ made a spring, but I wasn’t quick enough an’ de roarin’ machine passed directly over me prostrate form.” “And you live to tell the tale!” (Shuffling away.) “Sure, lady; it was an aeroplane.” WANTED Butter, Eggs, Veal and Poultry STROUP & WIERSUM Successors to F. E. Stroup, Grand Rapids, Mich’ All Kinds of Feeds in Carlots Mixed Cars a Specialty Grand Rapid: Wykes & Co., “™"" State Agents Hammond Dairy Feed WM. D. BATT Dealer in HIDES, FURS, TALLOW AND WOOL 22-124 Louis St. Grand Rapids, Mich, Symons Brothers & Company Wholesale Grocers Saginaw :: Michigan POP CORN Weare in the market for old or new crop shelled or on the ear. If any to offer please write us. Alfred J. Brown Seed Co. Grand Rapids Hart Brand Canned Goods Packed by W. R. Roach & Co., Hart, Mich Michigan People Want Michigan Products 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. Stock carried in Grand Rapids Wm. Alden Smith Bldg. POTATO BAGS New and Second Hand Can ship same day order is received ROY BAKER Grand Rapids, Mich. The Vinkemulder Company JOBBERS AND SHIPPERS OF EVERYTHING IN FRUITS AND PRODUCE Grand Rapids, Mich. Geo. Wager, Toledo, Ohio Wholesale distributors of potatoes and other farm pro- ducts in car loads only. We act as agents for the shipper. Write for information. market, REFERENCES—Marine Papers and hundreds of shippers. “ens Rea & Witzig PRODUCE COMMISSION 104-106 West Market St., Buffalo, N. Y. “BUFFALO MEANS BUSINESS” We makea specialty of live poultry and eggs. Ship us your poultry and eggs, A. J. Witzig You will find this a good National Bank, Commercial Agencies, Express Companies, Trade Established 1873 knocked down. Moseley Bros. Both Phones 1217 Can fill orders promptly for clover, Established 1876 timothy seeds, egg cases made up or We want your eggs. Wholesale Dealers and Shippers of Beans, Seeds and Potatoes Office and Warehouse, Second Ave. and Railroad Grand Rapids, Mich. April 3, 1912 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Ability To Imitate a Business Help. Written for the Tradesman. People frequently condemn imita- tion, not stopping to consider’that the imitative instinct is of tremendous value in business as well as in every other department of life. Manners and customs, polite con- ventionalities and all other and sun- dry of the graces and amenities that distinguish civilized nations from crude and barbarous people were ac- cumulated and conserved because of our imitative instinct. Wise people of mature years and children are alike possessed of the impulse to imitate. Only of course children imitate their elders more or less unconsciously, while grown-ups, if they are wise, imitate for some definite purpose. It is well enough to laud originali- ty... But, after all originality is only relative. Substantially everything that Luther said had been said by Luth- er’s forerunners. And it ‘usually hap- pens that the fruitful germ of the most original and revolutionary idea that emerges from the brain of the genius proves, upon investigation, to have been taken over from some humble and obscure source. Nothing is commoner in this world than to find somebody toddling about with an idea, a plan, or a scheme that he can not manipulate. He has not genius enough to correlate it, or suf- ficient executive ability to get it har- nessed up. What the unusual man does is to come along and borrow the idea, plan, or scheme and hitch it up for practical purposes. Hard on the little chap that hatch- ed the idea? Well, not necessarily. Maybe he never dreamed of the find he had actually made; or perhaps he is permitted to share in some meas- ure of the glory and rewards of the discovery in which he was a partner. Or—and this often happens—he is positively relieved to get rid of the incubus of an idea or project too heavy for him to manipulate. When we are talking about orig- inality, therefore, We are not speak- ing of an absolute quality. The most daringly original of men must de- pend on imitation; and without it one would be either a fool, a crank or a ’ failure. The imitative instinct is a business asset. The wise merchant is the fel- low who keeps his weather eye on his competitors—particularly the big fellows who are playing the game successfully. Close observation, keen discrimina- tion and a vivid imagination enable the dealer to pick out the new and excellent features in the other fel- low’s business policy. When he sees something new—something good— then, like a wise and discerning mer- chandiser, he takes it over. Imitation is not copying, either. Just to ape the other fellow is droll. And that was evidently the idea in the mind of the man who invented the saw to the effect that imitation is flattery. No; there is nothing gained by copying the other fellow’s plan. But. if it is a good one, there is much to be gained in actually taking it over and making it your own. How? Why, by analyzing the plan—getting at the kernel of it and then investing this kernel in a new husk all of your own devising. That is where you need dis- cernment and imagination. Often the clever imitation is a big improvement on the original idea—and frequently brings as much credit to the man who puts it over as to the originator of the scheme imitated. Apropos this subject a discerning writer says: “Any business man, no matter what his ability or the degree of his individual insight, must be ready to see the best in the work of other business men to imitate it, whether that best is excellent in the methods of a single individual or is set forth in the general body of busi- ness wisdom that represents the ac- cumulation of generations of experi- ence. One must imitate to be abreast of progress; and it is only after get- ting abreast that one’s individuality May put one in advance.” Chas. L. Philips. 22 Do You Want Good Eggs? St. Louis, Mo., April 1—*“I¢£ you “want good eggs in the summertime, sell those laid by your chickens. and buy cold storage eggs.” This was the advice of R. H. Taft, of the Taft-Nordmeyer Engineering Co., addressing the St. Louis League of Electrical interests at its weekly luncheon at the Mercantile Club. “Many people think storage eggs are inferior to those just laid,” he said. “But this idea is wrong. “Storage eggs are better than fresh ones. They have a more delicate, pleasing flavor and are more nutri- tious. “Any one can prove this. Eat eggs laid in August and then eat storage eggs. The first mouthful will con- vince you the storage eggs are the better. “Storage eggs are produced and stored in March and April, when the hens are at their best. As the weath- er gets warmer the condition of the hens deteriorates and also the qual- ity of their eggs.” ——_> 2. Sausages and Art. Robert Henri, the painter, was talking about those millionaires who buy, merely to show off, doubtful “old masters” at fabulous prices. “Their knowledge of art,” Mr. Henri said, “is about equal to that of the sausage manufacturer who said to Whistler: ““What would you charge to do me in oil?’ ““Then thousand dollars,’ said Whistler promptly. ““But suppose I furnish the oil?’ said the millionaire.” soe Classification of Lies. Waist Lie—Twenty inches. Stock Lie—Going up. Egg Lie—Strictly fresh. Billiard Lie—It rolled off. Debtor Lie—See you to-morrow. Campaign Lie—Not a candidate. Matrimonial Lie — I promise to love, cherish and obey. The Parmaceutical Lie—For me- dicinal and mechanical purposes only. to meet the popular de- mand for a staple that’s better than maple. Order from your jobber, or The Louis Hilfer Co., 4 Dock St., Chicago, Ill. Crescent Mfg. Co., Seattle, Wash. 13 Get Down to Date ELEVATORS ns a - —— h Hand and Power Map | e 1 n e | For All Purposes Also Dumbwaiters Sidewalk Hoists a» State your requirements, giv- Mr <) ing capacity, size of platform, 4 lift, etc., and we will name a 4 money saving price on your exact needs. Sidney Elevator Mfg. Co. Sidney, Ohio FOOTE & JENKS’ COLEMAN’S Terpeneless Lemon and High Class Vanilla Insist on getting Coleman’s Extracts from your jobbing grocer, or mail order direct to FOOTE & JENKS, Jackson, Mich. (BRAND) Is trade dull with you? Peacock Brand Hams and Bacon Alleaf Lard and Summer Sausage. Make a good display of them and the increase in your busi- ness will surprise you and keep your clerks busy. Try them. Cudahy Brothers Co. Then put in a stock of Mild Cured Cudahy, Wis. WoRDEN GROCER COMPANY The Prompt Shippers Grand Rapids, Mich. -— oy MICHIGAN =_ = — i ANCY GOODS “» NOTI A CHATS an seat S 0 rie — = i = =. = — = —_ — Comments Overheard in Street Car— Moral Obvious. Written for the Tradesman. It was the outbound car late in the afternoon, and the with packages and bundles, were re- shoppers. laden turning to their homes “I really should like to see the voiles and marquisettes they are showing at Tracy’s this spring,” said the plump brunette woman. “I have heard a good deal about them and I think they must have some very pretty things in those lines But | have not entirely decided yet just what kind of a dress I will buy, and Tracy’s is a place I just simply won't go to unless I have my mind all made up to get something.” “I feel just that way about Tracy’s myself,” said her seatmate, “and I’ve heard others speak of it. It seeras as if every clerk there tries to look right through one and fairly aches to ask, ‘Did you just come in to shop or do you really want something?” “I won't give a guaranty to buy before I see the goods,” interposed the brunette emphatically. “My al- lowance for clothes is not large, ana when I am to have a good dress or anything else that counts into money, I am going to see what I can find at different places and figure a little. I know there are very sarcastic things said about women who want all the goods ina store handed down for their inspection, and then decide they will ‘not purchase to-day.’ Perhaps there are some who deserve these thrusts, but I try never to make the sales- girls any more bother than is ab- solutely necessary, and I notice that almost everybody likes to go to the stores where they seem glad to show their goods whether you buy just at the time or not. I btlieve they do not lose anything by being pleasant about it.” “No, I guess not. Tracy’s always seem to mc an awfully stiff place any- way. They have nice goods, fash- ionable goods, the latest, swellest things and all that, but I declare it nearly freezes one up to go in there. They never give the glad hand. I have watched them sometimes, and if they have any old customers you wouldn’t know it, for no one receives a cordial greeting.” A few seats farther down a dress- maker who lives in a village several miles out, and who would take the trolley line when they reached the limits, was telling of her experiences shopping by mail: “I’ve gotten all out of conceit with Karl & lLennox’s. They are all right if you are there to tell them what you want, but they simply can not or won't read a letter. “You see I have to send in for lots of little things, trimmings and findings, and the like, that they do not keep at our home stores, or do not have anything that will go with a certain dress. Most women, when they buy the goods for a gown or a suit, fail to get everything that is re- quired to make it up. Sometimes they can not tell what accessories will be wanted until they decide on their style, and then they often ask me to get what is needed. “There is a girl named Ida Camp- bell who used to work for Karl & Lennox, and she is a jewel and no mistake. I would send my orders to her and she would always understand what I wanted to a T, and please me just as well as I could please my- self. If Karl and Lennox didn’t have what was required, she would go out and hunt until she found the right thing. “Well, last fall she left Karl & Lennox—had a better offer from Sampson & Peters. Then my trou- bles began. I continued to send my orders to Karl & Lennox, but they were not filled with care and pains- taking as they had been. Items need- ed to finish work that must goout at once would be omitted altogether. Trimmings and things would be sent that were all wrong—we could not possibly use them. “It ran along this way until about ten weeks ago, when I was getting Mrs. Treadwell teady to go South. After we had all the things she had planned nearly finished, she decided she must have a new silk waist of gray to match a certain cloth skirt. “I sent to Karl & Lennox for sam- ples, enclosing a scrap of the goods of the skirt, and explaining exactly what was wanted. The next day the mail brought a big fat envelope of samples—serges and whipcords of all colors, a fine assortment of tissue ginghams, a few foulards and mesa- lines—but not one piece of gray among them. “Two precious days were gone. Well, I wrote to Miss Campbell, of Sampson & Peters, described to her what was required, enclosed the scrap of the skirt goods and a check, and asked her to select the silk for the waist and send it immediately. I wouldn’t have dared do this with any- one but Miss Campbell, especially as Mrs. Treadwell is a very fastidious woman. I included also a several- dollar order for findings. “The goods came the next day. The silk for the waist was just the shade wanted and in every way sat- isfactory. Now I am sending all my TRADESMAN orders to Miss Campbell. Karl & Lennox have a large stock of goods— perhaps the largest and best assorted in the city—and I like to go there when I come in to the city myself (which is not so very often). But when I write in for things, I have simply got to send to some one who cares enough about pleasing me to read my directions carefully.” “I go to Jamison’s quite a little,” remarked the lady to whom the dress- maker had been talking. Shé was from the country also—lived out on another line. “Jamison’s is not one of the large places, but I always can find things that suit me there, and then I learn so much. That store seems to be a regular bureau of in- formation about what kinds of goods are going to be worn, styles, and all that. “To-day 1 wanted to get material for a new skirt. I told the saleslady that I did not know just what I wanted nor just how to make it, but I felt I must get a nice skirt for a little money. “She showed me the skirt she was wearing, which is one she has just had made and is very neat and styl- ish. She hunted up the style in the fashion book and I bought the pat- tern, and then she brought out a rem- April 3, 1912 nant of real good goods that had beer marked down because it was a rem- nant. Well, we found there was enough of it so I can get the skirt out easily, and it is such a bargain!” “T like to go in there, too,” smi! ingly added the dressmaker, “the; displays are so tasty and they al- ways have such exquisite Overlace, and dress garnitures, and you alway see all the new things in neckwea and belts. I bought the trimmings for a white _ satin wedding gown there to-day. “As you say, they always seem willing to tell one about everything, and I never fail to gain valuable ideas about materials and the stylish litle fads that go so far in giving to costumes a smart and up-to-date look.” Fabrix. We are 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. latest novelties in We are now showing some of the Ladies Neckwear. Our line consists of good values to retail at 25 and 50 cents. at the samples. BR BMGUWRA Sw Hw Bw Take a look GRAND RAPIDS DRY GOODS CoO. Exclusively Wholesale, Grand Rapids, Mich. HATS AND CAPS at 25 and 50 cents. STRAW HATS—Men’s, Boys, Misses’ and Children’s, all popular shapes, good values ranging in prices from 55 cents up to $4.50 per dozen. SPRING CAPS—Men’s, Boys’—latest styles to retail Men’s Felt and Derby Hats from $9 dozen and upwards. uy now while assortments are good. Wholesale Dry Goods Paul Steketee & Sons Grand Rapids, Michigan meen menses omen SS ee Set DM | a oo * ee soe ponmencnneensises April 3, 1912 What Some Michigan Cities Are Do- ing. Written for the Tradesman. Sixty members of the Flint Board of Commerce visited the plant of the Greissel Baking Co., of that city, last week and were entertained at lunch. The plant has a daily capacity of 30,000 loaves of bread and is also turning out 600 dozen fried cakes a day. The grocers of the city and their wives were entertained at the plant in the evening. The main plant of the Chamber- lain Metal Weather Strip Co. of Detroit, which was recently destroy- ed by fire, will be rebuilt in Peru, Ill., the chief reason being inadequate railroad terminals and poor freight service, although nearness to zinc, the chief raw material used, is also a factor. The South Michigan Brick Co. will open a plant at Kalamazoo. Stock- holders are also operating plants at Saginaw and Grand Rapids, and will also build a new brickmaking factory at Michigan City, Ind. The Northeastern Michigan Fair will be held at Bay City the first week of September. It is planned to build a new floral hall and grand- stand and there is also talk of erect- ing a new building for merchants of the city. Nine counties will partici- pate in the Fair. John H. Burke has been nominat- ed for another term as President of the Kalamazoo Commercial Club. Merchants of the Lakeside section of Muskegon will use business sta- tionery prepared by the Lakeside Board of Trade. Bill board nuisanc- es will be looked after and new fac- tories secured. It is estimated there are over 500 acres of vacant lots in Kalamazoo and citizens are behind a movement to convert these waste places, many of them eye sores, into vegetable and flower gardens. The plan has work- ed successfully in other cities and the Celery City now aspires to. be known also as the “Garden City.” April 9 will be a big day at Al- pena. The corner stone of the new Federal building will be laid and the Alpena Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual banquet, with many prominent speakers. Paper manufacturers of Niles have started suits against five railroads, asking for lower rates on coal ship- ments from the West Virgina mines, also for a return of the excess sum of $1,746.08, which they have already paid on shipments. The Crown Chemical Co., of Grayling, will remove its turpentine plant to Cheboygan, provided a lease of six acres of land as a site is fur- nished, also a lease of 10,000 acres of stumps or stump lands, and_ sub- scriptions amounting to $5,000 be made by citizens to pay the expense of moving. The Cheboygan Cham- ber of Commerce has taken the mat- ter in hand. The City Council of Muskegon Heights has signed a ten-year lighting contract with the Grand _ Rapids- Muskegon Power Co. Kalamazoo has adopted a new housing code, intended to guide the MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 erection, maintenance and occupancy of buildings along safe and sanitary lines. Alma wants the new car shops of the Ann Arbor Railroad, although of- ficials have announced that they would be located between Owosso and Corunna. Alma’s offer is said to be $75,000 cash and forty acres of land. The new factory of the Lutes-Sin- clair Co., manufacturer of laundry machinery, will be located in the old plant of the Western Blank Book Co., Benton Harbor. Masons of Marshall will erect a temple at Madison and Green streets. Hay shippers of the Soo and Chip- bewa county have been unable to get cars during the shipping season and the State Railroad Commission is making an investigation. Sheds and barns have been used for storage and one shipper was obliged to pile near- ly 100 tons of hay in the streets of Sault Ste. Marie temporarily. A canning factory will be built at Bangor by S. M. Carpp. Coldwater has granted franchises for two electric railroads, the Battle Creek, Coldwater & Southern and the Michigan-Indiana Traction Co. Both companies must start build- ing operations within a year and be completed within two years. Kalamazoo has an East Side Im- provement Association and the re- cent banquet at the East Avenue school was attended by 200 per- sons. Battle Creek will install a tempor- ary hypo-chlorate plant at Goguac Lake for treatment of the water for germ life before it goes into the city mains. f The Marquette Commercial Club has elected the following officers: President, A. E. Archambeau; Vice- President, A. H. Meyers; Secretary- Treasurer, R. C. Lowe; Directors, the officers and E. S. Bice and A. T. Roberts. One important matter to be taken up by the Club will be the question of economy in municipal af- fairs. Retail grocers and meat dealers of Muskegon and vicinity will be guests of the wholesale produce and gro- cery dealers at a banquet to be held April 17. Geo. Hume is chairman of the Committee on Arrangements. The new Secretary of the Bay City Board of Commerce is Justin A. Runyan, former Secretary of the Manufacturers’ and Merchants’ Asso- ciation of Kansas City. The Detroit Board of Commerce has appointed a special committee, with M. J. Murphy, the chair man- ufacturer, as chairman, to take up the matter of better local terminals and equipment with the heads of rail- roads entering Detroit. John A. Cimmerer has been nomi- nated for another term as President of the Saginaw Board of Trade. Business men of Lyons have form- ed an association to look after the best interests of the village. Almond Griffen. oo A girl’s kisses are like pickles in a bottle—the first is hard to get, but the rest come easy. Vivid Imagination. ! : : - HE Great Scott, Maria, that is a dar- ing dress!” 0 “It’s a fancy costume,” RIES. e “Well, if I were you, I would stick TwO FACTION a little closer to fact.” GRAND KAPIOS, MICH. HOSIERY Registered U.S. Patent Office and Canada. Greater Value Cannot Be Put Into a Stocking We could easily cheapen Bachelors’ Friend Hosiery. We could use, in the heel. yarn that costs half as much. We could stint on the use of the fine material that goes for reinforce- ment. : : But we make these hose—to give you maximum comfort— as good as they can be made. Combed Sea Island Cotton only is used. Heels are reinforced up the leg far enough to protect friction points. Foot in front of the heel is double strength. The top is the genuine French welt—the best welt ever put on a seamless stocking. Two- thread looping machines make the toe doubly strong. You will find this a far better wearing, more comfortable stocking than the ordinary kind. It will save you money and trouble. Six months’ guarantee. FOUR GRADES: 6 Pairs, $1.50; 6 Pairs, $2.00; 6 Pairs, $2.50; 6 Pairs, Gauze Weight, $2.00. Sold by leading jobbers and retailers throughout the United States. We do not supply Bachelors’ Friend direct. But if no dealer in your town has them, send money order covering the amount and we will send you an introductory lot. : Notice to the Retailers:—The manufacturers are doing extensive national advertising to the consumer, which wiil undoubtedly create a demand for Bachelors’ Friend Hosiery, in such well known periodicals as The Saturday Evening Post. The Associated Sunday Magazines, The Monthly Magazine Section. etc. JOSEPH BLACK & SONS CO., Manufacturers, York, Pa. The two-thread looping machines give double strength at this point. No need of this since he wears Bachelors’ Friend. We Invite You to Send for one of our catalogues, as we believe it will prove of exceptional interest to you. We are showing some smart new styles in the “BERTSCH” and some new numbers in the “H. B. HARD PANS” that are sure winners. May we show you why these lines are better lines for you to handle? Become a BERTSCH and H. B. HARD PAN dealer this season. THEY WEAR LIKE IRON HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN April 3, 1912 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 2 SS ZAR . seus -2s—__ Fresh Air Shoes Live Longest. Fresh air is good for most things, including shoes. But in this instance as in many others the value of fresh air is not rightly estimated. At night the least-thoughtful shake out their clothes, brush off the day’s dust and slip each garment over a_ hanger; and many garments are thrown over a chair before an open window. But how many of even the most fastidious germ-fighters think to air their shoes? Clickety-click into a close closet, or closed shoe box they go, instead of being brushed, pulled into shape and placed where the air can play freely about and through them. 17 A windowsill is an excellent shoe- airing rack and is convenient for all. Shoes placed there for an hour or so after wearing each day will not only prove refreshing to the feet, but will harbor no foot odors, and the damp- ness from feet warmth and weather conditions will evaporate, leaving leather and lining renewed to resist the next day’s wear. Elephant Head ATLAS Rubber Boot Plain edge, cap toe. wool-net lin- ing. One of the most popular of this famous brand. All sizes always in stock. Shipment made day order is recéived. The ManecRubherG 224 226 SUPERIOR ST. TOLEDO. OHIO. If you haven't our illustrated Price list of rubber boots and shoes, ask for it. Mr. Retail Merchant AR E you anxious to connect with a strictly solid line of Ladies, Misses, Children’s and Little Gents’ Shoes, made in an up- to-date factory right near your Are you carrying too many lines? Why not concentrate on a shoe that is right? Then your trouble will be over. We have all the leading styles of lasts, patterns and designs of uppers, and our shoemaking is equal to the best. Get rid of your perplexities by dealing with a factory that can make just what you want and make it quick. We have pleased the leading merchants throughout the Middle West during the last generation. WRITE FOR SALESMAN TO-DAY TAPPAN SHOE MFG. CO. © : Coldwater, Mich. 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN April 3, 1912 Attractive Window Display of Lace and Trimmings. Wall paper printed in imitation of wood makes an effective cover for window backgrounds. It last through a season if you like, with an can designs that can be worked out to advantage. For example, with this paper you can produce fixtures that look like logs. Put it on some round object and you have the trunk of a tree. Bend it around boards for the dack- Ready For the Merchandise. occasional change in the scheme with crepe paper. It can be purchased in various de- signs and colors. Through it very attractive wooded effects can be pro- duced on your backgrounds. A little practice with it will suggest many ® grounds and you will have a log ef- fect there, too. Pasted flat on the background it looks like hardwood. If your background is of common tum- ber you had better put some un- bleached muslin on it before pasting on the paper. For a top border with one of these wood paper backgrounds, you can use wall paper panels in various designs. Or you can make an icicle effect out of felt and mica. Another - good scheme is to cut scenes out of the dec- orated crepe paper. These wili fit in with most any .kind of _ back- ground. The Window Photographed. What you will need in fixtures and equipment: One glass vase. Five wooden boxes. One 6linch board, 42 inches long. Six 6-inch boards, 24 inches long, Two small wooden strips, 24 inches long. One 6-inch board, 30 inches long. One glass bowl. Two laths. Six metal T-stands. Five: rolls red crepe paper. One roll white crepe paper. A paper of pins. A few nails. Price tickets. Ready For the Merchandise. The arrangement for this lace win- dow calls for a little extra work on the background, which should be covered with red crepe paper. Cut two inches off the end of the roll of white crepe paper. As you unroll this strip pull one edge be- tween your thumb and forefinger to produce a tuching effect. Do the same for the other edge and then pin it to the top of the background for a border. Cut another strip of paper an inch wide, producing .the ruching as be- fore. Pin this over the center of the border in a spiral shapé. This is easi- ly done. Simply pin one end of the strip down and twist the strip around, Pinning it at each turn. ~ Make seven more of these spiral strips and pin to the background where the folds of the dark crepe pa- per (preferably red in this instance) meet. Now for putting in the merchan- dise: Nail a 24-inch strip to the top corner of the background on the left end for a side-arm. Pin a dozen 12- yard bolts of lace to this, corner by corner. Eight should be in one row and four in the other. How To Festoon Lace. Next place two boxes, end on end, in the corner. Over these put a 42- inch board. Put an inverted glass vase in the center of this board. Place a T-stand on top of the vase and drape therefrom a 12-yard bolt of lace. Pin one end to the T-stand at the right and let the festoon extend to the bottom of the vase. Carry the lace up to the other end of the T- stand, lay it over to the back and pin. Then bring it to the front again and make another festoon about 2 inches above the bottom one. Re- peat this operation until you have twelve festoons, taking up the entire bolt. Drape two other T-stands with eleven festoons of lace in the same manner. The lower one in this in- stance should extend to the bottom of the stand. Put one of these on each side of the vase, resting on what is left of the bolt of lace. The two small units on the upper shelf are made of ten bolts of lace, six large and four small. Make a “V” of Lath. Then lay the two laths against the upper shelf in an inverted “V” fash- ion. They should reach nearly to the front of the window. Pin one bolt across the point of the “V” and seven more on each lath, corner to corner. Drape twelve yards of lace on an- other T-stand and place this on a box resting on the floor in front of the corner unit. Arrange’ nine bolts around the base of the T-stand in the Same manner indicated and then pin six more to the front of the box, corner to corner. The top of the T- stand in this unit should be even with the base of the vase in the high- er unit. Drape twelve yards of lace on a fifth T-stand. Place it on a box to the left. Drape what remains of the lace up on the background near the border in a rosette effect. Build up five bolts of lace on the left of the stand; three on the right and pur one underneath. Pin two small. bolts to each corner of the shelf and on= large one in the center. Ditto for the T-stand and box on the right cor- ner. Floor Plan Is Easy. Invert a glass bowl near the front corner. Place on it the 30-inch board covered with crepe paper. Arrange on the board nine sash pins. This is all except for the small ar- ticles of jewelry, etc., on the floor, the display of which is plain in the Photograph. These consist of eight pairs of small scissors, eight thread boxes and two pyramids of thread, eleven spools each; two dozen assort- ed small brooches, and the like, and a card of beauty pins at the front. _--—-.——_ Years Well Spent. One of Pittsburg’s leading manu- facturers does not think so highly of the value of a college career. He was taking a fellow magnate to task the other day. “Well, I hear your son is through college.” “Yes, he’s through.” “Put in four years, I s’pose?” “Four years.” “And did he learn anything what- ever that was useful during those years?” “Oh, yes. He learned to operate an automobile so well that we have put him in charge of one of our big electric trucks.” —_+-___ Not That Kind of Sinner. A story is told of a certain clergy- man who was fond of making sharp remarks. One Christmas Day, after a fall of snow, he was wending his way along a country road in com- pany with a parishioner. His com- panion suddenly stepped upon a hid- den slide, and came down with a thud. Looking gravely down at him, the pastor solemnly said: “Ah, my friend, sinners stand on slippery places.” “Yes, I see they do; but I can’t,” was the indignant rejoinder of the fallen. member of his flock. 12 April 3, 1912 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 19 SAK BE OEE ave WY VUR customers get the goods for which they pay. You should be as sure of getting the money for the goods you sell. Whether you do or not depends entirely on the sys- : tem you use in conducting your business. The old way was to depend on memory and habit. With our new system, you depend on machinery which enforces accuracy and stops: mistakes in your store. The National Cash Register will systematize your business, so that you will be as sure of getting all your profits as your customers are of getting their goods. It will pay you to investigate. Call or write. The National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio aL TRS ES TT a ERAT SOSA AOS SS TEL NENG = 20 MICHIGAN 2 < Wrong Number? Call Again. She—In a way, getting married is like using the telephone. Hle—How so? She—One doesn't always get the party one wants. 21 Buy a Seller Win a Buyer Sell a Winner Grand Rapids Broom Co. Manufacturers of the following standard brands: Puritan Jewel Winner Wittier Special These are the leaders in brooms Sold by your jobber If your jobber does not handle our line write us [NCREASE your sales by requesting your cus- tomers to write for one of these books. They ‘are EUS ete) tte hans atom Eel MONG STE VN Gee 427 Plum Street, CINCINNATI, OHIO. Buckwhea any to offer. use in car lots or bag lots. We are in the market for 20,000 bushels of new buckwheat and can Don’t fail to write or phone if you have Highest price paid at all times. Watson-Higgins Milling Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. Distributed by Are YOU Selling IT REPEATS LEMON & WHEELER CO. WINGOLD Flour? Grand Rapids 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN April 3, 1912 AU eee = i - ~ HARDWAR zs 4, 22 g a Michigan Retail Hardware Association. President—Charles H. Miller, Flint. Vice-President—F. A. Rechlin, Bay t Secretary—Arthur J. Scott, Marine City. Treasnrer—William Moore, Detroit. How To Sell Stoves. At the recent convention of -retail hardware dealers of Ontario, held at Guelph, E. Holt Gurney, of Toronto, gave an interesting talk on the han- dling of stoves. He said: “Occasionally I have had stove men say to me that the stove busi- ness is a difficult one to handle; that it takes up a lot of floor space and requires a lot of work, and that when there is water connection in the town, it takes a special man to make the connection, and, generally have been pessimistic as to whether it pays to handle them. “There are some progressive hard- ware men who run a store without a stove department. When a woman buys a stove, if she likes it, you have her for a permanent customer for your store. There is nothing in the home required more than a stove. TI'wo-thirds of the housework is done around it. If a hardware dealer sup- plies a stove which simplifies cook- ing, the housewife is a friend of his and his store for life. “Almost all hardware men might start a store inspection department. By this I mean that when he sells a stove it would pay him to put an in- spector or a salesman into the house where that stove is, every two or three months, to see that the stove is working right. Another thing, this would lead to the sale of screen doors, hammocks and other hard- ware. In the United States there has been a change in the way stoves are being handled. Hardware men seem to have lost sight of the fact that a stove would draw awoman’strade to the store she bought the stove at and have quit handling the line. As a re- sult many furniture stores have stocked a line of stoves and are do- ing a big business. After handling stoves for a while, they find they are asked for enamelware and open a new department for this line. One thing leads on to another until fin- ally they are carrying almost a com- plete line of hardware.” To Sell Stoves Requires Brains. “To sell a stove,” continued Mr. Gurney, “calls for the most difficult line of salesmanship of any article in the store. Anybody who is going to buy a saw or package of tacks, or any other hardware item, will go to a store, and if satisfied pay the money and take the goods away. When a stove is to be purchased, however, at cost of $40 or $50, the situation is different. The spending of $40 or $50 in the ordinary house- hold is an unusual event. Here the competition in salesmanship is keen, and in selling goods the displaying of them enters largely into the ques- tion. I was at a recent meeting of the Advertising Club of Toronto, and heard a prominent advertising man tell a story of how he sold some goods that a firm thought were stick- ers. A concern in New York,’ said the advertising man, ‘had bought $30,000 or $40,000 worth of art prints. They could not sell these and brought me in. These prints were about 18 inches long. I built a frame into which I put these pictures. Run- ning along the top of the frame I made a little trough and installed small electric lights. Then I had curtains bearing a monogram made to drape the pictures. One day, short- ly after, I went out to see a wealthy New York art coliector, and on be- ing ushered into his den asked him to turn out the lights, draw the blinds and went through a lot of other rig- marole to add to the effect, when I showed him the pictures. When ev- erything was ready I drew the cur- tains, lighted the electric lights and the effect was elegant. As a result of this piece of work I sold the man the picture for $500, and it was not long before the rest of the prints were sold.’ “A short time ago I was in Seat- tle and visited one of the biggest stove men in that city. The sam- ples he used for display purposes were elegant. I asked him how he kept them in such good order, and he informed me that he went over them every day polishing the nickel, blacking the whole stove and keep- ing it in Al shape, so that everything would be in readiness when a cus- tomer came in. This is the way to go into the stove business, and if a man will not go into it this way he had better stay out.” Hardware Men Must Be Clever. Continuing, Mr. Gurney said that a hardware man had to be a very clev- er fellow. There are about as many lines in a hardware store as in a de- partment store. He must know all the different. lines he catries, and besides this. inspect his books, look after col- lections, etc. Therefore, it becomes a very hard thing for the hardware- man to have the latest informaion about all his goods. Consequently, where a special line of stoves is car- ried the co-operation of the manu- facturer is necéssary. He should suggest display methods and other talking points to help the retailer handle them in the best way possi- ble. Manufacturers’ helps, however, are sometimes discounted by irregu- lar claims. Some manufacturers state that all the retailers have to do is buy the goods, stick them in the window, and then sit in a chair and let the goods sell themselves. A line of this nature has yet to be intro- duced. Stoves Sell Other Lines. “If a retailer has a stove line which is attractive,” said Mr. Gurney, “and has good selling points, is well dis- played and has the manufacturer’s co-operation, it will bring trade to the store and create good business. Re competitive business let me say a few words: Every department store that sells stoves is great on the use of leaders. One of the largest depart- ment stores in Canada follows this DON'T FAIL To send for catalog show: ing our line of PEANUT ROASTERS, CORN POPPERS, &c. LIBERAL TERMS. KINGERY MFG. CO.,106-108 E. Pear! St..C'scinnat -O nacesery ey i] ALL toe, ROBIN HOOD AMMUNITION § ( Net Mede ) Ask for special co-operative selling plan. Big Profits Robin Hood Ammunition Co. Bee St., Swanton, Vt. Attention If you intend to remodel your Store or Office this Spring. con- sult us in the matter, We can give you some valuable pointers and save you money on your outfit. Get our estimate be- fore placing order. Nachtegall Manufacturing Co. Store and Office Equippers 419-441 S. Front St. Grand Rapids, Michigan CLARK-WEAVER CO. WHOLESALE HARDWARE GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN We ALWAYS Ship Goods Same Day Order is Received Churches modest seating of a chapel. for the merits-of our school furniture. quirements and how to meet them. luxurious upholstered opera chairs. We Manufacture > Public Seating Exclusively We furnish church e fi es of all denominations, designing and building to harm onize with the general architectural scheme—from the most elaborate carved furniture for the cathedral to the urnished a large majority of the city ughout the country, speaks volumes e i Excellence of design, construction and materials used and moderate prices, win. Lodge Halls ae specie Lodge Halland Assembly seating. ur long experience has given us a knowledge of re- any styles in stock and built to order, e chairs, veneer assembly chairs, and The fact that we have f Schools and district schools thro including the more inexpensive portabl Write Dept. Y. €merican Seating 215 Wabash Ave. GRAND RAPIDS NEW YORK Com parr CHICAGO, ILL. BOSTON PHILADELPHIA Opposite Morton House 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. CT Corner Ionia, Fountain and Division Sts. Grand Rapids, Michigan April 3, 1912 policy with regards to women’s goods. They take their notions, suck as hairpins, needles and other small stuff, and sell them at flat cost in order to bring buyers into the store. Then they can sell them something else. They have done this in the stove department, too. I would advo- cate that the dealers sell their lead- ing lines practically without profit in order to introduce the other goods. | would, however, penalize a salesman for selling too many leaders. This may seem funny, but it is fighting the devil with fire. “From orders we have received at our factory, I can see that in some sections of the country very few stoves are sold; most of them com- ing from department stores, while in other sections of the country quite a large number are disposed of. This is caused entirely by the activity or inactivity of the local dealers. If dealers would get out and do a little missionary work they would find it profitable.” The Art of Advertising. Mr. Gurney then touched on the subject of advertising. He stated that manufacturers have men who can sell stoves but can not write an adver- tisement and, therefore, can not help the retailer in this respect. The aver- age hardwareman who is writing ad- vertisements or putting out printed matter, should consult an advertising man if he wants to get in competi- tion with department stores. A well displayed advertisement is a pretty hard thing to buck up against, and the local man who has this, a good MICHIGAN connection and a nice manner, is bound to succeed. The mail order houses in the states have been suc- cessful, but they have been less suc- cessful in the stove line than in any other. One man told Mr. Gurney that it cost him $5 per stove to sell a first-class range, but staed he was willing to do this as he realized it brought other business. Evil of Price Cutting. Speaking of price cutting, Mr. Gur- ney stated he was very much against ‘this, and advised the various hard- waremen to get together and see that prices were kept uniform in their re- spective towns. Coming back again to the subject of co-operation between manufactur- er and retailer, the speaker thought the matter should be gone into more thoroughly. “Dealers should ask for more than they do now,” said Mr. Gurney. “If the stove manufacturer is a good merchant he should give the men who are selling his goods the very best he has, for. two pur- poses, one to shut out the other man and the other to make new busi- ness.” ——e nee Activities in the Hoosier State. Written for the Tradesman. A modern fireproof hotel, costing $20,000, will be built at Linton. The MHollingsworth-Turner Co., the largest ice and ice cream concern in Northern Indiana, has been form- ed at South Bend, with $100,000 capi- tal. The new company is 2 merger of the Independent Ice Co., the Co- operative Ice Co. and the Hollings- worth-Turner Co. TRADESMAN The right of the State to prohibit the sale of preserved food stuffs con- taining benzoate of soda has been upheld by a Federal court decision. Manufacturers made the plea that benzoate of soda in small quantities is harmless. It is expected that the new Ft. Wayne & Toledo electric line will be in Operation between Ft. Wayne and Bryan, Ohio, by October 1. The new road will open a virgin territory and will give continuous electric road service from Ft. Wayne through To- ledo and Cleveland to Buffalo. Auburn is a busy city of 5,000 peo- ple, and with a Commercial Club that is boosting its interests every min- ute. In 1904 Ft. Wayne had one inter- urban road and to-day the city has five in operation, with others being planned. The electric roads have been a great factor in the development of the city. It. Wayne’s first school savings bank opened this week. The magnificent gift to Ft. Wayne of a tract of land for park purposes by David N. and Samuel M. Foster has been accepted by the Park Com- missioners, with the recommendation that the park be improved and open- ed without delay. “We commend the donors,” says the Board, “for their public spirited action, through which they have erected unto themselves a grand monument that will for ages to come perpetuate not only their names, but also the memory of their civic consciousness, of their disin- terested love toward their fellow citi- zens, and of their municipal patriot- ism serving as a glorious example to be imitated by the present and by future generations, a living and growing monument which, with its green boughs, its shaded walks and driveways, its singing birds,~its rip- pling waters, its brilliant flowers and other charms of nature, giving rest and recreation, joy and happiness to thousands of men, women and chil- dren, will be more enduring and ben- eficial by far than a mere record en- graved on cold, dead stone could ever be—a monument that will be the pride of Ft. Wayne and a constant delight to every inhabitant of the city.” The rental price of stalls on the city market, Ft. Wayne, has been fix- ed at 15 cents a day, or $15 a year. The city has been twice enjoined from charging what was deemed to be exorbitant rates. The schedule was 25 cents a day or $25 a year, and after an injunction suit the price was reduced to 20 cents a day, or $20 a year. Another injunction suit followed, but the new schedule is not likely to be contested. The Ft. Wayne Commercial Club has elected the following officers for 1912: President, T. I. Thieme; Vice- Presidents, S. E. Mulholland and W. E. Doud; Secretary, Chas. L. Bieder- wolf; Treasurer, J. Ross McCulloch; Directors, W. N. Ballou, G. W. Beers, C. EB. Bond, H. J. Bowerfind, CC. A. Dunkelberg, &. B. Hanna, F. S Hunt- ing, Van B. Perrine, G. H. Van Ar- nam, Theo. Wentz and J. B. Franke. Almond Griffen. original CUT OUT BIG ICE BILLS simple on the market. New York Investigate this today: and have it installed before hot weather _ Main Offices and Factories: 1201-1215 CASS AVE., ST. LOUIS, U.S. A. Denver If you knew, Mr. Marketman, what your saving in ice bills would amount to each year, you would install our system at once. Brecht’s Enclosed Circulating Brine System of one to twenty tons capacity, for artificial refrigeration is the most practical, economical and It is not an expense, but a good investment. A few hours’ operation each day is sufficient to maintain a low temperature at a cost below your expectations. WHAT YOU SAVE IN ICE BILLS WILL SOON PAY FOR IT Address Dept. ‘‘A’’ THE BRECHT COMPANY ESTABLISHED 1853 San Francisco, Cal. Hamburg Buenos Aires eee ene errs eh eee ee ee as amen AN Kili RT SB AB Baten Ge ssoclfeti ER pr hin ita. AR TRE GTA seen RR ii comet PS, 24 E socehcaapomsnn ania capaci tas ee Ee ee Eee MICHIGAN = —_ = = — = a SH —_— = — = Rayy sv yyy yy SAE MAAC Michigan Knights of the Grip. President—C. P. Caswell, Detroit. Secretary—Wm. J. Devereaux, Port uron, Treasurer—John Hoffman, Kalamazoo. Directors—F. L. Day, Jackson: C. H. Phillips, Iapeer; I. T. Hurd, Davison: H. P. Goppelt, Saginaw; J. . Adams, Battle Creek: John D. Martin, Grand Rapids, 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 CC. Richter, Traverse City. en Treasurer—Joe C. Witliff, 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. Execntive Committee—James F. Ham- mell, Lansing; John D. Martin, Grand Rapids: Angus G. McEachron, Detroit: James E. Burtless, Marquette. Wafted Down From Grand Traverse Bay. Traverse City, April 1—O. D. Shel- don, formerly with the Badger Can- dy Co., has been added to the Mus- selman Grocery Co. selling force. Mr. Sheldon at one time was in business at Copemish. The boys extend con- gratulations and best wishes. Fred Meyers, of Manton, salesman for the Olds Gasoline Engine Co., contemplates making Traverse City his headquarters in the near future. We welcome you and your family to this city. We are pleased to report at this writing that L. J. Firzlaff, who re- cently underwent an operation for appendicitis at a Manistee hospital, is on the mend and we hope to re- port a speedy recovery. Fred Van Tyle, of Bay City Coun- cil, is spending Sunday in our city and, by the way, Fred is chairman of affairs at the Grand Council meeting to be held in Bay City in June, and he reports that nothing is being spar- ed by its members to make it a huge success. Fred Read, of the Stearns Hotel, Ludington, is to be congratulated for the installation of the sanitary liquid soap devices. A movement is on foot among the citizens of Mesick, Sherman and Glengarry to apply for a new union station just north of Mesick, on the Ann Arbor, where the Buckley divi- sion of the M. & N. E. crosses the line. This would surely meet the ap- proval of the traveling public. Traverse City Council will observe memorial services Sunday, March .14. A cordial invitation was extended from one of the pastors and the boys will attend in a body. This is in hon- or of our first Supreme Secretary, Chas. Benton Flagg, and all subor- dinate councils are requested to meet on Memorial Day to engage in appro- | priate services and exercises. All U. C. T.’s welcome. Fred C. Richter. —>. Old Acquaintances. There are few men in this coun- try fatter than President Taft. There are equally few who get more amuse- ment out of their own avoirdupois. Senator Nathan B. Scott, who al- ways tries to get off something fun- ny when he goes to the White House, told Mr. Taft one day: “You know, Mr. President, it is a very usual thing for fat men to get thin as they grow older.” “Well,” replied the President laughingly, “if that happens to me it will give me an opportunity to see something of some old acquaintances of mine.” “Who are they?” asked Scott. “My ribs,” replied Mr. Taft. —o >> Diplomatic. First Legislator—You don’t do any- thing for the suffragists yet they seem to like you. How do you man- age it? Second Legislator—Easy enough. When they come to me I tell them I'll be perfectly willing to talk about their voting when they look old enough to vote, and that sends them away smiling. Only a good man can believe that a woman is better than he is. .TRADESMAN Activities in the Buckeye State. Written for the Tradesman. The Boys’ Box Co. has been incor- porated at Dayton. Its original stock- holders are fourteen school boys, and the boys will manufacture porch, win- dow and flower stands, hanging flow- er baskets, tables, chairs, desks, tab- ourettes, book racks and umbrella stands. All pieces will be made of dark oak in mission style. Noon day luncheons are being made a successful feature by the Can- ton Business Men’s Association. Cleveland is planning to install three sewage disposal plants at a cost of a million dollars. Chillicothe, the first capital of Ohio and the place where the con- stitution of 1802 was written, invites the Constitutional convention now in session in Columbus to come over there for one day’s meeting. The ses- sion will be held in the old court house, the first State house of Ohio, and the delegates will occupy the chairs used by Governor Tiffin and other early officials of the State. Toledo is trying to secure the branch auto plant which the Cadillac Co., of Detroit, plans to establish in some outside city. Hotel managers of Columbus have decided to contribute $3,000 annually to the Chamber of Commerce of that $20,000 to $50,000. sureau well greased. The Dolphin Hosiery Co., of To- ledo, has increased its capital from city in order to keep its Convention Cedar Point is fast becoming the Atlantic City of the Middle West. New hotels, automobile drives and amusement features are among the improvements planned for this year. In order to stimulate better farm- ing methods the Hay and Grain Pro- ducers’ Association of Northwestern Ohio will send thirteen boys raising April 3, 1912 the best acres of corn this year on a complimentary trip to Washington next fall. After a long fight Akron has pur- chased the private water works plant for $815,000. : The final result of the cost of liv- ing investigation among students ot the Ohio State University shows that $456 is the average amount necessary for each student, including both res- ident and non-resident, during a year of thirty-two weeks. The Scioto Valley Supply Co., of Columbus, has purchased the W. H. Allman Co.’s business at Canton and will enlarge the line of supplies for plumbers, mills, mines, railways and water works. The proposition to issue bonds for $60,000 for a sewage disposal plant was defeated at Cambridge. Several cities of the State will hight the high cost of living by va- cant lot cultivation, raising vegeta- bles in the back yards. The recent convention of the mov- ing picture men, held at Dayton, was a success. Moving pictures are find- ing uses larger now than merely for entertainment. They have educa- tional value and are being introduced in city schools. They are also en- tering into the commercial world, and recently at Columbus an audience composed of architects, builders, metal workers and others was shown by moving pictures a steel plant in operation, the handling of crude ma- terial, the rolling, ingot casting, fur- nace tapping, removing of slag, an- nealing and the action of huge ham- mers and other machinety. Almond Griffen. Even the proudest of women are willing to accept orders when the time is ripe; and to be domineered over by the right man is a thing all good women warmly desire. OU ARE ALWAYS SURE of a2 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 sSoeugh 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 eake. a. Semilartaca,J April 3, 1912 News and Gossip of the Traveling Boys. Grand Rapids, April 2—With this issue of the Tradesman the writer winds up his work as correspondent for the Grand Rapids travelers and the United Commercial Travelers. The work will, undoubtedly, be car- ried on by Walter Ryder, assisted by his brother, Edward. With a small amount of help from the boys the column given to the Grand Rapids boys can be made a huge success, so we will ask the boys (of 131 espe- cially) to boost for the “only” Coun- cil, 131, by handing the future cor- respondent an item now and then. To those who have given us a helping hand we extend our thanks. In be- half of the boys, we wish to extend their sincere thanks for the many kindnesses shown them through the columns of this magnificent journal, by that grand friend of the traveling men, E. A. Stowe. i Eat, drink and be merry for the next assessment will soon be due. We are glad to know that the new manager of Edson, Moore & Co.’s Grand Rapids office is a subscriber to the Tradesman, so our good friend, John Hendricks, will still be in a po- sition to read some. Sign on Grand Rapids street cars: “Cheer up, Ramona will be open soon.” The comon trash would cheer up more if the company would give better service. This is our last chance to speak a word regarding next year’s banquet, to be given by the U. C. T. The ho- tel banquet rooms are by far too small to accommodate the crowd. The Coliseum is the only logical place for such an event. With the tickets sold to the members and local travelers the revenue should _be sufficient to cover the extra expense. The adver- tising and effect on the non-members should greatly increase the member- ship of Grand Rapids Council. J. J. Berg, of South Bend, spent the week in Grand Rapids on business. Mr. Berg is a. former resident of Grand Rapids and a member of Grand Rapids Council. But we notice Mr. Stowe didn’t say what one McNamara said about him. Sheriff Hurley should appoint some of those specialty salesmen as depu- ties. Awfully hard to get away from them. To those who can not remember the name of the new manager of Ed- son, Moore & Co.’s office, we wish to again impress on them the proper name, Milo W. Whims. After being introduced, he has been called by the following names: Wind, Slim, Prim, Wench and some names we are not allowed to publish. E. W. Smith (Ira M. Smith Mer- cantile Co.) reports the arrival of a baby girl, weight five pounds, one ounce. Mr. Smith probably stood on the scales himself, causing the ex- tra one ounce to register. The attention of the State Board of Health is called to the Marion Ho- tel at Marion. J. Albert Keane and family will spend Easter Sunday with relatives in Detroit. i Mr. Wheaton, the Traverse City tepresentative for the Lemon & MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Wheeler Company, has been dubbed L. & W.; the Grand Rapids repre- sentative as the Apricot Holdover. Kid —whatever that refers to. The following hotels are still cling- ing to the roller towel, and unless they make a change very soon the traveling men will do the changing— change to other quarters: Park Hotel, Muskegon. Hotel Marion, Marion. Crathmore, Grand Rapids. Lakeview, St. Joseph. Each week following there will be a list published of those hotels which still use the roller towel. None will be passed over. The change must come about sooner or later. Why not now? The severest arraignment the roller towel has yet received is the poetry dedicated in its honor by our es- teemed friend and next Grand Secre- tary of the U. C. T., Fritz C. Richter. Don’t forget the U. C. T. meeting Saturday night, April 6. Bring in that application with you this week. And still they come! We used to think that the traveling men were strong for race suicide, directly in op- position to what our boisterous ex- President Roosevelt advocated. We have learned our mistake. If you want to be convinced yourself, just start a gallery for peddlers’ babies. And the fat father of this fat baby is well known through nearly all this settlement—and so is his line through his splendid work as a salesman. And we must add, also, through the splen- did line he has to sell, Kady sus- penders. Ralph Lichtenauer, the proud father of this week’s subject, has rep- resented the Ohio Suspender Co. for several years and has placed his lines in all the important towns of Michi- gan—but we are getting away from the real subject again. We needn't say any more. The picture will speak for itself. Permit us to introduce the “only” little Kady baby, M. Jane, age 18. months. Neil DeYoung, who has recently been appointed District Passenger Agent of the Pere Marquette, wishes us to announce through these col- umns that he is with the traveling boys at all times, and if they have any suggestions or complaints to make, he would be pleased to hear from them. There are changes to be made in the schedules that will! benefit the traveling fraternity, and all will be in operation within a few days. The writer, being personally acquainted with Mr. DeYoung, knows ‘that he means what he says, and we again urge the boys to boost instead of knock the Pere Marquette. At a meeting held last Sunday Chas. Reynolds was appointed manager of the U,C. T. ball team for 1912. Al- though Reynolds has not as yet ac- cepted, every influence will be brought to bear to have him accept. Charlie is a manager of no mean abil- ity; in fact, he has the reputation of being the best manager of semi-pro- fessional ball teams in Western Mich- igan. A few years ago he managed the U. C. T. ball team and when he took it in charge he had nothing but mediocre material to start with. Be- fore the season was over he had a team that cleaned up on most of the semi-professional teams in and about Grand Rapids. His acceptance as manager will be a boon to the U. C. T. and their baseball team. Yes, we used to live in Rapids. Slim Eggeman and Skinny Wallace (Milwaukee) spent Sunday in Grand Rapids. Walter Lawton left his grip in a street car when he arrived in Grand Rapids last Saturday. Must have had either a very good or a very rotten week. Grand Notice we always say the traveling men arrive in Grand Rapids on Sat- urday. Far be it from our intentions to get them in wrong. Again we wish to thank the travel- ing men for their response to our request for a few items for this week’s issue... They responded like a con- firmed dead-beat would to a dunning letter. Are you, Mr. U. C. T. member, do- ing your share to make it 500 for 131? To the many requests we have re- ceived from Ed. Donohue (National Candy Co.), we wish to say that Au- gustus Dieterle is a German and not an Indian, as Mr. Donohue had sup- posed. Luke Wilkinson has renounced his nationality also. He is an Indian no longer. : A. F. S.: Sure we know why it was so quiet in Grand Rapids last Satur- day. Wilbur Burns was in the Upper Peninsula, G. K. Coffee went away, Geo. Abbott went home early and Hub Baker and Dick Warner, Sr., did- n't have a quarrel all day. Fred Dimer, all around good sport and metal polish salesman, might be able to make arrangements with the local promoters to get on for a real bout. Next U. C. T. dance Saturday night, April 13. L. J. Firzlaff, of Manistee, represen- tative for the Hoffman Sons’ Co., of Milwaukee, and who was_ stricken with a severe attack of appendicitis last week, is doing very nicely and is now entirely out of danger. James Phillips, who has been quite ill at: the St. Louis Sanitarium, has been moved to the Elwell Sanitarium and is being cared for by his wife. He will be glad to welcome any of the boys who may find time to call. Ee ene ee At the U. C. T. meeting to be held on Saturday night a special program will be prepared in honor of the Grand Junior Counselor, who will pay the local Council a visit. A spe- cial Easter luncheon will be served and the degree team will put a num- ber of candidates through their paces. The will of the people(?). Mecosta county goes dry by 59 majority, Ot- sego county goes wet by 18 and Ros- common goes wet by 50. It is hoped that every U. C. T. member will be present at the meet- ing Saturday night to give the new Senior Counselor a good sendoff. The gavel will’fall at 7:30. Visiting mem- bers are cordially invited. E. C. Jones, formerly with Foster, Stevens & Co., has accepted a posi- tion with the Cleveland Alloys Co., of Cleveland. His territory will em- brace the greater part of Western Michigan. Some lucrative work, that cam- paigning for the Anti-Saloon League. Bill Bosman and wife attended church last Sunday. As usual, this item was handed to us. We did not see them there. Wish to congratu- late William if he has reformed. If the money used in making those counties play see-saw was used to feed and clothe the poor, how many it would take care of. Lewis H. Fuller, the Havana dis- penser for the Peck Drug Co., has resigned and accepted a position. as city salesman for the National Bis- cuit Co. Mr. Fuller takes the place of Earl Warren, who has been trans- ferred to Albion. Geo. Perry was elected Mayor—not of Grand Rapids, but of Gladstone. Our last word, “Boost!” J. M. Goldstein. _ se OOo Traveler Is Quarantined. Kalamazoo, April 1—Stewart Har- rison, a Lansing traveling man, who was taken to Bronson Hospital Fri- day, suffering from appendicitis, be- ing operated upon yesterday, is now suffering from smallpox. The Hos- pital has been quarantined and Har- rison taken to the Contagious Dis- ease Hospital. Physicians say his condition is not serious. Harrison came to Kalamazoo the day before he was taken ill. ———— James M. Goldstein assumed his new duties as manager of the Rye & Adams store, at Ludington, April 2. Mr. Goldstein will continue to keep a weather eye open for the traveling men who visit Ludington and chroni- cle their goings and comings from week to week. He has gotten so in the habit of doing this that he will hardly be able to resist the opportunity his new position will give him to keep in close touch with his former fraters in the traveling ranks. ————- <-> An Owosso correspondent writes: T. E. Durkee, who has been with the Pierce Shoe Co., in Cleveland, Ohio, for some time is again with the Eady Shoe Co. His family expect to return to the village soon. 2 Geo. Alexander, representing the Flint Buggy Co., is preparing to move to Battle Creek, where he will make his residence, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN April 3, 1912 Michigan Board of Pharmacy. President—Ed. J. Rodgers, Port Huron. Secretary—John J, Campbell, Pigeon. Treasurer—W. BE. Collins, Owosso. Other Members—Edwin T. Boden, Bay City; G. E. Faulkner, Delton. Michigan Retall Association. President—D. D. Alton, Fremont. First Vice-President—J. D. = Gilleo, Pompeii. Second Vice-President—G. C, Layerer, Bay City. Secretary—R. W. Cochrane, Kalamazoo, Treasurer—W. C. Wheelock, Kalamazoo. Executive Committee—W. C. Kirsch- gessner, Grand Rapids; Grant Stevens, Detroit; R. A. Abbott, Muskegon; Geo. Davis, Hamilton; D, G. Look, Lowell; C._A. Bugbee, Traverse City. Next Meeting—Muskegon. Drugg!sts’ Michigan State Pharmaceutical Associa- tio n, 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. Bull, Hillsdale and H. G. Spring, Union- ville. Grand Rapids Drug Club. President—Wm. C. Kirchgessner. Vice-President—E. D. De La Mater. Secretary and Treasurer—Wm. H. Tibbs. . Executive Committee—Wm. Quigley, Chairman; Henry Riechel, Theron Forbes. Trade Common Sense. 1. To promise to have medicine ready or a desired article on hand at a certain time and to fail—is to dis- appoint a customer and to undermine faith in future promises. Having once given a promise spare no pains to fulfill it. 2. To leave a recipe desk or a de- livery counter cluttered for one mo- ment is to invite confusion and er- ror. At all times should the desks be kept cleared for action when not in actual use. 3. To leave drawers partly pull- ed out rather than snugly pushed in is to show every one that you are careless regarding the cleanliness of the contents. Open drawers are ex- cellent dust traps. 4. To figure so as to take advan- tage of all cash discounts is to make a very comfortable saving. 5. To put the weights in the right hand scale pan and weigh a powder out in the left hand side is usually to spill a generous portion of it. 6. Avoid unpleasant notoriety of any sort. Rumors are sure to become exaggerated and much harm be done throwgh a misapprehension in the minds of the public. 7. Insurance against error is a valuable protection, inasmuch as it protects against the possible careless- ness of employes. 8. A “Book of Reminders,” in which are listed dates of expiration of licenses, fire insurance, policies, lease, trade magazine subscriptions, also important dates to be provided for ahead, like taxes, special pay- ments, etc., will often save ambarrass- ment, as well as to give a mental security that the February, March or April list will tell at a glance what must be taken care of in those months. 9. Among your neighbors who from the nature of their business may with propriety become valuable pa- trons are physicians, dentists, mani- curists, hair dressers and barbers, bakeries (extracts, flavorings, etc.); manufacturers, where acids and other chemicals are used; public institu- tions (supplies and disinfectants); res- taurants (olive oil, condiments, etc.), Many of these people will not come to you unless you seek their trade, but they buy these goods of some one. Why not of you? working your field worth? 10. Have you thought to view your window displays from the other side of the street?» What may look pretty good right close at hand, may be tame and meaningless when the street in- tervenes.— Pharmaceutical Era. TT a eo How They Are, Divided. “Let me tell you a little story, my friend,” said the smiling author: “A certain quack doctor once stood before the door of his superla- tively splendid mansion when a phy- Sician of great learning, even genius, approached. The two fell into con- versation, and at last the physician, a rather plain-spoken soul, evidently, said a little bitterly: ‘How is it that you, without education or skill, are able to live in such style? You have a country house, as well as this city palace, and you keep the latest tour- ing caf, while I, allowed by most men to possess some knowledge of medicine and long experience, can hardly pick up a decent living?’ “The quack laughed good natured- ly, and enquired: “Wait a second, and tell me how many folks. have passed us since we began this conversation?’ “ “Oh, possibly a hundred,’ was the reply. ““Now one more question,’ contin- ued Mr. Quack; ‘How many of the hundred do you presume were bless- ed with a fair amount of common sense?’ : “‘One or two, only,’ said the physi- cian. ~. ““AIl right,’ was the other’s sum- ming up of the case. ‘That one o1 two come to you. I get all the rest.’” for all it is A man rises in his own estimation when he settles down, and in the es- timation of his creditors when he set- tles up. Are you. Substitute For Rubber. The story from Philadelphia that a man of that city has discovered a substitute for rubber which he man- ufactures from various kinds of waste will be accepted with a grain of salt until the facts he claims are fully es- tablished. It has long been the dream of chemists that a substance which would take the place of rubber in many of the forms in which it is used would ultimately be discovered, but, like the famous passage to Cathay in the time of Columbus, the result has eluded pursuit. It may be put down as a fact that some time, somewhere, such a sub- stitute will be found. It may not have all the qualities of rubber, which seems to have been a special gift of Providence to mankind of a value impossible of replacement or coun- terfeit; but the uses of rubber have extended so enormously, and_ the supply is so limited in tropical coun- tries, that the mind of the world has been, as it were, concentrated upon the proposition of finding some sub- stance which would, under proper condition, take its place. Until now no such product has been found. The Drug Market. Glycerin—Is decidedly firmer and an advance is expected. : Blue Vitriol—Has advanced Yc per pound. Cod Liver Oil—Is lower. Quinine—Manufacturers decide advance. report a ——__> e-.—___ That soul is truly lost that gathers darkness of the light. Less in Price Superior in Quality Write for Catalog Fisher Show Case Co. 886-888 Wealthy Ave. Grand Rapids, Michigan MACAULEY SAID Those inventions wh have done the most ich have abridged distance 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. “AMERICAN BEAUTY” Display Case No. 412—one of more than one hundred models of Show Case, Shelving and Display Fixtures designed by the Grand Rapids Show Case Company for displaying all kinds of goods, and adopted by the most progressive stores of America. GRAND RAPIDS SHOW CASE CO., Grand Rapids, Michigan The Largest Show Case and Store Fixture Plant in the World Show Rooms and Factories: New York Grand Rapids Chicago Portland 1912 ive TS Perr asta sacs April 3, 1912 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 27 WHOLESALE DRUG PRICE CURRENT Tapulin ........ @250 Saccharum La’s 20@ 30 Olls co cece) 60@ 20. Saldein . 250.502 52 4 50@4 75 oe : ae gal. Acidum Cepaiba ....... OE eee snes > 70@ - Sanguis Drac’s .. 40@ 50 lard, extra . 85@1 mime... ts a pede 75 Scillae .......... @ 50 Magnesia, Sulph. 3@ Sapo. @ .6.6.4.. @ 1% Lard, No.1...... 75@ 90 Benzoicum, Ger. 45@ 60 WAige is @4 50 Scillae Co. ...... @ 50 aoe ren bbl. @ 14 ee We aa 10@ 12 JUinseed pure raw Boracie ....... 10@ 15 Erigeron ........ 2 35@2 50 Tolutan ........ @ 50 eae S. F. —< ; - re es Ruyeet dete 15@ 18 tues ten ie ne = i tcuee 20 So 6 Bivechthitog. 3. 1 NGGAT 80 Desc a OS CL Cw. es @ Seidlitz 5 4 pi ortio on ae Bo = Evechthitos .....100@110 Prunus virg. @ 50 Morphia, SP&W ! 30@5 55 Sinapis — ee va a5 Neat’s-foot w str 80@ 85 Hydrochlor .... 1%@ 5 Gaultheria srees ed 80@5 00 Zingiber ......... @ 50 Morphia, SNYQ 5 30@5 55 Sinapis, opt. .. @ 30 Turpentine, bbl, .. @st4 Nitrocum .:..-- 5%@ 10 Geranium .... oz 15 Morphia Mal ... 5 30@5 55 Snuff, Maccaboy, Turpentine, less .. 60@ Oxalicum ....... 144@ 15 Gossippil Sem gal 60@ 175 Tinctures Moschus Canton.. 40 De Voce ..,.... @ 54 Whale, winter ... . 0@ 78 Phosphorium, dil. @ 15 treqeoma yn ees go Myristica, No. 1 25@ 40 Snuff, Sh ‘Devo's @ 54 Salicylicum :.... 40@ 42 ptt Se as is ux Vomiva po 15 @ 10 Soda, Boras ..... 54@ 10 Paints Sulphuricum .... 1%@ 5 Junipera ........ 40@1 20 yrrh.. 60 Os Sepia ........ 25@ 30 Soda, Boras, po ..5%@ 10 bbl. L.. Tannicum ..... 100@110 Lavendula ...... 90@4 00 ‘Anconitum Nap’sF eo Poe oe Ee Soda’ et Pot's Tart 38@ 30 Green, Paris ....13%@ 20 Tartaricum .-.-.. 38@ 40 Limons ........ 2 00@2 10 Anconitum Nap’sR © taiwan ag © see Biecarb | 122 2 Green, Peninsular 13@ 16 Ammonia Mentha Piper 3 75@ 400 Arnica .......... Oh: gal Gon... @2 00 Soda, Ash ...... ao 4 Lead, tel ....,. 7@ 10 Aqua, 18 deg. .. 3%@ 6 Mentha Verid ...5 00@5 25 AsSafoetida ...... 15 es ae ats oe @1 oe ar Sulphas ---.14%@ 4 Lead, white 7@ 10 Aqua, 20 deg. 4%@ 8 Morrhuae, gal. ..1 50 Atrope Bellad 1s_ Liq pints @ 65 Spts, Cologne ... @300 ¢ re 5 Carbonas ....... So ae ee Ace oe 60 Pil Hydrarg po 80 @ mu Say ee ee OO eh ee eS Chioridum ...... 12@ 14 Olive ../1/7225° 5 ae 35 ortex .. 50 Piper Alba po 35 @ 30 Spts. Myrcia ....2 00@2 25 Putty, comm’l 24% 2%@ 5 roe tics re = Barosma ......° 99 Piper Nigra po 22 @ 18 Spts. Vini Rect bl @ 22 Red Venetian, bbl 1 niline ao oo Picis Liauida gal. -@ 4) Benzoin ......... oo PIX Burgum ...- 10@ 12 pts. Vil Rect 4bbl @ cag age A aa cea vukeee vl hae >@ 8 pts, ' : ne Eerd eae oI 00 eeamuage ieee aes 125 Benzoin Co. .... 60 Pulvis Ip’cut Opil 2 25@2 50 Spts, Vi'i Rect 5 Zl @ as re 7 Met © Ra ee Oo 00 Cantharides ..... 75 Pyrenthrum, bxs. H Strychnia_Crys’l 1 00@1 30 Vermillion, Eng. 90@1 00 Vaio So 1000150 pope n ri Capsicum ....... 50 & P. D, Co. doz. @ 75 Sulphur, Roll ....2%@ 5 Vermillion Prime Sania Cardamo Pyrenthrum, py.. 20@ 30 Sulphur, Subl. .. 2%@ 6 American ..... 13@ 15 Baccae fee @5 00 ene ses 75 Quassiae ....... 10@ 15 Tamarinds ...... 10 Whitng Gilders’ 1@ 5 Cubebae ......-. T@ 15 Ginapis . 90@1 00 Cardamon Co. .. 75 Quina, N. Y. .... 17@ 27 Terebenth Venice 00 50 Whit’g Paris Am’r @1 25 Junipers ........ 6@ 8 oe S. Oz. @ 50 Cassia Acutifol .. 59 (Quine, S. Ger. .. 17@ 27 Thebrromiae .... 55@ 60 Whit’g Paris Eng. Xanthoxylum a 00@1 25 Th eee 45 Cassia A if Quina, SP& Ww 17@ 27 Vanilla Ext. 8 00@12 00 CED ce kuku sence @1 40 woe _ 60 cutifol Co 50 Rubia Tinctorum 12@ 14 Zinci Sulph ...... 7 10 Whiting, white S’n @ Balsamum eh cobtimes ee 1 2 Castor ..5 0.0050. 2 75 Copaiba ........ 7@ > 75 Piety "4 6001 70 Catechu .....,.., 50 i eee 20eg2 25 tte anasee @ Cinctena Co Terabin, Canad. 65@ 75 Potassl Cah cieees 0 = ae Tolutan ..... --- 60@ 7 picarb uascnau, 15@° 18 oe umpia ........ 50 Cire Bichromate ..... 13@ 15 ime sin peanes 50 Abies, Canadian 25 Bromide ..... ..- 40@ 50 oe coos ees 50 CASSIAG) (5.06.5: 95 Care sis. sc.c., - 12@ 15 PBOE fe. sees. 50 Cinchona Flava .. 20 Chlorate ..... po. 12@ 16 Ferri Chloridum 50 Buonymus atro.. 40 Cyanide ......... 30@ 40 — Calpe 6 eh 50 Myrica Cerifera 32 Jlodide ......:... 2 35@2 50 vlog Co. ....1 60 Prunus Virgini 30 Potassa,Bitart pr 30@ 35 Guiaca.......... . 50 Quillaia, gr’d. ... 15 Potass Nitras opt 1@ 2 See Semen. 60 Sassafras, po 30 26 Potass Nitras .. 7 12 yoscyamus ...... 50 ius Co 25 Prussiate ...... . 23@ 26 Iodine .......... 1 00 ‘ Sulphate po ..... 15@ 1g iodine, colorless 1 00 Extractum RO cee esse : 50 Glycyrrhiza, Gla. 24@ 30 Radix Lobelia ......... 50 Glycyrrhiza, po. 25@- 30 Aconitum ...... @ 37 Myrrh ........... 50 Haematox ...... 11@ 12 Althae .......... 50@ 60 Nux Vomica..... 50 Haematox, 1s ... 13@ 14 Anchusa ....... - 10@ 12 Opil ............ 50 Haematox, %s .. 14@ 15 Arum po........ @ 25 Opil, camphorated 1 00 Haematox, 4s .- 16@ 17 Calamus ........ 20@ 40 Opil, deodorized .. 2 75 Gentiana po 15.. 12@ 15 Quassia ......... 50 Ferru Glychrrhiza pv 15 12@ 15 Rhatany ......... 50 Carbonate Precip. » 15 Hellebore, Alba 15@ 20 Rhei .......... so 50 Citrate & Quina 1 80@2 00 WHydrastis, Canada @7 00 Sanguinaria ..... 50 Citrate Soluble .. 63@ 175 MHydrastis, Can, po @650 Serpentaria ..... 50 Ferrocyanidum § 2) Inula, po ......: 253@ 30 Stromonium ....... 60 Solut. Chloride .. 15 Ipecac, po ....... 2 25@3 00 Tolutan: <.......<. 60 Sulphate, com’! .. 2 Iris Flora... 00... 20@ 30 Valerian ........ 50 Sulphate, com’l, by So Jalana. pr 2.2, 40@ 50 Veratrum Veride 50 bbl., per cwt. 75 Maranta, 4s .... 30@ 35 “ingiber ......... 60 Sulphate, pure .. 7 Podophyllum po 15@ 25 MG esc... 7 Miscellaneous Arnica oo 18@ 25 ae og Aether, ye Nit 5@ 50 Anthemis ..... 40@ A Sa afi po 18 28 Alumen, grd ‘po T 3@ 5 Matricaria ...... 30@ 35 Scillae, po 45-60 20@ 25 Annatto ......... 40@ 50 Foll Seneza .. 620.4, @ 90 officinalis, 20@ 25 ph ace ea eee. ue - — ee eas 50 Cae aortas Zingiber @&@ .... ismuth, --2 10@2 20 Uva, ural 2202. +++ 8@ 10 Zingiber j ....... 25@ 28 Calcium Chlor, 1s @ 8 Our New ee Oavees Oakes and Comments Gummi Calcium Chlor, 4s @ 9 Acacia, 1st pkd @ 40 Semen Calcium Chlor. 4s @ 11 SURE __——_— ee Acacia, 2nd pkd @ 35 Anisum po 22 .. @ 18 Cantharides, Rus. Po @1 25 Acacia, 3rd pkd’ @ 30 Apium (gravel’s) _@ 30 Capsici Fruc’s af @ 20 We eile your orders for Acacia, sifted sts, @ 20 Citiabis Sativa 16 8 Carmine, No 10 @4 00 Acacia. D4, ott Ee Ge Cardamoo ...... 100@110 Carphyllus ...... 25@ 30 Sulphur—Light and Heavy —_ Lime and Sulphur Solution Aloe, Cape ..... @ 2% Carui po 20 - 12@ 15 Cassia Fructus .. @ 35 : < : Aloe, Socotri'.... @ 45 Chenonpodium .. 20@ 30 Cataceum ....... @ 35 Bordeaux Mixture—aAll Sizes oe 2 Cee Coie oe kee sop & | Paris G A te of Lead—Alll Si Blue Vitriol paatoer ae Doses 1 aaah e Dipterix baa 6 73 Cera Flava” 00 2 aris Green rsenate 0 ead— 1Z€S ue Vitrio es 5 Foeniculum ..... NOCUS -- i. 4 4. 1 5 ‘ Boson ae ae! a Foenugreek, po.. 6@ 9 Chloroform ..... 34 44 Stock complete Prompt shipments Galbanum........ @100 Lini ..~........ 5@ 8 Chloral Hyd Crss 1 25@1 45 Gamborge po... 1 00@1 25 Léni, ard. bbl, 5 @ 8 Chloro’m Squibbs @ 90 Respectfully, Geneincum ped @ Pharlanis “Casa oo came 4 d04 28 ue Bape kn S 8 Corks list, less 70% Grand Rapids. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. Myrrh .. @ 45 Sinapis Alba ..... 8 10 Creosotum ..... : 45 Opium 00@9 25 Sinapis Nigra ... 9@ 10 Creta. bbl, 75 @ 2 cee ea ie Spiritus Greta” precip. : 10 9 Shellac, bleached ae 45 > Sas Frumenti W. D. 2 00@250 Greta, Rubra ... 10 P Tamers ae FEE meamentl 2... cs. 125@150 CGudbear ........ @ 20 u ft nam s Herba Junipers Co. ....1 75@3 50 Cupri Sulph. .. 64@ 10 Absinthium - 25@ 30 Junipers Co O T 165@2 00 WDextrine ........ 7@ 10 Menth ol Cou h Dro S Eupatorium oz pk 30 Saccharum N E 1 90@2 10 Emery, all Nos... 6@ 8 Lobelia oz pk 35 Spt, Vini Galli ..175@6 50 Emery, po. 5@ 6 Majorium ..oz pk 36 Vini Alba ......: 1 25@2 00 Ergota, po 1 30 1 40@1 50 “ : Mentra Pip, oz pk 35 Vini Oporto ..... 1 25@2 00 Ether Sulph, .... 27 40 Packed 40 five cent packages in carton Mentra Ver oz pk 35 Flake White .... 12@ 15 Price $1.00 RUG: 50.5.5. oz pk 30 Sponges Gale te ei 30 ' Tenacetum ..V. 30 Extra yellow sheeps’ Gambler ......... 3@ 9 : ) Thymus V oz pk 30 wool carriage .. @4 00 Gelatin, French 35 = Each carton contains a certificate. ten of Florida sheeps’ wool Glassware, full cs. : . Magnesia GATtHBe. .5 5... @4 00 Less than box 70%-10% which entitle the dealer to Calcined, Pat. ..55@ 65 Grass — wool @1 25 oe ao Sade s es z a 20 carriage ....... a ue, W Cee ee. 5 Carbonate, ok = ine 15 Hard, slate use .. @100 Glycerina ...... 18 25 ONE FULL SIZE CARTON Nassau sheeps’ wool Grana Paradisi .. @ 2% Oleum carriage ...... @4 00 Humulus ....... 50@ 80 FREE Absinthium 8 00@8 25 Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydrarg Ammo’! 1 50 Amygdalae Dule. 75@ 85 wool carriage .. @2 75 WHydrarg Ch..Mts 1 30 i Amygdalae Ama 8 00@8 25 Yellow Reef, for Hydrarg Ch Cor 25 when returned to us or your jobber Antal: 230 5. 2 15@2 20 slate use ...... @140 Hydrarg Ox Ru’m_ @1 40 properly endorsed pea hall ee 3 15@3 25 Hydrarg Ungue’m 60@ 75 . Bergamil ....... 00@8 50 Syrups Hydrargyrum ... @ 88 pmo ag Bor awia eee 85@ 90 Acacia a @g pee vnone. Am. ai 4 aryophilli ..... 1 25@1 3 Auranti Cortex .. THOIGO icine es oe Cegae ee, 85@ 90 Ferri lod ...... @ 40 TYodine, Resubi ..3 25@3 60 eh ance FACTORY, National Candy Co. Chenopadhi .... 6 50@7-00 Ipecac ......... @ 7 fodoform ...... 0@4 50 Cinnamoni ..... 150@1 60 Rhei Arom...... g 50 Liquor Arsen et Makers Conium Mae .. 80@ 90 Smilax s 50 60 ydrarg Iod. @ 25 R PIDS. MICH Citronelia ...... 40@ 50 Senega .......... @ 50 Lia Potass Meratait 10@ 15 GRAND RA ; s 28 G MI ROCERY PR CHIGAN TRAD These quotati ICE CU ESMAN and are at are carefully correct RENT i c liable to chan : o be correct at ti ed weekly, withi 2 3 A market pri ge at any time, and time of going to in six hours of maili pril 3, 1912 prices at date of purc country merch press. Prices, h ailing, CHEWI = 4 oe purchase ants will h » Nowever, a Adams P NG GUM : ie: ave their orders fille i Amin Se oe CONFE 5 Provisions DVANCED = oe Son 55 Sta —— — 8 T Cheese Bl epsin saa2s 88 ndard Patls “nim weet Goods Che a so ee ge Standar pase eecs co: le 4A ale oe... ods Sawerg DECLINED lonat Gan fon ae Standen Ho eo A rmatics Hae dns en sbes 10 a uote = oe Ponain (white) 55 JI Twist oe a fete. 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NC Oe te Frazer's Burnham's yoo os 4 Ge Walter Sheen -.1 60 peneh, Cream ooo... 13° Cocoanut Macaroons "<"1g . hy ay rm ’ rT ; tteeces x a ° ' ane 1B eg gee ay EM a gett deed o> 5 Haun ae i Set Hon, Sue 8 . tin : : z meee eacae a te ee eens Binns r ca es BebetsBegee acne 1 UR Ba te gu Bi a Be, male i np Pas reat Boake #4 Slumbaig en ed 8 Brooms ton ee a cca eects es “ Premium x Lowney Co 7s Pe Heer” Pails vies Een t POOMS wees eeeeeeeeeess 1 . pails, per doz ..720 M French P 0 revitim, GN a oto Bon Bang?’ *"* 15 akes allow B se eeee ees : : B rd onbad eas ac Fud one, oa Dinner wie. utter Color ........... i ae 1, orn eans 7’ per cco R eee SWEET - Peanut Square sane Sc if Dixie Sugar Ci ee 25 pe o. 2 Bes at bie wens a rgan’s” u re Ae 0. ™ 0. ose e os oo No. 2 per dogs 227488, $2 NO. Balers 245 Romulan barrel 50: gat 10 00 Salled pate og rege otkas neg ann on + 008 0. 2 Sateen Tr » 28 arli me ‘am ngers ... 7 % . Canned Goods ......., 1- Baten ee fen 2, Faney 7212.01 2 $3 bien, per el if ae § Ge Lozenges Kisses’ .1°71713 Fig Coke eles Eee eeeds Carbon a 1-2 teh ooo eae K Standara Omny . 285 Hard, per veel oe oe Champion man rae Fig Cake Assorted’ |11112”* : Cheese crttttteneennees : A BREAKFAST Foot oo 85 ; CLOTHES L poe 25 monrge Choueeen ia abel Os gttcceees de a 2 Apetizg, “Biscuits vc? 00 Mv.” me No ab sine CS Guise ougeolates 1.16 Fluted Cocoanut’ Bar’. /19 : a + et ee es 3 Cracked W ettijohns pou Seeeceeee oe. No. 60 Teed Cotto a hampi ocolates te Frosted Galen 8: ae Vo Bp cnn | BERR mete Buciaccd? BB RS Si : Soe eee 4 4] der, Sweet .......... -O-See Wi » 86-2 4 50 No. A Jute Cond ....1 90 Molasses IY ce gtgees dd ieee Babe Ne 8 oe 6 Grape ae ee 2 70 Bares Peheooine No. Sy a. ae ada ; 80 ; Fancy—| Kisses 12 wee ens B.S : D Su ugar Flakes” 270 tons, %s @ sa ee eee 00 ld Fas —In 5tb, rome B pee ae 8 Dried Fruits .. Hardy wa Flakes» : : . one, ie oe @ 18 No. on ee Wire e a Tmo oe Foney a N. ed ie 6 Postma’s neat Food i. 50 Cove, ae @ 30 No. 19, cach cee long 1 90 Coe Jellies. bx. 1 30 jioney quo Aa’ ic is "yl Farinace Sax and Rusk ook, 2 75 ove on; 007? 85@ B _ coco .long 210 Old Fa ee 60 Honey Jumbies: Icéd ..12 af Fishing Goods icrtony Wheat aca’ ”” 3 20 ewes 1 50@ ao 2 A borer oe a 65 Fy ney Flake » Plain. . 12 Flour . ee ee 6 a n Corn Fl od .. 309 Plums Piums cleveland ee ee, 36 Peppe drops . ce Freusehold Soi 12% 1 Fru wa. 6 t tenet ae eee coda us . &eppermint Drops 65 ousehold ies .... ? fi f Mane ager Send 43 No pci tnt? 9 oer BE ai Giainoion hae Brae 48 onic Cookies, iced 8 i ne Maple Corn Flakes "*: - aver Dae, ee es 3 HOM Gree 14 hoa DSS ree. 8 i G co G Algrai n Wheat Corea ¢ 80 Marrowtat Peas 1 40 Lo eg nese 42 Bipot, — 1 an 7 10 Kream Kune? ee 3% . naa q aiston Wheat oc 4 arly June || "” @1 WEY, WS... l er Sweets, asta’ 110 zeap Yi Boos a ae Saxo heat F ...4 25 Earl ee 25 Lo ¥, 38 00) oS ~ 22 Brillian S, as’td Le ear Jumbles |" 25 i lg een ood y Jun @ whey ite 0 ‘ t Gu 12 mon Bi mbles i i! = Shred Wheat Food ae 2 Sifted 1 452 a Lowney, BS creases _ a ddcoticn ee 3, Lemon i tags Seeace ' tit Herbs... a ae Biscuit "3 60 we 19 'ci¢ oe 5 Yan Houten zone -- 2 ecnee pistes oe Lemon Wee 187 [BBB eacia ce. 2 BM aioael YB Wo waicraaerns my Ya Hwan BESS Foie bees BM sri eaetr aaich .... 7 Voiet’ rn @325 V | a nitaae ny akes ... ag eS 8 i ied Cream Flakes 4 80 Grated Pineappie 25 Van Houten, a. eee 40 err aa sai 8Es ee 85 Mandalay we : 8% “. i; | tea PIMEPON aoa WiBac Hand Rigas" ee ; a aa ‘ | Jelly J Quaker Poe Rice ..4 “s Cede Ce: 1 ee: 10 eee “se a n M. Peanut B eset 60 Marshinalio oe ea 10 " fe Mia 8 oo Brktst redler 285 Fair Pumpkin @? 60 ine a 33 Ge wee Caan shaun woe ae w Coffee " % ot ie 3 t r cso. ehhocnc 32 Stri afers @90 Shining wee 1 4 iT! yg Victor Cc orn Flakes ..1 99 iA ll 8 OCOANUT ring Rock °° "” 75 Medle ow Walnuts’ 2 ay M wctor Corn Flakes .. 0 ime . . nham’s Winter eettee:: 5 Molacnes wetzels uts 16% nity Maplein Wh ngton Cris 39 HOMey co iint oss 2 5tb. case per tb green Berries" 70 uC asses Canes 7°27" 10 Sora AR a Wheat hoa, ee gion 2.5.8 130 4S SI. case 222211, 39° Crack Pop Corn - oo a Mol fate s eatena 2 oo aac, 2 148, 15%b © -e.. ee, ao Jack Molasses es, Iced ., Mustard pee seb ers bese ls : nee ‘Sa Set : 50 Sindee . ay a sean Lagan 39 on ee “es. 3 = ee a coe Cookies 9% 2 OORT ugar Corr a @ ve Oe 28 Azulikit 1 ee. Mot ses Bandwicn os Pints N 5 sao, BROOMS m Warrens, 1b. all ....2 Senlioned ene: 8° Oh My 4008 ooo 185 Gatmeat Cracks os ee po eres Red S, 1%. Flat.” 39 AS & bs Soo... 8 Pp Miah besos 50 Jrange G ers ..... 8 Sos 4 oe we. 800) ped, Alask at ean UK; pails ... 9 utnam M rops Oran ems .... : pees oO ee ae ne 3 zo Pink alent foot 95 Bulk, pauls ercceee - Smith i. -.--1 00 - Cakes Sponge Layer 8% beeen cs Ba pecial .... 45 Sardine 1 50 c coe scoses-s.t 25 enny Asserca )""" oN ee 8 coe ae = Domestic, co OFFEES, poasves. Alma ee Peanut a bc ee Pickles . ny, TL eeaee omen & Mus. 22:3 00 — ces Aimonas, porasona 18 Pine Mines 9 ac ee ney Whisk ........ 150 Fre ic, % Mus. 00 ir wee. re aa ee 19 monds, Cali Ke 2... 15 P pple Wafers ~" 11% Viaying Caza toe = : eins, say 5) 6p ree ee oe ae = fei ee 19% See lifornia Pretaclettes, i teas : bd s Sa PS eee TOL BANOY seeseecceees Brags) 30... fog os Bie ite bane ma SE ay BRE OR @ls Peaberry "12.11.17" Pi rte retz » Hand i Provisions...) 17" owe : Feary Back, § tn, Dunbar {Shrimps 8@23 eaberry eens ee = eae Bee sf pea Raisin Cookies a : . 4 Pree ees 8 Pointan ae cm 75 unbar, 1%s a : 30 Common Santee Walnuts, pare oe Gems 8 kis 10 Rice ..... is me oo ee ike Seas 112.2 25 Badr ciierisieseeee 20 Table ‘nd Marbot...°t7 Revere, as Caicos 10.02 Rolled Gucy 9 Be Li ove EBT eeeeeee eens oi Fancy ritteeeeee sees 20% Pecans, ec atid a Rittenhouse Freie" 714 iia ae 9 Weg: ee ee ee on 6Maucey oe eaberry ........ 272° 23 ecans, es scuit .. Salad Dressis WPF 1 25 gee i'2@1 wv Fai Maracaibo 23 iene ieee o fee Mixea "** 12 eel ge 175 $s Strawbe 0 air .... aibo ickory N OB yal Lunch ed... 10 Saleratus Ee 2. N Sh tand rries fants CC uts, 16 Ro aA Saad ue ne eeeraes 9 <8 gS 8 oe ae See ine 24 a Ohio, new per bu. oo fee ee 8 Salt a oe feeees 9 Qa. 7 bee earth one 1 00 95 Mexi case ak 25 ocoanuts fetes 2 00 Sho eg g BONE no neeeee es ee ec ce 9 Wo 4 1 295 Choice can Chostnuts: Now os ribread Guus” 8 Sat Piety Titttteseeeees "3 MO 8 satenser es ay + a oo ma 25 State a York aes Gun ee Seeds oe = 3 ee ' ney a tee er cess: 1 os Caetegedes < ’ pes ced Gi lakes Shoe Blacking a. paneuTTER COL 1 99 No. 10 yo = Fair. “Uatemala % ° . Sianen oe Spiced Ginger Cue’: 9 mur BS. 9 elion, 25¢ size OR opp esses 4 00 Pa 95 Pecan H sagppaed 6%@ 7 Sugar Ringers Cks Iced 10 ic - 9 Paraffi CANDLEs ...2 90 CARBON OILS oe nates sates os Walnut Baten i 62 aueee Camers -+++-++- 92 oom Bettectien Fitivate Growth bert: Meats ee Sugar Crimp ..... 2. 8% W ne, 12s se-- 10 D. § Jon ... andling - -26@30 Alicante A Sse. @30 igar Squar Stee eeee 8% a ee gpaamonne - Gis” Aukola eee 00! sig3s jonaa stanae. oe se es, large Badin Gl 20 a ne. . ese shoe ce “ee, ak at ee aa NNED GOODS Deodor’a sae @23 Short Bean 320 anc Peaniite @47 Seanentis tan Biscuit 16 Table Sauces” 3. Standards. Mo “gy ee Long Bean sees ee 25@27 ou ee 8 Superba. mbles ....10 Tea auces ... Gallon ndards .. Bleck nee 9 @34% : oO. cee 25 Choi wed ....: 6@ 6% Three Lady Fi corte 8% oh fe a cee ee et SR ee ca SBR Tan Bales a. gota 2 ackberri CATSUP Pair ......... Cee iss : 3 nilla Wafers 11.1.7" 16 cccaiae H bBacagiee gh go pinta er cc BR inet? Whegumbles sig oo Vv gallons: @5 00 s % pints _.... 235 Spot Mack. Market, St 6 oon a Pe tee =k inegar .... Baked Beans kc 1°35 — Strong eady ke Re UE ROE 10 pata ec 13 Rea Kidney” .-- 85@1 3 ae seh SE New eoage me CRACKE o. 50 ‘ eal Goods Wicking w eiring : Cy. ee Bloomingdale ee oon eb -gaee i rk Basis ational Biscuit Go fk Bee per doz. ra eee s ax 70 n City ..! ied NOW? oes oe 23 Bra mpan Ala ee 1 00 " ed sige AR ee 1501 2 otra ig @21 McLaughlin’s xX. 33 00 N Butter Besos fo 1 00 pping Paper .... | if Standard sees wae ees on 4 Faughlin'’s XXX Seyrione . Sa. bbl. 7b ah i Biseult +++-1 00 ee SH ceereeese- ne oo as etailers only sold ee ee? mer’s oe Ae eae 00 Yee 1 te @22gyers direct © to Mail all N. B.c aa Caters ns evens , ee 14 Little cx te nie giz ZO, ughlin & Co Chine: Premium boxes .... 6% Cheese esta oo } 00 = ttle » oD. Moe i 5 Seman ee rose ee Ch Sean Neck. 2p. 3129 Sap a so Si8 —- Holland, ggalage etek Mu gif Cocoanut, Duintia SED 00 Swiss, domestic 977 a ross, mee etre 3 Hane Med @i5 Hummel’s tin,” eee S oe Econ Sa . rig Newton ae ’ gro. 1 em, box c boxes me Gok ae 1 Oo pal bie Frotana Tea ..... 1 00 a a Cake ~ se 1 00 4 singer Snaps, N. B.'G.'1 00 3 Graham Crackers, Red i. Lemon Smaps ...--....- Oatmeal Crackers ..... 10 Old Time Sugar Cook. 1 Oval Salt Biscuit ...... 1 00 Oysterettes ............ 0 Pretzelettes, Hd. Md. +5 Saltine Biscuit ........ 1 Saratoga Flakes ....... Social Tea Biscuit ..... Sultana Fruit Biscuit Soda Crackers N. B. C Soda Crackers Selec Ss. 8. Butter Crackers 1 Uneeda Biscuit Uneeda Jinjer Wayfer 1 Uneeda Lunch Biscuit Vanilla Wafers 1 Water Thin Biscuit Zu Zu Ginger Snaps aS Other Package Barnum’s Animals .... Chocolate Tokens American Beauty Butter Crackers, NBC family package Soda Crackers, NBC family package ..... 2 Minaret Wafers -..... me bo b Champagne Wafer ... — Per tin in bulk Siete ces cas 1 00 3ent’s Water Crackers 1 CREAM TARTAR DRIED FRUITS A pPpies Evapor’ed, Choice, buik Evaporated, Fancy, pkg Muirs—Choice, 26 Ib. b 12% Muirs—Fancy, 25 tb. b 13% Fancy, Peeled, 25 tb. 18 Lemon, American .... Orange, American .... Connosiar Cluster 1 Ib Dessert Cluster, 1 Ib Loose Muscatels 3 Cr 7% Loose Muscatels 4 Cr 8 L. M. Seeded 1 Ib. 8@ 8% California Prunes L. M. Segded 1 Ib. Sultanas: Bleached .... FARINACEOUS GOODS Med. Hand Picked .... Brown Holland ..... - 3 25 . packag Bulk, per 100 lbs. . Original Holiand Rusk 8 containers (36) rolis 2 85 5 containers (60 rolls) 4 75 Hominy Pearl, 100 th. sack ....2 00 ang Vermiceil Domestic, 10 Ib. Imported, 25 Ib. box .. Cheater = focc.5553.. P. Green, Wisconsin, bu. Green, Scotch, bu. German, sacks ....... 6 German, broken pkg. .. Pearl, 130 tb. sacks .. 6 Minute, 36 pkgs. ...... FISHING TACKLE to 1 in. . 6 to 2h ee cc. Sm 0k... tee rereceececceser ek BAA ae ps Seen eauaeesceoeecsc cae 7 Cotton Lines eet No, 1, 1¢ f ieeea eG No. 2, 15 feet ........... i No, 3, 15 feet ........... 9 ING: 4. 18 feet ........._: 10 No 6, 16 feat ........ 2); 11 No. 6, 15 feet .......... 1z No. 7. 18 feet ........2.. 15 No $16 fect... 18 No. ©, 16 feet... 2; 26 Linen Lines MMO oc Magno. WO se ec ee 34 Poles Ramboo, 14 ft., per doz Ramboo, 16 ft., per doz. Bamboo, 18 ft.. per doz. FLOUR AND FEED Winter Wheat. Grand Ranids Grain Milling Co. Purity, Patent ...... 5 Seal of Minnesota Sunbtirat 2.5... 2... Wizard Flour ....... ‘Wizard Graham ..... Wizard Gran. Meal....4 Wizard Buckwheat 6 BG 206 § Hemera Valley City Milling Co. Elly White 2...00..20: 5 Light Loaf 5 CPOUAT 2 Granena Health ..... 2 Buckwheat ........... 3 Golden Meal ......... 1 Bolted Meal 2 Voigt Milling Co. Graham 4 Voigt’s Crescent ...... 5 Voigt’s Flouroigt ..... 5 Voigt’s Hygienic ...... 4 Voigt’s Royal ......... 5 Watson-Higgins Milling Co. Perfection Flour .....5 20 Tip Top Fiour .......4 60 Golden Sheaf Flour ..4 20 Marshall's Best Flour 5 50 Perfection Buckwheat 6 20 Tip Top Buckwheat 6 00 Worden Grocer Co, Quaker, paper ....... 4 60 Quaker, cloth ........ 4 70 Spring Wheat. Roy Baker Golden Horn, family 5 60 Golden Horn, bakers 5 50 Wisconsin Rye ....... 5 00 Judson Grocer Co. Ceresota, Y%s .......... 63 Geresota, 448 ...:,...- 6 40 Ceresota, 1468 .......... 6 2 Lemon & Wheeler Wingold, %s .......... 6 40 Wingold, 4s ...... +.-6 30 Wingold, %s .......... 6 20 Worden Grocer Co. Laurel, %s cloth ..... 6 30 Laurel, %s cloth ...... 6 20 Laurel, % & %s paper 6 _ Laurel, %s cloth ......6 Wykes & Co. Sleepy Hye, %s cloth..6 00 Sleepy Eye, %s cloth..5 90 Sleepy Eye, % cloth..5 80 Sleepy Eye, %s paper 5 80 Sleepy Eye, %s paper 5 80 Meal BOMtCd ...cccc ce sacs £00 Golden Granulated ..4 20 eed No: 7d Feed oii. 33 00 Coarse Meal ......... 32 50 Bye Midur: 222... ..- 3 Granulated Meal ..... 2 Rolled Oats ......... 6 DVEMER caged cle te a+ sae 31 00 Cow Feed: ............ 31 00 Perfect’n Horse Feed 33 00 Green Meadow Dairy BECO foo. 28 50 Seratch Feed ....... i 9 Wheat . WG eee eee sas 95 NO RINEG so eas oe es 93 Oats ae Michigan carlots ...... 59 Less than carlots ....62 Corn c Caries. oc aes 77 Less than carlots 78 Hay arlots ‘ Less than carlots .... 24 FRUIT JARS, Mason, pts. per gro. ..4 Mason, ats. per gro, ..4 Mason, %gal. per gro. 6 Mason, can tops, gro, 1 GELATINE Cox’s, 1 doz. large .... Cox’s, 1 doz, small ... Knox’s Sparkling, doz. 1 bob pe Knox’s Sparkling, gr. = : Nelson's ....5.---2+00. Knox’s Acidu’d. doz. ..1 Sere tis ‘Rock Phoe. 1 3s mou le Plymouth Rock, Plain 9 Manzanilla, 8 oz. ...... 90 Lunch, 10 og. .........1 35 Lunch, 16 og: .........2 Queen, Mammoth, 19 Os... Olive Chow, 2 doz. cs, MICHIGAN 8 GRAIN BAGS Broad Guage ......... 18 Amoskeqe 0. o.5505 057) 19 HERBS SARG oe. ee, dose a0 Hops: ........ cae ~ 15 Laurel Leaves . «ou 15 Senna Leaves ........ 25 HIDES AND PELTS Hides Green, No. 100. . 10% Green, No. 2 .:..22.): 914 Cured, No.3 ....-2...: 1 Cured, No. 2 ..2,...).; 11 Calfskin, green, No. 1 13 Calfskin, green, No. 2 11% Calfskin, cured No. 1 14 Calfskin, cured No. 2 12% elts Old Wool ....... @ %u Lambe 2.2.0.0 .5 50@1 00 Shearlings ....... 50@1 00 Tallow NO. Toe: @5 NO: 2 Cee @4 Wool Unwashed, med. 18 Unwashed, fine 13 HORSE RADISH Per doz. JELLY 5Ib, pails, per doz. ..2 50 15tb. pails, per pail ....60 30Ib. pails, per pail ..1 00 JELLY GLASSES % pt. in bbls, per doz 16 4% pt. in bbls., per doz. ..16 8 oz. capped in bbls, Per G0Z, S66. 62250. 3. 18 MAPLEINE 2 oz. bottles, per doz. 3 00 MINCE MEAT Per cage ........: sees ce OO MOLASSES New Orieans Fancy Open Kettle .. 42 CHOICE oo. ceuce 60 Good Fai oles eos bee ceesaccee Halt basics So MUSTARD 14 ID. GID box: 3... 16 OLIVES Bulk, 1 gal. kegs 1 05@1 15 Bulk, 2 gal. kegs 90@1 06 Bulk, 5 gal. kegs 90@1. 00 oz, Stuffed, 5 oz, ..... aca OO stutted, § OZ. ......:.. 1 35 stumed, 14 67. ...:..; 2 25 Pitted (not stuffed) 1 Gy ee 2 25 OB. reac iececicccccccd U6 Queen, ammoth, 28 eeeccscsserseeeD 20 per dos. 2 25 PICKLES Medium Barrels, 1,200 count ..7 00 Half bbls., 600 count 4 25 5 gallon kegs ......:.. 1 90 Smail e Barrels ..... Micacyace 8 om Half barrels ......... «4 65 5 gallon kegs ........ 2 25 Gherkins Barrels: {502 ccc es case Halt barrels ....... as 5 gallon kegs ........ Sweet Small BAITCls cope ce as 14 50 Half barreis......... 8 00 5 gallon kegs ....... 3 25 ” PIPES Clay, Nu. 216, per box 1 75_ Clay, T. D., full count te PLAYING CARDS No. 90 Steamboat .... 75 No. 15, Rival, assorted 1 25 No, 20, Rover, enam’d 1 50 No. 012, Special ...... i 7d No. 98 Golf. satin fin. 2 06 No. 808 Bicycle ...... 2 00 No. 632 Tourn’t whist 2 25 POTASH Babpit@s ....:<--..---- 4 00 PROVISIONS Barreled Pork Clear Back ....18 00@18 50 Short Cut ...:... acoeek? 50 Short Cut Clear ...... 17 00 OG oe vcce cee cece. 15 00 Brisket, Clear ...... 23 00 Bi ice aes 23 00 Clear Family ....... 26 00 Dry Salt Meats S P Bellies Lard Pure in tierces 10%@11 Compound lard ..7%@ 8 80 tb. tubs ....advance 60 tb. tubs ....advance 60 Ib, tins ...advance 20 tb. pails ...advance 10 Th. pails ...advance FRE 5 tb. pails ...advance 1 8 TRADESMAN Hams, 12 tbh. av. 15 @15% Hams, 14 th. av. 13% @14 Hams, 16 Ib, av. 13 @13% Hams, 18 th, av. 13144@14 Skinned Hams . Ham. dried beef Sets. fo. Dan Patch, 8 and 16 oz California Hams Picnic Boiled Hams ..15 Fast Mail, 16 Oz. Canary, Smyrna Cardomom, Malabar No Limit, 16 OZ, Ojibwa, 8 and 16 oz. Mustard, white POPPY .3 000 3 ce eee. SHOE BLACKING Handy Box. large 3 az 2 50 Handy Box, small Bixby’s Royal Polish Miller’s Crown Polish Ce eeeoereeeercac Petoskey Chief, 7 Oz. Petoskey Chief, 14 oz. Peach and Honey, 5e ted Bell, 16 oz. sed Bell; S$ foi 2. | Ort Cr Coon ee bo Maccaboy, in jars French Rappie in jars . eter reer ec ces cane Cuba, Y tb. foil % bbls., 80 Ibs, Burley 5c L& D Allspice, Jamaica Allspice, large Garden 11 Cloves, Zanzibar 5 Cassia, Canton ........ 14 Cassia, 5c pkg. doz..... 25 Ginger, African ....... 9% Ginger, Cochin Beef, rounds, BOG oo... Beef, middles, set Sheep, per bundie Uncolored Butterine Country Rolls - be Olde DOOT DO Re . = Tiger, $5¢ cans |: 2 Corned beef, 1 tb. Roast beef, 2 Ib. ..... Roast beef, 1 fb. Potted Ham, \%s ...... Mixed, 5c pkgs. doz... Am. Navy, 16 oz, 0 ede cs 0 “ae Nutmegs, 105-110 ..... 20 ae Nat Leaf, 2 Pepper, White Drummond Nat Pepper, Cayenne ...... 22 Deviled Ham. \%s aoe Potted Tongue, \s ... Bracer, 6 & ‘12 Tb. ae Potted tongue, %s .... Big Four, 8 & 16 Ib. Boot Jack, 2 th... 7. Boot Jack, per doz. .. Pure Ground In Bulk Allspice, Jamaica ..... 2 Cloves, Zanzibar ...... 24 , Cassia, Canton ........ 12 Ginger, African ....... 18 er : Mace, Penang ......... Climax, Golden ‘ PORCH oe i 3%4@ 0 Climax, 1424 Oz, ROLLED OATS Rolled Avena, bbls. .. Steel Cut, 100 tb. sks. 3 Monarch, bbls. t Monarch, 90 tb. sacks 2 Quaker, 18 Regular ... Quaker, 20 Family .... SALAD ORESSING Columbia, % pint ..... Columbia, 1 pint ...... 4 00 Durkee's, large, 1 doz. Durkee’s, small, 2 doz. Snider’s, large, 1 doz. Snider’s, small, 2 doz. Pepper, White Days’ Work, 7 & 14 Tb. es Creme de Menthe, Ib. Paprika, Hungarian .. Derby, 5 tb, bxs....... Four Roses, 10c ...,.. Git Pdee, 2th Gold Rope, 6 & 1: Gold Rope, 4 & 4 GO: PP. 12 & 4 wh Granger Twist, 6 fb. G, T. W., 101% & 21 tb. Horse Shoe, 6 & 12 th. Honey Dip Tw Jolly Tar, 5 & a . he 0 & 11 Hh... Kentucky Navy, 12 tb. Keystone Twist, 6 tb. Corn Kingsford, 40 tbs. .... Muzzy, 20 1!b. pkgs. .. Muzzy, 40 1tb. pkgs. bt DO OC ae . Packages ...... 4% Packed 60 Ibs. in box. | packages |... 6 Arm and Hammer Maple Di tn... Wyandotte, 100 %s . Maree Whiow, 12 tb. Nobby Spun Roll 6 &3 We eee ees. Parrot, 20 Te 222 Patterson’s Nat Leaf Peachey, 6-12 & 24 Ib. Picnie ‘lwist, S1B. :: Piper Heidsick, 4&7 th Piper Heidsick, per doz. Polo, 3 doz., per doz, Red Lion, 6 & 12 th. Scrapple, 2 & 4 doz. Sherry Cobbler, 9 oz. Spear Head, 12 oz. .. Spear Head, 14% oz. Spear Head, 7 oz. .... Sq. Deal, a 14 & 28 th. & —e Navy, 7%, 15 Ten Penny, é& 12 1h Town Talk, 14 oz, .... Yankee Girl, 6, 12 & 24 Granulated, bbls, ..... Granulated, 100 Ibs. cs. Granulated, 36 pkgs. . ede ee ope ee 28 SAL Common Grades hee Red Karo, No. 2 .-... Red Karo, No. 2% ... Red Karo, No. 5 Red Karo, .No. 28 10% tb. sacks .... 5 Ks boboe Warsaw 56 Ib, dairy in drill bags 28 Ib, dairy in drill bags TABLE SAUCES Medium, fine .......... 1 Japan Sundried, medium ..24@26 Sundried, choice Sundried, fancy ,.... 36 Basket-fired medium Basket-fired choice Basket-fired, fancy INSEE cece ea ce i or bricks Am. Union Scrap .... 5 Cutlas, 2% oz, Globe Scrap, 2 oz. .. Happy Thought, 2 oz. Panning® .2......:.. Honey Comb scrap, 5c 5 Holland Herring Y, M. wh. hoops, bbis. 11 - M. wh. hoop. ‘bbl. 6 Y. M. wh. hoop, kegs x. * wh, hoop Milchers 2 Mail Pouch, 4 doz. 5 Old Songs, be ....7... 5 Old Times, % gro. ... Polar Bear, 5c, % gro Red Band, 5c % gro. Red Man Scrap Scrapple, 5c pkgs. .... Shot, 5c, % gro. Yankee Girl Serp 2 oz Pan Handle Serp 4% gr Peachy Scrap, 5c 1 Union Workman, Pingsuey, medium In the District Court of the United States, Western District of Mich- igan, Southern Division, in Bankruptcy. In the matter of Rebecca A. Grove, bankrupt, notice is hereby given that, in accordance with the order of this court, I shall sell at public auction, to the highest bidder, on Friday, April 12, at 2 o’clock p. m., at the store formerly occupied by the bank- rupt, at Lyons, Ionia county, Michi- gan, the assets of said bankrupt, consisting of groceries, shoes and rubbers, clothing and _ gentlemen’s furnishing goods, dry goods, notions, books and stationery, store furniture and fixtures. Said stock of goods is appraised at $2,034.84, and the store furniture and fixtures at $385.15, and an inventory thereof may be seen at the office of Kirk E. Wicks, Referee in Bankruptcy, Grand Rapids, Mich- igan, and with H. A. Ranger, Lyons, Michigan. Said sale will be for cash and sub- ject to the approval of this court, and notice is given that if an adequate bid is Obtained, said sale will be ap- proved within five days thereafter unless cause to the contrary be shown. Gerrit J. Wissink, Trustee. Chas. V. Hilding, Cleland & Heald, Attorneys for Trustee. ee eee The Boys Behind the Counter. Big Rapids — William Whittaker, who has been employed by Brack & Co., will manage the grocery de- partment to be installed by Bertrau Almroth & Co. Owosso—Arthur C. Mason has re- signed his position as clerk in Dud- ley Reynolds’ grocery store and has accepted a similar position in the grocery department of C. A. Law- rence’s store. Battle Creek—Lee Allen, formerly connected with the Preston Shoe Co., and who for the past three months has been working for a shoe firm in Worthington, W. V., has returned to Battle Creek and will resume his old position with the Preston Company. Mr. Allen says that the Michigan cli- mate is good enough for him. 73-eo mo ‘i When the suffragettes get what they are after and an election goes wrong a man will have one thing more to blame on his wife. April 3, 1912 Werldly Wisdom. One man’s folly may be another man’s widow. Envy provides the mud that fail- ure throws at success. _ And the easier the job the harder it is to land. Be sure of your. aim in life before moving into a glass house. A good scare is of more benefit to some men than good advice. Most men who are shadowed by detectives are more or less shady. The man who is liberal with his sympathy seldom hands out anything else. The man who makes good does not sit down and wait for his ship to come in. Music is the food of love—which is more than may be truthfully said of the onion. If it was not for his wife a man would never know anything worth knowing about his neighbors. * What a girl in love calls a square meal wouldn’t even pass as a free lunch with the average man. A woman can get a man to do any- thing she wants him to if she has tact encugh to induce him to talk about himself, There is nothing more disappoint- ing to a woman who wants to tell a secret than the discovery that the other woman is already next to it. Every time a woman changes her mind she thinks it is up to her to air her views. Don’t be too modest. People never criticise an old hen for cackling after she lays an egg. No matter what the future has in store for a woman, she will look for it on the bargain counter. : Owing to the difference in weight, people now invest in fake mining stocks instead of buying cumbersomy gold bricks. If a man has a big family he can seldom be induced to spend his mon- ey on anything else that may cause him more trouble. —_—— 2-2 The Saginaw Clothiers Agree To Co- operate. Saginaw, April 2—A new organiza- tion, that of the Saginaw Retail Cloth- iers and Furnishers’ Association, has been added to the city’s activities, and the following officers elected: President—James A. Griggs. Vice President—Paul Krause. Secretary—Max P. Heavenrich. Treasurer—Fred Campbell. A constitution was adopted and was referred to the executive committee composed of the standing officers; for further consideration and will be again submitted to-day. Committees to be appointed by Pres- ident Griggs will consider advertising, quarter-off sales, closing hours, etc., and report at the next meeting. BUSINESS CHANCES. For sale—Dry goods and shoes (new), country town. Barry county. Address Shoes, care Tradesman. 84 500 statements free, with your name and business printed on them to adver- tise our collection method without char- ges or fees, 3.000 subscribers.. Twelve years experience. Offer good for five days only. Kings Collection Agency, Wil- liamston, Michigan. 85 For Sale—One of the best bakeries in Southern Michigan. Cheap if taken at once. Best of reason for selling. Pop- ulation 2,500, two railroads, good schools and churches. Address Lock Box 372, Hudson, Michigan. 977 c “Ina Class by Itself” Made in Five Sizes G. J. Johnson Cigar Co. — Makers Grand Rapids, Manufactured Under Sanitary Conditions aa ea ee ei Sie a Se aa a | ae our Bread Won't Dry Out So fast if you use Lily White Flour. Technical chemical analysis of our flour: shows that it is “moisture retaining.” This is the language of the laboratory experts. It also excels in color, being above the standard. Meaning, it makes white bread. You who use it, know this. It has less ash than standard flour, therefore less waste material. You get more for your money when you buy— ILY WHITE ‘THE FLOUR THE BEST COOKS USE” By “standard” is meant an arbitrary standard fixed by the chemists for comparative purposes. We beat the “standard” on many points. But we want to repeat that the taste of bread made of Lily White is its greatest attraction for the men folks. Nothing in the line of bread can compare with it. : Chew slowly and note. Every sack is sanitarily tightly sewed. Valley City Milling Company Grand Rapids, Mich. This is a reproduction of one of the advertisements appearing in the daily papers, all of which help the retailer to sell Lily White Flour.